New Hair!

So, I got my hair cut and colored on Friday. It's black and red, with my natural brown looking like the actual streaks of color in it. XD I choose red in black because I wanted to do a ton of color. I would have done blue or purple or something with lots of color, but hardly anyone at Wooster knows that I am the hair-dye girl. xD I didn't want it to be too shocking; the last thing I need is to stand out anymore than I already do. x3

I love my hair color though, the red is really pretty, with the black accenting it just right. My hair cutter actually did the job correctly. It's exactly has I wanted, with a slight exception to the bangs. But, minor details aren't a problem. I love my hairstyle either way. :]

Hm, I went school shopping today. Unintentionally, I picked out a black and red messenger bag for my backpack. Then my mum told me that it matched my hair, and I was like, "Oh, it does!" xD So I got a black and red binder to go with the messenger bag, too. I like to color coordinate. Fashion and all of that doesn't phase me, and means very little to me. But the artist in me freaks out if I'm not color coordinated. Haha.

While we were out shopping, I realized how picky I am with mechanical pencils and binders. I never knew how many little details had to be just right, or I wouldn't buy the product. xD

I also saw Mr. Hunter while I was shopping today. Goddess, you never realize how much you miss last year's teacher until you see him shopping around in Office Max! XD We talked, and I warned him that I'd be haunting his class room whenever I could get over to SMS, and that Frances and I would be terrorizing his new animal care takers. He told me that he was expecting me to do so, and would be waiting. Lol

Other than that, today my parents and I went over to Darren and Jessica's condo. It's a neat little place. And I love Jessica's cat. Leah's new cat reminds me so much of Jessica's cat. xD

Anyway, the cooked dinner for us, and it was very good. I suppose it was nice to hang out with them again.

Dad and I left early, and that was an hour or two ago. Mum's still there; she'll probably stay over at their house for quite some time. Oh well.

Well, that's all for today. =D

~Duani Y

Tuesday

Okay so on Tuesday (yesterday, the 19th) I went to my high school, and to the orthodontist.
I'm starting with the Orthodontist first, since it's less information than what I have to say about my high school. :]
The appointment only took five minutes, actually. Which was nice compared to the ten and longer appointments I am used to. You all know from my previous blog about my getting my braces off and my retainers on. I said in that blog that if I did well with my retainers, I'd be able to wear them only at night.
Well, apparently I did well! Bu-bye braces during the day! Now I don't have to worry about taking them off and loosing them in school. XD

Now for high school. =D
I'm in the Pre-IB program at Wooster, which basically means it's an elite program that will be fairly challenging program.
So, Leah, our mothers, and I all went down to the school at nine in the morning on Tuesday; we had to get our schedules and such since we hadn't been there for the orientation. The school is huge. xD We were running around from building to building, finding out classes and our lockers and such.
Here's my schedule for the first semester of school:

First period: Pre-IB Honors English
Second: Pre-IB Intg. Science
Third: Pre-IB French 1
Fourth: PE
Fifth: Pre-IB Fml Geometry 1
Sixth: Computer Lit.
And we have a thing called ELT sometime around ten, I think. It's basically and extra-learning thing, I think....? xD

For second semester I have Health instead of PE. And I have PE instead of Computer Lit.
I think all the Pre-IBs that are taking French have third period, but I'm not sure. So far, that's what it seems to me.

Well, that's all. =D

~Duani Y

Oregon Trip!

So, after my depressing Wednesday, Leah spent the night on Thursday because I was taking her with us to Oregon. =D
We had fun just talking and running around at the park.
We had a Dianic (as close to my religion has it gets) Spell Ritual. It was basically a ritual to banish past and recent pains. You burn any notes that you've written about yourself, and any notes that will cause negative thoughts in the future. I burned all my notes, except for some in my notebook that I forgot about. I kept two songs that I had written about Rachel, though. The songs are really nice, and they don't have to be considered purely applied to her. They could be about anything, really. And I want to keep them. They're good memories of when I was really happy. =D

Okay, now for the Oregon Trip! We went to Newport, Oregon. It's a nine to ten hour drive, and Leah and I agreed that we'd go mutiny if we had to drive nine hours there and back. xD So, we decided to stop at Yreka, which was half way to Oregon, and stayed at a Best Western that my mum, sister and I stayed at last time we all went to Oregon two years ago.
Then we continued our drive all the way to Newport, which was five and half hours. We had a GPS, which my dad adores, and we named it The Slut. xD We got the idea because my uncle calls his GPS The Bitch. =]
So, my mum would not listen to the damn GPS, and got us lost quite a few times. In the end, I had to pretend to be the GPS and tell mum what to do so we could get back on track. x3
When we finally made it at the Embarcadoro (the resort we were staying at for the week) it was exactly has I remembered from the last time. :) The resort is right next to the ocean, and it had crab docks, which Leah and I went to nearly every night. It's so pretty when you're floating on a dock right by the sea. =D

So, this is what we did:

We went down the street to the shopping strip that was right next to the ocean. It was a really long line of stores on each side of the street, which meant we had to split the shopping into two days, or we wouldn't make it to all the stores. xD We ate at Mo's and I had Oyster Stew.
We also went across the big bridge to an Aquarium, which was pretty big. After we finished up with the Aquarium, we went shopping in a little villa-like area that had tons of interesting shops. Unfortunately, most of them were closing up by the time we got there, so we had to make another day to come back.
We went to an outdoor mall to go shopping some more, and had a lot of fun running around the stores being retards and trying things on. xD
We went back to the shopping strip by our resort, and Leah and I went to Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum-thing, the Wax Museum, and the Undersea Gardens (which was a big building with a gift shop on the ground floor. When you went down below, you were in a large room that had tons of windows so you could see what was ten feet under the water.)
All in all, we did a lot of looking, but not a whole lot of actual buying when we shopped. We bought what we liked, but most of the time we never really found something that we would actually wear/use. xD
In the end, I bought a little vest that looks good when worn over dark colors (haven't tried light colors yet); a necklace that has a little dagger hidden in it, for self defense; a Japanese Steel Shogen Fan, which is a form of a defense weapon, also (but I'm using it for decorative purposes right now); a glass calligraphy pen that was hand-made and some ink for it; and a few other little thing. =D

Well, that's all for now. I'll post later on about other things. =]

~Duani Y

Depressing Wednesday

Okay, I have to do some major catch upping. xD

First of all, I'm going to talk about Wednesday, the sixth of August.
It was a majorly depressing day, to be honest.
First all, my parents are splitting up, and I had to talk with my dad again about in the afternoon (after I walked Hozer.) We also had to talk about my mum moving away, and who I'd be staying with and for how long. It was a long, highly depressing talk, and I'm just going to leave it at that. T_T
Another thing (this is both good and bad) is that Darren and his girlfriend are finally getting their own place! That means he won't be bugging me much anymore! Unfortunately, I learned on Wednesday that he was planning on taking my lizards away before school starts. My lizards are my babies. I don't want them to be taken away, but he doesn't a give a crap about how I feel, and plans on taking them anyway. My mum won't back me up on it either. -.-
Also, I have been tormented by Jeremy and his whining about his damn ex-girlfriend for the past month and a half. He's driving me crazy; if I have to hear about that sixteen year-old slut going out some thirty-two year-old creep one more time, I'm going to go insane. It's not the end of the world, Jeremy. You two never seemed serious about each other, and she's underage. You're too old for her; get a girlfriend your own age, please?
I know that sounds insensitive, but he won't listen to anything you say unless you are mean to him. Someone has to tell him the truth; and my mum loves him oh-so-much that she won't be mean to him.
Added to all of this, Rachel broke up with me. Something about us not seeing each other very often, I guess. We haven't fully talked about the reasons; I couldn't understand her because she was mumbling and talking really fast on the phone. I was also too upset to really care very much at the time. I cried a little, but then Leah called me (and I left Rachel on hold. I totally spaced that she was still on the phone while I was talking with Leah. xD) and I had to compose myself before answering. According to Leah, I can compose myself really quickly. I guess that's because I don't like to cry while talking to my friends. It makes me feel weak. Dx
Anyway, I'm doing better. I'm not so depressed, nor am I going to allow any of this shit bring me down any further. Eventually everything will sort itself out and return to normal for me. Rachel and I just need to talk about why she broke up with me, so I know the reasons for sure. I want to stay friends with her, just like I stayed friends with Sam.
So that was my depressing Wednesday. Wasn't that just a super fun day? =P
I'll write about my Oregon trip in my next post. That will be a happy post, because the trip was really fun. =D

~Duani Y

Breaking Dawn!

Okay, so, for those of you who do not know about Breaking Dawn (you're insane if you haven't heard of it's release by now), it's the fourth book in the Twilight series (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and the finale Breaking Dawn.)
Today at Barnes and Noble was the release party. It went from ten pm to about 1am. I went with Leah and we met up with Sam and Megan (old lead singer, and an awesome friend.) Might I add that it was extremely crowded? I'm okay with crowds, usually. But, even for a store that big, people swamped the place. xD I wore my corset-like top I got from Hot Topic. I remember thinking when I was putting it on: "Will I stand out in this? Not like a I care but..." Then I considered the fact that they were all Twilight fans and decided there would be lots of people dressing oddly and cosplaying, which was true. That only made the party even more cool.
Most of the time I hid in the manga section while Leah, Sam and Megan ran around. I made a new friend who will be going to the same school has Leah and I, and be in the same program, so that was cool. I talked with her about Yaoi mangas (she's definitely not a major-manga reader) and I'm not sure about her reaction. She didn't seem to like the idea of gayness, which is kind of a problem if she's going to hang out with us homo-friendly at school. xD

Anyway, while she and I were in line getting our face painted, Leah and the others ran over to play pictionary. I should have joined them; I kick ass a pictionary most of the time. xD They eventually quit the game, though, and joined us in the line. I got Rosalie painted on my cheek, with a rose underneath it. Leah got Jasper and a heart, Sam got Alice and a heart, and Megan got Jacob with a heart too. =D

We went upstairs for a bit after that, and hung around in the manga section. Then the book release happened. We got stuck going down the escalator because the bottom of it was crowded with people. It was pretty scary being tripped off the escalator and sent flying into a crowd filled with people. They actually had to stop the escalator for a bit so they could clear a path. xD
Once they started releasing the books, I left Sam and Leah. A crowd filled with around a thousand people screaming and jumping around
I found Loveless (a yaoi-ish manga series) and read that until the crowds cleared and it was safe to go back down to Leah and Sam. xD isn't for me; not unless it's a concert. Haha

Oh-another thing about tonight. I was really smart and had a Starbucks coffee at like one in the morning while waiting for everyone to get their books. Normally it takes six to eight hours for caffeine or sugar to kick it, but I'm realllyy hyper now. xD

For those that missed it, I'm sorry. It wasn't super special, if you ask me, but it was fun.



Let's see, other than that, the only thing that happened today was my dad being a dork. A cool dork, but he's still a dork. xD
He was playing on Ebay, ordering some cell phone for my sister. Every time he out-bidded something he acted all Kon-fu mastery. It was hilarious, especially when he'd go running to the computer to see if he was out-bidded again. xD I love how funny he is; he's such a cool dad.
He also didn't like the idea of me out being so late (even though I'd be a in a safe, very crowded place), so he taught me some judo/karate, whatever the hell he's a black belt in, moves for defense. It was fun learning, even though he got serious and one point when he was teaching me about knocking a knife out someones hand. When he did the move on me, he did it a little too hard by accident. My wrist hurt for a tiny bit after that. x3 Oh well, now I have some new defense moves to practice. =D

That's all for now. :]

~Duani Y