Grrr, Anger.

   I don't usually complain a lot. I don't like to complain. But sometimes, things just really piss me off. Like the fact that the plug-in that I've always used for my laptop has suddenly started giving me problems. It's in an awkward place, so I have to use a three way connector-y piece, as my bed is pushed up against the wall, so there is barely any room to actually plug the cord in on a good day. But I came down to write my post, and when I plugged my laptop in, nothing happened. No charge light, no increase in screen brightness, just the universe laughing at me. And of course there is no room for my hand to fit there,so I can't even see what the problem is. I basically freaked out, Deidra-tantrum style. Yupp.

   Anyway, this past week I have been doing a Blog Every Day in December on my personal blog, and it has been going pretty well. I missed one day because I had a giant essay to work on, but that is all done and over with, so it's all good now. That was basically the only homework I've had all week, so it's been really nice and relaxing. I did some baking, to prepare for Christmas.

   I remember watching the Power Rangers when I was younger. I don't remember too much, but I think I also liked the red best, because it's the only one I have a clear memory of. It was most likely blue though, since blue has always been my favourite colour, but whatever. I know for a fact that it wasn't pink, since I've always hated pink. I have recently gotten back into Pokémon, though I like to believe that I never got out of it. Last year I finally went back and really beat my Yellow version on my GameBoy, including completing the Pokédex. Honestly, I think my childhood was Pokémon. It is where most of my childhood memories come from.

   I hope that today was special for you, Katie. Happy Birthday! I must say, it's getting difficult finding different and cool images of cupcakes. Especially ones that reflect the person to whom I am 'giving' them too. And without making myself too humgry for cupcakes. This one only followed one of those criteria. It is so colourful and pretty, and it reminded me of your posts. They brighten up the blog each week. Of course, it looks delicious. If only it wasn't a cyber cupcake, I would really send you one, and have one myself. Hope the day was great!

   Anywho, I must still post on my blog, and it is getting late, so I will go now. Don't forget to be awesome!
-Deidra

Stuff Just Happens

Well, my weeks been fairly boring. The holidays are always fun... at first. While I was studying I spent all this time thinking about things that I was going to do once my exams were over. But now that they are over I realize that most of the things I planned to do are really boring. I think the main reason I wanted to do them was because they seemed to be more exciting than exams. Some of the things that I planned on doing included, going for a swim in the lake I live next to, make a comic book, write a novel and go through and watch all of these movies that I put on this large list. Only now do I realize that I have no interest  in making a comic book or writing a novel, the lake I live next to isn't the most suitable place to go swimming and I have no money to rent any movies.

Some things that I have taken to doing however are working on my art, actually putting effort into my videos and I've even started volunteering at this local history centre we have. I've enjoyed actually finding contructive things to do with my time but I'm currently looking for other things to do since I have another three months of doing nothing.

Also as a random recommendation for stuff to do on the internet, I highly recommend the site thatguywiththeglasses.com. I don't know why but I've really gotten addicted to some of the content they have on their recently. It's this site review website with each person reviewing their own thing. Like some of them will review old movies, while another might review comics and another will review video games. There are roughly 20-30 people on the site. I don't really watch their videos because I'm interested in what they are reviewing but some of them are really entertaining to watch. I would really recommend the Nostalgia Critic, Linkara and That Dude In The Suede. This site has temporarily replaced YouTube for me for some reason.

Anyway have an awesome week guys
DFTBA

I Just Wanted a Shirt....

I have been very disappointed this week.  I had ordered that Nerdfighter Community t-shirt and a DFTBA wristband on Nov 7, and I have yet to receive it.  I checked the tracking code and it said that it was delivered to the post office on Nov 10, but it has yet to be delivered.  My mom had sent out a few emails hoping to track the package down, but UPS sent back an email yesterday saying "Your package is on time for a delivery date of Nov 13."  Now... I'm pretty good at math and all, and I'm absolutely positive that it has been over twenty days since that date and I have yet to receive this shirt that was meant to be a birthday present.
This whole ordeal has bummed me out big time.

I did finish NaNoWriMo, much to my surprise.  Like I have said, at the beginning of the month I had no faith in myself.

For my Algebra 2 class, we have the opportunity to create some kind of a creative project in order to replace a low test grade with the optional project's grade.  We had the same project last year in my Geometry class.  My Geometry teacher, Mrs. Wagner, is married to my Algebra teacher, and I'm 90% sure that she (my Geometry teacher) shared all of our projects with Mr. Wagner.  Well, Mr Wagner had even said that we had very good projects last year.
The project I am doing this year is a continuation of last year's project.  For my geometry class, I had written a short children's story titled "The Adventures of Paul E. Ghon and His Composite Figure Friends."  This year's project is titled "Paul E. Ghon 2: Polly No'meal Saves the Day."
And trust me.... there are plenty of other puns that fill this story.

Deidra, your cat is so pretty.  I'm always so happy to get home at the end of the day because my cats jump up to the window and greet me before I am even in the house.
I've always been into pokemon, though not so much the newest stuff.  I love all of the games and all of the new pokemon, but the show just does not really appeal to me.  I guess I just loved the original characters too much.  Recently I have been getting into drawing pokemon and playing the games more though!
I thought that the fanfiction was really good, Adam! I encourage you to keep it up.

I'm really tired and I'll be going to bed early tonight.
Kate

I didn't feel like posting but then I did

I didn't feel like posting today but then I did. I'm not really in a great mood lately. I've been stressed out with finals and other stuff. I'm just trying to stay positive, Christmas is coming soon and then I'm going to visit my best friend in Germany for a week. I haven't seen her for like four months (skype isn't really the same) so I can't wait for that. My Swindon Town fanfiction has been getting intimidatingly large numbers of views and I haven't posted for a while because of that. My new post just doesn't feel right and I don't want to put it up unless I have it perfect. I feel like I'm just listing things which happen rather than anything more interesting.

I'm sort of tired so I'm just going to post a bit of the fanfiction I'm working on, I'd really like some feedback on it. Hope that's ok.

As John drove from his house on the outskirts of Swindon to the Stadium, he reflected over the first week of training. He had worked the players hard, they weren’t going to be content with survival, he wanted to challenge. He had instilled his routine. In the morning they worked on fitness, after lunch they worked on technical skills and teamwork and then they finished with an hour long lecture on tactics from John.

It had always been John’s motto that no player is ever bigger than the team, but he couldn’t help but wonder about bald John Green. He was a gentleman and always tried to get everyone else involved but there was no denying he was just much more talented than anyone else at the club. In the last week alone, John had received two offers from much bigger clubs about signing him.

As John pulled in at the stadium, he saw that a few of the players and staff were there already. He walked into the dressing room and saw Dave Mustaine, Bald John Green and Voluptuous Pericard. Voluptuous was an exciting young French striker. He had talent, no doubt, he just lacked a little consistency.

Let me know what you think. As for something I've gotten back into............... can I say reading? I used to read all the time when I was young but then I sort of got really busy and didn't make time for it and I'm starting to read much more now.

DFTBA
Adam

Talk about ALL the things!

Today was pretty awesome. Two of my three teachers were away so we had supplies in for them. In biology class we ended up having a big discussion about pokemon and then a debate over what the plural of platypus is. Then in english we were reading the final act of Othello as a class and things just got really out of hand we ended up laughing so much and just having a bunch of fun. And it's the weekend now!

I'm hanging out with Deidra right now, sleeping over at her place to be more exact and we just spent the evening playing Twilight Princess and then we watched Super 8. Let me tell you Super 8 was a fantastic movie in my opinion. There was action, a little romance, aliens, mystery. The best part of all though was that it wasn't just another movie with the same old Hollywood actors. It was just a bunch of like teens that I hadn't really seen in any movies before (though they have been in a few, I looked them up).

Adam, your Swindon Town fanfic is going really well so far, I'll be sure to check in on it from time to time. I hope you keep it up because it's definitely better than a lot of the fanfiction that I've read on other things.

For Christmas my family has a sort of double celebration I guess you could say. On Christmas Eve we spend the evening at my Grandparents house for an awesome dinner (with ham not turkey) and then presents. Then on Christmas Day we open the family presents and have my uncle over for a second christmas dinner. We always get a real tree for our house and it's usually pretty tall so we have to use a ladder to decorate the top. My mom does a bunch of baking and we all pitch in to help. My favourite things we make are gingerbread cookies, shortbread cookies, and meat perogies. The food is definitely my favourite part of the holiday, but watching all the christmas tv specials comes at a close second.

Happy Birthday Kira! I hope you have an awesome weekend and an awesome birthday. And don't stress too much about school or anything just try your hardest and work your way through whatever they send your way and you'll be fine. I honestly believe that worrying about it will just make it worse than whatever it would have been.

Campion, it sucks you're limited in your bandwidth use. I don't know how it is with everyone else, but where I live, or I guess with the plan my family has, there isn't really a limit to how much bandwidth we use. I honestly never even knew what bandwidth was until like a couple years ago when someone was talking about it on a youtube video.

As for something that I watched before and got back into, all I can really think of off the top of my head would be Doctor Who. It played on cable for the Eccleston and like one of the Tennant seasons when I was younger and all I can remember thinking was that it was a really cool show. Then it stopped for some reason and I kind of forgot about it until I got into Nerdfighting. So I went back and watched all the episodes from Eccleston and onwards, and it's still as good as I remember.

DFTBA
Kayla

Oh and I almost forgot, this week my school started a gardening club so I joined it. It seems like it'll be a lot of fun so I can't wait till we start growing things.

My Father Cut Off The Internet... Again

Well aren't I a lazy person. I seem to be forming a bad habit of getting all my posts in late but this week I have a credible excuse. My father has cut off my Internet for the last few days and I just got it back today. He did this because of the massive amounts of bandwidth I've been using, I've been using up the internet so much because I recently discovered a lost love that I used to have as a child... The Power Rangers.

When I was in Kindergarden I LOVED the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. To me, it was the greatest show in the history of the universe. In fact, the reason Red is my favorite color is because the Red Power Ranger was always my favorite (come on, he had a giant T-Rex robot). In fact for a few years I called Red the color Jason (after the Red Ranger) and for my 3rd birthday my mother made me a Red Power Ranger cake and I refused to let anyone eat it because it was so awesome. Sure eventually it got all moldy and rotted and I had ton throw it away but the cake was still awesome.

After that I sort of forgot about it because they stopped airing the show in New Zealand after a few seasons. So I just assumed that they stopped making them and recently they started broadcasting the latest Power Rangers series in my country again, Power Rangers Samurai. I was incredibly excited because I thought that they had recently revived the show but then I found out there had been at least 16 series made since the original but for some reason the show was banned in New Zealand... which honestly doesn't make any sense since most of the series were actually filmed in New Zealand. So they have made a Power Rangers series nearly every year since the day I was born and I only found this out recently.

It's been interesting revisiting this show that I used to love. To be perfectly honest the show's special effects are a lot worse than I remember and it's a hell of a lot cheesier than I remember but it still has this charm that makes me love the show. I guess I used to love it because it had a lot of action with giant robot fights and martial arts that no other show was doing at the time, especially live action shows (that and it's theme song was epic). While it does have it's flaws and I still love the show to bits and it's awesome to watch in all it's cheesy glory.

Which leeds me to a question that I wish to pose to you guys. Is there anything from when you were really young that you really loved that you've recently gotten back into?

Anyway have an awesome week guys
DFTBA

(Just cos it's awesome)

Woot December!

   Yay, it's finally December! Now, only 24 more days until Christmas. I'm kind of super excited, but more for the break part than the holiday. I have been so horribly busy these past weeks, and the next few will be annoying only because I'm now looking forward to the break. But my sister and niece are coming down to visit for a week to spend Christmas with us, so that will make it even better.

   I am also starting a blogging challenge on my personal blog. I will be posting a photo and writing every single day, which I hope I will be able to do. I am excited to do it, especially sincec some of the day's challenges are going to be really good. Except for tomorrow, which is supposed to be a self-portrait. I'm not a big fan of photos.

   I'm glad that your exams are all finished, Campion. I know the feelings of stress and anxiety that exams bring. I haven't seen Lord of the Rings, but I do intend to before my school year is over with Kayla. There just always seems to be something else to see when I am in the mood to watch a movie. Plus, they are really long, and I would want to watch them all together.

   Congrats on NaNo, Kate. I am assuming that you have finished by today, which is pretty amazing. Looking back, I would never have had enough time to get anywhere in a NaNo novel. Also, your kitties are adorable! This is my baby, Boots. Also one o my favourite pictures of her. She likes to follow me around the house, and even sleeps on te corner of my bed sometimes. I am going to miss her when I leave for school.  =(

   I've never tried tea, but your list of reasons may make me more inclined to do so one day, Katie. Until then, I will sit here and drink my hot chocolate while watching Doctor Who. I do celebrate Christmas, but there aren't many traditions that we have. I mean, we always do a special dinner with who ever is here with us, and decorate the house and such. The music, though, is something that I don't especially enjoy. It is just annoying for me, and it never changes. It isn't really fun or exciting, and years of stupid Christmas concerts growing up have really caused me to hate them.

   Happy early birthday Kira! I hope that you have a good day, and aren't plagued with homework or anything for the weekend. Here is your internet birthday cupcake, please wait until Sunday to enjoy though =P 

I thought it was both birthday-y  and Christmas-y, and totally awesome. And delicious. Hope you love it! (despite the fact that you must love it from afar.)

Well, have a good weekend all, and look into my blog to see my blogging/photo challenge. I'm hoping to not miss any days. And don't forget to be awesome!!

-Deidra