CURRENT SONG:
"Crazy For You" by Madonna from "The Immaculate Collection"

Minnasan, I do believe the cosplay deities are against me today. I went to start sewing the elastic into my Rikku arm bands and the thread broke. That usually indicates that my sewing machine is slightly jammed. Mind you, I've only sewn with my new machine ONCE before, so this greatly concerned me. I went and pulled out the thread and it got caught. So, upon untwining it, the whole bobbin holder popped paritally out, the plate fell off and the foot of the sewing machine fell off!!! I CRIED!! I couldn't think of anything else to do but that! So I called up my Grams and she let me finish the arm bands at her house. Unfortunately, my sewing machine is currently DOA, but Grams says she might be able to correct it because she thinks she knows what popped out of place. Otherwise, I'll have to wait to have my BRAND NEW sewing machine fixed before I can even use it again. Thankfully Grams said I could use her sewing machine to finish the costumes. Oi, I think I've had better cosplay days.

Speaking of cosplay, my Rikku costume is now about 60% done, despite the rather unpleasant set back today. I bought the material for her bikini top, including vinyl and silver slides for the shoulder straps. After the top is done, I just have to make the headband, the belt with the two bags and then find the appropriate white boots to alter and buy another blonde wig. I was hoping I could have salvaged last year's Rikku wig, but I definately cut too much of it. Dang it!

Manga musings, did you know that Kazuya Minekura makes her own doujinshis of her own characters? ::grinz:: I stumbled across a site that had one short scan of her doujinshi work, which was from her Wild Adapter series. It was the front featuring Tokito. Also, she draws completely differently when she's doing her yaoi doujinshis than when she's just doing her regular shonen ai or general shonen comics. This brought me to wonder whether or not Minekurasama has ever made a 58 doujinshi. Woo, we can only hope, ne?

Quizzy Time for today comes from a random Harry Potter site I stumbled across. Hai, minnasan, I'm still as nuts about the Potter series as ever. It's getting as bad as my LotR and Saiyuki obsessions I think...

What Harry Potter Slash-ship Am I?

I seem to have a slight obsession with having Remus Lupin and/or Harry Potter in my pairings don't I? ::laughs:: It must be that whole age difference, older teacher/male and young student/boy obsession of mine coming out again, ne?

LotR news for today, I finished reading a fabulous new BoromirXFaramir fic at Sweet Sorcery! Man, I wish I could capture the attitude these two have about each other in the slash sense as well as the gal who writes the stories does! She's really awesome with it! Makes their relationship seem even more real, if not even more torturous! I also went to Pamida to try and get some more TTT trading cards, seeing if I could now get a "Wounded Aragorn" after he fell off the cliff, but they're all out! ::whimpers:: I certainly don't feel like wandering all the way over to Rapid to get a set either. So, maybe I'll just keep stopping in, since it's only a couple blocks from me.

Well, that's all for today, minnasan! I'm hoping that I'll be able to update my blog more often now that I'm sorta settled again. Mid month will be my one year (!) anniversary of this blog! Can't believe I've been musing that long! Domo arigato for the 4300+ hits, sign my Guestbook onegai, and ja ne for now! =~.^=V Proud Supporter of the 58 Pairing!

RANDOM LOTR THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Legolas's Theme Song: Leggs...

CURRENT SONG:
"Paradise Lost" by Megami Ozaki from the "Darkside Blues" anime

Gomen nasai for not posting for quite some time, minnasan. I've had some pretty massive changes in the last week. As many of you know, I handed in my two week resume on Tuesday of last week. On that Friday, my now ex-boss sent in his poor secretary and announced that myself and about eight to ten other people had been terminated as of that day. TALK ABOUT HAVING NOT GUTS!!!!! So I went home completely jobless when I was relying on those last two weeks of work to pay the rent. I went into the rental place on Monday of this week, turned in all my paperwork even though I most likely won't get the deposit back. Mum and Pop helped me pack up my stuff and move back to their house for a bit and today I gave the rental place back their key. It's strange being home, I turned off all my utlities and my phone and now I'm just back to settling in my 'rents home until I can get a new job. But you know what? I am the happiest I have been in a VERY long time. That's sincerely true, I am grateful that I have such a loving family and I know that with all my experience I earned, I will not have trouble finding a job. Makes things a lot easier knowing that, ne?

Other than that massive change, I've had the pleasure during my weekend visits to watch the "Betterman" anime on Tech T.V. I mentioned this anime the very first couple days I when I started this journal. Upon seeing it, I have somewhat mixed feelings, and I'm waiting to see which direction it goes. At first, I, like the critics thought it was a bit of an "Evangelion" ripoff. Instead, Betterman turned out to be quite a scary anime, with definate horror elements. It's also done in letterbox format, which seems to make everything even more closed in and there's ALOT of screaming and at times, I wanted to scream with the characters. The main two characters, the geeky Keita and the rather quiet and somewhat withdrawn Hinoki aren't particularly interesting, but the "seer" gal Sakura is a cool character with her long pink hair. The two older pilots, Yanagi and Kaede are more interesting than the main characters, and Yanagi has fallen into my "Well, I'm surprised, I actually really like a pretty, pretty boy" category. Betterman is the most intriguing of the designs and I hope that the anime will start to show more of him. He has the ability to change into three forms, my personal favorite being "Forte," which looks like a bastardized Eva when they go all wonky on their pilots. Overall, the series that I've seen thus far is worth a definate check out, but I wouldn't honestly recommend it if you're expecting something on the cheerful end. Though there is quite a bit of comedy to break up the rather dark and somewhat heavy atmosphere, it's much more for the Gothic/Dark tastes, so naturally, I dug it!

Quiz time for today came from a website I stumbled across. I'm still in my Harry Potter mood. I rented the "Prisoner of Azkaban" on Monday from the library and read the whole book in one night! ::chuckles:: Extremely good!! I recommend it as probably the best HP book yet, but I haven't read "Goblet of Fire" yet, but this was dark enough to keep me happy! So, believe it or not, but I took a Harry Potter slash pairing quiz.

Who would my Harry Potter Slash Pairing Be?



What's your Harry Potter slash pairing?.
By the superbly cool mortari of Serpensortia

YAY, SIRIUS X REMUS!! Actually, I think these two are perfect together for obvious reasons. My other slash favorite and you can all call me a hentai is SiriusXHarry, but that's because it's a touch of an uncommon pairing!

LotR news for today, meh Sissy and Oniisan thought it was quite humorous when I discovered that Faramir had "slashing sword action." I told them that I used Faramir to attack my Seymour figurine. ::laughs:: One thing that my Oniisan did point out to me is that they made the Faramir action figure quite dark haired and not Faramir's strawberry blonde from the movie version. Maybe they were trying to do a "book version" of him, ne? I doubt that, I just don't think the toy makers knew how to mold that shade of hair out of plastic. I am looking forward to seeing when they release the DVD, since I don't work at the video store any more, I never know the LotR video/DVD news! I feel so lost!

Well, that's all for today minnasan. I'm gonna' eat a bit of dinner with my 'rents and we're going to try and find some of my stuff I normally use, including my spring form pan out of my stuff packed away. Domo arigato for ALL the hits, sign my Guestbook onegai, and ja ne for now! =~.^=V (Proud to be a 58 Supporter!!!)

RANDOM LOTR THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Gollum's Theme Song: "I Think We're Alone Now..."