Shannon

So this totally has not been my decade.

Fortunately, Mom's done with her surgeries and half through her treatments. Less fortunately, it's my turn to go in for surgery tomorrow, investigating things to figure out exactly how many more surgeries I'm going to need.

( kvetch moan gripe girl-type TMI )

Dear fic brain,

It's great that you want to work on Harrow Children. It is.

But.

Can you want to work on it when I'm not, y'know, AT WORK? Or not when I'm at lunch but a good ten minute walk away from my computer? Thanks. I know, I know, I'm not giving you much time to work with, since my little spare time has been eaten up by trying to not be a giant fatass and starting to prep NOW for the JLPT1, but still.

And also, could you want to maybe work on part two instead of part three? I know writing the love-hate-dash of UST relationship between Zack and Tifa is fun and all (especially this one scene, oh MAN), but I really DO need to write the boring plot bits in part 2 so I can get to the interesting interpersonal stuff.

Five more pages, no work done since lunch (thank god we're in the process of moving at work and so everyone is packing instead of working, and I finished packing this morning), and no love,

jou

Whoo! I've been sent a job offer!

*happy bouncing all over the place*

Time spent: 1:02
Calories burned: 286
BMI: 29.09

So I booted up the Wii, decided, "I'm gonna do some yoga today. I feel kinda bleh." I went to the yoga menu, pulled up the crescent moon pose, then went, "Wait, what the--?" at the male trainer being on the screen.

"I'm doing it instead of the other trainer!" he proclaimed, and I went, "OK, what? First it changed hairstyles on me, then genders? Whaaa-?" and rolled with it. Or tried. But it was too weird seeing a guy with no ass and oversized thighs on the screen. I figured, though, hey, one day of a change.

No, it was just one exercise, then it went back to the chick. And I was like, "Hunh, just when I got used to the idea of using the guy trainer." And decided, "Oh, why not? If nothing else, it'll help with with understanding guys speaking Japanese," and went into the settings and told it to use the male trainer, and popped open an easy yoga pose.

Y'know, I don't think you're supposed to point and laugh at the trainer, but I did. Literally.

The male trainer? DOOOOOOOOOORK. I was yelling, "Dude, you are waaaay too perky!" at the screen when he was giving praise (I swear, he sounded like Koyasu Takehito's in seriously-need-of-ritalin little brother with ADHD or something), then I got four stars and he gave me this DORKTASTIC thumbs up (the woman claps, so you know) and I literally pointed and laughed at the screen. I got as far as, "Dude, if you start clapping--" with a warning finger waggle when he gave the thumbs up, and I swear, I lost it. I went from you-better-not finger wag to POINTING AND LAUGHING.

And it wasn't that first time, oh, no, it was every time, because it never stopped being laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameriffic. >XD

I honestly thing that every time he went, "Gambatte!" I went, "Pffffftahahaha~ *snerk*" Which was really unhelpful in the middle of exercises. >XD I got some pretty crap scores today all because I was too busy laughing my head off at the trainer than to keep my balance. And ohhh, it was so worth it.

I did more muscle training that I normally do just so I could laugh at the dork. My arms currently want to fall off and die, but yeah, worth it. >XDDDD

Here's an in-progress story I'm working on. It's probably going to end up being fairly long. The link takes you to my DW journal to read it. Otherwise, you can check it out on Fanfiction.net.

Title: Headlights Off
Rating: R (Language, Violence, Adult Themes)
Genre: Action/Suspense
Characters: Reno, Rude (Turk-Centric)
Disclaimer: FF7 is owned by SquareEnix. I'm not making a profit with this writing.
Summary: Post-Crisis Core. A mysterious attack sends Reno and Rude on a mission to discover the truth about what's happening to their organization.

( The alley was almost completely dark, except for one lone flickering street lamp... )

Time spent: 1:05
Calories burned: 300
BMI: 29.09

Yeah, gained weight technically, but I am caring not one jot because my clothes are looser and it's also ~the mooooooost wonderful tiiiiiiiiiime of the moooooooonth~, so yeah, whaaaaatever.

Although I am looking askance at how my body seems to really and truly like staying at a BMI of about 29. I mean, honestly now. :p

The obstacle course is still pwning me and hard. ARGH. I was, once again, SO CLOSE. asdfghjkl;bastard.

I also tried the golf bit in the Training+ section and was so bored out of my skull that I will never do it again, not unless I'm feeling uuuuugh and need to do something completely non-taxing.

I got a "perfect dance" for the first time with the step dancing thing, so GO ME~. I then proceeded to completely botch the march thing, though. XD

Today was also mainly muscle training--I figure next week I'll be a masochist and move up to 30 jackknifes. And try the pushups again and hate life. XD;;

( Stick Around (Samurai Sentai Shinkenger) )

My best friend, who's been in Japan as long as I have, is moving back to Canada.

She hated her job, and the guy she really loved and had for years, even when she should have kicked him to the curb instead of fighting to keep, broke it off with her permanently.

She decided yesterday, and is moving back in two weeks. She handed in her resignation at work and everything.

I might get a chance to see her, since we're flying out of Narita the same day. I'm going to take the Shinkansen up that Friday night and will stay at her place. And then she's leaving, and probably for good.

The chances are really, really low that I'll see her more than maybe once every couple years, if that--she may come to Japan again on vacation, but the chances of me heading to Canada are really low, because if I fly out to that side of the world, I pretty much have to see my family, and I only get about a week off at a stretch, which is why I haven't visited any of my friends not in Georgia when I go to the US.

She'd sent me an e-mail saying she was going on the 15th, but I thought it was just for winter break, to get out of Japan for a while--not forever. She called me tonight, and I swear, it was like a punch to the stomach, because it's so sudden.

So...yeah. In a very short span, I'm losing all my good friends--one to that fight, one is going back to Canada, and M, whom I just bonded with instantly, is going back to Korea. So...yeah.

I'm not feeling depressed, thank goodness, just really sad. I feel lonely already.

It's going to be a really sad new year. :(

This dog is cat, yo.

I am very, very excited for Christmas this year - I have Gifts of Awesome for everyone, and I can't wait to give them out. Giving presents is one of my favorite things to do - As a kid I always wanted to be Santa Claus.

We have two and a half weeks until Christmas break. This is awesome. This week is pretty light, teaching wise, which is nice. And I'm going to see kiraya on Fri/Sat, though I do need to do Secret Santa shopping. I love Secret Santa shopping - picking out the presents is fun, and having something to look forward to those last five days of school when everything is crazy is nice too!

Right Stuf is doing an AWESOME 12 days of anime sale - I plan to buy at least DGM, possibly Trigun Remixed (Dad should have a copy of his own), maybe XXXholic (fans of the manga - how's the anime?) - maybe a few other things, depending on what the next few days bring up. I still need to get Princess Tutu too, but it seems to be at a steady price.....

I got a new Purse/pair of gloves/wallet yesterday. My old purse was too small, which resulted it in tipping over and me dropping my wallet in my closet in school and not realizing it. Which was sucky. I had a bit of panic attack at that.

I'm also excited about the Code Geass....THING for next year. Bets seem to be on a movie or an OAV - I hope they do an AU rather than an R2 continuation. Hey, they could do a version of R2's last couple episodes where Schneizel went and tried to take over the world, the BK realized hey, this isn't so great and ended up reaching out to Lelouch, who brings Suzaku with him and there is epic smack down.

....okay, probably not, but it's be awesome.

Also, I went and got a new DVD burning program, which I use pretty much to make DVDs of Anime Music Vids. So, I want recs - what are your favorite anime music videos? I usually only end up getting ones from Otakon's contest, so I'm sure there are a lot of 'classic' ones I don't have. I love taking them to anime club and educating my children. Plus they're fun to clean/exercise to.

If you haven't already, you should see sky_dark's post about her FRIDGE OF AWESOME. It has become a running joke between musicshoes and I already. Our weekend has been more complete because the Fridge of Awesome. *nods*

All right, I'm out!

( PLAGUED RPG - What would you do if you lost your magic? )

Time spent: 1:08
Calories burned: 290
BMI: 28.66 <--I do not trust this worth a sweet goddamn. XD

Yesterday's Wii Fit Challenge~ started to happen. I changed into my workout clothes, turned it on, winced as I remembered, oh yeah, I needed to buy batteries for the Wiimote while I was out!, figured it could make it one more day, and did the weighing and balance stuff.

...and then, before I could push the A button to tell it to save, the screen went black with ominous red letters, and it informed me it had lost connection with the Wiimote, and to reconnect the Wiimote and press A.

The batteries were so dead it would not turn on long enough for me to save. So I had to change out of my workout clothes and messy workout bun into real clothes and bun made with my actually looking in a mirror, and traipsing to the convenience store just to buy batteries. It took me about twenty, twenty-five minutes total, and I grumpily decided that walking time was my exercise for the day, and saved. It gave me a BMI of 29.9, so I was like, "OK, fine."

I don't trust today's mainly because it was another "forget to eat" days--I spent all morning playing Hikari no 4 Senshi and forgot to eat, aside from a breakfast bar. I stuffed myself full of ramen later (I'm going to make more after my bath; eating late being bad for you be damned), but yeah. That BMI is so full of lies. XD

I was quite vexed by the damn pata-pata chicken game (I was Right. At. The. Goal! when time ran out--I started yelling, "NO! I was SO CLOSE! NO!!") and the obstacle course. Both of them like giving me the finger, but one day, oh, one day, I will emerge victorious. XD

Yeah, so, new pics of the new Cid.

Hellooooooooooo, nurse.

Between Cid and Yun Fang, my PS3 is going to overheat. XD

( Dose of Reality (Kamen Rider W) )

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image credit:
many of the 30stm images photo credit to erialcgrove on lj.
holiday images are psp tubes snagged from yahoo group.
wubbzy snagged from wherever on the web entertaining Boo.
dresden caps by killmotion on lj
badly outdated resource list here if you think you need on that list? oh please say so. I will very gladly add you. it is not intentional slight, it's distraction, bad memory and lack of time.

holiday/christmas x13
30 seconds to mars x17
dresden files x18
wubbzy x 19
3 misc, 5 from kynxpirations picture prompts
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I went out today with my friend M, who I have nicknamed "the devil," and for good reason. That girl is the little devil who sits on your shoulder and tells you to do bad things, I swear. XD Any weight I've gained is mainly that girl's fault. XD

Anyway, she's taking the JLPT tomorrow, so we got together to study (I'm not taking it, since I was so sick most of the year when the application was due I didn't know if I'd be healthy enough for it, but I need to start studying now for next year) and met up at a Starbucks. Unfortunately, my glasses finally gave up the ghost before I left home, so I was glasses-less. But there was a glasses store near the Starbucks, so I took my glasses in and got them fixed, but they were at the end of the line, and even though the woman tried to fix them, there were still lopsided. I saw cute glasses there, so I dragged M in later, and she helped me pick out new glasses.

After she declared she'd studied enough, we went shopping. And it as under her influence that the unthinkable happened.

I bought makeup.

I...hate makeup. I also hate shopping for it, since my right-smack-dab-in-the-middle skin color apparently does not exist. As it was, I had to buy foundation and beige face powder, and have to use both--the face powder is because the foundation is a smidgen too light (and my undertones are screwy). Just the foundation is a wrong, but both together works.

....It was also at Givenchy, so it was EXPENSIVE. It was around ¥12,000. Between that and the glasses, I blew ¥20,000 in one day, and my wallet is crying. asdfghjkl;

But the makeup will be used very sparingly (going out clubbing, days I have a demo that will be on TV).

So, yeah. Here is something y'all will never see again:

1) a picture of me online

2) me wearing makeup.

( I photograph so badly. Also, my hair was being difficult. Yay, high humidity days! Bleh. )

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badly outdated resource list here.
image credit- majority of the 30stm goes to erialcgrove on LJ.

1 unicorn, 1 Pete Wentz, 1 wolf, 8 30 seconds to Mars (7 & 1 alternative actually, couldn't decide if I liked either but..)

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Time spent: 38m
Calories burned: 185
BMI: 29.10
Feeling: tired

I am le tired tonight, so short workout. And since I'm off meds but my throat is still acting up (I'm gonna make an appointment again before I leave for vacation), I decided pushing it too much would be a bad idea. On the plus side, I did the really high level punching game--it's ten minutes long, so my arms kind of want to fall off...but I did better at it on my first try than I have the other punching games--I got a four stars. I think it's because it's twice the tempo as the first one, so it's a lot faster--I tend to rush, so the faster tempo worked for me. :D

Also, the trainer's hairstyle went back to the old one. Eh? :(

Now to call my mom (about my trip back to the US) then hit the bath. I learned the hard way, that i I don't take a nice, long soak after I work out, I hurt, hurt, hurt the next day.

Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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