I no longer remember which day the wedding is technically taking place, but I just wanted to say congratulations to hervictory and her new husband, Andy. I hope your wedding is as epic and hilarious as it sounds like it's going to be, and I hope that your married life is fantastic. If anything, it's bound to be a better match than the one in my icon.

Anyway, much love to you hervictory, and congratulations once again. ♥

1. you're the ____ to my ____

Make the needy attention whore in me smile? :D?

2. For those of you reading Little Bloody Rivers, today (July 7th) is Rue's birthday. If anyone cares, Kit's is October 23rd, Rosemary's is November 26th, and Evan's is April 30th. None of the others have birthdays that I've actually decided upon. But yes, today is Rue's birthday!

In case anyone's wondering where I've been, I'm in Ithaca, NY, visiting my fiance. I'm coming back on July 8th, so expect extremely spotty appearances from me until then. We've got Internet, but I'm spending most of my time with him rather than on the computer. (Right now he's mowing the lawn and I quickly realized there was no way for me to help him or hold a conversation with him while he was doing so.) Anyhow, I'll be back soon. dn_contest's schedule will be slightly altered--those of you in the community should have seen that I'm not going to post the winners until Wednesday, as I won't have time to read them, and anyway on Monday I'm meeting Erik's grandmother. (I haven't talked to an 80-year-old person in...um...not since I was in France! And the lady in France could hardly speak English, so I wasn't really obligated to hold an in depth conversation! I'm nervous!) So yeah. Will be back soonish, and will update you all on my trip when I return.

Also, happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans. This country may have it's problems, but it's my home and like it or not, I'm American, so I may as well be happy about it. I love my city, and I have a love/hate relationship with my country, but hey. The first Bushless Independence Day in eight years is not bad, in my opinion.

Busy day today. I helped my mom paint the store she's renting to sell her soap. I've never actually painted walls before (or much of anything), I have horrible hand-eye coordination, I'm impatient, and I'm just generally not a very good candidate to do something like this, but I managed to get a lot done, without it looking horrible! I painted nearly a whole wall, and between myself, my mom, my sister, and my brother, we got almost everything done except the floor, which is going to be a separate project. It was tiring work, and the fact that by the end of it I was tired and Katy wasn't was a bit grating (as was the fact that her wall looked perfect and mine was a bit uneven) but I'm not letting it get to me. The walls are painted, and Mom's store is that much closer to actually opening!

In other news, I'm going to visit Erik on Thursday! I'm looking forward to it so much! I'm a little worried since we haven't seen each other in so long, that we won't be able to act naturally around each other, but I just have to remind myself that we've had long separations like this before, and we were fine when we finally saw each other again--a bit ridiculously excited, but fine. And I've known him for years now, committed myself to marrying him, so I'm probably being ridiculous. I'm just really excited, and when I'm excited I get nervous. I'm not looking forward to the bus ride (or paying for it) but it'll be worth it to see the person I'm in love with.

Other than that...I'm not sure why I'm still awake. I'm trying to read through the entries for dn_contest. My reasons for not having read them yet are pitiful. A lot of it is helping my mom with the store, but a lot of it is just working on the RP with my sister, and taking long walks all over the city, annoying Katy with my incessant need to take photographs of everything I see if I've remembered my camera. I need to get better at running this community--and I need to figure out how I'm going to do that while I'm at Erik's next weekend.

Anyway. Back to reading. I want to be in bed by 5 AM.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a question. Is anyone going to Otakon this year? If you are, do you need hotel space? Two friends of mine, reka and divinesaturn need two more people to share their hotel room, or else they won't be able to afford to go. Barring that, does anyone have two spots open in a hotel room near Otakon? The hotel in question is one block from the convention, and is reserved for Thursday-Sunday nights. It'll be around $175 per person for four nights.

These girls are both very nice people, they are not crazy axe murderers at all. I have known reka since I was twelve, and I've known divinesaturn since I was fourteen--in real life, and not on the Internet!

Anyway, I hope someone's interested. I'd love for them to be able to go to the con.

Now that summer is upon me, I want to start watching more anime. Why? Because there's only so much Fresh Prince of Bel-Air a person can watch before they go mad, and because there are a lot of wonderful series out there that I know I'm missing out on. Also, my roommate next year is a big anime fan too, and if all goes well we're going to be watching a lot of it together, so I'd like to have a bunch of series downloaded in preparation.

I'm currently downloading Code Gaess, and Pandora Hearts has been recommended to me, so those are on my list, but what else has been rocking your socks lately, f-list? Send some recs my way, please thank you! And if you can tell me where to download what you're recommending, I will love you forever! ♥

I have some fairly big news. My mother recently decided to rent a storefront in which to sell her soap. It's on Staten Island, within walking distance of our house, which means that she'll be able to get there easily, and that we can help her bring soap back and forth with no trouble. She hasn't started selling yet, but she's started renting, so hopefully this will go well for her. Right now she's looking for people to share the space with her, hopefully that search will go well, since the rent is a fairly large chunk of money. We're hoping it'll amount to some income, and maybe even to my mom doing something productive and fun and thus feeling a little bit better about herself. She's thinking about holding soap-making classes for little kids, and says that she might want me to teach those.

So I have no way of knowing where this is going, but it's a start of something, anyway. Things are going to change, and hopefully they'll change for the better.

In other news, I've had this random urge to start watching Code Gaess. Unfortunately, all I can find are .mkvs, and my computer has trouble with those. Does anyone know where I can find .avi files? I've got episode one, but the website I got it off says I can download three things every 24 hours, and in actuality let me download one thing in 24 hours, and still isn't letting me download anything else. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Key Of The Twilight - Yuki Kajiura

I am considering making my journal friends-only. I used to be adamantly against doing so, because if I did I wouldn't be able to see my own entries--my old laptop wouldn't allow me to log into LJ, and I had to use a client in order to even post anything. And since I found locked journals very annoying when I had that problem, I'm reluctant to cause it for someone else. However, I'm growing increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of random people I don't know being able to read my entries--some of them are rather personal.

So what do you think, guys? Those of you who read my entries, would you want to keep the information I give out private if you were me? Those of you who have locked journals, what are the benefits and drawbacks? Do you know where I can find some awesome (Death Note or otherwise) friends only banners?

If there's anyone lurking, I might be locking things up soon--so now's the time to introduce yourselves and add me.

This is a Matt fanmix, made at hervictory's request, at this meme. I actually sort of bullied her into requesting it, because I had a bunch of songs in mind for Matt for some reason, but there you go. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the music, and that you feel my choices make sense!



( /i'm not like them/but i can pretend/ )