So today was the first day off (day where I dont have school or work) I've had in about a month and a half. It felt nice. I slept in, spend several hours in front of the computer, had laura over for a few hours, and now I'm back on the computer. Very nice. Yesterday was my last day of school, and I'm finished with finals and final projects and evilness and it feels very nice. Yesterday after school got out I went up to DLR by myself and spent the rest of the day there, mostly at DCA. I did get a chance to check out the Snow White stage show finally (because they weren't showing Aladdin at DCA yesterday), and it was alright. The theatre itself ruin it a bit, because its a very low quality theatre. Also, the story of snow white doesnt have much substance in its plot, and there were very many restless children throughout, making for a less than theatre like atmosphere. The show itself was decent, but could have been much better. Anyway, relaxing day. I spent about an hour in Sunshine Plaza at DCA just listening to the band play Beach Boys songs.

Work has been going well. I don't feel like a n00b anymore, as they've been hiring more people. And I have money now! It feels better spending it when I've earned it. Much better.

Mira Costa sent me a letter the other day. Turns out I've been recommended for a position as an English tutor in the library. I thought that was pretty cool. My English instructor actually thinks I'm smart! That's at least someone! It pays $8 an hour, and it's about 10 hours a week, which can be worked into and around school schedule. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to apply or not, but I feel good that I got that letter. It'd be nice to make an extra 80 bucks a week. We'll see though.

Monday I'm going back up to Anaheim, and I'm going to spend a day at Disneyland with Laura. Just the two of us. That I'm looking forward to. I have 3 days of work to get through before then, but maybe it will make it easier.

Site news: there is none. But you aren't surprised, right?

SUPER HUGE BIG FANTAS(tic/mic) SPAZZATRON THANKSGIVING SPECIAL UPDATE! (of doom)

I hate technology. It's like this blog was never meant to be updated. About a week ago I sat down and wrote a very long update detailing everything I've been neglecting to write about since August, and when I hit preview, the internet decided to eat it. So now, I'm going to attempt to do it again (only probably not quite as long and drawn out). It's been a while, and there's a lot I haven't written about since my last real update, but at this point this is really just for my own personal records. I don't know/care whether anyone actually still reads this, but I'm going to write anyway, and especially now that I'm in a good mood and in the holiday spirit. So here goes.

September

The month pretty much came and went for me. I adjusted to school, met some cool people, discovered the beauty of the Mira Costa breakfast burrito, and did some other stuff. My 18th birthday was on the last day of the month. It was without a doubt my worst birthday yet. No one even sang for me, which isn't that big a deal, but it's at least tradition. No matter. As always I got some stuff out of it. My computer is repaired and all it's modifications have been made with the new parts and such. I also got a gameboy advance sp, which means I've started playing pokemon again, and I am in no way ashamed of that.

October

On the first day of the month I went up to DLR with Ben, and we met Stephanie Shay and one of her friends from school there. Stephanie works at DL, so she got us some hookups, like Fastpass line priveleges without fastpasses. I hadn't ever really talked to Stephanie before then, I had memories of her being kinda weird/creepy, and while being both of those, she was also very nice. So the day went by well, no akward or creepy vibes or anything. That day was opening of Haunted Mansion Holiday (featuring characters from Nightmare Before Christmas), so that was a lot of fun.

Sometime in mid october we had the Vegas trip. The Bussett's were planning on following Kyle to see him perform with RBV at the Vegas BOA tourney, and I (along with Derek, Steve, and Ben) accompanied them. The tourney sounded like fun, but I was really hoping for another chance to see Blue Man group, and luckily that ended up happening (if any Bussetts are reading this, thanks again for allowing that to happen). The show was the friday in which we left, and it was a little crazy trying to get there in time. We did, and we saw the show, and it was great. Everyone seemed like they enjoyed themselves. Ben starting coughing due to laughter, and Derek laughed like a silly little girl during the finale. The finale is very immersive (literally). Sadly, the Blue Man Group eluded me again after the concert, so once again I missed my chance at a picture. Don't ask how, the details are too depressing. To make up for it, I bought an insanely overpriced BMG jacket during a fit of rage mixed with dissapointment. Despite what anyone will try and tell me, I am happy with what I did. I pretty much went through the motions on the saturday, seeing as the band tournament thing was fun, but it wasn't my main draw to the trip. The next day (sunday) we drove home in the morning. I drove home with ben in his truck instead of with everyone else. Everyone stopped at stateline on the way home so we could eat and ride the rollercoaster (Ben and I rode twice). We saw items fly from other people and later recovered them. The drive home was a little crazy/dangerous, but fun. A good weekend overall.

Halloween came at the end of the month, and Laura and I drove up to Hollywood in the afternoon and saw The Nightmare Before Christmas on a giant screen at the El Capitan theatre in downtown. We got the downtwon Hollywood around an hour or so before showtime, so we got a snack and walked around downtown and explored the Kodak Theatre complex and Chinese Theatre area for a while. The movie experience itself was awesome. Before the movie there was an organ player playing classic spooky/villain themed music in Halloween spirit, and ended with his redition of "What's This?" from the movie. We had awesome seats and free soda and popcorn because we bought VIP tickets. They were only $21. A good deal also considering that there was a movie museum set up in the theatre's basement after the movie, and among other things used in the movie, they had on display the actualy graveyard set (the one with the swirly hill) they used in the movie. Seeing the movie on a large screen was incredible. I would definately go back again next year and reccomend it to anyone who is a fan of the movie. I probably will if I can, but most likely not the day of Halloween. We had a really nice night together.

November (I'm nearly caught up I swear)

So now we're into this month. I am finally working now. I started on the 13th of the month, and I work at Edwards theatres. It's been a bit of a task getting used to having a difficult schedule (they are a bit spontaneous when it comes to work schedules), but its fine. I've been working every day each of my weekends, which I'm ok with right now. I get free movie passes, and that's a plus. I'm also finally active again. It's a very physical job, and I haven't been active since the end of my senior marching season (that was a year ago). I'm far too fat. Hopefully that will change.

Today was Thanksgiving. I had work scheduled from 11 to 7, but because of the opening of Kirkorian and that other theater in escondido, it wasn't nearly as busy as they predicted, and they let me off at 4. I called me mom and she said my dad and sisters were at edwards seeing polar express, so I found their theatre and joined them for the rest of the movie. Then I got all of us in to Spongebob Squarepants for free right after. The movie was genius. And the phrase "knucklehead mcspazzatron" is now a permanent part of my vocabulary. GO SEE SPONGEBOB. But yeah, went home and had dinner with the family afterwards. Today went well.

I suppose I should give thanks to some stuff. Hmm...

• I give thanks to my good friends, without which, I'd be a loner (well, more of a loner). Lists of people are bad because its so easy to leave out people, but you all know who you are. Yes neal, even you.
  
• I'd like to thank the In-n-out corporation for not franchising, and thereby still providing me with the best burgers on the planet.
  
• Thanks to Edwards for giving me a job.
  
• Thank you to the staffs of miceage.com, mouseplanet.com, albinoblacksheep.com, homestarrunner.com, illwillpress.com, westcoaster.net, screamscape.com, ebaumsworld.com, and every other site out there for devoting so much of your lives to making the internet a more interesting place.
  
• I'm going to thank Laura because she means so much to me.
  
• To everything else that's awesome, including (but not limited to): the Disneyland Resort, the creators of the pokemon video games, AM/PM, funnel cake, warm blankets, and harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban on dvd, I give thanks to you as well.

But WAIT! I'm not done. Just when you thought I've exhausted every method of stretching out a blogger post for no good reason, there's more! Here's some links to some animationsthat have made me laugh over the past few months. Think of it as a reward for still reading for this long.

Neurotically Yours #50: Kavorkian Scarf
Neurotically Yours #60: Amityville Toaster
HOW to Kill a Mockingbird
Uninvited: The Quest for the Red Diamond
Strong Bad Email #118: "virus"
Forehead Shavecut

OK. I'm finished. Seriously. I'll try and keep this thing updated more often. I haven't done anything for the site for a while. I still haven't finished the Jiggly project. I'm just in a slump right now. Eventually I'll finish Jiggly, redesign the site (again), and do the third and final Captain Hampton cartoon, but I'm not sure when. I'd like to bring out my old Girshnelda material and do something with it eventually. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Have a nice holiday or holiday season. I'm going to bed.

-fravit type chewie monk potato thing

People (3 or 4, but still people mind you) have been bugging me to update this site. That's not going to happen right now. So until I feel like adding more content or writing a real update, here's something to read.

"If there's anything which screams "possibilities," it's the trampoline. For example, take any profession. How about Law. Now, imagine an entire court case being carried out on trampolines. Lawyers, judge, jury, the whole shebang. People would sue each other and commit crimes just for the trial, I tell you. So maybe it wouldn't be great for society, but it would be a lot of fun.
Inspired by this thought, I've now decided that if I am ever called to court for whatever reason, I will bring my own trampoline. If anybody else in the room looks at me strangely or dares question my trampolining, I will shoot them. A meaningful stare.
Eventually I'd probably get tired, though. Trials tend to drag out, and trampolining can use a lot of energy. So I'll let other people take turns. After they get used to my hoppity presence, I'm sure they'll be aching for a try. And while they're distracted by the amazing elastic platform of fun, I'll quietly sneak out the front door into FREEDOM.
After all, Freedom, isn't that what America's all about? Freedom. What are you going to do, take my FREEDOM away? No, you can't. Because it's my FREEDOM, and I have a Right to the FREEDOM to have FREEDOM.
But in an utterly depressing ironic twist, it doesn't even sound like a word now. I've abused my Freedom and mutated it into a meaningless couple of syllables.
That phenomenom seems to happen every once in a while, to everyone. You find a word, say it many times, and it doesn't seem like a word anymore, in some odd way. I think people should keep a log of every time that happens. Count how many times you have to say it before it sounds weird. Then, every five years, send your log details into the government. The CIA could have a big database of word information, and we could know which words most commonly lose their meaning, and which words lose their meaning the quickest. We could also keep tabs on people who say "Jihad" a lot, I think that might be of some use." -neil cicierega

bye for now

ps: happy birthday cabin boy

THE EVIL STRAWBERRY
watch and be amazed...

"I caught you a delicious bass..." -Napoleon Dyanamite

I've been kinda neglecting the site this summer. I haven't been very into writing stuff, nor have I been in any kind of mood for animating this summer. Yeah, that means I haven't made a whole of of progress on the jiggly project since the fair. Here's just a message to note that I still have every intention to do stuff for the site still. Just don't feel like it right now.

I started classes at mira costa this week. Seem to be going smoothly so far. I have two awesome classes, an okay one, and one thats insanely boring. But, that's school. Don't ever really have much of a choice there.

Eh... I'm not sure why I started writing tonight. I'm really not up for it. I'm going to go read goblet of fire for a while, then probably go to bed. Just thought I'd let whoever decides to read know this that I'm still alive. Goodnight.

I loved a girl named Sandyface, she lived outside of town
In a tent made of diapers, in the sand she laid face down
She had a pillow of cactus, and her bed was desert land
I suppose they called her Sandyface because her face was covered in sand

And I remember her sandy face
And I remember her sandy smile

That Sandy was the apple of many bloodshot eyes
And one day she fell victim to a sheep in wolf's disguise
They said a man with banana bread and a beehive on his chin
Sold my love to the Grateful Dead, stole her land and then cashed in

There's a one-eyed dog with horns like a yak, wax lips and a broken back
His feet in front face the opposite of his hind legs in the back
He tried to save that sandy girl from the city man disease
But was stung to death by all the pets of the man with the beard of bees

Oh, Sandyface
I do recall
Oh, Sandyface
I could not do it all!

Dr. Rock was on a jog, saw my dear in the parking lot
Selling grilled cheese sandwiches in hippy slavery
Dr. Rock tried to free my love, but he had no gun
So he dialed me collect on 10-10-321
I got the call from Dr. Rock, raced down to the scene
But Sandy had been swept away into the Rainbow Sea

Swim, swim away
Oh, Sandy
Swim so far away from him
Swim far away from this place
Just keep that sand on that face!

But it was too late....

I went back to that stinky place where I first met my Sandy, but
Whitey and his beard of bees had built a Pizza Hut
So I bought a slice in memory, poured sand on the cheese
And as I ate off that sandy plate, I missed my one-eyed dog...

And now it's over
The tide has washed her face
And now it's...

Oh Sandyface...
I do recall
Oh Sandyface
I could not, do it at all...

-aquabats

Not too much to report for as of late. Seen plenty of my laura since last update, and that's good. My cousin, Sebastian, visted last week, so I spent some time with him, seeing as he's going to be sent to Iraq soon. On monday I ventured with him and my sisters to Universal Studios, and did all the new craip they have put in since I went for the Rose Parade. I don't feel like writing full reviews now so here's my opinions of them in a nutshell: Van Helsing:Fortress Dracula- a walkthrough haunted attraction that's mildly scary and will only be appreciated by people who liked the movie; The Revenge of the Mummy- An indoor rollercoaster that could've rivaled Space Mountain had it been at least a minute longer (far too short); Shrek 4D - Suprisingly very, very entertaining, with both the full length films' amount of obscene humor and stabs at disney crammed into 15 minutes (a must see); Spiderman Rocks! - A strange version of Spiderman presented in a rock opera type fashion, with very little actual rock music. You almost feel embarrassed being in the theater, especially during parts like when the green goblin sings "She Bangs" to Mary Jane while flying on his glider. Skip this show.
The day went by pretty well, with less tension between Seb and I as there usually is. Jamba Juice happened there also. Tuesday night I went to the DCI show at qualcomm stadium. I drove Lona, John, and Tye up there, and then split from them at the show to meet up with Laura. The night could/should have been a lot better, but it was still entertaining to watch the shows (first time I had seen any of this season's shows), and I'm glad I got to see Laura. I drove back with the same people I drove up with, and ate at ihop before going home. Wednesday, thursday, and today were mainly uneventful. I bought stuff for school, including my books, and yesterday I saw collateral. Tom Cruise makes an amazing villain type character. Go see the movie, even if only just to see Tom Cruise as a hitman.
I got about a week left before I start classes. I start earlier than most of my friends who are going away because I have a month off school in the winter, so I'm probably going to try to see them more in the coming weeks. And uhh. I'm out of stuff say. Here's a quote from the Shrek 4d show.

"Welcome to Duloc, The Happiest Totalitarian Dictatorship on Earth

(Well... second happiest)

Be sure to visit Duloc's Fairy Tale Adventure! 74 gift shops, and one ride."

Bye.

Last week went pretty smoothly I'd say. I've spent a lot of time swimming and such,and my cousin, Chris, is visting. Monday I hung out with him. On tuesday, I discovered my taillights on my car were out, which jepordized my dlr trip the next day, but I went anyway, seeing as the hotel we stayed at was near walking distance to the parks. Anyway, tuesday and wednesday was my mini vacation with Chris to the Disneyland Resort. Tuesday we did Disneyland, covered most of the rides we wanted to see by 4-5ish, then left to get hotelroom keys and cheap drinks. We returned at about 6, we had fastpasses for splash mountain but it was busted, so we got an early seat for fantasmic and waited the 3 hours. Great show as always. Afterwards we did splash mountain, matterhorn, and then left.

The next day was DCA. California Screamin' was busted all day, which made us both pretty angry, but not much could be done about that. Around midday, we went into millionaire. As luck would have it, I was the fastest on the fastest finger question (my pro random button pushing skillz), and made the hotseat. That was pretty freaking awesome. I only made it to around 8,000 or 16,000, but as soon as I got in the hotseat I realized that it was all really cool and I didn't care how much I won. I ended up winning 7 collectible pins, and a baseball cap. As a strange sidenote, today I read that millionaire will be closing permanently on august 20th. This news came as a shock, both because it was an unexpected anouncement, and that I got in the hotseat just in time before its closure. It must have been fate. But I digress. The rest of the day was fine. I did my 13th ride on Tower of Terror, which for the sake of the ride's themeing seemed like a pretty big deal to me (but of course to no one else). Oh well I had my fun. The performance of Aladdin was very poor, and that was another downside to the day. The flying carpet over the audience never happened, a many of the flying wire effects didn't work either. The show also had the guy playing aladdin who has the voice that sounds like he has a cold, which personally bugged me. The genie was the mediocre genie, and he's big entrance was late. I'm not sure why they didn't just close the show down for the say with so many missing special effects, but it probably had something to do with Calfornia Screamin's closure and the park's lack of attractions. Anyway, we burned out pretty early, at around 4, and went home. A very fun two days.

Saturday, I went with Chris, Pohl, and Ted to see the Aquabats at Soma. I felt a bit out of place at first (maybe it was the fact that I was one of the few there not smoking pot? possibly), but as the concert progressed we all got very into it, except for chris, but he's not really that type of guy anyway. An awesome concert. I'm not going to try to explain- you had to be there.
Yesterday was Sunday, and Laura returned from Europe after 5 weeks. She called me in the evening, and that made me very happy. I should be able to see her on wednesday, if it works out with her. Greatly looking forward to that.

Today I hung out with Lona and John. We saw anchorman (my 4th time, but I really wanted to get out, so I didn't mind), and then ate at chili's. They're too cool for me, I swear.

That should just about do it for now. More of my summer properly documented for future reference. You stay classy San Diego.

"I ate a whole bunch of fiberglass insulation... it wasn't cotton candy like that guy said. My stomach's itchy..." -Steve Carrell

Alright, now that I feel like writing, here's the details on this past saturday.

At around 3:45 in the afternoon I went around and picked up everyone (pohl, neal, and ben). We listened to blue man group and some aquabats on the way up to costa mesa, and the ride was fun. Got there around 5:45 (hit traffic, had to follow my dad around it on sideroads). My dad and sister's were in another car, and when we got there, they took off. We got to park in a VIP lot, and this, along with everything else that happened that evening aside from food )and rides for my sisters), were all free, via my dad's super chain of connections. So no worries about parking. We all split up to get food, a fried twinkie and a plate of austrailian battered potatoes for me. We ate and then checked ou the visual art exhibits. There were some really good animation entries in the fair. Those were really funny. Didn't see any flash animations though.

Next came the concert. Beforehand, we ran out to the car to grab a bunch of weird al stuff, and then went to the arena. Outside of the areana dr demento was in a booth dj'ing, and we had seen in from the car earlier when we were about to park, but everyone was temporarily star struck to say anything. Anyways, we didn't have to wait in any line to get into the arena seeing as we had special VIP seats. We went in to look for our seats, it turned out that the VIP section were center stage sections of the first 5 rows, and it just so happened that when we got there, no one was sitting in the front row! HELL YES. Ben immediately gave my dad a hug with the words "Sir, I am in awe of your greatness...". Dr. Demento introduced the concert, and it began. The concert was extremely cool. During the song "your horoscope" when he said the line "all virgos are extremely friendly and intelligent", he pointed straight at me and sang "except for YOU". He sang various pickup lines to my sisters during "wanna b ur lovr". The coolest interaction had to be during "Smells Like Nirvana", when during a part of the song he sang with water in his mouth, and when he was finished, he spit the water out at ben, neal, pohl and I (it only hit us 4), and then threw the plastic cup he was drinking from in our directions. Ben caught it, pohl took it and drank the rest of the water from it, and then Ben took it back. The rest of the concert went on great, and it was all hilarious and loud and perfect. Seriously, he was no more than 5 feet away from us.

After the concert was a story in itself. My dad works with a guy who is weird al's first cousin, and because of such, some strings were pulled, and we ended up going backstage. He was sitting at a table and people were getting autographs from him. His cousin person introduced my dad to him and then we all got to take a really cool picture with him. Pohl and I both noticed his hair smelled really good. After that we all got various things signed. Pohl and I both had cd's to get signed, Neal his paper poodle hat, and, Ben? That plastic drinking cup he caught during the concert. Weird Al seemed like a very nice guy. He wasn't all crazy and such like he appears on tv, but he was just very polite. We didn't have much time backstage after that, as technically we really weren't supposed to be there. But we left, got some more food (a cinnamon roll for me), and left, all very hyper and excited like. When the four of us got back in my car, we put in my signed poodle hat cd for one last listen (I'll have to copy it and listen to the copy from now on), and blasted the volume. A VERY awesome, super killer, totally freaking amazing night. Probably won't ever happen again.

It's around midnight, I'm up and bored and not talking to anyone. So, I thought I'd have a go at this (from brytni's journal):
_____________________
LAST*
song you've listened to = 'Waiting for the Worms' by Pink Floyd
song that was stuck in your head = 'Lovers of Loving Love' by The Aquabats
cd you bought = actually purchased? hmm... that would be Get the Picture, by Smash Mouth
cd you've listened to = a pink floyd mix
person you've called = my cousin chris
person who's called you = ben

DO*
you have bf or gf: a wonderful one
you wish you could live some where else: not really. there are places i would like to live, but no where more than here.
you think about suicide: yes. i think everyone has at one point or another.
you believe in online dating: believe in? well im pretty sure its real. i just don't think i could ever do it.
others find you attractive: generally, no
you want more piercings: got none, want none
you want tattoos: not really. unless it was somewhere remote like the bottom of my foot, just to say i had one.
you drink: never
you do drugs: never
you like cleaning: if it's for my own benefit, definately.
you like roller coasters: hell yes. all shapes and sizes.
you write in cursive or print: print
you carry a donor card: no

*FOR OR AGAINST...*
long distance relationships: if there's already a strong basis in the relationship, and it's an attempt to continue, then yes. randomly starting a long distance relationship right off the bat... no.
suicide: if you're going to kill yourself, you had better have a DAMN good reason
(translation = no)
teenage smoking: against all smoking
doing drugs: against all drug use
drinking: i never will. but i don't mind if the person drinking is smart and does it in moderation.
gay/lesbian relationships: I'll never be in one, and since they don't affect me, I have no problems with it.

*FAVE...*
food: in n out double double with no onions
sports: marching band
drinks: coke, gatorade, a slurpee (sort of a drink), or milk
clothes: denim or tan shorts with a tshirt in warmer months, jeans with a t-shirt or longsleeve in the colder months
movie: T2, The Ten Commandments, School of Rock, Mystery Men, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Ring/Ringu, the Harry Potter Series (PoA especially, I saw it 5 times)
holiday: I'm not sure. This is one of those questions I end up answering differently each time I fill one of these out, so I'll not answer.

*HAVE YOU...*
ever cried over a guy or girl: a few times
ever lied to someone: yes. i try not to.
fist fought: i've only been in such a situation that required fist fighting once, but didn't need to. the guy hit me first, but ran away after i stood there and stared at him for a few seconds.  my one "victory"! PRAISE ME!

*WHAT...*
shampoo do you use: head and shoulders
perfume/cologne do you use: i'm allergic, so none
shoes do you wear: cheap ones that look decent. or sandals.
are you scared of: ending up old and alone

*NUMBER...*
of times you have had your heart broken: 2
of hearts you have broken: 0
of times you've been in love: 2
of enemies: 0
of cds: including copied cd's? At least 30
of scars: no more than 20. i did a lot of stupid stuff as a kid.
of regrets: i'm not really sure. odd question, to put a number on a persons regrets.

what's your...*

First grade teacher's name: oddly enough, as i sit here and think, i've just realized that she's the only teacher i've had since starting school who'se name i can't remember.
Last word you said: you
Last song you sang: pink floyd - the trial (alone driving in my car, heh)
Last person you hugged: my grandma
Last thing you laughed at: the newest strong bad email at homestarrunner.com
last time you said 'i love you': yesterday (to matt hill...and he said it back, boo yah)
Last time you cried: 6 hours ago
What's in your cd player: my pink floyd mix
What color socks are you wearing: no socks
Whats under your bed: brb let me go look.... um, a shoebox, a briefcase with a chess set inside, and empty box to phone we just bought, a grocery bag, a large amount of telephone cord (?), part of a box to a legomindstorms kit, probably other stuff but i'm not going under any farther than that.
What time did you wake up today: 10:30am
Current hair: same as always (cut short, low maintenance)
Current clothes: orange "werks electric" shirt and rbv PE shorts (from freshman year)
Current annoyance: time
Current longing: to be ... happy? simple, but its the best way to explain my situation.
Current desktop picture: me, my sisters, my dad, neal, pohl, ben, and WEIRD AL (taken backstage at the concert)
Current worry: this year/scheduling (see also "current annoyance")
Current hate: would it be too harsh to say 'the human race'? maybe i should just leave this one alone...
Story behind your msn username: actually its AIM. squeegieman is a character who appears for less than 5 seconds in the movie "mystery men". but it cracks me up everytime, and it's obscure for a screenname.
Favorite physical feature of the opposite sex: face, hips/waist
Favorite place to be: somewhere quiet with a loved one
Least favorite place: home, or LAX
If you could play any instrument: drumset
Color: green
Do you believe in an afterlife? yes
How tall are you? 5'10"
Current favourite word/saying?: "shutup, everyone hates you"
Favorite book: this one changes a lot too, so i won't answer
Favorite season: all but spring (bad things happen to my skin in the spring)
One person from your past you wish you could talk to: mackey feary (my late uncle)
Favorite day: friday, sunday

~Future~
Where do you want to go: i'd like to visit costa rica, and australia
What is your career going to be: i'll get back to you on that
How many kids do you want: 2, if any at all
What kind of car will you have: what a dumb last question for this survey. moron survey writer...
___________________________

Goodnight.
-chewie

Weird Al in concert. VIP tickets. Front row, center seats. Backstage access. Meeting the man himself. Pictures. Autographs. Wow. Tonight was a DAMN good night. Wow. I'll detail on this tomorrow. Goodnight.

For lack of better things to write about, here's the movies I've seen this summer, and how many time's I've seen them. Just for me to keep track of.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 5
Shrek 2 - 3
DodgeBall - 2
Spiderman 2 - 2
I, Robot - 2
Anchorman - 2
The Day After Tomorrow - 1
Troy - 1
Fahrenheit 9/11 - 1
The Terminal - 1

Saturday I'm seeing going to the oc fair and seeing Weird Al. I'm probably going to DLR for two days next week (staying a night with my cousin, chris). Hopefully, I'm going to see The Aquabats in concert next saturday. Still looking for a job, also. That about sums up since last update. Not much else going on with me.
-person

ps: my cartoon "Attack of the Jiggly Baby Robots" won a first place ribbon at the San Diego County fair. I'm currently adding to the cartoon, and the finished, new version of the cartoon will probably be called "I, Jiggly" (or I, Baby? I don't know.) I'll put it up here when I'm satisfied with it.

Well... I'm bored, and I haven't written anything in a while. Time for an update.

Where to start... hmm... well school's been out for a few weeks. Graduation was alright, it wasn't as painful as I thought it could've been, so that worked out well. Had dinner that evening at Black Angus with Laura, pohl and brytni, my cousin, and my aunt, and the rest of my family. That worked out well. My friends got along well with my cousin, nicole, who is the same age as me. That made me happy. Laura bought me the new Seal cd for graduation and a nice card, and my parents got me a disneyland resort annual pass. Which is awesome. I get access to both parks for 365, with free parking (which normally costs $9 - ouch.) and discounts on about a million things around the resort. That made me happy.

The very next day I decided to try out my pass. It was a bit odd going by myself, but a strange kind of satisfaction came from it knowing I could go wherever I wanted without restriction, and knowing that I didn't have to worry about other people with me wanting to do things I didn't. I walked around both parks a lot, did some rides, and watched fantasmic, which I haven't seen in 5 years. I freaking love that show.

After that, I spent a lot of time with Laura before she had to leave. I think in the last week before she left I saw her jsut about every day of the week. That was nice. But now I won't see her until shortly before bandcamp starts. So we'll see how that works out.

Other misc. stuff I've done... hmm.... well I've gone to the disneyland resort a few more times, once with Lona and John, another time with Nicole (this was when I saw Dennis Rodman at DCA). I've got a few more trips planned for soon, probably a Disneyland trip with John and Lona, and maybe a few random trips with my cousins who are visiting. I've ridden the new Tower of Terror 9 times already, and I'm starting to remember safety spiels and other random things around DCA, so I think I need a break from that park right now. I've almost got the pass payed off (in uses), and it's only been a little over a month since I've had it.

I also went on a 4 day trip to Arizona with ted and his dad, we went camping once again. That was a lot of fun. Ther was this strange stretch of highway that we've dubbed the largest (and most perverted) guestbook in the world, but I'll detail on that more once I get some pictures developed (never). I've seen a lot of movies this summer also. I saw Spider Man twice, Dodgeball twice, Shrek 3 times, and Harry Potter a whole 4 times. I also saw The Day After Tomorrow, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Troy. Of all those movies, the only one I really didn't like was the Day After Tomorrow. I even kind of enjoyed 9/11, even though I disagreed with almost all of the movie. Today I'm planning on seeing The Terminal.

That should do it for now. I think I'm pretty much all caught up. I'll try to keep this thing updated more often, whether people read it or not.
Cya.

I saw Dennis Rodman at Disney's California Adventure. He took my seat for California Screamin'. He was in line for the Playhouse Disney show.

That's all for now. Cya later.

We'll go on, growing closer through the years.
Moving on, through the good times, and the tears.
Ever on, another thousand circles around the sun.
A new life has begun, we'll go on...



(^those are the lyrics to the push in the field show this year.)

Alrighty then... the site has been down for a few days, as I've exceeded my disk space on the cox server and blogger wouldn't let me publish anymore, and since my main page is run on blogger, the whole site got caught in limbo. For now, the musicbox is gone. I'll move things aorund when I get a chance. Now lets talk about last saturday (this'll stay on my main page unless/until I decide to publish it's own page).

Got picked up at around 6:45, headed over to pick up the twins, we got there a bit early so we sat in front of their house while neal took pictures. Drive up to anaheim went fine, no one killed anyone else. We got to the resort in record time and had some time to kill. Ate at McDonalds, did laps around the resort and such, Neal learned the roads around the park, etc. Plenty more chance to see Tower of Terror up close, but I refrained from freaking out. Parked the car, walked downtown disney for a while, browsed the bookstore, watched little kids throw pennies into a killer wishing fountain (killer as in, deadly). The park was slated to open at 10, so we started to walk towards the front gates as it was 9:20. To our surprise, the gates were already open when we got to the front entrance. Whatever. It was nice, as most people weren't aware the park was already open, it wasn't very crowded. Immediately we walked down Hollywood Blvd and towards tower.

The line was only a 20 minute wait, but we got fastpasses anyway. It seemed to move much quicker than 20 minutes. The gronds all around the new attraction are very well done. It's not as creepy without the overgrown vegetation like at Florida, but the street atmosphere made it feel more authentic, like a real Hollywood hotel. We continued throw the queue and into the hotel. The lobby was amazing, as were the rest of the rooms in the hotel. What was really cool was the boiler room. The rides story has you explore the basement level of the hotel where you board a maintenence service elevator. The room is very creepy, filled with stuff to look at and be entertained by. Neal and I argued about whether the libary had taken us underground (like the haunted mansion at disneyland does). I say it doesn't. And I'm right. The elevator was really old and creepy looking, and it seemed that Laura was able to keep her cool all the way until we were seated and the doors shut. The beginning of the ride is very startling and disorienting. Without ruining it, I'll just say that this elevator can do a lot more than a normal elevator can. The ride was a lot of fun, and though it was missing several things from the WDW version, it had plenty of new special effects and there was one moment of the ride that was truly terrifying (and yet still a lot of fun).

After that we headed down to Soarin' Over CA and rode that. While Tower was a lot of fun, I have to say that Soarin' is still my favorite ride at DCA. So beautiful. We took fastpasses for that after getting off and then went back to tower to ride it again. Still a lot of fun the second time. We had some time to kill after that before the Soarin' fastpass was up, so we decided to try Muppetvision 3d. We watched the entire preshow, and just as we were about to enter the theater, we see the CM running around and then they directed us out another door through the building. Turns out we were being evacuated. All guests were led backstage and out of the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area and it was closed off. Later on I learned that there had be an electrical fire in the Playhouse Disney building. No matter. We continued on toward Soarin' to ride it a second time. We were going to request center front row seats, but there was no need, as we miraculously were put there anyway. So the ride was that much more magical.

We decided to try other areas of the park as hollwood was closed and we pretty much conquered condor flats with its one ride. We passed Grizzly River Run and got fp's for that, and then continued through San Francisco towards Paradise Pier, and began to walk the pier counter clockwise. We ended up at california screaming. The CM's working that ride were pretty funny with their suggestions on how to pass time in line. Anyway, that coaster is great. After riding we notice Tower of Terror operating again (you can see that thing from all over the park), so we figured Hollywood had reopened. We started to make our way back towards that area, but we got distracted at A Bugs Land, and did the 3d show they got there. The theater is really well done, it looks as if its underground. The show was very short but it's unusually scary for a kids show. Laura ducked when Hopper unleased his bug army. We all got stung my hornets. Lots of fun. Neal then proceeded to steal "bug eyes" from the show. Hooligan. We wandered around the newly redone A Bugs Land after the show just to take in the themeing. I really liked the benches that are made with popcicle sticks.

Hollywood had indeed reopened, so we went back and actually got to watch the muppet show. It was a lot of laughs. After that, we rode GRR. Neal and Kristin got soaked. Lunch followed at the Taste Pilot's Grill in condor flats. My burger was pretty good. I ate with Laura, as Neal and Kristin decided to wander off to who knows where. They came back with shoestring fries from Award Weiners in hollywood, since criss cut fries aren't good enough for neal. After that, in an order I've since forgotten, we rode the sun wheel, saw Aladdin on stage, did Who Wants To Be a Millionaire Play It, and rode screamin' several more times. My anaylsis of the sun wheel "yep...I've dealt with this before...car...definately rocking...". Aladdin was very funny, and I think it was better than everyone else who I was with thought it was going to be. Screamin' eventually gave me a headache and I couldn't ride that anymore. Somewhere in there, Laura and I rode Grizzly two more times nad got drenched, while Neal and Kristin rode screamin' even more. The line for that coaster was moving very quickly that day.

Eventually we made our way back to Hollywood, and into the animation building. In the sorcerors workshop section, whe took character tests. I turned out to be Tarzan, Laura was Lumier (but answered many questions inaccurately), Neal was Jimminy Cricket, and Kristin was very appropriately Malificent. We also put our voice in disney cartoon scenes. Laura and I redid a scene from lion king, and she kinda rewrote the script a bit. Hilarious results. We were in there for proly around 45 minutes to an hour, and then I went back to Tower of Terror to buy sovenirs. I got a picture and a tshirt, and Laura got a postcard. WE wandered around Hollywood at night some more, took some pictures, and then lined up for the electrical parade. It's always nice to see that parade. Brings backs lots of memories. The end of the day came not long after that. WE left hte park, wandered Downtown Disney some more, caught part of the disneyland fireworks, then eventuall left. Stopped at the magical 7-11 next to disneyland on the way back, and then headed home, although we did take a slight detour on the way home to the beach.

The rest of the week was another week gone by. I'd like to write about it more, and about today, but I'm tired of writing, and tired in general. You're probably tired of reading. So I'll write about that all later. Goodnight.

DCA was a lot of fun. I'll write about the whole thing later. For now, here's a pic from yesterday. There's lots more pics.

Tower On-Ride Photo

Haven't written anything in a while. Lets start with last weekend.
Saturday was the annual RBV drum major competition. I went there with pohl. I let him be the runner this year, as I've done it for the past two yearas and worked from set up til cleanup. This year I got to be a announcer/soundbooth person with Bernie, so that was fun. Drumline was practicing in the gym while that happened. Afterwards the drumline came out and played their dhow for the competitors. Then I bailed with laura and pohl, i took pohl home and laura and i went to my house for a while. After she left, my mom for some reason insisted I go take $100 out of her bank account and take my sisters out to dinner and see a movie. So I did that. We ate at red lobster. I had somewhere in the vicinity of 60 shrimps (about 30 were popcorn shrimp...) Anyway... yeah. Then we went to see Envy, starring Jack Black and Ben Stiller. Great movie. Hilarious. Madness. Hadn't laughed that hard at the movies in years.

Sunday I knocked on pohls door at about 10, I threw him into my car, and then we traveled up to ADLA Championships in SantaFe Springs. On the way up we passed The Disneyland Resort (and Tower of Terror, in all its glory). I ended up getting off the freeway at Disneyland. I couldn't resist. We drove a lap around the resort, got some good looks at the new building, and then continued on towards the tourney. When I got there I saw our drumline peoples dragging their stuff from the truck to the gym, I guess their bus broke down and they just barely made it in time. We watched the show, it was a great performance. They came in 4th out of like 22 overall or something like that. We didn't stay long though. The awards started at 2, but I accidently told my mother they were at 3 and then I'd leave as soon as they were over. We decided to leave anyway.

So we're heading southbound, I'm dying of thirst, and I'm trying to think of where I can get a drink. Naturally, the 7-11 on Harbor and Katella (the corner of Disneyland) comes to mind. Yes! Another excuse to get off the freeway and look at tower. So I go in, get a 64oz (and down half of it in the 2 minutes that pohl is waiting in line to pay for his drink), and then leave. Then it gets weird. Of course I have to drive another lap around the resort. "Pohl what time is it?" I remember that I had told my mom I'd stay for awards (the awards that I thought started at 3, but actually started at 3), and leave when they were finished. Them being earlier than I thought and me not going to them gave us an extra hour and a half to do whatever we pleased. "Wanna go to downtown Disney?"
"sure." says pohl. To shorten the rest of this odd, odd story, we wandered all over the disneyland resort, went through security checkpoints (the checkpoints park visitors go through), rode parking lot trams back and forth for no reason, and tried to find all the ways we could to view the new tower. We did find a good spot in the esplanade between the parks. We got to watch the elevator doors open and close and see the cars fall. The whole time I'm thinking "Chewie, you've lost it. This has gone beyond obsession." After that whole thing we went home. I waved goodbye to the tower and promised I'd see it again in a week.

The date I'm going to the park has been moved from the 16th to the 15th, so I'm actually going to the park tomorrow. Can't wait. Yeah...um rest of this week... nothing interesting happened really. Roundup happened on wednesday, and that was a lot of fun. My grandpa gave me a $300 digital camera as a graduation gift. That was cool too. Other than that, this week has just been something to get through to saturday. And saturday is tomorrow. I'll write about the trip when I get home. I'll actually write about it this time, not like the wdw trip report. I do plan to finish that eventually though, but I'm going to have to break out the home videos from the trip so I can remember minute by minute details again. OK. That's all for now.

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::ToT COUNTDOWN::

NOW OPEN

1 Day 'til I Ride
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So, weekend turned out fun, as suspected. Saturday's drive to AB Miller in Fontano was a long one, longest one I've done yet. Hit major traffic because the freeway was blocked up down towards riverside because of a NASCAR race. Of all things...

Dline got first place, beating second by 8.4 points i believe. Got to hang out with Laura for most of the time. Good day. Ride up and down was fun because I had pohl with me.

Sunday somewhat depressing I guess. I broke a lawnmower and the sprinkler system in my front lawn. Grades came in the day before (which was convenient, as I was 90 miles away), so negative happened on Sunday. But other than that, it was an ok day. I painted. I watched Mr Deeds multiple times (I swear that movie is ALWAYS on hbo). Not much else happened.

Tomorrow is the big pres event/party for ToT's opening at DCA. Day after tomorrow the ride is *officially* open. It's been doing soft openings this past week. Before summer starts I'm going to get an annual pass to both parks sort of as a graduation present (to make the horror of graduation more bearable), so I'm sure I'll get to ride it plenty. But my first time will be a week from this sunday, with my friends. K, enough blogging for now.

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::ToT COUNTDOWN::

2 Days 'til Opening

1 Week, 6 Days 'til I Ride
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Wind 1 had festival tonight. I went to watch the with the bussetts. They had a nice performance....October is a great piece. Tomorrow I go to the AB Miller adla tourney. Should be a lot of fun.

Gary, if you're reading this, you're a freak.

Goodnight all.

-CHOOI

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::ToT COUNTDOWN::

4 Days 'til Opening

2 Weeks, 1 Day 'til I Ride
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Not a happy monday today. Blah. Happens sometimes, oh well. I think I'll talk about my happier weekend.

Friday evening was relaxing. Spent several hours in my corner having a wonderful phone conversation, while being tripped out by my lava lamp (the things been on my shelf for about a year and a half, I decided recently to put it back on my desk). So thats fun. Saturday was the San Marcos ADLA tournament. I took pohl with me. A lot of RBV people were there, some I was happy to see, quite a few I was annoyed to see. But that's alright, because I still had a great day. RBV did well, they competed in a higher divison and improved their score by 13 points (!). I spent some time with Laura and that was good. She was all sunburned. At one point I left briefly to get a drink at ampm and pohl ditched me with neal and kristin. We went in and saw some other lines later in the evening. I have to say I was somewhat dissapointed overall with that tournament, there were some amazing lines at saddleback amd san marcos was kind of lacking in them. I hope this coming saturday is better, but if not thats alright because I'll still get to see RBV's great show, I'll still get to see Laura, and I'll get to go on another long drive by myself to somewhere I've never been. Yay! Sunday I got up early (meaning 10 am), I had bacon and egg burritos, and I washed my car inside and out. It went to Laura's in the afternoon and we watched birds and looked at embarrassing pictures from yesteryears. then we went to spaghetti dinner for rbv. The food was good. Turned out mostly good. Except we had to sit with the bussett boys (all three of them). Blah. I'll get you bussetts! I'll blast you til tomorrownoooooooonnnnn...

So that was my weekend.
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::ToT COUNTDOWN::

1 Week, 2 Days 'til Opening

2 Weeks, 6 Days 'til I Ride
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Alrighty, have a nice evening. !Palabra a tu madre!

Last sunday I published the Invader Zim Leap Years Eve Special, finally. Forgot to mention that. Don't get too excited though.


PS: Three letters typed in sequence at the end of the movie will make something crazy like happen. The letters stand for something.

Couldn't sleep, so I got up to check my email. No emails, so I felt like blogging.

This week went by kind of quickly. Wasn't too horrible for being first week back from break. On wednesday I ended up seeing Starsky and Hutch for a second time, and yes, it's still funny. I think I'm going to buy it when it comes out. Friday we had showdown. Our band's performance was it's usual crap. We played Pirates of the Carribbean with wind1 after that, and it was better than any of our other performances but still wasn't very good.

Weekend was relaxing. Saturday I had Laura over. Sunday my mom was out and it was just me here with my sisters. I took them to see Home on the Range. My review in a nutshell:

It doesn't suck as much as you think.

Give it a chance. Yes, it was made for children. Yes, the plot makes very little sense. Yes, the Disney Feature Animation division is going to hell in a handbasket. But, it was entertaining, and it kept me laughing almost the entire movie. Given a little more effort it could have been another Emperor's New Groove. As long as you can suspend your disbelief (there are cows doing matrix moves, horses jumping onto rooftops and down canyons, and hypnotic disco yodeling), there is a strong chance you will enjoy it too. I also thought the integretion between 2d and 3d animation was beautiful. Best I've seen Disney do it. I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10.

Aight, I'm gonna try to go back to sleep now. Goodnight.

Oh yeah...heh, I forgot about what I did on Easter. Tee hee. Um....I ate some eggs, I went to church, I ate at ihop, I wasted time online at the mousinfo.com boards, I ate a huge meal again, then I played at Scott's church. Thats about it.

Now that that's out of the way, check this out. It's a "trailer" for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

OK bye.

Hmm....well then. Spring break is pretty much over. I guess it was alright. Some cool things happened in the process. I went to two pagenatry tournaments. First was eastlake, second was last night at Mt. Carmel. Finally saw the Fantasia color guard. They almost made me cry. I still like esperanza's apple show better though. I took my sisters to see Starsky and Hutch last tuesday. Took a little while to warm up to the movie, but once I understood the kind of feel they were going for (I've never seen the tv show) it became hilarious. I did... something... on wednesday....I hoenstly can't remember what happened on wednesday...oh well moving on.

Thursday I saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Laura and Kristin and Neal. Great movie. It was about a guy who hires scientists to erase his memory of his ex girlfriend, but then decides subconciously that he doesn't want the process done...while it's already taking place. A large part of the movie takes place in the guy's head, as he runs around through his own memories trying to hide the memory of his ex in his other memories, where he thinks the "erasing people" won't find her. Very odd plot, and has a very odd ending. But I loved it. I might go see it again on my own.

Friday I practiced with scott and his crew at his church for his Easter fireside. That went not too bad. Afterwards I did calculus with lona and john and lona's house and ate stuffed crust pizza. Good stuff.

Last night was the Mt Carmel tournament, which I think I already mentioned. Afterwards we ate at McDonalds and madness occured. A very pleasant car ride home followed.

Spring Break 2004 properly documented. Ima gonna go do that thing with the sleepy type unconcious blah thingy.....iiiiiioejdewwwwwwwwwwwww....ggooodnight.

1 month until Tower of Terror.

Computer still down. Tomorrow I do battle.

Weekend has been enjoyable. Friday I stayed at school all day despite the half day so I could hang out with Laura. We stayed there and then saw the play 42nd Street. It was good. Not fantastic, but good. Saturday I went to eastlake with John to watch the pageantry tournament. We listened to the aquabats and lemon techno from blast about 30 times. We also drove for a long time after the tournament and got cheese fries and shakes at in n out. Today I went to Laura's house, watched Shawshank Redemption with her and looked at pictures and such. Spring break has been fun so far. Hope it stays that way. bye.

-fravit

I haven't been doing much of anything for the site recently. I'm currently battling a wave of viruses on my computer, and assorted other net problems. I think my multimedia drive might have the virus on it, which is unfortunate because a) the fravit net stuff is all on there, so I can't work on the site now, and b) everything else that is important to me as far as digital media goes is stored on that harddrive, and I'm very afraid of losing it. Hopefully this will all get straightened out soon. Why can Mac have relatively virus free computers and not Microsoft? Blah. Whatever. Until I fix this, no updates of any kind other than blogs.

In other news, this monday will begin the one month count down to the opening of The Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror at Disney's California Adventure. Disney has put together a neat site for it here, and they've also started the first steps in their huge ad campaign, some of the ideas for which are actually kind of neat. But I'll spare you the details of that. You can actually call the Hollywood Tower Hotel now at 1-877-LOST-GUEST (yes, the phone number works). Go ahead and call and see what happens. I have.

Tomorrow spring break starts. For some reason I'm not all that excited. I dunno, maybe I will be tomorrow. We'll see. Goodnight.

-me

Hello Hello Hello

Recent happening: friday evening Neal came over to fix my computer. He fixed it. He left. It broke itself again. So I'm yet again on my sister's computer. Bahh...I hate technology. I looked for people to give me a ride to saddleback the next day for the drumline competition, but no success. So I begged and pleaded with my mom to let me drive up there (Jack Black's advice, if you really need something don't be afraid to get on your knees and beg). She said fine eventually. So I drove up there on Saturday, left at like 1, and listened to a Disney theme park music cd I made the way there. It cycled like 3 times. That was fun. RBV's show is looking really cool, but at the moment there's very little to see. But it sounds cool, and it's very clean and its all computery and themed to sim city, a geek's fantasy. I hung out with Laura and several other misc. RBV drumline people. Today was sunday, I washed my mom's van, and it was really hot this morning for some reason. Felt like summer. Then Laura came over for a few hours, we watched School of Rock. Then she left, and I was sad. Then... I searched my house to find something to eat. No success. I ended up at the computer somehow and started blogging. I just remembered I'm still hungry. I think I'll go back to looking for food.

-that guy who made this site

ps: Here's a picture of construction of "Expedition Everest: Legend of the Yeti" at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Domokun has been brought in to supervise construction, while John Kerry is absolutely thrilled by it's progress.

Hello all. I've felt very lethargic lately. Same old things, don't seem to want to go away. I haven't actually written a whole lot here as of late. So here's a somewhat amusing anecdote.

Yestesday pohl and I were driving from rbv to my house to when we notice a large house being carted down the street in two piece by large trucks on Melrose. OMG LOL is what i'm thinking when I see this thing, the house is huge for something thats being hauled on a public street. It was bigger than my house. What was funnier was then it proceeded to turn onto sunset drive (on the east side of melrose). My thoughts change instantly to WTF. There was no way it would make it past the curves in that road. We laugh, I go home to get something, then on the way back to rbv we decide to go drive down sunset to see if it had made it through. Sure enough, it was stuck about 30 yards from where it pulled onto sunset, and people were directing traffic to make u turns and turn arond. Not something I get to see everyday, it was entertaining. We then proceed to freshman orientation night, where we had no baritone freshman to talk to. Sigh...well at least I won't be the one who has to recruit next year.

Now, everyone go download the soundtrack to the "Fantasmic" show from Disneyland and listen to it... all 26 minutes of it. Come on, I do it all the time, what's the problem? Ok shutup. I'm leaving.

-The Thnickaman

PS: There's a new toon at Homestar Runner, go watch it, it's hilarious. First new full length toon in like... a year.

"Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave. " -david gilmour

Again... not much happening...

Friday night I went no where.
Saturday I ran errands for my injured mother.
Sunday I drove to San Clemente and backand has massive computer problems (which weren't resolved).

Only highlight was the time I spent on the phone friday and saturday evening. Other than that, the only purpose this post serves is to document this particular weekend in my life, just to say I lived it. Sigh...I'm bored. I'll go back to doing homework now I guess.

-someone

ps: I guess to say this wasn't completely worthless, I'll leave you with this link.
Knott's Berry Farm "Silver Bullet" Plans
This is the new inverted coaster they are building at Knott's, opening in December. Check out the pictures page.

"If you lose Miramax all you're going to have left is basically a Muppet and a water slide."
-Robin Williams at the 2004 Academy Awards® Ceremony

Hmm, time to revert back to livejournal status, for now if not for longer. Friday evening I stayed home, an oddity yes, but it happened nonetheless. Yesterday was saturday, and the el camino festival. Performance was horrible. Very dissapointed. I hate wind 2. Other crap going on yesterday, rather not get into it now. Very troublesome and day, until later on in the evening, i went to see wind 1 perform, i got to see laura, and hung out with the bussetts and derek afterwards.

today was absolutely marvelous. and thats all i have to say about that.

time for bed now, im very tired. tomorrow is senior ditch day and i'm not going to be ditching. most of my friends are juniors and below, and i can't afford to miss extra credit that some of my teachers may or may not be giving. no big deal for me, this ditch day thing. Goodnight world.

What people are saying about Lobsters From Space!:

"...a job well done!" - Derek Earley

"...its so friggin cool." -Pohl

"Sheer paranoid chaotic brilliance!" -Jonathan Hawley

"You freak..." -Neal Bussett

"HOLY SHIT!!! LOLOLOL" -Ben Templeton

So, if you've not yet experienced the continuing tales of Captain Hampton and his brave crew, I'd say it's about time you start doing so.

LOBSTERS FROM SPACE!

I finally changed the poll on the left scroll bar, so vote if you haven't already, and let me know what you think of Lobsters. You can also e-mail me or sign my guestbook (*please* sign my guestbook) to let me know what you think of the new cartoon. If you've not yet seen Lobsters From Space, go watch it you fool!

Seems strange, I seem to have a lot less to do in Flash now that the cartoon is finished. Kinda also seems like I have a lot less to talk about... hmmm lets see whats been going on as of late... not a whole lot really...

The annual Disney shareholder meeting is tomorrow, which is big news for stockholders and a small population of random disney obsessives such as myself. There could be some fireworks...from what hear, rumors are already circulating about Eisner on the way out, so I'll just have to wait and see what happens. They're actually having a live webcast, and I might be able to catch part of it in computer animation tomorrow if im lucky, it starts about half an hour before that class ends. Lets hope it will soon be time to take down/replace the SaveDisney.com banner on this page...

The invasion has begun!

The long awaited sequel to Captain Hampton, Lobsters From Space!, is now online and ready to watch. The premiere party went very well. A lot of great people showed up, lots of good food, some DDR happening, and from the looks of it, everyone enjoyed my newest creation. Is it better than the first? You be the judge. Go watch it!

Relaxed......so relaxed... i haven't felt this good about nothing in particular in a long time.

I finished the cartoon last night. All in all, it turned out very nice. I'm pleased. The downside is the file is abnormally huge. I'm eventually going to have to do a major overhaul of the whole thing to reduce file size...but for the sake of tomorrow's premier, it will do. I hope it does actually work though.

Today wasn't a very good day until the past few hours. I've been all over the place emotionally. It's nice how things have just sortve worked out now. I'm at peace.

Tomorrow is the party. Looking forward to seeing you people there. Should be a lot of fun (provided it doesnt rain... then it should be a lot of chaos and madness).

The end is near... so close I can taste it... it tastes like lobster...


Hmm what's happened recently. Not a whole lot I guess. Friday I went to a pageantry competition with Laura and Kristin and Neal. That was fun. I spent the entire rest of the weekend at my computer, working on my cartoon.

Saturday is the "premier". I hope the cartoon works. I've been having a lot of problems...the file is abnormally huge. We'll see what happens.

Recap of recently happenings in chewy's life. Four day weekend (with the exception of saturday, which was awesome) was kinda blah like. Sunday I helped pohl with flash, monday I did manual labor (moved dirt around). Tuesday night I went to the orchestra concert, first half was bleh, second half was amazing. I think the bus rides were more of the higlight of that evening, with the concert and seeing the new hybrid watercoaster being built at seaworld tieing for second. Wednesday I hung out with Laura in the rain and such before her practice and while waiting for neal to come get me. Charlene, Kristin and I went out with the Bussetts to the souplantation fund raiser. Assorted madness ensued wednsday evening, in various forms. Whatever. As for today, well it's just about almost friday already now, this week went by quickly, but this weekend is going to go by even quicker. Oh yeah, party details. Party on Saturday, February 28th from 5pm - Midnight, I will be unveiling Lobsters From Space, and we will also be watching mass amounts of Invader Zim and participating in other forms of madness I suspect. The cartoon will go online the following day (the 29th) at 5pm. I'll give out invitations on Monday.

-ch(ewie/ewy/ooi)

ps: I've one week to finish Lobsters... wish me luck.

Wonderful, outstanding, perfect-in-every-way type of day today. Started off kinda weird, I woke up and made egg mcmuffins (i get better everytime i make them), and then my dad needed help around the house. I painted cabinet doors with primer for about and hour and then went with my dad to home depot to get woodchips. Then I took a shower and such.

At 4, Laura came over. We watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. Or I think maybe just she watched it, as I sat there and enjoyed her presence. After that we did more of the "enjoying eachothers presence" thing. I gave her my present- a necklace and a giant cholcolate kiss. We then ate at panda express and saw 50 First Dates. I guess half of RBV's population also saw it. I only recognized one person as they were all sophomores it seems. I wouldn't know. Anyway, movie wasn't bad, it was entertaining. There was plenty to complain about, but I'm not going to do it. I couldn't have asked for more out of today, I hope she had as good a time as I did.

So the week was short, which was cool. Next week is also short, because this weekend we have 4 days off. After school today i ate lunch at in n out with neal, kyle, paul and blake. we marched in a straight line everywhere and sang another brick in the wall. we also listened to mass amounts of techno in the car.

Neal and Paul came over after that. Neal tried to set up my network, no success. Meanwhile, Paul and I watch portions of Pink Floyd the Wall. We left after that and went to the academic team match. Laura was sick from school today, so I saw her there. The freshman and jv teams dominated, i dont know how varsity went, i didnt watch it. paul and i were too busy wreaking assorted havoc on the school. at one point, paul and neal tried to ditch me by running away. paul tripped over a large pile of garage bags and went flying. literally, flying. he got at least 3 seconds of airtime. im surprised he didnt break his head, it was the most incredible wipe out ive seen in person. he walked away only scratched up a bit. we all got a good laugh.

I'm really not up to writing anymore right now, but I just thought I'd leave you with that amusing anecdote.

-chewy

PS: disney is the target of a hostile takeover. it's 1984 all over again (exactly 20 years). 2003/04 have been very insteresting for this company. can't wait to see what surprising plot twists this story will take next.

Found this in Brillo's away message:

"Have you ever wondered why firetrucks are red? Well, there are eight men and four wheels on a firetruck. Eight plus four equals twelve. There are twelve inches in a ruler. Queen Mary was a ruler. Queen Mary was also a ship. Ships sail on the sea. Fish live in the sea. Fish have fins. The Fins fought the Russians. And the Russians wore red. That's why firetrucks are red."

Bye.

PS: If ya wanna see Jesus, click here.

The traditional new cartoon premier party for "Lobsters From Space" will be held on February 28th at my house. No details yet on time, but expect early/mid afternoon to midnightish.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination in thousands of sparkling lights and electro-syntho-magnetic musical sounds..."

Week went by slow. Tonight we had pepband, rbv lost again. I got to watch blast and go to am pm before the game though, so yay for me. I spent most of the game reading a chapter in Mouse Tales about a Hippie riot in the early 70's at Disneyland, where they had to bring in riot squads and such. Learn something new everyday. Right now I'm doing nothing of particular importance, tomorrow I'm spending the day with Laura (yay), and then Sunday I suspect I'll be back to doing nothing of particular importance again. Blah, I need my car back; I'm spending much more time in this house than I'd like to. I got a copy of "The Complex" by Blue Man Group. Awesome CD. That was random. Ok I'm done. Sewiously.

Howdy ya'll. I'm feeling bored and tired and kinda weird right now so posting a blog seemed like the thing to do. I had no hw tonight, nor will i have any tomorrow night. I love the CAHSEE schedule. Poor sophomores.

Sunday was the superbowl, I watched the first quarter and parts of the 4th. It was alright. I talked to Laura after, while pretending to watch the premier of Survivor Allstars. Not a real fabulous day sunday, but not bad. Today in econ we watched superbowl commercials (even from years past as well). I swear it's the most random class I've ever taken. I'm so far failing to see what any of what we've done so far has to do with anything. Oh well. The teacher is a really nice guy. I bit of a geek, but a nice guy nonetheless. Anyway....yah... I don't have a whole lot to say. I'll end this now.

-whatever

PS: Here's one of many new billboards being installed around Disney's California Adventure as theming for the new Tower of Terror (the ride opens in may, and my freakout has officially begun... forgive me).

Today we saw a guitar fish at the aquarium. What do you call a group of guitar fish swimming together? Read to the end of the post to find out.

So yeah, last night I had pep band. RBV lost again, but it's still fun to watch the game (for free at that). Jonathon was amazed by my Mouse Tales book, and couldn't stop reading tales from the chapter on deaths and accidents at disneyland. After the game I started freaking out... i really dont remember why. Anyone who was there after the game can testify. Neal and Kyle came and took me to Toms burgers, where they were still selling breakfast. I kept bugging neal to go to ihop, but i still got my pancakes. We made a pass by Laura's and Kyle pulled his little stunt again. In trying to restrain him, not only did I fail at the attempt, I cuased some kind of injury to my elbow. Whatever. Anyway, my erratic behavior (combined with neal being a whiney poopypants) caused Neal to take me home.

Today we went to the aquarium to find nemo. We found Dory instead. Yay. There were an awful lot of little children there. I don't mind small children, though I can't say the same about Laura, and expecially Kristin. Stayed there a few hours, drove back, ate at rubios (i had a very good carne asada quesadilla), then Neal dropped Laura and I off at my house. Confusion ensued, and Laura and I ended up meeting Kristin and Neal at Jeff McCoy's eagle court of honor. Saw some peoples, played "bother bother bother", then the four of us left and neal tried to stalk my mom and sisters at the movies. unsuccessful. took twins home, then took me home. lovely day today. enjoyed spending time with laura, as usual. the word "perfect" comes to mind.

So what do you call a group of guitar fish swimming together?

...a school of rock. hahahahahaha. I'm so funny.


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hmm....bloggity blog blog blog... it's thursday night and I'm bored, and I should be doing something productive, like working on my cartoon...but ehh... it's thursday night. tomorrow is friday... this week went by pretty fast because of the 3 day weekend last week. i've gotten used to my new schedule now. i think i might even enjoy it somewhat...cept for the wind2 part. oh well.

I realized the survey thing was kinda lame, so I made an "about me" type page to replace it, which is VERY lame. I kept some of the survery questions in there.

lets do some shoutouts. give lona another chance to call me a hypocrite.

laura: :)
ted: the
neal: shutup
pohl: yo
lona: hi thx for the book
everyone else: youre all cool bye

whee that was fun... but I don't think I'll ever be doing that again. Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted.

-chewy

PS: Micheal Jackson helps Disney Imagineers with testing on the new Tower of Terror at California Adventure.

Okaaaaaay time for another update. This is a long one.

Friday: 'twas my last day of finals, and I was glad to be rid of them. I practiced after school for a while with the low brass ensemble Ms. T signed us up for. Practice was fine. I went and got some food and then went home. At about 6:30 I went with Neal to Beth's surprise sweet 16. We got her a card that said "Happy 3rd Birthday"; I thought it was very appropriate for her. Underclassmen parties often seem very erractic and spastic for me, but I had a good time with Laura, when she showed up. Everyone watched Finding Nemo before people started going home. After we went home, Neal and I played go-touch-all-the-freeways-in-san-diego. That was fun.

Saturday: I woke up, showered, and ate some of my *perfected* egg mcmuffin sandwiches i made quickly. Then, Scott came and picked me up at around 2 to go practice at RBV for the SCSBOA Solo/Ensemble Festival. We (me, Scott, John, Tye, and Ian) played through the song a few times and then headed up to Westview high. The ride up was quite interesting. John was trying to take inspired pictures (being very picky about the placement of my elbow), and Tye was playing with some pornographic program he had on his palm pilot. Tye started freaking out when we got to the highschool, because of the memories from championships. It was somewhat nostalgic though. Anyway, we toured the campus, where the quad looked more like the entrance to a fancy theme park, and then we warmed up. Mr Weirather, followed by Ted, showed up to support us. We met some girl from Westview named Dana, who was kinda freakin us all out. Except John. Teehee.
We went in, played the piece for the judge, who I guess was the director from Roosevelt middle school. He spent 15 minutes critiquing us... didn't look very positive. We ended up with a superior though... with very few marks at all. Micro-details were our problems. All of us were pleasantly surprised. We drove headed back and then ate at jack in the box at escondido. We had an interesting conversation about metro-sexuality (ie: about John), and then sang bohemian rhapsody in the car. Later, Neal, Kyle and I went to go try and find where this party for kevin aboy was being held at (because I knew Laura was there). It was near 10 when we finally went out (he was at a magic tourny all day), so when we found the house we decided not to go in. We drove to Del Taco, Kyle and I shouted "AHHHHH MOTHERLAND" serveral times while Neal was ordering, Kyle walked through the drive through to get a refill, Neal and I saw a guy walking around shaking a plastic bag in his mouth, I rolled around in the backseat eating fruit rollups, I stole one of Neals tacos, and other assorted chaos took place in the Del Taco parking lot. We drove by Laura's house, where I joked that I should yell "HI LAURA" out the window. Well, Kyle decided it would be a good idea to shout it himself.. Neal made several passes by the house, involving me getting my fingers rolled up in the window several times, me tackling kyle to keep his mouth shut, and Neal swerving all over the place due to his trying to drive and hold me off of Kyle. Eventually kyle succeeded and neal drove away... I wasn't happy. oh well. We then played go-touch-the-wild-animal-park... while brainstorming for my next cartoon after lobsters. Then he took me home. Thank God.

Sunday: I woke up and did a boxing work out. I haven't since before bandcamp, when I was in preparation for the hordes of pushups I was going to give the section that I coudn't do myself. Anyway, yeah. I'm out of shape. I always finish with these exercises with my dad where I do a situp, punch on a practice pad a few times while im up, go down, and then he hits me in the stomach with the other practice pad. I totaled 100 of those. I'm still sore as I write this. After I showered I talked on the phone with Laura for like 2 and half hours about evening plans. We eventually ended up going out with Neal and Kristin to eat at mimi's cafe. We were going to go see butterfly effect, but we missed it. Instead, we drove up to UCSD so Laura could show us the cool Drama hall and the even cooler library. Driving home sitting with Laura was great- we can go the whole time not saying anything and i still feel like we just talked for hours anyway. I felt very confortable and blissfull next to her. After we took them home I got a slurpee and then went home myself.

Monday (today): The four of us went to the Wild Animal Park. Neal got us all annual passes...I really dont know why, but i'm not complaining. We somehow became separted from Kristin and Neal about half an hour into the day. Wasn't our fault... We rejoined them at park closing. We ate at Rally's and then went back to my house to watch Mystery Men. Unfortunately, Laura and Kristin's curfue prevented us from watching the movie. Instead, we watched some flash cartoons, some zim, and illuminations. We took them home, got ice cream, drove around, and then I got on my computer and started blogging.

At the moment, I'm finishing off this post, and working on lobsters. I'm hoping on having a premier party on "Leap Year's Eve". Not confirmed yet, though. Okay, I'm sore, tired, and through with writing. Incase I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight.

"I'm in love... Yes, that's right. Love. Unexpected for me really considering the pointless age I've managed to drag myself to, but there you go... the target of my affection? Well, it's like this:

There I was, walking quietly around the park, swinging the lead, as I'm known to do on nothing days as this was. Anyway, there's this swing that as a girl I would frolic under as the big boys swung overhead... Anyway, I digress. There she was, swinging on this swing... I say swinging - it was more a drag as her arms being a full 6 metres long were scraping on the floor. Anyway (again), I walked over and asked if she wanted a push. She grunted what I assumed was a yes and gave her an almighty push... "Weeeeeeee", she screamed, as her body, and indeed all of her left the swing and landed in an ice-cream van killing both her and Mario the ice-cream man (who I later found out changed his name from Kevin in 1984 in homage to Donkey Kong).. An ambulance arrived and out walked the sexiest nurse I've ever seen. No wooden legs, no disabilities of any kind as I no longer class no arms as a disability... Anyway (yet again), she looked over at me and smiled her toothless smile and I smiled back... So, I'm dancing on air... albeit in prison, but I'm dancing... and when i get out she's mine, Oh yes... she said she would wait for me... Young love. Oh yes." -norton

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finals are over, 3 day weekend ahead, and no homework. blioijreoijrefgoijsergoijrg!!!!!!

im jammin to baroque hoedown, aka the main street electrical parade theme. eeeee.

ok bye. thats all i gots to say.

Continuing four day weekend coverage....

Yesterday (sunday) I woke up pretty late after having one of the best night's sleep I've had in a very long time (campfire smell mixed with emotion I believe). Paul and his friend Monica randomly showed up at my door while I was still in my clothes I wore to bed, and just finished "breakfast". They wanted me to go to game crazy with them, so I hastily struggled to gain a decent sense of conciousness and get changed in a few minutes. I came back to the door to find that paul's brother john and his sister jenny were there also. On the walk over I noticed everyone was wearing a black, geeky shirt. chewy:spiderman, paul:"one world" band shirt, jenny: lotr, john: nintendo. Monica wore a greedday shirt, which wasn't too geeky but it was still black. We looked like a very geeky gothic type gang. It was fun. John bought a bunch of games, Paul bought sonic advneture 2, and monica and i played with the weird ps2 eye toy. We then all went to tacobell, ate lunch, and walked home.
Then I got a call from Laura and the usual 4 of us went to see big fish. It was a great movie, very Tim Burton, not a whole lot else to be said. I had a nice time out.

Today not much happened until the evening. I slept late again, I made eggs, I watched the matrix reloaded, and i did some random finals studying and interneting. I went out with Laura in the evening, our first real "date" I guess you could say. I asked her out at their party on sat (and she accepted); a little piece of information I chose to omit from earlier posts for some odd reason. As expected, I had a very nice time out with her. No akwardness, as such situations have the potential for. We saw Pay Check, which was a decent movie, nothing very groundbreaking, but entertaining nonetheless. I think she enjoyed herself. I did.

Something new can be found under the random stuff section of my site today, something random that the cabin boy wrote. I contributed to it a little. Go check it out now!

"YOUR HEAD A SPLODE"

I'm feeling very relaxed right now, on so many different levels. The evening could not have turned out better. Kristin's maniacal logistics put Neal and I at a parking lot about 150 yards from the campsite they were staying at, so we had to foot it. A lot of underclassmen showed up, but luckily they were all the ones I could tolerate, most of them I actually like to be around. The site was on a cliff overlooking the beach. Everyone went down the cliff to the beach soon after we got there (to the "waterness") and all got frostbitten in our feet by the cold water. At one point, various people started getting a little too energetic and started sparring with large bamboo sticks. Joey Sturges sparred against a large rock. Jen forgot which way north is. Jonathon feared the cops would come because we climbed on the lifegaurd tower. During the madness I took a walk down the beach with laura. It was very nice. After all that, we went back to the site and ate, and then sat and bonfired. Jimmy melted plastic cups around a large wooden stick. Eventually we went back down to the beach and had a "flashlight adventure". I was a human lighthouse. The waves at high tide in the dark caused running and screaming. We went back after the continuing madness dissipated, and they opened presents, and then everyone was entranced by the bonfire yet again. We also had a blues clues sing along. The party was so much fun, and everyone enjoyed themselves. After the party I had a 3x3 at in n out and drove with neal to san diego and back, for no real reason. I still smell like campfire at the moment, which is a scent that for some reason makes me feel very relaxed. I seem to always sleep well after campfires. But I have more than one reason to sleep well tonight.

"Hold me down, I'm gonna fly straight to heaven. Hold me down, don't ever let go..."
-smashmouth

OK so I did not have a good night when I came home last night. Things are a little better right now, but probably because I'm home alone. Anyway, before last nights madness, I actually had quite an enjoyable evening. Neal, Kyle and I went to eat at BK and then Neal and I went to shop for presents for Kristin and Laura. Neal was being whiny and decided he would come back the next day, leaving me to shop alone. After that we went back to my house to see what Derek was up to, and he and Ben were hottubbing. So we went over there and found also Apryl (brillo's sister) and this guy Art, who didn't talk much but he was still pretty cool. We went to cold stone, I got a shake, and then we went back to the house and watched chicago.

The weirdest thing happened between eating at bk and going to the mall yesterday. First watch THIS flash video. Anyway, Neal and Kyle put on their burger king crowns upside down. While we were in the car neal said something along the lines of "i feel like a viking". they both immediately started singing immigrant song from led zeppelin. 5 seconds later the song started on the radio, and it was the scariest thing. He turned it up all the way and we all sung. I think I'll leave you with that music.
Happy b-day laura (and kristin). teehee.

I swear I can't take this anymore. God help me. Please.
I don't know what to do.

Finally its the weekend... this week has gone by so slow for me. I have a massive headache right now, I guess because I've been home longer than an hour. You know what I hada reason for starting this post and I just realized I lost myself. Whatever. bleh..

...where am i?

ofijfijoserfvs I'm tired. Tomorrow is laura and kristin's birthday party at the beach, which will be very fun, no doubt about that. i should proly go buy presents. yeah...
i think I'll do that....

anyway i thought I had news but i can't remember now, so i'll just make it simple and say that this past week was entirely unimportant. goodbye for now.

I've just published the first chapter in my Walt Disney World trip report. It can be found the Random Stuff section. Have phun...

-chooi

thu: went to frys. didn't get stalked this time. got in a car accident. im now car-less. fun.

fri: pep band after school. it was alright. drove around with neal after.

sat: got job apps. worked on lobsters. got ice cream with neal and kyle. saw an old guy in a golf cart go through a mcdonalds drive thru.

sun: woke up late. did homework all day. got distracted all day. thought about someone. a lot.

-fravit


ps: i did one of those email self survey things. its in the random stuff section.

Hey everyone you're not going to believe this. God signed my guestbook!

He's been to my website! That's got to make this the number one site on the net...

Go check out the guestbook... and while you're at it, how about signing it yourself as well?

-Choooi

Ok. So yesterday I kinda freaked out. I normally wouldve deleted that post, but I'm going to go ahead and leave it (and the attached piece of "artwork") just for the record. Audition results for band didn't turn out quite like i hoped (though im not surprised). Also, an eruption on the homefront and a few other random things splintering in my mind (underneath the rapidly returning stresses of school and mainly calculus) led to what was not a very pleasurable day. My only highlights were probably listening to 3 old guys arguing about a fence for 45 minutes, and then talking to laura on the phone for a while. I'll go ahead and keep that piece of flashwork up until i feel like taking it off, but it's a pretty accurate representation of how my day went yesterday.

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Yesterday I discovered the secret behind the McDonalds Egg McMuffin sandwich. I can now perfectly replicate the breakfasty goodness of its taste. That's about the only thing worth noting about yesterday. I spent most of the day practicing for auditions.

...and this is for my sister...

" 'eh brutes! Red-Handed Jill's gonna tell us a story!!! YAY!!!!"

Thursday: ted came over. We collaborated on Lobsters From Space, came up with some good ideas. The cartoon is turning out quite nicely. We also listened to Frank Zappa and ate shrimp coctail. Fun stuff.

Friday: I got up a bit earlier to go to my aunt's house to take down her Christmas lights. No problems. Later, Jonathan Hawley had a poker party. He gave 10 dollar target gift certifcates to two winners, which I thought was very generous of him. I didn't win a single round, but I had a lot of fun nonetheless. I'm a little dissapointed the prizes weren't meatballs though...
In the evening, I went out to eat with ln&k at pick up stix, where we saw desiree who gave us mass amounts of fortune cookies. We all ate our fortunes to make sure they come true (they don't come true if you only eat the cookie). I found out Kristin's nickname, thanx to Laura. Teehee. Then we saw "Something's Gotta Give". Nice, enjoyable movie, though I could've done without so much coverage of the backside of Jack Nicholson. The movie was entirely predictable, but hey at least it made me feel smart for two hours of my life. The evening was, yet again, a very relaxing and yet very exicting evening. Couldn't have asked anything more of it.

As for the site, I'm going to try and have "Lobsters" finished by the end of January. No promises though. The block on the Flash Movies page will remain TBA for the moment. Things are coming together quite nicely though.

New Years Eve was nice. It didn't turn out exactly how I had hoped it might've.... but ehh, that's what I get for not making plans. I went to Derek's house, Neal and El Stevo were there also. We chatted in the hot tub and then watched the ball drop in New York while I quite appropriately yelled "THIS IS THE BEST DECEMBERWEEN EVER". They kept showing footage of Disneyland and Disneyworld, and I kept freaking out. It was unbearable for everyone else. We talked for a bit, watched bad musical acts on tv, and then watched "The Potter Puppet Pals" episodes 1 and 2 and "Squirrel Banter" on Derek's computer. Search the net for them, they are hilarious. Afterwards we went and got ted. We drove by lawrences house for absolutely no reason, and then by steve's. Then they took me home, 20 minutes before I had to be home. Whatever. The evening was fun, despite the fact that it did feel like there was something (someone) missing.

Night before I went out with LN&K (laura, neal, kristin... becoming a normal thing). Ate at In n Out, then saw Cold Mountain. The movie was good. Not much else to say about it. Very relaxing and yet exciting evening. Had a great time.

Happy New Year from all of us (me) at THE FRAVIT NETWORK

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