 | « she's nothing more than FICTION » ( ashre) wrote,
@ 2004-03-08 19:41:00 |
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Private Pickles the Penguin on the Prinny Squad, reporting for duty!
Haha. Finally. Time to write. Actually, I've had time. Last week wasn't so busy. I just didn't feel like being online.. at all. I was content to follow the same pattern after school each day: watch anime, cook, watch more anime, sleep. ;x It worked for me. In fact, I'm planning to do pretty much the same thing this week! Except I'll also be playing a couple of VG's I borrowed from Jason, and talking to him on the phone. <3
So anyway. To refer back to forelast entry and the dollhouse, we did get the circuits fixed. Curtis, Erwin and I came in Monday morning at 6:30 AM to work on it. The weird thing was that all the circuits malfunctioned because of different reasons. o_O For Curtis's series circuit, the leads got separated. For Erwin's parallel, the light bulbs were bad. And for my complex.. we still don't know what was wrong with that one. We only got the buzzer to work, but for the buzzer to work, it meant that current HAD to be going through the lightbulbs. Yet, they didn't light up. And yes, we tried a ton of different bulbs, and they didn't work. But, she gave us credit, because the buzzer worked. So that's all that matters.
The rest of the week was pretty uneventful. Like I said, anime anime anime.. That was most of it. ;x And I cooked. Which, surprisingly, went really well. The only real problem was that on Thursday I made spaghetti, and I went with mom's advice not to use all of the spaghetti in the box, and we ended up with too little spaghetti. >:/ The sauce was good though. Anyway, yeah. I was surprised. Most of my cooking so far has relied on intuition and luck rather than skill or experience, and I keep thinking next time my luck's going to run out and I'm going to end up giving everyone food poisoning. But I've been doing quite well!
And mom has been home since last night, so I don't have to worry about cooking anymore.
Saturday morning I went to a math contest at Doerre. I actually didn't really want to go since early last week, but I'd already signed up and they'd already written the check, so I had to. :/ It wasn't so bad though. I had some time beforehand to hang out with Susan K. and Lara and listen to music. Then I just took three tests in a row, and met up with Li in between. A lot of KC people were there, and man, they've changed since middle school! They're all so preppy now. :o It's totally not cool. Anyhow, I didn't stay for awards. Dad picked me up at noon and after a stop at Walgreens, we went home.
Now, what everyone probably wants to know about~ my trip to Kemah with Jason. Which, to clarify, Kemah is a sort of port/fishing town to the south of here. A lot of people come there to fish, but even more come there for Kemah Boardwalk -- a place with a ton of restaurants, arcades, and often live music. A sort of party/amusement place in miniature. (It actually isn't all that exciting, but then, Houston severely lacks any truly exciting ventures aside from the Museums of Fine Arts and Natural History -- and those are just my personal geeky favorites.)
So anyway.. they picked me up around 3 PM. Jason himself came to the door, which made Deborah happy because she got to pass judgment on his physical appearance (she actually approves), and, yeah. We got in the car and left. Funny thing: we were both wearing Rurouni Kenshin shirts. No, it was a complete coincidence.
Well, I won't go through all the events and places and conversations, because a lot of it is a blur, and even if I did, it wouldn't serve a purpose. Just know that, aside from the fact that I was extremely low on sleep and aside from a bad run-in with an arcade and a DDR console, my night was basically perfect. :DDDD Some of the highlights:
- Before we went to the Boardwalk, his mom and dad fished, and we took a walk to this gazebo. And it was sunny and beautiful, and we just sat and talked, and.. yeah. =)))
- We had our first "deep" conversation. A couple of them, actually. Mainly they concerned the bad traits of the general populace at school, and our sisters. And.. it was just nice to truly talk about something. Especially the sister thing. I've talked about my sister to other people before, I mean truly, how she's changed since entering middle school, and they'll listen and offer comments, and it's nice. But Jason actually understands because his is going through the same thing. :)
- We were again talking about people, namely annoying people and classes that we didn't like. He started talking about his Pre-Cal class, and he was like, "The people in there are so obnoxious. And there's even these two girls who are so obsessed -- they had a Harry Potter anniversary day last week. They both wore scarves and glasses and everything." And I started thinking.. oh God, I just might know these people. (Most of my KC friends are HP freaks.) So I asked, "What're their names?" and he replied, "Allyse L. and Vanessa O." I just started cracking up. XD The bad part is, I could see that. I told him I'm friends with Allyse, and he was like, "I knew it!! I knew you have to be friends with her!" XD
- Now for the next part, let's flashback for a moment. Last week I spent a lot of time wondering.. just what exactly is my relationship status with Jason? I was thinking just friends that are maybe interested in becoming more, but when I told Kitty about him and how he called me and asked me to go to Kemah with them, she reacted as if he'd asked me out and we are now dating. o_o I have so little dating experience that I really couldn't tell which, so I figured, okay, well, I'll wait 'til the weekend and see how he acts, and hopefully I can judge from that. Well, basically he just acted normal and also since his sister had brought a friend he'd probably just invited me as a friend, so I figured, "Okay, we're still friends." (And I'm fine with that. I mean, I'd much rather that he'll really officially ask me out when/if the time comes so I know for sure and don't have to wonder about our in-between state.) ...Except for a few comments that he and his parents made.
The most prominent one took place at dinner. Jason's sister Rachel had won a little stuffed animal blue fuzzy Devil thing at some arcade game. Jason was playing with it and put it on his shoulder and pretended that it was like his bad conscience speaking to him, and he called it his Devil. So then Candice, Rachel's friend, said, "Well, if he has a Devil, he's also got to have an Angel to sit on his other shoulder," and his mom immediately responded with, "Oh, I think he's already got one, and she's sitting beside him. He's got Nara for that!" And I was over here going O___o allllrighty.
- Arrangements were already being made to get me & Jason to hang out again. His mom was talking about some anime movie that's coming to town, but they're only gonna play it downtown and only in Japanese with subtitle. For the latter, she said that like it was terrible to watch a movie in a foreign language with subs (I watch almost all my anime subbed), so I said, "..That's not a bad thing," and Jason said, "Yeah.. we don't mind!" So his mom was immediately like, "Well, I can take you two downtown to go see it! It's not a problem for me!" I'd really like to go; it was just funny because I'd never even heard of the movie or that it was coming or expressed interest in it, and here plans are already being made.. ;x
- In the car on the way back, he was again playing with the Devil toy, and his mom told him, "Maybe you should give that thing to Nara to remember you by; after the way you've been behaving today I wouldn't be surprised if she never wants to see you again." So, going along with the joke, I said, "Well, we're kind of forced to get together again because we have all of each other's DVDs and stuff." To which Jason replied, "Yeah, see mom, I've got it all figured out. I've got a plan."
- The subject of prom kept repeatedly coming up in the conversations. At dinner and in the car it was like.. "Hey Jase, you know the seniors are having their after-prom party in the gym this year?" "You know the seniors are going to have prom at Julian's next year?" "Jase, have they called for volunteers to help with prom yet?" (That was all from his mom.) And it was just like.. *PROM* *PROM* *PROM* So much that it was hard to believe it was just coincidence. We both got on the topic of dances as well. We were actually talking about dumb recent music, and somehow started talking about Homecoming, and soon I'd confessed that I'd gone as Éowyn and everything. It was light-hearted, and we were laughing and stuff, and then suddenly he turned totally serious and asked, "So uhh, did you just go to Homecoming with friends?" and so I told him about just going with Anett, but inside I was just enthralled with the totally serious look on his face, and I was thinking, "Don't worry Jase, another guy has never so much as put his arms around me with any more than just friend-ly intent." XDDDD
- We were talked into taking a picture in one of those photo booths where you give them $5 and smile dorkily and it prints out a crappy photo with a cheesy frame of you and your friends or whoever. (Yes, I have it; I'll scan it later.) His mom even came by and closed the curtain, but thankfully we were already done by then. :x That was pushing it a little.
- The best moment of the night, however, was the ferris wheel. Now, I came to an amusing discovery that night: Jason and his mother are EXTREMELY afraid of heights. The ferris wheel at the Boardwalk is not really that high at all, but they both refused to ever go on it. Now, towards the end of the night, his parents bought tickets so everyone could go on at least one ride. They had a ferris wheel, a merry-go-round, and one of those swinging ship. Now, I'm not much into the swinging ships, and I'd just eaten, so that was a no-go. Jason didn't want to go on there either, obviously. And we're teens so.. we weren't about to go on the merry-go-round. Which left the ferris wheel. Now, I knew about Jason, so I told him he didn't have to go. I could go alone, or we wouldn't go at all, we could give the tickets to his sister and her friend. But he said, no, he wanted me to have fun (which I tried to assure him I was having anyway), and he didn't want me to have to go alone, so he would go on the ferris wheel with me. o___o So I repeatedly told him, "You don't have to go if you don't want to," but he kept insisting that it was fine and he didn't want me going alone. So.. we went. The bad (or, well, bad.. more like embarrassing) part was, the entire thing reminded me of the part in FF7 where you're at the Gold Saucer and you go on your date with Aeris or Tifa or whichever character. And I was so embarrassed, and I was like, "Oh, God. Don't let him remember it as well," and JUST THEN he was like, "Man, this reminds me of the part where you're at that amusement place in FF7.." I was like, x___@ *thud* Well. So much for that. And then later when we were at the top and we got a good view, I was overcome.. it was breathtaking. It was just dark and it was a full moon, and you could see the city lights, and the moon and the boats' lights reflected on the water.. it was gorgeous. So before I knew it, I blurted out, "It's so pretty.." and Jason was like, "Man, this is REALLY like that date in FF7. 'Oh, it's so pretty.'" Me: "..Yeah. ^^;" *awkward silence*
But yeah, it was just so sweet.. him sacrificing himself to go on the ferris wheel with me. =) *insert audience "awwww"* He was a little uncomfortable, but he admitted that it wasn't too bad. When we were up there and he got a little queasy, I thought about taking his hand, but just then I was overcome by a moment of self-doubt. >:| That was really stupid. I mean, maybe taking his hand would've been pushing it, but the moment of self-doubt was stupid. Because as soon as we got back down I was sure he's "interested" again. Stupid self-doubt.
So umm.. yeah. ^_^; Those are the key moments. Looking back, I feel kind of bad.. I should've been a little more forthcoming. I felt like I wasn't saying enough, or everytime I did I just felt stupid because some of the things I said were so.. stupid. But I'm trying. I've gotten into this pattern of withdrawing further and further; now here's a chance and an incentive to come back out of my shell. It's not an easy chance to make. It's not that I'm not willing to do it, but it won't be something easy to do.. not a step I can take overnight. I'm definitely trying. I'm not going to ruin this.
And now it is definitely my turn to come up with something to do over the weekend or Spring Break. Since I have met his friends, maybe he should meet a few of mine. We could just get together to watch anime or movies, or to just.. hang out. Anyone from this area up for it?? :D
When I got home, I was dead tired, but I couldn't for the life of me go to sleep. And I mean, it figures -- the one day (night) when I can sleep for almost 12 hours straight without having to worry about having to do anything, I can't go to sleep, and then I wake up again at 5:45 AM. The universe really does hate me.
Yesterday was muy uneventful. I got carried away playing Disgaea, a PS2 game Jason lent me to try out. I'm hooked now. I'm not normally into strategy games, but man.. that game is elite. I'm going to have to buy it.
Today was.. okay. Found out I'd actually won at the math tourney; two sixth-place medals for Science and Math. Other than that.. Fucked up the Physics quiz on Friday, and probably fucked up my Pre-Cal quiz today because I didn't even answer three questions. My grades are, as Curtis would say, SOL. But what else is new?
I'm going now. Anime time. Peace.
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