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Thoughts, clothes and Pokémon

Jun 23

Juliette MaxwellJulie 6 Comments

I don’t have the energy, nor the creativity to think of a title right now.

My summer vacay has been slow, I should start working on the Augmented Reality project or something but truth to be told, I don’t want to think about school right now. I think this semester was very rough on most of us and we need a little more time to get over it.

I’ve spent the last two days playing Pokémon Emerald. No, I’m not a Pokémon fan at all, in fact after the first 150 Pokémon I don’t know about the others. But today, I finally managed to finish it!This makes me incredibly happy because I’ve always wanted to finish one Pokémon game.

When I was very young, I wasn’t allowed to play any kind of video game. In fact, my first (and only) gaming console, a PS2, was purchased when I was 17 by my sister. It was $35 USD and totally new because she used to work in the company that makes them. So, when I was young the little contact I had with gaming consoles was during holidays because of my cousin J. You see, J was a very spoiled boy (we were both very spoiled children) so he always had all the games and gaming consoles in the market. During holidays, we used to go to my grandmother’s house and stay there for 2 weeks. J took his games, consoles, Game Boy and even a T.V. just to pass the time, my grandmother lives in a small town in the middle of nowhere. The only game he ever let me play was Pokémon (Red, I think) but I could never finish one because he took the Game Boy away from me ¬¬. So now, thanks to the magic of ROMs and emulators, I managed to finish one!

My badges, aren’t they shiny?

Of course I used cheats and every trick in the book to finish. I wasn’t going to spend an eternity figuring everything out, the goal was to finish it, not to finish it properly.

Moving on from that, this weekend I applied to some jobs. Today a company called me but after they asked about my school schedule declined their offer. I hate that! The schedules are made that way in order to “give us time to work” but in reality they just force you to be at school all day (in case you have to drive over an hour to get there like me). I guess that I could ditch some classes this semester and work, but I really want to finish college next year (more than anything, to be able to say “I finished college at 21, and you?”, yes, I’m a mean person). Also, Daddy refuse to pay for another semester u_ú.

I guess I’ll have to stick it up for another year before being able to start being economically independent.

What consoles me a bit, is that the company called really fast! It was also a very good job with an excellent salary. At least I know that all the work that I’m putting college is going to be valuable once I’m out.

On Sunday, after our workout, my mum left to go somewhere and came back bearing clothes! She got me a pair of Havaianas and *drum roll please!* two dresses by Isaac Mizrahi form Target! She got my sister a top from American Eagle and a skirt from somewhere. The Isaac dresses where extremely lucky finds (seeing as there is no Target here in Mexico) but my mum knows places and people. I need to go where she goes someday soon, see if I can find something from Alexander McQueen for Target . I just need some money. I promise to take pictures as soon as I get a camera (mine was stolen along with my sister’s car).

Another thing I’ve been doing recently is driving. How I missed driving, and my car and listening to Lady Gaga while on the road. On Friday I drove near my high school to meet with L and yesterday I drove from the Mall home because mum had to leave and sister and I were waiting for her glasses to be ready. While we waited we went into the Apple Store and gawked at the iPods, I want a Nano and she wants a Touch. Since I’m most probably getting an internet plan with a Samsung Black Jack I don’t want the iPhone anymore, however I still need an iPod for when I go jogging, hence the gawking. But yeah, the feeling of moving on the road and the thrill when you push gas, I missed it. That combined with the new car smell of my car (my car is almost 3 years old and still smells like new car) is just heaven for me.

It suck not having a camera or a Flickr PRO account.

Kisses,

Julie.