NEWS: 2.3.04

I'm really REALLY sorry for not updating. yet again. Before you all throw pokey objects at me, listen to my reasons. No, I'm not trying to whine and get sympathy, it's just been a little, shall we say, hard, for me lately. Before Xmas holiday, two days after I flew across the US from the east coast back to home in CA, someone told me one of my old friends was diagnosed w/ leukemia. Every time I think of this, it's like being hit with a sack of oranges. A month or so later I completely fell through the floor on my math test. 58% just won't cut it. I'm not some complete moron, it's just I never read all the directions. Thankfully, my teacher let me re-take it and averaged my score together. Jumpy at the thought of failing math, no, LIFE!!, I was pretty shaky that night. That caused me to pay less attention to details. Details, like, for example, making sure you're cutting a loaf of bread and not your hand. Later that night I accidentally smashed the same hand into a doorframe. Back to winter break. I went looking for a Paper Mario CD. A few months earlier I heard that it was no longer sold/produced, but I turned to ever- faithful Japan Town. After thoroughly browsing seemingly endless racks o' CDs I decided to give up. Anyway, despite my protests, my Mom dragged me to one last store. I walked impatiently around the store, hunger starting to dissolve my stomach. I finally spotted a CD tower looming over all the rest, daring me to challenge it in a match of sight and patience, neither of which hold strong in me. However, my short search was rewarded. Was it the coveted PM CD? Was it also FREE? Sadly, no. But it was a rather nifty Mother 1 & 2 CD! For those who probably do not want an entire history of Mother 2 (That's Earthbound to the US), I'ma tell ya anyway! Mother 1 (AKA Mother Zero) was released in Japan only. =(. Mother 2 was released in the US (1995, I think) under the name of Earthbound. I've also been working on typing up some other dreams I've had. One very entertaining one involves butter, turkey, and violins. This weekend I will probably not update, but I TOTALLY PROMISE ON MY iPOD'S BATTERY'S LIFE that I will update the week after that. Until then, molto grazie for listening to my long explanation.