Important (read: 'relevant') news: It's 2007!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Happy news: Saan got money ($-$'Ka-ching!') (Oooh, sort of drawing!) and Saturday People is BACK!!!! (Those who care will understand. All hail Mikata.) Also, all the important holidays are on break. Next important holidays are Saan's birthday (12th Jan.), Yif's birthday (23rd Jan.) and Elly's birthday (Valentine's day). Send cake, gifts, balloons and e-cards to those people, because they all deserve it. (The last two probably more than Saan, because they put up with Saan, which is a work and half all on its own.) Saan also posted a fic on MM.org. A virtual cookie for the one who finds it and is not Elly or Yif (because Saan is buying them birthday gifts already). Saan will be very upset if either one (or both) spoil the Mystery. (Oooh, caps!)
Unhappy news: Saan's school break is more than halfway over. Saan's shoulders, arms and back are VERY unhappy with her for some reason. Her dad won't take her to Brussels tomorrow to squander the day away in Sterling Books and Fnac(And she's got 25 euros to spend there, too). Saan forgot to ask Do for a book she needed for school and now Saan's lightly panicking. Saan's manga are almost over. Next volume won't be out until the 31th (Oi! Elly! Guess where your gift will be coming from, then!). Then there's a load of homework lurking around the corner. Saan couldn't take her LED poi to the new years party. This post is another short one, although Saan wants to write something longer. (Fic was 36 pages. These things seem to get only shorter. Yikes!) Oh, and her tummy hurts.
(Anyone noticed how many things are between brackets in this post?)
Saan is very unhappy that it'll be Monday tomorrow. Mainly because then already half of her school holiday will be gone but also because that means she'll have to start on her homework. Oh, and because she'll probably get dragged to some clothing stores as well. And because it's a family day tomorrow, putting her in a mass of screaming kids for an entire day.
But a happy 2007 and good health to all who want to have some fun in the new year!
The reason why Saan doesn't totally suck at neopets is...
Mainly, help-websites. So, at the moment, she has several windows open.They are as follows: www.pinkpt.com (and the link to the in-depth battlepedia) www.cnwcentral.com/neopets/ (very good walkthrough of faerie caves II) www.jellyneo.net (Saan <3 the money guide) http://www.nothingbutneopets.com/ (which helped her with the neohtml though the game help isn't all that sucky either)
And that's pretty much why there isn't a good post today. Sorry! The icy snowflake-hole is almost closed! (And Saan needs to start on her New Years Letter)
A little breather inbetween holidays today. No birthdays to be celebrated, guests to receive, parties to be dragged to, gifts to buy. Tomorrow, Saan's mom is going back to help Saan's uncle in his bakery. And probably buying a gift for Saan's cousin, too. So Saan's using the opportunity to enjoy her last few days without homework and not making a proper post today.
It's almost a surreal feeling, seeing as the French neighbours (Well, Belgian neighbours who are living in France and renting out the house here) are here with their kids (two girls with the kind of... presence that usually requires more people). Saan has a teenie-weenie (read: 'die-hard, burning') grudge against Mr. Neighbour ever since he threw her into their outdoor swimming pool over summer. With Saan still in her pajamas. In the morning. Saan doesn't like pools. At all. Childhood trauma of sorts. She ran around for half a day with her nose feeling like someone had put a torch to her noise and had to shower again, something she'd done the night before. Eight hours of being clean seemed like a waste. Needless to say, Saan did not appreciate the notion.
Also, their presence reminds Saan that a) her parents were unhappy with a test on French during the first term, on the irregular French verbs b) that same test caused the threat of a language-holiday someday. Saan gets homesick. And paranoid.
On to Saan's digital adventures of the day: yesterday she managed to rejoice over the fact that the prices on a rare item dropped tremendously and she could afford an icy snowflake. Today, her trade was accepted. Meaning she got the uber-cute avatar 'let it snow'. And she wrote some fanfic-y goodness (Well, she enjoyed writing it. Calling good might be exaggerating. She did look a few things up for it, though, so it can't be called entirely inaccurate.), too. And listened to 'Moi... Lolita' by Alizée. The entire day.
Moving on: Saan's bro celebrated his twentieth birthday today. There was cake, there were cookies, there were chocolates and there were fries. Oh, and lemonade. Saan's tummy isn't very happy with her now. She spilled ketchup on her nightie, but it didn't stain. She's been bouncing around in nightie and jeans the entire day.
Clearing a few misunderstandings (and affirming a few suspicions) this post might have caused: Saan- -Doesn't dislike the kids. Really. They're funny. -Did not nearly drown when she was little; she's just always been a sucky swimmer. -Isn't the best at French. -Does not like going on holidays. -Isn't addicted to her pc. She just has little else to do during vacations. -Is not a test tube baby. -Does not have a mom who had her first kid before finishing schools -Often gets an upset stomach lately.
Today, Saan did not: -Do any homework. -Finish re-watching the episodes of Saint Seiya Hades Inferno she needs to see for her Latin thingy
She did: -Eat potato chips, cereal and an apple. -Reply to Philou's blog -Watch Sailor Moon and some amvs -Read in her manga -Check to see if there were any comments in the past that she'd missed (Philou: movie was 'les choristes' and is up there with Saan's favorites like '10 things I hate about you' and 'real genius'. Stienie: scarf's gonna be tiny... And hole-y, too.) -Stay home with her brother -Put on clean underwear -Fill in her blog way, way too late, which is why there's so little in it. Sorry!
First of all, Saan would like to announce that she isn't bipolar. Having said that, she'd like to shout off of the nearest high building that she's outrageously, deliriously happy today!
First of all--despite the fact that this feat was achieved at the ungodly hour of twenty to ten in the morning during a holiday-day--Mr. Postman-man decided to drop by for a spell today with a package for Saan! Meaning Saan got her belated Christmas gift! Two of the seven manga volumes have already been read out. Maybe a self-help group is in order.
Secondly, she did not get vomitingly sick today. Probably because she went from starter to soup to dessert, skipping the greasiest meal. On the downside, now she's hungry. But hungry's better than hanging with your head over the toilet bowl, so she's not complaining.
Another bright spot is that Do was attending the joyful family gathering today. She and Saan decided she'll be fleeing to France next year to avoid another eight hours of family activity for one meal.
And, to add to Saan's enjoyment, Mr. Mean Snowager did not blast TheSeals for once, but gave a book instead of a worthless snowball.
As icing on the cake, there's the fact that Saan might have actually wrote more than usual today!
Her pc's still being fussy about the network and internet connection because the living room's still a disaster area and Saan's still locked up in her room with her pc. There's also a picture of Saan with her new hair cut after the considerable improval of removing all fancy details added by the hairdresser, but with the hair parted wrong (though that's now remedied), so she'll keep that one for when she's truly uninspired.
And now she's going to defy fate (and most medical advice) and take some medication with strawberry flavored kiddy champagne instead of water. See you guys tomorrow!
Saan's royally pissed because half her faimly--big family--has come over for Christmas. Making her mom freak out all day, send Saan to her room, where her pc has the most trouble receiving the internet and network.The heating in her room's also crappy because her sis' room steals all the heat first. But she's nevertheless fled to it after the main course to avoid witnessing how drunk adults ca nreally get. Now she's reading in her room, where her youngest attending cousin has joined her. The kid's reading all Saan's children's books and staring in fascination at Saan's new flipover clock (Thanks, Yif!!) while Saan burrows under the duvet and rereads Danse Macabre. Hope there's a little more Christmas cheer (and central heating) to be had wherever you guys are. Saan's real family Christmas party doesn't start until tomorrow and her last gift should arrive by then also. See you guys then!
Okay, so technically it's not evening yet. Saan won't get a gift from her parents because snail mail is too slow. Which means she's got two gifts from her friends, and maybe another by Tuesday. Her sister, who's managed to get naughty before lunch, got kicked off the pc for the rest of the day and nicked Saan's knitting when she couldn't stare at Saan surfing the net. Her own knitting had a fault, and Saan's ruined anyway, so Eve can't get it much worse. Her dad's enjoying his new Corrs cd, which he technically wasn't allowed to buy, but gave Saan money for yesterday, when she went shopping with Yif. Her brother's spending his day helping a friend with his computer homework and Saan's mom has just returned from a night of helping Saan's uncle in the bakery and has brought a truckload of goodies that didn't get sold. No cherry pie, though. Maybe this thing'll get an edit later to tell what was in Saan's gifts.
ps: Saan's passed the 100,000 neopoints mark. She's decided that if she does get a muahahaha-avatar, she'll spend the money on a priate paint brush for TheSeals.
Saan sort of ran out of time to post anything by the time she realised she had to go to bed. She's got a headache, her eyes feel all hot and she's starting to get used to the new face in the mirror. Check back tomorrow, peeps!
...from the hairdresser's. She's lost several inches of hair and now can barely tuck it behind her ears anymore. And her hair smells like candy, because some guy decided that Saan needed some gel. And they rearraged her hair completely. Take a good long look at the picture somewhere in the archives. Saan doesn't look much like that anymore. She's been looking at herself in the mirror for a while now. Maybe she'll get used to it by tomorrow.
Things to do by tomorrow: Remember all the gifts, be on time (twice) and make sure she's got a book in case she's too early. Get up early enough. Set the alarm clock. Maybe chase her sister out of bed and to school.
Saan's exam's are over!!! *Mini-happy dance* And there's a great movie on tv tonight!!! *Dance-dance* And Saan doesn't have to go to school tomorrow!! *Dance-dance-dance* So what does Saan do to while away time until the movie? ... She relearns how to knit. So far, she's restarted her work five times. Prepare for a very thin purple scarf picture in the future.
Reasons to Party: -Tomorrow, Saan has her last two exams -Saan has got 75000 neopoints and some change. And nearly 400 items in her safety deposit box -The fruit machine gave her 10000 neopoints and a water muffin today -She doesn't have a lot to study for today -She finished her Saan DIY!with string-pen -However crappy, there's a picture with the post today.
Saan was bored because 1) she managed to somehow jam her laptop's media player. Her brother will be fixing that this evening or so. 2) she knew she'd loose track of time if she started playing on the Sims 2. So she went favorites-surfing and came across a page with--believe it or not--scoubidou creations. You know, plastic lace knot-like contraptions. Seeing her dad banned the things on what Saan still presumes is an urban myth, she tried something from it out with rough cotton string. Nothing from the ones with googly eyes or wire, because she doesn't remember where the glue pistol is, she doesn't have googly eyes and she can't shove wire up the string. The result's pretty cute (for a pen), but she's nearly finished and now has a blister on her left middle finger. For those also bored to tears, look up something roughly string-like, a pair of siccors and go here: http://www.yoarra.nl/.
Tomorrow the BIG Latin exam. Saan's feeling insecure enough that she'll be repeating her overview of poetry at a quarter to eleven at night and almost learned some bits she shouldn't have. She rearranged her book shelves (because she is getting 7 manga albums for christmas) and found otu just how much binders you can jam into one shelf if you really want to. And now she's off to hyperventilate insecurely over her Latin.
...Friday! Meaning she could cut her studies short for a bit. She went shopping. so she didn't anything she wanted (Having 1 pair of pants besides jeans is not too many jeans god-damnit!) but she did get a new nightie (blue) and she spent most of her time on the Sims 2 pets. She now had a neon-colored (several colors, actually) dog, tiny, cross itself with a chow-chow-like black creature, huge, with red spots across its body. And now she's going to watch her weekly program.
Friday's in sight, and after that, it's only three more days to go (Saan's back feels like it won't survive that, but it'll have to) of tortu--exams. Dutch tomorrow. Saan hopes she didn't have to learn the new spelling for the exam, because she didn't study it and is not going to. If she had, she'll have to wing it. The last day is Geography and English. 5 pages (Really, guy had three months and got five pages far. Guerilla warfare doesn't begin to describe Saan's class vs. Mr. Stoops) and Saan's best course. Downside, it's Latin and Biology before that. ... *Whimpers*.
More ends approaching: -Saan has, at the moment 49K in neopoints and some change. Hopefully, she'll reach the 50K mark before the night's over. -Saan's hogged her sister's computer game (okay, so it's the Sims 2 Pets) ever since the exams started. Her cream-colored chow chow's at the top of its showbizz career and her humanoid mass of pixels is climbing to the top of her sport's career. Also, Saan adopted a new puppy. It's tiny and fuzzy and cute. -Then she got kicked off the game by her dad. -She'll get her report card by next Friday. -Next Thursday, there's her hair that's going bye-bye. Pray for that one, guys.
Saan's exam wasn't as bad as her half-past eleven pessismism predicted, or so Saan hopes. She filled out her first blue page, meant for brainstorming and desperate copying of conjugation rules, with random silliness to let off some steam. But because Saan made a scene last night, Saan's mom is reversing to jailer mode and going to arrange Saan's planning for the day. Somebody come save her. (If you don't have to study yourself, that is. Studying's important. Really)
... *Whimpers*.
