So, on the Facebook, there is this application called FarmVille. You go in, set up a character, and then you are given 6 little plots of land to till and plant seeds on. Seeds cost $$ which you earn by helping other farmers, winning the daily lottery, harvesting crops, and tending to animals.
I don't remember how much $$ (Farm Coins) I had to start with, but I was right away able to buy seeds to plant my 6 patches of field. I also received a cherry tree as a gift from Mary. Jess has sent me 2 Pomegranate trees (they take a very long time to grow). You can buy trees, but they are very expensive, so I think I will get most trees as gifts from friends. Trees can be harvested for their fruit. I also got a pig, a sheep, and a chicken as gifts. I bought my own cow.
Diana sent me a black sheep to adopt. I bought a little bit of fencing, a water trough, and a bale of hay. Someone gifted me a picnic table.
Crops that you plant actually take real time to grow. Technically 3 days is the longest amount of real time, but they don't grow right away. So I planted my crops, and now I have to wait for everything to grow. I did learn this morning that I have to plow my own new little plots of land. I thought you had to have 8 neighbors to buy some new land. So at lunch today I need to go home and figure out how to get more land. Because without more land, I will never be able to buy a barn or more animals.
I should get to 8 neighbors before too long...because we are making Angelica play...she has no choice.
I also started Mafia wars, but that's another topic for another day.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Blush
Buying pregnancy tests is just as embarrassing as buying condoms and maxi-pads. It's all about someone else knowing your very personal business.
No I'm not pregnant...that's just fine by me for now!
No I'm not pregnant...that's just fine by me for now!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Movies
This weekend I watched 4 movies (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday).
Slumdog Millionaire
I had kind of been avoiding this movie. I am usually disappointed with movies that do REALLY well at the Oscars. I think it's all the hype. I also thought that it was suppose to be kind of a musical (I thought that was a trend in Bollywood. Yes I know that this was not a true Bollywood film, but it was suppose to be in that style).
What the movie WAS, was really good. It has a great soundtrack and manages to be uplifting while still telling a really heart wrenching story. All the poverty, all the strife...but still leaves you with warm fuzzies. I give it two thumbs up.
The Mist
I don't watch that many scary movies. Mostly because I don't like watching them alone...and Michael doesn't really care for them either (generally dis-interested). I mostly decided to watch this one because of the main actor Thomas Jane...hottie. So the movie did make me jump from time to time, the baddies were yucky without being nightmare disturbing (a la the Ring...never again). But the thing that got me (as I'm sure it was suppose to) was the idea that, should apocalyptic circumstances present themselves, the religious zealots might amass a bigger following. Because when people are really scared, they will turn to anything that they think makes sense.
The Zealot in this movie was a particularly hard hitting thumper. At the beginning she was referred to as being a little off her rocker. But by the end of the movie, she had convinced a majority of the people that she was God's vessel...and they basically did whatever she suggested in an attempt to appease God (aka, make the monsters from a parallel dimension go away). That plot line bothered me way more than the giant creatures! Real things usually do!
Bottle Shock
One of the previews before Slumdog was for Bottle Shock. This is basically the story of how California wines proved that they could stand side by side on the shelf with the French wines. It wasn't good enough for me to want to buy it...but very few are these days. It kept me interested for the whole movie and did make me want to visit Napa Valley. It also had Chris Pine (Captain Kirk from the new Star Trek movie). He had BAD hair, but those eyes are worth it! It also had Alan Rickman...who I love!
Watchmen
I am technically still watching this. I had to stop it last night after 2 hours of it ranging from mildly interesting, to dumb. It may have just started getting good when I stopped it, but if a movie has just started getting good at the 2 hour mark, it ISN'T good! I'll finish it today, just because I rarely leave a movie unfinished. But there is very little from this movie that I will remember fondly. So blah!
Slumdog Millionaire
I had kind of been avoiding this movie. I am usually disappointed with movies that do REALLY well at the Oscars. I think it's all the hype. I also thought that it was suppose to be kind of a musical (I thought that was a trend in Bollywood. Yes I know that this was not a true Bollywood film, but it was suppose to be in that style).
What the movie WAS, was really good. It has a great soundtrack and manages to be uplifting while still telling a really heart wrenching story. All the poverty, all the strife...but still leaves you with warm fuzzies. I give it two thumbs up.
The Mist
I don't watch that many scary movies. Mostly because I don't like watching them alone...and Michael doesn't really care for them either (generally dis-interested). I mostly decided to watch this one because of the main actor Thomas Jane...hottie. So the movie did make me jump from time to time, the baddies were yucky without being nightmare disturbing (a la the Ring...never again). But the thing that got me (as I'm sure it was suppose to) was the idea that, should apocalyptic circumstances present themselves, the religious zealots might amass a bigger following. Because when people are really scared, they will turn to anything that they think makes sense.
The Zealot in this movie was a particularly hard hitting thumper. At the beginning she was referred to as being a little off her rocker. But by the end of the movie, she had convinced a majority of the people that she was God's vessel...and they basically did whatever she suggested in an attempt to appease God (aka, make the monsters from a parallel dimension go away). That plot line bothered me way more than the giant creatures! Real things usually do!
Bottle Shock
One of the previews before Slumdog was for Bottle Shock. This is basically the story of how California wines proved that they could stand side by side on the shelf with the French wines. It wasn't good enough for me to want to buy it...but very few are these days. It kept me interested for the whole movie and did make me want to visit Napa Valley. It also had Chris Pine (Captain Kirk from the new Star Trek movie). He had BAD hair, but those eyes are worth it! It also had Alan Rickman...who I love!
Watchmen
I am technically still watching this. I had to stop it last night after 2 hours of it ranging from mildly interesting, to dumb. It may have just started getting good when I stopped it, but if a movie has just started getting good at the 2 hour mark, it ISN'T good! I'll finish it today, just because I rarely leave a movie unfinished. But there is very little from this movie that I will remember fondly. So blah!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Distracting Dreams
I am so unbelievably distracted this morning. I'm skipping steps in my morning reports...I'm glazing over and drifting off into my own little world. Not a reality type world either. I think it has to do with the dream I had this morning.
I am currently reading the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series...plus the New Moon trailers are out. My brain is on Vampire/Werewolf overload. So I had a lurid dream this morning, about a pack of Werewolves (in human form of course). I think I was "meant" for their Ulfric (that's the Anita Blake part). Anyway, so I woke up not wanting to wake up. That's never a good start.
Eventually I shook off the daze. Ended up being a pretty good 1/2 day...yes, that's right...a 1/2 day. Tomorrow is one as well...YAY ME. I am currently watching Slumdog Millionaire. We'll see if it's worth all the hype.
I am currently reading the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series...plus the New Moon trailers are out. My brain is on Vampire/Werewolf overload. So I had a lurid dream this morning, about a pack of Werewolves (in human form of course). I think I was "meant" for their Ulfric (that's the Anita Blake part). Anyway, so I woke up not wanting to wake up. That's never a good start.
Eventually I shook off the daze. Ended up being a pretty good 1/2 day...yes, that's right...a 1/2 day. Tomorrow is one as well...YAY ME. I am currently watching Slumdog Millionaire. We'll see if it's worth all the hype.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Had to say it
Ok, so I want to talk about Michael Vick. This seems like the best place because nobody reads my blog but me.
I would like to start off by saying that I am a HOKIE. I was raised in Blacksburg, VA and I attended and graduated from Virginia Tech. Michael Vick was a real boost to our football program, and for that, I will always thank him.
I would also like to say that "saving" dogs is my hobby. I am an active member of Kansas K9 Resq in Wichita, KS. I foster dogs and try to find them new homes. I cannot grasp the concept of hurting dogs for pleasure...or even looking the other way when someone else is doing it. I don't understand not loving and wanting to care for those creatures.
Yet another opinion of mine is that once a debt is paid to society, the debt should be paid...end of story. I think the fact that a felon (once time is deemed served) has so much trouble getting a job is a bad bad thing. We should want ex-cons to be able to obtain gainful employment, and start a better life. I know there is no way to determine for sure if a person is remorseful, or if they are "rehabilitated". We don't know for sure that they will never do the crime again. But we shouldn't make life on the outside SO hard for them that welfare and maybe even crime, is the only way they can survive.
On the same note, I feel that if you screw up a second time (for the same offence), they should lock you up and throw away the key...but only if you were truly given a fighting chance to really make a better life for yourself.
I also feel, personally, that Michael Vick was used as "an example" by being given such a harsh penalty for his crime. Not because I don't think he deserved it...I think anyone that can do what he did is seriously sick and needs to be helped as well as punished. But I don't ever hear of anyone else being caught for dog fighting and winding up in jail. We have a pit bull problem in Wichita, and all I ever hear about it the dogs being removed and the person being given a fine. SEND THEM ALL TO JAIL. And make it widely known that if you are caught doing this, you WILL go to jail. No passing go, no $200.
So, down to Michael Vick playing NFL football. Just this morning, it was released that he signed a 1.something million $$ contract with the Eagles. I think this is too much money. I think he should have been given the same salary as the lowest earner on the field for the first year. In that first year he can prove (or disprove) that he is still a decent football player. If he's not, he's out or on some practice squad or Arena football or Canada...don't much care. If he proves that he is still worth something to a team, and he keeps his nose clean, then he can sign for more money next year.
So...
Yes I feel that he as paid his debt to society...not to the dogs, but to society...so he should be allowed to play.
No matter what ends up happening to his football career, I think he should have to pay a portion (fixed %) of his earnings for the rest of his life to Pit Bull rescues...I think he owes the breed that much at least.
No I don't think that what he did is any less bad than Stallworth and his manslaughter issues
And yes, in a perfect world, we would unleash all the ghosts of his dogs upon him and they would eat him...but I long ago realized that we don't live in a perfect world.
I would like to start off by saying that I am a HOKIE. I was raised in Blacksburg, VA and I attended and graduated from Virginia Tech. Michael Vick was a real boost to our football program, and for that, I will always thank him.
I would also like to say that "saving" dogs is my hobby. I am an active member of Kansas K9 Resq in Wichita, KS. I foster dogs and try to find them new homes. I cannot grasp the concept of hurting dogs for pleasure...or even looking the other way when someone else is doing it. I don't understand not loving and wanting to care for those creatures.
Yet another opinion of mine is that once a debt is paid to society, the debt should be paid...end of story. I think the fact that a felon (once time is deemed served) has so much trouble getting a job is a bad bad thing. We should want ex-cons to be able to obtain gainful employment, and start a better life. I know there is no way to determine for sure if a person is remorseful, or if they are "rehabilitated". We don't know for sure that they will never do the crime again. But we shouldn't make life on the outside SO hard for them that welfare and maybe even crime, is the only way they can survive.
On the same note, I feel that if you screw up a second time (for the same offence), they should lock you up and throw away the key...but only if you were truly given a fighting chance to really make a better life for yourself.
I also feel, personally, that Michael Vick was used as "an example" by being given such a harsh penalty for his crime. Not because I don't think he deserved it...I think anyone that can do what he did is seriously sick and needs to be helped as well as punished. But I don't ever hear of anyone else being caught for dog fighting and winding up in jail. We have a pit bull problem in Wichita, and all I ever hear about it the dogs being removed and the person being given a fine. SEND THEM ALL TO JAIL. And make it widely known that if you are caught doing this, you WILL go to jail. No passing go, no $200.
So, down to Michael Vick playing NFL football. Just this morning, it was released that he signed a 1.something million $$ contract with the Eagles. I think this is too much money. I think he should have been given the same salary as the lowest earner on the field for the first year. In that first year he can prove (or disprove) that he is still a decent football player. If he's not, he's out or on some practice squad or Arena football or Canada...don't much care. If he proves that he is still worth something to a team, and he keeps his nose clean, then he can sign for more money next year.
So...
Yes I feel that he as paid his debt to society...not to the dogs, but to society...so he should be allowed to play.
No matter what ends up happening to his football career, I think he should have to pay a portion (fixed %) of his earnings for the rest of his life to Pit Bull rescues...I think he owes the breed that much at least.
No I don't think that what he did is any less bad than Stallworth and his manslaughter issues
And yes, in a perfect world, we would unleash all the ghosts of his dogs upon him and they would eat him...but I long ago realized that we don't live in a perfect world.
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