The World Would Be a Better Place If There Were More ABBA...

I have come to the conclusion that I cannot sew ANYTHING without severely fucking up somewhere along the way.

WHY THE FUCK IS IT SO HARD TO JUST FIND MY FUCKING SCHOOL SCHEDULE ON YOUR WEBSTITE?

Getting things done for AFO now. We are apparently now going to stay at the AFO hotel and are hilariously cramming a ton of people into a hotel room, making the cost only come out to $15 a person XD. Me and Gerald's panel, "Win Gerald Rathkolb's Anime" will be at 4 PM, Saturday, so you all should totally come, because I doubt you'll be doing anything else. :P

( To Do List... )

There is duct tape covering the hole in my shoe. I officially feel super poor. D:

Got my summer Tamaki outfit done tonight, all except for the zipper, which I need to get from Joann's. The FATHER shorts are pretty epic. I should be wearing them at AFO for a short period, if anything to get some hilarious pictures by the pool. XD

I REALLY wanted to work on wigs tonight, but I really need new razors because I used up the last of mine while working on all the wigs for Otakon, and Sally's is too far for me to walk to it. I REALLY need them ASAP, because I have to get an Orihime wig done for someone this weekend at AFO, and I also wanted to get Kevin's Borus wig done, so I could give it to him them and get the money for it and Parn. :/

In extra exciting news, I have to work through both the lunch AND dinner shifts tomorrow (11:30-6:00), which should be pretty awful. The sneakers that I wore to work now have a hole in one of them, but I may go back to wearing them jsut because the other 2 pairs of shoes I've tried wearing to work have left my feet in utter agony, which definitely doesn't help when I have to walk 20 minutes to and from work. T____T

So I got this charming message today on Myspace:

hey beatiful.. well wow what can i say... u look fucking gorgeous... im not to sure if you want to have anything to do with guys considering ur bi and most bi girls prefer other girls...but in case im wrong n u wanna talk just drop me a message

APPARENTLY BI GIRLS ONLY WANT TO TALK TO OTHER GIRLS. Or maybe they just don't want to talk to guys that are retarded. XD

So I FINALLY went through all the cute Japanese Pokemon designs and picked out some that I really liked. I have come to the conclusion, by the way, that I automatically will always pick out the boys to cosplay. It seems to come natural. X__x

I will definitely be rewearing my Mudkip Lolita-Princess for AWA, but some of these are just SO cute I may be tempted to make one...

I actually don't know all of the Pokemon (or can't remember, it's been over a year since I even picked up Diamond, and I never played anything between Diamond and Silver)



( More Pokemans Under the Cut )

Oh yeah, and Nikki called me tonight to give me a really god story from Otakon. Apparently on Saturday while they were in their Tsubasa costumes in an elevator, they were told that they had "The Best Costumes he'd ever seen", by a Japanese man. Later, Nikki found out that it was apparently the producer of Cardcaptor Sakura. So she said that now the wig I made for her is sort of famous, or something.

Speaking of which, I'm really kicking myself for not thinking earlier (I thought of it Tuesday night when they were leaving crack of dawn on Thursday) that I should have had more business cards made for Danger Zone Productions for Nikki and Laina, since they'd be wearing wigs by me. Apparently Nikki got lots of compliments on the Sakura wigs I made for her. DDD:

After a LOT of hassle, I managed to get SIX wigs done for Otakon. And I'm not even going, lol! Fai wig for Laina, 2 Tomoyo wigs for Nikki's friend Joani, and 3 Sakura wigs for Nikki. Nikki wound up borrowing a bunch of my wig heads to transport them, so the stairs balcony at my place looks a lot emptier. XD

Gerald is also gone for Otakon, meaning I have the house to myself. I don't have any huge plans, except maybe FINALLY playing Persona FES (T____T), and working on Jin, which I started last week. I'm going to try to get him done for AFO, but there's no huge rush, considering I wouldn't have anyone else I could really wear him with, since my gothic lolita princess hasn't got to start on her costume yet and my hippie Jesus will be working.

Speaking of AFO, I was only planning on going Saturday this year, to host a panel, but decided to go for Saturday and Sunday, since I'll have a free weekend pass anyway. Gerald and I are will be running our new panel "Win Gerald Rathkolb's Anime", ripped off of "Win Ben Stein's Money". It should be fairly hilarious, I'm looking forward to it.

So who else is going to AFO, what days, and what are your costume plans. I'll be in my Mudkip Lolita Princess-chan on Saturday, and maybe Jin on Sunday. If not, I'll figure out something cool to wear. POSSIBLY EVEN NORMAL CLOTHES WHO KNOWS.

I also uploaded this song, which I thought you would enjoy greatly: http://www.sendspace.com/file/brzgt3

So Miko and I did a photoshoot this morning with one of the photographers we met from the Model Mayhem Meet and Greet. It was really awesome! The guy was really nice and we wound up going to three different locations, with 2 different outfit changes. And then he wound up sending me 2 preview shots only a few hours afterwards! :)

So here's what he sent me, I can't wait to see the rest!



( Full Size and Some Solo Shots Under the Cut )

I also wanted to give a BIG THANK YOU to everyone that gave me birthday wishes via phone, internet, and in person, it meant a lot! ♥

I've been way to busy to really make a LJ post, but I finally finished with my summer semester on Tuesday, so I have a glorious 3 and a half weeks off before I go back for Fall. :)

First off, in between working on wigs, I've been playing around with Photoshop. As much as I liked the Ouran wallpaper I made, it was way too busy for my tastes, so I had to make myself a powerful replacement:



EDIT Laina pointed out that no one would know where the picture for this wallpaper came from (and honestly I'm surprised no one has asked), but it comes from Berserk. It's actually pretty subtle, just in the background of the panel. Fuck, I love Berserk. ♥END EDIT

Nikki also requested some icons of her new Sakura costume, so I made some:




I also have been meaning to put this up on here, since I haven't really told anyone that I'm not close to but I am NOT going to be able to attend Dragoncon this year. I had some offers to help me out with paying as a birthday gift, but no matter what, it's still going to be too expensive for me, since I can barely manage enough money for bills every month. So I am just going to concentrate on going to AWA, which I'm sure I'll have lots of fun at, and will cost a lot less than D*Con. I'm hoping to be able to make it to next year's, though; I'm pretty bummed about not being able to go...

Been pretty busy today. I cleaned up around the house (I may actually attempt to finally put in those stupid Ikea drawers that I bought months ago). The process involved me getting VERY angry at the shitty linoleum in our front foyer, which even after I Swiffer Mopped it AND got down on my hand and knees and scrubbed at it STILL looks dirty. My goal is to get my room and the spare room cleaned up by tomorrow, before I have to go to work. Let's see if I can actually do it...

P.S. I've been meaning to post this HILARIOUS video that showed up on my friends page, twice. Once through a fellow cosplayers, and the other through caplock_zutara, where an unbelievable amount of people were complete FAGGOTS, saying stuff like:
I FEEL LIKE I LOST SOME BRAIN POINTS WATCHING THAT.
*HAS THE URGE TO GO ALL MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 ON IT*

and

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?
"GET ME SOME WATER THAT I CAN TORCH?"
WHUUUUUUTTTT????

THE AVATAR FANDOM IS GETTING SUCKED INTO A BLACK HOLE.

I felt the urge to tell the community at large that they were being faggots and to lighten up, but I think I made my comment too late for anyone to actually see it. XDDD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmlpg0CR2w#

For some reason, Youtube is refusing to post the link from their site, so I just had to copy and paste the link...

Fuck. I am so tired of breaking down into tears.

So I was going through the pictures from Meredith's honeymoon to Japan pics that she gave me so I could use them for my Photoshop project, and she took SO MANY PICTURES OF THE DELICIOUS FOOD. After looking at these pictures for some time, I actually wound up going down to the kitchen and making myself some ramen and tea, the most asian-like foods in the house. XD

But yeah, I somehow need to shit out this project by next week. I sorted all the possible pictures into files, but I need to brainstorm some more before I get any definite ideas. But yeah, it's due on Monday, so I guess I better shit it out quickly... D:

So I somehow lost my thumb drive last night when I had it in the lab, to this morning when I went back to the lab at 9:15 and realized it was gone. Which included my Illustrator project that was due for my 5:30 class. As an added bonus, I was unable to escape from classes until 3:00, giving me a whopping 2 and a half hours to redo the whole thing.

It didn't come out TOO awful, because I had already figured out the majority of it the day before, so redrawing my illustrations weren't too hard, but I didn't get the other side of the cd booklet I was designing done at ALL, and it was pretty obvious. I almost started crying in front of the class during critique when I was explaining the situation. Luckily, the teacher was pretty understanding, since he knows I can't work on Illustrator at home and he had seen my progress on it the week before. I'm going to email him tonight to see what can be done about it...

On a note that's NOT totally depressing and exhausting (which I am getting PRETTY tired of being as of late >___<), Alina, who made a guest appearance at Metrocon (and somehow managed to do more work than some of our ACTUAL cosplay "volunteers") posted some of the powerful pictures she took at Metro. Including this treasure:



I'm very excited to see the pictures taken on Nikki's camera of me and Laina rolling around in our Berserk costumes (taken in the hotel lobby).

Oh yeah, and Avatar finale was pretty sexy. Although Aang was a whiny bitch and I demand a cartoon sequel movie that has nothing to do with M. Night Shyamalan.

EDIT: Does anyone have any plans on hitting up Joann's this week? I feel like I should take advantage of all the SUPER COUPONS going on. :/

So Laina surprised me by stopping by school today and giving me a new pair of iPod headphones. She looked for them in orange (my favorite color), but they didn't have any so she got my them in "Cool Mint", or "Mudkip Colored". I got really excited when I went to plug them into my iPod shuffle, which IS orange, and realized that I now own a Mudkip iPod. :3

So I accidentally ripped apart one of my iPod headphones today when Gerald was picking me up. It got caught in the bench and when I stood up, it wound up ripping it apart. This really sucks, I really have a hard time working without music, and I am going to have to be at school all day today, from 9:45am until 8:00pm. :(

I also love how even if I wanted to go down to Best Buy sometime during the day, I pretty much can't do it because it would take way too long by bus.

Just got this comment on one of my Tamaki costumes on ACP, and I could not stop laughing...



Also, I made myself a wallpaper for my Photoshop class, which came out pretty cute. If anyone wants the full size, let me know and I'll send it your way. :)

( Cut So As Not to Disrupt Your Friends Page )

So I was going to get 2 of the Ivy wigs from Cosworx for Tomoyo wigs, but they're otu of stock in black right now. D:

I REALLY like the Ivy wigs because the fibers are super nice and don't tangle with each other, especially after spraying some detangler in them. I haven't really come across any other long wigs that I approved of.

So I was just wondering, where has everyone bought their super long wigs for cosplay, and were they any good? :/

Oh man, listening to the latest Persona 3 drama CD that came out. Fucking sexy. IF ONLY I KNEW WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE SAYING. Some girl said something about them TOTALLY confessing their feelings, but I'm pretty positive she was being delusional. XD I really hope someone translates it, though...



I've been asked about what I want for my birthday this year, so I made a list to post on here. I'm REALLY broke right now, so I'm really hoping for some Joann's cards. I got some of those for Christmas last year and they were super helpful, I was able to stretch them out all the way until April this year.

Anyway, I was wanting...

-Joann's Giftcards
-Wig Stand (another one, so I can style one wig while dying another)
-Lancome Color Ideal Foundation
-A website address paid for so I can start an actual webpage for Danger Zone Productions
-iPod Headphones
-Venture Brothers Season 2

THANKS.