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Wednesday we started our tradition of going to Sonics everyday. Their Limeades are so good, and I ended up trying every flavor. They also have very good corn dogs.

We spent most of the day at the mall, because I needed to buy a rave outfit for Friday. So we shopped our little hearts out at Wichita’s only airport. I thought it was hilarious how much empty parking they had. If they ever saw the parking for the Alderwood Mall they would shit their pants.

Anywho, I met Cissa, and she was pretty cool. She joined us in our shopping venture and I got most of my outfit at the mall.

We also went to a pet store called Pet Palace. They let you hold the animals there to make them friendly. This black guy (or as Cissa calls them, Canadians) helped us with all the animals. He sort of followed us around, and when Morgan asked to see a Charanchula, he pulled out a Rose Hair. It was so sweet, and it felt like little pipe cleaner’s were moving on your palm as it walked. Morgan really wanted it, but the spider was like $30, and the cage was like $75, and that didn’t even include all the bedding and other shit. So then the guys says, “What if I can get you out the door for less than $100?”

Morgan was still reluctant, but then the guy whips out his iphone and calculates everything up, and says he can get her everything for about $70. Morgan thought that he only wanted the commission, but then he says that we’d have to come back on Friday, since he’d have to use his employee discount to get it that cheap. He then pulls out his card with his cell phone number, and tells Morgan to call him if she is interested, and we could then meet for Friday. Then slyly (or should I say obviously) he slips in that he also happens to be a photographer (his business card) and that he “likes Morgan’s look.”

Morgan sort of raises her eyebrows and asks to see samples of his “work.” So he pulls up his portfolio on his iphone and luckily they weren’t a bunch of porn shots, but legitimate photography, although Cissa and I made a bunch of jokes about him luring her to his “studio” and pulling out a Polaroid camera and asking for “payment” for the spider. LOL

After agreeing to meet on Friday, we went to go eat.

We ate at Sumo’s that night (more sushi) and the bartender flirted heavily with Morgan. It was pretty entertaining. We also somehow convinced him that Cissa was twelve… While the food was good, I came to the conclusion that Kansas just doesn’t have as good of sushi as back home.

Afterwards, we met Morgan’s friends at the Alley (a sort of bowling/random activity place). The group consisted of: Me, Morgan, Cissa, Brian, Mathew, Emma, Ramsey, Some other dude, and some other chick. We loitered outside the Alley for a while (under a sign that said no loitering) and just fooled around. Eventually we decided to drive over to a Wendy’s for some food/desserts.

I ended up in Emma’s car were her and Brian. They are so hilarious together, like a comedy duo. I listened to an entire fake fight about how Emma wouldn’t make Brian ham sandwiches while he watched the game, because she was too busy texting in the kitchen.

Emma by the way…is a major space cadet. I’ve never seen someone so blond before in my life, and ever crazy word out of her mouth was another bit of entertainment for the rest of us.

Anyway, at some point Cissa went home, and we all ended up at Wendy’s. We got food and ended up eating in the back of Ramsey’s truck. I started to warm up to everyone and we were all chatting when Brian said, “No offense, but I sort of thought you would be a clone of Morgan. But you are actually nice. You know, if call not goosing someone nice.”

Morgan made a sort of disbelieving snorting sound and internally I laughed my ass off. Of course I’m just the most angelic person ever…

After we finished eating, we decided to walk to Wal-Mart so we could play hide and seek. But I actually ended up buying shoes for my rave outfit, and string/beads for my rave candy. Then we all sort of wandered around the store (mind this was at like two in the morning) and just looked at stuff. The workers there however, thought we were going to start randomly vandalizing the store or something, because they were blatantly following us around and clustering at the ends of aisles to stare at us. We weren’t even being that loud, and it wasn’t like we were breaking stuff. It wasn’t like we could steal a bunch of stuff in our shorty-shorts.

Anyway, we ended up leaving Wal-Mart and returned to Ramsey’s truck. Then after we were kicked out of the parking lot, we all went to Emma’s house.

There we played hide and seek tag in her huge backyard. It was super dark and I was sort of afraid to hide too deeply into her bushes. I didn’t want spiders to come on me. So we played that for an hour or so before some people ended up leaving. By about five/six in the morning it was only Emma, Ramsey, Morgan, and myself left. We all talked for a while and then decided to get some breakfast and go to the park to watch the sun rise.

So with some McDonald’s we sat on a hill and watched the sun rise. It was really pretty but I think I burnt out my eyes a little.

Finally, we all parted ways and Morgan and I went home to shower and change. After showering we of course ended up passing out and we didn’t wake up until about three in the afternoon.

Morgan had to work at Papa John’s at four, so I spent the rest of my day making rave candy on their deck. It was really warm and breezy so it was pretty enjoyable.

Later that night, after Morgan got off of work, we went out driving around Old town (down town Wichita) and the KSU campus. We took tons of random pictures and I met my second (third?) hubby: Bending Over Man. He is a super hotty. Morgan met Standing Paddle Man.

http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/corripera/Kansas%20trip%2009/?action=view¤t=DSCF1735.jpg

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I saw the first Pizza Hut ever and a few other cool places.

Finally we returned to her house at like three in the morning and laid on the dock to their little lake/drainage pond and stared at the stars for a bit. It was really pretty and besides the bugs (which really love me for some reason) it was relaxing.

When we went back inside, Morgan hopped on Facebook and started some mischief. There is this cross-dressing asshole named Stephen and apparently he is super hypocritical and arrogant. He is into waiting until marriage for sex, and him and his girlfriend look down on everyone (including Morgan) and act all high and mighty. Obviously he thinks cross dressing is perfectly peachy but everything else is a sin or some shit. Anyway, Morgan gets his password to face book/his e-mail from Mathew and….

She changes his password to both his e-mail and Facebook so Stephen can’t get in, and then gets pics of him as a girl off his e-mail and posts them on his Facebook for everyone to see. She also changes a bunch of shit on his Facebook. IT was super hilarious in a “Karma is going to kick my ass later for this” kind of way. Everyone pretty much already knew he was a cross dresser though, so we weren’t really outing him, and he did deserve it. So yeah, it was funny.

Not five minutes later everyone and their mom is calling Morgan to talk about it, and ask if she was the hacker. We denied everything. (of course Morgan later revealed herself as the culprit when we were with Ashley. She sucks at keeping to a story…)

So then we went to sleep and didn’t wake up until super late the next day.
 
 
corripera
16 April 2009 @ 11:16 pm
CHAPTER 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally fucking made it to chapter 10!! No more chapter 9. Its gone.

G.O.N.E

I'm not a complete loser who can't finish a chapter!
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corripera
13 March 2009 @ 11:28 am
I’m fresh out of Fiction Writing class and boy do I have a story to tell you.

So I got to class a few minutes late and saw that there was this older lady sitting in the back. Since we sometimes have people come from my teacher’s other classes to watch, I assumed she was an invited guest.

So then we were critiquing this girl’s story, and the lady is all like, “I want to know who the author is.” To which my teacher kindly replies that we don’t reveal who the author is until the end of the review. Then she says, “I came from the bad class by professor (something), and she uses Tepid in this story and that already means warm so having ‘ed’ is redundant. I’d like to know who this author is.”

To which we are all whispering to each other under our breath because NO ONE has any idea who this lady is.

So then we try to the continue the discussion as normal and my friend starts talking about how the story reminds her of a book she has read.

Then the lady says, “Speaking of authors…” and goes into the crazy rant of a lifetime which I couldn’t possibly quote properly.

So here is the gist of it: Her Attorney is trying to sue this Higgins guy from New York because he wrote a book that killed him (the attorney?) and now this lady has a beef with this author guy names Higgins. And did she mention that she is the alumni of death?

“And what does this have to do with the story,” my teacher asks.

And so she goes into an even bigger rant about how she is an alumni (of death) and a poet and how the author spells tepid incorrectly (which she didn’t) and how everyone should be careful of this Higgens from New York.

So my teacher kindly asks for her name, which turns out to be Cynthia (something) (although who knows if that was her real name) and he tells her since she isn’t on the roster she needs to leave. Then she says she can be there if she wants and that it is her right.

So then my teacher calmly calls security over the phone. (Apparently this woman also has a beef with the police)

She then gets up in a huff and tells us that as long as we remember what she said about Higgins that she has told us her message, and leaves.

OH BOY, what a crazy.

As soon as the door shut behind her our class erupted with laughter. It was so hilarious, and of course everyone thought it would have made a great book.

So…life really is better than fiction.
 
 
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corripera
19 February 2009 @ 11:17 pm
So my day has been...odd. I'm not sure if it has been good or bad or what.

So first thing in the morning I get up and notice that Marlow hasn't moved like he usually does during the night...so I poked him, and he was stiff. >.< I seriously wanted to cry. I have no idea what killed him. It could be the difficulties I've been having keeping his tank at a high enough temperature or the plant in his cage that I'm not sure of its toxicity. But seriously...he was fine this whole time and then suddenly he was dead! I feel horrible now and unless I can remedy both problems so I'm sure everything is 100%, I don' think I'll be getting another frog. T.T

So then I went to school and endured my bleh classes. Although in my career planning class I got to surf this awesome site where it shows you a career and then salary amounts for different counties in Washington as well as education needed, job openings right now, and job tasks. Strangely the careers that I liked the most were weird ones like a funeral directors assistant, librarian, forester, ect.

Also, in my writing class we were reviewing this story and written by a chick in our class and it was AMAZING. The writing style, characters, plot, it was all GREAT. I was totally fangirling over it!

So then I got out ate my lunch and called into work, but was told that this week was, "as slow as snot," so I didn't need to come in. I then got invited to hang out with my friend while she practiced piano.

I love classical music and she was pretty kick ass at it so it was fun...but we did spend most of the time talking so I hope I didn't hinder her practice too much.

Anywho, then I went home and started sewing on my Undertaker costume. That wasn't too hard but I'm still not finished. Then once my dad came home we went out thrift store hopping (mostly I wanted to go to this one that closes at five.) The first one was cool and I found a red angora cardigan for like $3 and some lace for my lolita overskirts. At the second store I found a brand new pair of cute black mary janes for like $6.

I was very pleased.

But then I did my taxes when I got home...and let's just say there is no reason to celebrate. It wasn't worth my time to file for what I'll be getting back...oh well.

SO, knowing that I have limited funds (because I'm trying not to spend any of my money reserved for Spring quarter books or my kansas tickets) I bought a new phone. I mean, I did super glue the antenna back onto my old phone and I can work around the failing battery for now...but I don't think it will last. So alas, I caved and ordered a new one.

So, I have no clue whether today was "good" or "bad" but I'm still enjoying myself and planning some shopping excursions to boutiques this weekend. (Pretty Parlor here I come!!!)
 
 
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corripera
This comes in the midst of my work week of hell. I got off of work last night at nine and was so tired I didn’t do a school essay that was do today…so here I am awake at four in the morning so I can write it.

Just thought I should throw in something very encouraging I learned this morning. During this week I’ve probably eaten 2500-3000 calories a day with the amount of pizza and other such food (donuts) I’ve been downing at work to keep me alive. Last Friday I measured my waist for a Lolita skirt. This morning I measured again…

I’ve lost five inches.

I guess work isn’t too bad. J

And if I work another shift on Friday, I might go over 40 hrs and get time and a half!!
 
 
corripera
02 February 2009 @ 08:49 pm
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corripera
02 February 2009 @ 08:40 pm
So next week I will be turned into a slave...or since I will be paid...maybe more like an indentured servant?

Anywho I'll be working everyday Sunday through Thursday until probably as late as nine each night. The money will be great but I'll be ready to drop by the end of it. On Friday I plan to just skip school and sleep in. But after that paycheck I think I'll have enough for my ticket to Kansas.

But to cheer things up a bit I should mention that I got myself a froggy! I adopted him from Petco and his name is Marlow (after the main character in Heart of Darkness). He is sooooo adorable and I made an entire terrarium for him. It has some really pretty plants in it, moss, a log, and a little pond/water dish.

Well I am exhausted (I worked late today) so I think I'll just entertain myself with working on my Undertaker outfit. I want to finish it by the 28th for Gasukan...but there is still so much sewing to get done. -.-

But it is official, Valentine's Day is the SUCKIEST holiday EVER!
 
 
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corripera
23 January 2009 @ 01:03 pm
My times haven't been very good recently. The last couple of weeks my stomach has been rather temperamental, and would get upset easily after I ate anything. But still...I'm a busy girl so I pretty much ignored it.

Then this Tuesday I took a ferry over to Whidbey with Liz for attend Leona's B-day party. I felt perfectly fine most of the way, but on the bus over to her house I started to feel a little sick. (Before getting on the ferry I had some clam strips at Ivars). Again, I ignored it because who wants to ruin the fun?

Leona's place is amazing. Not her house per se because they have two single wide mobile homes, but they do keep them clean and orderly so I still like it. No, their land is what is so cool. They have two full sized horses, and a mini one. They also have chickens. And inside they have two cockatiels.

She has two dogs, one indoor, and one outdoor. The outdoor doggy is a husky/wolf mix and he is huge with super thick fur. Also, they own a ton of cats, but they are all well fed and taken care of. I feel in love with a burly black one named Hannibal who was really a sweety.

OH! And they had a ferret named Nemo, but we called him critter the whole time. HE WAS ADORABLE! They could just leave the cage door open and he would run around (neither the cats nor the dog paid him much mind) and he would go back in when he needed to use his litter box. He was so sweet and cute and it REALLY made me want a ferret.

Anywho...

So they had some buffet platter thingys on their counter so later as we got hungry me and liz started picking at the food. Closer to five Leona's friends from Bellingham arrived and they were pretty cool and enjoyed many of the same fandoms as me (the exception being Kingdom hearts *puke*) and revealed they would even have their own Kuroshitsuji group on Saturday of Sakura con with an undertaker (must make my costume better!).

Still...not too long after they arrived my tummy got worse. And worse...so that when we got around to playing twister I was just lying on the couch cursing my fate.

So later we ended up catching the 9:30 ferry and my dad picked us up at the dock. By then I felt SUPER yucky. I got home and didn't even have the heart to check my e-mail which is saying something since I'm an internet fiend.

I went to bed early figuring that I would feel better in the morning. WRONG!

And so I've been feeling disgusting for the rest of the week. I missed two days of work, three days of school, and a major test (which the teacher said I could make up on Tues). I went to the doctor yesterday and she thinks I might have a bacterial infection in my stomach. So...while I wait for my blood work, I'm on Prilosec OTC to help reduce the stomach acid in my stomach so I can actually eat. (the first day I didn't eat at all but some mac and chese, and yester I had a bagel, part of a muffin, and some soup!)

So I'm feeling a tad better today and I'm hoping this Prilosec shit will help me because I'm really hungry. :(

God, please by monday let me be in tip top shape. I really need to get back to work and hopefully my boss isn't too pissed at me...
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corripera
27 November 2008 @ 01:54 pm
Ok, so I was working like a dog all week (I can’t wait for my check on the first), so I didn’t get a chance to make an entry about Gasukan. (Let’s ignore the fact that I never made one about Aki con… or not.)

Aki con 08:

So this was its first year and it was in Everett, my home town. I just got a ride over there after school. The first day I didn’t dress up at all. During the three days I was there, I ran into Vic Mignogna like a hundred times. He was nice…in the, ‘I like you if you’re a fan girl,’ kind of way. Honestly he didn’t seem that cool to me. I much more preferred Chuck Huber, who was the voice actor of Hiei. I had a conversation with him while Vic was on his iPhone and that guy was super cool.

Anyway, Krystal, Amanda, and Lin all came along with Amanda’s mom. She was the most amazing mom and together we took fifty pictures of everything. On Friday we didn’t hang out as much since they came later but it was still love.

Most of Friday my camera was breaking so I was sleeping in a side hallway by an outlet so it could NOT charge. Bleh. I’m done with the thing. So…I stole my dad’s camera for the next two days.

Saturday was FANTASTIC. We all dress YnM and it was my first time trying my new Watari wig. The hair tie didn’t work right at first (but the problem was remedied for Gasukan). We also ran into a whole other YnM group with a Tatsumi, Wakaba, and Terazuma. Later we also got another Muraki, and she was so fucking scary. There is no way to describe…

So Saturday was long and great and I even did a skit on stage with Hisoka and Tsuzuki.

I got home that night at like two in the morning (after a failed Yaoi panel--I swear I’ll just run one myself some day so it won’t suck) and went to bed at a little after three.

Sunday I didn’t dress up again, and the rest of gang dressed up as Kingdom Hearts and Loveless. So…I took more pics. I vegged most of the time and we made insane jokes like…

BRIIIIIEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!1!!!!!11111!!!!

Don’t ask.


Gasukan:

So this was my first month going to Gasukan, but since I promised to go during Aki con… I dressed as Watari because I heard Krystal would be dressing as…TATSUMI!!!!!!!!

I was super excited and then I found out Lin was going as Tsuzuki. Talk about insane because she just can’t hide her creepiness properly to cosplay him. It was like Tsuzuki possessed by Sagatanas.

We spent lots of time making random pairings and crack and got tons of Tatari pics. I was sooooo happy. Then we hooked up with another group and ended up taking a bus somewhere else to get some teriyaki. It was pretty good and we acted like dorks in the restaurant (sorry other people that were there to witness it). Then we got ice cream and took a bus back.

So much fun was to be had.

I’ll even through the photo links for aki con and Gasukan at the end of this entry. Enjoy.

Aki con:

http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/corripera/Aki%20con%2008/

Gasukan:

http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/corripera/Gasukan%20Nov%2008/

Have a happy Turkey Day!!
 
 
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corripera
23 October 2008 @ 08:04 am
So, I’m lazy and have put this off for two weeks.

I went on a trip to Mount St. Helens with my geology class. That actually means we went tons of places AROUND Mount St. Helens.

The best places we went were Ape caves and the actual Mount St. Helens center three miles from the mountain. The visitor center had the best view ever. I hiked up to the viewing platform and it was so gorgeous that I wanted to cry. The wind was really strong and cold though, like one of those toothpaste commercials. I took TONS of pics and also some crazy videos.

Ape caves was cool because it was a lava tub about two miles long. There is no lighting, so you can only use a flashlight to follow where your feet are going. I found out that obviously being in a small completely dark space does not bother me in the least. I had my fun making jokes from the movie The Descent.

We went to a couple other hiking spots which were nice. I must have ended up walking miles by the end of the weekend. One of the places had really dangerous trails on the edges of cliffs and stuff but I liked it. I kept going into prohibited areas so I could take good pictures.

The worst place we went was this forest where the lava was too cold to burn the trees so it just hardened around them. When the trees died it left tree holes. So you can crawl through some of these…and since I felt like I would regret it if I didn’t, I crawled through one. The hole is only the size of a tree or of a person on their hands and knees. It hurt so bad crawling through it, and there was a little drop inside (it is pitch black there without ANY flashlights) and I almost smashed into my face. When I got out I was really grumpy.

The irony of it is that even through I was in all these dangerous situations that I could be hurt in, I never got seriously injured. Then I come home late on Sunday and took a shower…and drop a full Cosco size bottle of conditioner on my foot and hurt myself. God has a bad sense of humor.

But OMG I was so fucking tired. I had a bad week of sleep, got even less during that weekend, and had to endure another school week worth of bad sleep. It wasn’t fun.

Being stuck on a charter bus full of bimbo girls ( “Oh my god, like, do you have service? Do you have service now? How about now? I think I got a bar…oh wait, it went away! I want to text!”) and stupid teenage boys was hell.

So glad to be home…

http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/corripera/Mount%20St%20Helens%20trip/

I look so bleh in my pic after I came out of the tree hole. LOL
 
 
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corripera
31 July 2008 @ 06:19 pm
So after staying up to oh, say 3:30 in the morning, I woke up at 7:00 to go to my school orientation. I forgot to eat breakfast, and I was in an iffy mood.

First we took our compass test. I ran into Sara and her sister, so I sat with them. The test was like a short version of the SAT, and since I was so tired, just as boring. After we finished, we turned them in to be scored, and left for the lunch. I had no money, and thought I would be starved, but Sara spotted me for a cup of clam chowder. Until 1:00 we talked about dirty things.

Then there was a very LONG and DRY power point that lasted an hour, and I swear, answered none of my questions.

Finally, they gave us our test scores. I placed really well in reading and writing, and a little lower in math. Compared to some of the scores around me…I am a genius. They said I would place in math 099 which is algebra II with Trig, but I already have credits for pre-calculus and calculus I and II, which come right after.

Then I waited in line for and HOUR so I could talk to this advisor lady. Meanwhile I made a new friend named Jessica. She was cool and we both want to be English teachers. We talked forever and it helped pass the time.

When my turn came the lady helped me see what classes were still open. The original English/psychology combo I’d wanted was full, but the English/geology combo I’d liked second was wide open. I also got a Japanese history class. All in all, a great schedule.

To figure out the whole math credit thing, I was told to go to the Rainier building and see Cathy so I could talk to a math teacher. I did that and ended up talking to some dude on her office phone. He said I was clear for the class, and that I had enough math that I didn’t need anymore for my degree. Woohoo.

I left the college at 4:30, and was ready to eat and ox.

This is the bad part…I have a scholarship which covers $800.00 a semester. My bill was over $1000.00. So…I have to come up with a way to cover the rest, not to mention what I’ll need for books.

Tomorrow I think I’ll call FASFA and see what I can do. Man, being poor is a drag!

P.S. On a better note, I found some sculpty (blah, I know) on sale, so I can make those statues.
 
 
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corripera
02 June 2008 @ 05:46 pm

Seven days…OF HELL!

So if I can survive seven more days of hell, then I will officially be done with my high school career. Not so much a ‘career’ but a slow suffering that drained me of all life. Soon, I will be free! If I can endure seven more days of this grueling existence where all I can think about is what homework I have, and if my 4.0 is in jeopardy, then it will all be over. Sadly, eight days is harder than it sounds, because I am in the midst of crappy finals. Since I do need to worry about my 4.0 being threatened, then I can’t relax for even a second. These finals could be my ruin!!

So god, or any other positive karma/entity that wishes to bestow some luck towards me, please help! Help me through this, and I will be forever grateful!

On a less fanatical note, Morgan will be coming sideways for my graduation. That is a trip from Kansas to Washington. Only a true friend would go so far to see a graduation. I am so excited! I can’t wait! It is like the light at the end of the tunnel.

In August, Kumori-con will finally arrive! I will be dressing as Watari (meaning I will be dying my hair blonde). We are getting a whole Yami no Matsuei group together. We have all the main characters already, and now we are beginning to collect shikigami!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YnM is only my most FAVORITE anime EVER!!!!! Although this hobby is expensive, it is so worth it.

Lastly, I should mention that I am currently typing on my BRAND NEW SPANKIN’ LAPTOP!!!!! Oh, yeah, baby!

So I finally got enough money to purchase a laptop on Saturday. My uncle gave me $500, and my Aunt gave me $100, so combine with the money I already had in savings, I had enough. So we start going to different stores to look at them, but I am a very picky person. There has only ever been two laptops that I have seen and liked. One was an Acer, and another was a Toshiba. The Acer was sold out, and the Toshiba (13.3 satellite) is usually too expensive. Disappointed in the selection, I was ready to give up. I went to Circuit city, and saw the Toshiba there for $749 on sale. Circuit City is going out of business, so that is why it was so cheep. Normally the Toshiba 13.3 satellite is closer to $1000 because of its small size.

Still, with tax, it was too expensive to buy it there. So I next went to Office Depot. It was right at closing, so it was purely on a whim that we went in. So there they were having a sale too. Then I see it, MY Toshiba waiting for me. The shelf model was the last computer of its kind in stock, so it was on sale even more. They wanted $700. I call the sales man over, and ask if any more sales apply. He tells me that they are already losing money on it at that price. So from here I kind of pulled it out of my ass. The displayed laptop was slightly scratched on the sides from the display holder, so I say, “I could go to Circuit City and buy a non-scratched one for cheaper (a lie).

The guy calls his manager, and we got another discount!! I got my expensive dream laptop for only $649! Life is good!

Haha so call me bipolar, but life just keeps swinging between great and horrible.

 
 
 
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corripera
16 April 2008 @ 09:40 pm

I don't know if it is the new layout of my room...if I'm messing with some sort of Feng Shui laws or something...but I can't seem to focus whenever I'm on my computer. I want to type. Whenever I'm anywhere else, I can feel the urge, and I just can't wait to get in front of a keyboard...but then when I get on my computer...NOTHING.

I don't know what it is! Bad vibes? My muse is afraid of electronics now? WHY?!?!?

I NEED to write. It is a very important part of my life, and I feel miserably not doing it, but I just can't get anything to come out.

Maybe I need to rearrange again? It was a pain in the butt the first time (and the old way is pretty much the only other option).

What I really want...is a laptop. Then I could type everywhere, and I wouldn't be as distracted by this crappy location. Alas, I have to wait until I get enough graduation money to buy one...

 
 
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corripera
05 April 2008 @ 01:12 pm

I have FINALLY finished editing the TsuSoka photos I took on Sunday. They are love, and I am so grateful to that Hisoka and Tsuzuki for being there to brighten my con experience.

Anywho, I’m posting a link just for the record, to my photo bucket. When I get around to it, I’ll post a link to the rest of the con photos.

 

http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g94/corripera/TsuSoka%20Sakura%20con%202008/
 
 
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corripera
05 April 2008 @ 12:29 am
 


Even though I am sick, today I decided to learn how to make sushi.

I went out to this store called Daiso, and I bought all the stuff I needed. Everything was only $1.50 each. It was super cheap and that made me happy. I even bought an adorable bento box.

Anywho, I made some Cucumber maki (I think) and that is the sushi rolls with the cucumber on the inside. I also made California styled rolls (rice on the inside of the roll) with crab inside. I made some with crab sitting on top of the rice with a nori strip around the middle, and some small onigiri (rice balls). Over all everything worked out, but I still need to get the hang of things. Next time they might come out a bit more pretty and clean looking.

I definitely want to start making bentos!

 
 
corripera
04 April 2008 @ 01:59 am

So I am completely useless at keeping these things.

Tons of stuff has happened, and I feel too lazy to talk about it. I’ll try anyway.

Pretty much I’m on spring break, which is much less fun than you’d think. Being stuck at home with my mother isn’t exactly the epitome of a good time. However, this last weekend, I did get a reprieve. From Thursday through Sunday, I was in full out con mode. Sakura-con descended upon me, and I couldn’t be more grateful.

I stayed at a friends house during this time, with some of my other friends who would be coming with as a huge group. Luckily I even had money, so I was pretty excited. I didn’t dress up for this con, but instead wore T-shirts. Still, I got plenty of attention, and even some photos! On Friday I wore one that said, “Orgasm Donor”, on Saturday I wore my Yaoi shirt, and on Sunday I wore my Watari shirt. The orgasm shirt got the most attention, and everyone loved it. The Yaoi shirt got me some beautiful pictures…it was like advertisement. My Watari shirt got some complements because of the art I drew on it.

As everyone should know, I’m a picture whore. That means I got over 300 pics last weekend. We met tons of cool people, including a Kingdom Hearts group, someone dressed as K, and some other peeps that will be mentions shortly. I just couldn’t stop taking pictures, and it took up a good portion of my con time.

On top of that, I did some major shopping. So there was a booth there with a guy from Yaoi-con. It was fantastic. It is always hard to find KKM or YnM merchandise, but there they had these bens you could rummage through, and I found some great finds. He would add more to the boxes as they emptied, so I just kept going back. Every time I came back, especially if I brought people with me, he would give me pocky. By the end of the con, he knew me, and had given me the equivalent of like thee boxes of pocky. It was great.

Here are the things I bought: A purse with a kitty on it, a Wolfram plushie, a seme/searching for uke necklace, a Godchild set of key chains and cards, a Yuuri keychain, a Wolfram keychain, a Yuuri pin, two Wolfram pins, a got yaoi keychain, a Yuuri/Morgif phone strap, a mouse phone strap, five gazillion yaoi themed pins, a YnM file folder, and a Hisoka stationary set.

So I was a happy customer because I found everything relatively cheep and obviously this way I didn’t have to pay shipping.

Now for the biggest cosplayer finds of the con…

On Friday I found a Wolfram and Yuuri. We went on Thursday to pick up our pre-reg badges, and as we are walking to the room, I saw some blonde hair. We were super far away, but I swear I have Wolfram radar. I freeze and ask my fiend Liz, “Do you see what I see?” When I get a clearer look, I suddenly loose my breath. I just grabbed Liz by the shoulders and moved her sideways so she was in the right line of sight, and pointed. After that it could be summed up in fan girlish squeals and me running at warp speed to stop the happy couple. So of course I get a picture (but it was kind of too busy to ask for more shots). But the best part is, that as they are walking away, Wolfram grabs Yuuri’s hand and says, “Come on Wimp.” I swear my fan girl side just swooned.

So my Wolfram radar just wouldn’t quit. Anytime we were even in the same room, I would instantly pick her out. But for some reason, her Yuuri was missing like the whole day. Finally I went up to her and asked, and she said that he/she was off looking at something. I told her that I was a big fan, and she told me that if I could catch them together, she’d give me some fan service. Lets just say folks…I found them ‘later.’ I got three more pics, but they didn’t turn out as nice as I would have liked. I’m happy non the less.

Now for the real spaz fest…Sunday…

So get this, I’m wearing ONLY my Watari T-shirt, and it is like in freezing temperatures, and we are out in the cosplay garden (It actually snowed on Satuday night, and we had to miss the rave). So there I am shivering, and suddenly my friend goes, “Is that Hisoka?”

“WHERE?!?!?”

I turned, and I ran. Not a second could have gone by during the entire exchange. Now not only did I find myself a Hisoka (and an adorable one at that), but she had a Tsuzuki as well!!! (I think my fan girl side had a hard attack and made me moronically crazy after that).

Anywho, our group (who was dressed as gravitation people that day) made friends with them. For the rest of the day I was like paparazzi. I just couldn’t stop taking pictures! Any time they did anything remotely cute, I would be snapping a photo. I think I got like 130 of just them. They were just too cute, and I was soooooo happy to have found them. By the way, I will be posting these photos when I’m done editing them all!

So as Sunday drew to a close, and Sakura-con 2008 ended…I was a very happy woman.

Not to dampen all the happiness I just dumped…but for the whole week following (including now) I have been sick with a bastard cold. That means like NOTHING has gotten done, even though this is my spring break and I should be getting SOMETHING done. What a waste of time.

…Still, I did finally finish the bridge/teaser/prologue for Antumbra. And I’m learning how to make sushi…so I guess that counts as something.

Now I would say tomorrow, but since it is like 2:30 in the morning, technically it is today. April 4th is my B-day!!!! Woohoo! I’ll be eighteen now which is…pretty much no big frickin deal…

Oh well, it is good to finally be aloud in porn shops I guess…LOL

That is all folks…let me get some sleep now.

 
 
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Current Mood: sick
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corripera
16 March 2008 @ 01:53 am
 

So it is nearing two in the morning, and yet I still can’t get past my writer’s block. Today has been kind of crappy for me. Yester I forgot to take some of my medication, and I forgot a different prescription this morning. In all it equaled me feeling like shit and being sort of dazed all day. This all while we are trying to celebrate my mom’s 50th birthday.

We also visited my art teacher’s gallery showing, and he is just amazing with pastel. Of course it made me get that little nostalgic niggle that usually results in me wanting to just dive back into art and crank out a few pieces of work. However I don’t know. There is so much other crap going on right now, and it isn’t really one of my top priorities. Besides, I still have a lot of doubts about myself when it comes to that sort of thing. I know I’m really good, but I still don’t feel comfortable with selling anything.

Anyway, I have been trying to work on the bridge chapter (teaser/prologue for the sequel) of The “Sun Will Rise.” Sadly, I have to write Tatsumi dialogue and for some reason he hates me right now. I can’t seem to get anywhere, and I’m really annoyed with my lack of progress. I want to get to the sequel because I know so much cool stuff will happen, but my brain just isn’t cooperating.

NEWS: The title for the sequel to “The Sun Will Rise” (which will be the middle in the trilogy) has been decided. So it will go like this, “The Sun Will Rise” , “Antumbra” , and then “When The Dusk Settles.” Obviously they all deal with various stages of the sun. Rising, being in the sky, and then setting.

Here is some information which will reveal the symbolism of using Antumbra as the title for the sequel. This all comes from Wikipedea.

"An eclipse (Ancient Greek noun έκλειψις (ékleipsis), from verb εκλείπω (ekleípō), "I cease to exist," a combination of prefix εκ- (ek-), from preposition εκ, εξ (ek, ex), "out," and of verb λείπω (leípō), "I am absent")[1] is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. When an eclipse occurs within a stellar system, such as the Solar System, it forms a type of syzygy—the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line.[2] "

"An eclipse occurs when there is a linear arrangement between a star and two celestial bodies, such as a planet and a moon. The shadow cast by the object closest to the star intersects the more distant body, lowering the amount of luminosity reaching the latter's surface. The region of shadow cast by the occulting body is divided into an umbra, where the radiation from the star's photosphere is completely blocked, and a penumbra, where only a portion of the radiation is blocked.[3] 

A total eclipse will occur when the observer is located within the umbra of the occulting object. Totality occurs at the point of maximum phase during a total eclipse, when the occulted object is the most completely covered. Outside the umbra, the occulting object only partially covers the light source and this produces a partial eclipse. The part of the occulting object's shadow that extends beyond the umbra is called the antumbra. For observer inside the antumbra of a solar eclipse, the Moon appears smaller than the Sun.[3]

“The umbra, penumbra and antumbra are the names given to the three distinct parts of a shadow which are created when the source of light is not a point source. In reality there is no such thing as a point source radiator, though in theory such a light source would cast an umbra and antumbra, but not a penumbra.

The umbra (Latin: shadow) is the darkest part of a shadow. From within the umbra, the source of light is completely concealed by the occulting body. In astronomy, an observer in the umbra is said to be experiencing an total eclipse.

The penumbra (Latin: paenes "almost, nearly" + umbra "shadow"), where the light source is only partially concealed. More specifically, the penumbra is the region in which only a portion of the occulting body is obscuring the light source. An observer in the penumbra experiences a partial eclipse.

The antumbra is similar to the penumbra, the main point of contrast being that the occulting body is entirely contained within the disc of the light source. If the observer moved closer to the light source, the apparent size of the occulting body would increase until it causes a full umbra. An observer in this region is experiencing an annular eclipse.”

To complete the symbolism just think about the dynamics between Hisoka and Tsuzuki, mostly with their pasts and potential relationship.

Now that I have a title, I really wish I could work on it! STUPID writer’s block. *goes off to cry*

 
 
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