| shanksgiving. |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|01:42 pm] |
As usual i apologized to my father for what my people did to his people.
Me being white and him being indian. Even though it wasn't really MY people it was the other white people, or the spanish.
Thanksgiving at my moms was the same old. I get there to help my mom, she tells me she doesn't want any help, i watch the lions game. Everyone on my dads side of the family shows up about an hour late, so we eat before everyone gets there, and i'm usually borderline comatose when people start showing up. THen my dads side of the family shows up and i do my best to avoid them. I get to hear my cousin jill talk about how she's "330 days clean" off cocaine. Then they start talking about biggest loser and Sons of anarchy. At this point i usually go into my room and take a nap.
But Jon and CHrissy came and picked me up and whisked me off to the depowski's. I'm actually really enjoying this new found depowski thanksgiving tradition. I think this is my 2nd or 3rd year in a row going over there. I dig it. I love the company. I loved that marty was buzzed and so excited to see me. The first thing he said to me was:
"ROMEO'S HERE?
HEY ROMEO COME INTO THE GARAGE AND SMELL MY HEATER! I GOT IT RUNNING ENTIRELY ON BIO-DIESL!"
Then we all have a few drinks, eat, chill for a bit, then play scategories. It's probably my vision of a perfect thanksgiving.
Sans nap. I never got my nap. So i was pretty lethargic by the time i got home.
I did stop back my parents house and we watched Crash. It came out in 2005 but i had never seen it. It was pretty intense. After the first 5 minutes you're like, OH THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT RACISM. It was laying it on pretty thick. But it turned out to be an awesome and very intense movie. Plus Sandra Bullock is in it and she's been my hollywood crush since forever.
The only thing is I can't watch movies anymore that have little kids getting shot or killed without going to pieces. I thought the quote from zombieland sums it up real well. "Take away a man's son, and you truly given him nothing left to lose."
Stupid joey giving me dad hormones.
Great movie though.
Good day.
That is all. |
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| I can't wait to move out. |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|06:52 pm] |
I've been getting feels of elation.
No more crazy bitch in the house with me.
No more wading through empty cigarette boxes, wrappings, ash trays, and weeks of laundry.
I'll feel presentable again.
Like seriously, she just flipped out on me because joey went upstairs while she was taking a nap and it's somehow my fault.
I take solace in the fact she's going to make some other guys life a living hell. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2009|01:07 pm] |
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It's hard to teach structural stability to an 18th month old. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|12:29 am] |
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HOLY FUCK GOD DAMN!
Remember my prior rant on facebook.
Here's the shit i see.
"BRENNAN IS SOOOOOOOOOOO PUMPED RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH BOMB DIGGITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J....A....M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"oh man what happend? lol"
"alright...im not going to say the name because i dont need to be saying names even though i want to....but someone accepted Christ in their heart!!!!! oh snap
32 minutes ago"
"one of theeeeeeeeee absolute best feelings EVER! Praise God!!!! how exciting!!!"
"THATS WHY IM SO PUMPED BRITTANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"lol !!! I feel yah! now ur not going to be able to sleep because of the Holy High! yay"
"lol....im as high as a kite apparently....lol....im pretty excited though"
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OMG I GOT MY FRIEND TO SAY HE SAW MY INVISABLE FRIEND TOO SQUEALLLLL OMG!
It kills me. This is my friends little brother whom i've known since...*figures out how old he was a long time ago* almost 15 years. In high school we'd hang out over his house and play halo all night, Me, sean, and his 2 other brothers. They were NEVER like this. I mean, i knew they were christian, but fuck. This?
It just makes me want to troll. You know? Like, should i comment, "Jeez, i wish you got this excited when i choose to bar jesus from my heart." Or make my own status update "OMG I'M SO EXCITED AND I CAN'T SAY WHO'S NAME IT IS, BUT THEY TOLD ME THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN JEEZUZ ANY MORE OMG I CAN'T SLEEP NOW!"
/sigh
This is why i can't post shit on facebook. Or rather, why i choose not too, because i don't want to look like an asshole.
Then again this is shit that doesn't belong in a facebook update.
You know, I wouldn't put "Going to the klan meeting with billy bob and jethro. Grocery shopping afterword."
I don't know man. Whatever. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|10:24 pm] |
"I'm not allowed to try and forge documentation with my illiterate Barbarian."
"I am no longer allowed to make a backpack chair and ride the half-orc into battle."
"I'm not allowed to make a superhero with Insect Control who uses his power to spew fire ants out of his dick as his primary form of attack."
/tg/ was hot tonight.
Mondays are good. |
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[Nov. 15th, 2009|05:50 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  meh | ] |
| [ | music |
| | wonder pets, and joey teething. | ] |
It's been like 2 weeks and i already feel attention starved.
I've weened myself off affection over the past months, but now that even the trickle isn't there any more, it's like hitting a brick wall. All i can describe it as is a mixture of boredom and longing.
Joey helps to stem the loss. But he's like a transformer bandaid, he's really cool and covers the wound but he doesn't really do anything to make it heal better...Well, i guess he keeps infection out. Maybe that was a bad metaphor.
Life at home is turbulent at best. We've started going through our shit and seperating it. That's going to cause fights over stupid shit like blenders and t shirts and things you'd never thought you'd argue over. The atmosphere is also bi polar. One moment things are nice and it seems like some of our old friendship is seeping out from the stitching, then the next she's threatening to call the leasing department to have me removed TODAY! Which she can't do, it just gets old.
Laura's coming to the realization that everything in the house that we actually use is mine. She bought a few pots and pans and the kitchen table and a couch. The rest of the furniture, all the silverware, both televisions, all the lamps, all the kitchen appliances, all mine. Granted i don't need most of them. But still, it's shitty she's just assuming she can have them. We're not even married and i feel like i'm losing half my shit.
blah blah blah anyways.
I'm torrenting cock of dootie. I don't know why, i really have no desire to play it.
Borderlands has lost a bit of appeal. I don't really enjoy 2nd play throughs of games. To me that's just developers being lazy and making excuses to not make new content. Oh you beat the game already? How bout we make it crazy hard but you can keep all your old stuff and you can just play through it again? Borderlands is fun for all the reasons that diablo was fun. Borderlands is bad for all the reasons that diablo was bad.
Video games and child. That's really all i've been up to lately.
At least i'll have a interview with the temp agency this week. I need a job so i can go out again. I need to procure another female so i can receive some sort of emotional sustenance. |
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[Nov. 15th, 2009|02:27 am] |
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Dear Food Network, lay off the umami shit. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease. Deliciousness is not a scientific taste. It's japanese propaganda created to make Americans buy extreme amounts of soy sauce in retribution for the A-Bomb. |
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[Nov. 13th, 2009|06:07 pm] |
Laura went grocery shopping awhile but went to a big chain mart, and basically spent 100$ on nothing.
So i have to be creative with dinner again today.
Last time it was ultrabeef mac and cheese aroni.
Today i think it's going to be loose meat folded into crescent roll dough and then backed. I need a side or something to go with it. We'll see.
But this should probably rock.
I love loose meat so much. |
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| The Breather |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|04:16 pm] |
Just as in the horror movies
when someone discovers that the phone calls
are coming from inside the house
so, too, I realized
that our tender overlapping
has been taking place only inside me
All that sweetness, the love and desire-
it's just been me dialing myself
then following the ringing to another room
to find no one on the line,
well, sometimes a little breathing
but more often than not, nothing.
To think that all this time-
which would include the boat rides,
the airport embraces, and all the drinks-
it's been only me and the two telephones,
the one on the wall in the kitchen
and the extension in the darkened guestroom upstairs.
~Billy Collins |
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| Thursdays, usually good days. |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:10 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  calm | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sean Hayes - Smoking Signals | ] |
So, If you haven't heard or i haven't told you, Laura and I are officially over. I'm being shameful and moving back in with my parents in mid december. I have no idea where laura is moving to, i really don't care at this point. She's in the mood to make rash decisions, she can deal with the consequences.
I have hope that in the future we can get back together and be a family again, but right now i need to get my shit together, and she needs to be less crazy. I'm actually looking forward to getting out of here. Get some piece of mind and motivation.
I went to the temp agency but i have to fill out some shit online then go back. I also plan on getting back in school whenever the next or next next semester starts.
It would also be nice to date someone who likes me.
Hopefully 2010 will be fresh air and big steps.
My brain it needs some air, a window in my head. |
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| A dying breed. |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|01:27 pm] |
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| | annoyed | ] |
I wish i had more to contribute to LJ lately. I don't really have any RL friends that post anymore. Which is okay i guess, but it's semi-depressing. Facebook is the new myspace. I never made a myspace because it never appealed to me, but i've had a facebook since back when you had to have a college email address to get an account.
I think facebook is okay. The design is simple, but it's not stable. Every other day i see a "1 million people for this thing to be added to face book" group posting. To be honest, it's irrating. Plus let's not forget, i'm reconnected to all those people i went to high school with. About 20 or so of them are alright people that i'd probably hang out with again, the rest seem to be the normal transition of the area, Bro's or Christian Fundies or both. I know people who at 24 still never had a girlfriend, but love jesus. No dude, you're not waiting for the right girl, you're conflicted, cause you're gay but feel ashamed cause god hates fags.
I've done myself a favor in two ways. Being my blunt, darkly humored, sarcastic, bitter, don't give a fuck what you think self. Some people will roll their eyes and think i'm just joking, till the months go by and i'm still talking about masturbation, or the "stupid shit" i saw in the news that day. Then i get "de-friended", which is a good thing.
Then 2nd thing i do is just de-friend these people myself. Sure it might save time for the inevitable but it skips the lesson i'm trying to teach that everyone is different.
I really didn't mean to rant about facebook. I guess i'm also coming to the realization that the more i use facebook, the less i use LJ. This is bad for one main reason. Facebook is much more passive and is more about checking status updates and looking at pictures, LJ is more about writing shit down and expressing yourself. Sure I can post some witty, ironic thing in a status update, but compared to an LJ post it pretty much lacks all substance.
I know there is a way to "blog" on facebook, but then i run into the problem of i consider a blog to pretty much be a diary of sorts, and that's not something i want to share with everyone. Granted, if i did start blogging on facebook, i'm sure i'd be de-friended at a much higher rate.
So yeah, that's it for now. If anyone reads this and has a facebook and wants to add me on there just search for Romeo John Janavikas III. |
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| uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|02:11 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | aggravated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Folk music better calm my ass down | ] |
Seriously, Joey is starting his terrible two's early.
All he does now is test boundaries.
Oh it's not cool if i pull the lamp down? Okay.
Oh wait i can't throw dvd's away? Okay.
What do you mean i shouldn't bang pots and pans into the television? Okay.
Well i'm going to go pull the lamp down again.
I want to make a montage of me going JOEY! JOEY! JOEY!!! JOOOOOOEY! JOEY QUIT BEING A DICK FACE!
Most people will tell me it's not cool to call your kid a dick face, or a pussy fart, but i figure it's best to verbally abuse him now while he has no idea what i'm talking about.
Besides i do it out of love.
And so i don't shake him.
SHAKE THE BABY! |
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| To do list. |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|04:46 pm] |
Grocery Shopping
Clean living room
Clean kitchen
Forge AA signatures
then ??
World Series and Man Vs Food: Detroit tonight. |
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| Borderlands |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|01:33 pm] |
So i've been playing borderlands a lot. It is a really fun game, especially when you play with other people, however there are some things they need to work on to be an awesome game instead of an alright game.
More quest types. There's like 123 quests in the game, and they are either "kill this dude/kill this many dudes" or "pick these up/harvest these crystals". So basically they have 2 quests you repeat 123 times.
Your character gets a lot of backpace space, plus frequent upgrades, however you don't have any sort of "safe" or storage. So if you find an item for somebody else, you have to hold it on your person the entire time and hope you don't accidentally sell it.
Getting the vehicle early on is nice. Driving and vehicle combat isn't. It's halo style camera driving, which wouldn't be a problem if you could control your turret separately than the car. What's the point of even having a turret if it only aims in the direction you're going? Also it would have been nice to have gotten some sort of mini map while in the car just for navigation purposes. Instead of having to stop every 100 feet and check the map because the geography is so all over the place.
More character customization would have been nice. Especially since it's diablo style loot (meaning randomized. 4 things can drop which are the same, but all 4 can have different stats.) I wish there was also armor in the game instead of just shields. It seems like an easy cop out to be like, ERR EVERYONE HAS SHIELDS SO WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE THE CHARACTERS LOOK ANY DIFFERENT.
Other than that the game is sweet. The graphics are beautiful. I've loved cell shading since crazy taxi, jet grind radio, Legend of Zelda: Wind waker. I think cell shading is vastly under appreciated. In the age of games now, how much "realism" is in games, it's nice to get back to something just cartoony and fun.
Character/npc interaction is infrequent but hilarious. There was one bit where a guy named Scooter sent me on a rescue mission and said
"Hey yeah, i need you to go and rescue my friend james. And by friend, i mean asshole. He's an asshole for ruining my mama's girl bits if you know what i mean. So i want you go to save him before the bandits kill him so i can kill him myself."
With interesting dialog like that peppered here in and there, I wonder why it's so infrequent.
This game is a solid 8, and i recommend picking it up especially if you plan on playing online or at LAN's. It's a great LAN game that you could conceivably stay up playing all night into the next day. But if they would have spent more time on just general improvements, this game could have been an easy perfect 10, as i haven't had this much fun playing a game in a long while.
Edit: Also i feel i should mention that if you make a character in single player mode, you can use that same character in online and LAN games. I think that's one of the best moves borderlands could have made in regards to just keeping the same character for everything. |
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| Ghetto loose meat mac and cheese |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|06:23 pm] |
We're in dire need of groceries so i'm making dinner with what i got.
Ground turkey meat
Box of mac and cheese
Bag of farfella noodles
Cheese and broccli sauce
So i'm pretty much making ghetto mac and cheese as a main dish. Plus i'm going to make some crescent rolls and maybe some stuffing... probably corn. |
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[Nov. 1st, 2009|05:05 pm] |
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| |  sick | ] |
 From this
To this.
The costume came out incredibly well. I kept thinking "he's gonna look like joker, he's gonna look like joker, he's gonna look like joker, he's gonna look like joker, he's gonna look like joker". But once laura got the suit on him everything was gravy.
He cried during the make up process.
He cried at every house we walked up to.
He was only happy when he was watching tv.
I'm sure he'll like halloween more when we are able to explain it, as opposed to pinning him down and putting make up on.
Oh well, we have an awesomely cute kid. |
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| Song for the night. |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|04:40 pm] |
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| |  chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Snap | ] |
Rhythm is a dancer
It's a soul's companion
You can feel it in the air
Lift your hands and voices
free your mind and join us
you can feel it in the air
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Edit: Holy fuck, it's like my brain is shitting out early 90's house techno that i used to listen too 17 years ago
okay that's enough for now. Time to get joey ready for trick or treating. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2009|12:31 am] |
The most exciting thing i did today was feed joey a bunch of corn and waited for him to take a dump.
edit: I saw Alice in Chains on Connan and i must say it was depressing. I'm a firm believer that AiC died when Layne Staley did. Jerry Cantrel makes a terrible front man. I must say, that possibly the best grunge band ever, is absolutely terrible now. |
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