Damn You Steven Moffat!!!!!!!

OK so seriously I love/hate Steven Moffat.  This man is the single greatest bane of my existence except for being fat I guess, but he controls my tv watching schedule and always messes it up with his non-standard release times and breaks between seasons of his show.  I am pretty sure that he just sits around and BBC goes "Hey when you going to get us some new Doctor Who or new Sherlock?" and he just goes "Fuck you guys I am Steven MFing Moffat I will give you new shows when they are ready and you will air them and you will like it."  Yes I am sure that is how the world works.  No seriously I love him he is an amazing writer and what not but no I hate him... haha.  OK well that is all I am going to rant about right now the weekend was really uneventful for the most part I am still going day to day and failing as much as winning but not quitting.  I am hoping to get things back on track and perhaps have a little more to say this evening.

Much Love,
M

Oh Beef Jerky

I have decided that Jack Link's Teriyaki beef jerky is probably the greatest snack food I have ever had the pleasure of sticking in my mouth.  I have always been a big fan of Jack Link's but it wasn't until I was enjoying a bag of the Teriyaki jerky this morning that I realized I love this stuff.  I mean when you think about it yeah the sodium in it is insane but when you look at only 80 calories a serving and 14 grams of protein a serving it is a nice little pick me up when you are dragging and need a little bit of energy and are trying to stay away from sugar and coffee. 

Also I am already starting to seen an improvement in how I feel even after only two days of not stuffing myself into a food coma every day.  I did eat a little bit more yesterday than I had wanted.  What can I say I am not perfect and that slice of chocolate cream pie just looked so delish last night.  The upside where as I would usually eat that and go "Well I already screwed up I might as well just keep eating."  I didn't this time I said well I ate that and really shouldn't have I just wont eat anything else this evening which it being at 8:00 PM wasn't a bad thing.  So I am just going a day at a time I am hoping that soon I will have dropped a few pounds and will be able to walk more without having to worry about my knees supporting my weight.  That is my first goal.  I just want to be able to walk without my knees hurting or getting winded.

Enough on the dieting front.  I ordered a copy of FF12 from Gamestop to play since it is probably my second favorite FF game of all time next to 7 though I will always have a soft spot for the end of X when you got to hear a FF character say I love you for the first time it was special.  OK on to 12.   I have always loved that game I always thought that the voice acting and the story was always top.  I managed to dust off my PS2 (Still one of my favorite systems ever) and started that baby up.  I had forgotten about a few of the annoying things about the game for example the camera controls when walking are a little bit annoying and also the battle system is a bit different.  Also the size of the Playstation controllers lol.  I have been playing my 360 for so long I had forgotten how tiny they were but after a few minutes I was starting to get the feel for it again and I am sure it is only a matter of time before I am back to slashing through the game.  I am going to try to play it all MLG style no strat guide or anything like that.  Luckily it has been so long since I played it that I don't remember anything about it.  :) 

Well that is it for me right now.  I am going to try to perhaps write a little something this evening to keep myself moving with this.

Much Love:
M

The New Year

Well so the new year is upon us and I finally caved in and got myself an iPhone and I hate to admit it but I totally love it.  I had been one of the biggest voices in my circle of friends and co-workers against the iPhone for the fact that they controlled what kind of apps made it into the market place so in my opinion it limited the third party options well I discovered that having that kind of control makes it so that the apps you add to your device wont utterly bog it down.  In my android days I would load my phones up with apps and they would eventually crash and force close and the phone would just reboot all the time.  If you know what you are doing the customizability of an android device can be a great thing but honestly I never really know what I am doing so the same thing that first attracted me to android phone eventually pushed me away from it.  OK well that is enough about that.

So over the holiday I lost a friend.  He was a guy that I honestly didn't think I would become as good of a friend to as I became.  He was also not much older than me and where as he did live a very hard life with years of alcoholism that probably contributed to his death (they don't know exactly how he died yet).  His body was found early in the morning so it looks like he went in his sleep.  Our lives do not parallel in really any way I do drink but not at any kind of regular frequency but it still made me think about the fact that I am not healthy.  I am incredibly overweight and feel that I am only a few pounds away from having a heart attack.  Since I have this new iPhone I all of these tools to help me be more organized I am going to try to take advantage of it and get my shit together.  I am not going to make a new years resolution because the second I do that I fail.  I am just going to try harder to be a better person a healthier person.  A person that will be around longer for my ghouls (girls).  Well I don't have much else to say at this moment but I am going to try to also keep things more up to date here.

Blessed Be.
M

Back From The Brink...

Man I really thought I was going to die.  I had a horrible stomach virus or something not really sure what it was but I made me feel like I was dying.  I went to work yesterday just trying to suffer through it thinking that I could make it through.  I was sadly mistaken by 1:00 PM I was falling a part.  I was sitting at my desk sweating and in an incredible amount of pain.  Luckily my bosses are amazing and they let me go home at like 3:00 PM.  I went home and just slept on the couch pretty much all evening.  This morning though when I woke up I felt almost back to normal and it made the thought of going to work actually enjoyable. 

Look I just traveled through time and it is the next day... Haha started this blog on Tuesday and will maybe complete this on Wednesday.  Nothing new really happened last night except that I think I am finding great and wonderful ways of screwing myself up and failing.  I just cant seem to stop eating crappy foods and feeling crappy.  I am going to try to be honest with myself.  I have been having problems with Reese's cups because someone gave me like 7 bags of them that they bought on clearance after Halloween for the kids to consume but I took a bag to work and have been living off that stupid mentality that once they are gone I things will be so much easier even though I know that is not the case.  Oh well I don't know.

My Halo 4 Review (SPOILER FREE)

So I loves me some Halo and I decided to give my opinion about Halo 4 the latest chapter in this epic saga.  OK I will admit it I was scared about where the franchise would go after Bungie stepped away and 343 stepped in and took over.  That fear was misplaced.  I was afraid that this game would play differently that it would be a "Halo" game.  Again I was mistaken this game plays just like a Halo game.  I can move seamlessly from playing Halo 3 and into 4 and not feel like I am trying to relearn how to play a game.  The new enemies are amazing and admittedly I am still on my easy run through.  I always run through a game on easy for the first play through so that I can focus more on the story and less on trying to survive.  After I finish the campaign on easy I will move up and really start to get my teeth wet.  The story so far is amazing and the voice acting is even better than in past games.

Something brilliant that Microsoft and 343 did with this was the Forward Unto Dawn series they released through Machinima Prime was a great item to get my mouth watering and get me ready for the game.  I don't really want to go into it too much because of the possibility of spoilers.

I haven't had a chance to go through much of the multiplayer modes except for Spartan Ops which was what I was most excited to see and it is amazing.  I love the idea of these small ongoing  and ever evolving campaigns that keep giving you something fresh to do every week.  I do have to admit though that I have heard that so far they are only going to do it for the first 10 weeks after the launch but I hope that they decide to continue it after that period.  If anyone happens to stumble on this blog and has any info on if they are going to keep this going please comment. :)

OK so to sum it up this game is amazing and well worth the price.  It has everything that we have always loved about Halo and a couple of new things that are sure to be loved just as well.  I am hoping to start making these little blog posts a regular thing when new games come out and I have the money to purchase them.  The next one I think will probably be on Medal of Honor Warfighters I have been really excited to get my hands on that game and soon I will be able to do just that.

Good Gaming,

Needlesedge

What A Week.

Well this was a crazy week.  Monday the hurricane rolled in and my company decided to close the office Monday and Tuesday and to have us work from home if possible well the power went out Monday evening and stayed out through till mid day Wednesday.  I know that there are many that are still without power so I am not going to whine and complain about it.  I did feel like I was heading down the route of Jack Torrance from The Shining because of not having electricity.  It is rough for me to be in a situation where I cant do anything about it.  Well Thursday they finally opened up the office and it was nice to be able to get back to work.  Thought honestly when I came in to work today I was as exhausted as if I would have stayed at work all week.   I am ready for a stress free weekend I want to just relax and watch some TV and play a little bit of video games.

I have also been doing a pretty decent job of not eating like a Big-Fat-Fatty.  I stopped trying to look at it like a long term goal.  I am now approaching it like I approached not smoking.  Every day is a new day.  I am not trying to get through the week.  Only trying to get through the day.  On Monday it will be 1 year without smokes.  It is kind of amazing to think that I was finally able to make the change.  What worked was each morning when I would normally stop for a pack of smokes I just went "Nah I will stop on my way home from work." Then when it was time to go home I would just go "Nah I don't feel like stopping right now." Eventually it was a week and then a month and here I am at a year.  Well I am going to try to finish up the rest of this work day. 

Blessed Be.
M

Still Trying to Be A Blogger

I haven't posted anything for awhile for the usual reasons that I just don't have anything of interest to share.  I don't really have anything interesting to say here but I figured I would at least type up something.  I have been  eating like a pig as is the usual but I have been hating myself for it more than I have in the past.  I don't really want to delve on that too much because I feel like I am beating a dead horse on that topic and I feel that by worrying about it so much I am doing myself more harm than good so I am going to spend my time talking about other things for example dreams.

The other night I had a bizarre dream that I was drinking with the guys from Roosterteeth and Achievement Hunter and I drank too much and passed out and when I woke up I discovered that Burnie and Jack had shaved my beard off.  I really love my beard but didn't realize how much I loved my beard until I woke up and was like "nooooo"  I mean I woke up actually upset at some of the funniest people I have never had the chance to actually meet.   It was quiet humorous.

No onto what I have been playing lately.

I am still playing a lot of Minecraft it is kind of great because you don't have to do anything it is just enjoy time and do nothing.  Then I started playing Darksiders II.  It is a pretty good game I haven't gotten too far into it because it is mostly just an adventure kind of hack and slash game.  I keep trying to devote more time to it but who knows perhaps in time I will love it the way I hope too.  I have also been debating giving Fallout 3 another shot.  I tried playing it when it first came out but honestly I just couldn't seem to get into it.  I havent made up my mind yet on if I am going to take the time again.

Well that is something I will hopefully get to type some more at a later date and have more interesting things to say.

Blessed Be.
M