EVIL FOOD PROCESSOR IS SHARP AND EVIL. >|

Posting from Momo at Maddie and Chloe's house. I miss my own PC, but I'm glad they'll let me borrow the laptop to check my email and everything. I'm writing this now because they've gone to bed so I don't feel so bad about stealing their computer lol. ^^;

Anyway, everything is pretty much going fine, and I'm having tons of fun. My one leg is royally fucked up though, and I really need to see a doctor when I get back to Canada; it feels like I've got something tearing in my calf, a muscle or tendon, and it hurts like hell. But it's holding up well enough that I don't have to go to the hospital here, which is a good thing considering I don't have travel insurance. >>; Chloe says is it comes down to it I could go to an urgent care clinic though, so I'm keeping that in mind just in case.

Short post because it's 5am and I need to get to bed, but I'll have a huge long Otakon post when I get back to Canada in a week (complete with tons of misc pics, including from the massive yakuza!Kadaj and Asch photo shoot that me, Pronnie and Maddie did on Saturday night.) Until then, this is it.

Oh, and sorry to anyone I was supposed to be texting while I've been here. Turns out that when Virgin told me my plan "covered everything", they actually meant "covered everything in Canada", and here it's completely useless. My fucking cell is a PAPERWEIGHT here. I can't even call 911 on it. When I get back home I'm going to call Virgin to bitch about it and get my plan changed so that next time I won't be stuck without a phone. -.-;

Tomorrow we're going to a Celtic festival! 8D

Yeah I fail at like... everything online lately. I've been having a lot of trouble irl with various things, which I may or may not get into in this entry. Anyway, list format today for the sake of my sanity because I have a fuckton of stuff to talk about since it's been so long since I last wrote anything. xD;

1) ANIME NORTH. Okay, basically I spent the whole weekend at my table trying to sell jewelry and pony commissions (since I wasn't allowed to actually sell the ponies there). I sold a bit, and got two commissions (Van from Escaflowne and Reno from FFVII. XD), but the way Artist Alley and Crafter's Corner was organized this year was RETARDED, and the Corner was way the hell out of the way so we got practically no traffic. SO ANNOYING. Anyway, all that work and spending that much time at the table, and I basically broke even for the cost of the con registration, the table, and the parts that went into the jewelry. So much for making money for Otakon. -__-;

Anyway, that aside, I got to see Mel and Zexy again. :3 I went to a D-Gray photoshoot with Mel on Friday, and to the Moonlight Ball with her and Bonnie on Saturday night for a while. I didn't get to see Zexy as much, but she stopped by my table twice to say hi and give her her present~ ♥

On Friday I wore my Org13 Demyx outfit. It was INSANELY HOT. DAMN PLEATHER. And I forgot my gloves at home, so I just wore my shark/dolphin rings instead. *shrug* I also didn't have my boots because the morons I ordered them from backed out at the last minute. This was remedied Saturday morning, though, when I found awesome bootcovers in the Dealer's Room. Then Saturday during the day I wore my casual!Demyx outfit. Did I mention I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new wig? It's so awesome there are no words to describe it. And it fits perfectly, and stays in place all day, it doesn't even budge. >w<~ Anyhow! Then Saturday night for the Moonlight Ball I wore my Haine cosplay. Sunday was Org13 Demyx again for a while, then last-minute casual!Lavi that pretty much all came from my closet lol.

I didn't buy a whole ton of stuff like I do most years because I was trying to save monies for Otakon, but I did get four boxes of pocky, a Riku plushie (I always get myself a plushie at AN), and about 30 buttons. XD; A bunch of KH ones, some FFVII ones and some Ouran ones. Also, one booth had kitty buttons and the proceeds from them went to a cat rescue, so I got myself one of those. Then I got three more the next day to send to people. XD; Oh, and I got some henna done on my arm. It's faded out now, but I took pics of it~

( Various photos from AN. Haine cosplay photos when I get around to getting some from Mel or raiding my Mom's camera. >>; )

2) ON THE WAY HOME FROM ANIME NORTH. Two things happened; first, I was looking out the window of the van and actually saw a songbird attack a hawk in midflight. It was spectacular and I couldn't believe it. I've seen that kind of thing on Animal Planet, but I never thought I'd see it IRL. WOW.

Second... I broke a knuckle in my right hand. >__>;; I caught it in a booth when we stopped for food. It was all bruised for a while and hurt like a bitch, but I didn't bother going to the hospital. *shrug* Which was fine until a couple days ago when I smashed it off a doorknob and re-cracked it. xD; *FAIL OMFG*

3) OTAKON. Well... I didn't make any money toward Otakon at AN like I'd wanted, but I still managed to finagle out a way to pay for it. GO ME. Basically, I'm not paying my parents rent for next month, and then paying double in August. I'm also borrowing $300 from my Grandma, which I'm paying back in September. Ugh more debt but fuck it, I'M GOING. XD; So I've already paid for my registration and my plane tickets (NO 26 HOUR BUS RIDE FOR ME THIS YEAR), which completely maxed out my credit card two weeks ago, but you know... whatever. >>; It'll get paid off at the end of the month.

Maddie love, let me know when you have a tentative total for the stuff we're doing in Dayton and gas monies and everything. ♥

Cosplay for Otakon! Org13 Demyx and Haine for sure. Also, I think I'm going to do Riku cosplay from BOYS, just for kicks and to see how many people get it. I could trim up my Suigintou wig a bit and it'd work for Riku totally fine. I NEED SOME HEMP BRACELETS AND STUFF. I SHOULD GET SOME HEMP AND JUST MAKE THEM MYSELF IT WOULD BE CHEAPER. I also need some gray arm warmers to go as fake long sleeves under the t-shirt so that I don't have to wear layers lol. Also, yakuza!Kadaj, complete with pinstripe shirt and fedora. >D

I'm also bringing about six other wigs in case myself or anyone wants to do impromptu cosplay of anything. My Kyo wig for sure, and my blonde pigtail one, and probably my blue one and maybe my red one, though I got that one for Axel cosplay (next year maybe), and I don't want it to get messed up between now and when I have a chance to style it... hmm. Must think on this more.

4) B-GRADE MOVIES. After AN, we stopped at Dad and Lois' place to say hi and see teh doggies, and I borrowed 24 b-grade movies from him. XD TWENTY-FOUR. AWESOME. Some of the best ones were The Burrowers, Alien Raiders and Decoys (the second one is bad though.) I also borrowed Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which I LOVED. ♥

5) SORA AND RIKU. Last week I had to take my rats to the vet. Riku was diagnosed with pneumonia, and the vet gave me antibiotics for him... but unfortunately, he died the next day. It's sad, but he was in a really bad way, so I'm kind of glad he didn't suffer for long. Sora doesn't seem to know what to do without him, though. Also, I had to treat Sora for mites today. That's no big deal, though.

6) JEWELRY. IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN BUYING SOME JEWELRY, LOOK HERE. 90% OF IT IS STILL AVAILABLE.

7) FEET. Last Friday, my feet and ankles swelled up to twice their normal size. As in, I had no discernable ankle, and could barely walk because of it. =_=;; And they stayed that way until TUESDAY NIGHT. WTF? I have no idea why, but it was a pain and a little disturbing on top of that. I had a doctor's appointment yesterday though, and the doctor wants me to go for bloodwork, since it's possible my meds are the cause of the swelling. Yep.

8) DOCTORS IN TORONTO. A while back, I mentioned about going in for gastric bypass surgery. Last month I went to the initial consultation in Toronto, and then earlier this month I went for the appointment with the social worker and dietician. I still have to go to a gastric bypass class, and see an internist before going back to the surgeon again, at which point my surgery will actually be scheduled.

Things are actually coming along rather well. The only big problem right now is that my Grandma is really against it. She doesn't think I should do it. But then she thinks that my weight issues are my fault. It's bad enough that strangers assume I'm lazy and don't eat well, but having my own Grandma think that really hurts. She keeps giving me lectures about exercise and eating right-- I already eat right (even the dietician was impressed), and I exercise as much as I can but with my legs the way they are, it isn't always possible. I have to walk with a cane, Grandma, it's not like I can just break into an easy run. *sigh* I really need to talk to her about it, but... I know I'll just get another lecture about not trying hard enough, and end up crying for two days over it. I dunno...

9) THE YARD. Mom has decided this summer that she's sick of the back and front yard (what little we have of them, this is just a townhouse after all), and wants them to look really nice. So we've all been working on the yard for the last month, putting down sod and seeding and watering and pulling up weeds. Also, in the front yard we lined the sidewalk with quartz stones, with solar lights along the other side. Then next to the door we planted a little cedar tree, with more quarts around it. Yep.

10) ROLEPLAY. I haven't been rping as much lately, with everything IRL. I was supposed to be back from hiatus at TV like a month ago. I really need to get back there before people get sick of it and I get kicked out.

I have, however, been rping some zombie!apocalypse-verse Kingdom Hearts with Michi over email. It's hilarious and fun. Plus RikuRoku, which makes me happeh. :D And I've been rping with my bb Kiin over at losechesters, which is a comm Kiin set up for us for "Winchestertastical" roleplay. I'm Sam and she's Dean and basically it's just for the sake of crack. It's SO much fun. Which reminds me, I need to think up another post for there... >.>;

Apparently, I suck at keeping my journal updated lately. I used to be so good about it too. But I don't know... I've been really down lately, and not feeling up to doing anything. I haven't been on aim much either and I've just been rping a little with one or two people. I'm considering going on partial hiatus at TV until I get myself straightened out again.

Not much had been going on lately. I've been working on stuff to sell at AN, and fretting over whether I'll have enough money to go to Otakon this year or not. I'm really hoping I will, but with not being able to sell my ponies at the table it might not happen... but, I'm currently finnegling with my finances to see just how much I need to sell to be able to go to Baltimore (and then to VA and then to Dayton) so fingers crossed.

I am currently watching Eden Log, which is going so far over my head it might as well be a jumbo jet. XD; I'm going to have to watch it again and try to figure it out lol.

A few days ago I dislocated one of my toes. I slammed it into the stairs by accident. At least it popped back in on its own. Still hurt like a bitch though. BEHOLD I AM THE MASTER OF PERSONAL INJURY. Also, of not going to the hospital for dislocated joints because they happen all the fucking time wtf body.

RP talk, so if you don't care don't bother reading past here. More actual life-updates later on once I've thought about what I want to say.

We have a new Axel at TV, and I've gotten sucked into the AkuRoku trap. XD; I promised myself I wouldn't, not because I don't ship them together, but because it's pretty overdone at this point. Ah well. They're cute together, and Roxas is totally the man of the relationship which makes me laugh constantly. Also, tonight he got into an argument with Kanda, and the two of them spammed Axel's journal with it. lmao.

House is being his antisocial self, though he does get along rather well with Ziva (I totally ship them now, w2g TV you've ruined my in-series ships), and he's agreed to tutor Lenalee in math so long as he can call on a favor from her at some point in the future. He may get her to do something cruel to Remus, as he's still holding a grudge against him from way back when puppy!Remus chewed his cane up.

Dean is currently being crabby over the new event (school, yay?), and refuses to go, so he and Faith are going to hide out in the room with booze and porn and probably trade Hunter/Slayer stories. Faith demanded he share his porn and Dean was like "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?" I still wish I had a Sam at TV though, Dean secretly worries about him.

Aaaaand Michi and I are doing a RikuRoku rp right now that takes place in the zombie!verse from the apocalypse!KH fic I'm in the process of tinkering with. XD; I get to play snarky/bitchy!Roxas, and that makes me utterly happy because he's too nice most of the time in TV (and he was the same way at RY, except with Axel lol.) RPing in it is really helping me flesh out the zombie!verse, so to speak, so I'm happy with it. :3

I wasn't feeling well most of the day yesterday, so I pretty much slept all day. I was up for a couple hours in the evening though, long enough to do an AIM long with Maddie, Reppy, Katie and Cassandra-san. ♥ It was drama-rific. xD;

The only thing I ate yesterday was a bagel. Still not hungry, but I made some vegetarian lasagna anyway because I know I need to eat. Also, out of boredom, I put together a stew to cook in the slow cooker for tonight. The bunnies got lots of veggie trimmings.

Tonight I'm probably going to get baking again. I still have shortbread to do, plus other cookies and stuff as well.

Been up since 4 this morning. After sleeping all day yesterday I guess it makes sense. I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, so I'm puttering around, watching movies and rping and stuff to kill time. Today is vampire and werewolf movies. 30 Days of Night, Skinwalkers and right now The Forsaken. Fun stuff.

Yesterday morning the red wig I ordered for Lavi cosplay at AN (and possibly/probably Otakon) came in. It's the perfect colour, but longer than it needs to be, so I have to trim it, and then style it so it sticks up where it's supposed to. In January I'm ordering a pair of boots for Lavi and Org13 Demyx; I'm going to use them for both cosplays, and just add the white to them for Lavi with tape or something. Yay cosplay. ♥

Along with some stuff I ordered for people for Christmas, I also have a few things coming in that are just for me because I wanted them and happen to have some extra money this month. >.> A copy of the movie Werewolf Samurai because I just couldn't pass it up. WEREWOLF. SAMURAI. FUCK YEAH. Also a Suzumiya Haruhi figma figure (that I think is in scale with my Kadaj figure so I'm tempted to take lulzy pics of them for Pronnie), and a playarts Axel figure from the third formation arts set.

My next accuisitions will be the Axel figure to go with my Roxas one, and Reno from Advent Children. :3 Then a bunch of other ones because there's like fifty KH/FF/misc figures that I want.

Oh, and completely random, but I asked for Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for Christmas. DO WANT. Also, Tales of the Abyss, which I can't find anywhere dammit.

EDIT: My formation arts Axel just came in. :D He's on the shelf next to Agito now. ♥

EDIT #2: ...I just fell down the last half of the stairs. I bent one toe backward until it popped out of joint. Luckily, it popped back in on it's own when I flexed my foot. But fuck, that hurt. I hate it when I dislocate joints. ><; Before you ask, yes, it's a relatively common occurrance. >>;;

Holy hell, I fucked up my shoulder. If I had fallen or something I would think I'd cracked my collar bone, but all I did was sit down and pull the chair in. So unless I have some severe osteoperosis, I don't know wtf is going on. DX

IT HURTS SO DAMN MUCH. I can't move my shoulder joint without turning white from the pain. And in half an hour, I'm supposed to be moving a shitload of boxes up and down the stairs with Lee. 8D THAT WILL BE EPIC FUN, I CAN JUST TELL. =__=;;

I'm sure I just pinched a nerve or something, because there's really no other explanation, but still. Ugh. Right now I'm watching Unrest and hoping by the time Lee gets here my shoulder won't be blindingly painful anymore.

ANIME BATMAN FUCK YEAH. XD I am way too easily amused, aren't I?

On a completely unrelated note, somehow last night while I was asleep I managed to tear that blister off my finger. Not just tear it open. Tear it off. Now it hurts and needs a bandaid. Way to go, self.

I cracked my head last night, on the headboard of the bed. So hard that I don't know if I fell back asleep after that, or blacked out. .__.;

Today has thusfar been spent out running around; Mom and I went to the petstore to look at rabbit cages, since the NIC cage isn't going to fit at Mom's. I thought I would have to split the girls up again, but I actually found a extra large My First Home cage that should be alright, so long as I make sure to  let them out to play every day. It's much smaller than their old cage, but for now it will have to go. I feel bad about it, but I'm not getting rid of the NIC supplies, so that when I have my own place I can just put it back together.

( Pauper, Phoenix and Pantom are currently WTFing, but they'll get over it. )

Then we went to Walmart, where I got a ton of packing tape and tissue paper for wrapping things that I don't want to wrap in newspaper. After that, we went back to Mom's place so that she could talk to Lee about some things, and then we went to look at storage units. We found one that was great, so we put a downpayment on it; the woman was even nice enough to give us the rest of October for free so that we can start moving all my things in there gradually over the next month. I need to pack in a way that anything I don't need will be put into storage. So most of my books and half my movies are going to be there, along with my encyclopedias, some of my anime, and a ton of furniture.

...then Zellers, for a lock for the storage unit, then back home. I put the new cage together and transferred the girls over to it so that I can take the NIC cage down and pack it away tonight (or possibly tomorrow). SO BUSY.

Also, if my brother calls to gloat at me about having Tales of Symphonia one more time, I may have to maim him. :D

My leg is still swollen from the day we were at the aquarium. That was two weeks ago tomorrow. .__.;

At least my knee is mostly healed. Just a hugeass scar now and a little tiny bit of scab from the scrape along my leg under that from falling off the bus. xD;

Still, I'm a little worried about the fact my right leg/ankle is swollen still. It doesn't really hurt much anymore, but it's huge compared to my left leg. I must have really strained it more than I thought I had. Maybe I should wrap it tomorrow or something...

Plus, chiropractor tomorrow afternoon! He can fix my spine and knees and shoulders from all the falling I did in Baltimore/etc. >.>;

BTW. MADDIE, I MADE IT A WEEK! \o/

The only thing in this that's going to be behind a cut is photos (if I have the gumption to post them tonight), so to avoid endless rambling about Otakon if you're not interested, please feel free to scroll down. And down. And down some more. :D

Okay, so!

Monday, the 4th: I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to make sure I had everything packed and organized. Eventually, I got frustrated with trying to fit everything in my suitcases, and ended up having Mom come over and do it for me, as she is the QUEEN of packing. ♥ Also, Monday I baked hermit cookies and coconut-oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies to bring with me. Sticking Tetsuya in my hiking backpack was kind of hilarious, as he kept giving me dirty looks the entire time. XD; That night I also hauled my two suitcases down to the main landing, so I wouldn't have to carry them both (they weighed like 50lbs each xD;;) all the way down the next day.

Tuesday, the 5th: I got up early to finish the last minute cleaning and whatnot I needed to do before my bus at 11:40am. Then I said goodbye to my baby kitties and bunnies (and Axel, of course) and told them to behave while I was gone. I was somewhat dubious that would work, but hey, it was worth a try. XD;; Then Mom picked me up around 10:30am and we went to the bus station, where I paid for my extra bag; my backpack went onto the bus with me (since it had Tetsuya, and all my electronics in it, as well as some clothes just in case), but I had two suitcases to go underneath the bus. Aparently, you used to be able to take two for underneath no problem, but at the beginning of August they changed it to be just one. :P So I paid an extra $30 to get my second suitcase from here to Baltimore.

Now, the trip to Baltimore was... eventful, and at the same time not. There was a lot of boring sitting around doing nothing (especially after my mp3 player ran out of charge, and after dark when I couldn't read) usually. BUT. When we got to the US border and I went though Customs, they asked "what my business in the United States was" and I told the guy I was going to a convention. He got this super suspicious look and went "what kind of convention?" Seriously, a voice in the back of my head was going "A TERRORIST CONVENTION! >D" but I figured if I said that they'd send me to prison or something, so instead I told him an anime convention. And he got really pissed off about it. XD; It was actually rather hilarious. Then they searched my bag. You know, just in case all us otaku were planning to bomb something. xDD;;

Anyway! Once we got through Customs, we continued on to Buffalo, where our current driver was supposed to get off, and a new one get on. So we got there, and the driver left... and no one else showed up. FOR TWO HOURS. They didn't even come out and tell us what was going on. FINALLY, two hours later someone came out and said they were getting another driver because the one that was supposed to be there just didn't show up. So we waited ANOTHER hour until a new driver got there. Only she wasn't a driver. Like, she had NEVER DRIVEN A GREYHOUND BUS BEFORE. UGH. She was super nice though, and didn't get us killed, so it all worked out.

Now, after Buffalo I was supposed to have a three hour layover in New York, but since we were running three hours LATE, I arrived there just in time to grab my stuff and run across the terminal to hop onto my next bus. I'm so glad I had that layover! If I hadn't, I'd have been stuck there for another three hours until the next bus to Baltimore. D:

Wednesday the 6th: Boring as the rest of the trip had been though, the bus from Buffalo to NY was actually awesome; I got on and sat down, and about two seconds later this girl across the aisle from me leaned over and went "hey... are you on your way to Otakon?" So which I said ".__. Yes?" XD; She had seen my KH and Furuba keychains lawl. SO I scooted over so I was sitting on the aisle and she did the same, and we fangirled and chatted for the next like... four and a half hours. XD;

There were jokes about Marlyland. Especially when we crossed into it, and the Welcome sign had big flamboyant flowers on it. ♥♥♥

Z~ I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN YOUR EMAIL! I TRIED TO LOOK FOR YOU AT ARTIST ALLEY BUT COULDN'T FIND YOU! DDDD: IF BY SOME MIRACLE YOU SEE THIS, COMMENT OR MESSAGE ME OR SOMETHING!

Right, so we got to the first bus terminal in Baltimore around noon, and Z and I both hopped off and got KFC for lunch because we were starving. But we took it back to the bus to eat because we were paranoid about them leaving without us. lol. Then it was around 12:45pm when we finally arrived at the downtown terminal, where Z and I were both getting off. I waited with her for ten minutes or so until her friends came to pick her up, then went outside and found a cab to take to the Sheraton.

CABS IN BALTIMORE ARE DIRT CHEAP HOMG. O___O;; Why can't cabs here cost that much? ;w;

Wow, I'm easily distracted lol. Moving on! I got to the Sheraton and checked to see if Maddie and Chloe had arrived/checked in yet, and they hadn't. So I checked my bags and sat down in the comfy comfy chair by the computer in the lobby to wait for them. About half an hour later they arrived, and there was much hugging and bitching about various modes of transportation. Then we checked in and went up to the room to crash and wait for Mel and Michelle. ♥

The rest of the day was pretty much organizing things and chatting, and deciding sleeping arrangements (Maddie/Chloe/Reno/Link/Rufus/etc. in one bed, Mel/Michelle/Kanda/Eiji/Naoji/Irvine/etc. in the other, me under the desk (NO I'm not kidding XD;;) with Kadaj/Kurai/Luke, Hikaru and Kaoru in the closet, Shuichi/Chrono/Mahiru in the bathtub, and a lot of others that I'm sure I'm forgetting. Sephiroth slept standing up when he wasn't busy with prostitutes. xDD;;) We also went out to a mall and got dinner, then a t-shirt for Michelle. I had to resist the urge to play in the fountains there, Demyx muse thought that would be FUN. :D

Thursday, the 7th: We all slept until noon out of sheer travel exhaustion. Then we had donuts for breakfast, and got into Cosplay to go and pick up our con badges. Michelle and I were RY-highschool!Kadaj and Luke, Maddie was casual!Rufus, Chloe was Reno, and Mel was turk!Kanda. The story was that Rufus was babysitting Luke and Kadaj and Reno and Kanda were along as his bodyguards. Kadaj was NOT AMUSED to have a babysitter. >.>;

After we got our badges we all split up (I believe Maddie wasn't feeling well, so she and Chloe went back to the hotel ahead of us, and Michelle went to dinner with Alicia), and on the way back to the hotel, Mel and I got caught in a random torrential downpour. XD;; So we were soaked and pathetic looking by the time we got back. I'm glad I was wearing a tank top underneath my school uniform shirt. .__.;

Later on after we were changed and dry, we went out for dinner, and on the way was when we stopped to play at the fountain by the harbor and I did my EPIC FACEPLANT. YAY my first injury of the vacation! =D;;

No big deal though. ♥ After I got myself picked up, we headed off to the harbor front center and got dinner. I can't remember the name of the restaurant, but the service SUCKED. Good thing the food was AWESOME or I'd've been pretty pissed. Seriously though, I got the BEST FREAKING SAMMICH IN THE WORLD there. *drool*

Michelle met us at the restaurant, and after that it was back to the hotel for sleep, but not before making our first voice post to the RY OOC comm and coloring our RY shirts. ♥♥ That was awesome fun, especially after a while since the markers were permanent and we didn't have a window open.

THERE WILL BE SEPHIROTH COOKIE JOKES FOREVER. XDD

Friday the 8th: First day of the con! ...we all slept in and missed our morning panels. XD;; D'OH. But we were all exhausted, so it wasn't really a surprise. >>;

When we finally did get up, we all got into our cosplay for the day and headed off; Mel and I were running late trying to get my skirt done, and finally I just pinned it and wore it like that. We went and wandered around the convention center a bit; took some pics. I found an awesome Zelos, and should have taken a pic with her, instead of just of her, since I was in my Kyo outfit. Boo, boo, I faaaaail.

Eventually we found the dealer's room, and wandered around there for about half an hour. I got my brother a cute stuffed dragon for his dragon collection (I almost kept it. >.>;;) Then it was off again to the D.Gray photoshoot, where there was INSANITY. It was fun though, I'd never actually gone to a photoshoot at a con before. It was utter CRACK, but so awesome. :3

Then after the photoshoot ended, we all sat down together to read porn. XD;;

After the porn, Mel went off with some of the D.Gray people, and Michelle, Maddie and I went to look for Chloe. We were supposed to go see the Lolita fashion show, but we couldn't get in, so instead we went back to the dealer's room. I got some manga (Loveless, Furuba, Tsubasa), and there was a booth selling bondage gear, so I got a leather collar with a bell on it for my Kyo costume. xD; Kekeke.

That night I went with Maddie and Michelle (and Chloe? You were there, weren't you?) to the yaoi panel in Kadaj-in-a-dress cosplay just for the hell of it. ^.^; My muses haet me so much now.

Saturday the 9th: I was supposed to go to a D.Gray photoshoot with Mel that morning, but... I slept through it. Bah. So when I got up I waited until everyone was gone (since there weren't really any panels I wanted to go to) and then tidied a bit. Seriously, our freaking hotel room looked like a tornado had gone through it, and I was starting to have OCD twitches at the mess. >.<;

Then after a while, Maddie and Chloe came back (with foodz!) and we ate there. While we were eating, Mel showed up with Lavi (whose name I don't remember); they weren't there long, but they were there long enough for us to get Lavi/Reno photos. lmao. ♥

When we were done eating I got into my Haruhi outfit (contacts and all), and we went to this comedy thing at the con... Japanese comedic storytelling, which has an actual name but I can't think of it right now. -.-; But it was very funny and I enjoyed it immensely. Haha. After that, Maddie, Chloe and I went to the Mason building to take EPIC Turk photos. Seriously. When I say epic, I mean EPIC. >w<~ We also took a few pics of Haruhi!me as well, but I like the Turk ones better. :3

After the photos we actually found an open pharmacy for me to get bandages for my knees. HUZZAH. We also got more donuts for breakfast the next day. Later I dressed up as casual!Allen using my Kadaj wig and was supposed to go to the D.Gray shoot that night (there were like ten of them lol), but we were running late so Michelle and I had to skip it and go straight to the old school yaoi panel we wanted to attend.

Sunday the 10th: ...was mostly packing, organizing, and then going to the dealer's room, where I bought even more stuff. >>; I got a bunch of buttons, an adorable plush bunny-thing, and Sephiroth, Kadaj and Roxas figures. It was a tossup between Roxas and Axel, really. Axel next time I have some cash! ♥

EDIT: Oh yes, before the dealer's room we went to the D.Gray panel, and then took photos outside that room. Then was also when we got out the leftover cookies to give out. Chloe was adorable handing them out. Eventually we just started yelling "FREE COOKIES!" and we went through TWO AND A HALF CONTAINERS of them in like two minutes after that. XD; But that's good because I really didn't want to have to haul them home. ♥ Haha.

After the dealer's room, the con was pretty much closed, so we went for lunch, then back to the hotel to get our things. Mel, Maddie and I took everything in a cab with us to the new hotel (CHEAP CAB WAS CHEAP) while Chloe accompanied Michelle to her place to drop some stuff off and get her car.

We got to the new hotel and I promptly fell asleep. .__.;; On their way to there, Michelle and Chloe picked up snacks and cup noodles for us, and that night we pretty much just chilled and watched movies; first, Sensitive Pornograph (which the DVD player there didn't like D:), then Brokeback Mountain (WHICH I NEED A COPY OF DAMMIT) and finally Black Sheep. Hehehe zombie sheep ftw. ♥♥

Monday the 11th: WAS AQUARIUM DAY. \o/\o/\o/ Demyx-muse APPROVES OF AQUARIUMS.

We all slept in again (I was under the table in the new room, whereas I was under the desk at the old one lol), then got into cosplay to go to the aquarium at 2pm even though the con was over. Aquarium cosplay is fun. :D

My legs tried to die on the way there, but once we were inside and moving more slowly they decided they didn't hate me too much anymore. That was the best aquarium ever though. ♥ I could have watched the manta ray pool all day, or the sharks, or the dolphins. ^__^ We pretty much stayed until closing, then did a bunch of photos by the fountain (where I fell before), and headed back to the hotel. Mel and I went swimming for a while, then I re-packed everything, bashed my arm in the bathroom, and went to sleep since I had to get up at an ungodly hour the next morning. D:

Tuesday the 12th: Got up at like 5am. UGH. Got showered and dressed, then hauled all my stuff outside so that I wouldn't disturb everyone else. Sat around and waited for my cab. And waited. And waited. It never showed up. Luckily, another cab happened by and I flagged him down to take me to the greyhound station. Whoot.

Cue 13-hour ride to Dayton. When I got to the station the woman at the counter was an utter BITCH to me, to the point I was about to cry because I didn't have enough cash to get my second suitcase on the bus and she wouldn't take my Mom's credit card number WHICH I HAD ON ME FOR JUST SUCH AN EMERGENCY. >__O;; Then after watching me freak out for ten minutes she just looks at me with an annoyed expression and goes "just ask the bus driver, he'll probably let you take it on anyway."

WHAT. FUCK YOU LADY, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT TO BEGIN WITH?!

Whatever. So I spent all of the drive to Dayton with my backpack and a suitcase on the bus with me. It was a pain, but at least I didn't have to leave anything behind. Then when I got to Dayton, Maddie and Chloe weren't there to pick me up. ;~; It wasn't their fault, their plane had been delayed, but I panicked a little until I finally got Michelle's text about it at TEN. wtf phone? Delayed text messaging much?

At least while I was waiting, I taught myself how to use the phone more. Even how to text. Whoo, go me!

They got there to pick me up around 11:20pm, and we went back to their place and chatted/organized/gave pets to kitties before dying some more.

Wednesday the 13th: Chloe had to work. T__T So after sleeping half the day, Maddie and I took Dayton's busses out to Walmart to pick up her last paycheck, and while we were out there we found a bank that would exchange Canadian monies, since I was out of American ones. Yay.

After that we went back to their place and did not much, though I did do some laundry in their haunted basement and was stared at from the corner the whole time. o__o;; I hope I didn't make anything angry.

That night we ordered pizza and these chocolate dipper things that were SO GOOD. =w= We don't have them at the Pizza Hut here, I already checked. >>; We also watched Dog Soldiers, but we only half paid attention to it. *shrug*

...finally at midnight-ish we decided to go to bed, which was awful because I had to get up at 3:30am the next morning to have a bath and get all my stuff together for the bus to Ashtabula. It was even worse because SOMETHING was playing with the zippers on my suitcases while I was trying to sleep, making them jingle. Could have been worse, I suppose.

Thursday the 14th: Got up at 3:30am for a bath, and when I came back down from that, I thought I saw a cat in the corner of the dining room. But I knew Saiga and Kakei were locked away upstairs. I kind of shrugged it off. Then later at the bus stop, I mentioned that something had been jingling the zippers all night and they were like "maybe it was the ghost cat" and I was like "... o__o;; Srsly?"

XDDD;;

Then, bus to Ashtabula! ...I fell off it. >___>;;

When we got to Ashtabula, I was stepping down and tripped, and fell on my face on the pavement. I scraped my knees up again, and this time my right one bled like It'd been cut down to the bone or something. Everyone that had been on the bus rushed to help me up, which was very nice, but I really was alright. ^^;;

That was when Cat McD and her kittens came to get me, and we went back to her place. Jasmine and AJ are so cute! And while I'm generally not fond of children, they were pretty much non-offensive. I got a lot of hugs and stuff. Hehe.

That night after they were in bed, Cat and I watched Black Sheep, and then a really terrible viking movie that I can't remember the title of. XD;; It was SO awesome. I think I need a copy of it. We also started to watch Dog Soldiers, but then we both fell asleep in the middle of it. FAIL~ lawl.

Friday the 15th: Got up early because that's what one does when there are childlings in the house. ♥ Watched Numbers and generally were tired and lazy until it was time for me to catch the bus. Cat and her kids saw me off, and I promised to come back and visit again some time. Possibly next year after Otakon again, depending on finances...

BUS AGAIN. This time to Toronto. lmao, the best thing was when we went through Canadian Customs! When I went through the US Customs they were all "RAWR!" over the anime con thing, but when I went through Canada Customs and said "I was at an anime con" the girl went "AWESOME! :D" XDDD; YAY CANADA CUSTOMS OMG HEHE!

When I got to TO, I took an {expensive} cab to the hotel -cat was staying at, and met up with her. =3 We went for FOOD, which was awesome because I was getting seriously tired/sick of the crap I'd been living off of the previous week and a half. I mean seriously. I got a burger, but it had VEGETABLE MATTER on it, and came with a salad. SO YUMMY AFTER VENDING MACHINE/CONVENIENCE STORE FOOD. \o/

Saturday the 16th: I slept in while -cat went to some con stuff, then around lunch time I finally got up and ready and we went to the World's Biggest Bookstore via the subway. Subways... make me nervous. I mean, I know it's no big deal, but for some reason I'm not super comfy on them. Probably because I've only been on one twice in my life. ^^; Oh well.

The bookstore was awesome as usual. I spent like $130, which was fine since I'd set aside about $150 for the bookstore alone. xD;; I finally got some D.Gray manga. Then I got lots of books, hehe. So happy~ and when we got back to the hotel -cat helped me streak my hair pink, which I LOVE. Then she had a pizza party thing, so I hung around and watched TV, and used her computer a little.

Sunday the 17th: The next morning I slept in again, and said goodbye to -cat since she was off to do more con stuff. I tried to get ahold of Kerry, but my phone didn't like her number. ;~~~; So I missed her! No fair! ...at least she was having fun at her con and everything though. ♥ Sorry Kerry! Next time I promise!

EDIT: This was the day I fell in the shower, too. >>;;

And finally, a bus home to Orillia! SO EXHAUSTED, but it was SO MUCH FUN. ^__^

...and yeeeah. Photos later. >>;; Just typing this took like two hours. Now is time for sleeps.

Photos of the way my hair is streaked now. I swear sometime tomorrow or the next day will be an epic-long Otakon post including photos. For now you can see a few pics at my DevART.

( Pretty red-pink~ )

lul I look kind of cheeky in those, don't I? xD;; I couldn't seem to get any better photos than those, but I thought they were kind of cute and you get the idea about my hair. I'm all ^.~ in them. ♥

...my knees hurt A LOT tonight. The joints are loose too. I really screwed my legs up this last week and a bit. -.-;

*FACEPALM* I just slipped and fell in the bathroom after my shower. I'll be so glad to get home where I can go back to injuring myself in familiar ways. -.-;;;

Maddie I lost your challenge already. ;o;

Still in Baltimore. 8D

Mmm, after faceplanting on Thursday, I've been dealing with the aftermath since. >>; My knees are FUCKED. Not just scraped all to hell, but I put one of them out when I fell too. UGH. Still, it's not stopping me from flouncing around the con in various rediculous outfits. :D

Yesterday, I was girl!Kyo. Mel was supposed to help me with the last bits of my skirt but the sewing machine died. ><; So I just pinned it together with safety pins and wore it anyway. XD; Kyo-muse was NOT IMPRESSED with the skirt, or the knee socks, or the boobs. Or the leather bondage collar I got in the dealer's room to wear with the outfit. It had a giant kitty-bell and a place to clip a leash. (Kadaj-muse LOVES that collar SO MUCH OMG.)

Anyway, I went to the dealer's room with Mel for a bit, then to a D.Gray photoshoot, which was AWESOME. She was in v3 Kanda outfit, and we took lots of fun pics, then when the shoot ended we all sat down and had a porn powwow and read a bunch of the doujin that Mel got in the dealer's room. XD;; Haha. Then she went off with some of the D.Gray people and I met up with Maddie and Michelle, and we went to find Chloe. <3

For the rest of the day I was Kyo, who was an animal from Pet Shop Of Horrors since Chloe and Maddie were dressed as D and Leon. KYO WANTS OUT OF THIS PET SHOP. >__O; LOL.

Then today after sleeping through another D.Gray shoot I was supposed to go to, I got into my Host Club uniform and accompanied Maddie (Tseng) and Chloe (Reno) to a comedy thing. It was awesome. After that we went to take Turk pics around the city and I played photographer. We found some great spots that made me wish we'd had a Rude to do photos with too. D: Still, I have TURK PHOTOS OF WIN to share when I get back. Then they took some cute pics of me as Haruhi by some trees and flowers. <3

Let's see. Today I also finally found an open pharmacy to get some bandages for my knees too. It only took two days. >>;; And we got more donuts. lawl we've been eating them for breakfast since Wednesday. xD; *fail*

Other than that, we've been making the occasional voice (or OOC-IC post) to RY to share the experience with everyone else. YOU MUST ALL COME NEXT YEAR DAMMIT, WE'VE ALREADY GOT PLANS FOR YOU. >D OH and then last night Pronnie called to laugh at me for falling on my face. Love you too Pronnie. Can't find my ribbons, so no Kadaj-in-ribbons photos. But I do have Kadaj-in-a-dress photos for you instead. XD;