cravingoxygen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:16 +0000

Hello all
I’m in a pretty good mood today. Regardless of the fact that it is school again in less than three days, the fact that I still need to write the ceremony for tomorrow night, that I still have tons of piano practical and theory to do and the fact that I couldn’t upload a new header for the site last night. Wonder why. Maybe because it’s all cloudy and cold and windy outside. That usually makes me cheerful for some reason.

I think I’ll go outside with my cup of hot chocolate and try to write the ceremony. I have a pretty good ending already. That’s the way it usually goes… I think of the ending or the introduction but am kinda stuck on the middle part. But that’s okay. Hot chocolate has done wonders in the past, I’m sure it can do so again.

Got into major trouble this morning for using 90% of our bandwidth already and it’s only the 12th. I’m being forced to pay for more if I want to stay online. Which I do of course. So I am now even more broke than usual. But whatever.

My uncle and my dad are having a meeting. My uncle is a programmer and my dad does the electronic bits, so they make a pretty good team. My uncle is also really into rping, scifi, fantasy, etc. so the two of us are always on really good terms. /me grins. He’s one of the few people in our family who talks to me as though I am not 6 or something, (Since the rest of the kids in the family are in that age group), but as though I am an actual human being capable of intelligent thought. And since we are a big family, there isn’t enough space for me at the other table, I always get to sit with the little kids. Oh joy. At their table I get to hear all about the latest antics of Winnie the Pooh and Eyore and trying to keep them from spilling their drinks all over the table, while I could be hearing about latest programming languages or listening to discussions on capitalism or predictions of the country’s economical growth at the other table. Which is way more interesting than Winnie the Pooh I assure you.
/me sighs
Also, I think, my aunt kinda uses me as a baby sitter for the others. I’m pretty sure that I shall be sitting at that table until I’m 80. And no. I am not 10 or something myself right now. I am almost done with high school. I wonder if I will finally be able to take leave from that cursed table when I’m done with school. *sigh* I’ll be able to dye my hair then too… black with electric blue, dark purple and silver streaks….
But like I was saying about my uncle, he’s really cool. Him and my uncle from Cape Town. They are both willing to accept the fact that I am interested in computers too and are willing to explain to me if I don’t understand the conversation. My favourite pasttime is to just sit and listen to them all talk. I learn way more that way than I ever would at school. He used to live with us for a while, back when he was a bachelor, but although he’s married now, he hangs around here a lot for work. I certainly don’t complain.
His wife is really sweet too. She’s pregnant now, with a little girl. I have decided that I shall adopt the baby as my favourite cousin and ensure that she is well-versed in the ways of the rper. : P

But whatever. I really have to go write that ceremony speech thing now. So bye. For now.

Your Ceremony-Writing Sarcastic Poet

cravingoxygen — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:44:00 +0000

Hey again.And yes, it is really quarter to twelve. And it is two days before school starts. So much for my whole let’s-get-my-sleeping-pattern-right idea.

Today was cool enough. I totally gave up on doing homework for today and instead went shopping. Actually, I was kinda forced into the shopping thing. We went looking for needlework for my mom to turn into a cushion. We didn’t find any, but I did find two books. Of which the one is brilliant. I finished it today. I’m saving the other one for a rainy day. And now I am once more broke for the next two months and all that money I worked for is gone. Something tells me that I’m going to be spending a whole lot of time with cables and side cutters for the next couple of weeks to keep myself from financial ruin. Wait, I’m already in a permanent state of financial ruin. Thanks to my expensive hobbies,
books and computers. Which my parents are willing to support, but not finance.

So the one book is called Wormwood and I haven’t read it. The second is the second book in The Mark of the Lion series. It’s the one in which the girl finally gets her happily ever after. In a way, I dislike happliy ever afters. They have a way of ending your favourite character’s adventures really abruptly and finally. That just irritates me sometimes. In my opinion, the author should never end a story in such a way that there is no way for the hero/heroine to have more adventures. Also, there should preferably still be some mystery as to the person who the hero/heroine falls in love with. If they get married at the end of the book, that just totally tends to cut their sense of adventure. Engaged is still okay, but definitely not married, if it can be helped.
Another thing: you shouldn’t have a series in which the main character is single for the first two or three books and then he/she suddenly falls in love with a totally new character in the fourth book or something. If the author really wants something like that to happen, then it should be a well-known, already-existent character. Maybe the new character can still be brought in in the second book, possibly in the third, but definitely no later than that. Maybe that’s just me. Not that the book I read needed this criticism. This was just a general observation.

Yesterday my mom bought a humungus (is that even a word?) bag of chillis. As in really hot chillis. As in, an 8 on the official scale of chillis from 1 – 10. Thank goodness there wasn’t a bag of tens. [FYI The hottest chillis in the world are called habaneros. They look really harmless, but appearances never meant very much... they rank a 10]
Now, my dad loves chillis. His cure-all is chillis. If you have a cold, you should eat chillis. If you have a headache, you should chillis. If you’re feeling depressed, you should eat chillis… and so on. You get the idea. Now, back to the back of chillis: So since we have an enormous bag of chillis, my mom decided that we should turn it into some kind of chilli jam (??Don’t ask me??). So for a good part of the afternoon, I was chopping up chillis. Now wait for it: My hands are burning from the chilli-chopping. Don’t laugh, it’s really painful. Typing hurts. No-one believes me though, lol. Not surprised. Maybe it’s some kind of psychosomatic (I hope the spelling is right) disorder. Who knows The big guild meeting was postponed to tomorrow. But that’s okay, cause I finally made peace with planeshift. It wasn’t the quests tripping each other up, it was my own mistake. Yes, I am in a good enough mood to admit it. I just needed to ask the one guy something before giving him the item and I had to tell the other guy that someone or other sent me. Go ahead and laugh.

I was supposed to practice piano today and I did, all except for one piece. It’s really intimidating. It’s full of demi-semiquavers and semiquavers and triplets and tied notes and dotted notes. If you have no idea what that means, I have very good advice for you. Ignorance is bliss. Don’t ever be stupid enough to get yourself into this kind of situation. Why couldn’t I just go for the nice easy piece next to the hard one? Me and my stupid stubborness.

Oh well, goodnight. It’s already ten past twelve and there’s church tomorrow. And my freaking messed up sleeping routine. lol.

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