giethe

So I was checking my twitter this morning, and...

Quiet and very self-assured, you tend to keep your own council. Pragmatic and practical to a fault, you are not one to worry about the finer points of philosophical discourse. In fact, because you are very much an individualist, you often finds yourself at odds with the established truth or the wishes of the majority. You will often earn the wrath of an employer by taking upon yourself decisions which are rightly those of your manager. You are not one to take credit unless it is deserved. Similarly however, you will also not happily give credit where it is not due. In a romantic relationship you can be very frustrating. While you do care deeply and sincerely, and are willing to work at a relationship, your confidence in your own abilities can on occasion make it difficult to see the world from a partner’s point of view. Quiet and stoic at times, you can drive a more emotional individual completely up the wall. You can become overstressed and fatigued without knowing it. Taking time to rest between bouts of hard work can help to prevent a breakdown later on.

WTF. That's one of the strangest psych tests I've ever taken. And creepily accurate.

Anyway, I turned 26 yesterday, and spent the day going to a job interview, then came home to a kiddie birthday party because my visitors are nephews and nieces. ^___^; Then the adults just sat around and told ghost stories. After we cleaned up, I passed out and woke up ten hours later. My entire body is still sore today and spent most of the day out cold.

Google and gmail won't work for me the past 24 hours. :|  Notification in case someone's looking for me there.

A long, long time ago, one of my grand-aunts kidnapped both me and my sister for a trip to the hair salon and curled the hair at the sides of our heads and made us look like a couple of POODLES. My mom thought it was funny. We were probably 5-6 years old, and later on we both swore not to get duped so easily, and always made sure to part our hair asymmetrically to avoid those dreadful memories.

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Recently, however, my sister wants a perm - because our naturally straight hair now looks boring next to our mom who, after 40 years of keeping her hair VERY short, decided to grow it out only for us to discover that she has NATURALLY OCCURRING PRINCESS CURLS. You don't even need to style it - just twirl it a bit around your fingers, and it'll put classic shoujo heroines to shame. It made my sister weep with envy.

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My own hair, however, has some more complicated issues. Dinner table convo a couple of weeks ago:

Me: I need a new haircut. Preferably another short barber's cut or something.
Mom: NO! I told you to stop cutting your hair like that!
Me: But why? You've always had short hair, but I'm not allowed to? Why do you get so angry?
Mom: That's different! You're... you... end up...
Me: What?
Mom: You look like the teenage version of your dad! *suddenly looks embarrassed*
Me: :|
Mom: :|
Me: u___u

and before anyone asks, no, I have NOT been snacking on the heavily alcoholic slab of fruitcake in our fridge.

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Scene at breakfast this morning:

Sis: I thought we're all gonna clean the house today, where's dad?
Mom: He went jogging.
Sis: Jogging? He hasn't gone out of the bedroom yet, right?
Mom: He went jogging an hour ago... in his dreams.
Us: O_o
Sis: Wow, that's... some distance to cover, eh?
Mom: *peeks into bedroom* Definitely. See, he's covered some distance already, he's managed to roll onto MY side of the bed.
Dad: *SNORE*

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Also, at 3 am this morning, I finished my evil fanfic. MWUAAHAHAHAHA. FINALLY. For the 2nd time. And posted! Now I just hope my giftee likes it. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to keep going, I really appreciated it. :D

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( and a couple of other random stories where I acquired my new baby, and today's insanityCollapse )
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And before I forget:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, FLIST! 

I hope you guys have a great time.

So I spent the last two weeks typing up a Weiss fanfic (for a christmas exchange) while re-organizing my stuff after the JLPT insanity. This week, however, the fanfic gods decided to use me as target practice:

* Monday morning: My 8-year old laptop finally bit the dust. Well, not quite. See, it made a funny buzzing sound, then the backlight burnt out. So she's still actually working, but to see anything, I'd need a flashlight held against the screen in an strange angle. Spent the rest of the day transferring everything onto my Mom's Acer desktop.
( If it was that simple, I'd be perfectly fine...Collapse )

I'll be back, fanfic gods! *shakes fist*

I am here to slow down people's flists.

It's bad enough I've been looking up 3DS promos everywhere and basically having the same reaction as most DS fans are but...



I just... WHAT. Layton and Phoenix pointing fingers around and at each other?! It's like two colliding fandoms that I never expected. /sob I'm still getting whiplash from the clashing designs, but OMG.

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In other news, I finished 2000+ kanji. It's goofy shirtless shinigami Party time!!!(It's even more amusing that the women comes in to troll them right in the middle of the dance and they slink off in embarrassment afterwards)

Then it's off to grammar review and kanji compounds and more panicking.

Ahhh, just finished watching Mouryou no Hako, an intensely disturbing but heartbreakingly beautiful series. It's the Japanese detective noir story, except that it delves deeply into some Shinto beliefs plus a touch of sci-fi to make your blood run cold. It's certainly not a series for the impatient, as everything is really confusing at the beginning, I couldn't even figure out who was meant to be the central character/set for the first half, and then you're treated to 2 entire episodes of people sitting around a table discussing religious theory. O_o

( Cut for the faint-hearted... well, sort ofCollapse )

Here's a useless little meme thing I spotted on genkischuldich 's journal. Basically you put in your name and it randomly tells you if you're seme or uke.

gietheは『無邪気攻め』です。今夜も頑張ってください。
http://shindanmaker.com/46480 #semeuke

(You're an innocent seme. Do your best tonight.)  Ok. I laughed.

Combine that with sarcasmmonster 's recent challenge meme gives me this:

Comment with "<the answer you got from the previous meme>" and I'll tell you:

1. Something random about you. The translation of what you got.
2. Which color you remind me of.
3. My first memory of you.
4. What random character I associate with you.
5. My favorite thing about you.
6. What fandom(s) I associate with you.
7. Challenge you to post this on your journal.

Have at it, Flist.