happy new year + hello 2017

[illusion_is_mine]

 So I did a bit of early spring cleaning today, and ended up finding my credit card for my health benefits I'd been looking for!  I was like "OMG!  Now I don't have to pay out of my ass for my medication, or to go to the doctor."  My health insurance has a really pricey deductible so I was still trying to pay that down, and that made my payments for my meds, and doctor visits somewhat expensive.  I was paying out of pocket which I really couldn't afford.  This is great because my job contributes money to this particular card, and gives you incentives if you don't smoke and other things.  This means that I can use that card, and not have to spend my own money on medical expenses.  Needless to say my 2017 is getting off to a decent start.




As for gaming this my collectors edition of FFXII came in the mail recently, and the packaging is pretty snazzy.  It comes with a bonus dvd with special features.  I've never seen packaging like this for PS2 games so I was impressed with the case xD!  

In other news I never did any recaps for my favorite albums of 2016 so I'll do it now.  I'll just list them in no particular order.

• • Rihanna - Anti
  • Frank Ocean - Blonde
  • Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend
  • Nine Inch Nails - Not The Actual Events
  • Jay Park - Everything You Wanted
  • BTS - Wings
  • mitsume - A Long Day
  • きのこ帝国 - 愛のゆくえ
  • White Lies - Friends
  • Utada Hikaru - Fantôme
  • Touché Amoré - Stage Four
  • Savages - Adore Life
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
  • Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
  • Oceans of Slumber - Winter
  • Lacuna Coil - Delirium
  • Delain - Moonbathers
  • DEAN - 130 mood : TRBL
  • Black Marble - It's Immaterial
  • Balance and Composure - Light We Made
  • Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
  • Deftones - Gore
  • The Novembers - Hallelujah
  • Stranger Things OST
  • Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
  • Garbage - Strange Little Birds
  • Epica - The Holographic Principle 
  • Alcest - Kodama

I think that's about it.  If it's not here then I haven't listened to it yet.  I still have a few albums from last year that I need to listen to fully.  I like to give albums my full attention.  I can say I'm defiantly more of an album person more so than a singles person.  I really dig that Touche Amore record a lot.  It's about the vocalist's mother who died of cancer so you can really fell the singer's pain in a lot of the songs.  These are a mixture of different albums from different genres.  I just put them all there together because it's easier.