Ok well I feel I need to keep writing in this thing because I don't keep a proper journal but nothing really big has happened. School is still good, I finally found the short story I want to translate. It is called black bird (kokucho). I have only read the first few pages but if I can just get some time I should be able to make some real progress with it.
Yesterday we went up to Phoenix to visit grandpa who has been diagnosed with cancer. I feel weird about grandpa dying because I don't really know him besides the bad things my parents say about him , he divorced my grandma who is the sweetest person in the world. And also he's 70 something so he would only have another 10 years at best. And I have a pretty strong belief in the afterlife so I'm just not worried about him. But anyways its a good 2+ hour drive up to Phoenix and there was a temple trip I wanted to go to but instead I went with the family. We visit with grandma for 20 mins then have lunch with grandpa and then we are done. Mom says we are going to visit her mom in order to get out of spending time with Grandpa's new wife and instead we spend all day walking about a stupid outlet mall. My entire day that I really needed to use for homework and studying was waisted with Angie trying to find cute shoes. Like I really want to see my extended family but my mom cares so much more about shopping then she does seeing relatives.
I am really worried about Angie. I thought if she got a boyfriend she would get out of this rut that she is in but that doesn't seem to be the case. I mean she did get a job she did go back to school but she is still so angry at the whole world. And she hasn't gone to church for at least a year. I invite her but she says no. It's not an issue about the doctrine of the church its the people, or rather how Angie views everyone. She thinks that everyone is this perfect Molly Mormon (stereotypical super churchy girl) and they all think they are better then her. But its all her attitude. She is so mean to people when they try and talk to her they get scarred off and then she thinks that they don't like her. I want to help my sister so much. I really love her but I don't know how to get her to just snap out of it. It breaks my heart sometimes.
I think in fact that the three oldest girls all have had situations where they have been offended or felt shunned by other girls at church and that has caused them to not want to go at all. I dunno I just wish there was something I could do.
On more positive notes. I saw that wolverine movie finally, why was there no concern about continuity with the other films? Sabertooth and Stryker are major characters in the other films and the people in this one are so different you would think they were completely different characters with similar names or something. And why is there so much focus on throwing in cameo mutants? Why was the blob in the movie? Are there really blob fans out there who really want him to be worked into the movie for no reason? Or what about deadpool and how he had all sorts of powers that he wasn't supposed to? That makes deadpool fans angry and deadpool fans are the only reason you should put him in the wolverine movie anyways. I don't get it. It was a fun action movie and definitely not as bad as X3.
I did install windows 7 on my pc with no upgrades and it runs amazingly. I don't know how but Microsoft somehow saved windows from the horrors of vista. It runs faster the xp did, boots atleast as fast as xp did, and does so many little things I don't think I could ever go back.
Well I guess thats it.
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