Sunday, August 26, 2007

   I feel so violated...
I know I haven't visited I've been busy with work and school started back. I'm having a bit of a real life crises though... I'd explain it, but I'm no longer sure how secure anything I say is, I'm no longer sure about anything... curse my need to build an internet personality recognizable across the board! That's all I can say for now. TT_TT
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

   I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1one!!!!!!!11!110 (randomly...)
So we went to apply today and both Katie and I are hired! We start next week working at Gamestop! Also, we get a fifteen percent employee's discount, which, along with the ten percent GameInformer used game discount can become 25%! It's enough to make one drool. I'm sure there are other perks too, it's so cool!
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Saturday, July 28, 2007

   Good news!!!
I got a job offer yesterday!!!! And I wasn't technically looking for one. We know the people at Gamestop and Katie and I always talk to the manager-lady, she's very nice. She was asking us what we had been doing all summer and saying that she needed somebody to fill in for the current employees because they're going to go help start new stores, and she asked us if we wanted to do it. I don't know if we'll be able to do it, we have a lot of stuff going on after school (drama club, writer's club on Mondays, and chorus around Christmas time)

Also, I'm a moron, my little bro doesn't have three shots twice a week, he just has three shots a week, once a week. I don't know how I got it in my head it was more.

Also, I got to read New Moon, the second book after Twilight. It was ok, but it's obviously just a middle book setting it up for the finale, I hope it's wonderful.
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Friday, July 27, 2007

   I'm back!
Well, I have good news and bad news about my little brother, the good news is that they're fairly sure that they can make him feel better and regain his mobility, the bad news is, he's pretty far gone and he's going to have to get three shots twice a week. Also, he has to wear braces on his arms when he sleeps (that we all agree make it look like he has gunarms) He was so incredibly brave about it apparently. Katie, Caleb, and I stayed in the hotel room because we thought it would be a fairly short visit and that we'd just be in the way but it ended up taking from 10 am until 5 pm. None of us ate any lunch so that kind of sucked. The doctor's were incredibly thorough and apparently very kind, they sent him home with a medical kit with real supplies including a needle. (minus the actual needle but still with that little plastic thing that covers the needle) He gave us all about 100 shots and he filled it with water that wound up squirted all over our hotel room and everybody's arms. Him and Caleb put on the hairnets, gloves, and facial masks, and we called them "Beautiful Dr. Caleb," and "Handsome Dr. Joshua," I thought it was funny so I'm writing it here so I won't forget. Katie and I decided that the face masks made it look like they were in the Yakuza though...

On to the not so much news as the not depressing part. XD The car ride wasn't bad because I finally got to read Twilight. I finished it the second day while we waited for my parents and Joshua to return and was sorely depressed. It was an awsome book, and I would have been satisfied, but damn if they didn't put a preview for the second book in the back to read that ended on a cliffhanger when I was unable to go buy the book and thought that I was going to have to go home and read Wuthering Heights for summer reading. (turns out, I have English 2nd semester.) They have a really awsome mall in Durham, and we went there twice. I bought some sort of japanese melon soda that I haven't tryed yet in their fye, and I bought some delicious "Forest Fruit" tea (Katie bought Morrocan Mint) from a stand-vendor-thingy called Tribal Teas The girl that worked there was really nice, seemed like she was probably an anime fan but we didn't get to talk about it. I wanted to buy some Matcha, but in order to make it we would have had to buy a wisk that I would have had no use for once the tea ran out. They don't sell high-quality tea where I live so we almost didn't get any tea at all because we had to buy a little strainer thing (it's heart-shaped, so cute!)so that the tea wouldn't run wild. It's cool, you put a little teaspoon of tea in, and when it's done and you wash out the mesh thing, the tea leaves have revived and are grean and soft again. (I didn't even realize they were whole leaves they were so small.) I also finally found the second volume of Cafe Kichijouji and a picture-book about samurais in the Books-a-Million there.

We also stopped at a mall in Greensboro NC and it was a really nice mall as well, we bought some "jade" charms at a store called Dragon Seed and I bought a Rurouni Kenshin keychain in their Hot Topic. We also stopped for lunch in Greensboro and ate in Carolina's Diner. If you're ever in Greensboro, there food was great, and the service was excellent. I got a sandwhich with beef, ham, and bacon all together, it was delicious, though oddly enough the beef had an irredescent luster like an oil slick.

We also stopped at a cival-war shot tower, which is apparently where musket shots were made. The tower is about one hundred feet tall and they'd drop molten metal down the middle shaft were it would land in a basket in a tunnel carved below the tower that came out next to a river. It was a beautiful old building and I might upload some pictures. (we didn't get to go inside though.)

I think that's everything, sorry this post was so freakishly long and thank you to all of you who prayed for Joshua, I told him that between Katie and I we had half the internet praying for him. :) I don't know if he believed us, but it sounded good anyway.
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Monday, July 23, 2007

   BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
Ok, so tomorrow I'm going to go with my family to Duke University in North Carolina. I will not be back until Thursday and may be unable to post until Friday. We are taking my little brother Joshua there to see if they can help with his Juevanal arthritis, so this is a big deal. Please pray that they can do something for him and give him some medication that will help him feel better, he hurts all over and has basically stopped moving around. The appointment is at eleven on Wedneday, so remember us then.

We're also hoping to take advantage of their Giant mall! ^_^ So many opportunities to buy stuff I don't need. XD And I get to finally read Twilight, I've been saving it to read on this trip, I hope I don't get carsick...
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Saturday, July 21, 2007

A description of fleeting emotion...
What is this passionate excitement welling up withen me? Where does such unsettling need for action come from? I feel I could fly if I just stepped off the roof, I could run like a cheeta if I only had flat ground and no fear. Occasionaly the feeling of adventure wells in me with no outlet, what a sad case... I feel like the world is so close I could scrape it with my fingernail, just out of reach. I suddenly want the night air on my face, but lack the courage to seek it. If only I could pass into shadows in the night like a spirit and ne'er return. If only life ran like a really good book and this didn't sound crazy. I get like this occasionaly and then I write poetry, this time I just wrote exactly what I felt in laymen's terms.
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Friday, July 20, 2007

   I hate Harry POTTER!!!!!!!!
God I hate Harry Potter! I haven't read the series, I don't want to, and I'm sick of people asking me too. OMG Harry Potter!? Yes I hate it, leave me alone.

My friend freaked out on me today over it. He does not understand why I don't want to read it, and I've tryed to explain to him calmly that it just doesn't interest me and I don't care too. I mean, what difference does it make? He won't read everything I ask him too and he says it's different because thousands of people agree with him that Harry Potter is awsome and I suggest manga. I don't care about popularity, in fact it's one of the reasons why I won't read it, because everybody else has. He just can't understand that.

So a few questions for you...
1. Will you join the madding crowd to get your book?
2. If you said no to #1, how will you obtain your copy?
3. If you aren't buying said book, why?
4. If you aren't reading the series, have people irratated the crap out of you about it?


edit: This is me snapping my fingers at somebody. I'm posting it here for clarification when she eventually flames me for calling her on it. XD (I'm feeling very hateful right now for some reason, I hope I don't regret this later...

[QUOTE]''Well I won't say anything about Pita-ten because I haven't read it but I can say that you have some things you need to work out. Technically, her neck is correct but her body is far too small. Overall, her body is crooked, her hips are incorrect, the thickness of her arms is screwed up as well, and you obviously don't know anything about wings either. You desperately need to stand in front of a mirror to figure out anatomy a little better. Maybe that's a little harsh, but somebody's got to step beyond giving mindless praise and say something useful.''

You posted this in my Hotaru' Picture. I can UNDERSTAND you trying to help me, BUT i already know my flaws so stop POINTING THEM OUT, when i already no them and is TRYING to work on them.

I don't appropriate how you just insulted me by saying ''You desperately need to stand in front of a mirror to figure out anatomy a little better.'' i don't care what kind of person you are, thats just CROSSES the line.

If you didn't notice, i already got some criti from my friend, so stop repeating her.

Thank you for hearing me out.
Gooday


[/QUOTE]Look, I was harsh. Yes I probably shouldn't have said, "desperately" and I shouldn't have said what I did about wings, but what is the point in posting your art online if you don't want critique? Do you just want people to fawn over your art and never improve? This is what your friend said: (and yes I saw it beforehand) "Her shoulder a litlle bit too small and her nech a litlle bit too big." Is that the same as, "Technically, her neck is correct but her body is far too small. Overall, her body is crooked, her hips are incorrect, the thickness of her arms is screwed up as well, and you obviously don't know anything about wings either." What I said is correct and isn't at all the same thing that your friend said, I made sure of that.

I also think it's very interesting that you can go and say all sorts of mean things to other people about their art, but when someone comments on yours, you get angry. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.

By the way, sorry this was late, I don't get a lot of mail.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

   I thought you might be interested in this...
I wind up answering these kinds of questions all the time. The question is, do you read manga in public, and if so, how do people react. I was wondering if anyone else had emberassing things like this happen to you.

I don't care if people see me reading manga but damn if I bring anything out of the house with ONE freaking drawing that could be misunderstood if someone doesn't ask to see what I'm reading. Then I'm praying quietly while they flip through it that they don't see that shot where the guy attempts to rape his girlfriend or they fall into an awkward position. I don't want to come off as a perv when I'm not... :sweat: Or even worse something like Petshop of Horrors with all that violence and the seemingly gay Count D. It's very cultural. I understand right away that one pose like that doesn't mean you're reading porn, but it's hard to explain to people who aren't initiated.

On another note, I don't read yaoi, but I happen to own one series (Cafe Kichijouji de) that is bound like a yaoi manga. I had to explain that I'm not a yaoi fangirl all day. TT_TT I was flipping through the book, "Look it's a bishie comedy, I swear!" They all laughed at me.
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Monday, July 16, 2007

   GaHHhhG!
I just posted this big damn long rant and it freaking dissapeared when I tryed to copy it to make sure it wouldn't dissapear. I'm so mad I could cry. Since I don't feel like rehashing, my little brothers are driving me crazy and I swear if I don't get free soon, I'll snap. I feel like I might gnaw off my own leg if I thought I could get free. And school's starting back soon and I'm a senior and I'm not ready for the world and I've never had a job or any other sort of life experience. I'm screwed more or less and so damn tired of it all. I'm tired of Joshua screaming all the damn time and fighting with Caleb and bringing it in here and I'm just trying to pretend for five freaking minutes that my life isn't falling down around my ears.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007

   I'm really sorry everybody...
I've been really...frumpy we'll say and I haven't really been up to keeping up with everybody, I have made some wallpapers for Petshop of Horrors though... I decided that since there was only one Count D wallpaper, he needed some love. So me and my sister have been working on it, and apparently someone named Filthy Chupacabra has as well. (In fact, I made the wallpaper you're currently viewing...kind of)

Anyway, I'm going to visit everyone's pages though. XD

I forgot to mention this so I edited this in for you, we went shopping today and on the way back we passed a tractor-trailor truck with lots of dents on it from the inside. My mom said, "It looks like whatever was inside was trying to get out." and I agree and turn to her suddenly and at the same time we say, "The Kung-fu Hustle Guy!!!" My mom loves kung-fu hustle, and I think it's really funny.
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