Yuriko

So I've been keeping up with LJ in terms of reading the flist and all that, but posting, once again has been eluding me. XD; Ah well, I try. Kinda. Time to list it XD:

-NaNo: Tried it, kinda floundered, gave in. ^.^;; But I'm still going to be working on that story though I'll be posting it in this journal instead because I want it here. I'll ask if people want a filter for it later when I start putting what I have up (not that there are many people to ask XD) In any case, it was a fun experience and I'd be willing to try it again. (I seriously have such little self-discipline *flop*) LOVED reading kaitou_marina's though. Shall have to nag her to get back to writing it soon because dood, I want moar.

-New job: Is going well. Lots of working extra while training and to get things caught up from the time when no one was even filling this job. @.@ But hey, it's better pay than the grocery store and I like the work better too, so it's not that bad. Getting up so early everyday though... x.x Ugh, that I could do without. Ah well.

-Holiday Mash Up: Dear god, coordinating like... 4 families it feels like (plus hoping to visit innate too somewhere in there). But I think we'll make it work, so it's all good. A little worried about the gifts I still have yet to get (or think of wtf @.@) since time is rapidly running out, but I'll manage. Somehow. XD Then gotta figure out when/how to get to Canadaland to see all of them for fun times and visiting and xmas. Also, teh JENNI visit, must. figure. out. Oh and ya know, Mari's birthday's in there somewhere too. Wish me luck people. Wish me luck. XD;; Oh yes, and we have a Christmas Tree. A real one. And it's all decorated and stuff despite not having quite enough lights for our liking, it still worked out and is pretty and sparkly. ♥

-Snow: Good grief, it isn't that much of it, no, but it's been so cold it makes everything really icy. Ugh. I love snow, I do, but worrying about people getting around in it is bad. Buuuuut, like I said, other than that I really like it. It's so pretty. *.* (Even if I have to try to catch buses in it that pass me by at the stop without slowing down. TWICE >.<)

-Shrine: Zomg, the Shinto shrine covered in snow was so beautiful. And didn't pound any mochi myself this year, but it sure was tasty. Oddly enough, I think I've grown from hating red bean paste to not minding it at all. Huh. Anyway, the ceremony was nice, the grounds were really lovely, watching the mochi pounding was fun and I took lots of pictures with my phone. (Man, I want a real camera for things like that. Someday *sigh*) I also bought part of my dad's christmas present there - protection and luck amulets from the shrine. I've been kinda worried about him lately, so... I hope he'll like them and they'll help. In any case, I really enjoyed the visit this year even if getting there was a bit of an icy-road adventure XD;;;

Hmmm that's about it for a life update sort of thing. OH, shibbyfangirl, a little bit ago (a week or two after you asked actually) your package arrived! Sankyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~ ♥ I looove the genuinely Hokkaido kitsune bag XD and the cute lil' Fai cleaner strap. He's now proudly hanging from my DS. And it's always nice to get letters. I really should send them more often knowing how good it feels to get one. ^^;; But thank you so much!

Now to probably get ready for bed soon since I have to get up early tomorrow just to see if I go to work or not again (didn't today, it was closed due to potential and then actual snow and icy conditions).

So I officially signed up for NaNoWriMo >.>;; Gah, still don't know what I'm thinking. XD;;

Been a little since I posted again (thought not nearly as long a break as usual >.> ) But my birthday came and went. I'm now 25.

@.@ That's kind of weird to think about. I sure as hell don't feel 25. But I haven't felt my age for several years. I wonder what that says about me...... Then again, I shouldn't worry about it, should I? I am who I am, what does it matter, right?

( Ramblings about my birthday, videogames, Halloween, and thanksgivings )

Annnnd because I'm feeling more active and lively than I did earlier, have a present:

This song (talkin' 2 myself by Ayumi Hamasaki) is freakin' awesome. So much love for it!

Actually have two, because INSPIRE (by the same) is just that good too. (Maaaan, I'm sad that I've lost the PVs for that one and Game ;.; Oh Sei-chan I hope I can get the data off of you!)

Alright, now to go get down to some business at Mukashi. It's gotten really slow over there again, but we have some stuff planned, so I'm going to go post about those to hopefully excite and motivate people. Wish me luck! XD;

There are a lot of amusing memes going around right now. I should do the picture one, but ahahahhaha, no.

I hate pictures of myself when I AM ready to take one, much less ones when I'm not. Ugh. Besides which, I wonder what everyone I talk to online thinks I look like...

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm a little afraid to know. LOL Since it tends to be based on RP characters or icons and stuff like that... With me that would be uh... a little odd. XD I wish I were half as attractive as my RP characters, god. Kuro's hot, Himawari is cute and cute and cute, and Maguri is not-bad looking himself to put it lightly either...

Gaaaaaaaaaah, I dun wanna go to work today. A 20-25 min car/bus ride each way for only a 4 hour shift is soooooo annoying. >.< Though, it'll be an even longer bus ride for the job I hope to get for the same length of shifts, but I'll hopefully actually LIKE that job, so that makes it okay.

I really wish they'd get back to me ;.; But Lisa's been on vacation so that may be why I haven't heard from them yet. Hopefully I'll hear back soon since she'll be back soon.

kurikara_ryuoh just left from a visit. There was much fun and hanging out to be had (even though I worked for some of it). We had booze and movie-watching and it was awesome. (Finally saw Stardust and daaaamn, was it good!) Sankyuu for the birthday present, Far-chan! ♥ It's sooo nice having people around to do stuff with. I was really worried when we moved down here that we weren't going to have any people to hang out with from time to time and do things with. Since we had to leave the old AIYA peeps and we're so far from Kakumei people now too. ;.; But it's actually been okay, lots of people who want to see us! Not that I don't miss other people still... I really do. I want to go visit Canada soon. Miss you guys.

Anyway, I'm about to start babbling about RP again, so I'll stop there. XD

*GASP* *SHOKKU* I posted again already, the world must be ending! *ducks and covers*

Guh.... so unmotivated to do anything right now, besides look for a place to live of course, and that's just cause I have to... everything else? <..>_ Not so much. Moooooooooou. I feel bad about it too since I'm not doing things I should be.

*fusses*

And I'll write about vacation soon, swear. Like I said, nooooo motivation. *flops*

I wanna play lego!Indy.................

*whines*

Okay, I'm done. XD;

Guess I will try and ramble in this thing more. XD; I is at the family house for a couple days right now. It's always nice to visit here and be away from like work and the daily grind, but I always miss 'Ina too. That was sort of embarrassing, but it's still true. Mom said on the car-ride down here that maybe we could go ask around about some of the apartments kaitou_marina and I looked at but couldn't ask about because it wasn't office hours and/or they didn't have flyers with any extra information or anything. I hope we actually get around to doing it. I was really curious about a few of those places. If not, I'll just have to call and ask, which isn't that hard or anything, but I think I have vague anxiety about the phone and calling people for a reason.

Don't ask me why, I don't know. It's not even that extreme because I will do it, I just get very reluctant to call when I have a specific reason for doing so. I dunno, it's weird.

Also talked about possible types of jobs I could look for when we move down here. Mom really would like (and honestly so would I) for me to find something slightly more career/future oriented. It's not like I like working in retail/food etc in the slightest, it's just that I don't know how or where to go from where I am now. It's not like my foreign language skills are up to par for what I'd need for a job, but I know there must be other things I can look into. So were like trying to think of ideas of other areas of study that I focused on in school. What I'd really like, and it may be a pipe dream, is to work perhaps in the video-game industry in some shape or form. It's been a pretty constant dream for me to delve into the field one way or another since like... middle school. XD; There's a book I've seen floating around all about different ways and jobs in the gaming industry, so I kinda want to pick it up, at least to see.

Ah speaking of video-games, Indiana Jones Lego Adventures or whatever it's called is adorable and really addicting! I think Mari and I have to get that one. *.* I haven't really been playing my 360 much cause I'm usually doing so much on the computer anyway or playing Phoenix Wright on the DS, but I definitely would get the thing going for lego!Indy ♥

Other than those few things, only things going on with me are various RPs XD Pique (of Princess Tutu) and Kurogane make the strangest allies EVAR, I think. XD And my dragon boy is like, so head-over-tail in love and doesn't even realize how bad he's got it yet. And there's draaaaaaaaaaaaaama in the realm of the dead and a god of death that doesn't know he is a god yet XD Lol. And I have to say, damn you Shito (the guy in my icon actually) for being such a contradiction on legs *shakes fist* But I will master your character, I swear it! Oh yes, and a certain twin will be arriving soon and causing friction between our Big Puppy and Big Kitty soon >D Not that anyone knows what I'm talking about. (Except maybe that first one, that's over at mukashixmukashi XD)

Now, see? This is why I don't post often. I just go on and on about random crap! Ah well ^.^

OH OH, wait one more thing! I saw a fox on the way down here yesterday! Zomg, it was so cute! ♥ I was sooo happy. It was just sitting off to the side of the freeway in the grass, staring up into the sky. It was a little gray one. Sooooo cute! I like spazzed. I'd never seen one in the "wild" before. ^..^/) Ki~tsu~ne~ ♥

Once again, it's been some time. SakuraCon has come and gone and well most of you already heard about it. It was very マーマー. =_= *shrugs* There were awesome and fun parts and then not so much. It balanced out. Maybe I shouldn't have dressed as Himawari of all people XD; So damned expensive though (not the con itself, just the stuff surrounding it), so lately has been... not so great money-wise.

It's tight. Doable, but tight. Which makes me worry about upcoming expensive crap. *sigh*

BUT, I'm not going to dwell on that right now. Instead I feel like babbling. mukashixmukashi is nearly ready to open. Most of what still needs to be done is admittedly stuff in my care, but I'm plugging away at it. Mostly just need to do the last two comm icons and scan the world map and do a bigger map of the central RPing area and some mod-only reference stuff. Oh yeah and write my app.... Lol. I've done everything on it besides the parts that require thought. XD; It isn't that I haven't thought about what I'm doing for Kurogane there, not at all, I've got that done. It's managing to write it down coherently. I've never been too great at apps because you need to summarize things and I tend to babble like you all haven't noticed already XP. So I'll have all the information but also a lot of extraneous stuff and sometimes in orders that don't flow the best together. I'm going to try and avoid doing that on this one, but we'll see. XD; Must do good app to set a good example for applicants, ya know? So the pressure is on ^.^;;

Also been trying to get through the end of an arc in a private RP too and that's just been... heh, hard to do. Esp. with trying to keep up at Memento and get Mukashi off the ground and watch anime at home with kaitou_marina. XD; It feels as if around work I don't have enough hours in the day. Add the fact that things need to be so cleaned and straightened around here again and it's just a little overwhelming. And that $ shit I said I won't talk about too ._.

But, I shall prevail! YES! Because I have little other choice. LOL.

In any case, that's life in a nutshell again.

p.s. does anyone know good fairytales or legends or myths that involve particularly unlucky people? >.>

EDIT: Uh.. somehow my computer future dated this and I wanted to post again so you just get both posts now? XD;; This is actually something I wrote on the 16th.

Yeah yeah, whatever. I decided to start my journal over (minus the whole deleting everything I have here already). But new layout (kitsune!♥), re-uploaded icons and I'm going to do a flist cleaning at some point. So I hope no one gets offended. I doubt anybody notices my journal anymore by now anyway XD;

Rundown of life lately?

-Work, work, work. Shoot me, man, plz. XP
-Just got back from a few days visit at home. Such a good little break even if it made my hours for work this week suck (needs teh $$). But my sister had her birthday stuff early so I'd be there for it. It was nice. I can't believe she's almost 15. CRAZY! Things I learned? My mom likes home shows on HGTV too ^.^, I want an iPod >.>, I suck at Guitar Hero but not the Pirates 3 game XD;
-So Far-chan is visiting this weekend, which is nice. It's been so long since we got to see her. We're going to go have nummy tea laters ♥ And last night I finally saw all of Boku no Sexual Harassment (since she wanted to watch it). Dude, that thing is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. It was just laughable. I kinda liked the development between Honma and Mochizuki though after all. XD; Then to watch something not so terrible that actually showed porn >.< we watched Sensitive Pornograph. I really like those short stories, so sweet. And I can't stop thinking of Sono as Fai since they look similar and I can picture Fai sounding like that >.>... Gah, I'm such a fangirl XD
A choice quote from the night? (Farha's always great for these)
"It's like hardcore with a soft center!" -Farha on Sensitive Pornograph
-I love Koda Kumi. I am listening to her Kingdom album that I downloaded. More people should be that hot. *nods wisely*
-RP eats your life and soul. 'Nuff said. XD; But god, at least I'm finally getting some stuff done and taken care of for Memento. But damnit I wanna play with MY RP >O
-I need to get off my ass and draw mascot things. Both AIYA and SakCon are in need. AIYA has first priority though. (kurosakihisoka, any luck on your end for the SakCon one?)

And that be all for now. As a New Year's Resolution I am going to try and update this thing at least once a month. Hopefully more often than that, but knowing my track record, shooting for once a month is better than nothing. Lol.

So, hello world of teh internets.

I finally got this frickin' layout to work! *phew* Been working on it on and off since like... December. o.0 But so worth it. God I'm so gone on this pairing. XD;;;

Speaking of layouts, uhhh, hime1999? Your's is done design-wise, but I keep forgetting to ask you to approve it before I code the sucker. So uh... hopefully I'll remember to show it to you next time I talk to ya. XD;; You should poke me too if you remember. lol

In other news, working at Haggen's is pretty nice so far. So many codes to memorize though @.@ omg They all keep telling me I'll start picking them up though, so hopefully.

And also, Super Princess Peach? So addictive. Sankyuuuuuuuuu for letting me borrow kurosakihisoka <3 <3 <3 *squee*