I can upload stuff on Blake’s computer, but not mine. This means it’s either my wireless (doubtful) or Dreamweaver (*sigh*) and not the server, soooooo I figured it wouldn’t be too painful to uninstall DW and try to reinstall it, pending I could find the disk and see if that fixed whatever this issue is.

I found every single disk I have for my Mac, except motherfucking Dreamweaver. I know who sent it, it was from Miss Keri Monster’s boyfriend and I STILL have the fucking envelope he sent it in along with the other programs and stuff they sent, but what the hell did I do with the actual Dreamweaver disk I was SO CERTAIN I could locate in like, 30 seconds?

*headdesk*

And I know, DW sucks, it’s a bullshit program, and I suck by association – I totally know this, but I’m extremely lazy, don’t enjoy code in the slightest (and think that people who do are weird, like my friend Steph) and I just want shit to look pretty and be easy. This is also why I use a Mac by the way, because I know I suck for that too. :D

That isn’t to say that I don’t know any code or that I don’t think with code in mind (and all webdesign that isn’t visual is all just “code” to me, which was why DW worked so well for me), I just can’t do it fluently, if that makes sense. Pausing mid-sentence to think/type “pointy thing eh href (don’t forget the space) equals (pause for air quotes) ehych tee tee pee dot-dot thingy slash slash uhn uhn whatever (air quotes) target equals (air quotes) underscoreblank (air quotes) other pointy thing…” and have the link not work and have to go back and FIX IT? That fucking sucks, I don’t have time for that shit! I need an “insert link” button and if that makes me a retard, so be it!

I’m rambling, I’ll stop.

Anyway, this could be a sign that it’s time to wean myself from DW. I’m not gonna go learn “code” or anything stupid like that (NO I WILL NOT! PHP & all that stuff can suck my ass!) but I’m thinking that if I can find a decent, idiot-proof, free, Mac-friendly ftp program, I might just uninstall it since that’s mostly what I’ve been using it for anyway and that seems to be the whole reason I can’t upload right now to begin with.

That was a really long sentence. I’m proud of that one. :)

It just sucks because right now I’ve got Gallery installed and can’t get that to work (you guessed it, nothing will upload), I can’t get my ftp to work (via DW) and I’ve got pics to post, a cam to update and shit to do!

AND I’M ON THE RAG.

So, technologically and biologically speaking, it’s just not been my week.

But I did get to spend this afternoon with Jesse, so it was still a pretty damn good day. :)

I didn’t. Well, not until just now.

Budd Dwyer was a politician from Pennsylvania in the 80′s who was involved in a bribery scandal in which he denied any involvement. The day before his sentencing, he called a press conference to once again vocalize his innocence…and then he shot himself in the head, on live, mid-day television.

Here’s the video. (Which isn’t even a little bite safe for work, kids or people with weak stomachs.)

Here’s the Wikipedia entry. (You may want to read this before watching the video.)

That is some fucked up shit.

(And yes I know this video is old to some, but keep in mind I’ve only been off dial up for a year, so I’ve got some catching up to do.)

…but as per usual, I can’t upload anything to the server.

I don’t know why this keeps happening but it makes me want to throw shit & kill people.

That is all.

Why? Because I hate MySpace.

A few days ago Ditsy & I were talking about how much we hated MySpace and it got me thinking…why the hell do I even have one when there isn’t a single feature I like, use or pay attention to? Especially when my first thought in even talking to her about it was, “Holy shit, Ditsy’s on my friends list?”

When an honest to god friend gets lost in a sea of…I don’t even know for sure what I’d call most of them, oh that’s right bands…it’s time to simplify, so I just deleted it.

So the next time someone asks “Hey what’s your MySpace?” they can give me the same look I get when people ask for my cell number. (Just wait for Sunny Vs. the iPhone. Oh the hilarity. :oD)

PS. Is it sad that I made the big version of that screencap my desktop background?

Today I opened my blinds to enjoy it. See, I love snow and up until now we didn’t really have any and it was starting to bum me out. Mid-January? There should have been at least 2 snow days by now and there was a part of me that was kind of looking forward to chasing the dog all over town because he climbed the 8 foot snowdrift in the backyard. Right now we have just about enough to cover the grass with more to come tonight.

It’s cold as a witch’s tit and it’s already 4pm so I’m not going out there today, but if the light’s as pretty tomorrow, I could be presuaded to take the camera out because the field across the road looks like it might be full of interesting things.

It’s not high on my priority list but I really need to upgrade my snow gear. I mean, there’s the coat you have because it’s pretty (and I have that, although it needs some repairs) and there’s the coat you have because it’s warm. The thing is, I don’t wanna be stuck in some puffy, neon wonder. If there’s any animals around, I’d scare them away! Although, if it’s hunting season it could be a good thing haha

Oh yeah! My blinds! I can’t remember if I wrote about my blinds yet anywhere, but after a year of “getting to know the neighbourhood” by not having any, Sunnyland finally has some, which I hung wrong and don’t care enough to try again. :D (They’re off by like, 1/8th of an inch, just enough to drive everyone but me nuts.) The rest of the house doesn’t have blinds yet of course, but we’ll start workin’ on that once we can afford paint.

Anyway, the only blinds we could find to fit this window were white. White bugs me, a lot and I don’t like staring at a wall of white all day, but obviously some days it’s preferred to whatever’s happening outside. So I was thinking…how do I make these blinds not white. Well, by sitting here smoking like a chimney all day, they’ll be yellow soon enough (gross and true and you should all e-mail me to quit…again even though I’ll probably ignore you as smokers tend to do until they’re ready), but I don’t really like yellow either and I can’t paint them (it won’t stick to the vinyl) so I think I’m just gonna cover them in stickers. I was thinking a rainbow would be the easiest, the top slats reds, the next ones down oranges, then yellows etc etc etc but I’m open to ideas.

But then I got thinking about the back of the blinds and how funny it would be to put a message there in electrical tape or something, but I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t completely and utterly tacky and/or offensive like, “At least there’s no plastic flamingoes!” which is really only funny in the summer and wouldn’t fit anyway, or “Buttsecks” because I’m immature like that. :D Meh, plenty of time to think about it.

The problem of course is that it’s gonna take a LOT of stickers and I’m not sure the project is worth more than a $20 trip to the dollar store to spiff up my $10 Wal*Mart blinds haha

Madison & Blake are in the kitchen right now (today is dedicated to Madison improving her dishes technique) and she’s telling him a story about how “this kid in my class stuck a pencil through his hand on Friday and had had to go to the office, it was so gross”, which is becoming a bigger fish tale the more questions he asks her. :D (The kid came back from the office with a band-aid and it’s more likely he broke the lead off into his finger than what she “remembers”. haha) Blake’s now explaining to her that if what she describes happened, the kid would have had to go to the hospital because he would have gone through tendons and the only reason I’m blogging about this is because it reminded me of this kid named Dave who sat beside me for most of grade 7.

Dave & I shared a love of Guns n’ Roses and art (or what we thought was art…) but Dave was a bit of an asshole. He was also the most popular guy in our grade, because he was a badass and the popular girls, for whatever reason, all had crushes on him even moreso after we all saw him do probably the MOST retarded thing I’ve probably ever seen anyone do in my entire life.

(Actually the more I think about it, the more blurred it becomes, it might have been another kid named Justin, who was pretty much the same kid only blonder & more fucked up than Dave. They were friends and both sat in my group, so it could have been either one of them.)

Anyway, we’re sitting in Mr. Sandam’s class, which for the life of me, I can’t even remember what that class was. History? Computers? I honestly have no fucking idea, but the guy preferred for us to call him Sir Sandam and now that I know what I know, I’m betting he was a closet LARPer.

So we’re sitting there and I hear someone whisper “God that is so gross” and I turn and see Dave digging the pointy end of a goddamn protractor, y’know, one of those circle drawers?, into the side of his middle finger, just below his last knuckle. Blood doesn’t bother me at all, gore doesn’t bother me at all and normally stupid boys doing stupid things doesn’t bother me at all, although I have to admit there were certain parts of Jackass Number Two I had to walk out of the room for, but pain I can’t deal with, especially when it’s right in front of me like that and beyond idiotic, so I just turned around and kept doing whatever it was I was doing.

Near the end of class, there was a bit of a commotion in Dave’s general direction, so I turned around again and there’s Dave crying, holding up his hand with this fucking protractor all the way through his finger, all the way up to the bigger metal part that meets the apex and it was sticking out the other side . The problem, and the reason Dave was crying, was because the protractor’s pointy end had a slight bend in it that he hadn’t noticed before, which was now on the other side of his finger and when he tried to pull it back out, that bend kept getting caught on his knuckle.

During the process of getting the protractor in and subsequently trying to work it back out, his finger had become hard, it was so inflamed, that even if they could turn it to avoid the knuckle, it was gonna hurt like a motherfucker to yank it out and Dave wouldn’t let anyone do it. He just sat there crying and holding up his middle finger while teachers ran around trying to find ice and trying to get his mom on the phone.

To this day there’s part of me who thinks he did it just to flip Sir Sandam the bird and not face the man’s wrath (which was the stuff of legend), but I’ll probably never know for sure.

And with that, I’m off to go be a nerd.

The novelty will never wear off. I <3 my guild, even if I end up being the only person in it. :D (Which is entirely possible.)

Just a reminder for anyone who was thinking of coming over, we’re on Velen (like “Helen” with a “v” for “vile”!), we’re ALL blood elves, with exceptions made for the following:

- Druids
- Warriors
- Transferred 60s

Also, you don’t need to have the expansion to play with us and we’re not using vent, so don’t let either of those hold you back. :) Open invitation throughout the weekend, but once Monday hits, you’ll have to make an introduction thread in the Cotton Pwnies Forum for an invite.

By the end of today, we’ll have 5 level 20′s! I’m still only level 11 because I’ve been running around getting things set up, but so far we seem to be progressing nicely. Slow, but steady. :)

Something I discovered a couple of days ago was this new herb called Bloodthistle, which I’m assuming can only be found in Blood Elf areas because Blood Elves are the only ones who can use it. So, it increases your damage & healing by a bit (haven’t been paying attention how useful it is in that respect) but if you use it and run out, you get Bloodthistle Withdrawl which, at low levels anyway, reduces your spirit by 5, which is obviously a bad thing for all casters. Basically, Bloodthistle is like steroids for Blood Elves and I’m really curious to see how this factors in at higher levels, like how bad the withdrawl and how big the benefit is of this stuff is at level 60. I’ve only hit Thotbott so far, but I wanna know more about this stuff. I’m convinced it’s gotta be used for something cool, like in a recipe of some sort.

I was also thinking how awesome it would be if Blood Elf herbalists could plant the stuff all over Azeroth and then Alliance herbalists had to pick it to prevent the spread.

I also noticed some interesting wording in a quest I handed in last night, it said something about the Blood Elves learning their true “destiny” in Outland. I wonder what that’s all about? Hmmmm…

The whole Blood Elf thing reminds me a lot of American McGee’s Alice, like the scenery and music and the attitude of the whole thing, I love it. (And loved that game, bummer Oz never happened. :()

Okay, I think I’m off to hit the realms and accomplish sweet fuckall for the rest of the day. Enjoy your weekend!!!

Today was a good day, the kinda day I’m glad I completely screwed up my sleep schedule for. :D

Anyway, I should be sleeping right now but I have to do some mental reorganization first, so feel free to come along for the ride. :)

First things first, The Adventures of Endometria and the Cotton Pwnies have begun! Oh yeah baby, you fuckin’ heard me! I’m LOLing even typing that, my god.

So since we’re a guild now, that means we need a forum to sort out our thoughts on things, figure out who likes to do what, who’s usually around when & all that crap, plus a bunch of other stuff I’m too tired to remember but I’m sure someone will remind me.

Stuff I decided today:

- I love herbalism.Plants are cool, even if they’re pixelated ones. :)

- Endometria’s going to be a shadow priest… I made it to level 10 today and then came the excrutiating decision about that first talent point. It pretty much came down to “well Raymond got to do it last time”, so fuck you all, someone else gets to main heal. :P

- Blake is teh smrt. He used Wikipedia to look up menstrual terms and came up with the name “Endometria” (I just can’t credit, it’s perfect and I’m pissed I didn’t think of it) and his own, Mensi the Mage. That was some gooood thinkin’.

- Time zones? These things mean nothing to me! So here I was thinking I was all smart because I spent a significant portion of last evening server hopping until I found a new one that was on the same time zone as me (because the server clock matched my clock, duh) and then I saw some people talking in gen chat about that being a “known bug” (o_O?) and our server is apparently on the same time zone as Guam. There’s a large part of me that’s hoping this is true because it doesn’t really fucking matter anyway because I run on SunnyTimeâ„¢.

- I miss Nicole. She’s gonna be extremely proud of how I’ve been spending my time these days. When I tell her about this guild, she’s gonna shit rainbows and I’ve been rehearsing the conversation in my mind & it just gets funnier every time. :D I may wanna get that on film…but I’m also thinking just getting a random letter in the mail as surreal as “Hey so I started this guild…” is worth writing. We’ll see how lazy/ADD/busy/blonde I am next week.

- Alex fucking kills me. But I gotta take a group photo before you’ll understand why.

Some stuff I pondered today:

- My Live Journal friends list is actually more interesting than mine. I mean, it’s what I’m reading every day, right? o_O
- I may just be a possibility junkie.
- How to aquire mass quantities of Barbies/Bratz dolls and $12 for the domain of the hypothetical, not fully formed, “can’t do it myself” idea in my head that’s worth the $12 even if I make a post giving it away for free.

Okay, gonna fart around with WP for another 20 minutes and then I’m gonna sleep like the undead.

Where the fuck do I even start? And oh, you can bet your sweet ass that this post is entirely about WORLD OF FUCKING WARCRAFT, so the non-nerds might wanna skip this one. ;)

I think I’ve spent more time in the last 12 hours making toons than anything else, feeling the vibes on various servers and trying to figure out a plan of attack.

Posey (she’s my 60 nelf tree druid), I took to Outland tonight to get her big girl trade skills, completed half a quest, died three times and salivated over this new herb business because I didn’t read anything about beta and was really excited to see that one. I figured there’d be new herbs and I do think I heard about raising the trades caps, but I picked one and got TWO things. It was very peculiar…and now there’s a new herbal spell? What? Woo hoo!

I played a draenei shaman for a bit just to see what shaman were all about. When we were going through Strat or Scholo or Upper Lower Blackrock Whatever some blue shaman stuff dropped and I saved it in the bank figuring I could either sell high come expansion, save it for someone it our guild, or maybe use it. I’m not totally sold on the shaman thing, I only got her to lvl 9, but the draenei are adorable, I know exactly what I want mine to look like, I even have a few great names that are available, I just don’t know where to play her or what class I want her to be. I’m not much of a PvP’er, but easily could be given the right toon, I just haven’t figured out what I like to do there yet.

Which brings me to the blood elves, the guild I want to create, the guild I’m currently in and the drama I try oh so hard to avoid. :/

Like I said, I created characters pretty much all afternoon because as predicted, servers went down all over the place and a bunch of new servers went up, so I just sat around & played with names/aesthetics. “Sunny”, btw, is never available on any server ever. Bastards. But once I started playing a belf for a bit, I decided I’d be cool with a belf of any kind, as long as she was a caster.

But here’s where the politics and logistics come in, I’m not dedicating my life to effing Warcraft and I figure I have enough time to take PoPo to 70 with one group of people, start a belf guild with another group of people and lvl a draenei…somewhere.

The problem is that someone in our guild already has a horde guild on our server and while he knows I love him & wouldn’t give two shits if I didn’t join his guild and started another, there are probably some folks in our guild who would like to join his.

Another person in our guild (an officer) whom I consider a very good friend at this point, has been talking about making an all blood elf guild since I’ve known him and I told him I had to wait to see what the expansion was like and what was going on in the rest of my life before I could commit to anything. But, truthfully, if I could level a brand new toon up with a group of people, I’d want Ricky to be in that group of people. The thing is, the kind of belf guild I want to make, I think anyway, is very different than the kind Ricky wants to make and is probably very different than the kind of guild Monune is making.

I figured the easiest way to avoid any hurt feelings, bruised egos, drama or any other such nonsense among friends (because the guild I’m currently in, really is the best guild evar) was to describe the kind of guild I want to create and let everyone who wants to make this with me decide for themselves.

The guild name is going to be the Cotton Pwnies. I’d register the domain but honestly, I’m fucking broke and don’t really care because a domain’s not all that important – a site is, but not a domain. It is going to be an all Blood Elf guild, male or female is fine (female would be suggested though ;)), class is up to you.

Now, before you all go “Cotton Pwnies? Wtf, you wanna name a guild after a slang term for a tampon?” Why yes, I absolutely do because it’s fucking FUNNY and I have the most amazing toon name in the whole wide world, are you ready?

Meet Endometria

Need I say more? She’s on the new server Velen and will be the guild leader of the Cotton Pwnies.

I’ve never run a guild before and I’m kind of a newb to the game, but someone has to have that high rank, so that’s me, but I’m going to need help and input as far as what the ranks should be called, what each rank should be able to do (inviting & such), what to do about vent (not sure if I want this guild to have vent in the beginning, honestly…) and overall policy. That’s why I want to take my time with deciding who gets officer status and crap like that, as far as I’m concerned, right now in the beginning, we’re all equal – except I can kick you out if you’re an exceptional douchebag.

I don’t know what kind of guild this will end up being or what we’ll be doing but my intention is to get us all to 70 doing quests, grinds & instances and we’ll figure things out from there.

So, tomorrow (well, I guess today), my plan is to spend time leveling Endometria and if you’d like to start a guild with me, make a blood elf there and send me a message. :)

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me (Sunny @ SunnyCrittenden.com), message me on MySpace or otherwise harass me by whatever means necessary.

Stuff that has been asked already:

Q. Will there be a vent server?
A. I dunno yet. Not everyone can use vent and I like to make sure people are capable of playing without it for that very reason. If we end up being a small guild, we may have to rely on PuGs (especially on a new server) and I don’t want to give random strangers vent info just yet.

Q. I’m 13, 14, 15, 16, 17….
A. I like teenagers, I can play with teenagers, but this guild is going to be blogged about, screen-capped, maybe even video’d, on a site that has strong connections to really adult sites (Stile Project, Camwhores
, Blog Wars…just to name a few) and I just don’t want to feel responsible for the young ‘uns. I don’t want to be a role model. I don’t want to have to censor myself when certain people are online (and I’d feel like I’d have to). I don’t ever want to deal with someone in our guild who’s older, perving on someone in our guild who’s younger…I watch Dateline, man, I don’t even want to go there. Plus, if I’m playing this toon, it’s probably because I want a break from kids. I have two of my own, don’t forget. I’m not going to ID anyone, but I am gonna ask and I will kick minors out.

Q. Why a new server?
A. Because it would be cool to be the first guild to DO something on a new server. I dunno what exactly, but it’s not an opportunity you’re going to get on an older server. It’s not the end of the world if we suck and don’t do anything first, though. :)

I also thought that it would be a good way for people to learn how to use the auction house and make good use of their trades. I was playing on a brand new server tonight (well, last night I guess) where no one had made it past level 14 on the entire server and I took a look at the AH…there was a lot of opportunity for someone with the right trades to make some money there. And with a new server, it seems like all trades are the right trade.

Alright, I’m going to bed, don’t steal my awesome guild name peez and I’ll see whoever tomorrow!

Something I’ve been (half-assedly) working on over the past several months is a fiction blog called CammityJane, which I update whenever the character(s) send me scenes. There’s not a whole ton of posts there yet, but with the way things have been going, I think it’s gonna pick up a bit throughout the winter.

Originaly I wasn’t going to make this a public project because, being my first stab at fiction, I’m well aware of how rough it is and didn’t feel like dealing with the mean-spirited “criticism” that often comes from putting anything on the internet. That’s why comments are disabled. But then I decided that once the main characters’ voices were established in my head (and there was no fear of “losing” them), I’d post about it here…so that’s what I’m doing. :)

I make no promises to actually finish the damn thing, but there it is all the same. (Also, being a blog, the first posts are at the bottom.)

Over the next few weeks I’m hoping to put a little work into the Keep Off the Lawn blog, which I’ve been seriously neglecting since the leaves fell off the trees. As per usual, if you have any Canadian Tire Money to donate to the project this spring (or real money, seeds, bulbs or other gardeny things), you can do so here:

Sunnyland
c/o Sunny Crittenden
PO Box 3042
Elmvale, ON
L0L 1P0
CANADA!

I’ve actually had a BIG BIG BIG gardeny project in my head since the day we moved into this house that I think, if I can pull it off, I may start executing this spring but it’s going to definitely require some help from the internet both as far as materials and figuring out how to actually do it. Like I said, I’m gonna do my best to update the KOTL blog soon and details of that project are (hopefully) going to be a part of it.

Sometimes I’m just too effing creative for my own good. :/ (<—And THAT should be a goddamn smiley!)

Oy, I’ve got so much to do today and I don’t feel like doing any of it….better git a move on…

And so does WordPress.