LULZ, HEY. Four weeks since my last update! Which is a month! And I wouldn't even be updating if I didn't feel the need to CLARIFY a few things (that and the fact that studying for exams got old after about five seconds.)
So, yeah, I'm feeling NITPICKY and irresponsible, so I'm going to crush everyone's beliefs of Balto and Eight Below.
FOR THOSE UNAWARE (and too lazy to click the above links), "Balto" is a 1995 animated movie about the half-wolf Siberian husky named Balto who prances around with an unpleasant goose named Boris, two polar bears named Muk and Luk, and his crush Jenna who is a pure-bred Siberian Husky and has an owner named Rosy who gets inflicted with diphtheria and blah blah blah. Let's not forget to mention Balto's rival, Steele who does antagonizing... things and enemy is supposed to do. Can't remember much of the movie, but yeah, you've probably all seen it anyway, right? "Based on a true story" and all that right? And, hey! Balto's statue is even in Central Park so he must be the bestest, awesomest, super-duper doggie-woggie to ever live because he alone led his team to Nome to deliver the serum to save everybody! Yaaaaaay~!!! ^___^
WRONG >:UUUUU
You've been fed LIES.
While I'm not going to deny that the movie was awesome, it lied in many ways. FIRST OF ALL, Balto was NOT NOT NOT part wolf. And his all his little bouncing animated friends were entirely ficticious. And...
Balto was NOT NOT NOT the REAL hero of the serum run.
A little Siberian husky named Togo was.
Exerpt from le Wikipedia:
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Gunnar Kaasen and his team became celebrities and toured the West Coast from February 1925 to February 1926, and even starred in a 30-minute film entitled Balto's Race to Nome. A statue of Balto by Frederick Roth was unveiled New York City's Central Park during a visit on December 15, 1925. Balto and the other dogs became part of a sideshow and lived in horrible conditions until they were rescued by George Kimble and fund raising campaign by the children of Cleveland, Ohio. On March 19, 1927, Balto received a hero's welcome as they arrived at their permanent home at the Cleveland Zoo. After Balto's death on March 14, 1933, he was mounted and placed on display in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Balto was put down due to age.
But many mushers today consider Seppala and Togo to be the true heroes of the run as together they covered the longest and most hazardous leg. They made a round trip of 261 miles (420 km) from Nome to Shaktoolik and back to Golovin, and delivered the serum a total of 91 miles (146 km), almost double the distance of any other team. After Kaasen's return, he was accused of being a glory hog. Seppala became upset when the media attributed Togo's achievements to Balto, and commented, "it was almost more than I could bear when the 'newspaper dog' Balto received a statue for his 'glorious achievements.'"
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For more information, simply go here and read the TRUTH.
While the movie was nice for a kids' flick, something happened in third grade that quite ticked me off about the whole thing. I was in Mrs. Murray's class and she gave us a reading assignment and we had to pick a non-fiction book to read and get it approved by her. I chose a little kiddie version of Balto. WHAT does she say to me?
"Oh, that's not a true story, nyehnyehnyeh" (minus the "nyehs")
"BUT!" I protest and flip to the back cover where there is a list of the other true stories from the publishing company, "See?! It says it's true right here!"
"Oh, nyehnyeh, it can't be, they're lying nyehnyeh" (YEAH, SHE ACTUALLY TOLD ME THAT THE BOOK WAS PROMOTING "FALSE" TRUE STORIES. WTF?)
I think there was a little "the real story" or something at the end of the book, like a snippet of the history of the serum run and whatnot and then she goes, "Oh, nyehnyeh, I guess it's true... NYEEHHHH."
I told mom and she was all "It's probably 'cause she just watched the movie with her children."
YEAH, ahyuck, 'KAY 'KAY. It just baffled me that she would think a book would claim to be non-fiction when it's actually fiction. I mean, srsly. Now I hope that clears some stuff up, because we're moving onto our next sled dog movie!
Eight Below! A Disney-infected romantization and Americanization of a movie about the 1958 Japanese expedition into Antarctica in which only TWO dogs survive instead of Disney's killing OFF of two! :DDDD The Japanese title is "Nankyoku Monogatari" and it is THE bare-knuckles adaptation of the ACTUAL expedition. With ACTUAL Japanese people. Not prissy-pants AMERICANS. I was lucky enough to see the English version of the movie which was retitled "Antarctica" and borrowed from Hetty and Herman several years ago when "Eight Below" came out. ...*shudder* Poor puppies ;o;
COMPARISONS!!!!!
On the left corner, we have DISNEY'S EIGHT BELOW aka LAME IMITATION THAT STILL WINDS UP TO BE S
And on the right corner, we have JAPAN'S NANKYOKU MONOGATARI, THE TRUE STORY OF THE JAPANESE SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION!!
Annnnd... FIGHT!!!
TIMELINE:
Eight Below (EB)---> 1993
Nankyoku Monogatari (NM) ---> 1958
Winner: NM; Loser: EB because lying gets you NOWHERE
LEADING HERO GUY MAN THING:
EB: American Jerry Shepard!
NM: Uhh.. kind of everyone on the expedition. But Kitagawa stands out because he wants to bury his poor doggies!
TIE. Kind of. They both do the same thing by going to get their dogs back. Buy Kitagawa doesn't need a "heart-to-heart session with an older, veteran guide" to get his ass into gear and rescue the dogs. But Shepard does it quicker; he gets his butt into gear after FIVE months and Kitagawa takes a YEAR. ...BUT NM WINS BECAUSE THE ONLY THING TH
THE PUPPIES:
EB: Pristine little SHOW DOG-looking Siberian huskies that look about as generic as they get. View what everyone believes all Siberian huskies to look like. Ever. For eternity. Those who have seen our Siberian huskies know that there is variety.
NM: The same bred of the actual expedition: Sakhalin Huskies who look much more hardy than the we-never-get-a-speck-of-dirty-on-our-shi
Winner: NM; Loser: EB because lying is a SIN. And I am not biased.
THE NAMES OF THE PUPPIES:
EB: Maya, Max, Old Jack, Shorty, Truman, Dewey, Shadow, and Buck... ICK. I'm sorry, but I don't like when dogs are named such generic people names... or generic names in general...
NM: Goro, Pesu, Moku, Aka, Kuro, Pochi, Kuma (monbetsu), Riki, Anko, Shiro, Jakku, Deri, Kuma (furen), Taro, and Jiro.
NM wins, just yeah, y'know. Goro, Pesu, Moku, Aka, Kuro, Pochi, Kuma (monbetsu) were found dead still tied to their chain. Riki, Anko, Shiro, Jakku, Deri, Kuma (furen) were lost at sea. And Taro and Jiro, the two brothers were the only survivors. Their Disney counterparts must be Dewey and Truman who are twin brothers. In EB, everyone survives except Old Jack and Dewey. So, they just flipped the death toll.
IN THE END... NM is a more documentary approach that doesn't sexually harrass the truth while EB is a more Disney-fluffy-wuffy "based on a true story" with almost no actual facts of the expedition in there. And the reason NM won in every category is its just that, I mean... I know it just says "BASED" but for this, Disney should'nt have even SAID it was BASED because it has almost NOTHING in common from where it derives.
And also.
When you make a movie about sled dogs and have a sledding scene, DON'T FRIGGIN' PUT FAKE BARKING IN THE S
Good squirrels ABOVE!! They did this in "Eight Below" and I mean...FRICK! This is entirely trivial, BUT IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH!!! When the dogs are running, they're not wasting their energy BARKING! It's so POINTLESS to put it in there! It makes it look cheap because its OBVIOUS the dogs are NOT barking. If it's to make it more exciting or something just... no.... NO.
And the reason above that I was especially nitpicky about how the Siberian Huskies looked? At the "PUPPIES" fighting round? Yeah, ah hah hah, we went to go get our puppies a check-up, right? When they were still small-ish? But no REALLY small? LULZ, THE VET NURSE THOUGHT THEY WERE MIXES.
....MIXES!!!! ><
She was like, "Whoaa, maahnnn, are those reeaalllly Siberian Huskiessss?" We were like YES!!! Just because they don't have uniform coloring and look like over-fluffified monstrosities of their former selves does not mean they aren't Siberian huskies! Srsly, like the quota for show dog Siberian huskies now are like SHORT THICK LEGS, SHORT MUZZLE, YOUR-DOG-MUST-BE-DROWNED-IN-HIS-OWN-FLUF
...I can't really explain it well. It's just like show dog breeders seem to take the concept of what a dog is supposed to look like a sqaure it until it becomes a parody of itself. Not just Siberian huskies, but ALL does. They take a small dog and breed them to be smaller and they take a big dog and breed them to be bigger. It's an over characterization of what the dog is supposed to look like.
...Hrm. Now that I've complained enough for another month to pass before I post again, I think it's time to get back to studying... Although, nobody's probably read this far... Holy crap, did I type all of that nonsense...? Cookies to whoever read all of it. *pelts cookies at you*
Huh.... LJ isn't blocked. Sooo tired now all of a sudden -_-;; We're supposed to be answering chapter eighteen questions now in History but.. my energy has completely evaporated. It must've been from the unwiedly hyperness that took place during Flex. At least I answered a couple.
SOSOSO. Old, uninteresting news that really can't be considered significant news, BUT: Persona 4 came the 10th even though Amazon said it was coming the 12th! 8DDDD It is.. amazing. Better than Persona 3. Definately. Absolutely. And... quite often, hilarious. The freakish bear thing mentioned in a previous entry isn't as bad as I thought it would be. But... oh, my google, whoever hasn't played it or wasn't planning to, you must. I'm requiring it. Just do it. Now.
KAY SO. Yesterday we ran all ten dogs that can run! :D Since Dancin is old and can't run and so is Quinn, we ran the rest of the dogs and it was AMAZING >< The puppies were awesome and we're training Tatonka to run up front since Drusilla has been failing. And getting fatter. THEN, we went to Aunt Lisa's BED & BISCUIT doggy day-care/leave-your-dog-here-for-vacatio
...Hnh. Ew. Latin after this. And we might not being doing the toga project, I think maybe not perhaps sorta not sure just heard it from Joanna ._. I want to thooughhh D: I just don't want to present it :D Alright, class is about to end, I will not conclude this boring and uneventful, highly purposeless entry @_@ (I haven't even wanted to make an entry in forever, actually. Just doing this 'cause it's better than History questions! :3)
All the cool kids are doin' it~
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2. I'll tell you which song or movie you remind me of.
3. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
(if possible. If not, I'll say something that only makes sense to me.)
4. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
5. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
6. I'll ask you something I've always wondered about you.
7. I'll tell you my favorite thing about you.
8. I'll tell you my least favorite thing about you.
*. I'll tell you what smiley reminds me of you.
Holy fudgernuffles. Fuding fudge fudgernuffles I've wanted to make an entry so long but everything that was stored into my little brain as been erased by THIS video of pure epic hilarity. WATCH. And you too could make your own cardiac arrest on a bun >:D Oh yeah, and I wanted to do this little quiz before so >_>
What is says about you: You are a creative person. You appreciate beauty and craftsmanship. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it.
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*collective screams of terror*
I had so much to update about, you don't even realize, but my suddenly short attention span refuses to let me remember all of them. So I'll be covering what happened the past two days.... or if my brain lapses get any worse, the past two minutes.
FRIDAY: Heyyyy, it wa that DDR dancin' bonanza thingie that was significantly less epic than I thought it was going to be. See, I imagined it being the entire day with like, over a hundred mats, enormous multiple screens on all of the walls and everyone would just be goin' MAD CRAZY dancing until they went into cardiac arrest, but NO. We went by class. First period: freshman; second, sophomores (omgme); third, juniors; fourth, seniors. And we each did the same regime thingie :/ All of the songs were so EASY >< And when it picked up, I didn't even get to do it except for the last round. Oh, well. Beth, Matt, and I practically stayed out for the whole time even though we were supposed to go back in the stands and switch out with people >_> Molly abandoned us after the first round, then Lauren joined. Then for the last round I was with Nicole and Ria... then Emily and Beth came. EWW, I mean YAAY <3333
TODAY: We went out with the dogs for the third time (well, the SECOND time for me because mother so HEARTLESSLY went without me on Wednesday. She could've taken me out of school but noooo.) and we ran DARCY and CHEYENNE in the teeeaaamm!! <3x1million. They did really good, too! Cheyenne especially. We didn't run Dolly 'cause we didn't have enough room and we didn't run Badger 'cause he's still a wimp. But they're all getting better with all of the situations they're being put in. We ran at Mt. Misery (not really a mountain and not all that miserable) and there were some new people there, lacking dogs. They stared at me when I was putting the dogs on the chain and harnessing them up. BUT, I suppose that they're just FASCINATED by the amazing sport that is dog-sledding~ (or more like dog-gigging since snow hasn't been too abundant here. But that should change this winter, the rate things are going!) I really need to get those pictures up of Josie and my Bruta baby :/ (whose new name "Cruiser" now annoyingly fits her because she's skinny and small as hell and I thought she'd be the burliest of the bunch).
THE BEDROOM: No, this is not going to be sexual. Wednesday, when my parents were off and mom had just picked me up from school, she turns to me and says, "Your father is painting your room. White." and I say, "Yay! I wanted to paint it myself, but yay!", but imagine all the furniture in my room squished in the middle covered with tarp and white paint splatters on the floor. But when I go in my bedroom...
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Everything but my dresser is flip-floppidied! My bed is against another wall, my big TV is gone and replaced with a smaller one shoved into my wicker shelf thing that is now near my door and my bookcase is adjacent from where it was and my plastic drawer thing is next to my wicker shelf thing and my nightstand is actually by my bed now and my computer desk is titled slightly to the left in the corner of where it was and my futon is in the middle of my bookcase and nightstand @____@ I really, REALLY loved the setup, though, I think I really needed a room change because I actually feel like I have more room to walk around in. The only thing... that tears my... *sniffle*.... heart apart is... MY BIG, OBNOXIOUS SQUARE TV IS GONE ;____; Anyone who has been in my room remembers it, right? It sat on my bookcase and always looked like if you poked it, it would collapse over? IT'S BEEN REPLACED WITH A DINKY LITTLE, FLAT SCREENED WIDESCREEN TV. The thing is like, two inches thick. My baby was two feet thick, practically. And since it's wide-screen, there's an obnoxious big black lining on either side of the picture. And the sound quality sounds crappier. I'm getting used to it already, but... I still miss my big baby... Pop CLAIMED it was broken because he tried fudging with the VCR and I TOLD him we needed HEAD cleaner to fix it but he said "NO THE TV TURNS OFF WHEN I POKE ARO
THE GEEKERY: Okay, this is probably where you should stop reading 'cause you'll have no idea what I'm talking about (most likely), but I just want to blab about this. I like this videogame series, right? Shin Megami Tensei and its spinoff series, Persona. They're releasing Persona 4 this December (Yeah, it's starting to be all "Final" Fantasy-ish with the sequels, but Persona is superior to that series in every way >_> Play one game and dare to disagree with me) and they have done something that makes me rather ticked. You know how JRPGS (with their anime-ish ways) always seem to have a little mascot that pops up to squeal and annoy with its very existance? Shin Megami Tensei nor Persona had one. Until Persona 4 and THIS
hideous beast was created. Now, this was my first reaction... Then I thought, HEY. Maybe - just MAYBE - this little reject of society could be awesome.... if it had a thick, sophisticated British accent. ...'CAUSE JUST THINK, all little mascots have obnoxious, squeaky voices. Just imagine that little moron with a British accent. It would be epic win.
BUT NO D:<
The creators REFUSED to read my mind and listen to my awesome idea.
And the games themselves seem to be getting brighter and happier >< I love them for their darky and grittiness.. Shin Megami Tensei III (the only one released out of Japan) is M-rated hardcore badassery. And Persona 2, which is just rated T, is psychological dark awesomeness and I like it the best of the Persona series so far, even though it has PS1 graphics. I only played, like, ten hours of it (and need to restart it for reasons i don't feel like explaining~), but I still like it better than Persona 3 which I'm almost done with. But blah. I'm still excited for Persona 4 beyond reasoning @___@ So determined to finish Persona 3 before it comes out... must... waste... life... playing... video games...
But yeah. the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series rock so hard is that they don't take place in Happy Cliche Fantasy Wonder Adventure World. They take place in modern Japan. Yay for straying from the well-worn path of RPG-trappings! There are other things, but I'm starting to come down off my random hyperness and--WAIT.
Forgot to mention.
I had to drop off my laptop at tech the beginning of the week to get it fixed. So they wiped it, natch, and I got it back. (parts of the bottom being DAMAGED, mind you) So then the battery was fudged up. And now whenever I want to turn my laptop on, I have to put in the charger 'cause the BATTERY is missing. Yeah. They guy said to come before the day was over. Tech CLOSES after Flex. Check there anyway. Door shut, lights off, blinds down, locked. Yeah. 'Kay. So now I have to get it back Monday. They better have it :K
kbai.~
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Obama winning: EPIC.
I actually thought it was kind of obvious he was going to win, but whatever. 'Cause 'cause I was flipping back and forth from watching some random Korean horror movie and the news for the voting and BAM, 11:00 rolls around and Obama's way past the marker for winning. McCAIN WASN'T EVEN CLOSE HURR.
Last Sunday: YEE FIRST TIME OUT WITH THE DOGS. We brought the puppies but just let them get used to being on the line instead of running them. Bruta still remembers meee <33 I hate how little she is though. The way she was when she was a puppy, I thought she was going to be a monster. Apparently not so. We took the put-it-together-yourself, highly unstable orange gig out since we only had six dogs to run and they can't haul the 300-plus pound red gig plus my mother and I's combined weight. BUT BUT. We ran 2.3 and for the last half-mile stretch (I think it was?) I got to mush them myself! 8DDD Since I had to keep getting on and off to run behind since the combined weight was still too heavy for their out-of-shape selves, mom eventually just got off at the last turn and was all, "THEY'LL GO BACK TO THE TRUCK SEE YA *hop off*" and I was left, "?!?!?!" trying not to crash into the trees on the side.
GOING TO HAVE A SLEEPOVER THIS FRIDAY. With a sixth grader and her even younger two sisters. I have not idea what we're going to be doing. I have a feeling it involves the dressing of Barbie dolls, though. But I could be wrong. AND YEAH, THIS LITTLE SIXTH GRADER? Her father is now a councilman for our itty-bitty town. So, when I told my mom about it she was all, "Well, I can't say no to a councilman's daughter~"
History teacher: HATE. End of story.
Latin: On the verge of jumping out a three-story high window. I MUST study like a madwoman for this test tomorrow.
Life in general: EHM. Good. I wish school did not consume my life but WHAT CAN YA DO? 8D
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I'm just getting so EFFIN' SICK of all of it! LAST YEAR: Zip dies. Year before THAT: Flash dies. And a couple years before THAT, Cajun and/or Roxanne die. ALL OF THEM HAVING SOME KIND OF TERMINAL THING THAT BROKE MY HEART EVERYTIME I LOOKED AT THEM D:
Mom comes back all FRICKIN' CHEERY. "What do you want for dinner? 8DDD lulzlol" I don't know if she had even been upset and was just trying to hide it (doubt that, because she hated Phoenix), but HOLYHELL. Where the FRICK is the grieving process in this house? I heard mom say to pop after she got back, "Sorry all of this ruined the night. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO PUT UP THE HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS."
....><-!!!
You've got to be kidding me! So, that's it? Okay, whatever. Because mom had taken him to the vet last week after he'd been LIMPING and getting WORSE and WORSE for a WEEK and said she didn't want me going because she planned to put him down, but then she came back with him THAT time all, "Erggh, now I have to give him pills." WHATTHEFUDGE? He's a GOOD runner! SURE, mom's all "Ohh, he's aggressive to other dog teams" but HELLO, you're not running races anymore, THAT DOESN'T MATTER! He's not a lead dog anymore (now he's not ANYTHING anymore). DANCIN IS ARCHAIC. You give him arthritis medicine, give him special little chicken scraps! He doesn't run! (I'm not saying he DOESN'T deserve that, mom just pisses me off because she didn't like Phoenix and didn't want to spend the money) And she tells me, "I've seen this happen too many times before. You spend the money on the medicine, and you wind up having to put them down anyway." Alright, OKAY. You've been with the dogs WAAAY longer than I have, I can understand. But to come home after just KILLING YOUR DOG and not like... FRICKIN' DO ANYTHING?!? Alright, alright, YES I asked her before she left if he was coming back and she said "No". YES, I know BEFOREHAND, but STILL. It just makes me think that, like... our dogs are disposable or something! >< Just because we've lost so many doesn't mean we can't like not... GRIEVE or whatever. I don't even know HOW to. I was trying to hold back tears all day today just because I was thinking of what he LOOKED like. I mean, he looked so OLD. Sure, he's not young, but he had so much grey around his muzzle and face and all he did was lay down on the ground because he couldn't get up on the platform where he ALWAYS stayed and FUDGE. ;_____; I went out on Sunday to take care of the dogs with mom 'cause I hadn't seen them in a while and when mom went to let Tatonka and Phoenix run around... FUDGE, he already LOOKED like he was dead! He had no life in his eyes and you could see every little curve of his skull because his face was so shallow from being sick and all he could do was limp out. He was favoring his front leg SO obviously and had his back curved in this really unnatural way and he just had to sit down in front of the kennel because he couldn't walk anymore and I sat down with him and pet him and made sure he didn't freakin' fall BACKWARDS 'cause he was leaning back so much.
I just hate how it's never SIMPLE. Sure, Daisy died of old age. She was almost seventeen. But I can't remember it. Darka died from some kind of heart thing, I remember I sat with mom on the back setps (when we still had them) as she was crying. Roxanne had cancer, I think, but she never got to the point where she was barely able to stand. Cajun had some kind of stroke and a case of amnesia or something because all she would do was wander around and when we fed her all she would do was stand over the bowl with her head down like she didn't know what to do. Flash, who's backlegs failed him or something: I'll never forget when I went to let him run around and he came out completely freakin' DRAGGING his back legs and yelping because he couldn't WALK ;___; And Zip, of course, I just wanted to DIE when I saw it and now Phoenix. It's like it's getting worse and worse. Can't any of them just die peacefully and naturally anymore? I'm sick of seeing them suffering.
And TODAY, everything was going SWELL, I was resting on the couch a bit after having just got home when I hear probably the worse dog scream I EVER FLIPPIN' HEARD and thinking someone's freakin' DYING I run outside and pop has Badger out of the X-Pen and at the side of the house. Badger looks scared shitless and cowaring and I'm just thinking "WTF IS MY DAD DOING TO MY FREAKIN' PUPPY?!?!" So I go over to Badger and pet him and other "calm down" crap as pop comes back with a leash and mom comes rushing out. I put Badger into the X-Pen and he bolts off and I hear dad all, "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET HIM GO" and other nonsense and blah blah blah, I go in the DIRT with my socks on to go put Badger back in his kennel.
Okay, FIRST OF ALL: Badger is whiny and noisy a wuss in every shape and form and has been skiddish around his because he doesn't like to be led by his collar. SO WHAT DOES POP DO? HE FRICKIN' DRAGS BADGER FROM HIS KENNEL AND ACROSS THE X-PEN. "I wasn't hurting him" WELL YEAH, YOU'RE FRICKIN' FUCKING HIM UP MORE MENTALLY. I was finally able to get Badger into the kennel but of course he did his all "Nooo I'mma lay down as you take my collar 'cause I'm mentally scarrred D':" Then I have a fight with POP who thinks I "DISRESPECTED HIM" because he was trying to put Badger in the garage in a crate to shut him up. And he says "NOW IT'S GOING TO BE TWICE AS HARD WHEN I WANT HIM TO BE QUIET." YEAH. And now it's going to be twice as hard for me and mom when it was already ridiculously difficult to GET NEAR HIM!! And he says that "I KNOW BETTER THAN YOU". Guess whut?! Not in THIS case, you don't! I know the dogs better than you EVER EFFIN' WILL. All pop does to associate with them is to OCCASIONALLY tell them to be quiet when they make noise. And then he just has to put the icing on the cake when he says, "If these dogs keep making noise, they're going to be gone before you know it and you and mom will be crying wondering WHY" Pop doesn't get mad at me a lot AT ALL, and that's probably the worst thing he's said to me simply because I could NEVER imagine my life without the dogs. So I took this SERIOUSLY and compounded with the fact that Phoenix just DIED yesterday, I wanted to SCREAM and have a hysterical crying fit because I was just so FRUSTRATED. I feel like everything's coming back to hit me all at once and I can't take it D:
Yeah, then pop comes back from the gym all "Oh, blah blah sorry didn't mean to make you upset we were all just trying to do what we thought was best". Yeah. Okay.
This is not a good week ;___;
- Mood:miserable
SEE, originally we were going to take the dogs out to RUN, but we all got up late-ish so we didn't really have enough time to get everything together? But mom still needed to buy the new kind of dog food we're going to use from some guy that was going to the forest, so we went there anyway. And HAH, I was originally just joking around with my mom all, "Oh, hahah, if Bruta doesn't remember me I'll cry lulz" YEAH AH HAH HAH, I cried ._______.
It was kind of embarressing though X3;;; 'Cause, both Dave (who has Bruta, OH WAIT "Cruiser", I'M SORRY :K) and his wife Patty (LULZ NOT MY MOM) and Jessica (Who has Josie) were there and her parents (including the guy who gave the dog food to ma) along with... this guy Chris and... Tim...? And Tim's wife. (They're twenty years apart, man @_@;;;) were all there AND WAIT. A new lady named... JACKIE, that's right.
Sooo, first I went over to where Jessica had her dogs set up so I could see Josie first and she remembered meeeee and mmoooom right away since we had seen her over the summer. GAWSH, she looks so much like Darcy. And she got rather big, too. Bigger than Darcy, fo' sho'. So I stayed with her a whiles as she gave me kissies. Yee <33333
THEN BRUTA HOLY CRAP ;_______; I went over to where Dave had HIS dogs set up and went over to Bruta (CAN'T BELIEVE HOW EFFIN' DIFFERENT SHE LOOKS. I thought she was gonna be BIG and chunky-ish but she's really SKINNY and SMALL o_o) and fuuuuuudge it broke my heart when she backed away from me all scared and tried to go over to Dave DDDDDDDDD': I couldn't help my eyes starting to tear up and I wanted to try to call her over but I was afraid my voice would crack and then Dave would know and he was RIGHT THERE all "Awww, c'mon Cruisserrr, it's mama Caitlin, sillllyyy 8D" THEN, after I was just about to give up and go cry in a corner, she gradually started to remember me then jumped all over me and gave me kissesssss <3333333333 But I kept crying XDD;;;; I was all *RUBS FACE INTO NECK FUR* and *MOLEST ALL OVER* and I just sat on the ground with her on top of me <3 Then after a while, I went away mainly because I would afraid I would just start bawling, so I went over to Chris and he was all "HEY, check out my new dog" and I was all "AWESOME where'd you get him?" and then as he was explaining I guess I looked like I was crying 'cause he all of a sudden goes, "You're upset, aren't you? Emotional?" and then I guess I hadn't really been thinking about it so THEN I start really crying-ish and go over to ma to try to hide but then everyone starts crowding around all, "You know you miss them, but you can't have them back :D hahah joke fun lulz" then mom tells me to go to the car to get a tissue so I do X3;;;
I didn't think I would actually cry, though :X And mom actually told me later that Chris had apologized 'cause he thought he upset me >_>;; It wasn't really HIM, it was just the fact that he REMINDED me of how upset I actually felt @_@
OH BUT WAIT.
Something less depressing.
The other guy, TIM, that I mentioned was preparing to take out his team. Mom had said, "Okay, we're gonna stand HERE so the dogs don't go this way" 'cause Tim had said that he wanted to go straight across the intersection. So, his dogs come OUR way all effin' tangled and wild because the man doesn't know how to handle his damn DOGS, so mom gets out of the way and later she said that she had yelled "GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" but at the time I guess I didn't hear her so I stayed in front of them and grabbed the leaders to turn them around POSITIVELY SURE they were going to trample me but then Tim goes all "NOOO LET THEM GOOO" so I DO and get out of the way but by then they're still tangled and he doesn't ask for help or ANYTHING and goes down the trail, LOSES his team, chases them down, and continues on. (Holycrapwasthatarunonsentence?) The guy seriously does NOT how to control his dogs, though. Chris left angrily after that XD and his poor wife, Katrina, was all "He's a little... stubborn" since he NEVER asks for help? And I mean, sure OKAY, it would be fine if he was a JERK (just 'cause y'know, you could be all, "Argh, that damn jerk don't know how to control his dawgs') BUT HE'S SO EFFIN' NICE. Nice and stubborn as an ox. I found it an ironic combination <_<;;
Yipyip. I want to put Bruta and Josie pictures up tomorrow maybe perhaps. But not right now. 'Cause I got to finish the dang stupid PROJECT my dang stupid HISTORY teacher assigned >< Toodaloo~!
- Mood:
melancholy
ALTERNATIVE:
[ ] Weezer
[ ] Paramore
[ ] Panic! At The Disco
[ ] October Fall
[ ] The Academy Is...
[ ] Coheed And Cambria
[ ] Bayside
[ ] Sugarcult
[ ] The Dresden Dolls
TOTAL SO FAR: lolnone.
COUNTRY:
[] Rascal Flatts
[] Carrie Underwood
[] Leanne Rhymes
[] Garth Brooks
[] Dixie Chicks
[] Kenny Chesney
[] Tim McGraw
[] Faith Hill
[] Shania Twain
[FUDGEYES] Johnny Cash (But, dang I didn't know his was country. And I hate country. Now I feel betrayed D': By myself? Saywhut?)
TOTAL SO FAR: UNO.
EMO:
[ ] Hawthorne Heights
[ ] Halifax
[YES] Forgive Durden (only two of their songs, though X3)
[ ] Amber Pacific
[ ] The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
[ ] From First to Last
[ ] Senses Fail
[ ] Underoath
[ ] Something Corporate
[ ] Hit the lights
[ ] Dear Whoever
TOTAL SO FAR: Zwei~
INDIE:
[ ] The Hush Sound
[ ] Eisley
[Yee <3] Death Cab for Cutie
[ ] Dashboard Confessional
[<333] The Killers
[ ] Yeah Yeah Yeahs
[Back to the middle of NOWHEREEE!] Hot Hot Heat
[ ] Gym Class Heroes
[:DDD] Franz Ferdinand
[*overabundance of love*] Modest Mouse
TOTAL SO FAR: SEX.
METAL:
[ ] Slipknot
[ ] System of a Down
[ ] Disturbed
[ ] Metallica
[:o] Guns n' Roses (they're metal...? I thought they were classic rock ._.;;;)
[ ] Lamb of God
[ ] Slayer
[ ] Hatebreed
[ ] Killswitch Engage
TOTAL SO FAR: Sebuuuuun.
POP:
[ ] Teddy Geiger
[ ] Ashlee Simpson (*bitch slap*)
[ ] Kelly Clarkson (*punt-kick*)
[ ] Jesse McCartney (*maim*)
[ ] Avril Lavigne (*stab*)
[:U] Pink
[ ] The Veronicas
[ ] Daniel Powter
[ ] James Blunt
[ ] Natasha Bedingfield
[ ] Ryan Cabrera
TOTAL SO FAR: Atta!!
POWERPOP/POP PUNK/PUNK:
[ ] hellogoodbye
[ ] Cute is What We Aim for
[ ] Cartel
[ ] The Click Five
[ ] Fall Out boy
[ ] Lucky Boys Confusion
[ ] Good Charlotte
[ ] Bowling for Soup
[ ] Relient K
[ ] Less Than Jake
[ ] Simple Plan
TOTAL SO FAR= Ocho~~!
RAP:
[ ] Ying Yang Twins
[ ] T.I.
[ ] Paul Wall
[ ] Tupac
[ ] Jamie Foxx
[ ] Ludacris
[ ] Lil' Jon
[ ] Outkast
[ ] 50 Cent
[ ] Kanye West
[ ] Notorious B.I.G
[ ] Young Jeezy
TOTAL SO FAR: Eight! (running out of different languages @_@;;-!)
SKA:
[ ] Reel Big Fish
[ ] The Specials
[ ] Mad Caddies
[ ] The Aquabats
[o.o] Sublime (Lovin'... is what I GOT~.)
[Whoopwhoop] No Doubt
[ ] Madness
[ ] Operation Ivy
[ ] Bob Marley
TOTAL SO FAR= Entay :K (hurrah pig latin)
ROCK:
[ ] Taking Back Sunday
[ ] All American Rejects
[ ] Motion City Soundtrack
[ ] Avenged Sevenfold
[ ] Angels and Airwaves
[lolyes] Evanescence
[ ] My Chemical Romance (used to listen to them a lot... USED TO.)
[ ] Green Day (same as above)
[:S] Blink 182
TOTAL SO FAR: Douze (Wee-wee~)
CLASSIC ROCK:
[<3] The Beatles
[<3] Led Zeppelin
[ <3 The Rolling Stones
[<3] The Who
[<3] Pink Floyd
[<3] The Doors
[<3] Jimmy Hendrix
[<3] Queen
[<3] Van Halen
[<3] Bob Dylan
[ ] Simon & Garfunkel
TOTAL SO FAR: Ventidue (Holy crap, that makes me feel so old-ish :X)
Now multiply by two
and put "I Am _% Obsessed With Music"
I am forty-four percent obsessed with mooseec.
*They didn't list like... the majorty of the people I listen to. PLUS, most of the arists I marked I only like a couple of their songs X3;;;
- Location:kitchen table... with homework D'''':
- Music:My dad's voice...? o.o;;;
WHOOOOOT. I know what I want to be fer Halloweeeeen. (actually, I figured it out towards the end of September but wasn't really sure til now >_>)
...
THE WHITE RABBIT 8D
YES, but I'm debating whether to make (YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT. I want to look for materials starting tomorrow. I have three friggin' weeks but I'm gonna try @_@) his old-fashioned suit thingie --> http://sanseverything.files.wordpress.co
CHANGE OF SUBJECT. And color 8D
MEET TODAY. 3.1 miles. One time around the course. WORST HILL THAT EVER EXISTED. my time was 29:15 I think. Thought I did better than that ._.;; But everyone's times seemed to be a little slower. AND WE GOT MEDAAALLLS. I was 31 out of 46 peoples :D Quite proud of that~ AND MOLLY WAS THERE. The other Molly. Her school's cross-country uniforms were neat. They were all... camoflouged.
I GOT A NASTY SUNBURN D: On my shoulders and neck. A uniform burn again. AND MY FACE GEEZ MY FACE TOO. Which would never have happened if we did stand around for an hour! GRR. If we're going to keep doing that, I'm seriously going to start bringing sunscreen because a LITTLE sunburn is okay but this is like a frickin' tomatoe-colored sunburn -_-;; (<-- wow, it's been forever since I've used that smilie :X)
Ohyeah, and when I got back from the meet, I just layed on the couch 'cause as soon as I got home I felt really tired and crabby so I was ABOUT to fall asleep... drifting in between consciousness and unconsciousness when...
Uncle Bill: *leans down and puts hand on shoulder* You okay? :U
Me: @______@ AUGH WHUT yes yes fine. Restingplz D':
Uncle Bill: 'Kay.
Me:....*starts to fall asleep again*
Uncle Bill: *comes back in* ...You sure you're okay? :U
Me: Fine ;____;
And by then he had woken me completely up so I was trying to force myself back to sleep to no avail.
Then the dog came.
Ma: Awww, wubba-bubba-boo Tye-wye <3333 Come out of your cra~aate! *opens door and lets Tye out*
Me: I hope someone shuts the family room door before--OHLAWD YOU'RE ON MY FACE TYE PLZ G
So yeah. Then I was basically forced to play with Tye on the couch as he tore up my hands with his teeth because I was too lazy to smack him. So much for resting.
I don't feel like sleeping tonight o.o I just wanna stay up and do something... Which does not involve my homework nor staying on the internet for any longer.
SOBAIZ. I hope I didn't bore you beyond repair.
- Music:Enur- Calabria (<---nope. still can't stop listening to it)
I felt like I had such a good day today 8D
BETH WAS BACK WHEEE. And she seemed fine, so that made me happy :DDD And I gave her the card I made for her. YEEEE. <333 And hugged her fer like, five minutes as we spun around stupidly. I got dizzy x_x
Cross-country failed for me today again, 'cause I can't stop flippin' COUGHING and my joints hate me or something. They're always owwie. Probably the new shoes. STILL. I'm just a little worried about the next meet D: 'Cause not only are we going to be there practically ALL DAY, but this cough better STOP otherwise I'll... I'll.. I'll >:U....Be sad D:
BUT FUDGERNUFFLES, I want to trick or treat with so many peoples this year @_@ Basically EVERYONE: Alison and Nick (because he's coming down from F-L-O-R-I-D-A *squee*), Emily and hopefully Molly and Beth all together (must talk that over...), and I've never ever gone trick or treating with Stevie or Matt. Lyke, ever. But I have no idea what they're doing so. Nyehh. AND KELSEY. ...Does she even trick or treat? YOU NEVER LEAVE YOUR HOUSE, YOU VAMPIRE.
AND I WANT TO DO SO MUCH THIS WEEKEND. I wanna round everyone up to go to the movies this weekend, but tomorrow by Aunt DeLinda (kindasortahateherlots) and Uncle Bill(lovelovelove) for a high school reuinion in the late afternoon so I guess I kinda GOTTA be home when they come to open the door if the 'rents aren't home by then. AND I want to clean my stupid room. AND PRACTICE PIANO INSANELY 'CAUSE I NEED TO CATCH UP WITH THAT SHIZZ. THEN SATURDAY THE MEET. THE BEJEEBUS FLIPPIN' CHEEZ-IT MEET. So, Joe G said we'll be back around six. Yeah. At night. Whoo. Hoo. AND I wanted to have a sleepover, but I don't think that's going to be possible since I'll just get home and SLEEP. Sundaaaay I'm hoping we can go to the movies THEN... Since it'll be easier at least for me since my parents are off >_>;; AND MONDAY Staten Island with Emily, Beth, Victorianne, and two of Emily's friends from said Island. Plus I got a wee bit o' homework ta do: finish ONE (ohmyholyflyinghorsesonahaystack OONNNEEEE D:) History question and then outline an icky chapter in Driver's Ed. Pflltph.
What else... OH YES!! YES!!!! MY SISTER IS AWESOME. Stacie (Chrissy is too, but her workplace isn't a MAGNET FOR FAMOUS PEOPLE) works at some place that helps people with their mortages (as in, talks to them on the phone, calms them down when they're on the verge of a total breakdown/panic attack) and a bit ago the PRESIDENT (yessir, ye olde Bushy) visited there, in a helicopter an' all. My dad's even got the picture of the helicopter on his phone when the Pres was leaving, curtosy of Stacie X3 BUT BUT, just yesterday Dan Rather (some old dude on some news station. BUT HE'S APPRENTLY VERY FAMOUS :U I haven't googled him, so~) CAME TO HER WORK AND FILMED STACIE WORKING THE ENTIRE DAY. THE ENTIRE DAAAAY AND INTERVIEWED HERRRRR. (I'm sorry, I'm just so excited about this XDD;;) It's PERFECT for her, though, because she's SO enthusiastic all the time and is so LOUD that you just CAN'T not smile around her. Andand my dad said when they were deciding whether to use some recently promoted girl or Stacie, the cameraman was all "I wanna stick with her~" (referring to Stacie) X33 AND SHE'S GONNA HAVE HER FIFTEEN MINUTES O' FAME ON TEEEVEEEE. Some HD program (I get to see my sister in high-definition 8D) that we don't have but SHE does, so we're gonna go over to her house next Tuesday at eight to watch it XD I wish it was a station everyone had. I'd make everyone I know watch it X33;;
A FINAL NOTE: I'm hating Tye less. TO THE POINT OF LOVING HIM OH MY D: I think I DO love his stupidstupiddogness 'cause when I had to watch him after I got home as mom fed the dogs I was rolling around on the kitchen floor playing with him and when mom got back in she was all, "I SAW YOU PLAYING WITH HIM. DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T LOVE HIM." >_> <_< THE END.
- Mood:feelin' dandy~
- Music:enur-calabria feat. natasja (haven't been able to stop listening to it ><)
Okay I shouldn't even be typing this because BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT IS ON RIGHT NOW IT J
N E WAI.
The point of this entry...
I had a dream a while back about Bruta (puppy we gave away to the dude who owns the daddy) and we were in the x-pen. Mom was there too and I think I was on the ground trying to get Bruta to come towards me, only she looked different. She had kind of the greyish markings that Dolly has, only I knew it was Bruta because it looked like her despite the marking kinf of differed. But what i really found weird was that I was calling her "Yenna". I woke up the next day and either that day or the other day I asked mom if it meaned anything to her and she said no, so I looked it up online and didn't get anything of interest. But I just looked it up again, only I searched 'yenna translation' and got: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.or
Just thought it was weird and thought I'd share ._. And awww, the animation is all generic now D: Before it was cool and all WHOOSH and blahjtew tjew. Now I'm going to focus on it :D Baiz.
SO HEYHEYHEY.
It's been a while. (Ugh, can't I think of anything better? ...No. D:)
I've got LOADS OF SHIZZLEMOFLIZZLE to talk about so either be prepared to read lots or click the back button on your web browser.
In the beginning... there was a shoe store... and from that shoe store... came...
MY NEW SHOES <3 They're so shiny and new and red and white and I lovers them. Therefore, I abandoned my other previously-white-and-blue-but-now-grey-a
MONDAY. We had an EFFIN' MEET. Which are usually on TUESDAYS, but since that Tuesday the public schools had off since it was Rosh Hashanah (WHICH WE SHOULD GET OFF. Since we're a Catholic school. And it's a Jewish holiday) so we had to MONDAY against Jackson and their school was probably BIGGER than some college campuses. Srsly. I think one field of theirs was like, our entire school.
TUESDAYYYY. Oh, fugdelies, we had to run the flippin' Cranmore-Super Frickin' Foodtown loop which is anywhere from FOUR to FIIIIIIVE miles. *racks brain* Whatelsehappened.... Pfft, I'll probably remember one o'clock at night and have to come back here and edit it ><;;; Oh, yeah wait. We did a worksheet in History and Robyn and I doodled all over each other's. That was it.
W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y. <--- That's the day I skipped last period with Beth! OHMYGOOGLE. Okay, SO. In math class (since we have it together. FINALLY A CLASS WITH THAT GIRL.) Beth was all "ohnoes last period is history and I failed to do my homework~ WANT TO SKIP" and I was all "ohnoes I has Latin and even though i did all of the homework, I just don't wanna goooo" and then Beth was all "I'mma go to the nurse's office... come with me >_>" and then I was all "...<_< yesplzsavemefromLatinoushell" and then after Beth threatened me with the lose of my life if I didn't come, WE DID DO IT. Only it didn't work out exactly as planned. See, I got there first and said that I had a bad migraine from my period (which was only HALF a lie 'cause it IS that time of the month for me) but I think I layed it on a little too THICK? 'Cause she was all "Ohhh D: *pitypitypitywordsofpity* and told me to go sign in and lay down and then Beth was there and we were all *mwuahah conspiring looks* buuuuut since I had to go lay DOWN... I was basically in a separate room just laying there with a cold, wet towel on my forehead and Beth sitting at the table outside of the room. Soyeah. But I didn't have to go to Latin! :D (and I felt so rebellious! >:D) And guess what? We had ice-baths. During cross-country. Yeah. Name says it all You stand. In a freezing tub of freezing water. AND STAND THERE IN FROZEN TORTURE.
THURSSSSSS....day. Ohmygoshthat'stoday. YEAHGUESSWHUT? No school tomorrow. Whooo! But we had to run the Cranmore-Super Footown loop again. But holy squiggly-bums i had a really fun day today.
(since it's REVERSE day...)
Latin: was blah, we learned third declension which is JOYFULLY the most COMPLEX declension! 8D *beams sarcastic joy* And I'm not even going to attempt to explain what declensions are because I tried explaining it to Beth and failed epically. (AND AUGHHH HOLY CRAPALICIOUS MUNCHKIN FRIES I JUST REALIZED THERE IS SO MUCH HAIR O
History: Took notes and this time I took them on my LAPTOP because I'm sick of messy, crappily-written notes @_@ MUST... LEARN... SHORT-HAND...
Flex: Was... amazing. See, it was cold out (yaaay, October's finally here! TIME TO GET DEM DAWGS OUT ON DA TRAILS <3
Math: Beth switched seats was Robyn so I was all like "Nooo, wife-hubby don't abandon meeeee. Beth isn't good enoughhhh..." (I'm Robyn's first wife. Out of like, nine. She also has seven husbands.) and my attempts to negotiate Beth into coming with me for gym failed. And the attempts to recruit Lauren, too. (No, not cross-country Lauren)
Gym: Bleh. i have to friennddss in that class and I'm too lazy to attempt socialization D: We shot hoops. 'CAUSE THAT'S ALL WE EFFIN' DO. *anger!*
Cross-Country!! Lauren (yes, the cross-country Lauren) had to stop for the bathroom as did Emily and Beth SO. We went to SportsCare the place we stopped at Tuesday and I just sat in the chair and sipped water as they went to le bathroom until this GUY CAME OVER? I think he might have been the owner of the place 'cause he was all "What school are you from? Ohoh? Yes, it's okay if it's an emergency, but if you could, please don't come on a regular basis; we're short on cups as it is, ect., ect." and I was just "I'M SORRY ;_____;" but he was really nice about so I hope he wasn't hiding any hidden anger ._. But a little bit before that, some guy was driving by and was trying to shoot us with a WATER GUN. Andthenandthen some guy shot this white foam dart thing out of the car as he drove by and nearly HIT MY LEGS and dear SQUIRRELS, his face made me want to STRANGKLE HIM. it was basically a classis "AHURR :B" kind of crap. But Beth said that she nearly got hit in the face with one too, and could see him starting to aim for me as he turned the corner X3 OHEMGEEINTHELOCKERROOM. Somuchfun. Masie has the best scream. Ever. Academy Award-winning, I called it~ And Molly showed me her frickin' Terminator-esque BAR THINGS in her braces that I REMEMBER HER NEVER SHOWING ME BEFORE DESPITE HER WORDSSS. Then Masie went over to this white-board thing and was all "What's this for? :o" then I got a PUPPET SHOW idea and her and I hid behind it as our hands talked to each other. We got a shoe thrown at us, curtesy of Beth. >:U Then Beth and I were holding the board above our heads and chasing Maisie around the locker room as she screamed her head off XD The little blonde-diguised-as-a-brunette just HAD to drop it when it banged against the lockers by accident. THEREAFTER, we were doing magic tricks with the board and Molly came it at the PERFECTLY WRONG TIME, watched us and our stupidity, then just left all with her "WTF?" look on. Ah, yes. Good times. But we must have been screaming way too much 'cause a lady came down (I can't remember her name? WRRRY?) and was all "Don't yell, someone'll think you're being murdered." so after some whispered screams and a little more idiocy, I brought Beth along for the ride home since she didn't get a Slurpee when we were talking about it last week during cross-country and I did >:3 So, we went to 7-11 and EFFIN' HELLZ, I must not have been holding the cup right since I was trying to hold the money at the same time 'cause it spilled all over my shirt and onto the floor when I tried to put the cap on. XDD;;;
PIANO. Sweet macadamia nuts, I got a flippin' "What do you want to do with the rest of your life" speech from Barbara, my piano teacher o_o It made me feel special since she was all "You have the potential to do something with this, ect. ect." but i also felt really sad when she started talking about sending me off to another teacher X3;;; it was quite unexpected. Butyeah.
...Anyone interested in taking piano lessons? :D;;; I wouldn't charge for friends and I know they wouldn't ever be taken seriously anyway but... :D If i ever do want to teach lessons as maybe something extra, it would be good practice~
Yes. That's all. Good-day to you, sirs.
*silence*
...AND ABANDONING MY PACK-RAT WAYS AND GETTING RID OF USELESS CRAP.
*collective gasp*
ExACTLY.
See, what I wanted to do over the summer was compeltely clean/change/rearrange my room so I could paint the walls WHITE.
*skeptical eyebrow raises*
I KNOW. WHY would I change the pleasantly light purple of my room to a stark white? NOT because I wanted to transform my room into an insane asylum.
*frowns*
Yes, I know that would be awesome, BUT~ What I wanted to do was take EVERYTHING off of my walls.
*looks of surprise*
YES EVERYTHING. And anyone who has ever been in my room knows how much crap is up there. EVERYTHING off my shelves, take the SHELVES down...
*concerned murmurs*
...and even that black and white picture that's been up on my wall for THREE YEARS!!
*more collective gasps*
Yes, there's been this picture I printed off the internet up on my wall forever all by its lonesome without a single purpose in the world.
*awaiting next statement*
...So now it's coming off the wall...
....
And going in the trash!!
*extreme!gasps*
WHAT I WANT to do is paint my walls white (which I have already mentioned) ANNNNND...
*annoying suspense*
paint my walls.
*...?*
PAINT MY WALLS ANYTHING. Like pictures such as animals, random designs, mythology, MAYBE EVEN GEORGE CLOONEY.
*eyebrow raises yet again*
...Well, maybe not him.
*approving smiles and nods*
Yesssss. It will be a long and tortourous process but it shall be done... yesss.... YESSSSSSSS....
*concerned looks and contemplation if the insane asylum idea would have been more fitting*
I AM OFF TO SCHEME~
(*'s are the nonexistant audience of LJ. Most likely. Or maybe they're just the little people in my head. You'll never know.)
- Location:my room of isolation
- Mood:
creative - Music:various trippy songs
Sponge 1: Just got an order from the boss: destroy everything that isn't about fine dining!
Sponges: Everything?
Sponge 1: Everything! C'mon, c'mon! *to single sponge* What do you think I'm paying you for?
Sponge 2: You don't pay me. We don't even exist. We're just a clever metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought.
Sponge 1: ...! >:U One more crack like that and you're outta here!
Sponge 2: No, please! I have three kids D:
Ahh, Spongebob. How I love you so.
HAYHAY (is for horses)
Wow. It's been... forever? Wait, no. ...No, just eight weeks. Which is two months omigosh.
So school started...~! *unenthusiastic toss of confetti* I have all woman teachers and I like them so. All's good. I have gym/driver's ed., algebra II, U.S. History I Honors, annnnd Latin II Honors.
Gym/Driver's Ed.: My mom wouldn't believe me when I told her we were having driver's ed this year X3;; I can hardly believe it myself. I'll be driving soon o_o PEDESTRIANS, WATCH OUT.
Algebra II: My teacher is awesome but the classroom is as cold as Hell frozen overrrr @_@ I have it with Beth, Kelsey, Robin, and Mary-Kate, though. I finally have a class with Beth JEEZ. Yee.
U.S. History I Honors: GAG. I hate U.S. History. But I think my teacher will make it interesting (*gasp!*)(INORITE?!) 'cause she's like a walking history textbook, unlike my PREVIOUS HISTORY TEACHER, she actually knows the material. But lolz, I have the same exact classroom and almost the same exact classmates. Robin's there. IN FRONT OF ME. Like she is in Algebrerrrrs.
Latin II Honors: There are eleven people in my class. ELEVEN. And the same teacher since there's only one Latin teacher. Everybody either took Spanish or got bunked down to CP so there's barely any of us there. X3 Sarah is in my class. Ewww.
It's been pretty good so far. I've been hungry a lot, though, since cross-country started after school. I was never this hungry during the summer :o SPEAKING of which we had our first meet toooday. I got sunburn on my arms and part of my neck. I have a uniform burn line ._. And I did goodslies :D My time was 17:50 for two miles. I sprinted REALLY fast at the end though. Even Devin said something. And I think I remember everyone else's times vaugely... Sarah was fourteen something, so was Molly, who was a couple people behind her... then Beth (AKA Speedy Gonzales) who was like... 16:58. Then MEEEE <3. *cough* Then Lauren who wassss... a few seconds behind me I think @_@;; Um. I would elaborate more but. I don't feel like it :3~ But I will say THIS: The weatherman lied. He said it was going to rain. But all it did was POUR SUNSHINE. *detest for weatherman*
Moving on. I GOT MY FLIPPIN' PUPPY. That happened... last month. So it's old news. BUT STILL. I got from hating him to tolerating him everyday. It's an odd relationship.
DUDE. DUDE, like like like, THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO TELEVIS
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Freaky Fred.
FREAKY FRED WAS ON. Omigoshomigoshomigosh I was so happy XDD I fudgin' love that episode. (Hence the title of this entry).
Hmm, let's see what else... well right now Tye is trying to get me to play with him. My parents keep telling me he's my little brother but NO. He's WORSE. He's sub-brother. 'Cause he;s s789--- JUST CLONKED ME IN THE HEAD WITH HIS TEE
N-E-WAY... have I beaten any games since I last chatted to myself via livejournal...? ...NO, but I'm kinda almost down with Persona 3. 8D 'Cause, 'cause, see, the idea is to beat these specific bosses every full moon and I had just beaten the last one and everyone in the game was all "Whoo, we saved the world, it's all over now 8DDD" but it didn't seem right so I was thinking all "NO, you're wrong, YOU'RE LYING >:U" and I was right. There's more. They should've listened to me but NO.
OHYES and I think I'm kind of growing a contemt for my piano teacher Barbara 'cause at the lesson before my last one (AKA the first lesson of the year, since I don't have it during summer) I wanted to strangle her. I mean, she's old and I know she's probably just trying to help me but still.
See, what I wanted to do was complete all of my songs and completely master then for the recital in November (Moonlight Sonata first movement ((which I'm perfectly fine on)), Canon in D ((which I ONLY didn't finish the last page on. it's ten snarkin' pages)), and Phantom of the Opera ((I think Barbara has made me develope like, a complex because I wanted to TOTALLY outdo this girl Melissa on it? Since I'm SO sick of hearing Barbara talk about her at like, every lesson and how good she is at that song -_- But I only got the first four out of seven pages done)).) SO. I play Moonlight Sonata and she's all like *praisespraisespraises* and then I get to Canon in D and she makes me practice the last page quite a few times ><;; Then Phantom of the Opera. SEE - I'll try to explain this - the left hand on it is CONSTANTLY moving, tapping on a single note for several sets of four, then on another note, ect., ect. But that's the thing. There are FOUR notes at a time? And I thought I was doing REALLY good on what I had done of it but NO. I had been playing SIX notes at a time. And Barbara was all "No no no no NO". So then when I finally suffer through the entire song, she says, "You don't have to worry about this song anymore."
....
So, basically what she was telling me to do was to give up.
I don't want to give up. I want to beat Melissa. AND SHE'S TELLING ME TO GIVE UP.
And I was just so upset about that because I had wanted to make the songs PERFECT but I couldn't even hardly practice at all over the summer because I was so preoccupied with the stupid dog and it was the FIRST day of school and I had just gotten back from cross-country and it was just overall a STRESSFUL day that I actually cried XD;; I had felt so crappy. But now I've aced Moonlight and now I'm doing the same with Canon and ma told me to just not even worry about Phantom, that she liked the other songs better. But she was the one who had wanted me to learn Phantom in the first place, though so I don't know if she's just telling me that to make me feel better about it X3
....I believe I have nothing else to say.
So I bid my farewells to all. And, as a parting note...~
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
- Location:on an epic couch.
- Mood:Frabjous
- Music:the dialouge of "Chocolat".
SOOO, what to talk about? Well, I have a rather large crapload of work to do for the summer... Latin and math and READING. The reading I wouldn't mind in the least if we didn't have to take notes on it. I never know what to talk notes on. I'll probably just wind up writing random sentences down...
CROSS-COUNTRY, yes, cross-country. That started last week on Thursday, methinks. The little crew of slacking freshman-turned-sophomores is gradually getting better! :D (yes, I am included in that) We were able to keep up with some of the better girls today.
GRR, I actually WANT to put puppy pictures up today, but I'm on my laptop and my home computer is all the way over theerree... on my desk.... five feet awayyyy....
Ohyes! And I want to compelteyl reorganize my room and change it around and paint the walls but not just a random solid color, like like like, I want to paint THINGS on it but I don't know why kind of things yet. And I planned this all at the very beginning of the summer and none of it has gotten done so far :X;;; And since cross-country started and I have work to do and I still have to take care of the dogs every day and we're getting a new puppy....
I didn't tell you, no, I did not, did I? We're going to get another house dog in the form of a blue Australian cattle dog... The same breed and color Zip was but. I wanted to get a red one, and so did mom, but apparently this dog (SHE WAS LOOKING ON THE INTERNET, BY THE BY. I kept dropping painfully obvious hints to go to the POUND and adopt and animal in NEED but NO. Go and be superficial and get the perfect dog. HMPH.) is... well, I dunno, wonderful, I guess, and from astounding show dog lines. Mom even said I could get tips from her friend on how to show him which would be BADASS and nearly completely remedeed the fact that we didn't rescue a dog. But mom was saying that she wanted a SMART dog and an Australian cattle dog is ranked third in the intelligence scale of dogs or something and that we had gotten LUCKY with adopting Zip ("What if we get a hellish dog that's a nightmare? What, will we just toss him/her back in the pound"?. ect.) so yeah, I guess she's kinda right... I just wish she wasn't being so superficial. ("I want a cattle dog that LOOKS like how a cattle dog is supposed to look! I want a tail on it and no bent ears!" ((geez, don't diss ZIP or anything >:U))). ...I'm probably making my mom sound like a bitch, but she really isn't being one XDD;; I'm just being difficult. See, we were trying to come up with a name for him, and mom eventually decided on Buzzard's (that's the kennel he's from) Blu (No E. *sigh*) Tyrannosaurus Rex.
....
NO!!!
We're not calling a dog REX.
It's one of the most common names EVAR.
"Oh, but it's not common so much anymore..."
Noooo!
But she explained that he was going to be BIG for a cattle dog and she wanted something that sounded BIG and MASCULINE.
So I said that I was going to conjure up a mega list of badass names but that never happened. BUT! I did think of this one name: Buzzard's Blu Buckaroo.
IT RHYMES, BEEYOTCHES. IT RHYMES.
And i suggested we could call him "Roo" for short? But dad was all, "NO, I'm not calling a dog 'ROO'! D:< It needs to be a FIRM name. I'll call him 'BUCK' but never 'ROO'!"
Then that name was shot down the drain. So we all went back and forth with names until MOM and DAD (see how I'm not in there?) decided that he shall be called Buzzard's Blu Tye-Breaker. And call him "Tye" for short. I said it was ALRIGHT, that I liked "Tye", that it sounded boyish moreso than BIG EPIC MANLY MAN. (mom was think of ways to spell it: "tie-breaker, tye-breaker", or "ty-breaker" but dad was all "A tie is something you wear >:K" so we agreed on "Tye-breaker". Since dad wanted something MEANINGFUL and a tie-breaker is someone that's "special" or whatever.
<---There he is. Buzzard's Blu Tye-Breaker. ....At least he doesn't have that freakishly eerie resemblance to Zip that that female puppy had that mom showed me that nearly had me and her in tears. That that that. Seemed like I used "that" a lot in that sentence. UGH, THAT WORD WON'T GO AWAY. NYERGGH ><
.....whoa, I just remembered that dream I had (think I put it on here somewhere) where Zip was in it and had a tail... and this puppy has a tail... AM I HAVING PROPHETIC DREAMZ?! Pfft, never.
And just to the people that have seen Zip before and are probably going, "...What do you mean, doesn't look like Zip? That IS Zip o_O In puppy form.", Zip had only one dark blue patch, on the side of her face of her bent ear (this puppy's ears are no unbent, since he just had to mature a little more) and lacked a tail.
I'm actually really excited, though. Since he's going to be bonding with me the entire summer.
Oh, yes, and something that might be less pleasant is the fact that he's not house-trained. ._. And I have to teach him to BE house-trained. And not let him walk all over me, since cattle dogs are smart and will easily take control ._____. AND he's going to be unweildly energetic since 1.) he's a PUPPY, 2.) cattle dogs are working dogs and need to be kept BUSY, and 3.) NEEDS TO BE KEPT BUSY. ._________. So, he'll be like a Spike not a Zip... (Spike was out red cattle dog that we had to give to the police force so he had something to do since us being gone all day was not doing good for him.. and Zip didn't really have that kind of needing to do something. @_@)
WE'LL PROBABLY BE GETTING HIM THESE WEEKEND.
YEE.
And I'll be seeing Bruta soon!
DOUBLE YEE.
If she doesn't remember me, I will cry. ;_;
And we'll be washing the dogs soon!
ONE AND A HALF YEE!
One and half only because mom has now informed me I can't have anyone over to help me wash them D: "They ARE animals. If one just turns around and bites because they don't like what you're doing, well..." and PLUS, Nikita and Zoom? Hate strangers and would NEVER. SHUT. UP. if someone came over to help wash them. That and no strangers WOULD be able to wash them. They'd hide :X
ALRIGHTY, LONGER ENTRY THAN I WANTED IT TO BE, BYE.
- Music:the screams of your family as I torture them... coughwhosaidthat?
WHOOOOOO, I BEAT PANZER DRAGOON ORTA 8DDDDDDDDD
FUDGING HELL, that last boss was a bitch @_@
BUT YAY :DDDDDDD
Oh my google, though, the ending had me crying almost as much as Shadow of the Colossus' ending ;____; I'm such a loser XDD;;
Now, excuse me, I must go play it again~ <333333
And yes, I plan on announcing every game I beat, if you haven't noticed X33;;;
- Mood:
ecstatic - Music:ending credits music...?
Why, Caitlin, what's with all of the Youtube videos and lack of words lately?
Hell if I know~
BUT I HAVE PUPPIES 8D
Three's a crowd~ Nikita, looking out at the yard for some unexplained reason, Dolly digging, and Dancin watching Dolly digging because he's old and has nothing better to do.
The Momma dog Nikita. Run, Forrest, run! Or walk. Jog. Lope. Whatever. And there's part of Dancin's body there, too! ...Maybe it's his furry ass? Who knows.
Look, it's old man Dancin! Respect your elders. (the complete opposite of what the puppies were doing to him. I was petting Dancin, right? And Dolly comes FLYING over him, LANDING on his back, then SCRAMBLING over him, and his back legs collapse on him and he's like, "GRR >:U" and Dolly's all "AHURR I AM COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS OF THE PAIN I CAUSE TO OTHERS :DDDD")
Dolly digging. Again! It mus be a fetish. Who knew dogs would DIG so much? HONESTLY.
Darcy dear~ <3 And she's... standing 8D
A'DAWWWW it's BADGERRRR. Ain't he so handsome~? Dancin's there too. Standing and staring. And there's Dolly in the background again! And she's actually NOT digging! Darcy is the black blob visible underneath Badger.
Darcy in a hole :3
OHNOES D: I lack pictures of Cheyenne. Fear not, though! There is more to come. It's just that I'm on my laptop, and in order to get all of the other pictures up, I'd need to get back on my home computer, which I don't feel like doing now >_> But tomorrow! I have the whole day. 'CAUSE IT'S SUMMER BREAKS YESSSSS.
But before I leave.
WANNA SEE SOMETHIN' COOL?
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/04/1
It makes me giggle.
- Location:Where you can't see me, but I can see you
- Mood: bouncy
- Music:THE SOUND OF PEOPLE DYING. Notrly. I'm not a psychopathic serial killer. Srsly!
EXACTLY WHAT THE TITLE READS.
I was watching Fight Club last night, right? I knew something was a little wonky, 'cause whenever I went to stop it, it would stop, but then the TV would turn off and it would spit the tape out and I would go "WTF >:U" and turn the TV back on.
THEN, after it had done it about the TENTH TIME I tried to take the tape out.
TRIED is the key word here, seeing as the roll inside the tape was STUCK. So I ripped it out, and BAM. The tape was cut in half.
Wonderful.
Now I'm going to have to hunt down the DVD for it. And I was half-way through, man! Half-way!
Behold: Carnage!
- Mood:
awake - Music:Flight of the Bumblebee (Green Hornet theme) AL HIRT IS DA MASTERRR.
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