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!