The Running Free
Jul. 15th, 2009
12:52 am - Thievery
I took Chives (the rat) to the vet today and the vet commented that for a one eyed rat he's healthy. She also gave me an antibiotic for his eye.
He runs around and basically acts like a normal active rat except for one thing.
HE DOESN'T JUMP.
I've noticed that he appears to "try" to jump or at least think about it. He'll look at a high place and go on his hindquarters and wave his head around and then decides it's a bad idea. I'm very sure it's his mucked up depth perception.
Tonight he has been tugging on my clothes or trying to steal clothes I threw on the floor. It was kind of funny because he has this "mini stash" of things he takes from me and hides them around the cage. He saw my sock lying on the ground and then took it and then tossed his previous treasures out to make room for sock.
Here is him taking things:
I better not forget where my keys are now.
Jul. 14th, 2009
11:41 am - Lesbian day is a comin'
International Femmeslash - "Hot Girl or Girl Action" - Day is coming. Gimme some characters and prompts. Go nuts.
Here's my fandoms list:
http://sky-pirate-tat.livejournal.com/3
I also encourage genderbent guys since I hardly have any current Lesbian OTPS- except maybe Litchi/Taokaka.
Jul. 13th, 2009
10:31 pm - Music that's hard for me to tire of
There are songs you love but get tired of and can't listen to for a long while. And then there are songs you never get tired of. Here are my favorites from the latter category.
( All Music under the cut )
12:23 pm - the rat and overdue hair pictures
Here's the rat. Zach kept giving me name suggestions at work, most of which were character names from Metal Gear Solid 3. He mentioned "Chives" at one point and that's what I decided. His coloring is sort of odd. You can't tell but he's mostly black except he has random white/silver hairs starting from the back down.
Last night after I took him home I started to play with him for a bit, for a long while he faced me mainly with the left side of his face (the one with an eye) and then suddenly he showed the other side and I blinked thinking: "omg what happened?!"
. . .and then I remembered he came that way lol. It's disorienting to see a void there. I'm used to rats having both eyes.
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Last week's hair progress
This week's hair progress
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I really miss kissing more than sex these days.
Jul. 11th, 2009
10:16 am - really, what the. . .
Last night I dreamed about loosing my teeth but even more notably I dreamed about ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
mildkicks visiting.
In my dream, Milo had terrible road rage and at one point fiercely backed out of the garage, and hit my mom's car but didn't stop and just kept backing out and zipped out of the driveway.
I also managed to paint a picture in my dream. It was of a fetus but the painting was cursed so I gave it to someone else.
I think maskalade was in the dream too and she ignored me. D: Every time I dream about her it seems she does that.
12:23 am - sdalfkj
Guys guys guys, if you're bored RP with My Taokaka?:
http://the-dancingedge.livejournal.c
I also have a Carl Clover RP account for those who prefer shota:
http://ctrlaltauton.livejournal.com/
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I may be getting a new rat. i went to the pet store because I had time to kill before work. I petted kitties and then saw the hugest male rats ever (THEY WERE THE SIZE OF MEDIUM SIZED KITTENS). All the rats I had ever kept were on the tiny side so I asked if I could hold one of them bad boys and the worker said: "how do you feel about free rats?"
Turns out they've had this rat for a few weeks that they can't sell because he's missing an eye. He's the friendliest most behaved rat I've held so far. I checked him out and he seems healthy so if he's still there on Sunday I'm taking him home. I wish I didn't live so far from work I would have picked him up, gone home and then back to work.
I know there's the possiblity he may be sick or his eye may be infected. It didn't look like it but I'm still going to take him to the vet if I get him.
Jul. 7th, 2009
12:59 pm - Don't you dare redecorate my room
I dreamed that my mom redid my room without my permission. She was all: "look. I got you a real bed."
Instead of my small and lovely futon sitting on the floor was this giant beautiful bed taking up space with a ugly headboard and gosh, it just made my room feel crowded. (I have OCD about trying to give rooms as much space as possible and still looking nice.)
I finally yelled at my mom when I realized she painted my previously green room blue and while I like blue okay, green just looks better for my room and it's my favorite color. My mom eventually felt bad and we began to remove the paint- which removed like crappy wallpaper and realizing I would have to dewallpaper my wall I started to actually cry. Seriously, if you had to experience THIS (http://sky-pirate-tat.livejournal.com/3
I understood in the dream my mom was being helpful but I was still mad. I remember telling her in the dream: "If you want to help me just ask me what you can do for me."
Jul. 6th, 2009
10:04 pm - An bad ass day
I had the best day to myself ever. I went out to buy kitty cell phone charms (which I'm making into earrings) and just enjoyed going out and ended up shopping for more stuff.
I bought BlazBlue despite my reluctance a few days ago. The fact that the extra discs had the soundtrack with it made it worth a buy. I also bought Eternal Sonata.
And then I went to Walmart to buy fabric for my Kid cosplay, hopefully this week lamia_forte can help me get started.
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Why PPG fandom is slightly retarded:
http://community.livejournal.com/ppg_ra
Yes, everything Bobby says is true. It's hilariously sad that the better fic writers in that fandom tend to be shunned more than praised.
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I am having fun with Eternal Sonata so far but I'm really iffy about the dialogue. It's kind of weak and the characters talk about blatantly obvious things or remark on uninteresting things.
I also found the fact that Chopin quickly realized he was dreaming and told the characters that they're all a fabrication of his mind AND that they just shrugged and accepted that as odd. You would think they would consider him fucking crazy. However, it's his dream so I guess anything can roll.
My friend remarked about this and said: "you know, if someone told me I was a part of their dream I would say, 'hey. Why didn't you make me a dragon?'."
The music is so lovely. In fact, it and Blazblue are gorgeous in aspects of art and music.
The basic point is that these games are awesome and you probably won't see a lot of me for the rest of the summer. I'm a marathon gamer and will probably beat Eternal Sonata in 1-2 weeks and it will take me months to tire of Blazblue and beat it's storyline.
If anyone wants to ever play with me on the PS3 my name on there is WonderfulTat
11:09 am - Projectile meows
Had a fun conversation with dragonsofavalon last night and discussed the usefulness of using cats as a weapon. . .
Tat:
you can throw a cat at someone
aaand they yowl
Azee:
like a regular cat. or a giant robot cat?
Tat:
cat cat
Azee:
strikes me as somewhat ineffective
Tat:
:< not true
have Wekh throw a cat at you to prove my point
Azee:
i don't believe that she has one
Tat:
/insert dirty joke
Azee:
quiet you
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I showed the room mate the new noises Zach and Zen taught me. She was not amused and said that she now hates Zach for teaching me "creepy sounds".
"You know I would just learn annoying noises on my own, don't you?"
"Yes. The sad thing is that . . ."
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Gosh I hate ants. They're so bad lately. I think I've kind of given up but it still pissed me off.
I caught them making a line to the trash can so I threw out the trash and now they're so disoriented there is a MASS of them crawling on the floor.
I wish I could successfully be the Hitler to those damn ants.
Jul. 2nd, 2009
01:02 pm - Selling stuff and other things
I have decided to sell my collection of Fruits Basket Manga. I have volumes 1-18 up for grabs and asking for $40.00, per a volume $3.00. I take really good care of my stuff so the condition is super awesome.
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I'm wearing white bike shorts now since they don't reveal panty lines. They're much more comfortable than panties which has made me consider buying briefs. The only bad part about briefs though are the lack of cute designs. Also, I rather liked disorienting people when they saw that underneath my masculine clothing I wore girly panties.
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I hope I can make Natsucon. . I forgot to request off for Saturday. I didn't really want to go but my sister did. At the same time though we're lacking some people for the month of July. I would offer to take my sister to ARCHON if I can't take her to Natsucon but I can't really do that either, there isn't much anime oriented stuff that she would be interested in.
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Lately I kind of haven't been feeling the fandom vibe lately. Sometimes now I avoid it. I want to concentrate on my original stuff. I would balance the two but I'm the type who can either only focus on original or fanfiction at a time. /In before someone rants about me being "elitist". I still like fandom, I just don't want to think about it too much right now.
12:29 am - The Best review ever
It's been a long time since I've actually had a really good review on FF.net.
Sky-Pirate-Tat,
A new review/comment has been submitted to your story.
Story: Hors d'oeuvres
Chapter: 17. Dormant
From: Kamon-san ( http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1991234/
Reply URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/secure/review
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I absolutely LOVE your stories about Bridget. Ever since I found them
yesterday, I've been reading all of them, one after the other.
I must admit that considering how little Guilty Gear develops on its
characters, it's refreshing to see such an original take on Bridget. The
Shakespeare part just seemed RIGHT to me, and I found it very touching when
his mother compared his act of pretending to be a lady to the actors of
ancient Shakespeare plays. Somehow, to me, that was the most credible and
sweet version of Bridget I had ever seen.
...and I must say...reading about Bridget's tragic end when he sacrificed
himself to save his brother really got to me. I was in such a state of shock
when I saw him die in your story, I was actually struck with grief.
I usually don't like seeing my favorite characters die, and it was painful as
hell this time as well, but you managed to make it so touching, and the build
up was so well done, I just...
I just wanted to let you know that I love your story.
All story long it follows this Shakespearean tone until it ultimately leads
to the tragic event of Bridget's noble sacrifice. I thought about your story
all day long after reading it, and I decided to suscribe to just so I could
comment on your story and maybe write some of my own, someday.
Well, I hope I didn't get too emotional or embarrassing... (^^)
Awesome work on your story, it was a real treat to read. And you made me feel
so sad after Bridget's death, you can consider yourself quite a pro.
...please though, don't make my favorite characters die too much, alright? XD
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I always try really hard to make Bridget in character. I think he's always going to be one of the characters I'll stress over writing in character because he really is my favorite. :3
. . .lol I still killed him off in a story though. That's actually a pattern in my writing. I kill characters a lot.
Original writing is finally getting somewhere on the laptop. It's taking me forever since I have such a short attention span at times.
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I've been thinking, as much as I am thrilled about Blazblue I'm still sad that it's overshadowing Guilty Gear in a way.
Also, if you guys are looking for a good birthday present to get me, BlazBlue on the PS3 would be super amazing.
Or you know. . . PORN.
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I rearranged my room yesterday and it's more awesome than before!
. . .sometimes I think I'm a little too OCD for being obsessed about colors, shapes, and angles looking just right though. But at the same time I'm glad for it because everything at home is in awesome shape. Well, what I can help anyway. . . OUR TOILET IS STILL CROOOKED.
Jun. 27th, 2009
12:45 am - Great news, retarded news
The best part of this day is that I finally found a reggae radio station! *o*
The retarded part of this day is that at work I was working out at the garden cash register. It gets really slow there and there usually aren't a lot of associates out there. So I was writing story (yes, they do allow us to read or doodle because it gets slow) when I saw something flash past behind me.
These retards tried to give the slip by going around my register and trying to walk out the doors, in which I skipped to them and asked if they needed any help checking that out. I asked about two times and they just ignored me.
One of my coworkers that was off duty saw them and asked for their receipt and they high tailed it to their getaway vehicle. They yelled at my co worker who merely memorized their license plate. These guys were so obvious. Stealing is so retarded.
All the dishonesty for two chainsaws. I guess they were desperate to cut some fucking trees.
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I've been rereading Love Hina after so many years. I've decided this series is better than Negima. I feel like Negi is too overpowerful in the latest chapters and it breaks my heart that Ken Akamatsu is doing this to his character! He's normally awesome at making flawed loveable characters.
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Tomorrow me and rhap_chan are taking tyy_tad out for his birthday. :3 It's a tradition in our trio to plan our friend's birthday celebratory stuff.
Jun. 25th, 2009
12:29 am - This had to be quoted
rhap_chan just screamed, "spider" in the bathroom. I rushed to see if it was a friendly jumping spider.
It wasn't which I didn't mind her killing it. When all was smashed with a flipflop and dumped in the nearby trash, legs twitching, Rhap said: "That was scary! I sat on the toilet! It ran towards my foot! I almost pissed myself. . .which sort of makes sense since I was on the toilet. . ."
Jun. 24th, 2009
11:28 pm - My Not There Gender Issues
In case you guys haven't noticed I'm fairly masculine I guess. I don't dress like a girl most of the time for reasons I will explain later in this post.
I started in my first year of college. I was bored of dressing girly and found that dressing like a girl wasn't more force than actual desire to. I had TRIED to be the woman in my past relationship and obviously it just wasn't me.
I also had recently discovered that I was a top during my relationship with Rachel.
I also was getting annoyed by guys hitting on me.
So I dressed like a guy for those reasons, my hair was already short since I wanted *change*. I think my first year of college was all about that. I made a lot of changes that year, but anyways.
I was very resilient towards male advances for three years. I had gained confidence in myself through my masculine side and really I only felt like friends with guys. I felt at home talking to my fellow cooks. Sure, I wasn't considered an equal to them but they talked to me about the same things they would tell their male friends and I was content with that. A lot of female cooks feel pressured by the masculine steeped envirement a kitchen has but I liked it.
Part of the reason I resisted guys was because I was afraid that having sex with a guy would demasculinate me. I hated being a girl in a relationship.
And here is one of the big points in this post. I HATE BEING TREATED LIKE A GIRL. I hate when people tell me to grow my hair out because that's what I should do, or that I should wear dresses more often. Worst of all I get really pissed when guys go easy on me just because of my gender. I was mad at a guy at work the other day because he went easy on me when we arm wrestled. At the restaurant I built arm strength in myself because I didn't want to always ask a guy to help me with something. (Huuur. In the end, sometimes they asked me to help them lift stuff.)
I used to wonder why I hated being treated like a girl. Did I feel like my masculinity was being teased? Yes. I did but I'm not that frivolous to be only bothered by that.
A few days ago I realized that the two first role models in my life NEVER treated me like a girl growing up. My dad tells me to do girly things now but growing up he never questioned me exploring with my cousins and he let me play alone in closed rooms with my guy friends too.
My grandpa still doesn't treat me like a girl. His only comment to me crossdressing? "Aww she wants to dress just like her daddy and grandpa.". He's also illegally taught me how to drive a bulldozer.
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Sleeping with guys has in no way made me feel "like a woman" like I feared. During sex I feel more masculine and this doesn't change with the gender of my partner.
And growing my hair out doesn't make me feel more like a girl. Prettier I guess but I think that's me enjoying the change. Part of the reason why I decided to grow my hair out is because there was a guy in my Legal Aspects of Food class who had beautiful long hair and it was so awesome I was kind of jealous.
I still like to wear girly clothes, only because I like how they look but I still don't feel like dressing like a girl is really me.
I've sometimes wondered if I am trans but I doubt that. Even so I couldn't part with my body. If I have no boobies in range I will grope myself.
The title of this entry isn't sarcasm. It's the truth. I don't feel that all I've explained is an issue. I'm really content with what I've discovered about myself.
![[mood icon]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/Tat_Claire_Kokoro/Happy.jpg)
chipperJun. 22nd, 2009
11:32 am - I missed you metrolink
Hair progress.
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I went to the Loop last night with Zack and his deranged friends. It was so awesome. I hadn't ridden on the Metrolink in YEARS and I haven't been to the Loop in a long time.
We went to Starclipper, the Comic book shop there and discovered the "Adult Room" which was basically an area covered in paper and graffiti'd with porn and outright disturbing/disgusting art.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/starclippe
I wish I had my camera on me because I think a few of you- mainly mildkicks- might be really interested in what was drawn there. I drew a naked girl and was planning to have her tied up but I was too lazy to draw the legs so I made her an amputee. Zach drew a buisnessman hanging himself.
I'm going to try and go back so I can take pictures and see if anyone does something to my crappy drawing.
We went to a CD shop afterwards and then ate at St. Louis Bread Co. Zach didn't know what to get so I asked him his likes and dislikes and picked something out for him. I'm proud to say I give good suggestions to my friends and yes, this does happen oft.
While we were eating one of Zach's on the point of insane friends asked: "so are you guys having sex?"
I blinked a second in surprise and answered: "no. Should we be?"
The guy didn't exactly know how to respond to that.
Later Zach was talking about some guy and his fetish for Mayo. Like how he marinated a dime sized crumb of bread in it and ate it.
"I feel sorry for that guy's girlfriend. . ." I commented.
"He doesn't have a girlfriend."
" . . .future girlfriend." I corrected.
"He'll never have a girlfriend. The guy is a douche."
". . hypothetical girlfriend."
"Not even that."
I finally said: "I feel sorry for that guy's hand."
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I asked Zach later if he was interested in having sex sometime. I asked him first if he was the type who gets jealous easily. He answered that he doesn't really but it depends on the circumstances. I told him that he could say "yes" or "no" and whatever he said wouldn't change me wanting to be friends with him and that what I was going to ask wasn't the reason why I wanted to hang out with him.
"Okay. . ." He said, probably assuming I was going to ask him out.
"Interested in having sex together sometime?"
"Wow. That was totally not what I thought you were going to ask. Um, I dunno. Maybe."
"Okay." I said. Whether we do or not, I'm happy. It's awesome enough to just hang out.
Jun. 20th, 2009
11:47 pm - I'm terrible
Today the room mate and I were talking about parents forcing us to write thank you letters for gifts. I always considered it dumb because I think it means more when you face someone and say "thanks" than in a note. That's just for people who live far away in my opinion.
So I always got super pissed when my mom made me write my thank you cards.
And because I was pissed I was a smart ass in my thank you notes. One in particular is one I'm horribly proud of and that my mom is ashamed of. I basically said I was thankful for the present and what I would do with it. It sounds sweet but then at the end I wrote:
"P. S. My mom made me write this."
This is why I sometimes don't recommend myself as a role model.
So Rhap and I were talking about this and I came up with worse thank you cards on the spot:
Dear, ____
Thank you for the money. With this I won't be beaten up by the mafia.
My favorite concoction is this though:
Dear, ____
Thanks for the money. With this I won't have to worry about whether I will have crack or not this week. You may have noticed I was shaking a lot during the Christmas Party- that's why. Also, that white stuff wasn't snow.
With Love, Tat.
I think next year I'm purposely going to write thank you cards just so I can write these gems. My family will hate me.
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I showed Shota Zach my Guro story today since the other day he asked me what I was typing. I didn't want to show him but he insisted. I honestly didn't want to show the guy I want to have fun with, a creepy pornographic story since that's sure to leave a lasting impression of sorts.
He ended up loving it. I was kind of shocked when he said the writing style was good. That story didn't strike me as having beautiful word play.
But yeah, I this is the third time in a row that I've shown or mentioned guro or something gorey to a guy I'm sleeping with or plan to play with. I leant Blood the Last vampire to CheeseCake guy a few months ago- it's by Benkyo Tamaoki who is known for guro. I didn't realize what I gave him until a month or so later.
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The giant robot story is almost done and I started on another story. I think I'm going to take a hiatus for two days so I can get more done. LJ and stuff online distracts me. I'll still be one so I have the online dictionary in reach but yeah. Yell at me if I post anything aside from my hair progress picture in that span of time.
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Alles Gutes zum Geburtstag tyy_tad~ I bet you don't even remember what that means, do you? ;P
12:37 am - Sometimes my friends are stupid (in a good way)
About a week ago, while my friends were playing cards they noted that my spray on sanitizer looked like mace.
Later I commented, "ya know maybe it would work the same as mace. I don't think hand sanitizer . . ."
Thomas picked up said hand sanitizer and directed it towards his eyes and right when I said I didn't think it would be pleasant he sprayed it in his eyes and then got up and sobbed that it hurt.
Later he said that his eyeball felt tingly.
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I have pet birds. :3 Don't get your hopes up because they are "ugly turkeys" as some like to call them. They are adorable and emotionally attach well to people. I have had pet birds a few times and I have to say screw all them other birds, these are the best:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l
But right now they are visually appealing:
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm20
No, none of those are my pictures. I would take pictures of them now but I think the camera would scare them. They are still don't get that my hands are a part of me (they're used to me now).
Though these birds are kind of dumb. I normally love small intelligent things but these guys make up for their dumb with the strong bond they make when you raise them. I've raised chickens- Chickens kind of don't care about you when they get older even if you held them all the time. I'm not much for other birds either.
I must also mention the time when a guinea bird was chasing another. The one being chased jumped over the fence- it's persuer ran into the fence. I really wished I had a video camera.
Jun. 16th, 2009
11:50 pm - Strawberry cake
This is probably the best cake I ever made. I wasn't ecstatic about the taste but the texture of the end product was amazing. The cake part is very vanilla-y because I used both vanilla sugar and vanilla, and went sans salt so it's sweeter than normal plus very very fluffy. Like. . . with that kind of base combined with the thinly sliced strawberries in the middle and the frosting it's hard to distinguish what from what from the cake. It all comes together and melts in your mouth.
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I went to lamia_forte's house and dropped off the cake and stayed the night. Since she stays up later than me she is able to note all the lulzy things I do in my sleep.
I was sleeping on top of some covers so when she went to move them she accidentally pulled some cover off me in which I got annoyed and flailed around in the bed. I was also on the very end of the bed but when she slept in the bed I gradually crept closer and closer to her.
Today we slept in, lazed about and went cosplay shopping. :3 We found stuff for her Black Star cosplay, and most of all- discovered a song to use in the skit I have in mind:
The beginning is really the only thing that matches Kid.
The more and more we talk about our Soul Eater cosplays the more I'm excited over our little group. I'm going to print up reference pictures so I can do my own cosplay shopping and get things done way before the con.
Speaking of cosplay. . .
Jun. 15th, 2009
06:36 am - No, this hat is not for sale
I think my sleep schedule is officially fixed. I woke up earlier than 6 in the morning. I'm annoyed that Cheesecake Guy's house was fucking cold. I woke up several times shivering even with the extra body heat I was clinging to.
Also, when we went out, he drove his truck. I found that he had removed the passenger side of the door handle. He said he took it off so no one would hijack him and mentioned ninjas. With all the conspiracy theories he has. . . I actually believed the ninja part.
". . I was kidding."
"Oh." I said, surprised but still kind of not buying it.
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My to do list is to
- Bake a cake
- Clean
- Type up original fiction
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Phoenix Wright Lulz:
http://animestl.proboards.com/index.c
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Rick Rolled in an RP:
http://community.livejournal.com/dear_m
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At work I get either of these three questions:
1. Do you offer Military Discounts?
2. Wow. Do you work out? (This one is kind of . . eck. It only reminds me that I need to lift weights more often. I'm not as fit looking as I want to be.)
3. Can I buy your hat? (DAMMIT NO!)
I have unintentionally made my trademark, my hats. I have collected hats since I can remember and it was only when I started college that I regularly wore them. Since then it's something people always remember about me. Think of it like how we associate the Professor with Top Hats.
There is something about fellow avid hat wearers too. There's a sort of spiritual connection just because of a cool hat. You feel like you can sympathize with them or something.
Jun. 14th, 2009
08:09 pm - Give me a few minutes to un-die
Hair progress for this week. It becomes more and more apparent every week. I'm really
curious how long it will be by the time the Japanese festival rolls around.
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I was talking to kasamikamigawa about ARCHON and she said she was thinking about being Eureka from Soul Eater for it. You guys have no clue how much I love Eureka. She's amazing adorable.
But anyways, I bargained that if she started working on Eureka I would work on my Kid cosplay first. This is the outfit version I plan to make by the way:
http://www.onemanga.com/Soul_Eater/30/2
And then at work I was thinking about how sepia_iris has a kid costume and then. THEN I thought of a really awesome Soul Eater skit we could do together. I'm going to ask her if she wants to do it first though!
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I just woke up from a nap. D: It was a nap after 4:30 PM so I made myself sick on purpose. (Sleeping after 4:30 makes you sick) I just couldn't help it. I was so tired!
Last night Cheesecake guy texted me and after responding I thought: "dammit don't you dare ask me over for sex. I can't have that temptation. I have to wake up super early tomorrow."
Thankfully for my health he didn't text back.
Once I'm awake more I'll make lamia_forte's cake as well as make a cake for my long overdue Lolita article.
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I KNOW I haven't made a daily German post in awhile. It's been crazy lately but I think that it should calm down now.
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