湯女のメモリア

Just now realized that the snowflake v-gifts are free, so I sent a bunch out. Thanks to those who gave me one, totally made my morning ♥

So I just finished reading scans of ch. 149 of Skip Beat. It was utter cuteness!!! I'm still squeeing like a little fangirl. I've spent four years wishing something like that would happen, so it's about freaking time. Unfortunately there's still more waiting to be done, but I'm sure it'll be fun ^_^

Yesterday I went on an epic music hunt and ended up with 9 new albums. I seriously need to clean up my itunes library. There are currently 9,029 items in there, and I'm certain that a good 2,000 of that is nothing but random junk. It's going to be a very, very long day... If I can get through deleting at least 100 songs today, then I'll feel very accomplished. Wish me luck, yes?

For the past couple days I've found the internet to be a bit depressing, so I took a lil' break from it (!? never thought the day would come). I've been spending a good amount of time trying to get them old school mac games to work on my computer, but to no avail. But on the other hand, I finished FFVIII again! Kinda. By the time I was ready to fight the last boss I decided I didn't feel like playing it anymore. ~lame~ Currently working on VII which is taking a lot longer. Meh.

So now I'm having an extremely difficult time deciding whether I should change my layout again. I'm surprised it's even lasted this long. Though I do love the red and the swirls (and kaname's beautifulness), I really miss the sparkles-theme I used to have. What to do... Ah. At times like this, there's only one thing to do. I shall go eat some food and watch Gone with the Wind.

Oh yeah... as for manga I've consumed in the past week: typical monthly updates of Ouran and VK. Both stories are kinda pissing me off now. Ouran seems like it's never going to end, and VK... well, something that I wish would happen hasn't happened. Of course I don't really expect it to, so perhaps I'm just biased ;P Skip Beat was finally becoming interesting again and December is basically here, so there won't be that much of a wait to see what happens next. I have a list of manga I really wanna read over again - hopefully I'll get the time to.

And now I will cook up a storm and eat to my heart's desire. Yum ^_^

Has it seriously been a week since my last post? The days have been going by rather quickly (yet they're also too long *le sigh*). I haven't really been on the computer that much lately - Lady said that I should clean up my room a lil' bit before getting on. That was a week ago. To avoid any possible conflict, I took her advice. Finished cleaning (kind of) last night. Most of the week has been spent replaying Silent Hill. I'm currently halfway done with the 4th one and in the early stages of Origins. Can't wait until I get them over with - I really wanna do 2 again ^_^

When I've finished with SH, I was thinking I might play some FF again. I haven't played VII in forever... (meh, but I wanna play with Squall ♥ ). VI (the disc) is starting to die on me though, so maybe I should get that over with first. I dunno, I've been itchin' to do Xenosaga again, too. There's just too much!!!

Anyway, two days ago we found out that Kimi (doggie) has fleas!!! 0.o No!!! She didn't have them when she first arrived and the cats don't have any (nor the bunny), so where are they coming from!? Rargh, I hate them! They look gigantic, too. Them punks be mooching off me baby's blood. I shall kill them all!

(As for the title of this entry: no matter how many times I run into Eileen's giant head, it will never stop scaring me. And regardless of how many portable TVs Travis can stash in his pocket, I will never cease to be amazed) Brownies sound good at the moment :)

So apparently my mom lied when she said we'd only be baby sitting a dog for 2 weeks. Yep. It seems we'll be looking after it for a wee bit longer, like until she passes away & goes to doggie heaven. Our place is officially turning into a zoo. And now that the dog sleeps in my parents room, the cats have completely taken over my bed at night. They're just too cute ;)

But on another note: Halloween has passed! It was alright, for the most part. Nothing too exciting happened. I do wish that I could continue to wearing my Ciel cosplay, though. If people could walk around freely in gowns like that these days without being considered somewhat of a weirdo, I'd be a very happy mushroom (why a mushroom?). I spent the rest of the weekend stealing candy from my little sister (with her permission).

And now (after putting it off for a whole year) I'm finally going to watch RE Degeneration. I already know which character I'm going to hate the most... It makes me happy to know that even at the tender age of 8, I was already somewhat of a hopeless romantic, pairing up my favorite characters (in this case, Leon & Claire). Ada, Ashley, and Angela can all die!!!

*le sigh* I need more candy.

It came! My dress came yesterday ♥ Of course no cosplay is 100% perfect, but I think it's absolutely beautiful (i swear the skirt part itself ways at least a pound). It's a prefect fit - the only issue is that it continues a foot or two past my feet. Now I know I'm short, but... common. I still love it though. All I need is super-super-super high heels and I'm good to go.

Also: today we got a doggie! Actually we're just baby sitting it for two weeks while it's owners are on vacation. It's a chipoo (?) apparently. I think that's what it's called... a mixture of a chihuahua and a poodle? Kinda scares me, but it's still cute. So this makes: 1 extremely needy doggie, 2 chillaxing cats, 1 puffball bunny, and 1 monkey of a sister. And I get to take care of all of them. Yippee! I'm still waiting for my pet lion cub, though...

And all of these animals are females. I need a male pet so I can name him something sweet like Kaname or Tama-chan (it would depend on their personality, of course).

Nooo... I completely burnt dinner today *sniff* (actually, it turned out more slimy than burnt). But on a happier note, I found my ring yesterday! It was lying on the sidewalk a block away from our house. T'was a ~magic moment!~

Anywho, so I've been catching up on my manga for the last couple days. Just finished ch. 148 of Skip Beat. Finally things are going the way I'd like them to (at least i hope they are). It's been four years since I got into the series, and these characters seriously need to get it on already! I can only take so many fillers!!! *Ahem* Also, up until now, I have completed a total of 66 manga series - I'm so proud of myself! It's still not enough though. I won't be satisfied until I complete all romance-related stories I come across. Right now I'm just going through them alphabetically. What's that? No life, you say? So it would seem...

My older sister ordered my costume today and said it would arrive in a week, hopefully by or before hallowing. Hm... Shipping from Japan to California... Is it possible? I'm mostly scared because I know the mail service here sucks. Like, really REALLY sucks. I guess we shall see!

Griever is gone!!! My precious ring (Squall's Griever ring) is gone! I can't find it anywhere. The worst part is that I wasn't even wearing it when it disappeared. It was hooked on a chain in my purse when I went to pick up the little sis from school. When we got home, I took out my keys only to find them tangled up with the chain. The ring was nowhere to be found. I looked outside for awhile, and then I checked my room, but... Waaah! Now I'm left with 2 options:

1. Either my little sister accidently knocked the ring out when she pulled out a water bottle from my purse (she was pretty careless while handling it) and I might be able to find it tomorrow or...
2. ...I'm just really stupid and will find it snuggled up securely in a safe and somewhat obvious place

I'm hoping it's the 2nd, though the chances are pretty slim. I know it's silly to freak out over a ring, but it's really special to me T_T

However, if I were to look for it again tomorrow and I just happen to stumble upon a beautiful man who found it before me, but has no problem returning it to me... All this would be worth it ^_^

...Perhaps this is punishment? Today is the very first time since I got the ring that I wore something different. That's a little creepy... 0_0

Finally, my favorite season arrives with lots of rain! Perfect weather (for me) to go outside and walk around in a cheery daze singing songs to myself with a wide scary grin and a fair few "Mwahahahahas" every now and then. As it is, I'm quite lazy at the moment and have no intentions of doing that anytime soon. Shameful me...

On another note, I finally have my halloween costume picked out! I definitely wasn't planning on doing any sort of cosplay, but... it just kinda happened. I'll be dressing up as Ciel in his pink dress outfit (Black Butler). Random, ne? But his dress is just too gorgeous!!! Hopefully I'll be able to pull it off. There's no way I can afford a good wig though, so I was thinking I might color my hair - it should be long enough (waaah, but i like my brown hair color as it is). At least this is the plan. The costume might not arrive on time, in which case... I'll end up being a witch. 6th year in a row. Yippee.

Meh... now I shall continue my little expedition of Mayu Shinjo works and the like (...talk about drama-rama).
~I think I've used 'bleh' and 'blah' as tags in every entry since I first began using LJ. If I'm right, then WOOT!~

June 2nd - that was the last time I posted an entry. Yeah. So blah blah blah happened after yada yada yada took place. And here I am now. I kinda feel like I should create a new journal and start over again, but there are no more cool usernames I can think of (plus I'd miss this one too much). So anyway, I've been spending the last couple days going over my f-list, too lazy (or shy) to leave any comments. That'll probably change soon, though. Hopefully.

So here's a small list of things that happened in the last... 4 months (4 freaking months since my last post!? dang) that I was gone:
-Just under 20 hours with a 78% hit rate and a total of 82 saved games, I finally passed RE4, only to find out that I couldn't afford the Chicago Typewriter in the next game. Oh the disgrace. I did get it later on, though (and passed it under 10 hours, so I'm getting better)
-Played through FFVIII again ♥
-Started to do FFVII & X again, but got distracted and have yet to finish them.
-Am so close to finishing VI (after 7 years of the same saved game), but the disc doesn't seem to be working anymore. IX doesn't work at all, and V doesn't look that well off, either. (ebay time)
-Started and finished XII. Woot!
-My new computer monitor kinda exploded. It started letting out blue sparks which were really pretty, but also scary.
-I haz been enlightened about certain stuffs :D
-Burnt my hand on an iron me mums left on.
-Learned a lot about euphemisms

Those are all the important things I can think of right now. Yes, my life is still pretty uneventful, but I'm liking it this way ^_^

So my internet just stopped working last Friday. The DSL wasn't going through. According to Mac, it was either because of the modem or because of an unknown outside source. The modem is fine, though. Personally, I think it was divine intervention! I woke up this morning and started cleaning my room (truly a spectacular site, if you have the stomach for it). And what happens as soon as I'm done? The green light on the modem begins flickering and the connection goes through! What. The. Hell. I fear that it may turn of at any given moment again, though.

On another note, I got a new monitor (for free - every piece of technology I get is free ^_^). Byebye you big, grey, box of a thing! Hello, flatscreen =D -My LJ looks so tiny on it though! And you can see where the background image cuts off. Grr. Whatever. Kaname is currently occupying my desktop, in all his glory (along with Zero's right hand & his Bloody Rose).

I don't know what to do... I feel like creating more icons, but I also wanna start reading some new manga. I haven't read any in 4 days now. Hm. What to do...

And when did this happen!? 'Anime' and 'manga' are no longer showing up as misspelled words on the LJ spellcheck thingy. About time.

This morning I had a very bad dream. The Grim Reaper popped up. Normally I'd be like, "awesome! I get to meet up with death!" but... it was just extremely unpleasant and not at all to my liking. I'm seriously afraid of being in the dark as of right now.

But onto manga updates: Since I was completely outraged with the ending of Hot Gimmick, I decided I would read Hot Gimmick S (short novel with an alternate ending). Even if the writing was like that of a elementary student, it was still enjoyable 'cause I got my happy ending. Then I read Cherry Juice (4 volumes total), which was cuteness. When that was through, I proceeded to read Monster Love. The first couple chapters led me to believe it was a typical shoujo - nothing extraordinary. But the final 3 or 2 chapters touched my soul! I love a man with wings of a crow who would obliterate the world for the sake of his beloved! It left me with such a happy feeling!!! Soon as that was done, I realized that Ch.140 of Skip Beat was FINALLY out! Yeah, it was okay-ish. I'm just getting REALLY impatient with all these fillers. I want some lovey-dovey action! Anyway, afterwards I went for Koukou Debut, which was just 'Aw'-ness (yeah, I'm stuck on romances. can't live without them). I finished it about an hour ago or so, after which I immediately headed for Ch. 50 of Vampire Knight. I'm not gonna lie, I'm feeling extremely stressed out about what's to come. It seems as though Zero has matured, which is very smexy (I still love Kaname more). But... I'm just really worried. As soon as I'm done with this post, I'm gonna read ch. 28 of Hana to Akuma.

Why am I eating up so much manga? Because I may not be able to do so later on. Where do I get the time to read all this? I have no life. Does it matter? Not really, because things are still pretty terrific. (I'm still really sick, but I'll just think of it as some sort of punishment for being allowed to do all the things I can and not have to worry about it). ~Here I come, Vivi!

I'm sick! GRARGH!!! Dammit, dammit, dammit! Aw well, what can you do... On another note, I has been tagged. I've had this journal since '07, yet not once have I ever done a meme. Oh the shame.

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to answer these questions about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged. If I tagged you it's becasue I want to know more about you.
tagged by: darlingpink

1. What is one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to you?
I'm very good at wiping embarrassing moments from my memory ^_^
2. What is the one guilty pleasure you indulge in?
Music. Only because I listen to it to the point where it's unhealthy. (Hah, as if there's such a thing as listening to too much music)
3. What was your favorite show as a child?
Sailor Moon :P
4. How much time a day do you spend on Facebook?
...Maybe once or twice a week? Not really a big fan...
5. How old where you when you fell in love for the first time?
I was 8. Prince Diamond (take that, Tuxedo Mask!)
6. Do you collect anything?
Manga, anime, pencils, pens, earrings... those are the big ones.
7. What is your favorite Song?
:o Only 1!?!?!? That's near impossible! (Bitter Apple - Dave Gahan) ... (maybe)
8. Have you ever written a sappy love poem?
It didn't turn out sappy at all!
9. How different is your adult life from what you imagined it to be at 16?
I'm more of a kid than I was back then? (2 years makes a big difference)
10. If you could stay any age for the rest of your life what would it be?
My current age: 8,666 (aka 18)

I tag:
Wait, 10 people!? That's a lot of freaking pressure right there! Lets just say anyone who wants to :)

So I stepped out back for a little bit of fresh air a little while ago. The next thing I knew, Kitty had jumped the fence. It scared the hell out of me - she practically flew. No more than 3 minutes later I brought her back inside, though ;) (that's right! she may be faster, but she can never escape from me. mwahahaha!)

Anyway, a couple days ago I decided I would try and spice up the manga I read. I have just finished Desire Climax and Hot Gimmick (both have very similar story lines). Never in my life have I had such issues with the lead male characters as I did with these two stories (with one exception). I don't know how many times I cried while reading the first story. I'd probably die if I had to put up with the main guy. As for the second story, I was just like 'oh hellz no!' HELLZ NO. Yeah, I feel (a little) bad for the guy, but no freaking way is he going to be able to slap me without expecting a fist to the face in return. Ryoki Tachibana earns second place as my least favorite lead male character (in the romance category). Oh - so who was the exception? That's right, first place of my most hated guy goes to the one and only Naoki Irie (Itazura na Kiss). I despise him! I'm sorry, but 30 (long) chapters of being a heartless bastard is a bit much for me. Not even his somewhat sweet moments cut it for me. Sure, he gets better later on, but... *le sigh*

Now that I'm done with my little rant: Kaname! I have changed my header to KanamexYuuki. Again. Big surprise, right? (It's not my fault automatically become happy knowing that he's on my lj...)

Well, I'm off to read ch. 27 of Hana to Akuma (since I didn't get to yesterday). Yes, a manga with a very lovable lead male ^_^

In the last two days I've created over 100 icons... just because. When the only problem is having to decided between which brushes/textures to use, you know that life is very good.

On another note, dreamwidth sent me 2 extra invite codes, and once again my f-list gets first priority. So if you don't have one yet & you're interested, feel free to ask ^_^

...I seriously need a new layout...

Hazaa! From now on I should be able to update every so often. Things have been rather hectic lately (in a very slow & lazy fashion - if that makes sense). This past week I went into a total shojo frenzy and began devouring manga. Good stuff. I also looked into Hetalia so I wouldn't feel so out of the loop anymore. Two words: pure genius.

But anyway, the actual reason for the post is that I have one invite code left over for dreamwidth, and of course my f-list gets first priority. Even if we don't talk that much (or we don't talk at all), feel free to ask for it. Chances are that it'll end up going to a complete stranger anyway. It's been taken ^_^

Well then, I'm off to read some more manga!

For some reason I feel extremely anxious. Scared almost, but I don't know why. Today has just been... weird. Nothing out of the ordinary, but it seems wrong somehow.

But anyway, I finally read ch 70 of Ouran. Cute, as always. But if I don't see some HaruhixTamaki action soon, I will have to hit something. Also, I got my dreamwidth up, so yay! But I'm so confused as to what I should write in it. I guess I could cross-post or whatever but... I don't want to ruin it.

So now I have a question to ask you guys! I was wondering if you think Nero would be an okay name for a guy. I want to use the name for a character in one of the stories I'm writing, but due to the history of the name (lunatic-ruler of Rome), it seems unlikely that a parent would name their child that. True, my story is totally fiction, but I'd still like to give the characters (somewhat) normal names. So what do you think... does Nero sound too... uncool?

So: within the last 24 hours, I have gotten no sleep. It seems that we have seriously pissed off Mother Nature down here in SoCal. Earthquakes are to be expected, so it's not like I'm especially scared. But I'm definitely feeling edgy. We've had about 8 small ones in the last two days. Obviously, we're WAY overdue for 'the big one,' so people are saying that these little ones are going to lead up to it. There was the horrible wildfire that took place just a few months ago, and I'm pretty sure there were some bad mudslides that happened not long after that. Yes. Mother Nature is angry. But hey, other places have it a hell of a lot worse, so all is well.

But onto other stuff! After waiting what seemed ages, I finally got to read ch. 49 of VK yesterday *super fangirl moment* and I must say, it was very satisfying. Especially near the end! It's exactly what I had been waiting for from the moment I first got into the story (which was oh so long ago...). I also read ch. 139 of Skip Beat, which was utterly adorable, and I was going to re-read Godchild again, but for some reason my internet is being stupid and won't load the pictures. I'm still waiting for the next chapter of Ouran!!! I'm trying my hardest not to look at the raws, but my patience is running very thin. It came out how long ago? It should be translated by now!

And that is the story of my life. Yep yep.

OMG, I just had to make another random update. No, nothing new has happened in my life - it's still the same, boring, horribly sucky thing that it is every single day. So what's the reason for this post? I guess there isn't.

I will say this though: Music is one of the (if not the most) beautiful things in the world. I honestly don't know where'd I be without it.

Random, I know, but I need to express the extreme joy I am feeling at the moment. 'Extreme joy' doesn't even do it justice... I'm so freaking happy at the moment to the point where I'm actually crying. Not a lot, but enough. I need to go hug something...

It's been a couple weeks since my last post. A lot (or a little) has been going on, depending on how you look at it. But I don't really feel like writing about my personal life, so whatever. I will however mention this: we got bunnies 3 weeks ago! Two sisters. Maybe I'll post some pics of them later on (I don't believe I've ever posted pics before...).

Also, I changed my layout again. For some reason the previous header of KanamexYuuki didn't match the color of the background on Safari (yes, I'm a Mac owner and proud of it), but it showed up fine on Firefox. I decided to change it rather than switch my main web browser. So my new header features The Turks! I feel bad for Tseng though, he doesn't look nearly as good as he should. I'll probably change it again soon ^_^

Speaking of Turks (and FF) in general... I've kind of been wanting to kill Square Enix. With a passion. One because I just really miss hearing Squaresoft. Two because they're releasing The 3rd Birthday for PSP. Damn you PSP!!! It's not freaking fair! If the first two Parasite Eve's were for PSX, then it's only natural that the third installment should be for PS2... Gah! Damn you new technology! Though technically it's not THAT new... But still. I refuse to buy a PSP. I'll only do it as a last resort. I'm praying that they'll make it available for the PS2 one day, that along with Dissidia (my hopes aren't set high for that though - they'd have to do quite a bit of changing). Chances are I'll just end up buying the damn thing when I have enough money saved up. Now I have reason to hate Square Enix even more. They know that people will buy a PSP exclusively for their games... Fine. I'll buy GTA too, and every time I kill someone, I'll be thinking of them... (This is what happens to a gamer when they haven't been allowed to play anything in the last year and a half.) ^_^

Must comment on how extremely 'giddy' I'm feeling, among many other words. Probably overdosed on sugar (!? I only had 1 soda today... pretty rare, considering I never drink soda).

Anyway, so I changed my LJ layout. It's now dedicated to *drumroll* KanamexYuuki! I have to fix it though - the image isn't set exactly right... But that can wait though (until I decide to have a completely different layout, probably). Brown has never been my color, but it reminds me of chocolate, so every time I open up LJ I get really hungry ^_^

(5 minutes later: the 'giddyness' has slowly faded away. Now I'm feeling a bit mellow...) So I finished reading Millennium Snow a couple hours ago. I'm hoping that Hatori Bisco will finish working on it once she's finished Ouran (I'm scared to think how long/short that will be). And now I'm caught in the decision between re-reading Imadoki Nowadays, Alice 19th, or Absolute Boyfriend. Not sure why, I just have this mega urge to read some Yuu Watase. Hm... I think I'll go with Imadoki for right now. *nods to self*

(1 minute later: giddyness has returned and I can't stop laughing for some reason. The waltz is sounding really nice at the moment...)