Ichigo Dokidoki ~ Too sweet to understand

I need ideas again. Dx I realized the other day that I don't really feel like cosplaying Aya anymore. :/ I'm just not feelin' it. So the past few days I've been thinking and looking through stuff and whatnot. And I came up with these. 8D

Miku Hatsune

Name: Miku Hatsune
Originates from: Vocaloids
Pros: mini-group with cousin and friend, easily recognizable, simple
Cons: Very popular with cosplayers

BRS

Name: Black Rock Shooter
Originates from: Vocaloids, one of Miku's songs (?)
Pros: mini-group w/ cousin + friend, simple, semi-recognizable for Vocaloid fans, has a large gun (lol)
Cons: I might not be comfortable, considering her outfit.

Luka

Name: Luka Megurine
Originates from: Vocaloids
Pros: Has pink hair (wut), easily recognizable
Cons: Outfit's kind of plain, I don't have her boobs. (That slit down the side kinda has me worrying too.)

Ciel Phantomhive

Name: Ciel Phantomhive (girl ver.)
Originates from: Kuroshitsuji
Pros: Loli-esque, I wouldn't have to buy a wig, semi-popular with females
Cons: I'd have to commish the dress and the hat.

Ranka Lee

Name: Ranka Lee
Originates from: Macross Frontier
Pros: Simple, cute
Cons: I haven't watched the animu. <_< So I pretty much know close to nothing about her.

And that's about all I have right now. 8D Maybe I'll think of more later. Maybe I'll be more than one. 8D Who knows. Halp?

and other things. I know that I said that I'd make a list, but this week has been slow so I think I'm going to type about all the random things I feel like talking about. But of course, when I want to I start spacing out. I need more sleep. =____=

:> In other news, Halloween's in two days! (or a day in a half, when you think about it.) I couldn't really come up with a costume, so I'll just be wearing a lot of black. Please don't be afraid of me.

A while back (like over half a year ago) when I was feverishly perusing Den of Angels, I came across a tutorial for human-sized wings. They're so cute! >.<

Izumi Wings

I know I could probably make them after ransacking Hobby Lobby or something, but the tutorial-makers recommended getting feathers from this one site. Even though they said it was good quality feathers at affordable prices, and unless I'm mistaken, the feathers can still cost around 50 bucks. That's like half my Rinoa cosplay right thar. o_e They still look so cute and fluffy though. Ah! >_<

Oh, and I mentioned cupcakes because today, out of boredom (when I finally have free time I have nothing to do) I started looking up cute recipes. I found a few, along with some nice recipes I got out of the books Jenny and I checked out at the library. There are some cookies I found that were so loli-able:

CardShape Cookies

I actually found those in egl cooking. I really want card (style? what are the shapes called?) cookie cutters now. And ingredients to try out some of these recipes. sdlfkheroisdnfhgaq.

Jenny found a new MMO for us today. It's one from gamania (yay!) but sadly it isn't Lucent Heart. v_v I'm ferverently hoping that that one will come stateside soon. The Japanese version was fun, even though I didn't understand any of it. D:  So yeah. The new MMO's name is Bright Shadow. I haven't really played it much yet, just running around doing in-town quests. Here's my character, Shiorin. :3

BS - Shiorin

I guess this is their underwear, since when you start out and open your inventory, you have some clothes in there and these don't switch out. The starter outfit isn't that great though. >_o

BS - Shio Nuu

Yeah, I don't like the hat either.

Muu. I was gonna talk about something else. = 3= Herm. Oh yeah.

CURSE YOU PET SOCIETY FOR BEING SO DANG AWESOME.

I haven't fallen in love with a game like this for a while. Well, it's a sorta-game. There's only so much you can do in one day, but it still has the power to drag you back to it. D; Unlike Farmville. I've gotten kinda slow in Farmville. Maybe because I don't want to keep clicking to plant things but too frugal to buy a tractor. Ho hum.

Man, I really want Japanese food right now.

I know I should be doing my college crap (getting my last recommendation tomorrow) but nyaaaa~ I'll do it over the weekend. I know I don't want to push it off till the end of November. I wanted to get it done by the end of the month, but since that's in two days, oh well. Maybe I'll get it done over the weekend. If I don't die from candy poisoning or something.

Man. Today was kinda... weird. ._. I spilled all of it to Antonette already so I don't really feel like typing it again. Or copy pasting. =____= But anyway, I somehow got roped into judging for the tournament. Oh well.

I've got busy days ahead. Which usually means that I should use whatever free time I have now to do all my college crap and whatnot. But I'm lazy. I should really, really fix that before I regret it.

Starting tomorrow! (failing already...)

But seriously. Today was such a lazy day. I really feel like tomorrow I can actually get stuff done.

So tomorrow I'm going to make a list. >w< Lists always help me. I need organization right now. Stability. Stability.

I don't even know what I'm being for Hallow's Eve. Eep!

You say you're going to finish that thing you have to finish but you put it off? I've been doing that with everything. "I'll do it tomorrow for sure!"

Yeah, I've pushed things off again. <_< But this time, I'm doing it tomorrow AND Tuesday! 8D orz

Let's see if I have enough strength to not click on anything internet related and actually get things done. I'm starting to lag behind.

this is one of those times where I learn things about myself.

If I'm tired I won't get anything done. And if it's not an emergency, I won't wake myself at odd hours to finish them.

Also: try not to get blood on the karate mats.

It's either I need to get my priorities straight, get a time-lengthener, or all of the above.

Or learn how to do homework in my sleep.

I would love that.

Not that I've had anything to do with swamps lately, but just the feeling of being swamped in on all sides by all the stuff I have to do.

Lately I've been overwhelmed with schoolwork and college crap and working on my cosplay and it's been making me feel like a zombie most of these days. Add in the things I have to go through in karate and talking to Dustbunny until like 11:30 before I go to sleep and I might as well be one. dsfelkfsdherbaoqwesdf I can't even think straight right now. /sigh

Did I ever mention that I like reading blog posts with pictures in them? They seem special-er than ones where people just type wordwalls. Maybe I'm just a visual person. That's why I always feel like putting in pictures when I make a post so even when I look back I'd like doing it. I don't really have pictures for this one though. Oh well. I'm a weirdo.

Kross rockin

Even if I'm busy, I always make time for Pet Society. Maybe I'm addicted. But that wouldn't explain why I'm only addicted for like an hour or so while I visit my friends' pets to get monehs. Maybe I'm addicted to buying nice things. That would explain why the past weekend I went to Woodfield with Sayum and bought an entirely new outfit, went on my break yesterday with Sayum and Andrew to buy boots for that said outfit, still felt like buying a couple of shirts even though I don't need them, and yet again go to Hobby Lobby with Sayum to buy cloth for plushies I want to make.

I like fabric. Just the look of them or the feel of them, but they make me feel calmer. Like blankets. I'm a weirdo.

I dislike English class. Unless it's creative, I don't like writing. Sometimes even if it's creative, I don't like writing. That's probably why I'm taking so long to write this frickin' poem we have to do for homework. Ew. And school in general has been meh. Everyone seems to be having their tests at the same time. I can't believe first quarter has almost ended already. We only have about two weeks left.

I still have to finish my college essays for this program I want to get into at UIC. But honestly, I don't know what to write. One of them is what I could contribute to being in the program and in the honors college and the other is on how I know I want to get into the field I want to get into. I don't think they want to hear my answers for that. <_< Seriously. You expect people to write "I want to help people and create new things" and stuff like that, but I want to be a pharmacist because I like chemistry and because I want a goodpaying job. I don't think I could give any specific examples on how I like chemistry. I just do. Until we got our new AP teacher. I honestly think she doesn't know what she's doing. She keeps referring back to what our old teacher did and what she did like thirty years ago and to physics. /sigh

Then there's karate. I've already asked like 4 or 5 people and they've had reasons for not being my partner for the black belt exam. I'm running out of options. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do if all the girls at my school can't be my partner. I'd be especially uncomfortable with a guy or a person I don't really know anything about. Which is most of them. I also have to practice outside of the classes because I know I definitely don't have as much balance as I should.

On a happier note, I love Dustbunny. ^____^ Tomorrow will be our one-year anniversary<3 I can't believe it's been that long. I don't want to give up my bedtime talks with him. > 3< Even though I'm often half-asleep and by then we don't really have anything to talk about. We're probably going to watch Howl's Moving Castle tomorrow, if we have enough time.

I know that ACen isn't for another 7 months, but I've already started working on my cosplay. It's Aya from Infinite Undiscovery.

Aya 1

Sayum's going as Faith from Mirror's Edge. Since her cosplay is a lot simpler than mine, she's been helping me. It's kind of sad, because our group has been diminished this year. One probably won't have money to go, another would rather be with her boyfriend, one left us when she left the acad. So far, it's only Sayum, me, Katie and Jenny in that room. We need more people. >_o Blah. Double blah. I don't really want anyone from Anime Club in our room though. It would be awkward.

... And since I lost my train of thought and I have to go to karate, I'll finish this later.

Man... I'm tired. My right arm and leg hurt. I can't sleep in tomorrow morning because I've got to go to Petsmart to take care of cats. I don't really mind it, but it's so annoying to try to get cats out of their cages when they obviously don't want to be touched by you. Oh well.

A lot has been going on lately. I'm doing surprisingly well with all my schoolwork, though I'm not as confident that I did well on the Japanese test today. It's all the extra stuff that I've been trying to finish lately that's been getting at me.

I went to Joann Fabrics on Tuesday, where I got some polyfill for plushies and my mom got fabric for whatever she was going to use it for. We were waiting at the fabric table to get it cut, when I noticed that there was another girl behind us, probably around my age or a little younger. I was actually surprised when she told the lady at the counter that she was using her fabric to make a Maka cosplay. She didn't look the type to be cosplaying, or watching anime for that matter. So that was nice. And I also learned not to judge so much. <_<

Which brings me onto problem #1: I don't know who to cosplay.
Sure, I've already got 7 options lined up for me, and I'm still looking for more. But none of them really scream out to me to cosplay them. >_o I guess I just don't have as much as an affinity for them as I did with Rinoa. And I don't think I'll cosplay her again. (Retired by association) <-- wat

So~
Option #1: Amulet Spade

Amu Spade 1

Option #2: Anette

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Option #3: Ciel Phantomhive

Ciel 1

  Yeah, yeah. I thought his outfit was cute, but I haven't read that far in Kuroshitsuji and I don't know when I'll start reading it again.

Option #4: Himiko

Himiko

  Himiko from Warriors Orochi 2. She acts really cute when she's fighting but is actually one of the bad guys so I was like 8D Awesome! But Iono. My hair might not like me trying to put it up like that. I also haven't played the game so I don't know how she acts in the cutscenes. Meh.

Option #5: Mio Akiyama

Mio 1

From K-On! She's really moe and her costume's fairly simple, but because of that I can already tell there'll be a lot of K-On cosplayers around. I like Mio though. Oh, the woes of being popular. = 3= Oh, and her voice actress has a really pretty voice. I'm jealous.

Option #6: Miwako Sakurada

Miwako 1

  I was actually inspired to do this by behindinfinity's (on deviantart) Parakiss photoshoot. Then I started reading the manga, and I like her so far. o 3o Even though the main character catches her and her boyfriend doing something. >.> <.< But she seems really innocent were it not for that. It's still that kind of "unfamiliar manga" though. And I don't know many people who do Paradise Kiss cosplay.

Option #7: Momohime

Momohime

Well, this year definitely started off better than the last. 0 hour I was unintentionally "late," even though I got there before like 10 people. I kind of zoned through the first day talk but the class seems pretty okay for now. Just a lot of quizzing is going to happen. Second period was nice. I didn't really know people in there except Andrey, but Mr. Korn was funny. He wants us all to die virgins. Third period was okay, Vassolo's still the same as last year. And this year we get a room with a smart board. Woohoo. Fourth seems okay too, didn't do too well on summer homework because I skimped on annotating but at that point I didn't care anymore. But we already have a project and it seems so stupid. I don't want to go into teaching so I don't want a project on teaching the class. ~_~ We're also moving classrooms for that. Japanese is the same as every year, we've already got an assignment that seems easy enough. Precalc was fine, though the room seems a bit empty and lonely and I barely know anyone in there and it's freeeeezing. ~_~ Wonderful. But photos seems fun. Sayum and Niichan are with me in that one. We have to order a few things before we start though. I'm so excited. I wanted to get whatever supplies I needed today but it was pouring when we left the school so meh. And I have major crampage right now. Ssssssssssssssso tired. arkjdsflkjroijdfs;lkjzcgfblierio I definitely need more sleep. Or caffeine. Or both.

Lately I've been thinking about just not taking karate anymore. I've been missing out on my classes when I should be going and I don't even know if I'll get to 50 classes before October when screenings start. Plus, January is the absolute only time I'd be able to test for my black belt. Because the next one would be in June, when I'd be in Japan, and then next January I'd be at college (hopefully) so I wouldn't have time for it anymore. I kind of faltered when a woman I saw at karate last week congratulated me and Anisha on getting this far, but...
It's just not as fun as it used to be. Now it's kind of in the way. Blah. Blahblahblah. ~_~ The rain is certainly making my day kinda meh.

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What happened to all my excited "It's senior year!" energy?

• Finish up the blogs for English
• Finish watching the end of Toradora! before starting at the beginning (it was an accident, I swear!)
  
• Write 101 Lolita Lifestyle Ideas into journal obtained in Chinatown
• Possibly visit Sayum for help on lack of accessories
• Start on JP captions
• GO SEE PONYO TOMORROW!<3
  

• Finish up the blogs for English
• Finish watching the end of Toradora! before starting at the beginning (it was an accident, I swear!)
  
• Write 101 Lolita Lifestyle Ideas into journal obtained in Chinatown
• Possibly visit Sayum for help on lack of accessories
• Start on JP captions

Also note: Things are not in order.