I'm at Odegaard library doing homework/lab report with my little Starly kid keeping me company. Seriously doing schoolwork by yourself in a library can get pretty lonely, so I brought some cuteness to lighten up the mood. It's hard to ignore her little cute eyes (I only made it a girl because my Starly, er now Staraptor in platinum is a girl. That and she's sitting on my pink folder hahaha)

Second round of midterms are coming up. Chemistry one on Friday and Math next Tuesday. Good news is no chemistry at all next week woohoo!!

I've gotten all my plushies and a couple new eevee zukan and I'm in need to take pictures. That'll be done when I have no work to do so maybe next week after my math midterm?

Okay break over and back to work. (Starly do my lab report for me please!! I'll give you a poffin!)

Seriously I've gotten packages for 3 days. Today I got two. Well here they are!


My Lake Trio zukan from  archimer  . I actually got this last week but didn't post until now. It's funny because when I was assembling it, Uxie's head came off! It hadn't even been 5 minutes and I already broke it!! Until I realized that the head was removable. ^_^;; So it's fine now.


I got these last week too. The legendary bird trio from ann_chovi. It was pretty cheap.

This adorable badge is for my brother. I got it from an auction by japax.




I actually had this for a couple of years. I got it from an anime convention back at home. It's a ds lite case. I can also change the picture to another sheet with Piplup on the right instead and Pachirisu and Pikachu laughing on the left, but I found this one cuter.



Glaceon arrived yesterday from allure_xi. She likes to fall over a lot, or she's camera shy.
See she decided to hide under my folder (actually she just fell at the time haha.) At this point I had to go to a dinner with my friends. Guess what I saw after I came back.

Apparently Glacey found out how to use my laptop. She was checking out Gary's Umbreon! Yes I know he's hot Glacey, must take after the trainer huh? hahaha.

This came with Glacey. A celebi zukan! I really like how the trees were painted. Celebi is so tiny!!

Here are my figures and zukans on my printer. I'm expecting another zukan soon at some point. Maybe in the next week or two.

This cutie arrived today from kassia9. My Leafeon! 

Her right ear likes to stick out. How cute. Hey someone's ear is sticking out at the bottom of the picture...


It's a sleeping Gizamimi PIchu! She came in today too. She's so soft and cuddly and omg I love her. And she was selling at a good price and no one bidded against me! Oh she' from Ebay :3 
(Leafy don't get Mimi's bad habit of sneaking in pictures....)

Also from Ebay, it's a PikaPumpkin!Just in time for Halloween! Moment I saw it I placed a bid. I wasn't  losing this one! 
(seriously Mimi you had your turn in pictures...)



Nap time! I think those two will get along just fine. ^_^

Uh oh Glacey confronted Leafy and challenged a showdown! A staring showdown! Who will win?!

Leafy's the winner!!!

"Who dares challenge me next???? I can see into your soul!!!!!"
Leafy quit being a camera hog and scaring the readers.......-__-;

Awwh friends. :3

My plushie collection. Including my Nemu and Anpan. More cuddly friends to sleep with! I'm expecting one more any day now!! :D

Well I managed to get one pin up out of the photobook. I left the other one in there because one side was just fille with off set pictures and I didn't want to risk ripping it. But the other one I just had to have it on my wall so I managed to get it out with just a VERY small rip. Luckly it was on a border on one side and in the sky on the other side.


Okay I really don't know why it flipped but this is one side of the pin up I left in the book. There's a white column on the right that's not in the picture that says Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.

Yes that's my calculator on the right because it wouldn't stay down. Sorry this is a bad picture but I was in a rush to take it.  This is the other side of the pin up filled with cute off shots. You can't really tell since the camera is far.

Notice anything different on my wall from the last post?


Yep the two posters on the right. Only one is new is though.


This is the other side of the Shinkenger guys wearing white, SHOUGO!! Yeah bad camera flash. I decided it was time for Shougo to get some light hahaha.

Here's one side of the pin up I DID managed to rip out. It's the shinkengers with their shodophones when they are about to turn into the Shinkengers. Genta on the left is special since he wasn't an original Shinkenger and a sushi seller. He made everything himself! That's talent!


This is the side hanging on my wall and I just loved it so much I had to rip it. It's the group outside of Genta's sushi cart! This is probably my new favorite poster since now it has everyone in it.  Oh how I love these guys so much!

Okay and now for my new item? I just got it yesterday with two other packages but I'll be posting those later.  This one is too adorable to wait.

A sleeping Pikachu plushie!!! It passed out on my laptop. Yes I know it has no nose. Apparently it's suppose to be that way as it was brand new in its package when I got it...........OH WELL!! It's so cute regardless XD

Now it moved to my comfy bed. I would think my bed is more comfortable than my laptop keyboard too.....

Front view. Its mouth is a little crooked too but nothing I can do about that.At least I can draw a nose in if I ever wanted to.

Side view!

Seriously my uploader hates me or something. STOP FLIPPING PICTURES!!! D:<
I spy a Pika in a flowerbed :3 (no pun intended seriously)

Sleepy Pika got cold and found my soft warm blanket (seriously that thing will keep you warm in a blizzard!!) Nighty night Pika!

I've been meaning to do this for awhile, but I was either busy when I did remember, or I forgot. Remember having a whole bunch of posters from the magazines Angelica got me? Well here they are now!!



These were from last year. Okay they're postcards but I'm not sending them anywhere. These Tenimyu Seigaku 4th cast cards came free from my Shitenhouji goods order. There is one other with the cast in casual outfits but that's on my wall which will come soon. Personally I like the left one better because it has 3 of my favorite people in it (Shougo, Yuuta, and Mao Mao). And I just like the green backround better. Daisuke is unfortunately on the other one......but I kept that one because one, it as free, two, you just need the entire set or it doesn't feel complete.

Okay now my wall!

Wall and one wall of my wardrobe. Only two of them and the postcard are old from last year but I brought them back with me because I really like them. The other old ones are back at home waiting for me.


First up, Furukawa Yuuta (4th cast Fuji and Kirikaze in Fuma no Kojirou)! Sorry there's a glare there from flash but it didn't look good without it. Pretty  much all my pictures are like that or either semi-dark because the flash was too bright. I should have done this during the day, not at 12:30 in the morning......Anyway, Yuuta-kun's my special one because he's on my wardrobe, not the wall. To be honest, I only put him there because he was so huge and I already had one big poster on the wall already, but I'm fine with it. Since he's in a samurai outfit, he guards me from the bad spiders lurking at my window at night. He has a sword but you can only see the tip of it because I cut it off......

My other big poster and an old one, oh and also the first poster I got last year. AIBA HIROKI (2nd & 3rd cast Fuji)! If you've read my older posts you'll know how often his name appeared. Yeah he looks girly in this picture but OMG he's a dancing god! My friends and I would comment how it must be a Fuji actor trait to be a good dancer since Yuuta is also a dancing god (but in a different style, he does ballet!!).  The flash wasn't so bad in this one.

My third 4th cast free postcard. Since this one didn't have a border I didn't want to pin it up and get holes in the actors. It's funny because when I was hanging the posters, I had this space in the wall since a couple posters were horizontal so there was a rectangule of whiteness in the wall. Well it was a perfect fit for my little card! I love how Shougo, Daisuke, and Yuuta appear the biggest. This one actually appeared better without flash. (You couldn't even see it with flash....)


Okay basically I'm doing this out of order and doing my older ones first, except for the Yuuta one who was just plain special. This is another old one of Dori (3rd cast Ryoma).  I love the winter outfit and in the magazine it was even cooler (no pun intended).  Again that brightness in the middle was my lame flash.

Now my new ones! This one is without flash. My only Shougo poster! I had one before but I gave it to Angelica in order to protect my life hahaha. He looks so much older when he's not in his Ryoma character, but he's so cute! I've watched him for two years and boy has he grown both physically and as an actor.


Okay I lied, I had one more Shougo poster. Where is it you ask? On the back of this one (these are all double sided posters by the way but obviously I hang the side I like).  This one was hard because it was either Shinkenger guys or Shougo.  I decided Shinkenger and will just switch to Shougo when I want to. Okay these are the guys from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, including Aiba. From the left, Suzuki Shougo (Chiaki/Shiken Green), Matsuzaka Tori (Takeru/Shiken Red. TORI!! <3), Aiba of course (Ryunosuke/Shiken Blue. AIBA!!! <3), and ....Souma Keisuke (Genta/Shiken Gold). I couldn't remember his name for a second because he appeared in the middle of the series and I usually call him Genta Hot guys in white, pure awesomeness.


The hot Shikenger boys in colored outfits. No they are not wearing the color that corresponds to their character, except for Tori who actually wears a similiar outfit in the show.  One of my favorite posters >.<


My other favorite poster! This poster came with the first Samurai Sentai Shinkenger photobook. The other side has them in the Shiken forms but this side looks cooler. This is before Genta came and this one has the girls in it. I don't know their real names but the left one is Kotoha (Shiken Yellow) and the pink one is Mako (Shiken Pink hahaha). Each of them is holding their corresponding weapon, except these ones are just plain compared to their actual humungous ones in the show. Kotoha's is actually a slicer, but she's holding a flute in this picture since she's also a flute player. Aiba has a bow and arrow. Tori has a sword (they all have swords in the show but only Tori's turns into a giant one). Chiaki has a spear. And Mako has a fan (her fan is actually pink in the show so I don't know why it's blue here).  It's such an epic poster. I love it! 

The second photobook came a couple days ago. OMG so much better than the first one and has Genta!! It actually comes with a couple pin ups but I didn't take it out yet. I probably will soon and will post pictures again soon. Oh goodness it's 2:30am. I would have been done earlier but Angelica called me and I'm still on the phone. So later!!

The good thing about it was that it was only 3 days and I didn't have my chemistry quiz section and lab! My professors seem okay.  What I noticed was that all of the ones I have this quarter are all young (or middle-aged) unlike some older professors I previously had.  I actually thought my math professor was a TA >.>;

When I got back to Seattle, Angelica gave me all of the magazines and Samurai Sentai Shinkenger photobook that she bought for me over the summer.  I especially loved the photobook and the Cast Prix magazines (I don't usually buy those). It had so much Shinkenger pictures (well duh the photobook would but still).  Of course these magazines came with posters and it would be such a waste not to use them! So now my wall is half covered in posters of Aiba, Tori, Shougo Sakamoto, and a couple Shinkenger cast pictures. I would take a picture of it and post it but I'm not in the dorm at the moment heh. Angelica was fond of them so much Nadine and I had trouble getting her out of my room because she couldn't stop staring at my wall...

I just placed an order for the second photobook a couple days ago so we're looking forward to that, but it said that it won't be shipped out until October 15th (or around there).  I checked the order status and it said they are looking for the books from suppliers...I hope they find them soon.....

Homework wise, I've gotten quite a lot.. Japanese homework is due every other day but for now it's not that much. It's the type of homework that can be done in like 10 minutes and from looking on the homewor schedule it's going to be that way for awhile.  Math and chemistry however is the opposite. They're due every Friday but it takes a long time to do. I'm working on math now and I started chemistry yesterday. (I have 1.25/25 points so far!!! woohoo!! XD )

Oh and I met my roommate! She's from Korea and is really nice.  She didn't move in until a couple of days after me. After she moved in she was out nearly 24/7.  Yesterday I found out it was because she was doing furniture shopping because she was going to move into an apartment close by. I was surprise because it's only been 3 days since school has started! So I helped her pack up and move her things to her dad's car.  We found out she has to fill out the vacate form at least 20 days before she officialy vacates so she has to come back later. In the meantime I have a double room all to myself! Most likely I'll get a new roommate but that won't be for another month or so.

Besides school, I've been trying to complete my Pokemon Platinum pokedex for once. In the past games I gave up awhile after I beat the main post-game events, but this time I'm actually going to try to do it.  I'm almost done with it actually yay! The pokemon I'm missing are the ones you need the GBA games or ones that haven't appeared in the wild yet, which a new species is suppose to appear everyday.  I've been breeding somewhat rare/rare Pokemon and trading them online in exchange for the ones I need, or to give me an Eevee (I recently developed a love for Eevees. I caught/breeded seven of them) Yesterday I found out my DS isn't compatible with UW wi fi.  I had to arrange a trade for two people and literally spend an hour riding buses around campus to find wi fi! Barnes and Nobles doesn't work (which was my original plan).  The Nintendo site found several free hotspots so I tried a few.  The Apple Store had compatible wi fi, but not for my laptop whch was weird.....so I had to go to a cafe on the other side. FINALLY both my laptop and DS worked. I managed to successfuly trade with one of my "clients", but for my second one, wi fi decided to be evil and disconnect. It took awhile for me to get back on but then my client had to go to work. I felt bad.....but she said she was going to be back in 5 hours.  I thought about staying at the cafe and do homework for 5 hours.  Unfortunately I only stayed there for two. I told her that when she got back to let me know and I would go back to the Apple Store to get wi fi there.  It wasn't really out of the way because I used that as an opportunity to buy dinner at Johnny Rockets. (best burgers I have tasted!!)

Another client who didn't get back to me yesterday emailed me last night (when I was sleeping) and told me when she was able to trade. It was either today when she was free for 2 hours or tomorrow all day. I have class tomorrow and I wasn't sure if I was going to meet up with Angelica and Nadine so I asked if we could do it today.  The time she propose was in an hour, and I had just woken up. So I washed up, skipped brunch, and gathered my books and ds and headed to University Village where the Apple Store was. I thought since I was going to take the bus there I might as well stay there for awhile.  So I went to the Apple Store, traded, and headed to Barnes and Nobles to get coffee and lunch and do homework. It was crowded when I got there but I managed to find a table.  At some point it became nearly empty, but now it's filled again. I'm happy I bought a new longer-lasting battery for my laptop ( my old one started to act weird and charge REALLY slowly) because otherwise it would be nearly dying by now and it's only been an hour and a half.  I still have over four hours of battery left.

Okay well that was a lot for the first week of school.....now back to homework. I'm actually being productive for once!

I leave for Seattle in one week!

I'm kind of happy about going back to school. It'll give me something to do and my parents won't have to say that I've been lazy at home, even though I volunteer on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Also I finally beat the Elite Four in Pokemon Platinum! Now I just have to fill up my pokedex and capture all of those wandering legendary pokemon since I pretty much finished the other post-game events.  I accidently beat Articuno (dang critical hit!) so I had to beat the Elite Four again to "regenerate" it. I dug up a lot of Shieldon and Kabuto so I'm giving them/offering for trade on the Pokemon community on Livejournal.

For some reason Jigglypuff's song has been in my head all day.....which is weird......

Okay no I'm not really counting down....yet.  Right now my count is "4 weeks," but I leave in "3 weeks." I leave Hawaii on September 22 but I don't move into the dorms until the 25th. Then school doesn't start until the 30th so that's quite awhile.  However there's the Dawg Daze event that goes on for a few days before school starts so that's why there's a big gap between dates. Since Dawg Daze is mainly for the freshmen to get used to the campus, I'm probably just going to hang out with my friends and have our Samurai Sentai Shinkenger Night that we're planning.

Since I have another month of break, I've been working, or rather volunteering. I do the same things as I do at work except this time I'm not getting paid since I only get paid during the summer school session. I only go on Tuesdays and Thursdays since it's not as intense as summer school and the teacher doesn't need me everyday like in summer school.  On the other days I'm at home but I go running in the afternoon so my dad doesn't scold me for being lazy.  Occasionally like today, I go out shopping with my mom when she has to do errands. I'm about to go out for my run in about an hour.

Flu season is coming up so my doctor said I could get my flu shot early before I head back to college.  Apparently college students can get theirs early since sometimes it's hard to find clinics up on the mainland. I only find this out today when I tried making an appointment at the clinic by my house that I usually go to and they said "no" and decided to call the one my doctor's at since she's the  one who ordered the shot and said if there were problems I could get my shot there. I had a similiar problem last year too and the people said I couldn't get it early until my mom finally persuaded them and had to take me to the travel clinic downtown. Well now I know. Next year if I have a problem, I just got to tell them I'm a college student going to the mainland. So next week I'm getting my flu shot and my TB skin test shot and get it all out of the way. The only thing left is the swine flu shot which doesn't come out until October according to my doctor so I'm going to somehow get it when I'm in Seattle.

My brother got me Pokemon Platinum for my birthday last month. Correction: He had no money so I had to buy it for myself and he's in the process of paying me back.  When I bought it the cashier asked me if I wanted to preorder the new Pokemon games: HeartGold and SoulSilver and they just got the info the day before. I was surprised because those games haven't been released in Japan yet and US are already preordering?! He told me they come out in Spring 2010 so I preordered both. The SoulSilver for me just to have and HeartGold for my brother's birthday in March. I've been playing the game everyday so I can finish it before I fly back to Seattle because I do not want to bring the thick guidebook in my bag.

Well that's pretty much what I've been doing for a month.

I've been wanting to change my layout for awhile, but I just didn't know how to. Today I finally figured it out.  I literally spent the entire day playing around with the css code to make sure I was changing the right things to the colors I want.  I'm currently working on my picture for the header.  The only reason that Prince of Tennis picture is up there is because I was using it as a test and at the time copied the first picture I saw in my photobucket album. It'll eventually be replaced. 

Yay it's August!! (even though I'm only posting this now hahaha.....)

*sighs* there's so much that's going on this month.  Tomorrow I start volunteer work at the middle school again, my birthday's coming up next week, I'm suppose to get my roommate assignment for college soon, and I have to do my voting ballot and mail it off to Seattle before August 18th.

Well I'm finally caught up watching Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, both the subbed and RAW versions. Now I have to wait a week before the new episodes.....oh well that might be a good thing so I don't end up staying up late watching it.

I FINALLY watched Dream Live 6th! It took literally an entire day to download it but it was worth it. I'll admit it: I cried. 4th cast graduation was probably the saddest Tenimyu moment I have seen so far. They even had special uniform/suits! Poor Daisuke, I think he cried the most, but I don't blame him. I probably would have cried at least just as much if I was him. Overall I loved this Dream Live! I could go on and on about it but I won't, just because that would involve too much typing heh. I still have to finish watching the backstage and adlibs though.

Well now I'm off to finish my voting stuff.

Mata ne~

wow it's been over a month since I've posted. Well tons of stuff has happened.

I'm officially done with my first year in college WOOH!!!

I did my summer work which was working at my old middle school for the summer school session.  That's over.....

I got the first part my paycheck last week, and spent about $100 on Tokidoki stuff with Bryn.

I got my wisdom teeth pulled out a few days ago and eating meals that aren't crunchy or hard.......that's been tough.....

I finally finished watching the Kuroshitsuji anime, started watching the Ouran Host Club anime and the science-fiction drama Samurai Sentai Shinkenger which has Aiba in it!! >.< Also from watching it I've gotten obsessed (okay maybe not obsessed but highly into?) Matsuzaka Tori who plays the red shinkenger!! (I blame my two Seattle friends who kept texting and emailing me about him hahaha)

So for now I'm on a break healing my teeth until next week when I go back to the middle school to help out for the regular school year since I don't go back to Seattle until the end of September.

I think I'm going to try to update my journal more.......that's my goal for now heh.