DBQs wipe me out.

It's Saturday and I'm at home alone. Well, actually, I'm no longer alone, because, seriously, the second I typed "alone", the garage door opened, indicating that my parents are home. They went to Dennis's house to play poker. I stayed at home because Dennis's wife hates kids and I did my homework. I watched Shrek 2 while I ate my frozen dinner. Fun times.
Tomorrow, is Sunday and I have to finish my Chemistry review packet and go to church. In the afternoon, my parents and I are planning to go to Claremont and have dinner with Derek to discuss some important family issues.
I'm really tired right now. Writing a DBQ essay for Euro for two hours straight really took a lot out of me. I'll probably just read a bit and then go to bed soon. I'll right a better blog another day.
Bye.
-Marissa
Oh, by the way, I totally fixed my iTunes. About a minute after I wrote that last post, actually.

I am aggravated.

So, yeah, yeah, today was nice and all. I mean, I had a blast in English and I went over to my best friend's house and I got invited to go to a movie night tomorrow, but what is happening right now negates everything fun or good today. That's right: it ruined my day. Here's what happened.
I logged on to my computer and proceeded to check all of the normal websites: DeviantArt, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger, Formspring. You know, all the usual suspects. Then I decided to download some new music that I had heard about from a vlog I watch. So, after the torrent had completed downloading, I attempted to open iTunes. Nothing. And I mean nothing. No music, no videos, no pictures, nothing. This is about the time when I started freaking out. I yelled to my mom and explained to her about my situation. At this point, she got all offended because she was under the impression that I was somehow blaming her (since she had done some things on my laptop last weekend), when, really, I was just prepared to yell at anyone in my vicinity. This was when my dad came home from work, naturally. So, of course, I had to explain everything to him, while in a bad mood and upset at the prospect of never being able to access my music again.
So, now is the part in the story, where I relate my trials and tribulations of how I attempted to restore my library. First, I did the logical thing and looked for it in the Recycle Bin. Nope. So, I Googled how to copy music from an iPod to iTunes. This is impossible to do while iTunes is still open, because, all it does is offer to sync the iPod, which would merely wipe it clean. So, what I had to do was quickly say no when the sync option popped up and immediately close iTunes. My iPod would then become and "external drive". Then, I had to copy all my files from the iPod onto the computer which, seeing as I had a fair amount of files on my iPod, took a reasonable amount of time. Then, I had to open iTunes and attempt to put those files into the library. Here's the problem, though. ITunes wouldn't open. Here's when I started to get really mad. I ended up having to reinstall iTunes, causing the computer to restart, further wasting my time. After the computer finally finished doing whatever the hell it was doing, I opened iTunes. Then, I tried to open the folder again. Nothing. I checked other suggestions online and tried them all. Nothing worked.
All that happened is that I now have excessive amounts of copies of folders with nonsensical names from my iPod and a headache. I still haven't fixed the problem and have basically given up. I guess I'll just have to never ever update my iPod ever again. Or I'll have to re-download and re-uploaod every music I'd ever had. And, trust me, that would take a long time and a lot of effort. And, frankly, I probably will just end up doing just that one day, since I have no life and I already spend exorbitant amounts of time on my computer, usually online or organizing my iTunes. Sometimes, I really hate technology.
No picture today. Deal with it.
-Marissa

Spring Break and new Nerdfighters.

I haven't blogged in exactly a week, so, here it goes. Last week was spring break and my parents and I went to Las Vegas for four days. We stayed at the Mirage, which was a really nice hotel. The windows were plated with real gold and actually opened, an anomaly for most hotel windows. We spent most of the week eating, like the true fatties we are. But, surprisingly, my parents are actually much more fat than I am. Not literally of course, but I mean that they were constantly eating. Seriously, we'd go to a huge buffet and totally pig out and then the next morning they wanted to eat. Again. So that was aggravating. Mostly I just watched them eat. It was a bit annoying, really. We also went to see a variety show called V, which was cheesy to the max. I mean, the announcer guy kept making jokes about how much he hates his job and how little money he makes. It was cheesy, but I enjoyed it non the less. I liked the acrobats. On Wednesday, my mom and I went shopping and I bought a dress, a shirt, and purple flats from Forever 21. Then my mom and I passed a Claire's and I begged her to let me get my ears pierced, as I've been trying to convince her to let me do since I was at least seven years old. I bought the earrings which I have to keep in for six weeks and clean twice a day. So that was satisfying; I won a years long battle with my mother. But, to be honest, my favorite part of the trip was the drives to and from Vegas. Even though it's four hours each way on the desert highway, I get to control all the music and I love the scenery.
So, today, was the first day back to school and I had a pretty good day. I got to see all my friends again that I'd missed. I missed Michelle and Eliza and Suman and Nicole. And school was no big deal today because the teachers are going easy on us on the first day back and we are only really doing review this week. And my English teacher talked to us the entire period and we didn't do any work. And in Euro, it turned out that the entire spring break project that I busted my butt on during the last weekend of break. So, that kind of pissed me off. But, we are gonna be in groups for the rest of the year, and I'm pretty content with my group.
Also, I met a new Nerdfighter today in real life. I was sitting by the library reading Will Grayson Will Grayson, John Green's new book with David Levithan, and this girl walks out of the library and says to me, "Is that Gill Grayson Will Grayson?" and I said, "Yes! Are you a Nerdfighter?" and it turned out she totally was. So Aley and I talked to her all of brunch and it was awesome. Especially since Aley and I both knew that there had to be another Nerdfighter. We knew it. And we were right. And Alex is awesome. It was a great day.
Other things I did over the break was start this awesome book series, The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. And it's amazing. I can't wait to finish it. And I also drew this portrait of The Hush Sound, which brings me to the end of this blog post.

-Marissa

My day and a drawing.

So, it's the Monday after Easter Sunday and I'm going to Los Vegas tomorrow. Today has been kind of a boring day so far. I woke up around ten and read City of Bones for about two hours. Then, I made my mom and myself omelets because I'm really good at making omelets. They're about the only thing I can make. After that, I listened to my newly downloaded Regina Spektor albums. She's really good and I'm glad Derek told be about her. After a snack of strawberries and milk and talking on the phone to Aley for sometime, I got bored, so now, I'm watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which is the second anime series of Fullmetal Alchemist and sticks more closely to the manga, I believe. But, right now, it's being slow and so I'm waiting for it to load.
So, here's the picture for today. Aley, I promised you something you've never seen before, so here you go: straight out of my sketchbook, drawn yesterday and with no references.

-Marissa

Easter and Toby Mguire goes crazy.

I'm going to try to blog more frequently in April. So here goes.
Today is Easter and I went to church this morning and saw my good friend Emily. It was the same old thing as every year, with the puppets and that one video. I like that. It's comforting. I'll eat lunch soon and then my mom and I are going to see The Last Song.
Yesterday I saw this really good movie called Brothers starring Toby Mguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman. It was really well done; the acting was phenomenal and the drama was intense. It was about a soldier, Sam (Toby Mguire), who went to fight in Afghanistan, leaving his wife (Natalie Portman) at home. His brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal), just got out of jail and his father never approved of him. Then Sam's helicopter crashes and he is presumed dead. And his whole family is kind of messed up and his wife is depressed and his wife and his brother kind of have a thing and his daughters start to like his brother more than him and think of him as a father figure. Meanwhile, he's been captured by terrorists and is forced to bludgeon his friend to death. Finally, he is rescued and comes back home, but he's not the same and he's convince that his wife and his brother have a thing, when really they just kissed once. And there's a really awkward, tense scene with the oldest daughter, who happens to be the same girl in Bridge to Teribithia who Derek and I actually saw in Burbank. And he's paranoid and distant and depressed and kind of goes insane and there's a really intense scene at the end with all three of them and he's just going crazy. But, in the end, you get the impression that everything's going to be okay. So, yeah..
Happy Easter
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-Marissa

Titles are smelly.

Yeah, so I saw in the drop down box when I was writing the title my old title, "Tiles are smelly", and I was going to write, "Titles are stupid" because I can never think of what to write in them because I never know what my blog is going to be about until I actually write it, but "Titles are smelly" is an infinitely better title.
So, today, someone whom formerly, regrettably, I wasn't on speaking terms with, talked to me! I was really glad that she did because, despite what certain other individuals might say about her and that day, I really missed her and her company and her awesome genius-ness. So that was good.
Also, today marks the first day of Spring Break! This week seemed to drag on and on, but finally, it ended and we're free! Well, expect for Spring Break projects and reading assignments. I'm going to Las Vegas and chilling by the pool. Also, Derek is home this weekend!
So, I'm writing this blog while I'm waiting for MegaVideo to allow me to watch another 72 minutes of video. But it was really annoying because I was watching the Fullmetal Alchemist movie: The Conquerer on Shambala (not kidding, that's the name) and I was almost done and it was getting really exciting! But, I can't say I didn't see it coming.
Anyway, here's my picture today. It's the card I made for my dad's birthday. He wanted a drawing of Hermione and a Butterbeer, so that's what he got. Can't decide whether to upload it to DA or not.

BYE!
-Marissa

Must. Blog. Twitch. Twitch.

So, I hardly got a chance to go on the computer at all this week, much less blog, due to homework and studying and general busy-ness. But, today I didn't really have any homework , except for long-turn things like "study for my AP test" or "Spring Break projects", but.... I got distracted. So, since it's April Fool's day, Deviantart changed everyone's icons and signatures to those that are Twilight, Lady Gaga, or Team Seeker (whatever that is...) related things. And it's hysterical. At first, when I saw only my icon (which was changed to a picture of Edward Cullen) I thought I had been hacked, so, naturally, I immediately called Aley to yell at her for changing my account. But, don't worry, she straightened things out for me and informed me that it was all one massive April Fools joke. It's brilliant. A lot of people were complaining about their icons, either because of their hatred of the subject (ie Twilight or Lady Gaga) or their general annoyance. Also, in addition to the mass icon changes, they instigated and new gift to give to friends. Guess what it is. I'll tell you what it is. Llamas. It's amazing. I already have four. I know, so special, right. Oh, I love Deviantart..
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So, here's my picture of the day!
ByeBye!
-Marissa