There's lots of world out there...

*sigh* Thank the heavens it's Thanksgiving!!! I'm so excited to go home!!! Hm, let's see, what's happened since my last update? Oh yeah. Johannah died on Friday. I went to the Memorial Service last night. It was open casket, but due to some wonderful twists of fate and people's heads, I never saw her. See, I have this little thing called necrophobia, and seeing dead anything else creeps me out enough. I never ever want to see a dead person. Ever. I don't even understand why we have the whole open casket thingy. I mean, if we believe that bodies and souls are separate entities and that the soul has gone on to someplace else, that being the person, then why do people want to stare at an empty shell? My dad and I were talking about it last night, actually.

So yeah, I need to do some final packing here and then I get to go home T_T. Yayness! If anyone wants to do anything with me, give me a ring. Preferably on my home phone, but my cell might be on if your lucky. Elsa and Mike are coming, but I'm totally willing to ditch them, lol. Well, I do need to spend some time with them, obviously, but I have no problem hanging out with other people. And it's her birthday on Sunday, and I have no idea of what to give her. El will probably be getting a very nice card, lol. Okay, gotta go! Laters!

~msbbt

Okay, I gotta make this fast. For one, yay! I've been on LJ for a year! Ah, the randomness... I may start seeing what that memories thing does, cause I've had some classic entries. Two, yay again! It's my dad's birthday! He's ** years old. We went bowling with my uncles, and he had the second highest score and he like never goes bowling. My grandma and my mom are making him a cake. I got him a great card. It says "It's your birthday! I got you a card!" And the inside says, "This is the inside!" and on the back is says "Here's the back!" I loved it. Other than that, I've been keeping as busy as I can down here. I'll be home late afternoon/ early evening on Saturday and then it'll be all packing for school. Blah. Oh well. I'm pretending to get ready to go to the pharmacy (again). We're having malts! Seriously, if you're ever in Dallas, go to the Highland Park Pharmacy. Best malts and ice cream sodas EVER. Okay, laters!

I haven't updated in a while... Frankly, it's because my life was really boring and now that it's interesting I'm too busy. So, here goes:

Shawn's home!!! Yay! He came in last night and will be here until Sunday. I'm so happy! He's so much fun! I was kind of afraid he'd want his DVDs back cause I haven't had a chance to watch them yet, but it sounds like I can keep them for a while longer. Actually, we watched one of the movies last night. It's like the best movie ever. Of course, that's Miazaki for you (I can't spell). I saw Howl's Moving Castle on Monday and it was great. The one I watched with Shawn last night was the one that you never see anywhere, "My Neighbor Totoro." As I said, I loved it to death. It was the cutest thing ever. Shawn even says it's one of his favorites. He even told me the order to watch the other ones in. Kiki's Delivery Serivce next, then Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Porko-Rosso, and, quote, Grave of the Fireflies when I'm in the mood for the "saddest movie ever." Then all I'll need to do is hunt down Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind and I've got the Studio Ghibli movies covered! These are the people that Pixar idolizes, so you know they're good. But I highly suggest Totoro to everyone.

Let's see, what else? Um, huh. I guess my life's just been boring otherwise. Oh wait! I thought of some stuff! Over the last month or so, I've been getting these weird red bruise things everywhere, and we think we've finally figured out how to stop them (I had to go to the dermatologist...), but they're going to take FOREVER to heal, and I can't wear long sleeves and pants when it's hot, so if you see me and notice all of that red stuff, that's what happened.

My mom will kill me for this next part, but I'm rather worried, even though she isn't. She didn't even tell me about it until a week ago, which made it that much worse, but I didn't want to mention it until we got the positive, which was today. Hear me out before you freak out and run out to buy flowers or something. The very short story is my mom has skin cancer. The long "there's nothing to worry about" story is that it's Basil Cell (sp?), which the the most common and easiest to take care of one. All they have to do is remove the skin (all of it, down to the bone) where the cancer is, and it's just a little tiny spot on the top of her head, and she's all good. Well, I don't know how it's supposed to heal, and I keep telling her we're going to go out and buy her a lot of hats, but yeah. I'm worried, but that's just me. It's nothing to freak out about. I just thought you all should know. The lesson here is: Wear hats and sunscreen!!!

Until something else interesting happens again:
~msbbt

Well, outside of my two random entries earlier, here's how my birthday went:

I woke up, wrote, and opened presents. My mom got me like fifty million cards, I swear. But I got some funny T Shirts, DVDs, and some drawing stuff and my Grandma sent me brownies and my brother, who is still the best gift giver in my family, found a cel from Inuyasha online. Yeah. He says he chooses to believe it's real, so I'll go with that ^_^.

Then I went to work, which is usually boring. Except this time, about 45 minutes in my stomach started killing me. I had only had a few sips of juice, so I didn't know what the problem was, and I decided to lay down in the coat closet because no one was there and if someone did show up, they'd just think I was checking on something. So, I stayed there in pain for a while, and finally decided to go to the bathroom, where I proceeded to blarf several seconds later. Yes, I said blarf. It was mostly nothing, too, which made it suck even more. Then I felt awful for the next two hours and sipped on some 7 Up. Then, I felt better and started eating. My parents called around this point to talk to me, and apparently it had been snowing in Michigan, which made me laugh. I said, "See, you should have stayed here with me!" Yeah. Then I went back to my room, ordered pizza, and sat around doing nothing online. It wasn't as god awful as I expected, but still not my best. Oh well. I'm 19, at least ^_^.

~msbbt

Well, today is basically the day for celebrating my birthday even though it's in exactly one week ^^. My parents will be in Michigan next weekend, so they came up today and we went to dinner, had cake at this little park, and I opened one present. It was fun, and yet still sort of depressing. Later tonight, we're doing a mass birthday cookie cake for Christie (who's birthday is today), me, and this other girl on our floor whose birthday is Tuesday. It seems like I won't be doing much on my real b-day. I mean, my "friends" here are limited. It's kind of sad. Hey, anybody wanna take a trip to Sioux Falls next Sunday? *grins*

And now, I must go back to my horribly messed up life. Well, it's been worse, but German has taken a bad turn. That's all I'll say for now. I pray that I can get everything back in line while there's still time for me to salvage my GPA. Plus, my mom said she would buy me Invader Zim (I told her I wanted it, even though I've only seen like two episodes) if I got As and Bs. Must work harder! lol.

Hopefully, I'll post a lot of stuff on ff.net on my birthday. But candy__chan's the only person here who reads those. And you guys frankly don't need to check them out, cause my stories are kind of weird and really bad. But I thought I should say that. ...I need to finish that hat. I've been working on it all week.

~msbbt

Well, I'm back from that lovely holiday known as Thanksgiving Break. It was so nice to be home for a few days, but now... *siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh* I'm back to being bored and lethargic. Not that I wasn't this weekend, mind you, but it's a bad thing now. And now, it's Christmas time!!!

I still don't know what to do about presents. I think I know what I'm getting my mom and dad (Dr. Mario and the Adventure of Link respectively), but I don't know WHAT to get anyone else. I have an idea, but it's sort of stupid, and there are a few people that I'd want to give more to, you know? Yeah, I totally didn't realize the new original Nintendo games that were out. I saw Adventure of Link and bought it immediately for myself, lol. I want to get Metroid and the original Castlevania, too. The latter is famous in my house because it's one of the two games that my brother, the master, could never beat. I hope they've kept it the same so I have the same challenge ahead of me. The thing is, the other game he couldn't beat was Kirby's Pinball, and I've beaten that (cause I got really lucky once), so we'll have to see. Plus, my dad recalls it having really good music, but we can't remember how it goes, so I'd like to hear that. And Metroid just cause... well, I remember it too. Dr. Mario would be fun, as well as the original Mario and Donkey Kong, but they are twenty dollars. Compared to other games, this is cheap, but it's still fairly expensive. I also found the Fruits Basket boxed set and I REALLY want it, but it's $100, and I just don't have that kind of money to spend. Trigun boxed set it $200, so it'll be a while before I ever get that. Maybe I should look online or something...

I'm not too worried about gifts, though. My crappy idea will do, but I'd like to get more a least for my brother, themonkeymaiden (for putting up with me at home), and Christie (for putting up with me at school XD), and maybe even a few other people if I can think of anything extra outside of my idea... It's not even a very good one. Also, since my sister won't be home for Christmas, I am now in charge of selecting and running my family's recorder ensemble. themonkeymaiden, who's also in our group, had a good idea of adding parts to the duets we used to do for Madrigal. It's either that or Feliz Navidad, and I don't know if they'd like that at our Christmas Eve service... Although, she has now been upgraded to sopranino (if she wants) since my sister is gone! So it'll be sopranino, soprano, alto, and bass probably (yes, there are several kinds of recorders. Tenor is the only one we have that we probably won't use). Or make my brother play tenor and my mom can re-learn soprano, but I think her arthritis would make that too hard....

...Am I a terrible person for wanting to give more to my brother than to my sister?,
~msbbt

Well, Honk! starts tomorrow! Our last rehearsal just got over, and I must say, the show is looking great!!! I'm so excited! It's so much fun, and I'm sure the audiences will like it. Doing 9 performances in 8 days (with two of those off) seems like a lot, but I enjoy it so much! I'm also really happy that themonkeymaiden, Rachie-chan, AND my brother will be coming to see it! He's coming all the way from Chicago, and he's never seen me in anything! He'll be here next Saturday, though, the other two are coming tomorrow ^_^.

Ooo ooo ooo!!! More good news! I finally checked my college e mail, and the Improv group has two shows at the same time tomorrow. I mean, I go to rehearsals, but I've never been in a show. However, I GET TO BE IN THE SHOW ON THE MAINSTAGE TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! I'm so excited!!! It's my Improv premiere!!! I've been wanting to be in a show for so long (two months, but hey, that's longish!)! This one freshman has all ready done a show or two, and me and another guy are getting are first shots tomorrow! The one who's done it before is in my group, and the other kid goes to the coffee shop where they usually perform, but he and another guy will have to rush over there cause they're in Honk!, too. But the group leader understands (HE'S in Honk!, too!). I'm just so pumped!!!

I want to force Christie to take me out to get my fish tomorrow... She's being such a jerk lately! She usually knocks on my door to make sure I wake up in time for Religion, but recently, she's been doing it like five minutes before class!!! I explain to her that I turn off my alarm and go back to bed cause that's just how my mind works at that hour, but no!!! She's too busy with herself! I'm sorry, but you need to think of your friends education before how good you look. Gr... Too bad she's my ride everywhere, otherwise I'd tell her off...

Oh yeah! You remember that Sorry Everybody site? They keep reformatting, and my pic is now toward the bottom of 89. Actually, it was the very bottom the last I looked, but you never know when that'll change.

Oh well, things to do! My room looks like crap (still), and I should probably look at my homework since I've got the show this weekend... Later!

~msbbt