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Welcome! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Welcome to my little Den! Here you'll find all sorts of things- mostly blog challenges, but mixed in, you'll notice:  I'm a bit of a fangirl  My life is very busy I enjoy using emoticons  I don't tend to swear, but stuff happens. |
Yeah she's a math major. No surprise there, really. She's an international student.  She also claims she doesn't cook. Buuut towards the beginning of the quarter, I'm fairly certain she claimed to enjoy cooking. She even volunteered to cook for me.  Very strange, I agree.  So here's how it went down just now: I was eating my dinner. She knocked on the door. I opened it- and she demanded we make an agreement about the A/C because she was cold. She suggested I only have the A/C on for an hour every day. We said some stuff, I mentioned she needs to start taking out the common area trash as well when it's full- she claims she doesn't put raw meat into the trash, because she doesn't cook meat. All the while, she's trying to peek into my room, so I close the door a bit so I'm pretty much blocking her view of the room.  She said she doesn't know how to cook meat. She shows me the meat she has, that's all cooked, and says that's all the meat she has- it's all cooked, because she doesn't know how to handle meat. She brought in cooked meat from China. I ask her how she managed that, and she says "I don't think that's your business". we go back to heatedly discussing the A/C. She says she's cold, I say I'm warm.  She wants to know why I don't believe her about the meat. I told her I asked her questions and she avoided them- what am I to think of that?She tells me that yeah, "customs checked it twice *holds up 2 fingers*" and said it was "very safe" because it's "in a plastic bag" and it's "not raw- r-o-w, raw, right?" I nod. currently, her meat is frozen, so there's probably no way to actually tell if she's lying or not, but she's in the kitchen now, and doesn't sound very happy from the thumping around. She's turned off the A/C, but I don't know if anyone else sees the problem with her story.... 1. Any meat would probably go bad by the time it gets from China to the US 2. You're not even allowed to bring in meat in the first place 3. even if she had frozen the meat, it would've thawed in her luggage by the time she arrived in the US 4. a plastic bag does not automatically make meat safe. Yeah, so nice try, I don't believe you, even if I said I did, just to make you go away |
| Besides the craft of writing, are you an artist in any other medium? Sculptor, singer, dancer, painter? Share a story about your talent! Aaaannnnd... I’ll be awarding another MB this Creation Saturday! Well Kit  tagged me in her entry so I guess I should do mine, too. I have artsy hobbies, yes. Talents? no. Dance, for starters: I'm making my kiddos (Chinese School) dance for Chinese New Year, and the choreography is mine, but it's so simple, I don't even think it's considered much of a feat. Also, I'm taking 2 dance classes this quarter for fun- ballet and jazz. It's interesting because neither class is stretching before we begin I expected more flexibility stuff, but so far, jazz has been more aerobics, and ballet has been more technique, than anything. Lots of pliés, dégagés, and tondues. Jayne  was actually predicting that I'd be sore the next day, since both classes are back to back (12:30-2, 2-3:30) and then I made a quick trip to Albertsons so I could take advantage of their juice sale for the Honors Program Coffee Hour. Surprisingly, I was fine on Friday, even though there was an accident right outside campus and they closed a whole road for about 5+ hours, which meant I walked back from school. I enjoy drawing/art. I bought a book in Taiwan last year, that's kind of a "how to draw everything" type of thing for beginners- catch is, it's all in Chinese.  So I followed the pictures. Unfortunately, I've only actually used it once.  To make an astronaut, of all things. I should use it more, but I don't. And I like drawing clipart-y stuff, which means that's the you'll find in most of my images. Even if I don't make (draw) the whole thing myself, usually I'll try to find free cliparts online and combine them into something new. Kinda like a toned-down version of image manipulation, because for the most part, nothing actually gets manipulated, only mixed. At one point last (school) year, I was doing lots of GNR drawing- Slash and Axl Rose for the most part, because classes were boring and one in particular was not fond of technology personal devices. So I kept a page open on my phone of reference pictures and I'd just draw those. Haven't really had the urge to draw anything new recently, but maybe something will come, soon.I played piano from mid-elementary school through 12th grade. Mom was kinda overbearing on the practicing, since Sis and I took lessons, which also meant yearly examinations from a posh, certified board that flew in once a year from London (Trinity Guildhall, if anyone's interested).  The music school we attended has since closed, but I'm sure Trinity is very much still alive. I got through grade 7, if I recall correctly- I skipped the kindergarten/prime year and went straight to first grade I believe. My teacher was all "You could actually do second grade if you wanted to" but Mom and Grandfather(I believe Mom consulted Grandfather about this) were like "No, second grade seems a bit too far to jump, we want her to get her foundations in first." So, I skipped one grade. Sis, on the other hand, skipped a couple grades so she could take 8th grade and finish in her senior year. I still play very occasionally, though only when nobody is in the house and the mood strikes me, which is rare. My cousins (4 and 5) are starting with piano lessons and their parents (different families, different sets of parents) have been asking me and/or sis to teach them when we're around. My skill level has way regressed- I even have difficulties sight-reading sometimes, nowadays. Ooops.On a nicer note, I'm also learning guitar now. This, however, is on my own terms- I saved up heaps of $5 Amazon gift cards to get it, and I use Yousician (an app) to learn songs and such. It's good, not great, but since it's free, I'm using it. They have subscriptions you can buy, too, and maybe once I'm off of school for good after this quarter, I'll buy a short one and see how it compares. Realistically speaking, you can only play guitar for so long before your fingers get seriously pained. Those strings hurt more than you'd imagine. Last year, if I was really into it, I'd practice up to 2 hours at a time, and I'd need an ice pack for my fingers afterwards. I cheated the system by making multiple accounts with different emails, so I could keep practicing where I left off Annd yeah, for someone who was raised not-very artsy, I think that's alot of art for one person. I remember at one point in elementary school, Sis and I wanted to submit some drawing into a contest and Mom was so alarmed at what we drew (indecipherable I suppose) that she actively advised against it. And those would be my "stories" I suppose. |
| If you were a fighter pilot in the Navy or Air Force, what would be your Call Sign? Why? Example: Ice Man from Top Gun. Probably Flamebreather. Because I use it for everything else. The heroes in Matthew Reilly's books all have call signs, like Scarecrow, Pooh, Mother, and a couple others I won't name because they're over my blog rating. Anyways, usually they all have some sort of story or significance behind them, and aside from me thinking it was a really kick-butt name when I chose it in middle school, I don't think there's too much significance behind flamebreather. How I did choose it though, was after scamming the system. Not the WdC one (I was in middle school, yeah?) but there once was this fan forum site for Hi-5, which, unfortunately, has since closed down, and I discovered it in computer class at school (of all times and places ). I joined. I quickly got too excited over this whole new concept of forums- and there were threads talking about every single cast member- and games,and.... Yeah, I was very new to this whole "socializing over the internet" thing. Anyways, with this excitement, I also got carried away- I was responding to posts from years ago and posting some comments here and there... to where the mods on there actually gave me a warning for spamming the site. Me, at 6th grade, had no clue what it meant to "spam" anything- I only knew of spam, the lunch meat, so I kinda shrugged it off and went on my merry way. My original screenname was something like "charlirox" or something along those lines- probably with some numbers involved too And then I forgot the password to the account when I re-joined it in high school.... so I made a new account- to be completely separate from charlirox. I gave it some thought and decided "flamebreather" sounded cool enough. Not to mention, it did kind of have a boyish tone to it. Charlirox was definitely a girl, and flamebreather was definitely not charlirox. So, I went with it. I also made a bunch of friends on that site- so if anyone knows a kellietim or lismosnus, or if they ever happen to read this post, As for "flamebreather," I used it again for WdC, and then Instagram, and Gems of War... and the GoW guilds I joined definitely thought flamebreather was a cool name, so I'm glad I stuck with it.  Which, ultimately means, if I needed a call sign, you could call me flamebreather.  |
| Tell us about the pet you had for the longest amount of time or the one that made the most significant impact on you. If you have never had a pet (I’m sorry), what pet would you want? I've never had a pet (no need to be sorry, Emily ) but I have a cavalcade of plushies- that I used to treat as real. I had a little dog with a bell in him so when you played he'd jingle. I called him Snuggles. Unfortunately, I'm not completely sure where Snuggles went, but hopefully he's still somewhere at home- not somewhere in the garage, hiding from spiders and such.  When I was in elementary and middle school I'd make him a little doggy bed out of my jacket before I went to sleep, so he'd be sleeping next to my pillow as I slept. shadowfanglerz has 2 cats and 3 dogs and she's a cat person- she used to have way more cats in middle school, and in high school, she got the two dogs- the third one, Lola, is a Maltese and I'm always fake-threatening to kidnap her. And Owlz is always more than willing to let me. So, I guess if I had a pet, I'd get a small dog, like Lola the Maltese. Problem with that, is my family and I always travel too much, so we wouldn't be able to take care of the dog, 24/7. I've also had enough of living with a dog after the roomie brought her "emotional support" pet to live with us So maybe I wouldn't want a pet at all. Or, I'll just have the pet, with none of the responsibility of it  That's probably the best way to go about it. I'll keep going to Owlz's place and playing with Lola, and I'll keep threatening to kidnap her. And she'll let me keep doing it, but ultimately, I don't really want a pet to live with or look after. Or get emotionally attached to. |
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