November felt like a short month. Well, more like it felt it
went by really fast. I remember a coworker and I saying how "it's already
November" followed by "it's already mid-November," ha.
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- I had a quick bit of sickness
that hit me (11.03). Took the day off from work to recover as not only did I
have a fever, my back was hurting so
much. It felt as bad as it did when I injured my back after going to Sky High
Sports years ago. It was that debilitating. Ended up icing my back and wearing
my back brace for the next couple days.
- Best Buy occasionally gives out mysterious award
certificates. For the second year in a row, mine was only for $5. So I decided
to buy something I had in my crosshairs for a while, the Married With Children Complete Series DVD set (11.06.15). It's
crazy going back and watching this show. I do remember a good chunk of it, but
a lot of the first and second season was almost new to me. As of typing this, I
am on season 5 and just finished disc 8 of 22.
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
6, 2015
- 107 Facts About Cowboy
Bebop (posting because it's so cool)
- Got some new WWE merchandise
thanks to deals. The only thing pictured is my New Day unicorn shirt. Forgot to
take a picture when I got it, but I plan to wear it on a certain day.
New
Day-Socks, New Day-Socks, New Day-Socks! My feet will feel the power of
positivity. pic.twitter.com/q4dfVtkrh9
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
13, 2015
New
shirt to go with my gloves. #ThisIsMyHouse
pic.twitter.com/T0cK1vaj6S
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
16, 2015
- My ex had her baby
shower in town (11.21). Got a little lost finding the place. It was
definitely interesting reuniting with a few familiar faces (last time I saw one
of them was when they just had a baby and now the baby is 7). I also got to
meet some of her high school friends and her step son and step daughter for the
first time. The step daughter is cute. She was very invested in one of the baby
shower games in which the guests were given a pink clothes pin to wear. If they
spoke one of the two words (pink, girl) and someone caught them then they would
have to give them their clothes pin. The person with the most at the end of the
party wins. She asked if she could add a word and I said it would be okay. I
don't remember if the word was "her" or "baby," but I also
helped her get some clothes pins by telling her to ask guests to read the rules
out loud so they would automatically lose, ha. I was only able to stay for an
hour (even showed up to work half an hour late). I made sure before I left to
give the step daughter my pin by saying "I'm leaving now so make sure to
take care of her" while pointing to my ex, ha. Other than that, it was
good to see my friend being in such a happy mood as she is close to 7 months
pregnant. Very happy for her.
- Survivor Series
was an okay PPV (11.22). Owens VS Ambrose was really good. Paige VS Charlotte
was probably my favorite match. And celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Undertaker
debuting was good. The match was alright, but the entrance and his exit were
very well done.
- Ordered the Arcana
Artifact from Scam
School (11.23). I thought
I would spend a long time and give up in trying to open it. But working at an
escape room made it hard to not get in through alternate means. I was able to
get it open, but I don't know the meaning behind all the markings, patterns,
and pictures all over the artifact. That I would like to know some day.
Going to spend the next few
hours/days/lifetimes trying to figure this out. Thanks, @shwood. pic.twitter.com/Secmzblu45
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
23, 2015
- Got a text on a Monday about doing karaoke that night (11.23). I was interested, but my friend at
first said it would only be 3 of us. That seemed a bit weird to me. But he got
back to me saying a bunch of others were coming and I was in.
I left after Paige VS Charlotte on RAW and got there around
9:30. While there weren't a lot of people there, it was still a fun house.
Befriended new people, caught up with friends I had not seen in a while, and
had a wonderful time singing my head off to almost every song that was chosen.
It was a shame that I could only stay for an hour. Well...a little over an hour
as the last few songs kept pulling me in to stay, ha. Good times.
Random
karaoke on a Monday. So damn fun. pic.twitter.com/4NFfW0Me4O
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
24, 2015
- The reason I was only able to stay at karaoke for an hour
was because I was asked to pick up and dog-sit
Machete (11.23). The person Machete was left with was just going to leave
her in the garage and the weather had been getting too cold. So I said I can
take her for the weekdays and then bring her back on the weekend. Last time I
saw Machete was when I went to San
Antonio earlier this year.
Puppy
sitting Machete this week. Such a good girl. pic.twitter.com/UfHUcCaGMt
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
24, 2015
- For those that don't know me well, I don't like Thanksgiving. For at least 5 year now,
I have opted out of all family related Thanksgiving activities. Long story
short, something bad always happened and I just avoid it altogether. For this
Thanksgiving (11.26), I was actually under the weather. For the majority of the
day, I slept just like Machete did.
Happy
Thanksgiving from Machete. pic.twitter.com/G2XXfiUCpl
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
27, 2015
Unfortunately, I did find out some sad news. Machete's
younger sister, Linguini, passed away about 3 weeks ago. She got run over by a
car. Ever since then, Machete has been really depressed and eating a lot. And
things started to click in my head. Machete had gained a bit of weight from
when I saw her earlier this year. Not only that, she had been really low on
energy and would mostly lie down and sleep. She also was very clingy. Ever
since finding out the news of Linguini's passing, I can see Machete's depression.
It's a sad situation, but I took care of her as best as I could while I had
her.
- I didn't go out to shop on Black Friday (11.27), but I did order stuff online. A total of 8
items (one free) and those consist of clothes, a movie, an eShop game, and a few
amiibo. One of those items came in that Sunday (mail on Sundays?).
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
30, 2015
- Bayonetta: Bloody
Fate was half off on Amazon and apparently I picked up the last copy. It
was very well done. They stayed very faithful to the style, the action, the
music (minus Fly Me To The Moon), and all the over-the-top Bayonetta is known
for. They pretty much retold the story of the first Bayonetta game in 90
minutes. I enjoyed being in that crazy world again.
- Congratulations to my friend, the owner and lead chef of
Bite Macarons, for launching bite CAKES
(11.28). She always made great cakes. I knew she would eventually start selling
them in her shop.
- My younger cousin
got married (11.28). Asked for the day off way ahead of time to make sure I
could attend. Tried to get a +1, but was unsuccessful. Anyways, I rode with my
parents to the ceremony that was in a church maybe 10 minutes away from home.
It was great seeing cousins I had not seen in a while there.
The ceremony was great. I couldn't help but smile seeing
family members that were part of the ceremony walk the aisle. And I was tearing
up almost immediately seeing my cousin walk the aisle. Of course she was crying
and so was the groom. The ceremony was short, only half an hour. There was a
lot of time for photos afterwards. My younger cousin and his girlfriend came to
talk to me. I had not met her before, but knew of her since they had been
dating for years now. Soon after, I ended up going back home to rest since the
reception wasn't for another four hours.
The reception hall was fancy. Lots of waiters and waitresses
walking around serving drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Then I started running into a
bunch of people I had not seen in a long time. Two of them being younger
cousins I used to take care of decades ago. Funny thing, we were all in the
bathroom at the same time, but I didn't recognize them. To be fair, one looks very
different now, ha. The three of us hung out with each other for the majority of
the reception to catch up with others as well.
Also ran into the groom and spoke with him for the first
time. Apparently my younger cousin he married has told stories about me, ha.
That's cool. Hopefully this will be the start of seeing some of the family a
bit more often.
Fun reception. Good food served. The band was really good
(forgot to ask for the name or at least get a photo with the red-haired
singer). There wasn't as much dancing as I would have hoped. Well, there was,
but there were large lulls in between sets where only a few were on the floor.
I got out a few times and got into and lead a few of the line dances that were
done (and that I learned on the spot). Myself and another cousin participated
in being a human pyramid for the groom (that was tough, but fun).
A lot of the family started to leave around 10-10:30. I made
sure to go around to say bye to my cousins that were still there. So much has
happened and we've all grown up and gone our separate ways (marriage, kids,
work, life, etc) that occasions like this where we all have fun are needed. I
also made sure to say bye to the groom even though he had been drinking a lot.
And finally I said bye to my cousin. She was very thankful that I came and I
told her how she had me tearing up at the ceremony. She started to tear up and
we just embraced for a while. We grew up together and were really close. Like
the rest, we went our separate ways, but there was no way I would miss her
wedding. I'm very happy for her. Congratulations.
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
28, 2015
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- Started off the month by getting the Mii Fighter amiibo set (11.01). Just went to my nearby Toys R Us,
saw they had 11 sets of them left, got mine, and went home. I'm glad they sold
it as a set because if they sold them separately, I probably would not have
bought them. amiibo count rose to 38.
Mii,
Mii, Mii. amiibo count is now 38. pic.twitter.com/3x8QBD1GEF
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
1, 2015
- The Legend of
Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (3DS) - Review
Bottom line, I liked playing the demo with my coworkers more
than playing the game solo. I'll come back and play it again when the update
comes December.
- The update for Super
Mario Maker came out. I had not thought of a course theme immediately to
make implementing some of the updates like checkpoints, but I eventually made
one. I just thought of what was something I really liked this year. Ultimately
thought of Bayley and Sasha Banks and thus came the course called Hug Like A
Boss (11.10). I did edit it once after initially uploading it. Don't remember
why, but it was just a small change.
As for the rest of Super Mario Maker, I have been playing
it to unlock more amiibo stuff whenever
I get new ones, play and beat the special events, and check the records of my
courses every Sunday.
- The first Nintendo
Direct after Iwata's passing happened (11.12). It was amazing. So many
things were talked about. I added quite a few games to my list of what I will
buy. The next day I went to preorder two of them, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight
Princess HD and Mega Man Legacy Collection. Specifically got those two because
of the Wolf Link amiibo and Gold Mega Man amiibo. Lucky I reserved Mega Man as
my GameStop only had 3 spots to reserve the game. I was the second person to
reserve it.
And to top off the end of a great Nintendo Direct, Cloud
will be in Smash Bros. It was actually spoiled for me by a coworker (couldn't
watch the video live since I was at work). Even though I knew about it, seeing
the trailer was so good. Goosebumps.
- I had reserved Mewtwo
and Tom Nook amiibo from Best Buy. Went to pick them up (11.13). It was my
first time reserving something at Best Buy. It was fine. I just didn't like the
huge sticker with my name they put on it. It's a good system, but the sticker
was an eyesore. It came off easy at least. Next stop was GameStop to reserve
the games I mentioned earlier. Even the worker there asked "which ones are
you picking up" knowing that I was collecting amiibo. Had I known they
would have been well stocked, I would have gone to them. He understood though.
Better to have them than not. And these latest pick ups brought my amiibo total
to 40. And here I was a year ago thinking I wouldn't buy more than a few, ha.
MewNook. amiibo count is now 40. pic.twitter.com/COQtunJMMm
—
Arnell (@ArnellragasA) November
13, 2015
- Nintendo's Cyber
Deals (11.26) was stacked with some good deals. Most of them I already had.
While there were a few of them I wouldn't have minded buying, I didn't want to
spend a lot considering I have a few games I have yet to beat. So I just bought
3D Sonic The Hedgehog. I had been
curious about the 3D remakes of some of the Sega games (Sonic and Streets of
Rage), but this was at a good cheap price.
- I had a Thanksgiving
tradition of playing a Zelda game for the holiday.
Thanksgiving 2011 - Skyward Sword
Thanksgiving 2012 - Nintendo
Land - The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest
Thanksgiving 2013 - A Link Between Worlds
Thanksgiving 2014 - Hyrule Warriors
Unfortunately, I didn't play a Zelda game this year. Sure, I
can say I played/finished Tri Force Heroes in November at least, but I didn't
actually play any games for Thanksgiving as I was sick. Although had Zelda Wii
U or Twilight Princess HD came out, I would have tried to play it regardless of
being sick.
- Typoman (Wii U)
- Review
I was really looking forward to Typoman. That might be the
reason I was a bit meh on it. I liked it, but I wish there was more to it.
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- Our first HER
Halloween Contest concluded. I'll admit that I didn't think we would get
any entries, but we got quite a few especially on Halloween night. Thank you to
all that participated.
- It wasn't planned, but myself, Agent Blue, and Agent Gig
all had on the colors of the Tri Force Heroes. We decided to take another
commemorative photo as the Tri Force
Agents (11.07). It happened again the week after. It hasn't happened a
third week yet because we've all had schedule shifts in which we didn't close
together. But soon.
- It's rare for it to happen, but it was all guys at HER (11.12).
Not only was it sillier/stupider (ha), but we decided to capitalize on a not
booked session by taking a photo together. We dubbed it the Hunks of HER. I asked the girls the
next day if they wanted to do a Honeys of HER photo. They declined, ha.
- We now have leaderboards
on our website (11.16). It will display the all time best team per room as well
as the best team of the month.
- We had our monthly
meeting the week Agent Raynor (formerly Ro) was in town (11.17). Not many
of the Agents were able to attend unfortunately. We ended up playing Loaded
Questions and it was rather fun.
- Gave a shout out to my fellow Agents on Miiverse in Typoman (11.20).
- Agent M and I secretly devised a plan to surprise Agent
Raynor at the meeting. We showed him the final version of a trailer I made for The Scarlet Scam. He very much approved of it
and we're planning to do trailers for our other rooms as well. We officially
released the trailer (11.20) for the HER community and let them know that the
room will be ready December 1st. While we are working out final kinks, we had
to make the date official just to stop holding it off. So expect to read about
how the room is going in next month's entry.
- And the last week
of November was not busy for me at HER. I actually only worked 2 days
(Tuesday, Wednesday). Then we were off for Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Then
it was my cousin's wedding. And finally it was a normal day off.
- I did finally go back to work on a Monday, our closed day,
to do filming for trailers for our rooms
(11.30). It went rather well. Lasted a little longer than I estimated, but we
got the majority of things done. We just couldn't do one voice over since
neither of us could do a certain voice. Agent
Mo was very cooperative and very
helpful in helping with filming ideas since she is a videographer. Stay tuned
for those trailers soon.
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- Happy Birthday,
BoA! (11.05)
Lookbook (MV
short version)
NOWNESS Best of Asia 15th Anniversary
BoA - Kiss My Lips
(Japanese MV short version)
- And that should be it. 2015 is almost over. November was
an interesting month in all aspects. I'm sure I'll have quite a few things to
talk about in December though.
Thank you for reading. Be healthy, be safe, be thankful, and
be loved.
"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits."