Seiso Massacre

 A few years back, when I was in the prime of my "Let's throw fake blood on my friends and take photos!" Amanda and I ended up visiting Hannah for a night.  And, well, blood ensued.  So here's a fun photo from that day!

(Another picture of silly Seiso-hime!)

A short Sakura Con report.

The first weekend of April (6-8th) was 2012 Sakura Con.  This year I actually payed the money for the full weekend pass, and a hotel room for the nights. Definitely worth the money!  SO much happened!

Unfortunately I'd rather not post some of the events (don't worry, they were good!) because, honestly, the memories are just for me.  And it would just come off as some fangirl boasting for some parts.  Before your mind wanders, nothing dirty of devilish happened. It's just a whole lot of effort to post it all, and a whole lot of emotion to relive.

So the short report of it all is that I got to see Moi dix Mois perform, and got to get their autographs.  I shook Mana-sama's hand.  It was amazing.  They are so beautiful in real life, and Mana-sama is hilarious.  The Q&A session was so funny.  Mana-sama poked fun at his band a few times.  All in all it was wonderful.

I also got to see Kanon Wakeshima perform live.  She is amazing.  Her voice is even better live than on recordings.  She's also so adorable, and very modest.

Unfortunately, no photos of either act.  We weren't allowed photography at the show or Q&A.

Another highlight was visiting the Angelic Pretty/Atelier Pierrot booth, and meeting the super sweet super awesome shop girls who worked there.

Aki, Me, Amanda Leigh, Hannah, and Mayo.

Aki, Me, Manda, Mayo, and Natsuki!!

We even got to go out to dinner with them the last night.  An expensive bill for conveyor Sushi and alcohol.  But SO worth it!  We're planning a trip down to California to go visit them.  After Tokyo, of course.  We're thinking of December, at the moment.  Though Aki may come visit sooner!

Me, Aki, Yuki Yoshida, and Hannah

The last day, while running around, Hannah and I also ran into Yuki Yoshida.  She's a local artist, one of Manda's favorites, and apparently a fan of Hannah's blog!  We chatted and took a snap before running off on our ways.

And lastly!  I met h.Naoto!!  It was AMAZING.  The cherry on top of the whole amazing wonderful fantastic weekend.

There was a fashion show, and I ended up (after a very stressful time making sure I got it) purchasing one of the pieces from the show.  A gorgeous gold dress.  One of a kind.  And h.Naoto himself told me he liked it and that it looked good.  (It's the one in the photo above.)

Naoto-san and Myself.

A lot happened over the weekend.  I got to spend time with my friend Shelby (I'll upload photos later from that!) and Adolfo.  So much crazy happened!

I will admit.  I had a breakdown on day two.  It was too much to handle.  I cried in a sushi shop.  It happend about three more times in the next few days.  It was just so much I had dreamed of since I started listening to Jrock.  Meeting Mana was just so surreal. 

It was possibly the best weekend of my life.

♥ Myshappy

Harry, Me, and Erin.

En Salon & Seattle (Picture heavy)

A month or so ago Hannah, Amanda Leigh and I made an appointment at a random Japanese salon Hannah had found in Bellevue called En Salon.  None of us had been there before but we decided hey why not! So Hannah called in an appointment  for all three of us to get our nails done.  Which I'd never done before.  Plus it was gel and the other two had done acrylic only.  All in all a new experience.

So weeks passed, and finally the day showed up.  Amanda and I got up early (after I had closed at work, and a restless night of little sleep!) and caught the bus down to Seattle.  A convenient little straight shot from right outside our apartment complex right down into downtown Seattle.  For only $4.50.  Pretty amazing.  Anyhow! We caught the bus and ended up talking with our friend Jack who happened to be on the bus too. Good times were had.  We chatted and laughed about how Jack had to use the restroom a fourth of the way through the ride.  Like I said, good times.

Hour or so later we ended up at Westlake Center (A shopping center.) The main area was open, but not many of the shops.  Hilariously, for us at least (Not Jack.), the restrooms were closed too.  So he had to run around and try to find one.  While we were waiting for him I spotted a delicious looking Crepe shop.  Which wasn't open.  And had no sign for when it would be. So depressing.  Eventually Hannah showed up and we made a little adventure to find Jack's bus connection.  It took a bit more time than we expected, but we found it then headed off to Starbucks so Hannah could get her coffee fix.

(This is where the photos start...)