download complaints

75th post! woot woot! and also, that homework i was procrastinating on in my last blog post - i got it all done. so there. B)

but that's not the subject of this blog post. my uncle informed me of the marvelous fact that the game Portal is available for free (at least until May 24th) on Steam. steam is pretty cool - i downloaded it last night - but i started to download Portal last night, and as i speak, it still hasn't finished downloading yet. that's probably because, whoop-de-do, it became paused sometime last night. except for the fact that neither i nor the rest of my family paused it. that's my first complaint. my second is this: "time remaining" counts are totally inaccurate. (this applies to other downloads too.) i know this because just last night, i saw the time remaining go from:

1 year

to

22 hours

to

9 hours

to

8 hours 30 minutes

to

9 hours.

as of right now, the time remaining count is 21 minutes 27 seconds, but as i typed that, it jumped to 19 minutes and then to 24 minutes. i got up early.. for this. i mean, i've also been playing farmville and what not, but i was looking forward to trying out portal. ah well. with my luck, it'll finish downloading right as i'm about to go to school.

for victory we ride, fury of the storm

I always open up a tab to blog on, but it's always lower on my list of priorities, and then it doesn't get done. So I blog from my iTouch to make sure it gets done.

Today we have the Reading TAKS test, which is always really annoying and boring - and of course I dislike the importance the state places on it. But I never have a problem, usually only miss one or two out of how many questions? Fifty-eight? Yeah..

I boast sometimes that I can and will get up early if I want to (if you consider 5:50 early), but really I dislike having to sacrifice sleep. This is not made easier by the fact that I sleep in a loft bed, which (as I always explain it) is a bunk bed without the bottom bunk.

And I also reprimand myself whenever I get up early just so I can harvest my crops on farmville. Which I did today - although I didn't get up quite as early as usual. :P

Darn, the computer I'm using is really slow, especially when it comes to FarmVille. At least I harvested all that Forbidden Rice and planted some more.

Oh yeah, and I got a new bike yesterday. It's silver, and much better for my size than my old one. It's pretty cool.

Every day is closer to summer break - which is exciting not only in that, well, it's the end of school, but also in that I leave for London the day after school gets out, and my cruise starts a few days after. AND ALSO, when I'm in eighth grade, none of the really annoying guys in my multimedia and gym classe will be there. Hooray!

By the way, I was writing this this morning before school.. but then my iTouch ran out of power. Good thing it saved!

- Posted using BlogPress from my iTouch

New Look?

When I saw Adventures of a Teenage Hawk, my friend's blog, I was like, ".. my blog looks boring. yeck." I've changed the look a little, but it's still the same template, and I think I might change that too. x)

I noticed that I haven't been blogging as much about 9 recently (well, my frequency of blogging has gone down, period). I still love 9 (and I have two fanfics in the works) but I do suppose I'm not as obsessed anymore.. though my friends and I still quote Smallsthehero's youtube 9 parodies 24/7.

Alright, um.. Well, I used to just do FarmVille on facebook. That was it, aside from the occasional quiz. Now I'm trying out things I normally wouldn't, like Mobsters 2.. I also have to say I do like CafeWorld.

I'll probably edit this later, as I have the impression that I have more things to say, but I just can't think of them right now.

Social Networking

so, before recently, I stayed away from the social networking sites. You know, myspace, msn, facebook, etc. But I made a msn because a close friend asked me to (stacia ;D) and I ended up also making a Myspace (which I don't use almost at all) and a Facebook. The silliest thing is, my real incentive for making a Facebook was to play Farmville. xD H0w nerdy is that?

Speaking of Farmville, I like the new Super Berry (I want to call it a sugar berry) that they have. It only takes 2 hours to grow and you can harvest them for 100 coins each! Not only that, but they only cost 10 coins each! They really are super! 8D