I'll just leave this here. :P

Etsy Buy Handmade Diamine

Okay people. I needs money, and I needs it soon. I can't stand this pain in my face. It's making me crazy.

So. For Christmas, if you want to get me a present... will you pimp out my Etsy Store?
Hey, will you pimp it out even if you don't want to get me a present? Pretty please, with candy and love and sprinkles?
There's not much at the shop right now... I'm putting it up bit-by-bit. But there will be moare, and it shall be cute. Soo... O-ne-ga-i?

Also, I'm open for amigurumi, and sketch commissions. And it's CHEAP.
On my Etsy shop, my amigurumi has a particular price set to it, which is my selling preference. BUT, if anyone where to order an amigurumi from me through this LJ post, and tell me the magical word, (Magical Word: "Fiddlesticks") they would most certainly be getting an amigurumi for a discount. That is to say, $5, and free shipping inside the US. lulz, truth.
You can pick the color and everything, using my wonderful Yarn Chart. (Which is a rather large image, so...beware.)

wanna see what my amigurumi things look like, to get an idea? -=Click This=- (You will need a password to see this album. The password is: wisdom)

I'm also doing $5 sketch commissions~ I'll draw...ANYTHING.
Plus, if you want a sketch AND an amigurumi, I'll do the sketch for $2 instead of $5. Ufufufufu
For sketch samples, -=Click This=- (Again, password is: wisdom)

So... Pimp my shop? Buy my shit?

Okay, so... I'm a little concerned. today, I tried to check up on LJ, only to see that I was signed out. This is weird, since I'm the only one who uses this computer (especially for LJ). So... I try to log back in.
Which fails FOUR TIMES.
So I go to Yahoo, where an email is waiting for me which says I've recently had a password change.

Hmmmm. Okay, well, thanks for trying to hack me, hacker, but it wasn't very nice. ~__~;
Grat way to take a break from studying.

Well, my password has been reset, and now I'm crabby.
I also checked a few of my other accounts to make sure nothing happened to them too... When I looked at my bank account, I was NEGATIVE $5! That was after I knew I had about $100 in there.
But that's my fault entirely. I forgot the stupid hospital is still leeching me of $100 at the end of each month.
Fuckers.


Anyway. Um. Blah? I'll reply to people and whatnot after I get the last of my work done. I'm not ignoring you, I promise~

Yaaaay, I've finished four headdresses FINALLY~! X3
These are my "spring editions" I made over the winter. (Don't ask why I wasn't making winter editions...) Everyone tell me what you think! Good? Bad? More frills? Less?
I must knooooow!

( Click the cut to see new Diamine! brand Spring Edition )

Oh yeah... and I'm also selling/taking commissions... XD;

This look very promising~ :3
Sword of a Stranger
Now, I know that some anime people tend to look the same because of stereotypes and such, but the main guy there looks a LOT like Manji, from Blade of the Immortal... Even similar facial scars... One has to wonder, BOTI prequel? *hopeful*

( Art dump of glory! Mushishi, samurai, and ninjas )

( I really do love to type a lot of bollox )

In other news, I found out that if I write down the dream I have, I'm more likely to have more that I can actually remember. Yay! :D
I'm trying to make Kata watch Gundam Wing, but I realize that her fandom for it won't be the same as mine, because she didn't grow up with it. *sad* Still...I'm determined to get her to the point where she'll at least be able to understand me when I say things like, "So I was reading this 1x5 fic the other day, but suddenly it turned into a 13x5, and I got really angry."
Referring to GW pairings by their numbers usually sounds like code to someone who's not familiar with the show. It's sort of like says MonoclexCigarette, or CoffexEyesocket to someone who's never seen Mushishi or D.gray.
Or StrawberriesxSewingNeedles to someone who's never seen Bleach.

I really don't like 13x5. >:\ GOSH.

So. I've been reading Blade of the Immortal lately, and love it. I wish I could draw like that~ T___T I hear they might be making it into an anime, and possibly a live-action. o__o Now, why didn't they think of that sooner? >:O
Also been reading Uzumaki, to get me in that horror mood. |3 Such an awful, awesome manga~

I DREW STUFF! AND STOLE KATA'S SCANNER!! ART DUMP IN MERE MOMENTS, YO!

No more coffee in the house~ I am most unhappy. :( But my coworkers keep telling me all the horrible facts about coffee, and make me feel guilty for drinking it. Like I'm poisoning myself. :\ Grrrr.
Well, I'm having tea today, anyway.

So, Maiko-sensei is moving away soon~ We have maybe another two classes left, and it's sad. She'll still come to Athens and visit every now and again, but it's quite a drive. :( This coming sunday she's going to introduce us to Kei-san, and see if maybewe can take classes from her now. She says Kei-san is super cool, and excited to meet us, so I hope things go well.
Even if they do though, Valeria says that her finances are getting a little low, so she'll prbably have to drop classes for a while. That means I'll be paying a little bit extra, and studying alone. .____.; But we'll still hang out and practice conversational stuff, and yadda yadda. It's not really a big deal or anything, it's just all a little depressing. :\

Soooo... every day has been abnormally warm recently. It's still only February, and only the nights are really chilly anymore. @___@; Last night it rained bit, and then got so foggy I could barely see the road while I was driving home. Creeeeepy. But I heard frogs outside, so I think spring is actually already showing up. O_o In the middle of winter, pretty much? I guess if it is, I can't really complain. I'm so tired of being cold. Actually, daffodils are up and blooming too, and mom's tulips are beginning to sprout~ So WEIRD!

When I get my own laptop, I want to start watching Coffee Prince (I'll have a better change of finding it with subs now that it's more popular) and Hana Kimi. Oooooh, I only saw half of the first episode, but I loved it~! I wanna watch more! Where's my check!

Today feel like a "Bonnets and Mushishi" day~ I think I shall go make bonnets and watch Mushishi. :3 (And try not to feel guilty for making my projectionist work a double on President's Day...)

Seriously, I think I'd make a great assassin if I could just keep myself from feeling bad about it.

Mum's fostering a dog, which looks very similar to the one we had years ago~ Haven't picked out a name for her yet, and we're still trying to decide if this is a good idea.
She's a good dog and all, seems to like me. But I'm really not a dog person. :\ *sigh* Animals like me, but I'm picky. Well, at least she's mellow and well-behaved.
One dog + 14 cats....? Lololololol, yeah, this is a good idea~

In other news, the soundtrack to Paprika is amazing. The best songs on it are Parade, Baikai, and Byakko No (Paprika Version).

Paprika playlist

Actually, the movie itself is amazing! :3 I highly recommend it! Also, everyone should check out Tekkonkinkreet (weirdest name ever), Milennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers. (All of these movies relate to each other through studios, directors, and the like~) They're all brilliant, and if you die before seeing them...well, then watch em in freakin heaven, dammit!

My hands smell like dog.
I'm so bored here. @___@ I wish people could listen to music underwater~ :D That would be fun. *nodnod*
Agent D of the Yakuza Underworld Express, over and out~!

Tra lala~! I got up early, and really want to go back to bed, because it's cold and I don't like it. .___.; However, if I got back to sleep now, I'm sure I'll ruin this interesting mood I'm in, and I'll also wake up groggy and weird, and feel like ass when I have to go to work. :P
So instead, I'm wasting time on the internet. X3 (I really should be doing something more productive, but...who wants to worry about something like that?)

Okay, so here's some stuff~ These are all things I got Kata to scan for me~ There's more that I'd like to post, such as the comic pages I had up at the gallery, lovely Christmas present Kanda, and some new gigantic Ukiyo-e. But that requires a camera, and so I still have yet to do it. Here's these though
( ART DUMP! )

La~! I found out that there's a quasi-decent photo program on my boss' computer at work, so at some point in the future, I'm going to make another icon base dump. |3 (productivity? lol, what's that?)

Edit: I thinks it's completely hilarious that when you google up "Uchisute", the first thing on the list is my journal. XD
Poor Uchi-kun. At least one person loves you~

Wheeee! Yesterday and today seem great so far! I haven't felt completely unwilling whenever I have to go out and run errands~ It's actually a nice feeling to WANT to go get things done. My room is almost completely clean, I've picked up my art from the Lyndon House, and I finally go to go back to Japanese class after three weeks. (And my homework was finished, too!)
I don't suck too much at Japanese, despite the fact that I haven't studied AT ALL... XD I'm still not feeling very productive art/sewing-wise, but I think I can work through that.
Kata and I are making a sort of schedule to use as guidelines for whenever we hang out~ this is to ensure that we actually get a decent amount of real work done before this year's AWA comes up~We're not gonna go by it, but at least we're pretending. XD
Tomorrow, Valeria and I are going to Atlanta to see a Taiko (Japanese drumming) performance, which promises to be exciting. :3 I want to wear my kimono, but it's not very practical for this kind of weather. (Even though it looks like we might already be creeping up on spring...)
There's another gallery showing at the Lyndon house that I'm going to enter. I already have tow things that I'd like to submit, possible three~ So I don't need to worry about painting anything new before the submission deadline (which is in about three days). Hopefully something I submit will get accepted. I've never tried to enter the Juried Exhibition before. ^__^; Excited.
I have that meeting with Dr. Kaufman on Wednesday, and this time I won't freak out because I know where to go, how to get there, and I've already met the guy. Thing should go much more smoothly this time.

Essentially, there's nothing out of the ordinary happening lately~ I'm just in a much better mood about it all. :D HOW REFRESHING!

OH! And the best news of all!!! (Yes, I'm sad too that I'm such a geek that this is the best news...) I FINALLY FOUND YUKO SASAKI! I'm not crazy! She still exists! I went poking around on the net last night, and found a bunch of her songs uploaded on imeem! URESHIIIIIIIII~!!!
I've been searching for music by her for pretty much NINE YEARS almost, and found NOTHING. No one's heard of her, no one remembers her from Morning Musume...NOTHING. O_o; But she was really good, and I loved tons of her songs, and she's one of those big musical chunks of my childhood. NOOOOOW I can hear her stuff again! I almost cried where I finally heard "Gyutto Zutto" again, for the first time in years. XD
Yep, I was that happy, and I'm that much of a dork. What can y'do? ^_^;

HERE, LISTEN!







WHEEE~! Time for karaoke!

DILEMMA! DIAMINE! Do I preorder for the Mushishi DS game now, or wait till the price drops a little? Or should I bite my nails and hope it comes out in English? :O I've wanted a DS only for the sole purpose of getting the Mushishi game, so I'd feel dumb to wait~ But it looks difficult to read, and it's expensive, and I don't know if the cool gift baggie will come with it or not. Then again, getting it in Japanese would FORCE me to practice all that kanji... which would be good. Gameplay would be slow-going though. XD
On the other hand, I want to save up and buy that awesome foot-tall Ginko figurine~
There's also a pile of doujinshi I wish I could buy, and I really need to save up my money so I can get that Crown Vic, and also so I can have my own computer at some point.
ALAS! I'm such a slave to the dollar~!! D: MY HEART IS FILLED WITH WOE AND YEARNING! TROUBLE!!

In other news, I was surfing around Ebay today (because I like to torture myself) and stumbled across a doujinshi of a most peculiar nature~

CROSSXKOMUIWTFHELLFROZEOVERAGAIN!!!
I'm ashamed to admit that I really, really wanted to look, but the art hurt my soul so I didn't.

Cross: *eyebrow quirk* Now, clarify which part you're ashamed of...?

Solution?: Obviously, a new car comes first. .___. *sigh* Someone might even buy it while I'm busy saving up for it... Just..where else am I going to buy a perfect-running Crown Vic for only $400?? (Of course, I'd have to trade in my old car, too) Doujinshi can wait till AWA, since it's cheaper that way anywhoo. (At least for the stuff I want to buy) I guess I can always just keep mooching offa other people's computers for now. I've been okay like this for years, I think I'll last a little longer~ As for game and figurine? Those come right after car. Game first, because figurine, while awesome, is less useful.
*SIIIIGH* Why am I not rich, like, right now? And I shake my fist at yooooou, HOSPITAL BILL!!

*This program brought to you by: Hyula On Crack Caffeine. And by the number: 0

Sasa~ the new TV drama is called "Kurama Tengu", starring Nomura Mansai~! X3 It began airing on NHK on January 17th, and will show every week on thursday.
So far, that's all I know about, it... .___.; And all the reviews for the episodes that people have seen so far are hard to read. But maybe Maiko will help translate. I really want to know more about this series!
I mean, come on! Nomura-san in a kimono, with long hair, through a WHOLE SERIES, instead of just two movies? KYAAAAAAA~!

I'm a dork. But this show really does look pretty cool~ (Oh samurai drama, how I love you~!)

Holy cow, I am so nervous as hell! o___o I finally got in touch with Benedek about my portfolio- That's the guy my mum's friend (Katja) has been talking with- and I'm going to go meet him tomorrow after I drop the Bean off at school. @___@ I'm really...shaky? I actually feel a little sick, but I could blame that on still not having gotten over this lung mushi. Still... I'm really really nervous. I don't wanna go!! .____.;;; I'm scared!
And what should I bring? Myself, yes. I have to take a shower before bed tonight... None of my sketchbooks have anything good enough in them to show him, if he would want to see something like that. I have a few things I could take in a folder, but he's pretty much already seen everything worth seeing. @____@; Would he even want to see anything tomorrow, I wonder? I guess it's good to always carry some work with me. But...but... I have to go at 9:30AM. () I don't completely remember how to get to that building!! Mum could tell me. I hope it's actually the building I'm thinking of. I couldn't ask because I felt too stupid... AAARRRG. What if I get too nervous while I'm talking to him and turn red like I do? Or if I start fidgeting and stumbling over my words. This is going to be like an interview, and I don't handle those well, and I'm actually so worked up over this that I think I might have to cry. o____o I feel so dumb! AAAAARG! I think I really do have some social problems...

Well in other, easier to think about news, I went shopping with mum today at Hobby Lobby. I spent WAY too much money on lace and ribbons to test out different styles for headdresses~ I'm really excited, and I wish I were more dexterous with handling fabrics. ^^; I got lots of good stuff though, so sewing will be fun for a while.
I also bought two really big sketchbooks, because they were having a 30%-off sale. :3 So one is regular paper, and the other is watercolor paper~ Yaaaay! OOOH, and there were a whole bunch of skeleton key things all over, so I bought one ring that had three HUGE keys on it, and one ring that had five somewhat normal-sized keys~ They don't go to anything, of course, but I have a thing for skeleton keys, so I couldn't resist. :3

What should I wear tomorrow? O______O I don't even know what exactly he wants to talk about. Are we going to talk about getting me into a school, or getting me into Asia? Or both? EHHH?? I hope I don't act stupid tomorrow, or start crying. OH GOD, to cry in front of a stranger like that would be the worst!! X( I hope I can just manage to come across as collected and intelligent and SAAAAANE. Guh. And mum can't even come with me because she's taking a cat to the vet tomorrow... *SIIIIIGH* Time to be a big girl and tough it up for a day! Or maybe I could go into L-mode. Only...L with people skills, because L is even weirder around folks than me. Maybe I should go into Light-mode, because at least he can bullshit his way though anything difficult, and convince people that he's charming.
Ugh. It's cold in here, and I'm kind of freaking out a little. I feel like such a moron, but I can't help it. @___@; I just hope my voice is back to normal tomorrow. I don't want to squeak the whole time I'm talking to this guy. (Although that would make things funny, and therefore less intimidating... I'm just gonna shut up and go get warm somewhere. :\ )

It's been stuck in my head for some time, and it's all Japanese rap. Or is it hiphop? I dunno what the artists think they're singing. All I know is that Japanese Raphop is WAY better than the bullshit people sing over here.
Honestly. A song about how cool you are because "you teeths is shiny"? I can't describe how violent the stupidity makes me feel.

ANYWAY!

Opening theme for Ayakashi, from which the series Mononononononoke was spawned:
Ayakashi OP

Popular Japanese band, Dragon Ash. Song is called Greatful Days. I can never feel down if I hhear this song, and it's the best thing to listen to first thing in the morning:
Dragon Ash - Greatful Days

One of the Naruto Shippuden openings~ song, Hero's Come Back! by Nobody Knows. This song would be better if the throat cancer guy wasn't singing. XD:
Nobody Knows - Hero's Come Back

A Naruto Shippuden ending theme by Home-Made Kazoku, Nagareboshi (shooting star):
Home-Made Kazoku - Nagareboshi

And here's some random Korean goodness, because I love Moon Hee Jun like a stupid high school girl, and TVXQ is fun to put into gay situations. :D

MHJ - Alone
TVXQ (DBSK) - Rising Sun


and lookout! WOAH, NOSTALGIA!! This is stuff I used to listen to when I was freakin 14! XDD

Gundam X - Resolution (2nd OP)
Gundam X - Dreams (1st OP)
Initial D - Nights of Fire
Hmmm.. I don't remember if this song is any good...but...the title. I'm sure Zechs does. For Treize. OOOHOHOHOHOHOOO, GUNDAM WING PERVERSION! Ah, I miss it~
Gundam Wing - Zechs Comes
It sounds so EPIC. Me oh my.
fufufufu, moving on.

Rumi Oishi - Just Love! (Gundam Wing ED)
Two Mix - Rhythm Emotion (another GW song)
Two Mix - Last Impression (MOARE GW)
Actually, if the band is Two Mix, just assume the music was for Gundam Wing. XD Ah, that band...
Two Mix - Just Communication (In my memory, these all just start to run together..)
Two Mix - Rhythm Generation (Yay! My favorite karaoke song EVAR!)
Gundam Wing - Flying Away (Heero Yuy Image song)
Gundam Wing - Kitto OK! (It's Gonna Be OK! Duo Maxwell image song)

Okay, last one, I promise... XD And it's not weird and corny like the rest of these.
Akino Arai - Sakasama No Niji (Inverted Rainbow, or Upside-down Rainbow, a Record of Lodoss War ending, I think)

Well, that took a weird turn, didn't it? From J-raphop to lame 90's anime pop! :D Although I can't diss Two Mix, really~ And I'll always have a loving soft spot for Gundam Wing. (It'll always be my favorite show to pair guys up in, that is >3 Oh, GW was made for mathematics and crustaceans...) I promise I didn't listen to ONLY THAT when I was young. There was more, I was diverse!

Well, my life is holding me at gunpoint and telling me that if I don't start making myself known again, it'll have to shoot me and find another body to inhabit.

Oh wait, what life? XP

I kid, I kid.

I were sick! I are...better? Well, no. I are getting there though. And better news: I don't have to work while I hack up parts of my lungs~ yaaaay! I am officially a weekends-only girl once more! (So come by my corner boys. There's a discount if you cosplay)
WTF
So I still only have myself and Casey as projectionists. This is partially bad, and partially good. Bad because if one of us gets sick, there's only one of us to man the booth. And if both of us get sick, well...life would suck.
Good, because this means I get a few extra shift during the weekend, and won't worry about going broke before summer vacation. :D (Seriously, I'm a manager, yet they always manage to make me feel so inadequate. *SIGH*)

Let's see... did I mention that Casey got me the second Mushishi soundtrack as a Christmas present? :D I probably already did. But I feel guilty, because i have no idea what to get him. Though I did give him one of the very neat postcards that come with my DVDs. But that seems so piddly an lame. :\ CASEY, WHY ARE YOU HARD TO SHOP FOR? >O

While I was really sick, I had nothing to do but sit in bed playing Animal Crossing~ But Animal Crossing is the kind of game that... Hmm.. Let's just say, the events of on full day in the AC can be accomplished within five minutes. So I was sitting an contemplating so manga I had recently bought, (Ooooh, I finally got my hands on After School Nightmare vol 5... >3) and I came to the conclusion that...I'm lame. Yes. Incredibly, incurably lame. Someone like Kouyu Shurei, who can create such stunning images, manages to complete an entire graphic novel within a year! And that's a lot of work, if anyone's familiar with her art! @___@; A LOT OF WORK.
Me? I dunno. I've wanted to make manga since I was freakin 12. But I've not even completed ONE comic. I fail to work as fast as I should, my pictures are always lacking details that could make them better, I suck at page layout, and there's no way I could manage proper perspective or backgrounds. .___.
This may sound pathetic, but it's really the truth. I still have a long way to go, and it's kind of depressing. I'm 22, aren't I? What have I got to show for it?
Anyway, I was thinking about all of that, and I really got angry with myself. This is what happens when I have nothing else to occupy my brain with; I beat myself up, mentally. Soooo, I thought, "So what? You're no good. Neither are a billion other mangaka, and they're still popular. They suck, and they're still doing something, so what's my problem?"
So... long story short, this train of though eventually led me to decide to get serious. >:O

Also, I realized a problem I have. It's hard to explain right now, I'm not feeling very collected or intelligent. @__@ Essentially I decided that what I need to do is drop this fairy tale, romantic comedy BS and do what I'm really interested in, which is the Horror genre. :P After all, every story I've made may seem centered around a fantasy, or a romance, but I always, ALWAYS have to give it some underlying creepiness. Even with the happy-go-lucky crap, there's always something a little off or wrong, upsetting the cheery setting. So...obviously my brain is after something. Why not just go with it? I feel like I'm making zero sense.
It is definitely time for some tea~

I'm COOOOOLD!!! Georgia finally got its cold snap, and I'm so depressed. I was actually kind hoping it's stay eerily warm all winter, but I guess not.
I mean, sure, I was hoping for a proper snow, too. But DAMMIT! That's only because if it's going to be cold, I want there to be a freakin REASON. Winter, cold, and snow MUST go together. But if it's sunny, with no wind...WHY IS IT SO COLD THAT I CAN'T FEEL MY FINGERS INSIDE THE HOUSE? >O
*sigh* GA doesn't make any sense to me... I'll never understand, because I'll always be a Colorado girl deep in my veins.

Ah well. Enough of that, I guess.
I'm definitely tired of having a job. I cannot wait until highschool starts again fir the rest of the winter. I won't be making as much money, and I won't see Casey as much, and I'll be working a lot of doubles on the weekends...HOWEVER, I'll have mon-weds all to myself again, which means time to lounge around properly, do chores, and get all my projects done~! I feel like I can't function at all when I have to work every day. @__@ I don't understand why I'm like this, but I don't really have any inclination to change. I'm just exasperated with feeling tired. This lifestyle is crowding me. ~__~ I envy Ginko a lot sometimes.

Well, I actually had something important to say in this post, but I seem to have forgotten it since I was ranting so much. :P
OOOOOH! RIGHT! Casey gave me the second Mushishi soundtrack as a late Christmas present! X3 And then he made fun of me because I was blushing... Apparently, I'm still girly enough to get all dumb like that upon receiving a present from a guy. Hum. I feel a little lame~

Oh, look at the time. I've conveniently managed to talk about fuck-all, while making myself late for work yet again. :D Well, I wouldn't be late, but I really need a shower, so...

DOUBLE SHIFT TODAY! BUT NO REAL WORK TO DO! :O That means today will be spent starting movies and then playing teh DS, drawing embarrassing things, and making bonnets! WHEEEEEE!
Oh, I mean. Today will be spent doing my homework. Yeeeeees~

I has a new phone, and it is now officially in working order! Yay!
I'm late for work, so I don't get to hang out on the internet right now. .____.;
Anyway, I don't have anyone's number anymore, so if you want me to update my address book, give me a call. My number is the same. Yay, simplicity!
If you've forgotten my number, then obviously you're not my friend. XP
But just kidding. Ask and ye shall receive, ne? ;)

Zooom! Work time! *flaps arms and makes a mad dash for the car*

Howl: Are we sure she's really 22...?

PS, M-chan: Sorry I can't reply yet... However, I needed to tell you~! i got to episode 31 in D.Gray~!! And! And!! I saw some of the evils of Cross-sama! XD Also... I LOVE TYKI!
Just thought you needed to know. :3