Happy to FINALLY announce my damn blog is now hosted on wordpress WITH a custom template made by myself ^^! It was a LOT of work… and hopefully I won’t have to make another for quite some time. I’m fairly happy with the current theme though. I wanted something simple but dynamic. I was originally going to go with an “underwater” theme with fishies….but it looked too plain and fairly ordinary… still cute though ^^.

I think maybe I’ll finish it up and throw it on DS? Would just be a waste to scrap it T-T.

Ummmmm also I’ve started breeding my betta fish XD. After many months of preparation and planning I’ve finally gotten my breeding tank set up ^^. Right now I have Kyo (so named for is crazy ice blue eyes and randomly blue spotted body) and Chii (so named…cause she’s cute XD) as a match… and I’m hoping for some babies by the end of the week. Unfortunately all I can do is keep up the proper breeding conditions for the two of them and hope they hit off D:. If not I’ll have to try another pair T-T. I have my halfmoons being shipped over all the way from Thailand tomorrow ^^! So if all else fails I’ll get started on them within the next two weeks. Straight out, I want baby fish ^^. And once I have them everyone will be getting a special little fishie present as I’ll have about 400 of them XDDD.

Please pray for my successful fish breeding T-T…. and if anyone wants a free fish let me know XD. I’m sure I’ve gone fish crazy by now :P.

As far as other accomplishments go, DS is finally back online again! Took a week with the flu for me to find enough time to effen finish coding up enough of it to link everything back up. It’s not quite 100% though D: Still I’ve been working reeeeeeaaallly hard on it! Definitely most proud of the media section ^^. It’s like a mini jrock youtube XD.
I am a little peeved lately though. Effen Josh of Hikaru Hoshi has been stealing a lot of my content ideas… like parts of my media section that I’ve worked so hard on D:

Hooray for posting! Well I’ve had quite a busy weekend ^^. Birthday, Wedding and Easter all in a row! By now it’s really taken it out of me -.-

Friday it was Joe’s cousin’s 30th so I was somewhat obligated to attend her surprise party after I got out of work (at effen 9:30 T-T). Really… I didn’t plan on drinking… with a wedding the next day it didn’t seem like a smart move. BUT I tend to ignore proper logic when it comes to situations like this and ended up getting completely wasted. Fun fun ^^! I blame most of it on Joe. Very rarely do I get to go out and have a good time with him so no regrets on taking the opportunity… Until the massive headache I suffered the next day T-T.
NOTE: Don’t get drunk before a wedding. I had to get up early, take lots of Tylenol and re-dye/bleach my hair within the small time frame of one hour before the entire house hold rushed to shower. Some how I was able to accomplish everything with more than enough time to spare… but still an effen head ache. My hair is sexy now ^^.

Soooo with my crazy new head and dressed up in my usual funeral black for every special and happy occasion I suffered through a night of horribly cheese music, old ladies staring at me, drunken relatives, and my inability to even enjoy the free high class food with my hangover still lingering. Seriously one of the cheesiest weddings I’ve ever been too though. They played no music that extended beyond 1995, it was driving me crazy. Makes me realize how picky and difficult finding a DJ will be for my wedding… which is still years away so I won’t bother with the details now ^^. Definitely the only really awesome thing was the venetian hour. Chocolate fountains, waffles and ice cream, cotton candy, crepes… everything o.o it was all pretty too ^^.

Annnnd the next day was not only easter…. but I had work as well T-T. I really didn’t think people would be rushing out to Petco on easter Sunday but apparently I was wrong. I guess easter sunday seems like a good time to start up a freshwater aquarium to a lot of people. I was completely beat by the end of the night… and I missed out on HAM D:!! Ham is the only reason I “celebrate” easter. That and the chocolate bunnies that the easter bunny *cough*Joe*cough* never brings so I have to gout out to CVS the day after and get them on clearance XD.

Sooo in short my weekend sucked and I learned many valuable lessons:
1. Don’t get hammered the day before a wedding where you will be getting hammered again.
2. Any day is a good day to buy a pet fish! No matter how inconvenient and illogical it may be.
3. Don’t count on the easter bunny to bring you chocolate after the age of like 10, the sad sucky truth T-T.

A while since I’ve updated anything… or even finished converting to wordpress for that matter XD. Work has some how taken over most of my time and life…. but I’m in the process of changing that. Lots of stuff I need to catch up with concerning both my websites and even school T-T. Tons going on in the school department as well. I’m having a hard time getting a loan without a cosigner for this years trip back to Japan…. so frustrating ><…. but I WILL get there!! Even if I have to steal the money XD. Soooo… Commissions anyone? I’m sure I’ll be in over-drive for the next few months looking for ways to make some extra money on the side with commissions. My prices for things are also going to be raised. My time is precious these days and I can’t afford to be “nice” when it comes to pricing my services anymore XD. I do miss the good old days where I had nothing to do except sit on my ass in front of the computer and code/CG/bullshit. Perhaps one day I’ll be able to enjoy that again.
But for now, lots of work to be done. Here is my current list of things to do (in no particular order):

1. Finish version 11 of Deadeyes-star.com
2. Finish existing web commissions and make room for others.
3. Complete wordpress setup for blog.
4. Revamp Endless-seasons.com

Sort list, but within each of those tasks are much longer to-do lists. I’m hoping in the next couple of months I can knock most of this out. We’ll see how it goes ^^.

Well… Should be known by now that I have a part time job at Petco ^^. Working in a pet store is really not work at all XD. Needless to say every once an a while the animals do cute things ^^. And with the help of my iphone I’ve captured a couple, so I thought I’d share XD. (NOTE: iphone camera isn’t the best sooo things are a little blurry T-T).

Croutching Tiger, Hidden Shrimp

Fat sleeping Robo Ham XD

Pile of Hams.

Wow, been a long time since I posted anything o_O! I should… go back and look at wtf I posted last time… but I’m really that lazy right now.
So no my lack of posting hasn’t been for laziness issues. Mainly I’ve just been overly busy. Quite a change XD.
I don’t remember… if I mentioned I work part time at Petco now… but I do XDD. Only like 4 days a week but it still gets exhausting. I’m quite enjoying my job though. All those years of owning one of every animal in existence finally pays off. I basically take care of animals all day… and answer lots of questions. Down side is I’ve picked out like 2938752985 animals I’d like to bring home now XD. I got a new HAM! He’s soooooo cute and thankfully doesn’t bite like my other ham. ATTACK HAMMY! I named him cotton ball… cause that’s what he looks like :3! I also got another betta fish XD. I was so heart broken when my mother killed Gabriel ToT I actually didn’t want a new fishie for a while… but another girl at work found showed me a white crown tail with a hint of moon glow… so I had to get him XD. No other new little friends to report on… and hopefully there won’t be any more any time soon ( if I can help it ).
Besides all that theres been school… but I only have class once a week now! Kind of like it that way, 4 days of work, 1 day of school, 2 days to myself (*cough*internetalldaylong*cough*). I think it’s a fair enough balance.

Ummm… I think I might actually re-do this site… like I don’t have enough projects going on now XD. I think I’d like to upgrade to wordpress though. Just has so much more then cutenews.. and right now I have that stupid division zero error thingy or something going on that I’m really just not motivated enough to fix XD. Not to mention I could use a new layout. My current band obsessions are Alice Nine and SUG… which one will win the battle as Manda’s new layout theme?! Who knows, who cares, depends what kind of pretty pictures I find…. I’m thinking most likely alice nine… in a style to match my new myspace layout. I’ll get to it eventually.
Annnnd Kai and I have been putting a lot of thought into the future of DS. We have a good plan for the next layout design and I’m working on getting the template done for phpbb3 version of the forums so I can start on it. Still so much left to do… but it’ll all pay off ^^.

I… have nothing else left to talk about now… and I’m really tired XD. End.

YAY time for me to update on nothing going on XD. Actually I do have some good news. I kinda got a job ^^. And when I say “kinda” I mean the store isn’t actually open yet and I haven’t started training so I just feel like I shouldn’t say definitely XD. Buy anyway, yeah Petco finally called me last week and set up an interview. I had actually lost all hope at this point being that I applied so long ago T-T. BUT hooray for interview out of the blue. The whole interview process went well I think. They don’t care much about the color of my hair like my last job, and it’s ok if I just plug my piercing ^^. Thankfully they’re not uptight about small details like that -.- I do have to go shopping now though for normal looking clothes o_O. I need like…some crappy payless shoes and khaki pants XD. The training itself starts in a few weeks. They’re car pooling us all the way to Brooklyn o_O. Then we get to put together the store before it opens *glee*. BUT it pays $8.50 an hour starting, so I’m quite happy ^^. My Japan savings shall start immediately XD.
Also registered for classes again. Sociology and Psychology T-T. It’s part time though so don’t think it’ll really build up too much. Annnnd as soon as class starts we shall begin the process of once again getting my ass to Japan for July next year XD. Shouldn’t be so bad the second time around though. Since I’ve already submitted the professor recommendations and transcripts from last year I don’t have to do it again ^^. Just have to write a short little essay on why I’d like to go back. Annnd I’m dragging Joe with me this time XD. I really wouldn’t be able to go 6 months without him I think. He wanted to do the program anyway, he’ll just be staying an extra 3 months longer then originally planned. I’m sure we’ll also end up spending Christmas and new years in Tokyo as well. I really can’t wait till next year

HAH! yes it has been a VERY long time since I’ve written anything XD. I’ve been home from Japan a month now T-T. As you can see I didn’t get to update as much while I was there as I wanted to… mainly because I lacked a computer of my own so I didn’t get much online time. I was also far more busy everyday then I thought I would be. Very little free time ^^. But… I had so much fun! Everyday was a party XD. And I can speak pretty decently now. I’m definitely planing on going back next year for the 6 month program starting in July. SO I now have till then to make as much money as I possibly can T-T. I’d rather not have to completely go on student loans.

Well besides me obviously being back, I updated the effen gallery section for once XD. Yup, lots of Japan pics can be found in the Japan gallery now. And I added a few in other categories randomly, just look around I guess. Still have so much more to add still… it’s been such a long time. Hopefully I’ll remember not to neglect my own site anymore.

So what’s been up lately? not much ^^. I’ve been working on a web commission and DS is going though a re-vamp. Both at the same time proves to be rather difficult. On top of that we got a new litter of kittens ^^! 3 more, 2 black and white and one all black. So that’s a grand total of 11 cats in the house at the moment T-T. My allergies are killing me o_O. I’ll post up pictures soon :D.

Ah…well its going on 6 am now so I’d say it’s time I try to sleep. Night!

Hooray, time for another not so often seen update from yours truly. Soooo Golden week vacation is all over now T-T very sad. The only exciting thing that happened was the Plastic Tree concert on Friday. First show in Japan ^^. I can say with great confidence that going to lives in Japan is so much better then in America. Theres definitely a lot of pushing but on one is trying to kill you o_O. Seriously the fangirls here aren’t rabid so it’s possible to actually enjoy the show without some retard screaming bad Japanese in your ear and trying to climb over you to touch the vocalists crotch. Wonderful change, I want more lives T-T.
Shone is going to be coming to Japan this month! So we’re gonna drag him out with us and go to Tokyo Disneyland ^^! I’m actually really happy about it, I’m hoping Shono will help me a lot more with my Japanese. Like being in Japan you really do learn a lot in school and just living here…but that doesn’t make it easy at all to make actual local Japanese friends, mainly because at level one (and Liz at level 2) it’s still difficult making conversation (with hot guys *cough cough*) XD.
It’s really funny though, Liz was looking into a colleg in NY that offers advanced Japanese courses and they have like a quiz thingy up to test what year of Japanese you should apply for….and being here only 1 month my Japanese language skills are as high as someone whose taken 2 years worth of Japanese courses in America….I effen love KCP.
School is horribly busy. KCP is seriously the hardest Japanese language school in Japan…with good reason. But holy crap it’s amazing how much they shove into your head in such a short amount of time. I’m pretty sure once I go back to the US I’m gonna start applying for a visa to do the 6 month program next year so I can probably get up to level 3…and at level 4 you’re considered fluent. I’ve been thinking about maybe going to a University here once I can pass the fluency test…but I’ll decide on that at a more appropriate time.
for now…stupid stuff going on at KCP:

(student formed) KCP slogans:
-Minna no fajita
-Minna no Rocky party
-60 cm of excellence
-This is a 5 tree situation
-Only in Roppongi is it a 6 tree situation
-”Just relax and stick it in”
-issho ni hakimashou!
-peeshimasu!
-nani wo sutteimasu ka?
-Tanaka-san says “stay away from Japanese beef with cars”
-Do the benkyou!
-let’s yukai Kagesawa -Lets go to the erebeetaa
-sou ja arimasen. techou desu!
-What time is korea open till?
-RICECRACKER

Lots of these require much explaining…but I’ll get to that in time XD. I effen love KCP.

w00t. So just thought I’d post a happy little random update thingy. Ummmmmm So we took a trip to Kamakura last weekend. Tons of fun, I’ll have pictures once I recieve my camera wire in the mail -.-
We went to a bunch of temples and stayed in a Yokan. The Yokan was awesome. Public bath and everything :P. We saw the statue of the Great Buddha and also took a small day trip to Enoshima (the miami beach of Japan *rolls eyes*). Again, tons of crazy pictures of awesome stuff….but must wait for my camera wire to arrive so I may upload T-T.
Sooo this week in Japan is Golden week! Which means lots of sales and tons of people everywhere….and lots of time off of school. We have off tomorrow (monday) and then thursday through sunday. I’m sure you could expect I’ll do a lot of shopping (and drinking XD) with my time off. On saturday I discovered the cracked out fun of going to Karaoke and getting drunk…I never understood the amusement in such a thing…until now. Probably do it again tonight…:D

Oh…and happy birthday to me btw XD. April 22…almost forgot my own birthday.

OMG! yes finally Ive gotten some computer access. Excuse me if Im my typing/english is poor at the moment, Im on a japanese overload and Japanese keyboards are really messed up so its a little difficult to type. Soooo lets see. My first day here was utter hell. 14 hours on a plane…then like 4 more hours at the airport going though immigration and waiting for Kuniisan to get the other students…the dragging like 70lbs of luggage on the Trains…which we had to take past Kanagawa to Shibuya (I think) then someone finally met us to take us back on the trains to our dorm…which is at the top of a HUGE hill which we had to drag all of our luggage up…and then finally we arrived at like 9 T-T. The next day we took the placement tests and stuff lol Im in level one of course. AND with our free time Liz and I went to Harajuku to go shopping…on a sunday so it was really crowded…but I bought a cute skirt from putumayo and the girl who worked in there spoke english so she was like stalking us to talke XD. AND I got to finally see the H. naoto store!!! I think I might go invest in like a $300 outfit XD. Liz and I bought cute backpacks from the naoto store for school….muahahaha and they have match outfits that I really just might buy. Im all in a shopping mood here but I know I must resist.
Class started on Tuesday…and holy crap…Damn Koreans know everything we are learning…so the class is at kind of a fast pace. Im told it will start to slow down in another week or so cause theyll start teaching stuff even the Koreans dont know lol. I think Im also like the youngest person in the school. Everyone is like 28, 30, 26 etc…and Im still 20 XD. We’re going to Kamakura next weekend (weekend of my birthday) I think to stay at a traditional inn and see a shrine or something. I think itll be a nice way of spending my 21st. One of our advisors, Tanakasan, is SO effen funny. Hes so serious but humerous at the same time. We plan on getting him drunk and making him sing Karaoke with us XD.

I dont have any pictures to post yet as I forgot my Camera cable and I have to wait for Joe to send it XD. Ill probably start posting in a week or two. For now I must go to class (its 12:00 in the afternoon here btw…and probably like 2 am in the states XD). Sooo I have class in a half an hour. I will update soon I hope.