Sigh... I was gonna do something different for this post... But stuff happened in the week. *angry sob* Luckily, I'll get a chance to do that one some time this week because it's Thanksgiving break! And I have the whole week school-free! YUS.
We talked a bit about Latin countries getting independence, including Mexico! ¡VIVA MÉXICO! I wish I could learn Mexican history at school.
We started reading The Scarlet Letter in English. ...Actually, most of it we are watching to get it finished faster. The movie is super slow, though, so it might actually be faster for me to read! GAH!
Because we have been focusing on Puritans in class for a while now, it's affecting me. Whether it's good or bad, I have yet to fully decide, although it may be leaning towards bad. I tried to say something about... PIONEERS! a few days ago, and I ended up saying "Pilgrims." *facepalm* (Even trying to think of the word 'pioneers' took about 10 seconds to do right now, even though I knew I would write about that.) I think I might also be more willing to talk about religion... Which is probs a good thing around the South. They say prayers before officially starting school events, (like what Im about to talk about next,) not just church. People say Utahns take it too far. *psh*
They were doing an international banquet in my school for kids taking foreign language classes, and most of them brought in a dish from the countries that speak the language they are studying. I have a Spanish teacher for study hall, and I talk with her once in a while, and a few months ago I mentioned we dance and blah blah blah... So we became part of the entertainment. My sister and I did "La botella" (I played the guy) and my mom danced "La leyenda del beso." (Bugs me how they don't capitalize whole titles in Spanish. *itching to capitalize*) It was kinda scary to dance, because the room was totally silent during the performances. I doubt most people liked our dance cuz it is fun to do and really tiring, but probably a bit boring to watch. My mom's is pretty cool, though, cuz she is so good at it.
Extra trivia: that was the first time my sister had ever entered the building, and the first time either of my parents had gone past the courtyard-ish area, gym, and auditiorium. We took Kay, since she is in Spanish and wanted to bring something (of course she later told me going to the banquet was extra credit). She made these tiny little dessert empanadas with strawberry jam inside. They were pretty good, and so cute!
I wanted to watch something on Netflix/Hulu... But didn't want to start Soul Eater yet... And I got reminded by a TV commercial that they are nearing the finale of the third season of Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu. As I think I said before, I ended up watching most of the episodes of the second on the Cartoon Network app, and out of order. While I remembered most of what happened, it was all kinda blblblbl in my head. So I decided to try to rewatch. At least the second.
I rewatched my favorite episode of the show ever, #7, "Tick Tock," (and was like "YEAH!") skipped the first few of the second season, since I did remember those pretty well, to the 5th "Child's Play." Now that I'm going through the episodes in a row and paying more attention, I'm realizing that the show was even better than I thought. And there were more "WHAT THE WHAT"s and "I can't believe that just happened!"s and "That was awesome!"s. I really hope I'll eventually get to see the third season like this, because I only got to see the first one or two episodes before our Dish Network was taken. (Cuz we were gonna change to DirecTV.)
Once again, I say: Zane is pretty cool. Not just the whole nindroid thing, but him in general. Although that definitely adds. He's also smart and a sweetie. In my opinion. His dad is cool too.
I actually attempted to write a fanfic (*gasp!* Write for a different series! Flabbergasting!), but, after watching a few more episodes later, I decided it was poopy and shall never be spoken of again. It felt like I was imitating a story I read a while ago anyway. *tear*
Speaking of fanfics, Darkrai told me to start posting the stories I put on FFN to Wattpad. I did the first story, "Al Meets a Star," already, although it barely got noticed.
See, the prob, Bob, is that the kinds of stuff they have on Wattpad is different from on Fanfiction.net, even if you are looking at fanfics on both. On Wattpad, most of them are romantic, whether between characters or characterXauthor. *shiver* And the other ones are also cliché, unoriginal concepts that are done way too much on FFN already, like the Elrics having a sister/cousin, or an OC becoming an alchemist and joining the brothers, whatever. Plus, they're usually chapterfics. There are short stories on Wattpad, but not really in the fanfiction section. Plus, having a bunch of tags on your story (Tags are NOT my thing. At all.) makes it more accessible. I didn't really know what tags to put on it besides "fullmetalalchemist" (and alphonseelric, but I didn't think of that until a few days later), so...
I guess I'll try to put in my one-word-prompts, but as a collection under one title, and see where that goes. It'll probably sink, but D wants me to, and that didn't do anything bad for him. In fact, I hadn't read most of the stuff he had on FFN because it was in unfamiliar fandoms, but when he reposted on Wattpad, I read them anyway. I didn't know they were reposts until he told me. *derp face*
My plans this week are to do Personal Progress stuff, write more in stories I've already started, maybe even get one finished and posted (though I doubt that'll actually happen), get a one-word-prompt done and put on FFN, and do new songs on the drums.
Oh! I forgot before to say! Yesterday, one of the rehearsal guys came again (don't know his name...) and we all played a little more after we went looking at a few apartments, ate at The Egg and I (the Raspberry Granola Pancake is really good!), went to a music store, and quickly got some stuff at Walmart. We bought a music book with Red Hot Chili Peppers songs for the drums (already tried a bit of "Californication" and it was pretty hard. Poop.) and a few modern songs for my sis to do on the ukulele.
So now I have to try doing Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jimi Henrix (cuz my dad found out his guitar/bass Jimi Hendrix also has drum parts). The other guy wants me to try playing "Fire". HAVE YOU HEARD THAT SONG? I know they don't expect me to do all that crazy stuff, but it's still going to take forever to do halfway-decent on a simplified version!
Today, I learned a lot. I learned my Sunday School teacher hasn't used a credit card in 11 years, so she and her husband pay everything but gas (she uses a debit card for that) in cash. Their groceries, their bills. They paid for their car in cash. They adopted 2 boys in cash. (Also learned that her kids are adopted!) That also means they don't have any credit card debt, which is really good. In fact, they have no debts at all.
I learned that just 6 months ago, the Young Women's president was depressed. (It's much more common than it should be. Seriously.)
I learned that the talk I gave a few weeks ago made a guy want to stay at our ward. That really made me feel good.
I learned that Broranges has a puppy! And he is absolutely adorable!
I told Broranges about me wanting a Zane Lego man (by the time I went to the Lego store for the first time, most of their stuff was for Chima and The Lego Movie. Before that, I sometimes checked in the toys section at stores but they never just sold a Zane. Maybe a Kai, or Jay, but not just a Zane. Not even all 4 together! That's stupid. *pout*) and he told me that he would give me one he already had gotten a long time ago. So guess what I'm getting for Christmas?
Just to insert this somewhere, I found out that people that get baptized at a certain church nearby get a T-shirt.
Really? *doesn't know how to react*
...I think that's everything. *thinks really hard* Ow, that hurts after a while. *grimaces and rubs head* ...Yeah, that's all. Bai!
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