I have quit Tumblr, there are just too many things I do not like about it. I am back on Xanga in full swing, I expect to be one of the top members eventually. :)

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So this morning I went upstairs and was greeted by a really dirty kitchen. I really prefer to ignore it and leave it to someone else but this time I did not want to do that. I won’t lie, I hate cleaning the kitchen, especially handling dirty dishes it makes me feel sick. Today however, it was to much for me to just leave that way. There were dishes everywhere and food, and the whole thing just looked like a mess in general, it’s a little hard to explain.  I decided to just put the dishes in the sink and clean up the counter and organize a little. I also put the dishes away and cleaned off the kitchen table. I did not put the dishes in the dish washer, honestly I try to avoid doing that as much as possible since handling dirty dishes that aren’t mine makes me feel really sick. I left that to my dad, I did do the rest though.

I have to admit that I do not do enough stuff like this around the house. I feel like now would be a good time to change that especially with everything that is going on in my family and how busy everyone else is.

Anyway, today has been relatively normal, nothing much has happened I have just been doing the same stuff I usually do. I did get to episode 24 of “A Little Princess Sara”, on animecrazy.net.  I am really loving the anime.

So yesterday night I decided to do something about my dormant character on Destiny Online. My main character on the game is named Starya. I haven’t been playing her on the game very much lately, actually compared to the little amount of time that I play my other characters on the game I hardly ever play Starya. My main character on the game is a mage and mages don’t train well solo. I don’t really like to train with other people very much. I probably would but most of my good friends on the game are all several levels above me. I am much faster at leveling my other 2 characters. I kind of lost motivation to level Starya mainly because my character has no pet to help me level like my other characters do. Honestly, it is kind of boring to level without a character when you don’t level with other people either, training alone in the game is a real drag.

The admins have been so good to me lately honestly. Despite the problems in the game and with their managment I have to admit that they at least do a pretty decent job of running the game, I mean at least it CAN run.  They have made me a GM in the past, and they let me moderate the game forum.  I honestly felt like I needed to give back to them so I decided I would unsubscribe from World of Warcraft and use the 15 dollars I use on that game usually to buy game currency in Destiny Online. I bought 30 bullion and bought a new pet for Starya, and used the remaining gold to level it faster at the Pet Doctor. Another advantage of me buying gold every month instead of playing World of Warcraft is that I can at least keep my friends from being ripped off in the game somewhat now. The economy in the game isn’t that great and things are constantly overpriced. This way I can buy item mall items and sell to my friends a lot cheaper than most people.

Anyway, I am happy with this decision, I never got on my World of Warcraft account anyway. I just wasn’t that interested.  I feel it is a better investment to send my money to Destiny Online, I think they need it more.

Anyway, if anything else happens I’ll update.

I just realized I have some posts on my Xanga site I never put on here. Since I am very picky about keeping my blogs up to date and making sure I have every post on this blog that I have on my Xanga, I am going to add those missing posts in this entry. The following posts were originally posted on Xanga.Normally I would just post them as individula posts and just change the date to make them look like they were always there but I don’t think i can do that on here. Oh well this works as well. :)

Posts from February 20th 2011 all the way back to December 17th 2010

enjoy! :)

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February 20th 2011

Church Activity… FAIL!

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So here in Utah we have a place called Soldier Hollow. it’s basicly a place they made for the olympics, I think it was for skiing or something like that originally. They made it into a snow tubing place though. Basicly they provide you with tubes, and they tow you up this really big hill and then you walk a little ways and go down the big hill on your tube it’s super fun really.

The only downside to this is when it snows the new snow makes it slow. They have to make the hill icy and smooth before people can successfully go down it at the best speed.

My church had and activity, we went to Soldier Hollow yesterday for fun. I wore my best coat, and had my jeans on and my gloves and boots. I thought it would be enough but as I found out later it wasn’t. We were not expecting it to snow more when we got there. it was snowing like crazy when we got there, and we knew that it would probably cause problems on the hill so far as speed goes.  We decided to just go for it though and try it anyway.

I grabbed my tube and headed towards the place where they have you sit in it and tow you up. On my way up I had to pop the collar of my coat up and button it up tighter to protect my neck from getting assaulted by snow. The higher up we got the fiercer the wind was. When we got to the top of the hill the wind was crazy and on top of that it was snowing a lot it was like a blizzard. The gloves I had brought weren’t good enough, my fingers were freezing. I wore the wrong pants on top of that. i was not prepared for the large amount of snow and wind that was hitting me. My jeans got wet from the snow and wouldn’t stay up. I kept on having to pull them up over and over and my legs were freezing.  I should have worn different pants.

I found part of the hill to go down it was crazy though the wind was cold and the snow was blowing right in my face. When I went down the hill it was even worse, I was going pretty fast part of the way down and that only made it colder.  I only got half way down the hill, the new snow made it a lot slower than it usually is. The rest of my friends came down in a group after me. They were going a bit faster than I was since I went alone. i just sat there until they caught up and they pushed me part of the way down it was pretty fun. We still had to walk down the hill part of the way though. Because of the new snow it made it so we couldn’t go fast enough.

I was pretty cold by the time I got all the way down the hill and deduced that it was probably better for me to head to the cabin and have some hot chocolate. I waited for one of my church leaders to catch up and she led me there since not only could I not see because of all the snow blowing in my eyes, but my face was drenched and I didn’t know where the cabin was.

It felt so great to get inside. My pants were soaked and heavy, my hat was covered in ice, my fingers were freezing even with gloves on, my face was drenched in water from the snow, and my feet were dry but cold. It was utterly crazy.  One of the people there helped me wipe off my coat, and dry off with a towel, she helped me get the ice off my hat as well.

I was so relieved to get inside, I got some hot chocolate and had donuts and popcorn as well. I just spent the rest of the time there by the fire or talking with fellow church members, it was still pretty fun even though most of us couldn’t get down the hill successfully like we wanted to. We ended up having fun despite not being able to snow tube. The cabin got pretty lively, some people stayed outside anyway though and just tried again.  i did not bring my phone, I wish i had though it would have been a really interesting thing to take pictures of.

After that I just went home and got some dry clothes on and watched anime and talked with friends for the rest of the night.

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February 18th 2011

Rice Crispy Treat Temptations

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When I was on the HCG diet the HCG I was taking suppressed my cravings for bad foods and controlled my appetite a lot. I didn’t have any cravings for sugary foods or foods with a lot of carbs, it was quite nice. Now that I am off of it now though for a month or so I am having some of the worst cravings now. Almost a week ago my sister made rice crispy treats for valentine’s day on Monday. I helped her, but I was still on the HCG at the time. I tasted a little bit of the rice crispy treats just as a weekly treat, and then went back to my usual eating routine.  After Valentine’s day i thought they would be gone, but there was a whole pan left. Very conveniantly they were set on the stove yesterday just for anyone to eat. Needless to say it was like hell trying not to eat them. I’m supposed to be careful about what I eat and slowly add foods back into my diet or I can mess everything up. That means I can not eat Rice Crispy Treats for at least another 4 weeks. It was like an evil spirit was taunting me telling me to eat them, utter torture. I really love rice crispy treats a lot… *sigh*

Anyway, so I guess thats all for now. I have something I want to blog about later but I just felt like posting this story right now. :)

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February 17th 2011

Revival

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I feel a bit down right now about my blog.  I mostly regret not posting more, and this in turn has made me not want to pick up and update. That might sound a little messed up but I’ve decided that even though I have missed a lot of opportunities to blog about a lot of things I will keep on posting anyway. The best thing about memories is you can always share them, even months after they happened.  I decided that even though I haven’t been good about updating, it is not to late to change that.

I just got done with the HCG diet, I lost 25 pounds in a month on it. I have to be careful about what I eat for the next month though and slowly add more foods back into my diet. If i do it to fast i can gain my weight back again really fast. Lucky for me my mom knows  lot about health.  I feel a lot better after going on the diet, you would think that it would be really un-healthy for the amount of weight you lose but it really isn’t.

Valentine’s Day was pretty normal, I just spent the day looking up workout plans and running for beginners. I’ve been using about.com to to research a few things like psychology, fitness and a few other things. I love that website a lot. I now have my running program all planned out and when the weather gets a bit warmer I’m going to start training.

I’ve been spending the last 2 days reviewing some of the One Piece anime and manga. I felt the need to memorize more of the names and places of the anime and manga since I’m such a big fan. That is primarily what I have been doing since Valentine’s Day.

My nephew turned 6 months last week, he is adorable!

Anyway, I think I’ll update again later, for now though this is it.

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February 5th 2011

Writers Slump

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Wow, yes It has been a month since I blogged anything. I have been having a major writer’s slump. it happens to me from time to time. I haven’t really thought about it lately, but once i started to think about it I started to realize just how many times this has happened. I seem to have a problem with motivation in everything really, even writing, blogging, etc.

I am usually at a loss sometimes as to what I should write, sometimes my life seems so incredibly boring that I can not think of anything to write. sometimes I am just depressed, and / or mad at everyone. I do feel a lot of negative feelings toward the human race sometimes. sometimes I just feel like I should just hide from everyone and not let anyone get to know me. i guess in a way this also contributes to my problem with dropping out of Xanga (and Tumblr) randomly and not blogging for sometimes 1 to 3 months and sometimes longer in some cases.

I have a lot of things to deal with right now, I can’t geta job, I can’t go to school right now. Social situations are very hard for me to deal with. I am not very fond of crowds, or repetetive enviroments that lack creativity. Sometimes my repetetive, complicated life just sees kind of pointless. I know that isnt true consciously but I honestly FEEL this way a lot of the time. Like I have no purpose in life, and / or like I am just going to be a nuisance to everyone around me. I feel like I can’t do anything great for the world sometimes, like I am just a flaw in the fabric of the universe.

this is just the tip of the iceberg but things like this really effect my activity when it comes to physically writing or blogging on my computer. My brain just shuts down and refuses to think u stuff to blog about sometimes. It is a really frusterating thing for me actually. right now I’m not even thinking about what I am writing I am just simply typing what is going through my head without thinking about it. I think this will help a lot. maybe I should just do this for a couple of days and maybe I will be able to reviveas a blogger. I feel so strange right now…

Sorry about the spelling mistakes, I just don’t want to worry about them right now…

So i have been on the HCG diet for like 3 or 4 weeks now. i started in the middle of Janary. I have lost almost 25 pounds already. I am starting to feel a lot better about the way I look. I have been moderately over weight for most of my life and I have always hated it.  I’m glad I’m finally making progress on it finally. Little things like this should make life better for me. I still have a long way to go in my weight loss, like 50 pounds, something like that anyway.

anyway, I’ll just stop here…

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January 2nd 2011

Sunday Snow and Ice

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Wow so it’s already January 2nd it doesn’t even feel like it really it still feels like it’s December to me.  The snow has been around for quite a while now. it snowed a few days ago again, around new years eve I think. The snow melted a little over the days but at night it get’s really cold here so that wet snow turned into ice and how our sidewalks are covered not only in snow but now in ice. I just about tripped when I was walking down the porch steps on my way to church it was so icy and slick.

I was up really early today, I could not sleep and woke up at around 6:14am much to my annoyance. I just decided to not fight it and just go along with it after trying to go back to sleep for about 15 or 20 minutes. I decided to just listen to some music so I plugged my headphones into my ipod and turned on pandora and just lied there just listening to music for about 45 minutes or so while I was thinking about random stuff.

After about 45 minutes I decided to just turn on my computer and go to pandora there instead. the headphones I have plugged into my computer are better quality than the ones I have for my iphone. Plus there was a song I wanted to look up on youtube so I could listen to it again “Desperate by Fireflight”. I love that song a lot it’s so addicting.  I got on facebook at this time as well and checked a few of my friends profiles and did some other stuff. I also logged into Destiny Online and said hi to some of my friends. Things were pretty much like this until about 9am when I decided to wash my hair.

I always wash my hair every sunday morning before church, otherwise it looks strange. I usually do not blow dry it except for on sunday, I don’t really like blowdrying very much. It drys funny sometimes, so I make sundays an exception to this.

We have this thing called fast sunday every month in my church, it basicly where we don’t eat anything for most of the day or all day.  I was feeling a little sick though so I just decided to skip it this time and I ate something.

I went back to what I was doing before after this.

Anyway, so back to where I was at the beginning. When I left for church around half past noon the sidewalks were prettty icy. i had to be really careful, and almost slipped once or twice on the way to the car.  I gota  ride to church with my mom.

I don’t remember what we talked about in church sadly, in either of my sunday school classes it’s really fuzzy. I did notice however that Darik and Dylan went to the other class earlier instead of the one I go to. They usually go to the one I go to. I used to go to the other one (there are 2 gospel doctrine classes in our 2nd hour of church). I started going to the one that our relief society meetings are in though, because it’s just easier for me to get a good seat.  I thought Darik and Dylan weren’t there , they just went to the other class though I did not realize this until the beginning of sacrament meeting though. I talked to Darik a little before sacrament meeting and showed various people my newly dyed hair.

I bore my testimony in church again this month. Every month we have a fast and testimony meeting where people can go up and tell about spiritual experiences and express to everyone spiritual feelings.  I went up and shared some experiences from my past. I seem to have a good habit going now. This is the 3rd month in a row where I have gone up.

Anyway after church I just talked to a  few people about the previous week and some other stuff then I went home. On my way home when I was leaving the church Darik and Dylan caught up to me in Darik’s car (that I love so much) and offered me a ride. I was really happy about this because there was a lot of ice on the ground like I said before.

When I got home I discovered much to my surprise that my mom had made soup (ministroni… or something I don’t know how to spell it but it’s super good). We had that for dinner.She also put out crackers on the counter. I grabbed a few and put them in my soup. I love sprinking cracker crumbs on my soup.

I have been working on some Asian dramas this past week and that took up most of my day today. I am watching Hana yori Dango, and Hana Kimi. I finished a drama called “you’re Beautiful”. a few days earlier. I’m slowly going down the list of the most popular asian dramas. I love asian dramas a lot.

Besides that I just played on Destiny, and watched Harry Potter with my family. 

Sundays are always my favorite day of the week because my family always gets to spend time together. 

Other than that just the usual was going on. Oh, and my brother got me Super Mario DS, and Diddy Kong Racing DS as well this made me very happy. I can tell I’m going to love bothof them since I loved the older versions. :)

anyway, that was my day today. :)

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January 1st 2011

Happy new Year and a Re-cap!

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Happy New Year everyone! I hope everything goes well for everyone on Xanga! I can’t believe it’s new years already!

I’ll give a recap of all the stuff I did not blog about during the end of the year.

Christmas week was very busy. My sister, my nephew and my brother in law came down from california to gisit us for christmas. My nephew Jax is so adorable. he is only 4 months old. i spent a lot of time around him it was fun watching him and stuff. he did spit up on me a few times though and that was not pleasant ha ha. 

Christmas week was busy, we did lot’s of shopping and buying various things for Christmas. We went to Bed Bath and Beyond, Ross, Burlington coat facorty, Wallmart, the mall and many other places and bought many things it was a big adventure for all of us and all of us most certainly came home every night with tired and sore feet. I know mine were at least. It seems that the week of christmas we went to every store in the city (which i know isn’t true it just seemed that way).

It was fun shopping with the family, we hardly ever get to do anything with each other so it was really nice.

My brother and my sister Linda got this huge TV for my dad to replace out really small one. We had to plan it so my dad was out shopping so we could move the big TV in the living room. It’s 27 inch. My brother and my sister’s husband did the moving. We had to move tales, plants, and other stuff so it could fit in the living room it was so crazy. We have a lot of plants so it was a  challenge.  it was so funny though seeing them moving all that stuff around just so they could fit a TV.

We played a lot of games, and ate a lot of pie and other great stuff. We had a lot of jellybeans as well. For some reason I kept getting a large amount of green ones.  It was a very sugary christmas. Surprisingly I did not gain any weight from it though. We always play a lot of games around the holidays it’s a standard thing in my family. We usually play board games, and card games. Now that I think about it we have never played video games together for years.

Anyway, christmas and christmas eve were pretty cool. Christmas eve we just watched movies, and played games and stuff. Christmas was a bit more exciting though. I was surprised when no one was up early in the morning on christmas day. it seems that everyone except for me and my sister Laura were the only ones up before 7am.  I could not sleep at all. Everyone was up until about 3am the night before and woke up around 9 or 10am in the morning.  We made breakfast around 10am and then got everyone together and opened presents.

Everyone got a good number of presents. it took us a good 2 hours or so to open presents. A lot of boxes of chocolates were opened. We, all 12 of us probably demolished 3 whole boxes. I got some makeup, a Nintendo DS, a Fullmetal Alchemist calendar, some clothes, some books, and a movie (my neighbor Totoro). My other family members got cothes, scarfs, my mom got a new cordless phone, a purse, and some other stuff. My sister got baby clothes for Jax, a lot of presents were under the tree. We had a lot of fun opening all of them.

We made apple skeebers for lunch. They are like round pancake balls with apple sauce in the middle and you dip them in this really great cinnamon sauce. most of the rest of my day was just games and playing with all the stuff we got, like the new TV, and my DS is pretty fun as well! i played with my niece and nephew a lot that day.

I got hair dye stuff for christmas as well, I knew I was getting it though because I picked it out the day before.  I dyed my hair with ION hair color Medium red hair dye. It’s sort of a really dark, purplish red. It looks really super nice though. I’ve never dyed my hair before. My sister did it for me. It’s so nice to have a different hair color for once. It looked like a horror shop when I was washing it out though, like I was washing blood out of my hair so freaky ha ha.  I was anticipating the coloring of my hair for that whole week and I was not dissappointed with the results. I’ll put pictures up later.

The rest of this week has been pretty normal after my sister left on Monday. Things went back to normal, we all started doing our own things after christmas, playing with our presents, I got my computer back, we fixed it, the holidays were amazing. I miss my nephew though a lot. He was so adorable and fun to play with.  I’ve been working on some new anime, and doing stuff on facebook all week and setting up my newly fixed computer.

We can play netflix and some other cool internet things on our new TV. I am working on watching LOST now. I’ve never watched it. I’m not very big on TV, haven’t been for about 4 or 5 years now. 

new Years Eve was nothing special for the most part except for the end when we got to count down together.  I just spend the day watching Asian dramas it was fun.

Anyway, if I remember anything I left out I will edit this.

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December 21st 2010

The Fun Begins

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Okay so my sister and my nephew aren’t here yet but once they are here and we all come together things are bound to get pretty interesting over the next few days. They should be here in a few hours!

I’ve just been doing the usual today for the most part. I could not sleep last night because I just want to meet my nephew so bad.  I did fall asleep on the couch earlier today though and got a few more hours of sleep.  The cat decided to take a nap with me, that was cute.  She curled up on my chest. I had a pillow covering my legs so she couldn’t shed on my black pants again. She managed to do it anyway while i was sleeping though when I changed positions haha. 

The snow is so pretty today. It snowed a lot more yesterday night.  I was up until 4am, my brother and his friends were playing DOTA until about 3am or so. I had to wind down so I just decided to sacrifice one more hour of sleep so i could listen to some music so I could relax. I make it a point never to try to sleep when they are playing down here because it’s really impossible. They are to noisy for me to even try.

A while after my last post yesterday, after my brother’s friend got on the computer I am using right now, I spilled a bag of Cheetoes on the floor on accident. It was really sad, we saved most of the cheetoes, but I still felt bad because the bag was practically full all the way. It was a pretty new bag and I just happened to set it in the wrong position on the table and it fell ha ha.  I took a picture and put it on my twitter last night as well.

I’ve been thinking of this for a while now, it would be nice it Xanga had a mobile site. I love Xanga a lot and would like to blog on the go. That would be so cool if they made a mobile version, seeing as I don’t like any of the other blogging sites out there except for maybe Tumblr, but even Tumblr can’t compare to Xanga at all.

I don’t remember if I mentioned this in my last post or not, but one of our neighbors brought over this box with a whole bunch of food in it. Amung the things was that bag of cheetoes I spilled yesterday night ha ha. There was also some cashews, some kind of chocolate snack bars, soup, and some other stuff. I always expect things to appear like this around christmas. We usually get something like this around Christmas or Thanksgiving.  I was hoping they would send us candycane cocoa again though.

Anyway, if i think up anything more to say I will edit this and update it. :)

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December 20th 2010

December Snow and Birthdays

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So today was Darik and Dylan’s birthday. I have no clue what they did today other than the christmas party that Darik mentioned to me yesterday. Speaking of Darik… he got his phone stolen by some jerk at the gym. Neither of us are happy about that for sure.  I sent them both a birthday text early this morning, before Darik got his phone stolen. 

Anyway, I woke up to snow (and not rain like yesterday). I was really happy about this. I woke up fairly early today. Sometime I just don’t feel like sleeping in. It’s nice to wake up early every once in a while.  My day started out the same as always. if you have read my posts you already probably have it memorized by now. The beginning of my day is never complete without music, facebook, and anime. I know that sounds incredibly nerdy. ha ha.  It is what I love though, so I guess there is nothing wrong with that.

I spent most of my time on facebook at first, but then went to the store a few hours later with my dad. We went to best buy and Costco and bought presents for my mom.  After that we went to subway and I got a foot long sub, and a cookie it was great.  It has been lightly snowing all day, I love it. I love how when the snow melts on my coat it looks like sparkles, it’s so cool.  I have a black wool coat. 

Anyway, after that I went home, and logged into Destiny Online. I haven’t played for a couple of weeks now since my computer is being fixed.  I really felt like logging on so I just downloaded it on this computer (which is one of my dad’s). I’ve been spending most of my day on there all day just catching up with my friends and stuff. 

Other than that I took a short nap in the early afternoon.  Yeah, my day was at least moderately interesting at least…  I’m really hoping Darik get’s his phone back soon, or get’s a new one.

Oh, and one more thing. I got a message from Sam today. He is going to be here until the end of the month. I’m so happy about that. I’ going to call him of course without a doubt.  I will have to tell you more about sam some other time. I don’t think I have mentioned him as much as I have mentioned  Darik and Dylan. Even though he is the person I like.

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December 19th 2010

Christmas Sundays with a Little Bit of Rain!

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So of all weather conditions it just had to rain today! I find that a little off. I don’t mind when it rains in the spring, or the summer, or heck, even the fall but I think winter is just pushing it a little too much.  It is supposed to SNOW in the winter, not rain!

Yeah, so like I said above, when I opened the door to go to church the first thing that got my attention was the rain. I had to go back inside and grab a hat since I have no umbrella at this point of time. 

Rewinding a little, my day started out how it usually does. You have probably caught on to the fact that I spend the first part of my day the same way every day usually. I wake up, go to my computer, listen to music, check for anime updates, check facebook, and then I go eat breakfast.  After I did this I washed my hair, ate breakfast, and then blowdryed my hair, listened to music for a bit more, and then got dressed for church and then I was off! Yes, I know nothing super spactacular, but sundays are about worship over here so I don’t feel any particular dislike for that today.

Today in church we talked about distractions on Sunday, and how to spend it to it’s fullest.  In the 2nd part we discuss the bible, we are on Ezra right now, and some other book I forgot how to spell that is below it.  I sat by Dylan again today in this part of class. He usually sits either near me or next to me which I really like I won’t lie about that.  Darik was 3 seats away from me. We have never really sat by each other before but it would be nice though! Surprisingly I was not thinking about Dylan, well I was sort of but I was thinking about the lesson and about Sam a lot more at that point in time. I managed to sneak a picture of dylan during class. I don’t think he noticed I took it ha ha. I did it just for amusement. I was curious as to if I could take one without him noticing and I did!

Anyway, after that it was sacrament meeting. Today was the christmas program. I loved the christmas program. The choir took up most of sacrament meeting and sang songs, and of course the congregation did too! There was a story weaved into the singing as well it was pretty good.  The script for the story was written by none other than my childhood friend Devin which I thought was pretty cool!

Anyway, it was still raining after church. I got a ride home from Dylan again, that always makes my day.  I caught up with him after church and he just asked me.

anyway here I am just listening to music again. if anything happens after this I will update this post. :)

EDIT:

Got back from visiting teaching a while ago. It’s basically we are assigned different people to go visit and share a gospel related topic. We have a companion and usually visit 2 people.  It can be interesting sometimes.

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December 18th 2010

Holiday Parties… and Fires.

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So there is this old Tabernacle around where I live. Anyway, something went wrong yesterday morning and it caught on fire. This building is like 70 or more years old and it was quite treasured by the people around here. Even in my family it held a lot of memories. My parents have performed in various choirs in this tabernacle. The whole structure looked classic, it was pretty neat. The fire lasted pretty long and destroyed most of the tabernacle. It was burning all day yesterday and firemen were there all day trying to put it out. I went with my mom and dad yesterday and went to go see the fire. They had the area taped off on all sides, but you could still get close enough to really see what was happening.  The fire was still going by midnight, that is when we went to see it. I got a lot of pictures and stuff since this is actually a pretty historic event over here.  It was lightly snowing and my face was frozen it was so cold.  Over all it was a pretty interesting experience for me to see it burned down.  I even have a few memories in that tabernacle.

I spent a good part of the day at first just listening to music, watching movies, videos, reading blogs, and looking at various pictures. That seems to take up a lot of my time.  Yesterday was the 2nd Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert, the 2nd day. Tonight is the last official concert and then something is going to happen tomorrow but I don’t know what. Probably some special broadcast or something.  My parents were gone most of the time the last 3 or so days. Well actually longer than that. They have been practicing with the choir for weeks.  I should see more of them next week with it being Christmas and all though. It’s been a crazy week this week with the birth of my new niece and all.

Yesterday after my parents went to the 2nd concert I was alone for a while. My ward was having a christmas party that evening. I just hung around and did the usual, but almost forgot to charge my phone. it was at 28% by that time. I plugged it into the charger soon after that and got ready or the party.  I let myself be a little late because I didn’t want to unplug my phone before it got to at LEAST 60% on the battery.

Anyway, I couldn’t find a ride so I just walked over to the church. I won’t lie it was a little creepy. The ground was lightly covered with frost and everything looked eerie. I almost turned back once or twice. I made it there though it wasn’t to far away.  I was glad to get inside by then it was freezing outside.  I walked into the gym of the church and they had ights strung on the cealing and stuff it was pretty cool. I think there should have been more lights though because it was sort of dark a little. I could still see thankfully.

there were tables with white, table cloth, and some sort of red decoration on it, they also put greenery on the tables and scattered Hershey’s kisses all over the tables. It was pretty cute.

For dinner we had enchelatas and this rice stuff I don’t know what i was. There was also fruit punch, that was pretty good. I love fruit punch a lot. Anyway, after I ate I just sat there at one of the tables and just talked with people. After a while of talking and eating Erin ( the person that arranged and planned the party) told us about the various things near the back of the gym that people had gotten for this one family that is having a hard time. We decided to sub for santa or this family. All of us worked for a while wrapping the presents for the family. I actually left most of it to the others and just walked around helping with various random things.

After we finished that we did the white elephant game. Each of us had a cheap or used present that we bought or no longer wanted, Erin read a story that had a seried of “lefts and rights” in it. Whenever she said right or left we would pass the present each direction. At the end of the story we opened our random presents. I got something really crappy that made me want to throw up.  I got canned chillies which I think is just so gross really. I could hardly stand to look at the can. I am non fond of canned veggies, and stuff like that I prefer it to be fresh.  I thought it was funny though and none the less  got a good laugh out of it anyway.

After that we were told a few stories by some people in the ward they were pretty good.

One of my friends, amber kept on asking me if either Darik or Dylan texted me back the whole time I was there. I didn’t mind but she makes me laugh sometimes.  I did text them but Darik didn’t text me back until about an hour after the party ended.   I’m getting off subject here ha ha.

Anyway, the party was pretty much over after the stories. I hung around for a while and just helped with various things. I got a ride home with one of my neighbors after that. 

After I got home I just decided to kic back and relax and read various blogs, and fan fictions of a random sort until my parents came home. :)

Anyway, that was my day yesterday, it was pretty interesting. I wish i could have gone to the concert again though ha ha

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December 17th 2010
Music and Christmas Cheer!

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So pretty much yesterday was awesome. Yesterday was a dress rehearsal for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. David Archuleta is the guest singer for the next 3 days, he sounds like an angel!

Anyway, so my day began pretty normal yesterday. I did the usual, updating twitter, checking facebook, looking at pictures, listening to music. Stuff like that takes up a lot of my day usually. Around 30 minutes to noon I started getting ready for the concert. I washed my hair and stuff, got dressed, then I decided since I was sort of still tired and only got about 6 hours of sleep I would take a nap before the concert.

I took the nap with my towel still on it was a little weird but I slept for about 45 minutes before I took it off and then went back to sleep for another 30 minutes. My hair was still wet when I woke up but it was really funny because it was all over the place. It has a tendency to do that when it’s wet and not brushed.  It was about 3pm by this time. I blow dried my hair and did my bangs, and got my jewelry together. it was about 3:30pm by then. I just sort of hung out while I was waiting for my dad to get back and got some other stuff together like my glasses and my monocular.

We left at about 4pm and drove up to Salt Lake. We stopped at subway on the way there and ate dinner. All 7 of us were packed into our 6 passenger car it was pretty cramped. I was listening to pandora radio on my phone the whole entire time we were driving, and snacking on roasted almonds.  My brother brought a date, she was pretty nice. The car drive wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. My nieces were pretty noisy though, but not to noisy.

There was a lot of traffic, we got there at about 5:15 or 5:30 I think. The city was pretty busy that day, it took us forever to park. Lucky for us both my parents are in the choir and they have a place to park just for choir members. Otherwise it would have been harder for us to find parking… a lot harder.

So after we parked, we just made sure everything was in order and then we went our seperate ways. My mom and dad went to go get dressed for the concert and we went to get in line.

We were in line for about 45 minutes, during that time my little niece had to go to the bathroom and it was funny because she tried to hold it but couldn’t. we eventually got her in to the building somehow with the help of some guards and she got to go. We were standing in line for  45 minutes or so like I said before. It was pretty cold, but I had a good coat on. I showed my brother’s girlfriend some pictures of the guy I like (Sam), and talked about some of my other friends.  I also texted Darik a few times while I was waiting. He texted me back which made me really quite happy.

They opened the doors to the conference center at about 6:30 or 6:35. We were all pretty excited to go inside. They checked our purses, and our tickets and we went through the metal detector. After that we went inside and found our seats. I sent a picture to Darik when I was in my seat, he thought it was pretty cool, and he wished he could go. I wanted to give him tickets, but we didn’t have any extras to my memory, I did ask my mom later though just in case but she said she didn’t have any more. :(

The concert started at about 8pm it was so nice. David Archuleta sent chills up my spine with his angelic singing, and the choir too! Everything about it was magical. There were dancers and the lighting and stuff was so pretty!  We had pretty great seats as well on top of that.

My niece Kayla was a little noisy at first and a person behind us actually scolded her once for bothering them. I made it a point for the whole rest of the concert to not let that happen again and made sure she payed attention to what she was supposed to be paying attention to.  She was pretty good after a while. She is only 7 so we were a bit worried how she would behave, she was pretty good though.

I brought my glasses and my monocular so I could see better and wouldn’t miss anything.

The concert lasted about an hour and a half, after t was finished we just sat in our seats and waited for the choir members to leave, then we went to find the car.

We encountered a bit of trouble with that though and decided to just wait until my dad found us in the parking so he could help us find the car. My mom came too after a few minutes and we went to the car after that.

We weren’t stuck in traffic as long as I thought we would be. We actually got out fairly quickly.

We just drove home and talked about family stuff, memories and some other things.  I was just listening to music the whole entire time again. I was really worn out by the time I got home. Crowds really tire me out sometimes.

I just go on the computer and watched anime for a while and then went to bed after that.

It was a pretty fun day yesterday! :)

You know those times when you meant to only take a nap and end up sleeping a lot longer than you meant to? I had one of those experiences yesterday evening. It was the evening around 7 or 8pm and I decided to just lie on my bed and watch anime on my phone via the crunchyroll app. I don’t really remember what I was watching, but reading the subtitles, the really small subtitles on the phone kinda made me really tired. I meant to only take a nap or at most probably sleep for 1 or 2 hours but I ended up sleeping until around 4am instead. I was really surprised to look at the clock and see it read “Monday March 14th”. I was not expecting to sleep that long. On top of that I could not get back to sleep at all so I decided to just get on my computer and see what was happening on Destiny Online and facebook and a few other things.

Nothing much was happening on facebook so I turned my attention to Destiny and decided I would start my bot. I bought a 5 hour bot on the game and bought the potions and the training scrolls and then went to my map on the game. After I started the bot I just talked to friends, and watched a few videos on Youtube. I did end up trying to go back to sleep a few times but I couldn’t do it.  I just watched some One Piece for a while after this.

Things have pretty much been like this, though by now my character on Destiny Online has done 12 hours of botting now. I could have trained by myself and not use the bot but i don’t like what all that clicking does to my wrist. I’m glad they decided to put the bot on Panda server now even though I was against it at first.

Anyway, nothing much has happened today yet besides this. I will update if anything else happens. I’m just playing Tetris, finding out some good leg warm ups and stretches for when I start running and keeping an eye on my bot on Destiny.

Can’t think up a decent title today but I had to put something!

The weather seems to be turning good. It’s been pretty sunny the past few days with no snow and it’s been in the 50s at some times. I don’t know how long it will last but I like the way it is right now.

So I’ve been working on a few TV shows this week. I actually started watching Supernatural, and caught up on Smallville. I really like Supernatural it’s so creepy, but honestly I think it might be a bit to much for me. It’s a great show and all but it has so many things that aren’t good. I might not continue with it anymore. It definitely is the king od Thriller / horror / suspense TV shows though. I’ve never had much of a stomach for horror, well this kind of horror / thriller. I did get all the way to the 4th season though. Some of you might call me crazy for watching a show like Supernatural, I don’t blame you it is intense and crazy. I don’t think I’m going to watch it anymore honestly. It just gives me a bad feeling. There is to much about demons and evil and stuff, it gives me the creeps. I love the show I won’t lie but I know I probably shouldn’t watch it because it gives me a bad feeling.I’d rather avoid stuff like that.

This is what I have been doing for most of this week. Yeah, I know it’s kind of dumb. I have also been doing a few things on Destiny Online though. Like I said in my last entry I have been catching up and leveling my characters somewhat. I don’t feel like actually playing most of the time. I kind of feel like it’s sort of a waste of time honestly. I’ve just never had much motivation to do anything but talk to my friends on that game. The game isn’t that great anyway so it’s not like I have anything to lose. In all honesty I only stay because there are some really cool people on there. I mostly just talk to people or walk around or sometimes I just log in and then go to whatever I was doing in Firefox. 

I also started playing Angels Online again. I think the game is really cute and it’s a braeth of fresh air to retrun to it after a low grade game like Destiny.

I am waiting for a game called Altis Gates right now it’s made by IGG, the same company as Angels Online. If i end up liking the game I’m going to quit Destiny for good.

I’ve pretty much stopped posting blogs on Xanga for now. I don’t know I just don’t feel like it for some reason. I tried to return to Xanga a few times but I’m just not feeling it. I think I like tumblr a lot more.

I haven’t been spending as much time on facebook lately, I don’t really like playing the games on there that much and no one really talks to me so I usually just log on and open another tab in my browser and do something else. I usually play tetris or read blogs and stuff. I also spend a lot of time on Yahoo answers sometimes. I love Yahoo answers I think it is fun to answer people’s questions. Sometimes I just listen to pandora radio and red manga as well. I do plenty of things besides just play Destiny Online and surf facebook. Sometimes I feel like I am not doing anything worth while but now that I think about it that isn’t really true.  Hmm… interesting.

I also have a World of Warcraft account but honestly I never play it. I’m just not that interested honestly. I think I’m going to unsubscribe soon maybe.

Anyway I am just going to go back to reading manga now. I think this is all for today.

So yesterday in the middle of the night sometime (in the USA anyway), an earthquake happened under water. This earthquake was 8.9 on the Richter Scale. I was really surprised by this. I’ve always loved Japan a lot. I am also a huge anime and manga fan. I think the country in a whole is amazing altogether. I have some friends in Japan as well, I’m just glad none of them got seriously hurt. It was all pretty big deal for us anime and manga fans. We have all be scrambling to find out if all our favorite manga artists are alright or not. So far everything has been good, no one we love is dead, or hurt so far. My prayers definitly go out to everyone in Japan though, not just my favorite manga artists though. I really hope everything goes well from here. I am glad they are prepared for this kind of thing. I hope they recover well.

So yesterday we had a Stake meeting (a church meeting). Every 6 months our Stake has a Stake Conference. It’s basically where all the wards in the Stake get together and have a big 2 hour meeting. Everyone in every ward comes to this and it replaces the normal church schedule for that week. Then we do it again 6 months later. Stake conference usually takes place about a month before General Conference, where I live anyway.

Anyway every time we have Stake conference there is a meeting for all the adults the night before. I somehow manage to forget this every time. I was playing Destiny Online and writing stuff and it totally slipped my mind yesterday. My dad reminded me about an hour before the meeting started. I was a little ticked off by this but I went and washed my hair and stuff and got ready. I was late of course. In fact by the time we left it was already 45 minutes through the adult meeting. We were very late. I was in a better mood by this time though. The meeting was good, I don’t really remember exactly what they talked about though. Even though this is the case I still feel like I gained something from it however.

I don’t really remember what the talks were about in Stake conference either… a little embarrassing I must admit. It happens to me a lot. Stake conference was still pretty good. Today I sat in the foyer because i was late. I didn’t really feel like walking around looking for a seat. I felt like that would distract everyone else. I remember little bits of the talks here and there. I know they were largely focused on Christ. Other than that I probably couldn’t give you the specifics even if I tried ha ha.

Anyway, other than that today has been a cold cloudy day. My mom made Cream of Broccoli soup though. I have always loved that soup.  I have just been listening to Pandora radio and talking to people on facebook. Just the usual stuff, nothing is really special today except for the fact we had Stake conference.

I guess that is all for now. :)

So my mom cut my hair yesterday. I used to be really picky about how long my hair was. Back in the day I hated short hair, I always had my hair long. Somewhere along the way though I got tired of it and started cutting my hair every 2 and a half years. I have donated to Locks of Love 2 times in the past. Usually when I grow my hair out I let it grow all the way to my shoulders. I cut my hair sometime last year, I think sometime in the fall. I usually let it grow out but I didn’t feel like it this time. I have also started dying my hair red lately. It is a lot more expensive to dye hair when it’s longer and it takes more time. I decided to cut it again to just above my shoulders. I no longer hate short hair. I actually think I’m a bit more creative with my hair when it’s short. I tend to have a lot more fun with it when I don’t have so much of it to worry about it. When my hair was longer it took forever to brush and blow dry. Now it’s a lot easier and takes up less time.

My mom cut it yesterday. In the past I usually got nervous when cutting my hair but yesterday I had her do it without a second thought. I have been thinking about it for a few months now. 

It took her about 45 minutes. One thing that happened was that I hadn’t drank anything or eaten very much before she cut it. On top of that I was locking my knees. I started to feel really dehydrated and dissy and I actually turned white while she was cutting my hair and I freaked her out ha ha.  I think I was locking my knees. I had to sit down and recover, I also drank some water and ate an orange. I have never almost passed out before it was a weird sensation. I’m glad I didn’t pass out that would have been bad.

When this happened she was almost done anyway, so it didn’t interfere with much. She had to got to work so she did the basics and worried about the details later yesterday night. She just had to fix my bangs a little and my taper yesterday evening it wasn’t much really.

My hair is so much easier to manage since I cut it shorter I love it a lot. I am planning on getting it dyed again soon. I really prefer having it red.

Also, yesterday my brother and his girlfriend came over and made ministroni. I’ve always loved that kind of soup it’s always great when my mom makes it. It was great this time too when my brother and his girlfriend made it as well. I think they did a pretty good job doing it. I think I had 2 bowls.

My mom made beef skillet I think 2 days ago. We usually have that over chips or on a tortilla. I love beef skillet as well. I actually had that for lunch yesterday. Having Ministroni after that was just great since both are delicious.

Speaking of food, since I got off my diet I haven’t gained any weight, I’ve stayed pretty steady. I’m super happy about this. I’ve been being really careful about what I eat and how much I eat. I would hate it if I gained weight that would be bad. I don’t think I will though as long as I keep this up.

Anyway, I guess this is all. I don’t think I forgot anything.

So the past couple of days have been crazy game wise. Some of you know I play Destiny Online, well a few days ago a friend of mine was fooling around with the game trying to find bugs. He was trying to find bugs and stuff in the game and in the process of fooling around he made the whole server disconnect. At first he didn’t know what he did but when he figured it out things got a little out of hand. You wouldn’t believe how many times everyone got kicked off the game that day, he kept on using it. This was 2 days ago, he kept on using it and eventually he managed to make everyone in the server mad at him. A whole bunch of us got tired of it and reported it to the administrators of the game.  Our disconnecting eventually died down, I think the last time everyone was disconnected was yesterday. The admins of the game are working on a permanent solution to this problem, they expect it to be fixed some time later tonight. This is a picture of what he did to make us disconnect. It’s a bit more complicated than just the numbers you see. EternalLight is one of my characters on the game.  I disconnected about 3 seconds after this was taken.

I usually can laugh at the things he does in the game but this was just too annoying. He is usually pretty funny and stuff but making me log in over and over again is just way to annoying.

Another downside to this is that I couldn’t open a booth and sell stuff because I would just disconnect not long after opening one. I have done this since it stopped and made a lot of silver. I’m so glad it stopped. I usually open the booth and then do something else. I usually have 3 clients open so I an sell something while I play another character.

I actually don’t play as much as people might think. A lot of time I just talk to people or do stuff outside the game. It’s nice to play, but I don’t actually train my characters very much. I’m famous on the game for being on it for over 2 years and yet not having a really high level character. I just don’t like to waste to much time on playing games like this. I mostly just talk to my friends now most of the time.

Anyway, I guess this is all for now.

I won’t lie, if I could choose any occupation even the ones that aren’t possible in a normal world I would choose a superhero.  I’ve always been a big fan of superheroes my whole life. Superman, batman, spiderman, supergirl, green arrow, the flash, etc. I could name so many I am familiar with. I grew up watching shows like X Men, and the old superman cartoons. I’ve never had a chance to read any comics but I still know who a lot of superheroes are.

If I could have any power it would either be shapeshifting, or wind manipulation.  I would prefer to have both if I could though.

I’ve always loved to help people, it is in my nature. Despite the fact I have some social problems and have trouble being around people sometimes and talking to them I have a natural urge to help people and I just want them to be happy.  I don’t think I will have my social problems for much longer, I have already gotten better. Once I can overcome my social problem I plan to become a force for good in this world and use my writing and my future expertise in psychology to help people live better lives and possibly change the world. 

Words are powerful things and if i can learn how to use them to my full advantage then I will be able to help a lot of people. I’ve always loved to write, I write everything from songs to poetry to short stories. I also love to read a lot as well and often find inspiration from a lot of authors.

I love finding out how the mind works which is why I am choosing psychology for my 2nd major. I want to learn how the human mind works. I know if I learn enough I can use the knowledge to help a lot of people.

This is my solution for not being able to become a superhero. As long as I have a way to help others even without super powers I will be happy.

You don’t need to be able to be like Superman to be some sort of hero. :)

I’ve always been a big Superman fan my whole life. I love the movies, the TV shows, everything really. When I was 11 years old they introduced Smallville, I was excited. Honestly though, with everything going on in my life right then I kind of forgot about the show until it was it’s 2nd season. I started to watch it in the 2nd season and got hooked along with my other family members. We all pretty much love Superman. I am not the only one. 

I was a pretty faithful watcher of the show until about 3 or 4 years ago when I graduated from high school and had my first year of college.  I took a break from it and it just kind of faded in my head. I’ve watched it sparingly over the past couple of years. I’ve been meaning to get back into it but I never really did because I was so pre-occupied with anime. About a week ago however I started watching it again. I’m on season 7 now. I’m glad I reviewed a little. Now I am taking a break from it because season 7 is where I left off last time. I’m reading stuff on the smallville wiki and learning more about the show before I continue in a few days. I am just making sure I understand all the story lines and characters and stuff.

My favorite character is Chloe. :)

I also love Clark though. The guy that plays him is really amazing.

I did watch the latest episode. It looks like it just get’s better from what I’ve seen in “Masquerade” and “Fortune” episodes. :)

I haven’t really worried about my antivirus ever since I restored my computer. I just didn’t think it was that important yet. Honestly I still am not that concerned about it, I do have an antivirus program on my computer now however. Only downside to this is it is making my computer slower. My computer isn’t that great so I’m not really surprised. At least the one I have now (avast free) doesn’t make my computer seem like it’s had a 1 ton weight slowing it down. I tried a trial version of webroot but then it started making FireFox crash every time I tried to use certain sites (including this one), and my computer was going really slow. I got avast free after that and it’s running smoother now. I decided since I don’t buy anything online, or store private info on my computer I didn’t need the “extra” protection. No need to exhaust my computer by using a really bloaty software that make it run like a tortoise.

I try to keep my ancient computer is it’s best condition. It’s not like i have the money to buy another one right now.

Anyway, I’ve been spending the past couple of days catching up on Smallville. I love that show it is my favorite. I have not watched Smallville lately though. I was caught up in other things and decided to take a break from it for a while but I am back to it now. I’ve always been a huge superman fan my whole life so Smallville is a staple in my life.

I was going to have my mom cut my hair tonight but she was too tired, so we are going to wait until Monday night to do it. I can’t wait personally. I need to dye my hair again as well and if I cut it it will just make it easier to dye it again. I kind of like shorter hair better now. It’s a lot easier to take care of shorter hair and I feel like I can do a lot more with it as well.  I think overall it’s a lot more enjoyable from my point of view.

Anyway, for now I feel like this is all I need to say.