I haven't updated in forever. I blame this on tumblr. I joined tumblr and started following some fellow Downton Abbey fans (so many wonderful people) and the lot of them have gotten into following tons of other good actually entertaining things on television. I have had to make myself not keep up with everything on my tumblr dash though because it has just become too much which sometimes makes me regret that I miss art and fan fic posts. But really it's a great fun place and I've been posting lots of fandom things there along with the occasional personal life thing as well cause well I was already on there so why change sites just to update another blog?
I've been working on the night shift at work the last couple of weeks training the new team lead for that shift and it's been a good fun experience. I didn't hate the hours as much as I thought I would, but ultimately I'm not regretting that I turned that particular position down. The night shift is really boring compared to the usual hustle and bustle of random projects I do on the day shift. Monday I go back to 8am-4:30pm in which I will be there during the first hour of the night shift to help set up and pass long plans and info and such... so now I'm like the transition team lead. Still a helper and no team to call all my own, but I feel like I know a lot more of what's going on now after having to learn and then cover for the morning shift team lead's vacation then turning around and teaching what was necessary from that to the night lead (since day shift had been taking care of the back end of night shift).
Still wrapping up DMG manga projects. Uploading some edits for 1 project, just turned in another project a week or so ago. Need to try to contact my other team again and if I still get no response contact my DMG contact to let them know I still want to work the project but that my team is unresponsive. I let one project fall through the cracks like that before and I'm determined not to let that happen again cause then I'll have wasted all that time doing the clean work and that's just frustrating cause that's hours of work.
Earlier this week I finally got a new pair of sneakers, specifically running shoes, specifically Nike Flex 2013 Runs. They are so comfortable and very light and springy. I got up early Tuesday and took a short run. I say short because it was short in both distance and time because I've been very inactive for well over a year and am terribly out of shape because of it, but it felt really really good. Sadly that night I overdid something to a muscle at work later that night and it persisted to hurt until yesterday so I played it safe and didn't go out again because I didn't want to screw the muscle up anymore until I was sure it was healed. Now it's that time of the month and the last thing I want to do is put on work out clothes and go running so maybe lets give this another go in a week or so. In the end I was proud of myself for just getting up and doing it because for the last half year before we moved out of my mother's house I kept trying to talk myself into going out and running around the neighborhood but just could never get up the courage cause it meant telling my mom what I was doing and I didn't want to put up with anything from her (like how my running shorts are too short or how she wouldn't go out in the neighbor hood to walk anymore because she was threatened by a stray dog once... I was getting pretty emotionally strained living with my mother at that point that I just didn't want to set myself up).
I'm trying to sell some doll and old Lolita stuff at the moment in attempts for some funds to pay off a new doll. Soom Fenny, the cute little Fox boy they released back in June. He was just sooooo adorable I couldn't resist for a second, but I haven't been very good with my personal budget lately so I half paid for him on credit card and a little bit from sales stuff. Originally most of him was to be paid for by my profit shares check from DMG, but they made it out incorrectly and I was unable to cash it and since I returned it after they started calculating for the next terms sharing I have to wait for that and they'll be sending me a combined check for the 2 terms. I'm just a little ugh, but oh well.
Today it's already after 1pm and I'm eating leftover tonkatsu we cooked earlier this week for lunch then figuring out what to do for the rest of my day. A friend invited me over for food and games and I said as long as I was feeling up to it I'd come and got told any time as for time so I'm trying to figure out what all I need to get done around the apt today before I leave for an undetermined period of time. I haven't been out too much as of recent. I keep wanting to go placed which make me want to spend money. Or I invite people over then things fall through. I keep getting invited out but I've got stuff to do or have done all the things I needed to get done then am so pooped I just can't do it.
That's all for now... Just wanted to get some things out.... keep a little update since that was the reason I started this blasted blog.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
All of Today
Haven't updated in forever, but not going to bring everything up to date, just going to go on about today and ten try to remember other days that I should really be updating about my day.
I feel today has both been rather busy then lazy and overall productive at least.
Woke up then went to the post office to get some money orders. Went to the new apartment complex we hope to be moving into to find they weren't open yet (they were open at this time last weekend). From there we went to pick up our nephew to take him out for his belated birthday outting (birthday was in March, but life has been crazy for all). Went to Barnes & Noble where because there was a Bogo1/2off sale we bought two of the B&N classics books, those pretty hard back, gold/sivler leaf paper, with fun covers and just that massive swanky classy look to them. Finally have properly gotten terribly into BBC's Sherlock recently and for me I've always enjoyed anything Sherlock Holmes, but have never had the opportunity to actually ever read any of it so one of the books is the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes and then by the husband's choice a collection of Jules Verne.
We moved on down to Hot Topic because I had a coupon for 15% off and there was another Bogo1/2off sale so ended up coming out of there with Doctor Who merch for me (2 tanks and a belt, even though I'd gone looking for socks), a little blind box figure for the nephew, and a Superman bowtie for the husband.
In the end ended up at Movie Trading Co. because the nephew found nothing that he wanted more than the Skylanders game set becuase that was sort of what we knew he wanted but we figured we'd give him the usual shopping trip (oh we also stopped by Keith's Comics, but there was not much there that caught his fancy either, but we did get to see some cool stuff that is stuff Madness Games & Comics doesn't carry (the husband's employer)).
Dropped back by the apartment complex and got our application put in and things taken care of and we will know Tuesday for 100% sure that the application went through well and that we have the place for sure and all of that jazz. Not that there's anything that should stop it but with everything going on crazy like it is I'm just a big bag of nerves. We're moving and have had only a few weeks notice now that we have to be out by the middle of June. We've stayed with Mum about a year now and were trying to start looking for a house, but my brother is loosing his job overseas and coming here and mum logic dictates (and I do not argue it AT ALL!) the child with a wife and child and no job sort of needs her free space more than the children that now both have jobs. I'm 100% thrilled to have my niece in the country and hopefully by this time next year both my neices.
Speaking of nieces and nephews we took the nephew back home then had to go see the other brother in law to take some stuff to him as well today so by the time we were heading home we were able to see all of our nieces and nephews (minus the married in ones) in the states in one day and this is only my 3rd time seeing the youngest (only 4 mo old).
So got home, took a bit of a rest. The husband headed to work and since then I have done some manga lettering work, which by the way is just hard. No it's not hard to actually do, I've done a lot of this now this being on second year working with this company doing it, but just the subject content of what I'm working with and the artwork itself as well. It's just urgh. The particular book I'm working on is due in July but I want to get it done becuase there was a title that was supposed to be due in June but the translator had real life things happen and needs to get an extension. The group I'm doing the book that's frustrating me right now with, we have another book that is due in Aug that I'm looking way more forward to becuase at least it has super lovely art and looks like it has a sweet story and is not just short stories of ugly ruanchy sex (which is the two other books I'm working on at current... that's what most of the urgh is about... I hate books like this).
So I worked on a bit of that until dinner time. Picked up cheap chinese with Mum. Regretting that I decided to try something different becuase it wasn't as good as what I usually get and cost a dollar more. Came home and while eatting finished the episode of Merlin I started watching over lunch last weekend and then another episode while I was waiting on Orphan Black to start. Orphan Black once again good and we've got one more episode next week. It's a really great show! And during commercials I was making .gifs of my fave character from previous eps of the show that I at some point will spam my tumblr account with. Yup this is what has become of my multimedia degree... I make gif files like old school days yo!
During some point of this time I've read some of the intorduction to my SH collection. Now I still have the rest of my evening and pretty much have no real plans for it. I think I should do some more manga work so more gets done faster becuase the more I do, the faster I get it done, and then I don't have to look at it. I think I will definitley take a slightly extended break from manga work after I finish these three books I'm committed to at current.
I feel today has both been rather busy then lazy and overall productive at least.
Woke up then went to the post office to get some money orders. Went to the new apartment complex we hope to be moving into to find they weren't open yet (they were open at this time last weekend). From there we went to pick up our nephew to take him out for his belated birthday outting (birthday was in March, but life has been crazy for all). Went to Barnes & Noble where because there was a Bogo1/2off sale we bought two of the B&N classics books, those pretty hard back, gold/sivler leaf paper, with fun covers and just that massive swanky classy look to them. Finally have properly gotten terribly into BBC's Sherlock recently and for me I've always enjoyed anything Sherlock Holmes, but have never had the opportunity to actually ever read any of it so one of the books is the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes and then by the husband's choice a collection of Jules Verne.
We moved on down to Hot Topic because I had a coupon for 15% off and there was another Bogo1/2off sale so ended up coming out of there with Doctor Who merch for me (2 tanks and a belt, even though I'd gone looking for socks), a little blind box figure for the nephew, and a Superman bowtie for the husband.
In the end ended up at Movie Trading Co. because the nephew found nothing that he wanted more than the Skylanders game set becuase that was sort of what we knew he wanted but we figured we'd give him the usual shopping trip (oh we also stopped by Keith's Comics, but there was not much there that caught his fancy either, but we did get to see some cool stuff that is stuff Madness Games & Comics doesn't carry (the husband's employer)).
Dropped back by the apartment complex and got our application put in and things taken care of and we will know Tuesday for 100% sure that the application went through well and that we have the place for sure and all of that jazz. Not that there's anything that should stop it but with everything going on crazy like it is I'm just a big bag of nerves. We're moving and have had only a few weeks notice now that we have to be out by the middle of June. We've stayed with Mum about a year now and were trying to start looking for a house, but my brother is loosing his job overseas and coming here and mum logic dictates (and I do not argue it AT ALL!) the child with a wife and child and no job sort of needs her free space more than the children that now both have jobs. I'm 100% thrilled to have my niece in the country and hopefully by this time next year both my neices.
Speaking of nieces and nephews we took the nephew back home then had to go see the other brother in law to take some stuff to him as well today so by the time we were heading home we were able to see all of our nieces and nephews (minus the married in ones) in the states in one day and this is only my 3rd time seeing the youngest (only 4 mo old).
So got home, took a bit of a rest. The husband headed to work and since then I have done some manga lettering work, which by the way is just hard. No it's not hard to actually do, I've done a lot of this now this being on second year working with this company doing it, but just the subject content of what I'm working with and the artwork itself as well. It's just urgh. The particular book I'm working on is due in July but I want to get it done becuase there was a title that was supposed to be due in June but the translator had real life things happen and needs to get an extension. The group I'm doing the book that's frustrating me right now with, we have another book that is due in Aug that I'm looking way more forward to becuase at least it has super lovely art and looks like it has a sweet story and is not just short stories of ugly ruanchy sex (which is the two other books I'm working on at current... that's what most of the urgh is about... I hate books like this).
So I worked on a bit of that until dinner time. Picked up cheap chinese with Mum. Regretting that I decided to try something different becuase it wasn't as good as what I usually get and cost a dollar more. Came home and while eatting finished the episode of Merlin I started watching over lunch last weekend and then another episode while I was waiting on Orphan Black to start. Orphan Black once again good and we've got one more episode next week. It's a really great show! And during commercials I was making .gifs of my fave character from previous eps of the show that I at some point will spam my tumblr account with. Yup this is what has become of my multimedia degree... I make gif files like old school days yo!
During some point of this time I've read some of the intorduction to my SH collection. Now I still have the rest of my evening and pretty much have no real plans for it. I think I should do some more manga work so more gets done faster becuase the more I do, the faster I get it done, and then I don't have to look at it. I think I will definitley take a slightly extended break from manga work after I finish these three books I'm committed to at current.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Want to stop getting sick
This past Saturday I went to my grandmother's 97th birthday party. She was doing better than my mother last described her and of course better than the last time I saw her which was at my father's memorial service. I bought her a scarf which just happened to go with what she was wearing so it went straight on. Somehow I can't seem to do wrong with a scarf as I never have no clue what to get her.
Saturday night we finally finished Downton Abbey and gyyaaaaaa all the rage screams!!!!! Still avidly looking forward to season 4.
Sunday the husband had to go to work (which he was originally supposed to be off) so I spent the day home alone. I felt something coming on and had a runny nose all day and by evening was full blown sinus crud of doom sick. Spent most of my afternoon fixating on U-KISS because this weekend was their comeback week. I do quite like their new album collage but after watching the MV and 4 live performances there are so many feelings that I'm not even sure how cohesive and coherent putting them into words would be.... The result: promoting a duet?!, tired, too tight of pants, man whore host look, wtf caresses, and oh gawd Kevin's cute as always.....yah I think there's no real explanation without having examples of what brought thoughts to mind and then sharing it with someone who's actually into Kpop. I did spend a good 3 or so hours dedicated to looking at and watching U-KISS things, and now also actually do follow them all on twitter like a good faithful little kissme.
Got caught up and watched new ep of walking dead. I found both eps had trouble keeping my attention and I missed a good chunk of talking dead cause we watch AMC through fios on the Xbox and the fios app/connection kept screwing up.
Last night barely slept only a few hours cause I woke myself up, and the husband, being sinus congested as all get out. Woke up when my alarm went off and said hell to this shit and called into work sick. Have felt half miserable all day. Went out at one point and got myself some NyQuil and DayQuil which have been helpful. I did a wee bit of cleaning work on one of my manga projects then abandoned it for Downton Abbey fandom time on tumblr in which I found quite a lovely fanfic which consumed quite a bit of time. Tumblr is both wonderful and bad but I definitely found a quote I loved today that I feel explained the site quite eloquently; "It's chaos. It's like a happy chaos."
Saturday night we finally finished Downton Abbey and gyyaaaaaa all the rage screams!!!!! Still avidly looking forward to season 4.
Sunday the husband had to go to work (which he was originally supposed to be off) so I spent the day home alone. I felt something coming on and had a runny nose all day and by evening was full blown sinus crud of doom sick. Spent most of my afternoon fixating on U-KISS because this weekend was their comeback week. I do quite like their new album collage but after watching the MV and 4 live performances there are so many feelings that I'm not even sure how cohesive and coherent putting them into words would be.... The result: promoting a duet?!, tired, too tight of pants, man whore host look, wtf caresses, and oh gawd Kevin's cute as always.....yah I think there's no real explanation without having examples of what brought thoughts to mind and then sharing it with someone who's actually into Kpop. I did spend a good 3 or so hours dedicated to looking at and watching U-KISS things, and now also actually do follow them all on twitter like a good faithful little kissme.
Got caught up and watched new ep of walking dead. I found both eps had trouble keeping my attention and I missed a good chunk of talking dead cause we watch AMC through fios on the Xbox and the fios app/connection kept screwing up.
Last night barely slept only a few hours cause I woke myself up, and the husband, being sinus congested as all get out. Woke up when my alarm went off and said hell to this shit and called into work sick. Have felt half miserable all day. Went out at one point and got myself some NyQuil and DayQuil which have been helpful. I did a wee bit of cleaning work on one of my manga projects then abandoned it for Downton Abbey fandom time on tumblr in which I found quite a lovely fanfic which consumed quite a bit of time. Tumblr is both wonderful and bad but I definitely found a quote I loved today that I feel explained the site quite eloquently; "It's chaos. It's like a happy chaos."
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Gotta Kick This
Yesterday I rolled into work feeling rather worn down and by the end of the work day embarked for home running a fever. Came home to dinner waiting for me and our friend Kathy was also here needing some assistance for a school assignment. We helped, hung out for a bit then it was time to hunker down for bed. We watched 2 episodes of Downton Abbey then went to sleep.
Woke up this morning still feeling pretty weakfish and my sore throat from the previous day more sore, so I called in for the day hoping to get some rest and get whatever this is beat by tomorrow. Fever has returned already. Husband fed me leftovers for breakfast and we have proceeded to watch more Downton Abbey. Some very heart breaking episodes, leaving both of us in tears. Now he is getting ready for his interview at his favorite local game and comic shop. Having high hopes because he needs something even if it does not end up the permanent thing, but hopes seem quite promising.
Not sure quite what the rest of my day will entail, but I'm about to get up and find myself some lunch then probably entertain myself with Kpop maybe?
Woke up this morning still feeling pretty weakfish and my sore throat from the previous day more sore, so I called in for the day hoping to get some rest and get whatever this is beat by tomorrow. Fever has returned already. Husband fed me leftovers for breakfast and we have proceeded to watch more Downton Abbey. Some very heart breaking episodes, leaving both of us in tears. Now he is getting ready for his interview at his favorite local game and comic shop. Having high hopes because he needs something even if it does not end up the permanent thing, but hopes seem quite promising.
Not sure quite what the rest of my day will entail, but I'm about to get up and find myself some lunch then probably entertain myself with Kpop maybe?
Sunday, February 24, 2013
All The Food....
So got up yesterday morning and completed all of my errands except for one that I had forgotten about until later. Shipped a doll back to its owner, dropped one car off at the shop, then took the other in for an oil change.
After all of that I went to work and made a 6 hour day on my Saturday afternoon. I had tweeted about going to work before leaving and when I got to work had a text on my phone from my friend Jasmine asking if I'd like to come have dinner since at work I'm half way to her place from home. Logan was going up to the comic shop for board game night with Richard so I said sure. Got there and helped a bit with preparation. We had a spicy Thai soup, cheese stuffed mushrooms, cheese stuffed croissants, crab rangoons, tiramisu....dear lord I left so stuffed. I wish I had had my iPad with me to take pictures. I did take a few on my phone that I tweeted.
Came home and read manga before I went to sleep. Read Bad Teacher's Equation volume 1 by Kazuma Kodaka. Love it! It is really super adorable. I think I definitely expected it to be spicier with it's 18+ rating because really I think it would have been fine with a16+. It's mild enough for my 12yr old niece. Want all the rest of it as soon as I'm able to buy it.
Woke up this morning and got ready to go out. Logan and I went with Richard to see the movie warm bodies. It was very silly. Cute romantic comedy with zombies pretty much sums it up. Was happy the passes were free. I think I would have only felt it was worth the money if I'd been desperate to see a movie if I would have had to pay for it. However I really do think I would like to add it to my DVD collection after it comes out and gets down to $10ish.
Came home from the movie and we made a much needed run to the storage unit. We had packed some boxes of stuff up a few weeks ago because since we've been with mum and inheriting things from two passed relatives in Logan's family we are getting a bit cramped in the bedroom. While we were there we grabbed and brought home the box that has Logan's perler bead stuff in it so he can do something crafty with his current home time.
We did some grocery shopping on the way home then got home and watched the first ep of season 2 of Downton Abbey. Cannot get enough of it! Don't know what I'm going to do when we finish season 3. After that Logan made dinner. Hamburgers with mushrooms and sweet potato fries. It was so good.
Now we're watching The Walking Dead. Watching last weeks ep then this weeks after it. Hope to still get to watch The Talking Dead as well but I'm not sure how long we will get to keep the use of Mom's TV. We had been watching it through the Xbox tips but for some reason now we're not able. Glad mom has nothing to watch, but I know she won't watch this. Anyways that's life up until now. Got work again tomorrow....
After all of that I went to work and made a 6 hour day on my Saturday afternoon. I had tweeted about going to work before leaving and when I got to work had a text on my phone from my friend Jasmine asking if I'd like to come have dinner since at work I'm half way to her place from home. Logan was going up to the comic shop for board game night with Richard so I said sure. Got there and helped a bit with preparation. We had a spicy Thai soup, cheese stuffed mushrooms, cheese stuffed croissants, crab rangoons, tiramisu....dear lord I left so stuffed. I wish I had had my iPad with me to take pictures. I did take a few on my phone that I tweeted.
Came home and read manga before I went to sleep. Read Bad Teacher's Equation volume 1 by Kazuma Kodaka. Love it! It is really super adorable. I think I definitely expected it to be spicier with it's 18+ rating because really I think it would have been fine with a16+. It's mild enough for my 12yr old niece. Want all the rest of it as soon as I'm able to buy it.
Woke up this morning and got ready to go out. Logan and I went with Richard to see the movie warm bodies. It was very silly. Cute romantic comedy with zombies pretty much sums it up. Was happy the passes were free. I think I would have only felt it was worth the money if I'd been desperate to see a movie if I would have had to pay for it. However I really do think I would like to add it to my DVD collection after it comes out and gets down to $10ish.
Came home from the movie and we made a much needed run to the storage unit. We had packed some boxes of stuff up a few weeks ago because since we've been with mum and inheriting things from two passed relatives in Logan's family we are getting a bit cramped in the bedroom. While we were there we grabbed and brought home the box that has Logan's perler bead stuff in it so he can do something crafty with his current home time.
We did some grocery shopping on the way home then got home and watched the first ep of season 2 of Downton Abbey. Cannot get enough of it! Don't know what I'm going to do when we finish season 3. After that Logan made dinner. Hamburgers with mushrooms and sweet potato fries. It was so good.
Now we're watching The Walking Dead. Watching last weeks ep then this weeks after it. Hope to still get to watch The Talking Dead as well but I'm not sure how long we will get to keep the use of Mom's TV. We had been watching it through the Xbox tips but for some reason now we're not able. Glad mom has nothing to watch, but I know she won't watch this. Anyways that's life up until now. Got work again tomorrow....
Friday, February 22, 2013
Friday That is Not Friday
I got up and went to work this morning and the day really flew by fast. I even worked an extra hour and a half today and it felt like nothing. However today is not really Friday as I'm actually going into work tomorrow. Not doing a whole day but going to head in after I run all my morning errands.
Per usual I read a volume of manga today. Today was Tegami Bachi volume 12. Things are really getting serious and the big bad monster is taking out people and the bees fight hard to take it down. We meet a really adorable new character this volume and sadly something unfavorable happens to her because something is wrong with the main character. As usual it leaves us at a cliff hanger having me eager to know what happens next. Enjoying the series as much as I do currently it really makes me want to cosplay one of the characters. She's one of the older characters, has blond hair similar length to mine, wears glasses, and does dawn a standard bee uniform a few volumes back and I love the uniform because I really want to make the bee design on the hat with Swarovski crystals.... The character's name is Aria and her weapon is a violin which just makes me like her even more.
Came home to a delicious tonkatsu dinner. After dinner went to visit my mother-in-law where we procured borrowing rights to all of the seasons of Downton Abbey. We watched the first season on Netflix and she has the rest on DVD and we are excited to watch.
Came back home and Richard came over for some gaming. We played a game of Zombicide and sort of won our map. I say sort of because it was Logan's last man standing that completed the objective. Both mine and Richard's characters had all perished. Now we re going o have one Tike To Ride game then I am going to bed.
Per usual I read a volume of manga today. Today was Tegami Bachi volume 12. Things are really getting serious and the big bad monster is taking out people and the bees fight hard to take it down. We meet a really adorable new character this volume and sadly something unfavorable happens to her because something is wrong with the main character. As usual it leaves us at a cliff hanger having me eager to know what happens next. Enjoying the series as much as I do currently it really makes me want to cosplay one of the characters. She's one of the older characters, has blond hair similar length to mine, wears glasses, and does dawn a standard bee uniform a few volumes back and I love the uniform because I really want to make the bee design on the hat with Swarovski crystals.... The character's name is Aria and her weapon is a violin which just makes me like her even more.
Came home to a delicious tonkatsu dinner. After dinner went to visit my mother-in-law where we procured borrowing rights to all of the seasons of Downton Abbey. We watched the first season on Netflix and she has the rest on DVD and we are excited to watch.
Came back home and Richard came over for some gaming. We played a game of Zombicide and sort of won our map. I say sort of because it was Logan's last man standing that completed the objective. Both mine and Richard's characters had all perished. Now we re going o have one Tike To Ride game then I am going to bed.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Another Day...
Woke up this morning to a delicious breakfast. Toad in the hole with smoked cheddar cheese and some bacon on the side. It really made a good start to my day.
Went to work as per the usual. It was a bit boring today. I have to remember that straight up data entry work gets boring and old pretty quick. After a phone conference we ended up having to change the way we were keying stuff a little bit. Also after lunch they came through and we had full building drug testing for compliance on a contract. BUT for my current security cleanreance on the current post I still have to go on my own time to a local lab for drug testing.
After work headed out to see Jasmine & Jim. Jasmine and I went to Target and Walmart to hunt furbys for my sister in law and found that neither the walmart or Target next to her place have any at all (not even a space on the shelf). We are now back at her place watching Inkigayo episodes. Yay Kpop!
In reading today I read volume 11 of Tegami Bachi. It once again was full of a lot of good fuzzy feelings, action, even more plot twists, and sadness. I don't think I've mentioned it before but the main character really does cry a lot. He's a very emotional (I think 12 or 13 year old) boy. It was fun seeing and finding out even more about the character that you would have initially thought from the first volume would be the main character. The art is still spectacular as always.... Tomorrow I should be reading and completing volume 12 which will have me completely caught up and then I will whine and moan about how it's not coming out fast enough like how I complain about Blue Exorcist & Bakuman.
Well watched yet another up of Inkigayo which was the week before this most current one and it was actually quite uneventful. Looking forward to this weeks up becuase there are a lot of good looking comebacks.
Went to work as per the usual. It was a bit boring today. I have to remember that straight up data entry work gets boring and old pretty quick. After a phone conference we ended up having to change the way we were keying stuff a little bit. Also after lunch they came through and we had full building drug testing for compliance on a contract. BUT for my current security cleanreance on the current post I still have to go on my own time to a local lab for drug testing.
After work headed out to see Jasmine & Jim. Jasmine and I went to Target and Walmart to hunt furbys for my sister in law and found that neither the walmart or Target next to her place have any at all (not even a space on the shelf). We are now back at her place watching Inkigayo episodes. Yay Kpop!
In reading today I read volume 11 of Tegami Bachi. It once again was full of a lot of good fuzzy feelings, action, even more plot twists, and sadness. I don't think I've mentioned it before but the main character really does cry a lot. He's a very emotional (I think 12 or 13 year old) boy. It was fun seeing and finding out even more about the character that you would have initially thought from the first volume would be the main character. The art is still spectacular as always.... Tomorrow I should be reading and completing volume 12 which will have me completely caught up and then I will whine and moan about how it's not coming out fast enough like how I complain about Blue Exorcist & Bakuman.
Well watched yet another up of Inkigayo which was the week before this most current one and it was actually quite uneventful. Looking forward to this weeks up becuase there are a lot of good looking comebacks.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Another Day
Trying to keep frequent. Starting is the first step.
It was raining this morning so traffic was special. Was a little late for work, but since I can make up what time I'm missing that doesn't bother me. However this morning while being stuck in traffic I realized I had forgotten my manga for the day. I was really mad at myself about it. My husband did not double check me this morning. Sad right? Fully grown adult who still has trouble remembering everything to be ready to go about my day. At work they were able to get all of my stuff taken care of so that I can start working on my new assignment. I think tomorrow will be easier than today because I feel like I picked up a lot and will have to ask a lot fewer questions.
During the day I tweeted the URL for this blog because I was actually really proud of myself for posting yesterday like I had set out to. In the process something in former posts has bothered a close friend. We are going to talk more about it tomorrow when I see her but she had said something on twitter and I was about to respond when something about the wording clicked that it may have referred to something in my blog. I automatically texted her about it in case it was me and I'm really happy I did instead of my original response I was going to write on twitter. Feel like much less of an as and we'll get it all worked out the best we can.
Got home and yay dinner. We had salad, pork chops, mashed potatoes, and mushrooms stuffed with cream cheese and red onion. Just finished up and took care of some dishes. Another amazon order came in today. Baby books! A few weeks ago we saw this really informational witty book called The Baby Owner's Manual. It's totally a tech manual (formatting and all) for babies. We instantly thought of my brother-in-law Gerald and he's a very much a tech guy and a new father of just a month now. Logan also took an interest to it (my husband has worse baby fever than me right now) so we ordered 2 copies from amazon (one for Gerry, one for us) and also for us we got another book in the same series, The Baby Owner's Games and Activities Book. As soon as the husband gets a new job and we get some stuff squared away we will actually be thinking more seriously about children. The husband of course feels like he can never be over prepared so he's really looking forward to reading these books.
I think the rest of the night is going to result in chilling and watching stuff off the Xbox. We got the first ep o this new half season of The Walking Dead since we tuned in on Sunday and found ourselves a week behind. We were really astounded. We remembered when the last half of the season ended they said it would be returning the 17th of February. We must have completely missed the memo that it got moved up a week and we never saw anyone post anything on Facebook like we usually do. I think tonight I also want to try and squeeze in watching Music Bank from 2 weeks ago. Trying to get caught up on my Kpop promotions. Will be caught up with Inkigayo tomorrow.
On silly Kpop subjects I was stupidly proud of myself this morning that I could remember all the names of the members of VIXX and I feel like I can recognize most of them easily now with exception that 2 of them are a little easy to mix up, mainly because they are a little less prominent to me. I think I will have to update about doll stuff once again in another post. I am now once again updating off my iPad and the pics I want to share are still on my laptop and not yet uploaded anywhere online.
It was raining this morning so traffic was special. Was a little late for work, but since I can make up what time I'm missing that doesn't bother me. However this morning while being stuck in traffic I realized I had forgotten my manga for the day. I was really mad at myself about it. My husband did not double check me this morning. Sad right? Fully grown adult who still has trouble remembering everything to be ready to go about my day. At work they were able to get all of my stuff taken care of so that I can start working on my new assignment. I think tomorrow will be easier than today because I feel like I picked up a lot and will have to ask a lot fewer questions.
During the day I tweeted the URL for this blog because I was actually really proud of myself for posting yesterday like I had set out to. In the process something in former posts has bothered a close friend. We are going to talk more about it tomorrow when I see her but she had said something on twitter and I was about to respond when something about the wording clicked that it may have referred to something in my blog. I automatically texted her about it in case it was me and I'm really happy I did instead of my original response I was going to write on twitter. Feel like much less of an as and we'll get it all worked out the best we can.
Got home and yay dinner. We had salad, pork chops, mashed potatoes, and mushrooms stuffed with cream cheese and red onion. Just finished up and took care of some dishes. Another amazon order came in today. Baby books! A few weeks ago we saw this really informational witty book called The Baby Owner's Manual. It's totally a tech manual (formatting and all) for babies. We instantly thought of my brother-in-law Gerald and he's a very much a tech guy and a new father of just a month now. Logan also took an interest to it (my husband has worse baby fever than me right now) so we ordered 2 copies from amazon (one for Gerry, one for us) and also for us we got another book in the same series, The Baby Owner's Games and Activities Book. As soon as the husband gets a new job and we get some stuff squared away we will actually be thinking more seriously about children. The husband of course feels like he can never be over prepared so he's really looking forward to reading these books.
I think the rest of the night is going to result in chilling and watching stuff off the Xbox. We got the first ep o this new half season of The Walking Dead since we tuned in on Sunday and found ourselves a week behind. We were really astounded. We remembered when the last half of the season ended they said it would be returning the 17th of February. We must have completely missed the memo that it got moved up a week and we never saw anyone post anything on Facebook like we usually do. I think tonight I also want to try and squeeze in watching Music Bank from 2 weeks ago. Trying to get caught up on my Kpop promotions. Will be caught up with Inkigayo tomorrow.
On silly Kpop subjects I was stupidly proud of myself this morning that I could remember all the names of the members of VIXX and I feel like I can recognize most of them easily now with exception that 2 of them are a little easy to mix up, mainly because they are a little less prominent to me. I think I will have to update about doll stuff once again in another post. I am now once again updating off my iPad and the pics I want to share are still on my laptop and not yet uploaded anywhere online.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Life, Manga, Music
Haven't written for a while. I was just thinking to myself today, and even tweeted about it, that I really hadn't blogged for a while again and I should.
Work has been a little special lately. I'm temporarily shifting positions to work on a different project at work which will not allow me to be helping and doing work all over the building as I have been doing as a team leader. Because of this I've been having to get people refreshed and trained so my roles get covered. Found out today I may be starting on the project as soon as tomorrow. I had to fill out info for a background check and they have to change my job code and pay so things like that take time. Last week I got out early most days because its to the point where I'm around to assist but mot actually doing any work anymore.
On the subject of manga work for DMG I was finally able to complete my last assignment and am clear save for requested edits. I'm really just happy to be out from under it and not feeling so behind and having no spare time because of having an assignment to complete. I was a little disappointed though that I got off early last Thursday and there was no email newsletter with more assignment listings. As a lettered I have to be able to jump on those listings ASAP. However despite all the terrible things I did succeed in not missing a single deadline. However I know my current sleeping schedule is still a little messed up from the month and a half I stayed up until midnight on work nights so lately the time has really been running away from me.
On subject of manga that I'm reading let me just say I've been reading a lot lately. I've also been reading some shorter series and stand alone stuff in between waiting or books for some of the longer series I've also been reading. I believe in the last few weeks my title listing has included Tegami Bachi, Gorgeous Carat, Fujoshi Rumi, Tomcats, and Peach Girl. Yes for the record I do read a rather wide variety of manga.
- Currently Tegami Bachi has been the major favorite. I didn't get into it until about 11 volumes were out so I've had the lovely pleasure of having a multitude to read at once to catch myself up to the current release schedule. I've read up to volume 10 and just got volumes 11 & 12 in the mail today. It's such a good story with wonderful art. The art was what drew me to it at first but it not being by a manga-ka I knew nothing about I was hesitant to pick it up at full price. I managed to get the first few volumes at half price books and have been picking up the rest at discounted price on amazon. I really hate describing manga most of the time because I feel like of I talk too much about it to really get my point across about what is so great about it will give too much away. It's fantasy, adventure, coming of age, mystery, fighting....so much boiled into one. Right now I think I'm most enjoying it because it's much deeper and a little darker than I thought it would be. It's very heartfelt but then mystery and suspense that I'm just so excited to see what is going to happen next.
- Gorgeous Carat was actually a much better read than I was expecting. It's a fun exciting story through all three volumes. I also in the mail today got a used copy of Gorgeous Carat Galaxy so I haven' read that yet and am referring to the base three volume story. I remember buying the first volume many years back because it was a BLU manga title (meaning it was yaoi) and I really just had trouble getting into it because at that point in time I think I was really just desiring more smut and was less into the story. It is very mild on the BL and there's nothing overly graphic so I feel like it's a title that would be approved to lend to my 12yr old niece (she's a mature advanced reader but her mother still doesn't want her into anything too graphic till she gets just a little older). It's a mystery adventure story set in the early 1900s in Europe then moves around some Arabic and middle eastern counties. I was amused because a few things out of the eps o Downton Abbey I was watching last night reminded me of it.
- Fujoshi Rumi was just one very amusing and silly love story about a boy who falls in love with a girl who is a huge yaoi fangirl. It's like all the sweet cute innocent shojo love story with fun silly otaku goodness and some great BL fantasies on the side. So for any fellow multi genre lovers this was a fun read. I wish it could have had more of an insight to why girls who enjoy BL (they do touch on the main girl character's opinion on the matter), but that was really not the main point of the story. It is a short little 3 book series so if what I have said sounds somewhat interesting if you come across it cheap or to borrow it's worth the read.
- Tomcats volume 1 was something I picked up off the $1 discount cart at my local half price books. I primarily picked it up because it's published here in the states by Deux (a yaoi label) and I figured it was worth $1 to continue to fill my BL library. It looked really cute from first glance and is really cute and silly. It's like a goofy gag exaggerated slice of life kind of story. There are humans and cats and he cats are basically just small catgirls and catboys. There is no BL romance in it at all though in the postscript the manga-ka does state that there was not in this book but that she would be doing more for the next book. However there is just the one book published here in the states. It was random and silly and while it made m giggle I'm glad I only paid $1 for it.
- Last thing I will talk on is Peach Girl. For years I wanted to read it after enjoying the anime, but while I had enjoyed the anime it was never something I was super crazy over so once again my reluctance to invest in such a manga then every time I considered it at half price something better was there or there was never a volume 1. Finally picked up a chunk of the series for $1ea and am now just filling in what I need for reading it as I go along. I've officially read through volume 2 and so far the anime was very verbatim from what I've read. I do keep getting really annoyed by Tokyo Pop's obviously kinda crummy translations but I digress. Am still looking forward to making it through more of this shojo classic (sorry for anyone who doesn't consider it as such but it is honestly old enough and had enough popularity behind it for me to consider it as such).
Okay so enough about manga. I totally claimed I was going to talk about music, but I really have become quite tired after that long bit I just wrote. I guess on the music front I can still complain about not having enough time to follow everything and everyone I want to. Still t current more predominantly into Kpop as apposed to Jpop but it really just helps that I keep up fairly regularly with Music Bank and Inkigayo. I really want to get caught up with more of my favorite Japanese groups and also with my fave Korean groups Japanese work. I've only briefly been following my favorite group's, U-KISS, work and there most recent single is awesome. They do so much better work for Japan. But yah so much out there I need and want to listen to!
I think next post I need to remember I have doll photos and face-up work to share. Maybe someone out there is reading and interested in it (or my blathering a about manga & Asian music for that matter).
I think next post I need to remember I have doll photos and face-up work to share. Maybe someone out there is reading and interested in it (or my blathering a about manga & Asian music for that matter).
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Falling Day
Today has been mad crazy all the way from the start.
Before leaving for work this morning (before getting dressed to go to work actually), husband was hanging things in the closet when the closet suddenly decided to collapse. I might be a mean wife for saying this is karma for unresolved issues with another friend, but I almost feel this to be true. Problem being I feel like his bad karma is all wearing off on me due to my empathy, but ugh, I don't want it!
Went to work today and not only were we short people, the project I manage showed up almost 4 hours late. I worked late, my boss even stayed and we just scrambled as best we could to get it done. Our warehouse guy managed to stall our fedex man just long enough for us to completely finish everything up so we won't be working on it tomorrow morning. I still have work to complete for this job tomorrow morning, but it can wait until morning so that's beside the point. So long story short work sucked!
In reading today I finished up volume 2 of Ai Ore!. Still can't really describe my feelings for it. I like it more than "meh", but I can't say it's a series I'm in love with. I do really hope to see the Japanese live-action movie they made from it though.
So came home late from work. Ate leftover pasta and ham from previous nights dinners. Left the house and went to Home Depot to buy a new shelf and hanging rod for the closet. Husband will put it up while Mum is out at work tomorrow. We're having all the secret hopes that she just won't ever find out that it fell and broke and we will not put as much on the top shelf going forward. We ended up staying out later than I would really have preferred because the husband was having this whole "OMG OUT OF THE HOUSE" evening. Honestly I don't understand at all because I've always been such a hermit.
Came home, took my shower. Got things out of the dresser, then closed the drawer and FALLING AGAIN! Not the closet this time. Stuff jostled a a pill bottle knocked a doll head off the dresser. This is a comission I've been working on. The head's face-up was all finished, but I've still been doing work on the body. The fall scuffed up the cheek blushing so now I will need to fix that before he can be sent out. I really need to get him finished up because my time has been all slim and all the crazy things have been going on, but she's been waiting almost 2 months. I'm thinking I'm not allowing myself to go to the doll meet Saturday until I have done the work on this doll to finish him.
I've loved all this social activity lately. I know the husband has been becuase it means either being out of the house or being in the house with friends, but I can't get anything done! Going to push to stay up however long it takes for me to finish this Chapter 1 of the manga I'm currently working on. That is tonight's plan and hopefully I won't be paying for it too much in the morning.
Before leaving for work this morning (before getting dressed to go to work actually), husband was hanging things in the closet when the closet suddenly decided to collapse. I might be a mean wife for saying this is karma for unresolved issues with another friend, but I almost feel this to be true. Problem being I feel like his bad karma is all wearing off on me due to my empathy, but ugh, I don't want it!
Went to work today and not only were we short people, the project I manage showed up almost 4 hours late. I worked late, my boss even stayed and we just scrambled as best we could to get it done. Our warehouse guy managed to stall our fedex man just long enough for us to completely finish everything up so we won't be working on it tomorrow morning. I still have work to complete for this job tomorrow morning, but it can wait until morning so that's beside the point. So long story short work sucked!
In reading today I finished up volume 2 of Ai Ore!. Still can't really describe my feelings for it. I like it more than "meh", but I can't say it's a series I'm in love with. I do really hope to see the Japanese live-action movie they made from it though.
So came home late from work. Ate leftover pasta and ham from previous nights dinners. Left the house and went to Home Depot to buy a new shelf and hanging rod for the closet. Husband will put it up while Mum is out at work tomorrow. We're having all the secret hopes that she just won't ever find out that it fell and broke and we will not put as much on the top shelf going forward. We ended up staying out later than I would really have preferred because the husband was having this whole "OMG OUT OF THE HOUSE" evening. Honestly I don't understand at all because I've always been such a hermit.
Came home, took my shower. Got things out of the dresser, then closed the drawer and FALLING AGAIN! Not the closet this time. Stuff jostled a a pill bottle knocked a doll head off the dresser. This is a comission I've been working on. The head's face-up was all finished, but I've still been doing work on the body. The fall scuffed up the cheek blushing so now I will need to fix that before he can be sent out. I really need to get him finished up because my time has been all slim and all the crazy things have been going on, but she's been waiting almost 2 months. I'm thinking I'm not allowing myself to go to the doll meet Saturday until I have done the work on this doll to finish him.
I've loved all this social activity lately. I know the husband has been becuase it means either being out of the house or being in the house with friends, but I can't get anything done! Going to push to stay up however long it takes for me to finish this Chapter 1 of the manga I'm currently working on. That is tonight's plan and hopefully I won't be paying for it too much in the morning.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Fun But Frustrating Weekend
This weekend there was a lot going on. Little real rest happened, but much fun was had. We had a game night with friends on Saturday that lasted into the wee hours of Sunday morning. I actually ended up playing only one game myself, but that's not unusual for me. My husband is a very big gaming person, I am not.
I actually ended up facing up a doll the rest of the evening. My friend Jasmine had been waiting for another friend to do it who flaked on her a few times over the course of about three weeks and she was getting frustrated so since we were at my house and all my stuff to do it was at my disposal I offered and then did it. She turned out very cute. I must remember when I get my pictures off my camera to post it. She's a SOOM Thera and is the twin to my SOOM Goss. They are adorable together and now becuase I still haven't really decided what to do with my boy really and I wanted them to match better, she sold me back the pair of horns she had bought from my split since she bought the Thera horns along with the doll from our friend Kathy, who was the original owner.
Sunday was also fun. We all headed out to the Galleria to take my brother-in-law Rory & sister-in-law Faythe to the American Girl store. Jasmine & her husband Jim joined us as well. Jasmine is working so hard on the enabling front, she brought me one of her AGs to carry around the store. It was a little amusing, but fun. Afterwards we went back to our place where we hung out and had dinner.
Husband has been holding onto aggession about something that I feel like is silly that's been annoying him. I keep trying to work with him over and over again that he just needs to speak up and nip things in the bud when they start to bother them, not after multiple occassions after weeks and then he blows up all crazy about it. Sadly it concerns one of my best friends, and then even today my mom tried to start something and all I could think was "damn I thought she liked her alright except for the some of the cursing." I simply said we're not talking about her and after about three things she said and getting no response she just dropped it. I'm sorry mom that you think my friend is loud and bossy, but that's not very respectful to me to bring that up. Unless you want me to just not have her over you should have nothing to say. She could have simply said "I don't mind you having get togethers, but you all got a little loud, but I was just too nice to say anything so maybe in the future could you guys watch your volume."
I ended up rather bogged down at work today, so that just further added to my annoyance. As you might can tell I did wake up in a rather foul mood this morning. Read a couple more chapters of Ai Ore volume 2 today. I'm not super in love with the series, but I do like it. Want to see where it goes to. It is a bit more mature of a series than I expected it to be. So that about sums things up for now. I do need to kip off and try and get some manga work done before bed. I have a very quick approaching deadline and still very booked weekends to come.
I actually ended up facing up a doll the rest of the evening. My friend Jasmine had been waiting for another friend to do it who flaked on her a few times over the course of about three weeks and she was getting frustrated so since we were at my house and all my stuff to do it was at my disposal I offered and then did it. She turned out very cute. I must remember when I get my pictures off my camera to post it. She's a SOOM Thera and is the twin to my SOOM Goss. They are adorable together and now becuase I still haven't really decided what to do with my boy really and I wanted them to match better, she sold me back the pair of horns she had bought from my split since she bought the Thera horns along with the doll from our friend Kathy, who was the original owner.
Sunday was also fun. We all headed out to the Galleria to take my brother-in-law Rory & sister-in-law Faythe to the American Girl store. Jasmine & her husband Jim joined us as well. Jasmine is working so hard on the enabling front, she brought me one of her AGs to carry around the store. It was a little amusing, but fun. Afterwards we went back to our place where we hung out and had dinner.
Husband has been holding onto aggession about something that I feel like is silly that's been annoying him. I keep trying to work with him over and over again that he just needs to speak up and nip things in the bud when they start to bother them, not after multiple occassions after weeks and then he blows up all crazy about it. Sadly it concerns one of my best friends, and then even today my mom tried to start something and all I could think was "damn I thought she liked her alright except for the some of the cursing." I simply said we're not talking about her and after about three things she said and getting no response she just dropped it. I'm sorry mom that you think my friend is loud and bossy, but that's not very respectful to me to bring that up. Unless you want me to just not have her over you should have nothing to say. She could have simply said "I don't mind you having get togethers, but you all got a little loud, but I was just too nice to say anything so maybe in the future could you guys watch your volume."
I ended up rather bogged down at work today, so that just further added to my annoyance. As you might can tell I did wake up in a rather foul mood this morning. Read a couple more chapters of Ai Ore volume 2 today. I'm not super in love with the series, but I do like it. Want to see where it goes to. It is a bit more mature of a series than I expected it to be. So that about sums things up for now. I do need to kip off and try and get some manga work done before bed. I have a very quick approaching deadline and still very booked weekends to come.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Need to keep up better
Still trying to remind myself to do this blogging thing. In all honesty if I'd just found the time in the last month or so I would possibly be a little more calm about things than I am.
My last posted spoke of my father in less than well condition in the hospital. He passed away December 15th. My brother whom works over seas and his family came in and stayed with us across the course of about two weeks. It was really wonderful getting to see my youngest niece. She was 15mo old (16mo now) and almost walking. We think she will remember who we are now on future skype calls. Brother and wife kept their fighting/bickering to a minimum and their stay was far more pleasant than the last. These were of course very different circumstances. His service was lovely and packed the house to the point of standing room. The preist was my brother's child hood friend who was the third son and my third brother for many years. He grew up without a father so mine was a very special person in his life. It was good getting to see and visit with him as he grew up and faded off from our lives. My father's best friend of many years spoke as did one of my younger cousins who thought the world of my dad.
Christmas was not as hard as I thought it would be, but he was still missed greatly. I started my Christmas shopping early this year and everyone's presents went over quite well. The nieces and nephews made out like bandits and love their presents.
Sadly this was the last Christmas we were able to spend with my husband's father. Christmas came and new years passed. He began fading faster than any of us could have imagined. He celebrated his first anniversary with his dear second wife Monday the 14th, not much celebration due to his physical state, and around 1:30am on January 15th he passed away. Mom called all the boys a little before midnight and all of us came. He was surround by his loving wife & his three sons and their wives. The boys all shared stories and we asked him to say hello to loved ones and good friends (and especially to his hero John Wayne).
His service was yesterday and the church was packed. We've gotten to spend the last few days with all of his siblings (our aunts and uncles). It has been very good to see them and get to spend the time with them that we have.
Step-brother-in-law was able to get his tickets moved forward to come and be her for his mother and to be here for the memorial service. We've also gotten to spend some time together, which has been great, and I feel like we've all bonded a little more as well.
Most out of anyone, one of the uncles has been staying here with us at Mom's place. He drives a truck and drove in last week. We have enjoyed every moment of having him. Husband thinks the absolute world of him and this is the first time they've ever gotten to spend this much time together. We've played board games, watched movies and just had some great times. I really really look forward to having my own place so hopefully we can offer a guest room to him in the future when he rolls through like this again.
We're all doing fine, but I want to be done with all of this death business.
In between all this I dnd end up getting some doll commissions done. People send me dolls/heads the first week of December so I ended up taking longer on everything than normal but the owners definitely understood.
Fairyland Minifee Scar Shiwoo
Luts Minifee Elf Shiwoo
These two commissions were done for Den of Angels user DeadLegato. I still have another comission that's not quite complete. Finished the face-up, but am in the middle of working on a scar on the body. Will post it when completed.
I'm still off from work tomorrow and will probably be spending the day doing just whatever with a combo of family and friends. Husband is cooking a divine smelling dinner right now! Looking very forward to it.
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