it's keely.

meme time!

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:11:47 GMT

stolen (okay, not really) from nonchatte ! & she gave me the letter G

~letter meme
Comment and I'll give you a letter, then you have to list ten people/places/things you love that begin with that letter, afterwards post it on your journal and fill out letters of your own.

01 GARNET. I mean, come on, I have to list my birthstone. What kind of January baby would I be if I didn't?

~~02   Godga. Otherwise known as Lady GaGa, only if I listed that it wouldn't comply with the rules. Oh, loopholes. :)~~
03   Geishas! Or more like, geisha...culture? You know.
04   GLITTER
05   Gypsies! Which is actually a derogatory term, if I recall correctly. But I like reading about them/how they're portrayed in popular culture. (Hellooooo, Esmeralda!)
06   Ghosts!! Ghost stories, ghost sightings, anything haunted/paranormal etcetera. ;-)
07   THE GOLDEN GIRLS. IF YOU CAN'T SEE HOW BRILLIANT THIS SHOW IS THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU.
08   Greek mythology. I did a report on Artemis once. She's badass.
09   GEEKS! There is no explanation necessary. Geeks are awesome.
10   ...Gossip. Come on, who doesn't like gossip??

I also kind of wanted to list Greece and Germany and Godzilla, but, you know, that'd be 13, not 10.
This was also surprisingly easier than I was expecting it to be :P

Anyway, in other news, I've been totally in love with For Orchestra's cover of some of Lady GaGa's songs, namely LoveGame and Bad Romance.

Still sick, by the way! But getting better. Off to go read now.

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:12:54 GMT

I slept in until 3pm today, and I don't know why, since I went to bad at 2am, I'm pretty sure...but I also don't remember, so whatever. Anyway, now I have to regulate my sleeping pattern again, since I have to dedicate this week to homework.

I also got my report card in the mail today. 3.7 GPA! Pretty good, huh? If I had maintained that A in geometry I would have a 4.0, but oh well. Shit happens. I now have 30 credits and my "class rank" is 5. Which is pretty fucking cool and makes me feel awesome.

Oh, and I'm also kind-of-sort-of sick. I had a sore-ish throat last night, but that seems to be gone now...Mainly I just sound congested and have a stuffy nose. I've also been dead tired this week no matter how long I sleep - but uh, I'm pretty sure I know why. Hopefully it'll all be gone before the 9th, no?

My newly-turned-Lady-GaGa-fan-friend just e-mailed me saying Lady GaGa just confirmed the rumors that she'll have an album out late this year. I actually don't know if this is true or not, since she'll be on tour until June this year, I think...but if it is, that's totally awesome and gives me more reason to be excited for this year music-wise: Britney, Christina, and Florence (and possibly GaGa) are all coming out with new albums this year. Sweet.

Ugh, I feel like I have to sneeze but nothing is happening. I hate that.

this too, is amazing.

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:54:49 GMT

LOL I LOVE IT

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:13:12 GMT

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:04:34 GMT

I am SO angry. I cannot even fathom how people can take one look at a government that's enforcing bigotry and think it's perfect - the greatest ever. HOW can you even think that limiting someone's rights because of who they are is right? How does that even get PROCESSED in your head?

I wish I could just throw all these privileged people into the lives of people who had to earn EVERYTHING and were - ARE - under constant fire just for their sexual orientation, their skin color, their fucking gender. I wish I could just let them know that not everyone has it good the way they do, and that RACISM and SEXISM and every other fucking -ism out there exists, and is still in full force.

I just. I can't even form coherent thoughts right now, I am raging. America is not perfect. America never WILL be perfect, as long as we have people who continue to think about no one but themselves. Just... holy hell.

UGH.

I don't even know what to say anymore. Christ.

why, hello there list.

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:51:15 GMT

What I have been up to these past few days:

re-reading the 1-800-Where-Are-You series
playing Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
sleeping
making my sleeping pattern irregular
blowing off homework
blowing off calling my teacher to ask a question about said homework
nothing

What I need to do in the next couple of days:

beat this damn annoying boss in KH 358/2 Days
make sleeping pattern regular
finish reading 1-800-Where-Are-You series
start reading Princess Diaries series
start reading Gone With The Wind
go to the library and re-check out GWTW/return Austenland
do sociology, English, and PE homework
call teacher
get very belated Christmas presents for my friends
wear the rubber bands I'm supposed to be wearing to get my braces off

What I need to do right now:

beat this very damn annoying boss in KH 358/2 Days
sleep

This list in no way is going to help me organize my life. Whatever.

I thought this was an established fact already

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:15:23 GMT

[7:33:19 PM] Sammeh Darlin:
[10:33:04 PM] *** Sammeh Darlin ejected Keely from this conversation. ***
[10:33:04 PM] Keely: NIGHT HALE
[10:33:09 PM] *** Sammeh Darlin ejected Keely from this conversation. ***
[7:33:20 PM] Sammeh Darlin: shit
[7:33:22 PM] Sammeh Darlin: youre superwoman
[7:33:26 PM] Sammeh Darlin: made it through the first one

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:12:08 GMT

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!

Whoa. 2010. Can you believe it? 2010. A new decade. 2010!! It feels so surreal...

I brought in the new year playing Kingdom Hearts and hugging! And wishing our dog happy birthday. He's seven years old now. :P

Have a happy New Years everyone! AND a happy year!

IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAND

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:05 GMT

So I'm on Amazon looking for a decent looking journal with a lock that looks like it wasn't designed for a 2-year-old girl, and I come across this.

Price + Shipping
$999.99

+ $3.99 shipping

WHAT??

No, seriously. WHAT? $1000 for a JOURNAL? Needless to say, I totally Googled that shit to see if it was some historical journal written by some Cherokee during the Trail of Tears or something AND IT'S JUST A REGULAR JOURNAL. Is that person serious? DO THEY ACTUALLY THINK SOMEONE IS GOING TO SPEND THAT MUCH ON A NORMAL JOURNAL?

keelyshireham says (5:09 PM):
*1 used from $999.99
*WTF
*FOR A JOURNAL??
Jenn says (5:09 PM):
*lol
keelyshireham says (5:09 PM):
*$999.99
+ $3.99shipping

Used - Very Good
*omg.
Jenn says (5:09 PM):
*Oh look, shipping is pretty cheap

And you know what? After reading the reviews, it doesn't even have a lock!! Well, sir, I am taking my business elsewhere.

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:11:21 GMT

Year 2010 Overview

One of the things that never seems to come across in those generic descriptions of Capricorns is their inherent sweetness. You're every bit as kind and caring as anyone else (if not more so), but have a tendency to hide it behind a mask that downplays your vulnerability. Now that Pluto (the planet which is best at blowing things up) has moved into your sign, and Saturn has moved into your Tenth (the Work House).

Although this one-two punch might be too much for lesser souls to handle, you're well equipped with the tenacity to not only survive these circumstances, but in fact come out ahead on the deal. Think of these two planetary placements as bringing new ways to bring out your inner strength, without you having to lose that sweetness and kindness you've had all along.

Pluto has moved from the spooky funhouse of your Twelfth House into the light of day, figuratively speaking, in your First House. This means you'll be focusing on how you see the world, and how it sees you, in new and powerful ways. Think of it as an opportunity to evolve into a higher form of yourself.

Capricorn is actually ruled by Saturn, which not only represents difficulties and limitations (every planet has its bad side), but also represents the obstacles you have to overcome to get what you want out of life. In your Fourth House now, this means questions around your home life, and brings the chance to (literally) put your house in order. The next year's difficulties will mostly serve as an opportunity for everyone else to admire how well you overcame them. And you will!

Let's see how true this is on December 31st, 2010.

one day, i'm going to grow a field full of sunflowers.

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:03:55 GMT

Half hour.

show your nerd badge

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:28:33 GMT

keelyshireham says (7:22 PM):
*yo
mai says (7:22 PM):
*whuddup
keelyshireham says (7:22 PM):
*about to research world war 2 and american nazis
mai says (7:22 PM):
*por que
keelyshireham says (7:22 PM):
*yeah
mai says (7:22 PM):
*is that homework?
keelyshireham says (7:22 PM):
*nah
keelyshireham says (7:23 PM):
*for fun
*i was watching national geographic documentary about american nazis. some nation socialist movement or something
mai says (7:23 PM):
*"just gonna research history for fun"
keelyshireham says (7:23 PM):
*well i AM a history junkie
*;)
mai says (7:23 PM):
*you have moved up on my list of nerds

Proud moment.

so, how are your crops?

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:55:07 GMT

"Behind me while I was sitting in Driver’s ED working on a packet, a group of intimidating football guys had gathered and were discussing how they had done in the game last week. One of them brought up the after party, and another said “No man, I had to go home and harvest my crops on FarmVille” They all accepted this as a legitimate answer, and then discussed how their plants were doing. IMMD"

This is amazing. I must witness something like this in my lifetime or it will not be complete.

"Last night I had a dream about putting a stake through Edward’s heart and shooting Jacob with a silver bullet. When I woke up my girlfriend had left out a stake, a toy gun and a note: “Please do it”. IMMD"

c'est la vie

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:53:22 GMT

VS.

it made my day

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:59:00 GMT

"My friend went to the first lecture of a vector calc class he had already taken with a notoriously difficult professor. When the prof walked in, my buddy played the Darth Vader theme song on his laptop before running out. IMMD"

I love it.

Also, I got a package just a couple of minutes ago. It's probably from my friend Sam, only the address wasn't from Canada, and it was UPS and Scotts Valley or something. I didn't open it, because Sam said not to until my birthday, so I still don't know what it is.

christmas christmas merry christmas

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:15 GMT

What did everyone get for Christmas? Anything? I got Mario Kart DS and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days among other things (mainly books).

Fun, no? As my friend Sam said, I'm probably going to be gone for 2 months. ;-)

Anyway, to complete your Christmas, enjoy some Sketchy Santas:

ENJOY.

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:22:09 GMT

Isn't it beautiful? I wonder what it'd feel like to hold it. And then to take your first picture...

Oh, one day!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

princess and the frog

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:35:57 GMT

I got the opportunity to see Princess and the Frog yesterday, and I LOOOOOOVED it. It's definitely way up there with my other favorites now, and I so cannot wait until it comes out on DVD so I can buy it and watch it a thousand times over. All of the characters are so likable and perfect and music is amazing and if you adore Disney (especially 2D Disney movies), you should definitelydefinitely go see it, aaah. ♥

Anyway, it's Christmas Eve - I'm going to help wrap presents (even though I'm not the best wrapper, but I do like wrapping) later today, and then it'll be Christmas! Hopefully everyone will enjoy their Christmas. :)

omg lol

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:07:53 GMT

Also my iPod might be dead. So soon, can you believe it? I must secretly be an alien from outer space.

We'll see...

RIP

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:29:52 GMT

Aah, now Brittany Murphy's dead too. I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of manslaughter case.

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:18:00 GMT

I hate the jrock fandom. Glad I never seriously got into it.

guilty pleasures

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:26:32 GMT

A Cinderella Story is my guilty pleasure movie.

It's terribly awful and cliche and embarrassing but I still can't help but like it. I mean, it has Hilary Duff! Who can hate Hilary Duff? And it has that guy who reminds me of some other guy, but now he's starring in Cougar town which is a little weird for me. Speaking of television...

These are all my guilty pleasures, too. Especially Desperate Housewives. I mean, is there an explanation necessary? Desperate Housewives. But I still love it. A Cinderella Story is back from commercial.

just thought this was cute & wanted to post it.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:01:06 GMT

Woman abandoned in Fairfax as a baby finds her rescuers

By Michael E. Ruane

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Christopher Astle and Emily Yanich were teenage pals strolling back from a 7-Eleven that afternoon in late summer -- two ordinary kids on an ordinary Wednesday after school -- when they found the abandoned baby.

It was Sept. 6, 1989. They discovered the newborn wrapped in towels at the front door of a townhouse in their Fairfax County complex and took the infant to Emily's, where her stepfather called police.

The whole thing was over pretty quickly. The authorities took the baby girl, who was later adopted. Chris and Emily, both 15, went on with their lives, although Emily often cried when she told people the story, and the two called each other every Sept. 6.
Twenty years passed.

Then, on Dec. 2, a college student named Mia Fleming sent them both a message via Facebook: Might they be the same Chris and Emily who had once found a baby left at a stranger's door?

If so, she just wanted to say thanks.

After all these years, the little girl they had found had found them.

The story of Mia, Chris and Emily, recounted by the three over the past few days, is a nativity narrative for modern times. There were no heavenly hosts that warm afternoon in 1989, just the distant ambulance sirens after the call to 911. But the event seemed blessed all the same.

Chris and Emily, both now 35, stayed close friends as they grew up, moved and married, bound by their rescue of the baby.

Mia, once she learned her story, never forgot them, and after numerous tries over several years managed at last, through the power of the Internet, to track them down. "I didn't know how they would feel," she said.

Emily said: "It's like a miracle. . . . My heart is filled now. There was always a little spot missing. "
Chris said, "It's the best Christmas present I have ever gotten."

A reunion is being planned so the three can see one another again. Mia, now 20, said she was excited. Chris said, "I just want to give her a hug."

Finding the newborn
The saga began that day in September about 4 in the afternoon.

Chris, of South Riding, and Emily, now Yanich-Fithian, who lives in Lewisberry, Pa., were then high school students living in the community of Tysontowne.

Chris was a C student and heavy metal music fan who wore Metallica T-shirts -- "an average, ordinary high school kid trying to find his way through life," he said.

Emily sang in the school chorus and had a job at the mall. She recalled that they had probably gone to the 7-Eleven to buy cigarettes.

They had just returned to their complex when they heard the baby crying.
"I looked around and noticed that there weren't any moms out there pushing their kids around in a stroller," Chris said. The cries were coming from the front landing of a townhouse, where it looked like no one was home.

Chris started up the steps and spotted a bundle of orange towels in a corner at the top.

"I walked over and carefully unfolded the towels, and here's a naked newborn baby girl, just crying," he said. "She still had part of her umbilical cord attached. . . . She had a full head of hair. I picked her up and held her. She kept on crying. . . . I was completely freaked out."

He and Emily banged and kicked on the door and rang the bell. No one answered. They wondered what they should do.

Had someone forgotten the baby? Was she hungry? Should they go back to the 7-Eleven and get some food? Should they leave the baby? Should they take her? Would they get in trouble?

They decided to take her.

Chris's mother was out getting her nails done. His parents were separated.

But Emily's stepfather, Bill DeLancey, was working in their garage. He would know what to do.

As they walked up the driveway to Emily's house a block or so away, he spotted them and joked: "What did you guys bring home this time?"

"Bill," Emily said, "we found a baby."

"He about fell out of his chair," Chris recalled.

The teens explained what had happened. Everyone went inside, and Bill called 911. Police, medics and firefighters came quickly.

"The next thing we know, the paramedics took the baby, and she was gone," Chris said. The police interviewed the teens, as did a newspaper reporter, who wrote a story in The Washington Post.

It turned out that the baby was less than 12 hours old, officials said later. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 1/2 ounces and was 19 inches long. She had olive skin, dark eyes and dark hair, and was in excellent health. There was no trace of her mother.

The teens later bought the baby a teddy bear -- possibly at the 7-Eleven, Chris said -- visited her in the hospital and went back to high school.

Finding the finders

Emily's family moved to Pennsylvania about a year later. There, she eventually married, had two kids and got a job driving a school bus. Chris stayed in the area, became a computer engineer and also got married.

The two shared a bond, though, through the child. They wondered who had left her and why. "We hoped she was happy and healthy and that she got adopted to a loving family," Chris said.

Both got a letter and a picture of the baby sent by the adoptive mother a year or two after she was found. Emily framed the picture and kept it with her family photos.

Mia had been adopted by a British couple living in Northern Virginia. The couple, who asked that their names not be used to maintain their privacy, had adopted a daughter from Thailand and were seeking another child.

They had seen the newspaper story about the teens who found the baby and later were contacted by officials asking whether they were interested in adopting her. They were delighted.

They said in interviews that she was a wonderful child and a joy to raise, although they put off telling her the story of her abandonment, for fear it might upset her.

Mia made the discovery herself. When she was about 9, she was going through the scrapbook her mother kept about her early childhood and found an envelope. Inside was a newspaper story.

At first, Mia said, it bothered her that she had been abandoned at birth, but then she became curious about the two teenagers who had saved her and whose teddy bear she still had.

She knew their names from the newspaper and said she began trying to find them on Facebook when she was in high school. It was hard. There were many Chris Astles on Facebook, and she had no way of knowing which was the right one. She was leery of trying them at random.

On Dec. 1, near the close of the college semester, Mia, a reserved and soft-spoken junior with dark hair and a tattoo of a bull on her left shoulder, discovered on Facebook a person who looked as though she might be Emily. She scrolled through Emily's list of friends and spotted the name Chris Astle. This had to be them.

Late that night, she "friended" them on Facebook. Neither recognized her name. The next day, both messaged back saying, essentially, "Who are you?"

Mia agonized about her response.

"I was so nervous thinking about what I would say to them and how they would react," she said in an e-mail. "I was speaking to my boyfriend online at this point. . . . I told him that I was really nervous and was afraid that they wouldn't want to hear from me, or would think I was some sort of crazy person."

</div>That evening, sitting on her bed, she wrote back to Chris and Emily, then ran off to a 7 p.m. class, worrying what they might think.

"Hi, I'm sorry to bother you," she wrote to Chris, "but if you are the Chris Astle I was looking for then I just want to thank you. You and Ms. Yanich found me on someone's doorstep when I was an infant. I don't really know what else to say, but thank you. If I've gotten the wrong person then I apologize! -Mia"

In his office, Chris read the message and exclaimed out loud.

A buddy down the hall heard him and called, "Are you all right?"

Chris said he was fine.

~soource

mini rant: YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:28:56 GMT

Okay so you have a brand new shiny Nintendo DS Lite

And it's awesome and amazing right? Right.

So you obsessively play with it for the next couple of months until it's like

WAIT PAUSE RANT OMG GUYS LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND

HOLY SHIT THAT'S COOL I WANT IT.

Anyway, resume rant.
So you obsessively play with it until it's all used and "broken in" or whatever you wanna call it, right? Right.

And if you're like me, during those months you were playing (a) game(s) that required the stylus a lot...

But you didn't pull out the stylus all delicately like you're supposed to, because you're a spaz and you only have like 20HP left or some ridiculous shit and you need the stylus for something very important that could be gone in like 0.5 seconds and so you rip it out of the side like a cat clawing your eyes out and so then you wear the little bump on the side out.

You know what I'm talking about.

That little bump that keeps it inside.

So now your poor little stylus is bumpless, and it's falling out of your DS all the time if you're holding it on the wrong side...

...so you're always losing your stylus without realizing it and you have to go outside to living the room and look under the couch and between the cushions and under the coffee table until you realize because it's green it's blended in with the carpet by the door and you're like, Oh, whoops, and you find it and HAPPILY EVER AFTER until it happens again a week later.

But you don't want to bring out your extra (brand new) stylus because it's just going to meet the same fate.

SO DON'T PLAY GAMES THAT REQUIRE HAVE YOU NOT USE THE STYLUS LIKE LA LA LA LA THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'RE LIKE THE STYLUS? OH SHIT WAIT WHA - GOD DAMN IT!

The end.

Alternative endings:
don't be a dumbass.

omg there is no way whoever edited this was sober

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:26:29 GMT

i can't stop watching