Things I need to do today!

◆ Roast Dinner! (roast pork, potatoes, carrots, what else... really don't feel like fighting with a turnip today, broccoli and peas would be the easiest but that's so lazy. We'll see what is at the grocery. My brother would like me to include parsnip, I bet...)
◆ Open a second bank account, cancel a few direct debits.
◆ Send a parcel! ~mysterious~
◆ Try and get my watch working again. (It just needs new batteries, but the strap is far too complicated for me to do it myself. All leather and stitching and ahhh I hope something can be done I like this watch.)
◆ Laundry TOMORROW should really have done it today but I suck

edit; SUCCESS ON ALL FRONTS yesssss (laundry excluded o-k)

Things I would like to do today!

❖ Set up VDex journal more thoroughly. (Except I have no interest in/talent for making a pretty forum thread, so I'm not entirely sure what I even mean by this. I can at least make the first post proper, though...)
❖ Dedicate some thought to the carnival.
❖ Play some more Final Fantasy VII! (It is Temple of the Ancients time, I am perilously close to the end of the first disk now. And still no closer to settling on which characters to take to the end game. That awkward moment where you're friendly impartial to everyone....)
❖ Read some more Catching Fire. (That's fine, this'll happen while boiling vegetables etc..)


So I should probably go and do some things instead of sitting here, haha. But discussing things what need doing is so much easier than doing things what need doing......

/does things what need doing

• Snow can be fluffy! Oh my gosh, it is possible to be hit by snow and it not feel like a cricket ball, how exciting!! It is not snowing at the moment, and there is very little snow settled outside. Alas :(

• Under exceptional circumstances (i.e. Cooking With Brooke), Beef Taco Thing can actually be delicious! Even if it contains mince meat, spinach, spicy taco seasoning and mushrooms! Although I did still dodge the mushrooms, but still, it was so delicious and I did not expect it, ahhhh. I want you back Beef Taco Thinggg.

• FREE SMOOTHIES IS A LIE

• SpotPass is not difficult to use, and I am going to miss it terribly when I return to my small little town. Who will SpotPass me there?! (spoilers: Tibby, the answer is you)

• Being in a city doesn't mean you're surrounded by buildings. Don't laugh at me okay >:( I am in Toronto, but outside I can see lots of grass, some trees, and roads. There are buildings, but in terms of my direct view they are quite a distance away, and I am a bumpkin and ergo surprised by this. (I can also see a crane~ ♥)

• I am very very very lucky ♥~

• It is not cold in buildings! DUH, but still! I was so prepared to shiver constantly, and so far I think I'm doing okay! I have been teased a little for crossing arms over in cold while people around me are wearing t-shirts, haha, but largely it has been successful so far and I am glad. True test will be tomorrow, where I will spend more daylight hours outside than indoors. WHAT DO

• People on the bus did not wear underwear yesterday :o

• It will sometimes surprise you to see which brand names are and aren't present in a foreign country. For examples, I always got 'fairly small fairly independent business' vibes from Burts Bees, but here they are! Also, Frosties are just called Frosted Flakes here and I do not know why that distinction exists! FASCINATING. Also, HSBC - they really are the world's local bank.

• I like Thai curry, ahhh. Or the one I had anyway, which had no fancier name than Chicken & Pineapple curry on the menu, alas. It was very delicious, though, and had coconut as well. Yum~ ♥

And other things that are not for repeating here o-k.

Tomorrow I am going into the city, ahhh, I am going to be a little puny countryside foreigner in a big city, what will become of meeee. FOR NOW, THOUGH, I AM RETURNING TO THE WATER TEMPLE. All these challenges I face, ahhh.

Update, go!

I've finally got Heart Gold, yesss. I've only just gained the second badge so far, which means my wretched friend nemesis Drew is ahead by some distance. At least, last I heard he was already at Whitney, and that was yesterday some. Grrr.

I will tell you now, it's taking me a while to get used to the menu being on the bottom screen. It's great to finally be playing it, though, after such a long wait. And man, having your Pokémon follow you onscreen? I've been wishing for that for, like, ten years or something. The dream has finally be realised, ahhh ♥

I also purchased... the Kingdom Hearts DS game! To be honest, I probably haven't been treating it fairly? Or, that is... my expectations are extremely low, so I keep bullying it? I haven't even finished the tutorials yet, though, so maybe it'll grab me soon - I'll try and give it a proper chance. Zexion amused me by being a sassy bitch, which is something. I didn't really have an opinion of him before, so.

I also watched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann today, which was pleasing. And thennn I had yummy chicken korma, om nom. Speaking of food, I really want to try making potato pancakes this week. IT'S A WORLD OF EXCITEMENT.

I've been really exhausted lately, just tired all the time. ... just. just throwing that out there. :|