My mission...

...is to be the Molly Ringwald of the youth group, a la Pretty in Pink.

Yup, I watched Pretty in Pink today. It's a great movie. Jon Cryer is adorable in it. I now want to go to Value Village and look for some cotton skirts and dresses. I don't plan on altering them like Andie in Pretty in Pink, but I sure do plan on dressing like her.

I started the sunglasses case I've been plotting in my head. It's my Defense Against the Dark Arts homework - "What I fought on my summer vacation". I'm making the case with bulky-weight yarn (I made my first sunglasses case out of worsted, which resulted in the gauge being wrong and the case turning into a knitting supplies pouch) and novelty yarn held together, because I fought novelty yarn on my summer vacation ;) I plan on adding googley eyes, a forked tongue and a pair of fangs. The fangs and tongue I'll make out of felt.

I also painted my nails with this electric blue Cover Girl nail polish. I messed it up a little, but I don't think I'll bother redoing the nails I botched. The nail polish is a bit thick, so I think I'll thin it out next time.

In other news, I wrote a side-story for one of my stories. It sounds interesting. I may work on it for a little while and add it into the main story later.

I took some photos on my birthday camera today. I decided my Vanna's Choice and my novelty yarn needed photographing. I still have to install my camera software, though.

Youth group was good and bad. The rest of the youth decided to doll up the loft and make cupcakes because it was Elyssa's last meeting before going to a volunteer thingy for nine months. I'm glad she's going... Long story short, Stephen had his head up his rear end.

Getting better

I had a headache this morning/afternoon, though, which was annoying. I was pretty tired earlier, too, so when I was doing biology I felt like crap. Then I opened the writing program on my computer to read the bit about writing a resume, then I watched Let's Learn Japanese on YouTube. I was so groggy that, when I needed to click on the link to part 2 of episode 9, I accidentally clicked on a link for a part of episode 8. Yes, I was that tired.

I'm better now, though. I didn't do any algebra, but I got a tiny bit of writing done, and I read the first chapter of Dewey: the small-town library cat who touched the world. It's quite good thus far.

I hope I'll be okay to go to the knitting meet-up this week...

One more thing - we're going for burgers tonight! YAY!

I think I'm getting sick.

I've been drinking a lot of water today - at first I thought it was because I've been eating a lot of salt lately, but I feel tired too, and, well, let's just say that my nose is full of pretty colours. If this continues, I'm not going to youth group tonight, because not only will I get other people sick, I might fall asleep partway through the meeting.

I read my library book for a bit, then I knit, then I tried to sleep but couldn't so I came up here and fired up my computer. I watched InuYasha on Youtube, checked my e-mail, went on Ravelry, and now I'm writing this and I'm still on Ravelry. But I'm exhausted. Then again, I am a bit warm wearing this bathrobe...

I did do some schoolwork, but not much.

Here's one of the songs I listened to via YouTube today. Because my music collection is lacking, I've been listening to my favourite songs through YouTube.

Time for some awesomeness, people :)

1. YouTube is liking me again. It turns out that they were doing updates, which is why it thought that my Flash was out of date or my JavaScript was turned off.

2. I think I have my new library card memorized. Although I find it pointless that they gave me a 'teen card' when I'll have to get an adult card next year.

3. Coldplay's gonna be on Saturday Night Live this week!!!!

4. I'm doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this year, starting on November 1st.

5. I sent an e-mail to the Knit.1 staff asking when the next issue would be out, and I got a reply - they said that it will be out on December 16th.

6. I think we're having chicken wings for dinner, but I'm not sure. My parents bought chicken wings today.

7. My parents also bought chips today.

8. While my parents were out doing grocery shopping, I read We're Going to See The Beatles! and drank a huge mug of hot chocolate. And then I started drinking some Dr Pepper. I didn't finish the whole can yet, I figured I'd put it in the fridge so that my teeth won't get too rotten :p

9. I just remembered that Ugly Betty is on tonight!!!

10. I think I'll make a funky scarf for Breanne for Christmas.

Oh, and one more thing...

For some weird reason, YouTube doesn't like me. I seriously don't get it. It says that I eitehr have my JavaScript turned off or my Flash is out of date. But when i view YouTube videos on other sites, they work. And when I viewed a Broadcaster video, it worked.

:)

The GED book has been found!

I guess it was in a box of books. But seriously... was it there the whole time???

In other news:

1. Mom and Dad are cleaning like crazy. I've tried to help, but I think it's best if I just stay far, far away right now
2. I can't find my favourite SNL skits from the 70's on YouTube. Except for a really crappy video where someone is holding a video camera up to a TV. Gah. I just can't win.
3. The dogs are driving me crazy.
4. I'm not looking forward to my upcoming dental appointments.

Mario Paint Composer!!!!!!!

I got bored while my parents were out grocery shopping, so I went on YouTube. I wanted to look for a sound clip of 'I Love Rock n' Roll' by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. I watched the colour video, and then I noticed, in the related videos, that there was a Mario Paint Composer recording of it. Now, my mom had come across these Mario Paint Composer videos before, so I was pretty familiar with them. I found lots that I like - Final Fantasy music, 'Stairway to Heaven', and so forth.

This is only the opening from 'Stairway to Heaven', but I love it.




OMG JOURNEY!!!!




'Another One Bites The Dust'.




And here's 'I Love Rock n' Roll'.




Oh, and speaking of Zeppelin... looks like they aren't reuniting for a while. Robert Plant says he doesn't plan on touring again for another two years. Aw, man....

Edited to add: Oh... and I so want to buy an SNES now :)

One more blurb, then a dose of YouTube

I DID get to watch America's Got Talent! At 9:00! in the spare room!

Now, time for a video...

I went a little crazy.... :D

So last night my mom was on her laptop, watching scenes from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and after that she moved on to Meat Loaf videos . Did she succeed in trying to embarrass me? Perhaps, because after trying to sing over top of her (and not succeeding), I went downstairs and put on Bryan Adams Unplugged. But after a little while, I figured that using the computer would be better.

So I fired up the computer and played the video of Summer of '69. Whether it was on my blog or on YouTube itself, I'm not sure. I later moved on to other songs - the Bryan Adams songs had to be played on YouTube, because I don't own any of his albums, but the songs by U2, Queen and Led Zeppelin were played on iTunes. By around 11:00 PM, my head and ears were aching. The upside, though, is that my mom sent me the link to the YouTube video she was watching, and she sent me the lyrics from The Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin.

Oh, and I created a YouTube account.

My head's a little bit achy right now, and I'm so bloody warm. I have to go change into something else.

Monday's here...

So, Monday's here again. I got a page of math done, which is a plus, and this counts as writing, so that's two subjects done. Here's a video that'll wash away the Monday blues...

I feel ugh.

I am in no way motivated today. I feel like I have a million things to do, except I don't, really. I do have a library DVD to watch, but it's gonna be late going back. Oh well, the library'll get a quarter, or if it's two days late, two quarters!

I woke up this morning feeling a bit thirsty, but not wanting to get out of bed. So when I finally dragged myself out of bed and got upstairs, I drank some water and watched the morning news for a bit, talked to my mom about Britney Spears and Michael Jackson, then went on the computer, where I read an e-mail about the youth service at the Unitarian church. My mom reckons that I feel awful because of all the pollen - which would explain the sneezing at the computer.

I think I'll be able to watch the DVD today. Maybe not this morning, but sometime today. I'll probably watch it in the evening, when I seem to, I don't know, thrive, I guess.

Maybe I'm just not a morning person.

Maybe I need to watch some Muppet Show clips on YouTube.

Maybe I should stop saying 'maybe'.

YouTube experiment...

Just seeing if this'll work...





Okay. Now that I have figured out how to post the video without the link, I've edited my past posts with YouTube links! Enjoy!

The Muppets At Their Finest...

This YouTube video of a Muppet Show skit cracks me up. It's especially funny if you love The Muppets, and find the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker to be absolutely hilarious!