Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas
Well, Christmas was fun. C: Of the three things I asked for- an under-tank heater for Aven, an Annie Dillard book, and the Striking 12 Songbook- I got two (all but the songbook, since they couldn’t buy it in stores or on Amazon so my mom decided it didn't exist, even though I showed them where to buy it). That was great. :D I also got a bunch of shirts (which I suppose I could use, but they sure aren’t very exciting), more pretzels (three pounds now, counting Madison’s bag), a little candy and microwave popcorn, and a very cool book of dragon art (called Dragon Art too… someone’s creative), and the second book in the Prospero’s Children series (plus an assurance I was getting the third one for my birthday… just 5 months to wait *wriggles*).
The best thing about the Dragon Art book is that I know (well, have briefly talked to over the internet… xD) quite a few of the authors in there! I thought that was really exciting, even if it was lacking in Lockwood (the true dragon-art king) art. There was tons of Kerem Beyit, who is simply amazing and has a Lockwood-ish style. You should all look him up on dA.
I also ate lots of rolls, toffee, potato chips, and potatoes. Chris found the whole almond in his rice pudding, which was funny because as Lisa served him she said to me, “I hope this one has the almond, because then when he wins the chocolate he’ll give it to me,” but when he won it, he didn’t share with her. Maddox (Lisa and Chris’ seven-month old baby) is totally adorable now, although his face looks surprisingly like the baby Grinch’s. xD I never held him, but I admired him plenty. Lisa, thank heavens, isn’t nearly as protective of him now either. Originally, you had to wash your hands before you held him, couldn’t actually touch his skin, couldn’t let him suck on your fingers… etc. She’s caught on that we aren’t going to kill him though, so things are much better.
Still, this was all at my grandparents house so I was also fairly bored. I prefer being home, with my own room and my computer and so much more I can do, not to mention normal stairs rather than their insanely steep ones. I also had to share a hide-a-bed with Katy, which means I had to spend the night half off the lumpy mattress and basically blanketless. When I get married, something I’ll look for in a husband is that they don’t take over the bed when they sleep (which’ll probably be kind of awkward to ask about but heck… if we’re in love we’re not likely to realize how awkward everything we do is, right? o.O)
Finally we came home Saturday afternoon. I fed Aven, set up his new heater, watched some TV (which I have to write another blog about o.o), and then got on the computer to write this and catch up on stuff I’d missed on my two days away…
Holy cow, I checked my e-mail to get a message from dA saying Ayra had bought me a Premium membership.
I’m just… wow. That’s real money she’s spending on someone she’s never physically met and I am quite in awe. (Another thing to gasp about is that we both got penguin PJs, lol)
<3 All in all, it was a very good Christmas.
The best thing about the Dragon Art book is that I know (well, have briefly talked to over the internet… xD) quite a few of the authors in there! I thought that was really exciting, even if it was lacking in Lockwood (the true dragon-art king) art. There was tons of Kerem Beyit, who is simply amazing and has a Lockwood-ish style. You should all look him up on dA.
I also ate lots of rolls, toffee, potato chips, and potatoes. Chris found the whole almond in his rice pudding, which was funny because as Lisa served him she said to me, “I hope this one has the almond, because then when he wins the chocolate he’ll give it to me,” but when he won it, he didn’t share with her. Maddox (Lisa and Chris’ seven-month old baby) is totally adorable now, although his face looks surprisingly like the baby Grinch’s. xD I never held him, but I admired him plenty. Lisa, thank heavens, isn’t nearly as protective of him now either. Originally, you had to wash your hands before you held him, couldn’t actually touch his skin, couldn’t let him suck on your fingers… etc. She’s caught on that we aren’t going to kill him though, so things are much better.
Still, this was all at my grandparents house so I was also fairly bored. I prefer being home, with my own room and my computer and so much more I can do, not to mention normal stairs rather than their insanely steep ones. I also had to share a hide-a-bed with Katy, which means I had to spend the night half off the lumpy mattress and basically blanketless. When I get married, something I’ll look for in a husband is that they don’t take over the bed when they sleep (which’ll probably be kind of awkward to ask about but heck… if we’re in love we’re not likely to realize how awkward everything we do is, right? o.O)
Finally we came home Saturday afternoon. I fed Aven, set up his new heater, watched some TV (which I have to write another blog about o.o), and then got on the computer to write this and catch up on stuff I’d missed on my two days away…
Holy cow, I checked my e-mail to get a message from dA saying Ayra had bought me a Premium membership.
I’m just… wow. That’s real money she’s spending on someone she’s never physically met and I am quite in awe. (Another thing to gasp about is that we both got penguin PJs, lol)
<3 All in all, it was a very good Christmas.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
:D
Wajas has been having a freakin' awesome event. It makes me happy inside. *huggles my new rare items*
Since none of my friends play Wajas though, I feel no desire to explain it. xP
Anyways, I'm also happy because I finally got around to doing that picture I promised McCollum. I drew her a Christmas picture last year- in the dark in the period before English while 'watching' a movie in Hadfield's class. :P She loves it, but I don't, and told her I was going to draw her a better one.
Well.
I give you "Imposter": http://sparradile.deviantart.com/art/Imposter-147413866
The timeframe of drawing (about an hour, and all during church xP) wasn't much better, but it's a more creative picture than I gave her last year, not to mention it's pretty-much the first time I've seriously drawn reindeer (and Santa and his sleigh and whatnot).
I'm very pleased with the turnout. :D I really want Monday to come so I can give the picture to her now... xD
Since none of my friends play Wajas though, I feel no desire to explain it. xP
Anyways, I'm also happy because I finally got around to doing that picture I promised McCollum. I drew her a Christmas picture last year- in the dark in the period before English while 'watching' a movie in Hadfield's class. :P She loves it, but I don't, and told her I was going to draw her a better one.
Well.
I give you "Imposter": http://sparradile.deviantart.com/art/Imposter-147413866
The timeframe of drawing (about an hour, and all during church xP) wasn't much better, but it's a more creative picture than I gave her last year, not to mention it's pretty-much the first time I've seriously drawn reindeer (and Santa and his sleigh and whatnot).
I'm very pleased with the turnout. :D I really want Monday to come so I can give the picture to her now... xD
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Mac' and Porridge
Never put Priests in charge of cooking.
They said they could manage mac and cheese, we figured they were better off not scaring the little children we were mass babysitting, so we left them to cook it.
No. Bad idea.
They made twelve boxes of mac and cheese. Twelve boxes in one small pot.
And they didn't boil the water first, they just poured the noodles in along with the water and went on their merry way. We went in to check on the dinner, and came back to the stickiest mass of noodles I've ever seen in my life.
Of course, everyone has different remedies for it. Eventually it was decided they would pour it out into the strainer and let it sit there while they boiled water in a bigger pot and then put them back in and cook them better. Hopefully they could be revived.
While in the strainer, Sis. Jeppson decided it needed to be stirred. Pretty soon, there noodles had the texture of oatmeal. I went around telling this to everyone, like I do everything entertaining, and they all had to go in, gawk at it, stir it a little, and soon it was even worse.
We were left with 'bread dough' noodles, wich I fondly dubbed Mac' and Porridge', and then Julie, who was extremely frustrated by that point, threw it away. Her dad went and got some new stuff and us girls cooked it up that time so it was fine.
But geez.
Big waste of twelve boxes of macaroni.
They said they could manage mac and cheese, we figured they were better off not scaring the little children we were mass babysitting, so we left them to cook it.
No. Bad idea.
They made twelve boxes of mac and cheese. Twelve boxes in one small pot.
And they didn't boil the water first, they just poured the noodles in along with the water and went on their merry way. We went in to check on the dinner, and came back to the stickiest mass of noodles I've ever seen in my life.
Of course, everyone has different remedies for it. Eventually it was decided they would pour it out into the strainer and let it sit there while they boiled water in a bigger pot and then put them back in and cook them better. Hopefully they could be revived.
While in the strainer, Sis. Jeppson decided it needed to be stirred. Pretty soon, there noodles had the texture of oatmeal. I went around telling this to everyone, like I do everything entertaining, and they all had to go in, gawk at it, stir it a little, and soon it was even worse.
We were left with 'bread dough' noodles, wich I fondly dubbed Mac' and Porridge', and then Julie, who was extremely frustrated by that point, threw it away. Her dad went and got some new stuff and us girls cooked it up that time so it was fine.
But geez.
Big waste of twelve boxes of macaroni.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Also...
Here's another good reason not to FaceBook. So many of the people there seem like monkeys... and here's proof of that hunch.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B15FN20091203
Just messing with my aunt's is plenty entertaining.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B15FN20091203
Just messing with my aunt's is plenty entertaining.
Phew
Oh gosh, it's finally over. We're done with Poison in English. Definitely among the worst books I've ever read. We were discussing it during Calculus today (the "study skills" part, but it's really still Calculus), and I was very pleased to find that all the other people in my group also didn't like it when they had to read it (most are seniors=read it last year). I love intense book-hating discussions. :D So much to talk about.
Buuut, on a better note, I finished my amazing new background a few days ago and it is so fun to have. C8 I made a smaller version of it to put on my cave in Wajas (Opota needed a replacement anyways, since NaNo is over), and it makes me laugh every time I go into my cave~ So fun.
Turning on my computer is also lots of fun, because it's there and makes me giggle.
But fun as it is, I'm really glad the Sparradile isn't actually that small.
Part 3 (yeah, wut? Weird blog today.):
I have this commission to do. It's the picture for a single, and she gave me information for the girls she wants on there, the song so I can listen to it and 'be inspired', but didn't tell me about what she wants pose-wise. That drives me insane, holy cow. The song is weird, I'm not getting a whole lot of inspiration from it. I mean, like, seriously? Listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5U1ykDngno
I'm like, anime, hairspray, and a touch of jazz. No real... position ideas, except maybe girls putting on makeup, but that's really not what it's about. So this is all I've got so far, and I'm scared to show the sketch to the commissioner since I'm sure she's gonna be like, 'wtf does that have to do with anything? o.O' I've had a few other ideas, and right now I'm really wishing I had fleshed them out instead of this (sorry guys, no clothes yet, but it's not going to kill your testimony, I promise). I'm thinking it needs an action-y look, which this doesn't have, but I'm... not knowing what sort of action to do.
Help? x.o I don't think I've ever stressed over something so much, but turning anime to realism and doing so without strict instructions (I always work better under those xP) is just hard for me.
Buuut, on a better note, I finished my amazing new background a few days ago and it is so fun to have. C8 I made a smaller version of it to put on my cave in Wajas (Opota needed a replacement anyways, since NaNo is over), and it makes me laugh every time I go into my cave~ So fun.
Turning on my computer is also lots of fun, because it's there and makes me giggle.
But fun as it is, I'm really glad the Sparradile isn't actually that small.
Part 3 (yeah, wut? Weird blog today.):
I have this commission to do. It's the picture for a single, and she gave me information for the girls she wants on there, the song so I can listen to it and 'be inspired', but didn't tell me about what she wants pose-wise. That drives me insane, holy cow. The song is weird, I'm not getting a whole lot of inspiration from it. I mean, like, seriously? Listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5U1ykDngno
I'm like, anime, hairspray, and a touch of jazz. No real... position ideas, except maybe girls putting on makeup, but that's really not what it's about. So this is all I've got so far, and I'm scared to show the sketch to the commissioner since I'm sure she's gonna be like, 'wtf does that have to do with anything? o.O' I've had a few other ideas, and right now I'm really wishing I had fleshed them out instead of this (sorry guys, no clothes yet, but it's not going to kill your testimony, I promise). I'm thinking it needs an action-y look, which this doesn't have, but I'm... not knowing what sort of action to do.
Help? x.o I don't think I've ever stressed over something so much, but turning anime to realism and doing so without strict instructions (I always work better under those xP) is just hard for me.
Monday, December 7, 2009
It is now officially Winter.
The first good snowfall of the end of 2009 has now announced the beginning of winter. No, datewise it has not occurred, but by definition it is here. That freezing cold autumn is gone, in the dust like it's crumbly brown leaves, and winter has brought its cloudy arms and snowy slopes to buoy us up again.
Yay~
It means I can sing the Snow Song again. I sang it all the way to school today, and all the way home, and while sitting at my computer and feeding the horses and whenever else I felt like it. I love that song. It's about loving snow, and I do so much <3
Listen, because it is amazing.
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/snow-song-its-coming-down/
And you can disregard the talking at the end; this is a recording of a live performance, and it is from a musical about New Years Eve, not that you aren't free to have a holiday mood. But if you recognize the voice at the end (if you watch TV, you ought to), I'll give you a little bag of M&M's. (C'mon Madison xD)
Also, this:
http://www.alfred.com/Products/Striking-12-Vocal-Selections--00-33475.aspx
I have been waiting, begging, wishing, and dreaming for so long of the day that Groovelily releases sheet music. Here it is. I'm getting it. And I'll play every song in there and drive my family and friends crazy and enjoy every moment of it. :D
Yay~
It means I can sing the Snow Song again. I sang it all the way to school today, and all the way home, and while sitting at my computer and feeding the horses and whenever else I felt like it. I love that song. It's about loving snow, and I do so much <3
Listen, because it is amazing.
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/snow-song-its-coming-down/
And you can disregard the talking at the end; this is a recording of a live performance, and it is from a musical about New Years Eve, not that you aren't free to have a holiday mood. But if you recognize the voice at the end (if you watch TV, you ought to), I'll give you a little bag of M&M's. (C'mon Madison xD)
Also, this:
http://www.alfred.com/Products/Striking-12-Vocal-Selections--00-33475.aspx
I have been waiting, begging, wishing, and dreaming for so long of the day that Groovelily releases sheet music. Here it is. I'm getting it. And I'll play every song in there and drive my family and friends crazy and enjoy every moment of it. :D
Sunday, December 6, 2009
No, I'm writting
Lately I've seen loads of people spelling 'writing' as 'writting'.
This makes even less sense to me than people spelling 'lose' as 'loose' (which I've already ranted about, though not here... xP). I mean... really? Don't you know the rule of vowels? They're only long if there's only one consenant between the two of them.
Yet I've seen people on Wajas trying to hire 'writters', people asking for this 'writting' on their tag, kids in Honors English classes writing about how they dream of being 'writters' when they grow up, and so on.
Good luck with that, when you can't even spell the name of your hopeful occupation. I can spell paleontologist, and that's a heck of a lot more complicated. You're taking away an 'e' and adding an 'ing' to 'write', and that's adding 'paleo' to 'ologist', where the 't' in the middle comes from I don't even know, but it's there.
Yeah... I don't even know. Although I lot of the people I see saying 'writting' also have writing full of 'plz, mcuh, or i', I've seen plenty who seem like perfectly able writers until they start repeatedly throwing that extra 't' in.
Stop being stupid. -.-
~~~
This, on the other hand, made my day, despite the errors:
"how annoying is it that the vast majority of a certain group of people who deny the existence of a certain universal being seem to think that it's perfectly logical to prove a universal negative?
example of a universal negative:There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
You can't prove this to be true, unless you have an immediate knowledge of ever crack and corner of the entire universe, and can see no Santa Claus there. aka, are omnipresent, aka are God.
so why in the WORLD do these people, whom I might add consider themselves to be supremely logical, execute this logical blunder with such blatant assumption of correctness"
~Within My Grasp (Wajas user)
This makes even less sense to me than people spelling 'lose' as 'loose' (which I've already ranted about, though not here... xP). I mean... really? Don't you know the rule of vowels? They're only long if there's only one consenant between the two of them.
Yet I've seen people on Wajas trying to hire 'writters', people asking for this 'writting' on their tag, kids in Honors English classes writing about how they dream of being 'writters' when they grow up, and so on.
Good luck with that, when you can't even spell the name of your hopeful occupation. I can spell paleontologist, and that's a heck of a lot more complicated. You're taking away an 'e' and adding an 'ing' to 'write', and that's adding 'paleo' to 'ologist', where the 't' in the middle comes from I don't even know, but it's there.
Yeah... I don't even know. Although I lot of the people I see saying 'writting' also have writing full of 'plz, mcuh, or i', I've seen plenty who seem like perfectly able writers until they start repeatedly throwing that extra 't' in.
Stop being stupid. -.-
~~~
This, on the other hand, made my day, despite the errors:
"how annoying is it that the vast majority of a certain group of people who deny the existence of a certain universal being seem to think that it's perfectly logical to prove a universal negative?
example of a universal negative:There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
You can't prove this to be true, unless you have an immediate knowledge of ever crack and corner of the entire universe, and can see no Santa Claus there. aka, are omnipresent, aka are God.
so why in the WORLD do these people, whom I might add consider themselves to be supremely logical, execute this logical blunder with such blatant assumption of correctness"
~Within My Grasp (Wajas user)
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Warmth :0
A little while ago we got a whole three-horse trailer load-full of firewood. The last few days we've been busily splitting it and stacking it against our house and in the dog run (there's a lot of it, lol).
And with it snowing, my dad took some and lit a fire in the furnace and the house is so warm. I think it's totally amazing that that tiny furnace in the living room can warm the entire house. Being the in half frozen state I am right now (just got back from a ride on the horses), I think I'd rather squeeze myself into Aven's 85 degree tank, but I don't think that's happening. xD I wouldn't like it after about three minutes too anways, I hate being hot.
But this warmth... it's really nice. <3
/filler blog
And with it snowing, my dad took some and lit a fire in the furnace and the house is so warm. I think it's totally amazing that that tiny furnace in the living room can warm the entire house. Being the in half frozen state I am right now (just got back from a ride on the horses), I think I'd rather squeeze myself into Aven's 85 degree tank, but I don't think that's happening. xD I wouldn't like it after about three minutes too anways, I hate being hot.
But this warmth... it's really nice. <3
/filler blog
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Aven the Hungry
Warning: Picture heavy, and they're all of my snake. If you don't like 'em, ignore this entry. :P
Aven is not a particularly photogenic snake (when he's paying attention to the fact that I'm taking pics of him, he has a magical ability to make them all fuzzy, at any rate), but when he's eating, he's much too distracted to turn on his magic.
So yesterday I fed him a mouse and got some pretty neat pictures. ;) But we'll start with a couple of his fuzzified pics just so you can see how adept he is.
What is this thing you're aiming at me?
Aven finds elbows very funny since they're not near as flexible as him. :c
See his extreme lack of teeth? Actually he has plenty, but they're so small you can't see them. Random fact of the day: Corn snakes are back-fanged; their fangs are at the back of their mouth. They're much better for holding on to things, but not so good for the initial bite.
I think it's amazing how much their skin can expand when they eat. .o.
Aven is a master of impressions, look at those mouse-foot mandibles he's got going!
Now he's a Narwhal. ;)
Where'd the mouse go? D:
Soo... there you go. Aven's funny to watch eat since he finds every lump and jutting part he could and gets caught on it... eating this mouse took him about 20 minutes. He's silly when he starts eating too, since he always tries to eat from the middle first, then tries a back foot... yesterday he had some sort of obsession with the mouse's front paw and dragged him around by that for a few minutes. xD Eventually he did find the head though, lol
Aven is not a particularly photogenic snake (when he's paying attention to the fact that I'm taking pics of him, he has a magical ability to make them all fuzzy, at any rate), but when he's eating, he's much too distracted to turn on his magic.
So yesterday I fed him a mouse and got some pretty neat pictures. ;) But we'll start with a couple of his fuzzified pics just so you can see how adept he is.
What is this thing you're aiming at me?
Aven finds elbows very funny since they're not near as flexible as him. :c
See his extreme lack of teeth? Actually he has plenty, but they're so small you can't see them. Random fact of the day: Corn snakes are back-fanged; their fangs are at the back of their mouth. They're much better for holding on to things, but not so good for the initial bite.
I think it's amazing how much their skin can expand when they eat. .o.
Aven is a master of impressions, look at those mouse-foot mandibles he's got going!
Now he's a Narwhal. ;)
Where'd the mouse go? D:
Soo... there you go. Aven's funny to watch eat since he finds every lump and jutting part he could and gets caught on it... eating this mouse took him about 20 minutes. He's silly when he starts eating too, since he always tries to eat from the middle first, then tries a back foot... yesterday he had some sort of obsession with the mouse's front paw and dragged him around by that for a few minutes. xD Eventually he did find the head though, lol
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Oh Printer, I loathe thee.
Although I've been having a lot of fun playing with Aven (I'll write a blog about him soon as I've got some good pictures to go with it) all weekend, Sunday night had come and it was time to rush through the last few problems of my math homework. After finishing it, I went upstairs to print out the answers so I could grade it, since we're expected to have this done prior to turning it in (and so I can correct everything and learn stuff if I got something wrong... :0 so nice).
Most of my friends already know that I hate my printer, mostly because if I leave it on then it loves to make random loud noises, and if I try to turn it off when the computer is off, it turns the computer back on, not to mention it's only black and white rather than having color ink. Half the time I try to print things it gives me random sheets of paper with one line of smiley faces or with some sort of manual-looking thing on it.
It's extremely irritating, to say the least.
So, anyways, I turn on the printer and tell the computer to print out my answer sheets. But today there was another obstacle I hadn't suspected- someone had left a mound of junk sitting on top of the printer, right where the paper comes out again. I probably don't have to mention that this made the printer get a paper jam.
This printer has paper jams all the time, mostly because of me making it stop printing off it's dumb manuals and smiley faces without letting it finish doing so, but obviously that wasn't the problem today. I pulled out the sheet that had gotten crushed against the junk (after moving it, of course), but that didn't fix the jam. There was another one still inside the printer since this one obviously can't figure out that when there's still one paper being printed, it shouldn't go and pull up another one.
So I fiddled around for a while, trying to figure out how to get this paper that was caught in the depths of my printer out, and basically dismantled the whole outside of the thing in the process. This didn't get me far though, since I only took off the front and top of it, and eventually I Googled how to get a paper jam out of my printer. (Thank heavens for Google! xD)
It showed me how to pop off the back of the printer and that made everything much easier. I ripped the paper a bit pulling it out, but it being halfway printed on and rather crinkled, that didn't really matter.
So, thinking everything's fixed, I tell it to print again.
Out come the smiley faces and manuals.
I press the Cancel button, turn it off, unplug it from the computer, plug it back in, and tell it to print. First come smiley faces, so I press cancel. But it doesn't stop printing, it just starts printing out the answers.
Well, I'm good with that.
Until it finishes and starts printing out more copies of them. I press Cancel, and it starts giving me manuals. But I've got what I need now, so I hit Cancel and turn it off, and the printer (not surprisingly) jams again. Luckily this one is much easier to fix, and finally I'm on my way.
But seriously?
I want a new printer. :c
Most of my friends already know that I hate my printer, mostly because if I leave it on then it loves to make random loud noises, and if I try to turn it off when the computer is off, it turns the computer back on, not to mention it's only black and white rather than having color ink. Half the time I try to print things it gives me random sheets of paper with one line of smiley faces or with some sort of manual-looking thing on it.
It's extremely irritating, to say the least.
So, anyways, I turn on the printer and tell the computer to print out my answer sheets. But today there was another obstacle I hadn't suspected- someone had left a mound of junk sitting on top of the printer, right where the paper comes out again. I probably don't have to mention that this made the printer get a paper jam.
This printer has paper jams all the time, mostly because of me making it stop printing off it's dumb manuals and smiley faces without letting it finish doing so, but obviously that wasn't the problem today. I pulled out the sheet that had gotten crushed against the junk (after moving it, of course), but that didn't fix the jam. There was another one still inside the printer since this one obviously can't figure out that when there's still one paper being printed, it shouldn't go and pull up another one.
So I fiddled around for a while, trying to figure out how to get this paper that was caught in the depths of my printer out, and basically dismantled the whole outside of the thing in the process. This didn't get me far though, since I only took off the front and top of it, and eventually I Googled how to get a paper jam out of my printer. (Thank heavens for Google! xD)
It showed me how to pop off the back of the printer and that made everything much easier. I ripped the paper a bit pulling it out, but it being halfway printed on and rather crinkled, that didn't really matter.
So, thinking everything's fixed, I tell it to print again.
Out come the smiley faces and manuals.
I press the Cancel button, turn it off, unplug it from the computer, plug it back in, and tell it to print. First come smiley faces, so I press cancel. But it doesn't stop printing, it just starts printing out the answers.
Well, I'm good with that.
Until it finishes and starts printing out more copies of them. I press Cancel, and it starts giving me manuals. But I've got what I need now, so I hit Cancel and turn it off, and the printer (not surprisingly) jams again. Luckily this one is much easier to fix, and finally I'm on my way.
But seriously?
I want a new printer. :c
Saturday, October 3, 2009
I actually get this! 8D
This is going to be a rave sort of entry rather than my usual grumpy complaining. :0 Pay attention, because it’s out of the norm. For me, at least.
Normally when it comes to math I’m an utter failure. I think it’s a really neat subject and I wish I got it, and I do work hard at getting it, but I just don’t. When I have a good teacher I do a little better, but good math teachers? They’re in extremely short supply. I’ve had two in my entire school career. My current one is not among them (although I do like him ‘cause he smiles at me when I come to class and it gives me hope xD).
But lately we’ve been doing derivatives, and I actually get it. *gasp* For once I’m not the stupid one in my study group always asking, “Repeat that to me again? What the heck are you talking about? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Can you just give me the answer so we can move on? DDDx” <-(yes dearies, that’s an emote for showing frustration. I’ve had to explain it too many times. Extra D’s are extra aggravation towards a subject). Instead, they’re all asking me. :0 I sit there and whiz through the problems (well, comparatively, since even though I get them they’re still extremely slow to work) and then they’re all like, “Hey Mary, how do you do this one?” and I can explain it and make sense. Not only that, I explain it, make sense, and they learn from me. Math.
Yes.
I feel so almighty and intelligent.
The other half of this amazing rave entry is that today we went to the hardware store because my mom had to return some screws that were the wrong length, but she forgot the receipt so they needed her ID, which she also didn’t bring (don’t worry, my dad was driving so there was a licensed person getting us down there). My dad had just dropped us off and by then was hidden in the depths of Walmart, finding snacks for him and the boys to eat during Priesthood session.
And lo and behold, my driver’s license was in my pocket! So I whipped that out all dramatic-like and got to sign for the return and all that stuff. Made me feel all special and prepared inside.
But good things can never last, so I have a bit of a rant to throw in too. ‘Cause seriously, if you’re going to be so boorish as to catcall, do it from a respectable vehicle (i.e. manly trucks), not a bike that it looks like you stole from a 6-year-old. You already look dumb when you start shouting things at me, but from a little kid’s bike? No.
Normally when it comes to math I’m an utter failure. I think it’s a really neat subject and I wish I got it, and I do work hard at getting it, but I just don’t. When I have a good teacher I do a little better, but good math teachers? They’re in extremely short supply. I’ve had two in my entire school career. My current one is not among them (although I do like him ‘cause he smiles at me when I come to class and it gives me hope xD).
But lately we’ve been doing derivatives, and I actually get it. *gasp* For once I’m not the stupid one in my study group always asking, “Repeat that to me again? What the heck are you talking about? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Can you just give me the answer so we can move on? DDDx” <-(yes dearies, that’s an emote for showing frustration. I’ve had to explain it too many times. Extra D’s are extra aggravation towards a subject). Instead, they’re all asking me. :0 I sit there and whiz through the problems (well, comparatively, since even though I get them they’re still extremely slow to work) and then they’re all like, “Hey Mary, how do you do this one?” and I can explain it and make sense. Not only that, I explain it, make sense, and they learn from me. Math.
Yes.
I feel so almighty and intelligent.
The other half of this amazing rave entry is that today we went to the hardware store because my mom had to return some screws that were the wrong length, but she forgot the receipt so they needed her ID, which she also didn’t bring (don’t worry, my dad was driving so there was a licensed person getting us down there). My dad had just dropped us off and by then was hidden in the depths of Walmart, finding snacks for him and the boys to eat during Priesthood session.
And lo and behold, my driver’s license was in my pocket! So I whipped that out all dramatic-like and got to sign for the return and all that stuff. Made me feel all special and prepared inside.
But good things can never last, so I have a bit of a rant to throw in too. ‘Cause seriously, if you’re going to be so boorish as to catcall, do it from a respectable vehicle (i.e. manly trucks), not a bike that it looks like you stole from a 6-year-old. You already look dumb when you start shouting things at me, but from a little kid’s bike? No.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
T.T
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_more_school
Joy.
Our dear Obama obviously doesn't realize that many students already spend an extra three hours at school and spend a lot of time there during the summer due to extracurricular activities. Will his brilliant plan put an end to those? I hardly have time for marching band and school already, and if I get a job?
How would a student get a job if school went til 5 pm, not to mention all year, anyways?
Joy.
Our dear Obama obviously doesn't realize that many students already spend an extra three hours at school and spend a lot of time there during the summer due to extracurricular activities. Will his brilliant plan put an end to those? I hardly have time for marching band and school already, and if I get a job?
How would a student get a job if school went til 5 pm, not to mention all year, anyways?
Thursday, September 24, 2009
That wasn't so bad...
So I've been in Advisory for the past while because of my math teacher's 1,000 point Disclosure Document, which I didn't turn in simply because he never collected it and so I never thought to hand it in. It's been signed since the day I got it, I'm just absentminded and, apparently, so is he.
I've known about it for a while now, but kept forgetting to go and hand it to him, but Madison's been getting after me for not turning it in yet, and I think even Robertson is getting annoyed at my having to be in Advisory every day for a disclosure document. So today I remembered to get it out at the end of class, went over to Palmer, and handed it to him, along with a long-winded explanation of why it was so late in hopes that he wouldn't get mad at me.
I don't think he listened at all, just took the paper and said, "Okay, I'll get that in." and headed over to his computer.
o.O
And here I was worrying he wouldn't even let me turn it in, or that he would at least be mad at me or something. I need to stop my mind from giving me constant worst-case scenarios, I'd get a lot more done.
But, this song comes in quite well with the story:
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/no-room-in-your-bag-live/
I also had to post it for Madison since she doesn't believe Groovelily writes any good music. I think this has to be among the best in the world (not to mention it gave me my 'Mission Statement'- yet another dumb English assignment, kinda like this blog- in a good three seconds).
I've known about it for a while now, but kept forgetting to go and hand it to him, but Madison's been getting after me for not turning it in yet, and I think even Robertson is getting annoyed at my having to be in Advisory every day for a disclosure document. So today I remembered to get it out at the end of class, went over to Palmer, and handed it to him, along with a long-winded explanation of why it was so late in hopes that he wouldn't get mad at me.
I don't think he listened at all, just took the paper and said, "Okay, I'll get that in." and headed over to his computer.
o.O
And here I was worrying he wouldn't even let me turn it in, or that he would at least be mad at me or something. I need to stop my mind from giving me constant worst-case scenarios, I'd get a lot more done.
But, this song comes in quite well with the story:
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/no-room-in-your-bag-live/
I also had to post it for Madison since she doesn't believe Groovelily writes any good music. I think this has to be among the best in the world (not to mention it gave me my 'Mission Statement'- yet another dumb English assignment, kinda like this blog- in a good three seconds).
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
They had the right idea in Medieval times...
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58F4WL20090916
Maybe we should have just stuck with hanging people. Back in the day the whole town would come out and have a party every time they did that. It was the highlight of every little boy's life to see someone do 'the jig'.
Or we could draw and quarter them, shoot 'em six times, behead them (wouldn't that be fun to watch a guillotine? They live for 13 seconds after their heads are cut off!), spin 'em on a wheel and throw knives at them, crucify them...
So many ways of killing that were practically failproof. Now they can't kill someone because they can't find a good vein to inject some poison into. Do you know how many drug-addicted rapist-murderers there are out there who are running so low on veins to stick drugs into that they can't recieve a death penalty? A lot more than we have space for in our prisons. What joy.
This idea of giving killers a 'kind death' just throws me, I'm sure the people they killed didn't get such a nice passing.
Not to mention the drugs just to knock felons out are expensive, why spend an extra mound of money on the lethal drugs too when an axe is so much quicker, cheaper, and trustworthy?
People just make no sense nowadays.
Good heavens, I need to stop reading news and books.
Maybe we should have just stuck with hanging people. Back in the day the whole town would come out and have a party every time they did that. It was the highlight of every little boy's life to see someone do 'the jig'.
Or we could draw and quarter them, shoot 'em six times, behead them (wouldn't that be fun to watch a guillotine? They live for 13 seconds after their heads are cut off!), spin 'em on a wheel and throw knives at them, crucify them...
So many ways of killing that were practically failproof. Now they can't kill someone because they can't find a good vein to inject some poison into. Do you know how many drug-addicted rapist-murderers there are out there who are running so low on veins to stick drugs into that they can't recieve a death penalty? A lot more than we have space for in our prisons. What joy.
This idea of giving killers a 'kind death' just throws me, I'm sure the people they killed didn't get such a nice passing.
Not to mention the drugs just to knock felons out are expensive, why spend an extra mound of money on the lethal drugs too when an axe is so much quicker, cheaper, and trustworthy?
People just make no sense nowadays.
Good heavens, I need to stop reading news and books.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Holy Cow
Wow that was a long post. This is the non-brain-melting post. c: Or at least not as brain-melting as my book report.
Yesterday me and some friends (actually more Peyton's friends, but whatever, I get along with them well enough) had a movie night, and it was surprisingly enjoyable even though it didn't turn out exactly as expected (which was that orignally it was just a thing me and Peyton were doing, then some more people came). There was lots of entertaining 'What if?' playing, a lot of Michelle making loads of noise, like she always does, the watching of Bambi II (totally epic) and Beauty and the Beast, and the part that made it all worth it: Peyton, Jenny, and Michelle sitting down and discussing what a stupid set of books the Twilight series is.
I had no part in it, they just... set off on an awesome conversation journey thing. I sat there with Haley and we tried to figure out what kind of flower was on the cover of New Moon (ruffled tulip, we Googled it) and discussed Belle's voice and how it wasn't particuarly good but fit her so well that it just magically seemed like it was. And Peyton made fun of us because Haley is one of those excessive and freakishly addicted Twitards, while I'm so poisonously against the Twilight series that the fact that I haven't gone around and burned every existing copy shocks some people (don't worry though, it's still a book so I'm not going to hurt it, just insult it), yet we get along really well.
So, that was really happy. There were a lot of other entertaining happenings that I'm sure happened, but I don't remember the exact details so I guess you don't get to hear about them. :P
And to get in my link, here's to yet another Groovelily song, once again from Sleeping Beauty Wakes. Freakiest lullaby ever. I love it.
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/lullabydream-with-me/
Yesterday me and some friends (actually more Peyton's friends, but whatever, I get along with them well enough) had a movie night, and it was surprisingly enjoyable even though it didn't turn out exactly as expected (which was that orignally it was just a thing me and Peyton were doing, then some more people came). There was lots of entertaining 'What if?' playing, a lot of Michelle making loads of noise, like she always does, the watching of Bambi II (totally epic) and Beauty and the Beast, and the part that made it all worth it: Peyton, Jenny, and Michelle sitting down and discussing what a stupid set of books the Twilight series is.
I had no part in it, they just... set off on an awesome conversation journey thing. I sat there with Haley and we tried to figure out what kind of flower was on the cover of New Moon (ruffled tulip, we Googled it) and discussed Belle's voice and how it wasn't particuarly good but fit her so well that it just magically seemed like it was. And Peyton made fun of us because Haley is one of those excessive and freakishly addicted Twitards, while I'm so poisonously against the Twilight series that the fact that I haven't gone around and burned every existing copy shocks some people (don't worry though, it's still a book so I'm not going to hurt it, just insult it), yet we get along really well.
So, that was really happy. There were a lot of other entertaining happenings that I'm sure happened, but I don't remember the exact details so I guess you don't get to hear about them. :P
And to get in my link, here's to yet another Groovelily song, once again from Sleeping Beauty Wakes. Freakiest lullaby ever. I love it.
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/lullabydream-with-me/
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Yay dA
See that title? It rhymes. C8
But anyways, this is a happy post about how my dad finally unlocked dA after so long of having it blocked by our Internet filters. (<-- yay weird grammar) Finally I can see good art/get good critiques and stuff again! 8DDD Finally I can look up good mermaid pics. ._. Been in need of that for a while.
So far I've only put one picture on my new account, but it is awesome. You should all admire it.
http://sparradile.deviantart.com/art/Background-Hunting-136879982
There's a dinosaur, which makes clicking that link worth your time. And a shadow. I don't do those often.
Soooo yep. I don't think all of my old dA friends realize who I am but they are commenting nonetheless and it is entertaining. xD
It's nice to be back there. c:
But anyways, this is a happy post about how my dad finally unlocked dA after so long of having it blocked by our Internet filters. (<-- yay weird grammar) Finally I can see good art/get good critiques and stuff again! 8DDD Finally I can look up good mermaid pics. ._. Been in need of that for a while.
So far I've only put one picture on my new account, but it is awesome. You should all admire it.
http://sparradile.deviantart.com/art/Background-Hunting-136879982
There's a dinosaur, which makes clicking that link worth your time. And a shadow. I don't do those often.
Soooo yep. I don't think all of my old dA friends realize who I am but they are commenting nonetheless and it is entertaining. xD
It's nice to be back there. c:
Saturday, September 5, 2009
It came from the Math Notes
I realized the other day that my doodles tend to live very unhappy lives.
http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy198/Sparradile/E3712247.jpg
But it's okay 'cause yesterday I also bought myself "Fossil Fighters", a DS game where you dig up fossils, revive them in to rave-colored dinos, and battle them. 8DDD It's freakin' awesome. Right now I'm on a quest to find the Ghost of Woolbeard's lost beard ribbon, without which he can never pass peacefully into the next life and remains the ridicule of pirate fashion critics everywhere.
The stupidity of the game is endless, but it's got dinosaurs so it's close to beating out all my pokemon games for favorite.
Or at least it will be until SoulSilver and HeartGold come out, since Jhoto is the best region in the world. But Fossil Fighters has six-ish months to go 'til then.
*dumbgamestalks*
http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy198/Sparradile/E3712247.jpg
But it's okay 'cause yesterday I also bought myself "Fossil Fighters", a DS game where you dig up fossils, revive them in to rave-colored dinos, and battle them. 8DDD It's freakin' awesome. Right now I'm on a quest to find the Ghost of Woolbeard's lost beard ribbon, without which he can never pass peacefully into the next life and remains the ridicule of pirate fashion critics everywhere.
The stupidity of the game is endless, but it's got dinosaurs so it's close to beating out all my pokemon games for favorite.
Or at least it will be until SoulSilver and HeartGold come out, since Jhoto is the best region in the world. But Fossil Fighters has six-ish months to go 'til then.
*dumbgamestalks*
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Oh the heat 8C
It's too hot. Too hot. I can't believe we've still held marching band in this heat; I hope it cools down soon. :C
So, today I'm posting some intense animal news posts and making fun of the idiot humans that go along with it. The beavers are waiting, that'll be a long post and I'm too hot and tired to write (what?).
1) http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE57O49G20090825
Wow, killer cows. I love how it says "Britain has 7.5 million cows but in the past eight years there have only been 18 deaths involving cattle"
That's quite the news/sarcasm. I can't believe anyone dies because of cattle (excluding bull related deaths, which I imagine are kind of occassionally given), although I guess 18 in 8 years is a pretty good statistic.
2) http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE57K3G520090821
Oh man those aquatic animals are just too wet. Don't you just expect the ground to be wet if you're going past a tank full of them? I would.
3) http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE57O4AO20090825
Yes, it's still animal related even if the animal is fake.
Giraffe tails do like coming off, as I discovered long ago with my stuffed giraffe. I'm glad no one stole hers though. I mean, really? It's a tail. Were it a real giraffe, it would be caked with all sorts of things I want nothing to do with. Yay~
So, today I'm posting some intense animal news posts and making fun of the idiot humans that go along with it. The beavers are waiting, that'll be a long post and I'm too hot and tired to write (what?).
1) http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE57O49G20090825
Wow, killer cows. I love how it says "Britain has 7.5 million cows but in the past eight years there have only been 18 deaths involving cattle"
That's quite the news/sarcasm. I can't believe anyone dies because of cattle (excluding bull related deaths, which I imagine are kind of occassionally given), although I guess 18 in 8 years is a pretty good statistic.
2) http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE57K3G520090821
Oh man those aquatic animals are just too wet. Don't you just expect the ground to be wet if you're going past a tank full of them? I would.
3) http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE57O4AO20090825
Yes, it's still animal related even if the animal is fake.
Giraffe tails do like coming off, as I discovered long ago with my stuffed giraffe. I'm glad no one stole hers though. I mean, really? It's a tail. Were it a real giraffe, it would be caked with all sorts of things I want nothing to do with. Yay~
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