Spring Has Sprung in MN!

Author's note:
If someone was to ask me, "I've heard that there's only 1 season in Minnesota: Winter. Is that right?", I always reply, "There are actually 4 seasons in Minnesota, as you'll be surprised to hear." Before they answer, I quickly continue. "They are called "Almost Winter", "Winter", "Still Winter", and "Road Construction"." Now is the season that we seasoned Minnesotans usually call "Road Construction", because it's the one time of year when the roads aren't frozen solid, so nearly every major road is torn up at about this time. But guess what? People are actually using the word "Spring" for the current time! I'm surprised, I must say, but I've also used such a word. It's foreign, yes, but has now been tainted with Minnesotan accents for the first time in years....
-Emily McGivern; 7th grade awesome person.

Okay, weird title. But here's what I was going to do...

OH MY EFFIN GOD!!!!! I JUST WENT OUTSIDE IN A T-SHIRT AND JEANS, AND GUESS WHAT?????? I DIDN'T TURN INTO A STATUE OF ICE! INSTEAD, I JUST STOOD THERE!!! IN A T-SHIRT!!! AND WAS FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
Boys and girls, ladies and gents: It's a Minnesota spring!!! (Aka: It'll either blizzard again by tomorrow, or it'll be 100 degrees by next week.) Ya never know - I was born in May, and I've had birthdays where I went sledding, and birthdays where I coulda gone to the beach, or an outside pool.
Of course, I've also had actual spring birthdays... but out of my 11, only 2 resembled anything like spring. You know, the 60 degree weather, wind, little bit of rain? My very favorite. I love it when it's 60 degrees - not one more, nor one less - and the wind could tear your hair right out of your scalp. I love those days.
And one of those days was on Sunday. That exact type of day. 60 degrees, on the dot, not 1/10 of a degree off. VERY windy. It was such a nice change from 10 degrees and blizzarding. I literally went sprinting up and down the road, yelling "IT'S WARM!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! FOR IT TO BE WARM!!!!" Yup. It was quite a sight to see, I bet.
I wasn't on MY street, though... I was running up and down a street that really, really rich people live on: I was touring mansions. And it was really fun... I even found one with a high-up tower to fit my very needs! ;) Anyway, yeah, it was called the Parade of Homes. It was fun. It was also the first in 5 years where it wasn't either pouring rain or hail or snow. Amazing.
So... yeah. I don't really have ALL that much to say. The entire few paragraphs above are basically just "It was 60 out on Sunday, it got to freakin' 72 yesterday, and it's exactly 58.8 degrees out today. Heaven has made its way to Bloomington, Minnesota, folks.

And that's my post. Now, Armin, it's your turn. (Long story. Inside joke. If you were Brynn, Paige, Genesis, or anyone else in my Tech Ed class [only Brynn was in my Tech class, but the rest know about it], you would get it.)

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-A VERY happy Emiliano

Random Pic

Sorry -- I have to have a URL for this site that I want to post my pic on, and the URL with the pic that it has doesn't work because the pic is too wide. So I'm just gonna post the pic. Sorry for the false alarm of me posting (as if).

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

The Play, the Potluck, and the Cast Party

Here's the exciting story of the play, the 'potluck', and the cast party.

The Potluck
- Okay, so there was this "potluck". I was told about it when we were in the changing room getting into our costumes before the actual show, before green room, before everything. It was going to be during intermission in the girls' dressing room. From the way people talked about it (nonchalantly), I figured that it was fine with the directors and stuff. I also was told to stay in my spot after the bows and stuff, because everyone was going to present the co-directors, the costume ladies, and the student director with flowers in front of the audience.
- Well, come to find out in the middle of the first half that it was TOTALLY not okay with the directors, because everyone was whispering and talking about how much trouble they (NOT me. Not a chance.) would be in if they got caught. Come intermission, everyone rushed to the dressing room except for the smart people (including me, Brynn, Katie V., and Allison B.), who stayed in the backstage holding room.
- A few minutes through, I went into the dressing room later, because I'd forgotten my hair clip (and noticed during the last song of first act. I know, I'm so observant.) and had to get it from my bag. There was a circle of girls, mostly popular ones but some not-so-popular ones, each with a HUGE bag of chips, cookies, candy, and even a few people with actual JARS of frosting. I almost barfed right there. So I got my hair clip and went back to the H.R., where I told Katie about what I saw. She gagged just hearing about it.
- Then Katie and I went down to the costume room to get one of her buttons fixed. Yay, super-important. Then we went back to the H.R. to told everyone else, and Robyn (this REALLY annoying girl) was like "Oh em gee! I am telling MaryJane about this." And then she walked out of the room, and I came with. Turns out that she ran into Stephanie (the other costume lady) first, and she spilled the beans, with me adding details every few words. Then Stephanie went down the hallway, we went back to the H.R. to wait it out, and the "lookout" for the dressing room totally freaked out and ran into the room.
- Well, they hid all the food (really badly) and said that they were "practicing the songs" when they were asked why they were all in there. Stephanie didn't buy it, but no one got in all that much trouble. Later on, I heard that MaryJane thought that they were doing drugs! xD
- Anyway, then Kelsey (another really annoying girl, who's practically glued to my side most of the time) comes into the H.R. and goes, "Oh gosh, I hope I don't get in trouble for the potluck. I had like one chip." She looked really worried. I almost fell down laughing. When I'd walked in to get my clip, her mouth had been absolutely exploding with a variety of things, and she'd been reaching into a huge bag of Oreos as she munched. So I told her what I saw, she denied it (of course), and we finished the second half. All was normal.
The Cast Party
- After the bows and the flower-giving and stuff, we all ran to the dressing room, changed at the speed of light so that we could get to the cast party. The idiots who started the potluck were still gourging themselves. When everyone FINALLY cleaned up (including a trio of really dumb sixth graders who decided to go get a 20 minute-long drink right when the directors were coming in to check that we were cleaned up), we went to the lunchroom to get started.
- We all ate 2 pieces of this REALLY good pizza, drank about 4 cans of Mtn Dew each, then got up to dance. We danced for a while, did "trivia questions" (I got a $10 DQ gift card for answering "How many holes does a 10-pin bowling pin have?" I mean, no DUH!!), and finally -- FINALLY!! - did mock awards.
The Mock Awards
Mock Awards are basically these little tiny pieces of colored paper with a random thing about you on them. (A few examples: Robyn was "Hyper Honey", Kelsey was "Tag-along" [HECK YES!!!!], and Brynn was "Look-alike Lady" [because of her older bro, Bryce, who was the lead last year.]) I got "One-Hat Wonder", because I wore my hat to almost every practice. I knew it was going to be about that hat... I knew it!! xD No, literally, right when they started the Mock Awards I whispered to Katie, "Watch mine be like "Hat Girl" or something." Anyway, they were really fun.

And that's pretty much it... I stayed at the party until about 2am or so, when they all but kicked us out the door. Katie went home at midnight, Kelsey (thank goodness) went home at 12:30, and Brynn stayed the whole time. Paige and Genesis didn't try out, even though Genesis has a rockin' voice. :(

ADIOSES!

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

The Play!!!

Here's a post dedicated to "the play" (aka: My school's musical, Little Shop of Horrors.)

- My costume, as I've probably said before, is a light blue striped dress, a bright red belt, a sparkly red headband (to match the belt), pantihose/nylons/whatever, and these weird, too-big black shoes. We also have to wear this "stage makeup", which isn't really stage makeup. It's just normal makeup put on in really huge quantities. What's really weird about the whole makeup thing is that you get so used to it, having seen it every day for hours on end, that people with no makeup on at all look like they've got like albinism. (No offense to albinos, who are just as human as everyone else. I'm just saying, they all look really pale and plain.)
- Only one play left, and Kali's coming to it!!!! :) A bunch of my friends came yesterday, but practically no one came on opening night. The seniors' performance was kinda like another dress rehearsal, just ALL the way through. Then the one on Thursday night (opening night) was like "Well, it's a performance, but still sort of practice." And then yesterday's was somehow the first real deal, and the whole cast went to DQ afterwards. No one went to DQ or anywhere else on Thursday. Tonight is going to be the REALLY real deal, cuz almost everyone's friends are coming tonight. A bunch of kids came yesterday, but most of them were from Oak Grove (our 'rival' school).
- I AM SO HYPER.
- I have every single song simultaneously stuck in my head. I didn't know that that was possible, really, to have like 9 songs playing in your head at the same time. Seriously.
- Cast party tonight!!!! I'm psyched, cuz apparently they're really awesome. I can't wait!
- I'm bored...
- IF YOU HAVE A FACEBOOK:: I'm going to be posting pictures from the play in an album titled - *gasp* - Little Shop of Horrors. Go look at 'em!!!

And... that's it, I think. Bye!

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

Super Randomness

Yay for being bored!! Cuz, you know, I'm bored. So yeah... Idk. HAPPY FRIDAY, PEOPLEZ!!!!

...Mhm. That was random. But yay! It's Friday! :D

And I got my laptop back. And stuff. Sooooooooo........mhm. That's pretty much it.
Adioses!!

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

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Update; 2 hours later:
OMG Spencer's on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He got on YIM, then he got on the meebo, and he's so Spencer-y!!! And it rocks! And stuff! So yeah. Just had to mention that. :D He just got on meebo like 10 minutes ago, and then he just brb'd, so I just hope he doesn't leave. If he does, I'm killing him next time I see him. :P Just kidding, of course. You all would hate me for life if I killed Spencer. Then again, I'D hate me for life if I killed Spencer.
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Update; about 2 seconds after the last update:
I forgot to mention that I'm sick and can't talk. My nose is running, my eyes are watering, and my throat is all swollen inward and weird tasting and I can't swallow that well. So :(.

Quick Update

Ok, this is gonna be short and sweet. So.

- Weird dream. Ask me about it later and I'll tell you about it. Don't remember much, but it was creepy, and real. You either love those or you hate them... I love 'em. :D
- Lots more chapters on the old Twin Telepathy!!
- I made a quiz. I like it. They take FOREVER, though. :( But still! I like my quiz. :) Ask me about that, too. I'll give you a link.
- TECH CREW IS HERE FOR THE PLAY!!!!! WHICH MEANS REAL BLACK-OUTS INSTEAD OF MRS. GILLIS JUST GOING "LIGHTS OUT." EVERY TIME!!!!! WHICH IS WICKED AWESOME!!!! (And spotlights and stuff. That's good too.)
- The plants. Are. AWESOME.
- My name won for the Resistance poll thingie!! The OtherSide. I commented and suggested it, and it won! *happy dance*
- I have circus tonight, and I have to wrap my feet now because the ropes aren't taped any more so my feet die every week. So.
- My computer's having issues lately with Yahoo. It'll randomly quit. Weird, huh?
- Spencer's AWOL. Joey's worried about Rae. All is weird at the OtherSide.

That's it. Have a nice day. :D

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

IQ Test Scores

Okay, so I finally found some decent IQ test websites, and here's what I got...

- On the adult one, I got 139. That's almost super-gifted for an adult. Heck yeah!
- On the kid one, I got...

Your Score is 100%

How well did you do?

Eleven-year-olds
60/70% - Good
70/85% - Very Good
85/100% - Excellent

Again, heck yeah.
- On the "Smarter than a fifth grader?" one, I got 100%, which means I'm WAY smarter than a fifth grader (10-11 year old), who would have gotten an average of 80-85%. Aka: I'm smarter than I should be. :P
- On the random 12-year-old test, I got 100%. Again. It was like "what does 'baffle' mean?" and I was like 'Confuse!' and it was like 'Good job!' and yeah. :D
- And... that's actually all I took. Just wanted you guys to know. :P

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano
P.S: Here is the adult IQ test. It's pretty easy, if I do say so myself... Remember: I got 139. Try to beat my score!
P.P.S: This is the kid test. They said it was for 8-11-year-olds or something. I think. Idk.
P.P.P.S: No, I don't really have a third thing. The other 2 quizzes were really weird URLs. I've just never had a P.P.P.S before. :D

Update - 2/19/09

Okay, here comes the update!

- First off, to set the mood, this thing that happened on the bus. So this kid named Alex and I were talking randomly, and the radio was playing, and there was this commercial on which I was kinda-sorta listening to. And I kind of half-registered that it was on, like, plastic surgery and stuff. People were talking, so it was sort of hard to hear, and then all of a sudden there was a pause, (you know, where everyone coincidentally quiets for like a half-second?) and the person for the commercial goes, "Big, sexy breasts," and everyone started laughing. Kind of a had-to-be-there situation, but it was really funny.
- Conferences tonight. Yaaaaay. *total flat voice* I have a "C" in math cuz I was absent for a quiz. My mom's not gonna be happy. :(
- THE PLANTS CAME YESTERDAY, AND THEY ARE DANG AWESOME!!! (Sorry, had to mention it.)
- Coinky-dink! So you know how Kali was sick? She had a fever of 102.2 one day, and I was like "Woah, that's almost to Lite FM!" (Lite FM is a radio station that's 102.9), and she goes, "Yeah, I was gonna say, more than KDWB!" (Another radio station. 101.3.) And then we laughed for a while. Well, last night she was reading "Speak", which is a book, and the beginning of a chapter was "I had a fever of 102.2. Sounded like a radio station." Weird, huh?
- I'm sleep-deprived and irritated, mainly because my Tech Ed partner chose TODAY to leave early (because she's leaving for the weekend) and today was the day that we made our finishing touches and hooked up to another group, and I (and Caroline and Olivia-the-complete-nutcase, too) needed another person. Badly. So now our hook-up is going to be late and we'll lose like 15 points. >:(
- I got yet ANOTHER request to join DA (Dimensions Academy, the school for the overly-intelligent) yesterday. I should really start a collection -- I have like 20 or something, and that's just from this year and last. Except I threw them all away... Wah. Anyway, yeah, I didn't want to go to Dimensions (aka: Demented, which is what people at my school sometimes call it, especially around me. They know that I've gotten a bunch of invites to it. Basically, calling it "demented academy" means they're jealous of me and the other people there.)
- Um.......... idk what else. Spencer's still iffy in his schedule apparently, hasn't posted for a week-ish. Rae and Kali are both sick. Kali is less so, now, than Rae is, probably. She still says she's really sick. Kali says she's better. But idk.

And that's it. Adioses.

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

One word --- Yum.

1. This is a peanut-butter brownie wrapped in chocolate chip cookie dough. YUM.
2. That's called a "Fatty Melt". Think Vince, Kaliyan. xD
3. A twinkie covered in chocolate fudge. *licks lips* No, no, I don't like Twinkies.
4. That baby is a Snickers cake. Tasteh.
5. "Snack Stadium" Lol.
6. HUGE KIT KAT!! I want it.
7. Oreo Tower! :D
8. Deep-fried s'more on a stick. HECK yeah.
9. Deep dish pizza vending machine. Wouldn't you like one of those at school?
10. Burger skyscraper. =P
11. A "Bellybuster". You can find 'em at Denny's.
12. Baconnaise. Self-explanatory.
13. Giant Rice Krispie bar --- 60 pounds. Not kidding.

Credit due to: THIS IS WHY YOU'RE FAT! Corp.

Hahahahahahahahaha. No, seriously. That's the name of the place. Mhm. I know.

ANYWAY, the pics were so cool (and yummy-looking) that I had to post 'em. So yeah. Hope you liked.

Peace, Love, and Llamas (and awesome food)! (KOD)
-Emiliano

HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Click on those words up there to see if YOU got your own special Heart Day gift! And if you didn't, then I was just too lazy to keep making presents, and you get a super-special box of chocolates, under "Combined Gifts". Don't be afraid to browse through the other gifts, too, of course!

Love,
Emiliano <3
P.S: Check out Joey's page especially. He got the coolest presents.

Total Randomness.

Random Update time, peepz! Aren't you excited? I know you are.

Soooooo, here's what I did, and my thoughts, and RANDOMNESS!!

- Went to my grandma's for the weekend. It was much like going to a grandma's house usually is. We baked cookies, played Scrabble, watched this movie called Princess that was super-cheesy yet somehow good, and hung out, and stayed up till like 11pm. Which isn't really THAT late, but still. And I played video games, because my grandpa loves Zelda. So yeah.
- This is super random: Seth is AWESOME!! And Kali doesn't even LIKE him that much but she still Imprinted on him, prolly to make me jealous. GOSH, Kali. I love Seth, and you love Jake, so you should just Imprint on darn Jake and not Seth, who's MINEZ. >:( See? I make Spencer's mad face.
- Joey's being his weirdo self.
- We have a long weekend!! For four days!!!!!! And I'm so happy!!!!! :D
- Well, okay, so it's good that it was a long weekend, or else it wouldn't really BE a weekend, since I was at my grandma's house, and that's not what I usually do on my weekends. So now I had 2 days of weekend-ness and one day of my mom and (evil) step-dad being lazy and watching a dumb movie (no, no, the movie seriously was dumb. My mom said so.) and going to a hotel. As if I couldn't stay home one night alone. I've done it tons of times before, honestly. And it's not any different than being home WITH my mom and (bobo y feo) step-dad.
- Um.........
- See, I don't have any more updates.
- But I'll just keep adding them.
- Because I feel like it.
- Seth is the BESTEST!! And he's MINEZ. >:(
- And...
- Um...
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- So.
- Um.
- I'll stop now.

ADIOSESCIAOADIEUBYEZ!
Peace, Love, Llamas (KOD)!
-Emiliano
P.S: Seth is MINE.

More on the Guardian thing

Okay, here's more on that "Message from Guardian" thing. Read the previous post for more info on this stuff.

Guardian: Hello messengers. What im about to tell you is very important. I will appear to Rachel in a dream as a young girl of 5 or 6. she MUST NOT LOOK ANYONE ELSE IN THE DREAM DIRECTLY IN THE EYE for this is fatal to the soul. she will be seeing into a limbo. these souls are unpredictable and will be judged by God If she is true to God then she will know which one to follow into the room. they wil show her how to cleanse
Me: Okay…
Guardian: without this, she will be most unsuccessful in her mission
Pyro: can we please know what cleansing is?????
Guardian: Hush child This is for the player only. She MUST win the game.
Pyro: stay!!! We might have questions.
Guardian: i cannot guaruntee they will all be answered curiosity is deadly to a messenger you will become sidetracked
Me: A lot of deadliness in all of this, isn't there?
Guardian: As they say, Curiosity killed the cat.
Guardian: There is. The dream will be in a week. she will fall to sleep regardless of will. i will see her there
Pyro: we still have questions!
Guardian: Ask them.
Me: Are you Nameless’ “Guardian”?
Guardian: No. I am gods. not GOD, but god. the one whom works the fields and reaps the corn.
Me: Ooookay.
Guardian: i am mankind for lack of a better word.
Pyro: you are people?
...
Pyro: how do we know you aren't a fake
Me: Good question.
Guardian: Faith, my dear child. Faith is the key. As Rachel will soon find out.
*Guardian leaves*
Pyro: that was a dramatic exit.

And there you have it. The next chapter of this stuff. Rae, HURRY UP. This person is weirding me out.

Peace, Love, Llamas, and Messenging (inside joke)! (KOD)
-Emiliano

I'm a messenger? SWEET!

WHO: Pyro and I. And some person called Guardian. Not Nameless' Guardian.
WHAT: Some cleansing of some sort.
WHERE: The Meebo.
WHEN: Friday, February 13, at 2:56 PM, your time.
WHY: I wish I knew.

Guardian: Is Rachel Alvelais here?
Pyro: no. why?
Me: Nope. But her fiance is. And her friend.
Guardian: Can I trust you to deliver a message
Me: Yes.
Pyro: yeah
Guardian: her time starts today.
Guardian: She has one year to complete the cleansing.
Me: ...Okay.
Guardian: She is a new player. Because of that the time of the play is now reset. It starts anew from this day.
Guardian: If she fails, her life will be the price. All life will.
Pyro: okay. what is cleansing?
Me: What Pyro asked.
Guardian: What cleansing is does not matter but unto her. She has one year.
Guardian: She must win the game. All of it.
Guardian: You are no longer her friends. You are her messengers.

I've got no clue what it means, but I think Rae should hop to that cleansing thing. So. Yeah.

Peace, Love, and Llamas! (KOD)
-Emiliano
P.S: Could be an RP, too. VERY slim chance, though.
P.P.S: In case you're unaware, that (P.S) is called sarcasm.

Why?

Asia and Skillet's old blog has turned into this:
http://justonelittlegirlinabigworld.blogspot.com/
And their profile turned into: http://www.blogger.com/profile/15513639983254829192

If this is just yet another attempt at trying to start over without us interfering, they messed up--the follower sign in the "Followers" sidebar used to be Asia and Skillet--now it's this Abi person. Jo and Aeron's group is still there (though you can't follow to the profile) and up until yesterday, Asia and Skillet's was there too--and their blog worked, until today.

Now it's gone...

and I feel a bit betrayed.
-Rae, the Resistance

The only thing I have to say about all this is: Why?
Why would you do this to someone? To a LOT of people who believed in you; who trusted you; who protected you -- in short, your friends? Why would you betray them like that? I rarely ever write poetry, but this is just... I don't know. I felt like writing a poem about it. Hopefully it won't suck as much as I think it will.

Betrayed

Feelings mixed,
Thoughts muddled.
How could they?
Why would they?
Betrayed am I.
I am betrayed.

Deep wounds,
Cutting, slicing.
Should I feel this way?
Could I not?
Betrayed am I.
I am betrayed.

Feeling, sensing,
Listening to the Earth’s voice.
Can I feel it?
That tenseness in the air?
Betrayed am I.
I am betrayed.

If I could stop the hurt,
I would stop it.
Could I do it?
Should I do it?
Betrayed am I.
I am betrayed.

Feelings mixed,
Thoughts muddled.
How could they?
Why would they?
Betrayed am I.
I am betrayed.

There you have it. It's a little deep, especially the 2nd part (can't remember what they're called. Starts with an "S"), but it works for me. It's kind of ruined my long weekend. But I'll survive.

Peace, Love, and Llamas! (KOD)
-Emiliano

I HATE HORMONES!!!

Sorry for the random title, but I do. They suck. (I have, however, broken free from their grasp. So it's safe to talk to me. xD) And Kaliyan's singing a Christmas song. The "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away..." one. So yeah.

I just kind of felt like posting today, so yeah. Pyro was on the blog earlier, and he's got a new post, and yeah. And we've officially finished the play, and I'm now "officially mature" (as of last night) if you get my drift, and my life is just kinda weird. And yeah.

I HATE HORMONES!!! This is mainly because I got myself into a little friend trouble because of stupid Pre-MS. I don't get PMS, just Pre. For the first time ever. Although when I explained it to my friends today they just laughed at me and accepted my apology, so it's all good.

And..............................................................Kaliyan's obsessed with this song by the Backstreet Boys. She's been singing it over and over and over and over. "I JUST WANT YA TO KNOWWWW---OHHHH!!!" like that.

And I made cookies! And they're awesome and tasty and stuff! And yeah.

So.

Mhm.

That's it.

-Em

Update - 2/6/09

Okay, so I figured I should probably post something besides me spazzing about the movie. So here's an update! Yay!

- So, we went to the Courage Retreat yesterday. It was really fun, and then at the end it was pretty emotional, but I didn't cry. I was kind of tearing up, but not really. And then Brynn came up and hugged me, and I hugged her back. She wasn't crying either, but her eyes were all wet and shiny and stuff. Paige was totally aloof, and Genesis was kind of crying. And when we got back to school we had an ice cream party, and then play practice. And Kirsten was bawling at play. :( But yeah... Pebble in the Pond was very emotional. It was fun, though, especially Mongo Volleyball! And we set the record for the jumprope game. And yeah.
- Um, Brandon hasn't been on, and Spencer's being MIA, and I'm bored, and Joey's being an idiot (as usual), and it's all pretty much normal.
- I watched LSOH movie today, on YouTube with Marie! It was awesome. See my last post for more on that.
- I'm trying to think of more, but I'm failing to...

That's all for now!

Peace, Love, and Llamas! (KOD)
-Emiliano

ELECTROCUTION!

WARNING: This whole post is dedicated to spazzing about Little Shop of Horrors. Don't read it if you won't want to read about how awesome the movie is. Cuz it's dang awesome. REALLY dang awesome. xD

ELECTROCUTION! BAM!

Oh, my gosh!!! Little Shop of Horrors is more awesome than I thought it would be!! I just watched the movie, in parts, on YouTube, and it's REALLY awesome. Except for the fact that neither Seymour nor Audrey can sing, and they're the two leads. And there's some swearing. But other than that, GAWD, it's good. And the end is like--- Not telling. I already ruined it for Rae and Kaliyan, I can't put it in a POST.

Anyway, yeah, so this is just my totally random post about how fantawesome LSOH is. I can't wait to see how much fun Dan (Tooey/Audrey 2's voice) pokes at the ending... he's gonna play it up SO much. But yeah! It's so awesome! And so cool! And I'm now officially obsessed. I added an LSOH playlist, which is right above the other playlist. I haven't updated it lately, though. I added 2 or 3 songs to it since the last time. But yeah.

Marie watched like half-ish of it with me, on video-share (YIM), but then she had to go. Which sucks. :( And yeah... so I've now officially watched the movie! Even though it was in bits and pieces on YouTube. It works, though. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG IT'S SO GOOD!

Kay, done now.

Somewhere that's greeeeen... SUDDENLY SEYMOUR!!! Downtown... Little shop, little shoppa horrors...In a tract house that we share... FEED me, Krelborne!

Peace, Love, and Seymour! (And llamas. And KOD.)
-Emiliano

Bored.

So, another boring post on my part. We're moving along in the play... done with the first act, and about half way through the second. Then we just work on it over and over until it's perfecto.

Also, I'm done with my science speech. We're supposed to be convincing our teacher about how spectacular it is, so I did my best... but still, it's immoral and stupid. I think that might come through in the speech, but I don't really want to be exempt from a big test, anyway. (That's the prize for the best speech.) I always ace the science ones, so it would hurt my (A+) grade if I was exempt, anyway. If I took it, it would be a HIGHER A+. :P Anyway, just email me or ask me and I'll send you a copy. I think it's kind of convincing that I think it's awesome. Kind of.

And...Brandon hasn't been on for a while, and Spencer's being evil and MIA, and Joey's being a weirdo with, apparently, amnesia, and... that's it.

Boring, huh? (And short.) But at least I posted.

Peace, Love, and Llamas! (KOD)
-Emiliano

Awesome Dream!!!!!

Okay, so I had the most amazing dream last night. It's this continuing saga of dreams, so I'll tell you the whole thing. It won't be as awesomely explained on here as it was in my head, but this is my favorite dream to get. It's AWESOME. I might even write a story based on them, when I'm done with all the stuff I'm working on right now. Here's the first dream. It's long...

I'm up at my aunt's cabin with my cousin McKenna. We're running around, being hyper. I'm probably about 10. Finally my aunt comes out and tells us to try out a new rope swing that my uncle put up. We run out to a stream that runs by the cabin and start swinging across, laughing, making the biggest ruckus you've ever heard. We're just randomly swinging, slapping our feet in the water as we pass.
Then something moves underwater. "A fish!" I yell, and drop down off of the rope. Luckily, I'm wearing shorts, so only my skin gets wet. It moves again, and this time I know it's not a fish. It looks like a person... but they've been underneath for ages now. I start walking towards the person, which/who starts swimming briskly away. I get onto the shore and start running after it, McKenna staying behind to swing more.
I keep running, and finally pulled up alongside the person, who I've now identified as a female. I know that I'll tire soon, but I also know that the stream runs out in a short while.
Sure enough, the stream soon became a small circle about 4 feet in diameter and 3 feet deep. The girl got out, and started running. She isn't nearly as fast on land as she in underwater, I think.
I catch up to her in seconds, and slowly chase her to a tall rock cliff (coming upward from the ground) that I like to climb with McKenna. The girl, I figure, doesn't look much like a climber.
As I had thought she would, she stops when we reach the cliff. I have her cornered.
I notice that she's trembling slightly. "What's wrong?" I start to say, but quickly change it to, "Don't worry... I'm not going to hurt you or anything."
It was then that I noticed it.

She has long red hair that's impeccably braided down her back. Bright, clear blue eyes that exactly match the color of the stream. She's dressed in rolled-up heans and a tight-fitting, but still VERY flattering, t-shirt. She's barefoot.
And not one square inch of her is wet. Not even DAMP. Just smooth, perfectly dry, tan skin.
Her hair? Completely without water. Her clothes? Couldn't be drier. It's so weird. Hadn't she been swimming - UNDERWATER - moments before?
"You're... well, you're completely dry," I mumbled, and the girl's tan cheeks flushed a little. "I'm sorry... it's just, well, I've been thinking, and I've read a lot about Greek mythology..." I fumble for the next words, but can't seem to find them. Might as well be blunt, I think, then blurt, "I think you're a naiad."
She grins. Then, to my intense surprise, she speaks - like your average American pre-teen. "Nope," she says. "But you're kinda close. I'm kind of like... a spirit of nature, I guess." I give her a blank look. "Like, I was just some girl, but I was, like, the last real hippie or something. And I took my... hippie-ness really seriously. So then, one day, I figured out that I had these, like, "powers". I don't get wet when I don't want to, I don't sunburn, I can controll the weather in small places." She pauses. "And my growth rate is slower than normal. I guess I'm sorta immortal."
Now, when someone tells you that they're immortal, and they're serious, you don't really take it in stride, and be all 'Cool,'. You pretty much spaz out. At least, you do if you're me.
"You're... What do you... Oh, my gosh..." I stutter, then take a deep breath. "What do you mean?"
She shrugs. "I'm 12 right now. My body is that of a 12-year-old girl. And I've been on this earth for... well, I was 8 in the sixties."
My jaw drops open. "What's your name?"
"Naeryan," is the reply. "You can call me Ryan."

And that's where it ended. If there are tense issues, like past- and present-tense, then sorry. But yeah. Then, a few months later, I got this new dream. I'm not even going to tell you the whole thing. It was basically like, me living in this really awesome place with her (Naeryan) for like 3 months. It's underground, and it's this really awesome place... it's hard to explain. The light comes in like in this picture:

And it's green. Really, really green. And small, and just... really beautiful, in a simple sort of way. And I know it was underground, because (Nae)Ryan told me it was. If I could explain it in just 2 words, I would say "happy place". It was SO cool. And I somehow just lived off the sunlight or something, like a plant. I was never hungry, never thirsty. I felt the healthiest I've ever felt. (In the dream, obviously). And it was PERFECT. And then, of course, I had to leave. I can't remember why, now, but I was really, really sad. Then I got home, and my parents weren't even concerned. They just said, "Did you have a good time?" and then, later, "First day of school tomorrow."

Here's the latest dream, which I had last night:

I'm back at the cabin, up north, this time with Kaliyan, my best friend (as you all know). It's apparently a year after my little summer stay underground, and I'm really preoccupied, looking for Ryan. Kaliyan seems to realise this, and asks me why I seem to absentminded. I just shrug. Finally, after days of this, Ryan appears from out of the woods to the east.
"Catori!" she yells to me. She's taken to calling me that; Tori for short. It means 'Spirit'. "I've missed you so much!" Her embrace feels like the dawn of the first true day of spring.
I sigh happily. "Hey, Ryan. I missed you, too." Kaliyan is standing at a distance, probably wondering why I was just called Tori by some mystery girl. Ryan notices her.
"Hey. This your friend, Tori?" I nod. "Oh, cool! Does she want to come to... you know... the place?" I bite my lip. I've been wondering about that for the past couple days, whether I should tell Kaliyan about 'the Place' or not. I mean, she's my best friend, and I trust her with anything, but... the Place just seems like it's me and Ryan's secret hideaway.
I clear my throat. "Do you want to see something really awesome, Kali?" I ask, and Kaliyan nods slowly. "Okay, Ryan, let's go."
I turn to Kaliyan. "Just follow us, and you'll be fine. We'll be going quickly," I instruct, then add, "And don't be scared if you feel something really amazing when we get there. Just trust me, okay?" She nods, and we start running.
Ryan smiles back at us every couple moments, and I smile back. I feel the magnetic pull that I'm so accustomed to, and I grab Kaliyan's hand. "You might get lost," I say in explanation, and she looks puzzled.
I really haven't figured it out yet, but we somehow switch planes when we go into the Place, and you have to have been there before to just DO it. I was afraid Kaliyan wouldn't make it, so I was doing what Ryan had done for me all those months ago. I couldn't wait to arrive.

Honestly, even in the dream, it was the most amazing feeling to switch planes or whatever. And it was even more amazing to be in the Place. Just a quick note.

We kept running and running, getting faster as we went, and finally switched planes. We were in the grove next to the Place, and already I felt my body being healed. Kaliyan's face expressed her every feeling. "I feel like... I don't know..." she whispered, and I smiled. So did Ryan.
"Don't worry, Kaliyan. It's your soul being healed," I said, and it was more of a sigh. Kaliyan nodded uncertainly.
And then we were in the Place.
I flopped onto the ground. "Oh, god, Ryan. It's been way too long," I moaned, feeling all of a sudden as if I was broken and didn't know it, then all of a sudden whole again. "I've gotta come here more."
Kaliyan just looked more and more bewildered.
Ryan smiled her gentle smile. "You should visit me more often, Tori. I'd like that." I nodded vigorously. "I know you would, too," Ryan finished with a grin.
"Why are you calling her Tori?" Kaliyan broke in.
I chuckled. "It means Spirit. Naeryan - that's her - decided that I should have a more earthy name than Emily." Kaliyan nodded.
"So, do I get an earthy name?" she asked, sounding hopeful.
Ryan nodded thoughtfully. "What do you think, Tori?"
I pondered this. "Sisika? She could be, like, Sika for short."
"Yes, I suppose... but 'bird'? Are you sure?" Ryan asked. I shrugged.
All of a sudden I laughed. "What about Nata?" Ryan smiled. "I think that'd work well, huh Ryan?"
Ryan nodded. "I like it. 'Speaker'."
And so Kaliyan was named.

And that's all I can remember. I'm usually really good at remembering dreams, but the end of today's was totally lost on me today... Gah.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed!

Peace, Love, and Llamas! (KOD)
-Emiliano

>:(

I am so bored. And I don't know why. But I am. And I haven't posted for a looooong time, and I figure I should post.

See, I'm not one to complain or rant or anything, but I think that it's time to do a little of both.
I think I might cry. I'm sick, and tired, and I had to go to school anyway (and wake up earlier than normal to do so) and then I come home and do my impossible math homework and generally am tired and kinda grumpy. And then I get on here, hoping for a good laugh or two.

But no.

Now Kaliyan's saying she's going to leave the Resistance because she doesn't know the titles of the MR books, and my internet is slow, and Joey's being more retarded than usual, and I just think it's all too much. WAY. TOO. MUCH.

What I really want is for it to be April 5th. Then I'd be on my way to Florida, carefree, and ready for a week-long cruise without my step-dad. And hopefully I'll be well-rested and not ticked off or anything. And I'll be warm, and on spring break, and happy.

Right now? I feel like I'm going to fall over, I care about WAY too much, and I'm really just fed up. So, if anyone wants to add something to the pile, just be my guest.

Just do it.

-Emiliano