
Saturday, November 29, 2003
I have updated The MConnections homepage. All the links work now, and all the pages are there. They don't take you to "Yahoo's 'This page does not exist pages'" anymore or the pages that have a bunch of weird looking code or half put together pages. It takes you to complet pages! I am so excited.
I put the eExtra! for the winter issue up on the site. Now I just need to actually upload the winter issue. Check out the eExtra! at http://www.geocities.com/the_mconnection/winter/extra3_issue2.jpg
But be warned, its a semi-large file and may take a while to load.
I made an eExtra last night really late for The MConnection. I'll try to upload it to the website if I can. It make take a while to load. I'll put a link to it here if I do. Its about winter shopping, and if mom and I go shopping today, I am going to take it with me.
--10:23 AM
Friday, November 28, 2003
My mom got home a little before seven. I did go shopping-at Circuit City. And dinner was really good. It was fish with almonds and something else and dill rice. I really liked it. Then I went to Circuit City, got three presents, two for my friends, and one for my mom. I don't want to go to bed yet, but I am falling asleep. I just finished through my macwarehouse catalogues, and now I am really tired. I think I'll see if the movie my mom was watching is over and maybe we can watch TV together before I fall asleep.
--9:54 PM
I am trying to figure out how to finish my research for my subliminal message editorial. The messages are in music videos, and I don't think I have time to wait forever watching MTV Hits for them to show up, and I can't go on the internet...and my mom won't let me watch them on her computer, I am sure. Oh well, I'll finish the article in a while. I have until the end of December.
--5:34 PM
When oh when will my mom be home? Will we go shopping? What will I eat for dinner?
Stay tuned for the answers to these troubling questions and many more...
I am going to work on my editorial on subliminal messages for the January's issue of The MConnection.
--5:31 PM
I was playing Komi, and I got my best score ever, 1100. I am happy. Oh well, gotta go do something. I'll see if my grandfather needs help with anything.
--4:20PM
I played a game of pool with my grandfather. He won.
I found my, actually, I knew where they were and just decided to listen to them, Wee Sing tapes. I only wish I knew where the books that went with them that had the words and cool information about the songs. I've had them as long as I can remember. i also found a Happy Birthday tape that has a song called "The Wrapping Song" so I thought I'd listen to it and see about it since you wrap a lot this time of the year.
When my mom gets home, I want to talk her into letting us go shopping tonight. Bababozorg already said he wants to.
--3:52 PM
I think I'll work on the editing of some movies. You can only put so many songs into your computer before you get bored.
--2:10 PM
I am bored. I wonder when Bababozorg will get up from his nap. I want to play a game. I don't like backgammon that much, but I don't know what to do and backgammon isn't too bad.
--2:08 PM
I am redecorating my room. I needed to take a break from music. If I go on at my current rate, I think my door to my room will show barely any wood between the pictures, drawings, and notices.
--9:59 AM
The busiest shopping day of the year! Mom said she heard on the news at seven that all these major shopping malls were anywhere from half full to completely full. Maybe its a good this she has to work today...I think it might be a little claustrophobic at the malls. Maybe we can still go shopping later today. I am back to converting old 33s to MP3s. I have 3 songs so far this morning. I am hoping to get this entire album, and then maybe another album, or finish up The Eagles Greatest Hits album that I already started recording a few months ago. I feel almost like I am some studio or something. Not a major one, but I am at a computer with a turntable on one side of me and a synthesizer on the other. Unfortunately, I am not a pro with either and don't have any super powerful software, or the best in quality hookups, but at least I am not playing them and hitting record and using an internal mic. THat would be a whole lot worse. I feel very proud of myself.
--9:38 AM Thursday, November 27, 2003
You know, there are times when I can be mad at my video camera. It has a memory stick slot, and there is a memory stick in it. But there is a format error, so I can't access it or take pictures, which I just tried to do because I like my hairdo, and usually I can't get the same hairdo twice, usually. How can there be a format error? It stays in the camera, it isn't like it goes between a reader, a TV, a PDA, and the video camera. It only goes into the video camera to record still images. My digital handycam is the only thing I own with a Memory Stick slot. Goonight. I am tired.
--11:03 PM
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Recount On Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 27, 2003
5:58 PM
The stories I hear are interesting. Quite... interesting. So far I've heard stories about people and towns in Minneapolis, and before that there was one about blogs when my mom mentioned mine.
Great. My mom, in their current conversation said "they don't blog" as a joke when the other person said that people in this one town "just aren't open to change." Everyone started laughing when my mom said the blog comment and then my great aunt said "and probably never will."
My mom is sitting right next to me and she probably doesn't realize that I am writing in my notebook something that I am going to type up and post on my blog. She probably thinks I Am scribbling or doodling in my notebook.
6:07 PM
Now my mom is talking about when she was six and and all over europe and then traveling all over the u.s. when she was older because her father was in the DOD and she was a DOD brat.
THE THANKSGIVING SONG my great uncle taight us towards the end of dinner. He said he picked it up at work. It is to the tune of Frere Jeuques..okay, I can't spell it. Brother John. Here it is
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving
Save your bread
Save your bread
Shove it up the turkey
Shove it up the turkey
Eat some bird
Eat some bird
8:12
I am starting to get bored. I think I'll go take a walk and talk to Kelty.
8:32 PM
I need to learn when to keep my mouth shut and not say my thoughts aloud. Its probably going to pester me forever now.
8:44 PM
Watching a movie of my uncle's. It is an edited about their (him and his wife) Alaskan cruise around Labor Day. The wind was really strong, so it is really loud, and my ears are starting to ring from it. There was this one bird, and it was flying backwards then forwards then backwards then forwards and forwards. It was awesome.
The scenery is so breathtaking. Glacier Bay, I think it is. Somewhere in Alaska, I think.
Now there is this cool looking cruise ship in the water that is sort of blocking the scenery, but its whiteness looks really cool in the scene as well. The snow capped/covered mountains are so amazingly beautiful. the water and... not there are all these seagulls. So white. I like white.
The quality is so amazing and I think my uncle's TV really enhances the effect. The lake looks so amazing on the TV. I feel like I am practically there.
8:54 PM
Everyone keeps making jokes. The two that I think have lasted the longest so far are the one about me and the whole transition deal and that is really getting on my nerves. I am writing that down instead of saying it is bugging me, because then I'll get a delayed response since my aunt and my uncle (siblings, not married ones) want to check my blog out, and my mom reads it regularly. The other joke is one my uncle made about not peeing overboard because of the ecosystem. But then my aunt (my uncle's sister, not wife) said when a seagull pooped "oh, but it's okay for a bird to s*** on the railing." I think I preferred it when all of their jokes went over my head.
8:56 PM
Everything is real cool. Their is this sort of suspense building/climax music and they are in a helicopter, I think. The music sort of builds suspense and gets you to watch and now it is starting to sound like it is at a climax with the whole gong-like sounds or cymbal-like sounds. It is showing the water, mountains, and glacier ice sheets from an aerial view and the helicopter is landing. Oh goody!
9:00 PM
The glacier ice sheets are very rugged with lots of cracks and crevices. They have landed. AWESOME! It looks so awesome. Its zoomed into one of the crevices and the water is tricking and the ice is blue and...
WHOA! That was awesome. Okay, there was this tent on the glacier, and then it sort of overlapped to a room and then it went back outside with a pretty straight cut. That was cool. It makes you sort of think they were staying in the tent.
Sorry about that, but I write too slowly and so I lost the end of my description of the ice, and I forgot what I was going to write. Now it looks like it is the inside of a saloon or something.
9:04 PM
There is a stream and you see salmon in the water. That water is so clear
9:06 PM
Now there is shots from a kayak. the water looks so cool and there are some crests. Now its from inside a blue inflatable like raft boat. Now I think they are back on the ship. Now there are lots of really pretty,amazing, breathtaking shots of the glistening water.
9:09 PM
The world's largest totem pole.
9:11
Finally, they had been looking forward to this for a week. A pod of orcas! I only can see the tops of them and parts of their dorsal fin when they surface for air. But it is so cool. I almost feel like I am there.
-->my mom made a transition joke. ha ha ha. I am bursting with laughter. yeah, right
!!! Oh cool!!!! There is a close up of the fin, and it is so beautiful. I've never see a movie of the fin of an orca. It is so pretty, The colors are so amazing. I like whales.
9:15
The movie was cute. The ending message was so cool. here's what it said, or something along the lines.
"IT'S FINALLY OVER!
I'd like to thank
the people of Alaska and Canada
I'd also like to thank the Bush Administration
for not declaring war on Alaska or Canada...at least not yet."
That is what I wrote about my thanksgiving. I wrote it in my notebook, and just finished typing it all up now. It is 10:35 PM. What I don't believe I ever mentioned was that dinner was delicious, the pumpkin pie my uncle made was delicioso, as usual. I liked my Thanksgiving. It was okay. It was more like a harvest feast gathering though, which is what our Thanksgivings are based on and what we consider the first Thanksgiving was.
I hope that you had a good Thanksgiving.
I just saw this really cool movie, it was called The Effects of Magic I think. I didn't see all of it, but I saw most of it, and I liked it.
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
I actually got this posted today. There is only a little less than two hours left of today, but I got it posted today nevertheless. I don't how my grandpa can wait until my parents get home to eat? I ate over two hours ago and they are eating now.
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Quote of the Day: "I am not definitely going insane. No, wait a minute. I say that almost every day. Now I'm going insane. I keep on saying it, I mean, if I say it every day, then I must not be sane to begin with. I think I am now going insane. Oh, never mind!" -- excerpt from a conversation at dinner last night. I think I was talking to myself. The quote may be a word or two off due to my inability to remember exactly what I was saying except it was something along those lines and made not a bit of sense.
-- 9:39 PM
I am really tired. Will Mom ever get home?
--9:28 PM
Okay, that was funny. I just turned on The Mix (a radio station) and its retro eighties the person said right after I heard "show them how funky and strong is your fight" fading out. It was "Beat It" or at least it sounded like it. That's so hilarious. I like this station, but you know, the whole 3 retro eighties songs, or at least that is what the deejay said. Oh well. I like a lot of eighties music that I've heard. I've actually converted the entire Thriller album to MP3s. I like Beat It. I like Al Yankovic's song "Eat It" too.
--8:56 PM
I was watching some really weird show on VH1 called Awesome Horrible Hair or something, it was cool, but then I stopped watching it to go play tachteh, backgammon in english, with my grandfather. I won. I think I won last time we played too. I think he takes it easy on me, and he's always telling me some good moves if I don't see them. I think he's playing again. I tried to teach him the piano, but he couldn't because his fingers weren't nimble enough or something. I couldn't completely understand exactly what he was saying. I am going to try to record another song then I am going to go play a game with my grandfather downstairs. Mom is running late, and I want to see her, and I would like to upload these to my blog and see of they can help me set up the internet on my uncle's laptop that my grandpa is using so that he can read the newspaper. He seemed disappointed and pretty determined when I couldn't get it to work this morning. He got out his computer book and would read parts aloud to me, I couldn't completely understand it though because it was in Farsi, but parts of the words were in English, so he would point to them and I would tell him, like with how to set up AOL and MSN that we don't use them. Then he found ISP and I explained to him that is internet service provider, and that I need to just figure out how to put in the ISP and gateways and things into it so it would recognize the internet. I am going to try to record one more song right now, then I am going to play some backgammon. I'll try to write more later. And post this.
--8:53 PM
I've recorded two more songs. They are okay, I suppose.
--7:04 PM
I just got home from my friend's house. We are the co-editors of The MConnection, which I thought I had in my hand when I walked in the house, but must not have because I can't find the papers. I might have left them in her mom's car. I retraced all my steps from when I got home, but I can't find it. I'll ask her to bring them to school on Monday if I did leave them behind. But we finished The MConnection Winter Issue. Now we just have to update the website. I am trying to decide if the next issue should be a January or February issue. I am not sure which would be more appropriate. The Winter Issue is more holiday geared, so maybe a January Issue. Or a February Issue that comes out the second week of January. I was hoping to have The MConnection printed sometime during the weekend and distributed by the end of next week. But I am not sure if that'll happen because I seem to have lost the paper.
--6:09 PM
I don't know what to do now. I've cleaned my room, and my grandfather is busy. Oh well. I think I'll record some more songs.
--1:38 PM
I just went through one of my desk drawers and I found all these things from third and fourth grade. I am assuming I haven't gone through that drawer in a while. There were also all these old American Girl catalogues. Maybe five or six. I didn't look at the dates from when they were, when I got a weird paper burn (it wasn't a paper cut) I put everything back in the drawer. I am going to play a song on the synthesizer and record it. I hope I don't mess up in a noticeable way. Then I get all discouraged since Ia m recording.
-- 1:01 PM
I am getting discouraged. I want to play the songs perfectly. I can't seem to perfect them, and when I go back and edit them, I seem to mess them up. I am taking a break. And I'd only been playing for ten minutes.
--12:13 PM
Lunch was good.
--12:02 PM
I know this is going to be posted at a later time, but that is because I am not connected to the internet. I am writing this and am going to post it at a later time. Probably a week or so when I reconnect my computer to the internet. I moved my computer to my room. There isn't a connection in my room, so no internet until I move my computer back downstairs. I might be able to burn the file on one of my CD-RWs and upload it via my mom's computer though.
I moved my computer to my bedroom so that I could connect it to my synthesizer. I didn't connect it using MIDI because that is the more expensive way. I hooked it up the second easiest way for me. Using the internal mic is probably the easiest way, but I hooked the headphone port to my computer audio in so that it'll take the sound from my synthesizer. Its really cool. I've recorded four songs so far. One song came out bad, but I think I was playing the wrong notes. The other ones sound fine.
LUNCHTIME! I hope so, I am hungry.
--11:36 AM
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Since I am way too polite to recite anything on Thursday on Thanksgiving (or at least my parents hope so) I am going to give you my whole story on Thanksgiving and why, the so called "first thanksgiving" is anything but something we should be thankful for.
Okay, well, the thanksgiving we celebrate, supposedly takes its root from the feast the pilgrims had after surviving a year with the help of the Indians and they were celebrating their harvest, which is why we have thanksgiving with a feast and when we have it. Thanksgiving's are old traditions, and so when Thanksgiving there was the major revival of Thanksgiving Day after the Civil War when President Lincoln made it a national holiday, it was based on the thanks-giving celebrations held in the 1600s and early 1700s that were slowly dying away.
Now, a lot of people say what they are giving thanks for at the beginning of the meal, and I know in my family at least, I don't think I've ever heard the pilgrims (or Indians.) The Native Americans (the politically correct term) do not get enough recognition in their help. They do when you are little, but then as you get older and learn about all the wars, the natives become more "enemy" like and less possible alliance like. Believe me, they were alliances at points in time. If it hadn't been for the Native Americans who were so gracious towards some people back in the 1600s, we may not have Rhode Island, which was the first New England colony to have religious tolerance, something that has stayed with us in the US near four hundred years later.
But did the colonists thank the Native Americans?
Maybe, but they also had a biological warfare. The first in North America I believe. You know, all those smallpox infected blankets given to the Native Americans was no accident. It was...dum dum dum...biological warfare, though I doubt at the time it had that name. It was called fighting for what was not rightfully yours and being a landhog. And yes, history is very angled and very open to interpretations, unlike more analytical things such as mathematics. No, you know, maybe the land hog was a little overboard. Maybe, let's see, I believe greedy is the correct term.
Okay, I came up with this to be about biological warfare and what it has to do with giving thanks. Thanks giving. Thanksgiving. Biological warfare, the very thing you've most likely been hearing about in the news in the past years. I don't really have a memory of news past maybe 3 or 4 years ago - though I do remember Jerry Garcia died the day I found out what tie-dye was, but that has nothing to do with this whatsoever - so for all I know, news of biological warfare could've been then too.
The colonists had war against the Native Americans, that is definitely known. But it wasn't all bloodshed wars. There were also biological warfares involved as well. Smallpox killed the Native Americans once they were exposed to it a lot worse than the Europeans who brought it to American because they had no immunities to it, unlike some Europeans. This made smallpox a wonderful biological weapon.
Therefore, on Thanksgiving, we should give thanks to the Native Americans who helped some of the Europeans who were coming to America - just to get stabbed in the back (literally as well as figuratively) by them later on, and eventually pushed into small reservations to preserve what is left of there lifestyle if they are not yet extinguished. They deserve it, even though they may have massacred many of the Europeans, but they (and there followers) most likely did worse damage.
And no, I am not trying to preach here.
Friday, November 21, 2003
Well, I haven't posted since Wednesday, probably because I didn't go on the computer yesterday, I just sat on the couch all afternoon after I got home from my friends house around 5.
Right now I am about to go on a search online for the perfect holiday gifts for everyone. I think I am going shopping tomorrow because I need clothes (I always need clothes. )
So, since we are going shopping, we (being my mom and I) should really get a head start on our shopping for presents.
Today so far I have tidied up my room - just to make another mess, watched way too much TV, eaten two bowls of cereal, and moved the laundry basket upstairs so I can fold socks on the bed instead of the couch. I still have a bunch of chores and homework left to do though, and I am getting hungry for lunch. I wonder if there is any dinner left over from last night...hmm.
Oh well, if you are someone I would get a gift for (meaning someone in my family or one of my good friends) please leave a comment on this entry with a suggestion for a gift, so, even though the thought is what counts, I'll know you'll like it.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Santa is coming tonight
And I want a car, and I want a life
And I want a first class trip to Hawaii
I want a lifetime supply
Of skittles & slurpees and Eskimo pies
I want a DVD,
A big screen TV
Just bring me things that I don't need
I solve this whole "things I don't need" partially by creating a wish list. I hope that it helps!
'Cuz now it's Christmas
And I want everything
I just can't wait
Christmas
So don't stop spending
I want a million gifts, that's right
Don't forget my Christmas list tonight
'Cuz now it's Christmas
Somebody take me away
Or give me a time machine
To take me straight to midnight
I'll be alright
Who knows what to do
A PlayStation 2
I want a shopping spree
In New York City
Just bring me things that I don't need
That is a song, don't worry. I didn't come up with it. But I like the song, its awesome!!!! Okay, well, that said, I am happy now.
The link to my *new and improved* wish list is on my link bar, below archives and stuff where it says "My Wishlist," or, the entry above this one. Okay, well, my work here is done. I need to go now, but I'll be back - eventually!
I am 100% sure my score was a 66 at the science competition yesterday. Just one point below the 20th place person!
Apple - iMac
And they just keep on updating it. Just in time for Christmas. I have had my computer for almost a year, but it doesn't seem nearly that long. I've had my digital video camera for nearly a year and a half. No wonder why they seem so outdated when you look at "the latest, coolest, new releases," but I like my computer, and I like my video camera. And nobody better take them away!
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Maybe I got a 67. I don't remember now. I think it was 66. The results for the top twenty people will be posted by Thursday online at the high school's website, and I got one less than 20th place, so I'll know by then.
OKAY! I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy! I really am.
I was at this science competition thing, and I didn't place, but the 20th person, from my school and one of my friends, only got a score one point/percentage higher than me! That means I got between probably 22nd place and 30th place (due to ties and so forth) out of a LOT of people. I got a 66 on the test, which seemed harder than last year, and hopefully was since my score was in the sixties last year too. Only I think it was 63, or something like that.
Okay, well I am so happy, but I need to sort of calm down after I fill out a following survey: Droolworthy item of the day: Um, probably the plaques for the people at the science competition that placed... I was so close!
Song lyrics stuck in my head: Okay, well, I don't have a song stuck in my head, but I am listening to We Are The Champions right now. Doesn't fit my mood well enough though... I need something happier. Hold on...let me look. Much better...the Chicken Dance. Much more fitting for my mood.
Movie I've Seen Most Recently I saw part of some freaky movie my grandpa was watching last night, but in its entirety, the last movie I saw was...sheesh, this is hard. I think it might have been Ice Age which I saw a week from Friday last. I don't remember watching any movies since then.
Something I just found out right now: Well, I can't think of anything, but there is something I found out on Saturday. That the window on my dad's car on the trunk can open with the key, and you can use that to put stuff in instead of opening the trunk.
Okay, well now onto my more sad news.
I almost severely hurt someone today.
I know, I am so sad. It would have been an accident, but someone in my gym class, one of the hyper people, dropped their tennis ball, and we're playing golf, and he ran and fell and sort of went tumbling towards me, but I didn't know until there was this noise behind me sort of, and I turned my head, and I had been swinging the five iron, and it was maybe 5 inches from his head at most.
I am so glad I didn't hit him, I mean, I would've felt so terrible. I kicked someone during soccer in gym in fourth grade and broke their toe, and since then I have been a pretty un-assertive un-aggressive person in soccer. You can't blame me. Luckily, I haven't developed a 'shyness' for swinging golf clubs yet. I stay away from them when other people are swinging, but I think I've pretty much always done that. Oh well, I don't know what much else to say. I was going to put that into much more dramatic terms to work on my writing, but I don't really have time nor do I feel like it, and I need to go finish my math homework anyway.
(I actually used spell check for once just now!)
Monday, November 17, 2003
Google Search: "information on physical disabilities"
I can't figure out my writing homework! (see above) and I left my graph paper at school, so it is sort of difficult to make my graphs for science. Both assignments are due tomorrow!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, November 16, 2003
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THat is so AWESOME! The Apple store in Tokyo is opening November 30. There is a page in English, but since it is in Japan, I put a link to the page in Japanese.
I haven't said much recently. I just got on the computer now to spend a few minutes relaxing. I am completely freaking out about the S.S. test I have tomorrow on the Mayflower and 13 colonies.
I need to take a chill pill, but I can't. I won't get any studying done then.
The MConnection Winter Survival Issue will hopefully be published both on paper and online by next weekend.
Okay, that is all I have to say. My mom said she'll quiz me at three-thirty, so I am going to play a game for ten minutes.
Saturday, November 15, 2003
The new wishlist is up and ready for viewing. It may undergo some tweaking in the next few days with some additions that haven't been put in.
I am making me a fancier wish list. It is easier to navigate. I am working on it. I'll fix the Wishlist link to navigate to it once I finish it.
Friday, November 14, 2003
NO SCHOOL TODAY! I am not all that excited about it, but oh well. My friend is coming over to play, so I am pretty escited about that. She's here!
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Just My Life's Quizzes and Surveys
I am transferring all my quizzes to this so my blog won't be clogged up with them. Any comments with the quiz I am leaving though, so it might be a little confusing on some older posts.
I was/am talking to one of my friends on AIM and they were reading my wishlist and we said
(5:12:48 PM): u want a gift card from home depot?
(5:13:11 PM): so I can buy some stuff to fix up the attic and put a studio up there
Okay, I don't know why I felt like pasting that. But oh well. I am the bold faced person, just so you know. Not that it is really important though.
I am making a new blog to put my quizzes and surveys so you don't have to look at them, and they don't get in the way of content. I just like saving them.
Apple - Business - Thrill Ride
Sounds like they like their business. A vespa dealership. Sounds really cool.
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
I am taking a break from my homework, so I am taking advantage of this time to post my wishlist. You don't have to read it. I am posting it for my family.
Wish List 2003
If you would rather donate money to a charity - anything that helps people, the environment, etc. I would think that would be cool instead of a present, as long as you told me.
- Books:
- Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody by Michael Gerber
- Everything to Everybody � Barenaked Ladies (actually, there is just one song on it I really like. Another Postcard)
- Hotel Paper � Michelle Branch
- Shrek Soundtrack � Various Artists
- Disneymania � Various Artists
- Spice � Spice Girls (released in 1997, not to be confused with Spiceworld)
- The Game of Life
- Cranium Booster Pack 1 or Two
- PassWord
- 10 GB iPod � well, its not really a toy, but didn't know what other category to put it under
- Karaoke Machine
- Microphone
- Mini DV tapes
- external FireWire 400 hard drive
- Paint (for walls and stuff)
- Macromedia Studio MX 2004
- Adobe Photoshop
- Borders
- Target
- Old Navy
- Limited Too
- Gap
- Home Depot
- Auntie Anne�s
- iTunes Music Store
Music CDs:
Games:
Toys
Movie Making Accessories:
Software:
Gift Certificates from: (or anyplace else you think I may like and they have near me)
I am taking a break from my homework, so I am taking advantage of this time to post my wishlist. You don't have to read it. I am posting it for my family.
Wish List 2003
If you would rather donate money to a charity - anything that helps people, the environment - or canned food to a soup kitched, I would think that would be cool instead of a present, as long as you told me.
- Books:
- Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody by Michael Gerber
- Everything to Everybody – Barenaked Ladies (actually, there is just one song on it I really like. Another Postcard)
- Hotel Paper – Michelle Branch
- Shrek Soundtrack – Various Artists
- Disneymania – Various Artists
- Spice – Spice Girls (released in 1997, not to be confused with Spiceworld)
- The Game of Life
- Cranium Booster Pack 1 or Two
- PassWord
- 10 GB iPod – well, its not really a toy, but didn't know what other category to put it under
- Karaoke Machine
- Microphone
- Mini DV tapes
- external FireWire 400 hard drive
- Paint (for walls and stuff)
- Macromedia Studio MX 2004
- Adobe Photoshop
- Borders
- Target
- Old Navy
- Limited Too
- Gap
- Home Depot
- Auntie Anne’s
- iTunes Music Store
Music CDs:
Games:
Toys
Movie Making Accessories:
Software:
Gift Certificates from: (or anyplace else you think I may like and they have near me)
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Camera Phones
My cousin's phone has a camera built into it. He was taking pictures of me, and I didn't even realize it. I look horrible in them though because I was in a bad mood, so I put on my pajamas. Oh well. And my hair was pulled back so I look like I just have short frizzy hair in the picture.
TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Amphibious Car-Boat: "he Gibbs Aquada looks like a sporty roadster, but drive it into a suitable body of water, press a button and in 12 seconds flat its wheels tuck gracefully under its body, and you're boating, not driving."
Definately COOL!
TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Toyota's Hybrid Car, the Prius: "Back up. O.K., stop. A little more. O.K., now turn the wheel. More. More. Too much! Sorry, sir, was that your car? If you've ever driven in a city, you know the agony of parallel parking in a tight space. But your suffering may soon end. Toyota has invented a car that parallel parks itself."
What is coming of this stuff? Does this mean that by the time I can drive, new cars won't even need drivers? Ahhh!
iTunes Music Store : Time Magazine's Invention of the year.
Gotta get to a copy of that mag. Maybe I'll go to the library after school tomorrow and read it.
Monday, November 10, 2003
Okay, let me scan my brain...*intense thinking*... okay, nothing interesting from school today that I found. Let me scan backwards to yesterday's memory.
Results found:
- homework
- lunch
- homework
- mommy take nappy
- "folded clothes"
- shopping
- dinner
- homwork
- sleepy
- no sleepy
- TV
- cousins come home
- sleepy
Oh yeah! Okay, well I went shopping with my mom, and we went to the mall. Nordstroms was having a sale. We looked at shoes, then went to LTD2 and I got a pair of black jeans, a white zipper hoodie sweater jacket thing, a snap- up three quarter length purple striped shirt with floral design too, a button up blue shirt with a broken button (mom said she would fix it) that came with a snap on tie (not to be confused with clip on) that I probably never will wear, a dark purple sleeveless tank with a floral design (similar but different from the other one) on a butterfly and a floral trim, and I think that was all. Oh yeah, then we went to Foot Locker and I got a pair of shoes. Then we went to Nordstrom and I got tights and mom and I got some socks to share. Then we came home. After dinner, I had some technical difficulties with my homework, and then at nine thirty after everything was copied over properly, I went to bed. But I couldn't sleep, so I went into the other room and watched That's So Raven and Kim Possible. Then I went to bed. Then my cousins went home, and I still couldn't sleep, so I went downstairs, came back up, and then went to bed. Then my light was turned off and I fell asleep. When Mom woke me up this morning, my cousins were sleeping on the floor of my room. I got up, got ready for school. Ate my breakfast, went to my room to brush my teeth, they were still asleep, but both sort of moved around whenever I was around then and I got some construction paper from my room. One of them looked like they were either scratching their nose or their eye, and the other one was rubbing her eyes with a flat hand. Oh well. Then I walked to school. Normal school day. Then I came home. Now I am here typing this. I played on the computer for a little while though - games and such - before writing this. Oh well. I want to get off the computer now.
Bye!
Sunday, November 09, 2003
Maybe if I get my work done by two o'clock this afternoon, we can try to see if we can get Tickets to see Shorts #3. Only one of them seems to scary. I need to ask my mom first though.
Hey! Well, let me see. Yesterday I think this is what we did:
All morning we basically stayed near the house (my cousins are in town) and went for a walk and stuff. Then in the afternoon we went to the Baha'i Temple. After that we were going to go to the top of the John Hancock building, but I wasn't feeling very good. Then we parked at Water Tower Place and walked a few blocks on Michigan Ave. and went to The American Girl Place and The Apple Store (I begged because I wanted to see Panther. I also got to see the new iBooks. They are sleek white. And the PowerBooks are sleek aluminum, but that is now what I am writing about.) After than we went to Greektown and went to Pegasus. I really like Pegasus. It was delicious. I ate one of those thingymabobers with bread, shrimp, anchovy, tomato and sauce. I don't eat the tomato though. I also had some smelts. They are yummy. Then I ate a small piece of lamb, and some potatoes and string beans for dinner and had some assortment of desserts for desserts.
Today I need to do a few things, such as finish my spanish project, and I think that is it. There are a few things I want to do, like go to Resfest (if possible) and go to Old Orchard. Maybe go shopping. I need clothes.
Friday, November 07, 2003
I didn't get to go the the Apple Store. Maybe if I go tomorrow or Sunday I can still be one of the first thousand people, so I will still get a t-shirt. That's why I really wanted to go there, because there isn't a major difference between all the Apple Stores - its just the Michigan Ave. one is the coolest one that I have been to. Well, I have to go now. I'll talk later.
Apple Store - Old Orchard
Mom said we will try to go! She said it would make sense since we might go to the airport. Its only open for three hours, so it must not be as major as the other one I went to and one that I wanted to go to.
Our auto show at school is today, and I am very worried. I shouldn't be, I just don't want to find out my grade on the IDU. I did what I was supposed to, but nothing really turned out completly correct.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Okay, its later now. I have NO homework due tomorrow, so I finished some packet on time for Spanish. Now I am working on my slideshow on Pablo Picasso that I am making for Spanish class. It needs lots of work. Oh well. I should get back to work. I am going to answer a few questions for the day that I came up with.
Droolworthy item of the day: Probably the other cars - not ours, it barely stays together. Oh, no, I am not talking about our regular cars. I am talking about the cars we are making in the IDU at school.
Song lyrics stuck in my head: Uh, probably drift away.
And drift away...
Give me the beat boys and free my sould
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll
And drift away...
Movie I've Seen Most Recently: Still Orange County
Something I just found out right now: Uh, that I am very hungry. The room smells like th horosht Bababozorg is making.
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Wired News: Can't Tune In to MTV? Download It
Its about how MTV is going to join Napster, BuyMusic.com, iTunes, and other music downloading services eventually.
Smiling Sky
Well, it is time to go to bed now. Well, not really. I am going to go spend ten or twenty minutes with my grandfather, maybe play backgammon with him, then I will go to bed. Well, I suppose this marks practically the end of my day.
Oh yeah, and for the IDU at school, we don't have the directions done, which stinks, because they were supposed to be done, and they need to be done by 6th per. today, so we are kinda behind. All because they were so confusing. I feel so bad for our grades and whatever group gets our car to build.
I took a "random survey" and what I got certainly was random.
Today I ran a 8:47 mile. NEW RECORD FOR ME! My new goal is to have an 8:45 mile, by the end of November, preferably.
I am running so much faster so far this year. None of my 3 miles (yeah, only three, together, only one at a time) have been 10 minutes yet. At our school, you are encouraged to get a mile under ten minutes, or else sometimes they don't let you finish. I haven't always finished my mile in the past.
Pablo Picasso Period Paintings - Blue Period - Cubism
I am researching Pablo Picasso for my Spanish project. I am making a movie for my sensory aid. It is a slideshow type movie. It needs a lot of work.
Monday, November 03, 2003
HELLO! sorry for the screaming. I just felt like it.
It is funny now, whenever I type things, I seem to write the br in >these< things. I had to write it like that, with the thingymabobs backwards, or else, it would have thought it was a tag, and wouldn't have showed it on the page.
I got back from dance class about a half hour ago. We learned mostly the same stuff as two weeks ago. We did the waltz with a partner this time, and I had it figured out, until we had partners. Then I was all confused.
Next week I have etiquette class again. Etiquette class is sort of boring because its just some lady talking about etiquette, so it isn't completely drilled into your mind. Its more mentally tiring than dancing because you aren't thinking much.
Okay, I don't know much of what else to write. I am going to do my tidbits for the day like I did on Saturday.
Droolworthy item of the day: uh... probably... uh ... the locker next to mine. It is so organized!
Song lyrics stuck in my head: I am not sure. I had something stuck in my head during humanities because I was humming, but everyone was talking since it was towards the end of class.
Movie I've Seen Most Recently: I say Orange County on TMC last night at 3:30.
Something I just found out right now: Uh... nothing this moment. You know, probably that ... oh, I just looked around the room, and that would be that I desperately need to clean up my part of the desk. DESPERATELY. I mean, I already knew that, but I didn't know how much.
Okay, well I don't know much else to say, other than I started writing this ten minutes ago. I have been doing other things too though.
BYE
I am working on my science homework. I have dance class tonight, I think, so I need to go eat my dinner, work on my Spanish project, and see if I can get a ride to school, if not, I'll see if Bababezorg wants to walk with me. Oh well, I should go. No time to write right now. Maybe later. I finished all my homework due tomorrow though.
Sunday, November 02, 2003
I am posting just to tell you that the interface things I saw haven't changed. It must be an OS/web browser thing. I'll try IE some later time. It is practically my bedtime.
Saturday, November 01, 2003
Well, like I was saying before, yesterday was Halloween. I am posting from a PC right now, and I just realized something, this set-up looks different. I mean, I have only used BlogThis! for a while, but maybe its just a whole browser thing, because this window looks totally cool. I can see pots on a second section of the page, and I am writing on the top, and everything looks completely different. Maybe that is why I wasn't logged in at home. I need to check this out when I get home.
Well, I am not so sure I want to get Panther, because it has the possibility of frying your hard drive, so now convincing mom is going to be harder, and she almost said yes, she said she just needs to read a few more articles, well, I've found two that aren't gonna help my case, but I can't withhold information from my mom. That would fell wrong, and then if it fried her HD, I would feel absolutely horrible.
Droolworthy item of the day:iPod
Song lyric stuck in my head: strangely enough, it is My Alien
Take me to your leader
Tell her I will surrender.
She has two arms to hold me
Four legs to wrap around me
She's not your typical girlfriend
My Alien
Movie I've Seen Most Recently:School of Rock I saw it at 12:30.
Something I just found out right now:On the computer I am on right now, clicking the SHIFT key five times in a row (I did that on accident while thinking) turns on Sticky Keys feature. The things that helps you hold down more than one key at a time thingy.
Okay, well I don't think I have anything else to say really. I am bored, and don't really have anything to do, since I am not at home where I need to
clean
do my homework
clean
oh, did I mention clean
so I suppose I'll take some surveys at BZOINK.
Yesterday was Halloween. It was lots of fun. We went trick-or-treating for two and a half hours, with some stuff to show for it, and then at my house, I had a party for three hours. It was tons of fun.
We were talking about stuff once everyone either crashed from their sugar highs or were just getting tired, but we never did play any of the games I had planned except for Dead Cows and Mofia or Murder or whatever it is called.
Well, I was a director, I would have a link to a picture, except I didn't take any. I know, sad. I like the hat I made up to say director on it, so I am wearing it right now. Well, my BFF is over, so I need to play or talk with her, and not write a post right now. Well, bye. Oh, and I might see School of Rock today. It looks cool.
BYE
