Finally Fall

The calendar may not agree with me, but it’s September, it’s after Labor Day, and the kids are back in school. To me, that means it’s fall. Whoever decided when the seasons start is in my opinion wrong anyway. I mean, they don’t start winter until like December 21st, only a few days before Christmas. I’ve been looking forward to fall because it was such a busy summer, and it was so hot. Although I rarely associate weather with seasons, it has gotten alot cooler than it was in about July.

So I say, it’s fall. I am having trouble, though, making/choosing a new desktop wallpaper for my computer. I have a recently acquired and beautiful 20.1? widescreen LCD at 1680×1050 beautiful pixels. I just don’t like anything I’ve made so far and can’t decide what I want.

Also, I want to watch “back to school” themed movies or tv shows. I’ve already watched Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade. What other good back to school type movies are there? I am considering Sky High. I also listened to the audiobook version of the Beverly Cleary book Ellen Tebbits the other day, a book that my first grade teacher read to the class, and it was just delightful.

Back in California

I just got back from the midwest last night. The visitation was on Sunday and the funeral was on Monday. When we got to the church on Sunday, there were monarch butterflies everywhere. Grandma Neva loved butterflies.

I made a slideshow of pictures of grandma Neva, one section just from the G. Neva Convention to Blessed Assurance, and then it went to a video my dad took when we were there in July where he asked what she would like to tell her grandchildren, then it went to another section of slideshow of just various pictures of her, older than from this summer, and set it to This is Our Father’s World. Everyone really liked it, and I’m glad I was able to do something to honor her memory.

The message that the pastor gave was beautiful, and I spent some time talking to him while we were at the dinner they had afterwards. He was a great guy and he loved Grandma Neva.

One of the men in the church, the technical sort of guy offered to make copies of the slideshow for the people in the town who wanted one so I gave him my first copy, since I still had the files saved on my laptop so I could just make other copies.

We had to clean out her apartment, and we found all kinds of really cool treasures like her High School graduation picture(1929!) among other very old pictures and notebooks with her jottings and clip-outs. I’ve taken those things home and I plan to archive them digitally. The neighbor, whose name is also Neva, oddly enough, and whose husband is the man who is making DVD copies offered to ship the rest of the photo albums for us, and also the rocking chair which belonged to Grandma Neva’s grandmother. My mom actually had a dream about that rocking chair.

She had beautiful handwriting and we couldn’t bear to throw out anything she had written on. And she wrote on everything. There would be an old envelope with an envelope and a bit of scripture on it.

When we went through her jewelry, I found that there was a locket with a picture of me as a baby in it. I thought that was special, because I didn’t see any lockets with anyone else’s pictures in them.

Sprucing

So, I’ve spruced a bit. I actually fixed the Archives so that the new ones are linked. I changed my mood theme to a nice Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants one. I added Gravatar support on comments. Gravatar is Globally Recognized avatar. It’s pretty neat as far as I’ve tried it. Set your own at gravatar.com I can imagine alot of sites supporting them soon. I tested mine and it works perfectly. You just put in the same email address you signed up with, and there you go. I also added some more fun smilies, of animals and characters and stuff. We’re also doing some sprucing at home now too. My grandmother has decided to get new carpet for the bedrooms. This is good, seeing as the carpet is 30 years old, green, and shag. I have a large rug over mine, so you don’t see most of it. This means, however that I have to clean my room and we’re going to have to take everything out. This is very overwhelming, as my room is small but packed with my bookshelves, tv, bed, desk, etc. However this also means that I’ll get to finally move in that other dresser that I’ve been thinking about. It’s sitting in my parents’ garage and it’s really long and white. I’d like to paint it and put it under my window and then I could set my tv and stuff on top of it where it is now, but more stable. Then I could move my DVD shelf over where the not very functional(drawers don’t open and close well) dresser is. Could I put my minifridge there too? I’m not sure. Maybe I need some sort of organizer thing there which would put a shelf over and stuff. There is much to consider.

My Disneyland Magic Moment

I was an Entertainment Host in the Character department for a couple years. I also grew up in the area going to Disneyland all the time.

In the character department, especially when it’s crowded, my first priority was always for my characters’ safety. There were guests that yelled at me because the line for Pooh was closed for the night, even after I explained that they would be out walking around again in 15 minutes.
But then there were days like this one. I was working at the Pooh Corner location, standing up by Pooh when a small girl and her mom came up. The girl was afraid to go up to pooh, one of those ones where she wanted to go up to him, but was afraid. Her mom went up to him first which often helps but she was still aprehensive. I asked if she wanted me to go with her. She nodded and we went a few steps before she stopped again. “Don’t you want to see pooh?” I asked her. She looked longingly up at him, like she almost thought she could, but then she gave a sigh and shook her head. “Okay,” her mother said. “Maybe next time.” And they started to walk away, but then the little girl turned around and ran back and hugged me instead.

Back in the Real World

After over a week in the Midwest visiting relatives, I’m back home in California. The G. Neva Convention was very successful, and we had 25 meeting in the tiny town of Ledyard, Iowa where my great grandmother, Neva, lives. We were able to enjoy each other’s company after not having met some for years, had lunch together, and spoke about what Grandma Neva meant to us. We also took a big selection of group photos, everyone in their matching shirts.

After the Convention, we spent the night at a hotel in Blue Earth, Minnesota, home of the Jolly Green Giant, and the next morning I set out with my aunt Tana to Wisconsin where I would spend that week visiting with her family. It was a fun week, but I’m glad to be home!

Kids these days

Kids today compared to when you were a kid

I’ll be 22 in June. We always had a computer or two, at least at my grandparents’ house which is where I actually spent most of my time. Actually, I think they might still be in the closet somewhere. I wasn’t intune enough to know their specs at the time, but one was an IBM type with the yellow/black screen and a dot matrix printer that you could make banners on when someone had a birthday or came home with a new baby. The other was an apple that seemed to mostly play games, it had a green screen. My grandpa was an engineer.

I don’t know, I think that part of things like computers being incorporated into our lives is that we take them for granted. I mean, think of the things that we take for granted that people in past generations didn’t have? refridgerators, microwaves, etc.

I grew up and went to school in Orange County, CA

When I was little I’d play with dolls, barbies combined with other small toys like my little pony and quints. and when I was old enough I read. I read alot. I have two younger sisters.

I have a cousin whose 8. She’s my uncle’s daughter, and her mother started leaving them and other behavior like that when she was 2. Sidney(cousin) is a very smart girl, but she’s not always respectful. I think part of the problem is that my grandma always lets her get away with things. She says it’s because Sidney always has to go where she’s told and doesn’t have a choice. She’s a kid, that’s what you do when you’re a kid. You go home when your parents say it’s time to go home. I don’t understand why she’s allowed to watch pet ER while we’re having dinner.

We first got internet access in I think 1995. Maybe early ‘94. We got dial-up and I used netscape 3.0

when I see the jr high kids walking down the street after school, I think it looks about the same as when I was their age. I mean, styles have changed but there are some kids who dress younger, and some who try to dress older, like when I was their age.

But school seems to have changed. Even high school is different from when I left it. I graduated in 2001, and my younger sisters currently go to the high school I attended. There are more dress code rules. My freshman year in high school there were, like, three dress code rules. There are more graduation requirements. I was fortunate enough to graduate before Algebra 1 was required which is lucky because I failed the second semester of it like three times. There’s this test now that you have to pass to graduate, although my sister said she already took it and it’s easy. Even the policies for picking kids up from school are different. Now siblings can’t pick up students without a note from the parents. Or they call the parents for confirmation, even if they’re going home sick through the nurse’s office(that’s the one that seems silly to me. I mean, I’m on her emergency card. She went through the nurse, they called me to pick her up… you still need to talk to my mom?)

Vacation Again

Okay, I know I haven’t blogged in forever, like, since I was supposed to go on the cruise. I’m a bum, I know. But anyway, Now I’m at my best friend’s place. She moved to San Luis Obispo for school, and her birthday was this weekend. I went to Disneyland with she and her roommate and then I drove up with them. I’m going home tomorrow on the train. That’s exciting because I’ve never been on a real train before, just the Disneyland ones and stuff.

Tragedy

We’re supposed to be leaving for our cruise today, but Jerrod can’t find his birth certificate and now we can’t go! Yes, my boyfriend’s company is taking everyone on a cruise leaving today. A weekend cruise to mexico, and we were all set to go, I even have my boarding passes and everything. But if you don’t have a passport you have to bring your birth certificate, and he can’t find his. He was looking all last night and all this morning and now it’s 1pm and we were supposed to start boarding at 1:30.

I am so sad. We’d been looking forward to this since like last May. This was going to be my first cruise and we had an excursion booked to go see where they filmed Titanic, and It’s been raining like crazy here which is not normal, but I checked the weather and it’s not supposed to rain again all weekend. I got new pink luggage, and I’m all dressed in my new outfit, and now we’re not going.

OCC, Narnia, and Yard Sales

Well, Biola deferred me and Fullerton College had already started, so now I have to go to Orange Coast College(OCC) for this semester. Oh, well. I am really excited about the new Narnia movies coming out. C.S. Lewis is my favorite author, and I’m looking forward to Narnia figurines coming out 6 weeks before the movie too.
I was starting to clean my room today, and I suddenly had a brilliant idea. I’ll have a yard sale. I’ll sell my old magazines and shoes and kids’ meal toys and whatnot. I looked it up online, and there are lots of websites about this. Garage Sale Chick was particularly cute, and there are websites that index garage sales. Pretty good, huh?

What is this wet stuff?

It’s raining really hard. I can’t even remember the last time I saw it rain this hard. There are huge puddles all over the place. I must say that driving in the rain in my mom’s car is alot easier than in mine. The wipers work, and it doesn’t leak and it isn’t as slippery. I found a raincoat in the hall closet, and I put it on. I think it’s my grandmother’s but it was pretty nice. A long heather purple coat with buttons and a tie. That’s about the only nice thing about rain.

Enough Excitement

There has been too much going on for so early in the day. My cell phone was already kind of broken, but it still kind of worked, but when Jerrod called me this morning and I tried to answer it it just broke. whatever had been keeping it actually functioning must have broken. Great. I had to look up his number from a gmail he’d sent with it inside one time when I’d left my phone somewhere. It was totally early, by the way. And I called him from the house phone. Then I called my dad to tell him about how completely broken my phone was now, and as soon as I was back in bed my grandma came in all frantic and said she needed my help but the proceeded to run out the front door. I figured the dog must have gotten out. I wasn’t dressed so I went back to put on some jeans and a sweatshirt over my pajama top. Then I had to run back to slip on shoes. I asked if belle got out, and she said she got belle but Daisy is missing. Daisy is my uncle’s dog who is big and yellow and has a bad hip. Oh dear. So I went down the street from a different direction and found her halfway down the street. She came, but followed her own path getting home. It’s too early for this stuff.

Iconic

The other night, Jerrod was trying to make a character for his new mini-boss domain, and I was once again looking for a hack or plugin to use post icons in MT. We were both having little success when I suggested that we switch projects. So as it happened, I pixel painted a cute little flaming boss monster style guy for him, and he whipped up a nice little MT hack for me. Now I can use as many cute little icons as I want. I have never used custom favicons on my sites before. I don’t know why, I just haven’t, but I decided to give it a try. It turned out to be extremely simple and now you should be able to notice an icon of two little pink hearts in your address bar, bookmark list, or tab(if you’re using a browser with tabs of course).

Aught 5

First blog of Augt 5. I’m excited about being able to say it’s Aught 5. I hope I’m writing that out correctly. I spent a while thinking about it and guessed that it would indeed be aught because of course naught means, like, none or nothing, I googled it and dictionary.com confirmed my suspsion. I’m sure you’ll also notice that I’ve changed my blog’s style. I like to leave my decor up till New Years, so I had to take it down today. I’m still very much enjoying the corkboard theme, and It’s been fun changing the background pattern and colors as I think the corkboard looks great with all of them. I went with the hearts partially because when I went into target the day after Christmas they already had the Valentine’s Day merchandise out, and I can’t resist all the pink and heart-shaped stuff.

The Weather

Someone asked me how the weather was today. The weather? It seemed so strange to me. What is there to say? it’s not raining or anything. It’s just normal. I said. Jerrod said that California is really one of the only places you can say that. It seems normal to me. I always thought that talking about the weather was a joke from The Music Man. Surely there’s nothing to actually say, is there?

New Runt?

Okay, maybe I haven’t had the candy runts in a while. Yesterday at the orthodontist after I got my braces off they gave me this bag with candy and popcorn and stuff in it. There was a mini package of runts in it. I saw it just now, and I’ve always particularly enjoyed the banana runts so I opened it up. Now here’s the question; when did they add the blue runt? also, is it just me, or is the green runt now apple and the red one some other flavor?

Celebrate

after a good three years, my braces are off and celebrations are in order!

Rhode Island – misleading

Last night I recieved a call from my mother, asking me if I knew that Rhode Island wasn’t really an island. I told her that yes, I did know that, and she was shocked. Apparently, she herself did not know. I explained to her that I knew that because it was one of the few states I could actually identify on my states test in fifth grade – it being the smallest. I told her that she never gets to make fun of me about my lack of geographical knowledge again. I don’t know why they call it Rhode Island, but I’m not sure why it has such a long name, being like half the size of orange county. I guess my mom thought it really was an island because the name is out in the ocean on the map, or something.

Ah, well. Californians are not known for their geographical prowess.

What’s this “weather” stuff about?

My grandmother just told me that our friend is in Florida and all the flights out are cancelled. Apparently there are, like, tornados and a hurricane. Now, I might point out at this time that I live in California. I know about tornados from The Wizard of Oz. I don’t really know what a hurricane is. Just wind and rain? that sounds like a pretty boring natural disaster when compared with, say, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Sidney Bo Bidney

Well, I’ve been watching my 7 year old cousin Sidney the past couple of days. well, nights, really. I took her home and put her to bed and got her up for school in the morning. My uncle went on a business trip for a few days. She’s pretty smart for a 7 year old, but she can also be pretty difficult. She’s very regimented due, I would expect, to living with her engineer father. So this morning I made her waffles the way she likes them and she got up but said she wasn’t hungry, I told her to get dressed, and when dressed she claimed that she still wasn’t hungry. She got her shoes and socks on and brushed her teeth and we left. When we were driving up to her school, right in front of it, on the street, she begins to say “I’m hungry”. Of course. I told her that it was too late, she missed breakfast. We were already in front of the school. She sat there whining for, like, 5 minutes saying that she was hungry before finally getting out and going into school.

Blogging Mood

I haven’t been in a blogging mood in a while, and now I am and I can’t decide what to blog about. I want to post quotes, I want to do a meme, I want to post graphics I’ve made in my nonblogging time. I just can’t decide, and so I’m blogging about blogging. I use movabletype, and there are a few things to say about this. One is that I would like to upgrade to 3.0 sometime. The other is that I would like to be able to use smilies and post icons, and have not found successful methods for these. I have lots of smilies and lots of icons that I’d love to use. I also occasionally think about changing my blog layout, but I like this one so much.

Another Medical Gameshow

I’ve been booked for a tradeshow as a vanna white type for a gameshow. A couple years ago I hosted a gameshow at a medical convention, so it all seems a bit familiar. Except this is at the LA convention center rather than Anaheim. I don’t know what the wardrobe or company is yet, but They’re paying decently and the hours are good but not ridicules. It’ll be the next three days.

Monday Monday

Last night I had to pick my dad up from the Ontario airport. Okay, so I’m driving there, and on the other side of the 57(southbound, as I was going north) there’s this huge gnarley crash. There were so many lights, at first I thought there must be construction or they were filming something. It was an accident. there was a car turned over, it was all the way upside down, and several fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars, and some people walking around talking to the police, and it looked like that whole side of the freeway was stopped. We went around a different way coming home.

His plane was supposed to be there at 11, but it got delayed, and it ended up being more like 12:30. So I got there at 12:30, and my dad told me not to park, just drive around again if he wasn’t there yet. So I get to the airport at 12:33, having made excellent time. I got there in less than 30 minutes. He isn’t there yet, so I drive around in a circle. still not there. I tune in a radio station I remembered that you can get here, but not where I live, Air1 and enjoy some Newsboys while I make about 5 more circles. Coming up on my next circle, my dad calls me and says they’re on the ground, but just waiting for something to move out of the way so they can get off the plane. I make the slowest circle possible, and let about 5 people go across the crosswalk in front of me, and he still isn’t there. I’m about ten feet away from the crosswalk when my dad calls me and tells me to stay right there, he’s behind me. so I stop, and he hurries and gets in the car. Finally.

If an Opportunity arises

I got an email today from the company that I interviewed for, and they’re not hiring me. I’m a bit dissappointed. I thought I really had a good chance at this one. And I really wanted it. Oh, well, You have not because you ask not, and you ask but do not have because you ask with wrong motives. I asked, but maybe I had the wrong motives. Maybe it just wasn’t God’s will. I did, of course, in my many prayers, ask that His will be done. Maybe I didn’t pray enough. Good thing you can’t pray too much. I am going to an appointment at AppleOne this afternoon, I saw alot of their jobs on monster.com and they are some kind of employment agency or something. They seem to have alot of office type jobs and there’s one really close.

Whatever my lot, though hast taught me to say It is well, It is well with my soul…

Tech Support

I don’t know why, but I haven’t been doing much blogging lately. Granted, this weekend I went up to San Luis Obispo for my best friend’s graduation and I was tired and busy and whatnot, but I’ve been back for three days now, and I still haven’t blogged. But now my grandparents are out of town, and I’m still looking for a job.

However, I have an interview with a company tomorrow morning for a tech support job, which God willing, I should be able to get. I’m more than qualified, and I’m available, and it sounds like they needed people immediately. Let’s just keep praying about it. It was a funny thing, I woke up this morning and the morning before signifigantly earlier than I normally would when I don’t have somewhere to go in the morning, and I thought “maybe God is getting me ready to start getting up earlier. Maybe I’ll have a job soon.” And later I got an email expressing interest, and a few minutes later I had a meeting set up.

Birthday = Shopping

Hello there, all. I haven’t blogged in forever. The main reason being my birthday! My 21st birthday was Sunday.

On Saturday, Jerrod came over and I went and got my nails done. We then proceeded to go to South Coast Plaza where we had lunch at the Rainforest Cafe there.

I explored Tiffany, admiring lovely pearls and diamonds. You have to go into Tiffany when there is one there. It’s, like, the law. I browsed with no possibility of buying in high-end stores like Charles David shoes. I love Charles David more than any other fancy shoes, and I think my first expensive shoes would be them. I passed another store with pink sparkly converse, which must be new because I’ve never seen these sparkly ones before, but of course, they didn’t come in my small size. The plain pink converse I was wearing were a kids’ 3. Converse goes by, like, Men’s sizes or something.

After a long day wandering around, and getting freaked out that the snakeskin on a pair of sandals I looked at used to be on an actual snake, I went back to Nordstrom, deciding I wanted a new top and a lipgloss. I ended up picking out two shirts, a nicer lilac top and a pink ribbed tank. I ventured to the MAC counter to pick out a nice new gloss. I started looking at a lipglass display when the lady behind the counter said to me “Those are all flavored.” flavored? neat! and the flavors were good too. I can recommend the MAC lipgloss tasti. The color, flavor, and shine were all great. It was between the strawberry and the berry, but I ended up getting the strawberry.

21 is Coming

I haven’t blogged in forever, and I don’t even know why. Today is June 1. My 21st birthday is on Sunday, June 6. My parents seem to be varying between wanting to get me a car for my birthday and wanting to give me a card and a hug. When my dad asked what I wanted, I told him that I want a pink ipod mini. Pink was an important feature. Not many electronics come in pink, and when they do, that’s the color I want it in. For whatever reason, pink seems to be hard to come by. My dad mentioned that maybe they should be getting me something like nice jewelry or something for my 21st birthday. So I made a list of “big ticket” items that I would like;
Mini Cooper, electric blue
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 and motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200 and motherboard

I told my dad the list and he said that he was inclinded to get me the less expensive processor and motherboard, and I also wanted a new case that I saw at fry’s to go with them. So my dad and I went to Fry’s and I pointed out the processor and the motherboard that I wanted to go with it, and the case. For good measure, I also pointed out a 250gb hard drive which was only $199. You know, in case he wanted to get something extra. Anyway, we got back to my parents’ house, and my uncle Eric came over. My dad told me to convince him that what I wanted was a good idea. I told Eric that I wanted a new cpu and motherboard. He said that “it’s not time yet.” and the 64 bits are too expensive now, and I should wait 3 months. Now that makes sense except that in 3 months it won’t be my 21st birthday. The chips are a little more expensive now, but that is okay with me seeing as it is my birthday and someone else would be buying it for me. Last year my parents gave me an open DVD for my birthday. I don’t think that was very nice.

I am currently running an AMD Athlon 1.4, and that was before they started the new naming convention so I think that’s actual clock speed, but it was almost 3 years ago. I even started looking up neat addons that I would like to have later on.

And I’d really like to know what to ask my grandparents for. If I don’t tell them what I want I sometimes get strange things.

The Yellers

Anyone who knows me, knows that I dislike sports. I personally find no point in them, especially watching them. Though I would never choose to play them, I actually understand a person wanting to play more than wanting to watch. I mean, it’s a game I suppose. Particularly well-known, is my dislike for the spherical objects used in many of these games; balls. This is probably due to my experiences in jr. high P.E. and having gotten hit on the head with volleyballs, but really, I mean, spherical objects hurtling through the air at various speeds? It really can’t be safe. Not that anything is, but I can’t possibly imagine getting in the way of a ball on purpose. I realize also, that dodgeball is possibly the worst sport of all, possibly even worse than football on the playing side of things. I know they play it on elementary playgrounds and there is no professional level or anything, but that’s probably because if adults did it, they’d kill each other. I mean really, a game where the object is to actually try to hit people? How terrible is that?
I’ve recently come to realize that one of the key things that I really dislike about people watching sports is the yelling. Why must people yell? and not just at the end or something but, like, the whole time. I must admit that this really bothers me. I would almost say I find it rude, but I don’t really because I know that in the context of the event it isn’t considered rude. At the same time, I still feel as though there is “rude” behavior going on. Besides that, it sometimes startles me as my grandmother likes to watch sports and she cries out alot. When I first started living with her, I’d rush out to see if anything was wrong, and it was always “the game”. I guess that maybe I’m just not used to the situation. In theatre performances, you don’t yell but applaud politely. Any uproarious applause are normally only during the curtain call. Whatever the reason, the fact remains – I don’t like the yelling. If I was ever subjected to an actual live sporting event, I’d probably kill my neighbor or something. Well, at least if looks could kill I would.

Final Fantasy Concert

As some of you know, my boyfriend, Jerrod, is a video game programmer. Last night he took me to a Final Fantasy Concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. I didn’t know until I got there what a big deal this concert was. Final Fantasy is a series of video games. I found out that this was the first video game concert in the United States, and a one night only engagement which had sold out in 3 days. The composer and stuff was there too and dressed all Japanese. It was a lovely concert too, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Choralle which sang in Latin. I love latin. It made me want to be in the choir.

what could it be?

Okay, so as mentioned in a previous post, my boyfriend and I are going to celebrate our 1 year anniversary on Saturday. It is actually the next week, but that is when E3 is. And that is something that Jerrod has to be at for work.
So I have these hints for what my gift might be. I am a really good guesser when it comes to this, but this is a doozy. I even tried googling for answers.
my clues
it is pink
part of it is plastic
it is imported
from japan
it is kind of like a dollhouse

now, what could it be?

We are also going to the aquarium, and to the spaghetti factory for dinner which is where we went on our first date. And we are going to go shopping.

Seth and Summer start with S

Monday Madness!
Pick a letter; any letter………Got one?
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….. I choose S
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Ok, for the following questions, each of your answers must begin with the letter you chose…….Have fun!! =)

1. If you were limited to 3 things to pack for an overnight trip, what would you pack? okay, shoes, sweatshirt, and snacks
2. What 3 things would you pack in your picnic basket? sandwiches, smoothies, and strawberries
3. What are 3 things you’d rather do than go to work? sleep, sing, and sew
4. Name 1 song. Softly and Tenderly
5. Name 1 movie. Singing in the Rain

I think Monday Madness is my favorite meme. I, like, never miss it. okay, I’m so excited. The new O.C. episode is coming on tonight on ctv and I can’t wait to download it. I got my sister Amy addicted to it last week. She watched the new episode with me wednesday night, and she loved it, so then we had a marathon the next day, and stayed up all night watching every episode. We even developed a special theme song dance. It was totally great.

On Sunday I went to the new 20s group that started this week at the church. it was pretty neat. I’m going to the Bible study tonight and we’re going to have alot of hanging out on Friday nights which will be good as well.

disneyland and boston

Yesterday we went to Disneyland, all of is. I am converting the Princess Diaries audio books I got to mp3 format. They’re really cute, especially because Anne Hathaway, the girl from the movie, is narrating them. I already read all the books, but I like audio books in the car and stuff sometimes.
I’m really glad everyone seems to like my new layout. I really like it. It’s pink but not overpoweringly pink, and it’s flowery. Also, my father is apparently going to Boston just to see a speaker, and I am supposed to take him to the airport next monday.

Fragments

lots of things that seem simple are very complicated.
the same person always makes me feel better
this just seems like the best place to be.
fragments

I was thinking about this Jars of Clay song called Hymn.
Oh refuge of my hardened heart,
Oh fast pursuing lover, come
As angels dance around your throne
My life, by captured fare you own.
Not silouette of trodden shame,
nor death shall not my steps beguide.
I’ll pirouette upon my grave,
For in your path I’ll run and hide.

Oh gaze of love, so melt my pride,
That I may in your house but kneel,
And in my brokenness to cry,
Spring worship unto thee.

Jerrod is coming over soon. He was upset because he didn’t have a shirt that he wanted to wear clean, and his mom wanted him to go buy groceries, so I told him to put the shirt in the wash, and go buy groceries. put the shirt in the dryer alone and it should be done soon enough. I think it’s okay now, and he’s going to get groceries.

Cousins and Kim Possible, Oh My!

My cousins are here now. Kendra is the youngest, 4, and she’s so adorable. I watched, like, five kim possible episodes with her in my room.

Kevin and my uncle David are playing Gamecube in the other room, and now the girls are dressing up.

I’ve been looking at blends challenges because I’ve never really taken much notice of them before, but I made a couple of really neat things for different ones.
colorization challenge from infatuation blends
journal cover challenge from blended minds

blog roll, cat cam

I think that blogrolling was down for a while today, because for part of the day, my rolls were gone, or had an error. Anyone else notice this? It seems to be back, anyway. I made the tagboard shorter because it took up so much room and, like, no one left notes on it.
In other events, I’ve added the Cat Cam to the right, starring my kitty Alice. Cat Cam is currently featuring Alice playing with my roommate’s fish tank. Don’t worry, there were no fish in it yet.
My aunt Tana is coming to visit, she’s flying in tonight. She lives in wisconsin now with her family, which is tragic of course. She and her husband and kids are coming to visit for like 10 days. I thought I would need to go pick them up at the airport as the flight comes in at midnight and it would take two cars anyway, but I guess they got a shuttle so we don’t have to pick them up at all. They have three kids, Kevin, Kayla, and Kendra whose ages range from 4 to 7, so their visit should be interesting.

coding, coding

Well, this morning I met Erin at the very early hour of 8am, at the starbucks by her dad’s house. We talked over double mochas and then we went to Kohl’s which is across the street. It was a fairly successful shopping trip. I found a shoe shopping purse, a supergirl watch and supergirl boyshorts and tank. Then we browsed at Borders but didn’t by anything. Apparently the new Sophie Kinsella book comes out tomorrow.
Also, I didn’t blog all day until now because I decided that I wanted to start using wordpress in my blog, rather than fusion news which is what I currently use, if you wanted to know. I installed it and all, but I got so confused about the template system, that I decided to stick with this for now. I think I’m still going to dabble in it, and maybe one day I’ll move to it. But I do realize how much I enjoy the flexibility of this script. it’s really very nice.

Monday Madness!
1. What was your favorite TV show as a child? my favorite children’s show was probably Mr. Roger’s but I think my favorite show in childhood was Full House

2. What show did you hate? I can’t remember any show that I hated, but then if I didn’t like it I probably didn’t watch it.

3. What show did your family gather around the TV to watch? hmm. I guess Lois and Clark, though that was more when I was jr high age

4. What show is currently your favorite? Smallville

5. What show do you hate now? pretty much all reality shows, especially those involving high school or someone getting married at the end, and, like, charmed. I don’t watch charmed of course, but just the opening and the trailers irk me.