A dangerous, vile monstrosity has just recently been thrust upon me. To make matters worse, for some reason, my parents actually insist I asked for it. And the name of this monster? Braces. Almost two weeks ago, I went in to see the orthodontist so he could put braces on my upper teeth. I expected it to be horrible, but, aside from the long wait, it wasn't all too bad. Of course, immediately afterwards, I absolutely hated it. I also had an expander placed between two of my molars. This has
So, I have now been a member of BZPower for five years. Five years ago to the day, I finally went and registered an account after lurking the forums for a few months. Boy, does it seem so much longer. But, it's been a good five years. Yeah, there have been times where I just felt like leaving - even though this is just a website, you still interact with people, and that can easily cause stress. But, I digress... I've done a lot in these five years. A lot more than I probably expected when I
Well, it took a little bit to get things fixed, but I now have access to my blog again, thanks to BZP's anniversary. Of course, this is a horrible week for it. I've got band camp all week - that means from 8 (really 7:30...) AM to 4 PM, I'll be offline. Joy... But it's even more complicated because of my new braces (more on that later). But, yeah... I'm back to blogging. ~|ET|~
My band's first major performance is this Tuesday night at the amusement park Kennywood. It's a pretty sweet place, honestly. This year, we're playing one of our half time songs, "Fly Me to the Moon," rather than an additionaly song picked solely for the parade. If it's anything like last year, it'll be no problem. I'm just looking forward to having some fun at Kennywood. Phantom's Revenge... First seat... Is simply awesome. And that's it for this week's band-related activites, practic
Lol, I didn't really hold up my promise much, did I? Well then, I'll post an entry, like, every twenty minutes or something. But I did have a good reason. ---- My dad's fiftieth birthday is coming up in a few weeks. He didn't want a party. So we threw him one today. Perfect cover being we were having a family picnic 'cause my great aunt and uncle were visiting from across the country. But the best part was how we had to lie 'bout what we were up to all day. I could have sworn he was
Well, I've recently acquired a certain green Titan set... One that gave me some fame for quite a while... But I'm not going to tell you who it is. And if all goes well, I'll be reviewing him. But even if I don't, I'll share my opinion in the official review topic. I want to get my revised opinion on this guy out somewhere. (EDIT: Oh, and this blog doesn't count. )
Hmm. It's the last day for blogs, isn't it? Man, I was gettin' used to havin' this... And to think, I used to loathe blog-hosting sites. I guess I still do, really. They're too chaotic and people are far too revealing about themselves. But here... Wow, I've told you I play in the band and some trees fell over. I'm goin' to make several entries today to conclude this year's anniversary. Seriously. I won't forget. Entries will include my take on BBC Contest #45, what happens today, an
Well, it's now been two days after the storm... And damage reports are most definitely in. I got off so easy livin' higher up away from any rivers. Pittsburgh got slammed... Well, I now know that five of my trees fell over or were moved. Two pine trees were knocked down, one tree was just tilted over (It was relatively small and is now upright once more with the aide of some pipes), and two additional trees were knocked over from several feet off the ground. And those ones... Pretty tall
I knew I had to do it eventually, and as I can't think of anything else to write about at the moment, I figured I might as well do it now. The BIONICLEsector01 Wiki, commonly known as the BS01 Wiki, has recently ran into some trouble. We were kicked off of our old host most ungraciously. But the worst part about it is that Swert didn't have enough time to save everything in the Database. But, what does this mean? The Wiki is now back up, so what's the problem? Well, we've pretty much los
I'm experiencing a pretty big storm right now.... Constant lightning and thunder, rapid rainfall making a barrier around my house, strong gusts of wind. And my house is shaking. And my dog is scared out of her mind. She keeps trying to hide in the windowless bathrooms as usual, but when she does she locks herself in and tears apart the door. And, according to my grandma, a tree's down in my yard for the first time in years... Well, her yard, but we're neighbors so it doesn't really matter
I'm unusually tired considering the time of day... I got home from band practice about an hour ago. And I do believe half my section mutually agrees upon a certain emotion for at least somebody else in the section. We experienced this during band camp, but it was hotter tonight than it was then... And that couldn't have helped much. Now, back to the subject of sleep. I have typically gone to bed around 1 AM this summer - staying up to watch Bleach. But the past few days I've been going t
Well, still nothing to write about, I guess. Band practice tonight... It, and the next 2 practices after it, have been lengthened for an hour 'cause a lot of people (myself excluded, of course) were disrespectful to our assistant band director while our director was away. And I do mean myself included. I know how Mr. O does things, and I listened. But most everyone else didn't... Oh. And go read my entry two down. I spent a long time writin' that one. And, of course, it was right while t
Well, it's back up... I haven't really wanted to make a blog entry while the forums were down 'cause only staff would've been able to see it. But nothin' interesting has really happened, so it was really no problem. Though, I did make to make, like, 30 posts in the past week while the board was offline.
It's day four now... Only one more to go... Well, yesterday was much, much better than the day before. Things sort of relaxed some, though there still some obvious tension. Methinks I've been forgetting to tell more about what we do... We don't just march and play music. Oh, no. We couldn't possibly do that for only ten hours a day. Thus, our band director plans a marching competition and a random game at about 3-3:30; just before the two hour break for supper. And out of the ~80 membe
Though day three is tomorrow, I'm writing this now. Band camp has been horrendous done. We've fought more amongst ourself than actually doing anything productive. I'm quite distraught right now. I feel like I need to talk to my band director... He's giving too much power to the section leader, or perhaps more so stress, and it concerns me. But I don't know what to do. *sigh*Just a few more days... I'll survive them, but then we've still got a whole football season to live through.
I'm in no mood to make a blog entry, but I will, just to tell you all where I'll be. Band camp starts today. The hours are 8 AM - 4 PM and 6 PM - 8 PM. Ten hours. Five days. And I forgot to set my alarm today, so when my sister woke me up, I wasn't too happy to just be thrust into my mom's chaotic attempts in keeping order. Seriously, I have no idea what she's trying to do. She's asking me things I told her several times yesterday. Ugh. So I'm not going to be active this week. Maybe
I have now been a member of BZPower for four years. Pretty odd that I joined so close to the anniversary, no? Weeell, not really. I do believe from what little memory I have of this time four years ago (I've always been bad at remembering things other than facts...), I not only joined because I had been visiting BZP for so long, but 'cause there was a giveaway for the anniversary. And I soooo wanted to win. But, I've nearly forgotten about that. The only time I even think about it is whe
I, too, have just recently purchased Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And the first thing I did was read the last page. Not because I'm one of those nuts who wants to know the ending before all else - quite the contrary, actually - but because I wished to check on the accuracy of the leaked information which I was so unfortunate to see. I'm greatly upset right now.
First of all, you can still be a free member on it. This seems to be a common misconception already. People are seeing the "pay" portion of the message and then stop reading, or simply pass over the part where it says there will be no change for free users. *ahem* Now, I will not be paying for these "enhanced features." No, five dollars is not that much. No, sixty dollars is not that much provided you make an income. I, obviously, do not. But, that is not why. It's because paying that
Wow, I'm pretty late for the party, huh? Ah well. I was bored and just wanted to do something. Yeah, it was made in Paint, oh well. Yeah, I'm gonna go give this out to everybody and hopefully respark the fad from... What was it, like a week or two ago? EDIT: ~KDT~ made me this totally awesome new seal. When I do give one out, I'll be choosin' one of these based on how awesome the entry is. Still, doesn't seem as if the fad's really back. Oh, and thanks a ton, KDT.
Welcome back to my blog, all you readers. That is, for those of you who know I had one this time last year... Regardless, welcome. I just deleted everything that was in my blog. Absolutely everything. But, I've already begun rebuilding, as evidenced by my content blocks over to the left. (By the way, though I'll have this but for a week, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated in the comments section.) And right now. I'm tired. I just woke up. And I'm not looking forward to the
I wanted to take a break from episode point-and-clicks to get the stink of Game of Thrones out of my mind before talking about the last one I played this year. So let's go to another Games With Gold title. Rayman is a twenty year old series and this is only the second game I played in it. There was this GBC title I had that I can't even remember the title of, but I know I was never very good at it and thus never had interest in trying it out again. Then a few years ago I saw some friends in
S.H. Figuarts Super Mario Diorama Playset E S.H. Figuarts Lord Baron Transformers Unite Warriors Bruticus Transformers Masterpiece Wheeljack More Mario enemies. Meh. Wish they weren't static, there's really no excuse for it. Yet still somehow better than the Bowser they released alongside of, which I'm just not getting unless at a huge discount. So terribly limited in articulation and too small, that one is... But anywho, at least this pack is all new enemies. Do hope we see more at SDCC thi
So I just got back from this interntaional local baseball thingie. Yeah. I had a pretty good time, but I can't really comment on the baseball. I watched only about two minutes of it. For four hours I just walked around the field or did stupid stuff with some buddies. Well, I shouldn't say four hours. More like three. Most of the first was spent walking around town with my sis and a friend while we waited for other people to come. Then, after those four hours, was a fireworks show. It
