Wildstar Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Being pro-active with the one-year thread...hope everyone finds the title to their liking. Finally saw my Dad for the holidays today after being sick on Xmas...gave him a $50 gift certificate to his favorite Chinese place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Nice title! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 My resolutions... Make Specialist by the time i get home Decide on whether to stay in the national guard or go active duty. there are many pros to both...going active I'll make more money in the long run, but have to work every day, national guard i can go back to college and focus on finding a civilian type job, I've been really considering becoming a professional photographer, one that doesn't charge an arm and a leg for photos...if I stay in the guard, going to talk to my advisor at school on which classes to take to get into that field. Focus on myself instead of attempting to get into a relationship for the sake of not being single. This is going to be the hardest one, but I just want to better my own self so that I am ready for a relationship whenever it happens. Focus on making more friends and networking with other people, I've got alot of philly connections now since being attached to this unit...opportunities for work, parties, etc. are plentiful. just maintaining those friendships after I return home may be a little difficult considering philly is 2 hours from where I live. Read more books...I want to read at least 5 books while I am here. right now I am reading 'The Tiger's Way' it's a book about survival stuff. pretty useful. Last night was the best new year's eve I've had in a few years, maybe cause 2 girls I like wanted me to dance with them...good times, feels weird not being hungover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Meet the New Year! (Same as the Old Year...) We won't get fooled again? My sole resolutions: Spend a bit of time each day on the exercise bike. Clean up around the house more often. Keep my health up. The rest will just have to take care of itself. I'd like to find a new love to make me forget all the stress and agony of the old one ending... but that is kind of out of my control. All I can do is just put myself out there a bit more often, and be open to new and unexpected opportunities. Anyway: I hope it's the best year ever for those of us who are still around! Happy New Year everybody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 o yea i frgot another one to my list of "impossible" resolutions: 6 pack abs. lol @ed: yea thats what im doing but just interacting with more people in general i figure maybe a girl or 2 will show interest in me if i'm out with them all as friends/coworkers during our downtime, or at least have more interaction with attractive females so when i do find one i am really interested in and ready to start a relationship with I dont fall in love too fast like i did with my exes. i want to make them work for my affection, or at least show that they are interested without me having to prove anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy new year! I never really do resolutions. But I am planning on going back to school lose some weight. And get out on my Sailboat this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Spent New Years with the GF's family. It was fun. Her brother came into town and stayed as well. Tired though. Blergh,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 learned to play texas hold 'em tonight with my crew. that was some fun ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Holocron Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 learned to play texas hold 'em tonight with my crew. that was some fun ****. This sounds like it's going to come to a good end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 got 2 long days ahead of me. hahaha days are running into eachother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Pretty good first run of the year this morning. Back at work. Yay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 kuwait city was pretty cool. got to visit one of the largest mosques in the world and one of the malls there. also got to see the persian gulf and could see iran's coastline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 i hate how i can have so much fun but at the end of the day i end up depressed about not having a relationship. when does that feeling go away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 i hate how i can have so much fun but at the end of the day i end up depressed about not having a relationship. when does that feeling go away? When you have a relationship. At which point at the end of the day you end up depressed about not having the freedom of a single man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 When you have a relationship. At which point at the end of the day you end up depressed about not having the freedom of a single man. i never got depressed about that when i was in a relationship. wish i could erase memories permanently so they stop haunting me. since i can't have alcohol, supplements are making up for it. lol just bought hydroxycut. no xplode is good but i havent lost an ounce and i been working out alot 30-90 minutes a day ffs and eating all the healthy food. maybe the hydroxycut has something to speed up my metabolism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Good to see some things about this place never change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Just saw The Hobbit. Eh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I liked it... despite a few flaws, and many liberties taken with the source material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 In general, I liked the stuff they pulled out from other sources and included in the movie. At first I wasn't sure about that Radagast stuff, but by the time it reached its end I thought it was good (minus his ridiculous mode of transportation). I liked the additional stuff in Rivendel. The stuff I thought brought it down was the stuff that seemed to be totally unnecessary, like having the company pursued by orcs right from the start, the goofy Great Goblin, and the ridiculous action. I mean seriously, how many sequences of falling down bottomless chasms and ending up totally fine can you have before it becomes comical and you diffuse all tension? And the way they did the battle at the end was troubling as well. I guess they needed something climactic to cap off the first film, so I can kind of understand it, but...eh. But the casting seemed very good (Ian McKellen as Gandalf never did anything for me, but that was pretty much predetermined). Good Thorin and other dwarves, and good Bilbo. Most of the sets and locations were also very good. The parts where they showed the palace inside the Lonely Mountain right at the start were great. If they could have used fewer CGI creatures, that probably would have helped, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 My biggest complaints about it revolve around "Prequel-itis". The same problems I had with SW episodes 1-3... mainly that since we have seen the outcomes already, the dramatic tension of any situation are lessened, since the audience already knows who walks away unscathed; and the fact that the foreshadowing always becomes a bit heavy-handed. But I liked the movie for it's slightly more light-hearted feel overall (though still darker and more serious than the book...) next to LotR (which went from "Look how cute Hobbits are!" to "OMG, Wraiths!!!!" in minutes, with almost no pause.) The Goblin cave battle was totally over-the-top... but I kind of appreciated it for exactly that reason. It was exactly what I wished and imagined all the D&D battle sessions I ever played would have looked like if filmed. The troll scene bothered me for some reason... though it played out pretty close to the book. So did the conference at Rivendell... Though I understand why it was included, it seemed to drag the momentum down a bit. I thought Bilbo's casting was fantastic... though I have the same minor complaint I had with the Rings movies is that Hobbits aren't supposed to be "Hollywood" skinny, but a bit portly... but it's not that big a deal. The stuff with Gollum was spot on. That was the best part of the movie for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I got my "combat" patch today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I finally just got around to seeing The Dark Knight Rises. Pretty good. Looks like some snow overnight and tomorrow here. Tomorrow should be a good day to get some laundry and chores done then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Blah. Felt kinda crummy all day today. Didn't get all that much done. Off to bed early tonight I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 found what i want to do when i get off this deployment...switch over to active duty. it's worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.