T-Minus 3

Wednesday
Thursday
Friday~

Ultra Super Excited! Can you feel it!?

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T-Minus 5

5 Days Left:

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

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Tears~~

Every time I watch a trailer for the new Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess... Tears begin to flow from my eyes... It's just so marvelous and beautiful... I can't wait to play it... ::tears::

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6 Days Left

Project A-Kon 16 Starts in 6 days.

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

I'm already packing, and I have to work Thursday morning, but that is all right. I can't wait for A-Kon, and not just because of the whole anime/cosplay aspect of it this time.

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Day Of Craziness

Geeze... Today was just a day for crazy things to happen.

Woke up, went to work. All fine. The phone rings as soon as I open.

Me: Things Remembered, thank you for calling. How can I help you?

Person: Hello! This is Breland's Health Center and to celebrate our 30th year in business we are calling around to our local businesses and the first to answer gets a free membership, so congratulations!

Me: Oh... Thank you.

Person: If you could come but today around 5, ask for ____ and bring this confirmation code to claim your prize. We look forward to seeing you!

Me: Okay. Thank you!

Person: Bye.

So... I won something for going to work... That was random, but though I meant to go claim it, I forgot all about it by the time I got off. But after that, every thing was quiet. Suddenly it looked like night time cause the sky was so dark and thick the sun wasn't getting through. I also work underneath a large glass dome, so I can see the sky. Suddenly it was downpouring, hailing, lightning...

I took off to Samuel's when the hail started cause I did NOT want that glass dome shattering over MY head. Shortly there after it died down and was sunny again... So I went back to my little kiosk. Then two men from the Airforce in camos came up... Asked if I could engrave on this... It was a freakin shell to a freaking 155 mm calibur bullet! Holy Slag! And it was once part of a live round, not an imitation. They had shot it off in practice and kept the shell after it was approved to be taken.

That was different. But the rest of the crazy stuff wasn't cool, so I will not discuss it. However, I will talk about my costumes.

I am 97% done with everything. All I need to do is at loops for my swords to go through on Jin's pants, put elastic in Moonlight's pants, and finish the Alchemist prop and wrist bands. Except ofr staightening my hair and coloring white for Haru and blue for Alchemist, I am practically done and have already started to pack. Even though it is not till next weekend.

Also, Maniac has decided to do 2 other costumes! Woo~! He originally was going to only do one. I was going to be the only one with a costume for all days, but now he has joined my club. I am happy.

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CosPlay... Away~

Update for you faithful readers. I am virutally done now, except for props mostly. I have a little to do on the costumes themselves, but not all that much.

Haru- Need to buy a new black shirt, since I ruined the other one. Then I need to add those gray designs. Then I need to add lollipops to my "makeshift" Plue. Then all that will be left is to straghten my hair and spray it white.

Moonlight Knight- I need to add elastic to my bottom of the pant legs. Then I need to find a way to keep the belt on... Then add the crescent moon to the brooch I made.

Jin- Need to alter the pants slightly to make them look more authentic. Then I need to finish making the sheath for the small sword and painting it, then it will be done.

Alchemist- I just need to get the Alchemy symbol my friend made, enlarge it, add the spikes to it. Then all that will be left is to spray blue highlights in my hair.

See? Not too bad. As for the skit. Maniac and I are getting it donw pretty well. Hopefully it will be more fluent and natural on stage. I hope my friend Rion tapes it...

Other news? I am sick of my job. This time it is because I am tired of rude customers. I so want to Samurai Beep Slap them all... I wish I could find something else as well. I need more money... I hate money...

Oh! I sang for my friend TBH tonight. 3 times! She actually enjoyed it and wanted to hear it again. That made me happy. She wasn't pleased with my last performance, so I was nervous this time. I think I did well too. Especially for sining a Japanese song for the first time. I felt good. Rion's girlfriend wants to hear me sing it now... I think I shall!

Lots to do tomorrow... Open, work 8 hours. Find my friend to get that symbol... Find Rion's new apartment... Who knows what else... I should be in bed right now but...

A good friend of mine has been sick the past several days, and though she still feels bad is finally online again. I missed her and was worried about her, so I am enjoying getting to talk to her again. :o)

I need water, so this entry is ending now.

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Drool City

First of all, I went to see Star Wars Episode III last night at midnight. Now, I am not a huge, obssessed Star Wars fan. I enjoy the movies (except the second one!!!) and I like the universe. My favorite character is Boba Fett. But I also enjoying going to the theater with a friend, and especially at midnight. This time I went with Rion and his girlfriend. Would have been Maniac too, but tickets were sold at 9am, and sold out for all 3 showings at 10am. Rion had went to get his and mine for me at 9:40. Maniac tried to get his at about 10... It sucked.

Now and to what made me drool even more so! The new Legend of Zelda game. "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess"!!!! I have seen screen caps from E3 and read a little about it. Link can freakin turn into a freakin wolf!! SA-WEET~!! Even more reason to like that man! I swear, this game might be even better than "Majora's Mask"! I refuse to watch anymore trailers, or read anymore about it. I want to buy the game and play it and be in utter awe at it! ::sigh of bliss::

Also, I saw pictures of the new Nintendo counsel Codename: Revolution. Nice. I know I will be getting it. But what I am truly anticipating at this moment, is Nintendo's new Wi-Fi network they are setting up all over the world. And it will be free use! That means if I am in an internet Wi-Fi hot spot, I can play people in Japan. Sweet~!

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Vespa Jack

Okay, so an update on him already. My mother and sister came home and he was still here. My mother said I could care for him but he has to stay outside. So she got down some bowls that we filled with food and water. My sister, meanwhile, had been sitting out back with him petting him and talking to him.

By the way, for you not into anime, I also named him Vespa after the vehicle that is famous in FLCL. His fur is yellow not orange also.

Anyway, my sister started making phone calls. She quickly found someone who would take him in. So he got him into a pet taxi, which he didn't like. And got into my car, which he liked even less. I drove him to where his new owner lives, while trying to talk to him and keep him calm.

We got to the girl's house and my sister got out of the car and the girl meet us. My sister took Vespa Jack out of his taxi and the girl took him in her arms and helf him close and he stopped crying. So then he looked at me, and I looked him in the eyes and told him bye. The girl promised to leave his name as Vespa Jack but would either call him Vespa or Jack for short.

And then we drove off, and I tried not to cry. I am sure he will be very happy. My sister said that girl is very sweet and loves kitties.

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Cry For Help

At this moment, there is a poor cat outside my house crying for love. I was sitting here minding my own business when my brother calls the house. He is standing out side and needs me to shut the garage door as he enters to try and keep this cat that is following him out.

I step outside and see the cat and go over to pet it. The poor thing is so thin it's unbareable. It's limping on its right hind foot... And as I pet it (or him as I discover) it's sheding like mad...

I order my brother to fetch me a bowl of food and water as I remain to pet it. I know, feed a stray and they will never leave. But I am not as dark and heartless as I joke to be. I could not stand to just turn my back on it... So I fed it, and it ate like it had never tasted food before. Gobbling down so fast it would cough... kind of.

As it ate, we retreated into the garage and shut the door and entered the house. After several minutes I opened the door leading to the garage and could hear it yelling from outside for attention and help... All I could do is shut the door...

We have two female cats already, and my parents don't care for male cats. Not to mention, they would not take in a stray... But I think this cat was domisticated at some point. He seems too friendly and adapted to humans to be 100% stray or feral... I will never know...

I think he shall be known as Vespa, for he is an orange tiger tabby and just reminds me of a skinny wasp. Vespa Jack in full, cause it sounds cool. But while part of me wishes I could take him in and do more for him, part of me hopes he leaves and doesn't return, because it will hurt me more and more everytime I see him. I want to cry right now cause I am so worried about him, espcecially that limping leg...

I wish Vespa Jack luck in finding a wonderful life soon... Maybe someone can take him in where as I cannot.

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Polite Panda

It's been awhile since I've updated, but that's because nothing exciting has been going on. Little bit of work, little bit of costume making, lot of anime watching. Not something worth talking about.

However, last Tuesday Maniac, Chopstick, and I did rehearse our A-Kon skit for 3 1/2 hours in my drive way. You have no idea how much of a work out that actually is when you rehearse a fight scene 200 times (exaggerating). It was fun though. We are probably going to rehearse again next Tuesday. We had it pretty much down last time, but next time we need to make it flow smoother and seem more natural.

We are not professional actors, but for those of you who will not see it but want to... I am trying to get a friend to video tape it, but he makes no promises. If he does get to, I'll make copies of the video and send them to you. Okay?

Further news... Today is that last day of work for two of my co-workers. I never liked them, but that means once again I will have long boring shifts and no days off for a while. Only thing good about that is I will get a little more money. My last couple of checks really sucked and I can't live on that. Still no luck on a second job either. I need to buy a new scanner, some games, and some manga... Not to mention fix my car then customize it... Geeze. If only I could get that assistant manager position then a second job I could be doing pretty good I think.

Oh, I did get a raise finally. $.22 more an hour... So now I make $6.22 an hour... Took me a year to get a raise... ::cries::

Polite Panda is a Care Bear, by the way. I think technically he is a Care Cousin, but... Come on... He is a bear... Just cause he is an exotic bear doesn't mean he shouldn't be called a Care Bear. Anyway, I bought his stuffed animal at Hot Topic the other day and he is staring at me at the moment...

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Curious, Little One?

The other day I posted a quick, lazy update. In doing so, I raised some questions. At least out of one person. My friend... Let's call him Metal, asked me what skit am I talking about. So I realized, I had not been updating with certail events in my life, and I do not know why I did not.

About a month ago I decided to see if I could find anyone to CosPlay with Maniac and I at A-Kon for a Chamlpoo group CosPlay. Amazingly, someone did reply to my post. Even more amazingly, she plans to CosPlay as Fuu, the missing character of our trio and the one character I was really looking for someone to CosPlay. I was very happy.

Afte a few days of posting to each other on my thread, we exchanged chat names. Since then we have been chatting and having a lot of fun. But to the point, shortly after we started to chatting, she came up with the idea of doing a skit together. I had to talk Maniac in it, and though it took a little while, he finally agreed. It was on.

The next day Maniac had a skit idea. I ran it by her, and she loved it. Then each day Maniac had more ideas to put into it, and luckily she loved everyone of them. We even took 6 hours one day to put together the soundtrack plus sounds on one track on a CD to use at A-Kon. All that is left now is to practice and time ourselves to the track and complete the costumes.

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Avoidance

Ran to Wal-mart last night to see if they had some sort of white sports pants. The white material I bought to make the Moonlight Knight costume was too see through. You could see me skin through it, and sadly, where my underwear ended and my leg began... Didn't need hat going on. So I might as well find real pants and alter them if need be. Plus I was out of conditioner...

So I arrive at Wal-Mart and once again I have to be Solid Snake for Metal Gear Solid, because someone I want nothing to do with works there and tends to work at night, which is when I like to go since hardly anyone is there...

First off, they have the hair stuff section blocked off so they could buff the floor. So that was irritating. I go into the men's clothing section. I get a white muscel shirt, since the same what material will be for my shirt, I would rather my skin not be seen through it. Sadly, they had Zero white pants. I did find some comfortable looking sports pants that would have worked, but all they had was black and grey... So I head over the the video game section. Picked up the 200th issue of Game Informer then saw a bin with video games for $14.98. Right on top was GunGrave: Overdose. So I grabbed that, even though I can't play it till I get my hands on the first one. Then there was another bin of video games for $19.98 or less. I grabbed Tekken 4 so I could practice with my character, Ling.

When I was checking out, the lady saw GunGrave and asked if there was an anime to that. I said yes, and then she started to talk about Fullmetal Alchemist. Then the girl that I had been avoiding sees me from her register and comes over to me telling me she needs to talk to me.

I knew exactly what about too. She used to date Rion, but treated him badly and dumped him cause he wouldn't lay her among other things. His new girlfriend hates this girl and got in her face and told her to stay away about a week ago. That is what the topic was about, I was right.

I gave her no answers. Just kept telling her that I don't know. She told me to tell him he needs to call her so they can discuss this. Last time they talked... 6 months ago, he told her he didn't even want to be friends and she cried... Now here she is telling me that last time they talked they decided to be friends. What the slag?

Well... She wanted to hang out with me too, and I said I would call her, but I wont. Rion asked me to tell her to stay away from me as well... But I just can't be mean. I feel bad, even to her. Darn it. I will have to eventually as well...

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