So today is my birthday and the day I turn sixteen years old. Thank goodness, because I sure hated fifteen, and today has been a much better day than the others lately. This morning I didn't feel much older since that usually takes effect a while after, but I did feel like a new refreshed person. Right now I'm just waiting for my best friend to come over, and then we're off to see a poetry/spoken word show that my family friend (and hero) is going to be in. After that, we'll just chill and eat stuff. I didn't spend much time at school. I didn't get to bed until it was really late, so I slept in and made it by 5th period. Wasn't a very good birthday day at school though since my friends forgot it was my birthday and weren't too enthusiastic about it when I came out and told them. :| But that's okay, because the rest of the night will be better.

In other news, come to the new .hack//Union (DHU). It went dead a little while ago, and hasn't made much progress since I started it, but I'm sure if more people come and actually post then it will get back on its feet and even better. So please consider, because I think you might find it's worth it.

~ Happy Birthday to me! :D

I finally have .hack//G.U. Reminisce! Today I was out buying the third volume of .hack//Another Birth, but I went into E.B. Games too and spotted G.U. Redemption on the self. All nice... clean... bran-new... So I asked if they, by a mysteriously random chance, had G.U. volume 2. They did, but it was used. I don't usually prefer buying used games, but it was only $26 and the last copy! So I had to buy it! I'm so amped about what I got today. I have a book to read and a game that'll practically force myself to play it :D I'm very excited.

Before I do, though, I have to play through G.U. Rebirth again. I want a recap on everything that happens to that point, go back and do more things that I ignored in my previous file, and have data to transfer onto vol. 2. Yeah.... so a few months ago I kinda started a new file intentionally over my old one. The thing is I lost interest shortly after the first few hours of playing, making it all for nothing lol. So I have to do it all over again whether I like it or not. But it'll be fun.

Yeah! One game closer to the PS2 emblem! Hooyah!

The summer is finally over and school is starting. I'm going to a new school this year, which I'm happy about. It's very big, so this'll be something new to my world. The first day is tomorrow (in a few hours), and I need to wake up at 6:00 AM if I want a ride with my friend. School starts at 7:45 every morning, which will take some getting used to. I'm feeling a little excited, and at the same time very nervous. But hopefully this will be a much better experience than last year. I'll already have some friends there this time. I can't wait though. Just three more years and I'm out of high school. I just want it to end! :D So I better take advantage of this fresh start and hopefully I can get along with everyone else. I can't wait to wear my new clothes too. But I'm kind of nervous about the bus ride home :| It's going to be a long ride between Seattle and West Seattle where my school is -.- As long as I have my iPod, I should be fine; it's just the people part that's going to give me a really hard time (as always).

So now all that's left is to go to bed so it can hurry up and be tomorrow. When I get back from school, I'll probably write a blog about the first day in continuation to this; so look out for that if you're interested.

P.S. - This was the best summer ever!!!

I decided to take the time at 1:00 in morning to tap into my mad Photoshop skillz and make myself a new profile banner. I was getting tired of the old one. At that time I just wanted a banner with a mixture of anime and game characters into one image. Ya know, one of those. This time I looked for a desktop background that I could use as the image of my banner, from my deadly arsenal of desktop backgrounds. I also played around with the image rotation and made the letters turned to the side, making them look lool... and turny... So there's X-Form Haseo and *cough* Shino *cough cough* from G.U. Volume 3. I might make this into a new banner for the DHU forums. That's still undecided. Anyways, enjoy.

I haven't actually spent time here in a long time. The site is just way too slow and there's not much else to do ever since I closed the .hack// Union over here. I tell ya, that place is a handfull... I'm having a hard time deciding whether I like the enlarged avatar size or not. I don't know... I've just sort of... lost interest. Again... Eh, it's not that great anyway. The friends you may make here seem more like people who are there to just make your list bigger. I don't actually talk to anyone. At least this is the way it is for me. I still haven't been playing video games a lot. School is really messed up and I'm getting pulled out and might finish up the year home schooled or at this one school with a friend of mine (at last... I'd have a friend in high school). If not move to another city and go to this art school over there that my mom keeps talking about. Things are tough. I don't know why I'm even bothering saying this stuff here. It's GameSpot. No one really cares. But I guess you could call this the GS version of my "What's up with my life" kind of blog. Even though this is an ant compared to everything else I could be saying.

I'm diggin' the new post editor... It's nice and small.

Like every day (except this was for the first time today), I was waiting out in the cold for over 10-15 minutes at the least, waiting for the bus that's always 3-5 minutes late. About four or five people show up at the stop after me and when the bus finally comes they all crowd together in front of the door to get on the bus, leaving me out and the last person to get on. Then I'm the one person stuck out of the yellow line at the top step, next to the driver. Then the driver sounded like a total ___ (like the rest of them), all tired and irritated, as she said "You either need to scoot back behind the yellow line or catch the next bus." NO ONE SCOOTED BACK FOR ME. I could have at least been half into it, but like I said in the blog before this, that bus is always hella packed for some reason, morning when I have to go to school, afternoon when I need to leave. Stupid ___ holes. Sorry about the language, but if GS didn't care, I would be going off a lot more. So here I am, waiting for the next one which I dunno what time it comes, and having to wait longer because of a 8:02 bus that apparently doesn't even come. So anyways, this is a great start for my day. This bus crap is so rediculous and I'll have to put up with it for another 5 months until I get a friggin' break.

It's 7:13 AM, right before school. You know, I've been missing a lot of days of school, and less than half of them are excused because I get sick easily and I've been sick all last week. I didn't get any sleep again, so I'll probably fall asleep in class (which I really hope doesn't happen :? ). Anyways, I'm just waiting here for the right time to go out and catch the bus. Man.... that thing is packed during the morning. Sometimes in the afternoon on the way back from school too, but that's mostly when it's cold and/or rainy... strange.... Five more months.... AND I'M OUT! Second semester of school is starting so hopefully I can really get on the ball this time.

On the game side, I went back to playing Final Fantasy IX every once in a while. Sunday I leveled up a lot. I'm just a few levels away from where I was on disc three in my first file (incomplete), where I should have been about level 30 at least (maybe even a little more). And my level right now is...................................... 18. But those are the party members that are broken off from the main character's party. I think I'm approaching a boss fight soon.

As for GameSpot, I'm thinking about disestablishing my union since there really isn't a need for it anymore if the other's haven't gotten the PMs. So that about wraps it up. Actually, I might not just yet. I need to work on my profile making skills :P and I need to re-rate my games again (the ones in my collection).

OKAY! Really long blog! I better go find some hand lotion and then head out for the bus. That cold air can really bite you on the ass, even when you got it. ;)

I will be on another break from GameSpot. I know already I haven't been here a lot for a while, but this time I'm going to write a short blog about it. Also to get rid of that last blog from way back.

So my interests (for websites) has shifted again and I have now gone back to another one of my favorite sites, and eventually, I will come back here. I've also been taking care of the new .hack// Union of mine. I need to edit it since I have a good idea now of how things are running. So I will be busy with that.

Well, as the title hints, I had to get rid of Photoshop. It was slowing down my computer like crazy and it had it lagging for almost everything I did. At least I was able to make a signature, tag, icon, and profile banner to last me a little while. However, I can always get it again whenever I want, but that is a secret as to how. Although I probably won't be having it again for a while.

I got Internet Exporer 7, and that's actually slowing me down when I've got the browser open. How annoying. I can't even go back to the old version I had. Grr... I hate computers...

And for my last thoughts on this blog, I apologize again for not attending my leader duties at the DHU. But I need to learn that it isn't the most important thing in the world and I have a lot going on right now that's keeping me from being able to use GameSpot and the union in peace. So again, sorry for the absences. However, I will be back to pick things up when the time arrives. We still have that banner contest coming up soon this year.

The time has come, and I am now back at that horrible place. Winter break is over. I must prepare now to shift back into my sad, angry, frustrated, and overwhelmed self.

Who knows, maybe this time I'll finally make a good friend at this school, who will want to hang out with me. I'll be flooded with homework and have to eat those crap lunches every day, unless I get the time to make myself bagles in the morning.

Anyways, I will try to put as much attention as I can towards working on the DHU and possibly my joined unions.

Look out Center, here I come.