Until the Stars Are All Alight

You Are A Car

You're the type of person who likes to do things your way. You're a little stubborn. You're very expressive and a true individual. You don't like to compromise. You are a very private person. You value your alone time. While you may seem self centered to some, you are actually very cooperative when you need to be.

Indeed.





ANIMATION MEME
- X what you saw
- O what you haven't finished or saw sizable portions
- Bold what you loved
- Strike what you disliked/hated
- Leave unchanged if neutral

CLASSIC DISNEY
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[x] 101 Dalmatians (1961)
[x] Alice in Wonderland (1951)
[x] Bambi (1942)
[x] Cinderella (1950)
[x] Dumbo (1941)
[x] Fantasia (1940)
[x] Lady and the Tramp (1955)
[x] Mary Poppins (1964)
[x] Peter Pan (1953)
[x] Pinocchio (1940)
[x] Sleeping Beauty (1959)
[x] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
[ ] Song of the South (1946)

DISNEY'S DARK AGE
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[x] The Aristocats (1970)
[ ] The Black Cauldron (1985)
[x] The Fox and the Hound (1981)
[ ] The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
[x] The Jungle Book (1967)
[ ] The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
[ ] Oliver and Company (1986)
[ ] Pete's Dragon (1977)
[x] The Rescuers (1977)
[x] The Sword In The Stone (1963)
[x] Robin Hood (1973)

THE DISNEY RENAISSANCE
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[x] Aladdin (1992)
[x] Beauty and the Beast (1991) I think I could probably STILL quote it from beginning to end, literally. When I couldn't fall asleep at night I would try to do so, in my head
[ ] A Goofy Movie (1995)
[ ] Hercules (1997)
[x] The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
[x] The Lion King (1994) (Okay, hate is a bit strong, but I was Not Impressed.)
[x] The Little Mermaid (1989)
[ ] Mulan (1998)
[ ] Pocahontas (1995)
[ ] Tarzan (1999)
[x] The Rescuers Down Under (1990) (This and Beauty and the Beast were the only two Disney movies I actually owned growing up. The rest we rented. Remember renting? Back before torrents? When entertainment wasn't free?)

DISNEY'S MODERN AGE
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[x] Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
[ ] Bolt (2008)
[ ] Brother Bear (2003)
[ ] Chicken Little (2005)
[ ] Dinosaur (2000)
[x] The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
[ ] Fantasia 2000 (2000)
[ ] Home on the Range (2004)
[x] Lilo & Stitch (2002)
[ ] Meet the Robinsons (2007)
[ ] Treasure Planet (2002) (MUST. SEE. EVENTUALLY. GAH.)

PIXAR = LOVE
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[x] A Bug's Life (1998)
[ ] Cars (2006)
[ ] The Incredibles (2004)
[x] Monsters Inc. (2001)
[x] Finding Nemo (2003)
[ ] Ratatouille (2007)
[x] Toy Story (1995)
[x] Toy Story 2 (1999)
[ ] Wall-E (2008)

DON BLUTH
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[x] All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
[x] An American Tail (1986)
[ ] An American Tail: Fieval Goes West (1991)
[x] The Land Before Time (1988)
[x] Anastasia (1997) (I want to watch this one again, now.)
[ ] The Pebble and the Penguin (1995)
[ ] Rock-a-Doodle (1991)
[ ] The Secret of NIMH (1982)
[x] Thumbelina (1994) (I THINK so; we are referring to the one featuring Elijah Wood as Tom Thumb, yes?)
[ ] Titan AE (2000)
[ ] A Troll in Central Park (1994)

CLAYMATION
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[ ] The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986)
[x] Chicken Run (2000)
[O] Corpse Bride (2005)
[ ] James and the Giant Peach (1996)
[ ] The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
[x] Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
[x] Coraline (2009)

CGI GLUT
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[ ] Antz (1998)
[X] Happy Feet (2006)
[X] Kung Fu Panda (2008)
[ ] Madagascar (2005)
[ ] Monster House (2006)
[x] Over the Hedge (2006)
[ ] The Polar Express (2004)
[x] Shrek (2001)
[x] Shrek 2 (2004)
[x] Shrek The Third (2007)

IMPORTS
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[ ] Arabian Knight (aka The Thief and the Cobbler) (1995)
[x] The Last Unicorn (1982) (This is one of my all-time favorites, actually. The book, too. But how is this an import?)
[ ] Light Years (1988)
[ ] The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
[ ] Persepolis (2007)
[ ] Waltz With Bashir (2008)
[ ] Watership Down (1978) (I just read the book last month!)
[ ] When the Wind Blows (1988)
[ ] Yellow Submarine (1968)

STUDIO GHIBLI/MIYAZAKI
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[ ] Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
[ ] Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
[o] Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
[ ] Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
[ ] Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
[ ] My Neighbors The Yamadas (1999)
[ ] My Neighbor Totoro (1993)
[ ] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
[ ] Only Yesterday (1991)
[ ] Pom Poko (Tanuki War) (1994)
[ ] Porco Rosso (1992)
[x] Princess Mononoke (1999)
[x] Spirited Away (2002)
[ ] Whisper of the Heart (1995)

SATOSHI KON
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[ ] Millennium Actress (2001) (I saw the trailer and it looked pretty good. Need to download.)
[ ] Paprika (2006)
[ ] Perfect Blue (1999)
[ ] Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
[ ] Memories - "Magnetic Rose" part (1995)

SHINKAI MAKOTO
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[ ] She and Her Cat (1999)
[ ] Voices of a Distant Star (2001) (I have these last two on a single DVD, obtained from the Salvation Army, and have yet to watch it. I fail.)
[ ] The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
[ ] 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

OTHER ANIME FILMS
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[ ] Akira (1989)
[x] Appleseed (2004)
[ ] Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)
[ ] Arcadia of My Youth (U.S. Title - Vengeance of the Space Pirate) (1982)
[ ] Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003)
[ ] The Dagger of Kamui (U.S. Title - Revenge of the Ninja Warrior) (1985)
[ ] Dirty Pair: Project Eden (1987)
[ ] End of Evangelion (1997)
[ ] Fist of the North Star (1986)
[ ] Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
[o] Ghost in the Shell (1996) (I've seen maybe 4 eps of the series anyway)
[ ] The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
[ ] Lensman (1984)
[ ] Macross: Do You Remember Love (U.S. Title - Clash of the Bionoids) (1984)
[ ] Metropolis (2001)
[ ] Neo-Tokyo (1986)
[ ] Ninja Scroll (1993)
[ ] Patlabor the Movie (1989)
[ ] The Professional: Golgo 13 (1983)
[ ] Project A-ko (1986)
[ ] Robot Carnival (1987)
[ ] Robotech: The Shadow Chronicle (2006)
[ ] Silent Möbius (1991)
[ ] Space Adventure Cobra (1982)
[ ] Steamboy (2004)
[ ] Sword of the Stranger (2007)
[ ] Unico and the Island of Magic (1983
[ ] Urotsukidoji: The Movie (1987)
[ ] Vampire Hunter D (1985)
[ ] Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (2000)
[ ] Wings of Honneamise: Royal Space Force (1987)

CARTOONS FOR GROWN-UPS
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[ ] American Pop (1981)
[ ] The Animatrix (2003)
[ ] Beavis & Butthead Do America (1996)
[ ] Cool World (1992)
[ ] Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
[ ] Final Fantasy: Advent Children (2005)
[ ] Fire & Ice (1983)
[ ] Fritz the Cat (1972)
[ ] Heavy Metal (1981)
[ ] Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)
[ ] Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
[ ] Lady Death (2004)
[ ] A Scanner Darkly (2006)
[x] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (I seriously didn't figure out until, like, last year that that was a penis joke)
[ ] Street Fight (Coonskin) (1975)
[ ] Waking Life (2001)

OTHER ANIMATED MOVIES
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[ ] Animal Farm (1954)
[ ] Animalympics (1980)
[ ] Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon The Movie (2007)
[ ] Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
[ ] The Brave Little Toaster (1988)
[ ] Bravestarr: The Movie (1988)
[x] Cats Don't Dance (1997)
[x] Care Bears: The Movie (1985) (Katchan and I used to sing one of the songs from this movie, over and over and over!)
[x] Charlotte's Web (1973)
[o] Fern Gully (1992) (We paused it to go have dinner, got distracted...the next time I came over the tape was gone.)
[ ] G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987)
[ ] Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords (1986)
[ ] He-Man & She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985)
[x] The Hobbit (1977)
[ ] The Iron Giant (1999)
[ ] Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
[x] Lord of the Rings (1978) (It has its kitsch value, but really....it's so cheaply made. Sigh.)
[ ] Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992)
[ ] My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
[ ] Pink Floyd's The Wall (1982)
[x] The Prince of Egypt (1998)
[ ] Powerpuff Girls: The Movie (2002)
[x] Quest For Camelot (1999)
[ ] Ringing Bell (1978)
[ ] The Road to El Dorado (2000)
[ ] Rock & Rule (1983)
[ ] Space Jam (1996)
[ ] Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)
[ ] Superman: Doomsday (2007)
[ ] The Swan Princess (1994)
[ ] Transformers: The Movie (1986)
[ ] Wizards (1977)
[o] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (I THINK I saw it in full as a child, but have little to no memory of it.)
[ ] Wonder Woman (2009)
[x] Balto (1995)
[ ] Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)






You Know You're a 90's Kid If...

You remember watching:
[ ] Kenan and Kel
[x] Doug
[ ] Ren & Stimpy
[ ] Pinky & the Brain
[ ] AAAHH!! Real Monsters
[ ] Rocko's Modern Life
[ ] Animaniacs
[ ] Gargoyles
[x] Hey Arnold!
[ ] Out of the Box
[ ] Bear in the Big Blue House
Total: 2/11, but I know OF all of these, I just didn't LIKE most of them, and a couple were banned in my uberChristian house. So I'm counting 11.

[x] You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
[x] You just can’t resist finishing this: "In west Philadelphia born and raised..." (
Total: 2/2

You remember:
[x] Step by Step
[x] Family Matters
[x] Dinosaurs
[x] Boy Meets World
[x] Full House
[x] You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch  cartoons
[ ] You remember reading Goosebumps
Total: 7/7 (again, I didn't read them myself, but I was aware of them)

When everything was settled by:
[x] "Rock/paper/scissors"
[ ] "Bubble gum, bubble gum in a dish"
[x] "Miss Mary Mack"

[x] When kickball was something you did everyday
[x] You used to listen to the radio all day long; Just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time on a tape.
[x] You remember Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis NES!
[x] You remember The Original Game Boy
[x] You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos... but never taped anything funny
Total: 7/8

You remember watching:
[x] The Magic School Bus
[x] Wishbone
[x] Reading Rainbow
[ ] Ghostwriter

[x] You remember when Yo-Yo's were cool
[x] You remember those "Where’s Waldo" books; and "I Spy"
[x] You remember eating Warheads and Splashers Gushers.
Total: 6/7

You remember watching:
[ ] Batman the Animated Series
[x] Aladdin
[x] Ninja Turtles
[ ] Ghost Busters

[x] You remember Ring Pops
[x] You remember when everything was "da BOMB!"
[x] You remember boom boxes vs. CD players
[x] Making those little paper fortune things, and then predicting your life with them
[x] You played and/or collected Pogs
[x] You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere you went.
Total: 8/10

You watched the original cartoons of:
[x] Rugrats
[x] Wild Thornberrys
[ ] Power Rangers
[x] All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand (Oh god, I have a huge collection...old school, when she drew unicorns and kittens, not people...ie, before she sucked.)
Total:3/4

You collected:
[x] Beanie Babies (I had like two...that was a wacky craze!)
[ ] Pokemon cards
[ ] Silver dollars
Total: 1/3

You remember when:
[x] Everyone watched the WB
[x] Everybody knew all the Pokemon by heart
[x] Digimon was still on
[x] If you even know what an original Walkman is
[x] You know the Macarena by heart (the dance, not the song, I'm presuming)
[x] "Talk to the hand"
[x] You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace and it was still sanitary (I'm with the girl I snagged this from, it was NEVER sanitary--we just weren't aware of it like we are now)
[x] Before the MySpace frenzy
[x] Before the Internet & text messaging
[x] Before Sidekicks & iPods
[x] Before PlayStation3 or X-Box 360
[x] Back before X-Box period
[x] Before SpongeBob (Spongebob makes my brain cry T_T <= ditto Luther!)
[x] When light up sneakers were cool
[x] When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs
[x] When gas was $0.95 a gallon (or less! I personally remember it being in the 80-cent range, possibly the high 70's now and again)
[x] When we recorded stuff on VCR
[x] You had slap bracelets
[x] You actually played outside until it was dark
[x] Way back before we realized all this would eventually disappear
[x] Post this if you smiled at least more than 5 times
Total: 21/21

Grand Total: 66/73 WOOT!

Have you ever had a day off, a day that you were supposed to stay home and enjoy, and you just COULDN'T?

That's today for me.

I don't have to work, school doesn't start until Monday, I have errands that I could do but have decided to do tomorrow since I get off work early.

But I feel depressed and don't really want to do anything except lay down and sleep, because I feel like there's something I'm supposed to be doing TODAY that I'm forgetting. Like I'm going to be in trouble when I remember what it is and realize it's too late to do it.

But to make myself feel better (or at least try to), I'm making a to-do list for tomorrow:

• get class changed in order to take Theatre Practicum
• try again to sell back books (stupid college)
• buy books for classes (probably will not need new book for Theater Practicum, yay!)
• get oil changed
• find out if gift certificate is worth using or if I should give it to Mom
• sell back Tolkien books since Dad got me pretty hardcover for Christmas (this'll probably get pushed to Friday as I can do it whenever I feel like it)
• try to catch up online--if not everything at least LJ, email, and plaza, and catch up board on Friday
• INFORM KEN OF SCHOOL SCHEDULE

OH CRUD. I just realized that I totally missed Becky's graduation. (She was a semester ahead of me.) OMG.

Not that she called me to let me know when it was or anything, but still. I meant to call her. ARGH.

So much for making myself feel better.

For now I guess I'll content myself with cleaning off my desk as best I can.

On the upside, I took a big step yesterday--I finally (after rolling the thought around for about two years) packed away my American Girls dolls. I haven't played with them in forever (durr) and I haven't even been that into collecting them for show since Mattel took over what was once a decent company. (Long rant, that...) Anyway, they're all in their boxes under my bed. (My bed was desgined with a huge cavity underneath the mattress for that very reason--storage, lol.) That emptied up two shelves (one of which is now my Tolkien shelf, yay!) and, by moving other things around, freed up room for my DVDs, which were outgrowing their previous space.

This was precipitated by the fact that Dad is giving me some shelves he doesn't need anymore. (The funny thing is that they USED to be mine, they were in my room as a kid until we moved to this house.) I had to make space for them. I thought it would take me all week to get everything put away but now I'm done and waiting on him to paint them. (They SOOOOO do not match my current decor. Which is also funny since they never matched my room as a kid, either, lol.) When I get them they shall be my new entertainment center, and if it's at all possible, my "coffee table" will be turned into a big, flat, empty workspace--which I've wanted for a LONG time but never had room to have in my room, lol.

In searching for the boxes to pack the dolls away in, Mom and I found a box of stuff that was mine when I was a kid. (I say "was" because out of it all Mom ended up taking most of it for the sentimental value.) Amazingly, this box has been sitting right within reach (literally in the front hall closet where we keep shoes and coats) and nobody had a clue what was in it for YEARS.

It's bugging me, because I've thought of so many of the things in that box over the last semester, wondering what happened to them, and now BOOM! they're all found at once. It stresses me when I have déjà vu's like that (for reasons I don't care to explain at the moment).

But, at any rate, some things resurfaced from my childhood (*'s by the ones I'd been wondering about):

• a doll that I never, ever, ever really liked as a kid but Mom adored
• a pillow with a pocket for a tooth that says "Sarah's tooth fairy pillow" that my older sister made for me
• "Scuttle the Stowaway Mouse," a book *
• a tiny (2-inch x 2-inch) Little Golden book about the the Pound Purries * (remember the Pound Puppies and Pound Purries? XD)
• a dollar forty-two in change (which, ironically, I took out of a paper bag that I had when I was five and put out in my CAR)
• two "books" that I wrote * (remembered ONE of them, anyway)
• a leather bracelet Dad made for me *

I discovered that I was as anal at age five as I am now. XD I found this thing, a "file" as my dad termed it when we showed him, that I made when I was five (going by that dollar forty-two, the latest coins were from the year I was five, though conceivably it could have been later...but my pre-school handwriting would suggest not) by taking some paper bags and punching holes at the bottom end and stringing them together, then folding down the tops and using paperclips to hold them closed. Each bag had something written on it (pens, money, picture postcard, doll) and each bag contained exactly what was written. (Except, of course, the one marked STNCLE, which in fact contained some STENCILS. Teehee. Everything ELSE was spelled right, though.)

I don't remember making it, or what possessed me to do it, but it was kind of funny. I guess it must have been my "wallet" or something. *shakes head* I asked Mom, "Did you not think that I was, like, the freakiest kid you'd ever been around?" (Of course, she claimed she didn't.) If I ran into mini-me, I'd creep me out, lol.

*sigh* I've heard people talk about their childhood like they'd like to go back to it. I wouldn't want to do that in a  million years. I was a lonely little kid, though I didn't realize it at the time. I had more imaginary friends than I could count, and wanted nothing more than for them to come to life, for real.

...you know, some things never change.

Whilst I'm reminiscing...I have the weirdest feeling that if we were still living in the house we'd lived in then my life would be so, SO different. Better. I'd love to visit it again (Dad passes it on his way to work every day, and I would, too, if I didn't take the scenic, cop-free route that I take, lol) just to see what's been changed about it. They changed the outside of it YEARS ago, made it white (ew...not that the mint green that it was when we lived there was much better), and it's had at least two other owners since we moved out.

We moved because Dad quit his job and we couldn't afford that house any more. Quit his job because "God told him to." Because, like, you know, telling the boss to not make you travel as much because you needed to be with your family wouldn't have worked.

Wow. That came out of nowhere.

I loved that house. Nothing rocked my world more than having to move, and I HATED it. Hated this house, hated not being able to walk into town.

Still hate living out here, so separated from all my friends. "Do you want to go do such-and-such on this day?" "Well, no, I don't have to work or be at school, and I can't drive and hour here and back just to..." And it was worse before I had my own car.

What is WITH me? A few days ago I was so proud and happy with how far I've come in my life and now I'm all angsty.

I'm going to stop now, before I totally lose it. I don't really know what I feel like doing, I guess I'll just keep trudging along with the desk-cleaning.