"There's nothing left to say
Don't waste another day
Just you and me tonight
Everything will be okay
If it's alright with you then it's alright with me
Baby let's take this time let's make new memories"

Do you Remember by Jay Sean

Anime USA anyone?

Okkk, so my dad doesn't really like anime much so he didn't want to drive me all the way to Baltimore just so we can go to Otakon, so he said I can't go this year... OTL

But the good thing is, I will definately be able to go to Anime USA~~~!!!! In Arlington, VA~~~~~!!!!! <3333333 Hooray!!! Now, I just have to pay for it. XD lol. I'm waiting for my first credit card to come in. Because my parents were tired of me always asking for money, so they just ordered me and my brother a credit card which will automatically add $150 per month. But the problem is, this $150 = my lunch money, going out to eat money, going to movies money, shopping money, etc...

So pretty much, I'm gonna be a hikikomori unless it's free to go somewhere until November!!! XD lol. Or my parents actually pay for something. 8D lol. But the moment my credit card comes in, I'm making a pay pal and buying teh $35 Anime USA membership pass~~!!! <33 Hooray! Then I'll wait until maybe early October to get a cosplay. :3 My friend's gonna help me make an Alfred cosplay this summer though, so hooray!! XD lol. Alfred as in America from Hetalia guys. :D lol.

HETALIA IS AMAZING!! IF YOU GUYS HAVE NOT SEEN/READ IT, GO NOW!!! It's my current obsession.

I'm surprised, I got one of my anime-hater friends to watch Hetalia, and.... SHE LOVES IT! Like that's all we talk about now. And because of that, she now watches all the new Hetalia eps, and reads the online translations on LJ and stuff. :3 haha. And she may be going to Anime USA with me COSPLAYING! Such a huge change don't you think? Just about 2 months ago, she was always telling me how much she doesn't understand why I like anime and she looked at me funny for wanting to go to conventions but now she wants to go and she's trying to raise money so she can buy a cosplay and go to the convention! Wow! lol.

Anyways, so I will be going to Anime USA 2009 and I will either be cosplaying America or Japan. My friends and I are going to try to make a Hetalia cosplay group, and so far for the AUSA, we have a France, Germany, Italy, Hungary (maybe), England, Lithuania, Me (either America or Japan. Still haven't decided.), and my brother (either Hong Kong or Greece). I'll tell you guys more once it get's closer because AUSA is in November. :3 But if I don't buy the normal membership pass by June, then I won't be able to buy for $35... >3<;; So I hope the credit cards come in soon. And then if I DO decide to cosplay America, then I'll need to get a blonde wig and blue contacts. And now that I think about it, I will also need to get supplies for the cosplay and his boots... Aww, so much money, but I'm determined! X3 lol.

So my questions are:
Is anybody else thinking of going to Anime USA? Maybe another convention? Are you planning on cosplaying?

Well, that was a good update, don't you think? XD lol. Because I haven't updated my theO for like... FOREVER. lol. And my first "official" cosplay will be Hetalia!! Yay!! Once my cosplay is finished (or any of my other friends'), then I will definately post some pictures up for you guys to see. :3 I love Hetalia though. Yup, had to finish off with that. XD

Emo rant... and other stuff.

**Do not read if you don't like reading other people's troubles in life and maybe a little hint of swearing.... Thank you**

Anyways, gosh I've been having such a hard time lately. Just with everything! (I'm sure you understand how I feel too most of you if you read) Because it might just be a maturing phase? I dunno...

My family never seems to be delighted with anything I do, it's frustrating. No matter how many A's I get, they only look at how "You can do better than that". I'm not the smartest person in the world either. I don't have the best memory or anything and I get huge anxiety/stress really easily... So I can study for a Biology test until 4 in the morning and still have one of the lowest grade in my class. I don't understand my parents at all! They tell me to get into the highest courses, so they put me in college level courses, yet they know that I can't pass that so easily. I get C's and D's and sometimes F's on tests, and they get mad at me. They yell at me for A's because it's not a 100!

Then yesterday, they give me a large lecture about how fat I am and I'm going to be obese at this rate within the next year... WTF!? Go look at my picture in the scraps folder of DA! Do I look obese to you!?!? (my DA account name is shanalove by the way) My friends tell me I look skinny but my parents tell me I'm fat. Which one am I supposed to believe? Are my friends giving me sympathy and just pretending that I look skinny or are my parents over reacting/telling me the truth? Everthing's just so confusing right now I have no idea what I can do to ease my stress....

Then, I feel like I'm losing my identity or something... (wow, that's what miss devil-chan said... :x) I hang out with so many people, but I don't feel comfortable around them. They're nice, and I can tell, but it feels more like they're hanging out with me to BE nice. I have one friend who really likes to help people with problems, but she's the most major religious person I have ever met... Our family doesn't have any particular religion, yet she seems to be trying to push her religion on us. She claims she's not, but it really feels like it. It's not that I don't like religious people, because a lot of my friends are, even the ones online, but this one girl really seems like that's all she talks about... Then I basically want to only talk to people whom have the same interests as me, but I can't seem to find those types around... I try to fit in so I won't be the outcast, but it feels like I'm trying so hard to fit in, that I don't even know who I am anymore... When I'm with a group of friends, I would talk to them with a different tone than if I talked to another group of friends. Because of that, it's so tiring hanging out with them... The me I want to be is the type I am when I talk to you guys. In real life, I act crazy when I'm front of my friends, but when I get home into my room, I just feel like staying in there and never coming out. I don't even show how I am to my family members. When I'm in my room, I would sing to ease my stress, but then I would just flick off (middle finger) my parents and yell cuss words in my head and such (of course whilst they have no idea that I'm doing this). I don't know what to do anymore...

I've also felt like running away or commiting suicide a few times, but I don't have the guts to do that... (I'm glad I don't because then I won't be doing that) I don't seriously want to tell any adults or anything, and I really want to get over this, but I think the only way I can get over it is if I actually have people to talk to about whom I trust. (AKA you guys). I have a whole bunch of other things going on which I will not mention. But these are just some of the shallow-bad things going on. A lot of the things are stuff that I don't want to tell anyone about at the moment...

Then, I don't even have high self-esteem for myself, so now I think everything I do is so dumb and retarded. Like I don't even see the point in me drawing when other people are improving like immensely and my art is like crap after 2 years!!! DX It never gets better! I don't find anything about me which I find is good. I feel so jealous of this one girl, she can do almost everthing that I've always wanted to do perfectly! She can draw amazing art, and make the most wonderful cosplays I have ever seen, she's uberly adorable, amazing singer, athletic, gets straight A's in all honors classes, amazing fandubber too, and compared to me... I get like B's, C's, D's, and occasionally A's on my report card, I suck at drawing sometimes (I never improve), I'm not good enough at fandubbing. When I ask people if I sing well, they say I do, but when some other people listen and don't know it's me, they just say "whoever sings that has the most annoying voice I've ever heard." So I guess not. I suck at sewing. Oh yeah, and lots of people can cook. I can probably blow stuff up with my cooking skills... *sigh* I don't even get it. I can't find anything about myself that I like. I can always contradict to it...

I guess the only time I actually feel like myself is when I'm talking to my friends online. When I'm talking to you guys I feel so at ease and that's when I can actually lighten up and smile/laugh. My REAL smile. Not a fake one that I use to make people think I'm not depressed... Many of my friends don't know what I'm going through, so that's why I'm posting it here where not many of my real friends can read it... If they do happen to read this journal, then I guess they'll just know and try to comfort me. Don't worry, I'll just come to school with my smile on again, which most of the time is just a cover-up to make it seem that nothing's going on. When I actually have fun with some of my friends though, I really do feel happy, but a lot of times I don't but I pretend to. (does that make any sense) In other words, I'm saying that sometimes I'm actually happy, while other times I'm not. --don't worry Nya, you're one of the people who I actually enjoy talking to. <3--

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Ok, well then, since I'm done emo ranting, I guess I'll talk about my actually-fun-stuff!! lol. Oh, and sorry for the uber long and annoying rant... Well, next week is spring break for us!!! YAY!!! And now bad news, I'm not going to be online most likely during the time.... But good news (for me) the reason I won't be online is because I'm going to Spain for vacation! lol. I've never been there, but I love travelling a lot so that's going to be fun!! I'm leaving this Wednesday though so for the next week or so after Wed, I'm not going to be on~~. XP haha. Hope I have fun and hope you guys have fun too!!!! X3

P.S. If some of my CLOSE friends want my other e-mail which I use everyday, then I'll gladly give it to you. I say REALLY CLOSE because my e-mail I check everyday is one that I use with my real name on it. So if I don't give it to you then it's not that I don't like you or anything, it's just that I don't want to mass produce my e-mail to people. XD lol. It's only for people whom I've talked to for a while who would either like to just talk to me in general or maybe help me out with these problems. ^^;; Hope you guys understand... *hugs*

OMG!! Please read!!

OMG@!!! I'm so freaked out right now!! i can't stop looking at my e-mail just in case someone finds out.

My friend from school went missing today! It's horrible, I dunno where she went, she never came home, anything!! Aww man... Any suggestions anyone?!! *ish freaking out a lot*

I just got a phone call from the police asking me all these questions about her... I'm hyperventilating right now... aww.... I hope she's safe and she comes back...

Highlighter girl

This is something I drew in class on... Well, you see the date. XD Haha, I know I had to post something so here's something! XP hehe.

Anyways, this was drawn with pen and colored with highlighters. The smudging of the highlighter color was done with my finger. ;3 hehe, so it got kinda colorful. lol.

It was fun! It's small because it was drawn on a notecard. ^^ lol. I dunno who it's supposed to be, just a random girl with a random school uniform. :x I actually like the way it came out in real life but my scanner kinda killed the color a bit... DX I tried fixing it on Photoscape though by adding lighting and such.

Well, anyways, enjoy!!

**This was supposed to be uploaded on here, but they said the dimensions are too small so I'll just put it on here. ;3**

While I'm at it, this is my fav. version of Melt from Vocaloid except it's sung by Gazelle (former niconicodouga member). ;3

Maybe I should do a "daily Vocaloid vid. I'm addicted to" on here just for more posts and sharing with friends. ;3 I like listening to people singing vocaloid songs along with the vocaloid songs with actual vocaloids. It all depends I guess. ;3

Right now, I'm addicted to these user's songs:
Usa
Nayuta
Gazelle
Choucho

They're such good singers!! Go look them up!! DX

Wows. :x

OMG!! I haven’t been on in like forever!! Can you believe it? So many times with no posting… -A-;; I’ve been swamped with work I haven’t had much free time myself… I drew a lot but I’m too lazy to scan them. X’D hehe. But so many things happened while I was not on here!! O_O;

First of all, I drew tons of pictures but I never posted them. :x hehe. I will someday. ;3 lol.

And then, Oh my gosh, the most coincidental thing just happened this week! Like seriously, it surprised me so much!

You see, I have this friend (which I'll just call friend A for now) and she and I were browsing around DeviantArt on the school computer the other day --I think it was Tuesday--. And then she tells me to go see her friend's page. So Friend A types in the username of her friend on the DA website thing and I look around too. And you know what? It's a new person. It turns out that her friend likes making new accounts and stuff.

But the funniest thing was, Friend A's friend's DA account name was XRabbitXHimeX on DA. I didn't know that name but then I go and look at the comments and I see that she's called Mimi. I was like O_O;; "Woah. I know a Mimi on theO." And I saw that she was actually from theO!!!

So I go to look for her on theO and you know who I find out she was? She was DetectiveDiva18!!! O_O;;; So Friend A was friends with DetectiveDiva18 whom I always thought her artstyle was adorable!! Then I look through her favorites and I find my art in her favorites!! Then we were both surprised and everything! I mean it's not everyday that you actually find a friend you already knew online. So Friend A gave me Mimi's e-mail and I e-mail her the moment I get home telling her about it and saying "I'm animegirly2 from theO~~!! And I'm Friend A's freind!!! You go to the school like 10 minutes away from mine!! >3<;;" (Friend A comes to my school for 2 classes per day. ;3 She travels to my school). Then we're both so surprised and we're both like, "Wow!! We know eachother online and our friend actually knows both of us!! O_O;;"

So that was surprising. XD haha.

That's her portfolio. XD
http://www.theotaku.com/portfolio/detectivediva18

Wow, so we might actually meet eachother someday. XD lol. Seeing as we both have the same friend and some of the same friends online too!! OxO;; wow. *still in shock*

Another big thing is I'm going to audition for a role in the school musical!! I'm auditioning for Rose Alvarez on our school's rendition of Bye Bye Birdie. ;3 hehe. I don't think I'll get the role, but wish me luck! It's today!! O_O;; *writing this blog at school*