I am speechless. I cannot express how shocked, angered, upset, saddened, and sickened I am about what happened today. I had to turn off the TV. I keep crying too much.
Added: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:44 p.m.

Listening to: "Ordinary Sunday" OP theme to Hana Yori Dango

Ebay alert! I am selling a couple of Yukiru Sugisaki doujinshi! One is from Evangelion, the other is from Escaflowne. Whee! Go bid on them! The listings are *here*! Thanks!

Added: Monday, September 10, 2001 03:28 a.m.

Watching: 'The Karate Kid' because it's on HBO. Wallowing in childhood memories. It's so cheezy... 'wax-on..wax-off...'
Ahh Kya-chan!! I see you have discovered the dangerious beauty of Book-Off! You obviously didn't read mine and Steph's moans of delight and horror over that place, and how wonderful and awful it was to have a lovely 24-hour Book-Off located directly across the street from our hotel in Kyoto :P Now I think you understand ^^ Isn't is a GREAT store? They are apparently opening one in LA too. How I want to go there.... I wonder if the 100-yen manga will go for $1 each here. I know they already have a branch in New York *drool*

Oh, and Tokyo Underground is such a fun manga! I have a pencil board and the first 7 volumes (all that is out right now, I think) of it. I love it ^^ The art is so cute, and there is lots of fun action, fighting, and humor. It's another series I always thought I would make a page for eventually if I ever could get to it. I love it ^^ Daisuke from OO is based a tiny bit on Kinosuke from that manga ^^ It would be fun if you'd slore on it too~

Hmm I should be packing more boxes today, but I am feeling so lazy ;_; I have packed 10 boxes so far- 5 boxes of video tapes, and 5 boxes of manga ^_^ I need more small book-boxes. I have some larger boxes, but if I put more manga or stuff in them, they would be too heavy to move. Hrm. I guess I'll start packing random stuff into the larger boxes now. I have set up a moving date with the moving company people to pick yo my stuffon September 28. I don't have much time! Gotta get my ass in gear... ;_;

Added: Sunday, September 9, 2001 03:38 p.m.

Listening to: "Cotton Boy" from Idol Project OST 1 'First Present'

Yay! I *finally* updated my Random Shoujo Manga Page! It always takes me forever to get around to updating this site @_@ I added 6 new manga summaries, and I added a few things to the Phonebooks section. Ahh, I feel better now ^_^

Now I need to blog surf and see what everyone's up to....
Added: Sunday, September 9, 2001 05:04 a.m.

Lisrening to: "24 hours OPEN" from Cowboy Bebop Knockin on Heaven's door OST (nothin' like the sound of machineguns and screaming people over the sound of gentle muzak. Gotta wonder what Yoko Kanno was thinking with this song ^^;;;)

Ragabash: Isn't Juvenile Orion cool? When I went to Japan a few weeks ago, one of my goals was to find more stuff related to it. So far there is a manga for it that runs in Stencil magazine (lots of interesting things in that magazine), and the collectible card game and drama CD were recently released for it. Most of the stuff I found for it was at Gamers. Like DiGiCharat and PitaTen, the Orion goods seem to be primarily sold through them and you'll find an official page for it on the Broccoli website. There are other goods like clearfiles for all the guys, and some postcards and stickers and a little binder thing for the cards. I can't remember if I saw the goods at Animate or anywhere else. I am guessing that Omochabox will probably have the stuff soon (if they don't already) since they have hookups with Broccoli. Animaxis also has piles of Orion stuff.

I really like the bishounen priest too *_* And the one with wings (Tsukasa)...and, well, all of them ^_^ The manga looks very 'CLAMP'-ish. Lots of world-shattering action and powers and all sorts of angsting (Kaname was acting very Kamui-like) and stuff going on in it ^_^ I haven't seen any tankoubon yet though.
Added: Thursday, September 6, 2001 03:58 a.m.

Listening to: "LIVE in Baghdad" from Cowboy Bebop OST 2 - No Disc

Woo, Hikaru has a new blog layout! How cool! It's a Range Murata picture! YAY! I love his artwork! I used one of his pictures once on one of my archived blog layouts and on an old Niko-Niko.Net layout. Isn't his art fabulous?? I love his mixture of Art-Deco and manga style! His clothing and mechanical designs are so great ^^ I have an art collection of his that I treasure. It's great to see someone making a layout with his work! I need to again eventually!
Added: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 04:21 p.m.

Listening to: "Sanctuary" from Arjuna OST 2.
Watching: Bright Eyes (A Shirley Temple Movie- they always show these really late on HBO Family, for some reason :)

Wheee, 4am and I'm still awake! This time it is probably because I had some coffee earlier. Not the greatest thing to have late at night, but I had a craving for it ^_^ I forgot to mention in my blog entry from yesterday that I drew a picture and inked it with my copic markers yesterday! Man, I haven't used my copic markers in MONTHS. I am so VERY out of practice with them! I really should use them more! The pic to the right is the drawing I did. It's a picture of Tahnsa, a character from an old cheezy original yaoi fic I wrote a few years ago called The Indigo Key.

I got a lot of work done on the previously mentioned Haruka naru toki no naka de page. I got the layouts done for all of the pages. Now Steph and I just have to fill the pages with content :) Pretty sparkly-looking empty pages! Fortunately steph and I have all the manga for the series out so far, plus a healthy amount of doujinshi and some of the official books on the series. Of course it would help if we actually had the *game* but we are working on that :)

Lets see, thinking more about my original yaoi doujinshi circle idea- what sorts of stories would I be interested in working on? Well, yeah, original ones, not based on any existing series. I also like fantasy-type stuff (magic! catboys! wings! elves! unusual events and worlds!), and humorous stories. I am not really into long drawn-out depressingly tragic yaoi stories. I like to think that it's possible for a yaoi couple to live happily ever after without all that much angsting and death :) Of course, some danger, adventure, angst and drama can be fun, but not so much that it becomes tragic. And of course the occasional PWP story is fun too *^_^* So I guess I am looking for people who would be interested in developing something keeping that vision in mind.

Doing some more blog-hopping.... trying to catch up on blogs I have fallen behind on since before my trip to japan-

Ragabash has an extremely cute blog layout. It's the same shockingly cute picture of Rabi-en-Rose that I used for my August 2000 Niko-Niko.Net layout but Ragabash uses the picture with much more style than I ever could ^_^ So cute! It reminds me that they are opening a Gamers store down in LA very soon. (Later this month, I think?) I want to go down and see it before I move~~~ Then I can say I have been to 4 Gamers stores XD

I have been reading other people's Y-Con reports, and it sounds like everyone had a good time. Like I say in a previous entry, I had a pretty good time too, though I don't think I did all that much or bought that much compared to everyone else ^_^;;; I guess I'll go into my con experience a little more, since everyone else is XD

Steph, Tanzy, and I went to Japantown on Friday to register for the con. Well actually, only Tanzy and I registered. Steph wasn't that interested in going to the con, and I am not sure she had the money for it anyway. Both Tanzy and I had managed to not pre-reg for this con, even though we have both been aware of the con's existence almost from the very beginning ^^;; We're so silly :) Anyway, we sat in the reg line for a while. They re-opened the Takoyaki stand in front of the Benihana restaurant recently, so Steph and I were enjoying some fresh hot takoyaki, and reliving our Japan trip again. We have only been back for a couple of weeks now, but we already want to go back! RAR! Ahem. So Tanzy and I finally forked over our reg money, got our badges, etc, then we went and had dinner (takoyaki then dinner. oof!). Neither of us stayed at the con hotel because hey, we both already live in SF already, so it was kind of pointless to spend money on a hotel room.

I got to the con at about 9am on Saturday morning, with the glorius intention of watching Boku no Sexual Harrassment #3 (I have 1-2, but never have seen 3) but I got distracted by meeting people and going into the dealers room and I didn't catch the screening. It was funny though- the very first thing I saw when I got to the con was that huge pad of paper they had for people to doodle/write notes on. And the very first thing I saw on the paper was "Where the Hell is Loyal Minion Dom? OOM OOM OOM!" hahahah I got suck a kick out of that. Nice to know some Okashina Okashi readers were there. It still seems bizarre that anyone other than me, Tanzy, and the #y people actually read it, but I was happy :) Dom did not go to Y-Con. I am sure he has been doing his best to block all knowledge of the existence of the con from his mind :P I doodled a bit on the board, and then went into the dealer's room.

That is another nice thing about having recently been to Japan and Comiket- there wasn't much in the dealers room that I was interested in. Or if there was, people who got to go in early already nabbed it. Most of what I saw was GW, RK, KoF, YnM, or Saiyuuki doujinshi. Fortunately I am not very interested in doujinshi for any of those series/games. I did see some doujinshi I was interested in, but it was for sale at the doki-doki station booth for massively inflated prices. I refuse to pay that much for doujinshi. They were charging $20 and over for stuff. Pretty insane. After being in Japan and getting equally great stuff for 200-600 yen each (that's like $1.50 to $5.50 folks!) I just can't bring myself to spend that much on dj anymore. What a ripoff. I also couldn't bring myself to spend any money on yaoi tankoubon (it was also too expensive, in my opinion- I miss 100 and 300 yen used manga! wah), and the screen tones at omochabox were also too pricey. Yeesh, I am so stingy now! But come on, $5 per 1 sheet of screentone? At comiket it was *6* sheets for $9. I should have bought more at comiket, but at least I got some :) USAnime had a lot of nice stuff, but it was all the same exact stuff I saw at the Animate stores in Japan (I went to 4 Animates while there- 1 in Osaka, one in Kyoto, and 2 in Tokyo- Ikebukuro and Akihabara) Man, my trip has ruined me for anime shopping...

I DID end up buying stuff at the con though ^^;;; I got some stuff from You Higuri's table of course! I went to her table at Comiket, but by the time I got to it, her assistant (the same one who was with her at Y-con, too O_O) was closing it up because everything was sold out. So this time I got to her table in time and picked up 2 postcard sets and 2 of her doujinshi. I already have her regular manga and the artbook, etc. I also picked up a Kizuna doujinshi that was too cute for me to resist, and my most expensive purchase was a $10 Naruto doujinshi drawn by Yuri Narushima, the mangaka who does Young Magician, among other stuff. I love her art, and was really happy to see she is doing Naruto doujinshi now! I have her officially published stuff, and a couple of her YYH dj. Wai!

Um, after the dealers room, what did I do... O_O I forget... I probably just sort of wandered around. I did go to that ears,wings, and tails panel about furries. I am not that interested in furries as in humanoid characters with animal faces or whatever- I just like bishounen catboys and guys with wings :) It was a cool panel. I had fun.

I really enjoyed the art in the art show room. Some really nice stuff in there! I wish I could draw/color like some of the stuff I saw in there! *drool drool*

I noticed that there were a few American doujinshi circles there, like Umbrella Studios. I'd like to join something like that, or like I said, start a circle of my own. I like what they are doing. I am so mad that I had to miss the publishing doujinshi in the US panel, or whatever it was called, I really wanted to go to that!

Then I went over to where the doujinshi art demonstrations were going to be done. The con guests from comiket were still in the room, sort of chatting and standing around. Their panel had been in the room and had just ended. I had brought my official Comiket #60 bag with me to the con to use to hold my stuff while I wandered around Y-con. and one of the Comiket people noticed the bag and excitedly pointed it out to her comrades. She walked up to me and asked me if I went to comiket, and if I liked it. (yes to both) that was nifty. Then they left, and the art demos started, and we saw lots of disgustingly awesome art being drawn with such incredible speed. I was so envious of their skill! I think that panel was my favorite one at the con.

Hmm was Saturday or Sunday the Kizuna showing? regardless, I saw that and loved part 3. I didn't go to the cosplay because a group of us went out to dinner. I don't really remember doing much else. that day.

On Sunday I almost skipped the con because I couldn't make myself feel motivated enough to get out of bed and go. But I finally caved in and went. I made it in time for a couple of interesting panels. Then I did another run at the dealers room, but again, didn't buy anything. Oh wait, I did get Shounen Hump, the con's yaoi doujinshi. Some stuff in there is cool, and some of it kind of scares me. Lots of beginners using screentone. Hehehe :) Um I forget what else I did on Sunday. It was a lot of hanging out with friends or wandering around aimlessly. I watched some of the jrock videos they were showing and went to the Shopping for Yaoi in Tokyo panel. I stayed around for Closing ceremonies, where it got really really scary. Lots of laughing and screaming. You could feel the fangirl vibes in there ^_^ They announced that BAAS's Rob Miles would be heading up teh con next year. Bleh. I don't like him very much for some reason, and I worry about how the con will turn out, but I guess I'll just wait and see. Then I stuck around for the prize giveaway that was after the closing ceremonies. I won a poster. It was one of the free posters that K-Books in Ikebukuro was giving out while I was there. K-Books was giving out as a free present with purchase, special promotional pencilboards and posters. I already had one of the pencilboards that I got directly from the Ikebukuro store. Now I have a poster that matches it. Kinda funny that I have to come back to SF to get it :)

After that I left the con. Had to take the bus home, whee! The joys of MUNI. Despite my grumbling about the prices of stuff, I did have a good time. Really!

Okay, I think it's time to steal my bed away from Spike and Vicious nekotachi, who are spread out all over it, and get some sleep. Oyasumi :) Wow, this entry took an hour and a half to write!

Added: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 04:02 a.m.

Listening to: "Canta per me" from Noir OST 1 (beautiful song! I love this OST~)

Joy, don't worry, someone IS working on a Haruka naru toki no naka de site. Namely, me and Steph. Of course, we have a pile of other projects we are doing at the same time, but we'll finish it eventually ^_^;;;; Hopefully before the OAV comes out? Maybe... if we stop getting distracted by other sites >_< (shame on us!)
Added: Tuesday, September 4, 2001 12:44 a.m.

Listening to: "It's Raining Men" (version from Bridget Jones's Diary) Hey, what can I say, YaoiCon was this weekend :P

Wow, I am being quite the blogger tonight! Yet another entry, yay!

I am doing some random blog surfing, whee!

This blog has a nice layout. I like the colors. Very easy on my eyes. A new FY OAV series? Good grief, you'd think the book Miaka *really* found in the library was The Neverending Story @_@ Ugh!

pretty colors here. Main image is kind of gigantic, but the colors are nice :)

Hmm I need to draw Tuesday's OO soon. Tanzy and I are also toying with the idea of doing a delightfully smutty Okashina Okashi yaoi doujinshi with Spike and V-chan :) Sort of like how Murakami Maki did wonderfully ecchi 'Remix' doujinshi for her own Gravitation manga XD)Once again, I want to start a doujinshi circle!

Of course I have so many more page layouts to do... Gin no Yuusha, Haruka narutoki no naka de, Cafe, Read or Die, Alien 9... and so many more. I also want to do a Yukako Iisaka shrine, but I think there is already one out there. I do like to be somewhat original when I make pages. Then again, I think I have some of her manga that the other site doesn't show pictures for, etc. Ah well, it's a thought.

I need to continue packing so I can get my butt back to TX. (nooo don't want to leave San Francisco~~~! noooo~!) I need to count my manga again. I tried archiving it into a database thingy recently, but I never finished, and then I lost count and manga ended up everywhere again. 1200+ volumes of manga can do this to a person -_- Maybe I'll try making a new list again when I get to TX and record each volume as I unpack it? ugh, I don't know -_- Hmm 4am, I guess I'll go to sleep now...
Added: Monday, September 3, 2001 03:53 a.m.

Listening to: "Ashita ga aru" by the Ulufuls (such a dorky song :) at least it's not the RE:Japan version.....

Oi! I finally updated the front page layout of Niko-Niko.Net! It doesn't quite line up right on Netscape, but it's not that bad, and hey, it's the content that really counts, right? ^_^; W00t! W00t! XD XD

Added: Monday, September 3, 2001 01:16 a.m.

Listening to: "Rain" (Mai Yamane version) from Cowboy Bebop : Knockin on Heaven's Door- Future Blues OST (I love this version!)

I want to start (or join) a yaoi doujinshi circle. *_* Not neccessarily a dj circle dedicated to doing stuff for any particular series, but original stuff instead. But it's so hard to find people who would seriously be enthusiastic about such a thing and actually put in the time and effort to get stuff done. I guess to make a decent dj circle, there would be several people involved- one or two main artists, someone to do screentones or help with backgrounds, a writer, an editor, and a financial/manager-type person who would see to getting the finished product actually published (which is what I am interested in). I guess this urge to work on a project like that comes from my recent trip to comiket (doujinshi heaven!) and YaoiCon, which I attended this weekend. I saw so much pretty artwork and cool doujinshi stories that I really wanted to do some stuff too! It would be a lot of fun to find a small group of people with similar interests who would really be interested in doing original yaoi doujinshi, and to really produce something we could sell :)

As for YaoiCon this weekend- I thought it was very fun. It wasn't a huge con by any means, but everyone there was very genki and having fun. I managed to get 2 thing signed by supercool Seimaden artist You Higuri. The first thing she signed for me was this photocopy of an inked drawing that she was using during the doujinshika art demonstration. She brought with her a whole bunch of stuff to show us- rough pencil sketches, semi-rough sketches, and the final artwork- and she showed us how she goes through the process of thinking of a manga idea, and drawing it, and how it becomes a finished manga story. That was really cool! During the demonstration, she pulled out this black and white photocopy of an inked version of the image used for the YaoiCon special poster, and she showed us examples of how she colors artwork using both watercolors and copic markers. She only colored in the skintones on the picture, but after she was done, they asked if anyone wanted the picture, so I nabbed it ^^;;;; Later that day she was sitting at her booth in the dealers room, selling doujinshi, and she kindly signed the artwork for me ^^ The next day I brought in a copy of 'Ramen Ikaga?!' which is her most ridiculously silly manga series, and had her sign the inside cover of the tankoubon XD XD XD Yay! I LOVE You Higuri's artwork!

I also finally saw Kizuna 3 (subbed even!) at YaoiCon. Man, that was HILARIOUS :) Sooooo much better than the first 2 parts. I couldn't stop laughing XD XD I need to get a copy of that.

I picked up the Cowboy Bebop movie OST. Wow, it's freaky! It's a real mixture of different music styles. Some songs are downright freaky. Like 24hours OPEN, which is simply department store muzak with the sound of machine guns killing people over it ^_^;;; Ooookayyy~~~ hehehehe And 'Diggin' is a total country-western vocal song, like something you'd hear on a country music station. It features the line: o/~ Could it be that I got bored and lonely? Could it be that I'm just dumb and horny? o/~ Hahah how can ya resist lyrics like that :P
Added: Sunday, September 2, 2001 10:51 p.m.

Listening to: "Hello Strange Days (full-size)" ending song from Boku no Mari (My Dear Marie) sung by Yuko Miyamura.

OOps, I keep forgetting to blog. Ack!

Hmm I was going through some of the manga I bought in Japan, and I noticed that one of the series, Kodomotachi o semenaide, seems to have not been finished by the author. At least, all I can find anywhere is the first volume and that was published in 1996. As far as I can tell, there is no volume 2. I am a bit disappointed, because even though the story is pretty messed up, I was kind of interested in seeing where it would go. Does anyone know anything about this series? It's by Rie Arai.

I haven't watched much anime in the last few days, but, like I said, I have been going through the manga I bought in Japan. Another good series taht I really need to make a page for is Gin no Yuusha by Watanabe Yoshimoto. There used to be a page for it, but the link I have for it is dead, and I can't find the new site anywhere. Does that site still exist? Watanabe Yoshitomo is also the author of Fun Fun Factory which I also have a page for. I should make the Gin no Yuusha page as a companion page for it. Gin no Yuusha is so cute! I LOVE the artwork in it! Beat is so amusing!

I am looking through my stuff and deciding what to keep and what I should ebay. I have a couple of Sugisaki Yukiru (author of DN Angel) doujinshi that might do well on ebay. They are doujinshi for Escaflowne and Evangelion. The artwork is so nice! I also have an extra Hisaya Nakajo (author of HanaKimi) doujinshi that is brand new from this summer's Comiket. The cover is One Piece, but inside is artwork and stories for not just One Piece, but also Hikaru no Go, Naruto, and more. The artwork is so pretty! I bought 2 by mistake ^_^;; I also have GLAY doujinshi that is pretty interesting, and GLAY... cup-o-noodles. Yeah, Glay Cup-o-noodles. How funny is that!? I couldn't stop laughing when we saw them for sale at the LAwson's near our hotel in Tokyo. What GLAY fan can be without GLAY Cup-o-Noodles? :)

This Japan trip has resulted in lots of web page-making urges. I did some small updates to my Cowboy Bebop page, and I am working on updates to the Katte ni Kaizou and HanaKimi pages. I need to update the Hana Yori Dango page too. That one is REALLY outdated O_O But there are so many new pages I want to make! The Gin no Yuusha page, Read or Die, Alien Nine, Cafe, and Haruka naru toki no nakade.... maybe Scifi Harry.. and more. It's pathetic. At this rate, nothing will get done @_@.

This week I am going to buy moving boxes. My parents sent me some money so I could go buy some. Then I will be packing all my stuff up. I ph33r packing all my manga and stuff! There is so much! 1200+ manga tankoubon filles a lot of boxes @_@. I will probably be moving back to Texas by the end of September. Whoo hoo. I will miss SF though~~! I want to stay here~~~! I wish I could afford it ;_; I hate being unemployed. I am getting kind of tired of sending out my resume everywhere though. The market is so incredibly sucky right now. I feel bad though, I am 26 and moving back in with my parents -_-;;; At least I managed to go 4 years on my own. Hopefully I will be back outof the house again soon! ^_^; But in the mean time, back to the Austin area I go. I think I'll apply to JET. It's not like my job choices here are all that great right now, and I have a college degree. Might as well give it a shot....

Gee, it's after 6am and I am still awake! See the wacky sleep schedule continues!

Added: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 06:28 a.m.

Ahhhhh! I want *this*!! Wah! Anyone want to loan me $175? I want that 10-DVD set. Must re-live my childhood again. wahhhh! Maybe I can ebay this GLAY cup-o-noodles I have. Think anyone would buy it? It has Glay on it! ^_^;;

Okay, this has been a very random entry :) And look, it's 6:20am and I am still awake! See, my sleep schedule has not changed a bit since my trip. *sigh* Ah well, might as well get to sleep now :)
Added: Thursday, August 23, 2001 06:18 a.m.

Listening to: "Ryu no Shounen" (Dragon Boy) from Studio GHIBLI's "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" OST.

Well, I made it back form Japan. Wow, what a fantastic two weeks. Sure, it was hot, and my feet hurt from so much walking (I need to get into better shape, really...) I still had so much fun! I have a lot of great memories from this trip, I am glad I went! I'd like to go back again sometime, maybe as a teacher in JET or something. I dunno :)

I think one of my favorite things I did when in Japan was tseeing the new Studio GHIBLI movie, "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi". The English title for the movie is "Spirited Away." I thought it was a fantastic movie! The characters and imagery were all so strange and marvelous at the same time! And I like the boy in it :) He's cute, hehehe. His name is Haku, and is quite suave :) The movie is about a girl named Chihiro who is on a summer trip with her parents when all sorts of strange things happen to her. It's very magical. I really want to see the movie again! *_* *_* *_*

Now that I am back, I have all this stuff I bought while there to go through ^_^ Man, my loot is heavy! I managed to scan the covers of all the doujinshi I bought. If anyone is curious, they can be viewed *here*. I think my totals for this trip include 160 volumes of manga, 51 doujinshi, 3 clear files, 5 pencil boards, 1 trading card, 13 fans (only bought two, the others were given to me on the street ^_^;) 7 Artbooks, 13 CDs (a few of those are singles), 3 used anime VHS tapes, 1 LD (er I don't own an LD player, but...) 3 DVDs (one is a short promo DVD), one pre-paid keitai (cellphone) with a cowboy bebop cellphone strap, 2 packs of manga art paper, 1 copic marker, 4 skin-tone markers of some other brand, 4 new technical pens, 6 sheets of screentone (I wish that wasn't so expensive),one PSX game, 3 phone book mangas (2 issues of Shoujo Teokiku and one issue of this special Cowbpy Bebop thing), 4 plushies (1 dijimon, 1 Creamy Mami UFO doll, 1 plush piro from Kanan, 1 plushie from Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi), 2 posters, 2 sets of stationery, one t-shirt, one black gemagemadan arm band, and, um... a bunch of other random stuff I am forgetting ^_^;; Good grief, how did I lug all of that home??

My cats really missed me when I was gone. They made a bit of a mess out of my apartment -_- So I have been trying to clean up this place and settle them down. They haven't left me alone since I got home. It's cute and bothersome at the same time :) Love us! pet us! but I have to unpack! Then let us sleep in your suitcases! But I am trying to UNPACK them! Move it! Wahhhhhh!

So much for my sleep schedule. It was messed up before my trip, and is not much better now O_o Someday I will get it back in order, really -_-

I am thinking of changing the layout of this blog again. I know I changed it right before I left, but now I have so much scannable stuff that I can do layouts with, I want to do something new :) Maybe I will do it sometime this week ^_^

Added: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 01:56 a.m.

Hey! I actually blogged on the Japan trip blog! Go LOOK! It's SO thrilling... really.
Added: Thursday, August 16, 2001 09:29 p.m.

GRR! Pitas is eating my blog entries O_O Why is it when I update and it tells me my new entry is added, nothing shows up in my blog? I really don't want to type that whole entry over again @_@ *kicks pitas*
Added: Wednesday, August 1, 2001 06:46 a.m.

Listening to: "Didn't it Rain" by Yoko Kanno from Earth Girl Arjuna OST 2

Arg! I am having the worst luck connecting to anything today! pages keep timing out or giving me errors, links are broken, things aren't displaying properly, I can't dial in to my other account.. *sigh* This is getting ridiculous! GRR!

I managed to get more of my apartment cleaned up today. It is still kind of scary, but not quite as bad as it was before. Got to scare my cats with the vacuum cleaner, oh hohoho! I also watched some more anime- Fruits Basket ep #0 and #4, I My Me Strawberry Egg #3-4, Read or Die ep #2, and Scryed ep #4, I have 2 more episodes of Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto to watch also. Yay! I'm loving fruits basket more, as expected. Kyo~

Well, I finally finished Tuesday's OO a day late, and now the site update thing on Keenspace isn't working, and I can't update the darn thing. *sigh* I also finished my entry for the DiGiCharat fanart contest. Wish me luck! I doubt it will win, but you never know ^_^

It's 6:40am and I am still awake. Up all night again. Oh well, my cats are taking up all of my bed anyway. The two of them are all stretched out long in the middle of the bed. They look so cute, I hesitate to disturb them anyway :)

Oh yeah, the image I am using for this new blog layout is from the manga "Hana Kaizoku" by Yoneyama Setsuko. Isn't the artwork pretty? The manga is very sparkly too! *_*
Added: Wednesday, August 1, 2001 06:40 a.m.

Listening to: Cosmic Dare (Pretty with a Pistol) by the Seatbelts from the Cowboy Bebop Movie Mini Album

Hey look! I archived and changed my layout AGAIN! Wow, 2 new layouts in the last month and a half! A record for me this year :)

Today has been exhausting. I went grocery shopping to get pet supplies for the nekotachi for while I am in Japan. Man, lugging home 56 pounds of kitty litter and dry catfood down 10 blocks in a little metal cart is NOT easy. Ugh, wore me out. Then I went out shopping again, this time for a pair of decent walking shoes and a backpack. Managed to find both. YAY!

Next up for tonight- Laundry. *sigh* I hate going to the laundromat! I really feel like being a slug and rolling around doing nothing -_- but I gotta finish getting set for this trip.

OO is gonna be a little bit late. I want to finish working on my entry for that DiGiCharat fanart contest. I have a sketch I like done, I just need to ink and color it. Wish me luck! I wish my pens would stop dying on me. :(

Added: Monday, July 30, 2001 07:52 p.m.