I just realized that I still have a balloon in my room from my 16th birthday party!!! (That was over a year ago!!) And it still has a significant amount of air in it!!!
And I just threatened to kill my brother if he popped it X3
So, yeah, I'm sick today. Not really sick. Just nauseous a little and I've been kinda dizzy all day :(
And, I was stuck watching kids while the parents were in a meeting after church today! There were 9 kids! Which is a lot when you are dizzy and their running circles around you!!! DX
So, finally after about an hour of that, kids started to leave and I relaxed, which was bad, because I realized that one kid wasn't there anymore. He's 1-2 years old, I think, and he was walking alone down a dark hallway (we had started turning off the lights as everyone was leaving). Thankfully, he was talking to himself the whole time, so it wasn't hard to find him again :)
But they should not put me in charge of children when I'm sick...It was bad.
I also watched this show today, "Into the Pride" I think, on Animal Planet. It was about this guy trying to get a pride of lions used to humans. It was pretty cool. A couple times, he had lions charging at him because he got to close and he just waved his stick around and yelled, "Hey, Hey, Hey!" or "Stop it!" at them and THEY LISTENED!!! It was cool!! I also realized how very anti-wildlife my dad can be. He said we should just shoot them and be done with it! That's so cruel! They were in their own habitat! Why would we shoot them!
Of course, he also always talks about getting rid of our pets, but I won't let him. He's so mean to animals.
Sigh. My dad is usually pretty cool, but sometimes we have very sharp differences in opinion. There are a lot of loud arguments in my house. (Yes, Katherine and Rachel, believe it or not, I do have yelling matches with my father quite often).
I'm to tired to write anything more today.
Bye!
--Otaku--
PS: I was finally able to post my fanfiction chapter!! Its over 5000 words!!!

My Day

Two posts in two days! Gasp!
So, today, I had no idea what to do with myself. I kinda watched TV for a little. Then, I made my brother read my fanfiction chapter (which he did rather unwillingly)
Me: What's wrong? It's like I'm giving you a sneak preview of my chapter! You should be happy!
Jacob: But I can just go into your documents any time and read them whenever I want...
Me: Well, with this you have my permission and you're not stealing! *creepy irritated smile*
Jacob:*glares* whatever...
Then he read it X3
So while he was doing that, me and my sister were performing air guitar and air drums on my bed to the music I was blaring from my iHome that I got for my birthday, but haven't used much until today.

Then, I don't remember. My brother and sister got really hyper and I got tired, and because of the difference of energy-level, I got annoyed and eventually tried to kick them out of my room. (They didn't stay gone for long, but by that time I had my headphones in and was watching youtube, which is what I do when I'm incredibly bored). Somehow, I ended up on a Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus AMV and remembered that I had made a playlist on youtube of all the cutscenes that I was saving for a day such as today...I just finished watching all of the cutscenes! They were awesome and Vincent is so HOT! XP (I know he's yours Katherine, but I can still fangirl over him.) Weiss would have been really cool if he wasn't SPOILER: being controlled by Hojo (the evil psychotic creepy scientist who is behind everything: Sephiroth, Angeal, Genesis, Zack and Cloud being experimented on, Vincent being possessed by Chaos (who I noticed looks slightly like Johnny Depp), and the whole Omega waking up in order to end the world (why he wants that, I'm not totally sure...he's crazy)). Nero was also pretty awesome (I call him, too). He had the power of oblivion, just like Riku! And he was wearing all the stuff that they restrain crazy people in to keep them from hurting themselves and others. And he had cool wings with robotic handish things on the ends. Although he had a kinda creepy brother complex with Weiss. But I guess its the same thing with Genesis/Sephiroth/Angeal. It was very sad when MORE SPOILER: Hojo made Weiss kill Nero, but not really because then Nero came back as a shadow and fused with Weiss and kicked Hojo out of Weiss' body: SPOILER END. It was very cool.

And, Dirge of Cerberus got me to love Gackt music (he did the boss battle music and the theme/credit music. Songs: "Longing" and "Redemption"). And I found out that Genesis in Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core was based off of Gackt (which was cool and creepy at the same time) and Gackt did the Japanese voice acting for him in Crisis Core!!! That is so weird and cool!!!
(I'm not totally sure I like Genesis or not, he was weird, but you kinda sympathized with him in the game, rebelling against Shinra because they experimented on him and made him a monster and now his cells are rejecting the Jenova cells they put in him and he's rotting away and his story is really sad, but he's also trying to kill you, so you don't really have any choice but to fight him. (Much like it is with Sephiroth. Its the same general situation.))

So, what was I saying before I got totally off topic. Oh yeah, Gackt music is awesome. I recommend it. I just made sure to look at all the lyrics in English before getting them, because I didn't want to listen to and be singing along with anything that could mean something...I don't want to be singing along with...in Japanese. So, yeah...

I was just going to upload my fanfiction chapter onto fanfiction, but it WASN'T WORKING!!! Gaaaaaahhhhh!!!! It said it had an internal error. So annoying!! I'll try again in a few minutes...So, really that's all I have to say for now X3

Oh, darn.
I took too long to try and get my fanfiction ready that its Sunday now (12:57am at the moment), so I didn't technically post two posts on the same day :(
How sad.
Oh well.
TTFN!
(hehe, Tigger X3)

SNOW DAY!!

So I woke up today at 6:05 like normal (because I feel much better with that extra 5 minutes of sleep instead of waking up at 6:00).
Oh! Cool dream that I just remembered, and I'm writing down before I forget. It was EPIC! So, I entered this contest on Square-Enix.com to win an X-Box 360 with a Final Fantasy XIII design on it plus the Final Fantasy XIII game (which I really want X3). So I told my older brother (who is like my sensei in otaku-ness) and he said, "you know, you can't just enter the contest to win. There's a task you have to accomplish, too." So then it was like I was put into a video game and it was awesome. Everything swirled and suddenly I was in a Final Fantasy-ish world I joined a team (I don't remember who was on my team, just generic random people) and we worked together to find all this stuff in order to even enter the contest (it was like a scavenger hunt). I went into this big building that was like a castle/mall. You had to cross this big rope bridge to get to it though (typical adventure X3). So my team and I got in and then we snuck through the hotel-looking lobby and into the hallway (gamers were apparently not welcome at this place). I got a weird feeling and followed it, parting with my group. I went into what looked like a gift shop with a bunch of plushies in it, but it had a very ominous atmosphere, with creepy music playing in the background. I was searching for a certain stuffed animal, so I rummaged through everything and had a flashback to something that didn't actually happen in my dream. It was one of the guys on my team (who I think looked like an older version of that kid in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children) briefing us on what we were going to do, "Remember, all these people want the game just as much as we do and they would do anything to get their hands on it. Otakus are vicious." So then, I heard something. This very large woman (like the one in Naruto that keeps making them find her cat) came into the room. I hid behind stuff as quick as I could. Her whole team came in and I was scared. They looked a lot stronger than my team. So I started sneaking out and heard them talking amongst themselves, and then one of them called the others over. He found the plushie! So I quickly ran out from my hiding place, snatched the plushie, and ran! I rushed to where my group was (a kind of library looking place). "What are you doing? Where did you go?" "I found it!" I replied and then they gasped and then pointed behind me. The scary group followed me! So I got my team to start running back towards the lobby so we could get out and then get away. We got there, but I stopped them. The people must have noticed something was going on in their castle/mall. They brought in a bunch of guards that stalked all over. We weren't going to be able to get out. So, the guy who gave us the briefing said, "I'm going to distract them, then you guys run around that way." And he pointed left to a little cafe area that we could sneak through, get past little room counter things, and then under a banister (which bordered the lobby, which I had not noticed until then was raised significantly off the level of the entrance. There was one set of stairs that led up to the lobby, the same that we would have to use to get out.) "But, if you do that, they'll catch you!" One of the girls in my group said to him. "I don't care, I want to get you all out alive." It was all very dramatic. This was one intense contest for a video game. So without any further conversation, the scary group fast approaching he ran towards the guards and in the opposite direction we were going. Once the guards were sufficiently distracted, we ran the way he pointed out. Unfortunately, one kid was not enough to distract all the guards, so halfway across the floor, they spotted us and we had 20 guards running after us. We sped up as fast as we could. One girl fell. I guess we didn't like her that much, though, because we left her behind and kept running at full speed. Every man for himself. So, we ran until we got to the banister. The guards had closed us in. They wore smug smiles on their faces. What remained of my team (a blonde girl who looked kind of like Namine from Kingdom Hearts and a blonde boy who looked like Hope from Final Fantasy XIII) and I looked at each other, then looked down. The floor was about 75ft below us (how had I not noticed this when we came in?) We had no choice: we jumped. I screamed. Then, we were surprised to be caught by these hover things (much like jet skis only in the air). They were AWESOME! So we flew away from the guards and the scary group that was chasing us. It was exhilarating! I was in celebration mode! I could here the trademark Final Fantasy victory music in the background! Then, something weird started happening. The blonde Namine girl froze in the entrance, as if some invisible barrier stopped her. She looked at us sadly and apologetically. She twitched and her eyes and then her body started glowing bright blue and yellow. I felt a jolt as our hovercrafts started to lose power. Eventually, they disappeared all together. We were falling, slowly at first, then faster. The rope bridge we came in on had disappeared. Next thing I knew, I was safely on the ground, but I wasn't celebrating. We had fallen into a pit of monsters (like the FF ones). Fortunately, I had a sword. Unfortunately, I had a feeling it was hopeless anyway (I mean, these were the big scary summoned monsters like Bahamut and Ifrit, but there were hundreds or thousands of them). I looked up one last time to see guards approaching Namine-girl to take her into custody. Then, monsters rushed at us and everything went black. That was the end of my dream. And it was Final Fantasy, so I didn't get another life. Depressing isn't it. All for the sake of winning a video game...X3.
So then, I woke up. The end.
Wow. Just looked back at how long this was. Sorry :/ I didn't even talk about my day at all yet! I'll summarize.
Woke up. Saw there was a snow day. Went to bed. Dreamed. Woke up. Ate breakfast. Watched stupid children shows with brother and sister. Went to the playroom. Watched Burn Notice (season finale looks awesome!! But I'm sad Gilroy is gone. I like him. He was a British psychopath, for Pete's sake! X3). Played Final Fantasy XII. Couldn't figure out what I was doing in the game, so I tryed to do the extra thing n the Mosphoran Highwaste. Ran out of Gysahl Greens. Quit playing because I couldn't remember where to get them. Brainstormed on how to finish keyblade (I'm making my own Oblivion, Katherine and Rachel saw it when they came over--at least what I have done of it). Looked up how to do paper mache (how I decided to finish keyblade). Got together all my old games that I never play anymore to sell to Gamestop to maybe get some money to buy a PlayStation 3, which I need if I'm ever going to play Final Fantasy XIII (and eventually Final Fantasy XIII: Versus, which looks even awesomer with the main character looking like Zack/Cloud/Sasuke mixed in one, with a bunch of swords that he uses through telekinesis and he's the prince of a family that's similar to the mafia. It sounds awesome okay. The trailer is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6At_bb1PNU
Oh, and Katherine and Rachel, for the record. I call Noctis--the main character).
So, what was I saying. Oh yeah, gathered old games. Watched youtube. checked my deviantart (only a bunch of new stuff from people I watch (which is like subscribing, not stalking. it just sounds that way). Then, my sister put on a little show with her playing her toy piano. It was cute :). (I had dinner somewhere in there). I also had to go out and look at the stars tonight, to record when a certain star rose. I just chose a random star that I was out there to see rise (which was probably a mistake because I was stressed out because I couldn't figure out which star it was I chose. I ended up deciding on Regulus. Still not sure whether that's right or not). Then, I watched America's Funniest Home Videos. Many were cruel. Many were very funny X3. And then I came down here and wrote this. That is all my day consisted of...kinda boring. At least my dream was exciting!!
Again, I apologize for the very long post. I haven't posted in a while.
-OTAKU OUT!-
(hehe, sorry for copying you in your email katherine X3)
PS: I think I may actually post the next chapter of my fanfiction finally! I have it all written, but I don't know if its ready yet. I have to check it over again. This one was much longer than it should have been. I decided for some strange reason to put the backstories of two complicated characters into one chapter! Plus some conversation between! Sigh.
Now I think I really am done writing.
Tschus! <--bye in German. I think it sounds cool X3

Stupid Thingy...

This is a continuation of my "Happy Valentine's Day" post:
So, this person that reviewed my fanfiction said that my story makes them smile in this crazy world, so now I feel all guilty about wanting to make the ending tragic!!
Oh, a chapter a week probably also isn't going to happen, though I am approaching the home-stretch, so maybe, just maybe, I'll get a chapter done every month...XP
Totally having nothing at all to do with anything, I got my SAT scores!!! I'm so happy with them (except maybe reading, but I've always been bad at that). I don't know if I should put my score up on a blog =\. Oh well, I will say that I reached my goal of getting over 2000 (out of 2400)!!! And I checked the ranges of my top college choices and I am in the higher half of the range! I even checked some Ivy League school for the heck of it, to see how they compared to my choices, and I was surprised to find that my scores were right in the middle 50% (my math score in the top 25%!!)
I'm so happy!
My relatives had a ball with my grades and talking about the dress I got for a semi-formal dance I'm going to on Friday. Its just a dance that I'm going to because the club I'm a board member of is the one that planned the event, so it would look pretty bad if I didn't go...I usually hate dances, though. But I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of my friends are coming, so it should be fun with them!
But my grandparents are making a whole bid deal out of it! They have to come over that day anyway because my brother has a jazz band thing, but they insist on coming ealry to take pictures of me! Ahhhh!! The camera is a shy person's worst enemy!! Especially when you're embarrassed that the paparazzi (my grandparents) is making such a big deal out of a little school dance (even if it is the first one I've been to since...middle school XP).
I don't really have anything else to say at this moment, but I don't want to read more of East of Eden and I can't fall asleep again because I'm still on a caffeine and sugar high from ice-cream and soda at my party! Its freaking 2:30am! And yes, it is freaking because I stayed up til 3am yesterday and was woken up 30min early (my dad said I could sleep til 8:30, but it was 8am) by my brother. I just glared at him, signed the card (the reason he woke me up), and went indignantly back to "sleep" until 8:30. I mostly just laid there and tried to recall the really cool dream I was having (I mean, Fai and Kurogane were there and Fai was crying!!! Why was Fai crying? I don't know, because my brother woke me up!! Gaaaaaaaahhhh!!!! <-my angry noise).
Now this is really all, I think.
Squid!

Happy Valentines Day!

Contrary to the title, nothing much related to Valentine's Day happened to me today. I had my family birthday party, so my grandparents, mom-mom, and aunt/uncle/cousins came over and they gave us Valentines Day gifts (Books, new drawing materials, chocolate X3). It was nice! My mom-mom got me really nice new drawing stuff like pastels, thin-tip markers, pencils, colored pencils, etc. (I like drawing for fun, for anyone who reads this blog that is not one of my close friends who know me already. My deviantart is www.vampiresquid42.deviantart.com).
Sooo...what was I talking about? Right! My day...My little cousins are so cute! They are about 3 and they are twins and they are so CUTE!!!
Anyway, on a more depressing note, I have not done ANY homework that is due tuesday. I have tomorrow off, but it looks like that day will be spent reading the last half of East of Eden by John Steinbeck (which has to be done by Wednesday); finishing my Calculus packet (fun, fun, fun...); and I MUST get out and look at the sunset tomorrow (I think I talked about this in my other post, about my astronomy homework).
Fanfiction...hmmm...I've gotten a couple reviews telling me to update (I write a fanfiction, by the way, called Falls Apart by vampiresquid42 <-me on fanfiction.net). I know I have to and I had a huge brainstorm of ideas for this chapter and a bonus chapter that doesn't fit in the plot, but I feel like I have to write it (to lighten the mood after I finish the story because the way this is going, the ending will be tragic, but I think its the right ending because it fits with the tragedy genre of the original Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles manga. But now I feel bad about the ending because one review says:

"Hi! Luv your story so far, luv the little afterstory comments, makes me laugh
:) u really need to update, think about doing a chapter every week, because I
really wanna see how this turns out! Pls don't let this story die ur an
awesome writer and ur one of the few pol in dis crazy world that actually make
me smile while reading ;D so, write write write!"

Will have to be continued in next post because my lines are all messed up
from pasting that in...

Ummm....Hello?

I doubt many people will be reading this except my friends (if even they read it).
I just wanted to make a blog because...Katherine and Rachel have blogs and this is something to do instead of homework ;3
Sooooo....I like using "..." apparently. I don't remember what they're called and I don't feel like looking it up. It's about 2a.m. right now, so I'm kinda tired. Don't ask me why I'm up at this time, I'm not sure.
Anyway:
My family birthday party is tomorrow. I think I'm looking forward to that!
Today, I woke up at 7:30, studied for about 1.5 hrs. then took a test for my online astronomy course. (Speaking of which, I just remembered that I was supposed to watch the sunset some day last week. Oops.) I guess I'll do it tomorrow, or today I guess because its technically Sunday right now...
I was actually staying up late to watch the English premiere of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on Adult Swim, but I totally got distracted, so now its too late. Oh well. I have it recorded, so I didn't have to watch it tonight, but, being the nerd that I am, I wanted to watch it on the premiere night and savor that sacred memory...I get weird at this time of morning okay!
Just an FYI, to those reading my blog, if anyone: they will be more like me talking to myself/the wall/my dog/diary, so my thoughts won't seem to follow any specific path. Its just how my mind works, so deal with it. <-I sound irritable here, don't I? I'm actually in quite a good mood :)
So, actually still on the same topic as the above paragraph, the reasoning behind the url thing I picked ("catch my train of thought") was because of both a conversation I had with Katherine in 9th grade (English was awesome!) We pictured a train driving away and a little stick dude chasing after it and it said "lost my train of thought." It seemed appropriate for my very stream-of-consciousness style of writing and "lostmytrainofthought" was taken, so then I thought, "Well, the point of reading a blog is to learn more about the inner workings of someone else's mind, so why not have the reader "catch my train of thought." It makes sense in my head, okay?!
(sorry Rachel, I stole your line)
Well, I think that is all I have to say for now, I really should get to bed so I'm not homicidally grumpy tomorrow for my relatives...
Squid!
(don't ask. If you are my friend, you know what it means; if not, the story is not mine to explain X3)