Last weekend, I took an awesome trip to SF with my mom and her friend Laurie. Our goal: go see Wicked~!☆ I've been looking forward to this since last year, when I found out that Wicked would be coming back to SF. I first saw it in my sophomore year of high school, but....the trip wasn't that fun. I was on a cramped bus with nobody to talk to, had to get up at o dark thirty to go, almost got lost, and couldn't enjoy shopping or anything like that. So this time was bound to be 100x more awesome! The show was on Sunday, but we spent the night Saturday so we wouldn't have to rush to get there. (And yeah, Sunday was Father's Day, but it was an accident that we got tickets on that day. ._.;;; We're doing Father's Day next Sunday, so it's all okay!)

WARNING~! Super image heavy! I already cut down a lot, but I still took a ton of pictures. So...if your computer can handle it, click the cut to see more of my pictures and stuff.

( 行け！ )

After the show, we were stuck in SF gridlock for an hour or so, and didn't get home until 8 even though we left at 5. xD I had so much fun on this trip though, so much better than my last time seeing Wicked! Ah, my mom just said her friend at work is selling 3 Orchestra super close seats for tomorrow's show for $40! Who wants to go? xD

Hope this didn't kill your computer. xD It took forever to type up. Makes up for not really updating lately, right? Later, everyone!

I've had my laptop fixed and back for a while, and then....FRANCE WAS NAKED.

That is all.

Posting from my old computer, lol. It's sooooo slooooow.

On Saturday, I went to my cousin's place for his graduation party. My laptop died and I couldn't get it to come back. D=

Sunday, I went to Gabbi's for a barbeque and caught up with Gabbi. We need to hang out more. She got me into Atashinchi no Danshi. Not another drama to watch! But it has Horikita Maki and Kaname Jun (For some reason I find him incredibly sexy) and yeah. Too bad my laptop is still dead.

Monday, went over to Dad's friend's house to look at my laptop. He's an IT and knows a lot about computer maitenence + repair. He backed up my files because I didn't get a chance to, and called and argued with the people at Dell, saving me hours of frustration. I also went and had some treatment on my face because my skin has gotten kind of eww and out of control, but today it's all nice and smooth and pretty~. Now I can take good care of my skin, w00t.

Dell tech came by today. Even thought Jim told the people over the phone that I was probably having a motherboard problem, they sent me a new screen. Wtf. So he installs the new screen and...it still doesn't work. Duh. Dell tech calls support, who say they're going to send me another screen to try again (wtf x2!). I tell them to stop dicking around and send me a motherboard. So I'm getting ANOTHER screen tomorrow and a motherboard. Good God. Hopefully it'll be fixed by tomorrow. I'm glad that it's getting looked at so soon, but I'm kind of tired of being ignored by all the people I have to talk to about it. (Dell tech ignored me and talked to my dad about the problems, when my dad hasn't ever touched my laptop). Argh.

/end bitchy post.

Dunno how much I'll be online. My laptop keeps doing this scary glitch where everything gets a spotty green pixellization, then pink, then everything freezes and ctrl + alt + delete doesn't do anything. I'll be calling Dell tomorrow, but...ugh. What a fucking pain. I hope I don't lose everything anything.

On Monday, Hannah, Ben and I had an epic takoyaki (+yakisoba) party! We wanted to meet up for "summer vacation activities," so making good food and going swimming sounded like fun! Most people are still away at school and in classes, so it was just the three of us, but we still had a great time~.

[Warning]: Image heavy! And I broke the rules of web design again by resizing the pictures using html. Sorry, but my laptop takes the quality way down when I resize them, but the file size way up, so I figured leaving them big was better.

( たこ焼きパーティーやねん～ )

Sorry if that was long and boring. xD But I'm the weird type of person who enjoys reading about (and seeing!) other people's activities, so I write in detail about my own experiences every now and then.

Later, then~.

I got some fun memes to do from dernierous, so here we go! ♥

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Ugh, my jury duty was moved to Wednesday. I guess I can start on "the great purge" of all the crap in my room tomorrow.

Well, I'm finally on summer vacation! Yay! By speech test was ridiculous. Questions like, "A speaker uses connotative words to... A)Appear as non biased as possible B)Establish credibility" and two other responses that didn't match. It was frustrating, because so many questions were so vague or could be answered with two or more responses when there wasn't an "all of the above" option. >_< Gahhh.

Yesterday, my kitty had to go to the vet. ;_; She's had this big lump on her belly for the longest time, but it started to bother her recently, so we opted for surgery to remove it. I was really scared that she'd die during the operation...I mean, she is pretty old. I think she's 15 or 16 this year. So when we brought her home, I couldn't help but cry when I saw what a bad state she was in. Her eyes were all red and wet from the medication they used to knock her out, she limped around, there was blood on her belly and paws, not to mention the giant, badly sewed up incision on her belly. We were told to make sure that she doesn't lick around the area, and I freaked out when she started biting at the stitches and making them bleed. I ended up putting some gauze and wrapping a medical bandage around her so she'd stop biting at it. It looked pretty pathetic...

( Mackenzie ;_; )

I took the bandage off today, as she seems to have forgotten about the incision. Do I worry too much about my cat? >_>

Now that I'm on break, I can catch up with dramas and tv shows. I've been working on Mago Mago Arashi as of late, but aside from a few random things from the show, it's basically the same thing. >_> I wonder if there's more of the Arashi no Totsugeki episodes out there, since those are my favorite. ♥ I need to catch up on Arashi no Shukudai-kun, too. I've also caught up with The Quiz Show 2. Wow, it's really different from season 1. But that's good! And episode 3 had Narimiya Hiroki in it! He's really grown up since he was in Stand Up!! with Nino.

Bleh, I need to get to cleaning up my room. I also have jury duty on Tuesday. Crossing my fingers that I'll be dismissed.

My internet died for 24 hours.

I did a lot of homework today, but it was hardly a dent in what I still have to do.

I got a letter calling me for jury duty.

I started my period.

Finals this week.

;_;

Warning: Long post.

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Now fandom related news.

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I should also mention that I've tagged all my entries, so I guess if you're interested only in certain posts, you can access them now. It was mainly for my organizational purposes/obsession, though. So that was my boring life, give or take a bomb threat scare and a slashed ankle.

This is going to be a monster post, so I apologize in advance. ^^; I've been meaning to post for a while, but things have been really crazy. For example, I stayed up all night from Monday-Tuesday doing my speech homework. Yeah. It was my fault, I should have started sooner but...doing five chapters of busywork is just...blah. So doing all that work without any sleep wasn't fun in any way shape or form, and I frickin' cried when I accidentally saved over chapter 5 at 4AM and had to re-do it. ;_; WHY.

But I'm on Spring Break now! Yay!

But I have lots of homework to do. Not yay!

Yesterday was fun, despite the fact that yoga wasn't canceled like I had hoped, but whatever. After class, Hannah and I were sitting in the cafeteria, chatting and drawing pictures. We had brought our cameras to take a picture of this frickin' scary paper mache Humptey-Dumptey (Lovingly named "Humptey-kun") that was sitting on a ledge in the quad, who had a face similar to that of Hannah's caricature of Nishikido Ryo. Sadly, he disappeared halfway through the break, before we could get a picture of him. But--!

During the break, we were wandering around the walking trails behind the school, and saw a deer~! And both of us managed to get a picture of it, so...yay! Then we had to go to speech class, which was fun, since all we did was finish up show and tell. I went a few weeks ago, and brought my Sho uchiwa. X3

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I've been watching the first season of "The Quiz Show." It's really weird, but I can't stop watching. Plus, I'm really excited for the second season with Sho! ♥ I'm interested to see how he'll interpret Tazaki's character, since it's so different from all of Sho's other roles. One thing I don't want to see? Episode 9 had a naked backshot of Himuro-oujiProducer guy, a shot I don't want to see redone with Yokoyama Yu. Plz no. Dx

Uh...the end. >_>

So, I came home today, and found out that someone on campus had been stabbed. o_o Not only that, but the stabbing took place at the same time that I was getting out of class and leaving campus, but I went in the opposite direction. However, had it been last semester, I would have been over in the area where the stabbing occurred.

The event happened between people who knew each other, so it's not like I feel any threat against me or anything, but...man. It's hard to believe that while I was walking with Hannah joking about our speech class, getting over my speech jitters (Yeah, I gave my speech today, and it sucked forever), that someone was being stabbed just yards away.

I guess we get so wrapped up in ourselves, that when we have something awful happen close, it's a little hard to believe...

I dunno if it's just me, but I really don't like mirrors.

Not in the "I hate seeing my ugly mug" kind of way, but they just creep me out.

I've seen creepy movies and heard all sorts of scary stories that use mirrors as part of their lore, and seem to represent evil in one way or another.

So I hate going into a room with mirrors in the middle of the night. Especially the bathroom, as it's a big mirror, and that makes it 10x creepier.

I hate the shower curtain being closed, too, for the same superstitious reason. I'm always afraid of what's on the other side.

Btw, I'm nineteen years old. ._.

Stuff like this really shouldn't freak me out, dammit.

Stolen from dernierous ♥.

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 5 people to be tagged.

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So I went to see Avenue Q on Thursday night! It was fun, but I was surprised at the number of older people there. More than half the audience was grandmas and grandpas! And they were all bragging about it being their third or fourth time seeing it. o_o I know my grandma on my mom's side would be totally offended at Avenue Q's rather...rough method of storytelling. xD My late Grandma Marylin probably would have liked it though. I'm kinda bummed that I forgot to buy one of those "The internet is for porn" mousepads they were selling even though I don't use a mouse anymore.

I don't want to write a speech outline. D=

*dies from two days without coffee*

I feel like a giant woobie.

After I got home, I wanted to pet my cat, Mackenzie. So I walked around looking for her, and thought it was odd that I couldn't find her in her usual spots. I checked every room, every closet, under every bed. Nothing. I start shaking the food can, hoping that she'll waddle out from somewhere because she loves to eat. Nothing. I started to worry. She's getting really old, she sleeps all day, her hips creak - my mind jumps to the worst.

Oh God. The cat died somewhere and I can't find her.

I get frantic, shaking the can even more and reaching as far as I can under all the beds.

Finally, she waddles out. I let out a sigh of relief...and burst into tears.

I pick her up and hold and pet her while crying my eyes out.

I'm such a woobie.

I guessing it's because I started my "moon cycle" yesterday, but...

Plz don't die, 'Kenzie. ;_; ♥

So, I got my Arashi 09-10 calendar in the mail on Friday, so I decided to take pictures of it~. So yeah, these aren't high res. scans, just a little flailing. xD Picture heavy, beware!

( Calendarrrr )

I'm not looking forward to dragging my butt out of bed tomorrow to go to class. ._. My classes are kind of annoying...

Crap. I really think that I'm getting used to staying up all night. This can't be healthy.

Wow, that last post was a downer. Sorry about that. I've been really stressed lately, and with no good way to channel all that negativity...I wish I still did Tae Kwon Do. >_>;;

Life has been...life-full, lately. A lot have things have happened since my last full update, but right now...I'm blanking on them. So, for this post, I will right about things in a "string of conscious" type way, so sorry if its a chronological and doesn't make much sense.

I've had a lot of trouble sleeping as of late. I must have killed my sleep schedule on Wednesday night/Thursday morning by staying up until 4:40AM to finish, then waking up at 6:30 to get ready for yoga. For the rest of the weekend, I was exhausted all day, but up really late, and that's not good. Then I was up until 4 last night working on my Humanities test. I'm SO GLAD that it was a take home test, though. I really am not able to keep all the aspects of Indian culture in line in my mind. I have lots of trouble remembering all their names, save for the trimurti and some of their avatars. But with my tendency to ramble on + questions like "Describe the Aryans and their involvement in India" + 3 tiny lines = Suck. But Mackenzie sat in my room all night, so if I got really stressed out, I could pet her and feel a lot more calmer.

The rain was killer today. I swear, the campus was designed to flood. I walked out of Humanities at 12:30, and it looked like it was nighttime from the hallway. Wow, it was raining really hard, plus, a bunch of the sidewalks and grassy areas were flooded. One part of the walk from my Humanities class is downhill towards the theater, but at one point, the decline stops and juts back up, which creates....SATAN PUDDLES. These puddles are a little more than ankle deep, the water is constantly moving and rushing, and I had to get through three to get to the theater. My boots are soaked. D=

Then I passed out from 3-4 listening to the storm and I woke up and it was sunny. Wtf. Like, really sunny. I was afraid that I had slept for a whole day. xD

Speaking of water, it's hard to believe we're going through a drought when there's so much rain, but I guess it's so. This "Cut back on your water by 20% or we'll fine you" really sucks, though. I did a message commentary about it, and how most of people's water consumption goes to watering their lawns, so by not watering your lawn as often (Which is pretty easy in this season) will help cut back on that 20% being monitored by the government. Well...we haven't turned on our sprinklers in a few months. And all of our appliances and fixtures (except the toilets) are energy/water efficient. So...we're kind of lost on how to save water. Cutting down 10 minute showers to 5 minutes? Not flushing the toilet (ew)? Buying bottled water and using that to drink/cook/wash hands/bathe/other? Gahh.

I still need a topic for my visual aid speech. I have no clue whatsoever to talk about for seven minutes.

I saw some guy in the cafeteria today who looked like Oguri Shun if Oguri Shun wasn't so freaky looking didn't have such defined facial features.

Um...that's about it for now. I'm going to go start some of my homework due on Wednesday. TT_TT

I know I've been meaning to update, but I'm so stressed out and depressed...It's been difficult. I've really had those, "Why don't I just give up everything?" feelings lately. It seems like there's just too much going on, and I feel like I can't say anything to anyone about it. It's incredibly lonely on my side of the fence.

I've fallen so far behind in my schoolwork...

Another update for the sake of updating. Yay.

I spent a nice relaxing Valentine's Day at home. I wasn't feeling too well because of that uh...time of the month, so it was nice to just kickback and do things that I wanted to do.

Thursday was kind of boring. Hannah was home sick, so my 3hr break between classes was spent listening to music and doing some homework. It was also "Body Secrets" day, which is an awful lot like what you see at je_secrets or fandomsecrets submitted anonymously, only about your body. They had the curtains in the cafeteria drawn, and a big projector scrolling through the varioussecrets. There were lots of your usual, "I love my body~!" "I'm so hott~!" "I love my boobs~!" "I love my butt~!" and "I love my penis~!" or the reverse secrets, but then there were quite a few...interesting ones. Ones like "I love my hairy ass~!" and "People compliment me on my large lips and ask if I had cosmetic surgery. If only they knew it was because of the herpes..." made the cafeteria recoil in horror. Also a few about how great/awful it was to have an abortion, or how often they vomit to make themselves skinny. It made me kind of sick. =\

I finally got my Kisarazu Cat's Eye movies in the mail! ♥ I tried to watch them on The Big Stupid TV™, but the 2.0 sound configuration made them reeeeealllly quiet. D= I'll just have to crank it up when I have time to sit down and watch them all the way though.

( Picturesss... )

Yep. So, that's about it. I'm going to San Fransisco tomorrow with my mom to go shopping and stuff as a late birthday-thing. Sucks that the weather's going to be awful, and I was kind of a doofus and screwed up some plans. ;_; I need to learn to type better.

That's all for now, folks!

Man, I am so tired, you don't even know. Along with being physically tired, I'm also mentally tired. I think too much. I over think. I need a vacation. From like...everything. Blah. Idk.

Why does my dog smell so bad? I should give her a bath, but it's been so cold outside, that would be kinda mean...

I sleepwalked last night. o_o My cat slept on my bed last night, and I had my door closed, but when I got up this morning to feed the cats, she was outside my room, somehow. I was the first person to wake up this morning, so...it had to be me. But I have no memory or feeling of ever waking up. Crazy, amirite?

I'm tired of my English class. I've considered skipping the last two classes, but ended up going because we were supposed to watch a film, then write an essay on it. Yeah, still haven't watched that film. She didn't take notice of the missing vcr on Monday, leading to no vcr on Wednesday, then calling campus tech on Wednesday saying, "I need a vcr on Monday" and of course they forgot. Then I found out we'd be watching "Cats! The Musical" and headdesk'd. I hate that musical.

I'm glad you got your package, dernierous~! I was kind of worried, since I didn't think it'd take that long, + I meant to tape up the end just in case and forgot. Post pictures of your room *in a not creepy way*! xD I want to see! And for the members being on inconvenient sides...Photocopy? (º3º)?