OMG! Eri has a MINI Cooper!! *loses mind*

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*calming down*
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Ok, so I randomly decided to watch some Detective Conan tonight, and the earliest ep I've got that I hadn't watched yet was #333. So there's this scene where Eri, Ran, & Conan are driving to a client's house, and she's TOTALLY driving an older model MINI!
I do not claim to know anything about cars, but from looking around online, it looks a heck of a lot like the '93 MINI on wikipedia.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :) more reasons that DC is awesome! YAY MINI!
( see the pictures! :) )

holy crap this account really does still exist. haha.
anyhow, I'm cleaning my room(s) and am trying to get rid of things. I'm posting up here a list of stuff that might be of interest to someone, and if you want it, just say the word and its yours. Anything nobody wants i'll probably dump up on craigslist, but you ppl can have it for free if you're interested (even if you want it just to sell it yourself, thats fine. i just want it gone).
I only ask that if you don't live within driving distance, that you reimburse me for shipping.

Manga (English):

Chobits - all 8 volumes, with collectors box

Desert Coral - volume 1

Wish - all 4 volumes, volume 1 collector's edition with dust jacket

Hibiki's Magic - volume 1

Oh My Goddess!:
-- Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses
-- Ninja Master
-- The Queen of Vengeance

Manga (Japanese):

.hack //Legend of the Twilight - volumes 1&2

Time Stranger Kyoko - volumes 1-3 (all?) - have a printout of a translation of volume 1

Yu-Gi-Oh! - volumes 31-35

Sailor Moon R - volume 8, 9, and movie - these are the anime versions with glossy paper and screenshots from the animation

Dragon Half - trilogy volume 1 (342 pages)

Ribon Magazines - issues 4-6 from 2004 - includes all (or most all) of the random crap they stick inside. dunno what all the series are that're in em, i got it for the Full Moon wo Sagashite ;)

Games:

StarFox Command (DS)

PuyoPop Fever (DS)

Taiko Drum Master (PS2) - game + 1 drum

DVDs:

Elfen Lied - volume 1 (with box for set)

Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children

Case Closed - volume 1 (somehow i ended up with two copies of this lol...)

Plushies:

Cthulhu (regular version/size)

Ein (Cowboy Bebop)

Chii (Chobits)

Beanie Babies:
-- Erin the bear (mint)
-- Peace the bear (mint)
-- Princess the bear (mint)
-- Ears the rabbit
-- Iggy the Iguana
-- Loosy the canadian goose
-- Gobbles the turkey
-- Snip the cat
-- Prance the cat
-- Claude the crab (have tag.. but just snapped off in my hand.. lol..)
-- Stinky the skunk (no tag)
-- Sly the fox (no tag)

Panda beanie (not TY)

Other:

Sting replica sword - Lord of the Rings (not the uber fancy quality one, but it is metal and is fun to swing around and break lamps with ;))

ok, so i was bad. but... well.. ok, so i was just bad ^^; but my badness has now been completed as my package arrived in the mail today.

i bought a new Nintendo DS (the navy blue one i've been lusting after), AND i also found the Dewprism soundtrack! the actual japanese release too- not the bootleg version from Tiwan! [the reason i'm so anal about it being the authentic version is that in my opinion, if i'm spending money on a ripoff version, i may as well torrent it. *shrug* i'd rather have my $ go to the right place]

so i'm just aaaaaaaaaaaall sorts of happy ^^ my DS is so pretty ^________^ in all its awesome blueness. hehe. i want to get a case for it tho, so it doesnt get scratched up. protect it right from the get-go like i did with my Nano.

thank you to everyone who commented on my last post and/or spoke to me in regards to it's topic. throughout all of today i kept flipping into this really depressed mood, not quite knowing what to do with myself. i felt drained, and when i saw myself in the mirror i actually looked hollow. it was scary.

coming home and seeing everyone's support has really helped me to remember that as much as this has sucked, it's you guys who are important.
it's you who i know will be there for me.
it's you who i know i want to be there for.
it's you all who i love.
it's you all who are worth shedding tears over when times are hard.

the rest of it is garbage, and i'm not going to waste my time and energy being upset over something that doesn't really matter anyway.


you're all such great friends.

thank you.

i had a really great day today until i got home and logged on to FFXI. now.. you would think.. that since its ohh.. i dunno... a GAME.. it would be a fun thing to do. but when you log in, and immediately get kicked out of your linkshell chat group, its like taking a nice relaxing lounge and suddenly getting punched in the gut by someone you trusted.

since i couldnt get into the shell to ask what the deal was, i wrote a post on their website/forum. considering how upset i was, i think it was actually rather tame. unsuprisingly, the post was deleted within an hour.

i'm not asking for sympathy, and none of you even have to read this... i just... ...i ...i need my words to be posted somewhere ... where they can't be just wiped away at someone else's discretion...


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( follow-up post )

in honor of my new web dev work starting soon, i think i'm going to get my own webspace this week. it'll be nice to quit depending on dunx1 to keep letting me in. ^^;

you know what really sucks? trying to find a cat collar for a boy kitty. they like.. dont exist.
cat collars are all friggen girly as hell - which is not a bad thing - if you have a girl cat.
so i think i found one i want to get, and you know how? its a dog collar. ^^; lol.

well, my time off from work has come to an end, so i'm back off to the grindstone tomorrow and for the rest of the week. i am looking forward to it tho, i miss all my ppl at work.

Oh my gosh, I'm posting on livejournal. o_0 watch out, the sky might start falling.

anyway, I'm just noting to ppl that I just got my hotel reservation for Fanime this year, so I need to start checking off who is going to be coming with me. I'm gonna start a facebook group for this so I can more easily have an up-to-date list of the status, so please go check that out too. and if you dont have a facebook account, shame on you, and go get one. lol. ^^

holly & pete, i know money and time is tight for you guys, but you are MORE than welcome to come on down as well. i'll even help out with the cost where i can, cuz i'd really love to see you if you can find a way to make it. let me know & we'll talk. *LOVES~!*

also, on facebook i wanna sort out who's cosplaying and what of, in case we do any group stuff. (rizzo i'm looking at you ;D -- we need to get your wig, etc, etc...)

so...... yesterday we got a new family member. last weekend when my dad and i were in berkely we fell in love with a kitten we passed at one of the animal adoption groups set up in front of the shops. we had tried to be strong and ignore him, but we failed miserably and ended up going back the next day to try and find out who the organization was and how we could get the little fluff ball.
we filled out all the paperwork and faxed it in, and yesterday we all drove back up and picked him up.
so meet Taiko; our 11 week old little tabby. ^^


( 11/11/06 pics )

why is it that i can only be happy as long as i can distract myself from how miserable i am?

this is one of the most awesome things i've read, ever. there needs to be more people like this out there.
The Forever Family

so yeah... i was riding my bike to go to the store... i had a list of things to pick up, and figured it'd be fun to get some exercise at the same time since i always drive everywhere and i just recently got a bike lock.

i didnt make it to the store. for those of you who know the area, i was on Mowry going past the turn off to Peralta when i got hit from behind by a car.
i was so ungodly lucky i can't even believe it. i got out of this with a scraped up arm and a really bruised butt, and my left gear shift on my bike is cracked up. i havent checked to see if my iPod still works. i hurt, like, a lot. but i'm not dying and i didnt even break anything. we took x-rays and whatnot, but i'm really pretty fine all things considered.
just really shaken up. and it hurts to sit, so i dont really want to be at the computer all that long.
but yeah, fyi, thats how my wonderful day ended up getting screwed.

all i have to say, is that on the way home we passed the crash site, and i growled at it commenting "..bloody intersection." my dad very appropriately added that at least it really wasnt a bloody intersection.

i'm gonna go take a shower and lie down for a while.

this was in the Chronicle today. i swear, its the funniest damn thing i've ever read in the newspaper in my life. enjoy ^^
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/09/29/notes092906.DTL

.... i had wine at work today.
my job rocks. XD

my computer just rebooted all by itself.
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this does not please me.

T_T

shinichi.. you're a big dork. "why doesnt she just tell me" my foot. do you even realize the number of times she *has* walked up to you and told you?? =þ do you honestly think shes gonna keep coming up to you and saying she knows who you are when you've reacted in such a consistant manner to that all this time?

Which FF Character Are You?


wooo the only one that made any sense! i recommend picking "i dont know" or "other" for the game choice, because otherwise the answers are just limited to one game and aren't as accurate.

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in other news, my computer might be fixed! *huggles the brian* so far so good! ^^ i'm hopin it stays that way!

"Shinichi-niichan itetayo na... itsuka... itsuka kanara zu zetai ni... shinde mo modote kuru kara... dakara... dakara... sore made Ran ni matete hoshiinda te... dakara... dakara ne..."

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i have some time before we have to go... *pokes neopets*
*starts a game of destruct-o-match*
1000... 2000... 2700... 2800...
*oh my gosh.. i think i might hit the 3k mark* =D
2900...
*holly's on... i'm gonna take a screenshot and send it to her if i make it!!!* ^_^
2980....
2997....
3012!!!
*stares*
*oh my gosh... oh my gosh..... i've been trying to do this for years.... i can't believe it...*
*stares a moment longer & starts to keep going so the score can be submitted*
"what are you doing?"
*huh? ... oh, dad..*
"i was talking to holly for a couple minutes and was playing a round of this game... and i can't believe it! i've been trying to hit the 3k mark for a couple years now... and i just did it!"
*blank*
"did you do the google search for the store?"
"oh, yeah, i was waiting for you to come back to show you.."
*brings up window*
*really stupid discussion ensues about how none of those stores are the right one...*
"let me look, and you go get dressed. i want to leave in about 25 minutes"
*umm..*
"uhh, ok..*
....


..
"val?"
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"val, your computer's making a weird noise."
*...*
*... oh god no..*
*please tell me it just bliped.*
*... it didnt freeze again... no way.. not while i still had my page running in the background...*
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*computer: MRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR---*



i quit. no more. i dont even want to look at that damn game again. i'll never hit 3k again.. and i dont even have any record that it ever happened. thats it. i give up. no more.
*cries*

i have a totally new appreciation for how awesome weekends are. see, weekends during college are good and all.. but weekends at work mean that there is NO HOMEWORK! XD HOOOOOOO-RAH~!
and yay for livejournal working again. the last time i tried to post it was all fuggled up and i couldn't get anything to load.

but yea, anywho, my job is awesome and im really enjoying it. i'm learning so much too (some of which i think i should have learned in my digital audio class, but hey.... >_> grr.)
i'm basically doing all the post production work to put presentations online with slides (powerpoint) flipping along side. so i'm editing video and audio, and running it through a program to line up all the slide timings and such things. its A LOT of work, but its fun too, imo. then next month i'll start working on doing the actual production side of things *hides* omg i'm so nervous about that.... there's 3 jobs that will be comprised of. one person controlling the 4 cameras, one person as the switcher, and one person as the audio tech. i'm sure it'll be fun once i get the hang of it, but till then i'm just paranoid about screwing up... seeing as these things go out on the internet LIVE for EVERYONE to see. so if i fuck up, it's way public >_<

so now i'm loafing around, with my vision slightly strobe-lighted from a beer (i have decided that the feeling of looking around w/ a strobe-light going -but without being able to pick out the black flashes- is what it feels like to be mildly 'under the influence') and i'm not sure what i'm going to do for the rest of the evening. but whatever it is, it will not require a lot of thought. i'm just happy to be able to be lazy for a while ;)

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Edit: another really happy thing is that there is free food like EVERYWHERE at Cisco. XD whenever there's an all day event we get to smooge food - yesterday was Togo's, today was pizza - and in the break room there is an entire refrigerator (one of the ones like at stores with the clear front) FULL of bottled water, and another one full of all kinds of soda and juice. if you ever get dehydrated at this place, it is your OWN DAMN FAULT. rofl XD
OH, and to top it all off, today i got the pizza on the way back from grabbing one of the firestore's drives, and I ate it at my desk while i was editing (yes, we can eat in front of the computers o_0), so i didn't even have to take off a half our for lunch! XD rofl. sweet beans!