Onslaught of emotion: slightly hungry, apprehensive, pleasant
Listening to music: O2 - Orange Range
Browsing through: AnimeChains, Gmail, Code Geass LJ Community
ALT+TAB: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Mozilla Firefox

My camera is SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME! I've already abused the poor thing last night and today because I'm just trigger happy to take pictures. Suddenly I feel like I can do a lot of things because of this camera.... *pets it affectionately* First, here are some things I can show off to the rest of the world, I suppose. *evil laughter*

Good God, this is what my room looks like. Yeah, it's very... anime filled, but I swear it's all for the sake of personal style. My actual desk has been that messy for weeks only because I'm too lazy to move anything around and organize it all. And all those posters and stuff in the corner of my room is also where my bed is located. Yay for full mirrors, otherwise my room looks much smaller. *dry laugh* Heck yeah, that's a queen size bed.

I'm pleased to have gotten my C.C. wig this weekend (thanks Noel for the eBay part ). I really like the color of the wig (supposedly it's called "grass green") because it's nowhere as vivid as the mega bright green wigs that burn my retinas. Last night I must've spent... oh, I don't know, about an hour brushing the thing while wearing it because it's ridiculously long. I'll be needing constant groomers for it just so I don't get nasty tangles or gum somewhere in the wig. It's actually very wispy and soft so that was very nice, and the whole thing fits on my head very well. I'll need Kristina to cut the bangs, though, because the tips of the bangs poke my eyes. I also tried to practice my "C.C. face" in which she gives either a completely apathetic or slightly surprised look. I must say that it was... difficult. Normally when I see Asian cosplayers do C.C. they smile all cutesy for the camera, and I don't want much of that because C.C rarely smiles (sure, she may give a pleasant look at Lelouch but that comes way later and... well, I'll figure it all out sometime soon but I know what I'm doing for her anyway). Strangely enough the wig makes my chest seem bigger despite that I hear short hair accentuates the chest area of a woman more. Uh... no further comment. Overall I'm very pleased with the wig, and I can't wait to get going with the actual outfit~

My Pleinair outfit is roughly 95% done (not counting the stuffed bunny). All I have to do now is get the ribbon attached to the headband I bought on Friday and a few more adjustments with the jacket thing. The elven ear tips I'll have to buy sometime soon from the local costume store, so that shouldn't be a big deal either. I'm a little iffy about getting contacts, seeing my history of chickening out at the last minute over sticking things into my eyes, but I feel that it's inevitable because she obviously has red eyes. The wing things will probably come much later in time for Anime Expo 2008. I'll go ahead and explain each picture for you now. The upper left-hand picture is what my wig basically looks like with the headband (of course I felt it was necessary to edit out my pimple-filled and sleep-deprived face for the viewers). Those shoes (in the upper right-hand picture) were what I bought last Friday and I think they're really cute~ I've already tried walking around in them and I must say that they're much easier to walk around in than heels; I have flat feet, so even an inch of elevation kills me, but I think I can handle these shoes. In the lower left-hand picture, the detail of my jacket thing is shown. Each side of the jacket took me a night to do, and that's all one strip of fabric. *throws up* Finally, in the lower right-hand picture I have the Chinese flower knot thing that took me way too long to do because I quite frankly don't understand how to make it look amazing so I did my best with my own version. AHA. That reminds me, I still have to make the stuffed bunny thing hopefully before Fanime. I have absolutely no expertise with making stuffed animals, so trial-and-error here I come! And I suppose if the thing comes out rather demented I can get away with its... grotesque-ness because for all I know Pleinair can be into that kind of macabre style. Maybe. MAYBE.

Onslaught of emotion: pensive, hungry, tired
Listening to music: Stop and Stare - One Republic
Browsing through: Chinese Knotting: The 4 Flower Knot, AnimeChains, O2 - Orange Range
ALT+TAB: Mozilla Firefox, Notepad, Solitaire

Wow, I haven't written something in a long while. Two weeks ago my life seemed so carefree (only because I didn't have to think about certain things), but now it's like... it's like everything is moving so fast around me and I can only focus what is directly in front of me. Let's start from the beginning, shall we? I warn that some of this stuff is pretty rant-worthy, so don't take it that I'm unjustly aggravated.

... at least that was what I felt a few days ago. I don't know, I've been pretty packed with my IB testing and whatever this week so I don't have much to do after school anyway except sleep at 9:00PM (which is way early for me) and study for hours beforehand after said testing. On the computer, I usually either play Minesweeper or Solitaire just to get my mind somewhat sharpened....

On a random note, I actually finished the harder part of my Pleinair cosplay this week! It took me two nights to do the sewing of the zig-zag parts of the jacket, and I must've poked myself over thirty times trying to get it just right for both sides of the jacket. I feel so very accomplished~ I also went shopping for cosplay stuff yesterday with Julie after school which took a good three hours to do. After stopping by home for some money, we went to the local thrift store, Ross, Payless ShoeSource, Mission Viejo Mall, and Target all in that order. I didn't find anything at some of the stores (Anyone up for $1 shirts at the thrift store? Or how about a ridiculously cute bag at Ross that I should have could have bought but I was too stingy to get it?) but I did find some super cute and super cheap red wedges for my Pleinair outfit at Payless. I also bought some green and blue eyeshadow at the mall for the sake of coloring my eyebrows (don't ask, and I won't answer). My sister and I also bought our mom her Mother's Day gift at The Body Shop, and I hope she likes it (it's a fragrance set ). Overall I spent about $40 which is VERY GOOD on my budget as a penny-pincher, so woot for me!

Today my brother and sister-in-law came over for an early Mother's Day party with some other relatives, and they brought their newborn son with them. My nephew's name is Lawrence, and I suppose his purpose for me is to get me to like him. To be honest, I'm not very good with kids (in my opinion) so I decided to give it a shot by playing with him. So far so good, I think I'm getting somewhere with him. Maybe I'll end up being the type of cool adult that kids love someday in the future, who knows? The little rascal has a nice grip on my finger though! I was trying to make him do pull ups from his car seat carrier thing, since it seemed like he wanted to get out of the thing, and he did a very impressive job with his attempts. I think I'm beginning to thaw up to little kids....

On a special note, my brother gave me my super belated birthday gift: a red Samsung digital camera! I've always wanted my own camera, and I instantly fell in love with the thing; I'm SO going to spam my blog with the most random pictures. Honestly, I'm super excited to have my own camera because I can share with the world what my life is all about! (That is, if anyone cares in the first place. *dry laugh*) My sister's super belated birthday present was a Sansa MP3 player, and it's roughly the size of an iPod Nano. It's cute and all, but my camera totally owns it!! *evil laughter*

Just a heads up: tomorrow is Mother's Day so I hope you all give some time for your mom who brought you into this world! Even if you don't like her just at least give her fives minutes of your time; it can't be that hard to do. Also on a random note, today is Pangea Day and I think it's something worthwhile to think about and consider.

Onslaught of emotion THERE'S WAY TOO MUCH GOING ON ASDJHF;;
Listening to music: Boyfriend - Alphabeat
Browsing through: Random Curiosity, Suzaku Spins Right Round, Suzaku Kick
ALT+TAB: Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Photoshop CS2

Calming down after today's spree of Code Geass and a special viewing of Avatar: the Last Airbender has gotten me in fangirl-mode. Let's see what exactly went on with this hoo-hah. Wha, these people are good at giving me brain farts every single episode. Cliffhangers are NOT fun. So the focus has shifted to Lelouch's and Rolo's (fake) relationship. The tension in this episode is all over the chart with such events like such. Rolo, Rolo, Rolo, Rolo, Rolo -- this kid is psycho. He slightly reminds me of Sai from Naruto except Rolo seems a little more psycho. (My sister compared him to Kaoru from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Whee.) Villetta's determination to get Lelouch interested me: so it seems she wasn't brainwashed by the Emperor. What I want to know is if she's acting on her own accord or the Emperor's. Rolo and her as partners in crime was shocking enough, but the fact that Lelouch is followed by who knows how many people/cameras is crazy. I can't even comprehend any of this.... @_@ And what's Rolo's fixation on the locket? Is he putting up a front for Lelouch or is there more to this? Anyway, Shirley only made a diversion just so she didn't look like she was watching two people kiss, but it upset Lelouch quite a bit. Good job, Code Geass creators, let's make the story line even more angstier. Dang, Lelouch doesn't have the upper hand by the end of the episode. The only point of confidence I have is that he isn't going to die (what will happen to the series otherwise if Lulu dies three episodes into the series?!).... Another stab at Rolo is his god-like powers to freeze time and whatnot; there must be a way around this. Slightly random: OHHHH, CAT FIGHT BETWEEN KALLEN AND C.C. I can't wait to see this. And towards the end of the episode, the Chinese guy is going to eliminate the Order of the Black Nights singlehandedly or something? I thought he was on their side since he made a positive comment to Kallen about the Black Knights. And has anyone noticed that the pale Chinese guy with the weird voice has the red rings in his eyes? He must've been Geass'ed, thus why the Chinese Federation gives a damn for the United States of Japan (which is the size of one room, mind you); yes I'm ingenius like this.... WOW that was a bunch of unorganized rambling that wasn't even in chronological order. The only thing I can say is how much I hate cliffhangers. Ergggggh. Now we have to wait another week for them to answer more questions. :rain: It seems like the series is just creating even more questions and although it's definitely going somewhere it's hard to determine where this somewhere is.

I won't even say anything about the Avatar clips. The best thing I can do is to just show you all what exactly I'm squealing about. (I'll give you a hint: Katara glomps Zuko. Sokka leads Toph by the hand. Aang gains the balls to kiss Katara again. And what is with the Avatar theatre play?)

Onslaught of emotion: extremely bored, unmotivated, TGIF
Listening to music: Part of Your World – Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
Browsing through: Gmail, One Manga
ALT+TAB: Internet Explorer (2), Microsoft Word

The world must hate me right now. Firstly, a bunch of my friends are off at D-Con, which God forbid I know what it really stands for, but it's supposedly a convention for Key Clubs around the state. My friends are only going in order to venture around the capital while ditching the whole convention shpeal. Meanwhile, the other half of my friends are visiting their colleges for the weekend, so they're not here as well. (A few have left for the day since they're lucky enough to finish school with fifth period, dammit. ) Julie has some Virtual Enterprise meeting at lunch to go to, and while I was practically shouting at her to go to the meeting (because I'm sure Virtual Enterprise will benefit her in her last year of high school more than Economics), I ended up with no one to eat my lunch with. Literally everyone is gone. The dire irony of this has left me to retreat into the school library and type up this entry. Oh I feel like a loner right now, haha....

Something's been bothering me lately though... oh wait, it's nothing more than just my parents getting all flustered at me. That's an everyday situation, right? You'd think so until you realize they're not getting flustered about you but about your younger sibling. So why are my parents getting all about my ass for? To simply put it, they're literally harrassing me to help Julie with her studying for the SAT test in May. Now, I'm sure it means a lot for them to have me help her out, which I'll gladly do as soon as she actually asks me for help. In all honesty the only time I helped her in the math portion of the practice test book was only because we were both at Barnes and Noble I didn't feel like doing my math homework. I find it to be that if she doesn't ask me for help then she doesn't really need it. I constantly tell her that she can ask help from me anytime in the world about math or chemistry but when she does she does it VERY last minute (and last-minute requests are annoying enough but when it's from a lazy younger sister who doesn't care about anything else besides LiveJournal and doing who knows what on the computer, then I have the right to be a little annoyed). That's the first thing that's gotten me in a hussy fit. Secondly, since when was it my responsibility to get her SAT scores up? If they wanted me to help her sooner, they should've asked me sooner AND signed her up for prep classes at least six months in advance. My mom recently asked me if it was a good idea to sign up Julie for some prep classes, and I literally choked on my cottage cheese snack. Julie's test is less than a month away and now they're worried? Sometimes I wonder if I'm just a test-run baby in which they see what is good and bad for me just so Julie doesn't have to experience it, which leads up to my third problem. I distinctly remember that when I signed up for my SATs, the process went like this:

Me: I need to use your credit card.
Mom: What for?
Me: I need to pay for my SAT test.
Mom: Okay. *proceeds to punch in the numbers from the credit card, and then all is normal*
A few months later....
Me: I need to go out this Saturday, and I'll be back at around noon.
Dad: What for?
Me: I'm taking my SAT test.
Dad: Okay. *goes back to watching the evening news*
About a month later
Me: I need to borrow your credit card again.
Mom: What for?
Me: It's for my college applications fee.
A few months later....
Mom: How did you do on your SAT?
Me: It went fine.
Mom: Did you already get the results?
Me: ... that was how I sent my college applications in the first place.
Mom: Oh, I see. *goes back to reading the newspaper*

Yep, I love my life in this little household. They don't normally bother me about anything unless it's about financial aid or whatever, but other than that I think they know that I know what I'm doing (Heh, was that a little confusing?). As for Julie, I have no idea what's going on, but I didn't nearly get this much attention or persistance from my parents last year about SATs or college applications or whatever. I've concluded that my sister cannot think for herself outside of her hobbies (i.e. LiveJournal and anime), and thus my parents (and me apparently ) have to step in just to get her going for preparing for college. Hello, I'm the one who needs to prepare, but...?

Onslaught of emotion: bored, listless, cold
Listening to music: 02 - Orange Range (yet again)
Browsing through: AnimeChains, Gmail
ALT+TAB: Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Photoshop CS2

I think my favorite character from Katekyo Hitman Reborn has finally been discovered. My favorite character is YAMAMOTO TAKESHI. Now what made me coem to this realization? I'll give you a hint: Motteke! Sailor Fuku. I wonder why Lucky Star has to be the trigger phrase for my sudden like for Yamamoto (I mean I didn't even care about the guy beforehand as much as, say, Hi-bird ). But... aw, look how cute his grin is. *sifts through the manga* Hee, his face makes me grin.

Anyway, I've honestly got nothing better to blog about right now. I'm just waiting for the weekend to come so I can get out of this nightmare called high school. Argh. I will enjoy my Shinsengumi ramen lunch tomorrow as if I were to die!! On an off note, I wish I had animation skills like whoever did the above GIF. Argh.