.:reflections of twilight:.

September already. Unreal.

Never say you don't have enough to do. Karma will come back and bite you in the ass. Today I have laundry to do, more CD's to burn and I need to go to the bank before 2:00.

I was reading some spoilers from Bloodlines. Things are not boding well. Not at all. *shakes head* I may get to the point where I want to change my journal theme in protest, but since I put so much effort into it, I doubt I will...

We've got a pretty full weekend coming up. Saturday there's a baseball game we're going to. A double header at that. Afterwards is fireworks. I just hope the weather cooperates with us.

Sunday we have a baby shower to go to. It's for the daughter of a lady at church we're friends with.

I've been listening to this song a lot. I really like it. It's very upbeat and happy. It's one of those songs that put you in a good mood no matter what mood you happen to be in at the time. "Walking on Sunshine" is another one of those.

Oh, and I'm sorry I didn't respond to your IM earlier elantis. I got wrapped up in a movie I was watching in the living room and forgot I left it on...

Trivia of the day: The one extra room new-home shoppers want the most is the laundry room, at 95 percent. Only 66 percent of new-home buyers request an extra room to use as an office.

Even more so than I was when Anakin crossed over. I have more emotion invested in Jacen ever since the Young Jedi Knights series (which I have mentioned numerous times before). This reaction is coming from events in Betrayal. Now, I haven't officially read it yet, but I have seen spoilers and whatnot from others and things aren't boding well for the only remaining son of Han Solo and Princess Leia. Things are also looking grim for the relationship between him and Tenel Ka. Hmmm... I may have to stage a revolt.

Now that I've gotten that out of my system I can move on to the activities of my weekend.

Saturday:

The morning was spent filling up 150 water balloons for the church picnic. That was... interesting and a bit of a challenge to say the least. We loaded them into coolers in order to transport them. And filled water balloons can be pretty heavy.

The picnic itself was pretty nice. There were some activities. Like the dunk booth. That was fun to watch. Our youth minister was in it and the line up of kids wanting a chance to dunk him was pretty funny. And if they couldn't hit the target with their three balls, they go up and push it in. It was very cute. I treated myself to two sno-cones. Very tasty and refreshing. The water balloons were a big hit. In no time at all, all 150 of the ones we brought were gone. Of course, there were others, so the kids weren't too deprived. Despite the fact I applied sunscreen, I still got some sun.

When we went back home, I crashed for a bit. I have no idea how long I was out until mom woke me up to take my shower. I wasn't able to blow dry my hair and it looked like crap, but oh well.

We then went to my aunt's for my mom's cookout birthday. The grill was discovered to be out of propane, so the burgers had to be cooked on George, so it wasn't to bad. After eating, mm and my aunt went through some of grandma's old photo albums so the pictures could be divided or thrown away, depending. We stayed there until after midnight.

Sunday:

We had to get up earlier since we had to be there in order to set up the coffee for the fellowship time. Services had been changed to have just one Sunday School time and one service. I don't know how permanent it's going to be...

Anyway, between Sunday School and service, there's a fellowship period for about half an hour. Our Bible Study group is going to be responsible for setting it up and whatnot. Now I'm not familiar with the processes of coffee making since neither mom nor I drink it. Especially these industrial size coffee makers that we had to use. Basically it was trial by error. We had two. One for decaf and one for regular. Well, we filled them up and put the coffee in them (the measurements were on the sides of the coffee pots). Well, for some reason, the regular one didn't percolate and so no coffee was made. The water heated up, but not coffee. And we sure as hell didn't know why. So all we had was decaf. There were some pastries that were brought in as well. It seemed to be pretty popular, especially the pastries.

After service, we cleaned up and put things away... as much as we could anyway since we had no idea where the coffee pots went since they were already on the tables when we arrived earlier that morning.

So we went to pick up mom's prescription afterwards and then went home. I took another nap and spent the better part of the day not doing much of anything. I was really busy on Saturday, so all I really wanted to do was relax.

Today I have sheets to wash and some minor cleaning up to do.

Tonight is the finale of 'Everwood.' *sniffle*

*squee* I saw the color spread for Furuba chapter 128! *squish* It's adorable. It's of Kyo and Tohru. It seems this chapter may wrap up the feelings between them? Maybe. There are only about 2 or 3 left until the end. *sigh*

Well, to eat some Pocky or to not eat some Pocky. That's the question.

Trivia of the day: During the Middle Ages, almost all beef, pork, mutton, and chicken were chopped fine. Forks were unknown at the time and the knife was a kitchen utensil rather that a piece of tableware.

Well, this has been a full weekend, I must say. I'll get into details in a minute.

First, I'd like to welcome two new additions to my FL. sir_hellsing and shoujo22. Welcome the both of you. sir_hellsing is the resident 'Hellsing' guru and shoujo22 was the one who got me obsessed with 'Immortal Rain' to which I will be eternally grateful. Everyone say hi!!

Right now I'm finishing downloading the last 'Veronica Mars' episode I got from BitTorrent. I hadn't planned on doing four at the same time, but my client decided to do it that way, so... It took all night to do them. *ker sigh*

Dad is going to be down tomorrow. Technically he's already in the same state, but he'll actually be in the neighborhood tomorrow. I haven't been called in by the temp agency yet and I figured out why. I sent my resume via e-mail and I thought it went off fine. Turns out, it didn't. *facepalm* It was being held in limbo for two days...

Anyway, onto the activities...

Friday:

Mom wanted me to pick her up early because we we scheduled to look at the duplex that evening. So I did. We sat and waited for the realtor to come by. After what seemed an eternity, she eventually did. So we went and had a look. First impression: It looked dumpy. I mean, yeah it had more area, but the garage was included in the floor plan, so there really wasn't a whole lot more space. The carpet looked nasty, the walls were dirty and it smelled kinda funky. The one bedroom had a pocket door that led to the guest bathroom, but it was stuck. Really stuck. Then the sliding door that led to the backyard (don't get me started on that), had problems with the lock and difficultly sliding. So afterwards, mom and I both decided it was a no go. The apartment it is! Which, to tell you the truth, was where I kinda wanted to go in the first place. So I was kinda happy, actually.

Then, mom wanted to get something to wear for dinner that night, so we went to a couple of stores and was able to find something at Bealls. She got a discount, too. I personally don't know if I'd be able to buy clothes from Bealls, but I've always been sort of a brand snob anyway... Then, after that, we stopped back by the house so we could change. Then we went to pick up amy aunt and uncle and take them to the restaurant. They were surprised since the one we went to is pretty expensive, but mom had gift cards, so it was all good. One of the valets was pretty cute, too! So we went and had dinner. Mom and I ordered the filet and my aunt and uncle had steaks. Mom ordered an Amaretto Sour and I got an apple-tini. It was really strong, so I had to stick an ice cube in it in order to water it down. We left and waited for our car when the cute valet commented on my necklace (the one flamika had given me). I told him it meant Year of the Dragon and he mentioned the he was born in the Year of the Dragon, too. I said, "Cool." However, I don't know if it's my year, or twelve years younger. I wasn't able to ask. Mom said later that I was flirting with him. I denied it and said I was just being nice. She didn't believe me.

Afterwards, we stopped off at my aunt and uncle's house and we stayed to chat for a little bit. Then my uncle wanted to get some ice cream, so we stopped by them Marble Slab and got some. Everyone but my aunt got free cones due to having all of our cards filled out. I got my usual, a double chocolate cone mixed with Oreos. Yums! After we finished, we went back and watched the last of the Miss USA pageant, snarking on it the entire time.

Saturday:

There was a company picnic for mom's work being held at the zoo. We haven't gone before in the past due to it conflicting with the retreat that our church has that's usually that same weekend. Since it's not until next weekend, we were able to go. Most of the time we spent wandering around the zoo, while mom was taking pictures. It's really a cute little zoo. The giraffes were in hiding though due to the noise from the picnic in the pavilion, which was right next door. Poor giraffes. Mom got a lot of really good pictures taken. After we had pretty much finished, we stopped by the picnic to grab a bite to eat and then we made a stop at the gift shop and then we shuttled to the car. We went grocery shopping after that and then, instead of going on to Old Navy like we planned (too tired), we swung by the apartments to pay the rest of the security deposit. The lady we usually talk to wasn't there that weekend, so we didn't know for sure the situation in regards to move in day. The guy that was there said he'd leave her a note so that she'd hopefully be able to get ahold of us.

After all of that, we were pretty tired, so we went home and crashed.

Sunday:

After we went to church, we decided to swing by the local art festival and have a look around. I've always liked the art festival because there's all sorts of neat displays and 'exibits.' It was pretty hot, so it drains you quite a bit. After we finished there, we had to stop by Wal-Mart real quick because mom needed a few things. Me, I just wanted to go home. Eventually we did.

My plans for today are finishing up laundry and maybe watch an episode of VM that I downloaded (once it finishes, of course). I want to try to work on my Jiro story some, but I'm kinda fried right now.

I dunno when I'm gonna be on tomorrow.

Trivia of the day: The only living parts of a tree are its thin layer beneath the bark called the cambium, its leaves, and the tips of its roots and branches.

Wow. This weekend was sure busy. Saturday was spent cleaning out a bunch of stuff in case we have to move. It needed done anyway. I filled about one and a half trash bags. Theres still a bunch of stuff I need to go through yet, but I made really good progress, I thought. We had to get a new shredder since the one we had bit the dust. This one cross cuts for added security. It also makes a mess.

Yesterday was somewhat busy too. After church we went to Smokey Bones BBQ since mom had a gift certificate. We were going to go the the store to go grocery shopping, but mom had to drop me off home since I had a headache (that didn't seem to want to go away for the rest of the day).

Today, I need to go and get some things from the store, go to the bank, and maybe go to the movies. I want to see 'Wallace and Gromit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." It looks really cute. But, I have to see how much time I have.

And now, it's meme-time! Yeah, I know, just what you want.




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