I love the idea of playing the ocarina, that seems like such a beautiful thing to do.

I wished I could've done that if I had found any appropriate songs in time. Some of them were in tablatur forms (something I have trouble understanding), and the only songs I know are from the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Oh well, there was a group of boys that played a nice church tune called How He Loves Us.

I'm thinking about getting an oboe since I'm stuck with the oboe part in band. I can't play the real high notes on my flute so the director gave me the honor of being the only person playing the oboe part on the flute. Conflicting that is the desire to get the Purgstall action figure made by Max Factory. On one hand: I'm the only person playing the oboe part in the lowest register of the flute and the school doesn't have any oboes to rent; the other: an action figure I've been wanting for a long time and dad's got the money to get it unless I go for an oboe.

[emote=onion]tears[/emote] Damn it! I don't know what I want! Should I go for the super expensive oboe instrument or should I get the Purgstall figure?

Get a xylophone!

You mean the toy xylophone or the band xylophone?

go for the oboe.

while the purgstal figure is all shiny and nice to look at, after a short while it will just stand on the shelf and you won't get much out of it.

the oboe on the other hand, will last you for a long long time.

I see what you mean with the Purgstall figure.

However, the oboes I can afford are cheaply made student oboes; the intermediate oboes are in the thousands. Student instruments are natorious for falling apart after a few years, especially since my school band plays college level music.

You mean the toy xylophone or the band xylophone?

Toy, definately the toy!

You mean the toy xylophone or the band xylophone?

Toy, definately the toy!

I already have one!

...

Just kidding, I gave it away years ago.

I'm gonna wait on getting an oboe. I talked with my band director today, and I found out that there is one at the school, but it can't play a single note and it would cost a lot to get it fixed. Also, I really don't go through another student instrument fiasco like I did last school year and earlier this school year. That was bull crap and I'm not going through that again, especially with an instrument that has higher priced parts to buy.

I started another shawl project late yesterday for a good friend of mine down in Louisianna. She's old, and she and her husband look after some family land down there since we live in another state. I thought it would be nice to make her a western looking shawl (think light blue and medium blue colors). They're good folks, and I thought I'd do something nice for them.

Just got done reading volume 6 of the Guyver manga, and now I'm seeing a lot of things that were left out of the 2005 anime. With Takaya-sensie there at the studio overseeing the progression of that series, I'm starting to think that the TV series looks more like a revisied version of the manga. It's cool in a way; I saw the 2005 series first then I looked up the manga after finishing the series and bought vol.s 6 & 10.

Dad's happy. He and my brother just got a new heat pump window unit and the trailer feels more comfortable now.

Also, a friend of mine made a little suggestion last night. I told him I was getting the Purgstall figure, and this is what he said (Warning:incoming insanity!!), "If you ever get the Guyot figure, stock up on Barbie doll outfits and just have fun." Guyot maybe the last character I'd get, but its ideas like those that I wished I didn't give away all my little Barbie doll stuff.

I'm gonna have to draw a comic about that now, I can't stop grinning about it.

I'm not sure wich is worse: having a cat pee on you in the morning or the toaster biting the dust while making breakfast? For some odd reason both happened to me this morning.

Is it common for certain people to have trouble laughing? I've noticed recently I've been having trouble laughing at something funny unless there's someone else laughing at it. Everyone around me has been saying I've been laughing a lot more since my dad got away from my stepmom (forever known as the evil), but I'm having trouble identifying what to laugh at. Is that good or bad?

maybe you are still recovering, finding your own sense of humour again?

times of stress can take a while to get over and over time things will become more funny.

Ah, okay. My dad and brother seem to have kept their sense of humor, that's why I was concerened.

Late yesterday afternoon me, my dad, and my brother had to thaw the window heat pump unit and drill drain holes in the bottom part where a lot of water was accumilating and freezing. There was a drain hole, but it wasn't doing a very good job and it froze. It was an easy fix, but it was hilarious to see dad cursing the machine after putting insulation in around the unit and trying to put the front cover back on.

We also got an e-mail last night from the guy we ordered the Purgstall figure from about a week or more ago, asking if we wanted to buy anything else, and guess what? THE BLOODY IDIOT HASN'T SHIPPED THE DAMN THING YET!!! Come on! I've ordered stuff from Chinese sellers before and I've never had this problem until now! They frekin' shipped the item the next day or on after the weekend, not wait a damn week and ask them if they want anything else! *sigh* I should've checked his ratings and see if it was worth ordering from him...damn it this is irritating.

there is a lot of people in china, you're gonna get some good sellers and some bad sellers.

that sucks. so you gotta wait even longer.

I bought my camera from hong kong. i thought they had shipped late but it arrived the day after they told me they shipped it.

I just think they were late with the email.

also they put 'gift' on it and the value at £20 so the customs wouldn't open it and charge me tax.

that was a nice touch.

We've had a few incidents like that before, and a few shipments came in a week earlier than expected.

Dad says he's going to give the seller time to ship the figure before going to PayPal and demanding his money back. He's bad irritated with the seller.

Now that I think of it, I don't remember Dad having to pay customs charges for any overseas purchases, including one of my ocarinas that costs about $150 or so that came from Korea.

Edit: Just got an email from the seller. He shipped it out yesterday and it should be here in two weeks or so and he has it under 'gift' so it won't be charged by customs.

Edited February 3, 201115 yr by river_chaos

We went up state to see some relatives over the weekend while it snowed. I got out of school early after lunch because the school board thought it was going to get bad; I bet they feel like idiots now with the roads all nice and clear. Well, we were able to head up to my uncle's early afternoon and we passed a lot of beautiful snow country, and we forgot our cameras... Damn...it was beautiful, like the snow scenes on Christmas cards.

Note to self: take camera everywhere. Cell phone no good for pics.

Hahaha! My brother felt the same way when he came to visit us, down in Texas and he didnt bring his camera. Where up north did you go too?

On the border of North Western Arkansas and Oklahoma. It's really beautiful country up there when you go at the right time of the season.

Me and my English 12 class started our research on WW1 for a research project. A lot of my classmates are using Trench warfare as their topic, and I'm going for the Artillery topic. Oh ho...I'm gonna have fun with this topic!

Ahh, WWI, major turning point for modern warfare. I remember going over that topic many, many times in history, ROTC, and government. Wars were always one of my favorite topics in history, even though they were horrible and unjust, still I found it fascinating to see the different styles of warfare, and how each government and society worked.

Me, I probably would have gone with either Aviation, or Biological Warfare I.E. Killer Mustard Gas and such.

Edited February 8, 201115 yr by Mirabilis

Yeah, every history teacher will go back to the two WWs.

I'm kinda dissapointed though: there are no books related to weapons used in WW1. I checked the school and county libraries, and there are only ittybitty books that don't cover much on weapons. I've been mostly going to the internet for the info on the weapons named in the books.