Back Again

Well here I go again.

Spring is finally here. There is little to no snow left. We had an ice storm a couple of days ago that wasn't too nice. I've been working on my getting master prestige on Call of Duty Black Ops 3. It's starting to look like I'm going to run out of bad weather to make it lol

I didn't get approved for my unemployment insurance benefits for my Christmas break, so I didn't bother applying for it for March Break. I'm debating if I should apply for the summer, or try and find a part time job. I guess I could try finding a job and if it doesn't work out then apply for EI again. I should have enough hours by then to get it.

I'm excited for the opportunities of having time off in the summer. At the same time, worried that I won't have the money to take advantage of said opportunities as they arise.

Definitely something to look forward to this summer, my Brotha-from-anotha-motha is coming to visit with his small humans in tow. We also visited some friends from eastern Ontario that we don't see often and they may ship us one of their kids to visit for part of the summer as well.

Last weekend was the one year anniversary for Ye Ole Man and I. We got our tax return recently so we booked a weekend away down in the city. We also went to Medieval Times, which was something we've both wanted to do. It was a blast! Evening filled with Lords and Ladies, good company, good food and entertainment too. I would love to go back if we can afford it!

This week I got assigned to a bus route that actually takes me to Barrie every day, twice a day. So far its the earliest run I've had to do. I've been getting up at 5:15 ugh. Not fun. I've had a nap both days this week (glad monday was a holiday!) and will probably have to for the remainder of the run. I feel like I just got myself used to going to bed at a certain time, and getting up at a certain time. Just to go and fuck with it all and have to get up even earlier!

It really messes up my day, I get home earlier than I'm used to, which isn't a bad thing, but then I have to go out earlier in the afternoon to be in Barrie for 2:20 so I have almost no time to do anything during the day. Yesterday after my nap I had to drop something off at school for the kid, then come home to put dinner in the crock pot, leave again to visit him on his lunch to come home and leave 20 minutes later. Today I'm proud to say I got in a shower and went and picked up my new eyes.

Small victories.

Speaking of which, it's getting about that time for me to go.

Terrible

The point in time where you haven't so much as looked at your blog in months...

That's me, right now.

It is a constant struggle to juggle all the things in the summertime, between the car, the kids, the work and the other work, and the other, other work. Add a boyfriend in the mix too, and well, there you have it. Non productive in the writing department.

Things to come, or topics to write about in the (hopefully) near future:

• Halloween
• Thanksgiving (maybe)
• TayTay in TO
• Big News
• Other, other job
• Gushy mushy shit
• Sing It All The Way
• Beta
• Jane
• Camping!

That's a pretty long list... stay tuned!

One Review

So far me and my One, have a love-hate relationship.

I finally went and bought it, to bring it home and find out I also need to purchase a copy of COD:AW for it as well. Before I decided I could spend yet another $70 on the game (which WTF? It's six months old and still full price?!?!) I spent my time familiarizing myself with the console. Getting used to the new interface, which isn't horrible. I'm still getting stuck on it, thinking one button will do something, and pressing the wrong one and it doing something completely different. It also boots up games and signs into XBL a lot faster than its 360 counterpart.

I've had to purchase an adapter to plug in my turtle beach's, then modify the connection for the audio because this thing doesn't have HDMI, and buy some optic cable thing made of glass...

I do really like the SmartGlass app, for your phone. It's pretty neat and it eliminates the need to have a chat pad on the controller.

Now onto the things I really don't like about it:

• I don't like how it seems like everything you've ever opened is still running in the background and sometimes it seems impossible to just stop all programs/apps and the B button will re-open your last app/game/whatever even if you told it to stop.
• If you plug in a media storage device and watch media, it does not remember your place (unlike the 360) in your media. Also, if you mistakenly drop your controller on the couch and it jumps to the next or previous media you can't tell which one you were watching, as it highlights the one you started on.
• Snap. I hate you snap. You snap shit when I don't want it to be snapped and you want to snap, like everything. And you take fucking FOREVER to get the snap going. So when you've hit it by accident you have to wait a ridiculous amount of time for it load. Then there's the problem with trying to get the main screen while you're on snap. Fuck you snap.
• Having an "open" connection, but yet you can't connect to other people who also have "open" connections.
• There's no fucking voice message? What in the actual fuck? So basically, you've DOWNGRADED from the 360 by taking that away.... Jus' sayin'
• If you shut it down, it doesn't seem to actually shut down. It remembers what you were doing, so when you reboot it, if it was being a jerk, it's still being a jerk when it boots back up.

So far that's it. I haven't had it horribly long, nor have I done too much with it. Just watched some Netflix, loaded media and played AW.

There's my initial impressions.

Little Bit Of Nothing

This will likely be an entirely nonsense post.

I've had a lot of personal shit go down lately so nothing else seems to matter much, or stick in my memory.

I picked up the new COD:AW game. I haven't had too much time to play it yet, but it seems alright so far. It's definitely going to take some getting used to, with the exoskeleton stuff and all especially.

The Halloween party was good. I ended up doing a fallback costume because I couldn't think of anything good.

I don't even know what to write about. No topics come to mind. I got nothin'.

Ramblings

I went and pre-ordered the new Call Of Duty game, Advanced Warfare. Super duper expensive edition. Season's pass and all the works, which I'm seriously going to have to buy a USB to put all this shit on. Apparently there's no merch this time around. WTF? That's balls. We like collectable shit dude.

I also went next door to the shoe store and saw some super comfy shoes on sale... then felt bad if I only bought myself some, and bought the kids some too.

shoe-slippers

So, you know, the minute you spend money you really should have put in savings or something... something horrible happens that you need money for? Yeah, it happens to me. A lot. I do these things, then BAM out of nowhere, I fuck my car up. Yet again. Now I get to rip apart my entire front end to fix it. Meanwhile driving the beater, and kind of afraid how long that's going to last.

Winter is coming. 'Tis the season of depression. FML. It's far too soon for the winter we had last year. I seriously hope it doesn't snow before December again. It's very convenient that popular video games come out in November because people like me spend less time outside and more time inside due to the weather.

The one thing I like about this time of year though, is Halloween. It's fun, and an excuse to get together with friends. I always like those excuses. I have no clue what my costume will be this year... at this rate I should just put on a goddamn set of coveralls and call myself a damn mechanic with all the work I've been doing.

That is all.

For now.

In Review

It's funny that I was looking back on this post, just before the COD: Ghosts game came out last year.

After playing the game now for almost a year, I can reflect on my post. Although it wasn't a prediction, it was good to see that there were some good new aspects to the game.

On my "Interactive Maps" idea, they didn't go so far as I would have liked to see, but at least one map has a tree that you can shoot to make fall down over a ravine and walk across.

They didn't fix Elite. They just made a new Call Of Duty app for your phone that is kind of okay... However it is multi-platform in the stats and you can have gamers from other platforms in your clan, the game itself is not. I don't like that you can't use a computer to access the stats, but the app isn't horrible. It updates within minutes of finishing a game, so it makes it easy when you're trying to complete goals with the clan wars.

I guess I should go pre-order the new one. Haven't been able to afford a One yet, but once I do, I won't be getting rid of the 360. My COD collection could not be complete without the console to play it on.

COD

I wanted to write a little about gaming. In particular Call of Duty. I play this game. I'm in a female clan as well.

COD: Ghosts is coming out and I'm very excited. Thinking about it, I wonder what they are going to do to change the experience, or make it better. So here are the things that I wish they could do, but they probably wont.

In Zombie (or 'Alien') Modes

• Allow points sharing. As the rounds go on, sometimes I have so many points I don't need. Sometimes you have someone who has no points at all. t would be cool to be able to give points to someone else so they can buy weapons/ammo.

OR

• Allow weapon switching. Kind of like in Army of Two and other games (was it Left 4 Dead?) where you could switch weapons with your partner. That way, if your buddy doesn't have the points or ammo, you can help them out.

In Multiplayer Modes

• More time spend finding and dealing with boosters and hackers.
• Interactive maps. I've missed having vehicles, like COD3 had. It would also be nice if they expanded from cars blowing up to buildings/stairs breaking, or trees falling down due to grenades or heavy fire.

In Elite

• Decent unlocks to look forward to.
• Better updating, or at least say how long it will take to reflect a score.
• A site that works at least most of the time.
• Cross Platform

In General

• Cross Platform Gaming. There are many other games that do this, why can't Ghosts?

I do know one thing, that they will have a female character finally, which I know a lot of ladies are excited about. I'm just excited for a new game. I love all the Call of Duty games, and it's always exciting to have something new.

I have my copy of the game paid for and I will be going to the midnight launch. I only wish I could have afforded the prestige copy: super cool camera!! Maybe someone savvy will find a random one online for an amazing gift idea ;-)