Friday, July 7, 2006

   Tanoshii Tanabata, Minna-san~!
Current Mood: Hopeful
Current Song: Jealous by Dir en Grey

Hello, everyone, and happy Tanabata. In case you don't know, Tanabata is the Japanese festival of the Weaver. It's whenever Orihime (Altair) and Kengyuu (Vega) are able to cross the Milky Way to see each other. They are only able to see each other on the seventh day of the seventh month, because any other day would interfere with their heavenly tasks. Tanabata is normally mostly celebrated in Kansai, the most traditional part of Japan. On this day Japanese normally hang different types of fortunes outside on trees or on strings pulled across the front of their house. These fortunes contain wishes, normally written by the person who hung them, they are not purchased. The most common fortunes are the following-

1. Paper Strips/Tanzaku-Good handwriting and studies
2. Paper Kimono/Kamigoromo-Good sewing (based off an Edo tradition), wards of accidents and bad health
3. Paper Cranes/Orizuru-Family safety, health, and long life
4. Purse/Kinchaku-Good Business
5. Net/Toami-Good fishing and harvests
6. Trash Bag/Kuzukago-Cleanliness and unwastefulness
7. Streamers/Fukinagashi-The strings Orihime weave

This is from a tradition during the Edo period whenever they wrote them down on special leaves. Occasinally chlidren sing special lullabyes while hanging their fortunes. Here is the most traditional one-

"Sasa no ha sara sara

Nokiba ni yureru

Ohoshi-sama kira kira


Kin gin sunago"

The bamboo leaves, rustle, rustle

Shaking away in the eaves

The stars go twinkle, twinkle

Gold and silver grains of sand

On the day after Tanabata at the stroke of midnight, the fortunes are floated down the river while burned, designed after an Obon tradition. Overall, Tanabata is a day of happiness, wishes, and lovers. (If you want more information on Tanabata, visit Wikipedia.com) What do you guys wish for this Tanabata? I personally wish for happiness and good health.



Last night was better than the day before. After I posted I watched a few DIRU interviews, so that cheered me up. There was a really cute one with Toshiya and Die where they were talking about going to Korea... Toshiya said he was looking forward to the food there (XD) and imitated how spicy it was... so cute!!! ^o^ Then I watched an interview with Die and Shinya (it was on some TV show) that had bad quality and where the hosts talked really fast -_-, but I could understand a little. They asked them who they liked (in the band) and Shinya said he liked everyone and Die's and Kaoru's guitar (XD... how sweet!). Then Die being Die asked him "who do you like the most?" Poor little Shinya just said "I like everyone the same!!!" Then Die asked him something about disliking someone and I think sweet Shin-chan said that he dislikes no one. ^//^ He's so adorable!!! I was running low on Kyo so I watched a Kyo interview and understood a little of it. OMFG, I love that man's voice. XD It's so different from his singing voice and it's sounds to cute to be true!!! Anyhow, all that I could understand was talking about how his songs are morbid (he said that sometimes everything doesn't have a happy ending and he wanted to show that) and they talked about the issue of self-abuse. ;_; They showed him backstage after a concert, with a closeup on his chest... I almost started crying whenever I saw it. His chest had scratch marks all over it, there was a bit of blood, and there was a circular mark from where he had forced the microphone into his chest (y'know, how he pretends to stab himself). I wish he would stop. T-T After that I took a nap and had a terrible dream... I dreamt that someone was chasing our family and anywhere we went, he was still there, trying to kill us. And he wanted to kill my brother and my dog the most. I woke up 3 hours later and sat on the couch... my dog jumped on my lap and I started crying whenever she licked my cheek. I guess it just scared me so much I couldn't help it. My mom saw me and I had to tell her that I was feeling bad and I thought it might be because of the Wellbutrin, but it turns out that I do have my normal dosage. Then we ate dinner and watched TV... following that I translated so much Japanese (I translate a few DIRU songs) that I thought my head was gonna explode... literally, I got a headache afterwards. XP I'm such an idiot. I finally went to bed at 2 but didn't get to sleep. I kept on tossing and turning and then I suddenly thought of my dog who died last year... he was 14 years old, almost 15, and my parents had had him since before my brother and I were born. I loved him, I called him my father whenever I was a child. I just thought of him and started reading the entry in my diary from when he died. After reading that, I got one of my Wiccan books and read about death. That made me feel better, and helped me remember that death is not the end, just the beginning. I haven't been terribly religious lately (I haven't been saying my prayers or anything), which I think may contribute to my unhappiness. You see, whenever I'm most in tune with nature and the God and Goddess, I'm the happiest. So I said a prayer and went back to sleep, and it helped. I felt better and I hope that it will help me. I finally fell asleep around 4 in the morning.



Awww... look what my Areina-chan made me!!! Thank you, I wub you, Areina!!! *hugs*


Awww, so cute! ^w^

This morning I woke up and thanked the God for allowing me another wonderful day, which allowed me to become in tune with my solar energy. I feel much better than I did yesterday and the day before, and for that I am thankful. I haven't really done much of anything today other than check out a few Gothic Loli sites, I've only been awake for 2 hours, but that's okay.. it's Friday, so I'll probably stay awake longer. And, it's Tanabata!!! I have to go eat some lunch (It's already 4... -_-) and then I'll probably visit some sites and watch a few D'Ray or Phantasmagoria PVs... I'm deprived of them. ToT Atode, minna-san!!!
+Momo+
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