Monday, January 17, 2005

Have you ever considered loosing a limb?

And today was dedicated to playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas! I didn't do any missions persay, but I did do quite a bit of dating. I've got three girlfriends now; One I'm doing pretty well with, one I haven't dated for a long time because she's all the way over in Los Santos and the other I plain just don't like because she sucks and I hate her. And she's hardly ever around anyway. But my latest two girlfriends are both in San Fierro and live not too far from each other. Their schedules are also in perfect alignment. Katie(the girl who I'm doing pretty well with) is around from 12:00-00:00 and Michelle(the girl I just don't plain like but I'm dating anyway because I want a special gift >.> My dad got a Pimp suit from the girl in Los Santos hehe) is around from 00:01-12:00. Now that's what I call awesome. And after I date one of them, I'll head over to the other's house and sit there until that girl's home. Then I'll take her out on a date and once that's over I head to the other girls house. Lather, rinse and repeat. I mean, and repeat process. Man, and I told myself I wanted to get to Las Venturas today. *shrugs* Guess that's tomorrow's goal. Oh, and I also did Driving School stuff. *growls* I hate Driving school. It sucks ass. I can't pass the last damn test because the car they give me totally sucks for driving fast and trying to hit corners at high speeds. When you hit the brakes or just try to turn, it spins out in a 360. And I have to make sure that the car is moving at all times or it automatically fails me AND I have to try not to damage the car AND and I have to finish the course in under 120 seconds. God damnit I hate driving school. Took me fucking forever to do half of the fucking tests. I. Hate. Driving. School. And damnit, I almost had the last test passed once but 'lo and behold, I get marked down 13% for damage. Taking me from 80% to 67%. 3% under passing. Damnit. Damnit. Damnit! Did I ever mention that we have a new kid in our class? Yeah, he's finally here. We heard about him all last week and today was his first day. His name is Chance and I'm really not too fond of him. He acts a lot like Travis(whom I hate) and it just has to be so coincidental that they both actually went to school together for a few months a few years ago. Whoopedoo. But we got our new schedules today ^_^ And I like mine. I'm going to miss Spanish, but now my class has Discovery Science which sounds pretty fun. Our first class of it today was awesome; Ms. Whitfield has a bunch of animals and stuff in her room and she let us take out the turtle and she even got out the rabbit and let it run around on the tables and for us to pet it and stuff. Whee, fun! New Schedule Monday-Wednesday 1.) Gym-Health-Art 2.) Science(You know, I've always had Science 2nd hour ever since I came to Vestaburg...) Jumpstart 3.) Discovery Science 4.) English Tuesday-Thursday 1.) Discovery Language Arts(yahoo!) 2.) Social Studies Jumpstart 3.) CEWT 4.) Math ^_^ So happy with my schedule for once. -DDG Day: 155

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Sunday, January 16, 2005

w00t for Bleach

Bleach is such an awesome manga. I downloaded the first chapter of it last night. The file was quite large; 8.31 MB or something like that. But thanks to my smart solution, this computer will never be plagued by huge files of manga ever again. Hehe, I came up with this idea a week or two ago and told Xio that we could use it to download manga at school(the school has faster internet connection than we do, but we can't download stuff onto the computers) by bringing in a blank disc and downloading the files onto that. So, yesterday, I grabbed one of my blank music discs, stuck it into the computer and successfully downloaded the first chapter of Bleach onto it. I then proceeded to transfer all of my Naruto manga files onto another disc and v'oila! Now I have a Bleach manga disc and Naruto manga disc. And now I can download manga when I'm at home on my laptop! Yay! Heh and when I transferred my Naruto manga files I found out that I had 433 MB worth of them. 433 MB. Jesus that's a lot. But its all been deleted from this computer and the thing's still slow as hell. *grumbles* But atleast I've got them all on one handy disc and I've still got about 200 some MB left for space on the discs. Yay for 700 MB discs! Yay for the fact that even though they're blank music discs I can download regular files onto them! Hooray! And I downloaded the Special chapter, Pilot A and Pilot B of Naruto last night. The Special Chapter was hilarious but I wasn't really too fond of the the Pilot chapters. They were really... bleh and that's probably why Mr. Kishimoto didn't use them =P Next after I finish downloading the regular series (only about 70 more chapters to go >.>) I have to download the movie manga. Argh, so much downloading. There's no doubt about the fact that I'm going to have many many Naruto discs. I think I'm going to download another chapter of Bleach tonight, too. Yeah, that sounds good. Maybe another manga too that I've been wanting to read or the next chapter of GTO or Detective Conan or something. We'll see. Any suggestions on other good manga? -DDG Day: 154

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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Wahoo! Manga!

My mom is so wonderful ^_^ She owed me $15 because I gave her the $15 gift card for WalMart that I'd gotten for Christmas, so she took me to Sam Goody today and I got to buy .hack//Legend of the Twilight volume 3! Whee! Man, it was like almost twice as thick as the other two! And I got the last one on the shelf hehe! And they had plenty of Naruto in stock, too. Even though I've read a lot of it by downloading, I still want to collect all of the volumes as well. I thought about getting volume 2 of Naruto, but it was $8 and would put my total expenses up to $18. So I told my mom she has to take me to Galaxy Comics next time so I can spend that other $4. I'm going to buy the third volume of the Metal Gear Solid comic ^_^ The fourth one should be out by now and the fifth one should be out soon. They're supposed to come out monthly so *shrug* (Do not read on if you wish not to hear spoilers!) Whee, but the third volume was so awesome! They've got this awesome page in the back that shows all of the main character real life pictures and they have a picture of Mistral hugging Mireille (who's real name is Mirei) and its just so awesome! ^_^ I love it I love it I love it! *hugs it* (Ok, you can come back now) I wanted to get the next volume of GTO, too, but, oddly enough, they always only have volume's 1 and 18 o_O Where have all the other's gone? Why don't they have any of the others? Why is the world so screwed up? Can't they count? What's wrong with them? Why? Why! But I figure I'll just download the next chapters and stuff from this awesome website I found ^_^ Whee! Props goes to Naruto Fan for having an ad for that site, on their site! Whee! Yay! Woohoo! Yahoo! Hooray! Hoorah! Huzzah! I'm just too hyper right now ^_^ Too hyper and happy. All because of volume three of .hack//Legend. ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ -DDG Day: 153

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Friday, January 14, 2005

It was that dude over there! The one who so totally doesn't have a gun in their hands!

Whee. Today was a fun day. It was only a half day and it was kind of cool what they did. They split everyone up into three groups, 81, 82, and 83. I believe I was in 81 or 82 or something, but anyway, it was cool because Alexa was in my group ^_^ Xio was going to be our group, too, but she got to skip school today. Boy did she miss out on some fun. First we went to Mr. Kraft's class and we got to watch "the Legends of Comeday." That was a hilarious video! And then we went to Mrs. Stratton's and had to review the new vocabulary learning strategies she taught us on Tuesday. *yawn* Booooooorrrrring. Then we went to Mrs. Zimmer's and we got to see the final round of the vocabulary contest thingamajig. That was kind of fun.... And then it was the last market day for the mini-society! w00t! I splurged, really bad. I pretty much bought out one of my friends' business by spending 35 Vestabucks there. Hehe. I bought eight of their "voodoo dolls" as they've become known. Then I sold one to Mrs. Wolfe for a higher price than I paid for it =P And I sold it just to tick Levi off because he wanted it. Hehehehe. Today was fun, though. Absolute fun. Absopositivelylutely fun. But I've not much to say right now I guess. So, uh, 'till tomorrow ^_^ -DDG Day: 152

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Whence we came from

Come kitty! Whereas we travel into lands unknown to battle perilous, treacherous, evil monsters that of which are unnamed and fearless! Whence we fight and destroy these feared and hated monsters. To destory these monsters would be to destroy the mysteriousness of thy one's basement. And of this basement we shall become heroes! Heroes beyond the days of our children, beyond the days of our children's children! Ridding this so-called "basement" of its hidden frights shall allow us to fear no longer, midnight trips down steps which creak and crack as stepped upon. Whence we travel into thy own's destiny and thy own's doom. Whether we return or whether we perish is up to the ___________. (Please feel free to fill in the blank as you'd wish) Oh boy. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. It is not a good thing to leave me alone in this house for a few hours. Not at all. I just have too much freedom. And the above is a snippet of what I was shouting all through the house as I roamed its empty rooms and such. That's not to say I didn't have fun. Oh no. I loved it. It was fun, it was hilarious, it kept me entertained for a little while and I believe if I am home alone again for awhile, I may do it again. And again. And again. Whither it be the faux pas of my life or whither it be just something I never ever do in front of someone, I don't really care. Oh, but anyone who would have happened to overhear me would have been laughing their ass off at me. And speaking of the word, "faux pas," I've been shouting that since my mom got home and then left with Blaike to go pick up Uncle Kelly who got stuck on some side road or something or another. I told the salt shaker(I spoke to the salt shaker, call me crazy if you wish, I was mad because it was empty...) that it being as empty as it was was the faux pas of its life and the end of its career. Then I proceeded to look up the definition of "faux pas" on WordPerfect's dictionary >.> Took me forever to figure out how to spell it. I knew it was a French word, which made it so much harder to figure out how to spell. I ended up just looking through all of the "F" words until I found it. And you know what I'm going to do tomorrow? I'm going to go around saying it and ask people if they can correctly define what it means. Oh how fun that shall be. *grins* And tomorrow is the end of the first semester. As well as a half day with a screwed up schedule that it seems we are being forced to wait to learn about tomorrow. We're supposed to go look on the bulletin board to learn what the schedule for that day is, which really sucks for me, seeing as I doubt Charlie(bus driver) will have us to school in time for me to be able to get a good look at the schedule before I must rush off to class. And the probability of getting to school before 7:55 AM is even worse due to the fact that it snowed today, after it rained which means that the water from the rain will turn into ice and that ice will be beneath slushy snow which = not a good combination. And to speak of the AR test I took today during Jumpstart would be a wonderful thing. Out of a possible 23 points, I scored a 21.9, bumping me up to approximately 252 points. I got one question wrong, one question. And it was from a part of The Two Towers that I absolutely admit to not exactly taking in much detail about or remembering much about. But that's ok. I've got over 250 points and that's what I'm happy about. And to answer your question Mimmi, all I have to do is get 500 points by the end of the year. And now if you'll excuse me, I've got other online things to attend to. -DDG Day: 151

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Hachoo

Hooray for no school! Over 120 schools were closed today because of ice rain and stuff. Yahoo! Whee! Hoorah! I slept pretty much the entire day, though. I did end up getting up out of bed around 6 PM and played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for awhile. I only did one mission, though. Heh, I'm one step closer to Las Venturas! w00t! I've still got atleast... *pulls out strategy guide* Twelve more missions to go. So that's seven more for the Syndicate strand and five for the Woozie strand. And I can do the Zero mission strand, too, but I don't need to complete those to open up Las Venturas if I'm not mistaken... *quickly checks* Woohoo. Not mistaken alright. Which is a good thing because I fricken hate RC cars/planes/helicopters/etc... They are the most annoying things to drive, to destroy... God I hate them I hate them I hate them! Especially the RC Baron or plane. Annoying little thing it is to fly... Yay! Only about 60 more pages left in The Two Towers. I would really like to be able to finish it by tomorrow, but I don't think I'll be able to do it. *cries* I'm just going to have to read like the wind... but I want to fit some writing in too... Hm. Such a dilemna. I'll figure something out. I'll read for as long as I can bare to read then I'll write for as long as my fingers can take it, then maybe force myself to read again... God I'm going to be up late tonight. Really late... This week has been a hectic week for school... Two hour delay on Monday, no school today and Friday's a half day. Really screwed up. What a wonderful way to end the first semester, eh? And next week we get a new schedule. Man, my class doesn't get Spanish next semester and whoever I ask they say they don't know who we're supposed to have instead! Its really frustrating. All that I know is that 8A is supposedly getting Spanish, and 8A's Discovery teacher has a High School class. I believe that 8C's Discovery class(Life Management) has a High School class as well, atleast I hope it does. I really do not fricken want Life Management. And Ms. Mott has a High School class, too. I just hope we get a fun class or atleast a class where we can slack off or something. I'd like Discovery 8, which is what 8A has right now because Xio says they hardly do anything and that's its a simple class. Oh, how I'd love a class where I could slack off and write the entire period. That'd be nice. But I must be getting off now. My mom's bugging me about it and wants me to take a shower. -DDG Day: 150 Yahoo... 150.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Oh sweet joyous 250. . . how I wish I were there

I slept just about all day today. It felt nice, too. I really needed a nap like that to refresh me. I didn't have anything better to do either, well, except read but I was doing that before I took a nap. I'm almost done with The Two Towers. Only about one hundred more pages to go before I finish it. I'm trying to get it done before the end of the week because I'd like to have 250 points before the end of the semester. I just have to take a test on The Two Towers and pass it to get 23 more points, just enough to put me over 250. Woohoo. Then I can go to the movies at the end of the year with anyone else who hits 250. Yahoo, and I get a bookmark for having more than 5, a pencil for having more than 10, a pop or a candy bar for having more than 25, a pizza party for having more than 50, as well as a free homework pass for having more than 50 and something else for having more than 100... Hmm. I just can't believe I'm almost done with The Two Towers. I can't remember if I mentioned this here before, but I'm mentioning it again if I have: I really want to finish up the last After Story Extra. I mean, I really want to finish it up quickly, but there are so many things I still want to include in it and there's only so much writing I can take in one night that its becoming increasingly difficult to finish it up soon. But I just want to get it done and over with so I can get working on "Into The Past." I've had so many great ideas for that part. I'm going to make it a mixture between background information that you may not have known(and most likely should not have known, unless you somehow learned it from me) and small stories that further show you how someone's life was when they were a kid or something that may have happened that I didn't write about in the main story, but I thought would be fun to include here. The first "Into the Past" I'm going to write is going to be a mix of the elusive Sonny Forelli's past and his father's, both correlated with each other. These two go together especially well, since so many things from Sonny's past help me clear up a few things about his father and go into a bit more detail about his father(you don't see his father much in the story, but he's a very important character when talking about Sonny and his upraising, as well as his actions as a kid/teen). Then after that I plan on writing a few others, but those I haven't exactly sketched out yet. The above one is the only one I've really put a lot of thought into so far. And at the current moment the "Would Never Could Never and Should Never Happen" section contains three planned stories, "Little Japanese Boy," "VCPR," and "Chibi Beach Party." Oh, so many plans, so much to do. I've got so many different ideas floating around in my head at the moment for my story, its hard to keep track. But nevertheless, I'm having just the time of my life thinking of all of these so totally awesome little things. Ah, there's that word I was going to describe the informative parts of "Into the Past," they'd be sort of like editorials. I'd even write a few as if they came straight from a newspaper or an interview. Now that'd be kick ass. -DDG Day: 149

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Not a good day

There have been time's throughout this contest that I've considered giving in and not posting, or just publicly announcing my resignation. And there have been time's when I've came extremely close to being eliminated. And in each of those time's that I thought about quitting, I kept myself from doing that unthinkable thing, just by remembering how much Shinmaru would gloat about winning and how much I'd love to beat him. And every time I've came close to being eliminated, I've been frantic and thought to myself, "Holy shit, I don't want to lose now," and I still haven't damn it. And the contest is going on 150 days. Today has not been a good day. Well, in a way it hasn't. The good so far is that there was a two hour delay for school this morning. The roads were icy, especially the backs ones. And school was pretty good actually. We had a Friday schedule and each of the classes were a half hour long which was sweet. Hmm. Actually, today hasn't been all that bad, but I have a feeling its going to get worse. My mom called a little while after I got home and told me to get my stuff around and get ready to go to my dad's. Immediately I knew something was up and I pried a little bit deeper. All I ended up being told was that Lonnie was coming home and that she'd tell me later. I knew that Lonnie coming home from work early was a bad sign and could see the "DANGER" signs flashing everywhere. Once he was home I could tell he was mad. I mean he was furious. He was shaking he was so mad. His face was red and I mean really red. He calmed down a bit after he'd been home for awhile, but I still don't know exactly what's up. It has something to do with Blaike, but that's all I really know. Other than the fact that he walked home from somewhere today and didn't arrive until a little after Lonnie had got home. Josie soon was there and I learned only a bit more from her. All she said she really knew was that it could have had something to do with Blaike's half-sister(Robin). Not going to be a pretty scene when I get home later tonight. Not at all. Man, you know what? I'm still really pissed off from something from a few days ago. You see, I spent an hour or more typing up a post for the Otakuboards Nifty Fifty, right? And you know what happened when I hit, "Preview Post?" All of a sudden, my laptop decides to throw this "Cannot Find Server" page at me. So, I hit the back button figuring my post would still be cached there and.... It fucking wasn't. I was so fucking pissed. That post took me atleast an hour and a half to right and fucking wasn't there. All I had wanted to do was preview the damn thing and my computer up and erased it. And when I get pissed about losing a post, I usually don't want to post in the thread again for atleast week because I'm so fucking pissed about losing the last one. Now I'm finally about to start typing up a new one...god I hate when computers screw with me and do these damn things. So fucking annoying. Its so fucking annoying and got me so damn pissed off I'm going to go download three chapters of Naruto simultaneously to calm me down. Goodbye.[/angry tone] -DDG Day: 148

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Sunday, January 9, 2005

Say something normal, like Douglas(s)

One or two s's. Either way, it says Douglas. There's a road near hear that's called that and what really bugs me is that depending on which sign you look at it, it could be spelled "Douglas" or "Douglass." Which one is it supposed to be? Whoever made these signs didn't know what they were doing... So, we went snowboarding today. It was pretty fun, but it could have been better. My snowboard was the only decent one. Apparently the one that Xio had borrowed(it was one of Blaike's) was missing a strap on one side and Alexa couldn't fit her boots or keep her boots in her's. It was kind of funny and pathetic especially because my board was perfect and I went down the hill all the way to the bottom atleast four times. Xio made it almost 3/4 of the way down once and Alexa made it about half at the most. Heh, most of the time we sat up at the top of the hill, panting from climbing back up and laid our heads on our snowboards just sitting in the snow and talking. Wishing we were back at my house and playing Digimon Rumble Arena 2... Eventually we decided to go off down a few trails. Man, if it weren't for those damn trees at the bottom of one of the trails I would have strapped on my snowboard and went off down the trail that we took a break on... And at some point it was suggested that we should be secret agents (I suggested we change that to Tactical Espionage Action agents >.>) and then everything led to the fact that we were somewhere in Alaska near Shadow Moses and were on a rescue mission to get the "legendary Solid Snake." Hehe. Later when we went back to the hill and took a different trail, we ended up at a little picnic area where there were some bathrooms. Xio suggested we look in the bathrooms for Snake and I said, "Why would they be holding him hostage in the bathrooms?" and she responded, "Well, they'd hide him in the last place we'd look don't you think?" and then I said, "Yeah, and I guess it could be some kind of torture, too. I mean, those bathrooms smell pretty bad." So, we went up to the bathrooms and I opened the door (to the Men's side first) and found this sign awaiting me: Please keep toilet seat down to reduce odor. Wonderful, eh? We headed over to the Women's side and found the same sign, but no sign of Snake. Then Alexa suggested we look for some kind of high security building and Xio said, "Like a trash can?" *shakes head* I'm not even going to comment on that. I did when we were at the park, but, it was just something you had to be there to understand. Oh, but the day was fun, even if we didn't do all too much snowboarding. Teehee. The past two days almost non-stop we've all been playing Digimon Rumble Arena 2. Man does that game kick ass. Its so much fricken fun. I love it I love it I love it! It has some things in it that I miss from the first game, but its still pretty cool. And I like the single player mode in this one a lot better. Much easier to unlock characters. I mean, in the last one it took all of my cousin Tre and I's skill just to beat the D-Reaper twice in a row with some of the characters (especially with Seraphimon, it was so fricken hard to get him to perform his special attack so that it would actually work) but with this one, we beat it so easily. I mean, the Chaos Wasteland level can be a bit intimidating and so can some of the Digimon you fight, but there's just a simple strategy to beat it. And I mean its simple. All you have to do is pick the guys up and throw them right off the edge. Then bam! you're on your way to victory. Whee, BlackAgumon, BlackGabumon and BlackGuilmon are just so awesome... ^_^ :) -DDG Day: 147

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Saturday, January 8, 2005

Don't steal in frdxeonbkhazghjggvkjcxvdzxnvbhDVhbDV.kjskjnvf.kjssbn kvnskvnskvnxdkvnsdlkvdfvnsdknmlknlknkn

In spite of a better title, this is what I came up with, er, Xio and I came up with. Originally, she was going to type "Don't steal in front of a cop" and then I went and started pressing a bunch of letters and the above subject title is what happened....yeah. Yep. Alexa and Xio are over right now. Xio's sitting next to me, watching as I type. And Alexa is playing GTA: SA at the moment, even though she has no idea what the hell she's doing. And she's talking to the Ballas...not a very smart move since the main character is a Grove St. Family homie and those two gangs are like.. major rivals you know. We're going snowboarding tomorrow instead of having gone today. We got some pizza and some movies for tonight, though. We rented Dodgeball, Anchorman, Surviving Christmas and i, Robot. Yep. A movie filled night.........dot....dot... dot dot dot. And I have nothing else to say. -DDG Hi! From Haruko/Xio/Whatsherface.... And Alexa says hi, too.... Day: 146

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