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Shoes...I had a good collection of shoes. :(
I had ankle boots, and knee boots that could double as wellies, and trainers, and sandals, and dress shoes, and dress sandals, and water shoes (because getting your feet cut up in shells is no fun).
And then my feet shrank.
My feet have been a size 8 for the last twelve years since the kidlet was born. They were a six and a half before that. So in the last couple of months as my blood sugar has gotten under better control, my shoe size suddenly went back down to a seven. The blisters that I got finding that out were epic. And now I can't wear any of my beautiful expensive shoes. I bought the bare minimum ( trainers and snow boots) that I need to get by, but it's going to take a long time to rebuild my collection. :/
Edit: well of course I'm naked...I don't have shoes to match anything. ;P
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I have to go to the grocery store because we are out of all the things. :(
This is one of those times when I really really wish there was a grocery delivery around here.
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I already use Amazon prime to get most of my dry goods. I get an embarrassing amount of packages per week.
But meat and veggies and dairy products must still be fetched from the store.
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Because apparently people like to eat.
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I know I do >_>
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Another more recent Seattle band.
My all time favorite country song, NSFW most likely, questionable subject matter and all.
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I like country if its ironic, hilarious and not the crap polluting Nashville.
so, not much. :-)
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Man, you missed a golden opportunity for explosive runes.
My point was much better. Also, Country music hurts way more.
I used to hate all country music, then I found some good country, Supersuckers Must've Been High, which is an absolute brilliant 40 minutes of music, even has a duet with Kelley Deal from The Breeders called Hungover Together that we played at our wedding for our dance thingy.
Now, I only hate almost all country (also a big fan of Bruce Springsteen doing country).
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Heh,
Just FYI,
One of my college professors was LD (Lighting Designer) for Bruce for a year. Said that he WAS 'The Boss' in all the good ways.
Mr Springsteen would show up at load in (When most stars are complaining in their hotel room) with wife and kids in tow, play with his kids while they set up the stage, then would assist with the unloading and setting up of the backline (That's the 'band gear' for you non-roadie-types) ;P
Because apparently he is just really that nice.
Also, my wife loves country, and I,... do not. :/
It has been one of our (rare) only-ever disagreements, until she discovered that she loves Broadway soundtracks even more than I do.
We haven't disagreed over music in YEARS!
:)
<Old Wizard hobbles out of thread,...>
I can't deal with that accent. It just makes me want to gag. It screams anti-intellectualism. I don't think I've ever heard someone reckon' they were gonna say somethin' worth hearin'. I know it's prejudiced. I can't help it. May have something to do with almost all the ignorant backwoods hillbilly piles of trash I encountered when I lived in Texas, OR the racism my wife and I got when holding hands in a small town in Georgia, or the middle of nowhere town experiences I had growing up. You could take anything and package it in that accent and I'd walk away.
I know rednecky types aren't all like that. Got a good friend who's quite rednecky, but sans the accent. I've just gotten a major negative association as a result of my experiences.
I don't hate the people. I just hate the noise. I like people. Sometimes it's just easier to read their writing than hear their voice.
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Man, am I the anti-Freehold or the anti-TGTG? I keep ending up on the opposite side of almost everything from both.
I managed somehow to avoid having the strong Southern accent, despite growing up for 18 years in south Texas, but it's always designated "home" for me. The fact that it exists in Tennessee/Georgia was one of the things that made the move there a bit more tolerable, back when we first moved up here at the end of my high school years. The place was different and the weather colder but the people seemed the same.
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If it helps, I like FF6 a lot, and don't have a problem with Whedon (though I think Firefly was overrated and is pretty much a solid B, not the world ending pedestal people put it on), so probably more anti Freehold.
You should hear urban hip hop/folk/punk loving Pea Bear and her country loving Nebraska cousins talk music, they complain Pea Bear's music is "too much noise" whereas, Pea Bear wishes the country music "would just stop b*%*+ing about s%##"
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If it helps, I like FF6 a lot, and don't have a problem with Whedon (though I think Firefly was overrated and is pretty much a solid B, not the world ending pedestal people put it on), so probably more anti Freehold.
Touche. =) Though I think FF6 is the one thing FH and I agree on.
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I also am the only person I know who liked 9. It felt like a throwback, even if the story was garbage. At least I didn't want to strangle Zidane like I did Tidus.
Lulu's well rendered self was all 10 had going for it. It's like they plucked sexy out of my teenage brain and gave it shape.
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I also am the only person I know who liked 9. It felt like a throwback, even if the story was garbage. At least I didn't want to strangle Zidane like I did Tidus.
You Are Not Alone. It's Scint's favorite and easily my second, between 6 and 5/4 tied. I actually liked the story myself, and other than Quina I liked all the characters. (More Beatrix please.)
I found the queen one dimensional and Kuja contrived as villains. Villains matter to me.
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I have now seen the trailer for the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie about several dozen times.
Yeah the queen was unimpressive but I liked Kuja and I REALLY liked Garland.
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I think I was just a bit too early into the games to get into VII, though my brother absolutely loves it, but he started on the PS1 titles while I started on the SNES.
It's in the middle of my list, above I, VIII, and X, but below the SNES titles and IX, and right about on par with XII.
One of these days I need to get around to playing II and III. I have the former on GBA and the latter on Steam, but have never finished them.
7 is the only one I (vaguely) remember, I was young.
It was a great game tho, my favorite NES rpg was the one where you faught ancient Chinese wars, s~*@, can't remember the name.
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I really liked Garnet and Vivi. I'd probably like VI more if I'd finished it. Unfortunately, I started student teaching shortly after reaching world of ruin, and that's not a good place to be when you've not had time to play for three months...
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8 was the worst. Aside from Zell and Squall, none of the protagonists had a personality, there was a sudden no-reason shift for the love story, the time traveling was idiotic, the Ultimicia Twist was worse than a new movie by Shyamalan after he petered out, Squall was a wannabee cloud in personality only even more emo, the "oh look we're all from the same orphanage" thing was so contrived it seemed like a 13 year old's fanfic, and don't even get me started on the frickin draw system and the mechanics of the game!
I did like the flashbacks with Squall's dad, that was a nice reveal.
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IX also happened to be my first. For both FF and Doctors, oddly.
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Yeah I would have enjoyed the whole game more if it had focused on Laguna rather than Squall.
Kind of like how XII would have been better if the main character had been Ashe or Basch rather than Vaan. (Though Balthier stole the show, I think he was best as not being the main character he always claimed to be.)
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Worship me more, cretins!
I feel like I was missing out by never having played any FF.
But I can't rewind time... if I could the world would be a lot different.
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Good news! You can get III, IV, IV: The After Years, V, VI, VII, and VIII on Steam. All relatively cheaply, too.
I imagine it's only a matter of time until IX, X, and XII make their way there.
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8 was the worst.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Good news! You can get III, IV, IV: The After Years, V, VI, VII, and VIII on Steam. All relatively cheaply, too.
I imagine it's only a matter of time until IX, X, and XII make their way there.
They generally get pretty good deals during the sales too. I have the lot (save VIII, cause I wouldn't dirty my Steam library. :P )
Legacy of Kain used to be my all time favorite game, but then I got Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas, now not so much.
And since no one cares, my personal favorite video games that I remember correctly.
1. Fallout games
2. Legacy of Kain
3. Twisted Metal
4. Grand Theft Auto Vice City
5. Red Dead Redemption, GTA 4, and GTA 4: Stories of Liberty City, all great fun!
Also a shout out to Goldeneye, I saw that game end relationships.
Turok, Dinosaur Hunter and the South park first person shooter were also fun, but limited.
Legacy of Kain used to be my all time favorite game, but then I got Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas, now not so much.
And since no one cares, my personal favorite video games that I remember correctly.
1. Fallout games
2. Legacy of Kain
3. Twisted Metal
4. Grand Theft Auto Vice City
5. Red Dead Redemption, GTA 4, and GTA 4: Stories of Liberty City, all great fun!Also a shout out to Goldeneye, I saw that game end relationships.
Turok, Dinosaur Hunter and the South park first person shooter were also fun, but limited.
What? No love for Skyrim?
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The last season of Mythbusters starts tonight at 9 pm est on the science channel.
Skyrim is pretty good, but I'm fairly neutral to it.
I don't understand my mother when it comes to adult me. Like, at all. I want to ride my bicycle in the city? Too dangerous. I want to ride public transit? Too dangerous. I want to be openly LGBT? Too dangerous. I want to shop in Denver? Too dangerous. I want to move to San Francisco? Too dangerous. I want to buy a motorcycle? No need, she's got me covered.
Meanwhile Grandma's flipping the hell out like I'm gonna die.
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On to the bike. Mom had one when my sister was little, but she stopped using it once she had me. I can't remember ever riding the bike, and barely knew it existed. Always assumed she must have sold it at some point. It was actually laying around in Crazy Evil Grandma's shed for years before my sister got it fixed up and then decided biking isn't for her. So it's just sitting in her garage under a tarp eating up money, and Mom wants her to pass it on. I just need to secure parking and take it off her insurance. The parking bit may not be as easy as it sounds in San Francisco. I'm gonna go down to San Jose and see what I just inherited.
Also, I find my propensity to inherit things uncanny. I swear, every time I get ready to drop a significant amount of money, somebody in the family has something usable laying around that they don't want. Do other people have this experience? I'm not complaining because it's saving me a lot of cash, it just seems funny that I always end up getting things before I can buy them.
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The three minimum would be casual shoes, dress shoes, and boots.
I think I came in just over the minimum-- one pair of dress shoes (to go with my one suit), one pair of work boots, one pair of hiking boots, and one pair of sneakers. Also, I just realized that I only own three pairs of pants...
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I listen to Alice in Chains and hear the difference between Jerry Cantrell (who doesn't have a bad voice) and Layne Staley (wow!) and wonder if training is the difference, or if somebody without tremendous talent could ever be a Layne Staley.
I do know that Layne Staley didn't have any vocal training, and I believe that Cantrell does have some training. Of the two, Cantrell's definitely the more technically skilled, musically speaking, but Staley had a wider range and a more distinctive voice.
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I also only own three pairs of pants, but I also have two pairs of shorts, which is always my preferred attire.