Comment with your favorite song/songs or even just a song you feel that I need to hear. If I can find it easily enough I'll add it to my Itunes and give it a listen. :3

Why? Machine-sewing is booooooring and I still have so much of it left to do, and I can't do anything else except listen to music while I'm machine sewing. Watching Shinkenger stuff is either too distracting or I miss really important plot points and get horribly confused. DX

If anybody cares, my favorite song forever is "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Other favorites are "Climax Jump" by AAA (say what you want about me being a hopeless Den-O fangirl and etc, that song is catchy) and "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay.

And now for something completely different (but still relevant), some picture-less cosplay progress!

Filia: 40% done!
Headdress: 50%
Cloak: 70%
Dress: 0%
Boots: 75%
Accessories: 0%

Meister Kirisaki: 10% done (*cries*)
Mask: 0%
Jacket: 40%
Cloak: 0%
Birds: 0%

Akiko: 40% done!
Apron: 80%
Clog: 0%

Others:
Secret Costume: 20% done
Eruka: brush wig, fix some costume stuff
Belarus: remake bow, brush out wig

...*gets back to work*

Damn weather. I just haven't felt like doing anything at all today, even after how productive I was yesterday. I am NOT thinking about how many days aren't left until Katsucon and all the crap I have to get done. DX

Though I AM doing relatively well. I have a day-by-day list of tasks I'd like to accomplish, and I'm actually staggering the tasks so that I only have one big task per day and a bunch of smaller ones. I actually finished most of the tasks on yesterday's list! I also purposefully gave myself way more time than I actually need to finish things. So I'm not worried about not finishing. What worries me is days like today where I have work at night and never feel like I have enough time to do anything before getting ready to go to work, so I don't even bother. =/

But yeah, progress pics as soon as I can clear enough space in my room to do so.

I've looked through all of my PMs on LJ, my email inbox from the last two months, and all of my paypal transactions, and I cannot figure out who sent these cards to me or what I might have ordered from them that I was *supposed* to get getting. Hopefully this is just a big misunderstanding... xD

But I got a package today that contains a bunch of cards I didn't order. I'm not too worried about the commons and uncommons, but there are some pretty rare-looking Mewtwo cards in the package, too, including a Shining Mewtwo, a Japanese Mewtwo ex, and a few other Japanese Mewtwo Cards (along with commons/uncommons of Pikachu, Squirtle and Poliwrath in both languages). If this sounds like an order you sent out recently, let me know through PM so we can work something out! I'll happily send the cards back or to the person they're supposed to go to.

Also, a friendly reminder of a couple of auctions for rare cards that end next Saturday (click the image to go to the auctions):

Derp, I meant to post this in a community and not my personal journal. DX

...probably. Along with proper flailing about recent fandom developments, namely the 5th Den-O movie and the possibility of a Gen 5 Pokémon game and such.

Anyway, today was icky and cold and rainy, so I didn't get as much done today as I thought I would. But oh well, I finally finished two of my plush commissions! I'll post pics later. Man, though, finishing them was like pulling teeth. It was only small details like hair and eyes and such, but those are killer and can take unexpected amounts of time.

It doesn't help that I was basically marathoning Shinkenger while I was (attempting) to sew and glue things. xD

Be proud! I've now watched up to episode 30 (most of this was today, some was yesterday). So 20 episodes later, here is my opinion:

GENTA. IS. AMAZING.

Oh, and Tono-sama is still super moé. Ryuunosuke is growing on me (and not JUST because I have a megane fetish and it just so happened that he showed up wearing glasses in episode 30). Really, Ryuunosuke was my least favorite until recently. Mako is now in last place, just because she's just sort of... there at the moment. Chiaki is still awesome, and Kotoha is just adorable. But Genta is surprisingly badass and really just may be my favorite character, if not he definitely ties with Takeru as my favorite.

Dayuu is surprisingly cool for a villain, and I still have to say that Juuzo has no right to be that sexy when he's such a jerkface. xD

I'm only, what 18 behind now? Not too bad, I think I'll probably be caught up before Katsucon.

That being said, I REALLY need to catch up on Double now, I'm starting to miss it! And I'm hopefully going to finish those last three episodes of Bloody Monday season 1 soon, also hopefully before Katsucon.

Speaking of Katsucon...

( Have a list! )

Guh. For some reason, today was just a very tiring day, I don't know why.

Well, it might have been the fact that I spent a good hour and a half hiking around a busy shopping district and dodging traffic this morning.

What? I was bored, and I just didn't feel like reading manga in the Barnes & Noble for an hour and a half. So I did what I always seem to do when I have more than an hour of free time on Harbison and nothing to do - I just walk around. It's great exercise and kind of refreshing when it isn't raining or freezing cold. Not a bad way to start a morning.

By the end of my shift today, though, I was just *exhausted*, much moreso than a normal day at work. Might be due to the fact that I pulled a muscle at some point today at work, probably sheerly from overuse or something. I dunno. All I know is that it was not fun at all. I had about two hours of a break before heading off to the NashiCon committee meeting, which was fun but also tiring at the same time. I really intended to do something besides just flop here with my laptop all night after the meeting but...  bleeeeeh. Hopefully tomorrow I'll actually get stuff done before having to go to work again. =_=

You never realize how hard it is to type with an overly-affectionate, molest-ey cat in your lap until IT HAPPENS.

...oh Francis, you kitty slut. xD

Anyway, recently my priorities have been getting the NashiCon webpage running, going to work, and finishing plushie commissions. I finished work (for the moment) on the website a couple of days ago, and I've had a while off from work, so I've been mostly procrastinating. Today, however, I actually accomplished quite a bit. I've got one of my commissions at the 90% mark (just have to add hair, a face, and stitch the head to the body and the hat to the head and I'm done), and the other I got up to about 60% done. I'm mostly down to just details and actually stitching everything tot he body on that one. I'll post pictures when I'm done!

But since I've been making plushies all day, that means I've been hand-sewing all day, which is boring, to put it lightly. So I've been keeping myself entertained by watching lots of random crap. Of course, sometimes (okay, a lot of times) I get distracted and end up watching more than I sew, but...oh well. xD I'm now about 10 episodes in to both Pandora Hearts (anime) and Shinkenger (tokusatsu), and will be starting on 8 of Bloody Monday (j-drama). I also FINALLY got to watch the ROOKIES movie yesterday!

( Rookies movie reaction *spoiler alert* )
( Pandora Hearts )
( Bloody Monday )

( Shinkenger )

Well, the club didn't riot (too much) after we showed Rookies. Mostly, they were more annoyed at the fact that nobody said it was live-action, and technically the nomination ballot DOES say "nominate an anime".

But still. Most everybody liked it, and those that don't...well, they can put up with our live action if we can put up with their random pantyshots and fanservice.

Speaking of random pantyshots and fanservice! Needless...was interesting. I'm trying not to form an opinion of it, but so far my opinion is the only reason I'm going to keep watching is Blade, because he is awesome. The little kid main character is really annoying, and the chick is the typical fanservice chick. I think this show probably relies too much on fanservice to get viewers, when the plot itself is interesting enough that they probably didn't need to...

And as for Genshiken, it was entertaining. I have no other opinion other than that so far.

So it's, like, 6am. I'm not entirely sure how I'm still awake (I think it's probably sheer willpower at this point). But, I finished. I got the NashiCon website up and live.

And I know there are a ton of things I still have to do to it. The lineart isn't colored yet, lots of pages have "coming soon" instead of actual content, and I need to fiddle with the css and make the website look ~pretty~.

But it's finally up, dammit. IT'S FINALLY UP.

I can sleep!

GO VISIT IT EVEN IF YOU DON'T GO TO NASHICON! http://web.sa.sc.edu/clubnashi/nashicon.html

IT'S BEAUTIFUL. EITHER THAT OR I'M SERIOUSLY IN SLEEP DEPRIVATION MODE. DERP DERP DERP.

Also point out anything wrong with it (structurally...I'm well aware there are problems like crazy with the content and the actual *look*) - like if you find a broken hyperlink, or if something goes somewhere it shouldn't, or if there's something misspelled somewhere.

So I just watched the first episode of Bloody Monday (the j-drama). And I am floored.

Floored, I say.

Seriously, that was amazing. Like every other live-action show ever, if I actually describe the plot it will NOT SOUND NEARLY AS AWESOME AS IT IS.

So it's about this genius hacker, and bio-terrorism and stuff. And the main character has flaws and they make him awesome. And the dad? He's unexpectedly badass even though he looks like a bookworm at the beginning. In fact, lots of the characters really surprised me.

And parts of the episode seriously made chills go down my spine. It's not a gory show at all, surprisingly, considering the name. And I really, really want to see how it turns out. I completely recommend it to everyone, ever, even if you don't like Japanese live-action. ♥

Other than Bloody Monday, I started watching a couple of other shows. I watched the first two episodes of Pandora Hearts (anime), and I like it so far! The soundtrack is really awesome~

Back in live-action land, I finally broke down and watched the first two episodes of Shinkenger. I got a bad first impression of it, but re-watching the first episode and then watching episode 2 right after really lifted my bad opinion of it. I'm downloading more as I type. I think it helps that I had something that I was hand-sewing through both episodes, so I could focus on something else during the super doofy robot battles. And boy, are they doofy. 8D

Kabut, Faiz and Blade (and Ryuki and Hibiki and etc.) are still on my list of Kamen Riders I need to watch, but for now I'm just watching Double.

Speaking of Double... ( CUT FOR SPOILERS FOR 18 OMG OMG )

Also, something that will blow minds.

The seiyuu that plays the Smilodon dopant (well, 'plays' is a relative word, since all the Smilodon says is 'RRRRRRRRR') just so happens to play someone in Hetalia.

RUSSIA.

Well folks, I just succeeded in getting Rookies voted in to watch at our anime club.

This means that not only have I gotten something voted in two semesters in a row (last semester I got SenBasa voted in), but I am the first person in NASHI history to get a live action series voted in.

Well, it didn't help that I never actually mentioned that it was a live-action. Nor did I bother to correct the Librarian when he said it was an anime.

...hopefully there won't be a riot next week when it starts. Especially since I'm having to chop the first episode in half to fit into Nashi's timeframe.

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Well, Rookies is a good series, and the Nashi-ites could stand for a little variation now and then.

I just think it's funny it got almost twice as many votes as Oofuri, and they're both about baseball (hey, I voted for both!).

The other two shows we're watching are Needless (I'll give it a shot, I'm not gonna condemn it just from the like 2 minutes of it I've seen) and Genshiken (again, not gonna condemn it even though I've heard a LOT about it...)