001 - Purple Waterloo

Welcome to Purple Watermelon!

This is my new blog for 2007. Fallen Shadows was my first, and is now set down to rest. It's time for a new beginning. Hopefully I won't drone on and on about useless things as much!

With Purple Watermelon I would like to focus more on improving my writing skills and posting more interesting topcs(with the occasional rant and updates on myself, of course). Although somehow I see myself getting lazy very quickly in the near future.

So let me start out with this article I found while I was searching for grocery lists.... LAME.

Edible Memo Pads
by Steve, 7/28/2006 07:45:00 PM
Hoch Fun-Food, the German confectioner that's refining the art of edible paper, is now marketing it's latest offering, an edible memo pad, under its Monster brand.Distributed to the USA by Chicago Importing Co., the package contains a food coloring ink pen and Hoch's edible wafer paper. Kids can now pass notes to each other in class, and eat the evidence before the teacher confiscates it.Perhaps we're not that far from the days when kids can finally proclaim with confidence, "My dog ate my homework"


Hah! I like the part about eating the evidence. I always wondered what regular loose-leaf tasted like since in Sixth grade kids were always eating it and sticking it to their teeth(instant whitening! The blue lines eventually fade...).

The blog that posted this has some pretty quirky information. They are short posts pointing out the weirdest candy inventions.


Here's a couple to name a few...

Candy G-string
Candy Handcuffs
Pirates of the Caribbean Chocolate Cannonballs
Chocolate That Doesn't Melt
Chocolate Soap
Chocolate Toothpaste
Dental V6 Chewing Gum
Holiday Junior Mints

Mmmm, I love the holiday Junior Mints! They taste the same, but they're so cute! I had some the Valentine's kind. They were all heart shaped and some had red filling. They were my joy for almost a whole week. Ah, Junior.

Hah, actually, for Christmas Sam wrapped up some little boxed of Junior Mints individually for me. Then Kristi gave me a cute box with vanilla potpurri in it, some trinkets, and splashes of Juniors! Even after all of that, Mom put some inside-out Juniors in my stocking. Before that I never really had them much, nor did I express interest in them to anyone. It was funny to think about.

The inside-out kind caught me off guard though. It was weird to think about chocolate being on the inside. I was so off balanced from them that I couldn't tell if they really tasted the same or not, so I just emptied the box in with the rest of the regualar ones and didn't look when I snatched some. Fear Overcome.

Don't these look good? Have I ever expressed how must I LOVE pretty food and candy and that I wish more than anything that I could just take pictures of the cutest food in the world? Did I?

Can I tell you something weird? Everytime I upload a picture, all of my paragraph spacings double. It's annoying to go back and fix them everytime.

This is the link to the blog just in case you are interested in seeing other quirky sweets.
http://www.junkfoodblog.com/2006_07_01_junkfood.html

I've been watching Pilot Candidate lately. Well, really just today. I saw some episodes a long time ago when Sam used to tease me by taping a random episode of anime off adult swim or cartoon network and lend me a tape. That was UNFAIR. I am a no TV-er. All I get here is the Canadian station that they play Wheel-o-Fortune on. I'm basically content with not having TV though. I'm a bum enough as it is.

So anyway, I thought I would try searching for some older anime on the Tube. Not that it's really really old, but it seems more like something from my childhood. I'm up to episode 9 now. I had bought two of the DVDs a while back, but didn't take too much interest in them. Zero is such a pain. I can't bear to watch it in English because of how whiney they make him out to be. How old is he anyway? Eleven? Twelve? Plus, the storyline is slow and quite dull.

So why am I still watching it? It's kind of like a book. Once you read the first couple of chapters, even if you hate it, you have to see the end. I mean, how could you find out that someone is hanging onto the last stings of their life, and then just leave them there forever?

Here comes a spoiler, so if anyone cares, don't read this next section. I know how it feels to have stuff totally beaten down like that. Here's a suggestion for people who watch anime on YouTube.... DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE HAND. Those turds just blurt out everything! They just spew all over the page! What a disgrace.



***SPOILER*** and rant.

So here we go, Episode 08. The blonde guy, Ernest, just jumps right into a swarm of bad guys and gets himself killed, basically for nothing. This is completely out of character for him. He's always the responsible one(I'm assuming, since the storyline doesn't exactly divulge) and is always on Garu's case about taking risks. So this time, Garu jumps into something(again) and Ernest goes in after him telling him not to be rash. So once Garu gets out, Ernest sticks around saying that he can hold onto the Mama of Bad Guys while the others come. Stupid Ernest. Something Ernest should never be called, but is. So he gets killed there.

Seems like the only point to his death was because the writers couldn't think of any other way to get Ernest's brother Erts to take his place.

Okay, come on. That was the most pitiful display of plot development I've seen in this series yet. Pitiful, guys. I'm dissappointed. I couldn't be upset over his sudden death because the writers never gave the viewer a chance to get to know Ernest or his brother all that well, and they just killed him off like a bug. It was like they were thinking, "Oops, we forgot about bringing Erts in. Oh, deadline? Hm, how do you make a bug get squished quickly and dramatically?" You can't. It just looks bad.

Sorry guys. No sympathy.

***End Spoilers*** and rant.

I used to keep an update about my health in Fallen Shadows, and I think I'll probably continue that here.

I've had a light cold for quite some time, but it's been kind of a weird one. It's the basic sore throat and coughing, but my coughing has gone a little overboard. It's not bad now, but for a while I would have fits where I just couldn't stop and my eyes would get teary. I had one of these fits during Film and Fiction while we were reading to ourselves, and tears just burst out of my eyes and bolted down my face. I was worried someone would think I was crying over the book. That'd be lame(Kemp asked if I cried at the end of the book and when I told her not a bit, she called me cold-hearted). During a silly board meeting I had to attend I had one too, although I only cough twice but I still had the same teary explosion. Sam looked at my and thought I was dying. It was that bad though. Coughed twice and couldn't stop crying for the next ten minutes. Drip drip drip. For a couple days I had to suck on hard candies every second of the day. If I forgot to pop another one in, I was in big trouble!

At the moment I'm having quite a hard time breathing. This has been happening a lot lately and it leads me to wonder if it's the cold weather or the smoke from the furnace. Do you know that feeling you get when your yawn is interupted? How it's a pain to stop but you just can't go on? And then you have to yawn again to finish it. Well, that's kind of what it's like when I'm trying to catch my breath, but it's like I can never complete the yawn.

Then there is my worst enemy. My stomach. It has been mostly good for a while, but tonight it has been shouting profanities. I can't tell if I'm hungry or if it just hurts. Then when I go to eat something I get confused. I feel like I've been eating constantly lately, and I hate it.

Anything else for health? Hm... I've been overly itchly lately too?

Besides health, I've been having weird moods too. I'm grouchy all the time. I know it, and everyone else sure does. I think my biggest reasons for that would be I want to be an only child again(and no one seems to understand how important this is to me) and for the fact that it's February. Everyone gets grouchy in Feb, that's why it's the shortest month. Mom says that. But I think I was in a permanent bad mood before this month too. I think it just comes naturally. You know, making other people miserable. It's a talent of mine.

Taking a trip with Mom to Syracuse sometime this week. We're going to take a peak at the college and hopefully check out the stores there. We're going to stay in a hotel! I love hotels. The one in Cancun was the best I think. No, maybe the one in Florida. I can't decide. Not so much for the rooms, but for the lobby. I love the fruits they have out in the morning. Mmm. It's so embarassing though to get food with other people waiting. Yikes!

Here's a new rules for Purple Watermelon. I've been wanting to do this for a while, but didn't want to start until I opened up a new archive. Ever post I want to write down something I remember. From anytime and it can be anything. I'm horrible at remembering things, especially recent things, so I thought that I should write down some of my memories so I could preserve my past before I forget it.

I like colour coating things, and I like spelling colour with a "u" so I'm going to mark down the paragraph with my memory with traffic light colours to tell the mood. There will probably be other colours depending on how I feel about that memory.

So, just after making a new rule I'm going to break it by posting two memories this time instead of just one. We'll call it the Grand Opening, so it's allowed this time.

Memory 001 - Red for anguish

I reminded myself of the hotel in Cancun when I was writing this, and thought of how I brought the Kids all the way to Mexico with me so we could have some fun. I specifically remember propping the Tare Panda mimic up on the white, round umbrella-ed table next to the pool and I took pictures of him. I took pictures of the others too, like Purpl-u Wing-u. Somehow when I put the photos on the computer when I got home, they vanished. It was probably when the whole C Drive took a one stop plunge into a pile of whats-it. Yep, completely died with no notice. You know, you don't usually get to go to Cancun more than once during your childhood. I really wanted to send Emily those pictures...

Memory 002 - Blue for nostalgia

For many years I've pestered fellow family members and people from school about an old old old video game console that I could never remember the name for. All I could remember was an alien teaching music or putting together musical notes in space. There was a long keyboard type thing to control things by. Also, I can only remember playing it two times, although my Mom expressed that I played it obsessively. I remember being in Kristi's room, sitting at the edge of her nicely made bed(back then when she used to make her bed), and then another time where I was sitting with Kristi in that big pink chair in the living room. I had just gotten a flu shot that afternoon and Kristi was afraid to sit too close so not to hurt my arm. Oh yeah... and then I remember how I sneezed out snot all over my hands. Hah! So! I was looking through some old pictures one day and there it was! Socrates!!!!! Yes, it is called Socrates. Not that I remember it, but at least I know what it is now. I am satisfied. For a while I thought it was just a dream.

Well, hope you liked the nice long post. I'll be working on getting a layout sort out for the site soon!

-Lisa