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I dunno how you found this, but alas, here you are. So enjoy the frightening fruits of my troubled little brain.
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wSaturday, April 30, 2005 |
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feeling: hyper bouncy excited o.o
listening to: HIM - Soul on Fire
HIM is really cool. Check them out. :x
Anyway... list of stuff I need to buy for the coming week's Mexico trip...
~bottled water (the mini kind) (check)
~lots of 400 speed film (check)
~waterless hand cleaner, and/or those pocket wet wipes (check)
~bottle of all-in-one for my contacts >> (check)
~smallish snack things (check)
~red dress (no luck T.T)
~chocolate for Kiwamu (check >> <<)
[edit: also got my birth certificate copy and the international plan set up on my cell today... and some new clothes too :O score!]
And stuff I already have that I need to remember to pack...
~my spiffy tiger CD case <3
~the slippers of doooooooom
~my kitty ears :p
~cell phone charger
~applicable jewelry
~tiny notepad for scribbling setlists in
~acetaminophen and prilosec, soon as I can confirm that I won't be fined for it ><
~flip-flops for around pool/sauna/hot tubs
~plushies! :3
~receipt for the laptop (it exists! muhahaha)
These lists will most likely be edited periodically over the next couple days. Dude, I'm going to Mexico in half a week. o_____o
Need to talk to my dad about some international plan for my cell phone too. Not sure if it's too late to activate something like that or not. x.x My cell should still work in Mexico City, it'll just cost astronomical amounts to use it there... and of course the free nights and weekends don't apply outside the US... and no idea how it would handle calls to/from international mobiles, in case Kiwamu or Andres might want to call or have me call or something...
And just to note, I do plan to take our laptop on this trip, so you folks may find me online briefly some evenings while I'm gone. Also planning to post my patented fangirly day by day reviews like I did during Fanime.
Know what's funny? Andres, the guy running the convention and who's been helping us plan this trip, absolutely loves my kitty and me. :P Among other things, he keeps addressing us as the pretty/cute/cool/little (>.>) girls... and he just spent much of this evening trying to talk me into karaoke-ing a BLOOD song with him. >> << He's a dork. A cute fluffy dork. We like him. :D Wonder if I should look for some little random cute gift thing to give him when we finally meet him... *giggle*
Also, if all goes as planned, by the time I return home my room will be painted. :o So part of my Monday preparations routine will have to include draining my fish tanks and finding someplace to put them downstairs. Would be a great time to convert them to 5 gallon tanks, but I don't know where they'd fit in here yet. >> So oh well. I'm also running low on fish food... wonder if I should pick up more pellets too when I'm out this weekend...
On a random unrelated note, my cell phone seems to be infused with several days at a time worth of chocolate scent. :3 Took it to kitty's last weekend and by the time I brought it home 2 1/2 days later is still smelled chocolatey. Bet I can thrust it under people's noses in Mexico and get some interesting drooley reactions. XP
The scent, by the way, is caused by my habit of leaving my phone lying atop the (lidded and unburned) chocolate fudge scented candle I have in my room. Don't ask me why, I've just always kept it there, especially when it's charging.
I'm done now. *coughmykittyissexyahemcough>><<*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/30/2005 02:26:00 AM
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wMonday, April 25, 2005 |
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feeling: blah...
listening to: Whose Line
Well, I just spent about an hour installing The Sims, and I still can't play it. I was only able to install it using dad's working CDROM drive via our home network, since mine is dead... and yeah, between the fact that I have 2 expansion packs for the game (totaling 4 install discs) and the fact that dad's computer is pathetic and kept BSOD-ing in mid-install, it literally took about an hour and a couple dozen runs between my upstairs room and dad's computer downstairs to finally complete installation. Then I copied my old game data back into the newly installed directory in hopes of saving my previous families and homes and stuff from before the reformat. But I don't know if it worked, because apparently, though I was able to install the game from dad's CDROM drive, I can't play it from there. So until I get a new drive in my computer, I still can't Sim. -_-
However, I did find the name of that one Sim girl that I was trying to remember the other day. Audra Leigh. >> << Though hopefully that won't matter, assuming I'm actually able to play the game again eventually and the backup of my old data was successful...
In other news, I need to finish cleaning my room. If I'm good, maybe I'll come back from Mexico to find it repainted at last. But blah... got enough to do to get ready for this trip as it is. >.> Oh well... someday...
Soooo, since I can't kill time Simming this evening like I was hoping to, I suppose I should finish translating those new lyrics for dork boy instead. Ori tsuranaru sono kage ni ryoute o kasaneawasete tokete yuku, anyone?? >>;;
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/25/2005 08:09:00 PM
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wFriday, April 22, 2005 |
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feeling: slightly stuffy
listening to: Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies
Nephew is here. But I imagine his daddy will be taking him home quite soon. Got to stay away from him for much of the day with the excuse that I have a cold.
Spring is still a joy, of course. We've had highs pushing or even topping 80 all week, and now over the weekend they're supposed to fall back into the 40s. With rain. -_- If it must rain, why can't it rain while it's hot and sticky? Cold rain is blah. Oh well... hiding in the warm dry indoors cuddling with kitties works too.
And yeah... supposed to storm around here all weekend. Wonder if we'll get power surges to knock out my computer while I'm away till Monday. Probably. So close to finishing my ~1400-song playlist too. >> I think. << Thing's been running most of every day for a couple weeks, and is about 90 hours long... it SHOULD be fairly close...
Also, I've been randomly missing my Sims lately for some reason... but I can't play it because my CDROM drive is possessed. -_- I tried to back up my game data before the reformat, but I doubt it worked... nothing on this machine ever goes the way I want it to. So I suppose when I'm finally able to play it again I'll have to rebuild my families from scratch... all those months I put into the Lockhearts and the DeSukos and the Sanderseseses and the Camerons and... whats-her-name... noooo, I forgot my newest single chick's name already T_T I know she had a puppy named Hercules... >> darn it... wonder if I saved it in the ol' blog archives somewhere back when I first made her, cause she was all spiffy and I was all excited...
Anyway, maybe I'll go start packing or something... *wiggles*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/22/2005 06:56:00 PM
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wSunday, April 17, 2005 |
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feeling: tired
listening to: B-52s - Love Shack :P
Once again, there was something I meant to post here, but I forget what it was.
So on to the next topic. Went for a walk in the woods yesterday. Been a very long time since I last did that... so long, in fact, that the landscape has changed. My little clearing near the top of the hill is gone. ;_; Apparently the people on the other side of the hill decided to start some construction project or something, cause now there's a vehicle-width path cut out, right through the middle of my former haven.
But, oh well. There's still lots of woods out there and I explored some paths I've never walked before, and actually probably never even noticed before... and there are other clearings, other mossy spots, other lovely points from which to observe the view.
Granted, the majority of all these things are technically outside of our property line... but who cares. It's a bunch of trees. I dare anyone to try to bite my head off for innocently walking among a bunch of trees. It's not like I'm trapping wild game or building a casino. >> <<
Anyway... another thing I discovered on my walk is that redbud blossoms are fragrant. O.o How many years have I lived here, surrounded by redwoods, our home separated from the road by a whole line of them, and never noticed that?
I should take another walk today and see how the peach tree and grape arbor across the road are coming along... and mom's irises... and hopefully soon there'll be honeysuckle and dogwood adding to the scenery. And I also need to see if we still have that little wild cherry tree... if we do, it won't last much longer, cause every non-redbud tree in the line in front of the house is marked to be cut, in hopes of letting only more redbuds grow back. Not that I dislike the redbuds, but... I liked that little cherry tree. :
...and LOOK at me. Whyyyyy am I getting all a-flutter about spring now? I hate spring. >_>; If I lived in any other part of the world it'd be fine... but spring in Ohio is the stupidest freaking season there is. It's not all that uncommon to have one lovely temperate March day with highs in the 60s or 70s, and then have snow pouring down the next day. And the RAIN. >_< Rain doesn't like me...
But eh... maybe it's because I don't have to spend an hour or more each day outside walking though the elements anymore. Nearly all kinds of weather have their appeals as long as they can be observed through a window from the climate-controlled comforts of one's own home. Like snow. And lightning. And tornadoes. Well, not so much tornadoes. Cause as cool as they are to look at, if they're close enough to the window to be seen, odds are you're kinda screwed.
But yeah, there are definitely perks to looking out my window and seeing all those bright purpley-pink redbuds everywhere, and the peach tree and the green-ness filling everything in and the bright blue sky and the flowers growing and etc...
And that was a very weird rant. O.o Think I need my Sunday nap now... yes... *tries to shake off spring-y thoughts and flops onto bed*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/17/2005 01:00:00 PM
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wFriday, April 01, 2005 |
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feeling: HYPED
listening to: Malice Mizer - N.p.s. N.g.s. [N-type]
I don't know HOW I managed to get to sleep this morning. I was up until like 6:30 a.m. RESEARCHING MY TRIP TO MEXICO.
*pings off walls*
Funny to think back to that day Kiwamu first asked me if I'd go to this thing... my reaction was some sort of online version of laughing in his face. Never imagined I'd actually go. But dude, there's no talking me out of it now. I'M GOING TO BLOOD'S 3-DAY MEXICAN TOUR. I think I was the last of his agents to make the decision, but oh well. :P
So I guess I need to make the reservations as soon as possible before everything is booked solid. Flight will be a bit under $400 for each of us (my Calla's going too :DDD *twirls*), few extra small fees and stuff to get through customs... and I guess we're still deciding on where to stay. The guy organizing the con said he'd email me with info, but he hasn't yet... *pokes him* But yeah. There's a very cheap hostel and a more expensive Holiday Inn within 15 minutes of where the con is. He told me the hostel would be $10 per night and the Holiday Inn $110 per night. But after doing some research on my own... heh, well... not exactly so. >>
First, I tried finding the con's connected hostel online, but I couldn't... but I did find info on many hostels in Mexico City, and they all had certain features in common. They're all basically small dormitories, commonly with space for maybe 10 to 100 guests. One room can have varying numbers of beds, often from 2 to 12, and usually bunkbeds. And that "per night" price isn't for just the room - the price system for all the hostels I found was per person per night. Again, I couldn't find the specific hostel the guy told me about, but I can't imagine why it would be any different. Which would still be awesome if we each only had to pay $40 total to stay there 4 nights, but yeah... it does double the figure I was originally told. Especially if we try to get a room with only 2 beds, which he said is either $30 or $35 a night - so that would total $60 or $70 a night for each of us. That or we get a 4-bed room for the $10 rate, as we originally planned... but since it's like a dorm, we might be booked to share it with two strangers. >.o
Anyway, then I looked up the Holiday Inn he told me about, since that's where the band and all the other agents will be staying and Kiwamu apparently wants me to stay there too >>. Turns out it really is $110 a night - for a suite. Regular single and double rooms are considerably lower. For example, a single room, with either one double bed OR two single beds, is more like $68 a night. Which isn't much different at all from the "per person per night" price we'd be paying for the hostel. O.o
Soooo I guess that's worth considering... need to consult with kitty soon and get reservations made somewhere, since I'm sure both these places will soon be booked to the brim with con-goers. They're both fairly small too - maybe one or two hundred beds in the hostel, and only 5 floors in the Holiday Inn.
*twitches* WE'RE GOING TO MEXICO. :O
I suppose I should inform my parents of this. >> <<
Anywaaaaay, in other news... I did much room cleaning yesterday. There's actually a visible difference from the photos now. o.o And still a looooong way to go, of course... but weeee. I can get rid of the one white end table now. :D
Also, I'm going to my kitty's tonight. *wiggle* Be back... meh, early next week sometime. >>
[edit: oh, and the option to preview posts is back. :D]
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/01/2005 03:41:00 PM
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