Ahoy there! I made this post just to let new comers know that most of my entries are "friends only"! What does that mean for viewers? You won't be able to view some of my entries unless you create a Livejournal, add me, let me know you add me so I can add you back. Then you can get to see the REAL me >;D Most of the time I will make public posts and then after a week or month I will go back to those posts and make them FRIENDS ONLY/PRIVATE. The reason for this is because I get A LOT of lurkers, meaning people who read my LJ but don't have an account. I don't mind that but when you have a job and you know the whole world can read what you write, you want to try to protect it a bit. Anyways nice to meet you! Feel free to comment here and I will add you XD

Also you may of noticed my older entires from Oct 2001 - April 2008 are all private. I may go back and change them to "friends only" sometime in the future.

Fabric is washed and ready to get cut! The hardest part about Yukari's sweater/jacket thing is the details. She has ribbed fabric...and I couldn't find anything similar so I went with this fabric. It was on clearance so I can't complain. I also like the weight to it so it won't fly around all over the place. This will be kinda hot to wear since Ikasucon is in July.

I'm not a good clothing sewer..haha that's why I bought the pattern for a jacket to hopefully alter and create something that looks like Yukari's sweater. I just found out someone on Ebay is selling the whole costume..but I won't buy it. Creating the costume is part of the fun. Anyways tomorrow I will be cutting and maybe piecing it together depending how the day goes. I'm excited about this. It's been awhile since I dressed up for a con and I have friends who are also going as the main character and Junpei XD

It's raining outside ;_; So we didn't watch any fireworks. Shaun and I cleaned up the house. I cleaned the weird brown streaks off the window in our kitchen *LOL* Also rearranged some stuff, we have limited space but I was able to move the table. We just have so much junk..mostly boxes. For example I've been wanting to throw away a Nativity Scene that was given to us 3 years ago. We never used it for Christmas so we should get rid of it. Shaun doesn't want to get rid of it but he never uses it *LOL* So we decided to just donate it Goodwill along with a bunch of my old clothing I went through. Which means it will sit by the door Foooooorrreeeeeeeeevvvaaaaarrrrrr.

Then I'm going to work on kitty ears & costume for Ikasucon. I was able to get all the material I needed for my Yukari costume for $16 at JoAnns Fabrics today because of the 50% sale! I bought Genshiken vol. 5 last night and finished it. That's the bad thing about manga... you read through it too fast. Comics on the other hand take me a bit more time because of all the smaller panels. I also picked up Shelly Mazzanoble's Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress. It's pretty funny, I spotted it a year ago...then a friend showed me it when he bought it for his wife last week so now I've been wanting to read it. I'm a bit confused though, the woman works at Wizards of the Coast...so you would think she would what she's getting herself into or is already into that kind of thing.

Wow, my dream is coming true! Hmmmmmmmmm maybe we'll see magazines published over here. Now if only video games were like this *LOL* Then again I wonder if this is a bad thing?

So you LJ-ers haven't seen my new hair..nothing exciting but here you go, Behold the present Rachael! I'm going to play video games all night long today *LOL* Mainly Persona 3 and maybe some Wind Waker. It's been forever since I did a gaming session XD Drunk video gaming would be interesting too but I don't think Shaun would appreciate me being annoying ha ha. He's not here yet, he has a late late class..oh yeah, forgot I wanted to go to the book store *LOL*


( Work today )

Here's the Lain picture I've been working on. I couldn't find the file I was working on so I had to redo it. Her right eye is off, it's a copy of her left eye but her eye brows are too close together and her face is positioned oddly so her eye looks strange. I'm hoping to get this done to make some prints for Ikasucon since I"ll be in the artist alley. I also want to make a watercolor of C.C. from Code Geass. So what did you LJ friends think of episode 12? To me it felt like a filler episode but it was pretty amusing...of course the ending is like "le gasp!!" when a certain someone gets their memories back. Wow, Pizzahut is serious about Code Geass in Japan!! Too bad Pizza Hut doesn't do that here in the U.S.A.!

( I left work with a quarter of gas left in my tank. )

Oh, Shaun bought us a DVD player..omg now we can watch stuff without it skipping all the time in my PS2...also it can play avi files xD

OH and neonlexicon showed me an awesome expensive doll... I'll just have to see her's when it comes in *LOL* Ball joined dolls are cool looking but too much maintenance for me. I found something to spend my money on *LOL* I think I'm going with the ASUS laptop instead of the Cloudbook. After seeing it at the convention yesterday, it looks pretty awesome, and it will totally fit in my purse. Reading on the Netbook forum, it seems like the Cloudbook is a pain for a lot of people with installing their own OS..and they seem to be faulty. I guess that makes sense being sold at Wal-mart.

The weekend went by so fast..where did it go? ;_; So this weekend was Origins, which is a huge convention for games like board games, pen & paper. It's ran by Wizards of the Coast. I went back in 2000 and 2001, it's so weird to see it now. It's changed a lot, I'm used to seeing a bunch of MTG players sitting on the floor playing the game. I saw none, in fact barely anyone was sitting on the floor. Pokemon replaced MTG o_O;;
( One more picture and stuff I bought )

So I ran out of cards so I made this and ordered some more off of Vistaprint since they had a sale. Simple and cute. I'm trying to make my websites match so this works out.

( Getting a hair cut soon, behold, the present me. )

Random pic time.. haha I love this, it's from Ohayocon 2005. Shaun is riding on the back of my brother.

OMG...sirens are blaring... it's windy and lightening out. Shaun happened to walk outside while a cop was riding around and said "It's coming" to him. So I guess there is a bad storm brewing? Oddly there is nothing on my radar weather thingy saying it's bad weather.

XD I love Code Geass, just got done watching episode 11 of R2.. So today was free burrito day at Chipotles. A customer told me at work, and she thought I was crazy not knowing. Shaun and I dropped off DVD's at Family Video and we got to see the huge line in front of Chipotles. Crazyness! *LOL* I think the lady in the grey shirt is giving me the finger..who knows, I tried to "discreetly" take the photo with my cell phone so I wasn't really looking at the crowd.

Geez this week is flying by already. I haven't been drawing a lot, I need to really force myself to feel like drawing >.< I'm still writing before bed though which is what I need to do first anyways. I"m defiantly looking into buying better food when I get paid that is healthy and stuff that will help me keep energy. I know my diet is pretty crappy lately, eating pizza every day *LOL* Really though, it's because I"m too lazy to cook when I get home from work.

Ahh why must her ass stick so faaaaaaaaaaar out *LOL* Um anyways so I've been reading Eightball. Ugh, I"m going to end up spending too much money at the comic book store soon *LOL* Eightball has to be the weirdest comic I've ever read.. but I like it.. haha Like a Velvet Glove in Cast Iron is interesting.

Oh Shaun told me he almost drove off the road today while listen to the radio. Someone announced a potential reunite of GNR! o_O;;; Sooooooooooo I have off holidays now, July 4th. I think I'm going to buy a bunch of booze and just get really drunk *LOL* It's been forever since I got drunk. Probably 3 years? ha ha poor Shaun, I always bug the crap out of him and get into mischief. Now that would be a fun night to watch the fireworks...of course um no public intoxication.

Why am I posting again? Dammit, I should of saved this for tomorrow. Oh today at work was free ice cream day!

( Driving and a bit of wedding talk )

I can't wait until my check arrives! I have money aside for bills but now I"ll be able to buy other things like update my clothes, stuff for conventions. Finally buy material for Yukari's costume for Ikasucon 2008 and make extra kitty ears for the artist alley. Not sure if I"m bringing my PVC pipe frame because the tables are shared, it's a 8foot table that I get 4 feet of. The length of the frame I think is 5 feet. This weekend is Origins, it's such a HUGE convention.

Did you hear about the domain name thing? For example instead of Kittytreats.org I could register the word Kittytreats.kt or whatever. For some reason I thought it was just the word and not ending but I guess not. haha I really don't know a lot about domain names ^_^; I don't have a reason to make another domain so whatever.

http://www.theskull.com/javascript/ascii-binary.html

Guess what I ate today.


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You know how you get slap happy when you're tired and weird stuff amuses you? That happens at work a lot or when I'm driving home. I randomly crack up over stuff. For example I the word "Stupei" popped into my head because Yukari calls Junpei that in the game Persona 3. When I was at work trimming some stuff, I started laughing to myself because I was thinking of the weird episode 26 of Exel Saga. When Hyatt and Excel switch bodies, go to a love hotel where Exel tries to have sex with herself. o_O;;

Anyways..OMG Slayers Revolution!!! July 2nd, that's freaking amazing to me. I'm totally excited because I <3 Slayers and spent way too much money on the VHS tapes when they came out *LOL* I actually liked the dubbed version. Okay, so maybe spending too much might not be that healthy.....well at least I can follow this when it's brand new. Unlike finding Slayers when it was already done in Japan.

This is interesting, Groupieshock: The Bandmember's girlfriend survival guide. However the meat of the article won't be posted until next week >.< How misinforming of my e-mail! I always wondered what the girlfriend/wife reacts to all the fans their significant others get. I'm such a nerd, Kaguya Sumeragi (young Chinese girl who likes Zero) on Code Geass just popped into my head because of what she said about not minding that Zero has several mistresses.

Um yeah........ I said I was going to post some work but never did last night. I was going to draw some but I ended up working on some other stuff *LOL* Cleaning, what is up with mold growing all over the shower curtain? It took me forever to clean it off.

See the green box that has the odd websites in it for 404 errors? I wonder what that means. Maybe spam e-mail is spoofing my website for people to click on?

EDIT: Okay, so from what Shaun explained. A website has a a href to my website in hopes of having it redirect to their website. They don't really get anything out of it because my site just gives a 404 error instead of redirecting so in a way it's giving hits to my site o_O;; Either way, it's nothing bad..just some douche bag linking a bunch of people's sites in hopes of getting hits to their spam site.

Batman Gotham Knight - Official Trailer

This is pretty cool, it's interesting because it's anime but made for American audiences. Madhouse and a few other Japanese studios worked on it, but it was made to be an English film. Even the voice actors are wowed at the quality of the animation. I'm definatlly getting the collector's edition.

Hmmm I'm a bit worried, every day this week someone is trying to log into my Gaia account to the point where it's getting blocked temporally. They are doing it every other hour too so maybe it's a script? I shouldn't be too worried about it. I made sure my e-mail address is the right one *LOL* Just in case someone tries to reset it.

Anyways today is cleaning day... joy. Then drawing some stuff for Monkeytale. I'll try to post some goodies tonight. I also need to start working on my Lain picture and hopefully make prints of it for Ikasucon that is coming up in July. Also need to start finishing up pictures for the 2009 calendar.

I should really look into the Internet DVD rental thing the set back is having to wait for them to arrive.... and for some reason the name of the site has slipped my mind. WTF. Today Shaun and I rented Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade because we never seen it. We almost rented Batman but he's seen it a lot and I only saw it when I was what..8 years old? All I remember is the creepy laughing of the recording at the very end. We kept debating if the Joker and Harley Quinn had sex while she had her make up on *LOL* We also rented Grandma's Boy because we were told it was awesome. Since we could get 2 for $1, (Indiana Jones is from a different section so we can only have it for one night) I eyed Amelie, I've been wanting to watch it for a long time so I thought might as well rent it now.

Oh and I have to tell you something hilarious there. Pirates, the porno movie is in the P section. I wanted to take a picture with my cell phone but the aisle is right in front of the cashier desk so I don't think the employees would be happy with me snapping pictures of their DVD cases. However it won't stop me from taking the DVD and switching it with Pirates of the Caribbean movie >:D

It's Friday, I'm glad to have off, sleep in tomorrow. I found a $25 gift card to Cracker Barrel, so that's where Shaun and I are having supper at. It's been forever since I had a nice meal. I've been living off ramen. Ramen at work, ramen at home *LOL* I wanted to buy Genshiken Vol 5 but my check didn't arrive yet. So looks like I won't be paid until next pay period since my manager forgot to add my hours in >.

Have you ever walked into a room or some public place where you feel someone giving you an icy, disapproving stare for no reason at all? That happened to me today and it bugged the crap out of me while driving home. I was catching the bus-van to transport me to my car to go home from work. Catching means, the van happened to load the last person as I appeared in the driver's vision so he waited for me to hop on. I only took about 30 seconds to get on. As I plop down on the chair, across from me sits an older woman. I glance up and caught the most meanest, nastiest glare-stare EVER from this bitch woman. I didn't say anything and just stared out the window waiting to get off the bus fidgeting with my purse.... but the lady was still looking at me off and on. UGH. Being stared at with no smile is the worse thing ever. It eats at you thinking "Do I look strange? Am I not wearing the right clothing? Do I smell? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?". OH well, maybe this job will make me come out of my shell...or just go postal *LOL*

In other news, my Comics Buyer's Guide arrived today :) It has an interesting article about Batman: Gothan Knight, is is anime or American animation? I have yet to see this show so now I'm intrigued.