Well, in the midst of all this, I'll just go ahead and move on to Suikoden 3 since the capture card and audacity will work for me. I at least already have one Suikoden 2 LP up that's in pretty good quality.

I leave Belgium soon. Like 10 hours till my flight leaves. I'm going to cry like a little b*tch at the airport. I just want to stay here with my music group

I'm sorry to hear that fruple.D: I can imagine that feels miserable.

So, I got my bloodwork back. So, despite having like, AWESOME cholesterol levels(no seriously, I'm way below in the bad ones, which rocks)...

I uh, I have anemia. Which is to say, a lack of iron. My mom had this same problem roughly 2 years ago- she also eats meat. I do not eat red meat, but I do often have shrimp and salmon(which are still great iron sources) and whatnot since I'm a pescetarian(meaning, fish are on the table still). I can't afford to be anything else otherwise, cause uh, you absorb iron the best from that kind of source. But, like I said, my mom eats fish, red meat, chicken, etc, and still had this...

So yeah. It's probably related to me losing blood a ton during a certain time, since that's apparently a cause. And that runs in my family, so it explains why it still happened to my mom, cause iron is best absorbed via fish and meat.

Now, there could be a serious underlying condition, but like my partner pointed out- that's like expecting zebras when I hear hoofbeats instead of horses, so I've been doing research and following doctor's orders now to take an iron supplement twice a day.

But what sucks is, pretty much any non-fish source of iron for me can cancel out the iron absorption. Not that meat alone fixes this- someone could eat 10-pound steaks and not have it improve in that manner, so that's not the answer. It's insane! That, and I'm so upset that I have to be careful now drinking tea. Tea contains tannins(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannin), so that can cancel out iron absorption, too. Tea is one of my favorites. I've seen though, that white teas have the least. Darker English teas and whatnot would have the most, since tannins affect the color of tea. I've never been so glad my favorites are mainly white and green tea.

All said, it could've been much worse, but this does explain why I've been so freaking tired lately, and listless. Who knows how long this has been going on- I haven't had bloodwork done in so long. I'm just hoping the iron supplements work out since my body apparently has a harder time absorbing the stuff by way of genes(and also a heritage lucky card! Except not. Hispanic women especially have these sorts of problems).D:

I know a ton of people with low iron, it runs in my family as well. My mother's been taking iron supplements for years now.

fun fact: the desire to chew on ice cubes, such as when that's all that is left in your glass of drink is related to low iron levels.

Thanks! I was feeling a bit odd about the whole thing since everything else was super healthy. Despite me eating fish often, which gives a super-easy-to-absorb source of iron. Luckily, the supplement is the size of a circular Aleve. I was worried about horse pills.

Huh! Never knew that! Though I've been doing that FOREVER. I've heard the sex frustration thing, but that didn't make sense to me most of the time. Maybe uh... I have no idea of why someone with low iron does that. I'll have to check that out. I've been doing that even when I was eating a fair amount of chicken and red meat as well.XD

i am dating a girl from mainland china.

wish me luck.

Good luck. You'll need it.

ching chong. was that racist?

You bet, Faucet.
Deep voice and all.

SO, I was browsing Twitch channels by view count and one of the top streams had 1000 viewers and a thumbnail of jporn. Now, twitch is strict about its sexual content. I hopped in to see what the hell was going on (not in the porn, the story was too hard to follow) and turns out, this guy forgot to close the streaming service after playing StarCraft and was caught jerking the gherkin. Everyone in the chat was HILARIOUS. Stuff like, more pornos need commentary, the new genre of social porn, etc that I shouldn't post.

Then we heard an incoming skype call and it was his buddy telling him he's still live. EPIC FAIL!!

And so he closed it all down and started apologizing to the stream. About three minutes into his apology, his channel was closed down and deleted by twitch.

I have never in my life enjoyed someone's humiliation. Until about ten minutes ago.

4 DAYS. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YEA

UNTIL WHAT DAWG

UNTIL VAGINAS FALL OUT OF THE SKY

GRORIOUS PRANT VAGINA 2 DAYS

Possibly one of the funniest things I've read, and it's in the 2 map of the Crash Course campaign of Left 4 Dead (also can be played in Left 4 Dead 2) in the safe room.

"Jonathan,
You have touched my very being. I shall remember you.
You taught all that know you what courage meant
And have shown us and example in death as you did in life.
God give me strength in my life without you.
And I shall thank her.
I can only hope our souls shall entwine again
In a place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, (no zombies), no hate, no war, only love
Only love
Alison"

"PS IM FAT"

"QQ"

"GO BACK TO POETRY SCHOOL"

"Cool story bro!"

"Jesus, lady
I'm hiding from zombies and reading this was the most terrible thing to happen to me today"

"You should hit a zombie with your Thesaurus"

"Alison,
Roses are red
Violets are blue
You suck"

"Alison,
Reading your poem ruined heaven.
Thanks a lot,
Jonathan's Ghost"

Over the course of several years, I've played the 360 with the same controller. As it got old or started breaking. I'd replace the parts with whatever other controllers I had lying around.

After recently replacing the back because it would no longer hold a battery pack, I realized just how much of a hideous beast it has become:



The only thing I willingly changed was the face buttons... which are greyscaled from this one controller I used to have that had an actual D-pad. But it broke, so I fixed the D-pad on THIS controller with a dremmel. It works wonders.

In other news, I'll be going to Syn's house this holiday weekend to hang out with him, Ix, and SK. I took off Friday so we could get some extra time in. I'll be leaving my place at 1pm Thursday. Why is that interesting? Well, look what will be right over head around 1pm Thursday...

I have finally become dual monitor compliant. I've had dual monitors at work, but at home, I just didn't really know how to do it with my iMac. Jay helped me find something and I have been using it this past weekend. Greatest thing ever. Definitely will help with multitasking, and recording things for LPs. Keeps out clutter, and makes it easier to look at a guide if need be.

So I don't think I'm good at studying languages yet here I am touching up my Dutch, learning French in school, and trying to (SLOWLY) teach myself Korean. Any bets on how long it takes me to give up?

A month.

Oh man, you're so confident in me.