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July 5th, 2009
12:11 am - on the off-chance anyone was worried
posting from my phone because the computer is down. this is so weird... anyway, having a good time so far. my niece was born just before we left. pictures later. hope you're all well. happy 4th to whom it applies.
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June 30th, 2009
01:37 am - I LIVE
Hey, guys, miss me these last few days? :D
*crickets chirp**
... Yeah, no one noticed I was gone XD Haven't quite gotten up on my flist yet; I hope everyone is doing well.
Quite a few celebrity deaths lately, huh? Usually I find out about this kind of stuff before my mom does, but I actually heard most of it from her these past few occasions; the only one I scooped her on was Farrah Fawcett. I don't know why I bothered to mention that, it was just something that struck me. Some of you are surely aware of my backspace laziness, so here we are.
Some of our rats got loose and have set up base in my room. They appear to be in a fairly isolated area, so I'm going to try to nab the lot tommorow. I actually think it will be less frustrating than the time there was a mouse in my closet. See, it had actually started out in my brother's room, and we caught it easily enough. Thn it somehow got loose and got into my closet, where it managed to evade me for several days. Then it managed to get under my bed. I lifted aside the matress and box spring and hunted through the accumulation of miscellaneous crapola to no avail; I looked up to see the mouse get free of the door. Cue a fruitless hunt through the game room. Never did see that thing again. Too bad, it was a real cutie. On the other hand, I did go a bit loopy trying to nail the sucker, so its disappearance was probably for the best.
I'll be going to Chicago in a few days and I'm not sure how much computer time I'll get while I'm there. We (my mom, the little people, possibly my brother and his girlfriend and myself) will be staying ith my grandparents and uncle as per usual, and this year there will be quite a bit more family also staying. I'm sure you'll all have your noses to your screens waiting to hear from me XD
Oh, hey, my brother finally coughed up a bunch of kitchen stuff he's been holding onto. He was supposed to hand it over months ago and he made the little people carry it all downstairs, but at least we finally have it. I'm totally making muffins tomorrow, now that we have the tray.
Um... I seriously have nothing more interesting to say. Oh, except that I finally saw Holes for the first time last night and it is awesome. I really need to get my hands on the book now, although I've heard the movie is actually really faithful to the story. SPEAKING OF BOOKS THAT HAVE BECOME MOVIES. Have any of you ever read Jaws? It's... just... wow. Wow. Like, as in yikes. I'll stick to the film, mkthnx.
* I have as yet been unable to find a sound effect a la instant rimshot or the sad trombone. You would not believe how much this disappoints me.
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June 22nd, 2009
07:05 pm - a few memes
Yikes, I'm slow. Meant to do this first one something like a week ago!
1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
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And here are a couple I snatched from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) banditjoeykuba:
Rules:
- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
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LIST 25 OF YOUR FAVORITE PAIRINGS AND ASK PEOPLE WHAT TRENDS THEY NOTICE. TRY TO PICK DIFFERENT FANDOMS.
( Read more... )
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June 14th, 2009
11:50 am - yes, it's another meme
Snagged from palvereverie
1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks.
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June 9th, 2009
09:09 pm - LOLWHUT
Did you know that Naruto fandom is "full of wank and stupid peolpe"?
What's that? You didn't? Dude, seriously?
Well, lucky for you that pheonixxxphreak is here to set the record straight! Go on, read the comments. I mean, you weren't actually using those brain cells for anything, were you?
On a happier note, DSL is still awesome.
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11:55 am - Music meme
1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs (with links to them, if you can find them) that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
PS: YOU GUYS. DSL IS AWESOME.
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June 1st, 2009
06:52 pm - if only odd meant interesting
So, there was some minor oddness in my life yesterday. Before I detail it, though, can I just take a moment to express my undying distaste for Interne Explorer? Seriously, my distate for Internet Explorer is undying.
Anyway.
Okay, you ever go from bright light to not-so-bright light and get blotches in front of your eyes? I'm sure that's happened to most people. It's certainly happened to me. Yesterday, however, it happened to me in a ay that it never has before. It was really sunny and I had to go outside for a while, so when I came back into the house everything was looking kinda blotchy just in general. Then I went to wash the dishes and that's when it got kind of weird. As the water was running on a plate, this hot pink spot just appeared and started growing like some kind of blob. After I finished rinsing the plate I blinked and rubbed my eyes and blinked some more and looked back at the plate and, sure enough, no more blotch. But then I moved onto the next plate and the same thing happened. And it just.kept.happening. It's pretty meh now that I look back at it, but it kinda freaked me out at the time. I think it must have had something to do with the plates being white, because it didn't happen while I was washing a blue plate.
So that was that. Odd but at least harmless. Not so much this next thing. I was behind on some chores and promised my mom I'd get caught up. And I did. I ended up getting really tired ou, but it was an accomplished sort of tired. I figured I'd put in a load of laundry and rest for a bit. This would have gone just fine under normal circumstances, but circumstances in this instance were not entirely normal. See, we've been meaning to switch our washer for my upstairs-brother's for a while now, because his is kind of leaky and that's a problem for an apliance on a second floor (as evidence by the number of times it has rained just below the afore-mention leaky washer), and the night before last he decided to finally get that done. He pulled our washer out of place and had me unplug it, but then decided he'd rather wait until he could get a dolly. Only when I went and plugged the thing back in, I failed to notice that the water hose that been disconnected when the washer was displaced. So I was laying down on the couch and my mom came home and went into the laundry room to find the floor flooded.
On the bright side, the floor is inclined in such a way that it kept the water in the one room. On the darker side, that water was up to my ankles, and run up under a shelving unit due to that same incline. We got it all cleaned up eventually, but my accomplished tiredness was turned into good-lord-this-is-my-life tiredness just like that. Plus the paint on the floor is all peeled up and looking even uglier than usual. And I can barely remember the pizza I ate; I fell asleep when I flopped onto the couch again, and past that I have vague recollections of pizza being shoved under my face and of parmesan cheese being handed to me and of eating. My clearest memory is eating the last slice when it was already cold and wishing it was still hot, which made me remember an anecdote about pizza vomit, which made me want jelly beans something fierce. Sigh.
One other oddity, and it's actually a bit longer-lasting. I was watching Follow That Bird (yes, the Sesame Street movie) for something like the dozenth time in two days at some point yesterday and suddenly started 'shipping Oscar/Maria. I'm not even kidding.
... I dunno, guys, sometimes I think I'm a little too fond of myself. Or not fond enough, whatever. Hope you're all having a good day; mine has been on the whole pleasant.
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May 28th, 2009
06:28 am - as advertised-- moar memes!
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on ...
Yeah, apparently I will never get tired of this one; I've got it times two yet again.
First, from banditjoeykuba:
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And one from ew_younerd:
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And a meme I snatched from kazie_komikcat:
01. Post these rules before you give your facts
02. List 10 random facts about yourself
03. At the end of your post, tag 10 people and list their names
( read more, but beware the bits of TMI )
And another meme which I stole from frostious:
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May 25th, 2009
09:22 pm - Pics, so you know it happened
Well, friends, the time has finally come. After a days-long game of hide-and-seek with the camera, a frustrated search for the USB cable, the discovery that said cable doesn't work, a hunt for another means of camera-computer connection and issue after issue with Photobucket, I finally got all the pictures I need for the promised pet-centric pic!spam. Yay, pets! Plus, some other random stuff. Yay, random stuff!
In deference to the squeamish, the snakes, lizards and rats shall be clustered up top for easy skippage.
WARNING: Image-heavy, and the images aren't all that good.
( snakes )
( bearded dragons )
( rats )
And now for the more conventional pets. We'll start with my kitties. They didn't all like being photographed, but I did get shots of them all.
( cats )
( dog )
( guinea pig )
( bird )
So, there are all the pets we have at the moment. Now, my wonderfully ugly new shoes and some other stuff! Yay!
( shoes )
( massager )
( sandwich )
( noodles )
( zombie )
Next time: Moar memes! Bet you didn't see that coming! ;)
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May 22nd, 2009
09:38 pm - more meme, now with 75% more whining!
I'm regretting having said anything about doing a pic!spam of my pets because I obviously jinxed myself. Plus I always feel weird when I say I'm going to do something in a certain time frame and then don't do it for whatever reason-- either due to procrastination or, as in this case, extenuating circumstances-- but do other stuff. It feels like a poorly done retcon or something.
BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THAT. HAVE SOME MEME:
The problem with LiveJournal:
We all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.
So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me.
Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!
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May 18th, 2009
08:42 pm - *le sigh*
I gotta say, this new interest in Star Trek that's popped up is throwing off my groove. I mean, I'm glad that people like the new movie and that some people have even gotten interested in the rest of the franchise as a result of it. That's great, there's fun to be had, yay.
Seriously, though. Throwing off my groove. Not that it's anyone's fault but my own, really. I'm just not used to this yet. I mean, Watchmen the movie was already out by the time I got into the comic; Fullmetal Alchemist was both a manga and an anime long before I heard of it; M*A*S*H was a book a movie and television series with little continuity shared between before I was even born; I have never ventured far from Sherlock Holmes Doyle!book!canon so the dealings with other canons are barely peripheral; I always knew that the superhero cartoons I watched as a kid were comics first and that the comics were very different; I've never really been in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom and the second Biker Mice from Mars series is a loose continuation.
But Star Trek has always been... Star Trek. I look at the character names that people use and I know what's being talked about. I know if I have any place to talk about it and if I have any interest in talking about it. Or read it as the case may be. But now there's this new movie that takes place in an alternate reality but still borrows off the original series. The characters aren't quite the same. Spock/Uhura is canon. I keep seeing Kirk/McCoy and Spock/McCoy fics and getting excited and then realizing that, right, those aren't about my McCoy, or about my Kirk and Spock. Won't be even after I finally do see the movie, really. Plus I keep seeing pictures and stopping to try to figure out who in the world I'm looking at. Sigh.
So, yeah. Petty problem, but what's LJ for if not to occasionally vent about petty problems?
ON A HAPPIER NOTE: My camera has been located and is charging. Tomorrow When I find my USB cord, you'll get to see my precious pets. No worries about the snake, lizards and rats, people who are squicked by such things, I'll mark their pictures accordingly.
Related note: The aforementioned snake is in my hair right now. I should get one of the little people to take a picture for the pic!spam, Y/N?
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May 17th, 2009
07:25 am - bah! and again, I say bah!
Okay, due to a major problem with my digital camera (namely that I can't find it), the pet pic!spam I was planning and the pictures of my awesomely awful new shoes will have to wait. In the meantime, have some alternate contact information:
AIM: dustbunnyhime888
InsaneJournal: dustbunny105
Twitter: dustbunny105
Been meaning to post that for a while; only finally did because someone else made a similar post. Yeah... Hey, now, if I ever claim not to be a reactionary, slap me! With a trout!
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May 13th, 2009
01:25 am - Hello again to all my freinds :D
It's the weirdest thing; I came to LJ just now with the intent to post something but I cannot for the life of me think of what it was. It's like walking into a room and having no idea why. I know you guys love reading about my life, though, so I'll tell you about some of the more interesting bits since whenever it was that I last posted. You get to bask in the awesomeness that is me and I don't have to think. EVERYONE WINS :D
( cut because, wow, I talk a LOT )
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April 25th, 2009
05:52 pm - Q_____Q
So, I go to Yahoo! to check my email and what do I see? This. I gasped so loud that my little brother heard me from clear across the house; I could hardly get out what the matter was. Stuff like this makes me wish I followed celebrity news more closely; I didn't even know that Bea Arthur had cancer. I'm glad she went peacefully, though, and surrounded by loved ones.
I thought of doing a picspam like I did for Majel Barret but I can't see it not including one of my favorite paintings of all time, and I'm not sure "Bea Arthur Wrestling a Velociraptor" would be entirely appropriate in this situation ;>__>
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April 17th, 2009
12:13 pm - OMG
YOU GUYS.
I JUST FOUND SIMON COWELL ATTRACTIVE.
AT LEAST THRICE.
IN LESS THAN TEN MINUTES.
SEND HELP.
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April 11th, 2009
04:00 pm - Fullmetal Alchemist and Naruto and Miscellaneous Crap-- OH, MY!
I only got around to reading both last night. Wow. First, my reaction to the latest Fullmetal Alchemist. I'll be as dignified as I possibly can.
( cut for spoilers for chapter 94 )
And now Naruto. I made the mistake of reading it after Fullmetal Alchemist, so... yeah. Kinda like watching a B-grade dog act after the Marx Bros. Not that it wasn't a pretty good chapter. For Naruto.
( cut for spoilers for chapter 443 )
Now for some miscellaneous crap! Yay!
( cut because miscellaneous crap is both miscellaneous and crap )
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April 9th, 2009
05:06 pm - Two memes for the price of one!
Both of these I got from kazie_komikcat
First, a short character/fan meme. Basically a set of questions about a character. I got Shikamaru:
And second, an icon meme:
o1— Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons. (Just ask if you want to)
o2— Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
o3— Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
o4— This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
I am both surprised and relieved that my Kabuto icon didn't make it into this one. Anyway, moving right along:
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NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! I GOTTA BE HONEST, I THOUGHT I DREAMED SEEING THIS COMMERCIAL. THEN I FOUND IT ON YOUTUBE. GRANTED THIS ISN'T QUITE WHAT I REMEMBER, BUT I'M NOT ABOUT TO GO HUNTING FOR THE EXACT ONE THAT I SAW. MY MIND CANNOT TAKE IT.
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April 4th, 2009
09:37 pm - I CAN NOT EVEN BELIEVE THIS
Okay, today I went outside and walked around in the sun for the first time in... I dunno, a really long time. All in all, I'd say I was walking on sunshine (and didn't it feel good!) for a grand total of something like a couple hours. It was pretty nice out, so I wore a t-shirt. Didn't even think about it.
Then about ten minutes ago, the sun long since set, my forearms started feeling kind of weird. Sort of tight, itchy. Easily solved, I figured; without even bothering to look, I scratched one all the way down.
HOLY MOTHER OF OW, THE PAIN.
Finally my attention was caught and, sure enough, the upper sides of my forearms and the backs of my freaking hands-- to the knuckles-- are red. First time I've been in the sun in more time than is probably strictly healthy and I got sunburn.
This is a bad time to no longer have an aloe plant, you guys. No joke.
*has since sprayed arms with something or other to stop the pain*
*can still feel where arm was scratched*
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March 27th, 2009
01:28 pm - Who Reads the Watchmen?
I just finished. And, um, wow.
( cut for epic squee )
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March 25th, 2009
10:44 pm - NYUK YOU, HOLLYWOOD
Okay, so. They're remaking the Stooges. All three of 'em at that. I'm sure this isn't the first I've heard of it, but for some reason it really hit me when I saw an article on Yahoo. I really don't know what it is. Seeing that it's actually being done, maybe, or seeing the proposed cast pictured alongside a photo of the original Larry, Curly and Moe. Maybe the article itself, with talk of "a fictional treatment that maintains the Stooges' gleeful slap schtick updated for a modern milieu." Could even be that my subconscious just really wanted to make that lame "nyuk you" pun.
Anyway.
Yes, I'm passing judgement on a movie that hasn't even been officially cast yet and, yes, I do know that makes me something of a douche. I don't care. This sucks. The Stooges don't belong in a modern milieu. They... I dunno. They just don't. I mean, what next, remaking Marx Brothers movies? Charlie Chaplin? Buster Keaton? It's not really the movies/shorts that are so great, Hollywood; it's the actors. Them, you can't remake.
/fanwanking
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