Sunday, December 30, 2007

Wine.
I had lots of it within the past week. Particularly because I received a lot of wine for Christmas. Since the summer, I've been getting into wine and all it's fine goodness. I haven't refined my taste all that much yet, but I know what I like and I know what's awesome and what's purple piss.

For Christmas eve, the family and I joined my father side of the family to celebrate. Lots of food and lots of laughter. Most of us were on the floor laughing from making fun of each other. And nobody was drinking (that much). Great times.

On Christmas day, my Godfather (the Gandalf of the family who's British, wise, and walks with a staff---err, I mean cane.) took my family out for Christmas lunch to this insanely expensive restaurant. I had the traditional turkey meal with a smoked salmon platter to begin and a bottle of white wine (forgot the name). The place was exquisite. Guests had to book at least 4 months earlier for a sitting on Christmas day. And THAT's why he's Gandalf. Wizardry, yo.

Later that day, we joined up with my mother's side of the family for a lot more food, strong drinks and hi-def movie watching. I attempted to play the piano there and figured out how to play a track from Nobuta Wo Produce as well as a few video game melodies. Again, lots of fun. Tiring, but fun.

Since I don't ask for anything for Christmas anymore, everything becomes a surprise for me. Bottles of wine were a few. I also received The Orange Box for Xbox 360 and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles for the Wii from the sisters, some DVDs (Little Britain: Abroad and other Britis humour fun) and some wine stuff from my Godfather (inc. a winerack/display table, 9 bottles of various wines, a chef wine opener, some clay cups for my red wine and a book about drinking.), more wine and money from the parents and some nice shirts and cards from everyone else.

All the gifts are great... which kinda makes me feel cruddy as ever because I was limited to cards and random bits of joythings as the gifts I gave out. I still made promises I'd do better next year. Hopefully that'll hold for now.


Lil' sis got a Lord of the Rings board game from my Godfather. I don't think I've ever been so intense about a board game ever before. The main goal should be obvious... Destroy the ring. You get to play as the four hobbits (and if there are five players, you play "Fatty" the hobbit. What the f---?).

It's awesome because it's a cooperative game instead of a competitive one. My two younger sisters, my cousin and I played it a couple of days ago and we failed 4 times to win. It's fuckin' tough. We kinda missed a detail or two in the rules as well. So when we try again, it should be a little bit easier (I doubt it).

Even though we played for hours and hours, it was a lot of fun We had the movie soundtracks playing and for whatever reason, the more intense music played during the moments we were quite literally fucked. It's probably just our geeky minds. But yeah, lots of fun.


I'm gonna head back to the store where I got my tablet today because I really need it to work and I don't have time for waste without it. Not only do I need it for school, I still have a load of fanart I wanna post and it's rare that I feel this motivated to do fanart. Hopefully I get that taken care of.

I also need to pick up new drumsticks because I (finally) set up my drumkit in the basement. It's not completely clear yet and still looks like a storage room, but there's enough room for the kit and walking space. I'll slowly be sorting the other stuff out as time goes by. It feels nice to play again. Feel even better to jam without restriction either. I don't have to worry about neighbours or anything. And oddly enough, my parents are enjoying my sessions too. Even though it's a helluva lot louder, they prefer it when I play with a backtrack blaring from speakers, instead of just hearing drums while I use my headphones. Since I'm only using PC speakers at the moment, I'm probably going to invent in an amp sometime soon. It'll make amateur recording easier too.




And now for the main course of this post. The videos!


Okay... I'm very very VERY sorry that they're so late. And I'm even more sorry that they suck. I made them really early one morning and was just sobering up from.... Wine. What else? So I won't make a lick o' sense. And after editing these vids for the past while, I really hate my face and I hate my voice twice as much. And I didn't know that dimple on my face was so dominant.

Despite all that, I did make a promise. And here they are. Late, but still within a reasonable time.... I think. Hopefully, you're still enjoying holiday spirit fallout at this point. Otherwise, I'm sorry. Enjoy!


The Intro Video
This is to start things off, as well as greet those who didn't request a vid.

To Shadow

To Vicky

To Alina

To James

To Alexa



Feel free to check out the other vids. It's not all that fantastic because you'll be seeing more of my fugly mug and listening to my frog voice. It's up to you really. *laughs* There's another vid I'm working on for one of you with the late request (you know who you are) so expect it in a PM or something.

So I apologize again for the late vids and the cruddy content. I tried...



Let's see how New Year will go down this time. In the meantime, rest easy, everyone!






Toasted,


- enin -





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