Spiritual and Fan Chiz

Hello world!

I'm so lame. Did you know I'm lame? I'm so lame.

Last week I totally forgot that I'd been planning to write about going with the sister missionaries!

I went with them for two meetings with an investigator girl I already recognized at a park. The sister missionaries were basically talking the entire time except the one moment when they asked me a few questions. I'm sad (but unsurprised) to say that I don't think my answers were very good. Maybe part of it was feeling too nervous.

I also finished the Book of Mormon all by myself again that Thursday! *applause soundtrack* When I told my dad the day after, he suggested reading the BoM in Spanish this time around. I was like "Ooookay?..." but now that I'm doing it, I think that was a splendid idea.

See, I'm mainly reading in Spanish, but, in another tab on Gospel Library, I have the same section in English. So, if I find a word in Spanish that I'm not totally sure of the meaning, I just see what it was in English. That helps me improve my vocab (though usually I already have a good, but vague, idea of what the word means).

And, also, because of the fact that I have to slow down and read more carefully because it's not English, I pay more attention. I have already caught one or two details I hadn't noticed before, and I've only read up to Chapter 6 of 1 Nephi. 

So this is interesting. *smile*

This week, a few times, we went to check out apartments in an area close to us. It's cheaper and has more Hispanics, but is still nice and, far as I know, the people are pretty nice too. I like where we live now, but the prob, Bob, is that it's a bit expensive.

Turns out, however, that most of the apartment complexes there may not have an opening (or at least not that soon) and may not even be that much of an improvement in price range. So, I guess I won't be moving for now. I don't know if I'll be staying at the school (by the way, I got my school schedule a few days ago!) I'm supposed to be at in our current location for the whole year or maybe just a semester, depending on how the apartment hunting goes. Besides the fact I'll have to do online seminary at this school cuz they don't have release time (UGH!), I'm actually kinda excited to try out the new year. It'll be a fresh start... all over again. And I'm actually interested in a club or two!

I'm guessing I haven't mentioned the 8tracks playlist yet? I did, however mention a crazy Gravity Falls fanfic I read, probably not by name. A fan of the story made a fanmix (I didn't even know things like fanmixes existed) for it. It actually had some cool songs (none of which I'd ever heard before) that somehow fit the story perfectly! I've been listening to it every once in a while since then. I even went so far as to play a few of the songs for my sis. Yeah, I'm temporarily addicted to the playlist.

Strangely, I'm most addicted to the first song: "Misguided Ghosts" by Paramore. The first few times I heard it I didn't really like it, but now it's really grown on me. I've been doing that thing where I put the lyrics into my iPod Notes, then replay the song over and over in my head until the whole thing's memorized and then some.

If you look up this link, consider reading the actual fic too. It's interesting and somehow brings out different emotions in you at the same time- something the playlist echoes very well, which is part of why I love it.

http://m.8tracks.com/tazattack/walk-the-line-side-a

Yesterday I read another fic (FMA this time) that reminded me of Two Souls, One Armor. Al and the OC were still technically sharing his body... just in a different way. The OC is also from our side of the Gate, unlike in my own story (that I have complete and utter writer's block on! *tear*). The way it's written is pretty different, too- and by this point the author's starting to veer off the canon-timeline, which I'm really excited about! I never really did that with Two Souls, One Armor, though I should have considered it.

A girl sent me a PM on FFN, asking if I wanted to RP with her, saying she kinda wanted to try out her FMA OC. I figured "Eh, why not?"

Basically, she plays her OC and I play everyone else, though she often does a few other characters' lines too. She mainly does her OC, though.

I'm not totally sure about her OC. I think I'm supposed to think she's cool, but I'm kinda unconvinced. For some reason, people that make FMA OCs often make the characters total violent jerks. I assume they're trying to make them similar to Ed, but... Ed is somehow charming despite his flaws. Even if you weren't a fangirl and actually had to deal with him in person, you'd probably be annoyed by him at first, but you'd quickly see his true intentions and stuff and you'd like him. (Part of Arakawa's genius at work, I guess.) Some of these OCs? Not so much. They're often huge bipolar buttholes that are usually on the "particularly buttholey" end of their personality spectrum.

Other than that, the RPing hasn't been so bad. I think I'm doing a decent job of playing "all the canon characters" considering I haven't really done much RP with them besides Ed and Al. She's probably annoyed by my own interpretation of characters at times, since it sometimes is different from what she wants to eventually happen, but I'm just putting down what I think is realistic. *shrug* ...Except for the moment when I plopped Olivier in there. The poor girl doesn't even know who she is yet and never saw that coming. *cackle* I hope I haven't ruined Olivier for her before she's even gotten to read/watch about her in the actual series.

Last thing! We've been starting to consider different Halloween costume ideas, again focusing on makeup. My sis thinks I could be pretty decent at it, so she wants us to go hardcore. I know I did a decent job with my own makeup last year, but it was good considering I'd never done face paint like that before. (I drew long rows of sharp teeth over my actual mouth on the bottom half of my face. The rest was just white and black around the eyes.) We're gonna start actually practicing and experimenting with different makeup ideas as soon as we can.

K bai!