Hey everybody, what's up? You may have noticed that I haven't been on for a while and I probably won't be on again for another while. Here's a list of half-assed reasons:

-been busy

-car stuff

-work/money/distractions

-it's kinda too much for me to keep up with right now

-kinda burned out on this site/need a break

-doing more volunteer stuffs lately

See? I told you they were half-assed. Anyway, I had to let go of my old car. Goodbye, Old Friend. Here's a picture of what my car looked like (not an picture of my actual car)

R.I.P White Lightning

I got a new car. It's a 2002 Honda Accord. It's a lot cooler than my old car, but now I have an expensive car payment like a big kid.

Halloween:

Had a great time. Heather's party was a lot of fun. Then on Halloween day I came to work with a fake rubber pencil through my neck and blood running down my shirt. It grossed out everyone in my office. They were lining up to take pic of me with their cell phones. Then went to my friends' house to hand out some candy and happened to run into an old friend who now has a 3-year-old daughter she was taking trick or treating! Wow, all my friends are growing up.

Oh yeah, I carved a Rock Lee pumpkin and sent the pic into Anime News Network. I knew I wasn't going to win but I thought, what the hell. Check it out here. My entry is under my real name, Julie.

Ninja Warrior:

Spoilers from latest episode, Sasuke 19:
***SPOILER***

TV stuff:

-The writers' strike sucks, but I totally understand why their doing it. As far as I understand, they want to get paid for people downloading their stuff on the internet. That's fair enough. Some actors get paid ridiculous sums of money, execs need to kick the writers a little somethin. Without writers, there'd be no story. Nothing to act, direct, produce... just give into them already. Especially the writers of Heroes, they're geniuses.

-Seth McFarlane is on strike with the writers. I heard Fox is going to go ahead with the episodes without him. Bad idea, Fox. I'd rather wait for McFarlane to come back than have a crappy Family Guy episode.

-They announced the date for the much-rumored Dragon Ball Movie, August 18, 2008. Hells yeah. I can't wait to see it. Even if it sucks.

Work:

-Somehow I got on the Holiday party-planning committee. I didn't really want to, but whatever. So I'm trying to organize this years Non-demoninational Holiday Festivus Winter Gift Exchange (formerly Secret Santa).

-Boring meetings, boring everything. Servers keep crashing, other sucky stuff.

Other stuff:

Oh yeah, I won a contest to go to a local chocolatier and see how the chocolates were made. It was AWESOME. We got champagne and all the free samples we could eat. Then a big gift bag full of tons of chocolate to take home. So if you live in or ear Maryland, check out Kirchmayr Chocolates.

I want Guitar Hero III and Rise of a Ninja very very very badly. But I dont have an XBox360 to play Rise of a Ninja on, so I have to stop wanting it. And I'm too broke to afford GH. As Buddha would say, desire is the source of all suffering.

I love talking to everyone, but I just need a break right now. So I hope everyone will understand. Scatha_guardian and Fairywings1981 have my email if you want to drop me a line. I check it often. (Scatha and Fairy- I hope you dont mind giving it out if someone asks.)

So that's about it. I'll be back eventually. Everyone take care of yourselves.