This is shaping up to be a very good day...

So today started with me waking up and reading some Artemis Fowl (my favourite book series). I had cookies and milk for breakfast because that's what I felt like eating. I watched the 1931 Dracula movie with my little brother and laughed at how ridiculous it was. Then, I downloaded ebooks for the 6 Artemis Fowl books I already own. Why? Because I want to carry them around with me wherever I am. I was asked to babysit somewhere.

This little boy I babysit - Jeremiah - can be a real pain sometimes. He's a bit spoiled so when he wants something, he expects that thing to happen right then and there. I don't put up with any of that crap though. We played LEGO Star Wars on the Wii for a bit, then I made up dinosaur macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets for dinner. Then I read him a bit of Harry Potter (he's five so I had to read it very slowly to make sure he understood what was happening. After that we watched the first episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. He's seen the movie (which was CRAP) but he's never seen the show. Then it was time for bed so I read him a bit more of Harry Potter, up to the part where Harry is sorted into Gryffindor and he went to sleep.

But that is not even the end of my good day. When I arrived at Jeremiah's house, his mother told me that a friend of ours who moved to Texas left me the first six books of the Wheel of Time series. She thought I would like them since I read so much. I've heard of the series of course, but never really had much interest in reading them. But, you know, free books, so I didn't say no. Now I have something new to read while I'm waiting for the release of Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex on August third. OMGOMGOMG *fangirl squeal* Ok, I'm just insanely excited for that. I don't really know anyone who understands how I feel about this book.

So know I'm typing this, waiting for Jeremiah's parents to go home so I can watch A Very Potter Sequel. I'd watch it here but I'll probably be laughing and stuff and I get loud when I laugh and Jeremiah's a really really light sleeper. I think I might start queuing up the videos though.

Today was a very, very good day.

I forgot something else...

Here's the link to that blog:

http://6awesomenerds.tumblr.com/

Something I forgot!

I'm going to be part of this really neat thing - it's like the Brotherhood 2.0 thing the Vlogbrothers did, but we're doing it with six of us and with a blog instead of videos. So yeah! It's gonna be awesome!

Also, OMG Bill Murray is in this movie. I didn't know that! He's soooooo funny! OMG They just killed Bill Murray! WHOA.

ZOMBIELAND and Artemis Fowl

Yesterday, I spent most of the day impatiently waiting for the Eoin Colfer Virtually Live broadcast to be available to watch online. I had read the email wrong, and so I thought it had said the show was starting 2:45 BST (9:45 EST). I got up at 9 am so I could be ready, but the show actually started then. So I waited ALL DAY for the broadcast to be on, but if it was online yesterday, I wasn't awake to see it.

Then I woke up this morning IT WAS ONLINE!!!!!!!!! I was like 'YES YES YES!!!!!!!!' I nearly finished watching it, but then my brother came in the room and turned on Zombieland on Netflix so I decided to watch it too and that's what I'm doing now. It's really funny so far. :D

OH! Another cool thing - right before I turned off the Eoin Colfer Virtually Live broadcast, Colfer and everyone at the school he was at sang happy birthday to his son Finn who turned 13 today. This means that Finn is allowed to have a Facebook and Colfer was telling us all to friend his son. I'M FRIENDS WITH EOIN COLFER'S SON ON FACEBOOK! How cool is that?

BLOOD IN THE WATER

I've always been into sharks. Every year I watch Shark Week on the Discovery channel and every year I refuse to go swimming in the ocean. But that's not because I'm afraid of sharks. That's because when I was little I slipped into the water and started getting pulled out to sea - that's a very good reason to be afraid of the ocean.

I'm watching the movie Jaws right now, which is one of my most favourite movies EVER even though it's like 35 years old. The police officer in the movie was going over lots of shark facts that I learned from watching shark week -

1. most sharks attacks happen within ten feet of the shore and in water that's three feet deep
2. a lot of activity in the water can attract sharks
3. PEOPLE ARE CRAZY WHEN IT COMES TO SHARKS (what in the name of sanity was the stupid mayor THINKING? HE SHOULD HAVE CLOSED THE BEACHES!)

This movie is based off a book which is based off of the real life events that took place in New Jersey in 1916. Of course, the book and the movie have changed things. For example, the real life thing happened in a river, with a bull shark, not on a beach in New York with a Great White. Basically the author of the book (Peter Benchley), just took the basic idea of a crazy shark attacking in a certain area many times and used it because if you compare the attacks in New Jersey to the book or the movie Jaws, you can see many differences.

Now, I haven't read the book in about two years, but one thing that always bothered me was the ending of the movie. Near the end of the movie, when it's getting really intense, Hooper's gone down in the shark cage. The cage breaks, and we're left guessing as to what's happened to him until the very end when he resurfaces and he's fine. In the book though, I'm pretty sure that he doesn't come back at all. We're just left thinking that he's drowned or been eaten by the shark or something. But I guess they wanted a happier ending for the movie.

I'm not there yet in the movie though. I'm at the part where Brody said "We're gonna need a bigger boat." and the shark starts getting all crazy. I can't wait to see the stupid Quint guy get eaten. I don't like him very much.

I was on facebook and someone I used to be friends with came up in my news feed. I say we used to be friends because we sort of drifted apart during our senior year of high school and then didn't talk when school ended.

I used to do everything with this friend. Sleepovers every other night and even a trip to Mexico. She considered us best friends, though I didn't think of her the same way most of the time. This was because nearly ever conversation I had with her turned into an argument. She had her opinions and she would stick to them, even if it turned every bus ride to school into a long silent ride.

But still, some of the time I did consider her my best friend. She's the only one I told the story to about my parent's divorce and everything else I was feeling. If I cried she would give me a hug and not let go until I felt better. We had some really good times. Her family was the one that introduced me to King Richard's Faire, a medieval faire that takes place about an hour from where I live. She introduced me to the Sims games and to this day I'm still a huge fan.

We would watch Primeval together when it was on television and watch horror movies. She's the only person besides my brother who would do that with me. Now it's been over a year since I've spoken to her, but maybe that's what I needed. The time I was at school was good. I needed my space. Seeing her on facebook though, reminded me of all the good times we had and I'm wondering if I should email her or call her and ask how she's been. I've known her since I was 10 years old, so it's been nearly 10 years now.

I feel terrible about what I said to her the day we stopped talking. The argument we had had that day had just pushed me over the edge and I felt like I couldn't take it any more. Getting back in touch with her would probably mean facing her parents though. They were always kind to me, but had a way of making me feel uncomfortable when I was around them. They could be very critical sometimes but me being me, I would just laugh it off or pretend to ignore it. Can I deal with that again? Or maybe my friend and I can just keep in touch through email.

I don't know what to do.

ARTEMIS FOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I just say how ridiculously excited I am for the release of Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex? Hardly any people I know have actually read the series, either that or they stopped reading after the third one. This is what the Barnes and Noble website says about the new book:

"Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world’s greatest teenage criminal mastermind?

Captain Holly Short is unconvinced, and discovers that Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common among guilt-ridden fairies - not humans - and most likely triggered by Artemis’s dabbling with fairy magic. Symptoms include obsessive-compulsive behavior, paranoia, multiple personality disorder and, in extreme cases, embarrassing professions of love to a certain feisty LEPrecon fairy.

Unfortunately, Atlantis Complex has struck at the worst possible time. A deadly foe from Holly’s past is intent on destroying the actual city of Atlantis. Can Artemis escape the confines of his mind – and the grips of a giant squid – in time to save the underwater metropolis and its fairy inhabitants?"

So basically the book is going to be super awesome. The first book is already on the author's website as well as a video with him reading another bit of the book. Words cannot describe how excited I am for this. I think how I'm feeling is right up there with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Artemis Fowl series has been in my life since I was 11 and I met the author. I know I had HP in my life four years longer, but I dunno...AF just means a lot to me. :D

Here's the video with Eoin Colfer reading the book:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDTn64XPhtQ

Mini Missions

So I'm LDS (Mormon for people who don't know) and my boyfriend has gone on a mini mission this week. That's when he's living with some missionaries in another city and doing all the missionary things for a few days. He leaves for his real mission on September 15, but for the last few days he's been in Merrimack I think? Anyway, he'll be back tonight and I can't wait to see him! I dunno what I'm going to do when he's gone for 2 WHOLE YEARS!!!!!!!!!! But I'm super proud of him and what he's doing. :)

neato!

I just entered a contest to win a book or several books or something? I dunno. *shrugs* Someone posted a link on twitter and I decided to enter. I would be cool if I won, but I won't get my hopes up.

In a bad mood...

I know other people would view this as a wicked selfish reason to be in a bad mood but I can't help it. Today was the first day in a while that I don't have to babysit my little brother and I could just go to my boyfriend's house. I was hoping we could bake cookies and watch a movie just like we used to all the time but he's going swimming at the Wilson's.

Now, I completely understand that the Wilson's are moving soon and he won't have that much time to spend with them,  but I can't even remember the last time Phil and I just sat around watching a movie just the two of us. It seems like someone else is always there and we can never spend time together like we used to. I thought we'd have more time to hang out now that it's summer vacation, but apparently that just means abandoning me a lot to go swimming. Now you may ask 'Rachel, why don't you go swimming too?' I don't like swimming. I've never liked swimming. Phil knows this. And I can't deal with the heat very well (I get migraines) so I don't go with him and just hang out at the pool.

And in the text he sent asking if I would come over his house tonight (after Friday Night Knitting) I sort of sent a reply that I feel a bit bad about. It was kinda rude, but I can't really help it. When I'm in a bad mood I get sort of pouty.

So other people might view this as selfish, but I don't. I understand that the Wilson's are moving soon. I do. But I can't remember the last time he and I were hanging out watching a movie without a bunch of other people there too. I don't really think it's too much to ask for.

*rant over*

having a small panic attack

omgomgomgomg there's a HUGE bug thing on the wall in my room. It hasn't moved since I've noticed it and I'm wondering if I have the guts to go over there and smash it with a shoe. What if it flies in my face? I'll scream. I know I will. But I can't just leave it there. I won't sleep if I know it's in the room....

OMG I'm going to name the spider in my window after the spider in James and the Giant Peach...what was her name?i dunno...i'm typing this on my phone.goodnight!

Rubik's cubes are annoying

So that picture I just uploaded, I have NO CLUE how the green part ended up with the yellow square. Maybe it's because I'm on a sugar high and I'm not paying attention.

My Internet isn't working on my laptop. It makes me sad. :(
I'm typing this on my iPod touch.

I'm kinda tired... I might go to bed and finish the cube tomorrow. I don't have the patience for it now. I CAN do it though. 3x3s and 4x4s are easy. And 2x2s. I haven't tried any other ones. I might get a 5x5 one soon. But they cost like $30 and I don't want to spend that much on a toy right now.

Trees and Smoking Pipes

A few days ago two of my neighbours had most of the trees cut down in their yard. Right now there's a huge truck across the street and the back of it is quickly filling up with those trees. My little brother just pointed out to me that the man controlling the giant robot arm (which I will call 'The Claw') is smoking a pipe. That is just so cool. I can't even remember the last time I saw someone smoke a pipe. I know it's not good for you, and even though I'm completely against smoking, there's something about smoking a pipe that just seems cool. ANYWAY The Claw is HUGE. I'm sure it could pick me up and squeeze me to death if the pipe smoking guy controlling it was in a murdering mood.

Ok....that was a bit weird of me to say...I shouldn't think about that sort of thing. Maybe I'll draw a picture of The Claw squeezing me to death. A warning though: my drawing sucks. I have zero artistic skills so this drawing will be with stick figures.

Phineas and Ferb

I just gotta say that I love the show Phineas and Ferb. The chariot race episode was just on and I love how near the end of the episode when they're back in the museum and you see a display of a platypus when Norm says "The enemy of the platypus is man!" and the platypus looks normal like this:



And Perry is all blue and orange. Weird... like I know Perry is a cartoon and he's not supposed to look like a normal platypus, but then they put one that looked normal in the show too.

Summer vacation - Day 1

Today is the first day that my two younger brothers are home for their summer vacation. The almost two months that I had off where I was home alone all day and it was awesome. It's mostly Matthew I don't want around. Damon is good, he and I get along really well. But Matthew....well, the rest of this summer is going to pretty much suck.

For now though, I'm going to try to deal with it the best I can and try not to let Matthew and Damon's arguing bother me so much that I have to spend all my time shut up in my room.

I just hope that I can spend lots of time at Phil's house since he's going on his mission at the end of September and I want to spend as much time as possible with him before he goes.

I'm up later than I want to be

I know that 11:20 (when I'm typing this) is far from being late at night by a lot of people's standards, but I'm really really tired for some reason. So there's this  HUGE spider in my window, but I can't sleep unless I put in the window fan to bring in cold air. I know it's completely ridiculous but I'm terrified of the spider coming to kill me when I sleep.

Um....here's a bit of writing: (the thematic thursday thing is part of the daily challenges that are going on on synthetic-truth.net for the summer of writing. oh, and this is some Artemis Fowl fanfiction. I'll try to have the next thing I post not be fanfiction.)

Rating and Word Count: PG, 414 words 
Warnings: none
Other Info: Written for Thematic Thursday on June 3 

Bitterness

They were in the study at Fowl Manor. After an accident underground that involved Opal Koboi and Holly’s superior officer Commander Trouble Kelp, she had spoken to Trouble straightaway to find out what had happened. He said that before she attacked, Opal had told him who had sent her. Holly had flown to Ireland right away to speak with a certain Mud Boy.

“Artemis I don’t care why you did it; I just care that you did. You’ve been lying to me for years. Years. And I’ve forgiven you every time. Foaly doesn’t know why and quite honestly I don’t either. Did you think I wouldn’t find out? Well? Say something Mud Boy.” The elf captain crossed her arms and waited for the boy to speak.

“I thought.... I thought..well, I don’t know what I was thinking,” the boy hung his head. 

“You weren’t thinking Artemis. That’s the point. If you were you would not have found that it was alright to go to Opal Koboi of all people. How can she fix anything? She only destroys.” Holly’s eyes filled up with tears. With a frustrated sigh she wiped them away. “And now Commander Trouble is in the hospital. We’ve got all the best warlocks healing him, but they don’t know if that’s enough. With what Opal is capable of...”

In the past Opal had caused quite a lot of trouble with the LEP, Lower Elements Police, for using the brain fluids of animals to increase her magical abilities with dangerous results.

Artemis seemed to be having a battle with himself. Several times he opened his mouth as though about to speak but quickly closed it again. Finally he took a deep breath and spoke. “I thought he was taking you away from me.”

Holly thought she had heard him wrong.

“I’m sorry, what?”

“I thought he was taking you away from me. These blasted hormones got the better of me. It won’t happen again.”

Normally Holly would have laughed at Artemis using the phrase “these blasted hormones”, but she wasn’t in the mood.

“I don’t care Artemis. You’re better than this. I know you are. I think...I think I need some time to cool off. Don’t call me for a while, alright? Just don’t.”

And with that, she started her mechanical wings that were on the back of her LEP suit. She jumped from the open window and flew away. Artemis watched until she was out of sight.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered.

Completely random...

There was just a child screaming "MEH! MEEEEHHHHH! MEH! MMMMEEEEHHHHHH!!!!!" over and over and over outside of my window. Who is this child? Why are they screaming? Why am I even posting this? It's not like anyone cares or is reading my blog.

What's that smell?

So I just got home, went to my room, put in my window fan and what do I smell? Cigarettes. Automatically my first thought was to go complain to my RA that people are smoking too close to the building but then I realised - I'M AT HOME. I never smell cigarettes at home and I hate to say this, but the only person who I can think of that would be smoking them is Matthew.

Matthew is my brother. He's sixteen years old and does a lot of things a boy his age shouldn't do. Now, this isn't just because I'm LDS, I've always had high standards and Matthew just ruins all of them. I'll ask him about it tomorrow when my mum isn't home. He won't lie about it if I ask - he did admit to doing drugs to me. If it was him smoking though, I'll be disappointed in him.

Time to stop thinking about Matthew though. I've got an episode of Inuyasha to finish! I just got into the show tonight when Heather, the older sister of my boyfriend Phil, had me watch a bit from the 90th episode where the main character's little brother is dressed up as Detective Conan without the glasses! It was HILARIOUS! We were laughing so much.

Actually, before Inuyasha I really need to do my Mayhem Monday story before midnight. This site, Synthetic Truth, is an AMAZING story site. I'll post some of the stuff I've written in this blog tomorrow...or tonight depending on when I get done the Mayhem Monday thing.

Well I feel that this is like a proper blog post. It's longer than my others have been and I'm quite pleased with that. And I love keeping track of what I DO in my life. Problem is...I've never been good at keeping any sort of diary or journal since I became interested in the Internet. I was pretty good and writing a lot in those things when I was like in elementary school and early middle school, but now...I dunno. I just have trouble feeling motivated to do it I guess. I'll try to post in this though. I really will.

Neach? Or Pectarine?

I just ate a peach...or maybe a nectarine. I'm really not sure. It was from Trader Joe's. Apparently, the boxes that the peaches and nectarines come in all say peaches on them. And peaches and nectarines sort of look the same. *shrugs* Whatever. It was really really GOOD.

Will most definitely be posting again soon

So I've completely failed at blogging like I was planning, but starting tomorrow I'm definitely going to post EVERY DAY. REALLY. I AM. And I'll post what I thought of a lot of Doctor Who episodes. And I'll post my writing on here. And YouTube videos.

*sigh*

Today is not a good day. I wish it were 2 weeks from now so I could be done with school. I've been super stressed out lately and I just want this semester to be done.
There are 3 things getting me though this week


1. getting my sonic screwdriver
2. new episode of Doctor Who
3. seeing my awesomesauce boyfriend Phil


2 weeks.... I can do it.

Ooooo, something I almost forgot. Tomorrow I'm getting my Doctor Who sonic screwdriver!!!!!!!!!!! Number 10's. I'll be buying 11's soon enough. I was playing with my friend's sonic screwdriver last weekend and it is soooo much fun! I mean, obviously it doesn't so much. It just lights up, makes the sound, and is a pen on the other end, but still. It's a SONIC SCREWDRIVER. Which means it's awesome.

good and bad things

So yesterday I did something I've been wanting to do for years: buy a Nintendo DS. I've been wanting one for as long as I can remember and this year since I have a real job at my school I can afford it. I didn't actually get it from amazon.com because I didn't know if they did the bundle things like other websites. The bundle pack came with the console and the pokemon heartgold game and a case and starter pack - whatever that is. I'm really really excited. I've already had a chance to see the heartgold game because one of my friends got it for her birthday. It looks really good and fun, but that's coming from someone who never played with the pokemon games as a child. I played with the cards, but I never owned the games even though we had a gameboy since I was like 7. *shrugs* Oh, well. I'm finally getting into the games now. My order should come sometime next week.


This is a good and bad thing. Good because I am ridiculously excited to have a DS and a pokemon game, but bad because the week after next I have finals. I won't be studying at all once I get the DS. I'm going to try to NOT open the package until after finals, but that's not going to happen. I'm going to be playing it in class and at work and in my free time when I should be studying. This is what I get for buying it when I should have waited a few more weeks.

I'm not dead I swear (as if anyone actually reads this)

 So I'm in my religion class right now and I wandered over to this site and I was surprised to see that 2 years ago I started a blog. I really don't have any memory of this but I'm going to start this up again. I've changed a lot in two years, at least I think I have. 


Anyway, I'm going to use this blog to talk about a few main things:


My favourite music (Chameleon Circuit), my favourite thing in general (Nerdfighters), and Doctor Who (my favourite show).


So if you don't know what a Nerdfighter is, you are just not cool (just kidding). Nerdfighters are made of awesome - just watch this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyQi79aYfxU&NR=1

So John Green, one of the Vlogbrothers is a super wicked amazing author and he wrote this book called Will Grayson Will Grayson with David Levithan (who is also super wicked amazing). If you have not read this book GO BUY IT NOW. Go right now to amazon.com. If you are reading this blog then just click the thingie up at the top of the post. GO. CLICK IT NOW.


I bought the book not really knowing that much of what it was about. But I was like "oh, John Green did it so it's awesome". I read it in a few hours and then reread it to take it in. 


I really don't want to give away the plot, so I'll just say that the book is really really good and it's inspirational and uplifting and just made me really happy. If you're a Nerdfigher you've probably already read it. If you're not a Nerdfighter it's still an amazing book that I highly recommend.




In a few days (probably Saturday or Sunday) I'm going to post a review of the first four new Doctor Who episodes. Even though I live in the US and should only be able to watch the first episode right now...well, let's just say I have my ways. I'm really excited about the new episode with the Weeping Angels this weekend and I'm also excited for Friday when I'll get my sonic screwdriver!