So, uh, wow, yeah, I haven't posted to my Live Journal in over a year. It's not that there hasn't been anything interesting happening, but I've just never gotten around to posting about anything. Maybe I'll gradually update with what fun things I've been up to, so for now, I'll start off with an overload of cuteness.

( New addition )

The past few days have been unusually windy in Portland. For a couple of days, the winds were staying steady around 20mph, with gusts up to 40mph. Seeing as how the city is full of trees, it creates a bit of a danger for residents living near large, unstable trees....

( Tree falling )

December 17th, 1998. It didn't seem like such a special day at the time. It was the last week of school before Winter Break my sophomore year of high school. Most days, I was busy with school choir activities, but that particular day there was nothing going on, so I'd made plans to hang out after school with a guy I had become friends with a ( Read more... )

( Baby, it's cold outside! )

So I decided to dress up at work for Halloween again this year ( Last year I wore my Azumanga cosplay outfit and won first place). This time, my coworker Kayoko and I wore Chinese dresses that we had received earlier in the year as a gift from one of our vendors. We had planned to wear them together at the employee party, but since we ended up not ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago at Uwajimaya, we had our annual Japan Festival. Basically, it's an event where all sorts of vendors come set up booths in the parking a lot to sell their stuff, along with a couple of stages for performers to demonstrate martial arts, Japanese dance, taiko, and other fun stuff. On Saturday the 15th, there also happened to be ( Read more... )

Last weekend Josh, Tara and I went to Sakura Con in Seattle. It was the Con's 10th anniversary (my 7th time, Tara's 5th or 6th, and Josh's 9th time going o_O), so we decided we would "dress up" for the occasion and do cosplay. Josh had never cosplayed before, and Tara and I hadn't done it since 2003 when we cosplayed Azumanga with tenshisama and her ( Read more... )

I've been growing my hair out for quite a few years. I didn't have any particular desire for super long hair, it just kind of kept growing and I let it since I was too lazy to do much to it. Sure, I would get occasional trims to get rid of split ends, but I let the length keeping creeping down my back. For a few years I kept it pretty much ( Read more... )

OK, so this has kind of been creeping me out for the past few days. I wasn't even around when this happened, but it's still kind of a scary story. Be warned if you're easily scared by possible supernatural activities (like me:P)

( My work is haunted )

So yesterday was Halloween, and at my work they had a costume contest, with the winners getting "mystery prizes". Since I work at a Japanese themed store, I thought it would be fun to dress up in something Japanese. And what could be more Japanese than cosplay?

( Cosplay at work )