Shabbat Shalom!

Hi! It was a lot cooler today. I was able to relax somewhat, plus the cat looked much happier. I still have some really horrible withdrawal symptoms, but I think I'll get through it. I was distracted by another game on Flash Ninja Clan called We're Pirates. A very addicting game. Although it's pretty hard to even get through the simplest enemy's island. It's similar to a tower defense game. You try to sink the enemies ships, and get 20 of your other ships to cross onto the island. You can't let the captain die, or it's over. Apparently, our job is to be his strategist.

We went to the Shabbat potluck tonight. There weren't very many people that showed up, maybe 10 or 11 something like that. The food that people brought were either salads or desserts. Good stuff, but no main course dish. We brought tabouleh (it's an Israeli salad with couscous, parsley, lemon juice, tomatoes, very tasty!), there was watermelon, cantaloupe, lots of vegetables mixed in an interesting salad, an interesting peach pie, brownies, lemon angel food type cake that had raspberry syrup and whipped cream, and lemon bars. Since there was no main dish, one of the organizers called for pizza. I had the pesto, pine nut, feta, spinach type pizza. It was good, except the crust was like wafer thin and was more like a cracker. There were lots of screaming kids running around and climbing on things. It was annoying. There was a new family that came, to see what it was like in the area. They're thinking of moving here. I think they were from Texas, not sure though. Their kids were overly nice. It was nice to see how people were doing.

I'm pretty into my religion but lately I feel my congregation is kind of.... lacking, for lack of a better word. I used to love their services so much, that I find it odd that it's not doing it for me anymore. I keep racking my brain trying to come up with why so we can change it. (My mom's on the religious committee, so she thinks if I come up with why we can change it.) Nothing really concrete has come up though. Yes, I find the screaming crazy kids annoying, but they're gone during Saturday morning services for their 'Saturday' school. (That's another odd development. I know it's funny, but we used to have that type of thing on Sunday, so the kids can see what the service is really like. I actually loved it that way.) Also, I didn't really like our cantor (a person who helps lead the congregation in singing.) towards the end, but she's kind of gone now. I say kind of because she moved to Seattle, but she might come back like once a month or something to help. I didn't like our Rabbi at the beginning, but now I seem to like him more. Kind of like he's grown on me. He still says things I don't agree with. Maybe what I want is to be more 'spiritual', but I don't know how to go about that. I like being a Reform Jew. (Reform- basically a liberal Jew.) I don't think I want to go down the road of being Orthodox or even Conservative. It bothers me so much! What will make me happy 'spiritually'? I don't know. Also, I feel like I should be doing something more about it everyday. Not like let's be Jewish only on Shabbat. (I know that's not really the case, but it's how I feel.) Sorry, if I seem to be babbling about it, but I'm just confused about my form of spirituality I guess.

I watched Eureka tonight. It was interesting yet again. This time about a 'pet' named spot (really a blob) who loves to feed off of radioactivity. The only problem is it gets so big and since humans are a little radioactive it starts trying to eat people. They ended up putting salt on it, and killed it like it was a slug. Kind of funny. Also, I'm pissed that Syfy decided to drop Primeval. I loved that show! It's about these 'anomalies' (portal type things) that open and let in prehistoric and future creatures. Each show showcased an animal or two. It was kind of fun. Oh, and what makes me even more pissed is they decided to show reruns of a different show at that time. You know, take it away and add a new show I somewhat understand. But, take it away and just show reruns I don't understand.

So Hot!!!! x_X

Hi! According to Yahoo weather it got up to 97 today! We don't have air conditioning, so we're kind of dying. I mostly played around on Facebook today. I found some funny bumper stickers:

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A played an interesting RPG on Flash Ninja Clan called Unfairy Tales. It was kind of cute. Although, at one point I started to get angry because the enemies just kept popping up, I like to be able to do things on RPG's.

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Hi! This is another Yiddish proverb. I feel a lot better today! I managed to get up early like I wanted to. There's only one thing that looks a little disturbing and that's the really nasty deep bruise on my right forearm. It's all dark green, and kind of hurts. I must have tried to brace myself when I hit my head and managed to hit my arm too.

I read more of Naruto. Is it just me or does Neji's seal on his forehead look different than the anime? I thought in the anime it was like an x, but in the manga it looks like the x is on it's side kind of like a plus with funky things coming off of it. I loved when Naruto fought Neji. Especially when he came though the ground at the end there. I'm glad they made Neji change his attitude towards life and people, he's much better to deal with after that. It's interesting that Naruto won against Neji. So, technically he really is a Chuunin. I guess because the village was attacked afterwards. It still isn't very fair to him. Shikamaru is always just awesome! I love him in both the manga and anime now. He acts almost care free, and is extremely smart. He was tricked into taking an IQ test by Asuma. He scored a 200! He doesn't want to be known as being smart, and thinks everything is 'troublesome', so Asuma told him everything is like the game of Shoji or Chess. This gets him to be somewhat motivated, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to do anything. I just realized the mangaka that created Naruto has been doing it for 10 years now! And it only gets better over time! At least that's what I think. ^_^"

I did more of my Japanese. This time I was trying to find definitions to all the verb forms. That took a while. They're I think the most complicated part of the language. Also, I looked more at sentence structure. I have to keep in mind they use Subject, Object, and Verb. English, it's Subject, Verb, Object.

My therapist told me to read a chapter in the book I know isn't working for me. I thought, hmmm... maybe this chapter is for me since she suggested it and I thought she understood my situation more. I read it, and it's all the things I know about already, nothing new to work on. So, I came to a conclusion, I'm going to stop therapy for now. What's the point in wasting time and money on something that's not working? So, I might go back to it some other time, but it will be a long time. I cancelled the appointment for this Wednesday online and told her why. Now, the only person I'll have to see there is my new psychiatrist, when they are there in August. Oh, and today is my last day on Effexor! So, starting tomorrow I'll go down to taking 1 pill twice a day. So, nice! :P

The heat for the week looks like it's going to be excruciating. Today, it's supposed to get up to almost 90. I was seeing temperatures in the mid to upper 90's for the rest of the week. Like, 97 as the highest. I feel like we're going to fry! o_0 Tasha our cat was overheating today, so we put her in a bathtub with cool water. She normally loves water, but she struggled a bit at the beginning. After a while she calmed down and sat for a bit in the water. After that she threw herself out of it and towards the door. It was kind of comedic. I grabbed her and we dried her a bit so she wasn't dripping everywhere, and let her out. She's been licking her fur since, but you can tell she's a lot happier now. ;P

I watched more of Nabari no Ou. They went to the ninja village of Koga. The whole village is like a university. Juuji kind of looks familiar, like someone from Bleach. I don't watch Bleach, but I think I saw her on something for it. She's a funny character too. Saying stuff like don't treat me like a child! Shijima resembles the person who talks to Miharu inside his head. She must be related, and that's what Miharu was thinking too. Kinjutsu is kind of cool being a healing scroll. It's no wonder everyone wants it.

On Gintama one of the episodes was about not being able to sleep. Kagura was awesome in this! She said things like what is the meaning of sleep? Do we go crazy if we don't? What's the meaning of the universe? And of course, I can't sleep, Gintoki do something! She switches futons with her, makes her go out for exercise, gives her lots of food, but nothing works. Finally she said I'll just listen to the radio. It was a story that seemed touching, and then at the end down right creepy. Of course this put her to sleep, but Gintoki couldn't sleep after that. The next episode was about Kyuubei's Birthday party. Since Kyuubei is going to be the head of her family soon, they have really rich people show up and 'commoners' are usually not invited. Gintoki and his friends decided to do things like play the game of Life. The one guy who is always down on his luck in real life actually wins the game. (Madao does, if you're curious. Madao actually means like loser in English.) :P Gintoki and his friends start to say they are the 'Birthday Fighters'. They fight to make it a real certified Birthday. Shinpachi thinks everyone is ruining the party, when in reality he is because of all the shouting and trying to stop things. Tojo actually invited Kyuubei's friends to get rid of these rich people. Kyuubei says later that it was the best birthday she's had.

I played Wizard defense on Flash Ninja Clan. It was actually kind of hard. I couldn't really figure it out, so I stopped playing it. I drew a bit today too! It seems I always draw animals really small. So, I still have to work on proportion and anatomy. I drew a girl, who looked like she just woke up with messed up hair.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Hi! Well, I decided to put a quote as a title this time. Just to make it more interesting. This was by Carolyn Wells. Interesting. ^_^ I'm still feeling very sore, and have a HUGE headache. I'm just trying to take my pain killers. Hopefully I won't become addicted like I was a few years ago to Ibuprofen. Although, this is Naproxin, maybe it's slightly different? It's funny to feel the lumps on my head they're getting huge and they're kind of itchy. I'm trying my best not to scratch them. I finally sent out my letter to a Japanese penpal. I think she's been waiting awhile. The reason why it was so late was because we had to go out and buy an international stamp at the post office, and we never got around to it until today. Although, she took a much longer time to write. So, maybe it's ok. In hers she made a mini origami crane. It's kind of cool. I didn't really send anything extra though. Maybe she'll just be glad she got the letter. ;) It was my first letter to Japan! Sorry, but it's kind of exciting!

I actually finished typing up my long Japanese vocab list. I did about 4 rows including the most common phrases. Phrases like Sayonara and Gomennasai. (Which means: Goodbye (very polite way of saying it), and I'm sorry.) After a meal they say gochisousamadeshita, which is like I enjoyed my meal or thank you for the meal. It looks longer in Romaji than hiragana, it's kind of funny this way. So, hopefully tomorrow I can go over it again, and find the kanji for some of the words I don't have. Then, I can make sentences, and work on more grammar. Oh, joy! But, it's still fun to me! I'll probably add more words to these lists too. I like my system so far. ^_^

I watched more of Nabari no Ou. I really like that they made the advisor or teacher as a guy from Ireland. They had him making as they said 'braised beef with a Guinness broth'. Kind of cool they're showing at least a little of his heritage. Also, cool because I'm part Irish, in fact quite a large percentage of me is of Irish descent. I told my dad about it, and he said Guinness goes with everything, and it's the best. I don't like beer so I wouldn't really know. Also, I feel kind of bad for Yoite. He doesn't really want to be known for killing people and is second guessing the ninjas he works for. I like how Miharu's cat is really close to him and tries to warn him of things.

I didn't really have time to watch Gintama. :( I also was distracted by a game online about farming. You collect eggs from these really large chicken like birds. After you collect them, you eventually send it to a place that spews out powdered eggs. After that you make bread in another machine. Then, the bread is converted to like a cherry pie kind of thing in another machine. You can buy ostriches too, although all they help you with is their feathers give you lots of money. There's lions that pop out of no where that like to eat the birds. If you cage them up you can sell them for money too. Also, there's even an incubator for the birds. I think I spent like an hour and a half on it. =^_^= T'was very addicting! ;)