"I'm tired and stupid!"

This just happened about ten minutes ago...

So, I was sitting in my room, watching the twentith episode of Petite Princess Yucie (or, as it's known in Japan, ぷちぷり ユーシィ). Then, all of a sudden, my mom came bursting in my room, laughing. I heard Tim call out, "I'm tired and stupid!"

Apparently, Tim wanted to put lotion on his hands, but instead, he ended up putting some of my Nair on. For those who aren't aware, Nair is a hair removal. It was funny, because Tim was mostly complaining of its smell.

When I first found out that Tim had done this, I was concerned for him. After all, Nair can burn if you leave it on too long! Fortunately, he had only left it on for roughly a minute, so it didn't burn him. Unfortunately, a minute was long enough to take some hair off of the back of his hands so he looks like a noob.

May it be remembered: Tim is tired and stupid.

May it also be remembered: Tim is engaged and so screwed when I tell this short story at his wedding.

Good morning.

Unfortunately, I kinda woke up this morning thinking about stuff that was irritating me. (woah, nice. Instant spell-checker. So, blogger's like Microsoft Word now?)

So, yeah. The stuff that's being annoying me...

I'm really not sure whether I want to be involved in 4-H camp this year anymore. I mean, who would want to be a part of a group, deciding what's going to happen at camp, if nobody else thinks your ideas or comments are meaningful? If your opinions are immediately disregarded by another member?

I'm looking at you, Rachel G. Just because you're all effin' popular and because you were on the Program Staff last year doesn't mean all of your ideas are magical and wonderful and everybody else's aren't. I saw how you COMPLETELY changed what idea you were routing for for camp JUST because Jackie and Kevin didn't want to do that. Good job, looking for other peoples' support for your own decisions. Good job, having little backbone in your decisions but being completely enthusiastic about them until you see that the people who matter to you don't like that idea.

I just...I can't do this anymore. I don't exactly fit in, and whenever I do choose to speak up, everyone thinks my comment is meaningless. I could list all the things that happened at the last meeting that have fueled these feelings, but I don't want to be more accusatory than I already have.

On a note other than my frustrations, I'm watching Petite Princess Yucie right now.

I'm kinda worried...I haven't heard from Casey for a while...Maybe I really did tick him off. I guess it wouldn't be a surprise if I did. I can pretty much taint any relationship. There's no relationship I can have that I can't mess up by opening my mouth. Le sigh.

...I hope my brothers get up soon...

Hello, world. I happen to be alive.

A lot's been happening...

So, my brothers are home. Hallelujah!

I restarted Gaia-Online for a really, really dumb reason: A guy I met at P.B.'s new youth group asked me. I dunno, he seemed cool, but it's really dissapointing when you look up a person's profile that you may be slightly interested in only to find that said person is "married" to someone else on Gaia. Yeah, fun, innit?

I got "plastic surgery" today. Technically, I had two moles and one skin tag removed. The moles were on my face--my forehead and chin, to be exact--and the skin tag was on my neck. The spot on my chin really likes to bleed, so I've already had to replace the bandaid and clean the area up a bit.

I haven't written much recently, but I wrote, like, one sentence so far tonight. I know one sentence is pathetic, but it's better than nothing.

Well, I don't have much to say...I'm just really happy that my brothers are home.

Ya know what? I think I should email everyone's favorite Winthrop yet tonight. Last I heard from him, he had a broken arm. It's been a couple of weeks, so it's probably much better.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I have two minutes to right a post...

Okay, the short-short version of my life over the past few whatevers.

The Music Man finished its run yesterday. That run was the second best seller WCT has ever had.

Teenaged drama happened frequently during the run of the Music Man.

I had insomnia last night.

I also ate ravioli at eleven o' clock last night.

I now own the movie the Fox and the Hound.

Mom made fun of me (AKA, teased) for crying at the end of the Fox and the Hound.

I'm going to Disney World in January.

AJ (played Winthrop in the play) is also going to Disney World in January, but his trip will begin the week after I leave from Florida.

Megan--my cool friend from Tennessee--is coming on this Disney World trip.

I plan on annoying both of my brothers when they come home this week.

I am three minutes over my time-limit.

Gotta go!

EDIT: All spelling errors are being left intact to show how literate I am when I'm...under pressure! *que Queen music*

Well, here's the first real post in a while.

The reason I haven't been on AIM is because I've been doing play practice for six weeks. I'm in the Music Man at the Waukesha Civic Theatre. Opening night is on Friday...

The other reason I haven't been on AIM is because there's someone I need to seriously speak with. Yep...

I'm getting a little more progressive on my story. Just a little. I'm almost at 10k words now.

Oh, I found the Prince of Egypt (omg, I'm tired...it too me like five tries to get "Egypt" spelled correctly) soundtrack. It's absolute love. <3

I don't have much to say...I don't know what to say.

Well, maybe I'll have something to say about opening night on Friday...laters.

Just shoot me in the head while you're at it, why don't cha?

[Current song: Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park]

Lookie lookie, I'm becoming what I hate...

Somewhere I Belong

(When this began)
I had nothing to say
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(I was confused)
And I let it all out to find
That I’m not the only person with these things in mind
(Inside of me)
But all the vacancy the words revealed
Is the only real thing that I’ve got left to feel
(Nothing to lose)
Just stuck, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

[Chorus]
I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I’ve held so long
(Erase all the pain till it’s gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m close to something real
I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

And I’ve got nothing to say
I can’t believe I didn’t fall right down on my face
(I was confused)
Looking everywhere only to find
That it’s not the way I had imagined it all in my mind
(So what am I)
What do I have but negativity
’Cause I can’t justify the way, everyone is looking at me
(Nothing to lose)
Nothing to gain, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

[Repeat Chorus]

I will never know myself until I do this on my own
And I will never feel anything else, until my wounds are healed
I will never be anything till I break away from me
I will break away, I'll find myself today

[Repeat Chorus]

I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m somewhere I belong
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m somewhere I belong
Somewhere I belong

I got my shirt...here are photos!

So, I finally got my CafePress order in the mail! Hoorah! :D It's very, very pretty.

I have more Music Man practice tonight, and I'm going to show off my shirt. I doubt anybody'll say anything, but that's okay! I can love my shirt more than anybody else can! XP

I also think that I may set up my own CafePress store, so I can sell items with pictures I've taken. Like, right now I'm thinking of the pictures I took when I was at Alaska. Everybody likes Alaska!

OH YEAH! I just remembered the nickname I was planning on giving to Casey! YAY! I'm going to start calling him "Riddle." One, because guys in general are riddles to me. Two, because the name of a character from his story is named Tom, and Casey says that Tom is based off of himself. Three, Tom Riddle is the...maiden name...yeah..."maiden name," it sounds funny... of Voldemort from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. I'm sure Casey must be secretly evil or something, so "Riddle" is a perfect nickname.

Here's to Josh: My favorite brother who had been all alone for several days, because he might have infected the masses. *sniff* I love you, bro! Take care! Get better! Be social now that you can!

Josh's mumps

R.I.P

9/17/06-9/25/06

I wanna write. Yet...

I don't wanna write. DX I know I should, BUT I'M SO EFFIN' LAZY!

I just want to sit here and listen to Journey to the Past, eat my apple, and drink my soda.

I'm horrible. So lazy D:

And, I swear, men are confusing. Males in general. You have NO clue if something they say is eluding to something else or not. Sigh...

I know my thoughts and feelings are scattered right now; I can't even listen to a song on repeat like I normally do. I implusively change songs. Now I'm listening to Egao no Tensai from Petite Princess Yucie.

On another thought (see how scattered my thoughts are?), I realized I knew what 下川 みくに (Shimokawa Mikuni)'s last name meant. "Shimokawa," as it's read, comes from two kanji. The first kanji is the kanji for under, "shita." The second kanji is for river, "kawa." So, her last name, translated literally, means "under the river." I don't know what her first name means, though, because most J-pop stars write their name with kanji for their last name and hiragana for their first name. Shimokawa does this, too. So, I don't know what her first name means unless I had the kanji for her first name.

I only find that really interesting because I regconized both kanji. I knew that the first one was "shita" and I guessed that the second was river. Yeah.

...I'm really trying to procrastinate on writing.

...Country road
Kono michi
Zutto yukeba
Ano machi ni
Tsuzuiteru
Ki ga suru
Country road

*still procrastinating*

OH, OH, OH, OH! TIM! I'm close to finishing Super Mario Sunshine! I just need to beat the hell that is Pianta Village and then I can move unto the final area. Hooray!

Okay. Tomorrow I'm ordering that shirt off of CafePress. Tonight I'm writing. Right now I'm publishing this post and CLOSING blogger for good tonight. Yes.

Explaining things for the enchanter...

Tim,

The image originally came from this wallpaper. I only wanted Sora, so I had to remove everything else around her. So, deleting pixels.

Plus, the "image or whatever" that isn't loading for you is a youtube video. I guess your computer has problems.

No, I am not posting the image I made from this. One, because I keep fixing it. Two, because I don't want someone finding the image I worked on so hard and uploading it unto some crappy geocities site and claiming that it belongs to him/her.

Yes, I'm being a little selfish. Yes, I guess I kinda stole the image in the first place from the wallpaper person, but I had to work to take it. It's not like I saw, "OMG PRETTY SORA MERMAID!" and was just able to use it right away. No, I had to work in order to use the image. And it doesn't look bad, either.

Mmm, CafePress.

I just spent all evening cleaning up some images so that I can use them to make a Kaleido Star t-shirt. And I've continually found stray pixels the whole night. XDD I think I'm done, though.

...But, that's what I said when I emailed Casey. Then I found more pixels! XD

I have 'till the 18th. No pressure. I've done most of the work, anyways. Now it's just perfecting, perfecting, perfecting.

Oh, CafePress is having a 20% off sale from the 18th to the 20th. I got a flyer in the mail today, because I used CafePress to make Susan a bib for Lil' Baby Action!

Once I receive the shirt in the mail, I'll take pictures of it and post them here on my blog. Then I post pictures even later of me wearing my new shirt. Then you may all blask in my eternal glory.

You can eliminate the last sentence, I was kidding. KIDDING!

I still haven't gotten a call from the theater. I have 'till tomorrow before I know if I made it.

OMG SUCCESS!

So.

[Current mood: A little nervous]
[Current music: Kimi wo Nosete, Theme Music from H. Miyazaki Anime]

I auditioned for the Music Man on Sunday. I really hope I get in, but I can't be sure. I've only had one play experience before. I think the audition went well, though...

I have driver's ed going on right now. It's really odd.

And--no offense to my friends who attend West--every time I go in the building, I feel like it's hard for me to breathe. Just a very uncomfortable feeling.

I thought I might make a friend or two pretty easily, but I guess not. I mean, I'm the only non-West kid in the whole class. I have to break the clique barrior in order for someone to think I might be a cool friend. On the other hand, I've never really made friends with someone just meeting them. Even at camps, it generally takes me a couple of days to befriend a person.

On another note, I'm a total loser. 8D I'm drinking out of my two-liter of Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. No glass. Straight out of the bottle! Whoo! I win at being moronic! Ow, ow, ow! CARBONATION UP THE NOSE!

...Another thought. I'm going to check if youtube has that Snickers commersial from the Bush-Gore election. Ya know, the one with the elephant and the donkey on the guy's shoulders...and they say these things:
Elephant: My dad and I wear the same size of pants.
Donkey: I invented pants!

I'll go check that out. :D

Over and out.

I had a crazy dream...prepare yourselves!

Okay, I only remember the last half, so bare with me.

My family--Mom, Dad, Josh, and Tim--and I were driving in our green mini-van. We had just left this business(? guessing) that's next to a corn field when I started to notice...strange things. As we passed the beginning of the corn field, there was silly string on some of the corn stalks. I don't remember the colors, I think that there was pink and blue, though. Immediately after I saw the silly string, I saw some movement in the fields. They looked like blue figures.

So, I began to freak out and told Mom and Dad that something's wrong. They went back to the business to tell the owner.

Then, Mom, Dad, and Josh were outside of the car, at the business, when "people" started to emerge from the corn field. Blue "people." I noticed this right away and no one else seemed to. I open the car door, whispered that something was wrong to my parents, but they didn't seem to think so. After which, I closed the car door and locked it. Then, my nightmare got worse...

The alien father character from Banjo-Tooie emerged from the corn field. Yes, the alien father from Banjo-Tooie. YOU HEARD ME RIGHT! At seeing him, I opened the car door, pointed at him, yelled, "What the hell are you?" screamed for good measure, and closed the car door, locking it promptly.

Then Josh got shot with an orange liquid by one of the other two aliens. I assumed it killed him. Mom was behind the car, scared stiff. She got shot and started screaming. The orange stuff kinda looked like Nickolodeon slime, now that I think about it...anyways, the next thing that happened was Dad showing up next to Mom, saying, "Don't just stand there!" then getting shot himself, crying out during which.

So, it's just me and Tim in the car. I'm scared to death. Somehow, I remembered something, and came up with the realization that we had to hide in the shade. So I told Tim to lie down, as I hid under a car sit. Tim calmly(!!) laid down on the backseat of the car.

Then I woke up. I figured that the moral of the story was, "Ya'll better listen to me or you's all gonna DIE!"

That's it. Yep.

To Tim: Not really, actually. The bride was late, but apparently the door was locked on her XD! And I don't like mushrooms because I'm not a fungus freak. DX The job thing is okay, though. Love ya!

To Andrea: It's okay about the job. Yes, there's a difference in weddings. Catholic weddings are really long compared to other ones. :p

Jobless. XP It's okay, though.

In short, the whole job situation with those three kids wasn't going to work out. So, once again, I'm unemployed.

Yeah, I'm a bit tired...and I'm going to a wedding today. Yay! Here's to hoping that Lutheran weddings aren't as long as Catholic ones.

Megan sent me this Funky Sock Exchange thing in the mail recently. I decided to participate, as it sounds hilarious, so I sent out five out the six letters I’m supposed to send out. I still need Emily’s friend’s address.

Okay, I’m going to pretend that there are no mushrooms in this calzone type thing. I’m hungry and I can tell Dad later that there were mushrooms and to never do it again…

Okay, I fail at pretending.

EWW! THERE ARE OLIVES, TOO!

…There goes my lunch.

I'm back.

Well, here I am again. I survived Mori no Ike, though it proved to be difficult at some points.

Some big news is that I now have a job. Every day of this school year--except for days off of school and days I am ill--I have the job of watching and waking up three elementary school kids. They are: The six year old Garret, the eight year old Riley, and the ten year old Gwyn. All spellings are guesses.

Garret has Downs, but so far I can tell he's pretty bright. The doctors say that he has the mind of a five year old...yet the school says he has the mind of a three year old. That says enough to me that he realizes that he can get away with doing nothing by fooling the teachers and other students into thinking that he's much dumber than he actually is. Plus, when I was visiting at the family's house today, I heard Garret talk a lot. It was a little hard to understand him, but I've encountered tons of kids who are hard to understand (Ems' little brother, anyone?), so it's not unusual.

Apparently--from what the parents said--Garret was having one of those days when, "it's as if he woke up with two horns." I'm glad that I got to see him at his sassiest and most crabby state, because that way I knew what the worst was. I got him to listen to me a few times when need-be. One example: when the family drove me home and they stuck around a bit, Garret went into the neighbors' yard to play on their playset. I got him back into my yard, with no physical force nessassary. I just had to sternly tell him to get back to my yard. Yay!

One cool thing about this job is...once I'm done buying all the DVDs and CDs I've wanted for a while, I'm definitely going to be able to purchase my own cell phone. YES! Now, I'm still not sure whether I'll want the acoustic version of Passionate Days or Karenai Hana as my ringtone...I'm just so giddy. ^-^ I get my own cell phone...and I pay for it myself! Independence rules!

Andrea: I'm sorry I haven't been on AIM. I've been really busy recently and it's too much for me at the moment to stick on the computer for extended periods of time. It's easier to reach me by email at the moment.

Melty and Jenn: Thank you for your words of encouragement on my angsty post. It means so much to me that people who I am close to care.

I'm going to take a shower now. Then I'm busy again tomorrow.

P.S. Don't ask me how much I'm making. I'll feel bad if I tell you. 8D I'm just happy that I'm getting paid to take care of kids.

Well, leaving in an hour or so...

Just finished putting address labels on all twenty postcards I'm going to send off.

I'm still silently "cursing" Uncle Sven for having such a long last name, because I had to address the postcards to HIM instead of him and Jenn. :P

I'm pretty sure that Mori no Ike is gonna be FUN, FUN, FUN! :D But I can't help but feeling that two weeks is a bit long...but anyways! I just have to do my best, then everything is just going to be GREAT! Mori no Ike is really an amazing place and I'm so glad I get to be a part of it!

(Sarah P. is probably the only one who would get that whole paragraph. It just has to be said in the right tone and then you get the reference. You also have to have seen Kaleido Star...)

Yeah, I better go finish stuff up...

See you all later!

Leaving for camp in two days!

Just got home from the State Fair, it was fun. I'm a little tired, though. I guess that's what I get when I stay up 'till 10:30 reading about Rare(ware) on Wikipedia...but video game companies are so interesting! :D

I'm mostly packed for Mori no Ike, I just have a few more things, some last minute and such...

To the anonymous commenter, Adam: Thanks for the comment. I think I may AIM you, but unless I AIM you today (8/4/06) or tomorrow, then please don't to get an AIM from me until around the 20th or 21st. I will be at Mori no Ike from the 6th until 20th, I think. Once again, thank you for your comment.

No emoness here.

For those who care about me, I apologize for any concern I caused over my last post. I tend to hide things from myself and others, and when I see something that exposes the truth, I snap. It's really lame, I know that, I'd like to change the way I act in general.

I think I'm gonna be stressed over the next couple of days, preparing for Mori no Ike. Just really busy...

I can't really think of anything else to say.

I don't get it.

I just feel like I can't communicate my problems to people. Something always holds me back, saying that I'm just going to mess something up by sharing my thoughts and feelings.

I was in the middle of reading something last night when it all just came out. What I was reading reminded me of my own life, my own problems, and I hated that. It reminded me that I don't share all of my thoughts with those I'm closest to. That I'm afraid that I'll bother them, since they have their own problems.

I just cried. I attempted to phone someone, but I don't think he answered. I still feel like crying this morning.

It's just...all my life, I've had it rammed into me that I shouldn't inconvenience people. Isn't telling a person my problems inconveniencing him/her? I don't know what to think or what to do. And even when people tell me that I can tell them things, I feel like they're lying to me. How could someone actually mean that? I don't get it.

I've never been able to help people I'm close to, who're depressed. I wasn't able to help Tim, I still can't help Mom, I can't help a friend...I can't even help my self.

I better end this now. I have a message to go to. I wish I didn't...I'd rather be in my bed.

このCD を ください。 なんだよ? インポート?

Roughly translating that subject line: "This CD, please. What? Import?"

It only makes sense if you know what I've been doing for the last half an hour or so.

I really want to get this CD: http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B00005V1M7/249-4554634-3534745?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP

You've probably noticed right away that it is the Japanese amazon dot com. Luckily, by looking at this page: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1039606/ref=hp_1_13_1039606/249-4554634-3534745

One can learn that the Japanese amazon dot com does international shipping for DVDs, CDs, books, and videos. Hoorah for me! So, by looking at the prices down the page, for shipping and stuff...

The CD: ￥ 1,197
Shipping Rate: ￥ 600
Handling Charge: ￥ 300

So, in total, ￥ 2,097. How much does it cost in "real" money, meaning US dollars? According to xe.com, $18.2729. That means, to import this five track CD, I'd have to pay around eighteen bucks.

Much better than paying around forty to sixty bucks on the US amazon dot com for an import, for sure, eh?

Now the next step: Run this whole thing past my mother.

Yesterday afternoon...wow

As some may know, yesterday afternoon there was a tornado warning in the area of Waukesha city. Not watch, warning. That was a first for me.

At the time, I was at the house of a 4-H family from our club. It was drama practice for our skit, the Cookie Caper. I'll talk more about the practice later...

Anyways, the moms were upstairs when they saw the weather.

"Maybe we should turn on the TV," Mrs. W said, going downstairs into the basement, where all us kids were. She turned on the TV and changed the channel to the local news.

"Tornado Warning for the following counties until 3:15," the scroller read. One only had to wait half a second in order to see that Waukesha county was the one warned for tornados. It was a red zone all around Waukesha city. Nervousness stuck me as I gazed at the television, wondering if I was actually going to experience a tornado.

The rain outside continued to pour and pour, flooding the streets. Thunder could be heard and lightning seen before it. When one went upstairs to look through the W's front window, the water was covering half of their front lawn. You couldn't tell where street ended and the sidewalk began.

As bad as the storm was, a tornado never came to the W's house. Our 4-H drama troupe was safe. Come 3:30, the water finally resided enough for it to be much safer to drive home.

With the way the state of Wisconsin is, there were damp roads and flooded ones. The water trickled off of the hills and ran into the lower spots, flooding them. There were police cars and various roads. On the way to my home, my mother and I saw a fire truck, an ambulance, and a school bus, veered a bit off the road. As soon as I had saw the school bus, it clicked in my mind.

"School buses don't have seat belts," I said to my mom. "Why don't they? They take about seventy kids to school and back home every day of the school year. School buses are used for going to summer camps, also. The buses are so clumsy that if it slipped, kids could get concussions. The only person who has a seat belt on a school bus...is the driver."

Trees had been snapped by lightning. One tree fall over in someone's lawn, causing a sort of tree patrol to come and slow the traffic. Just plain tree branches were all over the landscape and roads.

But this isn't the first time I've seen something like this, either. It was just a reminder to me. The world has been at war with itself since the first sin.

But at least God's still here. The prayer that I made, while I was in that basement, worked. I prayed that all the people I knew, all my friends in the city of Waukesha would fine. Even the C's had lightning strike right in their lawn, but only a beach ball was harmed. From Uncle Sven's lastest post on his blogger, I can tell he's still alive and kicking.

Yesterday was exciting, I guess you could say. For now, I just pray there were no fatalities.

Just got home from seeing Cars

Once again, Pixar has failed to disappoint me. I'm glad. At one point during the movie, I caught one of Pixar's, "Let's put in something from a previous movie!" In one shot, you can see a Pizza Planet delivery truck. Of course, Pizza Planet is from the Toy Story universe.

I really don't know what to say about it, other than that it's worth seeing.

I guess I'm just shocked at learning at the end of the movie about this Joe Ranft guy...I never even knew about him. But to me, with Cars being his last film and him dying in a car accident, I can't stop thinking about it.

How does his family feel? How do his friends feel? How do his co-workers feel? I guess the shock might be over for them or at least not as large anymore. He died in August last year...

I guess I shouldn't concern myself. As I said before, I didn't even know of his existence before this. I think I just have the tendancy of feeling bad for people, even if I didn't know them.

It's kinda reminding me of when the little kid (I know his name, I'm just not writing it down for his family's privacy) from my church died a couple of years back. I didn't even know exactly who he was, but I felt devastated for those he was close to.

Anyways...on a more happy subject...

I finally made Wisconsin Writers Unlimited, like I had been planning. So far, Melty has joined. Tara and Jake will be joining, because they BOTH (XD) told me that they had been busy and were getting around to it. The just leaves Jenn and Casey. Jenn is the one I'm pretty sure will be joining. Yep.

じゃね、 みんなさん! (Hahaha. :P)

Last night was a doozy. I'm okay now, though.

I was working at the Waukesha County Fair yesterday. It was about seven hours. I ate a BBQ pork sandwich right before I left the fair grounds, maybe around 9:45 PM. I got home, checked my email, and went to bed.

I ended up throwing up about half an hour later. Yeah, fun. Right on my flour. It got in my hair a little, too, so I had to take a shower.

I'm feeling better now. It's kinda funny. I thought I might've thrown up because of stress, but I really don't think so; I prayed for Andrea, Casey, Uncle Sven, and Jenn last night. They are my biggest worries, and I felt relaxed after I prayed for all of them. I started feeling sick in my stomach later.

AND SARAH! The only reason I was "worried" about Casey is because he's at camp and it sounds like his brother has a heckeva kid to watch. >.o

I should probably get dressed and take a shower...going to see a Waukesha Civic Theatre show tonight!

AIM convo with Sarah...

Sarah: when I am enraged, I sniff my wonderful kleenex box of scent to calm myself
Sarah: mmmm it smells kind of half like Forrest
Me: o.o
Sarah: xD
Me: SARAH'S DOING COKE!
Sarah: Forrest smells like sunset and roses and sugar and vanilla
Me: AND SHE'S KEEPING IT IN KLEENEX'S
Sarah: I love coke
Sarah: mmm mom has coke in the fridge
Me: She does?
Sarah: I have to beg her to let me have it with supper
Me: She could get arrested
Sarah: yeah it's in a red can.....
Me: Oh, you naughty family!
Sarah: XD
Me: Possession of coke is illegal!
Sarah: coca cola
Sarah: XD
Sarah: you knew that though
Me: :P Know you specify
Sarah: you're just being sarcastic
Me: *Now
Me: Really? XD

Dumbledore is not dead.

Yes, I have joined the legion of fans, who do not believe that Albus is, in fact, "pushing up daisies."

I must thank my Uncle Sven for directing me to this lovely site: http://www.dumbledoreisnotdead.com/

I just finished reading the main parts of the site. I think I'll read the guest editorials a bit later.

On other matters, fair judging is, in fact, finished. Fo' shizzle. What you say? I'm not allowed to write "fo' shizzle?" O RLY? NO WAI.

Yeah. Just a bit excited and silly tonight. I only got two red ribbons this year and four of my projects have possiblity for a higher ribbon. Sweet!

I shall go now. I have food to eat.

Fair judging is today, woot!

[Current music: Yubiwa, from Escaflowne: Girl in Gaea]

I managed to finish things pretty well last night. The only things I have to finish up for tomorrow's judging is:

Mount the photos from Walgreen's.
Crop the "Bait" picture and print it off with printer.
Mount "Bait" picture.
Do Home Enviroment project.
Figure out how to print Japanese characters on a transfer sheet WITHOUT the characters having to be printed reversed.
Finish dehydrating potatoes.
Put dehydrated potatoes in jars.

For today's judging, everything is pretty much set. The only thing I have to do is pack all my Shonen Jump issues and all my manga in a box.

Don't want to make this too long.

As far as my gripe on Mom yesterday...

I know it really isn't a big deal. Others have to deal with way worse. But it's better for me to express that somewhere. Otherwise I might end up exploding at her, with the way my temper seems to work. And if I griped at her I wouldn't be making things any easier. I just want to avoid conflict if possible.

I decided to include two of my photos from one of my photography entries.

Ah, such is life...

Good times and bad times.

I had a marvelous time at "Uncle Sven's" (slur the 's' in Sven to say it right) yesterday. He gave me a bunch of nice comments about my story. Really wasn't what I expected to hear, but I'm glad. He mostly asked about the pendents in the story. How they worked, how one got one, when did one get one, etc. It really made me think and he gave me some nice ideas. XD; He also said, "Is something going to happen to make the main character more sympathetic?"

It was a blast being over with Jenn and "Uncle Sven" yesterday. I had fun with those two.

After that, I went over to Sarah and Gabe's for dinner. Ethan got to play with his first glow stick, because I brought along the one I bought at a store the other day.

Now, this morning. Got up, got ready to work on 4-H projects. Quite obviously. The main surprise was that I had an email from Mr. Casey. Apparently, his email had been broken for about three weeks. So, I emailed him back.

Mom's just a little frustrating this morning. I don't think she realizes how stifling she is to this whole family. She's almost always pessimistic about everything. When she's happy, it's about something stupid, like music or a new movie. At least that's how things seem to be.

I just can't figure her out. How hard is it to close four Internet windows when you're done with them? Three having to do with Spider Man 3 in some shape or form, and one a server could not be found. The last one is the one that's confusing me the most; why wouldn't she close it? And, somehow, she'd rather waste her time going up and down stairs to close the windows she failed to close earlier.

I guess it may be for the better. By doing this, maybe she'll actually start to change her habits about leaving windows open so she doesn't have to trek up and down stairs. Maybe.

OMG I WON SCENE IT! YES!

Yaaaaay! Tim and I were on a team. We were on the second ring of Final Cut. So far, whenever I've played this game, I've sucked majorly. So, anyways...

The first question, I knew the answer to. "Oh, oh! Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius!" The second was...

Which Japanese animated film from 1997 had the actors [blah], Minnie Driver, and [blah] in the dub?

Now, at first, I was confused. But then, I made what I felt was a wild guess. "Princess Mononoke!" And, I was right. :DDDD

But, I digress. I've been really busy with 4-H projects. I just finished the hand-sewing on a baby blanket today, as well as reaching the 6th disc of Full Metal Panic at the same time. XD; Yay~

I went out to dinner tonight with Aunt Vicky and Uncle Dan. Mom, Tim, and Dad came, too. Then we saw Pirates of the...I'm not going to try to spell that word.

Anyways, yeah. I'm going over to Pastor Brian and Jenn's house tomorrow, and I'm bringing 4-H projects with me, HOOHAH!

Well...in three days, it will have been three weeks since I've heard something from Mr. Casey, from "Sock." I sincerely hope he didn't die or something. That would be unfortunate. I just hope he's off at a camp somewhere, or he's so busy working his freakin' butt off that he barely has computer time.

Catch all of you later.

Parents are gone.

I think tomorrow I have to work on 4-H like nobody's business. I was a really lazy idiot today, so I need to make up for that. D: I hope whatever happens, Mom isn't going to yell at me...

I wrote roughly 600 words last night. I have NO idea if it's any good. I just know that the mood of what I was writing went from humorous to dead awkward with two words. I'm really not sure if that's good or bad...

All I know is, writing at night with a laptop and iTunes on works for me. I can't even use the Internet on Tim's laptop, so that gets rid of procrastination on my part. He has a Webster like program installed on his computer, so that essentially takes the place of dictionary.com and thesaurus.com for me.

So, yay! 4-H camp is on Sunday and I'll have to be prepared to watch kids. Yep.

Well, I'm home.

[Current music: Karenai Hana, ED from Full Metal Panic]

Now it's time for 4-H projects. It's kinda funny, but my summer is always more hectic than my school year. Maybe it's for balance? Who knows?

I had a semi-bout of depression yesterday. Had an arguement with Mom. We really can't communicate that well. I think it'd be easier for both of us if one of us was less sensitive.

Otherwise, I'm pretty good. I'm working on getting my Home Enviroment project for 4-H. I have to wait about four hours to bid on an NES controller on E-Bay. I also bought two NES games from Good Will today. I can scan in the cartriges and print the pictures. One is Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. The other is Tetris.

I just made a new filter for my email. Yay! And Tim brought me part of my dinner. He's really sweet sometimes.

The computer is getting rather laggy, though. It makes me wonder how many programs my mom has open. *sigh* She's even a pack-rat with the computer...that's the one place where I'm well organized. Oh well.

Well, I don't have much else to write about...see ya.

At Sarah's (In Montello! :o)

Yeah, here I am at Sarah's. It's 8:02 AM and we just woke. And Sarah's freaking out at me about being stalked by mentioning her name. I think she's kidding. Oh, good, she just said she was kidding.

Yesterday was a tinsy-winsy bit insane. S'all better now. It better be. :P

And, I'm trying to remember and write down all the Studio Ghibli movies I've seen and the ones I own. I'll go get the little paper thing in the Howl's Moving Castle DVD box for reference. (Note: When I typed "Howl," Sarah said "Howl is hooooooot :DD.") Got it.

Kiki's Delivery Service
Castle in the Sky
Spirited Away
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind*@
The Cat Returns
Howl's Moving Castle*@
My Neighbor Totoro*
Princess Mononoke
Grave of the Fireflies**@

*I own them (My Neighbor Totoro I only kinda own. I still need to pay for it before it's offically mine.)
**Is owned by Josh, my lovely brother. :D
@The ones my friend Sarah has seen.

The only ones I haven't seen, but I'm interested in buying are: Pom Poko and Whisper of the Heart.

Yeah, so off the anime subjects.

I emailed Casey a few days ago. I either scared him because my second email was in all caps (actually, that could've scared his mom. x.x) or he's insanely busy. Either one is entirely possible, I think. I'm hoping he's just insanely busy.

Well, hum-hum-hum...

Started up neopets again. Just a little. I think I'm doing it because I'm addicted to WoW (World of Warcraft, for those who don't know (Sarah, I doubt you've ever heard of WoW)). I'm just surprised that my grammar was that horrible, what, four, three years ago? Oh, another hilarious thing...

I checked my email when I got here, at Sarah's house, and I had an email from the Pit. A review. I had gotten a review for a story I hadn't posted in for three or four years. The contents? "LOL!FUNNY." Let's just say that I thought it was so moronic that some might've peed their pants laughing.

Andrea, I won't be able to check the forum or look at your Journal while I'm here. I saw your comment from the previous post I made, and Sarah reminded me that I'm at someone else's house. So, I don't want to go to a bunch of page's where Sarah's mom could find a some f-bombs, etc. I still love you. I just don't want MY Sarah (:P) getting in trouble.

Bye-bye.

Stunning Blogs and Websites!

Right now, I'm in a class at the conference called "Stunning Blogs and Websites." Essentially, I'm learning how to create a website and/or blog using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

I made a page I call "SyU: Undercover." It has a table with today's date, my current progress in writing (10k words), and a link to Snafu comics. Then it has an image for Kamichama Karin, then a rollover image. The rollover image starts with the O RLY? owl. Then, you go over it and it changes to the famous YA RLY owl. It has a link, which leads to the wikipedia page for O RLY?ness.

My first YA RLY owl was dead...then I found a better one. It makes me happy.

I'm sitting next to a cool guy named Israel, he has cool, green hair, and he just showed me a hidden scene in Potter Puppet Pals.

At least I could write an update on today with this class. I doubt I'll ever have Dreamweaver, so I don't believe I'll really use it. Who knows, though?

Some of the girls, other delagates, from my county have been on my case the past couple of days. Just because I've been hanging around with Casey a lot, a guy who doesn't even live close to me, a guy I haven't seen since April, a guy who's an intelligent Christian and knows what he believes, and a guy who's a writer. Uh, yeah, how is it weird that I'm talking to him?

First they asked if he was my boyfriend. I thought that was pretty funny, so I laughed. Later, they kept at it and then excused him of being my "boy-toy." Ugh...

And last night, I was waiting for a girl named Samantha. I met her on the art tour, and I found her crying last night after dinner. So, I told her I'd meet her at the dance so I could talk to her. I wanted to make sure that she was OK. Before she showed up, those girl delagates showed up and asked if I was waiting for "my BF."

They still haven't let up yet, probably won't. I'm okay now. I told Casey about it last night, 'cause I was really embarrassed yesterday afternoon.

Tomorrow, I'll be going to Sarah's. YAY! Don't know when I'll get back, Sarah and I'll be deciding that.

Andrea, I wuff you. :3 I'm sorry I haven't communicated with you for a while!

P.B. and/or Jenn, if you see this: I'm praying for you guys and I wanna hang out again with you two! You guys are just tons of fun! See ya later.

On the road again...

Gone again. Now to Madison for a few days.

Argh-bleh. I didn't get to talk with you, Andrea, during the two days I was here. D: Sorry!

Love all of you!

I LIVE!

Yeah, I'm alive from Awana work week. I'll edit for some details later...

EDIT:

So, basically, work week was a blast. The teacher was good (such a praise!) and it was fun serving tables. It was interesting to learn how to balance and carry three plates of food to three tables (example, three bowls of potatoes for three different tables). I don't believe I could learn to master carrying three pitchers of water or Kool-Aid, but that's alright.

My tables were really nice. My old counselor from a few years ago at this camp, Lora, was a table leader for one of my tables. I didn't get that much candy or money at the end of the week, but I'm fine with that. I'm quite happy that I got any money at all! Six dollars really is nice.

Some of the girls at my tables were really sweet. One shyly gave me a note at the end of Friday dinner.

It was also nice learning from other workers that their Churches are going through similar situations that mine is. It was just extremely comforting.

It's been a while since I last posted, eh?

My real question to myself right now is: Why am I up this early? (7:04 AM) Regardless, I'm awake.

Now, I had a weird dream. The last parts I remember are as follows:

I'm at a some sort of Christian winter retreat, probably with DV8 (Emily F. shows up in my dream later).

Then, Andrea and Viera, who is Andrea's real-life friend, show up and sit down next to me. I know there was some kind of teaching going on, but I don't know what was being taught. After some point, Andrea asks the teacher what sounds like a really dumb question (I can't remember what), but he doesn't respond. People around him are giggling at Andrea's silly question. She wants an answer, though, so she sits herself down next to him, waiting for an answer.

I think the sermon thing ended, because me and Viera got up, and I saw Emily F. So I dragged Andrea over to Emily and tried to introduce them. At first Emily did something weird, like she didn't understand I was trying to introduce her to Andrea (?), but they were introduced eventually.

Next thing that happened was that our group (including Viera and Andrea) got to this hill like thing, with rocks all around. We were all in snowsuits, and some people had inter-tubes (that's what they're called, right?). Andrea goes down the hill, STANDING on the front edge of her inter-tube, gets to the bottom of the hill (I have no idea how she was balancing), and runs her head right smack into a rock.

And, instead of dying or going into a coma, apparently the rock poisoned her. So, me and Mrs. Pattycake (? she was in the dream, too, but I can't remember if she was the one who went with me) take Andrea to some sort of hospital with a green atmosphere--I call it St. Mango's for soon-to-be obvious reasons. There were a lot of other people there, but I can't remember if all of them had head-poisoning like Andrea. Anyways, we get her to a free table, set her there, and then I leave with Mrs. Pattycake or whoever I was with. Oh, and next to Andrea's table, was another table with Harry Potter on it. I just remember looking at the table next to her and realizing she was next to him.

So, at this point in the dream, Viera and Andrea are both out of the picture. Nothing happened to Viera, but she just left. Maybe she was visiting Andrea in St. Mango's? Who knows?

Well, apparently my St. Mango's was in a mall, because then I end up going through this mall, looking for an exit to the parking lot, all the while seeing muppets everywhere. Once I got to the parking lot, I found Mrs. Pattycake at her car. We talked a little, and then she gave me some french fries to eat. Then I took a bite out of a french fry and, for some reason beyond my understanding, dipped the french fry in ketchup. So that most of the fry was covered. And I hate ketchup. Ate the ketchup covered fry, I did.

Then I woke up, layed in bed, trying to figure out why Andrea and Viera were in my dream. I came to the conclusion that it was because I saw Andrea's away message yesterday that said she was away at Viera's house. Emily F., now that I think of it, was probably in my dream because I thought she was mad at me earlier this week. Mrs. Pattycake was probably in my dream because we got a phone call yesterday, the caller ID said "Steve D---" (that's her husband), and I thought the voice over the phone sounded female (I didn't pick up the phone, my dad did and he had publically announced the caller ID). So I thought it was Mrs. Pattycake.

Now I'm tired. I should probably get dressed...yeah.

Well, good-morning, everyone! (And I could say that in Japanese, but I'll refrain.)

This has been such an off week.

I'm not going into details, but basically...

Pastor Brian has been fired unless something is done about it before August 31st. I don't want to get into details on here, because I don't want to be publically pointing fingers.

It's just all weird and confusing. And I need to talk to Andrea. Because of all the stuff going on, I haven't been finding times to speak with her.

What the heck is a "Fallen?" I'm going to take Tiya's word that, "[she's] not religious," because that "Fallen" crap isn't Biblical. It sounds like one of those things that a denomination of the Church added to Scripture. As far as demons ranks go, I don't think they exist other than "Satan > the one third of angels, who decided to betray God with Satan." And I'm not even sure about that.

The only purpose of demons is to destract people from God. Demon possession doesn't really happen in America, because it's a better tactic for it NOT to. A lot of Americans are given no reasons whatsoever to believe in a "super-natural" world, and if people were getting possessed left and right, Americans would have a reason.

At a loss...

Mom has gum disease.

Why does she need another illness? Just when we think that Mom's going to get better, something else pops up.

Why is this happening? I know the Bible says, "God turns all things to good." But how can Mom's many illnesses she keeps getting "turn to good?"

I just don't know what to think. It just keeps happening...

And I have no idea how I'm gonna fair at the stupid Awana dinner, either.

...><; *sigh*

I deleted the post that was there. To be blunt, I seriously overrreacted and got angry. Not the best decision on my part, I know, but I did it anyway.

I feel bad, like I've been neglecting everyone I know. Especially Andrea. I don't know what's up, I haven't spoken with her in a week. There's going to be lots of problems this summer...

Camps (and going to Tennessee)
4-H projects
SCHOOL, which I still have to do

And, finally, the last one...

My growing addiction to World of Warcraft.

I think I'm gonna lay off of WoW this week, and then, the weeks following, just try to play twice a week.

...Oh, coolio. Andrea's NOT dead. I just spent about half an hour trying to find her crazylife blog. First, I checked crazylife.com, and I freaked, because I thought the site closed down. Turns out I was looking for crazylife.org, so I was able to find her blog. Last post was yesterday.

Andrea, I'm sorry I haven't been talking with you. ;.; I'll catch you this afternoon, okay?

Life, not the board game. ;)

Haven't been on AIM recently. Just have been busy recently. Let's see...

Monday, don't think I did anything. I believe that day was mostly normal.

Tuesday, Japanese class.

Wednesday, school, DV8, standerd stuff.

Thursday I helped at the Church rummage sale. I got up at 7:15(?) AM, got coffee at the La Cafe Bistro, arrived at Church around 8, and crashed after I went home around 1 or 2 PM.

Friday--today's day, in case you, the reader, had forgotten--got up even earlier than the day prior, around 5(?) AM and ended up crashing in the car about an hour and a half later. Oh, Dad, Josh, and I were going to pick up Tim. We're home now, all except Dad: The reason he was able to go is because he's going to work on "Diastor Recovery Work" or something. It's just practice, anyways.

Anyways, I'm just tired. Being in a car for a little over ten hours today is rather tiring, though it seems extremely ironic that one would get tired from doing nothing in a car. Nothing but sleeping, eating, drinking, (non-alcholic stuff, mind you) and reading the sixth Harry Potter book months after it came out.

I forgot how interesting the Harry Potter books were. I think it's because the spoilers were all over the 'net almost a mere week after the book came out. Would seeing countless shouts of [spoiler]Snape killed Dumbledore![/spoiler], before you even read the book, entice some people to read? The thought of, "Why read it when you already know what's going to happen?" is common with many people, I'm sure. But yet...

A simliar argument could be said with the Bible. "Why read it when you already know what's going to happen?" I guess, with both cases, one could say, "Knowledge is better understood when you've read it for yourself." It's one thing to watch a pastor preach about the death and ressurection of Jesus Christ or to watch people go on, and on, and on about who-did-what in the latest Potter book. It's better to read for yourself, experience the truth firsthand. Sometimes, truth could also be distorted. Like taking passages out of context, such as the infamous case of the Bible declaring itself that, "there is no God," when the verse, in context, said something rather different. Even in Harry Potter, I've read a case where someone had a sick enough mind to replace the word "wand" with "wang" in the Chamber of Secrets and then declare that J.K. Rowling must, in fact, be a "dirty, dirty woman."

Just some thoughts I'll end there, because they started getting weird...subjects. Uh, um...

LOOK! THE O RLY OWL!

Um, yeah! Go O RLYness!

Anyways. On more pleasant matters...

I'm thinking about getting a cartooning program and making an animated film for the DV8 film feastival. First, I'd like to check out what the Chapmen Brothers use, then, before I do anything, I'd like to write a script and see if anyone would be interested in a little VAing (Voice Acting).

I actually had Kevin S. in mind, playing a samurai type character. Because, for some reason, I found the idea to be simply hilarious.

My idea I had would be making fun of generic Japanese scenerios. Shinta Yamamoto is a cool and collected samurai, who, obviously, is quite strong. Shinta is, under strange and unusual circumstances, where he is living at some place in the mountains with some women.

I haven't quite figured out the personalities of these women, nor how many of them there are, but I figured I'd keep it to three or less.

One of the women, I'm sure, is completely obsessed with "her" "Yamamoto-sama."

Another, I thought could be a character named "Mary Sue." Mary Sue would be, well, a Mary Sue, basically an unbelievable character that generally has a wangsty tragic past, super powers, is drop-dead-gorgeous, may have royal connections, have an arch-enemy, and, finally, her only weakness is clumsiness. 'Cause, ya know, clumsiness actually comes in handy when it comes to falling unto your love interest! Of course, I plan on using all these features to make her overly-all obnoxious.

My last idea for one of the females would be the only female that did not care for Shinta. Maybe the house cook or something. *shrugs*

This post is getting rather lengthy, so I'm stopping now. I'm going to take a shower and then go immediately to bed. I have to meet with Susan! :D

HA! I haven't posted in a week...

Happy May, whoo!

Josh is home (I accidently typed "ghome"...the 'g' is silent, like gnome?) now, and we've been playing Mario Party 4. Well, just the Beach Volly Folly game thingy. If we beat the match mode, we'll unlock free mode, and that way all three of us kids could play. Josh and I have managed to get to Bowser and Koopa Kid (sigh...why did they change it? Baby Bowser sounded much better. And I doubt that there are many Americans who realize that Bowser's Japanese name is Koopa) three times. The last time we were really, really, really, really, REALLY close. I think we can do it.

Tom Nook is having an hour long sale at his store in Animal Crossing today. I wonder what he'll be selling. ;P I'm such a geek.

Yeah. I've been trying to get Josh to read my story, and now I know why he won't: He has more fun playing WoW, it's a little more active. So, it's not that he thinks that my story is awful...he's just an addicted geek. Meh, I'll have him in the car on Friday, if he doesn't read it before then. Buwahahaha...

Mmm, yeah. My Princess Nine CD should be coming this week...that's about it.

Nice.

I decided to take a break from AIM chatting for tonight.

And, because of that, I ended up having a fantastic writing session. The most I've written in weeks, maybe months!

SyU, tonight's wordage: 1,132

SyU, total wordage: 5,947

YES! MORE THAN HALFWAY TO MY FIRST 10,000th!

This is such a pick-me-up compared to earlier. I feel much better.

((Andrea, sorry for ditching you! I promise that I'll let you read next time we're both on. :o G'night, have a good week, and I love ya!))

Oh, to my dearest brothers: You will both be getting an email of my writing sometime this week. Tim, can't wait 'til you get home. Josh, I can't wait 'til you come home this coming weekend. Love ya both!

To my dearest sister(s): As I told you, Jenn, a session where I could meet with you AND Sarah and talk about my writing would be mucho awesome. Maybe we could blend it in to that anime party you suggested, too. Hmm...the possiblities are endless, and they only get better if the husbands are occupied doing something else. ;) Ya know, P.B. and Uncle Gabe having a field day somewhere, maybe driving to the Spam Museum just to say, "That's ridiculous!"

I better go to bed now, since I'm so tired that I just bumped my elbow against the desk. XD;;

Kaleido Star overview (episodes 1 and 2)

[Current song: Boku wa Koko ni iru (Kaleido Star's 2nd ED)]

Kaleido Star is a story about a 16-year-old Japanese girl named Sora Naegino, who desperately wants to be a member of Kaleido Stage.

In the first episode, she travels by plane from Japan to the U.S., to audition at the world-famous circus.

However, Kaleido Stage is no ordinary circus. Actually, it’s more like a production company of plays, but the dialog and action are performed, instead, by acrobatics. Towards the end of the first episode, we learn that Kaleido Stage’s current production is Romeo and Juliet. We also learn that when Sora visited Kaleido Stage at the young age of five, that Kaleido Stage’s production was Alice in Wonderland.

Sora arrives late to the audition, because she was presumed to be a runaway by the police and taken to the station. Though there is some time to squeeze Sora in to audition, Layla Hamilton, one of Kaleido Stage’s stars, refuses that Sora should be allowed to audition, since “a production always starts on time.” After some events, the boss, Kalos, accepts Sora into Kaleido Stage.

(Note that the above description is really just a paraphrase of the most major events in the episode.)

Episode two. Even though Sora has been accepted into Kaleido Stage, Layla is still convinced that Sora does not belong there, as well as many other cast members. She arrived late, didn’t she?

Sora has a huge misunderstanding with some cast members during class, and Layla overhears the tail end of it. “Think you can perform the Golden Phoenix*? I’d like to see you try.” Sora cannot back out of it, so she is forced to train. If she fails, she has to leave Kaleido Stage for good.

For the remainder of that episode, Sora is training to execute the Golden Phoenix, and at the end, we get to see her get it half right. I was planning on avoiding giving it away, but the thought of, “Hey, it’s a 26 episode series. Who in their right mind would think that the main character would fail with 24 more episodes to go?” made me reconsider. She gets the pose right, but she misses the trapeze bar. She stays because Layla says, “You didn’t get that last part right, but what you did can definitely be called the Golden Phoenix.”

*The Golden Phoenix is a maneuver, performed by Layla in the climax of the production Romeo and Juliet.

Now, for the fun part. Possibly Objectional Material!

Episode one:
Sora choking a flight attendant in her sleep.
Kalos staring at Sora’s legs and then eventually grabbing her thigh.
Sora bouncing off a lawn chair, right between a couple, who are making out. (I didn’t even notice what exactly the two people were before I did frame by frame and it became apparent. The moment in question lasts about a second or two)
Mr. Policeman, who is a big black man. Just for those who find big black man offensive because of racial stereotypes and the like. (He does speak good grammar, though!)
Sora doing warm-ups at the police station, one warm-up including her spreading her legs. (This action is repeated two more times in the episode)
One use of, “Thank God.”
A blonde character, Layla, is not a dumb blonde. For my brothers, who find smart blondes offensive. ;)
Sora throwing her clothes off. (But she’s wearing a leotard underneath)
Sora tackling a person to the ground.
A spirit (The spirit of the stage)
Use of random English in both the opening and ending theme.

Episode two:
Sora takes a shower, not before tying up the spirit of the stage.
Kalos stares at Sora’s legs again.
Ken getting “tested” by Mr. Policeman to see “if [Ken] is worthy enough to be Sora’s boyfriend.”
First use of a tarot card.
One use of, “Oh my God.”

I have screen caps of all the P.O.M. items, in the case someone wants to see.

(I really hope that this wasn't a badly rewritten overview...thing)

Because Tim asked...and other stuff, too.

What I meant by "objectional content" is "stuff that Christians may get their undies in a bundle over." Such as tarot cards and tight clothing.

I may not even be able to try out for Joseph anymore, because my voice croaked yesterday. I'd only be doing the childrens' choir...and I'm not even all that excited about it. What I would be doing? Repeating after Joseph and going, "Aaaah" and "Ooooo." So, yeah, I guess I don't want to do it anymore. S'alright and dandy.

And, instead of youth group tonight, we went to different Church where they were having an interesting talk. It was wonderful and I've now changed my AIM profile. :D

Kinda tired, since I ended up being awake late last night. I'll be alright.

Edit: Tim, we went to another church. There is no DV8 tonight. It was P.B.'s idea. And the lack of description is because I got home late and I am TIRED today.

Just because you're a whiner, I'll post more.

After the seminar, P.B. surprisingly (not really, but it's aweseome anyways) had the Church vans stop at a Star Bucks. Since I didn't bring my wallet, I got my coffee fix by mooching off of Gabe. It was then that I decided that Gabe was my uncle. I announced this to Sarah, his wife, and she told me that couldn't be.

"How can [Jenn and I] be your step-moms and Gabe be your uncle? That...just doesn't work," Sarah protested.

I'm leaving it to them to figure out. ;P

I think I'm going to write the Kaleido Star review of the first two episodes. Whoo.

Great.

I'm kinda overly tired, I just miss old life.

I want my schedule to get back to normal. In truth, I don't want to try out for Joseph anymore. I'm really tired of being busy with drama so much. Being disconnected from my daily routine is so...hard.

Edit: I think I'm gonna watch the first two episodes of Kaleido Star now. I decided to go against reviewing an entire disc. So, I'll be reviewing every couple of episodes, with over-views of the episodes and possible "objectional material" and what-not. Yeah.

(This post didn't want to be editted, so I had to delete and repost...ick.)

Short one...

Well, I've been busy all week, doing another drama related project. This is fun, too, so I don't mind.

But, to you, Andrea, I have a message: I'm gonna be gone fer the next couple 'o days. The 'rents are gone, and I'm being taken care of by some Church peoples. 'Cause, if I were left alone at home, there's really no way I'd be able to get to the shootings. ...Well, there could be, but this way it's less complicated. So, yeah, my computer access is gonna be zippo, if I'm correct. I might be able to convince someone to let me use a computer to write (I got Mr. Flashdrive with me! And he's all updated! :D).

Mmhm. I beat single player for Mario Party 4 with Daisy today. I could've beat it yesterday, but how to beat Bowser was annoying...the ending was nice though. XD! Haha, Daisy got a Bowser teapot from him as a birthday present. It was kinda cute, and you can see that Nintendo has changed Bowser/Koopa's personality a lot over the years. Now he mostly seems to be an awkward, big guy with serious anger issues. Yep.

Bed time now. Buh-bai.

Testing, one, two, three...

たまごちゃん

THIS BETTER WORK!

Edit: Hoorah! Hiragana works on blogger! That makes a happy Acey...:D

Post something better later...

P.S. The hiragana up there is romanized as "tamago-chan." That's what I named my new stuffed bunny, 'cause she has eggs on her feet. (Tamago is Japanese for egg.)

Mmhm...Easter Break.

Spell check isn't working for me, and I just lost my post...

So I'm gonna paraphrase what I just wrote.

Got Tim rehooked on Animal Crossing. Played Mario Party 4 with Josh and Tim last night and today.

The blood fairy visited me on Friday and is still here. She is the bane of all females' existence.

I had blueberry pie for the first time tonight.

Now, the important part...

Josh has his PFT on Thursday, so, please, anyone who prays to the God I pray to (The One True God™, Lord Almighty™), please have Josh in your thoughts and pray for him. If he fails the PFT, he'll be on scholarship probation. Thank you.

Okay. BED TIME NOW!

Thank ya'll for readin' this, ladies 'n 'gents.

Today started out well enough…

Went to the massage place. As we were getting out of the car to go there, I opened my door and hit another car. I inspected it and I had chipped off some paint. The little thing was about the size of a pencil eraser, but I was still concerned. I wanted to find the driver and have them know. So, Mom and I investigated and we found the owner. Mom took care of it. It seemed to go pretty well. The owner was upset at first; it was a new car, only had 1,000 miles on it. But, after she checked it out, she said that “it was fine” and then she thanked my mom for letting her know about it. Got my massage and dandiness.

Went to Culver’s drive-thru, got Chicken Dumpling soup and some fries. It was good.

Got to the theatre and all went well. I only forgot one line. I said my farewells to fellow cast members and left.

That’s when my day started going all downhill.

We got home and there was crap with the car-lady. Apparently she called Mom’s insurance place and ranted. All. About. A. Pencil-sized. Paint chip. Then I was annoyed. I had even said at the massage place, “Thank God she’s not a crazy lady…” Spoke too soon, I guess.

Then I went to take a shower. It was nice enough, for a while. Shampooed my hair and rinsed it out. Then I was putting conditioner in. I got it all in when…the water stopped. And it wouldn’t come back on. Mom told me that the pump might have broke. I still had conditioner in my hair. None of the water is working. Not the sinks, only the toilets. But that’s because a toilet recycles its own water! We had to use seven bottles of purified water to get the conditioner out.

…And, we were going to go to the Olive Garden for dinner. Dad’s gone playing bridge, so we weren’t going to have a normal dinner. I was really looking forward to the Olive Garden! First there’s a crazy woman (and note that I’m really tempted to type a couple of words other than “woman” that would be rude), who’s a liar to boot, and then my shower messes up, so it’s too late to go to the Olive Garden!

My day was going so well, too…

And I don’t even know if Jake got to see any of my performances.

I’m glad that Josh is coming home on Friday…I really miss him and I’m feeling down right now. I hope Tim will be able to come home, also…it just wouldn’t be the same without him, either.

I’ll go now before I get any more emo.

So...

The first performance went VERY well. :D Yay! I went clothes shopping with Jenn for that dumb spring banquet thingy…Found a top. Finally got a wall calendar for this year. XD; It’s Corpse Bride. I’m lucky I could find a calendar at all…thanks, Hot Topic. I got a nifty pen, too!

And, wtf, Andrea dyed her hair purple?! No fair…My mom would have a heart-attack if I dyed my hair something not natural. But, Andrea, the anime influence is showing, OH YES. :p ((By the way, my “wtf” means “what the fudge.” Not the, um, “normal” meaning. “What the fudge” rolls off my tongue more naturally for some reason…))

Okay. The public performance is tomorrow…x.x Oh, God, and there’s probably going to be a FULL HOUSE! God’s with me, God’s with me, God’s with me…He’s going to be right there…I’m feeling so nervous.

Turns out I also have another performance on Tuesday. At 1:00 PM.

Oh, and…

Dear Me,

QUIT with the bratty attitude. I know Andrea has probably forgiven you, but…

So what that your b-day present is getting delayed? Andrea has real friends to keep in touch with, not only virtual ones…

Plus, you look stupid when sending your “thank you” notes to YOUR real life friends is almost two months behind. BEGEEZ, ME!

Kthxbai,
Me

P.S. Would God like you whining to Andrea because you want yer present? I don’t think so. Before you say something, THINK, and if your still not sure, make a quick prayer about it or something…

((Andrea, if and when you see this, don’t tell me not to feel sorry or something. This is really just more of a reminder to myself and just so I could get it out of my system…))

…Anyways. I may watch an episode or two of Kaleido Star tonight and take notes about it. Once I watch episodes 1-5, I’ll look at the notes I made on them and write my review of the first few episodes, noting the material that may or may not be considered “objectionable” and have a vague overview of the plot of the episodes. Yeah.

I have to go to 4-H meeting soon. So, um, bye.

P.S. The picture included is the eyecatch from Kaleido Star. ((An eyecatch is what the Japanese use between commercials. Like, “we’re going to commercials” and “we’re back from commercials!”))

Interesting thoughts and stuff

I posted every day, and now I missed four days before posting. It’s probably for the better, anyways.

I saw Annie on Saturday and got a T-Shirt, which I wore at DV8 tonight.

Sunday, pretty uneventful, nothing worth mentioning anymore, I think…Wait, did I see Annie on Sunday or Saturday? Crap, I honestly can’t remember…I’m definitely losing it.

Monday was the first practice without scripts and I remember I only stumbled a little bit.

I can’t remember if I got the moles removed from my back on Monday or Tuesday. It was probably Tuesday.

On Tuesday we got to pick out our costumes for the performance. Today was supposed to be dress rehearsal, I think.

I seriously messed up on the cutoff scene…but that was because it was the director’s first time using the sound booth with our play, so I was waiting for the sound cues. I lost my composure and messed up more, which is why I ended up stepping on the back of my skirt and pulling it down a little. I really hope that “Nels” and “Liddy” didn’t happen to get a nice view of my undies…x.x;

Tonight I made fliers for West by Wagon. I didn’t communicate too well, so I hope that people have managed to get the information. It was nice of P.B. to just walk up to people and start talking to them about it after small groups. It was a little funny, too.

After I’m done with West by Wagon, I really want to start writing again. I haven’t written anything in SyU since March 24th, according to the last date I modified the word doc.,
there are 4,691 words in SyU as that date. Maybe I can even start writing reviews of Kaleido Star to keep my writing sharp when I’m having a creativity drought.

And, speaking of Kaleido Star, that reminds me that I lent Princess Nine to Jenn. She heard the soundtrack I ordered when she was here last Saturday (AHA! I must have seen Annie on Sunday, then!), and she apparently liked it. Listening to the CD, I realized that the music is pretty nice. They actually have an orchestra to do the music. It really makes up for the sub-par animation. Plus, I guess how nice the thing looks doesn’t matter that much when the story is important.

Like, you can take a 16-bit video game and a newer, 3D video game, and you could say that playing the 16-bit game was more worth it because it had a good story. I can say, for example, that Lunar: The Silver Star Story was one of the BEST RPGs I have ever played, and not only was it for the original PlayStation, they used sprites for the game. I guess, the way things seem to work is that, no matter how pretty or flashy things look, what matters is what is at heart. You could take the Satanic Bible and dress it up in LACE and that still wouldn’t make it any better of a book or thing to use to guide your way of life. You could have the Bible, God’s word, torn up and SPIT on and that wouldn’t make it any less the truth.

…Mmhm. Profound thoughts here at 9:11 PM, all started because I was talking about Princess Nine. And Lunar: SSS.

Bed = what I need.
Reading and studying my Bible = what I need.
STUDYING MY FREAKIN’ SCRIPT = what I need to do to not have crappy performances on Friday, Saturday, and Wednesday. Trusting God will work, too, but I can’t just say, “God, PLEASE help remember my lines even though I didn’t study them and I fooled off on Crystal Chronicles all week…pretty please?” I think Pastor Brian pretty much covered the usefulness of those prayers tonight…

…Okay. Bed. NOW. And Bible reading. Yes.

I was going to include a picture, but after trying to upload it twice...no. But, by the way, I made the top four in American Diddle! Yay! I didn’t win, but who cares?! I was one of the best, because God made me special and he loves me very much. *had a Veggie Tales moment* Not that not making the top four made God love you any less or something…

Great news. :O!

I had massive inspiration tonight…I wrote 2,000 words!




…And this is where I say, “April Fools!” Sorry. XP Couldn’t resist, I’m a mean person.

I watched the movie Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius for the first time in probably four or five years…I realized that the only thing I really found annoying was the numerous moments where the movie became a music video. Some times it worked, but others…It’s kinda like, “Find another way to move the story along, will ya?”

I’m gonna log off the computer now, I think. I’m gonna work on memorizing my lines for the rest of the night…Well, I think I’ll make those fliers I was planning on, then I’ll get off. Yeah.

P.S. I decided to include the full picture that my icon is from...I think it's really pretty!

“Brilliant! Animation wins again!”

Ice Age II: The Meltdown was a lot better than I expected. I don’t really wanna spoil anything, but for those who have seen Oliver!, watch for the vultures’ musical number.

After watching the movie, I got french fries from Wendy’s. I’m still munchin’ them. Mmm.

P.S. I just noticed, from Microsoft Word, that my blog's font is Georgia. How nice!

Did I mention that my blog is my homepage?

Okay. West by Wagon related things:
Practice on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday NO SCRIPTS. Wednesday is most likely going to be dress rehearsal, since everyone is not going to be there on Thursday. Oh, and get this…my first performance is next week Friday at 10 AM. I guess I really have to get cracking this weekend. I can do it; I’m on God’s side!

Oh, and the first and only public performance in on Saturday, April 8th, at 1 PM. Here’s a play description from the Waukesha Civic Theatre’s website:

West By Wagon, by Neil and Nancy Gregersen
April 6 to 12, 2006
This is the stirring story of a family caught by the "Oregon Fever." Liddy Hansen and her family set out from their home in Illinois seeking fresh land and a new start joining the estimated 350,000 men, women and children that traveled the Oregon Trail from the 1840's to the 1860's. Liddy gives us her personalized account of the joys, trials and tribulations of her family's 2,000 mile journey by covered wagon through prairies and deserts, across rivers and mountains. Liddy's story demonstrates the individual challenge and exhilarating journey of the American westward expansion.

Yep. I’m playing Louisa Hansen, Liddy’s daughter. My siblings are ‘Lizabeth and Tommy Hansen, and my dad’s Nels Hansen.

I’m gonna work on fliers to give out on Sunday, in case anyone is interested in seeing West by Wagon.

On a non-play-related note, I’m seeing Ice Age II tonight! I’ll post later with a topic header of either, “It sucked, what were they thinking?” or “Brilliant! Animation wins again!” You watch for that. :D

…And back on play matters, I guess I won’t be playing Crystal Chronicles too much this weekend, ‘cause I’ll need to be memorizing my lines. Ah well, I’ll get over myself and my gaming habits.

Catch ya later, peoples.

P.S. The Civic Theatre's website is http://www.waukeshacivictheatre.org/index.htm, in case you're in the area or you're interested in seeing what's showing in the future.

P.S.S. The picture is of Din, Nayru, and Farore, the three goddess of Hyrule, drawn by a person named Magalink. I snuck past the "no right click" system, LIKE A NINJA, and managed to save it on the compy anyways. At least I'm not doing art theft. :DD

Okay. Not much happened today…

Other than that I’ve confirmed with myself that I’m a COMPLETE LOSER.

…Basically, I ended up having a dream about vampires. And, me being a loser, fantasy junkie, who likes vampires, was very happy. And, because the dream ended at an inconvenient point, I “continued” the rest of the dream throughout the day.
…And the vampire guy ended up being named “Kalim” in a spur-of-the-moment naming. Mm-hm, I think I need a new hobby. Or I just have to get over the fact that vampires aren’t real and that thinking that they’re awesome won’t make them real. The latter sounds easier.

On another note, I definitely need to start memorizing my lines. ‘Cause I really don’t have anything too hard to memorize, it should be easy.

…And back thinking about vampires, what in the heck makes them sound so attractive to some girls? “Ah-ha! I am now going to suck you dry of blood. :D” It’s really kinda sick…not even kinda. It is sick. What’s up with that? O.o; There’s no way I could just easily blow it away, saying, “It’s like some guys and their Asian girls fetish,” because those aren’t even close to being alike…I’m so not going to figure this out tonight, so I’m not trying anymore. I’ll read my Bible. Yay, that works!

I don't think I'm doing anything tomorrow...wait, there's drama practice. Okay, I am doing something. Hurrah!

American Diddle and mis.

Tonight went really well, but before I get on to it I’m going to talk about this morning.

The lady who gave me a massage said I need to exercise more, which is really true…^^; But it was nice to get all that stiffness out. X.x Blargh.

Play practice was canceled, so the next eventful thing was going to Jenn’s, where I met Kelsey and Brittany. They were kinda cute, especially when Jake came over to help P.B. with packing things for A.D. Though, their older sister, Aimee, told me to “try living with them.” XP That’s probably so true, but it’s not too bad for a first impression…

Okay. Got to church with Jenn and Aimee and reheated Jenn’s chicken noodle soup with Penne pasta. It wasn’t too bad at all.

Got “prettified,” thanks to Jenn and I had put on my kimino. Zoey-kins threw up a little on the women’s bathroom carpet, but all is well…:D

P.B. was hi-LARIOUS with “Ice, Ice, Baby.” Aimee was cute on stage with her little wings, too. After Aimee was done, though, I was thinking, “crap, when am I on? Oh man…I’m getting so nervous.” So, I started praying to God, asking him to “help me sing well on stage.” But it really wasn’t helping…Then I finally realized, “What am I asking for? He’s already here with me and will be with me up on stage. That’s comforting enough!” That helped immensely. Confirming a truth rather than asking for something that may or may not happen is a better route. At least for me.

I did pretty well. I surprised myself and I was one of the few people to get a compliment from ‘Simon.’ “You’re the only one so far who seems to have made a lot of improvement from last time,” I think he said.

Yeah, so, tonight was pretty sweet. The only downer was when Will harassed me after the band played. The conversation was like this*:

Will: Are you Chinese?
Me: (thinking it was supposed to be a weird compliment?) Actually, I’m mostly Germen.
Will: Oh, well, you look Chinese while wearing Chinese clothes. Is your name supposed to be Woo** or something?
Me: (ignores the name comment) It’s actually a Japanese kimino.
Will: Is your name Jackie Chan*** or something?
Me: …Jackie Chan is Chinese.

All the while, P.B. was staring at us. I know I distracted him because I wasn’t paying attention. I just put my head in my head and sighed, since I was discouraged/annoyed with Will. Then P.B. started speaking. I apologized for speaking with Will while P.B. was trying to speak after he was done with his announcements and thingies.

I mean, I know it was partly Will’s fault, for harassing me…But it was still my fault, too. I could’ve ignored him or cut the conversation short. I could’ve not gotten so annoyed because of my “Asian knowledge” or whatever. At least what P.B. said was comforting. I can’t remember exactly what he said at all…Darnit! >.o; Oh wells.

Later tonight: Shower and bed. Brief talkings wiff the Andrea.

*The conversation is paraphrased.
**I can’t remember the “name” he said there, the jist of it was that it was a stereotypical “Chinese” sounding name.
***I do know that he actually said that.

Tomorrow

Getting a massage tomorrow. I am content.

:O!

Lookie, lookie, we got a pretty, purple mage. :DD!

http://www.deviantart.com/view/29373579/

Leik, OMG, Zeiva-sama-chan is leik totally teh awesomestestness drawer-persone EBA!!11!shift+oreo!

...Ahem. Yes, I "heart" this picture, because it's purple. And A.C. loves purple.

What I do out of thinking my pup is adorable...

Hoshi likes to jingle
And it really is quite grand
‘Cause she comes from a land
Where there’s gumdrops and
Lots of mashed potatoes.

Sing the above in the Frosty the Snowman tune.

…Yeah, I was odd yesterday during commercials while watching Princess Mononoke. :D

…Wow…

This night. God, I have never before felt your presence as much as I do now. I guess this is hope. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Thank you, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! You rock my world!

I hope I don’t crash too suddenly out of tiredness. xD;;

…Oh my, I never realized how hilarious techno could be…

I found an mp3 of a techno remix of Saria’s song. It’s so funny to listen to. It’s like, “Dance Night gone bad. This was the only techno we could find…a remake of a game tune.” It’s so geeky, it’s sidesplitting. It's wicked awesome, too.

So, just sitting here at the computer…listening to Zelda music. It’s awesome. I love Zelda music. 8D

I wrote a little more tonight…So far, I’ve got a total of 4,691 words. Whoo!

Not much else. Other then that God gave me sudden enlightenment that I’m more like my mother than I thought. Not exactly a bad thing…it just helps me cope with the situation I was thinking about. Kinda nice.

Practice went well. I ate a Hot Ham ‘n Cheese sammich for lunch. I get to sleep tonight. :D

Oh, and I found sheet music for Zelda’s Lullaby. Sweetness.

…YAY, I GET TO GO TO SUSAN’S TOMORROW! :D And it’ll be less crazy this week…xD;;

Whootness and stuffers

Okay. Last night after posting:

Burned the inside of my left armpit, thanks to hair removal lotion. Read the Bible (YAY!) and looked at the FF: X guide, which reminded me of how awesome the Aeons were.

Today:

Went to practice again, got to meet "Lizabeth." Blocking was...annoying, but I managed to live. Afterwards, I had archery, which proved to a bit painful because my left arm is the one that holds the bow steady. Thank you, Ms. Left Pit.

Then, Awana's, of course. Lauren had a strange laughing fit...but, Lauren is rather strange. Just like everyone else at DV8...

I forgot yesterday to express my happiness that Jake is not leaving. I probably forgot because he...jumped toward me in a really scary way after I had found out in the kitchen. I was laughing, but I probably was doing that because I was so weirded out. O.o; I'm still confused.

I think I should apologize to Kevin on Sunday, 'cause I didn't say something very nice to him last Sunday at all. Sure he hit me with...something by throwing it over the balcony, but he wasn't even aiming for me. And it was extremely uncalled for me to tell him that I "didn't like him." ...I mean, he apologized to me for hitting me, and he didn't, while I completely intended to say what I did.

Finally, Andrea's character, Rhett, has locked himself up in a cupboard or something for nearly a week now.

And, finally, because I think I can upload this now...In this post is a cropped screen cap of Sora Naegino, the protagonist of Kaleido Star. Whee!

So, g'night, ya'll. I'm headin' ta bed now. And I really need to work on my Southren accent fer this play, ya hear? It comes an' goes when I don't wan' it to. 'S really annoyin'.

BYE-BYE! :D

Rurouni Kenshin spoilers for volume 24...As well as details of today

Dear Nobuhiro Watsuki, creator of Rurouni Kenshin,

I dislike you so much for making me cry after 9:00 PM last night.

Having Kaoru-san "die" all of a sudden was very shocking, and I really couldn't believe that it really happened for a good few minutes. I would keep looking back at the two panels of the Kenshin-like cut made on her cheek and then the full body panel, showing a katana inserted right into where her heart would be. "Killing off" a character who's been there since volume 1 is very upseting.

...Now I thank you for having one of the best plots I have ever seen in your series, I didn't perdict it at all. Probably because I was "grieving" too much like Yahiko, Megumi, and, ultimately, Kenshin. Having her "corpose" turn out to be a "doll," like Iwanbô, was extremely relieving.

Aoshi's obvious change in character was pleasant, too. I appreciate that you decided not to actually kill off Kaoru. Now, I will go back into my cubby of nerdiness.

((And I'm upset with myself that I didn't read the Bible last night as I had planned. Note to self: NEVER put reading a manga in front of reading the Bible. It's a bad thing.))

Today:

I'm going to be acting in a play at the Waukesha Civic Theatre. Even though there are only three performances, I'm really happy. My character's name is Louisa and she will die of mountain fever. Yay! ...Whoops, I spoiled it. :P

Also tonight, Pastor Brian gave me Tim's Final Fantasy X guide that Tim wanted. I think Tim'll be happy, so thanks, P.B.! Don't die of mountain fever. ;)

And, one final thing, when I review the anime, I'm going to be doing it disc by disc...and, for different animes, the way they put the number of episodes varies. Like so:

Kaleido Star: 5, 5, 5, 5, 6
Azumanga Daioh: 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 3
Angelic Layer: 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3 (? Not too sure about this one...)
Etc. (I really only have one other anime, but I can't remember for the life of me what the pattern of the episodes were...I only remember because of patterns. No other reason)

I'm think I'm either going to review Kaleido Star or Princess Nine first. Probably Kaleido Star, because it'll be a little less complicated with me not saying, "Ahem, I watch subs with this anime...so, if you watch the dub, it'll be different." I personally prefer watching the dub for Kaleido Star, because most of the voices are very well picked, and it, well, just makes plain sense for characters to be speaking English in an anime that takes place in America.

...I've rambled way too much tonight. So, off to bed...

-Acey M.

P.S. I have practice for the play again tomorrow! Yays!

Current status

I've had a headache. All. Day.

x.x Dear Lord, help me...please get me a massage. It's hurts so much.

On a better note, I've got volume 24 of Rurouni Kenshin to look forward to reading tonight. Then reading my Bible right afterwards.

Tomorrow is gonna be great, because Wednesdays always rock my face off!

Oh, so tired… x.x

I wish the weekend weren’t over, but all fun things end, I suppose. Oh well.

I’ve been thinking about maybe starting to write anime reviews. Like, ya know, reviewing the anime I own from a Christian perspective and things like that. I would need the DVD drive moved to the middle computer to do that, though…And Josh didn’t do it while he was last home. So, I guess I have to wait a while on that idea.

Today I finished off the chocolate Mom bought me…I think she got me it on Saturday. So, I finished it off in three days…Not sure whether that’s a good or bad thing.

And, I’ve decided to stop saying, “I’ll post something more meaningful later,” because, one, every time so far that I’ve tried writing “meaningful” I’ve gotten “meanful” the first time (except that last one!). Two, I’m not sure what I mean by meaningful. So, yeah.

Btw, I really miss my WinDVD on the computer…Because I could make screen caps. I’ll just look at my old screen caps, I guess.

Okay, mini-rant here…

Makeup is like music in the sense Caleb was talking about this morning. In worship music, the focus is God. You don’t want people focusing on the drummer or the organ player.

Similarly, in makeup, you don’t want people focusing on the fact that you are wearing makeup. The point of makeup is to accent the beautiful features God gave you and make them appear a little more attractive. Seriously, guys don’t even like it when a girl’s face screams, “MAKEUP INVASION!” The point is to subtly make your eyes, lips, etc. look better.

…So, my main point is…
Mascara is not, is never supposed to be on so thick that you can feel the globs.

That is all. I'll post something more meaningful later.

The second day, YES!

Well, I finally worked out the kinks and fixed the “About Me” thing that was appearing as I first wrote it above my posts…Now it has the current “About Me.”

Just wanted to express my joy at fixing it. Off to Church I go!

I’ll post something more meaningful than fixing my blog later.

I'm blogging? What has eaten my brain?

My first, no, wait, second time with a blog. Hopefully I’ll actually stick with it this time. I probably will, because this time I think I’ll actually have people on my back about updating…sweet.

As for the username of my blog, “Tsumire-chan,” it came from a short scene from an anime I own. I can’t remember correctly, but I think “Tsumire” means “fish sticks.” Maybe that’s fitting, since fish sticks are the only kind of fish you can ever get in my mouth. Mark my words!

And, ya know what? I think I just finally decided to go and make this blog because Andrea’s not on and from my own boredom. I already played Crystal Chronicles today, and I don’t really want to play anymore today. I also started rewatching Kaleido Star, and I remembered how much I liked the character Rosetta. Mmm, yayness!

I also hope Andrea won’t be too disappointed with my blog picture choice, since she really seemed to like the elf…But, I like tea too much, so Miss Tea Lady it was! Meh, I guess if she is disappointed, she’ll get over it…

…Yeah, my thoughts aren’t exactly organized at times. I hope this is just “first post syndrome” or something of that nature. Yep, I gotta blame it on a potential disorder…That’s the ticket!

Just to remind myself…Current word count of SyU: 4,527.

I guess I should post on P.B. or Jenn’s blog to let one of them know that I’m on blogspot now. Off I go!

Edit: I've editted this twice already. I left out one word, and I believe I found a grammatical error in another place...Yeah. I should go and find something to do, otherwise I'll just keep reading my own post over and over again.