Obsession from the Second Life!

"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. "

I have many obsessions. For instance, I love the Beatles. It’s easy, really. Know The Beatles and you know Life. I also love the beach! I love everything about the beach from the sand to the waves, the wild life, and surfing. Jill Davis said it best when she said "The waves of the sea Help me get back to me." I am also, majorly, overly, highly obsessed with coffee. It's one of my stolen pleasures- reliable, comforting, delicious, warm...bliss. I do obsess of over the occasional video game (which is new to me because I grew up at the prissy theatre type). My usual obsession is World of Warcraft but I have put that on the back burner until the new expansion comes out at the end of the year because I have pretty much exhausted all options in the game until then. 

The question came to mind, when I decided to detox from WOW, "What now?". What should I play? What can I do to occupy my time? Then my friend mentioned something about Second Life. He said he had a friend who played and made money in real life being a high priced, high class, escort. Hm..... I could do this! Or at-least something that is respectable that I could earn a little money at. I'm creative! I was a Theatre kid, ya know!

So, I did some research on how to play Second Life, the ends and outs, and then I downloaded! At first I thought the game was annoying because of the lag and some other minor issues. I haven't really played a game where you were thrown into a world and basically told to live. I didn't know what to do. So, I started exploring. Then I realized that there was a whole world! An amazing awesome creative pretty world out there! Yes, I am addicted! I have a new obsession. I guess I should have seen it coming. I love the Sims, and this is basically The Sims Online, except it can be played free. In Second Life I have two major addiction, and they're bad ones. The first one is the slot machine games. I love them! I cant get enough. There are all these "free to play" games and I know I am going to strike out more than I am going to win and its going to waste all my time, but I still do it and I don't know why! Maybe its the thrill of maybe making 100 lindens (which is the form of currency in the game) all at once.... idk. My other obsession in the game is this place called Pal Shake. Its a super awesome community, a lot like facebook, except you can earn credits that can be  transferred into Lindens or buy other things with these credits. When you sign up for the site you get access to the camping chairs in the game that pay you to just sit there, along with a butt load of support. I think the most awesome thing, though, about the site they have is you get credits for everything you do. Every time I make a post, change something, comment, or do anything on the forums, I get credits. In a total of maybe 2.5 hours, I made enough credits that I bought 400 Linden that could be transferred into the game. Its freakin awesome! Like I said, these credits can be used for Amazon gifts cards, gaming credits, and so much  more! This site extends further than Second Life in so many ways! Anyway, this is what I have been doing the past week or so. I have been so addicted to this game I cant even find time to blog. Actually, as we speak, I am camping a chair! If you want to check out this community you can use me as a referral and we both get credits! http://palshake.com/signup.php?signup_referer=wynter . If you do play Second Life, or plan on playing, send me a PM... my name is Wynter Requiem.

So, Whats your obsession?

Well, that an awesome NC education for ya!

"Well, here's something to make your old English teacher gasp in horror: A road contractor hired to paint the word "school" on a freshly paved stretch of road near Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina rendered the traffic area in question a "shcool" zone. But fear not for the (surely confused) youth of Greensboro! The contractor, a company called Traffic Markings, has already corrected the error, the local Fox TV affiliate reports." 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100811/od_yblog_upshot/behold-americas-educational-system-captured-in-a-single-photograph

Dear Mr. Gym Guy

Dear mr stinky gym guy,
May I ask you a very simple question. I hope its not too hard for you to answer. Now, I don't want to know why you come here every night and stink the whole 4 room gym up with your foul sour egg stinch. And I don't want to know why you do this repulsive act with your shirt off showing off your nasty hair sweaty pale white beer belly. I don't even want to know why you don't clean the equipment of your liquid nasty when you are done. No, what I want to know is very small and simple. Mr. Gym Guy, why do you feel it necessary to pick your ass hole the whole time you are working out? Is there some trick to weight loss by picking your butt infront of strangers that I don't know about?

Beach days

Ahhh beach days with my boys. Its always fun rescuing little minnows off the beach.

2 weeks to die!

I have been having crazy jaw pain for two weeks now. My son thought it would be a blast to ram his huge abnormally hard head into my jaw. Well, three weeks ago I made an appointment to be seen for it. Yes three weeks is how long it took to be seen at my doctor because I see a military doctor because tricare is a nazi crazy health insurance company and if you live in the north US you have to see a military doctor. Well, I made the appointment and decided along with that appointment I would be seen for other odds and ends that have been a small problem. Why not just burn through all the problems in one visit, right? Well, the appointment center woman, who btw was really nice, said everything was set up and I would be seen. So, today I come into the base clinic and wait like cattle being lined up for slaughter and it takes only 10minutes to be called back. WOW, ten minutes. It usually take a hour. I get back to the room and the nurse asks what's wrong and I tell her and she says..."I have you down for jaw pain and nothing else. The doctor is only allowed 15minutes with you. So you are going to have to make another appointment." Wtf? What happened to being able to go to the doctor when you are sick and being able to address other issues too? This is what we are coming to now? I'm am sure Obama would love to see this bc I am sure this is what's going to happen when his damn Obama care nonsense starts. Being hurdled in like cattle, taking numbers, making appointments for the a broken limb that take 2 weeks to be seen, not being respected by your doctor and he not listen to you, being allotted 15 minutes, and being region'd off!

Ewwww-bama

Sometimes Virginia drivers aren't all that bad. I loved this bumper sticker! Its funny how the awesomeness of this lead to a w hour long conversation with my brother in law about brands and logos we could market to people and make a small fortune.

FedEx VS The State of Florida

I know I have been out of the Blogging Loop for the past week or so and I apologize for that but my life has been a little chaotic. Where to begin....
So, as some of my readers may know.. my husband is in the Navy. He has applied for this program called STA21 in which you go from an enlisted person working 5 days a week to an enlisted person going to school 5 days a week and being paid for it the whole time. At the end of your college degree you then move on to bigger and better things... OFFICER! Well, he is super awesome and has great potential at anything he wants to do. So, after months of preparing his package and getting things together and working his butt off, he had everything in order except for his High School transcripts and diploma. Well, we went to school in Florida and now live in VA, so getting them meant sending off for them. Not a big deal though... So we though.
So, at the beginning of June we went to Kinkos where there is a FedEx and shipped off a release form, our money order for 12.00, and a return label for over night shipping. The cost of shipping was $30.00 so we could have the over night priority shipping. It was sent off on a Friday and since the state of Florida is closed on the weekend it meant they would receive it by Monday at 10:30am. Not a big deal considering we needed these at the latest by July 31st. So, off our package totaling a value over $70.00 went to the state of Florida's department of Education. Knowing that the processing time was 2 weeks for Florida to get your records together we waited but then some family things came up and we forgot about it until around July 20th when we realized it hadn't come and we were getting down to the wire. So, we called Florida and they said they hadn't received a package from us! When we called FedEx they said someone had signed for it at the DOE in Florida on Monday at 1015am. This is where ti gets good. We needed those records fast!  We had 10 days to get them! We could have sent, yet another, money order and return envelope but the DOE has a 10 day processing time through the mail and they aren't equipped to do over the phone or fax/email requests.
So, being the awesome great wonderful Navy wife that I am, I climbed into the car with my 3 year old, one bag, and some snacks and drove the 700miles to Florida to my parents house and stayed there and the next day, went to Tallahassee (2 hours away) and grabbed those records. For some reason, the DOE in Florida will do next day requests if you pick them up but getting them in the mail takes 10 days! Well, we got the records and the STA21 package sent off. Now, we wait. One thing I did learn from this experience.... DON'T trust FEDEX, the post office would have been wayyyyyy cheaper for the same damn thing, and being a good military wife extends further than the kitchen an laundry room. =)