Saturday was Cinco de Mayo. Though many people don't know the actual history of the holiday, many people still celebrate it as an excuse to drink Mexican beverages, eat Mexican food, and party the day away. While we didn't party much, we did enjoy some margaritas and make somewhat healthy tacos to honor the day. My favorite mix is Trader Joes Margarita mix, Patron Silver, and Grand Marnier. We went with blended this weekend, but on the rocks is pretty tasty, too. For our tacos we made 2lbs of lean ground turkey with taco seasoning, onions, pico de gallo salsa, lettuce and some La Victoria green and red sauce. Super nom and not too terrible on the waistline.

Saturday was also movie night. Chronicle was the first movie we watched. It was interesting and entertaining but somewhat predictable. I couldn't really get past how the lead actor looked like a sullen, depressed Leonardo DiCaprio, though. Worth a watch, but I'm glad we didn't waste money in the theater for it.

Next up was Thor. We will probably end up seeing The Avengers at some point, so catching up on the preceding Marvel comic movies is a must. Now, back when Thor came out, I was hearing all these comments about how it was silly, and how he made an appearance at Starbucks and said some embarrassing lines about coffee, and that he rode a horse down a rainbow bridge. Clearly, I hadn't watched many previews or read about it from credible sources, and just took these comments to mean the movie was not worth seeing. Watching it on Saturday I realized that all of it fit right into the storyline, and the rainbow bridge wasn't really as dainty as it was made to sound. I think one of the differences between this and other superhero movies is that more than half of this film is in a fantastical world of magic and folklore. We are used to the hero having some special powers, or incredible gadgets, but not as used to almost the whole movie being set in such a fairy-tale setting. There was also a lot less combat than I'm used to in a superhero movie. Maybe that was what threw people for a loop and led them to make the comments about it being silly. I ended up liking it, and I'm glad we watched it.

Also, it had Natalie Portman in it. I had no idea until the movie started that she starred in it. That was pure win all in itself.

Sunday we continued the Marvel catch-up with Captain America. Lots of fun fighting scenes, a more evil and scary looking bad guy (like we are used to in comic books) and a wonderful cast. I enjoyed the story very much, and am now looking forward to seeing more of this character in The Avengers.

If I can take my eyes off of Tony Stark long enough.

So that's our weekend! OH, except I forgot to mention: I made another batch of hardboiled eggs, and they're perfect! Thanks for all the advice in the previous blog. Feel free to add comments to this one about anything discussed above, even if it's to hate on my feedback about Thor.

Anyone who pre-ordered the game is able to test out the beta this weekend. It began yesterday, and Jawbs and I were able to get a couple hours last night. Here's my initial impression. Yes, I am keeping in mind that this is only beta and things can and will change before launch.

Cons:
1. Learning the ropes - sink or swim.

If anyone has tried a new MMORPG, they're probably used to the whole tool-tip tutorial "here is how to move, here are your spells, this is your bag/inventory, click this to see blah" in the first few levels. GW2 doesn't really lend itself much to a new player in this sense. It flashes you a few tool-tips about the quests showing up on your map, but other than that, expects you to figure out much of the rest.

The first quest takes you right into CHAOS. Jawbs and I both had no f'n clue what was going on during the first 2 battles. We hadn't even learned how to use our starting abilities yet (and certainly didn't realize that your abilities are tied to the weapon type you have equipped until much, much later), when we were mobbed with enemies. Our previous MMORPG knowledge helped in that we knew to click to target and hit a button for an ability, but a new person would just be dead. Death... speaking of which:

2. "Fight to survive!"

When your life runs out, or very low (couldn't tell, it happens so fast) you go into this "fight to survive" mode where you're on the ground and have an alternate set of abilities in the middle of your screen to click, which seems to give you the option to either lay down and die, or try to save yourself. Thanks, game, for telling me WTF I am supposed to do here. Oh wait, you didn't. Let me just flail around on the ground and mindlessly click stuff because everything is so chaotic I have no clue what's happening.

As we played through the next hour or two, there were many "world events" we took part in that put us in this "fight to survive" scenario and it never got less confusing. And yes, that means we were dying/nearly dying a lot. I don't remember playing any other MMORPG in the very first levels and dying so much.

3. The starting area of the world is TOO big.

The designers of GW2 really were hellbent on confusing the new players. Even with a very pretty and intuitive map system, it's confusing to figure out where the heck you're supposed to go. Starting our "personal story" line of quests took us through an enormous city without much direction other than the big green arrow on the minimap. In my opinion, the first 2 to 3 zones a new character has to quest and explore in should be smaller, simpler, and have better direction. The first city has multiple "waypoints" in it that you can teleport to/from so I doubt I'll ever actually explore the entire city just due to it's expanse.

4. Server overflow.

Jawbs and I created toons on the same server in order to play together. Obviously. Now, we expected some delays and queue times possibly, since there aren't that many servers and it's a huge hyped up beta weekend. We were prepared to sit at a queue screen. But what happened instead, was the server was so busy, they randomly bump players into "overflow servers". If I was playing solo, this would have been great! But we wanted to quest together, and it separated us even though we were in a party. Clearly that wasn't thought out very well. We spent the first 20 minutes trying to figure out why we couldn't see each other even though we were both standing at the same quest giver. Logging out and back in helped, but the WORLD IS SO BIG that there are different servers for zones within an area... so we kept getting separated each time we'd zone. Frustrating to say the least. People in a party together should be recognized somehow and kept intact.

I realize that especially this last issue could be something just put in place for beta, so hopefully they have better plans for busy servers come launch time.

Pros:

1. The environment and characters are beautiful.

The character creation had lots of options, and you create a story for yourself when you pick some of your attributes. I remember being completely enamored with the look of the characters in GW1, and I am not disappointed at all now. The combat animations are pretty spiffy looking too.

I am fortunate that I can crank my graphics all the way up and really enjoy the scenery. The detail on the environment is really nice.



(^^ My Human Ranger, just about to ding level 4. My kitty pet is camera shy, sorry.)

2. Abilities are tied to your weapon.

I mentioned before that it took me a while to realize this was the case, but regardless of that, it IS an awesome thing. I enjoyed equipping different weapon types and seeing all the new options available. You have to "level up" your weapon type in order to unlock abilities, though. You'll start with 1 and unlock others as you use it. It adds a bit of depth to your decision making when it comes to picking up weapon upgrades, and lends to a bit of variety in combat action.

3. Waypoints are fast.

I also mentioned before that a large city has multiple waypoints in it. While that may lead to me exploring many parts of a city, it IS very convenient if you just want to get to your next quest destination. As many of you may know, I played World of Warcraft for many years, and I personally welcome the quick teleportation vs. scenic, time-eating flights on a bird.

4. World events are a cool concept.

I know that once I get a better handle on the UI, my abilities, and the whole quasi-death mystery, these world events will be fun. You can join in killing a mob of enemies, or a big enemy, with other players and get credit for participating. In other games, you'd have to be the first one to "tag" an enemy to get credit, but that's not the case here. In fact, I don't think that's the case with any enemies in this game. I can't quite figure out the looting system yet, nor the XP gains while attacking random enemies, but I have noticed that an enemy NPC's name never turns grey even if multiple people are fighting it. Guess I can work on figuring this stuff out when I play this evening. Or try to, at least.

In closing:

I am looking forward to exploring more of this game. I am not completely swept off my feet by it, but I suppose I never will be by another MMO. I was completely sucked into World of Warcraft at first because it was a whole new world for me. I had only played a couple hours of Asheron's Call, and a couple hours of Everquest I, but WoW was the first MMO I really gave a chance to. Thus, it will always be a basis of comparison for me, and I don't think anything will ever immerse me so deeply into it's grasps.

But this might be a fun time killer.

Please feel free to reply with your thoughts, comments, experiences. There's not many things that I like talking about more than video games!

This just in! AmberCutie can NOT make very good hardboiled eggs. I think maybe I didn't leave them in long enough, since the yolk seems a bit soft, but at least there's no grey discoloration. Also, peeling them takes like 10 mins a piece. Durrr, maybe next time they will come out better. My gramma used to poke a pin-sized hole in the eggs before boiling, and people around the web say it makes them easier to peel, so that could be something I try in the future.

Maybe I should just stick to cookies and pasta. Or just pasta.

Jawbs and I finished the complete season of Battlestar Galactica a couple nights ago. I'm actually sad that it's over. I really started to love all of the characters, and I'm sad that the other BSG shows that are still available to watch won't include the same cast. Starbuck was my favorite, and I am a little disappointed that the last episode didn't wrap up her story quite as clearly as I'd hoped during the whole last season. And I seriously feel bad for Lee. Wonder what the future holds for him after that devastating last episode.

As far as characters that I didn't love... well let's just say there wasn't a single episode that I didn't exclaim "Will someone PLEASE just kill him?!" about Gaius Baltar. That guy peeved me on so many levels. From his ridiculous greasy hair, to his episodes with the Jesus beard, to his sometimes awful acting (dude, just opening your eyes as wide as they will go doesn't necessarily mean you're being dramatic), to the fact that sometimes people could hear/see him talking to his imaginary Six and sometimes they couldn't. I wasn't a fan from the beginning, and even the last episode didn't reel me into his fan club.

Speaking of Six, there were moments I found her really ugly, and other times she looked hot as hell. Her mouth bothered me most, I think. The way she talked through her teeth (and she has a LOT of them) when she was trying to be super serious. In the episodes where her copies had longer, wavy, darker hair I thought she was gorgeous. And don't get me started on that one scene that she was in sweats and a ponytail. She looked better dressed down, I think. I wish they'd have had more casual copies of her.

Overall I was satisfied with the ending. It felt somewhat resolved, and the timing of the end was perfect. I don't think they could have strung along another season of plot without being too repetitive. I think we are going to give Caprica a shot, but I'm not completely convinced it will have the same appeal for us. We also still have "The Plan" to watch, and apparently "Blood and Chrome" is in the making.

We will watch the entirety of Firefly soon, I promise.

As we are getting more and more sunny days here in LA, I am starting to really look forward to the summer. Our orange tree is in full blossom and smells delicious, some of my plants that I got a handful of months ago are growing and healthy, and the pool is looking very inviting. I can't wait until it's nice and warm so we can hop in with a beer or fruity beverage and relax.

Enough ramblings for now. Feel free to chime in with thoughts about BSG or your recommendations about hardboiling eggs.

It may be a couple days before I stop riding this high of such a wonderful month with you guys! I made a ton of new fun friends, shared some epic moments, was flattered by some super heroes... and finished 18th! It was fabulous! Thank you, everyone, for being part of it in one way or another. I couldn't be happier. It was my 3rd highest token month ever, and also my most stress-free (and healthy! lol) top 20 month yet. It's nuts up there, and I commend all of the girls who have the energy and motivation to be up there so often. I am looking forward to going back to my usual schedule, having weekends off, and hopefully do consistently well enough to make my normal goals.

Congratulations to the winners of my raffle! Gex and Schmoe won the grand prizes, and Razeal, Praetorin and Hitekrednec won the backup prizes. JohnnyAb, Gex, Schmoe, Brownie, SluttySwede and Tracer participated in the Amber's Awful Art Auction and will be receiving some wonderful watercolor paintings to hang on their refrigerators. And around 30 people qualify to receive their Scrolls of Awesomeness as well as a thank you card if they so choose. I'll be contacting all of the above people via MFC mail for info and addresses.

I also want to give a special shout out to the superhero of the month, Gex. He shocked and surprised me with a Sybian for my birthday, as well as rocking my world on the 31st with a very generous tip. Boy I was ripping those raffle tickets for over an hour! Thank you, Gexy, for being awesome. And also, mega-thanks to "Batty-Moose" for so many fun (and evil!) surprises. You're pretty amazing.

Thank you again to everyone, members and models, for their company and their support! Can't wait to enjoy some more silly and sexy time with you soon.

It's been a long but fun month, hasn't it?

I just want to thank all of you who have come to visit and support me in whatever way you could. I've really enjoyed the extra time I've spent with ya this month! You've helped me maintain a rank in the top 20 ever since day 1, and that rocks!! We only have about 11 hours left to hold it, and I know we can. So let's have a fabulous time!

Here are the plans today:

Raffle tickets- I'm going to have a last call for raffle tickets at 4pm Pacific. Today's price will be 1 for 50tkns and 4 for 100tkns.

Raffle winner drawing- I'm planning to pull winners from the bucket at 5pm Pacific. You don't have to be present to win, I will MFC mail anyone who isn't there to claim their prize.

Update to Raffle prizes-

Grand prize packages are the same as described previously:
2 Winners receive - Grand Prize
* a Kodak Pulse 7 inch digital picture frame. This frame will have it's own email address, to which I will send monthly (exclusive to you) photos.
* a download of all my current pic sets, and ALL FUTURE PHOTO SETS that I make. Here is a link to the Kodak Pulse page on Amazon.
* VIP access (if you don't have it already, of course).
* a hand written thank you note.
3 additional winners will receive - Backup Prize
* a 1.8 inch LCD digital photo keychain. This will come pre-loaded with a selection of my favorite photos from my private pic sets. Here is a link to the item on Coby's website.
* a download of all my current pic sets.
* a hand written thank you note.

Early next week, I will be sending MFC mails to get mailing addresses and info for all of the items earned this month: Scrolls, thank you notes, raffle prizes, and watercolor paintings.

Amber's Awful Art Auction!- After the raffle winners have been pulled, I will raffle off my watercolor paintings from Monday night. I suppose this will be approximately 6pm Pacific. There are 12 paintings total, and I will auction off each one at a time with a starting bid of 100 tokens. The highest tipper (if any, lol) will win the art, and I will mail it to you. Below is a picture of all the paintings.



My feelings will not be hurt (much) if no one wants a painting.

My first ever Sybian Ride Group Show!- I am planning to get this started around 8pm Pacific. While I have plugged in this awesome machine to see how it works, I have not actually ridden it yet. Anyone in this group show will be the first to see my experimentation with it, and hopefully enjoy some cums with me! There are bound to be giggles as well as we learn how it works. I expect this show will be approximately 30-40 minutes, but there's no guarantee.

Hanging out 'til Midnight!- As many of you know, on the last day of a "mega month" I hang with you til the bitter end! You all have worked hard to keep my rank up, so I'll stick with ya til it's all over. After the Sybian show I may be completely exhausted, but we'll still have a fun time and keep each other entertained.

TL;DR
Raffle cut off- 4pm
Raffle winner draw- 5pm
Art Auction- 6pm
Sybian group- 8pm
Amber goes to sleep- 12am

So, best of luck to raffle and auction participants, and I'll see you all soon! I should be on as close to 2pm Pacific as possible. I have some raffle ticket writing to catch up on.

My Mega March raffle starts TODAY! It will run through March 31st, winners to be pulled while I'm on cam during the evening of the 31st.

Here's the deal: 50 tokens = 1 ticket. 100 tokens = 3 tickets. Example: Tip 150, you get 4; tip 200, you get 6. Online and offline tokens count the same, so tip any time and you'll be entered in!

Here's the prizes:

2 Winners receive - Grand Prize
* a Kodak Pulse 7 inch digital picture frame. This frame will have it's own email address, to which I will send monthly (exclusive to you) photos.
* all of my current photo sets, and ALL FUTURE PHOTO SETS that I make.
* VIP access (if you don't have it already, of course)
* a hand written thank you note

3 Winners receive - Backup Prize
* yet to be determined. It won't be as grand as the Grand Prizes, but will still be cool.

Here is a link to the Kodak Pulse page on Amazon.

And here are pics of the 2 that I already have in-hand, waiting to send to you!




I'm really looking forward to sharing these prizes with you! Come participate in my raffle, enjoy a sexy group show, or just share in the excitement of the 2nd half of Mega March with me as often as ya can! I'm having a BLAST with everyone this month. Your support, whether it come in the form of tokens or simply friendly conversation, is keeping me going strong and I appreciate everyone of you! See you soon.

... it's coming.

One week from today is the first day of March 2012. During March, I am going to be pushing myself to work more hours, including a few hours each weekend, in hopes to finish in the top 20. After the last couple of months being "slow" on MFC, and me allowing myself to take a bit of a breather and not working as many hours since December, it's high time I start busting some ass and get back into my groove!

I am planning to do a few extra fun shows throughout the month, including a blacklight/markers show, sticky-sweet-shower show, POV group, anal group, a couple oil dancing shows, and a whiteboard list each Friday. I'm also planning a raffle (details to come next week) and I'm hoping to have some fun wall signs throughout the month (think: Tombstones) for those who enjoy that sort of thing.

On March 1st, I will get on for 1-2 hours at the very start of the morning to see if we can get a bit of a jumpstart on the top 20! So if you're a nightowl and are awake at 12AM on March 1, stop by and show some lovin' and help me start the Mega Month with a bang! I'll also be on later that day for some regular Ambah Sexy Fun Time, so if you miss me at Midnight, hopefully I'll still catch you later on.

*Starting March 1st, I'll also have a new private pic set! It will be named "Tits and Toes" for the boobie and feet fans, but also includes some hot ass/pussy lip shots so no one feels left out. The new SuperSet will include these pics and have a slightly updated token price. I'm also re-pricing the other individual sets as of 3/1/12.

**Starting March 5th, Scrolls of Awesomeness will start! If you were around for Octamber and saw the Tombstones with "Kisses of Death" on them, you'll be familiar with these. 200 tokens gets your name on a Scroll, then every 50 token tip after that gets an awesome sticker on it. Once your scroll runs out of sticker space, I'll apply the next tips towards a new Scroll, and so on and so forth. If you accrue at least 3 Scrolls, I will mail your Scrolls to you with a special hand written thank you note included after March is over. (If you choose to, of course. I won't forcefully stalk you until I get your mailing address, I pinky swear!)

Here's what they look like.


*** Update! Scrolls of Awesomeness will come to an end on Sunday, March 18! If you're trying to accumulate 3 in order to have them sent to you, this is your deadline! Feel free to MFC mail or PM me to check your sticker/scroll count.

**** Update! My March raffle will start on Monday, March 19! Tip 50 for one ticket, or 100 for 3. Two Winners will be pulled on the evening of Saturday March 31. Prize? Oh yes! I have two 7-inch digital picture frames, one for each winner. These frames will include all of my current pic sets, and ANY FUTURE PIC SETS that I make! I will be able to send pics directly to the picture frame via a special email address any time, so you will get new exclusive pics of me monthly. If you are interested in winning one of these frames (which I will send to whatever mailing address you provide) then start sending tips for tickets on Monday, March 19!

***** Some shows to put on your calendar: *Friday, March 16 - Anal group show (time not decided yet). *Tuesday evening, March 20 - Blacklight show (names on body with markers and a glow stick penetration group show). *Thursday, March 29 - POV group show (time not decided yet). *Saturday, March 31 - My first sybian ride group show (time not decided yet).

Saturday March 10th is my 28th birthday! I will be on cam for a few hours that afternoon to celebrate with all of you lovely folks. Maybe a little ice cream for the birthday girl... in my mouth and on my body? (I've never done that before!) Most girls love to be spoiled on their special day, and I am no exception, so feel free to stop in and lavish me with adoration. I promise you'll have a great time, too.

So there's my plan! Mega March! You know I can't do it without your help and appreciate any and all who visit to keep me pumped up! I know we're going to have a kick-ass good time.

Though I didn't spend much time on MFC on Valentine's Day due to lame cold sneezyness, I still had a wonderful sweet time with you all! Below are pics of the Vday Ducky Butts. More pics from Vday (naughtier ones!) will be uploaded in my VIP section soon.

Guess who's back for Valentines Day, 2012?!



36 lucky duckies will get to take a luxurious Valentines Day bath with me! A tip of 214 tokens (tip note "ducky") gets your name on a ducky butt, which makes you one of my Valentines for this year. Aside from enjoying the bath with me, your ducky butts will also be featured on my MFC profile picture album for Valentines Day 2012. Claim a butt before they're all spoken for! Only one per person.

Quack!

So after a weird start to 2012 and a slow beginning to January, I was feeling lost earlier today. So far behind my usual goals, so out of touch with my usual groove. So for fun I decided to make a Lucky Stars board to offset the bad luck of Friday the 13th. The results were ASTOUNDING! Not only did quite a few wonderful people join my Lucky Stars board, but a few very special people proved to be Cosmicly Awesome Lucky Stars and really rocked my world.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!! The pics below will also be on my MFC profile in the Fan Signs album. Thank you again and happy Friday the 13th!

It was a fun but mellow end to a sweet year. Thank you to everyone who was part of my year, and all who joined me on my last few days of MFC time for 2011. I had a blast! Here are the people who went a bit above and beyond and became my "Heroes" on December 29th.



Hoping 2012 is at least as awesome as 2011 was, but I have a feeling it could be even better! I'm looking forward to another year of fun with all of you.

Earlier this month, Jawbs and I jumped on the new exciting bandwagon of adult .xxx domains and moved the forum to acf.xxx. We were thrilled to have a 3 character domain name, and hell, it looked AWESOME! Grabbing a 3 character domain while it's available is sort of just a no-brainer. There were a few folks who were caught off guard and emailed me in a panic "omg is your site hacked!!11one1!" but in general it went over fine.

However, these .xxx domains are coming under some controversy and many big name adult companies are currently fighting against it. Here's an article about it that you may find helpful.

Now, I know I'm an itty-bitty-small-fry in the adult industry, but I certainly want to show my support to the adult industry. Jawbs has switched us back to the worn-in and comfy ambercutie.com/forums domain.

There shouldn't be any problems with you logging in, but if you do run into any difficulty, please accept my apologies and appreciation for your patience and understanding. You can try clearing your cookies for ambercutie.com then attempt to log in again, that should help. The ACF would be nowhere without you fine people, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy it!

I swear, as I grow older, the years go by faster and faster. This was truly an epic year for me, though. It had its ups and downs, as any year does, but I am incredibly happy for everything that it held for me. I welcome a new year in just a few weeks, only because I have the confidence that it can be even bigger and better in 2012!

Within the replies to this blog, feel free to share your stories of why 2011 was great for you... I'll share mine here.

Jawbs - since early this year, your work schedule was totally wacky, but you never once let me feel like it got in the way of us. Eternally supportive, loving, and caring. Jawbs you rock my world, thank you so much! I bet 2012 will knock our socks off.

MFC - Holy crap, it was a great year on cam. I've made SO many new Internet friends on MFC and honestly had some epic days/weeks/months as far as shows, tokens, conversations went. I am so grateful and thankful for happiness and everything MFC and all the its awesome members and models have brought me this year.

ACF - I'm soooo excited at how busy the forum is these days! So many posts I can hardly keep up. I appreciate all the input, conversation, and fun posts that continue to populate ACF. And we got a new domain! acf.xxx looks so sexy, with its 3 characters. Hatchi Matchi! Thank you everyone who has been a part of this wonderful community. We love each other (as well as fight sometimes) like a big sweet family, and I hope we continue to grow with more new, great members!

December is nearly halfway over now. I'm planning and hoping for the rest of this month to be super ridiculous awesome with all of you. I want to end this year with a brilliant bang! I hope you'll join me.

Love and kisses to all.
Amber

So we are 2 days into the last month of 2011. Holy shit did this year fly by! I took it rather easy in November as far as my camming schedule goes, so I'm planning to at least get back to my norm for December to take the year out right. Today on cam I dedicated a whiteboard to anyone who tipped 122 tokens (for the 12/2 date) and I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge their effort to help start my month off right!

My "Friday Friends" for the day! -


While it was somewhat of an off-kilter day for me (I had a rum and coke with no food in my belly and was probably a bit tipsier than I'd normally be at this point of the day, I may have caused some extra giggles) these folks helped make it sweet and fun.

I may have little things like this throughout the month of December so keep your eyes peeled (that's a weird old saying!) if you'd like to be part of it!

Happy December, everyone, I hope your 2011 was brilliant!

If any of you fine folk are NOT out fighting crowds at Wally World or your local mall, I have my own awesome sale to offer you.

SuperVIP for 1,111 tokens!!! My entire collection of pictures (112 images) as well as VIP access. Usually 1456 tokens (or 1621 if you tip for VIP and all the pic set individually.)

Here's a preview of the pictures: http://www.ambercutie.com/pics/private

Here's info about VIP:

So if you aren't already an MFC member, click HERE to go make an account and grab some tokens! Make sure to buy the largest token package because sometimes new members on MFC are limited to how many packages they can buy at a time.

I should be on cam from about 2pm PST until 6pm PST today, but offline tips work just fine! I will immediately send your link to download the images, as well as adjust your status on the forum to let you into the VIP Access area. This special deal will be available until 10pm PST.

Happy Holidays and Happy Black Friday!!