Day 37-42, Thursday-Tuesday, February 6-11, 2014

I really need to remember to update these on a more regular
basis, but the truth is that this has been just another boring,
snowy, icy, cold, week. I have been working on future video
projects and I have been excising my body a lot over the past few
days but other than that there's been nothing going on. I wish I had
more to say, but until the weather starts getting warmer I don't' think
there will be all that much to do around here other than the usual daily grind.

Day 31-36, Friday-Wednesday, January 31-February 5, 2014

So, I'm really glad that January is over. I mean nothing
amazing has really happened so far in February, but it's
a step up from where I was this time last month that's for
sure. So, let me just briefly recap the past few days.
I've been working on a lot of videos, including scripts for
the next few reviews and countdowns. I've been working on
getting live-streaming up and running, so I can make videos
from live-streams more often. I've played a new game called
Loadout that just became Free 2 Play on Steam. It's kinda
fun, it's like TF2 and Borderlands so I might make some content
on that. I've been hard at work getting Minecraft back up
on this computer, as I haven't played it since I switched last
year. I've played way too much League of Legends with my
friends, but that's ok. I've been trying to exercise more
often. I transferred my entire Pokemon collection from the past
3 years to Pokemon Bank, which took forever and a day. I've been
backing up all of my videos from the past 4 years, which has taken
forever and 2 days. I'm preparing for the 4th year anniversary special.
There's been way too much snow. Honestly, I think that's it. That's been
this week in a nutshell so far. Busy, but I like that. Peaceful, just the
way I wanted to start this year. I just wish things had gone as planned
from the start.

Day 27-30, Monday-Thursday, January 27-30, 2014

Another arctic blast. Yeah, I guess that would be a good
way to describe the past few days. I feel bad that I haven't
really had much to write about this month other than... death
I guess. Kinda depressing, but my life never was the most glamorous.
Regardless, the winter months are always slow. Not much to do, not
many places to go. I'm really hoping things pick up in the spring.
I know that my grandmother will be staying with us for at least a
month when we have the memorial service for my Pap-pap. Honestly, I
just don't have anything to really talk about... nothing special happened
these past few days. Sorry if that's a bit of a let down. Maybe tomorrow I'll
do a look back on this month and talk about goals for February.

Day 23-26, Thursday-Sunday, January 23-26, 2014

Another batch of rather monotonous days. I've got nothing special to say about Thursday and Friday. Saturday, however was another one of those depressing days. I spoke with my grandmother on Saturday, and she told me that the family received my grandfather's ashes back. He served the U.S military in the 50's and was stationed in Japan, so he was given a golden urn. Hearing that just brought me back down a bit deeper this dark state I've felt trapped in this past month. And then I heard of the passing of JewWario shortly after which was just as depressing for me and so many other people. Sunday was spent just taking in the events of the weekend. Like I said, I'm just sort of trapped in a depressed state for the moment that will pass with time. Add on the the fact that it's winter, and we're snowed in again with no hope in sight of warmer temperatures and you have a sad Lightning.

Day 22, Wednesday, January 22, 2014

So I think today was the most productive day I've had since the beginning of the year. I woke up really early today and just decided that I'd get a lot done. I worked on videos for nearly 9 hours, between rendering, recording both video and audio, and I even started working on the next script for the next countdown. And speaking of countdowns, I finally released my Top 5 Games of 2013 video. I think it went over well enough. Hopefully I can make tomorrow turn out the same. I have a plan for tomorrow. I finally want to get up and start walking again. You see about 2 years ago I really screwed up my one ankle to the point where they think it needs surgery. Well, I'm scared of the surgery option so I'm going to try everything in my power to avoid that. So tomorrow I want to grab my crutches, get out of this wheelchair that I've been bound to for almost 2 years, and finally get active again before I develop other complications from inactivity. Hoping that goes well. Only time will tell. But I really want to be up and moving for when I see my grandma, aunt, uncle, and cousin in the spring. We'll be having a memorial service up here in PA when they arrive in the spring for Pap-pap, since he didn't want one down in Florida. So that's my goal. There isn't that much to do in winter anyway, might as well spend the time getting built back up.

Day 21, Tuesday, January 21, 2014

So today was another normal day. Nothing big happened today.
I worked for hours on a new video countdown and played a
bunch of League of Legends. I also spent a bit of time with
my family this evening just talking and sharing stories and
jokes. But all in all a pretty normal day. I'm really proud
that I was able to get this video done. I can't wait to see
what everyone thinks when I upload this tomorrow afternoon!

Day 16-20, Thursday-Monday, January 16-20, 2014

No, I haven't forgotten about this. It's that I really didn't have
much to say the past few days. It was all the same stuff, just feeling
sad and playing games to ease the pain. Lots of League of Legends, TF2,
and Pikmin 3. I'm starting to feel better about things, and I'll probably
get back into video making sometime in the next day or so.
I'm sorry this update sucked but I felt it would be a bit
redundant to just write the same stuff for nearly a week
straight.