The power has been out on my block for the past day and a half or so due to an incredibly strong storm that was made stronger from the heat wave sweeping across the country. A lighting bolt struck a telephone wire around the corner, apparently, splitting it in half and exploding the transformer. But wait--! That's not all; a tree limb also fell ( Read more... )

So I've always wanted to get cool things from other countries *cough*japan*cough*, but then all the good stuff only seems available for purchase through sites like amazon or other websites that either way are all in that country's language. Are you able to purchase them, and how? Do you just add them to your purchases and then pay as you normally ( Read more... )

It's 110 degrees outside again! It might get hotter even still though, because it got that hot yesterday and today is supposed to be hotter. @_@ I am glad for air-conditioning.

By the way, I don't live in Topeka. That was just a reference, lol.

I of course am referring to the 7th Harry Potter movie. I mentioned in my previous post that it was expected to rake in over $150 million by the end of the weekend, and it did better. It made a bit over $168 million dollars so far on its opening weekend and blew everything else completely out of the water. :O In comparison, the second and third and ( Read more... )

It was actually pretty awesome. :D I'm going to see if I can get a cut to work for this, because I want to just type a bunch of stuff and they may end up being spoilers. XD

( If you see this, I got the cut to work! :Db Here be spoilers. D: You have been warned, those who haven't read the books or saw the movie yet and who are planning to. )

One of my best friends lives in China. For whatever reason, we decided that when we wanted to chat outside of e-mail, we would use a Chinese IM program rather than Skype or something. (I didn't know any Chinese at all at the time. Even with the 4 years I've studied the language, I still can't make heads or tails of that website. OTL) Actually, I ( Read more... )