Seven facts

Ah, I got tagged. I don't know very many people, nor do I really feel like hunting people down right now. xD
So, I'll tag two people, that'll be it.

Here’s the rules:
A. List these rules on your blog.
B. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog.
C. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.


~1. I love music, and My Chemical Romance is my favorite band.
~2. I also love my friends; I couldn't live without them. =D
~3. I favorite thing to do to pass time is to draw while listening to music.
~4. If something bores me, I usually end up drawing, if not day dreaming. (No wonder I was always drawing in Algebrae! xD)
~5. I dispise the Harry Potter book series (not too fond of the movies, either), Fall Out Boy, and quite a few people (-cough-Nicollebeingonthetop-cough-)
~6. I adore Gerard Way. =D The only male that I think is hot/cute.
~7. Je aime Rachel. =D

I'm Tagging:
Brittany and Rachel. (Links on the side bar.)
That's all. xD

~Duani Y

Goodbye braces!

First, earlier this week I went to the art store and got some canvases (Mrs. Steiner, an art teacher and a friend of mine from middle school, has gotten me into painting) and a new calligraphy pen and new nibs. For those who don't know, I use the handle calligraphy pens that you insert the nib into and dip in ink. (Nibs are metal things that are what you dip into the ink and write with.) So, no, I do not use the type of calligraphy pens that already have replaceable ink tubes inside them. I don't like those; for some reason I find the less real. -shrugs-

The day finally has come (and gone!) I got my braces taken off yesterday (Monday the 14th), and boy does it feel really weird. I can actually feel-and see- my teeth and gums again.
I can't believe you can take the brackets off so easily. All they did was use some weird plier tool and they pulled each bracket off one by one, without even removing my wires. The only painful part was when the girl took my bands off (I had metal bands around two of my back teeth that had been used to support a mouse trap-thing I used to have). Apparently whoever had put my braces on had used a lot of the glue/cement stuff. I thought my tooth was going to get ripped out with the band. xD
But now I have straight, white teeth! Yaayy! The only thing I have to do now is wear my clear retainer-things. (They're the kind that are molded to fit around your teeth, like the fake vampire teeth that glow in the dark and you wear on Halloween. =D) I have to wear them all the time, with the exception of eating and brushing my teeth, for the next month. If all goes well, I'll only have to wear them at night. All should go well. These things are already driving me crazy with their smooth-fake teeth plasticyness. xD
Other than that, we had miracle weather today. It started out sunny, then went rain, then went sunny, then rain again, then hail, and sun with lots of humidity, then rain again, and finally the sun stayed out. xD Nevada's weather is bi-polar or something, I swear. It's completely normal to have all four seasons in one day here.
So, I got totally drenched when I walking Hoser (the dog I get paid to walk). Most of the time the rain drops were quarter-sized, and the came down fast! When the hail came, we had to hide under the pavilion at the park- dime sized pieces of ice hurt like hell. px But I'm glad we got a break from all the smoke. Even if the rain water was incredible dirty with all the soot it brought down from the air. I really hope that the rain made it to California and helped with the fires. That would be great.
An interesting fact for you readers. Did you know Nevada means Snow in Spanish?
The only other big thing that happened was that I had to go to Jeremy's (another one of my sister exes) after my orthodontist appointment. We went to the Petco and got a Snowflake eel- who is incredible aggressive, but beautiful- and took him back to Jeremy's apartment and put it in the tank. I then helped Jeremy put algae in his tank (salt water tanks need algae, while fresh water tanks generally shouldn't have it). That damn eel was hissing and snapping at me the whole freaking time. He's already territorial. Hopefully he'll get less shy and come out more when he gets older. I'm in charge of naming him, but I haven't decided on what would fit him yet. I'll tell you in a later post when I have decided.

That's all for now! I'm going to go play with my new calligraphy pens! xD

~Duani Y

Smokeeee

So, there are over eight hundred fires in California right now (actually, it's pretty much a thousand, really.) Of course, Nevada gets all the freaking smoke; and since we are such a large basin, the smoke come over, and just stays unless a strong rid blows long enough to push it on to Utah or something.

It's disgusting. I hate smoke, my lungs can't handle being exposed to any form of smoke for very long. (Fire smoke or cigarette smoke, it doesn't matter. Both suck, although Cigarette smoke has more of an effect on me.) My guess why I'm so weak when it comes to smoke is because of how sensitive my nose it, and also because of some after effect from sixth grade (I was sick with who knows from Halloween to pretty much the end of the school year, I missed eight months of school and still ended up with the top twelve of my class and graduating. I had to go through many things- from X-rays to Cat scans to blood draws to having a camera shoved in me- and no one every figured out what was wrong.) I'd choose to stay inside, but I get paid to walk a dog named Hoser. That means I'm out in the smoke for an hour or more. That's not good for me-or anyone, might I add. =/

So, since smoke has such a strong effect on me, I have to wear a damn mask- like the kinds doctors wear- so I don't inhale it. It's too freaking hot to wear the mask, but I have no choice anymore. There are three stages that are declared when it comes to fires:

Stage one- Cautionary, not advised to be out for long periods in the smoke, but not exactly hazardous. This is what we've been in for the past few weeks.

Stage two- This is when it's considered extremely unhealthy to be outside in the smoke, and you are advised to stay out of the smoke if you can. Yesterday (the tenth) we were declared in a stage two. We should have been put into stage two on the ninth, since it was far worse then, but oh well.

And stage three- Which you could pretty much considered a lock down. All doors and windows and any other access to outside must be closed tightly. You are not to go outside unless it's for some form of an emergency (the need for food, or actual hospital emergencies and such.) It's said that if we stay like this for much longer, then we are going to go into a stage three.

Here are some pictures that prove how hazy it is, and has been, here:

Just look at the sky. ^

^ A house through the haze. This is on a hill not too far away from my house.

And, of course, I had to include a picture of me in my mask =D

Strangely, I like this picture. xD I think it shall be my new profile picture for now! Haha

~Duani Y

Catching up

Whew, time to play catch up, again. xD I don't know why I keep forgetting to post blogs.

Okay, starting with last week. My grandma and her boyfriend, Chuck, are driving all over the place in their RV, so they decided to pay us a visit since they were passing through from Oregon. (No idea why they went from Arizona to Oregon, then to Nevada, but oh well.) It was nice seeing them again.

^ My mum and dad in the background with my Grandma and Chuck in their chairs in front.

They were with us on Fourth of July, and we went down the the Catholic Church (Yes, the big one with the people in it that I have a high dislike for...xD) because it has a great view of the fireworks there. Before they totally destroyed the wildlife there to build the church, it had been a home to many creatures, and a place my friends and I went to for the fireworks. So, just because there is a church there now, that doesn't mean I'm willing to give up a damn great spot for watching the fireworks shoot off from the Nugget. Haha. I got a lot of good pictures using the camera I got for my birthday (That thing has some unbelievable settings- Like a setting for take pictures of landscape during the day, and one for night. Or for taking normal pictures for day or night, or one specifically for flowers or fireworks, etc etc.). Here are a few of my favorite ones:




^ If you look closely in the one above, you can see that the ring has a smile face in it. =D



^ Lots of bright, blindingly beautiful colors in this one! ^_^

^ This one is subtle, but has it's own awesome beauty to it. I love how the lights are hitting at the same height and are crackling so much. I think it's a reminder that everything has some form of a beauty, whether it's extravagant or not. :)
I got tons of other pictures, but that's all I'll put up. ^-^

Let's see... I had to go out to eat with my mum, Dad, Grandma, and Chuck. Has well as Darren, Jessica and Darren's parents. It was okay. I really don't like eating out in large groups where I'm the only young person there, but someone has to be the mature person. (Everybody there drank some form of alcohol, and Darren and his father were obviously drunk by the time my part of the group got there.)

Have I told you about Darren? No, I don't think I have... To put it simply, Darren was a runaway has a young child because his parents, who are actually fairly nice, supposedly hated him or something. He must have done something to make it thus. Anyway, my "cousin" (has she used to try to convince me she was, when she was just my sister's best friend) Britany, was the one who find him and bring him to us, if I remember right. Then Megan and Darren got together, so he lived with us. But whatever he did when he was younger caught up to him and he had to go to jail for a year. That was when Darren and I were really close, I still have letters he wrote to me, actually; it's kind of like proof of how nice he used to be.
He's been to jail one or two more times since then, and has gotten into a lot of trouble. One thing led to another and he always came back and lived with us for a year or two before finding his own place again. Now he is dating Jessica, so he lives with her and her family now.
Though, Darren and Jessica think they need more room, so they are moving to a condo that's between Jessica and my house. They'll be taking my lizards, too. -silently fumes- I payed for the lizards- which were around sixty bucks each- and he payed for the three hundred dollar tank and whatever he decided to put in it. Now he thinks he can just whisk them away? Last time I let him take my lizards, he killed one, then went to jail left the remaining one in the care of a friend who broke its jaw and put it in the freezer to "put it out of it's misery." Who the fucking hell is actually stupid enough to put a live lizard in a freaking freezer? You've got to be kidding me.

Anyway, that's all for this blog. xD Sorry for making you read so much.

~Duani Y

Books!

Guess what? Yes, that's right! I have found another new book! (And I gotta stop eating sugary foods at Six pm, because they'll finally effect me six to seven hours later, at twelve or later in the morning!)

Marked, by P.C Cast + Kristin Cast.

Okay, Marked is the first book in the totally awesome House Of Night series! (Which I've read the first two books in the a week and a half. Not to mention that I'm almost done with the third book in less than a day or so... ^^' )

Marked, being the first book of a spectacular vampyre series, tells about how Zoey, our lovely heroine, is first Marked- which, literally, means marked. A vampyre fledgling is marked by an adult Tracker vampyre with the Crescent moon of the Goddess Nyx, smack in the middle of their forehead. Being marked means Zoey has to move out of her old home, and into the House of Night. There she spends her first four years turning from a fledgling into and actual vampyre- well, that's if she doesn't die at some point during the change into and adult vampyre.

Zoey isn't any run-of-the-mill fledgling, though. The Goddess Nyx choose her and grants her great powers. Along with those powers comes bloodlust and the ability to Imprint with humans easily; that's not something any average newbie fledgling can do, nor are they fun things to have.

Her main adventure in this book is to stop the leader of the Dark Daughters and Sons- a special, elite school group- from further misusing her powers and endangering the fledglings in the Dark Daughters and Sons, as well has Zoey's "Almost ex-boyfriend" Heath.

So, if you liked wicked cool Vampyre books, with plot lines and none of that corner crap about vampires not being able to eat garlic, or can't go out in the sun (they can, it just isn't the best idea), then this is the book for you!

If you liked Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse, I'm fairly sure you'd enjoy this series, too.

That's all for today!

~Duani Y

Catching Up

Sorry I haven't blogged in awhile, nothing has been happening lately, really.

Let's see. Rachel came over and spent the night on Thursday last week (the 26th). I didn't tell her, but the 26th was our four-month anniversary! xD Four months, and moving speedily really. But I'm not going to go into the details of that.

Before that, on Tuesday (the 24th) Leah and I hung out later in the day and she spent the night. She hung out with Mr. Boyfriend (Richard) all day, and was up at the park at seven when I went up with my ferret, Sunder (her nickname is Sunny; I'll have to post pictures of soon.) My mum had been bitching about tons of crap, and my dad just disappeared for awhile, so I retreated to the park and found Leah. xD
It's was freaking smokey. There's a big fire in Cali right now, and the smoke was carried over by the wind.
So, Leah came home with me to drop of Sunny off, then we went down to the church (we have a giant freaking Catholic church right next to our neighborhood. Leah and I love hanging out in the back because it's all rocky, and it's quiet. The church itself of fucking stupid and need to be burned because of how prejudice the Catholics that go there are. That's just my opinion though. ^-^ Sorry if I offended anybody, I'm not attacking the religion; but the people that go to that church are seriously stuck up.)
We took a lot of pictures of scenery and stuff, which I have yet to crop, sharpen, and edit in general. I'll come back and edit this blog to put a picture or two in. ^-^
Leah then spent the night, and we stayed up talking about our significant others.

That's about everything, unless I talk about family problems. I'm not in the mood for that, though.

Sorry if my random babbling totally lost you. xD My next blog will be a book review, I believe. So you don't have to fear me off-tracking and burning your train of thought again anytime soon... Haha =D

~Duani Y