velociraptor52
27 December 2011 @ 08:45 pm
 
So another birthday came and went :/

Tuesday was my birthday (last Tuesday--the 20th) and, as far as actual celebrating went, it was low-key, like always.  I went out to a late lunch/early dinner with my family, then came home and opened presents, and then my friend stopped by, which, personally, was probably the one thing that really made yesterday fun.

She gave me a bunch of Beatles items (because she knows that I don't know the Beatles as well as I probably should.  I have a Beatles shoulder bag that I got in London and when she first saw that bag she assumed I was a massive Beatles fan.  I'm not.  And then she proceeded to quiz me on which Beatles member was which and I failed at that.

Mind you, this was a couple months ago.  Since then I tried to learn which Beatles member was which, which, really, all I needed to do was pick out Ringo Starr from the rest in a photograph.

But yes, I'm way behind on my Beatles knowledge, whereas when it comes to Jethro Tull I basically know everything about them).

TL;DR I don't know as much about the Beatles as I would like to know and I've only listened to about 30 of their songs rather than all their songs. I respect The Beatles for who they are and what they've done for society and culture but I'm not a massive fan of theirs despite having a Beatles shoulder bag..

And my friend happens to be a massive Beatles fan.  And I gave her a Beatles shoulder bag as well (for her birthday, which had been in November), which she absolutely loved.

I also got a few Jethro Tull CDs.  A Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery (which is probably my favorite album of theirs), and Stand Up.  I already bought A Passion Play and Minstrel in the Gallery from iTunes but I really wanted the actual CD.  Because I loved the music that much that I think it deserves to be a part of my CD collection.  Usually I just download music and then the music I really like I buy the CD of it (oh god that sentence sounds so grammatically wrong.  Whatever).

It makes my brother mad, him knowing that I download music the 'improper way' but, IMO, you can't really get a feel for the music from 30 second clips of songs. 

I finally got a bag holder for all my bags.  It's actually a think that goes on the door and has all these hooks and I'm sort of putting bags on half the hooks and scarves on the other half.  Maybe I'll also put my various hats on it :/ but I really needed it since I have so many shoulder bags and they had been hanging from my doorknob.  (And my scarves had been stashed in one of the dresser drawers.)

As far as TV shows are concerned, I'm getting caught up on Merlin at the moment.  I haven't watched HIMYM since October but I want to get caught up with that sometime in the future.  The epic Buffy re-watch, which I had stopped during finals and after, due to me playing Skyrim all the time, is slowly getting back in gear.

I just re-watched Halloween, which had always been my favorite episode.  And Reptile Boy--maybe it's because I'm older but I didn't find it all that much cheesy.  IDK.  It's the cheesy episodes of Buffy that make me cringe.  I Robot, You Jane, for example, which I'm classifying as a 'don't re-watch' episode in case I want to re-watch season 2 again in the future.

(Yes, I do that.  I have a list of the episodes and I put a minus next to episodes to skip for any future epic re-watches and pluses for the most important episodes that contribute to the overall storyline/plot of the season and stars for my favorite.)

As far as Christmas went, it was sort of okay.  Stuff happened (personal family stuff that I won't go into details with here).  Basically, it sort of started bad but ended good so...yeah.

My friend gave me a spinning Tardis toy for Christmas, as well as a Stargate Atlantis Rodney McKay t-shirt.  I swear she knows me so well.

And now it's no longer Christmas but I still want to keep that holiday spirit alive.

I also need to finish the White Christmas film.

One thing I want to get done in the how ever many days I have left (I go back to school January 9th): my Red Dwarf mood theme.  And maybe the James Dean mood theme I've been working on since, IDK, spring?  Summer?  Both of them.  I also want to finish BtVS season 2 as well.  Before school starts again.  And maybe Skyrim, so I won't be obsessing over it still when school start.
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velociraptor52
27 December 2011 @ 08:45 pm
 
So another birthday came and went :/

Tuesday was my birthday (last Tuesday--the 20th) and, as far as actual celebrating went, it was low-key, like always.  I went out to a late lunch/early dinner with my family, then came home and opened presents, and then my friend stopped by, which, personally, was probably the one thing that really made yesterday fun.

She gave me a bunch of Beatles items (because she knows that I don't know the Beatles as well as I probably should.  I have a Beatles shoulder bag that I got in London and when she first saw that bag she assumed I was a massive Beatles fan.  I'm not.  And then she proceeded to quiz me on which Beatles member was which and I failed at that.

Mind you, this was a couple months ago.  Since then I tried to learn which Beatles member was which, which, really, all I needed to do was pick out Ringo Starr from the rest in a photograph.

But yes, I'm way behind on my Beatles knowledge, whereas when it comes to Jethro Tull I basically know everything about them).

TL;DR I don't know as much about the Beatles as I would like to know and I've only listened to about 30 of their songs rather than all their songs. I respect The Beatles for who they are and what they've done for society and culture but I'm not a massive fan of theirs despite having a Beatles shoulder bag..

And my friend happens to be a massive Beatles fan.  And I gave her a Beatles shoulder bag as well (for her birthday, which had been in November), which she absolutely loved.

I also got a few Jethro Tull CDs.  A Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery (which is probably my favorite album of theirs), and Stand Up.  I already bought A Passion Play and Minstrel in the Gallery from iTunes but I really wanted the actual CD.  Because I loved the music that much that I think it deserves to be a part of my CD collection.  Usually I just download music and then the music I really like I buy the CD of it (oh god that sentence sounds so grammatically wrong.  Whatever).

It makes my brother mad, him knowing that I download music the 'improper way' but, IMO, you can't really get a feel for the music from 30 second clips of songs. 

I finally got a bag holder for all my bags.  It's actually a think that goes on the door and has all these hooks and I'm sort of putting bags on half the hooks and scarves on the other half.  Maybe I'll also put my various hats on it :/ but I really needed it since I have so many shoulder bags and they had been hanging from my doorknob.  (And my scarves had been stashed in one of the dresser drawers.)

As far as TV shows are concerned, I'm getting caught up on Merlin at the moment.  I haven't watched HIMYM since October but I want to get caught up with that sometime in the future.  The epic Buffy re-watch, which I had stopped during finals and after, due to me playing Skyrim all the time, is slowly getting back in gear.

I just re-watched Halloween, which had always been my favorite episode.  And Reptile Boy--maybe it's because I'm older but I didn't find it all that much cheesy.  IDK.  It's the cheesy episodes of Buffy that make me cringe.  I Robot, You Jane, for example, which I'm classifying as a 'don't re-watch' episode in case I want to re-watch season 2 again in the future.

(Yes, I do that.  I have a list of the episodes and I put a minus next to episodes to skip for any future epic re-watches and pluses for the most important episodes that contribute to the overall storyline/plot of the season and stars for my favorite.)

As far as Christmas went, it was sort of okay.  Stuff happened (personal family stuff that I won't go into details with here).  Basically, it sort of started bad but ended good so...yeah.

My friend gave me a spinning Tardis toy for Christmas, as well as a Stargate Atlantis Rodney McKay t-shirt.  I swear she knows me so well.

And now it's no longer Christmas but I still want to keep that holiday spirit alive.

I also need to finish the White Christmas film.

One thing I want to get done in the how ever many days I have left (I go back to school January 9th): my Red Dwarf mood theme.  And maybe the James Dean mood theme I've been working on since, IDK, spring?  Summer?  Both of them.  I also want to finish BtVS season 2 as well.  Before school starts again.  And maybe Skyrim, so I won't be obsessing over it still when school start.
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velociraptor52
13 August 2010 @ 12:03 am
 
I haven't been updating a lot because there's nothing interesting going on so far in my life.

(Except for in my neighborhood.  Yesterday Wednesday, now that this entry is a day late (I overuse the 'type something, let LJ save it, and retrieve it later feature'), something happened three blocks from my house that made it on the news.  Plus there were helicopters.  And SWAT officers.  And police cars.  And it was on the news.  We were all like, 'Oh, that street, the one we travel down every single day almost!  And that's only like close to our house within walking distance!'

It wasn't that exciting :/

Funny thing about it, though, my cousin and cousin-in-law were visiting from Virginia and they seemed quite excited they were in town when something news-worthy was going on.)

Other than that, nothing else exciting happened.

As I mentioned, my cousin was visiting.  The last time I saw her was in 2004.  This was the second time I've seen her.  (I never see my cousins from Virginia all that much, because they're in Virginia and I'm in California.  And that's mostly why.)  It was nice.  We had homemade pizzas (my mom makes the dough and we all pick our own toppings and then we grill it.  My dad wanted to get an actual brick pizza oven to cook the pizza in but then we discovered the grill works just as nice) and chocolate fondue (so good) and we talked.  Well, me, not so much with the talking, because when socializing I fail at talking a lot (only a little bit).

Other than the incident in the neighborhood and family visiting, nothing else exciting has happened.

I got so many new icons from people during the Whedonland gift giving extravaganza.  (So much that I decided to just go ahead and get a paid account so I can have more icon space to show off said pretty shiny icons.)  But yay new icons!

I've been reading a lot and recently finished Inkheart.

( Thoughs on Inkheart )

( Psych )

( Covert Affairs )

I need to take a day and just catch up on shows.  Mainly Burn Notice, because that's a lot of episodes I have to watch.  And White Collar and Eureka.

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velociraptor52
13 August 2010 @ 12:03 am
 
I haven't been updating a lot because there's nothing interesting going on so far in my life.

(Except for in my neighborhood.  Yesterday Wednesday, now that this entry is a day late (I overuse the 'type something, let LJ save it, and retrieve it later feature'), something happened three blocks from my house that made it on the news.  Plus there were helicopters.  And SWAT officers.  And police cars.  And it was on the news.  We were all like, 'Oh, that street, the one we travel down every single day almost!  And that's only like close to our house within walking distance!'

It wasn't that exciting :/

Funny thing about it, though, my cousin and cousin-in-law were visiting from Virginia and they seemed quite excited they were in town when something news-worthy was going on.)

Other than that, nothing else exciting happened.

As I mentioned, my cousin was visiting.  The last time I saw her was in 2004.  This was the second time I've seen her.  (I never see my cousins from Virginia all that much, because they're in Virginia and I'm in California.  And that's mostly why.)  It was nice.  We had homemade pizzas (my mom makes the dough and we all pick our own toppings and then we grill it.  My dad wanted to get an actual brick pizza oven to cook the pizza in but then we discovered the grill works just as nice) and chocolate fondue (so good) and we talked.  Well, me, not so much with the talking, because when socializing I fail at talking a lot (only a little bit).

Other than the incident in the neighborhood and family visiting, nothing else exciting has happened.

I got so many new icons from people during the Whedonland gift giving extravaganza.  (So much that I decided to just go ahead and get a paid account so I can have more icon space to show off said pretty shiny icons.)  But yay new icons!

I've been reading a lot and recently finished Inkheart.

( Thoughs on Inkheart )

( Psych )

( Covert Affairs )

I need to take a day and just catch up on shows.  Mainly Burn Notice, because that's a lot of episodes I have to watch.  And White Collar and Eureka.

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velociraptor52
11 May 2010 @ 08:28 pm
 

Okay, the massive post I promised a few days ago will be this one.

So.  Real life stuff first:

( Stuff about school under here )



Okay, I think I dealt with all the real life stuff.  Now TV shows.

First, let me admit that when it comes to TV shows I am so bad at watching them.  Or getting interested in some of them.  It's like if I realize that I don't like the show or I'm only interested in half or less of the characters, then I just stop watching it.  Or if I get bored with it.  I swear this year I've stopped watching half the shows I would probably normally watch, just because I realized there was nothing I was watching the show for.

( Bones )

( Doctor Who )

( Merlin ) 

( Ashes to Ashes )

In other news, there was no art class tonight lol :D seriously.  I think I was grinning like a madman when some other student told us there was no class and all I could think of was, 'Yes, I get to watch Ashes to Ashes live tonight!'

I sort of felt like how Shawn and Gus feel when they solve a case and they start jumping up and down, like in the first episode.  That excited/happy feeling.

(It's not that I don't like stained art, it just seems like eternity in the class.  6:00-9:45 and I'm way behind and have to work on the final design and buy glass and sealing wax for the copper foil design and there's three weeks left in the semester for me to finish the final design and finish the copper foil one.  I'm behind.)

So...I guess I'll go read now.  (Either The Winds of War, Bloodthirsty (a mystery novel in a series), Well-Schooled Murder, Robinson Crusoe, First Lord's Fury, Jousts and Tournaments (yes, I read about the history of medieval Europe for fun), or Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle volume 2.  I think I'm reading more at the moment than I'm watching TV, TBH.  I love reading so much.)(Actually, I think I'm reading way too many books, which means I need to go finish one so I'll have less to read.  I've been neglecting Winds of War so much and I want to finish the novel.)
 

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velociraptor52
11 May 2010 @ 08:28 pm
 

Okay, the massive post I promised a few days ago will be this one.

So.  Real life stuff first:

( Stuff about school under here )



Okay, I think I dealt with all the real life stuff.  Now TV shows.

First, let me admit that when it comes to TV shows I am so bad at watching them.  Or getting interested in some of them.  It's like if I realize that I don't like the show or I'm only interested in half or less of the characters, then I just stop watching it.  Or if I get bored with it.  I swear this year I've stopped watching half the shows I would probably normally watch, just because I realized there was nothing I was watching the show for.

( Bones )

( Doctor Who )

( Merlin ) 

( Ashes to Ashes )

In other news, there was no art class tonight lol :D seriously.  I think I was grinning like a madman when some other student told us there was no class and all I could think of was, 'Yes, I get to watch Ashes to Ashes live tonight!'

I sort of felt like how Shawn and Gus feel when they solve a case and they start jumping up and down, like in the first episode.  That excited/happy feeling.

(It's not that I don't like stained art, it just seems like eternity in the class.  6:00-9:45 and I'm way behind and have to work on the final design and buy glass and sealing wax for the copper foil design and there's three weeks left in the semester for me to finish the final design and finish the copper foil one.  I'm behind.)

So...I guess I'll go read now.  (Either The Winds of War, Bloodthirsty (a mystery novel in a series), Well-Schooled Murder, Robinson Crusoe, First Lord's Fury, Jousts and Tournaments (yes, I read about the history of medieval Europe for fun), or Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle volume 2.  I think I'm reading more at the moment than I'm watching TV, TBH.  I love reading so much.)(Actually, I think I'm reading way too many books, which means I need to go finish one so I'll have less to read.  I've been neglecting Winds of War so much and I want to finish the novel.)
 

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velociraptor52
23 December 2009 @ 07:15 pm
 

First, thank you so much [livejournal.com profile] boheme06 for the virtual snowflake :)

Second, it's almost Christmas.  Wow.  Where did all of December go?

Third, got a C in calculus, thank God.  I thought I was going to fail that class.  But I'm happy I succeeded (or at least passed it) in the class because I'm not taking math next year (it conflicts with choir practice on Thursday nights) and I wanted to at least not fail a class.  (Considering how I got an F on the last test before the final, I was very worried).  I also got three A's and a B.  Overall, I think I did fairly well :) so I'm happy about that.

Fourth, I have a month and three weeks off until spring semester starts again.  Either I can attempt to work up my courage, walk into Barnes and Noble and ask if they're accepting applications or not, or I can take up a massive awesome knitting project.  I'll try both.  (I have this fear of asking people things.  IDK why.  I just do.)

I may also finish The Dresden Files series in my spare time and go through at least many other books.  If I'm not catching up on TV shows either on DVD or on my DVR.

Overall, I have free time.  I'm bound to be bored.

Fifth, my birthday was on Sunday and we had the Festival of Christmas Music at church (a weekend long concert.  One performance on Saturday night and on Sunday it was the regular singing in the morning plus two more performances in the evening).  Needless to say, I was totally exhausted Monday.  But I managed to squeeze in some fun for myself on Sunday between 11 AM and 3 PM.  I went off to Disneyland with my dad, got a birthday button, got annual passes (the last time I had annual passes was when I was 5, I believe.  That was so long ago.  It's fun having passes again), and then went back off to church.

Monday was more the day of fun for my birthday.  I opened presents, went to Disneyland again (just because I could), and relaxed.

 

( Birthday cake )


Anyway, I've got all presents wrapped and under the tree.

Also, thing I learned: people from the south barely decorate around outside the house for Christmas?  (My mom is from Virginia and when she moved out here she would make fun of all the decorations.  Hell, I would do.  Inflatible Santas?  They may look fun, but I wouldn't want one in the front yard.)  Or, from what my mom told me, they would put lights in the windows and not do any serious/heavy decorations with lights like we do.  (Also inflatible snow globes with actual 'snow' in the 'globe' that would swirl around.  Looks fun from a distance.)

I really want to visit Virginia again and get in touch with my Southern roots.  And visit Colonial Williamsburg.  It must look really pretty in the winter with snow and everything.

Tomorrow I'm planning on hitting the bookstore for some personal shopping (like, say, a new copy of Catcher in the Rye) and maybe a few extra presents for the family if I see anything good.

Also, knitted my dog a sweater!  I need to take pictures and post them up, but he looks so cute in it.  I doubt if he'll ever need it, as lately it's been more windy than chilly, but there could be a time when it's really cold and he'll need it.  So at least I know he has a sweater if he's really cold and he can use it.  Or I can make him use it.  I tried it on him when I finished it and he wasn't attacking the yarn, so that's good.

Right now I'm finishing up a scarf and I'm also in the middle of knitting arm warmers.  I don't know when I'm ever going to use them, but they looked pretty and I wanted to knit the pretty and use a cable needle.

Until next time, hopefully everyone has a happy holiday/merry Christmas/feliz navidad/happy Haunakah/Kwanza/(I think I covered all my bases for holidays, right?).

 


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velociraptor52
23 December 2009 @ 07:15 pm
 

First, thank you so much [livejournal.com profile] boheme06 for the virtual snowflake :)

Second, it's almost Christmas.  Wow.  Where did all of December go?

Third, got a C in calculus, thank God.  I thought I was going to fail that class.  But I'm happy I succeeded (or at least passed it) in the class because I'm not taking math next year (it conflicts with choir practice on Thursday nights) and I wanted to at least not fail a class.  (Considering how I got an F on the last test before the final, I was very worried).  I also got three A's and a B.  Overall, I think I did fairly well :) so I'm happy about that.

Fourth, I have a month and three weeks off until spring semester starts again.  Either I can attempt to work up my courage, walk into Barnes and Noble and ask if they're accepting applications or not, or I can take up a massive awesome knitting project.  I'll try both.  (I have this fear of asking people things.  IDK why.  I just do.)

I may also finish The Dresden Files series in my spare time and go through at least many other books.  If I'm not catching up on TV shows either on DVD or on my DVR.

Overall, I have free time.  I'm bound to be bored.

Fifth, my birthday was on Sunday and we had the Festival of Christmas Music at church (a weekend long concert.  One performance on Saturday night and on Sunday it was the regular singing in the morning plus two more performances in the evening).  Needless to say, I was totally exhausted Monday.  But I managed to squeeze in some fun for myself on Sunday between 11 AM and 3 PM.  I went off to Disneyland with my dad, got a birthday button, got annual passes (the last time I had annual passes was when I was 5, I believe.  That was so long ago.  It's fun having passes again), and then went back off to church.

Monday was more the day of fun for my birthday.  I opened presents, went to Disneyland again (just because I could), and relaxed.

 

( Birthday cake )


Anyway, I've got all presents wrapped and under the tree.

Also, thing I learned: people from the south barely decorate around outside the house for Christmas?  (My mom is from Virginia and when she moved out here she would make fun of all the decorations.  Hell, I would do.  Inflatible Santas?  They may look fun, but I wouldn't want one in the front yard.)  Or, from what my mom told me, they would put lights in the windows and not do any serious/heavy decorations with lights like we do.  (Also inflatible snow globes with actual 'snow' in the 'globe' that would swirl around.  Looks fun from a distance.)

I really want to visit Virginia again and get in touch with my Southern roots.  And visit Colonial Williamsburg.  It must look really pretty in the winter with snow and everything.

Tomorrow I'm planning on hitting the bookstore for some personal shopping (like, say, a new copy of Catcher in the Rye) and maybe a few extra presents for the family if I see anything good.

Also, knitted my dog a sweater!  I need to take pictures and post them up, but he looks so cute in it.  I doubt if he'll ever need it, as lately it's been more windy than chilly, but there could be a time when it's really cold and he'll need it.  So at least I know he has a sweater if he's really cold and he can use it.  Or I can make him use it.  I tried it on him when I finished it and he wasn't attacking the yarn, so that's good.

Right now I'm finishing up a scarf and I'm also in the middle of knitting arm warmers.  I don't know when I'm ever going to use them, but they looked pretty and I wanted to knit the pretty and use a cable needle.

Until next time, hopefully everyone has a happy holiday/merry Christmas/feliz navidad/happy Haunakah/Kwanza/(I think I covered all my bases for holidays, right?).

 


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velociraptor52
04 August 2009 @ 11:18 am
 

Back from my trip.  OMG, car rides?  I'm so over them.

On the other hand, now I know how Sam and Dean must feel when they're trying to find a place to stay at for the night.  More on that later, probably my next post when I update with lots of pictures of pretty nature scenes.

So yes, I'm alive.  And spent so much money during the trip.  (And for some reason Amazon.com sent me 2 Battlestar Galactica season 4 soundtracks when I know I only ordered one and it showed up on my credit card account info as 1 CD I ordered?  IDK.  Maybe some glitch in the amazon.com system happened, but I gave the extra one to my brother, who was probably happy about that.  Stiil.  When I realized I got 2 CDs I checked my credit card account just to make sure there was no more funny business going on, as I've become paranoid about using my credit card for anything other than school payments/car gas now.  I use money--paper money--when buying books at Barnes and Noble.  And I hate buying anything over $100 and I need to get a job seeing as my grandparents can't pay all their children and grandchildren $1,000 or something like that anymore.

See, my grandparents own a lot of property, I think, and they have lots of money, from what I understand, and once a year in the summer they give us all money, but what with Obama having been elected (still yay! about that, BTW.  My grandparents didn't want me to vote for Obama, but oh well, I did, and now that's in the past), they can't do that anymore because of tax reasons or other monetary reasons or something like that? so I really need to get a job.

Not that I was depending on their money like crazy, but I do need to get a job.  I want a job.  I don't want to have to rely on my grandparents' money anymore.

To get back to the trip, it was crazy fun, crazy long, super tired (had a dream where I had a dream that a Battlestar Galactica movie had been made and I woke up from my dream within a dream and put on my dream-Facebook status that I had a dream where there had been a BSG movie and I woke up from real dream thinking, 'I should Facebook status my dream within a dream.  It'd be crazy'.  But I decided against it, as that would make me seem more crazy), and I need to clean my room and my clothes and get all my pics transferred to my laptop and organized.  So until next time, peace.  *is hippy-ish, lava lamp hasn't been turned on in ages*

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velociraptor52
04 August 2009 @ 11:18 am
 

Back from my trip.  OMG, car rides?  I'm so over them.

On the other hand, now I know how Sam and Dean must feel when they're trying to find a place to stay at for the night.  More on that later, probably my next post when I update with lots of pictures of pretty nature scenes.

So yes, I'm alive.  And spent so much money during the trip.  (And for some reason Amazon.com sent me 2 Battlestar Galactica season 4 soundtracks when I know I only ordered one and it showed up on my credit card account info as 1 CD I ordered?  IDK.  Maybe some glitch in the amazon.com system happened, but I gave the extra one to my brother, who was probably happy about that.  Stiil.  When I realized I got 2 CDs I checked my credit card account just to make sure there was no more funny business going on, as I've become paranoid about using my credit card for anything other than school payments/car gas now.  I use money--paper money--when buying books at Barnes and Noble.  And I hate buying anything over $100 and I need to get a job seeing as my grandparents can't pay all their children and grandchildren $1,000 or something like that anymore.

See, my grandparents own a lot of property, I think, and they have lots of money, from what I understand, and once a year in the summer they give us all money, but what with Obama having been elected (still yay! about that, BTW.  My grandparents didn't want me to vote for Obama, but oh well, I did, and now that's in the past), they can't do that anymore because of tax reasons or other monetary reasons or something like that? so I really need to get a job.

Not that I was depending on their money like crazy, but I do need to get a job.  I want a job.  I don't want to have to rely on my grandparents' money anymore.

To get back to the trip, it was crazy fun, crazy long, super tired (had a dream where I had a dream that a Battlestar Galactica movie had been made and I woke up from my dream within a dream and put on my dream-Facebook status that I had a dream where there had been a BSG movie and I woke up from real dream thinking, 'I should Facebook status my dream within a dream.  It'd be crazy'.  But I decided against it, as that would make me seem more crazy), and I need to clean my room and my clothes and get all my pics transferred to my laptop and organized.  So until next time, peace.  *is hippy-ish, lava lamp hasn't been turned on in ages*

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velociraptor52
21 June 2009 @ 12:25 am
*is excited*  
OMG Merlin tonight!

*tries not to scream in excitement...or shout.  She wants to shout more than scream.  Either way, she wants to cheer out 'yay Merlin tonigh!!' but the household is sleeping so she cannot*

Yay!

...even though I already saw the first 5 episodes, I think? via Youtube, before they were taken down due to something.  I forgot. 

Too bad I have to go tonight to my grandparents' house for a Father's Day dinner... :/ can I just skip it?

And last night was awesome.  (Last night being Saturday night.)  The Can't Stop the Serenity event was awesome.  It was like hanging out with fellow sci-fi club members who are not sci-fi club members but it feels as if they are.  It's the commonality that was felt in the theater room; we all had something in common.  And I like that feeling, that you're a part of something.  Like NaNoWriMo or something like that.  It's an awesome feeling.

I bought myself a t-shirt and a poster.  And seeing Serenity on the big screen again was so...awesome.  It can't be compared to TV, really.  On TV it's weak; on the big screen it's awesome.

I think I'll go next year, if they have one in Irvine again, because it was so awesome and I'm so happy I decided to go.

But still excited about Merlin!

Oh, and Irish festival was fun.  Bought another tote bag.  I think when I go to Seattle this summer, the only suveiners(?) I'll buy will either be a postcard, keychain, or tote bag.  Because they're all cheap.  Well, key chains and postcards are.  Some tote bags can be expensive...-er.  Exspensiver than key chains and postcards.
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velociraptor52
21 June 2009 @ 12:25 am
*is excited*  
OMG Merlin tonight!

*tries not to scream in excitement...or shout.  She wants to shout more than scream.  Either way, she wants to cheer out 'yay Merlin tonigh!!' but the household is sleeping so she cannot*

Yay!

...even though I already saw the first 5 episodes, I think? via Youtube, before they were taken down due to something.  I forgot. 

Too bad I have to go tonight to my grandparents' house for a Father's Day dinner... :/ can I just skip it?

And last night was awesome.  (Last night being Saturday night.)  The Can't Stop the Serenity event was awesome.  It was like hanging out with fellow sci-fi club members who are not sci-fi club members but it feels as if they are.  It's the commonality that was felt in the theater room; we all had something in common.  And I like that feeling, that you're a part of something.  Like NaNoWriMo or something like that.  It's an awesome feeling.

I bought myself a t-shirt and a poster.  And seeing Serenity on the big screen again was so...awesome.  It can't be compared to TV, really.  On TV it's weak; on the big screen it's awesome.

I think I'll go next year, if they have one in Irvine again, because it was so awesome and I'm so happy I decided to go.

But still excited about Merlin!

Oh, and Irish festival was fun.  Bought another tote bag.  I think when I go to Seattle this summer, the only suveiners(?) I'll buy will either be a postcard, keychain, or tote bag.  Because they're all cheap.  Well, key chains and postcards are.  Some tote bags can be expensive...-er.  Exspensiver than key chains and postcards.
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velociraptor52
01 August 2006 @ 04:07 pm
"My omelet is non-judgmental."  
Probably the best quote I have heard all summer (re: subject box).  Anyway, I'm back from the trip.  Lake Tahoe was fun!  First of all, it wasn't as humid as it is down here (in Tustin) and all my cousins were nice.  (Well, when aren't they nice?)  I shared a room with Merry (again) but it was all right--she and I still talked to each other, we just didn't hang out with each other like we used to (okay, like I used to.  And we talked to Grandma about the lake view--hopefully I'll get it next year because damn! was the room hot this year, that, plus the fact that people were drinking in the cabin above us.)

Yes, people actually brought beer to the cabin that was above ours.  See, our cabin rests on a mountain.  There's a semi-long trail above us that leads to the Zephyr buildings up the trail, the one where you check in and all.  And there are also more cabins up that semi-long trail.  And one night people were drinking, which isn't really allowed at Zephyr Cove.  So the next morning, at breakfast, either Matt or one of the cousins or someone brings up the subject, and then it leads into a 'Storm the place with rocks!  With water balloons!  Fill the rocket launcher with the ice from the water balloons and shoot at the cabin!'  Yeah, Micah brought his rocket launcher again this year--we were talking about launching the ice into the lake but I didn't see it.  If they ever did it or ever are going to do it.

We're crazy.  Us--my family and cousins.  We're all crazy.  We were the kind of kids who trapped chipmunks and squirrels into home-made traps and had fun doing it.  We were the kind who launched ice from a rocket launcher into a lake.  We're the kind of kids who actually killed a chipmunk using a non-homemade trap.  Did I mention we're a very eccentric family?

Okay, picture time!


What else?  Oh yeah, I got paid.  $5,000.  Apparently both grandma and granpa invested in a lot of property in Texas and Las Vegas and they're getting a lot of money and they want to give it away so they don't have to pay taxes.  That was in layman's terms; don't ask me to explain it all financially.
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