Heyo

Well, once again I didn't really abide by my taort reading.  Sigh, I keep having things tell me to be creative, but I just can't seem to find any motivation.  I did do a little of knitting so I guess that counts maybe a little,  And since it came up  in the reading I though it might be good to mention that my mom's surgery went fine so I think what my reading this morning was maybe telling me that I was just going to have to take care of her today because I hadn't really been thinking about that.  So, other than work I didn't really do much today.  I did start a new anime - I have this huge list of anime that I'm in the middle of and that I've been wanting to finish before I start anything new, but I've been waiting for this series so I let it go.  The anime just started on Crunchyroll and only the first episode is out so far so it's not like it took very long.  The anime is Love Stage, a new yaoi that I've been waiting for.  I also watched a few episodes of Kuroko's Basketball - that one of the ones that on my list of things to finish, I only have a few episodes left and I was going to try and finish it tonight, but my internet was having arguments with the streaming and so I had to abandon my pursuits.

As for today being my Baking Day... Yeah, that didn't happen; I had work this morning and when I got home I took a nap before watching anime...  I said there was a chance that wasn't going to actually happen.  You'll definitely see baking though on here because I have a bunch of interesting classes coming up this semester.

As for finishing talking about Anime Expo I do think that I am going to out that off again until tomorrow.  I'm just really tires and I still have a bunch of stuff to talk about for the last three day so, yeah... I'm going to be lazy...

Anyway...
At least I posted...
Right?
4 down, 3 to go.

Tarot Reading 7/14/2014

What I should do today - Page of Batons
* I need to use my creativity and intellect today.  Recently almost all of my readings have had to do with being creative... interesting... I guess I really need to do something with these energies.
What I shouldn't do today - 6 of Batons
* Don't get fool of myself or "count my chickens before they hatch;" I haven't achieved victory yet.
Unexpected - III-The Empress
* Usually talks about a mother figure or in this case it could be talking about my mom... She is getting surgery today...  I hope everything is okay in that department.  Keep an ear out and my phone on.
Theme for today - 4 of Cups
* New friendships and relationships.  Cool
Advice for today - II-The High Priestess
* I don't really know how to read this card as advice...

There we go.

The Post of Many Words - Anime Expo 2014 Part 1

Hey there imaginary people!

Today was pretty uneventful, I had work and then I spent most of the rest of my day playing Tomodachi Life on my 3DS.  I made some pretty good pasta for dinner; just noddles a bag of frozen veggies, and some bechamel sauce sauce that I made.

Anyway, today us Sunday, meaning it's Talk-About-Myself Day.  So, today I will talk about one of my favorite things:  Anime Expo.

So, the 3rd through the 6th of July this year was Anime Expo 2014 and - like every year - I went with my family - although this is the first year that my mom actually came to the con with us and didn't just relax/hide in the hotel room.

We actually headed down to LA early the morning of June 30th and we arrived in Anaheim at about 11 or so, where my little sister and I spent the day at California Adventures.  She had to lead me around everywhere because sh'e been fifty-thousand times and the last time I went was for my 16th birthday.  Skye and I had a really great time, we went on a few rides and just walked around a lot.  Around 5 or so our mom and Sean joined as and we saw the Aladdin show they have there - I've seen it a bunch, but I love it - and then to eat dinner before we all went back to the hotel together.

On the 1st Skye and I went to Disney Land and Sean came with us this time.  We went on more rides and the kids - I hate roller coasters so I found a bench near the exit and waited for them - went on Thunder Mountain.  Mom wasn't able to join us for dinner that night because she was busy at the hotel getting last minute things done for Anime Expo, so the three of us ate at a little Pinocchio themed restaurant before calling mom and having her pick us up.

Wednesday was Day 0 of the convention which is basically just a chance for people who have pre-registered for the con to get there tickets if they want without having to stand in line on Day 1 and miss parts of the con.  So, I woke up at 5 that day, got dressed in my cosplay - I went as a female version of Rin Okumura from Blue Exorcist - and then at about 6:30 my mom drove me over to the convention center.  I arrived a little before 7:30 to get in line.  Things were weird though because apparently people had tried to spend the night at the convention center - you known, camping out before the big event, but they weren't allowing that this year and so instead the people who got there the night before decided to line up on the other side of the street.  It was a little confusing when I first got there, but only about ten minutes after I arrived they moved the line back to were it usually was.  I then got to sit in line for 7 hours because the line didn't start moving until 3 - this was planned, I knew what I was getting myself into.  It wasn't too bad though because I made some friends in line while we all waited.  At 3 my mom, Sean, and Skye joined me in the line because they needed to be there to register for their badges too, I was just saving our spot.  Unfortunately there were some technical difficulties so the line didn't actually start moving until about 4-4:30.  After that though it went pretty fast.

Day 1 I arrived at the con at a little after 9.  I was cosplaying as a female version of Seto Kaiba from Yugioh, Skye was a female Mokubah Kaiba, and Sean went as Steve from Minecraft.  The first thing that we did when we got to the convention was go to peacebonding because this was the first time we had brought a prop weapon to the con - it was a "diamond sword" for Sean's Steve costume.  We then just walked around and looked at all the epic cosplay.  At none our mom joined us and we went to a funny little panel called "Don't Panic: A Parent's Guide to AX."  It was just a silly little thing that I said my mom needed to go to and we were glad we did because it wasn't a very popular panel and so we won one of the prizes when they did a raffle at the end - I chose Spirited Away.  After that my mom went off to a few cosplay panels while Sean, Skye, and I went to the "Abridged Series Panel."  We got to see the newest episode of Yugioh the Abridged and 50% Off - which is a Free! Iwatobi Swim Club abridged series.  That was really fun.  Then we met up with my mom who was watching Blue Exorcist in one of the screening rooms (her first anime, I'm so proud) and discussed further plans.  Around 8 they all went back to the hotel and I met up with a friend of mine to go see the AMV competition.  It was really good, there were some fun ones.  Fortunately my mom was kind enough to come back and pick me up when it ended at midnight...

Well...  Seeing as I've already typed a lot and I still have three more days to talk about I think I'm going to leave it there for the night and talk about the rest of the con tomorrow.  Sound good?  Well, too bad.

So... on to talking about my tarot reading...
Alright, I didn't really head it at all!  Yay! ...  I was supposed to be productive and all I was laze about playing video games... Cool...  Well, I guess that all I have to say to that...

Well, I'll see you all tomorrow.
Or not because I can't actually see you...
3 down, 4 to go.

Tarot Reading 7/13/2014

What I should do today - VII-The Chariot
* I need to move forward today; I may need to go somewhere.  Also talks about control; so, I need to be in control today.
What I shouldn't do today - 9 of Swords
* Don't allow myself to feel overwhelmed or anxious today.  Don't let my fears get the best of me.
Unexpected - 6 of Cups
* I might feel nostalgic today, maybe something/someone from my childhood will come up.
Theme for today - Ace of Batons
* Today is about beginnings and great ideas.  Creativity, strength, and intuition.
Advice for today - XXI-The World
* Something needs to come to an end... Not sure what...

There's my tarot reading for the day.  I'll post again tonight and talk about if anything came true then.

Until then.

Let's Talk About The Week

Hello everyone!  Second day in a row, at least I haven't just dropped off after only one post again...

I said yesterday that I want to talk a little about my day every time I post and I do, but since today is also the day that I was planning on doing my weekly-run-down-type thing, I'll just go ahead and talk about my day when I get to Saturday.

So, onto my week.

Sunday, July 6th

Barnaby and Kotetsu - Tiger & Bunny

Tharja - Fire Emblem: Awakening
Some cosplayers from AX

Blue Rose - Tiger & Bunny

On Sunday I was actually in LA; my family and I were there for Anime Expo 2014.  It was the last day of the con and it was actually the first time that I'd ever been to a convention (I've been to six over five years) and not been in cosplay (I'm a huge cosplayer - and by huge I don't mean that I'm really good and well known or anything, I just mean that I'm really into it).  I got to see the first two episodes of the second season of Free! Iwatobi Swim Club.  That was pretty exciting too because we actually got to see the second episode before it premiered in Japan.  I also went to the first ever classical concert at Anime Expo, rePLAY: Symphony of Hero's.  That was really amazing; so beautiful.  It was a 70 piece orchestra plus 20 voice choir preforming song from video games such as: Portal, Halo, World of Warcraft, and many others.  It was really great.

Monday, July 7th

Our Car...

Monday I got to spend most of the day in our car.  We had started driving back home from the convention (usually a six hour drive), but we knew that traffic was going to be awful (if we had decided to just drive straight home it was going to take 10 hours - we did that last year), so instead we just drove into Bakersfield and stayed in a motel there for the night before leaving again on Monday morning.  So, yeah, Monday was pretty boring.  Once we did get home I just took a nap.

Tuesday, July 8th
Not much happened Tuesday either; since we'd just spent a week in LA, and I hadn't gotten much sleep  during this time, I was pretty tired and so I decided to sleep and laze about the house most of this day too.

Wednesday, July 9th

My friends birthday was on Wednesday and so (because I was going to see her the net day) I spent the day making cookies to give to her and my other friend who's birthday was on the 7th.  I wasn't quite sure which kinds of cookies they liked so I just made four different kinds.  I made strawberry shortcake cookies, sand dollar cookies, raspberry sandwich cookies, and banana, chocolate chip biscotti.  It took all day, but it was fun.  I love baking!

Thursday, July 10th

Attack on Titan Cosplay Cape I bought at AX
This is just what I decided to take a picture of that day

Thursday was my first day back to work after being gone for nearly two weeks.  It was a short day though, so it wasn't bad.  After work I went and hung out with friends since we were celebrating two birthdays.  We went to too different restaurants for drinks (we all only had two drinks each though, one at each place).  Then the birthday girl decided she was tired so we dropped her off at home and then I went over to Jessica's and we played Rock Band, because we're cool like that.

Friday. July 11th
    

My Manga Tarot Deck

The cards a pulled for my reading that day

I stated this blog up again!  I also started back up on HabitRPG - I had logged off for a little while for Anime Expo.  I had work, I wrote some fan fiction, I lazed about, not much interesting happened.

Saturday, July 12th (also known as today)

My foot is there for scale

Do any of you (not that there are any of you) remember that blanket that I was making last year, well, one of the tarot readings that I did for today said that I should work on a project that I had been putting off so I pulled it out and finished it this morning.  I also went into the city (San Francisco) with my family to look at fabric stores, we also stopped and had dinner at a Chinese place and I tried frog for the first time...  Today is also a "super" moon.

That's my week in a nutshell.

Tarot reading 7/12/2014
1) What should I do today - II-The High Priestess
* The High Priestess talks about undeveloped talents and creative ability so I should use those/work on those today.
2) What I shouldn't do today - XII-The Hanged Man
* I need to not allow myself to get stuck - I need to keep moving forward, no time to stand still today.
3) Unexpected - V-The Heirophant
* Religion or education... I may work on my own religion today (I've been studying witchcraft - don't consider myself one yet, but I'm working towards it) or maybe I'll run into someone who is religious.  Could be talking about education instead though, maybe something about the upcoming school semester will come up.
4) Theme of the day - 5 of Cups
* I may feel down today and there's a chance I might lose something.
5) Advice - King of Coins
* I need to be practical and I might want to start something new today.

So, I did do something creative, again my tarot reading is actually why a dragged out and finished that blanket, so that was fun.  I tried not to allow myself to sit and do nothing today so that's good to.  I haven't dealt with anything that has to do with religion or education though... so I'm not sure what that was talking about... Fortunately I didn't/haven't lost anything, but I did start feeling a little down once we got home from the city because things didn't quite go as planned there, but it wasn't too bad.  Unfortunately I didn't quite head the advice of being practical or starting something new today...

I think that starting tomorrow I may post my tarot readings in the morning and then make my "official" post - the one about my day and the topic of the day - at night and then talk about how the reading related to my day in that.  I think that might make more sense...

Alright, well, there you go.

I plan on talking about Anime Expo more in depth eventually, but I'm pretty sure this post is already long enough... Maybe I'll talking about it tomorrow... Yeah... I can make that count as talking about myself... or maybe I'll just wait until Tuesday...

2 down, 5 to go.
Let's keep this going Cali.

Hopefully This Is For Real This Time

Hello again everyone!

Yep, still alive.  I want to give this yet another go.  I'm making it my goal to write one blog post a day for a week once again.  This will hopefully help me get back into blogging regularly.

So, let's talk about how things are going to go this time around.

I already have a little weekly schedule that I want to follow and it goes a little something like this:
Sunday - Talk-About-Myself Day
* On Sunday's I will share something about myself; a story from my childhood, my favorite something, or maybe I'll talk about my family.
Monday - Baking Day
* I will bake on this day (as long as work isn't too crazy that day) and then post pictures and talk about what I made.
Tuesday - I-Don't-Have-Anything-Specific-To-Talk-About-Planned Day
* No specific topic for Tuesday's I'll just talk about what I'm in the mood to talk about that day.
Wednesday - Fan-Fiction Day
* I'll post and talk about one of my many works of fan fiction
Thursday - Original-Works Day
* I'll post something about one of my original stories, maybe a small piece of one of them, maybe a character bio, or maybe a synopsis.
Friday - Anime Day
* This is trying to be an anime blog after all.
Saturday - Weekly-Wrap-Up Day
* Much like last time I hope to give a quick overview of the week using pictures I've taken in that time.

Those are the plans - at least until the school semester starts then we'll see what happens...

There are also certain things I want to write about each day.  I'll try to start off each post with a little about my day and how things are going, then I'll talk about the topic of the day.  Last I'll be posting my daily tarot reading and how it related to my day.  Yeah.

So, yeah, those are the plans...

And according to these plans today is anime day!
Yay!  I want to try and talk about an anime that I watched recently and so I shall do that.  The anime that I have watched most recently is Puella Magi Madoka Magica.  I've been meaning to watch this series for a while and just hadn't gotten around to it, but going to Anime Expo - which I went to last week - always gets me really pumped for watching more anime so I was finally able to do it.  I started it Tuesday morning and finished it by that night.  It was pretty good, I thought it was interesting, but I'm not sure how I feel about the witches; I know they were going for them being surreal and all, but I don't really like the art choices they made for them.  For those who don't know anything about Puella Magi Madoka Magica it is a magical girl anime, but it has a few dark twists to it, also part of the reason I was interested in watching it.  Overall I thought it was interesting, but the main reason I watched it was because it's such a pop-culture thing when it comes to anime; "everyone's" watched it and all so I thought I'd give it a go.  Not bad, strange, but not bad.

Now onto more planned things.

Here's my tarot reading for today:
(I used my Manga Tarot deck)
Theme for the day - Page of Swords
* I could interact with a Page of Swords today - someone who is clever, quick-witted, and critical - or today could be a day full of energy and starting new ventures.

Advice for the day - 3 of Cups
* This card talks about celebrating, having fun, and spending time with friends, family, and loved ones.  So... I should do that today.

Well, I do think that retrying this can definitely qualify as starting a new venture so that was right; I haven't really headed the advice yet though...  How should I celebrate...?  What should I celebrate...?

Anyway, there you have it, so, let's see if I can get back in a good rhythm again.

Ready for the countdown again.
I bet you all missed these.
1 down, 6 to go.
I bet no one even cares that I'm back...

New Year = New Beginnnings

Alright, well, my posting regularly - or at all - seemed to have died for a good while, but I'm back and alive and willing to give this another shot.  I don't know if my posting topics are going to be as organized this time, but at least I'll be posting.

So, happy 2014 everybody!  As usual I've made a few New Year's Resolutions, but let's see if I'll actually get any of them done.  My friend did suggest this awesome site to me though; it's called habitrpg.com.  Basically you take your resolutions and habits you want to start/break and put them on there and as you complete them you gain experience and gold.  You can use the gold to buy rewards for completing tasks and you find pets long the way.  I started mine and I've got 72 exp points and 11 gold, 92 silver so far.

Well...  Some things I hope to do this year are:
Write more
Read more
Thoroughly clean my house
Finish one of my books
And there's other stuff, but there's some basics.

Okay, so I don't have much else to say today, but I'm going to try to go back to posting every day again (it's one of the things that if I do it I get exp points and gold; I'm trying to earn an episode of Magi).

Anyway, I will see you all tomorrow.  I hope everyone had a great Christmas or holiday of your choosing.

Happy New Year Everyone!