Well, it's October 28th, my birthday, and I don't have much to say.
I got a nice Southern-style breakfast this morning, went to college and took a quiz and yakked about The Poe Shadow for an hour, came home, napped, went out for some sushi (OM NOM NOM good :3), came home, ate some cake and ice cream, unwrapped presents and now I'm here blogging about it.

Here's what I got:
a $25 iTunes gift card
the Animusic 2 DVD
and as I announced in the Pokémon club thread:
I got HeartGold AND SoulSilver!
(My brother has offered to try one out, even though he can't understand Japanese, at least not to the extent that I can.)

*sigh* Still no electric guitar... (-_-;)

And I guess that's it. Comment how you like (the rules still apply).

See you on Christmas Day,
HibiscusKazeneko

...and it's an adventure. College is nothing like high school, and I've grown to like the difference. I only have two classes per day (only one on Fridays) and I have lots of spare time. (I'm not employed; my mom won't let me work outside the house.) I've made some friends and, for the first time in my life, actually have an active social life.
The only thing I hate: PARKING. There is NOT ENOUGH SPACE for all the students and faculty, and when I arrive at school in the mid-morning, even the "overflow" on the grass is full. I have to drive around like a shark and wait for someone to back out. There is a LOT of competition, so parking my car can take upwards of 20 minutes.

I haven't been able to work on any Flash lately because I deactivated the license on my old computer and am having trouble putting it on my Mac. (It still thinks the license is active for some reason.) If anybody can help me, please comment or PM me.

Catch you later!

Hibiscus

This summer is drawing to a close, and so far I and everyone else in the house have done NOTHING fun or amusing, not even a trip to the movies. The reason? FUCKING TERRI SCHIAVO LIVES IN MY LIVING ROOM! My mother has been battling cancer (and losing) since 1998 and now she is constantly whining about being in pain and nauseous and my brother and I have to chauffeur her back and forth to the oncology clinic every week or so. She's clearly rotting before our eyes and I believe it would be MUCH more humane for her and all of us if we cold just put her down. I'm sure my dad is hemorrhaging money trying to pay for all the treatments (insurance companies refuse to cover us thanks to you-know-who) and my brother and I are being denied normal lives because we are expected to act as hospice nurses 24-7. Only God knows if I'm ever going to be allowed to attend college; at this rate, I may be forced to drop out so I can be "on hand in case of an emergency."
I have repeatedly voiced my need to escape from this twisted hell I was born into; all my cries for help have gone unanswered. When I told my family how I wanted to escape, they pulled the "Be considerate" card and tied me down, presumably for life. I've got "Considerate" gushing out my ass, people! It would be MUCH easier on ALL of us if the source of our problems was terminated; i.e. either my mother or me. If you're not going to put her down, put ME down instead. I've had MORE than I can take of this WRETCHED witch coven that I have been forced to call "family." I've had it, I've HAD IT, I'VE HAD IT!!!!

Whew...had to get that out...

No comments this time; I'm not in the mood to put up with trolls.

Today, we finalized the decision-making stuff and my dad, my brother and I rolled off the lot with a brand-new 2009 Kia Spectra! I have to say, it handles like a dream; I haven't been in a street-legal car this comfy in a LONG time. A picture of the model is located below; I'll edit to a pic of the real thing when and if I can snap one. (License plates will be blurred, of course.)

Now that I have the car, I'm working on personalizing it. I have a few stickers lying around the house and we just bought a sunshade. I still have to share with my brother, so he doesn't want it to look too "gay" for him. All décor suggestions welcome!

Edited in response to an urgent wake-up call:
I will NOT tolerate any criticism based on my choice of vehicle. I am vehemently against doing business with most major motor companies due to their unethical (and in some cases, quite possibly illegal) business practices. Visit Green America's website for more information.

As I may or may not have mentioned in the forums, I graduated from high school (finally!) on Wednesday and have done nothing but eat and party the past few days. My biggest graduation present, a brand-new MacBook, arrived this morning and I'm posting from it right now.

Meanwhile, in other news, since I've got lots of spare time, I dusted off an old Flash project and it should be released this summer. No estimates; I don't know if something will come up or not. I REALLY want to go to Los Angeles for the Morning Musume event at Anime Expo this year, but it has yet to be determined whether or not my parents will let me go. They're making me perform odd jobs for less-than-minimum-wage pay, so if I can't go to LA, I can at least have money saved up for when AnimeFest rolls around this year. (I missed A-Kon for the second year in a row due to the class trip; plus all the guests chickened out due to the swine flu scare.)

Catch you on the flip side!

~ Hibiscus

OK, so it's been what, 4 months since my last news post?!?
Man, I've lost track of time.

Anyway, I've got a lot to report on, so grab a snack and a cold beer from the fridge and sit back; I might be here a while:
~ By a scratch of a miracle, I got let back into school.
~ I got a copy of Shugo Chara! Amu no Niji-iro Chara Change for Nintendo DS and its accompanying CD single in the mail.
~ My aunt died of a stroke.
~ I went to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert.
~ AbsintheClock kicked me out of the Clock Crew for no apparent reason.
~ I got rid of Safari and replaced it with Google Chrome.
~ I got the DVD box set of Azumangs Daioh at Half-price Books.
~ Several other menial accomplishments I can't think of off the top of my head.
Oh yeah, I saw the entirety of the first series in the Shugo Chara! series, and I liked it.

I'm working on another Phoenix Wrong counterpart; it might be out in the next few months. (I'm gonna have to do a bit of sprite editing for this one.)

Catch you on the flip side!

%u2606Hibiscus

EDIT (2/26/09): Chrome stopped working, and I had to replace it with Opera. No problems yet.

I know it's a few days late, but here's the story...
It all started 2 years ago when I transferred into this podunk school for ADHD kids. I don't even have ADHD (not that it exists, anyway), so I was immediately cast out. Things overall went smoothly until last year, when I was placed in class with a certain teacher(the one whom I have highlighted as a potential rapist), who intimidated and ridiculed me in front of everyone and used the sneakiest of tactics to cover his tracks.
Now that was only the TIP of the iceberg...
This year, I was placed in Mr. Rapeface's class again, this time with only two other students, both of whom have been out to get me since they met me. We were working on a precalculus problem which I was having trouble with, so when it came time to review our answers and correct them, I turned up with some off-the-wall numbers. I tried to go back and fix my mistakes, but the two jackholes and Mr. Rapeface were yelling at the top of their lungs about the then-upcoming Student Senate elections. Then Mr. Rapeface saw my inability to focus and screamed, "Do you have the answer yet?" and when I tried to answer "No," he would leave me be for a bare sliver of a second and then burst in at the speed of light with the same pervasive answer. He nearly gave me a heart attack at least three or four times, and the other students were laughing their heads off! It was clear they were getting enjoyment at my expense, so I stormed out of the room and headed down to the principal's office, not knowing I was being followed. I tried to explain the situation to the administration, but they refused to believe me (by then Mr. Rapeface had finagled his way in and lied away) and I was expelled for dissent. I have repeatedly tried to take my life but my sissy Yggdrasill-esque mother stopped me, took me to a string of doctors and got me pumped up on drugs in an effort to get me to forget what happened.
And ironically, Poozy locked the school pet peeves thread the same day for absolutely no legitimate reason! I swear I will kill the people who conspired to have me thrown out of school, as well as Neo-Bigbadron here!
MARK MY WORDS!

It's my birthday! (Look to the left for my age.)
Here's what I got:
A bonsai tree
2 sets of pajamas
2 pairs of pants
A shirt
6 pairs of underwear
Margot's Word Brain
some jewelry

I also have a copy of Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan DS in the mail. It should arrive sometime this week.

See you!

~Hibiscus

Hi, I'm still alive (for now) and here to report on the current lull in my online activities. School started today, and I'm not yet up to my eyeballs in homework but expect to be within the next few weeks.
I'm taking a guitar class to fulfill my fine arts credit requirement, and don't expect to stop there. It's not clear whether I'll ever make it to the point where I'm recording stuff and posting it in the Audio Portal; all I have is my dad's old Yamaha G-230 classical guitar, no electrical instruments or mixing equipment whatsoever.
I picked up Tales of Symphonia a few weeks before school started and am less than enthusiastic about the sequel. (The first game was censored and butchered beyond belief; I don't expect Namco Bandai to do any better this time around.) The reason I mentioned this is because I decided at the spur of a moment when I was playing that I would make a fanflash parodying the game; yet most of the sketches I can think up revolve around Zelos' antics. The Flash will be called Tales of Stupidity, and I'm willing to take suggestions for sketch concepts (primarily featuring characters other than Zelos, if you please). There is no release date I can present considering my fickle schedule.

Also, I hope to attend AnimeFest this weekend. Don't go looking for me.

See you when something significant happens!

~HibiscusKazeneko

That's right, people: school's out. At least for me. Time to relax, visit exotic places and hang out with friends. This post is being made a few days late, I know, but I'll tell you what I've done to kick off the summer:
~I took the SAT Saturday.
~That evening, my family (including my visiting grandmother), a good friend of mine and I all drove down to the local drive-in theatre and watched a double feature of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Iron Man (both of which I had already seen, but others hadn't). We didn't get home until 3:00 AM, so I was tired the next day. ;@_@

This past couple of days, I got Flash back up and running (it turned out my issues with features not working was rooted in the settings being thrown out of whack) and I plan to join the next installment of thewax70's Sonic Shorts collab series. I also have another Phoenix Wrong Flash in the works. Keep in mind that I don't put release dates, even projected ones, on my animations anymore (I set up a rigid deadline for a Flash two years ago and it proved disastrous), so you'll just have to wait for further updates to be released if you want to know when my Flash will be done.

I'll post again when anything new happens!

<3 HibiscusKazeneko
(aka HibiscusClock, if you're from the Clock Crew)