more recap

I am seriously so bad at posting here now. I remember this blog, make like three posts in three days, then forget about it entirely for like weeks and come back. I guess there really isn't a whole lot to recap this time, since it's been pretty chill here as we near the end of summer. I go back to school on Tuesday, boo.

This past week I've worked every day because Chad's birthday is coming up. My dad wants to make a video presentation for the party tomorrow, and we ended up with a huge ammount of pictures from all times of his life. What seemed like an easy video project suddenly became this HUGE project, with all sorts of different parts and such! I think it'll turn out really well,when I left yesterday we had a good portion of it finished, and I think it'll be really funny and just a nice thing to play at his party.

The weekend before this upcoming one, I went to Animegacon (on Friday I think?) for the fashion show, only to find out that they had to use the convention-hired models, and I brought my petticoat and shoes and all that jazz for absolutely nothing. I also paid for my badge, which was ridiculously expensive for such a small con, and no-one else I knew went with me. So I was basically alone at the convention all day. But, as it turned out, I had a lot of fun. When I'm by myself I'm really sh and awkward around people, so I couldn't muster up the courage to commission pictures of Sin from the really great artists there, and I could barely ask 'how much is this' when I wanted to buy something, but for me it's way easier to talk to cosplayers. I met a few really nice lolitas there and a kickass Ezio cosplayer, me and this guy working at a yaoi booth formed a bond because he was shouting about how more people need to support Touhou and I ran over and brofisted and talked about Patchouli, and I went to the Funimation panel and met the marketing director for Hetalia, who said that there was indeed going to be a fifth season. She was super duper nice! And she cosplays Nyotalia Prussia at the Funimation headquarters~ that just made my day. Then I went and bought a Flying Mint Bunny keychain and almost bought a Russia plushie, but instead I found- wait for it- ...LYNNE'S FIGMA~! I've been looking all over for it at a decent price and now I finally have it. It really is a great figure. I can't really get her striker unit on properly by myself and I need some help with it, but other than that, I love it. Then as I waited for James to come pick me up, I chilled in the main hall and befriended this trap guy from Florida and we discussed weird convention rules, like how many cons have banned signs. It was just fun. I really enjoyed it, maybe I'll go back next year if I can stay away from the planning and stuff.

Then yesterday, James and I went to a crazy McDonalds. It was so strange looking, I can't even describe it. One of those new stylish ones. We had to go to Michael's and WalMart because I wanted to crafts. Last night I was up until about 7 AM on Tumblr pondering the existence of glue and making friendship bracelets. James and I have this kinda new thing where we blame the problems of the world on Ky. I don't even remember where it came from, probably me doing Overture replays and following him around screaming "FREAKING KY" at the TV screen. So I have a bracelet that just says "freaking ky." I made ones for Bri and I, hers says "I hate you" and mine says "no you don't" which is a long-running inside joke. Mari wants one that says "real talk" after our hilarious conversation on Skype last night.

I also wanted to make OTP pendants since I saw that post on Tumblr about them. Right now I want to start by making just a few, from my two favorite fics of all time, Five Million Years and If Your God Were Real. I want to make a couple more, probably from The Butterfly and the Gentleman and General Relativity, because Hetalia. That is all the reason I need. Also maybe one from Eidolon, since I read it right before writing Invictus and though Thorki isn't like one of my shippy ships, it really inspired me to write with that tone and I really enjoyed it.

Anyway, I think that's all that's really happened. Boo, I don't want to do schoolwork soon. :C I don't feel like posting pictures today so I'll do it some other time.

making a lot of posts now that i've rediscovered blogger

Live-tweeting old fics here.
Right now is Go Do (from Nano 2011), then Alive (the shitbox fic from last semester), then sometime later I'll do One Note Samba followed by Two Step Tango.
I might do The Paxmal even though it's really short an unedited at the present moment.
Just because I find it really fun to make fun of my own horrible writing. :3c

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I actually meant to post a lot of pictures today. From all the fun in California, and on the Strip, and generally just from around the house. I also wanted to talk about how my sister is making my a tiny Chimaki out of clay for me. I'm going to put it on a keychain and carry it literally everywhere with me.

I was super enthusiastic about today, because I finally enrolled for my classes for this semester, and I've been planning to go on a trip to Japan for the Fall semester of 2014, to complete a ~SURPRISE~ double-major in Japanese, before I went to UNLV for the Microbiology junk. I thought I was all on track, and that next Semester I'd be taking English and so on.

Everyone already knows the kind of high school I went to, and though I adore the place and it changed my life and introduced me to almost everyone I know and love today, they can be kind of retarded sometimes. Like in a weird way. I was never told about SAT or ACT tests. My graduating class had literally never gotten an opportunity to take them, because we had no clue what they were. No-one explained them to us. There were none held at the school. I found out that they were testing at a high school across town, and that all of the seniors that still hadn't taken them were sent there so that they could complete them. But not us, for whatever reason. I don't want to give EKA all the blame, because my problems are partially due to my bad planning, but that little thing, not taking my SAT or ACT tests, is the central issue here.

Up until now I've taken classes that don't require English as a prerequisite, because I don't know how to take SAT or ACT stuff now, when I graduated in 2010. I guess that I can take a placement test to go into English and math. So today I found out that my political science class, along with all of the other histories, require English as a prerequisite. If I could've taken it, along with the anthropology class I have, I would be halfway to completing my associates, save for the English and literature classes. But, since I have to take a placement test now, and can't get into a class until next semester, I've pretty much been set back a year.

English 101 will be in the spring of next year for me, and I don't take anything less than being in that, along with the mandatory Japanese, and Biology, and Chemistry. What's funny about that is that usually Chemistry is something you take in high school, to get a basic handle on it at least. Yeah. None of that at EKA. I don't even know what the hell chemistry actually is, and I have to take a test to get into it. So, after I do that, I have two short summer semesters to try and poop out my other Englishes and get up to Calculus, and then the fall of that year and spring of next year to do two physics classes, two more (really hard) biologies, my final year of Japanese, a political science class unless they offer it over the summer, and... whatever else there is. Calculus. A literature class unless they offer it during the summer.

It's going to be really hard. Like, I know for a fact that the physics and biology classes get really stupid hard near the end. And I'm pissed, at my high school for not offering the tests I need, and at myself, for not thinking that I should have taken a test earlier, or just not planning it right, or something. I have to suffer the consequences, though, because the last thing I want to end up like is my sister's boyfriend, who doesn't even have a two-year degree and just turned 23. I refuse to not have an associates by the Fall of 2014. I really want to go to UNLV, and I really want to be an orthodontist before I turn 30. I know that's a really far-of goal, and that dental school is tough and competitive, but that's part of the appeal to me. I just don't want to fall too far behind. And now I wish I had done things differently, and I'm probably freaking out about this too much, but I'll probably wish that I'd done things some other way for years and years.

I'll shut up about this now though, since I am just making myself freak out about it, and I'll go back to getting my pictures ready to post sometime in the near future. At least, I can say that I'm thankful that I'm able to go to college at all, and when it comes down to it, I'm not giving up, and I'll tough it out and get my degrees no matter what. I want to put braces on people.

No lame-ass English class is gonna stop me from putting braces on people.

WOW OKAY

I'M GOING TO MAKE A POST FOR REAL. Okay I have to think about what has happened. I'll go backwards.

Yesterday my sister was supposed to go to the doctor, but she didn't, and instead we all went to the Strip to meet up with one of my friends from Tumblr. It was pretty freakin' awesome even though we didn't find Bumblebee. We took pictures with people dressed as all sorts of stuff and walked around and it was super fun. Before we went to Fremont Street we ate at Jack in the Box where a guy was swinging around a bottle of piss.

Then the day before that, I guess that would be Saturday? I dunno. I think that was the day that James and I decided to walk around Town Square. They replaced Border's with a CONTAINER STORE. It is literally a store full of containers. Of all shapes and sizes. I went to H&M to find leggings but couldn't find ones that I liked. We went to Fry's to look around at stuff and I found a Train Simulator that I want for Christmas or something. I've played with some before because train feels everywhere but I've never actually owned one. So I obsessed about that for the rest of the day. We also got Chipotle. Yep.

Annnnd uh. The day before that would be Friday. Which... I know we did something. OH NO WAIT. On FRIDAY we went and did that stuff at Town Square. On Saturday, it was Mike's 23rd birthday! So we all went out to Red Lobster to eat. I meat some of his friends that I've apparently met at Anime Vegas, and we enjoyed biscuits and wrote stories about sad lobsters and penguins pooping on the floor. Then we went to the arcade at Sunset Station and James and I played a game of Deal or No Deal where we picked the freaking one ticket briefcase, and it narrowed down to either 1 or 200. I pestered him into taking the final deal and we came out with 100 tickets, which we used to buy a big blow up hammer. It was hilariously fun.

Later that day I read through the second draft of Invictus and live-tweeted the horrible parts while skipping over most of it, mostly just screaming about supa kawaii babby Sin is because that is what I do with my life now. I know that on Thursday, the D4 came in! I played around with it and it was totally amazing. I have no doubt that it will be the best camera I ever get to use. I also did some editing for DotFit spots that look pretty awesome. Then when I got home, James and I went to Chinatown-area because I needed to get fitted for my outfit. I am modeling in a lolita fashion show this Friday at AniMegaCon, so everyone in town should come down and visit me! I'll be there all weekend and my cousin Mika's friend is the designer of all the clothes we'll be wearing~! So I got fitted for that, and afterward, we went to Anime Ramen. I really wanted chicken curry. The cosplayer waitresses were all really nice and gave me some hot water for my shirt when I dropped a peice of curry into the bowl and it splattered onto my sleeve. I felt like such an idiot. But then we went to the Chinatown mall and I bought some notebooks, one of which chronicles the adventure of a Soviet bunny plushie. I'll post pictures of it sometime.

Um. Okay. So that was Thursday, so on Wednesday I have no idea what happened? Oh no wait. Kaela came over! And I played through most of Haunting Ground, and fun times were had. Jame and I also went to CiCi's Pizza because I wanted buffalo chicken pizza~! Then I know that on Tuesday we dropped Mari off at her new job at Starbucks, after they stayed the night on Monday. We had gone and seen the new Batman movie, which was absolutely the best movie I've seen since Dark of the Moon came out.

THEN. Alright. Monday was the day we got back. Now I can start working forward. I think. We left for California on Thursday I think, and came back on Sunday or Monday, I can't really remember properly. Gosh what a fun and eventful vacation. We headed out to Palmdale in the dark listening to loud music and reminiscing about Daft Punk. I hadn't listened to their albums since like 9th grade when they got popular at EKA. We arrived late at night and watched some Olympic swimming with his cousin Mike. We went to bed late and got up early the next morning!

James' dad had bad heartburn, so we started the long 3 hour drive to Solvang by ourselves. It was about 8 AM when we left, and we blasted the music and found our way through the hills to the coast and it was absolutely the most fun ever. I love being in the car with him because we both laugh and derp around so much, and we have the same taste in electronica and we'll both sing along to the music. The coast was gorgeous, and after what seemed like a forever trip, with odd stops at gas stations in farming towns and crazy Californian drivers, we got to Solvang. It is still as cute and perfect as I remember it to be. Since we only had a few hours to run around, I just kinda went on this mad dash to find gifts for everyone and visit the shops I like. We had a nice lunch and I got a delicious croissant sandwich. James bought me a tiny tea set because I love tiny tea sets. I got presents nad we saw the bookstore and the horses and the little Danish bakeries and gah. It was wonderful. Then, on the way back, we stopped in Santa Barbara and went to the beach! That was amazing too, so much fun. It was a long drive back to Palmdale, but worth it.

The next day, we went to the super huge mall in Glendale. It was seriously so enormous I can't even describe it. They had a Lego store. I bought a Transformers Wallet and a shirt from Tilly's that was on sale for like five bucks. They had a three-story Target store! We also ate at a fish place and I got like a gigantic plate of yellow rice. It was so delicious. I slept the whole way home 'cause I was really full.

On the last day before we left, James' aunt Karen came back from a three week trip to India. It was so nice to see his whole family again. I met his cousin Ryne's girlfriend Melissa, and at dinner that night they announced that she was pregnant! So his aunt and uncle will be grandparents! And James will have a first cousin, or cousin once-removed, or whatever that is? I don't know the name. But it was really cute and sweet. She is due to have the baby sometime in early spring next year.

On the day we left, we went to Monroeville ( I think that's the name? ) to pick up James' brother, Alex, who broke his finger playing football and needed a lift back to Las Vegas to get it checked out. The drive there was really neat, and when we stopped like four hours into our trip in Baker, it was 116 degrees. Yesterday, it was 120 degrees in the afternoon. Super hot. But yep! There is a brief summary of what has happened. It's been pretty busy, so I haven't made a post.

Oh also, Auf Wiedersehen, Sweethear tis over and I completely lost it and cried like a douche at the end like I knew I would. It was the part with Feliciano's family being so nice that really got me, and Spain, gosh. Yep. And the very end bit. Oh and we're beginning to put up the foundation of a big new roleplay. I might post it up here when it's finished, but for now it's just an outline. The important part is that I get to play a Sunstorm / Ky / Bishop-type character, which I love doing, because I am a turd. 'Kay.

Later Blogger. I'll post pictures some other time when I feel like it~. =u=