Llama @ MindSay

I've been really stressed recently, but I can't pick out anything specific to say what I'm stressed about. I've been losing sleep, and I've been gaining the missed hours of sleep when I get home from school, so then I'm up restless all night. It sucks. D: Sometimes, if I feel really down and low, I go to bed to forget about it and take it away.
I'm also doing a bit of research, to really see if I have a lot of symptoms of PTSD. Meh, we'll see. I've noticed that unfortunate memories of a recent past return to haunt me for hours upon end at night, when I'm lying in bed. I don't know how to erase them; unless I got a complete memory wipe... Half the time while I'm lying there I wish I could just get this "memory wipe" and forget about everything. But I can't. As much as I hate to accept it, it's what's helping me gain experience to continue to be empathetic and in relation to how somebody else feels. I've cried for the past few days now, but I can't tell you for what reason since I have been crying for no apparent reason.

I woke up this morning, and I grew depressed after conversing with mom how Academic English is overly difficult for my mind to handle. I might have to drop to the College level again, which will probably just discourage me.

One of my friends on an online forum I visit on a daily basis told me that "what happens is out of your hands, you're your own independent person and the respect you deserve is something you should think of getting. You sound so negative, but be positive, make new friends - and if people from your past goes off and does whatever, it's no longer your concern. It's their issue now. Don't worry about them."

My friend serves a strong point. Therefore, I'm currently going to continue leaving fragments of my past behind - and I don't care how long, or how painful, it is. I'm going to do it, even if I need aid from buddies. I need to learn how to stop being frozen in my past and I have to warm up to the future that lies ahead of me.
I have a lot of friends on that forum. And I love them all. ^^

But anyway. Not much happened today. As soon as I got at school, I felt instantly lightweight when I saw my friends by the main doors and all that.

For English tomorrow, we're going down to my school's theatre to watch a musical production my school's putting on which is called "McBraveheart". It's a parody off Macbeth, apparently. I'm awaiting it with great excitement. ^^

Musicals + Shakespeare (two of which I adore) = <3!!! :)

I've also gained a strange obsession with llama's now. XDD Thanks to "The Llama Song" (look it up on Youtube or something. XDD) And I was singing parts of it in Computer class and went out into fits of giddy laughter. But that's me for you. :)

And now... I will share a little part of it with you...

I was once a treehouse,
I lived in a cake,
But I never saw the way,
The orange slayed the rake!

LOL! XD I kept singing bits from it, and Becca thought there was something wrong with me. XD

News from... My relatives, I guess! XD Both of my cousins are now officially ENGAGED! :D I`m so happy for them!! ^^ But unfortunately, I don`t think I`ll be able to attend the wedding - since they live in Alberta. I'm only in Ontario. ^^
And the really cute news is, my cousin who has down-syndrome (he's like, 19 now or something) was asked to be the ring bearer guy for a wedding. Isn't that just cute? :)

Anyway, for school, we're getting course/option selection sheets sometime this week and we have to fill them out so the school will know what courses we want to take. I'm thinking about taking a course that has to do with studying the human mind, how it works, etc. But I don`t know. I`m going to look into it some more tonight. I`ll keep you posted, though. :)

Oh, and as you know, I`m reading Hamlet. I was scanning through certain bits and it's REALLY... Sexual. 0.o But, hey, that's Shakespeare for you! :)
But, I guess you'll just have to deal with it! >: D But don't worry, I'm not going to insert anything that seems OVERLY inappropriate. So don't worry. But really, I can't wait until I get this whole Hamlet/Ophelia POV started! :)

I know, it took me a bit to post my entry about the recent Mindsay meetup at the Texas Renaissance Festival's "1001 Dreams" weekend. After that day, I had a lot of things to catch up on. But here it is! MY TURN!

Note: Some of the pics you'll see in this entry might have already been posted by Myclette and Torridgirl.

Uyoku and I left Sugar Land, TX at around 7:30am. We pretty much headed straight for Magnolia / Plantersville, TX. and it only took us about an hour. We took the US-249 to FM-1774 route to get there.

We made a quick stop for breakfast (and costume change) at the Burger King perpendicular to FM-1774. It was 8:30am and it seems like we got to the vicinity quite early. We changed from our regular clothes to our costumes at the convenience store next to Burger King. We didn't change to it all the way, I still had my Sketchers shoes on. After that, I withdrew $100 from Woodforest's ATM and after that, we went ahead and drove up to the fairgrounds.

At the fairground's parking lot, that's when we decided to complete our costumes.


As soon as we walked in, we heard some music from these Highlanders:



And more music, YARGH!:



Here's the menu from The Agora (Greek Court):



Here's Uyoku with a King and a Knight:



We also got to see the parade, look who I took a picture of:


At around 2pm, we met up with Torridgirl, Myclette, E-Girl and MoreArt4u.



Later on, during the day, we took more random pics:



I don't quite know how this happens, but we tend to get split up from the rest of the 'sayers. Uyoku and I ended up at a Hookah Bar and smoked out for the next 30 minutes or so:




At the magical garden, we took some random pics, too!




More randomness of Uyoku:




Here's when we met up the rest of the 'sayers at the Italian Court:



At the Polish Court, MoreArt4u took the following timeless picture:


After eating at the Polish Court, we all decided to the Hookah Bar to smoke out. But for a party of 6, it wasn't gonna be easy. So we set up an appointment for after 5pm. Uyoku and I decided to walk around to kill some time. Here's a few pics that my tireless camera took:



Time to meet back up with the 'sayers at the Hookah Bar! This time, "chocolate mint" flavor. We were just carefree with the things we were saying or singing. I mean, when a group like this sings the whole "Bohemian Rhapsody" in public, that Hookah must be laced! j/k



After we left the hookah bar, some random dude wanted to take a pic of all of us. After he took a picture, I handed him my camera and asked to take one more:



After taking that pic, we got split up again. I think it's because Uyoku and I are pretty easily distracted. When dusk came along, I went in search for the wooden cups I planned to buy. While I'm at it, I was also able to regain my memory on fixing puzzle rings!

It took us forever to get home. So I decided to use my car's GPS to navigate us out of Plantersville, TX. and into The Woodlands, TX. When we got to The Woodlands, we changed to our regular clothes at the MH Hospital's bathroom and we set sail homebound. The drive back home, took us 2 freakin' hours, all because of the traffic at Plantersville / Magnolia, TX (FM-1774).


There's going to be another meetup at the Texas Renaissance Festival coming up. I think everyone has decided that we're going to hold the Mindsay Meetup on Saturday, November 8, 2008: The Roman Bacchanal! I'm still undecided whether I'm gonna wear a costume or not. Uyoku will be dressing up for sure, either a Gypsy (OMG, that would be so hot) or Toga!

I'm hoping more Mindsayers are gonna make it to the Roman Bacchanal themed weekend... 

I've sorta neglected my blog lately but not without good reason.

But for now, I have to say one thing: Nothing like a bit of llama.

borrowed this one from stalkerchick...

aside from the obvious...2 chicks at one time, what would you do with a million dollars?