El último día de la semana.

Well, I almost missed this weeks post. Mostly because not much is happening. Yes, I know that we Americans consider Saturday to be the last day of the week, but in Spain, Sunday is considered the last day of the week. So by Spanish standards, I'm still on time. HAH! In your faces!

Let's see... what DID happen this week?

I got discs 3 and 4 of Fullmetal Alchemist from Amazon.com. (*does happy dance*) And I also broke down and bought City of Villians and three months of playtime. (Which equals 4 months, including the free month that comes with the game.) Now, I must explain: I NEVER intended to buy ANY MMORPG, ever. But I started getting all of these 10 day/2-week free trials. It started with WoW. Yes, THAT WoW. I figured, I got two weeks, and it's the biggest thing there is out there. I'm a gamer, so I might as well try it out. I did, found it somewhat addictive, but was able to put it down after two weeks. Next was City of Heroes. I found it rather fun and somewhat addictive as well, but was, again, able toput it down. I tried out a few others, but none were able to keep my attention like those two.
Then came the City of Villians free trial. Ooooh, playing THAT was a mistake. Since CoH and CoV have the same subscription, when I played the free trial for CoV I was also able to continue my CoH trial. I was reminded of how fun CoH was, and loved CoV just as much. Only, this time, I liked it even more. I can't explain it, but it's like that extra 10 days just clenched it for me. I was able to put it down, but I didn't want to leave it down. So I broke down, and bought an online code for CoV, allowing me to play both games.

Such is the fall of a man who swore never to pay for playing an MMO. CURSE YOU FREE TRIALS! CUUUUURSE YOUUUUUUU!!! They sucked me in, and took my money, and made me glad of it. The moral of the story is: Free trials are EVIL!

Torta de Queso

My mom made the most delicious cheesecake I have ever eaten in my life yesterday. I'm not even joking. It's was a-freeking-delicious. Not just normal delicious: "a-FREEKING-delicious."

That's all. Nothing else happened this week but a lot of work. But MAN, that was a good cheesecake.

Medianoche

I'm writing this at about 12:20 (give or take a few minutes) because I know if I don't write something, right now, before gong to bed, i'll skip this week. I don't want to do that, so please excuse my rambling in advance. (Although, technically you're here for the rambling. Or you're visiting for the first time. Either way you really don't need to excuse anything, since that's how I'm trying to write. So I guess I should say "excuse the even worse rambling.")

Anyway. Work continues. We took on ANOTHER lawn contract for the summer, after we're already over-full. Ugh. And come this next Wednesday we're starting a 10k square-foot sod installation. Oof! It's going to be good money, but boy will it be hard work. Don't get me wrong; I'm not complaining... Much... I really need the workout and we need jobs like this to actually make money during the summer. Plus, since it's a family business, the more money that the family makes = the more money I get for college. I've very roughly figured out that if we can earn enough for me to earn 6 grand this summer I can get by another year without resorting to student loans. *crosses fingers* But, in order for us to make that much money, we need huge sod jobs like this one we've got next week. Hence, I may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm really not. I just like to complain. Like, well, pretty much everyone else in the world.

Hehe... I'm such a cynic. I really shouldn't be, but... well... I dunno. I don't even have so much as a lame excuse as to why I don't stop being a cynic. (Maybe it's because I'm more of a realist than a cynic, but also being an optimist, I simply don't want to admit it.) Who knows?

Genios Malvados

I'm teaching my 7 year old niece how to be an evil genious. I've made her my "lieutenant" for taking over the world. I guess you could say that she's my protégé. She has quite a good evil laugh and has even come up with her own plan for taking over the world. (It was one of the first assignments I gave her after deciding to teach her the ways of James-Bond-like bad guys.) I want to share this plan with all of you, because I'm just so proud of her. (I've corrected the spelling, and some of the grammar, for ease of reading.)

"Make miniature robots and program them to take over the world. Make them to be on our side and make all of them be evil robot bunnies. Then the other people would think they're harmless and we will rule the world. Then we laugh evilly, get a palace, and laugh evilly again."


*sniff, sniff* I'm just so proud of her. She's only seven years old, and she's already come up with a good, solid, even complicated, plan to take over the world. And it was completely made up by her. So don't even think about stealing it, or I'll find you. I'm a much more experienced evil genious, and I have the experience to make you pay.


All joking aside, I really am quite surprised at how well she's progressing. I'll make a nerd out of my niece yet. She'd make a great nerd, but my sister, her mother, was one of the "popular" girls in high school. ("Popular." Now there's a word I could go on for ages about it's literal non-existance and the negative effect it has on society.) I don't think she ever came to grips with the fact that her brothers were such complete and unashamed nerds, and I doubt that she'd like her daughter becoming one either. But I'm patient, I have time. All it takes is time and knowing what hooks to use.

MAWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!