Thursday, November 27, 2008

Moku Youbi: When You Get Ham Instead of Turkey.
Translation for first part: Thursday

Well, my last few days were rather interesting, to say the least. But to go into excess detail would take too long. But this I can say: until yesterday I would’ve never guessed Camambert was identical in appearance and texture (and taste almost – Sereno said it’s stronger, but I didn’t taste any difference) to Brie. And also I want to kick the crap out of Yuna’s (ex)fiancé. But a piñata with a picture of his face on it will have to do for now. Still… freakin’ idiot! He said she was an – never mind, that would be going into something that’s not my story to tell.

As for today… Dad came home today at noon instead of in the evening or tomorrow; but I still got Randomosity up a day early and two more pages of Insomnia up. And our Thanksgiving dinner was rather simple – a Wal-Mart ham, some sweet potatoes without any marshmallows (NANDE?! [Translation: WHY?!] ), cranberry sauce and some green beans with bacon in it for flavoring – just the way that supposedly my great-grandma used to make it. But then I wouldn’t know that for a fact because by the time I came along and could eat solid food, the woman was in her late-70’s to early 80’s and couldn’t cook anymore. And now she couldn’t comment on if it was actually good compared to hers or not because she’s been six feet under since I was 12. And for dessert, both store-bought, chocolate cream cake and pumpkin pie.

Ren: and you need to stop talking politics with your father.

CCR: meh, I know… but hey, it came up in conversation, thought I’d put my two cents in. He’s the one talking politics with Paul over the phone.

That semi-reminds me of another thing that happened today (or actually, the True Blood episode that’s on right now actually did, but eh): Mom’s started reading Twilight again; she says she’s gonna try to read one chapter a day now, and… she said I’m like Bella again! Heck, might as well give Ren pale skin and fangs and stick Ed with a pair of wolf ears!

Ren & Ed: o_O;;;

CCR: figure of speech; more Rae and Kana’s idea initially than mine. Seriously though, to those of my IRL friends who might read this that I haven’t told yet (namely Kyarri)… am I really that much like Bella? And she also said my writing style was like Stephanie Meyer’s… I don’t know if that’s exactly a good thing considering all the crap I’ve been hearing from the Twilight-haters on the subject of her style.

Ed: and you’d pay attention to what the haters have to say why?

CCR: what? I watch some people on dA that don’t exactly like the series, yet I try to be open to other peoples’ opinions and so I don’t go and unwatch them just because of that.

Meh, I probably should go about now anyway; getting pretty close to time and I have a feeling Dad’s gonna be dragging me around town all day, but hopefully to the swap meet and not to the mall… unless Stillman’s or Borders is having some huge Black Friday sale or something; but the swap meet I actually need to get to because there’s something they sell there that, much as I don’t exactly like the idea of buying a real fox tail, such is necessary for one of the cosplays I’m working on and I don’t want to go to the trouble of making a fake one. But they sell manga at Borders and…

Ren: I thought you were gonna save the most recent Shaman King and D. Gray-Man volumes for your Christmas list.

CCR: true… gah, I’m getting sidetracked! Until next time, ja ne~!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Monday, November 24, 2008

Getsu Youbi: Today Just Isn't my Day, is it?
Translation for first part: Monday

But before we cover some of the catastrophes of today (that were really just a few little things that piled up on me), let’s review yesterday, shall we?

It started with the usual wake-up call of Mom telling me that my brother had to be at church in half an hour, and the rush to get ready… In the end Mom left without me and I got a ride with Andrew when he came around to change. We stayed at church for a little bit, but then because of something going on with Mom we had to leave shortly after the sacrament was administered. The rest of the time I waited for Kyarri to come around and pick me up for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert that afternoon at 4.

Regarding TSO… totally AWESOME! The music was great, light show was awesome (yet for that reason I would not recommend any of their concerts to those prone to seizures)…. And how can we forget the multi-color fire! Heck, the trip there got me an early idea for this week’s Randomosity and I already have it line-arted. All I gotta do is scan it and start coloring it in, since it lands on my “color-every-4-comics” schedule… and I is gonna try to Photoshop this one. *evil laughter*

Ren: “I is?” Isn’t that incorrect grammar?

CCR: it technically is, but meh.

Now for today…

The guy I’m more or less being compelled to ask to Winter Formal because Kana has a date and there’s this kind of rule of thumb among both of our parents that until age 18, never steady-date and always date in groups. So I’m stuck asking someone from my ward… but I think his dad, whom my Mom told that I’m gonna do this, might have blabbed. Because though he normally sits in front of me in Seminary (and for a while he was supposed to sit next to me, but he always would sit in the back if he could get away with it), today we had a sub. So he sat in the back. I don’t know if this has anything to do with me or if this is just his normal routine. Ah well, if I can’t get the note to him tomorrow in or before class, then I’ll shove it down his throat at mutual (not literally, of course).

Then, regarding the solo: it’s a no-go. Why? Accompaniment is required, and I have no one who can learn a song on the piano in one day (I can play just about anything by ear though, but then it’s only one-handed, and I’m pretty sure the soloist can’t be his or her own accompanist). Speaking of solos, the accompanist I chose for my regional audition in a couple months… she was visiting Mr. Jeff today I suppose (she graduated last year and was sitting on one of the couches on the end of the classroom today in 6th hour), so I thought since she was there I would talk to her about possibly setting up a date for us to practice together. Heck, I don’t even know if her dad got the score to her, since Mom delivered it to her through him last time she saw him. But after class she was sitting there talking with Mr. Jeff, and I had a bus to catch on the other end of campus. No luck there either.

All three of those things combined, I guess kind of made for a not-so-great day… sort of. Yet all of them were self-inflicted in some way. If I had decided on a song to go with for my solo the day Mr. Jeff announced auditions a week ago, I might still be doing it. If I were more assertive, I would’ve asked Kelly (yes, his name is Kelly. Don’t ask) in person or shoved the note down his throat right then and there instead of waiting to do it at mutual tomorrow if I can’t get it to him in class. And if I had taken the patience to wait and had the confidence that she might be able to finish her conversation with Mr. Jeff before the bus left, I might’ve been able to set up a practice-date with Jessica. I guess this just proves just what kind of person I am…

But enough of this depression! I went through that two weeks ago. And at least I’m realizing my flaws, right? Now all I have to do is take action to fix them. The process may take years to do, unless I try to take immediate action, but even then…

Ed: we get it, you’re a procrastinator among procrastinators. Speaking of which, those -

CCR: I know, scholarships. I at least started an application today, right?

Ren: and then couldn’t fill it out all the way because you don’t know the name of your counselor.

CCR: now that I blame on the school switching – okay, so that’s my fault too. I should really set up an appointment with her (not to mention I need my transcripts too so I can figure out my current GPA and class rank). And then that other scholarship said I need to have already applied to one or more schools, all of the DAR scholarships require that you have decided on a major already (but then so does the current one I’m applying for, but on that one I can change my major anytime… I guess with the DAR ones I can too, but again, not sure).

Case and point, I guess I need to start being proactive a bit. Man, I took that Personal Development class at the beginning of the year and the lessons I learned from it are just now sinking in. Why does that always happen?!

Well, I gotta submit the latest Insomnia page to deviantART (it should already be up on theO), so until next time… well, those of you who’ve been with me long enough know how it goes.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Do Youbi: Long Week
Translation for first part: Saturday.

Or at least it feels that way. And then because of Andrew discovering a new computer game (Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth), I have a feeling until he finishes it, if he finishes it, I’ll only be able to post if he’s staying after school for a bit and do it in that time or just on the weekends. Because otherwise he’s on this comp playing that game. It’s times like these when I wish I had a laptop or that I could use my old comp for Interwebs without spyware messages popping up (we’ve tried just about everything but rebooting the computer entirely, and it still won’t even show my wallpaper. Ah well, I’m beginning to think it’s a bug sent by Microsoft to get more money anyway…).

Ren: last time I checked, ranting about your brother wasn’t your reason for posting tonight.

CCR: you’re right, it wasn’t, but meh… and now I have that line stuck in my head from the song – but I’ll cover that later.

So, mainly what happened over the week in a nutshell… we watched Star Wars episode IV and started our Hero’s Journey writing assignment in Mythology (which I think when I finally finish off the summarized version for the class [he only wants it to be about 8 pages long max, maybe 10], I think it’ll actually make a good story if I write it out all the way). And in said class, we finally got our Original Creation Myths back. Apparently Mr. Best liked mine, because he wanted a copy to use as a model for other classes. Great… let’s hope the guy quits teaching by the time I ever get any of my stuff published –

Ren: if you get it published.

CCR: I was about to say that, you need not finish my sentences.

Seminary’s basically consisted of reviewing for the semester final, our scripture mastery verses of the week, and studying John. Government, we be learning about the President and his duties and powers, and French has been subjunctives and some new vocab. Driver’s Ed we learned about emotions, senses, and disabilities and how those affect the driving task, and more rehearsal in choir.

Which is where I’ve had my main problem now. Our Christmas concert is a little over a week away… and he only gave us about a week’s notice (at least those of us who are kinda n00bs to the choir) that we can audition to get a solo/duet/trio/quartet/etc. etc. etc. spot in that concert. So with such little notice, I’ve spent much of that time trying to figure out what song I would do if I did it… then realized unless I could find a pianist I had to go a capella. And now the song I’ve picked, to fill an interlude spot in case I can’t get an accompanist, I decided to take some lyrics from the beginning of the song in Russian. *phew* that was a mouthful. … Guess I really do have a problem with run-ons. ^^; Still, for just getting the Russian lyrics from a YouTube video tonight, I think if I can just memorize them and try to be mindful of pronunciation, and if Mr. Jeff lets me do the song in the first place… it’s one of those songs that can technically be acceptable as a holiday song because of references to winter, but at the same time it’s from a movie… Anastasia, to be exact.

Mi, if you somehow find out my theO account and read this, you win. I’m gonna try Once Upon a December. But if Mr. Jeff kills me for it or I get a heart attack from stage fright standing there on the stage, I blame it on you…

Ren: kind of useless to address something to someone who most likely will never read this.

CCR: true, but you never know. Besides, I had to get it off my chest somehow. Now all’s left to do is to figure out how to cure my stage fright aside from having my eyes closed the entire time since the school’s filming the concert.

Ed: weren’t you complaining earlier when rehearsing how your breathing was too audible, too?

CCR: that I can hopefully keep under control or they won’t notice… I just hope if I really do sound terrible and Mr. Jeff turns me down he won’t practically harpoon the critique through the heart.

But moving away from the negative aspects on that, before I continue… anyone here know any techniques to fight stage-fright?

Now that that’s over, the rest of the week wasn’t all bad. My talk went over well last Sunday. And I didn’t get beat up too badly in the caves on Saturday (believe it or not, climbing through those things was painful… the next day at church even my armpits were sore). On Aunt Mary’s cooking at the luncheon, she made croissants stuffed with chicken salad anyway, so I didn’t miss much there, even.

On top of that, I uploaded the first six pages of my comic, Insomnia. If you haven’t already, I suggest you check it out, even if you haven’t read the fanfic version.

Gah… and now I can’t think of a thing to say before I go. But until next time, ja ne and wish me luck.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Friday, November 14, 2008

Kin Youbi: Anniversaire
Translation for first part, Japanese to English: Friday. Translation for second part, French to English: technically it means “birthday,” but I think it refers to other forms of anniversaries, too.

So yeah, I’m all better now~! ^_^ I guess I just really needed a chill pill or a hug or something these past couple days. And fortunately the tom has yet to arrive. Maybe it wasn’t what I thought it was.

… I just noticed I think I might’ve made Yoh too short or otherwise proportionally off on my latest doujin page.

Ren: -_-; that was maybe a bit too random.

CCR: I know I know, but I mean my sketchbook’s right in front of me open to that page as I tinker with the text in Paint to get it prepped for Photoshop editing on the other comp later.

Ren: later? What happened to tonight?

CCR: can’t. Otherwise I be a zombie tomorrow morning, and I gotta get up even earlier than my normal school days. Dang, why did our leaders plan to leave for the combined 16-18 activity at 6 AM?!

Ed: from what I recall, they said the Peppersauce Caves are about an hour away from here. Guess they were planning for an early morning spot.

CCR: yeah, I get their reasoning. Still… And it just had to be planned on my parents’ fourth anniversary too.

Now normally the anniversary isn’t a big deal, but this year it is. My dad got his temple recommend recently, so he’s gonna be endowed and then he and my mom are gonna be sealed “for time and all eternity.” It’s funny how four years ago tomorrow I would’ve been throwing the biggest fit at that (and even now I’m a teeny tiny bit perturbed that this means at 18 I’ll have to be sealed to my dad as well as my mom to keep that family bond in the eternities). Yet now other than a few uncertainties I’m perfectly fine with it. I’m too young to attend the temple myself and see it happen (temple entry for young women is when they get married or serve a mission, whichever comes first)… they were planning a luncheon at Aunt Mary’s house afterwards! Anyone who’s read posts after a dinner at her place knows that Aunt Mary’s probably the second most awesome cook I know aside from my grandma.

Goku: you’re telling me… she’s amazing. And your grandma cooks? Then why do you guys always go out to eat when your grandparents are over here or when you visit them?

CCR: believe me, she’s perfectly capable, just she’s grown a tad lazy in her old age (and because of my grandpa’s former job at Warner Brothers, they’ve got enough money in their retirement to afford to be). But during the Colorado trip three years ago she would often make dinner herself. Other than her zucchini, it was all great. Fond memories those are.

Ren: that’s all fine and dandy about the food, but I highly doubt any of your readers aside from Refi would understand anything you said earlier about temples and sealings and eternity.

CCR: true. I’ll probably do a post on Ask a Mormon tomorrow after the caves on the temple and eternal marriage. And since I have to give a talk in church Sunday on the subject anyway, it’ll probably help me get that prepared.

Ed: more like you’ll probably just use the AaM entry almost directly in your talk since you still haven’t gotten started on it.

CCR: on that you’re probably right. I guess I got caught up in editing those doujin pages. I think as soon as I get the first six pages done up in Photoshop I’ll just draw up a cover real quick and start uploading it here, update the rest as I go…

And speaking of which, the time draweth night for me to go to bed (I probably should’ve been there already. ^^;) Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Moku Youbi: Cynical
Translation for first part: Thursday.

Seriously, it’s like everyone’s been forcing shots full of pessimism and hard-faced reality into my bloodstream or something. Or it’s just getting really close to an edgy time for me, who knows?

But the last two days, I’ve been stressed/depressed/discouraged/trying to be “practical” the entire time, and I have no idea what’s gotten into me. Oh well, it’s a change from my usually perky/bubbly(?) self, right?

I guess now it’s a contest of if it’s a change for better, or for worse.

Geh, I won’t write more for now. I’ll just leave it as I’ve concluded I’m not ready for the “real world” yet and maybe my dad isn’t too far off when he says I’m a little girl in a woman’s body and I should get my head out of the clouds once in a while.

Ren: yet you said you wouldn’t write more.

CCR: I wasn’t planning on writing more, but then – gah! I sound emo enough already, and as it is I just declared a hiatus from deviantART that I don’t know if it’ll last for a year or two days. I shouldn’t burden my readers here (what few I have anyway) with the same thing. … Right?

So I better get going before my brother burns the house done with our old decrepit toaster (now on this one I’m serious – why hasn’t anyone replaced that old thing yet?! I can’t even use it because I’m so terrified of the thing!) Until next time, ja ne~!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Monday, November 10, 2008

Getsu Youbi: Holiday
Translation for first part: Monday

Or at least tomorrow is. I still don’t get why they have school Monday, then Veteran’s Day on Tuesday, and school the rest of the week. You’d think the teachers would give us a four-day weekend, but no-o~! Oh well.

Anyway, Friday we got all of our major drama llamas resolved. Anime club, everyone still holds the same office they did before within the cabinet, and the actual club meeting apart from the officer meeting went well; a fairytale ending there. Then first hour we watched much of the last part of Jason and the Argonauts (finished it today; they screwed up the ending, but for the better. Much better that they didn’t go into detail on the whole Medea mess ten years after the marriage and they didn’t have Pelias chopped up by his own daughters.), had our Cookie Friday in Seminary, reviewed for today’s test in Government (which I’m pretty sure I aced), and I’ll admit French was my favorite class of the day again that day. We spent the entire class period working on our door decoration for the competition the school was holding for its tenth anniversary; guess it was also since they were having alumni from years past and old staff coming in Friday after school for a “class reunion” –type deal. Kassi, a talented animal-artist in our class, drew the school mascot (a coyote) in a beret with a mustached moon in the background holding a croissant (I drew the croissant, though; nothing special really; but Kassi’s coyote and moon were epic). Everyone else who contributed did so in other ways; I, Kassi, and another person took a few of my colored pencils and colored the coyote, I did some of the shading on the moon and pawprints leading from where the coyote was standing down to the bottom of the paper, and someone else wrote “les coyotes” and “Leading Tracks in History.” Case and point, we won in the World Languages department. But then all we got (or rather Sereno) was a poster saying “10-year door decoration winner: Sereno.” Geez, they could’ve given Kassi some kind of prize or our class could’ve gotten a pizza party or something. But meh, who knows? Maybe that’s just a temporary thing student council came up with then. We took notes in Driver’s Ed and took quizzes in choir, this time each person chose a quiz to try and work on to get a better grade on it. And speaking of which, I now have a 100 on both the note name and key signature quizzes (key signatures was last week; passed it the first time around. The note name quiz I got ONE OFF the first time, and it was because I miscounted a ledger line). So every Friday in the semester unless everyone in our class gets all 100s before that I have free time until everyone finishes the quizzes. Yays! =D

Ren: … half of that paragraph you combined both Friday and today.

CCR: that was partially the point. Now I don’t have to type as much later on! ^_^

Ren: -_-;; that makes no sense.

CCR: neither does your hair.

Ren: I won’t comment on that.

CCR: back on topic for a moment…

Saturday, most notable thing I did was watch episodes 26 and 27 of Soul Eater and sleep in until noon (matter of fact I’m in the middle of watching ep. 28 right now). Hopefully with any luck I can get caught up at the very least by the time the raw for next week’s episode comes out.

Ren: you better not spend all day tomorrow catching up on Soul Eater or sleeping. Remember, you -

CCR: I’ve got plans with Kana and Rae, so I can’t sleep in even; I know that… unless they do.

Ed: Rae’s got a lot of siblings though, and from what she says about their kitten…

CCR: true. And I don’t know Kana’s non-school-week sleeping habits. So even if it’s a trip to the mall plus their plot to have me watch The Sound of Music or just the latter, I’ve got plans tomorrow. Better than not having any plans at all and lazing around all day, though. Geh, I still can’t get why it takes so long for things like videos to load on this computer.

Ed: it’s called slow Internet.

CCR: yep, sounds like the most likely cause. … Kyah! Angela’s so cute, even if she’ll probably become an ebil witch when she gets older. <3 So, what to talk about until more of the episode has loaded… or I could just end this post, one or the other. Meh, might as well the latter. Not like anything really eventful happened Sunday and I covered Monday already. So until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Moku Youbi: Drama Llama, Leave me Alone!
Translation for first part: Thursday

Seriously. First there were the elections and some issues with Yuna on Tuesday night (Obama better not screw up… -.-; no offense to those who support him), then today there was some friction among the officers of the anime club, to the point where I’m not looking forward to tomorrow. And considering tomorrow’s Friday, that’s a shocker in and of itself. It’s not necessarily the whole day I’m worried about so much as the first fifteen minutes of it… emergency officer meetings, especially when they’re like this, are ALWAYS a pain. *tries to shoo the drama llama away, at least temporarily*

On top of that, the ranks of all three of my worlds seem to be fluctuating a bit. Originally, this world (ooh, shiny…) was ranked at 20. Then later it went down to 29. Then yesterday it was at 21, and now it’s 32. *shrug* ah well, not like it matters much anyway.

In other news, Tuesday I didn’t post because of comp issues, yesterday was because I spent too much time trying to catch up on Soul Eater, but my Interwebs was being bipolar and would constantly disconnect and re-connect at the most inconvenient times. This, I feel, will be an effort that’s gonna take a good week or so, depending on homework load. But then Tuesday wasn’t that eventful anyway, except I discovered a cosplay magazine that is supposedly commencing publication here in the US (or at least it has one issue that it’s printing and doing the rest online. Oh, I hope not!). Cosmode USA is probably one of the best magazines I’ve seen for this kind of thing so far. They have PATTERNS! *_*

Ren: _ ^ _; can you stop fangirling for one minute at least?

CCR: oh, sure. Why?

Ren: so you can actually continue the post?

CCR: but all that’s been going on this week is a bunch of the typical high school drama, and the elections only make that worse. What is there to post about? Because I am certainly not going into detail on my political opinions here or on some of the crap going on right now. But I do know what’ll make me feel better… *evil grin*

Ren: why do I have a feeling this is going to be embarrassing beyond belief?

CCR: not necessarily… could be. *snaps fingers* oh right! I forgot I have to get the last couple things together for my Aerith cosplay tomorrow (Kyarri’s birthday party, one of the upsides of tomorrow even if it’s in the evening, is a cosplay party. Since she’s gonna be Tifa and Ri’s gonna be Yuffie, I thought I’d contribute to the group by using one of my church dresses that matches somewhat with Aerith’s… Not by much though, but you can’t tell it’s pink-and-white-striped at a distance. And the skirt part adds a bit more of a feminine touch anyway. And I have a red jacket-like thing that’ll work for the time being too until I can make one myself, if I even make it)! Let’s see what I need… I’ve got the jacket (kind of), a dress that’ll work for the intended purpose at least, braiding my hair shouldn’t be too hard, and the boots I can manage. I just gotta get a pink ribbon for the braid and I’m set!

Ren: again with the cosplay…

Ed: hey, it could be worse. She could be planning on doing a humorous photoshoot in her cosplay of you.

CCR: if only I had a willing photographer to cooperate with me on that, that’s all I can say. Plus I think if I can get a pattern I might re-make that costume from scratch. Currently I have a maroon top that I’ve been using with black pants, but I’m thinking of making the black and yellow outfit (not the school uniform. Heavens no, anything but that ugly yellow school uniform). My grandma says that the pattern is complicated and the fabric expensive, but who said I had to use the Chinese fabric? Much as it would be kinda cool, my grandma’s right; it’s expensive and I don’t think I could muster up the confidence to try and sew a thing like that together. Also, it’s hard to find a fabric of that nature that’s all black, since most black Chinese fabrics that I find here have red or gold designs… And I do most of my sewing by hand for fear of royally screwing up on a sewing machine. Regular, basic cotton should do the trick. But how to go about getting the collar to stand up… and if I have that wide open part on the chest, should I – … I’m rambling, aren’t I?

Allen: more like vocally brainstorming.

CCR: gah! *turns to the readers* forgive me for that blurb. Guess I had to get my ideas down somewhere… ^^; and who knows, someone might find my ideas useful in their own cosplay endeavors.

Ren: I think you’re just getting too much into this whole mess.

CCR: mess? I didn’t even mention the drama llama.

Ren: I meant the mess as in cosplay. You’re getting too much into it.

CCR: … you just don’t want me doing humorous home photoshoots, do you?

Ren: if they involve me, no. Go right ahead if it’s Fullmetal you’re going to humiliate.

Ed: WHAT WAS THAT?!

CCR: oh yeah, I probably ought to improve my Ed cosplay, too… maybe remake the auto – better idea, I’m gonna end this post before I go off a rambling again and end up staying up too late. Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Monday, November 3, 2008

Getsu Youbi: Inochi wa Subarashii
Translation – Monday: Life is Wonderful (not entirely positive on last part)

I just gotta keep remembering that no matter who wins the election… ‘cause if Obama wins, it might be the only thing keeping me from moving to Canada (and I know I can’t entirely escape the influence of a US president on the rest of the world, but I can certainly try).

Ren: funny that you’re talking about politics before this whole issue has even been decided for one, and second, several of your readers aren’t even American.

CCR: I get that, but still… Gah, must be all the political talk getting to my head. And the frustration as to the fact that I’m five months too young to the day to have a say in what’s gonna affect the next four years of my life…. Possibly even eight.

Other than that, today was fairly good. Got another drawing started that I may or may not upload here as well as dA (it’s an original character, meaning people are more likely to push it off unless it’s epicly amazing… which I doubt it will be by the time it’s finished. I have such low self-esteem. |D ). And I owe the school cafeteria a quarter for lunch today, even though I’m not even gonna eat lunch tomorrow! (family’s fasting for prop 102 to get passed)

Ed: and I thought your church didn’t get that adamant about politics…

CCR: normally we don’t necessarily tell people how to vote and leave it to agency. But when it comes to a moral issue like prop 102, we at least encourage people to vote according to church standards. And I can’t vote yet, so… wait! Maybe that’s how – never mind, I’ve gotta stop talking about politics here. Edo-kun, if I talk about politics at any time throughout the rest of this post, smack me -

Ed: won’t do that.

CCR: then remind me of my self-promise, at least.

But yeah… actually, was there much else? Let me think… Dang. My days have been a bit too boring of late.

Goku: of course, you spend most of it at school.

CCR: well I assume traveling in a jeep with a “pervy kappa” as you call Gojyo and Sanzo constantly threatening to kill you both if you don’t shut up, with Hakkai stuck in the middle… wait, scratch that. You guys have at least something to do other than learn.

Oh! And speaking of learning, I made a realization on why Disney movies (and nearly every other movie out there) are getting kind of old now… all their movies follow the Hero’s Journey formula almost to a “T”! Just they gotta squash it into an hour and a half to two hours, so they have to only work with the basics and a raw plot! No wonder Hollywood’s full of P.O.S’s as my grandpa calls them! (I’ll leave the P.O.S abbreviation up to interpretation)

… Gah, something needs to HAPPEN! And preferably something not-bad. Ah well, in all but two days I’ll have plenty of ranting to do if things go one way, not so much if they go another. Until next time, ja ne!

EDIT: and with one comment my faith in the people of deviantART has been restored… somewhat. Just gotta avoid the flamers for a while. >.>;
Comments (0) | Permalink

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Nichi Youbi: of Home-Made Pumpkin Pie
Translation for first part: Sunday

Yep, you heard me right. Home-Made pumpkin pie. As soon as Mom gets home she’ll probably start working on it (right now the pumpkin just finished boiling and I’ve been letting it cool for a bit; looks like we’ve got enough for two pies even).

Goku: it isn’t going to be as bland as that home-made apple pie she made a while back, is it…?

CCR: keep in mind that was mostly crust plus the apples didn’t have any sugar in them, so it tasted a bit bland. The home-made pumpkin pie should be awesome, though! *_* and don’t go eating it all, got it? We’ve got company over tonight.

Allen: but I thought that Sunday was family night.

CCR: it pretty much is, when both my parents are home at least. And Mom invited her study-partner from math over (even though she’s only a year older than me), supposedly because she wants my mom to set her up with Robbie, who’s also coming over tonight.

Ren: oh, like that’s gonna work. He’s been down for years because his last girl dumped him. At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if he went -

CCR: do not mention the possibility of a brother of mine, blood-related or step, going gay. I have nothing against gay people (heck, two of my friends are dating each other and they’re both girls), but one of my own kin being a homosexual… it would be too awkward.

*door knocks, her brother answers it and Robbie walks into the door*

Speak of the devil… Seriously though, Mom’s been gone for a while. And now she and Dad are back. That means – PUMPKIN PIE! =D

*Hours Later*

Well that was some GOOD pie! Even if Mom accidentally put in some of the canned stuff along with the pumpkin and we had so much extra left over that we have a whole thing of pumpkin custard ready to eat, but it was still great. Far better than the apple pie incident.

So for what happened with my day. Got up, took a shower, ate cinnamon rolls for breakfast and we were off to church for the stake conference. After we got back, I took a nap until about 1:30 or 2 because Mom wanted me to make sure the pumpkin didn’t boil dry and burn down the house while she went to visit a friend of ours. So I did so, then Robbie and Sarah (Mom’s study partner) each showed up for dinner. Overall, it was a good night. Good food, good company, usual brother-squabbling… and I’m still in a semi-artist’s block since this afternoon. Geh.

Ren: not only that, but you’re still behind on Soul Eater.

CCR: I know that! I’m gonna have to find time to get that done either this week or the weekend. Maybe not next weekend… Kana and Rae as far as I know are plotting to compel me to watch The Sound of Music one of these days (I’ve never seen it, thus making me a “sinner” in the eyes of a vast majority of my choir group and Kana and Rae). They didn’t get me this weekend, so it’ll probably be next.

And now the rest of the family, Sarah included but not Robbie since he was called by his mom to get back to her house right then and there, is watching The Game Plan since Sarah’s never seen it and apparently everyone’s acting like there’s all the time in the world.

… … … … Wait. Did I just hear Dad say he’s gonna make egg nog? Oh no.

Ren: what happened to egg nog being your “crack”?

CCR: I know, but I’ve tried Dad’s home-made egg nog before… it wasn’t pretty.

Ren: by the way, why aren’t you watching the movie with them?

CCR: I’ve got stuff to do~! And Mom and I have to get back to our workout schedule starting tomorrow, we’ve been off it all week! And I’m not always so consistent with my evening walks anymore, sadly. I’ve really got to keep up with that again.

So yeah, that’s all for today. Kinda boring, I know, and I apologize. But hey, not every day can be an adventure, ne? Until next time, matta ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Do Youbi: For the Love of Roasted Turkey...
Translation for first part: Saturday

Why am I already psyched and ready for the Holidays when Halloween just barely came to a close?!

Ren: do I need to list the reasons?

CCR: Nah, there’s no need to do that.

But of course, choir is a major contribution to that, due to our next concert’s subject matter. There is, however, another contributor to this madness… and that, my friend, is the flourishing American supermarket franchise we all know and not-exactly love, Wal-Mart.

We went there earlier today to get some food for tomorrow night’s dinner, and my goodness… they’re already playing some Holiday tunes in parts of the store, their Nativities and decorations are already out on the shelves, a Christmas tree display stands at the front of the store. And best (maybe worst) of all…

They have Egg Nog in stock.

For those who have met me before this Holiday season and may not know, egg nog is like my crack in the winter time! The rich, creamy flavor, the fact that it’s technically a dairy product and thus can give me a good source of calcium to make me feel better about the fact of how fattening it is… And Dad almost bought some today, but it’s like over 4 bucks for a half gallon. Cheapskate Wal-Mart people. If I don’t get at least one glass of egg nog this year because of their stupid “low” prices, I’m boycotting their products all next year!

Ed: considering your parents shop there all the time and I doubt they’d be willing to go with it or let you participate in such, that’s kind of impossible.

CCR: oh… right. DANG IT!

In other news, we ended up not cleaning house all day after all. Instead, we were out eating breakfast at almost noon, looking for a ceramics shop that teaches lessons so I can get my Nativity done for my Young Womens’ Medallion (it’s the last thing I have to do… one more project and I’m DONE! … Maybe I should’ve picked a different project.), and that Wal-Mart trip. Mom and Dad went with my brother to Costco too, but first thing I got home I was exhausted and took a nap, even after having slept in until 9:30 am.

Ren: the fact that your dad kept you up until past midnight with dragging you along to pick up your brother from his friend’s house and talking might have contributed to that, you know.

CCR: yeah, and all that walking we did last night… And that blister. Stupid boots…

So now my parents are out for something church-related and I have no idea when we have to be up for church tomorrow since it’s Stake Conference (different from General Conference). I think our session starts at 11, though. Yay for sleeping in on Sunday without missing church~! =D First time I’ve been able to do that since we had that schedule change to 8 am for regular Sunday meetings.

But anyway, since I don’t have much else to say, just a quick notification that I’ll likely be changing the site theme/background soon. Not sure if I’m gonna do Thanksgiving first or go straight for a Christmas-y theme, but either one is likely. And now that I’m officially done with this… I’m off to try and catch an episode of Soul Eater before - *looks at the computer clock* never mind; I’m gonna sleep in, but at the same time I still gotta get up early enough to take a shower before I can’t for the fear of the septic tank exploding. Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink