I really need to stop vanishing from LJ for weeks at a time.  I can't remember the last time I updated or checked anyone's journal.  I fail D ( Read more... )

I have read 60 total English books and Japanese manga this year.  40 to go before I reach my goal :3 ( Read more... )

弱肉強食 JAKU NIKU KYOU SHOKU ( Read more... )

Did I mention I usually have a yearly reading goal?  I think I started with reading goals in 2006 or 2007.  At that time, it was 50 books a year.  But I have found over time that 50 is not enough of a challenge.  I can really breeze through it.  Last year I didn't have a goal, but last year's total (between English books, Japanese books, and ( Read more... )

I updated the blog with a Kurenai Ouji post.

I highly recommend this manga for girls, but not so much for boys lol.  Unless you like mushy romantic stories involving the supernatural.

I am quite happy with this manga because it seems like so many mushy romantic stories (to be honest I haven't read many because I don't usually like them) don't have ( Read more... )

EPIC FAIL!!!!!  Aunt Flo decided to come and make me feel absolutely terrible ALL DAY.  All I did was wash my dishes and go to the store and take out the trash.  BOOOO.

In other news I bought One Piece potato chips....

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Ok, so today was rather weird.  Was told that instead of Christmas lessons I was just going to be invited to Christmas parties... which turned out to not be the case except for one class D: luckily I had a backup plan and it worked fine.  I decided to do the same song with the 5th graders as I did at junior high last week...... and let me tell you ( Read more... )

Dirt cake was a grand success!  I told everyone it was something like this: 泥ケーキ (doro cake - "mud cake"), 汚いケーキ (kitanai cake - "dirty cake") or 汚れケーキ (yogore cake - "dirty cake").  You may be wondering what is the difference between the last two but it's like this - kitanai is an adjective and yogoreru is a verb which means "to become dirty".  I ( Read more... )

I have finished the first 8 volumes of Pandora Hearts. I am beginning to see that the "ending" of the anime was just something they tacked on to make an ending for a series that is not actually finished. The whole Oz meets up with _____ thing which is the finale is not in the manga (at least, not yet, but it's possible it could happen). But the ( Read more... )