my latest purchase :)

Well, after long last, and shopping around on various import sites, I finally went through with it and bought a DDR machine from the Manjiro folks (it was either that or buy the PPP machine from Bill...). It's a 4th Plus, which is EXACTLY what I wanted. I'm going to keep it in our garage, since the noise pollution level should be acceptable there, I think... and there's no way I could fit one in our basement, stupid low ceilings and all. Unlike Lith, I'll probably keep it on free play, and you are all invited over once it arrives...
( and what I plan to do with it )

Back to life, back to reality

Well, so this morning I got up and kicked out Fuj and I-Gene and Robby. This took longer than anticipated, and I-Gene gave me a ride to work on his way out of town, I got in around 11am. Rawr. Well, so anyway, I had a LOT of stuff to catch up on, I spent most of the day playing catchup really, staying at work until like 7:45pm or so. Highlights of the day included going to Kinokuniya and being like "SHIT, THEY HAVE A GAZILLION CDS I WANT". So I picked up the m-flo Intergalactic Collection, which I've wanted for a while, and the Good-Cool Super Collection, which is good and cool. But they had all these other CDs I want! L'arc~en~Ciel just released a bunch of compilations, including one of their c/w songs, and I really don't have legal copies of a lot of those, so I could finally get them! And a DVD compilation of their 1994-1998 videos, and... oh man. man man man. And today was payday, too. Rawr. And the DDR Ex soundtrack should get to Kinokuniya soon, in theory, too... oh man. The other highlight of the day was talking about videogames with Todd, one of the guys in my group, he's cool.

Err, so anyway I came home, and Eli and I had tortellini for dinner, and then I was going to work on sewing my Tran dress except that jinian's sewing machine fucking hates my guts and refused to work properly no matter what I did. I tried rethreading it and pushing lots of random buttons and redoing the bobbin and whatever and it just did NOT fucking work no matter what. So I was practically in tears and called Megan to ask her about how sewing machines work, and I ended up going over to her house to use her sewing machine. So Megan and I hung out while Josh played the GCN version of Ocarina of Time, and now the only thing left to do on the Tran dress is hem it and take it in a little (I'm really disproportionate for patterns... I'm actually a total hourglass, albeit a large one). It doesn't look great or anything, but it'll do.. I don't call myself an expert cosplayer or anything anyway. So I'm going to go back tomorrow night and finish it, I think.

Anyway, I wrote MUCH more coherent accounts of the DM5 saturdays and sundays and just edited the past entries rather than writing new ones, so if you want to read more, just go look at my journal page. Man, it's funny looking back at my entry about DM4 where I'm like "dude I suck and I don't know anyone here and I'm all sad"... heh.

Oh yeah, and these upcoming weeks are MAD crazy, yo. Sakuracon this weekend, Carnival next weekend, and an actual deadline at work - I'm going to go totally insane. Also I want to go swing dancing. And karaokeing. But I have a feeling those have to wait until later in the month. Unless I can pull off dancing during Carnival... I wonder what the Wightman schedule is like. I miss everyone suddenly again. Bleh.