well, i think this is my blog thing.

jueves, junio 24

vacation's all i ever wanted

its bed time. only 10:30 and im gonna be so tired. we're leaving at 4 am tomorrow because the church group we're going with wants to. im driving separately so i gotta get my sleep. dont think ive ever driven that early before. ive driven that late.

in other news, i got the gamecube and one game. so now i can play it till im sick of it or until i get zelda for cheaper than the 50 bucks it costs now. hershey park, which is a theme park with rollercoasters and the works (in case you thought there was just chocolate), was wonderful-- the weather and lines were great. i guess lack of lines is a better way to say it. we went through one of hte newer coasters about 4 times in probably a half hour. my legs hurt a great deal from that.

until i get back, adios

martes, junio 22

eventuality

ahh. now i can relax. for a little bit at least. the surprise shower is done and went much better than i had imagined. im always thinking up the horrible ways these things could go wrong but fortunately it was good. it was actually a surprise, i surprised myself by this because i am a horrible liar and fabricator. there was plenty of food and just the right amount of people showed up. sarah enjoyed it, which was the point, so success!

im so tired from today. cleaned since i got up until the party and then entertained. then joe, sarah and i watched schizopolus. weird movie. but funny. now its time for an early sleep because i gotta get up early. going to hershey park with my lil sis and we gotsta leave early. i hope im awake and energetic enough for this hot, standing in lines, theme park kind of day where im sure leah wont want to leave until closing. woo hoo!! too much excitement for me. leah and i will have a great time. i couldnt ask for a better sister (except maybe one that remembers to close the basement door so i dont run into it). i dont have to worry about anything anymore except finding the park ok. then we go and buy a gamecube, play for a day and then its midwest trip time. hope that goes ok and i dont outstay my welcome. i can always sleep in my van if so.

my house has never been so clean. nite nite.

lunes, junio 21

luck be a lady tonite

this is lame. i cant do 9 more posts. especially when im half convinced its all for naught. im sure its a random offer, not based on how many posts you do. curse my luck. this happens often to me. getting passed up with the really good offers. i was almost certain i could get the beta warcraft cuz i was a girl and surely they needed all types of testers =) nope. its not to be. ive spent a lot of time trying to think of just when it was that i used all my luck. assuming that one has an alloted portion of luck during their lifetime. maybe my time hasnt come yet. i just gotta be patient and i'll win something big.

oh and since beth came back and left one more time, i win by forfeit on her part.

the winner

so im not so great at literati. im losing badly. but my theme was awesome there for awhile. oh wait, news just in. my opponent left. haha and i was down by half her points. beth, this is what you get when you mess with me.

the first of 11

my job tonite is to post many more times in order to obtain something that i think i can get if im around 30 posts. of course this is probably retarded. im sure its random. but i want a freakin beta of gmail. it will solve all my problems. no more worry about my itty bitty space at hotmail that is quickily filling up because i hate erasing mail.

also, im playing literati on yahoo with beth and i am awesome at this. my first game and i got 3 pretty good words that surprisingly, and i didnt notice this until after the fact, have a theme to them. 'strong', 'bikers', and 'torsos'. hilarious! maybe amanda, my biggest fan, is rubbing off on me? you seem like the biker babe type manda =)

so next week i'll hopefully be making my rounds in the midwest. i hope to see a lot of people in a week and a half, hope i can get it all done.

domingo, junio 20

aloha

my latest dreams for my immediate future have a lot to do with hawaii. i was talking to emily on the phone and she asked me how hawaii was looking for my family and i. i had almost forgotten about it because it got pushed back. awhile ago my parents told me my dad (who goes on a lot of business trips that last weeks sometimes) might get to go work in hawaii for a year or so. because the gov't likes to waste money and luxuriously provide, he woudl be paid as if it were a shorter trip... as i understand it, instead of getting paid a yearly salary he gets paid for each night's hotel and food. this leaves extra and would mean my family could come out and get an apartment. its like a year of vacation. of course i would still have the problem of being further from my friends and feeling bored and useless. but at least i could bribe my friends to visit me. lets face it, wouldnt you be more likely to visit a friend living in hawaii than in pennsylvania? sure its a little more expensive but you wouldnt have to pay a hotel and what a vacation!

originally all this was supposed to happen this summer. i didtn feel too bad about this all if it happened directly after graduation, but now its being pushed back to next year, spring or summer. its almost for sure it will happen eventually but i may not be around =/ i dont really want to stick around not furthering myself and living at home for a year just to go to hawaii. but i dont want to start something and not be able to quit to go with them. it seems like a great opportunity. i had kinda dismissed the whole plan until i remembered that i could possibly work on my masters. the university of hawaii is near where we would be staying, i think. and they have masters programs for linguistics. if i could do that, at least i would keep myself occupied. and until we left, i coudl get a job here and pay off some of my massive debt ive incurred.

this is all speculation still. i have a couple months to think about it and do more research. i have no idea how much that school would cost or if i could get in, but its worth some thought. like i said, its a 'dream' so far.

to change the subject, its 56 degrees outside. this sudden change of temperature every few days is annoying. which reminds me, i just watched the day after tomorrow, which i enjoyed. it was great looking and it was interesting, if not entirely believable. oh the irony of the u.s. emigrating to mexico. as my grandfather said, the environmentalist must have been pleased with the movie. i cant get over how amazing the eyes of the mega-storms looked. i think the movie was made by the same guy that made independence day, which i enjoyed at the time. that was one of my first movies that i bought for myself.

isaac jaffe

i miss that guy a lot. he and dan rydell, even casey to some degree. but mostly just the first two. ah sports night. get your hands on the series is you have no idea about what i am talking, and if you do, watch it again for good measure. i'd borrow it from a friend, but alas i dont live in the same region as most =(

i am reminded of him because i saw him appear on the movie big fish. funny movie by the way. i like tim burton and most of his films a lot. and he's back working with music writer danny elfman. great music.

more later i suppose.

jueves, junio 17

clean folk in kentucky

so i happened on this awhile ago. i find it funny and wanted to tease a friend who lives in kentucky. i forgot about it until i found it today while spending hours cleaning my room.

was there ever really a need for these laws?

oh and feel free to leave a stupid little comment at least once if youre reading my gaylog. anytime, not just this one. those of you who have fallen into this kind of thing know what im talking about, even a couple comments are extremely encouraging. they make us want to write more interesting things for you to read. if entertainment is what youre going for.

oh yeah, i accidently deleted my post before this. something about batteries being included in things you buy nowadays. i cant remember what it said... sorry about that. there were some good comments.

martes, junio 15

so far, so bad

this new video editing may be harder than i thought. it was going alright until i stopped being able to hear sound on my clips. too bad. i had some funny moments of futurama and family guy ready to convert to mp2 (i think). this may have something to do with my watching tv while trying to edit =) i couldnt help it. havent watched adult swim in so very long. i'll have to read up more about what im doing before messing with anything important. i also need to figure out how to not use a Gb for a few second clip (i might be exaggerating a bit).

maybe i can get that family guy scene again. it was the one where they inherit a house from lois' rich aunt and stewie commands a butler to cut his milk. whoo... crack me up.

the wave of the future

so for once i am pretty darned envious of my parents and their advanced technology. normally my mother fills her computer full of so many programs and whatnot that it quits working prematurely. i cant stand using it for more than 5 seconds, not even to check my mail. but this computer is different, or it could just be that they havent had it long enough to bog it down.

anyway, we discovered today how one can watch cable tv on the computer, while still connected to the internet. not only this, but we can record tv programs and videos to dvd through the computer! this may not be new for any of you readers but i sure am impressed. ive heard of this but never dreamed that we would be in possession of such technology. so this neat toy is mine to play with because my parents cant figure it out for themselves! woo hoo! lucky me. now if i can get back into any of the tv programs i once watched... i find it hard to watch anything since ive gotten used to not watching tv at college. i had no time nor the resources to watch much of anything. hmm. cartoons are always good. i can get some good screen captures too. ah this will be delightful =)

lunes, junio 14

in sickness and in gaming

colds are no fun. especially in the summer when its hot. especially when i dont have school ever again. especially when i have plans to go to a friend's. they always go straight to my lungs after a day or so. yucky. i like being able to breathe.

i'd put a poll on here if i could. but i dont know if its possible and i'm not messing with anything complicated. anyway, i know what most people will say, and have already said to me about this. i think i'm getting a gamecube. i know i have too many video games already, but no recent ones. we need to get rid of the playstation and sega genesis. but ive wanted a gamecube since they came out. this is how my video game purchases always are. i never get anything when it first comes out. always wait until they are cheaper. thats how it was with the n64 and we still play that daily. so i dotn think it will be a waste of money. and those of you that tell me there are no good games for the gamecube, there are enough for us. the main draw for me is the new zelda game, and i hear that another will be coming out next year. there are plenty of multiplayer games that my sister will play with me too. so if anyone wants to make suggestions of good games, please do.

hmm, i think im gonna go play the n64 zeldas right now. best games ever.

see the freakish things they come up with?

viernes, junio 11

mi nicaraguita

do you ever notice how just when you really need to mail something, those in charge decide that everyone should take the day off and mourn? argh. when i die, the whole postal system will not shut down for a day. its not fair, and it makes my mail late.

reagan could be my least favorite president. i dont know all the details but from what ive heard about and seen in nicaragua, his actions are shameful. but im not going into politics. as i said, i know too little to make judgements, although it just doesnt seem right.

wow. memories are brought back en masse by these pics from nicaragua. beautiful country.

the ex-dictator's mansion

volcanoes in the middle of lago nicaragua



paradise-like


sigh. the more i think about central america, the more i want to go back. i really miss so much about it. the weather, the scenery, the people, the language, especiallly the food =)

ive been thinking about where i want to go, while i want to see the rest of the world it really doesnt make sense for me not to go back, at least for awhile.

anyway, if you like these pics i'll have more later.

jueves, junio 10

patriotism


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martes, junio 8

Princess of Power

so its been awhile. i figure, maybe if i skip a few days whatever i have to say will seem that much more interesting.

we got cable internet, but thats only in one room. so this weekend we bought a router. i love how the package said get connected in '3 easy steps!' cuz i had an idea that it wouldnt be that easy but the box tricked me into thinking it would be easy, after all, step three was 'use the internet' or some such nonsense. of course it didtn work. we spent hours fiddling wiht the settings and ip numbers. finally my good computer type friend solved our problem in 5 seconds. it was amazing and im forever in his debt. because now i have cable. not only that, but wireless cable.

i had to babysit today. i havent done that, not with other people's children, in a few years. sure i worked at a daycare type place and i watched my kid sister but actually babysitting and diapers and all that.. its been awhile. one of my friends volunteered me and i felt bad saying no. when i first heard that there was a 2 year old boy and an 11 year old girl, i thought 'oh no, a baby.' you'd think the 11 year old wouldnt be so bad compared to the other. i was so annoyed at her the whole time. she was in a bad mood and rude. i tried talking to her and being sympathetic but gave that up after awhile. she said i talked to much. screw that. so the boy is the sweetest little kid ever. cute, well behaved, cheerful. complete opposite. he took a nap after awhile and i may be wrong but i think there cant be much worse than waking up a baby. so what does the girl do? wakes him up. i was so mad! of course he was grumpy from being woken up. argh. and she just laughed. she also was torturing their grandmother's cat every time i looked at her. that and watching tv. what a brat. if they call again, i think i'll be too busy to put up with that crap. its kinda sad because i liked the baby.

enough complaining. at least i made a good bit of money. ha. now that i think about it, i dont think they'll be asking me back. they looked surprised when i said i hadnt babysat in a long time and i guess i didtn feed them enough. im not good about that. mom always got on my case about letting my sister go hungry. i just dont think about it if im not hungry, and kids dont always tell you when they are.

went to sarah's to spend the night the other day. it was fun. i havent done that since high school. we played some video games, watched the commentary on spinal tap (which is hilarious). we also went to see harry potter. i like those movies. good entertainment. i should rent the others with this blockbuster insanity. sarah's dog is great. she sounds like a monkey and her name is she-ra -- thats right, like the 80s cartoon.



miércoles, junio 2

first post of june

what a momentous occasion. june already. wow the time flies right past. and i know the thinger says 'june 2nd', but im still awake and soon going to sleep, so its still the 1st. im not late.

so what is this, week two of my summer that isnt a summer... that is to say that its not so much summer vacation from school since i have no more school. i have this horrible forboding (word?) about sitting on my bum aroudn here. its like my life is wasting away and not going forward when so many of my friend's are making important steps... like getting married, and so forth. so ok, i dotn exactly do nothing. but i do take my time about everything i have to do. when you dont have to be somewhere, it is a whole heck of a lot easier to take 2 hours to get ready in the morning. i really dont know how i do it, but its easy to do. i have this list of things to do/accomplish this summer. so far the only things ive done are related to movies i wanted to watch. i need to research jobs,overseas programs and such. but that takes so much time! and thinking too. i havent done much of that.

hmm. what else. my hand is a sluggish extension of my arm that works not quite as well as i'd like. i spent most of the day cutting fabric, sewing and sicsor cutting it more to help out my mom with a quilt for tomorrow. yikes. i have impressed the shape of scissors (there it is!) on my forefinger and thumb. it makes it harder to type. very cute quilt though. hopefully it will turn out to be nice and soft.

good movies ive seen lately: millenium actress- another reminder of how the anticipation of something is sometimes better than obtaining that something, tokyo godfathers, and thats all. wow. it feels like ive watched more than that. guess not. as you might be able to tell, my side bar ----> is now fixed. and hopefully my photos will be showing from now on. thanks tara and ashley =) much obliged.

this is getting boring. im done now.