The Shadow Vault

Hotmail - "Helping take control of my mail"

Okay, so I go and log into my hotmail account, and I get this message

"Enhancing your junk e-mail filter
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Your junk e-mail filter has been set to Enhanced. This means that most junk e-mail will automatically be delivered to your Junk E-Mail folder instead of your Inbox.

Messages from addresses in your Contacts list will not be sent to your Junk E-Mail folder, but you may want to check your Junk E-Mail folder from time to time, to ensure that mail you want to see is not being filtered as junk.

For more information, click Help in Hotmail and see the topics under Filters and Junk E-mail.

Just another way in which we can help you take control of your mail. "

Now... I did not Ask for this feature, and, in fact, most of the e-mails I desire will be sent to the junk folder... What part of forcing all my e-mail into another folder can "help me take control of my mail?" Just doesn't make any sence to me, and I thought I would make a lovely ramble about it.

ttfn

P.S. Bauhaus kicks ass.

Some long title I don't feel like filling the front page with

Nothing spectacular in this post... Just a coule of things about Harry Potter, and some others about me reading again, or maybe other stuff about my life...

So, yeah. I've been reading the Harry Potter series, finally, and I find it interesting the things they've left out of the movies... Like, until I read the books, I wasn't aware that the Gryffindor prefect-the student in charge of keeping the Gryffindors in line-was Percy, Ron Weaslys brother...

That and I didn't enjoy the third movie much... But I'm sure I would now... now that I have read the book for it... When I read the book, I realised the entire purpose of the book was for a single conversation near the end... And when I watched the movie, I didn't feel that the movie was compete, and, in reading the book, I learned that was because I didn't understand everyhting in that one conversation... maybe I was distracted... I know I was during the beginning of the movie, but not enough to miss anything... I don'tthink that was it... I think probably the conversation in the movie either left out too much, or went too fast... I don't know.

Anyway... Yeah. Thats all I can think of for now about Harry Potter...

I've been reading a lot lately. Really, been spending almost all my free time reading Harry Potter... Well, that and talking to my girlfriend... Don't see her often, but talk to her a lot. Anyway. Yeah, only on year four tho... been reading about three weeks now, I think. I dunno... Reading faster now, and I now have a playlist in iTunes dedicated to music with minimal lyrics as to help me read... I dunno what I'm reading after I finish the Harry Potter series. Hopefully Dragons Truth then Forlorn, or whatever it's called now.. Lost and Not Found... Then maybe those vampire books by Anne Rice... about Lestat or whoever... that's about 8 books, I think... Maybe I'll have my World of Darkness books by then, eh?

I've taken an extra liking for Vampires lately. look! I even capitolise the word... Cyndi, my girlfriend's really into vampire stuff... Does a lot of roleplaying in Yahoo and some message boards as a vampire. Goes by Midori... She wants to change her name to that. Wow... I change subjects a lot, don't I? Oh well...

*poke*

4th of July/Independence Day Planning: Outcome

     So, we went through a few plans... Most of them involved either going with the Young parents(Roxys/Ambers parents) to whatever they were going to, but then I decided, "hey! Lets just hang out at MY house... theres nowhere else, and altho my house sucks... Its a house!" And so yeah... I let everyone know with plenty of time... And, yeah. So then at church ( Which, interestingly, Cyndi AND Mike were there ( Cyndi is my girlfriend, I brought her... And Mike is my ex best friend, and he goes to a different church... And he just randomly showed up! ) ) And we did all the church stuff, and talked to Jared about it, and he said his mom was being pissy, but he could go tho... And he was planning on comming right after church, and Mike was doing the same thing, comming with right after church... As was, of course, Cyndi... And then after church, Amber decided she would come, and got permission to do so. And then Jared came up and said that his mother was being weird again, and changed her mind (she does that... a lot) , but he was going to try to come over later. So then we went to my house (Cyndi, me, Mike, and Amber) and we watched TV and hung out and stuff, playful stuff... Mike flirted with Cyndi a little, that was fun. Not bad, he's allowed to..... I trust him. And her too. Well, her more than him. And then, as planned, Mike left at about 4:00 (16:00) and wasn't comming back... And then it was just Cyndi, me and Amber( plus my brother and my sister... My lovely sister who was kind enough to drive us from church, and buy us chips and drinks and things! ) And we kept hanging out... Cyndi was getting a little aggrivated at my stupid, silly, harmless flirting with Amber... she is just a friend, and currently doesn't date guys(which is interesting because she was being weird and "flirting with" my brother...). Anyway. So yeah, we watched movies, tv episodes on DVD, uhm, yeah. And Cyndi and Amber tried to take off without me for a walk... I found/caught up with them.We walked awhile talk, then went home... uhm. Yeap. Then later, we played truth or dare Jenga... that was... something. Not bad. I lostfell then I put my peice on top... it was a peice that I didn't want to do either. Then later, amber went home, she got picked up... and somehow her shoe fell out of her vehicle, and she didn't realise it till much later... Yeah, she is picking it up tomorrow. Uhm... Yeah, and before she had left, I got Amber to guess Cyndis real full first name, and so she tired to get me into another room, but I stayed on the couch, and she bit me really hard... I was upset at her about that... But i'm over it.... I'm gonna talk to her about it later. Angela drove her home... havn't heard from her since... I hope I hear from her before she goes to work.

I just accidentally ate almost en entire half gallon of ice cream. ugh... oops.

ciao.

Smileys as Punctuation

This mouse keeps double clicking. It's really annoying. I remember when Jareds' mouse did that... I had to go out for a walk at 03:00! But to the subject the title claims to... I just noticed myself, in messanger, use ":)" at the end of a sentance in the same way as, and in absence of, end punctuation. I guess it works... "." signifys a statement of any kind, "!" signifys an exlamation., "?" signifys a question... Then you get into the strange punctuation I do... where you get things like "!?" Which signifys an exclaimed question... And ".?" Which signifys I'm not sure if it is a satement or a question. And apparently now, there is ":)" Which signifys that it is a friendly statement even tho it doesn't seem to be, or sometimes/often as a form of apology.
     And then you have the other things like ":-P" Which will generally signify that you are teasing. And ":-D" which signifys a proud tone. and ">:-D" Which signifys mischief, often playful... And then there is "=/" Which can show regret or unsureness or unhapyness.
     Anyway. Enough about that... Altho... it's good enough for a full post! Real Life stuff in another post. ( I think! )

4th of July/Independence Day Planning

     Now, really, I should post about the past three days, but... I will do that later/another time... Not in this post. Uhm... Yeah. Just gonna rant about the stuff running around in my brain.

     So, I don't know when or how... Probably spawn from likely inability to do something Wednesday... It came up that something should be arranged for Sunday night... Yaknow.. Independence day! So, I, being the guy who likes planning things, and has all the friends/charisma, etc, decided that was a good idea, and so, I decided to plan it... Since I communicate most with most of the involved parties... So, The plan, which has been briefly discussed with Roxy, Jared, Cyndi, and Mike(who is only know to be going by Cyndi and I.) uhm... So, yeah... Everyone kinda knows that we are planning to do something, but we don't have a clue when. And so, me, taking it upon myself to make sure this works out, since I am probably going to enjoy it the most(Maybe Cyndi more... since she is always desparate to see me)... So yeah, I was looking through the things in town that will be going on that night, and like... Yeah, there's a lot of them. And like... I don't know how we would get to any of them, and... uhm... craziness! Gah! Yeah, so then, since theres so many to choose from, and so hard to get a ride, I was like... "we're all like 16, 17, or 18, thats at least 16 years seeing fireworks... that means at least 10 they can remember... that means..... HUNDREDS of fireworks... nobody really cares... will ANYONE enjoy this? I mean... it's gonna be hard to work out, stressful for some... maybe even me... prolly just the parents who want thier kids to participate in family events... and... probably not gonna work out... maybe I shouldn't bother... does anyone actually care?"
     And... yeah... if I plan it, it will either go good or bad... If it goes good, we'll all have fun... if it goes bad, I'll be depressed for a day and a half, and maybe people will fight... And... I dunno how much fun people will have.? And if I don't plan it, then people will either stay home and be content, or go out with thier families, and I will just go hang out with Cyndi. I guess that would be a good date... Yaknow... Romantic kissing under fireworks thing... Yeah. Okay, so. Maybe not. Hard to say.
     And... Like... yeah. WILL anyone enjoy it? ugh. Yeah. I need opinions here... Mike said he doesn't care if it happens or not... And... I care, but I don't know that it's worth my stress if nobody else wants to go... If everyone else actually has INTEREST, then yeah, I'm planning it, otherwise, I'm going with whatever is easiest... Which will most likely fail completely and disaterously/ I'll just go hang out w/ Cyndi.