[Take the Long Road, Take the High Road, But Just Remember: It's Easier With A Car.]

This Month's Recommended Video:
Nishino Kana [西野カナ]

Style.




This Month's Recommended Anime:
Soul Eater

Synopsis: At the Shinigami Weaponry Vocational School [Shibusen], humans known as Meisters study. Each Meister has their own partner; a weapon capable of taking on a human form. The story follows three of these Meisters and their Weapons. They are Maka Alban and her weapon Soul Eater, Black Star and his weapon Tsubaki, and Death the Kid and his weapons Patricia and Elizabeth Thompson. They attend the school, do homework, fight evil souls, and most important, they try to help their weapons reach Death Scythe status, in which they are eligible for use by the leader of all the Meisters and Weapons, the Shinigami-sama (Death God) himself.

Why: If you haven't jumped on the Soul Eater band waggon yet, you don't know what you're missing. This shounen series has just enough shoujo in it (thanks to main female character Maka) that it appeals to males and females no matter what the age or genre preferance. The characters each have their own endearing quircks and personalities that makes it hard to hate or dislike any of them. You'll never find the characters spending 100 episodes so that they can learn a new technique or get stronger. What else do I need to say to convince you to watch this amazing series? Oh, right. And there's a character obsessed with Symmetry. Need I say more?


Quote of the Month:
About Barack Obama winning the 2008 American Presidential elections by Unknown.





And of course, AVATAR IS KOOOOL! <33

Alright, so this week I've been staying ati_am_krazy's house (Tuesday to Sunday) and seeing as she just came back from Europe and hadn't seen Star Trek yet because of that, we went and saw it yesterday. Damn but it felt good to see it again. I felt like the first time I saw it I was in a sort of daze at the magnitude of awesome that Star Trek presented to me, so the second time I was able to sit back and really take in the movie.

We also agreed to see Transformers 2 since we both loved the original so much (and I grew up on Transformers, personally, so I was going no matter what) and this is the real reason I'm posting. Not because I want to rant or fangirl over the movie, which was great, don't get me wrong, but because during that intire movie, one thing was going on in the back of my mind:

Avatar: the Last Airbender. Summer 2010.

"But why?" you may ask?

Simple. BECAUSE THEY SHOWED THE FUCKING TRAILER FOR THE MOVIE BEFORE TRANSFORMERS STARTED!!!!!!

AHJKDFHDJKSAGFhkhagjfklesjdhfkgl;kjgl;hs'hjgs;'d'f;gldgjkl'uw4905UY MKLFJEPOWJN;L!!!!!!!!!!!!

I.. I... OMFG I CAN NOT WAIT. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OH MY FUCKING GOD.

AND I SAW AANG'S FACE. PERFECT. THE WHITE KID FROM TEXAS LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM. I AM SO IN LOVE. Well, kinda, I mean it was only a quick glance, but still OH MY GOD!!!! Aang is the only character we see in the preview, although we do get a panned shot of CG'd Fire Nation soldiers climbing up a cliff face in an attempt to reach Aang, who is inside one of the Air temples.

(if you can't tell, i'm still a little excited over it.)

BUT STILL. OMG. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. I CAN NOT GET OVER THIS. (and is i_am_krazy will tell you, it's really annoying. But that's only because she WENT TO THE BATHROOM right before the preview started, lol.)

F-list, forget casting, forget who is directing, I am going to go see this movie because Avatar changed my life, and I would never forgive myself if I waited even a day to go see it.

SO. IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED IT F-LIST, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO. WATCH. IT. NOW!!!


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Did you know that you can lose 8 pounds in one day by throwing up 6 times in 24 hrs and not eat or drink anything because you are unable to hold it down?

I sure didn`t, but I do now!


(This is why there was no post yesterday.)

Work has been crazy busy this past week; I'm only part time but I ended up working 20 hours. I then often had dance right afterward so I was really tired. Good news though is that more hours = BIG PAYCHECK 8'DDD!! And BIG PAYCHECK 8'DDD!!! = MONEY FOR ANIME EVOLUTION SO I CAN BUY CRAP W00T! (Actually it means I can pay my mom back the $150 I owe her for these sweet pair of boots she bought for me, but eh, who's counting.)

At hip-hop tonight we were handed out news letters with next year's class schedule and recommended classes to take. (Every year the studio director and your current dance teachers get together and go over your performance and based on that and what classes you are currently taking, they recommend a higher level, a different class, ect.) I was very surprised (actually I totally had a little mental spazz and squeaked which only a couple of the girls noticed thank God) when I saw that I've been offered the chance to join not only the Level 4 Competition Hip Hop class, but the Broadway Competition Class as well! I didn't see either coming (because this is only my third year taking Hip-Hop and my first taking Musical Theater, and I'll be 18-turning-19 next year so I thought I'd be too old) and I'm so frigin' HAPPY/EXCITED/THRILLED/PSYCHED/OMFG YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH BITCHEZZ! Of course, my closets friends are off in Europe, Germany and Alberta, respectively, right now so when I tell my mom this and get a "that's nice dear" my next logical course of action (which would normally come after I spazz to said off-gallivanting friends) is to post here on LJ TO SHARE THE EXCITEMENT AND LOOOOOVE~ <3

(That is assuming, of course, that any of you lovely LJ friends of mine have not forsaken me for my not posting in months thing.)

So with the finale of Heroes come and past (oh Heroes I shall wallow away the days I now find myself in your absence/ final thoughts and comments to be posted Friday) I've offically been dragged back into the fandom, hard, and am currently obsessing with future/speculation fics. And Sylaire. Badly.

Why? I don't know. It's sick and it's wrong and I've got this thing with pairing female leads with the sadistic, mass-murdering bad-guys and it's just so fucking hot. DON'T JUDGE ME F-LIST. (and please, feel free to let me know i'm not the only person who does this. and i know which way most you lean when it comes to pairings, so if you do it with male lead + sadistic, mass-murdering bad-guys that works for me too) So since my muses have abandoned me along with the death of my laptop (R.I.P. Larry, I'll miss you. *sniffles*) I had to do something in the Sylaire fandom. I just didn't know what.

Then last night I had Much More Music on while I was attemptingwriting a fic and a Marilyn Manson song came on. I'm not even joking I dropped my pen and stared at the video and all I could hear was my brain screaming at me "SYLAIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". So I decided make a Sylair fanmix! I've got most of the songs picked out, but I've never made a fanmix before, and I'm an incredible insecure person, so I was wondering if I could test out the fanmix/song choices with you my lovely f-list? Yes/Yes?

I'm still working on a graphic to go with it (which I am failing mightily at *cough*hinthintf-listhelp*cough*) but not all fan mixes have graphic covers, right? just the cool ones

Tomorrow I'm heading into downtown-- aka. Vancouver-- to pick up i_am_krazy's laptop. She said I could use it while she was away in Europe because 1. My laptop (LAAAAAARRRRY) died on me, and 2. Since I'm saving up to buy a new one and I haven't decided on whether to get a Mac or a PC, she said using her Mac for a couple months would help me to decide. She's pretty confident I'll end up buying a Mac (and honestly, I'm kinda scared she might hurt me if I don't...Dx lol j/k hon) but we had them in school and, I dunno, I just never really liked them. But I hate windows new operating system Vista, so I'm at a standstill right now. Any suggestions?

Oh! And before I'm off, expect a new layout soon. I've been tinkering around and though my html skillz (or what ever it's called when you mess with layouts) are severely lacking, I think I've finally created something I like.


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So. Remember how excited I was to order THIS WIG for my Marie cosplay?

HAHAHAHAHA. I can't. Even though I have a US PO box and everything, the guy/company/whatever doesn't accept Canadian credit cards. WTF? *freaks* This is so not cool. I'm wigging out. It took me forever just to find a wig that would work and now this? I'm so mad right now it's not even funny. kioko_chan has been helping me look, but I don't know if I'll be able to get a different wig in time, which means I can't even wear my cosplay (which I'm having trouble finishing to begin with and it's stressing me out and I always get this way and WHY THE HELL DO I COSPLAY??? Or so I ask myself. And I can never remember the answer, until i eventually get the cosplay finished and wear it and experience the fans and the people and make all the awesome memories.... God, this always happens when I'm half-way through a cosplay. WTF self, STOP ALREADY OTL.)

Yeah. Also, my anxiety and depression has been.. acting up? (ugh. Makes it sound like achne.) Anyway, it's been good for a long while but the past couple of weeks it's been getting harder to do things (depression makes you feel like crap and want to laze about in bed all day; not even the prospect of something that normally makes you burst with happiness excites or motivates you) and my anxiety has started to keep me up at night again so I haven't been sleeping very much. It's like I'm back in High School or something.

Anyway, this isn't a pity party, but that + this stupid wig scenario has just pushed me over the edge a little. (LOL it's all over a WIG orz.) Can we say, 'pathetic'? 8'D



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So I finally started on my Marie Mjölnir cosplay. I managed to finish the skirt in two days (but less then 24hrs! w00t!) thanks to a couple good friends who helped me make it without a pattern (but I did cut and sew everything myself). It wasn't easy-- lol this sewing thing is hard man, I wish I'd had some lessons previous to this xD --and the skirt is not perfect by a looooong shot (there's a reason my preview image is just of the front xD) but I worked hard on this thing and I love it and am so proud!


BEHOLD! THE AMAZINGLY AWESOME SKIRT OF AWESOMENESS!!


The yellow pattern (or what I like to call the 'Thunder Stripe') looks a bit wonky in the picture because of the way I have my knee bent, but never mind that. Not bad, I think, for someone with essentially no sewing experience under her belt. =D I also managed to find the perfect wig for her (thank you so much tobu_ishi!! That website you suggested to me was amazing; now all I have to do is find a way to get the wig seeing as they only ship to the states. Dx But my mom has a friend from work who has a PO box in Bellingham that I might be able to use to ship the wig to, so we shall see. In the mean time, keep your fingers crossed for me everyone!)

I also said I was going to do Gingerbread, but now I'm not really sure I want to anymore. I'm thinking of doing Katara instead, her season 3 'Day of the Black Sun' outfit. (The blue one with all the leg and fore-arm protectors) I've been wanting to do this cosplay ever since I watched DotBS and I love Katara (plus I got my new Katara wig a while ago and haven't even had the chance to use it yet! Blasphemy!) but I dunno. The onlly thing I know for sure is that I better make up my mind, and fast, because Sakura-con is in about 2 months. 8DD


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Okay, I know I'm on a hiatus, but NaNo got put on hold while I get my hectic life in order, and so did my hiatus. (Why does this happen every NaNoWriMo? D'x )

So some exciting news!

1. I GOT A JOB!!!!!!!!!!!! x333 I dropped my resume off at Reitmans (a womans clothing store) two weeks ago and they called last Wednesday and said "Want to come in for an interview today?" and I was all "sure!" so I did. Then on Saturday my mom called me while I was at Alexa's (who was back down from the Okanogan for the last break of this semester) and literally squealed into my ear (yes, it did hurt) "BRITTNEY! QUICK! CALL REITMANS NOW! THEY LEFT A MESSAGE OFFERING YOU THE JOB!!!" and so I did, with like, 10 minutes to spare before they closed. xD

So I officially start working this Thursday, but it's the only day I'll be working this week, which is fine with me. It's more of an orientation day; teaching me how to use the cash register, showing me the ropes, ect. I should find out when I go there the times I'll be working next week, and I am just really excited and nervous all at the same time. This will be my first "real and official" job. Wah. I'm over-loading with emotions here.

2. The acting/dance audditions for the musical my MT class is putting on this year is on Thursday as well. I'm really worried because I've kinda lost the script I'm supposed to be audditioning from, which is so not of the good. I'll try and get my hands on a copy of it from a friend, but that leaves me with only a day and a half to memorize it. @___@ But I did manage to memorize the dance, so that's a bonus for me. One down, one to go.

I think my biggest problem though is that I don't know who to addition for. I'm deffinitely going to try for Audrey (female lead) but so is everyone else, so I had wanted to two audditions. If I can't get the script in time though... *sigh* I just don't know who I want to be, that's my biggest problem.

3. Anyone remember me mentioning that I might be teaching hip-hop at local elementary schools with my hip-hop teacher? Well I am going to be doing it this year! I'm super scared and super excited at the same time! So we're doing one elementary school right now for the entire month of November. (I've got a lot going on this month, eh? xD Thank God I'm not in school, too.) Obviously I can't do it every day because I have a job now, but Kayla assured me we can work around my scheduel. So I'll be talking to her tomorrow evening at my hip-hop class, and I guess I'll just see what happens from there. <3

That's it for me then. I'm so tired, not to mention stressed right now because of audditions and NaNo, and my nervous are running crazy wild. I hope everyone else is doing good, sorry I haven't been able to comment on you'r LJ's, but just SO BUSY ugh. Damn you nano, you just HAVE to be in November, don't you??! D<



Love ya'll! Peace out♥
[and.thus.the.Hiatus.once.more.commences.]

First off, HIATUS TIME~

So it's November, and once again I'll be participating in NaNoWriMo. I was originally going to be working on a comedy fairytail I've been working on for a while now, but have since decided to use NaNo as the encouragement I need to write an epic fanfic that I've been writing and working on for the past 3-4 years now. The story is RESOLUTIONS, and the only person on LJ who'd recognize it would be i_am_krazy; part inspiration, part muse for the entire thing.

I know NaNoWriMo is generally used to help one's self write a novel (lol hence the 'novel' part of 'Nation NOVEL Writing Month') but RES. is something that has this really important place in my heart, and I want to try and take this November to dedicate myself working on it, and maybe, just maybe, by the end of the month I'll find myself one chapter closer to finishing the entire thing.

That being said, I'll be going on a Hiatus for the rest of the month for NaNo. I'm gonna miss you all, but I'll be back at the end of the month, and I might pop over to a LJ or two, say Hello. ;D

Also, I wana wish everyone on my f-list who is doing NaNoWriMo this year GOOD LUCK! I hope you all finish your stories, and that you never experience the dreaded Writer's Block (dundunduuuun~)!!! If you want to become my NaNo buddy (please do!) the feel free to add me!

See you in a month!</lj>