As promised, I delivered the sympathy messages last night. My sister-in-law looked and sounded all right when she was over at the house yesterday, so, from my perspective, I think things are going to be all right, but only time will tell. When I get her reply to your kind thoughts, I'll post it here if I can. Thank you all for the support, it's been a real blessing.
Those of you who don't live in West Virginia, you don't know how lucky you are not to be here. All that's been on TV this afternoon was not the usual Christmas motif one would expect, but We are Marshall this, that, and all the other [Censored] too. Apparently they held a premiere in Huntington today, the day it goes into wide release. On top of that, Regal Cinemas has been promoting the film all week on their marquee which is uncharacteristic of them to do for any film.
Moving on now,
I'm probably not going to post for the next few days (like I post every day as it is anyway!) I've got a really neat project I'm working on for Breakfast Squid, and with the holiday upon me, things are just going to be insane so I'll be lucky to get on here. If I don't get on here before then, have a great holiday everyone, may you dream of animé sugarplums.
Comments:
Magnus Lensherr
I used to use it to answer comments till it went down, that's why I can't forget so easily. It's also part of why I do this format for my comments now too.
I just saw my sister-in-law today, and she looked all right. I expect it to be hard, but I know she's a strong person and will get through it. I can relate to her on a personal level with this, I've already lost both my grandparents. For her sake, and her mother's sake, I hope the magic of the holiday isn't lost.
I'm glad they enjoyed it because I like to share my passion for animé with others in creative ways. I'm always telling people that to get to know me all you have to do is understand what I watch on TV, because a lot of the animé I watch has something that relates to me on a personal level, mostly in the characters.
I'm sure one of the satellite carriers may offer BBC, but it's not a common channel to see in the US. I just happened to catch the announcement on the theotaku.com main page. I figured I'd mention that since I knew a few people from the UK, and I'm not sure you all get over to the main page to read the news regularly (I'll have to see if I can find a sort of RSS reader box to put on my page so you're all kept up on the news).
Kiki-tink
That's a lot of people to lose in a such a short time, you have my sympathies for your losses. Every little bit, every prayer, is a blessing to those who've lost loved ones. My sister-in-law was very close to her grandmother, so it'll probably be very hard on her for a while. It means a lot to me, and I'm sure it will mean a lot to my sister-in-law that you're doing that. When she answers my e-mail, I'll know.
Yensid:
That must have been hard for you.
At first I didn't really put the two together either, until I heard "Welcome to Christmas" from Di Gi Charat on a website a couple years ago. Given that I've never seen the anime, I still don't exactly get it, but it's a cute, upbeat Christmas song medley type of thing. I've heard about animé Christmas cards too, I have yet to see them anywhere though.
Last check I made the count was 284, and the number will probably go up in the next day or two as people who didn't tag their pictures, or didn't tag them exactly right, work things out with the site staff and get their pieces in the right place. There are a lot of really good pieces in there, I doubt I'll place either, but it was worth entering. I'm glad I did too, that has to be my best dragon profile to date! Not sure if you caught it or not, but I even signed my Awareness piece in pink rather than my usual green, when I support a cause, I go all out for it. I know the official judging doesn't take place till the Con, and I am a little leary of that because I can't be there myself. I hope the voters do make good choices when they pick the winners for this. I took a more liberal view with my piece, doing a dragon rather than "animé" per se, but as for the animé style, it comes to me pretty easy because I've been doing that for over three years now. It takes a little practice to get it right, I'm still not 100% with it myself.
sworn.secrecy
Thank you for that, I'll pass the message along to her.
I've got that one on DVD and it's about time I put it in again and watched it, I think I've watched it ten or so times already. The people at Studio Ghibli just have a gift for telling a wonderful story through animation.
No thanks are necessary, I'm just keeping a promise I made.
I get busy with things too, but I always make myself stop and make a post here. It's kind of a mini mental vacation for me to do that. I like to write a little too, actually I'm working on a project that I'm going to try to get published next year (it's not done or polished yet).
Same to you, may your Holidays be filled with animé sugarplums.
MilleniumChaos
Because families are so close, this time of year particularly, losing a loved one would be very hard. It's hard no matter what time of year it is, but the holidays coming up do add an extra bit of rancid bitterness to the flavor.
Actually I didn't have fun, I rarely do when shopping. I just went along for the ride because I rarely get out of the house otherwise. It's nice to do things for others, and it feels really good too, but this year all I could do was what my Mom talked me into doing, getting a gift for my sister, and her friend. I just don't have the energy to fake Christmas cheer having been unemployed for six years now. When I get a job and can do things for people, I'll gladly do as much as I can.
alphonse13:
Thank you, I'll pass it along to my sister-in-law.
There's only one radio station im my area that doesn't play Christmas music non-stop, and that's an oldies station with signal so bad it's hard to receive them even on a good stereo, so I don't listen to the radio much. There is such thing as overdoing it, and lately that's been happening. a lot. Have I mentioned on here the headache I got last year from hearing Christmas music the day before Thanksgiving in a store?
