LadyCrimson

Up early, hand-weeded, chopped bushes, etc. Bought new (cheap) curtains, pillows, about to eat tacos and watch Walking Dead. I expect I won't be moving off the couch again until it's time to walk to the bed to go to sleep.

Why is the sky candy-colors? Seems a bit too orange for just a sunset. All I remember is blue/cloudy-grey skies. But then, I didn't play very long. Are the colors from a mod?

I think that's a permanent thing for me. Hubby is the lucky one - I keep rubbing his belly but so far luck hasn't transferred to me. Someday I'm going convince him to use his luck in Vegas. ;) ....cleaning the house to Little Shop of Horrors tunes, "singing" along as I go. Which as usual means my cats think I'm injured, following and gazing at me with concern.

Yeah, I'm having similar feelings with the turnover of all the Red Sox. That's sports of course, but just felt like it happened so fast, like a rug pulled out from under. At least there's still Pedroia and a couple others. Still waiting for some new players that make me feel something other than ambivalence...ones that might be with the team for a bit.

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Beyond the video content itself, I still find video/CGI/whatever of real people kinda creepy.

Been listening to Mean Green Mother From Outerspace track from Little Shop of Horrors. Levi Stubbs = win. The movie was pretty good but it's the soundtrack that makes it such a classic to me. And Audrey II. To this day I'm always amazed how awesome the practical effects of Audrey were. Need to buy the Blu-Ray with the original, restored not-happy ending.

Rosebushes do, indeed, have thorns. ...my leather gloves weren't leather glove-y enough.

So I had to YouTube that Conan/Tombraider review video that .gif references. It was hilarious. Also:

Hubby and a camera are like oil and water. He doesn't have the eye. He'd probably get a picture of the top of my head or something by mistake, too. I'll get some more pics of my cats someday ... easier in summer when there's more light in the house for longer. Gamed with hubs a bit this evening, then watched some Dual Survival episodes. Don't like the new guy Joe as much as the original dude - the chemistry between the two men isn't the same.

That Tombraider trailer is terrible. Altho, this is largely because they put real people into it. If it had been just the game footage with voice-over and dramatic music, it would have just been cheesy instead of terrible.

Cause it's hard to hold a large, heavy-ish DSLR in one hand (not my good hand, either), over your head, pointing downwards (can't look thru viewfinder) to get a reliable angled shot. And of course as soon as I tried, kitty would probably move. Tho I could just use the mini-vid cam and grab semi-fuzzy stills I suppose. ....suffering a lot of allergies today. Marching around stores and offices sniffling, itchy red eyed and blotchy faced. Blargh. *blows nose*

Well, it's certainly an improvement over seeing angles and corners in hair. But yeah...I'd like to see it in motion. It looks pretty nice tho.

It's a conspiracy!

Yeah, the film was terrible in terms of the book. At this point in my life I mostly like it for lulz. Including Patrick Stewart's tiny role. "You young pup! You young pup!" It's too bad, because at the time I remember thinking Prochnaw would be a great Leto. But even today I still can't really see how one could do a film based on the book and have it seem any good. There are too many things in the book that I don't think translate to visual medium without seeming either too confusing or too corny. eg, I didn't like the "folding space" sequence in any version.

Since I've had a computer out in the living area, black kitty likes to stand up against deskchair, putting one paw on my shoulder while propping his chin in the crook of my elbow or against upper arm to give me the cutesy big-eyed stare. He'll stand in that position for long minutes, occasionally taking paw off shoulder to try to pat my face. I wish I could get a picture, it's soooo adorable. Grey kitty loves to be petted and chases sticks but he's not cuddly or cutesy demanding. He's more the quietly sits next to you on the patio while you're meditating, sort. Which is awesome on a sunny day when I'm sitting outside. I know I probably say it too much but I love owning cats. They make me so happy.

For myself, I'd vote sleep, but that's because I already have a live-in spouse who knows it's best not to wake me out of a sound sleep for anything less than a fire, unless he likes being hit in the face with a flailing arm while being crankily cussed out. ...but if that wasn't the case, and I wasn't so tired that I might actually face-plant into a plate of food or something, I'd probably go for the company.

I like this too. Not just for the merchant aspect but also because it's one of those little things that makes night/day cycles actually mean something besides pretty graphic/lighting. There's stealth, if a game utilizes the dark for better chances or whatever, but I like more cyclic differences than that. Limited or unlimited merchant gold - depends how it's done. I do tend to like to be able to just go to a merchant, sell everything I want to sell and go back out again, but limited gold is ok if the game isn't based on finding 1000000000 items every 10 feet, or if most things don't sell for a lot to begin with so you probably aren't going to pick up a lot of items etc. Just depends. It does feel annoying, however, if item values are shown to be high but no one anywhere has enough currency to actually buy it from you...simply because it's not logical. If something is cash-valued so highly, in my mind it means someone would want to buy it. Otherwise it would have no monetary value.

Which Dune? The movie or that mini-series? The mini-series was slightly better than the film but the film had Sting in green plastic undies, so it's kind of a toss up.

Hahaha That's some kind of scraggly-growing Japanese maple. I might leave that there, since I think they're kinda expensive. Tho it'd be nice if I could transplant it elsewhere.

Further: The scraggly rosebushes in far left top pic gotta go, and the random "wild" bushes/seedlings in the dirt areas between lawn and fence gotta go (it's a lot more overgrown/full of tree branches/crap now than in the pics, btw). But I'm a little stumped what to do about those fence-dirt areas when I have to rake up stuff like this every few days in fall/winter (or can take it when I ignore the leaves for too long...)...those ugly plants lining the driveway gotta go, too.

It's a multitude of them actually, that'll probably take me all Spring to get around to doing. ....essentially, I'm not a suburbian yard-upkeep person (neither is hubby, outside of mowing the lawns) and I want a yard that doesn't require very much of it. Which is difficult because the 3 big backyard trees and dozens of neighborhood streetside maples and all their leaves + afternoon winds, which severely limits choices because you have to be able to rake the leaves away (so stuff like tanbark/small pebble groundcover doesn't work). edit: this weekend it'll be a lot of ugly bush/palm and rose bush uprooting. There's these dirt sections between cement patio and lawn and I hate these things: