Now I got signed up for a dating service called fubar.com by someone I don't know!

They signed me up as The Moronic Wonder. XDD

That's actually kinda cool. I should have named myself that at Otakon on my badge.

Apparently I'm a walrus and people are soliciting me for sex. Hawt, right? Would you date me?

As a note, I don't think this is very mature guys, but keep it up. I need something to tide me over through all this stress.

Troll? I bet so. This is amazing.

But my name isn't 'Fail' (can't you be more creative than that?), and I had a better solution.



Spending all my money and getting fat! Whoo!

Except, you know. I lost two pounds this week. ;D

Man, I miss the parfaits from Japan.

Date:	2009-06-25 21:36
Subject:	I've decided
Security:	Public
Mood:	blah

My computer must have crapped out on me to mourn Michael Jackson's passing. It just had to go too. :(

But thanks to marginoferror's help, it'll soon be back up at least.

But speaking of Michael, since everyone seems to be talking about him today, it just seemed so out of the blue. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the music. Used to go to my grandma's just to watch the tape she'd made off of TV when they had a special on his music videos. I remember my brother being terrified of Thriller. Then as a teen and in college, I kinda was ashamed of liking the music, with all the shit in the news about him. Looking back, I still love his music. I didn't get too 'into' bands as a kid like most others did. I never had posters or collected tapes, save for maybe Michael Jackson, the Beach Boys, and perhap a few others. If there was a music style I could definitely say I liked as a kid, it was his.

So RIP Michael. Thanks for the music.

[Edit: Figured this was the best time to share a rare art by Nobuteru Yuki. Came out of my Heat Guy J book... imagine my surprise to find it inside next to a drawing of Highlander... XD]

Date:	2009-06-25 19:57
Subject:	Ubuntu: And this is why we don't let Melissa touch the terminal
Security:	Public
Mood:	stressed

I fucked up my laptop. Big time. c_c

It boots into the terminal and nothing else. I have to sign in with my password, and then it gives me the prompt. FUCK.

Saying I don't know what to do would be the understatement of the century.

Sewing white trim when it should have been black? Someone's a winnar!



I need a black sharpie. -_-

Mostly recycling old costumes for Otakon. (I can't believe it's a month away!) I'll bring the one I wore to A-kon, and my Daisuke one too, provided the pants still fit. D: But they have that awful glue stain on them and I've been thinking of just sewing my own pair if I can find the right fabric for it. He wears jeans, not slacks, and that has bugged me about the old one. It's not accurate.

I have two paychecks between now and the con, and I can afford it. I'm also going to use that next paycheck to make togabitoion and I the maid outfits of Joshua and Estelle Bright from Sora no Kiseki. Since we both have long wigs from when we did the White Flower Madrigal costumes two years ago. (holycrap, that long ago? I feel like I just sewed them. c_c) You can see the picture from the play in the sketches on that same picture (Joshua's in the dress in the middle XD). But after sewing something simple for A-kon, I have the sewing bug back, finally. It's been nice not sewing for almost a year, but it's time to break that streak.

And possibly, if I still have the time/money, I'll pick up and start on Fran. I don't even read Reborn, but I'll apparently be cosplaying from it. XD sandkarasu is making Belphegor anyway. Mental note to self. Remember to get the makeup for bloodying up indulgent_sin and catwithoutagun if she wants it. XD We're recreating an RP scene where Bel attacked Lavi and Yoko.

Edit: Oh. Here's the picture of Joshua. Doesn't he make a cute maid? :D;;

Date:	2009-06-11 22:04
Subject:	Stolen from catystorm
Security:	Public

Pick a character I've written, either in RP or fanfiction, and I'll tell you five things from my headcanon about them.

I'm stuck in a bathroom with two girls and the dog.

I really think a con is the people you know.

I went to A-kon 20 and it was really weird not having the stress of running around having to do this or that, not having a room, wearing a low-maintenance cosplay, not competing, and just hanging around to talk to people for a day, then going home.

But I did have fun. It's the people you know. They're the reason I went at all. I tried to go without paying, but wouldn't be able to visit them in the art alley without a pass.

One good thing about only going for one day though, a con report is much easier. XD

( So have part 1 of my photo and video report. )

I have another memory stick of photos and video but I'll have to put it up later.

Owwww sandkarasu is horribly cruel at plucking eyebrows. DX

But now I'm all set for my cosplay. z.z Goodnight.

I've never made a fully functional jacket with drawstrings, eyelets, zippers, etc. before... Kinda going on my own homemade pattern here, having copied a jacket (theeternalmind, I think it's your green one you left over here. D: Do you want me to mail it back?), but I like how it's coming out! Started it yesterday, now all that's left is a zipper cover and a hood! It's still a secret until it's done. XD But no sense rushing it when I can put the hood on tomorrow.

I have this love/hate relationship with sewing. It was good to not have made something since July last year (I had SO much free time to just be lazy *___*), but I missed the sense of accomplishment with making something new.

But it's bedtime now! Goodnight. z_z

But I'm sure as hell not buying a badge.

If you want to say hi, I decided I'm going to show up on Saturday. I'll be wearing a camo jacket, khaki pants, sneakers, and a short sandy-orange colored wig, while probably lurking the halls on the hotel side or the first floor of the convention center.

Date:	2009-05-21 21:46
Subject:	Just thinking...
Security:	Public
Mood:	thoughtful

I'm horrible with keeping up with my LJ. My FL is so cluttered that it's hard to read it every day, and I wonder if my random posts that come maybe once a month probably bore some people. So if you ever wanted to defriend me, here's your open invitation to do so. I won't be mad; I hardly post as is.

For my char's on Adaugeo.

So I got up as usual this morning, although a bit late cause I forgot to dry my laundry. That's not important.

What's important, and maybe a little surprising, is the change I noticed in my routine aside from running late half the time and scrambling to catch the bus like a moron. Normally I always stop and make change at the Valero gas station, a corner store right by my bus stop. I buy breakfast, sometimes a lunch, on my debit card and get money back for the bus, and go on my way. There's not much selection and I don't usually get anything different. It's boring and routine.

Yesterday, I noticed they put in a little display for donuts and kolachies. Cool, but I'm trying to eat healthy. Never seen kolachies at a gas station before though.

Today, I noticed a vending machine outside.

It's for DVD rentals.

If I come to the bus tomorrow and there's a vending machine for hot and cold drinks, manga on the shelves, and videogames to buy, I will commend Valero for getting closer to Japan's convenience. Until then, I'm just going to marvel at the strangeness of it all here in America. XD

I did buy a kolachie though.

Because I want this bike, this specific bike and not an American or European bike, and I want it badly. D: Besides, even when it's not on sale, it's cheaper. I figure with shipping it would even out. I just don't know how to order it! ;_;

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/watch-me/oj004c/

First art in a long time. Blame sandkarasu.

Whyyy....

I knew how it ended, I've spoiled myself, and even still...

WHY did I wait until today to finish reading the last volume of Chrono Crusade?! You'd think someone who named their journal Asmaria, who has RPed from it for nearly 5 years, would y'know... want to have finished it by now. I was just lazy... I swear.

But OMG. ;____________;

I'm in a really weird state of mind right now. I think sometimes I don't finish a series because then I always know there will be more. I still haven't seen the last of Slayers Try, and there's a new season out. But I finally read the end of Chrono Crusade, along with sandkarasu and putting aside how strange it is to see my favorite character grow old and mature and accomplish so many things (and I'm so proud of her!), I just about lost it on the last few pages.

It's so fucking sad! ;_______________;

I want to cosplay from it again.

So I never knew what the word 'unmount' meant. Eject, sure, but Ubuntu doesn't teach you these things. I have corrupted my USB memory stick and it seems the only solution is to format it. It is stuck in read-only mode and the properties of the stick are confusing as hell anyway when the bottom half of the window is cut off at the bottom half of my tiny screen at the highest resolution and I cant tell where the 'okay' or whatever the hell it's called button is.

My hard drive is tiny and I constantly use this stick between Windows and Ubuntu, but googling it seems to say this will always be a constant problem. -_- Also I can never write to it in Windows anyway. Is there no way to fix this? Does anyone know how to save my memory stick?