Monday, August 23, 2004

Sorry I didn't post or visit hardly anyones sites this weekend I was realy busy. I whent over to my dad's and so we were all sitting around at dinner and Ravy and I are discussing the simpsons for some reason or another and Ravis mentions south park. I don't realy watch it but my brother loves the show and I know a little bit about it. Dads sitting there with a perplexed look on his face and finaly says What's south park. I bursted out laughing. Who doesn't know what south park is. So, after that we go to bluckbuster and get a dvd cause my dad finaly got with the times and got a dvd player (jumps up and down with joy) It was in the back of the truck. While were standing in line he turns to me and says how does this work anyway do you just stick it up the thing and I had no idea what he was talking about so I shrugged. When we get home dad has no idea how to hook up the dvd player. So, I do almost all of the work and he basicaly moved the tv and such. Witch is saying alot because I'm electronicaly chalanged. When we get the dvd player to work dad tryes to put in the dvd by forcing the whole box up next to the slot and I remember what he said in line so I take it from him and open the box and he says oh its a disk. I'm sitting here thinking you have actualy seen a dvd before haven't you. Then after it starts I ask him for the dvd remote and he barks out something about just getting it to work and that remotes were stupid. I figured I'd save my argument until it got to the screen were you need the remote to push inter and start the movie. I already looked on the actual player and it wasn't there. When it did get to that screen after a few I told you sos I gave him a little tutorial on how to use the remote. This is also after a few I told you sos on you don't need to put it on a specific channel like a vcr you need to push this button see. Now if only I could convince him to get something better than dial up for the internet. I think I'm being spoiled by all the electronics at my mom's house though cause she has such fast internet and such. I use to be fine with dial up, Its the realson I became so good at computer solitare : ). Honestly though both my parents are helpless around new tecnology. I mean thats something coming from me and my compleate ignoreness of everything tecnological. At least I try and reason things out. I figure this might work and try it. They don't. My mom still doesn't get how to work our dvd player. Each time she put in a movie she calls one of us over. We pretty much given up trying to explain that you just push enter or that the play button looks the same on the vcr and dvd players. So anyway, on saturday we whent to an art museum sence we live so close to washington dc (about 20 minutes drive not that we normaly drive the metro is so much easyer) my dad thinks there is no reason for us not to be cultured. Witch is fine I like art and how different people portray different things. I thought it was rather interesting. After that we whent to see the vilage. Ravis whanted to see the exsorcist begenings and I tryed to explain to him there is no reason why dad would ever take him to see a raded r movie and that yes I know he takes me, and thats why I'm older but he wouldn't listen. I thought the movie was okay and dad thought it was great though he turned to me 5 minutes into the movie and told me the ending. I knew he was right sence I looked it up on the internet awile ago sence I thought I wouldn't get to see it. I was happy though cause normaly the movies he likes I hate and vica versa so I'm glad we could both sit through the same thing. When we got out though he whent on and on about how great it was and didn't we think so huh huh. And how you couldn't trust comercials that made it out to be a teen slasher huh huh and how it was more sicoloical I tryed to say that no one thought it would be a slasher but him but he wouldn't listen. The next day was great cause I got to see a friend who I haven't seen in awile, Nicole. When I first walk in both her parents go your hair is orange (it faded from pink and I'm waiting till school is closer before I redie it) with I doen't know I thought was rather funny. Nicole is a huge anime fan and so we watched a few episodes of a few shows then did some stuff on the computer and I ate dinner with her family. On the computer Nicole was role playing with someone else and somehow in there world Kiba (nicole)was a dragon who had to brake up with Jouenoshi (other person), even though nicole didn't whant to cause she love Jou, because Jou was pregnet. She told me not to ask how. This is all happening if fudel Japan and Inyuasha and Shesomaru are there to. Her dad doesn't realy understand anime but he's semi knowledgable and doesn't mind her watching it. So, of course he poses the question of why its so cool. I think about and say its not realy cool, just interesting and such. So, Nicole is a huge shonen-ai fan and later in the conversation she asks me if I notice a trend with the best anime couples ever. One is always realy cool and the other is always a bi-polar idiet. She then goes on and names all her favorite couples and the next question her father asks is if there are any strait couples in anime. I say yeah and that most of the couples nicole just mentioned are and half the time I can't tell if who she is talking about realy are together in the series or just in her head. Witch makes her brother pipe up the american version of sailor moon promotes incest. I've never seen sailor moon (I know its realy hard to miss but I somehow have only seen one episode). So this was news to me as well as her father. Nicole explains and sorry if I get anything wrong but like I said I've only seen one episode I'm trying to paraphraise what she said from memory. Two of the sailor scouts (is that what there called) are a couple but seeing how in american cartoons its considered "wrong" to be lesbian they made up the exuse that they are cousens who hug and kiss alot and live in the same apartment and raise a child together. With as she says to anyone who know the series is realy realy funny. It was a great conversation, Nicoles the best I wish I could see her more often. So, when I left we made sure to scare my brother a bit and chase him around and such and his eyes were as big as golf balls when to scare him nicole said something i don't remeber all of it but included the words jim and tongue and I reminded her that travis was slightly younger than us and repeats everything he hears. When we got back in the car Ravy turned to me and asked me who jim was, I was tempted to say that he was a poor boy who whent to school with us and has been missing for some time now but instead told him the truth, that he was nicole's boyfriend. Like I said before nicole is a great friend. So, after I get home to my mom's house I find Jen got home from her first ever buisness trip and her arm looks like, well I'm not exactly sure. Lets put it this way. She spent an entire day in the florda everglades and wasn't alowed to put on any bug repelent at all cause she was doing a test with volentears on what works better. She was lucky on her face cause she was wearing someing over it. She had multiple layers everywere but that one arm that got eat alive sence her sleeve got pushed up. So, she spent all day in the everglades dressed as if she was a very very cold place. Doesn't sound like much fun. I don't feel to bad for seeing how she had four days down there and only one was needed for the study. I wouldn't mind being payed to sit in the middle of the ocean and take volentears to very expensive resturants and have what I ordered payed for. Wow, I didn't mean to write out what I did all weekend. Owell another realy long post.
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