succumbing to peer pressure and saying What I'm Thankful For:

I am thankful for books to let me escape reality

I am thankful for music to connect people together

I am thankful for Skillet for writing Comatose which is currently entertaining me

I am thankful for Bon Jovi for writing You Give Love a Bad Name which I am currently obsessed with.

I am thankful for Caramell for writing Caramelldansen which I am also obsessed with

I am thankful for Blogger for letting me get my thoughts out

I am thankful for ALL CHOCOLATE (which i stole from echo but i don't think she'll mind. chocolate is awesome.)

I am thankful for Radar for leading the flock

I am thankful for Silence for keeping her under control

I am thankful for Jewel for reminding me that innocence exists

I am thankful for Echo for giving me insight

I am thankful for Sonar for giving me an excuse to bake

I am thankful for Cruz for being my friend even though we practically live in different worlds

I am thankful for GUNPOWDER!!!! and the beautiful explosions it creates....

I am thankful for Balmung for being my first internet friend

I am thankful for Balmung's ball of string for making me smile no matter what

I am thankful for Riyu and her wonderful story for re-connecting me to normal life

I am thankful for Jess for finally understanding (and for offering to be my homecoming date)

I am thankful for Soichiro for making Riyu and Jess remember they're still young

I am thankful for Catch and the Misfits for always making me laugh when I read your comments

I am thankful for everyone else that reads my blog for taking the time to think of me

I am thankful for Lyrics.com for letting me read all the lyrics to songs I like

I am thankful for Hayatebune for doing an awesome rock cover of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme and becoming my fave band

I am thankful for modern technology in general for connecting people together

I am thankful for cardinals for cheering people up when they see them

I am thankful for the people on Save the World for caring

I am thankful for Groove Coverage for doing an awesome remix of Poison

I am thankful for Fright Rangers for making an awesome song

I am thankful for the world in general for making living fun

I am thankful for my powers and wings to protect myself and others

and strangely enough, I am thankful for the scientists and the school, for letting me meet all of you!

*sentimentality at max setting*

I love everyone, all you people *hugglz*

and yes Sonar I did get the 'hint hint' and I did make some caramel shorties. Here *passes out among EVERYONE, slapping Sonar's hand when he tries to take six* ONE AT A TIME!!!!!

>.<  ^.^ ok I have to go, I have a wonderful chocolately souffle in the oven and it just went off! (I'm making JUST DESSERTS for my thanksgiving dinner, and I'm thinking about selling them off a card table in the lobby of a five-star hotel. think that would go over well? well anyway I'm hitchhiking to New York anyway. just because it sounds fun.)

SPECIFIC MISFITS MEMBERS:

Catch: you lead an AWESOME flock/group thing. and you make me smile ^^

Cain: you really calm the group down, and that's NOT an easy thing to do. ROCK ON!!

Ozzie/Heart: you don't appear much, but when you do, you're EASILY the sweetest things on the internet!

Jinx: your baking is AWESOME! and your generosity makes it even better

Erin: you totally rock the bad-boy thing. jinx is lucky to have you!

and last but not least SHADOW!!: shadow-shadey-shadshad-shadcat-meow!!! lub the snugglz and the yarn-play!!! 

*hugglsnugglz u all*

HI PEOPLES!!! sorry about the lack-of-posts thing!

HIIII!!!!!!! i'm SOO SOOORRRYYY about not posting!!! *hugs everyone and gives them cybercupcake with a sorry-face on it* all better? so yeah. RADAR SAVED ME ON SATURDAY!!!!!! she visited me when i was working and i dropped like A WHOLE tray of stuff and she helped me pick all the stuff up and put it away!! then after work i went to her house and we had fun! we listened to 'caramelldansen' like five times and did the dance!!! oh echo, i really like the music-thing! wooow, you like a lot of music. i really like the hyper one, what's it called... nope, just forgot. but it's by 'fight rangers' or something like that. the one before 'poison'!! yeah. 

BALMUNG!!!! HIIIIII!!!! wow. nerd-cult!!! ooh cult. wicked-cult! twilight-cult? yes. more like robert-pattinson-cult though... i like jasper better anyway. well, atleast in the book. yeah. HII CRUZ!!! *runs over and hugs* RIYU!!! *runs over and hugs again, trying to steal next chapter of story out of pocket* dang. its not there. oh well! YAY JESS AND SOICHIRO!!!!! *runs over AGAIN and hugs them* jess! you're not acting like a jerk anymore!!!!

O.O GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! *everyone: what storm?* I'M GONNA- try and remember what i was going to say. one sec!

*sits down on floor and meditates* oooooommmmmmmm 

i got it!!! ok GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! *everyone again: what storm?* I'M GOING TO JAPAN AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! and legitimately this time!!! i'm going for a school trip! we're going for three-and-a-half weeks! and three of those weeks i'm gonna be with a host family!!!!!! i hope they're nice... i can just see me getting this uber-orthodox japanese family that would make me sit the proper way and speak japanese and wear kimonos and do tea ceremonies and stuff. although i really have no problem with that stuff... but yeah. i can see me getting a family like that and my friend-whos-also-going getting a family that's really westernized and lets her wear jeans and stuff. but yeah we're going to attend a japanese highschool and everything! i'm REALLLY excited!!! hmm... should i act all newbie-tourist or should i actually show my knowledge of the culture... or should i be all ninja-Storm or be all uber-japanese myself?! so many choices... what do you people think?

so yeah. i want cereal...

byebye!

MORE responses!

Radar: oh NOES!! Leggy is wet!! hee, dry him off a NEW way!!! i'll let you think...

Cruz: don't worry, i won't. unless he kicks me. but i would probably wait until the fall is only ten-twenty feet. heck, he's a vampire, he can handle it!

Catch and everyone: they are BOTH hot. but personally, i prefer people i can actually get within TEN FEET OF without having bodyguards all over me.

Balmung: ur welcome! ^^   but NEVER DISAPPEAR AGAIN!!! ok all better! *hugs again*

Jess: YOU FINALLY CARE!!! thank you! and yes, you WERE stupid and acting childish and immature, but you're forgiven. ^^ (at least, by ME you are... by riyu, not so sure...) *attempts to hug space where thinks jess is*

Riyu: NOOOO!!!!!!!! RIYU COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone, its RIYU that's missing this time!!! if she doesn't show up by this time tomorrow, we're organizing a search party! everyone that wants to help, sign up!! *stands straight and salutes, placing sign-up sheet on nearby table*

ok so yeah, that's my comment-response. oh wait! there's one more!

Jinx: you and erin are so KAWAII together!!! (hee, she called him 'batty'!! does that mean you think he's crazy, jinx?)

ok there it is. oh wait HERE'S ANOTHER ONE!!!

Shadow: shadowshadshad!!! *snugglz, then gives cybertunacookie* new recipe!! how do you like it?

oh and balmung, um... *looks down ashamedly, then brings ball of yarn out from behind back and holds out* g-goodbye... old friend. ...i knew ye well... *sniff*

Echo: echo no splode? yaaay!!! 8D (thanx for letting me borrow the emocon, shad! *hands cybertunamuffin*)

ok nevermind riyu's fine. we dun need a search party. although that was a good idea... and we have so many people signed up too! *looks at paper* *reads: storm... storm... and storm* wow i didn't know there were that many storms! but yeah! we needs someone ELSE to rescue! (how 'bout peach? sorry youtube vid quote.) ideas and sign-ups STILL BEING ACCEPTED!!!

*hugs everyone. including jess because he finally realized how he was acting*

*goes back and hugs everyone again* 

i luv you guys... ^.^

Response to Comments: (in order the comments appeared)

hi people! BALMUNG YOU'RE BACK!!!!!!! *starts crying in joy, then runs over and hugs tightly*

Riyu: *hugs* are you feeling any better? you seem happier... *skips over to jinx's comment, then skips back and gives Riyu a cybermuffin*

Soichiro: 'NOTHER HUG!!!! *glomps*

Jess: get over it... you deserve everything you got.

Radar: indeed. i like them (howl's moving castle and spirited away) better too. i love all miyazaki movies, though. i have: Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, and of course Spirited Away!!! *sigh* i love them all so much... and another anime movie i have, called 'Escaflowne'. its REALLY good.

Balmung: *pulls out of hug* *sniff* YOU BETTER NOT DO THAT AGAIN!!!!! you made me worry so much!!!!! *smacks in back of head, then hugs even tighter*

Echo: glad you're feeling (physically) better. remember!: smacking your head against a wall does NOTHING. and hurts a perfectly good wall that you may need someday. (emergency exit, anyone?)

Catch and Misfits: I WANNA HIGH-FIVE TOO!!!!!!! i lubs howl!!

Erin: i agree. *glares in suspected direction of ALMOST homecoming date*

Cain: you seem sleepy... heehee. PERK UP!! LIKE SHADOW!! *looks at shadow rolling on ball of yarn* ok, maybe not THAT much... but don't fall asleep on my blog! i dunno how much it can hold!

Catch/Shadow: *steals balmung's ball of yarn* *transforms and starts playing with it with you guys* XD

Catch: yup! well, at least I do. i have a leetle christmas tree in a pot, and i decorate it with popcorn and peanuts and crasins all strung up! (what? eco-friendly!) and of course i hang lights from every surface known to man outside my apartment. 

i dunno. i like the 'cold' smell. you know, like how it smells when there's snow on the ground and even more is falling, especially at night? i'd have to say that's one of my favorite things... that and you can see everyone's tracks in the snow! yeah snow's probably my fave thing about winter...

Jinx: CHRISTMASCHRISTMASCHRISTMASCHRISTMAS

CHRISTMASCHRISTMASCHRISTMASCHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Catch and Misfits: aww.... i wanted to be in the talent show!!!! i can juggle!! *grabs eggs and attempts to juggle* *drops eggs* oh well... *tries again* several tries later... ah heck with it *dumps egg carton out window* *car alarm goes off*... what?

Jinx: ZOH. EM. GEE. I LUBS YOU JINX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *supermegaspecialawesomeglomps* *looks at cybermuffins and cybercakes* 8l ... 8) ... XDDDDDDDDDDDD

MINE!!!!!!!!!!! *stuffs three cybermuffins in mouth, then looks guiltily at remaining pile* *sheepishly gives everyone one, then happily resumes eating, all guilt gone*

I LUBS YOU EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! *hugs* (well, everyone except someone who i would really like to push down an elevator shaft right now...)

X3 Storm

Merry Emo Christmas, everybody!!

merry emo christmas, happy that you're here

merry emo christmas, happy emo new year

christmas feels like christmas, now that you are here

merry emo christmas, happy emo new year!

sorry. inside joke. for explanation, read the next paragraph. if you don't care, skip to the following one.

I and Sonar were wearing green today, and at the lockers (my locker's... three away from Sonar's) Echo saw and said 'I should've worn green" or something to that effect. So Sonar takes off his green jacket/sweatshirt and has a black-and-red shirt underneath. I saw the red and said "Its christmas!" and after looking at me funny he pointed to the not-red and said 'Its black." So of course I cross my arms and say "Emo Christmas." and everyone laughs. We were talking about it on the bus, too...

Ok explanation OVER.

Balmung: NOOOOO!! you disappeared again! saddniz... i haz it nao. TT.TT :*( 

*attempts to hug empty space where balmung was* ....... *sniff*

ok sadness over. being sad won't change anything... and i ran out of sad emocons...

Cruz: ooh, black tank! funfunfun! remember though, NO PUSH BIG RED BUTTON!!! push big green one!! *happy hug, then skips off to answer comments*

Riyu: are you feeling any better? *hugs* now you get to bed now... don't get any sicker.

Jess: LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jeez! i thought that you trusted her!! GET OVER YOURSELF AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SHE DID ALL SHE COULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Soichiro: thanks for sympathizing. *hugs* its better than some people's reactions *glares over Soichiro's shoulder at certain TRANSPARENT someone*

Echo: are you feeling any better? you still seemed kinda... out of it at school today. just a little.

Radar: you Ok? you didn't seem... like you usually are at lunch. is something (other than sonar) bothering you?

Sonar: Sonar's an EMO!!!!!!! but not ty because ty's too cool to be emo... (inside joke. on the bus.) actually, you're not cool enough to be emo... i took a random test and it said i was semi-emo, so that means that emo's way too cool to be you. XP

oh YEAH my continued adventures! ok so after i saw the play and talked to radar after, i called echo and we talked on the phone for ALMOST TWO HOURS! it was nice... so yeah the next day, i was bored so i decided to use my new power and visit the glen! (if you don't remember, the glen's my name for a world-between-worlds; it has doorways to different worlds in it.) after frolicking for a while, i got bored and used my tremendous intellect to decide which door to go through. NO! it wasn't eenie-meenie-miney-mo! HA!! i span around with my eyes closed and went through the one i pointed at! that world was weeird. it was all underwater! and the people looked like merpeeps! it was cooool. and you know what the best part is? as soon as i go into a world, my form changes to match that of the dominant species of that world! so i had gills and a tail! funfunfun. i frolicked there for a few hours, then i got bored (again) and left. well, the boredom AND the fact that i was attacked a lot. apparently black hair isn't normal for a mermaid... it makes you a target...

so yeah after i came back her i fell asleep and got up just in time for the sun to set! i did my homework and watched another movie (Princess Mononoke, by Miyazaki), then went to school as normal.

woow its kinda late! and i have work tomorrow...

nighty-night!

hugs for all! *hugs everyone except certain big-headed, selfish TRANSPARENT person*

Storm is HERE!!!!!

sorry people!!! i is here!!!!! wow i didn't post for a LONG time. like almost FOUR DAYS!!!! heehee there's an interesting story i gotta tell you about that... but first i will respond to comments!

Catch- ZOMG HI!!! you haven't been here in like FOREVER!!! *superspecialawesomemegahug!!*

Shadow- O.O she DOES have a really strong voice. like a super-strong violin!!! hee, i LIKE violins.... they sound pretty... and have a very good octavial range. and they are fun to hit people with. ^^ you KNEW i had to include that in there SOMEWHERE. *hugs! and cybertunacookies!!*

Balmung- ZOHMIGOD you're the one freaking out this time!!!! don't worry i'm here!!! *hugs* and gimme back my stuff *snatches back coffee cup, sees that Balmung drank it, and throws it at a random passerby* YOU OWE ME A STARBUCKS!!!!!! but i'm not mad. thank you for worrying ^.^ *hugs again*

Cruz- DON WORRY!!!!!! i is HERE!!!!!!!!!!! i is back!! no worry!!!!! i has prezzies, too! *pulls santa bag from empty space behind back and starts rooting through* hmm for Radar no Echo no Sonar no where's Cruz's?! HERE IT IS!!!!! *pulls out teeny-tiny box, wrapped in sparkly red-and-gold paper with a twirly green ribbon around it* HERE!!!! OPEN!!!!! *Cruz opens box and pulls out what looks like a house key* (my impression) *says 'storm what is this? will it explode?* NO SILLY!!! its a key to a TANK!!!!!!!! forget your mom's car!!!!! no pole will hurt THIS thing!!!!

*roots through bag again and gets bored* i will give people their presents interspersed throughout the post...

OK MY STORY!!!!

i was reeeally bored friday night, so i... stuffed myself on icecream and watched sad movies. titanic was my favorite... leonardo dicaprio... and the big shiny heart thingamajig.... but yeah. a superfast metabolism ROCKS. so the next day i had work, and it was actually almost boring. sure everyone (except me ^^) got tipped lousy and i had some guy harass me, but i pushed him down an elevator shaft and took off early. he was ok, by the way. the elevator was only about a floor down, so he only fell about ten feet. they took him to the hospital and he was muttering something about becoming gay... so yeah. saturday night i went to the play (which ROCKED by the way) and absolutely loved it. i mean, who doesn't love kind-intentioned old ladies who run a boarding house and poison old men who don't have families (in one gallon of elderberry wine, then put a teaspoon of arsenic, half a teaspoon of stricknife, and just a pinch of cyanide! and yes i remembered the recipe exactly) and have their nephew who think's he's FDR bury them in the cellar. i still have homework, so i'll probably post the rest of my adventures tomorrow!

elytS mrotS tnemoM ehT ni gniviL

hi people!! i just read Echo's post and she is COMPLETELY RIGHT!!! LIVE IN THE MOMENT PEOPLE!!! the moment just might be your last!!! woop, sorry. got a little macabre/sad there. but LIVE LIKE THERE'S GONNA BE NO TOMORROW!!!! seriously, have fun! go a little crazy! go a LOT crazy! (hee hee YES!!!) run outside and scream your head off!! dance in the rain!! sing like no one's listening! who cares if people look, they're most likely wishing they could do it too!! seriously, everyone go out in the street (if no cars are coming) or your back yard and yell your thoughts at the sky!! scream to the neverchanging neversame stars that glimmer coldly against the blackvelvet sky!!! sing to the moon in her silvery brightness, sing like she's the only one listening!! dress like you've always wanted to and go to school!! dye your hair some crazy color!! go into the mall changing room and yell 'ZOMIGOD THERE'S NO TOILET PAPER IN HERE!!!' call mall security and inform them of the lack of toilet paper!! audition for a play!! audition for a musical!! smack someone who deserves it silly!! eat toothpaste!!! eat everything with chopsticks!!! 

ok, some of this may be a little extreme (if you're not me... i've done everything her and more...), but seriously people, LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE!!! 

you can't change the past, but the future's set in concrete!! WET concrete!!! as i said in a comment for Echo, take a stick and mix it up!!! leave your handprint or your initials on the future!!! heck, leave your footprint on the future, or even the initials of you and someone you love in a heart!! 

remember the past, live in the moment, prepare for the future!!!!

hi people!!!

sorry about the lack-of-posts that went on for the last few days, i was super busy. i have, not only a science project, a social studies project AND we're reading a new novel in english!! and i had to sub for someone at work, a waitress friend. she gets sick a lot... but yeah, so i've been basically in either school or vegas for the last two days. i did get time to comment on you people's blogs, though! so i didn't completely disappear... 

Cruz why are you going to try and put me in a microwave? too late anyway, i already tried... the microwave was unplugged though! i swear! i'm not suicidal. hey, is it considered suicide if you kill someone that looks a lot like you? and is it narcissism if you fall in love with someone who looks like you? sorry, i was thinking about the twins today. they would love vegas... selfish little brats they are they would probably be incredibly lucky at the tables. but not if i was their dealer, oh no. or if i was playing against them. hee, that reminds me of work again. i was waiting on a table when one guy (very intoxicated. i'm surprised he could still sit upright) pulled me down in a seat and gave me some of his chips, telling me to play! as i mentioned in an earlier post, i am... rather talented at blackjack. i won. a lot. and then he got mad and tried to take my chips, but i stomped on his foot and called security. i must say, i used to really hate the waitresses' uniform, but i realized that the stilettos they make you wear come in handy! heh heh.

oh, breathe Cruz! i checked my jacket! it was a bunch of letters and numbers which i will not say here and then some internet server. is it his email address?

HI BALMUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you disappeared again!! sadness... but you're back!!!! yay!! did the concert go good? love the new format by the way. Radar i just thought of someone that we can add to our army!!! all our blog friends!!!!! seriously, with Jess's ghostliness, Soichiro's, well, soichiro-ness, Riyu's sword techniques, Cruz's driving skills, and Balmung's ball of string, WE WILL BE INVINCIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mwahaha...

we are taking volunteers. comment to tell if you wanna sign up! (Echo and Sonar, you guys were drafted, so you don't need to.)

COMPLETE TROOP LIST LATER!!!!!

see ya! i still have english homework...

its gonna be a long one...

hi peeps!! wow did i really just say that? i must REALLY be on sugar high. or just getting off it. so yeah HALLOWEEN:

was semi-cool. we turned my apartment building into a HUGE haunted house, and i got to 'rappel' off the roof and scare people! i dressed up rather elaborately, i had a black dress on with a long black cape over it (and tons of cool jewelry) and my wings and fangs out. according to the loud lady who ran the thing, i was supposed to be a falling angel, but i was more like the grim reaper... or an avenging angel. i had a scythe!!! it was fuuunnnn. but i was nice to the little kids. i had a bowl of candy and i would come off the roof and they could get it that way!! one of them (she was dressed as a princess) gave me a piece of candy in return!!! i hugged her. and gave her two pieces of candy instead of one. so yes. but then a bunch of stupid teenage boys came and were going to go in, and i swooped down from the roof and started swinging the (veery sharp and veery shiny) scythe and laughing. then i said in a scary voice "you have just crossed the line. you broke the rules, and your lives are forfeit. THEY ARE MINE!!!!!!!!!" heehee, they ran like girls. no offense, but they ran really awkwardly and dropped all their candy. MAN, did they have a haul. it took me three trips to get it back to my apartment!! then i ate a lot and collapsed to 'the little vampire' playing on the disney channel. dunno why my tv was on that... i didn't even know the channel number... odd.

WORK THE NEXT DAY!! it was 'halloween' night, so all the waitresses/dealers had to wear costumes. i wanted to be what i was for the REAL halloween, but my boss made me be a cat! so i wore a headband with cat ears on it for EIGHT HOURS STRAIGHT!!! it was NOT FUN. but i did get a whole lot of tips and lots of extra money, so it was semi-okay.

THAT NIGHT: my friend's youth group took me to this christian rock concert, so that was fun. i liked three bands, called; run kid run, pillar, and kutlass. that is how they were spelled. except the lead singer guy in kutlass drained like three bottles of water and then threw them off the stage! people were fighting for two of them, but he threw the third one right at me and i caught it. yeah i threw it back. it hit him. that- wasn't good. i almost got 'escorted' out, but he came up to me and asked why, and i... got up on stage and yelled 'DON'T LITTER!!!!!!!!!' they all laughed. i hope you're happy Sonar, YOUR BLOG (save the world) GOT ME LAUGHED AT!!!!!!!!!! but i didn't get kicked out, so that was good. except the same thing happened with pillar. but the guy wouldn't let me get off the stage! he was weird... but the run kid run bass guitarist guy saved me. it was their turn, and he said something about that being his spot to play in and could we please get off the stage. but then he put something in my jacket when i was walking away and i still haven't checked. should i?

TODAY: is not going to be fun. i have... let's see... 31 lincs cards to do before tomorrow. and i have my final test on mockingbird in english on monday. not gonna be fun. 

oh Radar, thanks for the Jett info. wonder where he went.... one of these days we must organize a search party. is your head any better?

see ya, and HAPPY STUFFING ON HALLOWEEN CANDY!!!!!!!

Storm

PS- HI Echo and Riyu and Jess and Soichiro and Cruz and Balmung!!!!!