Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

It’s far from a “Photoshop Disaster“, but I was a little amused when this image (from the comic about the Chrome browser) still had the “ONLY FOR REVIEW” watermark on it… Ooops… I guess because of the light print getting a proper for-print image slipped through the cracks. Haha.

Things I like a lot…

This Oasis “Anitoxia” drink, a mix of grape and pomegranate that tastes a lot like blueberry juice is by far my favorite juice… I highly, highly recommend it. I assume it’s healthy, but either way, it’s delicious. I’ve drank gallons of the stuff. That said, I’ve also drank gallons of my second-favorite drink, TANG, so who knows, maybe my advice is not to be taken.

I’ve been unusually sore the last half-week — practically bedridden, so I’ve been doing very little so as to conserve my energy so that I can give 110% for the times that Nefarious is here (ie. not at school)… It’s always my priority if I’m feeling down to save what I have for her, which makes me feel bad because I don’t have enough left for Caitlin but it’s a lot easier for her to understand and wait for a better day than for a five year-old. I think I’m doing well enough now for sledding or skating after school tomorrow — we’ve been playing a little too much Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe!

Anyway, I played some ROCK BAND earlier today to keep my mind off the pain, and I really have to reiterate that the recently released Country pack is brilliant — it’s a lot of fun to play, sufficiently challenging, and a nice change from rock and metal tracks. Even if you’re not a Country Music fan (and I suspect that few who read this are), if you enjoy ROCK BAND this really is one of the better track packs. I hope they release more of them.

Speaking of guilty pleasures, I think listening to Country music really makes me miss a sort of romanticized version of my childhood (note: as a teen I was a huge Skinny Puppy fan and wouldn’t go anywhere near country) — I was driving a combine before I made it to high school, and as far back as I can remember I was getting up before the sun to milk the goats and feed the cattle… Summers spent tossing hay bales and chopping wood.

If I didn’t know I’d end up in court for putting Nefarious into that environment (I think it’s safe to say that the court-appointed “review the family” dude had a serious anti-rural bigotry and me agreeing to stay in the city made a big difference in the decision to have Nefarious living here*), I’d be living on a farm already, because as much as the workload was brutal, it was a paradise.

* Seriously, that’s a story for another day, but what a headache that was to go through for everyone — dealing with a reviewer that had serious reservations about tattooed people, so he basically came into the process with a hate-on for both myself and Nefarious’s mother (and said some really unpleasant and invalid things to each of us)… Ack!