That didn't take long...

Not that I thought I'd ACTUALLY post daily, but two days in a row was sorta impressive for me considering the several months off. :-P ANYWHO!

Let's see... Spent just about the entire weekend with Dad. :-D In fact if either of us could stand sleeping at the other's place, it probably woulda been smarter to do that, but we can't so that's that. :-P We're used to sleeping and showering in our own messy houses and he's got this device thingie he has to sleep with and probably not wise to let him sleep where cats might crawl all over him and leave their cat hairs on him. Oh and of course there's the issue of sharing comp time. :-P But as Sunday was Father's Day,I would've had to be sneaky about making the lil things I did for him if he had stayed here. But anyway, I'm rambling. What else is new?

It was a relatively quiet and relaxing weekend. Played our fb games before getting ready and after he got to my house...went to breakfast at our usual place (well actually, Friday was a lunch and it was a yummy Greek Salad)...depending on the day, stopped at a store or two for shopping and silliness...hung out at his place (turns at the comp, reading, napping, TV watching, general chillaxing!).. .then dinner picking up and eating at my place! It was nice. And I finished the other book I was reading by the end of Sunday night! Though I had hoped to have finished before Sunday and even packed the next book in the series in my book bag, but oh well...carried the other book for nothing.

Woke up late for Target Tuesday, but luckily, Dad got off work late...so whew! Dad teased me about not having a book to read (from off the shelves, since he bought the last one and I finished it). So while he was fiddling with something on his phone, I started reading The Fallen series by Thomas Sniegoski about nephilim. I saw the Family Channel's mini series based on the books, so thought I'd take a look. It's kinda funny...  The kid cast as the half angel boy is the same one cast as a vampire in CW's Vampire Diaries. :-P From fallen angel's kid to vampire, wow... hehehe... I may have to borrow Dad's copies of the books ifn I like it. Page 7 (really it was like 3 pages but they included acknowledgements and title pages) is too soon to tell.

Eeeps! I should be voting before my time expires! So You Think You Can Dance finally opened up online voting! Did I mention that before? No more stalling. Gotta narrow down my favorites... Toodles!

This is why.....

I just finished the book about Nujood last night (er this morning). There's a saying in Yemen or the region that goes something like "to ensure a happy life, marry a nine year old girl." I think it's based on the Islamic prophet's having had a nine year old wife, although the custom was around for a long time and not exclusive to Islamic peoples so who knows. But ick. Seriously? In Yahoo! Answers someone asked why the prophet married a child and one answer implied people grew up (matured) faster back then. And you know, it's true... But NOT THAT FAST! And certainly not physically or mentally mature for marriage! SOME men (then and now) will agree to wait til puberty before consummating the marriage, but in the book's notes it said that is SOOOO vague. I mean some girls hit puberty at nine (poor poor girls!). I'm glad Nujood got her divorce and that it's inspired other Yemeni and even Saudi girls to seek help too!

See, it's things like this that prove I would have made a terrible anthropologist. No way I could have been an unbiased observer. And here I thought it would have been my spirit wanting everyone to find God that would have been hindrance.

Anywho... Dad's here!

Tuesday's Tomfoolery

As Dad's got the week off for vacation, he made a special trip into San Pedro just so I could still take part in his usual trip to Target and we could still do out Fantastic Cafe dinner afterwards. :-D We got an early start...well for a Target Tuesday outing anyway. :-P After robbing a couple banks, and goofing at Target, and picking up food, AND eating said food, Dad was still able to leave while it was still a little light out!

I'm currently reading two books: one of the House of Night books (a vampire series) and I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (a book I stumbled on at Target weeks ago). On both, I'm like 60-75 pages away from finishing. HoN book, I have shamefully been reading for ages now. Bad me. Gotta set aside time each day for reading. Nujood I read 30 pages over the course of weeks (I'd read a few pages each Target trip) until Dad finally just bought it for me. It's a shocking story. I mean not one I've never heard of unfortunately. But it's still sad to hear it from this girl's point of view. I hope to finish both books by the end of the week.

I'm waiting on the edge of my seat for a friend to post a reply to an RP thread. But alas, she's got two or three summer college classes and volunteer work and an apparent absentee muse. Le sigh. Gonna have to focus my creative efforts elsewhere to pass the time.

I got my first charge for Netflix today. The first month was free. I figure I'll keep it at least one month and get a few more old Doctor Who DVD rentals out of it, the forth disc is due tomorrow. We'd have seen more of them, except we (Mom and I) tended to forget we had them. Gotta do better and get the most out of my buck. Debating on finishing the series I started on the watch instantly options or move on to another show. Hmmm.. I wonder if they have So You Think You Can Dance on instant play. Hmm...

Anywho... That's the scatterbrained mind for today. Off to watch some shows and eat some left over KFC!

I Have a Blog?

I know. I've been terrible. And as someone else just started up blogging again, I think I'll give it a go. Actually, I was thinking of giving it a try the other day, but got distracted. I'm good at that lately. Stupid Facebook games. For as much as I tease my dad about being an addict, I must confess I am at least as much of an addict as he is. But it's not even that. Some weeks I can't even sit still long enough to watch an hour TV show. Other weeks I forget about all else but whatever show I am obsessed with at the moment. Recently, it was Blood+, an anime I was watching on Netflix. I was going to write up a blog shortly after my birthday. Even got as far as writing a draft in Word. But I forgot about it, and now I don't feel like putting it up cuz I'd have to edit all the "yesterday" and "last week" type references.

So here goes.... Short sum up of the past two months. Oh geez, has it been that long already? I of course had a birthday. And I got a lot of birthday greetings on Facebook, texts, e-cards (Mom went nuts), international mail with special little gifts, and I got balloons from the outing with my dad (which BTW are still up, well 2 of the 3 anyway). Speaking of international mail, Issi sent me awesome Doctor Who cards! Special gifts from my friends: a hieroglyphic edition of Peter Rabbit :-D and an fabulous anime movie. My friends know me so well and I love them for it!

Around the same time (details are soo fuzzy now), Pixie had another case of UTI and we took her to a new vet in hopes of getting a particular shot our usual vet was out of. Big mistake we will never repeat. Waste of our money and the vet was so cold and unfriendly. And as usual, tried to scare us into getting tests that we could so not afford to pay. But with the antibiotic drops we had to torture her with twice a day and prayer, she has recovered from that. And we've once more altered her diet again, cutting back on certain stuffs or trying to. We're gonna have to take her in to get another shot for her breathing soon though. But the usual vet said some pets are like that, needing to come in every few months for shots to open up her nasal passage. Poor runt was born with a small head and I guess a perma swollen nasal passage way. Le sigh.

Yesterday was Dad's birthday, so we went and hung out. He's on vacation for the week, so we'll probably play again sometime this week. :-D

Since getting the computer fixed, I fell out of the routine of doing my vampire and or RP related stuffs and I think it's time for that hiatus to end. So I am going to TRY and ease up on the FB games even if it means Dad may actually catch up to or pass my levels. :-P But I liked RP way before FB games and I miss the days when I used to RP almost everyday. So, time to wake up the brain. I've started some. A few posts here and there. Now if only I can keep it up this time.

Anywho.. As usual, I'm babbling. I'm sleepy and I have dishes to wash before bed. Yes, gonna try bed before sunrise.