2011 meme #2!

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
I sprained my neck. Went to a WWE show that wasn’t in New Zealand. Went to a Meat Loaf concert. Went to Western Springs. Went to a Foo Fighters concert. Flew on Air New Zealand’s “All Black” Airbus A320. Became an aunt.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t really make them now.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Two of my cousins didn’t but both their partners did! And my brother’s then-partner did as well.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
One of my uncles

5. What countries did you visit?
Australia

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
Less debt and more savings

7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
22 February, because of the 6.3 earthquake that resulted in 182 deaths. 30 June, because that was the day I left New Zealand for the first time in over 13 years. 29 October, because I went to my first and only Meat Loaf concert. 13 December, because I went to my first ever Foo Fighters concert.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Actually paying off one of my debts – the charge account at my old workplace.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Can’t really think of anything.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Four or five colds, my sprained neck, a couple of sprained fingers.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My passport?

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I guess Christchurch’s mayor. After all the earthquakes that have struck the city in the past 16 months, I think that man deserves a DB.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I really can’t think of anyone.

14. Where did most of your money go?
The usual – BILLS

15. What events did you get really, really, really excited about?
Leaving New Zealand for the first time in over 13 years, seeing two wrestling shows, and two concerts

16. What song will always remind you of 2011?
These Days – Foo Fighters. Partly because they filmed the concert and Dave Grohl announced that the concert footage would be in the video for that song.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i.happier or sadder? The same.
ii.thinner or fatter? I don’t feel fatter – although the scales at the doctors (when I went about my neck) put me at 59kgs (130 lbs) and I’ve never been over 55kgs (121 lbs) in my life.
iii.richer or poorer? A little richer.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Sleep.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Stress out.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent Christmas with my mum.

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Probably Mum. I don’t like speaking on the phone and will go out of my way to avoid answering it.

22. Did you fall in love in 2011?
Nope

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
The Borgias, Family Guy, The Walking Dead – they’re the only ones I can think of at this time.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I don’t hate anyone – it’s anything.

26. What was the best book you read?
Bella Mafia by Lynda LaPlante.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery or rediscovery?
Can’t think of anything.

28. What did you want and get?
A few days out of Christchurch five times.

29. What did you want and not get?
No more earthquakes.

30. What were your favorite films of this year?
I think I only saw one film last year at the movies – X-Men.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Drank beer and watched the Royal Rumble live. I was 32.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
No more earthquakes.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
Not trendy, anyway. Casual would probably be the best way to describe it.

34. What kept you sane?
I honestly don’t know.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most/least?
Most: Jack Black and Dave Grohl. Least: John Key (New Zealand’s Prime Minister).

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
None. I think the overwhelming majority of politicians bullshit too much for me to trust them.

37. Whom did you miss?
My paternal grandmother. My cats Billie and Freddie.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
I don’t know, lol.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011:
Live every day as if it’s your last.

40. Do you have any lost feelings of others.
Don’t think so.

41.Quote a song that sums up your year:
Shake, rattle and roll.

2011 meme

Found this at Jenn.nu

1. What was the best part of 2011?
For me, probably getting out of New Zealand for the first time in over 13 years, even if I was only in Australia for five days.

2. What do you look forward to in 2012?
Hopefully no more major earthquakes in Christchurch because I’m at the end of my tether when it comes to them. My mum and I are also heading back to Australia in 2012 (Sydney for a few days and Melbourne for a few days) and I’m looking forward to that because I’ve never been to Melbourne before!

3. Do you actually keep your new years resolutions?
I try to, but usually give up at some point in February, if not earlier.

4. What are your top 3 resolutions for the new year?
1. Get most of my debt paid off
2. Starting to put money aside regularly in the bank account that I only have online access too (I get more interest with that one)
3. New job maybe?

5. Do you have any fun new years traditions or plans?
If you call sitting at home on New Years Eve fun! It’ll be 2012 in just over four hours for me in New Zealand so at the moment, I’m just doing what I would normally do, which is drinking booze (but something I do need to cut down on – I’d hate to think how much money I’ve spent on booze this year).

2012

Here’s me hoping that 2012 is a better year, especially for those of us in Christchurch!

They came. They saw. We rocked. Part 2

Some of my pics from the Foo Fighters concert in Auckland, New Zealand on 13 December.

Some Sims 3 stuff

Thanks to some of the mods that you can find here, I’ve been able to get some of these gems!

The only way you can get this particular picture is to have at least the Nraas MasterController mod installed. Usually, once I get a Sim couple to woohoo and you hear the chimes that indicate that the female Sim is pregnant, you do the following to get this pic: click on the Sim, click NRaas, click MasterController, click Status and then Relationship. It will tell you, in case you haven’t played a particular Sim family in a while or if at all, who the father of the baby is, how far along the pregnancy is (usually 3 days if you have ageing on all the default options), what gender the baby is, and what percentage there is of there being a multiple birth. The multiple birth odds can be increased if one or both of the parents have the Fertility Treatment Lifetime Reward and if the female Sim listens to the childrens’ radio station or watches childrens’ tv for at least three hours. The odds increase even more if the female Sims do both of those at the same time. I’ve had one female Sim who’s been pregnant three times and she has eight – yes, EIGHT – children. She had a set of twins at first – perhaps the fact that she, herself, was a triplet had something to do with that – then two sets of triplets, only because both she and her husband had the Fertility Treatment Lifetime Reward and she listened to kids’ music and watched kids’ tv at the same time.

They came. They saw. We rocked.

Coming soon. I swear. I’m so incredibly tired right about now that I’m struggling to stay awake long enough to get my thoughts down!

Interesting

I’m currently playing WWE 12 and have Maryse as the Divas Champion. She has somehow formed an alliance with Kelly Kelly and is in a feud with Michelle McCool and Eve, although in her handicap match, Beth Phoenix came to her rescue after the match was over. So now, Maryse and Beth?

WoW. WoW as in World of Warcraft

I’ve been playing WoW since 30 June last year. I remember the date because my flatmate and I were intending on getting some groceries but we detoured via Dick Smith Electronics and got nowhere near my work, which is where I started working the week before! At the time, my flatmate was playing WoW and a mutual friend of ours was too and he wanted me to start playing so he could get the recruit-a-friend rocket mount. I was definitely interested because there were times when I didn’t have a job where I’d sit on my flatmate’s bed as he played WoW and he’d be explaining it to me.

Once I got the laptop – admittedly on HP but if I’ve worked it out right, I’ll have it paid off three months ahead of schedule at the end of March – we went into EB Games because they had a sale going and I happened to get the WoW Battle Chest (the base game and the Burning Crusade EP) for $48. Once the laptop was up and running, I started installing WoW. There were a number of patches that had been released since the Battle Chest had been released so while that was happening, my flatmate Skyped our friend and gave him the news.

It was really helpful having our friend help me with the game. Once I got Wrestlore to around level 15 or so, our friend and I would form a party in the game and we’d quest and dungeon. He would be telling me what spell to do and when and when it came to dungeon loot, whether to need or greed it.

As for my characters, Wrestlore is a Tauren Druid. Rumbla is a Goblin Warlock. Sylvainia is a Blood Elf Mage. Phenomia is an Undead Rogue. Broska is an Orc Death Knight. And yes, all of their names are wrestling related somehow. Full credit is due to my flatmate for coming up with Wrestlore as my main’s name because I was trying heaps of names but they had all been used! Rumbla: Royal Rumble. Sylvainia: Sylvain Grenier. Phenomia: The Undertaker. Broska: the female equivalent of what Zack Ryder (who I met in Sydney, Australia in July) calls his followers. I had made another version of my Orc Death Knight that was named Blkrckbiotch and seeing that it was a dare from one of my workmates, I did it, took a screencap of it and uploaded it to my Facebook so he, and everyone else, could see it.

Ha!

He’s made of seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeex! ;)

I don’t know what it is about this video but if I ever need a laugh or six, I turn to this one. A mutual friend of my flatmate and I gave my flatmate the link to it once and he got me to watch it.

He came. He saw. He rocked

Yes, I’m talking about Meat Loaf. I’ve finally seen him live in concert and I was rocking along to the songs, singing, clapping and getting in some Mexican Wave action too!

Will add more to this later on as I’m wanting to get my Orc Death Knight to level 60 in WoW, haha!