Family Outing

So I've pretty much been obsessively watching this Korean variety show called "Family Outing". I can't stop watching it though because it's simultaneously hilarious and heartwarming at the same time. It's a show kind of like "The Simple Life" except a lot less stupid and annoying. Kind of the same basic concept, though. There is a group of 6-7 celebrities who are the regulars on the show (these are pretty big celebrities too from the country's top MC to the Korean equivalent of Beyoncee Knowles) and the all get together with one special family guest and go to an elderly person/couple's home. They send the old people off on a vacation for two days and one night while the family does the housework that they would do on a normal basis. On top of that they play games in between which are usually the best parts. I'm so hooked to this TV show. I want to watch it now but each outing is two episodes long and an episode usually runs from an hour to an hour and a half long (they don't have set broadcast times for TV in Korea, really). I also recently got a way to watch it where I don't need to watch it on YouTube and I don't have to download it. aznv.tv.... I love you.

Watching all of that is making me anticipate my summer trip to Korea even more. I don't know why... it's not likely that I'll get to see them filming or anything. But I guess just seeing it makes me think about it and how much I like Korea.

I baked some cookies today. They're flourless peanut butter cookies. There are actually only four ingredients : peanut butter, sugar, egg, baking soda. So it really just tastes like peanut butter with extra sugar in it. They're so sweet but I like them. =\ They're probably really bad for you, though, but whatever. I've been eating terribly while I've been home because there is nothing to eat. My entire diet (other than dinner) has consisted of stuff with peanut butter on it. I eat better at my apartment up at school than I do here. But I think my parents have pretty much just given up on all that. They can buy lunch while they're at work but I'm the one who has to stay home and scrounge up whatever she can. I could make ramen but that stuff is so filling I can't eat a whole pack and I feel guilty about throwing the rest away. :( Granted I haven't really had the biggest appetite lately so I haven't really put forth a lot of effort to make something decent but still. We don't even have jam! I can't even make a PB&J! Dinners have been good, though... ^^

I'm actually kind of excited to get back to school. I feel so useless now if I'm not doing something productive. It's kind of sad, though, now that I think about it. Why should I feel bad for having a relaxing week? Do I need to be productive and working on something every moment of my life? That's sure how I feel. Because of school, I feel like if I'm not doing something productive then I'm just wasting space and oxygen. This is what leads to a stressful life... which is something I've tried all my life to avoid. So maybe tomorrow I'll try to just bask in the glory of a sedentary life instead of being hard on myself for not getting things that don't even matter done.

Oh, I went to Kristin's today to hang out. She's actually going to be living in the same apartment complex as me which is cool. We talked about going on weekly hikes on Sundays since both of us like hiking so much so I'm really looking forward to that. I need someone a little more physically active up there with me. Ooh we could even maybe be gym buddies, lol. I need to get into the gym habit again. *sigh* I'm excited to be living with her next year, as well as the other two people (Ainsley and Laine). I think it will be a really good group of people together.

Anyway... that's all I can think of talking about.

OH! I was so angry when I woke up this morning. I wrote in the entry before this that I've been trying to sleep in lately... well I tried to stay up a little later last night so I could sleep in later and I ended up waking up earlier! BAH! That always happens to me. >.< Well, really, 10/11 is pretty late so I shouldn't be annoyed but still. I guess I should wake up a little earlier tomorrow because I think Diana and I are planning on seeing Kat... Woo! OK... really, that's all now.

P.S. OMG I'm sorry this is so long and probably really boring. DX

School has made me a workaholic

Uugh... every morning I'm having a hard time thinking of reasons to get out of bed. I'm pretty sure it's not depression or anything. But there's nothing I NEED to do so I keep thinking, "What's the point? I'll just wait until an hour before I need go to to so-and-so's house and get ready then." But today I don't need to be at Diana's until 8. Haha... I keep remembering that I need to feed the dogs so that's the main reason for my awakening but other than that... I don't do anything. I really should get back to drawing again but I'm, for some reason, having a hard time picking up that pencil.

I've been getting mega distracted by YouTube and watching really funny/cute Korean variety shows and music videos. Aaah... that's all I do. I practice the piano and watch YouTube videos, lol. Speaking of the piano, that thing needs to be tuned so badly. But I hear it's kind of pricey so I don't want to nag my parents about it much, especially since they're paying my way to Korea again (since I paid for my computer).

So I have this new Korean singing group that I like called Dong Bang Shin Ki (DBSK). I don't think Lisa really likes them much but I think they're so amazing and talented. It's kind of a wonder why Lisa doesn't like them because they remind me of N*SYNC. At first I was kind of skeptical but then I watched this video and fell in LOVE. Hahaha...

Anyway, nothing has really been happening... doot doot doot...

Possibly one of my favorite mixes to date

I call it "The Sappiest Songs You Know". I worked pretty much an entire day on mastering this. Here are the tracks.

Last Kiss - Bonnie Pink
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
My Way - Frank Sinatra
All I Ask Of You - Andrew Lloyd Weber
Hurt - Christina Aguilera
Pop! Goes My Heart - From Music & Lyrics
Here In Your Arms - HelloGoodbye
I Believe - Ayaka
Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Paul Simon
Aris's Theme - Nobuo Uematsu
Memory - Andrew Lloyd Weber
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John
I Will Always Love you - Whitney Houston
Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen
Try To Remember - Sung Si Kyung
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin (Not really sappy but I like the sound)
Only Fools Rush In - Elvis Presley
Kissing a Fool - George Michael
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Final Distance - Utada Hikaru
Everytime - Britney Spears
Last Song - Gackt
Cloud Smiles - Shirou Hamaguchi
Tsuki no Uta - Gackt
You Belong to Me - Jason Wade
I'm Not in Love - 10cc

Bahaha... it was all spurred on because the other day I woke up to the sound of rain hitting the window and that sound always reminds me of sitting in my mom's old Ford Taurus in the rain listening to a Barbara Streisand (Lisa was right, it was Patsy Cline. Streisand did Memory) tape (Crazy, in particular). For some reason that particular moment sticks out a lot in my mind all the time, but it's a good memory. That car smelled really nice sometimes. So I woke up and HAD to listen to Crazy but couldn't remember who sang it. In the process of searching for it I found a ton of other songs that I loved when I was younger... and then I added some newer cheesy favorites. <3

Anyway, I just took my only final exam today and I think it went pretty well. I only have a regular test tomorrow and turn in some projects. But yeah... I'm basically done. Just waiting for Thursday when I can go home.

Crazy

Crazy
Crazy for feeling so lonely
Im crazy
Crazy for feeling so blue

I knew
Youd love me as long as you wanted
And then someday
Youd leave me for somebody new

Worry
Why do I let myself worry
Wondrin
What in the world did I do

Crazy
For thinking that my love could hold you
Im crazy for tryin
Crazy for cryin
And Im crazy
For lovin you

This song is perfect for rainy days. It's not like how I feel, but the weather made me wake up with this song in my head. It's an old favorite. Now if I could only get my hands on Un-Break My Heart...

P.S.

A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. Especially no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed. The next night his curiosity would not leave him alone about the room with no number on the door. He walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. He bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye.

What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was completely white. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while. He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided not to. This disinclination saved his life. He crept away from the door and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn’t make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red.

At this point he decided to consult the woman at the front desk for more information. She sighed and said, "Did you look through the keyhole?" The man told her that he had and she said, "Well, I might as well tell you the story. A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in that room, and her ghost haunts it. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red."

I dunno where this is from my a friend of mine put it up on her journal and I thought it was cool.

Time is Ruuuunnniinnng Ooouuuut!!!

Seriously. I'm glad - no - SUPER glad that this quarter is almost over but at the same time, with each passing moment, I am realizing just how much I need to do to prepare for finals week next week. I've had absolutely NO TIME. I didn't even have time to EAT yesterday until around 4 and even then I was too preoccupied to make anything substantial until I made dinner around 8. But despite that, notice how I'm foregoing everything so I can write a journal entry. I've been thinking of writing for so long but I haven't had time and when it's late at night and I'm too tired to do any work, Ainsley goes to bed so I feel bad about taka taka taka taka typing so loudly. I need to make a list of things I need to do...

-Process book for group project for design production (Due Thursday?)
-Process book for individual project for design production (Due Tomorrow)
-Finish designing brochure for design (Due Thursday)
-Finish last 3 pages of comic for illustration (Due Tuesday)
-Study for design production final (Monday)
-Study for design history exam (Tuesday)

... wow... I just got sidetracked for like an hour because I got distracted by one of the above assignments. lol...

Anyway, yeah, I've been busy. These past few months have been some of the busiest months of my life... but also some of the most enjoyable. I've made some really good friends this quarter. Friends that I think I'll probably be friends with for a while, and that is worth all the stress that I've had to go through to meet them. I've also been learning a lot this quarter about very useful things in the field of design so that's worth it as well. I'm SO excited for this quarter to be over, though. Next quarter is going to be a real pain as well but at least I won't have to deal with Henterley. It's a shame that the class I was looking forward to taking the most is my least favorite class. A teacher can ruin everything. He's so frustrating. He actually told us in class the other day that he thinks computers will soon, "go out of fashion." What? WHAT?! Are you INSANE?! He doesn't understand anything about the modern world and he's not even that old! He's probably like in his 40s or so but he's so stubborn and narrow-minded that he refuses to open his eyes and see the technological world before him.

Anyway, I'm pretty hungry. Better go eat.

Terminator trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/terminator-salvation.html?showVideo=1

Shittiest weekend of my life

Saturday didn't start out so bad, it was actually kinda nice. I worked on my process book for Design and played a bunch of pokemon. Then went to a meeting with a bunch of people for my Printing Processes class for a presentation we're doing on Friday. Then came back and lost the stone on the ring that Lisa gave me AGAIN except this time I don't know where the stone is and I can't find it. :((((((( Then yesterday I was sick like all day. I couldn't even walk across the room without like having a seizure and blacking out because all the blood would rush out of my brain so I just laid in the couch all day and slept and then finally went to bed at 8 pm. It was really crappy though because when I'm sick I feel really lonely too because I want someone to take care of me because I couldn't really be standing up in the kitchen and make myself soup so I missed my parents a lot and Minguk and Lisa. But going to bed early helped me avoid it pretty well when it was starting to set in. I didn't go to class this morning because I'd have to operate heavy machinery and stuff and I didn't think it would be safe even though I am feeling much better this morning. I definitely have to go to class today but it'll be ok since I can actually stand for extended periods of time without passing out and I'll be sitting the whole time so I'm not concerned. Anyway, yeah. Blacking out twice yesterday was both not fun and kind of alarming. I figured it was probably just a 24 hour thing and I will get over it with sleep and lots of water and I didn't want to go to the ER for something that would only last the day. And I'm glad I was right. On top of that today I'm experiencing really shitty cramps but it's nothing that ibuprofen won't fix. Despite all of that I'm in a pretty good mood today.

Oh, here's the finished picture of Matt Bellamy I did. I don't think my professor liked it that much, though.


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