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During the last 1.5 weeks off from work, I’ve grown accustomed to sleeping at 4am, waking at 3pm and sometimes taking naps during the day.  Crazy for someone who only gets 6 hours during work days.  In trying to get my sleep schedule back to normal, I decided to stay up all night so that tonight I would be extra sleepy and go to bed early.  I managed to stay awake until about 7am, doing laundry, eating cheerios, reading bash.org.  That is, until my plan backfired and I FELL ASLEEP.  UNTIL 3PM.

I was cracking up while reading some of the funniest chat logs from bash.org that even my turtles woke up.  And they’re in two feet of water.  Here are some of the funny ones.

http://www.bash.org/?181500
[Xizer]: Winzip is such a girl…
[Xizer]: “Uh hey. 30 days are up could you stop using me? No? Well I’ll just ask again tomorrow…”

http://www.bash.org/?4381
<@Raz> I LIVE ON THE EQUATOR…”JUAN, THE WATER IS STUCK AGAIN”

http://www.bash.org/?5775
* ab is away - gone, if anyone talks in the next 25 minutes as me it’s bm
being an asshole -
[ab]: HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCK

http://www.bash.org/?1964
[01:33] (hilo21) ima looking for a site that seels amp
[01:33] (hilo21) ima looking for a site that seels amps
[01:33] (hilo21) iam looking for a site that seels amps
[01:34] (hilo21) I am looking for a site that sells amps
[01:35] (nexxai) how bout you look for a site that teaches english?
[01:35] (hilo21) fuck you
[01:36] (nexxai) Lemme guess, you’d kick my ass, but can’t read the road signs to get to my house?

http://www.bash.org/?35955
[EyesofPrisms] and ou are an uytter newb
[KC48348751] dude
[KC48348751] how did that y move over like 12 characters

It’s me again.  I haven’t spoken to you in over a month, except in tweets.  I almost gave up this domain but I could not disappoint my 3 audience members.  Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year has come and gone.  Normally by this time I would be griping about going back to 10 hour work days except that in three days I will be on a plane to the Dominican Republic!  Then there is four whole days of sun and beautiful scenery…and I hope that no one I’m going with is knifed or kidnapped.

I’ve got 3 days to tone the three point five pounds gained in the last two weeks.  Those three pounds are unfortunately fatty globs on my stomach and inner thigh area.  It’s too bad they can’t work their way up to the bosom.

Hope everyone had a good start to 2009.  I’m making some changes, starting with the site.  I’m hoping to turn it into a useful blog - just not sure what yet.  And the wordpress theme changed yet again; this time ‘dreamplace’.

I got tired of the old theme and wanted something plain and simple so replacing it with a boring one seemed fitting.  The old theme came with Google Adsense ready.  Did I really want ads on my site when I have no inclination to make money off it?  Nah, not really.  When I removed adsense and replaced it with a Twitter feed, a couple of things never worked right so here we go with the new theme.  What do you think of it?

I watched an insect drown today.  I don’t know what to call it.  It was a black ant with wings - flying ant?  Its wings were stuck in some leftover sauce on a plate in the kitchen sink.  I watched it struggle for a bit and decided I should end its misery.  I turned on the faucet and the plate filled with water.  The ant’s legs were flailing all around, and then it was just the top two, reaching straight out as if it was trying to lift itself.  Or perhap reaching out for me to pull it out.  I didn’t.
And after twenty seconds or so it stopped moving.

I didn’t feel great about it but what’s done was done.  I left and came back about 5 minutes later.  Lo and behold, the winged ant was gone.  It was under a spoon and to my surprise, alive!  The water had diluted the sauce enough to free the wings.  It must have known this and played dead to get me to stop watching.  The trickster!  I didn’t try to kill it a second time.  Hope it’ll find its way out the house or at least out of my sight.

My birthday was at the end of October and it was celebrated with a small family gathering at Shabu Zen in Chinatown.  I initially was not feeling well and didn’t want to go but was talked into it.  I’m glad I was because it was a good time.  We had lots to eat and my sister surprised me at the end with a cake.  Not just any cake - a Totoro cake!

She’s always making fun cakes.  Last year it was Cupcake Candyland and the year before that was a giant Turtle that I didn’t have the heart to cut.

I received Blue Man Group tickets, a lot of Ghibli themed presents, mostly from my wonderful boyfriend, who also got me this: Yup, a 1/8 scale Kamina figure from Gurren Lagann.  *squeals in delight*

The Howl’s Moving Castle papercraft I blogged about a few weeks back is still “in process”, which is code name for “I got lazy.”  Busy being lazy led me to do something bad - I handed Ebay wads of benjamins.  I searched for Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Miyazaki, and anything having to do with Studio Ghibli.  Shipping was pricey for many of these because they were coming from Hong Kong and Japan but well worth it especially since the figures were made by Cominica before they were found guilty of tax evasion.  I couldn’t find anything online to tell us if they’re still allowed to make toys for Studio Ghibli.  Many of the figures I bought are from the Model Image Collection.  There are 11 in total, some are out of production and hard to find.  I couldn’t find pictures of the complete collection but here’s the Totoro one, and the Nausicaa one. I’ll have pictures of the 11 boxes once they’re all here.  I’m very tempted to take out the figures, but I’ll wait until I can find or build a nice display case where they won’t get dusty.

A few weeks back there was a post on Neatorama about free DIY paper toys.  You print them out, cut, fold, and glue.  I’ll not lie - the word ‘free’ caught my eye first before proceeding to the cubeecraft website followed by a downloading spree of all the characters I liked.  They even had characters from Gurren Lagann, a most recently watched and loved anime.  It didn’t stop there because I started Googling up papercraft websites and ended up with way more projects than I have time for.  They range from simple to holy-crap-you-can-make-that-out-paper?  I’ve made Kirby, Hello Kitty, Doraemon, and a Chinese Dragon so far.

Next, I plan to start on the behemoth Howl’s Moving Castle

This took someone several weeks to make so I assume it’ll take me double that amount of time.

Here’s a really fun Youtube video of someone who finished the castle.

Shit, just when I thought my vinyl buying days were over, I see this.  Kidrobot and Adult Swim teamed up to make a series of AS vinyls.  It’s apparently old news now.  This was already covered in an article on Powet back in April by a friend of mine (sorry Brad I don’t pay enough attention).  I saw the figures while perusing Newbury Comics and picked up Early from Squidbillies.  Monday I’ll go back for more because I really want Dr. Girlfriend, The Monarch, Carl, and Ignignokt and Err.  I’m lucky they didn’t put out Brock Sampson or Master Shake because I would be picking up those blind boxes like it was your cash I’m spending.  There’s two mystery figures, and they’re both kind of a let down.  If anyone picks up a double of any of the four above and doesn’t want it… just letting you know, it’s on my wish list.