I'm on facebook, but am deliberately not in YW groups on there...it's not that I don't love you all, it's just that I'm not comfortable with everyone knowing my real name...plus, for me, facebook is for my friends in real life. And you guys would totally figure out who I was the minute I posted on a wall or something. So, no YW facebook groups for me. But I love my facebook...one of the most useful things I've got on my computer.

Cress! *huggles* don't disappear again...we need more oldbies to come back and keep people sane. Or insane, depending on your views.

Porsches...I love Porsches. My dad has an old Porsche 911 from 1971. It's a lot of fun to ride in, since part of the top can come off, and it's kind of like a mini convertible. Here's a picture of someone's orange Porsche - my dad has a car just like that one, only white. Love it. If I could drive stick shift, and if the insurance didn't specify that no one under 30 can drive it, I would have driven it already. Meh. I can identify some cars...Porsches, of course. Volvos. Dodge Caravans (that's what I drive.) I can't ID specific models, but I know what brand a car is by looking at it (if I've seen it before.) My dad's kind of into cars. Not NASCAR though.

Emi! Have fun in NC...I don't know, now that it's over, I kind of miss college visits...lol. Maybe I'm crazy. But anyway, enjoy it while you can, and don't drive off the road while watching for Edward!

Babysitting has been a pain this week, because it's been so hot. Went to see that Kit American Girl movie with the 10 year old girl I babysit on Thursday. It was kind of fun...I felt like I should have had one of my American Girl dolls with me or something, since like everyone else in the theater had one. American Girl dolls were my favorite toys when I was younger; I had Samantha, and an American Girl of today with red hair and blue eyes that I named Chelsea. They were my babies. XD I had so much stuff for them...like the horse. Saving them to show my daughter(s), since I think they're one of the better toys for young girls still out there. I mean...Bratz? Even Barbies have kind of gone to the dark side (yet American Girl Company is owned by Mattel now. Sigh.) Anyway, it made me nostalgic.

Today I babysat for the other family. The kids wouldn't stop bickering, so eventually I was all "Look, go watch TV, just leave each other alone!" Not exactly the best day...we couldn't leave the house, it was so hot. Hate this heat.

Eric: yep, of course the tree's dying. Apparently, if we have another big storm, the biggest branch will most likely fall and land on my/my neighbor's houses. So, it has to come down. I say has to, since it was supposed to come down on Wednesday, and I spent the entire day at my aunt's house since we weren't allowed to be home while they cut it down. Came home...wasn't cut down because there are apparently power lines in the way. Now that I'm thinking about it, they were supposed to cut it down today, and it's still there...so I guess the electric company still hasn't come out. Argh...

I don't break electronics. Anything electronic that I own is treated like it's made of glass (I've kind of got OCD about them; but if I spend $X amount on something, I want to make sure it works as long as possible.)

Eric: (again) Yep, HHI, SC. My family's been going there for the last 12 years, so I can't wait to go back. Love it so much, it's ridiculous. But speaking of their Wal-Mart...we don't shop there anymore since they built a lovely Target on the island. XD I've got problems with Wal-Mart, but it's the only store near my college, so I guess I've got to get over that. Not planning on doing anything while there; I'm burying my feet in the sand and reading books (probably the Twilight series again, lol) the entire time. Plus re-applying sunscreen like crazy so I don't burn. <<sunburned Seabiscuit.

I kind of feel like a kindergardener (sp) again, since I just bought a new backpack. Old Faithful (original name, I know) that lasted me all through high school got a hole in May. My Latin teacher said it's a sign that I'm ready to move on from high school. Don't know if that's true, but I do know that buying backpacks is annoying. They're all either really pink, really boyish, or made really cheaply. But I found a blue one that I like...will never be the same as my old one though.

Well...I'm kind of dead, so I think I'll go eat something and go to bed. Although I should go running. Food.

Thanks Emi! Glad to -be- back!

I have Facebook, too... same name there as here. I don't really go in for applications much though.

animelvr... how exactly do you kick something -twice- by accident? Once I can understand, but twice? Anyway, heal up soon!

Hungry: Maybe you could get a different Facebook account that you could use for YW and other groups (or however it works) without being identified by your real name?

I would be pretty scared if there was a big branch threatening to come down on my house at the next storm.... We were expecting a thunder storm last night, and last evening at quarter after eight, it got really dark and windy.... Not good for fragile trees....

You with loving HHI, SC, and wanting to go there all the time, is just like me with Portsmouth, NH. I believe we have been going there every summer since 2003. In 2005, we went there with my sister's... let's see, what is he now... former, former, former boyfriend (), and in 2006 we went with, at that time, my newest friend. We stayed a couple extra nights because we were having a really good time and didn't want to leave. Then last year, we went with him again, and it was cool because we were having so many "last year" memories.... Whenever we go up there, we go to Water Country, eat at our usual favorite restaurants (a couple include Gas Light Company [extreeeeemely unique pizza) and this breakfast restaurant that's decorated old-style and they have really good food for great prices....), stay at our usual hotel, etc.

OK, then you should be fine with the Mac.

Hmm, backpacks.... I have this one backpack that I've had since... I think second grade, that is still in NEW condition. In third and fourth grade, I used a backpack on wheels, replacing that one. In fifth grade, when I got in to the middle school and the lockers were too small, I had to use the old back pack again. In sixth grade, I got one that is a shiny blue and had just the right compartments for everything I had in there.... But the wrath of eighth grade text books and such tore the handle off, and the right shoulder strap is going to come off at any time.... I look at the high schoolers' backpacks and I wonder what on Earth I'm going to do about having a backpack last through four years of Backpack Hell....

This is weird, I've never had so much to say to you in the past.... Oh, well, I guess that the people I direct my attention to changes, depending who is active at the time.

I have a job mowing the lawn at my mom's church.... It is a pretty big lawn, and I have to do it with a push mower. The size of it isn't really a problem, it's just the steep hill and obstacles. And it would have helped if the lawnmower hadn't kept giving up on me.... It was probably too hot for it. I must have pulled that starter at least 50 times yesterday, and I have a blister on my left thumb to prove it.... If that is how it'll go every time, I'll have to give up the job. My left thumb isn't in the best state right now, considering that blister, and the fact that I cut myself with a wicked sharp knife cutting a hamburger bun at my friend's house a few days ago....

animelvr2: Um... how you got your injury is extremely interesting, and oddly confusing. But I hope you heal up!!

Garrett I've seen you on the group!! Haha. I used to hate applications, but I've got a few on mine now...

Welcome back Cress!!!

Hungry: Haha, thanks, and I'll try not to drive off the road. Now, the Mercedes are turning my head. Haha. And the Porsche looks amazing.

I've seen some Mercedes... but it's not black. They're ALL white. What's up with that? But the shiny silver Volvos are still driving around.

Hungry: I never use a backpack anymore at School. I got sick and tired of taking things out of my bag and then stuffing them back in there in the beginning of class and at the end. It takes up too much time for me I guess. 'Tis a little sad that yours got a hole in it in May. Poor bag, couldn't make it to college.

Ugh, now I gots to go and clean out my room. Throw away any clothes, I don't want to keep and all the other knick knacks that I've kept in my room... Haha.

Oh and to end on a cool note. Tomorrow will be a year from when I first registered on this site. How fast it flew by.

Happy Year-of-memebership Day, Emi! Haha...

Today has been very interesting for me. I got to church early this morning (around 9 or so) and I just got back a couple of minutes ago, at around 7:45. It was a long long day.

My dad got his new car, and we drove it to church! I like it, it's just so...SHINY! It's a greyish-blueish-purplish color with lots of shimmery sparkles in it.

We were just leaving church in it, and I suddenly thought, "Hey, I haven't seen any Cullen-ish cars today! Maybe I'm breaking the streak of seeing them constantly!"

And then a black Mercedes turned the corner, and drove right in front of the car. So much for that...

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Originally posted by seabiscuit1009:
it's not that I don't love you all, it's just that I'm not comfortable with everyone knowing my real name...

Oh, don't worry, Seabee, everyone already knows your name is Horace Q. Underwood. It's not like it's a secret or anything...

Seabiscuit, chill out; MySpace is kidnapping central, not Facebook xD

kk: thanks!! Haha, I didn't think it was a year already. But then again I do recall coming on here during my summer last year...

I think you jinxed yourself when you thought that.

Speaking of Mercedes, I finally saw a black one the other day. It totally made my day. But now I see the Mercedes symbol everywhere. When is this madness going to stop?

db_pr: That's very true...

I think I maybe getting another job and quitting the one I'm at now. I don't really know for sure until after I come back from my brief little vacation down in North Carolina. I shall wait and see. Hopefully I do get to leave the job I'm at now. The manager is starting to get on my nerves.

He scolded me about how I do WIC orders on Monday. He said I keep doing them wrong and I'm not looking at the items on the list correctly. And basically blaming me for almost making the grocery lose their WIC license. Okay, I'm a kid. I make mistakes. Geesh... So now everytime I get one I have to call one of the managers over so they can watch me ring them in and make sure I'm doing them properly.

It's bad enough when I get the customers mad a me because they didn't have the right item... now I have to watch my back for my managers! Ugh.

Alrighty sorry for the rant. I got to go and cash my mom's coins at the bank.

The Mercedes badge always seems rather like a cross-hair to me,, which when its mounted on the bonnet, always makes me wonder what they are aiming at...

Actually, the original reason for posting here was that a friend texted me yesterday to say that he'd see SYWTBAW on sale in Waterstones (major Biritish bookshop chain). The series hasn't had a UK publisher since the early 1990s (all my copies are Harcourt imports)... hopefully this has now changed.

I'm very happy! I wasa just at a neighbor's yard sale, and they had an astounding collection of books! It was awesome!

What had happened was that the original owners had moved out of the house, and their son, his girlfriend, and roomate now live there. They didn't want all of the books that the parents had left in the house, so they were selling them.

On the list of books that I got are:

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles
2. The first three books in The Vampire Chronicles
3. "The Light Fantastic" and "The Color of Magic" by Terry Pratchett
4. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
5. Christine and Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
6. The Enigma of Human Monsters: Vampires, Werewolves, and Ghouls
7. The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology

The last one was the one I laughed at the most, because the original owners worked for the CIA and FBI.

But it makes me wonder what type of people they are, with all of those books about vampires and werewolves.

Plus, I found another book in their collection, but didn't buy it. It was "Excorcism: A Manual for Dispelling Evil Spirits"

They are weird, weird people...

Well there's my "What the Freaking Heck!?" moment of the year...

I leave for Japan and when I come home, I notice that DD posted every day I was gone for the first time in 7-ish months...

Hmm... Maybe I should catch up on Forum happenings... Anyone actually remember me still?

Hmm...taking a break from the beach right now so I don't die of heatstroke/sunburn. I love Hilton Head...never want to leave. I mean, they've got a Barnes & Noble here, so I could get Breaking Dawn (I got Eclipse there last year, after looking up where the bookstores were on the island before we left for vacation.) Got bit by this weird thing today in the ocean; it kind of looked like a transparent leech. Hung on like a leech does too, as a matter of fact. Ew. Maybe it was a leech. Do leeches live in the ocean? Not even sure, and really, I probably don't want to know.

Not much going on...just chilling on the beach, and checking my emails/facebook obsessively every 6 hours or so, to see if my roommate has emailed/facebooked me yet. Rooming stuff started arriving on friday, after I left for vacation. I guess there are people out there who haven't got their rooming stuff yet (I love the facebook group for my college; it's really useful to see who's got their rooming stuff already.) So, I'm annoyed that I can't check my snail mail; it's a whole 12 hours away from here.

Alright, I'm going back to the beach...adios all.

Well, I'm done with Explorations, and I can safely say I went places, relearned photoshop and maya, learned sketchup, made a stained glass work, and learned the basics of graphic design. I don't remember if I said it yet, but my next camp is Folie Technique, à l'école Polytechnique. Isn't that punny? It's in the University of Montreal, to be exact.

kk: It's actually "The Colour of Magic". Terry Pratchett is British, so I can't just let that slide.

As for you, Cyber Mirage, I don't know you, but I'd like to learn some Japanese from you. I know plenty, but there's a lot of room for improvement.

My long absence was from viruses and some spyware that just wouldn't go away. My brother actually had my hard drive for around a week.

Well, The Magic of Recluce (by L.E. Modesitt,Jr) is a great book, and I finished it. I'm going to start reading a book called Split Heirs in a bit. I'll (hopefully) post later on.

I actually don't know that much.. I've only got a few years of it from high school

Vashmata: Ah, I apologize. I guess I didn't notice that...

VBS again today. I'm actually there right now (I snuck onto the church PC).

There are a lot of children in the auditorium, all screaming as loudly as they can...it's nice. I'm beginning to remember my childhood more, I guess.

Like last night, I suddenly remembered the Saturday morning cartoons I used to watch when I was little...that lineup of cartoons was called "1 Saturday Morning" and it was on ABC...*sigh* It's been a while since those shows were on...

Now, when I have to explain the shows to a younger child, like my little sister, I feel so old...I feel much too old to be giving one of those "When I was your age..." rants...

It's so miserably hot. Ugh. This is me: This is me right now, just as I've finished taking my dog on a very long, sunnny, hot walk: It was 93 degress outside this morning at ten...and I have band camp next week, which will be pretty miserable seeing as I have to carry forty-five pounds of dead weight on one shoulder all day in the middle of a parched football practice field and I can only drink a certain amount of water a day. Not looking forward to that.....

On the other hand, this week is the first week this summer that I haven't had something to do. Aladdin was last Friday and Saturday, and that's basically my last commitment of the summer besides band camp. That's the reason I haven't posted in quite a while...I was so busy. Anyway, I have this week off, then band camp next week from 8-4 every day with activities in the evening, another week of nothing, then school starts on the next Wednesday after that (the 20th). Meh. It's hot. My brain is fried. Or perhaps I should say broiled.

It sounds like everyone's having a nice summer so far. Good. I also got burnt/tan like a lot of people, spent some time in the ocean, etc., etc.
Good stuff.

On Facebook: All right, I'm in them, and horribly conspicuous, but actually I think I set my privacy settings juust right, so I'm pretty covered.

On des old cars: I really, really want an old car, from the fifties and such. I'm saving up. It will be my first car and it will be my baby and it will eat up my gas so I'll end up using my parents' car much more often XD

I'm sorry Tut.

On dolls: The funny thing is, I never really cared much for dolls when I was younger. I look upon them with more fondness and nostalgia now then playfulness then. Strange, no? It reminds me of this story I had to read for english, Barbie-Q. Interesting story, actually, and sort of made me wish I had liked dolls more when I was little. Eh, oh well. *shrugs* I had me books :P

Emi: You've only been on for a year? It seemed longer than that!

also... Something happened similar to my brother with the Mercedes thing, except with beemers. Oh my gosh, we must have seen a beemer every five minutes for two hours when we went on vacation. It was really, really funny :P

Ugh. That really stinks. I hope everything clears up and you have an awesome time in NC!!

kk: sounds like some good books! But that really does sort of sound like a strange family *cues x-files music*

incidentally, I cannot WAIT for that movie! It should be amazing, I looove x-files! I used to watch it when I was a wee little bairn!

kk again: I remember those cartoons! Road Runner was the besttt! I actually remember sitting there when I was really little, and thinking, "Man, I wish they had these on every day!" And then they did! And then... they all went downhill. Poor little cartoons.

Even now, whenever I hear Mendelssohn, all I can think of is bugs bunny in a tutu XD

Ooh, and Garrett: Thanks for those piano sheet music links!! It makes my summer a little more interesting when I have something new that I really like to work on! For instance, I've got the first two pages of Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" down, which is gorgeous, and "Lighthouse" by the Hush Sound memorized. They're both very fun and nice to play. Thankyee very very much!


*sigh* On a completely different note, at the moment I feel like a sort of horrible person. It's really stupid stuff involving boys that I won't get into, unless you pm me or something. I don't thing the togr is the place for it.

But other than that, life has been pretty spiffy.

Actually, something that's really fun and cool (especially for people who are classically minded like me) is writing letters. I highly suggest it, even to your best friend who lives around the corner. It's cool to have something to hold onto, and also it helps you say things that you find hard to say in person or online. It really frees up your mind, and strengthens your friendship. I suggest anyone try it out, it's amazing

Well, to sleep or somesuch.

Dai stiho!

Mellers

EDIT: Emi, Team Emmett?? Psh, please! Hahaha it's alice all the way XD

EDIT (again): I can't believe I said spiffy. *groan/headdesk* What has happened to my insane sanity? I've lost even that! *sigh*

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kk: great finds. Yeah that is a bit odd about their books... hmmm.

CyberMirage: You went to Japan? What did you do there?? My dad's from Japan, and I've been begging him for years to take me back there. (I was there when I was two, so I really don't remember much) Good to see you back, even if you don't know me.

Hungry: A leech in the ocean?!? Never heard of that one before. That must have been gross.

kk again: I remember those cartoons!!! Oh I miss them soo much. I used to watch them all the time. At my school one of the seniors theme was "Back in the day" and they had all the old shows and stuff. Like "Doug" and other various cartoons (Animaniacs).

eowyngirl: Ugh, I hope you have a good time a band camp.

Mel: I know, I was surprised myself.

I'm having a good time in NC so far. I've gotten some tanning done. (And I've gotten burnt)

There was a major storm last night!! I was in a department store (Goody's) for anyone who knows what I'm talking about. I don't have that store in my state. Anyway, I was in the store with my mom, grandmother, and sister. The storm hit while we were in there and it killed the power. So we were like stuck in the store and couldn't make our purchases. Then it kind of calmed down so we were able to run out of the store in to the car.

My mom was like flipping out the whole time driving back to my grandparents house because we were driving _in_ to the storm. When we got to the house we found that the power went out there as well. So we were all in the living room last night talking. I ended up sitting next to a candle and read New Moon. I finished it last night btw....

Anyway, the lights didn't come back on until around 1 am. My dad and I were the only ones up. Haha.

Mel again: What? Emmett is hilarious. I love Alice too.

It's a nice day outside but my grandfather thinks that there's going to be a repeat of last night. I hope not. I don't think my mom can handle another storm. Hahaha.

Emi: I googled all of the shows I remembered, and I found that there are some episodes on YouTube. I was utterly happy...and then I found a free download of and album that had the audio files of all of the theme songs for shows like "Doug" and "Pepper Ann" and "Recess" plus the general "One Saturday Morning" theme. I was drowning in happy childish memories. It felt good...

So the power went out at my house for no real reason. It may have been the construction at the park (they're renovating the library), but I don't know. And it was really not cool, because even though my laptop had sufficient battery, the wireless router didn't, and I had no internet! I just decided to give up, and read a lot instead. Pretties is a good book...as is The City of Ember...

Emi - you're in NC? What part of it? I'm in the southern coastal area, otherwise known as tourist central, just above Myrtle Beach SC.