Saints I investigated today...
Now Playing: (the song that asks for the Saints' intercessions...)
(it seems that I've been bit by the "update your sites & blogs bug" as of late. o.o! -it's fun though^-^)

-because of this entry that I found in "Confessions of a Hot Caramel Sundae" I found myself exploring another blog and discovered a saint who fights against procrastination (it seems that St. Expeditus lends his aid to those who live by deadlines and need to submit their work on time- so I'll try requesting the Lord's help with regards to that matter with his assistance *doesn't know if there are any specific prayers to go about this though*)

After I looked through 's page for a bit, I looked at the front page of the site and ended up happily browsing through a great reference on many saints♥

such as these:
Saint Catherine of Siena
Saint Maria Faustina
Saint Raphael
Saint Benedict
Blessed Columba of Rieti
Saint Denys

there are so many things to look at on the Patron Saints indexed Topic List that I'll probably come back again some day in the future...

-man I need help in getting all my work (especially for school) finshed and completed well to be turned in on time -sigh-

HELP ME St. Expeditus, please!~
...


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EDIT: silly me, I can't believe that I left that HTML mistake on this entry for so long (originally, I forgot to put a space between the link for St. Maria Faustina and St. Raphael's link)



-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well~)

Kindness with Purpose
Mood:  hug me
I found another gem from Boundless today...

"[T]here are gifts that hold more power and impact than random good deeds.
These acts of kindness tell someone that you know them.
They communicate that you've noticed their needs.
They demonstrate that you've made a sacrifice on their behalf."

the practice of real intentional love is what I want to do...
true love beyond our highest understanding- that lovely seemingly unreachable goal- let's aim for it more and more


-Daiko~
(pray for me...)

a little on Daiko's current status
Now Playing: various songs in my head, but Sanctus Real's
I can't seem to find an emote here on this blog that conveys my status too well or maybe I'm more used to LJ's multiple emotes that are customizeable? hn, still thought that may be true, I say that Angelfire really could use a "sleepy" emote...

disregard the stuff under the cut, it's something I posted earlier that's still relevant for today, but not of great interest... (that is, unless you're interested in [del.icio.us])
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Hey... Angelfire! I'm getting tired of the way that there's been a delay in displaying my recent blog posts- it makes it look as if I update less than I do in reality!

~cut due to length~
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I posted earlier this month [March] and was hoping to see my recent blog post first on this site- now that I think about it, it could just be me and something browser-related on my side of the computer screen, but I doubt it since a similar situation as this one has occurred before.

(-gah! maybe I should move these "Angelfire-ranty-musings" to my alternate Planet-based blog on here... which I don't like and just got on a whim -sigh- there should be REAL discussion on these topics though, I'm not alone- and those who found themselves dissatisfied with this service moved away from it quickly enough *wonders how long Angelfire will be around if they keep up these practices* some of them were blogging friends that I met on here who are now on [Blogger] and on [Xanga] respectively. :( ...)

I wonder, will this blog post be viewable after I post it? (-and if so, then exactly how long will it take to get to that once common and easily-reached state?)

*hopes to get her Angelfire hosted things in order...*


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-sigh- I've been looking around and taking in so much stuff online, nothing bad but I have other things that require my attention: schoolwork to do (two assignments T-T') as well as a room that needs to be cleaned... with stuff to be organized, clothes to be put away, artwork to categorize, ideas on scraps of paper that should be transfered to a notebook and expanded upon for my archival and recall purposes- general tidying to make my room look nicer wouldn't be amiss either ;_;

Also, there are those personal projects that I would like to get to- yet I allow myself to be distracted by the content of others online, by viewing the things that have been created already on the internet- I have stuff to add too!

and work to do offline of course. -sigh-

Pray for me...
(I have work due next Monday! Help! o.o)


-Daiko~
(please be well and take care.)

it's that time again
Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: "My Savior Loves" (Spirit fm- radio in background)

it's that time of year again where Daiko takes to Lent, and Lent takes to Daiko

-the theme that I have set for this year is:
Lent- Take Action!

as I look into being more disciplined and doing what it is that God wants me to do

-in accordance with that, when I went to my church's healing mass yesterday my prayer was that I would have my will be strenghtened, to know exactly what it is that God wants of me, and to do the best and right thing quickly

I want to take flight and get going! ^_^

-anyway, before I go to finish my paper and take care of things around the house, I'll put up the links to the sites I looked through for my Lenten research:

What Catholic.org had to say about Lent
Google search: Catholic fast days
Catholic Encyclopedia: Fast (entry from NewAdvent.org)
some special duties of Catholic Christians

-I'm off now!~

(have a good Lent... full of solemnity, discipline, and austere joy~)


-Daiko~
(pray for me)

My Funny Valentine
Now Playing: so many good songs.

ah, my funny valentine (what can I say to you on this day?)

...

You've been there for me always
no matter what.

-even when my friends can't see
what's in my heart
You know what's really there inside of me
even when I am happy it doesn't penetrate
through all the depths of my soul, and yet there
You are

all I have is Advent
when everyone else is around me
celebrating and observing days that are special to them
it's not the same for me
my heart is out of tune

St. Valentine's means more to me than they could know
the candy makers, the flower cutters
I used to wish when I was younger,
when I was a little girl

that a boy would come to my house
with flowers and candy just for me
(sunflowers, I used to think in that daydream)

but I let that dream die.

Years have gone by and it's only recently that I have the strength to

dream again- silly things like that

things that I thought a person such as myself was unworthy of

thinking, and doing and dreaming

for so many years I thought that way
have thought in this way
fight not to think that way
that there could be romantic love for fools like me
who have hearts full of longing for so many things

for holiness, for peace of mind, for strength
for the will to live when things are hard
for the will to live when things seem so pleasant on the surface but

aren't
for the will to live and enjoy the times that are really good and sweet

for someone who'd [love me] in the way that I want to be loved, in the way that I believe that [love should be...]

and yet, though I'm slowly gaining the courage to dream of things like that again

I'm still thankful for
grateful for
kept alive and sane by

people who love me in other ways

though, I'm really poor at reciprocating that
though, I'm not as loving a person as I want to be
though, I'm really, REALLY weak and pathetic and sometimes annoyed- when people think that I'm this great smart person that I'm not-

...

St. Valentine's means more to me NOW than that little girl that I was could ever know then.

because...

I know his story now.

the one of the man, imprisoned for his faith
in the past when to live as a Christian openly
was to ask for your death
by so many unpleasant means

the one of the man, who was already in prison
who gave a young man who loved God
to a young woman who also loved God
-he gave them to each other
they married as Christians,
he died as a Martyr.

Rather than live this life set before me,
for so long, I had much rathered
that my life would be something more akin to his...
to live, to help a holy couple find each other
and to die for their sake

but... that's not exactly what I'm meant for, is it?
I am not another Saint Valentine.
and if I come home to Heaven
and join the Saints
those lovely Blessed

I would be... Saint Dinah
instead.

but, I'm definately not at that point yet
because it's my time to live and be loving and show
Your love- even though it hurts me (sometimes, since it's so fiery~)

but...
but,

You are always there for me,
My funny Valentine

if You are willing to sacrifice Your life for me,
I will gladly sacrifice my life for You.

if You are willing to talk to me
to talk me out of those darknesses that my soul feels trapped in
then I will bear my soul to You
I will talk to You

if You see something in me,
something good
in this lonely, broken, sad, pathetic person
then I am something beautiful to You
even if I don't feel beautiful

if You are willing to take all my tears
(even those several secret tears that I can't seem to talk about)
then I will give You my smiles as well
wholeheartedly.

I love You, My funny Valentine
and I am blessed that You love me as well.

(help me to give that love to the people around me too...)



-Daiko~
(pray for me, and please be well dear readers...)

so I am a golden key?
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: "My Savior" then Newsboys' "We are Free..."
Topic: Daiko at the moment...



You're a little gold key, and you unlock other people's hearts.

Your kindness and willingness to be there
for those you care about lets people open up
to you knowing they will be accepted.

People will rely on you, but be careful
not to give more than you have.

What sort of key are you and what do you unlock?
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a cute little quiz, and I think it to be pretty accurate so I liked this~

(got this off [Rannsama's LiveJournal] -I would have posted this to [my LJ] but I already have another interesting quiz posted there, so I put my results up here instead. ^^; ...)


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Anyway, what's going on with me?

hm... not too much really, at the moment I'm kinda wondering where certain people have went since I haven't been keeping up with their journals (eh heh he, kinda bad of me, huh? -I could do beter than that... and I think that people who are trying to follow this journal are having a hard time since I haven't been updating it as much as I have in past years -sigh- but life offline is important- people still live and breathe and work even when and especially they don't blog about it ;)

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With regards to the rest of games that I've been playing recently, I finished playing the game "My Diamond Baby" and [posted a few thoughts about it] not too long ago. Read More...

and... I've been looking over things like art from [Pu-sama of DA] and after seeing her recent sketch of Squall, and from hearing things from my friends about FFVIII, and from not being able to play the game but wanting to for so long! -I want to play Final Fantasy Eight (but not at the risk of my grades though... what to do?)

-man! I understand why I don't update here as often as I used to... it's too easy for me to get distracted when I'm online browsing around looking at /for things. -sigh-

ooh! I just found this awesome [line artist at deviantART] from [HOON's recent work] wows! I want to color Inkthinker's excellent line works too!♥

-gah, multiblogging... and trying to get all my work done- hard! (so, I'll leave you guys with this incomplete entry for now, forgive me~! T-T; ... -sigh-)


-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(Please be well)

go Daiko!

Today was really blargh- I mean, it wasn't horrible, and I didn't get up late (yet not that early either) but I mostly spent my time on the computer T-T; I did do some good things- and I learned how to make chicken fingers today (they were really good and I should go make more for dinner tonight) but I don't think that spending so much time online (or so many hours on DA) is healthy- I think- no I want to limit my time on DA if I let it, it would eat like at least 20 hours in a week! *very bad*

I feel like I'm being forced into things? I don't know, it's just that at 4:44pm today my grandma was insistant that she give me this over-wayoversized skirt that she's going to alter- it was a nice thought, but I really don't want it. I let her know that and I think that she understands, but I wonder who the skirt is going to end up being for now...

I'm so out of time. I'm still online even though I should be getting my brother ready (dressed) to go to the Winter Jam concert- we need to get there really early so that we can find some good seats (first come first serve and all...). grara! I should have cooked the chicken fingers earlier!

I want to tell the world to pray for me since I need help with using my time wisely and being a good Christian who prays often and hears clearly from God everyday- I wish that I was better... at so many things *has really high standards that she loves*

I am kinda slow with updating my journal T_T *wonders if it's cheating since she's using a form to help her out* I love this form thingy for it's ease of use- for some reason, it really inspires me and I never end up picking those strange options (they don't fit me properly anyway :)

Today, I got a digital camera! Yes! I would like to say that, but no- I didn't and I didn't get one for my birthday either- s'okay though, I'd much rather have me a tablet. (more time to get things done actually would be better for me...)

hah hah, I really like the portion on this thing that says "I want to thank" and has all these interesting options... this option: "the world for absolutely fucking nothing! You all suck. I feel so alone, no one ever reads this journal, or even comments to let me know that I'm not suffering alone. It's cold here, and I want to die, but I cannot figure out how many of you to take with me when I go." reminds me of someone I know, and I wonder if he'd ever make a fake journal entry using that. (-obviously, I probably wouldn't) ...if I felt that way, I would probably ammend that to be more Daiko-like (all reserved and what not. ^^; ...)

That's enough for now. But I'll leave you with the fact that I found this option interesting too, I'd pick it but I don't need you to do that last part ^_^ "this thought - sharing your life with strangers on the internet is the cheapest form of therapy available. Leave a comment and tell me I'm beautiful" tee hee.

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I'll be back- sorry for the quickie tidbit, just that I need to take care of important things, like school and cooking meals (and cleaning up afterwards T_T -sigh-)

see you!


-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well.)

blogging fun (that I forgot about...)
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: "dogfight" by MOVE (from stage 4 of Initial D)

Today was really Kabigony~

I got out of bed on time, but could have gotten up earlier if I hadn't hit the snooze button so many times!

I feel an ache in my back from sitting at my laptop in a hunched over position for too long; also, I'm not sure that I'm ready for the Christ Mass since it's coming so soon.

I want to tell the world Merry Christ Mass! ("Christ Mass" literally means "feast in celebration of the Christ, the annointed one of God" :)

I want to say thanks to God~ *would say more, but brain seems to be kinda frozen*

I'm a little tired now... but I went through this blog of mine and read through some of my old entries (mostly from 2004) and I liked what I saw- then I ended up taking old quizzes and doing stuff like this again since I haven't touched them for quite some time. (I have changed and I haven't changed much now that I look back just a little... interesting.)

That's enough for now. But I'll leave you with "this thought - sharing your life with strangers on the internet is the cheapest form of therapy available. Leave a comment and tell me I'm beautiful." that was such an interesting option to choose- I didn't choose it, but I quoted it since I agree with the whole "cheapest form of therapy available" deal- somewhat anyway.

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That was fun~
maybe I should use this to update this blog more often? ...nah!♥

later!


-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well and have a Merry Christ Mass!)

Advent[ure]!!

it is truly Advent now* and fittingly enough, I have just learned that O Come, O Come, Emmanuel is a specific song for this season- for a long time though, I thought that it was one of many Christ Mass songs, but I was proven wrong (as I hope to do so for many others :)

A strange thing I have found though (well, maybe not so strange as this is a rather old hymn and all) is that there are so MANY different versions [translations really] of this song- and it has its basis in the Latin O Antiphons from the 8th century A.D.

Earlier, I had specifically sought out a line that is similar to this: "O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here" since I had heard that verse sung before in one of the radio-versions of this song [last year I believe] but when I looked for this verse in my Mom's Hymnal (she sings in the choir at Church♥) I found seven verses** to this song, but none that read as that line does.

Needless to say, I was quite perplexed- that is until I [hopped on Google] and [found something interesting] (actually, I read the first document that Google brought up which was a PDF- it explained a litte to me, and I became familiar with the concept of the Latin O Antiphons)

and so, I have learned a little of the history behind a song far more ancient than I
and happily so -yet, there is still so much for me to learn since this is still quite a mystery...


The seven verses as they are in the book I have at hand are as follows:

O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear

Refrain: Re-joice! Re-joice! Emmanuel, shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, Thou wisdom from on high,
Who ord'rest all~ things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.
(to refrain)

O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,
Who to thy tribes on Sinai's height
In ancient times didst give the law,
In cloud and majesty~ and awe.
(to refrain)

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse's stem,
From ev'ry foe deliver them
That trust thy mighty pow'r to save,
And give them vict'ry o'er the grave.
(to refrain)

O come, Thou Day-spring from on high
And cheer us by thy drawing nigh;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death's dark shadow put~ to flight.
(to refrain)

O come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid thou our sad divisions cease,
And be thyself our Prince of Peace.
(to refrain)
(end)



*in it's second week of celebration as I posted this
**the hymnal which I used to look up the song is Choral Praise Comprehensive Second Edition from [OCP Publications] specifically, in the text it is found in the Advent section (right before Christ Mass :) on page 213 respectively.


and for now (as short as this is) is some of my meditations on Advent (I want to do more though, but it's time for dinner...)

-have a nice night all, and I'll see you later!~♥


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EDIT: it took me long enough to post this! it's not even the same year that I intended to post this either, but I am glad that I did what I planned to do with this (although it is really laughable that it's so out of date, but I think that this will really be a boon to those who care to read blogs throughly and in chronological order too♥)

Anyway, this was finally posted here at 4:30pm+ Eastern Standard Time on Saturday- January 28th, 2006 though it was [already posted earlier somewhere else].

I'd laugh at myself, but I'm too hungry to do that now.



-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well♥)

and though this place feels like home, a true home this can't be...
Now Playing: site music from DCTgarden.com
as of late, I seem to go in for really long journal entry titles- they end up being something like complete sentences o.o!!

anyway, I had been reading through [Boundless] a little while ago (more than a few minutes) and found myself at the webmag [First Things.com]

*So I ended up checking out First Things since I had not done so in awhile and found this gem amongst their most recent articles for the month of December: [God on the Internet]

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(*this part has been edited from the original- this was just a text URL and now it is a hyperlink complete with explanation^_^)

If I had let myself, I was about to have posted this entry on 4 December 2005 00:06 EST (that is, in the first few minutes of a Sunday when I should have been sleeping and offline) but as you can obviously see- I did indeed stop myself from doing so (as I would have broken the rule that I gave to myself and have been a bad example since I do claim Sundays to be special and use them as good unplugged (read: Offline) days) the thing is, now that this entry isn't as fresh and vital as it was a few days back I'm not as inclined to write much on it (silly me). That is my fault though- I left this to rot in my "draft entries" on this blog- still, at least I posted this and I do want to get back to this, so there's a little hope yet...

and quick thought on this from me: w00t! I'm happy that the St. Blog's Parish was mentioned- go us! (yes, I say "us" since my brother said that the has seen this blog as a part of that community o.o;... belive me, I was shocked when I heard that from him too, but he doesn't lie so it's probably the truth...)

thanks guys for reading (and don't take that as a "Daiko's closing her blog oh no!" statement, I'm just grateful... and I'm probably going to blog even more in reality... *just started doing so again* ...scary.)


-Daiko~
(pray for me)
(please be well~)