your joy is my low

Back and neck are killing meeeeeeeee. Going here on Thursday afternoon (since the pain is suddenly horrendous in my back and neck) and back to the GI doctor next Tuesday, uggggggh. THIS IS GETTING SO OLD. :(

But I actually got a few things done this weekend! :O

Nothing super major, but I worked a bit on my magical redesign for my cosplay/personal site. And I also cut out a couple of the pieces to my Queen Mother TK outfit (hopefully for Balticon!) and made the necklace that's gonna go with it.

( OMG HERE IS A NECKLACE -- aka symmetry is overrated: have you seen the Queen Mother? )

I was actually okay enough to go out on Saturday. Nate and I went to Wegmans (<3ohmygoodness) and Global Food (bought so many foreign snacksss) as well as Target. I was only hurting a bit and thought it was awesome and maybe this pain-thing was going away. Then we got home and hopped into a magical Netflix Xbox Party with Valerie and Brian and watched something MOTHER EFFIN' XENA WHAT WHAT (Callisto! <3) -- V&B went to bed after that and Nate and I watched Dead Space: Downfall. It was pretty good (loved the security team cause they cursed like me and I felt at home lolol). Then after I got up my back and neck protested so hard that I sat down and just stared at the wall for pretty much forever. Nate forced me to take a percocet and then I watched him play some Nintendo DS while I waited for the pain to go away. :|

(DID I MENTION I WAS SICK OF THIS? :|)

Now I am debating on making a whole new magical message board filled with all kinds of chatter and creative-thing sharing and fandom love (every fandom ever -- zombie killers, jedis, tv show eyeballs, everything) and all kinds of crap (i want to see group video game nights!) and shout boxes and random shit and games, etc., etc. You know I love Mindbreak but it's very quiet and there's lots of ghost accounts and 0 post accounts and it's just filled with half mega-awesomeness and then half very old dead topics and ideas. D:

THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN, EVERYONE <3: I don't know what to do about that. Anyone have any input on the matter (whether you go to MB at the moment now or not -- would you be interested in joining a board to share your creative works and chatter with other geeks and so on BLAH BLAH RAMBLEEEEEEE XD)? Mindbreak or start fresh? HELP PLZZZZZZ~ <33333

Mmmm, time to go watch Coheed & Cambria concert DVD I got.

Okay, so my flight from Florida came back in the window between the two crazy snowstorms. There's two feet here that came when I was gone and then supposedly there's another ten inches being dropped on us tomorrow. I just managed to make it in on the day where nothing is falling from the sky. PHEW.

But yeah, Florida was good. Valerie and Brian are good. My Dad is crazy and awesome as always. We went to Sea World (Nate was sad he couldn't come to Florida cause omg omg Sea World omg stingrays XD) and rode the crazy new roller coaster -- MANTA!!1 It was really slick; the way they make you sit though is insane (normally, then they lock your feet in and tilt you 90 degrees forward so you're face down). We stayed with Dad for a couple days after that and then last night we drove back to Orlando and stayed at Disney's Polynesian Resort. It was amazing. We watched the fireworks in the Magic Kingdom from across the lagoon at the hotel and I finally got to see the Water Pageant. XD

(THERE WILL BE PICTURES SOON. HEH.)

I have also decided that I need to go back to Disney World really, really bad. So Valerie and I were nerding about trips to Disney and we figured out February of next year would be a good time. We've always wanted to do the cruise too. So it'll probably be like five days at the parks and then the three day cruise. ANYONE IS WELCOME TO PLAN WITH US AND JOIN IN ON ANY PART OF THE TRIP. So you have a year to figure out if you want to go! ;D

In the car on the way to Orlando yesterday I was thinking about a new Tenel Ka costume. Like a Queen Mother-era fancy armor kind of thing. It was going somewhere in my head, so we'll see if anything actually comes of it. I still want to make a fancy Queen Mother dress too -- especially since I got that half-capelet done (although I might be able to put that with the Tempest jumpsuit costume, but we'll see) but I'm not sure yet. Kind of want to do the armor more. I DON'T KNOWWWW -- I know in the near future I'll be taking more pictures of the TK costumes I actually have since most of the pictures I have are in LOL HOTELS and seem out of place, hahaha~

Woo! Celebration V Online Convention information shall be here soon! Then real pre-registrations can begin~ ;D

ALRIGHT TIME TO GO TO SLEEP.

P.S. I almost peed my pants of excitement.

http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/Anakin_Solo_Resurrected_125450.asp -- don't worry about the link-line, it's not happening.

So they wanted to backtrack and try to fix the fact that they killed "the wrong Solo boy" in SbS, basically...?

Haha, so very glad this didn't happen. Especially since LotF was supposed to be IN YO' FACE and GRITTY. This would've been so cheap. You know I love me some Denning, but this would've been so wrong, even if he was the one to write it. Just leave Jacen and Anakin dead. You killed them already, you can't take it back.

(That goes for everyone. Cause if you can flow walk and bring someone -- Anakin, in this case -- back then why not Jacen? Why not Mara? Lusa? Anakin Skywalker? Ganner Rhysode? Vergere? MACE FREAKIN' WINDU? Come on, bring 'em all back!)

SAW LOTS OF BABY ANIMALS AT THE PITTSBURGH ZOO THIS WEEKEND. I will have to get the pictures off my camera. Seal, beavers, deer (one of which followed Nate all wobbly and it was so cute) -- it was a very cute trip to the zoo. ALSO YAY SEEING VALVAL AND BRIBRI. And the bakery and lots of junk food and Mario Party, lololol. XD

For some reason my left foot hurts like a bitch. I hope it is better by D*C.

LOL, didn't Fate of the Jedi: Outcast come out the other day? Whoops.

So the Curriculum Review -- we're still working on it, it's going well, but apparently I'm going to be at one of our other offices for three days a week so now I have to be focused on that. Also, Valerie's shower went really well (I think) and she liked it (I think) -- YES, zoopiglet? I THINK?

This means I am kind of not as tense as before, which, YAY! But of course there are other things for me to have on my mind like being at the other office and stuff now. BUT I AM BETTER. AND I THINK I'M BACK. I THINK.

ANYWAYS, on king_dressing we have 5 out of 100 of the Walkers (Ray, Art, Peter, Hank & Stebbins!), which really kind of makes me giddy. Especially since see_aphy_be and I are only playing one each (for once, lol).

MORE AWESOMENESS LATER. XD

Today (technically yesterday now, lol) is my sister's birthday (some of you knows her as Valval, Valerie or zoopiglet). And I am commemorating it with lots of awesomeness. The best part of this commemoration is that her and Brian are here right now for Thanksgiving/her birthday so she most likely will not see this until she gets back home. LOL SORRY VALVAL!

People always ask us, "HOW COME YOU AND YOUR SISTER NEVER FIGHT? D: I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU HAVE SUCH A GOOD RELATIONSHIP."

I don't know if it's the 10 year gap, or if there is just something weird going on with the workings of the universe, but we've never fought. Sure, there have been disagreements and stuff ("bitch, go do the dishes/cat box.") -- but never any YOU ARE SUCH A WHORE AND I HATE YOU GTFO OF MY FACE kind of things. Which I will admit, has been pretty nice.

SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VALERIE. YOU HAVE MADE ME WHAT I AM TODAY. Seriously, it's all your fault.

1.) On Mister Solo: "You should really get back into the Star Wars books. Jacen's an angsty teenager now and he wore a skirt in this one book."
2.) On me showing her a hot actor I found & asking who it was so long ago: "Oh, that's River Phoenix. He's dead."
3.) On River Phoenix: "You should watch Stand By Me. He was in that."
4.) On Stand By Me: "You know that was adapted from a Stephen King story, right? If you liked that then you should read The Long Walk by him too. That's full of angsty teenage boys as well. You would like it."

THANKS VALERIE. :D


Also, thank you for getting me into all kinds of other crap I am into today -- this has made me not a whiny, emo-tween, skank-stank bitch. Here are twelve other things I am thanking you for. Notice I am not thanking you, my sister, for ALWAYS BEING THERE FOR ME and ALWAYS UNDERSTANDING MY PROBLEMS and all that other slap-happy shit they sew into pillows and put on fluffy holiday cards cause that jank IS A GIVEN.

THANK YOU:

1.) for staying up all hours of the night playing video games with me. Hunting for treasure in Final Fantasy IX while riding a chocobo until 4 a.m. was never so appealing and hilarious.
2.) for totally making fun of me when I was scared and hid behind the couch while playing the first Silent Hill.
3.) for making awesome voices for characters like Cid Kramer.
4.) for getting me into webdesign and putting up with all the stupidity I upload to echuta.net and whatthefun.net.
5.) for not making fun of me when I wanted to go to Katsucon in 2001.
6.) for subsequently joining me at conventions cause they were fun -- and then us going to OUR FIRST DRAGON*CON in 2003 (ALSO CELEBRATION II, NOT IN THE MUD).
7.) for not laughing at my crappy writing. D:
8.) for everything Disney World related, from trips to taking pictures for me when I forgot my camera like a tool.
9.) for helping me finish that William Faulkner paper in 11th grade when I waited till the last minute and thought I was going to failyourize but you forced me to write and do my work.
10.) for helping me with costumes. :D
11.) ... (you didn't think I could make a list thanking you for stuff like this without the infamous ...)
12.) for always keeping the Mark-love alive (it is not hard with him dancing seductively all the time).

HONORABLE THANK YOU MENTION:
"An Ass's limit break uses Shit." (Damn you and your grammar, Final Fantasy VIII.)


( And this is the part where I share with you some classic memorabilia and shiz under this cut. PICTURES GALORE! OH MY GOD FLASHBACK HEARTATTACK. )

In closing, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GANGSTA. NOW GO TALK TO A WALL.

P.S. I PICKED YOU UP A LETTER-WRENCH FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY. I GOT IT FROM JAMES.

P.S.S. You didn't think I could leave out them, right? XD BEST COMMERCIAL EVER.

OMG WE BEAT THIS PIECE OF SHIT.

ADVENTURES IN THE OMG MAGIC KINGDOM.

15 YEARS, 15 DAMMIT.

And we finally did it.

Eat this Pirates Of The Caribbean -- THAT LEVEL WAS IMPOSSIBLE.

BUT WE FINALLY DID IT OMG.

Alright, 15 years of pent up anger at this game. zoopiglet and I are much happier now. XD

I forgot how much fun having somewhat of a life could be. O_o

Falling asleep on Erin's couch, playing video games with rainbow-haired Gackt, cleaning up the weenie basement flood, flailing on the DDR pad, watching movies, drinking crazy jamaican drinks, talking about Mexico. Mmm... weekends.

Friday: Erin's house - time to make the Katsucon lolita dress. She made me and Ronnie watch Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, which was quite funnnnnny (WEEEEOOOOOWEEEOOOOWEEEEEOOOOOO) --- then we played DDR and such. And Ronnie started a game of Kingdom Hearts and I fell asleep on the couch. Earlier she made me try some crazy jamaican drink that tasted like ginger. But I forgot what it was called. O_o

Saturday: My sister and I actually left the house (FOR SHAME!). We went to Tower Records (the crappy one at Landmark) and then we ate at this cute little diner, where I told her many stories of retardedness and we talked about CIII. Then we ended up at Blockbuster where we rented Shaolin Soccer (OMG I LOVE) and Bujingai; because it's a video game with GACKT (and he has RAINBOW HAIR AND HE CAN FLY). We watched SS and played mad amounts of Bujingai before I turned on Silent Hill 2 for some odd reason. Mmmm... Silent Hill 2. Valerie went to bed and I ended up watching Running on Empty (Mmmm river phoenix) and part of Stand By Me (again... mmm... river phoenix). And then there was a phone conversation with a certain suprisingly-coherent-for-1am J-dizzle. (H-wheezy, D-money, I miss our rap names. ;-;)

Sunday: We putzed around the house and cleaned up the basement a little - also having fun with box cutters. As she threatened me while we were supposed to be cutting up and throwing out this big cardboard box. We watched Shaolin Soccer again (made mom watch it) -- she loved it. That's cause it rocks. Shaolin Soccer costumes @ D*C '05. WERD.

And I started another RP last night, shoot me. (Or contact me if you want in! MUAHA! Futuristic crazy shit with vampires and hybrids and OMG. Me and ed were having brain hurricanes last night. BRAIN HURRICANES I TELL YOU!)

Also, for good measure.


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