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We've been living in the new apartment - the one that will live forever as 221. Seriously. It's #221, and there are three rooms, with mine in the middle, so I officially live in 221B. Because I say so.

1) Have new kitchen table and day off tomorrow, have also been turned into zombie by 19 hours awake and was useless all afternoon.
2) Have been reading fic again.
2b) Lorem Ipsum may be the best thing I've found in fandom in a long while. It absolutely made my week. There is so much to love about it. Also - Marie has art for it! Lots of art! AND there's podfic for two bits. AND AND she has blanket permission to podfic or remix the series!
2c) If well-handled kink/DS/S&M are calhale's thing... then I've remembered that MMF OT3s are absolutely mine. Dear sweet fuck, Lorem Ipsum had... everything. And it is amazing. I need to go find our Masako threesomes or something maybe.
3) Get to start adding music to Minds Like Ours. Which is back from beta-listener with no terrible edits. ^_^
4) Listening to the Sherlock soundtracks and to as many of Caitlin's brilliant songs as I can get hold of makes me a little giddy.

Unrelated art: this and this are the sweetest things I've ever seen.

This entry is a placeholder because I really need to go to sleep now.
I need to talk about October Project, and Mary Fahl, and Marina Belica, and the resurection of this amazing beautiful music in the November Project and the new October Project. These songs have lyrics that make me feel alive, that make me want to create, that soothe my heart and make me want to sing and dance.

There's also a squee filled, gasp filled rant coming about Glee season 3. Because so much has happened in the 6 episodes I've watched. I love Darren Criss with the passion of a thousand suns, but that's not news. I'm a huge Mike Chang/Harry Shum Jr. fan too. And Naya Rivera and Kevin Mchale of course. Gah! And Burt! And Sebasitan! And DAMIEN (Rory, but still Damien to me)!!!!

I survived Saturday! E and I are both getting rather annoyed with the fact that certain people who are responsible for the schedule are not balancing coverage, so those of us with no control over the schedule are left without coverage a lot of the time.

Now I'm listening to "For Good" for the eight-billionth time. It had never really struck me before, I loved "No Good Deed" and "Defying Gravity" of course, but until I saw it in the upcoming song list at the end of Glee Season 2 I hadn't listened to it much. Now I love it. So much.

Of course my iPod follows that up with "The Guilty Ones" from Spring Avakening. Which is just such a sweet soft introspective song. God I love that soundtrack. The whole show actually. reminds me of little Emily and of Cass. Little Emily who is pregnant now. Barely more than a child, carrying a child. I don't know what to say to her.


Aaaand sunday followup, work was blah, but Rob and I both have assassin-ish hoodies for the launch tomorrow night and I finished my assassin bag too. Soooo excited. Now time for sleep and then truck. 74 fabric cartons, here I come.

I have two things to babble about before I go to sleep.
1) I started rewatching Weiβ Kreuz tonight, and no amount of knowing how horribly cliche and lame it is can reduce my enjoyment of it. Actually, despite the age of the show, the art and the voice performances are actually quite good. Even the background characters, who aren't big names most of the time. If anyone throws me for a loop it's actually Koyasu, because for some reason that's not how Aya sounds in my head.
After all these years, I still love these characters; love the ridiculous predictable plots; love all of it. People can judge me, I really don't care. XD I'm also importing most of the CDs again, to see if I still like the music as much as I remember. I guess we'll see.

2) It's CD Japan sale time again, and even though I have no money I'm poking through things and making a list for things that I like and might want some day.
-New Kusuda Toshiyuki CD
-Meisa's "One More Drama" CD - First Press, with DVD and poster. ^_^
-Nao-kun's Yumekibo Ressha Limited edition still available.
-Amuro Namie Single "Break It/Get Myself Back"
-Crystal Kay's "Journey" - because I need more of her music.
-Nao-KUN'S "Infinity" album - since I recently realized that I really need more of hi
-As a note that I can't be bothered to research at the moment, I should also look into finishing my collection of HaruDaki manga and Drama CDs, since I think they're all completed now. CDs got up to volume 8 and the manga finished at Volume 14. Since the CDs tended to cover a little more than one volume that means the CDs are probably complete as well. And I could really use more MikiShin in my life lately. As well as MoriMori. ^_^

Other ranty things could include ways in which my computer is freaking me out lately, ways in which work is crazy, and ways in which I am not working on packing or cosplay nearly enough right now, but I'm happy in my escapism so I'll let all that be for the moment.

Since it now appears that it takes me the better part of a week to write a note/LJ post, here's the rundown of the time since I started trying to post this:

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And to try to get my brain back to working shape, I'm working on a translation:
(and since I know there are people on my F-list who do this /for a living/, I should note that criticism is very welcome, but I'm mostly just flying by the seat of my pants to try to get back into the habit and because the song really got to me. So this is rough and unfinished in the extreme with a lot of artistic license taken.
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Also: HAH! Watch my default LJ icon be appropriate for once!

Because apart from a lovely meeting with MTL!Nikki today, I've done no random slacking... and I haven't done an updated version of this meme since 2008.

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For LJ peeps, this gets /long/ under the cuts. For Facebook peeps, the same applies. :P
( Music Meme/Homework under the cut )

While I'm being random, let me do a quick rundown on Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge. I watched another 3 episodes of the anime tonight, followed by the premiere episode of the drama.
( Additional Babbling on Nabeshin madness in Drama form )

(Also, a few days ago calhale and I randomly played that MASH game that you used to play when you were in like... middle school. Apparently I marry Okiayu-san, live in a time machine (Tardis?) in London. He has a career as a voice actor while I am a successful space marine. We spend fifteen years not having any children before we get divorced. I eventually die peacefully in my sleep, and he is mauled to death by a snow leopard.)

So... today I worked a 7 hour shift, downed 6 sudafed, spent most of my time at the cut table and... ate two bites of banana bread between 9 am and 7:30 PM. Not smart.
I did cook awesomely tasty corn stew with pork when I got home. (Japan and it's stew and curry roux-based recipies are the sum total of my cooking abilities.) While cooking I cranked up my ipod and got a lovely chain of songs going, including a fair amount of Arashi and some Aoyama Thelma, Amuro Namie and Kanon. I always need to remember that /nothing/ can turn my mood around like ten or twenty minutes in a room where I can sing my lungs out with impunity. Seriously. Try it sometime.

Then, I vegged out for a while with fic, until Jess got home. We cleaned up the apartment quite a bit, which makes me feel ten times better about the state it will be in for the weekend.

Also! Happy Birthdays to: Joe (9/24), Kirihara (9/25), Nikki (from work 9/27)!! We Libras are pretty awesome people, no? ^__^

Today was a good day at work, all things considered. Got a lot done, and we're ahead for the week. Once home, I was ridiculously irresponsible and went out and bought a new iPod after dinner. I'm not sure what inspired me to decide that today was the day to do this... but... it's done now. He's a 16-gig purple 4th-gen Nano and his name is Eishirou. Yes. What?

I did have a fit of guilt when I got home. Iroh has been good to me. I thought about getting him for a long time, and I hadn't really out-grown him yet... though I was getting there. I'm still not 100% sure how I feel about the 4th-gen design either. It's pretty, but I really liked the compact-ness of the 3rd-gen. I also liked the flat screen and it's ability to have a silicon case and a plexiglass screen-cover. Meh.

Anyway, after getting Eishirou loaded up with songs and things, we headed out to the gym. (It'd been too many days without going again. >.>) And he got his first test... It took me a little while to pick a song to start my warm up and I wasn't totally happy with those two, but the rest of the songs that came up on shuffle? Well... it was a pretty awesome set:

( Within my 'On-The-Go Exercise' Playlist )

And now... either some dramas or some sleep, I'm still not entirely decided. I'm off tomorrow and monday, but work the weekend. Which means that I'm free for the weekend of the Midsummer's Revival! Yay!

[Edit! My appologies for the broken HTML, I usually double check when it's something I've coded myself, but apparently CDJapan send me shoddy code to link over to their L'arc sale. Many appologies for the spam.]

Today I've stumbled into some useful words about costuming and construction that I want to throw into a list for myself. Also.... people in Japan: Is Tokyu Hands some sort of craft store? I thought it was more furniture and clothing... but people are buying all kinds of raw materials for cosplay there.
The site I'm puling these from is this armor tutorial.

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On an unrelated note: ladyofthegate has been getting into L'arc-en-ciel lately, so she might want to see this.