Thursday, August 6, 2009

Of Sleeping Until Noon and Other Mishaps
Today was yet another day of waking up at noon, thankfully to find that Dad’s gone so I didn’t get yelled at; and then after making a smoothie for breakfast (that my brother had to go and tamper with. Other than adding the soda it was fine as it was! D< ) heading over to Rae’s house… where I ended up drawing yet another gift art for Haruhi (that’s what we’ll call her here for now – a friend of Shana’s, and apparently another one of my fans). But it was a cute one, aru! … I think the tag at the end of that sentence just about gave away the subject matter of that artwork – at least to the Hetalia fans among my likely very small audience.

Regarding my brother, I did give him a butt-chewing… and put a password on my laptop. Now no one’s getting into Tsubaki without my permission.

Commercials confuzzle me nowadays.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Mother-Daughter Get-Stuff-Done Day
… Even though we didn’t wake up until noon. But surprisingly Dad didn’t yell at us to “GET OUR F#$Y#&(*&$ING *insert biblical term for donkey* OUT OF BED” (yes, he really did say that. My dad is a very shouty, f-bombing-dropping person when he’s mad – and everyone else sleeping in past early morning is a BIG pet peeve of his) until about 12:25. O.o for a second when I first woke up I wondered whether he was still sleeping himself… but it turned out he got my brother up an hour earlier and took him to get his hair cut.

But anyway, after waking up and very quickly getting dressed, Mom and I left the house for the day. First we had a doctor’s appointment she needed to go to, so I waited patiently in the lobby and worked a bit on some Randomosity stuff (even though I ended up not finishing the inking at all throughout the day, but I got the cover for College and Beyond linearted and inked –and three pages of current Randomosity omake penciled out at least. I just gotta get off my lazy buns and ink them sometime by the end of this week. ^^;). Afterwards we went out to lunch at Panda express (orange chicken FTW!) and got my books for school. Then we went to the mall to get Mom’s hair done, and Dad told her to go to Wal-Mart on the way home to get some stuff, so we did and then came home… after which Mom went with Dad to Costco and I went to look at my books. I’ve already read the prefaces of most of them except for my math book which I won’t open until I’m positive I won’t switch the class for a lower math class (even though that’s not likely because I figure I’ll have to take Mat 121 anyway, so might as well get it over with, right?). Then the parents came home and we had pizza from Costco for dinner, and I just hid away in my room for the rest of the night to read the surprisingly large number of comments I got on theO today (which of course brightened my mood), in addition to a fave, alert, AND (positive) review on my story over on ff.net. Granted, all of those things were from the same person, but still. I know at least this fic isn’t a COMPLETE dud. Right Rae? *glances at co-author in anticipation*

Ren: you know you’ll probably see her tomorrow, right – or should I say today since it’s past midnight! No wonder you’re sleeping until noon all the time!

CCR: butbut – Tsubaki’s only halfway done charging (yes, my laptop is named Tsubaki - no Soul Eater reference intended, believe it or not). And I don’t like letting her charge overnight because it might overcharge the battery… and WHAT THE HECK?!

Ren: oh yeah… probably should’ve told you that while you were gone your brother weaseled onto the computer.

CCR: ooh, he’s in trouble. Logging me out of facebook so he can get on is one thing, but if he so much as thought about going onto myspace on my comp, so help me….! *checks history frantically*

Ren: and until she calms down, I suppose an end to this post is in order.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Semi-Progress
Yet another productive yet not-so-productive day.

If nothing else, I managed to de-clutter my room a bit… except now I can’t find that Shonen Sunday issue I bought back in Japan OR Shugo Chara volume 9 (also purchased in Japan). But hopefully those two things turn up somewhere OTHER than under my bed – which may be the next target once Dad prods me to clean again. *shudder* that’s gonna be a nightmare…

Another semi-productive item of news, I finished reading Shaman King volume 23 and have started another comic for the Randomosity omake. … though you know I’m highly tempted to just not do the comics in order and draw whichever stories from the trip come to mind the fastest and I can portray the best. I mean, if nothing else just as a temporary thing. Or I can splice them in here and there in College and Beyond. Yes, I’m aware I probably used splice in the wrong context. Oh, and I made a really good strawberry-banana milkshake… only problem now is that I can’t duplicate it because we don’t have enough strawberries and I depleted our banana supply making that thing. But man was it good!

Ren: still consuming milk products even though you complain about congestion…

CCR: that time I’ll admit I totally forgot about the “dairy promotes congestion” thing! Same with the cheese I had earlier. On top of that, the American style of cooking relies far too heavily on dairy products for me to avoid them for long without accidentally running into one… that or my family really likes dairy, one or the other. Oh, by the way… *glomp*

Ren: >/////> what was that for?!

CCR: I dunno, you’ve just been awesome in volume 23. Especially the “I have a sister too” line. It shows you really DO care about others. ^^

Ren: -__- fangirls…

CCR: what can I say? It’s what we do best. ^^;

As for tomorrow… I dunno. Depending I might decide to call up Yuna-chan and invite her over sometime this week – after all, I still have to give her the birthday present I bought for her back in Japan – and it’s been over a month since I got home. So if I’m able to do that tomorrow, great. If not, then another time in the week. But either way I WILL try to talk to her before school starts.

… my arms are too flabby for my own good. Okay, that was even more random than usual. But anyway, I best be heading to bed before Dad wakes me up early tomorrow yelling at me for staying up too late. Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Pyon~
doodeedoodeedoo.

Okay, what to say… I’m not sure, really. Today was just stake conference, after which I got dragged around Fry’s by my dad (he needed last-minute ingredients for dinner and Mom ended up buying angel food cake and strawberry glaze to make strawberry shortcake with the heckload of strawberries my dad bought the other night) – in the dress I got in Thailand, no less. XD (it’s one of those Chinese-style dresses) And later I had to make the gravy and prepare the glaze for dinner and dessert. But dinner was GOOD! London Broil FTW!

Oh, and I’m working on another drawing right now as we speak! ^^ started it while waiting for the update on messenger to finish installing… even though it originated as a Paint doodle, I think I’ll finish and upload this one…. Even if it IS yet another Hetalia drawing. Seriously, that’s all I draw anymore it seems. XD at least in the way of fan art. I’ve been drawing some original stuffs too, just of course I only upload my fan art here because my originals are usually barely given a second glance. Not that anyone gives a care about my drawings to begin with, at least here, but meh. It’s because so many more amazing artists overshadow me I suppose… me and my often anatomically deformed drawings. XD; But I’ve been working-ish on that. Was playing around with my style the other day to see how it would look if I used more “realistic” proportions… not sure if I’ll use it ALL the time, but it would help to not draw such ridiculously huge heads on my drawings, wouldn’t it?

o.o; wow, this ended up a drawing rant more than anything.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Summer Is Ending
The fact that my brothers both got their schedules today is plenty of proof. The only problem – both of my friends within walking distance of my house start school a week or so earlier than me (they start on the 12th, I start on the 17th). Well, obviously much of this week will be taken up because my dad’s home and Mom’s gonna take me down to get my books and sign up for Institute while signing up for her MCC classes – on top of that tomorrow night AND Sunday afternoon I have Stake Conference (the adults have a session on Saturday evening along with the family session on Sunday… and since I’m 18 now I’m required to go to both. *sigh* but, it’s not that much different from General Conference coming up in October anyway. Just that having two Fast Sundays in September might be a little strenuous on me). Yeah, it’s just gonna be the week that Kana and Rae go back to school that’s gonna be the kicker.

Ed: looking on the bright side though, your brothers start back at the same time they do. Considering how much of a pain in the neck the biological one tends to be you can finally pay him back for a bit!

CCR: true that. And then there’s also the fact I’m only gonna be in school for two days out of the week… I mean, even if two of the other three days minimum will go towards homework, it’s still time that I’m at home that he isn’t. >D

Ren: are you already forgetting your Tuesday orientation class?

CCR: that’s only for six weeks though. … But I gotta admit, I’m semi-scared of my math teacher. The counselor signed me up for Math 121 (basically Algebra II but probably more in-depth) without even mentioning the possibility of 101, and Kyarri said that the teacher for 121 gives more homework than the average. As it is I didn’t do too hot in Algebra II, so I’m wondering how I’m gonna fare in this class without at least getting some form of tutoring.

But then Kana and Rae I think both did well in Algebra II (though they both had the same teacher I did for that class, to the point second semester Kana and I sat next to each other in that class my junior year). If they’re not too bogged by their own school work (which Rae probably will be given she’s taking two AP classes this year), then maybe… Crap, this is gonna be embarrassing if I have to go to a high school student to get help for a college-level class. –A-; But then it’s more my fault that I’m weaker in math than them than anything else. And heck, I might end up studying with Andrew on Sociology too since he’s taking that this year through Dunn (one of my old American History teachers).

… And reading Sage of Magic’s latest comment just reminded me that I need to draw some more comics for the Randomosity omake centering around my trip and get started on the prologue to Randomosity: College and Beyond. *sigh* guess I’ve got my work cut out for me the next two weeks after all (you know, aside from getting ready for school and working as much on my ongoing fanfics as possible before I have to shove them all aside for working on in the few moments where I don’t have homework and am able to get that kind of stuff done without sacrificing a few points from my GPA or an hour of sleep. So I don’t end up complaining to you guys any more than I already have, I shall take my leave. Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

... What was I Upset About Again?
Seriously, earlier I was all riled up when I came back home, but now my mood’s improved… guess I do kinda “rise like a phoenix� from my depression. Just takes a while for that to happen. But I must say my brother is utterly stupid. What did he do this time?

He got his knee messed up, went to the mall without Mom’s permission, and stole her car key! That’s that happened.

In other news, not much else happened with me today… kinda slept until noon, but that more or less was needed/served me right because I was up until 2 AM the night before. XD And it sounds like someone’s here! ^^ (I’m having that sleepover I promised Shana tonight, but all of my guests are arriving late-ish for one reason or other). So depending on who it is… oh hey, it’s Tawny. XD And once again I’m a handmaid to my brother’s stupidity. *gets up to get him some aspirin (I already answered the door)* … and Miwa just cancelled. Ah well, let’s hope none of the others back out, considering Shana’s the guest of honor and all.

Ren: -_-; don’t worry about it. Nine out of ten they’ll still show.

CCR: true, true… Plus this isn’t much different from my birthday party last year. Most of the people who I invited either couldn’t come or showed up super-late! *twitches slightly*

Ed: she’s paranoid again isn’t she?

Ren: since when has she not been?

CCR: -A- I heard that…

Guess I oughta end this post early… again. Not like anyone reads this anymore anyway. Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Rebellion
Why must my brother be such a pain?

But thankfully that part of my day didn’t consume it. It still bugs me – greatly. But I’ve moved on for the most part. Now I just gotta concentrate on my latest challenge: how the heck I’m gonna do this sleepover tomorrow when two of my five guests are gonna be arriving past 9 pm due to schedule conflicts? But I promised Shana an awesome sleepover after I got back from Japan, and this may be my last chance… gah, why oh why do I have to make silly promises?

Ren: because sometimes you act more like you’re Shana’s age instead of 18.

CCR: that’s somewhat true, I suppose… And also probably ‘cause my inner kid is telling me to make the most of my last days of summer before becoming an academic slave thanks to college.

And yet I have been incredibly lazy as far as drawing goes. Whyyyyyyy?

Ren: that I can’t help you with.

CCR: meh, I figured as much. *munches on some uncooked rice*

Ren: … and yet you complain about getting fat.

CCR: wha? It’s not even that much. Still, I probably should cut back.

So my day in a nutshell – discussions regarding when to hold the sleepover, realizing ultimately Kyarri couldn’t make it, going to Kyarri’s house for a bit, where we ended up more or less having a Hetalia marathon (though we skipped a couple of episodes because we couldn’t find them, but we got up to about episode 25). And we had pizza! :3

Oh, and I’m thinking of creating a new world, mainly for my old mini-fics from WAY back and also to log future ones so that way people don’t have to completely dig through my myO archives just to find a mini-fic that might be referenced in a later one… but then at the same time I’m not sure if I should use my last World for that (since I already have four out of the max of five… I think five’s the max, isn’t it?). It’s not likely though. ^^; … But thankfully the plot bunnies are giving me ideas for both my current fanfic AND aiding the art fairies in giving me ideas for a drawing. Thank you Tommy Heavenly 6!

Ed: isn’t that a band?

CCR: yeah, they did Paper Moon, the second opening to Soul Eater. But the official PV (I think that’s how one would refer to the music video) has a Wizard of Oz theme to it… my fic is a parody of The Wizard of Oz.

The bad thing is, I have a feeling this pic will end up being rather large-scale… and if I started it tonight I’ll be up until the wee hours of the morning again. D: Ah well, I’ll get working on it eventually, maybe even at the very least get it started tonight…

O___O; crap.

Ren and Ed: what now?

CCR: someone’s doing the Wizard of Oz idea already… ‘cept it looks like so far that one is taking a different course from the one Rae and I are doing, so I THINK there shouldn’t be too much of a blunder. … I hope. It shouldn’t, right? After all, I have already started chapter one, announced it on my ff.net profile as a work in progress along with another few multi-chapter fanfics I’m working on… I’m in the clear, right?

Great, now I’m paranoid.

Before I go into another rant/paranoia, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Monday, July 27, 2009

Of Randomness
So… since my last post.

Thursday: don’t recall what happened much at all, actually… except for Tawny calling and inviting me over on Friday. Dad complied, but at first saying “not until I leave.� Knowing he wouldn’t leave until Saturday (even though he swore he’d leave Friday, I know him all too well), my hopes were not high.

Friday: well, whaddya know? I ended up going after all. Miwa was there too, and we all ended up watching Taken and a few episodes of the new TV show, 10 Things I Hate About You (and yes, it is based on the movie of the same name, ‘cept there are plenty of differences… one being that the guy whom I’m guessing is replacing the late Heath Ledger’s character in the movie has shorter hair).

Saturday… we got up early-ish to go over to Miwa’s house, for me this was the first time I’ve been over to her place in over two years. We read a little Hetalia… and crashed (all of us were up until at least one in the morning, Miwa even later). Then around noon-ish Tawny and I got up, later struggling to get Miwa out of bed. Good times were had by all, with a couple of new drawings for me to finish and Miwa getting hooked on Soul Eater once we got back to Tawny’s and she showed it to her.

Today… well, needless to say, a lot happened. Kind of.

Ren: a lot? That’s sort of an understatement…

CCR: wha?

Ren: you slept through the main stuff.

CCR: did I…? Care to tell me?

Ren: why?

CCR: because I haven’t done a good mini-fic here for a while (though that might be somewhat of a relief to the readers). And I need to sidetrack myself from all the DEPRESSING Hetalia fics! Seriously, what is WITH that? … though one I read about Ivan was really good, ‘cept the brief GermanyxRussia reference in that one was a teeny bit weird… And I’m half-scared to read that Sound of Music parody I found just yet because Austria is Rolf and Hungary is… crap, I forget the girl’s name. Still, in the words of one reviewer: I sure as HECK hope Austria doesn’t follow Rolf’s betrayal path! Otherwise, I -

Ren: okay, they get it! Just shut… up!

CCR: so…?

Ren: no, I’m not going into detail on what went on during your nap. Besides, it’s not even Sunday anymore, it’s 2 AM!

CCR: phooey. … but then I guess the time is my own fault *ended up reading more Hetalia stuff*. Until next time, ja ne~!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Answer Called the Future
*shrug* random subject line influenced by what’s on my mp3 player right now is random.

So yeah… man did today fly by fast. One minute I was being awakened by my dad in the usual manner (“It’s noon, get your a** out of bed!� … even if it was 10:30), then I was eating breakfast, doing the dishes and my chores for the day (dusting another shelf), and before I knew it I was at Rae’s house… which didn’t last long because Kana invited us to go to the mall with her today, so we ended up doing that for a bit and then went to her house to hang out…. And her new rabbits hate me.

Ed: if it makes you feel better they hate me too. Heck, one of them freakin’ bit me!

CCR: one bit me too, but it surprisingly wasn’t that hard at all... barely even a nibble.

Ed: this one bit harder. A LOT harder… and it was NOT on the automail hand!

Ren: they were fine with me.

Ed and CCR: *glare at Ren*

Ren: *stares blankly* … what? I didn’t ask to be favored by those things.

CCR: I know… just… how come YOU were – you don’t even technically exist!

Ren: like I said, I don’t know.

CCR: anyway…

I’m sorry, I kinda lied yesterday about uploading the comics. But hopefully I’ll remember to upload them tonight… as in I’ll go do that right now. There, it’s up. ^^; … even if now it’s only one comic.

So I guess that’s all I’ve got for tonight… sorry guys. m(_ _)m Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Of Church Choirs, Housecleaning and Thunderstorms
Sunday – don’t remember much, ‘cept Dad basically insisted I stay after church for choir practice even though I haven’t been in the ward choir in ages. But considering right now there are only two sopranos… I might start going regularly again. Then after I got home, it was the usual shouting from Dad. At the end of the day we all went to Old Country Buffet for dinner.

Yesterday, we cleaned the house – and I don’t mean the typical tidy up the living room and bathrooms and kitchen deal, I mean we did some DEEP cleaning. Dad made sure of that… but I got a cool sweater out of it! ^^ Might even use it for a casual!America cosplay if I can find a wig for that someplace. Also ended up being woken up between 4:30 and 5:30 am by the thunderstorms we’ve been having of late. But hey, that’s the monsoon season for ya. Let’s just hope it isn’t that stormy when Kyarri flies back in Friday.

Ren: would you stop worrying about that?

CCR: I have, for the most part. Now I’m just a teeny bit nervous about other stuff.

Ren: then don’t worry about that stuff either. It’ll be fine, you’re just too much of a worrywart.

CCR: … that somehow sounds like something Yoh would say.

Ren: -_-+ shut it.

CCR: whatever you say.

As for today… well, today was mostly a veg-day. All I got done really was beta-reading another chapter of Lunar Hikari’s fic (a person I beta-read for through fanfiction.net; far as I know she doesn’t have a theOtaku account… yet. >D)…. And at the very least ATTEMPTING to get a connection going with another ff.net user who’s requested my beta services, but for some reason every time I type in her username or even her userID to the little text bar where we’re supposed to enter such information to establish a DocX connection (it’s how betas and so forth exchange documents without having to use e-mail), it goes screwy on me! So I’m a teeny bit annoyed about that, but we’ll work it out – hopefully. And if not, I’ll still show my support by reading the finished product if she ends up finding another beta that doesn’t have the same problem. Either way, I’ll know when she replies to my PM.

… Now what else was I gonna say?

Ed: the omake comics you’ve got done so far for Randomosity?

CCR: oh yeah! Thank you for reminding me. ^^ I’ll upload those sometime tonight probably… what little of tonight is left anyway. It’s 11 pm over here already. Now there was something else too… Oh yeah! I think my dad thinks I’m some kind of killer now or something – he looked through my pictures on my laptop and found three or four involving Itachi… and jokes referencing his “killing� tendencies; he then called it “negativity.�

*reading her messages and so forth from dA* … wait. Oh. Crap.

Ren: what now?

CCR: Ri-chan’s gonna be Japan on the third day of Saboten-Con (Sunday). That may very well mean… that the APH gathering they’re having at the con is on Sunday. And if at all possible I’d prefer not to go on Sunday/my parents I’m sure will be against me going Sunday unless I absolutely have to. Meaning even if I do get my Lithuania cosplay done (again, speaking on Hetalia terms… man I really should start using the character’s human names in these posts instead of their nation names, huh?)… there’s a chance it’ll generally be a moot point. But then at the same time, this could be a good thing. As it is I wasn’t sure how I was gonna work out THREE cosplays without going all three days (Kyarri and I have planned on doing a Soul Eater witch group for the con for ages since it’s over Halloween, along with Ri-chan and Aro-san, but the only ones I see sticking to it so far are Kyarri and I, as Medusa and Crona respectively. On top of that I’m gonna be Sailor Mercury in the bog Sailor Moon group with Kira and Riku and everyone…). If I don’t get it done I’ll have to hold Liet off until PCC… I’m sorry Rae! Seriously, I am!

Allen: what are you apologizing to her for? (what’s the guarantee she’ll even read this post?)

CCR: if we get her cosplay done in time and she gets clearance to even go to the con, she’s gonna be Russia.

Well, given it’s getting rather late and I don’t want this rant to get much longer, I’ll end this here. Until next time, ja ne!
Comments (0) | Permalink