[reminiscing, remembering, & rattle shoes]

Today I was at a funeral, and like it was really amazing. The person that passed away was the founding pastor's wife of my church. The part that really was amazing is the fact that her life touched so many people at my church. The part that made me almost cry though was the part where the pastor came up to the podium and gave the prayer for everyone to leave, and he was like "thank you for making her beautiful, thank you for giving her to me for 60 years...and then he just broke down and started crying."

Dang, I started really thinking about life after this service.

If you didn't realize this, we have no idea when we're going to die, honestly. For all I know, as I'm typing this, a sniper could be aiming for my head and I could die within the next 10 seconds. Or someone could ram into my car tomorrow as I'm headed to the NSO meeting [go by the way, 1:30pm @ ASB room]

But honestly, we should live every day as if it's a gift.

Okay that was pretty deep. Shallow noninformative part follows on the bottom.

I really want to upgrade my iPhone software to 2.0 through iTunes, but I can't because it's hacked. D: I'm still stuck with 1.1.4 and I really want to upgrade it. There's a pretty cool feature on iPhone 2.0 called "Remote" that basically lets you control your entire iTunes library just by using your phone. So basically, if you don't want to get out of bed but you want to put on a song on your computer speakers, grab your iPhone, tap any song, let's say "The Red" by Chevelle and then it'll play on your computer speakers instantly. If that's not nifty and useful, I don't know what is.

The Remote feature works on both the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Unfortunately, for those of you using the iPod Touch, it costs $20. For us iPhone users, it's free. (:

But then us iPhone users get screwed over with the horrible external speakers and recessed headphone jack [meaning you can only use the white Apple headphones].

Anyways, tell me which of my posts that you've liked the best so far. I want to make my blog more fun an interesting to read rather than a "skim the first paragraph, ignore the rest."

[my foot is crying.]

So I stayed up til about 3:30am because I couldn't sleep last night..I just laid in bed and stared at the wall. AND THEN, out of a random thought...I remembered it was Tuesday.

Tuesday's the day that Rock Band's downloadable content comes out.

So I decided to go downstairs and download the stuff, played BYOB. After I finished, my foot started crying. Do you know what it feels like to hit 4 bass notes every second? It makes your foot weep.

And then, yeah, I've been pretty depressed lately. There's a lot of stuff that's been going on, and then a piece of information that I got yesterday just made it a bit worse. I'll give the specifics of it later. This is actually a pretty early post in my book. x)

[vicious.]

Went to Tony's house for planning on the NSO skit. His dog. Looks so innocent, it's white. But inside, it just wants blood. My blood, specifically. It scratched me under my nail and it started bleeding. -.-

Short post today. I'll post some more tomorrow. (:

[redone living room.]

My whole living room today got shifted around. Basically if you've been to my house before, we turned all the couches and sofas around so that they're facing the dining room, and the TV is where the long couch used to be. Actually, I love this new setup because it makes a lot more sense and it makes the room look more homey.

Also, I brought down my stereo speakers that I haven't used [they're oldish, but they're still really good quality sound and there's a bass that's hella LOUD.] and took them downstairs, hooked them up to my TV, popped in my OneRepublic CD into my Xbox 360, and then I listened and I'm like "Holy shit. Why haven't I done this before." So yeah. It was like BOOM LOUD and AMAZING SOUND. So I'm leaving my stereo speakers downstairs. Haha and now, I have a stereo with no speakers. But it has a broken CD player anyways, and the radio sucks. I'd rather listen to online radio since KIIS and STAR both have online feeds. I just have both running at the same time and then switch between the two. (:

On a side note, I should start sleeping early. Like seriously.

[ikea likes to tempt you.]

So I went to IKEA today, and man, that place is honestly the best place to go when you're tired. But I really hate how they decide, "Hey, let's make these great kitchen displays that NO ONE is ever going to possibly have."

Seriously, those kitchens are so nice that I could live there. All they need is free Wi-Fi, and then I could seriously live there. Honestly, what else do you need? There's beds everywhere, couches, and a place on the 1st floor that sells incredibly good yet ridiculously cheap food. My family today, while we were there, bought 3 hot dogs, 3 cinnamon buns, 3 sodas, and a cup of coffee for $7. No that's not a typo, SEVEN DOLLARS bought all of that. It's incredible. Also, IKEA has this thing in the morning where they'll sell 2 strips of bacon and 2 scrambled eggs for 99 cents. It's like heaven for asians. Honestly, every time I go to IKEA I look forward to the food because it's actually REALLY good.

You've probably seen this from other places, either AIM or on my Facebook or just from me telling you, but the Light The Night Walk for Leukemia is on September 20th from 5-10pm at Angel Stadium. And basically it's a fun night of music, free food from Chick Fil A, and a two mile walk when we all carry balloons with lights inside. Supporters of leukemia get to hold red balloons, while survivors hold white ones. And afterward, it usually ends up turning into..semi-danceish? Because there's music. I remember last year hearing a lot of really good music. Anyways, here's the link if you want to register.

http://teams.lightthenight.org/WHSForJoyson

I'm encouraging you guys all to go and have a great time, and I want a lot of people to go, but remember guys, this is for leukemia. I dont want to be hearing all this crap about "lolcancer" and whatnot while we're walking. Kapish? (:

Lemme switch to my nerd mode for a second and tell you the downloadable songs for the week of August 5th for Rock Band:

System of a Down - B.Y.O.B
System of a Down - Toxicity
Buckcherry - Rescue Me
Motley Crue - Face Down In The Dirt
Sixx AM - Life Is Beautiful

I only know two of these songs, the two system songs. And OMG BYOB. That's going to be the hardest vocal song in the game, I can tell you now just by listening to it. Meanwhile, Paramore fans get That's What You Get in RB2 later, and Misery Business is apparently going to be DLC sometime later. Why don't they just release the entire Riot album on RB. >_>

So yeah, register for Light The Night guys!

Eightsix.

[dude, you just broke my guitar.]

My Guitar Hero guitar is still broken. It's BEEN broken ever since June 19th, 2008. Guess who broke it. I won't say the name to protect confidentiality, but she's somewhat vertically challenged, has damaged hair, and is a Jack Sparrow fanatic. PLEASE DONT KILL ME. (:

I need to go buy a replacement so that I can have an extra guitar for RB if people come over..-.-

On a sidenote, did you know that 35% of Los Angeles Unified School District students drop out of High School? Now what percent of that 35% are illegally here? Haha I'm gonna start inserting [psuedo-racism] whenever I say something like that now.

On another note, I just realized my iPhone's now outdated! You know what I realized about Apple? They're horrible on your soul. Seriously, there are two annoying companies in the world. Apple, and MySpace. I really think Tom should sell his soul to Satan to pay for better servers on MySpace. That way we won't get weird stuff.

Oh and YouTube, they do really well, except their entire staff is made up of highly trained monkeys. I want to work there so I can oust those primates and take their jobs.

Today, I was walking into my sister's room which is currently under "construction," aka repainting. And holy freak, I breathed in and I think I got high. Maybe. I'm not sure what it was, but it was like I felt lightheaded and started feeling like throwing up. ..so I ran back to my room. And yeah, I'm not gonna step in that room for a while because I don't want to be like Afroman.

NSO 2008 Entitled : Biff! Pow! Whitney! [September 3rd, 2008. Be there.]

[stricken, shaken, awakened.]

Wow. So I woke up at 11 this morning and I went downstairs and then all of a sudden I hear a sound that sounds like a truck is passing. And then like the ground starts feeling like I'm on a boat and I'm like freak...no way. And then my mom goes upstairs and shouts EARTHQUAKE GET DOWN to my brother and sister...and then we're just standing there waiting for the earthquake to stop.

Earthquakes are straight up California stuff, man.

Anyways, made a facebook for all you people who kept nagging me to make one. Go search me up. My name's short and sweet, and easy to type in. For all you people who have last names the length of Ron Jeremy's body part that I do not wish to type the name of because it could be inappropriate for the little 9 year olds reading my blog, I don't like typing your names to add you. Go back to your curry and leave us alone.

Now I'm gonna get comments like OH MY GOD JOSH IS RACIST. No, I'm not racist. I just like poking fun at blanket stereotypes. It's like saying all Chinese people get their last names from shaking pennies in a jar. No, it's not true. Ching, Ping, Ting, all those random ass last names from Chinese people ARE NOT from that. Those names are ACTUALLY created by taking a communist flag and using the pole to slit the throat of a second child born from a woman in China. [If you don't get that, brush up on your China knowledge.]

Also. Random news story of the day. It's so sadly ironic that it makes me want to laugh.

A man who was swimming in a river nicknamed "The River of Life" drowned yesterday. Read that again in case you didn't get it.

When I first heard that I was like wow. Common sense is dying. Just like how it's completely legal to TEXT and drive in California, but it's illegal to make phone calls. That's like putting a ban on knives, and promoting guns as a safe alternative.

Anyways, random stuff for today. Gimme comments and tell me if you read it all and your opinions on the stuff. (: