W00t! I went to Colorado the last week of June! Had a blast!

I drove out on Saturday, June 26th. I had meant to leave my apartment between 2am and 4am. Due to a medical emergency and  a police officer thinking I was breaking into work,  I did not get on the road until about 6am. (I will spare the details as it will make this blog insanely long, lol.) The drive was LONG and there was a ton of road construction. I spent most of my time thinking of ways I could set up my PSP so I could play Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (MHFU) and drive at the same time…

I got to Colorado at about 4:30pm! We (John, Katie, and I) went out to eat at Red Robin (MMMM) my eyes were bigger then my stomach, (and their fries are too damn good, I ate about 48,587,346,578 of them.) I could not finish my awesome bacon cheeseburger. Once we were all stuffed, we went back to John and Katie’s for some Monster Hunter and some movies!

The next day was SUPER AWESOME DAY OF AWESOME aka Monster Hunter Tattoo Day! John started the day off by making awesome blueberry pancakes. I gave a blueberry to Lucy and she decided she liked me, all other trips she couldn’t really make up her mind, LOL. I have never seen a dog eat fruit before…

After breakfast we went to Sam’s Club!  6 lbs of Gummy Bears, 2.25 lb box of Laffy Taffy and 54 ounces of Skittles later we were off to the tattoo shop!

John, Katie and I were all planning on getting matching Monster Hunter Tattoos! We had a heck of a time deciding on what we wanted to get. We thought about the “MH Eye” symbol, the weapon symbols, perhaps a Felynx or Melynx. Then we saw the Fatalis glyph. Once we saw it, we all agreed it was the one.

We went to the tattoo shop, John and Katie know the tattoo artist, they got their Rathalos and Rathian done by him. We filled out some paper work. J and K wouldn’t let me see how much the tattoo was going to cost, it was a birthday present.

John went first, I am pretty sure it was just cause he was super duper scared!

JR before the tattoo!

Katie and I played some Monster Hunter while he was getting his tattoo.  (I know MORE Monster Hunter…lol. We can’t help it, it is AWESOME!)

JR getting his tattoo!

While he was getting his tattoo I was trying to decide where I wanted to get mine. I had a few places in mind, but I wasn’t 100% sure. I needed to hurry up and make up my mind!

JR's tattoo! AWESOME!

After seeing his,  I knew right where I wanted mine! However, I just unlocked my 2 or 3 stars quests on MHFU, so Katie was next!

JANE before her tattoo!

While Katie was getting her tattoo, I was ‘helping’ a little girl play Monster Hunter on Katie’s PSP. John had left to run to the store and was kind enough to tell the girl I would help her. John is a jerk.

JANE getting her tattoo!

I got up to take a pic of Katie getting her tattoo, I was trying to be all stealthy and ninja like…as you can tell she turned around and said, “You are taking a picture aren’t you?”

…if only my Sneak skill was higher.

Katie's tattoo! AWESOME!

John got back from the store while they were finishing up Katie’s tattoo. It looked awesome! Soon it was my turn.

As I sat in the chair, I noticed the tattoo artist had a SWEENEY TODD razor just like mine! w00t! This guy was awesome!

Me getting my tattoo!

I talked to the tattoo guy about everything from Fable II to religion. Trying to not move my arm, made my arm constantly twitch, lol. This was my least painful tattoo. I don’t know if it is cause of where I got it or cause I was relaxed just chit chatting.

My tattoo! MMmmmm Slimey!

I loved the way my tattoo turned out and I am very happy with where I decided to get it! w00t! A MONSTER HUNTER TATTOO! OH YEAH! *dances*

Dagger's, JR's, and JANE's MONSTER HUNTER TATTOOS!

Getting matching tattoo’s with John and Katie was awesome and they all turned out great!  After the tattoos we hit KFC (I fricken love KFC) then headed home for some…wait for it…Monster Hunter, LOL, withCid! We played for a bit then went to see Land of the Lost! We are all Will Ferrell fans and I really wanted to see a Will Ferrell movie with them. Unfortunately the movie wasn’t all that great, though it did have a Daiymo Hermitaur in it!  Plus I got to see posters for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, a preview for the new Harry Potter movie (July 15th! ….oh shut up, the books are great!)  and I got to see Will Ferrell in his undies! So w00t!

However, there was even MORE that same day…

What could it be...?

What’s in the big green box? Well that’s for another day…cause my computer is pissing me off right now and I want to go play MHFU!

Holy smokes! I have a ton of catching up to do and about 3 blogs I want to write. I have managed to upload all the pics  for the blogs today, but that is all I am going to do for now.

Saturday morning, with a cup of coffee in hand I have some major writing and reading to do. I thought about catching up with WP/GAP/PSN boards/MH  Boards/ LOL TOO MUCH INTERNET STUFF today but I am sleepy and I just want to go play some MHFU! So yeah…

Wow, lots of stuff going on lately.

Last week out of no where my mother stopped drinking.

I went to eat lunch with her when she said “I quit drinking.”

I did not know how to reply to that. I never expected to hear anything like that from my mother before in my entire life. I had completely given up on her.

 My response was a simple, “Oh yeah?”

I didn’t know what else to say. I haven’t asked her what exactly made her quit, anytime it gets brought up she just says “It was just stupid.”

She has been an alcoholic for about 13 years. Every single day she would drink herself to sleep. (AKA drinking until you pass out.) It started with a ‘few’ beers a night. At first it was no big deal, but a few beers became more and more. She would blame her drinking on everything from my siblings to having nothing better to do. She has been drunk for all but 2 years of Scout’s life and my little brother, Gage, has never known my mom sober.

I hate my mother when she is drunk. I have hated my mother for 13 years.

13 years ago my mom was an awesome mom. She had a job, she took care of herself, she took care of her family. We could all talk to her about anything. She had a very bright personality. Then it just changed.  All of that was gone. I know she will not go back to being the person she was, but maybe just a sliver of that person remains so that Scout and Gage will have a chance to get to know her. That is my hope.

Of course hope is the one thing I am trying not to have right now. I do not want to get my hopes up thinking she is finally over it. Then have them crashing down if she slips.  It has only been a week. The first week in 13 years. That is an awesome week. I am proud of my mother for her first week. Will I be proud of her second week? We’ll see…

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College orientation was last week Friday! WOO HOO! It was awesome! I got to meet my Instructors, fellow students, and got a tour of the school! For the first time in my life I felt ‘old.’ It was a very strange feeling.

When I got there, my pants covered in coffee, 40 mins early, and a nervous wreck, I had to go get my name tag.

Jenna- Computer Science and Networking Technology, I like the sound of that!

It was the orientation for students accepted in:

• General Machining
• Engineering Drafting/CAD
• Industrial Instrumentation & Control
• Industrial & Commercial Wiring
• Computerized Manufacturing Technology
• Carpentry/Construction Technology
• Computer Science and Networking Technology (CSNT)
• Powerline
• Powerline Technology
• Biotechnology Lab Tech

So yeah, so far I was the only girl. Oh great. I went to take my student ID picture, I of course kept BEEFY on in the pic. YAY! (That is going to be awesome, LOL!) Then I wandered around looking for other CSNT students. None. Damn.

I did notice that about 90% of the students there were Powerline students. I have no idea what that is. I mean I know what  a powerline is, but are that many people interested in them..?

We were all gathered into a room and got the run down of the school, everything from the rules to how to buy books with your financial aid was covered. Then we got a tour and I got to feel old.

I was the only girl in a group of 21. I was the only CSNT student in the group too, LOL! Everyone else was Powerline. I was also probably the oldest. I was the only one who did not have their parents with.  During the tour I asked about 56,783,948,765 questions. Every room we went into I had a question. I was starting to annoy myself, but I really needed to know the answers.  I heard a few of the guys say “That lady keeps asking questions, we should be done by now!” They called me ‘THAT LADY’  wow. I have never been called that before. I wanted to say that I would not be able to just ask my mommy and daddy later, I had to find out now…but no, I said nothing. I continued asking questions though!

After the tour we broke up into our areas of study. I finally got to see who my fellow CSNT students would be! A whopping total of 8 students! My brother-in-law Sean being one of them! LOL! Man, Iowa schools are awesome.

We met our Instructor. He is just awesome. I thought I would be extremely intimidated by him, but no.  He gave us some of his back story, completely lost his train of thought, told about how he used to work in corrections, the navy, was certified in Cisco, and a ton of other stuff. He went on and on til we were all comfortable. He said some of his students went on and worked at DDC after college! I have been working there for 3 1/2 years! That made me laugh. Whoopie DDC, lol, I am going to college so that I can move on from there.  Small classes, awesome Instructor! w00t! Why was I so afraid of college before? It is going to be great!

If I haven’t said it already (5,463,784,576 times, hahaha!)  will be studying Computer Science and Networking Technology!

My first classes are:

• Computer Science
• Networking Principles & Applications
• Computer Architecture
• Small Business Management
• Introduction to Computers

For a total of  16 credits!

‘Holy balls Jenna! How are you going to go to school FULL TIME and work FULL TIME!?’ Is pretty much what I thought to myself…

I got the class schedule…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! All of the classes are in the morning except Small Business Management and Intro to Computers! I work in the morning! I cannot go to school unless I am working full time. Crap. I had planned to only go to school part-time. Crap. Then I talked to my Instructor, and he said I needed to register for any class I was interested in so that I would have a spot saved. I could come back and adjust my classes as needed, but in order to be in the CSNT program I have to take Computer Science, Networking Principles & Applications, and Computer Architecture. All the morning ones.

I also found out I tested out of Intro to Computers. NICE! So I didn’t have to worry about that one.

After orientation I went to work and set up a meeting request with my boss.  *Gulp*

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Today was the big day! I had my meeting with my boss. It was at 11am,  it lasted until 12:30pm. That is a long ass meeting.

I went to my boss’ office. Luckily for me, my boss and I are buddies.  So I wasn’t too nervous but I was still wondering how she would respond to my school schedule. In the meeting request I had told her that if I could not adjust my hours and continue to work full time, with my school schedule, I would be forced to choose one or the other. I did NOT tell her I would have to chose work over school, because I still have bills and they still need to be paid.

I sat in her office and went over a mock schedule she had built for me. It was based off me coming into work right after school, unfortunately we could only get it to 35 hours. I need 40 hours to keep my benefits.

We messed around with the schedule a bunch and I was getting rather bummed out. Well there goes school…

Then she told me that Data Entry would be getting a new client. She went on and on about how we would have to start a night shift as we do not have enough computers or people to get all the work we would have done. I wasn’t following her, I mean sure I work in Data Entry sometimes but my main departments are Scanning and Clerical. I do not type fast enough to really be much help in Data Entry, but I do what I can. Then just out of no where she offered me a STAFF POSITION as SUPERVISOR of the night shift! Holy freaking balls awesome!!! I said. “Well, that sounds like it would work.” (I was crapping my pants at the time.)

I will be a supervisor when we get our new client in…that’s the problem though. We can build mock schedules, I can fill my office with action figures,  and we can talk about it all we want, but I will not 100% know my hours until we start getting in the work. That could be a month from now, it could be tomorrow, it all depends on the client. However, I do know she will keep me at 40 hours (YES!!) and it will not interfere with my school schedule. School comes first, my boss even said so. (I had her write it down and sign it so the first day she wants me to come in and I have school I can show her what she said…LOL!) Today has been pretty awesome!

We are going to start the hiring process asap. Before the week is out. I have never hired, interviewed, or anything, anyone ever before so I am pretty nervous, but I like that I get to be a part of the hiring process. It will help me get to know the employees that I will BE THE BOSS OF! Hehehehe! Freaking awesome!

I have a meeting at the school tomorrow to finalize everything and talk about just how many credits I am taking.  LOL! I should probably find out if I am full or part-time, hahaha!

Good day today. I should probably go and clean now…but why ruin it? I am going to get sit on my butt and play some FFXII! w00t!

I don’t know what it is with animals..

Tuesday at work I was in the garage. I spend a lot of my work day in there. I can slack around, there are no cameras and I am the only one in the building who knows where everything belongs and what gets shipped when, how to store the documents, etc.  So if I take forever in the garage no one can really say that I took forever cause no one really knows what exactly I do while I am in there, so no one knows how long it should take, LOL! Luckily for me you need security clearance to get in there and I can always hear when someone is coming.  (People from work if you stumbled across this little blog of mine…I am just kidding, heh. I work my ass off in the garage, I hate it in there…and stuff.)

So yeah, I was texting in the garage when I heard something weird. I looked up and saw a black shadow fly above me. I ran out of the garage! I went to my boss’ office and told her that we may have a bat or bird in the garage. She was not happy. She was afraid the bird was going to mess with the electrical system. She also did not like that the bird had access to the whole building since the ceiling is open above everything.  Luckily I was supposed to clock out of work at 3:30pm it was 3:20pm! Not my problem!

An hour later I was still in the garage trying to get the bird out.

I had no luck. I left the garage door open to the outside. So the bird could be free. Unfortunately the bird didn’t want to be free. He liked the garage. I could not leave the garage while the door was open so I decided to name the bird. I didn’t know if it was girl or a boy so I decided it would be a boy with a girl name. His name is Oprah. Oprah was very easily confused. He kept looking outside then flying like he was going to leave. Instead he would fly up above the garage door and stand there wondering where the ‘outside’ he just saw went…

Eventually I told my boss I was going home.

The next day as I walked around the building I noticed Oprah had made himself more comfortable. He now flew above the ceiling tiles in Clerical. We could not see him, but we could hear him. Later in the morning I was cutting open some mail when I heard a scream from the garage and then heard my coworker run out. She came into the cutting room in a panic about how there was something in the garage.

Opps, I forgot to tell Terri about Oprah. Oh darn. Hehehehe!

I went with her in the garage, she was scared. I have no idea why. I mean it was a bird. Yes I have see the movie. Yes it sucked. I was starting to tell Terri that birds are not scary unless they are pecking your eyes out and that wasn’t happening…yet.  That is when I saw Oprah, he was on the ground picking up leaves with his beak. I told Terri to open the garage door. Then I had an idea.

Since I had just come from the cutting room I had a ton of rubber bands around my wrist. (I cut and bundle the mail, blah blah blah)  I have exceptional aim with rubber bands. I think it is just good hand-eye coordination from playing video games all day, plus I kill spiders with rubber bands when there are no household cleaning products around.

I started shooting rubber bands at Oprah. I felt bad but he had to get out of the garage. My first one missed. My second one, Oprah was not so lucky. It hit him right in the head. Poor Oprah. I grabbed some box lids and went to pick him up. I couldn’t tell if I just knocked him out or if I killed him. He wasn’t moving.

I took him outside. Meanwhile Terri found a stick. She poked him a few times. Nothing. Well crap, I didn’t mean to kill him.

She got her water bottle and poured a drop of water on him.

Nothing.

Awww damn.

Then I went to tell the boss the bird was out. She came to see him. When she got outside, to my suprise Oprah got up and started flying almost right back into the still open garage! LOL! I think that is where he was trying to go but he was flying very wobbly! He was alive! YAY!

If you see a black bird that is flying in circles, into to trees, or towards the ground then say ”Hi” to Oprah for me!

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) demo is now in the Playstation store!

GO DOWNLOAD IT! NOW!

Size: 189 MB

I am currently downloading it, 31% done!!! I will update this after I play it a bit! OH YEAH!

Edit 1

Just beat a Hypnocatrice, took 9 mins and 30 seconds, using DUAL element duals! Freaking awesome! The new area “Great Forest” looks amazing, the new music is not bad either!

…going to go play more…

So I just played the whole MHFU demo! YAY! Hypnocatrice is AWESOME as is the Great Forest area! DUAL ELEMENT DUALS IN ACTION! The new music is also amazing… I love this demo! However, I have 50 billion (give or take, lol) hours on MH, MHF, and MHF2. I was reading the many posts on the boards about the demo, vets of the series are excited about it…newcomers not so much.

It is about time there was a MH demo, unfortunately they may messed up in a few areas and that might push a few people away.

1. You can’t check your status. To me this is bad, because you cannot look at all the little details on each piece of armor or weapon. It has the effect of saying ‘All armor is the same, it just looks different.’ Which is completely untrue. It should be noted, that in the demo all armor has the same skills….they seem to be to be Auto-Tracker and Health +50.

2. You cannot break pieces off monsters. No broken beaks, no tail cutting, nada. Ripping the monsters to shreds and making them look like hell is half the fun and should be included in the demo! I got the feeling I was causing no damage to anything until it finally limped. I could see that turning away a few people as it can feel like an endless battle and that you are getting no where.

3. G-Rank. Ouch. Plum D. Hermitaur, G-Rank, with his speed and new attacks is quite the challenge! MH is known for being a difficult game, shoving that difficulty down a newbie’s throat in a demo is probably not the best idea. Though it could turn out to be a good thing for the gamers who like a challenge! On the other hand, Auto-Tracker included on every quest!? Where is the “hunting” in that!?

4. No village! NOOOOOO! This is probably the biggest mistake. You play the demo, you kill a monster, you don’t even get to carve the bosses, then it just says quest cleared. They should have included carving and just a peak at the armory so new players could see that you use the items you collect to build better armors and better weapons. They could have let you start in Steel armor or something the kill a few Hypno’s and make a few pieces of armor so you get the gist. Killing monsters is only half the fun of MH. Making armors and weapons, that is where it gets addicting!

I also wish it would save the kill times so you could go back and try to beat your times. That way you could see how you actually become a better hunter as you play, you learn monster’s moves and you can kill them so much faster, without dying, using the exact same equipment.

I hope I am not coming off as hating the demo, as I said before, I loved it! I am ready for MHFU to come out RIGHT NOW! They just could have made the demo a bit more accessible to all gamers.

As a vet or newbie to MH what did you think of the demo?

Oh yeah, you can now go to Gamestop and pick up the demo on UMD!

I have been going around reading blogs today. Decided I would write one.  Not sure what it will be about, we’ll see.  I am in a weird mood lately. I had been stressing about taking my college placement test. I haven’t been in school for about, hmmm, I graduated in 2003 then took a year of online college courses, which I was to lazy to complete so I wouldn’t really count…so it’s been about 5-6 years. A long enough time to get out of the studying habit.

To be honest I never really studied. Sure if I had a history test I would memorize everything the day before, but is that really studying? When it came to school either I understood what I was learning and just knew it…or I didn’t.  If I didn’t understand something, I would just memorize it, keep it in my head for as long as I needed it, then it was just gone.  I never asked questions or even talked in high school.

Not sure where I was going with that. I took my COMPASS test yesterday and got the following scores out of 100:

Algebra: 94

Pre-algebra: 92

Writing: 84

Reading: 99

Damn, I want to be a writer and that was my lowest score. I tested out of over a year of classes! (W00t!) I will be able to start at the intermediate level with all courses if I chose to do so and I could even skip to the advanced in some. AWESOME! Ok ok, I am kinda bragging, heh.

I do not think of myself as ’smart’ at all. I read so much stuff I do not understand. I talk to people I don’t understand. I read blogs I don’t understand. It seems like everyone else understands,  just not me. So getting high scores really did surprise me. I was proud of myself, I do not think I have ever been proud of myself before. It is a weird feeling.

You know when you are young and you think, “I want to be a _____ when I grow up.”  You have so many possibilities, then somehow time goes by and  all those possibilities just disappear and you are working at some job just to pay the bills. It’s not what you wanted to do but it is not a bad job really.  You start to talk yourself out of reaching your dreams…”Sure I am not an astronaut, but that was never realistic to begin with.” … and then you just accept what you have. You’re comfortable, you may even be happy, but every now and then you still wonder “What if…” I know first hand what it is like to live like that. The days just go by one after another, not really changing much. Weeks, months, and before you know it is years…

Now that I know I am going back to college I am back to that “I want to be a ____ when I grow up” stage. I have so many possibilities, a ton of “What ifs?”. With my test scores I can take any class I want to. What I learn now  is what I will be doing for the rest of my life….I just hope I make the right choice.

What did you want to be when you grew up? …is that what you are doing now?

Ok so that title is a work in progress…but if I ever write that book this is going to be going in it.

The local radio station has a program called “Tradio.” During this program people call in to buy, sell and trade their items. I listen to it while at work sometimes. Once a guy called in that wanted to buy a pet llama…so sometimes it can be interesting. Today was one of those interesting days.

An elderly lady called and said she was looking for someone to come remove a snake from her basement. Now, I do not know why anyone would call and ask a radio station for help in getting rid of a snake…but whatever, this is Iowa…so yeah…

I thought about helping her. David, my snake, is lonely and needs a buddy now that Fatalis died. So I figured I would just go get this snake, if it was another garter snake then David would have a new BFF!

I called the radio station to get the lady’s info, since I missed it before. One of my co-workers, Sarah, heard me calling. Soon the whole office knew I was going to go “Save the old lady!”

Sarah decided I should not go alone. I was kinda happy, because the thought of going into a strangers house all by myself was a little scary. I went to her office to call Alice, the lady with the snake in her basement.

Alice picked up the phone and instantly I decided she was a very cranky lady. I told her I was calling about her call to the radio station for help. She asked if I was going to come all by myself, because it was going to take more then one person. When I said I was going to bring someone else she told me to make sure I brought some…sticks. LOL!

I told her I would bring something, but that I had a pet snake so I was not afraid of it. We ended the call, I felt guilty cause I could not stop giggling about the way she said “Make sure you bring sticks!”

After work Sarah and I stopped by her house to get supplies for snake catching.   I didn’t understand why we needed supplies, I had grabbed a yard stick from work. We got some supplies, a broom handle and some rubber gloves…don’t ask. Right before we were about to leave Sarah handed me a HUGE, extremely sharp kitchen knife. HOLY BALLS! She told me to put it in my bag. WTF!?

She then proceeded to tell me that she was scared. Not of the snake, but of Alice. She thought there was a chance ‘Alice’ was fake and just wanted to get us in her basement to kill us or something. Sarah told me to make sure I make a comment about leaving my phone in the car on accident, so if we did get trapped Alice wouldn’t think I had a phone on me. Sarah went on and on about how the basement would be plated in metal and we would get no phone signal so it wouldn’t really matter. Then she came up with the idea that ‘Alice’ was really a guy using a voice box. She had all these theories…let’s just say I was glad she handed me the knife to put in MY bag. Sarah was being paranoid.

However, her paranoia freaked me out a little bit too. What the hell was I doing going into someones house to catch a snake? What if ‘Alice’ was fake and we would get down into the basement and have a ‘Psycho’ movie moment. EEEEEEEEEKKKKKK!

We drove by the house twice before we decided to go in. Her yard was covered in lawn ornaments,  Uncle Sam, Dogs, Rabbits, Gnomes, one of those crystal balls, fountains, everything. I instantly thought it could be going for the “Let’s trick people into thinking that an old lady lives here and then get them to come in and then skin them alive” look.

We knocked on the door. My bag on my shoulder and a yard stick in my hand. Sarah had the broom handle. A surprisingly cheerful elderly lady answered the door. “Jenna, don’t be fooled! It could be a skin suit!” LOL! Ok I didn’t really think that, but awesome. Sarah then said something that completely surprised me.  

 ”HEY! Alice! I think I know you! Did you used to go camping up at the lakes? You had white dogs…” Apparently when Sarah was a kid she used to go camping with Alice and her husband. Wow.  So then I probably don’t need this huge knife in my bag….do I?

I went down to the basement while Sarah and Alice caught up with each other. Sheesh, what were the chances of them knowing each other!? Alice came down and showed me where the snake was…or where she thought it was. She explained that it had come into her basement over a year ago when the basement window was broken by hail. The snake never went on the ground, it was always up in the ceiling, or on top of the air vents making dust fall all over her white freezer.

“Oh crap” I thought. I was expecting the snake to be on the floor somewhere, not above me. I got the flashlight and stood on the freezer, looking around for the snake. I did not see a single trace of it. I did notice some sticky trays though.

“Alice, why do you have all these sticky trays up here?” I asked.

“To catch the snake. I put peanut butter on some of them and some of them have crackers on them.” Alice said.

I just about lost my balance. Who tries to catch a snake with PEANUT BUTTER and CRACKERS!? I was trying to hide a giggle but not doing it very well. I got off the freezer to ask Alice some questions. She just kept saying “Sorry” and “My dogs are so scared of it, it goes for their water…”

I told Alice that there was not much Sarah and I could do. There was a chance that the snake was in the walls, or the air vent. Heck it could be any where. She insisted that it was not in the walls or the vents…for some reason that annoyed me. I told her she could try sticking a little thing of water on the sticky trays, that might get the snake. She just said, “No.”  …I got more annoyed.

I asked her what the snake looked like. She said it was black with a yellow stripe. So it was a garter snake! I told her her best bet would be to get an earth worm and put it on a sticky tray. Heck it would not even have to be a whole earth worm just a tiny piece. If she did that she would have the snake in less then an hour. She just said, “No.”

GAHHHHHHHH! So you want me to just magically teleport it into my hand!? I was so annoyed. I wanted to help her get the snake, but she didn’t want to listen! I climbed up on the freezer again. This time Sarah had the flashlight and was shining it around for me. Then Sarah said, in a voice I have never heard her use, “Jenna, don’t look behind you. Get down, get down, get down!”

I was happy! “Woohoo it must be the snake!” Why the heck would I get down!? I thought there was no way in hell we would catch it and from the sounds of it, it was right behind me! I turned around. HOLY BIG ASS MOTHER FUCKING SPIDER! I wanted to cry and scream at the same time. There was a spider the size of, hmmm, you know keyless car entry things with the lock, unlock, trunk, and where the hell did I park my car buttons? That was the size of the spider.  I hate spiders and here in this strangers house I could not run for my shampoo, kitchen cleaner, dish soap, bleach, lighter fluid, hair spray and other spider killing supplies.

I jumped off the freezer and said I was done. There was no way we could catch the snake. I just wanted away from the spider. Alice then said she was sorry again. I told her we were sorry we could not help her and repeated some of my advice from before…which she once again shrugged off. Then she asked us to replace her basement storm windows. WTF!?

“Ummm, ok…” we both said.

We replaced her windows in about 15 mins and then we were on our way. I wonder if that is all she wanted to begin with…?

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Release Date: June 23rd, 2009

A new trailer for MHFU has been released.  You can watch it here:

What is with the crappy advertising? I’ll admit this trailer is MUCH MUCH better then the trailer with the english guy however they once again show no gameplay. WHY!? Plus, a lot of that FMV is recycled from MHF2.

I was searching around on youtube and stumbled across this fan-made trailer.

After watching that trailer I wanted to play MHFU, RIGHT NOW! I didn’t really like the random lady hunter talking, but it was still an amazing trailer.  Will Capcom ever get it right?

…at least they are trying I guess…

Anyways, I beat the Training School in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 today! W00t! That was extremely difficult. Garuga with a hammer took me FOREVER. I almost gave up about 23,456 times. None of you know what I am talking about except JR and Jane, LOL! I  don’t care, I am just happy I beat it! Now to go get 2 Rajang coins and make Helper U! More useless armor that looks awesome! YAY!

I also still need to finish Special Training, Treasure Hunts, get the Crowns, capture every monster, get 4 rare weapons in each weapon type, get to Expand pickaxes to finish my combo list…ummm I think that is it, LOL! How can you have almost 700 hours on a game and still have SO MUCH to do? I do not think I will ever get all the crowns or capture every monster…but I might. I have almost 2 months before MHFU comes out…we’ll see…

I am starting to wonder what exactly carries over from MHF2 to MHFU. I have asked on 3 different message boards and no one seems to be able to give me a straight answer. I kinda miss being a n00b in the MH games so I would be happiest if I restarted back at HR 1 with no quests clear and given tickets based off what I had in MHF2. Just like the transfer from MHF1 to MHF2.

 However I have heard that EVERYTHING  (Hunter Rank, weapons, armors, training school, etc.) will transfer. I am not sure how I feel about that. I mean sure I will only be HR6 and MHFU has up to HR9, and every weapon I have now will probably have higher upgrades…I just, hmmm, I don’t know exactly how I feel about starting a game in the middle of it…if that makes any sense.

You do not HAVE to transfer your save file over, but I would want to. Even if it meant starting in the middle. I have no idea why. Here’s hoping there will be a clear answer as to what transfers over in the coming weeks.

United Airlines: Fly The Friendly Skies As Long As You’re The Right Size!

I read in a news article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30227335/) that United Airlines will now require overweight passengers to buy two seats when purchasing plane tickets. At first when I read that I figured there was no way it could be true. Isn’t that discrimination? It pissed me off. I am 5ft 4in,  I weigh 127 lbs and I think the seats are far to small.

I wonder how the meeting went…

Gee, Bob, we sure have got a lot of complaints about our seats being to small.

You sure are right Jim.

Well, gee, I wonder what we could do Bob.

Oh I know, Jim! It’s not that our seats are to small it’s that people are to big!

Oh boy! Bob you are on to something now!

Oh Jim just you wait and see! I got just the thing! Instead of making the seats bigger and more comfortable we will make the fat people charge extra…

That is bull shit and should not be allowed. However, apparently many other airlines have similar rules.

So can two 120 lb people share a single seat? Can a parent and their child only pay for one and a half seats? What about midgets?  What if the person is overweight because of genetics? Hell, even if it is because they want to sit at home and eat cake all day, it should not matter. GAH! One person, one ticket. Period. This is just ridiculous.

I have been seated between overweight people. It is not comfortable. I have been seated between underweight people. It is not comfortable. Just because a person takes up two seats DOES NOT mean they should have to pay for two seats. What is to stop the airlines from making  the seats smaller and smaller?

While I get that there are weight restrictions on airlines, blah blah blah.  Make planes with fewer seats. Make the seats larger. Sure less people can fly at once, however, the flight will be more comfortable and the less weight in the planes due to them not being over crowded will save on fuel. Everyone is happy. …ok so the airlines would probably lose some money, but they charge an arm and a leg for a ticket anyways. They don’t even offer peanuts anymore. $200 for a ticket and I don’t get a single peanut.

If you do not want to sit next to an overweight person follow these simple steps:

 1.YOU buy 2 tickets.

2.YOU choose your seat.

3.YOU quit your bitching.

4. Done.

So, what’s next? Tall people going to have to pay for two movie tickets?

I am working on a book that is kinda (not completely) based off my life.  This right now is the beginning but I might go back and make a different beginning. I might take this all out, it might go in the middle. I am not sure where I am going to go with this whole project of mine …yet. I just felt like finally starting it. Any spelling errors and what not just ignore for now. I do not know if Iwant to tell it in 1st person or 3rd person, past or present so I might bounce around a bit until I figure out what exactly I want to do with it. Anyways, enjoy! Keep in mind this is a very rough draft. I will come back and edit it time and time again until I get it just right.

Chapter One

I remember my first wedding quite well.  The wedding was outside in a huge grassy field. The grass was dead of course, it was the Nevada desert, getting grass to grow was nearly impossible.  The air was dry and there was a nice breeze. The breeze could not hide the heat. The sun was baking the dry grass and the black top of the basketball courts. Kids were laughing and playing. Teachers were blowing their whistles.  It was recess at John R Elementary School.

“Do you take Jenna to be your awfully wedded wife?” My older sister Erica asked Ben. She was in charge of the whole wedding. It was her idea to begin with. She got my boyfriend to propose and she even supplied the rings. 

“Yes, I do” Ben said as he put a little cloth  pink and yellow ring on my finger. Ben was the most popular boy in school and he just happen to be in my class. He sat right in front of me, I never talked to him.  Erica was friends with his older sister.  They both decided that Ben and I would be boyfriend and girlfriend. So we were.

“Do you take Ben to be your awfully wedded husband” She asked me as I fidgeted with the ring. It was too big.

“Can I PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go play basketball with Tyson? PLEASE!”  I begged.

“Jenna! Just get married! Geez!” She said back to me.

“Fine, he can be my husband.” I said as I put his ring on his finger. It was made out of dead grass. I knew there was no point in fighting with Erica. It was easier to just let her have her way, besides if I got done with this wedding then I would still have time to play.

“Now for the best part!” Erica said, as our audience of 4th and 5th graders cheered us on.

“The best part? Erica we are married,you said we just had to get marrie-” I was cut off.

 ”You may kiss the bride!”

Ben looked at me. I thought we were just getting married! I completely forgot about the kissing part!

“Erica, you are such a jerk! You know if I kiss Ben mom is going to be mad.” I protested. I did not want to kiss Ben I wanted to go play basketball. I was also certain I would be in trouble if I kissed a boy.

“DO IT! DO IT!” all the kids around me were saying.

“Jenna, I won’t tell Mom. I promise! You have to kiss him, you are married!”

I knew better. I knew if I kissed Ben then Erica would go running to Mom right when we got home. Besides, I saw mom kissing Dad and now mom was pregnant. If went home and I was pregnant then mom would be even more mad. She might even take my Sega away.

With the thought of my Sega getting taken away and remembering that I could in fact get pregnant from kissing boys, I pushed Ben away. Knocking him to the floor. Then I ran. I was the fastest runner in school. I had over twenty awards to prove it. The only person who would stand a chance at catching me was my best friend Tyson.  He was not chasing me so I knew I didn’t have to run at top speed.

Erica was going to be mad at me for running from my wedding. She was going to be even madder that I lost the wedding ring. That her was her ring, she probably wanted it back.

I avoided Erica and my husband the rest of recess. By the time school was out for the day the wedding had been forgotten about. Until we got home.

“Mom! Jenna almost kissed a boy!” Erica said as we threw our backpacks on the floor.

“Erica made me!” I said back.

“I did not! She almost kissed Ben, they got married and everything!” Erica said.

“Ben? You mean your brother?” Mom asked. Erica was 9, I was 8 and Ben my younger brother was 6. Mom was getting pretty big with another baby brother or sister.

“No not Ben!  Ben Johnson her boyfriend! Jenna wanted to kiss him and I kept telling her not to! She wouldn’t listen!” Erica lied, while teasing me. She knew I did not want mom to know I had a boyfriend. It was not my fault I was his girlfriend and it was embarrassing. Now mom thought I wanted to kiss a boy. I was going to be in so much trouble.

“Shut up!  Erica MADE me get married! See I told you that you would tell mom! You always tell mom and you are lying! ” I was about to cry. I couldn’t tell if mom was going to be really mad or not but I hated being in trouble. I had a boyfriend, I got married, I almost got pregnant and Erica was telling Mom the whole story wrong.  How could I not be in trouble? I ran down the hall to my room trying not to cry.

My room was blue. Blue wallpaper, blue carpet, blue everything. Blue was my favorite color. I looked at the wallpaper on the wall. It was peeled off in a corner. I got in trouble for peeling the paper off my wall. I remember Dad spanked me.  I cried and cried. I tried to tell my parents that I had not peeled the paper off. It was true! I hadn’t peeled it off. I don’t know who did. Looking at it now I knew it had to be Erica. Why was she always trying to get me in trouble?

I started working on packing my room. When the baby got here this was going to be it’s room. I was moving into Erica’s room. Erica’s stupid pink room. With pink wall paper and pink shelves. It wasn’t fair, but I wanted a little baby brother or sister more then anything. Even more then my blue room.  Maybe I could share the room with the baby and not Erica. I needed to remember to ask mom and dad about that, but first I had to give them time to forget about the wedding.