Gundam 00
Gundam Wing (I'll search my whole house, if I have to, to find those DVDs!)
Ayashi No Ceres
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
DNAngel
Haibane Renmei (though I only have the last five episodes, so that kinda sucks)
Gasaraki (I'll steal it off my brother... I think he's the one who has it...)
BubbleGum Crisis

with fiery passion that few can fathom!

unless they hate surprises, too, I suppose. then I guess we're in the same boat.

after a long night of moping and eating excessive amounts of sugar cookies, I am rapidly recovering from the shock and surprise of when these people I don't know anything about, except that they're from my church and because I don't get there a lot, I'm like some kind of freaky charity case where people do pitifully obvious setups to get me in touch with the other youth, decided to come and sing me christmas carols!

and after I begged them not to, because I honestly had just gotten home from being out in the cold and was in the middle of eating dinner, except that the TV was on (with the surround sound hooked up, so the entire room was echoing) and I was therefore unable to play dead...

GRRRR....

I just *HATE* when people just show up. it freaks me out.

I like phone calls beforehand, and a little warning.

heck, I wouldn't say no to a little prozac, even!

but no. there was no warning. and I've been obsessing about it.
all of last night. and all of this morning.

that being said, I'm officially declaring myself a freak. spread the word as best you can.

it hits the news tomorrow.

*sigh* okay, overly-melodramatic emo moment over.... go on with your business

on Friday's agenda:

GetBackers
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
Gundam 00
DNAngel
Ayashi No Ceres
Fushigi Yuugi (if I can find it...)

updates to follow....


teeheehee... I love this avatar....

I LOVE SEEING MY NAME IN PRINT!

with Gundam 00!!! *hugs computer and speaks in a very Roger Rabbit-esque voice* oh how I love thee. let me count the ways.... 1-1,000! 2-1,000! 3-1,000!!

okay, so I'm really not that bad. but you have to see this from my perspective -- I haven't watched a gundam anime since Gundam Wing first aired....


let the obsessive episode watching/drooling at the fight sequences/the inevitable badly written fanfiction begin! BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!

bleh!

so, I went to the dentist this morning, and it was this new person.
so she was really nice, right. I mean, she stopped to talk to me before we did, about how she knew I was nervous (because I'm naturally a very anxious person, and put me in a room with some guy I don't know sticking a needle and a drill in my mouth, and it tends to freak me out a little...). and I knew the dental assistant lady, so that was cool.

so they stick this awful tasting goo on my gums to numb them, and a few minutes later, they stick this giant needle in my mouth and give me two shots, and almost instantly my mouth starts to go numb.

but they must've used something different in that shot, or hit the nerve differently or something, because within like five minutes, the entire right side of my face started to go numb, including just below my eye, which has NEVER happened before. which seriously freaked me out.
especially when they wanted to do it on both sides...

*shivers* I HATE dentists....

damn indiana for being one of the 22 states without a zine library!

okay, so, in other news, I haven't checked my email(s) in a while, and I'm almost afraid to look and see what's there. mostly, it's newsletters from stores and such. occasionally, however, my sister sends me mail (which she hasn't actually done in a very long time -.- ). bleh. I have to call her.

oh, and I've found my new obsession!
http://www.sega.com/gamesite/universeatwar/fullsite/

sweet internet, how I missed thee...

okay, so, my really, really, really big important news!

I FINALLY loaded trillian on my new computer!
and for the life of me, I can't remember my password for my brattyneko AIM account....
so I have a new screen name!
jrnalgrrl...

so, I meant to be on AIM last night, so I chat with people before I exit civilization for about a week and cut off all human contact, stuck in a hotel room out in a weirdo resort in Illinois. I really did, but I didn't have enough time. It was already nine before we got back, and we still have to finish packing and such, and we leave in an hour. soooooo.... yeah. it's looking slightly dismal.
not to mention that I had about 12 books that I was going to bring, but I had to cut that back.
it's about 6 books now, but I SWEAR they're all essentials. I couldn't leave without most of them, anyway, honest. ;P

so, the plan goes a little something like this: we leave at 6 (it's really 5am right now, but my computer refuses to give me the correct time, and is stubbornly one hour behind), and we'll spend the next five hours on the road. I got directions off of mapquest and rand mcnally, along with an atlas (because god knows how those sites like to screw with your head; I swear, they're in league with the gas companies!!!), I didn't get the halloween CD done, but I do have tunes for the trip, so other than the packing thing and the fact that I'm going to quickly go over the wood floor with a wax sealant (since we're going to be gone for a week anyway), everything's done.

we even took the dogs to the kennel.

I MISS MY DOG

yes, I am that pathetic that not having that little lump by my feet at night while I sleep, or come bounding over to me every time I walk into a room, is horribly depressing me.
what can I say? my world is very, very small.

anyway, if you want to contact me, you know where I'll be. not that it'll matter anyway, because you can get an email to any time, that has nothing to do with where I'll be.
it makes sense to me, honest.

To Do List:

Halloween Mix CD
LAUNDRY!
pack (after laundry, of course)
put therapy stuffs on MP3 player
get directions to Pheasant Run in IL
pick out books to read while there
return old desktop to Rent-A-Center (I hate those guys)
put hold on mail
CLEAN ROOM!

so, the Baltimore trip fell through, which kind of sucked, because I had this whole big thing planned for the music and stuff. I was going to have a little bit of everything! Nightwish, Within Temptation, Evanesence... all the way through to the Eagles, Ronan Tynan, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers (honestly, even if you're not into that band, you have to love it just for the name, because it's so bizarre). Maybe even Weird Al. I'm sure Alex would've tried to throw in Scary Bitches (yes, that seriously is the name of the band) or ICP, but just because I'm 18 now doesn't mean my mom can't start world war 3 and potentially ground me until I finish school.

In any case, we leave for Chicago on Tuesday. I'll probably just take a bunch of CDs off my shelf and we'll be set instead of planning this whole big thing out. It'll be easier, and Chicago is only about a four(?) hour drive from here. I don't know.... bleh. anyway.

In other news, Mel Brooks is a genius.
Not that you needed me to tell you that.

sooooooo.... I hooked up the new computer. I'm using it now, in fact.

I would seriously like to hurt whatever idiot thought windows vista was a bright idea

if my computer FREEZES again, while I'm doing something relatively simple, I'm going to bang my head into a wall until I fall into a coma...

well, it's official. as of 30 minutes ago.

I'm 18.

Yay me.

someone help me, please, I'm desperate.
I have the theme from Willy Wonka stuck in my head, and I haven't even seen the movie in like, five years!

in other news, we're not heading out to Baltimore. the trip is cancelled because mom's sick - it's the mandatory changing-of-seasons-I-hate-you cold. bleh. nasty.

and where's fall???

...it's cold....
*curled up under covers*

okay, so I'm actually supposed to be in bed, because I have a dentist' appt. bright and early tomorrow morning.... uhh... today! but I was riffling through my old CDs today, and I won't be able to sleep until I put some of the music on my mp3 player, because it'll just drive me nuts.

this week is crazy. I meant to be on AIM today, but I had to dig through my closet (which is a total nightmare, by the way.... I found my old computer in there, looking all sad and lonely...) to find my duffel.
today we go around town and run errands. new shoes. doctor's appointments... prescription refills.... then when we get back, it's time to tidy up the house and rewax/seal/whatever-it's-called the floors, so that they're sparkly when we leave. plus a deep cleaning on the bathroom....

then we tackle the garage tomorrow, along with a few other things. we're trying to get everything done (including using all the groceries in the fridge) by Wednesday, so that Thursday and Friday we can just chill out.

Saturday morning, we hit the road.
driving plans are STILL a mystery, because mom was hoping to make it this whole big trip for my 18th, where we stop and visit my aunt and take time along the way to see the sights...
but she wants to stop in West Virginia.
West Virginia summons a whole bunch of mental images that just... don't appeal to me. it could be the whole joke about marrying cousins...............

ahem, uhh.... <.<

my greatest problem, however: books.
whenever I pack to go somewhere, I always bring WAY more books (CDs too, but it's not as bad) than is necessary. last time, I brought six for a three day trip. one of them was REALLY fat.
I didn't read a single one of them.
two books are absolutely necessary, however. no, make that three.

my bag's going to be SOOOOO heavy....

okay, so we head out to Baltimore on the 20th of this month, and should be back by the 30th(I hope, because we're kenneling the pups, and I HATE to kennel them at all, but especially for any longer than that). The plan is to drive in the mornings, then take it slow during the afternoons, and make a little vacation out of it (even though it's really a business trip for mom) since my 18th b-day is on the 22nd, when we have to be there bright and early for the orientation meeting.
alex and I shall be sacking out in the hotel room. I'm bringing a bunch of old movies to veg out to -- Casablanca, Strangers on a Train, Murder My Sweet, etc, while mom's out at the conference center, and then when she has time off, we'll probably have cake and sparkly grape juice (because I LOVE that stuff and am always looking for an excuse to buy some!) I'm also HOPING to get a few books from the bookstore before we go (Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe series). Mom's conference should last about... a week... maybe? and we'll be taking time somewhere in there to visit my Aunt Saundra.... so, it should be a busy week.
oh yes, and I'm ALSO making a ton of CDs to play on the way there. music suggestions, anyone?