death by marshmellows

that's weird, my spell check says it's "marshmallow" but i thought it was marshmellow cause that's how we say it? so maybe i'll just spell it that way anyway...? whatever, ANYWAY!

so i have this friend whom i've known since...well my parents knew her parents before we were both born, so like all my life. and i haven't seen her for a while. but for her birthday her parents decided to throw her a surprise party. good stuff. i'll try and leave out details so this doesn't get too long. but it WILL be long. so you've been warned.

okay so we get to her house, and she wasn't supposed to be home for like another half hour. so we got to meet all her other friends and stuff in that time. and her dad (crazy crazy guy) knows this guy, who invented these MARSHMELLOW GUNS out of PVC tubing!! XD they are so awesome! so basically you put a marshmellow in it and blow. sounds primitive, but totally awesome. they can shoot up to 50 feet and it doesn't really hurt unless it's like in your face or eye or something. and he had em spray painted all camo-like and stuff XD lol, but yeah, so when my friend comes home, everyone hid (of course) then we all jumped out, yelled surprise, then shot her with these marshmellow guns! it was sooo freakin hilarious! she fell backwards out the front door she was so surprised, and then she was laughing for like 5 minutes. it was great ^__^ she was really surprised too, so that was good.

then we did a marshmellow war outside (and they live out in the "country" in ramona, so there was lots of room for it) nothing fancy or planed (especially after paintballing last week), just a bucket (BIG BUCKET) of marshmellows in the middle and everyone running around shooting everyone. fun stuff. everyone's shoes got sooo jacked up and sticky though... marshmellows all over the place. and we had to pick them all up afterwards XD LAME! and they were all gross cause everyone stepped on them and some were wet and dirty and stuff. but it was still super fun. we'll have to do it for a pivot point event or something. =D

THEN, oh yes, it just gets better. her parents got a pinata. but not just any pinata... see my friend, really REALLY dislikes sponge bob squarepants...like she HATES him with a passion. she wrote this essay or something on how he's the antichrist (lol, as a joke of course). but anyway, her parents got her a sponge bob pinata to beat on. and so we all felt like 5 year olds again with the blindfolding, and the spinning around, and the looking like an idiot swinging at the air... but it was good. we beat that pinata so bad... arms and legs flying off and stuff. it was a pretty sad sight, but it was great ^_^

and after that we ate, pizza (lol, i just couldn't escape the friday pizza thing!!) go figure. and yeah, hung out and talked about random stuff with my friend's friend's (trying not to give out names here XD). her dad brought out his little portable camp fire thingie and we all sat around outside eating and telling funny stories about our friend. and she's pretty funny, so there were lots... lots of laughs and stuff.

then her dad busted out some old home videos of way back in the day XD and of course my sister and i were in most of them...lol, so megan and my friend and i were all rather embarrassed. but it was funny... i swear everyone laughed so much through the whole party! ah yes, good times. and while we watched those she opened presents... yippie skippy! it's only fun when they are your own i guess...but yeah, that part.

then CAKE! it was a good cake.. but it was also entertaining, because my friend and her friend had a cake fight! it was all over the place. they both had to take a shower and stuff... omg, yeah... you'd have had to have been there i guess... but this lovely colored frosting ALL over their faces, in their hair, and up their noses and... well yeah. it got pretty crazy ^_^; funny stuff. after that we all just sat around talking and stuff, then we had to leave cause it was getting late. but it was good. lotsa fun ^__^ glad i was able to go, blah blah blah

okay, that's all (i think). so thanks for reading my little story ^_^ now comment on something so know i'm not just talking to myself out here! <3

veni, vidi, vici

[for you uncultured or uneducated folks, that's Latin for "i came, i saw, i conquered"]

but in my case it should be more like: i went, i saw, i wasted lots of money on overpriced junk food. what did i do exactly? ...i went to the zoo!

so here it is, by popular demand: WHAT I DID YESTERDAY! yaaay!!

i'll start by saying that my favorite part of the zoo would have to be the pandas... i love pandas. if i were an animal i think it would be a panda... apart from being endangered, they have it pretty good: eat, sleep, and play all day! =3 sounds good to me! red pandas are also awesome... i want one as a pet ^__^

as for the other animals, i saw so many i can't even remember them all. we looked at everything but the elephants and rhinos...mainly because we couldn't find them ^^; heh, not that i cared to see them much anyway... you've seen one you've seen em all... and they smell bad besides! so no loss there.

annnd well... i must say, while the fact that nearly every other time we walked past an animal it pooped was kinda gross, what disgusted me the most was the people's reaction to *ahem* the reproductive nature of certain animals... yes, i know they're doing it right out there in the open (they don't give em much room in those little exhibits anyway) but i mean JEEZ PEOPLE!! do you have to hoot and yell and cheer them on? there are small children around you know! and funny how the little mexican school kids get all excited over stuff like the hippo pooping underwater... "mira mira! *lots of undistinguishable gibberish* jajajajajajaja!" i dunno... kinda wish i understood more spanish...but then, in this case, maybe not? lol

conclusion: out of all the animals i saw, humans are among the strangest of them all... very strange indeed. i want to be a panda.

downsides for the day:
* i was deprived of the samurai sam's teriyaki bowl that i have been craving all week -- not once, but TWICE! twice i could have gotten it! first time i couldn't because we were pressed for time (had to go through the taco bell drive thru RIGHT NEXT to samurai sam's). second time was because it was closed when we got there... of all the rotten luck.
* and we didn't ride the bus thingie around the zoo, so my feet were hurting... but i'm okay. i just need new shoes... or a new body.

upsides:
* i got to see lots of cute animals
* i got exercise walking around the zoo!
* i bought a bracelet to support panda conservation XD

annnd i guess that's all there is to tell...

thanks for reading!
until next time~

my favorite things right now

CD: The Afters - I Wish We All Could Win

this CD has hardly left my CD player since i got it. good stuff. check it out: http://www.theafters.com/

Snack: choco-banana pocky

tastes like banana cream pie...only it's not?
more pocky goodness can be found here: http://www.alde.com/anime/pocky4.html

why? well mostly just because i'm bored...but also because if i like something then other people would probably like it too, right?

so go get yourself some choco-banana pocky and a good CD and have a nice day : )

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(some people sure are desperate, huh? lol)

pain (er) PAINTballing

yeah, that's what it is... lol, soooo yesterday i went paintballing for the second time ever... good stuff... got shot lots... now i'm all battered and bruised... and sore... ugh, i felt like an old person limping around today... heh... mostly because of some dork who didn't know what it means when i'm walking with my hands up and gun in the air T_T so yeah, i got some crappy gun with a sticky trigger or something...i'd take one shot and it would get stuck, so at the begining of the game i just went ahead and surrendered, cause what's the point of staying in the game if you have to switch the safty on and off every time you take a shot? but anyway, it was a narrow area, so we had to walk towards the people on the other team to get out... so walking on the side, hands up, gun in the air... and some trigger happy punk pops out of no where and shoots me! right in the ribs... and i'm already pissed off cause my gun isn't working, but that just really sucked... kept walking, now in pain, and i don't know if it was the same punk or another one, but i got shot again from like 5 feet away! (and they say if someone is within 20 feet you have to tell them to surrender...so yeah, someone didn't listen to the rules >_> or was just dumb) but yeah.... more pain, right in the leg... stupid person, ruined my whole day... or at least the paintball experience. and i have two huge welts from those shots (i'd take a picture and put it here if i had a digital camera)... plus a couple other lovely battle wounds in various places... and i'm sore...... gah... pain...... >_<
**okay, complaining time over** ^__^

my calender is cool... it has these random european holidays like the 26th for instance is "Nationalfeiertag" in Austria (which sounds like national fire tag, which sounds like FUN!! haha ^_^;;) and then day light savings for the people in Austria, Germany and Switzerland is "Ende der Sommerzeit" (which could be "end of summer, or "in der somersult" however you hear it) jk, it's obvious, but then "Erntedankfest" in Germany... sounds..fun? i dunno... i've never been to an ern te dank fest.... i'm just filling space now =3 but i'll stop

~ amor et. pax ~
(love and peace)

.:happy birthday to me:.

this is just a "what i did on my birthday" kinda thing... and it got super long, so you've been warned. and i actually wrote this yesterday but didn't get to put it up till now. so yeah... for those of you who are into spying on me and such things, you get free info! yay for you! enjoy!

well, today, october 18th 2005, is my 18th birthday. omg, i'm a legal adult now. heh, and no, i don't feel any older than i did yesterday (why do people always ask that? dumbest question EVER!) but anyway, it was a good day ^_^ woke up early to go to class day with everyone. but first, i had to go on a little treasure hunt to find my birthday gift from a certain.... i must say, about the hunting for clues and whatnot; my brain doesn't work so well early in the morning XD the one in the freezer gave me the most trouble i think... but thanks ^__^ i did finally find the picture thing, and i love it! *hugs*

after that we all went to class day (if you don't know what that is, it's basically when the big home school group that we are a part of gets together and does extracurricular classes and things, and it's for day... every other week... class + day = class day... makes sense to me) but yeah, since i've graduated, i don't go anymore. but i figured i could go and then we'd be close to the place i wanted to go anyway (tell you later). so yeah, chilled with megan in her classes, saw all my old school buddies (the ones that didn't graduate that is) it's weird, since i was there, it's changed, but at the same time it's still the same. i dunno... but apart from reliving the boring opening/bible study (memorize catechisms? no thanks) it was really enjoyable. went to megan's drama class, which was fun... i'm much more confident doing it now than i was when i was actually in the class. then there was cooking class...we made apple pie, and i got to see my old cooking teacher -- who is really cool btw ^__^ then megan's next class was volley ball, which i was really excited about...but i'd forgotten the school's lameness about playing sports in the rain... they just don't do it. sooo the whole volley ball class was shipped upstairs into a room full of games (air hockey, checkers, basket ball hoop thingie, etc) and told that we couldn't touch anything... but they gave us a box full of gum, and a few decks of cards. super lame at first, but it was with my old art class buddies, so it was cool. i learned that in the home schooler's rendition of BS the "BS" stands for "bible study" lol. annnd i drew on my friends shoes and there was lots of gum throwing (no 52 card pick up thank you) and talking about lots of random stuff and just having a good time.
after the period was over and everyone was free, megan and i found a volley ball and started a free for all game of volley ball out front, eventually almost our entire group from upstairs joined in and we had this insane game of volley/soccer/dodge/foot/ball/whatever (meaning basically use any means necessary to keep the ball off the ground, and look as cool as you can doing it) going on out front in the wet grass. but then this guy who's in charge yelled at us for being by windows or something, so we had to move our game to the back where the street is.... and there's this random asphalt area divided by a chain link fence, so i said, "hey lets use this for a net"... thus extreme-GHETTO-killer-volley-soccer-foot-dodge-ball was born ^__^ it was great too, cause there were lots of puddles from all the rain, so if you spiked it and the other team got splashed then you were awesome. and if you missed it and you got splashed...well then it was just lame - and you were all wet to boot....and we all were rather wet by the time we were done (who wants to dive into the street for a stinkin volley ball anyway?) but it was so much fun! and it got pretty crazy too, we'd have random people just walk up and start playing... and yeah. enough about that ^_^ good times, good times.

after that we drove to the mall so that molly and i could get our ears pierced... ah yes, all 18 years of my life and just now getting it done... whatever. 4mm 14 karat white gold..um..orb shaped thing, shot into my ear lobes.... yeah. lame thing is i have to leave them in for 6 weeks, and i have to clean my ears 3 times every day for that whole 6 weeks XD jeez... lotsa work. and it didn't hurt as bad as some people made it sound... i didn't cry or anything, lol (don't i sound mature...not)^_^ then we got hot dog on a stick for lunch (yummy!) and went to the book store and the pet store. apparently they made a manga of kingdom hearts...so i bought that for myself ^_^ annnd they have the cutest kittens at the pet store right now! but they aren't going to start selling them till november 1st. they were so freakin adorable!!! i want a kitty!! ..maybe for my next birthday, yes? *wink*

then went home for a little bit, relaxed and stuff. then went to souplantation for dinner (WONTON CHICKEN HAPPINESS ^___^ oh yeah) and it was delicious as always! then went home and did cake and presents... and i have to say, most birthdays i maybe get one or two things i really wanted and a bunch of stuff i don't really like all that much. but THIS year i'm so happy with everything i got (of course i picked out half of it, but that's beside the point!) the best thing of course is that i FINALLY got my own laptop ^__^ yay for me! it's actually half graduation present as well, cause my loving parents never got me anything... but i'm really excited about it, i just hope i don't mess it up or something. and i think that's about it. over all, it was the best birthday i've had in a long time. and if you read all that...wow. props to you

xoxoxoxo,
~mel

once in a life-time oportunity!

for you people who know me personally, i'm humbly offering my artistic abilities to you. most of you have seen my online shop and you've probably noticed there isn't really much on it that is all that great... and this is because i'm really lacking in good ideas right now.
so, as of today, i'm opening it up to you guys! you can make a specific request for something or just give me an idea of something you would like for me to sell on an article of clothing or some other item in my shop (t-shirts, mouse pads, mugs, sweatshirts, hats and all kinds of stuff) and i will create it for you to buy! here are the terms for what i can put on my products:

Image GuidelinesIMAGE GUIDELINES You may not sell or save merchandise using the following types of content, unless you own the content and/or have a license to use it.
* NO UNOFFICIAL MERCHANDISE E.g., using names or images of musicians, bands, sports teams, athletes etc. without permission, even for fan club purposes. Learn more >
* NO CONTENT DOWNLOADED FROM INTERNET Learn more >
* NO NAMES/LOGOS OF COMPANIES OR ORGANIZATIONS E.g., NeoPets, Lakers, Dr. Pepper, Tommy Hilfiger etc. Learn more >
* NO TRADEMARKED TAGLINES E.g., Just Do It, The Ultimate Driving Machine, Got Milk? etc. Learn more >
* NO IMAGES OR LIKENESS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE E.g., photos of Pamela Anderson, Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Michael Jordan, Homer Simpson etc. Learn more >
* NO MANIPULATED CONTENT E.g., using a company's logo as a basis of your design Learn more >
* NO PHOTOS OR IMAGES OF KNOWN COPYRIGHTS E.g., Mickey Mouse, Dragonball Z, Godzilla, Barbie etc. Learn more >
* NO SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONTENT Learn more >
* NO COPYING OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MATERIAL E.g., books, magazines, publications etc. Learn more >

so you see why coming up with good stuff can be a challenge. this leaves you with...your own original ideas! : ) sooo, if you have an idea or request for something you'd like to see on my stuff (like your own personal quote or some such) if it's within these guidelines, and you would actually be interested in purchasing it, PLEASE let me know about it! think of it as personalized shopping. ^__^

please help me out,
mel <3

mini mint milanos

are what i am having for a midnight snack....

just thought i'd update real quick while my lame computer is working... but then realized i have nothing interesting to tell... ^_^ but here's a picture i drew

cheers!

i heart word verification

no i'm serious. call me crazy, but i really do. c'mon now... what's not totally awesome about those random letters put together in weird, squiggly, colored font that they call "words" even though you can't pronounce them? (and yay for my awesome run-on sentence skillz)

but at this point i'm not so overwhelmed by spam that i'll be forced to use it on my blog...not even for my own amusement. of course now that i've said that right after i post this i'll probably be spammed like no other.

skwvejw!

The Great Steak & Potato Co. - The American Carne Asada Fries...sort of

well, close enough. went to the mall today, and after all the surf shops megan dragged me into the only thing i bought in the whole mall was food... go figure. but yeah, the great steak and potato co... i ordered what they call "the king": fries with cheese, sour cream, bacon bits, and chives on top. all for a little under 5$ (my weekly allowance that i get once in a blue moon). but anyway, the last time i had this was when my grandparents were visiting earlier this year. and my grandma was with me, and she's a total health food person. so the whole time i was eating it she was sitting watching me and making this weird moaning "uggghhh" kind of sound like every 5 minutes (cause watching me eat it was making her gain weight or something?).... but that made it all the better somehow ^_^ either way, i enjoyed it again today, and it was so good i thought i'd write about it here and recomend it to everyone. it's a lot like Boardwalk Fries (that used to be in the mall but went out of business or something).
as for the rest of the trip, went into every surf shop in the place and i must say, i don't really like most of them... buncha over-priced poser gear really. or maybe i'm just mad at them because i want their stuff but can't afford it...and can't pull off the rest of it. woe is me. i'm thinking about getting a j-o-b at the Barnes & Noble in Carmel Mountain. haha, we'll see how long that idea lasts. oh what else can i talk about? i was also thinking about dying my hair again. something redish this time maybe? like auburn? i'm getting rather pale from being on the compy all the time, so i think i could pull off the whole red-head look. ........or how about just full on black? ^__^ okay, now i'm going crazy! someone stop me!! XD

eh....

i don't really like having my picture on my comments... it's just weird. so maybe i'll do like you said jen and put up one of my drawings or something. but till then, no picture.

a new store by me! go check it out!

mystery solved

but first, what do you think of my picture?

it's not very recent, but it's better than nothing i guess.

so the mystery of the disapearing salt and paprika has been solved. turns out my mom was the culprit. after some questioning she finally confessed that she had indeed taken the missing items with her to class day (for a cooking class that she teaches), then proceded to laugh at me when i told her what i used instead (see previous blog entry) *sigh* i love you mom

happy october!

current mood: absent minded
reading: lots of blogs
listening to: Something like Silas - Divine Invitation
watching: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

gah! i don't know if i should call this a blond moment or just typical me.
so i'm having left over potato salad for lunch today, and i go to put paprika on it (cause that's what i always do) and after i'd already sprinkled it all over my food, i notice it kinda looks darker than usual. so i look and i realize i don't have the paprika in my hand... i have chili powder in my hand!! XD but i swear it looked just like the paprika (it was red and in a similar container, and in the same place the paprika usually is). but it's not like i can just scrape it off or anything (not without throwing away half of my food), so i'm eating it anyway... it's not too bad actually ^_^; but i still can't find the paprika OR the salt for that matter and i'm really confused cause i just used them both last night.

and in other news, my 18th birthday is in...exactly two weeks today! so i guess this is a good time to put this up: my wish list
yeah, i've actually been working on it for a while... it's mostly random stuff that i don't expect to ever own. but still, if you ever feel like giving me something, that's a good place to start...for good ideas at least. (and most of it is fairly cheap stuff)

and don't forget to check out my store at cafepress.com! i've added a new shop and more stuff ^_^

much love <3
~mel