| I am a geek... and a very forgettable one |
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| 12:52am 05/07/2009 |
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mood:  listless music: Ocean Girl theme in my head (is there an OST, I wonder...?)
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So coming up in the near future is the (previously postponed) Father's Day dinner-and-game thing at our local frontier league baseball field. My family has been going there with my brother and nephew for the past few years, but I normally never go because 1) baseball games aren't my thing, 2) baseball games in the rain aren't my thing, and 3) baseball games in the rain for hours and hours when the team loses anyway really aren't my thing. Last year, though, I did end up going because they finally guilted me into it. Thankfully (and for once) it didn't rain... but anyway.
Yeah, that time of year has returned, and my mother has been asking me if I want to go because they have to pay the lady who's organizing it by tomorrow. I said, like last year, I'll go if my brother and nephew go, just because it seems to make the kid happy having us all together (plus, hey, a meal's a meal). And... my mother swears up and down that I have never gone to this thing with them. She can't remember for the life of her that I did go last year, I did eat dinner with them, I did spend the whole evening at the field with them.
Shows you what a memorable presence I am. Even to my own mother. :p
Also... I kind of watched all of the first 3 seasons of Ocean Girl in, like, 3 days. And now I can't find the 4th and final season, the only one I never saw on TV. I know it's out there but I can't see iiiiiiit. Which means *dun dun dun* withdrawal. =____= I should just order the DVDs and get it over with... but then I'd want the whole series for completion and I don't have that kind of cash on hand. Unless... *scuttles to eBay* [edit: Nope, I can't get any of the DVDs because they're all in PAL format. The curse of Australian shows. T__T Suppose they'd play on the computer, and then I could convert them, but that's a lot of money to blow on DVDs I can't even watch normally on my TV without a bunch of extra work...]
I really need to go back to being productive or something. Not that the coming week is going to be conducive to that... again... why does stuff keep coming up? *mutters at life* |
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| 12:32am 01/07/2009 |
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mood:  surprised music: Michael Jackson - PYT
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It has been a really, really nostalgic few days. It started, predictably, last Thursday when MJ died. Spent about 4 straight days listening to his music and watching his videos, remembering my little private solo karaoke sessions held while listening to Thriller when I was, oh, 4-7 years old. (the word "tenderoni" still makes me snort. ahem.) Then this stupid stomach bug ate me alive, and in my downtime I've been digging around and finding all these old TV shows and stuff that I used to love but haven't seen hide nor hair of in years. Totally geeked out when I rediscovered old cartoons like Animaniacs and Rocko's Modern Life all over again... and to a lesser extent, Saved by the Bell. Shut up, we all had our stupid preteen guilty pleasures. ¬_¬ And then today, a little more digging revealed that THEY'VE ACTUALLY RELEASED OCEAN GIRL ON DVD. OMG GIMME NOW NOW NOW.
...Nobody even remembers that show besides me, right? >>; It was about as obscure as they get, I think. I loved it to death when it was still broadcasting though. And I remember hunting like crazy all over the internet for whatever vague information existed on it a few years ago, but finding practically nothing, and the only way to acquire it was to buy copies from someone in Canada who recorded them from TV or something. And now... DVDs. ghalkjsdksd I feel like a little kid right now. A little kid with a tummyache, but still a little kid.
Did I mention that I'm sick? And that I like to complain?
Anyway... Ocean Girl! Neri! CHARLEY! *squee*
[edit: Oh, WIN. I was just digging in a drawer and rediscovered that I have Thriller on Viewmaster slides. XD My childhood rocked. *plays with Viewmaster all night*] |
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| nikki #008 - ugh |
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| 07:55pm 29/06/2009 |
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mood:  sick
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And this is where we learn what it's like to be completely and truly alone...
...is what I would be saying now, except that I've already been alone for a long time. Used to it.
So instead I will complain about how sick I am. So very sick. =_= Can I just crawl into a hole and hibernate for about a week?
Well, that's my limit... time to go lie down again... |
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stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) genuyn |
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| 02:24am 20/06/2009 |
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mood:  weird
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I have nooooo idea why I developed the urge to do this. But here it is. THE VOICE MEME.
...I sound gross. :S Also, my mic is crap and records at ridiculously low volume, so I re-recorded it a couple times at increasingly higher volumes just to get it somewhere near audible. You might still have to turn it up if you want to hear it.
Oh, and I talk fast, so some things might sound jumbled together. >.> It's about 13 minutes, I think.
( MY VOICE dun dun dunnnn )
Now that you're all thoroughly disturbed, I take my leave! *takes leave* |
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| HOW AWESOME DO MY BOYS LOOK? |
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| 12:52am 18/06/2009 |
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mood:  hopeful music: BLOOD - La Fin de la Journee
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AJKEFDRNRKSLAJK.
*clears throat*
So what's the occasion? Well, they've got a new member. That's Kozi (or Koji, depending on whose spelling you follow), on the far right. Also, they've got a new album coming out. Also, THEY'RE COMING BACK TO THE STATES. First weekend in November, at Nekocon in Virginia. And this time they're doing TWO concerts!
The awesome. It's almost too much. I knew they'd come through. I knew it.
Please, let it go right this time... |
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| home with proof |
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| 11:13pm 10/06/2009 |
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mood:  drained music: I Want a New Drug stuck in my head
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Returned home today. Interesting how I felt fine the whole time I was up north, but as soon as I stowed my car keys and walked back into the house, every component of my body crashed. Took a nap and woke up feeling even worse. Oh well... not surprising after the past few days.
Stole a few photos from the near-hundreds that my brother took. Just some of the highlights.
( Three days on Lake Erie )
I could use something to watch before I succumb to an early bedtime... hmm... |
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| 12:19am 10/06/2009 |
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mood:  mellow music: Wooly Bully is stuck in my head
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Let's see... what else did we do over the past two days here?...
Yesterday:
~Driving around pointlessly for an hour since we left before anything opened and it was raining anyway
~Train museum (toy trains specifically... Bro and Kid are into them recently)
~Marblehead Lighthouse & museum
~Glass blowing place but the glass blowers weren't there so we just looked at neat overly-expensive glass stuff
~Prehistoric Forest
~Mystery spot funhouse thing (God, those are embarrassing)
~African Safari drive-thru animal park or whatever (they had ringtailed lemurs and a fennec fox ♥ and we were stalked by herds of deer and a bison slobbered all over my steering wheel... best couple hours of the day!)
~Dinner with Dad after his meetings were finally over
~Back to Lakeside so the kid could play mini golf while mom and I found and talked with Linda, former pastor's wife who apparently asks Mom about me every year up here... she's still ornery as ever
~Back to the hotel around sundown
And today we took the Jet Express out to Put-in-Bay, which consisted of...
~Renting a golf cart to drive around between attractions instead of walking all day
~Perry's Monument
~Perry's Cave (not really related to the monument... it was turned into a tourist trap because Perry's army drank some water from the cave lake or something)
~Butterfly house (so much nicer than the Columbus Zoo one... they even let Nephy release some freshly hatched ones)
~MORE mini golf for the kid
~They have black squirrels here!
~Lunch at, of all places, Dairy Queen
~Chocolate "museum" and the chocolatey-est chocolate ice cream I've ever had *__*
~Big fort-shaped maze thing for the kid to get lost in for 20 minutes (he finally cheated by crawling under the walls to reach the end)
~Antique car museum
~Wildlife center - basically a house turned into a museum-thing with stuffed versions of lots of North American animals (mostly ducks for some reason)
~Tried an aquatic center/fish hatchery and they were closed, but spotted the supposedly rare and endangered wild Lake Erie water snake swimming by the dock
~Remote control car racing for the kid
~Took the kid to the playground while Mom and Bro went to the Perry's Victory and Memorial Museum
~Random wandering, failed visits to souvenir shops
~Caught the 6:30 Jet Express back to Port Clinton, met Dad, went for dinner, retired for the evening
In the morning I'm taking the boys home so they can make it to their baseball game in the evening. I feel like we've already done just about everything there is to do here anyway, without driving out to Sandusky or other places a decent drive away.
Been a nice few days. I just might miss this place, except I have no idea what else I'd do if I stayed here any longer. Sit on the deck in the hotel courtyard overlooking the lake and enjoy the view, I guess? Speaking of views, my brother took lots of pictures, some of which I might have to steal. Tried to snap a few on my phone, but that does not work very well. :\
I'm so tired and a little bit sunburned. But it's been good. |
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| Travel Log Day 1 |
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| 11:38pm 07/06/2009 |
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mood:  calm music: hotel air conditioner humming
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...Not really. I just felt like babbling a little. No one will care, but whatever. :P For once I just wanted to blog.
So I didn't know for sure until Saturday night that I would be leaving on Sunday with my entire family for a semi-vacation kinda deal. I've known for a while that the parents would be attending a week-long conference at Lakeside, but since it's kind of a resort town on Lake Erie with lots of nice stuff to check out, they invited me as well as my brother and nephew... and I was going to stay home and housesit, but then the two boys actually decided that they wanted to go. Never saw that coming. But they have to be home a couple days earlier since Nephew has a baseball game, and his Jeep is broken (for about the 83452934689th time), so I was elected to drive them to the hotel and back home in time for their game while the parents stay the rest of the week. Works out nicely for me since I was interested in going, but didn't want to stay the whole time while Dad was stuck in meetings every day and Mom is too scared to go anywhere outside the hotel without him so it would be hard to get her to go out and do stuff with just me.
Anyway, yeah. We left after lunch and some last-minute packing and made the drive up to this awesome hotel, in which we have a suite that's bigger and better-furnished than many apartments I've seen and has a balcony overlooking the lake and still costs about the same as a typical double hotel room anywhere else. Did a little driving around to orient ourselves, then went to dinner at a Japanese steakhouse (that was actually my nephew's choice - those hibachi grills and chefs entertain him like nothing I've ever seen) and had a very awesome tuna steak and a very nice teenager-ish boy who was also at our table made an origami penguin for Nephy. Nice time.
Then we headed down to Lakeside, the "resort" consisting of a few rows of rental apartment/cottage dealies and streets lined with shops and cafes and other cute little tourist traps, and ending at the docks over the lake. Was a lovely place to walk off that huge dinner - just in time to make room for an ice cream cone from one of the ice cream shops lining the streets to nibble as we rode a golf-cart-turned-shuttle back to our car. Nice time, again. Starting to think I'll like it up here.
By then the sun was about to set and things were closing down, so we returned to our hotel and hung out on the sunning deck overlooking the lake for a little while, relaxing in lounge chairs and watching the sun set over Lake Erie. VERY nice. And finally, when the sun was gone, we retired to our suite and broke out the laptop to leech on the wireless connection from the hotel next door and hang out in the living room watching TV and discussing plans for tomorrow and relaxing. I even got a couple pages of Essential Kanji study in while my brother had his turn on the laptop. And now I am the last one still up, typing away in the living room while everyone else is in bed and I continue to be a night owl. Figuring there's no way I'll get to sleep much earlier than I normally do, so it's useless to go to bed yet and I'll regret it tomorrow when everyone else is up at 7 or 8 ready to go out and patronize some of the local tourist traps.
But oh well. I'm used to sleepless traveling, and already I feel pretty darn mellow here. I never even really do anything at home to warrant feeling stressed or whatever, but still, I kind of I needed this. Nice.
Anyway, I guess that's about all I can say. I don't know if I'll actually make a day-by-day travel log here... that wasn't the intent, I just felt like it tonight... but we'll see how things go, I guess. |
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| God is on my side, not your side, Bowser |
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| 07:51pm 08/05/2009 |
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mood:  indifferent music: Mario BGMs on a loop in my head
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I should update this thing more often. >_>
So, uh... so far it looks like today might be the first day of the week that I didn't need to take pain killers. Yay! ...well, actually, I didn't take any on Tuesday... but I should have instead of going to bed with that headache and letting it get even worse by morning. But still... yay!
I shouldn't speak too soon. The nephew is here and the evening is young...
Speaking of the nephew... I have the most ridiculously picky nephew in the world, right? There are only about 3 foods he'll eat when he stays here, and one of them is Hershey bars. But today I claimed a tiny little victory when he willingly tried some of the octopus chips I got at the Asian grocery store the other day. >:D The weird eating habits WILL take over the world! *hands out seaweed flavored gummies and mikan pocky*
Anyway, I've also been on a Super Mario Bros. kick for the past few days. Blame a certain five Japanese dorks who had the idea to hold a televised Mario tournament spanning at least 3 weeks. AND WHAT AN AWESOME FREAKING IDEA IT WAS. Japan, please marry me. And through some barely related connection, this has all made me kind of want a Wii. Whyyyyyy am I broke? ...don't answer that.
In the meantime, this NEVER gets old. |
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| *death* |
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| 09:04pm 02/05/2009 |
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mood:  amused music: Every Little Thing - Fragile
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Wow. Just. I am humbled.
Matsumoto Jun, boy, I'll give you this - you've got guts. Clearly it takes a real man (or a middle-aged woman which also presents possibilities...) to talk about his own lactating incident on nationwide, prime-time television. Wow.
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So, how about all this pollen? |
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| LOL Yahoo |
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| 01:48pm 16/04/2009 |
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mood: amused music: Miyavi - Itoshii Hito
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First, we have this oh-so-intelligent article on health foods, plastered all over Yahoo's front page for the obsessively healthweight-conscious:
Surprise Nutritionist No-Nos
Next, we have the option of learning all about the background and credentials of this article's author:
Meet Sarah Fuss
Ah, nothing like a good dose of irony to get you started in the morning. Pun intended. |
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| it continues... |
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| 08:04am 10/04/2009 |
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mood:  irritated
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Remember that mouse? Well, a couple days later, the trap finally got it. For good. The cat also killed at least 2 mice around the house in the past month or so. We know there's been at least one more still running free for the past couple weeks; it's been spotted in the kitchen and has escaped Ginger's clutches many times.
Well, tonight, assuming it's the same mouse, it made its way up to my room. And woke me up at 4:30am... LICKING THE PEANUT BUTTER OFF THE TRAP. FOR LIKE, THREE HOURS. Now I know I need a new trap.
The trap did finally go off... but once again, it's only caught by a leg. >______< It's been struggling for an hour now. Even better, it's bleeding all over my floor. Not from the trap, but because it's apparently decided that maybe chewing off one of its good feet might do some good.
I hate to wish death on any animal, and mice ARE cute... but that doesn't mean I want them running free in my house, especially my room, making messes and chewing things up and eating my food and keeping me awake every night. So I'm kind of hoping either a heart attack or shock from the pain puts it out of its misery soon. Because I, for one, am not extending my hand to pick up the trap and release the beast while it's still alive and fighting and sinking its teeth into everything in sight thinking it can chew its way free.
And the nephew is spending the night. Should turn into a lovely little circus when he wakes up and finds out about it.
Either way, I've obviously given up on sleeping any more today.
[Edit] Well, that was actually kind of amusing... two grown women and a 7 year old child creeping into my room armed with various sizes of shovels, all for one little mouse. :P Finally got it scooped up and tossed outside, trap and all - hate to leave it alive to suffer, but it's biting at everything that comes within range, so none of us are willing to try and open the trap...
(Sorry for the slightly gruesome post... but darn it, these beasts have kept me awake enough nights already. I think I'm entitled to a rant. >>) |
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| timeline of my night + Friday Five |
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| 01:24pm 27/03/2009 |
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mood:  cranky music: Buckner & Garcia - Mousetrap (THANKS FOR NOTHING)
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~2:00am - Bedtime.
2:00~2:30am - Can hear mouse scratching around the walls, floor, and my stuff.
2:40am - SNAP goes the mousetrap. Mouse struggles and fights and squeals and etc.
2:50am - It's STILL struggling.
2:55am - Get up, turn on light, find mousetrap six feet away from where it was set with one very alive mouse stuck in it by one little front foot.
2:55~3:??am - Watch mouse struggle while wondering what to do. Mom will be cranky and sick all day (like me) if I wake them up. Could let the cat in, but would probably result in bloody mess on floor.
3:30am - Give up and go downstairs to sleep on couch. Fail.
5:30am - Return to my room after lying awake on couch for 2+ hours. MOUSETRAP IS EMPTY. MOUSE HAS ESCAPED.
6:00am - Dad gets up, starts puttering around making just enough noise to not sleep through.
~7:00am - SLEEP AT LAST.
10:00am - Cat enters, makes beeline for my bed with no thoughts that there's a mouse in here somewhere for her to kill.
10:00~11:30am - On-and-off dozing while cat squeezes up next to me and snores like chainsaw.
11:30am - Cat leaves. MORE SLEEP?
12:20am - Nope. Finally give up and arise for the day.
So in the end, I spent about 10 hours lying down, but slept for no more than 4 of those. Which is twice as much as I slept the night before, so hey. And at least this time my stomach wasn't as much of a contributing factor (it was just a minor annoyance, not a primary cause of wakefulness - progress!). And now, instead of one mouse in my room, I have one very loud, very bold, very aware to stay away from the weird-looking block thingy with the peanut butter on it mouse that has lived to see another day and breed another family of rodents in our walls. Goodie.
Also, just for the heck of it (and a change of subject), have a Friday Five.
1. Would you return to high school life for a week? Why or why not? (If you're currently in high school, would you redo your experiences so far?) No. Nononononono. GOD, NO. Unless you paid me a million bucks. Why not? Because high school was HELL, that's why not.
2. Who were/are you in high school? The quiet dorky wallflower straight-As kid that nobody liked or even spared the energy to dislike. Well, probably more dislike than like, actually. I was a common target of social bullying because, unlike them, I got non-failing grades and the teachers didn't hate me.
3. What was/is your favorite high school hangout? What did/do you do there? My high school didn't have hangouts. It was surrounded by a few blocks of houses, and beyond that, nothing but nature at its man-spoiled finest. Closest thing we probably had was the little camper-trailer-turned-deli a couple blocks away that served hot dogs and banana splits for those of us who were bored after school or had time to kill in between the end of classes and the start of practices... and that place didn't even open until a couple years before I graduated.
4. What were/are your favorite three songs in high school? Lord, I couldn't narrow it down to three. High school was my popular-music-obsessed phase when I listened to pop/rock and top 40 radio constantly and liked just about everything. Except boy/girlbands. Blech.
5. What was the craziest thing you did in high school? *snort* Me, crazy? Probably the craziest thing I ever did was talk back to a teacher. And when said teacher complained about it to all the other teachers and the principal and even my father, they all laughed in his face. :P |
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| I WANT TO SET MY ICON LOOSE IN HERE. |
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| 09:08am 26/03/2009 |
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mood:  NOOOOOOOO music: Somewhere Over the Rainbow in my head
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There is a FREAKING MOUSE IN MY ROOM. It has kept me up ALL NIGHT. Rummaging around IN MY STUFF. Arbitrary CAPS.
Suppose it's just as well. The dreams weren't all that much more pleasant than the sounds of my snacks being plundered. The rain and my stomach and the cat curled up against my butt snoring like a chainsaw haven't been helpful either.
This is going to be already a long, long day.
More randomly, I watched Kimi Ni Shika Kikoenai last night. Rather liked it. And now, for some reason, I am in the mood for oatmeal.
...Gah.
MOUSE. dskfgdkl. DSKFGDKL, I SAY. |
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| Twitter |
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| 05:49pm 15/03/2009 |
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mood:  okay music: BLOOD - Under the Sensual Moon...
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I got meself an account at Twitter. Yay for conforming to the masses!
http://twitter.com/angelembryo <--- Feel free to follow if you like. Who knows if I'll go through with it, but the plan as of now is to update the sucker a LOT.
Ok, shower time now... |
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| a moment of smart |
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| 02:59am 05/03/2009 |
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mood:  durrr...? music: Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
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I was wandering around the house earlier and a thought suddenly occurred to me.
"Dude! I totally missed April Fool's Day this year!"
Several minutes later, "...oh wait."
Apparently, in my mind, the month of April took place in February this year.
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Yeah. |
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| Gakuen Tengoku, I guess |
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| 03:38am 27/02/2009 |
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mood: indifferent music: HIM - Vampire Heart
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These will never stop being amusing to me. Thus I will always steal them when they pop up on my friends list. Take that. (Oh, yeah, and no repeats allowed this time.)
RULES:
1. Put your iTunes (or other playlist) on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag whoever you want including me
5. Have Fun!
( Answers )
Still too many anime songs and not enough coolness. I listen to more awesome stuff than this, I promise. :\ |
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| tagged by moonofmorrigan |
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| 07:20pm 25/02/2009 |
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mood:  blank music: Sam & Dave - Soul Man
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Create your own band name and album cover:
To Do This
1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 - Post it to with this text and TAG the friends you want to join in.
Point 1: ...I don't do Photoshop, okay.
Point 2: Boring picture. And that wasn't even the one I was supposed to use, which didn't save right so I had to get another one.
Point 3: I don't taaaaggggg. So steal at your leisure, or don't. :D |
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| STOOOOOOOOPPP |
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| 01:55am 24/02/2009 |
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mood:  annoyed music: The TRAX - Knife
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I AM SO FREAKING SICK OF MEDIAFIRE!!!!!!!!!
Ok, I needed to get that out. Thank you. |
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| oh, hello, #2 |
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| 12:30am 10/02/2009 |
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mood:  pensive music: Suicide Ali - Representa
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This has been a night of remembering just how much and on how many levels I fail. |
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