I don't remember who exactly it was that linked me to cracked.com, but whoever it was, you are simultaneously a wonderful and evil person/collection of persons. I am now going to post some things that have little to no relevance to anything you probably care about, but are intriguing or just hilarious regardless.

5 Myths That People Don't Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes:
http://www.cracked.com/article/157_5-myths-that-people-dont-realize-are-admitted-hoaxes_p1

6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That Science Can't Explain:
http://www.cracked.com/article/161_6-things-your-body-does-every-day-that-science-cant-explain/

6 Bullshit Facts About Psychology That Everyone Believes
http://www.cracked.com/article/85_6-bullshit-facts-about-psychology-that-everyone-believes_p1

7 Things "Good Parents" Do (That Screw Kids Up for Life)
http://www.cracked.com/article/195_7-things-good-parents-do-that-screw-kids-up-life_p1

The 10 Most Ridiculous Inventions Ever Patented:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15693_p1.html

6 Romantic Gestures That Backfired Horrifically:
http://www.cracked.com/article/215_6-romantic-gestures-that-backfired-horrifically_p1

The 6 Strangest Objects People Were Caught Having Sex With:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17098_6-strangest-objects-people-were-caught-having-sex-with.html

I have just wasted your time. Good day.
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uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I am either going to spontaneously combust or visit absurd amounts of metaphysical violence on someone if this nonsense does not cease immediately.

Q: How do you respond when your young girlfriend continually abuses you, argues with you, displays passive-aggressive behavior towards your best friend, then cheats on you and continues to start fights even after reconciliation?

A) Yell at her.
B) Break up with her.
C) Curb-stomp the bitch.
D) Propose.

Correct answer should be C, right? NOT D?

.................Right?

*twitch*

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@Previous post

I am insanely weird when I'm at peace with the world.

This explains a few things.

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I really should write about my recent life, but we're putting that on hold to muse about nostalgia at 6am. No problems with that, right?

So I'm listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svRn2mCrPss

And it's sending shivers down my spine. I remember this song clearly from when I was a really little kid and Totoro was my favorite movie. And it's always had the same effect on me. It's calming and energetic at the same time, it makes all the stupid stuff that goes on in my head melt away. I'd finish watching the movie and then I'd run outside in the evening and look up at the sky, dance and imagine that I was calling up magic from the Earth. This probably explains why I was a magnet for weird things as a child, you can only 'pretend' so many times before it starts really happening.

But as I was sitting here in my little underground apartment, I became aware of another thing that this song and others like it have always done to me. They make me feel so pure. And then I'll look around this house, and everything will just look so ugly and dirty. Noisy machines, artificial light, cold concrete, pieces of furniture containing no energy or life, what about this place is nice? I want to be outside in the forest, even though my logical mind knows that it's below freezing outside right now, and this wonderful noise is being fed to me by the laptop I'm typing on. Even my clothes feel gross.

It doesn't really make sense, does it? Maybe it's some remnants of the 'me' that last heard this song years and years ago. Or maybe this is how I always am, when my anxiety and mental chaos is driven away. It certainly feels better than the way I normally feel, even when I'm high on adrenalin. Ah, if only I could feel this pure and strong all the time, I might be able to do the things I used to do again. The stuff nobody would believe if I told them...

This post got kinda spiritual, didn't it? My apologies for the people who didn't sign up for that. Maybe I'll filter it later, but I'd rather not. People don't see me so much anymore, shouldn't my appearances be wonderful if and when they do occur? I feel pretty wonderful right now.

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I haven't had enough sleep. Yaaaaaaaaaay. *jumps off a cliff*

Um. So, my dad finally got a drawing out of me by figuring out the hidden secret to making me do things; that I am easily bribed with money. Or shinies. Or food. Lots of things, really. But this time it was money. I went to the mall and bought many comics.

Now he's got me thinking about doing portraits for some people up at his work. Charging after like the first five, of course. I can't say that it's a bad idea. I'm not particularly attached to things I draw for other people, and there would be money involved. Money equals more comics or questionable things from Spencer's. And dad wouldn't be able to say anything because it's my money that I made and I can buy fart buttons and fancy hats if I damn well please. This interests me. So I will probably be doing it. I figure at $20 per picture (less for some stuff like chibis) I can easily get $100 out of people. I could buy so many comics with that money....

(I am a loser)

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Ayep. Losing water for that 4 day period made me realize how absurd my hair-must-be-clean compulsion is. Take away the ability to shower, and suddenly I can't leave the house or do anything. It was also absurd how often I caught myself fixing my hair daily. So I stood by the threats I made on day three and chopped my hair down to size. I'd wanted it cut like this eventually anyways. I was just too lazy to get it done until now.

( Holy crappy cellphone picture, Batman! )

Originally, I was just gonna let dad chop it with a buzzer.
But sis got into my head and convinced me I'd be horrified at the results.
Thus, this happened. Honestly I cannot say I'm complaining.

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I should probably say something. People are going to start thinking I died. Or got lost in the amazon rainforest. Or hate them. Why does firefox not think rainforest is a word?

Stealing househesson's posting style because I am lazy.

Interesting: I said 'fuck' out loud for the first time ever yesterday. It only took me 17 years and a moment of absolute exhaustion to work up the courage. I also went outside with dirty hair for the first time in a long time. Why? Because my damn hot water has been out and I cannot take a shower. If they don't fix it today, I'm cutting all my remaining hair off. I can only take so much.

Life: I'm still boring. But I started riding my bike again so maybe I can be a less fat boring person by the time Halloween comes round. I'm supposed to be practicing driving, but I'm not. I'm supposed to be looking for colleges, but I'm not. I'm supposed to be brushing my teeth 3 times a day, but I'm not. Basically I am a failure as a soon-to-be-adult human being. Luckily, I suspect I'm an alien crossbreed anyways.

Relationships: WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME, DON'T HURT ME NO MORE. No but seriously, I still don't love anyone. Or am dating anyone. Or get any attention from anyone not either male, completely retarded or too young for me. I'm thinking that when I get to my goal appearance, I'll just run an ad through the paper: "Young aspiring warlordess seeks lady knight and/or minimally distressed damsel. Must be open to world domination, fancy hats and questionable use of duct tape". That gets the message across, right?

Kinnish: I looked into youkai. Found some interesting things, but nothing definitive or clicky. Not that my paranoia-brain would DARE allow anything to click anyways. As far as it's concerned, I'm not allowed to have anything in common with anyone or OMYGAWD NO NO STOP EEK FREAKOUT TIME. Have I mentioned that I'm an idiot?

Also: Waffletaco is easily my best creation yet.

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Was pretty fun. Kei, Kate and I got some bottle rockets and stuff from my dad and started off by going to a park down the street to watch the fireworks. But it ended up being too crowded, and those assbutts closed off the pier. What fun is it without the pier? So we went down to the library instead, which has a pier and small beach behind it. We set off tons of bottle rockets and played around for a long time, I think one sleeve of my shirt is still wet. I was trying to catch what I thought was a clam. It turned out to be a rock. The lake is taunting me.
After we ran out of firepower, we climbed on top of the rocks and watched the fireworks in the distance with alot of people. We got a good spot, we could see lots of different sets going on all around the area. Also there was a fire over at the park that we were at. It was weird, it was like the exact same spot where our bench had been. Over the course of the evening we heard three fire trucks go by. Obviously, someone was not having the best of days.

It was nice until Kei and Kate got into an argument about some guy and Kate stormed off. They seemed to have made up by the time I caught up with them, then Kate texted me to say that the guy was her boyfriend. I showed it to Kei and pulled Kate aside to talk to her. She's done this kind of shit before, so I told that if this was another one of her lies it needed to end. She got away from me and ran off. Kei followed her.  I was left alone for awhile before I met up with them. They had 'made up' but Kei told me later that Kate was 'torn' between her and this boy and 'chose' to stay with her...Tch. I told Kei through text awhile ago that this relaitionship is looking increasingly unhealthy. If she pulls this shit again, I'm not going to be so nice. Way to bum out everyone at the end of what was otherwise an awesome day out with friends.

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I got asked out yesterday, at 12am because nobody I know sleeps. By, you guessed it, Sophie. God these kids are brave anymore. When I was 13 I would've never even considered asking out a 17 year-old. But then, I guess I was always a lust-after-in-secret kinda girl. You guys shoulda seen this journal before I started cleaning it up, it was full of whining and emo and overly romantic language.

I said yes, despite my better judgment. I really do want to get to know her better, she seems like a really cool girl. She's just really young, and I'm sincerely hoping she doesn't try to do anything romantic cause I know I could not get into it. Even though she looks 16 she isn't and if my own mentality at that age is any indicator of the norm the last thing she needs is to fall in 'love' while her brain is in Hormone Heaven. Not that I could really stop her, I can only deter her.

Not sure where we're going or when, still talking about it. It's cute, she's all trying to be the adult and pay for everything, but I must decline for I am turning 18 in t-minus 8 months and have resolved to not be a mooch. Also it just would not feel right letting a girl that young dish out money for me, even if she does have a job.

So, um, yeah.
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Her name is Nina and she is currently on my lap sleeping. She is very fuzzy. We went to my sister's place to get her this evening, she ran right out when we came in and I picked her up. She slept on my lap right up until we left. Sis said she's been sleepy today, she must be growing. Her brothers are little trolls, as expected. Sis is keeping Nina's "twin", a little tabby boy who looks like her only without the white face and paws.

Kirara and Yumi are scared of her. Yumi's reaction was funny though, she touched noses with Nina in the carrier, then hissed and ran away. She's been hiding far away watching Nina since then, her expression is all "don't know if want". Yumi's never seen a cat other than Kiki since her brothers left at 7 weeks, I don't think she's quite sure what Nina is. Nina, on the other hand, went right up to both of them. Fearless kitten is fearless.

Oop, she woke up now. She's just sitting watching me type. My gosh her ears are huge. I'd forgotten how dorky they look until the grow into their ears and tails.

I has a baby~

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Every time my brain does something that makes me uncomfortable, I am going to make a fart sound.

Every time I FEEL that it is about to do something that will bother me, I will make a fart sound.

I am tired of this nonsensical bellyaching.

It is summer, I demand that my nonsensical-ness be the type that causes laughs, not panic attacks!

Pfffffffffffffffffffffffflllllbbbbbttttt.

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Nina might be coming home today. I may or may not be getting my tempts back, depends on if I wake up in time. I've already forgotten what dad said we were doing on Monday. Shows how little I pay attention to things sometimes.

Some friends and I are planning some nonsense in June when Sophie travels up from Nowheresville. Probably witchery at the park, because what the hell else to teenagers do? (Movies? Dating? Feh! Those are for losers!) In the meantime, Kei needs to get her ass over here with that book of colleges she has. I so need to get in gear with finding a place to go pretty soon, because January and my 18th birthday will be here before I know it, and when that happens I am gone. I have been held captive too long by humanity's torturous age limits of oppression!

I hope Kei goes to college near where I do so we can do the joint-house thing. As much as I appreciate dad offering to keep me the next few years, 18 is long enough, sorry. I'd like the freedom to hang sexy posters, walk around my house topless (Kei doesn't care, I'm sure), not have to hide what I'm doing on the computer...you know, that sort of thing?

Hardly anyone has RSVPed for Oh-K. This makes me very sad. Not that I don't like House Hesson & Kei's group. Y'all are fun, I was just looking forward to seeing some new blood around. Kinda the whole point is to meet people, ya know.

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Cats: We has a kitten. Well, not yet technically, kitten is still too small to do much other than squeak and crawl. But when she gets older, she is ours. She is a little white-paws tabby and we are thinking about naming her Nina. Or Mina. I can't decide which.

Life: I am a bat. Darned females talking to me at all ours of the night, fucking up my sleep schedule. Ironically, even though daylight hasn't graced my skin in awhile I think my right ear got sunburned at some point during the last few weeks. It's itchy. I may or may not be going to some island somewhere for Memorial Day weekend. There may or may not be werewolves.

Weight battle: Looks better, don't know why as I have been lazy. Maybe because I sleep so much. More time asleep equals less time scrounging in the kitchen? School needs to let out for Kei's bunch. I have absolutely nothing to do while dad's at work all day.

To-do: Gather up the addresses for Oh-K, organize room (again), buy a smaller purse, order new weaponry, find a display bowl for my shiny shell collection, polish shells and get the lake-gook off them, actually stay awake long enough to do the things on to-do list.

Kinnish: Still haven't got a damn clue. My efforts to stalk the fae have only furthered my perpetual confusion.

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The little black mama cat had her kittens last Monday (the 20th). As expected, my sister has her in the house, secluded in her room with the six babies. There's apparently one girl. We're going over there one day this week to see her. She may be snatched when she gets bigger should we like her.

Sophie likes me. I can tell, she does the same "disguising my snooping as random trivia" thing that I do when I like someone. And she keeps giving me stuff on Gaia. Yeah. IIIIIIIIIII have no idea how to even begin to deal with this. She's a nice girl and everything, but I don't know her well enough to even begin to know if I like her, and I'm also still so not ready for a relationship. Also, you know, there's that whole way too young for me thing. I never really pegged myself as the type to be concerned about age, but since I was 13 not that long ago I know how immature most girls are at that age, even if they don't act it. You always say you won't change, but you do. And then you facepalm over all the stupid things you did.

I seriously need to crank out the schedule for Oh-K 2009. The clock is ticking and people need to be able to RSVP.

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Shinbokucon on Saturday was fun. Kei and Kate decided at the last minute that they weren't going causing me unnecessary grief, but I did manage to get there, find the sign-in booth and find Sophie's group without tripping over myself, damaging property or being mauled by catgirls. (The catgirls actually helped me find my way. When in doubt, follow the cosplayers!) Sophie was dressed as Light Yagami from Death Note, and was accompanied by both a Mello and a Matt cosplayer who's names I neglected to learn. Shelby was also there dressed as Nanao Ise of Bleach, and Hina-Taylor was there as a random soul reaper.
Hina didn't stay with us much during the thing, but I thank her for running in front of me thus allowing me to find my friends. I was all "Yay! Person I recognize!". Sophie didn't recognize me for a second. ;~; I don't look that different!

I should go to conventions more often. It does wonders for my self-esteem to be surrounded by people who as a whole are not especially attractive, each one as geeky as myself. I felt pretty~

Anime conventions are, apparently, based around running, ogling things, doing skits and overall geeking it up with other geeks of the same caliber. Unless you're those weird guys from the cafeteria, who seemed to be totally content to play with their trading cards all day. Sofie was the unofficial convention paparazzi, hassling every cosplayer she found for pictures. She also fed some sugar cubes to a random L we found. A good portion of time was spent yelling "Where are we going?!" only to be answered with "I don't know, I'm following them!".

The main event was the cosplay competition, which Sofie & friends were a part of. They didn't win, but we all had fun and Sofie won a dvd in a ticket drawing that took place during the intermission, which I now have for some reason. So many silly people, so many awesome cosplays. One chick dressed as Bleach's Yoruichi stripped! This one dude Nate, who was dressed as Kuwabara of YuYu Hakusho, really got everybody going. That dude has some SERIOUS talent for working a crowd, if he gets his butt into a theater group somewhere he'll go far. His whole act involved being silly and obnoxious, he tormented the judges and hyped up the audience before the show even started, and during the intermission he started dancing onstage and eventually got every cosplayer up there doing it. I have pictures of that on my cell, and Shelby has a video that should be up on Youtube soon. Speaking of Shelby, she got singled out by a Shunsui (Nanao's captain from Bleach) cosplayer during his act and almost was made to go up on stage. I think they only spared her because she was filming at the time. We made her hug him afterwords, though~

After the show we loitered around and did stuff. Somehow, this one No-Face (from Spirited Away) cosplayer always ended up behind us. We referred to him as our ghost stalker. I bought myself a cat hat because everyone was getting them, and a manga volume. At some point I ended up handcuffed to Sophie. I love my friends, they remember to bring the fun stuff! The handcuffs got us some disturbed stares, of course. Then they did their skit a few times for a smaller audience in the hallway. I got to yell bang! A short while after that they had to leave, and I left shortly after. Of course it was only after I checked my bag on Sunday that I noticed Sophie had accidentally left some pages from her death note with me...but that's how things go, I guess?

Now it is Monday, and I return to my normal life of being pestered by my mother and forgetting where my pants are. But now I have a hat!
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Puffin, the cat up at my dad's work, is apparently going to have kittens. My sister also has a new little feline stalker, I think they call her Annabelle, who's ready to pop. She's a tiny little fuzzy black thing that stalks Beth's new neighborhood. Sis says they won't let her in the house because they don't need more cats, but they're already letting her sleep on their porch so we'll see how far that goes. Two new potential sources of kittens, if we do indeed decide to snatch one.

I'm going to an anime convention in t-minus 4 days called Shinbokucon with Kei's group of ninnies. Sophie will be there. I'm not sure if that's a good thing. Kate is being a little plotty-monkey and trying to turn it into a date, but I'm onto her and Kei's shenanigans. Freakin' dumbasses, no matter how many times I tell them that she's too young for me and I don't even know if I like her anyways, they keep pushing and shoving.

Current weight battle score: Me 3, Fat 2
I've lost a little, but not nearly enough to be noticeable. I have to give myself credit, I do look better than I did last year. But alot of that has to do with fashion changes as opposed to weight changes...

I'm redoing certain parts of my room right now. Ever the perfectionist, I must nitpick. Need to throw out my extra box spring, get a new jewelry box, find someone to take that box of stuff and basketball, and go through some stuff...

Oh well, 'til next time.
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Another one of my flashes came true. I saw this one last month some time. It was me staring at the computer. My screen showed a page on a certain website with lots of red, I was typing something into a line of vertical text boxes and I felt really annoyed for some reason. I was thinking "fuck it, I'm not even trying this time because it'll mess up again anyways".

Today it made sense. Valentine's day event on said site. Red event page with each detail exactly as I'd seen it. I was trying my hardest to get my favorite NPC's prize (which you do by sending a mad-lib valentine) but I kept getting an error. I didn't make a connection between my earlier vision and what was going on until the exact moment that the scene happened. My brain went "click!" and I went "holy shit deja vou!". Which is normal, I usually forget what I've seen until it happens. I need a freaking vision journal or something.

"Itty-bitty psychic power" it is, then.

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I still don't know whether or not it's a good idea to do anything that Kei tells me to, but I've started giving Sofi advice on magic-related things and suggesting recommended reading nonetheless. I don't know why I keep listening to these people. I'm a horrible choice for a mentor, I suck at explaining things. And I know that. But I still did it. Kei didn't even have to pester me, I jumped at the chance. Yes, I do know that I am horrible.

Still, I feel like some kind of corny anime character in all this, stumbling into someone's life and saying that they're special, thus spawning some weird series of events....It's kind of nice, though, to see someone else starting their journey. I remember when this kind of thing happened to me. I was the token "novice heroine" character of my social circle when I was her age, although my adventures were less about real-world magic and more about invisible powers and imaginary yet inexplicably evil enemies.

I just wish my 'charm' switch would turn off please while I'm trying to educate. It's unnecessary, and it's bound to cause trouble. I know how these things go. I do not need to impress, enchant or otherwise dazzle anyone. I know this.

And why have I been in boy-mode since yesterday? This needs to stop too. I'm prone to making horribly bad decisions when in the state of mind~
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So first off, this guy joined OKP. I noticed him under 'newest member' before he even posted. I took one look at his name and thought "he's going to be trouble". Some of this was literary clues. His username is one of those funny-sounding bullshit names that people usually say belong to 'demons' (regardless of whether or not such demons exist, the names are still corny). But alot of it was intuition. I watched and, sure enough, when he posted his introduction he stated right off the bat that a 'shaman' had told him what he was. Oh boy, am I in for a treat or what.

I've uncovered recently that alot of my random 'some person or something just popped into my head' incidents are seemingly linked with the goings-on of my environment. For instance, alot of the time a certain friend will come to mind immediately before they call me or send me a message. I randomly think of my father, he calls or comes home. Suddenly think 'spider', see one. I'm not sure if this counts as precognition or ESP, but am leaning towards ESP since in most cases it appears that I'm sensing events happening around me or relating to me rather than predicting them beforehand. Can't say for sure though, weirdshit is weird.

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