If anyone was curious as to how I remember dates for writing in this blog, I don't. I check my harddrive for whenever I filmed something and then I as I start to type things out, I'll remember what else I did. Now that I have Twitter, I use that and read tweets to remember what I did. I then write dates and then a couple of notes under each to know what I want to type about. I also check back on the previous month's entry so I don't repeat things. I still forget a few things and might remember them after posting, but I don't go back and insert them in.
Also you'll notice a random entry of me trying to win a giveaway. I literally was typing this entry out when the giveaway started. Now I'm back to writing this. You'll get an update if I win.
=====10.05.11=====
I have a Twitter now. Why? Well, ATR had her 3rd baby, Anastasia. Congratulations. I had been wanting to have my own personal Twitter for a few months and just told myself that whenever she has her baby that I will birth my Twitter. So follow me.
https://twitter.com/#!/ArnellragasA
=====10.11.11=====
The start of purchasing a new bluray once a week for 3 weeks. This week was for "The Ladder Match 2: Crash and Burn." Unfortunately I went to 2 Best Buys to find out they were only selling the bluray online. Ended up going to Fry's to find it there. Then I spent a good chunk of time watching most of this. There were quite a few matches I had not seen in this compilation. While I enjoyed it, I felt the first one was better in what they had packaged together. I understand it's hard to top when you try to get your best stuff out in the first release not knowing if you'll do a second one, but I still liked it.
=====10.12.11=====
AN turned 29 just like me. I took him out to Lopez for lunch. Caught up with each other and just enjoyed a good lunch. Before leaving I gave him his gift, Unicorn gum and Unicorn meat. Ask him about it, ha.
=====10.13.11=====
Went for a checkup and to have an ultrasound performed on my heart at the doctor's. Everything turned out fine. I'm still taking the medication, but there is nothing medically wrong. The doctor did suggest going to a cardiologist in case anything else happened, but so far it doesn't seem like I'll need to. The medication is doing its job.
=====10.14.11=====
Don't know why, but I took the day to clean up my room. I think it was mainly the boxes I have had stacked in my closet that were kind of just built over the years and not organized. Threw some away and then reorganized the rest nicely.
I also found a bag of old action figures I had when I was a kid. Some were He-Man, some TMNT, but the majority were wrestling action figures. It was nice to see they were all still in good condition or at least the way I left them.
=====10.15.11=====
BT and I went to the Chinese Unicorn "Qilin" Awakens at a temple in the morning. The weather was nice outside and the festivities were nice to watch. I had never been to that temple and to watch them reveal a new fountain was cool. The fountain itself has statues all around in a circle of all animal zodiacs.
We then went to OK Cafe to grab a quick snack and say hi to CC. Then we went to Academy, which was wear I bought more for my Halloween costume/cosplay. We then went to my place and I showed BT the Game Informer Smash Bros marathon.
AC was having a house/apartment warming party that night so we headed out there. We were having hot pot. One of her friends brought her cute dog, Spartacus, which I loved playing with. Spartacus actually ended up playing with my rubber watch a lot because it was teething. Yes, I washed it afterwards, ha.
There was a short moment of the lights going out and us spending about half an hour looking for the breaker switch...which was behind a door, ha. After that it was hot pot eating time with friends. We then played Mafia with a bunch of extra characters to keep everyone entertained. Unfortunately, I did have an attack during the last game and had to take a pill. What a way to let people know I have heart conditions. I ended up staying there a little later than others since I shouldn't drive after taking the pill and I just needed to calm down in general. WC drove me home and the next day he and CC took me to pick up my car.
=====10.18.11=====
My brother got an iPhone 4S and gave me his 4 meaning I needed to give my 3G to my dad. So I went to AT&T to switch the numbers over. It wasn't a hassle at all and it just took some time to do. Maybe half an hour later, I was done. Now everyone in our house has an iPhone of some form. I eventually bought a Game Boy skin to put on it. Ordered a case for it, which will arrive in November.
Afterwards I went to Best Buy to pick up "Batman: Year One." I am very biased to most of WP animated movies, but that was a great movie. Highly recommended to any Batman fan. And now I'm waiting for "Justice League: Doom." You can check at the trailer for that on Comic Vine.
http://www.comicvine.com/justice-league-doom-trailer/112-1678/
=====10.20.11=====
Random outing to the mall with AN. My goal was to find the last piece of my cosplay, a pair of sports shorts. Those things are expensive especially the Jordan brand. Eventually found a pair that were long enough and cheap enough. I was just happy to finally have all the pieces of my cosplay together.
=====10.22.11=====
Oh yeah, Korean Festival time. Surprisingly, SV contacted me to ask for a ride. Picked her up and we were off to the festival around noon. After parking, we actually ran into DumbFoundDead walking towards the festival grounds. SV started spazzing out and I was just being normal. I knew who they were, but I didn't listen to their music. But they were cool guys. After splitting from them, we met up with others from past flash mobs. I then broke off on my own to wander around and just sit and enjoy some of what was happening on stage.
Throughout the day I ran into some people I had not seen for a while and I was constantly tweeting when cool stuff was going on. CC and her mom were there for a short while and WC hung around with me once they left. Then the flash mob happened and I was so proud of them. They did great. I was told I looked like a pageant parent watching his kids on stage and doing the dances along with them, ha.
Stuck around for the whole festival and hung around with some of the flash mobbers. I ended up taking a good 10 of them out to eat dinner at Snow Peas. It was at some point that I was deemed their dad and they were all my kids (all daughters), ha. The age gap is large so it did actually feel like I was taking care of my kids. We then walked around Ranch 99 where they bought snacks and ended the night with taking the ones that lived near me home.
And a silly positive, I met 3 new Miis on my 3DS during the festival, yay. Oh, and the free sodas that the volunteers were giving away to have less to pack up after the festival was over. I took 5.
=====10.23.11=====
My younger cousin Erika turned 13. They invited me over and I thought they were having a party. They weren't, just a few family members hanging, which I was still cool with. For a while it was just Erika, Pauline, Gina Faye, and myself hanging out in her room with Fluke just lounging around. Then the food was ready and we ate in the living room. Lauren and Jesse came over later and so did Melissa. Food and family, always good. We all left later and dad and I went to pick up mom from work.
And I gained more mosquito bites to add on top of the ones I unwillingly received during the Korean festival.
=====10.25.11=====
Was looking forward to this day. BT and I bought tickets for a Smackdown taping in town. I knew I'd enjoy the show, but I was more excited for debuting my CM Punk cosplay to the world. It was successful. Fans loved it and a few people wanted to take photos with me.
The show itself was great. We also got 2 bonus matches afterwards; a 41-man battle royal and John Cena VS Alberto Del Rio, which turned into John Cena and The Big Show VS Alberto Del Rio and Mark Henry. Great times. Can't wait for the next live event that comes to Houston. This also marked us sitting at all 4 corners of the ring. Next will either be on the camera side or opposite the cameras so we'll be on TV the whole time. We only were on screen for maybe 2 seconds altogether.
=====10.26.11=====
Ever since my heart conditions came up, I had to stop doing things for a while. That included exercising, singing, and dancing...and that sucked so much. But over time, little by little I was trying to get back to what I could do at full capacity. The one I had made the easiest progress going back to was singing, but I still had to limit myself for a while because hitting and holding certain notes became difficult and I'd lose my breath a lot quicker than before. It was on this day that I actually tried a lot of songs I used to sing regularly and was able to do so with no problems. Sweet.
I also spent the majority of the day watching "Greatest Rivalries: Bret Hart VS Shawn Michaels." Bought it the day before, but was gearing up for Smackdown. Any Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels fan needs to watch this. It's fantastic.
=====10.27.11=====
BT called me out to have dinner at Tofu Village. We reminisced about Smackdown, I told him the details of my health, and we actually started formulating plans for this year's Christmas party. It is going to be plenty of fun. I've started gathering what I need for it.
=====10.29.11=====
I had been working at it and the day before I tested my dancing limits. That was the first day in over a month that I had been able to dance as much as I could. After feeling fine after that, my comeback stage was set.
BS was teaching "Thriller" again and I decided to attend to her surprise. Of course I came in my CM Punk cosplay. That actually made dancing problematic because of the boots. I did alright, but I know was off due to health and boots, ha. It sure was great seeing BS again though. It had been too long.
Afterwards, I went to refill my prescription...in full cosplay. So I raised a lot of eyebrows at Walgreens when asking for a refill of pills, ha.
Called up AC to see if she wanted to hang out and because I didn't want to just go home after dressing up in my cosplay. Went to her place and formed plans and contacted others to join.
We met BT at "Scream on The Green" to watch the costume contest, wander around, take silly pictures, and check out everyone else's costumes. WC eventually joined us and it was the Beach Buffoons reuniting, ha. Next was to go eat at Convey, a sushi converyor belt restaurant. A few of us had never been to one before and it was awesome. AT and MW joined in on the great food. We then walked around downtown to digest and stopped briefly at a bar.
The misfits then went to AT and MW's to continue hanging out. We ended up playing a game of Pop Culture Cranium. AC, BT, and WC VS AT, MW, and myself with us winning in the end. Great fun way to end the night at...2:30AM.
=====10.30.11=====
And to continue with the Halloween weekend, bowling and swing dancing plans were made. People were late for bowling so I was only there for one game (2nd place) before leaving to meet others at Melody Club. Met up with DW, LB, LN, and AC for some swing fun. RC was there also as she was there to perform "Thriller." Fun night. Didn't dance too much since I still need to limit myself. Still fun and I saw some cool costumes. My favorite was of a girl who dressed as Daria and she was happy that finally someone knew who she was, ha.
=====Miscellaneous Misfits=====
The first was made 09.21. I finished season 1 (10 episodes) on 10.22 and I have been releasing them weekly on Thursdays to my friends. Either I had nothing to do or just had a lot of creative juices flowing. It was crazy because I was finishing some in a day and multiple ones in the course of a week. Haven't done any editing after the last one.
Not all of those have been released to my friends so I want release them here yet either. You'll get 3-7 here, 8-10 next month, and check last month's entry for 1-2.
(longest to export/complete, least viewed...)
=====SNSD - The Boys=====
SNSD's 3rd album was released...and it is great.
My favorite performance thus far.
And my bias ranking has changed some especially due to this concept. The biggest change comes from TaeYeon (mostly due to her new short hair, but she has slowly been clawing her way up from 5th for a long time now) who is now officially ranked 3rd. And HyoYeon is fighting really hard to reclaim the number 1 spot. Watch out, Jessica.
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=====Final Thoughts=====
- My health has been better. I'm able to do almost everything I used to do. I do still hold back and have been less active, but I'll get back into things 100 percent. While I know I can do everything I used to, I don't want to just jump back in. Me having an attack from playing Mafia...geez. I thought I'd get one during Smackdown because I thought I'd get too excited, which I did, but nothing happened. And I took it easy with my dancing ventures during Halloween weekend. I don't know when I'll be taking BS's classes weekly like I used to, but it might be sooner than later. I just need to feel confident with it again.
- I have been growing out my mustache and beard for over 2 months now (last shaved 08.26). I lost my mustache comb months ago, but haven't needed a new one until now. Too bad I'll shave soon due to a friend's wedding coming up. Besides, I'm starting to eat my mustache and things like spaghetti sauce gets caught in the facial hair. And the reason for growing it out for so long...
- My CM Punk cosplay. I don't recall when I decided to cosplay as CM Punk, but it took a while to acquire all the things I needed. Thanks to Amazon, a lot of it was easy to find. I bought a lip ring, tattoo sleeves, shorts (mentioned earlier), athletic tape, markers, and wrestling boots. All that came close to $150 with the boots costing the most. I already had a CM Punk shirt (Best In The World) and my belt of course needed to go with it as I don't have too many reasons to wear that out.
The most time consuming and painstaking ting to put on and remove was the athletic tape. I tried a few times before debuting the cosplay and was okay, but I actually didn't get it right until the last time I donned the cosplay. I luckily bought a pack of 6 rolls of tape and ended up using 4 and a half. Putting the tape on always felt constrictive as if it was cutting off blood circulation. Over time it became loose and felt fine. Taking it off was a pain because of the adhesive just being all over and being really sticky. And a few hairs that weren't covered by the tattoo sleeves would come off with it. It would also take a while to wash all the stickiness off and I would still feel as if I didn't completely wash it off after multiple washes.
Anyways, I enjoyed cosplaying as CM Punk. Last year I was Edge. Next year...I already know due to a deal with a friend. Stay tuned.
- The new "Beavis & Butthead" are just as silly and dumb as the old episodes and I really like it.
- November is going to be a heavy gaming month. October, almost nothing. If at least just one game I'm going to buy in November came out in October, I would have more time to allocate to games. Skyward Sword will definitely eat up a lot of that time.
- I tried to get volunteers for an RFM video project called the "Plush Power Project." Unfortunately, no one responded to it so that idea is now killed off. It also hit me a little hard because I haven't been too happy with how RFM is going and this didn't help.
- I had a dream with Vampy recently (10.19). Not going to go into details, but for my memory's sake (for if I ever forget and read this entry later on in years) I'll just hit the main things that happened. She was wearing her Psylocke cosplay and she carried me across a videogame level. I smiled as it all happened. The dream went on as I was trying to make it back to her. Woke up before that happened.
I know, I'm crushing on her. I acknowledged it in the last entry. I'm pretty sure that dream was induced by this video.
Thanks for reading. Be healthy, be thankful, and be loved.
Take care.
