OCD+ADD=OMG

I got to the church around 4. Alicia had stressed about everything, and thus, showed up mega early to make sure everything was set up. So, I got there and unloaded all the snacks and drinks and such, and then Alicia wen to pick up Takara and Lamarr and their cousin. Well, not too long after she left, the Tyree brothers showed up with their friend Buddy. Billy, Jesse and Julian I knew, but I'd never met Buddy before. He's energetic, and rambunctious, and loud... and after a while, he's really annoying -..- But, they were hanging out and talking and then a few minutes later, Takara and Lamarr show up with their cousin. Their parents had dropped them off o..o' So I texted Alicia to let her know that they were here... and she came back. I should say, Takara's cousin was Timmy, which was confusing because Alicia told me it was a girl named Penny =..= So, essentially, the only girl was Takara.

The boys started playing PS3, and I mean really playing. They played Rock Band first (until the pizza arrived). My parents had shown up then, but I told them they didn't have to stay if they didn't want to, because Dad had only gotten home that morning at 9 and he had been driving for about 2 days =..= So, they left as soon as we were all fed. They reminded me that they were only a phone call away, so that was nice.

The boys hopped back onto the PS3, and Takara jumped on Alicia's computer and played games there. Alicia had brought a game called Dance Dance Dance... which is a Vegie Tales version of Dance Dance Revolution, but it didn't work. The game would run just fine, but the pads that you're supposed to dance on would not. So... that was shot. For a long time, the boys just took turns playing fighting games like Soul Caliber, Call of Duty and...other such games O..o' I lost count of all the games they were playing. At one point, the older boys (the Tyrees and Buddy) got really bored, and they noticed it was raining outside, so they tried to force random members of their own group outside in the rain. I would then stand by the door and say "Oh! He's running around to the other door!" and when they'd race over to the other door to intercept, I'd open the back door and let the guy in -..- guys. After that, they discovered a ping-pong set and used the entire fellowship hall to just smack the ping-pong balls back and forth to each other. Was amusing, if only because they kept trying to keep more than one ball in circulation. ... it wasn't so amusing when they just started throwing the balls at each other -..- again, guys. It's all funny now, but at the time it all just seemed kinda annoying.

Everyone was getting kinda bored with the games. I had forgotten my iPod at my house, so I said I was going to run over and get it. T (Takara) was bored and annoyed with the boys, so I asked her if she wanted to come along for the ride, and she jumped at the chance. She looked around the house, and I showed her the library... and she ended up borrowing Breaking Dawn from me o..o I suppose it's only fair, since I brought that Ultimate Guide to Transformers for Lamarr. So, she got that book and I got Calliope (my iPod) and then we headed back. During our absence, Alicia conducted a small devotional about acceptance (whatevs), and then it was decided that we'd stop playing the games and head upstairs to watch the movies.

We actually put the movies on around 9ish... we struggled with trying to get the sound to work. See, the movies were played in the Sanctuary. We have a projector hooked up to a laptop in there, and so we just put the movies on the laptop and projected them onto the screen.... but the laptop isn't hooked up to the sound booth, so we had to hook speakers onto the laptop and then put a mic between those speakers.... but we couldn't put the mic too close to the speakers, because it would feed back terribly -..- It really didn't help that Buddy would not shut up. He talked almost all the way through Prince Caspian. At one point I told Alicia to just put subtitles up because that would be the only way anyone would be able to know what was being said ... of course, then he started reading the subtitles outloud -..-

After that, there was a 30 minute break in which everyone went to the bathroom and got something to drink (energy drinks) and snacked a bit. We didn't allow them to bring food or drinks into the sanctuary, so of course they had to wait to snack (of course, they probably snuck stuff in >..>). After the break, we started Iron Man which was awesome, as always. I'm fairly certain that T fell asleep during that, and she had borrowed my iPod. She turned it off when she felt herself slipping and just passed out.

We were all pretty tired after that... so, once again, there was about a 30 minute break. Alicia asked me to play some loud music that would wake us all up, and she'd turn the speakers on in the fellowship hall where the food was so that everyone would hear it. So, I played a lot of Thousand Foot Krutch (one of my favorite bands), and that was really energizing. Then Alicia came up and asked if it'd be a good idea to play Mortal Kombat as opposed to The Dark Knight or Hellboy 2, because both of those movies are really long (meaning we'd all probably have a better chance of falling asleep in there) as opposed to MK and MK:A which is maybe an hour and a half at best each. So, we decided on Mortal Kombat, and as a way to signal that we'd soon me starting that movie, I put the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation soundtrack on :D

Jesse and Buddy came running up the stairs and started dancing around, and they were very closely followed by Billy and Julian. It was hilarious to watch them dancing around, because they weren't really trying to dance .... it was more of a ' jump forward while punching straight up in the air' dance.... so it covered a lot of ground and looked very funny.

Anyway, we started the first movie and continued with our '30 minute break in between' routine before starting Mortal Kombat Annihilation. During the break there, I was just sitting in the sanctuary reading... and I hear the floor start to squeak (which means someone has entered the sanctuary) and I look behind me and Jesse and Julian are sneaking around, ducking behind furniture and making their own dramatic spy theme music. There was a part where Julian ran by on all fours and then ducked and rolled behind a pue... I thought I'd die laughing. But the point was that at some point, Jesse had brought up a can of Mountain Dew, and they were trying to sneak it back out... I was so amused by their antics I couldn't be angry at them for breaking the no food/drink rule =..= I'm a bad disciplinarian. But, after that we put the MK:A movie on....I think Alicia had tried to sleep a little, because she had intended to start cooking breakfast around 8, but wanted to sleep some first. She didn't really manage it, so she just decided to go downstairs and cook breakfast right then so that it'd be done whenever the movie was over.

She and I were the only ones that didn't sleep at all.... the older boys were all awake by the end, but they had napped a bit during the movie. And Takara and Lamarr were OUT. Dead to the world and all. So, while I was hooking up my iPod to the sound system to play some stirring music, Buddy ran downstairs, got some of my fingernail polish (I'd brought it for Takara, in case she wanted a manicure or something) ran back upstairs and painted some of Lamarr's toes =..= Was funny when Lamarr woke up, but at the time I just kept wondering why Buddy was running around laughing like a maniac >..>

Alicia cooked breakfast and we all headed down to eat. She had made boy-scout breakfast, which is a pound of potatoes, a dozen eggs, a pound of bacon and a pound of cheese all stirred together in one skillet. She also made biscuits, which I thought were awesome :) The kids settled in the youth's Sunday School room to talk and eat together... but afterwards, when we asked them whether they wanted to watch Hellboy 2 or The Dark Knight, they couldn't make up their minds. So, Alicia and I decided to start the clean up process and we made them stay there and play the quiet game.

I put Harvey on in the Sanctuary upstairs after I made sure that everything was picked up off the floor and then went downstairs to see what needed to be done. I have to say...The kids did stay there and they were fairly quiet (the game was that if anyone made a noise, the entire room could smack them on the rear... that was Alicia's idea =..=), and I washed all the dishes (by hand, because a lot of them really needed it and Alicia still hadn't unloaded the dishwasher) and Alicia swept. She got the kids to help her arrange the tables in the middle of the fellowship hall, and then they all went up to the sanctuary to get their stuff... somewhere along the way, Alicia told them that Harvey was up there cleaning and not to get in his way... so they all got their stuff, but then they just sat there and watched Harvey bump into things o..o it was really funny to see them so enthralled by my vacuum :D I realized that everyone yells at the roomba too, because they kept yelling, "Harvey! Come back here! You missed a spot!"

Anyway, I finished up the dishes and cleared off all the counters, putting trash in the trash can and putting food where it was supposed to go. Then I wiped off the counter tops. After that, I got the old vacuum out off the cabinet and vacuumed the youth room. I went up stairs to watch Harvey, and Alicia made the kids find all the ping-pong balls and put the set back in the youth room where it belonged. After we checked everything, we turned off the lights and air and then locked up and it was all over.

I know I headed home and showered... I do not remember much of it. But I wasn't feeling good at all... so I took my pills along with half of a muscle relaxer and slept for quite a while. Mom called me for supper, but after I'd eaten and talked with them a bit, I ambled back over to my place. I didn't want to sleep because I was afraid it'd mess up my sleep schedule, but I really wasn't awake enough to do much.

Today I am almost just as exhausted as I was yesterday =..= So, like I said, we're gonna be waiting a long long time before we do this again... if only so we can remember why we shouldn't. I do intend to have another movie night some time in August before school starts... but other than that, we really don't have any definitive plans for the youth at this point. We're just happy to have survived this event :)

I guess that's all... My account for the days of the lock-in are finished and I've nothing more to add :) Later, Sunshines.

Your Cell Phone Etiquette is 14% Bad, 86% Good

You are practically a cell phone saint. You never annoy the people around you. Everyone should have phone manners as good as yours. And you sure wish they did!

How's Your Cell Phone Etiquette?

 

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Now....plans have changed...again. Instead of packing and getting ready to leave tomorrow, going to a church function, coming home to sleep till 3:50ish, and then booking it to Abbeville.......We’re going to sleep as late as we can, get what work we can done, go to the church function....AND THEN book it to Abbeville. Yeah, see, we checked the weather for tomorrow, and it’s gonna be really cold and windy....but sometime Tuesday there’s supposed to be freezing rain. Now, I have full faith that we could make it out of Northern Arkansas - heck! Pine Bluff’s 3 hours and some change away! - and not be in any danger......but, I’m not going by myself and there are plenty of other people to consider. I’ve decided, as I usually do, to trust much wiser heads than my own (though there’s still some doubt ^..^).

So! Tomorrow night, we’ll be coffeed up and heading down. I have no idea when that church thing ends...but I do know, that Abbeville is about 10 hours away, not factoring in bathroom and food breaks. And believe me, folks, there will be plenty of breaks. Mom and Aunt Carolyn both are on this, and Mom has mentioned how frequently she needs bathroom breaks. Either way you look at it, it’ll take some serious time. I just hope that we all arrive in one piece and not wanting to beat the living daylights out of one another.

Reiko still has not contacted me with her songs... I had told her that if she sent me the song files, I could put them on my iPod and play them on my big stereo at her wedding. It looks like we’ll be back to CDs, because I don’t know that I have the time to do it properly now....I’m still bringing my iPod...but only because I’ll need it during the drive. Aunt Carolyn is supposed to sleep while I drive so I’ll just plug my ear pieces into my ears and drive....that’s not illeagle...is it?

That’s all for now...I’m...gonna....get some sleep =..= Goodnight, Sunshines.

Your Snow Test Says You're Independent

You feel like something good will happen to you in the next few months. You love to work, especially when work is creative. You have the makings of a successful artist. You are an independent, individualistic person. You thrive when you're doing your own thing. Your biggest worry in life is your family. You stay up at night thinking about them. When it comes time to relax, you really indulge. You are all about your favorite comforts.

The Snow Test

 

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Beware, for I am: Annoyed

Gosh, but today has been bad. I just haven’t been feeling well for a while, and what happens tonight? The power goes out. Around 1:30ish someone crashed into the telephone pole at the front of our street. We didn’t get the power back till just after 7 this morning =.= We still don’t have cable either. I’ve been passing the time by watching Fruits Basket. Over-all a terrible night. Let’s face it, half the battle for a good-night’s sleep is staying asleep. I tossed and turned all night through. I feel so tired and my stomach’s really starting to get on my nerves. I hope work passes quickly today -.-

Oh yeah...we have a mandatory ‘sound’ meeting tonight at church. Yay...I hope it doesn’t last too long.

Other things on the radar: Mom and I are going to window shop Saturday, our main stop being Bed, Bath and Beyond. Also, we want to go see the new POTC movie (who doesn’t?). I’ve also been kinda working on my little Jellies™. I’ve been trying to make new faces for them. I’m no artist by any means, but anime faces are pretty easy to draw, so that always works best.

Ok /sigh. Guess that’s all for this post. Must go put on that wretched make up. Ta.

Your Love Number is 1

You tend to be a stubborn lover, holding your ground in every argument You take your time falling in love. You aren't the type to lose perspective. You are loyal (to a fault), and you require the same loyalty in your sweetheart. At your best, you are a wise and inspiring partner - who sticks around.

What Is Your Love Number?

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MM

Yo. Well, tonight wasn’t too bad. I actually went to class tonight instead of sitting in the sound booth. Not that that means I was entirely out of the sound booth, but I’ll get to that later.

So, I’m looking all over for my class, ‘cause it’s been like five years since I actually went to Wednesday night classes. Yes. Five years. I hadn’t realized it had been that long. But I joined the sound booth and dropped out of Wednesday interactions with any peers my age that long ago. Anyway. So, I finally figure out where it is, and I get there. My first impression is what I thought it would be. This will be a class where I speak very little if at all. The speakers of the class are the class-clowns, not serious debaters or anyone who’d want to discuss something of importance. But then, that’s ok too, because I can’t say I didn’t give it a shot, and it gives me time to write without falling into a pit.

Not 2 minutes after the bell rings, my Dad comes to get me and says Bro. Packy needs me to put the tape in the sound booth on record. Now, Ryan #2 is supposed to be doing the sound booth on Wednesdays. He said he wants it every Wednesday that he can get it. So I assumed he'd be there. He wasn't. So I had to go run and put the tape on, then run back to class (of course I didn't really run. I walked very quickly.). But anyway, back to class!

I wrote the beginnings of a gargoyle story, and I may post it to ruby_unicorn once it’s typed up. The funny thing is, I was writing about this guy who’s running from a gargoyle, and I had no idea what to call the guy. I mean, I’ve used so many names when it comes to my characters, I didn’t know what to call this insignificant dude who wont be seen again. So, I looked up and I heard Rudy talking (again), and I just used his name. First name only of course. It’s a policy. Characters that share similar fist names to actual people are never given those people’s second names, unless of course the person specifies they want their full name in the story. I figured Rudy wouldn’t want his full name in this, ‘cause the character gets killed right away. But anyway.

I wrote through the latter half of the class (I was dreaming up the scene in the first half, and they’d turned out all the lights to watch a video clip anyway). But the whole time Sis. Janet was talking I was writing away. I even expected them to ask what I was writing about, and I was prepared to read the thing out loud if they did. But they never did. Either they assumed I was taking notes, or they assumed I was blowing them off. Either way, I don’t suppose it matters. I’ll probably be gone in a little over a year...I can endure this stuff for that long.

Then we all came home and we began watching CSI: NY, but we all got super tired (yours truly included), and decided to watch the rest of it later as we were taping it. I have showered, I feel better, and I shall now go to sleep dreaming of my X-Men: Evolution DVDs. Goodnight.

Prince Bandor
You're Bandor, prince of planet Pollux. You are
childlike, optimistic, and bold. However, you
are little too fearless for your own good,
which is a trait that often gets you in
trouble. None the less, you are willing to risk
it all to protect those who you love.


Which Voltron Royal are You?
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MM

Well hello all. It’s been a while no da...Geeze, I don’t even remember the last thing I wrote about. Well, let me go re-read my last entry to see what’s changed.

Revival has ended as most of you most likely have guessed. I am no longer the only Sound Sister...there’s another but I’m not sure if she’s purely sound or projection or projection and sound...I guess I’ll find out. New thing with the sound system is that now we actually have a schedule set for when we’re needed in the sound board. Only thing that’s the same is that I still have dominion over Wednesdays which is all I care about.

I did pass my math class. I’m now taking Pre-Keyboarding, Accounting, and Computer Lit. Pre-Keyboarding and Computer Lit are cool, and slightly challenging...Accounting is insufferable because Mr. Samuel’s style of teaching is extremely taxing. I’m getting the hang of it though. My main problem is that I’m now getting up every morning Mon-Fri at 6 AM to go to school...the classes are an hour and a half long on Mon. Wed. and Fri. and two hours long on Tues. and Thurs...And sometimes it’s just hard to keep staring at that computer screen typing lo9l lo9l l9l9 l99l 9 99 999 9,999 9:99 etc etc etc.

This past week, I’ve worked 6-close Friday, Monday and today. Work is busy almost always. Monday it had its lulls but it was also busy. And I had to close all by myself so that was long and boring. You just don’t know how hard it was to roll out of bed this morning at 6 when I went to bed at 1:30. I was supposed to work Friday 1:30 to Close, and Saturday 6-close, but that changed. I had requested off ‘cause I had to take a blood test at a local hospital that was five hours long on Saturday morning. Well, I came into work on Friday feeling terrible, and when I told my managers what was wrong, they sent me home at like 6. Then this morning when I was taking the blood test Mom called Dad, and Dad said that the Palace had called and told me not to come into work at all ‘cause they figured I wouldn’t be up to it…They were right.

As for the blood test itself, it wasn’t too hard till the end. I had to fast that morning, and I could only have water. And they took six blood and urine samples between the hours of 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. The blood work wasn’t too bad...at first. The first two were taken from my right arm. Since that hurt – she had to re-stick me after all – I decided to try my left arm for the third one. She couldn’t find the vein and had to sort of...dig around. For the fourth I wanted to try the right arm again, hoping I would get a equal number of punctures in both arms so neither would feel too bad...she couldn’t find the vein, she dug around, she pulled the needle out, and stuck me again but still couldn’t find the vein...Needless to say we stuck with the left arm for the rest of the procedure. My left arm looks bad, ‘cause it’s more bruised looking, but my right arm really was the one with more punctures...oh and my fingers keep falling asleep...Mom says she probably just hit a nerve and it’ll repair itself.

My original fan fic isn’t getting too far, but I’ve been working on my web site, other fan fics, and of course school and work are always limiting my creativity. I have almost all the info up I want...I just want to refinish it a bit. And writing fan fics has suddenly gotten so much harder, but I’m trying to push through it.

Oh big surprise for me. Other day, I’m in school and agitated at my classes and so on. When I went to leave there was a note on my window and I opened it up and it looked like so sort of bill. I went home and then after I looked more closely at the thing there was a note on the back of it that said “Tracie, meet me and dad at Burger King, Love Mom.” So I went to Burger King and Dad announces he wants to buy me an all in one printers-scanner-copier. I’m having a lot of fun exploring it, but I’ve hardly had any time to check the manual to figure out what it can do completely.

I keep trying to make a quiz on Quizilla, but it never lets me. I get like three questions into it and it messes up…I have my images and everything, but it wont let me make the quiz. Lot of good that does me no? Erg.

Oh well I guess that’s all. I’ll try to write again once I’ve thought of something new to write. Other than that I guess that’s all she wrote.

Hey Mina. Today was very tiring. Woke up around 6:49—actually my Dad woke me up. He came in Monday night. Ate breakfast, got ready, watched some Designing Women—still love that show—and went to school. Took a test. Don’t know how I did but I felt pretty good about it. I was the first to turn in my test.

And so I’m thinking; now I got a full day to relax before church...maybe I can get on and see my Twin-san. She told me she’d be online or on EQ but the hours were very vague...anyway. I had just eaten some Ramen noodle soup with I get a call from Courtney at work. Turns out she needs someone to work 3-6 in the box. So I checked to make sure my uniform was clean and told her sure, I’d do it.

Well, I knew it’d be a bit hard for me to go to work, get off at 6, go home, change eat and then leave for church at 6:30. But it became even harder. Jeremy’s counting me out ‘cause some lady called about an investigation, which is to be kept confidential. I get off the phone and Jeremy’s counting my ones and he’s like,

“55, 56 57, 58, 59...” and he turns to me and I go,

“60?” and he says,

“60! For a second there I was gonna ask you ‘What comes after 59?’” hence the title.

But anyway he counted me out and I clocked off and I saw my locker and looked at my keys to get the key to unlock it and realized, I’ve got my mom’s set of keys...My mom’s set of keys doesn’t have a key for my locker...-.-;;;;

Called home and Dad brought the keys over really quickly. So I got my stuff, got a burger at Burger King, headed for church, and got there at 6:55. Sis. Janet was already up in the sound booth and she said it was ok for me to eat my supper in the booth. So I did. I ate the fries during song service and then the burger was gone not too long after.

Then after church we went to my Grandmére’s house and worked on my special project for a certain someone who’s having a birthday soon. I just hope it works. It looks like it’s all coming together. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow. Anyway, after that we’re home, I’m taking my pills, then my shower and hopefully having a full ten hours of sleep.

I’ll write later Mina, but for now I’m really really tired. That’s all she wrote.

Um what else...oh, my dragon hatched! Little Xegony has hatched and is well. I am now the proud owner of a little Cerulean Blue Hatchling. I'm liking this dragon stuff...I mean it's so cute and wonderful...I may have another one...My site is kinda big...yeah

Anyway! I started exercising again. We have our work out station outside; I just forget about it a lot. Anyway I exercised hard Monday and Tuesday and Mom told me that I should rest today and to start up again tomorrow. I sure hope Reiko can come with me...OK here I'll go over the (hopeful) plan for tomorrow.

Wake up around 8/8:30ish, eat breakfast, wait about 20minutes, then work out. Cool out, come in and take a shower. Dress then wait around till about 11:15 and go pick up Reiko. Head over to Chibi's and hang out till about 5:00 then drop Reiko off and head home.

Pretty good plan, huh? I didn't get to talk to my Twin-san today and I really wanted to. Maybe I'll get a chance sometime tomorrow after working out...only takes about 30 minutes to work out and 30 minutes to shower...so that wont be too long. Maybe if I get on a 9:00 she'll be on...doubt it but, hey, miracles still happen.

Well, I guess that's all for now. I'll write later Minna. That's all she wrote.

MM