February 8, 2010
Man, too much True Blood has been messing with my head, really. I’m almost glad that we finished both seasons now. Saturday during the night I woke up to a horrible thunderstorm outside that had the windows rattling like crazy and the wind howling. And I was the only one awake!
I got kind of scared of the thunder etc. and started having weird nightmares as soon as I dozed off. I woke up several times to the weird phenomenon when you think that someone just called your name.
Then, I woke up to the sensation of someone slapping my upper back. And then finally, I was 100% sure someone was choking me with their hands but once I really opened my eyes of course there was no one. I was so pooped the next day and really grumpy.
T gave me some time to catch up on my drawing and prescribed Twilight to be watched in the evening. And really, we both lolled at how innocent Twilight is really.
Quote Stephen Moyer (“Beel”) Re: Edward Cullen: “He’s a pussy! He’s the Slim-Fast, Diet Coke of vampires.”
Well, as long as the bad dreams stop I’ll have some slim fast!
I got the first of the Sookie Stackhouse books and find it much more humorous than the actual show.
Nevertheless — come June, the season 3 will be airing AND it’s Eclipse time.
February 2, 2010
Bummer bummer bummer but I knew it. I only reached slightly more than 50% of the points in the jlpt, and you need 70% to pass. This year, they amp it up and I’ll need 80% to pass.
The only area I got good points in was listening. The third section is a total catastrophe since I ran out of time and I didn’t know a lot of things.
In order to pass you need to know the answers for everything, instantly, Be familiar with all the problems and you need to write fast. Just as fast as if someone gave you a sheet of 3rd grade math. Take a glance, write the answers down without thinking. I hope I can reach that level by December.
Bye Sherlock, hello boring ass study books.
January 28, 2010
Wow is it Thursday? Someone needs to slow down the damn time.
I’m busy putting together the city’s newspaper, which always becomes an almost-disaster towards the end before it is delivered. But I also stop to smell the flowers…err make that snooping around for fun online – I’ve started collecting macros from various silly LJ communities and dedicated a folder on my computer to them.
Since flickr is being a biatch recently about getting image URLs of my OWN PHOTOS, I went ahead and created a photobucket account for the sole purpose of spreading the fun.
A lot of those things are about Twilight. And who can blame them? haha ^^
January 25, 2010
As a therapeutic measure so to speak, I have started reading the first of the Sherlock Holmes books. I got the complete collection for a whopping 99 cents on the kindle. So far, so good.
The funny thing is that those who read the books (and I think I know several Holmes maniacs) are surprised by the way how he is portrayed in the new movie. I however, can not help picturing Jude Law and Downey Jr. when reading the story now. But those two were not too shabby. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and there’s not a single boring moment in that movie. But then again, I am always easily impressed and entertained. I heard bad things about it before, like how they had to tweak the film and re-shoot scenes because it just wasn’t “good enough”. And yes, there are trailers of the movie that contain scenes that are not in the final version of the movie…
Now the weekend is coming to an end, too bad. I could use another 1-2 days to idle and also I could use a little shopping allowance…still haven’t been to the H&M they opened just around the corner.
January 18, 2010
I have post Potter depression. I had heard about it but never believed I would have it. I, who never thought I would ever READ this stuff to begin with. I have to give it up to Mrs. R for writing the best ending possible. And my Snape mania was boiling over with excitement when there was a whole chapter about “The Prince”. I hope hope hope they’re not going to abbreviate any of this in the movies. This is gonna be my personal pr0n. OK I’m going overboard again, T may accuse me of emotional cheating.
January 13, 2010
I’m disappointed. Trying to pick up where I had left off last year, I found it’s really super hard. First, I was gonna give myself holidays from Japanese for a few weeks, actually until February. I hadn’t touched anything since Dec. 6th, the day I had the JLPT1 test.
In the past weeks, my mind totally erased many things I had studied so hard and they’re not coming back easily.
Same with the violin. I have been really struggling and it was not fun. Today I have lesson and I’m like -___________________-.
Yes, my life is easier without those two things, but I don’t want to just give them up. Luca is keepin’ the faith with his instruments and I don’t wanna be a bad rolemodel. Hopefully I will have fun doing those things again, soon.
January 8, 2010
Yesterday was a first. I never thought I’d be doing it but in search of news about Deathly Hallows and the resulting frustration I delved into the deep, dark ocean that is fanfic. There I was – one moment innocently googling for DH, then for wallpapers about Severus Snape and the next I’m reading “Snape Smut”.
I find it very unentertaining that most NC-17 fanfic is based on man-man (or man-man-man) encounters. But nevertheless, some are funny, there are no words.
My favourite one involved spontaneous self-combustion as foreplay together with the word “salami” within one paragraph.
OMG I could not stop lolling.
Severus, what are they doing to you? My private “Snape Smut” is sheer innocence compared to that!
January 6, 2010
Yesterday we returned from a 2 weeks vacation in Germany. It’s usually busy with a lot of “appointments” with friends and family. The rest of the time I feel somewhat cooped up at the house. I always have my drawing stuff etc. with me but it seems the moment never really comes around and so I come home with books unread, works untouched.
It’s OK, but I don’t get the real vacation-y feeling. But I had fun at the lavish indoor swimming pools, which is basically the only thing Cali seriously lacks. And I was able to go on a real good run twice.
Images from my 1.5 hr running trail:
I also enjoyed calls and meetings with girlfriends, of which I have far to few at home. I blame T for that but without a further explanation that would take up 4 pages Ieave it up to you to believe it or not.
I gained three kilos around my waist, at least it feels that way. I’m wearing my “fat clothes” right now.
We had snow, enough to go sleigh riding and to have me panic everyday behind the wheel.
We made this guy:
I also ran wild at H&M, they have huge sales after Xmas. My sister and I ended up buying the same dress, Yuma took our photo
…which came out weird and my sister made this:
The tarot says the future is not good…but I don’t really believe in it anyways.
This is relevant probably only to me since this church and this very gate is part of
one of Germany’s most appreciated old folktales. The gate is backdrop to one of the key scenes which unleashes all sorts of bloodshed and tragedy.
Of course nobody knows if it really happened…
Resolutions, I don’t have them. They just depress me. I just hope that finally, we will have a few uneventful weeks. T and I have some stuff to mend. I put it off until 2010 and now there’s no more excuse.
December 11, 2009
Having to go to the coin laundry seriously sucks. I occupied two 4-load behemoths at the coin laundry this morning and spent a total of $12. I think once a week won’t cut it though or I have to buy more clothes. I don’t like spending an extra $50 per month for something that used to be free (cold water used to be paid by landlord and we always washed cold).
And I’m still mad that we were told the shared machines would work when they don’t. They only pretend to be working but in reality they are utter crap.
I have to stock up now on clothes because otherwise we won’t last a whole week. And plus the trip takes over an hour so gaaah!
And there is absolutely nothing romantic about coin laundries since they are a shelter for weird guys / creepy old men.
Time to buy myself something for Xmas seeing it was payday today and since nobody is going to “stoop this low and buy something like *this*” (a quote, *this* referring to New Moon goods), I’ll just do it myself OK??
