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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
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2:32 pm - Current Projects
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Projects I'm Currently Working On:
Cosplay:
(completeing these)
Margaret from Persona 4
Izunagi from Persona 4
Dolls:
Milia Charity Doll
Sailor Venus Charity Doll
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| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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1:03 am
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Nothing clears up potentially scary news like watching five episodes of the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I feel better now and ready to go on vacation and forget about things. All is good... as good as it can be at the moment. ^_^
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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9:24 pm
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Off to Chicago tommorrow for a week. I probably won't have internet access. So my cell phone is the best way to get a hold of me.
See you guys later!!
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| Monday, July 13th, 2009
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10:09 pm
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LOLOL
So while we were picking up dinner tonight at Burger King (no sense in buying real food from grocery store since we're leaving for Chicago in a day) the drive thru guy notices the clocks in the back of the car and asks about them... and if we sell them... and if we have a business card.
It was too funny. We ended up giving the receipt back to him with the webpage address. Just too funny.
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5:46 pm - Plushie and Wallet Picture Dump
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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7:52 pm - Writer's Block: My Ideal Life Ten Years from Now…
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Hmmm.... I don't think that it'd be very different from where I am now, which I'm ok with. I'd like to be a bit more financially secure, definintly with less credit card bills. And a house, with a puppy in additional to our two cats.
I'd like to have a higher position at my job, though I'm really not sure what one, because there's not many other places I can move up to, unless it's off the customer service floor, and I'm not sure if I want to. I'm sure Chibi will have her own store where she's manager, which would rock!
I'd also like to be selling my artsy stuff at more then just anime cons. Maybe art fairs? Or trying something like that at least once.
I know it's not that different, but I like that idea. Oh, and of course, I'd like to be married. But that really depends on other things... but I'll keep thinking positively there.
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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8:03 pm - Movie Log 2009
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D15. Creature
This documentary follows the life of a recent male to female, who is explaining her life and who is going back to visit her parents and see their reactions. This one does a very good job of showing both sides of the argument. The main person they’re interviewing also has a friend who didn’t completely go through the process and has decided to stay male. I found this one very enlightening.
93. Tremors 3
….. Bwhahahaha. Assblasters? Really? This movie is just insane and hilarious. Just the sort of cheese I absolutely love.
94. The Water Horse
I swear I’ve seen this movie before. Some movie about a kid who was afraid of water, or something else in life due to a tragety and gets attached to a huge endangered animal who he eventually has to let go of in the end… oh right! It’s called Free Willy! Still, that considered, it wasn’t a bad movie. I like the magical aspect, but then I’ve always been biased toward that.
95. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Watched this one again, this time on shiney bluray goodness. We also watched it with commentary this time with was entertaining and a bit informative of small little bits here and there. I hope Kevin James is in more films soon.
96. Mr and Mrs Smith
Yay for a night of watching random bluray movies we have. Still always entertaining and hot.
97. Ghost Rider
Chibi wanted to see cheese, so I gave her cheese. Like I said before this movie has potential, but it just flops like a dead fish.
98. Tamara
We expected cheese from this movie, but it was actually quite good. Something in the vein of ‘Carrie’ but a bit different. I won’t say much here because we wanna show it at horror fest. It was pretty good.
99. Beyond the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Watched this one again so Chibi could see it. She loved it, and again, want to show at Horrorfest.
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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8:48 pm - Interesting quote....
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Was watching Unsolved Mysteries: Ghosts and there was this quote from a Sunday School teacher:
"Death is another world, just beyond the horizon. And what is the horizon, but the limit of our vision."
This I like, the quote just struck me as incredibly true.
As a side note, my two favorite stories:
1. A couple who really loved each other in the 60's and lived to be very old together with their three children. The husband has a heart attack on the way to work, after leaving and saying "I love you, sweetheart." Years later their child creates a memory book for their mother, on her 90th birthday. The book was to contain letters from friends and family with how they thought and felt about her. While putting together the book, she fell asleep. While sleeping, her father appeared and asked her to write a letter to his wife. He asked that she write a letter for him. And in the letter he calls her 'sweetheart' and uses her nickname. When the mother saw the first letter, she went quiet, because no one in the family knew what he said the day before he died and no one knew the nickname he used for her.
2. A mother and child went on a trip late at night, and they went missing, disappeared. Five days later another couple is driving down the road, late at night and the woman in the couple is looking out the window, and she sees a naked woman lying on the side of the road. The two freak out and drive until they see a payphone, then call the police. That night, the police find nothing. The cop decided to check again when the sun rose and looked around the area with his car. After looking for a long time, he finds an area on the road, near where the woman indicated, where a car had crashed down an incline and against a tree. He climbed down to see the accident, but found the mother was very dead and had probably died on impact. Going to the other side of the car, he sees her three year old son and is about to check his pulse when he sees the boy breathing. Turns out the boy was alive, but barely. Had he not been there within that hour or so, the boy would have died.
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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12:49 pm - Movie List: 2009
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Ooops, fell behind again...
D12. Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Nation
It took me a week or so to watch this one, on and off, due to the huge amount of information. What I like specifically about this documentary is that it chooses to focus on specific people who ruled and list out how their thoughts helped shape the culture. This is a lot easier to remember and understand then you’re hearing about how one person either intentionally or unintentionally shaped their world.
86. Tremors: 2
Good old campy fun. It amuses me how this one treats the characters from the first. They got a burst of fame, a video game made and yet, at the beginning of this film, he’s still living in a trailer. The things that the graboids turn into are even more campy then the worms and all too amusing. I have the third one saved on Netflix, I’m sure it’ll be just as entertaining.
D13. In Search of History: The Knights Templar
This documentary is really not the type to be watching late at night when all the lights are off and your partner is sleeping. They show a lot of creepy looking faces and old traditional pictures, especially of torture devices and deaths, which I really wouldn’t like to see in the first place, but late at night it was not something I wanted to see at all. In spite of this, the piece was interesting. I like how it traced the beginnings of the Knights and then how they moved through the years until they were destroyed and killed. I can see how so many myths and stories came from these people, it’s so interesting and just asking for many stories.
87. Terminator 2
*_* Terminator 2 on BluRay. Guh. Happy fan girl now.
88. Friday the 13th
To be honest, I’ve never seen the original. It’s possible I’ve seen it at a Horrorfest, but I don’t remember it if I have. All the old stuff, like this and Halloween and such, never really caught me. I saw them too late, they weren’t scary to me and I just didn’t get them. Nightmare on Elm Street and more supernatural things scare me, not very human people who simply decide to kill. This one, however was still very entertaining. The deaths are entertaining and it’s one of the first horror movies I’ve seen where it focuses on a guy and not so much on a girl. I like how it focused on Sam’s character, and not just because it was Sam, but it was interesting seeing it turned out from the normal storyline. In the end the girl still won and beat him, but still. And dude, if I ever got famous in a show like Supernatural, I would totally help remake an old horror classic so that today’s teens can be exposed to how good it is. If I’d never seen this new one I never would have liked these movies.
89. Mimic
Giant cockroaches that are pretending to be human. It’s entertaining and interesting and just… hehehe funny. The story is interesting, even if the effects and little plot holes here and there leave something to be desired. I enjoyed it.
90. Arachnophobia
LOL. More campy horror. But I swear I remember there being a HUGE spider at the end of the movie, but there wasn’t one. It was almost disappointing.
91. Fear Dot Com
Seeing this movie a second time, years after it came out, I can actually appreciate it. It came out around Saw, but not nearly as bad or gory as those movies. There’s still the serial killer, but it’s almost a mix of Saw and House on Haunted Hill. In the end, I do like it. It’s one of those stories where I want to know more about the ghost.
92. Black Out
This was a very interesting movie. The whole time I felt like I was watching Lost, with the amount of flashbacks and how they taught you about the characters. I don’t like that the summary told you one of them was a serial killer. I also don’t like how he slowly dropped into madness, because toward the end it was such a drastic change that it felt forced. Still, it was a very good movie.
D14. Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
This documentary hits perfectly on my appreciation for good information, good stories told by a beautiful voice. Like the Japanese one I watched before, this one focuses on single people and how they changed the society. This one gives me a clear understanding of how the society evolved and how many things from our culture and government now really come from Greece and Athens. It’s fascinating.
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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7:22 pm
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Farrah Fawcett is dead.
Michael Jackson is dead.
Two icons from my childhood are dead today. I'm in a bit of shock. This sucks. It really sucks.
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| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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2:49 pm - Writer's Block: When I Was Young
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I miss the obsticle courses in gym class and the large playplace areas at places like Chuckie Cheese and Circus Pizza. What's sadder is that even if I weren't too old to play in them, they're all gone any way.
Now kids have plastic playgrounds with recycled tires and padding for the ground beneath. Parents don't let kids play in the playgrounds as much and when they do they don't pay attention.
What's really sad is I miss riding by parks on my bike and seeing them full of kids, because you don't anymore.
And yes, this is coming from a girl who still hated spending time outside.
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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2:57 pm - Fun in my apartment
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So earlier today, while she was at work, I have the windows wide open and I hear yelling across the street. Something about a teenage kid (or so I assume) getting back into the house. I couldn't make out all the words, but basically it was a mother, yelling at her kid to come back into the apartment and just having a fit. She also yelled for her husband to help, but I'm assuming he didn't because I didn't hear anything from him.
It eventually stopped.
Much later in the afternoon I was leaving to drop off some snacks for Chibi and take her out for ice cream since she was having a lousey day. As I go down to check the mail, I hear high pitched beeping. Following it down the first floor hall, I see smoke coming out of one of the doors of the apartment 2 floors below us. O.O I knock on the door and luckily the owner was home. She apologized and said she screwed up cooking and the fire is out, but now she has to deal with the smoke, so I left feeling our apartment and stuff was safe.
Get home from ice cream date and sit down to watch more of Terminator 2, only to hear the wife across the way starting up again with her screaming. This time it's at her huband and telling him to get the hell out of her apartment if he's not going to help her.
*just shakes head*
Yes, because I really want to hear about your marital disputes from the comfort of my own home. Thank you very much, apartment neighbors.
current mood:  annoyed
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| Monday, June 15th, 2009
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11:14 pm - Donation Doll: Aurora Winter Outfit
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6:06 pm
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Dear EA Active,
Thank you for slaughtering my legs today. Thank you for creating a workout game that actually feels like it's working because unlike Wiifit I'm not asked to choose another exercise every two minutes. It felt like I was working out, rather then choosing random activities. Also, I love the lack of constant balance exercises. They got tierd and boring very quickly in WiiFit.
So yeah, I played EA Active today and I approve of it!
My legs feel like hell, gods!
So now I'm playing Boom Blox and trying to decide what to make for Anime Iowa.
Also ran errands today at the fabric store, grocery store, post office, dropping Chibi off at work and target. Loooong busy day.
current mood:  tired
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12:14 am - Writer's Block: You're a Winner!
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Once, when I was much younger, I participated in a diaper changing contest at a local mall. You had to be the fastest to change a diaper on a doll without tossing it in the air. I was the fastest and won a year's worth of baby wipes for my brother.
Yeah... odd isn't it.
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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1:06 pm - D-Grey Man Plushies
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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8:32 pm - Movie List 2009
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82. Phantom of the Opera
I love this musical. I love it even more in Blu-ray, where the sound and the sights are just beautiful. Though to be honest, I didn’t pay much attention to the movie since I was cleaning the apartment while I watched it. Still, always very good. I do remember that the thing I loved most about this movie was it gave more of a background to the phantom and I have oh so beautiful images of him and the teacher of the ballerinas, after Christine leaves, or even her daughter. The untold stories that are hinted at are so rich that I can’t help but wonder about it.
83. Hitch
Another movie I watched while I cleaned and moved the futon. It’s just a feel good movie that makes you laugh, even if I really don’t like the actress they picked for the main female. I just wasn’t that impressed by her. But seeing Kevin James get the hot girl was adorable and I love him in the movie more then Will Smith.
D9. Ancient Mysteries: Human Sacrifice
A very interesting, if gruesome, history lesson on human sacrifice around the world. It’s really interesting to me that the people who were sacrificed took it as an honor to their gods.
84. Scourge
…… Bad horror movie is bad. Bad movie doesn’t even have an interesting creature. Just… bad.
D10. Design E (squared)
A six episode documentary about different things different people are doing to be more green and treat the environment with respect when building. Some of my favorites were the buildings in Chicago that have green roofs and the houses made of bridge and construction waste.
D11. The Mystery of Love
A long winded documentary that tries to give many different views of love and relationships. From lovers to swingers to deep relationships. It does a great job of giving peoples’ different views on love and how it works into their lives. It felt long, even if it was interesting.
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| Monday, June 1st, 2009
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9:58 am - Cat nick names
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Fuzzybutt
Furrybutt
Peeingcat
Flatfaced fuzzybutt
Fuzz Bucket
Isis
Loki
Tinkerbell
Kitty
Pest
Loh-kay
Is-Is
Eee-sauce
Cow cat
Thug kitty
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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2:18 pm - Chibi!
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| Monday, May 25th, 2009
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8:56 pm - Big delay...
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Ooops, sorry this is so late.
"More about your cats or any frustrations while working on cosplay? :)"
My cats are full of adoreableness. In fact, this afternoon while she was at work, I took a nap on the futon. Isis came and curled up next to me, a paw resting over my arm and right next to my face and she fell asleep too. Cuteness!
Isis is far more intelligent then many cats and I do feel a special bond with her. If I'm upset or I'm crying about something, she's immediately right next to me, headbutting me until I pet or hold her. And she sleeps almost every night on my leg. It's incredibly comforting and I've gotten really used to it. My favorite is the fact that she meets me at the door when I get home and when I take a shower in the morning, she insists on standing on the edge of the tub, between the two curtains so she can watch to make sure the water doesn't hurt me. If I take a bath, she sits on the edge of the tub and watches me. She makes sooooo much noise if I put my head under the water until I come back up, like she doesn't trust the water at all.
Loki is slowly warming up to us. She still doesn't like us touching her stomich, which is fine. But now, when I'm sitting on the futon, sometimes she comes up and sits beside me, then falls asleep. She also doesn't have as many knots anymore, which is nice, because I hate combing those out.
We also found out why she yodels at night! It's the damn fake mouse. She'll pick it up and carry it into the hallway, then yodel until we come out so she can show us what she caught. Silly cat!!
Cosplay... hmmm. I think my biggest frustration is that I don't like doing cosplay that other people have done, yet I hate showing up at a con and not being reconized, it kinda makes it feel like a wasted effort. I mean I'm not looking for a huge amount of attention, but I really like it when I have proof that I did a good enough job on the costume that some random person reconized who I was, even with my mistakes in making it and my difference in height and weight.
Still, the best part is to be the first to make a costume, and then see other costumes after yours that ignored the details you were so careful to cover. Like I know my Yomi costume from Yu Yu Hakusho is't perfect and I skipped things like his armored shoulders, but I love the fact that the only other pictures I've found of Yomi never found a good way to do his horns well and in the right color. I'm allowed to feel proud about that, least I think.
I also love, oddly enough, how much reconition she gets for her dresses. I love the Peach dress and the Minnie Mouse one. I loved how they looked and I love that they're reconized so easily at each con. I know part of it is the fact that she's black and there aren't as many black cosplayers, but people remember those costumes and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy with pride.
Hmmm, I think that's all I can ramble about right now.
I really want to do Sol and Ky for our next cosplay, but I need to lose some weight in my arms or I know I won't look good in Sol's outfit. Who knows, maybe I'll find an epic outfit to do before that. I want to make another set of amazing dresses.... just a matter of what.
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