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You know, I was sitting at my desk today, doing absolutely nothing, and then all of a sudden I was bombarded with memories of my childhood. Despite the fact that my parents weren't very financially stable for most of my young life, I never felt underprivileged or unhappy. I had three loving, and sometimes very annoying, siblings to keep me company. Though my father worked from 6am to 5 pm, he always took us out to play for at least an hour, had dinner with us, and read to us every single night. My mother was a stay-at-home mom, but she made a living as a seamstress. She made some of the most beautiful pieces of clothing that I'd ever seen. Most of then have yet to be challenged (aesthetically) as far as I'm concerned; and whenever I became ill during school, I always felt secure in the fact that there was always someone at home to come and get me...and pet me up like the spoiled brat that I was *lol*. I guess I'll stop by mom's grave and drop her a 'thank you' this weekend. 

So yeah, even though those memories came out of left field, I can't even begin to describe how awesome they made me feel. I'm grateful to have been born into my family...despite wanting to shoot a few people every now and then.

I listened to this song like 9 times on my mp3 player today, and it made me feel really giddy. I can't believe that those guys went from this to this.  It's very amusing to realize that one of my favorite groups were real live bishies back in the day *lol*. And all that pretty hair! Did the first two vids not remind you of shampoo commercials? *lol* They're all so masculine now though. The drummer has also changed, but he's been with the band for 10-11 years now, so yeah. The lead singer is actually the little leprechaun in my icon *lol*.  Anyway, they make good music.

I just realized the being a loyal fan can be rather expensive. I've spent about $100 on L'arc~en~ciel items, and in less than 4 days! But it did get me a poster, a photobook, 2 magazines, photos, postcards, a T-shirt, and a concert DVD. Not bad for $100 bucks, considering the fact that had I bought these things when they were first put out on the market, I would have spent $200 fairly easily.

Yesterday I decided to clean up my room a bit and was quite amazed to discover that I own such an extensive manga collection. I guess I'd never really given it any thought before. Since I'd been collecting them for quite a few years now, I'd kind of forgotten about some of them. The collection consists of:

Ranma 1/2
Inuyasha
Maison Ikkoku
Tough
Kagerou Nostalgia
Peace Maker
Immortal Rain
Hana Kimi
Absolute Boyfriend (totally not mine)
Tail of the Moon
One Piece
Naruto
Pet Shop of Horror
Crescent Moon
Fruits Baskets
Shaman King
Trigun (&Maximum)
Rurouni Kenshin
Sandland
DBZ
etc.

...and that's just to name a few. 

I also have the first year's worth of the English version of Shounen Jump and a few Korean manhwa. Then there's the doujinshi phase that I went through. Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach, One Piece, Trigun....yeah, doujinshi.

I can't even begin to name half the books stacked away in boxes in my closet. Video games and CDs...don't even get me started.

Fandoms are expensive. I guess they can be quite profitable too-- if you're willing to part with stuff while it's still hot, that is.

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I really want to see L'arc~en~ciel perform live T___T. I was supposed to go Hong Kong and see them, but (as always *damn it*) something came up. It's another money issue, obviously. With the way that things are right now, either my sister or I would have been able to go. Not the two of us together like we'd initially planned. We both decided not to go; as opposed to having one float away on an intense wave of satisfaction, while leaving the other here to wallow in self-pity alone. I would never do that to her. As much as we've been through over the past couple of years, we're pretty serious about taking each other's situations into consideration. I will definitely pay life back ten-fold for screwing me~ *Mwuaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaa* But yeah...  

No Ken-chan....

No Yukihiro- chan....

Tet-chan.....

No chibi Hyde *sob*

Well, I guess I can hang on to the little mg of hope that I have of them coming back to the US. Please guys! ...Yeah right. Even I'm not that delusional....
 

I guess that running through firework smoke in 20+ degree weather on New Years day was by far the stupidest thing that I've ever done. Not only am I having sinus/allergy headaches the size of King Kong's balls, but I'm also suffering from a soar throat, runny/bloody nose, excessive sneezing, ringing ears, watering eyes, and coughing my freaking LUNGs up. I've blown my nose so much within the last two days that I have to use dampened tissues to keep the scabs from bleeding. Yes, I have scabs around my nostrils -__-'. You can't see them unless I lift up my head and show them to you though *see*. I didn't have any Vaseline available, so I got the bright idea to put cucumber melon lotion on it instead. What the hell was I thinking? As soon as I put the crap on my nose, it started to tingle and burn. Totally forgetting where I was I started shouting "Oh God! It burns! It burns!". My boss popped her head in with a "WTF?" look on her face and asked me if everything was alright. I just smiled and nodded, then started pecking away on my computer to make her think that I was doing work. How embarrassing. She thinks that I'm a total flake today. 

Well, whatever. I feel like hell. So its alright.

I've been drinking hot tea all day and it helps until like 20 minutes after its all gone. Then its on to the next cup. That makes six right now (kidney failure here I come!)

You know what the worse part of today has been? Whenever I think that I'm finished with all of my work for the day (hoping that I can use some of my sick time and go home early), I'm bombarded with a ton of books. First loans, then transfers, and now returns....1 hour before I'm supposed to go home. Am I being punished or something? Please tell me so I can apologize, swear my loyalty and graciousness to whomever and be done with feeling like a humongous piece of shit on a stick. 

Maybe I'll just entertain myself with HYDE/L'arc en ciel videos on youtube until its time for me to go home. Crap on the returns. They can wait (T__T).