Monday, October 6, 2008

Getsu Youbi: I Feel Great!
Translation for first part: Monday.

And I was even able to shake that come-and-go feeling that I’ve been having no thanks to my brother’s stupid jokes! In that kind of situation, I’m so glad I got my patriarchal blessing a couple years ago. ^^

Ren: now if only you could find the printed copy.

CCR: I know, right? I told myself when it came in the mail I wouldn’t lose it, but then I did. XD; That or my mom has it…. Which I doubt. But I do recall some of the things therein that suggests I’m not gonna croak anytime soon.

Ed: problem number two: the only people I can think of who would read this that would even know what a patriarchal blessing is would be Rae or Refi (tiggerola). Heck, I barley know what it is.

CCR: true… I might do a post on Ask a Mormon about that in the near future.

All that craziness aside, w00t for short school week! After today, I’ve only got a day and a half left of the week before we’re let out for four days! Wednesday’s a half-day, so that’s why I said I only have a day and a half before break. Then tomorrow’s the choir concert, and then the Seminary BBQ after school Wednesday… for a short week, it’s gonna be a hectic one!

Ren: speaking of which, did you study for your Government test tomorrow yet?

CCR: I’m set. You know I don’t study that often and still make the grade, provided I do whatever work they give us. … Well, except in French. But we’ll cover that later.

Morning, found out that since EVIT’s out for the whole week, Sora’s actually gonna be able to hang out with us at lunch this week. Mythology, we’re finally getting into stuff OTHER than Greco-Roman myth! Starting with the Egyptian myth of Osiris, Isis, and Horus. I honestly think I must’ve watched too much Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid, because I still somehow imagined Set (or is it Seth? The packet spelled it Set, but then it also spelled Ra with an e instead of an a…) looking like a completely ebil-no-feelings-for-anyone-whatsoever-Mokuba-included Kaiba. XD; then we’re working on the worksheet for that tomorrow, and on Wednesday… probably my favorite creation myth because of the sheer randomness of one particular detail: the Norse creation myth. Come on, who can say that a cosmic cow licking an ice block to form human beings isn’t totally out there?! But then I guess the ice part somewhat makes sense because the Norse lived in a pretty cold climate… I think. Gah, I’m getting my geography mixed up. XD

Seminary was a Conference Activity Day. Brother G had his notes and those who kept notes on Conference had theirs, and in addition to games such as stuffing grapes in someone’s mouth to see how much he or she can hold (we had three, one person from each table group/section; all guys, too), he asked us questions, and then on occasion he’d let us try to stump him. I felt left out though since I missed it! Maybe that was another part of the problem earlier; spiritual starvation, maybe?

Goku: so your soul can eat, too?

CCR: -.- probably not in the way you’re thinking.

Government consisted of review for the test, then in French we had our quiz. I got a low grade on mine because I mixed up the instructions! T^T Ah well, it was just a 60,and I had my overall grade at a high B before. Shouldn’t bring me back down to a C again…. I hope. Lunch – even more craziness than usual. And then I brought up the point that Kadaj (how does Advent Children keep popping up in conversation) is a crazy televangelist. I mean come on! Did you hear him during the scene in the “Forgotten City” with the water? He sounded like one of those TBN guys! … Except he was practically preaching what some might call Jenova-ism XD I’ll be honest though, TBN isn’t that bad and I’m not ripping on them. I’m ripping on the televangelists that sound like they’re on something with their speech patterns and behavior. Driver’s Ed… we’re still getting a test this week. Ah well, it’ll be open notes as long as my classmates keep their mouths shut when he threatens to take away the privilege, so that’s good. And better yet: NO SIMULATORS THIS WEEK! ^0^ Then in choir we rehearsed for the concert on stage… and how to walk on stage, and how to walk off, and where we’re gonna sit. That in itself took up half the hour.

After school’s been okay, I suppose. Dad made me comb Koda through… that dog is almost covered in ticks, I swear. O_O it was soooo gross combing all those things out. And then some got on my pants and I had to flick them off, and by the end of it, I still hadn’t gotten all of them out and the first two fingers on both of my hands were covered in dog blood. Ewwww…. *shudder* Dad says he’s gonna tick-dip him tomorrow while we’re at school to finally get the ticks off. And since he was the main problem as to our tick issue (the other dogs don’t have nearly as many on them), we should be able to be rid of the suckers.

And that’s all for tonight; it’s getting late and I gotta sing tomorrow evening. Until next time, ja ne!
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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Nichi Youbi: A Weekend with the Grandparents is Always a Good Thing...
Translation for first part: Sunday

… That is unless it interferes with a semi-annual religious event (in this case, General Conference). But then that was the only time my grandma would be available to take me shopping for a dress for Homecoming, and -

Ren: if you were that concerned about it, you should’ve stuck with yours and Kyarri’s plan to wear your Chinese dress that you’ve had for the last three or four years!

CCR: I know, but there were obstacles such as a) my mom might not let me wear it, b) the school might deem it inappropriate because it has one slit on the side, and c) I’m not even sure if I’d fit comfortably into it anymore! Well, actually that one is more or less a questionable one since despite everything I’ve still been able to fit into it in times past… you know what, I’ll try to wear it to church next Sunday and if it still fits and my grandma can’t get me on a weekend sooner than a week before Winter Formal, we’ll go with it!

Anyway, Friday started with the usual madness and then the anime club meeting. Then I took my Mythology test that I missed Thursday due to the CGCC Festival for choir, ate cookies and went over our usual Seminary assignment for Conference, which he let us set our on due date for (mine’s due Halloween since each session is two hours long, and I know unless I sit down next weekend and spend eight hours watching it over the Internet, I’m not gonna be able to do it all in one sitting. I’ll work in it little by little throughout the month, though… How about I try one or two sessions Wednesday after school since we have a half day that day? Then if I watch one session that day, then Friday I can watch one after school (if we have school Friday), one Saturday, and one Sunday after church); got to skip Government a second day in a row because of the BYU informational meeting, after which I’m not sure if I’m gonna still go after a year or two of Community College or straight from HS now; learned we have a quiz tomorrow in French that I don’t know if I’m ready for (gotta review the vocab during SSR tomorrow and maybe a little in the morning… it’s just giving directions, gas station vocab, and expressing impatience and reassuring said impatient person, no big deal), had lunch, took the test on intersections in Driver’s Ed, and then went over our finales for concert on Tuesday in choir.

Now after school, things got interesting. The minute I got home, Dad told me to sweep up his and Mom’s bathroom, then as I was finishing that up my grandparents came. We waited for my brother to show up, and we left. Per usual, we ate out on the way out to my grandparents’ place (Red Robin; it’s almost become a usual spot for our first-night dinner when we visit them), where I learned the joys of French onion soup… and the dangers of fried onion… I don’t know what they called them, but they were like thin, stringy onion rings that they put on my burger. I almost choked on one of those dang things!

Goku: but it was funny to see Ren and Ed freak out when that happened.

Ed and Ren: *in unison* we did not freak out!

CCR: please don’t get me started…

Anyway, after we finished our meal, we went to Blockbuster to rent two movies to watch each night. My brother rented The Love Guru, which we watched that night (by the way, it was utterly disgusting, I don’t care how funny my brother thought it was! I fail to see how two elephants humping, a chastity belt and a mouth full of whizz are funny!). The movie I rented… I’ll save that for later.

Saturday, the dress hunt began, and on the way my grandma and I also discussed things pertaining to the Japan trip. According to the old book from last year, which is all we have to go by until her travel agent gets the ’09 book sometime this month, we’ll be spending approx. 12 days in Japan and 14 in Thailand. Setting that stuff aside until we actually get to that point and/or I get this year’s book for myself so I know for sure what we’re doing, the search for a homecoming dress for me was more or less… kinda dramatic. Again. Like the search for the dress for Winter Formal last year, where I didn’t end up getting anything (good thing too because I didn’t end up going that year), it came to tears. Why is it that we always go dress shopping right before that time of the month?! I swear that must be it! That and the store known as Windsor is ebil and robs girls like myself who aren’t anoerxically skinny but too small to fit into even the smallest selections at Torrid or Lane Bryant of their self esteem. I couldn’t even fit in their equivalent to a size 14 (which was a size 13; they go by odd numbers for some insane reason), and that’s what I usually wear as to dresses! But then we went to Dillard’s and rediscovered one of the dresses I was interested in last Winter Formal and got that. ^^ Happily ever after.

Ren: is it really wise to advertize your dress size like you just did in that paragraph…?

CCR: *shrug*

After we got the dress, we searched for a shawl with no success, but luckily Mom knows a store where I can get one! Then we went back to their place, hung out for a bit, and then went to dinner, where my brother shot spit wads at me through a straw, kept insisting that I like Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers, even though I keep telling him my opinion of those people is as low as my opinion of Hannah Montana (and that’s pretty low),and then freaked me out with that stupid “touch of death” thing.

Ed: I kinda have to agree though that you freak out too easily.

CCR: I know, I know. I gotta learn not to take these things so seriously. ^^; even though I still get this creeped out feeling after that that something might happen on Tuesday, but it comes and goes with the mention of the incident. I personally think I’ll be okay and he’s lying up his butt about there even being a “touch of death” in the first place (even though he said he didn’t do it right, he insists that there really is one and the show he got it from wouldn’t say where it is because it could lead to mass slaughter).

And now for the big part. After we got home, we watched the movie I rented… Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Surprisingly, my grandparents sat through it. But not without my grandpa’s wise-cracking commentaries, from calling Red XIII “Fido on steroids,” to saying after I said that the movie takes place in a totally different world that it’s set in San Francisco, to saying, “Well, I’ll hand it to you B******y, you rented the most violent movie I’ve ever seen.” Honestly, I could’ve recorded some of those commentaries and put it on YouTube! Then my grandma kept thinking Aerith was “Mother” and originally thought Cloud was drowning her in the beginning until I told her how Aerith really died. Then in the end with the water, here’s what both of them said:

“They’re getting baptized!”

My commentary-style response when Denzel got into the water and Cloud poured it over his head: “See Denzel, baptism makes everyone happy! =D”

Zelgadiss: honestly, it sounds like you guys totally destroyed the movie with your comments.

CCR: actually I take it as a sign that they enjoyed it. Except my grandpa, since he said that you could’ve cut out half the movie and you wouldn’t notice because it’s just people fighting and never getting hurt.

Then today, we ate at IHOP, went to the Wildlife World Zoo, ate at Marie Claendar’s and now I’m home. All I’ve left to do is upload this week’s Randomosity, read my scriptures, and then maybe for once I can get to bed at a decent time since I finished this! ^^ O_O Oh crap… there’s one drawing I forgot to scan! *runs to her room to get the sketchbook and comes back in the kitchen with the PyJun pic she drew last Saturday* Now to scan this thing…

Ren: and just when I’d thought you would forget and never pull out that drawing again.

CCR: but it’s cuuuute! ^^

Ren: maybe to you.

Allen: actually, the pairing kind of makes sense. Even when they’re here they’re not too far from eachother.

Ren: don’t encourage her…

CCR: be grateful I haven’t drawn any HitsuHina yet.

Ren: but you’ve written it, which is just as bad.

CCR: true. Okay, why am I talking about pairings here, I gotta get that drawing scanned, Randomosity submitted here and on dA, and then I’m going to bed!
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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Moku Youbi: of Orchestra and Choral Festivals
Translation for first part: Thursday.

Okay, I’ll brief you on the last couple days since just covering today alone is gonna be a doozy.

Ren: like you can keep anything short.

CCR: and we need not anything from the peanut gallery this evening.

Tuesday – saw Rae’s orchestra concert, my brother met one of the others in our group we simply call Kurogen (not sure that’s how he’d spell it, but I went by how he pronounces it). That, honestly, was kinda funny. I sincerely hope my brother never gets on his bad side, though.

Wednesday – just another day; got my shoes for my choir uniform last night (the lateness thereof was what impeded my post last night)

Then today… I got up at five. Well, I woke up at 5, at least. Didn’t get out of bed until 5:30 or so. Got dressed, brushed hair and teeth, ate breakfast and we were out the door. I was the second one to get to the school (for the performance, anyway), so I worked on my most recent drawing a bit (by the way, on that note Randomosity is gonna be a couple of days late this weekend), then everyone else arrived and we got on the bus and left.

Once we got to the CGCC (Chandler Gilbert Community College), we were signed in and began practicing on stage, then our performance and adjudication. Thank goodness we were the first ones up there! Well, that’s actually kinda good and bad. Good, because we got the stage for practice. Bad, because the choir from Dobson High drove out here early to see our performance (their director actually was Medlock’s choir director in high school, and they’ve kept in touch). Now normally that wouldn’t have been bad, but -

Ed: they were pretty rude as an audience.

CCR: exactly. Their performance in and of itself was fantastic, by far the best there according to Medlock, but they were far from gracious in the sit and watch department.

Ren: considering you were fidgeting when you’re not supposed to fidget on stage…

CCR: I know, I gotta work on that. At the concert on Tuesday, smack me mentally if I fidget.

We watched some other choirs perform – Dobson included – and their adjudications (Dr. Schivey, man I hope I spelt his name right, did them on stage.). At some points I was blown away. Mesa High’s a capella group, for instance. Much as Medlock said they were a disappointment, and I guess in some ways they were… it still was just wow. But then that’s because I didn’t take time to criticize and just enjoyed it. And you know, the fact that I was half asleep kinda contributed as well. But then at others I was a bit disappointed.

We loaded the bus again after Red Mountain’s performance and went to a shopping center where there were several different restaurants to choose from. He said no groups smaller than four, but… our group of four, (me, Mi, and two other people I don’t really know on a first-name or nickname basis) kinda split. Mi and one of them went to Subway, the other girl and I went to Panda express. Much as I disobeyed the orders, it was worth it to get my orange chicken and pot stickers.

Goku: wait wait wait, hold the phone! There was a Panda express where you went for lunch?!

CCR: *nods* yeah. Why?

Goku: dang it.

Ren: your fault for sitting out on the choir festival, monkey.

Goku: -.-; I’m not a monkey. Come on, I don’t even have a tail like the DB Goku for Pete’s sake!

CCR: getting back on topic again…

So after we ate, we met up with the other two in our group at Subway, they finished, and then we went to Pets Mart since we had plenty of time left afterward before the bus left again. We loaded once again, and the weirdness that entails in a typical high school choir road trip commenced with full force.

Ren: if that’s normal, then you guys are crazy.

CCR: what? Singing random Disney songs that practically everyone knows (but there were a few I didn’t know all the words to… I need to watch Hercules again!) and just being crazy? That’s what we do! It was no different on the 9th grade Flagstaff trip. That was even better almost. Man, I wish I had been able to do choir all four years of high school. *kicks the people who decided to make life for U.S. Mormon teens more difficult by not giving school credit for Seminary* I might do that in college, though… but then they’ll expect me to be able to read music. So we work on it in our classes, but I still have nothing on people like Kana and Rae who’ve been playing a musical instrument since grade school!

We did however make it back to the school for the last ten minutes of the lunch break. So Mi and I went to meet up with our usual lunch group consisting of Kana, Rae, Kyarri and Ri usually, and then the bell rang. Fifth hour, routine, then choir (which happens to be my last class of the day), we went over the judges’ notes and critiques (lots of compliments on our pianist, one of my classmates from Seminary last year), and then we critiqued some of the other choirs’ performances that we heard. Believe it or not, Medlock actually took notes on their performances.

In other news, Dad’s home, and I watched some of the VP debate. I’ll admit, Biden and Obama’s plans regarding the environment sound good, but I still wouldn’t vote for them. I’m sorry, but the concept of socialized medicine will snowball and the quality of American health care will plummet…. *falls asleep, this time hitting the desk and not the keyboard*

Ren: I told her she should’ve taken a nap after she got home…

CCR: *wakes up for a brief second* FYI, I tried! It didn't work!
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Getsu Youbi: Inu
Translation – Monday: dog.

Well, my day certainly didn’t start out as usual. I got up at 7 (oh, the beauty of sleeping in~!), waited for Mom to come home from checking out different gyms to see which one she can join to lose some weight and get in shape, and then we went down to the MPS office to take my final for my online class… which only took me short of 20 minutes to finish. Now to just set up an appointment with my counselor to notify her that I finished the course and if I pass all my classes this year, I’ll have the credits to graduate! ^^ I also need to get some info from her on how to access my resume’ we made on this one career building site last year so I can print it out and get the letters of recommendation from my teachers so I can go ahead and start applying for scholarships! XD; Then after that wonder, Mom took me down to the Cracker Barrel out in Riverview for breakfast, and then we went shopping for slacks for my choir uniform (being in the n00b choir as I call it and the fact that we don’t have enough dresses and tuxedos for all the choirs sucks big time.), and then I was driven to the school…. To find out I missed the first day of the stupid school-wide writing assessment they do every year! Worse yet, I don’t know whether to go to the Seminary building as I normally do 2nd hour and have the writing assessment done there, or to go to the cafeteria… gah, it’s so confuzzling!

Ren: then just ask Lance before or after your first hour class like you said you would do!

CCR: I’ll probably do that. But still… it’s just confuzzling. And on top of that, I am most definitely going to bring my own lunch tomorrow. One lunch schedule (where they release the entire school for lunch at once) that they establish during these writing assessments = imminent doom for those who attempt to squeeze into the cafeteria lines.

Goku: you’re telling me… the thought of waiting in those lines is downright scary.

Ed: says the monkey with a bottomless pit for a stomach who travels around in a green jeep with three men. You sure any of you are straight?

CCR: Ed, the potential bisexuality or homosexuality of the main Saiyuki cast is irrelevant at the moment.

Anyway, rest of the day was just French (wasn’t lucky enough to miss it… oh well, we had the soccer coach as our sub, so there wasn’t much work involved), Driver’s Ed, and Choir. Speaking of Driver’s Ed… just because I got a kick out of it:

“Now does anyone here know what the point of no return in an intersection is? And no, it’s not the Phantom of the Opera song.” – Mr. Runge.

Funny thing was, I was wondering when he had us read the chapter as he got the powerpoint for our notes ready if he was gonna bring up that reference or not. XD So I went into Choir with said song stuck in my head until we began rehearsal. By the way, one-week-before-concert Medlock is scary.

So, I gotta get to bed soon. Until next time, ja ne!

EDIT: by the way, playing with melted candle wax is actually really fun, especially when the candles are fragranced.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Nichi Youbi: Fun Weekend?
Translation for first part: Sunday

gah, I’ve been posting less and less frequently as of late… oh well. This time it was because my Internet connection was acting buggy last night and Friday night… by the time I got home I was too tired. XD;

So Friday I went babysitting at the church with Kana and Rae. Normally I don’t enjoy babysitting all that much, but this time it was actually not that bad. ^^

Ren: because you were working on your Randomosity comic for this week half the time…

CCR: true… >.>; but I contributed afterwards! *glances at the space by the computer desk* wow… it’s so less cluttered than it was before. Mom’s really been working on that. Still hope we can find my passport in that mess, though. Otherwise the Japan trip next summer is kinda shot.

Ren: -_- you changed the subject.

CCR: I guess I did, huh? ^^; Okay, focusing again.

Then Saturday… slept in until about 8 or so, went to Rae’s… hen we got bored, Rae suggested we cook something, and then we found a recipe for fortune cookies online and tried that. First batch was overcooked and was too stiff to even get it off the pan; the second one was too doughy and tasted like sugar cookies. But writing the fortunes was fun! ^^ “Beware of dark alleys… the Stein potatoes will eat j00!” (reference to Makademia’s recent e-card.) Too bad we didn’t get to use that one. I hope Rae saves the ones we didn’t get to use for the next time. After we delivered our not-so-great-but-worth-the-effort fortune cookies to Kana and her sister, I went home to feed the dogs and get ready for the church youth dance that we were going to that night. We went, stayed for about an hour, and then ditched the joint because hardly anyone was even there to begin with and went to Golden Spoon for ice cream on the way home.

Ed: you forgot that hour or so that you were waiting at Rae’s house for her to get ready since her mom was driving you guys there.

CCR: but all that happened around that time was me watching T play Kingdom Hearts and then Shawnie (I figured I’d drop her alias of “Shana” that I used here before. Besides, Shawnie’s just a nickname derived from her real name anyway) begged me to draw something in her sketchbook… with a wooden pencil since I didn’t have my mechanical. *twitch* I finished said pic today, though. It turned out cute, but I’m not so sure I’ll upload it here… ^^; there are some mistakes, and despite the coloring on it being traditional, someone commented on one of my pics here today that I need to improve my Photoshop skills… which I already knew, but it’s just easier to hear it from yourself than from someone else, you know? Plus before that I thought I was doing good. So my style’s a bit different from the norm in the Photoshop spectrum, but… oh forget it. What if it’s just the fact that it’s not “difference of style” as I blow it off to be, but that I’m truly just not that great of an artist…?

Ren: *sigh* not this again… CCR, get out of your emo corner! So you need some improvement, that’s a given among any artist out there, even the professionals!

CCR: I know, but it’s just… when you think of it, most of the time it’s only my friends that comment on any of my work on dA or theO anyway, and then -

Ren: I repeat what your stepbrother would probably say if he weren’t out home teaching right now: “Cry a river, build a bridge, get over it. And stop crying, you already cried a river!”

CCR: -.-; you know that doesn’t work all that well. Oh well, not much I can do but take it as helpful advice and keep working on improving my PS skills, maybe even look up some tutorials…

And then today, of course, consisted of church, sleep, and feeding my dogs. Nothing new there. Except that tics have practically infested our kitchen… ew. But then that’s typical of the summer anyway, so hopefully with the cold they’ll die or hibernate or something. And I forgot to put garlic in the dog food tonight. CRAP! In other news, not much. And my brother’s watching the Bee Movie… great.

So, not much else until dinner. So until next time, ja ne!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Moku Youbi: Catch-Up
Translation for first part: Thursday.

And no, that’s not a misspelling of the popular tomato-based condiment. I finally found time to catch up on Soul Eater today! ^^ (I’ve been a few episodes behind until now – watching ep. 24 as we speak. By the way, Ashura is FREAKY! Seriously, I haven’t seen something like what transpired in the end of episode 23 and the beginning of episode 24 since I saw Conqueror of Shambala the first time!... and even then I’m almost thinking Ashura may have passed Gluttony in creepiness, and that’s saying something!) O_O whoa! Did he just kill -

Ren: no spoilers, remember? There’s an off chance Rae will read this.

CCR: what about Kana?

Ren: have you ever seen her use her theO account after she signed up?

CCR: not really…

Ren: that should answer your question. … And why are you eating more of those grapes?!

CCR: *shrug* what? They’re good. At least I’m not eating the last bit of the Brie (a type of French cheese, for those who didn’t know) with it. That’s for tomorrow unless someone tried and liked it and isn’t all the way on the other side of the state right now.

Goku: don’t look at me; much as I’ve been tempted to I know better than to mess with your cheese. And that outer chalky stuff is disgusting!

CCR: … you’re not supposed to eat the outer layer (although it is edible, it’s far from pleasant).

In other news, CTV, our school’s journalism division that makes video announcements that they show Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in fourth hour asked Sora, as our club president, to show them some reference pictures of cosplays they can do for next Wednesday’s broadcast – and they’re actually going to interview Sora as well. Keep in mind, getting this kind of coverage from CTV is pretty big within the school spectrum. Kyaa! I’m so happy for her (Sora)~! And the club, too. We’ll get a heck of a lot more exposure, even more than at Club Day (by the way, I think I might actually get off my toosh and get the video that she made from that day up here for tonight’s post if I finish those Soul Eater episodes. … Honestly, I haven’t even seen the video yet, so it’ll be a first for me too.)

The rest of my day beyond the club officer meeting went pretty much as normal. We did some book work in Mythology, and since we’re studying myths on death and the afterlife (mostly Greco-Roman right now; I don’t think we’re gonna cover international myth until later in the semester), we spent the other half of the class watching a video on the roots of Halloween. Seminary, we had a student-taught lesson and then Brother Goss’s wife came and talked to us about how they met, some of their dating experiences, and whatnot. Some of them were pretty funny, but still… How could he, going and giving his (at that time) girlfriend a caramel-covered onion?! Then in Government we discussed more on political parties and the nomination process. French, we’re still working on how to get directions and how to ask for vehicle-related services such as checking tire pressure, filling up the gas and so on and so forth. Then there was lunch, and Driver’s Ed. In choir… we had a substitute whose name was Ms. Shoemaker. So it was just a quick run-through rehearsal with Allie (the overall choir council president) conducting.

After school… Mom went with me on my evening walk, believe it or not. She said I should take one of our dogs with me since we’re not in the best of neighborhoods (we smelled someone smoking pot at one point in the walk – it was disgusting!), but then the cat’s in the yard… I don’t know if I can control any of our dogs, except maybe Bullseye. He’s generally pretty well-behaved.

Well, might as well wrap this post up for the night, and leave you with that video I talked about earlier. Until next time, ja ne!


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Sui Youbi: Priorities
Translation for first part: Wednesday.

I didn’t post last night due to my brother’s band concert, and man… I never thought I’d be that tired after a band concert, of all things. Ah well. *shrug* Not much else happened that I can recall… gah, my memory’s going to squat! T^T

Ren: keep in mind; you just overheard quite an earful from your parents, too. That might have contributed to it because you’re still a bit rattled by what you think would’ve set your brother into tears.

CCR: so I’m not the only one who noticed he just sat there and took that verbal beating?
By the way, regarding that issue, all I can say is that he lost the chance for a really hard to get merit badge that basically stopped him from getting his Eagle for another year. And my parents are miffed as ever because they actually paid money for the class required to get that badge.

Ed: *walked in after it happened* oh, so that’s why your dad was hollering at him earlier.

CCR: and if it weren’t – okay, change of subject!

Since I forgot most of yesterday already (le gasp!), we start anew with today. Sora may have fellowshipped another person into our circle by befriending an exchange student from Korea this morning - … some of thse grapes have a weird aftertaste. Sorry about that. ^^; getting back on topic… nuu! Only two minutes left! And I can’t post this after ten on myO or the date will go wonky on me!

Ren: you should’ve started this earlier then.

CCR: but I had some stuff I had to do for temple week (and no, it did not have to do with holy bananas; refer to Monday’s post if you missed the joke). Nu! 59! Okay, okay, I gotta get this out there stat. Until next time, ja ne!
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Getsu Youbi: Holy Bananas
Translation for first part: Monday.

Since it was one of the main highlights of my day, I’ll start with explaining the reason for the title tonight.

Every year in Seminary since we got Brother Goss as our teacher, we’ve had a Temple Week, where we learn somewhat about the Church’s temples. Well, that started today. And he told us a story about an experience at the Washington DC temple with his parents. They took him with them on said temple trip when he was about ten – just him alone, none of his siblings went. And since young children typically aren’t permitted in the temple, he just kinda sat outside on the temple grounds and read from the New Testament. Then his parents came out from the temple and, figuring he was hungry, gave him a banana from the temple and said they needed to get some more stuff done and went back inside. Since he was about ten at the time, he didn’t know that the temples have a cafeteria (Mom used to tell me when I was little that they would have ribs there on Friday nights when she went). So he’s thinking to himself, “Oh my gosh… this is a holy, sacred banana from the temple. It’s so perfect and yellow, the way a banana should be. I will never eat this banana, for it is a holy temple banana!” Weeks later, he still has the banana, and of course it’s gotten brown and everything. His dad said, “What are you doing?! Eat the banana already!” “But dad,” he replied, “It’s holy!” But I guess his parents explained to him about the temple cafeterias and then they made banana bread out of it since it was brown. That’s what he told us happened anyway.

Goku: holy bananas… I wonder what those taste like.

Ren: she just said there is no such thing as a holy banana.

Goku: hey, it’s possible. CCR, you guys believe God can do anything, right? Why can’t He make bananas holy?

CCR: well, considering He probably doesn’t need food, there would be no need for holy food of any kind, let alone bananas.

Other than the chuckle from the holy banana story, since I still had (mostly) straight hair from when Mom decided to mess with it Saturday evening, and it’s not as conspicuous as some of my other cosplays, I put my hair in pigtails and, with a longer skirt, sans the black jacket-like thing and makeshift scythe, I pulled off a cosplay of Maka from Soul Eater. Surprisingly, my dad said it looked cute. O.o He usually thinks my cosplays are weird. But then someone in my French class went and said I looked like a “Catholic Schoolgirl.” Now even though he’s one of our group and has even been in a Randomsity comic once (even if he was being whacked by my scriptures albeit Kyarri), one of the anime he doesn’t know is Soul Eater. Actually, other than Kana and Rae, as far as I know I’m the only Soul Eater fan in the entire school, let alone the anime club. I still gotta get Kyarri to watch it sometime…

Ed: you and your fandoms.

CCR: I know, I know. But as Rae once said it, it’s not a fandom, it’s an obsessiveness.

Oh! And I got a date set up for my final exam for my online class! It only took me a month to finish the thing (and 8 and a half hours total according to my mom to complete the class). If I weren’t already relieved that this class is over and the fact that I think if I were to take another one I’d have to pay money to do it, I’d figure out if this comp can record sound files and take Chinese! ^^ Now if only they had a Japanese course…

Well, I better be heading for bed (even though it seems like I didn’t cover much of anything – by the way, I washed my hair after school and it’s curly again! ^_^). Until next time, ja ne!
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Nichi Youbi: of Cinnamon Rolls and Youth Conference
Started at 7 am. Translation for first part: Sunday
Since I have no idea how long this post will actually be and we’re going to Aunt Mary’s house for cookies tonight, partially because of my brother’s birthday is today and also because Dad wants to discuss some stuff with her regarding his finally being able to go through the Temple soon, I’m starting this post in the morning. I might even complete it right now and just put up another one tonight after we get back, I don’t know… but then that would put the Word version of these archives back a day ahead like it used to be on myO forever ago until I started posting around 9 and the clock there was permanently stuck as being 10 pm AZ time = midnight.

Ren: well that’s random. And probably the longest run-on I’ve seen you write in a long time.

CCR: yep. Of all the grammatical weaknesses I could have, it’s typically run-ons for one reason or another.

So, the reason I haven’t posted since… *checks the date of her last post (when it’s been so long I don’t remember, there’s a problem. XD;)* … Tuesday?! It had to have been later than that! *checks her World and myO; by the way, like the background change?* … yep, since Tuesday. DANG! I must have been busier than I thought I was. But yeah, the rest of the school week mainly consisted of Constitution Day on Wednesday, our officers-only Anime Club meeting on Thursday among other things, and Friday was Club Day! And we had two Soras, since Sora-chan (our president, formerly known in other posts as Neko-chan) wore her KH1 Sora outfit and let Korey wear her KH2 Sora. If I can find the YouTube video she put together from stuff that went on at lunch later, I’ll put it up for you guys. Then Friday night was the first activity for Youth Conference: we all got together in the cultural hall of the stake center, which was decorated to look like a movie theater, and watched the videos all of the wards in our stake made. I think my voice was either faded or cut out of the recording for ours (I was one of the singers of a modified-lyrics version of Bleeding Love)… But oh well. Then there was the dance afterward until 10 pm (reason I didn’t post that night).

Ed: you forgot to mention the “red carpet” they set up at the doorway.

CCR: yeah, but other than the leaders acting like paparazzi and taking pictures left and right, that isn’t all that special.

Then I woke up bright and early yesterday for the breakfast they had planned: burritos that wouldn’t hold together after I opened it up ever so slightly to put some salsa in with the eggs+potato+sausage mix. After everyone ate, we were split into groups and started rotations. The first two rotations were games pretty much, and then the last two were more serious/lesson-type atmosphere. The one on dating I honestly think my brother should have been there for.

Ren: as if it would have done anything to motivate him to control his hormones instead of letting them control him?

CCR: it would’ve been worth a shot.

“They’re on the table!”

“Let’s GO”

Well, guess that’s my cue to end this for now.

Continued: 1:27 pm

Eh, I’m a little late in continuing this, but oh well. We had choir practice and everything after church, so yeah. After lunch yesterday we had a few more activities on dance lessons, manners, and a service project, and then we went home until dinner at 6. They set it up like a formal restaurant so we had to use our etiquette skills. But then when we got our dessert, one of the guys at our table opened up his ice cream container to find his half-eaten already. Our theory: the leader that was storing them at their house prior to this had kids, and one of them got to that particular ice cream container.

Goku: man do I feel bad for that guy. But still… he could’ve at least accepted the cake offer after they said they’d run out of ice cream.

CCR: I know, but who knows? Maybe he just really doesn’t like cake.

Then afterwards, like any church-type function, it ended with a testimony meeting until somewhere between 8:45 and 9. Then afterwards Kyarri called and we talked for a bit.

Ren: a bit? You were yakking until 10 pm.

CCR: I know.

So today… got up at 6:45 or so for church. Mom made cinnamon rolls, but we had to wait until after we got home to eat them because we were running somewhat late. At church, my brother was ordained a teacher (second office in the Aaronic priesthood, young men ages 14 to 16), and I ended up getting released from my calling as the Laurels president. So I no longer have to get up in front of the Young Women every Sunday and I don’t have to do Opening Exercises for mutual anymore. And best of all… no more BYC! W00t! Then we had choir practice and came home. I’m still home now, with my hair still straight from when Mom took the straightener to it last night.

Allen: Lavi and I are back from our – O_O… who are you and what did you do to CCR?!

CCR: it’s me, Mom just straightened my hair. And even so it’s still a tiny bit curled on the ends. And for some reason MSN isn’t working right now, so this really might not go up until tonight.

Ren: wasn’t that your plan in the first place?

CCR: yeah pretty much.

Ren: then why are you restating it?

CCR: *shrug* dunno. I was almost going to change my mind. … and commercials are getting stupider and stupider by the day.

Ed: I hear you there. Wait, why are we-

CCR: it just came up. Well, might as well end this off until after we get back to Aunt Mary’s.

Continued at 9:12 pm.

Well, that was rather nice. I took a nap for a bit because the comp started acting screwy on me, then Kyarri called and we talked for a bit, we had dinner, and then we went to Aunt Mary’s. Andrew and I actually scooped out the cookie dough onto the pans and put it in the oven, I drew while my parents talked with Mary about the date that they [Mom and Dad; don’t know if we’ll be included in this or not, but most likely] will finally be sealed. Now we’re home, and I’m exhausted… tiredness and weird conversations with parents do not go well together except to fatigue the victim even more. Speaking of which, I better head to bed while it’s still this early (good thing I typed this up in intervals throughout the day, huh?) Until next time, ja ne!
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Ka Youbi: Another Week...
Translation for first part: Tuesday

At least that’s how it seems so far. What went on Sunday and yesterday… not much really. I slept most of the day after church Sunday, as usual, and then yesterday it was too late at night to post. I’m almost done with my online course, though. :3 and if I get it done by the end of the week, I should be changing the background of both my World and my myO soon. It may not seem to make sense at first, since the one I’ve got in the works is slightly Halloween-themed, but the month is over halfway pver anyway. Also, why wait for Halloween? Unless, of course, it’s almost Christmas time. Two very good holidays, yet they seem to be on such opposite ends of the spectrum.

Ren: I can think of several reasons for that, but I won’t say so here.

CCR: me too. Gah, it’s 8:47, and I’m tired already. How can this beeeeee?

Ed: you didn’t get to sleep until 10 last night and woke up at 5:30 to take a shower?

CCR: quite possibly. But I mean, come on! Mom’s not even home yet, I can’t fall asleep until she-

Ed: since when did that ever become a rule?

CCR: I made it a rule, ‘cause I love my mom and don’t get to see her that often because she’s so busy between work and school it’s ridiculous.

So, yesterday… the morning didn’t start off so well, but then it got better as the day went on. We had a sub in Seminary, I’m not too sure of my opinion regarding Prometheus now after yesterday’s readings in Mythology; which is odd since typically the tricksters are the coolest characters in any mythological setting, IMO… but then there’s Prometheus. He’s just… I dunno. It’s like of like when we were first learning about the different Greek gods and goddesses through a “research” project, and then the description of Hades on the website we used makes him sound almost emo. And while we’re on the subject of Mythology, if you take the class and end up with a text book called “Classical Myth,” try to ignore some of the side pictures. Some of them are… graphic, to say the least. *shudders* I did not need to see anything like that until I’m married. Government was more or less boring as usual…

And then French came around. We started our dialogues, in which I only have a few lines in the one our group is doing (hope that doesn’t negatively affect my participation grade for the project), but before that we ate some of the foods that some people in the class brought in for extra credit. We had these weird bread things that were equivalent to French donuts, and then some French-style apple pie with no crust on the top (very flaky crust-wise, but that’s part of what made it good), chocolate mousse, and some weird pudding stuff. Someone brought in crème broulee’ (probably spelled that wrong), but I didn’t realize that that was there before it was all gone. And then Mme. Sereno said that sometime this year if we remind her we can have a cheese day! =D Still… I should’ve made something. I could have used those 20 points.

Ren: I’d be more concerned with your still ever-so-slipping Driver’s Ed grade right now.

CCR: I know, I know. Honestly, I think it’s the simulators that are my main problem. I’ll just have to try to be exceptionally alert this week on the Sims and get a good score, no big deal. And do well on the test this week, of course. An 85’s still good, and that’s what I have at the moment…

In other news, I only got to watch maybe half of Soul Eater episode 23 last night before my Interwebs got wacky on me again, so I’ll probably have to watch the rest tomorrow. Either way, I must get it done before Dad gets home Thursday!

Today, not so eventful. Read about another version of the Greek creation myth today, this one involving the five races of gold, silver, bronze, the heroes, and now. That and I will repeat: Hesiod was probably the most sexist man of his time, I swear! I mean, I know everyone in ancient times was prejudiced against women, but still! Not all females are lazy. Look at lions, for goodness’ sake! What, did they think the lionesses were male?!

Ren: you do realize Hesiod’s viewpoint probably wasn’t that far off from that of the general Greek populace, right?

CCR: I know, but… gah, forget it. I don’t want to go into a rant on that right now.

Then after school, Kana and Rae and I went down to Goodwill to get some of the stuff for their cosplays on Friday for Club Day (Rae’s gonna be Faust and Kana’s going to be Eliza… and we’ve got someone who’s going to be using Kyarri’s Yoh cosplay too; I’m almost tempted to just go as Ren instead of Ed like I planned, minus the wig most likely. But I promised I’d be Ed and Kyarri would be Envy this time around, so I gotta wait until our next chance to cosplay). We weren’t that successful, but last-minute cosplays are always a pain, granted. Still, I think they can pull it off! ^^

That’s it, I feel like I’m gonna crash any minute here. Until next time, ja ne!
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