So, the past week I've been really cracking down and working on my keyblade. Olivia (my Oblivion Keyblade) is going quite well if I may say so myself. I've spraypainted her for the most part. I still need to do a final coat to cover any places I missed with the first coats on each side. After that I have to paint some of the details (with just regular acrylic paint) and I should be completely done! XD
I actually took some pictures of what I have done so far. Kinda as like a timeline for progress on it:
So, this is what I started out with. Well, kinda started out with. First I made a template (to scale comparing to a picture of Oblivion) and traced it onto foam board (like those posterboards with foam between the two pieces). Then, I cut them out (which actually hurts your hands A LOT. I was in PAIN from all that cutting with just an itty-bitty razor DX). This pictures shows all three of the layers I cut out stacked on top of each other.
Here's a webcam picture of the partly finished keyblade. Its got the details made out of a papier mache pulp (except at the time this picture was taken, I hadn't done the other side yet XP). No chain yet.
This is much later, when I put the chain and the gem on (made of Model Magic X3). Then I primered the material (to make it easier to spray paint). I actually took these pictures after I spray-painted the first side (I forgot to take the picture before XP) So you can kinda see the black on the sides of it.
This is the spray painted side. And it was interesting because, for a little while, Olivia looked like an Othello piece because she was black on one side and white on the other X3. But anyway. The spray paint isn't completely covering it because I used a can that was already used for something else, so I ran out of paint before I could finish DX. So we went out and got more black shiny spray paint and I painted the next day (which was today X3)
Still not totally finished. There are a few white spots that I need to fix. But now both sides are spray painted at least a little bit and its really starting to come together. The project that I've been working on since before my birthday (in February of 2010) is FINALLY almost done!! I think it looks pretty awesome. Its turning out a lot better than I originally thought it was going to and that makes me happy! XD Oh, and the chain isn't actually blue, if you were wondering at all. Its a shiny dark silvery kinda color, I just have it covered by the blue painting tape so I don't spray paint it.
And, another project I'm working on for my little sister is Kairi's keyblade. I personally don't think its all that special. Its all flowery and stuff. But she's a seven-year-old girl and she's into that stuff. Plus, the keyblade is pretty simple. I just started it today and I already have it this far done:
The end is obviously not finished. I just have a basic kinda shape in there that I can glue the flowers on to eventually make it look like this:
So, yeah. I'm doing that keyblade for her and eventually, I'm going to work on the Oathkeeper for my little brother because that's his favorite keyblade:
(Its the one that not Oblivion, in case you don't know Kingdom Hearts. Its the white one.)
So, that's all the projects I'm working on right now! Its gotten really fun!
Squid!
~otaku-chan
PS: The random bowl of water in my Kairi keyblade pix is a preparation for the papier mache. Its not just randomly there...0.o
PPS: I got so many weird looks from neighbors passing by as I was outside primer-ing and spray painting Olivia X3. It was actually quite funny.
PPPS: The end of my Oblivion keychain is SO ANNOYING! It keeps breaking! I've finally just taped it together with black electrical tape in hopes that it will finally stay together.
PPPPS: The thing on the end of my Kairi keyblade looks like a piece of toast. Its weird...
PPPPPS: I'm really sorry if this post bored you...I just felt like I had to share the progress I've made because I'm excited about it, but I suppose other people (especially people who don't play Kingdom Hearts) won't be as excited as I am about this...T.T
21 July 2010
15 July 2010
Stuffs ^^
Ok, to get these out of the way first:
Rachel. You are an amazing person. I've been seeing the rather...mean...things said to you on your formspring, but you answer them honestly without being mean back. I don't know if I could do that. I'd probably just ignore the question...And I am really praying for you and your family with what's going on in your life. If you need someone to talk to, I'm here (though I'm not sure I'm the best person to talk to...I'll either start crying because I cry if I feel any emotion at all or I will say something stupid and make things worse - what usually happens when I try to comfort my brother or sister... I'm not trying to get you not to come to me. I'm just warning you that I'm not responsible for what I may say or do in such a predicament. How about, I'll listen. I'm good at listening. And sometimes listening is all people need X3. Wow, I'm really going on, aren't I??)
Anyway...
Katherine (when you eventually read this when you get back from Europe - so jealous XP) I'm really sorry I didn't visit Princeton with you! I didn't get your message until Wednesday! I hardly ever have my cell phone/check voice mail! I'm sorry!!! DX
Now I'm done my messages to friends. Sooo, what have I been doing??
*Sigh* I'm STILL looking for jobs :( Thank you Rachel for the tip on Subway hiring, though! I haven't gotten a call, but my application is in.
On Tuesday, my little brother, sister, mother, and I went to the Franklin Institute to see the Cleopatra exhibit X3. It was actually really cool (I'm usually not at all interested in anything having to do with history). My favorite parts of the exhibit were the giant 10 foot statues that they found, the coins (they were amazingly preserved for being under the ocean for several thousand years 0.o), and the things that had hieroglyphics on them (hieroglyphics are very cool looking X3). Something...strange...I learned was that Cleopatra was married to her younger brother, then her even-younger brother, then her son whom she had with one of those brothers 0.o There's some SERIOUS incest going on there...
Moving on...other than that, I haven't been out of the house much, for anything other than some errands that I have to run now because I have my driver's license. X/
Something very random that always bugs me:
Where are you supposed to put punctuation when using an emoticon??
Before the emoticon? After? No punctuation at all?? They really need to create grammar rules for this kind of thing! Nothing looks right! Example ("end" being end of first sentence, "Beginning" being beginning of next sentence):
end. X3 Beginning (looks like its part of the next sentence)
end X3. Beginning (looks like its a mole or something and part of the face)
end X3 Beginning (looks like a run-on sentence)
Its so confusing! Especially when using :) at the end of paranetheses:
end :)) ---(looks like two mouths)
end :) ) ---(looks weird. Maybe might work, but not really)
end (:) ---(looks like the middle part of a snowman)
end (: ) ---(still kinda looks like a snowman, but probably conveys the message best out of all of these...)
I usually just avoid that altogether and use "X3)" It eliminates the double parentheses thing...
I'm really over-analyzing aren't I?
Oh well, I do it with most things-- why I want to become a scientist - so my over-thinking can be put to good use! XD
Otaku-related news:
1. Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden was FINALLY updated! Its been TWO YEARS!!! That's one long hiatus 0.o If you don't know the series...I'm not sure how to explain it. Its really quite interesting in my opinion, but there are some mature scenes. But its not like its mature purely as fanservice, as some mangas are, such as Samurai Deeper Kyo (I couldn't get through much of that one...) I think it kind of adds to the..."authenticity"? of it. Yeah, you probably don't need to see those things in such detail...but thinking realistically (yes, I'm telling you to think realistically about a manga) a guy that can change into a woman probably doesn't feel much need to cover up his top half. (That probably sounds much weirder than it is in the series...). I read it for the storyline, which is actually really good and I just look past the other parts. Here are some pictures of said he/she, whose name is Uruki/Rimudo (he goes by both. Rimudo is his given name and Uruki is his celestial name as one of the seven celestial warriors)
2. I'm working on this thing (because I'm bored). I'm making a bunch of pictures of chibi-versions of the Organization XIII members and I'm drawing them to look like a chain of people which will eventually be hanging on to the top corner of the wooden border around my closet. (My explanation isn't very good, but I will have a picture when I'm finished X3). The trouble in getting this finished is not the actual drawing of the pictures but the coloring. For some reason, I chose to color in colored pencil. The black organization coats are a PAIN to color in with colored pencils. I hate using black SOOO much! Why did I do this?! Oh well, I only have about 7 more to color (4 of them I still have to draw - Axel, Luxord, Vexen, and Xaldin - how have I not drawn Axel yet?!). *Sigh* It fills my time, at least...
3. I'm am STILL working on my Oblivion keyblade. It is actually almost done (and looks pretty awesome, if I may say so myself). I just have a very little more papier mache-ing to do, then I can paint it and it should be done! Squee!
Squid!
~otaku-chan~
PS: I went out for ice-cream today with my little bro. I got this flavor called "white raspberry truffle." It was REALLY good! I'm going to have to get that flavor if we go back there again! Noms X3
PPS: I got a 5 on my AP Calc test!!! Yay! (Poor Courgi-chan is going to have to wait until she and Kat get back from Europe to see her score XP)
PPPS: I haven't started my summer homework yet...I'm such a horrible procrastinator. I have to wait until, at earliest, August to start worrying about that!! But for the AP Gov't homework, we have to do current events and I'm not sure what to do it on. I don't keep up with much current stuff. I could do it on the oil spill in the Gulf, but I have a feeling that pretty much everyone is going to be doing that. But I think it will actually be an interesting topic, rather than looking at more stuff relating to politicians and all that kind of thing. Hmmm...I should probably get started soon on that one at least...
Rachel. You are an amazing person. I've been seeing the rather...mean...things said to you on your formspring, but you answer them honestly without being mean back. I don't know if I could do that. I'd probably just ignore the question...And I am really praying for you and your family with what's going on in your life. If you need someone to talk to, I'm here (though I'm not sure I'm the best person to talk to...I'll either start crying because I cry if I feel any emotion at all or I will say something stupid and make things worse - what usually happens when I try to comfort my brother or sister... I'm not trying to get you not to come to me. I'm just warning you that I'm not responsible for what I may say or do in such a predicament. How about, I'll listen. I'm good at listening. And sometimes listening is all people need X3. Wow, I'm really going on, aren't I??)
Anyway...
Katherine (when you eventually read this when you get back from Europe - so jealous XP) I'm really sorry I didn't visit Princeton with you! I didn't get your message until Wednesday! I hardly ever have my cell phone/check voice mail! I'm sorry!!! DX
Now I'm done my messages to friends. Sooo, what have I been doing??
*Sigh* I'm STILL looking for jobs :( Thank you Rachel for the tip on Subway hiring, though! I haven't gotten a call, but my application is in.
On Tuesday, my little brother, sister, mother, and I went to the Franklin Institute to see the Cleopatra exhibit X3. It was actually really cool (I'm usually not at all interested in anything having to do with history). My favorite parts of the exhibit were the giant 10 foot statues that they found, the coins (they were amazingly preserved for being under the ocean for several thousand years 0.o), and the things that had hieroglyphics on them (hieroglyphics are very cool looking X3). Something...strange...I learned was that Cleopatra was married to her younger brother, then her even-younger brother, then her son whom she had with one of those brothers 0.o There's some SERIOUS incest going on there...
Moving on...other than that, I haven't been out of the house much, for anything other than some errands that I have to run now because I have my driver's license. X/
Something very random that always bugs me:
Where are you supposed to put punctuation when using an emoticon??
Before the emoticon? After? No punctuation at all?? They really need to create grammar rules for this kind of thing! Nothing looks right! Example ("end" being end of first sentence, "Beginning" being beginning of next sentence):
end. X3 Beginning (looks like its part of the next sentence)
end X3. Beginning (looks like its a mole or something and part of the face)
end X3 Beginning (looks like a run-on sentence)
Its so confusing! Especially when using :) at the end of paranetheses:
end :)) ---(looks like two mouths)
end :) ) ---(looks weird. Maybe might work, but not really)
end (:) ---(looks like the middle part of a snowman)
end (: ) ---(still kinda looks like a snowman, but probably conveys the message best out of all of these...)
I usually just avoid that altogether and use "X3)" It eliminates the double parentheses thing...
I'm really over-analyzing aren't I?
Oh well, I do it with most things-- why I want to become a scientist - so my over-thinking can be put to good use! XD
Otaku-related news:
1. Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden was FINALLY updated! Its been TWO YEARS!!! That's one long hiatus 0.o If you don't know the series...I'm not sure how to explain it. Its really quite interesting in my opinion, but there are some mature scenes. But its not like its mature purely as fanservice, as some mangas are, such as Samurai Deeper Kyo (I couldn't get through much of that one...) I think it kind of adds to the..."authenticity"? of it. Yeah, you probably don't need to see those things in such detail...but thinking realistically (yes, I'm telling you to think realistically about a manga) a guy that can change into a woman probably doesn't feel much need to cover up his top half. (That probably sounds much weirder than it is in the series...). I read it for the storyline, which is actually really good and I just look past the other parts. Here are some pictures of said he/she, whose name is Uruki/Rimudo (he goes by both. Rimudo is his given name and Uruki is his celestial name as one of the seven celestial warriors)
2. I'm working on this thing (because I'm bored). I'm making a bunch of pictures of chibi-versions of the Organization XIII members and I'm drawing them to look like a chain of people which will eventually be hanging on to the top corner of the wooden border around my closet. (My explanation isn't very good, but I will have a picture when I'm finished X3). The trouble in getting this finished is not the actual drawing of the pictures but the coloring. For some reason, I chose to color in colored pencil. The black organization coats are a PAIN to color in with colored pencils. I hate using black SOOO much! Why did I do this?! Oh well, I only have about 7 more to color (4 of them I still have to draw - Axel, Luxord, Vexen, and Xaldin - how have I not drawn Axel yet?!). *Sigh* It fills my time, at least...
3. I'm am STILL working on my Oblivion keyblade. It is actually almost done (and looks pretty awesome, if I may say so myself). I just have a very little more papier mache-ing to do, then I can paint it and it should be done! Squee!
The whole time I've been working on this, my parents have been calling me weird and nerdy (which is pretty much a compliment in my world. The weirder and nerdier I am, the closer I am to my goal of otakudom...X3) But they've still helped me, even though they don't understand my passion...and I thank them for that! (And they will actually see this thank you because apparently, they read my blog now. Its not like I put things on here that I don't want them to see...its just awkward...this is more for friends and peers and other people like me who may actually understand some of my nerd-talk T.T)
4. I'm not sure if this needs to go into otaku-stuff or not, but I'll put it here anyway. I've recently been naming my inanimate objects.- Kingdom Keyblade--ALICE (was going to be Haku, but my brother said that was a stupid name T.T)
- Oblivion Keyblade--OLIVIA (I'm creative, I know.)
- My purple balloon from my 16th birthday party that is over a year old and still somehow has air in it--MARGARET (I'm not sure why. It just came to me...)
- Laptop--TITAN (I needed a masculine name so I don't seem sexist)
(Yes, that is me, with a kinda stupid face because my family was there and they made me get pictures in my new car right in front of my school in public with PEOPLE watching!! T.T)
Anyway, I need to name mah baby, but I can't think of a good name. Probably a girl name because it is definitely a chick car...Anyone have any ideas?
Squid!
~otaku-chan~
PS: I went out for ice-cream today with my little bro. I got this flavor called "white raspberry truffle." It was REALLY good! I'm going to have to get that flavor if we go back there again! Noms X3
PPS: I got a 5 on my AP Calc test!!! Yay! (Poor Courgi-chan is going to have to wait until she and Kat get back from Europe to see her score XP)
PPPS: I haven't started my summer homework yet...I'm such a horrible procrastinator. I have to wait until, at earliest, August to start worrying about that!! But for the AP Gov't homework, we have to do current events and I'm not sure what to do it on. I don't keep up with much current stuff. I could do it on the oil spill in the Gulf, but I have a feeling that pretty much everyone is going to be doing that. But I think it will actually be an interesting topic, rather than looking at more stuff relating to politicians and all that kind of thing. Hmmm...I should probably get started soon on that one at least...
08 July 2010
Project AK-47
I said I'd do a post about it, so here it is.
Project AK-47 is a relatively new nonprofit organization to help rescue and rehabilitate children involved in armed conflict. They help rescue child soldiers in Mexico, Burma, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
What they do in the U.S. is they sell dog tags. Each tag has the name of a child, their gender, their age, their status, and their location. Each tag represents one of the 100,000+ child soldiers who officially "don't exist." The name on the tag is not the child's real name because most children don't have names. They are just known by their numbers. These tags help give them a name and raise awareness of what is happening and have someone tell that child's story. The dog tag I got says this:
NAME: HERESON
GENDER: MALE
AGE: 8 YEARS
STATUS: ACTIVE
*PHILIPPINES*
It just breaks my heart to think that there are 8-year-old's out there being forced to fight in conflicts from older generations. My little sister is 7 and she will be 8 in November. I CANNOT imagine her going to war.
The dog tags only cost $10. And because I got one, every time I look down when I am wearing it, I am able to think of little Hereson in the Philippines and pray for him and others going through the same thing.
You can visit their website here: www.projectAK47.com
They have a lot more information on there than what I'm giving. Its really a good cause. Anyone interested should check them out and help in any way they can.
Project AK-47 is a relatively new nonprofit organization to help rescue and rehabilitate children involved in armed conflict. They help rescue child soldiers in Mexico, Burma, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
What they do in the U.S. is they sell dog tags. Each tag has the name of a child, their gender, their age, their status, and their location. Each tag represents one of the 100,000+ child soldiers who officially "don't exist." The name on the tag is not the child's real name because most children don't have names. They are just known by their numbers. These tags help give them a name and raise awareness of what is happening and have someone tell that child's story. The dog tag I got says this:
NAME: HERESON
GENDER: MALE
AGE: 8 YEARS
STATUS: ACTIVE
*PHILIPPINES*
It just breaks my heart to think that there are 8-year-old's out there being forced to fight in conflicts from older generations. My little sister is 7 and she will be 8 in November. I CANNOT imagine her going to war.
The dog tags only cost $10. And because I got one, every time I look down when I am wearing it, I am able to think of little Hereson in the Philippines and pray for him and others going through the same thing.
You can visit their website here: www.projectAK47.com
They have a lot more information on there than what I'm giving. Its really a good cause. Anyone interested should check them out and help in any way they can.
06 July 2010
CREATION!!!
Finally, here is my big long Creation Post!!
For those who don't know, Creation Festival is a HUGE Christian music festival that takes place usually sometime in June every year. A lot of big Christian rock artists are there (Skillet, Newsboys, Red, Thousand Foot Krutch, Switchfoot, David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns, etc.) and big Christian speakers are there, as well (Reggie Dabbs, Justin Lookadoo, Duffy Robbins, Greg Stier, etc.) Its really an awesome and fun time with about 70,000 other Christian rockers XD.
We have gone in previous years, just as a family, but this time it was a youth group event (and Kat-chan was able to come, as well X3). There were 21 of us - 5 chaperons and 16 kids. It was SO much fun! I talked with kids in the youth group that I had never talked to before and I think we all got a lot closer (we "bonded" XP).
So, anyway, a run-down of each day:
Wednesday:
Set-up day. We all met at the church office and loaded our stuff into 3 vans, a pickup truck, and a rented trailer. We drove for several hours all the way to Mt. Union, PA (pretty much the middle of nowhere). The car ride was fun (as you can see in the video, it included much dancing, singing, and lols XD -- "Yes, we're going to bite you and infect you with RELIGION!!!" -- only Kat-chan will understand that ^^)
Then, there was the set-up of camp, which was interesting. We got quite a large site and we easily fit in all our tents -- though we had to abandon a canopy for the simple reason that we had NO IDEA how to put it up...
Finally - CONCERT TIME!! The schedule:
--Welcome and announcements
--Downhere
--Carlos Whittaker (worship)
--Reggie Dabbs (speaker -- "Embrace your chocolate side", "I can-You can-We can-I got yo' back!" -- He was a cool guy X3)
--David Crowder Band (I don't really hate them, but something about their music just rubs me the wrong way and I don't overly like it...T.T)
--Switchfoot (normally, they're not my favorite band either - for no real reason - but this night they were AWESOME!!!)
Anyway, here is a video/slideshow thingie with all the pictures and videos I took of this night :)
Thursday:
So, 2nd day of Creation. We wake up groggily and slowly and eat breakfast and head to the showers. They take about an hour and a half because we had a bunch of people in line in front of us and even though the time limit is supposed to be 5 minutes for a shower -- most girls cannot finish a shower in 5 minutes T.T So that took a while and we ended up missing the first half of the first speaker - Bob Lenz - and then we couldn't focus on the 2nd half because we COULD NOT find the tarp with my dad and other chaperons on it! We ended up having to go back to camp and have the chaperon there walkie-talkie the chaperons on the tarp asking where they are! Eventually we found them and the rest of the day was pretty fun after that!
Schedule:
--Bob Lenz (speaker)
--Carlos Whittaker (worship)
--Chris and Conrad (I had never heard of them before, but they were quite good and we went up to the front and got a few pictures of them)
--Mark Gungor (speaker -- interesting dude. He was very passionate about his topic, which was "How To Find Your Mate" ...Yeah. He was an odd one. His main point was that it is our job to find our own spouse, God is not just going to hand them to us. He also said we should get married young (as in 17-25) so that you're able-bodied when you become a grandparent.)
--The Letter Black (we went to the Fringe Stage -- the stage for harder rock and rap bands-- for a bit of their performance, which I also got pictures of and a video of X3)
-- Then we went back to camp for lunch and listened to KJ-52's performance on the radio from camp. He was interesting X3. Then we heard Remedy Drive come on and they sounded epic, so I dragged Kat-chan and Conscience (what I'm going to call the other girl from the high school youth group that hung out with us -- Kat-chan nicknamed her Conscience X3) with me to the Remedy Drive concert and we were able to catch their last song (which I also got on video). The lead singer's dancing is rather spastic -- he's awesome!
-- House of Heroes (we were also able to catch their last few songs. They were quite good!)
-- Justin Lookadoo (speaker on the Fringe Stage -- his talk was probably the best that I saw there. He started off by saying that he is one of those ADD talkers that switches topics all the time and if you don't have ADD, you're probably going to have a headache by the end X3. So then he goes on to mess with the sign language translator and kept making her say "poo-poo" in sign language because it was an amusing gesture. Then, back on topic, he talks about stupid questions to ask people -- "If there's one thing and one thing only that you take away from this today - NEVER, unless you are absolutely 200% SURE - NEVER ask a woman when the baby is due!" Then he went on to talk about a question that Christians ask too much - "Is it okay if..." It should not matter if it is okay. God did not say "Be okay, because I Am okay" He said "Be Holy, because I Am Holy." We should be asking whether something is HOLY, not is something OKAY. Then, he told us about these bracelets that he wears that simply say "IS IT HOLY" That speech really reached me and I got myself 6 bracelets (1 for myself - 5 to give away if anyone asks about them -- he said that if anyone asked about what the bracelet is, tell them "It is about the difference between good and holy" And when they say, "Oh. That's cool." Say, "Here, you can have it" and give them the bracelet -- I thought that it was a really simple and effective way to shine out Jesus' light wherever you are -- Of course, I only have 3 bracelets left because kids in the youth group lost theirs and I had to give one to my little sister. But that's okay, I can at least reach 2-3 people now.)
Anyway...then we went back for dinner and discussed the seminar. After Dinner:
--RED (they were freaking awesome! I love Red. They are just an amazing band. And for some reason, the lead singer always looks angry X3)
--Ron Luce (speaker - his topic was called "God's Hobby." He started talking about fixer-upper cars and all this car-talk, so he totally lost me there. But he brought it back, eventually saying that God is like the mechanic, getting rid of all the rust on us, or something along those lines)
--Newsboys (they put on a REALLY GOOD show! Michael Tait - the new lead singer - is okay. I like Peter better (how could you not love the bald guy with lots of eyeliner singing in an australian accent about Captain Crunch -- I'm sorry I'm going to go slightly off topic here and put in a bizarre, but very Newsboys video:
I grew up with that song. I knew it by heart when I was like 7. So I really liked the old Newsboys, but the new Newsboys aren't bad either, just different. They are like a totally different band, which is okay, but I can like the new band while still missing the old days...anyway, enough ranting!)
--Casting Crowns (they were quite awesome! Not much I can add on there. They were just awesome X3)
Side note: On this day, we found two different people there that Kat and I knew! It was creepy! One was Kat's friend through another friend (sorry that's confusing, I'm trying not to use names) and another was in Japan Exchange Club with Kat and who has lived in my neighborhood for years! We ran into him TWICE -- hours apart in different places! We kept expecting him to randomly pop up again throughout the rest of the week!!
And here are the videos for Thursday (I had to use two videos because the video was longer than 10 minutes):
Friday:
This was a more chill day. We realized that it would be much easier to take showers in the afternoon when there's less people, so we just got up and ate breakfast at a more leisurely pace. Then we went to the morning seminars:
--Greg Stier (speaker whose topic was "Don't Connect the Dots." He talked about how (1) It is God's job to save, so leave that part to Him, (2) It is our responsibility to share, so we as Christians need to share God's word and the love of Jesus Christ, (3) It is their responsibility to believe, so we cannot force someone to believe, that's their own job. Each person only has to worry about their own role in the scheme. They are not God, so they cannot know every little detail that gets put together into a big picture that only God understands.)
--John Mark McMillan (worship)
--Sons of Day (I can't say I paid much attention to this band, sadly...I was still kinda half-asleep)
--Justin Lookadoo (speaker, again, this time on the Main Stage -- This time his topic was "When God Leaves You Hanging." It was a much more sad topic - how God lets bad things happen sometimes - and he talked about what to do and not to do in those kinds of situations and how to comfort and how to leave alone people who are going through those kinds of situations. I personally don't think this talk was as good as the other one. He mostly talked about other people's advice to him about what to do and what not to do - he seemed not to know much about it for sure himself. Its one of those things you don't really know how to handle until it hits you.)
Then, we had the afternoon to ourselves and we hung out at camp for a little while, took our showers, had lunch, had dinner a little later. It was a chill afternoon because everyone was tired and trying to recover strength for concerts that night and the next night (Skillet!!)
The evening schedule was:
--Thousand Foot Krutch (AWESOME!! -- I got some awesome videos and pictures and it seemed in several pictures that the lead singer was looking straight at my camera as I was taking the pictures. It was a little weird...)
--John Mark McMillan (worship)
--Louie Giglio (speaker -- he was probably my 2nd favorite speaker. His topic was about God as being the Creator and being BIG. His main point was about these 4 stars: the Sun, Betelgeuse, A-star-whose-name-sounded-like-Mufasa-but-I-don't-remember-what-it-was, and Canis Majoris. He comared the size of those stars when scaled to the Earth being the size of a golf ball. His comparisons were really amazing, but I don't remember all of them. His point was that God created stars out of His mouth. If God created those giants so easily, the earth is tiny and you and your problems are even tinier. God is big enough to handle anything. Then, he wrapped up his talk with a reference to another of his speeches talking about how God made the human body. His big finish in that speech was that the protein that holds all our cells together is called laminin and it looks like this:
And while this doesn't prove Christianity, it confirms the beliefs of the believers. And God is so awesome that he made the giant stars all the way down to the very proteins that hold our bodies together. It was a really powerful speech.)
--Chris Tomlin (he was pretty awesome. It never fails to amaze me to hear the voices of 70,000 people all singing the same song in worship of God.)
--Tobymac (he put on another awesome show and one that was very fun to watch.)
--Candlelighting (It is always one of the most amazing sights of the week. All you see is a bunch of candles shining everywhere around you all over the hillside. I got some pictures, but they hardly capture the power of that scene.)
So, here are the videos from Friday (I got so many pictures, I had to split into 3 videos):
Saturday:
Last day of Creation :(
Another relaxed day after rocking out with Tobymac the night before. My mother, sister, brother, and dad decided to have some family time and went to the kids tent. I stayed with Conscience and Kat-chan and we went to the Fringe Stage for Family Force 5. On the way, I had to pick up the camera from my parents at the kids tent. I walk down the path and see them coming up the path at that exact moment. I get to them and they inform me that they had just, 30 seconds ago, run into John Cooper from Skillet and got their pictures with him! I was freaking MAD! It didn't help that they were just rubbing it in my face that if I had walked even a little faster I could have met him, too! Grrrrr.....
Well,anyway, we keep going to the Fringe Stage and it turns out Family Force 5 missed their plane, so we just stayed around for the band that was playing then - Skyhawk Drive. They were the National Talent Search winners and they were very good. We had some time afterwards, so we waited in line and got their autographs X3.
We got back to camp (my brother still bragging about his handshake with John Cooper), eat lunch, and then my dad, brother, and I went shopping at the stores for t-shirts. My dad apologized a lot for not being able to spend time with us because he had to spend time with the rest of the youth group. I think its fine. It was fun for me to be able to go up to the front for concerts with my friends and jump around and headbang and just be generally crazy X3.
Anyway, in all (not just on Saturday) at Creation, I got:
-itunes gift-card for 25 free songs from artists at Creation this year
-the 6 "Is It Holy" bracelets
-a Creation Festival wristband thing
-a freebie Messiah College livestrong bracelet thing
-a dogtag supporting Project AK-47 (I'll write another post - probably tomorrow - about this organization, focused only on this organization, so it doesn't get lost in all the other Creation stuff)
-Project AK-47 t-shirt
-shiny gold Thousand Foot Krutch t-shirt
-funny Big Bang t-shirt -- "I believe in the 'Big Bang Theory,' God said 'Bang!' and the universe was created!"
-Relient K poster (even though they weren't actually at Creation this year, they are one of my favorite bands and they're poster is awesome and I was sad that I missed them at Creation last year!)
Anyways, on with actual stuff on Saturday. We got back from shopping and Kat, Conscience and I went to the showers. We got back, had dinner, and went out to the evening concerts:
--Family Force 5 (who was actually here this time! They were an...interesting...band X3. They were pretty cool, but pretty different, as well.)
--Unhindered (who looks like a grown up version of the guys from Big Time Rush, plus another person!! Its so creepy! It was my brother who pointed it out!)
--Bob Lenz (speaker for a second time, and this time I actually got to hear a lot of his speech! It was about "What Has Power Over You")
--Tenth Avenue North (they were good as always. They're songs are amazing and just speak directly to the heart!)
--Skillet (WOOT!!! They were epically awesomely amazing!! My dad didn't let us go down into the crazy mosh pit to be crushed by 70,000 people, but eventually, he let us go about halfway down - enough to see well and get good pictures, but far enough back that we weren't being made into sandwiches...They put on an AMAZING show! Lots of fire and explosions. It appealed to my inner pyro X3.)
--Fireworks (Creation usually has fireworks on the first or second night, but this time, since it was close to Independence Day, they did it on the last day - July 3rd, though maybe it was late enough that it was technically the 4th. The fireworks were really cool, and then Skillet came back on and did their song "Savior" along with the fireworks finale going on in the background. It was an EPIC finish for an EPIC week!!)
--Campfire (we got back to our campsite and decided to make a campfire because we were all in the super-excited celebratory mood. It was fun. We made s'mores...Well, everyone else did. I don't particularly like s'mores. I'm weird like that. But I still had fun watching other people attempt to make them, then catch their marshmallows on fire X3)
Here is the video with pictures from Saturday:
So Creation was very fun and 9 of the 16 youth in the group went to Christ or were recommitted to Christ. It was an awesome experience.
And with awesome experiences bringing people to God, the Devil tries to interfere. On Thursday, my little sister woke up with a fever of 102. She went to the doctor they had at the first aid station and they gave her antibiotics, thinking she probably had strep throat, but they had no way of testing for it. The Devil was going after my dad (the youth leader's) weaknesses.
Then, on the same day, I started getting sick. I developed a horrible cough (partly from dust and screaming, but everyone else was doing that and I was even worse off than the people who have asthma, which I don't have). I could only breath very shallow breaths without breaking out in painful coughing fits.
On Saturday, the Devil took another swing at us. Right in the middle of Bob Lenz's speech, my nose starts dripping blood (also from the dryness and dust, but the timing was too inconvenient to be coincidence). I get taken to the first aid station and then go back to camp to change out of my bloody clothing. I get back and I missed the rest of Bob Lenz and some of Tenth Avenue North (which Kat-chan had to go up for with just a few middle schoolers. Sorry about that.) Then, during the Skillet concert, my sister starts crying and we realize that her elbow got popped out of its socket. She had Nurse-maid's elbow when she was younger and we'd been through several ER visits for that reason for her, but she grew out of it. Her elbow hadn't popped out in 4 years! And suddenly, out of nowhere it happens right in the middle of Creation!
All of this "bad luck" cannot be coincidence. It can't be coincidence that in the first year my dad takes the youth group to Creation and brings 9 teens to Christ, he ends up going to first aid more times this year than all other years we have gone combined. And the visits are just for his daughters. None of the other kids or chaperons got sick or injured! (Well, one chaperon got a little scraped up, but that was her own fault for tripping on a wooden stake).
I know some people don't really like to think about the devil and his interference or even believe that it happens, but stuff like this has happened to me and my family too many times to count that it has become undeniable. But, contrary to the devil's intentions, I tend to become stronger in my relationship with God and my faith when things like this happen. The devil wouldn't be trying to stop me from reaching a God who isn't real. So I just notice these things and it further confirms my faith!
Sorry for ranting about this. Its just something I felt that I needed to talk about and to sort out in my own head while writing it.
Overall, through all the bad things (sickness, long waits for showers, dryness, port-a-potties) Creation was still one of the most fun things I have ever taken part in. I wouldn't trade this experience for the world! XD
Squid!
~otaku-chan
PS: If you're watching the videos, or have watched the videos, sorry for the crappy sound quality and shakiness of my videos. They were taken on a digital camera designed mainly for pictures. Plus, I don't have steady hands at all, especially when I'm dancing or being jostled around in the pit at a concert...I definitely know that I can't be a surgeon when I grow up...8)
PPS: There were lots of "Free Hugs" and "Free High Fives" people. It was happy-making :)
PPPS: We met a Naruto sorta-cosplayer!! He was wearing the coat and headband and whisker makeup stuff. My brother got a picture with him. Kat-chan took the picture, so I'll put it on here when she puts her Creation photos on facebook so I can steal it X3
PPPPS: If any of these videos don't work for some reason (like youtube muted them or something) let me know. I've only had to dispute one of them so far *knock on wood* and I'm hoping for no more to get muted.
PPPPPS: Sorry for the very long length of this post. And my apology is just making it longer...
For those who don't know, Creation Festival is a HUGE Christian music festival that takes place usually sometime in June every year. A lot of big Christian rock artists are there (Skillet, Newsboys, Red, Thousand Foot Krutch, Switchfoot, David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns, etc.) and big Christian speakers are there, as well (Reggie Dabbs, Justin Lookadoo, Duffy Robbins, Greg Stier, etc.) Its really an awesome and fun time with about 70,000 other Christian rockers XD.
We have gone in previous years, just as a family, but this time it was a youth group event (and Kat-chan was able to come, as well X3). There were 21 of us - 5 chaperons and 16 kids. It was SO much fun! I talked with kids in the youth group that I had never talked to before and I think we all got a lot closer (we "bonded" XP).
So, anyway, a run-down of each day:
Wednesday:
Set-up day. We all met at the church office and loaded our stuff into 3 vans, a pickup truck, and a rented trailer. We drove for several hours all the way to Mt. Union, PA (pretty much the middle of nowhere). The car ride was fun (as you can see in the video, it included much dancing, singing, and lols XD -- "Yes, we're going to bite you and infect you with RELIGION!!!" -- only Kat-chan will understand that ^^)
Then, there was the set-up of camp, which was interesting. We got quite a large site and we easily fit in all our tents -- though we had to abandon a canopy for the simple reason that we had NO IDEA how to put it up...
Finally - CONCERT TIME!! The schedule:
--Welcome and announcements
--Downhere
--Carlos Whittaker (worship)
--Reggie Dabbs (speaker -- "Embrace your chocolate side", "I can-You can-We can-I got yo' back!" -- He was a cool guy X3)
--David Crowder Band (I don't really hate them, but something about their music just rubs me the wrong way and I don't overly like it...T.T)
--Switchfoot (normally, they're not my favorite band either - for no real reason - but this night they were AWESOME!!!)
Anyway, here is a video/slideshow thingie with all the pictures and videos I took of this night :)
Thursday:
So, 2nd day of Creation. We wake up groggily and slowly and eat breakfast and head to the showers. They take about an hour and a half because we had a bunch of people in line in front of us and even though the time limit is supposed to be 5 minutes for a shower -- most girls cannot finish a shower in 5 minutes T.T So that took a while and we ended up missing the first half of the first speaker - Bob Lenz - and then we couldn't focus on the 2nd half because we COULD NOT find the tarp with my dad and other chaperons on it! We ended up having to go back to camp and have the chaperon there walkie-talkie the chaperons on the tarp asking where they are! Eventually we found them and the rest of the day was pretty fun after that!
Schedule:
--Bob Lenz (speaker)
--Carlos Whittaker (worship)
--Chris and Conrad (I had never heard of them before, but they were quite good and we went up to the front and got a few pictures of them)
--Mark Gungor (speaker -- interesting dude. He was very passionate about his topic, which was "How To Find Your Mate" ...Yeah. He was an odd one. His main point was that it is our job to find our own spouse, God is not just going to hand them to us. He also said we should get married young (as in 17-25) so that you're able-bodied when you become a grandparent.)
--The Letter Black (we went to the Fringe Stage -- the stage for harder rock and rap bands-- for a bit of their performance, which I also got pictures of and a video of X3)
-- Then we went back to camp for lunch and listened to KJ-52's performance on the radio from camp. He was interesting X3. Then we heard Remedy Drive come on and they sounded epic, so I dragged Kat-chan and Conscience (what I'm going to call the other girl from the high school youth group that hung out with us -- Kat-chan nicknamed her Conscience X3) with me to the Remedy Drive concert and we were able to catch their last song (which I also got on video). The lead singer's dancing is rather spastic -- he's awesome!
-- House of Heroes (we were also able to catch their last few songs. They were quite good!)
-- Justin Lookadoo (speaker on the Fringe Stage -- his talk was probably the best that I saw there. He started off by saying that he is one of those ADD talkers that switches topics all the time and if you don't have ADD, you're probably going to have a headache by the end X3. So then he goes on to mess with the sign language translator and kept making her say "poo-poo" in sign language because it was an amusing gesture. Then, back on topic, he talks about stupid questions to ask people -- "If there's one thing and one thing only that you take away from this today - NEVER, unless you are absolutely 200% SURE - NEVER ask a woman when the baby is due!" Then he went on to talk about a question that Christians ask too much - "Is it okay if..." It should not matter if it is okay. God did not say "Be okay, because I Am okay" He said "Be Holy, because I Am Holy." We should be asking whether something is HOLY, not is something OKAY. Then, he told us about these bracelets that he wears that simply say "IS IT HOLY" That speech really reached me and I got myself 6 bracelets (1 for myself - 5 to give away if anyone asks about them -- he said that if anyone asked about what the bracelet is, tell them "It is about the difference between good and holy" And when they say, "Oh. That's cool." Say, "Here, you can have it" and give them the bracelet -- I thought that it was a really simple and effective way to shine out Jesus' light wherever you are -- Of course, I only have 3 bracelets left because kids in the youth group lost theirs and I had to give one to my little sister. But that's okay, I can at least reach 2-3 people now.)
Anyway...then we went back for dinner and discussed the seminar. After Dinner:
--RED (they were freaking awesome! I love Red. They are just an amazing band. And for some reason, the lead singer always looks angry X3)
--Ron Luce (speaker - his topic was called "God's Hobby." He started talking about fixer-upper cars and all this car-talk, so he totally lost me there. But he brought it back, eventually saying that God is like the mechanic, getting rid of all the rust on us, or something along those lines)
--Newsboys (they put on a REALLY GOOD show! Michael Tait - the new lead singer - is okay. I like Peter better (how could you not love the bald guy with lots of eyeliner singing in an australian accent about Captain Crunch -- I'm sorry I'm going to go slightly off topic here and put in a bizarre, but very Newsboys video:
I grew up with that song. I knew it by heart when I was like 7. So I really liked the old Newsboys, but the new Newsboys aren't bad either, just different. They are like a totally different band, which is okay, but I can like the new band while still missing the old days...anyway, enough ranting!)
--Casting Crowns (they were quite awesome! Not much I can add on there. They were just awesome X3)
Side note: On this day, we found two different people there that Kat and I knew! It was creepy! One was Kat's friend through another friend (sorry that's confusing, I'm trying not to use names) and another was in Japan Exchange Club with Kat and who has lived in my neighborhood for years! We ran into him TWICE -- hours apart in different places! We kept expecting him to randomly pop up again throughout the rest of the week!!
And here are the videos for Thursday (I had to use two videos because the video was longer than 10 minutes):
Friday:
This was a more chill day. We realized that it would be much easier to take showers in the afternoon when there's less people, so we just got up and ate breakfast at a more leisurely pace. Then we went to the morning seminars:
--Greg Stier (speaker whose topic was "Don't Connect the Dots." He talked about how (1) It is God's job to save, so leave that part to Him, (2) It is our responsibility to share, so we as Christians need to share God's word and the love of Jesus Christ, (3) It is their responsibility to believe, so we cannot force someone to believe, that's their own job. Each person only has to worry about their own role in the scheme. They are not God, so they cannot know every little detail that gets put together into a big picture that only God understands.)
--John Mark McMillan (worship)
--Sons of Day (I can't say I paid much attention to this band, sadly...I was still kinda half-asleep)
--Justin Lookadoo (speaker, again, this time on the Main Stage -- This time his topic was "When God Leaves You Hanging." It was a much more sad topic - how God lets bad things happen sometimes - and he talked about what to do and not to do in those kinds of situations and how to comfort and how to leave alone people who are going through those kinds of situations. I personally don't think this talk was as good as the other one. He mostly talked about other people's advice to him about what to do and what not to do - he seemed not to know much about it for sure himself. Its one of those things you don't really know how to handle until it hits you.)
Then, we had the afternoon to ourselves and we hung out at camp for a little while, took our showers, had lunch, had dinner a little later. It was a chill afternoon because everyone was tired and trying to recover strength for concerts that night and the next night (Skillet!!)
The evening schedule was:
--Thousand Foot Krutch (AWESOME!! -- I got some awesome videos and pictures and it seemed in several pictures that the lead singer was looking straight at my camera as I was taking the pictures. It was a little weird...)
--John Mark McMillan (worship)
--Louie Giglio (speaker -- he was probably my 2nd favorite speaker. His topic was about God as being the Creator and being BIG. His main point was about these 4 stars: the Sun, Betelgeuse, A-star-whose-name-sounded-like-Mufasa-but-I-don't-remember-what-it-was, and Canis Majoris. He comared the size of those stars when scaled to the Earth being the size of a golf ball. His comparisons were really amazing, but I don't remember all of them. His point was that God created stars out of His mouth. If God created those giants so easily, the earth is tiny and you and your problems are even tinier. God is big enough to handle anything. Then, he wrapped up his talk with a reference to another of his speeches talking about how God made the human body. His big finish in that speech was that the protein that holds all our cells together is called laminin and it looks like this:
And while this doesn't prove Christianity, it confirms the beliefs of the believers. And God is so awesome that he made the giant stars all the way down to the very proteins that hold our bodies together. It was a really powerful speech.)
--Chris Tomlin (he was pretty awesome. It never fails to amaze me to hear the voices of 70,000 people all singing the same song in worship of God.)
--Tobymac (he put on another awesome show and one that was very fun to watch.)
--Candlelighting (It is always one of the most amazing sights of the week. All you see is a bunch of candles shining everywhere around you all over the hillside. I got some pictures, but they hardly capture the power of that scene.)
So, here are the videos from Friday (I got so many pictures, I had to split into 3 videos):
Saturday:
Last day of Creation :(
Another relaxed day after rocking out with Tobymac the night before. My mother, sister, brother, and dad decided to have some family time and went to the kids tent. I stayed with Conscience and Kat-chan and we went to the Fringe Stage for Family Force 5. On the way, I had to pick up the camera from my parents at the kids tent. I walk down the path and see them coming up the path at that exact moment. I get to them and they inform me that they had just, 30 seconds ago, run into John Cooper from Skillet and got their pictures with him! I was freaking MAD! It didn't help that they were just rubbing it in my face that if I had walked even a little faster I could have met him, too! Grrrrr.....
Well,anyway, we keep going to the Fringe Stage and it turns out Family Force 5 missed their plane, so we just stayed around for the band that was playing then - Skyhawk Drive. They were the National Talent Search winners and they were very good. We had some time afterwards, so we waited in line and got their autographs X3.
We got back to camp (my brother still bragging about his handshake with John Cooper), eat lunch, and then my dad, brother, and I went shopping at the stores for t-shirts. My dad apologized a lot for not being able to spend time with us because he had to spend time with the rest of the youth group. I think its fine. It was fun for me to be able to go up to the front for concerts with my friends and jump around and headbang and just be generally crazy X3.
Anyway, in all (not just on Saturday) at Creation, I got:
-itunes gift-card for 25 free songs from artists at Creation this year
-the 6 "Is It Holy" bracelets
-a Creation Festival wristband thing
-a freebie Messiah College livestrong bracelet thing
-a dogtag supporting Project AK-47 (I'll write another post - probably tomorrow - about this organization, focused only on this organization, so it doesn't get lost in all the other Creation stuff)
-Project AK-47 t-shirt
-shiny gold Thousand Foot Krutch t-shirt
-funny Big Bang t-shirt -- "I believe in the 'Big Bang Theory,' God said 'Bang!' and the universe was created!"
-Relient K poster (even though they weren't actually at Creation this year, they are one of my favorite bands and they're poster is awesome and I was sad that I missed them at Creation last year!)
Anyways, on with actual stuff on Saturday. We got back from shopping and Kat, Conscience and I went to the showers. We got back, had dinner, and went out to the evening concerts:
--Family Force 5 (who was actually here this time! They were an...interesting...band X3. They were pretty cool, but pretty different, as well.)
--Unhindered (who looks like a grown up version of the guys from Big Time Rush, plus another person!! Its so creepy! It was my brother who pointed it out!)
--Bob Lenz (speaker for a second time, and this time I actually got to hear a lot of his speech! It was about "What Has Power Over You")
--Tenth Avenue North (they were good as always. They're songs are amazing and just speak directly to the heart!)
--Skillet (WOOT!!! They were epically awesomely amazing!! My dad didn't let us go down into the crazy mosh pit to be crushed by 70,000 people, but eventually, he let us go about halfway down - enough to see well and get good pictures, but far enough back that we weren't being made into sandwiches...They put on an AMAZING show! Lots of fire and explosions. It appealed to my inner pyro X3.)
--Fireworks (Creation usually has fireworks on the first or second night, but this time, since it was close to Independence Day, they did it on the last day - July 3rd, though maybe it was late enough that it was technically the 4th. The fireworks were really cool, and then Skillet came back on and did their song "Savior" along with the fireworks finale going on in the background. It was an EPIC finish for an EPIC week!!)
--Campfire (we got back to our campsite and decided to make a campfire because we were all in the super-excited celebratory mood. It was fun. We made s'mores...Well, everyone else did. I don't particularly like s'mores. I'm weird like that. But I still had fun watching other people attempt to make them, then catch their marshmallows on fire X3)
Here is the video with pictures from Saturday:
So Creation was very fun and 9 of the 16 youth in the group went to Christ or were recommitted to Christ. It was an awesome experience.
And with awesome experiences bringing people to God, the Devil tries to interfere. On Thursday, my little sister woke up with a fever of 102. She went to the doctor they had at the first aid station and they gave her antibiotics, thinking she probably had strep throat, but they had no way of testing for it. The Devil was going after my dad (the youth leader's) weaknesses.
Then, on the same day, I started getting sick. I developed a horrible cough (partly from dust and screaming, but everyone else was doing that and I was even worse off than the people who have asthma, which I don't have). I could only breath very shallow breaths without breaking out in painful coughing fits.
On Saturday, the Devil took another swing at us. Right in the middle of Bob Lenz's speech, my nose starts dripping blood (also from the dryness and dust, but the timing was too inconvenient to be coincidence). I get taken to the first aid station and then go back to camp to change out of my bloody clothing. I get back and I missed the rest of Bob Lenz and some of Tenth Avenue North (which Kat-chan had to go up for with just a few middle schoolers. Sorry about that.) Then, during the Skillet concert, my sister starts crying and we realize that her elbow got popped out of its socket. She had Nurse-maid's elbow when she was younger and we'd been through several ER visits for that reason for her, but she grew out of it. Her elbow hadn't popped out in 4 years! And suddenly, out of nowhere it happens right in the middle of Creation!
All of this "bad luck" cannot be coincidence. It can't be coincidence that in the first year my dad takes the youth group to Creation and brings 9 teens to Christ, he ends up going to first aid more times this year than all other years we have gone combined. And the visits are just for his daughters. None of the other kids or chaperons got sick or injured! (Well, one chaperon got a little scraped up, but that was her own fault for tripping on a wooden stake).
I know some people don't really like to think about the devil and his interference or even believe that it happens, but stuff like this has happened to me and my family too many times to count that it has become undeniable. But, contrary to the devil's intentions, I tend to become stronger in my relationship with God and my faith when things like this happen. The devil wouldn't be trying to stop me from reaching a God who isn't real. So I just notice these things and it further confirms my faith!
Sorry for ranting about this. Its just something I felt that I needed to talk about and to sort out in my own head while writing it.
Overall, through all the bad things (sickness, long waits for showers, dryness, port-a-potties) Creation was still one of the most fun things I have ever taken part in. I wouldn't trade this experience for the world! XD
Squid!
~otaku-chan
PS: If you're watching the videos, or have watched the videos, sorry for the crappy sound quality and shakiness of my videos. They were taken on a digital camera designed mainly for pictures. Plus, I don't have steady hands at all, especially when I'm dancing or being jostled around in the pit at a concert...I definitely know that I can't be a surgeon when I grow up...8)
PPS: There were lots of "Free Hugs" and "Free High Fives" people. It was happy-making :)
PPPS: We met a Naruto sorta-cosplayer!! He was wearing the coat and headband and whisker makeup stuff. My brother got a picture with him. Kat-chan took the picture, so I'll put it on here when she puts her Creation photos on facebook so I can steal it X3
PPPPS: If any of these videos don't work for some reason (like youtube muted them or something) let me know. I've only had to dispute one of them so far *knock on wood* and I'm hoping for no more to get muted.
PPPPPS: Sorry for the very long length of this post. And my apology is just making it longer...
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04 July 2010
I'm Back! (short post)
Hi people!! I missed my blog-buddies!
I won't be able to do my big long Creation post probably until Tuesday -- I just spent about an hour reading peoples' posts that I missed and commenting on them and going through email and replying and going through deviantart messages and watching videos and a bunch of other stuff that I missed during the 4-5 days I was gone :)
So anyway, I just wanted to post some little previews to my large post:
Creation was EPIC!! -- So much fun!
I am VERY tired!
I am VERY excited to be home :)
I am VERY sunburned XP
And I am slightly sick (I can't seem to stop coughing) from all the dust and dryness and yelling (at the concerts X3)
I'm going to give you three pictures as a preview to the epicness X3 (taken by me on my mom's awesome camera that I love):
While I was gone, Kuroshitsuji Season II came out!! I'm not yet sure what to think of this season, but it seems that Sebastian and Ciel WILL be in this season when all previews (and the ending of last season) suggested that they weren't...sooooo I am still unsure what to think.
(Oh, and if you don't know what Kuroshitsuji is: It is a manga and anime -- with the former being very different from the latter -- which is kinda dark and creepy, but also pretty cool. Its about this kid Ciel who makes a contract with a demon (Sebastian). The demon becomes the kid's servant/butler until his wish is granted (sounds like a genie...I'm not totally sure I'm phrasing that correctly, or remembering it correctly for that matter) but after something happens, the demon then gets to devour their master's soul as their food. So, its dark and creepy, but a really interesting story, all the same.)
Annnnndddd: Sora Show 4!!!
It was hilarious. Just watch it. I love Dennis XD
Almost time for Demyx Time 14!! Happy news, but sad that its almost over :(
Oh well, I still have the Shinra Files, Sora Show, and possibly a Kuroshisuji show (judging by a poll they had a while ago on deviantart about if they were to do another show, what series should it be -- most people voted for Kuroshitsuji X3)
Anyways...I really gotta go to bed now.
Grandparent's house tomorrow to pick up mah puppie!!!!!
<3 <3 <3
Night-Night!
~otaku-chan
PS: If you didn't get the whole "speaking of monster" thing, one of Skillet's song is called Monster. Its awesome. If you don't know it, here is their music video:
I won't be able to do my big long Creation post probably until Tuesday -- I just spent about an hour reading peoples' posts that I missed and commenting on them and going through email and replying and going through deviantart messages and watching videos and a bunch of other stuff that I missed during the 4-5 days I was gone :)
So anyway, I just wanted to post some little previews to my large post:
Creation was EPIC!! -- So much fun!
I am VERY tired!
I am VERY excited to be home :)
I am VERY sunburned XP
And I am slightly sick (I can't seem to stop coughing) from all the dust and dryness and yelling (at the concerts X3)
I'm going to give you three pictures as a preview to the epicness X3 (taken by me on my mom's awesome camera that I love):
(Tobymac and his Diverse City Crew -- I caught them while they were synchronously sliding with the music X3)
(Thousand Foot Krutch -- one of my most favorite bands EVER!!! -- Thank you Rachel for introducing me -- you've started a monster...speaking of which...)
(AAHHHH!! Skillet was unbelivable epic awesomeness XD)
Other random updates, while I'm making a not-totally-creation-related post:While I was gone, Kuroshitsuji Season II came out!! I'm not yet sure what to think of this season, but it seems that Sebastian and Ciel WILL be in this season when all previews (and the ending of last season) suggested that they weren't...sooooo I am still unsure what to think.
(Oh, and if you don't know what Kuroshitsuji is: It is a manga and anime -- with the former being very different from the latter -- which is kinda dark and creepy, but also pretty cool. Its about this kid Ciel who makes a contract with a demon (Sebastian). The demon becomes the kid's servant/butler until his wish is granted (sounds like a genie...I'm not totally sure I'm phrasing that correctly, or remembering it correctly for that matter) but after something happens, the demon then gets to devour their master's soul as their food. So, its dark and creepy, but a really interesting story, all the same.)
Annnnndddd: Sora Show 4!!!
It was hilarious. Just watch it. I love Dennis XD
Almost time for Demyx Time 14!! Happy news, but sad that its almost over :(
Oh well, I still have the Shinra Files, Sora Show, and possibly a Kuroshisuji show (judging by a poll they had a while ago on deviantart about if they were to do another show, what series should it be -- most people voted for Kuroshitsuji X3)
Anyways...I really gotta go to bed now.
Grandparent's house tomorrow to pick up mah puppie!!!!!
<3 <3 <3
Night-Night!
~otaku-chan
PS: If you didn't get the whole "speaking of monster" thing, one of Skillet's song is called Monster. Its awesome. If you don't know it, here is their music video:
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