http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:weaver-of-yarns&section=today deviantART RSS for by:weaver-of-yarns en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:04:41 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/26694269/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/26694269/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:28:22 PDT You can't use the band I used and don't repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think!
Repost as "my life according to (band name)".

Pick your Artist:
Rascal Flatts

Your sex:
Waiting All My Life

Describe yourself:
Winner at a Losing Game

How do you feel:
Better Now

Describe where you currently live:
Close

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Oklahoma-Texas Line

Your favorite form of transportation:
Fast Cars and Freedom

Your best friend is:
You

You and your best friends are:
We Got Love (Lost Demo)

What's the weather like:
Shine On

Favorite time of day:
Summer Nights

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
It's Not Just Me

What is life to you:
Unstoppable

Your relationship:
It's Not Supposed To Go Like That

Your fear:
My Worst Fear

What is the best advice you have to give:
Break Away

Thought for the Day:
Love Who You Love

How you would like to die:
Holdin' On

Your soul's present condition:
No Reins

Your motto:
Stand

... That was surprisingly easy...

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/26116673/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/26116673/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:13:29 PDT
1.) What is your name?
That falls under the category of none of your business. *paranoid*

2.) Do you find it annoying when surveys ask for your name?
Yes.

3.) What do you plan to buy in the future?
HEAVY RAIN (holy crap when is that coming out OMG I WANTZ IT NAO!)

4.) Where did you get the underwear you are currently wearing?
Dunno. Why?

5.) How many pairs of Converse do you own?
Big fat zero.

6.) Who is your favorite “That ’70s Show” character?
Kelso's the stupid one, right? Then him or Red.

7.) There is a mummy standing behind you. What do you do?
Scream, then rip off the head bandages to see if it's the really hot mummy from Night at the Museum.

8.) What do you think of Miley Cyrus?
Who cares?

9.) Do you tend to think that you are always right?
Yeah, but then someone says something that shoots me down.

10.) Top Five Favorite Songs:
Ooh, toughie.
1. Another Heart Calls- All-American Rejects
2. Just to Get High- Nickelback
3. Home- Blake Shelton
4. How 'Bout You Don't- The Lost Trailers
5. Bob That Head- Rascal Flatts (Don't get too excited, guys. It's a song about a truck.)

11.) What was your favorite toy as a child?
There was a time when I wasn't playing video games?

12.) Have you thought more about your funeral, or your wedding?
Wedding.

13.) Dinosaurs or Unicorns?
Dinosaurs, man! But don't ask me to get on the ride. It kinda scares me.

14.) What is your favorite musical?
Wicked. Or Avenue Q. But I've actually SEEN Wicked, and so I think that counts more.

15.) You need new jeans. Where do you go?
Wally World!

16.) Do you play the Sims 2?
I did. Then I got the Sims 3. *nerd*

17.) Do you think Harry Potter is at all immoral to read?
No. And the people who think it is are insane.

18.) What do you think of Maroon 5?
Who?

19.) What about Coldplay?
Who?

20.) Fall Out Boy?
They have a few good songs, but I really only know them through Rock Band.

21.) Katy Perry?
... WHO?

22.) How about The All-American Rejects?
They are the definition of love. Those guys are amazing.

23.) Have you ever snuck into an R-rated movie when you weren’t old enough to see it ?
No, because the R-rated movies that I want to see, my dad wants to see as well, so it all works out.

24.) The Wii or Xbox 360?
As much as I hate to say this, 360 all the way.

25.) Team Demi/Selena or Team Miley?
Wait, what?

26.) Do you know many Emily’s?
Only three.

27.) What do you think of the Jonas Brothers?
THEY ALMOST RAN ME OVER IN NEW YORK. Also, that song of theirs, Paranoid, once it gets into your head it doesn't leave.

28.) Have you ever slept in a tent, indoors or out?
Yep.

29.) What is your favorite kind of Girlscout cookie?
Do they still make those lemon coolers?

30.) Do you enjoy surveys?
Sometimes.

31.) What do you hear at the moment?
My keyboard.

32.) Why do you think so many people love deviantArt?
IDK.

33.) What do you think of people who do illegal drugs?
I think they're crazy and they're going to mess up their brain doing it.

34.) Do you watch the Olympics?
Depends. What events are we looking at here?

35.) What are your top five favorite stores?
GameStop, Best Buy, Wally World, Kohl's, and Target, I guess.

36.) Do you like the new Weezer album?
They have a new album?

37.) What did you think of Panic at the Disco taking out the exclamation point in their name?
It was a lot of hype over nothing.

38.) What is the worst job you have ever had?
Haven't had one.

39.) Have you ever been to Minnesota?
No...wtf?

40.) What is the strangest thing you’ve ever seen on TV?
Probably a lady who tore her ACL and the dr. was showing how they were going to fix it. He stuck this THING into her knee and was moving it around... *shudders*

41.) Do you watch informercials when there is nothing on?
Nope.

42.) What is your favorite Disney Show?
Wizards of Waverly Place?

43.) Have you ever seen the Wedding Singer?
No

44.) Top five reasons people rank things:
Because they can, because it makes them feel superior, because they're bored, because they have nothing better to do, because they're procrastinating on a big project.

45.) Have you ever gone camping?
Is this '... ]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/26016039/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/26016039/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:08:25 PDT
I've been alive long enough for the entire series, but only just. I was way too young to play the first two, the third one never worked until recently, and the fourth I watched my dad play, I was still too young to play it myself.

This series is a game of craziness and randomness known as *insert fanfare here*

MONKEY ISLAND.

Oh, go on. Go look it up. I'll be here waiting. Watch some gameplay or something. Just... go view the awesomeness that is Monkey Island.




Okay. So now that you know how amazing it is, let me go over the series as a whole.

The Secret of Monkey Island released in 1993, a year after I was born. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge released in 1995. The Curse of Monkey Island came out in 1997, and is the first one that I played by myself (unless you count the guidebook and my cousin sitting on my lap watching me). Escape From Monkey Island came out in 2000 and was the first to be released not only in 3D, but on consoles as well as PC.

Notice a trend here? Like, maybe... how they all came out within two years of each other?

It's been almost a decade without a new Monkey Island. And finally, a spark on the horizon!

At E3 of this year, LucasArts announced two Monkey Island games. One is going to be a remake of the original game, with full voice acting and much better graphics. The other has sorta released and is why this topic came up. The second game is Tales of Monkey Island and is being made by Telltale Games. It's being released in an episodic fashion.

The first episode released on July 7, 2009. And the only thing that I can say is HOLY CRAP AMAZING.

You have to understand. This is the FIRST Monkey Island game that I will be playing, by myself, as it comes out. Though I was certainly old enough to play the fourth one, and as I've been "playing" since I was eighteen months old on my daddy's knee, so I knew how to handle the controller, I am also a huge bookworm. And at the time, my dad got the guide for basically every game. See where this is going? I was smart enough to realize that I didn't have the dexterity/reflexes to perform Monkey Fu or whatever.

Why they didn't stick with Insult Swordfighting, I'll never understand. If Telltale doesn't put Insult SOMETHING in this game, I'm going to be extraordinarily pissed. That has some of the best lines in the entire game, and that's saying something.

Okay, not the point. Anyway, I'm just excited. Let's just leave it at that.

So I played through the first episode, and though I got stuck on a rather simple puzzle (bomb goes IN the underwear, Guybrush...) I thought it was amazing. From the opening puzzle, when you have to enchant a cutlass with voodoo root beer, but the root beer MUST be fizzy and yours is flat, so you have to put breath mints in the root beer, to the hilarious/French stereotype/EVILLL Marquis de Singe who wants to take your evil, cursed hand off of your body by using a miniature guillotine (and he pronounces it like I always thought it was: gillotine instead of geeyotine) to the aforementioned bomb-in-the-underwear puzzle, this chapter was amazing. The one-liners were spot-on, from Guybrush making a reference to the length of time since the last game to the multiple Indiana Jones references.

The games are riddled with references. Unfortunately, I'm apparently not cultured enough to understand most of them. There were a few Star Trek references in the third game that I didn't get until I read about them on one of the best Monkey Island sites around: World of Monkey Island.

Overall, Tales of Monkey Island Episode One: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal gets four and three quarters out of five stars.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

ROCK ON TELLTALE!!!

and i'm serious. you'd better put in some insult swordfighting or armwrestling or something or many of your fans are going to fire the studio. the mel gibson way.

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/22314363/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/22314363/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:04:39 PST
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
I went to New York City and marched in the Macy's parade!!

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No. I didn't quit biting my nails, so... I might, but I don't know.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I think my second cousins were both born this year, but the older one might've been born last year.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
January 1, 2008.
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
Does the USA count, considering I live here?

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A job?

7. What date(s) from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
November 27, 2008. Thanksgiving. When we marched in the Macy's Parade.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
How many times must I say this? Macy's!!!

9. What was your biggest failure?
Almost failing geometry in March.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Unfortunately. I hurt my ankle while marching, and of course I suffered the usual colds and such.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Mmm... dunno. I don't usually buy my own stuff (see the lack of job mentioned above).

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
One of the drum majors for admitting when he screwed up. One of the mellophone players for also admitting when he screwed up and facing the hatred of the entire band.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Half of the drumline and one of the baritones, for making some very stupid decisions and getting themselves banned from band.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Video games!!

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Uhh... Dark Knight!! Well, no. Probably Macy's again.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Just one? Uh, wow. That's a toughie. Um. Cool from the West Side Story soundtrack. It's saying no matter what life hands you or how bad it gets, stay cool and you'll get through it.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you
a) happier or sadder?
Does angrier count? Every year I lose more faith in the human race! Okay, just kidding. Probably happier, but...
b) thinner or fatter?
I lost weight, but I didn't lose the skin and flab unfortunately, so about the same.
c) richer or poorer?
Richer, considering I didn't spend all my Christmas money in one day!

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing and practicing and living for the moment really.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Practicing! Okay, kidding. Uhh... complaining.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
With the family, of course. I spent most of the day playing Rock Band and then on Christmas Day, playing Godfather.

21. How will you be spending New Year's?
Doing nothing but sitting on the Intrawebz and watching TV.

22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I was in two relationships, but neither evolved into anything.

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Plastic Surgery: Before and After, or else anything on the Discovery Health Channel.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Try half the trumpet section.

26. What was the best book you read?
The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Urgh. I don't think West Side Story would count. So probably Nickelback and All-American Rejects. Call me sheltered if you wish, but I hadn't heard their work before.

28. What did you want and get?
Lots of video games.

29. What did you want and not get?
Tuition to PYIC!

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Either Batman Begins or Dark Knight.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I spent my sixteenth birthday at the worst competition of the year. We got yelled at a lot. Not fun.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not having to break up with the second guy I dated. I really hated doing it.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Be comfortable. Later, be comfortable, but be pretty.

34. What kept you sane?
Video games and knowing that tomorrow was just another day and I had another chance.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Urp. I don't know. Don't really care.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Proposition Eight. ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/21735360/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/21735360/ Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:27:31 PST
I have to say, though, my favorite part was definitely going to see Wicked on Broadway. While I couldn't force myself through the book, the musical was beyond words. I cried at the end, but I loved all the music and the acting was insanely awesome. My favorite song (and I apologize right now for the cliche) was definitely Defying Gravity. I've never seen anything like it, and I've only seen two real musicals (BriarPatch and Wicked).

We also saw the Rockettes, but that was last night and, well, there's only so many times you can see a line of pretty women do the can-can before it gets old. I nearly fell asleep, but I did manage to watch the entire thing. Although, allow myself to be fair to myself, we didn't have a whole lot of sleep the night before and I was dead on my feet walking out. I also owe a huge debt to one of my friends' parents, I ran out of money and they got me a Rockettes t-shirt!

A few bad things happened on the trip. Relationship problems that I don't want to go into at the moment, I lost my ring, and well, there was this one incident that nearly made me late for Thanksgiving dinner that embarrasses me just thinking about it. But I did manage to pull everything together and I think I looked really pretty for dinner. Actually, my section leader who is almost like my older brother was scared out of his mind when I walked up to him. He couldn't believe it was really me!

So yes, the trip was beyond words. It was insane. There was so much other stuff that I didn't get to write about, but I'm tired and I forgot to take my magnetic bracelet so my carpal tunnel is acting up again. But thank [insert name of deity here] I don't have to wear the stupid Ace bandage on my ankle anymore! Achilles Tendonitis FTL!

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/21735359/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/21735359/ Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:27:29 PST
I have to say, though, my favorite part was definitely going to see Wicked on Broadway. While I couldn't force myself through the book, the musical was beyond words. I cried at the end, but I loved all the music and the acting was insanely awesome. My favorite song (and I apologize right now for the cliche) was definitely Defying Gravity. I've never seen anything like it, and I've only seen two real musicals (BriarPatch and Wicked).

We also saw the Rockettes, but that was last night and, well, there's only so many times you can see a line of pretty women do the can-can before it gets old. I nearly fell asleep, but I did manage to watch the entire thing. Although, allow myself to be fair to myself, we didn't have a whole lot of sleep the night before and I was dead on my feet walking out. I also owe a huge debt to one of my friends' parents, I ran out of money and they got me a Rockettes t-shirt!

A few bad things happened on the trip. Relationship problems that I don't want to go into at the moment, I lost my ring, and well, there was this one incident that nearly made me late for Thanksgiving dinner that embarrasses me just thinking about it. But I did manage to pull everything together and I think I looked really pretty for dinner. Actually, my section leader who is almost like my older brother was scared out of his mind when I walked up to him. He couldn't believe it was really me!

So yes, the trip was beyond words. It was insane. There was so much other stuff that I didn't get to write about, but I'm tired and I forgot to take my magnetic bracelet so my carpal tunnel is acting up again. But thank [insert name of deity here] I don't have to wear the stupid Ace bandage on my ankle anymore! Achilles Tendonitis FTL!

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/21300988/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/21300988/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:51:23 PST
The season ended on a high note, taking Grand Sweepstakes and the brass getting a perfect score, but still, it's over. Most of the people who helped me last year are leaving this year. We still have Macy's, but how can I get excited about that when I know it's the senior's last performance and most of them helped me in some way?

Anyway, just wanted to throw something up there. I was tired of the band camp update. I'll post something more later, after I beat Fable II.

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/19860008/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/19860008/ Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:00:49 PDT
So this week wasn't as great as last week. A twelve-hour day makes us very tired and so much less ready to work. The Monday was okay, as we had just had the weekend to recover, but Tuesday we were so tired we could hardly think straight. Come Wednesday (early release!) we were just ready to go home and take a nap. Thursday was better, but yesterday, we were all just ready for it to be over. I'm ashamed to admit that I made a couple of really stupid errors and got called out from the tower. I always know when it's the main band director, he's the only one that calls me by my first AND last name! So where he calls someone else "Mike", he calls me "Jane Doe". I got called out once and ended up doing a bunch of pushups. We still owe the trumpet instructor twenty of 'em.

Speaking of pushups, I messed up my wrist doing them. It's swollen and it hurts to bend it. If it keeps bugging me we're going to the doctor, but hopefully it'll heal on its own. We have to do the pushups when we mess up, though I've yet to see a freshman doing them! By day three of my first band camp (last year), I was doing them every other rep!

So last night was the parent preview show and we totally rocked the house. I don't know if the news cameras ever showed up, but I know that I was on the front page of the paper! When the director called "Bring it in" for the last time, EVERYONE screamed and we all rushed for the tower. I think some parents were glad they weren't in our way, we seriously would have pushed them aside!

So overall, it was a decent camp but I'm glad it's over!

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/19724866/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/19724866/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:38:27 PDT
The drum majors are awesome, I'm friends with all of them, and the show sounds like it'll be all right. Nothing will beat The Martian Chronicles in my eyes, but this year is going to be amazing. We're doing... actually, I'm not going to say until later in the season, when the music is set and they've started laying out drill! But know that I'm totally hyped for the Macy's show!

Oh, yeah, in case you haven't figured it out, my band is going to be marching in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! Seriously, everyone is totally excited. We get to go see Wicked on Broadway, so all the girls are getting really dressed up for that. I found an online dress designer and figured out the perfect dress! I hope I can find it somewhere. It'll be red with an assymmetrical skirt line and a scoop-neck top.

So maybe this journal isn't as great as the last ones, but you have to understand, it's ten thirty-ish and it's later than I've been up in a week. So I'm kind of tired. I'm ready for band camp to be over.

So we'll get through the weekend. Tax-Free weekend and whatnot, gotta get school supplies, then going with my friend on Sunday to find her a dress for Broadway!

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/19189835/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/19189835/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:46:09 PDT
Tonight, when we walked outside to work on Basics, we went onto the marching field. I've spent countless hours on the asphalt out there, and stepping back onto it again, I seriously felt shivers run up my spine. For a second, ghosts of us last year seemed to appear, but in the blink of an eye, they were gone.

It makes you wonder, honestly. What is time, really? How can a practice drag on for what seems like days and a week go for only seconds? How is is that summer seems so short and each day seems so long? How long have I really been away from band? Has it been six months or six years? These are all questions I asked myself.

At the end of practice, our director wasn't too pleased with us. The front line of trumpets (thankfully I was on the second line) wasn't playing with the exception of the single senior who was playing tonight. The director pulled the entire veteran brass line over to talk to us, then made everyone else leave while he addressed the trumpets directly.

Wait, when did I become a veteran? I haven't learned everything I need to learn to be a true veteran! I guess when you walk off the field of Indianapolis for the first time, you have become a veteran player. I don't know, I still feel like a freshie, even though some of the freshies are much worse than I ever was.

I guess tonight I've learned something. I've learned that life is constantly moving and I can't take a single second for granted. In three Thanksgivings, three Christmases, three Valentine's Days and two more Fourth of July's, I'm done. And when I graduate, there's no turning back. I have no plans to march college. I might go help at band camp when I don't have to carry a horn around. I'll show up for a practice every once in a while I suppose. But I'm not marching Corps. I'm not marching college (unless I need the scholarship). After high school, it's over.

And high school is going to end very, very soon. As excited as I am for it, I'm terrified. I don't want to leave my band behind.

Oh, well. I've got three more years.

Or is it going to be three more weeks? Or three more days? Or three more seconds?

Because time is never a constant.

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/17139848/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/17139848/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:22:05 PST
Band did so much more for me than I could possibly explain in a journal. It gave me confidence that I never knew I had. It gave me courage to do anything. But most importantly, it taught me that I can do anything if I want it bad enough.

When I got to band camp the first day, I knew insantly that I was going to have to work. I could've walked away then and there... but I didn't. You know what? I stuck with it, and after the season my mom told me that she never thought I would go through with it.

During the season, I was sicker than I ever remember being in my life. We're talking every four hours or so, my mom would drive up to the school and give me medicine. That weekend, we had a major band competition and practice immediately before it started. I was on the asphalt from nine to noon, drugged up to my eyebrows. After practice, I found my mom for my next dose of meds and just broke into tears I felt so awful. She gave me the option of going home. I told her, "I wish I could." I stuck with it. I only missed a grand total of one practice.

During this season, I encountered the most emotional weekend of my life. In Indianapolis, the biggest performance of the season, I cried going onto the field for the first time because I was terrified. The next day, I cried at the beginning of our final practice because the drum majors spoke to us. I cried at the end of the practice because that was the last rehearsal. The next day, I cried when we came off the field because I knew in my heart that it was over... that we weren't going to make finals. I cried when I got back to the hotel room because I just couldn't believe it. I cried when we found out we didn't make finals. I cried myself to sleep when we got on the bus to go home.

And now the season's over and the horns are silenced. As much as we all complain about how harsh the season is, I know I'm not the only one to say that I miss it already. The repetitive dinging sound of the met and the harsh cracks from the snares as the horns blare and people move across the asphalt... it's over, it's gone, and it won't be until August until I hear those wonderful sounds again.

In the meantime, I'll laugh with my newfound 'family' of two hundred. I'll enjoy my freedom until it's gone. And then? I'll complain of being overworked. I'll complain of the heat. I'll complain of the pain.

But underneath it all, know that I have finally found a sport I enjoy.

Because marching band is a sport. Anyone who says differently has obviously never tried it.

And know that I've finally found a place in the school where I truly belong... where two hundred some people know me, accept me.

"We fight for glory
Across the land
We fight past the pain,
'Cause we are the band!"

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/16495895/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/16495895/ Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:39:41 PST
So, may your drinks never empty, your sails stay full, and treasure lurk just beyond the horizon~

Kairi

(And marching band for the win!)

]]> ~weaver-of-yarns http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/11238054/ http://weaver-of-yarns.deviantart.com/journal/11238054/ Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:39:44 PST
Anyway, I probably should have done the obligatory 'hi, I'm... and this is what you should expect" post by now, but I'm lazy and didn't feel like it.

So...

Hi, I'm the weaver of yarns! Call me Kairi, though, it's a nickname from a LONG way back. As you can probably tell, I don't do 'art'. I do writing. Mostly fanfic, although I'm working on a real story right now.

Um...

Bye.

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