Just got books 43 and 44 of Skip Beat! Not sure if there are many Skip Beat fans here, but I have to say it's currently one of my favorites. As outrageous and crazy as Kyoko can be I feel like she's pretty relatable and her mysterious hate powers could have some serious real life advantages. **Warning Spoiler Ahead**
For those of you who might read this and are fairly up to date... How could she think Ren has a thing for the nasty girl who nearly tries to kill Kyoko after she realizes there's no way she can win the role? Kyoko is also a bit too self sacrificing at times while noble she is somewhat dense, but this is why we love her no? I'm always impressed that the author does not shy away from making nasty "villains". I feel though she may pop up in the future as others have in the past to be "fixed" inadvertently by Kyoko. As I've already given away a little bit of main plot I think I'll end on that note.
Real Life Junk-
Today my kiddo is officially a year and a half old. People aren't kidding when they say it goes by fast. Lately we've been cutting nap time to one a day (which is rough in more way than one). This is my first child and he's both amazing and exhausting at the same time. As a first time parent learning to divide my time between him and what I want to do has been a hard lesson. It's a rough balancing act between giving him enough time and myself enough time to keep my sanity. I chose to be a stay at home mom after careful consideration. Before this I worked 12 hour shifts in an ER as a registration person. I was around a lot of chaos and crazy. I worried about bringing home germs and nastiness to a brand new baby. The change from that to being at home full time has not been easy. It's still crazy, but definitely a different brand and I feel I'm not as good at coping with it as I wish I was. It's weird that I was more comfortable dealing with strung out meth heads and people bleeding profusely from random injuries than I am sometimes with a tantruming one year old. I feel like I've learned a lot about myself over the last year and a half both good and bad. Other things I've learned...even if your cell phone is locked it is not safe to leave with your child! Also screen lock apps can help to alleviate this problem a little bit. Anyone else have their child call the police using the In Case of Emergency number button on their lock screen? After the second time of me explaining to a very nice lady that no one was dying or in trouble and that my one year old merely stole my phone we installed a lock screen app on my phone that doesn't have said button. Now he just goes through and changes all my settings. Are kids programmed now in the womb to come out knowing how to use smart phones?
Art Projects-
I have a few things that I'm currently working on at the moment. I had a request on my deviant art page to do a Mako-chan picture of her in her gi beating someone's OC. Seems like a fun little request and so far it's going pretty well. I have a friend that is working on making a game and has asked me to do some concept art for one of his characters. The setting is steam punk victorian and the character is a magician. This one I'm really looking forward to...the character is really easy to visualize in my mind I just hope I can translate it to paper as well as I see it in my head. I have another request waiting in the wings for some Princess Peach fanart. Once they're finished if I feel they're worthy (I hope they are D:) I'll try and post them here.
Ok! Well that's the end of my blah, blah, blah for the moment. Until next time!
