Monday night was pretty awesome…I got hooked on this game called Bust a Move 4 for Dreamcast. It’s this puzzle/strategy type “bubble” game with these uber-cute characters spouting Japanese phrases in high-pitched children’s voices. I played it until Ross came online (which amounted to something like 60 or 70 rounds!) We tried to get Skype working but I got a stupid error on startup so we had to use iVisit for voice chat. The connection was really quite shoddy, especially on his end, so I could hear and understand him reasonably well, but most of what I said broke up as it reached him. :-( Hearing his voice really affected me very strongly, quite unexpectedly. I have heard his voice before, and we have talked several times already, but it was different this time. When reading aloud the “Letter” blahg entry I’d written last week, my entire body started giving off this insane amount of heat and I began sweating. It was different than the type of nervous energy I generate when I’m anxious or scared…there was nothing scary or threatening about it…just that the words being spoken aloud, had a really huge effect on me physically. I can’t say I’ve ever experienced anything quite like it. The room was very cool at that time, so it felt very strange. Strange but nice. After we said goodbye for the night, I went back to that game and played until somewhere around 2 AM, when I started yelling at myself because I had work the next day. At round 80 I finally went to bed. Damned game! (Tiffany took a swing at it and was nearly late for work as a result.)

Kuiki went down again for part of the day Tuesday so I came into work with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, as I do whenever that happens. I rely on Jon for so much in terms of internet services! ~_~ Hopefully when he gets a connection from Time Warner it won’t suck as much as Charter. My cable (from Earthlink, using Time Warner’s lines) has only gone out twice in the year I’ve had it, so I hope he has the same luck I do. He and Brian finally signed the lease on their apartment so I got to see it for the first time last night. It’s really really nice…almost too nice! We were talking about them getting ahold of a couch with a fold-out bed in it so they can have overnight guests and I told them I didn’t need that, I could sleep anywhere. I proved my point by laying down on the floor inside the living room closet (which is carpeted, and large enough for me to lay in comfortably.) They closed the door and wished me goodnight. XD It’s funny to me when I do something silly/cute and Jon laughs at me. Brian doesn’t always laugh because most of the time I think he sees my antics as too silly. shrug

Alisha and I were going to go rollerblading but when I got back it started to rain. :-( I put on my exercise clothes anyhow and was going to play Stepmania in my room when Alisha interjected and said she’d like to play DDR too. I looked at her a little funny and asked her if she was serious, and apparently she was, so we took the pads in her room (she was really afraid Big Bri would send us crashing through the floor in my room.) We played for about an hour or so and then Big Bri suggested “talking to Beth” (doing Ouija.) We talked to her for about 2 hours, she spouted off a whole bunch of nonsense about us solving a murder mystery, and then I went to bed.

As I mentioned before, I’m on my no-spend policy for money now, and Ross kindly got me some pictures of him giving me a disapproving look. Hopefully those will be effective…I took one and made a wallpaper with the caption “If you don’t save your money, we’ll never be together.” Yes, I need something really negative and horrible to “scare” me into self-discipline. If I have the idea in my head that my actions will disappoint someone whose opinion matters a great deal to me, I’m a lot more likely to avoid doing whatever the offending action is. It’s a lot easier to cheat myself and make excuses and rationalize things when I’m only concerned with myself. So the next time I feel that I really need that DVD or video game, I can just imagine Ross being upset with me. It will work.

Hopefully the weather will be somewhat decent tonight…I hope to help the guys move some of their stuff into the apartment. I’m so excited about that…it’s taken far too long for this to be a reality.