For him, pain is pleasurable

For once I actually decided to stay home this weekend, mainly because I just didn't feel like going anywhere when it was Saturday. I was hanging out with Pat on Friday, he also watches episodes with me which I enjoy quite a bit, also apparently he isn't moving which also made me happy, he's a good friend so I'm glad he's staying. Pat is weird yet hilarious, he found an open bag of nacho cheese Doritos somewhere that had been open for about 3 months and still ate them, I mean those must have been super stale by then, though he didn't seem to have a problem with it. He never seems to really care if something is expired or not, though he does take extra precautions after one time, he found some expired microwavable Chinese food at his house one day and decided to cook it up and eat it, though the thing had been expired for about 3 to 4 years, but that didn't stop him, after that he was sick for about a week or two and would throw up quite a lot, as much as it sucked he found it hilarious, and so did all of us, that was about a year or two ago.

After doing a render in photoshop of Kallen Stadtfeld I decided to make a signature of it and found out how to do actions in photoshop which kind of spiced the signature up a little bit. For the past week I've kind of been in a craze for Kallen, she has always been a character I like, she's really cute and pretty, so I found two more renders of her and made two more signatures of her so I have three in total at the moment, the third one I really like and I think I'll end up using it somewhere.

I was checking some threads in a forum yesterday and found out that the ending single album 7, ending single album 8, and OST album of Amagami SS were out, and since my friend hadn't uploaded them onto youtube, I figured I would for him, I usually upload openings/endings for him at times to his account when he's not feeling up to it, since I rather enjoy it at times as well, although with all the songs I had to upload and type in info for yesterday it made me hand hurt a little, there were 3 each from both the ending single albums then 33 from the official soundtrack album, it took a while but I eventually got them all uploaded.

I finally finished Strawberry Panic a couple days ago, and I really thought it was going to end without something happening but at the very last minute the thing I wanted to happen, happened, which made me incredibly happy, I love the outcome of it all. I had also started Sora no Otoshimono: Forte a little before I had finished Strawberry Panic, though I've only watched two episodes so far, it's still pretty hilarious, just like the first season was, and the new angeloid they sent down on the second episode, Delta, is cute, seems somewhat clumsy, and is pretty funny, I'm going to enjoy watching more episodes of the second season. Since I had finished Strawberry Panic, I decided to start up another anime that I've been looking to watch, called MM!, basically it's about Sado Tarou, he suffers from sexual masochism; he experiences sexual pleasure from pain. He feels he won't ever have a normal relationship with his condition and decides to visit the Voluntary Club, a place that grants students' wishes, for a cure. At the club, he finds Isurugi Mio, a girl who thinks she is a god, and Yuno Arashiko, the girl who caused his condition in the first place. I started watching it last night and am four episodes in so far, it is sooo funny, I can tell already this is a series I'll be re-watching quite a bit, and I just love the characters as well.

I would have written this before I went to bed in the morning but I had a pretty bad headache so I decided to just go to bed and do it when I wake up. I figured unless something happens that gives me a lot to write about I might just end up doing a blog once a week, possibly on Wednesdays. Anyways I think this about sums it all up, thanks for reading.

MM! link.

Pet-sitting is easy money

Sorry it's been so long since I last wrote, been busy over the weekend and some of last week. The president of the company my mom works at has a daughter who left from Friday to this Wednesday and was looking for someone who could watch her pets while she was gone and was offering $25 a day to do so, so I figured why not, easy money. She has three dogs, two of them are a year old , Jovy and Oreo, and the other is not even a year old yet, Pipper. She also has two cats though I don't remember their ages but they are still fairly young, Spike and Spot, Spike almost looks like one of my aunt's cats which was pretty cool. I ended up staying there from Saturday until Tuesday so stayed there for 3 days, though I did learn something from that, I am not much of a dog person, they seem to always be so active, hyper and getting into trouble, I'm much more of a cat person. She did have a Wii and a PS3 over there so when the dogs were calm and settled down I would at times play some games on the Wii and others I would watch DVD's I  brought over on the PS3, mostly consisting of Jackie Chan movies as well as anime. Within the first five minutes of me being there the youngest dog, when I wasn't looking, got one of my gloves out of my hat on the chair and chewed it up, so now I have to buy some new gloves, oh well.

I started up Donkey Kong Country Returns again while I was over there but didn't get too far before I decided to play something else, the game I ended up playing most over there was The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, though since I started Sunday night and only did a little more of it on Monday I didn't get too far, only got past the third dungeon, but I can always do it again later on my own system. The movies I watched over there were Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, and Rush Hour 2, well for non-anime videos anyways. I know I've got the first and third Rush Hour movies around my house somewhere but I just don't know where but I am positive that I have them, someday I'll find them.

I had brought over a number of series to the person's house while I was looking after her pets, they were, Love Hina, School Rumble Complete Collection (Seasons 1&2 +Extra Class OVAs), Trigun, Seto no Hanayome, Zero no Tsukaima, and Kanon. I ended up re-watching Zero no Tsukaima, I like that series, it's pretty funny and of course has romance so that's a plus for me, though I only have the first season on DVD so was only able to watch the first season when I was there, I'll have to watch the second and third again sometime later. When I was finished with Zero no Tsukaima I started Kanon (2006), though I only had time to watch one episode before I had to leave, but that's another series I really like, it's one of my favorites, and I'll definitely be re-watching it soon. Earlier tonight I watched some more episodes of Strawberry Panic, I'm up to episode 18 now and things are starting to spice up quite a bit, I left on quite a cliffhanger but I'll watch more tomorrow, only 8 more episodes to go, I hope things end well.

Earlier tonight I had gone out to get some things real quick from a quick shop and had ran into someone that I use to go out with, Jake, it's been ages since I've seen him and things didn't exactly end too well with him and I so it was a tad bit weird meeting up like that unexpectedly, we chatted for a couple minutes then both headed in our own directions, for the rest of the night I've had somewhat of a lonely and depressed feeling, though don't get me wrong, I don't still like Jake, but rather I'm just not exactly sure what I want anymore, how can someone else claim to know what I'm thinking when I myself don't even know. Ah well, anyways it is pretty early in the morning which is late for myself, so I think I'm going to get some sleep.

Zero no Tsukaima link.

Akeno Shiranui was my very first

For the most part, today was pretty much just like yesterday except there was no going out to lunch, I woke up around 10:30am and some friends came over at about noon so we did a little bit more gaming until they left around 1pm. After they left I decided to vacuum around the house, do the laundry, and do a bit of cleaning again. This entry may be short since there wasn't much that happened today and it is the same as yesterday for the most part in my opinion.

I got on World of Warcraft earlier than usual today since I usually watch episodes first then go to gaming though there was a good friend on a tad early today so I decided to jump on as well. A couple friends and I did some battlegrounds shortly after we logged on, did them for about an hour then stopped to do Tol Barad. Tol Barad definitely seems like it would be easier to win since you capture the nodes quicker than before, though we were on defense when we did it earlier and surprisingly we actually defended which I was happy about, a good amount of honor, though my friend was sad they made the herbs and mining nodes despawn until the battle is over. Later on I ended up running one of the friend's alts through Scholomance for a little while since I was a bit bored, it got him quite a few levels over the runs so he was happy about getting any sort of run throughs.

I haven't really done any image browsing today, the only images I've really gone and saved are some more scans of Seto no Hanayome, I should finish up the saves of all the scans from that series tomorrow, I kind of slacked here and there today. For the past couple days I've been addicted to listening to the opening songs, ending songs, and character songs from Seto no Hanayome, I just love listening to them all. I got an email a little bit ago saying that my two DVD's of Seto no Hanayome have been shipped out so I can't wait for them to come in, they should arrive sometime next week at the latest, would of been nice if the OVA was included but oh well. This is a bit random but still somewhat on the topic of Seto no Hanayome, my very first dakimakura pillow was actually of a character from the series, it is of Akeno Shiranui and I still have it, I've always liked her, but then again I've always liked all the characters from that series.

I watched some more episodes of Strawberry Panic today, I'm up to episode 9 out of 26 so far and I'm just loving it, I am absolutely dying to know more about one of the character's past from that series. I also noticed that Funimation also has Strawberry Panic on DVD's that you can buy online, so I figured if it all goes well I'll most likely end up buying the DVD's for that as well. So far my favorite characters of Strawberry panic are Nagisa Aoi and Shizuma Hanazono and I can't wait to look up some of the scans from the series once I've finished it. I'm almost coming up on the halfway mark for the series and I noticed there is a second opening and second ending somewhere in the series so I'm wondering how the songs will be as well as the opening and ending video to go with it, definitely looking forward to seeing those as well.

I can slowly feel my hours slipping back to being nocturnal which I'm not intending to do but it just seems to be happening, oh well I should really get to bed, it's pretty late or rather pretty early now, could be looked at both ways, anyways, good night/morning and thanks for reading. Oh also, I may or may not write a blog on Friday, it all depends on what's going on and if some plans are going to happen or not.

 

Akeno Shiranui

My Bride is a Mermaid

I had to wake up somewhat early to clean up a bit around the house since I had some friends coming over for a while around 10am. They got here around 10:15am if I remember right and it's been a while since we've hung out so for a while we just chatted to see what's all new with everyone, then we did a little bit of gaming on the 360, we played Dead or Alive 4 and had the had the winner stay in and who ever lost would pass their controller onto the next person, it was pretty fun, I've always loved the Dead or Alive games, I wish they'd come out with another Dead or Alive game but I highly doubt that is going to happen. At about noon we decided to stop gaming and go out to lunch, we ended up going to Old Chicago, it's been a while since I've been there but I love their food so I was happy to go there.

Later on in the day I did a little bit more gaming with some friends on World of Warcraft, one had asked me to go around with him in the Wrath of the Lich King dungeons just to make getting the ancestry coins from the elders go faster. When we were over in the Utgarde area we did Keep first then Pinnacle and decided to also do Pinnacle on heroic mode to see if the mount would drop for me since he already has it, he has some bad luck with dungeons but apparently has somewhat good luck with mounts, that or they upped the drop-rate of the Blue Proto-Drake because it dropped, though since it did I had to go and buy epic flying, but it's all for the best, so I'm happy.

I was watching TV earlier browsing through channels and came across a movie that seemed interesting to I turned it over to the channel it was on, the movie is called Sweet Home Alabama, with Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas as well as some others, I really liked that movie, it was funny and romantic, definitely one I'd watch again. One other movie I've seen with Reese Witherspoon is Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn, now that movie is hilarious, I've only seen it once and definitely want to see it again. Vince Vaughn is awesome, in my opinion he is a good actor and pretty funny.

I finished Sasameki Koto earlier today and I will say that I was a bit disappointed with the ending, I definitely did not see what I would have liked to happen so it's an alright series but I've seen better. Since I had finished Sasameki Koto I decided to start Strawberry Panic, one thing I wish was that the files I had downloaded were in 16:9 aspect ratio but they were 4:3, which I'm fine with. I intended to only watch 1 episode of it today but ended up watching up to episode 4, in my opinion Strawberry Panic is kind of addictive, I may only be 4 episodes in so far but to me the series is starting off very nicely and I'm glad the series is 26 episodes long because I know I am going to enjoy it very much. I was looking through my music folder and decided to listen to some of the Seto no Hanayome songs, which also got me looking through some of the scans from that series, it's been ages since I've actually watched it, I think about 1 or 2 years, but I absolutely love that series, it's one of my favorites. Which reminded me that Funimation had obtained the license to sub and release Seto no Hanayome in the US about a year ago, I believe they were released in June 2010 and August 2010, and I checked earlier today that they were still in stock so I got part 1 with episodes 1-13 and part 2 with episodes 14-26, so I ordered part 1 and part 2 earlier today online and since the total was over $50 I was able to get free shipping which made me happy, so I'm definitely looking forward to getting those in the mail sometime in the next week.

I had a bit of a headache earlier but with the help of a couple aspirin again it's gone, but I've stayed up later than I actually intended to so I am going to head on over to bed to get some sleep, I didn't sleep too well last night, anyways thanks for reading.

Seto no Hanayome link.

Another shoujo ai series next

Not much has happened today, it was rather quiet today to be honest, though it's nice every once in a while. I was visiting my mom over the weekend and woke up about 10am this morning to leave back to home, got home around 10:30am or so and decided to write a blog about what I did over the weekend since I didn't write Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. As I mentioned in that other blog, I will for sure write blogs Monday through Friday, though I'm still not so sure about writing them on the weekends, I may or may not depending on what's going on. One thing that kind of gets to me from somewhat going back and forth between this house and my mom's house is the temperature, it's always freezing at her house yet when I get back here it's always hot, especially the room I'm in at the moment which is where I sleep, it also has the computer in this room which doesn't help any, so if it get's too bad then I just open the window and let some of the cold air in, which I usually open it anyways when I go to sleep, I just love the cold when I'm sleeping.

Well since not much has really happened today I'm not exactly sure there will be much to write about so this may be a tad bit short compared to the others. After I had written the blog about my weekend when I got home earlier today I had a few things to do, such as vacuum again since, as I mentioned before, my cat sheds tons. Once I was done vacuuming I decided to do a little cleaning, such as doing the dishes and such. I think if I remember right I got done sometime around 1pm to 1:30pm.

Once I was finished I decided to do a little browsing around for images since I hadn't done that in a while, look up some of my favorite artists, such as Taka Tony, Kamiya Tomoe, and Tomose Shunsaku, those are my three favorite artists, I have more favorites but those three are the ones I look up the most. But I decided that rather than just looking at specific artists I'll just look at the "Popular" tab to see what other people have been viewing lately that's gotten the most hits for the day and the days before, it's been quite some time since I have viewed the "Popular" tab but I came across quite a lot of good finds that I ended up saving to the computer, such as the picture below, I don't remember if I found this one in the "Popular" tab or if it was from another search though I just think it's a nice picture.

 

Though in my search I also found quite a lot of unexpected finds, although as unexpected as they were I do quite like them, they are I guess you could say anime-ized pictures people have done of the computer game World of Warcraft, and since I somewhat play that game it was really neat to see pictures of it anime-ized and some anime-styled fan art of it. There was one artist that seemed to have done about all of his work as anime-style World of Warcraft pictures, I just loved them, I'm looking forward to more of his work soon and shall be checking on it daily. There was one in particular that I was really fond of, I'll put it below, I guess you could say it's a parody with two characters from the Touhou Project as some characters in World of Warcraft that are gender-swapped. On the left is Kamishirasawa Keine cosplayed as the lich Kel'thuzad, and in the middle is Inubashiri Momiji cosplayed as Arthas Menethil.

Since it's Monday, there was a new episode of Harry's Law today on TV, the more I watch the series, the more I like it. I can't wait until tomorrow when  a new episode of White Collar airs, I'm really curious as to how this season will end, though I'm in no rush for the season to end just yet, there's still quite a lot I'd like to know from this season. On the subject of series, I watched a couple more episodes of Sasameki Koto earlier today, I actually intended to watch more but other things came up so I only got around up to episode 7 today. I'm thinking of either finishing Sasameki Koto tomorrow or the day after, I've already got a series in mind that I'm going to start watching after I finish Sasameki Koto, which I should get downloading some episodes in advance. It's a series called Strawberry Panic, it's been on my plan-to-watch list for quite a long time but I've never gotten around to watching it so I decided since I've been watching a few shoujo ai series why not watch some more, I'm really looking forward to watching it. I would put the synopsis in here but it would be a tad bit much to put in here so I'll just leave a link at the bottom of the page as always with a link to it. I had thought that Strawberry Panic was 13 episodes long but I guess it's actually 26 episodes in total, I'm not too sure why I was thinking it was 13. The longer a series is the better I say, well for the most part, some such as Bleach, Naruto and such which are over 200 episodes long and still currently airing I just can't really watch, it's too many episodes for me, the only time I've watched a series that was that long is Dragonball Z, though I do like Dragonball Z quite a lot. So I'm not sure I'll really watch Bleach, and I know for a fact I'll never watch Naruto, I've heard so many bad reviews about it and it just doesn't seem like the kind that will interest me.

I thought today's blog would be relatively shorter compared to my other ones seeing as how there wasn't much that went on today but I guess it still is quite long, though I'd rather it be a bit long than too short so I'm happy with it. Anyways, I've got to get up somewhat early to do an errand or two so I should be getting to bed, thanks again for reading.

Strawberry Panic link.