Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Ippai koto ga ....
(A lot of things....)

Mood: =^_^= (super hyper ultra happy!)

Listening to: Multiple Hagaren themes and image songs...


So many things happened yesterday. I'm not sure that I even know where to start. But before I say anything, I should probably say this: Lately (for some reason) I keep feeling like I'm bragging. I'm just excited and happy, I really hope it doesn't sound like I'm bragging... v_v That's the last thing I want. So... that's about it. Just know that I don't mean to sound like that, really...


Okay, first of all, Kana-chan has become my mangaer. Basically she makes sure that I'm not getting myself distracted... ^^; Yep, well, a lot of the time, Kana-chan seems like she's the older sister... I really don't act my age do I? (Not that I think that's all bad, it's just that ... I think it may be true...and Kana-chan does act older than me a lot of the time... I have a tendency of getting overly excited, and other things like that....) So, starting today, Kana-chan will be making sure that I'm working on the things that I'm supposed to be working on. Kana-chan! Yoroshiku~! Because I have a bad habit of distracting myself, and then I only get done about half of what I should be getting done... (I am so strange...) So, Kana-chan is now my manager-san. Hopefully this'll work, and I can become more productive!^^ Heh, heh, I am so wierd... ( I make a schedule for myself...^^;;) So, today, I should be busy! Mostly doing a lot of studying... I need to practice more... (by studying, I mean Japanese) so I can buy the books of Hagaren in Japanese! Talk about motivation!^^

Also, yesterday I talked about a manga shop close to our house, and we actually did get to walk there yesterday!^^ They have about as big selection as in Walden's or any other bookstore, and they also have used manga!^^ It's all in really good condition, and it's half price! They have a lot of older series, too... like series that have gone out of print, and you can't buy in the bookstore anymore. They also had some Japanese manga!!^^ (this made Kanau happiest of all) But the Japanese manga they have, are all of series that I don't know... but, hopefully they'll get different stuff in, and time goes by.^^ We had $20 with us, and we were looking around, and then Kana-chan spotted a Japanese Hagaren book!!! (Arigatou Kana-chan!!~~^^) It was one of those books where they make manga out of the anime. Basically screen shots with word bubbles... But it was in Japanese, and so cool~~!! So we bought it.^^;; It was kind of expensive... ($16.99 - when on the back it said that it's around 900 yen...) But that's okay. I'm really happy!^^ And I tried to read the first little part (I stopped trying to read, because I wanted to finish looking through it... reading is very time consuming...^^;;) and I could understand maybe half of it. I think my studying is finally paying off!!^^ So, if I keep at it... I should be able to understand more! (There's so many kanji!!) I think that it's so cool when I can walk to the bookstore, and buy a Japanese book, of a series that is currently running in Japan!^^ I'm not bragging, I'm just really exicted, and glad to find out that the only place to buy Japanese manga isn't over the internet... gomen ne~...

Now, the really good news! (This will probably sound like bragging, no matter how I say it...)

Last night, my mom and I were talking about me getting a job sometime soon, and about her working. Before we moved, she worked a newspaper route, delivering to businesses, and she was talking about maybe doing something like that here. But then we were thinking, and that would mean that she'd have to sleep during the day, and a lot of the money that she'd be making, would be used in gas money.... and such. She was also talking about real estate investing, (she's been studying up on it for a long while) but we don't know if we have the resources to do that right now. (She'd be doing something, like buying houses that needed fixing up, fixing them and then selling them for profit. There's other things too.) Because we'd have to have a least some money to use to buy a house with... we don't have that right now. Then we were talking about doing something else, something where we could all work (even Kana-chan, and SakuraYume) and be enjoying what we're doing, and we decided that it would be the best. We are going to start a manga shop. (Not close to the one by our house!XD It'd probably be farther away, maybe close to the univeristy... isn't it funny that we just discovered a manga shop, and now we're going to start our own? ) We've actually been thinking about this for a long while, but didn't know if we could ever actually do it. We know that it won't be easy, but we figured that if we have a job where we're enjoying what we're doing, that's what really matters. Why go to a job everyday that you hate? I don't think that you could be very productive at what you're doing... I think that having a job that you love is really important. But I'm really really exicted!! We decided that we'll have manga in English and Japanese, and we'll also have used books, maybe doujinshi... And we'd have CDs and DVDs. And also J-pop, and J-rock and J-other stuff. And the shop would only have Japanese series... No Korean, no American, no anything not from Japan. Just because we want it to be only Japanese things... not because we're saying the other stuff is terrible or anything...well, some of the American stuff, when they try to copy the manga style....I'll get in trouble for saying that..... .... Of course this isn't going to happen right away. First my mom has to take some classes on 'how-to-start-your-own-business'. Then we have to find the space to rent, and because all of us are old enough to handle working, we won't have to hire any employees, at least right away. And also since I'm planning on living in Japan in a few years, (as soon as I learn enough Japanese to go to an animation school---but I plan on coming back and forth a lot...I love my room here in our new house! The walls and carpet are cobalt blue...^^ so I want to come back here often, probably for that reason, and because I'll need to see my family... otherwise... Japan's good for me!^^;) then I could buy stuff and send it here for the store. Manga in used bookstores there is really cheap, and in excellent condition, I thought that would be a really good thing to get for our shop...^^ Also, I never got to go doujinshi hunting like I wanted to when I was there... and that could be another good thing... I am so excited!!^^ I know that it'll take a while before everything is up and running, but still, just thinking about it, that we are actually going to do it, makes me so happy! And my mom would also do her real estate thing, just not on such a large scale... But this kind of thing always inspires me... Thinking of what you want to do, and then actually going through the effort to make it really happen, instead of just dreaming about it. Realizing your dream!~~ So now I have even more motivation to work harder on my ideas and things!!!=^_^= I'm so happy~~!!! I'm in such a good mood that I can hardly believe it!^^

Also, another happy thing, I have reached 100 visits!! Arigatou gozaimashita mina-sama~! Thank you so much everyone~!! I'm so glad!






I really hope that my good mood lasts!=^_^= I think that it will, just because everything is going so well!~~

Sorry that this post is so terribly long...^^;; I kind of got carried away...heh, heh...

Also, when I was thanking Kana-chan for helping me with my layout, I forgot to thank Shizuka for making the avatar!! I'm really sorry, Shizuka!!! Hontou ni gomen nasai~!

Also, thank you again to Kana-chan for taking on the task of becoming my manager!^^ Arigatou~, yoroshiku~!!^_^


Thank you so much for reading and commenting!^^ I appreciate it so much!!^^


~Kanau
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