Hello my friends! I am so very very very sorry that I haven’t been around lately! I have for once a really good reason. ^^ As some of you know the weather around my lovely city of Seattle has been a bit crazy of late. Mostly snow and then rain and then more snow. Well some friends of mine, myself included got this brilliant idea, when it started snowing, that we really wanted to experience this great weather. So we went up into the mountains to another friends retreat. Hmm I should say a friends summer retreat…yeah he never goes there in the winter. We now know why. While the lovely city of Seattle got about five inches of snow…we had enough to bury our vehicles. To say nothing of the road to the cabin. And of course since this time of year no one is supposed to be up there no one was going to come with nice snow plows to dig us out. Hehehe Yeah we’re all geniuses aren’t we?
Thankfully we’re not completely fools we brought a ton of a food and supplies with us and the house has its own generator so we were pretty cozy for being completely trapped. It was actually pretty nice we just hung around and talked and had snow ball fights and made snow man! We danced to bad 80’s music and reminisced about high school days. And spent a few hours wondering if we were going to have to dig out way out with our bare hands since we didn’t have shovels either. Though Mike did come up with some garden supply trowels we thankfully didn’t have to rescue ourselves.
I think it was day six or seven of our absence that the game wardens in the area noticed the smoke from our fire and came to check on us. I really don’t think we were what they were expecting when they broke through the snow buried driveway. I mean I’ve never gone to rescue someone and found them playing monopoly in pajamas at 3 in the afternoon. LoL But still we were all pretty grateful for the help getting out and we headed off the mountain and back to our homes…now here’s where it gets weird. We made it home…had hot showers, ate some food…and about two hours later all got together again and decided it was more fun at the cabin. LoL We were all on vacation time anyway so we packed even more supplies and headed back up there again! We weren’t even up there a day and it started to snow again and we yet again were trapped. But this time even more happily prepared than before. So we again made more snow men…or it a snow family by now. Scott even made some snow pets for them in the end. LoL
Oh we warned the game wardens we were up there this time so again at the end of the week they came to our rescue clearing the driveway and inviting us to disappear back into out normal lives. And probably to leave them to their fun in the snowy mountains. So now I’m back! I admit it was quite nice to get away from computers and tv’s for a couple of weeks. Though I did miss chatting with people so I doubt I’ll be going away anytime soon! It’s going to take me forever to catch up on all your sites so please forgive me I miss any! I’m sorry! I’ve got so much anime and manga to read too!
Oh a side note: ElvesatmyRamen! I curse you!! Hehehe I spent three days driving around to every B&N and Borders and mini-bookstore in the area gathering volumes of Immortal Rain! Ok you were right…again it is a fantastic story and I’m completely addicted! Hence the Immortal Rain icons in this week’s post. ^^ But honestly for those of you who have never heard of it, you should check it out. It reminds me a great deal of Trigun in the fact it mixes humor and drama into a lovely story! And well it’s just plain beautiful to read too! Great artwork, fantastic writing!
Hmm ok the basic story is this: More commonly known as Methuselah, Rain is 624 years old. His immortality makes him famous, and he is the subject of numerous bounties. The cause of Rain's immortality is a mysterious man who appears in flashbacks early in the series. Tending to stay away from violence, he doesn't try to stay close to others because he fears their deaths. Machika is a fourteen-year-old assassin. Her grandfather died a month before the series starts and she is determined to hunt down the one bounty her grandfather couldn’t bring in, namely Rain. However fate is a tricky thing and these two get pulled into each other lives and she makes Rain feel emotions he’s forgotten even existed in his eternal life.
And yes this series is licensed and currently 7 volumes have been released in the US, hence my shopping spree hunting down these books. It’s a fairly unknown series but I was pleased that the first Borders I visited actually had four books. I found the remainder at other Barnes and Nobles in the area. Of course I could have been smart and just ordered them online but what fun is that. LoL
Last minute plug: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip returns to NBC for the remainder of the season! And it can be seen on Bravo as well so please check it out! It’s a fantastic TV drama!
Also uploaded a few lovely new wallpapers for various series. Including Immortal Rain, Prince of Tennis, Peacemaker Kurogane and Weiss Kreuz! I'm going to try to upload a few e-cards I've been working on as well! Enjoy!
Alright enough advertising for me! Hehehe I hope everyone has been having a great couple of weeks while I was gone! Oh and I’m pondering a new theme for the site so if you have any requests let me know. I may not listen to them but I’m always interested in what you guys are thinking!
Random Question: What’s your favorite kind of cookie?
Long lost me...
