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Just keeping the personal stuff kind of personal for now. I'm always open to making new friends though, so drop me a note if you've friended me :D

Because I can't keep track of everything I've watched/read. I've probably left some stuff off, and I'll be adding to this over time.

Ratings are based on how happy the series made me. They are totally and completely biased.

Idea/layout shamelessly stolen from the wonderful missatralissa



( List )

"Let the Right One In" being remade in the US as "Let Me In".

... why orz

I mean, at least the concept posters seem to stick to the whole atmosphere of the Swedish movie. BUT WHY? It is the most unnecessary remake since... I don't know. "The Departed" or something.

Also, it's a shame that M. Night Shyamalan and crew screwed up with the casting and pissed off all the fans because the "bending" promo shots are actually kind of pretty. Although lol random Earthbender. Still not going to watch the movie though.

I'm bored at work and wasn't smart enough to upload my vacation photos to Photobucket so wheee~ memes

PICK ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AND I WILL TELL YOU:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for OCs or head-canon for FCs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow.
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever).

( Characters )

Jessie and I went through my entire wardrobe and plush animal collection yesterday and ended up with 5 garbage bags of donatable stuff and 1 of just, well, garbage. It feels good to finally get rid of it all and I will be forever grateful to Jessie for making the process easier XD Then, we went with lilorchid1023 to Metrotown to also help lighten the load in my wallet and bank account by buying new things to fill up that empty space orz. BUT! I did get cute new shoes, a strapless summer dress, and a really cute skirt (that nothing in my current wardrobe matches orz) out of it, so I'm satisfied! My mom was unimpressed that I got rid of two garbage bag-fuls of stuffed animals, only to return home with a giant Dug from "Up". BUT IT WAS A TWO FOR ONE SALE AND JESSIE WANTED A GIANT DUG TOO AND AND AND HE'S GREAT FOR CUDDLING ;o;

Otherwise, I am currently restarting on my Battlestar Galactica viewing-binge and trying not to chew my nails off during some of the more intense moments. The beginning of Season 3 may be the high-point of the series, but as of episode 8, Season 4 has just been so interesting to watch unfold and alkdjasglas I just feel like flailing about it and how much I am enjoying it and the different twists that are being thrown in, even if I cannot for the life of me phrase that feeling eloquently XD

ojou!!!!!!!!! I got your letter yesterday (but found it this morning) and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ♥ THANK YOU SO MUCH, MIYA!!! The pictures are awesome and people can pry them from my dead, cold hands XD AND NOW I HAVE YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN REBEL AGAINST YOUR THREATS, WOMAN ♥♥♥

But seriously, the pictures are going up on my wall today, thank you so much ♥

PS: Your handwriting is adorable, shut up :3

~~~

I started resizing/editing photos for an LA picspam yesterday, and I'll probably have to split it up in sections orz. And somehow I have 40-something pictures Knott's Berry Farm, but I only managed 20-something from Disney! Apparently as the days wore on, I got decidedly less trigger-happy XD I meant to post them up last night after dinner at Curtis and Elaine's, my *~married friends~* XD They went all out with their gorgeous new dishes for their first real meal at home, and we broke out my electric fondue for dessert, hurr hurr electric fondue my new love ♥. But Elaine refused to let me go home after dinner, lol

Me: Oh wow, it's like 11:20! I should probably go home...
Elaine: No! Stay! Let's play some WiiSports!
Me: ... 'kay.

Then Curtis and Elaine let me see their disaster-zone bedroom so I could admire their new duvet, and even while she was having trouble not passing out on her bed, she stilll went "No, I'm still listening to you talk! It's just my eyes are closed!" I'm sure Curtis was ready to pass out too, between the stomach pains and nausea he's been dealing with since they got back. I didn't get home until 2am and then woke up at 7am baaaw =_=

But somehow, dinner with them last night made me feel really loved ♥ Also old and all adult-like. The new "WE'RE ENGAGED!" announcement from Murray and Jasmine on Facebook is not helping with that feeling XD

(Speaking of Facebook, it keeps giving me ads for double-eyelid surgery and breast implants. Shut up, Facebook, I am fine with the way I look.)

Didn't feel like throwing up this morning, so I rolled out of bed, took some vitamins and went to work.

Kari: You look better today. You're laughing. But you still look like crap. Just not as bad as yesterday.
Me: ...

DON'T I WORK WITH THE BEST PEOPLE EVER??? XD

Chuck lives!!!

I remembered that my previous cellphone (Daisuke) was a similar model that might use the same battery, so as soon as I got home, I swapped the batteries and it worked!!! YAY SAVING MONEY!! I'm so glad it's not dead ;o;

(Also, clearly I should name more of my electronics after characters that die and come back to life again XD)

So hurrah, back in Canada! I'll probably do lots of pic-spamming sometime this week because Disneyland is still my one true love~♥ and I had a fantastic time with everyone X3

ETA:



This video is so adorable X3

Apparently I am starting a new tradition of any electronic thing I name dying a horrible death: my Momo SD card killed all my DS games, the cellphone I called Daisuke got run over three times by my car... well, at least my IPod - Kizna - is still alive .__.

So I named the new cellphone I got for myself, Chuck.

( it was a cute cellphone ;o; )

It got a little wet from either water bottle leakage or Splash Mountain waves or both, but either way it worked fine for two days before I went to recharge it and then found it DEAD in the morning ;o;

Unfortunately, all my phone numbers were on that phone so lol

Basically, IF I SHOULD HAVE YOUR NUMBER/YOU DON'T MIND ME HAVING YOUR NUMBER, PLEASE COMMENT HERE WITH IT?! I would be super grateful ;A;

Oh, and all comments will be screened, so don't worry!

... okay well, Disneyland isn't until Thursday. BUT STILL. Eeyoooooreeee ♥

Freedom for a week \o/ I'm calling it my honeymoon, I don't care if that doesn't make sense XD

Cheers ♥

I uh... feel kind of bad gleeing when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett have both passed away today. So... that's really sad news.


OKAY BUT.

Right now while I was driving home, I saw the pink "PSYCH" signs up around my neighbourhood again!

PSYCH!!!!!!

I... actually tried to follow the arrows for awhile, but then the trail ended and I had no idea where to go.

PSYCH ;o;

But now that I know that they're filming again, I'm going to have to keep my eye out for them X3


ETA: ... although thinking back on my last run-in with Psych, maybe it's a good thing I didn't find the production orz

( After a two week long hiatus from BSG due to real life stuff... )

And even though Yi promised to be online for me to flail at SHE'S NOT ANSWERING MY TEXTS, DAMMIT YI ;o;





... in other news, I'm getting tired of being mistaken for a 16 year-old, so I have started piecing together a whole new wardrobe with the help of my friends today. IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT OF MONEY, but I think it's necessary and even my mom (who is kind of a thrifty person) is going "GOOD! IT'S ABOUT TIME!"

Sob my bank account ;o;

.... oh Korea.

Yesterday, the Laney to my Jocy, the Linty to my Jocky, my Ah-di-di-poo-poo and BBF got married.

It was a really great day.

(Except for when poor Heather got stung by a bee while we were taking photos at UBC).

I nearly cried when Elaine started walking down the aisle. In fact I nearly cried during the entire first half of the ceremony.

I would've it made it through if the pastor (her new father-in-law) hadn't gotten a little choked-up at the end.

It was beautiful. They were beautiful.

I'm just so glad.





... and unfortunately you guys are not free from my photo-spams yet because I worked hard on this wedding. BUT FEEL FREE TO SKIP OVER THEM, I WON'T BE OFFENDED AT ALL XDDDDD



Having said that.

LA/DISNEYLAND/KNOTT'S BERRY FARM/ANIME EXPO/GAISCE'S READING COLLECTION: HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!

1) RIDING A TANDEM BIKE IS HARD!!!!!!! Adrian and I assumed it would be easy, but we thought we'd try it out before I took Jessie (Adrian's girlfriend) around the Seawall with us on a tandem. So. It was a really good thing we did this, because after we made overly confident plans about going around the Seawall and then continuing down Beach Avenue around False Creek, we failed. Hard. It took us three failed attempts to NOT DIE or RUN OVER PEOPLE AND THEIR TINY DOGS before we managed to get a rhythm going. And then the first ten minutes of the ride was us going "OH MY GOD WE'RE GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!" or me screeching "BRAKES! BRAKES!!!" in the back, because you have no control over anything from the back and are pretty much extra dead weight. But we made it around the Seawall twice and switched places too so \o/

2) UP!!! UP!!! OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE ♥♥♥

It was amazing and everyone should go see it. Though maybe not in the first row with 3D glasses after having snuck into the theatre with the help of your friend because they didn't think they needed to buy you a ticket and that particular showing sold out right as you were getting to the ticket machine >.>

The short that came with it was pretty amazing too.

Pixar ♥

3) .... I still have not managed to touch either of my cosplays this week. orz.

I don't remember how I stumbled across this blog, but I started bawling my eyes out.

And then my university chose that opportune time and called all "HEY, YOU'RE AN ALUMNI, GIVE US MONEY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATES AT UBC BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT CUT US OFF!"

And I kind of wanted to get off the phone ASAP because I was still all "baaaaw" and this girl was very nice but kind of annoying, sayhing things like "I see you majored in Animal Biology, does that mean you want to be a veter... veterai... vertri..." The word is "veterinarian"!

So. I committed myself to paying the money after stuttering something about trying to save up for further schooling myself.

$180.

Sob.

Not that I'm super-great at turning down organizations asking for money anyway. BUT STILL.

I blame the raging headache too .__.

Stupid UBC still finding ways to take my money.

I was going to go to sleep super-early in preparation for trying to bike to work without collapsing, but that plan was thwarted by the shiny prospect of watching an episode Battlestar Galactica.

An episode that sucked.

And on top of the sucking, it centred on one of my favourite characters too! ... although I'm undecided on whether or not he's one of my favourites because I love his big heart despite his not-too-bright status, or just because he's ripped and built like a wall and is Tahmoh Penikett and Tahmoh Penikett is kind of sexy.

... let's go with the former reasoning.

( BSG 3x14 )

First, a thought from the weekend: Star Trek was one sexy movie.

Okay. Moving on.

I weighed myself today for the first time in awhile and... I gained a couple of pounds! Which isn't the end of the world or anything since I've always been kind of underweight. But! It made me realize just how much time I spend sitting down and eating food and uh.. not exercising. Ever. That's not really a good thing and is totally going to bite me in the ass one day. Besides, I vaguely remember a time when I could at least jog for 30 minutes straight, and now I'd be lucky if I could do five. I used to be able to play ultimate on the beach for over thirty minutes! ... o-only to almost pass out because I hadn't had enough water BUT THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT. I want to be fit again ;o; Also I have to wear this costume and this dress in about... a month. This is kind of terrifying to me .___.

So! I am going to bike to work from now on! (... when the weather is nice, I mean. Vancouver is prone to raining a lot and I don't really want to develop a cold every other week.) This isn't a huge thing since I live about 9 minutes from work by car, but that stretch of UBC highway is pretty long and I usually go about 90 km/h down it, so I'm thinking it'll take me at least 30-40 minutes of biking to get in to work. Probably more, with the shape I'm in now orz



Worst-case scenario: I will have my cellphone on me and I can call in to my manager going "I'M MORE OUT OF SHAPE THAN I THOUGHT, TAKE SOME TIME OUT OF MY OVERTIME BANK T____T"