Random Youtube Tuesday!

Today's theme is...cute baby animals!

Of course I will start with my favorite animal, the wolf.
This video is a clip from a longer documentary. The last minute or so is the cutest part, if you want to skip the talking at the beginning and just watch the wolf cub howl.



Cute little fuzzy cheetah cubs.



The next video is an adorable one of a baby giraffe, but embedding is removed...not surprising, as it's an official animalplanet clip. *grins*
Here's the link, you should go look: Giraffe

As chance works out, the three clips I chose are my and my siblings' favorite animals. *laughs*

Happy Dance of Yayness

Over the years, my family has accumulated a number of games for the computer. Several binders' worth of games.
This year, mom decided to start going through the games, weeding out the games that are just too easy, the ones noone would play, and the ones that don't even work anymore.
I've decided that I don't like computer games. Unlike video games that will work as long as you have the game system, it takes very little for a computer game to not work on a different computer.
There's a pile of games that gave error messages that's like 2 inches thick now.

Anyways, onto the yayness.
Yesterday Mom was testing games, and she came across several that weren't working on the computer. My Petz games for one - Catz didn't work at all, Dogz did but we no longer had the game code. *sigh*
Two of my favorite games ever, that I used to play for hours, weren't working on the computer: Museum Madness and Ecoquest: Search for Cetus. (It was really no surprise that DOS-based games wouldn't work real great on a Vista OS. *laughs*)
I took them up to my laptop, to see if they'd happen to work on it. To my shock and awe and happyness, BOTH of the games worked! So now I can play my favoritest games in the world in my own room. *grins*

My brother now wants to borrow my laptop, though. Museum Madness is one of his favorite games, too. *laughs*

Mandatory School Blog

So, college has been going for two weeks now, which is time enough for me to make an assessment of how my classes are, so it's time for a life update: school edition.

I'm taking only 4 classes - a light load for me, but necessary since I'm running out of classes I can take and have to stretch it out another semester.

First off, Mondays and Wednesdays at 9AM, I've got Physical Geography. The teacher is the same guy who taught my Geology class last semester (and the one I'm taking this semester). That's the main reason I'm taking the class. *laughs*
It's good so far...if it weren't for the map quizzes, it would be an easy class, in fact. Unfortunately, we've got lots of countries and stuff to memorize, so that bumps it up to the medium hard category.
Love the textbook. It's by National Geographic, so it's full of beautiful pictures.

Then in the evening on the same days, I'm taking Fundamentals of Baking. No, I'm not a culinary student - I'm just taking it because it sounded interesting.
We're taking a long time to get anywhere, though. The last couple classes have been spent wandering through the first chapters of the text. Rather boring, and the teacher doesn't know her information. She's using someone else's notes.
We're supposed to be making rolls today, though. We'll see. If nothing else, I'll get food out of the class. *laughs*

On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 AM, I have Physical Geology. So far it seems easier than Historical Geology was...maybe it's just because I'm familiar with some of the concepts already. There's about half a dozen of us students from last semester's Geology class, but they're all taking the later lab, so I'm all by my lonesome in the 12PM lab.
We're currently studying minerals, preparing for the mineral exam coming up in a few weeks. I hope its easier than the fossil one. I only got a 95 on that one. *sigh*
The textbook for this class is wonderful, too. I'll probably keep it instead of the Historical Geology book.

I'm taking Western Civilization online. I never got to take a world history class in high school because we moved. In Idaho, where I had my freshman year, American history was taught in 9th grade and world history was 11th. In Florida, where I graduated, world history was 9th and American history was 11th. I ended up taking American history twice - it wasn't until the middle of the year, when the teacher started teaching manifest destiny, that I realized that I'd heard all this information before. *laughs*
Anyways. Western Civ online...it's okay so far. Got a test in a couple weeks.
I have to write a paper on Isaac Newton. Could be worse - the student a couple higher on the list than me got Machiavelli.

Finally, I have a kind of unofficial class. I took Spanish last semester and learned nothing. I need to take Spanish 2 before we leave, so I don't have to buy a different book up at ISU. The Spanish 2 class that has the good teacher is ahead of where the bad teacher left off. Therefore, in order to take Spanish 2, I have to learn enough Spanish not to fail.
Dad very kindly set up the Rosetta Stone program he gets free through the military for me so I can use that to learn. It's really very good...I think I'm going to go down the list. Start with Spanish, move on to Japanese, Italian...*grins*

So, those are my classes this semester.
A mix of easy and hard.
We'll have to see how it all turns out. ^^

Random Youtube Tuesday!

Meant to get a blog post in about school before today, but I just never got around to it.
I'll do it sometime this week.

Didn't have anything ready for today, so I just put in random phrases until something caught my eye...so today is red panda video day!

Random Youtube Tuesday

Today's youtube videos...are just weird.
Don't ask, I don't even know how I found them.

Birthday Blog!

My birthday was on the 3rd - I turned 21.
No, we didn't have big wild parties, but it was still great. ^^

It was a birthday that kinda streeeeetched out over a week or so. First, a couple days before my birthday, we all went down (up?) near the Austin area. (At least, I seem to remember that's where it was. ^^") We met up with my aunt Margaret, who was in the area, and wandered around doing cool stuff. We hit up a used bookstore that had some neat books...I found about half a dozen books that looked good. We ate at a little restaurant for lunch. (I had a bacon cheeseburger...which is like my favorite food. ^^) We went to the outlet mall...but really only the Disney store that's there. *laughs* I got an Eeyore shirt that's really cute. We went to a couple other places before heading home. Margaret spent the night, which was kind of fun - we all watched Wall-E (which is one of the cutest movies I've ever seen).

On my birthday (which was a Saturday) we went out and hit a bunch of Goodwills and pawn shops. We had Taco Bell for lunch, and the casserole I really like for dinner. I got a couple of movies at the pawn shops.

I got nifty cool presents, too. I got a lot of gifts throughout the week: for example, I got J.K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard at the used bookstore and Nintendos for my DS before Saturday. They were gifts, we just didn't see the need to hold onto them. ^^ I got a cool crochet book, though. We also went to Barnes and Noble and I got a couple of manga and a how to draw manga book.

All in all, a pretty good birthday. ^^

Mandatory Christmas Blog

Yah, I know, I'm slow.
Before I sit and blather about my viewpoint of Christmas, first I think I'll link you to some of my Mom's Christmas blogposts. Hers are nifty special, 'cause she adds pictures. *oooh*
Cookies, traditions, family gifts, Santa gifts (and slideshow), making Gingerbread house, and Dad's Christmas pictures.

Alright.
Christmas was good...I already posted about my Christmas cactus, which the main decoration in my room. ^^
I actually brought it downstairs and put it on a little table so we could put our gifts under it (which I thought was a cute idea).
Got a bunch of awesome gifts. Just a few of the things I got were candy (including my favorite Reese's Trees), DS games (Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Animal Crossing), an Elfen figure, several cool books, and a pretty necklace. Also cool were some of the gifts to the family - two very cool Wii games and an awesome board game.

Mom gave me an odd look when I said we needed to get the guinea pigs a gift too. They're part of the family, aren't they?
We all laughed when they ignored the gift in favor of the wrapping paper. *sigh*

One of the main things we did to celebrate this year was make a gingerbread house kit Mom had picked up last year.
Let me tell you, gingerbread house frosting is nasty. I kept getting it on my hands...and I'd lick it off, so as to not get it on the table. Sugar high of the year, man.
It turned out cute, though. Mah siblings each decorated one side, and I decorated the front. Didn't spend much time on it, since I got tired of the thing while icing the sides for the kids. ><

Hm...anything else?
Not that I can recall...next time I need to not wait so long - I've forgotten a bunch! *laughs*

Random Youtube Tuesday!

Since I'm running late this morning, this is gonna go quick.
As any of you who have faithfully been watching my RYTs may have noticed, I really like the song "Flight of the Bumblebees." I've put up videos of it several times before.
Well, a couple weeks ago, I came across several really interesting versions...and decided to do a Flight of the Bumblebee RYT, and hopefully get it out of my systen so I can bring you other random things! *laughs*
Without any further ado, let the flight commence!

Apparently I can't do a RYT without acapella videos anymore.



Trans-Siberian Orchestra, whoo! (Best quality I could find)



Finally, I keep coming across euphonium pieces. I couldn't play this song on the piano, let along a brass instrument.



That's it for today! See you next week!

Life Updates!

Before I put up this week's videos, I thought I'd do a life update post.
It's what I do when I'm too lazy to do a real post, but still want something between RYTs. *laughs*

Christmas was recently...I'll have lots to say about it soon. Also my birthday was the 3rd - it was great. I'm now 21.
School starts next week, so you'll probably get a post about it.
I've got a bunch of new games...I'll probably write something about them in the coming weeks. I'm also doing good on old games - I recently got past a part in Zelda: Twilight Princess that my video game-talented brother was stuck on, so I'm ahead of him. *grins*
I haven't been drawing as much as I'd like, but I've getting through some of my books at a pretty good pace. Today I'll be finishing off the Black Stallion series and get rid of about half of them. Then I can get back to my normal cycle of books. [For those who don't yet know how I work, I have around 8 books I read at a time. I read ten pages in one, switch to another and read ten pages, switch to another, etc.]
I've got a number of long, 350+ page books to read. *sigh*
When school starts again, I'll be getting through the very long (500+ pages) books faster, because I keep one in my bag and read it when I've got breaks.
Um...that's everything I can think of at the moment.
Stick around, because RYT is coming up next!