Hey, ShikamaruRocks, here. How ya doin'?

I have another world. One called "Shika's Busy-ish Nook" that contains less random stuff than you'll find here. For the most part. I'll leave all the official stuff that's on here though, but all new official stuff will be there.

I AM A GIRL. So many people think I'm a dude, but I'm not. I promise.

Soooo, let's get on with it, shall we?

Most of these are in no particular order...

Favorite Manga: Fruits Basket, Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, RurouniKenshin, DNAngel, Prince of Tennis, Trigun, One Piece, Rave Master, Nana, PeaceMaker Kurogane, Fullmetal Alchemist, HanaKimi, Ouran High School Host Club, etc.

Favorite Anime: Hunter x Hunter, Fullmetal Alchemist, Peacemaker Kurogane, DNAngel, Fruits Basket, TekkonKinkreet, Saiyuki, Mushi-shi, BECK, Avatar (it counts!!! grrrr....), Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, RurouniKenshin, etc.

Music Peeps: YellowCard, Death Cab for Cutie, Snowpatrol, A Fire Inside, The Used, Three Days Grace, Seether, Orange Range, My Chemical Romance, Hoobastank, Muse, The Pillows, Plain White T's, Angels and Airwaves, Flaming Lips, Bump of Chicken, and!!! The Jonas Brothers (my guilty pleasure).

I love cooking, drawing, reading (mostly manga but novels are wicked awesome too. I just don't have the time nor stamina for novels as much anymore...though I have been working my way back in. lol), knitting, watching my brother play Zelda/Metroid games (lol), and skateboarding, though I fail epicly at it.

Toodles!!

Chubby babies are squashable

I'm thinking about submitting a piece of art in an realism contest here on theO. I've never really tried to draw real people so I thought I'd do some practice today while I was at work (we were crazy slow).

Here's the outcome.

Meh. I think it's ok for a first try.

Off to eat now.

Toodles!

Work is fun (and other lies I tell myself)

I received this text while at work yesterday from my brother's friend in Colorado:

May the 4th be with you.

Now, that said, my feet hurt.

I woke up at 6:45 to get ready for work at 8. I'll be there until 5. 9 hours is pretty long and I was pretty tired, but meh. I figured I could deal. Left for work at 7:35 and got there at 7:55. Got the cafe ready for opening at 9 and waited around a little.

We were super slow until about 10:30 then I actually got a couple customers! Yay! I didn't make a single tip until Krisandra (possibly my favorite person to work with) showed up to relieve me for my break at 12:00. Got back from break (I had eaten quickly then took a short rest on the couch while listening to Shino, my lovely iPod, sing to me)at 1:00 and chatted with Krisandra.

Krisandra started feeling really yucky at 3:00. Fifteen minutes into her break (4:00 to 5:00) one of our supervisors came up to me with her and said she got sick during her break and needed to go home. I had to stay until Maci gets there at 6:00.

10 hours. I had a ten hour day at work. Uuuuuuugh. Basically all I do at work is stand FOREVER.

Now, that said, my feet hurt.

That's always the first thing I notice when I get out of bed the morning after a long day.

Crumb.

Fun with middle aged women. XD

Last night I was with my mom and a bunch of my family's friends (all older than me by at least 20 years).

The only guy there, Dennis, is around 60 something, I believe. I wanted to get his attention (can't remember now what I wanted to say), so I asked his daughter what his middle name is. David, apparently. So I said (rather loudly, for all the middle aged women are yakking), "Dennis David Insert-last-name-here!"

"Yes, yes, yes," he said, looking up at me.

Before I had a chance to ask him whatever question it was that I had, Cathy, (who is right around Dennis's age) says, "Who names their son Dennis David? That's retarded!!"

Now, keep in mind, I am already laughing pretty hard when my mother, who is 46, interjects with this while she is laughing, "You totally just dissed his mom!"

XD If only she'd started it off with "Dude", that would have been perfect.

I love my family (friends included in that).

Off to work now. Y'all have fun. I hope today isn't as drippy there as it is here.

It does not belong to me even to direct my own step

I'm back. Maybe.

So, some of you know from my sister's most recent post that my absence from theO has been due to a somewhat awful fall I inflicted upon myself due to clumsiness and lack of forethought. I pivoted off of a low stone wall, slipped in some mud, and ended up splayed out in a rather unfortunate-looking position on my face on concrete in a skirt. >.> Hurt my left elbow pretty bad and as such I've stayed away from typing and driving and things of the sort because they are painful.

I have to go to work in a couple of hours so I probably should be babying my arm or something right now, but meh.

Twisted started a MAL account for me. Tis under the same handle so feel free to look at it or something. I still haven't put everything I've read/seen on it or rated all of it so yeah. I'll get around to it one of these days though.

I plan on trying to update my Japan world in the next few days (it'd be good if I posted on it before I forget what we did each day...-_-') so you can also look forward to that, I suppose....

I really have nothing to say, I just wanted to let y'all know I'm alive.

Oh! One last thing of the minor fangirl-freak-out nature. I finally finished the Rurouni Kenshin manga. Rock on!!! I totally love Yakiho! He's almost incomprehensibly awesome. lol. Like a perfect blend of Kenshin and Sanosuke, only...10. XD Of course, when he's 15 he's much cooler and then in Yahiko no Sakabatou he's 18 and even more awesome, but yeah. I love him.

Till next we meet, I suppose. Sorry I haven't check out any of your posts and such. Hopefully I'll be getting on more frequently. Toodles.

Happy Happy Joy Joy! (And don't forget sad...)

So, Twisted, Tofu, our mom and I are going to Naka-Kon (an anime convention in Kansas City, Missouri) today. I would have liked to have gone yesterday and tomorrow too, but meh. Things happen.

So, I've been stoked about this for ages because A: this is the con where three years ago I first met my all time favorite voice actor, Greg Ayres (have I told y'all that story?). B: Greg Ayres is scheduled to be there again. C: Chris Patton (like, my second fav. voice actor. At least, he's way up there) will be there. D: We couldn't go last year.

Me and Greeeeeg :3 First time I met him, and I was cosplaying as Goku from Saiyuki (who Greg portrays. woots.) He said we were the best Sanzo party evar!! (Twisted, Tofu, and my friend (who is my friend no more) were the other three members of the Sanzo party.)

Needless to say, I was really really worried about Greg when I heard he had suffered a minor heart attack at a con a few weeks ago. Due to this, it is also needless to say that I was not very surprised when Twisted informed me that Greg will not be attending the convention. Doctor's Orders.

Still, that doesn't mean I'm not put out by this. The poor guy. I hope he gets better soon.

Well, I'm off to get ready. A certain Windwaker shirt bought while I was in Japan needs to be donned, so I'll talk to y'all after the con. Maybe we'll take some pictures for you?

Yay for Chris! Gotta love Sousuke, neh? xP