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07/04/2003 Entry: "Layouts, Smashing"

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I don't know where Augusto gets the energy to be the layout whore that he is, because I am SO TIRED right now and all I've been doing is editing this new blog layout's picture for like, the last several hours. It's done, and Alexiel looks very nice (the new layout is all Angel Sanctuary)... but I'm tired.

Played more Smash Bros. Melee today (I can't get away from it) when I wasn't cleaning the house. There are FOUR - not three, not two, but FOUR - sliding glass doors in my house, damn it. Do you know how much glass that is to clean? I gave up after the first door took me twenty minutes. (One sparkling door and three dusty ones. Keh. It's not worth it, either - when my dog wants people to pay attention to her, she has a tendency to lick the door. I keep thinking I'm going to end up poisoning her if I clean the door.) Don't think I was lazy, because I also cleaned the kitchen, washed the dishes, cleaned the family room, cleaned the dining room table (which is lots more glass), cleared up the computer room, and cleaned out my room. (heh. I didn't have to use the Black Hoover of Doom, though - Joan did that. That thing has scared me ever since I was little.)

New layout won't be up until tomorrow or day after because Greymatter is a big fat pain in the ass to change layouts, because I have to go through every single type of page and make sure everything works (which it never does even when I do check). Plus, I need another divider between my profile and the actual blog.

My sisters leave for Europe later today on a two-three week trip (my mind's trippy; can't remember how long right now), at about seven in the morning. I'm supposed to wake up and see them off.

Uh-huh. I'd like you to take a look at the time this blog entry was posted, please.

Hmph. Oh, well, they'll just shake me awake if I refuse otherwise. >.> I told them to bring me back a plastic Eiffel Tower.

They said "No".

Anyway, I suppose the house will be fairly empty this summer... not really odd to me, though, because they've both been away at college since Joan graduated in '00. I've got two more years :x this sucks.

Oh, god, my winamp player just turned on a Sailor Moon dub song. I didn't even know I still had this on the computer. "Rainy Day Man"? Excuse me? I used to love this song. WHY? It rings horribly in my ears. ::deletes mp3:: I only have about 170 megs on this comp as it is. My dad said he might get me a new computer :O I would kill for one, even more than I want DSL (I have 56K). He said it "depends". Dell has this new desktop out... 3.46 gigabyte processor and 200 gigs of hard drive. O.O The one that I'm using crashes every other day (Windows ME...), has 28 gigs of hard drive, and an 800 megabyte processor.

You can see why I'd kill for a new computer.

Been reading "Aoi Spice", which is a rather cutesy manga about a normal high school girl who gets a boyfriend... a tall, dark, handsome boyfriend that happens to be a rock star. Pfffft. :P So incredibly cliched, but it has some interesting moments, plus her boyfriend is a refreshing change from all the Shinjo-Mayuish guys I've been reading lately (that would be the ones who go, "Ah, I think you're hot, let me have sex with you... oh, you're not willing? Pah! Who cares, I AM!"), since he's rather quirky and funny. (Oh, and nice to young children, of course. Prospective father, I guess. >.>)

What resolution does everyone use to look at this blog, anyway? PLEASE tell me no one looks at this in 800x600. I use 1280x1024, and I designed my newest layout to look that way, and though I tested it in other resolutions, it looks best in at least 1024x768. (Talk about cramped in 800x600.)

I need to buy a birthday present for my fellow Key Club Publicity Chair and a dear Historian. :P Star Wars posters?

Joan says I read too much manga. To get an idea of how much manga I have, think about this - manga is literally just lots and lots of image files zipped up to take less room. Image files are not that big, right?

Well, I have 16 gigabytes of manga. But it's really not that much, because some scans are much higher quality than others... and I burned off the complete series that I have, like Marmalade Boy and Angel Sanctuary. AS had a good ending in terms of every character but Setsuna and Sara, I think - oh, and the little demon girl, forgot her name. :P Kira-senpai [Lucifer] had the best ending ... really good death scene, really good betrayal scene, really good romance scene, and yes in that order.

I was reading through my old blog entries and I realized that Earl wanted a picture from Winter Formal. Oops. ^^; I'll give you one next time I see you! heh.

I downloaded a new voice on my AOL program. Rather than the generic "Welcome!", "You've Got Mail!" and "Goodbye", I have a new voice.

The Terminator. AKA Arnold.

I do not lie :P it's prett funny. Welcome became "Where haff you beeeen?", You've got Mail --> "Check your mail" and goodbye (this one is the best) --> "You haff been terminated". ::snickers:: So very weird... it's getting kinda irritating to randomly be commanded to check my mail, though, but it's better than the old message, I suppose.

I have a lot of work to do today... I guess I should sleep, so that my sisters can wake me up in an hour and a half. Joy.

On Smash: I got Pichu today, much to my amusement; he's so incredibly cute, and so incredibly useless. He hurts himself when he uses almost any of his attacks; I can't even do a regular Smash-A attack without his percentage meter going up. And for pity's sake, quick attack doesn't even use electricity, yet he still manages to hurt himself. His one plus is that when I was fighting Bowser, Pichu is just small enough and Bowser (on adventure) just large enough that he couldn't hit me once. Oh, well - he's still more useful than the most USELESS CHARACTER EVER, which is Jigglypuff. (What the heck is the point of him FALLING ASLEEP, anyway?)

I spent two hours on one of the special levels, trying to beat Samus-Kirby-Fox-Falcon-Falco in that order with Ness. I FAILED. I could get to Captain Falcon easily with very little-to-no damage, and he'd beat me up a little, but as soon as I got to Falco, it was just a complete disaster. I blew myself up at least five times with various crates (especially by the second hour - I was getting desperate for items), and everytime I tried to attack Falco, he'd either a) turn it back on me, b) air dodge or c) somehow manage to get away without me seeing AND plant an attack smack on Ness' stupid hat while doing so. I would've kept playing, but my thumb was reallly starting to hurt and I needed to work on the new layout. I guess part of the problem is that I'm too dependent on the characters that I use most often, which would be Zelda, Pikachu and Marth, so I really dislike using other characters.

Oh, and the fact that Ness is a slow, stupid and annoying little midget doesn't help.

My sister was somewhat amused. ("This is supposed to relieve stress, not cause it," she said. HA! More communist lies!) She had a point - I was cursing my head off at the television. I'm not sure all the characters are physically able of doing some of the things I yelled at them to do - some of the actions being anatomically impossible, that is, and then the fact that Kirby is just one puffball... I'll work on it again tomorrow until I win... I don't know what to do, because I've beaten classic and adventure with all the characters I have, and all other levels but this particular one. ^^ (The legendary pokemon level was a bit odd.. ::smacks Jigglypuff:: kept going after my poke balls, which I might be willing to leave alone if 3/4 of them didn't have some type of bird that could potentially massacre me.)

Wow, it's kinda late. Or kinda early? I have to send my sisters off in an HOUR? ... Maybe I should just stay up T_T hmm, probably will.

Lastly..

Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of my parents' marriage (which is why I was cleaning), which is good for them, I guess :P they were both working today, though ^^; oh, well.

And, happy Fourth of July, everyone! The first year I will spend it without my sisters, alas, but nevertheless, a very happy fourth! Another year of our country being ruled by the president that my dear and close friends know exactly how much I admire. :Þ well, anyway, go eat food and be happy... and remember, fireworks are illegal in Burbank, as the sign outside of BHS says for some odd reason. I'm tempted to throw firecrackers at it.

If I knew where to get firecrackers. >.>

[I hope my sisters have a great time in Europe and meet lots of men ^_^ okay, not the second part (because that's just creepy), but they should really have a fantastic time. It's Europe! *_*]