Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Look! Its a color makeover! Purples matched my banner pretty well(and seemed to be found a lot in the colors of the banner) so I spent a half hour or so, experimenting with the colors and finally decided on these ones! I hope you guys/gals enjoy them! Michigan Adventures! Oh yeah! Tomorrow's the day! I'll be skipping school to go to Michigan Adventures with the Math Club! I'm so excited, I can hardly wait. The only bad thing is I'll be missing a bunch of end of the year tests at school, but I talked with all of my teachers and we worked something out so I should be fine. ^_^ Me Website I'm planning on re-doing my website (TAD) with HTML. It's going to be hard, but I've learned a lot about HTML and I think I can pull it off. The only thing irking me is that I want to create drop down lists, like, if I put my mouse over a link, a small drop down list would appear with other links like demonstrated at Yahoo! Music and at my school's website. I'd like something like that and if any of you know the HTML to that, could you please tell me? It'd be greatly appreciated. Eek! Pictures! Heh, actually, these have been up for awhile, but, my pictures are up at Queen Asuka's OB Picture Archive. ....If you'd really like to see me *hides under the bed before continuing* then you can...I guess. Story I've reached Page 63 in my notebook of Chapter 1 of my story, that's 63 out of 128, so, yeah, I'm almost done. Once Chp. 1 is finished I'll reveal it to you all so you can enjoy. I also started another story, similar to my current one, but different. I'll reveal more about that one in a few days, ok? Good. Special things... Y'know how some people put stuff like at the end of their posts or the beginning of their posts to end them or begin them(gee, that sounded kind of, repetive)? Like how Japan ends her posts with pictures and like how Sara starts her posts off with a quote or a poem or something like that? I'd love to have something like that, but, I have no ideas on what I could possibly do...do you guys/gals have any ideas? If so, I'd like to know. Until then, I'll be pondering this question...heh. Well, that's all, I guess. Later! -DDG

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Monday, May 17, 2004

Well, I got this from Solo who got it from Mimmi(I believe and a bit from Sara, or something like that) who got it from a bunch of other people so, being as bored as I am at the moment, decided to fill it out as well. Full Name: Kayla, and that's all you're getting. Age: 12 Hair: Medium Brown, but I plan on dying it black this summer. Eyes: Light Brown Sex: (and I'll quote Solo on this)Never. >_> Heh, female. Favorite Anime: .hack//SIGN but you can refer yourself to the list over that way, *points* to see the others that I like. Favorite Manga: I've never read any Manga, but some of the Digimon ones look pretty good. Seven things that scare you... 1. Heights, although, I've slightly overcome that fear. 2. Creepy old rundown houses 3. Preps/Jocks(no offense to anyone) 4. Most kids at my school 5. Little kids 6. Lightning/thunder 7. My dreams(like, the ones I have while I'm sleeping, though, my life dreams are pretty freaky, too) Seven things that make you laugh 1. The kids at my school 2. South Park 3. .hack//GIFT 4. .hack//TRUTH 5. My friends 6. David Letterman 7. WildBoys/Viva La Bam/Jackass(hey, they're mostly the same shows so I figure I could put all of them on 7) Seven things you LOVE... 1- My friends (both online and offline) I'm going to have to agree with you on that one, Solo. 2- My family Again, I agree. 3- Guns, whee! ^_^ 4- Violent video games... 5- Drawing 6- Writing 7- My cats Seven things you hate... 1- Bad grammar/spelling 2- Video games that cheat 3- Ignorant/stupid/rude/loud people Yup, agreed. 4- Getting stressed over video games (True Crime especially for me...) 5- School 6- Socialism, well, most of it anyhow. 7- Preps/Jocks(no offense to anyone) Seven things you don't understand... 1. HTML 2. Eh, my friends. 3. Other languages. 4. People who enjoy country music 5. Religious people 6. My school 7. The kids who go to my school. Seven facts about you... 1- I'm 12. 2- I broke my first bones last summer on June 8th, 6:30 PM. 3- I hate where I live. 4- I cracked my head open when I was three. 5- I have never smoked and never will. 6- My bedroom is blue. 7- I've successfully beaten all four .hack games. Seven things you plan to do before you die... 1- Date a Russian or an Italian 2- Meet everyone I can of my OB friends (and that pretty much encompasses everywhere I want to visit). 3- Become an Author 4- Publish the story I'm currently writing. 5- Graduate college. 6- Learn to play the drums. 7- Drive a tank Seven things you can do... 1. Write 2. Draw 3. Beat video games 4. Be loud 5. Be mean 6. Annoy people 7. Extreme sports like skateboarding and stuff... Seven Things You Can't Do or Can't Do Well... 1. Understand why pink is such a popular color amongst other girls. 2. Be social 3. Remember things I have to do 4. Stay on task 5. Dance 6. Sing 7. Keep a beat. Seven things you say the most... 1. Ah 2. Heh 3. ^_^ 4. Like 5. Dude 6. Holy crap 7. Friggin' Comfort Writing I enjoy writing my story to calm me down. Usually I do it late at night, right before I go to bed. I also like to write letters to Sara, whom of which I have just received a letter from today, so, I best be off and reading it. This is definitely not a 'real' post, but, I am very bored so it'll have to do. 'Till the next time I update! Later! -DDG

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Sunday, May 16, 2004

Deep breaths...

Ok, this is my first post in awhile so there'll be a lot, I'm sure, to talk about. I've been debating the last few days whether or not to post because my feelings and thoughts have been so jumbled up inside that I haven't been able to sort them out. At this moment, I still can't seem to sort them out so I'm hoping that this post will help. I guess I'll start with the first thing that's on my mind. My Dad My dad had to go back to jail a week or two ago. I can't quite remember why, but now I'll only get to see him if I get up at like 6 AM and go to work with my mom so she can take me to see him while he's out on work release. This dilemna also leaves me stuck at home(my mom's house) on the weekends. I couldn't even begin to tell you how dull and boring it is here on the weekends. These past two weekends I've only been able to survive because 1.) Xio came over last weekend and 2.) My friend Tre came over this weekend. I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do this summer, although, I plan on getting up early in the mornings and going jogging, then maybe taking a small bike ride or something. I figure maybe exercise'll keep me busy enough throughout the summer. Gym Meh, Gym is horrible. All this week, we were playing Capture the Football(which is just like Capture the Flag only you have to try and get the football from the other team's side without getting tagged and if you can't run the football back over to your team's side then you can throw it to somebody on your team, as long as your behind the white line) and Dodge Ball. I'm now suffering from numerous injuries from risking my body for my team's victory(BTW, my team won almost every single time). At the moment, I've found several large bruises on my left knee, one or two on my right knee, and a bruise on my right wrist which is very painful if touched. Thank god we're going back to a normal schedule this week instead of a Friday schedule everyday. Also, thank god that this week is our last full week of school. Only 87 more days left of scoool!(for me, that is) Michigan Adventures *throws confetti* I get to skip school Wednesday to go to Michigan Adventures' Physics Day for Math Club. Oh yeah, it's totally going to rock. As stated in the last post, though, I'll give you a full update on it Thursday or Friday. .hack//TRUTH Oh, the tension. Our fight with Magus has just begun. 10 pages and we've fough three phases and Cubia. It makes you think, what the hell have we been doing for ten pages to only have fought three phases and Cubia?! It really makes you think, 'cause we only fought Skeith on around Page 5 or 6. o.O Social Studies Homework Social Studies homework is very evil indeed. We have to write a diary type thing, in which we are spies from a village that are enemies with the Aztecs. We have to make 8 entries, each describing a different event that happened within the Aztec village. I've been putting it off the whole weekend for 1.) Tre came over and stuff and 2.) because I figure I'll do it tomorrow night, it's not due 'till Tuesday so what do I have to worry about, huh? Yeah, I know, I shouldn't put off my homework like that but, what can you do? I'm a kid who's eager and patiently waiting for Summer Vacation to arrive, all I want to do is blow off school and other school related things and have some fun. School's horrible though, they threw all of the biggest projects at us right at the end of the year. 'Cause, for one, we've got that diary thing we have to write, then two, we have to make a PowerPoint Presentation on a Latin American country and compare it to a US State, then last week, we had to do those ads in English, we have a bunch of end of the year exams to take in every single class and who knows what else to do before the year's over! Whew, ok, calm down...calm down... Story Alright, back to my story. I plan on finishing typing it up very very soon. Then, I'll reveal it to the world. I'm on Page 49 of Chapter 1, out of 7 Chapters of Part 1 out of two Parts. Chapter 1 of Part 1 only has 128 pages so I'm almost half way done. I expect to have it finished within a couple of weeks, give or take. My Cat My cat is a total faker. She acts as if her paw is still hurt for our empathy and love and attention, but, we all know the truth. She's a huge faker, I see her using her paw all the time as if nothing's wrong with it. It's also not swollen and she doesn't get mad at me when I touch it and stuff. So now, we all call her faker, 'cause that's what she is, but she is a pretty damn good one at that. Eh... I think I've sorted out my feelings, sort of. I still feel all jumbled up inside and I still have many mixed feelings towards a lot of things, but I feel better, in a way. Oh, and before I go(and forget), I might be thinking about this a little early, but, for those of you who have read or are reading .hack//TRUTH, I've got a wonderful and cliffhanger type ending in store for it. I wont reveal anything as of yet, not until we near the very end. The very very end. Later! -DDG

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Thursday, May 13, 2004

Michigan Adventures! Yay!

Yup, next Wednesday, I get to go to Michigan Adventures. It's for Math Club. We're going there for Physics Day and we're probably going to be doing the same things that Sara did when she went to Physics Day at Six Flags. We get to ride rides and stuff but we have to physics equations and stuff but, I mean, I'll do just about anything to go to a Coaster Park. I can't wait to ride Shivering Timbers, I know it's not going to be anything like Cedar Point but atleast I get to ride some roller coasters again this year. (I went to Cedar Point back in August and rode my first roller coaster there[the Gemini] and had the time of my life riding every single roller coaster I could [all except the Top Thrill Dragster, too long of a line]) I'll have more about the trip next Thursday, after we go so expect a lengthy post that day. ^_^ Uh... Everything seems to have slipped my mind at the moment so...I guess if I remember what else I planned on talking about I'll edit later or write it down and post it tomorrow. Later! -DDG Edit: Don't worry, Japan, I wont get sick. ^_^

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Eating Yeah, I'm eating right now so I'm not going to type much, I hope... .hack//QUARANTINE If you all remember correctly, a few months back I wished to test out a theory that the same monsters came out of the same portals in the same rooms of the bonus dungeon. Well, I did get to test this theory out, finally. Xio finally gave me my QUARANTINE game back because she had to buy her own to replace my DVD that her 'cat' scratched up. My theory was absolutely, positively...incorrect. But, a bonus side for testing out my theory last night was...*hears dramatic drumroll in the background* I FINALLY BEAT THAT DAMN DUNGEON AND SAVED MIA! *cries for joy and hugs Mia* Mia...I save Mia! Yay! Meh, not much else I can think of at the moment(nor that I want to take the time to type). Maybe I'll edit tomorrow so keep on the lookout for an edit tomorrow or sometime during this week, ok? Or, I'll just post again or something...who knows. ^_^; Later! -DDG Oh yeah, .hack//TRUTH's still pretty crazy, but in three days time...well, if you read my most recent post...you'll see. ^_^ Edit: Ok, here we go...something to 'edit' about... My Statistics Total Visits 568 Popularity Ranking # 315 (out of 7,582 active sites) or # 301 on the Member List Total Members 27,394 # of Guestbook Signings: 47 Guestbook last signed on: 5/09/04 Guestbook last signed by: Mimmi ~_~ That really wasn't much to edit about either. Well, I guess, thanks to everyone who's visited my site and signed my guestbook. It makes me feel real popular. ^_^

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Saturday, May 8, 2004

This is nothing really special...but all day, or atleast since noon or so, Mai and I have been posting very funny posts on .hack//TRUTH. They all mostly involve torturing the Silver Knight. I highly suggest that you take a look at them. ^_^ In Mai's latest post, I'm wearing the Silver Knight's helmet! We are like really hyper or something...maybe it was the Root Beer, but whatever it is, it's making up hyper! *jumps around and posts again* Later! -DDG

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Thursday, May 6, 2004

Ok, I think I'll be able to make a pretty lengthy post today, so be prepared to read a lot... My Cat My cat at my mom's house (Jessie a.k.a. Jessebelle Demon Hitler), she was outside the other day (she's not supposed to be outside), because my irresponsible, inconsiderate step-brother and his cousin opened up the slider and the side doors so my cat escaped outside. I was at a friends house until 5:00 so I didn't know that she had slipped outside until I got home and went downstairs to feed her. I automatically noticed that the doors were open so I went inside, then headed downstairs (the door was closed so I thought she might have been down there) to feed her. After pouring food into her bowl and calling around for her downstairs, I went back upstairs and looked around outside. I couldn't find her so I decided not to worry about it and went to my room where I played True Crime for a few hours. At around 9:30 PM, she showed up and must have been let in by my step-brother. Him, being the way he is, didn't notice that she was limping... So, when she came into my room, she jumped up onto my bed and I didn't notice that she was limping until she was right up next to me. I immediately began petting her and got her to lay down so I could begin my examination. I examined her injure paw and the rest of her body, but came up with no cuts or anything. She had specks of blood in her fur, but I found no cuts or anything so, she must have won the fight she had. I immediately came to the realization that her paw was broken due to the fact it wasn't all tore open or anything. So, I called my mom and told her what had happened to Jessie and she told me to wait until she and Lonnie got home. Now, they didn't get home until around 12:00 Midnight and I was half asleep when my mom came into my room to look at the cat. Lonnie then came in and took the cat out into the dining room where he could better look at her in the light. He concluded that she must have gotten into a fight with one of the neighbors cats, that the paw was broken and that the entry wound that broke the paw was around the size of a pin hole. A pin hole. She's doing better today, she's been limping around three-legged pretty well and acts somewhat like she normally does so we're not worried. ^_^ Whew, no vet visits for her. It's a nightmare to take her to the vet...*shudders at the thought* True Crime I'm still playing it. I'm stuck on these two missions. One's a tailing mission. I hate those missions, this one's especially hard. *grumbles* I have to pass it to be able to advance to the next Episode though. I'm also stuck on a sneak-in mission. It took me around ten tries to get past this one part(I finally figured it out), then, I got to this other part and I keep hitting the stupid boxes that if you hit will creak and wake up the sleeping guys and then they spot you and you fail the mission. Those damn boxes are hard to get around. The missions I'm stuck on are in Episode V(I believe, it may be VI), Mission I: Tailing the Cop and Episode VI(it's one of the ALT routes that branch off from the main line of Episodes), Mission 2: Kinks in the Path. If you've played True Crime and you know how to beat these Missions, PLEASE TELL ME! Fun Weekend ^_^ Yay, Xio(Mai/Haruko) is coming over this weekend. I'm so excite! We're going to have so much fun...we're going to play violent video games and stuff. *grin* Barbeque Heh, I'm at my dad's house right now. My mom, Lonnie, and Blaike are going to a barbeque and I didn't want to go so I get to stay here for a few hours. It's pretty cool 'cause I wont be able to come here this weekend so I get to come today... Math Club We had Math Club on Wednesday, that's why I was at Xio's house when my cat got hurt. I go to Xio's house after Math Club every week. The coolest thing I learned: The Theta symbol in .hack actually means Theta and that Theta means Tangeable. What Tangeable means I can't exactly remember, heh. Letter Yup, got my letter from Sara on Wednesday(wow, a lot of stuff was going on Wednesday..). I haven't had time to start writing my letter back but I did get a LITTLE PLASTIC NINJA from her. *grin* I also got to see what those little PETA address stickers look like. They are very nice, Miss Hannelore Malkovich, lol. Ok... Ok, now I do believe I am completely out of ideas so later! -DDG

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Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Website Well, if you do visit my website, you should have noticed that it's under construction. I'm working on character profiles and stuff and I don't want people seeing what I'm doing to the site while I'm working on it, of course...well, I wont say if they haven't thought of that yet. *shifty eyes* Color Theme Change Depending on how much time I have tonight, I might change the color theme. It all depends though. I might wait until this weekend to do it, so I have more time to perfect and get it how I like it, plus, I can't make a table background on this computer. >_> Post Style and other new things... ^_^ Yay! Finally, I don't have to keep entering the HTML for my table everytime I post a new entry! I'll have to agree with a few other people that I've read who dislike the dropdown list of friends. I liked how mine went up then down, up, down, up down, etc, etc. The Fan Art 'Archives' and Wallpaper 'Archives' are much better though. And the 'Quiz Results Archives' are great as well. ^_^ The link to our Otakuboards profile is a good idea and there are so many other things I just can't name them all. Thanks everyone who's made all these changes! ^_^ School Not much to say for school, it's only Tuesday so still three more days left 'till the weekend. Next Monday the seventh grades going to a baseball game, we're supposed to have groups of seven made up, only, my group still only has three. We're planning on asking two more people tomorrow, then we'll just have to see who gets stuck with us. :P School'll be out in around 17 days. We get out the 26th, I really can't wait. I believe on Thursday, we will be starting our Power Point Presentations for Social Studies, so we'll be choosing our countries soon as well. I've finally decided on doing a report on Chile. Or Brazil. Oh darnit...Chile, for sure, heh. We started working on our commercials in English. Mine's going to be pretty good, we've got the dialogue ready, we know what props we need, what we need to make. I'll give you a better update on it this weekend when we've worked on it for a few more days. I'm sort of beginning to get sick of Discovery Science. I have to go there, every morning, every day of the week. It's getting very tedious, unlike my other classes because we have different classes everyday. Like on Monday's and Wednesday's we'll have four classes then the next days (Tuesday and Thursday), we'll have the classes we didn't have the other day, then on Friday we'll have all seven of them (it would be eight, but I have Discovery Science every day so that takes up both seven and eight)...It that was confusing, I don't think I could explain it any better...I really don't want to either. Money My mom still owes me money. 40 dollars to be correct. Now, I don't see how I'm supposed to get her a Mother's Day gift if I have no spare money to buy it with. I've got thirty dollars right now, but that's being saved for a game. At the end of this week, she'll be oweing (sp? I don't know..) me around 60 dollars. Eh, I guess I can wait if I really have to, I mean, she does have a pretty good reason not to have payed me it by now. True Crime: Streets of L.A. I finally got the game from my dad. I've played it before so it wasn't new to me or anything. I played it almost all day yesterday, frisking random people as always, solving random street crimes. I'm not particularly fond of doing missions, the controls of the game limit my playing greatly, so I usually don't do too well during missions. I'm currently on Episode II, Mission I. I also got another Memory Card from my dad. I transferred the data from my 16kb to my new 8kb so now I don't have to load up a CD to play any of my games. I currently have three memory cards now, a red 8kb (almost full, BTW), a black 8kb (still has some significant space left on it) and a gray 16kb (just about cleared everything off of that, it's just going to be my spare Memory card when the other two fill up). Ramble I don't know, would you consider that a ramble? Oh well, anyways...I'm out of ideas so later! -DDG

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Sunday, May 2, 2004

This is just going to be a small, quick update, but I've hit 500 visits! 503 to be exact. Thanks everyone who's visited my site and made this happen. ^_^ Thank you!! Edit: I made a little trip over to vgmusic.com and my MIDI is now changed to Solid Snakes theme from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ^_^ Does this mean that there's another theme change coming along? Who knows...*grins*

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Saturday, May 1, 2004

Zelda Lessons from...*plays dramatic music in the background*

Yeah, as the title partially says, I'm getting Zelda lessons from Haruko/Mai. They're very good, she's a pretty good teacher. ^_^ I've learned a lot...surprisingly. I've learned about the races, Zora's are my favorite, how the city of Hyrule was made, I learned about the Triforce and I've seen pictures of all the races, Zelda, and Link. It's a lot of fun, I'm planning on getting a Zelda game for my GBA because I currently do not have a Gamecube... Banners and avatars... Yup, I made a new one. Since I'm a big fan of Zero Skateboarding Decks, I've made a Zero Team Skateboarding banner and avatar. Check out the banner in my signature on OB and the avatar as my avatar on OB. ^_^ Darn you Geocities... I think the title speaks for itself. I'm very angry at Geocities today, I can't get the PageBuilder to run, the page keeps freezing. Everyday that I'm actually willing to work on my website it never works. Damn Yahoo and their unreliable services. Damn them all. Guess I'll try working on it at school on Tuesday, atleast I know it'll load there. My computer's a piece of junk, see, I hate it and wish it would die, of course, if it did, then I wouldn't have a computer to get on the internet with... 9 away... I'm 9 visits away from 500! Thanks to all of you who visit my site all the time. You're all just the best! *hands out snacks* Now, leave and stay off the grass! Oh yeah... I'd just like to wish a happy belated birthday to James and Adam. ^_^ That's all I can think of, I guess. So, later! -DDG

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