We had a mini tropical storm last weekend. It was a typhoon at one point, but by the time it reached Shizuoka it was just slow rain and whistly wind. It still made me happy though. And as it was finishing...
...this giant (double) rainbow was cast over my building. I went out in the parking lot and took about 8,000 pictures of it but most of them aren't any good. I took an umbrella since it was still raining a bit, but it got turned inside out in the first minute I was out there so I just put up the hood on my sweatshirt and rubbed the raindrops off my camera lens after every shot.
The rainbow was next to impossible to capture, but the post-typhoon sunset cooperated quite nicely.
I love when we have typhoons here. I know I've mentioned it before, but it's the one thing that reminds me of home in a way that makes me happy. Not to say that other things remind me in a sad way or anything, just that it's not a homesick kind of reminder when we get those little not-quite-hurricanes. It makes me think, "aww! It's just like I'm in Florida now!" but doesn't necessarily make me want to go to Florida, just happy that there's something similar to it in Japan.
A lot of things have been making me happy lately. Hachi said she'd cosplay with me this winter (still not saying who we're being though!) so we're going shopping on Thursday. It's gonna be awesome. I love dressing up even if I'm alone, I always have, but this past summer when Hachi was taking pictures for me & I was running around talking to Naruto & Hetalia cosplayers that I didn't know...I felt a little...lonely?...mmm...isolated?...ish....for the first time in a while. I kept thinking, "I wish there was someone else who was as excited about this as I am..." I really thought she would say it was too much money/preparation or too embarrassing or something when I asked her but she didn't so now 冬コミ is pretty much all I can think about. Ahh, ok, let's be serious, it was all I could think about before too...
I drew a few more pics of Arthur to practice on. I think I'm getting better...
...but I still think I'm making him look too young...
...particularly here, but it's mostly b/c his head is too big. That one was done while bored in a meeting so you can kinda see the Japanese from my work stuff that's on the other side of the page...damn my strong scanner! Anyway, I think I got him close to right in this fanart though.
Still watching Star Driver (which, it turns out, is a Studio Bones original) and I think I'm liking it more now. Haven't been able to watch Darker Than Black b/c I'm kinda busy, but I'm not that sad about it for now. It's November, and it's getting cold and dark, but I don't feel too bad about it just yet. I hope I can keep that feeling going for a while this year. Halloween passed rather quickly, but at least I went out in the end. My brain is starting to move in hyper speed again I think, but that's not such a bad thing either, not this time. I'm actually going to use it for something for a change.
The clearer your dream is the easier it will be to reach
