Monday, November 8, 2004

*impatient*

I've been sitting here for twenty minutes, no, make that 24 minutes, waiting for .hack//TRUTH to load. Darn this slow internet on this computer! Ah, well, nothing I can do about it. Its almost done loading now...just a minute or two more I'd say. Oh, what to say...I took a nap today. A nice long one. I set my alarm for 7 PM and fell asleep at around(or atleast I'm assuming I fell asleep. I don't quite recall actually falling asleep) 5:30. Then, I fell back asleep after I shut my alarm off and woke up at 9:30. And now I've been up for the past hour...my mom says I wont be able to get to sleep tonight, but I told her that I could sleep all day, get up for a few hours, and then sleep all night. Its true, too. I can. I'm a sleepaholic...I wouldn't get up if I didn't have to. I would lie in bed all day, whether I was asleep or just lying there because it was comfortable or because it was warm(and the second one is usually true in the mornings. Its always cold around here in the mornings since Winter's coming, so I usually hate to get up and wait for as long as I can before I have to get up...) I read from page 130 to around 250 in the third Harry Potter book today. And I took a test on the first two. Gah, twenty questions each they were. Took me all half-hour in Jumpstart to take them. I also took one of my other AR books home. Its called Rifles For Watie. Its really long, but its been pretty good so far...my other AR book is at school at the top of my locker. I've had the thing for like, two months and I just can't seem to finish it or make much progress. I've just been so engrossed in other books that I just don't read that one too much. That one's called The King's Fifth, though. It is a really good book, I just haven't really felt like reading much of it, having been reading all of those Lois Duncan books and other great books that I've found in the library. (*hears a gasp* Great books? In the library? You must be crazy! No, folks. I'm not. There truly are, great books in the library.) Gr. Almost there... .hack//TRUTH is so close to being finished loading, that I can feel it... My mom wants a copy of my American Hero essay. So I'm going to see if I can print her one tomorrow during CEWT or something. She says she wants to show it off...hehe. Hmmm...after sleeping all day and missing dinner, I'm quite hungry. Thank god Blaike was nice enough to save me some spaghetti and make up some regular sauce how I like it. See, I don't like meat in my spaghetti. I don't like meat sauce on my spaghetti. I just like plain old spaghetti with plain old sauce. I can be quite plain in my choice in how I eat food sometimes. Plain rice(or plain rice with salt. Lonnie says its gross, but I think its delicious!). Plain noodles with butter...just plain foods....I do eat foods that are plain, but most of my favorite foods are just plain. No spices. No sauces. No nothin'. 'Cept for maybe salt or butter, but those don't count... Well, I'm done now... -DDG What is today? 85, right? *needs to check calendar*

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Sunday, November 7, 2004

Its finally happened!

Yay! Its finally happened! TAD has finally and officially re-opened! After months and months of coding, re-coding, scrapping of previous coding, images and pages, its finally re-opened! Not everything is done yet, but for a full explanation of what's been done refer to the actual site: http://www.animedatastream.net It came to me; late last night as I was working on my site. I realised that tomorrow, something astronomical would happen. I knew that today, I would re-open the site. I fixed the layout on all of the pages, repaired invalid links, and then made sure everything was ready. And now its finally open. My site has finally re-opened and I'm so happy! Next I've got a few things I need to work on at the forums. I also plan on working on a bunch of content for the Anime and Manga coverage then next weekend I plan on getting a bunch of pages done. But, anyway, now to get away from the subject of my website. It felt strange this morning, waking up and not having a soccer game to get ready to go to. I get used to the concept of waking up early on Sunday's to take a shower and then head off to a soccer game, but, once the season is over it takes a few weeks to get back into the groove that I can wake up as late as I want because there's nothing going on that day. I'm sure by next weekend I'll be back into that groove, heh. I need to check my email. I haven't checked any of my inboxes for any of my email addresses pretty much all weekend. Excluding my hotmail one which I checked yesterday and Friday because my mom emailed me so, I figured I'd check the rest of my mail while I was at it...I need to check all of my Yahoo! email's and my school email, though. I'm sure I'll have a bunch in my Anime Datastream inbox; I get a bunch of newsletters from Nintendo sent there. ^_^ And I know I've got a few in my hotmail one and some of my other Yahoo! one's at the moment...I'll check them all after I post this, though. I did make a wallpaper yesterday so go look at it! It turned out different from what I originally intended, but I quite like it better this way since the other way I just couldn't get it to look right. :/ Anyway, I'm getting quite hungry now..so I'm going to go warm up a burger and eat that! Later! -DDG

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Saturday, November 6, 2004

So, thank you video game designers, for ragdoll physics!

I've been watching G4TechTV all day. Well, since I got up which was around noon. There wasn't anything good on and, even if there is anything good on now, I'm not going to change it. G4TV is just such an awesome channel. I can't stop watching all of the video game action. Well, more like listening and take glances at the TV every once in awhile. But, its all the same to me. I can see the TV out of the corner of my eye when I'm looking at the computer screen...so that's close enough. I'm planning on creating a few wallpapers today. Naruto based since I'm in a Naruto creativity mood. I plan on using pictures from all the manga I've got saved onto the computer. *indicates the hundreds of files* And maybe I'll use a few generic images from the web. Just depends on how patient I'm going to be while surfing Google. I finally signed up for a new RPG. I haven't signed up for one in awhile. I also have a few RPG's I should post in. .hack//TRUTH and Cliche are actually the only two I feel I need to post in. I need to start the battle with Gorre in TRUTH and I just need to get Cliche to move along since no one seems to be posting... My email has had the most messages ever lately. And they're all from just one girl from my soccer team, heh. I appreciate all the email since I never usually get all that much, but, it still takes a helluva long time to reply to them all. @_@ It took me two hours last night just to read them all and then reply to the new ones and the old one's that I didn't have a chance to reply to earlier this week. I can't wait until tonight. Full Metal Alchemist and Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex are going to be Adult Swim. Both are shows I've really been wanting to see...I'm also eager for tomorrow. They're having an Anime Unleashed marathon on G4TV. I haven't watched Anime Unleashed in a long time...a few months its probably been since the last time I got to watch it. It just comes on too late at night for me to watch it at my mom's and I usually forget anyway. I was promised pickles yesterday...and I still don't have any. ;_; I want some so much...I have a really bad craving for them right now. I don't know how much longer I can go without any. I never really had anything planned for this post, and chapter 118 of Naruto is finally done downloading so I'm off to read that... -DDG Day: 83

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Friday, November 5, 2004

*humming current song on her site*

Its such an addicting song; whenever I listen to it, I can't get it out of my head for hours afterwards. I guess that's really a good thing since I like the song so much. I'm really tired today. I always end up extremely tired on the weekends; all of the lack of sleep from earlier in the week sort of catches up to me. I was all curled up with my kitty at 2:00 PM(today was a half day at school) in my bed and almost asleep when the neighbor banged on the slider door and woke us both up. Then my cat got up and left me...I didn't really mind; she hogs the bed anyway. So I pulled up the covers around me and was just about asleep(I think it was around 3:00 PM at this time) when Josie pulled up in the driveway. She came just in time, too. I was just closing my eyes about ready to drop-off when she honked the horn. Well, so much for taking a much needed nap...guess I'll just sleep in tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, I need to call my mom and ask her if we're going to the playoff game between Beal City and Vestaburg. She said she wanted to go and I did, too, but I have to call her to make sure that we're still going. I really want to go and see Vestaburg get stomped by Beal City. *obviously the only person, except Xio, who supports the opposing team in all of Vestaburg's games* <-- Well, not all the time. I do support them sometimes, but this game I'm supportin' the Aggies(Beal City's mascot). I usually don't take much interest in football. It kind of bores me sometimes, but ever since listening to the heart-pounding, exhilirating win of CMU's over Western(they were down 14 points with 3 minutes to go in the last quarter and they ended up scoring 14 more points, going into overtime, and winning with a field kick into the wind.), I've been paying more attention to football. Most notably, I've been paying attention to Vestaburg's games; this is their first ever year in the Playoffs, which I find terribly humorous. Xio and I snicker and joke about it every time we spot the article about it that hangs in the Middle School hallway. Directing this post elsewhere, we have to write a pretest essay in English. At first, I was a bit skeptical, seeing as we just finished writing our American Hero essays and I wasn't really up to writing another one so soon. Plus, I couldn't think of a decent topic. But after about a half hour of sitting at my desk in English, and thinking on it, I decided that I would write a paper about video games. A paper about video games that would be the best damned paper about video games ever. I made a huge web so I knew what sorts of topics I would cover and looking back over it, I know this paper's going to take me forever to write and its going to be extremely long... Game systems, ratings, game companies, controversial subjects, the whole lot. I'm covering as much of it as I can. I don't even know if I'm going to be able to finish it by Monday. I'm going to be sitting around all Sunday afternoon, contemplating and writing because I didn't think to grab it and take it with me, here to my dad's, before I left. T_T Ah, well, I'll get it done somehow... I've been doing A LOT of reading lately. This past week I read the first two Harry Potter books(for AR points only, although it was fun reading them over again) again. I started the first one on Tuesday, finished it Wednesday night, read and finished the second one yesterday and today I started the third one and stopped reading it somewhere around the 150th page. I haven't been able to take tests on them yet because we've had half-days yesterday and today, so there was no Jumpstart, which is the only class I can take an AR test in. I plan on taking them on Monday, however. Ah, I can't wait until Josie gets home. I'm craving pizza so bad...but she wont be home 'till 6:30 and its only 5:40 PM right now. ;_; I guess I'll live. She also promised me pickles though, and I've been craving those all week, too! Ah, well, I'll...uh, be going now. Nothing much else to say. Oh, one more thing actually: Xio, you better get on MSN this weekend. If you don't, I swear, I will personally beat you senseless on Monday! -DDG Day: 82

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Thursday, November 4, 2004

*pulls out a little flag with 1800 on it*

Whoo, I've finally hit 1800 visits. 1801 to be exact. Which means I'm 199 visits away from 2000. Adding to that, I'm two guestbook entries away from 100. Ah, I feel so guilty not having got back to those who have signed my guestbook last. But I just have not had any time to do so, but I expect to do so when I go to my dad's tomorrow... I finished the letter I was writing to Alexa's mom. I even drew her a little original Naruto character that I came up with. It came out pretty good. I wish I could show it to you all; but I'm handing it into Ms. Mott tomorrow after CEWT. Maybe I'll ask her if I could turn it in on Monday, like before I go to Spanish since the classrooms are right across the hall from each other. That way I could scan it while I'm at my dad's and everyone could see it! My mom wants me to get off in a few minutes. I don't mind; although if I hadn't fallen asleep earlier then I wouldn't be running this short on time. I think I fell asleep at 7:00 PM and set my alarm for 8:00 PM and barely even got up to shut the damn thing off after it went off. Then I fell back asleep and didn't wake up until 11:00 PM. Its 11:32 now, and I've still got to take a shower, pick out my clothes for tomorrow and reset my alarm clock...right now the only thing I'm really worried about is posting this in time. I've had a lot of close shaves with posting; the closest one being the night of the reception. If I hadn't of gotten a ride back to the house I wouldn't have been able to post in time because my mom and Lonnie didn't arrive back until well after 1:00 AM. Close shaves = not a good thing. And speaking of shaves, cutting yourself with a razor while your shaving your legs isn't fun. I got a really bad cut on the back of my ankle the other day. One of the worst I've ever gotten. It bled a lot more than any of my others one; after I cut it, I didn't really notice it was bleeding until I looked down at my foot and noticed a small pool of blood forming around my foot. Sure freaked me out a bit... Ah, but I must be getting off now. -DDG Day: 81

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Wednesday, November 3, 2004

Pft. Phooey on Bush!

I don't like Bush. I've never liked Bush and I never will like Bush. So there. Highlight of my day: When a guy on 60 Minutes(or was that 48 Hours?) said: Two nations under God... and then said that since the states that Bush and Kerry won were pretty much the same states that Bush and Gore each won four years ago, that we should become "The United Red States of America" and "The United Blue States of America". Haha. Funny stuff. Conference was average. It was what you would expect a student led conference to be. My mom finally got to read my American Hero essay. She said it was really good and was surprised that I didn't even have any help with like word choice and stuff and that she'd probably never even used some of the words I had in it, heh. My Discovery Language Arts teacher said that I was probably even smarter than she was. ^_^ Its always great to hear that you're probably smarter than a teacher is. My mom was really impressed with how I was doing after talking with a few of my teachers. Well, I guess that's really what you really have to expect from me. My mom wants to me have good grades, so I make sure that I do. Interesting discovery today: I can dislocate my toe. Yep, not voluntarily, but when I'm just kind of moving my toes around while I'm reading or something in my room, I can dislocate one of them. Its a very strange feeling to dislocate a toe...it kind of goes numb and I get all freaked out about it, until I move it back into place, heh. I told my mom and she's like, "I guess you got some of my double jointedness afterall." I laughed and agreed. I really don't like dislocating it....the first time I did it I was totally freaked out about it and thought I'd actually dislocated it. But then after it'd happened a few more times I realised it was just something I could do and there wasn't anything wrong with it. Atleast I hope there isn't anyway. Its an interesting thing to discover about myself, when I've never had anything interesting that I've discovered about my body before. The only other thing strange about me is the scar on my back. People say it looks like I got shot in the back or something. But its just a scar from where I got a mole removed...and it didn't heal up right, so its not really a normal scar... I really must go now. I've got a letter I need to finish writing to Alexa's mom. Everyone in DLA started writing them and I didn't finish so I took it home and plan on finishing it right now. Then I still have Sara I need to write, but since I have a half day tomorrow and Friday I should get that done then. ^_^ There's also the matter of, I'd like to ask my mom if I could have a few more pen pals(one or two more...its just so much fun to write to a friend whom you've only talked to online before. And actual handwritten letters are just so much more personal)...and if she says yes, there are a few people I plan to ask, if they don't mind. *nudges a few people* =P -DDG Day: 80

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Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Whoo!

I'm feeling a whole lot better today. It might have just been because I was hungry. We ate dinner after I got offline and I felt a lot better afterwards. I wrote a lot in my story last night. I'm almost completely done with the After Story Extra's. I'm now on #6 out of 11. That also means that I'll be writing the "Characters Past" section. I've had a few more ideas for that and Xio has suggested a few good ones as well. Then after that the "Things That Could Never Ever Happen and Should Never Ever Happen In A Million Years" section. Hehe. I threw yet another twist into the After Story Extra's. Xio forced it out of me to tell her what was going to happen in a few of the chapters, but the one I wont tell her about is the last one. The very last one I'm going to write. She already knows one thing about it from reading the 4th one, but she doesn't know what I'm planning to do at the end of the 11th one...hehehe...I'm so evil! =P Onto other things! I logged into my email just a little while ago, and found more email than I think I've actually had in awhile, heh. It was all from the girls on my soccer team. Only three of them actually emailed me, but one of them, Bridgett, had emailed me a few times. Once to say hi, the second time to ask me a few questions about myself, and the third to give me the email addresses, home addresses, and phone numbers of everyone on the team except Lindsay and one of the coaches, Casey or KC or Kasey or however she spells her name, heh. I know its short for Cassandra or Kassandra...or something like that! My conference is tomorrow at 8 PM...I'm supposed to make it last twenty-five minutes. I think I can do that. After the conference I'm going to show my mom around my classes and have her meet my teachers and stuff. She met most of them last year, but I have a few new teachers this year and plus, she could use a fresh reminder. Oh! And today is: THE ELECTION! VOTE KERRY! VOTE NADER! VOTE FOR WHOEVER'S RUNNING FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE, SHERIFF, WHATEVER! JUST GET OUT THERE AND VOTE OR ELSE! Ahem. Had to get that out of my system. Ah, and something that's bugging me: Xio and I and everyone else I know who want Kerry to win, feel as if we're going to get jumped every day because it seems everyone else wants Bush to win. Its really annoying because they'll torment us saying: Kerry's stupid, Kerry sucks, you're stupid, etc. They're acting really immature. I don't understand why they can't accept our choice on who we want to be President, I mean, we've accepted their choice, so why can't they accept ours? Plus, what's even worse is all of the people who want Bush to win are Anti-Choice, which means they're against gay marriage, abortions, etc. Being anti-choice is like being Anti-Freedom, in my opinion. We have the right to do what we want, that's what Freedom is. Freedom of Choice! -DDG Day: 79

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Monday, November 1, 2004

*Attempting to keep self from throwing up*

I'm really starting to feel sick. Its horrible...My mom's getting sick. My brother's sick. Everyone around the house is just miserable. I'm also not very "well" on an emotionaly, nor physcial, level. I'm extremely ticked off at the smallest things. Kids in class...school...bus rides...jackasses who fucking bug me all fucking day long... My only comfort right now is reading...and writing. I read two books today. I finished the book that we've been reading in English, The Outsiders, and I finished one of the AR books I had checked out. It was Ransom, another book by Lois Duncan. She's a really good author. One of my favorites. Oh, and Mimmi, yes, I will be getting pictures of the costume up as soon as possible! The grocery store down the road takes pictures of trick-or-treaters, so they have one of Xio, Alexa and I, and my mom took one when we stopped at my grandma's house, so once those get developed I'll have another one. Xio'll kill me for posting her picture online...but...she really can't kill me if I blur out her face or something, right? Right? I really need to go...my mom's waiting for Lonnie to call. And from eavesdropping on the message she left him on his cell phone(I eavesdrop a lot, I'm just so quiet that people don't notice me; its how I find out quite a lot of things, heh) he must be doing something serious right now, like hunting down an escaped prisoner or something. Who knows. I'll have to wait until he gets home or until my mom tells me something. -DDG

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Sunday, October 31, 2004

Bask in the splendor of my glory!

Today was my very last soccer game in my very last year in Optimist. *cries* But it was a good game. I believe we won it, 6-2. I was also very happy that one of the parents had the great idea of bringing a "Soccer Address Book" sheet so that we could all keep in touch. I was estatic because this year's team I really want to keep in touch with. We had so much fun and I would hate to never be able to talk to any of them again. Haha. I have part of my costume on right now. I had to cut material for my head band thing-a-mabob and I put it on to make sure it fit. I'm still wearing it because we're leaving at 5:30 and its 4:55 right now, so there's no use in taking it off and having to put it back on. I just have to wet my hair down a bit so it doesn't flop into my face, heh. I'm going to be putting the rest of my costume on it minute. I've got more things I have to put on with mine than Alexa and Xio do; they can both put on there things in about five minutes, but my stuff will take atleast fifteen. Thank god Lonnie let me borrow his boots, gloves, holster and weapons belt. *hugs him* He's such a nice guy! *hugs again* Last night, at Alexa's house, we(Me, Alexa, Xio and Alexa's cousin Megan(who also likes Anime ^_^)) were up late watching all of the scary movies I had brought. Somehow, the discussion of "Who's the sexy one and who's the hot one? Jason or Freddy?" came up. It was unanimously decided that Jason was the sexy one with his man-boobies and abs of steel, while Freddy was the hot one with his awesome hat! *steals hat* =P We've all been saying that if Freddy ever came into our nightmares, we wouldn't be scared. We'd just ask if we could have his hat, his shirt, his boots, his pants, his glove or his claw. So funny...last night was just...so much fun! It was so fun, I can't even begin to describe how fun it was! Well, I should get off now and start putting my costume on. Happy Halloween everyone! -DDG Day: 77(If I'm not mistaken)

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Saturday, October 30, 2004

Its as easy as...erm....now what was that again?

I submitted two wallpapers last night. Both of them are up. My favorite out of the two is by far the one with Vash on it. I'll have to give credit to the website where I found the magnificent backgrounds however, because it would be impossible for me to ever make backgrounds like that. I demandeth that you visit and admire in awe the greatness that is: KTD. I made a totally sweet home page banner last weekend and finally got it uploaded yesterday. I did really good on it if you ask me. I also had made a splash page image that I spent a helluva lot of time on, too. Home page banner Splash page image I'm quite proud of them both and really hope that I can open up my website soon so anyone who wont view them here, can view them on my site ^_^ I read a bit of Naruto last night. I think I read from about chapter 90-102...and they always have to end with a cliffhanger, too... I'm going to start downloading chapter 103 and hopefully it'll finish downloading by the time my mom gets here. And if it hasn't, then I just wont disconnect and I'll tell Josie that she can disconnect once the files that I downloaded pop up on the screen, heh. Then I'll finish next weekend by unzipping them to my Naruto folder. Birthday wishes! A few birthday's I would like to mention. A few of them are my offline friends and a few are casual friends from online. Friends Offline Alfred (15) October 30th Donald (14 I believe, might be 15, though) October 31st Alexa (15, I'm pretty sure...) October 30th Online Friends Blanko (17) October 30th Alright, that's all I got for the birthday's, heh. And that's all I've got for today's post as well. -DDG

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