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The current mood of Penny Diary

9/10/08
Wow...um, where to begin?
I randomly think about this website every now and then, but I never could do anything about it because I lost the notebook with my password in it. Well, to make a long story short, I was able to recover the password and here I am!
I'm amazed that people still come to this site. I have not watched Pokemon since 2002 so I have no clue what's going on anymore. It goes without saying that I don't have any interest to continue with this site, but I figured I'd give a little update regarding my life in case anyone was interested.
So let's see...I started this site in 2001 and it's now 2008! I was 16 and now I'm 23. When I look at stuff that I wrote when I was a teenager, I want to laugh. Oh boy, we were all young and stupid. Fortunately we grow up, or at least most of us do.
I graduated from high school in 2003, and went on to undergrad. There I majored in biology and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2007. Once a nerd, always a nerd. After that, I started medical school. As of right now, I'm a second year in medical school and that's pretty much where I am in my life. I have to give props to my boyfriend, sister, and friends that keep me going.
I remember all of those times when I would slave away on an old-school laptop at night working on those Ask TR questions. And all of that drama in the chatroom and message board! Hahaha! Mysty (Ashley) and I would talk about how weird it would be if we randomly went into the chatroom a couple of years ago and there would be a bunch of people in there calling us n00bs. Ha! Oh yeah, can't forget about waking up early in the morning on the weekends to watch the latest episode of Pokemon. I certainly don't have the discipline to wake up at the crack of dawn now.
I hope all of you are doing well. Without the fans, this site would have been nothing.
This time, I will not depart with the same bitter words as I did almost 6 years ago. While I know that we've all grown up, I hope that everyone still has a little kid in them and remembers the fun times this site used to produce. I also hope that the younger generation now can enjoy it, too. Take care!

10/7
I guess this is goodbye... This will be my last update, I needed to get some closure on this site. I don't have much to say, this isn't going to be some elaborate goodbye message. I figure everyone knows how I feel. I would like to say that, yes, I did keep my promise and I did bring back a message board. I just want to see if anyone who comes here wants to post or anything. It's right here. I'll be dropping by everyone once in a while, and if need be, I'll just talk to myself. Anyways, until we all meet again in some heavenly or hellish place: goodbye.

8/24
I finally found someone who's willing to give my ?'s a shot. Yay!! Miyamoto-chan volunteered and her this is her site. You can email her at japanimeprincess@msn.com

8/13
I really doubt I'm going to be updating this site anymore, but before I write my final update I need to find someone who will do the Ask TR ?'s. I don't want to just delete them so if anyone knows someone who has a site and will be willing to do them, let me know. My new email address is penuno@hotmail.com. My old addy is backlogged with TR ?'s. >.< So for now on, email me there. DO NOT SEND ME SUBMISSIONS. Notice the banner on the top of this page. It's linked to my new site which has links to all of these mini sites I'm making including a link to FVR. I just got started with it so it's kind of small. But if you ever have any time, go check it out.

7/16
I hate to be the bearer of bad news… A few days ago I was thinking of wiping away some of the dust and update a little. But when I logged in, Angelfire told me that I could only have 20MB, instead of the original 50MB of space. Unfortunately I used 25MB and until I brought it down to 20 megabytes, I couldn’t update. So I moved the largest pics in the fanart section to another server and deleted them from my Angelfire account. That way I would have enough space to at least tell everyone what’s going on. So if you go into the fanart section and find a few links broken, don’t worry. I also deleted the horrorscopes since they were broken and I also deleted the animated gifs since you can find those almost anywhere. I had to do something to make room. >.< Anyways, I’m gonna be in the process of moving the site, which the new address will be at http://frogsvsroses.topcities.com. You can go there now but you won’t find anything. It’s just fyi. I also ask for everyone not to send me emails with Ask TR ?’s, fanart, fics, etc. It’s gonna be hard enough for me to move all of the pages and pics and fix the links and junk and I don’t want to be bogged down by emails. As if you haven’t already figured it out, I’m not that enthusiastic of updating or moving the site. Like I have been saying, other animes are capturing my attention and I’d rather focus on them rather than Pokemon. Once you see some of them, it’s hard to go back to pkmn cuz it’s kind of lame in comparison. For all of you Poke-freaks out there: there are other animes out there, trust me. Oh well… Anyways, check back here every once in a while cuz I’ll post sometimes about the progress of moving the site. ‘Til later, remember: the most important thing that you have lost is your mind. ^_^

6/16
Woohoo! Today is FvR’s first birthday! *manages to hug the site* ^_^ *sighs* It seems like it was just yesterday I was struggling with Angelfire by trying to make the site. Unfortunately, some bad stuff has happened here like the technical difficulties and the message board, but overall, more good stuff has happened so I can’t complain. My goal when I first made my site was to have 10,000 hits by the first year and I’ve surpassed that. ^^
However, I’m not too sure of the future of this site. I’m positive, unless Angelfire does something bad, that I’ll keep the site going for another year. I’m not sure if I’ll update much during the school year because I’m not slacking off my senior year and I have a full load of classes. >.< Take full advantage of your education, peeps. :p But I think I’ll still manage to update. I’m just not sure of the year after. There’s a few TR sites that are run by ppl in college so I guess I’ll continue to update. But I dunno, I’ll have to think about. Well, that’s a year away so I’ll worry about it later.
I also have to admit that I’m losing interest in TR and Pokemon. Maybe if the plots and storylines weren’t the same thing over and over again, then I would enjoy it a little more. It seems that every episode, Ash and Co. meet a person with a pokemon and have problems, and then solve them and go on their happy way. The eps don’t have the same zing as they did the first season. It would also help if they weren’t shown early in the morning when I’m half asleep. I often find myself lying on my bed, eyes half open, and flipping back and forth between Pokemon and Top 30 music videos on VH1. ^^’ My interest has been moving on to Fruits Basket, Cowboy Bebop, and Vandread. I’ve watched a few eps of F.B. at my anime club and I really like it so I continue to want to learn more about it. I’ve seen all of the eps of Cowboy Bebop and I still love it and I always will. I finally found a copy of some Vandread eps in a store and I watch them over and over again. I can’t get enough of that anime; it’s becoming one of my new faves. If you’re looking for a new anime to watch, I definitely recommend this one. But I’ll continue to watch Pokemon and hope for good fortune with this site. ^_^