“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.