This paper's coming along just fine

Sarcasm. Sarcasm.

I have to write a paper for my English class, it's really simple: just a 500-700 word argument on whatever we want to write about. Ugh, why is the easy stuff just so hard to do!? I came up with a topic and although I'm almost done with it, I just can't seem to finish it. I don't really even like what I'm writing anyway... It's about texting and how dumb it is, but I just don't like how I wrote it.

In other non-school related news: Last month I bought Ace Attorney Investigations- Miles Edgeworth. I finished it in about a week and a half. It was pretty good and I was pleasantly surprised. I love the Ace Attorney series, but I don't really care for Edgeworth- who is a prosecutor- the main character's rival. But although I still don't care for Edgeworth too much, I liked his character in the game. A lot of the new characters were interesting and fun, especially my two new favorites Shi-Long Lang and his assistant Shih-na. This game had quite a few surprises that were well...quite surprising!! I would talk about them in more detail, but that would take up too much space and time... The only thing I didn't care for is that it was too easy. I usually have to spend forever thinking up the correct answers in the past AA games, which would then resort to just finding the answer online, but I only had to look up the answers once or twice and other times were to just confirm a hunch I had- which to me, is too easy.

Yay!! :D

Umm, what else...?? I've been really wanting to go to some more conventions, there are quite a few near where I live. There were two last month, both an hour away from me, but nobody could go with me ;_; My sisters both had work, and so did all my other friends. Jessica "conveniently" had to work and then go to a dance performance on the day of the other convention. I just don't understand...Why would she not want to go to an anime convention when she friggin' likes anime and Japanese stuff?! I told her everything that happened at Ohayocon and she kept saying that she wished she could go, but everytime I invite her, she just says no.
Whatever. Anyways, I would like to go to a lot more cons and there are a lot of people I really want to cosplay as. Such as older Ema Skye from the Ace Attorney series (well, Apollo Justice), Shih-na (AAI), Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid), and Megurine Luka (also from Vocaloid). *SIGH*

Thinking about buying a new outfit for Ellie. Just something that's kind of cheap from Dollmore. It's a pink mini dress with a matching lolita style headband, a pair of bloomers, and knee-high socks. I would really like to get her a blonde wig because she looks really cute with them on some of the pictures on Dollmore. On Saturday, I took some pics of her and my Jessica's doll, Liebe, and I stole the blonde wig Jessica bought. She doesn't want me to use it because she's afraid that it'll get tangled up, but I used it anyway, just to see how Ellie looked in it. She looked pretty cute!! :]


Ellie with blonde hair :] I didn't get to touch up the picture yet :\


Jessica's doll, Liebe. I touched up the picture...well, tried.

Oh, I think I forgot to mention that I changed Noel's name to Ellie. I don't know how long this name will last, but I prefer it to Elodie Noel or just Noel. She's too cute and happy to have a drawl name. Not that I don't like the other two names, I just think Ellie is cute for her...for now XD

I'm thinking about selling some old stuff I don't want anymore... I'm having a hard time deciding what I want to sell... Of course, it doesn't help that I'm at school XD Well, I should go now. Enough random blabbering...

Deco-den!!

Deco-den is awesome!! I love all the tacky, but cute things people put on their cell phones, Nintendo DS', Ipods, etc!! It looks like so much fun!! I really wanna try it and spruce up some of my more dated electronics such as my DS, Ipod, cell phone, camera. They're all pretty old (well, except my camera), so I don't mind getting clue and other cute crap all over it anymore. I found this one website which sells a bunch of the deco-den things such as rhinestones, pearls, jeweled pieces, etc. So much awesome stuff at a really low price!! I really, really want to but a buncha stuff from them!! I was about to, but for EMS shipping, it's $20, which brought the total to about $42. WTH!? I could go with the $5 shipping, but it'll take longer. I don't mind as much as I did; I can wait :]

For my DS, I have a pink DSLite, so I want it to have peachy/pink and creamy white pearls, pink and silver rhinestones, and other pieces such as a jeweled pink heart, flowers, etc. For my camera, I found some really cute little strawberry plastic pieces, so I wanna use those as well as some pink and silver rhinestones. Maybe green ones as well, but I'm still debating on it. As for my Ipod, I want aqua and silver rhinestones, maybe some white pearls, and a Hello Kitty piece. I might want a hot pink color with it as well. I think it would look nice with the blue Ipod, and it would match Hello Kitty's bow (the one on the website has a pink bow). I don't know what I'd want for my phone, it's an ugly orange color, but all I know is that something has to be done to it because I hate it. I tried adding a Paul Frank and a Spongebob sticker to kinda make it more personalized, but it doesn't totally work DX

Speaking of deco-den, I've really been getting into Japanese gyaru nails. They're the most gaudiest things known to mankind, but they're really cute and fun at the same time. See, that's the thing with this kinda stuff: it's so tacky and gross, but it works all at the same time. They're stylish enough that people forget how gnarly they are. At least that's how it is for me!! I've really been wanting to make some of my own gyaru nails and to my luck, the exact same website that sells the deco-den stuff sells nail art things as well!! The owner also makes her own nails, a lot of them are really cute :3 But yeah, I just wanna try them out, just to see what it's like!! I definitely wouldn't wear them to school because they'd have a higher chance of falling off, but I'd love to try wearing them out and about!! Some are WAY too gaudy for my tastes, but something a little simpler would be great!! Maybe just add some flowers, a couple of pearls and rhinestones would be good. Also some bows would be cute :D

I just hope that I can get some deco-den stuff someday soon!! I'd love to try it out!! :D

I LIIIIIVE!!

Wow, so I haven't posted here in awhile... Quite a few things happened over the past few months: I passed all my fall classes except for my stupid regional studies class, my break was really long and mostly uneventful, my mom and my sister got into a huge fight. It was really scary; my period last month was so bad, I threw up twice and I started to convulse from the pain and from having a panic attack at the same time; Christmas was pretty fun, we got a Wii!!!!!!! That thing is so addicting and fun!!

I got a lot of cute things for Christmas: a Rilakkuma calendar, a pouch(I keep some of my make-up in there), and a cute folder my mom bought just because; two pairs of Hello Kitty socks, slippers; and, this is the best, a Hello Kitty HAT!! It's so cute!! It's shaped like HK's face. I need to post some pics!! I got some things for Noel: a skirt, a bunny shirt, matching socks, two wigs, a pair of eyes, and a "circus" outfit (not really, but they call it "Bon bon Circus Set" on Dollmore...) and they all look great on her (of course!! x3).

Also, I got another Super Junior poster and the Super Junior Super Show dvd, which I was very, very excited about!! I watched it with my mom and she was beyond freaked out by it. In between each song they performed, they would put in these random, stupid little shorts that ranged from weird animations to riding roller coasters to have a "showdown" by shooting food at each other. Not to mention the fanservice freaked her out too, where the boys would do little "gay" things to each other to please all the yaoi fan girls... I just laugh at those because I know they're not serious... Other than the weird fillers, the DVD was really enjoyable, it had them perform some of my favorite songs(although, they don't have any from their 3rd album because it was filmed before that...) as well as some of the members sang solos or sang with one or two other members, or one would sing while another accompanied them on piano. Those songs were lovely and Donghae's song, which was dedicated to his late father, brought tears to my eyes ;_;

On New Year's Eve, I thought I was going to die of boredom, but luckily, Yudi called me and asked if I wanted to go to this "mini party". I of course said yes!! We(along with our friends Cassandra and Kristin) went to her bf's friend's apartment and had some drinks(I had a bit too much XD) and played Apples to Apples while watching Time Square on her bf's lappy. At midnight, we all drank some champagne and toasted the New Year!! We also played Scattegories, which is not easy while intoxicated DX

Theeeeennn school reared it's ugly head last week. I'm taking Classics, German 202, and a math class for dummies. I hate that class with a passion. It's so time consuming because you can't move forward on anything until "proctors" come and check off your work. It has to be 100% correct before you move on. While it is a good idea to get the basics down, it's just too dang long.

A couple of days ago, a friend of mine, whom I met in my drawing class a few years back and we have a lot in common, finally texted me after so long. Anyways, she asked me if I wanted to go to Ohayocon with her and of course, I said YES!! I'm sooo excited!! I've never been to an anime con or any con in my life, so this should be a new experience. Yes, I am indeed going to dress up!! I just ordered my costume online, and I'm going to be Haruhi from the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. While it's not my *favorite* series(mostly because it can get so darn confusing), I love Haruhi's character: she's outspoken, odd, and doesn't give a rat's ass about what others think of her. She'll do almost anything to get some excitement in her life because she's bored with humans, so she sets up a club to look for time travlers, espers, and aliens(which are all under her nose, but she has no idea). Here's a pic!!

If any anime fan has NOT heard of her, I just... don't have any words...
In addition to the costume I ordered, I also ordered some brown circle lenses to make my eyes look more anime like. I don't know how good they'll look on me considering I have hazel eyes(the pupils in the lenses are very large, so the natural eye color shows through when looked at up close). I'm very excited and I'm PRAYING that they get here before the convention!! I'm also going to die my hair a darker brown and cut it a bit. I was going to buy a wig, but it was 27 bucks, plus 15 dollars in shipping and I'm not willing to fork out too much cash on this, I already spent enough on it.

Ok, enough rambling...

PICSPAM!!! 8D

My new Hello Kitty hat!! 8D


Rilakkuma pouch!! So soft :3


Here's what the inside looks like.


One of Noel's new outfits.

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I tied the ears up in a knot. I just copied the idea from the Dollmore pics. They look so cute!! ^^ Oh, and she's also wearing her new blue eyes!!


Here she is with her new pink wig. I got it before her black one and her wine colored one. I love that bow in the circus set :3


New wine colored wig. I really like these pale blue eyes that I got awhile back on her. They look great with all of her wigs and clothes. Not too dark(since they're acrylic), not too light.

Random things...

Ok, so I haven't posted anything in awhile, not that anybody's reading this to care!! Anyways, so I went to Half Price Books a few days ago... I think it was Saturday, when, yet again, I found some really awesome stuff!! I found 2 Sailor Moon anime manga(they were just comics based entirely from the S.M episodes) in the original Japanese for only $4.98!! Not bad considering the regular price tag(from wherever this person bought it from), which was $10.98 each!! I also found a random issue of Nakayoshi- a Japanese magazine aimed towards young girls that is literally chock full of manga stories(and I thought Shoujo Beat was thick!!) They used to have S.M in there back when it first came out. But anyways, this was from 2008...May...I think?? I haven't had a chance to really look through it all, but I'm just still wigging out on all my super awesome, totally random finds!! 8D

So school's almost out, just three more exams and then I'm done for the friggin' quarter!! I was sooo excited that I got an A+ on my cultural narrative paper I had to write for English!! I wrote it on Irish dance and how annoying it is to have I.D be compared to Riverdance and other things. The comment that he wrote on my paper made me blush SOOO much!! It was just basically saying that the paper was well organized, interesting, and that I did a really good job writing it and stuff like that. 8DDDDD Ooooh, I can't help but blush like crazy whenever he talks to me, even write nice comments on my papers!! XD Oh and when he tries to talk to me in German...XD Very cute!! Ok, enough about my lil' schoolgirl crush kekeke!!

I was thinking on writing some more about school, but I'll do it later, when I'm not pulling an all nighter and can hardly see the keys on my keyboard.

I love finding random things!!

On Friday, my mom and I went to Half Priced Books, a pretty awesome bookstore that has new and used books for much less than regular bookstore prices. It's kind of like a thrift store though, I can never find exactly what I'm looking for all the time, but sometimes I can find some pretty awesome things. Like on Friday for example, I was just browsing through the foreign language section, because sometimes they have some actual reading books in a particular foreign language, and when I looked in the Japanese section, I found four, yes FOUR copies of the original Sailor Moon manga in JAPANESE!!! Yes, friggin' JAPANESE and in MINT CONDISH!! 8DDDD I couldn't believe it. These books were in pristine condition and even though it wasn't the first four volumes(they were vol. 6,7,8 and 18-the very last one), it was still an amazingly AWESOME find!! I LOOOOVE Sailor Moon, especially when I was little. I always wanted to be a Sailor Scout and I had sooo much stuff, I still have a lot of it left: dolls, trading cards, playing cards, some weird Pokemon based card game thing, some weird real life RPG game book thing this lady from Make a Wish gave me when my sister had cancer, posters I got for Christmas one year and one that my sister gave me, movies, alarm clock, etc. The only thing I don't have is my Sailor Jupiter costume my mom made me for Halloween when I was around 7 or 8. It's sad because my mom did a REALLY, REALLY good job on it- better than a lot what those cosplayers make. I suppose the pattern for the costume was rare, at least for the fabric stores around us. I should post a pic sometime :D Oh, when I was about 12, there was this really cool small store in California called Dance 'n Things and they had loads, and I mean LOADS of Sanrio stuff!! Really good, rare things and they also had some other random stuff. There I found two Sailor Moon paper dolls!! They were from Japan, still had the Japanese writing on it and they were two different sets of paper dolls. I still have them :D and I still can't believe I found something that random and rare in a store like that.

Back to Half Priced Books, my mom also found the first 6 volumes of Vampire Knight(ok, it's not rare exactly, but it's rare to find ALL six volumes together in one HPB store) for only 2 dollars each. I can't believe it because they were all in extremely good condition, read maybe once or twice...

Also a while back, my mom, sister, and I were at HPB in Cincinnati and I found the last Harry Potter book in German. It was the only copy they had in the foreign language section. I was sooo excited!! The book's not in the greatest condition, but I love looking through it and trying to figure out all the words that I know :3 I'm such a dork for foreign language stuff, I love it :D

Speaking of foreign languages, I was in the college of lib. arts at school today, waiting for my conference with my English teacher and while I was waiting, I walked around and I saw a small display case about TESOL and TEFL. My face seriously lit up when I saw it because I want a TEFL degree thing. They offer TEFL classes in the summer apparently and you can also teach ESL in Japan or teach it in some Korean university. JACKPOT!!! OHHH my goodness, that's exactly what I want to do is teach ESL in Japan and/or Korea!! 8DDDDDD I couldn't stop staring at it and smiling like a dork XD

Totally off topic now, I'm thinking on changing my doll's name to Sophie Noel or just Sophie. I dunno what I wanna do!! DX Oh, for my birthday, I got a new wig, new eyes, and shoes for her!! She finally has shoes!! Yay!! The wig is really cute, it's a chestnut brown bob. Her new eyes look gorgey with the hair; they're a light blue color and her shoes are white gladiator style sandals. They look really cute with her dress. I really wanna take her outside since it's beautiful out today :3

PIC SPAM:

Here's Noel in her new wig and eyes!! :D


:3


...Shoes...Shoes...Let's get some shoes!! XDDD


Her wig made me think of Yuna from FFX so I used the green eye I already had with her new blue eye :D I think the green one needs to be lighter, but oh well... Now if only I could get her a Yuna costume!! 8D


Another "Yuna" pic XD


Irish dancer!! I found one soft shoe in one of my caboodle thingies and I put it on her one day and it fit perfectly!! Then a few weeks ago while I was digging through an old backpack, I found another one I thought I lost a long time ago!! Now she has two soft shoes :] Woot!!




Sailor Moon manga :D

Food mostly XD

OHHHH MY GOODNESS THIS WEATHER IS SOOOOOOO GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDD "NICE WEATHER!!"- Eunhyuk, my lurrve lmao :3 Oooo, this weather is soo nice, I have to listen to happy music and dance around :D

Ok, so I made the curry that I bought a few days ago and it schmeckt gut(random German FTW!!) The only problem was that I think I cooked the potatoes too long and it left a lot of starchy residue on the rest of the curry, making the texture not really smoothe like I had the last time. I don't know for sure if it was just the curry brand, or if it really was the potatoes, but for now I'm going with the latter. The brand I used was Golden Curry. It wasn't nearly as good as the other brand I had... I can't remember the name, but it started with a "K"... Anyways, the flavor wasn't as strong, which is good for those who aren't used to the curry taste, like everyone in my family. Buuuut, they're all afraid to try it. They never wanna try anything new and different :[ Sehr lecker curry pics:

Just as it finished cooking, ready for me to eat!!



Mmm tasty!! :D
It looked better than the pics, trust me!!

I've been making yachaejeon(Korean vegetable pancake) a lot lately. Mostly it's because I already have the ingredients ready and I'm always trying to perfect my cooking of it. It almost always turns out wrong D: Since my pan is too small, I always stupidly add the whole batter instead of making two, so the middle always turns out to doughy and soft, when it's supposed to be crispy. Oh, and a couple of days ago, I had the most ultimate fail: I guess I must've put too much green onions in the batter, so I poured the whole thing in the pan and when I tried to flip it, it all came apart!! Every single time I tried to flip the stupid thing, it just kept falling apart. Ugh, it was so fail, but it still tasted lecker!! LOL Random German FTW!!! XDDD
Here are some pics of the yachaejeon I made:

This one turned out way too burnt and I forgot to add the salt, so I tried to add some on top. It didn't work. FAIL D: The best part is that it was very crispy, like how I think it should be.

OM NOM NOM NOM!!
It wasn't as cooked as I wanted it to be, mostly in the middle, but the edges were crispy und das schmeckt gut(I probably used the wrong form of das, but I don't care)!!

I'm pretty excited because I don't start school until next Wednesday. At first, I thought the 8th was on a Monday, then I realized that it was on Tuesday. Then today, I told my mom that school started on Tuesday and she was like, "Well, you don't have to starte until Wednesday, remember?? You only have classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday." YESS!!! I was soo happy, I can't believe I forgot that(well, actually I can XP) So, yay!! No school until Wednesday!! :DDD Ugh, I have to study hard on my German, I forgot so much it seems like D:

Gonna make some curry rice chyeah

Oh man, this stuff is addicting!! At first, I didn't like curry rice that much. The first time I had it was at my friend, Yudi's house. I thought it tasted weird and I couldn't finish eating it. Gradually, I started getting used to the taste and I soon began craving it. A few months ago, I went to Jungle Jim's(I love that store) and I actually bought a packet of curry rice mix...squares...thing... Anyways, I made it and it was uber lecker!! I just put in some carrots, beef, potatoes, and onions along with the sauce(duh...), nothing special. Some people actually put in stuff like yogurt, honey, and/or tomatoes... Is that even good?! It doesn't really sound like it to me, but I guess I could try it someday.

So anyways, I bought some more curry rice stuff yesterday and I'm planning on making it soon :D It's a different brand than what I had last time, so hopefully it'll taste the same(or maybe better :D)!!

King's Island and other things...

Weeee!! King's Island was muuyyy fun!! The first ride we went on was called Diamondback. OOOOMG It was soooo scary and so fun at the same time!! Well, it was really scary while I was on the ride but afterwards, I was like, "WOO!! Yeah!!That was awesome!! I'm ready to go back on there again!!" Diamondback is one of the fastest rollercoaster, it goes like, 80 someodd miles per hour!! The drops are like....WOWOMGI'MGONNADIE!!! big. After that, we went on almost all the other rides and they were super fun!! The lamest was called The Crypt. It was supposed to be Tomb Raider, but stupid Paramount sold King's Island to Cedar Point(another OH theme park). LAME. I would go on about it's lameness, buuut I won't ;] I started feeling sick and tired and my feet were killing me by the end of the day. All in all, it was a good time :D

I've been making Korean food a lot and I've been making this Korean "pancake" recipe I got from Maangchi(google it!!) It's sooo good!! The last time I made it turned out nasty because I forgot to add the salt. I took some pics of it, but I haven't uploaded them to my compy yet(laziness D:)

My mom bought me some Napa cabbage and now I really wanna try to make kimchi. I need all the other ingredients, of course, but I still really wanna try it :D The only problem is that my mom HATES that smell!! She hates the smell of kimchi, danmooji(or takuwan, or pickled radish. Usually used for kimbap, which is also delicious) or anything fishy or what she's just not used to smelling. I guess I must be weird because I actually like the smell of kimchi... O_o

Mmmm I'm hungry for Korean food!! Ahh, I could go on and on about how delicious it is :D A lot of people are obsessed with Japanese food and while it's pretty good, it's flavor is lacking. Korean food has very strong flavors, so you usually don't have to use stuff like soy sauce or salt to try and enhance the flavor. Like with kimbap(kind of the equivilent to sushi.), you could use soy sauce for taste, but it doesn't need it. It's good on it's own. With sushi, I like eating it with soy sauce, but on it's own, it's not that great... :\

Of course, any kind of Asian snack food(well, almost hahaha!!) is good to me!! I love all that stuff: pocky, Koala no Maachi cookies, Hello Kitty Yam-Yam snacks, CHOCOPIES, anything like that is delicious!! :DDD

Enough about food, I'm hungry now and I just ate D: Ok, I'll stop now XD