Almost Christmas omg omg!

Whoa! It's Christmas tomorrow! The Hetalia 2011 Bloodbath is going on right now! Everything is exploding with presents! It's super cold! OMG. STUFF IF HAPPENING.

Ha. Yeah. So, shopping for the holidays is now over :3 We were actually out buying last minute gifts today, just a few things added to the stuff we're giving out. I feel like this will be a successful holiday season for me. I bought things that I'm sure everyone will like! Though I may not have bought everyone 10 presents each, the couple gifts that I have for each person are things they really wanted or liked. My family bought a Keepon and I can't wait to open him and dance around with a little yellow robot~.

A few days ago was Bri and James' shared birthday. James turned 18, Bri turned 19. Everyone is so young, I feel super like elderly... I thought it was cool, though! I was going to buy Bri a game on Steam 'cause he present didn't mail on time, but Xoli beat me to it. Now I have to wait for her to tell me a new one she wants. I helped James pick out a necklace and earrings for her, and my mom gave her World of Warcraft-inspired earrings. I got James his lava lamp, Star Wars headphones, and a dungeon master's sheild. I don't know what else to call it, it shields us from seeing what he's doing while we're playing D&D. We ate Bri's cake and James got Reeses because he doesn't like cake, and it was a whole lot of fun. <33 Then, the next day we got to see the new Sherlock movie! It was really really good! <33

Then Riley and Hunter and Mari came over to make D&D characters. We got it done pretty much in one night, we have two leaders, two defenders, a striker, and a controller. Pretty balanced, I think! My character (the striker) is a shifter two-blade ranger. I feel like an ass because he's so strong, but... I really wanted to play a weeaboo-tastic Drift character. He's like drift, Izuna from GG2 Overture, and Inuyasha. All in one.

Speaking of Overture, I FINALLY BEAT THAT GAME. I've had Overture since we bought our 360, and I got stuck on the mission where you play as Ky (with Paradigm helping you) because I had no idea that I was supposed to dispel all of his brainwashed servants. But as soon as I figured it out I got past it. The fight with That Man was intense as hell, I felt like I was playing Touhou. And the final battle with Valentine... Jesus. I did it quite a few times because I couldn't find a single life potion. But, in all, it was really fun~.

So yeah, now that I've mentioned that. We finally got around to playing D&D, but it was just James, Bri, Mike, Riley, and I. Hunter and Mari were running late and James and I ended up needing to go back to his house much earlier than I expected, so we didn't get a lot of time to play. The encounter was built for six people, so we almost got majorly fucked over when it was only the four of us. =u= We did alright though, and we got McDonalds at the end of it~ :D

Going to McDonalds at ungoldy hours of the day has become a common occurrence now. Usually everyone will either stay up all night or only get a few hours of sleep so we can get there for breakfast. Today was like the first time I've even been there at night. It's colder walking there at night than it is in the morning, but there are less people!

Anyway, MERRY CHRISTMAS! The clock struck midnight as I was writing this post! Yaaay! Presents and cookies and shit for everyone because these holidays are awesome~ <33 I hope everyone has a good holiday season <333

Oh yeah, delicious Christmas Shockwave again, continuing my tradition that I started last year. Yes. =w=

it's inspiring and sad ;^;

Well today we went Christmas shopping at the mall. There were lots of people there, and we met up with Xoli, Jessica, Hayden, and Riley. It was so much fun to see everyone again and walk around shopping for people~ I'm done with my mom, James bought something for Bri's birthday, we all went to Toys R Us and met up with Kaela and had fun there, and everything is good! All I have to do is buy online stuff and then I'm finished~~

Here's the thing that really got me, though, why I'm actually making this post. I've had a Dreamy Dollhouse coord hanging on my wall since we moved in and no opportunity to wear it out until just now. It's been a good while since I went in fully decked out lolita. I even got to wear my fuzzy bear hat from KawaiiGoods to keep my head warm! Anyway, that's beside the point. Aside from the usual things that happen when you wear lolita in public (the 'aww how cute' comments and the 'what the flying fuck' comments) there was one lady who really got to me.

I was buying a necklace from JCPenney for my mom after our group of friends sorta broke up to do shopping. The checkout line was taking forever and I have no idea why, but this lady from the other side of the counter called me over and said I could pay at the front of the customer service desk. When I went over to her, she said "I wanted to check you out because you look cute! Kinda like a wedding cake." That's the first time I've heard wedding cake, I've had bo-peep and snow white and stuff before, but not wedding cake. I thought it was nice. She asked me if I "always dressed fun like this" and I told her that I did, that it was sorta a Japanese fashion thing that I'd always liked. She smiled and just said, "Well, never stop doing what you're doing. It's beautiful. I'm fifty-five years old and I have dressed and been this way my whole life. Just never let people get you down, you look really cute."

I don't know why, but it just made me so happy and inspired and also really sad. She rung up my necklace and wished me a merry christmas and James and I left the store, but I don't think I'll ever forget what she said. I think all lolitas need to hear something like that, it makes you feel like you're glowing almost. Aside from the weird stuff we get called, aside from the people who laugh at you, even aside from the people who gush over your outfit, it just really sinks into you when you get a comment as genuine and heartfelt as that one. I want to buy that lady an Innocent World handbag or something, I don't even know. I hope she's happy and has a good holiday season. <3

Present shopping~~~

Christmas shopping this year will be easier than it was last year, I think. This year, I've had time to think about what I'm getting everyone and I'm not panicking last-second to try and come up with gifts. Especially since Bri has made is painfully obvious as to what she wants, and James and my mom are both easy people to buy for. My mom will just outright tell you that she likes something and totally wants it, then forget about it by the next week, and James has very direct interests. Plus, I thought I originally had something I really wanted to buy him, and I was like "I don't mind if you guess~" and then he pretty much guessed everything that he actually wanted! I accidentally indirectly found out what I was going to buy him, and he still doesn't know it! >3

Bri and James' shared birthday is coming up, too. I'm still not sure exactly what they want to do for it or where it will take place, but I'm totally going to make delicious cakes for them. My birthday will be coming up shortly after theirs, and all I really want is to see all my friends. ._. I've been so hikkikomori-ish and not contact-ey for a long time... I just want everyone to come over and have a good time and laugh and play video games like how we used to. I don't want anyone to bring me presents because I don't want it to really feel like a birthday, just all of hanging out and having fun. That would be the best way to spend it. <3

So, yesterday I went with James to the Cheyanne campus to see a counselor. I know all of my classes this semester were just pointless filler classes, but I didn't know that I hadn't declared a major until yesterday. =u=;; Fucking derp. The counselor was like, how? How did this even happen? So as of yesterday I'm biological science major. I mostly sat around all day on my computer trying to write (to no avail, because I suck at fanfiction right now) and at the end of the day James and I hung out with Delaney and talked about Transformers and stuff. I had really tasty nachos, too. :D

I guess that's all that's really happened, I'm sure I"m forgetting something but whatever! n_n

WHOOOOA

UUAAAHHHHHH >A<;;;;;; Blogger I have neglected you again ;o; So much happened during and after Anime Vegas that I completely forgot about making a post here... Man I need to remember this stuff more. Augh. ANYWAY. It's been like a really long time but I'll try to recap!

Omg you guys. Anime Vegas. This year was so beautiful <3 I thought that since it was at the Alexis Park again, it would be crowded and weird and all that, but it actually wasn't. It was way more spread out this year, which was a little weird, but overall better for the convention layout. There wasn't much crowding except for the usual lack of couches, but we had spots in the hallways that we always sat it, so it was all okay. :3

It was so good to see everyone again~ Though not all of my friends could make it, it was a lot of fun meeting with everyone, and seeing other cosplayers! Kaela got to hang out with us for two days (check out her fucking amazing Majora's Mask bead thing in there!), and I also saw Sadey for the first time in a long while~ We also met some very nice Hetalia cosplayers, mostly on the first and second days. One the first day I got really super hungry and we went to the food stand at the back of the hallway by the main events, and there was like this giant group of Hetalia cosplayers just there magically. I found it hilarious hanging out and eating while they talked and laughed behind us. I felt bad, because I totally forgot about posting on the AV forums and informing the Hetalia group that we were going to be cosplaying, so no-one really knew who we were or anything. xD;; But, it was all alright, because they were super sweet and soon we were laughing with them. We didn't stay with them all day, though. Just ate, then went off to find everyone else.

On the second day I was like ME HUNGRY again because apparently I can't stop eating at this convention, and James bought me "the suggestive hot dog". We sat down to eat and he took a very long video of me eating the hot dog and trying not to laugh my ass off while doing so because I guess the world needs more videos of Lithuania eating a hot dogs. No matter how hard I tried to make it not look suggestive, it was a goddamn hot dog and you sorta... can't. =u= So right near the end of this video, an Italy cosplayer walked past us and was like, super surprised to see me and told me there was a Latvia somewhere around. I was like aaaah MUST FIND THEM. And the other Hetalia cosplayers helped re-united us. C: It was so awesome, they were all really sweet. Then while we were taking pictures, one of them told me that I had a red mark on my face. I sorta looked at James and was like omg. A few days before the con we were walking and flailng our arms at eachother and he hit me in the face. I didn't even think that it left a mark but we were both just sitting there like. This is WAAAY too fitting for this cosplay. xD

The, later that night, we left all of our stuff in Mike's hotel room after wandering around and popping into the masquerade, and we all went to the rave. On the way to the front of the hotel we hit like this WAVE of people in a line, and I saw Sadey inside and asked her what was going on. It was the freaking line for the rave that we ran into. It went out the door and literally around the corner. Fuck, it was long. But we chilled outside with Brina and Kaela and everyone and played rock-em sock-em girlfriends. Finally, the line moved and we all somehow managed to get into the rave room. We only danced for like two songs, though, because it started getting reaaaaaally hot, and Kaela had to go and we waited for Quinn outside for her. When we walked back in, holy christ it smelled like death. The BO of like a hundred people all trapped in one tiny dark hot room was just way too much to handle. I found an America when we walked back in and he gave me this look like he'd seen a ghost. Idk what that was. =w= So we left teh rave, since it was sorta gross with all the smelliness. We waited outside with Xoli and Jessica and Nando and saw a beautiful vintage Rolls-Royce, and I took a shitload of pictures of it without knowing that there were people inside. Oops.

On the last day we mostly just hung around with everyone. We caught some episodes of Gundam Unicorn and K-On and bought stuff from the dealers hall. Somebody bought the little Russia I wanted, but I got my hands on the Lynette I wanted~~ We saw the taiko drums and ate M&Ms, and watched the most hilarious AMVs ever. The Ouran and Evangelion ones were amazing, maybe I'll post them here tomorrow.

Anyway, it was amazing. Each year is so fun with everyone, I love seeing you guys there! It's just always so great. AV might not have amazing special super awesome bands (Yoko was there though, she was so cute and a great performer as usual!) and the world doesn't revolve around it, but I love being there with all my friends. You guys make the con worthwhile. Oh, also the panel about the world's most hated anime characters, where everyone exploded when Sasuke came up. That made it worth it, too. =u=

So that was AV. After that things were still busy, I had essays to make up and work to do, and before long, bam! Thanksgiving! My mom had some weird cough and none of my relatives wanted to get sick, so no-one even came over. Yep. It was just James and I, Bri, and her new boyfriend Mike, and my mom. Bri and my mom cooked and the house got really hot, so we opened the door and I played Heavy Mach Defense on my phone until it got cooler inside. We ran to the store to get rolls, which of course, were the one thing we forgot for dinner. It was super yummy~~ Now the LVAC Christmas Party is coming up and we have to get ready for that. c:

So, well, it's December now. I turn twenty in a few days, holy shit I'll be so old. ;o; I gotta start christmas and birthday shopping! It's gotten really cold so I bought a few sweaters when we went to the Meadows Mall for the first time in forever. I'm also grabbing a new Petticoat, since my old white ones have deflated a bit. I wonder if the humidity has been killing them? Dunno. We've made a new spot for LVAC and I saw it while watching Vegas TV the other day, I think it looks nice. Oh! And I made a little spot on the interwebs where I can post my freaky dreams- it's right here! I don't like clogging my blog up with them too much. I'm also working hard on Bri's fic, and the new one that I started. I'll stop ranting now, it's been a long while but I'll be updating regularly again now! C:

half of the week~~

Well, half of the busiest week like ever is over. Next stop will be AV this weekend! Do I make a cute Lithuania? I'll post more pictures after I've actually styled my wig, I just wanted to wear everything. The lenses I have are really great, no "photoshop-my-eyes-a-different-color-because-my-contacts-are-to-dark" stuff anymore.

Anyway, the meeting/anniversary went really well! We left the house at live five PM and we didn't get back until midnight (before the time change) but it was really fun. The Red Rock hotel is beautiful, and the room where the meeting was held was enormous! Bigger than the other venues LVAC has had, I think. We set up the red carpet, mosaic, and step and repeat, and everyone really liked them. The powerpoint and our videos went off without a hitch, and everyone laughed at the "where were you in 1991?" video! I don't know if I mentioned it, but we also put all of the salespeople and people in the office's heads onto the "Party Rock Anthem" video by LMFAO. Now that was a hit. Everyone was laughing at the big floating heads shuffling around the screen. The food was also fantastic! It was a great anniversary dinner <3 Earlier we had a super posh anniversary celebration breakfast... at McDonalds. Remember when I was ranting about not getting McDonalds last post? Yep. The best celebration of two years of happiness involves a burger and soda. =u=

Then last night was my mom's birthday! I woke up early and literally covered the house in fancy papers saying "happy FIFTY-FIRST birthday" in rainbow colors. Last year my mom was complaining about turning 50 and we promised we wouldn't let her forget she was 51 this year, so like buttheads we pulled that. She walked in and was like "...Seriously?" and cracked up with laughter. We didn't get her painting on time though... But we still all went to dinner with her sister. It was super tasty and I was Comrade Twinkletron. Have I mentioned on here that I have this ushanka with a Soviet badge on it that I ordered from Ukraine? I hardly get to wear it, but now that it's so cold I felt like it was appropriate. c:

Also, Mike and Mari visited our house for five days. =w= Originally, James and I thought they were just coming over to visit for a night, but we all stayed up way past sunrise playing video games and on the computer. Mari brought curry and I chipped my tooth on a lollipop. It isn't noticeable, but I feel it on my tooth. D:

We just hung out and talked about shit, I haven't seen either of them in a really long time so it was good to catch up! Bri and Mike watched this Mark Twain movie while Mari and I sort of half-watched, and then everything became Mark Twain. It's all Mark Twain. Forever. Then yesterday before we went to dinner, Bri, Mari and I had an afternoon of anime nostalgia, listening to like every theme song and ending theme that we could remember from our childhoods. xDIt was a really fun week, visiting with them, going to the meeting, celebrating our anniversary, and throwing mom a 51 party~ <3

I am so excited for AV! I know it's a smaller con and considered mediocre by most standards, but it's my home convention and there are a lot of good memories to be made there each year. I'll post pictures from everything after sunday! See you all at the Alexis Park~!! <3

November!!

A little late but, Happy Halloween! I didn't go out or dress up this year because nothing was really going on, but James and I carved a badass pumpkin that I'll have to post pictures of~!

I am so excited for Saturday. Everything we've been working on for the last few weeks! Over! And James! Two whole years of a perfect world~! <33 Do I sound like Kira yet? Well, I haven't killed any criminals or made the trade for Shinigami eyes, so I'm not Kira material anyway...

Today I went and emptied my memory cards and started to charge all my camera batteries. These first few weeks of November will be so much fun~ I found out that my Liet outfit only has button pockets today so I went out and bought a bag for all of my stuff. I dunno why I assumed I had pockets in my pants. Maybe because Liet is a dude and I've never seen dude clothes without pockets? n_n;;

All day we've pretty much been playing various video games in the living room. My mom isn't feeling well so we went to the store to buy her bananas (wat) and we stopped to eat at Panda Express. I sorta wanted McDonalds... u_u; I'll eat McDonalds tomorrow. I think I could single-handedly support the entire American fast food industry. I love my hamburgers way too much <33

Anyway. A few days ago at work I was told that the Yogurtland on Flamingo was robbed. D: It's very scary. They were having trouble playing the video footage, so they brought it to the edit bay and we played it for them. It was really un-nerving to see a guy in a hood and face mask run into the store with a gun and make the workers lay down on the floor while he took everything. The yogurt is so good there, I was almost surprised he didn't grab a cup of it before he left. =w= But really, it was scary just to watch the footage. I hope they find out who it was soon.

Oh, and even though nothing else is going on aside from prepating for AV and the meeting and me writing lame fanfiction as usual, I need to explain the dream I had list night. It was totally horrible.

In this dream I was at a casino here in town. James was with me and my mom was across the casino, and I told James I was going to talk to her. So I ran across the casino, asked her some questions, and then started running back to where James was. When I got there, there was like a wall and a whole bunch of people. I asked if I could get though the wall to get to him, they told me that here had been like an accident, and that he was dead.

I cried and stuff. I grieved but I kept on going and I'm guessing time should have been speed up about a year. I think I was supposed to have stopped working and I was just sitting around at home going through the motions for the whole year that had passed. Then it sort of skipped to my mom and I at the store at the checkout lane. While we were putting groceries on the belt, she said something like "how long will you go on like this? It's been a year and you're sitting around." and it just like. Hit me. It was like a tidal wave. I realized that I would never see him or hug him or hear his voice ever again. I didn't even get to say goodbye because he died in an accident. So I just like cried and collapsed into a mess on the floor in front of everyone. I kept saying "I want James, I want James" and crying even harder because I knew that no matter how many times I said it, I would never ever see him again.

After that I woke up. I was pretty much sobbing and it woke James up. I don't think I've ever had a nightmare like that before, I've never opened my eyes like screaming crying from a dream either. I just freaked out for a good 15 minutes while he held me and I tried wrapping my head around the fact that it was a dream. I never have nightmares! All of my dreams are trippy and weird, but never so sad! ;A;

So, after I was calmed down, we went back to sleep and I dreamed that I had a brown horse that I kept in my room. A fucking horse. In my room. And I just fed it little things I found laying around, string and tiny green bricks. And I used to have a Saddlebred apparently too, but it had died. So I had cut off it's head, and I kept the head in the corner of the room. Whenever I missed it I would just go over and pet it's decaying head. There was also a part about a Dodge Challenger and a Walgreens where everyone spoke Russian, but I don't remember those parts as well. =u=;; I've been having way too many weird dreams lately!

I think that's about it for what's happened recently. It's Laurie's birthday today and my Mom's on Monday~! Everyones' birthdays are coming up... Even mine! I'll be twenty... How old. TToTT

OH. HI THERE.

Waaaah~ ;A; I haven't made a post in a LONG time! I'm sorry... >n< I've been very lazy and this month has been pretty busy. Next month, though, is going to be even crazier. Within the first few weeks of November are the LVAC 20 years meeting, James and I are celebrating our second anniversary, my mom is turning 432749823, AND Anime Vegas is happening! All within a few days of eachother! O_O

Anyway, I guess I should recap all the way from the races. James' family from California came down with their motor home to watch the indy race final things here. I don't keep up with racing though, you know me, I'm a luxury car person rather than a fast crashing car person. I still like watching the races even though I've got no clue what's going on, though. So we all went out to their motor home for the weekend to see them! At first, it was so super fun. Sammy was there with us, we got ice cream and hot dogs and had burritos for dinner. We walked around the track and took the tram to the seats, looked at all the merchandise and things on display around the stands. There was even a Lamborghini stand there! *0* <333 I was just like "DUDE WAIT. LET ME GO TAKE PICTURES PLEASE." and the guys at the booth were really nice and let me take as many as I wanted~. There's where the first picture at the beginning of the post game from!


Then the indy races started on the second day and we were all excited. We were standing at the fence at the motor home row watching them make the first laps when the really bad crash happened. Everyone around us was like "oh man, that's going to be bad" but I couldn't see the worst of it. Cars had flipped over and there were like thirteen people involved in the accident. Obviously, everything stopped and people were taken to the hospital in helicopters and ambulances, so James and I decided to take the tram to the stands to see if any of them knew what was happening. When we got to the other side, they announced that the race was going to be ended. I was like thinking more towards 'we have to get on the tram before it gets crowded' when they suddenly announced that the driver of the car who had flipped over, Dan Weldon, was dead. Everybody just sort of stopped in their tracks. It was really sad, even though I never knew him and I don't follow racing at all, it was just. Wow. It was not a good end to the day. The mood was really low and the drivers who were still in working cars did memorial laps for him. ;_;


That was the only big depressing event to happen. From there it's been working a lot on preparations and videos for LVAC's 20 year anniversary meeting thing. It's going to be at the Red Rock, and I think the videos and slideshows look really great so far! I hope everyone likes them because it's really the only thing we've been working on for a long while now. The meeting happens to fall on November 5, as well. James and I started dating on November 5 of 2009 so the date is very special to us~ <33 I'm trying to find some way to surprise him... but since he might read this I won't say what it is!

Then, directly after is my mom's birthday. I already know what we're doing: I'm going to take her out for a pedicure (which is one of her favorite odd past-times) and go to Famous Dave's to eat, because she loves it there. Everyone in my family has also pitched in to buy her a Maxfield Parrish painting for her room. I think it'll look really nice~

We've been switching between houses pretty regularly and my midterms are over. I actually only had midterms for one class, which I think is weird. This weekend has been basically work-free so James and I have been playing Knights of the Old Republic (to get hyped even more for The Old Republic when it comes out this winter) and for some reason I've been playing Silent Hill: Homecoming. It reminds me of living in the condo in 07-08. Bri got the new pets expansion for the Sims 3 and it's hilarious. Hmm... What else? We went to a military surplus store for boots and now our cosplays are both officially done! All I have to do is trim the bangs and the back of James' Russia wig and straighten the sides of my Liet wig because they've been curling out just a bit when I put it on. Other than that, we're totally set for AV!

I think I'm really excited for this cosplay because it's my first time cosplaying characters I really love. Did you know that for AV 2008, I cosplayed Konan from Naruto? :D All of my friends were cosplaying Akatsuki characters, but there was no Konan! I think this was before she appeared in the anime, but I still took it up right away. I learned origami and everything, I bought her ring and somehow I knew that I had to fake a lip piercing, because I didn't want a real one. So I bought a pair of magnetic earrings that looked like her lip piercing and a strong little magnet, put the magnet on the inside of my lip and one of the little earrings on the outside. I know, it's dangerous! I wish I hadn't done that, it was really painful and I probably could have hurt my lip if I had worn it for more than three days, but we were doing anything to make the cosplay look right. I still have the blue wig I used for her too! Then, later that year, we went on vacation to Cambria and I cosplayed Seychelles, also from Hetalia. Back in '08, Hetalia cosplay wasn't big at all, so most people at the beach during the photoshoot probably just thought I was running around in a nice dress and red bows. =w=;; But, either way, those are the only cosplays I've done so far and they've just been because the character is convenient for me to cosplay. It wasn't because I particularly loved Seychelles and Konan (I like them but they're not my favorites ever) but because it would just be easy or good for other people. Now I finally get to cosplay my favorite and it makes me happy~. c:

I don't think anything else particularly interesting or noteworthy has happened, so I'll end with a picture of my badass TF jacket. I'm still sorry for neglecting this blog again. n_n;; Oh, I've been having lots of really weird dreams lately, so I'm thinking about making a blog just to post them on, so they don't clog this one up. Good idea? =w=

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH

AKSDHALOIDJSDJASDJDS I TOTALLY PRE-ORDERED ALL OF THE EARLY RELEASE TF PRIME TOYS. NO FUCKING REGRETS. LET'S DO THIS SHIT. 5000 STARSCREAMS ON THE SHELF FOREVER.

THIS POST IS USELESS BUT I'M EXCITED AS SHIT.

UAHAHA

So for the last few days at work we've been going through these old ads from LVAC in the late '80s and early '90s. God they are hilarious, everyone has the poofer hair and legwarmers and leotards, and the music is just... it is what it is. I think it's really charming and cute, but at the same time it's all so corny! There's one where a lady is flipping her hair around saying "made you look!" as the commercial goes by, and people singing "wow, she really works out" in the background. I was laughing so hard watching it.

Oh, also, Revenge of the Fallen is totally on TV right now! Holy shit am I happy to see it again, I said I was going to re-watch it a long time ago but forgot. It's sorta cut up, obviously, and the obscene parts are gone, but it's refreshing to watch it again. <33 I loved DOTM Tentacle Mercedes No Prisoners Just Trophies Soundwave, but I totally love satellite Soundwave in this movie too, how he just sorta chills there~

It's pretty obvious that I have nothing to talk about right now. =w= ONE MAN. ALONE. BETRAYED BY THE COUNTRY HE LOVES.

Before I end this- Go see Real Steel! It's really great, actually! (I had a shitfit when they introduced the Legion robot, I sorta leaned over to James and whispered "true to caesar," as he smooshed Noisy Boy's head off. ANYWAY.) It was a sweet movie. Renn Fair happened too but I'll talk about that in my next picture post.

Oh, it's October.

Yeah I like didn't even realize the months had changed at all, it's still so super hot here. ;o; I guess I haven't made a post because I've been busy with work and classes, and other than that there's nothing to talk about that's interesting. n_n;;

I guess for the next two weeks I'll be working more, because we have to put together a video for LVAC's 20 year anniversary. We're getting pictures from everyone in 1991 when it was born and I was just a baby! The youngest sales people there were all in grade school back then, so does that make me the youngest person working in corporate? I hope not, I hate being the youngest. =w=

Our wigs for cosplay came in the mail a few days ago. Both of them look really good! I'm especially satisfied with James' Russia wig... I know they send you a wig with slightly long bangs and whatnot so that you can trim it, and on me it just looks like a blonde bob, but on his head it's the right length in the back without even having to trim it. This week I'll cut the bangs and that will be that, since I already cut my wig's bangs while watching videos on YouTube with Bri. That somehow seems like it wouldn't work, but it did.

James' Russia outfit also got here yesterday and I'm totally in love with it. I would post a review and pictures and everything but Bri, Kaela, and I are still going to make a review blog... eventually. We don't have a name for it yet or anything. But it looks really nice, everything is lined and warm and if I was taller I'd totally just like wear the coat around for shits and giggles. It looks ridiculous on me 'cause I'm like a foot shorter than James is, though. The people who sent us the cosplay even sent us a tiny Russian flag and a sunflower, and a tiny keychain of a bear that says "I love you" when you squeeze it's tummy. Seriously wtf how adorable. =w= <33

I feel like someday I'd like to sew my own cosplays, but for now I'm content with purchasing them because I know hoe terrible I am at sewing, and if I made something it'd look like total crap, and even though I appreciate the effort put into home-made cosplay, it is super off-putting when it's sloppily or badly sewn. I have so much respect for people who can make their own outfits by hand really well, it's such a skill. *o* If I had money and time I'd take a sewing class, but I'm so bogged down with stuff right now, and I want to spend my money on other things.

Also, not sure if I've been keeping this blog up with my grandma's broken hip adventures. In August, she fell and broke her hip and realized she shouldn't be living by herself, so she decided to move to an assisted living place right next to where Bri and I grew up. Right now, she lives in the house we spent our childhood in, and wants to walk away from the house since she was a derp during the housing market boom. My dad really wants to save the house, and so do I! I know it won't be worth anything, but I would want to live there again someday. There are lots of memories and good times there and I'd hate to see the bank just take it and throw it off to someone who will never sell it because it was built a long time ago and new houses are dirt cheap here too. I hope he ends up getting it from her.

Oh, and today is really pretty! There's a thunderstorm going on outside, so I am getting off the computer now. It sort of scares me that the house will get struck by lightning and my laptop will get fried. =w=

Soooo.

I changed my URL~ Playground Conqueror was a really outdated name from when I was in like... 11th grade. =w=;;

So, I think this will be my picture post. There hasn't been a whole lot going on, I haven't been anywhere interesting lately and the week has sort of fallen into work, write essays for classes, unpack, switch houses, repeat! I really hope I finish going through my boxes of old drawings soon, I like seriously want these boxes out of my room and I want space to put another tiny dresser. Anyway, not important. Let's see pictures~ :3

Last week, it rained a lot! It was so pretty, everything was all covered in dew at the sunset and sunrise, and there was even a huge thunderstorm at my house! Kaela and Bri were here, and I thought I woke up like three hours early for work for no reason. I was like super mad, until I noticed that it was the thunder that woke me up. I walked into the hallway and both Bri and Kaela were awake as well, it lasted for a long time and the thunder got super, super close. :D

The day afterwards, I woke up to go with my mom to the Lee house, and this is what we saw when we walked outside! It was totally amazing!! A perfect rainbow all the way across the sky, it was so big that I couldn't fit the whole thing in my lens. There were people taking pictures all over the place.

Then, as we drove down the street, we got to the end of the rainbow! Whaaaat? How did we even find it? It was fading by the time we got there, but it was still so awesome that I had to take a crappy picture. The city was really bright and clean that day after the rain, it was so pretty. <3

I don't have a vanity yet, so there's nowhere to put all my kawaii jewelry and offbrand hairclips and stuff. They're all just sitting on my drawers. I have to find somewhere to put all of the hair accessories above, I hate sifting through them every day to find what I want and I desperately want them to be organized. >o<

My contacts for Lithuania came in the mail! I ordered from PinkyParadise, and they were very quick and had great customer service. I would post a review for them (and the order I got from KawaiiGoods) but I think Bri, Kaela, and I are going to start a review blog soon! I will say, even though my eyes are red-brown, the enlargement on these circle lenses is great and they make my eyes a nice emerald green, without having to photoshop the color in after taking a picture. I'm really hyped for my Liet wig to come in the mail within the week, I already have that 'casual' outfit we see him in a lot (the one that isn't his uniform, but the green sweater and tan pants and shit) and I want to run around cooking and being a dweeb dressed as him. -u-

Idk how to end this post (there weren't as many pictures as I thought...) so here is a picture I took a few months ago of my purple tea parties at the EKA school carnival. n_n

LET'S GOOO~

I am changing my URL from playgroundconqueror.blogspot.com to twinkletron.blogspot.com in a few days. If you have me bookmarked as Playground Conqueror, please remember! <33

When I have dreams about my OTP, I absolutely must post them here no matter how totally retarded the dream is. I woke up this morning and I know there's more to this dream, but I can't remember it. =w=

So the first thing I remember is walking about of an Autobot meeting in this sunny plaza sort of place. I was TFA Bumblebee. I just somehow knew this even though I couldn't see myself. And Bayverse Bonecrusher is just casually patrolling the perimeter, not giving a shit about any of the Autobots walking behind him. I was all giddy for whatever reason and I like skipped past him and was like "Blurr~!" calling out for him. Bonecrusher looked at me but didn't give a shit and kept walking, so I was like "BLURR~" louder and then Blurr ran up from the distance and was like "let's goooo~"

So then we had a race and I was still Bee, but I was seeing form the kind of point of view that you see from in Mirror's Edge, which I've never even played. I could just occasionally see my hands or feet when I did some crazy stunt. But one time when I was jumping, I saw my feet and I was wearing rollerskates made of red, green, and yellow Legos. This made me fall onto my chest in this field we were racing through and I just sort of stayed there until Blurr looked behind and saw me on the grass. Then he came back and helped me up in a very shoujo-like way and I was like "thank you~ <3" and he gave me this bishie-looking lopsided smile. Then we noticed there was a dock nearby.

There was like a big ocean-like lake with a house on the edge and a fishing dock. and Movieverse Starscream was climbing around on the dock like a retard. So Blurr was like "omg dude let's play a prank on him" so we magically disguised ourselves as G1 Soundwave and Shockwave and walked onto the dock. I was like (as Shockwave) "STARSCREAM WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" really loud and he just sorta looked at me and was like "do you think i'm stupid? i can see right through your disguises." and Blurr and I like panicked and jumped into the ocean-lake.

We seriously sank like four stories down and then swam to the side and ended up in this warehouse place. Blurr went away and sometime during my entering the warehouse I became Marisa Kirisame. For some reason, the warehouse was like producing shit but it also had a series of conveyor belts and traps set up by Megatron. All the traps were triggered with strings that had tiny personal notes form Megatron attached to them, explaining in detail what the traps would do. So I was like being thrown down these belts, catching onto wires and telephones and shoes and umbrellas and other random things that were set up for me to just barely be able to hang onto them, and at the very last second before I hit the ground I grabbed onto a rubber band, which saved my life pretty much. The ground was just an ordinary concrete floor like a convention center, and this stupid ugly brown dog I called Suika started following me as I exited.

There was a part about Bri, Kaela and I all coming out of this old mall building only to see a matte navy blue Lamborghini Gallardo parked right outside, and I freaked out and actually opened the door like "OMG GUYS I'M GOING TO DRIVE AWAY IN THE LAMBO" but I don't remember anything else about that part.

So suddenly we're at the movies at the Cinedome and we're seeing the "premier" of LOTR Return of the King. And there are people in front of us who brought babies and dogs and cats. The baby crawled over the chairs and sat with us, and one of the dogs jumped into my lap and went to bed, and the people around me all wanted to pet it. Everyone was being really loud, and one guys was crying because of Frodo. Suddenly this guy shouted out "WHO SMELLS CATFISH?" and like everyone raised their hands, and then there was an intermission in the movie. I saw RJ in the theater and there was this fuzzy white crap in front of the projector, and RJ went up to it and started actually punching it. Then I woke up. :3

Wow.

So, we've moved in here successfully, there are still boxes everywhere and lots of things yet to be found and unpacked, but we've met a few nice people and things have been generally good and quiet here.

BUT.

The day before yesterday, my dad and I were finished with pretty much everything at work, so we decided to leave early and take a trip to the old house. We didn't leave much stuff there, just some boxes in the garage along with a few stray things inside of the house. All of the trash in the house was left in garbage bags, but since garbage pickup was several days away on the day in which we moved out, we left the garbage bags inside. My dad and I went down there to bring the leftover boxes to storage, and take the big garbage bags to the curb to be picked up. Totally normal, right?

Everything seemed normal at the old house aside from the fact that the power has already been turned off, so it was like really hot inside. But then I walked into what used to be the shared master bedroom, and holy fucking shit.

Someone broke into the house between our moving out and going back a few days later. All of the garbage in the garbage bags was dumped all over the floor and had been sifted through. My beanbag (which we were throwing in the trash anyway) was also gone. The worst part was the wall. Where the beanbag used to be, the people who broke in literally kicked down the entire wall. If they had knocked it in any further, you would be able to see into the bathroom right next to the wall.

My dad called me into my mom's old room and we found that they had also destroyed her closet door. There were two very distinct footprints on the center, like someone had picked another person up and they'd run toward the door, then pushed their feet into it. We looked around closely and found that they had also locked the master bedroom door and kicked it in from the outside, (whyyyy?) causing the entire door to crack in half and the doorknob to break. All of the trash was everywhere, the cabinets had been opened even though there was nothing inside, they stole some pots and pans we left on the counter, and headed to the garage to figure out what we were going to do.

We opened the garage door only to find that my dad's meticulous garage packing job (he stacked like all of the boxes in a neat little pile in the middle of the garage so we could easily move them to storage) had been ransacked. Every single box and bag had been torn through and dumped out. They stole my old electric guitar that had been packed away in the corner, and the white shelves in the corner of the garage. They also stole a big case of my mom's oil paints. None of the childhood pictures or keepsakes we kept in the garage got damaged, just thrown onto the floor. It actually didn't seem like whoever broke in was trying to steal valuables, they just broke in to run around and fuck everything up. I doubt they thought that we were going to come back to the house to get any of the stuff in the boxes. They missed my box of collectible Breyer horses (early-teens phase I went through hurr durr) that's worth about$600, though, so they missed probably the most valuable thing left in the house.

We called 311 and filed a report, but it's likely that nothing will be done about it. They did leave lots of footprints all over the garage on a peice of giant paper that my mom had drawn Malfina (from Outlaw Star!!) on in like 2002. The cop that came to do the report said that everything would be referred to a detective, and they were cracking down a little harder on small-time break ins like this, because many of them are gang related. Hopefully something will get done and solved, but it isn't likely.

It isn't the fact that some of our useless stuff is gone that bothers me. It's that like, if we hadn't moved out on that particular day, if we'd still been living there and one of us forgot to lock the backdoor when we went out to eat, would this still have happened? Would our computers, consoles, and other electronics be gone? What about jewelry and decorations and stuff? It scares the crap out of me to think that we lived in a neighborhood where this could happen just a week ago. I don't think I'll ever forget to lock to the door and the windows again after seeing what they did to the old house! We're super lucky not to have anything truly valuable lost, it's just whoa that this all happened.

On a side note we get to do shots for a BMX biker person this Monday at work. =w=

EDIT;; Oh-hoooo. My aunt and mom just called me telling me that when they drove to the old house today to drop Bri off, guess which shelves they saw in the garage of our across-the-street neighbors? Our white ones that were stolen from the garage!! Now there won't even need to be an investigation, they will be arrested and our random stolen stuff will be returned. Happy ending today. C:

But really, how much of an idiot do you have to be to steal from your neighbors, then put the stolen goods where they could easily identify it? .___.;;

yeee!!

Well, I am making this post from a new house. Sorry for not making one sooner, the last week has been busy out the butt. Rather than moving on Sunday, we pretty much moved from last Wednesday to today.

Before that, I only worked one day last week and it was fairly uneventful, and James and I had to go back to his house to watch Sammy and the other dogs. We caught Captain America after the first day of the semester, and oh my fucking lord. That Hydra bomber plane, the giant flying wing. I am so in love with it. I really have to not fall for fictional things like Hydra planes and the pink tiger striped tank in f(x)'s Hot Summer music video, because I'll never get to see them. ;^;

Anyway, we packed the house like mad on Friday and Saturday, but actually started taking stuff over when we got the keys on Wednesday. We had the Lee twins with us when we signed the lease, and they were hilarious. They both kept trying to get out of the glass door of the office and didn't get why they couldn't.

My dad helped out a lot. We moved our packed boxes and small furniture over to the new house before Friday night, and James and I spent our first night here on Saturday. My room was a big mess of boxes, but I managed to buy a real actual bed! No more sleeping on the giant beanbag or on the floor in the living room. I finally also got to buy Transformers sheets because I am totally twelve years old you know I JUST LIKE THEM OKAY.

Sunday was so much less crazy. I expected it to be frantic hurried trips back and forth to get all of our stuff, but we had actually moved so much of it over already, there were only big things left. Our movers, James, his dad, and his uncle, along my my mom, sister, and I, got it done in less than an hour in the morning. We kept going back, because we had to get the cats and little miscellanious items that somehow got left. There are actually still things there that I have to get, a corkboard and a curtain, some drawings and other crap. The garage is another story. It has to go into storage until we can get it all sorted, which won't be for awhile since we're still unpacking here.

We also found out that James' middle school teacher lives in the apartment above ours! It's so weird, since when he taught at EKA, there was a maximum of like seven teachers at the school total. The chances of us ever seeing him again are literally like nothing. We live next to all sorts of yummy food places and right down the street from CSN, we're also next to a basketball court, and the swimming pool looks like so much fun! I can't wait to go down there for night swimming, it's my absolute favorite. n_n

I am also working hard to find stuff for James and I to cosplay Russia and Lithuania in time for AV this November. His head is really big so I'm trying to email all of the potential people I might buy his Russia wig from for their wig measurements. I'd hate to buy it and for it to look funny or not fit. I'm also actually having trouble finding a suitable Liet wig too. A shoulder length medium brown wig with light bangs should totally not be this hard to find, but so many have blonde highlights or shades of red blended in. I'm really picky about cosplay, especially with Hetalia, and wigs are the thing I nitpick the most. If I can't find the right wigs we just won't do it, but they've always been my absolute favorite characters and they were like my OTP for a while. If we both like cosplaying them at AV (and for a photoshoot at Mt. Charleston I have planned for February lololol) then maybe we'll go into their other outfits and stuff, and make it an ongoing thing. That would be super awesome. I do want to finish my Patchouli and Sari cosplays someday, though. -u-;;;

Yesterday I looked all over every Japanese auction site for Milky Planet in yellow. Nobody anywhere is selling the JSK!! When I didn't have enough money, I saw one on Mbok, and now that I do, someone bought it... It sucks. I absolutely will not buy a replica of one of my dream dresses, even though I can't find it. I'll just wait until one pops up and snag it first thing! Or, maybe I'll just cave and buy the lavender colorway. I really want the yellow though~! >o<

I'm also totally considering ordering the Aya Figma right now, because there aren't many TFs catching my eye in the stores (until the Prime toyline comesout ashoasjdoidj) and I could carry her around in my pocket if I ever get around to cosplaying her. I really like the way it looks, it would be the first not-robot toy I've bought in like. Forever. Actually, she'd be the first non-robot ever. It would make my shelf look weird... Wheeljack, Blurr, Hound, Soundwave, Drift, oh yeah and there's Aya too!

packy packy~

I will now talk about moving and stuff.

I remember when we first moved into this house, my sister went up to my mom and asked, "hey, when's the lease up?" And my mom answered the usual- two years. Then my sister looked at me and was like, "Well dude, that's our moving date, two years from today!"

And it essentially is that exact date. We moved into this house right as I started my senior year, literally we packed up, went to school for a few days, moved in, went to anime vegas, and straight back to school. It was so hectic, but it was also really fun. That was the AV where I sat on a chair that someone had spilled orange soda on, and I walked around with orange soda on my ass for a few hours. It was really gross. I'm glad I could change that day. We also made paper footballs with Bonnie, and played Mafia for a good three hours in the upstairs game room with a bunch of cosplayers we barely knew. Bri cosplayed as a Hunter from Left 4 Dead. We had no time to unpack anything... It was straight into school after that!

I actually thought that point in time was really fun. It was crazy, but fun. After school started to get slower we unpacked, put up the wall and everything. We cut all of the nice long grass in the backyard so Dracula could get around without hurting his legs. The living room was actually oriented differently, the TV and cat box were on the opposite side. We switched them so it was easier for the cats, and it also made it easier to see the TV from the sofa. We got rid of so much old stuff when we moved in here. There are a lot of good memories. I graduated, James and I started dating shortly after we moved in, lots of hilarious meet-ups and sleepovers and video game escapades at three AM with our friends from EKA. Everyone visiting to help make experiments, walking to Vons and Taco Bell to dumpster dive or something, going to the corner store for sweet tarts, boxes for Transformers stands, crazy shower hairbrushes, Fallout adventures, sleeping on the living room floor with James for a few months.

The second AV we had at this house was awesome as well. It was the "I was conceived here" Anime Vegas. Xoli was staying at our house for a few days. Rave ceiling water, Bleach meetups in the middle of the hallway, shitty masquerade with the smoke detector going off in the hallway, becoming bros with Kenny McCormick in the girls' bathroom. Getting crap of the sleeve of my Transformers jacket and booking it across the hotel, flopping around on the really soft beds in Mike and Hunter's shared room. Then we came back home (best part of local conventions omg) and all sort of died.

This house never felt like "home" like the Stephanie condo did, though. When we moved in there, it was like, boom, you're home. All of our stuff was unpacked so fast, everything was all set up nice and painted, and it just immediately felt like a place I was comfortable in. The only place that's really felt homey at this house has been the bedroom that Bri and I share. That, and the makeshift bed where James and I usually sleep. There won't be "the wall" anymore, no stripper cards on the fridge, no late-night Resident Evil game marathons where one of us has to sit on the exer-bike. No more gas leak under the lawn, no more nice stoner neighbors down the street, no more white pitt bull next door. Describing this, it sounds like I live in a pretty ghetto place, huh? xD

Well, it is only a couple minutes to drive from this house to the Strip, and we'll be moving back into the nicer part of Henderson now. The apartment complex sure looked nice when we went to see it, the pool is HUUUUGE! Definately a pool party area, now I wish I was born in the summer. Cx There is one singular problem I have with the new place: my closet is tiny. I'm used to having master bedroom sized walk-in closets, so this one in a major step down. I really want to be able to set up pony shelves, because I'm worried about my collection getting damaged or melted or warped in the heat of storage, and I don't want to keep my ponies in an ugly cardboard box. A the same time, all of my clothes are fluffy and extravagant and I really need to hang them all up. I'm thinking about buying a mannequin to display coords on, then at least some of the clothes will be out and not in the closet, and I'll have a place to keep my petticoats. Right now they're sitting on an umbrella because that's the best way I can think to keep them poofy.

Okay, I'll stop ranting now. We have to crack down on packing!! After we move I will take a picture of all of my Transformers in vehicle mode. I've never had all of them transformed at once, but I figured it'd be easier to pack them as cars rather than fragile robots. Pack pack pack, let's get done~!! <33

Shitty situations.

Well, today has not been the best of days. It's pretty much been one big series of crappy situations and bad news. :[

First and least important by far, the mail was delayed in LA again and none of my orders came in. This seems really trivial and stupid compared to everything else, though.

We went to CSN today to figure out my financial situation. My sister and I filed for financial aid, submitted our FAFSA applications, and did all of that stuff on the same day, and she got all of these emails and stuff confirming that she had everything, her scholarships and pell grant and all. But I had nothing. Got no emails or anything, not even an email denying me. I seriously can't pay for all of the classes I need this semester, so we went down there to figure it all out, hoping to get it situated and sign up for all of my classes today.

Guess what? Apparently this happens to people all the time, but "the government" (wat) selected me for like a re-acceptance deal. I guess this happens to about 65% of the people who apply for aid, but they pretty much need me to re-confirm all of the stuff on my application. I know, what? Why? Of all the things, why would they require people to confirm what the submitted a second time? I was so confused. And to top it off, it takes weeks. Like a long time. I'm actually going to have to start next semester, because the only way around it is to pay a deposit that I refuse to pay (and don't really have enough for anyway, lol impulse buys) because it'd be pointless, I'd still not get into the classes I want. So, so much for CSN. :|

Next, we got home, and my mom decided that we needed to sell the Buick today before the moving situation. Now, this is only a problem because I get these weird emotional attachments to cars that I really shouldn't get. It was technically me and my sister's first car, I drove it only a few times when we got the Interceptor, but we've had it since I was really young and there are a lot of memories with it. It was my Bianca ;A;

We sold it to nice people though, a father and son who were trying to get the son a cheap first car. The battery was dead so they towed it (wtf) and I was just like. Augh. Goobye Buick -