An Update On Usagi!

Started in November, Some details may have changed

I haven't really talked since school has started, and since I have an idiot reading what I am typing (who is happy I referenced him), I should talk about some new things occurring in my life, school, and other random things. Yay~!

School:
Slowly but surely, I am trying to get my grade up. Only failing one class is very, very good, even though to pass it, I need to do 4 journals. Othello (which is hard to get into). Yep, I'm failing Senior Shakespeare. On that topic, I am not in the production this year as an actor. I'm in the video committee, meaning I am filming the production. It'll give me more time after school to do work since I'm only going to be filming during tech week (last week before performance).
School has also given me a new group of friends to hang out with. A group of four freshman (who I knew before only by their Hetalia character) has now become good friends with me, and joined International Club. When I talk about them, I shall always say their character. So here we go with introductions~!:

Canada:
Is actually Ishy's cousin. She is so cute as Canada! We knew each other a little bit before, but we have gotten closer with the help of dA (another guilty pleasure. At least it is free). She's tiny (like most the Freshman) and is really hug-able.
Russia:
Not known as much as the others, but she makes a really good Russia. Freaked me out the first time I ate lunch with them.
France:
Reason why I love dA, she takes lots of pictures. I only see her at lunch and at club, but she is the taker of French in our group (everyone else takes German). She is really dramatic and loud, but it makes her fun.
Italy:
Yes, I have gained my little Fratello. I have art with her, and even though she says she sucks at art, she is amazing! She is the most apologetic person in the world. She will say sorry until you almost yell at her to stop (happened today at lunch). I think she is the person I have gotten the closest to because I sit next to her in Art. I have to hug her at least once every time I have that class.

Writing:
I haven't been working on writing as much as I would like because of my month of trying to get caught up. I'm doing much in most of my classes, just Economics and Shakespeare are evil. Anyway, I have finished another short story (with help of dA) and finished my First FanFiction. I got really good reviews and I am really proud of myself for finishing it in three days. It was Spain's Christmas and Birthday present, and she is finally coming back from Switzerland on her birthday.
My blog novel and other writing for now have been put on a Hiatus, meaning an indefinite pause. It's not doing much, considering the fact that I'm in a huge Writer's Hole. Not just a block, but a giant hole. Having ADHD doesn't help since I want to write, I just haven't had the inspiration hit me yet.

Videos:
I have been making vlogs for some events that have happened so far, I just haven't had time to edit them. I use Windows Movie Maker, and lately, it's been really screw-y when I add music. Like the audio and the video doesn't match up. And don't get me started on what the music does! I have at least one vlog that I made before school started, three during my ecology trip (which I will talk about when I post the videos), and I think one or two more. So, you guys will all finally be able to see my face and hear my annoying accent. I am not the best person to blog on videos since I think my voice sounds really terrible on camera, but everyone keeps saying my voice sounds fine. I think it's the same for a lot of people, but I just feel really weird listening to my voice. It sounds so childish! It'll still hopefully get done soon, once WMM stops being crappy and buggy.

So, that's all I have for an update right now. I'm in study hall and have a test in Ecology next period, after Advisory. Hopefully, I got enough sleep and enough food for the test. The most important thing is that my ADHD doesn't freak out and I can focus solely on the test. The reason why this test is so important is because it's my final for that class....He does the final really early, since the semester doesn't end until a few weeks after break.
Wish me luck~!

*The reason I haven't been on a lot is because I've been working really hard on missing homework. Last week was all Much Ado About Nothing journals, the weekend was all Economics, and this week is all Othello and Progress Log for Senior Project. That Progress log isn't late though, it's due Friday and it's really easy, Thank Gods. Another update will be up at the end of Friday all about classes!*

Ciao for now, hope you all excuse the late update.

Halfway Through October. Wow.

Sorry for no regular updates on life lately. I've been really busy on dA lately, putting up pictures, International Club, Anime Club, universities calling, College visits, Senior Project, Senior Shakespeare, and everything else.

I did spaz out a few weeks ago due to a stress situation, but I'm all better now! And I also had several anxiety attacks due to bugs in the house, but I have gotten better at calming myself down, even if there is a (tiny) spider on me. (Happened twice today)

Don't worry though, you few readers of this blog! I'm trying really hard not to stress myself out, and spreading the work around, so I should be good, as long as no-one hits my trigger.

Short update, but I just had a lot of filling food. I'm going to be in a food coma of a bit.

Ciao, prego and grazie~!

This is what I get

This is the last time I'm reading any of Spain's fanfic recommendations! Because this was the saddest RomanoxReader I have ever read! And I read a lot!
I had hoped this fanfic would be a nice, happy, RomanoxReader (Note: I am talking about Romano/Lovino from Hetalia). I had read halfway and had saved the rest for a day I would need cheering up, due to the fact I thought this was going to be a BLOODY HAPPY STORY!!!!!! *SIGH* So glad I decided to read it today, when I was just killing time. But to all the Gods above, why take it out on Romano?! He's a good guy (way underneath), and in fanfic, it would've been a lot better if he survived than Spain (Sorry, Spain, but in this story, he was a jerk) {I call my friend Spain because she cosplays as the Spain from Hetalia, I know that last part got confusing[Hetalia in a nutshell: All the countries have a human representative]}
Damnit, it was a good story until Romano had to die. I'm not a fan for EnglandxReaders, but I can slightly stand them; still, why kill the one that curses a lot?
I should calm down. It's not my story, it's the author's. Be calm, be calm. I just hate people killing off characters that the "Reader" falls in love with. Like the CanadaxReader where I actually had to take a break from reading to calm down how much I balling! Movies don't make me cry at all (That Japanese one was an exception), books make me cry only if I really like the book (Only one book has done that, title escapes me), and mostly fanfics only get a tear or two. Not like this one or the previously mentioned CanadaxReader.
First you kill off the cute, invisible Canada, now my favourite character. What's next, Prussia?........I know what's gonna happen now. I'll start reading PrussiaxReader and he's gonna die.
Life of an Otaku is so hard when you get into the characters. *sigh*

PS: Didja notice I changed my picture on here? I made it myself on the most glitchy program for the iPod. I made it as close as I could to how I look in real life, including my favourite (most awesome) hat (in the world), my awesome boots, glasses, hair (how my Sophomore would love to style it), even my iPod that is with me at all times. The magic wand is an inside joke, I can't even tell you with who since it's so many inside jokes wrapped around each other with so many people.

Anyway, Ciao~ for now!

I mIgHt GeT a BiT tOo CoMpEtItIvE!

Stupid spell checker, think it's wrong when it's on caps. So The Festival is now over! I tried taking some pictures, but the camera still spent a lot of time in my bag. ^^;
So basically, when Ishy finally woke up, he admitted I won with Fireworks! 2-0!
And today, we decided to play chess! I brought out my poor, neglected set, sat outside on pillows, got some chocolate, (my newest candle which smells amazing! I have it lit most of the day) and my iPod, in case I wanted some music. I didn't need the iPod though, since Ishy insisted that he does his accents during the second game.
First game went terrible for me. My Rooks and Bishops were killed quickly, and even though I got a second Queen, Ishy checkmated me!!
Second game, it's on!! Usagi will not back down!! I blocked every single of his tries and made sure to keep his attention on the battle nearest my King, while from behind enemy lines come a Rook sneaking up, Bye-Bye Queen!! I made sure to kill all of his pieces before checkmating him!
FINAL SCORE: 1-1. I have already challenged him for another game. I can't keep it at a tie!
At least I can win during 20 questions! And probably that one version of the alphabet game where you can only use Rivers, Lakes, and other Places. I love that game! No ever wants to play it....

On another note, SPAIN IS AWESOME!!! I talked with her for hours day before yesterday (so long my iPod was overheating and I still used it for 3 hours after it started being too hot to hold). I even watch the Opening Ceremonies with her. I held my camera on my Ipod up to the TV and she watched from Skype.  We talked about everything! And as such, we came up with the best idea evah! Spain and myself are doing a Collab on deviantArt!! (For those who don't know, Collabs are collaborations. You work on a project with another person) And of course, this collab is going to be a HetaliaXReader (meaning the reader puts herself in the story). We worked on the first part together and because I can't give away any hints, it's gonna be hard to describe this.
Basically, she wrote out the first part of part one, and we discussed how we want the story to go (while watching the Ceremony). She typed out the first part and read it to me while I edited it verbally. Poor Spain! She probably read that part so much! We talked about how the reader should act and how she could meet the other Characters from Hetalia. We decided that after the first part was up, we would not be able to talk about what should happen next. She types out one chapter and I type the next one! I can't wait!
So watch out DA! Spain and Usagi's collab is gonna be the best! Watch out for our HetaliaXReader: New Chapters!! (I came up with the name! Isn't it epic?!) It's all about the Reader going to the University of her choice (just like Spain), and meeting a whole bunch of different, yet nice, people that make her feel at home!
I can't wait to read Spain's work (I never have read any of her writings before) and I hope I can actually write a Fanfic...This will be my first try and I hafta do it or else I'll feel like I'm leaving my "wife" out there hanging. Chapter one should be up by tomorrow! I'll send you all a link, and those with accounts should comment on it. Because it will be awesome!!!

Ciao for now!! Myself and my newest batch of Thai Iced tea will be going now to sleep! (After a nice shower though!)

Wheeee~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If ya can't tell, I've had an obsession with the little squiggles~.
Anyway, remember my post yesterday on Writer's Block? Well turns out the second problems for authors is not having enough ink in the printer.
Page 5: Perfectly fine. Page 4: Starting to fade. Me starting to pray. Page 3: Only those weird lines pages get. Page 2: Faded lines. Page 1: Faded parts of those faded lines. From two feet away it looks completely white.

Thank god the teacher accepted my excuse with the evidence present. I think I broke the record of turning on the computer, heading to Google Docs, and printing on the weird system the old computers have.

So that's about it. Not much else. Well, I did also go on a shopping trip with Squirrel but I'll save that for tomorrow.
Ya know the drill. Till next time.

Writer's Block......MEHHHHHHHHHHH

It's the bane of the world. What ever happened to the days where I came up with these great ideas while dreaming or while just zoning out? I mean, I haven't had a dream where I was in one of my stories for a while. And those dreams were so amazing! To write like when one has a dream. Characters that act so natural and plot-turns I would kill for now.......Ah. To sleep, perchance to dream. (Ahhh! The Shakespeare Curse still lives!)


Anyway, what led to this, is my homework assignment. As the chapter on poverty and education ends, the assignment (that I chose out of the many ideas he gave) was to write a story.
Write a story in first or second person that answers the three poverty questions listed above (what causes, what looks/feels like, how to solve [I kid you not, this is my teachers grammar on assignment]). 12pt, NTR, double-spaced, 2-4 pages. Include characters, setting, plot, solution.

Now I like starting stories. It's the end that kills ya. And the constraint of 4 pages! And to work with the instructions. You can't make a good story with all that listed and only have 4 pages. I've already cheated with the margins and with the double spacing (The intro is only 1.15 spaced) so I can't really do much else. I'm less than a paragraph from the end of page four. How in the hell am I supposed to fit it? It's harder than the 2000 word limit I had with the writing contest. Mostly because you have to answer the questions. You try doing that seamlessly in first-bloody-person. I feel like the teachers are out to just annoy me so much. I don't like him much either. His worksheets that he gives us really suck and his grammar is worse than a kindergartners.

Mehh~ I love this story and how I've done it in barely two pages (remember, double spaced). Why double spaced? It's completely useless. It's a waste of paper. Double-spaced. Pah! No real writer uses double-spaced (unless they are writing an essay they really hate, like in AP Euro).

I give up at it for now. Ciao, Ja matta, you know the drill.

Wow so much to post!

A lot has happened all at once so bear with me!
First off: Wow, four followers all of a sudden! This blog is starting to overtake my other poems one. I feel so happy and loved, you have no idea!
Next: I'll be posting lots of iPod pictures in the future around next week since I painted eggs yesterday. It'll be good to post them for Easter instead of now. I just need to remember.
Life of a Writer: So the writing contest results came out. I didn't win anything. But, I have cleared my head and I will continue writing! There is always next year and this setback will not bring me down. I already cried a lot on Thursday when I saw the results came out early. There will be another blog post about my initial thoughts since I wrote them down and I can scan them in as a picture.
Life of an Otaku: I will be doing anime reviews if I don't have anything else to post since I'm guessing some of my followers like manga and anime. So look forward to that.
And lastly, I will be posting something that is still creeping me out a day later. It might be a bit long of a story so a second post today!
And a thank you to my dad and Mert. My Easter present of a chocolate Santa with taped on bunny ears has been finished. I was craving chocolate when I came home. The ears are now taped on the screen of the computer.
Ciao for two seconds as I finish checking my email, grab some dinner before posting my oh-so-interesting story. 

Spring Break!!!!!

Nya~ It's already almost half over too! I have had hours of just typing and I am finally controlling which way the story goes! And for once the story is listening! Except stories always go on much longer than you expect. *Sigh* Even my little precious, Traitor, if giving me trouble. UnWanted and Social Shut-In are slowly coming together as short stories, which makes me really proud of them. Except when I get an idea at 2 am and fall asleep before I can write it down. I will remember it though!
Lately though I have been distracted by a new anime I want to finish watching. I started watching it ages ago and decided to actually finish it. It's called Shugo Chara! and it's so shoujo! That means it's made for really little kids, or just girls. It's cutesy but, hey, It's got a good plot and it's good for lazy all day watching. It's long though. About 127 episodes. But I can read the manga afterwards since it's completed!
Anything else?.....
Oh, I went of to Ishy's house and we played Soul Caliber 5! Actually, Chia was supposed to be on to see if I could beat him with my button mashing technique. Except for the first time, he wasn't on the X-Box at all. So I made my own outfit for Leixia, who is the only character I play, and now she looks like a ninja! I liked making the outfit way to much, though. And arguing with Ishy on which colour works with the patterns (Remember he is slightly colour blind). I actually am getting the hang of doing the combo attacks without button mashing. Oh and throwing Ishy out of the ring. That's the most fun, especially when I'm about to lose and all of a sudden "Ring Out". Muahahaha~
I think that's about it. Tomorrow is our Goodwill Road-trip to find the Butler outfit that I swore I would get him in. I shall prevail!
So ciao for now! Or as my Hetalian namesake would say, Hasta la Pasta!

Got to Love My Friends!

Apart from them being as weird (or even weirder) then your's truly, they leave you with so many memorable moments.
Like what happened of Friday:
I was walking home since it has been a while, I needed the exercise and Ishymaru had invited me over to play Kingdom Hearts (Yay for Button mashing!). Because our dear friend Mary (Squirrel), who normally rides my bus, is claustrophobic, hates people (except her friends), and doesn't really like loud, annoying people on our bus, she decided to walk with us to keep us company. So we were having fun trying to avoid "becoming a pancake" (her favourite line when we are on the road with no sidewalk, she and I had noticed this bright orange flag on the roof of one house that was on the hill that basically looms over the whole valley. We stopped at a safe spot and made sure we were talking about the same flag-thing. Of course, we were determined that Ishymaru sees it too.
So both me and Squirrel kept giving Ishymaru directions to the flag ("See that tree right in front of us? Look just above it. It's bright orange!") Because of us being very stubborn, we wouldn't leave until he saw that flag-thing.
I forgot what the actual line was, but after a while I got so annoyed, I shouted out "How is that possible? It's a bloody bright orange flag!" I forgot what his response was, I think it was along the lines of "I just can't find it". Well he finally found the flag and as we were leaving I remembered something aloud. "Oh yeah, forgot you were colourblind."
Yeah, I do feel very blonde sometimes. But that doesn't compare to what happened half an hour or so later. We made it to the sidewalk area and were right at the middle of a long block. Course I was zoning out (I think I was thinking about how much I like walking in my boots) and I was brought back by the unmistakable sound of a Harley. Just as it roared past, I was saying something about how I miss riding on a motorcycle just as my foot got caught on a one inch difference from one block of concrete to the next.
You know that one thought that goes through your head as you're falling? Mine was "Oh crap. They're gonna tease me about tripping while paying attention to a Harley. Damn. This is gonna sting-" *THUMP*
All that in a split second! Squirrel had seen the whole trip and fall thing and was more worried than what I expected (She told me later that she breaks bones with a fall like that.) and Ishymaru made sure I rested just a bit before I continued the walk. My only injuries at the time was scrape on my knee and my left palm missing a lot of skin from the heel. Of course my right hand only sprained slightly due to the instinct of a writer to save the dominant hand.
But throughout the time, till Squirrel broke off to go to her house, made sure I was looking down while I was walking. She didn't trust me anymore to look up and walk. You know you have done well when one of your best friends doesn't trust you to walk without watching.
So just an update I forgot to mention yesterday. I had told both Squirrel and Ishymaru that I would post the flag story on here and I felt that I should also talk about my oh-so-wonderful coordination.
So Ciao for now, I want to finish another short story by the end of this week. It's a huge jump considering I just started a new short called HiKiKoMoRi SoCiAl ShUt-In. The caps are on purpose since it does play a role in the story. It's going to be longer than Song From A Music Box but hopefully shorter than UnWanted, again the italics and bolded is on purpose.
Ciao for Now!

Back from My corner Of Mourning

What is this? What is this round yellow thing in the sky? It gives off beautiful warmth, yet hurts to look at.
I am back from the abyss known as Sakura-con mourning. Sigh....Anyway, I should update....If I could....my cat is on my lap. Heavy cat!!!! He is on my lap/legs doing that kneading thing with his claws digging into my knees.
Ah! Sweet freedom! So what to write about other than school, since I did finish all projects (I feel like teachers actually call each other to make sure everything is due at once).
I talked with my cousin today! She messaged me and we chatted for a bit over me coming over in the summer. She's already 14! Enough to even make me feel old. Can't wait for this summer!! Need something to look forward to.
Oh! I got a penpal I write to. I need to send her letter off today. Promised to do it on Wednesday. She's from South Korea and asked if I wanted to send snail mail back and forth. Then the one from California. I like writing snail mail so much, except my hand is getting writer's cramp much more often. I hope they get their letter's soon. Makes me excited!
So what else? I still have two weeks till I see if I win a writing contest I entered in February. It's such an agonizing wait! I entered three poems and my first completed short story. This is the first time I actually entered in a writing contest so I'm really nervous and anxious. I want to know the results now!!
Anything else I should update everybody on....I could tell everybody the results of my lovely survey (Two bloody hours of walking) but I'm too lazy at the moment.
Besides, there are unguarded cookies downstairs and who knows who long it is until the next guard changes! Onward! Forwards to our goal! For The Cookies! Ciao for now!

My Characters! Woo!

So all these pictures are mostly just for the costumes because there weren't a lot of model choices. And I also had to imagine how they would look as adults because of the models. I'll try not to give too much of the plot away but also give good details on the characters on their costumes.
Note: I use the term pre-modern here lightly. For me, pre-modern is before cars, steam engine, guns are still not used often and jam easily, medicine is various herbs, and clothing is much cooler than today. I would say just around the time way before Industrial Revolution in Britain. Maybe....before the Enlightenment (Woo History). Wow, I forgot about this post for a few hours...Sorry.

This is Lisia (Always Travelling Series: Book 2 and 4: Revenge
and War At Sea) At first you only see her as a child but in book 4
she is eighteen. 

Lisia has the power of controlling water, so lots of blue tones. The Always Travelling Series is set in a fantasy world in pre-modern times, so no real modern stuff like jeans or t-shirts, but I allow the girls to wear pants and such.

Anyway, Lisia in the first book runs around a lot so a long skirt is easy to move around in, and a blouse with a vest is pretty normal garb (even seen in Book 1). She wears to hat to hide who she is sometimes and the shoes would normally be boots but these are close enough. Every pre-modern heroine needs a bag to hold *cough cough* weapons *cough cough* and other essentials. Notebook in hand and her mother's necklace and she is perfect.
Note: Lisia has black hair and one grey and one brown eye. Her skin is also very fair.


 

Really bad quality. But this is Marina (Always Travelling Series:
Book 2 and 4: Revenge and War at Sea, In case you forgot). She
is seen as child at first and in Book 4 she doesn't appear as often.

So this is Marina! Also has power to control water and why wouldn't she? Marina is Lisia's unborn twin (Yes, I know I used a different model). As a spirit, Marina ages herself to look like how she would if she had lived. She likes to float above Lisia and bug her.
Outfit: As a spirit, normally I imagined her with a flowing white skirt and shirt, but again, the website has limits. So flow-y skirt (blue shade) and a flow-y shirt. I though the shirt is too modern but it kinda works with the skirt. Left arm (our right) has same bracelet at Lisia but a different bracelet on the right and her own anklet (Spirits don't wear shoes). Reading book and other papers she carries as a spirit and good.
Note: Marina has black hair and also has two colored eyes, but opposite as Lisia. Fair skinned as well.

This is Renna (Academic Studies/Mischief). Seen as a
teenager about twelve to fourteen, I'm too lazy to go find the
paper to double check. She is the main character.

 Renna's story is set in the same world as Always Travelling but starts in different country and you see a whole different social circle. She is basically a scholar and is one of the few new females students in a once all male academy. 

This is not the outfit she wears in school but her formal wear/musician garb. Yes, she does play the violin and very beautifully in fact. The dress is made of a heavy silk for winter but still easy to move around in when playing. The belt is used to separate the single piece and I wanted a belt (There were about 1000 different belts on the site). Boots were hard because of the slit up the side, so black and long. Renna doesn't like showing skin, as she was a noble. A nice cape from her sister to keep her warm and her violin at her side with her music notes.

Note: Renna has medium length, light brown hair. I just went with this model cause the way she ties back her hair.

I'll be making a part two soon. I'm just losing focus. Ciao for now.

Wow really?

So a website that Survivorgrrrl (Now called JuneDecember) uses to make all the pictures for her fashion blog is shutting down so I decided it might be fun to dress up some of my characters for newer ideas. I was creating Medusa, a character whom I love to bits because she is awesome, when I realized I forgot what I would always imagine her in. I tried to bring all the character ideas back into my head but they kinda all vanished!
Why is that?! I now Realized I never really imagined out the costumes for characters unless it is a short story or the dress in described in the story. So in FDTR, where the story is more modern and I never really thought about the outfits past the school uniform, everything just vanished!.....*sigh* I really hate my mind sometimes...I'll try to at least bring back Medusa and the school uniforms back. Please hold while I smack my head.
Pictures will be up shortly.
Oh and another thing. When I click the jeans button, I'm looking for normal, comfy to wear jeans. Not skinny jeans, or ripped jeans, or jeans that had God-knows-what happen to them. Just normal jeans. Is that too much to ask? Didn't think so!

Bored Day

I'm so freakin' bored. Winter's break is almost over but I'm so unmotivated. I feel like I'm in a vegetable state like in the play I'm in. And on top of that youtube is taking a long time to load.....Sigh.......let's see if I can get rid of writers block.