"Oooo!" Those dragonflies are so cute!

I am sitting here in front of my computer feeling happy and giddy after just finishing the 3rd book of “Avalon”. I don’t know why exactly, but it has left me in a happy state. It’s the second time I’ve read it, and I have to admit it’s my favorite one of the ones I have. There are 3 more books, I think, but I still haven’t bought them yet.

I think I will finally open up my new domain this coming September. Like I have been saying, it has been sitting there for longest time. I made a list yesterday of the pages that are finished and what still needs to be done. So now I feel more secure and organized about it.

Speaking of organized, I want to try harder to be more organized. It’s more of my personal things that I want organized. But even though it might not be that important to some people, it makes me feel so much better. Everyday I find myself feeling irresponsible and guilty because sometimes I reject my own responsibilities, expecting everything to be forgotten the next day. But that doesn’t happen, of course. It’s hard to give up the guilt that has built up if you haven’t paid the price.

It’s amazing how music can affect your emotions. Like if I listen to something light and cheerful, I become happy and energetic (and sometimes it gives me this feeling like my chest would burst with all the excitement!). But if I listen to something more serious I either become calm or sad. It’s one of the reasons why I love music so much. It just baffles me sometimes.

Just a couple days the download for that Inuyasha episode finished. What a COOL episode! It told so much. Actually, it wasn’t really an episode that was connected to the current happenings. It was sort of like a “special” episode and it told the story of Kikyo and Inuyasha and how they met and the reason they felt so much betrayal towards each other, but in beautiful detail. It makes so much more sense now. I won’t say a word, though. I’m not going to spoil it to anyone! Though I understand Kikyo better now. Man, she can be so hard to understand sometimes!

I’m not sure, but I think Mom’s going to take me to the Embassy tomorrow. I have to re-new my American passport because it has expired. So I need a new picture too. I don’t like really it when people take pictures me. I always turn out looking either goofy or just plain weird!

I want to learn how to speak Italian! It’s such a beautiful language. And I just love way it sounds. Just the way it moves on your tongue…
It sounds so elegant and graceful.

Jesse McCartney has a new song. It’s from the soundtrack from the new “Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” movie. (I want to see that movie! Unfortunately they’ll only have it here in October…)

It’s called “Because You Live”. It’s a beautiful song. Now I’ll type the lyrics, just for the fun of it.

Staring out at the rain with a heavy heart.
It’s the end of the world in my mind.
Then you’re voice calls me back like a wake up call.
I’ve been looking for the answer, somewhere.
I couldn’t see that it was right there.
But now I know what I didn’t know.

Because you live and breathe,
Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help.
Because you live girl, my world has twice many stars in the sky.

It’s all right, I survived, I’m alive again.
‘Cause of you made it through in the storm.
What is life? What’s the use if you’re killing time?

I’m so glad I found an angel,
Someone who was there when all my hopes fell.
I want to fly looking in your eyes.

Because you live and breathe,
Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help.
Because you live girl (you live), my world (my world) has twice many stars in the sky.

Because you live, I live.

Because you live there’s a reason why I carry on when I lose fight.
I want to give what you’re giving me away.

Because you live and breathe,
Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help (when no one else can help). Because you live girl, my world (my world) has twice many stars in the sky.

Because you live and breathe,
Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help.
Because you live girl (‘cause you live), my world has everything it needs to survive.

Because you live, I live.
I live.

Whoa. I never realized how long that song is! Oh well, I am just bored. Um, I think that is all for today. If I feel I want to say more, I’ll type some more later. Cao!

Never have I had such exercise in the pool!

For the past few weeks I’ve been waking up really early. Like, lets say 2 hours earlier then I should wake up. And that would be 5 ‘clock, but recently I have been waking up at 6 o’clock instead. And this is all natural to me. No alarm clock was involved.

My writing has improved. All thanks to my latest composition project for school. I thought I would never say that. Usually I really dislike composition!

I need to write a “short story” for the upcoming test, and that’s why my writing has improved. But it’s nice, because they show you direct directions to make notes before writing. Anyway, the really cool thing is that those directions lead me to thinking of a plot, background, and characters in the quickest time ever! I have never done that before. But I’m a little worried that it won’t turn out good because they asked for a short story, and I have so many ideas for it that I’m not sure if I can make it short.

My drawing has improved also. Just the other day I was drawing little scribbles and all of a sudden I noticed it looked very different then what I drew that morning. I was really skeptical about it before, but now I just feel content.

I have been meaning to put my new domain up, and it’s been sitting there for months and months. But every time I make a new layout (I keep on making new layouts for it because I can’t decide what I like best!) I find myself constantly editing the content and getting new ideas that after that time of mentaling on it, I decide I don’t like it anymore. Man, am I picky! But I also have so many other ideas for making websites, and I can’t decide which one to start. It’s so frustrating…

Almost for the past week I haven’t played any video games. That’s unusual! But yesterday I did play some for a change.

Speaking of video games, I am totally crazy about Final Fantasy X. I know it’s for the PS2 and I only have GameCube, but I just love the story and characters. I have been to tons of websites, and they basically have most of the same information, but there was one website were they have a “.txt” file of almost half of the game story. And since I read that, I know quite a lot about the story and characters considering I haven’t played the game before. And since I’ve been to so many websites I basically know the whole story. Unfortunately, there are some confusing parts because there are some tiny details that are not clear to me. I still like it. But I don’t think I would like the game itself because it is a combat game. And combat is not my best skill in video games. I like adventure/RPG games, no doubt. But in adventure games you get to explore too, other then just fighting. But it seems that FFX (for short) does only combat to get through most of the story. But the graphics are amazing in those FMVs (Full Motions Videos). I have like 3 or 4 of those on my hard drive and when I watch then they just leave me completely speechless.

I was grouchy today. It was probably because I went to bed late last night. Why? That’s another topic. Anyway, in the composition class today I was supposed to write an essay about one poem's sound effects and why you liked that poem. I couldn’t really choose a poem because I am not a very big fan of poetry. I mean, yes, there is some poetry I like but it’s somewhat rare that I find one. Anyway, I was getting all cranky because I couldn’t find a poem that I liked and rhyme. It was annoying. But I have to admit I was relieved when Mom suggested I try doing it later in the afternoon.

Remember my last post where I said I was downloading the Inuyasha episode 147 and 148? Well, I haven’t watched it yet. Only because I haven’t been able to download it! On the first try (which was almost 3 weeks ago) it was downloading fine, except accidentally I closed the download window. It was a complete accident because I wanted to close another program, but I didn’t realize I was on the BitTorrent program window (that’s the program which downloads it for me) so I had to re-download the whole stupid file again. And it’s a BIG file, 146.1 MG to be precise. And it only had 9 hours left to go. Anyway, then I tried downloading it again-- after having a couple days of cooling off from the frustration, that is. It worked fine except my computer froze and got all crazy one me so I had restart. Once I restarted I realized that the download would have been cancelled. And I was right, of course. So after a couple days I decided to try it out again yesterday. And it’s still downloading, but thankfully nothing has happened yet. A relief, I tell you. I hope nothing goes wrong… I don’t think I would be able to take it any longer. Actually, I probably would because I’m so stuck on downloading it.

I went swimming today. When Liana came to ask me if I wanted to go swimming, it took me a while to decide if I wanted to or not, but finally I thought “Oh, what the heck.” When I went down stairs and went to the kitchen to wait for Liana I saw not only Liana there but Marciana, too! At first I was surprised because usually she doesn’t go. I was a little worried at first because Marciana is a very energetic and bubbly person. And when she starts going, she never stops. Even though she’s 19 years old, she still acts like a regular teenager. But so does Liana, she just is more quiet. But not when Marciana is around! Anyway, I am glad she came because we laughed so much. I swear, I thought I was having a headache from all the laughing. First we just goofed off a little, not knowing what do to. Then Marciana started it all. She took out one of those floating things you lay in the pool. She kept on trying to get on it, but we always ended up laughing when she had fallen off. Then we played “monkey in the middle” with the ball we had. They call it something else here, but it’s same game. It so much fun! It was so funny though, because there were times when I passed the ball and then Liana and Marciana ended up strangling themselves just to get the ball! It was hilarious to watch. I got to be in the middle only like 3 or 4 times, so I think I did well. Anyway, so we played that for most of the time. After that Marciana started going on the float thingy again then we got an idea. Marciana first went on, and then while Marciana was still sitting on it, Liana would go on it too. And then maybe I would go on it. And then we would have to balance ourselves. It was plain silly, really, but so much fun. If I didn’t go on it would just be them two on it, and I would have to shake them until they fell off.

We left sometime after that. I didn’t know when but sometime past 4:30. And I still feel sore from it all. I definitely got exercise, that’s for sure. But it was really nice. I haven’t acted so silly in a while, just laughing at just about anything.

I’m reading a book called “The Wish” written by… hold on–- Gail Carson Levine! (Wow, I just realized that now. She’s one those simple authors I like.) I’m it reading for the second time. I haven’t read it in like 2 years. I remember when I first read it I thought it was weird. I still think so a little, but only for some specific parts. (Not really. I don’t know. It’s all good, I guess.) I’ve already read half of the book. It’s a small book, only 197 pages.

I should be writing. I mean, writing my more of my “short story” composition. I haven’t written much, but it’s probably because I keep re-writing it.

Anyway, I’m exhausted and for once, I want to go to bed. I have a headache. Another reason to get away from the computer. Good night to all and sweet dreams.

Pool tables are strange...

School was good today, and everything went smoothly. The only thing that really annoyed me was when we did Science. I am not a big fan of Science, and making a chart of the planets and the information about them is not my good point. It seemed like it took forever...

I actually made my own homework today. Meaning I insisted that I get homework. That's because I was supposed to finish writing the book review of Anne of Green Gables, but even though it was still early, I thought it would be too much pressure to finish it in school with my teacher waiting on my every move. So I assigned it as homework myself, so I can now do it on the weekend. Oh, joy.

Did you know? It's Friday the 13th! My teacher reminded me of that this morning. I wonder... nothing unlucky has happened today so far. Not that I believe in such superstitions, but it's fun to think it's something of a holiday or an unusual, different day.

I'm downloading episode 147 and 148 of Inuyasha. I haven't watched Inuyasha in such a long time! So I am determined to get back on track with the episodes again. It will probably another day until it's finished downloading.

As usual, after sometime on the computer, I played some video games. For a change, I played a little bit of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. I like listening to the opening song when you start the game, it's very pretty. But it can get annoying after listening to it more then twice. The graphics are very good, and I like the game a lot in general, it's just very hard. And me and my dad are stuck on this one boss in the Mushroom Forest.

After FF: CC, I played Harvest Moon AWL. Yes it's true, you can't take me away from my farm for very long. I'm in Chapter 3 now, and my son has grown. And he even has his own room now. Recently he has been asking me questions about how farming is. Like: "Dad, is farming fun?" and then you have 3 options. The 1st one is "Not at all", the second one is "It's fun" and the third is "Why ask?". I pick option #2, because it is fun! And then he gets all happy, saying he knew it was true and that he wants to be a farmer when he grows up. He also has increased his liking of animals. He thinks they're really cute. I'm glad he think so, because I want him to become a farmer.

Later my dad called me down stairs. We got a pool table today! First my mom and dad played together. My mom lost. Then my dad told me how to play. Then my dad and me played against each other. It's not that bad of a game, actually. But it's not easy and it's not that exciting either. I didn't get any balls in, even though I might have gotten a close shot. So, as you might have guessed, my dad won.

This morning I read the part one of the 1st chapter of Chai's story. I loved it, I really did. It was interesting and had lots of suspense. You gotta love suspense! I really wanna know what will happen next! Hope you're writing is doing good, Chai!

... I think that is all. Hmm, pretty normal day. Um, bye-bye journal/diary!