I hope y'all had a good Thanksgiving!!  (or a happy Thursday!)  I had a nice day with family and more family (and then tonight, more family again for birthday celebrations!).  I made food, I ate food.  My fridge is full of leftovers.  I love that ( Read more... )

All yesterday, I was thinking that the 30th was the last day of the month (I don't know why-the holiday Monday?). And I was thinking that that meant it was Hidaka Banri's birthday. And I was failing her, because I hadn't had a happy-funtime-Hidaka-manga-reading party for the day. I read a bunch of Hidaka-manga earlier in the month while ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to my littlest brother, who is now 21!! He's back at school now, but it was nice having him back for Thanksgiving and a birthday dinner last night. Afterwards we played a sorta-strategy-game (Tongiaki-I say "sorta-strategy" because I don't like strategy games in general, but this one is simple and fun enough that I make an ( Read more... )

It's always a nice feeling to finish a project (dragon girl 4! only one more volume to go! (and that's partly done too)), even when the back of my mind is filled with thoughts of a couple other projects with fast-approaching deadlines I may not be in the best position to meet. But one project out of the way gives me more room to focus on the ( Read more... )

In addition to being Memorial Day, today is also Hidaka Banri's Birthday! Yaaaaay!!

So... ( I attempted daily fashion drawn Hidaka-style )

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I really should be asleep right now, but I finally got my Kaze Hikaru 14 from the bookstore (special-ordered sometime back in May, haha!) so of course I'm all pumped up about adorable Shinsengumi members. Hee.

( cut for potential spoilers(?)/because i don't want to bore everyone/etc )

Oh is my brain fried or what. Man. I feel really out of it... I'd like to comment more on y'all's posts and stuff but I don't think I've got the mental capacity to handle it right now. Maybe after a good night's sleep tonight... Thanks y'all for being encouraging and nice and thoughtful. Sorry if all my posts lately have been a bit incoherent ( Read more... )

Today I saw an Icicle Tree by our back door. It was very sweet, and I wanted to remember it forever.


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( Obviously, I'm the best lj-friend there ever was!! )