Wednesday, June 30, 2004

An update!
Yeah, I've been a bit busy the past couple of days. Mostly, I've just been gaming and drawing, but I'll get to that later.

Lately, I have been falling asleep at 3:30 AM or so every night. I won't be tired, I'll end up with my right to internet access threatened unless I get in bed by 1, so I sit in my bed, thinking about stuff.

Most of the time, it's not really deep or anything. Maybe I'll be thinking about a song, or a conversation I had that day, or maybe a video game, but it's a really boring time. My mind runs out of topics by 2, so I look at my clock for an hour and a half trying to find a comfortable position to fall asleep in.

Last night I couldn't stop thinking about the uber-awesome mouse that is being sent to my house some time this week, along with Excel Saga manga volume 4.

<_< If I tell anyone the story of the Santa, I fear that that person may get angry, so I shall not go into further detail on that.

But I'm not paying for it, and that's what counts. :D

Oh, and while we're on the topic of deep thinking, I've been thinking a lot about my many social anxieties while playing DDR lately. The game holds a lot of memories for me, some good and some bad, and my mind just thinks about, maybe, that time when I went to the mall without adult supervision for the first time and played it with a good friend, or maybe just last week when I got introduced to a really nice guy through Dance Dance Revolution by a close friend.

But mostly, it reminds me of a former comrade of mine, which gets me rather depressed, so I don't play as much lately.

But I beat Afronova, a particularly difficult song, on Heavy Mode, finally. :D It's a big milestone for me. Next stop, Max 300 on Standard..

Today I woke up at 10, instead of 12:30, and heard my mother yelling at my dad over the phone about unexpected visitors. Apparently, our family from Kentucky was in California, and they were to come and visit us, unexpectedly, today.

So we cleaned. We cleaned like madmen for hours and hours- my brother dusted the entire house and reorgainzed all of the wires sticking out of our TV cabinet which belong to various game controllers, light guns and other gaming peripherals. God bless that kid's soul..

I, however, had the enormous task of gutting out this office/computer desk thing. My dad does all of the bills in here, and there's little notebooks of budgets and stuff everywhere. I just stacked it all in a neat little pile, went through all of our CD-ROMs, sorted the little papers I have everywhere, and crap like that.

They got here, we went to a restaurant, and I had an extremely unfilling portion of steak and shrimp (God, there were, what, 6 small shrimp and maybe 3 ounces of steak).

When we returned, my brother entertained the cousins, who seem to really enjoy playing Time Crisis and Super Smash Bros. Melee. I just walked around, eating Jolly Ranchers (They give me a buzz) and playing DDR when the three little children ran upstairs to do God knows what.

They're gone now, off in San Diego, staying with my 8 1/2-months pregnant aunt. Between the only parent she ever knew dying, this roller coaster pregnancy, the drastic swelling she's going through, and playing inn-keeper for everyone, she really has a lot on her plate.

We will probably be in San Diego tomorrow as well, where we shall hopefully bring back the long-sought after TV and DVD player. It seems that we may not end up with them, now.. My parents don't think they can trust me with a TV (I don't even need cable, just give me A/V cables and a monitor), and we already have two DVD players, including the computer.

My uncle's Xbox-playing TV seems to be overheating, so we may just let him have it. I don't want to spend another day over there without any gaming because the TV makes an annoying screechey noise after it's been used for fifteen minutes.

I submitted a drawing to TheOtaku a few minutes ago, which I am really proud of. I spent three hours drawing God-awful sketches, and eventually I came up with this.

..Obviously, the background is PhotoShopped, and I had to fill in some un-shaded space, but it's still one of my best drawings ever.



Not much to talk about today. Instant Ramen is offically going to be at AX, and I finally decided what I'll be wearing on the day we all meet.



Fear the shirt.

I decided to wear this simply because it's bright and that it will stand out. Not to mention I don't think too many people will be wearing this shirt.. I'll probably change into my signature shirt later, because I refuse to wear that much pink for an extended period of time.

And I'll probably wear my Poison Mushroom "Game Over" shirt on Monday, but that doesn't really matter, since I won't be seeing anybody there.

I put together a folder of all of my Anime Expo papers today- maps, schedules, cell phone numbers at which I can contact Karmi and Shin, and other stuff. I'll probably be putting my backpack together tonight or tomorrow, because we'll be attending a two-day wedding thing on Friday and Saturday.

Damn my cousin! Why would he want to get married during Independence Day Weekend? It's insane.

The bride's not even going to be wearing a patriotic wedding dress. :/ No red or blue.
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