Words cannot express the rollercoaster that this year has been - and the craziness that the end-of-the-year move to my new apartment will bring. From Australia back to Japan back to LA and thence to Washington D.C., this has been a crazy hectic year for me. It has been an amazing, amazing year full of unforgettable memories, the wonderful people, ( Read more... )

So I mentioned that before the X Japan live I was going to some dude's house for photos. Yeah, the first couple weren't particularly great but once we got to my third outfit, which was also the outfit I was leaving to go to the show to I started to like some of the photos; that third outfit was my hide cosplay. Here's a quick one I resized down:

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The X Japan concert is tomorrow.
I suppose I should be more excited about it but I'm just... not, for whatever reason. I'll be bringing my hide gear to do cosplay (sans guitar) but hrm, I dunno. I wonder if part of it is because I don't know who is going and I haven't really made plans to meet up w/anyone there. I might see some people, I might not ( Read more... )

Because I have a sleepy purring kitty in my lap, I am quite content.
Here is another picture of my kitty Nina (no, I didn't choose her name - my former housemate did and then left the country a couple of months later):

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Well, bits of it anyway in a magenta color.

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Post pictures of cute cuddly kitty cats to cheer me up? My day was a bit wretched and I don't want to be like this all night:

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Because seriously, Dia and Liz did a fabulous job!!!


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And so that's what I did.
What started out as an afternoon hiking expedition in Kobe ended up as a trip to Shin-Kobe Ropeway where were took Gondolas up to the Kobe Nunobiki Herb Park.
While our initial "hike" around Kobe left us sweaty and full of bug bites (well, I was anyway), the trip up to the Herb Park was just lovely. It was cool, breezy, and ( Read more... )