This Wasn't Tile Before

Blog No. 38: This Wasn't Tile Before

More manual labor. UGH!

Today's agenda revolved around getting the stuff behind the stairs out and trashed/sorted. The under-the-stairs was jam packed full of bins being barricaded by the TV stand and two matching shelves. Some of the items include an old DVD player, VCR, a bin full of empty CD cases, a bin full of pottery, the Xmas tree, and a park bench. Why the park bench? It was an idea long, long ago that it would be decorative in the living room. Why hide it under the stairs? An infant hit their head on the metal...

It was just me and John again working it out, pulling stuff and dusting the heck out of everything. John isn't too talkative, but I have noticed that he's opening up more and more. I know it's weird to say, but he allowed me to reflect on the years I've been at that house. 14 years. 14 years of stories and dust! XD

I remembered back when the living room did not have tile floors before. I was the reason it went from carpet to tile. You see, on one of those days when me and my cousin, Ruben, were kids, we were left alone alot to do various nonsense things. Video games, sliding down the stairs on seat cushions, hand stands, etc. One day, Ruben was sliding down the banister, being all cool and whatnot and I decided that I could do it too. All I remember was sliding down the banister, then suddenly wake up on the couch. I also had some weird out-of-body experience where I felt Ruben frantically moving about, cursing and calling up our moms. We were lucky it was a carpet I fell on and not anything else. So to prevent a fiasco like that from ever happening again, the floors were replaced with tile. END. XD

Yeah. Arms are sore from lack of arm strength.

Side Note: Kaylah texted me yesterday with a picture of some cord in her hand, with text down below it saying "Is this your phone charger?" How could I forget that??? So I have to wait until the wedding for Kaylah to come up from Santa Cruz with my charger... I was sure I had it... The blondie will never let me hear the end of this one now...

What-To-Do-While-Procrastinating-For-Chemistry-Homework-(So What I'm Clearly Doing Right Now) To Do List:

1. Convince Kaitlyn and the guys to start a blog.
2. Curse my down-syndrome keyboard.
3. Download my songs from my iPod to the computer so that it can die.
4. Finish my "To Do List"
5. Check my blog for grammar/spelling errors.
6. Fake losing my calculator.
7. Listening to some obscure myspace bands.
8. Pet Chlamydia and the BATMAN, the superpets on facebook I look after.
9. Type some more...

Lomo has a hat now...

XD

School on a Friday

Blog No. 37: School on a Friday

I don't have class on Fridays... So why am I here?

Mom drove me to ARC at noon, a whole hour late of when I wanted to be there... Only to find out that the clarinet sectional/choir is not until 1:00, or at least that was what I had written down... Weird...

So I walked to the cafe and within a couple of steps of walking in, I here a faint, but audible yell, "RABBIMAN!" Of course all the guys happen to have converged to one table. It was actually the first time I've seen Patric since the start of the school year. Odd.

They ended up going to Chipotle, so I thought that, seeing as it was 12:30 by now, I would go to practice some clarinet early. On the way to the practice rooms, the two flautists, Liz the Dominatrix and Jennifer (whom I have decided to call Sergeant Pepper), were walking in the opposite direction, telling me that Bianca was looking for me. Sorry. The sectional was at 12:00.

I need to write numbers down more clearly...

Anyways, not to toot my own horn, but that's what we basically did in the practice room. No references to cheese cutting. We did not go over the performance pieces, but rather went over the stuff for Concert Band. So it was more of a sectional than a rehearsal...

After an hour or less, we got kicked out by that blonde dude, also a clarinetist, who was very prissy... Apparently we were cutting into his rehearsal time too.

Clarinetists are weird...

So I lifted all of my stuff and moved it across the hall to the piano lab. Spent an hour on the keyboard, cranking out the performance piece for Piano, due Monday. Saw Darius, Bianca, and other music majors in between being all frantic and whatnot during my break. Ended up showing off my "awesome" nonexistent drum set skills. Then moved into a practice room with an acoustic piano to practice my fortes and pianos, as well as some choir music.

By then it was 4, waiting for 5 for the Phi Theta Kappa meeting.

I got a text sometime during my practice from BLAH, wanting me to help her escape from her history class. So, I thought I go pay her a "visit." I walked to Davie's Hall and searched in the classrooms to see which one she was in, then texted "I see you..." to her phone, prompting a confused WTH face and a looking toward the door glance, which lead to the OMG you-frikken-scared-me-that-was-hilarious reaction. XD

It's the small moments.

The PTK meeting started. Followed the agenda. Tossed some volunteer project ideas around. Ended up hurting the feelings of someone from the radical Christian club on campus. The usual.

Then at the end, I looked at the chalkboard at the other end of the room and saw a little distinct drawing that I recognized:

Made me happy. Made me miss Taka. Then made that moment just sad.

So to my question: So why am I here?
My answer: NO idea.

What-To-Do-On-Fridays-So-That-I-Don't-Die To Do List

1. Pick up my sketchbook and start drawing again.
2. Come up with random art projects.
3. Bother Kaylah in Santa Cruz.
4. Vandalize public property.
5. Practice piano.
6. Take up knitting.
7. Come up with a cosplay costume for Fanime.

Toodles.

Webcams, or, Italian Class

Blog No. 36: Webcams, or Italian Class

I usually write when my day is done, but I have some time, especially since there was no Italian today... XD

Link is giving Piper a back massage, and Taka is prolly stumbling online. King left me his computer so that it can be on while it downloads more homoerotic porn, or some anime thing... I have to stay here in the cafe to wait until biology at 6.

Currently listening the parody song "I Kissed Your Mom" for some reason.

Piper brought Lomo for me today, the teddy bear. If you don't know the story, we have joint custody of the teddy bear and we are supposed to add something to it before we pass it along. It's kinda like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but better.

Anyways, Piper whipped out her awesome webcam today and we tried to get it to work on MSN Messenger with Taka's computer. Unfortunately that did not work for some unknown reason. So we ended up just taking a bunch of pictures with it, most of them of me and Taka:

OH DANG.

Two places... AT ONCE???

Cue dramatic anime music sequence

What-to-Prepare-for-When-Zombies-Take-Over-the-World To Do List:

1. Find a weapons store to hijack. Knives and such DO NOT work. The biggest gun isn't always the best. Remember to get the ammo, even if it does cost too much.
2. Avoid large places, like a Super WalMart, because zombies will have the upper hand.
3. Train a puppy. It will be the only one you have left that isn't a zombie. Plus, it will grow to a carniverous beast that will also ward off zombie attacks. Lap dogs will be useless in the new world.
4. Stock up on moist towlettes and duct tape. The towlettes for the mass quantities of blood that will explode on your person. Duct tape for various reasons, (you wouldn't think of it, but zombies are such whiners, so it'll be good to put a strip of duct tape over their mouths).
5. Have some salt handy. Generic food will be poisonous. Zombie skin, though very tough, will be a good source of protein, potassium, and vitamin B12.
6. Find a rooftop that is liveable on. Zombies never look up, and they are afraid of heights.
7. Portable DVD player and the Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7. It will be boring to only talk to your dog, and the Gilmore Girls never get old. Plus, you'll have the time to look up all the references they make in a single episode.
8. A giant hamster wheel, to act as a manual means of a power source. The popular pet for zombies are the rabid, man-sized hamster, so you don't have to make one.
9. Full body condoms. Trust me. You will be tempted.
10. A giant mirror. You wouldn't think of this either, but zombies are either really curious or really narcisstic. Either way, it'll be a good distraction for when multiple zombies converge.
11. Travel brocures/maps. You can't stay in one place for long, the zombies will get suspicious of your actions. Plus, once all the humans are gone, it'll be good to see the world without any annoying tourists about.
    

That knocked out a good hour or so...

Have fun!

Weird Science

Blog No. 35: Weird Science

Robert Downey Jr. really looked like a girl when he was young... Though his personality hasn't changed much...

Anyways, today was meh. Chemistry is a bore, as always. Really hate Chemistry.

Then I had to go to Piano, ALONE I might add, seeing as Piper had gotten "sick" and everything. Geez... /sarcasm

After Piano, Phillip wanted to play tennis super badly. So him, Susan Surrandon, Gonad, and I walked to Phillip's car, (at the END of the parking lot), to get some tennis rackets. He found out that his car died. Lights were turned on all that time, completely depleting his battery. Totally weird. Then walked to the tennis courts, a galaxy away in the opposite direction from Phillips car. Here's a diagram:

SO far. Yes, Saturn has a beauty mark.

Tennis was fun. Of course Phillip got a little bit too competitive for his own good, and Gonad was certainly no help. Most of the time it was just Susan Surrandon and me Vs. Phillip, whilst Gonad got nachos. I wasn't too bad, I guess. But it was definitely clear that Phillip was leagues better than I was, so I didn't worry about making it in too much.

Then Concert Band. Bianca, the blonde clarinetist, came up and asked about me being part of the "Clarinet Choir" which is basically just a group of clarinetists performing because they can. Seeing as I'm going to be at school Friday, I thought I might as well swing by and check out the rehearsal. But, again, not too sure about it, because of (1) her and (2) lack of time. It would mean that I have to stay late for yet another concert in the concert series...

I should learn to just say no...

Seeing as I'm back in the Blog War, might as well do some list.

What-I-Should-Do-to-be-More-Confident To Do List:

1. Say "No" more often.
2. Talk LOUDER.
3. Stand up with both feet on the ground.
4. Be more awake.
5. Try not to scare people.

Nightskies folks!

Aces Beat Jacks

Blog No. 34: Aces Beat Jacks

Blog Boycott Day 2. Need new punishment.

Funniest thing happened today after Italian. I bought a Grape Crush Soda because they started selling those at the cafeteria. I loved Crush fruit flavored soda since I was a kid. I wasn't finished with it so I thought I put it into my backpack for later. Then, when I went into my backpack to continue drinking it, I pull out Crush Soda, Strawberry flavored. How does Grape Crush Soda turn into Strawberry Crush Soda during an Italian class? I have a frikken magic backpack. Lulz.

First day shooting arrows, got a couple bull's eyes. I'm proud of myself, I'm not afraid to admit that. Of course the downside now is that I have this Archery bruise on my arm from when the bow string fires. Right now it looks like the big dipper on a pink sky. Odd.

Also got some tests back. Aced both the Italian and the Biology! Pat pat on the back.

So I'm glad today. Just wish that Chemistry wasn't a bitch...

Time to start the PreLab. HUUUUHHHHHHHHHG~

Blog War Boycott

Blog No. 33: Ya HEARD Me.

Taka doesn't get texts. I don't know how to change color. There's an ADD IMAGE button when you type in a blog, which EASILY adds in photos from the computer, and its only once a week, which is reasonable for any situation. The only requirement is at LEAST 4 images, so whenever is possible, too.

I'ma boycott the Blog War until Piper get's better rules/punishment. That's the end of that. XD

Anyways, I've just downloaded the Choir music onto my iPod, so if I seem to be ignoring you tomorrow and I have head phones in my ear, there's a reason. If I don't have head phones in my ear and I'm ignoring you, than I have been kidnapped and Kaitlyn somehow found the technology to turn herself into my image. XD

End with a quote:

"Whose strength will come like a natural man after it's cut off?" ---BLAH

Take it and leave it. Turn on, turn off, switch on, turn the dial, flip the switch, light the fire, pull the lever, switch off, start the ignition, begin the countdown, switch on again, kick it into high gear, toggle it, push it, pleasure it ever so, turn it on once more, and explode!

Super Bowl Mania

Blog No. 32: Super Bowl Mania

...Right.

I've come up with a drinking game. During the Superbowlaramallamadingdongthingy, every time someone says "turnover" drink a shot. This is what I did, only shots of caffeine instead of shots of alcohol.

Speakenze which, I totally want this off of thinkgeek.com!:



For those not aware, the medallion is the molecule for caffeine.

I do have a thing for neck jewelry, as my sister and anyone else who has seen my disney related necklaces know. Piper shown me this website one day and I found this. So once I get a credit card for online stuff, I'm getting this. Bet on it.

-->Just had a Zac Efron reference moment in my head. Ew... He ruined the phrase "Bet on it" for me after that song of his. *shudders*

New tangent:

Blog War [David's Rules]:
1. Any new Blog War participant must follow January's Blog War rules. This entails Pipers Rules (inserting song lyrics in blog titles), Taka's Rules (acronyms, such as "lol" or "wth," are forbidden), and David's Rules (emoticons, such as XD or o 3o , are forbidden). All those who wrote these rules are exempt. This rule will stay in affect until February 28th.

2. In the spirit of Black History month, all participants must take a picture with a member of the African-American community. The picture must include you, the person (i.e. JT, Abril, Carolina...), and some indication of the word "February." One picture must be posted once a week until February 28th. Repeats are not allowed. If the participant is a member of the African American community, a picture of just themselves is not allowed.

OK, now that business is taken care of, back to the blog.

... Right the "Super Bowl"... I just cheered for the Arizona Blue Birds because everyone else rooted for the Pittsburg Iron Oxides...

I'm watching Beauty and the Beast right now, one of my all time favorite Disney movies. That, and Aladdin. I'm also doing my chemistry homework before tomorrow.

I think I did all that I needed to do. Goodnight and farewell. :P

(SO glad I can do the emoticons again. XD)

OH, and also for Piper and Taka: BRING YOUR WORST. :D