Vision Banquet, 2008

Hair and dress. <3

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And now, for a night in review:

Kimmi, Molly and Lee.

Lexi and I.



Grace and I.

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There were so many lovely people! The Vision Banquet is awesome and fun not only because it's basically our whole church together to talk about our plans for the next year (which are always SO exciting!) but also it's an excuse for everyone to get posh! The girls (as well as I) love that part. All the decorations are sparkly and elaborate, too. It's fantastic.

The only trouble was before we left I was hit with some news that made my heart ache and noises seem very loud, intrusive and out of place. It kind of set the mood for the rest of the night to be semi wonked-out. Adam, I love you. <3

I was going to wear my new dress (the one I bought specifically for last night) but Molly called Kimmi and she had her on speaker phone and at the time she was very distraught due to the fact that her dress was a brown, full-length bride's maid's dress. The poor girl thought she was overly formal and didn't want to be the only one. Long story short(er) they talked me into wearing my pink dress from last year. As far as my hair goes, you can see I didn't get it quite as high as the woman in the photograph, but I still managed to get it to be quite large and poofy (though the images don't show it completely.) Little to say, I was proud.

More of the presents I ordered for my family came in the post yesterday. I was so excited. Also, I've made tremendous progress on my room. I have most of a floor, again and I need to have Lexi 'round as soon as possible to test it out.

I'm off to get on some warmer pants, a jacket and eat breakfast over some "Charlie and Lola." Tree was so good to humour me last night and watch some with me. Oh, how I love that show.

I am bound to make more head-way on my room today as well.

xxx mal

My feet are up on the couch I'm sitting on in the library. They're wet and I feel like a rudey.

Mrs. C apparently thinks I don't eat.
I left my bag at church on Sunday and Lexi took it home for me. This is how it came back. Packed with all of this:


Oh well, what am I gonna do, yanno? I now have a hugenormous stash of snacks in the back of my car for any time I may suffer a fit of hunger while I'm on the road. Fantastic.

This is my sister Kimmi.
She is cute.
That is our kitty Trixie.
She is not so cute.
Kimmi stole my Frappuccino.
I let her.

Work, school and course-work have completely overtaken my life. I have no words to express the amount of time I spend either at work, at school or at home doing course-work. I have no words to express this because I have no time to formulate the words and thus any form of expression. I am also wasting valuable seconds here, now, telling you why I can't express such things when I could be expressing them. Welcome to my life.

Let me section this off. I will take you section by section through the topics I deem important at this very moment and you can come along for the essay-like ride or hop off whenever you choose. I won't (and can't) make you stay any longer than you so desire. Here goes . . .


Last Saturday night I had the pleasure of attending a performance at Key Arena with my dear friend Demitrios and his lovely family. It wasn't just any performance, however; it was the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. omw. They are so fantastic. I have heard some of their music throughout my life. On the radio, in random places, but never in person. It is so different in person. They have lights and all these crazy things going on in the middle of their shows! It adds a completely mentally awesome dimension to the music they perform.

John and Hank Green were in Seattle two weeks ago. I didn't get to see them because I had to work. I thought Kimmi wasn't going to get to either (because I'm a jerk and had to work) but D took Becca, Greg and Kimmi and they all had a blast. Kimmi got my article about ecogeek signed by Hank for me as well as "Alaska," "Paper Towns" and "Katherines" (which D bought for me there) signed by John. I felt like I was there, even if I wasn't. While I was at work that day I had the pleasant surprise of Adam, Nickita (can't spell, sorry!) and Jacob dropping in on their way through to see the Greens. I gave Adam a business card and told him they came at thr wrong time because we are* the smallest Apple store in existance and we were* moving in 2 weeks and he should come back then. (*are and were are, in this present moment, meant to be reversed since when he visited we were going to move and as of Monday we are moving. More coming about that next.)

"Next": We are currently (and finally) moving the Apple store. Moving out of the mini-store and into a bigger one, across the hall. HECK YES. (If you live in the area I expect to see you front-and-center on Saturday, November 15 at 10 a.m. for our opening. I'm serious. No jokes. Be there.) Basically we're all super-stoked. It's super incredible. Come visit. It is going to be so jokes.

In week two (about) of me working at Apple I sold an iPod to David Ross. That was nifty and one of my coolest Apple moments thus far. Just randomly felt like sharing since my journal is hecka out of date. :p

I need to go eat food.
(Back! I ate with Lex, for once. Hallelujah!)


I can't really think of anything else I want to say horribly much. I have two papers I need to write, now. Five pages for one and I need to add five pages to the other. One by 4 p.m. today and the other by tomorrow. Oh, the joys of being in college. Registration for the next two semesters is coming up on Friday. I have to take a J-Term class. Basically what J-Term is, is January. That means three months of classes crammed into one. Essentially the classes are held every day (depenhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifding) and have a running time of anywhere from 3-4 hours. It's going to be lamezors.

I'm addicted to these songs, at the moment: "Come On Get Higher" by Nate Nathanson, "Alice" by Pogo and "Still Alive" from Portal. (HA! No, I don't know anything about the game.)

I guess that is life!
I'll write more soon. Sorry for the recent neglect.
ily.

xxx mal

p.s. I'm almost done writing in this blog. Soon I'll be moving all the way over to www.malarayofsunshine.com , YEY!

(Wet) Paper Towns; John and Hank Green are in Seattle today

OMG, I stole Margo's face! (It's only because it's very early and my face isn't good enough, at the moment. Plus, she has better hair. :p)

Long story short: today is that day.
The day where Kimmi, D, Becca and even my crazy not-such-a-huge-fan-of-
YouTubers/Nerdfighters & Vloggers-- brother, are going to meet John and Hank Green. I am so excited for them.

Kimmi is going to get my copy of "Paper Towns" as well as "Looking For Alaska" signed by John for me. She's also even going to take the article I did on EcoGeek last year (along with a note for Hank) to give to him (and maybe even get a copy of the article signed for me.)

In my heart and face I cannot hide nor deny the fact that I am helplessly fangirling. I cannot wait until the guys come back to Seattle (or I get the opportunity to go to them at a different location.)

Adam and a couple of his friends (whom I can't recall who are 'cuz Kimmi told me in a slur) are going to be there, as well. It's going to be epic because tomorrow Kimmi and I are going to hang out with them all in Seattle. I'm excited for that and it somewhat softens the impact tonight will be having on me. I am a little sad, I will be honest.

Just think of all the cameras! Oh, wow! So many Nerdfighters in one place. It's going to be amazing. :D Have fun, guys!

Drastic subject change: I was somewhat stressed out last night so I took a shower and painted my nails deep red. It made me feel a little better. I also vented at my mum and she just let me talk and talk and talk until I noticed she had finally fallen asleep. Awh. n_~

I've been working on my website and even got myself a fancy-smahnchy domain name. Go check it out and let me know what you think if you have a moment or two? www.malarayofsunshine.com Oh, and yes, that most certainly is TROCK playing on my front page. Kimmi doesn't find it half as entertainingly awesome as I do, but we both still know we need to re-record. :p

That is all.
Until next time, DFTBA.
xx mal

p.s. The title today is a reference/joke on to a stereotypical, Stephanie Meyer-esque Seattle day. Just so everyone knows: it's a sunny day today. Oh, and because I really wanted to add something before "Paper Towns" and it was either "rainy" or "wet" to go hand-in-hand with afore mentioned stereotype and "wet" worked better cuz paper can get wet and can't be rainy and paper is a lot less fun when it's wet. Truth.

sometimes, i give my sister black eyes.*

I filmed all the footage I'll ever need and more for Vern's Intertwyne video, that should be edited soon.

We're (Kimmi, Vern, Becca and I) going in to the Apple store today after Vern's dentist appointment to get him a Mac. I'm mainly excited about this because, while I get to actually be a smart person and know things today, I am also getting myself a new mouse and FinalCut.

Oh my gosh, cloning here I come.

Before I go, here is a sneak peek at what's in store in this game video:

*No Kimmis were harmed in the making of this video.
p.s. This photo constitutes what makes up a VERY small part of the video, so if you're reading this, Clint; your video will be awesome, I promise.