Time for a totally random picture post!

( hontou ni waratteru ko nante iru no kana )

I shall continue to list my Christmas presents despite the fact that I feel more selfish every time I do it. :D

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Aaaaaand now I feel totally gross and selfish for writing all of that. AS ALWAYS. (y)

I am already finished my Christmas shopping for four of the seven people I've decided I'm giving presents to this year!!

Who are you and what have you done with Sarah!!!

I feel like I have an obligation to update this thing. I think this is because I was going to write a very extensive birthday entry and then I didn't, but I'm still left feeling like "wasn't I supposed to write something ... ?" hahaha. But if I were to write an actual entry now, it would probably be all about how I have spent the past day sorting through my video tapes (and enjoying it immensely, as so far I have found these tapes to be filled with Full House, Aladdin, Hercules, and commercials for Microsoap, my favourite of the shows I'll probably never get a chance to watch again). (Actually, the tape I was watching this morning amused me immensely, because it's like a collection of the best, most hilarious Hercules episodes ... and then the most boring, average Aladdin episodes. All nicely alternating. Oh, I am exaggerating a bit, because I don't like "Hercules and the Jilt Trip" and "Power to the Parrot" is not all that bad and the only really hilarious part of "Hercules and the Aetolian Amphora" is the beginning where you see Meg but they leave you in ridiculous suspense for like ten minutes. But still. Amusing.) (Also, "As the Netherworld Turns" seemed to have pieces very purposefully cut out of it, and "Vocal Hero" starts in the middle. Ahahaha, middle school Sarah knew quite well how to use a VCR, too, so I'm not sure what happened there. XD; )

Ahaha, I didn't mean to write all that stuff in parentheses and now I can't use my beautiful segue. But I just wanted to mention that my toe is killing me. You don't want to hear the gory details, I'm sure, but I am currently enjoying pretending that my doctor is going to be all mad at her husband because he didn't lift the toenail before like he was supposed to ... ahahaha, gooooooood tiiiiiiiiimes. XD;;;;;;;;

(Tomorrow is Rika's birthday! Happy birthday, Rika! She's the only H!P member whose birthday I ever remember, because it's so close to mine. Reina's birthday is on Remembrance Day but I didn't know that until it was too late, hahahaha, oh well!!! XD;;; )

I returned home from KARAOKE!!!!!!!!XDXDXDXDXD to find the brownies my mother made today decorated with a post-it note reading "S Birthday," and, underneath, in different writing, "BE SURE TO TOUCH."

I suspect foul play!!!

(Omg I haven't posted in a week? How can this be? Am I sick?? It doesn't half feel like it's been a week since I found that DDR video, maaaaaaan, how is this possible???)

My aunt has the same birthday as me and today while we were at the mall, my mother let me pick out her birthday card, which was perhaps not an amazing decision since I've only met this aunt once, and I was five, and so I really have no idea what kind of sense of humour she has. Perhaps the idea is that if we share a birthday we must be EXACTLY THE SAME?? XD I hope this turns out to be the case, because I'm pretty sure the card I picked was written only for me, in the same way that the "What did Captain Cook say to his men before they got on the ship?" joke was written only for me. XD

So the front of this card says: It's your birthday!! I got you a card!!!!
And the inside says: This is the inside of it!!
And the back says: Here's the back!!

GET IT? GET IT? XD XD XD XD

(I think it might be funnier in person. XD )

You guys all FAIL at being my friends! Hahahahaha!! I say this because I have already been given a birthday present, and guess who it is from!! XD

Dear Sarah,
Hello. January is your birthmonth! CDJapan added "300 points" to your Customer Account as a birthday present! You can use the points toward your order from CDJapan as a discount. (100 points = 100yen)

Ahahahahaha!! Awww, CDJapan, you shouldn't have! Three whole dollars? For me? *^_^*

Okay I guess this isn't really as funny as I think it is. XD

I am sad that none of my friends have posted their Christmas junk lists, haha, it makes me feel like such a material girl that every year I post about what I got. But I like to look back at the different years and see these lists. Perhaps this is a trait I unknowingly inherited from my grandmother; when we were cleaning out her part of the house, my mother found a list she'd written of the gifts we gave her last year. But somehow it seems weirder to write it out for yourself than to write it on your LiveJournal ... well I guess it really isn't. Anyway.

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Haha, all right, I guess that's done with. XD Now I shall return to my PotC game. At the moment I am rescuing Will from the silver mine I got him sent to. Jack is a man of CRAZY MORALS!!!!

As has been mentioned by both the_wykydtron and athena_crikey, we and betaraider and betaraider's brother stayed up all night Friday night watching all of Escaflowne. :D Or the_wykydtron and I stayed up all night, at least. XD I'm not in much of an analytical mood right now so I won't subject you to my fake brand of analysis, but just know that staying up all night to watch Escaflowne (and take a quick walk through the cemetery! <3 ) is buckets full of awesomeness. I thought the whole night was one big stretch of awesomeness so I do hope my friends feel the same way, even the ones who fell asleep and started kicking me. Ahaha, man, every time we do an all-nighter like this it just increases my desire to do it again. I suspect, though, that I might be alone in that. XD (Now that I've done Esca in one night three times, I think it's time to move up to the big leagues. FMA in one night? Who's with me? Ahahaha, I think that would end up being a night and a day, ahahaha, oh gosh.)

( Taking pity on those who don't actually care about my ingenie-us sleeping patterns. )

PS: This song rocks my socks.

FOUR DAYS ZOMG. Christmas might not be as exciting now as it was when I was in elementary school, but I am still a little kid in that all I have been thinking for the past few days is ZOMG WHAT'D YOU BUY ME YOU CAN TELL ME I PROMISE I'LL ACT SURPRISED!!!!!

Maybe the reason I feel like Christmas has appeared so randomly this year is because I haven't been wasting away in anticipation like I used to when I was little ... ? So it's like, oh, hello, I wasn't expecting you here!

Speaking of not expecting someone, there is a commercial playing on TLC for their show American Chopper (please don't ask me how many episodes of that show I have seen, I am loathe to admit it) where the boys crash a family's Christmas celebration and demand presents. The dad hands over his kid's controller, Mikey asks "And the console?," the dad hands over the console. Except the controller is for a GameCube and the console is a PS2!! And the weird thing is, I am more annoyed by this than my brother is. But what the heck!! Even if the props guy doesn't know a thing about game systems, how do you end up mismatching them like that? You'd think controller and console would be sold together, right? Haha, or is there some joke that I'm missing? I just think it's funny that I believe myself to know the absolute bare minimum about video games and then the barely noticeable mistake in this commercial gets me all riled up. Hahaha!!

As betaraider pointed out, when you're little Christmas is exciting because you're getting a whole whack of stuff you can't get on your own. But now that we're all older and in various states of having jobs, it's like, oh, I want that. I think I'll buy it. End of story. So I made sure to ask for stuff I would feel guilty buying for myself. XD

Last night my dad and I went to the local grocery store to get a Christmas tree in order to make my brother happy. There were like five tiny trees left and no one was even guarding them. XD;; My dad's bright idea was in order to prevent needles from infesting his car, he would carry the tree home himself. And so ... he did. It was pretty funny. Except he kept stopping suddenly so I walked into him like six times. This was after I got both of my gloves simultaneously caught in my jacket zipper, ahahahaha, I am awsm.

I think I have to go to the mall today. Guess how excited I am about this. :(

I am way more bummed than I should be that I missed seeing The Santa Clause 3. :( Why do I have such affection for these movies? I know they are terrible. When the first one came out and I was actually in the proper age group for it, I didn't care for it at all.

Maaaaaaaan. This makes me sad. I shall just have to watch the first two tomorrow and pretend I am watching the third. :( :( :( :(

PS: How on earth is it already five days till Christmas? I have yet to do anything even remotely Christmassy. I wrote an exam just yesterday, we can't be this close to Christmas!! Well, perhaps I am lying about the not having done anything Christmassy. I have, after all, been enjoying my Disney Princess advent calendar. My favourite part is how Ariel is right in the center and so she loses whole body parts on certain days. The other three knew to stand between the rows, hahahaha, to me this is like the height of hilarity.

(Ahaha, I'll have to file this under "birthday" because I don't have a Christmas tag ... XD )

So I turned nineteen almost two weeks ago and today I did my first nineteen-ish thing. I bought lottery tickets! It is funny because my supervisor, who is turning eighteen on Tuesday, asked me if I would buy them for her, and I said I didn't have any ID with me (I don't actually have any ID that shows my age, anyway - the closest I have is my student card, which only actually shows that I am old enough to be at university), and she asked if I would try anyway even though she seemed to firmly believe I would be asked for ID. I wasn't, in the end. So really I didn't have to be nineteen at all, but let's ignore that part because I am getting a kick out of my first lottery ticket purchase! XD;;;

( Cleaning, Reba, and MoMusu. )

Edit: I forgot to mention! I AM WEARING A GRYFFINDOR SCARF!! Oh yes, awesome awesome.

And now, the biannual entry in which I list material objects that no one else cares about. Ah yes, Christmas, I can smell it!

( The goods! )

(So I mentioned Phil from Hercules and that reminded me of the Catastrophia episode, which is actually called Hercules and the Big Lie, and I thought I would look it up to see what I could find, and man, I knew there were Aladdin transcripts floating around the Intarweb but I didn't know there were Hercules transcripts! Here's that one. My favourite part is the enthusiastic formatting.)

(Hahaha, I didn't know Buffy played Andromeda!)

(That episode also contains one of my favouritest scenes in the whole series, the one in which Cassandra tries to teach Hercules how to lie. Check my friends page if you don't believe me! Hahahahahaha~ XD )

("What did you say your name was?" "Androkles! But my friends call me Herc 'cause that's my real name. Not, uh ... Androkles." HAHA I LOVE IT)

It is almost five o'clock and I have yet to be wished a happy half birthday.

I am very disappointed in everyone.

Also I have vacuumed more today than I have in the whole of the rest of my life. Or something.

My brother hates J.K. Rowling because of the pope's opinions re: Harry Potter. I think this makes more sense if you know him. My brother, not the pope.

Also -- FINALLY! I think it's so ridiculous that all the covers we've seen before didn't have the summary on the back. Dude, if it's such a spoiler that you can't show it to us till two days before the book is due, why did you write it in the first place? Dur.

I had a good fourteenth birthday. :)

We went ice skating, as I mentioned before, then came home, played a very silly game of Truth or Dare (most of the dares included saying silly things in front of my parents or running around the island in a certain way ;) ), ate pizza, opened gifts, and played Monopoly. Which was more fun than it usually is, because I didn't have to set up. ;) Ha. I hate setting up for board games.

My presents included:

• A Card Captor Sakura "graphic novel."
  
• A Philip Pullman book; The Northern Lights, I think.
  
• Chocolate! *_*
  
• Cookies were also brought to the party, and shared by all. :D
  
• Earrings from the World Wildlife Fund. :)
  
• Lost and Found, a book about Heinrich Schliemann and the gold he found at the site of Troy.
  
• A&E Biography: Anastasia.
  
• A Cherished Teddies figure. Awww. :)
  
• A nifty "mini-UFO" fibre-thing lamp . . . okay, so I forget what it's called, but it's the neatest thing! :D
  
• Garfield's 37th book . . . or anthology . . . or whatever they're called.
  
• Lotsa bath stuff. :p You've always got to wonder if they really don't know what to get you, or if they're hinting. Gaah.
  

Plus, I might get to see Mysterious Play (Fushigi Yuugi, right?), which is both loved and hated in the online anime community. I'm curious, so getting to see it for free makes me happy. :)

I had a good birthday. :D

So I missed House of Mouse this morning. Well, I don't know if I missed it, per se, because by all accounts in the listings, it wasn't on, even if they kept advertising it. If only they'd said the time as well!

And so now I'm ANNOYED. Grr!

But in better news, everyone I've invited seems to be able to come to my birthday party, so I'm happy about that. ^_^ Incredibly happy. It seemed that this year's party was going to be a flop; I mean, it's not going to be a big extravaganza or anything, but at least I'll get to be with three of my best friends for six hours. (Bwahaha! ;D )

Hrm. I was going to stay something else, but it's gone now. Ah well.

I'm happy! ^_^

House of Mouse premieres tomorrow, and from the sneak preview that's on the website, it looks like it will be fun. :D

Then Sunday is my birthday. We're going ice skating and then having pizza! And one of my friends, who was having difficulties working out her schedule, is able to come after all! :D

This is gonna be a good weekend. ^___^