I haven't even left the house for the past week, well, barring taking out the trash, and I've been busy from morning 'til night and vice versa every day since! How is that? My "sister" is over, and she'll be here 2 weeks. That, and I've been playing Tribal Wars W74 pretty hardcore, and things are getting interesting.

About the "sister" over for 2 weeks business though, she's actually my niece, but we were raised together and kinda forgot about that part -- not important when you're functionally siblings anyway, pulling each other's hair and competing for resources like attention and milk early on. She's actually super cool despite that I was a jealous bitch as a kid, and we totally love-hated each other, and she always got me in trouble, haha. Anyway, before yesterday, I hadn't seen her since Christmas; it's pretty awesome having her back. Can't believe she's going to be a senior this year! But I'll explain the in between another day.

About W74, my addiction, she must think I'm high on amphetamines, because I've been playing this game morning, night, and sometimes in the wee hours of twilight, sending attacks, supports, organizing my tribe, messaging people -- just straight up crazy. It's the reason I have a skype, actually. >.> I even dream about it. If you're looking for a way you can catch me any time of day, essentially, hit that link, because I haven't done a damn thing else besides the daily essentials since we've been seeing some action over there -- can't say specifics because I'm not sure if anyone from there will follow the link from my profile here and get valuable info, but you know what I'm getting at.

I almost feel bad, my Deviant Art and Tumblr blogs (Links over there on the left, in the contact list) haven't seen any action for the past few days, and I haven't written much music with my sis here. Speaking of which, does anyone play Borderlands 2, Final Fantasy XIII, or Elder Scrolls (specifically Oblivion and Skyrim)? I also write fanfiction in my spare time -- just as something to do and practice for novelization.

/end random spout of thoughts

Here's a picture of my sister/niece and I looking fabulous.

Well, since the initial accident, my brother is pretty much okay, if a little bruised and banged up. I'd be surprised if he wasn't, seeing as all the seats were broken, only one wheel remained on his truck, and he was basically laid over on the console. Several other people were hospitalized, but luckily, he seems to be in better shape -- hearing this third hand from my mother; he's been a little busy with lawyers to talk.

Below is a photo of the accident and my brother's swollen, bruised leg. I can't even tell which one it is, but it looks like it got jammed into the console or something. Lots of fluid on it, as you can tell.

So there you have it, a car accident and a gross, swollen, bruised leg. That's what happens when you run a red light going a mile a minute and ram headlong into people -- and then cause a five or six car pile up on top of that. /soap box moment abruptly cut short

The lady was messing with her phone on the road, not looking where the hell she was going. Hope she gets the book thrown at her.

So really, I have no idea what's going to happen with me. Just a heads up.

Well, I came back... again. After what? I've been gone like, forever. Oh well, here, have audio.

Destruction by Fire (Samurai Warriors ST) Remix -- sorta dubstep-y, sorta weird. Dig it.

I certainly do! God knows my DA gets spammed with it. Here are some of my latest derps.

Sexy ladies:

I'm bouncing-off-the-walls happy right now; finally, it's here!

What's here? My copy of Oblivion for 360 that I ordered a week or so ago, that I've been impatiently awaiting since I got my Skyrim dlc on... and my Samurai Warriors. I hadn't played that game in ages. Anyway, here she is in all her glory! :D (her huge, pixelated glory, lol) And then there's my other loot.

So basically, I'm going to be dividing my time between TribalWars and Oblivion. Talk about vegging out all summer! :D

Yes, ladies and gents, that's right, your resident cool kid hath returned. Why was she gone for like, forever? Well, you see, what had happened was, I went to college for two semesters, had marching band, and then got addicted to Skyrim. I. Fucking. Love. Skyrim. It's my shit.

In fact, I love Skyrim so much that I bought the legendary edition on Amazon, along with some other Xbox loot, mostly because it was cheaper than getting all the DLCs separately, and my best friend (who must really love me) basically perma-loaned me his copy FOREVER ago, and I kinda need another one. It spent a lot of time in the top of someone's closet before I got it -- now I have no idea why anyone would leave a perfectly innocent (maybe this isn't the right word, since, you know, it's about killing dragons and murdering everyone but the essential characters, sexy ladies, and the children), otherwise perfect game in the top of a closet, but we'll skip this part for now and just say it's getting to the point where I'm not exactly confident it'll be readable too much longer -- and it was used when he got it, no case, etc. 'Nuff said, I need to give that thing back before it quits working and I get shanked and accused of defiling it. (Geddit? De-file? As in you can't read the files? .. Okay, okay, not exactly appropriate. My bad.)

Anyway, see, it's a known fact that I'm rather broke, so, you may ask how in the hell I paid for this (and the bajillion other games I snagged over the past week, including Oblivion, Dead Island Riptide, and Samurai Warriors, and then the Microsoft store credit and gold subscription but that's beside the point) ... Between some old, unused gift cards I found under my bed, I had enough to cover all but the last 10 or so bucks.

How did I come up with the rest? Simple.

These two sites:

Bing Rewards

And yes, that's a shameless referral link, haha, but I really do highly reccomend this program. I make about $8-$10 per month just searching. That's at least 2 gift cards per month, easy money! Considering it's entirely free and only takes at most a few minutes a day if you do it legitimately, that's pretty boss. They even have a few bonus offers to speed you along the way to your next redemption, and unlike most other sites, I've never had a problem with my orders, or with points not crediting. Gift cards can deliver to your address or straight to your email, and there's a wide selection to choose from. Especially if you're an Xbox junkie short on funds to fuel your addiction, this is the way to go.

InstaGC.com

InstaGC is another good site if you're hunting for free stuff. I haven't used it quite as long as I have Bing Rewards, but it offers a wide selection of mostly digital gift cards, and has quite a few offers that are easy to complete. The interface is pretty solid, and I haven't had issues with any offers not crediting. Like most other sites, it works on a 100 point per dollar scale, and most rewards you can redeem are around the 500 point range. Once you get used to it and know the right kind of offers to hunt for, you can make a pretty quick profit, all for free, and snag a card, maybe even get a few free samples on the way (There were some awesome tea samples I got in the mail today, aha) while you're at it. After that, well, what you do with the money is your business. Or maybe it's Amazon's... Lately I seem to use most of my redemptions from EVERYWHERE to cover their ridiculously exorbitant shipping. Pff.. Anyway, long story short, InstaGC is pretty damn cool.

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Aaaaand, that's about it; other than failing College Algebra about six months ago, nothing's really happened in my life. Sure, I did the marching band nerd thing (it's paying for my education, shush you! lol) and went through a ton of bad relationships and wrote some terrible songs and did everything under the sun a 19 year old, broke gamer-slash-artist-slash-musician-slash-writer could possibly do to get into trouble, it's pretty much sames-ville here now. Well, okay, I lied, I did get internet, and like I said, those gift cards. I guess I'm doing alright, ehe. Oh, and I started TribalWars again; click the link to join me if you dare. What about you?

So, after a couple years, I couldn't ignore the urge to get back into the game again. Joined today in the southwest, if anyone wants to play. Hint-hint. :)

So yeah. Last night, while I was browsing teh interwebs (and I hardly ever get to do that, these days), I happened across this person's profile pic, and thought it was a dead ringer for Ashley Williams. (link, in case you're going "The hell is this chick talking about?") If you've played Mass Effect, and you definitely should play it, she's one of the nicer looking crew mates you get to have fun with. *wink*

Anyway, I spent six or so hours with "Stay Awake" -- Ellie Goulding ftw -- on repeat, sketching her out on printer paper in 0.7 lead. Don't honestly like how it turned out, but it's better than I thought it would be.

DA post here. Probably NSFW.

Ach, gawd, why must I be tormented so? .. No matter, on to what I really would like to say.

So, yeah, alright, here goes. My first beef of the day has to be, well, beef. As unfortunate as I have been lately, I recently looked online to discover that my favorite burger (and keep in mind that I already suspected this), the double quarter-pounder with cheese, is a mixture of soy and meat paste. How wonderful is that? Mmm, thanks McDonald's, I sure love all that soy -- tastes so much better than farm fresh meat, right? Hell no. Fuck you, delicious, heart-fat inducing burgers; fuck you!

Second beef is also meat related - fucking chicken nuggets. Anyone know about this? .. This? Or maybe even this? It seems a ton of people are pointing to the same source here, and the general consensus is: no, that metallic taste in your mouth wasn't just your imagination, or that aluminum saturated mutant corn's either; please wait at least one half hour after ingesting butane flavored meat paste before igniting your flammable fix, whatever it may be. Fuck you, chicken nuggets; fuck you all. It's not a public pool, jackasses.

Oh, and guess what? More fucking meat paste - hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, sausage patties - all meat paste. What the hell guys. What the fucking hell.

Also, photoshop.