Mood: Happy~

We have the technology. . . We can make you stronger, type faster, drive better, tie your shoes more efficiently~ Deliver us from the shackles of the cast and be REBORN!

*Runs around flailing her arm about* MUA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! *So happy*

What a splendid birthday present on this birthday-est days of birthdays. DOUBLE DECADE BIRTHDAY, that is! I don't feel twenty. Or if I do, it feels a lot like nineteen, and the same as eighteen, and seventeen. . . And I know that despite the fact that the "teen" bit is officially dropped now it will not stop my mom from still calling me "kiddo." So yeah, not much new for the big 2 - 0.

Since my entire family abandoned me today for assorted work, bowling, or Arrogant Worms concert related activities, I did all my birthday celebrations yesterday. Chelley got me a FREAKING CHIBI GAARA PHONESTRAP and it's so freaking cute I think I'm going to DIE. *Jingles her cellphone back and forth where Gaara dances in all of his chibified glory and explodes the world* She also gave me a $40.00 gift certificate to Warp 1, which I am trying to muster up the energy today to drive down to to buy manga love. And Mom and Dad bought me my drawing tablet, so now I can draw and color on the computer without being burdened by archaic utensils like pencils and paper! Maybe I might even try Oekaki now~ *Claws at all the pretty drawings online* Yesterday was also Yuk Yuks with the gang, which was freaking awesome, and full of dirty sex jokes that made me laugh my ass off. Yuk Yuks is definitely going to be something I try to make a more regular thing because it happies me. Then we all went back to amass like an amoeba-like clump in my basement for chocolate cake shaped things and games. Chris gave me two more Christopher Moore books that I've wanted, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Practical Demonkeeping that I've heard are as awesome as Lamb; I got the first manga volumes of both Othello and Girl Got Game from Jenny, as well as a funky bracelet, and of course chocolate which I can always count on my James-kun to fill my addiction for; and Brock gave me a mooshie like the snowman I love to death so much at his house, and it sits on my bed and is splendid and so very mooshable while I'm watching TV, muh HA.

I engaged in all manner of birthday festivities yesterday and thus have diddily to do today, so in honor of my turning one year older today, I slept in late and made myself a gigantanormous breakfast with hashbrowns and bacon and eggs all wrapped in together in a tortilla-shell of happy. I haven't decided what to do for the rest of the day, like mused before, maybe I'll head to Warp 1, or maybe just watch lots of Invader Zim. "ZIIIIM! Don't use the time machine, love ZIIIIM!"

Gwaaa. . .and I just realized Carolina booked me for a supervisor shift on Tuesday the same time as one of my Grant MacEwan classes. . . *Flail* I need the money so bad but I've also already paid for this class. . . *Anguish. So torn.* T-T

Mood: Happy (and full of ice cream)

I got off my ass and finally sorted out the temperamental issues my blog has been experiencing over the past few days, assuming first it was a coding problem, and then maybe a blogger problem, and it turns out it's the freaking quiz I put up in the last entry. T-T That's the problem with posting stupid quizzes made by stupid people, they set hell and zombie dogs loose on templates. Argh and nerg and pfft.

I think I fried a couple billion brain-cells looking for the Journal comics in the smoking room at work yesterday. I should sue for second-hand lung cancer. Or maybe just set out some big muscly men to wreak vengeance on all the cigarette smoking junkies who are polluting my bubble of air. HOSERS!

Yesterday was fun (not the second-hand smoke death, I mean after work) -- joined Chelle and her pals for a girls night out. We went down to Warp and I bought Hot Gimmick 5 and Eva 9. I haven't been to Warp in ages, every time I go they seem to have doubled their manga collection, and this time every where you look there's yaoi series'. They're even carrying a "I ♥ YAOI" book bag that the silly fangirl in me demands to own but the sensible part of me slaps the annoying fangirl and tells her no.

OMG, I need to take all of my friends down to Whyte Ave and there I shall introduce you all to the BEST ICE CREAM. IN. THE. WORLD. They have a dozen or more different base flavors, then they have shelves and shelves lined with mixings, ranging from every from chocolate chips, different chocolate bars, nuts, and fruits to marshmallows, coconut, and real to god CLUMPS OF ACTUAL COOKIE DOUGH, and you pick as many as you want and they freaking mix it in with the base flavor and make your own flavor of ice cream right in front of you, top it off with different kinds of syrup, and shovel a gigantanormous amount into one of six different waffle cones. It ends up costing you about five dollars, but ohmygod, it's so good. I couldn't finish mine though, it was too much for one puny Brenna to eat. This is the same ice cream shop that, before it came to Edmonton, my sister and her friend went down to Calgary one day to get. TO CALGARY. FOR ICE CREAM. *Claws at friends* You muuuuuuust cooooooome~

We also went to see Phantom of the Opera at Gateway. I don't think it was as poor as all the nasty paper reviewers were ranting about. There were some definite slow parts but the singing made me happy and the phantom was sexy with his sexy mask and sexy singing and sexy vengeance and rage. It looked like Christine was having a massive orgasm every time he touched her. Sexy stalking phantoms will do that to a helpless heroine.

Amanda, Lance, Chelle, and I are all going to see The Princess Bride at the Arden in March. It's being put on by one of the high schools (when was the last time a school rented out a whole theatre for a play? o_O) but it's the freaking Princess Bride and there's no way it won't turn out awesome, because it's Wesley, and Inigo, and pirates, and rodents of unusual size. Do the math, it is a universal equation for good implosion.

Mood: Meh

This week has been tiring for stupid reasons that shouldn't be, in turn making me feel equally stupid, thus provoking probably too much chocolate than is most likely healthy for one human body, and hours of Cardcaptor Sakura. Last couple of days work has been draaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaging, and I'm not looking forward to going back in tomorrow and standing for another seven hours that will seem like seven YEARS. *Falls off chair in a congealed mess on floor*

Seanathan sent me this link, and I was distracted from stupidness by better stupidness that made me gafaw (I don't think anyone has ever actually "gafaw"-ed, but it's a fun word so let's go with it.)

Had my first crash course in Macromedia Flash on the weekend. Flash eats my soul. It's simpler than I thought it would be, the basics anyway, but in a very loooooong, drawn out, time-consuming sort of way. A three minute flash movie like on Albino Blacksheep -- I would DIE before I can imagine making and finishing one of those.

Inane is getting sloppy on their Naruto translations. . .this saddens me. The news that Naruto has been licensed also aggravates me to a degree, for the sole reason that I fear having to be forced to resort to IRC to download episodes if bittorrent downloads become unavailable. I'll have to rage. Just a bit.

More links that have been compiling in my mailbox:

This happies me. Especially the dragging the mouse through the wood shavings part.

While this disturbs me.

AHHHHHHHH!

Gafaw! Matrix cow.

citroen_C4.wmv (You have to right-click and save this one to watch it, or you get a 404 error.)

Amanda-chan, you must show me this HP badger flash movie. It haunts my dreams at night. "Snaaaaaaape. Snaaaaaaape."

On with the quizes. For each of your fandoms, list:

Fandom: Escaflowne
1. A character you absolutely worship: Dilandau
2. A character you like: Folken
3. A character you could give or take: Allen
4. A character you don't really care for: Hitomi
5. A character you'd like to stab: Millerna

Fandom: Naruto
1. A character you absolutely worship: Orochimaru
2. A character you like: Gaara and Kakashi (so torn. . .)
3. A character you could give or take: Naruto
4. A character you don't really care for: Neji
5. A character you'd like to stab: Sakura

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
1. A character you absolutely worship: Roy
2. A character you like: Hughes
3. A character you could give or take: Winry
4. A character you don't really care for: Tucker
5. A character you'd like to stab: Rose

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1. A character you absolutely worship: Spike
2. A character you like: Practically every other character EVER.
3. A character you could give or take: Dawn
4. A character you don't really care for: Riley
5. A character you'd like to stab: Kenedy

Looking forward to next week on West Wing -- Josh and Toby, THROW DOWN! Be there next Wednesday! *Girly cat fight ensues* I want Josh and Donna to snog. It would happy me. (Lack of grammer also happies me. And lack of spell check.)

Okay, I'm out.

Mood: I dunno

It's very exciting. We've been deprived from our Mugen love and samurai insanity for many months. . . And I hear this episode is supposed to be one of the best yet. MUGEN LEARNS HOW TO READ! *STOKED*

Amanda and Lance also introduced me to Last Exile with taunts of sexy, insane, villain yaoi in the nice, shapely form of a character named Dio. I've only seen the first eight episodes but I'm game to see the rest some time, and more Dio is never a bad thing either. But color me anguished when I come home and start cruising the web for pretty images, and this shows up in Google:

The City of the Night: Count D's Shoppe - Bravenet Web Journal
... I end up seeing the last 6 episodes??? Where did Exile come from? ... Why did Dio's sister
manipulate him causing him to have that major breakdown then die? ...
count-d.bravejournal.com/ - 55k - Cached - Similar pages

What the fuck, DIO DIES?! Not fair. NOT FAIR. I didn't even go to the actual site, and already Google's gone and spoiled part of the series for me; and usually I enjoy that, but this was not shiny, happy spoilage. . .

Speaking of shiny spoilage, I downloaded the long-anticipated Naruto chapter 245 raw, AND THEN I found a text translation for the raw, AND THEN my head exploded. Actually, nothing interesting beyond the general fact that we've jumped almost three years ahead happened, but the first scene with Kakashi made me laugh. (And no Orochimaru yet. . . *Sadness*)

Oh yeah. . .and in the real part of my life that doesn't include being fangirly over anime and manga, THIS happened, and THAT happened, and THEN THAT flipped out and everyone died. Same old same old. Monday was a really bad day, and it didn't help any that at the end of it I couldn't even get a much needed hug from my hug guy at work cause he'd already left. =_= Then I drew this to cheer me up, and it did, and the rest of the week was better. (I liked it a lot more on paper than I do scanned in, I'm not sure why. And I spent most of the time hiding all the Nazi pictures in my room I used for reference from my parents. But none of it matters because it's freaking Orochimaru in a Nazi uniform. I'd really like to try coloring this one. . .) Nothing else really to blab about~

Mood: S'right

That's right, baby. We are now OS X-ified. Mmm, sexy. Rarw~ *Showers her Macintosh with love. It purrs.* The poor thing still has a bit of a head cold from all of this scary operating system upgrading, and in the mean time I'm deprived from my usual dual monitor set up, and Photoshop hasn't been loaded yet, the scanner isn't working, I've discovered that the new Safari web browser is a whore and I need to recode lots of websites to work in it, and there's tons of things I haven't figured out yet, but nevertheless OS X rocks my face off for the most part.

I've gone shopping twice in the last week and have bought an over-abundance of wonderful things, among them being many pretty shirts, volume seven of the Evangelion manga, volumes one to four of Hot Gimmick, season six of Buffy, two FMA posters, Romeo and Juliett DVD, lots of La Senza pretty things, the first Bridget Jones Diary book, and. . .*drumroll*. . .A NEW CELLPHONE! It's a cute little Samsung flip phone, and I bought a red cover for it, and I loooooove it.

My car starter is being installed on Friday morning! Which also means I have to wake up at 6:00 in the morning in order to have it in by 7:00. . . =__=; Good news is that I'll have the two or three hour wait while it's being done to read my new mangas. *Reads her shoujo in the waiting room and begins giggling and rolling around in her chair. All the other customers look scared.*

Hmm, out of things to say again. . . Dodgeball is freaking hilarious, and the montage scene with people getting hit in the face with wrenches practically killed me, holy shit, I couldn't stop laughing. Ben Stiller rocks my world. Seriously. I'm just kidding though. But not really.

Things. . .

. . .you shouldn't do with glue.

Mood: Excited

Yay! Christmas is in six days! We did the ol' annual decorating of the tree tonight which is always fun. Every year we have two Christmas trees -- a fake one upstairs in the living room and a real one downstairs in the family room. The rule goes as follows: the tree and all decorations upstairs are traditional, pretty, and store bought; the one downstairs is what we fondly refer to as our "tacky tree," is the one we put all our presents under, and bursting to the seams with all the crappy, homemade decorations we ever made back as kids, I really don't think you'll ever be able to find uglier decorations anywhere in this world. Tree ornaments range from everything from my personally-made shrinkart stickmen to crushed, broken candy cane reindeer with one missing pipe-cleaner antler and an eye falling off. (We broke the mold last year, however, with the store bought Harry Potter Severus Snape ornament I got, but it's freaking Snape and he rules and traditions can kiss my ass in this particular case.)

However, the most beloved decoration that we always look forward to the most is the clay reindeer I made in kindergarden, which we officially call "The Big Pile of Poo". . .because that's exactly what it looks like, and we always made sure to hang it on the very front of the tree where everyone can see it. Our downstairs Christmas tree is one of a kind. It is absolutely horrendous, and we love it.

(I was also supposed to build the annual -- but in no way looked forward to -- gingerbread house, but I managed to wriggle out of that chore for today, shhhh. . . I'm sure to receive the Look of Shame from Mom tomorrow. I'll probably end up not doing it until the last minute on Christmas Eve while we're all watching Muppet's Christmas Carol like last year.)

And on a completely unrelated and non-Christmas note, HOLY SHIT the Haru wo Daiteita manga is being licensced into English by Central Park Media!!! That rocks so awesome! *Rolls around on the floor* And OMG, Haru wo Daiteita is also being made into an OVA!!! *Blows up and takes out a few city blocks with her*

Okay, and Mom got my sister's boyfriend this awesome game called "Things," and starting today I'm going to begin a game of it on my blog. So at the end of each post now I'm going to ask one of the questions from the cards, and everyone has to think up an answer. That's all there is to it. Even if you only occassionally read this blog and have never commented before, do it now. Invite people you know online to come join in. The more people the merrier. Have fun.

Things. . .

. . .a cow thinks about when a farmer milks it.