Hey y'all. I've been meaning to post a blog for some time, I just never could find the time to. A lot of my time is taken up by school, school work, and gaming. I've only really just been checking around and commenting. So a lot has happened in the month since school has started. I'm gonna go ahead and steal rangergirl's format, because it's easy, and I hate work!
Gaming:
I had a $20 Steam card lying around, so with it I bought Borderlands 2 and the entire Half-Life series. Both of them were on sale for about $10, and the cool thing is that they both drained my steam account to exactly $0.00, which almost never happens when buing things digitally because you end up with, like 6 cents left, and you start to develop ocd- like tendencies and google, "what can I buy on Steam with 6 cents" and end up dissapointed that you cant buy jack sh*t with 6 cents. So I got those games. I'm about 1/3 of the way through Half-Life 1 and I think I might have dug myself into a hole and now I can't progress in the game. This happens a lot in shooters. I get so scared of enemies, that instead of fighting them, I end up running away from and skipping them instead, and end up breaking the game. I'll be starting that over again sometime. I don't really like Half-Life as much as I like Half-Life 2. The original Half-Life just feels a bit clunky, whereas 2 feels more polished. They're both great games though. The use of physics in 2 is phenomenal. I'm at chapter 6, right after you get the gravity gun. It's a ton of fun to use. I'm only an hour into Borderlands 2, but it's a ton of fun. I probably won't be playing it much though until I get a better computer or laptop.
Listening:
I've commented on one blog about the lack of thrift stores near my place where I can buy albums from, but I've found an awesome solution to that: the library. My local library has a TON of albums all for free. among them that I checked out:
1. Yeezus - Kanye West
2. Thriller - Michael Jackson
3. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
4. St. Elsewhere - Gnarles Barkley
5. The White album - The Beatles
6. Star Trek (2009) soundtrack
7. Purple Rain - Prince
8. The Beginning - The Black Eyed Peas
9. 8 Mile - Eminem
10. Brothers - The Black Keys
11. Born Sinner - J. Cole
And I went back this weekend to get even more music. One of my favorite things to do is listen to lots of different types of music, so this was a blessing.
Watching:
This past month I've started watching Parks and Recreation. I'm currently part way through season 5, and so far I'm absolutely in love with it. The first season is a bit meh, even though I only realized that after reflecting on it, and that's mainly because of the lack of development of many of the characters. It's still a fun season to watch though. Later seasons give a bit more personality to the characters Which is awesome. I personally love Tom Haverford and Ron Swanson., two awesome characters. Once I finish this on Netflix I'm gonna watch 30 Rock.
I've also been watching The Legend of Korra weekly since the second season has started. It was originally intended to be 1 standalone season, but this new season has done a fantastic job extending the Avatar universe.
My dad and I were also able to fit all of Breaking Bad into the last month, which is a feat I will probably never be able to replicate because of the sheer depth of the show. The show is... hefty. That's kind of a stupid way to describe it, but that's the best I could think of. I personally found the ending to be satisfying, and a fitting end. I can't wait for Better Call Saul!
School:
This year I decided to get off my lazy butt and do something, so I decided to try out for the school play. I only made a small part as an extra, but all the important parts were given to those with more experience that were in higher grades so if I stick with this for a while I might be good enough to get a bigger part maybe in the musical that's in the winter/spring.
I've also decided to try out for the guys acapella group in our school. I thought my audition was utterly horrible, but when I was talking to my chorale teacher, he said that mine was better than a lot of the others and that I have 3 more years to improve so if I don't make it this year, I'm almost guarenteed to make it in the coming years. Go figure.
Other:
A few weeks ago I bought an acoustic guitar. This has been something that I've been wanting to do for quite a while, and now I'm so happy to have it. I practice almost daily, and every day I look up some new chord or technique on youtube. Eventually, if I get good enough I can get a teacher.
So that's all that I've been up to. Eventually I'm gonna get Kingdom Hearts 1.5 hd REmix (stupid name). Till next time, folks!
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