Token Female Gamer

Oh Kickstarter, another sucker punch to my wallet. Zach Braff, of the very fabulous Scrubs, is kickstarting a movie called “Wish I was here”. As of this writing, the campaign has been live for all of two days and has almost reached the $2million goal. Its safe to say this movie is getting funded. =)

I was quite charmed by Scrubs, but Garden State wasn’t my favorite movie. Probably because I like my funny a little more happy. Which is why I waited two whole days to support this new venture! Actually once they added an advanced screening near me all my excuses for not spending money vanished in a very convenient puff of smoke.

Which means I now have a date to see a movie in 2014 sometime. I hope its good.

Just noticed that today’s date is sequential. Happy 10/11/12 everyone. =D

It feels like I have been trying forever to get my husband to watch anime. Having very little success, I wrote the whole thing off as a lost cause. Then just the other day the husband came home with a Gundam model kit from the hobby store. A rather surprising purchase to say the least.

When asked what prompted this purchase, he told me that he really enjoyed building Lego mechs and this seemed like an interesting new challenge. I was totally floored, because I LOVE Gundam. Whats not to love about Giant robots, come ON!

Of course I found an excuse to get back to that store as soon as humanly possible, so I could get myself a kit. The unicorn one. Oh yeah!

Which is what we did today. Side by side Gundam building. Hubby is working on the Freedom Gundam model and mine is the Master Gundam & Fuunsaiki model.

But the real win here is that he said he will watch Mobile Suit Gundam with me. Thus proving that Lego is a gateway drug for anime. Pure logic there. =)

Lots of photos of my first ever Gundam model building to follow, but first, here is how far I have gotten.

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DC and Ken Block present Gymkhana FIVE: Ultimate Urban Playground; San Francisco.
Shot on the actual streets of San Francisco, California, GYM5 features a focus on fast, raw and precise driving action. Filmed over four days, director Ben Conrad and his team are back to work on their second Gymkhana production and delivered the entire city of San Francisco as Ken Block’s personal gymkhana playground. DC Shoes also provided fellow DC athlete and longtime Ken Block friend, Travis Pastrana, to make a cameo appearance on his dirtbike, and S.F. resident Jake Phelps of Thrasher Magazine fame also makes a cameo as Block hoons S.F. in his most incredible Gymkhana yet.

Its drifing in San Francisco!! I love this soooooooooo much!!!

This routing foible made me laugh. The goal was to get from the green Pin to the red one. It’s really only a total of six blocks. I know, seems silly to map that, but I live in a city filled with one way streets. Sometimes I like to check.

The trick here is that the app thought I was on the freeway when I was actually underneath it. Well, I was a street over, but whatever. Maybe I should be thankful that its not that accurate. Guess if I ever need to hide, I’ll know where to go – driving under the freeway.

Heheehe, 1.7 miles to go six blocks. Routes 2 and 3 were even longer. =D

This is brilliant! These folks figured out how to make a wedding album worth sharing.

http://mlkshk.com/p/69H1

The 9.0 Earthquake in Japan is an incredible tragedy and the true fall out from this destruction will be felt for generations to come.

As Japan is one of my favorite places on earth, I have a particular need to help them!

Here are some resources to find out ways to help/donate:

Charity Navigator – only reputable charities
Red Cross – Japan charity
http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake

Here are some links other than the media to help keep track of what is going on:

Green Action – for  a nuclear free japan – tracking the nuclear events
Tokyo lives – blog report out of Tokyo (goodish news)
Save the Japanese Dolphins Report on the event

My thoughts are with all the people struggling in Japan.

How do people manage to post stuff about stuff every day, sometimes upwards of ten times a day! I’ve got nothing!! Down on inspiration.

/sigh

Reading ten a month has been a bit of a challenge, nine seems to be more my number. Ah well. Will just plod along and continue my attempt at ten each month.
<3

Inspired by the changing hues of the Fall season, October’s is nicknamed Literary Colors Challenge.
The goal is to read 10 books whose covers match predominantly the colors listed.
One of each: Orange, Red, Brown, Green, Black, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Blue, Silver/Gray

In generally I try to avoid personal stuff on the website, but every now and then a few life bits just have to be shared. Like today; mostly because I feel bad about not having posted in a while.

I’ve been feeling pretty bunk lately, which means I have almost no motivation to write (<– not something that comes naturally to me, it requires many swift kicks in the ass to complete!) So when I’m not feeling great its even harder for me to get my act together. Thus the lack of posting. Anyway I’m dealing with that whole thing and am finally feeling better.

Plus at the beginning of the month we fell into fostering a lovely high school senior for the year. By fell I mean it was not premeditated, but this lovely young lady needed a place to call home and for some crazy reason decided that we were worthy. Its been a whirl wind and I have found myself enchanted, terrified, confused, mortified, and quite amused. She fits into our life well, like she was supposed to be here anyway. =)

The whole experience also reminds me of how happy I am not to be a teenager anymore.

<3 TFG