May has ended. Felt like a lot happened.
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- Payback (05.01) and Extreme Rules (05.22) were fun events to watch. Definitely great talent on the roster. AJ Styles has been having great matches. And Seth Rollins has returned. I really can't wait for those 2 to have a feud somewhere down the line.
Eric Young's debut on NXT (05.05) was great. So far he has only had his match against Samoa Joe. Hope he gets used more in the near future.
And Smackdown will finally go live starting July 19th. Having the brand split again will be interesting. This should make for further character investment. Wonder who will be on RAW by the time they come back to Houston at the end of August.
- Got my copy of SNSD's Phantasia concert (05.11). It took flipping through the photo book to realize I already watched the concert. Wouldn't have been the first time I've done that. Just saved some time. I might go back and watch it though if time permits.
- I don't know when and which video it was that made this happen, but I have been binge watching REACT videos. I have been watching a few here and there, but all of a sudden I started to just watch them back to back. I really enjoy the Teens more than the rest and I have my favorites (Tori is absolutely my ideal daughter). I've recently been bouncing back and forth between Kids and Adults as well. And an odd thing is seeing older videos to see some of the Kids graduate to Teens and Teens to Adults. It's actually pretty amazing to see them grow and evolve.
One of my absolute favorite videos was Teens VS Food - Crickets.
- A friend asked to borrow some video equipment some time ago. It took a while for us to meet up again, but he finally came over to return the stuff (05.28). We had a nice talk to catch up. It's good to hear that he's still involved and enjoying Dragon Boat racing and training. And it's good to see he's still doing fine in all other aspects in his life. Still one of the most genuine people I know.
- Went to an escape room, but not with coworkers. Friends that have been to ours and enjoy them got a Groupon and asked me to come with them. It was my first time doing an escape room with others ever since my first escape room. It was interesting working with others. We made it out with just under 8 minutes left. Great doing that with them and catching up with them. My record is now 12 escapes out of 14.
- And I don't remember when I started taking it, but I'm taking Biotin now for my hair. Don't see the difference yet. Hopefully soon.
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- Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (Wii U) - Review (05.09)
I received a free download code from a gaming Facebook group during the Nintendo Humble Bundle. I had always been curious about the Shantae games so this was a good time to see what it was all about. I did enjoy it and ended up 100% the game in one sitting. I was attempting to do it all in one day, but it did leak into the first hour of the following day. I do plan to buy and beat the rest of them some time soon.
- The next installment of the Ace Attorney series got announced, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice. (05.11) Definitely getting it when it comes out and devoting time to beating it.
- I have a document that is a list of all the games I own (physical and digital). I added a category to it about which ones I reviewed. (05.12) There were a lot. Doing game reviews was (and still is) a nice outlet). You can see how my writing style changed over the years (over a decade of reviews). I was really surprised to see that I actually reviewed 23 games in 2005. That's almost 2 games a month, crazy. Now I'm lucky if I even play a game in a month let a long beat it.
- Retro City Rampage DX (3DS) - Review
This was an alright game. I played it a couple times here and there and finally beat it (05.22). I remember I was really interested in the game when it was first announced, but felt a bit underwhelmed when I actually played it. Not a horrible game, but just not something I would highly recommend.
- It has been sitting in the game slot of my N3DS ever since it came out, but I finally started playing Mega Man Legacy Collection (05.23). My goal is to beat one Mega Man per week if time allows.
- Friends/Coworkers went to New York. I mentioned they should stop by the Nintendo Store while they were there and they asked what amiibo I was still looking for. They ended up going to a few other stores before finding a Lucina amiibo. Yay.
And her name is Lucina. amiibo count is now 58. pic.twitter.com/76RUSOn8jc— Arnell (@ArnellragasA) June 1, 2016
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- We celebrated HER's 2 Year Anniversary at the beginning of May (05.01). It's not true to the actual date (which we debate about, ha), but better to celebrate it than not. We had crawfish for our meal, went around writing questions to draw and answer from a hat (I ended up having to dance again), tried make a Rube Goldberg Machine for an activity, had a little talk to wrap things up, and played a few rounds of Guesstures. A memorable event.
- I mentioned last month that we did a promotion for Teacher Appreciation Day. Along with that, we did a Houston Astros Tickets Giveaway (05.05). We'll probably be experimenting a bit more with these types of advertising ventures.
- Just like last year, we did a small little thing to make Mother's Day special.
- We had to release a trainee this month (05.17). It's unfortunate as the trainee was getting better. Just couldn't meet our expectations we laid out in the time frame given. Training people is interesting. It's more interesting seeing some exceed expectations. The ones that struggle, we help them if we're able to. In the end, they are provided with the tools necessary and they have to utilize them properly.
- Finally have my PC up and running again (05.27). Thanks to Agent Gig and Agent Yeti's boyfriend, the issue(s) was finally resolved. Pretty much started editing on it as soon as possible so you should be seeing some new videos soon. Feels good.
- One of our best Hunks of HER photos taken was provided by Agent Voxel. He was actually being very silly that whole night and it culminated in the photo you see. Agent Obsidian and I laughed so dang much, ha. Great way to end the night.
- And this month's HER Blog (05.31) was written by me. Since we were celebrating our 2 year anniversary, me being chosen was appropriate (according to Agent Majordomo).
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- Tiffany - I Just Wanna Dance (MV)
- Jessica - Fly (MV)
Jessica - Love Me The Same (MV)
I do like Love Me The Same more as a song. But after seeing her performance of Fly and hearing the fan chants, I grew to like that song more. Wish she did more performances at least.
I also received both Tiffany and Jessica's albums at the end of the month (05.31). I like both, but I'm leaning towards liking Jessica's more. Don't know if it's because she was my bias when she was in SNSD, but I just like it more. But if you want to talk about all 3 solo albums from the SNSD members, I actually like TaeYeon's the best as of right now. It might be because I listened to it more. We'll see if my mind changes after listening to Tiffany and Jessica's albums more. One thing that's for sure is that Tiffany has been looking so damn hot.
- And lastly...I started using a dating app, Coffee Meets Bagel (05.12). I won't get into any details about why I never used one before until now, but I had to dive in. Plus I didn't want to use anything common. A friend of mine recommended Coffee Meets Bagel because she has other friends that use it. Did my research and thought it was different from the ones I hear others use. Don't expect to hear/read constant updates about it. If something positive happens, you'll most likely know. Until then, stay tuned.
That's all for May. Thanks for reading. Be healthy, be safe, be thankful, and be loved.
"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits."
