I HAVEN'T POSTED IN 2.5 WEEKS

...Hi world...

I feel extremely guilty about this. Stuff has been happening lately.

I already warned in the last post that I probably wouldn't be posting for a few days, but honestly I don't have very good excuses for why I didn't after. But so Future Me remembers, I shall tell about Vegas!

The whole time we stayed at Circus Circus. Unlike what people usually do at Vegas, my parents did NOT gamble, which I'm proud of. But I just don't really see what's so great about casinos. And they are literally everywhere. Circus Circus is supposed to be a kids place and it has a ton of slot machines! -_- But I did get to do stuff with my family. We drove around and saw some of the famous hotels in person. We entered Excalibur, which honestly was pretty boring inside. We looked at the Luxor (pyramid hotel) and the light that comes out of the top at night. My dad said that the light is so bright that pilots and similar have to avoid it or they are literally blinded! We also went to Madame Tussauds the wax museum (cuz we have a thing for wax museums) and it was super cool! That's pretty much all the fun stuff we did...

The day after we returned was the first day of school! I'm in freaking high school now! Even though I totally don't look like it! This is lame reason numba 1 for not posting. Second is that I'm used to watching TV aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall day, so I have been trying to adjust to actually having stuff to do in the afternoon, which includes homework and practicing druuuuuuumss.

My teacher for Health is making us have a goal this quarter that we promise to work on at least every weekday (and if you want to or missed a weekday, on weekends too), and I chose to learn at least one new song on the drums every week for the goal, because I need to know songs if I want to play in a band, obviously. For this, I HAVE to practice between 4-5 (but obviously not the entire hour), so now I have something that forces me to get up and do stuff. So hopefully after today, I will be better about it.

My last reason is that now my sister has to use the computer for her school assignments, and it's even harder than a few months ago to get to the laptop. Maybe I can research when she uses it and work out a schedule to when I can use it to post. I can use my iPod as I did during vacation, but I prefer using a keyboard. But if it gets to the point that I have to use my iPod for my blog, I'll do it.

My New Book! (this post was done while in Mexico, but i accidentally did something that made it un-posted :/)

Hello world!

It's been a while since my last post. There is the reason: I am writing a novel! I have been going at it nonstop since Saturday night. My sister was impressed when I showed her how much I had done already. I have a little bit of writer's block right now, so until something comes into my brain I will do other stuff, like this post.

We went with my aunt with three cats again, and it turns out they have blank paper. I drew my book cover. It isn't very good, so if my book actually gets published, a professional illustrator will do a better version of it. 

The colors would be similar to these I think, but it wouldn't look so bulky. 

That looks really random, huh? That's cuz you don't know what the book is about. 

I was saying how my friend Broranges is writing a short story about Slendy a few weeks ago. Looks like he's finishing it. (I had only written two chapters in it.) I really liked the concept of the story and I had a lot of ideas flowing through my head. However, he already had how the rest of the story would go, so none of my other ideas could have gone into action. Then a thought hit me- why don't I just write my own version? 

Of course I would ask for Brorange's permission to publish mine since this story is based off of his, but even if he says no, it's been fun writing it. I could put it in my archives to read in the future. 

But I wanted to do it differently. I've written plenty of stories (almost all for school), but they always ended up as short stories. I wanted to try to write a full-length novel. It is harder than a lot of people think. I have to add a lot more events and stuff to keep it interesting. I think after a while I will be pooped from using my imagination. I might not finish the book because I can't think of how to end it. 

So Broranges, if you are out there reading this post, (which is highly unlikely,) will you let me send this book for publishing too?

Vegas, Baby!

Hellooooooooooo world!

First, I shall tell a bit about my adventures at camp. I don't really know what I expected, but it was much better than that vague idea. I didn't hear a single rude sentence or rumor or whatever. Everyone was extremely nice and welcoming. I just barely arrived to my cabin and made a new friend. And maybe half an hour later (because everyone took a long time to drag their stuff up) I had met everyone in my cabin and we had already started to make up nicknames for each other.

The first day we spent a lot of time decorating our cabin and such. Ours had the most stuff hanging across the walls, which was by three ropes tied on opposite sides of the room. Then a lady came in and asked us all to choose a camp name, all written on little magnets. Names such as "Spice" and "Lollipop" and etc. were part of the pile. I chose "Shanghai" as mine. About half of the time someone called for me that week, it was "Hey Shanghai!" instead of my real name.

I got to do a lot of stuff I had never done before there.
1. Live in a cabin, even though it was for only 4 nights
2. Be away from my family for longer than about 24 hours
3. Make friends so quickly! As my "About Me" part says, I am pretty shy in the real world, but for some reason, it so much easier to talk to people there. There is almost a magical quality about girls camp.
4. Canoe
5. Hear the birthday song sung so many times in one short period of time!
6. Hike up a mountain, even a small one
7. Walk around so often
8. Probably some other thing I can't think of at the moment...

It was even better because of my birthday. I wore this shirt I've had for a few years that screams "BIRTHDAY" all over it so everyone that saw it was congratulating me. Plus, there was a girl, whose camp name was Sharkbait (HOOHAHA) that had the same birthday, but turned 13, not 14. She was kinda pissed that I'm a year older than her. I was surprised that there were two other birthdays during the week too, one on Monday and another on Wednesday, I think.

So, here's where the title makes sense. To be quick, my sister has a really bad back problem, and we are going to visit a chiropractor in Vegas who uses a different method to see is it will help her. We shall be there from tomorrow to Saturday. So I probably won't post until next week. Yup. Bye.

Danny Phantom and Camp

Hello world!

Since I returned from my vacation thing, I have been watching different shows than before I left. The thing is that by this time I have seen almost all of the Powerpuff Girls and Teen Titans episodes out there. So I have replaced them with two new old shows. 

Animaniacs and Danny Phantom! I don't remember much about Wakko, Yakko, and Dot, but I saw something about them in my childhood, I think. My dad likes Pinky and the Brain a lot, so I'm guessing that's why. 

Also, I liked Danny Phantom, especially since it's the same art style as Fairly Odd Parents. (Wow, I've been using italics a lot in this post.) I wasn't sure if Danny was shown in Nicktoons, so I searched it up, and turns out they did! About 4 times a night! So now I wake up with new episodes of Danny! It is quite great. 

I have been learning more about these shows quicker than I expected. In one song about Hello Nurse, Wakko says he is 7 years old. So his siblings are maybe one or two years older than him? Or are they triplets? I am not sure. Maybe with time Yakko and Dot will present their ages too. Not knowing things like this tend to make me go a little nuts. 

Also, I didn't remember Danny receiving a frost power (which I can't help to compare to Blossom's), or that the show went until 2007! I can't really remember much about ads and stuff since before 2009, because that's when Nickelodeon changed the logo and stuff. 

The thing that has confused and bugged me the most is when the character Danielle shows up. He says when she disappeared from his room that she moves fast for a 12-year old. He is 14, so there is a 2 year difference. And she is a little over half his height! Compared to him, she looked maybe 7? That makes no sense to me! It's fine that she's shorter, but not by that much!!! Geeeez...

All right, now camp. I'm going to girls camp this year. I'm guessing most wouldn't really understand what it is. It is a camp done once a year for all of the Mormon girls, especially where I live. It generally lasts from Monday to Friday. They do a lot of basic camp things, like hiking and canoeing and etc. It is available for (I think) 12-18 year-old girls. Most in my neighborhood go every year, but I haven't been able to before, because of trips to visit relatives. This year, they scheduled the camp about a month later than in other years, so this time I can participate!

Plus, it will be more interesting because I will celebrate my birthday there! That's right, I will be spending my 14th birthday away from my family. My mom is totally freaking out about it, and I kind of am too, but (hopefully) it will be really fun to have a different plan for this holiday. I hope these two momentous occasions in my life are remembered in the future. 

So, since I'll be at camp, I won't be able to post at all until maybe Friday night or Saturday. So bye for now!

Current Events

Hello world!

So, I shall say what has happened this week in case it was important to future me.

On Tuesday, from about 12:30-6:00pm I was with Broranges at Boondocks! It was the very first time I'd ever gone there. We went kart racing 4 times, did laser tag and Maxflight, and a few arcade games. They were doing a discount on Tuesday, so our parents paid less than they usual would've had to. (I feel like such a butt that I didn't use any of my own money on this, but I couldn't cuz I can't find any!) So, that was fun.

The only thing that worried me is that, looking back on it, I don't know how my behavior seemed to Broranges and all the other people in the building. I act a little bit different with him than with my friends-that-are-girls. I kind of feel like at times I act like a jerk. :/

I wish there was a way to look at myself from someone else's perspective so I can know what things about my personality. I know I'm likable, but I don't know if I've been blunt or whiny or whatever at some point and the other person just kept a fake smile so I don't know I'm being rude or something. Also, I don't really know how the way I present myself or my first impression is to people I meet. I am pretty self-conscious.

On Wednesday, I received presents! My birthday is coming up, but I'll be away from my family during that, and so will my dad. So, we are doing it a week early. (I'll explain more on the next post.)

Also, I started watching the anime series Black Butler on that day. I have gotten through the first two episodes. I'm still a bit confused about the plot, but I just have to say that Sebastian (the butler) is pretty freaking AWESOME!!! I wish I had moves like him. Also, to not have to use them often.

Today, we continued the celebration. We watched Despicable Me 2, which was a good movie. I just have a problem with sequels. A lot of ones that I've seen are okay, but they just don't seem to compare to the original. And what's up with all the sequels they are making this year?! It's frustrating me that they don't work harder on making more ORIGINAL movies. Making something interesting I guess is kind of hard now since television has been around for a long time, but sequels just kind of feel like they are not creative enough to come up with new characters. I hope someone gets me.

A little bit later we got some pizza and I tried the new caramel shake from Arby's. Ugh, it's TOOOOOO SWEEEEET! I actually thinned it a little with milk and it still tasted too sweet. And no one else wants it, so I will have to drink at least most of it. Spare me!!!