What the Mel?! 4:4 Gaming and Life
By melcene 10 Comments
School
I'm still waiting to hear on my acceptance or rejection to Seattle U's law school. Each week that passes gets me more apprehensive that it will be a rejection. Last month, I did get an update: I am being reviewed for their "Alternative Admission Program."Individuals considered for the Alternative Admission Program are members of historically disadvantaged, underrepresented, or physically challenged groups, and/or students whose capabilities may not be accurately reflected in GPAs and LSAT scores.
So... I'm guessing my GPA and Scores, which were above average, but not outstanding, weren't quite good enough so they're looking into the other factors. We'll see what happens with that. Only about 10% of the people reviewed for this program actually get in. When I received the notice that I was being reviewed for this program, I was told that decisions would be made by mid-April. So either way, I'll know soon.
In-Laws
Everyone's got in-law horror stories. This actually isn't an in-law horror story. However, it may be a pre- ....something. My mother in law may end up moving in with us. We've had to lend money the last couple months in a row, and we would rather give her our extra room than expect that we are just gonna float money every month. But there's where I'm worried. I get along well with my mother in law. I'm not sure we've ever had any big disagreements. She thinks I'm one of the best things to have ever happened to her son. But I'm concerned that her moving in with us is going to cause friction that wasn't previously there. The hubby and I have already discussed this in detail and he completely understands. As it is, she may not have to move in with us, but we'll see. Honestly, I'm tired of people moving in with us. I would love to just have some time where there's NO ONE but us. And our kid, until she moves out.Sex
Ok well not completely. Just something that really stuck out from last week. We currently have a housemate. He has the guest room upstairs, right above the master bedroom. We're fairly quiet people in what we do. We've always had someone living with us (whether our own kid, or a family member or friend, etc), and we're pretty private, don't believe people need to know what we do. So we keep it on the DL. Of course there are nights where it seems like, in our ears, that everyone in the house must hear what's going on. I guess that isn't the case. My husband had recently confided to our housemate that he had "knocked the back out of it" the previous night. Our housemate told my husband he wasn't even sure that we still have sex because he never hears anything. That was... kind of embarrassing. I mean, okay I understand that because we've been together for about 12 years, people might assume that there's less of a spark there than there was earlier on. But jeez, it's not like we're OLD. It's not like we hate each other.Youtube
I was going to separate out the couple youtube videos, but I decided not to. Both of these are from last year, but I've only recently been really getting into them. First up, Miley Cyrus in Can't Be Tamed. I know, it's Miley Cyrus, but this is NOT the Hannah Montana we groaned through whenever our kids watched it. This is 18 year old Miley Cyrus, who is definitely showing the world in this video that she's not a little girl with Disney's backing anymore.Gaming!!
I can't let a week go by without saying something about recent gaming, so here we go. I had hit lvl 20 on my EQ Extended account, and moved out of the lowbie areas and immediately lost interest in my character. I purchased the Guild Wars trilogy and after a big headache, I finally got one of my toon names from a GM so I could actually log into my account (I had played a trial of the game 2 years ago). Would have helped (and saved me that headache) to know that the game requires first and last names for toons. But once I got it all set up, I couldn't figure out what I wanted to play! Ugh. I'll get back to it.My husband and I played Rock Band the other night. We're going back to trying to make that our Saturday thing, whether or not we have company. Considering that we'd been drinking and we had the fog machine going (which always seems to mess with my throat), we kicked some serious ass! We gold-starred several songs as our little two-person band, had several actual number ranks (not just a percentage), and solo I did even better! This was just an example, but definitely one I'm proud of!
And I suppose that's about it. I really should get back to doing some work... at least something to show for the day!
Until next time children!