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I have moved: Apples & Cinnamon

It’s been fun, WordPress, but I’m leaving you to jump on the blogging bandwagon. After fighting with you over publishing posts when they’re supposed to be drafts and vice versa for nearly six months, I’ve had enough.

That, and I like the theme on my new Tumblr. :3

Come, follow me!

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The Otaku Con forum is incredibly dead.

Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.

In other news, my dear friend’s birthday presents that I ordered came in yesterday. I can’t wait til she sees them! Right now they’re in a plain black gift bag, but I think I’m going to spruce it up a little with some glitter and cutouts.

Otaku Control might have a table at Otaku Con 2010, and it sounds like I’ll be doing chibi keychains. wOOt.

This is why I need a Twitter account, LOL.

Stupid Penises

So, I went to a dance at my school on the 9th. I bought a cute Sheryl dress; I styled my hair; I tried to channel Sheryl so I could finally work up the courage to ask the student council VP to dance with me. I was so determined! And then underclassmen happened.

I have friends in all the high school grades. I happened to be dancing with some of my sophomore friends, and suddenly three guys, all tenth-graders, surrounded me and tried to grind on me at the same time, all with incredibly gross hard-ons. I left the dance floor for a few minutes, and I stayed by the friends in my grade for the rest of the night. And,  never did ask the VP to dance with me. In fact, he never looked at me.

Those three guys made me crack a little. Since I left Trevor, I haven’t had one date, and guys don’t respond when I try to catch their attention, particularly the VP. It’s like there’s a black spot on me, marking me and telling prospective dates, “Stay away!” My mom says it’s because they’re intimidated by me. I doubt it.

Please pardon this super-emo and self-loathing entry. I had to get this out somewhere. I haven’t told anyone else about how I cried over three stupid guys just trying to say, “I danced with a hot older chick at the dance.”

It helped me make up my mind, though. Now to decide: ask VP to prom, or to the Highlighter in March?

Meme <3

1. Name: Cecilia

2. Birthday: 25th of March

3. Where do you live: ID, USA

4: What are you studying/What are you working as: I’m a high school student and part-time college student majoring in early childhood development, but I’m switching my major to something more along the lines of graphic arts or something sociology-related.

5. What makes you happy: Drawing, listening to music, being with my friends, Hetalia, food, dancing

6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last: “I Wanna” by the All-American Rejects

7. What is particularly good/bad about my DA?: good = my friends on dA are the best : ) bad = so busy all the time, and lots of dArama.

8. An interesting fact about you: I have a hard time working without background noise. Its why I’m almost always listening to my iPod.

9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment: Yes

10. Favorite place to be: on the dance floor

11. Favorite lyric: “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls

12. Best time of the year: autumn, when the colors are really vibrant

13. Weirdest food you like: french fries dipped in ice cream

RECOMMEND
1. A film: Ironman

2. A book: “Paper Towns” and “Looking for Alaska” by John Green

3. A song: Namie Amuro – Hide and Seek

4: A band: NeverShoutNever!

FANDOM
1. Favorite Fandom: Hetalia, NGE, Clannad, Macross Frontier

2. OTP/OT3: Japan/Taiwan, Kaworu/Shinji, Alto/Sheryl, Katsuki/Masae

Pak-CHU!

Alright, tag time! (In other words, I just want to waste time untilI absolutely have to do my college homework, lol)

Stolen from Atakiri and Riida on Facebook~

[ ] You own at least one pair of cat ears.
[ ] You quietly fangirl in History class.
[ ] You actually understood the statement above.
[ ] During long tests or final exams, you replace the random awkward names with anime characters.
[ ] You could be completely out of cosplay, but people still call out to you as the cosplay they originally met you in.
[ ] And you actually respond to it.
[x] Would change your name to an anime character if you could. (Like “Sheryl Nome,” for instance.)
[x] You’ve fallen so non-existantly love with an anime character, to the point were its a little odd to discuss with outsiders. (In middle school, lol. Sesshoumaru-samaaaaa!!)
[ ] You would eat cat food to be in an anime for a day.
[ ] You would shave your head to bring to life 5 anime characters of your choice.
[x] You talk in a high voice. (but not on purpose! :[ )
[x] You know how to use chopsticks
[x] You have over 50 Manga
[ ] You have over 50 DVDs
[ ] You have over 50 figures
[ ] You have over 50 posters
[ ] You own an anime-related backpack
[x] You’ve been called an anime freak.
[x] You know the FULL and TRUE definition of “moe”
[x] You know there is a large difference between a “Loli” and a “Lolita”.
[ ] You run out of space on your computer because the hard drive is taken up by hundreds of anime
[ ] You know your favourite characters’ blood types.
[x] You name random objects after an anime character
[ ] You name pets after anime characters
[x] You named/plan to name your children after an anime character. (Like, “Sheryl Nome,” for instance.)
[x] You can’t imagine how your life would be WITHOUT anime. (I would be soooo different, lol.)
[ ] You find it awkward to talk to people who don’t like anime, or at least don’t tolerate it.
[x] You feel a warm fuzzy feeling inside when you see someone wearing an anime shirt.
[ ] You can’t go a day without talking about anime (most likely)
[x] You can’t go a day without THINKING about anime
[x] You wonder if your future/current children will think you were/are a freak, when they look at your cosplay pictures.
[ ] You take a picture of your fave anime character to a hair styler and ask them if they can make your hair like that. (My hair’s not long enough for Sheryl’s hairstyle, lol.)
[ ] You try learning how to play your favorite anime song on piano or any instrument.
[ ] You and your friends frequently discuss how random people nearby resemble an anime character.
[ ] The people you draw seem to always appear “anime style” because you have practiced too much at drawing your fave anime characters.
[x] You can’t really draw in any other way, out of habit and practice.
[x] You think adults who like anime are cool.
[x] You think that you will still like anime even when you are an adult or forever!
[x] You cosplay based on looking like, or acting like an anime character.
[ ] You get upset when you see a person who looks like anime character, but doesn’t like anime, like they were a waste of a good physical quality.
[x] You cry when people die in an anime. (Oh my God, when Maes Hughes died, I cried!)
[x] You cry or get very upset when an anime ends. (Only when it ends abruptly or doesn’t finish. Like Gamerz Heaven! )< )
[x] You can recognize bad translations, by understanding a sentence or two.
[ ] You punish your friends for mispronouncing Japanese words because you figure they should just be common knowledge. (I’ve given up on this, lol.)
[x] You sigh and wonder if it’s worth explaining when people ask you who you are supposed to be on Halloween.

21/45 – ~46%

Wow, I must totally suck as an otaku, lol.

No, I guess it means I’m “well-rounded” in my interests? LOLOLOL.

In other news, I may be dressing up as Alice from Alice in Wonderland for Halloween, with princess curls and all. :3

If Only You Knew

For next year’s Otaku-Con, I want to find the karaoke track for Olivia Lufkin’s “If Only You Knew,” because I think it’s a gorgeous song, and it totally fits Amaterasu from Okami, who I will more than likely be cosplaying. Oh, and I’ll learn “Sorairo Days” if I decide to cosplay Yoko for sure.

I’m working on a commission for my dear Atakiri at the moment, but I killed my yellow marker. So I have to run to the ONLY local supplier to pick up the color I need for $3 more than what I should be paying for it. Danielle from NDP Comics told me that paying $7 per pen plus tax is way over-priced, so as soon as possible I’m going to order a 72-piece Copic Sketch set from Dick Blick with my gift certificate from forever ago, lol.

I also killed my enV2. Until I can get my own new phone in May 2010, I’ll be using my dad’s BlackBerry World Edition. It sucks, because I can’t take OR receive pictures with it, and I can’t use the internet on it after my dad cancels his cell account because that’s part of the package. I know I’m totally downgrading, but I’d rather downgrade than spend almost $400 just to get an enV Touch or LG Dare before May.

The fourth boss on Super Princess Peach is hard to beat. :/ Or maybe I just fail at games, lol.

Lately I’ve been feeling rather nostalgic about somethings, and rather rebellious about others. Starting with rebellion, I bought a pair of skinny jeans that actually look fairly attractive. Other jeans I’ve tried on always looked icky, and then I tried on these and they looked amazing! Of course, I bought them. I needed jeans anyway, and they were on sale. I tried them on for my mom, and, even though she hasn’t said it directly to my face, I know she wants me to take them back. She told me that she thought they were promiscuous and innappropriate for someone my age. (Uhm, there’s this little thing about my turning 18 in less than 9 months…) I may exchange them for the next size up, cause I remembered that clothes shrink a little in the wash, but I think I’m gonna keep them.

As for nostalgia, it’s more just thinking back on what I’ve put myself through for some guy’s approval. Instead of letting it get to me and make me all depressed, I’m gonna channel it into my art. I discovered that art is a good theraputic thing for emotional shiz, even though I had previously declared that I’d never let my art become an outlet for my emotions. That, and listening to Anna Tsuchiya music, lol.

What does it mean to wake from a dream with teary eyes and not remember what it is you were dreaming about?

Otaku-Con 2009 Report

Yesterday was Day 2 of Otaku-Con 2009 in Spokane, and it was the first convention I had ever attended in my whole life. Right now I feel like I did after prom, when you have that sort of “hangover” from all the excitement and fun, and you just weren’t ready for it to end. After yesterday, I totally wasn’t ready for the con to end.

Several of my friends had attended the first day of Otaku-Con (Aug. 3rd), but I could only go on one day. After emailing the staff to get a schedule in advance, I decided to go on Tuesday, because there was an hour of open karaoke in the day’s events. After a rather interesting journey to SCC with Cody and Mango (we  almost got lost ’cause of road construction on Freya, orz”), we checked into Otaku-Con, and I went to find Austin.

I had decided beforehand to cosplay a high school girl, right? But, after a night of restless sleep due to my sinuses being torn apart by the smoke in the air, I ditched my costume at the last minute, lol.

So, our first stop was the anime theatre room, where the staff had set up a screen to show different series. Except, today there wasn’t a screen, but the director of programming, Dave, and a volunteer, Chris (who was actually a rather attractive volunteer, lol), were on the stage waiting for people to show up for the skit contest. Chris, who also happened to be a martial artist, showed off his skills, with Dave promptly adding, “He could be a ninja!” which made the girls in the crowd burst into fangirl squeals. And then people kept taking Dave’s halo, lol, and throwing a white stuffed bear across the stage, and playing with a squirrel puppet from behind the curtain.

The skits weren’t that bad. The first one didn’t make sense, though, and the girls didn’t speak loudly enough, but the second skit was completely a Naruto fanservice skit, serving up SasuSaku, SasuNaru, and even a little KakaSasu set to music from Grease. Again, fangirls squealed, lol. Austin and I were totally laughing our heads off whenever Kakashi would start lipsyncing, “Tell me more, tell me more!” while waving his porn book around. Then, Link and Navi showed up to say hi, except…

Link was in a straitjacket, lol! (That’s Dave, btw, with his committee member halo.) The act following Link’s quick “Hello!” was a stand-up comic skit performed by a Code Geass cosplayer, and we all promptly lost The Game. And, uh, apparently we shunned a waffle-hater, too, who was also on staff, lol.

After the skits, Austin and Alex convinced me to join the glomp game.

Oh my gosh, it was so much fun! I was really nervous at first about hugging random people, but after playing for about ten minutes, it was really fun! A couple times there was gang-glomping, one group even growing to six people, lol. Austin and Alex were, like, all over the circle, and there were some people who basically tackled you. One kiddo jumped on me, but I caught him. I think working at a daycare paid off, lol. Part way through, I left the game to get Cody to come play with us, and I ended up playing a round of Fate/Unlimited Codes on his PS2. It was actually really fun! I liked playing as Lily Saber. She’s pretty~la.

After the glomp game, I went to get something to drink, since I hadn’t had water all day, and I kinda didn’t eat much of a breakfast, orz”. Austin and I went to find the other members of our posse, and did some shopping along the way, lol, and then we decided to get something to eat from the bookstore. Trail mix saved our life that day, lol. Then, after we left the bookstore and had stashed out stuff in a locker that one of Austin’s friends had rented, we were evicted from the locker! Still don’t know why we were, but there was probably a time limit or something.

Yes, we do, indeed, fail at camwhoring.

 

After we ate, we had alot of downtime, since the next event wouldn’t be starting til 4 PM. So, we wandered around the convention space, looked in on the anime theatre room, checked out the Lucky Star aerobics room but decided not to join in, and eventually we all ended up in a circle of comfy chairs to draw and talk, lol. Austin and I talked about Charter, and how much we wanted to go to the Masquerade Ball before we left the con, ’cause we hadn’t had a decent dance since June. And then one of Jon’s friends was all like, “wait, you know so-and-so?” and I was all, “Yeah! I’ve known him since he was in sixth grade,” and he was all, “Yeah, me too! He’s my brother’s best friend’s little brother. We go to the same church.”

I had been hanging out with Spidermonkey this whole time, even though I had been too shy to introduce myself when I first saw him at church way back in December! Lol, it’s great how fate works that way.

So after sitting for about an hour, Dave came to us and asked if we were going to go to the speed-dating event, and we told him we were gonna do karaoke instead. “Karaoke was cancelled,” he said. “We didn’t really have any lyrics.” NOOOO!!! I had been, like, practicing songs for almost two weeks for karaoke, orz”. Oh well, we went to speed-dating anyway, ’cause it’d be fun to try something new. I totally wish I had taken pictures, cause it was really interesting, lol. I talked to a guy who works at SCC, Sam (who had been hanging out with us), a girl who might have been on one of the committees (I think she was wearing a halo), a girl cosplaying L from Death Note,  a guy cosplaying Zero/Lelouch, another girl attendee, Jon (lol), a guy named Andrew who was actually kinda cool to talk to and looked sorta like Harry Potter, and a guy who had just bought a pile of Black Cat volumes.

After speed-dating, I went to the “Let’s Draw Manga Faces” panel run by NDP Comics art director Danielle. It was actually a rather interesting class, since I learned a new technique for guidelines that I want to try out and see if it’ll improve my faces some. I talked to Danielle about being a colorist for NDP, and about their company and Aki-Con, which she has convinced me to go to, even though I can’t afford both Aki-Con and Sakura-Con, lol.

After the panel, I met up with Austin and Co. to have pizza and to just hang out. We didn’t really feel like attending theawards’ ceremony, so we skipped and hung out in the lobby looking through my sketchbook and sharing stories from classes at CCA. After the ceremony, we went to the Masquerade Ball, which had started earlier than usual. Of course, Austin and I kicked off our shoes and danced to the first track, a remix of “Motteke! Sailor Fuku” but after that “Passion” by Utada Hikaru came on thespeakers, which is totally not a dance song. It’s good for stuff like karaoke and chilling, but notsomuch for dancing. Then, after a mix of “One-Winged Angel” and “Kesenai Tsumi” by Nana Kitade, Austin and I decided the ball was a bust, and we left to let Cody and Mango know it was getting close to time to leave, since I had to work the next day. We said our good-byes, and then we left.

As soon as I got home, after being mauled by my two little dogs, both of whom were convinced that I hadn’t been home for years, I showed off my loot to my mom and my sister.

I got the Aki-Con promos from the NDP Comics booth when I was talking to Danielle, and I had also bought a Mokona plushie, a Boo plushie, a Yoko keychain, and a Mario mushroom plushie from the same booth earlier that day. The jewelry set was made by an artist on dA, whose link I’ll add later when I have it. Muffinelf

I bought two chibis by ~Salice-is-an-idiot

It’s Ammy, Waka, and Phoenix! <3 I bought the last Phoenix chibi too, lol.

Oh, and there was this really hot Suzaku cosplayer there, too. :3

Isn’t he just spectacular? <3 Too bad he’s got a girlfriend, orz”.

So, that’s my first con experience in a nutshell. It was so awesome, and I can’t wait to do it again!

A Moment on the Lips, a Lifetime on the Hips

So guess who’s decided to start talking to me again?

That’s right, my ex-boyfriend, Snack Pack part one. Nevermind that he specifically told me not to talk to him ever again, or that he spread rumors about me at his workplace.  (Can’t you tell I’m just ecstatic about this?) I don’t trust him; he lost my trust very quickly after I broke up with the other half of the Snack Pack. He did so many things to damage me, and now he expects that he can just waltz right back into my life because he feels like it?

Hell no. I don’t roll that way. I’ll admit, it’s been very difficult there past couple of days to be polite in our conversation via Facebook messages. I’ve wanted very much to say, “You told me to leave you alone, so why are you even talking to me? I don’t trust you anymore,” but I know that’s not exactly polite, and I realize that my raging feminine chemicals don’t make it any better, or less bitchy. But, I refuse to let him back into my life. He decided to leave and burn the bridge as he went. Sucks for him.

Apples and Cinnamon

I’ve done some cleaning up recently. Alot of the entries about the Snack Pack are gone now, because it doesn’t help to have them still floating around the internet. I don’t speak to either of them anymore, which is probably best since the trouble they’ve cause has finally died down.

I watched “The Ugly Truth” with my parents and little sister yesterday afternoon. It was freaking hilarious! I’ve never loved a chick flick as much as I loved that movie. Of course, my parents were totally embarrassed every time Gerard Butler said f*** and whenever Katherine Heigl’s character began to also use vulgar language. My sister and I giggled stupidly. Maturity levels fell waaaay down yesterday. But that’s not why I loved the movie so much, I think. I think I liked it so much because Gerard Butler was in it playing a type of anti-hero that I absolutely adore it was a movie that was relevant. Everyone could either place themselves in Heigl’s or Butler’s shoes, maybe even both at different times.

“A floozy lasts a few hours, but a broken heart, that lasts for years!” – Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler). Or something like that.

 

Anyway, working on some Vocaloid fan art atm. Kasane Teto is my favorite of the Vocaloids, and she’s not even a Vocaloid, lol! She’s an UTAU, which uses a similar voice synthesis program to the other Vocaloids, such as the Kagamine twins and Miku Hatsune, but UTAU is a free program and it’s supposedly a lot more complicated than Vocaloid program. Anyway, Teto’s song “Uso no Utahime” (Fake Diva) is totally awesome, because it talks about her creation on 2ch as an April Fool’s Day Vocaloid, thus her Vocaloid number is 0401 (get it? Lol).

The newest of the Vocaloids, Megpoid, is, um…she’s okay. I expected her voice to be super-amazing, since her voice is sampled from Japanese-Filipino actress Megumi Nakajima a.k.a. Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier. But, she sounds more generic than even the most generic of the Vocaloid songs I’ve heard. She’s new software, so there will be time to see what else she can do, but so far she’s turning out to be a disappointment sound-wise. Her character is cute, though. And Gackpoid, oh my goodness, that man’s voice!~~~ <3 I’m so glad they sampled from Gackt Kamui’s voice for one of the Vocaloids. I much prefer Gackpoid to Kaito.

 

School starts in less than six weeks.

I’m testing for my second learner’s permit on Friday.

Otaku-Con is in seven days.

 

Oh boy!

Breaking Point

Heh, I haven’t updated this place in a  while.. August 15th was, like, almost a month-and-a-half ago?

I’ve been a slacker when it comes to my Sakura-Con cosplays lately. I’ll probably get my bases from a local thrift shop and then fix them up to look like Konoha Gakuen uniforms. :/ Sorry if I’m not quite so animated, I’m feeling kinda blah. I guess I’m just tired. Trevor says I’ve lost weight, too, which sorta works out, cause it means my BMI is where it should be. Though it means I don’t fit, like, half the stuff in my closet, including my uniform for school.

Once I’m done with the school play, I’ll try to get back on the Internet, kay? Unless I’m accepted into NHS, cause then I’ll be busy with that. All that crap that makes my college app look sparkly. :p Of course, I also haven’t had much time to draw. I did start a few drawings a while ago, though. A couple of mermaid drawings and a chick with wings.

Wouldn’t it be great to have wings? To just fly away when you’re feeling stifled or overwhelmed? If I wasn’t such a wimp, I’d prolly get a small pair of wings tattoed on my shoulders. :p ‘Course, I hate needles, so I guess I’ll just have to keep daydreaming.