"I'm happy, hope you're happy, too..."

Yes, I'm on a David Bowie kick. But I truly am happy. Sort of.

I'm happy because Grandma's back at the hospital she was in before. I'm also happy that I got to see my sister, and that we had Indian food for dinner the night before last, and that we watch An Evening with Kevin Smith. Because he's awesome and Jason Mewes is gorgeous.

However, Grandpa was being an ass the day before last.

I've been thinking about getting a job. Only problem is, where? I'm thinking the Coles in the mall, or the Wal-Mart near my house. Maybe the Tim Horton's by my house, which is only about a ten to fifteen minute walk.

That, and I feel like making a musical instrument. Specifically, a drum. I think I got that idea from watching a 'visit Ireland' ad on TV, and in one of those ads there's a guy beating a small drum with a kind of double-ended stick. I'm probably making no sense right now :p

Also, I got to hear 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by U2 in church this morning, which made it worth going to church. I think I'll sign up for one of the upcoming Music Sundays. I don't know what I'll sing, though. Or maybe I'll make a drum like the one in the 'visit Ireland' commercial and just beat the drum.

Maybe the idea of making a drum came from someone in church playing these drums this morning...

Anyways, the two DVDs, My Neighbor Totoro and the third InuYasha movie, are at the library for me to pick up on Tuesday. Sweet. I also have a book on the second World War to pick up, and French Girl Knits is in transit. Sweet :)

So yeah. I want to make a drum.

I should be doing schoolwork

...But instead I'm on Blogger. I'm really weirded out, still. And my eating habits aren't as Hobbit-like as before - I'm not eating as much. In fact, I don't think I ate anything for breakfast, but I had a glass of juice. And I don't think I woke up until 10-ish. I'm starting to feel hungry, though, which is a plus.

So, last night I reserved My Neighbor Totoro and the second InuYasha movie. The InuYasha movie is in transit now, and I probably won't have to wait too long for Totoro either.

In addition to my weird eating habits, I've been really tired, too. Some days I feel like going back to bed and not coming out until dinnertime. I don't know if I'm going to youth group tonight, because Mom and Dad might visit Grandma tonight. Part of me wants to go to youth group, because I'd be getting out of the house, but another part of me feels like staying home and watching movies.

That's all I've felt like doing lately - watching movies. That, and reading, writing and knitting. I haven't done math for two days straight, partly because of headaches.

I did go to the library yesterday, though. Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders is pretty good, although I'm not entirely sure what to knit from it. Maybe the 'Berry Jewellery Bag' thing. But that requires reading a lace chart. eep.

I should probably go eat now.

Oh great....

MY BIOLOGY PROGRAM IS NOT OPENING AGAIN. I HAD IT OPEN AND WORKING YESTERDAY, SO THIS IS REALLY PISSING ME OFF.

I'm gonna go eat now...

Headache, go away :(

I should be doing biology, but I don't feel like staring at the texts in the biology program right now. At least my headache is starting to fade, 'cause it was a real pain a few minutes ago.

Stress, stress, stress. Mainly to do with my grandmother's health, although I won't go into detail 'cause I don't think certain relatives want me plastering the details on the internet. But it's really tiring me and Mom out.

Because I needed a brainless knitting project, I started a plain stockinette scarf out of my off-white Lion Brand Fun Fur Solid. It looks really neat, like a piece of wolf fur. I was working on it while watching Princess Mononoke, so I named the project San, who is the 'wolf girl' in the movie. I love that movie...

So, I'm on an anime kick. Not just Princess Mononoke, but also InuYasha, which I've been watching on YouTube. I think I'm going to reserve some more Hayao Miyazaki films from the library, because I need something to keep my mind off Grandma, and something to do while Mom and Dad are visiting her. In a nutshell, Grandma is limited as to how many visitors she can have, and if I'm there, we'd be pushing our luck. And because I'm not sure how to work the VCR part of the VCR/DVD player with the new TV, I can't watch Tokyo Godfathers, which is on a VHS tape. Damn. I might reserve My Neighbor Totoro, which I still haven't seen. And maybe some feel-good-ish movies like Grease (which I haven't seen in years), or those popular teenage movies that I never saw like The Breakfast Club. I have seen part of Pretty in Pink, however, and a teeny, miniscule bit of Sixteen Candles.

Phew.

I didn't do any math yesterday, mainly because of stress and wanting to throw my sketchbook against the wall. Note to self: never work on manga drawing when you're stressed out.

I hope this counts as 'school work'...

Maybe I'll borrow the third and fourth InuYasha movies from the library, too.

I have to go to the library, actually, to pick up Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders, a Robert Plant CD, and a few other items. I don't think I have any DVDs to pick up, though...

March Break in Review

Let's look at that list again, shall we?

1. Vacuum my room.
2. Clean off my table.
3. Go on the local college's website and apply for a catalogue.
4. Go on Amnesty International's website to see if there are any letter-writing campaigns, or something similar, that don't require a membership fee or anything. Also, see how much a membership would cost. (went to their site, but only briefly.)
5. Do a lot of laundry - which I've already started doing.
6. E-mail Stephen to suggest a summer youth service.
7. Dust my room.
8. Get Dad to help me reinstall Human 3D

Yup, Dad finally helped me reinstall my biology program! Yay!

I never got 'round to vacuuming and dusting and cleaning off my table. Maybe next weekend.

I'm staying home from church because a) I don't feel like getting dressed, and b) I don't feel very church-y.

Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, and a march break to-do list

A Night with Kevin Smith was hilarious last night! Super Channel (I think?) showed the one filmed in Canada and the one filmed in Britain together. Mom thinks the one in Britain was funnier than the one in Canada.

Jason Mewes appeared in it, too. I guess him and Kevin Smith's humor would be considered R-rated. It's pretty rude and crude, but still hilarious.

So, here's a March Break to-do list...

1. Vacuum my room.
2. Clean off my table.
3. Go on the local college's website and apply for a catalogue.
4. Go on Amnesty International's website to see if there are any letter-writing campaigns, or something similar, that don't require a membership fee or anything. Also, see how much a membership would cost.
5. Do a lot of laundry - which I've already started doing.
6. E-mail Stephen to suggest a summer youth service.
7. Dust my room.
8. Get Dad to help me reinstall Human 3D.

The New Facebook (again)

I hate it. It took me a little while to figure out how to update my status via my profile. And you can't write on your own Wall anymore. Jerks.

With that rant put aside, I didn't get to watch Ugly Betty last night, so I'll have to watch it online. Hopefully CityTV has last night's episode up now. Tonight there's a program with Kevin Smith - I think it's a question-and-answer thing. And The Graham Norton Show is on, too. I don't know if it conflicts with the Kevin Smith thing or not, though.

I have to do laundry tonight :p

Haven't posted it a bit...

So yesterday was... well, it started out good. Uncle Brent came over for lunch because he and Mom had a family meeting to go to regarding Grandma's health. So we ate sandwiches and watched Rosanne - I had a ham and cheese sandwich, Mom and Uncle Brent had egg salad sandwiches (so that they could fart during the meeting... haha).

It was when Mom got back that the day started going not-so-good. Grandpa is pretty much refusing to believe that the stroke was as harsh as it was.

Youth group was terrible. Everyone kept talking all at once and I forgot to do a check-in or to propose a summer youth service. So now I'll have to e-mail the idea to Stephen. Long story short, I walked out of the loft and sat on the bench for a little while. I tried to give them a second chance, though. I did walk back into the loft. But most of the younger members kept being immature, so I walked out again and waited until Dad came to pick me up. I should have just called him and asked him to come early, but I didn't want to disturb him. Next time, I will call.

Today I woke up twice. The first time I woke up, Smiles was running around my room like a lunatic and then jumped up on my bed. I fell asleep again, and woke up a second time, at around 9-ish or 10-ish. Probably 10-ish, because when I eventually dragged my ass outta bed it was around 11:00.

Didn't do math today, but I did some yesterday while Mom and Uncle Brent were at the meeting. I also finished watching the entire DVD set of Are You Being Served?. I was going to go to the library today, but I might have to go tomorrow...

I picked up the wretched clutch again

...and I figured out what was wrong with it - the stitches were twisted. So, after a bit of untwisting (and I think a bit of frogging as well), I fixed it. Hopefully the diamond pattern will show up. I probably should've practised the diamond pattern beforehand with some scrap yarn, but I didn't think of that at the time.

The Calorimetry is close to being finished - I have a few more Row 7 repeats to do, and then the Row 8 stuff, and the bind off. And sewing on the button, of course. I'm not sure what button I'll use - maybe I'll use the other purple button. Or the other star button. Speaking of buttons, I should get one of those bags o' buttons from Len's and start a button jar. My mom recently moved her button jar into a dish for easier access.

My dad bought cannoli from our favourite bakery today, because he and Mom were craving it, thanks to Phantom Gourmet. So I had three Sicilian cannoli. Yum :)

Oh, and Mom thinks that Dad was faking the headache to get out of going to church because he said that the loud TV volume wasn't bothering it. No comment.

Feeling loads better.

I'm not as stuffed up today, which is great. I should be well enough to go to youth group on Wednesday.

The past couple of days have been pretty nice. I think the weather's finally turning spring-like. Last night it was raining, which I thought was great. I went outside in the rain, wearing my hiking-style boots, to bring in a couple of dog toys that found their way outside. Smiles came with me to 'help' - in other words, I picked up the toys while she danced about in hopes that I would throw one. The ground was pretty soft, and I got mud and stuff on my boots, so I gave them a wash when I came back in.

Katie came over yesterday. She got me and Dad a T-shirt each in St. Martin - she was over there... last week? My shirt's quite pretty. We had turkey for dinner, 'cause Mom and Dad bought a turkey (or several??? I can't remember) on sale. I went back for the last of the Brussels sprouts.

We didn't go to church today because Dad had a really bad headache this morning. I'm not complaining, because it means that I can stay in my pajamas.

Oh, and I e-mailed Holly, since I haven't e-mailed her in ages.

I have to go eat soon...

Afterwards

So Nathan's visit went well. He offered to help me get rid of the remnants of the biology program, but I declined.

I think I miss actually talking to my brother. One time at Grandma and Grandpa's house - it was for a party of some kind, but I can't remember for whom - we just sat in Grandma's kitchen and talked, with their little radio on. They have this little TV with a radio built in. Pretty nifty. Nathan was put to work putting trays of hors d'oevres (I'm probably spelling it wrong) in the oven and then taking them out and serving them - I think Aunt Patti made him do that. I wouldn't put it past her. Anyways, we just sat on the floor and talked. Normally my brother is a social butterfly, but at family functions he often prefers to socialize with only a few people. So today we all chatted pretty normally - me, Nathan, Mom and Steph.

I thought about something else today, too. Before I get into that, I should probably say that the dojo where I got my black belt was not the dojo I had originally started karate at. The dojo I started at was a place closer to our house, and it's in the same plaza as a good fish-and-chips place. We left after I got my red belt, though, because we didn't like the way the instructors - namely, Mr. M and Mr. C - were teaching the classes.

Anyways. What I was thinking about today was a particular evening at that dojo. In the class, all of the boys, directed by Mr. M, had to briefly leave the class because they had all thrown their coats on the floor of the men's change room. While they were attending to the mess, Mr. V had us girls go through our katas (katas are patterns of stances, blocks, kicks, etc, and are pretty much imaginary fights). I was thinking this evening that Mr. V really took us seriously in that class - in all the classes he taught, in fact. That was something neither Mr. M nor Mr. C ever did.

That memory makes me feel awesome.

In other news, my nose hasn't been dripping as much today, which is good. I have thus far watched two discs of Are You Being Served? - one disc yesterday, the other disc today. The whole series is seven discs long, but I think the seventh disc is just special features. So that's cool :) I had a book due back to the library today, and didn't return it today, but I'm not too worried. I have change to pay for fines.

A little less gross-feeling today...

I'm still stuffed up and groggy, but last night I was pretty alert and stayed up late enough to watch U2 on Letterman. They kicked ass :)

So today is my brother's birthday. He's supposed to come over after lunch. I didn't get him anything, and I'll probably be hiding in my room as much as possible. And I don't feel that awful about not getting him something - after all, he re-gifted an anime DVD to me, which I think I can only play on my computer, I can't figure out how to put it on my hard drive, and it's one whole season of Naruto with no, like, episode selection or anything, so I'm not gonna sit through several hours of Naruto to figure out where I left off. I'll just borrow the box sets from the library.

I wound up not going to youth group last night, as I had predicted. I was probably still contagious, and neither Jeff nor Stephen want us to come to youth group sick, because they can't get sick.

Anyways. I was going to give Nathan two pennies for his birthday, but Mom told me not to, because it's 'just nasty'. Bleh. I'll just hide in my room, reading Blood and Chocolate and listening to either David Bowie or Gavin Rossdale. And I have an excuse - I'm sick! ;)

Blech

Okay, so I'm not literally wasting away, but I certainly feel like it.

I got some writing done, though. I started some Labyrinth fanfiction and worked on my Harry Potter fanfiction. I read a bit of Blood and Chocolate, too, but not a lot.

My right nostril is dripping, which isn't very pleasant. On the upside, U2 are on Letterman this week (I missed them last night, though... damn), and I have the entire DVD set of Are You Being Served? out of the library. I don't think I'll be going to youth group tomorrow, though... dammit.

Oh, and I've also been in love with this song lately...

Back from the dentist's

So I went to the dentist's to get my new flipper (removable fake tooth). It feels odd, because it's shaped to fit over my new bone graft, so it feels HUGE in my mouth. I'll have to get used to talking with this new flipper - my k's are a little weirded out. Hmm, I wonder what eating will be like with this thing...

I'm still feeling gross, but my dad and I stopped at Shopper's on the way back to get ear drops for Mom and cold medicine for me, and we got a pack of DayQuil and NyQuil liquid-caps, two in one. I very much prefer the liquid-caps over the syrup. I hate the taste of the NyQuil syrup.

Anyways. My teeth look yellow next to the new flipper. Looks like I'll have to start using that whitening mouthwash...

I managed to read a bit of Blood and Chocolate. I like it so far. I also added text to a photo (which I may need to either fix or re-do), and ate half an enchilada, among other foods. So yeah... not a very productive day.

Coronation Street is on in about half an hour! Yay! :)

Sick :(

Yup, I'm sick again. My nose got stuffed up yesteday, so I took some Nyquil before bed. Boy, did that help me sleep. I woke up with a sore throat, so I took a throat lozenge that is NOT a numbing one! Yay! I hate numbing throat lozenges. They make my throat feel like it's sticking together - if anything, they probably make my throat feel worse. But the one I took is non-numbing, kinda like Halls Fruit Breezers.

My throat's better now, but I'm still stuffed up, and my right nostril runs sometimes, and I sometimes sneeze. I generally feel like crap.

Plus, I have an appointment at the dentist's to pick up and try on my new flipper. Whee.

So we wound up NOT going to the silent auction, and I didn't go bowling with the youth group because the alley that they were bowling at was too far away. Damn. So my weekend was spent at home. I hate having nothing to do on weekends.

And now it's Monday. I have a cold, I still have to get my dad to help me clean off the shortcuts and crap for Human 3D so that I can reinstall it...

But, on the upside, the library added the new items to the catalogue last night, including Milk. So I reserved that and a bunch of other things. Not many CDs that I fancied, though, and only one knitting book I felt like reserving, but there were a couple of National Geographic DVDs that I reserved. I put Dante's The Divine Comedy on my list, but I didn't reserve it. I wonder how it is.

Oh, and the library has one copy of the first Return to Labyrinth graphic novel! Yay!