Glowwyrmei's Wanderings

I'm sorry about the long wait between journal entries. I have just been so busy, what with Christmas presents to give and receive, my great uncle Paul needing a quintuple bypass heart surgery (yes, one can have up to five bypass surgeries, as there are five major arteries that lead to the heart) because he went into congestive heart failure and the cause was the fat buildup in all five of his major arteries, me not knowing whether he would live or not, work, college, trying to complete my many art projects and the list goes on.

      Ends up, I did not pass this semester at the Louisiana Technical College River Parishes Campus. Again, this is due to a number of reasons which are as follows: Me not studying properly; too much stress put on me; teachers being very inefficient at teaching, meaning that instead of staying in one place where they can help the students, they wandered around the campus and one had to actually go look for them and force them to sit down and actually help that person. I also did not study properly, which is entirely my fault. And waaay too much stress was forced on me, what with the hurricanes, transferring schools, getting sick, my mom b******* at me and calling me names, the teachers being inefficient and unhelpful to me and my mom and dad just plain being ugly to me.

      But, since I transferred back to my old campus, I should do better this semester and be a lot happier. The teachers here are far more efficient, kindly and willing to help.

      My Christmas was pretty good. Gave and received a ton of presents. My presents this year were, of course, fashionable clothes, which I did not want. But, in addition to that, I got a WAY cool MP3 player that looks like a small radio and has an antenna, a place to plug in to your computer and download songs from your computer, called a UVB port or something like that, a port to attach your headphones to and listen to your music from there and a cord that attaches to your CD player and plays music from there as well. And, as usual, the thing turned out to be a piece of s***. This is because it is supposed to hold up to 244 megabytes of songs, but in reality, it can only hold up to 12 songs! But, don't worry, my dad is going to work on it and see if he can fix it. And I got several CDs, two of which were by Metallica, two of which were by Andreas Vollenweider, one of which was from Pink Floyd, one was a Meditation exercise CD, and one was by Audioslave. Then I got a ton of candy, which I STILL have yet to finish off. And I got four or five new Beanie Babies (yes, I collect those cute little cuddly things, and if you have a problem with that, then shove that problem up your a** and shut the f*** up. And if you have a problem with me being Draconic in spirit, then you can shove your problem with that up your f****** a** and keep your big mouths shut. I already had one ugly comment about my Draconity and that is all I can put up with. I will not put up with anymore stupid comments like that. If you have an ugly comment, keep it to yourself, because I do not want to hear it. If you do post an ugly comment, I will ban you from my journal and report you to the moderators here). And I received four purses (was not expecting that!) and lots more money! With that money, I bought a new stereo system for my room and am going to buy myself a new computer monitor, which is going to be a flatscreen monitor and I might be able to persuade my parents to give me Internet access from within my room. I also got to visit with the rest of my mom's side of the family and their friends, which was awesome! We had long chats about anything and everything. And grammy (that's what I call my grandma) cooked a ton of cookies, cakes and other delicious foods. But, guess what? I got punished this Christmas for eating more than three cookies, while the males in my family were allowed to eat more than ten cookies. Even though I am overweight and losing weight, Christmas should be a time to mess up your diet for once and have fun. But NO! My parents are too strict to allow even ONE screw up! Oh well. At least I got to visit with the rest of the family and had fun visiting them.

     And I did complete two more drawings. They are located on my account at DeviantART, which is currently being a turd and not allowing me on. They are named "Halloween Pic for '06'" and "Badge for Likeshine", although I forgot to add that Likeshine's character is (c) to her. And I am working on your pic, Ladykaiyu, so be sure to look for it in the near future. I'm sorry it took so long, but I have been too busy and too stressed to do squat. But, since I am back at my old campus, I should be able to complete it soon.

     Over the holidays, the computer downstairs (the one that my parents own and has Internet access to it) suddenly contracted a virus and died. How that occurred is when the virus protection packet that was installed on the pc expired, my brother called Dell for an upgrade. They sent us the upgrade, but the upgrade had a flaw on it, which made the computer acquire the virus and made it shut down EVERYTHING and deleted EVERYTHING from the computer. So now the computer is in the shop, getting worked on and hopefully fixed. And just now, today, the computer is going to be picked up and come home with my dad when he gets off work.

      My family is doing fine. My dad's office got messed up during the storm, but the repairpeople fixed it and now Dad is back in his office in downtown, Louisiana, near the Superdome. Originally, he was working in Baton Rouge, then he was working in Bellechase and now he is back at his old office. My mom is no longer working and is now free to do what she wants and my brother is back at Tulane. Only problem is, my stupid brother STILL doesn't have a job and is not looking for one. Lazy a** and useless bum. He completely relies on his Mommy to pay all of his expenses. It may not be his fault that he doesn't have a job, but he should at least be looking for one to support his college expenses, which seem to be building up, probably due to irresponsible spending habits. I just don't know and don't care about him.

Well, that's it for now. I'll say more as soon as I get the chance.

 

     ~glowwyrmei

Weeelll....The Thanksgiving at my human Dad's sister's house went really well, with the exception of a few things. One thing I could not have enough of was my human Dad's side of the family giving me some newfound respect, adoration and attention. They were giving me more respect, and more attention than my human brother because I was showing them how I have improved on my art skills over the years. My Maw-maw (what I call my human Dad's mom) was even giving me tips on how to shade shadows and lights properly and how to color them in. She even offered to buy me a painting canvas for Christmas (I told her my human mother wouldn't allow it, because "I make too much mess" and she doesn't like uncleanliness or mess on the floor)! My human mom is a neat freak and can't stand anything that is "out of date" or "old". In fact, she found some of my oldest art books from when I was seven and made me throw them all away! But don't worry, I still have some of my old eighth grade art books hidden in my lair and she has given up entering my lair without my permission and searching for "forbidden artifacts" such as Dragon drawings, mythical creature drawings, old Dragon or mythical stories or fanfiction stories of mine and has given up searching my computer for "pornography" which really isn't pornography at all, just Dragon art and the old makings of my own art site. But anyway, back to the Thanksgiving dinner--my maw-maw even offered to buy some oil paints for me and some brushes. I know that come Christmas, my human mom and dad are going to find all this out and take it away from me permanently. Sucks. Oh well. At least my maw-maw tried to help me develop my art skills even more. And my dad's sisters were pleased to see me, even squealing in delight when they saw my pictures and get this, they and their mom have requested that I do some art for them! Their requests are as follows: a duck; an eagle; and a cat. My maw-maw requested the duck, my dad's oldest sister (my dad is older than her, though) requested an eagle and my dad's younger sister, and youngest of the family, requested a cat or kitten, either one (she loves cats and kittens). Unfortunately, my human parents saw and overheard this and were not pleased. So they let me have it once we went back home. And another good thing happened at the dinner--my mean, hateful cousin, Denna, didn't show up! Whoohoo! But she showed up the next day (the day my human parents, brother and I left). But she has a really friendly dog, named Sarge, who is white and looks a bit like my miniature Schnauzer, Chelsey. Except he is bigger than her. And he can be a bit territorial at times. Of course, when he saw Chelsey (we took her to my dad's sister's Thanksgiving Dinner too), he came running out to see her and Denna caught and spanked him--just because he ran out without her permission. He wasn't going to attack Chelsey or anything, since he wasn't growling, his ruff wasn't up and his ears weren't back. He just had his ears perked up in a curious expression and his tail was wagging. Stupid ***** named Denna. She's very mean to everyone, including her own dog. And we went over to Denna's house and pick pecans. We didn't get many pecans, so we went to a few stores and picked some up. Now, we have enough for my human dad to make his world-famous peanut brittle. Of course, I don't get to have any. Oh well. And I drew some new pictures, which I will post up on my new Freewebs site. So I have some request art to do and I will post that up as soon as I can, on my DeviantART page, of course. And exams are near, so you can imagine that I am a bit nervous, hoping that I will pass. One can imagine how excited I am for Christmas, even though I won't be getting anything good (I usually have to buy what I really want with my own money and I didn't ask for anything good this Christmas anyway). I am just looking forward to spending more time with both of my human parents' families and enjoying the Christmas dinners to come, as well as the expressions on their faces when they receive their presents! Well, I'm rambling, so I'll shut up now. Bye!

 

Sincerely,

GoldenWing (glowwyrmei)

Update. I did get invited to the Potluck luncheon. It was being held for displaced students and displaced students were allowed to come, even if they didn't bring anything. I didn't know that displaced students were even allowed to come even if they didn't bring anything. I was so happy! I had some candy-dipped yams, and some other good food, of which I will tell you later. And instead of having fattening coke, I had some tea and water and only one regular coke! I feel so proud of myself for restraining myself from pigging out! Well, I better hit the road! I hope to hear from all of you!

Sincerely,
Glowwyrmei or GoldenWing.

Today I am EXCITED and feeling explanatory. First, I will tell everyone the reasons why I am excited.

     I am excited because my family and I just got advance tickets yesterday to go see the fourth Harry Potter movie! YAY! We are going to go see the movie right after my mom picks me up from school today. And then, after the movie, we are planning to eat out somewhere. Hopefully the place we eat at will either be Olive Garden or Applebees or even Outback Steakhouse! But, I am just purely being hopeful. And the Office Systems Technology Department in my school is holding a Potluck lunch. But I'm not invited, because I didn't make anything, nor do I plan to. The reason I am excited about that is because at least I get to get some work done, such as doing Cases and Places 1,2, &3 (my homework/classwork).

     And I am feeling explanatory because, well I feel really guilty about what I did. On Tuesday, my mom and the principal of my school met. Not to discuss how I am doing, but to discuss what I was doing, which was morally wrong. I still feel uncomfortable talking about it and I hope no-one yells or fusses at me, my mom already took care of that. I had been borrowing money from people to buy drinks and the principal was concerned that the drinks would interfer with my medicine. I should not have done that, but on to the explanation. Since I didn't return the money to those poor people, my mom claimed that I was stealing. My mom literally yelled and screamed at me, reducing me to tears. And on top of that, I had lied about my soft drink addiction. So I was to be punished and my punishment was to give the money back to those people. Unfortunately, I could not/do not remember most of the names of the people I had borrowed money from. But I did remember one name and paid them back already. Anyway, I had been so reduced to tears that I was literally crying.

     Then on Wednesday, the day I was to pay the person back, but couldn't because they were not at school, I was SO angry at myself that I made myself very sick and threw up. I had been mulling over what I had been fussed about on Tuesday ever since I had been fussed at, and found that it was true that I was taking money from people and was being a thief. So I was angry at myself. Very angry. I made myself so angry that I got sick and threw up in the bathroom at school. When someone heard me retching in the bathroom, they got concerned about me and asked if I was okay. I told them no. Then I went back to the class from which I had come and by then, I broke down into tears and called my mom to come pick me up. She was not happy, but I explained to her that I was not feeling well and she took me home.

     But on Thursday, she asked what made me throw up and I told her my guess. I told her that I guessed that it was because of angry nerves. She told me that had I told her that the day before, she would have made me stay at school, even though I was stressed beyond belief and crying. The teachers, at least, understood.

    But today is going to be a good day! I and my family are going to go see the Harry Potter movie and nothing bad is going to happen! Well, I'll update you later! Got to run to my next class! I hope to hear from all of you!

 

Sincerely,

GoldenWing or Glowwyrmei

Today I am sick with anger and sadness. That's all there is to it. I don't want to get into a big discussion about it, because it is something stupid and morally wrong I did and got punished for. *goes off and cries some more*

 

Sincerely,

GoldenWing

Just a quick update about school. Today is a short day. We get off at 11:00 a.m. I just called my human mom to pick me up and instead of taking this calmly and collectively, she yelled at me and blamed me for the entire thing. I didn't know we were getting off at 11:00 a.m. No one told me anything yesterday or today, so how the hell was I supposed to know! Jeez! My human mom expects me to know everything and I don't! I had just recently found out at around 10:47, when I got out of my math class. And my human mom blames ME! And she's mad at me for telling the principal that she'd meet the principal this morning. I TOLD my human mom that the principal wanted to meet her, just to get some information from her and my human mom said that I'd obviously done something wrong. She immediately jumped on the bandwagon about all the wrongs I had done to my entire family. I reminded her again today that the meeting was to take place and she immediately got angry with me and claimed I didn't tell her anything about the meeting. And then she said she'd call the principal instead. Stupid, ignorant little *****! And I had to go and tell the principal that my mom would call her and set up a meeting date with her. The principal is very nice and I like her as a friend. Well, I better get going and go back to the hellhouse that is my parents', what they consider a "home".

 

Sincerely,

GoldenWing

Just a quick update. Winn-Dixie (the place where I am currently employeed) is currently going to play a Secret Santa game with its employees. And I am participating and having fun! Please keep me in your thoughts and have your fingers crossed that I win! I hope I win too! Well, everyone wins and I hope that I get something really nice!

See ya later!

Sincerely,
GoldenWing

Today I am in a mish mash of feelings. I am excited, upset, happy and angry all at the same time.

Here is why I am excited and happy:

I am excited because this Thanksgiving, I am going over to my human dad's older sister's house. Her name is Gloria. But I call her Aunt Gloria. And she is really sweet to me, always giving me nice, thoughtful little presents and taking me on boat rides (she and her husband own a boat and two wave skimmers). And then we get to sit on her house deck, watch the sunset and talk about meaningless things...*longing sigh*. And her husband, Bane or Uncle Bane, is just a darling. He is always complimenting me and saying nice things about me. He and I watch television together, sometimes even watching football. And we talk about art. And his adopted son (yes, Aunt Gloria was married to someone else before she met Bane and already had two kids by the time she divorced that someone else because of that someone else's drinking and money-spending problems and married Bane, who is a kind, understanding and loving person. That someone else was named Donald or Donny for short). The son's name is Bruce and he is a funny and outgoing person. He just loves to tell jokes. Fortunately, he has no drinking or money spending problems. He just loves to be out and about and is going to be a Master Plumber or as he says, get his Toilet Masters degree. And he is planning on starting his own plumbing business. He is not married. And his older sister, named Dena, is only sometimes nice to me. She's an anesthesiologist and is very brilliant. She is married, but I forgot whom she is married to. And I am excited about going to my Aunt Gloria's because she always offers sumptuous (tasty) food for Thanksgiving. I am also excited because my human dad's other sister, Aunt Jamie, is coming with her family. Aunt Jamie and her family hosted last year's Thanksgiving and boy was it fun! Aunt Jamie and all the other adults, including me, did all the cooking and it was fun, hanging out with everyone in the kitchen!

Whew, now that's over, I am going to tell you some of the bad news. The good news is that my human mom finally got someone to come over and check out her treadmill, which was not working. The bad news is that I had to miss school because of that. The idiot repairman said that he was going to come over to our house between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. He didn't get to our house until 12:30ish in the afternoon. I understand that he had other clients to attend to, but that didn't really give him much of an excuse to be THAT late. So I had to miss an entire day of school. But hey, the good news is that at least I got some work done! And at least I got to get a head start on Mitchelle's commission, even though it looks like a cross between a tiger, an otter, a lemur and a bird! And at least I got a few ideas for ladykaiyu's commission, which is free! And at least I got to finish some homework!

And on to some really good news. I am feeling much MUCH better. I am not coughing as much. But the sinuses are still draining and now I have a new problem. My sebaceous cysts are back and in full force. So I have to get them taken care of today. If you want to know what sebaceous cysts are, just reply to this journal. And, as a parting good news comment, I got to see some of my old friends while I was working (they were shopping and I got to bag their groceries for them). And I got to call my newest friend named Catina. Well, better hit the road and I'll update later!

Sincerely,

GoldenWing or glowwyrmei

I am feeling much better today. In fact, I feel like meditating and Astrally projecting myself when I get home. I also am excited because sometime this weekend, my human family and I are going out to eat at our favorite restaurant, which escaped flooding and damage when the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina, known as R & O's Pizza place! It also happens to sell seafood! Yay! And as another pleasant surprise, I am going to do my first bit of online shopping (looking mainly) at Barnes&Noble.com. Even though it mainly sells CDs, books, and magazines. I am also going to be looking online at some Dragon statues and artwork. Now mind you, this is all Christmas shopping. And I am also going to be looking at Dragon design teeshirts and I may get my first credit card. I hope so, so I can put a bit of money on it. Okay, quite a lot of money on it, but don't worry, I won't spend it all. That is so I can purchase things online and quite literally and honestly, do what most adults do. I am also feeling much better today in that I am not coughing as much, just the occassional cough, and no fever and no nastiness. And I feel quite artistic, so I be getting back to my art projects on hand and I will be looking up references for another one of my RL friends commissions. She has commissioned me to draw a monkey or any type of ape for her. So I will be looking up the general reference of an orangatuan (sp). I hope that my picture for her doesn't turn out too horribly. And I will be working on your picture, ladykaiyu, and get it mailing ready. But first, I will have to do my RL friend's commission, because I have only a few more weeks left of seeing her and then I have to go back to the other Louisiana Technical College campus and I won't be able to see her again. But I will get her e-mail address and phone number and Haley's e-mail address and phone number. And I will also get their mailing addresses. That way we can stay in contact with each other. But I will get your picture done, ladykaiyu. Same with yours, blackwolf-embers. So I am going to stay quite busy from this weekend until the end of the Christmas holidays. And I can't participate in Draconic's Secret Santa thing, because of my human parents. Blah. Pooh on them (my human parents). Well, I have to go now! I hope to hear from you!

 

Sincerely,

GoldenWing

Just a quick update on one of my dreams. I tried to meditate on the warning that the God of Magnetism gave and why he even bothered to talk to me. But instead of being able to talk to him, I somehow broke a barrier in my mind and successfully did an Astral Projection. I was able to "hover" out of my body for a little while. After a few seconds of just "hovering", my spirit went back into my body. I felt light and felt like I was "floating" in the air. And I found out that I am not just any type of Gold Dragon, I am a Shapeshifter/Colorshifter type of Gold Dragon. Really weird. But I did not find out anything more about my past life. Those dreams come and go when they want to. I shall rewrite and include more in my past-life story, the first part of the book, though. And I will include most, all? of my current life experiences in the second part of the book. So, in essence, I will have to start all over again. From scratch. And I am STILL working on blackwolf-embers' Winter Spirits Contest. But I had a few setbacks, including being sick. Well, on to another journal! I hope to hear from all of you, especially you, ladykaiyu and blackwolf-embers!

 

May the Gods, Goddesses and Spirits be with all of you and guide you in all of your endeavors,

GoldenWing.