My best birthday memory

My 21st birthday isn’t until Tuesday (May 6th) but I already know it’s going to be the best birthday ever! 1. Because Jim is a part of my life now — he makes me so happy. I really couldn’t ask for anything more… 2. Because he gave me the best birthday gift I’ve ever received!

— 2 dozen red roses
— a bottle of red wine
— a box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates
— a heart-shaped chocolate cake
— a hot pink male teddy bear named Bernie
— and the sweetest birthday card…

I have the most wonderful boyfriend in the world!

I don’t have a lot of good birthday memories because mine is right in the middle of summer here so not many people are around. Most of them are traveling with their families — making the most of the break. It’s usually just me, my family and my closest friends. This year, since my birthday falls on a weekday, we’re just going to have dinner at home on Tuesday. Then my friends will be coming over on the 10th to have pizza — so we can catch up on each other’s lives too.¹

Oh, I forgot to blog about this:
I am now officially on LOA! I submitted my form over a week ago. I sent a tweet to my Twitter account right after I handed in my form to the Assistant Registrar.

Thank you for the comments you left on my last entry. I caught a cold a few days ago and I’ve been having coughing fits but today I woke up feeling much better. I have a lot of catching up to do! I will return comments as soon as I can! Have a great weekend everyone!

Reminiscing

I’m preparing Transient Dreams for the new layout (MR). I’ll probably be basing it on the Kubrick theme so I looked for a 3-column widget-enabled version. I’ve decided not to merge it with the main site since I’m going to turn Moonlight Reverie into a collective.

Edit, 11:21:20 am — I’ve edited the theme to my liking. I’m going to keep this blog simple and hopefully, uncluttered. The header photo is mine - I will not be using images other than my own from now on. I’ll appreciate any feedback! Thank you!

The new domain’s splash page is up! The photo is from my final portfolio for the Photography class I took last term. Let me know what you think! »» CELARDOR.net - the three squares will be linked to the main site and the subsites (a gallery and a free resource site) once I’m finished with all the stuff I need to do around Midheaven.org.

Busy, busy, busybee

All my life I always wanted to fly. I always wanted to live like a hawk. I know you’re not supposed to be jealous of anything, but…to take flight, to soar above everything and everyone, now that’s living. But a hawk is no good around normal birds. It can’t fit in. Even though all the other birds probably wanna be hawks; they hate him for what they can’t be. Proud. Powerful. Determined. Dark. Odin is a hawk. He soars above us. He can fly. One of these days, everyone’s gonna pay attention to me. Because I’m gonna fly too.

~O (2001)

I’ve been so busy lately…

I have so many things to do around Midheaven but I’m going to concentrate on getting all of my upcoming fanlistings up and running. That means I have A LOT of layouts to design and code.

I’m also planning to reopen The Midheaven Cirque which was basically a web directory of sites that are connected in some way to the MH network, either by affiliation with my collectives or personal sites or just by being a fan of me or MH.

Busy, busy, busy… I barely have time to sleep these days.

Sam’s sleeping under my chair again. haha. He’s so sweet. There was a thunderstorm the other day and he was visibly shaking. He was trying to climb onto my lap…he was so scared! Poor Sammy… He’s been on a leash for two days now because he hasn’t been behaving and we have guests. He must have been incredibly bored today while we were out.

Beh, my best friend, bought me a red jacket - which I have yet to see - when she got her first paycheck. Weeeee! She’s so sweet… I’ve missed her so much these past few weeks… She’s really busy with work.

So much schoolwork! I had to do eight plates for HARTDS1 last week - that’s why I wasn’t able to post these past two weeks, the schoolwork just kept piling up - I mean to post at least once a week from now on. I need to work on three plates for COLREND, one major plate for DESPRIN, start my grid drawing (we’re going to enlarge our own portraits) for FREHAND AND study for my midterm exams!

Plus, MIDTERMS ARE NEXT WEEK!

On a happy note, I’m doing REALLY well in BMAT2-X. I have an almost perfect score in the lab component and a perfect score in the lecture component. Yay! I have the highest grade in the class.

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX! I’m going to watch with my mom, my sister and my cousins. I’m actually looking forward to that more than the movie. My mom isn’t much of a movie-goer. In fact, the last movie she saw in the theater is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (she read the books before ever watching the movies) and before that, I think the last time she ever went to a movie theater was the first time I ever went to one. haha. I was probably around three or four then.

Edit: My mom and I went to reserve tickets earlier. It’s going to be just the two of us - the others might cancel and we didn’t want the tickets to go to waste.

No time to read. But plenty of time to buy new books. Yes, I’m going broke because of my passion for books. I just can’t seem to help myself.

Neil Gaiman has a new book out, M is for Magic. I’m probably going to get that soon. I’ve won quite a few books on a local auction site. Must settle those first. One of the books I won is A Passion For Books: A Book Lovers Treasury, a book lovers treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books. Edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan. Foreword by Bradbury. Umberto Eco’s “How to justify a private library”, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: “Have you read all these books?” Robertson Davies’s “Book Collecting”, on the diference between those who collect rare books because they’re valuable and those who collect them because they love books. Anatole Broyard’s “Lending Books” in which he notes, “I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.”, Gustave Flaubert’s Bibliomania, the classic tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it. Anna Quindlen, John Updike and more!
Edit: I’m going to get M is for Magic along with Interworld next Wednesday before or after my mom and I watch Harry Potter.
AND the last HP book… HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Just 15 more days to go! hihihi. I reserved my copy way back in February (4th). I was the second one to reserve a copy at that particular bookstore…I would’ve been the first if I hadn’t forgotten to withdraw - I didn’t have any cash with me. haha. Sometimes I feel like I just want to read the last book, just to get it over with.

LSS: still Gin Blossoms. I’ve just been alternating between these five songs: Follow You Down, Hey Jealousy, Til I Hear It from You, Until I Fall Away and Competition Smile. But I’ll be listening to the artists/bands/songs you suggested.

Thank you so much everyone!

Have any of you ever listened to Dishwalla?

Thank you to all the lovely people who commented on my last post! I’ll return your comments as soon as I can. *hugs*

I’ll try to post earlier in the week..around Wednesday or Thursday.

Someone asked me why I hold on, I smiled. What made me fall for him, I stayed silent. They asked me why of all people, I chose him. I answered, “In this world of lies, he’s only the truth I know.”

~Unknown