Sleep-deprived but happy.
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pacificpikachuThe majority of yesterday was boring in the most extreme sense of the word. I sat around, ate Cheez-its, watched re-runs of ER (not sure why XP), and colored about an inch of Ryuichi. Go me!
At about 6 PM, things finally started looking up, because I got on the phone with Nicole and Chad. For those who don't know, (which would be most of you), Chad is this guy we met at Anime Expo. He lives in LA, and we call him up and talk to him every few months at least. He's just the type of person who is fun to talk to for long periods of time about absolutely nothing. Chad was singing Wizard of Oz (yes, the same song from the Hellsing AMV) in a high-pitched voice, while Nicole and I giggled at how much he sounded like a girl. XP There's a tradition--when we talk to Chad on the phone, we *always* have to sing at least one song into the phone. Once, we were having a discussion with Nicole, Chad, Cody, and I, and each of us was singing a different song into the phone. (In several different languages, too.) It sounded awful. XP I'd pity anyone who tried to tap our phones.
Anyway, eventually Chad had to leave, so Nicole and I talked to Cody for a while (he was hunting for his car keys), and when Cody left, we arranged for Nicole to come over. The only problem was that she was too lazy to walk the five minutes to my house, so my dad picked her up in his Jeep and brought her over here.
Well, we spent a fair amount of time reading Tatsuha's LiveJournal (again XP), but then something in our minds sort of switched and we ended up going into my room and having a rather deep discussion about what constitutes reality. In the middle of this conversation, at about 8 PM, Cody called and said he was driving over, so he showed up and joined us in our conversation. I shared some of the ideas I had on reality and the power of the human mind and such, Cody basically agreed with what I was saying.
I suppose my philosophies and spiritual beliefs are actually scientific--there seems to a fair amount of support for my theories, and I, so far, haven't seen anything to disprove them. That makes me proud. Now I just need to find someone who is an expert on the human brain, and I'll have most of the scientific bases covered. Maybe sometime when I'm feeling particularly philosophical, I'll enlighten you all on my basic belief system. It's somewhat hard to put in words, but it's pretty interesting and almost everyone I talk to approves of it. This is because it basically supports every belief system in the world--it allows more flexibility than any other philosophy I can think of.
Well, once we had gotten thoughts of depth and meaning out of our heads, Nicole and I determined that Cody absolutely must see the Pokémon episode The Fortune Hunters. We fiddled with my VCR for a while, enlisted my dad's assisstance, and finally got it working. We all got a great laugh at watching James run around in his Moltres spandex. How can you not be amused by that? XP Mew, I love Pokémon.
At some point after that ended migrated to my little brother's room to play Super Smash Bros. Melée. Cody was kicking Ryan's butt no matter what character he played as, while Nicole and I watched in mild amusement. Then everyone was back in my room (including my little brother, until he left my room at about 1:30 AM), where we were up until about 3:30 AM drawing, casually chatting, and trying to get comfortable.
There were three of us in one full bed. ^_^; And yes, we slept like that all night. Well--I don't know if slept is the word. More like chatted. Nicole and I, being the people we are, were clinging to Cody and cuddling and being silly. It's pretty funny how close my friends and I are. We're completely and totally comfortable with each other, even in situations that most people would find pretty...suggestive. ^^;; Two teenage girls and a teenage boy hugging and giggling in one small bed wouldn't normally be approved of, but it's all completely innocent, and not even slightly sexual.
Of course, when it gets late, I start acting rather...odd, so Nicole and Cody kept laughing at me when I said things like "Clothes wrinkles are GOD!" and "This is Fat the Zubat." The fact that we were all drawing together at about 2 in the morning didn't help. Cody and Nicole both drew winged bishounen, while I stuck to the tried-and-true Pokémon and wolves. It was too late to draw much else. Trust me, I tried to draw a neko, and it didn't work out. x.x
Eventually, and after lots of random blurt-outs that we just couldn't hold in, we all sort of drifted to sleep. Nicole had to get up at 7 AM to get ready for her Driver's Ed class, so when the alarm on Cody's watch beeped, she reluctantly got up and walked to her house. This left Cody and I to continue sleeping and glomping and such (though I was feeling a little feverish and shivery), and once she had gotten the things she needed for her class, she came back and joined the sleepy pile again for a little while, until my dad gave her a ride to Driver's Ed. After she left, Cody and I were pretty much awake. Dad made pancakes (which I had trouble eating--I was feeling a little icky from being up so late), and then we went back to Super Smash Bros. Melée with my little brother. Cody kicked both Ryan's butt and mine this time.
Cody had to leave to about 11 AM, and that was pretty much the last thing that happened, I think.
To be very obvious--I love being around my friends. It's a pure kind of friendship, very unconditional and affectionate. We all trust each other, and feel free to express ourselves in front of each other. We're good friends in both silly situations, and serious ones. I don't think many teenagers have friends like I do.
At about 6 PM, things finally started looking up, because I got on the phone with Nicole and Chad. For those who don't know, (which would be most of you), Chad is this guy we met at Anime Expo. He lives in LA, and we call him up and talk to him every few months at least. He's just the type of person who is fun to talk to for long periods of time about absolutely nothing. Chad was singing Wizard of Oz (yes, the same song from the Hellsing AMV) in a high-pitched voice, while Nicole and I giggled at how much he sounded like a girl. XP There's a tradition--when we talk to Chad on the phone, we *always* have to sing at least one song into the phone. Once, we were having a discussion with Nicole, Chad, Cody, and I, and each of us was singing a different song into the phone. (In several different languages, too.) It sounded awful. XP I'd pity anyone who tried to tap our phones.
Anyway, eventually Chad had to leave, so Nicole and I talked to Cody for a while (he was hunting for his car keys), and when Cody left, we arranged for Nicole to come over. The only problem was that she was too lazy to walk the five minutes to my house, so my dad picked her up in his Jeep and brought her over here.
Well, we spent a fair amount of time reading Tatsuha's LiveJournal (again XP), but then something in our minds sort of switched and we ended up going into my room and having a rather deep discussion about what constitutes reality. In the middle of this conversation, at about 8 PM, Cody called and said he was driving over, so he showed up and joined us in our conversation. I shared some of the ideas I had on reality and the power of the human mind and such, Cody basically agreed with what I was saying.
I suppose my philosophies and spiritual beliefs are actually scientific--there seems to a fair amount of support for my theories, and I, so far, haven't seen anything to disprove them. That makes me proud. Now I just need to find someone who is an expert on the human brain, and I'll have most of the scientific bases covered. Maybe sometime when I'm feeling particularly philosophical, I'll enlighten you all on my basic belief system. It's somewhat hard to put in words, but it's pretty interesting and almost everyone I talk to approves of it. This is because it basically supports every belief system in the world--it allows more flexibility than any other philosophy I can think of.
Well, once we had gotten thoughts of depth and meaning out of our heads, Nicole and I determined that Cody absolutely must see the Pokémon episode The Fortune Hunters. We fiddled with my VCR for a while, enlisted my dad's assisstance, and finally got it working. We all got a great laugh at watching James run around in his Moltres spandex. How can you not be amused by that? XP Mew, I love Pokémon.
At some point after that ended migrated to my little brother's room to play Super Smash Bros. Melée. Cody was kicking Ryan's butt no matter what character he played as, while Nicole and I watched in mild amusement. Then everyone was back in my room (including my little brother, until he left my room at about 1:30 AM), where we were up until about 3:30 AM drawing, casually chatting, and trying to get comfortable.
There were three of us in one full bed. ^_^; And yes, we slept like that all night. Well--I don't know if slept is the word. More like chatted. Nicole and I, being the people we are, were clinging to Cody and cuddling and being silly. It's pretty funny how close my friends and I are. We're completely and totally comfortable with each other, even in situations that most people would find pretty...suggestive. ^^;; Two teenage girls and a teenage boy hugging and giggling in one small bed wouldn't normally be approved of, but it's all completely innocent, and not even slightly sexual.
Of course, when it gets late, I start acting rather...odd, so Nicole and Cody kept laughing at me when I said things like "Clothes wrinkles are GOD!" and "This is Fat the Zubat." The fact that we were all drawing together at about 2 in the morning didn't help. Cody and Nicole both drew winged bishounen, while I stuck to the tried-and-true Pokémon and wolves. It was too late to draw much else. Trust me, I tried to draw a neko, and it didn't work out. x.x
Eventually, and after lots of random blurt-outs that we just couldn't hold in, we all sort of drifted to sleep. Nicole had to get up at 7 AM to get ready for her Driver's Ed class, so when the alarm on Cody's watch beeped, she reluctantly got up and walked to her house. This left Cody and I to continue sleeping and glomping and such (though I was feeling a little feverish and shivery), and once she had gotten the things she needed for her class, she came back and joined the sleepy pile again for a little while, until my dad gave her a ride to Driver's Ed. After she left, Cody and I were pretty much awake. Dad made pancakes (which I had trouble eating--I was feeling a little icky from being up so late), and then we went back to Super Smash Bros. Melée with my little brother. Cody kicked both Ryan's butt and mine this time.
Cody had to leave to about 11 AM, and that was pretty much the last thing that happened, I think.
To be very obvious--I love being around my friends. It's a pure kind of friendship, very unconditional and affectionate. We all trust each other, and feel free to express ourselves in front of each other. We're good friends in both silly situations, and serious ones. I don't think many teenagers have friends like I do.
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Date: 2004-10-23 01:12 pm (UTC)Have you seen the new Pokémon ending yet? I've heard it is love. AND IT HAS MOLTRES JAMES IN IT! XDDDDDD
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Date: 2004-10-23 07:21 pm (UTC)You and RahXephon
Date: 2004-10-23 05:00 pm (UTC)I have complex theories about reality and dimensions aswell, even though I don't have much to support mine. They just make me happy. ^^; I'd be very, very interested to hear yours sometime, for sure.
The Fortune Hunters is my favourite episode. XD Good thing Cody got to see it. ;)
Okay, now back to business. I was so relieved when you said you wanted to use Paypal. I finally talked to my mom about it, and she gave me the normal "everyone on the internet is an axe murderer how do you know she's a girl omg no you can't" thing. I didn't take into consideration that you would have to have my snail mail address in order to get money. ^^; I asked her if she would consider Paypal. We looked into it when we got home, and everything's a go! Here's the info I gathered, you can decide where you want to go from here:
The first of the store's location I went to is the one I originally saw them at, and they tend to have the lowest prices.
RahXephon DVDs:
Orchestration 3: Harmonic Convergence. Contains 3 complete episodes.
Orchestration 6: Aria. Contains 4 complete episodes.
Both cases seemed to have everything in them (I don't really know what all is supposed to be in them), including this cool booklet made out of interesting paper that had character profiles and the like in it. They were $7.98 each, with 8% sales tax here. That brings the total to $17.22 with tax. You may want to check that, I'm not good at math. I put them on hold for seven days under the name Kristin. XD Whenever I reserve something for someone else, I use their name. Once I put Chobits DVDs on hold for Jennifer, and used her name. XP It was kinda funny, the lady said, "With a K or a C?"
"Huh?"
"You said your name was Kristin. Do you spell it with a K or a C?"
"Ooooh, K." XD
I also got to stop by the other location. This is what they had:
Orchestration 1: Theshold. Contains 5 complete episodes.
Once again, it appears to have everything in it. But this time, it cost $14.98. O_O With tax, that brings me to $16.18. I also reserved this one under Kristin, but I noticed the guy spelled it wrong. So, all three DVDs would be $33.40 if my math is correct.
I went to the post office and checked shipping rates. 3 GCN games weigh one lb, but DVDs are lighter. I'm guessing and hoping it won't be more than 13 oz. Then shipping wouldn't cost any more than $3.50, depending on the weight. I could take care of shipping, or we could split it 50/50, whatever you want. It should take about 3-4 days to ship. I would mail them in one of those dark yellow envelopes with bubble wrap. And don't worry about an extra money, I know you need it, because as I meant to put in my reply when I first proposed this--
ALL of your CDs were stolen???! O_O_O That's. really. harsh. $1500 worth of merchandise...can't you get an investigation or a case for that much? If I were you, I wouldn't let it go. That's tough. :,((
Well, here's to double checking you want to go through with this. My Paypal account is the same email that I gave you before. I can probably pick them up on Mon, and then ship them Tues. This is so fun! ^_^
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Date: 2004-10-23 07:03 pm (UTC)That's all perfect, and I'll send you the Paypal payment tonight. $40, so you'll have a little extra. Don't worry about the extra money-- I still have enough to buy Wolf's Rain 3 (which wasn't at Best Buy yesterday >.<) and Gravitation 4.
Yeah, the whole stolen CDs thing was awful... It's still kind of painful to think about sometimes. We can't really do anything about it, either-- they were stolen all the way in San Francisco, which is about three hours away, and the insurance money won't cover the CDs because they were stolen out of a car. ;_;
Anyway, THANK YOU! I can't thank you enough. It's really helpful for you to do this for me, because otherwise I probably wouldn't have gotten RahXephon for a long time. And I love it, so...
If you ever need anything, I'd be happy to help any time. Just ask. ^_^
I'll put my address for mailing in the Paypal payment, okay?
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Date: 2004-10-23 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-23 07:34 pm (UTC)Even if it doesn't, I'll just burn it on a CD-R and bring it to my Mom's. You can play anything on my Mom's computer.
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Date: 2004-10-24 02:49 pm (UTC)