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Nov. 1st, 2009

Moved

I've got a new LJ.

http://charsivy.livejournal.com/

Oct. 2nd, 2009

This Is Odd

What is, you may ask? I'll explain.

You see, at the beginning of the school year I chatted with my friends and we'd hang out at lunch and stuff. No big deal, right? But soon... it just started to feel "wrong". It's hard to explain. It's like... after years of loneliness, being alone just sort of comes naturally. It feels more "right". This is the odd part... it's painful. It's depressing. It's devastating. But it feels "right". It's like I sort of adjusted to it over the years and now being with others makes me feel out of place. A rather... a rather disturbing thought.

It isn't always like that 100% of the time, though... it's just when it gets to a certain point, it no longer feels comfortable. Loneliness is, as odd as it might sound, something I can sort of take refuge in.

And now I've been... been watching as the relationship between me and my friends deteriorates because of this. It makes me feel helpless and guilty. I've also become increasingly paranoid, thinking they must dislike me now and are probably talking behind my back.

Sep. 28th, 2009

Something I Realized

I realized that teacher from '06 was breaking the law.

God fucking damn it.

(long story)

Sep. 17th, 2009

Holy Shoot

I really need to update more. I just get too lazy and stuff.
Basically...

- I started high school
- I still haven't gotten to visit Profe
- ...but I did in my dream last night
- HeartGold and SoulSilver have the potential to become my favorite video games ever
- I'm turning sixteen in a month
- Green Day rocks
- Hello Kitty is adorable
- I got a bunch of new shirts, one of which is Pokémon related
- I quit Global Pokédex Plus because I got bored with it

And stuff. Yeah. I'll try to start posting normally again.

Oh, yeah, and I'm feeling better.
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Sep. 3rd, 2009

(no subject)

My God.

I'm falling into depression again.

For the first time in who knows how long.

(Oh, and if you couldn't tell, I'm sick of making these kinds of entries private).

It's so hard to type this knowing that people can read it. But basically, I feel terrible. I don't have any plans on attempting suicide again, but that doesn't mean I never think about it.

Why do we have to live, anyway? Are we the lucky ones (the ones who are born)... or are the ones who are never born the real lucky ones?

Then again, maybe it depends on who you are. Some people get to be happy, heality, thin, rich, have 863680564+ friends, have an equally fortunate boyfriend... and others are depressed, have to take loads of meds every day, obsese, have money problems, be alone most of the time, and are rejected by every one they ever loved. Maybe that's just the way it goes.

I'm not saying "OMG POOR ME I HAV IT SO BADZ". I know there are tons and tons far worse off than me. But that doesn't make my situation any better, and even makes it worse in a way (fuck the world, that sort of thing).

Aug. 26th, 2009

Writer's Block: Thanks to Technology…

What are some things you can do today because of technology that you couldn't do five years ago?

Presented by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow.


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Well, five years ago I couldn't listen to music on anything but a CD, still mainly used VHS tapes, had a regular GBA, used Windows '98, couldn't watch videos online, couldn't download anything including AIM, and...

Oh, crap. Pretty much everything I listed, if not all, existed five years ago... it's just that I couldn't do it because of my age (I was ten or eleven) and parents (they couldn't afford a new computer, an iPod, or a regular allowance to give me).

Five years... is not that long. At all.

Aug. 18th, 2009

Writer's Block: Thanks for the Input

What is the worst piece of advice you've ever received?


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Pretend to be someone you're not to be popular. From my MOM. Not the exact words, but what she basically meant.

Thank god I never followed it.

Aug. 17th, 2009

Writer's Block: And the Apple Goes To

Who is/was your favorite teacher in school?


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My Spanish teacher from last year. Profe. He was just plain awesome on every level. *sigh* I miss him...

Aug. 16th, 2009

Ash and Pikachu

My Life According to Green Day

So I saw this somewhere and just had to do it.

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions.
Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (artist' name)"


Pick your Artist:
Green Day

Are you a male or female:
She

Describe yourself:
Reject

How do you feel:
No One Knows

Describe where you currently live:
Stuck With Me

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?:
Welcome to Paradise

Your favorite form of transportation:
Last Ride In

Your best friend?
Worry Rock

You and your friends are:
Paper Lanterns

What's the weather like:
Redundant

Favorite time of day:
In The End

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
21st Century Breakdown

What is life to you:
Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Your relationship:
Walking Alone

Your fear:
Christian's Inferno

What is the best advice you have to give:
Know Your Enemy

Thought for the Day:
Walking Contradiction

How I would like to die:
Restless Heart Syndrome

My soul's present condition:
East Jesus Nowhere

My motto:
Peacemaker
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Aug. 8th, 2009

(no subject)

I really, really need to start posting here again. My last post was made... like a month ago? The problem is, I don't really have anything to post with yet.
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Jul. 12th, 2009

Back

So yeah, I'm back.

After I typed the last entry I went and had breakfast, which was of course free at the hotel. They had little cinnamon rolls. :3 Then I did random stuff until it was time to go. Also, we swam for a bit.

So we started driving the remaining four hours or so to the Tennessee cabin. In Kentucky we stopped at a KFC/A&W to eat. After we drove some more I became addicted to my Yellow version, and when we were close to the cabin we stopped at a Wall Mart. There I got to buy a pack of Pokémon cards.

After we got to the cabin, we unloaded our stuff and looked around. It had two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a bathroom. It was the "honeymoon suite", so it had some romantic type stuff, including glass statues of naked people kissing in the bathroom. Yep. XD

The DVD Player didn't work on the TV, unfortunately. We watched some other shows and ate dinner, which was fries and something else I can't remember.

That night I slept with one of my little brother Robbie for part of the night (he was afraid to sleep alone and my mom wasn't going to bed yet), and slept the rest on the couch.

I had a dream that there was this big restaurant that people could teleport into and eat whatever they wanted. My family went there, and one of the people sitting at a table was Profe. I tried to get his attention so I could talk to him, but couldn't. The next day I did get his attention, and he smiled at me and such... but it turns out he had lost his voice. Somehow he knew sign language, but I didn't so I sadly didn't get to talk to him. Then I woke up.

The next day it was raining pretty hard. In Michigan, when it rains that hard (which is rare) it only rains for about a minute. Here, however, it rained. And rained. And rained. After breakfast we went to visit my grandparent's house. It was almost exactly the same as it was two years ago. Also, the rain cleared up by the time we got there. Also, I played Yellow a lot and LeafGreen a bit. I also took some pictures.

Afterwords we went back to the cabin and changed into bathing suits and headed to the beach. However, it started raining again while we were driving... then it cleared up again by the the time we got there.

I swam for a while, of course. It was thundering a little, but no one seemed to care. Also, there was a British family with an adorable accent. :3 There was also a girl with some accent I couldn't place and a nice family from Florida. Or was it California? XD Meh, some place like that. I took some pictures, then we left.

Well, I'll type my dreams now, and tomorrow I'll post about the rest of my trip and some of the pics I took. ^^

Either that night or the night after that, I had a dream that I was back at school. Somehow it was a combination of the middle school I went to and the high school I went to summer school at. Anyway, it was lunch time, and someone announced that it was Profe's birthday. I quickly ran back to some room (my room? o-o) and found a slip of paper. I thought I had written Profe's birthday on it and wanted to check if it really was his birthday. It said the day (can't remember), but the month wasn't on there, which was a problem. It had the year, but it was listed as 2001, which I knew wasn't possible even going by dream logic.

Anyway, I ran back to the lunchroom and decided that it must be his birthday anyway even if it wasn't written down. All of the kids got some weird yellow jelly cake thing. After we ate, we all went into the gym and sat on the bleachers. Profe came out, and he looked like my dad. O_o;;; Creepy. My dad's like... fourteen years older than Profe.

Later, Basy and Bori (my imaginary friends) appeared and existed, and we caught up with Profe (who looked normal now). Then we cleaned some room, which had Pokémon stuff in it. Then I woke up.

Then today when I was sleeping I had a dream that I had my mom drive me back to my old middle school. Appearently you could go there during the summer and visit your old teachers. I think we all knew who I wanted to visit. Anyway, when I went there some staff member said someone wanted to visit me... I hoped it was Profe, but it was some random math teacher I didn't know. I couldn't find the room and since I didn't know the person, I just decided not to go.

So I went to visit Profe. The Spanish hallway was about two or three times as long as normal, and since his room is at the end (it really is, and everyone really did call that hallway "the Spanish hallway"), I couldn't tell if he was there or not. Apparently not all the teachers were there. I wished and wished that he was there as I went down the hallway, and when I got there I saw that he was.

I was all "Profe!!!" and we talked and stuff. The details are sort of fuzzy. Then I woke up, ouch.

Jul. 7th, 2009

Greetings From Indiana

So right now I'm at a Holiday Inn in Indiana. Fwee. How am I posting, then? They have a computer room. :D While I'm here I'll write about what happened so far.

So finally, after lots and lots of... things that never seemed to get done, we left. First we went to a restaraunt and ate breakfast there. I had an omelete, hash browns and a cinnamonroll (Cinnamoroll... XD), all of which was really good. Then after a quick (well, not really) stop at home to grab something, we officially started driving.

Having been awake since about midnight (it was about 10 or 11 AM, I think), I fell asleep using Big Charmander Plushie as a pillow and woke up at about 1. Then I pulled out the Pokémon games and the real fun started.

Let's see... on Ruby I beat some Team Magma guys, but I need to train more to beat the boss. On Sapphire I beat Wattson. On Emerald I need to train my Taillow for Brawly, which I did a little after beating the Gym Trainers. On FireRed I need to train my Metapod into a Butterfree for Brock. On LeafGreen I just had to train my Bulbasaur one level so it could learn Vine Whip, and Brock was amazingly easy. On Blue I need to train my Metapod into Butterfree for Brock. On Yellow I need to train Pikachu... and train and train and train and TRAIN for Brock. Wow, Misty's going to be so easy...

On the way we stopped at a Dairy Queen, where I got a Blizzard. It was good and had fudge in it. :D

After more driving and Pokémon playing we got to the hotel. My dad and brothers decided to go to my uncle's house while my mom and I stayed at the hotel. I grabbed some of my stuff and we went up. For the fun of it I set the Pokémon plushies I brought in random places. XD Big Pikachu was at the window for a while, waving to the people. XD I wonder if anyone noticed it...

So I hooked up the DVD player I brought and found out that DVD's do indeed work on the hotel TV. Also, it was a flat screen. :)

Then mom and I went down to the pool and swam for a while, but clorene(SP?) got in my eyes big time. Ouch. My vision was slightly blurred for the rest of the day.

Afterwards we went back to the room and I watched half of a Battle Frontier episode. Then we went to Subway and had this tasty pizza sub. We went back and I watched the rest of the episode and the next, at least eventually.

After a while we went downstairs and explored a bit. There was an exercize room with a big mirror, which I threw Torchic at. xD There was an arcade, where I played a few games. One of them was pretty long and involved fighter girls who spoke Japanese. XD Yay.

So I watched the rest of the ep, level grinded while watching Family Guy, and eventually went to bed.

Then I had a really odd dream. I was at the school I went to last year, but it was appearently still the next year (they put high school in the middle school?). I kept forgetting what classes I had and almost every day I went to Profe's class on accident instead of the 7th hour I was supposed to have. Then I started going to his class at random just to get a glimpse of him.

So I woke up, watched a little of a BF ep, and came down here. I'm going to get breakfast soon, but I want to go to TsPH first.

Jul. 6th, 2009

Vacationnnn

So it turns out I was a day off and the vacation doesn't actually start until tomorrow. Ah well. Well, technically it's the day since it's past midnight... meh, whatever. XD

Anyway, I probably won't post much over the next week as I don't really like typing on the iPhone. I might a little, though, especially if I get the chance to use my uncle's computer. And I'll be sure to take pictures and post all the details here after I get back.

So yeah, that's about it for now.
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Jul. 4th, 2009

Getting Ready

So I'm going on vacation for a week starting tomorrow. It'll be the first time I've gone there (Tennessee) in a couple years.

Also, I'll go ahead and make a list of what I'm bringing. Maybe I'll print it out and use it as a sort of checklist. It might be updated later, too.

Nintendo DS Lite
GameBoy Advance
Nintendo DS Lite Wall Charger
Nintendo DS Lite Car Charger
Headphones
Pokémon Blue and Yellow Versions
Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald Versions
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Versions
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Scenario Guide
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl PokéDex/Post Game Guide
My notebook of planned Pokémon teams
Pokémon plushies (big Charmander, big Pikachu, Pachirisu, Eevee, Buizel, Manaphy, old Torchic)
All of my Pokémon cards (I'm organizing them)
My two Pokémon card binders
Batteries
Pokémon DVD's (Battle Frontier Box Set, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Jirachi WishMaker, The Rise of Darkrai)
DVD Player

Jul. 1st, 2009

A Dream

So I had a crazy dream last night. I can't really remember the order of the events, so these are just random pieces I remember.

There was some bookstore place that I was at for some reason. They also had shirts. They also had these neat Pokémon books and shirts as well as a few Sanrio ones (I remember in particular a cool dark blue shirt with Cinnamoroll in the middle, surrounded by silvery glitter glue type stuff), all of which I bought.

Somehow I ended up at some place that looked like a top of a building, but was really big. Suddenly planes started flying around, shooting, and dropping bombs, so I guessed it was some sort of war. I went home to find out that a bomb had blew up part of my house. They told us not to go in the basement as the floor around it was unstable. However, the problem was, my room is in the basement (it really is). That means my Pokémon collection was down there. Including my Pokémon games, which I realized with horror.

Despite what I was told, I snuck into the basement anyway. I managed to get my Pokémon games, my DS, my SP, and the chargers for both as well as a Harry Potter book for some reason. I wasn't caught and the floor didn't collapse, so all was pretty much well.

Somehow I was randomly in a restaurant, with my parents and some guy who doesn't actually exist. After we all ate something, we ordered something else. I wanted these kabobs but the guy told me that if I ordered a bunch of the cheaper stuff, I'd have more, so I did.

Then I was sitting somewhere with Profe and we were talking about how Moltres was pronounced; he wondered if you should roll the R. Why do almost all of my dreams have Profe in it in some form?

Then I woke up at some point, obviously. I think the Moltres thing was the last part of the dream but I'm not completely sure.

Jun. 28th, 2009

Ash and Pikachu

Grades Rant

I despise it when people basically imply that grades equal intelligence. They do NOT. Sure, it's certainly possible for a smart kid to get straight A's while a dumb one gets F's. However, in general grades measure how much a student tries, not how intelligent they are.

A dumb kid, if he really tries hard to learn the material, can certainly get an A. Besides, if he learns the material he might not even be dumb anymore. At least in that particular subject. Yet it's certainly possible for a smart kid to fail all his classes if he decides not to do any homework. Not a very smart decision in itself, but who knows where this decision came from. Perhaps he has a lot of problems in his life and doesn't want to deal with extra pressure? Something like that.

The thing is, unless you know the person well, you never really know. Sure, it's more likely for a smart kid to do well and get A's and a dumb one to do poorly and fail, but it isn't written in stone. Also, a perfectly average kid could fail or get perfect grades, depending on his attitude mainly, but with intelligence only forming a small portion of this.

It's also very possible for someone to do well in some classes but fail others. It's also possible that the class bores someone to the point where they don't want to even try, maybe because they don't get the material. However, it could also be the opposite; the class could simply be too easy for the person and only goes over the same boring things they already know. Of course, it's certainly possible for one to find an easy class fun and interesting if they don't know the stuff already but don't find it particularly challenging anyway.

A lot of people tend to ignore this and go with the "If you get an F, you're dumb" thing. This is stupidity in itself.

I know this because I indeed slacked off in school more than once. Am I stupid, just because of poor past decisions? No.

(no subject)

So I just woke up, and I had a pretty interesting dream. Like most of the dreams I've had lately that I can remember, Profe was in it. However, in the other ones the school year had not ended. In this one it had ended and took place in summer school (where I'm actually going starting tomorrow).

However, it was quite different than real summer school's going to be. First off, it took place in my old middle school rather than a high school. Secondly, it seemed as if everyone was going there, not just certain people. Also, while real summer school only teaches core classes, this one taught other ones as well, including Spanish.

First, I was on the bus. The bus was going around picking kids up, and I found it interesting how many kids had to go to summer school. One was this really bad kid who was really stupid and annoying (yes, he really exists. I can't stand the little...). Anyway, I can't remember much of the day at school until 7th hour. The day, however, was only four full hours long (which summer school actually is).

Well, there was one thing I remembered before 7th hour. I think it was first hour or something and the teacher told us that we wouldn't be able to go to high school until we learned (some name I can't remember). So she led us into this big room. Apparently we had to learn some crazy Mexican dance (which doesn't really exist). I had no idea what this had to do with high school and why Profe wasn't teaching it rather than this random lady, but I went along with it anyway. The dance involved jumping up and down and waving your arms while random salsa music played. Weird, I know. I remember thinking of making a Pokémon video with two Caramelldansen style Pikachu doing the dance and random Charspanese singing in the background. For some bizarre reason, I thought it was a good idea.

Then the lady said we all passed and we left the room. I saw two kids I knew from last year, and both were in my 7th hour, actually. Then there was some weird thing about them hating each other but being in a romantic relationship anyway. Oh-kay.

Then, it was 7th hour somehow. When I walked in I had no idea where to sit because everything was rearranged and I kept wanting to go to my old spot. Then someone pointed out (don't ask how they knew) that my spot was somewhere on the other side of the room, so I sat there. The bell rang and Profe came in, and while I was sad that I didn't get to talk to him before class, I was confident that I'd be able to after class.

Profe said that since it was the first day, we weren't going to do any Spanish that day. Instead, much to my horror, he passed out math worksheets. Everyone else seemed to get it just fine, but I couldn't make heads or tails of it. So I decided just to write random numbers and turn it in, deciding that was better than not doing it at all.

I did so, but apparently you had to cut out patterns that were built into the worksheet after you finished the worksheet itself. I did so, and then turned it in. Afterwards I didn't have anything to do, so I randomly decided to draw a Pokémon picture in my sketchbook. However, for some odd reason Profe decided to have one person finish cutting out everyone else's worksheets and chose me. Which I did, albeit reluctantly. For the last one I just sort of half ripped it out and then brought the cut outs up to be turned in.

However, I sort of had this... feeling. This feeling that Profe was being mean to me, as was a lot of the class for some reason (which was a lot like my old 7th hour, just smaller). I pushed the feeling away and tried to rationalize it (Profe was just busy, etc), but the feeling kept coming back.

Then when I was sitting at my spot, a random stick like thing banged into my leg. It hurt, and I was like "what the heck was that?" Some kid said it was some magic thing that was attracted to bad people or something, basically. Then a bunch of other people kept saying I was bad and troublesome and such. Er... O_o

Also, I saw Profe peek through a secret door. This door led into the room where kids were doing that crazy Mexican dance. So he apparently had a part in it after all. Also, I remember seeing him laughing after he looked.

So then everyone was just sitting there. I think the bell was going to ring soon. However, as if to amke up for the fact that I hadn't really talked to him earlier, I randomly said "Profe!" really loud. He just laughed, and a lot of the kids were all "That was totally awesome!" for some strange reason. One of them was a girl whom I hadn't seen in about three or four years. O-o

It was about time to go, about five minutes before the bell rang. However, all the students except me mysteriously disappeared. I gathered my stuff and decided that I wanted to talk to Profe once the bell rang. However, a random girl appeared and asked him something, and two random teachers who don't really exist showed up and started telling Profe how great he was. Then they saw me. Despite me not knowing anything about them, they started going on about how bad and troublesome I was. I was like "...What???" seeing as not only had I never seen them before, I had certainly not done anything particularly bad or troublesome that day and in fact tried to prove I wasn't. However, one of the teachers looked creepily similar to that evil Umbridge lady from Harry Potter, so that might have something to do with it.

Profe didn't say a thing in my defense, which simply added to the feeling that he was mean to me now. However, after they left I asked him if he thought I was bad and such now (with tears in my eyes, I remember) and he didn't give me a straight answer.

Suddenly it turned into a place that looked creepily the same as my backyard, yet it was still at school somehow. Him and a bunch of random students were swimming in a pool or just running around. I asked Profe if I could stay too, and he said he didn't care as long as I let one of my parents know. So I went inside (a house appeared, somehow) and looked for a phone, but couldn't find one. I did however run into my dad, who was indeed there for some reason. Seeing as a parent now knew where I was and such, I went back outside.

While I was out there some random boy tackled me and pointed some stick like thing (like the one that hit my leg earlier in the dream) to my throat. Then he went on about how bad and evil I was and that it was his job to destroy me or something like that, while I was laying on the ground with a magic stick ready to kill me. The boy was covered in armor that reminded me of those Halo games for some reason (which I haven't actually played but have heard about).

Somehow I managed to get away and told Profe that everyone thought I was evil now and there were odd magic sticks. Profe suddenly looked concerned and asked if someone pointed one of these sticks to my throat, and I told him that someone had. He suddenly seemed to be nice to me again. Then that same boy in the Halo armor came out of nowhere, pushed Profe to the ground and pushed that stick to his throat. I guess he was considered a traitor or something. I was like "Noooooo!" but woke up before I could do anything to help Profe.

When I woke up, I was relieved that Profe wasn't about to be attacked by a creepy magic stick-wielding boy and that nobody thought I was evil. However, I was sad that it was only a dream and that I wasn't really in Profe's class again.

Jun. 27th, 2009

SapphirePearlShipping, Dawn

Charmanders and Vacations

Okay. Now that it's considerably less hot (then again, it would be anyway, seeing as I have a fan here now) I decided to start writing random stuff here again. Yay. First of all, with the release of Green Day's newest album the inspiration for making up my own Pokémon fanfic to go with the songs has struck me. In case you didn't know, I had this idea with American Idiot a couple years back and made an epic plot for it and everything. I just never actually wrote the fic.

Anyway, I decided that I not only want to write that fic but make a sequel to it that goes with 21st Century Breakdown.

So the basic plot of the American Idiot one, or Kantonian Idiot as it's officially called, is this. There is a thirteen year old (assuming Pokémon and human ages are the same here) Charmander who lived on the streets. Both his parents are dead, so he was completely on his own. I say "was" because he managed to get together with several other street Charmander and form a crime ring called The Charmander Mafia. Sort of like the Squirtle squad, but bigger and more focused on thievery.

So the Charmander Mafia expanded and the main members, Raff included, lived in an abandoned, run down hotel of sorts. They used various things they stole to fix up the inside, but left the outside run down looking so no one would assume anyone lived there.

I think I'll just continue writing about it in the next entry. I'd rather write about other things now.

So I've been addicted to every main Generation III Pokémon game lately. Yes, all of them; Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen. Today I beat Wattson on Ruby thanks to an incredibly lucky Critical Hit (I'm serious, I was thinking 'Please be a Critical Hit... come on, Critical Hit...' and boom, it was). Luck seemed to be with me today. I also found Pikachu reallly easily in the Viridian Forest on FireRed. My dad wasn't going to give me any money, but still let me buy two ten dollar things. That NEVER happens. o.o

Those two things were a pair of headphones (well, earbuds, but meh) and a DS Lite car adapter. Both of them I needed quite a bit. I had not had a working pair of headphones in ages, making my MP3 Player almost useless, the iPod function of my dad's iPhone almost useless, and the great Pokémon game music harder to hear. All these things are fixed now, and part of the headphones are my favorite color (green) and my favorite shade nonetheless. :3

As for the charger, I'll be going on an epic week long vacation starting this Friday. I wanted to play my DS during the hours and hours of inevitable driving, but was afraid the battery would run out with the nearest hotel hours away. Well, now I don't have to worry about that. Not only that, but the wire is nice and long, meaning it reaches all the way back. So I can comfortably play my DS while it charges in the car. Fwee. :3

I'll talk more about the vacation, just because. On Friday we'll be going to Detroit. We'll stay at a hotel there, and the main reason we're going is to see Greenville Village (I think that's what it's called). I've never been there, but my dad has and says that he likes it a lot. It's apparently a place where they have the exact chair Lincoln was shot in and some other stuff from history. I think it sounds pretty interesting myself.

Also, we might look at some other stuff around Detroit. I might find this interesting as well, seeing as I've spent most of my life in the suburbs and very, very rarely go to large cities (and I usually just ride through them anyway).

The following Monday, the "real" vacation will start. We'll pack up and head to Tennessee, where my grandparents (on my mother's side) live. I haven't been there very many times. The last time I've been there was a couple years ago, and before that... about seven years ago. Yep. I even swam at a beach that I had swam at before when I was about four and... well, it was kind of strange. XD We'll be going to that same beach on the upcoming trip, too.

It takes about 12 hours to get to my grandparents' house. However, about halfway we'll be stopping at my aunt and uncle's in Indiana (my dad's brother). They have loads of Disney movies, a huge flat screen TV, and an even bigger swimming pool (I'm serious, you could fit about two of my pool in there and it's 15 feet around). Fwee. Okay, so I probably won't watch the Disney movies (I'd rather watch the Pokémon DVD's I'm planning on bringing) and the big TV almost always has some kind of sport on it. Oh well. Oh yeah, and they have internet access there. That's nice, because while I can update this journal on my dad's iPhone I prefer a real keyboard by far.

After we spend the night (I think), we'll continue for the remaining six hours or so to Tennessee. There we'll stay in a cabin we're renting. Sure, we'll see my grandparents, but not actually sleep over there (which is what we did last time).

Also, I'll be able to take pictures and post them when we get back. :3 Fwee.

It's just too bad I have to start summer school the day after tomorrow. Oh well, it's only four hours long and I get to skip it for the vacation. :P Just five more days...

Jun. 23rd, 2009

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

So today I started playing Ruby or Sapphire. Yes, I mean both. Admittedly Ruby quite a bit more than Sapphire, but that's probably because I started playing Ruby first. Anyway, I rediscovered how awesomely fun and addicting these games are.

I started Ruby with Torchic, Sapphire with Mudkip, and I'm going to leave you to guess what I'm going to pick on Emerald (which I haven't started yet, but probably will soon). I already have teams planned out for all three. Not movesets this time - just species and nicknames.

I ran into a bit of trouble on Ruby when I realized that you can't find Marill in the route outside of Petalburg after all. At least not on Ruby. Ah well. I settled for Wingull, deciding I'd use Azumarill on Emerald, and moved on.

On Sapphire, Ralts was one of the Pokémon I needed. I just surfed the web while I looked for it and all was well. On Ruby I had Torchic, Zigzagoon and Wingull. On Sapphire I have Ralts and Mudkip.

That's as far as I got on Sapphire, but on Ruby I got to Dewford Town. I've been doing something a little differently on these games. I've been doing something on Pearl (which I started a couple weeks ago) similar to this, but not exactly. I've been letting some of the Pokémon be higher leveled than others for Gyms.

I'd explain a bit more, as well as about the hard to find and catch Mawile that I eventually found and caught, but despite it being past 11:30 PM it's incrediby, insanely HOT. My god, I'm going to have to go back to the (wwwaaaayyy cooler than up here but still pretty dang hot) basement. I could type it on the iPhone, but I'm not very fast with that. Ah well, maybe tomorrow. Or something.

I'll just post this:
Pokémon Ruby Version
Player: Melanie
Gender: Female
Badges: 1
Location: Dewford Town
Pokémon:
Combusken/Blazeclaw level 16
Wingull/Oceanview level 17
Zigzagoon/Slash level 13
Zigzagoon/Zigzagoon level 3 (my HM/Pickup slave)

Pokémon Sapphire Version
Player: Saphiro
Gender: Male
Badges: 0
Location: Petalburg City
Pokémon:
Mudkip/Nightswamp level 8
Ralts/Emerlado level 5
Zigzagoon/HMSLAVE-! level 3 (obvious by the name...)

Now I'm going to try to beat Brawly on Ruby and play Sapphire for a while after that.

Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald are my favorite video games, period. Although I mainly claim Emerald to be as it's an improved version of R/S. And it's green, my favorite color. And features Rayquaza, my favorite Legendary. Yet I haven't started it yet. XD

Jun. 22nd, 2009

Stuff

Yeah, I think I need to post more often. XD

Well, summer vacation's been proceeding, of course. Not much else to say there. I do haved to go to summer school for five weeks starting on the 29th, though. D: Ah well. It's only for four days a week, and for four hours a day. Not that bad.

I also got quite far in my recently restarted Pearl Version. I just need one more badge. My team is Empoleon, Staraptor, Lucario, Luxray, Pachirisu and Buizel, all levewl 41. Yes, I'm actually seriously using Pachirisu and Buizel. Hey, I used Pachirisu for almost the entire game in Diamond and used it in the E4 battle, and I used a Buizel up until Victory Road.

I also decided that I don't want to get Platinum until I beat at least three more of my Pokémon games. The games I wanted to beat are Pearl, Ruby and FireRed (Ruby and FireRed I'm going to start over, although I haven't yet). I did, however, plan the teams for Ruby and FireRed. I wrote them down somewhere and can't remember what they are now. XD Well, I think I had Blaziken for Ruby and Charizard for FireRed, at least. I'm matching starters with games here if you couldn't tell. XD

For the most part, though, I sort of lost interest in Pokémon for a while. I'm getting back into it now, though. I really need to catch up on the anime and cards - I've only seen one or two Galactic Battles episodes, and I haven't bought any cards in forever. Oh well. I'll actually be getting my allowance again now (I haven't for a long time because I was too lazy to do the dishes...) so I'll actually be able to buy things.

Speaking of buying things, today I bought an adorable Pachirisu plushie. :D I love Pachirisu. I had a bit of a hard time choosing between Pachirisu and Buneary, but I kind of like Pachirisu more, so that's the one I went with. I also took a pic of it and a few of my other Pokémon plushies:
http://s589.photobucket.com/albums/ss334/Charsivy/?action=view¤t=pokeplush.jpg

Also, I joined a LJ Pokémon Collectors community. :D I haven't been accepted yet, but meh. I'll have more of an incentive to organize my room. XD I've been meaning to forever, but yeah.

Oh, and I had a strange dream days ago that I've been meaning to tell about but haven't. In it, I was playing my Diamond Version. However, there was some Berry Glitch type thing. Instead of berry growth stopping, however, after a certain amount of time the game... exploded. Yes, exploded. There was some notice on the game that said it would it explode soon, and the explosion would be big enough to kill everyone within a certain distance of the game, which was pretty dang big.

So I desperately tried to find a way to stop the game from exploding, but to no avail. I was scared that we were all going to die soon. That is, until I got an idea. If I were to delete the file, maybe it wouldn't explode after all. I tried looking in a booklet to see if deleting the file really did stop the explosion. I can't remember if I ever found the answer, but I guess I did because I deleted the file and everyone was safe. At first I was relieved, then sad because all of my Pokémon were gone. Then I woke up and was extremely relieved that it all had been a dream.

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