Pokemon: Forever Young... and Alone

Doesn't it seem like this is true?

image obtained from: http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/pokmon-pokmemes-on-to-the-next-adventure.jpg

Like Ash never ages through the years of his life and he just hops around from girl to girl? Come on people; the show isn't horribly bad, but you've got to admit that's pretty legit when it comes down to the structure of the cartoon.

Capcom Classico

Upon the arrival of our BRAND NEW TV, my dad introduced us to Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded  on the Playstation 2. All of these games from Capcom came out around the '80s, and the graphics aren't half bad. 1943 (the Battle of Midway) we used to have on our old computer, but it broke or something. It really brings back memories seeing it on an HD screen. Last night I played it so much I was seeing teeny gunfires and explosions and Powerups whenever I closed my eyes.  There's something strangely addicting about pixelated airplane games.


A screenshot from the game.
image obtained from: http://www.retrocpu.com/mame/images/roms/0-9/1943_the_battle_of_midway_us.png

 Well, that just goes to show what a sucker for old-style stuff I am. If you ever see this arcade game, pop a quarter in and try it for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

Good Homework Week

I'm done!

With what you ask?

Well, I'm done with my independant reading goal and progress report...

so it's off to blogging I go! Do you have any homework relief?

 

New TV

My dad came home the other day with a new LCD HD ACL XYZ TV!

Ain't it grand?

image obtained from: http://ak2.ostkcdn.com/images/products/77/364/L13822905.jpg

The picture quality is exceptional compared to the previous one we had, and a big plus is: the movies on ABC Family actually FIT on our screen!! HURRAY!

Chirp Report: Bu3

Chirrup!!

Chubby Chirp status: Bu3. That's "Bu" for "Butt" and "3" for "Row 3." Row 4 to come soon. Wish m'luck and hope to join my crafty journey!

Weird Week

This week is full of weirdly-scheduled days: today was a 2-hour-late-start day because of snow in the mountains; tomorrow is a normal-start, early-release Wednesday (opposed to the normal late-start, late-release); and Friday is normal start, even earlier release day for the All-School-Write.

Know what that is? It's where we come to school and just write for three hours straight in first period. I sit at the very back of the room and next to a guy from "a different crowd." It's gonna stink- last All-School-Write the topic was uber boring. *sigh* Wish me luck; my grade didn't fare well last 'Write.

LOLDOGS!

More products from the interwebs.

This one is specifically from a certain cheezburger company...

image obtained from: http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/funny-dog-pictures-sure-ill-play-catch-wheres-the-cat.jpg

Isn't this just so HILARIOUS??? Gotta love beagles, right?

Hope this made your day!

Every Day I'm Pufflin!

Isn't this just precious?

PUFFIN!
image obtained from:http://iseeahappyface.com/upload/erry-day-im-puffilin830.jpg

 

I got it offa the interwebs. It's just so cute and clever! I've been seeing these meme-y things all over the web, somehow relating to really popular songs. I'm sure you can guess what this one is; it's been on the top of the charts for weeks.

Who knew puffins could shuffle? *wink*

Category Z

Notice the new category on the side panel? It's simply called "Z"

My list of categories is by default alphabetical, and with my lame tech skills, I don't know how to change that. Like, I searched "Options" on the labels gadget and EVERYTHING! I want a "Misc." catagory, however, but it'd be kinda stupid to have a "Misc." category obscured amongst other, more important categories. I'd imagine that "Misc." or "Other" or "Stuff that nobody really cares about but then again nobody cares about any of the stuff I have to say but this is the category when I have something to say and it doesn't fit in any other category" category.

So I just made it Z. Enjoy.

Dead bird

CHIRRP!!!!

So guys, you know that Chubby Chirp project I was telling you about? Yeah, well, it turns out I was doing it wrong. So now I have to scrap the butt of the poor little guy so I can knit dpn-style. Whatta bummer.

That's life for ya. But, I can at least say I've learned how to knit dpn in record time! Little chicky, here I come!!

Da Creepa!

I am typing this as my creepy younger brother sits next to me and watches my every move. Like a crocodile stalking a frog. Like a cougar stalking a deer. Like a shark stalking a drowning fisherman. Like a Sidley stalking an ice-cream cone.

Now he's murmuring to himself. Like a crazy old man at Target trying to decide what rash medication to buy. Like a little girl trying to pick one piece of candy out of the entire display. Like a bear snarling and mutilating a fish.

Moo! Moo, I say, moo!
Poor fishy...

Obviously, he's watching very, very closely. Because he asked me why bears go moo. Dear sweet golly help us; we definitely know who's going to be running the family once we all grow up.

Good Week

Whew! Okay, so I finished my Cultural event (three hours of my life), my socratic seminar prep sheet (another three hours of my life), and sleeping (another three hours of my life). I am FINALLY done with all my major homework this week and I can just kick back and hope that my teachers don't assign any more!

Who agrees that teachers put too many big assignments and tests in the same week?

Anyone? Any takers?

No?

Okay, well, see you around, anyway!

Underground Tour

Have you been to Bill Speidel's Underground Tour of Seattle? If you haven't, I highly recommend it. Especially if you like dingy, dark, drippy, stinky secret underground tunnels. The Underground was made when Seattle elevated its streets and buildings to stop the tide from sweeping in after the great fire, except they didn't elevate the sidewalks. Rather, after everything else was elevated, they just paved over the old sidewalks to bring them up to higher level. The higher level is what we see today, however the creepy underground tunnels still exist and that's what the tour is about: exploring antique, smelly tunnels! Plus if you don't like the idea of several cars and people tromping above head, a few blocks away is the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, which has really yummy fancy chocolate and a good deal on ice-cream: $3 for a really big scoop of ice cream and $4 for two. (But a warning: if you don't like your salty with your sweet, don't get the sea-salted caramel. If you do fancy that, you'll love it.) I like the Madagascar Vanilla best, but the chocolate was also good. Hope you go check things out!

Happy Leap Day!

So today was that magical extra day of February that keeps the calender working juuuuust right. Hope you guys had fun! I had a good day yesterday because it was Late-Start Wednesday! Who agrees that Late-Start Wednesday is always a magical day? Huh? Any takers?

I leave you now with this awesome moon pic:
(last night was a half-moon, however, I believe...)

image obtained from: http://www.free-computer-wallpapers.com/pictures/albums/Widescreen-wallpaper/3D_Dark_Moon.jpg

Sorry, I'm a fail at Photoshop; I could never make something as intricate like this.

Enjoy!

Sleepy

I'm really tired. Two days of school has really taken a punch out of my energy. It's getting tiresome... and my recent obsessive behavior has been taking a toll out of my peppiness. Right now, I've been longing for to have a dog. Preferably a Shih-Tzu. Or a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Or a Cardigan Corgi. Or a Pug. Or a Miniture Schnauzer. But I can't. 'Cause of my house contract. Which stinks. Because all I really wanna do right now is curl up on the couch with a nice fleece throw, curl up with a puppy and a cup of cocoa and sleep.

But I have homework too. 'Cause of school.

So thanks, legal matters. For forbidding me from having a dog of my own and interfering with my sleep schedules. Because I'm sure that what everyone needs right now is to be lonely and tired. So thanks again! I'm gonna wallow in self-pity now.

Rainbow Yarn!

Oh. My. Stinking. Noodles.

Look what I found on that newfangled info-merchant-gettin' screen MMO-I-don't-really-care-majig?

Rainbow yarn.

RAINBOW!  image obtained from http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6086/6101954116_4e9e1e2eb6.jpg       

 

 It's organic, eco-friendly, RAINBOW, hand-made, and professinally non-toxically dyed. And, it's (get ready) MERINO! What's merino, some of you non-yarn-junkies might ask? It's the softest, most fluffiest, most colorful, most high-quality Australian sheep-wool-yarn that you can lay your grubby little mitts on! And it's RAINBOW!

It's too bad it's sold out... (writhes with anger) How often do you see rainbow merino yarn that's not from a shady guy in a dark alley in the slums of the northwest? Not very often, I'll have you know. 

Anywho, if you happen to be buying paper or thread or yarn or needles or hooks or buttons or fabric or some-other-crafty-thing and you happen to spot a skein or two of some of this rainbow sheepy stuff, you know who to call...

 That's me.

Not good ol' Mary from accounting.

Not big, reliable Chuck and his wife Cindy from down the street.

Not sweet little Octavia at the Morrison's house.

Or Mom Morrison, for that matter.

Not Nana Fran from your beloved childhood fantasies, either.
(Okay, the last one was a bit far)

UNDERSTOOD?

 

Our Break is Over

The time has come... winter break is over and it's back to school with us little scholarly students. Time to start getting up at six a.m. and lugging yourself out of bed, then coming home just to face the tallest mountain of homework you've ever seen. School. What would we do without you? Actually have fun? Seems a long way off... *sigh* The time will come... the time will come...

Canada!

So I just got back from my two-day trip to Canada! Hurray! It was really fun and I got to see my aunt, my cousins, and their little schnauzer Molly.

I went there in this minivan, packed next to a couple of sticky children (sticky children directed at my brother and his friend). They talked and talked and talked and wouldn't stop talking. And to make it worse, they started chewing watermelon gum in the car, filling it with this choking stink. It was HORRIBLE because I got carsick from the unbeatable watermelon-car reek, the high-pitched chirping of crow-like children, and being strapped and choked to my icky brother by a seatbelt that would pop me if it got a smidge tighter, and not to mention that the driver was hitting 70 on the freeway and wouldn't let me open a window 'cause it was loud, but you know what would be worse than the loud rush of wind? The stink of puke.

It was so bad that I had an entire run-on sentence for it.

Now for the positives: I went to this water park (Water Mania) that was AWESOME. They had this shallow-ish pool, and while I was wrestling this pool toy (looked like a life-saver, but blue, extremely buoyant, and squishy, like a balloon) I get hit in the face by a wave. I mean, unexpected, right? Like, how many times in my life can I say I was hit in the face by a wave while strangling an inflatable pool ring? It was great; the waves hit up to three feet above normal water level. When I finally climbed atop my pool ring, like this guy here:

The pool ring looked kinda like this, but with handles for young child hands and no head cushion. Image obtained from http://www.toysplash.com/images/products/131377_L.jpg 

the BIGGEST WAVE rolled under me and sent the pool ring a couple inches into the air! It was so cool...but then the wave pool ended and I got bored. So two guys that came along showed me the waterslide which inevitabley was awesome. Like, you climb up four flights of stairs barefoot and freezing just to find this red tube with a couple spurts of water jetting out, right? Then you sit down, not expecting much, and then WHAM! You're sliding up and down and your feet dangle over the edge when you turn and then suddenly you're on your back and struggling and SPLASH! You hit the pool now you want to go again! PURE AWESOMENESS.

Also we went biking for like 5 kms on a trail. My fingers almost fell off.

Sackboy!

LittleBigPlanet is the coolest game I have ever played on the Playstation 3. (Let it be said that it is the ONLY game I have played on the PS3, the demos at Target don't count) And now, blowing your mind, combining video games and knitting, I present you with this:

image from http://img0.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.179947444.jpg

Isn't he just charming? The only thing that I'm annoyed over is that he's too FLUFFY. I mean, he looks like a knitted, adorable, sacky, almost-but-not-evil-enough-voo-doo guy. NOT FLUFFY. But isn't he well made? No visible seams, nice handiwork. Oh, and really good proportions.

So all around a nice toy. I want.

WANTED: New Knitting Supplies

I'm on a shortage of knitting supplies and accessories! I need a longer circular needles, a five-pack of double-pointed needles (dpn's), stitch markers, point protectors, tapestry needles, and hypoallergenic toy stuffing... not to mention I need safety eyes, white felt, sharper scissors, and MORE YARN! Peh! Where am I going to get all this money?

...

Hey, do you think you could do me a teensy, weensy, itty-bitty favor?

The World of the Media

Guess what I found on the 'net?

image obtained from tonioseven.tumblr.com

I can't help but feel that it's so very true. Leave your responses in the comments; I really wanna hear what you think about this.

Not Just a Granny Sport Anymore

Ah, yes, knitting. The stereotypical grandma's category of excellence.

Not just for elderlies anymore.

Yep. I am learning to knit. Not only is it fun, it challenges your dexterity and all around is a practical skill to have. Maybe my idea of fun is deranged. I dunno. Ever since I got yesterday's chocolate bar into my system, life is a bubbly spiral of idealism. Whatever idealism means. It sounds nice in the sentence, doesn't it?

But pretty words aside, my absolute FAVORITE knitter right now is Rebecca Danger. She has the absolute CUTEST patterns for knitted critters. I especially love this one: 

image obtained from http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/penelope-the-empathetic-monster

Penelope the Empathetic monster!! SO ADORABLE! In her own little feverishly monster-like way. For a beginner knitter like me, making my own Penelope feels like it's light years away... I think I can Magic Loop, but I still have to learn to work in the round with double-pointed needles. Which evidently means I'm going to have to buy double-pointed needles. I'm starting, instead, with another of Rebecca Danger's patterns, Chubby Chirps!

The yellow happens to be specially large.
image obtained from http://rebeccadanger.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553963a50883301543868e1c6970c-800wi

This one is a free pattern, and is also (to my sudden realization) knitted in the round. However, I read online from some person that I can knit it using Magic Loop. Hurray! I don't know if I'm doing it right since my working yarn is tangling up (I might scrap it and start over). Not like, a few knots, but like, fifty million messed up loop-tee-doo tangles, like a lion's mane that hasn't been groomed in forever! Besides, a couple of my stitches are sloppy anyway. So yeah...

Feels good to let that out.

KNIT!!!!!!

Rock my soul

Ahhh, music.

The melody of our lives, the poetry of a tune, the emotions expressed through a series of notes organized ever-so-carefully into what we can call a song.

I live and breathe music (not saying I can sing, though...). Got any suggestions as to some popular bands, artists or songs? I've been in a music rut lately...

Brother Mania

So I'm sitting there, eating my whatever-grain chips, blogging away, when my brother (who's sitting across from me) out of the blue asks one of the most random questions I have ever heard:

"Is peanut butter made out of dairy?"

image obtained from life123.com

Seriously? Look, I don't know the explicit details as to what PB-producers use in their products, but the majority ought to be squished, squelched, mashed-up peanuts. I mean, maybe there's some salt or BHT in there somewhere, but I really, honestly don't think that peanut butter is made out of milk or cheese. Do you?

Well... that was a few wasted minutes of your life spent reading my rant. Oh well. Leave your response in the comments.

Assuming the comments haven't been eaten by savage wolves.