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Traveling this week and traveled last week for work. This week I got the black hole room 504 again. Amusing but a wee bit nervous that random person will be try to get in. >>;;;

Eating too much again but wanted to treat myself yesterday. Too much caffeine and sugar though. Coffee, 2 large glasses of coke, oven-fresh cookie, coffee, coffee ice cream in a sprinkle chocolate waffle cone. Must try to eat okay the rest of week except for the New York style cheesecake today. ^^;;; Last sweet that I promised myself this week!

Yet again I should be asleep but I fail at that. As I fail at posting pictures. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up sometime next week? Maybe. >>;;; I have been pretty busy with vacations and work. I went home for a week and Costa Rica for a week. Costa Rica was awesome though I was in pain. Pain because of all the adventuring - whitewater rafting, caving, waterfall rappling, zip lining, sky bridges, hiking. I like the whitewater rafting and zip lining best. I think because they were longer things and I didn't fall out of the raft like my friends, the guide. It's only because I was in the middle of the raft. ^^;;; At the end of the zip lining, there was a Tarzan swing. Fun but I surprised myself and friends. I kinda of let out omgimgoingtobattleandimgoingtodie yell. >>;;;

We spent a lot of time in the hot springs at our first hotel. It was a beautiful five star hotel but the location was a bit far from the main downtown and the hotel itself didn't really have a store with convenience stuff which would have been nice. We dehydrated ourselves a bit than we should have since didn't buy enough water. The second hotel was this awesome boutique hotel where the rooms were treehouses! I should try to convert the vids of the place or at least get the pics up. We were in the Neverland treehouse and had a lot of fun wandering about in it. There was a koi pond below too, so kept feeding them and some piranha-like fish. It was a bit colder than I expected but mostly because of the wind and the place was creaky but it's a treehouse!!! Treehouses are supposed to be creaky. =P The owner was an amazing woman who just pampered her guests. =D

And I miss the sugar soda! The difference between the fructose and sugar makes me sad. The fructose leaves an aftertaste while the sugar not as much. The food was good over there though I did not like the delicious sauce that my friends did. I forget what it's called but it's a sweet sauce that they liked with the rice and chicken. We had a lot of rice and beans. Good stuff but a lot of it. We ended up going to Denny's for our last meal. ^^;;;

Now it is time to sleep. I want the flying shark science t-shirt! zzzzz

So... lots of random happenings last week. Monday - my dress shoes decided to start letting a spike from the heel dig into my foot. I was bleeding a bit. I got the black hole room at the hotel... 504. Last time I was there they tried to stuff 3 people into that room within the span of 15 minutes. ><;;; Tuesday - I dropped the travel laptop and both batteries went flying. It still worked. I just had a half-floppy monitor. Wednesday - I was dropping everything everywhere and stupidly wore new dress shoes till my feet were crying. >>;;; Thursday - Over panicked on a work issue when it could have been delayed. Friday - ... I'm sure there was something. Maybe staying up too late? ^^;;;

( Picture #8. The crow just didn't want to stay still. )

( Pictures of penguin wars on my whiteboard. Brian and Jess were taking turns drawing them. Then there are my doodles to keep my subconscious busy while listening to meetings/calls. )

Clearly I need to get myself more sleep as usual. ^^;;; Anyways I have vacation next week and hoping to do catch up writing. Probably will poke around for prompts, but anyone want to give me prompts? =3;;;

I need to stop having the tendency to cook enough food to last for the week. ... eating leftovers gets boring real fast. >>;;; Still failing at the writing part of this project, but hoping maybe when I have vacation in a few weeks, I can do a little catch up.

( Picture #7: The full moon blurs behind the clouds, only clearing when cracks form. The trees are alive this night. They loom and wave if you venture too close. )

Sooo~ Saturday was Geekkon. I tried to help out with the masquerade, though I wonder if I really was helpful or was just annoying. >>;;; ... I worry a lot... >>;;; But I had a good time though I really got tired towards the end, so might have been a little grumpy. >>;;; And I didn't really take many pictures since I wasn't in the mood but wishing that I did now. ;_; Also need a new camera because my hand is really too shaky to take clean shots. ;_; I didn't buy anything except for an awesome pair of steampunk earrings. I want to try to put together steampunk outfit sometime!

And now for my failing at this year project. I have five pictures and 1 writing. I've been jotting down things but not liking them enough to post and I don't want to just fill the writings with Reborn and Pandora Hearts since they're just inspiring me at the moment. ^^;;;

( I obsess about stairs. )

Epic Fail! I think I've missed 3 weeks already for my year project... I was hoping to get some pics up tonight but I think it'll have to wait next week. ;_; Work has just been insanely busy. I was traveling and I get to travel again tomorrow to Kentucky, but it'll be good to be able to focus on just one customer. Though I really should have taken a day off earlier on since I got and am still sick. I want to blame the fun on corn maze and haunted forest in the late night, but probably the addition of sleeping late yet again. >>;;; Getting better but it's going to take a while to get completely rid of since I won't be able to really rest till Sunday. But looking forward to Saturday. Geekkon! Though very sad that katsuke couldn't come and drag others. ;_; Though I'll be volunteering with the masquerade and stuff, and didn't realize how much time it's going to eat, but that's okay since not really feeling the need to wander about too much on my own. And I'm addicted! To a new series, Pandora Hearts. Blaming castor, seaweed head. =P So addicted to it that the references to Alice in Wonderland has me picking up the book since I haven't read the entire thing before and the Disney movie version since it was at the store.

*rolls* Work is still really busy and probably will be till after first week of October but then I expect new projects to roll in. Waiting for end of October when the box set for Shounen Onmyouji to come out. Kinda of want to get into more things but too lazy to watch anything and rather read. And have too many games to play.

Spent Saturday gaming - EQ2, Trivial Pursuit (I know nothing), and Rock Band. Spent Sunday rolling - watching TV (mostly NCIS I think) and writing bad lines of dialogue that I'm still pondering whether to share or not.

( Belated Week Two - Nite, Cat Observes & Not Dialogue, Reborn Drabble )

Am messing around to see what kinda of mess I can make with makeup. ^^;;; I haven't used it in years, so was somewhat cursing to get it on for my friend's wedding. I figure a little practice was due and don't want it to go to waste. ^^;;;

usomitai has urged me onto a new project of a sustained effort. >.<;;; I may not accomplish it but try? do it? I will. ^^;;; For 52 weeks, each week I'll post a picture and some writing. They won't necessarily related but maybe I'll use one as inspiration for the other.

Week One - Effort Go!!! Go GO HYPER FORCE NINJA MONKEY TEAM!!! >>;;;

( Click for 1 picture, and 1 drabble for series NANA )

And must say! It tickles me pink that one of the rooms at work is Obi-Wan. XD;;;

Nabbing this from katsuke. I don't watch that many movies. Does it count if I was half-watching (ie doing something else and glancing at the screen one in a while)?

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SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 90 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 244 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own account, paste this in a journal. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.

For extra fun, bold if you loved it, strikethrough if you hated it, and leave it normal if you are indifferent

( List of movies )

TOTAL: 85 ^^;;; Thought so, but close? Was lazy about the extra step and surprised that I can actually remember a decent number of the names... >>;;;

usomitai is inspiring me for a picture post. And I need something not stressful.

I got my squirrel bag! XD;;;



( More pictures )

I want a staple gun. But Brian and chuu tell me no. ;_;

I was trying to wait till I had more to say before posting, but just giving in. =P It's late and I'm tired and just pointing out that the pictures are being posted at my travel blog slowly. At some point, I should find one of the rare pictures where my friend and I were in the same shot.

So I should be asleep... but I think might be a little wired to fall asleep even though I'm tired. Nothing to really say except I can't believe I'm going away for a month. It feels so surreal that nothing is real. It'll be good, but still gah! ^^;;;

Yesterday my friend Brian hosted a showing of Twilight with the riff track and I did a simple Korean dinner thing. It went over well though I keep forgetting that I don't really like the mochi filled with ice cream. Makes me think of wine? The riff track really did make the movie. I keep repeating things like 'badger cam' and 'line?' Too bad I can't drive my friend crazy by saying it too many times. ^^;;;

Battles of markers and pokes continue at work.

I feel Dino-esque even if it's the wrong hand and totally something else... Dino, do you like... the color pink?

Silly chuu had to make me realize that no horchata for an entire month!!! ;_; And my brother said that I'm not allowed to talk about cosplay to his co-workers. ^^;;;

So I bring not-so-good pictures of my needs-work Medusa from Soul Eater. I need to re-finish the shirt and I'm thinking to redo the hood to be a lot bigger though it'll pull on the collar more. I should have used a heavier interfacing for the collar. ^^;;; The tail needs stuff to keep its shape and thinking to add wiring so it's pose-able. And the wig needs to be styled.


( On to the pics... )

I've got a travel blog! In a little over a week, I'll be off a month trip to Italy and Korea. I don't know how often I'll be able to update it, but hopefully every few days.

http://tunanity.wordpress.com/

In meanwhile, I'm stressing about getting stuff done at work to leave it in a state that would be okay for my backups to take over. ><;;;

Ah... while I don't think I really need to worry, note that I'm also sharing the travel blog with people at work. So be gentle. I'm fragile. =P

Having Sailor Moon S play in the background as I work on stuff. Nostalgia sets in so much. But also just realizing that... the monster-of-the-day scare me. >>;;; Though the elephant vacuum one made me laugh.

There are days when I wonder where my coordination has gone. Yesterday I burned myself for the second time in a week, maybe even less time. I was trying to drain the water from the soba noodles and missed? Then my face decided to have an encounter with the cabinet. My glasses were okay, my head... I think is okay. ^^;;; I also splattered tofu everywhere. ... How come all this happened when I was trying to make food? katgi pointed to Dino. Maybe I was channeling him. ><;;; Must name a Ponyta Dino. X3;;;

At work, computer still infected with malware, so borrowing Jess' cube since she's away. It made me pick up the rest of the Sailor Moon stuff she was selling. ><;;; But season S!!! And the a/c is fixed! Which means instead of dying of heat, freezing to death instead. I kinda of want to take gloves with me to work tomorrow/today. Starting to panick. Week and half before off on trip and have tons of work to finish up and haven't finished planning for trip at all! ><;;; *panicks*

I infected my work computer with a stupid malware. My eyes were all bothered from being tired and contacts. ;_; I feel like I shouldn't have gotten up this morning. >>;;; ... though then I wouldn't have picked the series for Sailor Moon Sailor Stars and Princess Tutu. =D Though I really want Utena now. Utenaaaa~~~ Utenaaaa~~~ Utenaaaaa~~~

For the past 3 days, the a/c has been broken in my part of the work building. I've been coming home with headaches. ;_; Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. I blame that partially for the rest of this post. =P

My friend Brian is silly crazy. His logic of weasel and pants to me... ><;;;

( My whiteboard is always crazy and that's where he added this logic. ><;;; )

( Plus my own silly craziness of our conversion - cleaning cel phones with tissues will cause... )