Shriek Elegance

Oh dear lordy. Yesterday was amazing.

We watched the entire series of Wolf’s Rain. We started around noon and went until 11 or so. Good, saaaad times. “DOES HE DIE? -gasp!-” Oh man. Steph left around midnightish… midnight and a half-ish… something like that. Which left Cam, Sarika and I. OH DID IT EVER LEAVE US. Until four in the morning, we three looked up music on Youtube and sang along with it ridiculously loudly and horribly. Like… it was… SO ridiculous. And even Cam was singing with Sarika and I :o

Oh man. It was just such a funny night. You had to be there. It was amaaaaazing. I love my friends <3

lol. I remember when I was little, we used to have a Star Trek taser phaser gun toy. That was the best.

[3:29pm]

I tried recording Somnus Nemoris. I think I’ll stay away from the opera genre. Bahaha.

It’s raaaaining outside. :)

[7:44pm]

My little Camface was in a car accident today :( he is okay, but his car is not. BUT CAM IS OKAY SO THAT’S GOOD :D

Unfortunately this means I have no one to carpool with this year. Which means what? Which means I am going to take the bus because I just cannot afford to pay for gas every week. Which means I need a bus schedule. Someone hook me up with a bus schedule. D:

As the title says. This post is for Stayphanie.

Final Fantasy XIII Trailer (It might take a while for it to load, but it’s HD so that makes it worth it)
Final Fantasy Versus XIII Trailer (I absolutely, positively love love love the song in this trailer. Love love.)
Here’s another new one with more action and the same awesome song. One kind of leads into the other.

I was supposed to link something else for you in this blog. But I can’t remember what.

I think you wanted P3FES faqs. WELL HERE YA GO.

Master list of fusion combinations
Elizabeth’s quests
Personae levels and abilities

And you shouldn’t really need a guide for anything else.

Moving on to stuff about today. Today was IPE. Hurray!

Sarika and Steph got here at 8am and we took off to Armstrong. When we got there, we ate some food at A&W (was gonna go to Dairy Queen, but they didn’t open until 10, wtf mate?), then went to find parking. Since we were early, we found some decent parking and proceeded to fair. ‘Cause it’s a verb. I ended up buying a new wooden necklace and an awesome, awesome stainless steel fidget ring. The fidgety part is a simple brushed steel part with roman numerals from 1-12 on it. I like it. Stephanie bought two necklaces so she could use the strings and turn the pendants into earrings, and a ring from the same place I did. Sarika got a new African-style bag ’cause she’s always wanted one. We went in and saw the goats and sheep and piggies and went to a petting zoo with cute little wallabees and more goats and chickens and ducks and guineas and bunnies and such (and a very small miniature pony named Ladybug that was JUST SO ITCHY!). Then we went on rides. Tickets were kinda expensive, so we got 24 each (which was $24), which let us go on four rides. Unfortunately, all four rides spun us around fast as shit. We started out in the Gravitron, then to the Zipper (I didn’t get to go ’cause I didn’t have a partner, so Sarks and Steph went), then the Inverter, then Sarika and I went on the Octopus (which Steph sat out ’cause it sat two at a time) then I went on the Zipper with Stephanie (she really likes the Zipper so she was happy to go on it again). By the time I got on the Zipper, I was pretty much about ready to puke. Deep breaths when the ride was over was all that kept me from regurgitating everything I had eaten so far. It’s not like I have a weak stomach for rides or anything (Hell, I did Disney World and Universal Studios in seven days from open to close), it’s just I wasn’t feeling 100% to begin with and the fact that all four rides involved INTENSE SPINNING IN ALL DIRECTIONS churned up my stomach and it was like “D’oooooo”. I wish the fair had roller coasters, though. I haven’t been on a roller coaster in so long. I love them.

Anyway. Sarika and I took pictures by the “you must be this tall to ride” signs and we got smoothies and walked around the booths and stuff. We watched the horse jumping for a little while and got food during the intermission (which I was seriously gypped on ’cause I got a shitty amount of fries for four friggin’ dollars). Steph and Sarika saw my pathetic amount of food and quickly pulled out and got horse blankets from the horse blanket stand. I was sew jealous. But Sarika shared with me. :3 Anyway, we went back and watched the horse jumping again. After that, we wandered around the shops and booths again and decided that we were finished looking at everything (it was about 4) and since the rodeo didn’t start until 8pm, that we were gonna leave ’cause waiting for 4 hours when you have nothing to do is kind of ridiculous. So we drove back to Kelowna, got in at around 5:30 and went to Pizza Hut for dinner. Which worked out well, ’cause they screwed up our order so they gave us 50% off our meal, which was amazing, so our meal only cost like $12.39 in total (two small pizzas). Yah, GREAT deal. Afterwards we went to DQ ’cause I wanted ice cream D<

And that was my day. On Saturday, Sarika and Steph are coming over and we’re going to introduce Sarika to Wolf’s Rain ’cause, as everyone knows, it’s pretty much amazing and she should watch it. And, y’know, I wanna finish watching it again and Steph wants to watch it again. So ner.

Sleeping last night was miserably… miserable. I can’t sleep without my pillow. I am so exhausted. I’ve barely slept over the past three days. I need to get some real sleep or I’m going to crash.

And that’s muh story.

[12:18am]

Through the motivation of Cam, I was able to get the hard-to-get mp3 of the song that plays in the Versus XIII trailer (Somnus Nemoris (Dream of the Wood)). I’m pretty excited. It’s even better without all the fighting noises in the background. <3333333333333333333333333333333

The past two days have felt like a week. Part of that sucks, part of it is great. =]

So Shay and I spent Monday night going through the old pictures and stuff on her PC, which was hilarious ’cause there were pictures from high school on there and a bunch of other shit we forgot about. Then we went upstairs and went on our laptops and started reading our chatlogs. Some hilarious, hilarious, hilarious conversations. My personal favorite is an entire conversation we had. A very short conversation. In its entirety:

Shay: ..cyberpunk samurai?!… *jumps at you all matrix like* WWWWHHAAAATTTAAAAAAA!
Me: OMG BACON
Shay: LOL……i gtg bye bye

We have no clue, but it was pretty fuckin’ funny to us and caused much laughter. Anyway, at around 2am we decided that we should at least try to get some sleep so we went upstairs and crawled in bed (a delightfully comfortable bed I must add). Of course, we talked for a while ’cause that’s how we do and at 2:30am Marj opens her door, yells at us to go to bed, then slams her door shut. Well, okay. You want us to be quiet, yet you slam the door. God you’re dumb, Marj. You’re so dumb. Marj. You’re dumb. You’re dumb and I don’t like you. Anyway, we whispered for at least another half hour about how dumb Marj is and other such things. Then we decided we should make a conscious effort to go to sleep. Neither of us slept well at all and we probably ended up with maybe two or 3 hours under our belts. Got up at 7:30, packed the car, waited for Michele and Guy, headed to storage, got the rest of her shit, then headed out on the road after dropping the storage key off.

The drive. Oh the drive. Oh heavens, the drive. Have you ever smiled and laughed for almost eight hours straight? ‘Cause that was pretty much our drive to Calgary. I tried texting Shane on Shay’s phone to tell him we were on the road, but I wasn’t familiar with her phone so I ended up texting “Hay Shane. W;I” ’cause I couldn’t figure out how to backspace LOL. It was fuckin’ dumb. Anyway. There was SOMETHING we were supposed to remember to ask Shane when we got there, but NEITHER OF US CAN REMEMBER. It’s frustrating. We got lost on the way because there was stupid fuckin’ construction on stupid Stoney Ridge Trail (or whatever the road’s called) which is a key road we needed so we ended up having to call Terry, much to my extreme dismay. Anyway, we got there around 7/7:30, like last time, and surprise! TERRY AND TRUDY WERE THERE. Oh man. We weren’t expecting Terry to be there. But he was. AND TRUDY? Oh it was excellent. Anyway, we watched Princess Mononoke and some TV then decided we were so tired and couldn’t stay up anymore so we went to bed. Woke up at 10 today and her parents came and picked me up and stuff. Much to my ANNOYANCE I forgot MY FUCKING PILLOW on Shane’s futon. So I’m making them mail it back to me because that is a very important pillow and I won’t be able to sleep well until I get it back. Also, it is mom’s favorite pillow and she steals it when I’m not using it. Ah well.

Got home at around 6:30 today. I am so, so tired. Bed soon. Since I have to be up around 7 tomorrow so we can drive to Armstrong for IPE. YAY. MORE. DRIVING. ;-;

I’ve had one meal today. Ah geez. Bad me.

Anyway. Bed.

My family is gone, I am [mostly] packed, directions have been written down and I’m running on little bits of sleep. TONIGHT BODES WELL.

I need to remember to put out the garbage before I go tonight. I also need to move Mum’s mum (LAWL) to the side of the house so the sun doesn’t fry it. And to turn off the AC to save on teh electricities.

So anyway, I will be unreachable for the next two days (unless you call Shane’s house- but none of you know that number! Ha!). ‘Cause I don’t want you calling my cellphone. Roaming D:

Anyway, I’ll be back on Thursday. But don’t bother trying to get a hold of me that day either ’cause Steph, Sarika and I are going to IPE in Armstrong. :P

SO MUCH DRIVING FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

Shoop.

[4:23pm]

Origaaaaaaaaaaaa <3 This song is brilliant. I’m sure Stephanie will appreciate the pictures.

I keep listening to epic instrumentals and they make me so sad. Oh how I wish wish wish I could compose.

Again again again with the musical wishes. I want a career in music. :(

I’ve seriously been such an emotard the past couple of days. Seriously. It’s ridiculous.

My family takes off tomorrow morning. It’ll be a nice, quiet week.

In this very moment, I am content with life. :)

Sarika has reminded me that I need to get Jillian Goldin music.

Oh, btw guys, in case I haven’t already told you, please no longer text my cell phone. I don’t have a texting plan and Telus Mobility has begun charging $.15 per incoming text. Which is ridiculous and stupid because you can’t control who texts you. So. Yeah. If you text me on occasion, stop. >.>

I love crescendos. I love them even more from pianissimo to forte fortissimo. That particular interval. Not piano pianissimo so much ’cause… I’unno. That’s too quiet. Like that’s going from a whisper to a scream. At least with pianissimo it’s more like a very hushed mumble to a scream. Blah blah blah, music babble, no one understands what I’m saying except Stephanie and Shane and maybe Cam and Sarika. And… others? I don’t know.

Continuing on with the music babble, I wish I could find the sheet music for “The Forest”. Yes, the ominous song I sang in grade… eight I think. Or grade nine? I don’t know. The point is that it was pretty much the most epic song I’ve ever sung and I wanna be able to sing it again. All I remember is the sop2 part ’cause… that’s what I was. And I don’t remember all the words, or all the tune. Just the parts that stood out in my head (LIKE THE PIANISSIMO-TO-FORTE-FORTISSIMO CRESCENDOS :D Actually I think in this song it might’ve been a piano pianissimo to forte fortissimo, but whatever it was still awesome?).

OH MAN. Y’know what would be awesome? The Devil’s Trill Sonata a cappellafied. Someone should do that to make my life.

I was thinking about Mrs. DeVries the other day. It was strange and random. I’m not sure why I did that. I know I ragged on her all the time with classmates, but y’know… I shouldn’t have. :P I wonder if she’s still there. And Schwartz. Actually I think DeVries is still there. I wish I had a reason and opportunity to go back to Colorado during school so I could go see the choir. I’m curious. Also because the choirs comprised of eighth and ninth graders there are superior to the choirs comprised of juniors and seniors here. And it’s sad to think about. Where the hell are the music programs in this province? It makes me sad. :(

Speaking of junior high, I just checked Preston’s homepage (which has drastically changed o.o). They’re playing against Lesher. XD That poor school. I’ve never heard of Kinard o.O Must be a new school? And WTF they’re using a ghetto younger person version of WebCT. WHY COULDN’T THEY HAVE THAT WHEN I WENT THERE? D<. LOL OH GOD. Mr. Martine is still there. And he looks even dumber than he used to. :D Ms. Long is still there :D. Wat? They got a new principal. LOL. They stationed an officer at the school. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh my youth <3 Cranor’s still there. I bet with her awesome Texas drawl, telling her students about how she reads pi before she goes to bed (no joke, she has a book completely filled with pi and reads it before bed. WUT?).

Man. That place brings back memories. I really wanna go back and visit.

LOL, I just checked up on my old high school (well kind of, I never got to attend it, but I’ve been there numerous times and was enrolled and everything). It got even bigger. BIGGER. I don’t think you understand the vastness of the school already. Every hallway had a name. There were street names for hallways. And in the commons and multipurpose areas, there were indoor rock formations. I shit you not, there were giant boulders in the middle of the school. I wish I could get pictures so I could place them next to MBSS to illustrate just HOW GHETTO MBSS is. XD Seriously.

Sigh. I miss my old life sometimes.

(don’t worry you new life kids, I still love you)

Last night was a blaaaast. Three cheers for Willard Pheasantview and Jamal Hammersykes. Most people left around 2am. Took Sarks and Ty home around 3:30am.

I finished Darker Than Black today. I loved it. Easily one of my favorites – if not my favorite. It’s a pretty big toss up between it and Wolf’s Rain. So many elements about it that I loved.

I’ve been listening to Ilaria Graziano’s “Dew” a lot lately. She’s such a lovely lady. She makes me think of Gabriela Robin. Also been listening to “Friends” from good ol’ Yoko Kanno. It still makes me want to cry.

I’m kind of feeling a bit depressed tonight for no reason. A little depression mixed in with some apathy and a dash of indifference. I don’t think the music is helping. But it’s just so beautiful.

Leaving for Calgary on the 26th, coming home on the 27th, going to IPE with Sarika and Steph on the 28th.

My appetite for updating has kind of disappeared. This is all you get for now.

[11:51pm]

I spent the last three hours re-evaluating myself.

Holy crapface.

I feel different.

[12:15am]

For your viewing pleasure (the quality over YouTube sucks, my actual recording is better to look at, but whatever)

[2:32am]

It’s like all of your shortcomings hit you all at once like a ton of bricks and you care, but not enough. Enough to acknowledge them but not better yourself because of them. Or not even to really better yourself at all, but maybe only to change things so that they benefit you when all is said and done. I don’t really feel remorse for any of it, I’m pretty much dancing on the cliff of indifference. So rather than doing out of want I will do out of gain which, in the end, fulfills the want. So then there’s no point in wanting ’cause the gain will appease it regardless, right?

Well, I think it sounds a little right. Logically speaking it makes sense. This is going to change things. Though I’m not quite sure how. Now if I could just apply this idea to everything, I think it could work.

I am such an awful person. You don’t even know.

I might not be around much tomorrow. Or the following days for reasons both obvious and not.

I picked a hell of a time for a revelation.

Dad: The passenger window was left open last night.
Me: It wasn’t me.
Dad: It doesn’t look like any water got in.
Me: I haven’t driven the car since Monday.

Dad leaves in the truck to go get some wood from the store. I assume that, since he is out there, he will close the window. He returns about an hour and a half later.

Dad: Are you going out today?
Me: Yeah.
Dad: The window is still open.
Me: WHY didn’t you close it when you left?

Dad, not willing to listen to any opinions other than his own, leaves house.

I know he’s accusing me of doing it. Even though both him and Mom have driven the car after I have. He’s still going to blame me for something I clearly did not do. It sounds like a stupid thing to be angry over, but I fucking hate being accused of things I did not do. It fucking rubs me the wrong way. And then expecting the person you falsely accuse to go out and fix it when you can easily fix it in less than a minute on your way to do something? THEN coming home, after not fixing it, to further accuse someone of not fixing something they didn’t do? I mean, fuck’s sake, if I had KNOWN he wasn’t going to shut the fucking window when he left the house, I’d have gone out and done it myself. But, assuming he was a decent and helpful human being, I assumed that he would be a good Samaritan and close it on his way out. Wow, guess having faith in people was the wrong way to go.

It isn’t my fault you’re an uptight old man. Get the fuck over yourself.

Time to go out. In a DIFFERENT car. -.-

[9:12pm]

So I managed to get all of my books but one. Came out to about $320 (plus however much Faerie Queene was). Which is… a little better than what I anticipated.

Then Cam, Shay and I went to the mall and merriment ensued, followed by dinner at Red Robin’s.

I started watching Darker Than Black today. My torrent is matroska files and they are excellent quality, I’m quite pleased. The subs aren’t imbedded, but that’s alright. I’m about three episodes in. So far, I quite like it. They did an excellent job with the whole emotion thing. And Hei is adorable when he’s pretending to have feelings :3

And that’s my story.

[12:47am]

“This is the first time I’ve introduced myself in a bathroom stall.”
“Me too.”

[2:37am]

Fourteen episodes in. I don’t want to go to bed, I want to keep watching ’cause I’m pretty much entrenched in the storyline, but it’s late and I should sleep.

“Kirsi” is pretty much a rad name.

Weirdass methods of remuneration: eating flowers, breaking one’s own fingers, sniffing an old sock, chewing on cigarettes and spitting them back out, writing poetry, lala-ing creepy tunes, taking your victims’ shoes off and placing them upside down next to their bodies, lining up little pebbles into a perfectly symmetrical grid, flipping pages in books and dog earing every page, licking your own blood after slitting your wrists (the wrong way!), and my personal favorite: drinking the lifeblood of children. Seriously? What, do you carry children with you wherever you go? What if you have to do shit in the middle of nowhere and there aren’t any children around? WHAT THEN?

Seriously, I think there have only been three “normal” methods so far.

Ummm. Spent my day playing Dark Cloud 2, pretty much. Once you get to start building towns it’s kind of addicting >.>

Shane is still staying with Miss Pat. Trece won’t talk to him. Things aren’t lookin’ too pretty.

Cam and I are going out to buy books tomorrow. Then we’re meeting Shay and heading toward the mall. Oh, one other thing about books. I got my booklist. How many books do I have to buy for first term? Twenty-three. I shit you not. I have 23 texts to buy for first term. At first, the sheer number and cost had me worried. Now that I think about it, this means I’ll be doing a lot of reading. Almost too much. I hope I can do this. :/