It’s getting rebooted on the 8th. I get to play at Rancho DMV again… and while their parking lot is made of stupid, it’s better than the alternative: Fontana DMV, which is clogged until the 29th.

….the 29th.

If Fontana were the ONLY local office, that would get a HELL NO and a massive tirade on how disgustingly inefficient the appointment server is, and how I’d rather just chance having to sit in the DMV all day to get it sooner. But, the 8th is a little more tolerable.

Seeing as how my brain has taken to likening this backwards process of getting my Yoshi Car to Mario terminology… I feel like I’m having to walk into Bowser’s Castle to buy a continue, with the risk that I’ll walk out and realize I just bought three Poison Mushrooms instead.

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In other news, I am a bonehead for ever offering to eat all the veterinary expenses. Even WITH pet insurance. I stepped up since I thought doing that was, you know, the “good, responsible daughter” thing to do, since Evil Stepfather makes it otherwise far too harrowing than it would be worth to otherwise contribute to the household.
But if I’d known that this enabled mother to go nuts in her puppy lust, I would have said “NO I AM ONLY COVERING CATS.” (or more selfishly, only cover Kestine… aw, who am I kidding, Daisy is too cute to leave hanging in the wind)
But… would that have worked, or would it have just pushed mother into Raging Drama Queen mode and caused her to whine and cry about not being able to afford vet bills and such and have her guilt-trip and shred me even more than she already does?

Now two of the Four Pups of the Apocalypse have cherry eye (a Bulldog-specific ailment). And mother keeps going on about “oh, why bother filing insurance claims? They probably won’t cover it.” FFS, let me file the papers, if there is any chance I can get a penny back for everything I spend fixing your ailment-prone wiggly puppies, I’m going to damn well pursue it. >_>;

On top of this potentially hampering my Christmas plotting (I WILL pull off at least OMFGBOX, though)… I wanted to avoid having to lop off a bit of my Wells Fargo CD in January if I could help it. But complications with getting my license, any kind of non-retail employment, and now mother running up vet bills like it’s a shopping spree… yeah, I’ll have to nibble a bit of my CD so I have enough to cover the next car insurance payment and such. -_-

Ya, there’s that secondary payout that Robert mentioned, but I don’t expect that to get here before January.

Mother is, thus, banned from accusing me of spending too much on myself. Looking over my ledger, over half my money went to either Rancho Regional or other stuff related to the Four Pups of the Apocalypse. And then there’s my own medical expenses, car insurance…. yeah. Don’t take this as me complaining about expenses of life, I know that comes with the territory. My beef is with mother acting like I’m still ignorant about it on the basis that I choose not to make a giant fuss about every little thing. :P

and ohgod I need food. @_@

Yeah, any notions of snark got chomped right in the butt. So… that made things a little better.
My cat was being all spastically-nosy during dinner, though… he’d run away if people other than me tried to pet him, but a few minutes later he’d do his “I’ll rub on your leg while trotting through” thing. And then afterwards, there was much watching of Hancock, because… well… come on, like you need an excuse to load up anything that has Will Smith, right?

Still glad that Thanksgiving is done with, though. Bring on Christmas! :D! Yeah, neighbors are already putting up house lights. Probably within a week I can start doing research for the MOAR LIGHTS Snowscheme >_>;
Even if I’m screwed on being able to do much shopping (you know, nullified permit and all)… I’ll figure something out? Maybe? At the very worst whatever I pull off will have to be direct-shipped, which would be less fun since I can’t put my special touch on it (see: OMFGBOX, in which the charm and awesome lies mostly in the presentation/intent than actual loot) but I would think that the parties involved would be a little forgiving of that.

Also… some progress is being made on another plot, one I cannot mention out in the open yet since at the very least I’d get a lot of weird looks and “wtf” messages over the medium I’m using. Let me put it this way: a category of Across Universe that hasn’t been really touched at all may see a lot of action in the coming months.

I’ll get on inking the Snowscheme in a bit. Rar.

“Pecos biting at your nose…”

…wireframe mode does not do this justice, especially on the house. I think Numair missed the memo that this cookie house is, you know, for Christmas and not Halloween >_>;
In addition to fondant figures of Numair roasting Denlan over the chimney, there’s also fondant/modelling chocolae figures other people… and maybe Black Dragons… or pieces of them, strewn about.

Ah, well… the man has to vent his violent itches somehow, I guess. (Never mind how often he sets Denlan’s head on fire…)

Time for sleep.

So, I have Chrono Trigger DS.

I would like to tell those who are hating on its new translation– specifically, the part dealing with Frog’s loss of “accent”– to shut their traps. SERIOUSLY GUYS, IT’S NOT THAT BAD. He’s saying the same stuff as before, just not Middle Engrish-iczed (which, in hindsight, was kinda out-of-place when all the other 600AD NPCs spoke normally), so it’s not like he lost the knight-speak entirely. o.O I mean, wasn’t the accent just a twisted form of softening, even censoring Frog as he was portrayed in Japanese, anyway? New Frog pretty much just got a minor downgrade to Cecil/Beatrix/Steiner level of knight-speak, and last I checked, we still think of those three as being pretty badass.

(Actually, the way Frog speaks now… kinda reminds me of Cornelius, the cute little bunny knight in Odin Sphere. Which I still need to play, since Yuri “I’m as everywhere as a Nemesis plot” Lowenthal plays said cute little bunny knight… I don’t think I need to point out where this thought train is going, if one were to speculate about what would happen if CT had voices XD;;)

That aside… yes, there are a couple things that are somewhat headscratch-worthy (Revive is “Athenian Water?” and wtf “Fiendlord” as Magus’ title), but… I don’t really see much for the boneheaded fanboy camps (I’m looking at YOU, Gamefaqs and /v/) to be whining about. Then again, we call them boneheaded fanboys for a reason. :P

I am SOOOOO spoiled on Plus Game mode, hahaha. Seeing as I can do a Plus Game run in under 6 hours now (probably less if I skip sidequests), I wonder if I should just do the bare minimum stuff on the first pass and go nuts with the sidequests in future cycles?

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In other news… yes, even mother likes Christmas more than Thanksgiving. Half of the house is already rigged for Christmas (including the tree). Amazingly, neither Kestine nor Daisy have attempted to attack the tree… yet. Kestine doesn’t seem like he would (if anything, the worst he’d do is nap under it due to all the lights making it warm), but Daisy might swat at it. But still, the tree’s sturdy enough to survive some CAT ASSAULT so it should be fine. If anyone is a threat, it would be the Four Wiggly Puppies of the Apocalypse. >_>;

I’ve Snowscheme #2 sketched (we lost cable service for awhile, earlier this evening… which meant internet was also down, so I Ramen’d it up). It is, as mentioned before, “Numair’s Cookie House” in which mister sniper seems to think the objective is to make a splatterhouse movie scene out of the guild sugar cookie mansion. Chelsea doesn’t like it at all (since it’s a fondant figure of Denlan being roasted over the chimney) and Old Lady Kit is getting her Xelloss on with the “hohoho, that’s cute” face. At the last minute I added in Hikaru next to Numair, making this more of a tag-team effort…. and even she isn’t amused that Numair’s put an excessively-violent spin on what sould be cute. I’m on Dinah right now so I’ll have to switch over to Blastoise to get a screencap, and I’ll do THAT in a bit.

oh, and… T: dmscv~~
I know what I want for my half, and because this involves two people…. I’ll, um, “pay the difference” by doing a Deeum-centric Snowscheme for #3. I need to go rig a wireframe to best explain it though.

*machine switch!*

You know what the DMV also needs?

The freaking Konami Code.

You heard me. >_>;