3/23/05  6:25 P.M.

Listening to: Ayumi Hamasaki "MY STORY Classical" album

Feeling:

Yeaaaaaaaaah... it's been a tad bit long since I've written in here, a couple months over a half a year >__>;; anyways, I've just been sooooooo busy with life and all.  I'm still working at that retirement home and such.  My basic schedule is this... Mon-Thurs I wake up at 5:30 a.m. so I can go to my zero-hour choir class that starts at 6:30 a.m. at my school, then I have piano first period, another choir second period, weight training third period (so yeah, 4 EASY "A's" for my last semester in high school) mass media (propaganda) fourth period, psychology fifth period, business sixth period, then I get out of school, and have about 1 1/2 hours to myself, then I have Japanese for 90mins at my local community college, yeah, so I have... close to a 12 hour day each day.  On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have club activities after school, so sometimes I don't go home after sixth period.  THEN because my Japanese class is so late, I can only work on the weekends now, so I have to work all weekend.  I know I'm just babbling, and I know I'm not the first high school student who's ever worked this hard, but sometimes it feels like it, there aren't many who do at my age still.  But it's building character in me, and I'm much more of a responsable person now!  I have a new Japanese teacher, and he is simply brilliant!  He's taking my classmates to Japan in the summer for two weeks, I'll be the first in my family to go to Japan, or Asia at that, everyone is so happy for me, and I'm more excited each day for the trip!  Tomorrow I have to go to my second meeting about the trip and my sensei's gonna teach us some stuff for the trip, like what to say when we meet his dad, a govenor in Japan!  Talk about pressure >__>;;

This year, I'm still going to Sakura-con, the anime convention in Seatac Washington on April 8th-10th, my friends and I are getting a hotel room so we don't have to leave at all Friday night *sweet!*  This year, for the first time, I am doing two costumes, one for each day, I'm only going Friday and Saturday.  Friday I'm dressing up as the Duty Ayumi Hamasaki and Saturday I'm dressing as anime character Creamy Mami from the series Creamy Mami.  I only have a fraction of the costumes done, but my progress is going at a fast pace, I was able to get half of my Creamy Mami costume done 2 1/2 hours, so I have no problems ^o^... but in my head I'm still constantly thinking "but... every year, it always goes to last minute" yeah, it does, but I'm gonna try my best to not get to that point this year.

Recently, as you can tell by the new layout, I have just become kinda "obsessed" with Morning Musume member Hitomi Yoshizawa, she's really funny, a good singer, and uber pretty *o* so I've been talking with this other girl about her, Ameme, she's really nice, and has been helping me with my Morning Musume collection *hugs*  I especially like Hitomi in the "Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~" PV, and I wanted to use that as a third cosplay this year, but tha'd just be more money, not much, but still, I'd rather spend it on merchandise at the con instead.  This year I'm also gonna enter the karaoke contest and I think I've finally decided which song I'm gonna sing, I'm donna sing "Darling Darling" by Hitomi Yaida, it's an energetic song, and it'll show off my vocal abilities, singing ballads or slow songs always turn out as "you win the best vocals award, but not 1st place" at Sakura-con, so none of those kinda songs for me cuz I wanna win lol...

I'm soooooooo excited for Emi-chan!  She's contacted this one guy who was looking for manga artists locally, and he's going to publish her manga!!!  http://www.emi-art.com every PLEASE support her, she needs all the support she can get!  I'm gonna make some flyers and pass them around at Sakura-con to help promote it!  I knew all along that that day would come for her *hugs* ^o^V

In a nutshell, that's pretty much all that's been going on in my life since the last time I wrote... I'm also still pretty much obsessed with Ayumi Hamasaki too, she's just released a new acoustic orchestra album "MY STORY Classical" which is really beautiful, I highly reccomend it for anyone who's even a slight Ayu fan!  She's also releasing a new single on April 20th with two new songs "step YOU" and "is this LOVE" included in the CD+DVD release is a PV for her "MY STORY" album released sone "my name's WOMEN" there are some pictures of the new PV on http://www.ahsforum.com if you are interested, but it's not too impressive at all to me, looks like the PV's gonna be worse than her "Inspire" PV blah... >__>;;  it's really slutty... anyways, the songs are always great ^o^.  Ttyl!