Ok...I need to go to bed, 'cause Kazuma Kodaka-Sama is doing her manga demonstration at 10am tomorrow, and there's no way I'm gonna be late for that.

But...I wanted to briefly sum-up the highlights of today =D

They were playing FF7 Advent Chillins (what most of the staff refers to it as ;D) while we were waiting to register. The registration went super smoothly, thank goodness, and I headed back to the room to eat and chill until 7 when the opening ceremony was gonna happen.

I popped into the swap meet for a few minutes...and after scrutinizing (sp?) some Saiyuki doujinshi for Ravyn (which I passed up...blah) I ended up with things for me (I'm so bad >=']): 3 Be-Boy 'magazines' (for $20) which are each like 3-4 inches thick ::drool::, Bronze #3 for $3, and the cutest thing ever! I saw a little pink round thing on one of the tables, and picked it up thinking it was Kirby or something...it was a Saizo (the pig) antennae (sp?) topper! OMG! I don't think I can put it on my car and give it that much abuse! I think I'll have to find a pen to put it on =D 50 cents, and by far my favorite purchase thus far XD!

EDIT: wait! good idea! I should actually make it into antannae...headband with springs...pink, pissed off little Saizo on one side...I wonder who on the other? =D

The opening ceremony was awesome...they played a video made by tpod (whom I still haven't seen since she must be tiny and was in a big group of people near the door...or don't -know- that I've seen if I've seen her elsewhere in the con areas...) of pictures from the last 4 years of Y-Con that I really hope she posts online for us to DL. The room had 300 chairs, which were all full, and a ton of people standing in the back (myself included). The microphone wasn't cooperating...so the man might as well have been Charlie Brown's teacher for all that we understood.

I hovered in the lobby with most everyone else when it was done instead of going upstairs to watch Kizuna. Luckily for me, this made me at the front of the line for Bishounen Bingo ;D

In a whole room full of people (most of them with multiple bingo cards) I actually managed to get a bingo! I was so nervous going up to the stage that I was shaking really badly! I got to take an article of clothing off of a bishy (so cute! I got a closeup of him before he walked away) and my only option was his over shirt, since his pants were already gone. hee! The audience was shouting for me to unbutton it with my teeth...eeeek! I had to have been beet red! I ended up winning a glass and rhinestone framed bromide card of Fuuma from X. I have to admit I was a little disappointed when I saw some of the other prizes, like a Loveless cork board, or the signed Kazuma Kodaka doujinshi ::whimpers and makes grabby fingers:: But the whole thing was absolutely too much fun. I even won a poster of Resident Evil 4 for Jen! Cute main boy...zombies...what more could she need in a poster? ;D

OMG...and I -so- wanted to take "Irvine" home with me...::le sigh::

Including the deleted ones, I've taken a total of 196 pictures...damnable boi stripping! ;D I have 275 left. Hmmm...I'm thinking I should've gotten the 1 gig card...hehe. My poor craptastic laptop doesn't -have- a port for me to plug into...grr...so I'll have to be more careful with my picture taking for the next two days ;]

G'night all...and if anyone knows anyone that's here, lemme know, k?

::hugs to all, and heads to bed::

Beginning Cash Balance Pre-Con = 214
Current Cash Balance = 185

Which means I spent (lessee 214 - 20 - 3 - .50 = 190.50 - 185 = 5.50 spent on Bingo cards at .50 each ;] not bad for 3 hours and a winning card ;D)

Well...I'm here...is anyone that I might know (or who knows any of you) here?

::feeling particularly alone at the moment::

interlock - is apparently the mechanism between the brake pedal and the steering column that allows the gear to be shifted out of Park when the brake pedal is depressed.

OK...life wins...where's my towel, I think I'm ready to throw it in.


...unless, maybe, I can throw it -at- someone?

hmm...might need like 3 then, instead of just 1...

What I posted to crazyfaeriegirl's LJ just moments ago:

Mina had her babies tonight!

They were delivered by C-Section at about 5:45pm PST. The girl was technically delivered first, although the boy was attempting to be born first (the natural way & ass-first no less).

Their stats (that I'm not entirely positive are correct, but Mina can update when she's home and online again ;]) are:

Celes - 19", 5.4lbs (removed first)
Auric - 18", 6.0lbs (removed 2 minutes later)

There was a scare when they were first born...the boy's heart wasn't beating. They got it going immediately, though, and he's quite the little vocalist now (compared to the little girl anyway ;P).

Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know that the babies and Mina are all doing fine. The babies are in the nursery over night so that the nurses can finish getting the fluid out of their little lungs and make sure everything is all OK before putting them into Mina's room. This'll give Mina a night of actual sleep, too, which should do her some definite good. She was exhausted when we left at 9pm tonight...poor thing...she'd started having contractions at about 1am this morning and didn't go to the hospital until more normal hours.

I'll go and see her again tomorrow, and I'll update again if I get more definite length and weight stats on the babies.

If you need to contact me for any reason (or to send well-wishings that I can take to her in the hospital) my email addy is k_squota@yahoo.com

Happy (late) Father's Day krikedo!

Ahhhh...

I don't update forever and come back with a question >;]

Does anyone still have the link to the store that was selling t-shirted plot bunnies?



FYI - I'm mostly moved into the new house...computer, bed, cats, clothes, toiletries, food, entertainment center...what more do I need? >;D




EDIT TO ADD

I got a 3.3 in Medical Terminology =D
(while working 2 jobs, finding then buying a house, taking 1 week off to go to London, and attempting to do homework and study in my 'spare time')

...reality sucks...

I wanna go back ::pouts::

"Once, as the night was leaving
Into us our dreams were weaving.
Once, all dreams were worth keeping."

"And you are free to change your mind
any place or time."

"Me and you what's going on?
All we seem to know is how to show
The feelings that are wrong."

"I walk the maze of moments
but everywhere I turn to
begins a new beginning
but never finds a finish."

"When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: 'My God, how great Thou art!'"



We all went to the Golden Lion last night for the punk show and got to see Schoolyard Heroes. Megan and I both got practically hit on by the chick singing (who, by the way, has a hell of a set of lungs). I got a CD and all 4 of them signed it and the bass guitarist gave me a button =] I hadn't eaten since breakfast and Erica suggested we be old and drink (this was before the first of the three bands even went on) so I went with it, not thinking of the empty stomach I would be putting the alcohol into. 1 1/2 drinks and nearly 3 hours of being weird and I was still buzzing when we got ready to leave. Last night was the first time I've ever driven when I probably shouldn't have (and if I hadn't lived so close, I wouldn't have)...so I was very careful and very paranoid, but Paul followed right behind me all the way to my house and then came in and hung out for a little while. I gave him the 'grand tour' of the house and then we watched random AMV stuff on my computer and chatted while my cats worked on getting white cat hair all over his black pants ;D. I kept losing my balance (way to be me) cause by that point I was still slightly buzzing and dead tired from only getting 4 hours of sleep earlier o_o I crashed shortly after Paul drove off and when Sarah called me from work she said she had to call back *numerous* times to get me to answer...I know I helped her, eventually, but I also know I was rambling at her and having to correct myself to the point that I don't remember what the problems she called me about were.

So if you read this, Paul ~ thank you for being a sweetheart =]

By all rights I shouldn't be up right now...but I napped earlier this morning and then got up late for Victor's wake. I had the carrot cake in my fridge (since its practically empty) and mom called to see where I was...er...whoops.

It was good to see so many people there. He will be missed by those of us who knew him. He was a very proud man and I am glad, in a way, that he passed on before his Alzheimer's had fully set in. I believe he was 97. He served in the Air Force at the same time as Ronald Reagan did. He has one sibling still living, his older sister who recently turned 100 (Victor was upset that they wouldn't let him go to her party in Chicago). He has no children and was never married from what I know.

My Grandmother's birthday is today as well. She turned 78. I can only imagine how hard today was for her, tho, since Victor had been close to the family since my mom was little. Victor had been her close companion for quite a few years after my grandad died, and I'm sure she's missing Victor terribly...especially today.

"It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got"



::attempts to start something so that people know I'm still alive and ticking, even if I don't have time for a real post::

1.Take your LJ username and replace each letter with the corresponding number (A=1, B=2, etc...). If your name contains numbers, you'll need to convert them to letters first before you can convert to numbers.

k=11 w=23 o=15 m=13 a=1 n=14

2. Add all of the numbers together to create a kind of super number.

77

3. Make a note of the first digit of this number, then add the digits of the number together.

14

4. Find the post of this number in your LJ. If you don't have that many posts, add the digits together again. Keep doing so until the number is smaller than your pathetic number of posts.

holy geez ::goes to find my 14th post:: hmmm just a random post of nothing of importance from September 3rd, 2002.

5. Take the digit you noted in step 3, and count that many words into the post.

some

6. Use the resulting WORD (not wordS) in a Google Image Search, and select a picture from the first page.

::goes to Google diligently like a_roar_a did::

7. Post the results for us all to see.

you're so getting two, cause they're both cool.
http://www.torpedoshoe.com/photoshop/some%20clouds.jpg
http://www.neiu.edu/~ncaftori/falls/some-more.jpg

and...just for the hell of it...off the first page as well ::snickering::
http://www.wernersplace.com/images/some.jpg

I will be attending a 'viewing' today for Jenny Osorio's husband.

He died last Saturday, July 3rd, near McNary Dam in Hermiston, Oregon (just across the bridge into Oregon from Washington - about 30 - 45 minutes away).

( An abbreviated version of the story that I heard/read... )

I can't begin to imagine what Jenny and her family must be going through.

To be honest I don't want to go to the 'viewing' but I want to be there for Jenny to let her know that I'm here if she needs me.

I will most likely be the only white person in the building, and will probably be the only one there that does not speak Spanish. I am tempted to take someone with me, but on the same note I don't want to bring someone just to watch me cry and hug Jenny (if I can get to her).

I bought a sympathy card on the way home...pausing to look at the congratulations cards that I had been debating between just last week because she is leaving us and moving on to a new job.

She suddenly disappeared off the schedule, but I didn't know until the Wednesday after the incident that it was for any reason other than Jen W. wanting to get her off the schedule on the current payroll.

::sighs quietly::

They are taking donations at both of our hotels to help Jenny and her little daughter, with a picture slipped into the clear plastic box of her deceased 21 year old husband posing with their daughter for a family picture. There was also a thing in the paper for one of the banks taking donations to help send Luis' body back to Mexico.

I hope to make it to the funeral Tuesday, as well...but that sort of depends on how this afternoon goes.

If there is one person you can't stop thinking about, post this same exact sentence in your journal.

...therefor I post.



Side Notes: PC seems to have made it successfully to the States, I'm still having brain-hurty over Erica's mentioning me & Paul, Bunker is relatively halthy but has managed to somehow gain weight from 24 1/2 lbs to 26 lbs 14 oz ::sighs::, I have a big owwie on my left pinky finger, I hate work and I hope Nicky gets squished by a bus, my inspiration bunnies hate me, I've started to look into prices to go to London but my days to go might change just a little bit, and I haven't been signed on to the internet in 3 days.

I shoulda pulled off to the side of the road...after...but...I just couldn't make myself...

It was at a full run across the highway, I hit it with the front right at just under 60 miles an hour, and there was a car to my right (the direction it was going).

By the time my foot was pressing on the brake it was already too late...

I dont think...if I felt it...that it woulda survived getting hit at that speed.

I finally stopped crying, though...but I'm still shaky. Some little part of my brain wants to just pretend that it didn't really happen.

I think...to get my mind off of it, I'm going to try and flesh out a timeline for some of Ravyn and my boys...mrr...maybe that'll be enough.

I'm having difficulty faking the perky for the guests tonight...

::goes back to work::


EDIT
After I get off work, I'm gonna go find it and see if it has a collar with contact information. If...if it does, I will call the owners and let them know what happened.

::goes back to work in tears::