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I've somehow gotten into this habit with my body where I'll wake up 5 minutes before my alarm goes off (sometimes an hour before as well, but then go back to sleep), with this horrible feeling that I've slept through my alarm and it is now 1pm or something.

But that's 98% of the time not the case ;;

I am totally gif'ing the crap out of the Love Rainbow making of when I get the chance (i.e. as soon as possible)

I had a wonderful weekend/labor day vacation. I had basically a week off from work *GASP!* and Lotion and I had planned a lot of fun stuff (and I ate way too much)

( Fun weekend in bullet form! In which I took absolutely no pictures 8D )

And here where are with clothes! I got 5 shirts for $30... Which... I think is a really good deal

( Pictures of the haul! :D )

Up next! I decided to randomly do some more J-web translations... these ones are the Nino UraArashi, and Jun's birthday J-web message. I'll get right to it, so here you go!

Please DO NOT take this out of my journal without my permission
My notes are in italic
Original Japanese: anj

( Nino UraArashi Kokuritsu 8/22 )

( Matsujun's 27th Birthday Message )

With that out of the way, here's a vlog!

QUESTION TO YOU ALL: I was sitting around thinking about this recently... when Anime finally started getting more and more popular, and Anime conventions were starting to get more popular, they invited people who were prominent in the industry or contributed things that were a big influence on the industry itself to be guests and talk about things etc.

I was wondering if there was a Johnny's convention (which would be awesome if there was lol) who do you guys think would be invited? I was just curious and was thinking about it the other day... ;; I think that Becky from taijiprojectsub would definitely be invited, but.. I dunno who else What do you guys think?

Okay that's it for the long ass entry. I think I will give internet cookies to anyone who actually read the entire thing

I know I haven't really posted much lately, but I've been really looking forward to this week. There's so many events that somehow ended up 重ねるing on the same week... but hey I'm not complaining.

Aside from work on Monday and Wednesday (boo), I'm looking forward to an e-mail from the CultureLink program to give me a Japanese partner on Monday, I'm going to a Hanson concert with mystical_mayhem on Tuesday, possibly a Scott Pilgrim party on Thurs, International Day with hidekodahlia and meeting up with katzichan , zelflame , and zonbiushi to flail around Japan camp and scream Arashi things and dance and and and etc etc etc on Friday, and then Obon festival + Arashi fanmeet + seeing tons of old friends + FINALLY HAVING ANOTHER EXCUSE TO WEAR MY YUKATA and take my Ohno uchiwa and just ahjkdgha;gd!! on Sunday SO MUCH STUFF AAAAHHHH

(ALSO I HEAR THAT THE BALLOT RESULTS FOR TOKYO DOME ARE COMING OUT SUNDAY JAPAN TIME SO LIKE SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING WHAT IS THIS MY LIFE)

erm... yeah. So that's that. Now I'm going to translate some more stuff (aside from the fact that I am literally jumping around on the walls, there also happen to be some shitty stuff going on in my life right now but I've chosen to not even try to think about it for now--but I will probably be mentioning it at some point because augh things need to come out sooner or later yeah, try to read THAT)

Okay for real now. Right before I go to sleep... it's j-web tiemz~

Please DO NOT take this out of my journal without my permission
My notes are in italic
Original Japanese: anj

( Nino's Message )

( Ohno's Message )

Look at how clean my art table is! Holy crap!!

I enjoy creating things. I mean, I graduated from an art school, so I better enjoy it.

Anyway, I basically spent the entire day cleaning today. I spent a good chunk of that going through my art table and cleaning things up. I literally was dusting every single nook and cranny of the damn thing... so I'm pretty proud of what I have now. I went through everything that I had out and put away all my school artwork unless I wanted to keep it out here.

I came across my intro to photography notebook and I was going through it, and ended up finding a lot of my black and white developed photos.. I always enjoyed that part of photography. Even though my black and white ones didn't turn out as nice as the color ones, I felt so much more of a connection with all my b&w ones because I had put my sweat and time into actually developing it by hand. I never learned how to develop color film, so all my black and white photographs are very special to me.

I found two photos that really struck me, still. I'm not sure why, but I felt a sense of pride when I looked at them and wanted to frame them and put them on my wall immediately.. but suddenly I thought, "These are the originals! What if I fuck up something in the process of framing it...?" so.. I ended up scanning them. Hopefully I won't just leave it sitting around on my HDD, and actually print out copies and put them on my wall.

( Two pictures under the jump )

I don't know why these two struck me, but they did. They're not fantastic or masterpieces.. in fact the berry one is super under exposed... but I actually kind of like that about it. It's really texture-y and has a lot of weight to it. Honestly the berry one is the one that I like the most, but there was also something about the other one that struck me as well. I remember when I took these photos, and I never really imagined that they would come out like this.

Anyway enough about artsy-fartsy stuff. I hope to have these babies printed out and framed, and on my wall soon

On to what I was really going to post about. I... on a whim decided to continue the Arashi dream saga. This was actually requested by soothing_sight, so I thought I might as well since I've never really gotten a request before

PREVIEW:


( Snugglerai )

Again, this took way. Longer. Than it should have. And now I'm going to sleep before I collapse

NEW SHIRT I got it on sale at Charlotte Russe for $10. Yay!

I've actually had a bunch of stuff written in this LJ box for a while but it was all random and small things so there really was no point to me posting them. But now that I have 3 things to post, I shall do it!

So first was the shirt! Next, I had another amusing Arashi dream the other night

( I got to meet Arashi. )

yeah that's it. Why is Matsujun always such a dick to me in my dreams? ;;

And lastly, something that I've been thinking about posting but never really got around to it. Nicole had a birthday recently.. (2 weeks ago-ish), and so I decided to draw her a picture of Aiba. It eventually went on a t-shirt, but yeah. This picture was a bunch of pictures combined, and then my own imagination on the rest of it.. it didn't turn out as I was imagining it, unfortunately but oh well! It's Aiba. And a little messier than my last drawing. I think I'm gonna end up drawing the whole group eventually. I'd like to!

I didn't record it this time... well, I recorded 1/2 of it, then found out that it was messed up and decided not to try to salvage it. I kind of wish that I had.. oh well

If any of you have pictures of Arashi that would be good turned into a CG painting like this, let me know

PREVIEW:


( Full size! )

1. my monitor showed up today. Very very nice surprise. It's. Beautiful. 8D I am so not used to this much space on the sides of a monitor.. and also it's huge XD; Pics to come soon.

2. VLOG. Which is very short this week due to lack of time :\\

Please make this week end. In a good way.

So, sorry to seem really random, but I have a 2010 resolution to try to finish my Japan journal.

I will be scouring my brain (and of course my giant picture folders) and writing about the rest of my experiences which I (so sadly) didn't finish writing about.

So yesterday I went to a welcome back party for katzichan.

It just so happened that the only people that were able to go were us 4 crazy Arashi fangirls.

Yeah there were 4 of us. With magazines. And korean food. And Karaoke. And an empty hotel room at 1 in the morning.

I took video but I don't think the other three would want me putting it up here

There was a lot of laughter and screaming happening I swear. And I found out that there are 2 more Arashi fangirls that live literally like a street away from me. How crazy is that? But they're not here during school so sad. ;

But hello to zelflame and zonbiushi! *waves*

On a different note, I did another f-cut. I removed people who I haven't spoken to in a while, and have not updated their LJ in a while. If you were cut but think I cut wrongly, let me know.

I saw a few people posting up this meme on my f-list, so I thought I might do it too.

This is mostly because I don't have much else to say haha

( In 2009 I... )

Interesting to look back on.

Also, to go off of my post this morning, it has been decided that Aiba's physical imperfection is his lack of a butt, and I'm changing Jun's eyebrows to acne, which he is plagued with sometimes.

And what better way to end this post with PICTURES OF PROOF.

( nyahahahha )

...and LOL... while looking around for these reference pictures, I stumbled over these ones on my HDD. What caught my attention was their hats.

( THEIR HATS YOU GUYS ;A; pure gold )