So, here’s a rundown of how my life has been going since I last for serious blogged.

I FINALLY GOT A JOB!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO! I am now a proud Target employee! :P True, I was only hired on for Holiday help, but if I’m a smashing cashier for the next two moths then they’ll keep me on! I must say though, I really underestimated cashiering. It’s a lot more of a demanding job then you’d think. But, I’m really happy I’m finally doing something and earning some money (even though it’s all probably going to end up going to the Christmas fund). :P I no longer feel useless, thank Shiva! I work with some pretty cool people, too… Even if some of them are not so cool. Or really all that nice… At all. <.< But, oh well! I have a job! :D Sadly, I’m usually stuck closing… L

Sugoi-con came and went, too. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to fully enjoy it this year. I had to work on Friday and Saturday (yes, I worked through Halloween L ), and I had no time to make a costume. So, I missed about ninety percent of the con. I didn’t get to see the cool concerts or Japanese guests, I had limited time in the dealers room, I missed a lot of cool panels I wanted to see, I didn’t get very many cosplayer pictures, and I myself didn’t get to cosplay. Turds. L But, I was free on Sunday, which turned out being my only enjoyable day because I didn’t feel rushed and wasn’t dead from working. So, Sunday was nice, and I did get to see quite a few of my buds. I mainly stayed with Amanda, but I hung out with John some, too. Overall, I made out with:

• Three Little Pullips (I freaked when I saw them, and got all excited in giddy. ^.^ I love my little girls!!! >.<)
• A bad ass Tieria Erde figure (it’s one of my fav figures I own now, by far).
• A Chibi Bunny Kallen figure (not the one I was looking for, but I’m just happy I own a Bunny Kallen! And a cute one, at that ^.^).
• A Kamina Plushie (YES.)
• A random Gurren Lagann figure that turned out to be Gimmy (I can’t win with those things :P).
• A Kuroshitsuji (Agni) phone charm.
• A really cute chibi Yoko keychain from artists alley.
• A Tyki Mikk keychain.
• A weird folder thing I won at the gambling booth from some random video game.
• Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, that’s it!

I didn’t bring as much money as I usually do this year, and their were a lot of things I wanted and couldn’t get, but I still had fun and am happy with what I got. Amanda and I were thinking of maybe going to Anime Punch this year, as well… We’ll see how that goes. ^.^

Other than that… Uh… Well, I’ve been taking some mass pictures of Takeshi and Maki, and loaded them onto Flickr, as well as some pictures of my new Little girls. I love Flickr… A whole, whole, whole lot…

I’m probs forgetting a zillion things I was going to say here, but I’ll get back to you on that. :P

OH! One more thing! I went and saw, Coco: Before Chanel (the French movie about Chanel’s early years starring Audrey Tautou) with Carrie the other night. LOVED. IT. If I could one day become a woman at least 1/10 as awesome and epic as Chanel was, I’ll consider myself very lucky indeed. And it seems people have a thing for casting some of my favorite actresses as Chanel, what with Audrey and Shirley, and all. :P

She was so beautiful!

Great casting choice, ne?

I close tomorrow. Dammit.

Catch ya later! :D

Dear Xanga, I miss you. A lot. Terribly. With all my heart.

Recently, I made a Facebook account. I was never really a big fan of Facebook before hand. I figured it just be like Myspace. People would get all excited about it for a year or so, then drop it like it’s hot for the next cool new exciting social networking website. But as time passed, more and more of my friends were signing up for this website. Even my friends who were never fans or wouldn’t dream of joining Myspace type sites jumped on the bandwagon. More and more stuff was being done and discussed on Facebook, and I was feeling a little out of the loop. Besides, a bunch of my friends were going off to college, and I didn’t want to loose track of them (and I wanted to rekindle my relationship with some friends I had lost contact with along the way)…

So, I joined.

Actually, to be more precise, my friends made a profile for me late in the night on my friend Katie’s backyard deck, filling it with some pictures she had of me on the her laptop, and sending some mutual friends my way so I wouldn’t be alone on the site. When it started that innocent night, I figured I’d never become obsessed with it. I still wasn’t really a big fan of Facebook. It was just sort of there for me, and all I really wanted it for was to communicate with friends. I never planned on abandoning Xanga. But as the days wore on, a strange sort of frenzy began to happen to me. I was spending more and more time on Facebook. I was finding more and more friends, posting more and more pictures, updating my status every thirty minutes, playing games, the works. If it was on Facebook, I knew about it.

And for awhile, that made me happy. A bunch of my friends I hadn’t had a real heart to heart with in years, I was now fully connected too. I caught up with them, and got to see how their lives have been through the pictures. I also found some friends I had not seen in a LONG, LONG, LONG. time (since grade school), and it was beyond awesome to see them again and find out what had been going on in their lives. So, Facebook wasn’t all bad. But sadly, I was getting so caught up in the whirl of it all, I started being less passionate about my Xanga. It wasn’t that I gave up, or stopped caring, it was just that I was half assing it at best. My posts came less frequently, and weren’t as thoughtfully put together as they usually were. And as I was writing them, I was usually on my Facebook anyway, talking to people while writing. And on top of that, they few people I had become friends with on Xanga and commented on what I wrote (especially Johnny) stopped visiting me. And though for years it never really mattered to me whether someone read what I wrote or not, somewhere along the lines it became apparent to me how much I actually loved comments and feedback. I realized that I started posting Blog posts, not just because I liked to do it, but also to see how people would respond to them. And I loved the responses! It made me so happy to open my mail and see that someone had commented on my post, and to find people with similar interests, and such. So, with my lack of comment-age, I began to think, what’s the point? What’s the point in blogging if no one see’s it, reads it, or cares? So, back to Facebook I retreated.

But then, as even more time passed, and I was no longer basking in the glory of being a new Facebook user, things started to get really… Blah on Facebook. I wasn’t getting friends requests frequently anymore, people visited and commented on my wall and posts less often, people stopped looking at all my pictures, and with that, a lot of comments on them stopped, and the games were getting kind of mundane. I just didn’t feel really fulfilled. It was cool to see what my friends were doing and knowing what everyone was up to and stuff, but there were times where I’d just sit at my computer, starring at my live feed, waiting for something to happen. Usually, nothing ever really did.

So, I was feeling unfulfilled, and often times wanted to write stuff. Not just one little line on how I was feeling, or what I was going to do for they day, but really WRITE (or blog, if you will P). I know that Xanga can link to Facebook, but I never wanted to do that because all the people I’m friends with on Facebook. I talk about different things with different friends, where as on Xanga, I am free to totally free to go super geek and be me, and I’m not sure I wanted to expose that to everyone I was friends with on Facebook. But still, I couldn’t shake the urge to blog. A serious, intense one, like I used to do. But I couldn’t. I could make a note of it on Facebook, but that didn’t cut it for me, either. :/ Also, other than missing actually writing stuff, I began to miss my Xanga friends. I’ve only really made a few, but the few I’ve made I must say I’ve become rather close with. Close to the point of if I met them out on the street somewhere, I don’t think it would be awkward at all. We’d just carry on like we did on Xanga. I appreciate them for that, and miss all the awesome conversations we had. I did make some friend on Facebook, but not that many, and one of them actually annoys the hell out of me. Nothing like my Xanga buds. :P Also, my parents and family and stuff are on Facebook, so I feel like I have to censor myself even further.

All in all, I wasn’t really happy with Facebook anymore. At all, really. But for some unknown reason, I still obsessively was on it as much as I could, posting stuff and looking at things, even if no one cared or it bored the hell out of me. And then finally, last night, I decided that I would write this blog post out. Even if no one reads it or cares.

I miss Xanga. I miss blogging, I miss feeling free to freak out over geeky things or bitch about something without friends or people I know thinking I’m being weird or stupid. I miss being anonymous, and getting outside opinions from people on things and situations. I miss just sitting down and spilling my soul, or posting cool things I find. I miss talking to and hearing from my Xanga friends. I miss visiting and being a part of a website that actually has true substance, and isn’t just pictures, games, and one line updates.

So, I came back. I’ve been a part of Xanga off and on since 2006, and it’s going to take more than a little website to stop me from coming back! I just always feel really bad for Livejournal and Xanga. More than anyone else, it seems like these sites are left in the dust as Facebook and the like gains fame. But I love Xanga, and I’m not leaving. I promise. My hearts here, and I’ve shared much more here then I ever have, or will, on Facebook. I love you guys! ^.^

I KNOW I’M A NERD, OK?!?!?! Now that that’s out of the way, LET’S GET TO BLOGGING! :D

Yet again, it’s been FOREVER since I updated! I apologize to anyone who reads my random nonsense. I’ve become rather lazy when it comes to updating this…

Anyway, a few weeks ago, John and I went to see the Eureka Seven Movie GOODNIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, YOUNG LOVERS in theaters. IT. WAS. GLORIOUS! It was surprisingly good! You always take your chances with anime movies, especially ones that are based off of series already in existence. Thank goodness this movie turned out to be a great example of how an anime movie should be made. Nearly all the characters from the series were there, and visually it was beautiful.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

The movie was an alternate telling of the series. In the series, Renton originally meets Eureka while working as a mechanic at his G-Pa’s shop. Eureka crashes into their building, and from there he starts his epic adventure on the Gekkostate and so on. In the movie, Eureka and Renton were childhood friends. I appreciated this approach, because it made their intense love for each other seem more understandable. In the series, Renton literally falls in love with Eureka at first sight. Though that’s cute it was also kind of… Comical. The movie follows the same path as far as Eureka being an other worldly being. The only difference is instead of her being a Coralian, she’s an A-Zoe (the “villains” in the movie) spy robot. Something I found interesting was how they portrayed Holland and his crew. In the movie, they were pretty big jerks. I mean, Holland was a bad guy (pretty much)! Where as in the series, Holland was an A-wall soldier in the military, who took Eureka from them and fled, in the movie he (as well as the rest of the crew) were actually children who were war orphans, taken in by Dewey (who was originally in the series, Holland’s brother), who in turn did all these terrible experiments on them, and ended up throwing them into an A-Zoe. This A-Zoe took them to the other earth (the one they were supposed to live on), but then somehow they got sent back (I forget how exactly), and from then on they had been aging at an alarming rate. So, they try to use Eureka to send them to the other planet so they can live normal lives. Yes, confusing, I know. The series was and the movie was, as well. :P

Anemonic! Or is it Domone? It doesn't matter because it's DAMNED CUTE! :D

What I did like was the relationships. Throughout the series, I always felt kind of bad for Talho. She was always so dedicated to Holland, and he always just blew her off until he realized she was pregnant with his child. In the movie, he is very attentive to her. You finally get to see how much he loves and cares for her, and it’s very cute. Also, Eureka and Renton were darling (of course). Though some of their romance scenes were rather cheesy, overall, it was very cute. And I do believe I liked Renton better in this movie than the series. He seemed more… I dunno… Manly (something like that)? It was cute! AND ANEMONE AND DOMINIC! They were always my fav’s, and I’m so glad the movie did them justice! It was wonderful not seeing Anemone crazed and hopped up on drugs, and it was cool that Dominic was Renton and Eureka’s childhood teacher! AND THE NIRVASH AND THE END WERE SO CUTE!!! >.< Oh, and the action was good, too!

From the end credits!

All in all, great film. And the end special features were hilarious! I could easily marry Johnny Young Bosch or Crispin Freeman! :D

Anyway, other than that, I GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE! Finally! I aced those cones, too! I did make some really dumbass mistakes (like forgetting to put on the brake when turning on the car and backing into the curb after the cones), but they didn’t count against me! :D It was however, extremely gross cleaning out my car for the test. Dad made it all yucky.

Now I can get a job… And go to school… The two things that still cause me dismay.

Other than that, I REALLY WANT A BLYTHE DOLL, and I’m getting better at making doll clothes!

I’ll promise to try and update more regularly, now!

Oh, and please feel free to check out my Flickr! I'm pretty much obsessed with it. :P

My dolls make love on it. Click HERE!