As Lost As Atlantis

And no, the title is not referencing my confusion as to how to work the new look blogger.com when I first logged on again. Not in the slightest. Seriously though, this new manner of posting is bloody awful. It looks like I'm posting on Turnitin (God forbid).

As I have perhaps mentioned in the past, I have as much homing instinct as a cemented brick i.e. I'd much rather stay in my current location, as I will get lost without even trying. So imagine my absolute horror when I found that I had to drive to a football stadium in Nottingham, one of two of the damn things, to do training things and the like for work. Many people asked me if I had a sat nav, which of course the answer is 'LOL no'. Of course I don't have one, I'm a student of limited means, and so I naturally spend all of my money on hand-held games consoles and games, I mean Updating my phone contract for a new model, I mean DVDs, er, I mean Books, um, tattoos? Piercings? *TWACK* FOOD AND RENT! "Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be sign posted and extremely easy to find!" <--- The famous last words spoken to me before I set off. Last words because I will be mercilessly slaughtering all those who said that ill-chosen phrase to me.

Pour Quoi? It was not sign posted. At all. Nya da. Eja. Nein. Non. No. Thankfully, due to my deeply-rooted fear of being even 5 minutes late (so rooted due to as a child almost always being terminally late for absolutely everything due to the general dithering about of my mothers children i.e. mainly me being an annoying arse.) I set off for a 40 minute journey at half 7 with about an hour and a half in my back pocket. To cut a long story slightly shorter, thank FUCK I did as not only was the traffic bordering on a gathering-of-lemmings-committing-suicide-proportions, but I got lost. A lot. About 3 times. It's absolutely blissful to ask a passer by for directions only for them to tell you that you're going in exactly the wrong direction. I'd like to say I was smiling to him as he directed me, but methinks I was merely grinding my teeth down in to stumps instead. And trying not to bark in his face or chew on my seatbelt in sheer frustration. Clearly I was that stressed that I actually changed species.

I do tell a slight lie about the stadium not being sign posted. There were signs for it... WHEN I WAS PULLED UP NEXT TO IT! Oh, how I wish I was joking... There are actually no signs on the roads in Nottingham at all, come to think of it. You have to have fun playing the game of 'Guess Where The Fuck You Are!' After finally arriving and managing to dislodge my feet from their almost permanent clawed positions from being folded over the break and clutch respectively, I very nearly kissed the ground in delight, before remembering that I was in public and that it would be slightly weird. As well as gross. Also found out that I was one of the first people there, so I would have had time to bugger off to find a McDonalds to nom some noms. The factor of being first annoyed me even more when I was informed by a tiddly but ever so bossy woman with a clipboard mistaking me for a groundsman that it was highly unlikely that lunch would be provided during the day. I very nearly used her clipboard to dislodge her head in order to devour it then and there.

People eventually began to arrive, filtering in with cries of "Oh, my sat nav sent me through the one way system!" which I almost responded to with my fist - at least you guys had a sat nav! I had nothing to blame for my getting lost other than my own innate stupidity! An enquiry of "Leah, would you like to start with your maths test?" was met with me putting my brown trousers on. No. No I bloody wouldn't. I'd rather French kiss my dog than do my maths test. The maths test which I eventually completed and on which I scored better than on my English test. Yeah, I don't know how that happened either. Although it is pretty embarrassing when you laugh out loud and at full volume during a very silent test due to a question asking "What does 'dress the salad to taste' mean?" giving the option of "Wear your favourite outfit when preparing and serving the salad."

Despite the fact that in the course of the day, in which I spent 8 hours, I drank no less than 21 cups of tea (which I often take black with no sugar, for some interesting little trivia there. Er...) I had the unfortunate task of removing myself from my nest of pillows and blankets and giant cuddly toys and Lord Knows what else is on my bed... I dunno, there's more than likely a book and a games console in here with me somewhere... Where the hell was I? Yeah, I had to get up in order to raid my fridge and consume almost 2 litres of juice.

Today was also the day I yet again slipped over in public while attempting to storm out of somewhere in an extreme hurry. Methinks I should get rid of ye olde slippery boots.

Sad. Act.

I'm not really sure as to the purpose of this post... Maybe I'm bragging, maybe I'm just trying to prove just how sad of an act I really am. Whatever I'm doing, this is mainly for my own documentation needs, but I thought I'd share it anyways! ^_____^

I spent some time tonight looking on Deviant Art at people's anime/manga/Final Fantasy collections and... Er... I have so much more stuff than them it's not even funny. It's actually quite terrifying. My entire collection is worth so much money. What have I got? Well...

Anime/Manga stuff:

This is DVDs and books, as well as collectables etc. relating to the anime and manga.

Manga volumes (books)

Bleach 1-38
Black Bird 1-12
Black Butler 1-8
Deathnote (Complete!) 1-13
Fairy Tail 1-15
Full Metal Alchemist (Complete!) 1-27
Fruits Basket (Complete!) 1-28
Fushigi Yugi (Complete!) 1-18
Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden 1-9 (series discontinued! :'( )
Life 1-4

Anime (DVDs)

Bleach 1-5
Bleach movies 1&2
Elfen Leid (Complete Boxset)
Fullmetal Alchemist (Complete Boxset)
Fullmetal Alchemist Movie
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (Complete Boxset)
Hellsing (Complete Boxset)
Hellsing Ultimate 1-4
Fruits Basket (Complete Boxset)
School Days (Complete Boxset)
The Wallflower (Complete Boxset)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Laputa Castle in the Sky
My Neighbour Totoro
Grave of the Fireflies
Kiki's Delivery Service
Pom Poko
Whisper of the Heart
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
The Cat Returns
Howl's Moving Castle
Tales from Earthsea
Ponyo
Arriety
Pokemon the First Movie
Pokemon 4ever

Collectables:

Bleach colour fact book
Bleach Art book
Fullmetal Alchemist art book volume 2
Fruits Basket tattoo, sticker and fact book
Bleach 'Kon' plush
Bleach badges x 5
Bleach posters x 7
Fullmetal Alchemist posters x 3

Now on to the good stuff: Final Fantasy. I've been a fan of this series since I was about 10, so I've had a good 10 years to collect this stuff!

Games:

Final Fantasy Origins - Final Fantasy 1 & 2
Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy 4
Final Fantasy 4 the Complete Collection - Final Fantasy 4, Interlude and 4: The After years
Final Fantasy Anthology - Final Fantasy 4 & 5
Final Fantasy 6
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy 10
Final Fantasy 10-2
Final Fantasy 12
Final Fantasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus
Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy 12: Revelant Wings
Final Fantasy Chocobo Tales
Final Fantasy Dissidia
Soundtracks for all of the above games, as well as both versions of the Advent Children Movie, both Dissidia games, as well as tribute and cover albums of the songs and all 3 Black Mages albums, totalling about 2000 separate tracks and 3.1 days of listening time (Well, so itunes says).
Strategy guides to Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2 and 12.

I have done a recent calculation of my logged time on all the Final Fantasy games over the years (much increased since my purchase of a PSP) and I have worked out that I have spent 3 months and 27 days playing the games. Woops...

Figures (Numbers in brackets regard to which game they are from):

Red XIII and Cait Sith (7)
Zidane Tribal (9)
Cloud, Tifa & Aerith (7)
Squall & Rhinoa (8)
Tidus, Yuna, Rikku & Auron (10)
Ashe, Vaan, Fran, Penelo & Balthier (12)
Rose, Cecil, Kain, Edge & Rydia (4)

Other Stuff:
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children
Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children Complete
Final Fantasy 7: Last Order
Giant Sephiroth wall scroll (7)
9 poster
Moogle plush
Tonberry t-shirt
'Leonheart' necklace (8)
10 drinking flask
Keyrings x 10 (the majority of the figures already mentioned)
Red XIII canvas painting (Yes, it was drawn by me but it still counts, damnit!)

There is some more stuff, but my mind has gone totally blank! Calculating how much my entire collection is worth, both anime/manga stuff and the Final Fantasy stuff is difficult - some of the stuff is pretty rare and so is worth a lot more than when I initially bought it. For example, upon release in 1997 it was only about £20 to buy Final Fantasy 7 for the playstation. 7 years later it cost me almost double that, so...

I reckon that everything is worth near enough the £2000 mark. So er, yeah. Hurray me!!