Okay so.

Alright. This doesn't really have a place here, it isn't transformers or lolita or anything pertaining to important events in my life, but it was so amazing that I have to post it here. I had the greatest dream ever last night.

It started with me waking up. Don't you hate dreams like that, where you actually feel like you're getting up in the morning when it's still in your head? Yeah, that happened, and I had brown hair again, and I was wearing Sol Badguy's little gear headband thing, and red pants. James asked me where I got Sol's stuff and I just admired myself in the mirror and I was like, "Yup, got no idea, but it looks cool as hell."

So we're in the apartment with these two emo dudes who are pretending to know about rollerskating. Ky Kiske is there with and and he and I are like, looking at eachother thinking that we know that they don't know how to skate (why this is so important to us is beyond me) and we were like, telling them to go skate outside with us. So I went skating with fucking Ky Kiske. And of course, the emo guys didn't know what to do, so we taught them how to turn and stuff because they kept getting stuck in the grass. I have no clue what happened at this point, but I went back to the apartment building and Ky is gone now.

Now, Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles are there. I'm guessing that they were in my dream because James and I were watching Trailer Park Boys right before we went to sleep, but since I've been watching TPB every day for almost two weeks (since I was waiting for my computer) I really have no idea what influence this part or whatever. So we're running down this hallway and Bubbles is freaking out because he has a college class and he's late. We get to a reception desk and the lady there tells him that he's been expelled because he's late, and Ricky freaked out at her until the professor showed up. He was a hippie dude with super long hair who wore like... a toga. And he was totally chill with Bubbles being late because no-one else showed up, and he offered to teach Ricky, Julian and I too. So we just went along with it and walked around this patio place.

Then the professor decides that going swimming is a good idea becuase it supposedly "makes your brain work harder". Uh. So the sidewalk around the apartment complex magically turned into a lazy river and we were all just kinda floating around and Julian and I were like totally freaking the fuck out because it was super awesome. We got to the end of the lazy river and there was like this big light up pool underneath a slide, and there was a giant green moss ball growing inside of it. Like seriously, just a sphere of moss the size of a beach ball. And the professor taught us about psychology and shit while we touched it and moved it around because it was super soft.

So now I have no idea what happened again, but I'm at this weird Wet n Wild place with slides and a stage and sand and shit everywhere. And people from EKA are there, and they're on the stage presenting weird projects and shit they did in the past. Bri was up there and she talked about a pie she baked. Then Mari was up on stage and she said that she baked a pie too, and that she buried it in the sand. And just then I saw this black thing sticking out of the sand, and sure enough it was a pie, but I like peeled back the top of it and it was full of breakfast food. And Mari gave me this "YOU RUINED IT DAMNIT" look and then walked off the stage and I felt bad because I ruined her pie.

Then we were all on the sand and I was yo-yoing with some dude, we had one off-string yo-yo and we thought it would be a good idea to have two strings between the two of us, but the two sides of the strings were attached to our fingers. So we literally had like two parallel string bars that we were trying to work with, and I was like, this is never going to fucking work, we can't have the strings like this. But somehow it did, and we tossed to yo-yo back and forth between the strings a few times before it stopped magically sleeping on the air like a regular yo-yo and it like fell over. Then we all migrate over to this slide area, where a blonde girl was sitting with this gigantic deformed fish-walrus thing with hair on it's head. She told us something like "everyone throws yogurt at my brother, it's a tradition to throw yogurt at him." So we all started pouring yogurt and spitting yorgurt on the walrus and it started like bellowing and crying out. Then the blonde girl was like "...a HORRIBLE tradition to throw yogurt on him! Only terrible people throw the yogurt!" and we were all standing there like, she made it seem like it was mandatory at first. Then someone was like "How is your brother a walrus seal?"

And then I woke up.

I went skating with Ky fucking Kiske.

new things~!

YAY. 'SUP BLOGGER.

I've resolved my shipping issue with Newegg and I finally have my new laptop! It's very small and cute, and much lighter than Chrys. I've decided to call him Butterfly, since I've had Chrysalis/Chrys and Caterpillar/Cat-Cat in the past. I like calling him Fly, James is calling him B.

I don't really have much to talk about, because all I've done for the past week has been fight with the shipping services of various places (seriously I have been getting such bad, slow customer service from everywhere lately, I hate having to talk to support and give negative reviews, I have no idea why this is happening so often) and work. Actually, last week at work, my dad had Frankie Moreno come in to take pictures in our studio. They're sort of old friends, I remember meeting him a long time ago when his career was just getting started (I think?) and It was nice to see him again. But, other than that, nothing super interesting has happened there.

When we got back to this house yesterday, my Nendo Lynne had arrived at the office. She's... beyond adorable? Beyond like everything. I can't even describe how squealy I was when I was unboxing her and looking at the tiny striker units and tiny faces. The set of arms she came with are really nice, I can do quiet a few poses with such a tiny little figure! Now she and Kaela's L Nendo that we got her ages ago will have to hang out. =u=

Speaking of Kaela, she got me an amazing super kawaii little jewelry making thing for christmas! Ordinarily I wouldn't refer to it as kawaii, but seriously there is no other way to describe how cute these little things are. There are tiny bunnies and cakes and shit that I can wear, it's fucking amazing. I want to wear them with my new RTBU jacket that James bought me, it'll look awesome.

OH. YES. THAT'S RIGHT. Fucking beefy crunch burrito is back. Taco Bell has new become the only thing I'm eating forever. Beefy crunch burritos and the occasional bowl of pasta. I am so happy that they brought them back. When they go off the menu again I'll probably cry, but for now I am satisfied. c:

Wahh ;A;

Blogger! Uaah! I totes would have made a post on here on the day after Christmas, and another one to recap the year before it became 2012, but I have news for you. It isn't good news but I'll tell you all the whole story anyway for Chrys' sake.

On the 26th, after Christmas, Mari and Hunter came over to play video games and dick around until 5 AM like usual. It was all fun (we had a horse flying up a mountain in Skyrim, that was interesting) until like 1 AM. I was on Pixiv, of all places, and I got that stupid Windows Firewall bullshit virus thing. That ridiculous virus that's been going around that doesn't let you do anything and pretends to want to scan your computer. So Trend Micro can't handle it apparently, and Mike helped me do a system restore to the 23rd of December.

The virus was gone and I was super happy because it all seemed fine after that. I was on my computer for like less than an hour before it started freezing. I have no idea what doing that system restore did, but it fucked something up (in my Windows files I'm guessing) and now, within an hour of turning it on, it'll freeze and require a hard boot.

So, thinking about how to fix this, I was trying to figure out what my best option was. One, I could install Windows 7, which would probably fix the problem and then I would finally be off of Vista, two, I could try installing updates because something might have gotten fucked up in that department since I haven't done updates since early 2009, or three, I could buy a new computer.

I decided to try installing my updates. There were only 96 of them so I assumed it would take a while. Chrys freezes during configuration. I get a weird black screen before it tries again. I leave my computer on literally for 24 hours, and the configuration is still at 0%. I hate goddamn Windows updates, I always turn them off because that's what killed Cat-Cat. Well, that and the fact that my motherboard was falling apart, but Windows update definitely fucked her up.

So I system restore again, to get rid of the configure screen that will never go away. Still freezing, can't find the problem. It definitely isn't overheating, I know it's not my hard drive, idk really what it is. I thought about putting Windows 7 on, but I came to the slow realization that I'll still have like no hard disk space and I still won't be able to do anything.

Yesterday morning, I bought another computer. It's another Toshiba, it's much smaller, and silver. Mind you, Cat-Cat had an 80 GB hard drive. How did I even function with her? Chrys has a 180 GB hard drive right now, and it only has like 9 gigs free because I have so much shit on there. This computer will have 500 gigs, and I feel like I'll finally have room to store ALL of my stuff on one computer. It'll also probably run audiosurf, TEF, and (maybe?) and editing program, and that's all that I really care about.

I don't know a lot about computers at all, but I know that Chrys' time to retire has come. He's served me faithfully for almost three years, and I just picked him up in Office Depot when they had a few laptops on sale for like $200. He's still in a semi-functional state of being, if I shut down like half an hour after I started up. I feel like I needed to buy a new computer, though I originally intended on getting a desktop, another nice Toshiba is worth my money too. So, Chrys will become my secondary sort-of computer, and he'll finally have a chance to relax after all the years we've chilled together. C:


Anyway! That's the story of my laptop adventure. But I have a lot more to talk about~ First, Christmas! We made casserole and opened Earbud Poppycock the Keepon. It's totally the most adorable thing I've ever seen, you can tickle him and he like squeaks and imitates you and jams to music~! I gave Bri her Okami poster and Hoarde necklace, and James got The Force Unleashed and a sonic screwdriver, and D&D dice. We all gave my mom her necklace and perfume and weird bookworm thing, and everything was fun and awesome. :D

After the whole computer ordeal came my 20th birthday on the 27th. I pretty much sat at home with everyone during the day, James got me Kre-O sets that kept me very occupied, and my mom even got me a Transformers dogtag! Then we went to the Fiesta buffet for dinner after hanging out with Hunter and Mari during the day. It was super yummy and fun~ Mari brought me Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, 'cause I was super late on it and hadn't played it yet. It infuriates me that I can't kill my enemies, but it's still an interesting game and I want to play it through with the actual story.

I will do my "New Year's Recap" post sometime tomorrow or later in the week when my new laptop arrives so I can get my pictures off my external. For now, I just want to say that we went to this rural spot on the mountain to watch all the fireworks, and it was super cool! We could see literally everything, I wish Brina and Mike had come with us.

Now, I know this post is long already, but I was up until like 6 AM yesterday because of this, so I need to mention it here. I don't think I can elaborate on it properly, because I can never fully express myself when it comes to this game.

I can never explain how much Rule of Rose means to me. I was talking to Bri about it the other day, because my disc is from 2006 and is scratched to all hell, and there's one at a Gamestop in Arizona that I want to buy more than anything. I hadn't played it in more than a year, and I figured what the hell, I should give it a shot. I put it in our PS2, and it worked. I literally felt like I wanted to cry as I watched the opening trailer again. I can't believe my old disc worked.

I sat there and played through the whole game in four and a half hours, which is a little longer than my typical speed runs from back in the day, without finding all of the films and records and such. I was just so so happy that it was playing, not freezing on the door screens, and even the audio was playing most of the time. It was the first "real" console game I ever played, back in like 8th grade when we first got our PS2. I feel like it's so misunderstood, that more than 3/4 of people who play it never understand what truly happened and what each chapter was supposed to mean. In 9th grade I poured my soul into documenting everything from the game, Greg's calendar, Jen and Wendy's letters, the books, the minute details that no-one looked for because it was regarded as such a shit game.

It's one of those things that I really cherish, that story. Every time I play through it I get to scared and excited and sad. I'm a major sucker for the super-tragic endings, those really heart-wrenchingly painful and beautiful ones. Rule of Rose was my first taste of it, and after picking through every second of that game over and over again I can say that It'll always be my favorite. I just can't put it into proper words how much I love that game. I was so happy to play it and relive it again.

Anyway, I'm done for now, I'm gonna continue drawing garbage and I'll probably replay RoR again today now that I have my disc working! I hope everyone had a happy holiday season~!