Welcome to BlooLagoo

Bloolagoo is just a bunch of blogs for my friends.

This is a blog website, and what is blogged is up to the members. Each person gets their own blog at their own domain (generally user.bloolagoo.org). It’s quick and easy to use.

It’s a way to use these domains up really.

If you want your own blog then you can sign up over here for one. They have to be manually approved by me, which is just a safety feature.

Blogging is fun, check out some of the blogs that already exist! Below are the latest posts from our most active blogs.

Please note: Spam blogs (blogs used for advertising alone) aren’t allowed, and will be removed. If you blog is going to have mature content, please notify me as well.

Latest Posts

DVD Advertising

July 1st, 2009

I kind of miss the old videos we watched for movies, you know those huge clunky things that you put in the massive VCR and could watch the movie from start to finish. No skipping, no chapters, special features were at the end.

DVDs did bring a whole new level of interaction that’s awesome, but they also brought new annoyances. They’re controlling. Seriously controlling. You can’t fast-forward or skip if they don’t want you to, you’ve got to put up with the crap to get to the movie.

One thing that irks me is movie ads. The start of DVDs now hold previews to other movies which sucks since after a couple of months the previews are outdated. The worst offender here is Madagascar and Ben Stiller. I know it’s not Ben Stiller’s fault personally, it was whoever decided that we needed to see Ben sit and talk about Madagascar every time we wanted to watch Shrek 2. You couldn’t skip it, you could only fast-forward.

That pissed me off so much that I didn’t go see Madagascar in the movies, I didn’t buy it on DVD. I did watch it when it was on TV for free, but I tend to buy movies I like. They basically lost a sale from it.

I hold grudges about things, silly things. DVDs that piss me off when I’m trying to watch my own movie are one of them.  I hold that grudge and then resist seeing what could be a great movie.

Advertising in DVDs is going too far. So I’ll add Snow Buddies to the list of movies I’ll never fork out any money for.

At least with videos you could fast-forward and they couldn’t stop you. I paid for the effing DVD, I didn’t pay to sit and watch your ads.

Posted by Leo

9 Years In the Making

June 29th, 2009

Well… this is such a weird concept…

I don’t think I blogged about this before, so here’s a quick layout. Landlord. He’s an absolute jerk, for lack of some better terms I’d like to use and will refrain from typing for my own sanity (and karma, yay). He is turning out awesome apartment into two of them. Subsequently this means we have to leave our 3-bedroom 2.5-bathroom apartment. What happens next? Oh, we almost didn’t know. We were almost homeless for the first time in our lives. He told us we’re out. Done.

We’d been here 9 years with no issues. Nine amazing years full of awesome memories. But does any of that matter? No. It’s all about the money to this guy. As of July 1st we have to be out of our apartment and into another one; well, hopefully into another one for all he cares. He just wants us out.

This place has had 9 years of memories in the making… It’s sad to think of leaving it.

Luckily we found a new place. If I wanted to… I could grab stuff in my arms and walk it to the new place. I don’t want to, of course, but that’s just to put it into prespective. It’s a nice apartment. The house is a duplex and we get the right half of the place. The kitchen is nice, just doesn’t have a dishwasher (which sucks, but we’ll get one even if it’s portable or whatever). The living room area is nicely placed (though knowing my family, they should use the dining area as a living room) and the dining area is really nice. Everything has the right amount of light and everything just… seems right. We’re losing a LOT of cupboard space, but knowing my mother she’ll buy untis to put into the kitchen and hallway to make up for it all.

Now moving onto the big issue, which is the only damn thing that upsets me. My boyfriend and I need a place to live in this nice place and we had thought we sold my mother on one idea we had to start with… but the morning after we looked at the apartment she dropped a bombshell starting off with: “I hope you like the idea we thought of, because we’re doing it anyways.” Thanks for the option, mom. Thanks for waiting for me to sit and talk with me to discuss it, mom.

What we’re getting is the attic. Wonderful space, it takes up the entire length of the apartment and whatever. There’s one section that if we add a door it could have out bed and dresser and the other section a sitting room. The biggest downfall is this: The ceiling is unfinished. It’s all open insulation. We can’t move up into the space just yet until that happens. Another thing is that the ceiling is slanted, so we lose a little bit of space in that aspect because of it.

If it needs electrical work, then we have to wait even longer for my mother’s new “man” or whatever he is to her to get back from his next truck driving trip (he drives truck and whatever) to do it since neither my boyfriend nor I know how to do electrical work (or the sheetrocking that it’ll take to finish the ceiling). My father said he would come down to the place and help us do the whole thing so we can get into there, but knowing everything going on there with him, who knows when he’ll have the time.

So where will our things go until we get the bedroom finished? Mom doesn’t even know. Surprise surprise. We’ll likely to be sleeping in the living room with our shit sitting out until we can get it all finished.

Forgive me for being effing angry, but goddamnit! I haven’t had a porper bedroom in almost FIVE YEARS. You’d think I’d get a break since there’s room to do it and whatnot. Of course not. It’s imposible for something good to come from my mother to help me out. Yeah, she’s letting me stay with her for free at the moment since I have no job and I’m not in college this semester (next semester, I promise)… but the bedroom… seriously. It bothers me.

Oh, and… we’re totally sneaking a kitten into the upstairs and keeping it up there. I want one, landlord says we’re not allowed one, but damnit I want a cat. T_T

I’m sure everything will turn for the better in the end like it usually has… but… I can’t help but feel down on the inside from it. I don’t show it on the outside cause I know it’ll get better and I won’t let it ruin what goes on through my day-to-day life. That’s just me, I’ve always been strong like that and I’ll continue being the same throughout my entire life.

I’m just that stubborn.

In other news. My father and I had stopped talking for awhile because of bad wording on his part. Me being me, asked my boyfriend if we could take a surprise trip to go and see him. We went, and everything went fine. Mom HATED that we went saying it seemed like I was a little boy wanting his father’s approval… but we see how much I value her opinion on things like that. I rolled my eyes at her and said “I’ll see him when I want, deal” and called it a day. Reason I went in the first place was because I wasn’t going to JUST listen to her one side of the story. Needed to hear it from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.

Since I went there with my boyfriend we’ve goine a few more times and it’s been fun. We thought of moving out there and getting jobs and whatnot, we stayed a week and looked around and everything, but in the end it didn’t seem right to me just yet. Someday, I’m sure we’ll move out there (even if it’s a dream of mine to move around Virginia Beach, but hey dreams change) since I want to go to school for business and see what we can do about opening a hollistic/occult store out in that general area. Everyone keeps saying they really need one out there. Not juet yet, but within a couple years. By then I can have an Associate’s Degree in Business Management and we can open shop there after we find and buy a place. Dreams can come true, yanno.

Hm, what else. Ah. I took a break from modding on Gaia for the moment. I’ve so much going on in my life right now I can’t concentrate on even answering the simplest questions from people that (on rare occassions) decide to ask me stuff. So I’m on break. I’m not sure when I’ll go back, I don’t know when I’l have a job and when things won’t be so effing insane… so we’ll see. I miss it a LOT and the people there are so wonderful. I’ve gained some amazing friendships through it. Note to self: (which I’ll do after submitting this) change About Me on here to reflect that change. @_@;;

I started writing again, but it’s in small spurts there and there and it’s not on the series I even wanted to write, but I think this one will get me so much farther than the other one (it’s a good start at the least!). Since we’re packing I think most of my writing stuff has been packed up, so I’ll wait awhile before I get to hop back into the groove of it (and I’d like a nice desk to write at before I pick up a pen to write that series again. Hopefully I’ll have a job so I can get one. I already have one in mind, yay!).

Oh! I got in contact with an old best friend of mine that I lost contact with years ago. My boyfriend and I went to a Subway in WalMart the other day and she was the worker there. She doesn’t look a bit different than she did when we lost touch back in February of 05 or 06. I was really happy to see her and my boyfriend snuck a couplepictures of her since she wouldn’t let me get one. Heh. We think alike still (her and I). I need to e-mail this picture to her that she mentioned to me and I keep forgetting to do it since the picture is at my father’s house.

Holyyy crappp it’s 4am. I’m barely tired and we start moving whenever everyone gets up, the landlord gives us the key, and we getmy uncle here so he can get the U-Haul here and we can get it packed and blahblahblah. Ew, I’ve not said that in awhile. My dad’s trying to stop “blahblahblah” ‘ing. It’s not working. >_>;;

Hn. As for anything else… I think… I’m out of things to say. Shocking, srsly.

Ahwell. Let’s hope alls well that ends well.

Love and light to whomever may read this huge incessant piece of… literary art.

I like that. Literary art. *Drifts off into other thoughts of fantasy worlds and novelwriting*

Posted by tehdarkling

Dude be a Photographer

June 17th, 2009

I had a camera once, it was a gift for my birthday. Sadly it didn’t really work, no matter what battery you would use it’d die within a few minutes. That’s a complete bummer for a camera, so it spent it’s life sitting on my desk while I carried on, not taking pictures of things.

Would love to get a new one, just so I could start taking pictures of things. When I can I want to add a photo strip in the background of the header, just to add a little depth to the site.

Random really, but if it’s reached the point where every post you make on a forum is abusive or ragey maybe you should take a chill pill and I dunno, leave? Just find it amazing how much people can hate something yet subject themselves to it time and time again. Then again you never know, they could be getting off on all the rage. I would know, I don’t like being angry all the time as it’s unpleasant. But each to their own.

Wish me luck, have a presentation tomorrow and then get to watch some more in the afternoon. Counting down until the holidays… and the big 21.

Posted by Leo

Not Always Right

June 15th, 2009

Customers ain’t always right. Which is why I love the website Not Always Right as it brings up a bunch of funny stories about silly customers. Of course it’s probably not all true (as people like to point out) but who cares. It’s funny!

(The phone rings at around 6-ish.)

Me: “Hello, this is D-…”

(I hear loud crying in the background.)

Man: “Hello, Disney World? I’m just calling to say that if my children don’t finish their vegetables in the next five minutes, we won’t be visiting you this year.”

Me: “I…er…what?”

Man: *whispering* “Thank you.” *click*

Good for when you’re bored on the internet and want something to read.

Posted by Leo

New Moon

June 15th, 2009

New Moon is coming out in November (probably December/January for New Zealand) and I’m ashamed to admit the trailer looks good.

Most of the bonus comes from the fact that Edward isn’t in most of the movie. Wasn’t a fan of the lovey-dovey crap in the first movie or book.

Probably will see it, or wait for it on DVD. Is it worth going to the movies? It’s just going to be really, really uncomfortable what with the teenage girls sighing and the older woman… well I’m not going into it but trust me when I say that the teenage fans aren’t the worst.

Posted by Leo