FUCK YES. I weighed myself before Mexico and I was 203.5 pounds. I just weighed myself today and I was greated with a lovely 196.8lbs! One of my main goals is to stay under 200lbs, because that's a really bad weight for me. But guess what this means? 3.3 pounds left to go before I make my summer weight loss goal of 10 pounds!

I'm really happy right now. Like hyper happy. Ready to cry happy. I knew that Izzy's was keeping me fat! >D

Uh, sorry for spamming. I'm on cloud nine right now. X3

If I cut you, just know that I haven't considered you a friend for quite a while. Heck, it could have been that we weren't even friends but I no longer have a good reason to keep you on my list. That may be harsh, but it's the truth. I would like it if the following people I'm no longer friends with would cut me from their list as well. Some of you are just music journals that I no longer care for. If this offends you, then maybe it's a good thing we part ways as we would have eventually clashed.

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Those of you that I've kept, I like you a lot and I hope you feel the same for me. :)

So my brother John confirmed my suspicions/fears about my iPod. You see, on the plane from Houston to Portland I found out that my iPod had stopped working. For some time I've had this freezing problem with it that I repeatably solved with restarting (center+menu hold), so during one of the restart times the apple logo shows up for a while and then an image of an unhappy iPod with a link to their support page pops up.And when I could get the menu to show up, the moment I selected a song to play it would freeze. I tried to put it in diagnostic mode (center+menu hold till apple, then center+left hold) and that didn't work. I also could hear it trying to start up and then shutting down immediatly after starting up. Thus, I have a useless iPod on my hands.

Good news? No longer will I have a "bulky" 1st generation 20GB iPod. Instead I'm seriously considering an 8GB black nano that I can get for $220 from where my brother works. I never really needed 20GB anyways and if I go over 8GB then I can just put my most loved songs on the iPod instead of ALL of them. Plus it would be nice to have a black iPod. Really nice. This time I'll be more careful as well.

Guess what? Erin's getting an Xbox 360! X3 You know what that means? I'm going to be spending a night or two over at Erin's sometime soon to play both the new Xbox and the Wii they own as well. I really wish I had gaming parents like Erin does, it would make my gaming life a whole lot easier. X3 There are some pretty cool games and I'll probably lend her a few of my old Xbox games as well. Right now Fatal Frame II is my favoriet Xbox game I own. I love horror.

And I know how to say so many things in Japanese now! I mean all that I could do for a conversation is:

-Hello -My name is Katie. -This is the beginning of our relationship. -Please take care of me. -What's your name? -How old are you? -I am 17 years old. -Where do you live? -I live in Redmond. -What's your phone number? -My phone number is (541) 548-7523. -Questions about your family (name, age) -Goodbye

Which for me is a lot to comprehend! I also have the hirigana alphabet memorized as well as four kanji ("nichi - sun", "hon - book", "go - language", "ima - now" and 1-10 and 100) and will be learning the kanji "haha - mother", "chichi - father", and "hito - person".

To think that I have the chance to go to Japan next year! XD I'm so excited!

That's pretty much it for now. I need to search for more scholarships and possibly draw for a bit.

So much is happening.

I have essay's for scholarships I need to write. Things to be sent in via first class mail. And much, much more.

I miss my salad days.

Both of my best friend's are over tonight. Erin's been playing Final Fantasy XII and Rachet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Renee's been sleeping (lol), and I've been playing the sims with a sim!Erin.

We plan to eat out at Jodie's tonight and have delicious milkshakes & burgers.

That is all.

I have laryngitis. Which is why I can't speak. Today I worked, but thankfully Sunday's are pretty damn easy.

I have to take half a vicadin if I want to sleep at night. That's how bad my coughing is.

Happy New Years. I hope you guys feel better than I do.

I lost my voice yesterday and began coughing like crazy. Still am coughing like crazy (a bit lighter though) and my voice is going up and down, so I think it's coming back and will cease to be a painful whisper. My poor mum is annoyed as heck by my voice, because I'm the type of person who talks hours on end (got it from my mom). I won't be able to work today because I'm still way to sick to go in.

Also, because of Erin's parents, I have to call now to make a date for her to spend the night. Even though it's not until next week. Hopefully, she can come. I'm so busy with my job I can't have her over at all.

The worst thing, I think, is that I have to have my mom do these calls for me with me listening in. It's way to painful to speak clearly.

Stupid virus.

I'm very sick. I have a sore throat that makes it difficult to speak without a very raspy voice, or without pain. I have a cough that causes a lot of pain as well. Then there's my sometimes runny nose and sometimes stuffy. Then I am extremely fatigued and my body just aches. >.> Thank god I don't have to work until Thursday.

Gifts Received:
Five Language Visual Dictionary: English Spanish French German Italian
A book I got last year "I Married Adventure" from the same person and a book I recently bought for myself...Of course I'm returning those somewhere.
Gloves I'll never use but was stupid enough to take the tags off (I'm sick, thus can't think clearly)
A necklace + earrings I'll probably wear once every few months
Another luggage case (can't they get me anything else?)
Pirates: Dead Man's Chest DVD
$75 in B&N gift cards
$20 bucks
And a few travel items.

I hope you had a merry christmas guys. (Did you know that last xmas I had recently had my wisdom teeth removed and thus was in extreme pain?)

Everyone ate my cookies and I only got one. :( *will make more*

I've gotten back into Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. Fayt and Albel are hilarious characters.

After work yesterday, I planned to return the cans, clean my room, and put away my clean clothes. Instead I went straight home, because I didn't feel well. Later on, John came over for a nice dinner. I had horrible diahrrea. You see, I was just sitting down in my room when I accidently pooped a litte (gross!) and I stayed in the bathroom for a long time. You know that weird gas/pain in your stomach you get while having diahrrea? I had that pretty bad and I couldn't sit down to eat.

So John left and then I finally came out, warmed up some homemade jojo's and tried to enjoy them. I was very naeusous and I didn't think too straight, I ended up eating a little bit of tomato soup as well before I had to run to the bathroom and vomit. It really sucked. I ended up having dry heaves for a while as well.

So in short, I have the flu. It sucks. Thankfully Renee's going to go to work in my place. And thankfully I don't have to go to school today.

I'm going to play the Sims now.