the three who were supposed to be at my house by this time yesterday are not. :(
they got held up in LA. and the airline they were using said the soonest they could rebook them was the 31st. no thanks!
so they canceled that one and i helped rebook fights on another airline. if the weather allows it (pleasepleaseplease), they'll be flying in christmas night. mom is sad because they'll have to open their gifts/stockings so late. oh, mom.
some articles i've found from the livejournal community, wtf_nature.
The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth ; lots of bizarre plants that have stayed the same for a long, long time thanks to natural isolation.
The Loneliest Mystery of the Deep ; actually a really sad story :(
Gay Penguins Steal Eggs from Straight Couples ; now to bounce back, here's a funny one.
The Bloop ; unidentifed noises coming from the ocean!!
Glowing Mushrooms in Japan ; we should ask yusuke to find some for us.
Dwarf Polarbear ; a...really cute polarbear. right up there with the pygmy hippo.
that community really is a treasure trove of interesting stuff.
tomorrow i head to my paternal grandparents' for dinner. supposedly, there will be no other aunts/uncles/cousins/whatever there, which is a huge bonus.
please make the snow stop :(
going through my external hard drive, i found a folder named 'lawl worthy'
and worthy of 'lol's they were. so i share.
this first one is a video taken two summers ago of my friend jared, during a beach party i had. he shows us his grace & skill with flippers. the rest are all just basically lolcat type pictures.
hope you guys laughed as much as i did
if you didn't, just make me feel better and pretend you did.
so that huge snow storm the weather channel promised has hit again.
there's no real upside to all this, because i wasn't able to go to gene's house. no one who was supposed to go to gene's house has been able to. i hope he's not too lonely. poor eugene. :(
i've watched way too much CSI these past few days, because they always have marathons on SPIKE. i thought i had seen almost all the episodes before, but now i'm even more certain that there are only a few out there that have evaded me.
and the drama that they try to throw in between the case? wow, so dorky sometimes. or just awkward. like the whole gil/sara relationship. no words, i can just stare at the screen and make faces whenever there's an episode with them being 'together'.
what else have i watched...
all of the 6th season of Bullshit!. in one day! i forgot they were only 30min long.
half of the DUNE mini-series.
lots of videos on YouTube.
various chick flicks with my mom; though i don't know if it counts as watching if i'm sitting on the computer next to her while she watches them.
and i've downloaded the new X Files movie and this korean movie called "I'm a Cyborg, But it's OK" to watch.
...i should probably do more reading of books than i currently am. oops.
all of this sitting at home has resulted in me: (1) cleaning the house for my mom in exchange for money, (2) not wearing anything except for pajamas, (3) possibly reverting back into my hermet-esque ways of life that i had before college and (4) becoming more and more envious of my friends who are enjoying warmer weather. boooo, people who are in LA/san francisco/etc.
...but soon at least 3 of them will be back here to suffer with me. and we can all sit around and do nothing except watch tv/movies/whatever.
speaking of them!
mom wanted me to make christmas stockings for them. that just meant writing their names on stockings bought at the store in glitter-glue.
so a bad habit of mine is that i bite my nails. i've done this for as long as i can remember.
i can count on one hand the number of times that i've quit bitting my nails; most simply because i wasn't able to bite them (that being, i had braces just put in and then because i had been given a plastic retainer that covered my teeth).
recently, though, i've haven't bitten my nails off for quite some time. you could say i'm somewhat proud of that.
it's the little accomplishments of self-control that make me happy.
plus, i can paint my nails now. oooh, how girly.
christian, lauren, naoya & i hung out; couple's weekend or something, haha. it was nice, actually! we had a faux picnic in the lounge (coolest room in the building, temp wise) and tried to go squirrel watching so lauren could see the baby squirrels but we weren't so successful there. :(
this upcoming memorial day weekend, naoya & i are going to vancouver.
i've never been, so i expect i'll get terribly lost a few times since i can't use my gps tracker on my phone once we pass into canada. i'll try and think of it as an adventure...
is signed up for next quarter's classes this past monday, too.
i'll be taking chinese 251, japanese 151 & womens studies.
two languages courses at a time--we'll see how that goes.
ooh, i'm almost 19, too. odd~ soon, i'll be leaving my 'teens.
two chinese tests in a row. the first one harder than the second, as it was an accumulative vocabulary test from all of year one so far. i'm glad to be done, but i should try to keep up with the studying i was doing in preparation.
my mom is coming to visit this weekend, spending at least one night on friday.
i'm excited to see her, and i think a few other people here are as well.
i want to take her out to eat for mother's day. or something.
recently, i've been staying up later and waking up earlier.
so i'm waiting for the whiplash of reducing my sleep, but i think taking a nap in the afternoon is sort of preventing that.
...yay naps! even if my hair is pretty messy after i wakeup. and my makeup everywhere it shouldn't be.
ahh, vanity.
the last quarter of my freshman year is halfway through.
i'm sort of excited, but mostly not. i don't want the exchange kids to go home (more specifically: my exchange kid)
but such is life, right? you get the bad with the good and just deal.
it will be nice, though, to go to a job over the summer i know i won't hate from day one.
starbucks versus working at a paper mill? hopefully that's an obvious one.
i'm supposed to be reading newspaper for an essay due in may.
it would be nice if i could take advantage of all this time i have to work on a project.
but i, like the majority of my peers, prefer procrastination and rushing to finish something just barely on time.
maybe i get a rush from it or something.
naoya has another soccer game tomorrow. i've found i actually really like watching his team play.
How do you keep calm?
Submitted by L33tchica.
by not getting riled up in the first place.
that's the best place to start.
i didn't do too well on my chinese test today; thus, intensive studying will now ensue.
waiting until 6:55, when i can change over the laundry to begin drying. why does the washing-clothes process have to take so long? (yeah, it's improved over the years, but it still takes too long)
if found my starbucks!planner and am going to make an attempt at using it. for the third time.
mom is going to be coming to visit this weekend; i'm more excited than i thought i'd be. mom! i told her we could go see a movie or something, along with having her visit everyone she wants to adopt for her own once more (i.e., all my friends).
and since i'm trying to move into a new building, she'll be able to see how i managed it on my own! (i.e., with friends' help)
oh, 6:44. not much longer to wait now.
i think i have a lot of reading to do this week for school; or at least more than one test to do...something for. like review the notes i took. because that's what you do, right?
(6:50!)
yesterday morning, December 12th, 2007, my mom's dad passed away due to a fatal heart attack.
his funeral is this friday; tomorrow, December 14th.
