waveguidebuizel

Happy Anniversary! :)

I have a horrible time finding Pokémon toys in stores, but there's a plethora of them online. Amazon has a lot of the imported toys, but they're just as expensive. I've also found a few other niche sites that specialize in imports, which are slightly cheaper but still pricy. The quality of the toys is definitely a lot better than the western one, so it's worth the trade off. However, I think I may start buying plushies off PokémonCenter.com. Actually, I just bought a Charizard mug over the weekend and it just came in today. I'm pretty happy about that. :3

Mmm, sorry if this sound like prying, but do you have an FB? You don't have to give it to me if you don't want to, but I have friended a couple penpals on FB from other places. Like I said, you don't have to give it out; I respect your privacy. Just know that I have no problem giving out mine, if you're interested.

Yep, that is the skunk in question. Thanks! I thought it was adorable too when I ordered it. It was only $15 on a site that specializes in wildlife toys.

I love that Deerling to death! Oh, gosh, I wanted to get the others badly, but the one merch site I got it from only had spring form. I love spring form the best because, well...IT'S PINK! XD (Oh, god, I love pink, but I'm not so open about it in real life. My desktop background is a cutesy picture of Quilava laying on its back blushing with an adorable light-pink circle of hearts behind it. *squeals* I'm not gay or anything, mind you... It has nothing to do with the "real men were pink" fad, either. I've always just found pink to be a very soothing color.) Believe it or not, my Deerling is actually a Japanese one. It was a little pricy, but I love the quality of Japanese plushes over American ones. They /generally/ are better detailed.

Yes, it is just my father and I. My sister was actually having a bad day yesterday after her boss chewed her out for not doing things the way she wanted. The term "retraining" popped up, I guess, and that set her off for the rest of the day. In my case, I was having a very good day, despite being completely burned out by the end of the day, but she opened her mouth about having too much laundry to do after I mentioned having more that needed to be done and that was all it took to set me off because she generally doesn't do that much at home when I'm usually stuck with dishes, garbage, and occasional handiwork around the house for chores on top of already working a full job.

Devout was basically going to be Canersia's story. It involved him, Darkrai, and Giratina gathering Nostalgia Crystals embedded in the foreheads of the Lake Trio (Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprit). I barely got through the first chapter before I stopped writing, though... It wasn't interesting enough to keep me motivated to finish it.

Also, yeah, that was a huge roll. Well, I can lift anything up to 12'X 25' without needing help, but most of the time my dad is there to carry it with me. I was trying to hasten our progress yesterday, though, since he had transitions to drill into the basement's concrete and that's very time consuming. Since II had the padding laid out and its seam taped together, I took it upon myself to bring in carpet. Thankfully, it was a straight shot into the basement since I was able to go through the house's garage and then right downstairs through the service entrance. After he momentarily helped me position the rolls, I then unrolled them and got them (approximately) into place by myself too while he finished drilling. I wish other people had more appreciation for the fact that I can AND do anything to make our jobs go quicker, from major stuff like bringing the carpet in on my own to minor things like cleanup. My sister had a bad day yesterday and suddenly chewed my head off for "whining" last night, when in reality I was feeling quite accomplished.

Well, in a nutshell, they're the same items that are keeping Otulp and his siblings from entering the physical world from the dreamtime world, which they themselves oversee. Beyi-geyi didn't create the crystals with intend of using them to imprison her children, but Arceus (Otulp's rival in the stories) took advantage of their power and used them to do so in ancient times when the Gods of Nostalgia were running rampant throughout the world. For that reason, Otulp created Canersia in order to seek out and destroy the crystals, but there's a catch: different versions of the crystals exist in EVERY reality and timeline, meaning that Canersia has to seek out new ones every time if he wants to destroy them. As a result, the Nostalgia Crystals in Feral Twilight aren't the same ones in Devout or Biohazard, though they do appear in about the same locations. That's just a minor note, though. In Feral Twilight, the crystals exist as part of a series of quest items Jay Christie is supposed to locate in order to reawaken Beyi-geyi's emotions, but that alone is an impossible since one of the other items is Canersia's Odium Mask (meaning he'd have to actually kill Canersia in order to get it, and Canersia's one of the most deadliest villains in the story). The role of the crystals is more orthodox in Biohazard, wherein I actually have Canersia collect the crystals and Seraph's crew are partially out to stop him...or at least that's the premise after he's introduced. I haven't actually written past the part where Canersia appears except up to where Seraph gets an explanation about what he intends to do from an outside source (i.e. a Ninetales named Osiris who, in Biohazard, is heralded as Golbania's messenger).

Edit: Before I forget, we talked about how I heft heavy carpet rolls for a living, right? Well, here's what I'm talking about: http://www.pokecommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=9131&pictureid=76911 The roll in question is actually one of three 12' X 21.5' pieces that I'd brought into the job all on my own. My dad was busy doing things, so I just decided to bring carpet in by myself knowing that I could handle those rolls without a problem.

Well, there are other Japanese restaurants around, but I know that they're really pricy. I mean, getting as much sushi as I have been for $20 is pretty reasonable, I guess. It beats McDonalds or China Buffet once a week or so like I was eating for a little while there during my outings. This was never a daily thing, mind you. Just every other weekend or so.

Leyi-geyi is supposed to be the only one who's a match for Beyi-geyi; however, he's got a serious policy of noninvolvement. Beyi-geyi is sort of deranged in the sense that she's "logically" deemed all who don't worship her as sinners in a sense. By "logically," I mean she's driven purely by intellectual thought without any regards to her emotions because she's actually got rid of them when she birthed her children, who are the purest embodiments of her lust, malice, and pain (symbolized by Arachana, Vaspudem, and Otulp in that order). Additionally, her positive emotions became solidified in legendary relics called the Nostalgia Crystals, each type of which counteracts her children's innate power to evoke the negative emotions they represent just by being near people or other Pokémon. Unlike Beyi-geyi, Leyi-geyi is driven by a balance of emotion and logic, and tries to keep away from his sister as much as he can. (Sorry about the fanfic rant, but you suddenly coaxed it out of me! XD)

EHEHEHEHEHE! That's the thing. All I did was put it on the step on our inside porch. We just built a ramp for my grandma a few weeks ago, so they walk right up to the door without suspecting a thing, but the moment they open it, they see the toy looking at them on the porch and they scream!

I was kind of aware that sushi could be pricy before, which was why I was hesitant to try a regular sushi place instead of buffet like I had been to that point. My first time at the restaurant, I only order the Dragon Roll and an avocado roll because I didn't want to go overboard, which I easily could have. All-in-all the restaurant's portion sizes are HUGE, even the individual sushi buns are two to three inches long. Also, the hibachi is to die for. I had their Chicken hibachi the second time we went and, god, was it delicious. I ate everything, even the mushrooms in the stir-fry (which I usually pick out at home when my mom makes it).

Feral Twilight was meant to be a dark fantasy. Actually, I revised a good chunk of the story since my original draft and refined the roles of certain characters. Otulp (a legendary wolf demon heralded as the death god in Ronac) stands as the primary antagonist and often enforces his will upon others he considers weaker than him (basically, everyone except his mother Beyi-geyi). Beyi-geyi is the ultimate villainess in the series since she's supposedly one of two deities that supersede all other gods (namely, her children Otulp, Vaspudem, and Arachana/Corros, as well as Palkia, Dialga, and Arceus). Her twin Leyi-geyi is opposed to her conquest since he believes that neither of them and none of their children should be worshipped as gods (her ulterior motive being the restoration of the "original hierarchy," in which all lesser gods bowed before her). In order to prove her supremacy, she goes out of her way to make examples of the "evil" humans and Pokémon that have "lost their way." Of course her definition of whom fits into those categories is so broad that it encompasses everyone in existence (I know I just said that, but it's a point I keep having to make since the stories are so long). Doxinox actually isn't involved with Beyi-geyi at all, but Doxisite coerces his mother into joining sides with her so that he himself has a better means of feasting upon a world that has mostly forgotten him (I say it that way because some Pokémon actually remember the legends of a ravenous parasite that once consumed countless victims without rest). In any case, I was going to have Biohazard tie up the loose ends of FT if I ever finished both, ultimately by having Seraph destroy Beyi-geyi (or at the very least imprison Beyi-geyi's body and soul so that she can't move ever again).

Oh, I also got them both again last night! I wasn't expecting it to work, but they both stopped dead in their tracks and screamed at the top of their lungs!!! XD

Oh, they did change the roof out and put up a better sign. Otherwise, it still looks like the rundown Wendy's on the outside. It's a shame... I understand just reusing the building, but the red-brick exterior makes it look like it's not that nice, when in reality it's one of the better restaurants I've ever been at. They've got a complete bar too, a wine list, and everything ranged from moderate to expensive prices depending on what you order. Soda is $1.95, but refills are free. Their specialty rolls range from $7.50 to $12, with regular rolls ranging from $2.50 to $6. The most expensive item on their menu is actually a sushi "love boat" meal meant to feed up to four people, and it's $45. The first time I went there, I thought it was really pricy (which I sort of expected), but my sister told me that another place she went to had sushi priced at up to $20 a roll, so I guess that's cheap in comparison.

Biohazard and Feral Twilight were definitely interesting concepts, but I haven't had the motivation to continue them lately. The whole post-apocalypse thing really spurs a lot intrigue for them both, since Biohazard takes place a few centuries after the events in FT. Ultimately, Feral Twilight's storyline directly leads into Biohazard because Doxinox's creation causes mankind's extinction. However, it's not Doxinox that actually kills off humanity like I sort of hint at in the prologue of Biohazard, but a deity called Beyi-geyi who casts down judgment upon humanity due to our "loss of faith" in the "old gods" as she puts it. In Biohazard, she returns seeking to do the same against all Pokémon who have "lost their way." The only thing there, though, is that her powers don't effect Doxinox or Doxisite (who is the only other surviving member of the Doxi-family in this story). Doxisite plays kind of an intricate role in trying to convince Beyi-geyi not to cause a mass extinction her way, when he could cause one way worse in her stead.

Transformation is one of those things you actually have to look for if you want to see it in cartoons. There are some that I can rattle off the top of my head: Dexter's Lab, Johnny Test (...EW! Bad example...), The PowerPuff Girls, etc. Really, though, I've found more stuff on art sites than on actual TV. I'm more active on Furaffinity than I am DA, but it's pretty prominent on both.

Suffice it to say, my sister and mom weren't too appreciative about that prank. My mom was the first to get pranked with it, and then my sister fell for it the following night, even after she already knew about the skunk. I really laughed hard!

I think it's a leek or something. They have served my sushi on it before too. Like I said, it's mostly a presentation thing. My sister's old boss from several years ago showed her how to do the exact same thing. Oh, my gosh, did I tell the place was originally a dumpy old Wendy's that got shutdown a few years ago. I'm shocked they didn't spend as much money renovating the exterior as they did the inside. I mean, it's been completely refurbished indoors, but they kept the same red-brick exterior and left some of the signs from the old Wendy's alone instead of removing them. Still it's a drastic change over into a REAL restaurant instead of the dumpy fast-food place it originally was.

I noticed that too. Well, no, I remember that the one in Rescue Team vaguely resembled North America (or perhaps just Greenland), while the one in Explorers looked crudely like Australia or some part of Asia. Whether that's true or not is up for debate, but I thought it was an interesting twist for Biohazard since it takes place in a version of the world(s) where people have actually died off (thanks, in part, due to Doxinox's creation).

Alright, you're familiar with furries then? That's good. There's a lot of crazy stuff in the fandom and just much (if not more) adult content. I don't mind mild stuff, but when it gets into true adult art, I couldn't care less. The big appeal for me is that it actually plays into some of my childhood loves like cartoons (in the form of regular toons, inflated toons, fat toons, transformating toons, and plushies based on toons). I want to say some of the stuff I'm into is a little disturbing, but I think it's really more just weird.

To be honest, there was a time where I didn't care about stuffed animals much, but then I slowly found myself getting back into them from college onward. It mostly started with me just collecting old beanie-baby Pokémon and regular Pokémon plushies. I've since reverted back to trying to college realistic animal plushies if I can get them cheap enough, as well as plushies that look EXACTLY like the characters their based on (i.e. Tigger from Winnie the Pooh). I haven't been collecting a lot of animal-character plushies lately, though, but I did get a plushie skunk that looks almost real at first glance. I actually used it to scare my sister and mom last week after I got it. I mean, you can tell it's a plushie, but when you first look at it, it looks like a small skunk.

http://www.pokecommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=9131&pictureid=76884

That was my dinner last night. My sister took the pic since I don't have a smartphone.

Mmm, you remember Biohazard, right? The latest edition merges the PMD-Rescue Team and Explorers' "worlds" so that they actually take place on two different continents within the same world. Realistically, it is justifiable since the RT world has features of a northern continent (including deciduous/evergreen forests and a snowcapped regions in the northernmost part of said continent), and the Explorers' world has features of a southern continent (tropical rainforests, jungle, and a proverbial "south pole"). Granted, these are just my own ideas, but they make poetic sense for the sake of my story since Seraph and her initial team traveled out of their way northward to escape persecution (but apparently it wasn't far enough since the local "lawman" Saul Retford is immediately bent on executing her for crimes she's committedly both locally and abroad).

Plushies are great; though, I've admittedly collected more than I originally intended. It's not an all the time thing, but I will occasionally go online to find Pokémon plushies I can't get at stores here. I've even gotten some great Japanese ones off various import sites. One of my most prized ones, though, is easily a big Fennekin I got on Toys'R'Us.com late last year. She's my best little buddy and I keep her with me all the time at home. I even cuddle with her at night when I'm going to bed. Ick, I've gotten so attached to her and a few others that I literally can't sleep without them anymore; I'm worse than I was when I was a kid in that sense since I used to sleep with stuffed animals all the time then, but grew out of it for a time there, and now sleep with even more. (I hope I'm not making it sound like a weird obsession or something, because it's really not. I've just always had an attachment to childish things and I never really outgrew that...it's partially why I've delved a little into furry fandom too, if you know what that is. If not, don't look it because you may regret that.)

Ironically, my sister is starting to come to terms with why I like sushi, and she's even getting more daring each time we visit the restaurant. She's the one who offered to take me to it, since I otherwise don't get out much (I'm sort of a house-sitter on my days off). She started off by trying some of my sushi after I ordered it, and then moved on to getting vegetarian rolls on her own. Next she may be tempted to trying some that actually has raw fish in it (unlike the previous buffet we tried sushi it, this one actually has it listed on the menu what has raw fish in it and what doesn't, for which I'm glad because it makes deciding what to eat that much easier).

I actually did enjoy GtI, but it just doesn't have the addictive feel to it that the previous ones did. There are things I hate about it (the restriction on how many missions you can do is a serious buzz kill, and the fact that everyone in the guild gets experience rather than just the teammates accompanying you makes it really hard to control when they evolve). All-in-all, though, it was a really good game. I personally wish they'd have elaborated on how humans are fairy-tales in the Pokémon world, though, as that kind of contradicts the whole post-human worlds that were built up in the previous games. I mean, I know it's a kids' game, but that was actually a big deal in the other titles (wherein humans existed at one time, but either went extinct or just became rare in the Pokémon world).

Oh, you mentioned you've been kind of stressed lately too, right? Mmm, do you collect or have stuffed animals per chance? I've found that carrying one around with you most of the time is an excellent stress reliever. I keep one with me all the time, though admittedly it's normally just a small Eevee beanie baby I picked up at a thrift store a few years ago. It may seem childish, but it's actually very comforting and small ones are less conspicuous than bigger ones, so you can hide them in your backpack or jacket pocket if you're embarrassed about having them with at all.

I've fallen in love with some of the restaurants signature rolls, namely their Dragon, Ninja, and Godzilla Rolls. OMG, the shrimp tempura they use in the latter two is so tasty. Also, I have tried their regular eel and salmon sushi, which are simply divine. I like their California and avocado rolls too, both of which I actually had before but at a different buffet that only had a small selection of sushi. Another thing I've come to enjoy about the place is that they make up to look as artistically pleasing as possible. It reminds of how this chef who my sister mentored under used to do things when he still worked at the original restaurant she started at (he was actually a five-star chef who learned alongside others like Emeril Lagasse and Wolfgang Puck, so it was a point for him to make everything look as good as it tasted). I am actually surprised that this restaurant isn't more popular because their food is excellent (ooh, I had their hibachi before too and it was simply to die for).

As far as gaming goes, I've actually been waning from it a little, but only because I've been working almost full weeks again. Aside from Sky, I'm still playing PMD-GtI, which I'm actually on my second play-through of. Additionally, I started playing the Virtual Console version of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which isn't the most memorable Zelda but has its own comedic charms.

Welcome back! :D

Yeah, well, you have to keep in mind that I have been doing this stuff since I was a teen. I wasn't the most "physically fit" teen either back then, but I'm so used to it that it doesn't even bother me anymore unless I'm stuck under a really heavy roll.

So, how have you been lately? In the month since you've been gone, I've beaten both of those Etrian Odyssey games and gotten back to PMD-Explorers of Sky. I hadn't been playing Pokémon X much lately.

Mmm, this may seem like a sudden topic, but do you happen to like sushi? A new Japanese restaurant opened up in my area just about a month ago, and I've been going nuts over their sushi. It's absolutely delicious, and I try something new every time I go (about every two weeks). It's like a new experience every time, and their selection's amazing! XD

hi and we havent talk like month went should do battle again me and u, sometimes with incinermyn.

Actually, I don't have nearly as many glue-downs as I used. It's mostly a summertime thing, when people want their porches or steps re-carpeted. Indoor glue-downs are usually reserved for rental properties. Otherwise, we generally do full installations with carpet, padding, and tack-strip. I can actually heft a full roll of pad on my own, and anything up to a 12' X 20' roll of carpet. I'm really strong irl, and it's not understatement to say that I throw around my own weight and then some! XD

In all seriousness, though, I basically drag my dad into the job whenever he's helping me bring in a roll of carpet. I scare the living crap out of customers because they don't expect me to suddenly heft a heavy roll of carpet on my own, much less drag around the guy who's helping me. I mean, irl, I'm fat and I don't look like I'd be able to lug around heavy objects the way I do, but I do it anyways with little to no effort.

Hehehe, that sounds about right. The adhesive we use for glue-down jobs is full of chemicals that give it an extremely pungent odor. However, you have no idea how bad it used to smell. The gasoline-like odor comes from all the chemicals they put into the glue; however, there was a time when carpet glue was ALL petroleum-based. It actually smelled worse up to the early 2000s, and you could easily got a type of high or buzz from it if you inhaled it too long. About that time, petroleum prices started to rise significantly, so they changed the formula to a water-based compound. It isn't nearly as pungent, but still sticks...well, sort of... Actually, the glue we use nowadays isn't really as sticky as it used to be. We have to wait a few minutes for it cure before we actually lay the carpet out onto it (it doesn't take long, but it's a little bit of a time waster because we have to push the carpet into the glue to make sure it stays). It's not as bad as putting down VCT tile, though. We could be waiting hours for the glue to set before we can even start laying them down, and it's always one at a time.

Heh, EO's difficulty is pretty intense. Well, it's not as bad as I originally thought it was, but I found that the game does tend to stay consistent, even as you keep progressing through it. I've even found that level grinding doesn't really help much because monsters are still tough at every stage of the game.

Fine, I guess. I was working a lot until last week. Things then seemed to drop off again.

Oh, I finally beat Etrian Odyssey Untold! I was shocked by how easy the final boss was compared to the rest of the game. It wasn't disappointing in the least, though, since the rest of the game was still hard.

So, how are things going, Wave? Been a while since I heard from you.

Heh, that's why I switched things up a bit. Aegislash's defenses are some of the highest in the game. I actually beefed mine up to 399 each. I probably could've gotten either higher, but I wanted to make sure I had some sort of attack power still, hence why I opted for Brave nature after getting another Honedge with it and the missing Defense IV I needed for breeding. I was surprised to actually get a 5 IV spread like I did, since neither parent had a Sp. Attack IV. Speed has never been an issue for Aegislash, so Brave nature worked perfectly. (My first Aegislash, Excelsior, actually had Jolly nature, but it kept getting KO'd, so I had to retire it early on.)