Am I dead? I feel... dead.
  july21 @ 9:55pm
  music: Standing To Defend You - Bleach
  feeling: crampy and irritable

Eh, it's been a while. Whoop. Crap happening, good stuff happening, etc etc. Stardrop got a revamp. I have a new desktop starting today (Chiba! One of the only ones worthy of replacing Yasu-kun <3) that my dad calls "ghetto". WTF, mate. It's not ghetto. It's old school homie. Jeez. Difference much.

Haven't iconed in a while. The boy's external is fucked up and possibly fucked over. Yayz. That had like... ALL of SOEX on it. Fuck nuggets. (Darn, I'm swearing a lot. Told you I was irritable >_>) AND THEN... uh, let's see. Not much else has been happening. Have a couple layouts and such to do for peoples. Need money, as usual. I REALLY wanted to make either cookies or a cake today (I was so happy about it, too) but then realized I only have half the stuff needed and no mixing bowl OR electric mixer. Got pretty pissed about that one, yes I did.

OKAY! Onto happier things and some mac n' cheese. Mmm... food. I'll be better about updating, I swear ;_; New layout possibly soonish. Maybe. Kinda.

Love & kisses and all that.

OW, my freaking back.
  june26 @ 2:01am
  music: I Miss You - Darren Hayes
  feeling: pained

83 mailto forms later, it has been 3 hours, and I have heard six billion songs on iTunes shuffle. Well, not really, but the 3 hour thing is true, as is the 83 mailtos. And the iTunes shuffle. And the fact that the middle of my spine up my neck hurts like a beeyatch.

Jeez dog, shush already! o_O

NOW THEN, been working on an icon batch, lots of crap happened, but I don't dwell, so it's over with, and essentially I need money, but so does everybody so it's no big deal. Saw the Howl dub today... and Billy Crystal was the least of my problems. WHY OH WHY can't Christian Bale move his voice more than three consecutive notes in an octave? WHY is it so monotone? WHY was I spoiled with the pretty pretty Japanese Howl first? (Well, that one I don't mind. XD) Red was in a car crash, but is ok. I'm super pissed at her boyfriend though, freaking idiot. I wanna beat the shit outta him good.

Ah, Nirvana. I have long since succumbed to your following. What's next on zee shuffle? Why, I see that it's... cali gari! Woot. Gnarly, and so forth. Ok, off I go to eat dinner (2am dinner! YEEHAW!) and make more icons. Gnarly again, and so forth. Ok. Ta.

Hello again, foolish mortals.
  june19 @ 2:37pm
  music: death wish - Samurai Champloo
  feeling: hungry

Well o-ho-ho, here I am again. Counter on the index has been updated. Not much else has been going on. Freaky scary people knocking at the door and whisting at the dog, and then there was that whole gardening tools thing... which I'll explain in brief, because it's confusing yet funny.

So, there was a broom just outside of the door, used for cleaning outside when the leaves blow all over and such. It's been ther for maybe... 3 months? 4 months? All of a sudden, Wednesday it is gone. Zilch zippo not there. Also, there are gardening tools out front, used for (well) gardening. Friday, they're gone. Saturday, they're back. o_O Yeah. I don't get it either, but I'm either in a Nancy Drew book or Murder By Death.

And then... *thinks* Well, not much else. I need a summer job. Trying to get Stardrop's portfolio together. Redesigning layouts. Have a bunch of stuff to do, like making plushies and drooling over Rafael Nadal some more. (He's like YOUNG. And HOT. And a TENNIS STAR. (and then there's the whole Spanish thing too) O_O *drool*)

OKAY! Off to eat some pretzels and Nutella. Mmmm... Nutella is like sweet sweet ambrosia. Oh yes, and I'm planning on invading Spain. Long story, quick reasoning. Need to brush up my Spanish.

"What's a cute Nutella like you doing in a place like this?"
"¿Perdóname, que un chico bonito como usted está haciendo en un lugar como esto?"
"¿Me casará?"
"¿Perdóname, es solo?"
"¿Perdóname, le casan?"
"¿Dónde está la casa de Rafael Nadal?"
"¿Cómo puedo conseguir boletos a ese fósforo del tenis?"

Works for me. Now, Nutella time.

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  june1 @ 12:32pm
  music: Slip Out (Little More Than Before) - BECK
  feeling: musical and inspired

Thank you for saving Beck.

I CRIED, DAMMIT T__T I CRIED.

26 episodes is way too few. WAY too few. I need a spin off series/movie/OVA/something. I don't care if it was absolutely no plot whatsoever, if there's Chiba and Koyuki and Ryusuke and Taira and Saku, and Saitou and Beck (and probably Keith and Maho and Eiji and Mitchan) and any music whatsoever I am SO set. And there. And I miss my BECK already and it hasn't even been... what, 2 hours? n__n

Yaki 32 needs to come out raw so I can fulfill my Pierron desires. I need my Seki quota for the week, damn yous.

And young Chiba looks like Ken Lloyd. That's right, Kentaro grew up to be KJ.

Sooo da na...
  may29 @ 10:02am
  music: Wind - Naruto
  feeling: my back hurts o_o

Sooo~ let's see. Vacation has moved, so hiatus is moving as well. Life is generally crazy, very busy. Many things to do, not much time. However not enough things that pull in a cash flow, so very poor while doing many things. Very warm weather, very happy. Mosquitoes outside seem to be gone. I pray they aren't regrouping somewhere for their next attack.

Have to get things ready for Nate's grad, general birthdays, random celebrations, summer, whatnot. Need to go shopping, but there's that whole "no money" thing to deal with. Just dealt with my third complainable 22-mailto-form batch.

Oh yes, another LJ for me to talk about random shit and do memes. (Basically memes.) Essentially my 'lesson of the day' for people who don't come over to look at Insomnia. Yeah. Great Teacher Kaz to tha rescue, man.

Uh... teaching Domo guitar. It's fun. He's getting hella good. *nods*

Aaaaannnddd... I really want to do more graphics, and icons and layouts and whatnot, but then there's that whole "time" issue again. Damn. Maybe I can cut a sweet deal with Father Time somehow.

There was something else I was planning on mentioning. Completely forgot it. Maybe it's the lack of sleep. And the lack of videogames, that definitely affects it. Ok. I'll go now. I need mizu. *goes to get H2O*

Ten seconds later...

Remembered it, and this gets to be all big-type and bolded and stuffu:

PIERROT'S SEIYUU IS SEKI TOMOKAZU.

I've died and gone to this animanga officially PWNS MY FACE heaven. <3 You have no idea how happy I was. I danced around my kitchen. I scared the crap out of the boy. It was GREAT XD

Ok, leaving now. *fangirls*

*dai*
  may22 @ 4:58am
  music: blaze of the soul reaper - Bleach
  feeling: awake

OMG the Bleach OST owns my soul (pun very much intended). XD Still haven't gotten around to redoing those iFrame layouts. Did make Domo a layout (Chiba!tastic and all) for his LJ, redid my LJ layout (Ryusuke!tastic), and did a whole lotta other crap. It's been fun. And very, very, very busy.

I also have another batch of 20-something + mailto forms to do that I've been avoiding. No good reason really, but I'm stressed and busy and it's getting hella hot (heat wave! not that I really mind though, I was the one who complained about all the rain) and summer is coming up and yet money is running short. What to do when you've planned a wonderful vacation and set the dates, and everybody's excited, and suddenly you have... NO money? Not even the promise of money in the future... but completely moneyless? Like, not even enough for gas? *sigh*

In other news, this song kicks ASS. I think I mentioned this soundtrack pwning already. It's also 5 in the morning and I'm still awake. Sleep schedule is royally effed over, essentially. If I don't get to go on vacation I think the stress is all gonna build up and my head is literally just going to explode, and then scientists will know the physical form of stress, because they'll be jumping out of my skull. I guess I'll will them to science. o_O

Hokay then. I'm gonna listen to some chill Mexican guitar and mellow out for awhile. Might try sketching. Oh yes! The last thing: currently writing a sort-of choose-yet-don't-choose-your-own-adventure called "The Clichéd Adventures of Your Typical Angsty Teen Hero [if you didn't see it coming, neither did we!]", and it's about space ninjas in a wild-west Japanese city... in space. It started as a joke but I think I'm turning it into a novel. I love my characters to pieces and then pieces s'more. *loves*

Oh yes, and check out the main site layout. I personaly love it. It's so summery. And PT rocks so much, and then some. <3

Until next time, buckaroos.

It's "Email Sora" Week!
  may9 @ 10:22pm
  music: overdrive - move
  feeling: hungry

26 mailto forms later, I think I've shaved a couple years of my life expectancy.

In other news, I'm never gonna get those freaking old iFrame-based layouts redone... since Red's home for the summer, Em's home for the summer, Nate's essentially done for the summer, I'm the official babysitter, and el-jay is pulling me in twelve + different directions at once. Not to mention that I'm trying to plan multiple vacations/summer school/road trips/summer job(s)/outings. For like, everybody I know, with everybody I know.

... off to make Friends-Only banners -_-;

This Week's "To Do"
  apr30 @ 10:21pm
  music: Slip Out (Little More Than Before) - BECK
  feeling: hungry

Still obsessing over the TV, but I'll save that for another blog. Well, unless I get a new TV, in which case you'll hear me go *squee!*... or see me write it, rather. Unless you're stalking me. In which case, get away o_O

T O   D O
_ Redo old layouts that still use iFrames to be ABC:
  ~ Perseverance
  ~ BLS
  ~ Chained
  ~ Fate
  ~ Knave
  ~ DH
  ~ Natural Born Leader
  ~ After the Dream
  ~ (something else here I forgot... Painter of Light/Indomitable Spirit?)
x Redo Intellectual Dreamer's layout to be... better ¬_¬
x Make layout for Youthful Exuberance
x Code/Upload Youthful Exuberance
x Update Req with info/link for YE
x Make layout & code new Symphonic layout
x Read/icon Akuma no Sourou (en Espanol! Muahaha!)
x Call/hang with Ru/Red/sis/Nate
x Play s'more FotS/Surf Coasters with the boy
x Get in some kind of gaming fix
x Hauru comes out July 31 in Japan (uh, just a reminder ^_^;;)
_ Something else here I forgot, again ^_^

Huzzah! Will cross off/update blog as I get things done. Or lack to, and want to complain about it. ^_~

OMGOMGOMG
  apr29 @ 9:38pm
  music: Candy Pop - Heartsdales feat. SOUL'd Out
  feeling: weary and distressed

Well, this is technically old news in that it happened yesterday, but I'm still distressed and freaking. So yesterday I'm just sittin, watching Beauty and the Beast, and Beast saves Belle from those wolves, and then she takes him back to the castle... and then that's it. The next scene... never shows up. Just blackness. And so upon further investigation (I thought I killed the DVD player initially), it turns out that the TV (the one that's used for all DVDs/video gaming) is DEAD. Like, no more. Finished. And here I thought the cable/VHS TV would always be the one to go, since it's so freaking old the resolution is no longer in multi-color, but GREEN. So Green TV is still alive (albeit still green), and my DVD AND VIDEO GAME TV IS DEAD ;____;

Allow me to repeat: I CANNOT PLAY VIDEO GAMES. DVDs I can play on the computer, at least. But NO VIDEO GAMES ;_;

"Why don't you hook the game systems up to Green TV?" you ask? WELL! Two reasons, actually. One, it's so old it doesn't have the right hook-ups, so I couldn't even if I wanted to (and believe me, at the moment I'd take even Green TV-ized games over nothing) and two- Green TV is crammed into this little dusty bug-infested place that I don't wanna put my game systems anywhere freaking near it. Sorry, Green TV. Facts.

So I'm in video game withdrawl... and it makes me sad and crazy and makes me make icons even more than usual, because when I want to kill time I have nothing else to do but watch cable, make graphics, or watch episodes of something. And I ran out of Bleach and Yaki for the time being. (Although I still need to finish BECK/Champloo/SOEX/a whole lotta other shit)

Oh yeah, and just to mention, the dream I had last night involved a Muppet Safari. That's right. Muppets... and a safari. Not like the Muppets "go on" safari, but I was on a safari, and was looking at Muppet animals. Yeah, I don't get it either. Dreams the night before included one about pizza and one about a giant Kawachi attacking me with bladed weapons in a Roman Colosseum in a dream-inside-a-dream type deal. Which actually wasn't as freaky as it sounds. But yeah. I need to get more actual restful sleep...

Pray for my TV ordeal. Onegaishimasu ;__;

I swear I'm not drunk.
  apr26 @ 10:47pm
  music: Omou (Ishi-less) - Kagerou
  feeling: confused and drunklike

OMG I feel dead. I swear, I really have no idea what's going on around me at the moment. I think I'm in withdrawl from taking those damned antibiotics for too long -_-; But my head is spinning and I'm reallllly lightheaded, and yeah. Trying to deal with mailto forms while I'm like this proves to be disastrous. People who have joined things recently: really sorry if your "thanks for joining!" email makes no sense whatsoever, but I'm too lazy/tired to send them again ^_^;;

Yesh, so. Other news quickly: new maintainer of a cool new graphics comm on LJ, expericons. More icons at icon LJ. Uh, need to work on the Keigo fanlisting! that I was approved for earlier today (Note: XD XD XD) and probably other stuff that I'm forgetting. Will go eat something sugary now to try and kill of migrane. Think of me fondly and wish me well and non dizziness. Sankyuu.

Songsets?
  apr19 @ 10:52am
  music: Everything I Do - Bryan Adams
  feeling: graphical

I've been thinking more and more lately that I want to do songset icons... but then I'd have to pick just one song at a time, or else I'd have like... 400 icons in a single post o_O Or the like. You know. So I'm just feeling icon-ish at the moment, but don't have time to icon as I'm waiting to go to lunch... so.

Finished my to-do list! LEIK OMG YAYZ! And made Domo a whole SLEW of really, really funny icons. You're welcome, man. "HAY GUYS! WAT UP?!", "Well, SHIT", Emo glasses and all. XD

Well then, gonna read or re-read some manga for a bit. Hooray for not having anything to do! XD

... yeah. So, ta.

Bleach OST!
  apr17 @ 9:18am
  music: Headstrong - Trapt
  feeling: productive

Well, more progress to the To Do List for one thing ^_^

Now then- FINALLY we get a Bleach OST! May 18 is release date~! I'm thrilled, because then I can get it and have it on the 'Pod in time for summer cruisin' XD XD <3

And let's see... working on a massive crack theory for Bleach featuring Tousen and Kaien, but I'm working the kinks out of it and it's not ready yet, so bleh -_-; I don't like not being able to fill in the gaping holes... damn you Kubo-sama, you evil genius of mangakas, you!! *tackleglomps Kubo*

Yeah, not much else goin' down. Gonna go shopping. I need summer wardrobe.

Well... assuming that summer weather would actually arrive already... ¬_¬

To Do List
  apr12 @ 6:11am
  music: Skin - Madonna
  feeling: better

x Write new Yaki manga summaries for FB!
x Watch Yaki 18, 19 & 20
x Write 18-20 minisummaries for FB!
x More icons & requests
x Fix LJ layout background issues
x Create Shachihokou FL layout
x Code Shachihokou FL
x Upload Shachihokou FL (Done! It's here XD)
x Sleep ,__,
x Go buy birthday gifts
x Call Irv
x Keep breathing
x Make lists with sis
x Babysit
x Finish packets
x Keep breathing
x Don't die
Finito!

... simple enough.

Last ammended 4/17 @ 9:17am ~ Mas progreso! Shachihokou FL layout done, anyhow XD

TOW No Real Point
  apr10 @ 6:17pm
  music: Narcolepsy - Third Eye Blind
  feeling: chill

Yeah, there's no real point to this blog. Working on packets. It's fun. I like reliving old trivia and learning new stuff, and I found this whole big patents list that surprised me o_O It's... like, a whole lot of stuff. Cool, yet surprising.

In other news... uh, not much is going on. I want to watch more Bleach, work on the Shachihokou fanlisting, and make some layouts (for what? I have no idea.) but I'm focusing on one thing at a time, because if I don't then I get dizzy XD Yeah.

Oh 3EB, you are so old-school and yet so contemporary in your rockish ways. Ok then, onto like, work stuff. And such. Y'know, them kind of things that actually get things done ^__^ Yes, they exist... somewhere, in this crazy crazy world.

Layouts Layouts Layouts
  apr8 @ 11:20pm
  music: Kasou Heisei Juu Nananen - L'arc~en~Ciel
  feeling: busy

First of all: HAPPY BELATED SADO DAY! ^___^

Yes, yesterday was the one and only birthday of the one and only Sado Yasutora. I was such a happy happy fangirl yesterday ^___^ *is shot*

ANYWAY, yesterday was a very good day. I did some graphicing, got my fanlisting stuff done for the day, talked with France (XD), played some guitar, and actually drew a person o_o Like, a whole person. With a professional looking profile, and a HAND. A HAND, PEOPLE! HAND!

(In case you couldn't tell, hands are the absolute hardest thing in the universe for me to draw.)

So I drew this base, which eventually turned into an Orihime fanart, but I'm just keeping it to myself for the moment (well, showed the fam but that's about it)~ ^_^ I was just happy. Yesterday was a good day, yes indeed.

So then, today I finished up the new ND main site layout, which is Host Club and spring-tastic because I want it to be spring. Really really really want it to be spring. And HOT. And SUNNY. *bliss* And then I decided to conjure up a new Requiem layout, which was originally going to be Chiba, but turned into ToP because otherwise BECK would dominate the ND current layout count. Yes, I count. Yes, I am a geek. Shut up. ^_^;

And just a little while ago, I was approved for a super fabulous you should all join it right away when it opens fanlisting, the FL for Shachihokou from Yaki~! XD XD XD I am soooo pleased. I <3 Shachihokou and his Itaria-Amerikajin-ness and phallic breads. Much <333 to Hashiguchi-sama ^___^

So now, more fanlisting forms to add, and then finally some game time or TV time. I'd love to play SO2... if I could get the damn PS2 to read the disc -_-; Well, or couldn't at least a couple days ago... *will try again*

So. More later~ Ja!

Quincy Archer Loves This Layout
  apr3 @ 4:33pm
  music: Omou - Kagerou
  feeling: content

Yes, indeed he does. Because Ishida-kun loves being the center of attention, and in this layout it is all about the centering of attention on Ishida-kun. XD

Yes. Layout change, for those slow folk out there. Or those who weren't sure. Or uh, me. It's a vector I did myself and if you steal it I will send out massive squads of people I know who can shoot 38 bullets into a Queen of Hearts after you. Kay? ^__^

And oh yes, a new desktop for me~ another gorgeous Yasu-kun vector, because as long as it's a vector of Yasu-kun, it can't help but be gorgeous XD

Anywho on to more coding and more graphic work, then getting my mailto forms dealt with, then affiliations, then Yaki 17, then Bleach icon time. With Disneyland stuff strewn in randomly, some Yaki screencappage, DVD screencappage for requested icons, a good dosage of my stupid dizzy-creating green meds, and something to eat. Ooh, food sounds good... I wants pizza o_o

Will go order pizza. Add pizza to the beginning of that list. OH YEAH, and I finally got off me ass and finished up the Yaki manga summary. ^__^ So hooray. You can go read now, I'm out. Ta~! ^_^

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