HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Phew... Can you tell I've been busy the last few days? Let's see... Where to start?

On the night of the 28th, I had a mini-anime-marathon. Not only did I get to keel teh ebil car-building shows, I also got to watch the rest of what I have of Last Exile, and the last three episodes of Hellsing were on TV, and random episodes of Wolf's Rain and Witch Hunter Robin. XD Funfun.

On the 29th, Makayla and Cody came over in preparation for the San Francisco trip. Because my Mom was taking care of the horses (as usual) we ended up watching a show on physics and black holes and the such for about an hour. It bored Ryan out of his skull, but I thought it was really interesting.

Nicole called at one point and said that she might be able to make the trip if we waited until about 3 PM for her, but that didn't work out because we didn't have enough seats in the car. If Ryan had forfeited his seat, she could've come, but Mom wanted Ryan along with us and Ryan was excited about the trip anyway, so... ;_; We weren't expecting her to be back until late on the night of the 29th, so we figured she definitely wouldn't be able to make it. Gomen nasai, Nikoru. You know you'll get to go next time, right?

Anyway, we left at about 2:30 PM, which was about an hour and a half behind schedule. Oh well, that worked out well because it was right around the time the rain stopped. With my Mom in charge, this is the norm. She always has to check and double-check and triple-check on the horses.

The car ride went smoothly. Much anime music and J-pop was listened to, including the entire second Wolf's Rain soundtrack, which always will be my favorite CD, I think. The clouds were absolutely beautiful (I kept pointing them out when they were particularly spectacular) and I don't think it rained the whole way down. We made it to San Francisco in about two hours and twenty minutes, which is a lot faster than usual. The lack of traffic helped a lot.

When we got there, the first thing we decided we should do was check into our hotel. We were staying at the Radisson hotel by Fisherman's Wharf, so (with the help of Cody with the map) we located our hotel. Cody, Makayla, and I hopped out of the car to check in so we could get into the guest-only parking, but apparently Mom did that before we did, because we got a bit confused and spent a while hanging around the dolphin statue near the front. We found her eventually and she gave us the car keys and the room key (we were in room 2089, in case anyone wanted to know that ^^;;) so we could bring our stuff up to the hotel room.

That didn't take long, so the three of us settled on the bed and watched MythBusters attentively while we figured out the plan. Chinatown was decidedly the best place to go that night, we concluded, so we got our coats (being the silly teenagers we are, all three of us forgot actual waterproof coats), got in the car, and spent a while wandering around San Francisco trying to find Chinatown based off of my memory of it. It took us fifteen or twenty minutes total to find where we were supposed to be and get a parking spot.

For about an hour, the umbrella seemed like a good idea. Eventually, however, we decided to face the elements without its protection and we let Ryan have it (seeing as he was not only without a raincoat, but also hoodless). We walked around Chinatown, checking out most of the stores. Makayla bought a silk top for $10, and Ryan got a non-sharp sword (*cough*letteropener*cough*). I think that was most of the purchases we made. We were having a blast just checking out all the shiny stuff and weird things, though. We tested out practically everything we saw.

We ended up having dinner at a place called the Royal Palace, if my memory is serving me correctly. It was a nice restaurant, and the service was fast. While we waited for our food, we played with the chopsticks. Cody and I had a sword fight with them, and then Makayla and Cody compared techniques of eating with the chopsticks. You'd think I'd be excellent at using chopsticks, but no. I could barely pick up my fork with them. Cody, Makayla, and I also played a silly game with the chopsticks that involved me having a bunch of forks on my plate, and they would try to snatch them off the plate. I had to defend the forks.

When the food came after ten or fifteen minutes, I had some good vegetable chow mein and white rice, which is generally what I have when we eat Chinese food. When we were done with dinner, we split the tab, and then we somehow ended up at the fish tank (the fish were for eating ;_;) and picking out which of the fish were our favorites based off appearance and personality. Don't ask. Cody almost picked one of the catfish as his favorite, but then paused because he had gotten fairly sick as a result of eating catfish about a week ago.

We were shopped out at that point. Instead of further shopping, I recalled that there were some glass elevators in Union Square that I had wanted to ride on the San Francisco field trip with my class. With a little convincing, my Mom agreed that Cody, Makayla, and I could walk down to Union Square (in the pouring rain ^^) by ourselves while she got the car and met us at the hotel.

The walk was SO much fun. We were all sopping wet, but we didn't care. It was totally awesome. We agreed that that walk would be one of those things we would look back on in ten years and go, "Wasn't that fun?" We didn't want to get lost, so we stopped into an electronics store to ask directions. About four people tried to help us. ^^;;

We left the electronics store and were on the right path for Union Square. It wasn't very far from there. At Union Square, we went to the middle (near the Christmas tree) and discovered that it was pretty much waterlogged. Our shoes were officially flooded at that point. By sight, I located the glass elevators with ease (though I was looking entirely in the wrong direction at first and was, therefore, momentarily confused). We ran in their direction.

So, into the same hotel we got lost in on the my class field trip (see that entry) we went, and I started laughing from the memories of being in there for more than an hour. I told Makayla and Cody about riding the normal elevators out of spite for not getting to ride the glass elevators on my class trip. It turned out that the whole time, the glass elevators had been about forty feet away from where we were. *Laughs* We're smart ones in my English 3 Honors class, in case you couldn't tell.

Well, there was a line for the glass elevators, but we were only waiting for about ten minutes. That ten minutes was mainly spent quietly debating whether the people in front of us were speaking German, Russian, or some other language. We never reached any sort of a conclusion about that.

We loaded on to the glass elevators right about the time that the language debate ended. Wow, that was an awesome ride. It went up 32 floors and you could see all of San Francisco from that high up. It was even a little unnerving to me, and I'm not afraid of heights. I wish I had a camera to take a picture of the view from up there--it was really high up.

We tried to get out on the thirty-second floor to see the view from there, but apparently that was a private section of the hotel, so we weren't allowed to get off the elevator. Instead, we went straight down to the bottom again (which was cool because the elevator was moving quite fast).

After that, we went back to the hotel. In the hotel, we used to ice machine (as is tradition in every hotel room I stay in :D) to get ice (the stupid ice machine was slow! >.<). Not that we needed ice, we just wanted it. So, we sat on one of the beds and watched a random show on the Discovery channel about sharks and ate ice as if it were popcorn. This lasted about an hour. Yes, we are seriously weird.

Sleeping arrangements were decided (Ryan and Mom got one bed, Makayla and I got one bed, and Cody got the fold-out bed) and we all went to sleep around 11 PM.

We woke up at about 10 AM. Cody opened the blinds, which blinded us all for a second, and then I got up and took a quick shower. By the time I was dry and dressed, we were pretty impatient to get to Japantown, so we talked Mom into letting us go there on our own using the buses and our own feet. We got a bus-route map and figured out how to get there, and then walked until we found the correct bus stop. It wasn't long before our bus came. The bus ride was spent mostly sitting in silence and taking in all the sights, and looking at the map and trying to figure out how exactly to get to Japantown. We were in the bus for around fifteen minutes before our stop came.

We got out and were about to get on another bus, but there was a brief confusion about whether the bus was heading in the correct direction. I proved that it was, but we were also out of coins for the bus fare, so we decided to walk. In not-too-long, I spotted the Miyako hotel, which signaled the place where we were supposed to be. All in all, I believe our journey from the hotel to Japantown took about twenty-five minutes. Pretty darn good.

We went into Japantown (which caused a flood of memories from the convention--I was pointing out places where various things happened to Makayla, who wasn't at that convention) and headed straight for Japan Video. There, we oogled all the series we had/wanted to buy/had something interesting to say about for...probably about a half hour. I went into the sale section and was looking at some of the random VHS when I found...OMFG...An official copy of the Raikou special! <3 That thing is SO rare, because it was released as a rental-only video in Japan. AND it only cost me $13. That was definitely exciting.

Then we stopped by a few CD/DVD/etc. stores, just sniffing around. I found several things I wanted, but I decided to wait 'til Mom showed up to do any actual purchasing.

We spent at least 45 minutes in Kinokuniya bookstore looking at artbooks and manga (in Japanese and English) and CDs and DVDs, but again I was waiting for Mom, so I didn't buy anything. Makayla bought Chrono Crusade Vol. 3, though, and DN Angel Vol. 4 for Nicole. Speaking of Nicole, she called while we were in Kinokuniya and said she's going to her dad's 'til Monday, so we won't see her 'til school starts. ;_; We talked for a while, but decided we should go and try to find my Mom.

While waiting for Mom, we sat around in front of a café and read manga. It took her at least an hour after we started hanging out in the café to find Japantown, so I kept calling her on Cody's cell phone and trying futilely to give her directions.

Because we determined in would be a while before she came, we went back into Japan Video and found the little goat plushie from Last Exile! EEE, it's so CUTE! Makayla bought one then, and I bought one later when Mom arrived.

Mom finally came after we migrated to hanging out under the tower-thingy outside the mall. I discovered that lots of anime fans had written on the tower, so I couldn't resist leaving my mark. I took one of Cody's pencils and wrote various things such as "Pacific Pikachu was here! *Little Pikachu doodle*" "I Wolf's Rain!" "Last Exile Rocks!" "Anime = Love", etc. If anyone goes to Japantown, keep an eye out for it, okay?

Mom came, and I went on a minor buying spree. I bought the little Last Exile goat, the RahXephon Official Illustration Collection (Gorgeous *_*), the two Gravitation OSTs, the new Cowboy Bebop CD Tank! THE! BEST!, and three packages of pocky (in addition to the Raikou Special, which I already mentioned). Makayla bought some ramune, too, so we shared that. Ryan went insane and wanted ramune really badly, but apparently Makayla bought the last one the mall. Cody bought an issue of Ranma 1/2 and read it all while we were still in the mall. I showed Mom the manga-reading café, and we had a little "lunch" (AKA ice cream).

We left after that to go back home. The ride home was pretty long this time, because we made a few stops along the way and the traffic was kind of crazy. We stopped at my Grandma's in Davis for about fifteen minutes, so I introduced her to my friends and we played with her piano for a while. As is usual, we listened to lots and lots of anime music and J-pop on the way back (including all three of my new CDs! ^^). Ryan tried to talk Mom into letting us go to Best Buy, but she wanted to get home and was sick of shopping, so that didn't happen. Cody fell asleep on me for at least an hour or two (he also fell asleep on me the way there--he always falls asleep on car rides -^^-), which was cute and snuggly. Anyway, we gave my friends rides home when we got back to Grass Valley/Nevada City, and then went home ourselves.

I discovered when I got home that the Read or Die OAV was on [adult swim]. I watched all of that, was very entertained by it, and overall thought it was a good experience.

In the morning, Makayla called me and said that she wasn't doing anything for New Year's, so we arranged for her and Cody to come over. However, Cody called later and said he wouldn't be over 'til later because his mom was throwing a big New Year's party and she wanted him to stay for at least part of it. My Mom picked Makayla up while she was shopping, though.

Ryan's friend Jake showed up while Ryan was gone shopping with Mom (and while I was watching the Raikou Special). I thought it was amusing he was watching it with me, because it was in Japanese with no subtitles to speak of and he was watching it for at least forty-five minutes in complete silence. ^^;;

Louisa, who is one of my best friends (she moved away to Tennessee about a year and a half ago, if not longer, and then moved to Arizona) called me while I was waiting for my Mom and Makayla to get home and when I was almost done with the Raikou Special. We talked for...probably a half-hour quite animatedly. Mew, I miss her. ;_; I wish she'd move back... She wants to move back, too. At least I have her phone number again now, so I can call her whenever I wish (Mom lost it on the messy counter before).

I got off the phone when Makayla showed up. We watched AMVs for about an hour and a half (and laughed hysterically at the funny ones), watched RahXephon episode 6, and then watched Seisouhen. My Mom was pretty mad at me for watching Seisouhen on New Year's Eve because a) we kept asking the boys to be quiet so we could listen to the angst (they were being LOUD) and b) she didn't want us watching something so depressing on New Year's. We finished it, went into my room, and waited for Cody-kun to get there.

Makayla went out into the rain a few times, just because she felt like it.

Cody *finally* showed up at about 9:30 PM. This was understandable--his Mom wanted him to stay at the party and eat, and also it was SNOWING! Not so much at my house, but about ten minutes (car drive) away it was snowing like crazy.

Cody, Makayla, and I sat around for a while doing nothing, then watched RahXephon 7-9 all piled on the couch (though halfway through episode 8 we had to desert the couch and move to my room to watch it on the computer because my Mom wanted to watch the New Year's celebrations). Here's the great part--five minutes before midnight and the New Year, it just so happened that the New Year happened in RahXephon. No joke. The characters went "Happy New Year!" and everything. Five-minute time margin. XD XD XD

So, the new year came. I remembered an old superstition and said "Rabbit rabbit" as the first thing.

About twenty minutes later, Makayla and Cody decided to go to their respective homes (they both forgot everything they would need in order to spend the night) and go to bed. I said goodbye, gave hugs, and off they went. I went to sleep shortly afterwards.

This morning, I woke up, played my Leaf Green, and here I am.

Happy New Year, everyone!

I can't believe I have to go back to school on Monday. ;_; I wanna sit around and do nooothinggg. *WHIIINE*

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Phew... Can you tell I've been busy the last few days? Let's see... Where to start?

On the night of the 28th, I had a mini-anime-marathon. Not only did I get to keel teh ebil car-building shows, I also got to watch the rest of what I have of Last Exile, and the last three episodes of Hellsing were on TV, and random episodes of Wolf's Rain and Witch Hunter Robin. XD Funfun.

On the 29th, Makayla and Cody came over in preparation for the San Francisco trip. Because my Mom was taking care of the horses (as usual) we ended up watching a show on physics and black holes and the such for about an hour. It bored Ryan out of his skull, but I thought it was really interesting.

Nicole called at one point and said that she might be able to make the trip if we waited until about 3 PM for her, but that didn't work out because we didn't have enough seats in the car. If Ryan had forfeited his seat, she could've come, but Mom wanted Ryan along with us and Ryan was excited about the trip anyway, so... ;_; We weren't expecting her to be back until late on the night of the 29th, so we figured she definitely wouldn't be able to make it. Gomen nasai, Nikoru. You know you'll get to go next time, right?

Anyway, we left at about 2:30 PM, which was about an hour and a half behind schedule. Oh well, that worked out well because it was right around the time the rain stopped. With my Mom in charge, this is the norm. She always has to check and double-check and triple-check on the horses.

The car ride went smoothly. Much anime music and J-pop was listened to, including the entire second Wolf's Rain soundtrack, which always will be my favorite CD, I think. The clouds were absolutely beautiful (I kept pointing them out when they were particularly spectacular) and I don't think it rained the whole way down. We made it to San Francisco in about two hours and twenty minutes, which is a lot faster than usual. The lack of traffic helped a lot.

When we got there, the first thing we decided we should do was check into our hotel. We were staying at the Radisson hotel by Fisherman's Wharf, so (with the help of Cody with the map) we located our hotel. Cody, Makayla, and I hopped out of the car to check in so we could get into the guest-only parking, but apparently Mom did that before we did, because we got a bit confused and spent a while hanging around the dolphin statue near the front. We found her eventually and she gave us the car keys and the room key (we were in room 2089, in case anyone wanted to know that ^^;;) so we could bring our stuff up to the hotel room.

That didn't take long, so the three of us settled on the bed and watched MythBusters attentively while we figured out the plan. Chinatown was decidedly the best place to go that night, we concluded, so we got our coats (being the silly teenagers we are, all three of us forgot actual waterproof coats), got in the car, and spent a while wandering around San Francisco trying to find Chinatown based off of my memory of it. It took us fifteen or twenty minutes total to find where we were supposed to be and get a parking spot.

For about an hour, the umbrella seemed like a good idea. Eventually, however, we decided to face the elements without its protection and we let Ryan have it (seeing as he was not only without a raincoat, but also hoodless). We walked around Chinatown, checking out most of the stores. Makayla bought a silk top for $10, and Ryan got a non-sharp sword (*cough*letteropener*cough*). I think that was most of the purchases we made. We were having a blast just checking out all the shiny stuff and weird things, though. We tested out practically everything we saw.

We ended up having dinner at a place called the Royal Palace, if my memory is serving me correctly. It was a nice restaurant, and the service was fast. While we waited for our food, we played with the chopsticks. Cody and I had a sword fight with them, and then Makayla and Cody compared techniques of eating with the chopsticks. You'd think I'd be excellent at using chopsticks, but no. I could barely pick up my fork with them. Cody, Makayla, and I also played a silly game with the chopsticks that involved me having a bunch of forks on my plate, and they would try to snatch them off the plate. I had to defend the forks.

When the food came after ten or fifteen minutes, I had some good vegetable chow mein and white rice, which is generally what I have when we eat Chinese food. When we were done with dinner, we split the tab, and then we somehow ended up at the fish tank (the fish were for eating ;_;) and picking out which of the fish were our favorites based off appearance and personality. Don't ask. Cody almost picked one of the catfish as his favorite, but then paused because he had gotten fairly sick as a result of eating catfish about a week ago.

We were shopped out at that point. Instead of further shopping, I recalled that there were some glass elevators in Union Square that I had wanted to ride on the San Francisco field trip with my class. With a little convincing, my Mom agreed that Cody, Makayla, and I could walk down to Union Square (in the pouring rain ^^) by ourselves while she got the car and met us at the hotel.

The walk was SO much fun. We were all sopping wet, but we didn't care. It was totally awesome. We agreed that that walk would be one of those things we would look back on in ten years and go, "Wasn't that fun?" We didn't want to get lost, so we stopped into an electronics store to ask directions. About four people tried to help us. ^^;;

We left the electronics store and were on the right path for Union Square. It wasn't very far from there. At Union Square, we went to the middle (near the Christmas tree) and discovered that it was pretty much waterlogged. Our shoes were officially flooded at that point. By sight, I located the glass elevators with ease (though I was looking entirely in the wrong direction at first and was, therefore, momentarily confused). We ran in their direction.

So, into the same hotel we got lost in on the my class field trip (see that entry) we went, and I started laughing from the memories of being in there for more than an hour. I told Makayla and Cody about riding the normal elevators out of spite for not getting to ride the glass elevators on my class trip. It turned out that the whole time, the glass elevators had been about forty feet away from where we were. *Laughs* We're smart ones in my English 3 Honors class, in case you couldn't tell.

Well, there was a line for the glass elevators, but we were only waiting for about ten minutes. That ten minutes was mainly spent quietly debating whether the people in front of us were speaking German, Russian, or some other language. We never reached any sort of a conclusion about that.

We loaded on to the glass elevators right about the time that the language debate ended. Wow, that was an awesome ride. It went up 32 floors and you could see all of San Francisco from that high up. It was even a little unnerving to me, and I'm not afraid of heights. I wish I had a camera to take a picture of the view from up there--it was really high up.

We tried to get out on the thirty-second floor to see the view from there, but apparently that was a private section of the hotel, so we weren't allowed to get off the elevator. Instead, we went straight down to the bottom again (which was cool because the elevator was moving quite fast).

After that, we went back to the hotel. In the hotel, we used to ice machine (as is tradition in every hotel room I stay in :D) to get ice (the stupid ice machine was slow! >.<). Not that we needed ice, we just wanted it. So, we sat on one of the beds and watched a random show on the Discovery channel about sharks and ate ice as if it were popcorn. This lasted about an hour. Yes, we are seriously weird.

Sleeping arrangements were decided (Ryan and Mom got one bed, Makayla and I got one bed, and Cody got the fold-out bed) and we all went to sleep around 11 PM.

We woke up at about 10 AM. Cody opened the blinds, which blinded us all for a second, and then I got up and took a quick shower. By the time I was dry and dressed, we were pretty impatient to get to Japantown, so we talked Mom into letting us go there on our own using the buses and our own feet. We got a bus-route map and figured out how to get there, and then walked until we found the correct bus stop. It wasn't long before our bus came. The bus ride was spent mostly sitting in silence and taking in all the sights, and looking at the map and trying to figure out how exactly to get to Japantown. We were in the bus for around fifteen minutes before our stop came.

We got out and were about to get on another bus, but there was a brief confusion about whether the bus was heading in the correct direction. I proved that it was, but we were also out of coins for the bus fare, so we decided to walk. In not-too-long, I spotted the Miyako hotel, which signaled the place where we were supposed to be. All in all, I believe our journey from the hotel to Japantown took about twenty-five minutes. Pretty darn good.

We went into Japantown (which caused a flood of memories from the convention--I was pointing out places where various things happened to Makayla, who wasn't at that convention) and headed straight for Japan Video. There, we oogled all the series we had/wanted to buy/had something interesting to say about for...probably about a half hour. I went into the sale section and was looking at some of the random VHS when I found...OMFG...An official copy of the Raikou special! <3 That thing is SO rare, because it was released as a rental-only video in Japan. AND it only cost me $13. That was definitely exciting.

Then we stopped by a few CD/DVD/etc. stores, just sniffing around. I found several things I wanted, but I decided to wait 'til Mom showed up to do any actual purchasing.

We spent at least 45 minutes in Kinokuniya bookstore looking at artbooks and manga (in Japanese and English) and CDs and DVDs, but again I was waiting for Mom, so I didn't buy anything. Makayla bought Chrono Crusade Vol. 3, though, and DN Angel Vol. 4 for Nicole. Speaking of Nicole, she called while we were in Kinokuniya and said she's going to her dad's 'til Monday, so we won't see her 'til school starts. ;_; We talked for a while, but decided we should go and try to find my Mom.

While waiting for Mom, we sat around in front of a café and read manga. It took her at least an hour after we started hanging out in the café to find Japantown, so I kept calling her on Cody's cell phone and trying futilely to give her directions.

Because we determined in would be a while before she came, we went back into Japan Video and found the little goat plushie from Last Exile! EEE, it's so CUTE! Makayla bought one then, and I bought one later when Mom arrived.

Mom finally came after we migrated to hanging out under the tower-thingy outside the mall. I discovered that lots of anime fans had written on the tower, so I couldn't resist leaving my mark. I took one of Cody's pencils and wrote various things such as "Pacific Pikachu was here! *Little Pikachu doodle*" "I Wolf's Rain!" "Last Exile Rocks!" "Anime = Love", etc. If anyone goes to Japantown, keep an eye out for it, okay?

Mom came, and I went on a minor buying spree. I bought the little Last Exile goat, the RahXephon Official Illustration Collection (Gorgeous *_*), the two Gravitation OSTs, the new Cowboy Bebop CD Tank! THE! BEST!, and three packages of pocky (in addition to the Raikou Special, which I already mentioned). Makayla bought some ramune, too, so we shared that. Ryan went insane and wanted ramune really badly, but apparently Makayla bought the last one the mall. Cody bought an issue of Ranma 1/2 and read it all while we were still in the mall. I showed Mom the manga-reading café, and we had a little "lunch" (AKA ice cream).

We left after that to go back home. The ride home was pretty long this time, because we made a few stops along the way and the traffic was kind of crazy. We stopped at my Grandma's in Davis for about fifteen minutes, so I introduced her to my friends and we played with her piano for a while. As is usual, we listened to lots and lots of anime music and J-pop on the way back (including all three of my new CDs! ^^). Ryan tried to talk Mom into letting us go to Best Buy, but she wanted to get home and was sick of shopping, so that didn't happen. Cody fell asleep on me for at least an hour or two (he also fell asleep on me the way there--he always falls asleep on car rides -^^-), which was cute and snuggly. Anyway, we gave my friends rides home when we got back to Grass Valley/Nevada City, and then went home ourselves.

I discovered when I got home that the Read or Die OAV was on [adult swim]. I watched all of that, was very entertained by it, and overall thought it was a good experience.

In the morning, Makayla called me and said that she wasn't doing anything for New Year's, so we arranged for her and Cody to come over. However, Cody called later and said he wouldn't be over 'til later because his mom was throwing a big New Year's party and she wanted him to stay for at least part of it. My Mom picked Makayla up while she was shopping, though.

Ryan's friend Jake showed up while Ryan was gone shopping with Mom (and while I was watching the Raikou Special). I thought it was amusing he was watching it with me, because it was in Japanese with no subtitles to speak of and he was watching it for at least forty-five minutes in complete silence. ^^;;

Louisa, who is one of my best friends (she moved away to Tennessee about a year and a half ago, if not longer, and then moved to Arizona) called me while I was waiting for my Mom and Makayla to get home and when I was almost done with the Raikou Special. We talked for...probably a half-hour quite animatedly. Mew, I miss her. ;_; I wish she'd move back... She wants to move back, too. At least I have her phone number again now, so I can call her whenever I wish (Mom lost it on the messy counter before).

I got off the phone when Makayla showed up. We watched AMVs for about an hour and a half (and laughed hysterically at the funny ones), watched RahXephon episode 6, and then watched Seisouhen. My Mom was pretty mad at me for watching Seisouhen on New Year's Eve because a) we kept asking the boys to be quiet so we could listen to the angst (they were being LOUD) and b) she didn't want us watching something so depressing on New Year's. We finished it, went into my room, and waited for Cody-kun to get there.

Makayla went out into the rain a few times, just because she felt like it.

Cody *finally* showed up at about 9:30 PM. This was understandable--his Mom wanted him to stay at the party and eat, and also it was SNOWING! Not so much at my house, but about ten minutes (car drive) away it was snowing like crazy.

Cody, Makayla, and I sat around for a while doing nothing, then watched RahXephon 7-9 all piled on the couch (though halfway through episode 8 we had to desert the couch and move to my room to watch it on the computer because my Mom wanted to watch the New Year's celebrations). Here's the great part--five minutes before midnight and the New Year, it just so happened that the New Year happened in RahXephon. No joke. The characters went "Happy New Year!" and everything. Five-minute time margin. XD XD XD

So, the new year came. I remembered an old superstition and said "Rabbit rabbit" as the first thing.

About twenty minutes later, Makayla and Cody decided to go to their respective homes (they both forgot everything they would need in order to spend the night) and go to bed. I said goodbye, gave hugs, and off they went. I went to sleep shortly afterwards.

This morning, I woke up, played my Leaf Green, and here I am.

Happy New Year, everyone!

I can't believe I have to go back to school on Monday. ;_; I wanna sit around and do nooothinggg. *WHIIINE*