jecca_mehlota | Entries tagged with my mithra is banned from reality

My brother's current hobby is inflicting color tests on the family. Have an infuriating hue test.

ANYWAY I THREATENED TO TELL THE STORY OF MY CUDDLE KITTY TODAY so I am here to make good on it.

( The sad story of the saddest kitty )

IN UNRELATED NEWS I have just learnt that at some point in the recentish past, the original FFXIV servers went down FOR. EVER. Remember they rebooted them after the apocalypse for the people who said they still wanted to play, but I guess things finally dropped below a 30% log-in rate. I am... really weirdly sad about this. It's not like I've been logging in, but it was still, you know, that wonderful world I'd come to love was still there, even if it canonically isn't. It was kinda, I dunno, comforting, I guess. But now it's really gone, gone, and I can never, ever see it ever again. (yeah yeah chill the hug out it's just a video game jecca geez)... Also I still cry like the emotionally unstable lunatic I am when I watch the "End of the Era" video.

... also female roegadyn are hardcore badass and I find myself wondering if I won't have to start a second character just to play as one because holy crap.

Mood sugar craving sugar craving
Location underneath a purring happy cat
Music Stars - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Crossposts: http://twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com/266633.html

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BILLING FEES FINALLY ANNOUNCED

Fee Type Service Period Price per 30 days
Basic Service Fee 30 days $6.99
90 days $5.99 (total $17.97)
180 days $4.99 (total $29.94)

$30 for half a year start on January 5 omg I can totally afford that.

GLEE!

Mood giddy
Location BOUNCING
Music YAY

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No! Yes! ... Maybe!

I am only a little behind, geez, leave me alone.

Remember how I was all emo 'cause I suck and being social is hard and nothing interesting was happening and wah wah angst (the "Less Awesome" section)? It was pretty much all negated, which means I either jumped the gun due to fail!brain or that my whining broke the universe (I prefer the latter explanation), because over the weekend I was both invited to a Halloween party (WHAT) and the VT region posted a date, time, and location for a kick-off party / write-in aaaand it was a day I had off work! WHOO!

Also I Halloweenified the apartment, which was fun. I carved a pumpkin! I also strung some orange lights over the doorway to the kitchen and hung some fake cobwebs all over the fake tree. I was gonna put 'em in the stairway, but then you'd only see them when you went in or out and bah! BAH, I say! And the pumpkin stayed inside because one, none of us were going to be home until late, anyway, and two, I did not want it to get smashed by jerks.

The party was really fun! We played Scrabble (and I somehow won, which, uh, first time for everything, I guess) and carved pumpkins and ate ALL THE JUNKFOOD and then I had an epic sugar crash on Tuesday, the likes of which I have not seen in a decade or so. Oof. Also there were fluffy cats! And they liked being pet! So every time one came within proximity to the group of us (it was a small party, so I did not get oversocialised! And most of us did not know each other, so there was not the group of people and then one or two straggles who sat around feeling awkward!) a few of us dropped everything to give them belly rubs or ear scritches.

The NaNo thing was less awesome, but still fun. It was a weirdly huge group (never seen it that big, wow), which was fine, but our region leader had to bring his kids and they ran around screaming a lot, despite his best efforts. And the girls next to me were talking a lot and I kept finding myself eavesdropping on their conversation instead of working on my story. But whatever, they didn't seem to mind my occasional interjections. And I'm up to 2.5k (ish. I'm writing in two different word docs and I don't feel like doing any math beyond adding the first two digits of both numbers), which could be better but whatever, I spent yesterday in a haze and then I had stuff to do today and I AM REALLY GOOD AT MAKING EXCUSES.

In other news, I have really, really got to remove this song from my Video Game Remixes playlist, because every time it comes on, I end up going back and listening to it, like, a million times, because it is THE CATCHIEST EVER oh my god.

Mood tired
Location page 3 in document 1
Music Shine Tonight - FFVIII: Fragments of Memories - Poolside @ OCRemix

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Awesome: I have 31 hours next week (and despite this, I am only closing once! Which is very exciting) and the first two days of November off! I did not ask for them, they were just GIVEN TO ME. So I at least have the option of getting a good start on NaNo. And I am feeling a lot better than I was! AND WE GOT THE NEW GLOVES AT WORK YAY YAY YAY they are so much nicer than the ones we've been using oh my gooosh.

Less Awesome: oh god nanowrimo. Also, apparently there are no interesting Halloween events anywhere near me, so I guess getting out from work early on Monday (and not working at all Saturday) doesn't really make any difference. And my NaNo region has absolutely nothing planned for write-ins or even a pre-November meet up. EVERY SINGLE TIME I DECIDE I WILL FIND SOMETHING TO DO TO BE SOCIAL... see, this is why I don't bother. Well, that and the fact that it never comes to anything anyway, 'cause I'm a loser.

EVEN LESS AWESOME: Square has apparently hit the bottom of their coffer for FFXIV, and so, sometime next month or perhaps in December (there is no information on this anywhere, other than that it is happening), they are going to start charging for the game. How much will they be charging? WHO KNOWS! THERE IS NO INFORMATION ANYWHERE! Hopefully not the full $13, because it is not worth that yet, and are they going to stick with their original plan of cutting fees if you play FFXI, as well? Basically I am really kind of freaking out (like, unreasonably so) because NO NO NO I don't want to have to pick one or the other and damn it, considering their plans for FFXIV v2.0 next year, I really, reaaally don't want to miss this once in a lifetime storyline (APOCALYPSE!! Or CATASTROPHE, anyway, since part of the plan for 2.0 includes completely reworked maps, so the entire world is going to be redesigned. And characters won't be reset, so it's not even like they're ending the world and starting a new one, this is really an actual thing that is going to happen in Eorzea. WANT TO SEEEE). So, uh. Damn it, what do I do? Other than cry over my current inability to afford both games, I mean.

LEAST AWESOME: I know I said I was done talking about the Family Drama, but adskjflgbfjdbhs my cousin's mother-in-law has had to quit her job and move in with him because she was the best option, and he's got to go back in for another round of spinal fusion surgery and either something else is going wrong or it's just psychosomatic but his vocal chords are beginning to not work so I DON'T KNOW I am resisting the urge to throw things across the room only because I know it wouldn't do any good. BUT I have her address, now, so I can write her letters, if I want.

OFFERED AWESOME: oh right speaking of letters - I do have a couple people on my mailing list WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT they probably know who they are, but I feel like bombarding the post office again (every time their state of NO MONEY AT AAAAALL makes the news, I remember I am supposed to be single-handedly reviving them), so if getting snail-mail interests you, check out this entry, here, please.

Mood thirsty
Location desk chair
Music Your Lips Are Red - St Vincent

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Alternately: SE's Beautiful Billing System. sadjfhkdjgh

( Whoops, meant to cut this. FFXI DRAMA! )

Other things: I apparently magically developed an allergy to sunlight (OF ALL THINGS) sometime during the winter. Yes, we have finally worked out why I have been so damned itchy lately. It is sunlight. Why. I had thought for a while that it was a reaction to different laundry soap but then that was disproved, and then I thought it was my bedding and that was disproved, and then I thought oh shit it is my pills except then I remembered I was scratching at my arms the day I got the prescription so okay no it's not that, either... I had noticed it got worse after I'd been outside, but didn't become an issue if I wore long sleeves or if it was raining or whatever. And then one day I wore sunscreen and - huh. No itch. And then one day after that, I forgot it, and next thing I know, I'm doing my whole AAAAAUGH MUST REMOVE THE FLESH IT ITCHES IT ITCHES clawing-at-arms routine. Not happy about this, but at least I finally know the cause.

Also, half my coworkers are being massive jerks and possibly trying to kill me or something, and corporate continues to make bad, employee-stressing decisions. Had a minor meltdown after work on the 3^rd (no doubt the whole XI-account business related to that some, to be fair). I have really got to get out of here. C'mon, self. Start job hunting, already. Please?

Mood annoyed
Location putting on shoes
Music Add My Effort - The Weepies

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SO I BASICALLY DON'T PLAY FFXI FOR A FEW WEEKS (busy + cat drama) and then the planet gets grumpy and my game gets taken away for power saving and all of a sudden it is like. CONSUMING MY THOUGHTS. And then Friday's going to roll around (servers back online! Because SE loves us and is cutting off their air conditioning and reducing light usage!) and I'm going to be like, "eh, whatever" and not log in for like a month (especially since I'll have packing/moving to do next week)? BUT RIGHT NOW I am all OH MAN FINALLY BEAT MAAT WANNA LEVEL WANNA LEVEL WANNA BEAT MISSIONS WANNA EXPLORE AREAS AND GO ON ADVENTURES AND WORK ON QUESTS AND LEVEL AND KILL THINGS AND AAAAAAA

Also my brother's been talking to a few of his friends at school and we're considering a summer plan for taking a bunch of level 1 jobs and leveling them up and up and up as high as we can over their break, just for the heck of it. (Hey, we'd be at 4/6 already! It's not hard to find 2 people.) (... heeey, if anyone wants to pick the game up for the summer, you'd be able to get pretty far in both levels and storyline!)

I thought about turning this entry into "Why Promyvion Freaks Me The Hell Out" because that has been lurking around in my brain for the last few months, but I don't know if I can really put it into words? It's just sort of a visceral fear, which probably sounds stupid. Promyvion is actually - I really don't like to go into the zones by myself, even though they're almost kind of pretty and the music is amazing, and even though there's basically nothing in them that can kill me, what with the level restriction lifted. And also no one would understand what the heck I was talking about, anyway. (IT'S NOT EVEN NOTHING WHAT THE HELL IS PROMYVION ACTUALLY, ASIDE FROM "EMPTINESS"? Half of it is probably just my brain running away with it.) Abyssea kinda gets to me, too, actually. Not as bad, but maybe that will change, given time. (I think it's mostly because of the whole THE SKY IS GONE thing, though I guess the post-apocalypse bit doesn't help, either. But it's in another reality! And so what if that reality is trying to Red Sky us now? IT'S NOT HERE YET SO I DON'T NEED TO GO CRAWL UNDER MY BED AND HIDE. ... not that that would do any good against the Abyssean hordes, but shhh.)

And found another bit of amusement on the increasingly bizarre forums! I don't particularly like what I've heard of Ke$ha, though I will admit most of her stuff is catchy as hell, but I really, really like this rewrite of Tik Tok. Though it doesn't quite line up and not that I have already tweaked it in my head so it works better, or anything, no, of course not..., IT IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT.

...Ooh! My BotCon registration confirmation (finally) came in just now! Just under 48 hours. Haha, oh, FunPub, you're so far behind the rest of the internet... It's cute, when it's not wildly frustrating.

AND THIS ENTRY IS BASICALLY MY LIFE THIS LAST WEEK if I also mention that I am trying to fight the urge to rewatch Avatar (airbender, not blue aliens) (animated series of awesome, not live-action movie of failure). Not because I actively don't want to rewatch it (BECAUSE I DO), but because I really have other things I need to be doing with my time. (... like lurking the FFXI forums, I guess? THAT ONLY TAKES A FEW MINUTES. DON'T JUDGE ME.) (If I weren't scared of the fandom, I'd probably just lurk there, instead, but the bits I've seen from over here scare me and I don't know where the sane places are and apparently I don't care enough to go digging, so, instead I just avoid it all. ... basically I have a really hard time getting into new fandoms these days, largely because of laziness on my part.)

(Okay, so, see, due to some stuff in another department in the store, some of their employees are currently being stationed in other departments for the week - and hopefully ONLY this week - and since they're all full time employees, we lower-ranking ones are suffering an hours cut. So I have ALL OF THE FREE TIME this week. And am bored. And annoyed that OF COURSE this is when the servers would be down, now that I finally have time / energy to do things, and blah. Also I forgot to go to the post office again today WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.)

Mood bored
Location BEDROOM
Music Seven Seas of Rhye - Queen

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Guys, I spent 40 minutes this evening being told by my cousin, in great detail, why she thinks I need to do drugs, and why and how she has determined that the best one for me to try would be mushrooms. No amount of "I'm really not interested" was able to dissuade her, and I only escaped by promising I'd think about it because she had to go meet someone.

What is my life.

Meanwhile, SE's MMO player base is getting a little stir crazy on the forums. Some of it's aggravating so I backpage out, but it's not all bad. For example! This thread on the recently-launched official forums is amazing. and also completely true, oh god why why why I really like some of the proposed explanations people have come up with.

(Also today at work the proofer exploded water everywhere and all the customers were asses, though I guess that last one isn't really as unusual as I'd like it to be.)

Anyway, until I suffer another emotional collapse or there's actual news, I'm done talking about the loss of my cat, because every time I think about it, I get sad, and then I get angry, and then things start going wrong in my brain again and if I short out too many times the music therapy will probably stop working. But! My MOVING OUT quest has gone well (I think I mentioned it in one of the entries I posted that was unlocked, locked, unlocked, locked, unlocked, locked, etc?). I've found a new apartment and will be able to move in next month. Rent's a bit more, but utilities will be less, so it should come out about even (hopefully). And my new room faces more eastwards, so I should get some sunlight in, which'll be a lovely change, and maybe will help with the SAD next year!

Mood hungry
Location inside hiding from the drunken revelers
Music Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow

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You heard it here first, folks. Well. Unless you heard it here first. In which case, shhh.

... okay honestly I just wanted to use the subject line. After almost 8 years of "Final Fantasy XI is dieiiiiiing[sic]", that I can now in all honesty say it (and still not actually mean it!) entertains me a bit.

So,the whole truth, then: Japan's had some troubles of late. You all know this. Because of it all, power conservation is a big thing. So SE is shutting down the servers for both XI and XIV for about a week (at current estimate, anyway). From what I've seen, most everyone's been totally cool with this. Actually, SE isn't billing for XI in April because of this, and I see a lot of people saying they wish they'd bill us and donate the money to relief. (I'd be all for that, too, actually.)

(The other joke, though not from my own head, is:

"I wonder how many FFXIV players will take it as an excuse to just not come back lol."
"Both of them."

... Sorry, XIV. You're very pretty, and I'd love to see you succeed, but the massive failure that has been your life thus far still cracks me up.)

Mood cold
Location catless
Music commercials

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Currents of Time

breathe and dive

I got an 8.

SHORT FFXIV POST

Shouldn't you be writing? (Or sleeping?)

It brings me glee when people buy cakes I've decorated.

July is cancelled, everyone go home.

It's not Friday yet.

Basically the world's gone mad.

Square pulls the plug on FFXI

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