Exciting news! I got rid of that couch I inherited when I moved into my place last summer. Last November I had mentioned that I could not figure out how the couch fit through the door. I had plans to tear it apart.

With a help of a friend it finally happened! The neighbor below me did call asking what I was doing. He thought the roof was going to fall through his room and asked us to move the couch into the hallway/kitchen to continue further. lol.

The demolition took us about an hour and half of hacking with two hammers. The scissors came in very handy to cut away the material. One of the hammers didn’t survive the demolition.

When we went to take the couch to a nearby trash dumpster a cop drove by and continued about his business. He appeared to be on the phone talking casually. About 45 seconds later he turned around heading our way. My friend told me to get the hell out of here since we’d be questioned if we lived there.

I posted some pictures in memory of the abnormally long couch. R.I.P. Mr Hammer.

Queen Leo has been released into the Youtube jungle.

Funny enough all of the sound effects such as the doorbell ring, knocking on the door and the telephone ring were all recorded after the video recording. The honking was not pre-recorded and happened during the pretend phone conversation. I thought at the moment, do I need to start over because I live in a LOUD city? Nah, I worked it into the video.

I had some issues trying to get her accent down to the way I wanted. Some of it would have been better if I didn’t do everything on the fly and practiced her before recording. All I had in mind was a women that collected a man for each day of the week and a few guy names. Everything else was me thinking right at the spur of the moment on the dialog on all of it, which is probably noticeable. I find that I am much funnier when I don’t over think things.

So, I have another video gal that I may at least try to practice before hand and get down a dialog for her. Some of my friends have heard me with this accent and have been scared about how well I can do it. ohhhhhh, now you’re curious!

I figured to switch up the Imm’a hotline style and create little stories around the girls with their hobbies. The teaser video I posted on YT happened to be because of the pics I uploaded on some of my profiles and smugmug. People were asking either what she was about or what the new imma hotline video is about so I uploaded that video last night to show some clips.

Since some of you don’t drop by this blog that frequently, I’ll share the scoop here. Queen Leo collects men. She has 7 guys, one for every day of the week. The story is about her current circumstance with two problem boyfriends and how she has some spots open up for “two lucky gentlemen.” Can’t wait to share the story.

I did notice that because I used some darker make-up my hands were lighter than my face. I’ll know next time to work on applying darker makeup on my hands because I naturally talk with them. lol.

The original is almost done. I just have to add some little things to spice it up more as a joke. I find it hilarious how some people cannot believe I would make a video like this. I have always enjoyed making people laugh. I make the assumption that everyone knows how I am, so this is definitely a pun about hotlines.

The first video had some kind of sentimental value in the sense that it was intended to be a gift for my boyfriend at the time. I figured that since I went through all of the effort to dress up, why not share it with my friends? So, by the time the video was completed, it was a Valentine’s video gift to those who wanted to have a good laugh. heh, “a hotline about girls who enjoy hobbies”

For the past few weeks I have been brainstorming for some gals for the next Imm’a Hotline video. This Valentine’s day marks a year since I released the video. I definitely have one girl down, but I need to buy a curly wig for her (ohh, I shared a secret). I need two more ladies to make the new video but I want them to be fanatics of something. I also have 2 wigs I haven’t shown anyone yet!

Although the hotline video is based on girls that have hobbies or specific things, tonight I did a google search for types of girls. I stopped my search about this funny link. I came across this link about 13 Types of Girls to avoid. Here is an excerpt of a girl I may be more like than you care to admit!

Insecure girl
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-she is very nice and treats men very well (DING DING DING< totally me)

-but she suffers by frustration (not really)

-is wracked by anxiety about making the wrong decision (DING< still me)

-she has to think twice about what to do, what to wear, where to go, what to eat (nah, something I did in high school, though)

-she needs constant reassurance that she's attractive and worries incessantly
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Did I scare you away, yet?

So that last one is a former ding ding ding. As mentioned, I care if I like a guy a whole lot. Overall, I have worked so hard on this, you would not believe. I still have problems with some compliments though. :D When told I am not so bad looking I tell them I know how to put make-up on. Is that really something of insecure?

I would say the past 2 years I have worked to be less insecure than I ever have. I think the recent youtube video reflects that. I am getting old enough to care less about what people think. I dance horrible? Awesome, get over it. Love it, cause that is me.

With the recent prunings happening all around me, companies letting people go, I thought for certain my trip to the mall this weekend would be less busy. Boy was I wrong! Rain and shoppers at the mall do not mix at all. I recall Houston being bad when I lived there a few years, San Diego was normally bad, but San Francisco drivers make it much more gruesome because they do some amazing ROAD RAGE IN THE RAIN! I had a few times where people came inches close to hitting my truck when it was my right away turning right and they were turning left into where I was going! I kid you not.

Although I found four pairs of adorable pajamas at Ross and Macy’s to keep me warm over the next few months, I had a mission to find neck warmers called Dickeys. Silly name… but they are considered an old school neck warmer. After asking four different places if they had them and even calling around to a few other places, dickeys are currently not being sold anywhere. One of the Nordstrom reps said she knew what I was talking about. She told me that it was a trend they brought back about 2 years ago. She hasn’t seen any since 2006…… people, seriously? The only reason why you don’t have a sensible neck warmer is because it’s not in style? *sigh*

I ended up doing some searches online. Ebay had tons of them and the only business that had a good enough selection was a place called The Vermont Country store. I ended up buying one there to see if it is something I want.

Oh and those Pajamas, they are way too cute to explain. One of them is like a football outfit that says tackle me on the shirt and pants, another has kitties on it (purr) and the other two are plaid and cozy. I was going to post a video of the PJs on youtube, but figured they are kind of personal, aren’t they? haha.

Speaking of plaid, I ran into a plaid designed item that I wanted to get for a friend. The only problem, the site had 6 different plaid designs and I didn’t know what type to get because there were no pictures of the other plaid designs. I never really associated the designs with scottish or irish, even though I kind of knew that they represented the kilts. While searching for what some of these plaid designs look like I stumbled upon this super cool website called thescottishweaver.com. Definitely need to save up to buy some things on this site. I really like the modern plaid designs, but the ancient plaid designs are just as amazing. To be honest, viewing these designs just remind me of the rich history of the culture and now I am curious about what my ancestors wore.

You know, that site has too many plaid designs to choose from! I think I need to talk to my mom. Hrm, now I’m having a craving to check out some hot scottish guys in kilts. Ahh, the single life isn’t half bad after all. lol

I moved into my new place last summer. I have been loving the area and the place ever since. However, I have 4 pieces of sitting furniture in a wide enough apartment space. When company comes over they have a place to sit but it’s really crowded. There are two modern dutch couches that are mine. The sofa chair plus an abnormally long couch was from the previous person who lived here. If I could remove this abnormally large couch out of the living room it would free up space for either an office area or a little breakfast nook.

The problem I have been having is that there is no way to get it out of the front door. What has been making things worse is watching HGtv again! I stopped watching the television channel for about 6 months. Now that I have so many ideas with the living space, it seems like the couch stands out like a sore thumb even more so than it did before. Today I thought about cutting it in half to get it out the door. Today I did a search online and found a blog with someone who has split his couch in half before. I am considering to have a friend come over with a chain saw, but this guy’s idea seems better. Any of you have a saw, wire cutters and pliers I can borrow?

I chuckle every time I see the Surrogate Sharers videos by Rhett and Link. It seems like this happens to me frequently because I’ve known so many gamers over the years. Most of them I have known by their online alias. When I meet people in person at LAN parties or live events, it gets worse because not only do I forget their alias, I may end up not known their name. The good thing, I have a photogenic memory so there are many occasions I’ll recall meeting them at one time. That’s what I get for meeting so many people huh? I usually just wait for others to call out their name. I feel so bad when I have to ask for their name again or ask them when I met them previously.

I have too much to say since I last wrote so take what you will with this post. Categories for you skimmers.

Deadspace Parody is hilarious
You have to stop by GameSpot to watch the Deadspace parody. Definitely worth viewing whether you’re a gamer or not.

Castle Crashers, game of the year? HECK YEA!
Oh yeah, my brother DarkViper (Jacob) was in town a few weeks back and we played tons of Castle Crashers. I had finals for college that weekend and it was really bad because he kept wanting to play co-op while I really had to finish two papers and his wife played for a little while there. This is the first game I have seen my sister-in-law play. As I mentioned in my GameSpot blog, I wish there was more figures for these guys! The mounts and majority of the characters are awesome looking. The Star Wars inspirations in the game with the light sabers, hooded guys and such is a total rip off, but it just add the icing (yes, I’m a SW goober). I won’t spoil any more things with this game if you haven’t play it. Let’s just say there’s tons of hilarious moments. Even though we finished the game during a weekend there is still plenty more things to do.

Rome Series is just wrong… in a bad kind of good way
I pretty much have dug deep into the Rome Television series abyss; watching episode after episode for days. A friend wanted to watch some episodes so I stopped, watched the first few episodes again. I shouldn’t have committed to only watch the show with my friend. I’ve waited all weekend with the Series 2, disk 1 on my desk. I’m going to have to watch it soon….. maybe I’ll pop in a disk right now… *evil grin*

Can Facebook do a tweet?
Now, I’ve said this before but I am known to update my GameSpot blog more frequently from being an addict of video games. I try not to spread myself out too thin on many sites. I’ve been thinking for some time now to register at Twitter and tonight I finally did it. lol I am trying to figure out how to associate it with my facebook account because I already update there and can use my mobile phone.

Throttle failure with the Scooter
Earlier this year my older scooter died on me. I purchased the same year and make and now my latest scooter has had throttle issues. I have stalled so many times. Thankfully I have a friend that is superman, so I can usually get rescued when I am stranded in a bad neighborhood near downtown. Other days I would end up walking my almost 300 lb. Scarabeo 150 scooter blocks to the dealer. Let me tell you, people are RUDE when you walk a heavy bike. They love to honk as if you can go any faster.

After many attempts to see what the issue was at the dealer, they think they found the issue. They think it was related to the vent not releasing enough air? Gas was getting in an area and it would end up making my scooter boost from barely moving the throttle or just go out in the middle of riding it. I was extremely frustrated that I almost got rid of it this last time. I warned the dealer that I planned to get rid of it after this fourth time taking it. I was thinking about getting a motorcycle but these hills in San Francisco are too steep. Anyways, it has been running fine the past two days since I got it back. If I had to ride any more San Francisco buses, I swear…. I dont know what I would have done. So many creepy people try to talk to me on the bus. They find that a redhead on a bus is approachable or something. And calling them creepy is just me being nice. I could say some really weird things that happened just in the past few weeks. Guess I could tell some of you in person.

Here’s my latest beauty. 2001 Aprilia Scarabeo 150cc. I would describe the color as a pearl green color. I took the old ugly helmet case from my the red scooter and put it on this one.

Rhett and Link take me away
Last Saturday I was supposed to study for my two new classes, but instead I watched a six hour marathon of Rhett and Link’s SuperNote championship. I have to say these guys are addicting. I don’t think it’s just their charm and good looks either. They seem so genuine. I was in the chatroom as my MMO alias and youtube name, Calitia. The funny thing is how much I feel like I grew up with these guys. They just seem like people I would have hung out with. When I watch their videos I have this urge to sing. Check out their road trip videos and the Surrogate Sharers videos.

I’mma trying to do things
Some of the other things I still plan to do is get another I’mma Hotline video done. I already have a variety of wigs I can use. I’ve been thinking about skits. The first video I made just came naturally. The plan would be to have only three girls this time instead of six. That way the video isn’t long. I also want to finish Nariko’s circlet and her makeup. Oh and that secret in case you didn’t check out my youtube video was about creating game character make-up tutorials. The first of the series is the Heavenly Sword’s Kai Make-up. For some reason many people assumed that I planned to be Kai for Halloween. I wasn’t her for Halloween but I did use that black wig I got from Japan. I dressed up with the black wig and wicked hot topic outfit with tall boots.

Buy Gears 2 for me, teehee
What else? Nothing else but wishing I was rich. I still need to buy the Force Unleashed and Gears of War 2. I’ve totally missing out. Every time I log on to Xbox Live I log off because people are playing GoW2 without me. :/

I’ve been on the hunt for Heavenly Sword’s Kai cap for a project I haven’t revealed on youtube just yet. I am actually waiting on one thing that is being shipped from Japan. I contacted them yesterday because I purchased it on October 2nd. They said I should receive it some time next week. However, I am thinking about finishing this project without it this weekend. I cannot wait to show what I want to do. I’ll have to compromise with something else I have in my closet. teehee.

After about three days of internet browsing and many attempts of different keywords known in the English language, I realized that I needed to make it myself. Sure, I found some cute cat and bunny headband ears and different fox ear hats. Those fox ears were very, very tempting to buy just because! I figured out later that these animal style hats were related to cosplay and anime on many of the sites I visited.

The more I looked around, the more I realized that Kai’s cap was just that unique. The fabric on the hat kai is wearing reminded me of a fisherman’s hat; definitely not a typical hat found on ebay.com or Etsy.com. I did tons of research and found this bad ass website called gobbolino.co.uk. This rapunzel hat here reminded me of Kai’s hat, but it looked more like a beanie. I thought about it a long time and realized it would cost more to have it mailed to me and it would have taken much more time to get.

I had a variety of friends tell me that if I figured out a way to make one I should tell them how I did it. I was so determined to have a similar hat that I made up my mind that I needed to at least give it a try. I ordered a skull bandanna cap from this place on ebay.com. Once I received the bandanna cap in the mail I took it to the fabric store and found a similar color of fabric. The silk fabric was more than I wanted to spend on fabric for the hat, but I was that crazy….. seriously. That same day I also went to a neat craft store a block away for the buttons and paint.

Then, last weekend I stayed up all Friday night to get some of the video recorded while creating the hat. Woke up early enough to get some more done and it was done! On Sunday I edited the video and uploaded it. Here’s the final result.

The interesting part about the video was the introduction. If you watch the shadow in the background it looks like Batman. Yes, I’m that silly to notice and get excited about that. lol!

I haven’t forgot about you! The past few months has been insane. Most of my latest happenings have been posted on youtube or gamespot blog.I also posted pictures from E3 and Quakecon in my smugmug page. Other than that, I’m extremely stoked about Lego Batman. The game will be released on store shelves tomorrow!

Also, I recently was able to get internets again from home. Other than school and other nonsense. Oh, and might I add my desktop computer is dead. Not sure what happened to it. I am contemplating on whether or not I should try to buy a gaming laptop, a new computer or to hire someone to fix this one. decisions, decisions….