Today is nothing informative. Just an amusing quiz.
How will I die?
"Sharon Spilmon: At age 32 while playing Street Fighter Omega at an arcade, you will be electrocuted by the headset. You will be the first such death in years."
Hee hee. I find that highly amusing. I don't even go to arcades often...
Well, mata ashita!
So, I don't really have anything important or entertaining to report this evening. I haven't uploaded my pictures from last night yet, and i'll probably want one of me from someone else, just because all I got was a top half only one. And I kinda wanna show off my cool hakama, too.
So, I was at work today, and hell if i know why, but it was crazy. Not just people in general, because I could blame the moon for that (since it's either a full moon, or really freakin close tonight), but someone please explain why there were so many people shopping for crafty stuff today?? And I feel guilty too, cuz at one point I got really irritable. But I was trying to basically take care of 2 cutomers at once, and a coworker was trying to get me to help another customer at the same time, all while I was doing a price adjustment. And I was really tired. And when I'm tired, I get pissed off easily. So, I am sorry. Oh well.
I suppose that's all I've got for tonight.
Mata ashita! ("See you tomorrow" in Japanese)
Well, the accessories are done, if half-assed. But really, what do you expect of me?? I mean, i bought velcro for the armband, but now decided not to use it. And I decided not to put the sealant coat on the book...I may end up doing it later, like before ACen, but for now, it'll be unsealed and plain. I still need to do more research as to what, if anything, should be written on it.
On an unrelated note, my toes are very cold.
Well, I guess that's it for now...I suppose I'll watch a bit of Tv and eat me some dinner, then get dressed for the party. This should be fun, though. Yay, Nanao-chan!
Mata ashita!
I have a costume, and it is all kinds of awesome! After tomorrow's party, I'll have some pics to put up. I guess I should do the armband...and maybe the book...although, they're not extremely necessary for this party, since the only other person there who will have any idea about who I'm dressed as is Laurie. But, still...at least the armband. That's on the to do list for tomorrow. But now I'm all giddy cuz my costume is finally here. Yay!!
Til tomorrow!
Mata ashita!
All right, here goes!
Since I'm no good with HTML (i.e. I have no idea how to do anything), I don't know how to put the picture and link on my sidebar for NaBloPoMo. So, I had thought to just upload the pic in a post and put the link under it or something, but the last 2 times I've tried, it's taken too long for Blogger to upload the pic, and the connection times out. So....here. I've linked it. And the pic I was wanting to use is the one with Yoda talking about keeping the Wookies away. Although...I really like Wookies, so I dunno if I want to keep them away...
Anyways....last night I went to a Halloween party at a friend of a coworker's apartment. It was...interesting. I am currently washing my coat so it doesn't smell so much like an ashtray, and that's saying a lot, since I live in a house with a smoker. They apparently made 72 Jello shots for this party...I had one. I don't know if one of the other people had any...she brought her own alcohol in a Mountain Dew bottle. And there were only 7 people there, including me, so...about 71 Jello shots to like 5 or 6 people...yeah, some of 'em were really drunk. But it was still pretty fun, for hanging out with people I barely know/don't know at all. We ended up watching anime at the end, and I stayed until 5 am.
I didn't wear a costume, cuz it's not here yet, but it should get here tomorrow around 3, when I'm at work. I was so convinced I had to close tomorrow, but no, I open. Bah. Oh well. Maybe when I get back from work tomorrow I can finish bits of the costume, the accessories if you will. We'll see how my somewhat lacking artistic abilities do for the armband as I try to draw it from a picture, and then copy my drawing onto fabric and coloring it with a sharpie. I'll try not to breathe it in too much.
I suppose that's it for tonight. I don't wanna run out of things to talk about too soon!
Til tomorrow!
I know, I know....it's been awhile, hasn't it. And even longer for a real post, and not some video or quiz or some such nonsense. I'm just lazy. But! But, I'm gonna try and not be, so much. As many of my readers may know, a friend, one VBG (aka PF1 over there ->), is participating (among other things) in NaBloPoMo, and I thought I might be able to do it too, so....here goes! I will hopefully be posting something every day, starting tomorrow (although, really, if you count this, I start today), although who knows how much substance will be in any of these posts. I'm bound to find something to rant about, right?
Until tomorrow!
I decided to put this quiz here in this blog, just because I stole it from a real pirate monkey, who definately reads this one. Enjoy!
Take the test!
....pissed off the rain gods. See, I was planning to go to the library today to turn in some DVDs that were due yesterday (and try to find a really tasty fruit drink I had while in Bloomingotn), but seeing as this it what it looks like out my front door still, I guess that'll hafta wait.
What did I do, rain gods? Or was it someone else you are severely pissed at?
....of nerdiness. Not geekiness, but nerdiness of a culinary variety. I have purchased the COOLEST Bundt pan EVER! And so I baked in it tonight. Here's what I made (a triple chocolate bundt cake, mighty tasty).
If you're having problems telling what it is...it's a castle! Isn't that super cool?? Now, for every event I'm gonna be like "Anybody want me to bring a cake?" I think I may go put some "snow" on it later...powdered sugar, y'know.
Anyways, I just had to share.
Well, not really. Here's the story:
Around Christmas this last year I decided that the pile of CDs next to my CD player/radio on top of my dresser was getting a little too tall. At least 5 or so inches of CD on top of CD, no cases. Just sitting there. So, I thought, it may be time to put them in their cases and put them away. But then I realized, I've burned so many CDs from the library and off mp3s I've downloaded that I'd still have about 3 inches of pile unless I wanted to find and put them in the thin cases the blank CDs came in. But I hate the thin cases, because you have to pull them out one by one to see what CD it is. So, I thought I'd hit Target and see what CD case/wallet things they had on clearance. I ended up finding a couple that were kinda cool, and like $5 a piece. I figure, someday I'll move out, and it may even be easier to put all my DVDs in something like that, too, and just put the regular cases in storage bins under my bed. Anyways, the CD wallet things I got were black boxes, with 6 folders each with a label and pull (kinda like old card catalogues, just not yellow wood). But, I was really looking for something with a dragon on it, or something. So, I got the bright idea of painting (stamping, really) a cool dragon in read or something on these plain black boxes. So, I searched at work for a cool dragon stamp. No luck. I ended up with an asian stamp set, and 3 colors of metallic paint. For the record, I bought the paint and stamps on January 16. And did nothing with them.
Now, fast forward to this last Sunday. Some of my friends here in town are much more crafty than I am (even in that wiley kinda way), and they had decided as a kind of last hurrah for the summer (since one of them is an English teacher at our alma mater) to have a "crafting party", complete with chocolate fountain. Here I was, at a loss. It would be cheating to just go for the hang out time and the chocolate fountain, but I can't craft! Then I remembered. I do have that box. Maybe I can do it there. It's not like I'm ever gonna get around to it otherwise. So, I took it and played in the paint. Here's my finished box. 
I really like how the square side turned out. :)
Also at the party another friend had henna as her craft, so I got a bit of henna work done. Not too much, though, since I didn't want to answer too many questions at work. ;) 
If you'll notice, it's the same as one of the stamps on the box. According to the stamp package, it means "wisdom", but one can never be too sure.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed your foray into "crafty Sharon land".
Later!
...although I do feel a bit like the undead (shuffle, shuffle).
So, what have I been doing since my last post? Swimming. Er, I mean, let's see. A couple of weeks ago I went and picked up Ellie at Aerine and Billy's place (and therefore got to hang out with the aforesaid couple, as well as Bird and Bijou) and then drove up to visit with Jenny and Ernest. Up there, we went to a band competiton (it was ok, just a little warm) and finally got to go to the Children's Museum in Indy to see the dinos. Yay dinos. We also got to see the Fireworks of Glass display, which was pretty cool. Oh, and we got to eat at Ellie' restaurant, the 3 Sisters' Cafe, which had a lot of stuff my veggie friends would eat, too. Um, the next weekend was my family reunion, so I got to see a bunch of relatives, some of which I haven't seen for a very long time (like my cousin Esther) and eat watermelon and too much food in general. Cuz that's what family's about. Eating too much off the dessert table. :)
Hmm...otherwise, I haven't really been doing too much. Just working and sleeping and watching anime on Youtube. The exciting life I always lead. ;)
Hmmm....I should probably get dressed and stuff for work now, so...until later!
It's true. Yesterday I left for work early (about 45 minutes early) so I wouldn't have to bail out my car, and felt it would be stupid to move it to the end of the block for a half hour. The rain had stopped by that time, but you never know how much further the water will rise, since the storm sewers around here suck ass. My mom says it went down in about an hour. However, this morning around 9-9:30 my mom comes into my room and says I'd better get up and move my car before it floats away. So, I run out in my PJs and my brother's flip-flops, crawl in the passenger side and drive to the end of the block, come back inside, discard my wet PJs and go back to sleep. A while later (I'm not sure when) my brother took these pictures:
The water did rise some more, another foot or so, and has gone back down a bit, but it's still up, and it's 5:30 in the afternoon. My street will definately be on the local news, and may even be on the Weather Channel. Stupid outdated sewer system. At least this time there weren't any people canoeing down the street!
Ok, so, random stuff out of the way first. If you haven't noticed on my sidebar, there's a new "person I know", Me. I now have a(n) LJ as well as this blog, so if you want quizzes, I'll be posting them over there.
I have recently purchased the Sims 2 for the PS2, if only for the fact there's a 2 player mode.
For any and all of my friends that have worked retail (especially the many of you who have worked at Michaels) I find this comic extremely true. If only we could hurt those kind of customers....
Ok, I think that's it for random right now, so...on to PICTURES!! These are all from either Julie's bachelorette party (very few) or from Julie and Andy's wedding, so enjoy! (P.S. I had some witty stuff written to go along with these pictures, but the formatting messed it all up, so I decided not to fuck with it tonight. Any questions, just ask.)
So, 2 weeks and a week and a half ago, I atten
ded a couple of graduations. So, congrats again to Ross, for graduating from Bosse, and to Ellie, Aerine, and Heather for escaping Hanover. You know you'll miss the people, and you'll miss not getting thousands of phone calls asking you to consolidate your loans, or letters from Hanover saying "Now that you're an alumni, give us money!!" I know I do.
Anyways, as for what's up with me...I'll be going up to Indy this weekend for Julie's bachelorette party, followed by her and Andy's wedding, so as long as my dream last night doesn't come true (where I was running late and forgot my camera, among other things) I'll be sure to take a couple of pics and post them later.
Til then
Because I like dinosaurs and dragons, I feel it is my duty to link to an IndyStar story that I stumbled across. Anybody wanna go to the Childrens Museum with me??
So, lately I've been reading quite a lot of manga, and that's mainly because the library has been getting quite a bit in. Last summer I bought book 1 of Negima! so I would have something to read on my family vacation, but didn't like it so much as to keep buying it. However, less than a month later, the library got books 2-4 (don't ask me why they didn't get 1). So, I checked them out and read them. They weren't bad. About a month ago, the library got 5-9 of Negima!, but I was resisting the urge to put them on hold. But, when I was at ACen, I got to see the first episode of the anime in English, and so I decided now would be a good time to read the next ones. But, I wanted to re-read the others to refresh my memory. I gave up on getting books 2 and 3,but I was successful in getting 4 and 5. So, here I was, just moments ago, re-reading book 4, and I turn the page only to see that some little hooligan (maybe even the one that insisted on putting nipples on every boob they could) had torn out a page! How unbelievably rude!! It's not your book, you didn't pay for it, so what gives you the right to tear it up?! Grrrr!!! At least I have read this one, and I've actually seen the whole anime fansubbed, but still. The nerve!
Ok, that's it for this rant. Later I'll actually post about ACen, maybe with pictures, but probably not, just because I didn't take very many.
So, yeah, that last post wasn't supposed to digress as much as it did. I got so caught up the remembering, that I forgot what it was I was writing about. Ooops.
I was supposed to be writing about what anime got me started, especially as a small child, but imstead, I pretty much made a list of most of the anime I've watched as of now. Silly me.
The thing is, I really don't remember most of what I watched when I was little. I have a distant memory that is merely images that I have long since believed was of an anime, but I don't have any idea what it could have been. I think it's of a space or train station, a station of some sort, and the main youngish character gets separated from his? family. But I really don't remember it that well. I'm guessing it was probably a movie. Otherwise, I don't know how much Transformers I watched, and I'm pretty sure the Transformers I did watch was similar to the G. I. Joe I watched, which was more American in its animation style. I think I may have watched some Voltron, but since none of these shows were recorded by my folks, I'm really kinda guessing. I watched more Rainbow Brite, and He-Man and She-Ra. And I know I must have liked Thundercats (since I have an episode, or maybe a movie, on tape) but I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I liked the movie Herself the Elf, but I think I may be one of the few people to have ever seen it, though I was Herself once for Halloween, and we have a Herself the Elf towel...
Anyways, there we have it. I didn't really watch all that much anime when I was younger. So, now I'm making up for it. :)
Speaking of, tomorrow I leave with my brother for Chicago to immerse myself in anime and the American otaku culture, since we will be attending ACen, or Anime Central. It will be highly exciting, even if I don't actually get to cosplay. But I hope I do. Maybe when I get back I'll do a post on that, or even a post on last Sunday, complete with the pictures I took but haven't looked at yet.
Til then, later!
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