Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Cue the explosions!
It's the 4th of July! Independence Day! For the U.S., at least.

I'm not doing anything today to celebrate - at least, not until later, when I'm lighting off twelve packs of sparklers and also one pack of three-feet-tall sparklers. =D

So what am I doing to spend my time? Finally finish "Star Ocean: Til the End of Time". XD

Oh, and of other important news, I'm now an Otaku Legend. Freakin' sw33t! I posted a comment over at Ada's, and when the comment box had re-loaded, my title was that of an Otaku Legend. :3 I have 152 comments now, which means I've commented on the news page 152 times. >_> So there Ryu, that's what you need to do to become a Senior Otaku. XD

I'm sore in my arms, and I'm thinking that's because I had a solid party weekend. Summaries:

Friday-Saturday: My friend Meghan's belated birthday party. Sleepover for the girls (duh). We swam for a while and stayed in our bathing suits for a long while. Then we got changed, performed some karaoke, tossed around a plush football, etc. My friend Brian and I finally gained control of the hammock after the entire evening, and sat there while everybody else was attacking with the water bucket for the pool (to clean off your feet) and the hose. I saw Haya come up to us with a water bucket, and I rolled out of the way just in time to avoid being majorly soaked...but Brian was drenched.
We went on the offensive, me taking over the hose and going after everyone. Then, after we were all soaked, we were just sorta like, "Let's jump in the pool. Clothes on." And so, we did. It was a straight procession - Haya, Brian, then me. All with clothes on. And I was wearing boy shorts, complete with belt, so I was soaking up about half of the pool. XD

Saturday: Evening was my friend Logan's birthday party. For a while, only me and my friend Waffles were there (carpool), then the Cooper guy showed up. At dinner, our friend Marissa showed. Much later in the evening, Haku (from ACen) and a friend of his showed up. Lots of swimming and throwing a mini soccer ball around. :3

Sunday: Haya's 4th of July party. More swimming, though the vast majority of the time was used playing four-square...with the basketball. XD Ryu was there as well...he just sorta blurbed it out in his last post, the majority of which he spent gushing over "Wicked".

No wonder I hurt.

Yesterday I went over to Waffles house, and we watched some Kingdom Hearts parody videos on YouTube. ^^;; Then we flew to the basement and played Pokemon Stadium. XD We did Versus matches for a bit, and I beat her all times.
After the Versus, we played the Stadium mode in Pikacup, and while she was busy helping her parents with stuff, I played. I beat the first three trainers using only one Pokemon each. I think, in total, I lost abou 30 HP the entire time, too. XD
After going down to the neighborhood's club house to set up for the party today, we came back and had a four-player versus mode. It was Waffles and her older sister Meredith versus me and the younger sister Sara. I groaned about that, but we ended up winning three out of four times. XD

Highlighst include:
Sara's tiny little Vulpix taking down Waffles's Charizard that was confused. He slapped himself to death. >_>
My poisoned, 38 HP Golem that took down two full-healthed Pokemon. The odds were totally against me, I was pissed, but Sara was like, "C'mon, you can do it!". And I did. =D
The argument about choosing Pokemon that can fly. And we decided "no birds". And Waffles chose Charizard, who could fly. I was pissed. >3

Ryu also gave me ten volumes of Rurouni Kenshin to read on Sunday. XD Minus volumes one and six, because Waffles gave me six as a birthday present. :3 I never really liked the RuroKen manga. I think what annoys me the most is the font. Eh. *shrugs* I'm currently on the fifth volume, about halfway through. Meef.

Oh. *snaps fingers* I went book shopping last Thursday, and returned with Full Metal Alchemist volume 8, MegaTokyo volume 4, and .hack//Another Birth volume 1. I also got a Yuki bookmark. xD

After reading FMA 8 and seeing the preview, I was practically wetting my pants, so I went online to a manga viewer. And...well, let's just say that I'm not going to like volume 9. Especially Mustang's actions. I was royally pissed. I mean, what little I liked about Roy has now been reduced to nothingness. You bastard! WHY THE F%$& DID YOU KILL HER?! I actually liked her! (She also remotely looked like me.) Ugh! Yeah.

The main reason I went to the online manga viewer was to see if my suspicions could be confirmed. And, well, they weren't, but I still have this awful feeling that they might. See, in last month's issue of AnimeInsider, they talked about how radically different the Homonculi are in the manga, how some of the identities are different, and how "friends and foes" can't be distinguished anymore. After reading in the manga viewer, there was only one more Homonculous to be revealed. And...I have this feeling...I have this feeling that Maes Hughes might be the final Homonculous. *cries* Which is the last one left? Pride. 'course, that's all my suspicion, but at the rate the manga's going, it's entirely possible.

...Guess I should go check up on the manga viewer. X3

Have a happy and safe Independence Day, everyone! Except you, Katsom. T.T

...XD
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