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  • Power Outage

    Nothing much happened today besides me watching Lincoln Heights on Hulu Plus.

    The power DID go out today though. I was actually in the middle of uploading my photos and videos from my phone onto the computer when it happened. I was using my laptop, so it didn't effect me, but it did get really quiet around the house. I was busy getting them ready to put on yesterday's post actually. It took me a while, but I worked it all out. I read for a few minutes after I did this and then when the power came back on I edited yesterday's post and put the photos. I haven't put on the videos but I will do that tomorrow.

    Still waiting for my Phineas, Ferb, and Perry plushies to ship here. UPS shows they should be here tomorrow. 

    I did have pizza for dinner!

  • A Whole Bunch of Stuff

    Here we go, 2 weeks in 1 post. I will go backwards.  (all the photos are from my Instagram (Empathic_Heart)

    EDIT: Photos are up! I'll edit again when I put the videos.

    Let's start with today first. It was pretty sunny and hot today. I went to Seven Peaks for a few hours with my sister, ben, and my nieces. Sometimes I have a bad habit of still calling him my brother in law, when he is no longer my brother in law. I just noticed that a few weeks ago.

    I went down this tube slide that is very dark called "Cave in". I actually went down it twice, and the 2nd time the lifeguard accidentally sent me down backwards. It was so scary because there is quite a few twists and turns and some minor drops. I of course couldn't see where I was going because I was facing backwards and because it was dark. It was so much fun going backwards though. I got a bit dizzy for a minute or two after I went on for the 2nd time.

    I also went down a regular slide called "Flash Flood" before they closed. They have two slides side by side and people like to race. I raced with my sister. It's called "Flash Flood' because they actually release a flood of water to help you start at the beginning. My sister beat me down. I got some water in my nose at the bottom because I got disoriented fora  second in the water and had to let go of my nose. it kind of stung a little, but it was okay.

    I spent some time in the wave pool for a while and did the regular rubs slide a few times. I also did some tanning.

    We had a picnic at the water park sometime during the time we were there. We had to go tot he park's picnic area. We had sand witches, granola bars, cheez its, Oreos, and Capri Sun.

    Besides this I have just been watching Lincoln Heights on Hulu Plus Listening, to music, and watching Sailor Moon.  I actually finished the Alien arc, it's the 2nd arc in the anime, and hung around the house.

    Today is also the day I was SUPPOSED to be born according to the doctors.  I was born on the 4th though as you will see further down.

    My sister's new music video came out today.



    The 16th

    There is this charity event they hold every Monday night around 9pm. They have people vote on a movie, and then we watch it out doors. It's called 'Flix for Charity'. We have it behind our local Elementary school. This week we couldn't have it though, because we were sure the weather was going to stay rainy, windy, and cloudy. It ended up clearing up in the evening before the time we usually have it, but it stayed cancelled until next week. They were going to show "the Princess Bride'.

    We were going to do a water fight at the nearby park as well, but that was cancelled. That was what we were going to do for ward Family Home Evening.  We ended up going to Marcie's house and reading our favorite children's stories. Marcie gave us some chocolate covered gummy snakes to try that were from Australia. I didn't ready anything, but other people had some pretty great stories.

    The weather on this day started out nice, but turned cloudy, windy, and rainy, and then cleared up again.


    The 15th

    I just went to church as usual. I don't remember what we talked about, it's kind of blurry now.

    My mom made Creamed tuna and eggs over rice. It's actually pretty good. We also had some left over garlic bread from the night before. We had a whole loaf left.

    We finished off the leftover of the day before that I will mention in a bit.

    My sister in law, Kyla came over with my niece, and my brother again. It's always nice to see them.

    Ward prayer was actually held at the house my childhood best friend Brooke used to live in. Someone else lives there now, it was so weird being in that house for the first time in I think 7 or 8 years. It looked a lot different and it made me a little teary eyed and nostalgic.

    The weather was cloudy with light sprinkles on this day at first, but cleared up after church rather quickly.

    The picture below is Ducky. Some people slept with teddy bears, some people slept with dolls, but I slept with ducky. :)

    Just the book I am reading (The 3 in one book that contains the whole entire Elenium series by David Eddings.)


    The 14th

    We went to Costco, and I bought some bread, hummus, and ice cream bars. I bought some pizza and a smoothie on my way out with my sister since she went and got something too. It was windy and cloudy

    It rained a little, and I walked inn it. It felt really extra nice. This was actually before Costco.

    My sister made tuna casserole, and Ben (my ex brother in law) bought some snicker doodles, the garlic bread we are the day after, and some Oreo and Reese's ice cream.

    We all stretched for a while while watching Robin Hood on Netflix before dinner. Ben was instructing Natalie and teaching her about stretches. I was actually doing a mixture of stretching and doing resistance cord workouts.


    The 12th and 13th

    Honestly nothing worth noting happened on these days. I just did my usual and played phone games. I finally figured out Robot Unicorn though. And Friday the 13th happened, that is always a good day.

    My family loves popcorn. Home made popcorn is like a tradition.


    The 11th

    Got to know one of my sister's friends that just happens to be a writer for Phineas and Ferb.

    My sister is doing something for Phineas and ferb, but I will not spoil it.

    I ordered the Phineas, Ferb, and Perry plushies off of the Disney Store.

    I did a post on Xanga. The stuff above happened after that post.

    My bandannas below. I have them in every color except for orange, light red, and light blue.


    The 10th

    Nothing happened besides my usual stuff around the house,

    I learned that there is going to be a New Sailor Moon anime next year in 2013. I started reading the manga, and watching the old series over again. I also told my friends about the new series. I met a lot of my friends on a Sailor Moon fan site 6 years ago and we are still friends now. We are actually pretty close. I made so many friends on that website. i'll have to tell you the story sometime.

    My squishable duck Luke. (squishable.com)

     

    Just some digital art i uploaded to instragram.


    The 9th

    This is the day I found out about the Flix For Charity thing. They played "cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" last week. I got a text earlier in the day telling me about the movie. At first I just thought that it was a ward thing, but there were so many people there and I found out later that it was a charity thing that they do every week.  I had so much fun and the sky was so clear.  I kind of wished I brought something to eat there though like popcorn or something.

    We went to a really pretty park for FHE. It had these swings that could spin around if you pulled the swing a little bit. It also had some really nice pavilions, and a really pretty duck pond. We spent about an hour and a half there doing random stuff. Most of us played volley ball, and some of us (like me) just wandered around. I will put the pictures below.

    Random playground shot.

    The spinning swing

    Fountain

    Pavilion

    Duck pond

    Garden Area

    Out door movie


    The 8th

    Nothing but church and the usual happened. I do remember we had a lesson on the dangers of false doctrine though.

    I took this photo of my favorite bag.

     

     


    The 7th

    Went to 7 Peaks water park and did the usual. There are these metal bars on the sides of the wave pool you can hold onto to stay above the waves, I did some pull ups on those while the waves were going.

    Went to Best Buy and bought "Tetris Party Deluxe' for DS.

    Worked out with my resistance band for the 2nd day. My soreness was about at it's max by now, but not quite. My pull ups didn't help the soreness very much.


    The 6th and 5th

    Nothing much, just worked out mostly and learned new stretch band workouts.  I was still burned out from the events on my birthday (below).


    The 4th

    On my birthday I woke up, got dressed in my new khaki shorts, and my red shirt that had silver butterflies, and red and blue stars and part of the butterfly was also red and blue. I'll have to take a picture and show you sometime. I put some snacks in a plastic bag for the parade. I brought some Sun Chips, cheese sticks, and Sobe Lifewater.

    We left after this and went to the parade. We managed to find a parking space after forever, it was pretty hard.  My mom wasn't sure if it was okay where it was. We sat at the beginning of the parade rout in a pretty good spot under the shade. We had chairs and stuff too that people said we could sit in. I wanted to sit with my relatives however so after a while my mom made sure our parking spot was safe. I was really insistent on sitting with my relatives, I did not want to sit alone. We walked 8 blocks along the parade route to my relatives and we watched the parade as we went along. I have to admit I regret leaving that spot, it was pretty good.

    We watched the rest of the parade with my relatives, and I snacked on my food. We only had to walk 5 blocks back to the car because we could use the short way now that we weren't going along the parade route. 

    We went to Jamba Juice after this and we all got smoothies. I got a Mega Mango smoothie.

    We went home for a while and I just hung around watching Hercules I think.

    We went to a picnic after a couple of hours and my Aunt's house. A lot of the people that were at the parade were there.  We had hamburgers and hotdogs, chips, fruit, salad, and some other stuff. I played Flow on my phone and "Where's my Perry?" a lot while I was there.  We had a chocolate cake and sang happy birthday to me while I was there. My aunt bought me the chocolate cake. I actually think I remember there was 2 of them. We also had my cheesecake that I bought the day before.

    We went home after spending a few hours there. I logged into Destiny Online which I don't do very often anymore, and hung out with my friends for a little bit.

    I was feeling a bit down on this day because sometimes I feel like my birthday really isn't my day, but everyone else's day. We watched "Once Upon a Time on Hulu Plus on our TV for a while and debated weather or not we would go to the fireworks. I was in a kind of bad mood and almost didn't go to the fireworks. We ended up going even though some of us were tired and burned out. We went to some fireworks around Thanksgiving point. I will put the video up below. 

    Here is a photo, I will also have video a bit later. (edit).

    We went up near the mountains around a place where we could see the fire that started the day before after this.  We then went home and did our own thing after this. All in all it was a great day.


    The 3rd

    I did nothing much this day, just went to Costco and bought some stuff for the parade, bought my cheesecake, and went to Harmons and bought my cheesecake topping (cherry).

     

  • Experimenting

    Hey guys I know it has been a week. I have been so wiped out and sore and stuff this past week from all the things i have been doing and from working out. Let me explain what else has been going on first.  I am going to tell you all the things I have been up to but not yet. I need time to type that all out because it is going to be a lot.  I don't want to type it all at once.

    So in the past if you have been following me for a while or my previous account hotpinkstarberry, you know that I have had big gaps in my posting sometimes. Since I came back to Xanga over a month ago I have been seeking out solutions to this problem and have been experimenting on new ways of posting. In the past I have just posted at night and typed everything at once. As much as I love to write though, this get's old for me very fast because I have a problem with seeing some things as being chores after a while of repeating them too much. In the past this has been my reason for getting sick of posting. Before this past week you have probably noticed my incredible consistency in posting on my blog. This was able to happen because instead of trying to type up everything at once I typed it as the day went along. I have found that I am a whole lot more patient and have a lot more fun doing it this way and I remember a lot more.

    A few days before I went missing again I went back to my old style of posting and you can probably see I got sick of it again. I wanted to compare, so I let this happen. I am back now though.

    Now for the other reasons. I have also been working out a lot the past week and this also contributed to my absence. I got super sore as you know and I could not even move my arms very much for a few days.

    The third reason is that after I am around a LOT of people I can be a little internally exhausted. I am introverted and my brain works like an introvert. I get really stressed out and tired if I am around a lot of people for a long period of time. This happened on my birthday. I always lose my motivation to do anything social for a few days after a situation like this. I am fine now though.

    Anyway this is all I am going to talk about today. I'll have the happenings of last week up until this week up soon.  I have to take it slow though or I'll get impatient again.  Nothing much has happened today. I have just been hanging out doing the usual. I have actually started re-watching the Sailor Moon anime since yesterday. Nothing more of note for today. I'll write more later.

    By the way I am going to keep posting regularly while I am working on writing about the last week.  See you guys around. :)

  • Pain

    I'll update you guys on what has been happening tomorrow. My arms and stuff are still recovering from working out. I am super sore today and have been for a few days. I can't even straighten my arms today it hurts to bad to move them.  I don't feel much like typing when I am hurting like this. I haven't disappeared or anything like that don't worry haha.

    Anyway tomorrow or Tuesday. Sorry for my 5 day absence. This is the reason.

  • Half Way There

    Im really looking forward to being back in school in less than 2 months. I'm half way there and I'm so stoked for it. I took the placement test for English today. I think I will at least make it into English 1010. I won't know for sure though until I see my academic Councilor in a week or so.

    Nothing much happened today besides that, just my usual. Only one more day until my birthday I'm so excited.

    I'll have more stuff to talk about tomorrow. I know ive been in kind of a rush these past few days. I'll explain that tomorrow.

  • Un-Birthday Dinner

     

    Pretty ordinary Sunday. I woke up at 10am, washed my hair, played Tetris for a while, blow dried my hair, styled it a little after I sprayed my anti frizz treatment on it and my anti- heat damage spray on it too. I hair sprayed it, then got ready for church.

    Church was normal as usual. Today we had fast and testimony meeting so i got a chance to go up and bear my testimony in front of everyone. We also had a nice lesson on being grateful for what we have. I read my scriptures and played a little bit of Flow during church as well.  I have actually gotten to the 11X11 grids now. Above you see a picture of the game.   I still have so many levels to go.

    We had a break the fast dunner after church. Everyone brought something. I didn't eat very much because my mom was making dinner at home. I went home after 20 minutes with one of my other friends named Melissa. We talked about life and stuff in the car and stuff we like.

    When I got home i watched stuff on my computer for a while and played Tetris.

    We had Cesar Salad, parmasan chicken, carrots. garlic butter potatoes, and peas for dinner. Dinner was fabulous. We had cheesecake for dessert. This was my early birthday dinner. I am actually going out to eat on my birthday, but i wanted to have a regular dinner today because it is easier to get everyone together on Sunday.

    Anyway, sorry if I'm kind of rushed tonight, i'm kind of tired and sorta jumpy right now.

  • Puzzled

    I got to the 10x10 grids today on Flow. I am stuck on level 15 though. I was stuck on level 14 earlier for hours. The game is just getting funner and funner and i decided not to put the screenshots on here until later, I want to use the current level I'm on as the screenshot, so I might not have it up on here until tomorrow. Same with "Where's my Perry".

    I spent most of the day just like yesterday, playing games and watching my usual stuff on Netflix. Today was a bit funner however.

    My family has an easier time getting together on Sundays for dinner and family get togethers so we decided to have my birthday dinner early. We went to costco to shop for a cake (I am doing a 2nd one on my B-day), and some other groceries for tomorrow's dinner. They were giving out free Creamies today. I love it when they give out free Creamies. There were some other samples as well, I don't know what they were called though, they were good however.  I was going to buy "Castle in the Sky', it's one of the few Miyazaki films I don't own. We were walking through an isle with sorts however and I just had to get them since it is really hot and I didn't have a pair. I got a khaki pair that goes down to the knee cap almost.  They had them in different colors. I was going to get the other colors but I wasn't even sure if they would fit, so I decided to wait.

    After we were done at Costco, and we went home and unloaded the groceries we headed over to Harmon's. I tried on my new shorts first though, they ended up fitting perfectly. I just bought some TRESemme hair care products. I got the smoothing shampoo and conditioner, some heat protection spray, hair spray, and some frizz control spray. I also got an Acai Fruit punch Sobe Lifewater, and a Symphony bar.

    My mom got some chicken for tomorrow's dinner, and some other stuff i didn't really look at.

    After this we went home. I watched anther episode of the Twilight Zone, and then took a nap for a while. I played Tetris for a while after this, had a cheese and chicken tortilla, and tried to figure out my current level on Flow for a while.  Nothing much has happened since then that is worth noting.

    I almost forgot to mention this, but today my mom did some pretty serious cleaning around the house. She even searched through my whole room for spiders.  We found a few, but they are gone how.  I helped her clean the house as well.

    This week is most certainly going to be more interesting, I can't wait for all the stuff I know is going to happen. I won't spoil it though.

    :)

  • Flow

    Today and most of the time yesterday after I posted my last entry was mainly spent on playing games on my iPhone. I have a habit of neglecting a lot of my apps and games on my phone. Not to long ago a game called 'Where's My Perry?" came out into the app store. It is based off of an older game that is similar called "Where's My Water?'. The new game is mostly centered around the Phineas and Ferb character called Perry the Platypus. I have been finding my way through water physics puzzles all day.

    I also started playing another popular game in the app store called 'Flow". I am hooked on both of these games now and i intend to take my games and other apps on my phone more seriously now because they are quite entertaining. I'll make sure to talk some screenshots of the games and put there on here tomorrow, I don't feel like doing it right now.

    It was an extremely nice day today and the smoke has almost disappeared completely for now.  I just spent the day working on watching Twilight Zone and other stuff and playing the games I mentioned above.  I also got my money in the mail, so glad to not be broke anymore. I can now get my new shampoo and conditioner. I get these little frizzies in my hair and my current shampoo and conditioner just isn't cutting it.

    I usually spend a lot of time on the computer every day, but other than playing Tetris battle I didn't spend that much time on the computer today due to my other distractions. It was nice to do this for a change instead of sitting here for hours letting my feet fall asleep.

    I think this is all I am going to do for now. I'll make sure to edit this tomorrow and add pictures.  Right now I just want to relax and go into lazy, pre-bedtime mode.

  • Cherries

    So a while after my last post yesterday night I started going through all my posts and found all the ones that mention Darik and / or Dylan and tagged them all. Most of them already had the "Darik" and "Dylan" tags, but some didn't.  I finished that this morning. I am actually thinking of re-telling my past with those two. I did a really long post that was 2 parts back in 2010 about Darik, but I honestly feel like I need to re-do it because a lot of things have changed.  I'll probably do it soon, not sure though.

    Anyway, my breakfast was kind of interesting today. I had this crazy idea of mixing my pancakes, in my ice cream with some maple syrup. It was actually quite delicious.

    I bought some Orbit gum last week, I ran out yesterday. I love the tropical flavor that has orange, kiwi and some other stuff. I run out so fast because I love to chew it.

    I was watching Twilight Zone today for a while. My sister had gone somewhere, a few places i imagine. She got home some time after I started watching it. She brought home some fruit bars, kind of like Popsicles. She also brought home some really great cherries. I ate some while watching episodes 20 - 25 of The Twilight Zone. It was really hot while I was watching it so I turned the cooler on. I found out today that it's okay for me to turn it on, it's not really that broken anymore.

    I actually started playing Tetris while watching after some time. I went into the kitchen and opened a Mango fruit bar and ate it while I watched Twilight Zone after I was done playing Tetris. I nearly broke my Marathon record toady, but not quite.

    We suspect a new fire, or a couple new fires started somewhere around here because the sky got really smokey and stuff around the time I was watching The Twilight Zone. It was crazy, you could see little bits of ash in the air and the mountains were almost invisible. it dissipated after a few hours mostly.

    I watched Star Trek First Contact with my sister tonight. I was actually playing a new game that came to the  Apple store at the same time. Some of you might be familiar with a game called "Where's My Water". The game I was playing is basically the same thing, only it is Phineas and Ferb themed. The game is centered around Perry the Platypus.  I love the game so much already, I'm so hooked.

    Natalie and Kayla built a blanket fort sometime after this. It wasn't anything big because it was in the living room, but it was cute. They were sooooo hyper tonight. Especially while we were eating tuna sandwiches for dinner.

    Anyway, i don't think anything else is going to happen tonight so I'll end here.

  • The Vibrating Chair

    My grandma and grandpa lived with us for a while when I was younger. I don't remember much because I was still in my lower single digits. They were my grandparents from my dad's side. I remember we had numerous things around the house that belonged to grandma and grandpa. one of the things that sticks out in my mind however is the vibrating chair. It almost looked like a normal reclining chair. It was electric and had to be plugged in. My grandpa had it for his back or something. he also had diabetes. I loved that chair so much. I twas like a dark, kind of old banana yellow. Not the prettiest thing in the world but when you turned it on it felt amazing. i would use it whenever possible. i vaguely remember my grandpa also sitting in it once or twice. I was sad when they moved back to Canada, not only because I lost the chair but because I didn't get to see them very often after that.

    I also recall one of the times they lived here my grandma bought me this beautiful sapphire ring. The sapphire was pretty big, the ring all around was amazing and I loved it very much.  I somehow lost it somewhere, it was sad. I'll never forget the feeling of wearing it and the feeling that I got when she gave it to me. I still have the box it came in even though I don't have the ring. 

    Another childhood memory I was thinking of today as i was surfing Xanga was this polka dot outfit I used to wear when I was 5 years old. Some of it was black with white polka dots, and some of it was white with black polka dots. I have a family video with me wearing it somewhere. 

    Nothing much today, i just spent most of the day thinking about the past, playing Tetris and watching stuff on Netflix as usual. I played around with Google Earth for about an hour and found my way to some places i didn't know how to get to before. I have actually never played around with that app very much before, it was fun. 

    Natalie asked me for some advice on how act in some different situations. I haven't given her nearly as much advice as i should have. I hope she asks me more stuff. I seem to have a lot of the answers she needs to hear. A lot of the stuff she is going through right now i have also gone through. I understand how she feels. I really liked giving her advice on friends, and insecurities, and stuff like that. I can't have children, so I guess at least I can pass my knowledge and wisdom onto my nieces and nephew. 

     

  • Darik and Dylan (Part 2)

    I sent Darik a text message a few minutes ago, it turned out to be much more than I originally planned. I have really been bugged by how things ended with us 2 months ago. I really wanted to say something to him very badly. I must have written and re-written the text I sent him about 20 times, each with different things I could say. I finally realized that no words i could possibly say would make me feel better unless if they were "I love you". These are the only words i have left for him, for both him and Dylan. I don't feel like i can say anything else now other than what I said in that text. 

    "I really want to say something to you but I don't wan to bug you. So the only thing I am going to say is I love you, because all other words are futile now. Take it any way you want I don't care. These are the only words I have left. And don't you dare laugh because I'm crying. "

    So many emotions went through my fingers and through my whole body while I was typing this, and during the 20 or so seconds before i actually sent it. I was happy, sad, frustrated, excited, confused, clear, so many different things in that one moment in time. I lost it completely and put every single emotion I could summon up into that text. I just hope he reads it. 

    Two months ago it ended completely awkward. I have always had problems with keeping our friendship balanced. I have had to go through tons of insecurities, and psychological phenomenon the whole time I have know both of them. Every time I try to tell them how I feel it always goes wrong in some way. Maybe i tried to hard, or explained myself wrong. I think I was also a little too dramatic, actually I know i had a tendency for being really dramatic. My feelings for these two have always been super strong though. I always got ahead of myself, but at least my heart was always in the right place, even if I didn't communicate it properly sometimes. 

    I tried to make things better by trying to give up on our friendship for their benefit. I thought it was the wise thing to do. I was so sure that i was only getting in the way and that i had n real purpose in their life. i was ready to but out for good and leave them alone. I ended up texting both of them and they ended up talking me out of it for a while.  i never really felt quite settled though. i really didn't feel like I deserved to be their friend, like I was any good. Them talking me out of it made me feel kind of happy, but I was more confused than anything to be honest. I didn't want to pursue it any more though. I just kind of gave up on the notion of giving up cold turkey because i figured it was a good idea to at least give them a few more weeks.

    At the end I ended up talking myself into thinking of them as the bad guys, I was so stupid. i convinced myself that if I kept on talking to them i would just end up getting hurt. i convinced myself that they were what was wrong. I sent them a message on Facebook telling them i wanted to stay away from them, and that being around them was only hurting me. I was so dumb to do this. I made sure to write it so it looked like I thought i was also partially to blame. I know that this is the truth, even though internally I was trying to deny this was true. I'm glad i didn't put the blame on them in writing. I at least did the decent thing in writing and told them how i felt in at least a semi- right way. i still regret that though. I could have done everything in a much better way if only I had just been patient.

    Instead of trying to get things back to the way they were after telling him how sorry I was for all the drama I had caused trying to protect myself I just backed off and told him and Dylan that I cared about them a lot and just left it at that. I told them i was just going to let go. At least I ended it semi-good.

    I have been feeling guilty in varying degrees over the past two months. I really have a lot of regrets, and I know I have to deal wit them myself and come to terms with them. I know how that expressing these feelings isn't exactly the best thing to do with Darik and Dylan which is why I am doing this on my blog instead. I don't want to shove these feelings onto them anymore, and I know they don't want to deal with the drama anymore. Darik has been so patient, he has had to deal with most of it. He has been so good to me the past few years. He could have gotten angry, or frustrated, or irritated, but he never showed anything like that. This is one of the reasons why I care about him so much. 

    Anyway, I still have a lot I want to express on this subject, but for now I'll just leave it like this. 

    I'll do my regular entry later.

    EDIT: if you wan to understand my past with Darik you can read this entry from way back in 2010. >>> Here

    FYI: I am going to be doing a new version of my past with Darik and Dylan soon. I really need to because a lot has changed.

  • Melting Hot Day

    I spent quite a lot of time today on Instagram. I like to spend time on it every once in a while because I love uploading, and seeing other people's awesome photos. My favorite ones tend to be the more colorful ones. I uploaded these today. Here are the explanations first.

    1. Home Made Mini Pizza

    2. Our Cat Cookie 4 years ago

    3. The first piece of digital art I ever did

    4. My sticker from when I was on the tonight show 2 years ago. I'm sure you can find the blog post somewhere in April, or May 2010 I think it was.

    5. Our notorious broken mailbox. (It doesn't shut close right, and it leans funny. )

    6. Our now empty China Hutch.

    7. Random photo of me I took on my B-day last year. I haven't changed much.

    8. Fever Few, and Lavender.

     

     

    It was blazing hot today, like make your back sweat kind of hot. I had to do something. This is part of what I did today.

    today was a pretty lazy day today, except for a few times when I went outside. One of those times was for number 8. We have a lot of lavender and Fever Few growing in our backyard.  I'll have to tell you about my backyard in a different post, there is actually quite a bit to tell.

    I spent a lot of the day watching Netflix and sweating like crazy because no one turned on the cooler. Our swamp cooler can be a little complicated sometimes, so I try not to fiddle with it usually.

    If our hose wasn't broken I would probably have gone outside and sprayed myself with it. We have one in the backyard too, but that one is also kind of broken, and i try not to play with it.

    We had tacos for dinner, they were great. My dad put some beans and stuff in with the meat and it was actually really good.

    We found some peas in our garden, but they were kind of old. They were good, but we waited a little too long to pick them out of our garden. I really have to get more into gardening sometime. My grandpa loved gardening. I would so love to learn as much as he knew about it.

    I think this is all for tonight. I don't think I forgot anything particularly interesting. I am feeling a bit brain dead tonight though, so if i did forget anything I'll just tell you tomorrow.

  • Rainbow Rocks

    So the picture above is something I did when I was bored. I was watching stuff on Netflix and hanging out with my nieces to also help cure my boredom. The picture is called "Rainbow Rocks'. It reminds of me a side of a cliff that is rainbow colored. It also has that cool pop out effect that I really like. I assume since I put the 3D effect on it with one of my art apps on my phone that it also works with 3D glasses.

    I woke up today and actually had ice cream for breakfast. I tried something a little different, and put some Coco Krispies in it. It was pretty good, plus it had that crunchy effect that I like in some ice cream.

    I started watching the old Twilight Zone series seriously today. i watched 2 episodes over the past two days and I think I have really started to get into it. I have always loved old series like Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, I Love Lucy and others. They just have this certain charm, and originality that a lot of other series these days don't have.

    My dad made mini pizza. Well it was like mini pizza except for it was on bread, and it had spaghetti sauce, cheese, and pineapple. He has made these a few times. Minus the little tomato slices he puts on them (I hate warm or hot tomatoes except for in the form of a sauce), and the mushrooms in the sauce (yuck). I was feeling very hungry, so i ended up eating 2 of them.

    I didn't have any ward FHE (family home evening) tonight because they were doing a blood drive and i can't give blood. I just stayed home playing tetris, hanging out with family, and we had our own FHE. We had a lesson about this LDS magazine called the Ensign, and another one called "The Friend'. Our amily home evenings aren't as fun as the ones we have in the ward, but it's nice to have family get together none the less.

    I was going to go to the store, but my dad and sister left without me, so i just had to stay home. My mom and my nieces were cleaning the kitchen upstairs during their absence. I was actually downstairs cleaning up my room just a little bit.

    other than this I have just been doing stuff on Instagram (Empathic_Heart), and playing games on my phone today. I have stopped wearing camisoles underneath my shirts because it's been to dang hot. I usually always wear them because it feels comfortable, but not this time of year. 

    Goodnight peeps. happy

     

     

     

  • Normal Sunday Feeling Lazy

     

    Today was a pretty normal Sunday. I got up at my first alarm, checked Xanga, then just lied there after I turned my alarm off and slowly went back to sleep. i was feeling to lazy to get out of bed. Sundays are the most relaxing day of the week for me, I never seem to want to get up. I remember having a dream about some weird tree house in the sky, and old people lived in it and i would go up there and visit them from time to time. It was really bizarre. I remember Darik and Dylan were in my dreams again, i don't remember what that dream was about though.

    i got up at 11:45, ate some cheerios for breakfast, got dressed for church and found a ride. I asked my friend Michelle because Marcie couldn't come today. I surfed Xanga, and just thought about life before she came.

    She pulled up in this old truck, i guess the air conditioning was busted because she just had the windows rolled down. We talked about our week and what we had been doing, and about the kind of music we liked. When we got to church just the usual happened. First hour was Relief Society, I read the scriptures the whole time. Second hour was about somewhere in the beginning of the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon, somewhere not to far from where i was reading.  Third hour was sacrament meeting. I just did more reading and listened to the talks and stuff.

    On the way back home from church Michelle and I talked about our pets that we have and that we have had in the past. It was a pretty fun conversation. I think I could make a really great post about my pets sometime.

    We noticed how the sky was covered in these white clouds, they weren't rain clouds, just white innocent looking clouds. The clouds to the East were covered with a thin layer of smoke that made them look kind of orange, brownish. It look pretty interesting.  I wish I had taken a picture. if they are like that tomorrow I will.

    When i got home i went downstairs, took my Sunday stuff off and checked facebook. I watched Phineas and Ferb for a while, and then surfed through a whole bunch of random web pages because i was bored.

    My dad made chicken Broccoli casserole tonight. It wasn't done until after ward prayer though. Ward prayer was at my friend jordin's house tonight. We had a thought, and our bishop talked for a bit, then we said a prayer and ate some brownies. They were really great brownies. I wish I had taken a picture of those too.

    After i got home I just did some other random stuff on my computer, surfed Xanga, played a bit of Minecraft (I try not to too much on this computer because I'm afraid to hurt my laptop), and watched some Twilight Zone (the old version).  Now here I am now. I don't think anything else is going to happen tonight so I'll just end here. I hope more exciting stuff will happen this week. :)

    You can probably tell I'm feeling a bit lazy tonight. Check out my post from yesterday if you haven't already seen it. I hope you like the picture I used today. happy

    I'll be less lazy tomorrow. winky

     

     

     

  • Nine Poems and a Short Story

     

     If you have trouble getting them to play try a different browser, like chrome, or try pushing the play button more than twice, really fast, or try both methods at the same time. This is usually how I fix the problem of them not playing.

     

    1. I am

    I'm a silent firecracker
    I'm the stars in the sky
    I'm a phoenix that burns
    I'm the wind that blows
    I'm a majestic tree
    I'm the sweet berries
    I'm a candle in the dark
    I'm the bringer of hope

     

    2. You Are

    You are like pure gravity
    you keep me on the ground
    you are like the lightning
    shooting through my veins
    you are like the waves
    crashing against my body
    you are like the fire
    burning passion of my heart
    you are like the stars
    always bringing me hope

     

    3. Forgotten Gemini

    I flew into the starlight
    a memory entrances my soul
    a thousand year ago I let go
    a reflection in the mirror
    faded by the silence of the broken
    my whispers changed into ash
    the daggers pierce the stars
    i cover my ears and hear the noise
    running from the dragon of green
    blinded the Gemini I no longer see
    throw myself into the clouds
    My memories fade into the desert
    once again I lie among the jewels
    cradle of the stars bring sleep
    I sink into time the hourglass turns

     

    4: Trickster

    The poison so delicious but deadly
    chimes on a clock strike forever
    a heart torn two ways two paths
    I wish the tide would separate fate
    you are my corruption, my doom
    come to me as an angel I see you
    deceiver, devil that looks so beautiful
    stretching out your hand but pull back
    forever trickster playing with magic
    using your illusions to trick my heart
    Oh how i hate you and love you
    Enticing music from your fingertips
    Enlace my heart in your grip
    You shatter the soul of my mirror
    I wish for you to slip away and fade
    I laugh at how the jewels stare at you
    Like fools you let them lure you
    The devil's arrow pointing down at you
    My eyes like water see through you
    Illusionist harpies take your mind
    Sirens call and you follow blindly
    I wish to follow you no more deceiver
    My state be renewed forever forbid
    passage twisted withholds the entry
    Only angels now may enter here
    The sun will forever vanquish thee
    You turn your head from the stars
    Wisdom is hidden from your eyes
    This is where we say our goodbye
    Silver wings take me away to the stars
    Fade into the shadow of the memory
    Nothing but dust you hold for me now

     

    5. Fantastic Tale

    Lost in this maze of memory
    I fall asleep waking up
    Call me from the shadows
    first breath for the last day
    I will find myself I pray

    A lonely porcelain doll
    locked inside the harsh ice
    whispers of the fire burn
    falling rain sweet caress
    let emotions call my wind

    Twice I heard the chimes
    forgetful fate I am bound
    loudest silence in between
    Forest of the lost spirits
    I call the archers of the green

    Twined around the fallen name
    Watch the statues finally move
    broken threads of the strain
    Tore the canvas of the lost
    Eternity's mirror coming forth

     

    6. Starya

    Among the stars
    I lie awake
    my wings spread
    wind in my hair
    on top of the clouds
    my heart rests
    will never come down
    fire burns within me
    everlasting goddess
    reborn from the ashes
    I will live forever
    the darkness trembles
    at my sight
    the silver phoenix
    born from the stars
    lady of the night

     

    7. Quicksand

    This quicksand that pulls us under
    Our souls all torn asunder
    in a broken world we live
    trying to endlessly hide
    caught within the pull of time
    but no one can escape from fate
    we dream our dreams pretending its to late
    the rain it falls on our faces
    sun is an illusion, a mirage
    we fail to see the depth
    we deny we can even see the truth
    all the while being puled under
    few of us escape from the illusion
    we dream of things higher
    never focusing on what is before us
    the quicksands of time keep moving
    they move forever without us.
    until at the end it is to late.

     

    8. Your Essence

    You are like the sunrise after the night
    You are like a candle in the darkness
    You are like the stars that light up the night sky
    You are like the rainbow after the rain

    You are the spring after the winter
    You are the laughter after the tears
    You are the dream that cures my nightmares
    You are the heat when I am cold

    You are my wings when I am falling
    You are my charm when I am cursed
    You are my air when I am drowning
    You are my first thought when I'm waking

    You are a diamond that sparkles
    You are a prince from a story book
    You are a reason why my heart beats loud
    You are a silver song that echoes through the walls

     

    9. The Hourglass (Time)

    This one actually isn’t a poem, but song lyrics. I don’t know if I’ll ever get to actually making music for it though, so I thought it would be fun to just read it like a poem.

    Looking through the hour glass
    frozen time when he is near
    i can see him on his white horse
    whispering sweet songs in my ear
    the never ending dawn
    reflects within my soul
    I feel like I could live forever
    when you are close to me, when you are near

    The sands of time shift
    Watch the Hourglass shatter
    As he comes into view
    one step at a time
    time is but an illusion
    a golden mirage
    in the shadow of loves power

    a lovely heart caught under ice
    ignited now by loves sweet spark
    just the light no more dark
    a frozen clock on the wall
    the golden sand on the floor
    caught within the angelic gaze
    watching as her prince steps near
    time stops no more fear.
    a blazing fire, all she can hear

    the sands of time shift
    watch the hourglass shatter
    as he comes into view
    one step at a time
    time is but at illusion
    a golden mirage
    in the shadow of loves power

    the hourglass turns
    the hourglass falls
    golden sand spilled on the floor
    footsteps echoing
    her heart beating faster
    just watch as time shatters
    see as love ignites
    there is no greater power

    the sands of time shift
    watch the hourglass shatter
    as he comes into view
    one step at a time
    time is just an illusion
    a golden mirage
    in the shadow of loves power
    nothing can stop it
    nothing can hold it
    time is nothing
    in the shadow of loves power
    it shines forever

     

    10. The Mighty Knights of Castle Hill

    The mighty knights of castle hill, had a mission to fulfil. To war we go, for God and grace! We’ll purge this darkness from it’s base! To war they went with a mighty call, determined to fight and never to fall. For light, they fought with courage unending, never breaking never bending. For God and grace! They cried once more, never knowing what was in store. Their swords did clash, their shields did raise, the arrows flew upon earths face. They did not flinch, they did not cry., upon their horses they did fly! The fires did burn, the rain did fall, and evil shrieked with it’s fierce call. Good and evil clashed with great force, perilous, dangerous was this great course! They knew some would die, they knew some would live. They knew what to sacrifice, oh, what they would give. They knew they had to be brave, strong in spirit, this evil would fall, when they did hear it. Upon the next dawn, that great darkness fell, straight down to deep, dark, and perilous hell! Victory! Victory! We won this great fight! darkness has fallen out of our sight! The clouds have parted, the sun did raise, the earth was now freed from her dark, misty haze. Peace fell upon the land, because proud and tall the knights did stand! Thus ends this tale of light and strength, of perils and struggles and fights of great length!

     


    Hope you liked them.

     

    So in the morning I just lied there listening to music for a little bit. I checked Xanga, got out of bed, went upstairs and made myself a chicken and cheese burrito. My nieces were playing in the living room, I don't remember what they were playing but it was something with stuffed animals.  I noticed nothing was playing on the TV, so I put "Racing Stripes" on for them. I think that movie is totally hilarious and cute.

    I didn't watch most of the movie with them, I was doing other things. I checked Xanga again and replied to some comments, I also noticed that I made it to the front page for the first time today! I did some recordings of my poems for the audio part of my blog entry with the poems today (above). Only Xanga has the audio portions, i couldn't put them on blogger (sorry to those of you who are reading this from blogger). I have been slowly recording them over the past two days. I wanted to take my time.

    I listened to music for a while and surfed facebook before I went upstairs. I put on Twilight Zone (the old version), and started watching it. My dad was cleaning the floor and had rolled the smaller TV we keep in the kitchen onto the living room carpet so it wouldn't get in his way. My mom didn't like this because the wheels tend to track this black stuff (the cart that holds the TV). She made my dad move it back into the kitchen, there was n harm done thank goodness. Our carpet is kind of light, so it shows when it is dirty.

    I was eating oranges and watching the Twilight Zone until my mom and dad decided to go to the store to get some groceries. I finished the episode and then left with them.

    We got to Costco, my mom and dad were there for a few minutes before my mom had to go to work. They just left me at Costco, and that was perfectly fine by me. I went around just looking at stuff, and eating samples until my dad came back. I found him after a while and he had gotten a lot of the groceries. I had to remind him to get eggs and bananas.  We also got some dried cherries, and some cheese puffs for fun.

    We left the store and went back home. My sister and nieces were going swimming again. Once again I couldn't come because my sister's ex husband brought his mom again. i didn't even think anything of it this time though. I wasn't expecting anything unlike last time. I unpacked the groceries from the car and went back downstairs and finished recording my poems for my blog entry today.  I posted them on Xanga a few hour earlier, this portion I decided to wait to type until tonight. 

     

    I just watched Phineas and Ferb for a while, put a new photo on this entry, and just hung around the house for a while.  I went to the store while after this with my sister. She had to pick up something from the pharmacy, and i had to get some chocolate from the store. i picked up some pretzel M&M's a toffee Symphony Bar, and some Yumberry Pomegranite Sobe Lifewater. My sister got some ice cream, some Oreos, and some other stuff. It was pretty fun, I also decided what Shampoo and Conditioner I am switching to pretty soon. I'm going back to TRESemme.  

    Anyway I don't think anything else is going to happen today, so I'll just end here. If anything does happen I'll edit like usual. 

     

     

     

  • Smokey Skies and Summer Drives

    I woke up after having a dream about my best friend again, the one that abandoned me 5 years ago during my last year of high school. I have mixed feelings about my dreams. Sometimes i hate them, sometimes I like them. I wish my sub conscious would let go sometimes, it seems to want to hold onto her.

    I went upstairs and found out that Natalie had been sick all night. Natalie was getting better, but I was careful around her and made sure  didn't touch her, or get to close to her. I put on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and watched it for a while. Most of my day was alternating between Phineas and Ferb and that. I was surfing Xanga as well a lot of the time I was doing this, and watching Natalie crochet something. She is really funny sometimes, she is trying to make a queen sized blanket. I can tell her blanket is going to take up a lot of yarn.

    I saw a chocolate bar in the freezer, it belonged to Natalie, i asked it I could have a little piece of her Cookies and Cream candy bar. Natalie said I could have some, so I took it out of the freezer and took a piece. She had been standing there and she was breathing on my hand. I wasn't sure if eating it would make me sick because of this. It never made me sick, I'm so glad for this.

    It has been a really smokey day outside, somewhere in some nearby mountains (sort of near by) there is a few fires going on. Over 9k residents have been evacuated from their homes. The sky has been hazy and the air smells like smoke, and has smelled like smoke the whole day pretty much. You can see the mountain the smoke is coming from from behind the house.

    My mom and Dad decided to go on a drive around the Alpine Loop. Kayla my other niece decided she wanted to come as well. I brought my phone and we got in the car.  We drove for over and hour around the loop that goes around one of the nearby mountains. It was reallly pretty, and the scenery was amazing.

    Sorry some of the photos are blurry, I was trying to take them while we were driving, with the exception of the last one, we stopped for that one.  silly

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    The drive was awesome, and the air was wonderful. I always enjoy going on drives like we did tonight. I even got a little bit of video.

     

     

    Anyway, hope you liked this. I know the videos weren't the best quality, my iphone camera isn't really pro haha. I guess this is all for now. 

     

  • The Roses of Spring (PHOTOS)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Hope you liked them! I took these photos a few weeks ago. Nothing really happened today that was that interesting so i decided to just share these photos. I was feeling a bit bummed about not getting to go with my sister to the water park, so I just had to do something cheerful. If anything interesting does happen later I'll make sure to edit.

     I don't know if you want to listen to this, but i did it earlier when I was feeling considerably more sad. I just needed to voice how I was feeling.

     

     

  • On My Mind

     

    So a few months before I came to Xanga almost 5 years ago I was in college. it was my first year of college, my first two semesters. I really didn't get back then the seriousness of college, what it would be like, what to expect, etc. I was so unprepared. I failed nearly all my classes for both semesters that I was in college back then. I wasn't motivated, I wasn't into it, and I lack confidence also. I was basically in school back then because I just liked school, that was all. I didn't care if I failed, i wasn't taking it seriously at all. 

    Anyway, I decided I wanted to take a break from school after my second semester was a failure. i decided I needed to find myself and to improve myself before I went back to college. I was on academic probation after that last semester. 

    I spent nearly 4 years after that running from myself, being lazy, gaining weight, doing nothing just surfing the Internet, watching anime. I went through several bouts of depression, and i made sure no one knew about it. I struggled physically, mentally, spiritually, and in a lot of other ways. I was consumed in myself, I ignored everyone, dismissed them like they weren't important. I was moody, and just off balance in general.

    Somehow through some miracle after 3 years, in the last year i was out of school I decided to think about my life seriously, that was this last year. I somehow managed to pull myself together somehow and gain confidence, motivation, I figured out what subject I wanted to get into,  I started taking my health more seriously in more than one way.  

    I started to realize the importance of school, of getting a job in the future, of my life in general. I know a lot of the reason I got through this was because I started relying on God more and I started to let him into my heart finally. After I did this and I started taking life more seriously, and gained the desire to become a better person, things in my life just seemed to get better and better. I also realized just how unhappy I was before. I was kind of in denial that I was unhappy all those years I guess. 

    I have been getting better and better at being responsible and doing my share in life. I just finished my first semester back in school almost 2 months ago. I got straight A's, and I am no longer in academic probation. I feel a ton better when I am learning and productive.  My life is still slowly turning around. I have to admit now i actually don't like being out of school anymore, after all that time being out of school I came to dislike long breaks. I am really looking forward to going back in the fall.  I want to better myself, and become a great person that can life others up. I am going for a major in Psychology in school. I can't wait until I get there. 

    I still have a lot of other things i need to do before my life truly gets going. I've never had a job, and I need to work on my social skills a lot more. I definitely have room for improvement. 

    I am an optimist and always have been, and always will be. 

    You will no doubt see me tell more stories about my life before Xanga. :)

  • Just Another Hot Summer Day

    Starcloud: A pony I made.

    Today I woke up a half an hour after my alarm went off. I have an alarm cloth radio, and sometimes on occasion I sleep right through the first one. It doesn't happen very often. I just kind of lied there for 15 minutes just thinking about various things. I think I had another dream with Darik in it last night. I usually don't remember them a lot of the time though, I guess dreams are like that sometimes though. I kind of guessed this because he WAS the first thing I thought of when I woke up.

    I read a few new entries from my subscription feed on my xanga app on my phone. I surfed Xanga for a while and then got out of bed, got dressed, got on my computer and got on Xanga yet again. While I was surfing the site I came upon this entry that spoke of a little girl that believed in the tooth fairy. I thought it was really cute. It sparked a memory in me from long ago as well.

    I remember this time when I was still in my single digits. It was on the night of Christmas eve, I had just opened a pair of Barbie themed footie pajamas a few hours ago. It has always been a tradition in my family to open pajamas the night before Christmas. There also was this tradition where all my siblings would have a sleepover on Christmas eve. We had it in my sister Linda's room that year. I remember it was sometime in the middle of the night, I had woken up for some reason. I still believed in Santa back then. I remember just lying there and listening very closely for Santa's sleigh bells. I had this thought after a few minutes that I probably wasn't supposed to know when Santa came so i gave that up and went back to sleep. I was kind of afraid that if I kept listening that Santa wouldn't come because he was waiting for me to stop listening.

    Anyway, that was the memory that I was thinking of at the time. After I was done on Xanga I listened to music for a little bit and then went upstairs. I had Coco Krispies for breakfast and then put on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. I remember hoping that something interesting would happen today. Nothing that interesting happened for a few hours, just my usual stuff.

    After a while I decided I would go and search for the poems I haven't shared on my blog yet, but that I have been meaning to. I went to my facebook profile, and searched my timeline and notes. By the time I was done I gathered 11 poems, including one i completely forgot about from back in 2009, and one story poem that I wrote a long time ago.  I got those together, in a Google doc to prepare for reading them out loud for the audio portion of the upcoming blog i will be doing containing  all 11 poems. I can only do the audio on Xanga though, so for those of you who read this on blogger instead of xanga I will link yo to that when the time comes since I can't upload audio to blogger.

    I watched Hercules again a little bit after this. i went with my dad to pick up my mom from work. After we picked her up from work we headed over to Costco. We picked up a few things like fruits and vegetables, milk, some meat, and other stuff. I ended up not buying anything. I was tempted to get this popcorn stuff that has cheddar and Carmel popcorn in it. We ended up going back to Good Earth where my mom works and we got some coconut butter, and i got some Kefir, it's like a yogurt smoothie. I got the cherry flavor this time, when I got one a few weeks ago I got mango. It's really super good and healthy.

    We went back home after this. We had tacos a bit later. We used our really big tortillas we bought at the store. I ate two actually I was so hungry. After I ate, I went downstairs and re-did my Xanga theme. I wanted something a little more colorful with stars.I also changed my profile picture. 

    I think I'll just post this now since I don't think anything else is going to happen.  If something does happen I'll edit.

    Oh, and if you want you can vote on my Idea here --> link

  • Pool Party

     

    Today I was startled awake by mom opening my door. She put some of my clothes on my chair, walked out, but left the door open. I knew she probably left it open because my room was stuffy and hot, but none the less I was kind of annoyed because I wasn't ready to wake up, and it was pretty bright. I grabbed my phone from off my desk, and checked Xanga after pulling my blanket over my head for a few minutes and trying to go back to sleep. It was around 9:45, and i did get a decent amount of sleep last night, so I decided I would just get up after I checked Xanga for replies to my last blog.

    I pulled myself out of bed, got dressed and went upstairs. I had a glass of milk, and a spoonful of icebox pudding. For some reason I did not feel like eating cereal today, it just did not seem that great. I decided to wait until later to eat, because obviously I wasn't really hungry.

    I went back downstairs, started my computer and checked facebook. In response to a comment i left on one of my sister's photo albums asking how much English blood I have (It was an album of my ancestors) I found that my mom had answered. Apparently I am more than half English, 1/8th German, 1/8th Danish, and I also have at least 3 Native American tribes in me, just a little bit.  Knowing where my blood goes back too has always been a big thing for me. I love knowing where my ancestors lived, and what they did. I do kind of have a little English accent when I speak sometimes. I am totally proud of where I come from, I'm the kind of person that likes to embrace my roots.

    I did end up eating a bowl of lime icebox pudding after this for breakfast, it had been in the freezer all night so it was like ice cream with graham cracker crumbs on top. I hung out upstairs for a few minutes, not particularly doing anything, then went back downstairs. I didn't do very much for a few hours, just listened to music, read some blogs, liked some pages on facebook,  and played Rally 8 player on Tetris Friends.

    I had a pepper jack cheese sandwich with white bread and a glass of milk with English toffee flavored Stevia in it for lunch around 12 noon. 

    I watched Hercules: The Legendary Journeys for a few hours while simultaneously surfing Xanga and commenting on some posts that were in my subscription feed. Marcie, who is also one of my visiting teachers, sent me a text asking me if she could come around 4:30 or 5. I told her yes. Visiting teachers are something my church does. They assign 2 people to visit you at least once a month and talk to you, and / or give a lesson from one of the church magazines like the Ensign or something.  I went back to posting comments on Xanga after I said yes. It was blazing hot upstairs, for some reason the cooler was not on.

    Nothing interesting happened until around 5pm when Marcie came over for visiting teaching.I had just been hanging around doing nothing but still watching Hercules on Netflix on the big screen upstairs.When she got here we just talked about what has been going on in our lives, and we had a little lesson about Visiting teaching, and just talked about some gospel stuff. 

     After she left i just went back to watching stuff until about 6:20, then i started getting ready for the pool party my church ward was going to do for FHE (Family Home Evening). Nothing really that exciting happened, before the party, but I did do something silly and tried to use my RealD 3D glasses on a youtube video. I just had to try and see if there were any real real D 3D videos on there. I got my towel and goggles and stuff together, and Marcie came and picked me up around 7. 

     We were some of the people that got there first. After a few more people came, we did our opening thing we do for FHE every Monday which is we sing a song, say a prayer, and give some kind of spiritual thought, then we get into the activity after this. 

    We played Beach volleyball for half of the time we were in the pool which was almost 2 hours. It was hilarious, we weren't used to serving in water, so we had to learn how to do it. We ended up just serving the ball like a basketball for the whole time. We also accidentally hit the ball across the yard, into the bushes, and elsewhere a whole bunch of times. Our bishop, who wasn't swimming had to get it for us. I got it one of the times, and when I was trying to get back into the pool I misjudged the distance of the step at one end of the pool and ended up falling in and slightly bruising my left heal. There is an end with 2 steps where I got in at first, but the other end is just one big step, and i forgot this when I was getting in on the other end, I have pretty bad depth perception so I didn't realize. 

     The second half some of us played basketball, the rest of us hung out and talked, I actually swam from one side of the pool to the other over ad over. Marcie left early so i had to get another ride home. I didn't leave until 45 minutes after we started playing Basketball, and other stuff. My neighbor has a fire pit, some of us huddled around it and got warm, ti was starting to get less warm, and being wet kinda made us cold when we got out of the water. I wrapped myself in a towel and went over to the fire for a few minutes. I got my stuff together after this and told everyone I was leaving. I called my dad and after 10 minutes he was there and took me home. 

     During the 10 minutes I was waiting I tried to get both my AOL radio app, and my Pandora app to work, but the signal for my 3G wasn't the best over there. I thought they weren't going to turn on, but when I got into the car, on my way home they BOTH turned on and it was funny. It took me a few seconds to register the country music playing, and then the Queen radio on my Pandora app started playing as well.

     By the time I got home, which didn't take nearly as long as it took him to get there (by the way mom was in the car too) I was REALLY hungry. I didn't eat until after I washed my hair though. I scarfed down a bunch of pineapple and cantaloupe after this, asked my dad to put a pizza in the oven, went back downstairs with a crimson red towel wrapped around my head, and here I am now typing this. 

     Besides pizza, i don't think anything of note is going to happen so i will just end it here.

    EDIT: Did an Audio entry. I started to feel like talking so I did this about an hour after I posted this. If it doesn't work after pushing play once, try pushing play again. :)