One of everything.
While I re-rip many of my CDs to replace what had been lost in the crash (i.e. everything ripped through iTunes) and put off sewing Bankai Ichigo's pants because I don't feel like getting started when it's already fairly late, a bit of various things:
Life:
Extended-family vacation at the end of this week into the beginning of the next. Should be nice. Mostly. My mom has started to freak the hell out over the wedding planning not being finished yet because she heard through work of some people who have already planned theirs at the same time as ours and god knows, this is all about running a race with people we've never heard of.
*sigh*
She was probably one of the extremely vast majority of girls who dreamed every day from birth onward about every tiny detail of their perfectperfectperfect wedding and merely needed to plug in a groom and set the vast machinery into motion. I am not one of those girls. Possibly the only one, as far as I've ever seen. I actually have to make every decision that all of you made when you were seven (or whatever). Now, in the next year or so. People of the universe at large, imagine planning a party for 200 people on the spur of the moment with absolutely no guidelines or clue as to what the hell it's supposed to be like. And keep that in mind the next time you get on my freaking back.
She also wants veto power over the guest list or exclusive gossip rights to her siblings or some damn thing, which no. If their lives are so boring that they have to obsess over the Ugly Cousin's mathematically impossible wedding to keep from imploding, that's their problem, not mine.
I love my family and all, but this is the time to demonstrate that I am, indeed, old as the hills and not to be pushed around like a child just because everyone thinks (perhaps rightly) that I am stupid.
Anime/Manga Nerdery (recs plz?):
While makotomizuhara upgraded his phone, I wandered around the mall feeling like crap because, well, I was in a freaking mall and I do still enjoy speaking with my voice from time to time, and does this mean I'll have to figure out some means of semaphore to denote "please put your phone down while we're at dinner/in our wedding ceremony/trying to sleep", and I think I am alone in one of the previous two or three centuries with cranky old people who don't like learning new things and cranks who like to write screeds about how nobody writes letters anymore
...so I wound up in the bookstore with no real idea of anything I'd like to read. I wound up picking up the first book of Mushishi, because I'd heard somewhere or other that it was pretty good. I'm running out of titles like that, sadly. I'd like to read Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix and something else by Fumi Yoshinaga (what, I haven't decided), but will have to order them from Amazon. Beyond that, I'm almost tapped out.
The salesclerk asked what else I read (I stammered out Monster and Bleach, then blanked), and recommended S.A and Wild Adapter. Thoughts, anyone? Wild Adapter is by the same author as Saiyuki, so I'd heard of it; I was mildly curious but wondered whether that had been randomly abandoned halfway through the story, too (not that I'm bitter, haha). I'd never heard of S.A, but it turns out that it's one of the Shojo Beat titles, and its back-cover description sounds like a wrestling-themed Kare Kano. O_o
Other than that, other manga recommendations are very welcome. Now that Death Note and Genshiken are over and Fruits Basket is almost over, I'm down to Monster, Bleach, Ouran High School Host Club, and a handful of titles that are updated very infrequently or are in complete limbo - Yotsuba&!, Descendants of Darkness, and Saiyuki Reload. I started the Yakitate!! manga, but it's similar enough to the anime that I don't feel too compelled to continue (which is a little evil re. supporting the industry, I know). I started Angel Sanctuary, Hellsing and Utena, but never continued past the first books of any of them.
Other titles that I liked that are now finished: Kare Kano, Rurouni Kenshin, Antique Bakery, Battle Royale (atypical for me, but I liked the multiple-narrator structure, and I enjoy a good trainwreck occasionally - see also Higurashi).
Uhhh, I've got nothing. Thoughts?
On the graphic novel front, we're caught up with Fables, so that just leaves Y: The Last Man to finish. I don't know where to go with that next, either. (Under my belt in that arena: Fables, Jack of Fables, Sandman, the first half of The Maxx, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and I think that's actually it.)
Oh, but I will say that I just saw the Watchmen trailer before The Dark Knight yesterday, and a) awesome and b) I forgot that I liked that song. I don't know what it has to do with anything, but I liked it as trailer music. *thumbs-up*
Also, I have to re-read Watchmen before then. Hey, that's something.
Trying to figure out how to keep my entire garden from dying while we're gone. I don't have any foolproof answers, just a makeshift watering contraption that might work but will be hard to execute simply because of the number of containers out there.
I'm trying not to obsess about it, because it does upset me. I put a ton of time and probably too much money into it over the past four months, and it bothers me to have it all wiped out in four days with nothing I can do to stop it. ...There I go obsessing again. ;)
And that finished off this mess of a post with a gardening note. There's nothing to talk about on the gaming front because I'm still playing FFTA2 (no spoilers, please) and enjoying it. I did pick up the third Phoenix Wright game to play on vacation, so we'll see if I get to it or spend my time playing FFTA2, doing sudoku and frustrating my mom's efforts to make me the next family rumor.
(Graphic novels are still under the "books" tag on this journal. Hm. I should probably break that out separately.)
Life:
Extended-family vacation at the end of this week into the beginning of the next. Should be nice. Mostly. My mom has started to freak the hell out over the wedding planning not being finished yet because she heard through work of some people who have already planned theirs at the same time as ours and god knows, this is all about running a race with people we've never heard of.
*sigh*
She was probably one of the extremely vast majority of girls who dreamed every day from birth onward about every tiny detail of their perfectperfectperfect wedding and merely needed to plug in a groom and set the vast machinery into motion. I am not one of those girls. Possibly the only one, as far as I've ever seen. I actually have to make every decision that all of you made when you were seven (or whatever). Now, in the next year or so. People of the universe at large, imagine planning a party for 200 people on the spur of the moment with absolutely no guidelines or clue as to what the hell it's supposed to be like. And keep that in mind the next time you get on my freaking back.
She also wants veto power over the guest list or exclusive gossip rights to her siblings or some damn thing, which no. If their lives are so boring that they have to obsess over the Ugly Cousin's mathematically impossible wedding to keep from imploding, that's their problem, not mine.
I love my family and all, but this is the time to demonstrate that I am, indeed, old as the hills and not to be pushed around like a child just because everyone thinks (perhaps rightly) that I am stupid.
Anime/Manga Nerdery (recs plz?):
While makotomizuhara upgraded his phone, I wandered around the mall feeling like crap because, well, I was in a freaking mall and I do still enjoy speaking with my voice from time to time, and does this mean I'll have to figure out some means of semaphore to denote "please put your phone down while we're at dinner/in our wedding ceremony/trying to sleep", and I think I am alone in one of the previous two or three centuries with cranky old people who don't like learning new things and cranks who like to write screeds about how nobody writes letters anymore
...so I wound up in the bookstore with no real idea of anything I'd like to read. I wound up picking up the first book of Mushishi, because I'd heard somewhere or other that it was pretty good. I'm running out of titles like that, sadly. I'd like to read Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix and something else by Fumi Yoshinaga (what, I haven't decided), but will have to order them from Amazon. Beyond that, I'm almost tapped out.
The salesclerk asked what else I read (I stammered out Monster and Bleach, then blanked), and recommended S.A and Wild Adapter. Thoughts, anyone? Wild Adapter is by the same author as Saiyuki, so I'd heard of it; I was mildly curious but wondered whether that had been randomly abandoned halfway through the story, too (not that I'm bitter, haha). I'd never heard of S.A, but it turns out that it's one of the Shojo Beat titles, and its back-cover description sounds like a wrestling-themed Kare Kano. O_o
Other than that, other manga recommendations are very welcome. Now that Death Note and Genshiken are over and Fruits Basket is almost over, I'm down to Monster, Bleach, Ouran High School Host Club, and a handful of titles that are updated very infrequently or are in complete limbo - Yotsuba&!, Descendants of Darkness, and Saiyuki Reload. I started the Yakitate!! manga, but it's similar enough to the anime that I don't feel too compelled to continue (which is a little evil re. supporting the industry, I know). I started Angel Sanctuary, Hellsing and Utena, but never continued past the first books of any of them.
Other titles that I liked that are now finished: Kare Kano, Rurouni Kenshin, Antique Bakery, Battle Royale (atypical for me, but I liked the multiple-narrator structure, and I enjoy a good trainwreck occasionally - see also Higurashi).
Uhhh, I've got nothing. Thoughts?
On the graphic novel front, we're caught up with Fables, so that just leaves Y: The Last Man to finish. I don't know where to go with that next, either. (Under my belt in that arena: Fables, Jack of Fables, Sandman, the first half of The Maxx, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and I think that's actually it.)
Oh, but I will say that I just saw the Watchmen trailer before The Dark Knight yesterday, and a) awesome and b) I forgot that I liked that song. I don't know what it has to do with anything, but I liked it as trailer music. *thumbs-up*
Also, I have to re-read Watchmen before then. Hey, that's something.
Trying to figure out how to keep my entire garden from dying while we're gone. I don't have any foolproof answers, just a makeshift watering contraption that might work but will be hard to execute simply because of the number of containers out there.
I'm trying not to obsess about it, because it does upset me. I put a ton of time and probably too much money into it over the past four months, and it bothers me to have it all wiped out in four days with nothing I can do to stop it. ...There I go obsessing again. ;)
And that finished off this mess of a post with a gardening note. There's nothing to talk about on the gaming front because I'm still playing FFTA2 (no spoilers, please) and enjoying it. I did pick up the third Phoenix Wright game to play on vacation, so we'll see if I get to it or spend my time playing FFTA2, doing sudoku and frustrating my mom's efforts to make me the next family rumor.
(Graphic novels are still under the "books" tag on this journal. Hm. I should probably break that out separately.)