.:reflections of twilight:.

So this weekend was a pretty full one.

Saturday, mom went with my aunt to a High School Marching Band competition. It was mostly bands from our area, though. My high school got high marks, so that was good to hear. It took them most of the day.

I was out getting my tires realigned, which took an hour and a half for some reason. After I finished with that, I headed over to Best Buy in a fruitless attempt to buy the Bleach box set that's supposedly out. So I decided to get the individual disks instead along with King Kong and Hellboy as well as a few more games for my DS and some guide books. I did this despite the fact that I have no room to put them...

Then I went to the bookstore to "browse" and ostensibly buy another Tori Amos CD so I can get in the mindset for the concert on the 18th. Not a tremendous amount of selection, however. I did buy a magazine and a book on iPods, so it wasn't a complete loss.

Then I swung by the mall to have a look around in the hopes of perhaps buying another pair of work pants. No such luck, however. I did get friendly with a few kittens at the pet store! ^_^

I bought a pair of shoes and had lunch then went home. I played more Wii and got a good workout with the boxing game, actually. And I totally got a knockout! Awesome! I also played more Bleach and then I watched a couple of movies: The most recent live action version of Peter Pan and Night At The Museum. Very cute! I played some Tetris DS a bit too.

Sunday was really busy as well. After church, mom and I went looking for a pair of penny loafers for mom's costume for Wednesday. The theme of her office is the 1950's. We searched almost the whole mall before we found some at JC Penney's. They were men's since women's doesn't have a pair of genuine penny loafers. I also got me some super cute hats while I was there (not at Penney, at another store). I have pictures even!

The rest of Sunday was spent at home, relaxing. I took a nap for longer than I had wanted to. When I do, I generally have trouble sleeping later that evening, and I certainly did. In fact, I'm surprised I'm as alert as I was when I woke up this morning despite the fact that my brain wouldn't shut up.

I saw the second episode of Death Note Saturday. Needless to say, I love L's voice! It's the same actor who portrays Lt. Gaeta on BSG. Neat! And Light is beginning his decent nto madness. Fun fun.

And, despite the fact that the Red Tide decided to make an appearance, it's been pretty mild so far. Thankfully.

And I finally have a decent version of PhotoShop on my laptop! Whee!! I'm a little rusty, but I'm sure my skills will pick up again. Not that my skills were all that fantastic to begin with...

And I've yet to figure out how to insert pictures from my Scrapbook onto my client. Hrmmm...

Word of the Day: tawdry
Pronunciation: /TAW-dree/
adj : cheap and showy; garish

Well, work went pretty smooth today. I didn't do any actual posting though, so that may have been it. I don't start really doing that until next month, so hopefully I'll be able to go somewhat smoothly in that area.

Since I got off at 3:00 today (hey, the girl I share my work area with got off at about 11:30) I stopped by the bookstore. While there I picked up some Sherlock Holmes books and a bunch of fandom stuff. I got Wallflower 12 and Death Note 12, which is the final volume. It technically isn't supposed to be released until next Tuesday, but I guess B&N put it out early. I didn't even think to look for Hellsing 8 which comes out the Fourth.

Tomorrow mom and I are going to try to go to the gym early since there's a surprise birthday party we're attending later in the afternoon.

Have a nice weekend, all!

Word of the Day: coeval
Pronunciation: /ko-EVE-ul/
adj : originating in or lasting through the same era.

Well, my shopping excursion crapped out on me. I was looking for a dress to wear to a friend's wedding, and I didn't find anything I liked. Most of the stuff I found had these crazy patterns all over them. That must be "in" now I guess, because I saw stuff like that everywhere I went. All these geometric patterns in loud bright colors. It reminded me of the type of fabric that used to be used to upholster sofas in the '70's. I have nothing against patterns, but I like subtle, understated ones. I don't want to go to someone's wedding looking like a crazy quilt. I have something I could wear that I look nice in and is still stylish, but I just wanted to try to find something fresh and new. I have a nice black dress that I've only worn once to my high school reunion. However, it's bad form to wear black to a wedding. So, while I didn't find anything for the wedding, I bought a new pair of strappy shoes to go with my other ensemble and some shirts at American Eagle and some work shirts at NY&C. I was going to try to get another pair of everyday jeans at The Gap, but I didn't see any there that caught my eye.

This morning I watched some of Batman Begins, which I realized has a lot of British actors in it. For example:

Christian Bale - Welsh
Michael Cain - English
Liam Neeson - Irish
Cillian Murphy - Irish
Gary Oldman - English
Tom Wilkinson - English

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. It was just something that occurred to me is all. And almost all of them (except for Michael Cain) are doing an American accent.

I did find and buy DN 10 even though I have yet to finish reading 7 (which I've put off for a certain reason). I'll finish it eventually and then move on to the others.

And I spent the better half of yesterday cleaning up my hard drive and deleting the files I moved onto my removable hard drive. Maybe I can go through some of the icon posts I saved and download some of them and switch out some of my icons...

I've decided not to go on hiatus. I'm just going to try not to be so anal and feel the need to post everyday. If I post every few days or so, I think I'll be fine, besides it'll give me a chance to build up stuff to post about. And I'll work on not being emo over people not commenting all the time. As long as you still read, I'll be fine.

Word of the Day: flat-hat
Pronunciation: /FLAT-hat/
v : to fly low in an airplane in a reckless manner : hedgehop

Well, here I am, actually able to use my computer in the privacy of my own room. Ahhh, what a wonderful feeling. I still need to get a new desk since the one I had was too big. I want one of those computer armoires. The ones that are vertical instead of horizontal. Saves space that way. At the moment, my monitor is sitting on my TV tray and I have to sit on a stool on the floor since we only had one computer chair and I gave it to mom for her to use. It's interesting to say the least.

The move itself went well. I mean, we have a lot of sifting through things to do since we moved from a three-bedroom house into a two-bedroom apartment. But hey, a roof over one's head is a roof over one's head. A lot of stuff is going to have to go into storage though. I almost have my room put together, but there's still some left to go. I need to seriously organize my closet. I have most of my books on my bookself and I have to put my manga away yet. I have to think about where to put them. At the moment, they're sitting in plastic storage containers on my floor. I'll be taking pictures of the process to post later on.

Mom got frustrated a few times when putting together the futon in her bedroon in order for her to sleep and also when she had to move the washing maching from where it was in the bathroom into the utility closet, hence the title of my journal entry.

I hope everyone is doing well. I can't read all of the entries you all posted while I was gone, since I have a lot of errands to do today. So I have to limit myself to the weekend stuff. If there is anything in particular you want me to read, you'll have to link it to me.

Fandom-wise, I was able to catch the episodes of my different shows, so I'm pretty happy about that. I can't really go into much detail right now since it's quite a lot to go through, but I will say, I was both surprised and happy about the season finale of 'Veronica Mars'. The LoVe shipper in me was very happy...

I was able to see the scans the final chapters of SDK and DN. I liked how SDK ended. I found it to be very satisfying at any rate. I see icons in the future I think... I haven't read the translation for DN yet, so I'm not really decided on it yet.

I've got quite a bit I have to do today. I have to go out and run a few errands as well as try and organize some things in here yet. I won't be able to do them tomarrow since I won't have my car, so it's either today or Wednesday and I'd rather do them today.

Oh, I also learned how to properly crochet from my aunt, and I'm picking it up pretty well. I hope to make a scarf. A real one this time, not the mess I tried before...

Trivia of the day: Bugs hold special places in the hearts of many Japanese, who often keep crickets, beetles and fireflies as pets. Their calls are considered soothing and remind the nature-loving Japanese of a simpler, less hectic age. <-- Yay! Another Japanese trivia!

Well, this weekend was a roller coaster of emotions. And though I usually love roller coasters, this one I could've done without. Let me break it up some:

RL:

Friday:

It turns out I wasn't needed to help my aunt after all, so that freed up some of my time. Mom's car still isn't fixed. I think the less said about that, the better.

Saturday:

We went to my grandma's apartment at around nine and started to get things ready to move out. My aunt showed up and them my uncle, who was driving the moving van. We had a few people show up from our church to lend a hand, which was very helpful. We had a steady flow going, so it didn't take us too awful long to get everything loaded. There are a few minor things left, but furniture-wise, everything is out. We stopped by my aunt and uncle's place to unload the dresser they're giving my cousin (their son) as well as some of the plants grandma had. Then we went down the road to where the storage place is. We unloaded the stuff we were keeping, like the loveseat, the twin bead and the washing machine, into our storage unit. We have a little room left yet so we can probably put some of the stuff we have here at the house in it. Then we went over to the one that my aunt and uncle rented for the rest of the stuff. It took some manuvering, but we were able to get the rest of it loaded in there. We have to take it all back out at the end of the month for the garage sale, but since everything needs to be out of the apartment by the 10th, it's at least some place to stash it all until then. That was the majority of the day on Saturday.

Sunday:

Sunday started off OK. But then, toward the end, it kinda went crappy. Church was fine. Better than last week. Then, afterward a mutual friend of ours pulled mom aside to talk to her about something. I wasn't there. I'll get into more detail about that in a moment. Then, we decided that since we didn't get the chance to go the day before, that we'd go do some grocery shopping. No prob. We've done it like a zillion times before. However, for some reason, the traffic on the way to the store was horrible! Bumper to bumper even, I'd never seen it that bad. Then, in the midst of all of this, my car starts to act up. It starts to get overheated. I'm thinking to myself, "Didn't I get this fixed so this sort of thing wouldn't happen anymore?" So after a while (before my panic mode starts in full force), mom tells me to pull over into a service station (which, being Sunday, was closed). I did so, and she opened the hood and my coolant was hot because steam was coming off of it. So we just decided to sit there awhile and let my car cool down some. Luckily for us, the guy who has the service station, came out (I guess he was there doing last minute stuff), and had a look at it. He said the problem was that my engine fan wasn't attached to the drive shaft ('Lost' refrence!!) and wasn't running. He said that something must've come loose at some point. He said that we could still make it to the store if we needed to but to turn the heat up full blast to help cool the engine. So that's what we did. After we finished our shopping, we took the Interstate back to the house (since the higher speed would rush air into the engine). So, that's someting else I need to have looked at at some point. *sighs*

Then, afterwards, I found out what it was that mom had the discussion about. It seems out friend is starting to lose sympathy with us in our housing situation because... I don't have a job. It seems I'm not 'contributing' enough to the household and I should get a job, any job in order to bring money in. Pardon my French, but bullshit! What am I supposed to do, get a low paying dead end job at a fast food place or something just so I can get money?! I'm sorry, but you'd have to kill me first. I mean, it might be perfectly fine for some people, but I do have some standards. I at least want a job befitting my educational level. And I'm not working now because I don't want to, far from it. I do want to get a job, not just for me but so I can help my mom out, but as for the moment, I'm holding off on it because of all the stuff I'm helping with for my grandma's things. I'm an extra set of hands. I mean, not only do we have to clean the apartment, but in the next few weeks or so, we'll need to move all that stuff out and begin to sort it and organize it for the sale. And I contribute to the household in other ways as well. Mom said I need to try and let it go, but it's awfully hard for me to. I know I need to, and maybe over time I will, but as for the moment, I can't. I mean, I feel not only angry and hurt, but slightly insulted as well.

Now that that's off my chest, onto other things:

Fandom:

Furuba: I was actually able to see the scans for 123 yesterday. It took me a bit in order to log into the Taiwan group in order to be able to actually access them, but I was able to do it, so I'm pretty proud of myself. I'll probably write up my initial reaction sometime later...

I may have to hold off on ordering volumes 18 and 19 from YesAsia until later. I'll have to see how things go.

Death Note: Even though I stopped reading after L ____, after recent events, I may just dl the most recent chapter and see things for myself. I mean, I still know the basics of what's been going on (even though a few of the characters are virtually unknown to me).

Hellsing: I was finally able to watch the first episode ofthe OAV on YouTube on Friday. Pretty neat lookin'. Although, I do have to say that bondage!Alucard's hair was actually white, not black and that Anderson sounded like a Japanese Yosemite Sam on occasion, especially during his 'Amen's.' But I actually found that part somewhat amusing, so it's not a big deal.

Today I go over to grandma's to help my aunt clean some, so I don't know how long that will take, actually. Then I have to pick up a perscription. Hopefully my car will hang on until I finish.

Trivia of the day: Evergreens, because of their long life span and their needles' year-round exposure to pollution, are the most vulnerable trees to air pollution.