Friday, March 23, 2007

Con and...last report?
So there I was, with an AO ticket, getting dumped. Ive just spent $35 dollars on the damn thing, Im gonna use it! AND I DID! I accompanied Mythrin and Etaru to the Anime Oasis DX convention in Boise Idaho last weekend, boy...thems was some weird times. Im kinda glad to be back.

Anyways, day one: (Thursday Night)
We got to Etaru's, got all our stuff out. I got some time to finish Karasu and my Kankuro hat. Got em fixed up. I was forced downstairs around eleven or so cuz Etaru's mom didnt want me anywhere near her daughter after bed time. I swear, every time I caught her eye I could just see her thinking about all the ways she would skin me if I even looked at Myth and Etaru wrong. Which really creeped me out, but anyways...

So I was stuck downstairs on the couch, right under Etaru's room...right under the noise...Oh. My. Gosh. Have you ever tried sleeping when the people you want to be with are right above you, out of your reach, and being noise? Its impossible! Impossible I tell you! I was up till about 2:30 in the morning just staring at the cealing and hoping one of them would randomly come downstairs and keep me company, did it happen? No, didnt stop me from hopin tho!

Day 2: (Friday)
We got up, got packed, I kinda moped around in that emo fashion that I so frequently use these days. Time seemed to pass exceptionally slow that morning. We finally got goin around 9:00 or so, got on the road and all that. Took us about eight or so hours to get to Boise. Which was fun, I guess...had it not been for the awkwardness that comes with sitting next to Rachael on the entire trip. Anyways, moving on!

We got to Boise, and I got suited up. Whats that mean exactly? Means I suck at putting on Makeup, really, thats just about all it means. We had to return to our rooms just so Mythrin could fix it it was so horrible. I really never payed that much attention to Kanky, honestly.

So we got to watch some really nice AMVs, then the swimsuit contest, Etaru won (Go KOSMOS!). I got to buy some Deathnote stuff, we went to dinner in costume, and finally got back and went to sleep.

Day 3: (Saturday)

Saturday morning was spent getting the makeup as right as possible, which turned out later to still be wrong...either that or Etaru just plain got bored and decided to add a few more lines to my face. We went downstairs and hit the dealers room, OH MY GAWD. I loved it. Everything you could possibly NEED to survive in life, all in one room! I musta spent atleast a hundred dollars easy on stuff. It wasnt that hard to do, believe me. So now there I was, with armloads of DeathNote and Chrono Crusade items, all happy like. What came next? The Deathnote Movie. Oh joy to the world! They did a good job on it, I didnt really like how it ended, but aside from slight changes here and there I found nothing wrong with it. Kudos to Death Note! :D

Next came the skits. Myth and I did a skit about Temari missing, which was pretty fun. It kinda sucked waiting in line and not being able to see the other skits before us. And there was this one Itachi cow that kept flirting with Myth and I wanted to kill him. Yes, thats right, kill him. Cuz everyone knows Kanky can kick Itachi's ass any time anywhere. Thats a fact. I think I got that message across to him though, either him or Myth cuz he left us alone after that. I was kinda happy. At the end of the skit Myth was supposed to trip me (which she did) and I was supposed to fall (which I forgot) and so I was a wee late (in falling) and thusly, she tripped me, and I fell down the stage stairs, thus splitting my knee open and cutting my wrist. Which I think mixed with the adrenaline of being on stage and somehow got merged with my already growing emo attitude, and thussly gave me an overwhelming headache.

After the cosplay was a dance, I sat around for about a half an hour watching Nads (Etaru's lil sister), then when Etaru and Myth showed up that was it, I was out of there. I sat around outside for a bit where there wasnt any loud music to amplify my headache, but that didnt do much good as it seems smoke doesnt help headaches either. And I somehow seem to have these false hopes that if I seclude myself, people will come looking for me. I mean, Im not that hard to find, Ive got a freaking huge puppet on my back. But alas, Myth and Etaru were having a blast inside and didnt come looking, I finally got tired of sitting there and went back to the room, where I wittled away my headache by reading Chrono Crusade. Which helped until I stood up to clean my face off, then I hurt like hell again. >.<

But apparently Myth n Etaru had fun down there, dancing. Im kinda peeved that I missed it, but at the same time it's probably for the better. I probably would have just been fighting with every other person that tried to dance with Myth. I've found, since the breakup, that Im still overly protective of her, maybe even more so now that theres no title of boyfriend/girlfriend stopping people from flirting with her. That and I find myself very jealous of her attention. Which probably doesnt help anything at all.

Day 4: Sunday

Sunday went by pretty quick. I woke up with somewhat of a headache, not much of one. We hit Denny's for breakfast, I got some asprin for Myth but none for myself. Then we hit the con again, dealers room for a bit. Then Etaru and I went and chilled on the couch while Myth went and continued to be indecisive about what she wanted to buy. She was in there for three hours straight and didnt buy anything until just before it closed. Next up was the batle cosplay, which was pretty cool. I wanna join that next year. It was lots of fun until Myth left...and then Etaru left looking for Myth...and then Myth came back (yay!) to get some money (crap...) and they left me there. Now, once again I found that the emo attitude Ive been frequenting and the slight headache I had can converge into one, and that made things so much worse. So here I am, with a headache, thinking the most self demoralizing things humanly possible, and telling myself that the only reason Im here is because they needed a Kankuro to complete the trio, and if I couldnt serve that purpose, I was useless. Oh, they needed a camera man too. That was another annoying one. Which I was brutally reminded about when Myth came back, grabbed me, told me we were getting pics with some famous guy (I was like "Oh, cool!"), and then we got out there and they handed me the camera...That...That just freaking hurt. I took the picture and proceeded to shift immediately into emo overdrive, I went back to the hotel room and prepared to head to the movie 300 (the next thing on our to-do list).

We got to the theater quick enough, I was still being emo. I didnt mean to be, I tried not to be, but every time I started thinking I felt like crap, and every time I stopped thinking I felt like crap. I just plain felt like crap. We got to the theater and Myth was bugging me to tell her what was wrong and I just kinda snapped. I dont recall, ever before, telling Myth to shutup and actually meaning it. After which point, I felt even more like crap for being a bad friend. So I tried afterwords to keep myself semi chipper, just for them.

The movie, by the by, kinda sucked. Good action scenes, and good plot. But the acting was cheesy, the lines were cliched, you could see exactly where everything was going. There were pointlessly elongated sex scenes (I closed my eyes...really, I did!), and the blood was so pathetically fake that it dissapeared before it even hit the ground. It was dumb. I dont recommend it if your looking for a good movie. If you want to let off some steam and see people kill each other, its a great movie.

Anyways, apparently my lack of liking for the movie was some form of disprespect to Etaru's dad, Im not sure how. I mean, corny rated R movie that my parents would never let me watch in the first place...does that equal good in my mind? No...not really. But I never meant any disprespect, really.

So we got back to the con and went downstairs, we got to chill out with a photographer from Consplayers.com, that was okay I guess. I kinda got ignored the whole time, such is what happens when your in a room full of people you dont know. And I still feel somewhat like crap. So what do I do? I started reciting scripture...I dont do that often, I should do it more. I recited Psalms 23 in my head, 1st Corinthians 13 and also random parts of the Bible that I knew. A piece from Matthew and a piece from Proverbs. Little things like that. And it made me feel better. Some other guy who'd dressed as Gaara also started talking to Rachael and I became jealous again, but I kept my mouth shut and just kept reciting scripture. I think it helped, even if it was just getting my mind off things I felt better.

After that we returned to our rooms, which lasted until Etaru realized she had no trophey for her swimsuit win. So she and I went back down to the lobby and found the guy who ran the whole thing and asked for a trophey. She didnt get one. Then she sat around talking to people, and me, being one who wanted to get back to Rachael or somewhere where I knew people, had to grab and drag her (litterally) from the room. I felt a wee bad for doing that so on the way back to the room we stopped and got Tea, which isnt so bad when you dump a bunch of sugar and cream in it.

We got back to the hotel rooms, I sat around for a bit, they kicked me out to go to bed (which they really didnt, they sat up talking for awhile. Yeah, we could hear you through the walls, your lies wont work! XD) So I, not being tired, decided to take a walk. I headed down to the front and took a pic of the Welcome Anime Oasis sign for Myth. Odd picture huh? Looks almost like someone...idk...photoshopped it or something? huh. Imagine that.

Day 5: Monday

Monday we came back, it was a seemingly short trip, we stopped in a few places, my emoness took over again, I sat around flipping coins and staring at the wall. I love her, she loves me not. I hate that. So we finally got to Threeforks, said bye to Etaru, and headed home. Which was somewhat akward. When we got back to Myth's house we said goodbye, she gave me a brief hug and then I left. The whole thing was awkward, and Im glad that its over. But Im really looking foreward to going next year. :)

by the by, this may be my last post. As I find this site to be one where I express myself more than I want to. So yeah...sorry. :)
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