001. Name → Christina
002. Nickname(s) → Stina, Kitsu, Missy, Otter-face
003. Status → Taken
004. Zodiac sign → Aquarius
005. Male or female → Female
006. Elementary → Tokay Elementery
007. Middle School → Almeria Middle
008. High School → Rancho Cucamonga High
009. Smart → Sometimes. Depends on the subject at the time.
010. Hair color → Dark brownish
011. Long or short → It's kinda long now. I'm probably going to cut it.
012. Loud or Quiet → Quiet. I have so much loud in my life that I actually enjoy the quiet more.
013. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans. Sweats you really can't go out in. Well, you could, but I choose not to.
014. Phone or Camera → In regards to photography, my camera. But my phone is much more portable so I get more pictures off of that.
015. Health freak → Ha! So no.
016. Drink or Smoke? → I drink sometimes. At least I used to. Not really all that much anymore.
017. Do you have a crush on someone? → No one real. Yeah, that sounds really unhealthy >.>
018. Eating or Drinking → Drinking. I must have spent way too much time chewing gum as a kid 'cause not I hate chewing >.<
019. Piercings → I have my ears pierced but that's really it.
020. Tattoos → For the longest time I wanted to get a dolphin chain around my ankle. Then I realized that anything I wanted could be done with henna, therefore bypassing the pain part.

FIRSTS:

023. First Mate → Like... first real relationship? Or first "we were kinda together but never had the talk about it"? I suppose if it was first real relationship, it would be Justin. But before that, there was James.
024. First best friend → Brianna
025. First award → Perfect attendance? But I did get an actual trophy in band when I was in middle school. I forget what it was for, though.
026. First crush → Oh gosh... it was either Jesse or Jason... I don't quite remember.
027. First pet → I had soooooo many fish as a kid. I suppose my first real pet, though, would have been my parakeet named Princess. Yeah, I was soooo original.
028. First big vacation → Probably the trip to Yosemite when I was younger. First time I ever saw snow falling too ^.^
030. First big birthday → 9th birthday. I had a huge party! I still remember it being pretty kick-ass.

CURRENTLY:

049. Eating → Peanutbutter cups
050. Drinking → Water
052. I'm about to → Change my outfit for this evening
053. Listening to → Enchanted Arms in my 360. I started in intending on playing it and now I'm just kinda letting it loop.
054. Plans for today → I have a street fair this evening I'm going to with my family.

YOUR FUTURE:

058. Want kids? → Probably not
059. Want to get married? → Probably not
060. Careers – Eventually I want to be the deputy coroner of San Francisco

WHICH IS BETTER WITH OPPOSITE SEX?

068. Lips or eyes → Eyes
070. Shorter or taller? → Taller
072. Romantic or spontaneous → Neither? I guess spontaneous
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → Well, if we're going with what I would like in a perfect world, nice stomach
074. Sensitive or loud → Somewhere in the middle
075. Hook-up or relationship → I guess relationship. I don't fancy being a one-night stand
077. Troublemaker or hesitant → A little of both, I guess.

HAVE YOU EVER:

080. Lost glasses/contacts → Sunglasses count, right? Oh my gosh, I have lost soooooooo many pairs of sunglasses :-(
081. Ran away from home → Yep. When I was 7. I ran away to Nana's house.
084. Broken someone's heart → Possibly
085. Been arrested → Not yet :-P
087. Cried when someone died → Not where anyone would have seen me.


DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

089. Yourself → A little
090. Miracles → Maybe
091. Love at first sight → No
092. Heaven → Maybe
093. Santa Claus → Yep. See him every year at the mall.
094. Sex on the first date → No
095. Kiss on the first date → Maybe

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → Eh... not really.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → Not really
099. Do you believe in God → I... really don't know.
100. Post as 100 truths and tag people? → Posting but not tagging.

And now for your viewing pleasure, a picture from Disneyland last night:

So Assassin's Creed 2 came out this past Tuesday and no matter how much I think about it, I can't justify spending $60 on a video game. At least not right now. So I was poking at the Gamestop website and saw that they were doing a few trade-in specials. Now that's something I could get behind. Take in a few games I don't play anymore, get my new nifty game and I won't have the guilt trip that goes with it. So I get together like... 10 games (360, Wii and DS) that I don't ever play and take them in. Now, there are two specials going on. One is if I turn in 6 games, I get an extra 40% credit and the other is for every game I put towards Assassin's Creed 2, I get an extra 25%. So 6 games for the 40% and 4 games for the 25%. Separate transactions and all that jazz. So I'm thinking I may not have to buy the game at all, and if I do, it'll be like $5-$10 at most. So I ask him to check for me to see how much it was going to be and I would make a decision based off of that.

For 10 games, I would have gotten a $21 credit, which really didn't seem right. Sure, I would only be paying $39 for my game now, but still, 10 games just to get $21 off? It really didn't seem worth it. So I thanked him and went on my way. This was this past Saturday.

Today I was checking the Cult of Rapture website and saw that they're releasing a special edition BioShock 2, which I am totally jazzed about. As a side note, it's interesting that I'm willing to pay $99 for the special edition of BioShock 2 but I'm not willing to pay $60 for AC2. But anyways, I saw that and went down to my local gamestop to switch my reservation over from just the game to the special edition, which ended up being rather silly of me because they didn't even have it in their system yet. But while I was there I saw that they're having a different special: Trade in two eligible games and get AC2 for $19.99. Now this seemed like a better deal. So after asking, out of curiousity, what kind of credit I would get if I turned in my Nintendo DS ($30. Pft, I'll keep it, thank you very much) I took the list and headed out to see which games I had that were on the list. Once home, I realized I had quite a few games on the list, but none of which I was willing to get ride of. So, in the end, I still don't have AC2 but I really don't think I'm all that upset about it. Especially since I saw the Bioshock special edition this morning:



But I still would kinda like to have it. I'm considering putting up some games and such on e-bay... maybe. I keep flipping back and forth on my DS. I haven't played it in like 9 months but I still kinda don't want to get rid of it. Eh, I don't know.

Anyways, the real point to this is that it's not really worth it to trade in videogames anymore. I remember with Fallout 3, I think, we traded in 4 games and still had credit left over. Now with the 10 games plus $40, one is better off just keeping the games. Especially since I think I have 1 or 2 that I haven't finished yet ^.^

Been stuck in my head for the past two days. Thought I'd throw it out there for anyone who wanted it.

Legal Assassin

Just a quick post to say I actually started posting something in my photo journal here: http://tuesdaysoffice.livejournal.com/

Just in case anyone's interested ^.^

Note: I typed this up at some point last week but I didn't finish it so I never posted it. But since LJ was kind enough to save it for me, I thought I might as well post it anyway.



Jeremy Danvers from the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. There's just something about him that makes me feel all warm inside ^.^

Funny thing about this question is that Jeremy was the very first that came to mind and when I tried to think of others, I still ended up sticking with him. I went through my recent books and came up with Kyler Stern and FitzChivalry Farseer but while I love reading about them, I don't think I'd want to date them. Same with Edward from the Anita Blake series and, thinking back to early middle school, Tobias from the Animorphs series (speaking of which, I found all of my Animorph books in the garage last month. I had sooooooooooo many of those books! And almost as many Goosebumps books) and quite a few others. And I can't even think of anyone from a movie or a TV show. How about a video game? I could totally go for Master Chief from Halo. Or not... yeah, the armor's sexy but what about the person under the armor? And he seems a little too into the saving the world thing. Not much time for dating, I would think.

So yeah, Jeremy for sure.

Stolen from nightehfaice like forever ago and I forgot that I wanted to post it. Or something like that.

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their livejournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!



It's Xerxes Break from Pandora Hearts, which happens to be my current anime of choice. I have a habit of changing my background on a biweekly bases. If I did this a few days ago, it would have been something from Monochrome Factor and before that it was Conrad and Wolfram from Kyo Kara Maoh and before that it was a picture of a whale that I took at Sea World. Anyways, I'm only 15 episodes into the series but I totally love Break! He reminds me of a mix of Bez and Cayden (two roleplaying characters of JP and mine), he's a little crazy, and he makes me smile so naturally I'm going to choose him out of all the other characters to look at every day ^.^

... at least until I change my background again :-P

There's no place I'd rather be
Then on my surfboard out at sea
Lingering in the ocean blue
And if I had one wish come true
I'd surf till the sun sets
Beyond the horizon
- "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" from Lilo and Stitch

I am having a really good self esteem day for some reason. I haven't had one of these in a while! And the air smells wonderful and the sky is beautiful...

Yeah, today is going to be a good day ^.^

Skin whiteners labeled racist

Really, people? Does this mean tanning lotions/salons are racist too?

It would be nice to have as much time on my hands as these people do. I only wish I had time to worry about such pointless things.

It's nearly 1 AM. Jack just left. And I need to up at the ass-end of the morning to do stuff.

Why, oh why, did I stay up this late?? >.<

Oh, and I put up a new LJ layout. But I'm not finished putting in the information yet. I suppose I'll get to that tomorrow night.

Well, according to my iTunes "Top 25" it's Bowling for Soup's cover of "Summer of '69".

And according to Last.fm... it's the same thing :-P

But in the past week, it's been "Feel the Silence" by Goo Goo Dolls. I just love that song ^.^

Oh my gosh, I can't wait until November!!! I really should make that outfit. Then I can go stealthing around Victoria Gardens in it, pretending to be all sorts of sneaky ^.^ I may have to bother Ludo to make me a new icon, too :-P

My god, that outfit is beautiful... I must have it!!

It's been nearly a month since I posted something of substance and since JP nearly scared me to death, I figure I should do a quick update before he kills me :-P

So lessee... It's August. Justin had a birthday; he's old now. Went to Sea World a few times and totally fangirled over the beluga whales. Oh my gosh, I got so many pictures!

Went to Catalina Island for a few days and discovered that I'm a paranormal black hole. After a wonderful jeep tour around the island, I was dragged back to the mainland most unwillingly.

Oh, and somewhere in all that, Justin's parents came out to visit. Like always, he's father's pretty cool, his mother is a loon.

Started going to church recently. So far it's been 3 Sundays in a row. Still not sure if this is going to become a regular thing or not.

Started reading the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. Enjoyed the first book but was tempted to throw it across the room many times. Looking forward to starting the next book.

And... that's really it. Surprisingly, this has been a rather eventful month.

I think I just died from cute overload ^.^

I love living in California!!!

And somehow I managed to sunburn only the front of my ankle today O.o

And I'm craving mini-corn dogs.

This exchange happened between my mother and I while driving through my Nana's neighborhood and watching some woman dig recyclables out of a trashcan:

Me: Wow. it's getting to the point where you can't just throw bodies into your own trash anymore.

Mom: Yeah... we'll have to start tossing them into the neighbor's trash instead.

So yeah, remember that food poisoning from the weekend before last? Apparently it wasn't food poisoning because it's back with a fucking vengeance >.<

So yeah, here's my symptoms:

-Tightness of Chest/Chest pains
-Numbness in my left arm
-Shortness of breath
-Vomiting

I honestly thought I was having a heart attack of some sort at first but I tossed that theory away when it became obvious that I wasn't going to lose consciousness or just fall over dead.

Maybe I have heart disease. That would be lovely. I'm 24 and already have 1 foot in the grave with the other quickly following.

I probably should be scared or worried, but for the most part I'm just really pissed off. This really, really hurts and I can't lay down because it just makes the pain worse. I'm tired, I have stuff to do in the morning, I don't have time for this BS.

If my body is trying to warn me of my impending doom, I wish it would just kill me and be done with it because seriously, this pain is getting to be too much to deal with -.-

I just spent the past 30 minutes trying to remember who sung "Mrs. Robinson" because I'm a dork and totally forgot that I had the internet to look things up on >.<

And I'm annoyed because I can't find Morrowind and after reading the Nightrunner series I really, really need to play Morrowind! I need to fly over cities using my awesome levitation spell (which Oblivion really needed, like seriously)! I need to break into houses and steal pillows! I need to go beat the life out of Dagoth Ur!

I would make a Bosmer. And I would name him Wolfgang, after my grandfather. 'Cause no one names their children Wolfgang anymore! There's need to be more boys by that name.

And I'm not exactly sure what it is about the series that reawakened my addiction to Morrowind, but it did. And now I need it. Seriously, I feel like an addict that's been deprived for waaaaaaay too long.

I need to go out to Alhambra tomorrow and Redlands on Friday, but between those I will make time to find my beloved game!

Stolen from unsolvedsuicide

Rules:
1. Write down every letter of your name.
2. Then type a song that pops up in your mind in each letter of your name as the first letter.
3. Count the letters of your name, and tag that many people.

I'm only doing the shortened version of my name. I didn't want to go through and think of 24 songs.

Chasing Cars -Snow Patrol
Hands Down -Dashboard Confessional
Real World -Matchbox 20
It's the End of the World as We Know It -R.E.M.
Somebody's Watching Me -Mysto & Pizzi
Today is Gonna Be a Great Day -Bowling for Soup
I Don't Care -Fall Out Boy
Never Say Goodbye -Bon Jovi
American Pie -Don McLean

Piece of Me -Britney Spears
All'improvviso Amore -Josh Groban
Runaway Train -Soul Asylum
Kokomo -The Beach Boys
San Dimas High School Football Rules -The Ataris

I had the world's hardest time with the C, P, and K >.<

Had food poisoning this weekend which really sucked. Annnnnd... I need to put the pictures of the airport up on my photo journal. Along with the story about us getting kicked out X-D

I love being me sometimes ^.^

So I'm going down to the old airport. I'll be taking a camera with me. If I'm not arrested for running up and down the old runway, this should be quite interesting.

But first, I need 5 pounds of cheese and 5 pounds of hamburger.

For those of you that didn't know, it's hot. Hot, hot, hot.



See that? That is also telling me it's hot, so I know it's not just the crazies that's telling my head that it's hot. I swear, the skin on my back is sticking to the... muscle under the skin on my back. I don't know. The shirt I'm wearing is backless and I'm not leaning against anything and still it feels like something's sticking to my back >.<

It almost makes me feel bad for shivering in the theater this morning.

Anyways, I saw the new HP movie for the 2nd time this morning (first time was the midnight showing on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) and after a little bit of thinking on it, I feel this movie was more of a supplement to the book then it was a stand alone movie. In addition to that, I also feel that they put in a lot of things that could have easily been replaced by more important things. Now, of course the book was better then the movie. It always is. But the movie itself was poorly planned out. On the other hand, I spend most of the movie just staring at Draco, who I think is the hottest thing on two legs, so I really enjoyed the movie at least for that fact ^.^

And now I shall return to sewing even though it's freakin' hot and I don't even want to move. Unless it involves going to the beach. I'd move if it were for the beach.