May 25, 2014

I kind of did things today. Kind of. I finished my snitch cross stitch pattern and started/finished my wiggle one. I like making patterns, and want to make more, but at the moment I can't think of any. I also want to start making the patterns I already have. Soon.

I spent time today looking into graduate school stuff. Tomorrow I'm going to email some admissions people about some things. I want to see about maybe taking a class or two while I work on applying to grad school. And see if I should get all my application stuff together now and submit it or sit on it until Spring enrollment comes around. This won't be the first time I talk to people about grad school but hopefully it will be the time that takes. I'm tired of doing nothing with my life. Or at least being stuck I the same place in my life. Nothing has changed in years and something needs to be done about that. I hate the theater but I like working at the school. But both jobs combined don't provide me with the money I should be making as a twenty-nine year old college graduate. Hopefully grad school will be the answer. Or I'll be a thirty-something grad school graduate making far less money than I should be.

I briefly played Minecraft today but I couldn't think of anything to do so I logged off. Animals still aren't sticking around, at least the ones I want to stick around, and the island my house is on was overrun with donkeys. The last time I played it was overrun with horses. Who knows about next time. I need to think of something to build.

I played Tera for awhile, eventually leveling up. I am now at level thirty-four. Most of the side quests at this point don't offer enough XP to be worth it, at least in terms of leveling, but I still accept them because sometimes I like to just run around and attack mobs. Plus, a lot of times I'll be running by them on my way to complete quests with higher XP rewards, so I might as well earn a little extra as I go.

I made my mom a profile on my Netflix account. She has been interested in it for awhile and she figured this summer she would have more than enough time to kill. I first tried setting my Roku up on her TV but I've got an older model and apparently you can only switch profiles on the latest model. I would say my mom has almost no interest in most of the stuff I watch so, and I'm bad at removing stuff from my queue so she would have to scroll through a couple hundred things to find shows that she added to my profile. So I tried her Xbox, which she lost interest in shortly after buying it. I first had to wait for a system upgrade and then got hung up on signing her up for Xbox Live. Since I haven't played my Xbox in months I probably should have just signed in as myself but I didn't. And then I didn't sign her up either because I had already waited forever for the update and then would have needed to create a Windows Live account for her, and I didn't know if profile switching would be an option (further research makes me think it is a thing but whatever). Instead, I went the simple route, which I should have started with. I just signed in on her laptop and streamed it from there to the TV using the Chromecast. So much technology. The only problem with the Chromecast is it gives video the “realistic” look. Like you're watching a play rather than a show. I know there is a better way to describe it but it's late and it isn't coming to me. We'll see if it is a thing my mom finds annoying. Hopefully not because the laptop option is very convenient. But I will probably try the Xbox again tomorrow, signing in as myself, and see how that works.

Speaking of Netflix, today I watched Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 because I watched the first movie a little while ago and Netflix recently got the second one. Tonight I started watching The 4400. I was interested in the show back when it was on but never actually watched it. That has happened a lot over the years, especially back before I had a DVR because I was usually at work when the shows I wanted to watch were on. I have made it five or six episodes in and I am liking it so far. We'll see how I feel after the mystery behind the returned people is revealed. I tend to lose interest in shows after the main mystery has been revealed. That is the hook that gets people to watch a show and it is often hard for shows to keep their momentum after that mystery is gone. I could also lose interest for no other reason than I get distracted by something else. Who knows. We'll see.