8 posts tagged “pokemon”
At Niki's
Tuesday
January 13th, 2009
2pm
Happy New Year.
Everything is constantly changing. I got a new job in the health food store I love so much, working in the juice bar. I miss my deli buddies, but my new job is so much better and I'm making good friends. Too bad they'll all eventually quit and/or move to California. Christmas was full of Hello Kitty. Cameron's becoming a voice actor and plans to get a house with a couple of his friends after this semester. I'm not ready to move in with him yet, but I'm still not sure what my plans for moving out are. I'm still saving for my degree and need a car/license before I feel comfortable moving out. Niki's back to obsessing over guys and forgetting the rest of the world exists. Who's the real Hachi in this friendship? I miss her. Even though we're in the same room.
She's getting on a plane (or two) by herself to go half way across the country to see this guy. But she's scared to take the bus 15 minutes down the street by herself.
I got a Nintendo DS (and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon / Hello Kitty PDA software) and DDR for my PS2.
I just bought an Aquasana shower filter to celebrate my first paycheck from my new job.
Cameron said his parents are thinking about giving or letting me borrow their laptop that they don't really need anymore to use for school. They think I'm just taking online classes from the local community college I went to for a semester and a half (ish), and don't know about the grandma-box situation. If they decide not to, I'm going to get a credit card and start building up good credit by buying a laptop (that I can afford to pay off right away). Hopefully I'll be back online soon.
My mom's getting off work now. Cameron didn't answer his phone, so I think he's in a class. I really need to see him.
I'm not taking the bus because apparently there's a rapist/theif with a gun on the loose (local enough for concern). I guess I'll end up leaving with my mom while Niki's still asleep.
I told Niki last night how I was upset about her ignoring me to talk to Brett the last three times I've come over. I tried all evening to get her to pay attention to me, but she was more interested in talking to him. Even though it's all she does, and she only sees me once a week (or less). I told her I don't care if she wants to talk to him, but that she shouldn't tell me she's going to hang out with me if she's just going to ignore me.
I finally got her to shut off the computer and watch the Nana anime with me, but I could tell she didn't want to and just felt bad about upsetting me. After the first episode ended she went in the bathroom and didn't come out for at least a half hour. I cleaned up the kitchen and got ready for bed. I wasn't enjoying forcing her to hang out with me, so I rolled over like fifteen minutes after she came back. I heard her get on the phone with Brett. I shut off the tv.
I don't know why I bother.
Thirteen days until I turn twenty.
I think I'll build a snowman when I get home.
8:30pm
So, I've attempted to buy healthy food to give me energy and motivate me to get my ass into gear, but I can't afford to buy enough of it for that to really work. But, that's okay. I've found a really great store that I want to work at even more than the health food store (because it's bigger, fancier, and has WAY more organic and local stuff... and it's closer). And the best part is, I can apply online. XD So, at some point today, when I stop feeling so tired, I'm going to do that.
I can't believe how long I slept last night. I went to bed at 2am and woke up at 3:45pm. I never sleep more than twelve hours unless I'm sick. I wonder if all the raw organic fruits and veggies I've been having this week are doing a bit of a detox number on me. I really don't know what else would make me so tired.
I think I'm a bit clingy. I get sad if it gets to like 8:30pm and Cameron hasn't contacted me in any way. It makes me feel forgotten. Or if I don't see Niki for like a week, I get scared that she doesn't want to hang out with me. I try to let my friends initiate the plan-making every once in a while, just to make sure they actually want to be around me. Am I just paranoid? Maybe I wouldn't feel like this if I had more friends.
I just went outside to bring the trash can back to the garage and get the mail. The sky was the pinkest I've ever seen, and the most brilliant molten, glowing gold near the horizon. Is it sad that that phrase makes me think of moltres flying up into the sky in Pokemon Snap? Anyway, that gave me more energy than I've had all day, so I'm definitely doing my application now. Go me!
Thursday, August 14th
3:24am
I've got goodies from Cameron's Connecticut trip. Including Swedish cookies. That were made in Canada. XD
And some activities I'm sure he'd prefer I not mention.
Now...!
>;D
All our lives we chase the night like it's never-ending, you the sun and I the moon.
I'm so glad he's back. He really is my soulmate. He actually said to me today,"I feel like I've loved you for thousands of years." It moved me to tears. I'm not afraid of losing him anymore because I now realize that there is nothing stronger than what holds us together. I feel safe now, knowing that if I ever lose him, we'll soon find each other again. Whether in this life, or what lies after. Just as we have before.
But I'm sure you're not interested in my mush. XD
I have an appointment with my dentist tomorrow at five. Before then, I'm probably going to be putting away lots of laundry, and making my ripped-knee pants really cute. And making another green smoothie.
Me and Niki made our very first green smoothie two days ago! ^-^ And it was DELICIOUS! We're amazing. And Chris is insane for not liking berries. But he likes other fruit, so I won't get angry. XD
The one I made today had:
- 1 apple
- 1 nectarine
- 1 handful of blueberries
- 1 tbs coconut oil
- 1 metric shit-ton greens
It wasn't as sweet as I was hoping, but that's because I saved half of my blueberries for today, so it's easily fixable. And my blender can get rid of all the colorful bits. But since it's old, it gets hot easily and makes my smoothie kind of warm, which I dislike. But, overall, it was good. Definitely like the coconut oil in there. But I wouldn't add more than a tablespoon because it overpowers the other fruit flavors a bit. I missed the banana. But it still had a nice, creamy texture without it. I was concerned about that.
I'm also going to apply at Giant Beagle, since I go there so much. And maybe that one Azn Fewd place by the nail place where the azns work. XD A place within walking distance to Niki's would be neat 'cause I wouldn't have to avoid scheduling peep hangs on days I have to work. Plus I could probably get me and Niki discounts on organic numnums and pokeymanz. I'm getting Niki a booster pack when I get my first paycheck. She's bought me way too much stuff. All those candy bars. XD
I also had a surprisingly long conversation with Nick (Niki's boyfriend) after she fell asleep. It was funny, because I've never really talked to him before, but we discussed at length the two taboo conversation topics... religion and politics, and really nothing else. Besides a bit about smoking, careers, and his mom, and Uncle Joe. Niki fell asleep around 6am, and we didn't finish talking until after 8am. About religion and politics. LMFAO It's funny how the most controversial things are anything but when open-minded people discuss them, even if they've never talked before. He taught me about how the new world order is gonna kick our asses, and I taught him about how cool and not evil paganism is. XD CPS FTW!
Also. Niki, are you working Saturday? During the party? Pliss let me know.
Friday, July 25th
10pm
And it will be even MORE beautiful when I get Wen. Which will be as soon as I have enough for my kawlij books after getting a job. Actually, I may get a shower filter before I get my conditioning cleanser. The product seems worth having the best water used with it. Once I find out how much I'll be paid, I'll make myself a little budget timeline thing to see how long it will take to save for my next semester, and how often I can buy little (and slightly more than little) things for myself.
I really need to find out if I'm going on this trip with Niki or not so I know how soon I can start turning in my jarb applications. See, she has this friend, Lynn, who I met this year and also became friends with. She lives in Connecticut, and she's Niki's "big sis", all but biologically. So, Lynn's getting a new Yaris next week and wants to come take Niki to Connecticut for a little vacation, and swing over to New York City and now maybe even upstate New York by bus. The thing is, before this trip was planned, Lynn said she was going to take me and Niki both to visit and go to NYC, etc., etc. over spring break this coming year. So, I'm not sure if I'm invited on this trip or not. And if I am invited, I don't want to turn in applications too far in advance, because I don't want to have to ask my brand new boss for time off, or say that I can't start yet and make up an excuse. XD I'm tempted to just ask Lynn about it, but I have a feeling that if I asked her, she'd probably just invite me even if she wasn't already planning to, and that would seem unfair if she just wanted to hang out with Niki first and felt that she had to invite me because she felt bad or something. LOL I don't know. I don't want to accidentally invite myself, basically. But I also don't want to miss out on good moneys by waiting another week before I know what's going on. Niki, can you try to talk to her about how you're planning everything and let me know if I'm mentioned, or if you've decided when to go? I'm completely in the dark here. LOL
So, anyways, I just finished mowing the lawn at nine. And I'm trying to encourage this viney plant in my backyard to climb the fence, so it blocks out that creepy old black man who just sits and stares into my yard all day. Kitchen window. He's there. Bathroom window. He's there. Bedroom window. He's there. HE WON'T FUCKING GO AWAY. And he doesn't do anything. He just sits there. Staring. ALL DAY. And then he goes in. It's enough to drive you mad.
Also. I'm taking Niki to the BK Lounge on Monday. Bitchin', si? POKEMON TOYS. AND CARDS! I've gone like four times and still no Pikachu. COME OOOON! What the hell am I supposed to do with my fucking darkrai and manaphy boxes? I already put my coins in one. Shit, son.
And I know how much gramma's giving Niki for graduation. XD
Friday
1:30pm
While it is a day meant to celebrate our "freedom" from a much better country, I must try to remind myself that I should be happy about it, because if my ancestors had not come to this land and "mingled" with the natives, I would not be here to type this. Shame they won the war though, eh? Thanks anyway, guys.
Sorry it's been so long. First I spend like an entire week at Niki's, and was simply having too much fun (AND WALKING TOO MUCH. HOLY SHIT.) to type. Then after I got back home, my mom decided I don't do enough chores to deserve internet access. Fine, mother. I won't use the computer. But don't come complaining to me when you're sad because you pay all this money out every month for absolutely no reason.
Anyway, I managed to get it back two days ago (after spending the entire day pulling weeds and mowing the lawn) but I just couldn't be bothered to type until now.
So, during my week at Niki's (more or less) I experienced many things. There was walking. And some more walking. Lots of penises and drunk girls. (Aunt Sandy's bachelorette party.) Dancing ALL night (ending around 6am when I went for a walk). Getting invited to an Autumnal Equinox bonfire at my aunt's. A metric shit-ton of Pokemon. Pizza. Crisis. Parents sucking at being parents. Rain. Sun. Waiting four hours for Wendy's to open and then deciding not to take Devin's money. Sitting awkwardly while Devin and Chris ate. Walking. Getting invited to the bridal shower at 10pm. Tv shows about fat people. Being Aunt Sandy's "amateur nutritionist" until the wedding. About six more shit-tons of pokemon. Spending ten years trying to get a ride to the store. Flat tire. Walking in the rain. At night. Imagining being pulled over for weaving on the sidewalk. Hiding my cards for fear of them being stolen. Along with everything else I brought over. The Espeon-Charmeleon incident. Niki, the fairest bitch of them all. XD Amazing water from Iceland. Strawberries. Blueberries. Making the best blueberry pancakes ever with Niki. Poo that looked like charcoal from eating so many blueberries... and that's probably a good place to stop.
I felt a bit slow for not realizing it earlier, but I've figured out what I want to do with my life... as far as a first career goes. I'm going to be a nutritionist. I've been interested in how food affects the body since like sixth grade when my mom took interest in Somersizing (Suzanne Somers' weight loss eating plan), and over the last year or so I've become completely obsessed with natural health. And people are always asking me, you know, "Is this healthy? What about this?" And I'm always trying to push my views about food on other people, so what better job would the be for me than telling people what to eat?! XD!!! I just can't believe it took me so long to figure out. It wasn't until I started planning stuff with Aunt Sandy that it really clicked.
The problem was, though, that my college didn't have a program for that. So, I started researching and in just a few hours I found my dream school. It's an online school, so I wont have a schedule to work around when I try to get a job (SOON). It's almost the same price as Land O'Lakes. EVERY class is directly related to the career. There are no pointless unrelated requirements. You can work at your own pace, so as long as I can afford it, I can finish up faster. Anyway, it's called Clayton College of Natural Health. It's accredited by a credible-looking source, though the accreditor is not on the U.S. Department of Education's list. That doesn't mean that the material and degrees are not legitimate, though. It ony means that graduates of the college won't be able to participate in certain federally sponsored events that require the title (Ph.D., etc.) they earned there. I looked through the list and there isn't even an accreditor there that's for nutrition in any way shape or form. Fuck you, Department of Education. You and your love o'drugs. I may become an herbalist too.
I also met a lovely dragonfly when I was weeding the front flowerbed. I really wish I'd never sat on my camera. I still can't afford to get a new one yet. I don't even know if I'll be able to afford my books for school. My mom offered to help me with my books a few weeks back if I couldn't afford it. I may have to use the $150 that Cameron gave me for graduation to use for an emergency. The tuition is quite literally all of my savings. I'll have thirty-five dollars left. So now I can't even get a laptop yet. Gimme dat jarb.
I've started doing yoga again. I've finally managed to get myself on a... not quite NORMAL, but rather, an EARLIER sleeping schedule. I've been waking up in time to do this yoga program that's on at 6am on the Oxygen network, called Inhale. I discovered it after staying up all night watching infomercials one new years eve (or rather, day) a few years back. I would stop for different reasons. Either I'd have to go to school half way through, or they would replace it for a while with Xena, or I just couldn't bother to get up that early, etc., etc. For the last year though, my main reason was that my wrist has grown this big crazy bump, and it would hurt when I did poses that require you to put your hands on the floor put weight on them. But, I'm managing to do it without much discomfort, and I'm convinced that it's going to go away. I thought so for a long time, just because it would fluctuate in size, sometimes shrinking. But when Niki's mom mentioned yoga when we were talking about stress last week, I showed her and she said she had the exact same thing and it went away (after some years, but still).
Also, I walked to the library last week (which took about an hour) and picked up a couple books.
3am
Pokenerd Update:
So, since Cameron has had no roomie to play pokemon cards with (all the time) since moving back home, he's decided to teach his mom. So now, the three of us have a little "game night" every Monday, where we play each other and the two who win the most get a prize. So, on Monday, Cameron came in first (winning both games he played) and I came in second (winning against his mom, and losing against him).
As my prize I chose a Majestic Dawn booster pack in which I got this!
I COULD HAVE CRIED WITH JOY! I changed my deck immediately from electric/fighting to electric/grass, and at League yesterday I won against all three of Cameron's decks that always used to kick my ass. I AM SO HAPPY! I got a shit-ton of foil energies too. Yay!
I need to get a Leafeon EX now. Or as last year's national champion calls it, "Weed Puppy".
He gave me this Mew card (that he had three of) because I thought it was really cute.
Then he threw a card at Cameron and said,"What? You think Monferno is cute? Here you go!" LMFAO! So Cameron had him sign it. XD They're good buddies now.
He also ate a Burmy.
Wednesday, May 21st
1am
I don't mean for it to be that way, though, honestly. So often, I'll come online with the intent of typing up a lovely journal entry about the great weekend I've had, but before I can start, something happens to kill my mood. So now, instead of tales about seeing the first bats of the year, kuznrom, sleeping in a van with Merlin, eating koalas, and making secret brownies, you get a rant about Cameron's mother. AGAIN!
So, tonight I went to (Pokemon) League with Cameron and his past semester's roommate, Jed. We had a really great time and I won against this little kid who would silently do his whole turn really fast and say "Go." I killed him with a pikachu, a voltorb, and a donphan. It was hard not to laugh. I usually play against decks way stronger than mine, so it was a nice change.
Then we went to drop Jed off at his house and get some gas, me and Cameron called our moms (mine because I told her I'd have been home by then, his because she likes to calculate when he should be home to make sure he spends no extra time with me), and we headed back. We got to my house and I had to take the trash out and such, and Cameron wanted a bit of a treat. About ten seconds after he was done, his phone rang, and he tried to spring for the door. I got so fucking pissed. I hate that he just leaps into action the second she wants something from him. I tried to start kissing him, hoping it would be more important than listening to his angry mother bitch at him, but it wasn't, of course. The conversation basically went like this:
"Hey, I'm just pulling onto Jen's street."
"Why are you pulling onto JEN'S street? You left over an hour ago!"
(Note: Jed's is about an hour away. She timed it down to the minute.)
"I got lost."
"That's it. I'm THROUGH."
And she hung up on him. Then he went home, let them yell at him, and just sat there. The only thing he said ANYTHING about was when they said Jed was disrespectful for not thanking them for letting him stay there to hang out with Cameron for a couple days when he was leaving. And even then all he said was that he thought they were reading too much into it. And then said that it was just his opinion when they got angry about him talking back.
He'll defend him for that, but he won't say shit when she badmouths me about everything she can think of on a daily basis. And when I called him after he got home to tell him it would be hilarious to have whistle tips as a noisemaker instead of cans when we get married, he hung up. Because they were yelling at him. And when he called me back like a half hour later, I was mad, and he thought it was more important to go look at pictures of his niece with his mother who had just bitched at him almost endlessly, so I told him I didn't want to talk to him. Apparently forgetting that I didn't want to talk to him, he called me back again, and now he's acting like nothing's wrong and it's really getting on my nerves. We had such a wonderful ride home. I hate that he lets her ruin every good day. I hate it.
My neck hurts. The end.
Tuesday, April 22nd
9:23pm
HAPPY EARTH DAY!
In celebration, I hugged a tree.
TERRIBLY terribly sorry about my hiatus from journaling. I've just been so obsessive with everything that I do. I'll start something, and suddenly I have to go to bed because my mom will be up for work in ten minutes. That leaves very little time for... well, anything.
First thing's first.
I have become one (of two) mother(s) of a very sneaky little hamster. He also has two fathers.
His name is Takumi (derived from the main character of Initial D) and he lives in a college dorm room. (The name of the college and dorm room have been edited out for the sake of protection of the individual.) I'll have pictures ASAP.
My grandmother will be moving in with us this summer. It's top secret (as is Takumi) and no one in my family can know about it yet (besides Niki, because she can keep a secret AND we're planning home-related things).
Before we moved into this house a couple years ago, we lived with gramma. There was BARELY enough room. This house is less than half that size. This will be the reason I give my mother for why I'm moving out.
Hopefully she won't be as pissed as if I was just moving out because she makes me want to kill things. Namely her.
I got a bunch of stuff from the local health food shop that I'm super excited about. I'm crossing it off of my list until I run out again. I got Niki some stuff for her birthday (which is this weekend). MUAHAHAHAHA SECRETS.
Raw goats' milk. It's what Jesus would do.
Goats' milk is quite nearly in my possession. Raw, organic. Hand-milked into a jar and put in a fridge. I'm investing in a herd, buying a share of it so that I'm a partial owner of the herd (and therefore, of the milk). It's a lovely way to get healthy milk without breaking the state's raw dairy laws. Have I mentioned that I hate our government?
Also, Jonjon (who lives in our hat) has returned from his two year(ish) hat-party or whatever he was up to. He is The Great White Faggot of the North. And damned proud to be.
Also, Niki's reading 1984 in English and I'm super psyched to talk about it with her. EPIC book. I really hope her dad can get his own place soon. Sean(aka Andrew) is driving her up a wall with his selfishness and idiocy. Redundant. Hmm...
I've been playing my Pokemon Gameboy games a lot lately. Yellow and Silver versions. I have Crystal too. I want to get a Nintendo DS Lite and get Leaf Green/Fire Red and Diamond/Pearl (one of each / thing).
