.:reflections of twilight:.

I've been trying to think more positive lately. Not always an easy task for me. I'm not necessarily a pessimist, more of a... realist. I do have moments where I just wanna shout, "Screw you World!" and hide under the covers, but those moments are rare.

For example:

"I'm POSITIVE we will move out of this burning shit-hole and move to a place that has actual SEASONS!"

"I'm POSITIVE a better paying job will come my way WITHOUT me having to sell my soul to Satan."

"I'm POSITIVE mom will find a job that pays well and that she's actually HAPPY doing."

See where I'm going with this?

The farewell party we had on Friday went well. It was a little bittersweet, but pleasant all around. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the DVD my mom put together. She's been getting requests for copies.

Mom and I spent Saturday shopping mostly. I bought two pairs of shoes and about three books. Big surprise. We also saw Indiana Jones for the second time. It was a lot of fun. There was a trailer for Hellboy II before it. :DDDDDDDD

I bought a copy of Mario Party 8 and played some of it over the weekend. It's pretty fun. It's probably more fun with more people, but I had singular fun nonetheless. I was originally looking for MarioKart, but naturally I had zero luck. They sold out the day before... TT_TT

Sunday was church and our final Sunday night get-together. It was nice. While I'll like having my Sunday nights free (and having more of a chance to relax), I'll definitely miss everyone. There are plans for a group blogging project so we can all keep in touch. Sounds pretty cool.

There's still plenty of opportunities to give me a testimonial to update my profile. Let's keep 'em coming folks!

And I hope to God I'm not getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Ewww...

Today in History: 1922
Henry Berliner accomplished the first helicopter flight at College Park, Maryland.

I had to wake up early in order to take mom into work. Normally I'd still feel a bit annoyed, but this morning was hampered by the fact I didn't sleep well last night. I went to bed at about 11:30 last night, which is early for me. I sailed off to sleep fine, but then around 2:30, my brain decided it's had enough sleep and wakes up. Of course, I have to wake up along with it. So the majority of the night, I'm trying to tell my brain to put a sock in it when all it wants to do is party. Ya-hoo.

This month's Red Tide® is pretty light actually. It came on Monday and now at Wednesday it's tapered off for the most part. So I'm happy about that!!

I want to thank everyone for their testimonials they gave! I shall definitely be adding them soon, like perhaps today! If you haven't yet, and still want to add your own testimonial, go here.

The lady from the apartments called us over the weekend. Mom finally was able to get ahold of her Monday and she said that a two bedroom one bath was opening up. She asked us if we still wanted a two bedroom two bath and we said yes. Space-wise, that's just the best option for us. She said that the rent has been raised to between $805 to $815 a month. When mom told me I was like O_o WTF!! I know inflation is a factor, but it couldn't have been that bad in the course of a few months. We did see in the paper a house 3 bdrm, 2 bath) that was in a neighboring area for $775 a month (with a pool). I told mom she needed to call them!

I didn't get to work on as many icons yesterday as I wanted to. I did make one from the lil' skeleton guy from the inside of 'Death Note' 4, and he turned out pretty cute. I named him Mr. Death. I might trot him out for around Halloween. Also, I'm working on a new background/wallpaper. This one'll have Mikami on it. Not that I still don't adore Takumi! I mean, he's scrumptious, but Mikami is pretty hot too, even though he is a member of Light's Death Squad. So I've enjoyed fondling playing with him a bit. I don't think I'll change things right away, though.


And, according to ANN, Viz has acquired the rights to Watsuki-sensei's (manga-ka of 'Rurouni Kenshin') newest series, 'Buso Renkin' to be released starting in August. I think I'm gonna check it out.

And I broke down and watched the final episode of FMA on YouTube. I just knew I couldn't wait until Saturday. I mean, I'll still watch it on Saturday, but I'm not so anxious now. And I have links to the movie as well if I want to watch it sometime...

Today I plan on stopping by the bookstore to see what they have in. That's pretty much my big agenda for the day. I'll have to see if anything else comes up.

Trivia of the day: Before Wally "Famous" Amos became a well-known cookie mogul in the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for a time as a William Morris talent agent.