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In exactly 3 weeks I will be heading to Newark to get on a nonstop, 14 hour plane ride and go to Japan.  This is both really exciting and extremely nerve wracking.  I don't think it helps that my mom keeps being like, "so are you nervous?" or like, "this is going to be the longest constant time you've ever been away from home", etc., etc., which only increases my anxiety.

Before leaving I need to:
-Do Midterms (which is due this coming week)
-Do my emptiness project for my Buddhism class (due in 2 weeks)
-Do 3 term papers (due in 3 weeks)
-And probably do finals in 3 weeks

And that's just the school portion of things.  Midterms and emptiness project won't be too bad, and probably finals will be fine as well, but I'm really starting to stress about the term papers.  I mean, in normal circumstances, I usually put writing those things until the last minute anyway, but I would have a whole other month to put it off >.>  And I guess I feel like, my professor is being so awesome about me missing the last three weeks, that I really want to put my full effort into it and write really good papers, but my default setting is preventing this.  Oh well, I know I can get everything done, so it's not a big deal, but thinking about it all is just really stressing me out.

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I think the most important thing that happened this week is: I FINALLY GOT MY ずっとLOVE DVDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! klfjdwalkghalkghraehgiasfhdgio Pretty much they were all I could ever ask for.  Why is ebi just the cutest thing ever????!!!!?!?!?  My one and only complaint is the fact that they're starting to push the puppy to the center and make him more of the focus.  BUT other than that one minor complaint, the DVD is just so close to being perfect.  I really like ずっとLOVE the song, and I like the full version a lot!!! The updated version of ボクラ~LOVE & PEACE~ is lovely, and I especially love the addition of gocchi and tsuka-chan getting solo parts :3 I know everyone got an added solo line, but I was REALLY happy Gocchi and Tsuka-chan also got one.  It seems they always have to sing together, so it was a nice change.

Then there are the skits. OMG I'm still DYING over the doctor skit.  It was far and away my favorite of the three skits. Just Fumi's face every time made me die of laughter. I think I was quite literally crying from laughing so hard XD XD  My next favorite was the gymnastic onii-chan skit, just because it was super cute, plus totsu as a deliquent was hilarious.  My thrid favorite was the manzai group skit.  The making-of was super cute, and how awesome would that be to be a fan there X3  Then the commercials were super weird XD I kind of really adore the commercial though.  Gocchi's official commercial might be my favorite, just because it always cracks me up XD XD I also really love Fumi's, if I could make him going from ai tsuru kimi e to to AITSU into a ringtone, I would XD This group is just so friggin' ridiculous and I LOVE THEM FOR IT X3

Now is the best part of the DVD by far: the crea digest.  So, let me just say, me and Rebecca totally freaked out when we noticed that SNOW MAN WAS THERE!!! I mean, we knew when the Crea shows were actually happening that they had Snow children as their juniors, but when we popped the DVD in, we both had just totally forgotten about it.  So seeing them pop up was like gjdfhsgkjldhasjkghskjghdskajghfglkdgfaslg THEY'RE JUST SO FREAKING CUTE!!!!! Plus Jr. A was there, and the musical star was acting very musical-starish X3 (I love Noeru)  Pretty much, if that thing had been longer, I would almost have no need for any other DVD, Ebi + Snow Children + Jr. A= PERFECTION.  I really liked the skits they did in Crea (I also love how they just had snow man sitting on stage watching them for the second two.  Iwamoto dying of laughter the entire time was adorable.  Also Fukka and A-chan sitting next to each other, and just Fukka being visible in general, was X3)  I really liked the ramen war zone skit.  One other note I can remember is, I didn't realize Gocchi could actually tap dance :O  Like, I know he's Goseki-SAMA for a reason, but it was just so cool.  Also, Fumi drumming the floor was super gkdfhasgklasdkghjfajkghaf  I really want to see him playing the drums for realsies, because I'm sure it's awesome >.<

I guess that's about it. Here's what the posters look like :3 I already put the LE one up on my wall.
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What else? Will just put this here.

Weekly Weigh-In:
Starting: 196.2
Last Week: 191.4
Current: 188.8

Lost about 2 and a half pounds!! This is what I hope to accomplish most weeks, because I think I've read that's a healthy rate to lose weight.  And in only 10 more pounds I'll be back to where I was over a year ago!! That's enough motivation for me.  I was pretty good about doing my run this week, I just need to try to be more consistent with swimming.  I think I only legit swam twice, and the other two times I got distracted by Megan :/ But I did make lunch for myself everyday.  Some where better than others.  My one on Monday was really inspired
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I also make falafel for thursday's and friday's bento, and it's was so good and filling.  Might have been my favorite.  Also had a wrap with fake turkey meat, cheese & veggies.  It was good, but I feel like if I eat the fake meat too much, I will eventually gross myself out or get sick of it.


Speaking of work, my coworker (--;; He still doens't talk that much.  Monday and Tuesday were about average for last week.  Thursday I was too tired and in a little bit of a bad mood to really talk to him.  To start off with, he showed up 10 minutes late, which was annoying for me.  He comes out, said something along the lines of, "sorry, my paycheck was wrong and it took longer than I thought to get it fixed"  which is all well and fine, but do it on your own break, or just mention to Becky (my one boss that I actually like) that it's wrong and could she look into it.  You really shouldn't keep the person who has been there since 5 in the morning waiting, especially when they're about to go on break --)  So yeah, I found it annoying.  Then, no one showed up for family swim, but he just sat on the bench behind me and outside of what i like to call the "talking bubble" (like, the distance where it's easy to have a conversation from).  So I just didn't even try that day.  But yesterday I was in a really good mood for no reason, and a little hyper, so i just like blah blah blah at him, but he actually said more than just "yeah" to me!!! We had a mini conversation, so progress? Then we had to move the lane line and when I went back to sit on the chair, he sat down on the bench and didn't talk >.<  But still, some progress ^^  I still love wednesday the most though, because I get to work with Jackie and we sit there and will shoot the shit forever and it's awesome!!!  Like, we talked about dieting and trying to losing weight and I told about how jesse doesn't talk at all, and then we bitched about school and just everything. It's the BEST! I wish I could work with her everyday T^T

School was alright this week.  I really like my globalizing world class, the prof. is my advisor, which means when he's lecturing, he tends to look at me a lot (~~;;  I don't really like talking in class, because, I don't know why, I just get really nervous about it.  So, when he said, "how about someone who hasn't said anything yet" he looked right at me >.>  But, I still didn't say anything XD;;; I will try harder in the future though, probably.  For class on monday, we're going to a hindi temple, it sounds like it's going to be really interesting.  My lingustics class is really interesting, and I find it really interesting.  Too bad there's this one girl who is like a pretentious english grammar person, and has to speak a lot and be kind of annoying. Whatever.  My archeology class, on the other hand, is intersting stuff, and it's a tiny class, but there are these two girls who are just SO ANNOYING I CAN'T.  Like, they're friends, and the one is like a criminal anthropologist major, or whatever the actual name of it is, but like they just sat there basically bickering at each other.  IT WAS SO ANNOYING.  LIke, we were talking about neanderthal and why we thought they might have died out, and the one girl proposed something, and then her friend decided to contradict her, which then lead to them going back and forth, back and forth, and then it just turned into them arguing for argument's sake.  SO ANNOYING.  Like, the prof only wanted to spend 5 minutes on Neanderthal and move on.  They spent close to an hour agruing over it.  We didn't get to finish the rest of the slides and lecture because of them.  The one girl I had a class with last semester was like, "So that's how every week is going to be, isn't it? *sigh*"  Then we walked and talked about how annoying they were. Hoping they contain themselves next week.

Well, until next week.

This was the first almost, since I had off both on Monday, full week of having both classes and work.  All I can say is that, I am going to be really tired Thursdays and Fridays -__-

Also, my one religion and culture class that I had Tuesdays and Thursdays got cancelled for the semester because I guess the professor is really sick (or something, it wasn't really clear).  I went in and talked to my adviser about it, and he said we could have the option of taking a kind of similar course online, but I feel like if I'm not in the classroom, I wouldn't get much out of it. So, I'm just going to opt to take it next fall.  It sucks though, because that means I'm only taking 9 credits this semester, even though I wanted to be taking 15 >.< I think I might just take 2 or 3 in the winter session, probably just some general ed. classes I can knock out quickly (like ethics).  I'm still not that clear on what counts for the general ed. classes I need, and when I asked my adivsor about it, he said it was listed somewhere :/  I miss how at my old school, all the classes that counted for gen. ed. were listed on the thing as GE so that you knew >.>  I also find my school's website to be really difficult to navigate for some reason.  I think they thought they made it really easy (as they told us at our orientation) but it's really not.

I didn't have my globalizing world class this week, which was slightly sad, because I think it might be my favorite (I say that even though I've only had it once).  Then again, there is this one SUPER annoying girl in it (I think she might be a freshman) she always tries to speak, but doesn't think about what she's trying to say before she does.  Then, she thinks she's being funny or clever or something, and she's not.  I also really like my linguistics class, minus the part where the teacher has the text book in hand and does her lesson that way. But whatever, it's really interesting. Then my archeology class. This one is alright, I almost don't like the fact that she does powerpoint presentations and give us the powerpoints printed out.  Like, she should just lecture and only have pictures on the powerpoints themselves.  But it could be worse, I suppose.  I intend to copy all the the powerpoints into notes in my notebook, but let's see if my laziness gets the best of me.

Speaking of Archeology, Thursday, when I had the class, I had dreams that night of doing archeological digs at my school (because that was mostly what we were taught in class, who to do fieldwork).  I guess I just had it on the brain.

Also, on Thursday, I was supposed to have meeting with the woman in charge of doing Study Abroad stuff.  But when I went to her office, she wasn't there, and then I waited and waited and she never showed up. :/  I think I waited somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes.  Then I emailed her, and I guess she has a sudden meeting she had to go to and thought she would be back in time, but wasn't.  We rescheduled the appointment for Monday.  It should be ovious what I want to do for Study Abroad, but I'm trying not to gets my hopes up too much, because I feel like most of the time, things don't work out the way I want them to.  But since I haven't been told it's impossible yet, I still am getting excited at the prospect.  At the very least, I'm hoping I could do like a 3-month language program in Japan, and hope it counts for like independant study and/or as my language credits for my major.  I want to try talking to my mom about it, to see if she's open to helping me out.  But I need all the information first before I can even talk to her about it.  It's sad, I'm already trying to think of strategies to win her over OTL I'm hoping that if it counts, in some way for school, she'll be more open to it. *fingers crossed*

In work-related news: I got my coworker to talk a little bit more. And by that I mean, I was so irritated on Friday that I just started blah blahing at him, and he was polite and listened to me, I think :/  I think he's just a quiet person, maybe a little shy, but it's like 'OMG I've been here since 5 this morning, could you give me SOMETHING?!' XD  I can understand that a little, when I first meet people I'm really shy and quiet, unless the situation calls for me to talk (like a job interview) other than that, in social situations, I'm all '___' Trying to slowly get out of this habit (I even raised my hand in class the other day :O)

Weekly Weigh-In:

Starting Weight: 196.2
Current Weight: 191.4

Lost almost exactly 5 pounds!!!! I'm so happy!!! (*ﾟ▽ﾟ*) And that's with not working out Monday, and only doing a little over a mile on Wednesday and Thursday.  Makes me wonder if I would have lost most had I done my full workout those days :|a  Still, it's something!!! Now if only I could work in a swim more.........I only swam once orz  But I stuck to my points all week, and the actual eating food part wasn't that bad.  Pretty much, it seems that I just needed to work on portion control. Plus, I've been using my bento boxes again and bringing food with me.  I even just bought like 2 new ones, and they already shippped!! I hope I get them soon. I just need to figure out the right time to actually eat them.  If I eat them too late, my tummy hurts when I run on my break, but too early and I start to get hungry again DX
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was one of the bentos I made this week. I put a little balsamic vinegar on the strawberries and it was soooooo good *___* too bad those strawberries went bad before I could use them again. And the Penguin has a little ranch dressing in it for the carrots.  I will try to get more creative with my "lunches" but it's hard when you're vegetarian DX

In fandom related news:
I really like Aopana, and the dance for it is really cute :3  I like seeing Maru as the center.  I really like Boys on the Run, but it's starting to hit that phase that most dramas hit, where towards the end, they try to add too much plot, and then it just gets annoying >.> Excited to see Yoko in the last episode though!!!! YokoMaru's my favorite X3

My Snow Man feels are out of control lately, as are my MADE feels.  It is taking all my effort not to buy all the magazines for this month because the snow children's (and ebi's for that matter) pages all look super cute :3 Especially since Fukka and Iwamoto are paired up in Duet. I CAN'T!!  Still need to watch The Quiz Show (or whatever that special was called with Iwamoto in it)

And most importantly: MY ずっとLOVE DVDS ARE IN SHIPPING PROCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE THEY ACTUALLY SHIP SOON X3 gkjdsahgkljdashfgjkldshagkjlhasjlkghlskajhgirgh jgkdhsagjkhdasjkghaslkgjhaslg kjghdsakjghajkghakl

That was longer than I was planning on writing it, sorry.  If you made it this far, you have patience m(_ _)m

Last night I had another ebi-related dream :O

I dreamt that my one friend (not Rebecca, but I think my friend Lauren, which is weird, since she's not even into JE or Japanese things :|a) and I went into New York to see Ebi's Summary (because apparently they brought it to New York).  Before we went, we went to a park (not Central Park, I'm fairly certain) to have some lunch.  While we were there, Chino Aoi (and his totally american handler) was there and he came up and started talking to us, and taught us how to shoot an arrow (because I guess it was part of the show or something >.>) and he was just super adorable X3 (I think he was wearing his black trucker hat, and seemed really tiny even in my dream)

Then we went to the show.  i don't remember anything about the show itself, only that we were in the nosebleed section, which was the section Gocchi went to to ask questions (and, of course, he didn't see us or look at us at all T__T) and later Casey Anderson came up to our section and waved at us XD  Also, it was a REALLY tiny theater.  Like there was no actual raised stage, it was just the floor the pullout chairs were on (which was where the typical orchestra section would be)

Then, I went and was telling Rebecca about it (like about Gocchi and Casey Anderson waving at me XD), and she was like, "OMG WE NEED TO GO!!!!!!!" So we went online and found some tickets.  Then like two days later, we went.  We went to the same park me and my other friend had eaten and Chino Aoi was there again (and he remembered me!! XD X3) and then he taught Rebecca how to shoot an arrow XD

Then it was time for us to go to the show and we realized we had to go down a street, but it was literally DOWN.  We had to climb down this really flimsy CD rack XD  Like it was wood and was like suspended and it swayed A LOT.  Then at somepoint the place where I was trying to go had shoes in my way, and for some reason, even though I knew I could move them, I felt like I was allowed to XD so I had to maneuver around them. It was scary.

Then, after walking through all these back streets, we finally made it to the theater, and I turned to Rebecca and was like, "You have the tickets, right?" And then she face-palmed and went, "I thought you had them" So we were freaking out about it, then I remembered I got them online, so I could just pull them up to show the person and they could scan the barcode that was in the email or something XD And right as I was about to pull them up.........my alarm went off and I woke up OTL 

I think we were going to be in the second section, and we were both excited about either Totsu or Fumi being near us XD  I'm sad though, I only got to see ebi once in my dream OTL/XD

School has started and I already feel really stressed out.  I'm taking 4 classes and every single one of them has a 10-12 page research paper OTL  I already know what the topics will be for 3 out of 4 of the classes, so that's at least helpful to try and start to plan stuff out.  It sucks that I can't BS these papers like I usually would though >.>  I'm going to try and be more productive and do stuff ahead of time and not at the last minute.  I feel like I've always said something similar, but it never actually happens that way, and I end up doinf everything at the last minute ^^;; Will at least attempt though U__U

Also, today i decided I'm going to start dieting seriously.  Hopefully if me and my mom can stick with it together, we can keep on track.  I think now that my sister has left for Seattle that will be a lot easier (her philosophy on eating is just eat whatever you want). Thankfully for me, I don't really drink that much soda, so that's already a huge leg up.  I also already have come to the realization that my body can't handle crappy foods (like french fries, chips, etc. etc.) so that will make stuff easier too.  I will probably end up craving that stuff at some point, but whatever :P

Also, have at least started to get good workout habits again.  I've been running on my break, instead of just sitting around and eating.  Right now I'm up to running 2 and a half miles, which, while not amazing, isn't too bad.  I think that's about all I will be able to fit into my break though (unless I start upping the speed, which I might).  I will just have to continue to add on to my run after I'm done with work.  My goal is to also add swimming into my routine.  I figure I can swim after I'm done work at work on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, then just swim at school after my class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Hopefully this works and I can motivate myself like I used to be able to. *fingers crossed*


Will leave this here for future reference:

Starting weight: 196.2 lbs >.>

In other news-ish.  I had this dream that my school (I'm not sure what school this was since it wasn't either college I've ever been to or my high school) was selling the ずっとLOVE DVD but things kept happening (like, I think some kid broke his leg right in front of me XD) that I couldn't go buy it.  It was really frustrating, because I really wanted to hear what the song sounded like (even though, even as I reference this in my dream, I already know what the song itself sounds like, but I kept forgetting this fact).  Then, as I was finally on my way to go purchase it.........my mom woke me up to tell me my sister was going to leave soon so I had to start to wake up.  IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING. I'll never know what ずっとLOVE sounds like now T_____T

Oh, and just as a mental note for myself: Me and Rebecca are going to try really hard to get to Japan next summer.

Last Saturday, me and Rebecca went into New York City!!

Even though we had just gone in a couple of weeks ago, this was REALLY exciting because we actually went and saw a musical.  Back in the day (high school), I used to go into NYC all the time just to see musicals.  It was something me and my mom would do a lot (RENT for me was the shit in H.S. I could legit listen to it every single day and not get bored of it. Musicals and Punk rock XD).

So the plan was to leave my house no later than 8, get in to NY at around 9:30, get in the TKTs line (which opened at 10), then decide what we wanted to see.  I probably should have researched more of what was in the line, but I was like, "whatever, I'm sure we'll find something XD" Of course though, a certain person took forever getting ready and we left 15 minutes behind schedule. (I guess she really needed to check twitter because she wouldn't have an hour and a half car ride to do so >.>)  It all ended up working out in the end.  We decided on Nice Work, If You Can Get It, mainly because the Gershwins wrote it and because Matthew Broderick was in it :3

*Side Note* Apparently Ricky Martin (yes, that Ricky Martin) is still alive!! He's in Evita, and apparently, he wasn't going to be in the show the day we went.  So while we were waiting in line, this conversation happened:
Me (sarcastically, just in case XD): OMG, I'm so sad Ricky Martin's not going to be in the show today ;__;
Rebecca: I know, we came all the way into New York just to see him! :/
Random girl in line (totally seriously): Oh, you know he's not in the show today, we did the same thing.
XD


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Now, Scans!! I ended up buying the September Issues of Duet, Potato, and WinkUp.  I ended up just scanning in the ebi pages and the Playzone ones. Also, I got some ebi shop photos the other day, so I scanned those too, (they've probably been shared before, but whatever :P) as well as the pin-ups for BEST STAGE and Look at Star (just don't ask me to actually put them together, I don't think I have the patience for that OTL).  I also had a winkup that had 4U. & Tsubasa in it, and while, I'm sure, it's been scanned, I've never seen it before, so I scanned that one too.

So on to the scans.......

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As always,
-if the scans really suck, let me know, and I can rescan them
-If there's something in any of these that you want scanned, I will mostly likely scan them 4U.!
-I don't care if you share/post/etc.
-Comments are 💜💜💜💜

Hope everyone is having a nice morning/day/evening/night!!!

The last couple of years or so, I have wanted to travel and go on vacation, something exciting.  But, it has yet to actually happen.  The last trip I went on, was to Las Vegas.....a year and a half ago, and let's be honest, the trip sucked because me and my friend were pretty much fighting the entire time.  And I realized Vegas was not a place for me, as I was sick of spending/losing money after like 2 days, and the smoke smell gave me an instant headache DX

Lately, I've been really wanting to go to Europe and do something fun there, and with the Olympics happening, my mom has been saying the same thing "oh, i want to go back to London" which then leads to -----> Oh I want to go to Italy or Ireland or etc. etc.

I honestly thought my mom was considering it and that it might actually happen.  After talking to my sister about it, I felt reassured.  Her suggestion was for me to get my own passport (since mine expired years ago and I never got a replacement >.<) to show my mom I'm serious about it, and then just bug about it until we book a trip.  It seemed possible.

Then, I go down and talk to my mom about it and her instant response is "save your money" .__.

I totally understand the concept, and I have, indeed, been spending too much on stuff I don't need, BUT how does she expect me to save when $400 a month go into my IRA, plus I buy my own gas, which is another $100 or a so a month there.  Plus with school starting soon, that will take up the rest of my money.  

I know, it's really stupid, and selfish, and childish, but it's like she also wants to travel and do stuff, but I feel like, she just doesn't want to leave the house for that long, and it makes me sad.  I thought I could just get her motivated enough to do it, but maybe not.  I don't know, it's really stupid, but depressing, since I really miss going to the airport and flying and going on an adventure of some sort.  I wish my mom shared that more T^T

I realize it's been a while since I've actually written in this thing, so here it goes!

Let's see, where to start.............

Stuff I've Watched Recently!

I randomly decided to watch Sherlock.  I guess I had been hearing so much about it on tumblr and stuff, I decided to try it out.  BEST DECISION EVER!  That show is really good :O  I think I watched all 6 episodes in like 3 days (I probably could have watched it all in one go, but I hung out with Rebecca, so that distracted me. Then I had to find the second season on the internet).  Next I was going to watch Doctor Who, after deciding to start with the 9th Doctor, I even managed to watched the first episode of that.  Then I got side-tracked by The IT Crowd.  So far, I've managed to watch 2 seasons and the first episode of the 3rd season.  I highly recommend it! It's so funny!! Moss I think is my favorite character.  He reminds me a lot of Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords (which if you haven't watched, watch! ^^).  Plus the other guy is really adorable, in a total guy way XD

Other than that, dramas i've watched recently.  I pretty much got all caught up with Legal High in two days.  That show is fantastic, even though the chick in it totally annoys me.  I don't know what it is about most women in most dramas, they just irk me.  It's probably the cultural difference in how women are supposed to behave in Japan that is annoying me.  Anyway, I think the thing that annoys me the most is that she is very self-righteous and thinks she is way better than she is (has she ever won a court case even in the show?).  That being said, I really like the main guy (sorry, really bad with names XD).  I like the way he talks and his character.  I even really love Junno in it, every time his character pops up in his one scene an episode, I'm like "flkdsajfl;fjdkashf eeeeeee :3"  To be honest, I don't even like KAT-TUN at all, but if I did, Junno would totally be my bias.

Somehow this drama season, the two dramas I'm keeping up with the most are Ohno's drama (Kage Heya....is that what it's called?) and the HIkaru/Kiriyama Renn doctor drama (with Tsuyoshi from SMAP that 37 sai blah blah). *hours later* Yeah, totally just finished the doctor drama, all i can say is, wtf was that drama even? D: Ohno's drama isn't too bad, i'm not the biggest toda erika fan, but the rest of the characters are awesome.  I would say, I probably would keep yp with the Tacchon/Older Brother/Kitty drama, if it got subbed quicker :/  That one might be my favorite of the season, because Tacchon and the older brother are really fantastic in it.  Aiba is just kind of there for me.

As for Papadoru, I've only watched two episodes.  I think that explains everything :/

I'm really excited for some of the dramas coming up next season.  Probably the one I'm most looking forward to is Sprout.  The story is kind of stupid, but I'm so excited to see the puppy acting I CAN'T.  I'm really sad that ebi aren't doing the theme song, and that it's a freaking 7 song :/  Sometimes, it's insanely frustrating being a predominately ebi fan.  I really wish they would put out a single and do a proper tour. kjfhdsakjfghdjashffdakjhfdsjkh Come on already orz

Anyway, in other news.  For my sister's 30th birthday, she made a Facebook event thing and asked all her friends to send her a mix cd (since she's far away from all of them and can't have a party)  For some reason, my sister also tagged me in it, even though:
1) I am going to be here for her birthday (and probably going to be with her seeing batman)
2) She knows exactly what kind of mix I'm going to make her (j-mix of some sort)
    *note* I have made my sister a grand total of 5 j-mixes and she has listened to not a one of them.  I know this because I told her that when she listened to them, let me know what she thinks, and I have yet to hear about that.

Sometimes it's really frustrating because my sister could really care less about my interests, and I'm pretty sure it just annoys her.  Like, when I'm listening to my music, even if it's already pretty low, I always get "turn it down so that I can't hear it" .__.

Anyway, bottom line is, don't give two shits, giving her a j-mix ^^ so if you have any suggestions as to some good songs that maybe someone who is really pretentious and likes indie music would like, LET ME KNOW! :3  I was thinking of picking one or two songs from each group, and maybe making a booklet with translated lyrics in them.  For kanjani, I know I want to include Wander, because I love that song.

I guess that's about it for now.  Hope everyone is having a nice day! \(^o^)/