Ugh, I don't know why I always put off posting so much. Probably cause the stuff that happens in my life is either boring or sucky, so I usually don't feel like going into it in great depth.

Ok, first off, I got that job I wanted so I start training there on Monday. Which means I only have THREE more days left at Borders! That's only ONE WHOLE BEAN EFFING FRIDAY, FOLKS! YIPPEE KYE YAY MOTHER...(oh wait, my little sister reads this...hahaha...) GOOSE!

So that should be cool. I can walk to work in about...oh...2 minutes tops. The edge of my apartment complex abuts the playing fields for the Children's Home. So yeah, very close.

My is very unhappy with me at the moment. I busted the water pump so now whenever I go anywhere, I have to pour about half a gallon of water into the engine so it doesn't overheat. I can't drive Zachy's car because the registration expired and he's off doing run around in the woods Army stuff until Monday (he's been gone over a week now...). At least once he gets home, he should be able to fix my car pretty quickly. It's just the labor I don't want to pay for.

So my fan fiction ended up winning a silver medal on the Dobby Awards, which is pretty cool I guess. Still can't believe that I lost out to a V for Vendetta crossover fic, but then again I didn't really think my fic should have been in the AU category to begin with. I mean, it's not fair that your fic should suddenly be shifted into the AU category just because new canon information came out. That seems kind of stupid. That means that probably 90% of the fics out there should be labeled AU. I probably could take that off, but then I'd have scores of teenie-bopper canon-fanatics complaining, "Snape was a HALF-BLOOD! And he WAS IN LOVE WITH LILY!" Geez, I freaking hear you, but that's what happens when you take YEARS to craft a work of fan fiction art. Later books get released on you. Dammit.

Wondering if maybe the Twilight craze has calmed down a little bit. Fortunately I haven't heard too much about it lately and I see less amounts of teenage girls at Borders clasping their SMeyers books to their young, tender hearts as though they could smush Edward inside of themselves by osmosis. *Sigh*

Er, let's see. A-chan is still fat and Nimmy is looking kind of skinny so I need to keep an eye on her. God, my life is so boring. All work and car trouble. Er...um...I entered a couple of graphics challenges on my forum yesterday. I was in a real Photoshop mood for some reason. So here's what I came up with in case anyone cares:

(Challenge #1: Make a banner of your favorite artist using the quote "When all I have to do is dream")



I can't believe this one came out so well because I honestly didn't do that much to it. 99% of the credit should go to whoever directed BUCK-TICK's "Romance" PV because I didn't mess with the colors and the background just mushed together perfectly. Random thought, but I discovered fonts for Japanese today! Yay! Now I can make my kanji look handwritten. However, I found this out after I submitted this, or else I would have made Acchan's name a little prettier...

(Challenge #2: Make a signature set (100x100 and 500x200) using your favorite flower and scenes from nature.)



I also used a quote on that one (cause we could as long as it was relevant) from the song, "Sakura" by BUCK-TICK since I'm sure most of you know that that's Japanese for cherry blossom. I just liked the image of sakura petals falling in the moonlight or something...very poetic and I think Atsushi would like it XD So yeah, that's what I did last night and this afternoon. I still need to make a signature of Avrille, my fic OC, for another challenge.

Inspired by "Romance" I also made the icon that goes with this post. The kaji spell "yuuwaku" which means "temptation," a very fitting word to be placed next to Mr. Sakurai, I think. I was going to use the old kanji for "sakura" that Acchan uses in his last name on the cherry blossom one, but I thought it was nicer with less stuff on it. I don't think I'll win either challenge since there are so many amazing and talented people on my forum, but it was just really fun to participate!

Um, so yeah. That's about it. I'm slowly trying to catch up with my friends' fics, but I get kind of ADD sitting at the computer and reading so I don't do it as often as I would like to. I got "Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness" for the DS, but haven't played it much cause I'm not loving the interface. I don't like games that don't give you the option to use buttons as well as the touch screen. The gameplay and plot looks good enough to make it worth the money, but I'm still sort of putting off playing it.

So that's it for me. Sorry for those hoping for something mad and exciting from me. It's all very boring here in Watertown. I don't normally do this "posting of lyrics" thing, but Acchan's lyrics are just so freaking beautiful I'm feeling the need to. I never really read these lyrics before, but the song always sounded so sad I sometimes would skip it. Now I'm just going to feel even more sad when I listen to it...

Sakura
Lyrics: Sakurai Atsushi
Music: Imai Hisashi

Ah, please close your eyes for me, as if you’re sleeping peacefully
You’re probably already tired of acting, of dreaming, of everything
Your lifeless fingers fell, and you kept looking at me
Your voice made no sound, but you gently murmured

“I’m going soon…” without knowing any way to escape this blue room
Before the moon grows full, gently fly down to me
The waves are washing away, always, “it’s forever”

There’s no help for a broken body
The only medicine is sadness

If only you could sleep here one more time
Because this time, I’ll sing beautifully
If only the glittering stars would die out
Because at the end, I'll weep with my love

Ah, please close your eyes for me, as if you’re sleeping peacefully
You’re probably already tired of acting, of dreaming, of everything

In the fluttering of the full moon, gently fly down to me
The waves are washing away, always, “it’s forever”

There are no tears for deceiving pain
Only lies, and anguish

If only we could meet here one more time
Because this time, I’ll smile beautifully
If only the glittering sea would dry up
Because at the end, I’ll smile with my love

(Translation by the lovely, amazing people over at NotGreatestSite.net! I LOVE YOU!!!)

I've been online pretty much all day today, and I have no idea exactly what I did...well, I did make a couple of photoshopped icons for Nanners since I am NEVER going to get her drabble done. I just finished this sweet new Jyrki one that I made from a screen grab I took from The 69 Eyes' "Lost Boys" video. There are just so many shots of Jyrki in that one! I love when Jussi spits out the Chinese food and Jyrki just smirks at him. So lovely! Well, I'm waiting for the other RPGers to update (HINT HINT HINT NOT SO SUBTLE HINT HERE) so we can continue with that. I feel very tired and blah...I took a nap earlier but didn't sleep well because I was waiting for the movers to call any second. I eventually called THEM and was told that I had only "requested" for my delivery to be today, not "scheduled" it. &%^$(@*# PEOPLE! So they're coming tomorrow night, so we should at least be home then. I hate having work almost every day now...even when I was in school it was only usually 3-4 days a week. *sigh* Being grown up really sucks. I hate it. I just want to sleep all day and watch Harry Potter movies (that is, the ones that I would make...not the ones that OTHERS make and cut a ridiculous amount of awesome material out of.) Yeah, I'm not in a posting mood so I guess I"ll just end here. Don't want to bore people to death. Hopefully someone will update their LJs or leave me a fan fic review soon...I'm so bloody bored!

So Facebook is officially not absolutely sucky cause I was able to put 69 Eyes songs on my profile. Pretty cool. I spent about half an hour today playing that stupid music trivia game too...I would be getting this awesome score then would have it go bye-bye cause I didn't know if a song was by Ja Rule, P. Diddy, 50 cent, or whatever. Hello! They all sound the same and rely on copious amounts of swearing and misogyny to sell records! Oh well, I'm only like 5 points short of Jon Schulz . I shall beat him!

I've been working on some new icons, but I had to do a ton of errands yesterday and a hell of a lot of laundry today, so I only got one done. It's my U-ta one and I'll use it on this post so everyone can see the world's cutest bassist (or at least his hands...)! Atsu was in the picture I used for that one, so I'm working on one for him too. I love that video for "Alice in Wonder Underground." Who needs absinthe?! Just watch the bouncing Atsu and BUCK-TICK in donkey masks! I FINALLY got around to downloading all of the translations for the songs on Tenshi no Revolver, so MAYBE I can finally listen to that album!

I'm downloading the last part of the animation of "Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett, so I'm looking forward to watching that! I also got a movie with Emma Pierson in it, and she's my Avrille-girl so that should be cool to watch too. Yay, lots of TV to watch tomorrow...new Project Runway! Let's see...in other news...um....I have like way over 4,000 hits on my fan fic on Schnoogle. I wish there was some way to check your hits on FanFiction.net but if there is, I haven't found it. I have no idea how many people are reading the story on there. My friend Mark said that he was reading my fic which I found to be insanely hilarious cause he is NOT really a Harry Potter guy (though he did go see PoA with me cause he thinks that Hermione is hot. Even though she's like 13...he was all excited about the new movie cause she had BOOBS!)

So, yes, Facebook is fun. I shall re-connect with the same people I usually do for about 1 week then lose touch with them until we all switch over to the new, trendier networking site. I like all of the little gadgets you can download for it...like the vampire thing I got and I used to bite all of my friends! Mwa ha ha! I shall have a mini army of the undead! I guess I'll go fiddle with Photoshop now since I don't really have anything to do now, unless there's something good on tv which is probably impossible, cause it's TV.

Ok, I got Photoshop yesterday and I can now FULLY appreciate how someone can spend all night on a project and skip many many classes. I've so far only made three icons on it, but I think they turned out pretty good! Check them out!