Only Slightly Nerdy

Busy Busy Busy

2008-08-30T12:11:00.003-05:00

Sorry for not posting. Since school started I have been extremely busy. I have color guard practice every night except for Wednesday (and Saturday and Sunday).

Right now I'm exhausted! I went to bed late last night because of last night's football game. It was way up north from here. 2.5 hours one way! But the bus rides were a lot of fun. I haven't seen the tape yet but I think we performed well at halftime except for the routine for the 3rd song which we only learned maybe a week ago. That one was better than in practice, but still not good. I got Amanda (el Capitan) to promise not to go off on us if the 3rd song was not up to par. But there were mosquitoes EVERYWHERE. At the meeting at the end of the game (We lost 54-0) no one would stand at attention we were all swatting at them like crazy. At least no one dared scream "IF YOU ARE AT ATTENTION YOU SHOULD NOT BE MOVING". There were a few people who I think would have gone off if someone had said that. But a few people did say "Calm down its only moths." (Tell that to the big red marks on my legs). But as soon as the drum major let us leave we started RUNNING to the bus, with Marcus shouting "OH MY GOD! It's like the freaking LORD OF THE FLIES!!! RUN!!!"

In other news, I'll turn 15 in four days, and some friends are coming over tomorrow night to celebrate!....Which means I should be cleaning my room right now instead of blogging....

No, I'm not (quite) dead

2008-07-24T19:51:00.004-05:00

I say not quite dead because all week I've been at band camp from 8 to 5 every day. No knitty pictures because I've barely had time to think let alone knit. And no pictures of camp because I've been marching and twirling all day everyday in the hot 103 degree Mississippi heat. (*pout* I now have a farmer tan!) I have the weekend off then we go to another week of camp only overnight and in a different location. Our new band director says it will be half work and half fun/social stuff. Considering the wonderfully kind man gives us two hour lunch breaks and usually lets us out at least an hour early. I tend to believe him. *fingers cross*

Also I'm going to have to just chop my feet off they are giving me so much trouble. I have blisters on the back of each heel and four or five on the side of one foot (NO idea how I managed that) and three cuts on my ankle simply because, well, I guess I just need remedial shaving lessons.

This next part is a rant. I'm tired and grumpy from camp and I got my class schedule in the mail today, so I'm ranting. You don't have to read it if you don't want to.

While I'm still mad about it let me just mention reason #4,328 of Why I Hate My School: They keep changing the dates of things. They have had on the website and hard copy of the events calender that school started the 11th. And I get my class schedule and they changed it to the 8th!! Not to mention that when my Latin teacher left the school the Principle/Councilor/Dean's wife CALLED ME to tell me and ask what I wanted that period instead. I told that I absolutely WOULD NOT take Spanish.

"You have to have 2 years of a foreign language to graduate. I don't want you to have to cram your last two years."

"This is only my freshman year I have three more years to take a foreign language" thinking: I'll just take French or Latin when I change schools next year

The Evil Overlord of Darkness said fine and told me she would give me something else.
She would give me anything else. Art class. I like art. I can draw. Give me art! But I get my schedule and what do I have 7th period. SPANISH. I had to actually hear the Dragon Lady's voice during my summer break and I STILL get Spanish!! (Oh-flippin'-well I'm going up there and getting it changed and she can just deal with it!!!)
*hiss hiss* *spit spit*

Vacation Pictures

2008-07-07T21:58:00.002-05:00

I've made a glog! They're pretty fun. And I can put up a bunch of pictures, anyway its good for something like this!! Here is the glog. Click the pictures to make big!

Home again

2008-06-29T16:52:00.004-05:00

NYC was wonderful! The first day we were we just walked around and looked around. We saw Times Square, Tiffany's and the theater where we would see The Phantom of the Opera on Sunday! I don't remember what day we did everything, but we saw the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty and some other touristy things. (There are so many pictures I've decided to do them all in one post, possibly a series of posts) But then we got a phone call that my grandmother passed so we rushed home. (Everyone keeps saying "It wasn't really a shock" but I sure as hell wasn't expecting it....excuse me...) *sigh* Now that the funeral is over I'm alright but for a while I would start crying if anyone hugged me. So my aunts are in town to go through all the stuff in her house. We go over to help every now and then but the two aunts have such polar opposite personalities that it's unbearable to be around the arguing. One wants to go through all of it quickly and in an organized manner, while the other wants to take her time and talk about the memories attached to each item.

My dad is one of nine children.... Watching them try to go through all the stuff and decide who gets what has only made me that much gladder to be an only child!!! (^_~)

By the way, Kaya its a shame I didn't see your comment before I left! It would have been awesome to meet up in a yarn shop!!! Maybe next time.

And We're Off!

2008-06-11T21:39:00.002-05:00

Tomorrow morning I'm off to NYC! So this will be a short post because it is already 10 o'clock and I need to finish all the packing I put off until today. I have to be conscious by at LEAST 5 tomorrow morning, go to the airport, wait for an hour. Fly to Atlanta, wait three hours, fly to LaGuardia, and then a bus ride to our hotel! I have a feeling I will get a LOT of knitting done tomorrow! Being that I'll be in NYC for 10 days it will probably be 11 or 12 before I post. But I have my camera, rechargeable batteries, extra memory cards and a jump drive so THERE. WILL. BE. PICTURES. I'm really exited!!

Afterthought: I wonder if there is any chance of finishing my scarf on this trip. Maybe I should pack backup yarn?

I'm finally back!

2008-06-03T20:38:00.004-05:00

Well, long time no post! (Sorry this is gonna be a long one!)

Everyone excuse the grammar/spelling/general errors in this post. I'm about to fall asleep sitting straight up.

I took the blog down for a while because, at first, I was busy, then I didn't have anything to say, then when I had something to say I didn't want to talk about it... but now it is back up! I don't know if anyone is still reading or if all of you have given me up for dead. I guess I knew when I took it down that I would eventually come back to it because I only made it private instead of deleting the whole thing. That good ole subconscious for ya! Anyway it seems like as soon as I set it to private.. something happened.... I GOT A LIFE!!! Well, blog-able things started happening anyway. I'm not going to talk about any of it now because I'm hot, sweaty, tired, sleepy, and just got home. So as soon as I finish this I'm going to go take a shower and go to bed!

I think I let the blog go because
#1 I was lazy and not doing anything blog-worthy
#2 I was pressuring myself to post. So in order for that not to happen again there will be some changes in my blog.

Change #1 I'll post even if I really have nothing to say. I may talk one day about knitting, one day about guard, one day about an anime I saw the other day. Whatever! I think before I was trying to limit myself mostly to knitting since most of my readers were from Ravelry, but not anymore. If you want to read it you can if and you don't, then don't it's really not my job to try to make every one happy. It's my blog and I should talk about whatever I want.

Change #2 I should post at least once a week. That can be my goal but if I don't who cares? If I post more than that who cares? I think this was my main problem. I would get so wrapped up with "I should post. But I have nothing to say. So I can't post. But I should. But its been 3 weeks since I posted. How will I explain my absence? That I was lazy?" YES! I am lazy. It might been a couple weeks. And I shouldn't have to explain why I didn't.

So that's it. I just read over that and noticed that it sounds like I'm complaining that people were like "Where are you?" or "Where is the knitting? Who cares about anime!". No one has said anything like that. All of the things I've said were things I was thinking. I realize I was the one putting the pressure on myself and that's what I'm trying to stop by making those changes.

And thank you Kaya (ravelry link) for sending me the message that gave me the push to do what I've been thinking about doing for a while!

Post to come later

2008-03-27T17:41:00.002-05:00

Sorry, I haven't posted in a while, and I won't really now. The computer is not acting right. Mom and I think it has a virus. It's EXTREMELY hard to type and just posting this is taking FFOORREEVVEERR!!!! So when Dad gets home I'll get him to look at it and when the computer is fixed I'll post. It's just my luck. The day I pick to post is the day the computer gets sick!

Will post soon..... or not... kinda out of my hands at this point.

SFARI 2008

2008-03-17T18:08:00.007-05:00

I just got back from the first annual (having it biannually is also being considered...) Mississippi fiber retreat! It's being called S.F.A.R.I. for "Stinkin' Fiber Arts Retreat Initiative".. the "Stinkin'" part is a long story which my friends have said is kinda boring.... I guess it was a "had to be there" thing. And I now have a button for my bag! (Sorry the picture is blurry)

Mom and I spent the weekend near Starkville (where Mississippi State is for anyone who cares) in the Roy Black dorms of an old community college! Yeah it looks okay here, but it wasn't very nice inside... coulda been a lot worse though.
We got a group picture! Lots of people from Ravelry that look nothing like I imagined they did from reading their posts and stuff... going from Internet to real life is kinda weird...
I am on the couch sitting between the green and blue shirts by the way.

It was funny sitting there and knitting with them.. every time anyone finished a project they got cheers and applause! hee hee.. I love this picture I got of Ms. Chanda modeling her baby hat!
I would have more pictures but my camera batteries were dead half the time... so yeah...

LaLa brought yarn to sell! (Here is a link to her ravelry page.. and here is a link to her blog. I heard she is getting and Etsy so check out her stuff its really awesome!) I bought 2!!

This is the called "Twilight" And this one is called "Magical Melons"

Please give me sock pattern suggestions!! I LOVE these yarns but have NO IDEA what patterns to use! Help me!

I just love this picture of Bella with Melons... to anyone who doesn't know her it might look like she is hugging the yarn.... but to those of us who do know her.. we know she is try to claw at it with her back feet... poor little dain bramaged kitty...

BY THE WAY

We had people from Arkansas at the retreat too... so if any of y'all live near MS you should try to come next time!!!

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2008-03-06T16:38:00.000-06:00

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The Baby Blanket of DOOM

2008-02-29T18:41:00.003-06:00

....Is finished....
....as in done.....completed....no longer in progress....
It feels weird....

This thing turned out HUGE!!!

It really surprised my how sad I was to see it go! I guess when something takes that much of your time and energy it becomes like a pet... Giving it to Ms. E. was like... taking the pet dog to the shelter... Sure it was the scraggly mean pit bull that attacks you in your sleep... But still the pet dog...

I dunno it was weird... A Wal-mart bag didn't seem appropriate for the amount of work... so I packaged it up all pretty...

My hands are still sore form the marathon knitting that happened Saturday and Sunday trying to finish it. So I'm taking a week or so break from all knitting for a while.

I made Dad take a picture of me with it....

(Look at me! Rockin' the uniform skirt! Heehee I never wear the uniform shirt, just a normal Tshirt and the uniform sweatshirt over it! HA! I'M SUCH A REBEL!!!!)

No, I'm still here!

2008-02-21T15:34:00.007-06:00

Hi! I know I haven't posted in forever! I forgot for a while and then when I remembered.. I really didn't have much to say...

The baby blanket of DOOOOOOOM has sucked out all my life force (and all my knitting mojo, so nothing new really). But there is light at the end of the tunnle. So. Close. I am planning to have it done by Monday.

By the way my foot is better!

And I got my hair cut! OFF. SHORT. I LOVE IT!

BEFORE

AFTER

SO MUCH BETTER!

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And I'VE BEEN TAGGED! I was tagged by the lovely knitter Shaina.

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1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.

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2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

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3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

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4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

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Alrighty then....

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1- I knit 'English', but not like most English knitters. I'm a "Flicker"

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2 -Even though I'm right handed I wear my watch on my right wrist. (ok I know that one kinda sucked...)

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3 - 54% of my I-pod is NOT in English. The non-English songs are mostly Japanese, Romanian,

and Spanish.

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4 - My room is PURPLE, LIME GREEN, and TURQUOISE, STRIPPED!

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5 - I LOVE 'lolli' clothes, but I don't have any because I cannot sew, and nowhere sells them

around here, and I can't buy them over the internet.

~Don't know what 'lolli' is?~

Check out the clothes at one of these sights.. (ranked by my faveorite!)

Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Candy Violet

The White Peacock
La Dauphine

6 - I'm a Risembool Ranger! The Rangers are the Vic Mignogna fan group! I'm also in the Mini Skirt Army, even though the huge fang-group (friendly) rivalry between them. (I'm more loyal to the Rangers but don't tell the MSA that!)

7 - Almost all my Ravelry queue is made up of fingerless gloves. I don't know why, but I love them!

Whew! That was hard comming up with all those!

And with who to tag! I'm late, so I'm sure some of who I'm tagging has already been tagged... but I don't have time to check right now... (MUST....KNIT....THAT....STUPID....BABY...BLANKET!)

Meghan
Lola
Meira
Charlie Chuckles
Abby
Jess
Luciana

SNOW: The good and the painfull...

2008-01-22T16:51:00.000-06:00

OMG! IT S-N-O-W-ED!!!! IN MISSISSIPPI NO LESS!!!!!

!!!!!!

Look! Ain't it purdy???

Look at the really pathetically small snowman I made!

And the doggie footprints!

Have I mentioned before that the klutz gene is strong in my family?? I was out in the snow all of about ten minutes before I slid and sprained my ankle and knee. That was Saturday... Today is Tuesday and we went to an orthopedic doctor because it didn't feel any better. So now I have this:

lovely fashion statement! Fortunately it isn't fractured. Just a ~~REALLY REALLY HORRIBLY TERRIBLE~~ really bad sprain... The ace bandage felt a lot better... *sigh* it hurts! *sob* and the crutches are making my arms sore.

It hurts pretty bad right now so I think I'll go take a nap.....

but....

OMG IT SNOWED!

The Forum Story

2008-01-11T19:04:00.000-06:00

It all started several months ago when Jesse, Wendy and I were all on the phone. Wendy mentions making a forum for us and all our friends to talk on because no one seems to have the same IM/phone schedule.

fast forward to last week.

I'm checking the Risembool Ranger boards, and it hits me "This isn't 'their own board'... its from a sight! Didn't Wendy say something about a forum... I wonder if this will work? I'll have to send her the link...."

So I did and it started the whole forum thing over again. Apparently I'm the only one who even remembers her mentioning it. So Wendy and I decide that we are going to do it ourselves and then present it to the rest of our friends around Valentines day.

So while we work out the details (*cough*like what to name it) I made a demo forum to decide if we even like the site! We had trouble naming that one too.. "Just make something up its just the demo!" was all the advice Wendy had.. So, I named it after the song I was listening to Oh My Juliet by LM.C (only the greatest band on earth). It's actually not a bad name choice since Wendy and I are hopeless LM.C fangirls....

The point of this WHOLE story is that I decided the demo needed a banner... and I had never tried photoshop before.... I came up with this!

(Want my theory as to why Maya has weird faces in almost every picture he's in? I like to think its because Aiji refuses to have any expression at all, and Maya has to show emotion for both of them...)

Anyway, I'm totally proud of my first photoshop thingummie!

Knitting update for all of you who read through all that:

Knee socks:

There would be more to report here, but I'm to lazy to figure up my -Es... probably do that this weekend

And well, the baby blanket? well, we shan't talk about that...

Watch this space!!

2008-01-10T22:34:00.000-06:00

I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE I will blogg tomorow. Padawan has been instructed to torture me until I do it!! I will!

New Year, New Knitter

2008-01-02T15:47:00.000-06:00

Ok. First I'll say what I meant to say in the last post:

The clear shoes are comfy!! The flappy thing under the laces (very technical term there) takes a bit of getting used to, but other than that perfect! I love them so incredibly much!

And AJ asked how I got Bella to sit still for a picture with that hat. Well, I'm not sure if all kittys do this, but both of mine did. When I put it on them... It like, sorta paralyzed them or something. I don't get it, but they just wouldn't move, at all. I tried to move one of them (get them to pose better) and it was like they were a statue. I picked her up completely and she stayed in exactly the same position. It was really weird. But after a minute or two they snapped out of it and ran off.

I'm not really one for New Year's resolutions, so there won't be any posted, but here's what I did New Year's eve!

Well, Kaiti and Sara came over and shot fireworks!

We were having a Harry Potter wand battle with the sparklers here. There's a better picture of us with the sparklers, but I had a really weird almost demented looking smile on my face.... *recycle bin*

There we are just after midnight!
See us in out little hats?
Yeah we haven't undecorated Christmas yet, laziness mostly...

And I taught Sara to knit!!! I think she got a little annoyed with all the pictures I took of her and her new talent. I've made a new knitter! *wipes tear*

In this picture she is pointing to her slipped stitch. She was SO proud that she only messed up once in all that!

And it's officially 2008 so I can start the ribbed sock for the 2008 sock KAL I'm in on ravelry! I'll put up pictures and the patter/yarn later. But of course I have to meet my 10 rows of baby blanket a day before I can work on it. That thing is pure evil. Last night I had a nightmare about it. A giant half knit baby blanket chasing me through a yarn shop trying to poke me with its needles. Well, that's what I get fore watching Blood: The Last Vampire before I got to bed. *sigh*

Happy New Year to you all!

Method to the Madness

2007-12-31T16:03:00.000-06:00

At this point its more about containing the madness and trying to put a method to it.

I think I've said before that Mrs. E. (the secretary at my school) is paying me to make a baby blanket, for her grandbaby. (I was going to explain why she is the most evil woman to walk the earth, but then I realized I was babbling on about something that y'all don't really care about, and even if you did isn't really important.) The only reason I'm making this 'stoopid baby blanket' is because the baby can't help that his grandma is evil and still deserves a hand knit baby balnket.

Its the Bamboozle Baby blanket, I'm having to double strand from two balls of blue and white striped yarn (I'll tell the name of the yarn in another post, but I'm lazy and there are things I should be doing instead of this right now...) The repeats aren't long enough to make actual stripes so I couldn't stand the pooling and so now I'm trying to match up the blue in one ball and the white in the other... its really a pain..

The plan: 10 rows a day (180 stitches per row! eek!) and I'll still be pushing it to have it finished by February...rats! stupid procrastination... gets me every time.. At least its good for sitting in front of the computer watching anime...

I'll do a New Years-ish post tomorrow or the next day, cause right now I have to go get ready to pick up Sara and Kaiti

'Till then, I leave you this.

Raindeer kitteh no want picshur!

(Bella, consider this payback for interfering with yarn pictures...)

The part of the show where I gush over Christmas presents

2007-12-26T13:14:00.000-06:00

Sorry, but you knew this was coming right? So lets get started.

Kingdom Hearts 2 and DanceDance Revolution SuperNOVA 2

This means I need to get to work finishing KH1! (if anyone has played it before do you have any tips on getting past the 'stomach monster' in the Pinnochio whale thing?)
(excuse these little things..... just trying to get things to line up right....

blah blah

writing to try to make it work right...

Speaking of DDR... Look what one of the shirts I got says!
(Its not a great picture, but It says "I can only dance when there are Arrows.")
(just never mind these little random things)

Here are the others:

Kyo from Fruits Basket

Haruhi-ism

Colorful FMA!

and "I love anime"

Then a very cute Ipod case, and Twilight, the book all my friends can't belive I haven't already bought, and read.

I have to hurry and finish reading Inkheart so I can read this one!

And some patches for my "if it's not in here, I don't need it, I might not need it even if it is in here" bag.

I know you knitters want to hear about all the knitting stuff, well here it is!

Not Another Teen Knitting book!

Opal Feelings self striping sock yarn. And enough of it to make really awesome knee socks.

And this (bad picture) to make Mermaid Socks! ->

And look Nana & Da gave mom and I Harmony Wood needles. DPNs, interchangeable circulars, and sock sized DPNs (they don't photograph well)!

I also got a ball winder and swift (that is what you call and how you spell that cool wood thing right?) that I forgot to get a picture of.

Yays! A FMA 2008 calender!

OH YES! LOOK AT THESE AWESOME SHOES!

THEY ARE CLEAR CONVERSE ALL STARS!

No, not striped! CLEAR! They are C-L-E-A-R!

(can you tell I might be a bit excited about them?)

gosh what do I have to type to make it work here too???

What? Why are there pictures? You thought I lost my camera? Well you'd be right, but check this out my NEW, UNLOST, CAMERA!

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In truth it's exactly the same as my old one, but I can take pictures now! The world can finally continue turning now that I have a camera again. All is well.

3 days till Christmas!!!

2007-12-22T09:07:00.000-06:00

I'm so excited I could die!

I saw the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie yesterday with my mom, her friend, and her triplet 10year old boys. They ARE Alvin and the chipmunks... Give them the color coordinated sweaters and we'd have it. The movie was great! (We would already have the sound track if everywhere wasn't sold out.) I don't know what was funnier, the movie or the little boy sitting in front of me that just HOWLED with laughter at the smallest joke. It was so fun to watch him! And he would dance and clap, and we thought "the movie needs to hurry up and end or this little guy is gonna wet himself!"

Next year I will be able to drive. So next year I can have dad hand me a credit card and go do mom's Christmas shopping without the clueless dad and before the weekend before Christmas.

This is totally ridiculous. Every year he waits till the last minute to drag me out into that mass of humanity, the weekend before Christmas. (I see absolutely no logic and/or common sense in that one.)

As a reward for being dragged into the overly crowed mall last night, (and again today because we didn't finish) even though we were shopping for mom, I allowed myself to get a Naruto poster, and some strawberry pocky (which is delicious by the way). But today we will have to go back to the mall, and to our LYS to get [censored for Christmas surprise].

The trafic alone will take hours, but I think I will be able to handle it. As long as I have my book, my iPod, my cellphone, and knitting. The Saturday before Christmas... wow.. this will be interesting... wish me luck.

The pros and Kons

2007-12-18T12:04:00.000-06:00

I need an opinion on my binders. They were the brown recycled kind from Office Depot, But I have decided to redecorate for the new year. I've already painted them white (so whatever I do on then the colors will show up better.

I can't decide if I should tissue paper them (haha I can't remember what you call it...) like the squares on the wall in this picture. Only they would be smaller pieces and on a binder.

Pro: Easy I know it'd turn our pretty

Con: To easy, not much detail

(looks like every pro is also a con... that's odd)

Or maybe painting a picture on it (probably anime). If I do this I have to do one of Kon (the picture) because for some reason her really creeps Jesse out.
Pro: I can copy pictures well with pencils, so this gives me a chance to try with paint. Lots of detail, if I do it right, would look really pretty ('specialy with DNAngel pictures). If I mess up, just paint over with white again. and Chasing Jesse around with a Kon binder.
Con: It would be really hard, I don't know if I even can do this. a lot messier.

So what do y'all think? (I REALLY need an opinion.)

P.S. The Santa picture didn't happen Saturday. The stupid lady at the stupid place cut the line off RIGHT WHEN WE WERE NEXT because "Santa needs to go on break" (funny how the sign said he still had about an hour before he went on break isn't it?) so we took a picture or two in front of the tree and when Kaiti gets copies made I'll scan it in.

Yes! Only exams left!

2007-12-15T07:27:00.000-06:00

Finally school is out, 'cept for exams! And those are only half days Monday through Wednesday! *happydances*

Ok this has SO not been my week.

Wednesday: My power point for computer class deleted itself. TWICE. The day I was supposed to turn it in. I just went back to bed.

Thursday: The turkey in my sandwich had apparently gone bad, and I got sick in 5th period.

Friday: Hit my head REALLY HARD on the car trying to get my stuff out. Then all but ripped my leg open on the bottom corner of the car door leaving school.

My friends are terribly worried about riding with me to the mall today, because I seem to be jinxed.

Jesse, Wendy, Kaiti, and I are all going to the mall today for 6 whole hours of mall time-girlfriend bonding time. And of course the only picture I'll be able to get will be the one with Santa *sigh*. I talked to Sara last night, and she is going to meet us there. It's my job to distract the others (probably just an "OMG HOW CUTE IS THIS!!!") so she can sneak up on them and go "HIIIII YYYY'AAALLLL!!!!" (They don't know she's coming).

And the reason I'm saying all this.... I really haven't done any knitting! *slaps back of head* I know! There is a LOT I need to do..... eeep!

A nice long post

2007-12-11T16:46:00.000-06:00

Obviously I'm having writers block with post titles lately... *sweatdrops*

I...finished....my....jaywalkers....

Actually I finished them the same night of my last post.. But I wore them to school today. I got a big "OMG I CAN'T BELIVE YOUR WEARING THAT!" from Jesse... yeah.. I know my jaywalkers look stupid with my tennis shoes, but I was late.. and I just grabbed the first socks I found to put on in the car on the way... next time I'll be sure to wear my abby shoes..

Last night I casted on Phineas
Yes! I know that there are a million-and-a-half other things I need to do! To keep with my ignoring it and pretending they don't exist I'm not going to mention what they are.. but.. I'm making them with the yellow yarn I bought when Knit Wits closed. It goes from a dark yeallow, and fades into white. It;s so pretty! The diamonds on it are coming our so well! I also just love the one row stripes the yarn is making! They are knitting up amazingly fat! I knit the toe before I went to bed last night, and now they're almost ready for the heel! Oh lookie I'm a dummie.. I think I have an old picture of the yarn!

You can't fully appreciate the prettyness of the yarn from this picture. I never thought It would knit up quite this pretty! (Sorry peoplez, y'all will have to wait until I get a camera to see!)

In other news.... I finished watching Utawarerumono! The ending was very "huh?". Well, right until the end. Then it all made sense... sorta...kinda...still working it out a bit... But I'll be getting Azumanga Daioh volume 1 tomorow! Wow.. my netflix queue overfloweth... I see something, go to add it, then see all the "you might also like" and be all "Oh! I think I've heard of that one! *add* OOOH and that one! *add*" I think I will never finish.

The tutoring job is going good (can you say "yarn money"??). Lindsey is learning it pretty good. She keeps getting the prombles I give her right. She made an 88 on her test today (I have to keep reminding myself that I am above average, and that, 88s aren't good for me (at all), they are Bs and are good for most people). I bet she messed up a negative here and there, and she also said she noticed she copied some wrong when she transfered it form her work sheet to her answer sheet. I think she got kinda freaked out. She seems to be happy about it, but that her dad is one of those "its terrible unless its an A" types, and she simply isn't an A student. She's a solid B student. I think I'm gonna knit her something for Christmas too, because he told me something (I'm not going to post it here because some people form school read it) that just makes me want to hug her and squeeze her and name her George (what she told me was actually kinda sad)!

Sayonara!
Kat

And life goes on...

2007-12-08T19:05:00.000-06:00

...even without a camera.....

Today some of us "Mississippi Knitters" got together at Knit Studio for a sit and knit time (the 2 hours FLEW by) We had an awesome time. unfortunately no pictures, but by the time we meet up again in January, hopefully I'll have a camera!

I never knew that I knit fast. But the ladies there commented (and so did this guy that knits at my church). Also apparently its uncommon that I can walk (as in through the mall) and knit at the same time. That got mentioned on Ravelry the other day on the "mother daughter" knitting forum, and the lady that started the topic said "I've heard tales of people like you! People who can actually walk around and knit. I can't imagine being able to do that. Well...maybe with a garter stitch scarf - maybe"

I bought some yarn to make Fetching The yarn is soft and blue and really pretty. It's Plymouth Yarn, Galway, color number 149. Its bright blue. I think It'll look really good as Fetching. I imagine that the Christmas post will be incredibly long, with Christmas pictures, and the catching up on all the yarn that has been missed.

And, (I'm probably a little too excited about this) I have learned some basic (and I mean BASIC) html coding!

lookie lookie what I can do!

~~This~~
and things like H₂O or like algebra with a³
AND THIS!!!

Knitting with no pictures!

2007-12-05T16:56:00.000-06:00

I think I'm getting a bit bored with the blog. It's starting to feel more like a job than fun. Since this feeling of procrastination even toward the blog seemed to start when the camera "went on vacation" I think that might be why. I think that the blog just isn't as much fun when there are no yarn pictures to gush over. Yeah, I have mamma's horrible old camera, but even if I could get a few good pictures with it, I can't find the connector cable to hook it up to the computer... I'm considering putting the blog on hiatus until Christmas when I get a new camera (or possibly just before Christmas with a all text Christmas eve post?)

Any who, I'm still just considering that. (let me know what y'all think in the comments)

So knitting without pictures!

Last time I said something about the Jaywalkers being in time out... They are still there.. Did I mention that they got throw clear across the room on the way to time out?

I've done three mitered squares for Mrs. E's baby blanket. Why is it whenever I make mitered squares they turn out more.. trapezoid-ish? I just hope when I put them together that they turn out ok... I think I'll do four, sew then together, and wash 'em and see if they fix themselves (or are fixable) if not I'll regroup with the whole thing. I'm making the pattern up as I go along anyway, so it shouldn't be hard.

And again, I haven't touched anything else.

I know that music playing annoys some people, but I'm working on putting up Christmas music.
It's the Elmo and Patsy "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" CD.

Also since on some computer monitors the black background is hard to see, I'm testing some new color combos on the other blog. (I don't think I've mentioned before that I started a blog about a year ago, but didn't like the name and gave it up. I still have it, but its not viewable. I'm glad I kept it now, for testing things like this on it comes in handy!)

And one last thing. I got the final (I'm pretty sure its the final) volume of the Utawarerumono anime! *happy dance*

I actually forgot to tilte this one...

2007-12-02T13:47:00.000-06:00

I haven't posted since Evil, and I really dont have much to say.

Since my camera is still missing, I've been using mom's old one. Its old and it's a peice of junk. (sorry mom but it is) Yeah, I did appreciate my good camera before it got lost. I had been using mom's and I loved the upgrade.. I just want my camera back! *pouts*

Also my Jaywalker is misbehaving, and I have tried to turn the heel a million times, and it still wont cooperate. So it's gonna go in time out for a little while.

I really haven't touched my other projects. I need to start the baby blanket for Mrs. Etherige, and I need to start the only knitted Christmas present I'm gonna give, Sara, because she wants to learn how to knit and will eventually understand the work (and I'm gonna sound like a granny now) love, that goes into hand knit gifts. (no more information than that though, because the Sara sometimes reads the blog, and we wouldn't want to ruin Christmas!)

And now I'm just avoiding the school work that I should be doing right now. I need to read Great Expectations, and put together an oral report on Cystic Fibrosis for health.

Evil

2007-11-28T18:20:00.000-06:00

Jesse and I...
are evil....

Hilarious...
but evil...

A few weeks ago, for science, our teacher had us enter a conservation poster/essay contest with the theme "Water is Life" (the advanced class had to do both). On the day these were due, Ashley's went missing. Of course she instantly thought that someone had "stolen" it. In reality, she had it laying on top of the lockers, so it probably just fell and got kicked around and thrown away. But no... Someone had "stolen" it...(who would want a "water is life" poster anyway?)... and they were going to turn it in as their own. (never mind the fact that her name was written on it in sharpie marker) So, she was terribly disappointed when her poster wasn't in the pile of finished projects, sporting the culprits name. And of course Mrs. Holder made her do it again.

For weeks we heard Ashley swear up and down that the poster had been stolen and that there was no way on God's green earth that she was doing it over. Then one day... I opened the locker next to mine by accident, going to empty my backpack in the morning. And there it was... The poster... In Zach's locker... I don't believe for a moment he took it.. Zach just isn't someone who would do that... If it had been almost anyone else I would believe it....(probably Ben or someone took it to set him up.. for some reason they seem to hate him) But that isn't the point.

This is where we are evil. Jesse was with me when I found it. We didn't even have to say anything. We were both thinking the exact same thing. Jesse and I have the Jedi-mind-power/Vulcan-mind-meld thing goin' on. So she ran to find an unused locker, while I grabbed the poster and ran to catch up. We hid the poster in the empty locker, until we could be sure that she had completed and turned in the 2nd.

Then we waited trying to be sure.

We were today. Because Ashley's class is so much closer to the cafeteria than ours (Not to mention we got out of class late) We knew we would have the hall to ourselves. Jesse stood guard while I found the empty locker and then stuffed it into her bottom locker where I knew she would find it when she put her lunch up. This was actually a pretty incredible feat, because some idiot Senior hit a transformer with a football while skipping class, and the whole school was dark. So we ran like lightning through the dark halls to lunch because by now we were very late. We walk into lunch trying to stop the evil laughs.

What makes us evil I think is more that we went through all this trouble just to see the look on her face when she found it (which was priceless by the way). That wemade sure she did the poster over, and also that we had so much fun doing it that Jesse suggested that next time we have a poster due, that we do it again.

Actually the most fun was probably sitting at the lunch table acting like nothing happened (Wendy said later that Jesse and I should go into acting). We really did a phenomenal job. She has no clue that we did it.

She thinks that "Some idiot stole my frikkin poster then stuffed it back in my frikkin locker!! Probably one of those idiots from Spanish!" And, yes, she likes to use the word "frikkin" a lot.

It was much funnier, and eviler than it sounds here.

Also what was pretty funny was her playing CSI stopping everyone in the hall to check their shoes to see if they matched the footprint on her poster.

Monday's Movie, and A Very Emo Post

2007-11-26T19:09:00.000-06:00

I know I didn't put the name of the AMV in the title, there is a reason (~_^).
I know you don't watch anime mom... but this is the one you have to see.

Now on to the current emo-ness of my life...

*sigh* This post was going to be titled "A Belated Thanksgiving" and tell all about what whet on when practically ALL of my dad's HUGE family came in. But not now. I have lost my camera. It had awesome pictures of it, and even some videos of the "tipsy" family playing Taboo. (you have to admit mom, y'all were at least "tipsy" (you Miss Priss had the "Crazy Aunt Purl Red Drinking Face"!! you so know you did) I wonder if I got mom shouting out "BOOBS!" on video....)

Now I am into the "My-Life-is-a-pitiful-black-hole". A girl (a BLOGGING GIRL) separated from her camera... nothing is sadder.... and I would make this sadder, and longer, and emo-er... but I am behind on my TV shows and need to go catch up... and start my heel flap for my 2nd Jaywalker.

insert fitting name for post here

2007-11-21T19:22:00.000-06:00

Well today has been about cleaning for the relatives coming to town tomorow.... and visiting the other relative that came today.... (they dont come by here so no cleaning for them!)

Don't get me wrong... I love my South Carolina family but they drive me nutzo... They all 4 talk at once.. (not even about something we care about)

Not to mention they are all so skinny they look anarexic and make me feel fat.

Yeah... This picture pretty much describes the ocasion on the Mississippi side of it...

The rest of the afternoon was spent at Nana's going through old pictures of me for the power point I have to do for computer...

On an other, more interesting/non annoying note:

I got sock shoes!!!

They remind me of something Abby form NCIS would wear.

Yeah the right foot is my Jaywalker, and my left is a random froggy toe sock... I still have SSS...

I bought them bigger so I can wear them with my hand knit socks... but they are way too big in the toe.... (I got a 7 1/2 I really need a 7 lenght-wise) so.. I have 2 napkins shoved up in the toe

of each shoe....

Mom: you so know what I want to say and go "YAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAY" about right here dont you? you know how bad I am glaring through the wall at you as I type this? Do you know how hard it is to have a blog and keep a secret?

To anyone else who just read that and went "what the-?" alls I gots to say is that I really need to work on some socks

Did I ever put a picture of my first socks? No?

They were toe up, generic vinilla stockinette, and the collors pooled really bad. I also was to arrogant to use a sock bind off thinking "Pshaw, if I just bind off loosly it'll be fine" WRONG! They are verry hard to get on 'cause of it.

But I wore them today so it reminded me I hadnt put a picture of them.

Monday's Movie--The World Series of Uno

2007-11-19T12:27:00.000-06:00

Wow... they have the world series of poker down pat...

Things I need to do over Thanksgiving break

2007-11-18T19:21:00.000-06:00

Lets see...

I started Snowflake Fingerless gloves I want to keep working on them...

I need to cast on the baby blanket Mrs. Ethridge is paying me to knit...

I ought to work on Twee and the jaywalkers and the other unfinished/barely started projects.

I have been meaning to draw a nerdy anime girl for my profile pic. Not that I don't like her, I just want one of my own...

I also should work up some sort of idea about how I'm gonna tutor Lindsey, where to start, and things like that...

and read on Inkheart.

I know for sure that isn't it, but I really can't think of anything else..... and probably all I'll get done is knit. And probably just on the snowflakes too.... *sigh* Mom gets to help remind me to do things besides that this week! *nodnod*

My Own Personal Friday the 13th

2007-11-15T17:52:00.000-06:00

I am just cursed today. Here is the basics, mostly bad mixed in with the few good.

Well, Mom had to take Aunt Carol to the airport, so dad had to take me to school in the ugly old green van. That was bad.

Dad took me so I had to be there early, so I had to sit outside in the cold forever. That was bad.

In 1st period I realized that one of my braces' brakets was broken, and I went to get it fixed and they decided to put in a larger wire that they couldn't fit last time. Bad.

My teeth hadn't moved at all so it still didnt fit. worse.

The lady decided that she was gonna get the wire in there if she had to cut my teeth out to do it. VERY BAD.

I can't eat now. sad.

Mom and I decided to eat at O'Charley's before my teeth really started hurting, and this happened.

That was my 2nd Jaywalker. (by this time I have realized that the world is out to get me.)

one a good note... We had a very nice waiter who, when noticing that I was kntting, mentioned that he chrochets, we gave him ravelry's web site, and a nice tip.

Payless didn't have the really cute shoes I wanted in my size.

good-found some shoes to wear with knitted socks. I'm waiting to try them on with socks until tomorow when I'm hopfully not jinxed

Hot Topic didn't have a very good selection of Deery Lou things for Jesse's birthday.

I wanteda Lolita skirt. couldn't find anything even similar anywhere.

and another thing- I like Lolita, I love it, I think it is pretty, elegant looking, and cute. I dont think I could be one (at least not full time.) I would miss my jeans and Tshirts too much.

I have primer all over me.

I will go crawl under a rock for now.......

Knitting

2007-11-14T18:22:00.000-06:00

Jaywalkers

I finished one of my Jaywalkers. I was worried that I wouldn't have enough yarn, because my Mississippi yarn only has 460 yards (both skeins together), and the patern calls for 465. But I finished one with yarn to spare so I will have enough! Yays! Unfortunatly I have come down with a sever case of SSS. I think I'm just momentarily bored with the pattern.

Twee

I finally casted Twee on! I LOVE it! It's so cute!
I think my yarn might be to fuzzy to really show off the patern though. But it's SO soft!

Anastasia Socks

Yeah... haven't started them yet... I did decide to go with the purple for them. Everyone I asked voted purple... I think they'll be pretty.

Well... I balled the yarn at least...

Mom's Prayer Shawl

She is making it for one of her patiants at work. I think she is almost done!
Its pretty. And really (0.o) REALLY soft.

Shorties

Did I ever post pictures of my shorties? No? Well, her it is!

(HA! Just try and laugh at that pwnsome hand modeling Jesse! HAH!)

Monday's Movie--Soldier A

2007-11-12T18:56:00.000-06:00

Full Metal Alchemist AMV to Vic Mignogna's (English voice of Edward Elric in FMA) song Soldier A

Girl's Day Out

2007-11-11T14:16:00.000-06:00

YAY! Shooping! Mom and I went out shopping yesterday because Belk was having a sale and we bought these tickets, and well, its hard to explain, but $5 from every purchase we made with one of those tickets goes to my science field trip in April. That is the only reason we even left the house yesterday. I could kick myself for forgetting my camera yeasterday.

Anywho, this is what I ended up with from Belk.

A nice shirt to wear for Thanksgiving.

It sheds sparkles like the kittys and I combined shed hair.

My "STAR" shirt

Random shirt I liked

The "Sakuranbo" (cherry) shirt!

I love this one "cherry much"

My new "Sakura" (cherry blossom) shirt!

The cherry blossoms are so pretty!

And the "Sorta Kinda Deery Lou-ish" jacket

I really needed a new jacket.... really I did....

Mom and I then decided to eat at the Mellow Mushroom. That is the main reason why I could kick myself for not having a camera. I don't know how many Mellow Mushrooms there are, or what they look like, but ours is wild! And you know... they have awesome pizza.

OMG then we drove to Yazoo city (here I must stop and say... OMG THEY HAVE A TON OF KUDZOO!) to the Knutty Knitter (they have no web site so I cant link it right now).

Another reason I should have had my camera. It is awesome.
I came away with these for socks

Yeah that's Bella... my little yarn kitty.

I have no idea what kind of socks I'm gonna do with them.... I was gonna do Anastasia (http://www.pepperknit.com/patterns/anastasia.html)
with my blue Koigu... but I think I might do it with this....hmmmm what do you think? Anastasia in blue or purple?

Monday's Movie--Hungry Wake Up Kitty

2007-11-05T17:18:00.000-06:00

it is so sad how true this is

Movie

2007-11-04T14:25:00.001-06:00


	My Flixster

Only Slightly.... Sick?

2007-10-29T17:08:00.001-05:00

Yes, I was (and still have the cough to prove it). That is why there have been no new posts, Mom even told the doctor Friday "You know they're sick when the teenagers goes to bed at 7:30 and doesn't touch the computer for 3 days!" but I have done so much knitting while I have been sick that I actually have a callous on my finger! Not even exaggerating. Its there, I'm just to lazy to take a picture right now. So, because of the "Cold from Hell" this post will be extra long to make up for having done absolutely nothing for days (and it may be days before I post what I am typing now because I'm doing this while working on the 10,000 lbs of make-up work I'm doing).

First up! Knitting!

Well the sock was giving me problems

Even after I saved it from Bella!

but when I got sick and knitting was all I had to do it decided to behave.. (I think it was attention deprived)

And here we go, now that its behaving (and why do I no have any pictures of all of what I have done so far?)

Anime!! *whoot!*

I gots a BLEACH poster! (yes my wall is green!) This is a huge deal for me cause I don't have a chance to buy a lot of stuff....

I have been watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but disk 3 seems to be "back ordered" on netflix.... (IF YOU HAVE IT HURRY AND FINISH!!) and I found out that even though Utawarerumono disk 3 is doing that weird "save" thing... You can watch it on your computer... so I did and should be getting disk 4 on Wednesday... (yay maybe I can finally finish it! yay for ElluluXHakuro!! ahem...sorry... couldn't help it...) And I have started watching Death Note since it comes on Adult Swim now... I know I always said I didn't want to watch it (the opening creeps me out) but, I give in... it rock.... and Oh! what I would give for a Death Note of my very own!

Family Fest! *gag*

What was my mother thinking? She knows I don't like little kids. She has already even accepted the fact that it is very likely she will never have grandchildren! Why, oh why, did she sign me up to work the space jump at the Church's hopefully-never-to-be-annual Family Fest?

(Blogger got me again I accidentally deleted the picture of the little boy at the Fest and it wont let me reload it... so imagine a cute little boy next to a space jump here is the text that went with it that now goes with that mental image)

This little dude? Yeah, he is one of the many reasons I avoid contact with people under 10 years of age (except of course for "OMG YOUR SO CUTE!!" to a little baby) This little guy had an unhealthy crush on me.... He kept bringing me "gifts". Some pine straw, an empty coke can, a leaf, a shoe.... (no joke) and he didn't want to go in the space jump. He wanted to crawl in, and slide out. Also he enjoyed jumping on the inflated entrance to the space jump and hopping down it. As much as I...dislike kids I couldn't let him jump off and kill himself, so I had to catch him... once he figured that out, he did it again... and again... "bounce, bounce, CATCH ME!" course he didn't say that, he never said anything.... but *shudders* NEVER having kids!

School

is evil. nuff said.

Ok well I have been sick and all the teachers (except Coach Kelly! luv ya man!) kept saying things like (nastily by the way) "Well if you don't have it today you better have it tomorrow!"
*coughcough* even tough it clearly states in the handbook that all students have the same number of days missed to turn in make up work.*coughcough* (I should wait till Wednesday to turn it in just on principle! I'm just sayin is all....)

But THANK YOU COACH KELLY! He is the only teacher that said something like "I know you have a lot of makeup work, just get it to me sometime this week." and that was with a test too! He got a lot of teacher-of-the-year points for that one! and yes... right now I am avoiding that makeup work...

Also.... Great Expectations....we happen to be reading this...And I happen to speak English....This is like...the best way I can put it.. like, My Fair Lady time period, ghetto British... I am not getting a word of it...I did ok with Pride and Prejudice, but this is just weird... I am a good student, so I have only one question....

Can I rent the movie?!

One last thing. YAY KAITI GOT A NEW COMPUTER!!!! I missed IMing you girl!

A Blogger, or not a Blogger?

2007-10-19T16:33:00.000-05:00

On the one hand as things happen to me I think "Oh Yes! So something to blog about!" and think things like, "ooh, and I'll say this, and that, ooh ooh and this phrase! ha ha ha that is sooo funny!"

On the other hand, you have different fingers... (sorry had to) but really. On the other hand, I never take pictures. I met a ranger tonight. She goes to a rival school so we met up at the football game. (yes mother had the "OMGWTFBBQ IT MIGHT BE A 40 YEAR OLD FAT MAN IN A WIFE-BEATER SHIRT WITH BACK HAIR!!!"
but all is well I just LOVE Emily! She is such a dork! Just like me! I wasn't as dorky and spastic as I normally am. I try to tone that down when I first meet people.
*squee* Yay! now I have a real world anime friend who isn't totally controlling over everything and who doesn't consider her opinion absolute and allows friends to have a different opinion. Well that's not true I don't actually know Emily isn't like that but she certainly didn't seem that way. And she has met Vic Mignogna! I am SOOOOOOO jealous of her! She told me she was gonna drag me to Akon next time. She won't have to drag me by any means! OOoooh just thinking of all the anime swag to buy.... not to mention I would simply have to get a cosplay... It just makes me happy thinking about! But enough daydreaming. Point is when I was standing at the gate, I realized, I didn't get a picture. Crudballs. If I had had a sock going I would have done the "show the sock a good time" thing and gotten her picture with it. But, my ribbing was acting completely gay and I had to frog it before I even got to the game. Though, I have taken pictures of my gloves but haven't bothered to upload them.

So what do you think? With my totally picture taking retardedness, can I be called a blogger?

Mom just gave me a sleeping pill, so Its time to go night-night!

I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts....

2007-10-18T16:35:00.000-05:00

Yes well, heh, about that... Over the past 3 days I have gotten maybe three hours of sleep. By the end of today, the third day, I was silly with tiredness. Walking out of school I start randomly singing the "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts...." song. Now there are several people who swear they have no idea who I am.

*sigh*
Before I can go to sleep I need to finish this lab report. Obviously my telekenetic powers need some work, because it doesn't seem to be writing itself. It's my own daggum fault. I knew about this lab report weeks ago. Its due tomorrow. I have coversheet, and one paragraph. And today in science when everyone went to the library and worked on it, being the genius I am I decided that no, I did not want to do a lab report. No, I want to make oragami. Maybe if I had had sleep, and was not being supported by coffee, then I might have though "oh crap, I really should work on this." But no, folding paper cranes is much more important, dont cha think?

Idiot.

So all I am doing not is the same thing. Avoiding work. This is why I identify so much with Shikamaru Nara. We are both very smart, just lazy and unmotivated.

So in the spirit of avoiding work, I will tell you all about what has * been happening.

*between those two words I went to help my mother get started on a prayer shall for a cancer patient of hers. The yarn is extremely fuzzy and is giving her fits. She hates me cause it didnt give me problems when I helped. She must have forgotten that I learned to knit with fuzzy yarn similar to that. (I will post pictures)

hmmm... about anime.... Let's see... Well I started watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya It is halarious. Normally I am not a fan of constantly funny slightly perverted shows (ex. Nerima Daikon Brothers, Ninja Nonsense, Excel Saga ect.) but this was great! Also it wasn't stupid funny like those shows I mentioned. With the first episode I started going "WTF?!" but once I realized what was happening, I nearly died! Oh! I just can't wait to get the next disk! But my next Netflix is going to be Full Metal Alchemist vol. 1 I am going to get my mother to watch some anime if it kills me! (and it just might!)

I started a Jaywalker sock. I little while into it I decided it was too big and I needed to rip it out and start tighter, which I havent done yet.

And I am still tired, now I'm hungry, and no closer to finishing my lab report.

Crudballs!

Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok

2007-10-13T01:56:00.001-05:00

I just finished the anime Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok. I feel slightly guilty because for a while now I have been saying things like "Gah, how many more discs?!" and such. I read a comment on DNAngel that said that unless you were hell-bent on seeing every episode, that you could skip volume 2. MDLR was not like that. They cleverly made it so that there was just enough critical information in each volume that you had to see them all. I have no idea if it was intentional or not, but it works. (Since this is my first review I inform you I use the Cheetos system, I award each segment any out of 5 Cheetos, then the entire show at the end.)

Plot

The story follows Loki, the Norse god of chaos, that has been banished to earth in the form of a young boy by Odin. To be allowed back into the world of the gods, Loki must collect evil. To do so he sets up a detective agency specializing in occult mysteries. This attracts Miss Mayura Daidouji, a beautiful, ditsy, mystery obsessed, high school girl. As the story progresses more gods pop up (mostly sent to assassinate Loki).

Voice ActingI have no complaints about the voice acting actually, except that I wish the older version of Loki's voice sounded at least similar to the younger. Maybe have Shannon Emerick "butch it up" a lot? I don't really know, they just didn't sound like they were even related, but it wasn't bad... just something I noticed.

Art

I loved the art in this anime. MDLR had wonderful scenery in my opinion. I am not an authority on the art in anime, but I didn't see any slip ups. The only complaints that I have are the usage of photographs and video clips of real world things. It hits my OCD just right when I watch an animated show and see clips of real life. At least this seemed to be confined to flowers, and Odin. I did not like, at all, the eye. I have a hard time believing that there was no other way to portray Odin except a giant red real(ish) eye! I just did not like that.

Story Progression

MDLR started off strong and certainly ended that way. That isn't to say that it carried that steam all the way through. In the middle it became more of a "mystery of the week" type of thing. I honestly can't remember when this started but I know that it continued until the very last disc.

Conclusion

I have said that the middle of the series was monotonous to say the least, but the last disc did pick up speed. Tear-jerking isn't the right word, but I think heart-wrenching might be. It reminded me of when Greed died in Full Metal Alchemist: When Ed shows up you think "HA! the final show down! Ed is gonna whoop your but and it will be over! YES! DIE! MUHAHAHA!" but then when Ed succeeds in killing him, as he is dying Greed says something (I can't remember what) and you go "*gasp* wait... no... don't die I LIKE you now! No! No! *sob sob*" At least that is how it was for me. And this series was the same. I had been saying "Please let this end soon!" for some time and then... with that ending... "No! don't be over!! No! It was just getting good!"

Sequel

The jury is still out on whether I want a sequel. I enjoyed this show a great deal despite its dragging middle. And I think it ended openly enough that there could be. In fact the appearance of Spica for a split second at the very end almost says "HERE LOOKIE A SEQUEL!" if you ask me. I do not know when this series came out but I think that it is old enough that if there was going to be a sequel, that it would have been done already. On the other hand, as much as I enjoyed this show, I don't know if I would have it in me to make it through another, because it would surely drag just as much as the original. If there is another, I will do all I can to see it. If there is not, I'll live.

Bonus Features

These included clean openings and endings, animation gallery, commentary/interviews with the Japanese voice actors, something about Norse mythology, and bloopers. The bloopers were really the only thing I cared about watching on the bonus features. You can't find these on the bonus features menu. They are hidden in that disc pretty good. I would not have found them if I hadn't seen them on youtube and knew to look. (if you want to see them on youtube know that the last set is not there) I got to them by selecting "shuffle title" on my remote, and waiting for it. It will come up.

Over All(I have to remember I am rating the series as a whole here not just the fabulous ending...)

Recommendation

While this anime is by no means "epic" it was enjoyable. Maybe between animes, or if you ever find yourself without anything to watch. Pick this one up. It will give you a laugh, a lesson in Norse mythology, and something to do. If you choose to watch it, stick it out until the end. (and be sure see the bloopers.) I will certainly miss this anime, I have yet to seal it back up in its Netflix envelope, because, that will mean its over. I think I will watch the last few episodes one last time tonight, then ship it back tomorrow. Loki, at my house, you will be missed.

Whole bunch of random crap

2007-10-07T21:20:00.000-05:00

Yo! So yesterday I thought I felt better. So when Jesse called and said that we were all gonna go to the fair that night and if I felt up to it, I had to say yes!!

(Wendy-Lisa-Jess)

Lisa and I rode the rougher rides alone because Wendy and Jesse are just wusses who suck like that (*glares at Wendy and Jesse*)

(me & Lisa waiting for Chaos to start)

Yeah, Its all fun and games....

*edit* there was gonna be a video of the ring of fire buy blogger is gay and won't let it work**

Until someone throws up in a smelly fair trash can....

That someone would be me... yeah it wasn't the rides, I am so totally used to those kind of rides... I think I just hadn't gotten over being sick.

Anyway when we got off Teh Ring Of Total Flaming Awesomeness THE CREEPY CARNEY DUDE KISSED LISA'S HAND!!! needless to say she ran to get germX from Jesse.

The Risembool Rangers have made Ed Kitty our mascot and have asked everyone who can draw, can sort of draw, or thinks they can draw, to draw an Ed kitty to submit for a collage here is mine!

Yeah more kitty than Ed, but I love him!! *huggles Ed Kitty* Am I the only one who thinks he turned out sorta like young Simba from the Lion King?

Oh and I added (not that you haven't noticed) a music player! I found it and a link from Towairaito's Graphics Epicenter! (http://www.towairaito-graphics.com/) (people who aren't anime obsessed otakus like me, the music isn't ALL Jpop/Jrock... there is some English, can't say there is a lot.. but some)

and why? Oh why? Do videos take so freaking long to upload to blogger???

Blech

2007-10-05T14:28:00.000-05:00

I am sick as a dog. Even right now I am being yelled at to get my butt back in bed, but there is only so much laying around in bed a girl can do, even sick, and there is nothing on TV either. I passed the Dinah sick test yesterday. I swear that cat is better than any doctor. If you are sick (and I mean sick not "oooh I have a cold") Dinah is sure to come lay on you. Well she won't get off me so I guess I really am sick. It makes me think about that cat in the nursing home somewhere up north, that would only lay on people that were about to die.... she is making me nervous...

Dad had this same thing earlier this week and feels better now, so maybe I can go back to school Monday. I missed my Health and Algebra 9 week's tests but they shouldn't be to hard to make up.

OK well its back to bed for me now.

GLOOM

2007-10-02T21:24:00.000-05:00

*sob sob* *cry cry* my life sucks purple monkey butt….
Finally my mom tries to help with my manga addiction and is helping me with ebay… We find volumes 2-11 that is 10!! Fruits basket volumes with 3.5 hours left, and selling for $24.00 with $10 shipping.. that makes it about a little over $60 less than just buying the volumes. I start bidding. With seconds left on the auction and my bid resting at $32 (still oh so much cheaper) some random person swoops in and raises their bid to $40!! $40!!! $32 to $40!!!
……which was my limit……
so close….and yet….so far….
So now I am amusing myself with videos to keep my depression in check….. here for anyone who cares… is what is keeping me sane…

the mom song.... my mom says all of this.... (its hard to keep up but the lyrics are on the side)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM

and a little something from tonights episode of Bones (My Little Displaced Yankee its not gory you can watch it)
http://www.comcast.net/providers/fan/popup.html?repeat_search_query=bones%20male&v=539607381&pn=1&viewmode=fullScreenMode

Manga is like crack

2007-09-28T16:27:00.000-05:00

^ Will get to this in a minute...

I have fallen down on my blogging... this is what happened last time... NOT THIS TIME!!! NO NOT ME NEVA!!!!!

oooh I hate this song... *changes song*

soo let me see... oh!

Well for a while now we have had some... erm.. how to put this politely.... GHETTO.... people across the street from us. They think they live in "Da Hood". No, we live in the BURBS not the HOOD! and their teenage son mowing the lawn yesterday

Under his butt, not just low, UNDER his frikkin butt cheaks!!! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE COLOR OF YOUR UNDERWEAR PULL YOUR PANTS UP!! I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SEE YOUR BUTT! IT'S DISGUSTING!!!
*rant over, for now*

Edit: November 30, 2007
[some one said "I know this is old but what you said in this post was kinda rude. Just because his pants are low doesn't give you the right to call him ghetto. Just because it is a black family." I did not say any of this because they are black. I said it because they are ghetto. I have met white ghetto people too, I don't see where you got the "just because its a black family" thing from. You, random cyber person off the Internet (and I don't know why you didn't put your name, I might be a little ticked off now, but its not like I hold a grudge for something like that), have not met the neighbors. If you had you would say it too. There are many examples I could give here to prove it but I won't because it would be taken the wrong way, by people just like whoever said that. But now I have been ticked off. As much as ghetto-ness and just so we are perfectly clear here I am referring to WHITE, BLACK, MEXICAN, ASIAN, BRITISH, CANADIAN, ANY TYPE of ghetto, annoys me to no end, people like random-cyber-person-from-Internet annoy me even more. People like you, who are always looking to start a racial fight. Taking comments in which race was not even mentioned, and making it a deal. This is MY blog. Let me take a page out of the Yarn Harlots blog. (here is the general point because I cant remember and cant find the post) "Don't insult me on my own blog." and "be polite to me, and to people who comment on this blog"

Yes I deleted the comment that said this. I moderate my comments, and WILL NOT POST anything I find, rude to me or other commenter's, or spam (I reserve the the right to be rude for me in my posts about annoying things, and for my mom, who, well, she's my mommy she can say whatever she wants). I haven't had problems with anything else, so that's all I have for now. but know I DO moderate comments and WILL delete.

And to show you I am not completely evil after what I just typed I will say something that I wasn't going to mention before.

You made me cry.
Yours was the first bad comment I've gotten. (Not to mention I have been a little weepy since I lost my camera.) But I cried. You made me feel like a horrible person. Meaning to or not someone thought it at least, sounded that way....
Then I decided that you Ms./Mr. Random Internet person, that your opinion doesn't matter to me. I would continue writing my blog despite of people like you biting my head off for complaining about my annoying neighbors. so suck on that! boo-yah! I feel very good about myself right now. I tend to be a bit more introverted and take people's opinions to seriously, so writing this has felt pretty dog-gone good.

Get Some!!

Rant #2: over]

Manga is Like Crack

It is expensive $10 a book that is really freaking expensive especially I can and do read it in less that 1 day.
It is addicting, I can't stop reading it.

I have been an otaku for about a year now but haven't read a single manga, until last week I bought Full Metal Alchemist Vol. 1 and Naruto Vol. 1 (I figured start with something you already know you like.) I inhaled the FMA manga, but I found the Naruto one a bit, I don't know... but I think I will stick to the anime for Naruto. And Saturday bought FMA vol. 2, DNAngel vol. 1, and Fruits basket vol. 1. OMGOMGOMG!!

I now have a hobby I can't afford... -_- this is not good. I am just going to have to start doing odd jobs for my grandma and mowing the yard for dad. (oooh mom is cooking ribs and it smells so good!)

Homecoming Week

2007-09-20T16:14:00.000-05:00

To be totally honest.... It was boring... well, except for that small...er...problem.... with the hat, but we won't talk about that.....-_- There are only three pictures that needs to be seen... It is from today, Geek Day.

All I have to say about it is that Hunter is NOT RIGHT

And yes....that IS toilet paper hanging from his pants leg.... -_-

I took a video last week because I know that for Homecoming Kaiti will MAKE me dance at the pep rally so I recorded it so I can learn it... hee hee! (I still don't know it even though we have been doing the same dance for years!

Tomorrow is homecoming and I promise awesome vids from the pep rally!

In Knitting News....

Ravelry has a Hello Kitty group!! and Lookie Lookie what I found!

I HAVE to make this hat!! I mean *Uber Squee* doesn't even BEGIN to cover it!!!

NERD ALERT!

2007-09-16T16:35:00.000-05:00

O....M.....G..... I got on ravelry.....o.o.....

For those of you who don't know Ravelry (http://www.ravelry.com/) is a knitting and crocheting community. It is still beta testing but has had overwhelming success. I was number 13 thousand and something on the list, and there were upwards of 20,000 BEHIND me on the list.... *squee* I got in!!! I have joined the Mississippi group and the only Anime group they have. Now I know all the anime fans are thinking "What? Just one? No Way!" Yes sadly just one. I don't feel myself an established enough knitter or anime-watcher to make another though, and I am so new that I don't even know if there needs to be another looks fine to me...

My account there is KittyKat and my mom is also on Ravelry which is why I don't have a much cooler user name, and why in the "blog" spot is empty... I will promote my blog (once I get a few more posts) on ranger, neopets, and the like. My mother will most likely only be told about this blog (or whatever blog at the time) when I go off to Timbuktu or somewhere for college and this would be how she "keeps up with me"

(For years later when mom is reading the archives of my blog when I tell her about it) Hi mom! yes I have had this planned for a long time! ^_^

anyway! Off to play with Ravelry!

Ka-BOOM

2007-09-15T09:54:00.000-05:00

The people (if there are any) who read this blog should feel lucky. I started this blog just days before something big happened... well big for ME.

We were in the gym for a pep rally yesterday, when just as we all were leaving we notice everyone turning around. We, who weren't at the front of the line and had no idea what was going, figured that, because it was raining, they were having us go out the back way up to the school under the covered sidewalk. But as we are filing through we notice people sitting back down and so, we do too. Dr. Prayther tell us that there has been a "prank call" and that they have to check something out. We look at each other quizzically. It was just me, Ashley, and Kaiti, because Wendy and Jesse are in the band. (Ashley and I both hate each other, know the other hates us, but basically ignore it.) Then Dr. Prayther proceeds to tell us

"Even though its a school rule I am SURE that no one in here has their cell phones turned off and it is VERRRRY important that they all get turned off NOT on silent NOW."

That is when we knew there was something wrong. Ashley turns and asks me what I think it is and I tell her something like "this may be being a little dramatic and over the top, but even with all my CSI watching the only reason that I can come up with where the cell phones would matter is if.... it were a bomb."

DUHN DUHN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHNNNN.

They continue trying to entertain the 6-12th grades in the gym while we see teacher running around whispering to each other and running out and coming back in.

Finally we get let out a million years later and are told for the High school to go STRAIGHT to 2nd period and for the Middle school to head STRAIGHT for break, no detours.

Later they finally tell us what is going on. Apparently someone called up to the school and told them that there was a bomb and that they needed to check it out yak yak yak. and they did.

Get this.... they had all the TEACHERS check out their own room. With the exception of the science teachers... the others wouldn't know a bomb if it bit them in the butt.

So for the whole rest of the day every time the bell rang everyone jumped and then sighed when we realized it was just to change classes.

In reality most likely some idiot forgot to study for a test and decided it would be funny to scare the bejeezuz out of all 350 middle and high school students.

Later Wendy and Jesse were like "whats the big deal" and everything. They said that at their old schools a bomb threat was no big deal. Those of us who have been going to Hillcrest forever and a year enlightened them to the fact that nothing happens at Hillcrest, good, bad, or otherwise, and that yes to us a bomb threat was a VERY big deal! And when Jesse kept laughing at me when I would jump at the bells I mentioned that She is to squeamish to handle CSI and I cant handle bomb threats, and I think I win. That shut her up about it.

I would simply LOVE to know who called that in! I would loving telling them what I think of it!

Hey y'all!

2007-09-09T23:12:00.000-05:00

Well it is 11:14pm and I can't (or won't) sleep.... And I had been thinking about maybe, at some point, possibly starting a blog... and so here it is.... So I guess that this blog is just gonna deal with my life and all the nerdy stuff (hence the name ^_^) that I'm into.... I can't spell worth a crap, so don't expect it... Also as you can tell I have a fondness for the "......" things!

My Nerdy Stuff

I knit.... I love it.... I'm terrible at it...but I love it! Currently I am knitting a sock (don't get me started it has decided that I am evil and must be destroyed) and some.... green and blue.....thing dunno what its gonna be... but its gonna be awsome! *thumbs up*

I watch anime and read manga.... Now I know that some people who might have come upon this blog from some forum post I made or from the rangers or skirts or something....some ANIME place.... y'all are probobly giving me the "Anime and Manga are not nerdy blah blah yak yak ect. ect." yeah it is nerdy, but I love it! and y'all just kinda need to face facts that, yes, it is in fact nerdy. Embrace it! I did! Think about it how many of the "cool" or "popular" (there is a whole other rant there) even know what anime or manga are? I mean I am sure there are some, but the vast majority dont.... ok this is way to long for one bullet point....

I am a science nerd! Love me some science! I think that me and Shelby might have creeped the others in the advanced science class out with our enthusiasm over the fetal pig disection.... we thought it was the coolest thing and made..... crudballs.... I was gonna put the video here but my computer is slow and the page is taking forever to load.... It might because I am currently prinint 20 pages full of brightly colored anime pictures to plaster my walls with.... (mom and/or dad, if you are reading this.... it is 5 pictures.... and they are all black and white....*wink*) cudballs... now that I have gotten there I dont know how to do it....http://hs.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1003032718061 will that do it? I dont know... maybe good luck!

I know that there is more nerdy things about me but by now it is 11:42pm and I am not thinking very well so nighty night! And I hope this blogging thing works out and is fun (cause, if it isnt fun.... yeah I will probly quit so yeah... lets hope its fun!

(ps. blogger.com has the crappiest fonts I have ever seen!

Only Slightly Nerdy

Busy Busy Busy

No, I'm not (quite) dead

Vacation Pictures

Home again

And We're Off!

I'm finally back!

Post to come later

SFARI 2008

What kind of yarn are you?

The Baby Blanket of DOOM

No, I'm still here!

SNOW: The good and the painfull...

The Forum Story

Watch this space!!

New Year, New Knitter

Method to the Madness

The part of the show where I gush over Christmas presents

3 days till Christmas!!!

The pros and Kons

Yes! Only exams left!

A nice long post

And life goes on...

Knitting with no pictures!

I actually forgot to tilte this one...

Evil

Monday's Movie, and A Very Emo Post

*insert fitting name for post here*

Monday's Movie--The World Series of Uno

Things I need to do over Thanksgiving break

My Own Personal Friday the 13th

Knitting

Monday's Movie--Soldier A

Girl's Day Out

Monday's Movie--Hungry Wake Up Kitty

Movie

Only Slightly.... Sick?

A Blogger, or not a Blogger?

I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts....

Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok

Whole bunch of random crap

Blech

GLOOM

Manga is like crack

Homecoming Week

NERD ALERT!

Ka-BOOM

Hey y'all!

insert fitting name for post here