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Tuesday, November 18, 2008  He was my best friend but... (Permalink) Topic: Miscellaneous "Write about a situation where your best friend was dishonest or outright lied to you. Did it change your friendship?" Oo, I like this topic here. If I roll my mind allll the way back to childhood, I had a best friend while living at this one place. We were the closest of friends when compared to anyone else. I thought he would never lie to me or anything. While he was looking through my baseball card collection, I told him that he could help himself to any duplicates he finds. I was playing a video game while he was looking through my cards. Later, I found out through a friend that he had come through, boasting about taking all of my best cards. I confronted him and he didn't deny it! What made it even worse was that he refused to give the cards back. Needless to say, I no longer trusted him even though he acted like we were still friends. It wasn't long after that I had a different best friend. Ha! Kids. Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Monday, November 17, 2008  What is your favorite kind of weather? Why? (Permalink) These kind of days usually happen on Saturday as if on cue. It's a grey day. The entire sky is just one hue of grey. No rain and no mugginess. It's very cool if not cold and there's a constant slow breeze. This is my favorite kind of weather on any day. I don't know why I like it. It usually reminds me of yardsales when my parents used to head out every weekend. Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Sunday, November 16, 2008  Every choice creates a new parallel universe... (Permalink) Topic: Miscellaneous I was chatting with a friend and the topic came up where there was a theory that every choice you make will create a parallel universe where you made the other choice instead. This would mean there are vast amounts of universes where there are so many possibilities. It would explain dopplegangers where two lines would overlap momentarily or whatever else... I don't know. On and on and all that gibberish. It's just hard to believe that every choice would create a parallel universe. If someone held out a blue ball and a green ball, I'd always go for the blue ball. No doubt about it. There is no way that a parallel universe would stem out to where I chose the green ball instead. I imagine something like that would only happen if you were faced with a decision where you could go either way but you're stuck on the fence and you're struggling. "What do I do? What do I do??" ... and bam, parallel universe where you went the other way. I guess it makes me wonder about things that I've chosen to do or didn't choose to do and what resulted from them... Was it better? Or did it get worse? I could use one of those nifty mirrors where I could ask, "What if I......" Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Saturday, November 15, 2008  Brain Age 2 - Your brain age is 75?! (Permalink) Topic: Gaming I got Brain Age 2 for Christmas last year. I used it regularly for about two weeks and then used it off and on over periods of months. I chatted with a friend today about Brain Age so I decided to pop the game in. Turns out the last time I had it in my DS was in September. I gave it a whirl for today... Whaaaat? My brain ain- You kidding me?? ... Well, it turns out that the game really was kidding. And my real brain age isssss.... My brain age is 46! Apparently my poor brain needs more stimulation. Time to hit SUDOKU. Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Friday, November 14, 2008  TGIF - Five Places To Visit (Permalink) Topic: Miscellaneous TGIF! List Five Places You'd Like To Visit: 1. Pyramids 2. Stonehenge 3. Machu Picchu 4. Greece 5. Hawaii Hawaii seems bleh in comparison but I suppose it's been so common that I should at least list it as a place to visit myself one day. hehe. Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Thursday, November 13, 2008  Selling a 99¢ ring for $50! (Permalink) One of the things that surprises me on Ebay is that a good story can make a piece of junk be sold for a lot of money. Most of them are about genies and djinns that are trapped in little junk like earrings, rings, necklaces, bracelets, bottles, chests, coins, etc. Usual Formula: Start off with a personal story of how you got the object - It must be awesome. Someone stopped you and pushed it into your hands or someone died and your name was in their will for some odd reason, etc. Explain how you did research and found the name of the Genie/Djinn and make a huge story of what they were responsible for. Keep reiterating that their story is lost to the dust of time so no matter what your bidders do, they'll never find the information no matter how hard they search. Take pictures of said objects with a decorative surrounding. Some good examples: lay it on a big crystal cluster, dangle it off the handle of a sword, etc... Warp the images with a paint program. Make it glow, add wisps and smoke. Be creative! Decorate the ebay lot with lots of flashy backgrounds and images. You want to distract the bidders from reading the endless text because somewhere in there, you have to make the claim that this is purely for 'entertainment purposes' without ruining the overall mysteriousness that you're trying to create over the object. Don't forget to say that the Djinn/Genie is guaranteed to grant all wishes! Keep saying it every three lines or so. And that should turn your 99¢ junk into $50 profits. Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Tuesday, November 11, 2008  A Page from Gem's Book: Love Potion (Permalink) Topic: Spells & Potions (I'm having a bout of creativity at the moment. I'm not sure if I'd make another one in the future but I had fun writing this one up in a jiffy.) Naturally, you need ingredients that are disgusting and foul in order to have an opposite reaction after you or your subject drinks it. You know how in dreams, if your arms and legs get cut off and you get blinded by forks, It means a great windfall of cash is coming your way? No? Well, hey... I will start with one of the most sought after universal emotions. Love. LOVE POTION DRAGON TONGUE Must be fresh as possible! Still coated with original saliva of said dragon. TROLL SPIT Approach only when they're sleeping. Four cups of this will do! MERMAID HAIR Grab a good chunk out of her head. A strand will not do. CENTAUR TAIL Remove bones first. SATYR HORN Get 'im really drunk and cut one off. Ground it to a powder form. GNOME TEARS Say something bad about their mothers or step on their favorite mushrooms. Both are quite effective methods to get tears seeing as how you'll need four cups of these. DJINN TOOTH If you somehow survive this, make a wish on the tooth first to prevent Djinn from seeking revenge. Ground tooth to powder form. Get a good fire going. In one bowl, mix Gnome Tears with Satyr Horn. Set aside. In separate bowl, mix Troll Spit with Djinn Tooth. Set aside. Pour Tear/Horn mixture in pot and bring to boil. Add Mermaid Hair. Boil five more minutes and set pot aside to cool. In another pot, pour in Spit/Tooth mix and bring to boil. Add Centaur Tail. Boil five more minutes. While boiling Spit/Tooth mix, pour Tear/Horn mixture into one tall neck bottle. When done with Spit/Tooth mix, pour into same tall neck bottle while hot! IMPORTANT! Add Dragon Tongue but cork bottle fast! Reaction to tongue will be quick and explosive. You must cork the bottle and keep it in place for dear life! If successful in containing the explosive reaction, wait until the potion turns bright red. If potion turns orange, it has failed and must be disposed of. Average waiting time for one love potion is approximately three weeks. If mixed under full moon, waiting time is reduced to five days. Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Monday, November 10, 2008  Castle Personality Test (Permalink) Topic: Quizzes The Castle Personality Test You have no problem diving into new experiences. You're so brave that you don't even notice how courageous you are. You like to think that people see you as dramatic and fascinating. You do your best to seem mysterious. You are a very romantic person. You can't help but see the world as it should be. Right now, stress occasionally makes you feel trapped in your life. You usually have a clear perspective on things though! Overall, your life is calm and steady. Not much stirs you, and each day is full of joy. You are extremely optimistic about the future. You feel like things are always getting better. The Castle Personality Test Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Sunday, November 9, 2008  Digital Cameras and Genealogy (Permalink) You know, I take hundreds of pictures with my digital camera but I never print any of them out. I load the images into a paint program, crop, resize, and upload them to some site to post them somewhere. They end up getting transferred to my disks and then tossed aside. I know genealogy is a big thing. People like having photographs that they can hold in their hands. I wonder if this period of the 'digital camera' craze may end up bringing a huge gap in family photos for several generations down the road. But what do I know... I don't have any photographs of my ancestors. Terribly frustrating! Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink Saturday, November 8, 2008  If I had a super power... (Permalink) Topic: Miscellaneous Okay, I know. I'm really grasping at straws here but I am terrible at trying to update this blog daily. Sort of a personal challenge I've set for myself to see if I can't blog every day for the month of November. Anyhow, on with the topic... If I had a super power, I would have the power to change my body at will. I know one thing would be to use it for evil - rob a bank with one look and then walk away scot-free with a new look. I don't know. I just think it'd be neat. I guess this might be 'shapeshifter' but they seem to be labeled for beings that change to animal form. I'm not quite sure... But there you have it. My one super power that I desire. Posted by Blue Green Gem at 12:01 AM EST Share This Post Post Comment | Permalink ( Newer | Latest | Older )