Posted 1 week ago Comments

Annie’s back!

Yes, I took a little vacation from blogging, but I’m still on planet earth, which is good, because I’m not in a good mood with NASA.

Now, if you remember, quite a while ago I did a relatively short blog about wacky websites I found.  Well, about forty minutes ago, I found a cut above the rest.  A person meets engaged couples, eats lunch with them, than takes provocative photos of them making out and rolling around on the grass.  Yes, that’ll teach them abstinence at seven. No, this person has to invade their privacy and post pictures of them snogging on the internet.  I’m probably not the greatest person to say what is all right and dandy in the world, going to show I’ve never even been to a wedding, but I just don’t agree with this person’s life standards.  If this is what you do for a living, you either are really desperate, or a huge pervert.

Okay, now that that headache is over, I’m talking Thanksgiving, baby.  Wow, I’m going to a restaurant.  We haven’t done that in a while.  I’m really not that excited for Thanksgiving, nor my birthday, which is in like a week, so here come the recap blogs.  Be afraid, be very afraid.  Heck, the last time I did a recap, it turned out to be more like a rant instead of an anecdote, which it should’ve been.  I’ve been meaning to say this, but just because I didn’t have that great of a time there, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go to Sedona.  It’s really pretty, but I live in Arizona already, so therefore… Yeah.  So, I guess that’s all there is.  Really, I’m still here, not on Mars.  I really don’t want to go to Mars.  I did a project on it last year.  That was a mistake.

Until next time, this is Annie, signing out.

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Posted 2 weeks ago Comments

I am in my school’s band with Eka and Em.  We had a band concert on Wednesday the 18th and it was filmed using a video camera that would usually be used for home movies.  Here we go.

First, the was a guy named William who plays in precussion and it looked like he was falling asleep on the bell kit while playing.  His head went up and down and up and down.  He disappeared a few times.  Than there was Matin, the mini man with the big symbols.  He looked like the tin monkey things.

During our last piece, a boy named Brendan kept bobbing his head up and down and up and down to a rock song.

Also, the filming was pretty cheesy.  They kept zooming in on posters, and for a few seconds our band teacher’s butt was zoomed in on.  How lovely.

Than, Em’s sister kept saying, “Emma!  Emmy!  Emmil!  Emmm!”  What’s even worse is her name is Kaylen.  Wow, and she picked her nose in front of me.  Her sisters name is Ainsley.  Doesn’t it sound like a laxative?  Yes, it does.

So, that was my band recap.  Home movies, with Annie, and Eka, who helped me write this.

Eka: HI!

Okay, Eka.  You’ve done enough.

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Posted 2 weeks ago Comments

The majority of my friends are adults, but they live in other parts of the US.  It gets weird, especially thinking of what to put in the subject line.

But, I recently got Skype, which has proven to be of no use whatsoever.  While seeing people is good, I’ve had some minor, uh, setbacks with it.

First off, one of my other friends convinced me to get Skype because her family is going to Japan for six months and they wanted to stay in touch.  Okay, well, I figured I could use this to my advantage.  NOT!

Than I ask one of my friends if she’s got Skype.  Well, turns out she does, but her husbands away and she can’t call me because her laptop doesn’t have working sound.  This stunk because I’ve had some separation anxiety over this particular person.  (Okay, maybe not a full mental breakdown, but I’m counting crying into my pillow.)  Therefore, no use for it right now.

Than, when my uncle was here, we were on the computer and the brother of my friend kept trying to call me.  I think it happened eight or nine times until I had to answer.  Ugh!  That was irritating and irksome.

I’ve spent my time on the computer reading Wikipiedia pages, watching rants on YouTube, and reading up and watching Torchwood.  Sure, not the most productive way to spend time, but it’s better than watching obese people fight.  (Oops, looks like I do that on Tuesday nights.)

Skype is useful, and if you have family or friends across the country, it gives you a chance to communicate with them.  So, that’s a heck of a good thing, but my primary use isn’t really happening until maybe a month from now.  Than I can talk to people in Japan and Texas.  (Which one is farther I’ve yet to decide.  While Texas is next door, I think it seems further because all the people I’ve ever cared about live there.  Or two, depending on how many people I’ve cared about.)

Well, ‘till next time, this is Annie, signing out.

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Posted 2 weeks ago Comments

I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile, but it just hasn’t happened, so why put off tomorrow what I can do tonight?

I know there are a ton of these on the internet and YouTube, but I guess I’ll put my two cents in.  I’ll also probably be doing a Cartoon Network thing, just because of the decline.

First thing, if you go on TV Tropes and look up, “Network Decay.”  There’s a section on Nickelodeon in one location.  Now, if you like the new Nick, go away.  Just don’t read this because you’ll never read this blog ever again.

I grew up with classic Nick, up until 2004.  2004 was like the revamp year for kid networks in general.  Take a look at Toonami on Cartoon Network.  Anyway, I grew up watching Doug like crazy.  Than it was Pepper Ann and Pelswick, but onto that later.  I think I can remember when Doug died off, but it was really quiet and gradual and they did it over about a year.  I can’t see Doug except on the internet which is practically the only place I watch TV anymore.

Well, I’m not going to linger on that because it’ll never end, but I do want to talk about Nicktoons and the “older fans” situation that has been getting a lot of attention lately.  With Nicktoons, I remember coming home from school and sitting down and watching Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Rocko’s Modern Life, Yakkity Yak, and Corneil and Bernie, (or Watch My Chops, depending on where you live.)  These shows were funny and great.  They relieved all the pressure of school and made me laugh after a long day.  But one day, I turned on the TV and Animaniacs was gone.  Okay, so maybe I didn’t care that much for it as much as I did the other stuff.  Soon after I noticed that Tiny Toons was gone too.  Something was weird.  About six months later, the block was deleted altogether.  They showed Yakkity and Corneil and Bernie for awhile, but after that, no more.  I was angry and wondered why this was deleted, so that summer, I did some research, and found out that all the shows that didn’t appeal to 6-10 year olds were forced to be shown on Nicktoons.  Really, Nick?  I was extremely upset when they moved Kappa Mikey onto Nicktoons, which I thought was a great show, but it didn’t appeal to little kids, so that ended.    There were a bunch of shows like Martin Mystery, Shuriken School, and Wayside, (which was kind of bad, but what can I say?) That were shown on Nick for about a week than removed.  It makes me so angry that I can’t find these except on the internet.

Now, I’d like to take the time to talk about a certain bald monk and an evil alien dictator.  That’s right, Avatar and Invader Zim.  These were the shows that teens and adults liked, but kids didn’t get or like.  Invader Zim was really mature and so was a similar show, Kaput and Zosky, which was also short lived.  Avatar, however, is completely different in the way that it had a giant fanbase and huge support, but it was mostly teens.  I cried during the episode, Tales of Ba Sing Se when Iroh had the picnic on the mountain for his dead son.  It was an amazing show, but Nick wouldn’t air it ever!  I know that this was a huge show for people my age and up, but it needed more airtime.  I could drone on and on about this, but I’m just going to stop before I start throwing a tantrum.

Well, I guess that’s it.  I mean, what else is there to say?  I watch BBC America now because I can’t watch Nick.

‘Till next time, this is Annie, signing out.

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Posted 3 weeks ago Comments

Before I even say anything, look at the icon.  Just look at it.  It’s Gwen and Rhys from Torchwood.  Aren’t they a cute couple?

That’s what this blog is going to be about.  No, not cute couples, Torchwood.  Haven’t you learned anything in the past three months that I’ve been blogging on here?  Well, anyway, I think that I’m overdue for a Torchwood-a-thon, or at the very least review.  So, lets begin.

I have been watching this show for about a month and a half, first hearing of it on… YouTube.  I thought it would be like Doctor Who, which I had seen before, in the same humorous “The world is going to end, so lets add some bright colors and fake looking aliens into it.” Though, I was wrong in the way that Torchwood is better, in some ways.  It’s darker, more mysterious, and a heck of a lot more mature.  I mean, half the stuff they do involves shooting aliens.  How much more serious can you get?

Though there are aspects of the show I don’t like.  For one, I live in America, therefore I get BBC America, which only shows the show on Saturdays in late afternoon, and there are only about five episodes they show.  But that’s not Torchwood’s fault.  What is Torchwood’s fault is the lack of self censorship.  They kill off every needed character, (including my wooby Ianto.)  Than make one leave, only to come back six months later to say goodbye to his pregnant co-worker, zap into the air like *that*, and leave her crying in her doubt-y husband’s arms.  Can you leave the poor people alone for once, writers?  Step back and say, “Okay.  I’m going to leave them alone.”

But the, um, maturity of the show started from season one.  The total existence of Rhys was to have someone naked on the show, (though BBC America blocked the lovely sight of his backside with the creativeness of blurring.)  I feel Gwen was overly sexed in season 1 and season 2.  Especially the Owen affair.  That was tough to watch without wondering, what does Rhys do in his spare time?  Oh, yeah.  He’s conveniently stowed away at home, watching football. No, it doesn’t make sense!  Up until Meat, we were lucky if we even saw Rhys.  The confession of “I work for Torchwood.” Worked very well, and with the addition of the dramatic, “I catch aliens!” line that is used in the Gwen Cooper BBC promos, the episode has made my top ten list.  (Other than the, “What is this?  Scooby Doo?”  Line that is my new catch phrase.)

Children of Earth in itself is just terrible, but yet so good.  The government is evil, drugs, war, unplanned pregnancy, suicide, Ianto death by fatal disease, killing of young child that is your grandson, finding out the man we rooted for handed children over to the 456 in 1965, and the cement, growing back skin, and naked John Barrowman just made my day.  (NOT!)  But what the show lacked in sense it made up for in excitement and, really, a sense of gratitude, even if I was left wondering if my favorite show was going to air ever again.  I also loved the potato truck scene, which is the most adorable thing in the entire series.  Not to mention the fact that Clem, Lois, and Frobisher are three of the best guest characters in the shows running.  I hope that Lois appears next season as one of the main cast.  I was also really bummed when Clem died, and especially when Frobisher killed his entire family, than himself.  What a finale!

Well, that ends this more spoiler than factual and more opinion than informative blog post.  Just be thankful I didn’t mention the whole “Pregnant with an alien on your wedding day.” Gwen moment.  Oops, looks like I let that one slip.

‘Till next time, this is Annie, signing out.

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Posted 3 weeks ago Comments

It’s that time of day, folks.  Almost, but not quite, 7 PM.  The time when you think about how crappy your day was.  Yes, I’m serious.  I had a bad day.

It started when I realized my best friend Eka wasn’t at school.  It got worse.  We had to run laps in gym.  (Four to be exact.)  Than I had to walk home.  When I got home my iPod froze, so I had to reset it, and it’s currently being monitored by me.  We also ran out of novelty ice cream products.  Oh, the agony.

Let’s face it.  No one, I repeat NO ONE likes Mondays.  I don’t like Mondays, you don’t like Mondays, even Big Bird and Elmo don’t like Mondays.  (Well, I’m just guessing.)  Wednesday I have off, which is great, other than the fact that there are people coming to paint my bathroom.  So, as I write this short, utterly boring blog, remember one fact.  Never go out on Mondays.

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Okay, now to the juicy stuff.

Still no word on Torchwood season 4, but it’ll happen, trust me.

My Torchwood fanfiction is going quite well, thanks to the recent interest of my friend and her amazingly creative brain.

Some person on Twitter that I’ve never met asked me why I was on Twitter.  Go away freaky people!

I met someone at school who uses Twitter obsessively.  Over 700 tweets to close to 300.  Dang.

The Doctor Phil family was on.  They’re messed up.  Just Goggle them if you want the 4-1-1.

I’m wearing my alien t-shirt, which is still attracting a lot of glares.  If only the people from What Not to Wear could see me know.  I can just imagine their reaction.

Well, ‘till next time, this is Annie, signing out.

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Posted 3 weeks ago Comments

Since I never blog on Sunday, I thought I’d break that tradition stat!  But, unfortunately, I couldn’t think of anything worthy to blog about.  So here we are, with a list of facts that could’ve been a blog.  Who knows?  Maybe they’ll be a blog someday soon… in the future… here we go…

• Dolphins are smarter than humans.
• In the Torchwood episode, “Meat” The Pterodactyl makes a cameo appearance.
• My band teacher’s daughter got swine flu.
• Shaggy from Scooby Doo is on LSD, therefore he imagines Scooby talking.
• Underdog pops pills.
• The last two facts were provided to me by a person in line at free comic book day.
• One of my best friends also got swine flu.
• I used to watch Jay Jay the Jet Plane every Sunday morning.
• At the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever” John Lennon whispers, cranberry sauce, cranberry sauce, cranberry sauce, which was mistaken to be Paul is dead.
• There’s supposed to be an Iron Man 2.
• You can play poker with gift cards.
• Anton LeVay is supposedly on the Hotel California album cover, though it’s just a lady wearing wings on top of a building.
• A LOT of people died at Disneyland.
• A man got fired his first day of working for Disney by jokingly suggesting a “Disney Porn Flick.”
• Walt Disney kept Playboy magazines for sentimental reasons.  (AKA they reminded him of his deceased father.)
• I had a minor obsession with Disney rumors over the summer.
• Baby Ruth isn’t named after Babe Ruth.
• Anton LeVay named his son Satan.  (Gee, how that kid must feel.)
• Stephanie Meyer believes that people automatically don’t like new things.  That’s a cover up for saying that the intelligent people didn’t like Breaking Dawn.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed these random facts.  You’ll probably impress your friends or freak them out.  Either way, it was nice blogging on a Sunday for a change.  Now if only I could get a life…

Oh well.  Until next time, this is Annie, signing out.

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Posted 4 weeks ago Comments

Let me start of by saying that today is November 6th, and while most of you people don’t watch Torchwood, I do, and it happens to be Eve Myles’s (AKA Gwen Cooper,) Due date.  Yes, she’s having a baby.  Yay for Eve!  Wishing her luck!

Now that I’ve made that announcement, (Clears throat.) Time to get to the juicy stuff.  You know, normal nerdy gossip.  Yes, it exists.  Don’t judge me!

On Wednesday, I got a package from my uncle, who sent me a bunch of music and some comics.  Now, uh, I’d, er, like to talk about the comics.

If you like Archie comics, (like me.)  You know about the “Archie Marries Veronica.” Real deal that’s going on.  While it was, mildly amusing the first time around, I found the wedding quite boring.  But than came volume three, in which Veronica, I mean snobby rich Veronica has twins with Archie.

I know what your thinking.  How is this a bad thing?  Twins!  That’s so sweet!  And yes, I did mention Eve Myles up top there having a baby, but she’s not one of my favorite comic book characters ever.  The fact of the matter is, we still think of these characters as high schoolers, and America doesn’t like teen pregnancy.  The mini series left me with a bad taste in my mouth, as most mini series do.  (Example: Torchwood: Children of Earth.)  I had an issue I hadn’t read, but I couldn’t even read it without even having mildly suggest in my mind that he and Veronica had, er, done something together.

I had assumed this would be a fantasy type thing, and I was right.  (Archie walks up “Memory Lane.” )  Than, after a long, somewhat grueling read through a, oh, sixteen page comic, I flipped to the back, and saw an ad for another Archie comic.  Archie marries Betty.  Now I think I can handle that.

Well, this was a word from that random girl.  I blog, read, write, google stuff more than necessary, and watch too much BBC America.  (No, really.  I’m starting to develop an English Welsh-ish accent.)  Now that that’s over with, I think I’ll go enjoy some ice cream, thank you very much.

Till next time, this is Annie, signing out.

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Posted 1 month ago Comments

In case you hadn’t figured out already, I waste my money on stuff I don’t need more than I should.

Usually it’s on books, comic books, posters, and little action figures.  But, look at the title.  BLUE GATORADE.  This specific blog will be about my random buying at the snack bar.  At school.  Man, this is already getting weird.

So, my best friend, let’s call her Em, and I had been in a rut of emptiness.  (This was before my discovery of Torchwood.)  Anyway, we decided to go to the snack bar and waste our money on stuff that would make us fat.  We chose two chocolate cookies and blue gatorade.  Here comes the long and outrageous story…

We were sitting in spanish class, when we both realized we were drunk.  On blue gatorade.  I also have been obsessively eating Halloween candy, so I was already getting more than my prescribed dose of sugar.  Now, sugar does not make me hyper, but it goes straight to my thighs.  Anyway, I got drunk.  On blue gatorade.  And so did Em.  While she started laughing uncontrollably, I sort of fell asleep in a wacky way.  So we had to detoxify ourselves by drinking water, which resulted in my bladder going wacko by the time I was changing for PE.  So today, I decided to buy a muffin.  Less calories, plus Em had blue gatorade with her.

Bottom line, don’t drink blue gatorade.  It’s… addictive.

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Posted 1 month ago Comments

Before I even begin this post, I must say that I wasn’t very excited for Halloween this year. I kind of wanted to stay home and watch TV, but it turned out pretty good.
If you read my previous post, you know that I was Bellatrix Lestrange, which turned out really good. Because I don’t want to, I’m not going to post the picture. Just imagine Bellatrix Lestrange, now imagine her twin, only a little younger.
Things started out right, with everyone trick o’ treating, but than the weirdness set in. Some guy offered us hot dogs and Jupiter instead of candy! It was kind of odd, so we slowly backed away from the scene. Than, a little kid followed me around and Eka had to attack him. It actually felt kind of good.
Than, I had an acid trip by going into a freaky house. That made me grumpy, so I came up with an idea to steal candy from unsuspecting bystanders. Sometimes, people leave out bowls of candy when they’re away, and we emptied them, and put them into the nearest flower pot. Once again, the rebelliousness felt good.
We also ignored the “We’re sleeping so don’t ring the doorbell” notes, which is to say I read them all, but Eka would ring the doorbell anyway. Ahhh, the nature of youth.
After I was done trick o’ treating, I was looking through my candy bag, only to discover these devils.

Yeah, it was scary. TWILIGHT CANDY! ARE YOU FREAKING OUT OF YOUR MIND?
I should have guessed already.
Ah, well. I have next year’s costume figured out. Two words. Gwen Cooper. I’ve been bored, so I’ve been watching Torchwood online, and I’m obsessed with it now. Adding to my list of things I’m obsessed with. Lets see…
1. Harry Potter
2. Sweeney Todd
3. Torchwood
4…
Yay! Three things!
Well, unless I figure out something to blog about sooner, this is Annie signing, wait you know what? I think I’ll use a catchy line instead! Remember kids, be kind, be respectful, and never trust a crazy weevil.

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