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I dunno how you found this, but alas, here you are. So enjoy the frightening fruits of my troubled little brain.
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wFriday, December 28, 2007 |
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feeling: many things
listening to: Duel Jewel - Hanauta
End-of-the-year meme!
Year in Review meme: Go to your Calendar and find the first entry (excluding memes) for each month of 2005. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your 'Year In Review'.
I'm sure whoever wrote this song didn't intend for it to be depressing. I guess I should try to post something? I tried to make a ringtone of this song, but the awesome bass line didn't come through very well so it just sounds like random guitar and drum noise blaring from my phone... *sad* So for some reason I'm posting here even though everything I've tried to do with my three Blogger-hosted blogs since they "improved" it has somehow gone wrong or given me idiocy. What the? Been doing a lot of thinking lately. Here's something I've been meaning to do for a while purely for the sake of reference: reviews and/or synopses of all the J-dramas in my collection. IT IS DONE. Seems I only post here when insomnia strikes anymore. Ahh, Recomen. Just because I never have anything to say here anymore, don't feel like being productive, and haven't done one of these in forever... I haven't been able to do the year-end meme for my blog yet because I didn't have any posts yet in December, so now I do. :D
Well, that was... yeah.
So the holiday season is pretty much done. For some reason I got more into it this year than past years. Exhausting and stressful for the last couple weeks, but a lot of good came of it all. I guess that's what it's really all about.
Remember when I said I'd have a job by the end of the year? Heh. Look what happened. Now I'm not sure if it's too late to go through the necessary applications and interviews only to have to request half a week off for the February tour right after starting somewhere, possibly giving a horrible first impression, or if I'd be better off maybe putting my resume out in the week or two before the tour and hoping to get an interview or two in the week or so after I come home and hopefully be starting somewhere within the month of February. I really should've started all this about a month ago to beat the New Year job hunting crowd, but... well.
Yeah, I'm tired of spitting out excuses. That's all they are. I don't know why I haven't done anything about it yet. I really don't. I can't wait to have spending money, not to mention a savings built up toward going to Japan in the near future, and I'm tired of just waiting and hoping for the next freelance translation job to come to me (9 times out of 10 it never does). I'm just a coward, I guess. The problem is that every time I start to think about it, I get discouraged for not having taken care of it yet... and when I get discouraged, I've automatically trained myself to think about something else, which amounts to running away from the problem. I can't seem to break the cycle.
And now the pressure is REALLY on. Not just because of the tour, but because apparently it's been confirmed that Miyavi is planning a world tour. Who wants to bet the American leg will take place within one week either before or after the BLOOD tour I still can't afford? The little brat has a nasty habit of giving RIDICULOUSLY short notice before doing things like this. I guess fans of J-rock (and Japanese entertainment in general) are expected to have a forest of money trees growing in their backyards.
In other news, I NEED MORE MISO SOUP AND INSTANT TENSOBA. Holy gjkdldaksj, that was yummy.
In other other news, someone on the Taiji Project friends list randomly bought me a one year paid account and extra user icons this morning. o________o *flump* What on earth am I going to do with all that? I don't know enough code to design a layout, I don't have the creative knack for making icons... and um... what else do paid accounts come with that TP really doesn't need? I almost feel bad for accepting it, but it's not like I had a choice... and of course I'm grateful, I just don't know what to DO with it...
*combusts*
Maybe I could hold a layout and icon set design contest and award the winners by translating a song or brief text or video selection of their choice. >>
Oh, and Duel Jewel's new album is cool - as expected. Even after, what, two years now, I STILL can't believe how massively those guys have improved since Lapidary. Flabbergasting. Is that a word? Who cares?
*is done rambling*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 12/28/2007 12:30:00 AM
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wThursday, December 20, 2007 |
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feeling: meh
listening to: and a paaaartridge in a pear treeeeee
I haven't been able to do the year-end meme for my blog yet because I didn't have any posts yet in December, so now I do. :D
*/blatant meme-filler*
Because I was feeling wild today, I had a bowl of miso soup for lunch. THIRTY CALORIES. A WHOLE BOWL OF SOUP. Yeah, I know it's meant to be a side dish, but a bowl of soup is a meal enough for me.
I totally went nuts at the oriental grocery store near Microcenter the other day. And no, none of the stuff I got was candy. :o Well, except a thing of honey lemon tea hard candies, but hard candies don't count. Also got...
~Single-serving box of mild curry (I've been craving curry for some reason)
~The instant miso as mentioned (three servings, so two remain for later occasions)
~Chicken & abalone flavored udon (the flavor combination was too weird to resist)
~Instant tenpura soba (THEY MAKE INSTANT TENSOBA? *HEART*)
~Those dried flavored soba noodles for crispy snackage
~Cheese pan and melon pan (yay!)
~Barley tea, roasted green tea, and apple green tea (probably won't even like them, heh... but I had a reason, which will be named at the end of the list)
~A pair of pretty black chopsticks that come in a pretty black case with cranes on it (yay, no more running out of utensils!)
~A wooden keychain of a tiger lying down
~Two simple-yet-ridiculously-cute kitty mugs - one sort of pale grey with a smiling kitty face painted on in dark blue (was actually part of a set that included all kinds and sizes of dishes and stuff with the same kitty design, but I have no use for those) and a plain white one with a little kitty perched on the rim looking inside the mug - and when you follow the kitty's line of sight into the mug, you see that she's looking at a little fishbone painted inside. *squee* So yeah... two new mugs. Got all that tea so I'd have something to drink from them. :p
I almost got a maneki neko bank too, since I've always wanted a maneki neko statue and this looked just like one... but I had to stop myself somewhere. >>
Also went to Microcenter next door, where a few of my Christmas gifts were purchased. ¬_¬ I finally get Sims 2 (pets edition) for PS2, as well as another Atari anthology that includes both of my parents' favorite games as well as several others we had for the old Atari that doesn't work anymore. Also found a Sonic the Hedgehog anthology for PS2 in the used section, so now I can play all the old Sonic games from the Sega generation (even ones I didn't have before *_*) even though my Sega is burnt out. <3
Even found something to put under the tree for me in Toys R Us - a big squishy floppy white tiger plushie that, unlike most of my plushies, is the PERFECT SIZE AND SHAPE for both cuddling and using as a pillow substitute. <3333 Been looking for a white tiger like that for AGES.
Speaking of Toys R Us...
...ok, background story for this one. Our church introduced a new ministry at the beginning of this year called chapel pals, where all the kids in the church (infant through high school) fill out a sheet with various info about them, general stats, school stuff, hobbies, likes/dislikes, etc... and they're paired up with a randomly selected adult, but not told who their assigned adult is. The main point is for the adult to spend the year supporting their assigned child through prayer, but they're also encouraged to get them little anonymous gifts on an occasional basis (birthdays and holidays mostly) throughout the year.
So my mother signed up for this dealie, and she was paired up with a little girl named Ava who turned four this year. I should also note that she is the older sister of the little girl I bonded with at Bible school this year, and both of those girls are the MOST ADORABLE CHILDREN ON THE PLANET. And anyone who knows me knows I won't often say that about any child. >> But they are just sickeningly cute little babydoll angels. Seriously.
ANYWAY. So my mother bought little gifts for Ava throughout the year. Ava is the epitome of girly-girl, who loves the color pink and princesses and ponies and all the things little girly-girls love. So most of the things mom got for her naturally involved pink, or stuffed animals (she loved the little white stuffed kitty with the pink ribbon), or Barbie, or Disney princesses... girly stuff.
Well, last night was the Christmas dinner at church, and it was decided that the kids would finally be told who their chapel pals were as they received a final Christmas present from them before being paired up with someone else in 2008. So a few weeks ago, mom got Ava some kind of Cinderella Barbie doll from Kmart, since she happened to spot it on a regular shopping run and didn't know if she'd have a chance to find anything else before the dinner. But then a matter of days later we ended up going to Toys R Us... and when I found my white tiger plushie, she found this pink and white stuffed dog with soft shaggy fur-fuzz and a pudgy little nose and floppy ears, and upon seeing it BOTH of us automatically thought of Ava. Mom fell in love with this dog. >> But she refused to get it because she'd already gotten the Cinderella thing. So after about 10 minutes of debating with herself, she put it back on the shelf, claiming she already had the Cinderella doll and pouting all the while.
So I picked up the stuffed dog myself and put it in the cart for her. She didn't argue anymore. >>
It's not like either toy was really big or expensive - maybe $10 each. And I reminded her that the Cinderella doll was from Kmart, so she could easily return it anytime; but this was Toys R Us, almost 2 hours away from home, so she'd probably never find a toy as perfect as this stuffed dog ever again.
Sooooo in the end she put both toys in a big ol' Dora the Explorer gift bag (Ava's a fan, of course) and presented them to Ava along with dad at the dinner last night. And without any provocation from any grown-up, she looked my dad straight in the eye and sincerely said "thank you" and then gave both of them a hug. Did I mention she's a little angel? Most other kids need to be told "What do you say?" before they thank someone for a gift, and when they do it's always rushed as they scurry back to their seat to tear into their new goodies. But yeah, I dare say Ava was the happiest kid in the building as the clutched her Cinderella under one arm and her stuffed dog in the other as the night went on.
Anyway, point of the story. All of this made me briefly consider signing up for this chapel pal thing. Briefly. But I decided not to, because I'd only be interested if they'd pair me with Ava or her little sister. It'd be so easy and so much fun to spoil either one of them, and I adore them both already so if not kept in check I'd probably end up going a little crazy with the random gifting thing. ¬_¬ But it's more likely I'd end up with one of those older kids that hardly ever even shows up for church, or one of the teenagers who really doesn't care about that stuff or anything else that church entails and only signed up because their parents made them (or to get free gifts). In which case I wouldn't really be able to get into it at all.
I guess I wouldn't mind getting one of Ava and Gwyn's twin cousins either... two year old Carli would be ok, I guess, or her infant brother (you can't go wrong buying ANYthing for an infant)... but oh well. The odds are heavily stacked against my preferences, and if I get stuck with a kid I don't know and can't get into spoiling, I know I'll just lose interest and then I wouldn't be living up to what I signed up for, and I'd be a horrible person for shunning a youth just because s/he wasn't one of my favorites.
...God, this is the weirdest rant I've ever posted. It's all Gwyn's fault. She made me all melty at Bible school. I really don't like kids. *pouts*
Now to decide whether I should play Mario or do some fansubbing... cause hey, it's the Christmas season, and who really does anything productive during Christmas season, right? *referring specifically to the art projects I'm supposed to be doing for the pastor, job hunting, moneymaking, achieving things, etc*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 12/20/2007 01:48:00 PM
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