Dixie currently feels:

 Alone

 

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 Currently playing:

 

- Mario Party 4

- Pokémon Diamond

 

 Currently listening to:

 

- Bring Me The Head Of Christ - Paths Of Possession

- Heart For A Heart - Paths Of Possession

- Promises In Blood - Paths Of Possession

 

 

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 Times cried: None

 Wounds inflicted: None

 

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Yeah, Paths Of Possession.

I've been clearing out some of my downloads folder - and I'd downloaded their full Promises In Blood album. And I love all of it.

 

Though, it's very Satanic. Some of the songs make me laugh nervously, thinking to myself: "...They can't possibly get away with saying that..."

 

They're great - even better than Cannibal Corpse - which is to be expected, Paths Of Possession is made up with the same vocalist, I think.

 

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OH MY WORD, THAT LITTLE WHORE!!!

 

I just won a battle game, then another 100 coins on the lottery scratchcard - silly cow Peach only goes and gets a fortune space, and swaps her THREE coins for my TWO-HUNDRED-AND-SIXTY-ONE.

 

MARIO PARTY 4 PISSES ME OFF SOMETIMES.

 

ARGGGGGHHH... I'VE GOT A MAGIC LAMP AND I CAN'T EVEN AFFORD THE FUCKING STAR!!!

 

PEACH, GO FUCKING DIE!

 

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In other news... *Breathes heavily*

 

...In other news, I had a 105 minute Geography GCSE exam today.

Paper 1, and it was PISS.

 

It was ALL about the National Parks, and all the questions had really obvious answers.

 

The inserts we got were funny - we got this photo of a bloke in black combat trousers standing on a hill overlooking a river with his hands on his hips.

Made me laugh. :)

 

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OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!

NOW DAISY GOT A FUCKING FORTUNE SPACE - AND PEACH AND YOSHI SWAPPED COINS!

NOW YOSHI HAS MY FUCKING COINS!!!

 

...Mwah! Yoshi landed on a battle square.

I might get enough for another star...

 

Yeehaw, last turn, magic lamp, 25 coins.

I don't care Peach, Yoshi - I'm gonna get the happening star and the mini-game star. Keep my fucking coins, I'm still going to win!

 

MWAAAAAAH!!!

 

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Sammie, Miraan and I were down the aisle after school.

 

I kept threatening to squirt them with my bottle of "exam water".

I can't complete an exam without a bottle of water on my desk.

 

It's one of few things we're actually allowed to take in with us, so I take advantage of that, and I do so.

I fill up my bottle with fresh water from the drinking fountain outside the exam hall before I do every exam.

 

We were having a laugh as usual, but today we were swapping letters around in people's names, making them sound weird. :)

 

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...LMFAO!

 

ALL THREE OF US WON THE COIN STAR!

 

Anyway, DK wins, with 5 stars and 10 coins, mwah ha ha. :)

 

Now I just have to beat Shy Guy at a game of Archaeologuess, and I get my present. :)

 

(Yes, I had to read that off the screen, there was NO WAY I could spell it. :D)

 

Wheeee, and I win. I get my present now. Onto another board!

 

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On the way home, I soaked Sammie and Miraan with a quick squirt of my water bottle.

 

Miraan got his revenge though, he grabbed it off me, tugged my collar - then tipped it all down my back.

So it went down my neck, down my shoulders, down my spine, and ended up absorbing into my underwear.

 

I was cold and wet and sad. :(

 

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I came home and had a quick game of iSketch with Miraan, Adam and some randomer who came in of his own accord.

 

Oh, and I ate 3 bags of crisps - Flamin' Hot Monster Munch, Cheese & Onion French Fries and Quavers. :)

 

Tomorrow, I have the English paper 2.

I'm not worried though, I was dreading paper 1 and the literature paper, and they were both piss.

 

 

Dixie currently feels:

Bored

 

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Today is Saturday.

Saturday the first of March.

 

...MARCH.

"Now, quick march!"

 

(Indeed, a quote from Fire of Glory, chapter 48, that Emily will indeed, instantly recognise.)

 

Every Saturday, nearly - I spend the day with my friend Adam.

I've known him for about nine years now.

We met in primary school, I think it was in about year two.

 

I was discussing the greatest video game ever - Final Fantasy VII - with someone else, and Adam joined in on the conversation, being a huge fan of it himself.

So it seems, if I didn't like that game, we may not even be friends.

 

The same could be said for Emily.

I met Emily through a fanfiction site called Fanfiction.net.

She'd wrote a story on there about the Gamecube game: Paper Mario: TTYD.

 

If I hadn't been addicted to the game at the time, I wouldn't have clicked the link, read the story, sent the reviews, sent the PMs, sent the e-mails, added a contact and started talking...

 

It seems odd that a simple obsession or passion can lead to gaining and breaking friends.

 

 

Adam was born in 1992, one year after me.

I'm not exactly a year older, it's a few months, rather than a year.

We're both in year eleven.

We both want to go to Middlesbrough college.

We both like Guitar Hero, Final Fantasy and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

We're both slightly emo - or, so the chavs say.

 

We both like to drink Cherry Coke.

We both like to eat pizza.

I like cheese and onion crisps but he likes salt and vinegar.

He puts vinegar and tomato sauce on his chips - I leave mine dry.

 

 

This is a photo of Adam and I.

We took it today infront of the big mirror in my parents' room so we could see if we were both in focus.

I'm looking in the opposite direction to what he is.

 

I don't think I'm photogenic, and he thinks the same of himself.

Adam's holding the camera, and I have my hands in my pockets.

 

Adam likes online games, but I prefer offline.

We both like the occassional bit of J-pop, like Ayumi Hamasaki and Double You.

Adam likes anime, but I like cartoons.

 

Every Saturday we go across the field behind my house to the corner shop to buy chocolate and other junk food treats.

Adam usually pays for it - and I provide the pizza at lunchtime.

 

We've eaten pizza every Saturday for about five weeks now.

 

Today we played on the Wii downstairs - set up on the monster Sony Bravia 45" HD telly.

It makes your eyes sting sometimes.

 

We played Super Smash Bros. Melee.

We play team battles against two level nine computers.

I play as Peach and Adam plays as Sheik.

I tend to fight brutally, and Adam hides in the shadows and uses projectiles.

We win a lot, and we lose only to stupidly hard team combos like Fox and Falco, or Gannondorf and Captain Falcon.

 

We played coin matches, bonus matches and stock matches.

My favourite stage is Pokémon Stadium, Adam likes Hyrule Temple - but neither of us like each others' favourite stage.

 

I like small stages, Adam likes large ones with places to hide in.

We both like to use Pokéballs, Hammers and Green Shells as weaponry.

We share recovery items like Heat Containers and Maxim Tomatoes.

 

We're a good team, actually.

 

 

After that, we played Guitar Hero III.

We're pretty even, though Adam doesn't have GH3, he has GH1 - which is harder, because you can't perform hammer-ons and pull-offs.

 

We watched each other do a few songs.

I downloaded the whole GH3 soundtrack and sent it to Adam and Kyle.

He's got himself addicted to Radio Song, by Superbus. - So he tried that on Hard and Expert.

 

I tried playing on Expert, hyperspeed 5.

It's really difficult, the speed that the fretboard moves at makes you feel really sick.

 

We did some co-op songs and got some 5-star ratings.

Then we tried Through The Fire And Flames - by Dragonforce.

 

I tried doing rythm guitar with the Wii remote first - we only have one guitar, you see.

We got to about 60%, before we failed.

Then we swapped, and we lost at about 30% - I tend to play bass with the Wii-remote when we play on co-op. I don't mind. I'm quite good with both.

 

 

 

 

 

WE ARE STEALING YOUR SOUL.

I just finished making this w/a couple of adjustments and subsitutions.

Southern Peach Cobbler

SUBMITTED BY: Amy Posey      PHOTO BY: Kathy

"I've been experimenting with cobbler for some time and this recipe is the final result. Loved by all. Use fresh Georgia peaches, of course!"

INGREDIENTS

• 8 fresh peaches - peeled, pitted and sliced into thin wedges [I used half a bag of frzn for md sz one.]
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice [fresh is good but, the plastic lemon works]
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch

Plus...

MIX TOGETHER:         

•  1 teaspoon ground cinnamon  [I had previously bought these two premixed already]

• 1/4 cup white sugar

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, combine peaches, 1/4 cup white sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice, and cornstarch. Toss to coat evenly, and pour into a 2 quart baking dish. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes ^{(if using fresh)}. Alternate: (Since I used frz peaches I put my mixture in the microwave instead, three times for a minute at at time, stirring and mixing it each time. Worked fine)
3. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine flour, 1/4 cup white sugar, 1/4 cupbrown sugar, baking powder, and salt. Blend in butter with your fingertips, or a pastry blender, until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in water until just combined.
4. ^{If using fresh-} Remove peaches from oven and drop spoonfuls of topping over them. Sprinkle entire cobbler with the sugar and cinnamon mixture. Bake until topping is golden, about 30 minutes. Alternate: (I used Pam Butter Spray in the round ceramic bowl I used and, spread the batter on the bottom then added the peach mixture from the microwave, then sprinkled the cinnamon/sugar over it. Care must be taken not to use too much Pam as it causes the edges to look somewhat burned.)

     I tried to make a partial top for the cobbler when I scraped the batter bowl but, it didn't get as done as the rest, in the amount of time used.  I was tempetd to add chopped pecans to the top also. I love pecans in most anything but decided to wait till the next time and see how it came out this way, with the subsitutions and, alternate instructions first. But, look out! Ya never know what will happen when I start experimenting in the kitchen! :)

Ummm....sure smells good! 'See' ya later! :p

Howdy howdy all!

 

Well instead of going with my family to Mississippi for Easter, but since I don't really do Easter I told myself a trip to the old ballgame might be a good time and I was right! Okay so I went to a pre-season game a couple of weeks ago and had a serious blast, the Astros even won. Of course this trend did not carry over into today's game. The astros lost 10 to 1. Ten to freaking One people!

 

Here are some highlights from the pre-season fun.

The field

 

 

Last Friday night fire works

 

and here is the best part of today's game...

 

yeah that's right. It was the singing of Deep in the Heart of Texas!

Told ya! Wasn't that gold? It's like you were in the audience huh?

How about some poetry...here goes....

 

Eating the Peach

Eating the peach, I feel like a murderer.
Time and darkness mean nothing to me,
moving forward and back with my white enameled teeth
and bloated tongue sating themselves on moist,
pulpy flesh. When I suck at the pit that resembles
a small mammal's skull, it erases all memory
of trouble and strife, of loneliness and the blindings
of erotic love, and of the blueprint of a world
in which man, hater of reason, cannot make
things right again. Eating the peach, I feel the long
wandering, my human hand—once fin and paw—
reaching through and across the allegory of Eden,
mud, boredom, and disease, to bees, solitude,
and a thousand hairs of grass blowing by chill waters.--Henri Cole

 

Goddess Bless

 

Yesterday,I mentioned War.I expressed my anxiety on the assumption that one day China would have to fight with US.Of course,If that happened,it would be in long years ago.

 

In China,we call US world bandit,and president of USA is cursed by Chinese people as much as prime minister of Japan.It is not because I think China will fail that I am afraid the war between the two country.(PR China have not failed in war since her establishment.)But you know,I have a lot of kind  American friends,so I don't want war because I can't bear their hurt.

 

From the period of ancient China on,we have a tradition,that is "If one doesn't hurt me,I will not hurt him,but if one hurt us,I will hurt him also."I don't know whether I translated the phrase right,but I think you can see what it means.You know,China was ever the strongest country and maybe will be so in not longer future,but we have never invaded any country.Otherwise,Japan may have been a province or autonomous region of China.But in my opinion,western countries love invasion;most of colonies are established by the countries.

 

Ok,well,I just wanted to say:"I Hate War,I Hope The Whole World Is Peachful."And that is one of reasons why I chosed  to major in comparative literature.