Sunday, May 30, 2004

Women teach wise men to pout.

Tomorrow the family is headed off to Universal for our "vacation". We're staying at The Royal Pacific Hotel, which is the new one over there. It's also the cheapest one. See how this works? Anyway, we're going to spend most of Monday lounging by the pool (yeehah!) and then Tuesday we'll hit the parks. More than anything, I want to ride the new Revenge of the Mummy ride. That looks so awesome. That, and Shrek. I still haven't been on it - the lines have been so long every time we go. But this time, since we're staying in the hotel, we get express tickets. Behold! I'm looking forward to it, since it's going to be a lot of fun. And it'll be nice to "get away" for a while (even though the parks are only a half hour away, maybe forty minutes). That, and I can get a tan. Whee! Harry Potter on Thursday! Hoohah! Okay. Toxic is way too catchy for its own good. I mean, come on now. Really. This is ridiculous. I have some stuffed planned for Laeth E'Thae. I'm excited. I just hope everybody hasn't died. >_>;; I've been playing Mahjong a ton on Tony's awesome new forums. We used to have that on one of my family's older computers and I played it all the time. And then it disappeared. And now it's reappeared. And I hold the record. ^_^ For the record, chocolate chip cookies are my favorite. You can't beat 'em.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Glad that's over.

It's been pretty crazy around here, and I think that, if nothing else, that's what's been really getting on everybody. All is well and good now, so don't worry about little old me. But man. Between all that graduation nonsense, parties, family, cleaning, and then yesterday with my brother's pyschotic little "end of school" party (he's officially done with middle school now, hurrah!), it's been mighty busy around these here parts. There is still stuff to do, however, but I think we're just going to take it one step at a time. Otherwise we'll all just wig out. It hasn't helped that a few things have been on my brain lately, as well. I guess I'm at one of those periods where I need to make some decisions that don't seem so big right now, but could later be very important. Or maybe they aren't important at all and I'm just making them into something huge. I don't know, and I'm starting to get to the point where I don't really care. Worrying over things has never taught me anything good - I just need to go out there and do what I need to do. One step at a time. This is pretty random, but it all just sort of spewed forth at once. Forgive the ramblyness. Last night I watched some Conan, and who was the guest star but Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame. I love that kid. He's funny and seeing him on the show made me all excited for the next Harry Potter movie. June fourth! I've already got my tickets for the midnight showing. Sad but true. I haven't seen Troy yet, but eventually I plan to. I have seen Shrek 2, however, and I highly suggest you all see it. It's hysterical - better than the first. I can't remember if I've said that before or not. Oh well. Muse is playing on the radio a lot now, and I squeal like a girl every time I hear the first few beats of Time Is Running Out. It's so incredibly beautiful. Now everyone can understand the gloriousness that is the British rock band Muse. All hail. All hail. All hail. Mmm, Macbeth. Okay, I'm done.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

I am fed up.

Sometimes it's really hard to keep pushing and working when it seems like nothing you do actually matters. It's also hard when you feel like what you're doing is the right thing, and yet nobody else seems to be doing the same. I work so hard, and then it isn't enough. I put my heart and soul into something, and then somebody walks all over it. I'm sick of that. I'm sick of being the only one who tries to make things better. I'm sick of everyone feeling sorry for themselves, and I'm sick of everybody trying to parcel out the blame to everyone else, because it's obviously not their fault. I'm sick of being pushed in the middle of things and then told to stay out of them. I'm just sick of everything right now. Forgive me for the drama. Tomorrow we should be back to our regularly scheduled programming. Thank you.

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Sunday, May 23, 2004

There's no crying in baseball.

I'm very tired. Graduation week tends to do that to you. Funny thing is, I'm not graduating - my sister is. Did. We had her party a couple days ago, to which most of our family came to, as well as copious amounts of other sorts, so it's been rather busy here. On top of that, I got conned into going to this thing called Project Grad last night with some of my newly graduated friends, so I was up until six in the morning today. Needless to say, all this running around and not sleeping has made me very sleepy. I've completely run out of things to say now. Either that, or I'm just too brain-dead to think of them. Anyway, I have two more parties today, one on Sunday, and who knows what I'll be doing after that. Good lord, this time of year is just psychotic.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

We are the dreamers of dreams.

Okay, for about a week now, I've been pretty bored. And I feel bad that I feel bored because I should be out contributing to the community or something, or feeding homeless people, or visiting old people, or something.. and I'm not. I don't have a job because I don't have a car, and I don't have a car because I don't have a job. I'm completely and utterly sick of cleaning, although the need for it hasn't really stopped - our bathroom is being torn apart and there's a graduation party on Friday for my sister to which a few dozen relatives/neighbors/friends will attend. The work around here never freaking ends. But at least I'm out of school, I guess. It could be a lot worse, so I'll just be thankful it isn't, for now. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was on TV today. It's one of my classic favorites. Gene Wilder is simply amazing. I know that Johnny Depp is a wonderful actor and that with him, the new WWatCF is going to be good. But I do not see him, nor anybody else, ever surpassing the genius that is Wilder. With that said, I would like to find a golden ticket. I'd also like to read the book so that I can better understand the huge undercurrent of themes and symbolism running throughout the movie. I also watched You've Got Mail today, which was also very satisfying, and yesterday night I watched The Last Samurai with my dad, who hadn't seen it before. Jolly good. In terms of videogames, I've beaten Starfox on my N64 about five times now. I can save the universe in about a half an hour, give or take. It never gets boring, though. And there are still goals to reach - like getting a shiny little metal on all the planets. ^_^; I've also played Paperboy on that extensively, as well as Super Smash Bros. My brother and I have both expressed interest in buying a Gamecube, however, so we might pull our resources together and finally get the damn console. That would be lovely, indeed. Yep.

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Sunday, May 16, 2004

I'll rock, paper, scissors you...

... for your soul!! So my birthday turned out okay. I went and saw Kill Bill Vol. 2, which was excellent. I'll have to see it a couple more times before I can fully grasp its awesomeness, but rest assured, it rocked as it was. That's about all I did on the fourteenth, besides helping out with my brother's eighth grade dance stuff. I'm such a wonderful sister. Today was when we actually celebrated my birthday. We went to Brios for dinner, which is a very nice Tuscan Italian restaurant. Delicious! Then I opened up a few presents, which included Absolution by Muse, the Requiem For A Dream DVD (a very powerful movie - I highly suggest it, if you aren't too squeamish), The Last Samurai (I don't think I need to explain this one), and You've Got Mail (because I'm a closet romantic and it's a remake of one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart movies). I also got a new jewelry box and a box of key lime truffles (though not in the same box). I'm pretty happy with what I got, even if it was a couple days late. Apparently people are coming tomorrow to tear apart our bathroom so we have to take everything out of it tonight. I'm not exactly looking forward to it, but then again, I don't really have a choice in the matter. In the end, though, it'll be worth it because I'll have a pretty bathroom. Yay! It'll probably stay clean for a week, tops. Like my room. ¬_¬;;

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Thursday, May 13, 2004

Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk.

So I did a heck of a lot of cleaning today. Absolutely disgusting. Well, it was technically yesterday, seeing as it's now almost one o'clock in the morning, but hey. Seriously, though, my sister and I cleaned out our closet, went through it all and threw out tons of stuff, filled one of those big donation bags full of clothes for some weird clothing drive, and managed to fit all our shoes (actually, most of them were mine - I admit it! I have a shoe fetish!) back in very neatly on these white storage things. However, there will be no breaking out of the champaigne yet - we still have to go through the drawers in the dresser, which will take another good part of a day. And then we need to seperate the winter clothes from the summer clothes because there is no such thing as a long sleeved t-shirt in the summer in Florida. Period. We'll probably end up tossing all our sweaters and stuff into some plastic organizer things and then stack them in our closet. Nice and neat and organized. Hopefully. It also looks like we might be getting some new furniture out of this, too. My bed has been broken for a good year now - my French books are the only things holding it up right now. (See, France is good for something!) If it all works out to plan, I'll get one of those higher beds with all the storage space underneath - drawers, shelves, and whatnot. That'll be quite handy in our room. So that's the plan for now. Apparently they were also hoping to redo our bathroom before my sister's graduation, but that's in a week (give or take). I don't really see that happening. o_O;; Still haven't gotten a job, but it's not like I haven't been working. Stupid job. Not having a car really makes that sort of hard to do. The weather has also been pretty nice, but going outside right now sucks because next door to my house they're clearing out the land to build a new neighborhood. Burning trees=smoke and ash up the wazoo, and we get it all. You should see our pool. It's messed up. It's also sad in that I have so many memories of the farm that used to be there, and the cows that used to feed in that field. We got to pet them, and a couple times as a small child I even climbed the fence to join them (much to my parents' horror). And now it's all being replaced. Fine, you jerks! Destroy my childhood! Le sigh. The good news out of all this is that I saved a bunch of money on my car insurance. ...Er, wait. I've been able to get on OB a lot more lately, and I find that I have missed it over the course of my busy, sporadic life. Especially the RPGs, and talking to certain, silly people. Hopefully things will pick up a little more as more and more people finish with school and all that. I can sort of feel the kindlings of some new RPG ideas, as well, though I'm hesitant to really apply myself to anything before I see where Laeth E'Thae is really going. Right when I think that, "Okay, that's probably it," somebody posts again. Not that I mind - quite the contrary! I'm pleased to see that most everyone is putting in the effort to keep it going, even if only a few inches at a time. You guys rock, and I really mean that. ^_^ My parting words for now: Don't do crack before bed. Thank you.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Hee hee.

Which Family Guy character are you? How amusing. I've been cleaning. My poor, pitiful soul. Those of you who do not share a room are very, very lucky indeed. APPRECIATE IT WHILE YOU CAN!! *runs away sobbing*

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Monday, May 10, 2004

Mmm, Vanilla Coke.

So, as you can see, I've been messing around with my colors and that again. I don't know how much I like this current set up, so they might change again. This is your warning. I do like my avatar very much, however, and I expect that Ms. Norma Jean will stick around for a bit longer. I have a ton of cleaning to do this week, since my sister's graduation is quickly approaching. We'll have lots and lots of relatives in town, and then there's that damn party, so yeah. I'll be a little busy with the windex, apparently. It will be very nice to see the family again, though. They're fun people. ^.^ Something else I've realized is that on Friday, I shall be nineteen years old. Freaky-deaky. It's sort of hard to believe. I don't really feel nineteen. I don't think I look it, either. I certainly don't act it. In fact, every time I get a year older, I feel a year younger... or something vaguely similar to that. We might go see Kill Bill 2 then. Or Troy. It's a toss up. Other than the possible movie, my birthday is going to be pretty uneventful - I'll end up helping set up for my brother's eighth grade dance, and it looks like I'll probably be doing some work in my room or something if it's not already done. Curse Spring and it's stupid need for cleaning!! I wish I had a car. That's about it.

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Mmm, Ron.

Your Years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Name  Age  House  GryffindorHufflepuffRavenclawSlytherin Family Line  MugglebornHalf-BloodPure-Blood Dated  Ron Weasley You are well known for  Dating someone famous Percentage of student body you shagged - 61% How do the staff and students feel about you  Will you Marry me?!?!! This QuickKwiz by lady_ameily - Taken 48458 Times. YES!! Score one for me!

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