Well, I'd say that this Valentine's Day was probably one of my favorites ever! No, this is not because that 'special someone' confessed or anything (currently single and loving it), but because of all the things I did with my friends.

The best thing that happened was with my friend Holly. Being the forgetful and usually uncaring person that I am, I forgot to get things for my buddies (but they know I love them ;D), but some of them were nice enough to give me stuff. Holly, who had already given me candy in a plastic heart earlier in the week (which I later used to hold hershey kisses that I gave to the person I like, but don't want to go out with :D) decided to yet again be the kind and wonderful person she is and give me another gift. She walked onto the bus with a big bag of assorted crap, and I stared at her as she sat down behind me. 

"Happy Valentine's Day!" she said.

"Happy Single's Awareness Day," I said back. This was how another good friend of mine, Megan, had greeted me as I boarded the bus earlier that morning.

"I got you something!" She exclaimed. Then, she started digging around in her Santa sack of goodies and pulled out two things. One was a set of theraputic flipflops for my buddy Coltar (who, to my knowledge has no foot ailments) and the other was a bottle of foot scrub for me. Both of use eyed our gifts carefully as Holly continued to pass out the other contents of the bag. 

She must have noticed our facesbecause she said "If you don't want them, I'll take them back," 

We did. With little remosre too. XD. 

"Aww," she said laughing. 

"Hey, how many returns do you think you can get before the end of the day?" I joked. Holly and Coltar laughed. 

"I don't know," she said.

"I DARE you to get fourteen returns by the end of the day," I said. 

"Or what?" 

"Or else you will have to drink the Pacific Ocean!!" That was Coltar. 

And so, our new Valentine's Day tradition began. Now, each year, we're going to try to bring in the crappiest gifts ever and see how many times we can get people to give it back. 

Holly did manage to complete the challenge, though one return counted as two people. That's because she gave it to someone who didn't want it, so what did that person do? They gave it to someone else, who tried to give it to Holly! 

*sigh* I love days based on propaganda.

Well, that's not really my subject, but it is a damn funny video XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvltzwkUEEA

Anywho, the REAL thing I wanted to  write about is the fact that so many people get offended by so many insignificant things that don't even have to relate to them, but they make it about themselves because they're BORED. -.-

Where is this aggravation coming from you might ask? Well, it started because recently, I started watching the 'Card Captor Sakura' series. I'd seen it when it came out in English, but now I'm re-watching it in Japanese (they did a MUCH better job). So, like I do with all of my favorite/new series, I looked it up on Wikipedia a.k.a. everything you learn in school, but could just go to this website and find out.

I looked it up, and I found an entire article that talked about the dubbing of the show. Naturally, I was interested, so I clicked on it.

Do you know what I found (though, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised)? They started the English version of Card Captor Sakura on episode 8! They jipped us out of 7 whole episodes!!! And that's not all: apparently, when the toys were selling at some fast food restaurant (forgot, too lazy to go and look up XD) they got pulled, because the Clow cards were supposedly thought of as tarot cards, thus promoting witchcraft. -.-

Now, this isn't the first time I've seen this happen with a series, and to be honest, it just bothers me to no end! If someone doesn't like a series, and they don't want their kids to watch it, they shouldn't let them watch it! There's no reason to start a protest, or spread any kind of bad credit about the show (I try to follow the 'If you don't have something nice to say...' motto) just because you can. Now, if someone were to ask that person their opinion directly, then they should just find a way to phrase their thoughts so that no harm is done.

I'm not trying to be mean, or cranky, or sound like a know-it-all, but wouldn't the world be so much easier if people weren't offended by every little thing (I'm not talking about massive scale things, I'm seriously just talking about small stuff)? Seriously, kids don't know any better! All they know is that a cool girl on television just brought a card to life with a bird stick. Is there really anything wrong with that? 

I'm not trying to offend anyone! I really just wanted to get this off my chest...
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That is all. :D 

HAPPY CHRISTMAHANUKKWANZICE TO YOU! (that's Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Winter Solstice for anyone who was wondering :B)

I absolutely love my Japanese class, and all the friends I've met at the Center For Global Studies, because they are the funniest group of people I've ever met. So far, though, the best moment of all happened today. 

In Japanese, we were learning how to say we like something and something else. My friend Holly decided to write that she liked her friends and yaoi (yes, yes she did). So, she wanted to know if there were any special kanji that she needed to use. So, when she asked my teacher, my teacher was confused because she'd never heard of yaoi, even though she is Japanese. When she couldn't help, Holly turned to me and asked

"Why doesn't K-sensei know what yaoi is?"

I said, "Well, maybe she's not familiar with the term. After all, yaoi is just an abbreviation."

"Oh really? For what?"

"For 'Ow! My butt hurts!' or something like that in Japanese." I said.

"WHAT?" she screamed, "ARE YOU SERIOUS?? Then what's yuri? 'Ow, stop it my vagina's chaffing'???"

I nearly died on the way to my next class I was laughing so hard. 

There's that, and the fact that my friend just introduced me to this great band called Nightwish. It's totally worth checking out.

Zomg, I've never done one of these things before Xd Not to mention the fact that I should be working on my English project LOL.

Anyway, I just wanted to try making on of these things, and also, one of my favorite authors on fanfiction.net has a community here, and I wanted to see if I could join it. UMMM...I do have an account on fanfiction.net, so if you want to look me up, I'm Sangokagome there too ^_^

I guess that's all for now ^_^