Time Flies...When You're Short On Cash

I can't believe it's almost the end of September already! Where has all the time gone? Only three more months till the new year, and the start of tax season again! *YUCK!!* But on the bright side, only eight more months till my sister and I MIGHT be able to go to Japan again! (Note, I stress the word MIGHT!)

There's still so much things to do. I haven't given my room a good cleaning for three months now! The dust is just piling up on everything! I gotta get rid of some of my old books too. I want to sell them to a used book store cuz I can sure use the extra cash! I've been buying too many CD's, DVD's and manga!

I'm always so short of cash nowadays! It doesn't help that I have a new obsession with Kamen Rider Blade. Just started buying the DVD's for the series. *Sigh* Doesn't help that the guys in this series are so damn handsome! Also decided that I would buy all the other Kamen Rider series (Kuuga, Agito & Ryuuki) one disc per month, so that's like AT LEAST 4 DVD's every month till the end of this year when I'll have all the Kamen Rider Kuuga DVD's (Yay! FINALLY!). The only series I'm not buying is 555. I just can't get into that series! I watched discs 6 through 9 over the weekend. That's 8 hours worth of watching & I watched it in less than 2 hours. How, you may ask? Because I only bothered to watch the last episode on each disk, and I was perfectly okay with it! Sad!!

Also been buying lots of manga! I buy about 4 to 5 new books a month! I keep reading more and more new manga. My list keeps growing because I keep finding new suspense/horror/mystery manga to read! Doushiyou, I can't stop reading!!! ^_^"

Looks like I may have to find myself a part-time job! *YECH!* Either that or cut down on my online shopping....TSURAI!! YABAI!! TABUN DEKINAI! -__-''

Computer Illiteracy Sucks!

After joining JDorama I've come to realize how totally computer illiterate I am! I knew nothing about image hosting sites, blogs, bittorents, or photo imaging programs then, and only know a bit more now. Anything I know about the internet I've learned from everyone at the V6 Squad Forum and JDorama.

I really need to take some computer classes to learn about all this stuff as well as buy myself my own computer system. Right now I share a computer with my sister and my brother. The HD doesn't have much room on it since my brother uses it school and the computer is in my mom's room so anytime we want to use it we have to sit in the "refrigerator". I'm trying to save up enough money to buy my own computer with a scanner so that I can start learning how to make my own wallpaper. I asked someone from the V6 Squad to make me a wallpaper from this pic I saw in one of my magazines. I know she's so busy all the time and I still asked her to do this for me since I don't have a scanner or photoshop! I'm such a dope! The only thing I did in return for her was to buy a copy of the magazine for her to keep. I gotta find something else to do for her!

*Sigh* If only I had more money (actually I would have more money if I stopped buying so much CD's, DVD's, magazines and manga!) I could hurry up & buy my own computer!

On another note, any CSI fans out there? Tonight is the season premiere! Can't wait! I love detective dramas and CSI is my favorite! Well, guess I'd better get back to work before my boss catches me doing this! XD

Weekend Update

The UH sports teams gave me lots of stress this weekend. The football team got their butts kicked by Rice (what the hell is up with them this year?!), but the women's volleyball team and soccer team won. The football team was doing good up until the 4th quarter, then they just lost it! Unbelievable. I'm not watching anymore football games this year. They're giving me high blood pressure!

I'm slowly getting through Kamen Rider 555. This weekend I watched discs 3, 4 & 5, only 7 more discs in the series to go, then I gotta watch the movie. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time watching this series. I'm thinking it's either the battle scenes are too boring or the characters are just not appealing to me. It's not like there aren't any good looking guys in it, I mean Handa Kento is kinda cute. He looks like a mix between Kimura Takuya and Hosaka Naoki. Eh, maybe it'll grow on me more. Hopefully the next tape of Kamen Rider Blade will come in this weekend so I can watch that along with another 555 disc. I'm still debating whether to buy this series or not. I'm buying all the other series, but I just can't seem to get into this one so I'm thinking about skipping it.

Also watched eps 9 & 10 of Minami-Kun No Koibito. I usually don't watch this type of drama, but for some reason it's got me hooked. Must be Nino. I usually end up watching his dramas for some reason, even if it's a type of drama I don't usually watch. Okada Junichi does that to me too.

Other than that, I read some manga (my sister recommended Air Gear to me so I read a couple of books) and played video games. Trying out this game called Ghosthunter . It's a good game, but it's really hard to control. You have to use one stick to control your walking and the other stick to control the aim of the gun. You have to be seriously ambidexterous to play this game!!

Today it was back to the grind, but it was a little interesting. They're filming a police drama called Hawaii around the corner from my office building. I took a peek during lunch, but there weren't many people around at the time (shoots!). My sister and I are eating dinner by ourselves since my mom & brother will be going to some kind of meeting for Kalani band. We'll probably just end up eating ochazuke. Why cook when you don't have to?

Hope this week doesn't end up being too crazy like last week! I wish it was the weekend already! Yabaiiiiiii!!!!^_^"

I Need A Break!!!

It's been a hectic past few days! So much to do in so little time! I've been running around town like crazy running errands for my boss since Tuesday and my feet hurt! Also had lots of payroll to do since yesterday to the 20th are paydays. Right now it's quiet (since I got most of my payrolls done!) so I'm taking a break!

Tuesday was crazy! My boss never paid his telephone bill so the phone wasn't working (2 hours of peace & quiet!). He made ME go down to pay his bill for him! Then I come back to the office and he asks me to go deliver some tax returns. AAAAARRRRGGGHHH! What's worse is that it's been so HOT lately! *Bleah!* I came back with sore feet and all sweaty! Yuck!

Yesterday all payroll taxes were due so I was running around picking up checks from various clients. Then I had to go take the payments to the bank. My boss had some late payments come in so I had to go to some banks twice. I was so tired last night I fell asleep at 9:00! (Boy, I must be getting really old!)

Today I've been doing payroll after payroll. Tomorrow I'll probably have another bunch of payrolls to do. *Sigh*, I need another vacation!

At least I managed to find some time to add a tagboard and I added more names to my stalking list (Yikes! I need to stop watching so much TV!). It's also almost Saturday which means I can watch more videos again! Mou sukoshi ganbarimasu!!!^_^"

A 10 Year Old Mind In A 38 Year Old Body

People who visit my blog and read my side bar probably wonder what kind of nut case I must be what with all the kiddy things there like my manga and animes. Yes, I admit it! I'm a kid at heart! I'm not trying to be young, I just like this kind of stuff!

I think part of it is the way I grew up. My parents got divorced right after my younger brother was born which was when I was 13 years old. As a result, my sister and I ended up helping with the baby as well as getting more chores piled on us. Being the oldest, I had to watch my younger siblings often. This led to less play time when I was young, and as a result I'm doing all my playing NOW!

Another part of it is, my family as a whole. There are absolutely no serious adults on my mother's side of the family. Everybody is always laughing, teasing each other and cracking jokes. We all get together at least 3 times a year and those times are always filled with a lot of laughter and playing.

I also don't feel any pressure to get married and have kids. I'm the oldest, but my younger brother is the one who will carry on the family name so I leave it up to him to provide my mom with grandkids *he he*! Also, this is kinda strange, only one of the grandkids in my family is married and has children. My two boy cousins have no girlfriends, and are not even actively looking for any, my younger brother and younger sister have no significant other either. My brother is sorta kinda looking (not very hard), and my sister is like me, doesn't really feel the need to have a boyfriend. The youngest grandchild, who is a girl, is busy trying to get her master's degree so she doesn't have time for a boyfriend at the moment. Hmmm....now that I think about it, my family is really weird! Anyway, with no pressure to get married, I have more time to indulge in my playing!

For me, my comics, anime, music, video games, etc. is my escape. It's my way of relaxing after a hectic day at work or after doing all my chores on the weekends. It keeps my blood pressure down and helps keeps me sane by helping me forget about all the stress of the day.

It also helps keep me close to my siblings. My sister and brother also enjoy the same things I do. We may not have the exact same tastes, but at least we have something in common to talk about while we eat dinner together, be it a new anime that we're watching, a video game that we're planning on buying, or even a new CD that we bought.

Well, I guess that explains the kid in me. Don't you feel jealous of me now? Well, don't just sit there, go out and buy yourself some toys!!!!!!^_^

Let's Get It Started!

I must say it's been an interesting past couple of days. My boss is the treasurer for one of the mayoral candidates here. Yesterday there was a mayoral debate in the theater across the street from our office building. One of the candidate's supporters were making so much noise I couldn't concentrate on my work. I decided that it would be a good time to try and make my own blog.

Since last night, I have been fooling around with my site! As you can see I've changed the color scheme to purple, which is my favorite color. I also finally figured out how to link people's blogs to my site. I've asked my friends from the V6 Squad forum for suggestions for a new template and will be checking out Mixx's suggestion (Thanks Mixx!!). I'm not sure if I'm gonna change the template for sure right now (I'm afraid of totally killing my site!*sweat*), but I think once I get more confident in using my blog I will eventually want to try for a change.

Ever since joining JDorama I've had a lot of firsts. JDorama was the first forum I ever joined, I also learned about image hosting and finally opened up my own account (another first!) so that I wouldn't be direct linking to anybody's pics. I met people with the same interests as I have besides my sister. I've been meeting people from many places around the world as well as my country. I'm sooooo glad I joined JDorama!! It's been a really fun and enriching experience for me.

Hopefully I'll remember to update tomorrow, but probably not since it will be Saturday. Saturday mornings I have to work, but in the afternoon I go to the Japanese video rental store and end up spending the rest of the day and night parked in front of my TV watching videos. I still gotta finish watching Kamen Rider 555! Anyways, guess I'll end it here for today!

Big Leap

My first time at this. I've never had a blog before so I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. Most of my new friends from the V6 Stalker Squad have their own blogsites, so I thought I would give this a try. This old lady is venturing into very unknown territory! Kinda scary, especially since I'm so CI!

Hopefully I won't be lazy and will be able to update this regulary (but I doubt it!). We'll see what happens I guess!