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*Sneaks in* Nope, I totally didn't miss a few days after saying this:
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Well, it's been so long I don't really feel like summing it all up. Halloween was lots of fun with Lux, we got a considerable amount of candy, yay! We lost the headpiece of my costume though. :< Even though my arms were bare near the elbow, my hands (which were in gloves, though not necessarily warm ones) were the cold part of me. Shame the weather never wants to be that nice for Halloween. It wasn't really that cold, it was just very windy. Today, Lux and I (and two of our friends) went to Comic Con! It was loads of fun. My first con too. I saw soooo many things I wanted, but I had to restrain myself. I still ended up spending around $100 (including about $30 for food and my ticket). Some cool things I got: Skin for DSi (that I don't have) of Eeveelutions Commission of Luxray and Gulpin Nyan Cat hat Star Wars necklace Golden Snitch necklace Pokémon figurines (Cloyster, Swinub and Diglett) Well, off to study quickly before bed. I will not likely get a chance to post anything here tomorrow, so perhaps look for something Tuesday~! Last edited by Gamernamerjj; November 4, 2012 at 08:25:59 PM. |
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Yay, I finally post two days in a row! I decided to post some pictures of the stuff I got yesterday.
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The lady who did my commission forgot who Gulpin is. She's from Pixelated Toaster. Today was pretty boring in terms of retelling what I did. I stayed home from school today, though I wasn't very sick, did homework and pigged out on junk food. Wheee~! Now I have to go watch Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for an English presentation on archetypes and do math homework. Woot! EDIT: How could I forget Nyan Cat hat?! I guess I'll post it tomorrow after obtaining a picture from Lux. EDIT II: Pictures obtained! Lux insisted I also add a picture of Pedobear stroking her. Lulz. Last edited by Gamernamerjj; November 5, 2012 at 06:55:23 PM. |
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So, uh, I'm back! Anybody miss me? I honestly have no justification for why I disappeared from here for a few days. I was a little busy, but not much more than usual. Strange.
Anyways, I'm back now and I have lots to talk about! So much so that I think I'll have to divide my topics in two, and write the other half tomorrow. Therefore, today's topics are Remembrance day and snow, tomorrow's shall be my new iPhone and seeing Wreck-It-Ralph (barring anything more interesting that comes up). With that settled, let us begin! Today is Remembrance day (which I've spelled wrong every time so far) in Canada, but unfortunately I haven't done much for today. Usually we watch the national service on TV, but we were busy this morning. Still, we had our typical school service on Friday (my history did a great job of MCing, it seemed so legitimate since he obviously knows what he's talking about) which was pretty typical of my school and for the most part wasn't very profound or thought-provoking in my opinion. It actually was two of my teachers who provided that. Before the service, my Biology teacher showed us a YouTube video that played the song "Highway of Heroes" with a picture tribute. For those of you who don't know, the Highway of Heroes is a highway in Ontario (I think) where soldiers killed in combat are driven when coming home. Anyway, the accompanying images and text were very touching and well done, apart from a few typos. The other teacher that helped me observe Remembrance day unintentionally was my French teacher. My French teacher likes to choose a theme for the year. Last year's was travel, this year's is war. Early this past week we started to watch a movie called "Le rafle" or "The Round-up". It's a pretty recent movie, from 2009, which was incredibly well done. This has to be one of my favourite movies ever. I think every single person in my ~20 student class was touched, even the tough guys and the jokers and most had wet eyes. It was such an emotionally moving movie, I can't even explain it. If I hadn't have been in class, I would have cried more frequently than the one time I did at the end (which was actually not for the same reason as all the other times). The film is about France during World War II, when they collaborated with Nazi Germany. There was a round-up of many of France's Jews, many of whom had thought they were safe in France and had escaped from elsewhere. The story follows a Jewish family and the mainly the children of another and a French nurse who comes to provide medical care after the round-up. I'm doing a horrible job of explaining, and anything I say will not do it justice. Just watch the movie. It's incredible (though I have no idea how the English version is, I'm guessing it's subtitles but I'm not sure). I really appreciate my French teacher showing this to us, it was basically how I observed my Remembrance day. Now, on to a less depressing topic: snow! Yesterday we had our first big snowfall of the season, and it's sticking. Yay! I love snow, it's fun to play with and when Christmas rolls around, it really feels like Christmas. Last year, we barely got any snow, which is freakish. We probably have more snow now than we did all last year! (I wish I could say I'm exaggerating, but I hardly am. Last year was very out of the ordinary.) As I was sledding with my brothers down the mound of snow in the middle of the street (we live on a cul-de-sac type thing), I kind of got thinking. I wondered what it would be like to be someone who had never experienced snow before. What would it be like the first time you saw it? The first time you experienced a Canadian winter? I always wonder things like this, wondering what exchange students at our school and immigrants from far away think of our society, of our culture, of our climate, etc. It's really something that fascinates me. Going back to snow, I find it hard to imagine not having snow. At all. It's a strange concept. Christmas would never feel right to me without snow. Obviously, I'm never going to live somewhere where it never snows. This makes mew think of something else: I like having a good balance of seasons. Sure, our fall only lasts a month and a bit before it's essentially winter, but I like having every season. Each one has its own perks (fall has leaves, winter has snow, spring is like a breath of fresh air and summer is fun for outside activities) and its problems (spring is flooding season here, not that it ever directly affects me; summer has mosquitoes and canker worms; fall is when school starts and winter is cold) so it all balances out. Those are my two cents for today. Tune-in tomorrow when I (hopefully) write about my new iPhone and Wreck-It-Ralph. Maybe if you're lucky, I'll throw in the bonus story of the creature in my Biology class. See you soon! (Not really, that's a lie. I never see any of you. 'Cept Lux. Luuuuuuuux.) Woah, wall of text much? Last edited by Gamernamerjj; November 11, 2012 at 07:45:51 PM. |
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I am such a liar. >.< I'll try not to make anymore promises, because obviously I can't keep them. Anyway, on to the topics I had previously set out, not my boring complaining about myself.
Soooo, I got a new iPhone as of last Wednesday. It's pretty nice. The battery life seems to be worse than on my old phone, but I'm pretty sure that can actually be attributed to the fact I use this phone for more than just texting and calling, resulting in more usage, causing the battery to die sooner. I'm no stranger to Apple products, but I have an iPad, so it's taking a little getting used to the smaller screen and therefore smaller keyboard. I'm sorely missing a physical keyboard since it's winter (okay, technically it's not winter but in every other sense it is). At least before I could sort of type something out with mitts on (though it was waaaaaaaaaaay slower and painstaking). I thought I'd have a lot to say on this topic, but apparently not. Moving along then, I saw Wreck-It-Ralph last Friday, which I thought was a pretty good movie. The twist was really cool and totally took me by surprise. Another success by Disney, and another thing I don't have as much to say about since it's almost a week after I wanted to discuss it. On to some recent news then! On Friday, I passed my road test! I was very nervous for it, but it turned out to be a lot less difficult than I thought. I still managed to get 30 deductions (if you get 50 you fail) but I didn't fail, so I won't worry about that anymore (at least, that's what I keep telling myself). I can now drive all alone, though I haven't had the opportunity yet. My parents will probably be too nervous. I think I'll be fine (as long as it's not driving downtown, that's scary even with my mom). I don't have my own car, nor do I think I'll be getting one anytime in the near future, so I'm stuck borrowing our van, I suppose. We have a car too, but it has a manual transmission, something I have yet to learn how to drive. Maybe once I do learn my parents will let me take the car to school, saving me a bucket-full of time (How much time would that be anyways?). I don't know if they'd go for that or not. We'll see, I guess. Well, I suppose that's it for now. I think I'll sign off for tonight. Good evening, everyone! Last edited by Gamernamerjj; November 18, 2012 at 03:20:01 PM. |