Titles Shmitles
So, I loaded up The Sims 2 last week after installing Mansion & Garden Stuff, and wouldn’t you know I started trying to navigate the screen using those blasted SimCity Societies controls?
You can tell what I’ve been doing in my spare time the past few weeks.
I didn’t play Sims 2 for long. I like the Mansion & Garden Stuff Pack, however I’m just not in a Sims mood lately at all. It seems I can only like either Sims or SimCity at one time. And it’s completely ridiculous that the SimCity Societies navigation controls would get embedded into my brain like that. Why can’t we have some sort of standards as far as zoom, panning, and yawing?
It makes me worry about Sims 3 a little bit. Hopefully they won’t shit it up.
What else… I had something I wanted to write about earlier, but now I forgot what. I hate that. Umm… I saw Twilight on Friday. I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of people critical about it, but I just can’t relate to what they’re saying. I was worried about it being all MTVed-up, stupid, and too different, but it wasn’t. I rather liked the portrayals of Edward and Bella. I think they had great chemistry, and I thought it was actually quite similar to the book in that respect.
There were some moments of the movie that were so much more awesome having read the book. Like Jasper for instance. The second he showed up the first time was quite classic. Hilarious. I didn’t expect to like him so much because I thought the actor looked odd (haha), but oh man, it really worked.
Another funny one was Billy. I think he was more awesome than in the book. I liked Jacob, but am bugged by the fact that the actor will never be a million feet tall like Jacob in the books. And his hair bothered me because it really looked like quite the ridiculous wig.
The theater was packed when I went. I actually wasn’t sure if it would be in my town at the 11:00 showing. I went by myself, haha, and good thing because I don’t know that I would have found two seats next to each other. I ended up sitting in the lone chair with the wheelchair space next to it. Some woman brought her new born to the showing and it was annoying as all hell. I mean really, lady. Your little baby to a packed movie theater at 11:00 at night? REALLY?
Bunch of savages in this town.
In other, completely unrelated news, I decided to try out a meal delivery program. Why? One, I am utterly incapable of making good food choices everyday on my own. Two, I’m even less capable of keeping up the horrendous routine of grocery store, cook, clean day in and day out. I just can’t do it. Cannot. I might could keep it up for a week, get completely burnt out, then eat out the next two consecutive weeks for every meal out of retaliation.
Why I just can’t be normal about one thing in my life, I have no idea. I truly am incapable of functioning as a normal adult. The past 7 years or so of deterioration have proved this. Other people go to the store, cook, clean, exercise, go to work, have families and don’t seem to have any issues with it at all. I can’t even do one of those things without turning completely neurotic. There is truly something wrong with me.
But I’m trying to get better. I started my third Adventure Bootcamp today (I’ve already signed up for a year). I’m so glad I signed up for this back in September. I don’t think I could handle exercising in a gym, and God knows I won’t do it on my own. Now with the meal delivery program, hopefully I can become more functional. I started it last week, and am enjoying the meals so far.
I do well with routines like this that don’t require constant effort. Next I just need to hire us a maid. Not even kidding. I’ve seriously considered it before, though I’m not entirely sure it would work well.
Am I pathetically lazy or what? But fuck it. Really. My problem is that I get upset thinking about how my entire life is filled with these obnoxious tasks that are never ending. NEVER. ENDING. It seems like a giant waste of life, and I have a hard time getting over that fact, which is why I blow it all off so much, and end up not exercising, not cleaning, and eating like a 10 year-old whose parents aren’t home. Which helps nothing in the end, except ensuring an early death. So my compromise is these new routines. Hopefully I can keep it up. It’s looking good so far.
Hey Jaclyn,
That’s How It’s Been For Me With The Sims 2 Lately. I Just Haven’t Felt Like Playing The Game. I Took A Sim Picture That I Ended Up Deleting Because It Just Didn’t Look Right Because My Mood Wasn’t Into At The Time. The Sims 3 Looks Like A Lot Of Fun The Only Thing That Is A Small Disappointment Is They Have A Lot Of Sim Actions From Sims 2. I Was Hoping For Some New Material That Way. Course It Won’t Stop Me From Playing It. lol.
I Was Having Some Issues With Twilight When I First Read It Because It Was A Little Slow For Me. So I Stopped Reading It For Awhile & Then I Got Back Into The Mood Of Reading It Again & It’s Actually Quite Good When It Gets Going. I Couldn’t Stop Laughing At How Edward Was Toward Bella At First. He Was So Strange. lol. I’m At The Part Where He Takes Her To The Meadow. I’m Planning On Buying That Set They Have At Amazon Where You Get That Neat Looking Box With It. I’ll Probably See The Movie If It Decides To Play In Are Town. If Not I’ll Wait Till It Comes Out On DVD.
That Awesome That Your Exercise Program Is Working Out. Wish They Had Something Like That Here. I’d Join In A Second. The Only Exercise Place They Have Is Curves. I’ve Been Thinking About Joining It The Only Thing Is I Never Have The Time Now That I’ve Gone Full Time At My Job. Hopefully, One Day.
Anyways, I’ve Rambled To Long. Take Care Jaclyn & Good Luck With Everything!^__^
~Celeste
Darn. Why they could not release Twilight the same time in Australia baffles me and annoys the shit out of me for waiting two weeks more or one.. I don’t know anymore.
That meal delivery thing sounds interesting. I’d probably do that when I’m older, I can’t cook for the life of me.
I’m one of those psycho chicks taking their baby to a movie. Last year we took Elisebeth to Hit Man. And I Am Legend. She was like 3 months old. But she was totally quiet. When we were leaving, people would see me carrying her and go “There was a baby in the theater?” She just didn’t fuss at all. She thought all the lights were cool.
And you should totally hire a maid. If I ever get to the point where I can afford it and my husband gets over his weird thing about having people in our house, I’m totally getting a maid.
Hope you’re still enjoying Twilight, Celeste! ^__^ The meadow scene was a good one, I thought anyway! That’s a shame they don’t have Adventure Boot Camp where you are. Be on the look out though if you’re really interested, because I know they’re constantly starting new ones all over the place.
Deb–haha, well, Elisebeth is just way more awesome than the baby that went to see Twilight. It cried the whole time and the mother would only get up after it went on for several minutes. She’d come right back and within 10 minutes it’d be crying again. And she was sitting in the front in the dead middle of her row, so it was extra disruptive.
LOL… I should be more sympathetic to those parents though. My luck I’ll wind up with a loud baby someday and won’t ever be able to leave the house.
HEY JACLYN! It’s been a long time since I’ve talked to you. Just thought I see what your up to now.
I know how you feel with the sims 2. I’ve been staying away from that game for a long time enough for me to not even want to take pictures anymore, I’m more interested in writing and editing videos these days
YAY! Another Twilight fan that thought the movie was good. I’m getting sick of the movie haters as well. I was surprised at how well Charlie was chosen, the actor was so much better than I ever expect, actually I didn’t even think to expect much from him, ahh and Carlisle was so awesome as well, I think I lusted over him more than Edward. Jasper cracked me up as well, ohh and Rosalie with the salad bowl priceless. I have to say the best part of the movie was the “let me sign” extra edited meadow snow scene while Edward had to suck the venom out of Bella.
I work at the movie theater so I saw the movie twice and both times it was completely packed, even on a Monday afternoon. It’s crazy its still getting packed during the weekday mornings too.
Oh I totally don’t understand parents that bring their kids late to non rated G or PG movies. Once I had a couple of parents with their 2 kids and one infant asking me for tickets to wait for it…. Saw V. I almost choked, and I even reminded them that it was a horror movie and they just went “Oh we know, we’ve seen the other four.” and then I asked what their kids will do they just answer with the fact that the kinds don’t mind, WHILE the kids were begging the parents to see Beverly Hills Chihuahua. I would never be dumb enough to do that with my kids, heck even go see that horror movie myself (XD sorry if you like horror movies)
Well I hope everything works out with your new meals. Sounds like thay are going to be great for you. I actually just watch this movie about people that have diabetes that went to do a study in Arizona, doing a raw food diet and all their blood sugar went down like 300 points within a few days or something, and after two weeks they didn’t need any medication. Here’s a link with more information about it, you might want to watch it sometime.
http://www.vitaminstuff.com/articles/healthyfoods/articles-healthyfoods-5.html
Nicole! It’s been forever! Glad you stopped by–have you made any more movies lately? I didn’t know you had a livejournal, I’ll have to check it out. ^__^
I agree with you about Charlie. I wasn’t sure what to expect of him either, but the actor was great. He and Bella had the stiff and awkward bit down. Ha! …LOL, Carlisle, I must admit I cannot see that actor without thinking of the movie Can’t Hardly Wait and it cracks me up to see him in this role now.
And kids seeing one of the Saw movies? I only watched the first one and found it quite freaky. Though, I admit when I was in elementary school I was all about wanting to see scary movies–the big thing when I was little was It and Jaws. But those were too cheesy to hardly be considered scary IMO.
The meal delivery is still working out great! I’m Type 1 diabetic (formally called juvenile) though, so I could never be off insulin injection unless they come up with a cure to make my pancreas start producing insulin again. Looks like the raw food thing helped with Type 2s (formally adult-onset, and the most common 90%), whose bodies still make insulin but don’t use it properly. Without spewing out more info than you’d ever want to know, the best quote I found about the difference is:
“The difference between Type I and Type II is like this: It’s the middle of winter and you’re outside in the snow. Type II gives you your clothes and a light jacket. Not quite enough to keep you warm, but if you move around and take care of yourself you can survive. Type I leaves you naked in the snow. You can only keep warm by making a fire. Without the fire, you die. Now, insulin is your fire. Without it, you will die.”