And marks my return to my domain, here among you - my brothers and sisters. I feel that I have been absent too long, and it is my fault for not using my time correctly. But that is in the past, and I am here now to set things right.
As I believe I noted in my previous post, I spent the last week and half with my aunt. It was really, really wonderful - we did some really fun things, I spent time with my cousin, and I got a chance to relax in the most relaxing way (i.e. I wasn't stressing out, and I was doing fun things). We went to the Academy of Sciences, my first time since it's remodel, and that was fun. The new aquarium has lots of fish, and it's easier to take pictures of some of the fish, but I still kind of miss the original walkthrough linear aquarium. They still have the albino (white chocolate) alligator, which was nice, a new giant terrarium bubble and they also re-designed the planetarium area. The old planetarium was part of a giant space section and you could walk through and see a bunch of different space things and the planetarium show was the giant projector that showed all the stars above you. The new planetarium is just like the terrarium, a giant bubble, and the projector was replaced with a dome theatre. Not as fun. I did get a bunch of pictures of fish though and we went there for the aquarium, so it's all good. After that we went to the Japanese Tea Gardens. There I took some more pictures, we walked through the garden, and then we had tea(!!). After that we had dinner with my other aunt and uncle and then went to a retro/eighties ice cream place. Fun, full day.
Over the rest of the mini vacation, I watched Psych with my aunt, went bowling, saw the movies UP and Ponyo (Ponyo is super cute, even though it's not my favourite Miyazaki film - I'm still thinking about the super awesome "see the forest come back to life" feeling that Princess Mononoke had, but it's still a great movie), went shopping (food for when I return to school and some art supplies - plaster, gauze, a soldering gun), I got a manicure, my cousin and I got haircuts, and we ate at some really fantastic restaurants (seriously, amazing. One restaurant made their crème brûlée with Malibu rum instead of vanilla - it's amazing!!!!!!). And when we were at home I played with my cousin, watched tv and movies with my aunt and generally had a good time. I also made a plaster mask with my cousin (we didn't use plaster on his face because it warns against burning your skin, so we used flower and water instead), mine came out well but cracked on the way home, so I need to fix it. My cousin's mask didn't dry well because of the material we used, and I felt bad for that, but we still had fun. All-in-all it was a great time, and a nice break to mark the ending of my summer break.
And now I am home, and planning out this last week with things to do before I go back to school. I got back yesterday and had a sushi dinner with John, Bunny, Teenie, John and Teenie's parents, and Teenie's best friend. Tons of fun! But I ate wayyyy to much sushi...(worth it). Then this morning I spent a few hours with my friends Amy and Evan from high school. That was also fun, and we watched about four hours of Will and Grace.
I got home, I ran my old ASL books to a friend who's going to be taking the class this semester, I did a little work on my aunt's tattoo design, I played some Rock Band 2, and I talked with my friend Wrath. Currently working on plans tomorrow to hang out with Teenie and Rosales - still working on it.
And now the music portion of this post ^_^
Tonight's title is from the song Luminal by Covenant. I was torn between that and a Neuroticfish song, but I couldn't pick a single song so I chose this one instead. Although, I've been listening to Neuroticfish and Pride and Fall for most of today and most of the past week. Going through Neuroticfish's album, A Greater Good, has proved really nice - I like many of the songs. Pride and Fall is of course a favourite already and I've just been listening to a few different songs than usual. Using Neuroticfish would have been kind of cool considering Marius' birthday is coming up and we have a notorious signature of communication on Facebook - throwing lines from the chorus of The Bomb back and forth. It's actually pretty fun. The band hold s a lot for me - the connection with M, the cover of 'They're Coming to Take me Away', the song 'Close' which I listened to pretty often first semester of my senior year of high school. There's a lot of memories that go with it.
Speaking of memories, over the last week I remembered that I need to add Bach's 'Tocata and Fugue' to my playlist on my computer. It's a must have for my personality as well as my opera and classical playlist. I've also been listening to the VNV Nation remix of 'Paint it Black' over the last week which brings back very fond fuzzy memories of humming the song in high school where no one knew it, and because it's the end credit song to the movie 'Devil's Advocate'.
And that is about it. I've have tried to keep it down to less that three pages, and I think I did, but I never know. I shall try to stay a little more up to date with things on the blog, a week was an awfully long time. Well...ya, it was.
Cheers,
Shadow of Light
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