Mother's Day @ MindSay

Kitsune no Tora

Drinking: Water
Watching: Spongebob Squarepants
Body: Stomach hurts
Wants to play: Guitar Hero - bought it last week, but I forgot to grab my guitar from my dad's house. :/
Should play: Kingdom Hearts - but I can't because my mom is watching the tv the PS2 plugs into
Has to do: Finish chapter 1 of RF2 fic, part of my Trig homework, take a walk, make something for dinner because my mom is sick
Have been playing: Rune Factory 2
Wants to: Go to the Secretary of State (aka the DMV) so I can get my license - passed my test~! 8D


Kitsune no Tora is feeling: Calm

Friday night I got to call Taylor again. :3 We talked for about an hour and a half before she had to hang up because the battery on her phone was dying, haha. XD It was like, nearly 1:00 am, though. ^^; I asked to call her that late because that night I went out to dinner with my family and didn't get home until after 10:00. I have such a hard time understanding what she says sometimes, haha. XD I dunno why. She doesn't have a funky accent, and she doesn't speak too fast for me to understand, but it just seemed like her mouth wasn't close enough to the reciever or something. *shrugs* We had much lulz and facepalms over what I heard vs. what she said, haha. XD She sure teased me a lot about Raven, though. ^^; Apparently she hasn't been doing so previously because she thought I was over it, which I most certainly was not. ^^;; I had told her that I had crushed on him last summer and then got over it, and that it came back again, but apparently she didn't get the "came back again" part. I'm kind of regretting that I told her, to be honest. I don't mind talking about it with her, but sometimes she makes it out as something it's not. Every single time Raven is on or has been on recently, she pushes me to flirt with him, or if I talk to him privately, she is adamant that I've been flirting with him. ^^; But I'm nooooooooot. D: It's not like that.... I mean, I like him, more than any other guy. But it's just not at the level of crush that I would go anywhere near flirting with him. I just don't like him like that. (Yet, as Taylor would say. ^^;) He's cute, he's nice, and I like that. And we lead creepily similar lives, haha. XD;; But it's nothing more than that~ Although I did tell Taylor that I had told Raven that "It was no fun worrying about his wellbeing," because he has been sick recently and hadn't told us much of anything. I had to PM him about it. ^^; After I told Taylor, she was in full-on FireWaterModShipping mode. XD;

Jesus, I didn't tease her as much when she was crushing on Shadow as she has in the past few days to me. ^^; It's mildly annoying.

Now she's going to bug Raven endlessly about the collab again, trying to get my character paired up with his. ^^; Well, she said she would, but I don't know if she'll go through with it. Probably. And she'll probably get Shadow and Mima on her side, too. ^^; Although those two would just do it for the sake of adding more shippings. XDD

I don't think I've mentioned the collab much here, maybe only in passing. We're starting the collab fic again. We're using the same basic plot, but most all of the characters that were in the old one either belong to people who aren't participating again or are being altered (like mine, Alessandra doesn't have the same team nor does she look the same anymore). So we'll be having the same adventure, but it will be drastically different. Soaring was going to participate, but she had a big blowout fight with me (for no reason, really, I just didn't like most of her ideas and she took it personally) and dropped out. Since we all like the plot, we're going to keep it, but we will mention that the basic idea and Mary Sue are her creation.

Since we have forum couples now, they'll be of course in the collab. ^^ Pinchshipping, which is Taylor/Shadow, and Tickleshipping, which is Mima/Dai. Those two are set and have ideas planned out for them. FireWaterModShipping does have two ideas, but it only ended up that way because Taylor and Shadow volunteered Alessandra for the role. ^^; We'll see. I talked to Raven about it a while back, but he was set on the idea that his character would either end up getting Flannery (which is pretty much his character's entire driving force for running around Sinnoh, which is the region we're going to do it in), or end up with no one at all.

I.... do want FireWaterModshipping in the collab, even if I am embarrassed by Taylor and co. pushing it so much. XD;

Okay, enough rambling, back to what I'm supposed to be blogging about. XD

Since I stayed up so late talking to Taylor, I was beat for my driver's test Saturday morning. :/ I couldn't answer any of the questions she asked me right, haha. XD I COULDN'T THINK LIKE THAT SORRY. XP But, I passed my test~ I'm still not all that good at parking, but apparently I parallel park really well. XD My mom was really impressed. BUT I HAVE MY LICENSE FUCK YEAH~ Well, I have my certificate. I have to go to the Secretary of State to get my actual license, which I was going to do this afternoon, but my mom is sick today. I dunno if she ate something she shouldn't have or what, but she was pretty sick this morning.

Sunday was Mother's Day. I spent Saturday night at my dad's, and after picking up my sister from mom's we headed to my grandma's for brunch. I hung out with my cousins and ate food, like usual. Felt like a third wheel, like usual. :/ My cousin Angela has such a fixation with my sister; she sits there and talks to my sister the entire time, leaving me and my cousin Kelsey just sitting there bored. :/ And Kelsey and I have similar personalities, so we don't really converse well. ^^;

So after that (and after receiving some delicious chocolate-chocolate chip brownies, yum~), we headed back to mom's, gave her her present and her card, listened to her rant about something stupid my uncle did at dinner on Friday, ate dinner and went to bed. Yadda yadda.

Today I went back to school for my summer semester. I had Trigonometry from 9:30 this morning until 12:30. Ugggggh. Trig is SO not going to be fun. The summer course is  7 1/2 weeks, while it's normally 15 weeks. :/ And that's besides the fact that there's so much memorization and stuff, which besides failing at Trig in general I'm not that good at. Grr for my parents making me go to school for the summer, and why did I have to pick a math class, much less take almost a full load. :/ I should have seen a counselor, I should have~

Tomorrow I have Humanities from 12:30 to 3:30, Wednesday I have Trig again from 9:30 to 12:30, and Thursday I have Humanities again  from 12:30 to 3:30 and then Information Systems (a class that I don't have to take, but my mother made me take) from 6:00 to 10:00 pm. Woo for parental fail. DX I'm going to die with ten credit hours accelerated to the same amount of material in half the time. FUN. This is going to go on until July 1st.

WOO I'M EXCITED /sarcasm

ANYWAY~ That's kinda all I can think of to talk about, so this is where I leave off~

Goodnight, digital abyss.

KitsunenoTora

Eating: HUNGRY D:
Drinking: Water... my cup is empty. I should go get some more.
Playing: Rune Factory 2 - I WANT TO FINISH WINTER DAMMIT
Smelling: Lasagna~ Yum~
Body: MY ARM ACCCHHHES WRYYY ;_; I didn't do anything weird with it... but it hurts. :/
Should be doing: Writing my Jake/Kyle fic (dammit I just can't start it in a way I like), casting my vote for the Village Square's most recent writing contest (that I didn't participate in because of finals), finishing RG's Hanekoma picture, Taylor's Barrett/Kyle picture, filing a JP11 form so I can work next semester, and an endless stream of other things.... Oh, and I should call Cassie, we were going to do something today...
Happy about: END OF SEMESTER WOOT WOOT. Finals sucked, but at least I have a week off and only 3 classes next semester. Sucks that I have to go to school in the summer, but it's not a full class load, so I'm not going to complain.

KitsunenoTora is feeling: Excited, annoyed, angry, hungry

Oh wow. Look. It's been over a month since I've last touched this. XD

Anyway, I've had lots to blog about; some bad things, some good things, some average things. I just couldn't be bothered to. XP I don't remember ANY of the things I've wanted to blog about in the past month or so, so we'll just try our best.

I just got off the phone with my friend Cassie. We're going to go out and do something together. Most likely shopping. XD Mother's Day is Sunday, so it's not a bad idea. I'm excited, I haven't seen her in about... 3 months, maybe? Our class times don't match up very well. I never get to see her. :( I found her yesterday in the hall reading a book, and we chatted for a little while, but we didn't get to talk much because I was about to be late for work. ^^; She asked if I wanted to hang out, and we agreed that she would meet me yesterday afternoon at my house because I had borrowed her calculator last semester and wanted to return it. But she had to cancel (after coming to get her calculator, of course) because she had a band concert and needed to get ready for it. So we're going out today. :3

After the fact: Grr, I'm so disappointed in my town. :/ THERE'S NOTHING TO DO NUUU. We planned on going to Target to look for Mother's Day gifts, then to go to Novi to search for that international marketplace that my uncle told me about a couple months ago. Apparently she had tried to find it with Elise, but they couldn't find it. XD

We went to Target first, but there wasn't anything that either of us thought our mothers would be interested in. We browsed the games section for a few minutes, but that store's selection is shit, so it didn't take long. XD I did end up finding something I wanted, though: Guitar Hero 1. I only have II, and I haven't played I in forever. :D I'll have to get my guitar from my dad's place and play it soon~

She got some random game I don't remember... I think it was a MySims thing for the DS. I dunno.

After that we headed for Novi, but traffic was AWFUL. Bumper to bumper all the way there. So after sitting in traffic for a few we gave up and headed toward West Bloomfield. I kind of wanted to go to Marvin's Mavelous Mechanical Museum (best arcade evar) to play some games and see if one of our friends were working, but Cassie didn't seem fond of the idea. She had been to Borders earlier that day too, so that idea was shot down as well. XD We ended up across the street at Best Buy. browsing more games (I was tempted to buy Fable, but the package was vandalized so I didn't bother) and looking at phones. I need to get one soon, if I pass my driver's test on Saturday I'll be getting my license (finally) and a car, and it's just easier to have one for school. I couldn't decide, and I wasn't planning on buying one just right then, so I just picked up some brochures. I've got to look at a couple of different plans and decide what I can afford, since I'll be paying for it myself, in addition to buying my own gas. I need more hours at work, or another job. ^^; After that we couldn't think of anything else to do, so she invited me to come to her house sometime eventually and we went home. :/

So, like I said, my driver's test is Saturday. 7 am. DX Ugggh, who wants to take a driver's test at 7 am. DX But that's the only time they had available that I wasn't busy, so that was the one I had to take. I need my license, it's not like I can take a bus or something, and my mom is being run ragged picking up my sister and I at random times of day. XD Plus, it'll give me more freedom to do what I want without having to wait for my mom or dad to take me. :D I'm a bit nervous though, hopefully I'll be able to get up and not be too groggy. XD

We just got our phone fixed today~ Finally, it's been going haywire for over a week now. :/ We couldn't get calls in (only occasionally you would catch it at the right time and it would go through), and there was a horrible loud buzzing noise that made it impossible to hear anyone. Plus, we also got digital cable~ We have so many channels now~ Plus, it has RADIO. How awesome is that. I was listening to the rock and classical channels this morning. XD There's a really heavy metal channel too, but I only turned it on for a second and didn't want to listen to it. XD Sorry, heavy metal is not my thing. XP Plus, my mom absolutely hates the stuff (classic rock, opera, and oldies for her only), so it was out of the question. XD

But, keeping to the balance of our house, right after the phone was fixed and our cable was upgraded, my mom discovers that the toaster is broken. :/ It won't work, at all. You press down the lever and nothing happens, the light doesn't even come on. Stupid piece of trash, it's not even a year old. :/ I wonder what happened to it.

Oh, OH~ I think I should mention this. XD Last week, I got to talk on the phone with Taylor~ <3 Woo~ XD It was nice. Her voice is verrrrry mature sounding. D: She sounds so much older than she actually is, it was surprising. Of course, the phone was on the fritz then, so I had to jam the earpiece to my ear to hear her, but it was still nice~ She just told me now she's busy with homework, so I won't ask to call her tonight, but I want to again~ She talked to Shadow on the phone too, right after we hung up, but apparently she couldn't stop giggling as soon as he said hello. Silly girl. XDD Apparently Shadow's voice is very deep and cute (according to Taylor, of course.XD), but Shadow keeps on denying it. He says it's disturbing in its deepness. I called bullshit, and demanded that he let me call him so I could decide as an unbiased third party, but it never happened. XD I dunno~ Maybe someday, but we really don't get along fabulously, so I doubt it. XD We don't fight or anything, we do get along, we just don't have much in common at all.

Pretty much everyone in the forum has been sick in the past week or two. :/ Yuki and Usagi have gotten flu-like colds, Mima was sick, and now Noah is too. Plus, Raven has been having to go to the doctor's. I don't know what for exactly though, but it worries me. :( Apparently he's been weak or something? I think he said on Tuesday that the doctor had told him to start eating more.. As a result, his parents have been limiting his computer time and making him rest, which I don't mind, but I'm wondering exactly what's going on, because he hasn't told us anything much. He only gets on really late at night (for me, anyway), posts once or twice, and then gets off. D: Grrr.

Something nice (and fun) happened last night though. XD I finally got to finish up a Conversation thread and start one myself~ Woot~ XD I like starting new threads. Usagi and I spammed it at the end, it was fun. XD We go through those thread like I DON'T KNOW WHAT, though. O.o We're on number 6 already. We started number five on... April 10th, I believe, and started the new one late last night. XD;;; NOT EVEN A MONTH. THAT HAS TO BE A NEW RECORD. 8D It would have been finished today if we hadn't spammed it, anyway. Dai and Taylor assisted in the beginning, but it was allllll Usagi and me the last two pages. It was FUN, MAN. 8DDD~ Usagi is a lot of fun to spam with, she comes up with the most random funny stuff. XD

Oh, and in addition to finishing off the 5th Conversations thread, I also changed my penname. I've never been particularly happy with it, but I could never think of anything I liked better. Well, now it matches my username here. :D Taylor didn't want me to do it, but after hearing what I was going to change it to she said she was okay with it. XD She just wanted to keep the relevancy of her nickname for me. I like the Kitsune part, just not the Tsukikari part so much anymore. I found that word when I was trying to find a penname, so I just used it. Plus, it also just so accidentally happens to be one of my irl friend's nickname, so I always felt like I was copying her or something. She was the main driving force behind me joining the site (and deviantart), so I always felt like a copycat. :/ But not so much anymore~ (Although she WAS the one who suggested the tora part to me. XD) It means "The Fox's Tiger," by the way.

I finally got access to my grades today. I GOT A B IN CHEMISTRY, BITCHES. A B! I couldn't believe it. XD Horray for extra credit tests and FUCK ALL EASY finals worth lots of points, woot. XD I was failing all the way until the final, but that extra credit and the test just BOOSTED ME UP MAN~ Of course, though, my Algebra and English classes suffered because of all my Chemistry stress, and I ended up with B-s in each of those, but ehhh. I PASSED CHEM BITCHES. XDDDD <3

And of course, I got an A in Government. I wonder why I even bothered buying the book for that class, I just skimmed it the days before the test. I have no idea how anyone could do bad in that class, he gave out TONS of extra credit (seriously if you took advantage of every oppourtunity you could just fail pretty much everything and then do the extra credit and pass with a B), and the tests were SO EASY. Anyone with half a brain could answer those. I got by with mostly just his failtastic lectures and my shitty memory. XD

I've had some kind of "artistic slump" lately. I can't draw anything without it looking awkward and wrong. I can't start the fanfic I've had swimming around my head for about a month now. I have two thrown out drafts of the first chapter, one of which is only half done. I just can't start it in a way I think is well done. :/ I could probably do all the middle parts no problem, it's just the starting it that I'm having a problem with. It's frustrating. I keep up dreaming new scenes and cute ideas for the fic, but it's not going anywhere if I don't start it. But everything I come up with is boring, I don't see how it could capture any reader unless they came looking for the yaoi. It's going to be an epic tale (love story, of course XD), but that will be pointless if the first chapter is boring and doesn't attract anyone.

....Amusingly, I think I'm pretty much the only yaoi fic writer in the Rune Factory 2 fandom, sans one fic that I apparently inspired someone to write (it's dedicated to me, rofl. XD The author is such a spazz, I talked to her for a bit. Too bad it sucks, honestly. :/ She's not a very good writer). But my fic was just a pure fluff oneshot, nothing serious. This fic that I've been trying to work on is going to be a serious romance, and I'm going all the way. XD It's probably going to be the first Jake/Kyle fic, I haven't seen one posted. It's also going to be my first time writing a lemon, fweee~ (Lol I'm such a perv~) Well, except that little snippet Taylor and I tag teamed on a couple months back. That was HILARIOUS, especially with who it was on. XD We were having a forum shipping creation bonanza, and had created a shipping for Dai and Raven. Earlier (or was it the day before?) Dai had written one of his purple prose-filled yaoi shorts, and it offended whoever it was written on, I don't remember who. Mima got pissed, rofl. XD So Taylor and I gave in to the temptation and tag teamed on him and wrote one ourselves. Poor Raven, caught in the crossfire. XD We scarred him for life, we did. But he knew it was all in jest, so it ended okay~ XDDD

THIS IS INSANELY LONG SO I'M GOING TO END HERE, OKAY~? :D Hopefully I won't take a month to update this again. XD

Goodnight, digital abyss (and Dixie).