Great Weekend!

There was actually a lot that happened this weekend but most of it not in FFXI. I will do a little skipping around between the two just to let everyone know why it was a great weekend.

Friday:
Went to a work party and got way more wasted than I thought I was going to be. I only had about 4 drinks, but the amount of alcohol in them was probably equivalent to about 8 or 9 drinks ... whoops! There is more to Friday night that made it hilarious but I'm not gonna post that in this blog. O:-)

Saturday:
Woke up and got a little bit more of SMN done, I think to about 34/35. After that my girlfriend came over and we just hung out most of the day and started putting together who all was doing what for that night because it was my birthday. Went out with my gf, 2 friends from growing up, and a bunch of people that I've known from a group I've belonged to most of my life. There was much fun to be had even though we were bar hopping so much because it was the one other guy's 21st like a week prior so it was his first time going downtown. So they wanted to give him as much experience as we could around the bars.

Sunday:
Went to a festival downtown that was kind of a waste because there really wasn't much to do there. But on the bright side I did get an AMAZING gyro from the one stand and some guy on the way in gave us $10 worth of food/drink tickets. :D After that we went to my gf's sister's house for wine/champagne and a fire. It's pretty fun hanging out with them because someone always ends up doing SOMETHING stupid and then we ripp on them the rest of the night.

Monday:
Family had a dinner for me because it was my birthday weekend and my mom made some great food! Lasagna and steak was amazing, especially the lasagna because I've never tasted lasagna as good as hers. Then, this is friggin hilarious, my grandma made an Orange Cake that they were going to use as my birthday cake and it turns out my grandma got hungry a little before so she had already taken some before they put the candles in. I was about to pee my pants laughing because it was my grandma of all people that had stolen the piece ... even though she did make it. At that point I was a lil miffed because I was hoping my mom or grandma would've made me Ice Box Cake but they had a big problem finding the waffers to make it, so I would've expected at least an Ice Cream Cake from DQ. So I blew out the candles and then my mom brings out the Ice Box Cake and I was oh so happy. :D Earlier I had also checked my presents and a few closets in the house to see if they had gotten me what I actually wanted, a Wii Fit. None of the gifts were heavy or big enough to be it and my mom had told me previously that she didn't get a chance to look for it. Well she is sneaky because she had actually hid it in my old bedroom's closet upstairs which I hadn't checked. So I made off with Ice Box Cake AND a Wii Fit. That right there totally made my weekend ... BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. After that I went to my gf's brother-in-law's parent's house and hung out and played a little ping pong. Then my gf decided to just go home and leave me be for the night. Right about there I was peeing my pants with excitement because that meant I would be left alone with my Wii Fit and FFXI!!!

When I got home I immediately set up my Wii Fit and got to find out that I am supposedly about 25 pounds overweight and unbalanced. Ok, I know I'm heavier than I should be, but only by about 10-15 pounds because of my body style. The only problem I have with the Wii Fit right off the bat is that it doesn't take into account if you are naturally bigger or thinner. But I know where I should be so I will be setting my Wii Fit goals around that. I would like to lose about 15 pounds in about 3 months. So after I set up my goal in the game I started by doing some balancing games because it said my balance kinda stunk. There were some fun balancing games which for the most part I did well at but the skii slalom game I just couldn't completely get the hang of. I opened up "Advanced" on two of the balance games on the first try and spent enough time doing it that I had opened up a 5th balance game and a new yoga position. Surprisingly, by the time I finished about 15 minutes on the Wii Fit my legs were actually burning a little bit which is awesome because I was having a lot of fun and getting a work out from it too!

Right when I finished trying all the Balance Games that were open to me Hybridkiller asked me if I wanted to go duo with his 36WHM on my 35SMN. I was happy to join and we rocked out some good exp until he hit 37 and got his buffer. Then he came back out on his RNG and WOW, just WOW. His RNG was rocking! He was dominating these mobs about as fast as I could pull out my avatar and use a blood pact. Once I hit 37 and he was about 3/4s of the way through 34 he decided to hit the sack for the night. Since it was still only about 11:30 when he went to bed I decided to still go for 38 on SMN solo. Well, I hit 38 on SMN and discovered I can't do 38-40 on SMN solo I don't think. It would be sooooooo time consuming because I have to rest for MP between every fight. SMN is definitely a party friendly job like WHM, RDM, or BRD because we aren't huge DDs and we are more support central. At least early on SMN is more support centered because I don't have any uber blood pacts that can 1 shot pets which really kind of slows me down because that means I need 2 BPs to kill a mob so at least 1 min per mob which can kill my chains. With BLM you can 1 or 2 shot mobs and the 2nd would be a lower tier spell to just finish it off.

So I still need to finish off SMN to 40 before I move back to MNK. I only need 2 more levels on SMN before I get a massive MP boost from my rings that I will be getting, Ether and Mana, which will add a nice 45 MP and then my 4th MP merit kicks in too. Man, this is exciting! Not only do I have another SJ done but I only have 1 more Maat's Cap job below 37!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! And now I've officially spent way too much time browsing about FFXI stuff today. I've just been staring at LSs and gear that people have and looking around on ffxiah.com. Ok, need to get back to work now. lol

Tonight I doubt I will really be on at all, or at least until my gf leaves tonight. She's planning on coming over to play some Wii Fit. Besides that I have a bunch of stuff to run around and do: resize new watch, get prescription, drop something at my grandma's house, and something else that I seem to have forgotten about now... Oh well.

Quote of the Day:
Are you two texting each other?
- oldest brother talking to me and Khrone at the dinner table (we were just texting about FFXI) :D