Random Ramblings

Argh. After 4 hours of work, grocery shopping, and a 40 minute bike ride (to test out a route), I'm... just BEAT. DX Augh, so stupid. I totally screwed myself over with that damn 2 hour tour the other day. XD BLAR.
Good side is, Mom says I'll get used to it. I sure hope so.
I just felt a lot more shaky on my bike today, and I felt every bump in the road... I don't know if it's because I was trying riding with my lock bungeed on to the back (because of more weight) or if it was that I was tired, or if I knocked something out of place when I went over this one bump (because it felt fine after I hit that bump again XD) of if I didn't warm up, or maybe the road was just bumpier. XD I think it's all of the above.
Augh.

Also, yesterday I was thrown onto the drive-thru window at work, so I had to learn that. D: SO hectic. At least this other guy was taking the orders- I just made change and handed out food. Today, however, was SUPER slow, and I was assigned to clean- EVERYTHING. I swept the dining room like 3 times, wiped the tables on rotation, cleaned windows, learned how to do dishes... XD Lucky me, though, I got off 10 minutes early, actually... And, I met the dreaded district manager. XD He was nice to me, but he doesn't know me, either... I've heard horror stories. D:

Gar. I can only hope that I can recover. I'm probably working my body too hard, now. God, I just need to figure out a balance - because I want to build up my strength, and endurance for work and biking, but if I keep at this pace, I'll just murder myself in the process, and that's not gonna help!
AGH. XD

I guess, I'm just a mess of finding out my shortcomings lately, and I'm not liking it too much. XD I try to keep a positive self-image, a can-do, I can do anything I set my mind to, I'm beautiful and smart and talented and awesome, attitude, and reality is kicking me in the ass everywhere I go. T^T So I guess, I want to be as awesome as I wish I was... *sigh* So I'm trying to work at it, only to prove I'm ultra-fail.

I can't even play MGS3 worth shit anymore. XD But I think that's just because I'm out of practice. So, me hunting all those small animals yesterday has a purpose!!! It does!!!
D8! I'm going to have to play more often, so my food doesn't go bad!!!!!! DDDD8
Hm, motivation. : ]

Also, reading FMA makes me want to get back to the Envy costume... I just need to find appropriate patterns. I want it to be a swimsuit~ so I'm going to have to learn how to sew that material~...
And figure out how to make that top so that it closes smoothly, because it would honestly not go over my head.
Also, need to figure out that fucking insane wig. GAH, human hair doesn't do that. D: I'm seriously considering making it out of another material. Like fake leaves, since I've heard people snickering on the internet that he's a palm tree. XD
And I need to pay a visit to the hardware store, and the military surplus store, for my Pyro costume. GOD I want to make that flamethrower so bad. XD Hey, you think I can get a big thing of pretzels at like, the dollar store? Where do they sell those at?
8|... So much to do, so little physical capability. XD

And sorry for the long post. I figure, I haven't posted in awhile, so I can post more than normal, yeah? XD I'll stop it if I keep it up, or if you have complaints - feel free to comment if you do. XD

So, I was looking at pictures of our previous Hellsing cosplayage (WHICH I DESPERATELY NEED TO POST. D:) and my sister was looking on. She came up with something that I was like "Oh... hmm... D:"
She's considering cosplaying Schrodinger.
While I think she'd actually make an absolutely perfect Schro, I actually suggested it when I was cosplaying Girlycard, and I love the catboy to death, and it'd be really WTF but also cute if we cosplayed together (MORTAL ENEMIES BWAHAHA)...
He's a Nazi. D: Hitler Jugend, whatever.
So... hrrm. I know people have cosplayed as him before and not gotten shot or anything, I just worry. She wouldn't go so far as to have a nazi armband- she was considering putting a demented smiley on it instead of a swastika- and otherwise, it's not too bad...?
My main consideration is my parents. I have no idea if they'd let her do it. I'm afraid to ask. D8

Nnnyerrgg.. WHY, Hirano, WHY?! XD

I've been jonesin' to do this costume:
http://www.court-records.net/arts/postcard_18.png
Because it will be AWESOME. XD
And the thought came up today of doing my hair like that, instead of getting a wig...
What do you guys think?
I've been meaning to get my hair cut, once Spring starts - so I could do a trial-run like this... XD
Of course, Erin pointed out that dyeing my hair like that would probably be classified as abuse, what with its current issues. XD But, I HAVE always wanted to give it a shot... XD XD XD

ALSO!!!
I've had this sneaking little dream of a dream... maybe I'm a foolish fool full of foolishness, but I want to do a cosplay. As in, on stage. Of Boot to the Head.

I'd therefore be the overly emotional sister Jenny, my sister's thought of doing the costume for Angel/Mrs. Mulroy (with less cleavage, though. 0_=), and I know Erin wants to cosplay as Edgeworth someday... :B
I thought of the most adorable thing EVER though-
You could get Chris to be Phoenix. 8D
IT'D BE ADORABLLLLLLE. XD XD XD XD
YOU SHOULD TOTALLY DO IT!!!!!

I don't know who we could get for Godot or the wimp, but yeah...
XD XD XD

Ok, enough foolishness. Just some thoughts. :B

...Damn, I need a Phoenix Wright icon. XD

Sorry guys, this is the last of it. D8 I'm sorry for your eyeballs and brains- please forgive me. D:

Sunday-Wednesday, but mostly Wednesday (New Years Eve):( Games, cleaning, Cowla, detiorating mental state, Cons, trip-plans, MSI cd, and much story-writing/planning. )


It took me 3 hours to get all my shit in order on the internet... XD Neglecting it for a week does that to you. Sorry to just 'check out' like that. I don't know why- I could have gone on, I just didn't feel like it. I've been pretty apathetic.
NOW, I'm totally stressed out. AKDGKADSG.
I have $100 in my bank account. DDD8 But then I realized, I still have savings, the money from AMA that I earned, money from Grandma, and I will get some money from Crystal from my cat-sitting job. So I SHOULD be OK. XD That should come to around... $320? Or so? But $90-130 of that (depending on how much of the job money I save) being savings which I'd rather not spend. I should be good until my loan comes in, though, so I should just chill. ^_^;;

But I have to finish cards and presents and are we going to Stafford on Saturday? and mom wants to help me clean my room, but I'll be gone on Saturday then [LOL!], and I haven't got my bookshelf up and it's 10 days until school starts and there's so many things I haven't done yet on my to-do list and my comic is super behind and I haven't even drawn my Holidays card yet for everyone and my god I have a huge fucking headache. 0_0

I think I need to take some Tylenol, drink some water, eat some crackers, and chillax. And get to sleep.
Gack, and I should work on that one thing.... yeah. D:

STRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! DDD8
"Why hello there? Why did you decide to come and play NOW YOU FUCKING BASTARD?!"

In good news, today was spent with pancakes for breakfast, an excursion to an awesome store downtown that I most definitely have to visit again (and will rave about when I am at liberty to do so ;D), and visiting Cowla, who is doing fine. Her shoulder lump is gone!
Also, interesting discussions with my mom about fame, popularity, politics, the stupidity that some people have, music... a whole slew of things.
I also found out my dad listened to Led Zeppelin. LOLWUT. XD

Also, creepy Hellsing trailer is creepy. XD

All I have to say is WTF-
WTF is with the computer voice?
WTF AWESOME animation
WTF AWESOME MUSIC OMG
WTF are they totally, um, referencing the whole "CHANGE" campaign thing...? D:
LOLWUT
OH MADHOUSE. YES, MAD CAN.

Mmmhmm....

And GAH! I still have yet to watch OVA 2&3 on my TV! D: I watched the special features on my computer (well, some of them.) but... yeah. Need to do...

I took my own advice (Tylenol/water/food trifecta) and am feeling better already. XD Thank god.

ALRIGHT! Now all that remains is to post me sketch up on DA.... :B

WHAT?!

Thanks to going to the papercraft panel at Nekocon, I found out that 4chan is actually not all bad. WHAT?! XD At least, /po/ isn't. [ http://zip.4chan.org/po/imgboard.html ] :P Papercraft and Origami ftw~!

8D
I just found a pattern to make a Tommy gun.
8D
An M1A1, but you could put the drum on it...
8D
THANK YOU ANON. I LOVE YOU NOW.

*skips off to do more design work... XD*
I think, also, my little cubeecraft [ http://www.cubeecraft.com/ ] is going to be the first Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei papercraft in known knowledge. XD They said the question comes up every few weeks, and no, there isn't any.

Ohohohohohoho~

Ok. Today...

*Failed at internet shopping, a lot. Everything looks shifty, is out of stock, or is going to take forever to get here, in some combination of those three.. I think I'm going to try some IRL costume stores, and see what's left after the Halloween carnage.
*researched cosplay things
*Got my pants and jacket pinned up for altering- YAY FOR JACKET DARTS AND A WAISTBAND THAT FITS
*Traced the old pillbox hat pattern I had (so I didn't cut it) and cut out the interfacing, which was too short, but eh, I can piece that little section together.... XD

( LOLWTF. Negotiated with my mom, and my life decides to take ANOTHER hairpin turn.. Jesus fucking Christ! I'm on a rollercoaster!!! And not a fun one! Because... AH- it's like it's old and faulty. So the dangers seem really real... D: BUT THEN THEY AREN'T SO BAD???! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON ANYMORE, LOL. XD )

All I seem to be able to succeed at is art projects, and upsetting people. Myself included. XD
Oh yeah, and also - making things more difficult for myself, and making big deals out of things that don't need to be. Which go hand in hand.
Though I was able to help someone today. Hey... that's different.

But this week has been CHOCK FULL of revelations about the people around me, as well as about how my brain functions and how I'm royally fucking myself over, so... yeah. D8

It's a lot to take. I'm... having to adjust to a whole new world, in a way...


Today... Hah...

( Well, it was interesting... )

0_0
( A rundown of what's been going on, more stuff about Trigger, a comic I found... : D )
OH AND ABOUT FRIDAY-
There's the Rocky Horror Picture Show going on 9-11 PM Friday night in the Commons Plaza... 8D I've never seen it, but listened to some of it, which was... confusing... XD Anyone interested in going?
All I know is, I could use something... lighter? possibly? this week... XD

Because IT'S FALL BREAK NOW. XD

*Notes on Scanlations (stunning epiphany... I know...)
*Aquiline Noses (and rambling about plastic surgery, lol)
*Hirano Knows his Dracula (as he should)
- along with ramblings on what Dracula looks like, passages from the book, arguments about kitsch, etc...
*...And random notes on German Eagles and also eyeliner

( Yo- in here. )
Ok enough. GEEEEEZ.. I'm REAALLLY thinking about this stuff too much.
SOMEONE needs to get shot... XD
Maybe with a tranq gun... XD

Eheheheh. ARARARAR. Been listening to my music... and I heard The Undertaker, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE ANYWAY, and then I remembered that it goes PERFECTLY with the whole Alucard/Walter fight and ARARARAR. DDDD:
I mean, EXACTLY.

"Before I go tell me
Were you ever who you claimed yourself to be
Either way i must say goodbye.
You're dead to me. So I...

Thank You for making me
feel like I'm guilty
Making it easy to murder your sweet memory

I'm severing the heart then I'm leaving your corpse behind
Not dead but soon to be, though.
I won't be the one who killed you
I'll just leave that up to you

I'm not gonna be here to revive you
I'm gonna be the one to say I told you so"

"A traitor is what you are - Nothing more! And not once in my entire life have I pardoned a single one of you."

Don't know what to do with it, but feel like I SHOULD do something... D:
Maybe when it gets OVA-ified, AMV? 8DDDDDD Or COSPLAY???

( Full lyrics. ;D )

Hah... and I found the original... D:
Which.. is totally different. XD
[Don't mind the random anime girl...]

Argh. Dunno which... is better for Hellsing. XD The remix I heard first, so it'll always hold a place...

WTF am I doing up??? *packs shit for tomorrow*

XD
Goddamn.
Does anyone know where or what or why the 'I has a shuvel' meme came from?
I'm assuming this image? http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/I_has_a_shuvel
YAI 4CHAN?

I'm... totally confused. XD
I just know, there was a shuvel ninja, I believe, at AMA. AND there was this fantastic bit of shuvel randomness on this journal - http://behindinfinity.deviantart.com/journal/18192779/ (scroll down a lot) which got me thinking about it. XD

Because I actually DO has a shuvel. D:

It's pretty and pink, and I saved it from the ocean a few months ago.
I'm considering making it a part of my costume. XD XD XD
BECAUSE THIS COSTUME TOTALLY NEEDS MORE NEON COLORED ACCESSORIES, AMIRITE?
But, I'm not too big on doing something if I don't know what it means.
It SEEMS to signify nothing more than silliness, though. Which I am all for.

BTW, been up for 33 hours now. GOD SAVE ME.
MUST DRAW ONE MORE HAND. THEN I CAN PASS OUT. THIS IS MY BREAK.
This first hand turned out... decent.
Drawing mom's hands as she sleeps in her chair. :D

Also - worked on some Seras/Pip (totally innocent) fanart today. XD I was thinking, and I was like "Hey, I haven't drawn the two of them together actually" Pip not at ALL. SO YEEEEY. And, I'm like THANK YOU EPSHTEYN FIGURE DRAWING. XD Pip was totally all thanks to an abbreviated Epshteyn method..

AND- WTF - HELLSING CHAPTER. IT'S BEEN NEARLY HALF A MONTH NOW. I know you translators all have lives too, but if I see anything else on the Hellsing comm about THE LAST CHAPTAR EVER DON'T READ IT SPOILERS I think I'm going to explode. XD

Things I have learnt in the past couple days:

( quite a bit )

Cool pictures of cosplayers I found. : D
http://www.cosplay.com/photo/1508606/
Eva cosplayers... D8 HOLY FUCK
http://www.cosplay.com/photo/104432/
Win! ^_^ *thumbs UP!*

GAH GAH GAH SHUT UP PLEEEEEEAASE!!! D8
I was looking up stuff for Eva cosplay (heh, already thinking about it...) and AAAAAAAAAGH SPOILERS EVERYWHAR. D8
I guess because they all assume you MUST have seen Evangelion by NOW, right?

D8

It's like "I was going to cosplay as so and so when this or that-"
[Me] WTF???! *skips ahead*
"And then SO and so..."
Me - GAH SHUT UP! *skips some more*

I might have to finish watching the series before I do any research at this rate. 0_o

BUT... GAH. Ever since seeing how the suits work...

Like at 2:18 - how they effing VACUUM on?! D8
I WANT ONE. D8
NEVER MIND THE FACT IT'S SKIN TIGHT, I WANT ONE. DDDDD8
I've always thought they looked badass. Even since I was like... 8 or whatever, when I first saw pictures from the show.

XD XD XD Aw man, I'm nerding out so hard. I've always wanted to see this show...
Dammit, I'm so sorry I was dozing off watching it Friday. D8 I was trying so hard not to. D8 D8

AH - but I DON'T want it to be one of those damn vinyl/pleather ones I keep seeing. XD That... just doesn't seem like that's the material it would be. They're pretty sleek looking, but... just no. It's not RIGHT somehow...
ANDDDDDDDD I want ARMOR BITS. D8
But... I don't know how to make them.
Damn...

Don't know which ONE, though... At this point, it could be Asuka, Rei, or Shinji!! XD I think I'll have to pick once I've watched the whole show.
... But I think I'm leaning towards Asuka. XD I've always liked her red outfit more than Rei's, and I don't think I could pull off Rei's extremely reigned-in [emotionally] attitude...

D8 But DAMN, they're all so skinny! D8 WHUT.
Though... really... even though I'm not that skinny, I think I could pull it off. Oddly. 0_o I.. always thought I was just a little chubby or chunky - I'm short and stout, lol.. I mean, I'm not tall and thin. But I never, EVER, thought of myself as 'skinny' - until one of Erin's friends said "Get your skinny ass in the car! XD" To which I was like 'lolwut.' So... yeah. 0_0 What.
I looked in the mirror, and if I suck in my gut (as far as it will go XD) I saw that yes, the costume IS possible. Even without the sucking in of the gut, I'm pretty okay.
...
WHAT?!
Maybe climbing 4 flights of stairs 3 or 4 times a day is starting to pay off. 0_0


And now, for some interesting stuff I found on Wikipedia about the show's production..
( Read more... )

OK!

( AHAHAHAA - PROGRESS ON THE TOPIC OF THE CAT-CAKE-HAT AND THE SHOES THAT HIRANO NEVER DRAWS. XD )

After looking up stuff about the Mosin Nagant, I was reminded... I really should be looking into getting a Thompson for Girlycard. Her lovely, lovely Tommy gun...

I've found a couple options:
http://www.kapowwe.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=1-1-8&Category_Code=&Store_Code=R
A toy gun - it makes "RATATATATATATATA" sounds, which is cool. XD But it... it's so short. : / It's like, it loses the grace of the original. A stickler am I for the details, and... this is way off. XD But, it's only $20. :D

http://www.airsplat.com/Items/AR-SA-43720.htm
This is an airsoft gun that's... pretty much all over the internet. Some sites are saying it's discontinued, most sell it for around $100, people on eBay sell for $200+. This one's $80. D8 So... that's cool.

And Nekocon allows "inert air-soft guns." >:B

( Now, to finance this operation... )

Anyways. Off to serious business torso drawings. :/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alucard_(Hellsing)#Weapons
Lol. People trying to make sense of Hirano's silliness when it comes to weaponry. XD Totally awesome. XD

Geezleweezus, sorry for the spam? I'm trying to not make such long meandering posts that end up being mostly indecipherable. On the other hand, you all might hate me for it.

Anyway, THIS:( WANNA CRASH A PROM??? )