tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48288115116976202282024-03-13T02:45:12.210-07:00Myshappy daysMyshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-16929599322882328502014-04-15T18:55:00.001-07:002014-04-15T18:56:13.387-07:00Jem is Outrageous<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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About a week ago I decided (While super bored) to recreate some looks from the 80's classic Jem and the Holograms. I ended up just doing my favorites...the Misfits!</div>
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These looks were done using <a href="http://www.sugarpillshop.com/">Sugarpill</a> and <a href="http://limecrime.com/">Lime Crime</a> products.</div>
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Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-28255614302098384442014-03-04T16:47:00.004-08:002014-03-04T16:47:51.256-08:00This blog is against me I swear it.So just when I was in my gung-ho lets do this attitude everything turned against me. No computer, no money, no nothing. And super busy.<br />
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But! I just moved into a new apartment directly in the heart of Seattle and hopefully I'll be on the update.<br />
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Job hunting and figuring out ways to monetize the fact that I'm online all the time anyhow.Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-26841252564373566922013-09-03T15:03:00.004-07:002013-09-03T15:03:51.012-07:00Myself up to date.<div style="text-align: center;">
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The two most recent pictures of myself, as taken with my Droid X.</div>
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Instead of writing something mind blowing (or numbing) you get a photo dump from the last...however long!</div>
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<br />Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-82056899366769270202013-08-30T17:26:00.000-07:002013-08-30T17:26:14.778-07:00Technology hates me.So as of late the two most important pieces of technology I own decided to give me the big "fuck you!"<br />
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First, my phone decided that it didn't want to have a screen anymore. Instead I needed to blindly fumble around to try and do things on it. AKA USELESS. I think that started up about a month ago. So basically I didn't have a phone for a month.<br />
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Second, I woke up one morning to a fantastic sight. You see, recently my cat has been having flea problems. She's normally a neurotic little thing, and the fleas have been causing her to rip out her fur. And apparently eat it, according to the hairballs. So one day about two or three weeks ago I got up and went to the couch to do some internetting and watch some tele. Well. Try to turn the computer on and can't properly move the cursor....So I turn it off. And notice something dripping out of it. Pull out the SD card I had in, and sure enough, it drips more. Look around and notice, "Oh, hey. Cat threw up on my laptop." FUCK. <br />
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Manda's dad came by last week to try and clean it out (After the people at Best Buy were USELESS to help us find electronic cleaner. Kept trying to sell us compressed air...) He ended up having to take it home with him to work on. A couple days went by and he said it was looking good. Then the other day he called back and said the good new was he could probably save all my files. Bad news was he probably can't save my laptop.<br />
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So now I'm pretty much in a fork out hundreds of dollars for a new laptop out of no where situation. Haven't cried about it yet though.<br />
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The good news though is that Manda's dad also got me a temporary/possibly permanent phone. It's an old one they used to use, a Droid X. Still it great order, so I'm pretty happy about that.<br />
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Oh well! Next post is going to be a random photo dump!<br />
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♥ MyshappyMyshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-8573812760751364562013-06-12T19:47:00.000-07:002013-06-12T19:47:05.184-07:00Renovations coming...!<div style="text-align: center;">
I've decided, as much as I love my layout, it's time for some change. Not sure quite what yet, but expect something fancy!</div>
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Future plans, friends moving, friends here, and other fancy bits of detail!</div>
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Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-90243491945316783432013-02-17T17:42:00.000-08:002013-02-17T17:45:25.434-08:00What Dir en grey means to me.I literally just wrote about how I'd make posts about recent events. But instead I'd like to start with something very near and dear to my heart that just came up. Do you have something in your life that should be trivial but brings out more emotions than anything else? So important that it's like your best friend, your lover, even your family?<br />
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I first learned about Dir en grey when I was living in Arizona, during the beginning of eighth grade. I'd moved to Arizona a few months earlier because my parents were getting a divorce. It was a really horrible experience. My brothers and I went down to stay with my dad's parents for the summer to help out, and we were supposed to go back to Washington for the school year. My mom called one day in August to tell us we weren't going home, we were staying there permanently. So basically we didn't get to say goodbye to our friends or anything. To make matters worse my grandparents were less than desirable. Don't get me wrong, I love them. But they are very set in their ways. And my grandma just doesn't like anything I like, or want me to look the way I want to. They grew up in hard times in England, and it showed. My grandma has a history that makes her the way it does. I just don't know it. And I was young, trying to become my own person, and angry. A lot of little things happened down there. To name a few: I had no friends outside of school, my dad called my grandma drunk and yelled at her til we found her on the floor crying in her house, and I found out my dad put our 20 year old cat to sleep because he wasn't willing to put the effort into caring for her anymore. All in all it was a bad time. But I had good friends who I talked to online and they helped a little. But it made me really homesick.</div>
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I learned about Dir en grey from my friend Jeanette-Lynn around the same time we found out my grandma on my moms side had cancer. A few months into the school year we moved back to Washington. I basically had two days notice to grab my things, then we were driving home. We moved back into my grandma's house and stayed with her and her new husband. To help take care of her, and until we found somewhere. A few months into knowing she had cancer my grandma had to have her leg amputated, because it was becoming gangrenous. To make a very long painful story short, because that's definitely for another day, my grandma didn't survive cancer. Before her passing we moved out, and into the town I live in now. I was starting high school, and that has it's ups and downs. </div>
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High school has a lot of pain for pretty much everyone. I'm no exception. It leaves you with abandonment, discouragement, basically every negative feeling you can think of. Of course, there are ups and definitely wonderful times. But not always. </div>
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After High school my life hasn't changed much. There's a lot of downs to go with it. Those never go away.</div>
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And of course, being a pre-teen/teen I was definitely in love with their physical beauty. To this very day no matter what Toshiya does I can't help but love him. He's my perfect man, through all the bad hair ideas and weird outfits. There is not a member of that band that I do not find attractive. But that's not what I love about them. They're so much more than that.</div>
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When I was hurting they gave me something to be obsessed with. I spent so many nights trying to find music and videos and new pictures. I know it wasn't long ago, but it was back in the day when these things weren't easy to find. Japanese music was still underground to America. I could find a few things on limewire (back in it's height) and a few specialty sites here and there. It was like some epic quest to find the music I wanted to hear and I loved it. It took my mind off of things. When I was sad I'd put my headphones in and listen to the new song I found. Old song, really. Nothing too current when it started. But eventually I got better at finding things. I found people who liked the same music. Shortly after finding them I introduced Syl to them and we were both in love.</div>
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Beyond the chase that excited me there was the sheer beauty of the music. It touched my heart. It made me smile. It could drive me to tears. Eventually it became the CD I listened to to fall asleep at night. </div>
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Japanese music lead me to take Japanese in high school, which was one the best decisions I've ever made in my life. If it weren't for that I would have never met Amanda Leigh. I would never have made so many relationships with exchange students. I would have never gone to Japan. Twice. </div>
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Through learning Japanese I began to understand the lyrics better. I began to understand why, without knowing the language, the songs connected to me so much. All the lyrics mirrored my own pain. Kyo was singing about the same things I was feeling. He felt it too. As corny as it sounds, it was reassuring. Knowing someone felt the same hurt.</div>
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As I grew, so did Dir en grey. They went out of fashion, as it were. The new little bands were getting bigger and they were being pushed to the side. They stopped being so visual. The genre they helped create hardly considered them part of it anymore. Fans came and went because of their progressive style. No CD ever came out the same. Dir en grey evolves as it goes. It's own entity that can't be kept down. I can't count the amount of people who tell me they hate the style of such and such CD. I don't care. I love all of it. Not all of it is my favorite, of course. But how can you hate it?</div>
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I'm going all over the place. But it's hard to talk about because I don't think people will ever truly understand it.</div>
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When I was eighteen I finally got to see them in concert. I almost got to see them in the Family Values tour, but missed the opportunity. (I heard they walked off stage or something, so I'm glad now) They were headlining and had the Human Abstract with them. Amanda and I got in line around nine in the morning to wait. By eleven they told us we were blocking the street, so the venue (Showbox at the Market) gave us all place holder tickets and told us to come back later. We went to the Asian market with some of the girls in line and had a great time. Some of them I still talk to. Some of them are still great close friends of mine. Others were passing. We went back at night and got into the show. I was in the second row behind amanda, holding behind her so she wouldn't be crushed. We suffered through the openers (They were great really, but it was anticipation killing us). At one point I looked towards the green room and caught my first real life glimpse of Die. He was watching the band play, looking so happy. I made the mistake of telling someone and a whole group of girls looked and started screaming. Eventually Dir en grey got on stage.</div>
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If I could bottle the feeling of seeing them for the first time...It was the first feeling of religion. I have never been a very religious person, but I finally understood the feeling that people get when they kneel down, close their eyes, and give God all their emotion. No, they aren't gods to me. They're normal people, who let their feelings out through music. But standing there is the closest I've ever gotten to Nirvana. And those shows are church to me. The feeling I get standing in a mosh pit with my closest friends and complete strangers is incomparable. So many people with one emotion. Honestly indescribable. </div>
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Kyo stood, at one point, without music playing. He screamed. He made awful terrible sounds, like those from a horror story. No one spoke. No one made a single sound. Kyo just let out energy and emotion into the air and left it there. It was chilling. It somehow turned you on, scared you, and left you speechless all at the same time.</div>
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At the second show I met Calah and Savanna. At the first I met Rose and Shelby. Some of the closest and sweetest people I have in my life. And at the third, we traveled all the way down to Texas to see them, and I got to spend the time with two of my best friends and see a friend I never get to see at all.</div>
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Dir en grey has given me friends I never would have met. Whom I hold more dearly than practically anyone else. I've had hard times they helped me through. I can honestly say they've saved my life more than once. Their dedication for their country and the truth they need is inspiring in ways that are impossible to understand. Dir en grey give me inspiration to be truer to myself. </div>
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I know not all my friends like them. Some hate them. And that's fine. We don't have to agree. You don't even need to respect any of this. But it's how I feel.</div>
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If I ever meet them, and have a chance to speak with them, I would like to let them know how much they've made my life something worth living. I will thank them some day.</div>
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The final was the first song played on American television my Dir en grey. When you're at an American show the air shifts when this song starts. The whole crowd sings and dances. It might not be this way for the rest of the world. But every show I've heard this at was the highlight. Not your favorite song, but a significant memory burned into their history.</div>
Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-64790825146378069982013-02-17T15:35:00.001-08:002013-02-17T15:35:46.229-08:00New job~Firstly, I don't apologize for my lack of posts. I have a life, respect it or don't. And I really haven't been online as much as I used to, even when I'm not at work. Now that's not saying I've been super busy. It's just saying I've been busy, and when I'm not I tend to lounge and not type.<br />
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That being said it's been forever! A lot of things have happened, I'm sure, but I won't be able to remember them all. In fact, I'll be posting separate entries for each topic so that I don't have one mega-text entry.They might all happen today, maybe in a few days, or maybe a few months. Who knows! It's a surprise!<br />
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So this one is a little update to let you all know I got a second job~ Which makes me even more busy. <br />
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But my wonderful friend Calah got me a job with her at BCBG Max Azria <3 <br />
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I'm working the evenings so I can do both jobs, and am Stock Support. I...haven't done any stock yet. Just been on the floor. But that's fine too.<br />
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And the reason I can do this is because I am now the opening manager at my other job! Yay! Except working at 4am then working again until 8pm or so. But it's whatever.<br />
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Point is! Busy! Calah is love! Yeah.<br />
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But last December, Amanda Leigh and I went down to Texas to visit Syl for the week, and to spend my birthday down there. Not to mention the Dir en Grey show we were going to....You know, when Seattle wasn't on their tour list. Ahem. Anyways. It was a good time. The show was AMAZING. And their opening act was the Birthday Massacre, which I've seen before and really enjoy. </div>
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We're Hams, me and Syl.</div>
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We found a dog! We named him Hatter. He wished Jenziih from Seremedy a happy Birthday.</div>
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Hatter was such an adorable puppy. So loving. He just wanted to sit on your lap and cuddle. We ended up talking to animal control and having them find his owners, since we found him on the street. He looked like he didn't eat a lot, and his leash was broken. But she said he wasn't neglected so she couldn't just take him. But she'd be watching them.</div>
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We found a nice Sushi Restaurant called Piranha Killer Sushi. I highly recommend it. It was DELICIOUS.</div>
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This was the "Sexy Roll". Don't remember everything. But it had cilantro and mango in it. It was awesome.</div>
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For my birthday I got a free dessert~ So I chose the tempura fried ice cream. Get it. Just do it. You'll thank me.</div>
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My style changes a lot. But usually centers around a punk/rock sort of theme. I've had a lot of different influences and recently I realized a few of them sort of stuck out in my head. At least for who I look at recently and sit around staring at going "Ugh I wish I had her hair! I wish I had her clothes! Why am I not her??"</div>
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So here's me sharing a few:</div>
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For the longest time in High School I was in love with practically everything done by the Kera model G. <br />
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She was like perfection. Especially the hair. When she changed her hair to red I could have died.</div>
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Unfortunately it's crazy hard to find ANYTHING by her these days, since she stopped at Kera. So here were a few of the good photos I found on google and stuff. : ( I miss her. She was absolutely wonderful. Put some of the new models to shame!</div>
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Another recent inspiration is Hyuna of Korean girl unit 4minute.</div>
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Quite honestly...I can see how men drool over her all the time. She has a weird way of being super sexy and adorably cute all at the same time.</div>
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It's incredible.</div>
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Her usual style is pretty cute, but her video style really gets to me. Especially in her solo stuff recently. Even more so when she was in the troublemaker unit. Unf.</div>
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That and she's adorable as fuck, and shakes her butt everywhere. I like.</div>
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Lastly for now is Kera model Re:NO~</div>
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I really hated her when I first saw her. I would just shake Kera in anger and yell "WHY DO YOU MAKE YOUR EYES LOOK DROOPY?!" for hours. </div>
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But over time, like all people I love, my hate turned into undeniable love. When I pick up Kera now I look for her make up and for her current style. I can't help it. It's my newest obsession.</div>
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And I like bleach blondes. But who doesn't.</div>
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I didn't know, however, that Re:NO recently took up vocals in Aldious. Which is a band I have listened to for about a year now....To be fair she did it in August, and I haven't been paying attention for a few months!</div>
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But she's actually pretty damn good. I was surprised. Now I get to have my little Re:NO fix more often.</div>
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There are plenty more. But these were some of the current people who inspire me. <br />
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<br />Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-23649943017061269952012-09-17T13:55:00.002-07:002012-09-17T13:55:39.242-07:00Re:no look attempt.<div style="text-align: center;">
I got bored a few weeks back and decided to try and look like Re:no. She's one of the current Kera models, and becoming one of my favorite. I began by hating her and her make up style. But now I actually really like it. And became a fast favorite.</div>
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Not the greatest recreation. But on a whim, I think it's not half bad. Considering my lack of proper lashes.</div>
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Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-53751707009710012912012-09-02T03:39:00.003-07:002012-09-02T03:39:55.557-07:00Goings on.<div style="text-align: center;">
So many things going on, I swear. All at once. Though some of them have been going on for a while. A quick update is in order I suppose.</div>
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The current happy times is that my friend is currently on her cross-country drive back home~! I couldn't be happier about it, honestly</div>
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My best friend since the age of ten or so is engaged and pregnant. And they just found out the baby will be a little boy. ♥ Which they're going to name Khaleb. <3 Such a good name.</div>
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I'm one step closer to my management courses. Despite a little setbacks in communication. I should be going to class in October. Fingers crossed.</div>
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Amanda Leigh will be going to Massage Therapy school starting on the fifth, I believe.</div>
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On the downside I was going to go to Kumori Con this weekend, but due to complete lack of money, couldn't afford it at all. So I hope Miss Yuki is having a great time without me~</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">1. Each person must post eleven things about themselves on their blog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">2. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you plus, create eleven</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">3. Choose eleven people and link them in your post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. I really want to learn parapara and the dances to Jpop songs. But I'm usually too lazy when it comes down to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. In High School, Japanese was my best class. I always had perfect grades, and was one of the top in the class. I think I studied maybe twice in the entire four years I took it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. I really like things with the folllowing items on them: card suits, butterflies, skulls, spiders, Alice in Wonderland stuff....there's more but those are main points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. At one time I tried to study Swedish. I think I got....a mini course in before I didn't have time for it anymore. I have time now, but no motivation. I still remember a few "I am/You are" and "I am not/You are not" sentences. But those are basic. Also "I am not fat. I'm chubby."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Seven is my favorite number. End all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. My moms mom came from the Netherlands. And her dad's parents came from Lithuania. My dad moved to America when he was 3 or something, from England. So the only family I have in America is: My immediate family, my moms sisters family (cousins), my dads brother and sisters families (Same), and my grandparents. And all but my grandparents live in Washington or Idaho.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. I really enjoy drawing. But I got months between drawing pictures. For lack or motivation, or time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. I want to own a Savannah Cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. I have two older brothers, and my parents are divorced. I lived with my mom through High School.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. I have three tattoos. My grandmothers initials on my left ankle, from when I turned 18. A red Dahlia on my right shoulder/neck, I believe from when I was 20. And 1-12 in roman numerals around my left arm, from when I was...21? I want more. But need money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. My real surname is Carcas. Like the dead thing. And all through school and even in traffic court, no one has wanted to say it for fear of offending me. It's more offensive if you don't try to say it or say "Car...sass?"</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1. What is something you want to do before you die? </b> I want to travel more. I want to visit Europe and see where my family came from.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>2. What things inspire you? </b>Music inspires me in too many ways to count. And honestly, random things on people or personality quirks. I really enjoy creating characters from something random that sparked the idea. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>3. How would you describe yourself in three words? </b>Neurotic. Neutral. & Genetic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>4. If you have a free day, you are most likely to.... ? </b> Sleep. Or go to Seattle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>5. Five things you always keep on your person?</b> A rosary, my cell phone, ID, whatever charm I have at the moment, and necklace. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>6. Who is your celebrity crush? </b>Just one? Oh no. More than one. Cillian Murphy. Jamie Campbell-Bower. Tom Hiddleston. Matsujun. Oguri Shun. Toshiya. Oh, and Kyle Gallner. Plus thirty thousand more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>7. If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go? </b>Shibuya.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>8. Your favorite song at the moment?</b> Dawn of Dreams by Yohio.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>9. How do you describe your style? </b>Really lazy punk/rock gyaru.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>10. The thing that makes you the happiest? </b>Really super cutesy fluffy romance things make me smile and giggle like a child.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Where would you live permanently. And where would your summer home be?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Do you think...you could eat...all of the ketchup...one, right after the other...?</span></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I tag......Well, I don't have many people to tag. And Hannah tagged most of them already!</span></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So....Miss Amanda Leigh. Miss Yuki. And...Miss Chelsie!</span></b></div>
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Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-36523477719576919872012-07-16T03:13:00.004-07:002012-07-16T03:13:47.417-07:00Scariest truck ever.<div style="text-align: center;">
More than once when I was trekking around Shibuya I ran across the scariest truck in existence. The first time I saw it, I tried to get a photo but things kept getting in the way.</div>
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Lucky me, I saw it again. I say lucky lightly.</div>
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Truck of nightmares.</div>
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The disturbing Sadako coming out of a Television truck is to promote the new Sadako 3D movie. Which I didn't get to see.</div>
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It was a sight though. Tons of people would see it and flip out their cell phones to get a picture. Made me feel less touristy.</div>
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♥ Myshappy</div>Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-23113368317105651132012-06-21T01:25:00.001-07:002012-06-21T01:25:13.646-07:00Japan Photos are coming!<div style="text-align: center;">
Never fear! The first step of uploading them all has been almost fully accomplished.</div>
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It's just that I have about a thousand images to weed through, and organize before I can upload them.</div>
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Post won't be about days. They'll probably be about topics. Or an image itself. Who knows! Point is with some subtle (or being told...) pushing, I'm back to working on it. And some art too! (Oh my god, no way!) Uploading old stuff, anyhow. Got to catch up. I'm also going to be posting all my new art on a blog I decided would be my temporary art blog.</div>
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I'll give you the link when I have it ready.</div>
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But get excited. Mediocre pictures are coming.</div>
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♥ Myshappy</div>Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-31297158189211846002012-06-18T00:23:00.002-07:002012-06-18T00:23:29.206-07:00Back to normal life.<div style="text-align: center;">
I sort of fell way behind in the Japan updates. But that's okay. The point is I still have the memories, and will upload photos soon! </div>
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Part of the reason is I've been sucked back into normal life. Lots of working, and other busy things. So I haven't had much time to put into my internet life~ Well, not time to focus on it. </div>
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Work has been busy busy. I'm becoming a Manager (yay!) so I've got some extra work to do there. And I've trained new employees three days a week for the last two weeks. Very time consuming and a little stressful.</div>
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I promise I will remedy this!</div>
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On another note~ It's father's day. Last year I did a little post about Miyavi. My father situation is less than lovely, so to talk about it would be a downer~ I forgot it was fathers' day until I was already at work. So I didn't get to call my dad, or my mom's boyfriend. I feel a little bad about the second one, I may call in the morning.</div>
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But this brings up another topic! If I made a post last year...that means this blog is a year old!</div>
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I would like to do a special series of posts, or just one straight up special post to commemorate it.....but what?</div>
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If you have any ideas please let me know!</div>
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I need help!</div>
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♥ Myshappy</div>Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-5655790387914045172012-05-24T06:48:00.003-07:002012-05-24T06:48:28.714-07:00Going about this wrong.<div style="text-align: center;">
Again, I'm sorry about the lack of actual updates recently!</div>
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But I realize I've been going about this all wrong. </div>
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The reason there have been no updates is because it's actually become something I dread doing. I hate the idea of having to sit down and write every day out. And feeling like I have to make something for every day I didn't do anything exciting.</div>
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So I'm not going to be doing it day by day anymore. </div>
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I'll be lumping days together, writing about interesting things or places on their own, and in general enjoying telling my stories.</div>
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This should be a chore. It's supposed to be fun.</div>
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So I'm going to be changing my set up!</div>
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I hope you like it more.</div>
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♥ Myshappy</div>Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-47372311687424645722012-05-20T22:27:00.001-07:002012-05-20T22:27:09.819-07:00Blog goals for the rest of the month!<div style="text-align: center;">
My blog goals for the rest of the month are:</div>
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These aren't hard goals, but I need your help with two of them! If you read this blog regularly, why not make a google plus account and be updated with a new post is up?</div>
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I'd really love to reach my humble goals~</div>
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</div>Myshappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821699275024896118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828811511697620228.post-90663370856151348472012-05-19T02:22:00.001-07:002012-05-19T02:22:46.190-07:00Day 12 - Sightseeing with the family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On day 12 I started off by trying to make something new to eat. A microwave "omelette" (A.k.a omelette style scramble). It went pretty well. With cheese and tomato in it. Aya said we should meet later in the day, though she didn't give any details, so I e-mailed her.</div>
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So I got on the train at the right time, and went to Kajigaya.</div>
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Aya's mom and sister were about 5 minutes late to pick me up, but that was okay. When they arrived, they apologized profusely, and her mom told me it was Saki's fault that they were late. So we headed out.</div>
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Aya's mom and sister couldn't stop themselves from buying me cup noodles and some other random food items, so I didn't starve at home. I don't need them to~ But it was very sweet, so I couldn't say no.</div>
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Then we headed out to meet Aya. Well, sort of. We went to the store where Saki works, and has worked for 2 or so years, which I guess is right next to Aya's house! Who knew. So they told me to look around while they did stuff outside. Lol, ok.</div>
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Eventually Aya showed up to we headed out. Over to Aya's dad's friends car (Which is bigger than theirs so more people could fit.) In all it was Me, Aya, Saki, Aya's Mom, Aya's Dad, and his childhood friend. Cozy!</div>
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I took so many photos! But there are way too many to put here, so when I have time I will upload them to my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MyshappyDays">Myshappy days</a> like page on Facebook (Why do I have a like page, you ask? So I have somewhere to upload all of my excess photos with the related story attached, so I don't have to keep re-explaining myself, that's why!) It may take a few days, so patience please!!</div>
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After looking out the windows for a while (And Aya trying to scare me by pushing me towards the window when I was looking out....) we looked around the giftshop. And fooled around a bit.</div>
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There were cute and silly iphone cases. Bacon and egg, yakisoba, and more.</div>
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It took a little, but we found it! Outside a new shopping center too.</div>
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It was pretty cool. Though I always thought it would be a little taller...Still tall and cool though. And very pretty up close. Though it's hard to take different style photos with it at night. And ones with it. The ones we got look weird, cause of the lighting. Like a bad photoshop!</div>
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I got the most basic fried chicken type meal. Which was too much food!</div>
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It was really a good time. And I really appreciate how much Aya and her family have done for me. They're really great.</div>
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I'm so sorry! Apparently my blog disappeared from the ether for a day or so. So sorry!!</div>
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I'm working on putting up a website (With help too late!) so things got kind of messy.</div>
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I've also not kept up to date, and I'm trying to catch up!</div>
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And as an apology....</div>
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Here's a nifty Italian band.</div>
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Day 11, friday, I agreed to meet Aya and her friend in Shibuya where we'd go get dinner.</div>
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Usual daily events, computer and market.</div>
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Then I headed out to Shibuya. Usual train route, no problems there. I was supposed to meet her at 7pm, and was a minute or so late. So I worried that she was waiting for me.</div>
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As it turns out, while I waited and wandered around the busy Hachiko statue worrying, that Aya got out late from work. So EVENTUALLY she showed up, apologizing. </div>
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I was just worried I'd read wrong where to meet her. But it was okay. Then we had to wait for her friends.</div>
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First, her friend Mayumi showed up. A very cute very talkative girl. Aya called her other friend, who said she'd be late. So we headed over to look at a store while we waited.</div>
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We walked around looking at things for a while, and I even ended up buying a few souvenirs for my friends. Just have to find some for my mom now....</div>
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Aya's friend called, so we headed down to meet her at the station. Another cute girl named Mika~ Then we headed over to a little Nabe place they all knew. Aya kept trying to get them to talk to me in Japanese, and have me respond. I did! But she didn't believe me...</div>
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We started to walk to find somewhere new, when a guy stopped us with fliers for his restaurant. Usually we walk by them, but he was very persistent. Mayu and Aya talked to him for a while, as he tried to convince us. Eventually we got back on route, and found another Nabe restaurant. So we headed in. It was a little packed, but we got a table.</div>
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We chatted about random things while we waited, and eventually the heater was brought out to us, and the pot of delicious food to cook~ So they turned it on, and we waited.</div>
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I've never really celebrated Mother's Day how it should be done. I've called my mom, and told her I loved her. I've gone out to dinner with her. I've even bought her presents. But I've never really let my mom know how much she means to me.</div>
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No, we don't have one of those best friend relationships. No, we aren't constant enemies. For the most part we get along, and sometimes we fight. Sometimes she has opinions I don't see eye to eye with her on. But that's something we have to get over as people.</div>
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When I think about my family, she's the only constant. My brothers fade in and out of existence, and my Dad is all but nonexistent. But my mom is the only person who always comes to mind when someone says family.</div>
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When is was in 8th grade, I realized the worst feeling I could ever feel. When you're crying, because it's all feels hopeless, and the strongest person you know is crying and feeling the same. It's impossible to think anythings going to get better. My mom is the strongest person I know. She's just like her mother before her. That was when my oldest brother moved to Idaho, basically because he had no options left here. </div>
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Then my grandmother died. I refused to cry in front of her. I refused to cry in front of anyone. But if my mom was putting on a brave face, then so was I. Since then I've let my guard down. I've cried about it. I still cry about it. When we went to visit my brother in Idaho for his daughters first birthday, I cried to my mom in a furniture store because a room reminded me of my grandma's house. But I couldn't cry then.</div>
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It's hard to talk to my mom about some things. I don't want her to be disappointed in me. I don't want her to see me fail. I've let her down before. And it hurt every single time.</div>
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But sometimes I need her to realize that I live my life for me. I can't be held accountable for what my brothers have done before me. And if I make a mistake, I'm the one who has to fix it. And I will, in my own time.</div>
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She didn't really want me to go to Japan. She was worried.</div>
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Whenever I brought it up, she'd make a bit of a sour face. I know it's because she worried. She told me that. And I understand. I can't imagine how hard it would be to let your child go to another country alone, to meet people they've never met before.</div>
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She didn't stop me, she even helped me. </div>
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When I moved into my apartment beforehand, she was the one person who never said a single bad thing about it. She always had faith in me, and my room mates. My mom helped us move, and even let us have some of her old furniture. When we told her boyfriend, and Amanda's dad that they couldn't stay in the apartment while we weren't there she was glad. Everyone else said it was rude. She was proud.</div>
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Sometimes, when I think about my mom, I want to cry.</div>
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It's one of the biggest fears of mine that she'll get sick. That she might get Cancer. I don't care if I do, I would much prefer it. But I'm not as strong as her. I couldn't handle it. I would rather suffer than watch her die.</div>
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I've learned so much from her.</div>
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You're always polite. Always. You're never rude to people, and you certainly don't yell or get mad at them. But when you do, they deserve it. If she's yelling at someone, they've done something WRONG. </div>
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I learned how to deal with my father from her. When he's drunk and fighting with you, the second he starts swearing you walk away. It's not worth it, because he's not listening anymore.</div>
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Everything I know about how to be a good upstanding person, I learned from her. When people are rude in public, I think "If I ever did that my mom would have smacked me across the face." Something she's never done. But I would never do those things, because I was raised right.</div>
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My brothers and I may not be perfect, and we may have our flaws...but you can be certain that my mom knows how to raise children right because we're not spoiled, and we're good people. We don't have undeserved self entitlement. We're not rude, we're not mean. </div>
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She raised us right. Almost alone. I have a thousand memories of my father doing wrong. Of ruined holidays, special events that he made bad. But not a single one of my mother. She's never done anything bad. Not to me.</div>
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Middle School, and all of High School was just me, my mom, and my brother. And we survived. She made sure of it.</div>
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When my friends, or people I see, complain that their lives were so hard I always shrug it off and tell them that mine was fine. Nothing that bad ever happened to me. Sure, I've had problems. But my mom made sure I had a good childhood, regardless. She was always stable. Always.</div>
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The last message I sent my mother, a day or so ago, wasn't very kind. I didn't say anything mean, but it was short and choppy. I was annoyed by things she'd said, and how she treated my late response to her message. I regret it, especially being mother's day. When I looked at her facebook, I saw this posted on her page from the day I left for Tokyo.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Michelle left for Japan today, when she called at 4 am and said she had made it to the airport i was excited, when she got to LA for her connecting flight and sent me a message I was happy it was going smoothly, but when I got the text saying " Love you mommy and see you in June" Just before takeoff to Japan, I cried. Tokyo is a long way away. Safe trip Michelle and love you too. Have a blast."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I understand this post has been all over the place, and is hard to read. But the only message that needs to be read, and understood at all is this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I love my mom more than anything. She is the strongest person I know, and will ever meet. She is my Superhero. If I can become half of what she is before I die, I'll know I've accomplished something.</span></span></div>
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Day 10 I literally sat around and skyped and roleplayed all day.</div>
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I spent the better part of day 9 online, like the awesome kid I am. Skyping with Amanda, and generally not blogging like I should have been. Sometimes I lack focus and motivation.</div>
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I got to the station, and went to the exit....and worried again that I was wrong. Cause there was no Aya, so I wandered a little, checking to see if there was another exit. Nope. Okay. Turn back around and--Oh look! Aya!</div>
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So we headed there, and her parents dropped us off so we could run in. They own a little....dry cleaning business? I guess. I don't rightly remember. So we said hello, and I took a picture with them. Then her grandmother HAD to buy us drinks for the car. So we headed to the vending machine and got drinks. Then said our goodbyes. Her grandma handed me a 500en coin for no reason....So sweet.</div>
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I found the cutest thing ever.</div>
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He's so cute!!!</div>
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Aya and I wandered around and giggled like dorks about things. Trying on dopey glasses and stuff.</div>
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More shopping and we found Scratch! Seriously. So many adorable disgruntled looking Sailor cats. I could have died.</div>
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Aya handed me a bag with a bunch of things in it she wanted me to have. It was so nice.</div>
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There were slippers, a few drinks, a couple chocolate bars, a bag of instant miso (best ever), and a few other items. Her mom also handed me a bag of Milky candy, and then handed me and Aya two little bags.</div>
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She told us to open them, and inside was the cute little cellphone version of Pirate Sirotan!!! It's SO CUTE!!!! Aya got Sailor Sirotan~</div>
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Cutest ever! I thanked them a lot, and Aya walked me to the entrance. We said our goodbyes, and made plans for the next time we'd meet, and I headed home.</div>
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