Break

I’m gonna take a break from playing the Sims for a while. No, I’m not boycotting EA(Like that, anyway :P), trying to act all cool and rebellious to get someone’s attention, or anything. I have my own reasons.

1. Grades. Yeah, I don’t play on weeknights, but on weekends, I try to rush through schoolwork to play, but my grades are kind of lower this year. I’m not sure if it’s a correlation between that, or that Honors and AP classes are hard. Either way, I’m not going to try and find out.
2. Glitches. No, I don’t have any mods. Just a lot of custom content. But the game doesn’t let my Sims fall asleep anymore, so I have to delete the moodlet manually. Bathing doesn’t work either. No, I don’t watch my Sims shower, but I can tell by the moodlets. :P And the green lines don’t help. Nobody could visit, so that takes some fun out of the game. But worst of all: The game will randomly shut down on me. Even when I’m saving. Yeah, now it takes like 10 minutes to load, but it’s annoying to play through 3 days of birthdays, promotions, weddings, and lifetime wishes but then you have to redo it all. :/
3. Personal boredom. The 8 Sims limit really ends plans. And I hate that part where you don’t know what to do for the heir, what to do with the model-esque spares, and so on.

 

I’m just feeling empty. I wait all week for the weekend, and once it finally comes, I don’t know what to do. Then it’s Sunday night, and I’m filled with regret. I’m addicted to the Internet, so weekends are hard: Spend it online and feel bored, or don’t go online and have withdrawal symptoms?

My ‘dream’ weekend consists of several things:

1. No homework. But thanks to SAT Prep, I have vocab quizzes every Monday. :/
2. Going to the mall, and not just eating Chinese food there. I mean, I love fast food, but I hate feeling like a bum who only leaves his house to eat. Like, I want to buy stuff and talk with people and have my own ‘When I was 15’ stories. And my own personal funds are almost dry, so yikes. :/ I have like a 100 dollars in those spare change counter stuff, but my parents always forget to take it with them to the bank.
3. Go to Youth group and hang out with friends. No, not the Friday one with my cousins. But the one with the Church that I go to. Even if it’s overpopulated by wannabe Guidos and guidettes.
4. Watch TV, play video games, and go online. I can only watch Nick @ Nite, which has my favorite shows, only on weekends, as well as Roseanne and Friends. I have too much video games to play, and my moods for video games can go from Sims to Super Smash Bros Brawl in an hour, so yikes.

Oh yeah. Final question. How much are restaurant tips supposed to be? Last Friday, I went to youth group with my cousins. Aside from having a horrible time there, we went out to eat after. SS and I both ordered soda and chicken quesadillas(6.95). Since SS got me pretzels at the mall the week before, I decided to pay for both of us. So, 6.95 + 6.95 + I’m guessing like two dollars at most for the drinks = $16.00-ish, right? Well, I never got any change back. There was like, 7 or 8 other people(And most of them have jobs), and Oldest Cousin told me that my four dollars went to the tip. Well, if the other 7 or 8 people paid 2.00 dollars in tips, is 16 dollars a lot for one group? Oldest Cousin and Middle Child Cousin only had 3 dollars in change with them(And they were the ones who were begging to eat out!), and they both ordered coffee, which was like $1.49, or something, so there’s no way they paid for tip. Then, they just handed me some spare change(Like a quarter and nickel, or something) and acted suspicious(Like, ‘Here’s your change. But just to make sure you didn’t take mine, how much were you supposed to get back?).  As I mentioned before, most of them had part time jobs, so SS and I think that they just think we’re stupid with money and can’t add, so they manipulated us into paying for tip. The waitress’s service wasn’t anything that special either, and the best thing she did was ignore our table when they other 6 were being really loud. So, did SS and I get ripped off? Or am I just bad with money, bitter about the night, and projecting my feelings of resentment onto them?

 

In other news, Fran Drescher got her own talk show, Melissa and Joey got a full 30 episode season, and Courtney Cox got a divorce. :|

How I spent my Saturday

So, with the recent anti-EA trend sweeping the Sims Community, I decided to go on a mini tirade against them yesterday. Okay, so it was just me emailing companies that won’t do anything to take me seriously, but hey, I did something.

• I emailed companies. Like, 4 or 5 different major websites. I’m not sure if I’ll get a reply, but hey, if I got one before, I could get one now too, right? I talked about the gifting bans, mostly, but if I have time today, I’ll try emailing them again about the Spyware stuff on AE’s blog.
• I went on the EA forum to… hunt Jarsie9 down and report her for literally 90% of her posts. I don’t care if she’s some senile old woman who doesn’t know how to treat people because she lives far away from everyone so she deluded herself into thinking that online arguments count as relationships. She should invest her Internet bills and Sims allowance on a therapist, or adopt something from an animal shelter. No, wait. That would be animal abuse. Maybe a pet rock or flower first. Maybe. Oh, and is there a penalty for reporting people too much? I don’t want to get banned on the EA forum, even if it’s crap. It’s a pride thing. :P
• And this isn’t Sims related, but… I started watching Cougar Town! I like it. It’s funny(The drinking games and balloon hunts made me LOL) and I <3 Courtney Cox because of Friends. I regret not watching the first season, but to be fair, I’m watching this season on Free on Demand(Yeah, like I have time to watch TV on a Wednesday night!) until I have time to catch up or whatever. Jen Aniston’s guest appearance made me LOL, too.
• Oh, and back to the Sims stuff. My laptop charger thing fell out and I didn’t notice and then my laptop shut down on me while I was playing the Sims. :( My fault, but I’ll blame it on EA. :P
• Straying away from the Sims again. I watched the London episode of Total Drama World Tour, and Gwen really became annoying. Cheating is cheating. I don’t care if it’s ‘twu luv’ emo style. And why did Duncan get to vote? He just got brought into the game, not knowing what was going on. Duncan and Tyler shouldn’t have voted with Alejandro, especially if Alejandro was the first one out of the challenge. They should really show who voted for who(m?) in a special episode. :P Yes, I’m the only person who would watch it… but they made one for Total Drama Island that was just ‘special edition blooper clips’ so Teletoon doesn’t really have priorities when it comes to airing and making episodes.
• I watched that The Nanny: Fran Unfiltered! marathon on Nick @ Nite. It makes me sad how the only time I could watch The Nanny is when Roseanne is on. And George Lopez too. WHY? I have to put up with like 10 hours of My Wife and Kids and Everybody Loves Raymond, but when those three shows are on, they get shoehorned into like the 2:00 AM slot on weekends. And then Friends is getting screwed around on TBS, because of Everybody Loves Raymond. And I’d say that the episodes the Nick @ Nite executives picked were alright-ish. I see like 1 or 2 of them on a monthly basis, so the only ‘controversial’ episodes that were played were… Fran considering going to a sperm bank, Fran accidentally kidnapping a child, Maxwell’s assistant having a crush on Fran, and the assistant was a lesbian(No, not CC. :P) and… yeah. They made the episodes sound like never before seen, or lost episodes, but it was only ‘Oh, that’s an… interesting scenario. Now, let me change the channel before I hear that laugh again.’ stuff. And it was sponsored by Butterfingers. The candy bar. Yes, I’m confused on why chocolate candy is sponsoring a marathon for The Nanny, too.

And in other news. Ugh. I just found out that the Sims 3 console has kids and life cycles(And weather for the Wii! :D) available. It sounds tempting: Legacies without the lag. But no. I can’t give in to EA. Especially if a majority of my funds go to fast food and Aeropostale at the mall.

To Watch or Not to Watch

With this fall coming up, I’m gonna try to watch a few new shows, like ones that are actually being made, and not being screwed by ABCFamily or Nick@Nite. But I don’t exactly know what to watch. Any recommendations? I love watching Friends, The Nanny, Boy Meets World, and George Lopez and Family Matters are okay too. And as for kids shows, anything that isn’t Victorious or JONAS L.A. is okay for me. So, here are some stuff that look appealing to me this season.

• Melissa and Joey: Well, not because I want to watch it, but I know ABCFamily is going to be showing advertisements for it everywhere, so I might as well see what the fuss is about. And I read a post from Melissa Joan Hart’s blog saying that she doesn’t care if the critics like it, but if the fans like it, and all the hard work, dedication, and love they put into it. So, I might as well try supporting her. I mean, those Sabrina syndication rights aren’t gonna last forever, and she has a family to support. Granted, she’s probably doing well off and is nowhere near financial trouble, but still. Besides, it can’t be that bad, right? She compared it to ‘Two and a Half Men’ and that’s been on for like, 8 years now? Maybe it’ll be good.
• Cougar Town: AKA the Courtney Cox show about her being 40. I heard they changed the show so it’s not just her dating people who can be her kids, and it’s good. The problem is… I didn’t watch last season so I don’t know if I’m missing out on anything. Not to mention, it has 1/6th of Friends, so that’s a good sign. :D
• Mr.Sunshine: A show about Matthew Perry going through a midlife crisis. It has 1/6th of Friends, and Wikipedia says it’s a mid-season replacement…. so :|
• 30 Rock: Tina Fey makes me laugh on SNL and when I read about the show, it sounds funny. The only problem? I think I’m too late into the series. :( Eh, whatever.
• Modern Family sounds good, but it looks like there’s too much characters for me to get into, especially if I’m going to be, oh, I don’t know, in school.
• Glee: I watched the Lady GaGa episode and the funk one, and… this one is worse with the characters and the trivia tidbits and all of their names sound similar, to me(Quinn/Finn, for example.). So, this one, probably no.

What are your favorite shows to watch? What do you recommend?

Nick @ Nite: Good Bye

Eh, I know I’ve already posted this topic somewhere on the Internet, or something. Or maybe SS said it. But… Nick @ Nite is really getting worse. Seriously.

First, they have the same shows, only with different ethnic backgrounds or cultures. I’m not racist, and I don’t intend to offend anyone, but all the shows that have been on lately have a father that’s clumsy and lazy, the mother that’s attractive but nags a lot, the son who dislikes school and gets away with everything, and the daughter that always is in trouble for no reason and isn’t given teenage privileges, but with a variety of races and backgrounds.

Malcolm in the Middle has a Caucasian family with basically all but the fourth stereotype, Family Matters, Everybody Hates Chris, and The Cosby Show have most of these roles given to characters at one point or another in African American families, George Lopez has a Hispanic family with all of these roles, and the only shows that subvert these are The Nanny(Okay, so it has half of them, but considering, Fran is only related to them at the end of the series, I don’t think you can call The Nanny’s cast the ‘Sheffield/Fine/Babcock/Whatever Niles’ Last Name was clan’. Not to mention, the show is getting moved off Nick @ Nite by the end of this month)  and Glenn Martin DDS, but most people just try blocking that show out of their lives. And judging from the promos for My Wife and Kids… it’s so far, George Lopez with another family. I don’t mean to hate it without watching it(I stayed away from George Lopez because a [Now Ex-] friend told me it was stupid. Yes, that says more about me than where I was going with this, but I was 13 and naive! I did stupid stuff back then.), but really? ‘Sexy Casual’? ‘Slutty Formal’? I can already tell I’d only watch the show because I feel bad for that daughter.

The whole programming is just for guys, or at least, guy leads. Yeah, sure, Family Matters was made for Harriet, AKA Jo Marie Payton, but it turned into the Urkel Show. My Wife and Kids… well, I don’t know, and frankly I don’t plan on finding out. And Fran moved to TV Land, with Roseanne, so, basically, guy programming with commercials for mothers, branded off as ‘Family’. I think it’s trying to be like ABC Family or something. I mean, My Wife and Kids and Family Matters were on ABC Family at some point, and George Lopez was on ABC, like the ‘main’ channel.

But Friends is going on next year, which is good, right? And there’s been an endless amount of rumors for Boy Meets World going on it too, so I guess there’s that to look forward to?

Besides, I realized that my house does recieve TVLand, so I can watch The Nanny on there. All my other sitcom needs are either from other channels(Golden Girls :X), the Internet(Friends), or I’ve already had enough of the show(George Lopez, Family Matters, George Lopez, and did I already mention George Lopez?).

And I finished three parts of my summer reading! Now I only have one book left! :D Or I can pick if I should stay in AP History.  And I think I’m getting my schedule sometime this week, so I’m kind of nervous for that, with the AP History problem.

Coming up to this blog… My own Nick @ Nite wish list? Maybe an ABCFamily rant, too?

Sleeping, Sunflower seeds, and Sneezes.

Hi guys. Sorry for not posting for a while. School got busy and today I wasn't home for long. And when I came home, I was tired. No, not from sleep-deprivation or anything. But I have allergies, which make spring a disaster, so my mom decided to get me some allergy medication. It worked! But I fell asleep on the couch. If you know me(Shiny Shinx), you'd know I always sleep on the couch. But this time, I was eating sunflower seeds, and I fell asleep. And again, if you know me, you'd know I love sunflower seeds and it's like the one thing that makes me awake and happy, no matter what. So yeah, I basically slept on my couch because allergy medication made me tired. And I know it's the pills because when my cousins get the pills, they say they become really tired, too. I really should stop lying down when I’m tired, especially if I want to watch Nick @ Nite(Though to be fair, it was Malcolm in the Middle, and I never really liked it). So now; I have to decide: Allergies or being sleepy? And it’s not so smart for me to be up so late if… a) I have Sunday School/Church tomorrow; b)I have to do my homework(Well, it’s studying for a quiz, and then everything else is optional, and it’s due Tuesday, c) My parents sleep earlier then my brother and I do on the weekends and apparently, they’re light sleepers, so I have to be really quiet and quick to go to my room. Not to mention, they’ll know I slept late if I wake up around 10 AM. Oh well.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: The playlist isn’t working. D: So I’ll fix/remove it tomorrow.