a soldier through this

First post from new laptop, horrah. I’d been toying with the idea of getting a Mac laptop since last semester when my financial aid check came, but put it off in favour of Genki pbs, Higamyu photosets and Yaoicon. However, the end of December brought Hiku getting a new laptop and was selling her older (mid-2005) laptop and needless to say, I asked her to hold onto it for me until I could pay her in January. After a few weeks of trying to decide how we wanted to deal with her getting it to me without having to worry about it getting damaged, we ended up deciding we’d both just drive to Santa Rosa and hang out for a bit. Sasu came with her and gave me easily $100 worth of Copic Sketch markers she had extras of, plus some other stuff that we had ordered together and she was going to send to me anyway. They didn’t get to stay very long, but fun times were had.

Needless to say, I’m now the owner of an iBook G4 with OSX Tiger (tiny and cute!). While I grew up using a Mac (We still have our first computer in storage - I can’t remember what model it is off the top of my head, but it has a whopping 500mb hard drive and 5 mb of RAM. XD), and all of the computers I ever used at school were Macs (I was a freshman in high school when the original candy-shell iBooks came out), I haven’t really touched one since I was 17. So, naturally, it’s taking a while for my Windows-ingrained brain to get used to Macs and Mac shortcuts again. Not to mention all this newfangled stuff they’ve added to Mac OS since the last time I’ve used one. XD Now, if I can figure out how to get php properly set up for local use (not that I’ve tried very hard to set it up, lulz), life will be good. At the very least, it gives me a handful of machines to check designs and coding on. This cute little Mac laptop w/OSX on a 1028×768 res with Firefox, Safari and Opera installed, my desktop with WinXP on 1280×1024 with Firefox, IE and Opera installed, and mum’s laptop (that I like to use for the fact S is allowing her to leech his wireless - asshole won’t give me the password, so still stuck with dialup for my comps >_>) with Vista on a 1280×800 (+her lower-res-than-my-account’s res) with Firefox and IE. Plenty of options, really!

Also, iTunes. I hate iTunes. I don’t know why, it just irritates the hell out of me. There’s a reason I do not have it on my desktop even though S is like HEY GET ITUNES IT’S AWESOME. Any ideas on a Mac-equivalent of WinAmp, raise your hand XD;

School has been keeping me pretty busy, which is kind of sad when you consider how poorly I’m doing right now. Really need to get myself caught up and get my ducks in a row if I want to pass any classes this semester. Too much stress, really. Not having my license is making me all sorts of askdjf;alksdjfjsdalf if only for the fact that it would be so much cheaper to drive to school rather than pay $20 a week for cabs to school ($10 two times a week). The $2-$3 given to a classmate for rides home is easily swingable but >_O’ Hurrr now if only I didn’t hate driving with every bone in my body. Though I probably should try to go get that soon (damn you family not helping with uhhh a usable car and someone actually being home on a day the DMV is open so I can take my test again >EEE), permit kind of expires (again) sometime in April >>;;

Enough of that. This time next week I’ll be in… snowy, freezing-ass Burlington, Vermont visiting with my Leah over spring break. Leaving on Friday, returning home to California on the 30th. We have plans. Plans that involve sitting on our asses watching Kane & Genki dvds on big screen, spazzflailing over Rikkaimyu Genki!Kirihara and Kane!Sanada, and watching Power Rangers. May be watching some Gintama, for people will be happy if we do and start fangirling it. With Tenipuri manga finally being over (NICE COP-OUT, KONOMI.), it may be time to find a new fandom. Except the part where I still ♥ Tenipuri with all my ickle heart. …:D;

Other fandom news involves writing for balls_it_up, in which I wrote the single most awful fic I have ever written. XD; Which fic, however, I am not yet allowed. Writing mojo is finally starting to come back, if the few pieces I’ve started recently are any indication.

On the subject of fannish stuff, new fanlistings!
[+] Narugami aka Narukami/Thor {Matantei Loki Ragnarok}
[+] Heimdall {Matantei Loki Ragnarok}
[+] Seles {Apocripha/0 - Game/Manga}
[+] Platina Pastenr {Apocripha/0 - Game}
[+] Schwarz {Weiss Kreuz}
[+] My Friend Flicka {Book - Mary O’Hara’s My Friend Flicka}
[+] Green Grass of Wyoming {Book - Mary O’Hara’s Green Grass of Wyoming}

Upcoming fanlistings:
[-] Thunderhead {Book by Mary O’Hara}
[-] The Horse-Tamer {Book by Walter Farley}
[-] Nakagauchi Masataka {Musician}
[-] Four Rooms {Film}
[-] 0 no Soukoushi {Manga by Kaori Yuki}
[-] Fairy Cube {Manga by Kaori Yuki}
[-] Psycho Knocker {Manga by Kaori Yuki}

I certainly have my work cut out for me XD;

Mmmm. Since my last post, Rhythmic High has also been updated with quite a bit of artwork and fic from the past year.

I think that may be about it, except for one thing: Downloads!

[=] Oliver & Company Soundtrack (32.31 mb, .rar)
[=] The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack. (54.99 mb, .rar)

Er, enjoy. XD Need to find myself some free to so that I may make a new layout for this poor neglected place.

If you’re American, anyway. Hope you all have a wonderful day with friends and family. I, however, will be staying home with my cup noodles whilst Mum and her 12 pound turkey go to the Spawn of Satan’s place and S&J go to J’s grandmother’s. I’d rather spend the holiday alone than go through another one with dealing SoS’s bullshit. I don’t care if she’s family, I don’t want to be around it and I have no intentions of being around it if I can help it. No clue what Dad & K are going to be up to, but will probably call Dad later to see what’s up.

Maybe I should get my ATM card back from Mum (who seems to have it more often than I do >_>) and see what’s playing at the theater if it’s not raining - it’s close enough to walk to both the theater and the bank (given the theater’s right behind my bank …), but even if I catch an early evening show I’ll have to walk home in the dark… not something I want to do — Through RA lives about 2 blocks behind the theater so I could probably get a ride from her, but I wouldn’t want to bother her family during their dinner because her sisters are up. I’d be welcome to join but eh. Not feeling particularly festive and can use the time to work on my special-deck cards for people, updating sites and catching up on Honey and Clover so Crys will stop hounding me to fangirl with her.

Internets have been acting up again, the whores. Plus the power keeps going out because we’re on some funky grid (Meaning mine and my neighbor’s power was out, the guys across the street were out, but the house behind my neighbor had power, etc…) and the line’s been ready to go for weeks (constant brownouts, etc ~_~). Pretty irritating.

Fangirly and fandom related stuff simply because 90% of my posts require it. Leah was totally awesome and gave me Tackey & Tsubasa’s new album, which exudes massive amounts of gay (go figure.) Was there really a reason for a fifth version of Venus? Either way, it’s lollertastic. I am hearting on the album XD; And hopefully I will have enough monies soon to actually like, buy it. I need to make myself a list of crap I want to get >_>”

Spent the past few weeks getting and watching Kimi wa Petto, which is fucking adorable and I want to squish it. Too fucking cute D: Half the time I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or simply stare going “What the fuck?”. Jun was freaking adorable and Sumire girl was so… I liked her. I wanted to punch the Fukushima girl through like the whole thing D: It is now being burned off because I might as well burn some crap off and actually get back some HDD space.

Said in last post I’d put up Dong Bang’s Balloon PV, so here it is + some other stuff.

동방신기 - Balloon PV - WMV
동방신기 - HI YA YA 여름날 PV AVI (yes, it works. Don’t say it doesn’t.)
동방신기・東方神起 - Miss You (Japanese) ZIP/MP3

Tracklist
• Miss You
• ‘O’ ~ Jung.Ban.Hub
• Sky (TVP Uta’s Mix)
• Miss You (Less vocal)
• ‘O’ ~Jung.Ban.Hub (Less vocal)

SE7EN - SE7OLUTION - RAR/MP3

Tracklist
• Se7olution (Intro)
• Girl Friend
• la la la
• chalhalge
• Last of Diary
• Again
• Can You Feel Me
• tamul sarang
• I’m Sorry (Interlude)
• Oh~
• Get Up and Dance
• hulaghaechui
• tokbaek
• Promise

Downloads will be removed when I feel like it, don’t ask where they are if they don’t work. Edit: Realized I put the wrong link to SE7OLUTION. It works now.

Total awake hours for Monday: 18. That’s the longest I’ve been able to stay awake for a good week, so goddamn tired all the time. D:

Yesterday was spent a) writing up a skinning tutorial for a friend (that is nowhere near finished) and b) cleaning out my garage so S&J can fix it up and move in until their house is built. This involved lugging and stacking roughly 2,000 books up a ladder in the loft, moving out just about everything IN the garage (we have a lot of crap X_x), helping S move the piano in the house so we actually had room for stuff in here and tearing down most of the walls and the ceiling. My body hates me and I stepped on a nail D: (because I am bright and was doing this in my flipflops 8D Not work shoes hur) Normally I wouldn’t mind so much as technically the above is my job, however I’m not getting paid for anything until they actually start building the house. *forced free labor*

The good news, however, is that my dad gave my mum the money she needed and as of Sept. 15, the house and both properties are officially ours and we can give the other lot to S&J for their house :3 Huge load off mum since she quit the job she got a few weeks ago (like two days after she was hired) because of some pretty shifty shit going on with that. Basically they completely misrepresented the job >>

Yesterday also brought my most recent cd order. :D Which means my Rikkai rivals & Fudoumine rivals cds are complete (I only needed Yukimura, Renji, & Jackal/Bunta’s for Rikkai, and Shinji’s for Fudoumine). Also came was Saeki’s サンセットウェイ, An’s 夏のお嬢さん, Show starring 森久保祥太郎, Summer SMTOWN 2006 & TRAX’s 트랙스 1집 - 초우 (初雨). No use really getting into what songs I like and all since most of these had been out for years but 8D I still like TRAX’s new album :3

Speaking of tennisy things, managed to catch part of the first set of Pavel/Agassi’s match in the US Open yesterday. Good game if I say so myself, caught part of the middle and came back in during the tiebreak which ended up being 7-6 with a 7-4 tiebreak in Pavel’s favour. Kinda bummed I missed the rest of the match since it’s Agassi’s last US Open, but oh well XD; Agassi hit some damn good shots from the bit I saw.

Other sporty things involve my nearly being forced to watch a lot of golf because mum’s like in love with Tiger Woods. Though it was kind of interesting watching him hit the ball out of some trees, have it go through the grandstand, bounce off the cart walkway, up onto a roof and get lost (even though they said it fell down the other side of the building… um no). But fun nonetheless?

Yeah anyway. Downloads from the previous post have been removed, but that just makes way for more :D There’s a Tackey & Tsubasa skin in the skins section, and here for we have kitty GYM’s leaked cd (…as it technically doesn’t come out till the 30th). Meant to post this the other day but obviously, busy :P So, CD rips as opposed to the radio rip from my last post.

EDIT 09.05.06: Downloads have been removed.
01) Kitty GYM - Fever to Future
02) Yamashita Tomohisa - Houkago Blues
03) Golf & Mike - Run for your love
04) Kitty GYM - My Angel

Yargh can’t wait for monies so I can buy this cd D: Fever to Future I already liked, Houkago Blues is kind of funky but still good, Run for your love is in English! And not have bad, Golf & Mike get props XD My Angel is just… cute. Cute cute cute.

Donneeee.