I'm not waiting until the last minute! Go me!

School's over for me until January. This makes me happy! It's always a good feeling to get a quarter over, especially when a better one is coming up. And this is the best time of year, so life is good! I've been Christmas shopping and working on coming up with John's stocking and it's so much fun! I still have a lot to do, but I've done pretty well so far. I'm trying to come up with something for my parents, and that can be tough. Mom's usually easier than daddy, though. But I'll come up with something! I always do.

I'll be so glad when Damien is done with school for the year. He's working so hard and gets so little sleep, and I worry about him, especially with that long drive he has to make. I should start going with him again since I don't have anymore school. I think that's a very good idea! I just have to talk him into that, and that's not usually too hard. I can even drive so he can sleep on the way. He needs more sleep. At least it isn't too much longer for him. And Christmas is so soon! I've found a couple things for him already and I have an idea for one or two more. I'm doing so well! I love Christmas shopping!

I'm very happy right now because I'm at Aunt Gayle's house and Madison is on my lap sleeping. She's so cute! I love cuddling her! Skyler's over here too since I'm watching him for Damien, and they get along very well. All the kids do, which is good. And they're getting so excited for Christmas and Santa Claus. Kids are so cute this time of year! I can't wait to see them on Christmas morning when they open their presents.

I need to try and slide out from under Madison now. I hate to do it, but well, some things can only be put off for so long! Everyone have a great day, and I might talk to you before Christmas again! You never know!

Hi hi!!

Isn't Damien the best for reminding me of this?! He's had so much on his mind, and I'm glad he was able to remember for himself. I don't think anything bad would happen to him if he forgot, but he'd feel bad. That would be awful!

It's almost the end of the quarter! I'm so excited! Christmas is getting closer and closer and it's so much fun! Daddy refused to let me keep up one of my skeletons from Halloween and put a Santa Claus hat on it, can you believe that! I was trying to mesh the two holidays, but he's a party pooper! I had to put it away and I can't bring it out again for months! Well, unless I keep it in my room, but I don't have that much room in there! It's no fair. Silly daddy thinking the two holidays can't work together like that.

We're getting our tree next week, though! I can't wait to get it up and decorated! Then we can start putting presents under it and I can shake mine and try to figure out what they are! That's always so much fun, and I can tell by how my daddy reacts if anything is breakable or not. That at least narrows it down! I usually can't figure it out completely, but sometimes I can. Even once in awhile is good!

Next quarter should be a lot of fun at school. I'm managing to take all classes that I want to and none that will be a drag, so that makes me very happy! It'll be my best quarter yet, I think! There should be a cool big film project, and that's always so much fun. It's with my favorite prof, too! If all quarters would go like that, I wouldn't want to leave school!

Okay, I'm going to run over to Damien's house and take him some hot chocolate! I'm sure he could use it, and I won't bother him for too long. I know how busy he's been. It's just nice to have a reason to go see him!

Ta!!

Eep! I totally almost forgot about this! Thank you Peter for reminding everyone! Isn't he nice?

School has been a lot of work lately. Most of it's been fun, at least, but there's some stuff that isn't. I guess that's how it usually goes, huh? But that's okay! It's the best time of year! From Halloween until the end of the year is the absolute coolest!

Halloween was SO much fun! The sad part is taking down the decorations, but daddy won't let me keep them up in the house except for my room and well, everyone else takes theirs down so they can start doing other decorations. That's okay, though! I like Christmas decorations, too! They're not as cool as Halloween, but I like having all the lights and stuff around.

I'm trying not to worry about the weather that we might be getting since Damien has to drive so far in it. I know he's a good driver, but it's still always scary to think about how many accidents happen. He might be careful, but other people aren't always, and that can lead to bad things. But I won't dwell on that! I will keep thinking positive, good thoughts! Attitude is everything, so daddy says. He definitely lives that!

OH OH OH!!! We did the stocking picks all randomly as usual, and I GOT JOHN!!!! Isn't that cool?!?!? Now I get to come up with a stocking for John, and he's going to just looooove it! I have to come up with some things for it! I have lots of thought to put into it! I'm thinking of getting him one of those little signs or a shirt or something with the saying that goes something like "Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy." Usually you give that to someone who's got the dad qualities, but I think it's a good thing to give someone who doesn't, too! Maybe a little reminder. And the fun thing is, he won't think for a second that I'm saying anything against him! I'm so good! I've been listening to suggestions from other people too! Lots of people have ideas, after all.

Okay! I'm going to drag Damien over to make his post so he doesn't forget. He's been so busy with homework and stuff that things slip his mind more easily. So I'm being a big helper for him.

Have fun, everyone!!!

I'm less than half an hour late with this since I wanted to do it right at midnight, but I have to say it anyway!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAMIEN!!!!!!!

I was busy celebrating his birthday with him and didn't get home until a little while ago! It was a very good day, with a party and presents and fun, and then the two of us went out and had dinner and went for a drive, and it was PERFECT!!!

I'm so lucky to have Damien. He's the sweetest thing and I wish everyone could be as lucky as I am. I know lots of people are lucky and that's good, but everyone should be! the world would be a better place then, wouldn't it?

And now that it's October, my Halloween plotting, planning, and implementation have kicked into full swing! I can't believe it's almost here, although it seems so far away! Weird, isn't it? I'm still trying to talk Damien into dressing up and he's still reluctant, but I won last year, so I think I'll win this year! I'm good at winning, you know. It comes from being my mom's daughter. Oh. Probably partly from being my daddy's daughter too, but guys just aren't as good at these things as girls!

Now I'm going to do more planning and Damien is going to help me! He had to go home for a few minutes, but he'll be back and promised to try and think Halloweeny. Isn't he sweet?!?

School has started! Pity me! Early mornings driving out to Eastern and going to class and taking tests and sitting through lectures and doing projects and all that! Work work work!

Well, at least some of it is fun. My film classes are always a kick. At least I'm pretty much done with all the GREs that are so boring that everyone puts them off and then regrets it because they didn't get them over with and has to take them later! SIGH!

And I can't go out to WSU with Damien now, and that makes me sad. I like driving with him! It was fun and now I can't do it. No fair. I hate that he has to make the drive alone. It has to be very boring without me. Being bored is never fun!

I do have a couple really cool film projects coming up, though. It should be pretty fun. And I have to pick someone to interview by the end of the quarter and film that like I'm a news type person. I don't want to do news! What a dull job! And well, I don't want to be one of those pushy people who does whatever they can to get a story and all that. I want to make mooooovies! But I'll have to decide who to interview and what I want to interview that person about and all that. I have lots of choices, at least!

It's getting sooooooooooooo close to Halloween, but not close enough! Time goes too slow! Someone should do something about that. Kelly, your user name is eternal whisper, so that means you have some say in time, right??!! Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix it!

It was worth a shot, anyway.

I think I'm going to play on Facebook for awhile and then see what happens. I'm bored. Sigh. Pity me.

It's no fair! I didn't get to go to school with Damien this week. I guess there have been about two thousand cases of swine flu or something like that and Damien didn't want me to go. I would've gone anyway, but daddy snuck in in the middle of the night and turned off my alarm clock yesterday morning! I think that was very mean of him! Then he threatened to tie me down or something if I went so I couldn't go today either. Hmph. I wouldn't catch it! I have a wonderful immune system, you know. And besides, if Damien gets exposed and passes it on then well, yeah! Parents make no sense. Damien's just sweet and that's why he doesn't want me to go, but my daddy's paranoid. Yeah! That's it!

So I spent today planning for Halloween! I want to make sure everyone possible decorates their houses up really cool, and I'm nice enough to help again! Last year was fun, and this year could be even better! Of course, convincing Mikel's parents to let me decorate that house is quite a chore. Isaac keeps pointing to the door everytime I go over there and start talking about it!

Or wait. Maybe that means he wants me to decorate the door. Hmmmm! That could be it! One way to find out, right?! I'm sure Ramon would help. Yes. Now I have plans!

I'm still trying to decide on a costume. It's tough! There are so many cool ideas, and I hate to repeat myself. My best costume ever was a zombie, and I did the makeup really cool and everything. I looked SO TOTALLY real! I should see if I can dig up some pictures. I don't look a bit like me in the costume! If I can find the pictures, I'll have to put them up! Of course, daddy said he was going to burn them because they were embarrassing, but he's never serious about these things.

Okay! I have to go and run out and see if I can find them and grill daddy until he tells! I'm good at getting what I want, after all.

Heeeeellllllllooooo out there to all you people in LJLand! It's me, your friendly neighborhood mad scientist!

Wow. It was a long week! I went with Damien out to school everyday and it was interesting. It's a nice campus! I didn't get to see him too much while he was there, though I did get to sit in on one of the classes he's helping with. WAY over my head! But he's so cute when he's in charge. Well, he's so cute when he's not in charge, too. He's just too cute! I saw more than one of the girls eying him, so I had to make it perfectly clear that he's mine and they can't have him! He was so oblivious to it! I think that's funny. And cute!

He doesn't want me to go there with him for awhile. Apparently, there has been a surge in swine flu there and he doesn't want me to get sick. Something like 15 or so people have been reported as having it. That's not many! And I have a great immune system! Sweet overprotective Damien. But I'm going with him anyway because I don't want him to be all bored on that long drive! That would be very mean of me, I think. And I can make sure some women don't try to come onto him or anything. I have to protect him too, you know.

There's still a month or so to go before I go to school. I suppose I should see exactly what day it starts. I always forget to do that. But that's okay! Joseph's going and can keep reminding me! That's so nice of him! I told him he can't go out to WSU with Damien because he's not as tough as me and would probably get all swine fluey and pass it on to the baby and that would be sad! Silly Joseph.

Anyway! I'm done now! I have to go watch Damien study and try to get him to stop working so hard! It's so weird to have a boyfriend who does extra homework and works ahead and stuff. He's too adorable!

Eep! It's getting close to the deadline so I have to do this before I lose and Nemesis inflicts some horrible punishment on me! What is she told me I couldn't watch zombie movies for a year or something! That would be HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!! I'd probably DIE!!!!!!!

I've been doing a lot of fun stuff to enjoy my summer and it's been cool! Taking part in water fights is fun, especially when weird gooey things are involved! I have a few fun concoctions I've come up with and used and they gross people out because they don't know what they are and they look and feel like something really oogly!

School doesn't start for another month or so, but Damien starts on the 24th. I'm not looking forward to that! He has to drive a long way both there and back and it means he's going to miss out on some of the summery things! I'm going to make sure I go with him some days so he doesn't have to be alone on the drive. I'm sure I can find things to do there while he goes to class, and I might even go to class with him sometimes. I shouldn't worry about him, but I do. I can't help it! He deserves a million years of good luck after everything he's been through!

I've decided that Madison is TOO cute! She's sitting next to me and kissing a little felt cupcake that Aunt Gayle got in the mail today and she's too adorable! She loves me, too! She said so! I hope I don't get sick coming over here because people are getting sick here, but I can't just stay away! They need me, you know. My cheerful disposition always makes people smile, after all. Unless I'm cutting them up for experimentation and zombie making, that is! Then it tends to make them cross and grouchy. Go figure! They're furthering the cause of science and they get all grumpy on me! Some people!

Time to go now! Madison wants to play and who am I to say no?!

Love you all!

Wow, I came close this time! I usually get my entry done earlier, but I have good reasons! I've been busy trying to keep Damien's spirits up since he's been a little depressed lately, and I've done the same for Penny too. Duante's been really good at doing it for Penny, though. He's so sweet to her! I think she's doing better, at least. Now she's spending more time feeling bad for the kid who made all those comments to her instead of feeling humiliated.

It hasn't been the best summer this time around, but we've been doing what we can to make sure it's as good as it can be. There has been a lot of fun going on, at least. That helps! My mom's been spending a lot of extra time at the hospital, though. That's where the people who got hurt are, and she's been keeping an eye on things so that there aren't any incidents with the hospital staff there like there have been for others at other hospitals. She doesn't put up with stuff, and has given more than one lecture to the staff about their attitudes and how they're there to help people no matter what those people's status in life is and all that. Nobody likes to piss my mom off! She's the best! It's made it so people don't have to put up with stuff like what happened when Ghetto was hurt and all that. I don't understand how people who got a job to help people can treat some of those people like crap. Grr to them!

Top Hat is so cute! He was bouncing around in here just now, all happy that his hat is okay. I just want to give him loads of hugs because he's so sweet! Yesterday he and Tamika celebrated and had such a good time! Vashon ordered pizza for the two of them and they ate that and then went out and played a lot. They are just the cutest couple!

Okay, I'm going to go now. I have to go see Damien and take him some ice cream. Maybe I'll get him a banana split from Dairy Queen! That sounds good!

Byyyyyye!!

Hi everyone! Happy Sunday!

Well, if it's Sunday where you are. I know there are strange places in the world that don't share our superior time zone!

It was dangerous getting around the neighborhood again! It's like a war zone out there, only the ammunition is liquids like water and things you probably don't want to know when they hit you! I should be safe from strange things flying at me, but I'm not. I'm going to hole up here at Aunt Gayle's until summer is over! Damien's here, so why not?! And she's going to make cookies, and without Mike here, I might actually get some! Of course, if I really do have to leave at some point, I can take Madison as my shield. They'd never attack me then! Not that they should attack me now, since anyone who manages to successfully target me is on my list for experimentation! Well, most anyway. Some are off the hook. I can't do it to some people. I hope my mad scientist reputation doesn't suffer too much because of that.

It's sad that it already feels like summer is slipping away, and it's only June! I keep expecting to wake up to my alarm so I have to go to school. That's terrible! Life should be free of such stresses. It'll be worse this time since I know Damien will be traveling about 80 or so miles both on the way to school and on the way back, and so I will worry. I do that sometimes, you know. At least a lot of the work in grad school is research, so it won't be as bad as it could be!

Today is Father's Day, and we've already spoiled my daddy rotten! Kayla made him breakfast (she cooks better than I do, so what?!?!), and I supervised! I'm good at that. Then we gave him presents, and he loved them all! I gave him his favorites, of course. Okay, so his favorite was a little film I made for him with all of us that he can keep and treasure forever. I guess that's not just from me, even though I did all the work! Kayla was no help at all! Trevin was sweet, so he was helpful. But little sisters are never helpful, and Kayla proves this all the time. She's also a suck-up! See the things I have to go through? I hope you all feel sorry for me!

So if I make Kayla get a Livejournal, will you all harass her for me? I don't know if she'll ever do it, but I've tried to talk her into it! She's very stubborn about it, just like my parents! They should get one, too! Well, one each. Sharing one would probably lead to great disaster. That's how it goes with my parents, you know. But I'm sure you'd all love to meet more of my family! I'm the shy one, you know.

Okay! I'm going to go plead with Aunt Gayle to see if we can get that cookie thing going. I need sweets!


P.S. Oh! For those of you who might not have caught Aunt Gayle's post, add Tempest! moon_seer! She's cool, and you won't regret it! Everyone should listen to me, you know. Though you should listen to Aunt Gayle more. She's ultra-cool!