I made fall squash soup today. Pumpkin/potatoes/pears/onion in it, and Gouda cheese as a topping. It was really different from what I normally make, but turned out good. The whole family is in love with Gouda now, which sucks because it's really really expensive. :P

The other day, I found out that the used book store at the corner sells manga for $5 each. I may be in trouble lol. I got 1-6 of After School Nightmare, because I'd heard about it a while back and it sounded interesting.

Also, yesterday I went out with Mom and got my belated-birthday present, a new digital camera. It's tiny and black and I generally adore it. It takes really nice photos. Mom also got me a memory card for it, so it can hold something like 600 pictures all together now.

Dad was supposed to come up tomorrow morning for Christmas with us, but he's been called in to work on his day off again. No idea when he's actually going to make it up. This is the third time he's told us he's coming and then had to cancel. It sucks.

EDIT: And I mailed half of my Christmas packages the other day. The second half are going to be mailed next week, since Mom and I couldn't carry them all. >>;

Yeah, so I haven't posted anything in forever. >>;

1) Christmas #1: On the 23rd the immediate family did Christmas. I got a couple movies, and my cell phone. Also a book, and a gift card, and a chair for at my computer. It was nice. Most of my Christmas from Mom and Lee was the phone though, lol.

2) Christmas #2: On the 24th, we all went up to Grandma's place to do prep for the turkey and everything the next day. That night we gave Grandma the gift that my brother and I got for her, and she gave us our cards with monies in them, because she's been too sick to go out shopping. The next day the whole family was over and we had dinner, and did the family gift exchange. I ended up with a wok set, which is awesome because I'm the one who bought that one because I wanted it. XD;

3) Dad couldn't make it up in time for Christmas, so he's coming up this next weekend to exchange gifts. THE GIFT I ORDERED FOR HIM BEFORE CHRISTMAS BETTER BLOODY BE HERE BY THEN, DAMMIT. >__O;

3) Did nothing for New Year's, though that morning I did get my cell activated. Thank God I have three months free texting, because despite not planning on using it much I've been texting A LOT. I'll need a text plan when my free time runs out. XD;;

4) My RY secret santa gift from toxicatedpoison got here the other day! Eee! It's a pretty crystal heart pendant that she got engraved with "Sena". ILU SO HARD PRONNIE. ♥

5) Speaking of RY, tomorrow we are officially on hiatus for two weeks as a community, so that Steph, Maddie and I can kind of revamp it, and add in more plot points and get everything back on track. WE SHALL RETURN.

6) My birthday was yesterday! 8D ...I did nothing for it, and didn't get any presents, though a bunch of people wished me a Happy Birthday. At some point this week Mom is taking me out to buy me a new camera though, she just hasn't had the time until now.

7) Yesterday I met up with Pam and Ryuu-chan at the Tim Hortons at the corner, and we hung out there and talked for almost two hours. Then we came back here and hung out some more. It was really nice because I haven't seen any of my RL friends in over a year. Turns out Pam is living in town again (sort of anyway, she's actually just outside of town), so hopefully I can see her some more now, at least until she moves to Alberta in a year or so.

8) One of my new wigs (for Haine cosplay from The Gentlemen's Alliance) came in a couple days ago, and I FREAKING LOVE IT. It's long and curly and light brown with blonde streaks, and looks freakishly good on me, or so everyone is telling me. XD; Now I wish I hadn't cut my hair so short so I could dye and curl it lol.

9) ( PHOTOS OMG )

1) Yesterday Dad came up in the morning to pick up his cell phone (I borrowed it for Otakon and owe him like $150 in charges on it because of long distance and roaming ><;;) and drop off some movies for me to borrow and my brother's birthday gift. His birthday is on the 13th of October, but Dad doesn't have another long weekend between now and then, so... *shrug* He also brought up more boxes for me, since I'll be moving at some point in the next four months or so, most likely. No idea where I'll be going. Probably moving back in with Mom, since I have nowhere else at this point.

2) MOVIES. I CAN HAS THEM. Dad brought me Rogue, Creature, Raptor Island, The Ruins (which I'd just downloaded and watched like two days before lol) and Loch Ness Terror. ♥ Rogue is about a giant rogue crocodile in Australia (I luff giant croc movies~ xD;), Creature is based on a book by Peter Benchly, and is about a half-man-half-shark monster. Raptor Island is about... raptors. On an island. .__.; And then Loch Ness Terror is about nessie. In lake superior. 8D YAY.

Also, I've watched Black Water (also about a rogue crocodile XD;), The Dark Knight, Doomsday, Shutter, The Happening, Hancock, Get Smart, Hellboy 2, Wall-E, The Ruins and Mirrors recently. ^__^ So much fun! HEHE. I already talked about some of them a couple days ago, but here's what I thought of the others;

-> The Dark Knight: >__>;; Okay, so um. I don't know if I want to actually type this. :D;; Eheh. ^^; So, my basic thoughts on it are; great movie! ...but not as spectacularly awesome as everyone else thinks it is. >>;;; *dodges rocks and tomatoes* SORRY. SORRY!
-> Doomsday: Was uh... interesting. @__@;; Like, it was every genre of movie crammed into one package. Crazy and lol-worthy. Also, full of FAIL!military. Though it did have the best extended car chase scene I've ever seen in it. XD;
-> Shutter: Creepy! 8D It's based on a Korean movie, I believe, like an American remake of it. Joshua Jackson = LUFF.
-> The Happening: I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I'm a huge M. Night Shayamalan fan. ^^;; *geek* This one was interesting, different, and weirdly... non-supernatural, considering his other films.
-> Get Smart: FTW. X33 I had so much fun with this one~! It reminded me of watching the old TV show reruns at my Grandparents house when I was a kid. It was my favourite (along with Mork and Mindy lol), and the casting was perfect. ♥♥
-> Hellboy 2: I actually had more fun with this one than with TDK. ^.^; The visual effects were excellent. I always am amazed at Ron Pearlman's ability to do ANYTHING in his makeup lol.
-> Wall-E: WAS SO FREAKING CUTE! >w< ADORABLE! I LOVE DISNEY MOVIES! (Though I do miss their 2-D stuff, despite my love of the Pixar films.)
-> Mirrors: O___o; Was freaky. I am impressed with the creativity of the writers though. Some very unique stuff in that movie. And awesomely untypical deaths. The bathroom one made me go HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT though, and I was watching it with the volume off because Pronnie warned me ahead of time. xD;;
-> Black Water: I am a sucker for a good killer crocodile movie. 8D This one was more realistic than most, as the croc in question wasn't even big enough to swallow a person whole. GASP. lol.

Still to go are Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and The X-Files 2.

3) THEY ARE FINALLY FIXING THE SEWER PIPES. AFTER TWO YEARS, AND IMMEDIATELY BEFORE I'M MOVING. BASTARDS.

4) ...last week, I had a discussion with my brother about some things that have gone on in his life recently. I love that he trusts me enough to talk to me about things he won't talk about with anyone else. At the same time, some of the things I'm finding out... I don't know. I want to blog about what he told me, maybe in the hopes that it'll help me work it out, but I'm having such a hard time wrapping my head around it. Maybe in a few days I can... hmm...

5) The adorable Marly/Kadaj stuff is slowly giving way to angst tonight. XD;; Kiin and I had planned some angst for a couple weeks from now, but it seems to be coming out sooner than we originally intended. Kadaj is all insecure and distraught because Mar seems to be trying to convince him not to stick with him if it comes down to it, because the social worker the court assigned is being nosy and poking around about Kadaj's boyfriend.. He's terrified right now at what might happen. ;__;

EDIT:: DDDDD: Mar just broke up with him! (Well, sort of.)

1) Yes this post is numbered. Just because. :P

2) So... turns out C.A. is in Korea because Nova (the company she went to Japan under) like... crashed and burned. Seriously. It was this huge scandal where they weren't paying the teachers and everything. So she was selling stuff out of the apartment they gave her so she could buy food, and then disappeared for a while and showed back up in South Korea. O___O;

That's as much as I know, and I'm really seriously worried. I need to call her parents and see what's going up, if she's coming home or what. *fretfretfretfret* D:

3) Maddie and Chloe are having problems right now, which seriously sucks. (*fretfretfretmore*) I'm worried about them too... in fact, I'm running a collection box for them at Rizu, because we ♥ ♥ ♥ them and want to help. <3

4) Stupid gmail won't let me into my inbox right now. ><;;

5) I've been picking up odds-and-ends for my cosplay in the summer the last while, including a bunch of earrings for my AU!Demyx. >3< The stars came in today, and two of the ear cuffs came in yesterday. Two of the pairs of hoops arrived last week, but were sadly the wrong ones so I had to send them back. Now I have to wait for them to come in, as well as one more ear cuff and a messenger bag. Yep.

6) While we were out grocery shopping today Mom and I popped into Walmart, and we stumbled upon plastic tubs... CLEAR plastic tubs! :3 YEY. Mom bought me four of them lawl, and I'll probably need more before AN, but that'll give me a good start. Now I can pack some of my finished ponies away and make room for more as I finish them.

I also got a deep fryer because they were on the end of the aisle right by the plastic tubs, and on sale for $22. O__o; I was like *YOINK*. Though the only reason I did was because my GST money came in haha. XD;

7) Okay, so the Otakon trip has become slightly more, which is awesome as far as I'm comcerned since I've never been to the US at all before. X3 I'm going to Dayton, then taking the train to Baltimore with Maddie and Chloe, then one of the days we're going to DC to be tourists there, and on the way home, between Baltimore and here, I'm stopping for a night to bother cat_mcdougall. X33 And that's just what's been planned so far. Nevermind all the stuff in Baltimore and Washington that we've planned, the aquarium and everything. ^___^

Oh, but lipstickcat, what days are you going to be in Toronto? Just to make sure, so I can plan for that too. ^^

8) RP STUFF! =D;

Hikaru is basically the same as last time I rambled about him. He and Kaoru are about to have crazy angst since Kao slept with Allen. ^^;

Demyx is all excited because Larxene and Marluxia are in town now, haha. But then he gets excited about everything. Also, he's met C.C. and Link when he went to visit Fate in the hospital, and is happy to have made new friends. He's also planning to go visit Axel sometime soon, since he hasn't seen him around much and Zexy keeps saying he must have died or something. XD;;

Yuki is the same as Hikaru, nothing much going on. I need to get him into something interesting so I can unleash his snark. lol.

Kyo is... oh God, the angst. FFS, he was supposed to be a fun snarky character to play dammit. But no~ he's all love triangle angstangstangst and stuff. Blegh. Though the AIM-verse SephxKyoxZelos is hot and made of awesome. Oh yes.

And finally, I took a 5th character because I fail. Except this time at least it's a GIRL. xD; lawl. We need more girls, seriously. So I took up Shiraishi Mahiru from Mikan no Tsuki (myluck_yourluck), because she's cute and fun, and has a pet bat named (creatively enough) "Mr. Bat" or "Batty". <3

9) Just called to talk to Dad, but he's working that weird shift again so he's in bed. So I talked to Lois for a couple minutes and asked how she was doing; she says much better, though not having use of her one hand is driving her nuts. I can imagine, lol. She also liked the pony I gave her for Christmas, so yey. :)

10) Tomorrow, Grandma is coming up around lunch time and her, me, Mom and Lee are going out for lunch. She's going to drop off some stuff, and pick up some things that need sewing, and see Mom's new furnature and everything since she hasn't yet and it's been 6 months since the place was painted and they got the new furnature and curtains. Haha.

11) And also, I didn't have a birthday party this year, but Ryuu-chan, Andy and Steve came by to visit, which was awesome. I hadn't talked to any of them in a while, but specifically Andy I hadn't talked to in like two years. He's so hard to get in contact with! ><;

EDIT 12) Random anonymous v-gift ftw! Pony! Thank you anon! ♥

EDIT #2, 13) Dammit Kyo-muse! Stop whining for sex already, jeez! >P

EDIT #3, 14) OMG After Eight dark chocolate mints win at everything. ;3; They're so good, and were on sale so I got a couple boxes of them. Now I'm all high on sugar. FWEE. 8D

EDIT #4, 15) Kyo-muse doesn't have me writing Kyo/Seph/Zelos smut, I swear. >.> *innocent whistle*

Today Mom and I went out shopping. =D

She still had almost $200 worth of certificates to buy new clothes, and had promised me new clothes for my birthday as well. Even though my birthday isn't until the 3rd, she took me today to take advantage of boxing week sales. <3 Hehe.

We both got a ton of stuff~ I got another pair of beans (blue, since my other two pairs are black), four t-shirts, two camis, two dressier shirts and this SPIFFY purple suede jacket. I'll so share pics later if I remember to. X33

Then she was all "Surprise! I got you some movies too even though I said you were just getting clothes, bwahaha!"

So I ended up with five new (used) movies; Pan's Labyrinth, the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (squee!) and Ghost Rider. She'd also gotten me Ratatouille and Evan Almighty, but they were dupilcates since Grandma got them for me already, soooo~~ we went to Blockbuster to return them and get different onces. I got Meet The Robinsons and Rise out of it... and then couldn't help grabbing Kaw (killer ravens!) and The Breed (killer wild dogs!) as well. So I paid $20-ish for them and a bag of rainbow twizzlers. lol.

I have seven new movies to watch! :3

Also, at the mall I got some earring covers (for like $4)... they're these little plastic covers that go over the posts to your earrings while you're wearing them, for people like me who are allergic to surgical steel. So I can wear all my earrings again! WHOOT! The girl also said for hoop earrings or whatever that the covers don't fit on, to try painting a couple of coats of clear nailpolish on them, apparently it works too.

Then because I can wear earrings again, I celebrated and spent $10 on some new earrings. lol. One set I only got because they're blue and sparkly and I'm considering wearing them when I'm cosplaying AU!Demyx in the summer. XD

Oh! And Mom got me a new watch, too. Finally I have one again! It's been like eight months since the batteries ran out on my last one. >>;;

Then when we got home, I started putting everything away, and Dad called... he's still coming up tomorrow, but he has to be really quick about it because he has to get back to his place in time to help Lois out with the dogs at lunch time. Normally, Lois is fine doing it by herself... BUT.

She slipped on the ice this morning and SHATTERED her wrist. Like... literally. She's had it set as best they could at the hospital and been put into a cast, but she has an apointment with a specialist in a week to see if they'll have to fix it sugically, or if it'll be alright the way it is.

Now she needs help with everything, for the time being anyway. ;-; I wonder if I should offer to go down and help out for a while or something? Dad can help the next few days because he's off work, but after that, what? Hmm. I'm kind of worried about all that.

And now I'm watching The Breed, because YEY.

EDIT: Oh also also~ I got a package from lipstickcat yesterday! X3 It was full of all kinds of awesome things! Haha, the buns have already scarfed down the seed bars and hay (they inhaled them in about 5.7 seconds), and the cats would have done the same with theirs if I wasn't being stingy and not giving them tons at a time. lol. Mom and I shared a bunch of the truffles and they are LOVE! \o/ And we giggled like crazy at the little grow-your-own-British-man. BWAHAHA. SO AWESOME. She tried to steal the white-chocolate mix. And the mug with Welsh words on it. But I somehow managed to fend her off. >>; Thank you~~ ♥

EDIT #2: The Breed was fun. Now I'm on to Kaw, which I think is the best title evar. Watch them be creative. lawl. KILLER RAVENS FTW.

Yesterday was our second Christmas. =D; The one with the extended family, at Uncle Len's place. Man, I was running on two hours sleep in two days and kept falling asleep and stuff. xD;

We all hung out and caught up for a couple hours, and then had dinner. The turkey was excellent and the stuffing was ZOMG!awesome, but Clare put bacon on the turkey to keep it moist so I had to take gravol a few minutes before I ate because I'm allergic to pork. Oh well, it was still yummy. lol.

Then we did presents, and I got $80 and two movies (Ratatouille and Evan Almighty) from Grandma, and in the round-about game we play I got a whole bunch of rechargable batteries and a recharger, which is AWESOME because I needed them for taking my camera to Otakon in the summer. :3 Grandma also gave me my birthday gift, which was a $100 gift card to Zellers. YEY.

Mom, Lee and I didn't stay there really late because I was fading fast, but we hung around for a while longer to have dessert (I didn't have much because I wasn't feeling well for various reasons, but I brought a whole bunch of stuff home XD;); Grandma always makes these lemon bars that everyone loves, and this year she made pecan pie bars too that are just to DIE FOR. <33

Oh, haha, I brought Tetsuya with me to show him off to Grandma, and when they found out he was anatomically correct, her and both my aunts insisted on taking his pants off, and then checking to make sure he had nipples too. The poor guy had no dignity for the whole night. XD;;

As a side note to that, Aunt Brenda thought he was a Final Fantasy character until I explained about him. <3

Anyway, when we left I zoned out in the car on the way home (and Tet-chan hid in the bag because he really didn't want to talk to anyone anymore), and called Dad when I got home to say Merry Christmas.

Then I slept for... almost 20 hours. ^_^;

Then I got on AIM to chat with people, and watched Evan Almighty and Ratatouille on my PS2, and now I'm on to The Pursuit of Happyness.

I'm so glad the PS2 can play movies. I had to unplug my DVD player to hook it up, and this way I don't have to be constantly unplugging stuff and plugging it back in. If I want to watch a DVD I just use the PS2 and be done with it... though that makes my DVD player kind of pointless. I might pack it up and put it away so it's not just there taking up space... or something. Hmm.

Today is my birthday. Yay? I actually forgot until Kao-mun wished me a Happy Birthday earlier. >>;

I remember when my birthday used to be a big deal. Now it's just kind of another day. I think that changed when everyone split up for university, and now I can't even get everyone to come over or anything. I dunno.

It's kind of depressing. -.-;;

Anyway. Grandma and I are off to Niagara tomorrow morning. I'm gonna take a bunch of pics, and hopefully we won't get really lost or anything, lol. :)

Yey early birthday. lol. (My bithday is on January 3rd.)

Ryuu and C.A. were the only ones who could make it, but that's fine. We still had a lot of fun. I was having people over and did it at Mom's place because Michelle is allergic to cats (really allergic to them), so I wanted to do it at Mom's where there are no cats. :)

...then it turned out she couldn't come, so it didn't really matter much. XD;; Oh well, we did it at Mom's anyway, and Mom hung out with us for a while too. She loves my friends~ ♥

Hmm. I went over around lunch time so that I could bake my own birthday cake (just like every year, lmao); lemon cake with whipped white icing, YUM. <33

C.A. got there around 4:30 and Ryuu-chan an hour or so later. We basically just sat around and talked-- I don't get to see C.A. much so we always just yammer when we manage to get together. ^_^; Then we went to East Side Marios for dinner (we invited Mom to join us but she was tired and just wanted to stay home)... and then came back to Mom's place again.

After that we talked some more (okay, a lot more) and had cake, and made vanilla milkshakes, which I very successfully managed to spill all over myself and the carpet. Go me. Luckily, I'd brought laundry to do earlier, so I just changed into a new pair of pants.

My poor milkshake. ;.; (The dog was happy, though. >>;;)

Mn, so Grandma got me Magic Bullet mixer for my birthday (SQUEE! X3) and gave me $50 (she always does that). Mom got me an Mp3 player, which is currently plugged into my computer so the battery can charge and I can play with it tomorrow. C.A. got me the prettiest calendar... um, "Miso Pretty", it's kind of a spoof on manga-style stuff. And Ryuu went together with Andy (who couldn't make it) and got me $50 of Pet Valu gift certificates, which will buy a lot of cat litter/food/rabbit stuff/whatever. =3

In general, it was a very good night, even though only a couple of people could make it. ^^ Except my legs were cold for a while after I spilled my milkshake all over the place. -.-;; lol.

So~ I spent a while today reorganising by movies and books a bit. I have to do that every year around this time because I always get DVDs and books for Christmas. XD; Plus one of my Ouran art books came in today (*fangirl squeal HERE*), so I needed space for that on my shelves, too. <33

I'll probably have to do it again after my birthday, too. ^_^; Which is January 3rd~ Getting close~

Ah! And thank you kierseth! Yay paid LJ time! =3

I hope my packages arrive to people soon... most of them haven't gotten to their destinations. I need to ship stuff earlier next year to try to avoid the bulk of the Christmas rush. You guys need to let me know when you get the stuff I sent so I can stop worrying about them, lol.

Oh... and Kisa and Kagura died this morning. Well, I mean some time last night I guess. I found them this morning. They were really old for mice, though, and they were both sick; Kisa had tumors, and Kagura had been losing weight for months, and I couldn't get her to gain it back. I'm sure they're happy wherever they are now. :)

Now I only have one mouse left; Ichigo. She's Tohru's daughter from her litter last October. She's over a year old now too, so she might not be around much longer either. I don't know if I'm going to get more mice once she's gone... I haven't decided yet.

I'll think on it...

Ahhh, at Mom's again.

It's Lee's birthday, and I didn't have the money for a gift, so I'm cooking dinner for him and Mom, and making cherry cheesecake for dessert. I said I'd make whatever he wanted, so yey for stew. ♥ You'd think he'd pick something a little more complicated, since I offered to make anything, but I'm not complaining~

So right now I'm letting the stew cook, and we're all watching X-Men: The Last Stand (Trunks got it for Lee for his birthday), which I've already seen... so I'm also smutting chatting with Kao-mun on windows messenger-- since Mom made me uninstall AIM as soon as they got back from Niagara. XD;;

Aaaaand tomorrow morning, we have an appointment with the Chiropractor, after which Mom's taking me to Grandma's and I'm going to visit her for a couple of days.

She's doing alright, but once in a while she needs someone to stay with her for a night or two. She's still not used to living alone, and gets depressed if she's by herself sometimes. And I'm the only one who doesn't have a job and can just pick up and go... not that I'm complaining, but that's why she asks me.

It's been a while since I visited her, though. I think the last time was... back at the very end of August?

Anyway. Yep.