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I don't usually blog anything personal, but I just feel I need to share this. I realized this when I woke up this morning; but before I start, let me say that I know not all promises are about or for something or someone special, but those are the kind I'm talking about. Someone once convinced me when I was young and impressionable, that you should never make any promises, because you don't know if you'll be able to keep them or not. That it's just safer not to commit. And for a long time I believed that. But now I see how wrong that is. If you never make any promises, you can't be held responsible for anything, you have no obligation to take action, and that makes you lazy. I know that a promise made close to the heart, when broken, can really hurt, but you shouldn't be afraid to take that risk. It's the risk of losing what you may care for that makes the promise all the more special and gives you the determination to fulfill it. This was a very unexpected answer to a really complicated feeling I had for a long time, and I hope it can help anyone else who may relate to what I've just written.

1. Reenacted The Emperor’s New Groove with your Krana collection No, but I now see how you can do that. 2. Six siblings So close! I have 5. 3. Created a working pair of tweezers out of Technic No 4. Possibly imaginary deep-seated psychological trauma supposedly inflicted by one or more of the following: Barney, Teletubbies, Jar Jar Binks, Ewoks, clowns, and/or bad ‘80s movies Yes 5. Written a blog entry about slime-covered mushrooms No 6. Been deemed to have a large vocabulary by at least two people Yes 7. An appreciation for satirical works and parodies Yes 8. A knack for imitating and/or lampooning various movie characters No 9. Sung the Lumberjack Song in its entirety at a campout No 10. Owned a hairless rat No 11. MOCed part of a Weird Al Yankovic song No 12. Been known to laugh out loud at weird little coincidences, insights, or random thoughts unrelated to your current situation or situations All the time. 13. Imitated a droideka by somersaulting repeatedly across the floor No 14. Frequently perplexed and perturbed members of the opposite sex with your weirdness Not that I'm aware of... 15. Been called a geek to the point where you consider yourself one whether you are or not No 16. Played the Mission: Impossible theme ad infinitum to get psyched for (home)schoolwork No 17. Attended at least part of an AFOL Lego event No 18. A screen name pronounced in a completely different way than its spelling would suggest No 19. A predilection for Mexican food Yeah, a limited one. 20. Stayed up perilously late to finish a good book or books Every time! I'm Residual Arpyness.

Here's the official description from the book's jacket sleeve:

Oooh, ominous.

I just got back from the library. I got The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Firebirds - an anthology edited by Sharyn November, Airborn by Kenneth Oppel, and a mammals encyclopedia for photo reference. I want to learn how to draw wild cats, and such. Also, I just got my first blog award! Thanks Arpy! UPDATE: I joust found out right now that one of the books I got at the library, Airborn, is going to be a movie! I had absolutely no idea of that when I checked out the book! What an interesting string of events!

that's four... now for five! I don't update my blog too often either, but... we'll se what happens.

It is, but it's possible to spell regular Japanese words in Katakana. It's just not commonly used.

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I know what you mean... Hey, I was quoted!

If you get an invite from "asd51" that's me.

Happy birthday! That comic cracked me up! I've had that photoshop annoyance as well, and assuming I know what you're talking about, try going to "view>show>slices" and uncheck it. That should work.

Wow, it's been almost four months since I've blogged last. I guess I just lost interest here for a while, but I'm back! And I make no promises of a regular blog upkeep. But right now I'm gonna work on updating my blog's look, and squeeze a decent title out of my brain. In the meantime you can entertain yourself with the words spoken typed below... I've got another baby sister, born in June; which makes makes her sister number five! Guess I'm still the only boy in this family. (besides my dad.) But I'm the oldest, and that comes with it's perks. I've recently gained an interest in playing the piano and have taught myself a bit of how to read sheet music! But slowly. It takes a while for me to figure out which note(s) I'm supposed to play. I've already made up two songs, but they're not complete yet. Also, I've been interested in The Books of Ember Series. The City of Ember is the first book in the series, and is gonna be a movie next year! I can't wait! The book is about two kids who attempt to save the people of a dying city where there's no sky. The only light comes from flood lamps mounted on buildings and lampposts. I've read the second book, The People of Sparks, as well. All I have left is to read The Prophet of Yonwood. Let's see, anything interesting I could tell you? Well, in July I went to Massachusetts for a family reunion of people related to me who I've never met, but spent a few days prior in New York (no, not the city) with some relatives I've known my whole life. I was much more comfortable there. Oh, and sometime in... april or june, i forgot when, we (my siblings and I) got a Wii! But we don't have any actual games for it yet. Unless you count Wii Sports and Wii Play. Well those were just a few significant things I could remember right now from the past four months. And hopefully I'll update this blog more often.

It's "Yatta"

I've just noticed my blog has now been rated! Thanks to... whoever you are!

Oh yeah, I forgot about that!

Wow, Your right, it is rather complicated! I like how you added the events from the Racers 2 game! But the Cassiopeia DNA part confused me a bit. Do you think you could rephrase that part? But still, I like it. It's storyline accurate, and tells a little about what happened within those 6 years! Maybe we could combine our descriptions to create a sub-story...

Life on Mars was my favorite Lego theme when it came out, and now Lego is releasing Mars Mission, a theme almost identical to LoM, and I'm real excited about it! And as I was reding the descriptions of the sets on S@H, I started coming up with some ideas of how the Life on Mars story could tie into the Mars Mission theme. This is my favorite... -------------------------------------------- The residents of Mars & Earth are friends, and together develop new ways of comunication, transportation, and energy efficiency. The Martians discovered a new type of energy crystal deep beneath the planet, and requested an elite space team from Earth to assist in the harvesting and technological development of these energy crystals. But their not the only ones who have learned of this crystal. Just as production is going up, aliens from an unknown planet invade Mars to take over production of the crystal harvesting and claim its technological possibilities for themselves. So the Humans and Martians team up to defend what's rightfully theirs. But the aliens hold a secret too valueble to be killed... Can the Martians and Humans discover the secret and reclaim their right to the energy crystals? Or will the aliens prevail? -------------------------------------------- It's kind of like Life on Mars meets Rock Raiders. Tell me what you think, or post your own ideas.

My birthday's in a week! So I put together together a little something to celebrate... Click Me! Please comment on the drawing in the topic.

Today was rather eventful. We went out to Mimi's Cafe for lunch with my grandparents and aunt for Mother's Day. Not my favorite restaurant, but it's pretty good. Afterwards, we went to Borders which was right next door and browsed around. I got "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid" by Lemony Snicket! There's lots of unusual analogies, and interesting things you don't usually think about in that book. And some are just funny. For example... So true... Anyway, Mimi's Cafe & Borders were right next to a mall, so we walked around, browsed through some stores, and I bought this really cool "tricktack" wallet at Sharper Image! >stock photo< (on the other side is an ID card slot, and money clip.) I'm glad I got it... I really needed a wallet. Well, today was a good day (if not a little hot). Here's to another... woah, wait. I've recently had a dream of this exact experience! ... Cool! B)