Who Ate My Snack Pack?

Today seemed pretty long no thanks to waking up at 6:30 to Li, our Shih Tzu , barking like crazy. At first I thought "what on Earth could he be barking about when we now have the living room window blocked?". Unable to sleep with him barking, I got up to investigate without taking note of the time. I soon realized my mom was still home, and that's when I noticed the time. Secure in knowing why he was all excited and barking, I thought about going back to bed but, according to my mom, apparently I did talk to her a bit before she left and she had asked me to lock the door. For some reason this doesn't feel like it happened today and I didn't even remember I talked to her this morning till she said something about it just a little bit ago.

I awoke maybe an hour or two later. At that time, I got up to begin my usual routine of playing on my computer. This was soon put on hold when I realized the internet wasn't working. I texted my mom asking her if she knew the internet was not working. I didn't receive a response right away so I took the liberty to check the center of internet operations in my mom's room. I immediately noticed the router said the internet was not working. Really, it was non-existent as instead of a red light for internet failure the light was not lit at all. I tried power-cycling the router but nothing changed. I then noticed right above the internet light the modem light was also off so I had to move the mattress on my mom's bed so I could get to the modem that was located against the farthest wall and under her bed. It took me a bit of effort but I managed to reach down between the bars of the headboard of the bed and brought the modem up where I could see it's display. It was completely dead. I immediately assumed something was wrong and it might have to be replaced.

Before panicking too much, I tried power-cyling that but nothing changed. I decided I might need to unplug it and plug it back in at the outlet so I searched for where it was plugged in at. I traced the cable from the modem to the plug and discovered it was unplugged. Rather relieved I plugged it in, checked the display and it was on at the very least. It seemed to need to be reset a bit so I kept pressing the button on the front and waiting till the, now red, internet light turned green. Proud of my little victory I returned the modem to it's placement on the floor and moved my mom's mattress back into place then returned to my room to resume my natural routine.

I finished up on everything I wanted to do on my computer so I grew bored of it and decided to watch TV. I almost napped while I watched but I stayed awake. On my own, I think I watch Animal Planet far more than any other channel. I really like that channel and I learn a fair bit from it. My favorite shows on that channel are Animal Cops and The Most Extreme although I thoroughly enjoy all the other random shows that come on like Untamed and Uncut and Weird, Freaky and True.

I had thought about playing Pokemon Ruby while I watched but I ended up not doing that. Even though the morning went by very slowly time flew a bit while watching TV. I cannot remember what time it was when I finally grew hungry but when I did I didn't even finish watching the show I was viewing before getting up to get something. I was a fatty today, I ate three hot dogs, a nutmeg muffin and a small bowl of grapes. From now on, I hope to get a smaller amount of food and combine it with a glass of milk. I've noticed I get full faster on smaller amounts of food if I drink a glass of milk with it. Also sometime during this time I got my laundry done. I could have waited till tomorrow but I am working on rescheduling my laundry day to being on Mondays and Thursdays so that I don't have quite so much to do by doing it once a week. I also wanted to download and play a demo on my Wii but when I searched in the Wii's shop channel, there was nothing to be found. I gave up then shut down and unplugged the Wii.

I returned to watching TV for only a short while then played on my computer some more. Around 3:30 ish I decided to play Naruto on the Wii but as soon as I got it started up I realized my laundry was done drying so I went to fetch that and got it folded. My sister came home while I was putting away the last of my clothes.

Leighanna didn't play with me straight away as she wanted to get a bath first. Fine with that, I played by myself as I had planned that originally anyway until she was ready to join. I wanted to train playing Sasuke so I could use his Fire Style: Fire Ball jutsu to maximize scoring on two player mode. I did this on single player and got the hang of it pretty well. When I was done, I ended up with a score of about 533k and was awarded Hokage rank. Having done that and not wanting to try to beat my score at that time I turned to time trial but I didn't get far and left the game running while I went back to my room to check my computer. Leighanna came into my room during this time and seemed to be in a good mood. She explained she was in a bad mood due to idiotic people at school but the bath seemed to sooth her nerves. She chatted for a little while before we went to the living room to play.

She wanted to try some score maximizing training, as I will call it, with Temari since I got a killer score with Sasuke. Soon after battle 2 I could tell she would beat my score. She didn't think so for awhile but I was certain of it, that is, if she kept up her point gain trend, which she did. She ended up creaming me by about 75k points with a score of aprox 610K.

I was fine with it as I've learned not to be a sore loser or winner. I guess I do this because of my other sister, Lindsay, who I cannot enjoy playing video games with and I am fearful to win on anything and I often purposefully restrain myself so I don't win whether or not I could normally, because she would get very angry and makes you feel like crap for it, then if she wins, she rubs it in your face. Another bad thing is if you beat her score on something and she can't beat you, she resets all the scores and then gets her score again. She did this one time I know of on a Mario Kart, I think 64, when I beat some of her ghosts and replaced them. She wasn't happy and the next day everything was reset and she had a couple scores. So because of this, I hated winning and this is why losing doesn't bother me as long as the one who beat me isn't trying to rub it in my face. Losing kept all our feelings on the positive so it was a worthwile sacrifice. No point winning if it always ends in an argument. I just enjoy playing the game more than anything and I know how bad it feels to others when someone is a sore loser or winner so I try not to be that way myself, although it really isn't hard for me as it's really kind of my nature.


Luckily, my sister Leighanna is not like this and I can feel free to strive to win because she doesn't get ticked off about me beating her. Admittedly I was a bit upset that my spotlight lasted a short while, anyone would be but I didn't make my sister feel bad for it although I think she did feel a little guilty but I let her know I wasn't bothered by it so she shouldn't feel bad about it. I then told her I'd just have to find a way to crush her. But of course I said this in a way that was not taken in the wrong way.

After she had gotten through her single match and creamed my score, we were hungry so we ate a little. Me, I got a bag of crunchy Cheetos while my sis got a bowl of chili and some saltine crackers. I had waited a little thinking we'd play again soon but apparently my sis intended for me to play a bit on my own while she ate. She thought she had said it already but I missed it but she didn't seem angry. I decided to play single survival using Orochimaru. I shouldn't have done this because my sis was done eating before I was done with the survival matches.

I felt increasingly guilty as I played and she waited. She even started to get her bad mood back and I'm not certain if I had done something wrong or if it was something else. I felt tempted to forfeit several times but she claimed to be alright with waiting although she said she didn't want to play long. Luckily, I ended up dying within a handful more battles. I think my guilty feeling of keeping her from playing with me is what killed me. It's for the better as she was able to join in although it was not enjoyable as she was kinda snippy with me and not wanting to cause trouble, I chose my words carefully but it caused the air in the room to feel stagnant and it affected my end of our team battle. We restarted it a few times when we got crappy early scores but continued on the third try regardless of it not being an optimal starting score. Even though we did not get Hokage rank, we did steal the first slot on the high-score board.

We stopped playing after that with Leighanna taking her remote to my room then going off to her own. I'm really hoping I didn't do something to make her angry but I'll never know without causing unneeded strife so I'll just leave it be. Having no real ideas of what to do on the game, I decided to stop playing and I went back to my room.

My mom was home about 5:30 and I ran outside to greet her. It's a good thing not only cause I greeted her but because I was out there and ready to help bring in groceries that I for some dumb reason didn't think she had with her. I hauled in all the bags all at once, which was dumb cause it was heavy and hard. I got in though and started putting things away. I was excited to see my mom got some Snack Pack pudding cups and plums. My mom went back out to get the cat food and the large water jug for the water machine so I helped her by opening the door and taking the cat food bag. I finished putting things away after getting the cat food set down as it was a very large bag and was heavy. Even with me standing there, one of our cats, Rip, decided he was hungry and started trying to tear into the bag with his teeth. Luckily he did not get it open and my mom and I worked on getting it into the plastic container we keep cat food in so the animals can't get into it.

Instead of going back to my room, I stuck around and chatted with mom. I think I helped her a little if nothing more than giving her someone to vent to. I started thinking about this Pokemon Event for Pokemon Pearl, Diamond and Platinum to get a special Jirachi. I wanted to ask my mom if she would be alright with taking me to Game Stop on Friday since we would already be in town but I couldn't find an appropriate time to ask as I didn't want to sound insensitive to what my mom was saying so I payed attention to her and saved my question for later. Even though it's nothing bad, I still felt scared to ask my mom if I could go to the Pokemon event. I guess I'm just not used to getting a yes when I ask for something, plus I feel selfish when I do.

We were hungry so my mom started cooking turkey-cheese melts and asked me to stay with her and chat. I had no problem with that and had not even thought about leaving anyway. We chatted a bit more while she cooked. After awhile I finally drew enough courage to ask her if I could go. I knew the worst that could happen was I get a no, but I was scared anyway. To my surprise, she had no problem with it. I was so happy that she said yes to something like that. I'm so excited! I got the Pichu event but I could get that from home, this will be the first event Pokemon I will be getting that I have to go somewhere to receive! My mom is so nice, and not just because of that either.

My mom did something new with the turkey-cheese melts today. She decided, since she likes the little fried bits of cheese that escape the sandwiches while she makes them that she would try frying some cheese on the outside face of the bread. It was REALLY good. I thought the crispy cheese tasted a lot like Cheez-its. I told my sis that and she was skeptical even on first bite but as she chewed she exclaimed that it really did taste like that. Odd thing, I loved it; and I hate Cheez-its. I was full after eating and I mentioned that I wished I could have one of the Snack Pack pudding cups. My mom said I could and didn't know why I couldn't then understood that I said what I did cause I was full. My sis wanted one so I decided to be a fatty a second time and eat one too.

Upon seeing the brand of the pudding cups my sis grew excited that they were "Snack Packs". Apparently there is a hilarious video about it she saw at church. She explained the video then after we got on my mom's computer to see the video. I think my sister's rendition was much more entertaining than the real thing. If any of you reading care to know what I'm talking about, so I don't have to explain the contents of the video, just search "Snack Pack" on Youtube. You'll find it easy. We watched some other videos by "Balloon Shop" the creator of the "Snack Pack" video. Some were plain dumb but we enjoyed "Hey Ben", "My Last Coke" and a few others I can't remember. What was even better was the facial reaction my mom got to the videos. No offense to my mom of course, but she made the vids just that much more funny. My sis and I had watched some of these while my mom got a bath and replayed only the good ones for her. Leighanna said she recognized more vids than she expected as her church plays the vids every now and then. After we were done, we let mom have her comp back and I soon returned to my room to just chill a bit.

I checked my Skype to see who was on briefly. I got to talk to a friend I hadn't chat with for quite some time. I didn't want to blow him off so I chatted a bit then decided to tell him I was going to bed so I could sign off without being rude. Really I only signed on to see if my boyfriend, Tyler was online and he wasn't but Koga had IMed me before I had a chance to sign off. Besides, I was still writing this during that time and when I'm trying to talk to someone or do something else, this takes more time. I've actually been working on this for the past hour or two as of right now and I'm sure I've missed a lot of details of today but I'm just lucky I remember this much.

I think my memory is improving since I started keeping this blog. And for your information, I've had very minimal interruption during typing this aside from when my mom came to my room to tell me goodnight as she was heading to bed. She scared me as I was listening to music as I still am and concentrating on typing this blog post. She was waving her hand at me and it suddenly caught my eye and it startled me. She thought it was funny too. I don't blame her, this happens almost every time. She told me she couldn't imagine how I could manage not noticing something straight in front of me as my desk faces the door. She said that she notices things in all areas of the room while at work or at home. Guess I'm just oblivious when I'm listening to music. I'm sure I would have noticed her if I did not have music running.

Wow.. I think.. I might actually be done with this post now. That's incredible. I think this one rivals my first in length if not surpasses it. I'm so glad I had music going while typing this. I think I would have gone crazy doing all this without something to keep it interesting. I would have ended up cutting corners in my typing if I had. Well, I kinda did a little with not explaining here those vids but I think there is no point if no one is reading this, and if there is, I hope it's not too much to ask that if you are interested to know what I'm talking about that you look it up.

Anywho, I think that's all I have to say for tonight. I hope I didn't put you to sleep, although considering the time, guess that's not too bad, unless you're reading this from across the world. Anyway, Goodnight!