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Today was a good day. My life is not usually the epitome of sorrow and emo blues, so I'm not sure how good that makes this day in comparison, but I digress. Under the category of good things:

• I found out that on September 14th I might not have large amounts of metal attached to various bits of my mouth. Thats right people: After 4.5 years, 2 orthodontists, and hundreds of rubber bands, I am going to get my braces off!
  
• I got a 5 (equivalent of an A) on my AP Euro exam! *dances* Still not exactly sure how I managed to pull that off considering I did -way- less studying than most other people I know, but oh well! I'll take it.
  
• I can (kindof-ish-sorta-dont-ask-me-to-prove-it- because-I'll-freak-out) do a flip off of a diving board. Way cool considering the rest of my swimming skills are abysmal.
  
• I got tickets to HP5 on Wednesday. Mwahaha. Now hopefully I don't torture my cousin (who I am going with) too much with my nerdiness before/during/after the movie. *cough*
• I am Mario Party God. 'nuff said.
• My parents have finally allowed me to start redecorating my room. Generally this can be seen as a good thing, but unfortunately (as with any situation involving parental units) its getting a bit sticky. I want to paint my room green. My mom thinks it is ugly and therefore won't let me. I say Fine, then dark blue with bright green accents. Nooo thats not good either. Orange accents? Nopes. Welll then fine dearest mother, what would be an acceptable color? Gray blue. Me: ......
  Somehow I'm just not seeing myself as a gray-blue type of person. I can tell already that she is only trying to make it so she doesn't have to re-paint when I move out and she turns my room into a gym. -.- Sooo now my room is hospital/insane asylum empty and white. It's actually driving me crazy. Imagine when you wake up tomorrow morning, instead of your nice whatever color room, with books in the bookshelves and posters on your walls, etc you see nothing but white rug white ceiling, white walls, white sheets, white (empty *tear*) bookcases (3 of them), white desk, and white dresser. Im going to go crazy here! Im not a neutral color person!

So other than that last point my day is pretty good, so a cookie for anyone who manages to smuggle in any brightly colored paint and some paint brushes and rollers without my parents noticing! Actually, make that a jar of cookies. Very nice warm, yummy, freshly-baked cookies. You know you want one.

Fun Fact: Did you know that if you walk into the UDF (convenience store) near my house wearing only a bathing suit and a towel at 11 oclock at night the employees don't give you any weird looks? They're so jaded it's like they've seen it before

And yes I do know from experience.

Yes, I'm finally back from Canada. Amuse yourself with this pointless yet amazing game until I find the time to actually update (or stop being lazy, take your pick)

Fun Fact: When the Northwest Territories in Canada were split in two and then renamed, the government held a ballot to determine the name of the Eastern half. The winning name was Nunavut. The name that came in third? Bob

hehe

Yeeessss! New layout! And I actually like this one for a change! Yay! (I like exclamation marks!) So maybe it's not that complex, or intense, but I like it. It's simple, versatile, and as a bonus it took me about ten minutes to code after making the header. I still have a little work to do on the side sections, but that will come eventually.

Ummm... Soooo.... Not that much else to say because the only reason Im updating is because of the layout. Hmmm...

Oooh! I discovered (yet another) webcomic... and this one... is... a... BAND GEEK COMIC! Yes! It's simply amazing.



I can't believe that I had to pick just one comic to represent the whole series here! There are just too many! So I picked one of them that I didn't have to resize... and how can you resist a show called Pimp My Horn? If you ever want some other absolutely hilarious in the band geek-ness but dont feel like wasting your time scrolling through the archives (like I did for hours ^_^ ) I'll show you my other favs.

So yeah... this was a pointless entry, but I wanted to celebrate the new layout. Woo! Party time!

My newest computer hard drive is faulty. Let me take a moment and say (quite loudly) : What. The. FUCK?!?! This is now 3 computers in a row that have completely screwed me over.

First computer: faulty hardrive.
Second Computer: Disk drive cover snaps off within 36 hours of owning it.
Third (and quite possibly final PC given my anger/lack of funding for a fourth computer in 3 years) computer: MELTS power cords and also as it turns out, ANOTHER faulty hardrive.

What is this crap?! I do everything I'm supposed to with these computers- every security feature updates, firewalls, virus scans, EVERYTHING, but still they all feel the need to break and utterly piss me off in every concievable way short of bursting into flames. A flaming computer would at least be cool to watch, but no; the computers are going to piss me of in completely mundane but extremely aggravating ways. I can't take it anymore!

At the moment I'm seriously considering getting a mac for the next computer I own (despite how frequently I tend to make fun of everything apple) just because I can't afford (cash-wise or mentally) to keep taking this shit from my PCs. Maybe I'm being over-critical and melodramatic, but all I know is that when I buy a computer I expect it to work. Not work for a couple weeks/minutes/seconds then die, just WORK. Gahhhhhh! Needless to say, I probably won't be online all that much.

Second on my list of things to rant about today is the book called State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Worst. Book. Ever. Never, under any circumstances, would I ever subject someone to this sorry excuse for a story. Despite having the facade of a plot, the few moments of (extremely repetitive and overdone) action are merely intermissions for long, uninterupted lectures given by one of the robotic drones loosely entitled 'characters'. Let me give you a brief plot summary.

Main character 1: We need to save the world from global warming!
Main character 2: You idiot! Global warming doesn't exist!
Main character 1: Yes it does because of [insert global warming support here]
Main character 2: Ha! You fool! Let me show you how wrong you are! [insert long lecture type information filled with graphs, scientific terms, definitions of said scientific terms, citations, and everything else you might expect to find in a scientific journal albiet extremely dumbed down for the average reader]
Main character 1 interupting: but-
Main character 2: [Continues scientific rant]

Then the characters go off on a mission to a remote place, 2 of them will fall in a hole, romantic tensions build, they all very narrowly escape dying. Repeat back to step 1 several times, slightly altering the charactert pair-ups each time.

That really is the entire book folks. The characters were wooden and unlikeable, the setting was completely irrelevant, and all in all, the book felt like a thinly veiled high-school level thesis on global warming that was dumbed down for the reading public and had characters drawing the conclusions you were supposed to make.

Somedays I feel like life is screwing with me just to see how I react; like a kid poking a bug with a stick. And I'm the bug. The stick this time around is my exam grades. My midterms grades were mostly Cs with the exception of band. My final exam grades were all As with the exception of English (B) and Band which I was exempt from. Guess which exams I studied for. I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with shmidterms.

What?! How is it that I walk into my chem exam, laughing about how Im completely going to fail because I dont remember anything and didn't study at all, and somehow wind up with an A, but freak out about the midterm and study yet end up with a C. It makes no sense!! I'm so confused. I spent my week before finals playing videogames, eating, sleeping, and laughing at people who were studying. Yet I end up with a bunch of As. Life is just messing with me. I know it

I would just like to take a moment to point out the instrument hi-lited at the very bottom of the list...  [I cut the list down a bit as well... too many instruments, quite lengthy]

You scored as Alto Saxophone, Congrats, you got the best, most fantacular and spiffy instrument there is! Well, that's just my opinion, but it really is an awesome instrument! You probably like cheese and other dairy products. You also like gore in movies and such.   Bass Clarinet 98% Conductor 98% Alto Saxophone 100% Guitar 83% ... Recorder 33% Piccolo 17% Piano Forte 17% Clarinet 17% Flute 17% Which Super Spiffy Musical Instrument are YOU? created with QuizFarm.com

I just finished watching Momento. I believe I need to proceed to watch it again. Has anyone seen it/want to discuss the mind-bending amazingness that makes you just want to go '... huh?'

Today was gross as far as summer days can go. I had to get my hair cut and go swim suit shopping. Ew. I suppose I suck at being a girl. One of the many things that bugs me about the hairdresser is the stupid meaningless small talk between yourself and the hairdresser. As if either of our lives is really going to be more meaningful after exchanging thoughts on what grade I'm in, my favorite subjects, and basic career plans. The next time someone asks me what Im going to do when I grow up I think I'll tell them that I'm going to be a space pirate just to end the conversation.



My theme song could be a cross between the Imperial March from Star Wars and the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song. How amazing would that be?

There. Now I feel better about today. Yay paint!

No more papers
No more books
No more teachers' dirty looks

School is OUT!

On a slightly related note: 9 hours of Pirates of the Caribbean can make you go a teensy bit insane. Beware.

Undead monkey!!

You know it's 2 in the morning and you haven't slept in a long time when you get hungry while using your computer and instead of going and getting something to eat, you accidently google 'food'. Wow. I'm going crazy! Which means I probably shouldn't be updating and should just go to sleep... nahhh.

I'm working on re-re-reconciling my relationship with my computer... again (hence the lack of sleep), so I'm just waiting for a couple more updates to download.

In the meantime, I've discovered that the wee hours of the morning is a great time to study for math. Really! I got a bunch of stuff done, and so far the only possible downside I can think of is that I won't actually remember any of it in the morning after I have slept. Oh well.

I'm also breaking out the CSS once more and designing (yet another) layout for this blog, because the one I have now already bugs me (despite the fact I made it less than a month ago). So far the new one is a bit more comprehensive than this one; I'm re-introducing a few of the features that I decided against (mainly out of laziness) in the current.
Disclaimer: Don't whine to me if this layout never actually appears here and is banished to the world of test-blog-dom for ever. I don't care. I tend to be a liiitle lazy from time to time. Deal.

Hm... I think I'm done rambling for now... I know I'm going to wake up the next morning, read this, and think to myself: .... What the hell was I on last night??
Then I might possibly delete the entry because of the shear lack of sense... But maybe not, just to stand as a warning against future midnight rambles.