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( Blog Crews and Misc Color Bars )

Trying to think of something interesting to write since I haven't updated in ages but am drawing a blank. Also they 'i' key doesn't work unless pressed hard...amazing how you never realize how much you need a letter till its AWOL.

* Works okay, kind of hard now cause I'm sick but stuff happens. Got a homebase, Toddlers, and 40hrs give or take one or two so that's good.

* Still single, no real surprise there.

* Had a small surgery on Monday night, cried and screamed like a baby. Thought it was a spider bite, the doctors say I have MRSA instead. Its not pretty, the link or my knee. Totally understand if you don't look. But if things go well they will sew me up next week. Biggest problems right now is remembering meds, keeping Summers Eve fresh *snickers* w/out getting the bandage wet, and moving....

Sit or stand up and try and lift your left leg. Easy right? Yeah not so much, mine wont do it and I have to physically pick it up.

Off to catch up on friends list! Many xoxoxoxo's to everyone!

*Please forgive my jumbled thoughts.*

Da's been on my case to volunteer for ages now, particularly at the I&M Canal's historical museum next door to me and doesn't seem to understand that it costs money to help out there. Turns out it costs money to help out at other places as well, like animal shelters. This never made any sense to me.

I was on my walk tonight, taking the long way home so I could enjoy a favorite song on iHiro v2.0 when I walked past a home that had recently been converted into a business. It's about a block from me if you go diagonally and I'd been wanting to go inside for awhile but someone in my knitting guild said that the woman who runs it was mean and there was a big word on the sign that prevented me from going in. Cancer.

I don't know if it was the migraine, the mood the music put me in, or if Mom was giving me a little nudge but I saw the open sign was still up and so today I finally decided to go inside and I'm really glad that I did. There are lots of pretty things in there, purses, jewelry, candles, inspirational signs, things for guys as well and I found out the meaning behind their quote on their sign; "Helping families with cancer Celebrate Life."

Thanks Jordan is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, this means that the money earned from the items stored in the store goes into a fund to help families dealing with cancer (the (c)3 bit means their exempt from some federal taxes I guess). They help with stuff like financial assistance (which includes money for treatments, medication, lodging, gas cards), emotional support, advocacy, and education. They are currently helping like four families, one of the patients they were helping recently passed away, and because cancer has been a huge part of my life for years (because of Mom's breast cancer, Grandma Janet's brain cancer, Da's short stint of skin cancer, and three scares for Aunt Mary and a small scare for myself) I was moved and finally decided I'd listen to Da and volunteer.

I offered my knitting and crochet experience to make goods for the store, my time, and if they ever need it my ability to work really well with kids. To be honest I'm rather pleased with myself and I haven't done anything for them yet. I'm really starting to think this was a nudge from Mom and I'm looking forward to helping.

I picked up a new video game for my DS on a whim Friday evening and it's called Princess Debut. Basically its a dating sim for girls where you learn to dance and win the heart of a collection of Prince Charmings. You get to pick the name for your character and her zodiac sign, the amount of affection you start out with for each prince seems to be based on the zodiac sign that you pick.

Basic Plot: There is a parallel world where there is another you. This other you comes through a closet to send you to her world so that you can be Princess for a season and take her place at dance lessons, the competitions (there's two of them), and picking a Prince to be a dance partner because she doesn't do very well at that stuff. Naturally you agree and you find that all the Princes are a parallel version of boys that you go to school with, they even have similar names. There are several things you can't unlock unless you play the game all the way through and with each Prince you have two different endings, one where you marry the Prince in the future and one where you return to your world and start to become close to your worlds version of said Prince.

You also have to dance and while its hard to fail a competition it isn't impossible. The dancing is done by tracing within the lines on the touch screen and you get extra points if you hit the star at just the right time. For every bad that you get though you loose five hundred points and if you get to many of them the dance will end. The Waltzes aren't difficult, except for the Vienna Waltz, and the Tango and Paso Doble is a lot of fun. You can't watch the dance while you do it though, or you'll screw up, so the game offers a movie option as well. I like this option because while the animation isn't as good as it could be (ie Princess Cynthia's dress eating Prince Klaus's legs) it's a lot of fun because they were actually created from watching real dancers preform the dances.

I'm really liking this game, enough to admit that yes I am addicted and I want to play until I get every single option and hidden goodies that's out there. I've even discovered a Walkthrough so that I can have help figuring out how to partner with a two elusive Princes. The main reasons I like this game.

1. It's fun, the dancing is easy to pick up and quite enjoyable plus I really like the music.
2. I played it straight through all on my own with no cheats, no help from outside sources, nadda. Just me. True it's not the toughest game out there but I'm proud of myself so silence you!

When I first played the game, using the name Princess Rin, I was worried about not getting a partner so I took up the first offer that I got which was from the class clown (in the normal world) who loved to play pranks and was named Prince Vincent or Vince for short. He came from the River Kingdom. The second time, as Princess Kotoha, I went with Prince Liam from the Green Kingdom who loved plants, cooking, and was very laid back. The issue with Liam though was that he constantly talks about his sister Olive who is sick and being taken care off in a far away kingdom.

The one thing that seems to be consistent throughout all the times I've played is that Vince is in love with the Princess. This never seems to change as he always asks to be her partner and you always find a bottle with a love letter to the Princess in it. It was while I was playing as Kotoha and Liam wouldn't shut up about his sister that I got the idea for my drabble. Kotoha had found the bottle with Vince's letter in it and I figured out that no matter what Vince was going to like her, cause I've got three games going now and have played two already and in all of them he likes her. So I thought I'd write about how he felt seeing Liam and Kotoha together.


( Green Eyed )

I feel like I'm floating...

( Medicated High )

This one is for arytra and since her little amigurumi has yet to reach her I'm considering this my White Day gift to her. Hope she doesn't mind.

Also...five months on Monday. ::goofy grin::

I'm not 100% pleased with the ending but really when am I ever 100% pleased with any of my works? Outside of cloud_sama's corset pillow that is. That pattern takes forever but oh man does it work up nice!

Anywho... Enjoy a story that took forever to write!

Oh and quick note. The Fire is Chicago's soccer team, the Duck's are something I pulled from the web, which if I read the site right, should be from arytra's area.

( Firsts )

First... I might have to change my Twitter name because Da's wife Jullya has found me. Yes I know there is the option to block people but that would get me in massive trouble.

Pathetic. This is just pathetic.

Thank goodness she can't get into my journal.

Moving on, here are two RPM stories, they are Dillon/Ziggy and aren't great but I couldn't help writing them.

( Shut Up )

( Impromptu )

At megthelegend's insistence I've decided to post a couple of Mei-chan drabbles that I wrote this week. The first one is about Tami, my favorite character right after Rihito, and how she isn't to concerned about becoming a lady. The second is about Kento, Rihito's younger brother, and what's going through his head during the series.

Hope you like them!

( Tami Drabble )

( Kento Drabble )

Edit: So I've finally gotten to watch episode five...awesome episode with hugging and Kento kicking butt, but I've noticed something in this episode and in ep four. One of the girls, I can't tell who but I think she's either Luna or Ombra rank, is conspiring with Lucia-sama. It's not a Sole because they have different ties, unless the people in charge got sneaky and made them switch the ties around to surprise us. I just really hope it's not Tami, she's the only other Ombra outside of Mei. Though if you think about it often times the one no one expects is the one who is often pulling the strings. ::crosses fingers:: Please don't be my adorable Tami!

The following is from ashmcairo's journal:

Sorry for getting you all involved, but me and the family are hurting financially again. I've already borrowed against my 401K last month to help with getting Lei's car out of the shop, but that still wasn't enough. I'll be contacting my payroll department for a possible payday advance, but we need something now.

If you have a buck or two to spare I'd appreciate it. I figure $250 would be enough for rent alone, but anything more than that will go towards our utilities.

If you can, please pass this along. Thank you.

Here is the direct link for his entry. At the moment they are headed to the hospital to get mkiero checked because she thinks her water broke and she's not due until middle of February.