Saturday, August 21, 2004

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Today's Random Quote: "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Today's 'Random' Word: Sorry, no random words on weekends >.<

Okay! First things first! I must give congrats to Maarii, Chie, hinaru, and S-chan (Sango123)!! They figured out this past weeks theme for the word of the week! YAY!!! Hehe, so, yeah, that's about all you get oh, and 'OMG! YOU GUYS ARE SO SMART!!!' I should make an award, but I'm too lazy right now... >.<

Now, ONTO TODAY!! Okey dokey, well, I woke up at 8 today, and I became schizophrenic. I would battle with myself and be like 'No, I don't want to get up right now.' 'Yes, just get up so you can get ready.' 'No, I'll get up in a few minutes...' ect. Then, at almost exactly 8.30, S-chan called me. I didn't know who it was at the time, but I made a bet with myself. 'I bet you $20 that that's Susan...' ''You're on..."

So yeah, it was Susan, so now I owe myself $20!! Yay! So, I went over later around 9am. It was a garage sale and Susan was very bored. To sum up the day, Susan bonded with a blue ballon, his name was Fred, I almost went insane from boredome, and yeah, I can't really remember that much other stuff except for the conversation on little red riding hood. I'm probably going to explain it different than Susan though, so you can go to her site and see if she has anything to say about it! She's the funny one after all! Sango123

Oh, and if anyone's wondering why I can't get to some people's sites. My brother's computer is retarted. 75% of the people's sites I go to give me these stupid '503' errors, I keep on trying to reload but it doesn't work. The other problem is that even if I can get to your site, half of the time it gives me '503' errors when I try to comment. I guess this stupid thing likes some people more than others.

Okey dokey then, not that much happened besides that, and I really don't feel like talking today for some reason. So I'll see you all later!!!

Now, This first picture I'm thinking of using as my new avatar. The other four I just think are awsome!Tell me if you like them or not!!

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Kratos is just so damn hot!

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Friday, August 20, 2004

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First, I moust say this to everyone. This is my fourth time trying to post this, so you all better appreciate it. (First time, accidently closed window. Second time, explorer had a problem so it made me close all windows. Third time, computer froze.) And you know what the worst part is, I've had to retype it every single time because my computer doesn't know how to copy and paste, it's retarted!

Today's Random Quote: "Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." -- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962)

Today's Random Word: citadel

(noun) [SIT·ah·dahl, SIT·ah·del']

1. a fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense: "In a company as large as QWERTY Inc, the real decisions were made by executives in a corporate citadel far away."

2. a stronghold

I think I'm okay now. Oh, and this weeks 'supposedly' 'random words' weren't really so random. If you can tell me the theme of this weeks words (yes, there is always a theme) then I'll be like 'holy crap you're smart!

Now, onto the good stuff. Tonight was a very strange night for me. It all started with 'the dream'. I was in school, but for some reason the power was out and the teacher, who was a lady of which I have never seen her before in my life, was talking about the 'Dark Portal'. She said that 'Dark Portals' were somewhat like 'Black Holes' except they had no gravitational field. What the hell that means, I have no idea, because my dreams usually never make sense to me. Then, she said that a 'Dark Portal' somehow was on Earth right above Egypt. And it somehow issued out the T virus (If you know Resident Evil, then you know what I mean) and it also had creatures from another dimension coming out of it . For you that don't know what the T virus is, it's a virus that could make you live forever, but had pretty nasty side effects. It turns people into zombies, but that also means that you become an extremely unintelligent being that only has the most basic servival skill, the need to feed. Now that I have given you all that strange leason, we shall go back to my dream. (By the way, the T-virus also works on animals, like transforming a bee into a hand-sized insect that has deadly poison). So, all of a sudden, demon camels, and various other creatures start attacking. (The T-virus is contagious if it gets into your blood stream). After a lot of running away and stuff, I'm cornered and everyone else is zombies, but then, I hear my brother and I wake up. He was talking in his sleep! I couldn't really tell what he was saying, but it kindof reminded me of when Jet eats the bad mushroom in Cowboy Bebop and starts talking to his bonzai plants. It was a lot like really loud mumbling, so I couldn't exactly tell what he was saying. So, he went on for a few minutes, I was really scared, and then abruptly stopped. Eventually, I doze back off to sleep. The second dream, which was also very strange. This was back in my normal life, but I soon find out that the Nazgul from the Lord of the Rings are after me. And I was woken up again, an hour later, by my brother's strange ranting in his sleep for 2 minutes or so, with long pauses inbetween phrases. I went back to sleep, one final time before waking up completely. It had to do with me and Sam (cutetanuki) and we were in Tales of Symphonia. It was actually very elaborate, but I won't really explain it right here, 'cause that would be pointless. Hehehehe. Oh yeah, and my brother says he's been having very scary dreams too.

So, that leads me to my strange conversation with my brother.

Me: Sean... I think I know why we've been having these strange dreams....

Him: Why?

Me: Evil is radiating from your shorts...

Him:... why is it coming from my shorts? Why not your pants?

Me: Because, evil is like warm air, it floats upwards.

Him: Why isn't evil like cold air and float down then?

Me: Well, evil is warm, it's a well known fact. And besides, that's not even scientifically possible for evil to go down from my pants.

Him: Evil radiating from my shorts isn't exactly scientifically possible either...

Me: DON'T TEST ME SEAN!

So, those were my dreams, the first one was definitally the most scary one but the last one was just funny. Once again, I'm sorry if I can't get to your websites again. I love you all!!! *huggles*

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Thursday, August 19, 2004

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Today's Random Quote: "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." --Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Today's Random Word: redoubt
(noun)[ri·DOUT]

1. a small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses; used especially in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory: "The police officers surveyed the homeless man's sidewalk redoubt, and then launched into a series of animated gestures and veiled threats to get him up and packing."

2. a minor fortification placed within and reinforcing a permanent fortification

3. a stronghold

Hello everyone, I would like to thank all of you for your support on my looserish teacher! I feel so loved! *huggles*

Okay, well, yesterday was very good. I got to go see the movie 'Little Black Book'. I usually don't like romantic movies and stuff, but it was actually pretty good! Oh, and I put up my new welcome banner yesterday! Tell me if you guys like it or not, I'm going to be getting my button up soon too!

Oh, and I'm sorry if I can't get to everyone's sites today, I'm busy doing stuff to get ready for school, I start on Monday! WEEEE! *cough*sarcasm

Have a nice day everyone! *leaves plushie white tigers that she got from the zoo*

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

  

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Today's Random Quote: "Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves." -- J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)

Today's Random Word: bastion
(noun)[BAS·chahn, BAS·tee·ahn]

1. a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification

2. a fortified position or stronghold: "Sam had his king safely tucked into a bastion in the corner of the board, with with his rook, knight, and queen standing by."

3. a person or group that is considered a defensive stronghold for something, as a principle or cause; 'the last bastion of communism'; 'she is a bastion of strength'

adjective form: bastioned

Today's Olympics: Ah screw it, I'm not in the mood today... sorry to those of you who actually read this collumn.

Okay then, we shall start of with yesterday and then move up to today. I got out of bed, watched the baby, watched the Olympics, went online, watched the baby, ate, watched the olympics/baby, went online/olympics, ate lunch, watched the olympics/online, ect. ect.

So, that was the majority of my day, until I had to go register for school.

Me: *sobbing with schedule in hand*
Sister: What's wrong with you?! It's not like you got Mrs. Holler for band!
Me: NO!!! CURSE THIS SCHOOL! *says it a little bit too loudly, a lot of people in the gym look at me*
Sister: stupid Mrs. Holler... *mumbling*(add a few colorful words)
Mom: What is it?
Me: You know that teacher... you know the teacher that I always talked about last year, the one that I disliked with burning passion?!
Mom: Oh, yeah, what was his name again?
Me: MR. CARR! HE'S FOLLOWED ME INTO THE 8th grade *twitches a few times and shows Mom and sister scedule*
Mom: Oh it can't be that bad!
Me: YES IT IS! I DEMAND A SCEDULE CHANGE IMMEDIATLY! *tries to run up to the 'schedule change' booth but Mom grabs her by the arm*
Mom: *dragging me out of the gym by my left arm*
Me: Life... is... so... cruel... *almost everyone in gym is looking at her*
Me: *pulls self together* Okay, okay, I'm fine, I'll just go get my pictures taken now. *gets picture taken, but has a feeling school camera captured her bad side*...*mumbling* Stupid school picture camera... (add more colorful words) *sees friend and runs over* HI!!!
Mengjie: ...hi Ari!
Me: *starts to break down* Mr.... Carr...back... *manages to say inbetween what sounds like sobs, fits of laugher, coupled with hysterical voice*
Mengjie: Huh?
Me: *hands Mengjie schedule*
Mengjie: Oh, I have him too, but it looks like that's the only class we have together
Me: Oh, but Susan has Language Arts then too! I won't have to face his wrath alone anymore! *gets a little bit happy*
Mengjie:...okay... I gotta go now....
Me: BYE!! *hysterical, cracking voice is back

Okay, there you go, that's my registration for you. Oh, but that's not even the good part! My Mom ended up spending about $200 just for me, registering me for school and my school supplies. That's a lot of money! We were joking around and my Mom's like "I can't afford for you guys not to get A's" My sister, getting A's? yeah right, but, I decided I was going to do my best in what is going to be 9 months of hell! You see, the reason why I hated him so deeply, was because he gave us homework every night, and along with my Math homework, which I didn't like also, that was a lot of fatigue for my brain. Then, it looks like from the supply list, that he's going to have to make us do those stupid Vocabulary Stories again. It's where he gives us 10 SAT vocabulary words at the beginning of the week, we have to memorize all of them, and then we have to create a story, put all ten words in the story, and have the whole thing grammatically correct. Last year he tried 400 words, but I think this year he's going to make it 600, I just have a really really bad feeling. A quiz every week is not exactly my idea of fun, especially because I get ideas on bursts in my head, I can't just make them appear. I think I'm going to have to create an outline my story even before I go to class because it's hard for me to think under pressure.

Alrighty then, there's my story, thank you all for reading, and I'll post my complete schedule later because I left it in the car... hehehe. Bye bye everyone! *leaves, 'I hate Mr. Carr' bumper stickers for everyone, and white chocolate kit kat bars*

UPDATE: Piggy has now gotten 100 guest book signings! Yay! Thanks to all you guys for helping out in my cause, at least something good happened today....

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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

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Today's Random Quote: "The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law." --Alex Levin

Today's Random Word: parapet

(noun) [PAR·ah·pit, PAR·ah·pet']

1. a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony: "After many years of desensitization therapy, Yola has overcome her fears and can comfortably approach the parapet of her own roof deck."

2. fortification for soldiers consisting of a low wall

Today's Olympic Events: Badmiton, Baseball, Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Canoe/Kayak, Diving, Equestrian, Fencing, Field Hockey, Gymnastics, Judo, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Track & Field, Volleyball, and Water Polo.

Did you people know that the only thing that I've been watching in the past two days is the Olympics...?

Anyway, yesterday, I don't know if any of you knew, but Ari was very angry. I will tell you about it, you don't have to read, so I'll give you a summary at the end of the story for those lazy folk.
The story starts yesterday at the zoo... , the zoo is one of my favorite places on Earth because I'm an animal freak (love everything except bugs). I would rather see animals in nature but it's hard to go to Africa, South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe on $5. I love to see animals when they're happy, and I don't know why, but I can tell what an animal is feeling when I look into their eyes and expressions on their faces, probably all of the combined years I've been watching Animal Planet.... Anyways, we're in the big cat/primate section of the zoo, if you didn't know, my two favorite animals are Wolves and Snow Leopards. I don't know why, but they're both so beautiful and gracefull and stuff. We walk up to the snow leopard cage-thingy. There are two snow leopards in there and one of them's sleeping in the tree and the other's eating a piece of meat. Then this... guy starts hitting the class, I don't know why other people didn't see anything wrong with this, but I certainly did. I seriously wanted to tell this guy to stop, but he's 6'5" tall atleast (my Dad's that tall so I can compair) and I didn't want a fight. The leopard that's eating gets annoyed by the man's noise and shows his teeth to try and make him stop, the man continues. The leopard, which was thouroughly agitated by now, starts pacing back and fourth, everyone's like "oooo! Look at him! He's so big and pretty and all that other stuff!" But you take one look in his eyes and you can tell he's trying to say, "Leave me alone! I just want to eat in peace!" The man continues until his wife or girlfriend or something calls him over to look at the monkeys. By now there is a large crowd around the pen and he looks like he wants to tear someone apart. He just wanted for the people to leave him alone... This made Ari very angry....

Okay, and here's that summary everyone wants: Man angers Leopard, which in turn angers Ari, Leopard wants to be left alone but people are closing in on all sides, Ari stays angry.

Now, my ranting is almost done! But I have a favor to ask of you peoples... I know most, probably all of you are avid anime fans and have seen many Animes. (that's why you'd be called an Otaku... you know the website? myOTAKU?... okay, you don't get it....) A friend of mine is looking for a picture for Quizilla to try to explain what someone looks like. The requirements: Must be an anime guy, and must be wearing sunglasses in the picture. If it is a full body shot, he should preferably be wearing all black. Face is prefered emotionless but can be smirking because that's always cool. Oh, and hair is preferably not really short, should have bangs, and preferably not platinum blonde (blech). Oh yeah, and make sure he's hot, hehehe.

Uhh, sorry about that... (bad Ari, down girl *scolding*) So yes, if anyone actually read that, I'd very much appreciate it!!! Oh, and here's a treat if you did read it! *passes out honey roasted peanuts to people who read and honey roasted cockroaches to people who didn't read*

MWAHAHAHA! Later everyone!!

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Monday, August 16, 2004

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Today's Random Quote:"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."-- Ellen DeGeneres

Today's Random Word: bulwark
(noun, transitive verb)
[BOOL·wahrk, BOOL·work', BUL·work']

noun

1. an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
2. a means of defense or protection: "Jason viewed his car as a bulwark against the chaos and grime of the city, and refused to take public transportation to work."
3. a protective structure of stone or concrete that protects a shore or harbor from the full impact of waves; breakwater
4. the sides of a ship projecting above the upper deck

transitive verb

5. to defend with an embankment
6. to protect or defend

Today's Olympic Events: Badmiton, Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Diving, Equestrian, Field Hockey, Gymnastics, Handball, Judo, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Softball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Polo, and Weightlifting. If the event you want to watch is on today, go to NBCOlympics.com.

GAH! I'm sorry, but I'll have the usual things up ASAP! Today, someone screwed up the cable line in the street at 6am and my Dad had to call the cable company because my brother was "distressed." (hehe, he's missing his olympics!)

My Dad's house has a cable internet downstairs which I usually use but now I have to use this crappy dial-up that takes forever for pages to load. So we're just waiting for the cable guy to come and he hasn't appeared yet, so my brother's really really REALLY mad.

Okay then, I'm going to need to be leaving now because my step-mom needs to use the phone and stuff. I promise I'll update and everything very very soon!!

UPDATE: Cable is back! Yay! Okay, I'll be going on with my normal routine now and hopefully everything'll go alright and it won't mess up again.

Wow! I got over 200 hits on my website last night! PARTY TIME!!! *brings out punch and chips* Weeee! *throws confetti up in the air* Hehehe, I couldn't have done any of this without you guys! *huggles*

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Sunday, August 15, 2004

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Today's Random Quote: "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." --Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Today's Random Word: Sorry, no random words on weekends >.<

Okey dokey, so, I'm watching this very strange movie wtih my brother that he rented at the video store. It's called "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" or something like that, and it's funny yet extremely strange at the same time...

Also, my brother had this really strange dream that had Him, my sister, and I in a Resident Evil game... you see, games such as that scare me, and I don't like the thought of being in one. He said it was basically like we were in one of the mansions in one of the games, except for the fact we were not menbers of S.T.A.R.S. He said it was really freaky, like there were zombies and stuff everywhere and we only had one gun. He also said me and my sister had horrible aim so he had the gun and we were just freaked out most of the time.

Enough of that now, the olympics were fun yesterday, there was weightlifting, swimming, table tennis, and lots of other stuff.
For today's olympics I will list the events 'cause I'm not THAT lazy you know.
Today's Events: Badmiton, Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Ceremonies, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Handball, Rowing, Sailing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Polo, and Weightlifting.
If the event you would like to watch is on, go to NBCOlympics.com and you can go see the showtimes there. If the event you would like to watch isn't on today's list, that means that it doesn't come on today, so I'll have it on the list sometime in the next 2 weeks if it didn't happen already. I'm sorry if I missed an event on the list, and I'm also sorry if you've already missed your event. Tomorrow I'll post a list of events at 12am or something so you can have the list up all day.

Hmm, it also seems that my sister is hatching a plan to get us to Geauga Lake today too... that could be fun....

Okay, sorry for that, the Olympics took over my mind, I'll be needing to go now because I'm bored and need to do something. BYE BYE EVERYONE!!

*leaves chocolate covered edible pencils* (and yes, to those who wonder, I am very obsessed with chocolate....)

~The Piggy One~

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Saturday, August 14, 2004

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Today's Random Quote:"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." --Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

Today's Ramdom Word: Sorry, no random words on weekends... -__-

Okay, so, yesterday the opening ceremony was a little bit... different. Trust me, you had to watch it to know what I mean. It went really indepth with the whole greek thing because it was in Athens thing.

Yesterday, I went to my Dad's job, he works at New York Life. We actually went there just so my brother could weightlift in the gym in the basement. I tried to run on the tredmill, but I only lasted for about 15 minutes... I'm not good at excersizing very much.

So... today, I'm planing on doing a heaping load of... NOTHING!! I hope everyone else has a nice day though! BYE BYE!! *leaves a box of chocolate covered crickets* ... it's a delecasy in some countries....

~The Piggy One~

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Friday, August 13, 2004

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Your Winter! You are sophisticated and mature. You
have many friends, all of whom you are very
close to. People look up to you, and you are
known for your inifinate wisdom. Although, you
tend to prefer being by yourself, and reading a
good book


which season are you? (anime pics)
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Today's Random Quote: "I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS." -- Robert Bakker, paleontologist

Today's Random Word: aegis

noun)
[EE·jis]

1. kindly endorsement and guidance: "Under her aegis, the museum became a favorite local attraction."

2. (as in Greek Mythology) the shield or armor plate that protects the chest of Zeus or Athena

also form: egis

Okay, today's been kindof boring. I'm going to my dad's house today and I'm going to stay there for a week. I have to clean a ton of stuff because my mom's bringing her boyfriend over and she always wants to scare them as little as possible at first. But in the end, we (as in mostly me) scare him off, then she finds another one in 3 months. It is the circle of life.

I don't have the results of the soccer game yet but I'll ask my brother when he comes back from weightlifting with his friend. I already forgot the score, but it was tied at 2 when I went down to get a sandwich....

Okay, I must be going to clean now, I'll edit more stuff into my post later today, bye bye everyone!

UPDATE!: Results of yesterday's soccer game. Iraq vs. Portugal, Iraq 4, 2.
Today: Opening Ceremony going on 8pm - 12 am. I'm going to have to watch it... oh well, it should be pretty cool as long as it's somewhat like last years, that was awesome!

Oooo, Piggy is now made the 1500 ranking! I know it's not that big of a deal, but I don't have much time to look at new people's websites and sign their guestbooks and stuff so it's really good for me! *leaves out gigantic chocolate cake with a picture of Sesshy on it *drooling* for everyone*

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Thursday, August 12, 2004

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Today's Random Quote: "An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." -- Robert A. Humphrey

Today's Random Word: protégé

(noun) [PROE·tah·zhay', proe'·tah·ZHAY]

1. a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers their career: "His protégé enjoyed access to his extensive rolodex, which included senators, business leaders, and even prominent chefs."

Okay, now that that's done, I was watching this TV show yesterday. It was called Banzai, I only saw the last 5 minutes of it, but dang was that funny. I had no idea what it was about, but you had to place your bets on these people on excersize machines... o.O

Olympics today: soccer (Iraq vs. Portugal) Wee, I get to watch the Olympics for the rest of my life... *sighs and hits head repetedly on wall*

Oh, and by request, the final score of yetserday's game, U.S.A vs. Greece, was U.S.A 3, 0

Piggy must leave now, bye bye everyone!! *leaves "Good Eats" DVDs for people to take* (Good Eats is a really good show on the Food Network)

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