sword form, pics, parties and ku'u alala inoa'ole

OMFG, teeny, tiny, little micro houses. They are so cute.

Soooo Wednesday on my way to Kung Fu I blew out a tire. Not like I was doing donuts or anything (mmm, yum, I am so hungry,) but I must have run over a nail or one of my damn neighbors' broken beer bottles. The tire was flat and I was riding on the rim by the time I got to the end of the block. So I didn't go to class the next day and I wrote to my two professors to tell them I wouldn't be in. One of them wrote and said "no worries!" and the other--my Myo professor--wrote and said, "Your quiz average is so high that one day isn't even going to affect your grade." I was happy, and I pretended like I was Hermione.

A few days before, at Kung Fu the Gold Dragon said to do forms (Sifu wasn't there,) so SnarkLit and I went outside to the parking lot to see if we could work through the sword form.

( The result. )

Not so bad all in all, but I messed up the running part and we both screwed up the ending. Towards the middle, the Gold Dragon comes out and watches. My favorite part is when he asks us (you can't hear anything but cars on the video) "Which way did you guys start out facing?" and we both point to the street. Kung Fu is such a lark sometimes. ^_^ But I'm putting it so that next week when I forget sword form again, I can just take a peek at this entry before I go to train and maybe it will refresh it in my poor empty head.

Last night we had a rain and wind storm so epic it was almost a tai-fun (still reading Shogun, and today the sun was shining and the weather was sweet, if still too cold. There hasn't been a single real summer day yet. Not only did it ( take down a ton of huge branches, )

but it also knocked out the power late last night. It was weird because a transformer totally blew up. I don't know how far away, but I saw the sky light up like blue dusk for a good couple of seconds just as everything else went black. Of course in my movie-addled brain, the aliens had finally arrived. Well anyway, no power means no white-noise machine, and so I couldn't get to sleep.

Even on so little sleep, I was a house-cleaning machine today. Even the gods of cleaning looked down from up on high and said, "Damn." For a while I had Lokepo* out while I hosed his cage. He was sitting on the back of my computer chair where he usually sits, and when I came to get him he got all hissy with me. (He doesn't like to be picked up.) I took some pics because he's so damn cute, but I love the way his wings look in these pics. Almost like spirit wings. ( See. )

Such a little bastitch.

During my mad cleaning spree, I also had time to hang out with Boychild outdoors for a while and play Twilight Princess with him. Outside, we were eating raspberries off the vine and I was telling him that he can only eat berries off of vines if he asked Mommy and Daddy first. Then, if they said yes, he had to pick nice red ripe ones, and check them for bugs. He told me this back for the rest of the day. "Berries, mommy daddy mommy daddy mommy daddy. Pick! Red, nice, YUM. Bugs, NOPE." He was totally humoring me with the bug-checking too; he didn't even glance at them. It was too cute. And I got some fantastic pictures. ( Click! )

Oh yeah, so tomorrow I'm having the Kung Fu party. Or at least I hope that I am. I'm expecting a few people and I only hope that they show up. Last year, you remember, only three people showed up but we had a fantastic time anyway. I hope that tomorrow will blow last year's party out of the water! It was supposed to be rainy and thundery all day tomorrow; the weather channel said so for weeks. Yesterday morning I went outside and said, "Weather Gods, can we make a deal? Can you do all the rainy thundery stuff in one shot and leave Saturday sunny and warm?" I went inside and checked the weather channel only to see that they had suddenly changed the forecast, and now tomorrow is supposed to be 80 and sunny all day. YES. Clearly I control the weather. ;)

Well, I'm starving (my aunt insists I have a tapeworm; I insist that if I did, I would be losing weight rather than gaining it,) so I'm going to sit down with a bowl of cereal and a vitamuffin or something and watch MASTER(bator) AND COMMANDER, YAY! On the recommendation of spatterdash and a few other good folks. I'm sexcited! Better start the movie now, because it's assnumbingly long. Whoop whoop!

Oops, one more thing. ( Yeah, apparently this is who I look like. Umm, sure. )

LMFAO yeah, okay. I think these things are meant to flatter you, and yes I was purposely vamping it up in the second one. ^_^ And I seriously keep getting Japanese people, like, very flattering Japanese people. It's probably because it's the celebrity database and they really don't have any unattractive people to match you up with. However I do have to wonder if Claudia Black is in there and if so, why I don't get her. Hmm.

Oh. And Open Office just informed me that the chapter by chapter summary that I was working on of Le Novel, to send to TOR, does not exist. Thank you, power outage.







*Right, some of you might remember me occasionally calling my crow Lohi'au, named after Pele and Hi'iaka's handsome chief who was saved by lightning. The night I got my crow I thought he was going to die. There was a huge lightning storm that night, and the next day he was so much better so I thought... Yeah. I never looked up the meaning of the name until recently. Turns out that "lohi'au," apart from being the name of the chief, means "retarded" or "handicapped." Well, umm, he is--like I've mentioned, all of my animals are handicapped in some way--but it's still bad name mojo. I've always called him Havoc anyway (since no one could pronounce Lohi'au,) but I still wanted to switch the original moniker to something more fitting. I wanted it to sound alike too because when my Mom visits him and takes care of him while I'm away, she likes to sing his name to him and then he sings back. "Loke" means "rose" and "po" means night, darkness, obscurity, the time of the gods, the other side of the veil, and it also means "Havoc." Maybe that's a little bit goth, "Rose of Night" but he's a crow. Crows are goth by nature.

sword form, pics, parties and ku'u alala inoa'ole

OMFG, teeny, tiny, little micro houses. They are so cute.

Soooo Wednesday on my way to Kung Fu I blew out a tire. Not like I was doing donuts or anything (mmm, yum, I am so hungry,) but I must have run over a nail or one of my damn neighbors' broken beer bottles. The tire was flat and I was riding on the rim by the time I got to the end of the block. So I didn't go to class the next day and I wrote to my two professors to tell them I wouldn't be in. One of them wrote and said "no worries!" and the other--my Myo professor--wrote and said, "Your quiz average is so high that one day isn't even going to affect your grade." I was happy, and I pretended like I was Hermione.

A few days before, at Kung Fu the Gold Dragon said to do forms (Sifu wasn't there,) so SnarkLit and I went outside to the parking lot to see if we could work through the sword form.

( The result. )

Not so bad all in all, but I messed up the running part and we both screwed up the ending. Towards the middle, the Gold Dragon comes out and watches. My favorite part is when he asks us (you can't hear anything but cars on the video) "Which way did you guys start out facing?" and we both point to the street. Kung Fu is such a lark sometimes. ^_^ But I'm putting it so that next week when I forget sword form again, I can just take a peek at this entry before I go to train and maybe it will refresh it in my poor empty head.

Last night we had a rain and wind storm so epic it was almost a tai-fun (still reading Shogun, and today the sun was shining and the weather was sweet, if still too cold. There hasn't been a single real summer day yet. Not only did it ( take down a ton of huge branches, )

but it also knocked out the power late last night. It was weird because a transformer totally blew up. I don't know how far away, but I saw the sky light up like blue dusk for a good couple of seconds just as everything else went black. Of course in my movie-addled brain, the aliens had finally arrived. Well anyway, no power means no white-noise machine, and so I couldn't get to sleep.

Even on so little sleep, I was a house-cleaning machine today. Even the gods of cleaning looked down from up on high and said, "Damn." For a while I had Lokepo* out while I hosed his cage. He was sitting on the back of my computer chair where he usually sits, and when I came to get him he got all hissy with me. (He doesn't like to be picked up.) I took some pics because he's so damn cute, but I love the way his wings look in these pics. Almost like spirit wings. ( See. )

Such a little bastitch.

During my mad cleaning spree, I also had time to hang out with Boychild outdoors for a while and play Twilight Princess with him. Outside, we were eating raspberries off the vine and I was telling him that he can only eat berries off of vines if he asked Mommy and Daddy first. Then, if they said yes, he had to pick nice red ripe ones, and check them for bugs. He told me this back for the rest of the day. "Berries, mommy daddy mommy daddy mommy daddy. Pick! Red, nice, YUM. Bugs, NOPE." He was totally humoring me with the bug-checking too; he didn't even glance at them. It was too cute. And I got some fantastic pictures. ( Click! )

Oh yeah, so tomorrow I'm having the Kung Fu party. Or at least I hope that I am. I'm expecting a few people and I only hope that they show up. Last year, you remember, only three people showed up but we had a fantastic time anyway. I hope that tomorrow will blow last year's party out of the water! It was supposed to be rainy and thundery all day tomorrow; the weather channel said so for weeks. Yesterday morning I went outside and said, "Weather Gods, can we make a deal? Can you do all the rainy thundery stuff in one shot and leave Saturday sunny and warm?" I went inside and checked the weather channel only to see that they had suddenly changed the forecast, and now tomorrow is supposed to be 80 and sunny all day. YES. Clearly I control the weather. ;)

Well, I'm starving (my aunt insists I have a tapeworm; I insist that if I did, I would be losing weight rather than gaining it,) so I'm going to sit down with a bowl of cereal and a vitamuffin or something and watch MASTER(bator) AND COMMANDER, YAY! On the recommendation of spatterdash and a few other good folks. I'm sexcited! Better start the movie now, because it's assnumbingly long. Whoop whoop!

Oops, one more thing. ( Yeah, apparently this is who I look like. Umm, sure. )

LMFAO yeah, okay. I think these things are meant to flatter you, and yes I was purposely vamping it up in the second one. ^_^ And I seriously keep getting Japanese people, like, very flattering Japanese people. It's probably because it's the celebrity database and they really don't have any unattractive people to match you up with. However I do have to wonder if Claudia Black is in there and if so, why I don't get her. Hmm.

Oh. And Open Office just informed me that the chapter by chapter summary that I was working on of Le Novel, to send to TOR, does not exist. Thank you, power outage.







*Right, some of you might remember me occasionally calling my crow Lohi'au, named after Pele and Hi'iaka's handsome chief who was saved by lightning. The night I got my crow I thought he was going to die. There was a huge lightning storm that night, and the next day he was so much better so I thought... Yeah. I never looked up the meaning of the name until recently. Turns out that "lohi'au," apart from being the name of the chief, means "retarded" or "handicapped." Well, umm, he is--like I've mentioned, all of my animals are handicapped in some way--but it's still bad name mojo. I've always called him Havoc anyway (since no one could pronounce Lohi'au,) but I still wanted to switch the original moniker to something more fitting. I wanted it to sound alike too because when my Mom visits him and takes care of him while I'm away, she likes to sing his name to him and then he sings back. "Loke" means "rose" and "po" means night, darkness, obscurity, the time of the gods, the other side of the veil, and it also means "Havoc." Maybe that's a little bit goth, "Rose of Night" but he's a crow. Crows are goth by nature.