December 2003
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
It snowed last night! :D I noticed it around 11:30 PM. It was so pretty. And you know what's even cooler? When I woke up just after noon today... the snow was still there!! lol We got about three inches, maybe a little more. Not a whole lot, but more than we've gotten in quite some time so I'm a happy camper. lol It was snowing through the day a lot too, but it didn't seem to be sticking really. It's supposed to snow again either tonight or on Saturday or something like that. We'll see. I'm somewhat tempted to go out into the front yard and build a snowman, but I don't think that'd be too good of an idea for me to do right now. See, I'm sick. I got a stupid cold, probably to do with ice skating on Sunday night and not wearing warm enough clothes. lol Oops. I'm sort of feeling better today. I can breathe through both nostrils at least so that's a major plus, but now I've got a cough/throat thing going on. Blarg. Not too terrible though, I shall live. ;)
My parents and are were invited to go to someone's house tonight from church for a little New Years Eve party thing. I'm sort of thinking I might go. I'm not sure because I'm starting to go down hill again with feeling a bit worse since it's night time now. Have you ever noticed that? How you can feel better from being sick earlier in the day and then once it gets toward night time you start to feel bad again? I dislike that. Anyway, I might just end up going for a few hours and then come home and play on the computer/watch movies. Or I might just stay home. I haven't really decided yet. Either way, the new layout should go up tonight/early morning tomorrow and the blog will start off freash again. :) Well, I think this is going to be a shorter entry tonight. TTFN! Hope you all have a safe nice night. :)
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Well, I meant to post earlier so that this would actually show up as being posted on Monday rather than early Tuesday, but yeah... I got distracted by making more decks for my upcoming Nick TCG, talking to Sam, and watching SG-1 with my parents. ;) lol Oh well, it doesn't REALLY matter what time this is posted at I guess, right? Anyway, that's pretty much what I've done today. That and work for a while. I slept a long time too, but I'll get to that later. Let's see...
Christmas night I worked for a number of hours on the new layout for this site. :D It'll probably be up super early New Years day. I like it a lot. :) It's not filter or brush crazy, it's pretty simple as far as that goes, but I really like the way it turned out and the colors of it and everything. And I suppose I could tell you all who it features. I'm not good with keeping things secret unless they have to be kept that way. ;) lol So yes, it's a Clay Aiken layout. I was trying to think up what my layout was going to be for New Years and I wasn't coming up with anything and I was listening to Clay's CD so I went and found a few pictures and there you have it, a Clay Aiken layout! Hehehe. :) Hopefully you all will like it.
On Friday mom, dad and I went out shopping since we all had gift certificates from Christmas and I had the day off. Dad ended up coming home 'cause he was not into the whole shopping thing, you know? ;) lol So then mom and I did the rest of the stuff on our own. I'm actually surprised, I didn't spend all my Christmas money. lol All I got was two DVDs, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Core. I especially like The Core, that's a great movie, good humor in it too. ;) "Will you take a check?" "Use a credit card, you get miles." lmao Well, to get that one, you'd really need to watch the movie. Oh yes, and I'm sure that's not EXACTLY the line from the movie, but you know, it's close enough and I don't want to go pop in the DVD right now, find the scene, and get it just right. ;)
Saturday I worked. I had my 8 and a half hour shift that day. I really just consider it an eight hour shift though 'cause we get a half an hour food break we don't get paid for. I was feeling really good and rather hyper on Saturday at work. ;) lmao It was good fun though. I got Nate and Wes making friendship bracelets. Or well, they actually both made necklaces, but you know. ;) Nate did pretty darn good for his first try and poor Wes, it took him three tries to get it right. lol The first didn't quite turn out and he broke the string on the second one right near the beginning of it. But the third one turned out really good. :) I wasn't so sure about browns 'cause I never really use them when I make bracelets, but Wes did browns and it looked real good when it was done. Plus I guess, browns are more manly colors than my bright colors and whatnot. ;) While they were working on their bracelets I made a new one for me and then Nate asked if I'd make him one so I started that. I guess eventually I'll have all the guys making their own and I'll have made ones for each of them as well. ;) Or at least, most of the guys. Hehehe. :D
Sunday I got up early for church even though I was up late the night before(I guess that's fairly usual though, lol). I was doing projection that day at church so I was committed and I couldn't sleep in and skip. It's better that I went though and we only had one service so that made it a little easier. :) After church I got to come home for a little bit and then it was off to work. Again, I had a very lovely day. I've been feeling really great lately and that's just... YAY! :D lol So work was good and I had a conversation with Wes about music and stuff. Wes likes more rock/punk stuff and no pop. lol So, it was interesting. He said he'd go to EMP with me sometime though so I'll have to take him up on that before his winter break is over. I want to go to EMP again. lol I think Ani and I are going, but I don't know when. We'll see. :)
I got home after work on Sunday and I was continuing to debate in my mind whether I should go to the college youth cocoa party at 6 PM. I was thinking I wouldn't because I figured not many people were going to show up since there's not that many college kids at my church and I've never really been friends with them or anything. But after thinking of it for a while and realizing that the only other thing I'd do that night would be to sit on my butt here at the computer so I finally decided to go. It also helped that there'd been a little flyer at church in the morning and it said we were also gonna go ice skating. Ice skating was the magic phrase. ;) lol So, I went and when I got there I called my mom in the car to let her know I was there and then as I was getting out of my car, Brian K.(works with me at the theatre) pulled up so I waited for him to get out of his car and walked to the building with him. There were three other people when we got there, they're sisters and one of them was the one who planned the outing and whatnot. After a bit Sarah got there so that was nice because I knew at least I could talk to her. :) She's really nice. And then one other girl showed up and that was pretty much all the college kids from our church save for a couple. lol So, 7 alltogether including me. We left for the ice rink after the last girl came. I got to drive. lol Not that I like to drive, but I prefer to be the one driving in group situations for the most part I think.
Now, I've only ever been ice skating once before and that was a number of years ago so I was pretty excited about getting to go again. :) It's funny too because Ani and I were just talking about wanting to go ice skating when we were out shopping before Christmas. lol So we got there and got our skates and of course, I got the wrong size! lmao I recall that happening a lot when going roller blading years ago as well. ;) Hehehe. I took one lap of the rink in the first pair, but it was far to wobbly so I went and got the next size down. It was hard to figure out the size though 'cause I'm a 10 at least in shoes, but apparently I'm only an 8 in skates. lol Anyway... skating we all went. Brian was the first to fall I think. lol Poor boy. He fell like three or four times and they were good falls. lol I was doing pretty good until I decided I'd like to try and go faster and I tripped over the toe-pick and I went down. And I mean, I REALLY went down! lmao Good thing they've got people employed to skate around and help people up. ;) lol It was one of those falls though where it just hurt for a couple minutes and then I felt okay. There were a few more close calls and then I finally went down real hard again. lol I fell down twice and hit the ice nice and hard on my left side both times. Good thing I didn't hit the part of my left knee that would have brought me to tears though. Praise the Lord for that! I was glad when everyone else decided they were done. The skates were starting to dig into my legs. No bleeding like Brian, but I've got a few pretty marks from it nonetheless. lol After that we drove back to church so everyone could get their cars and then we went over to the sisters' house to watch a movie. We ended up watching Frequency which I'd seen once before a few years ago. It's a good movie, but I don't like murder sort of things and bad, evil men so that part bothered me a bit. It all ended, I guess you could say, happy though so that was good at least. :)
I came home after that and went to bed. I was starting to feel the soreness kicking in and I was feeling pretty tired so I fell asleep pretty quick. I think that's why I slept so long yesterday(Monday) morning, because my muscles were not happy. lol They're still not happy, but only when I move the wrong way. ;) But hey, I got exercise yesterday and I had a good time and a nice chat with Sarah and a few of the other girls so all's well.
I just made three card decks in the last few hours for my upcoming Nick Carter TCG which I decided to name 2kaotic. :) I really heart the second set I made today, I think it's going to be my favorite of them all. Sam also opened up her PotC TCG yesterday so I joined that too! It's rad! As a matter of fact, you all should join and say that HoL referred you. ;) lol I get a random card for every referral. I love that. :D Well, I guess I'll jet off now. TTFN!
EDIT: AHHH!!! Sam also re-launched Days-of-Thunder.com!!! She must've put it up right after I signed off AIM to watch SG-1! lol Sneeky she is. ;) Anyway, you all should go check it out because guess who made the layout? ;) Yup, 'twas me! I'd be interested as to what you all think as it's sort of different from my typical style. I'm so glad she got it up though! Wee! Days-of-Thunder.com!
Thursday, December 25, 2003
Merry Christmas and a happy b-day to Jesus! :D I hope everyone had/is having a lovely Christmas day. *hugs* I've been having quite the lovely day as well. I got up this morning and took a shower and then we opened presents(will list in a minute). Just as we were finished opening presents Kenny and his wife showed up for breakfast. And, for those that don't know/don't remember since I don't post about Kenny much, he's my older step-bro. Anyway, we ate breakfast and then they opened their presents and we opened what they got for us. We also opened stockings up at that point as well. And I must say, I think I have the coolest stocking ever. ;) Hehehe. It's a Rudolph stocking and it's actually got a stuffed animal head and feet to it. :D lol I heart it. After Kenny and his wife left, I went to go see Peter Pan. I know, I'm a movie-going freak. lol I asked mommy and daddy if it was okay and they said yeah and I invited them to go with me, but they didn't want to and we didn't have anything else planned, so I went. And oh... what a LOVELY movie!!! I want my very own Peter. :D *giggles* And I want to kiss a boy and have his entire body glow pink, there be a burst of emotion that knocks everyone off their feet, and then he'll shoot up in the air and defeat his evil foe. Yup, I want that. ;) If you like fantasy stuff and make-believe worlds and lovely cuteness, I suggest you go see Peter Pan because I found it to be lovely and enchanting and Jason Issacs is a great Hook. But anyway, I'm sure you all would like to know what I got for Christmas, right? I got...
A Felix the Cat 2004 Calendar(SWEET!)
Bearon Red Beanie Baby(He's so cute!)
A chain-link silver bracelet with a heart charm that has my name engraved on it(From my Aunt Maureen).
A couple checks for money. lol
Two Wal*Mart gift cards.
A Borders gift card.
Sparkle gel pens(Oooh...)
A Chocolat Orange(tasty, hehe, it's already gone)
And I got the following as well which I got to open last night after church service...
If I was invisible
Then I could just watch you in your room.
If I was invincible
I'd make you mine tonight.
If hearts were unbreakable
Then I could just tell you where I stand.
I would be the smartest man
If I was invisible.
Wait... I already am...
If you don't know, that's from Clay Aiken's song "Invisible." I like that song a lot. So far from the rest of the album I also like "I Will Carry You" and "Touch." I'm sure I'll like more once I listen to this more as well. Oh, and the checks and gift cards were from Aunts, Uncles and family friends. :) All except one of the Wal*Mart cards which was another gift from my parents as were all the other things. I got my daddy a box of smoked salmon and a gift certificate to Black & Decker and I got my mommy a cute little polar bear figurine sort of thing. :) They both liked them so that made me happy and I loved everything I got too. :) Now I have to type some stuff about last night and boys and how I'm confused. ;) lmao
Well, it seems that I'm either secretly rather pretty or just weird lookin'. lol It's one of the two anyway I think. ;) Why this revelation? Well, last night my parents and I went to the 9 o'clock candle light service at church and they were volunteering as greeters and I was doing the projection so we got there early. Just before we left I was trying to find my holly wire garland to put in my hair. I found it and what I did was just leave my hair down(a VERY rare occurance) and I just put a halo of the garland on the top of my head and pulled one side of my hair behind my ear and left the other side to hand down. It was a little puffy, as usual, but it looked sort of nice. :) So when we got their early half the guys I work with were already there as well. lol Including one who doesn't go to church much anymore, but he used to come to youth group a lot during the middle school years(he's a year older than I am). Anyway, me being stupid the way that I am, I wanted to wish him a Merry Christmas earlier that day when I went to watch LotR at the theatre and he was working, but I didn't because I'm stupid and shy and scared and whatnot. So I wanted to say that at church, but I couldn't muster it so I just milled about a bit and then had some people show me a few special things that I needed to do for projection and whatnot. Now, here's the part that brought along the revelation and I can't seem to get these thoughts out of my head now. So, I walked away from where the laptop's setup at the back of chuch and walked along the back toward the doors where my mom was standing to talk to her. About half-way across the sancuary(not that big) I glanced at this boy and he happened to look at me at the same moment and I caught him doing like a double take or something after looking at me. I wasn't looking right at him either, but as soon as I sort of noticed I immediately completely averted my eyes and tried to walk as fast as I could past. WHY did I do that? Oy! This brings me back to my point though... was that a good thing or a bad thing?
So then, of course, I was thinking about it off and on through the service. I tried to keep my attention to the service, but it wandered a few times and then when I got home I was thinking some more. And of course, I was somehow reminded about how he'd noticed when I got my hair short and had asked me if I cut it and all. Guys don't normally notice that sort of thing and he was the only one to notice I cut my hair and comment on it. I only cut 3 inches off and I'm sort of surprised anyone would notice since my hair is almost always up and under something. So I don't know, is he just an observant guy? Dang my brain and all these thoughts. I swear something wrong with me. Anyway, it's probably just that he thinks I'm weird(well, I sort of am and I'm all right with that), but I feel compelled to say I wouldn't mind if that's not exactly what he thinks. *sigh* It's almost like... If I was invisible... Just don't take it the wrong way because as my step-brother so wonderfully pointed out, the radio calls that the stalker song, but that's not what I think when I hear it, you know?
Okay, I guess this is quite long enough for now. Plus, I'd best call up my cousins at the cabin before it gets too late. I hope they're still awake. Last year or something when I called half of them were asleep because they'd been out snowboarding all day or whatever. ;) lol TTFN and Merry Christmas! Have a lovely evening!
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Yesterday was quite happy. Between Amy, Sam, myself and some hints from Aceetha, we managed to open the door to save Nick at Heaven-Ly. Oh, it was a joyous celebration! ;) lmao And the reward was good and well worth it. :D *dances* I'm going to level up again soon. I only need two more cards! YAY! lol Yeah... can you tell that I'm addicted to this TCG thing now? Heh. And I'm still making my Nick TCG too. ;) I got the layout done(need to code it, but it's made) and I've got two card sets done. In short, I've still got quite a bit to do, but I'm working on it so that's better than having not done anything. ;)
Yesterday I finally got to see Ani. :) We went shopping. We were going to go to EMP since I have a membership and she does too, but I didn't wake up very early and right after I got up was when I got online and we got the door open. lol So, I was a littl pre-occupied by that for a few hours. Oops. But, I finally called Ani and got a hold of her and I told her she had to come shopping with me and eat at Zoopa. lmao We went and got my mom a figurine thing at a cute little store and then we headed to the mall. We took a different route because the vice president was at a hotel right near the mall and we didn't want to run into him or anything. And you know, I thought to myself that it would be quite hilarious if the alternate route turned out to be the bad one and the one that what's his name took... and guess what! lmao It WAS the route they took! lmao It was hilarious because we had to pull over to the side of the road and wait like five minutes for 50-some-odd motorcycle cops and 5 vans to go by. lol It was CRAZY! All that for one guy... I don't really get it, but you know, whateva. It was quite entertaining though so I can't really say it was bad, I got quite the laugh out of all the cops going by. lol It was all like, will it ever end? Hehe.
While we were at the mall we got Autumn a Christmas present. We weren't supposed to because it's evil to do that to someone who can't get you a present back, but it really screamed Autumn so we had to get it for her. lol And it only ended up being $5 so no big. We got her a Strawberry Shortcake poster and parts of it are FUZZY! lol It was so the perfect gift for Autumn. ;) lol We dropped by her house to give it to her after stopping by another store to get my daddy's present(well, part of it anyway, lol) and she said she hated us for getting her a present, but loved the present. lol That's just what I figured she'd say. ;) Autumn let me borrow two movies from her so I watched one last night. Guess what it was... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! lmao It was AWESOME! KOWABUNGA! *giggles*
Today I went to work. lol Same old pretty much. We did pretty good today too. Actually, we had a lot more people come than I thought we would. I wonder what tomorrow will be like too? I'm not working, but I think I'm going to go watch the movie provided I wake up on time. ;) If I don't than I'll end up going with my parents to dinner at some people from church's house. They're nice, but I think I'd end up being bored and wanting to go home so I think I'll stick with LotR since that'll get out about the time my parents will probably be coming home from dinner. Oh yes, and tomorrow is candle light service at church. I'm doing projection for the second service so that's the one my parents are going to. It used to be my very favorite service of the year till they took away my favorite part last year. We used to all get little candles and all the lights would go out and we'd pass the flame from candle to candle. Rad, right? Well, last year since we got into our brand new building, they decided not to do it because they didn't want wax to get on the carpet at all. ARG. Stupid excuse, if you ask me. But, there's nothing I can do about it and it's not about going to light candles so I'll just have to be good and like it. :)
Speaking of Christmas and holidays. I've gotten a few signs from people wishing me a happy holiday season and whatnot so I want to thank them all! :) Thank you Sam, Aceetha, Tori, Cori, Hanna, Kriss and Tamanna. I think that's everybody, but if I forgot you, let me know and I'm sorry. *hugs* And since I had a brilliant idea for an X-Mas sign the other day, I made it today and I'm posting it below for all my friends and everyone who visits this site. :D I hope you like it. ;) lol
:D Heheheehe. And although it doesn't say it on the sign, I want to wish everyone who celebrates a holiday other than Christmas a very happy holiday season. :) YAY! lol Well, I think this is it for now, I can't think of anything else to type. I hope everyone has a great few days the rest of the week and be sure to have lots of fun. Ta ta! *hugs*
Saturday, December 20, 2003
I spent a VERY long time last night trying to solve a riddle. Why you may ask? To get more cards at Heaven-Ly of course! lol Aceetha put up a new game where you have to follow clues to hidden links and then solve riddles before you can get your reward and the next clue. Today I finally got past the riddle I was trying to figure out last night and the other riddles were pretty easy and now I'm at the final one(or well, I think it's the final one, lol) and yeah... my poor brain. lol It hurts. And you know, once I finally get this darn thing figured out, there'd better be a biznitchin prize on the other side. ;) lol Am I right Amy and Sam? Hehehe. They're also trying to figure it out. At least I know I'm not the only one having brain problems over this whole thing. ;) It's probably totally simple too and it'll seem real obvious once the answer is made known to me. lol All right... I must move on from this... must take a break. ;)
I know I haven't blogged for the last few days. It was mostly because I didn't wake up until right before I had to leave for work and then when I got home I did other things until it was too late to be blogging. Sad, but true. Okay, again with the re-capping. Wednesday we opened LotR: RotK at the theatre. The first show was semi-busy, but not really even close to a sell-out. The reason was because the show started basically right after most of the schools get out so there wasn't time for a lot of people to make it to the movie. But the later show pretty much sold out so that was good. :) We did end up having to have intermissions, but they haven't been too bad. Well, for me anyway, but I've never worked an intermission at the evening shows and they're supposedly worse. lol Oh yeah, and during the first showing, Ben brings his laptop and we watch other movies on it. ;) lol We watched Gladiator on Thursday and yesterday we watched The Italian Job after Ben finally stopped playing games on his laptop and let us watch a movie. ;) Hehehe. Oh, and I made sugar cookies on Thursday night and brought a bunch to work yesterday for everyone. Those who had some all told me the cookies were good. :) And well, that's pretty much it. lmao Ani got home on Wednesday, but I haven't seen her yet. She called me real early in the morning though. ;) lol Early being like 10 or 11 AM. Hahaha. All righty, well, I'm off now because I can't really think of anything else to be typing right now and I'm chatting with my cousin Mike on AIM. TTFN!
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Let's re-cap. lol Friday I worked. Nothing special that day as far as I can recall. Saturday was fun, fun, fun! :) I don't remember what I did during the day, but in the evening I went and picked up Autumn and we proceeded to the venue for the play Andrew was performing in. :) It was at a church and it was a dinner theatre sort of thing. They only charged $12 per person too... what a deal!!! :D lol Anyway, it was called "A Time For Christmas" if I remember correctly and it was sort of based off of "A Christmas Carrol." Andrew had told me not to expect a great performance out of it, but oh my gosh, it was SOOOOO good! I cried! lol Andrew played sort of an angel(instead of the three ghosts, there was just him to show the non-Christmas-y guy different things). Andrew's character took Bill(the non-X-mas-y dude) back to the first Christmas with the shepherds in the pasture, then to medieval Christmas, some time when celebrating Christmas was out-lawed, a London orphanage, and then to present Christmas. Man though, it was REALLY good I wished I could have seen it another night, but they were all sold out and I had to work anyway. Andrew did so well too even though there were a few times where cues were off, etc., but I only noticed once and Andrew got through it very well. :)
After the play was over Autumn and I went and talked to Andrew and he had us go out to his car with him so he could give us Christmas presents. The butt-head! lol I tried to tell him not to get Autumn or myself anything, but he wouldn't listen so now Autumn and I are attempting to plot our revenge and get him something really good. lol See, first he handed us the presents all nicely wrapped in Pooh and Tigger wrapping paper! How cool is that? lol And then we talked to him for a while before he had to go back inside to make an appearance for everyone else and then Autumn and I went to my car and we opened our presents and he gave each of us two of those little mini beanie babies they had at McDonald's way back when and then he gave me Swing Kids on DVD and gave Autumn the Smallville soundtrack. So basically, he got us each what we wanted even though we hadn't known that's what we wanted. lol And for those of you that don't know, Swing Kids is a very good movie(minus the part where they boys are being stupid and looking at pictures of naked ladies-I'd forgotten that part, lol) and I reccommend it to you all. Plus, it's got Christian Bale in it and I heart him. :) His character goes bad though. Blarg. Hehehe. Still very good though. ;) So, anyway, then Autumn and I went to the arcade for a while before I took her home and I came home. I should have gone straight to bed since I had to get up for church in the morning, but instead, I watched Swing Kids. lol
Sunday morning I got up and went to church. We had a different speaker for the message instead of our pastor and... I don't know, I didn't really follow the point of what he was talking about. Normally this guy's really good(he's spoken at our church before), but this time, like, the things he was using as examples that were supposed to tie into the message didn't really. Oh well. I got basically what he was getting at so I guess that's good. ;) I came home and relaxed for a while and then helped my mom paint base coats onto our wooden Christmas projects this year. Each year we make something and paint it and then send it to everyone on my dad's side of the family and a few people on my mom's side. This year we're doing these cute little message holders with One Stroke painting on it that my mom's very good at. :D So my part was painting the wood white because I can't do the nice flowers, birds, and bunnies that my mom put on them. lmao After that was work which was basically just as I expected it to be. lol
Yesterday I got up an milled about the house for a while before going off to work. My mom worked too and then we both watched Elf since my mom hadn't seen it yet. :) And then... the big, exciting part of yesterday was that after Elf ended, Brian K. finished building Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King so I stayed to watch it!!!! :D lol Anthony also came back to watch it and brough one of his friends. Brian's friend Kevin who used to go to youth group with us also came as well as my friend Heidi's little brother Owen. We started the movie just before 10pm and the intermission was about a quarter to midnight. Yeah, we've got to have an intermission because our platters that the movie sits on in the projection booth aren't big enough to hold the whole movie since it's three and a half hours long, so Brian had to build it on two platters instead of one. And man, the intermission was NOT at a good part! lol It was at a scene change, so at least it didn't cut out right in the middle of something, but it was one of those scenes where the end of it made you go, "ah, what's going to happen?!" lol So, all of a sudden, the screen went black and I'm all like, "What?!" lol Kevin left at the intermission 'cause he had to get up early for work the next morning, but I guess he'd gone to see the screening a couple of weeks ago with Brian anyway so he'd already seen it. Anyway, then we watched the rest of the movie and it was good and now I finally know how everything ends! YAY! lol And, I'm being very good and not blurting out anything about the movie for other people who haven't read the books(that would be me, lol). :) After the movie I gave Owen a ride home and came home myself. It was working it's way towards two in the morning when I got home. lol I was gonna blog, but I thought I'd best just go to sleep. ;)
I got up this morning and helped mom put up the Christmas decorations so the boxes could go back into the garage. Hehehe. I decorated the tree all by myself too. :) It's only 3 feet tall though and it's fake so no big. ;) Hahaha. I like fake trees better than real trees too. If you really want to know why, let me know and I'll explain it in my next blog entry. Heh. I love our Christmas tree lights too! Most people's don't do anything and some people have one's that blink, but ours... ours blink to Christmas songs!!! :D *dances* And you can change the volume and set them not to blink and to have no music if you want too. I'm going to try and take them with me whenever I eventually move out. ;) lol Either that or I'm going to have to find some like that at a store or something. :D
After decorating I got ready to go and mom cut my hair. I got about three inches cut off so now my hair is shoulder length. I liked it where it was, but I wanted to get more of the bleached ends cut off so I thought that I might as well do that now and then in a month or two it'll be back to where it was anyway. :D Cutting my hair took a bit longer than my mom and I thought so I was late picking up Autumn, but we still made it to the movie theatre in time and actually ended up beating Andrew there 'cause he got caught in a bit of traffic. lol We all made it in plenty of time for the movie though. We saw Honey. It had another Newsies boy in it(David Moscow) so that was the main reason Autumn and I wanted to see it and Andrew thought the dance style was cool. The movie was all right, I liked it okay, but it wasn't anything really great. I think I would have much rather seen The Last Samurai instead though, but oh well, hopefully I'll get a chance to go see that before it leaves the theatres. After the movie Autumn and I went to the arcade for a bit and then I dropped her off at the bus stop and walked through Target for a bit before heading to my last night of Russian class.
Well, class was pretty much just a two hour waste of my life. Everyone brought a little food and we were going to watch a Russian movie. That didn't sound too bad, but my goodness. I would not call what we watched a movie, I would call it a piece of crap that should never have been filmed. If anything, it was more like a documentary and it wasn't even that! It was in Russian with English sub-titles and normally, I can't stand sub-titles, but since I could understand the occasional Russian word, that part wasn't too bad, it's just that nothing in the "movie" made any sense and by the time nine o'clock ran around I praised God that I could leave without any of my classmates or my teacher thinking I just didn't want to be there even though that was the case. Oh, it was not happy. So, I'm glad class is done with, but I'm not so glad that I'm on my own for probably quite a while with continuing to learn the language. See, I love the Russian language, but I wasn't totally thrilled with the way my teacher taught and I didn't particularly like any of the people in my class. You know, they were all nice and all, but only one of them was my age and I didn't really talk to her at all or anything, you know? So someday I'll take another Russian class or meet someone who's Russian and can teach me more, but I don't know when that'll be. Okay, I'm off now. I'm sure this is plenty long enough. ;) Bye!
Thursday, December 11, 2003
<---- Ah! Look what I made!!!! :D lol It's Fawkes from Harry Potter bursting into flames and dying and then being reborn from the ashes. And you know, I'm just so happy it actually looks like that too and you can tell that Fawkes is a bird. ;) lmao *dances* I made it for the enchanted pixels contest at The Golden Snitch TCG. :D See, the other day(I think it was Tuesday), Aceetha launched a Backstreet Boys TCG called Heaven-Ly. Well, that immediately got me hooked! lmao So, I joined that one and did everything I could to get extra cards. lol Then I saw the other TCGs that Aceetha's a member of, so I went and joined the Harry Potter one and I found a Stargate-SG1 TCG that I'll eventually join as well. lol And then, of course, I decided that I wanted to make a TCG too, but since Aceetha had a BSB one and there was already an SG-1 one I didn't know what to do. Then I decided. I'm making a Nick Carter TCG!!!! :D lol I think some of you had already guessed that though. ;) So yes, I hope that'll be up in a few days. I've started working on the cards and once they're done(or mostly done) I'll be making the layout and then I can launch the site! I'm so excited! lmao Could you tell?
I got over the whole not being able to see Peter Pan thing and my mood that I was in over the weekend and whatnot. I'm feeling much happier and better now. :) Still a bummer that I didn't get to go to the screening, but I guess that just means I'm going Christmas day. I have Christmas Eve and Day off at work so that shouldn't be a problem and we don't really have anything planned for Christmas day except to hang around here. Mom was thinking we might have people for dinner, but I could see the movie before then and if I absolutely had to, I could wait until the 26th.
Yesterday was the interview with Alex on Oprah where the rest of the Boys showed up and surprised him. It was a very good interview thing and it was nice to see all the Boys together again. :) Alex looked really great, like, you could tell he's doing a lot better. :) And then when the rest of the Boys came out to surprise him they were all getting teary-eyed and it was so awesome. Alex is my hero. :D *does a jig for Alex being sober over one year again* So yes, that was great. I also taped the aftershow stuff on Oxygen since I was going to be at work and you know what? They had two different aftershows on yesterday, but NOT the one with Alex and the Boys. What gives? I would assume they'd be run on the same day, but I guess apparently not. Blarg. lol I also watched the Billboard awards because the Boys were supposed to be there and make an announcement, but of course, there was no announcement and no thing with the Boys. Arg. The ONLY non-trash part of that show was when Clay performed. Everything else was a complete waist of my time and life and was a defilement of my mind. We'll leave it at that. lol
Today I was good and I called Autumn to talk to her about Andrew's show on Saturday. We talked about lots of other stuff too and then after quite a while there was a call on the other line so I switched over and it was Andrew! lol How funny because Autumn and I were just talking about how we didn't know if we should just dress nice or really nice for the show. lol So I talked to Andrew and I thought I wasn't going to talk to him more than 10 minutes, but then we both just kept talking while I left poor Autumn on the other line! lmao She eventually hung up and I called her back after Andrew and I hung up. I figured she wouldn't mind too much. ;) lol *hugs to Autumn* And man, now I've got to figure out something to get for Andrew because he said he's buying me and Autumn presents. I tried to talk him out of it, but it didn't work and he said I didn't need to get him anything, but I told him too bad because I'm gonna. lol If a friend gets me something then I have to get them something back in return, you know? So now I just need to figure out something not expensive that I can get him. That'll be interesting. lol
All right, well, I must take a shower now or I won't have time to take one before work and I'd rather not go there with greasy hair, you know? ;) lol Anyway, I shall try to blog more, but not too much's been going on lately and I have to give fair warning that starting next Wednesday I might not blog for a while or not blog much because we're opening LotR:RotK and it's going to be rather crazy. lol I'm going to get lots of hours though so that'll be sort of cool. :) All righty, off I go, ta ta for now!
Monday, December 8, 2003
I feel sad and I want to cry.
Everything was going well and happy today. I went to work with mommy this morning and we left early to go to mom's volunteer drivers luncheon at the Space Needle. That was nice and they actually served food that I liked and could eat. I was getting a bit bored by the time I finished my main dish so since EMP is right next store and I've got a membership, I went there for about an hour and played around the in music lab. I tried the drums again and I was doing good with doing two parts, but I couldn't manage to add the third. lol Oh well, I'll try again next time. ;)
Then mommy and I stopped by a mall and did a little shopping. I got a new beanie baby. I got one on Saturday too. They're both very cute. I like the bears. That's all I have, bears. lol Well, except for Scorch the dragon because dragons just rock. ;) I've also got a beanie buddy that's the white dragon(forget the name, like Magic or something), but everything else are the bears, they're cute little teddy style bears. :)
I came home and watched some TV and then I went to work. That's where things flipped. It started out okay, same old, same old, but then when it was getting closer to the time the movie was going to start and there were a fair amount of customers, my boss came in. She asked me if I'd RSVPed yet. I was all like what? Then she asked if I got her e-mail and I said I hadn't checked it yet today. Turns out the screening for Peter Pan is tomorrow and RSVPs were supposed to be in by noon on Friday. She said it probably would have been okay if I'd called today, but I obviously didn't. I tried just for kicks when I got home and opened up my inbox, but it's an automated thing and that movie's not an option anymore or whatever. When she said it was tomorrow I sort of just wanted to cry. I'm pretty sure it's not because I can't see the movie, I think that's just what triggered it. You know, one of those things. Anyway, I'm just not having a good time of things right now so I'm going to go. I'll post again when I have something more to say.
Friday, December 5, 2003
Early morning yesterday we got hit with some major wind and, of course, the power went out. It was about 4:30 AM when I woke up 'cause the wind was making noises and that's when the power went out. It came back on after a bit and stayed on for a while before going off again. It was off when dad came and woke me up at 6:30 AM so I could go pick up Tammy. I wondered if the power was out at the school or not, but I though I'd just drive over to Tammy's and we'd find out when we got to the school or something. I got to Tammy's and she said there was no school so I hung there for a while. After a few hours, her dad got out their camping stove and made us pancakes and eggs for breakfast. I didn't end up having any eggs, but the pancakes were good. :)
After breakfast we called the movie theatre for times and Tammy, Aowyn, Tammy's sister Brianna, and I went to see Timeline. They hadn't seen it yet and I wanted to see it again so it made sense. ;) lol Before the movie we went to Cold Stone for ice cream because I'd never been to one before. A crime, I know. Anyway, I got this super chocolate kind and I only got a small, but I couldn't finish it! It was so creamy and filling and a small is a LOT more than it appears to be! lol But it was tasty for what I actually ended up eating of it. ;D lol
We went and hung in Barnes & Noble for a while before buying our tickets and sitting down for the movie. It was still good the second time. :) I think I mostly just like it because it's something that sounds like fun to me. lol I think it could be cool to go on a grand adventure or something like that. Yes, I am weird and crazy, but it's more fun to be that way anyhow. Hehehe. We got Taco Bell and then headed home. I was hoping that the power would be back on by the time I got home, but as we were leaving Taco Bell, I got a call from my mom. She said the wind was kickin' on the drive toward home and I needed to be super careful. She also said the power was still out and she was going to go down to the creek to get water. Why did she go to the creek to get water? Well, I'll tell you. See, the not-so-intelligent person who designed our water pump system made it so that we only have water when the power's on. That means that mom had to get water from the stream so we'd be able to wash our hands and flush the toilets by pouring water into them. lmao Fun, eh? It really wasn't too bad. The power was out all night so mom, dad and I played Scattergories and had a good laugh before we all went to bed. I read a little bit and then went to sleep.
I woke up at some point in the middle of the night(don't know when 'cause the power was still out) from a bad dream. Actually, I don't even know that I could call it a bad dream because it wasn't scary in the way that typicall bad dreams are. It was scary in another way and it felt quite real to me towards the end and when I woke up I was very warm and my heartbeat was a little racey. I dreamed that I was with this bus-load of people I knew at a gas station in some city(I'm pretty sure it was just a city I created in my mind). My old friend Elizabeth was there as were some other people that I knew and two of my cousins, Michael and Kevin. We were standing in a group chatting while the bus got gas when there was this sort of whissing noise in the air above us. I inquired out-loud as to what it was and one of my cousins yelled that they were M-80s or M-60s(forget which it was) and I had to get down. Now, let me side-track for a moment. I'm pretty sure that M-whatevers are guns or something, not the grenade-like objects that were shot from planes in my dream. Just thought I'd point that out. So anyway, the stuff's coming down all around us and exploading right next to us and amounst us, but no one got hurt. It was our own people who were firing them on the city too. There was some war going on and someone in the group mentioned that our people must have thought enemies were in the city or something. Anyway, some old guy said run so we all did. One moment Michael and Kevin were right in front of me and I turned for a moment and then they were gone. I stopped and some people ran past me and I saw Elizabeth and yelled asking if she'd seen my cousins. She said they'd gone back for their soccer buddies and I recall in my dream I thought something about the soccer buddies being stupid and my cousins being stupid going back. Elizabeth said come on, but I started back down this alley the way we had come. She yelled that I couldn't go back, they'd find me, but I kept going anyway. As I started down the alleyway I could hear drums and I could see shadows of our soldiers coming toward the alley. For some reason I knew I would not be safe if they found me, even though I was on their side. So I went down this other alley and ran into this office area thing which I swear I've seen somewhere before. Then I got scared and heard voices and ran out and found myself near some guys with cameras. They were news people and I freaked and turned around 'cause they couldn't find me either and just as I went around the corner I saw from one of the news guys' view and he caught my back as I turned and mentioned something over the air about how someone was fleeing for their life, etc. Stupid news mumbo-jumbo. Anyway, I went back into the office sort of room and was looking for a place to hide. I knew there was a way to open up a section in the wall and I could hide in a cubby area there, but there wasn't time so I dived behind this desk and tried to hide. I heard the voices right outside and they were coming in and that's when I woke up. So it was scary, but not at the same time because it was a different sort of fear that I had. Hard to explain.
Anyway, I manage to get back to sleep, woke up and went back to sleep a few more times and then finally got up around 10:30 AM and the power was still out. When mom got back from work we sat and ate the warm food she got on the way home. lol And she said she heard the power was supposed to go back on any minute. It finally did just before 2:30 PM and it was a time of praising the Lord! :D YAY! Power is a very good thing. lol So I took a not as warm as I'd have liked shower and mom blow dried my hair and then I went to work! lol
Work was all right. Not many people came the first show, but that's sort of normal for early Friday shows although I don't exactly understand why. lol Whatever. We started Elf today. Wee! The evil movie is gone!!! lmao Anyway, I sat in the lobby through the movie and read. Then when the movie was over the guys decided to leave me to clean the auditorium by myself. Blarg. I was a little unhappy about that 'cause they were all just fooling about and weren't doing anything. It wasn't a lot for me to clean and I don't mind that I had to do it myself it's just that while I was doing that the guys were chatting and looking at some catalog for car things like stereos and whatnot. Arg. Anyway, I managed to get over that after not talking for a bit.
Then a whole lot of people started showing up for the second show. lol It was sort of crazy. I wasn't quite expecting that many, but there they were. Things went okay with all that, but I had some thoughts about different things. I dislike letting myself complain though because no one likes a complainer so I'll not go into that, but I got over it fairly quick. I just push that sort of stuff out and try to forget about it. I came home after work and watched SG-1 with mommy and daddy. It was one I've never seen before so that was good. :D And it was a good episode too, I liked it. And well, now I'm here, but I'm starting to feel tired so I think I'll say ta ta and read a bit before I fall asleep. I was sort of supposed to do some website things yesterday, but I couldn't so I was going to do them today, but I'm just too tired so I think they'll just have to hold off until tomorrow. Nothing serious. ;) All righty, this entry is more than long enough. lol Nighty night!
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
So yesterday I got up and took Tammy to school. She had auditions for the school play later so we didn't go shopping like we were thinking we might. Instead I came home and chilled for quite a while and napped some too. lol Then mom came home and after a bit we went to the theatre to get our paychecks and then we did a bit of shopping. We went to a toy store to find some of my cousins some stuff and I found a Star Wars version of the Game of Life! You could choose to become a Jedi or go to the Dark Side!!! lmao And it was only ten bucks and what did I do... I talked myself out of buying it. *throws arms up in the air* I know! I don't know what my problem is either! lol I guess I was thinking that I need to watch my spending since I've been living paycheck to paycheck the last few weeks and that's not really a good idea. So perhaps I'll buy it after Christmas or something. :) That reminds me... I wonder if I'll get any Christmas money this year since I'm out of high school now and that's when they cut off my step-bro? Humm... we'll have to wait and see on that one I guess. Anyway, then mom and I went to the grocery store because we were out of some stuff and whatnot and I got tasty treats. :)
After all that was done, we came back home and I chilled some more before it was time for me to leave to go see Looney Tunes: Back in Action. I know, I FINALLY saw it! lol It was pretty funny and I got quite the kick out of the slightly modified Backstreet Boys song that's in that movie. ;) lmao This show-girl sings "If you want it to be good boy.... get yourself a bad girl" rather than the actual song which is "If You Want It To Be Good Girl(Get Yourself A Bad Boy)." lol She actually sang a bit of the verses too! lol I almost started singing along until I realized where I was and that there were a few other people watching the movie too. lol But it was quite humorous and I had a blue raspberry ICEE so I was enjoying myself. ;) lol
After the movie got out I went to Target to get my beautiful copy of PotC on DVD. :D I talked to Sam a bit earlier and she says all the bonus stuff is super cool so I'm going to have to watch it one of these days soon. ;) I also found something I've been desiring for a while now while I was at Target... over the knee socks!!! :D *does a happy dance* I've got a good number of knee-highs which I love, but I've been wanting some over-the-knees too and there there were finally. It was so beautiful and then I realized... they wanted $6 per pair and with the colors I was thinking of getting, well, it would have added up. So, I just bought one pair for now, but they're so happy! lol I've yet to wear them though, but their day will come. Hehehe.
After that I went to Russian class. And you know how I skipped last week? Well, that was the day she explained verb conjigation(sp?). And as I'm sure most of you are not aware of what that is, let's just say it's important and that was not a good day for me to have missed. lol Oops. But I got most of the stuff from the guy who sits next to me who let me copy his notes. Oh, and I don't want any comments from some of you about that either, he's fairly older than I am and yeah... no. lol There's only two more Russian lessons left to go now and I'm sort of glad, but at the same time, I don't know all that I wanted to know so yeah... lol If I want to learn more I've got to sign up for Russian 2 and I don't really want/exactly have the money to spend on it for this next quarter so it's going to have to wait I think. Then, of course, the catalog for classes just HAD to arrive in the mail today so I looked through it and not only do I want to take more of Russian, there's also at least two other languages that I now want to take. Curious to know what they are? All right, Danish and Swedish. Oh yeah, and Greek's also looking interesting to me too. You know, I think I'm starting to take on qualities of Daniel Jackson. ;) LMAO Mostly though, out of what's offered through this school, I want to take more Russian and Danish. And then of course, there's the other languages that I'd be interested in learning which aren't offered really anywhere near by here. They would be Irish(Gaelic), Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Zulu, and I'm sure I'll find more that sound interesting to me too one of these days. lol Too bad there's no instant way to learn all these languages so I'd be fluent in them. I guess that'd take some of the fun out of it though so I'll just have to do the moving slowly thing. I really need to get some scholarships or something. Blarg.
Well, I really should be in bed now since I must get up early again tomorrow morning to take Tammy to school. I got off easy this morning 'cause she said her dad would be home and he could take her. Therefore, I slept until about noon and now it will be interesting to try and go to sleep early(AKA in a few minutes). lol Well, guess I'm off to give it a shot! TTFN!
Monday, December 1, 2003
Has anyone else been experiancing slowness in the loading of this site, or is it just me? The server must be having slight issues or something because it's been taking longer than normal to load pages off my site recently. Whatever. Maybe it's just that something's wrong with me so I'm being more easily annoyed with things.
So today... woke up, drove Tammy and Aowyn to school, came home, put in HP and napped through most of it, milled about, sat at the computer for a bit, made dinner with mom, went to work, came home, watched some SG-1, and now I'm here when I really should be in bed right now. I will go to bed pretty soon, but I ought not to have gotten on the net to blog right now rather than going to sleep. I'm having some sort of issues today or something. I don't know.
I'm planning on hanging with Tammy tomorrow afternoon and doing some shopping(gonna buy PotC on DVD), but if I do I'm going to have to transfer money from my saving to checking. I really dislike doing that. See, today's pay day and I was totally fine with getting my check tonight and depositing it in the morning and it would have worked out wonderfully, but my boss didn't come in to sign the checks tonight. It peeves me off a bit because this is the day I was told I would be paid each month, not the day after. And I guess I just don't understand why they don't give my mom check signing privlages. See, my mom's the book keeper where I work and it just makes sense that if she's doing the pay roll she ought to just be able to sign the checks and then it doesn't hassle my boss and I get my paycheck when I'm supposed to. Of course, I can't tell my boss that because it would make me feel bad and she might get mad at me and I don't want that either. Things have just been off yesterday and today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better, but I don't know about that. I'm having emotional issues of all different types. Whatever. Goodnight.
