HELLO FLIST DID YOU MISS ME

I don't even remember if I mentioned I was going anywhere. Oh well. Point form because I'm lazy!

→ We left Thursday morning. somehow managed to get out of the house at a decent hour (something like 9:30 or 10).

→ Arrived in Wayne, NJ to spend the night. Niiiice hotel. I discovered Hulu and am still emo over the fact that we cannot access it in Canada. ;_;

→ Watched the pilot for Glee on Hulu. Loved it. Will be hard to separate the main character from ausaudriel in my mind, though, because there's a resemblance there. XD

→ Woke up the next morning and drove into NYC. Dad dropped us off by Rockefeller and we went to the Nintendo World store and the Times Square TRU. (Yeah we're lame.)

→ LAME POKEDOLL SELECTION AHOY. I picked up a Palkia for eternal_aegis and the World's Happiest Grimer for myself (when I buy a *Grimer* plush, you know the selection was bad). Also got a Shaymin and Vaporeon TOMY. I might have the latter already, I forget. Also got a pink carrying case for up to 16 DS games. And bought this hot pink stylus/screen cover set but realized after it was for DSi, oops. :'(

→ At TRU, I wandered around with my brother and ended up buying a pack of Jakk's toys just for the Cherubi. (The others were like... Sudowoodo and Munchlax haha.) Also got pink earbuds. :>

→ Left NYC and drove out to Brick, NJ to meet up with my parents' friends. They have a party/get-together of sorts every year. I was feeling like crap most of the day so I spent a lot of the afternoon and evening sleeping on and off.

→ Next day, mom took me to Kohl's since she'd been earlier and found a pair of shoes I might like. She forgot her wallet at the house but we shopped anyway. Found SO MANY CLOTHES omg. :> Put them on hold, went home real quick, came back to buy them.

→ Got a quick haircut while we were out.

→ Went to a Gamestop. omg video games are so cheap in the US. ;~; Especially Gamestop's used selection. I got Xenosaga, Prince of Persia (360), FF7: Dirge of Cerberus, and Dark Cloud 2. Had to renew my Edge card (idk if the US one will work in Canada) and the guy who rung me up was spazzing over my Canadian card. Called everyone over to see it. XD; We were talking for like $15 minutes about random stuff. Was fun! I went back today before we left and picked up Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, de Blob, and Zack & Wiki. ♥

→ Ate lots of food

→ Left this morning at around 11:30 and more or less drove straight home. We only made two stops--one for lunch and another for gas and a quick bathroom break. @_@; lmao my legs feel so weird from sitting so long.

→ We've all got tomorrow off so we can just... relax. And not worry about driving. or anything. omg.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE WEEKEND
→ My brother now talks like the Anime North 9inchpizza crowd does. "Hay gurl" "Gurl, that's so not fabulous" "Gurl why would you do that." My dad thinks we're crazy. (They put up with this all weekend. XD)

→ My brother and I may have spent an ungodly amount of time talking about the Organization (KH) going on a roadtrip. Which wouldn't even make sense. But still. Best line ever: "Will you guys please be quiet, I am trying to sleep." "But sir, you're driving!"

→ I HAVE A POKEMON SHIRT THAT FITS.

→ My dad bought some German beer while we were there. I tried some and... didn't mind it at all! My dad said that was really weird because it was *more* bitter than most beers and the thing I tend to dislike about beer is the bitter taste. XD; So we figure I'm just a beer elitist and have been all my life and only discovered it now, ahaha.

→ ...I kind of want to go to bed now.

			Situated: HOME. In the family room. Currently: Content Listening to: idk mom is watching tv or something Current Tags: family, gaming, social:trips

I've been alternating daily between feeling good and feeling horrible, it seems. Today's been one of those horrible days and I hope I'm feeling better in the morning. I really need to get up and take a shower since I put it off all day and now it's bedtime but... augh. So listless today. :'( So here I am typing an LJ entry instead.

Today was father's day. I cleaned up the kitchen and tidied other areas of the house. I wasn't well enough to go out to get his gift so mom picked that up for me. @_@ My brother and I got him the new Tiger Woods golf game for Wii... the one with Wii Motion Plus. He mentioned the other month that he really wanted another golf game and was thinking of getting it for a console so this seemed like a good gift. :] He said he liked it so I hope he enjoys it. He didn't give us any gift ideas this year and I was a little worried he'd think we were just getting a video game so we'd play it ourselves or something but I have little interest in golf games and only slightly more in Motion Plus anyway so... yeah.

Not much else to report. Saw Angels & Demons on... Friday, I think. Then finally saw Star Trek yesterday. I have never seen an episode of TOS (or any movies) before and the movie made dad want to see them all again so I think we're going to start either buying them or renting them. XD; I'm looking forward to that since it seemed really interesting. (b'-')b

We're heading to NJ again this year like we do almost every year. We'll be down there for the weekend of the 11th. Mom and dad said they're thinking of spending a day or two in NYC again and I got a positive on going back to Nintendo World. Watch them clear out all the decent Pokedolls again this time. (Last time I went, the only ones they had were like... Grimer, Igglybuff, Bonsly, etc. Then like two weeks later someone went and posted pictures from the store on pkmncollectors showing Pichu, legendaries, etc. FFFFFFFFFFFF) I want to get another Shaymin (because I totally molest mine when I'm high and it's not looking like a collector's item as I originally intended XD) and maybe some others... and some Tomy figs. :DD Eee I hope we do end up there again.

LASTLY I'm finally getting into the interesting stuff in 358/2 which means I actually have to stop and translate stuff in cutscenes now, haha. I'm on day like... 270 or something. I just hit the MOST CONFUSING CUTSCENE EVER OMG. It was a voiced one so I couldn't even pause to translate and even if I had I think I'd be confused as fuck anyway and just aaaaah. Aaaaah. What did I see omg I don't even know. 8| Assuming I've been translating stuff right though, it IS super interesting right now. And yay the inside of Castle Oblivion got a cameo and it made me way happier than it should have ahahaha. *dork* I can't wait for this to come out in English so I have more people to fangirl it with. ;~; And so I understand it completely, haha. So many gameplay mechanics are going right over my head, I think. (Also did I mention on here that Marluxia's default weapon has my name in it? I'm not even kidding! It translates to "Traitor's Erica". :DD All of his weapons have names of flowers in them and aaah omg his super ugly default weapon is my name. I had a total dorkgasm when I realized!)

...I need to go take that shower and get to bed. :(

			Situated: My bedroom Currently: Sick ;_; Current Tags: family, gaming:kingdom hearts, gaming:nintendo, health, media:movies, social:trips

UM so I've barely updated in a month. Point form here we go!

→ Reading week was both productive and not at all productive. Studied a bit and then learnt I had to send my laptop back to HP (long story but I hate them to pieces now) and we didn't want to sooooo my parents bought me a netbook omg. ;o; It's an MSI Wind and I love it to pieces. So it provides me with my wifi and I'm keeping my laptop around for now and it just kinda acts as a static desktop haha.

→ Got a new phone too. It's so sexy. Samsung m*number number number more numbers* Slyde or something. idk it's pink and has a full qwerty keyboard and is my best friend. \o/ Whoo for being able to access twitter wherever. (I fell in love with it when I saw sasha_janre post a picture of her new one and had to go out and get my own since I've been planning to upgrade my phone for well over a year now. XD)

→ Wrote 8 billion midterms. Or like... 5 or something. I don't even know what number I'm approaching but it's AWFUL. My weeks are just a blur of math assignments and midterms. It's quite stressful. :( Stress is relieved by my 360. I honestly have little to say about all this since it's so boring.

→ I've been watching a lot of anime in my little breaks between class, or when I get home from class to unwind... Still watching Sailor Moon, fully caught up in Toradora and most of ToA, probably others. Watched Hetalia and liked it, much to my annoyance. ;o; Kinda avoiding fandom like whoa since from what I can tell on F!S it causes more wank than I'd care to pay attention to.

→ Health issues have been all over the place. Kinda tmi so I won't go into detail but I'm back to square -1. If you're interested past that, hit me up on MSN or something idk. I'm so frustrated with it though. Getting home for an appointment this week was a disaster too. twitter friends got a play-by-play but I basically missed my greyhound bus, missed it again at the other stop, had to city bus it to the bus terminal and then had to kill time for 1.5 hours to catch the next one to Toronto. Then when I was subwaying it to Yorkdale from downtown so my mom could pick me up, the subway got stuck for a good 15 minutes at a stop. Doors were open. I forgot my jacket. The next day was freezing too (and laced with bad/annoying news haha). ffff inaccurate weather reports.

→ Pi Day was today and that was awesome. Especially awesome when I looked up my stuff for my midterm on monday and realized it's actually NEXT Monday so I can slack off a bit this weekend thank god. It was a busy weekend because today was Pi Day (had to go buy a pie+ice cream and pick up my brother's birthday gift) and tomorrow is my brother's birthday and my family's coming up to see me. So I would've had... very little study time.

→ Got lots of Pokémon stuff lately + on the way. Shit still need to respong to an email regarding something. >< Aaah I've been so behind on email lately too haha.

→ My sink was plugged today so I got to trek over to Sobey's at like 10:30 to buy Draino or whatever. It was kind of a fun walk and it was still nice out from earlier (above zero!) so omggggggg. ♥

→ While I was home over the week, my parents said they want to take another family vacation. :] We're kind of all over the place as far as opinions go. Dad keeps pitching Mexico or Cuba or something (do. not. want. D:), mom just wants a hot vacation in the winter, and I... have no real preference so long as it's not something tropical or too... outdoorsy? Getting a tan doesn't interest me in the least. My brother and I have decided we kinda wanna push for Europe but we only have like 10 days to do it so idk. D:

→ Pokémon Platinum in one week! Aaah I almost wish my midterm was this Monday just so I could actually play Platinum somewhat. XD; Maybe I won't play it until after my midterm is done and save it for a reward hmmm.

→ ALSO I KEEP HAVING ZOMBIE DREAMS. WHAT THE HELL. CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT THAT MEANS?? Like I swear I've had about 10-15 different zombie apocalypse dreams in the last month. If there aren't literally zombies, the atmosphere is always me or someone just ahead of an outbreak and trying to find shelter, weapons, food, etc. It's driving me crazy. 8(

			Situated: Dorm room as always 8| Currently: Exhausted somehow haha Listening to: whirrrrrrrr goes the computer fan Current Tags: anime, dreams, family, gaming:360, gaming:pokemon, health:endo, shopping, social:trips, tech:laptop, university, university:dorm, weather

I'm New Yooooork. :D Got here around 1, wandered around the city for a bit (the TRU is so cool XD), and then came back to the room to laze around for a bit. Then we decided at random that we wanted to see a broadway show tonight so we went to the discount booths to see what we could get for around $70 a ticket and now we'll be seeing Avenue Q at 7. :D

My brother's a little disappointed because he wanted to see Spamalot again but since we're only going to one show, no sense in going to something we've already seen. After picking up the tickets, we grabbed dinner, did a bit of grocery shopping, and now mom and dad are napping.

BONUS: My mom is so annoying to sleep with. :( We shared a bed in the hotel room yesterday so that neither of us was stuck with the pull-out. So yeah, she snores REALLY loudly so I had to listen to my iPod all night. I have a sleep playlist so that wasn't all that bad but... but then at some point she punched me in the face while she was sleeping. XD I've been whining about it all day. ;(

			Situated: New York City :DD Currently: Full 8) Listening to: My brother playing DS Current Tags: family, social:trips

LOL OMG.

Despite getting a little carsick and getting stuck in SO MUCH TRAFFIC, today was pretty good. XD We aren't in NYC yet--we're stopped at a hotel in New Jersey... with wifi! XD On the way, I slept, played some DS, sat up front and tried not to be sick (lol), and played more DS. My brother and I battled in DP a few times and then played Planet Puzzle League for an hour or and decided to create the world's most annoying GPS system one day. 8D

We got to this hotel around... 7ish? We stopped at a Wal-Mart and my brother and I found Airplane and Airplane II for like $10 so we bought that. :D We're actually watching the first one as I type this, but since I saw it last weekend I'm only half-paying attention. XD We went out for dinner at this gaudy little Italian place where--I swear--half our dinner conversation was about gay bars. APPARENTLY, WHEN MY PARENTS FIRST MOVED TO TORONTO, THEY WENT TO A GAY BAR BY ACCIDENT LOL. :|

So yeah, we decided to watch Airplane because duuuude there's a flatscreen TV (about 27") in here with a DVD player. XD We got two rooms at this hotel and we're all in me and mom's room. So... we tilted the TV toward the bed where Mom and Bryan are lying there watching and since dad and I both have our laptops out, I dragged the nice plush desk chair over by the bedside table to watch and then Dad, without a chair, dragged his nice plush desk chair from his room across the hall right next to mine lmao. This looks so weird, omg. I love my family. XD;

We get to NYC tomorrow morning or afternoon, depending on when we get out of here. :B

			Situated: Parsippany, NJ Currently: Giggly XD; Listening to: Airplane Current Tags: family, social:trips

Won't be around for the next few days. I'm off to NYC till Wednesday or Thursday (my parents can't decide or something idk--they keep changing their answers when I ask when we're coming back wtf). We leave tomorrow morning, and I'll probably be on briefly tomorrow, but I'll forget to post this. I don't think I'll have internet while I'm there.

Also heads up I won't be active on PC during this, obviously. It's just a few days though so I didn't feel the need to post in LoA.

			Situated: bedroom Currently: Good Listening to: Junichi Masuda, Tsuyoshi Ichinse, Hitomi Sato - Kissaki City (Night) | Scrobbled by Last.fm Current Tags: social:trips

HAHA SO FREAKING TIRED.

WHITE WATER RAFTING PLUS FIVE HOUR DRIVE EQUALS A TIRED ERICA.

But homgg~ I had so much fun. I've never been white water rafting before. Also thanks for the text messages, guys. They were fun to read, even if I couldn't call in a voice post like I wanted--we were out in the middle of nowhere so my phone was on analog and used up all its battery life. XD I had enough time to check for Abby's txt and that was about it. ;p

Gonna check my 23 e-mails (lol wtf) and probably head to bed~ I'm exhausted!

			Situated: Home~ Currently: Giddy 8D Listening to: Nothing Current Tags: social:trips

I'm baaaa~aaack.

We got in late Friday and I got my laptop. Spent Saturday socializing with people to some extent and then watching Death Note with my brother. We left Sunday morning (I thought we were leaving Monday o.o) and got home around 9:30 last night, but I was so tired I went straight to bed.

I got up this morning around 11 and played around with my laptop. Then dad took me out to the mediclinic and I got my prescription. Mom agreed to let me get more sleeping pills, so we filled the prescription at Costco and also picked up my last needle. :x ONE MORE MONTH UNTIL I'M DONE MENOPAUSE until I'm 50, lol~!

Um, so yeah. Now I'm home and just chilling on the couch. MY OLD LAPTOP'S WIRELESS CARD NEVER PICKED UP THE CONNECTION FROM THIS FAR AWAY~ ♥ :3

lol, my resolution on this is too small with the sidebar; now I have to change my LJ layout. XD;

			Situated: Family room~ Currently: Happy :3 Listening to: :| Some singer my parents are obsessed with Current Tags: social:trips, tech:laptop

I've burnt the first 18 episodes of Death Note to DVDs so my brother and I have something to watch during the car rides. I'll probably squeeze another one in and label it tomorrow morning just before we leave. If that's not enough, I'll just pack a disc or two of FMA and we can watch that. :| I dunno. We're doing the whole drive in one stint again both ways this year, which is the way we all hate doing it, but mom only has one more vacation day so there's nothing we can do about that. XD;

I should get off and shower or something so I don't have to get up early tomorrow to do that. And I should do it now so I don't sleep with wet hair. Hm. So, um, yeah. I doubt they've got wifi there (different place this year), so I'll see you all Monday night or so. :B

zomg, my next post will be from my new laptop. n______n~

			Currently: Happy Listening to: Same thing as last time... oo; Current Tags: social:trips, tech:laptop

I have internet here if I sit at the very corner of the balcony, but the first night I was out there, dusk came and there were mosquitoes galore, so I came inside without finishing my post. Can't be out there during the day 'cause it's bad for my sunburn and at night there are mosquitoes soooo...every night I'll just write to this and I'll post it when I get back. Yay.

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			Situated: Back in Toronto, now. Currently: Calm Listening to: The Riders game on TV Current Tags: family, gaming:final fantasy, gaming:pokemon, health, media:movies, social:trips