Oh They Say When You Ramble In June...

You lose your mind? -shrug-

Well I figger it's 'bout time to make another post. It's been about a month since my last one, eek. But summer is goin' pretty good so far, I s'pose. The first two weeks out of school I had the cleaning bug and it felt so good to get things organized but I'm almost pretty sure it's Courtney's fault that I've gone back to being a lazy butt. Y'see, I would try to get her up and cleaning too, but she apparently didn't get infected. She cleaned a little bit, sure, but verrrryyy slooooooowwwwlllllyyyyyy. She's been out of school longer than I have but my room looks better than hers! But then of course the usual cycle kicked in and her room is a mess again. It's like she didn't do anything to it at all! Well eventually I caught the lazy bug and now I sit around and move slowly. Although I haven't played the PS2 too much so far (the first time I played just for myself since school got out was on Saturday, for like what, 6 hours? Eh heh heh heh heh...) but I have been busy playing my DS, since it's portable and all. And then a couple of days I sat in my room and listened to music while I colored and drew, and then I've also been doing some reading. So far this summer I've finished reading Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, all by Scott Westerfeld (very good!), Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want by Obert Skye, The Host by Stephenie Meyer (loved it!), and then I'll even include Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer because it was a few days before school finished. The next book I plan to read is a spin-off to the Uglies series, called Extras. And then after that, who knows? I have so many books on my plate to read. It's almost a shame that there are so many good books in the world. Almost. I compiled a ginormous list of books to read back in 9th grade when I was an aid in the library. I would shelve books and a lot of them sounded really interesting so then I'd go back to my binder and write it down and now I've got them all typed up into a big list. And it just keeps growing. I'm not sure where I'm going to find time to read them all, but hopefully I will. Hopefully my senior year will slow down a bit for some pleasure reading. But speaking of reading, Lachelle and I wanted to start up a sister book club with Shauna, Courtney, and Marily. She's supposed to set up a blog for us, but I'll have to ask her how the progress is...

Well I just finished ironing a bunch of skirts not too long ago, while watching Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Haven't seen it in a while, but I love that movie. Dorcus is definitely the prettiest bride (and the tallest, haha) and I think Benjamin and Frank are my favorite brothers. Such a great movie. But now my back hurts from standing up to iron. What is wrong with me?! First I think I'm developing carpal tunnel, and then my back starts hurting more frequently. I'm getting old fast. My parents left for California today too, for another convention. They keep going to all these stock conventions, but are they really paying off? From what I've witnessed so far, not really. They'll probably fade out of it soon enough anyway. That's what they always do. They get into a little thing that they think can earn a few extra bucks and the next thing you know it's dead and they're moving on to something else. I guess I'll never understand. Anywho, I also finally just finished watching the Mononoke anime series. No, not Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke. Not related in any way. But in any case, it's a pretty whacked out show of 12 episodes. Each episode deals with a different "mononoke," or monster/demon. A lot of it is kinda freaky (actually, really freaky), but I still find it very interesting and intriguing. The art style is very different from normal animes as well, and adopts more of a traditional painting look. It's pretty cool actually. The series is actually a spin-off from an arc (Wikipedia can explain it better than I can) of another anime series called Ayakashi: Japanese Horror Stories. I've only seen maybe two or three episodes of that. But anyway, hence the freakiness of Mononoke. It's very surreal. But I rather enjoyed it. So if you can handle weird things of Japanese caliber and some horror, then I highly recommend it. Well I think I've about rambled enough. How 'bout I go do something semi-useful now...