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Originally posted by emmagrant01 at Announcement! :-D

So I went out for my birthday tonight, and had the most awesome time. First we went to a pub for drinks on the patio, then, since we were right next to Koreatown, we went to a norebang for a night of Karaoke.

The mix of people was pretty cool: a few of my old and dear friends with whom I always spend my birthday, and then a bunch of new friends I've met through my Japanese class, along with some friends of those friends. Everyone seemed to get along really well, and we had a lot of fun.  I got to sing some Arashi songs with the help of the Japanese native speakers in our group. Only thing is I had to read the lyrics off my iPhone because not all the Kanji on the screen had Furigana, but even if it did, my reading of Hiragana and Katakana is still very slow, so I probably wouldn't be able to keep up.

But...

But...

BUT! I am super duper ridiculously proud of the fact that I sang Kaze no Mukou e and managed to do the Sakurap part!!! I stumbled only once, but other than that I got through the whole thing and did pretty damn good if I do say so myself.  I ARE PROUD OF MAHSELF! *\o/*

Anyway, I am still a wee bit on the intoxicated side, but I can't go to bed quite yet, cuz we decided to go to a 24 hr restaurant and eat some pork bone soup.  In and of itself, that's just fine, but for some unfathomable reason, I asked for extra spicy.  So now I'm awake cuz if I go to bed so soon after eating something that karai, I will get seriously wicked bad heartburn! What a dumbass I am!

Okay, I think I've allowed a sufficient amount of time to pass now. Am gonna try going to bed. Wish me non heartburny sweet dreams! ♥

Ugh, so it's 4:00 in the morning, and I'm still awake. Why? Hmm, it might have something to do with the unscheduled 4 hour nap I took tonight. *sigh* I hate when I totally upset my internal clock like that.  :(

So, instead of sleeping, I've been watching Dirty Dancing on TV.  It just ended. That movie makes me kinda sad now. Patrick Swayze is dead, Jerry Orbach (Baby's dad) is dead, and Jennifer Grey's nose job has made her completely unrecognizable from her Baby Houseman character.  Even though it makes me sad, I have to admit that I still love that movie to a ridiculous degree.

Anyway, now that it's over, I really should try to force myself to sleep.

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Please spread the word. furiosity has even created some handy copy/paste text here to make it easy for you to re-post this in your own LJ.

I've totally and shamelessly stolen this idea from furiosity, but it was too fun to resist.

Ask me any question(s) you want and I'll answer them.

Also, I've made a new year's resolution to do at least one thing per day at work that makes me feel productive (cuz most of the time I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels) and so far day 1 was a success. And I managed to do it while keeping up with my other resolution of not letting anyone's actions at work get to me, not even Doucheboy's. So, I'm 2 for 2 on day one. :D YAY!!

ETA: Also, I used to have this awesome collection of lyrics for songs that meant a lot to me, and they got lost back when my old laptop died. So I'm in the process of re-compiling them, and I got curious about what kind of song lyrics move other people. So now I'm asking, what are some of the songs whose lyrics mean a lot to you?

I'm sure some of you have already seen this, but I couldn't resist sharing it with anyone who might have missed it, cuz it made me LOL IRL:

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_startrek/1043908.html

Points to icon...

I have Hisagi-ized my icon... I am a shameless fangirl.

And I have also totally stolen that idea from incapricious with her awesome Urahara hat on her icon. *is sadly unoriginal* I blame it on being sick.

Okay, I should be in bed now, but before I head off, I just have to squee for a bit, cuz I just bought a bunch of Bleach paraphernalia. *\o/*

Here's what I bought:

AN ICHIGO TOWEL *\o/*
A HISAGI TOWEL-OMG!
A RENJI/ICHIGO NOREN- *squee* (ie Sign Curtain thingy)
AND
A PILLOW WITH HITSUGAYA ON ONE SIDE AND HISAGI ON THE OTHER-OMG, OMG, OMFG! *dies*

I totally can't wait for my shipment to arrive. I'm sooo gonna sleep with the Hisagi pillow, and I don't care how much of a weirdo that makes me.


ETA Take note of the posting time on this... it's now 8:09am and I am awake. Why, you ask? Because the bastards from the city of Toronto have seen fit to do some really fricken noisy road work at 8am on a Sunday!!!! WTF man?!?!?! NOT IMPRESSED.

I haven't posted any of the fics I've written for fests lately, so I thought I'd start with this one...

Title: Invisible to the Gods
Pairing: Albus Severus/Scorpius (yes, a non-H/D Harry Potter fic from me)
Rating: Hard R
Word Count: 6850
Warnings: Angsty and kind of dark, definitely no happy endings to be found here, POV switches between the 2 main characters, violence (implied)
Summary: Albus and Scorpius learn that some things can never be undone and others can change in an instant, when an innocent act of teen rebellion puts into motion a series of events that change both of their lives forever.
Disclaimers: It all belongs to JKR, I only play in her sandbox. Plz to be not suing me.
Notes: Written for dark_branwen in hpvalensmut. The title was given to me by my fabulous beta, djin7, and comes from the Iban Proverb: "A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods."

( this way to angsty, non H/D ficcageCollapse )

So, this morning, I get into work and think Oh, yes, it's Friday! One more day of work! w00t! Then, I drop my stuff off at my desk and head down to the cafeteria to get some toast and coffee. On the way down, the thought that comes into my head is: Oh yes! It's Friday! BLEACH!!!! Can't wait to get back to my desk and read it!!! w00t w00t

Got my toast. Got my coffee. Stepped back into the elevator, pressed the button and thought, Fuck. It's Thursday.

No Bleach. No weekend. :(