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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
2:17 am	Tagged  So I was actually tagged on dA but I'm being troublesome and posting it here instead. /x Anyway, tagged by themorbidprince  Bands 1. Great Big Sea 2. Enya, Blue Man Group, Trans-Siberian Orchestra 3. Ben Folds, Snow Patrol, "Weird Al" Yankovic 4. Modest Mouse, No Doubt, Don McLean 5. E Nomine, Nightwish, Aqua 6. Yoko Kanno, Queen, Cold 7. Black Eyed Peas, Sean Paul 8. Beatles, Rat Pack 9. Cher, Billy Joel 10. Evanesce, Fatboy Slim, Psychostick, The Lonely Island Films 1. Kiki's Delivery Service 2. The Glass Bottom Boat 3. The Haunting (1963), anything Hitchcock, Signs, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable 4. Labyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, The Hobbit 5. Super Troopers, Jackass, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Good Burger 6. Jurassic Park, E.T., Sandlot, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 7. Elm-Chanted Forest, The Last Unicorn 8. The Secret of NIMH, Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland 9. Moulin Rouge, The Flight of Dragons, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 10. Nightmare Before Christmas, Pete's Dragon, Old Yeller Books 1. Bambi: A Life In the Woods by Felix Salten, Old Yeller by Fred Gibson, Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingles Wilder 2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, The Giver by Lois Lowry 3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 4. Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 5. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende 7. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 8. The Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik, Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCafferey 9. Falling Up; A Light in the Attic; Where the Sidewalk Ends all by Shel Silverstein, Howl's Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones 10. The Dragon-Knight Series by Gordon R. Dickson, The Sight and Firebringer by David Clement-Davies,  TV Shows 1. Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Courage the Cowardly Dog 2. America's Funniest Home Videos, Whose Line is it Anyway? 3. Pirates of Dark Water, Thundercats, Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, Pound Puppies, Smurfs 4. Jackass, Wild Boyz, Viva la BAM, The Andy Milonakis Show 5. Scrubs, South Park, RENO 911, MAD TV, King of the Hill 6. Ghost Hunter, Most Haunted, Batman: The Animated Series 7. Angry Beavers, Rugrats, All That (original cast), Kenan and Kel  8. Dog the Bounty Hunter, Robot Chicken 9. The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Ed, Edd & Eddy 10. Invader Zim, David the Gnome, Avatar: The Last Airbender, KABLAM! Video Games 1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess 2. Banjo Kazooie, Super Mario World, Pokemon 3. Animal Crossing, Perfect Dark, Mario Kart 4. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 5. Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars 6. Golden Sun, Super Smash Brothers 7. Tales of Symphonia, Dance Dance Revolution 8. The World Ends with You, Kingdom Hearts 9. Paper Mario, Harvest Moon, Super Mario64 10. Sonic Adventure 2, Starfox64 Into Sleeping, reading, writing, drawing, history, archeology, lazy days, thunder storms, shipping, camping, hiking, costuming, ice cream Not Into Repetitive schedules, being bossed around, newfags, not-ice cream Makes Me Happy ice cream Makes Me Sad not-ice cream Hobbies Writing, drawing, costuming, etc. Vices I'm crabby, sarcastic and bitchy on a regular basis I'm really a sociopath deep down 5 Things I Can't Live Without Ice Cream My Heart My Lungs Julie My Family I Spend Most of My Time... Sleeping, but when I'm not doing that, I'm on the internet, at work, or wandering around the house, reading or playing a video game. Usually my Yorkshire Terrier hangs around whenever I'm sleeping or on my laptop, so I spend a lot of time with her. My younger brother is also a constant companion, we watch a lot of the same shows and have a lot of the same interests and friends since we're only a year and a half apart. My youngest brother has taken to following me around a lot lately too, when he's not playing with one of his friends, but that's probably because he discovered that I know a lot about Pokemon (well, in comparison to him.) Occupation I currently work part-time at a movie theater and am in the process of becoming a hostess at a restaurant that my uncle's ex-wife used to own.  I hope to someday have a job that involves both writing and art/animation, but I don't know exactly what my ideal is yet. I still have time, so I'm in no rush to figure it all out. Current Crush I like the orange flavor. Stats Height - 5'4" Weight - 98123847629387 lbs My Heroes Mark Twain Sailor Moon Batman Get's Me Hot Lots of blankets Fantasy Flying Sign Snake Libra Cigarettes Are icky My Diet Needs improvement Alchohol Smells funny. But I like Kahlua. Drug Use Nope I'm Looking For My honor My other sock My Kink Factor wat My Politics I have an opinion. That about covers it. Pot Pan My Status I don't care My Idea of a Good Time Sleeping Shit, I don't know. I'm not really a hard person to please. I Want To fly My Pidgeonholes Bitch, Conservative, Animufag, 'That Kid,' whatever         Should this have gone under a cut? Yeah, probably. Am I gonna fix it? Yeah, no. /:       Current Mood: lazy Current Music: Falling Down - Oasis (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
11:10 pm	Ugh...  Mom's talking about college again. Urgh~ I'm sitting in the basement because there's a nice warm fire down here and now my room is cold~ D8 Monday night I got pissed off at my supervisor. He just started going on about how the workers with two jobs (exclusively me, actually), expected to be treated differently by the higher-ups. Apparently this all started when I sat down at the beginning of my shift and complained that I was tired (never mind that I went on to blame myself for the stupidity of staying up until 3AM when I knew I had to double in the morning). Whatever. I kindly told him that "I don't expect shit from anyone here," and the conversation ended. /: Couple weeks ago another co-worker said that I "guard my emotions so stubbornly." I wanted to ask him what he meant by that, but I think I'm afraid of what he'll say, so I haven't. I slept until 4pm today. I think that's the longest I've slept straight-through. NEW RECORD?(!) I don't really want anything for Christmas. Mother is getting kind of antsy because I haven't given her a list yet. But I'm not really sure I want a BJD, and there's nothing I really am like, dead set on getting or anything. She said that father suggested an ipod, and that would be nice, but I'm not really into the mp3-player scene. I think they're overrated. Or I could just be an old fuddy-duddy that doesn't like change. *shrug* I prefer to have a hard-copy of my music, thanks.  Speaking of Christmas, I need to remember to make a list of who I need to shop for. That would probably be a good idea. I've been really apathetic and just...'blah' lately. I hate it, but I can't seem to get out of this slump. Or really pinpoint what it is exactly that is bothering me. Current Mood: crappy Current Music: That's Not My Name - Ting Tings (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
12:52 am	I think I'm gonna ask mom to split the cost of this BJD I've been thinking about getting for Christmas. <3 He's such a cutie, huh? Went to the Chriskindlemarkt yesterday, a little Christmas festival that is held by the Germanian Society where I live. One of the members invited me to come back for their meetings. XDD If the place wasn't way out in the boonies, I might consider it. As it is, it just succeeded in making me miss the fatherland like crazy. Ugh~ Just saw this shirt that I really want~ Harley/Joker "Mad Love." <3333 Mmm, Friday mother and I went to see my soon-to-be cousin-in-law's senior project art show at NKU. Ugh, college~ Man, I hate schools so much; I got antsy and nervous just standing around there. Seeing all the students flocking around go to and from classes; blah, I shouldn't let it bother me so much, but whatever. I should learn to control my mouth better. Nearly-yelling "I hate those fucking boots" every time a girl walks by in Uggs isn't proving too good for me. I8 Especially when most of the clientele at the mall where I work are Ugg-wearing bitches.  Talking to Ka-chan about the atrocity that is Twatlight. LOL. I want more Nnoitra/Neliel fanstuffs. D8 Also, some cute Sakura/Fai stuffs. (Blame volume 19 for that ship) Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Caramelldansen (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
8:46 pm	I had no idea 'Twilight' was a Comedy! 8D So, I saw Twilight at 10PM on Wednesday, a good day ahead of the fantards. I figured that, since it was a run-through for the theater, it was probably the only chance I would have to watch it with two of my friends and laugh at it and enjoy it to it's full potential without having to worry about fanbrats jumping me afterwards. It didn't disappoint me. Holy hell, that was possibly the funniest movie I've seen all year, and the best part is, it wasn't supposed to come off that way. It takes itself completely seriously. Oh man, I think I'm gonna have to borrow Ka-chan's books now, cuz I had no idea I'd have this much fun. XDDD Seriously. I think the only character I actually liked was Jasper, and he only had like, what, two lines? Genius. Oh, I kind of liked that Emmet guy too, if only because he reminded me of a squirrel. He had zero lines. Woo! I'm supposed to go see it again with Ka-chan sometime in December. In other news, I'm looking for Erutis and Krayon icons to use for my Gaia. <3 That and some sweet-ass Sailor Moon icons. <333 I've been addicted to NaruNephrite and ChibiusaHelios the last few days. Ugh~ Why am I sitting here watching football with Chance? D8 Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Disturbia - Rihanna (Comment on this)
Monday, November 17th, 2008
9:01 pm	Am I scaring you tonight?~ New girl I had to "train" at work today. Pretty cool kid, though I probably shouldn't call her kid since she's older than me...oh well. Shelved this really cute calendar of Siberian Husky puppies~ <3 That's been my dream dog since I was a kid. So big and fluffy~ (Not that I don't love my Ms. Julie~ <3) I think I'm gonna give this account a facelift of sorts later. It looks really boring and I could stand to get some different icons for a change. Had pretty much all the same ones since I started using this thing. Had a cool Zutara idea last night, hoping that I can pull it off. Chance is playing Wii Music again. I keep telling him that his Mii looks like Itsuki or Kyon when it's in that green tux-outfit~ XDD He hasn't given a sufficient reply. Ugh, I need to get working on cosplay for OhayoCon~ My head really hurts~ I should probably go to sleep. I overslept this morning and was nearly late to work~ Blurgh... I really want to fight the OMGWTF, but despite my best efforts, I get overwhelmed just before I can reach it every time~ I guess I need a Crew, but Ka-chan isn't on and Luna-P is studying~ Blurgh... I suppose I shall have to get over my phobia of strangers and crew up with whoever else is doing that quest on my server... *sulks* Current Mood: tired Current Music: Disturbia - Rihanna (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
12:00 am	Bad moods are bad... Ugh, I really shouldn't have gotten up this morning. Everything that could have gone wrong at work did. I don't feel like elaborating, so take from that what you will, I suppose. The mall is filled with stupid people shopping for the holidays extra early this year. I think I may end up killing myself. D< I really am not a people person at all. People always say I'm so tiny and cute and quiet, but I really am just quiet because I have nothing positive to say a majority of the time. I'm way too sarcastic and bitchy. Whatever. I'm kind of hungry, but I'm also really tired, so I think I'll just go to bed... The new Animal Crossing comes out tomorrow, though, so I have that to look forward to. <3 A co-worker at the bookstore gave me shit the other day when I told him I was excited about it coming out and about the new Harvest Moon: Rune Factory game. D8 Little brother got the Wii set up on the internet, now that the firewall that was blocking us previously has been dismantled. <3 I'm excited about getting my friend codes for my DS~ My friend is mad at me because I told him not to call me 'hun.' Whatever. Current Mood: bitchy Current Music: Evil Angel - Breaking Benjamin (Comment on this)
Friday, November 14th, 2008
11:57 pm	Don't sing to prove it I admit, I'm kind of addicted to zOMG!. Yeah, I'm a Gaiafag. D8 Don't tell anyone, LJ. Really tired and really pissy all day today. Not that that's anything new, but it affected my work performance for sure. I was really apathetic and just...blah. I should probably go to bed now... Ugh, it didn't help matters that I kept running into Twatlighters and other annoying forms of teenagers all day today too. D< At one point, my manager laughed and said "aw, there goes your peer group," to which I replied "that's not my fucking peer group" and then refused to talk to him for the rest of the night. I think I'm ok with talking to Chris again now, though I'm still pissed at him for those dumb comments. He's a manager, he should fucking know better. Apparently my gender has been called into question at my new job. When asked to elaborate, the guilty party said "well, it's cuz you look like a girl but you talk and act like a boy." D8 Ok? I really don't know why it was necessary to inform me of that. It's not the first time someone's said that to me before. XDD I always find it humorous. Along with the repeated questioning of my age. A man yesterday stopped mid-sentence, looked at his watch and then asked me why I wasn't in school and was I skipping to work instead because that wasn't good. XDDD I laughed. Going back to play zOMG! with Ka-chan and Luna now~ I need to get used to playing in a team, I'm so used to doing my own thing~ Current Music: Shame of the Otaku ~ MC Frontalot (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
8:18 pm	So I'm looking to actually use this thing again I'm bored and random thoughts are in my head and even though I've never really stuck to using a journal or anything like that before, I thought I'd give this a try again. Obsessed with Haibane Renmei right now. Having a hard time finding the third disc in the stores by my house. Along with the sixth disc of .hack//SIGN. Guess I'll have to wait for OhayoCon to find them. Also having a hard time finding good Nnoitra/Neliel fansmut. D8 I'm thinking of doing some hardcore doujin shopping at OhayoCon too, even though I can't read japanese, I like to look at the pictures, and I can also scan them and look for a translator somewhere online later I suppose~ Blurgh, it seems like every time I mention Twilight while watching TV with someone, it never fails that one of the trailers starts playing. I must be cursed. The ghost doesn't like the birthday card mom gave me. I just found it on the floor again. Silly ghost. Eep, friends keep asking me for christmas ideas for myself, but I never know what to say~ >.<;;; I feel like I'm being greedy if I say anything~ Went and saw Changeling the other day and really loved it. Villains are totz amazing~ This has been a good year for villains, I think~ Current Mood: bored Current Music: All the Single Ladies - Beyonce (Comment on this)
Monday, August 18th, 2008
4:00 pm	"I can't give you any money, but I can give you something to eat." Well, tomorrow is my last day here in the land of the Deutsch and I'm definitely gonna miss it. It's so calm and peaceful here, I really love it a lot. *sigh* Tomorrow Sarah and I are gonna go visit Checkpoint Charlie. I already went on my chocolate-buying spree, so there's nothing else left for me to do, really, besides pack. Man, I didn't think it would go this fast. I wish it would last longer. There's so much about the world that I wanna see still and I can't stand that I'm going back to my same-old everyday life soon. As much as I miss my family and friends (Julie!!!!), it's gonna be hard leaving this all behind. ... Yesterday, Sarah, her mother and I went to the Berlin gates and then to this little flea-market-type thing. I saw a hobo there (at least, I guess), he had a crutch and was old and just didn't look all that good. He didn't speak or nudge people as they passed looking for handouts, he just held this sign with pictures of Mary on it and some small text in German (something about humanitarianism), and his little plastic cup and watched as people passed rather dully (not like he was trying to catch anybody's eye at all.) I felt bad but we moved on into the flea market. A couple hours later, when we emerged again, saw that he had moved only a few feet from his spot but still stood in the same manner as he had before. I saw that Sarah and her mother were ahead of me, so I rummaged into my bag and pulled out the "emergency" granola bars I kept in there, scurried over to him and handed him the granola bars. I didn't speak to him because I couldn't think of how to say what I wanted to in German (I was pretty sure he didn't speak English), but it was nice to see his face light up in surprise and he thanked me profusely in German, but I just nodded and scurried off again before he could say anything else. Ugh, it was probably a huge scam or something, but he just looked so pathetic, and when we were on the S-Bahn, I saw that it had started raining and I felt even worse for him. *sigh* I'm a huge sucker... I dunno, back in the US, I've always had this secret desire to buy lunch from like, burger king or mcdonalds or something and go sit down next to one of the hobo's downtown (bringing portions for them too, of course), and just ask them about life and stuff. Just kind of like "Hey, tell me about yourself." However, usually when I'm downtown I'm with someone else and at the moment I lack the means to do such as I wish, so I felt a little better about myself after I had "helped" that old man. Who knows if I really did... Well, I better get to bed. G'night. And I'll see you all back in the states come Wednesday evening. Current Mood: gloomy Current Music: Aqua - Lollipop (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
3:46 pm	"Sprechen Sie Englisch?" So, yesterday Sarah's mother had to go to work, so Sarah and I got up at the lovely hour of 5:30AM along with her mother, had breakfast and then headed out for the day. We went our separate ways when we got to the S-Bahn, though, and Sarah and I spent the day at her boarding school and it's rural town. It was really beautiful and peaceful, but holy crap, was it way out in the middle of nowheresville. Which turned out rather amusing, seeing as they probably VERY RARELY ever saw foreign tourists and it was really apparent on their faces whenever I would talk. (Which brings me to another thing I've noticed and that's that I'm often mistaken for a native German when I don't speak, but I'll cover that later, if I remember.) It's rather funny to walk down this nearly empty street next to Sarah and as this boy was walking down the opposite side of the road, we started talking. We had been nearly silent up until he had just about passed us and the brief flicker of shock on his face when Sarah and I started exchanging in English was just priceless. Today was very fun as well, though. Today we got up and after Sarah and I were dropped off at the station, we made our way to Alexander Platz so that I could pick up "Elisabeth" on DVD now that I had euro on me and not just my card. However, we were informed by the man selling tickets that they would not be selling merchandise until later, and so we decided to wander around the plaza until that time. We went shopping in H&M, a clothing store, and C&A, another clothing store. (Yes, those are seriously the names of both the stores. I'm not abbreviating.) I'm not really into clothes shopping, but I found some cute hair barrettes so I'm happy. After that, I suggested we look at all of these itty bitty little tent-booths set up around the outside of the Friedrichs Kirche. This proved interesting and I was able to get a swatch of the german flag for about 2 euro, but what really got me excited was that suddenly there was a lot of noise behind us. We're in a very busy part of town, though, so I wasn't really paying attention. However, Sarah tapped me on the shoulder and explained that the noise was coming from a demonstration that was making it's way down the street. I turned, curious as to what this "demonstration" was and oh. my. god.... It was a Scientology raid! Anonymous had staged a protest in Berlin and I was there to see it!! 8D I took a couple pictures as they went by, and I was so excited that I kept blabbering to Sarah about it for the next hour and a half or so. This excitement could only have been matched, though, by my first german anime-fan sighting (or rather, my first sighting of a german in cosplay.) We were waiting for the train home when I looked over and saw a guy in an all-too-familiar outfit. He was dressed as Monkey D. Luffy, the main character of the pirate anime/manga One Piece! Needless to say I flipped out. After a brief moment of working up the courage to do so, I ran up to him and barraged him with a big, bright smile that I'm pretty sure frightened him and took him off guard. I quickly asked if he spoke English and he replied 'yes, a little' somewhat haltingly. I was thrilled and immediately continued my barrage of happiness and excitement, first asking to make sure that he was in cosplay and then going on to ask him where he was wearing it to (or rather, from, considering it was about 5PM their time.) He informed me that there had been a cosplay party of sorts in the city and that he had to go home now and that's where he was headed. I wanted to ask him more, but I was kind of afraid that I was making it appear that I was hitting on him or something, so I gave him my thanks, explaining I was an anime fan from America (in case he couldn't tell) and then bounced back over to Sarah. Today was a truly wonderful day. <3 Current Mood: excited Current Music: Clocks - Coldplay (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
5:23 pm	Today's Theme: Communism Blah, sorry, but the last two days have been filled with walking and so I am tuckered out. Yesterday we got up early and went to Schloss Sanssouci. It. Was. Amazing. Like seriously, I was ecstatic after Charlottenburg, but Charlottenburg has nothing on Sanssouci. I mean, one of the rooms is decorated completely in seashells! There's a 1/4 of a million of them and they're amazingly rendered into different sea monsters and patterns. And so much is in the rococo style! <3 However, I must say that I've just about had my fill of porcelain. That's one thing that the royals seem completely obsessed with that I am growing to disdain. Blah, it's so...not even gonna start on that. From Sanssouci, we headed to the Orangery and to Neu Palais. We walked, of course, and oh God, did I ever contemplate breaking my own legs to dull the pain in my feet. D: Besides re-awakening my interest in the European dynasties, the amount of greek and roman mythological references in the castles has piqued my interest in that area again as well. Particularly in the story of Eros and Psyche as well as Persephone and Hades. <3 I can't wait to get home and look up more on them again. It's been a long time since I've read mythology and I desperately miss it~ Today we went to Museum Island and that was a blast. Sarah and I went by ourselves and visited The Berliner Dom, The Pergamom (Special Babylon exhibit!!! <3), the Altes Museum and the Altes Nationalgallerie. I have to say that the second of the four was my absolute favorite. <3 Fascinating information. Permit me, now, to take a moment for a rant... WHY ME?! WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE ALWAYS BOTHER ME?! DO I HAVE A SIGN ON MY BACK THAT SAYS 'PLEASE BOTHER ME FOR MONEY'?!?!?! SERIOUSLY! That deserves an explanation and so... Ok, so me and Sarah are headed for the Dom, our first stop when we make it to the island, and this middle-eastern lady with bad teeth and toting a small girl with her suddenly stops us. "Excuse me, do you speak English?" Sarah answers that yes, we do, before I had even registered what the lady had said. She kind of shuffles and pulls out this folded up paper which she presents to me. I unfold it and begin to read aloud for Sarah before trailing off... (I'm gonna quote it here as best as I can, because it was written in broken english) "Ladies and gentlemen, I have been stuck in Berlin for two months with my children. One of my childrens is in the hospital and I need money to help feed them. Please help me. Thank you and god bless." My first thought is 'Oh F---,' but it's too late now, she's looking me right in the eye, as pitiful as she can make herself look and has her hands clasped together imploringly. Sarah takes the card from me and gives it back to the lady, telling her that we have nothing to give her and begins to move on, but I'm frozen. 'Should I give her something? No, that's dumb, there's no way this is for real. ...But she might actually need it...' I finally manage to weasel my way out though, without giving her a dime, and feel wretched for the next couple of minutes as we buy our tickets to get into the Dom. Sarah comforts me with a fine bit of knowledge though, "she didn't need money, her fingernails were manicured." So I put that behind me and wrote it off as just my first experience with international money-grubbers. However, after leaving the Altes Nationalgallerie, Sarah and I decide to stop and rest for a drink and a brief lunch of sorts. We barely make it out of the park area when another middle-eastern lady carrying a child in her arms stops me with "Excuse me, do you speak English?" I'm paying attention this time, though, and quickly answer "nein." Which turns out to be a bad idea as she prompts me further, "Deutsch?" Walking as fast as I can past her, I just purse my lips together and shake my head, not thinking of any other alternative. Thankfully I was not stopped a third time, but just in case, I had planned to yell and carry on like I was insane in the hopes that if I acted crazy they would leave me be. Still, the day has left me terrified of middle-eastern women, especially if they have a child with them. D: Current Mood: drained (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
3:25 pm	Swimming, Riding, U-Bahn, S-Bahn So, yesterday Sarah, her mother and I went to "Schwapp," an indoor waterpark. It was pretty fun, and when I was there, I came away being SO VERY HAPPY THAT SPEEDOS AREN'T POPULAR IN THE US. Holy crap, practically every guy had on a speedo, regardless of whether they were skinny, fat, hairy, old. It was...horrifying. D: Never again, never again... Later on that day, we met Gerhard at the stable where Sarah's horses are lodged and also the place where her teacher lives. She, Gerhard and her mother went riding and I stood on the sidelines, taking photos. I was really impressed with their riding and Sarah's teacher really amused me (along with some else who showed up later on, as those who can see my photos will know.) We stayed the night at Gerhard's place again and this morning after a trip to the Grocery, we all went to Berlin for the day. I got to see the blown-out remains of the Wilhelm Kirche, which was really cool, and I picked up a new bag from a little asian store. But seriously, though, I'm amazed at how awesome and powerful that church still is. It just...it was amazing. I can't really describe it. After that, Sarah's mother dropped us off at Schloss Charlottenburg and we took a tour of the castle while she went to a sewing workshop a few train stops away. The castle was beautiful. I'm so in love with the architecture and I just...ugh, when I get home, I'm taking out all kinds of books on the western dynasties. D< That's all there is to it. Also, speaking of trains and such, I made a note to myself after riding the U-Bahn for the first time today. It is exactly like American subways I've been to. It's stuffy, it stinks, and there are all kinds of weird people that try to talk to you. D: I think I'm going to cut this off here though, because me and Sarah are going to bed early because we have a big day tomorrow. We're going to another castle and then to a shopping mall. <3 See you guys! Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Viva la Vide - Coldplay (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
2:38 pm	"No, I'm a stupid, barbaric American" Sorry for the lapse, but I've been away from anywhere with internets for the past few days. I still don't think I'm used to the time difference. D: We shopped at the Potsdamer Platz the second day and man was that a trip. I got a cute jacket and found German manga! <3 I picked up Daisuki which is apparently the german version of our American Shojo Beat</s>. They publish Taichou wa Maid-sama!, Fruits Basket, Skip Beat, Alice Academy, W Juliet, and Vampire Knight. Since I've read most of them before, I'm attempting to read them in German, which is proving fun. Oh yeah, and my brother will be so thrilled when he reads this. I bought the German version of "Labyrinth." XDD Ah!! And I also got a really neat little bag. Check my FB photos if you haven't already for a picture of it. <3 The second night we went to eat at a chinese restaurant and I had some rice crackers for the first time. Not as good as I'd thought. They had a weird taste and an even weirder after-taste. The restaurant was really authentic, though, all that was missing was the eastern-style seating. So cool! The next day, after Sarah had her riding practice (Yay, I got to ride her horse Presca!!) we went out with Gerhard, Sarah's mom's boyfriend, and I was amazed by how many (and how HUGE) the wind-generators were. D: Seriously, they're freaking MONUMENTAL. We explored the countryside and eventually came to this little place where we did some more shopping before Sarah and I took a tour. The village we were in had at one time been surrounded by this huge wall which is now mostly taken down, but the garrison is still in place along with a lot of artifacts, so me and Sarah took a tour and some pictures. (See my FB photos if you haven't already, again.) On the way back to Gerhard's place, we went down some old back roads and saw some rather wild-looking horses in an old barn. And Gerhard showed me a little stream with really clear water. I took some pictures for my dad because it was just so beautiful. Gerhard also showed us an Ostrich farm, which I found most amusing. They also bred wild boars (er, warthogs, perhaps). That night, Sarah and I spent the night in a "cabin" in Gerhard's backyard. Sarah and I both whined about being cold the next morning, though, so when we sleep there again tomorrow it's BYOB. (Bring Your Own Blanket.) ... And that brings us up to today and it's events. <3 This morning, Gerhard took us to a Tabak Museum. A Tobacco Museum. Sarah and I were both a little bored, but it was moderately interesting to see where the old Kentucky tradition was taken from. They had an assortment of different pipes and such too, which I took pictures of because I thought they were nifty. Most astonishing today, though, was the fact that so many Germans believe in Poland. D: We were eating lunch when Gerhard told me that we were going to see the river that divided Poland and Germany, to which I chuckled and told him that Poland was an imaginary country. He didn't seem to understand. Sarah did, however, and laughed with me, but refused to relay the entirety of my racist humor to Gerhard and her mother. Oh, oh, and I saw a panzer today! It was a war memorial, but it was still a panzer!! <3 Also, I saw a huuuuuuge field of sunflowers. Erhm, several, really, and found out that the oil from the sunflowers is used in the creation of gasoline. Apparently a different plant is used here in the USA, which made me sad. Sunflowers are so pretty.... Well, I better get going for now, I have to tag some photos and finish up some stuff on FB before I watch a movie with Sarah. It's called "Der Wixxer" and it's a comedy. I picked it because there's a Hitler-esque character in it. <3 Love you all and miss you! - Heather Current Mood: amused Current Music: E Nomine (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
6:26 pm	Hey, I finally found a use for this thing! ...And it's about time! At any rate, while I'm here in Germany, I figured I'd use this journal as a log of my everyday struggles here in the land of the deutsch. I actually meant to begin this last night while I was on the plane here, but I couldn't get an internet connection at 37,000+ feet (go figure) so I'm working on it now, stealing internets from my buddy Sarah's house as I do so. Oh, and, apparently my cell won't send or receive texts while I'm here, because I can't get a signal ANYWHERE. So those of you that were thinking of texting me? Don't bother. At the moment it's only 6:30 back home, but we are six hours ahead here, so I'm writing at 12:30 am. Woo-hoo! Well, first off, I had an easy time at the airport. I had a lovely lunch of three glazed donuts from crispy cremes. It was delicious. Amazingly, I got a little bit of sleep on the plane to Germany too. The seat next to me (a row of 2) was empty, so I had it all to myself and went about making myself at home quite well. Overall, though, I'd say I got tops maybe 4 hours of sleep. Sarah and her mom picked me up at the airport and from there we went to get something to eat (which I was very thankful for because I was starving.) We got Pizza at a little italian restaurant and I was surprised when Sarah told me I wasn't allowed to eat my pizza with my hands. I had to use a fork and knife...Which I've never used before. Suffice to say I felt completely retarded. After that we went to get tickets to Sarah's favorite musical, Elisabeth, because tonight was Uwe Kroger, her favorite broadway singer, to play the part of Der Tod ("Death"). We shopped around at the little stores while we were there and got our tickets for the S-Bahn, an above-ground train that runs throughout the city. Something to remember is that tickets are not checked before you get on, it runs on sort of an honor system, HOWEVER, there are random plants of officials who will wait until the doors close and then stand up and call out "Karte, bitte" (tickets, please) and you will be expected to show your ticket or pay a very heavy fee for trying to cheat the system. From there we went to a birthday party for Sarah's uncle, already dressed up to go to the musical. (We would be driven to the train station by Sarah's cousin later.) They all had a good laugh over how Americans are so fat and yet I was so terribly thin. Unfortunately, too, I was beginning to feel the effects of my lack of sleep and began to kind of sway in my seat. This didn't go unnoticed, of course, and my hosts were interested in knowing when it was i had come to Germany; they were quite surprised when I told them I had flown 8 hours through the night to arrive in their country that very morning and hadn't slept really at all during that time. Fast forwarding, though, Sarah and I boarded the train and Sarah told me to take a nap because it would take an hour to get to our destination and she would wake me when we reached that point. I was asleep in no time. ((On the trip home, Sarah confided to me that the infamous toll takers that I mentioned above had shown up while I was asleep and had apparently been asking me fervently for my ticket until Sarah explained that she held my ticket.)) Elisabeth was amazing and I'm totally in love with both the show and Uwe now, though it's a terrible shame that he's not only twice my age but gay as well. D: Oh well. After the show, though, Sarah pulled me outside the building and down a side-road that some other fans seemed to be taking. Apparently we were going to wait outside of the stage door for Uwe Kroger to come out and get a picture with him and an autograph. I was nervous beyond belief, all these other girls were there, all waiting for Uwe. When he finally came out, it was very nice meeting him, Sarah explained that I was from America and wanted a picture because I was temporarily brain-dead. ((Can you do this in America?!?!)) Uwe was also so kind as to sign my program. <3 I'll probably post the pictures on my FB tomorrow. Well, I better go for the night. I'm really worn out and tomorrow we go to more exciting places!! G'night! Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Wenn Ich Tanzen Will - Elisabeth (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
7:49 pm	So, I'm actually alive. ... But I probably still won't be posting in this thing quite as much. 'Tis a bit troublesome. Current Mood: complacent (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
1:25 pm	So, uhm, yeah... ...I'm not dead. I have a really hard time keeping consistent with sites like these, especially since I don't use a journal of any sort in real life either. *sigh* Lately, I've been really interested in Girlycard/Integra. One of my friends has sent me a lot of really adorable pics of them. <3 Oh, and I'm also terribly obsessed with SSBBrawl at the moment. I find I'm most drawn to Lucario and Pit though I still retain a good handle on Pikachu, Zelda, Samus and Fox. I really like the line-up for this one, though that doesn't mean I'm completely at ease with everyone. I still dislike the Ice Climbers and Mr. Game & Watch, and Olimar is proving frustrating to use. I look forward to getting to use Snake, Sonic and ROB some more, though. Persona 3 has become another obsession, as well as Tales of the Abyss. Kanye West has become one of my guilty pleasures. I never thought I'd like his music since I don't like him personally, but some of his songs have begun to grow on me. *sigh* Current Mood: cold Current Music: Diamonds are Forever - Kanye West (Comment on this)
Friday, May 11th, 2007
8:50 pm	Scandalous Goings-On at School Well, around fifth bell today a transformer blew outside and we stood out in the freakin' hot sun for about an hour and forty-five minutes until they deemed it was ok for us to go back inside. It was crazy and by no means fun, but I'm kinda glad we got out of a couple of classes, even if it was at the expense of my patience. :P I highly disliked my 8th bell though, which was not cut at all considering the time we'd spent doing nothing earlier. I got stuck in a study hall room with a crazy sub that literally exploded on three kids that never do anything wrong (these were honor roll kids) and threw them out of the classroom, and a bunch of noisy little fourth and fifth grade shits. I really-- ugh, if I ever become a mother, I will NEVER let my kid be as snotty as...ugh! I just...really dislike small children these days. Gah, what can I say, I'm just a huge sociopath at heart. There, I've said it. I dislike loud noises, loud, nasty people, big crowds of people I don't know, etc. I'm just a sociopath; people annoy me. I really realized how much I miss my friends at Walnut today too. I was really tired and as such, was rather clingy, but...there was no one I felt comfortable enough around that I could cling to. And when we were outside, a lot of people were standing in their groups of people that they hang with, but I kind of...just wandered about. It's my own fault for not asserting myself in a certain group of friends, I suppose, but...I dunno, I just got sorta depressed seeing that, because I was feeling really clingy all day and there was no one there. ^^; Gah, I feel so emo typing this all out. Whose even gonna read any of this dribble? Pfft... - V-chan Current Mood: grumpy Current Music: Love Tropicana - Hare + Guu op theme (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
7:22 pm	Well, lookie here! Hey, it's almost been another whole year! Woo.... Wow, so much has happened since the last entry, and though I'd love to chatter on about it...I'm not one to talk much, nor do I tend to keep very good journals. I just...forget to update. ...And I lack the time for consistent ones. *shrug* Well, womenhood be damned, I'm pretty much chair/bed-ridden today. Those who are knowledgeable shall get what I mean, the younger crowd...eh, not so much. It's rare for me to get such horrible cramping and such, but the problem has followed one of my aunts her whole life, so I'm sure that I'm doomed just as well. So much for "growing out of it." I'm working on a Naraku/Kagome club on deviantArt and someone there has informed me that there is a group here on LJ for NarKag fans, so I believe I shall contact them to some degree, possibly even lurk there. Haha. Eh, that's about it for now. I'll write again...when I remember. Ja'ne. ~ V-chan Current Mood: blah Current Music: Motekke! Sailor Fuku - Lucky*Star OP theme (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 8th, 2006
8:06 pm	Woah, Where Has the Time Gone? Woo, midterm of second quarter and I've not updated ANYTHING?! Holy shit, I've been busy though. While this new school isn't quite so demanding homework and test-prep-wise, they sure do beat your ass when it comes to artistic homework and projects. Not only that, but these upcoming holidays are stressing me out like crazy. I hope to get a ton done this weekend, but who knows if that will happen?! o_O;; Well, I'll be around and hopefully updating things a lot soon, so yeah. I gotta run, I just realized I have two overrude books from the library that I need to renew pronto. Ja'ne!! ~ V-chan Current Mood: crappy Current Music: veggie tales theme (Comment on this)
Friday, August 4th, 2006
6:28 pm	To Whom it May Concern This has been a long time in coming, and I've been meaning to tell several people very close to me for some time, but it was only last night when I realized the full brunt of this news I'm about to share. This is mainly for my school friends, so if you know me through the internet or don't go to my high school, then you're free to keep reading if you so wish, but be aware this does not concern you directly in any way. (I have no idea why I'm even putting that last comment up, I guess I'm just trying to avoid what is coming...*sighs*) I've not been doing well in my high school for the past two years and I've been counciled many times on changing schools. I held back because I really, really love my school and everyone there and I hated the idea of leaving all that behind. I didn't want to just give up like that, I wanted to make it work any way that I could, because I just love it where I am. I can't express that enough... There is a lot of else from my past that feeds into this and I don't like discussing it, especially here, so I'm not really going to get into all of that... At any rate, after a meeting with my doctor, the school psychologist and my personal psychiatrist-type person, they strongly suggested that I try another school for a year called SCPA (School for Creative and Performing Arts.) My current school is quite competetive and hard, so it's not that I'm stupid (I dunno, everyone just keeps telling me I'm not), it's just that my HS goes at a pace that is too fast and demanding for me, considering I have a slow-comprehension level. You see, I'm much more English and Artistcally oriented and I'm not only slow in math and science, but I have a slow-comprehension level as well. Meaning by the time I grasp an idea, the teacher has already moved on and so I continue to miss information. Also, my current school does not offer much for creative writing and since I want to be a writer in the future, that's not good for me. Also, due to low grades, I'm not likely to get into the college of my choice no matter how good of a writer I am. In other words, it would be best for me to go to SCPA and get good grades AND further my writing future than it would be for me to stay at my current HS where I'm happy and comfortable. I like the idea of trying out this school, but I'm not sure about leaving my old school, even it's just for a year to try it out. Thing is, the school requires someone to try-out/audition to get in and auditions are already over, considering that they start on the 15th, the same day as my current school. Mother is phoning them about a last-minute squeeze-in and plans on explaining the situation (The staff supposedly loves students from my current HS.) So there is my dilemma. Try a different school for my junior year, or stay at my current school and struggle? I have no idea what to do and I'll have to make up my mind soon. I really didn't want to tell anyone about this, but there are several of you out there that more than deserve to know and I'm fully aware of how stupid it would be of me to not let all of my friends know about what's going on. I just...don't like sharing things like this...it's not good to stress other people with my problems... Yeah, there you have it and I think I'm gonna go read or something now. I'm not...so good right now... Current Mood: depressed Current Music: Go!!! - Flow (4th Naruto Op.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)