So, it's snowing again.  It's fucking MARCH, and its snowing AGAIN!  Haven't we had enough snow this year?  I mean, I love snow, I like winter well enough, but really, enough is enough!

I'm ready for spring!  I wanna wear cute skirts and buy sundresses and plant my mini window herb garden, and go on picnics to the Rose Garden and the Japanese Garden!  I wanna go outside without my big coat, or any coat, and be able to wear cute shoes!  I want warm weather already!

So, my "cousin"/godbrother/parents'-friends'-son just sent a ROCKET into space.  Like, from NASA.  How fucking cool is that?

And, for anyone who was confused about my last post, this is a Lolita:
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It's a form of Japanese subculture/fashion, and in America is mostly centered around fans of anime, manga, and japanese rock and pop.  Though it has crossovers with those things, it's definately its own scene.  I think the term was defnately taken from Nabokov's Lolita, in that most of the style has this childlike innocence to it, but without all the creepy sexual stuff.  My guess is its another example of Japanese missusing english terms.  Anyway, just so you all know I'm not a complete freak ;D

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

( Sorry, it's kinda long... )

So, occasionally, I get this little urge to be a Lolita. There's just something about wandering around in fluffy skirts full time that is very appealing. Never mind that I barely wear skirts, and certainly can't afford to have a hundred pretty dresses, even if I do make them myself. Plus, I like being able to blend into the crowd at times. It takes some of the pressure off.

But something about it strikes me as oddly courageous. However, I usually don't like any actual Lolita's that I meet (the exception being my buddy Ashlee, of course). I this is because it's really a way to stand out and get attention. I'm not saying I wouldn't do it for that too, but I find something so fake about that. It just feels really pretentious. But...so cute! I guess part of me wishes I had the courage to dress that crazy on a daily basis.

If you can't tell, for some reason I'm in costume mode again. I guess around this time I've finally recovered from the Kumoricon rush and am ready to start dreaming about next year. Also, it looks like we're pushing Tori's Sakura outfit back a year, since she'll be in and out of surgery this summer, and it won't really be the best time to be taking measurements and poking and prodding with pins. So, I have some energy freed up!

Jenni et al, I really think we should have our own Lolita Picnic (maybe something like the Spring Fling?), so I have an excuse to make a Lolita dress for myself. I'm not sure about wearing one to the con, but they're easy and quick to make.

Oh, and in other news, I did end up getting a new computer! It's tiny and pink and was on sale for Valentine's Day. I love it lots!!!

itunes is taking a ridiculously long time to download the next episode of The Biggest Loser, so I'm wasting time just about anywhere I can think of. Normally, I prefer not to pay for my silly tv addictions (especially considering that I'm already paying for cable), but their site is lame and doesn't carry back episodes (a bad move in my way of thinking, since back-episodes will actually inspire people to start watching the new episodes, but whatever nbc), and itunes is pretty cheap. It's so fucking slow, though!

I really need a new computer. But, I should get a nice powerful desktop, but I want a little sexy laptop that I can take anywhere (well, to be fair, I want both), so I'm putting of getting either until my current one either dies, or I make up my mind, which ever occurs first.

I've rediscovered DDR. I bought a random version that was really cheap, and slightly better than my old lame PSX version, and I've been using it as a my daily workout ruitine. You can actually get a good workout from that, especially if you use workout mode. It totally will keep track of how many calories you're burning and everything! I'm getting pumped. It's especially nice since I don't actually have to leave me house.

I didn't really sleep last night. For some reason my hedgies wheel kept making this really high pitched screeching noise. It sounded kind of like a fire alarm, except it wasn't as often. It really only happened every 2 hours or so, usually not for very long, but that meant I was being re-woken up every few hours. Fun times. I've lathered it with vaseline this time, so I'm hopefully be able to actually sleep tonight. If it still makes the noise, I'm totally moving out to the couch.

On an similar note, look, cute hedgehog predicting the weather:

So, it's gorgeous outside, I love snow, and I'm thankful for the surprising weather...but you can stop already!

Seriously, any other week, I'd be ecstatic over snow, totally thrilled, snow fights, snow men, all that jazz.  But WHY did it have to be this week?  Amy and I barely got all my shit out of the old apartment saturday, cleaned the thing like crazy, woohoo!  Our plans for sunday were to drive in again, and get all the stuff out of Dui's apartment that I'm taking when she leaves.  However, we wake up, and the worlds a fucking winter wonderland.  Gorgeous, magical, but NOT HELPING!

So, I haven't been able to get my car out since.  We live on a somewhat nasty hill, and while we can easily walk up a street to the big road and easy busline, we have to go down and around when driving.  We COULD have gotten out yesterday, but I realized too late, and didn't seize the day.  Plus, we had lovely better plans with Jenni!  The good news is, we were able to move most of our shit into either Robin's car or Mel's apartment, and I owe them both some kickass Christmas presents.  But, now they're stuck at Mel's place, with no way to get them out, and I'm sure they're annoying.  We were supposed to move them today, but I was a further moron and assumed everything would stay warm.  Grrrr.

Well, in my defense, when does it ever actually get this cold?  When does it consistently snow for multiple days in a row, and actually stick?  I may be a moron, but at least it's justifiable...

In other news, it really is lovely out!  I hope it stops long enough for me to get safely back to Eugene, and then traps us in our house once we're all safe, warm, and supplied wtih a full refrigerator. 

Happy non-denominational-season-tidings to you all!

AND Amy and I were able to set our wireless all by our selves! AND it works without one of our computers needing to me connected to it contantly! Yay!

In other news...I think I'm behind it about every aspect of life, including moving, which is really sad 'cause that's the only thing I've really been doing. I'll figure it all out, of course, but still, streesssssss.

I'm probably gonna have to give up on Nano this year. Well, not just yet, but I'm still just barely under 1,000, and I think we're supposed to be at like 30,00, at least, by now. Ugh. That's one thing that definately suffered for being the same month as the move, but I was already behind before we even started moving. What really annoys me is that I know I could have pulled it off, I just haven't...well, yet anyway, but I doubt I'm gonna physically have time to write 40,000 pages in a week.  I can't even finish my essays, and they're already a week late!

Also, in a continuation of bad luck, all the classes I NEED this turn are already filled up.  I blame the stupid school, because I'm like 2 credits away from being a senior, and this still have to register as a junior.  But, I'm graduating in Spring!  I need certain classes, I need them now, and I should be given some consideration for that.  Grrr.  Well, I can still get in them, but I have to show up with a little add/drop slip and hope some people don't show up.  

So...I hope everyone else is having a better time of it!  I'm actually quite enjoying my new apartment, and it's starting to actually come together and look like a real place people live!

So, we start moving in to our new apartment tomorrow! Amy and I found the cutest little 2 bedroom about 10 mins (by bus) from campus. I'm super excited, but also kind of nervious, and a bit sad. I really love my current apartment, it's the first place that's really been "mine," and I'm gonna miss it. But moving is always exciting, and I'm looking forward to living with Amy again. We work well as roomates.

Once we're settled, we're totally gonna have a Home Warming party, which pretty much EVERYONE will be invited to. It's gonna rock.

I was so moved by the elections. It's just...wow. It feels unreal, like something out of a book or something. I'm very proud that this was the first Presidential Election I was old enough to participate in. And I'm proud at the voter turnout this year. They were talking about how high the Youth vote was, and that just makes me really happy!

I was very impressed by both McCain and Obama's speeches. McCain's was very respectful, and I liked that he looked kind of annoyed that his supporters kept booing. Obama's speech totally blew me away. I loved how inclusive he was--how he specifically addressed the people who voted against him, saying that he'll still be their president too, and he won't ignore their issues.

Regardless of your political views, I think we can all agree that this is an amazing victory for American equality. We're one step closer to not being complete hypocrites.

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On another note...my fucking fire alarm needs new batteries, and so has been beeping every 40 seconds since about 4:00am. I'm so fucking not cool with this, but I have to wait for them to send one of the matinance people to deal with it. Silly dorms. Fortunately, blasting Avril Lavigne totally drows the beeping out. I feel kind of sorry for my neighbors, though...

A year ago, I saw this video on someone else' livejournal, and have sense become minorly obsessed with this guy, so I thought I'd share the love:

Well, one of them anyway. Basically, I remember telling Melinda about this years ago, and I think she still checks my livejournal..

Anyway, enjoy!

So, almost exactly a month since Kumoricon, and my apartment finally looks like a place someone lives, instead of a sweatshop.  You can actually see my floor!  And use my couch and papasan chair as actual, you know, seating areas, instead of tables. 

To be fair, I spent about over half of the last month in Eugene, so it's not as if I've actually been living in pre-con filth all this time.

Oh, I promised I'd post more pictures, but I'm lazy, so here's the link to my cosplay.com account: http://www.cosplay.com/member/85723/
You can also see pictures of Dui and Tori there.

So, we all survived Kumoricon!  I had a great time.  My favorite day was saturday, when Tori, Dui and I were dressed as the three main girls in Magica Knights Rayearth (pictures forthcoming in next entry).  We got so much attention!  We could barely go anywhere without getting stopped to have our pictures taken.  At once point in the park, we decided to go back to the hotel, which was right across the street, not even 5 minutes away, and it literally took us about half an hour just to get across the street, not to mention actually in the building, or up to our room.

It's always weird when you get back from a con.  Part of doesn't want to see anyway for at least 2 days, and hide out in a little corner and just sleep.  And the other part is all "omg lets do that again MORESUGARPLEASE".

Speaking of which, I'm missing me some Nekopan cupcakes about now.  Love you, girls!

I've been enjoying my time off.  I had a great trip to the coast with my parents, during which I didn't pretty much nothing except play loads and loads of The Sims 2.  I'm so addicted to that game.


Party on, everyone! (I should have a cosplay-update thread posted in a few days...)

It still hasn't hit me.  Is it normal to get this attatched to a job?  Especially a job that wasn't all that good?  Well, the best thing about my job was definately the people I worked with.  I love them all (except creepy icky annoying guy who I HATE), including a lot of people from other departments.  I think I'm saddest about not being able to say goodbye to everyone.  I was able to catch a lot of people, but there are just so many of us....and I feel bad for having not told a lot of people in advance.  But, that's an awkward thing to say in passing.  "Hey, hows it going?" "Good.  My last day's in a week.  Talk to you later!"

Anyway, I'll also miss my discount.  But hopefully not being at Ikea every few days will keep me from buying stuff from Ikea every few days.  And I'll be saving money on gas...I'll definately miss the pay check every two weeks, though.

I was touched by how many people seemed suprised and sad that I was leaving.  Even people I've only known for a few months.  It was sweet.

It's one of those agonizingly hot days when I wish it were publicly acceptable to wander around naked.  Or, more importantly, work appropriate to wear something other than FUCKING JEANS.  Would capri's kill you?  Would a slightly-above-the-knee jeans skirt really be that inappropriate?

Picked up my hedgie yesterday!  I think I'm gonna call her Sophie.  She's adorable, though she's kind of grouchy at the moment, still adjusting.  I spent some snuggle time with her last night, and discovered she's fairly content to just fall alseep on me, but is still iffy about being touched.  But, if I just hold her in my hands for a few minutes, she perks up and starts exploring!  This only lasts until she tries to climb off my lamp, begins to slip, and turns back in to a huffing ball of spikes.  But, at least she seems curious and friendly, if caustious.  Can you blame her?

I'm driving her up to Portland this evening, and it will be nice to get her settled in her real cage.

pirate_artist took a bunch of pictures when we went to pick her up, so soon I'll be able to show off my baby!

Edit: More pictures later, but here's a sneak-peek!

I officially pick her up saturday.  Its crazy, I feel like my brain's on overdrive, trying to remember everything I need to know.  I went on a crazy impuslive trip to Ikea and Petsmart yesterday, and got the bare necessities for her cage.  I still need some stuff, like more blankets and toys, but I got the important stuff.  Still tinkering with it all though.  Have to run to Ikea AGAIN tomorrow and get another tub, to be her "vacation home" at my parents house.  Stupid Ikea, that's 4 days in a row I'll have been there (work+shopping trips).  Granted, thats nothing compared to last summer, when we were all working 30+ hour weeks for the first month or so, but still.

Anyway, expect lots of pictures as soon as I have them!

So, I might be getting my hedgehog a bit earlier than expected...

I emailed the breeder to ask about color options (there are light hedgehogs about the color of a peach, which are soooo cute), and she responds with: "would a brown female be ok?  I have one now."

Yes, a baby.  7 weeks old.  Available now.  Freaking out much?

So, I need to check this with my parents before I respond, because this is a whole two months before I was expecting one, and I'm totally not ready.  But, how can I pass up this oppertunity?  But, Mom's at work, so I have to wait and call her tonight. 

If all goes well, I'm making a crazy run to Petsmart on my way home from work tomorrow, to prep for the new arrival...