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so, neither natalie nor amanda made it to the open house. i shouldn't have told either of them that the other one was coming.
MAYBE natalie and amanda are actually alter egos of each other!! and that's why they can never be at the same place at the same time, because they're the same person! except amanda's really tall....hmmm....maybe by the end of the semester i'll have to be carried out in a straight jacket.

lol i have now been sick for exactly a week.

hmm...i just realised that i forgot to bring my black shoes, black pants, AND black skirt to college with me...
this may present a problem at ring tonight...unless of course, no one cares.

natalie is REALLY sick *feels VERY guilty* i think i may have to visit her with something to make her feel better with...just have to figure out what...

urgh. my cough sounds very icky. i really hope it's warm tomorrow.

ok, so amanda was supposed to come to the Ring open house on tuesday, and stay for most of it. so then i told natalie she should come on tuesday also, and she said ok. and then i got really excited because i figured they'd finally be meeting each other. but THEN!!! (and who didn't see this coming? ME) natalie caught my cold, so i'm not sure if she'll be well enough to go on tuesday (lol i'm not even sure if i will, but i signed up so meh), and THEN amanda said that she probably won't be able to make it either, and if she does it'll only be for setup, but probably not even that.

what's going ON?! *screams in agony*

i sleepy :)

ahh!! i just saw the worst commercial ever!! it was advertising the Star Wars original trilogy on individual dvds, and it was this family and they were saying things that made them seem like fans of the movies, and at the very end, the little girl goes, "I would love to have a pet Wookie." and they showed a picture of Chewbacca. !!!!!!! it was so terrible!!! argh, that makes me so angry!!! RAR!!!!! that is NOT something anyone should say. it's like saying "I would love to have a pet hobbit" or "I would love to have a pet canadian" or something. *hates that little girl and whoever made that commercial and allowed it to air*
EDIT: the little girl was about 11

i'm even sicker today than i was yesterday T_T my throat hurts a lot and i have a headache behind my ears and my nose keeps getting stuffy and i'm cranky *pouts*

there's an irritating guy on Food Network on this epiosode of secret life of, and he keeps overacting and pretending to steal food from the factories he went to, and making food wrong on purpose. it's very frustrating. he just smelled some lemon rind and said it was like perfume, then when the cook guy looked away, he rubbed the lemon rind on his neck and wrists. then he put it into soup. grrrr. i like the show 'Unwrapped' better.

from now on, i'm going to make all my entries locked, since my dad's paranoid. lol hopefully i'll be able to figure out how to do that...shouldn't be too hard. it probably won't effect anyone, unless u're too lazy to log on sometimes like me and then can't read the locked entries. lol any 'lurkers' can add me, (tho i doubt i have any) if i vaguely know who they are. :)

Superman Returns was AMAZING! i wanted to bounce all the way to the car after the movie, but there were too many people around. but WOW was it exciting. the music just made everyone's nerves tingle. that guy who played superman did a reeeeally good job--he was basically copying christopher reeve's interpretation of the character, but he did an amazing job at it! the only thing i didn't like was the actress who played lois lane, because she was too girly and didn't act enough like the one from the original movies--and she was quite obviously trying to imitate her, so that just made it worse. and they made jimmie all strange and feminine. but the movie was just incredible in spite of all my complaining :D. it was hilarious and exciting and made me go *WHEE HAPPY HEART BUBBLES!!!* the whole time. lex luther was awesome too :D:D:D
i want to see it again. and then a third time in an Imax theater :D:D:D

i think it would be really awesome to have a Bug (the car), just so that i could say i was buggering off whenever i turned the car off :D:D

tomorrow we leave for ohio to pick up our grandparents (not my dad tho), and we'll be back on friday afternoon.

so it turns out that the people at lowe's never ordered my carpet T_T but we went there today and they fixed it and now it'll be here in a week.

still haven't found the spider in my room...

i was up until it got light outside because the book i started yesterday was so absorbing--it started off slow, but it's SO GOOD!  The SHip of Magic by Robin Hobb. I've been thinking about buying it for like, months, because i always see the second and third books in the series and they look so good, but i never found the first one. and now i have it and i can't put it down :D

*ish happy happy happy*

there is a spider in my room somewhere. i'm not sure where, but i know it's in there, because i saw it crawling over my quilt while i was reading in bed. i slapped at it with a magazine, but i never found any dead spider parts. strangely enough, i haven't had much trouble getting to sleep. i think i'm more bothered by ants. i have had several dreams with evil ants in them, but no dreams about spiders.
it was a very black fuzzy spider tho.

yesterday i got to follow around uncle Waheed in his office, and i get to watch him for a few weeks (as something to do and to put in my resume). so today i went to the hospital and i got to see a bunch of operations. the first one i went to, he was worried i might faint so he made me stand against a wall the whole time, but the second-last one he did, one of the nurses got me 2 of those little steps to stand on at one end of the patient and i got to see a spinal thingy--i don't remember what the first part of it was called but the second part was a fusion. i also got to see the person's spine! because uncle waheed took out 2 of the vertebrae (since they were pinching a nerve), and then called me over to look at the spine. it was sort of creamy-white and fat.

Superman Returns at 10 tonight!!! The only reasons i'm so excited is bcos Bryan Singer directed it, and bcos i love superman because of christopher reeve's acting. there was this article in the newspaper today abt it, and it kinda made the movie sound bad, but hey, it's bryan singer so *shrugs*. (now that i've seen what happens when he DOESNT direct XMen :D)

i read The Decoy Princess by Dawn Cook yesterday (started and finished) and it was SUCH a good book. Dawn Cook also wrote the 'Truth' series which i own, but i think i liked this book better. It was so funny at times that i was laughing out loud--meaning it wasn't standard humor but original having-to-do-with-the-story humor. like the part where the main character (the princess) mentions a block of prison cells that she once played 'house' in, and how the soldiers still tease the guard who she made be her 'husband'. lololotr. it had a fascinating plot that you find out about near the middle/end.

KHII still isn't very exciting...not sure why, because the first game would not let go of me, and haunted my dreams and everything. but this one is just like...well, here i am, so why not play the game? bleh.
:)

omg there's finally an option to switch back to plain text mode! just when i'd gotten used to this one *grumble*

gah so much has happened!!!
but first, AMA in a cut bcos i have so much to say abt it!!!!!!

My bedroom has new paint! yay! The roof is light blue and the walls are aqua, and when the carpet gets here it'll be purple. Sigh, but  the room itself is all messed up because of the construction: the one window i have is blocked by a terrible view of the roof of part of the extension, and the rest of it is blocked by trees, so i can't see the sunset (or the sun or any light at all) anymore. Plus the irritatingly large closet blocks access to the window as well. And i'll need to buy a new computer table since i don't have anywhere to put it because of the closet and window. *more grumbling*

********EDIT******* Bollywood Party Reloaded is on Saturday instead of Friday, since we're driving our grandparents down on friday. Otherwise it'll have to be some other week, after Appna and everything...so if there are any major conflicts, let me know. ********EDIT********
Bollywood Party on friday!!! I feel like we need to give it a title, like Bollywood Party Reload or something :D:D. It starts at 4:30pm friday, and finishes around 11am or 12 on saturday. Bring sleeping bags! We're planning on watching Bend it Like Beckam, Kal Ho Na Ho, Where's the Party, Yaar? and something else that i can't remember, and Aladdin!! :D:D There shall be kettle corn, cookie dough, tollhouse cookies, and other snacks. perhaps spicy cheetos.

Fatima has the cutest little kitten ever!!! She's white with orange stripes and they named her Simba O.o. She was so hyper, and everyone kept wanting to hold her instead of dancing :D. I was happy because at the end of the practice when people were leaving, she fell asleep in my lap while lying on her back! It was adorable. *wishes she wasn't allergic to cats* Waqas says she should be named garfield. But that's a boy name too. She likes to play around by clawing and biting! Like me! lol well, sometimes. Waqas is bored. But i'm not because i'm on a rambling roll. *meekly apologises to those who read all of this*

Superman on tuesday!!! We need to buy advance tickets because it's playing at 10pm Tuesday (the 27th). Fashion Square, i believe? *must remind parents*

Oops! almost forgot, i FINALLY have Kingdom Hearts II!!!!!! ISH HAPPY! It had the longest introduction tho. And i kinda feel like i enjoyed the first game better...but then i've only been to 2 worlds so far (beauty and the beast and mulan).

*abruptly stops rambling.*

too much to say, not enough attention span...

tomorrow me and my mom are driving to ohio at like noon, and visiting my uncle bcos they're all moving to houston, and then early friday morning (9am?) natalie and ian are going to arrive (not all the way from kentucky, they're spending the night somewhere 2 hrs away) and we're going to drive to richmond for the amine convention!!! YAY!! only downside is that i don't get to see elizabeth while we're in ohio. friday my dad and brother are going to ohio as well. then sunday i'm going back to kentucky with ian and natalie, spending the night at nali's, and ian's driving me to saginaw on monday since she's going to detroit anyway.

funny story from mr. miller's party. u're gonna love this.


and some other stuff happened. oh yeah, i get to take this medicine that makes u sleppy and dizzy bcos one week ago i had my wisdom teeth pulled and no it wasn't painful bcos i was unconcious, but i got to watch the needle go into my hand. it was a lot less painful than the numbing shots they put in ur gums (which i don't think they did). it was fun when i had to take 3 kinds of pills, bcos i took them one right after the other and felt like a hypochondriac :D. now 2 of them are finished so i only have to take the yucky one and tylenol. and i have to chew carefully bcos of the stitches (meaning lots of cake at the graduation parties).

oh yeah, i've been to 6 graduation parties so far: yasmin, samir, angela, diyan, shavein, and sam prime's. sam's was today. i read the entire time from frisbee to fuzzy's to his house :D so i definitely had fun. the book had just gotten interesting. it's one i'm re-reading.
i've already finished 2 of the 4 new books i bought on monday T_T. i need more self-control.

k, now i need to go finish packing. i'm taking my black velvety cloak :D just bcos i have it.

omg me and samantha spent the afternoon with ainslee and her baby, and the baby is the most adorable little thing in the world!!!! she's 2 months old and she's soooo tiny and she has the sweetest little voice when she cries and makes little noises, and she's so squirmy and cute i can't take it! she really looks like ainslee, but since i don't really remember what mike looks like i can't compare very well. ainslee says when the baby (Micayel? *shrugs* that's how it's pronounced anyway) is happy she looks like ainslee and when she's angry she looks like mike :D. she has ainslee hair tho. and she's really pale and her eyes (at the moment) are really dark shiny blue, they almost look black. she slept almost the whole time tho :( but we got to hold her and she's just sooooo adorable. me and samantha both really missed her when we had to leave. she's our little jedi ^_^ darn it now i miss her again. :'(
oh, and the art fair was fun too :D

weeelll.....me and my mom are back from ohio. :) more on that later. more pressing is the fact that i saw X3 on friday. it was awesome seeing samantha again, and the movie got off to a great start....but right now i would like to pretend that movie never existed. T_T plus there was that one terrible scene after which i had trouble not crying, which just made me angry and that didn't help. i was planning on putting a long list of complaints in a cut to help prevent spoilers for anyone who still hasn't seen it, but i don't have the energy (and attention span) right now. heheheh...so i'll just say a few non-spoilers: i think it was a bad choice of plot for the last installment in the movies (not counting the planned wolverine spin-off), there was very little character development (like, here's a character, but we're not going to tell u their name or anything, and oh here's some fighting), i didn't enjoy it after the first 15 minutes (which were actually pretty awesome), and it just didn't measure up to the first two. like, X2 was an awesome sequel, but X3 is like the second and third Matrix movies... only worse somehow.
so i'm just gonna pretend they're still working on X3 and a better version will come along soon and erase the bad memories from the first one. perhaps i'll start reading the comics ;)

ohio was a lot of fun. it felt like we were there for a really long time...i think it's because usually when we go, it's with my dad and brother, and abu always drags us off to some mall so we spend very little time at my grandparent's apartment, but this time i had lots of time to talk to my grandfather friday night, and then saturday afternoon when i woke up we went to see my uncle, who's moving to Houston in a few weeks. my cousins seem to grow more energetic each time i see them, but that's ok because they also get sweeter each time. ^_^ the youngest one, Amina, was very clingy, and kept pushing away whoever was sitting next to me so she could sit there lololotr. when we had to leave, all three of them came with us to spend the night at our grandparents' apartment, and we watched Rodger's & Hammerstein's Cinderella, and then i told them a story bcos they still weren't sleepy. then i actually fell asleep when they did, which was 11pm! but as a consequence, i woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep until 10:30. Amina woke up at 5:30 and kept smiling at me while she tried to go back to sleep, and then i made her color in my star wars coloring book :D she colored a picture of darth vader for me *warm fuzzies* and she signed her name on it, but for some reason she wrote her letters from right to left instead of left to right. i also have a colored darth vader picture by Ayesha, who colored a Queen Amidala for herself, and one colored by Fatima of a bunch of Jedi.
We decided that none of us are going to get married and we're all going to life in a huge house when we grow up and we'll have lots and lots of cats. Fatima had some cool names stored up for them.

we brought a bunch of boxes with my grandparent's stuff in them bcos they're moving back to Pakistan this summer and first they're going to stay with us for a while.
oh i almost forgot, me and my parents are now US citizens :) and so is my grandfather.
parry two, lunge two!

we're seeing the movie at 4:25 tomorrow at the saginaw 8
squee! :D:D:D

YAY!! IT'S COMING!!!! LESS THAN TWO MORE DAYS AND IT WILL BE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anyone going to see it who would like to see it with me and waqas? i'm thinking of seeing one of the 4-5pm shows, since me and my mom are driving to ohio for the weekend friday night.
there was going to be a 7-minute preview on FX last night, but i restrained myself because i didn't want to spoil the movie *is proud of self*

OMG! AND AND AND i get to go to an anime convention in june!!! YAY! It's Anime Mid-Atlantic and it's in Richmond VA, and Natalie and Ian (pronounced 'yan' because she's chinese) are going to drive to ohio to get me because my parents were willing to go there that weekend so it would be easier for Ian to drive from Kentucky to me to Virginia, and then we'll probably stay at one of the hotels that gives discounts for the convention and there's going to be lots of vendors and AMV contests and other stuff that they do at conventions....and none of us have ever been to one so IT WILL BE EXCITING!!!!! and then afterwards they'll drop me back off in ohio and i'll get to see Elizabeth at some point too!!!! :D YAY!!!!
http://www.animemidatlantic.com/   <-- there's the website!!

grrr my update journal thing seems to be stuck in the "rich text" mode. i just want the simple version!

yesterday was the cultural festival thing, probably better known as 'the fashion show' because that's what the pakistani/indian/asian ppl did. it was in frankunmuth at zehnders, and me, mariam, fatima, zehra and afroze had to read this cheesy poem at the beginning. it was so cheesy i didn't want to do it. neither did ahmed and he got out of doing it and afroze read his stanza instead. *glares* it was strange speaking into that microphone, because i wanted to hear what i sounded like and i couldn't tell if i was too close, because the speakers were on either side of the stage and some people sounded too loud if they were too close to it. it was very distracting reading something and trying to listen to myself at the same time :D
we missed all the performances between the poem and the fashion show :( i really wanted to hear the doctor with the flute, because he was playing POTO music while everyone was still getting to the meeting; he was near our table and when he finished he saw us watching and i said that it was awesome, and he said we looked nice, and then he came to the table so we could hear him better and we talked a little about POTO and then he left. so i was pretty excited about hearing his performance. we also missed some dancers, but there was plenty of cool dancing at the end--there was a group from this jazz thing, and 2 swind dancers (not that great but it was cute), and then there were mexican dances which were really cool, and some singers who were really good so the end of it all was fun.

monday morning we get to go to detroit again but we have to be there at 8am!!!! :-O which means i have to wake up at like, 5am (or not go to sleep at all).  ***EDIT: We're leaving today and spending the night there instead of waking up at that ungodly hour. :)
i saw this really cute anime movie last night on TCM called Whisper of the Heart. it was just like reading a book :D it was a really good movie, but i was kinda shocked when it ended because i was expecting a lot more story out of it. and i missed the first 3 minutes, which left me confused for much of the movie because they kept referring to something that happened then. but it was still a good movie :) *hearts TCM*
i can't find any showtimes for X3 nearby .....??? i looked at the release date and every day for the week after it, but it's just not playing. maybe it'll show up later...i think we'll need advance tickets?

parry 2, attack 2. :D

all the windows in the family room and the kitchen are now gone, and the big spaces are covered with white sheet things. waqas wanted to rip a hole in one of them, i said it would be stupid, he was like, "no, after the builders leave." my response was "why do you have to be stupid at all?" he had no reply to that :D
all the sofas are also pushed into one corner and the tv and its various accessories are all unplugged and in the living room where they are of no use to anyone. lol. my dad's currently trying to find a 46-foot cable cord so i can connect the tv in the guest room to the cable outlet thing in my bedroom because the outlet thing in the guestroom doesn't work. my brother made clam chowder with shrimp today. he was pretty excited.

( Appna thing on saturday )it's cold today. I'm re-reading the rhapsody series (aka The Symphony of Ages) by Elizabeth Haydon. the first book took like half a week to finish :D and they get longer. the first time i read them i hated Ashe, but the second time reading it i REALLY hate Ashe. there's just so many things abt him that make him a huge jerk. Achmed is so much better. i hope Ms Haydon fixes that problem in her next book THE ASSASSIN KING! I CAN"T WAIT RAR! i heard the release date is january of next year T_T there's an excerpt at her website at the forums in case anyone's interested :D http://dnn.thecauldron.org/Forums/tabid/54/forumid/6/postid/87/view/topic/Default.aspx

i love this comic!! http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513

i wish i had an internet connection in my room. or well, the guest room now because they've taken out the windows in my bedroom. but the guest room doesn't even have a cable connection, so my lurvely tv is in there but i can only watch movies on it. working on the original trilogy at the moment :) I dislike not going online for a long time and then going to my lj friends page and finding a whole bunch of entries, because then i have to go to the beginning and read all of them. because lj makes you obsessive like that.

And now....FUN WITH CUTS! ( An author ) ( Appna ) ( RAIN! ) ( Electricity )

So, what are our plans for X3???? Because we need to have plans. It comes out on the 26th, which gives us *checks calendar* TWO WEEKS! to come up with a plan of action. This is serious guys--what time are we seeing it, and do we need to buy advanced tickets??!? I wish they'd stop showing so many different previews because i feel like i've already seen too many spoilers for the movie. Like, ( Spoiler if you havent seen this preview ) i could definitely have waited for the movie to find that out. And so much other stuff is in the previews that it's threatening to make me less eager to see the movie! But of course i'm not any less eager. So, what time are we seeing this??????

i find it funny that dani seems to think that if someone is hit by a meteorite, they'll end up in a coma instead of just dying. unless of course i'm mistaken and meteorites aren't fatal.

i thought of this insult last night when i was thinking of fantasy books: I hope your edges go blunt and your shine rusts! :D See, it's a sword reference except u can say it to people like a metaphor. *giggles*

still need to get to b&n. it's so difficult to wake up before 4pm and then get dressed and eat a quick breakfast and then stop reading or watching tv and actually leave the house. i wish it was a 3 minute walk away like borders was in ann arbor. i'm going to try to wake up really early tomorrow tho bcos i have to wake up reeeeally early (or just not go to sleep) on monday bcos we have to go to detroit. we need to be there at like, 1 or 2pm, but my dad feels we need to leave at 6am in case we get lost. *¿*
The construction in the house is progressing. there are now walls up, and stairs to the new basement, and soon they're gonna start breaking walls between the new part and the old part of the house, so my mom had to pack up a bunch of decorative items. lol. i'm hoping to get a window seat in my room *eyesclosedfingerscrossed* bcos i can't get a balcony.

how would you pronounce this: euan euan eu-oi-oi-oi? it's something bacchus says in Prince Caspian (narnia book). I want to go to narnia T_T :'(( T.T

waqas has an AP (bio?) exam monday and afterwards apparently they're all seeing a movie. which means i'll probably tag along too. i hope they see Ice Age 2 or V for Vendetta bcos i reeeally want to see those again.

and we're going to new york for july 4th! if all goes well. *needs to buy tickets for POTO*

(after parry 4) walking through the door that has no name, clearing move! fwa! teehee.

there are so many things about this review that bother me:

"chris carlisle (ghost1990@hotmail.com), a paintball player, August 22, 2005, 5 out of 5 stars
absolutly awesome
this book is 1 of the best i have ever read and that sayen something considering that at age 15 i have a collage reading level and have read the most books out of every person in my high school
Also recommended: artemis fowl series and the harry potter series"

that's a review from bn.com for a book by L. A. Meyer. lol, in case anyone was wondering, i like to 'research' books before buying them, like, by seeing what else reviewers of a book have read, or what reviewers of a book i already like recommend. its fun, except when i find reviews like this one, and then i just get irritated.

oh yeah, any suggestions for good books to read?? preferably fantasy ones (well, exclusively fantasy ones). i finished re-reading my third fantasy book and now i'm on the third narnia book...so that b&n trip may be happening soon :) (the ones i re-read were Green Rider & First Fider's Call by Kirsten Britain, who is BRILLIANT, and Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith--the only one i've read by her, but that may change; and yes, i recommend those to everyone)

now time to go to bed before my parents wake up. heheheh ^^;;

quote from my brother: "there's so much more junk food in the house when you're home!" [i went to meijer's yesterday :D)

i need to go to barnes & nobles soon or i'll go crazy! but at least i have tons of books to re-read in the meantime. i'm on my third one right now.
ok, this window just got wider while i was sitting here reading over what i'd written. i wasn't even typing! this is so irritating! RAR!

ultimate frisbee tomorrow! i'll probably be too lazy to play...i think i've already started to gain weight just from being home and not walking to class (or anywhere). i miss ring of steel :(

parry 4 (lol i'll pretend i anticipated it and then u can attack lololololotr :D)

So i'm in saginaw and have been since sunday. I also lost a day between monday and wednesday somehow. (i misplaced some time once...it's always in the last place you expect)
I saw the talent show today!!! It was HILARIOUS! My brother is Waqisha! (however u'd spell it) MUCH LOLOLOTR!!!! and i saw Teri again for the first time in FOREVER AND EVER! Since last summer i think. I find it funny that students who have never been in Ms. Mahar's class still call her ms mahar, even tho technically she's mrs schneider (or something).

There's construction going on at my house. Apparently the family room wasn't big enough for my mom, and apparently we didn't have enough kitchens either. She also wanted another closet in her room. So now if you step out of any of the doors that lead to out backyard, you will fall into a big pit. Eventually, the family room will be longer, there will be a new kitchen in the basement (and also a media room), the current kitchen will be moved closer to the backyard, and i will lose one window in my bedroom T_T Which means i'm going to have to take down all (or half if i'm lucky) of the things on my wall and move a bunch of furniture and my computer to the guest room, where it will not fit because there is barely enough room in there for the bed as it is (the bed that's already in the guest room. i have no idea what's going to happen to the bed in my room).

gah! and what is up with this navigator window! STOP GETTING WIDER!!

Um...tomorrow we're going back to ann arbor for a graduation thing (taimour's brother tehmasp).

Me, 'waqisha', aryan and munim just saw Silent Hill. I was dissatisfied with the ending, but it wasn't a bad movie. i would have preferred to see V for Vendetta again tho :D I've never played the game, so i don't know how the movie was compared to it, but it did have an interesting plot. it wasn't really scary; i was more creeped out by The Grudge.

Oh, and i don't have an internet connection in my room, and the computer that does have one is on the other side of the house from the tv and kitchen, so i probably won't be coming online as often as i need to, unless i find the wireless thing for my computer...*wonders where it went*

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