So, today was haircut day for the family!!! I ended up going through with the red and the cut! o.0 I was brave for once....But it turned out GREAT! I really really love it! Even though the cut is not exactly as emo as I would have liked, its still awesome. I took some pictures on my webcam, so I know they're not the greatest quality, but you can get the gist. And my sister decided to join in some of the pictures, so she's in there too...
(You'll probably have to click on it to see the full picture with more detail -- if you want. I mean, I ain't that pretty, so you may not want to...)
(Oh, and my wall is included in the picture X3. My lovely anime poster wall <3 <3 <3 I luvs it!!)
(Ignore the mess on my sofa and desk...I need to clean my room...but that half of the room had the least mess, so I took pictures facing that half...)
(How many captions can I put on one picture???)
Anyway...we also took a random little video with my webcam. Its kinda almost funny sometimes...but I figured I'd post it anyway, to show how goofy we are X3. (As a warning, the background music is very low, but my sister's screams are very loud, so don't turn it up too much....Oh, and the person I'm sometimes talking to is my bro. He didn't want to be on camera because he doesn't like his new haircut XP)
Well, none of these really show good quality...well, I guess you'll get better quality in the pictures from CREATION!!! Soooooooooooo excited!!!!!! Only 5 more days!!!!!!! Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
I believe that is all...
Squid!
~otaku-chan
PS: I'm (hopefully) getting my driver's license on Tuesday!!!!!!! W00t!
*Gasp* KellyJane (aka Axel from Demyx Time) got a blog!!!! I'm now a follower X3
Anyway, on to what I actually wanted to say: Today, we had a Shattered Dreams presentation. It was this thing against drunk driving. First, all the juniors and seniors went to the gym and watched this movie about these kids from our school at a party and drinking and then getting in a car crash and crushing a teacher between the cars (the crash itself confused me, but that doesn't matter much). Then, we all went out in front of the school and they had the cars there crushed together as if they had actually crashed and the kids were in the cars with fake blood and all. This one girl was draped over the hood of one car as if she flew through the windshield. I thought it was rather realistic looking. They had, I believe, 5 firetrucks come and 3 or 4 ambulances and a MedeVac helicopter (that was pretty awesome). One girl in the car was crying. The "witness" of the crash kept pacing and then yelling frustratedly. I might have cried if I was closer and could actually see what was happening... So then, we went back inside and watched a video about them in the hospital. Three people "died" and one girl was in a coma for 3 months. The drunk driver lived. After the video, we went back to class. Through the rest of the day, over the intercom they played a flatline every 22 minutes to show how often a teenager dies in an alcohol related car accident. They had a "grim reaper" come and get people every time one of the flatlines happened and they stayed out of class (as I understand it, at least). Then, we went back 9th and 10th period for the funeral in the gym. Then they played a video with pictures of the "victims" and it was very sad. Then, they showed the court hearing for the kid who was driving. He got sentenced to 8-25 years in prison (I think). After the funeral, there was a guest speaker. Her boyfriend was killed by a drunk driver. The guy had 17 drinks before driving home. Then, the accident happened. Her boyfriends father was right behind them and ran up and his son was really injured. He told him, "You are loved! You have to fight!" He just nodded and then died. This girl telling the story is what got me crying. She was practically crying when she told it! And the guy who killed her boyfriend didn't actually have a license. It was revoked because of DUI. So he got sentenced to 6-25 years. He got out after 6... So after that, the organizer of Shattered Dreams came out and talked for a minute, then showed a video. It was very graphic. I think the school actually did a really good job covering all bases and making sure that kids are listening. I know that a high percentage of the kids in my high school drink. They talk about it often! (in study hall for the most part). I have nothing against people who drink. Its just better if its actually legal. And if the people drinking are not idiots when their sober, so who knows what they'll do when their drunk?! I don't know if you can tell, but I am anti-drinking, or at least anti-underage-drinking. I know what it can do to you because I saw what it did to my Mom and Dad. My mother divorced my biological father because he was an alcoholic and it was getting out of hand (as far as I know. I was only 2-3 yrs old). She took my older brother and me and moved to my grandmother's house for a little while. I remember that. Then, she met my step-dad (who I call my dad now). My older brother and I didn't like him at all at first. I was like a demon-child whenever he was around. But he still stuck around through the many scary glares and temper-tantrums and the many painful kicks in the crotch (I may not have understood the difference between guys and girls when I was 4, but I knew that kicking a guy there hurt him a lot, which was my goal at the time...I really didn't like him). When they first got married, my mom and my dad both drank and smoked often. Same with practically my entire family. Then, it seems our whole lives turned around when Columbine happened and my mother told my father that we needed to start going to church so we don't end up doing something like that (or if something like that happens to us, we're okay for the afterlife). My parents quit smoking and drinking. My grandparents quit smoking at least and don't drink as much around us kids. But I see what alcohol did to my family and I know I have an addiction gene in me from both sides of my family, so I don't want to drink or I won't be able to stop. I don't like the idea of having little-to-no control over my mind and body. As I said already, I don't care if other people drink and do it responsibly. But I don't want to do it myself. Its my own choice. I'm not trying to force my own opinions down other people's throats. Now I'm really ranting, so I'm going to stop now.
Hmmm...So a real downer of a day...Good thing was that we only had 3rd, 4/5th, 6/7th, and lunch. And the 3 periods that I actually had were really just study halls. Then, we got dismissed to 10th period for the last 30min of school and I go up and our teacher wasn't there. I mean, he's my Chem teacher and he just randomly leaves the classroom to wander around the school. I run into him in the randomest places when I'm walking between classes! Its kinda creepy!!! But anyway, he wasn't there, so our class just chilled without a teacher. People wanted to just leave school and drive home, but they apparently had security guards posted at every exit, so they just waited it out...
So, in my very boring study hall periods, I had a chance to draw a picture!! First, I drew it in pencil. Then I came home after school and outlined it in thin tip permanent marker. That didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, so I scanned it into my computer and messed around with it on photoshop and ended up with this!!!
These two are the characters of my fanfiction I mentioned a few times. Its Yuui and his twin sister Fay. My brother said this picture looked like they were playing an odd game of rock-paper-scissors. That is not what I intended. I meant for it to be Yuui gesticulating and Fay hitting him because he's making fun of her or something along those lines. I was really working with creases in this picture. I hardly ever draw them, but I was bored and had enough time today, so I did them and I think they turned out alright. The background is just there because I didn't draw a background and it looked boring without one, so I put shapes X3. And I put minor Fai-like things on them -- Yuui's shirt has Fai's staff on it and Fay's necklace is almost like Fai's staff as well. I like Fai's staff. Its awesome 8) And Yuui is wearing converse shoes!!! (or my attempt at them...)
And I just thought I'd mention. I'm listening to my iPod right now and "What is This Feeling" from Wicked was just on, and it just changed to "One Winged Angel"-- Sephiroth's song XD
This is a really long post X3 I should stop now. Maybe tomorrow, I'm thinking of putting more of my pictures (more recent ones!! As in, from last year and this year!!! -- Other than the picture above, of course).
Squid!!! ~otaku-chan~
PS: An extra funny little story. During the second half of the presentation, I had some strange mixture of the songs "Animal I Have Become," "My Sitar," and "Oh oh oh Sexy Vampire" stuck in my head. If you don't know them, here are some youtube videos featuring them:
Yeah, just imagine having all three stuck in you head at once...During a drunk driving presentation...X/
Half my busy weekend is over!! So, in case you didn't read my last post, I went on a college visit today at Messiah College. I wasn't sure what to expect. **from here, I will bore you with details I learned about the college that you can skip if you want** Its a Christian college (as you can guess by the name) and I didn't know what kind of academics they had. I was actually really impressed! It seemed to place a lot of importance in academics and scholarship and their science program seemed really good (I want to go into Biochemistry). They said it was a really difficult program, but it definitely prepared students for the real world (of course all colleges would say that, but I think they were actually telling the truth). We got to see the labs and they had all kinds of cool lab instruments and computer things that I didn't know what they were, but they looked high-tech! And I learned that about 90% of their science students do research projects with faculty and can get their work published. What really proved the quality, for me at least, was that they often work alongside Franklin & Marshall College for research projects. F&M is my other top-choice school and I know that they are very well known for their science program and they wouldn't associate with Messiah unless their science was on par with F&M's science. So that is good! Unfortunately, now Messiah and Franklin & Marshall are tied for top choice. As Katherine and Rachel know, I'm horrible at making decisions--especially really important ones like this. They are basically the same when it comes to academics. Its just little things that Messiah has and F&M doesn't and then F&M has other things that Messiah doesn't. Its like, if you squished F&M and Messiah together, they would be my perfect college!! It so frustrating!!! I just have to sort out my priorities, I guess...DX But other than the growing indecision, it was a fun day. **End of really boring part of post** What was really odd is that I saw 2 people that I knew at the college today. Its not like its right next door either. Its like seeing someone you know when you're on vacation hours away from home. It just weird!! 1st person - a guy that goes to my church and is on the worship team with me. He just walked by and I'm like, 'I think I know him...' It was early morning, so my brain wasn't working too well. But that was weird. 2nd person - Katherine and Rachel may know him -- his younger brother played Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace and a Candlestick in Beauty and the Beast (I know from old play programs which I keep for things such as this) and his last name rhymes with Figelow...?? (if you don't understand my hints, I may remember to tell you on Monday). So, he was our tour guide. That was weird. He told us to say our names and where we were from and I said, "I'm from S------" and he said "No way! I'm from C------!!" It was really really weird... So that was my interesting day...It left me feeling just tired and confused about what I'm going to do for my future...Oh well, I'll figure it out someday :)
On another note, I was extremely tired. And when I'm so overtired like that, I get hyper. I was with my brother at the time and I started spouting out random stuff about cannibalism and spontaneous combustion and pokemon and whatever else popped into my mind. At one point, it got really weird when my brother said he wants to sell his pokemon cards. Then out of nowhere I started ranting nonsense about my having my own demon wolf customers that come to me through the magic door (which actually leads to the utility closet) and buy my shiny pieces of paper because they don't have shiny things in their demon world and I got in his face about selling is super-special-pokemon cards on MY turf and how he's going to run me out of business and I won't be able to buy my PS3 and then he'll have another thing coming! I sounded like a drug dealer. Anyway, I continued to threaten to have my wolves kill them in his sleep in exchange for super-discounted shiny paper and when he woke up in the morning he wouldn't actually ever wake up because he'd be dead, but he would wake up and be a ghost and he wouldn't even know he's dead and how he could be dead already and not know it!! Mwahahahaha!!!!! . . . All the while he's literally rofl-ing (hehe. if you say it like it is spelled, it almost sounds like waffling (as in waffle as a verb)<--which is apparently a word because it wasn't underlined in red!! And I know that saying rofl-ing is kinda redundant, but the rhyme with waffling made me giggle so I'm keeping it up there).
So, I believe that is all I have to say for today. I have another early start tomorrow for worship. Katherine and Rachel are still welcomed to youth group if they get this before 6-7pm tomorrow. Its at our church "Den" and I don't know or want to put up the address so you will have to contact me to get the address or get a ride there. You guys are also welcome on any other day we have youth group (I'm pretty sure its every other Sunday at 7pm starting this Sunday). It would be fun for friends to come sometime! We have a good time! We have food! We have table-tennis!
I watched D.Gray-Man anime a while ago and was amused by several images, so I got screencaps of them and just decided to put them on here because I recently found them again!! Enjoy!
Bak looks like Light from Death Note!!!
Extreme Hotness!!! *fangirl squeal*
Does Allen have a heart on his forehead?? (first thing I thought when I saw this scene X3)
Jet-powered butterfly boots activate!!
Allen looks a lot like Ed!!!!
Speaking of Ed Elric, the anime I just watched today was FMA: Brotherhood!! And there were some interesting pictures in the opening and ending...
Even Ed Elric has his male model moments...
Elric clones?! (Seriously, what the heck??? Why are they all blond and golden eyed and staring at us???)
How some people may feel after reading this blog post T.T or more like T (because its only 1 eye...)
Jacob!!!! You hacked into my blog!!!! (Though, I vaguely remember him asking me if he could write something and I was distracted so I said, "Yeah, whatever"...) Katherine: Of course you can cosplay, too!!! I want to, at least once, do a cosplay convention with our whole book black market. That would be EPIC!!!! Snugtrition: I will put up pictures of our attempts at my bro's hair...eventually. It wasn't the best, but it was still fun! LeahPeah: I love my kitty!! XD And it sucks that your teacher doesn't like you. That always makes school much less fun than normal.
Anyway, on with my actual post. Happy Easter!! I know that was yesterday, but whatever. I had to sing again in church yesterday and it was kinda chaotic. We didn't have practice during the week like usual, so we just practiced in the morning. The leader forgot the lyric sheets, so we had to rely on looking at the small monitor that showed the lyrics that they show on a screen behind the worship team, and sometimes, the person in charge of the moniter forgot to change slides so we were still looking at the lyrics of the previous verse. Then, when we started, I had gone to all the trouble of making sure I had a water bottle with me on stage. The lady next to me on the worship team stole my water (probably thinking it was hers)!!! I couldn't say anything since we were starting singing and she probably needed the water more than me (she had just had a baby a couple weeks ago and she was singing a solo that day). But then, I was really thirsty. When the lady's solo started, I couldn't get to the side of the stage with the rest of the team in time and got stuck standing awkwardly between the drummer and guitarist and holding my head down trying not to get noticed. Being incredibly thirsty by that time, I felt like I was going to pass out on stage if that solo went any longer (and apparently, I looked like it too because my mom mentioned it to me later and asked if I felt as bad as I looked...) I can't seem to have a good week when it comes to worship, can I? But, I still think I have a lot of fun up there and I'm surprisingly comfortable singing in front of all those people. Its the before, after, and when I'm not singing, but still up on stage that I have trouble with... It probably didn't help that I had only had about 5 hours of sleep the night before. I couldn't fall asleep on Saturday night into Sunday until about 2am (I guess I was nervous or not feeling well or something. Possibly the latter because I couldn't fall asleep until the same time last night either.) Anyway, I had to wake up at 6:50am on a Sunday so we could do our whole easter basket thing (my family does a thing where the "easter bunny" hides the baskets and then leaves clues in eggs around the house. So it takes a while sometimes). Then, I had to get dressed, in an actual dress (which I do not normally like wearing. I enjoy having pants on...) because right after church we had to go to my grandparents house and have our yearly family picture and we all had to look nice. Speaking of my grandparents house, it was fun. My little cousins were there, the twins, they were so CUTE!! They're really talking now and its funny to see them argue with each other (I know that sounds horrible, but they have sweet arguments: You do it. No, you do it. No you. No you. etc. all the while smiling shyly because everyone is watching them). At one point, Jacob was playing baseball with another of my cousins and I told the girls to go get cousin Jacob with their little toys that shoot light little plastic balls (they don't hurt when they shoot at you, which I know because they were shooting at a lot of us, me included, with those balls). So I told them to get Jacob and they ran after him saying, "Shoot him, shoot him!" in cute little 3-yr-old-girl voices and laughing. X3 After the visit, we went home and relaxed because we were all exhausted and eventually went to bed. I'm kinda worried about myself recently because I couldn't fall asleep last night either. I'm not sure why. Its like I can fall asleep practically anywhere during the day, but when its nighttime, I don't feel tired at all and I can't make myself fall asleep. I can't get comfortable. I can't get my mind to slow down and relax. I feel like I'm going to throw up. I'm too hot under the covers and too cold out of the covers...It really sucks. Hmmm... I think that's really all I have to say in my oddly ADD-ish post. Sorry if all that is hard to follow. ~K PS: I really don't want to do this research paper. The rough draft is due tomorrow. I've got 3 pages done - about 1/3 of the whole paper. Its not very hard, just time consuming. The other parts will be harder because they include analysis of my book and everything...DX It probably doesn't help that I'm writing a blog post when I should be doing homework. I guess you could look at it as refocusing my thoughts (I had just been reading "Fire" by Kristin Cashore and my mind was in a fantasy world for a while reading it, so now I'm trying to get back to real life and work on homework. Hopefully.)
KATHERINE!!! Are you coming to the college visit with me? (Because I just realized today that it was this Saturday, as in 3 days from today...)
Favorite Square-Enix Characters (because my brother just randomly asked me who my favorite SE characters are, so I wrote them down on here and now I'm leaving them because I don't feel like getting rid of them X3): Zack Cloud Riku Axel Sephiroth Vincent Angeal Nero Reno Genesis Yazoo Aerith Tifa Yuffie Balthier Weiss Lulu Kadaj
And because I'm thinking about it, I thought I'd share some of my brother and my jokes (that may not make sense, but they're funny out of context as well):
"No those are not the Death Star and its babies!!" (screamed while my dad was on the phone with someone X3)
"The magazine went to the doctor!!!" (...a joke that my brother tried to say, but forgot midway through what the joke was, so just stopped there and left me confused...)
"My destiny is to become--A SPOONMAKER!!" (another random quote said by my brother, this time while I was playing Final Fantasy XII)
"Me: Cursed MOO!! Jacob: Do your homework! Me: Stop! ...Hammer Time! Both: Dodododo-dodo-dodo Can't touch this! etc." (This one needs explanation. Xemnas sounds like he's saying "cursed Moo" in the final battle and later it sounds like he's saying "do your homework" and he's wearing a very disco-like outfit and for some reason it made us both think of MC Hammer...)
"A group of four heroic dinosaurs do battle with a trio of highly intelligent evil dromeosaurids that have plans for world domination." (an actual description for a show on discovery channel)
"42!!" (self-explanatory)
(Just now while writing this post) "Me: Why are you smelling your own socks!! That's weird! Jacob: I was hitting my head with it!!"
"Joshua killed Zack!!" (what I thought my brother said at one point. Then we both pictured after Zack's death scene, it zooms in on one of the soldiers that killed him and he takes off his helmet and its Joshua--from The World Ends With You!!!)
"I have my own system for how many exclamation points I use, okay?!?! Its very complicated and I'm not going to explain it right now..." (also just said as writing this post)
"Me: You're dumb! Jacob: Your face is dumb! Me: Your mom's face is dumb! Jacob: *dramatic gasp* I'm telling mom!!!"
"Me: *randomly starts singing Savior by Rising Against* If this ain't love then how do we get out? Jacob: How do you do that? Me: *still singing the song* I don't know..." (yet another thing that happened just now and I felt like typing down)
Okay, done with the quotes...Chibi-chan had another weird dream involving me. So, I was apparently on a date with 3 people from Kingdom Hearts (I don't know what kind of person she thinks I am. Another dream had me marrying 6 different people). So there was Axel, Cloud, and another person she didn't see his face but he had big hair and cat eyes (maybe Train from Black Cat? But then Rachel would be mad!!) Axel for some reason thought that Cloud was Roxas in disguise and kept trying to get him to admit it, so he got Cloud ice-cream to coax the truth out of him. Then Xion showed up, stole the ice-cream from Axel, gave it to me, and scolded Axel to stop ignoring the person he came there with! (As she was telling this, I patted imaginary Xion on the head and said "good Xion!" like she was a dog or something. it was strange. apparently I think Xion is short because I patted the air lower than chibi-chan even...) Anyway. Then, we apparently went on those boat things in the "tunnel of love," except instead of the normal music playing, Riot by Three Days Grace was playing...(in response to this, I said, "awesome!!" I love that song!!) So that was the end of the dream...very weird. I think chibi-chan is stealing my weird dreams. I haven't been dreaming at all recently! Of course, I also haven't been sleeping much...but I still think she's stealing my dreams! X3
Okay, ranting about randomness is now over. Katherine, please comment and say whether you are coming or not! Or just tell me at school. But I probably wont remember to ask you at school, so that is why I'm putting it on here. Bye-bye!! ~otaku
