Strut

It's a quiet Tuesday night. There aren't any TV shows on, so I watched Volume 2 of Welcome to the NHK. That was pretty good. Very cute. I'm starting to like Misaki (main girl character) a lot more.

This past weekend was a lot of fun. I went camping AND whitewater rafting for the first time. Hurray! Stepped out of the comfort zone and managed to come out mostly unscathed. I did kind of bruise my knee on a rock when we splashed around in the lake on Saturday evening. At one point we had a campfire and we were all eating cobbler and looking at the stars, attempting to pull out whatever astrology knowledge any of us had. I never realized how bright the stars actually are. I always felt like it was something they emphasized in movies to stress how romantic or calm the scene is. Now that I've seen it for myself, I can understand why.

Sitting out there reminded me of a story I heard at the Rocky Mountain Science Center when I was younger. Something about the animals getting together after a blanket covered the sun. They tried to throw things and come up with ideas to get rid of the blanket, but one little bird decided to try flying straight through and he poked holes in it to let in the little bits of light we now know as stars. Does anyone else remember hearing that?

I spent my first three day holiday of the year having fun. On Monday, Matthew and I walked around some random antique shops in Dillard; then we paid a visit to Goats on the Roof and had ice cream. I had vanilla bean ice cream on a cone. It's been so long since I've done that. As I got older I started getting a scoop of ice cream in a cup with a spoon. Racing the heat to lick the ice cream off the cone almost made me feel like a little kid again.

While I do still get excited when the ice cream truck goes by under the window at the apartment complex, I haven't gone down and bought any. For some reason the memory of a blue bugs bunny ice cream bar really sticks out. I got that all over my dad's old car.

And now, it's time for sleep. Hehe.

Creatively Blocked

I can't come up with any ideas for the poster contest at work. I sketch, doodle, draw, and stare at a blank piece of paper, but I just don't like anything I've come up with. Perhaps tomorrow will be better.

This was a good weekend. Went to the drive-in on Saturday night to see POTC4 and Thor. Got hit in the forehead with a frisbee. It didn't hurt so much as it surprised me. I couldn't stop laughing.

I forgot how nice it was to just swing back and forth through the air.

Hey Mr. DJ, let the music take me underground.

How long do you think it takes to fall in love?

According to Someday's Dreamers it's 2.5 episodes.

This show is turning out to be mediocre. They've got a weird blend of 2D and 3D animation going on whenever a mage uses their power. The characters are also turning out to have predictable backstories and feelings.

I guess it's ok to watch something like this once in a while. Honestly, I got the first volume from Netflix and thought it was going to be a six episode series following the lives of individual women. Then I popped it into the DVD player and realized I was thinking of Diamond Daydreams.


PS: Now I really want to watch 5 cm Per Second

I'm kinda hungry, but I don't feel like getting up yet. It's the kind of feeling you get when you know you're about to feel something, but the impact hasn't come.

So, I just discovered in the past ten minutes through facebook that two more of my friends have gotten married or engaged. It's getting kind of weird to think of all these people in long-term (hopefully everlasting) relationships. Especially since I can remember when one of them was crazy about another guy several years ago. They were practically inseparable for a while. Now she's married to someone else. Of course, I haven't talked to her in several years, nor do I really foresee talking to her again anytime soon. How times have changed.

Not to mention that fact it's kind of creepy to find stuff like that out on Bookface because they posted pictures of it. Hurray for social media?

Perhaps it's just this stage of life, but almost everyone I've had an acquaintance with in high school or college is getting married. If they're not getting married, then they're actively looking for a relationship (or at least complaining about having trouble finding one). It's weird enough to think about friends who are my age or a little younger with families already. Kid(s). A permanent connection to another human being. Weird.

Did I mess up somewhere? I listen to stories about dating and such, but I look back and realize there's not much I can add to the conversation that's not depressing. Or really, there's not much I can add to the conversation at all. I can't empathize with a lot of emotions. Nor do I want to tell stories about what I've seen or done.

Someone said they've known me for several years now, but there are still times when I reveal an interest that surprises them. Am I really that hard to "get to know?" I know I'm not open about a lot of things and I seem to have forgotten how to show mediocre interest. It's always either extreme dislike or excitement. Small talk has always been a terribly weak point, unless I am already very good friends with that person. I just feel like you should have a purpose in a conversation.

I don't really know where this entry is going. Just blogging out loud, I guess. It started with finding out about my friends getting married. Then I started thinking about how some people are always drifting from one relationship to another. It's possible some of these thoughts stem from Nana. Is everyone supposed to drift? If so, then I seriously messed that one up too. From listening to other people's stories, it doesn't sound like there is an instruction manual for any of this. How unfortunate.

I think I found what I want for the next gift giving holiday or whatever.

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog

It's been a sort of long night, at least I don't have a splitting headache. ^_^

I finished Bones season 5 tonight. Man, what a cliffhanger ending. Watching Glee from episode one via Netflix. I miss when they had good music and cliche high school drama.

!!!

Just need 70 more DMR points to get one of the rewards I really, really want. *sniff*

Damn my obsession with character pins. Le sigh. They're just so cute though!


EDIT @ 7:26 PM:

I just went digging through my movie collection and I found a bunch of points just waiting to be redeemed. w00t w00t! Hurray! Yay! Shazam! Ya-hoo!

Meow. =^.^=

Mein Herr

I went to see Cabaret on Friday night with Michelle. I had not realized how many songs from that show came on my Pandora station. Nonetheless, I had no idea what the show was about. I just know Michelle wanted to go so I tagged along. It was a fun night. We went to this place called Club Jungle (that's where the show was), and then we hung around in the smoky blue atmosphere to watch the drag show that came after that. Hehe. Yes, that's right. A drag show. I don't think I've been around that many "curvy" guys since I was in New Orleans.

It was a fun night nonetheless. ^^v The rest of the weekend was pretty good too. Nothing out of the ordinary really happened.

It's almost Monday. OT got turned off. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all the extra time I'll have. I'll be able to start walking to zumba class again. That's a plus, I guess.

PS: I want to add some more anime music to my iPod. Suggestions?

Mistakes

I finally made a mistake at work. These past two work days have been rather irritating. It's all ok though. I can only fix what I can. Just gotta keep smiling. Like my post-it note says.

Glee tonight was pretty awesome. I liked the new songs. Wonder what Josh and Michelle are going to say tomorrow.

Raising Hope was hilarious.

I can't believe I'm really talking about TV.

There hasn't been anything too exciting going on. Went up to Clemson with Matthew last weekend and played board games with his friends. Yay. That was seriously a lot of fun.

Zumba party this weekend, but I skipped class on Monday to work till 7 pm. John might be right. I don't have a life. Le sigh.

I have a really neat PDF of a color wheel to put up on my cubicle wall for tomorrow. Gamut! What the crop! Gee-See-Are!

Work really isn't everything. It's just something to keep me from going crazy.

Balloons

I was in the grocery store on a drizzly Saturday afternoon. It was a pretty average trip as far as grocery store adventures go. I waited in the check out line and I noticed a guy with a trash bag over a bunch of party balloons. They made such an interesting shape lumped together. It's too bad they can only leave the receiver with a bunch of metalized plastic film and a few possibly good or bad memories. I wonder what they'll do with them? I still have all mine folded in a drawer at the bottom of my desk.

Wonder if I'll ever wake up to a shiny party balloon tied to my door handle ever again. It always made me a little sad inside to watch them slowly deflate and fall towards the ground. Perhaps I'll be the one tying a balloon to the door someday.

The "You may know this person" finder on Bookface found someone I haven't thought about since early high school. We used to be such great friends. Talked all day and night during the summer. He was pretty awesome as far as internet people go. I have no idea how they found a connection between the two of us. I doubt he even remembers my real name.

The binding thread between two people can be so fragile. I wonder how many of them I've accidentally severed in my life. I have never successfully managed to keep up with another person's life. Maybe I get selfish and get wrapped up in my own. It's always been a series of fading in and out. Strong frequencies one week and static another.

I forget. I lose sight of the bigger picture. What a terrible friend.

There is something in the shadows
More than a sister silhouette
Something sinister and strange
That I haven't seen yet
And I don't want to be alone

I might actually need a vacation from all this OT. I feel so tired. It'll be nice to a have a two day weekend.

Social Awkwardness Once More?

Chinese new year is just around the corner on February 3rd. Hurray! It will be the year of the rabbit. Go Momiji!

My parents suddenly wanted to do something for it, so we went to a Chinese New Year banquet held by the OCA. What that actually stands for, I'm not quite sure. I now know it's a national Asian Pacific American organization that has approximately 90+ chapters around the country. There just happens to be one in Georgia.

Dinner was ok. We had shark fin soup (I feel like that was the highlight), and 9 other courses. There was some disappointment over having fried fish instead of steamed fish, and something very reminiscent to popcorn shrimp at KFC was served. It was just slightly better, and served with broccoli.

I guess nothing's really going to be able to compare to the Christmas/New Year's feast we had when we went to Hong Kong a couple years ago. Now that was some gooooood food.

It was a fun time. I got to see the lion dance for the first time! Oh man, it was so neat! That made up for the terrible audio in the restaurant.

There's another Chinese New Year festival thing next weekend that I kind of want to go to. I may have made a new friend, maybe. Hard to say. I felt that age old shyness creeping up during dinner. If I do go, then I'll definitely have to bring my camera.

On another note, there isn't much exciting going on. I did finally get to hang out with my friends in Clemson last, last weekend. Hehe. Good times. I really miss hanging out with them.

LBP2 is awesome. Ruka is cute. My fridge is currently stocked with an insane amount of food.