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Don't get me wrong, I'm usually a pretty good sport about this. But we got there early like we were supposed to, and then they tell us that the show won't start till 7:30! Paster Sam and Mrs. Karen were fit to be tied, because they got a call from Julie around 4 saying that she finally delivered her baby.... if the show wouldn't start till 7:30, that meant we probably weren't getting home till well after 9 -..-'

Well, we endured it for a while. Well, till about 7:30 to be precise....but the announcers kept yammering on and on, and it kept drizzling and the wind kicked up and... well, 7:30 and still no air show. So, we decided to leave. At first the volunteers who were running the ticket booth did not want to give us our money back, but when we started loading up our lawn chairs, they finally relented.

Totally off of subject and all, but on the way home, I get a text from Twitter. It's from Joel McHale of all people, and he posted "Okay, are your all coming tomorrow night to the paramount Theater in Denver to see me? I'll cry if you don't." It was so cute to me. So I replied to that with, "Sorry, McDreamy, you're 2 states west of me, and I'm still unemployed =_= Have fun though! (might wanna pack tissues..)." Maybe I'm just a big geek (we've established that, no?), but I'm fairly sure he enjoys the feedback :) I've been calling him 'My McDreamy' for ages, so I just got home and made this new icon. Snazzy isn't it :D ?

Well, it other Totally Unrelated news, according to Dad, that doctor's office I strolled into at the beginning of this week is in desperate need of an office person and my resume is on top of the list.... so I'm hoping to get a call.... but I won't be holding my breath. Still, it's hopeful /crosses fingers.

<..< ..... >..> ..... I can't think of anything else to say. Oh well. Guess I'll take that warm shower. Lord knows, standing out in the rain so long, it's over due :) 'Night, Sunshines.

Your Butt Says You're Laid Back

You are an easygoing, trusting person. You don't get too worked up, because everything usually works out in life. You are not afraid to flirt and show off what you've got. At times, you can be a bit full of yourself. You find close relationships and romance difficult. You don't feel like you'll ever meet your true soulmate. You are outgoing and confident. You are proud of who you are, and you are brutally honest. You tend to be a serious, straight laced kind of person. It takes you a while to warm up and let loose.

... orly o..o’ my butt’s like me, it’s really chatty and uber random XD

I was also happy to hear that Supernatural has been picked up for it’s fifth season! ....of course, that only means I need a job that much more...otherwise, I won’t be able to afford season 4 or 5 when they finally come to DVD ;) As is, I feel I’m sorta behind on my fandoms in a way..../stares longingly at S3 Bones Box Set. Not that I’ll be buying much of anything fun even for my first few pay checks. I’ll need to start saving immeadately....otherwise, I won’t have much of a savings to speak of -..-

In superficial news, True Beauty finally skipped off into the sunset. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed ridiculing these so called ‘Beautiful People’ almost all season long...And, I did really love Billy (which, surprises me, since I don’t usually go for blonds), but...I don’t think I could’ve taken another week of Joel’s conceited attitude >..> Not Joel McHale, of course! But the dude on there named Joel who was a conceited jerk. No, Joel McHale is my McDreamy :D Aaaaand I hope he makes fun of the ‘Douchbag’ meeting just like he did last week :) Anyway. I liked Billy and Julia was pretty ok too (considering), but they had gotten...awfully smarmy (which fit in well with the judges I suppose). Also, can I say that the thing at the end with the chocolates was hilarious? It was! OK, so the gimmick to this thing is that these gorgeous people are competing against each other to be the most beautiful person in America; but, what they don’t know is the judges are also judging them on inner beauty and spying on their every move with hidden cameras all over the house. Well, at the end, they received a tray of chocolates with a card saying “Here’s a chance for you to see through our eyes - Your judges.” and they were staring at the chocolates like it was a puzzle, all the while not realizing that on the back of the card was the answer “Go Down Stairs” XD!!!! Hilarious! It was edited but it looked like it took them five minutes just to flip the stupid card over!

....Reiko’s birthday is coming soon. She’s gonna be 21....God, but it makes me feel old. I need to call her and ask which address she’ll be at. Otherwise, it’ll be hard for me to know where to send her present. It still bugs me that I didn’t get Celeste’s address...not that it excuses me from not sending her a card. Mom and I had found a local Hallmark store, and they have a ton of those great musical cards, and I was going to send her one of those but....well, Mom and I kept getting sick and forgetting. I should’ve looked her up on white pages.com or something. It’s no excuse =..= I’m usually on the ball with birthdays...dang moving anyway.

Oh, and I finally put my Twilight fic up on juli_bear . I private posted it ages ago, and I finally got around to proof-reading and publicly posting it. I swear, I need to get my butt in gear. Having moved or not, I was supposed to have that LJ as my Fan Fic/Group area, and I’ve only posted the first chapter of one fic so far! ...I guess I’m slugging because really Twilight is one of the few fics I’m working on currently. Every other fic has gone stale =..= But! The first chapter of my new Broken Wing is now available, and I’ve posted it to twilight_book as well :) I really hope having it posted with my LJ as well as having a community aware of it will help motivate me.

....I can’t think of anything else....I guess that means it’s time for me to shut up and distract myself elsewhere :) Talk later, Sunshines!

You Are Carrot Juice

You are a warm, cooperative person. You work well with others. While you have a fairly strong personality, you don't have a lot of clashes and conflicts. You are ambitious, but not ruthlessly so. You won't step on anybody's feet to get to the top. You are successful, and all your success has come while looking out for others.

What Kind of Juice Are You?

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So yeah, for my lunch break I went over the The Soup’s web site and just kept watching the little plug in on the Vine...It’s way too easy to get sucked into that O..O’ I swear, I was looking at it for just a second and then…my lunch break was almost over. Geeze. Now I am reduced to writing stray paragraphs through the day as I get smaller breaks to compose an entry. This should be fun. Zomg, they have a The Soup So Meaty Mug!!! Ok, anyone that wants to get me that as any type of gift, go right ahead. I will not mind. Not one bit. (ADD anyone?)

Speaking of gifts, I went ahead and ordered myself the Dragons of the Crystal Cave Ornament Collection. I was sent the same offer in the mail as the one my cousin showed me, so I figured, what the heck and ordered them. I gotta think about that new Christmas tree of mine…especially since Mom gave the ornament I bought at the aquarium in TN away =..= And I just can’t be mad about it, because she’s tortured herself enough about it.

The weekend was not fun for me. I had a serious preliminary of bloody hell week, if you know what I mean. But I did get to rewatch the first season of Heroes...so that’s good. Mom was sick too, so really we did not get much done. We tried to get out Saturday morning. I wanted to look at something at Target and Mom treated me to breakfast at iHop. But we were feeling so bad that we kinda cut our ‘shopping’ short. I did end up buying two rugs for my outside my house (I’m thinking for one on the front door and one on the back) and they’re uber cool. One is a gnome standing next to a mushroom. He’s dwarfed by it too (punny!). The other (for my front door) says “Welcome” in the center and then has “Welcome” in other languages all over it.

Also, I got a DVD cabinet that holds 176 DVDs…don’t worry. I plan on getting another one ^..^ It’s not that I have 176 movies…but I definitely have over 100 and I’m gaining fast, so...I’ll need the storage space. It’s the type that has doors on it, and the doors have shelves on them as well. So, I was thinking of putting box sets in the doors and actual movies in the back...we’ll see how long that lasts. I’m collecting box sets of DVDs as much as the Movies I’m collecting. I have roughly 131 movies, 38 box sets and 26 anime box sets/movies….damn…I’d better buy another one of those cabinet thingies soon =..= That’s 195 movies right? Ok, if I have two and they both hold 176, then I’ll have 352. Phew...Yeah. Gotta get the second one.

Don’t you love it when I got to write something out and then literally do the math right there, having a divine revelation while I’m posting. God.

Ok, well...Nothing else to talk about. Got a lot of stuff coming in the mail this week that I’m looking forward to. That’s all that there is for now. Later, Sunshines.

You Are Not Very Worldly...Yet

You haven't really traveled the world yet, but you'll get around to it someday. In the meantime, it couldn't hurt to broaden your perspective a little. Try a new type of foreign food or pick up a foreign movie to watch. You can become more worldly without a passport!

How Worldly Are You?

 

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As for our plans, we leave at 10 PM on Wednesday night. I’m driving for about 6 hours, and then Mom will drive the rest of the way. We’ll be relying on Gracie (our GPS) to get us to my Twin’s house. According to Google, it’ll take about 8 hours to get to her place. Then it’s all the way to the hotel.

The weather has been wonderful lately. I’ve woken up to thunder and storms every morning. Really my idea of wonderful weather. We were thinking that we’d be leaving the major rain behind, but Mom said that she saw rain over Tennessee as well…so, there’s hope that we’ll get some of that weather there too…I probably should’ve just asked my Twin how the weather looked for the week ahead where she was -.- Oh well.

Oh, last night, I was watching The Girls Next Door, and they advertised that The Soup would be playing on Mondays as well (so Mondays wouldn’t suck quite as much ^.^). It was the Best of the Worst Dating Moments, and next week is gonna be something else. I now have something else to occupy my Monday nights ^.^ Goody.

I’ve been playing Warcraft a bit more lately. I’ve been on my Draenei charactes...It’s fun…not quite as much fun with no one to play with…but still a lot of fun.

Well, we’re off to get that pedicure. I guess that means the clothes are done. Later, sunshines.

 

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You Would Be a Pet Cat

Independent and aloof, you don't like to be dependent on anyone. And as for other people, you can take them or leave them. You often don't care. You live your life by your own rules. And you have deep motivations that no one truly understands. Why you would make a great pet: You're not needy or greedy... unlike other four legged friends. Why you would make a bad pet: You're not exactly running down to greet people at the door What you would love about being a cat: Agility and freedom What you would hate about being a cat: Being treated like a dog by clueless humans

What Kind of Pet Would You Be?

 

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I fixed us some Raman noodle (spiced up with a bit of Mrs. Dash), but he didn’t want his. Said he didn’t think his stomach could handle it. So it was just me eating. I watched a bit of The Soup with him, but he wanted to go lay down then, so I just turned off the TV (to give him the chance to fall asleep) and washed the dishes. I figured, Mom wouldn’t want to come home to a dirty kitchen and all. So, Twin-san, if you got on WoW tonight and wondered why I wasn’t there, this is why -.- Gomen ne. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Ceire has mail. Gomen about that too =.=’

Luckily, Mom’s Christmas gift came in today. I wrapped it right away when I got home, so her gift is already wrapped. So’s Tiffany’s now that I think of it. But I ran out of tape right after that, so Alley and Scamp’s gifts are still unwrapped...which is good, ‘cause I haven’t finished stuffing that huge box that Scamp’s gift is in with packing. I need to pack it tighter so that there won’t be any spaces for the thing to move around.

Speaking of Scamp, we’ve been talking a bit about getting together for Thanksgiving….but it looks like we’re at an impasse here. Mom wants them to come down the week before Dad comes home, because (since we live here around Dad’s kin) Dad’s family always expect us to celebrate Thanksgiving with them. But Alex’s birthday is on the 11th which is the day Mom had planned. I mentioned something about maybe them coming down the Sunday before Dad comes in and her just getting her birthday present (which is totally separate from her Christmas present ^.^) a little early. But I think we’ve decided to tell our parents to work it out. Either way, I am bringing her her gift…if I have to come down the weekend before her birthday and spend and give it to her myself, then so be it. But one way or another, I want to give it to her myself.

In a related note, Scamp mentioned that Billy was cockney (not sure if I’m spelling that right or not, but hey, I spell ‘em like I sound ‘em out ^.^), and that they actually had a sort of language that they used as a way of confusing the local authorities because the cops back then didn’t like the cockney people overly much. Something to do with a lot of the words rhyme or something...it wasn’t overly clear -.- But anyway. I was thinking that’d be a great idea for my Knaves. Knaves in my story are a type of Rogue character. They’re can be anything from simple pick-pockets and thieves to master assassins. And of course it follows that, like in EverQuest, they have they’re own sort of language. In EQ they called it Theives’ Cant or some other such. But I was thinking that what Scamp’s told me of Cockney sounds perfect for the basis of a language for my Knaves. In theory at least. I’ve yet to put the idea into practicality.

Completely off subject here….there are flies in my house. I’m not talking about little buzzers either. No no no. These are big flies. There are at least 6 of them; 1 in the kitchen, 2 in my room, and 3 in the bathroom. They’ve been bugging the living hell out of me if only because I cannot figure out how they got here! I don’t leave my door open, so how’d they get in? They’re really bothering me too, because they’ll sit there on the wall forever to the point where you’ll be like “oh well, at least they’re not buzzing about me in that aggravating fashion.” And then they’ll be all buzzing about as if they’ve got a score to settle!

Ok. I’m too tired to go on, so that means this entry’s done for the night…..’night!

Beware, for I am: Calm

Ok, so today was trying but ok. Only a few things to touch on.

This morning, Nicole showed around 7:30ish and let me in. She said she’d have a key made for me that way I wouldn’t be locked out like that again. So, I worked from 7:30 – 11 and then went home and came back at 2 and worked till 5. I don’t think I’ll be doing that Monday. This week we’ve had a relatively light load of charts to log (only 166 for the whole week), but Monday is always our busiest day. So, I’ll be pulling the early morning crap later in the week.

Oh yeah. After coming home and eating, I’d gotten really sleepy. It was probably a mixture of the rainy weather and the fact that I hadn’t eaten quickly enough. So, when I went back to work I was noticeably tired. I went down stairs to make copies, and the doctor was there. He was talking to the receptionist, and I didn’t really want to interrupt. He stopped and said, “Hi, Tracie. You didn’t even say ‘Hi.’ To me.”

So I told him. “Sorry. I’m on autopilot right now.”

And he said, “That can be dangerous.” And I replied,

“Only if the pilot’s smoking weed in the cabin.”

*beat*

“...Wow...”

It takes a lot to actually stump the good doctor, so I found it very amusing. I swear the words were out of my mouth before I even had time to think. “Only if the pilot’s smoking weed in the cabin.” ? WTF, mates?

Uh...oh yeah. In other news. I was delighted as a giddy-teenage-fan-girl when I realized that not only Threshold, but also Supernatural was coming to DVD box set soon. Please pardon my drooling. I would’ve preordered them already if it weren’t for the sufficient lack of funds. But pay day is next week, so no worries there. And Mom gave me the money I’d used to pay for her medicine while I was in town. With gas being so high and all, I figured there was no use in making two trips, so I just picked up the stuff for her. Didn’t know it’d be that expensive though. But still. All’s well. As soon as I can get the DVDs that is -.- Threshold’s released on the 22nd of this month, and Supernatural comes out September 5...for all my fellow freaks who may be interested. I literally cannot wait to buy both of them. Seriously. I mean, I’ve already had to ditch the taped episodes of Threshold because I wore them down. And what sold it for me on the Supernatural disc deal? They have a gag reel! Any DVD that has a gag reel is worth watching if only for the gag reel, people! (Watch the Pirates of the Caribbean one! It’s a hoot! “Is that a plane?”)

Ok...what else? Oh yeah. The web site is taking forever to upload those pics of MechaCon. Seriously. It’s just weird that it does that. I never noticed it before this though.../shrugs Oh well. It’ll happen when it happens na no da.

Also, tonight’s episode of The Soup was so uplifting. I mean, it made me all giggly and that made me think “Oh! I should post!” Because I never feel like posting when I’m depressed because I don’t think anyone will want to read it or they wont care, but when I feel good...I think no one but me will care, but at least I still do! So yeah. Oh, and I so agree the Lou should’ve won that contest. Wait was the dancing one with Fergie? Man that was really whacked. How can they call that girl talented. She’s just a hoochie really. Ah well. In this country they award anyone and say their talented. Geesh.

Oh, another thing. So, this morning’s Angel was the one where they throw Spike into the Angel mix, right? Well, I’ve never really watched Buffy, ok? I’ve heard tale of this Spike creature. I’ve seen friends go gaga talking about him, and I’ve looked at pictures of him online...I had to say, I didn’t think there was much to him. I mean, sure. Ok. He’s not a whimp, obviously. And he has good grooming habits what with what it must’ve taken to get his hair like that and all. But honestly, he wasn’t overly appealing to look at, right? …This morning, I heard him talk...and I realized what the obsession was about. It’s the accent. Face it, guys. An accent used the right way makes girls bibbidy. Usually and more specifically, British accents, Cajun accents, European accents, and occasionally Austrailian and Kiwi accents. I now understand what the attraction is, ladies. And all I can say is, give the boy more lines. I want to hear him talk. Thank you. That’s all.

If there was anything else, I’ve forgotten it. So, g’night everyone.

You Are 50% Extrovert, 50% Introvert

You're a bit outgoing, a bit reserved Like most people, you enjoy being social But you also value the time you have alone You have struck a good balance!

Are You An Extrovert or An Introvert?

 

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Beware, for I am: Geeky

This is an interview meme that I thwoinked from chaineddove.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

So, without further ado...

1. What is your most precious childhood memory?
I honestly don’t remember a lot of my childhood. What I did mostly other than daydream was climb the trees in our back yard and daydream. But there is one memory that does stand out a bit more than the random ones. It was 5th grade, Mrs. Perry’s class. I hated school, and what’s more I hated myself. I was stupid and slow and couldn’t learn and everyone always did everything better than me. But one day we had a free art period where she instructed us to simply use our imaginations. So I stared at a blank sheet of loose-leaf paper for about fifteen minutes, knowing full and well that I was terrible at drawing things. So I dumped all of my crayons out of my crayon box onto my desk...and I separated the junk from the good crayons. There was a lot of flecks of crayon wax from sharpening them, and crayon label papers and stubs of broken crayons and the like. Then I grabbed my glue bottle and smeared glue all over the page of paper...I’m sure everyone around me was watching me perplexed by this. They always made a habit of watching what I was doing and teasing me, but this was so weird they had no idea how to tease me. Then after I’d gotten glue all over the paper and my hands, I gently began placing the stubs of broken crayon down. Some of them were laying down (the bigger ones) and some were standing up. I made a strange pattern with the laying down crayons and then I built up the standing up ones around it in a strange oval-like pattern. Then I took the tiny stubs and crayon shavings and placed those around the bigger standing up crayons and then I started gluing the paper labels down flat to the rest till there wasn’t a part of that paper that wasn’t covered. The teacher walked over and asked what I had done, and I told her “This is a city.” The long crayons that were laying down were a river that ran through a city, the stubby crayons that were standing up straight were sky scrapers, the shavings and tiny flecks were houses and the paper labels were forests and pounds and rural land. She studied it for a moment and then she demanded that I let her have it to put up on her wall. She was so impressed that I used all the ‘junk’ from my crayon box (that any other kid would’ve just thrown away) and made it into something almost artistic, that she wanted to make sure everyone saw it. I was so pleased about it, and that’s when it hit me that I might not be very smart or athletic, but I could in fact be quite creative when I wanted to be.

2.What's your favorite movie and why?
Oh. Tough question. There are so many. Officially, I’d have to say the Lord of the Rings movie (and I say movie because Tolkien did not intend for it to be a trilogy, we just couldn’t handle it all at once). I’m guessing I just admire and respect Tolkien for his originality and his use of that when making his world. But then, The Chronicles of Narnia haven’t completely come out yet, so we’ll see how long this statement stands once all of Lewis’s Chronicles have been shown ^__^.

3. What is the one thing you wish you could write which you just haven't managed to do yet?
Hands down, my original story. I have bits and pieces of the story in my head, but I cannot connect them together for the life of me. I try writing the pieces down in hopes that I might just figure out a way to connect them, but it doesn’t work. I’ve tried to just start at the beginning and keep going, and it doesn’t work. I just can’t seem to make it work, but I don’t know how to fix it /shrug.

4. What is your dream job?
At this point, it’d have to be web design, but that’s because I can’t think of anything else. Sounds kinda lame to me now. If you would’ve asked me this ten years ago, I would’ve said “I want to be a rancher.” Because my passion was horses, and I wanted to own a lot of them and teach others how to ride them. I had a huge ambition when I was younger to take in battered and abused horses, and then have a program going where abused and abandoned kids could live there and tend to the horses. I think it’s awfully sweet now, but it’s completely impractical.

5. Am I EVER going to live down my old nickname and be known by my real name in your eyes? *lol*
Why in the world would you want to /grin? No really. You probably will...that is to say, when I think of you I think ‘Maaya’, but when I talk about you with other people (other people being Chibi), I refer to you ask Odango, because that’s how we both first came to know you. So maybe, yeah. One day when I grow up and get a life and start wearing makeup every day and suits to work, I might stop calling you that ^__^ (aka – don’t look for it to happen any time soon =.=).

In the words of Tom Cruise on The Soup’s Tom Cruise Watch...Much love...