Footie fever

I watched Japan's match against Denmark today, and they won 3-1!!! So now they advance to the Round of 16 :D

I'm thinking about doing a timeline post soon. I saw a post like that on one of my Ravelry friends' blogs and thought, hey, I should do one. After all, there are many karate and Girl Guides/Brownies/Sparks stories I haven't told.

I've been thinking about Guides lately. I was a Spark for one year, a Brownie for two, and a Guide for one. The only reason I didn't go back for my second year of Guides was because the group was very small and disorganized - it was hard to get any badge work approved by a leader, because they only did an organized badge work 'judging' once in a while. And if I had gone back for a second year, I wouldn't have joined karate and met Holly, so I'm glad I didn't go back.

I do want to work on putting the rest of my badges on my Brownie and Guide sashes, though. I still have a handful for each sash that haven't been sewn on yet, and I should practice sewing anyway. I have to look in my mom's sewing box for thread, though, because I don't have any spools of my own. Either that, or I'll go to Len's or Fabricland to get a few colours of thread - I imagine there may be a 'starter kit' of thread.

That's all. See ya!

First post in four days

Sorry for the lack of posts. I think the World Cup has distracted me a little.

Not much has happened lately, which is probably why I haven't posted. The World Cup has been exciting: today, England won their match against Slovenia, but I'm not sure if they're advancing to the Round of 16, because I didn't catch the Group C stats.

Well, according to the official World Cup site, England and the USA are top of Group C! Huzzah! And Germany and Ghana have advanced, too! :D

I really don't know what else to say. Nothing's really happened.

These are the things I can do without

Yes, I'm listening to 'Shout' by Tears For Fears. But I actually have a list of things I can do without:

1. Dad dozing on the couch when he's supposed to drive me to the library.
2. Uncle Brent canceling Father's Day dinner at his place without actually telling us.
3. Dad acting like I'm a miserable bitch when I say something non-miserable.
4. Dad opening new containers of food (like jam) without looking through the entire fridge for an open one first.
5. Dad bitching about us 'reserving too much stuff from the library', as if we can control what comes in and when.
6. Dale (Grandpa) being such an ass, especially when we try to buy him a nice gift and he sneers about it.
7. Dale not asking what I want for a career, or asking me what activities I'm doing. I hate it when Mom had to tell him everything, because he just didn't give a shit - and he still doesn't!
8. Feeling like I'm inferior to my cousin Becca, because she got more attention when we were kids.
9. Feeling like I'm ugly, or overweight. I'm not really overweight, just a little out of shape.
10. Feeling like I have no skills.

That was a much longer list than I'd intended. oops.

I think I take things way too seriously. Nobody's perfect, obviously, but I often feel like I have to be. It just pisses me off when my aunt won't even say hi to me or my parents. What did I do to her? Nothing I can recall. She didn't even put my name on the Christmas card she gave us, just 'family'; and gave cards to my siblings. WTF?

I still don't have a clue what I want to do for a living. I haven't even worked through my GED book in about a week - I'll get back to it on Monday, though. It's bad enough that my lazy-ass brother beat me to getting a beginner's permit. It's even worse that people don't 'get' why I don't have a license. Never mind that I had dental surgery done, right?

This post is far too long, and very bitter. Oh well.

I hate feeling incompetent. I hate feeling mediocre because I'm not a carbon-copy of Becca. I'm sorry that I was homeschooled. I'm sorry that I'm an introvert. I'm sorry that I don't have a boyfriend, that I don't have a driver's license, that I don't have a career plan on a presentation board. I'M SO EFFING SORRY.

I don't think humidity agrees with me. I'm getting a killer headache, and I've got a bad temper.

World Cup!

I've been the World Cup, and it's been exciting. Today, New Zealand and Slovakia had a tie game, and so did Portugal and Ivory Coast. And yesterday, Japan won their first game. I was so excited :)

I watched Funny People the other day. It was okay. I thought Sandler was kinda crude in it, but I liked Seth Rogen.

Hmm, what else... I have a DVD and a CD to pick up from the library, and I'm expecting another DVD and CD.

Thank you, dog-creatures.

Thank you ever so much for waking me up. Now my stomach is all out of whack.

All I've had today is a McIntosh apple. Which isn't too bad - I mean, it could be worse. This morning I felt repulsed by bread, so I had fruit. Wise choice, I think. I've not been too enthused by store-bought bread lately, but whatever, it needs to be eaten up.

Maybe I'll have a can of soup for lunch. Although, leftover brisket with a little barbecue sauce sounds great, too. But again, store-bought bread = gross in comparison to homemade.

I really should go through my GED book today. I watched the first episode of Let's Learn Japanese on YouTube, though, so that's cool.

It's been rainy for the past few days, so I haven't had that humidity grumpiness, which is good. I did a little bit of writing... yesterday? I think? I worked on a short story.

I don't know if I mentioned this before, but the Writer's Digest special issue magazine I got has writing prompts in it. It's done as a prompt-a-week thing that goes right to December. I'm gonna start doing the prompts this week.

Kinda funny

So, someone on Ravelry put up a video montage of 80s music videos, and I recognized one of the songs. So I watched it on YouTube and asked in the comments if anyone knew what it was.

Then I decided to try finding this INXS song I had stuck in my head. So I type in 'inxs' in the search bar and clicked on the first title in the drop-down thing. That song turned out to be the one I was asking about!

Here's the one I asked about...




...and here's the one I was looking for...




How weird is that? They're both INXS songs!

Last night I watched the season premiere of Lie To Me, which was pretty awesome. Then I went on my computer, and then I watched the season finales of and Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara. I didn't really watch the first seasons of either, but I watched the first and last episodes of Jackie, and caught the season two premiere of Tara, so I don't think I had much catching up to do.

Glee is on tonight! :)

'Cause I'm bored

I haven't posted in a while. So I'll post now.

I went to see Grandma yesterday afternoon. I put together an outfit that I'm very proud of: army green shorts, white tank top, and a red bandanna worn like a headband with my hair pulled back in a ponytail. I felt very tough. I was going to wear my blue sandals, but I didn't want my feet to start aching, so I wore my beat-up black sport sandals instead.

I went to the library afterwards to take back a knitting book (Handmade Underground Knitwear) and a Bruce Springsteen CD, and picked up Crazy Heart. I watched it last night, and it was pretty good.

I watched Toronto FC's match against Kansas City, and the reffing was TERRIBLE. The ref red-carded Nick Garcia for a complete accident, and when Chad Barrett got kicked in the face, the ref didn't even card the Kansas City player - all we got was a free kick! It was ridiculous.

I re-watched the pilot of Ashes to Ashes today. It was on Showcase either Wednesday or Thursday, and Dad recorded it yesterday. I hadn't seen it right from the beginning since I watched it on YouTube (the clips got removed right after I had watched them), so I wanted to refresh my memory. I'll have to catch the rest of the series either on Saturdays or earlier in the week.