Gah, I suck, I meant to do this before but Happy Belated Birthday to [Bad username: sailorstarsunshine]!!! Sorry this is late, I remembered your actual birthday on the correct date but got distracted and forgot to post. I actually gave that birthday to Cookie since we know she was born sometime in mid-August and I like the 14th.

Anyway, for anyone interested... ee970 have started a very very low key Geass RP and we're looking for more people interested in joining. It's cracktastic so people interested in it must be willing to be cracktastic as well. It's super low key and will really only consist of posting in ljs and making lj comments. There will be no aim based rping!!!!!!!! If interested drop me a comment. ^^

And in a similar vein, did anyone else see the Wordsmith word of the day? most amusing and it makes you wonder about the Geass writers. XD;;

I was much faster watching 19 this week in hopes of getting some good Suzaku screen time or if I was really lucky some GInoSuza. Sadly, this was not the case.
( Feel the sunburn and enjoy the spoilers )

I admit the angstier Geass gets the more cracktastic I get. I also want to state now I don't really want any spoilers so please please don't share any ^^;;

OK so I finally watched 18

( So many big nasty spoilers )

I knew yesterday there were other belated birthdays I was missing, so Happy Belated Birthday to hinoai, bramblyhedge and kimber_rose and if I forgot your birthday and you're not on the list.. uhh sorry ;;_;;

This summer has been a little pre-occupied. >>;

So since I don't want this to be a completely useless post. I'm still waiting for NY State to get the info so my scooter is legal ~.~ And we're still being bounced around by the city re: our garden. Both are a tad frustrating. *sighs*

So I am finally back home in NY, I'm super behind on LJ and have not yes watched 18 though I do know the big spoiler >>;; Someone shared it at Otakon and it was so the suck ~.~ I hope everyone understands why I've not been commenting on their LJs and I will do my best to go back through things once I've watched 18 tomorrow.

First, super happy belated birthday to cc_lemon *hugs* Sorry, I couldn't do this earlier, our hotel didn't have internet ;;_;;

Anyway for those who didn't know, I was not only going to Otakon, but had plans to cosplay! I'd not cosplayed since uhhh 2003 when I was Ryoma at Katsucon. I make a horrible Ryoma because I tend to smile a lot. lol and it didn't help at the time no one knew what Tenipuri was and we had these ultra ghetto costumes I had made with fabric paint since the official jerseys had either just been released or had not been released yet. o_O;; or wait did I cosplay at the last ShoujoCon over the summer in 2003, I can't remember? But suffice it to say, it had been a long time. sumeragiskank and I had originally just planned to be two YuGiOh characters cause the costumes were mostly easy to get together but then, we fell in love with GinoSuza. >>; So Kim was going to be the shortest Gino ever and I was going to be the happiest Suzaku ever. But between Dollectable and me just being incompetent I didn't order a costume from China leaving me with around a week plus to get a Suzaku costume together. Kim doubted I could do it, but thanks to my sewing skills I DID

In sewing my costume I learned that 1) my sewing machine is awesome! 2) sewing doll clothes is way easier since this costume was frickin huge!!! 3) fleece is both easy and hard to work with and 4) learning to use a dictaphone has improved my pedal control XD;;

Otakon was lots of fun and lots of people took my picture, people I did not even know! To me that is the main reason to cosplay, to have people recognize you and take your picture XD;; I also got lots of hugs in my Suzaku costume cause it was soft and fuzzy. I also discovered that Otakon has the best Artist Alley of any con I have ever been to in the US and I commissioned tons of piccies to be shared in a future post once the final picture has arrived here. I also bought the husband a ton of Death Note as he loved volumes 1+2 and it's been killing me not to share spoilers.

I got to meet inarikitsunebi, who kindly let me stay in the room she reserved and who I owe money to and loves GinoSuza like me! and minachiko who makes an amazing Suzaku, much better than me! I also got to meet Tara and spend time with graycat21 and Beth! *waves*

Hands down the highlight of Otakon which sadly I did not think to record as I would be the queen of hits on Youtube was I saw a very very good Willy Wonka from the Johnny Depp movie cosplayer. Several fangirls went up to him, and then there was a sudden loud cry and 20-30 fangirls (most in costume) surrounded him shouting "Candy!!!" The Willy look seriously horrified for a few moments as the fangirls continued to shout "Candy!!!" until he finally forced a smile and danced a bit with his fans. I should mention that at least one of the fans was dressed as Sasuke XD;;;


( for those few people who don't want to see how dorky I looked in my costume )

( And a few other random cosplayers including some Apollo Justice ones for Emily )

Enjoy!!!

For those who don't know, yes I use to buy My Little Ponies as a child XD; Since I am rather addicted to Geass lots of ponies named after Geass characters XD;

( Lots of Pony pictures and much amusement if you know who the ponies are named for )

Introducing Tieria, a water pony owned by "Lelouch." About a week ago Lulu received several PMs from some random person who couldn't type and declared her pony was madly in love with Tieria and wanted to marry "her." Lelouch balked at this. It's not like Britannia where one can have harems like dear Father. Though he kindly allowed Tieria to mate with their pony and today Tieria had "her" first baby!



He's a male so Lelouch is looking for naming suggestions. So far top runners are: Haro, LockOn, Regene or Ali Al-Saachez XD;; ideas/comments are appreciated.

Lelouch is hoping next to mate Tieria with one of the other Tieria's XD;;;

Yes, part of the fun of Ponystars is naming the accounts and naming the ponies. There was much fun when someone wrote to Schniezel to join the Area 11 Stable XD;;;

WAIIIIII my doujinshi came in the mail this morning! Nothing makes getting up before 8:00 am happy like getting doujinshi in the mail! <3

The majority of the doujinshi actually belong to sumeragiskank or are the late prizes for the late contest for area37 but there were 3 meant for me!!!!!!

Though I flipped through some of sumeragiskank's cause she gave me permission and wow, I think I need to get into Reborn. Tsuna is so cute and I actually really like the art in one of them >>;

My books were: a RoloLulu which was sadly not as wrong as I had hoped, other than Rolo moaning "Nii-san" while doing Lelouch. There is some sort of serious plot involving Suzaku being at Ashford and tiny picture of 367. I can't decide if I will keep it. A supposedly SuzaLulu book by RocknDolless but like unless there is something in the text to make it SuzaLulu there really is no way to tell who tops in it. ^_^;; Also it totally looks like Milly is about to screw Suzaku at some point with Lelouch watching o_O;;; But even happier I got my overly expensive small RocknDolless GinoSuza book <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 It sells for a small fortune on Y!J still and I needed it cause GinoSuza and R-18!!!!! All I can say is, OMG I think it's actually cute happy consensual porny GinoSuza!!!!! I think it's not messed up and is how I see the pairing and they have sex 2x!! And just WAIIII So today when I feel more alert I am scanning!!!!!!!

So it's done, I bought my ticket last night and I am now officially going to Japan in October! The airfare was higher than I would like, but not as bad as it could have been considering all the new fuel surcharges. I got $70 off the cost of the flight because of my power cord not working on one of my flights to San Francisco. I wish I could have gotten a second voucher because it didn't work coming back but that flight was so full the stewardesses had no time for anyone, even in Business class. >.< Though at least I was flying Business Class so it is hard to complain lol

( cut for boring discussion of flight details though if you're someone I am visiting in Japan you might want to read )

So now I'm trying to think about what I would like to see and do while I am in Japan above and beyond Area 37. Things I would really like to see despite some of them being inconvenient to get to or expensive: Nikko (I've actually only been there once and it was before I had a digital camera and + temple stamps!) Mitsumine jinja, Tokyo Disney or Tokyo Disney Sea (should I do it, am I crazy, I don't think it is a vacation time so it should just be crowded, not gosh awful), Ise, Nagashima SpaLand (if I can work it out), Katsura Rikyu Imperial villa (I so loved it ;;_;; ), Enryakuji (still have not been), Hikone (nice castle and other things to see?), Kanazawa (I want to see the garden and it's only 2 hours from Kyoto...) So we shall see.

I'm hoping to meet up with everyone I know in Japan at least once except maybe poor Steve since Tanabe is sort of out of the way. >>; (unless he is coming to Osaka!) triplepunch at the very least I would love to do dinner post Ise on my way to Kansai, though hmmmmm...debating ideas...

So what do people reading this think, should I try Nikko and Mitsumine jinja or should I spend one of those days at Tokyo Disney?

Thank you so much for the postcard seaster and yanchamonkey!!!!!

Thank you chocolate_chip you so made my day today!!!! :D I am so tempted to scan the back of the postcard! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hugs*

And OK other LJ people, I am debating should I stay in Osaka or Kyoto? for part of my trip. I know other than my event my big goal is to go to Ise and Nagashima SpaLand And maybe Tokyo Disney ;;_;;

And cause probably since last time I did this my tastes have changed... (ganked from akari_sama and sumeragiskank) cause it's so unobvious what pairings I ship lol


Ask me a fandom and I shall respond with my...

1. One True Pairing Ship
2. Canon Ship
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship
4. "You are one sick bastard" Ship
5. "I dabble a little" Ship
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship

In smaller news, I planted two 4 inch basil plants today in hopes of getting something from my "taking all summer" garden. I might plant on Sunday as well. >>;

Time for a fangirly post. for those who don't know I've been scoping out This event since I first picked up some info on it over SCC. At first it was only 40 spaces, which seemed like a decent amount for a pairing only event. My first real only event was 10/19/03 when I went to the 60 person Yuuta only event. (That trip was also interesting as it was when I met muscatlove, yanchamonkey, and dilettantka for my first time. *waves to them*) And we're going to ignore that 10/19 is Hiroshi's birthday proving just how much my crack OTP is really TRU BOI LUV

I remember at the time I thought a 60 person Yuuta only event was awesome. The majority of circles there did Fujicest and the majority of circles did Yuuta uke. (there were a few MizuYuu circles and a few "let's 'ho out Yuuta" circles where he was also bottom) So 40 circles, just doing GinoSuza where Suzaku is bottoming seemed awesome since in all honesty, Geass characters might be more popular on character polls but doujinshiwise no series has come close to topping Tenipuri's might since I've gotten into doujinshi.

The big question was would circles I like go And could I find a way to go lol. About a month later the event had been upgraded to a 70 person event. How could I not be happy 70 people just doing GinoSuza!

I couldn't check the site while I was in CA and so when I got home I went over to it and... it's now 100 circles. 100 circles just doing GinoSuza! <3 <3 The circle list has a bunch of circles I really like listed like: Double Slash, Monthly Planets Maybe we'll finally get that damn GinoSuza book I want from them! Cle*matis, the Poisonboy people, Pandora's Box, Mime, Rainy (of course since they are helping run it), Homeopathy who I've wanted to try, and it looks like ROCKNDOLLESS the huge SuzaLulu circle that is one of the huge circles at the SuzaLulu event is going! OMG!!!!

All this means that I am now more and more worried about lines and the event being timed. I really really want a sketch by Mime since I'm not sure I've gotten them before and I would die to get one from RockNDolless. I knew RocknDolless liked GinoSuza since there is that one sold out book on Y!J I paid a small fortune for but wow, they're doing more. *____* i hope the book I am getting is good, I hope the new one is even better. About the only circle I really like who I am surprised is not attending is Zaco since they seem to be doing more GinoSuza with R2. (Kashi and Aquascape don't seen to do GinoSuza, I'm not surprised with Kashi but thought Aquascape might. Renbu and whatever Patisserie is calling itself now are too hard to know what they're doing >>; )

I so need to be at this event.

So for those who don't know or missed it, I was at Dollectable/visiting San Francisco from super early Friday morning until super late yesterday. The trip did not go as planned because my sister is sadly still a spoiled brat despite the fact she is getting close to 30. ~.~

I think she really needs to grow up some. I'm doing my best to just let it go since I know my mother would appreciate that, but I am not amused still.

( For those who don't want to read my babble )

Anyone who posted something important in their LJ between today and Thurs please share it here as I might have missed it since the internet at the hotel sucked, like sucked big time. I've tried to go back, but it doesn't always go well. >>;

I'm glad to be home, though now I need to work on my UT trip and my trip to Japan. For those curious I am going to Japan in October. I don't know my itinerary yet but I will be in Tokyo for a while since I want to attend an event there. XD;; I also really really want to go to Ise finally and Nagoshima SpaLand <3

Damn it. I know I had more yen leftover after my last trip to Japan and now I cant find it anywhere. This is so not cool.

Nevermind I suck and just found the missing mon >>; On the bright side I am nearly completely packed for SF tomorrow and my upgrade went through so guess who is flying Business at least one way! :D

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

And hahaha! We might have beat the neighbors! :D

I was completely upset because the city confirmed that it was the neighbors who turned us in and there is some dumbass law about walls of any height needing to be certain distances from the street and the edges of the property so now we need to see if we can get a variance, blargh. However I have decided if we have to take down our bricks and because we can not keep them I am so switching to plastic and rubber and even it is uglier the neighbors can do nothing then, hah! I will just be annoyed because of all the money and planting time I lost.

but but but... I tried out my scooter!!!!!!!!!!

Technically, it needs to be registered with the State of New York first, but I figure I can tool around my neighborhood and break it in first. :D I'm also getting a real helmet and I think I'm going to try to take a motorcycle class. For those who don't know, mine is a Zapino which is a brand of small electric scooter. It can go like 30 mph but I've not gone above 20 mph yet. It's electric so it uses no gas at all and has storage places for groceries, though now I wish I could get a real basket for the back like they have in Japan.

So first... help me name my new scooter!

Poll #1223429 scooter names
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What should Rachel name her new scooter?

( And now for pictures of my new scooter! )
So please help me with a name and vote!

So today I at long last got to see Wicked. For those who don't know, despite having the CD and several illicit recordings, I've never actually seen it before. I did try reading the novel but only made it about 10 pages in because I found Maguire's writing style a little dry ^_^;;

( lj cut so I can babble )

so today I started to try to go through all the fennel I've been getting. unfortunately, either my husband or the farmer cut the root off some of the fennel which is sadly the part the recipe called for. So I changed to risotto over pasta, added some parmesan cheese and added some lentils and it all worked out and was quite yummy. :D

A bunch of doujinshi I wanted went for more than I was willing to pay on Y!J. Damnit! I want the Mime GinoSuza copyhon but not 2300 yen want. ~.~ Hopefully I can track it down eventually.

So OK, I should not be doing this but do I know anyone who will be in Tokyo on the 20th of July who I could like pay to go to the Geass event for me to get me some GinoSuza books? >>;; And a LuluSuza book, damn you Renbu I would be willing to pay for your time.... as well as the books and stuff >>;

The little old people across the street from us with too much time on their hands have tried to turn us into the Housin Code Enforcement Office. Again. ~.~ First they made trouble for us when our front door went, then when the grass got too long because we were away and now because we're trying to turn our front yard into an urban garden. ~.~ Seriously, it doesn't look bad. I don't get it. I'm seriously hoping there is nothing they can do about it but I don't trust the damn city. ~.~ I'm also worried they will bitch about the house no longer being stucco. God, sometimes I hate bureaucratic red tape like this. It serves no purpose. I also think my neighbors need a new hobby besides being assholes. ~.~