Ohno makes my heart all melty. <3



I'm going out to buy this single, along with Believe maybe tomorrow.  I have to check my bank account first.  If not tomorrow, then on the 17th for sure, 'coz that's when I get my scholarship!  And what better way to spend the money they give me than on everything with Ohno's face on it?  :D

A new year full to the brim with concerts!  Here are the ones that I am/plan on going to so far:


Bottle Cap Label - January 17
One OK Rock - January 24 (need to buy ticket)
Fall Out Boy - February 6 (need to pay friend for ticket)
Flumpool - March 1 (need to buy ticket)


Of course, you can all assume that as soon as Arashi does another tour, I will be going to every single show.  Or, at least as many as I can afford to go to.  x3  Possibly a Kanjani 8 show, too, if they do a tour while I'm still here.  They look ridiculously fun to have a concert with.  But mainly, this is Arashi's year, and I'mma see my boys in style.  <3

Oh, and if I recall correctly, Cobra Starship is doing a concert or two in Tokyo sometime later in January/February.  I would love to be able to go see that and be all, "HEY I SAW YOU IN IOWA. :D".

Mucc is being dumb and touring overseas currently.  LAME.  C'mon, Tatsuro... You said you'd see me again!  What is this crap touring the states?  Get your ass back here to your own damn country and tour here, bitch.  >[

I made some New Years Resolutions.  Wanna hear them?  Of course you do!  :D

1. Write & send Ohno at least one letter.  I'm here in Japan.  Should I pass up the oppertunity to communicate with my idol?  I think not!
2. Make more Japanese friends.  Ties in with...
3. Speak more Japanese.  Read more Japanese.  Write more Japanese.  I need to keep up with my translating projects and I should watch Japanee TV instead of watching movies on my computer.

Yeah, that's about it.  Other than those three things, I'm pretty damn content with my life at the moment.  :]

Hope everyone else had a happy new year and all that good stuff!  <3

I'm off to bed, as I have to be up early to go visit Nani's host family in Gifu with her tomorrow.  Fun times!  :Db

PEACE.

I AM GOING TO JAPAN.  I AM STUDYING ABROAD AT NAGOYA UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES.  I WILL BE LEAVING THIS AUGUST AND RETURNING TO THE STATES IN JULY OF 2009.

Technically, it isn't completely official yet, since I just turned my application in yesterday, but when I talked with Maria today, I asked her how likely it was that I would be accepted into this program because I needed to know whether or not to let Anne know if I would be living with her next year.  Maria Hope put it this way:

"Don't worry about finding a place to live.  Go call your parents and tell them that you're going!"

So...

I'M GOING TO JAPAN!! :D:D:D

I got a text from my dad this morning.  We are officially going to Ireland for Spring Break.

Um, awesome much?

You fucking bet!  We leave March 16th and will get back March 22nd.  I will be in Ireland for St. Patrick's Day on March 17th.  Every single person I know even a little bit (including that guy that I had a conversation with yesterday at Hy-Vee) should be jealous.  Ah hahahaha!  I love it!

On the concert front, I might not be going to the P!ATD concert on May 24th.  I still wanna go to a P!ATD concert, it just probably won't be on that date/in that place.  May 24th is my brother's Graduation Party that I must be in attendance to.  Oh, and I might be maybe going to the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour with Jenn.  We're going for the JRock bands playing: D'espairsray and Mucc.  I guess there's one more Jrock band - the Underneath.  On top of that, there's Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Bless The Fall, and Idiot Pilot.  I listen to the first three American bands listed.

For both of those concerts it depends on whether or not I'll have money for the tickets (they're both about $35) and then whether or not I can find dates that I can go on/places I can get to.  I wanna go to both!  D:

That reminds me... I need to print off those applications, fill them out, and turn them back in so I can get a job so I can actually have money for once.

At least I got the appointment made for the pictures I'm supposed to have.  And Adrianne will have her letter in later this week.  Then all I've got to do is write the essay and get the letter from Nakakubo sensei back.  Sweeeeeeeeet.

Life is good right now.  :)

Yay, they finally emailed me back!  I'm with the same lady who did my preliminary meeting, Eva Scoen or something like that.  She has the stereotypical therapist accent.  It's awesome.

So, more memos for me:

TO DO THIS WEEK:

• Call SHS to set up an appointment
• Monday @ 3:30
  
• Call Scott Trade and get monies
• Send check to parents
• Get a tighter sweater vest and khaki skirt for femme Azi costume
  
• For the weekend
• Start paper for Interpretation of Literature
• Call mom about card
• Clean room
• Finish decorating?
• Hang up/put away clean clothes
• Another load of laundry?
• Study vocab for Thursday and Friday
• Make flashcards
• Study for S&C midterm Monday!!
• Figure out what the hell I'm/we're doing this weekend  >_<

Okay, so, the degree I want at IPR doesn't take four years. It typically takes 18-24 months. That pretty much sealed it for me. I'm going to IPR after I graduate Iowa and I'm getting my AAS in Music & Entertainment Business. :D:D:D:D

All I need to worry about now is magically pulling about $30,000 out of my ass and finding somewhere to live in fucking Minneapolis for two years. -_-;;

But, god, none of you readers know how happy I am about this. It's seriously, like, my dream. I've always wanted to work in the music business. It's just been kind of hard to find a school that offers the degree I'm after. And, now, some of you may ask why I'm at Iowa taking Japanese when it's been my dream to work in the music industry. Well, living in Japan and being fluent in Japanese is another dream of mine, one that was seemingly more easily attainable than my music industry dream. I was torn when I was looking at colleges, I really was. But now it's all working out, so, YAY. :D My goal in life will be fulfilled! If I were a Sim, accomplishing this would give me Platinum Aspiration/Mood for life.

I will get these two degrees, move to Japan, and either teach English while on the lookout for a hot, upcoming Jrock band and then manage them to the top of the charts or start working for Johnny and try to get all of his boys more popularity in the States/other English-speaking countries.  YOSH.  :D:D:D

In other news: Boys are failures at life. So is my family. I, however, am not.  :P  Also, IT'S MY LAST DAY AT HY-VEE. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

I am almost officially done with finals!

All I have left to take is the one that really matters... >_>;;

P.S.  Becca and Jason, you guys had better not be working or having sex when I get home Friday...!  D<

xD;

*sigh*  I love Arashi.

So, Arashi pretty much owns at life.

I'm... okay, because of them.  Stupid boys.  I wonder if they ever think about whether or not their music impacts people.  If they do, I hope they realize that they have a more profound impact than they know.

I'm gonna base the character sketches off of how they look in the We Can Make It PV.  It's gonna be sweet.  :D

This weekend/today almost killed me. Whatever, I hate school.

Speaking of, I should get started on that lab report and do a few more pages of my graphic novella... >_>;;

Okay, so maybe I kind of hate life a little more than I did when I was listening to Arashi.  Whatever.  I'll go back and listen to some more Arashi to make it better.

Okay, so despite pretty much everything that's been happening in my life, I'm surprisingly content.

I should really get my nose to the books in all of my classes.  I've got at least four papers due sometime soon here, not to mention the massive amounts of studying I need to do for finals.

I've got an hour and 10 minutes left.  ^____^

I really wanna go karaoke sometime.  Especially if we go with a bunch of cute Japanese guys.  ^_~  I just wanna sing with a bunch of people in front of other people in a casual/drunken setting.  :P

Oh, yeah, Koiki almost bit it quite a few times last night.  Everything always seemed to be happening to me... And I kept rolling low.  ;-;  First, I was stuck in a pit of spikes named Steve, then I was the only one left un-invisible so I got attacked by a giant flaming monster thing, then I managed to get caught by almost every trap.  Including the giant fireball that exploded Jon.  -_-;  Whatevs, I'm still alive and more importantly, so is Teru.  :P

But, yeah, lots o' shit went down last night.  Lots of us got pissed off/upset at each other and all that kind of good stuff.  Hopefully, the next campaign will be a bit better for everyone now that us beginners know the rules a tad bit better.

I can't tell you how much I wish we could shut up and smile...

I need to go buy pens and shit for my novella.  I should do that today and maybe I can work on it during break or something tonight.  Oh, right, I should maybe write that paper and see if I can't get that Japanese homework done before work/class, too.  I plan on going straight to sleep when I get off of work tonight.

Is the title to a story I'm writing.  Well, not so much "story" as "fangirly fanfic", but whatevs.

It's about me an' Chelsea in Japan chillin' with (among other things) the boys of Arashi (and possibly other Johnny's boys, I have not decided).


Oh yeah...  Lawls, that'll probably happen, should I ever go over there.

Anyways, I've been writing Study Abroad for the past two hours or so.  I need to go to bed so I can wake up and go to the library and watch that damn movie for Rhetoric.  >_>

Lawls, I hate my brother's new dog.  :D

Oh, yeah, and this icon amuses me because it's so true.  All of those little fuckers could get away with saying that... and having it actually happen.  >_>;;

So, yeah, yay for already closing the gap on my credit limit.  :P

Shopping with gay guys is fun!

My mom said she was gonna come up today so I could sign the tax papers or something because apparently I need to.  But she hasn't called yet to tell me she's leaving.  I haven't gone to the library to watch that silly movie for Rhetoric because I don't wanna have to run back when she calls me.  Whatevs, I'll go watch it tomorrow or something.  The library doesn't close 'til 10:00 tonight.

Aaaanyways, my brother got a dog.  Her name is Autumn and she likes chasing my cat.  >_>;

And I got a bunch of new DS games and I can't seem to stop playing them.  I got Nintendogs, the Lab & Friends one.  I have a lovely little Shiba Inu pup named Captain.

... I'M NOT OBSESSED.

omgiwanttodosatoshisofuckingbadly!

Fuck.  I was trying to go 24 hours without saying his name.  >_>  I totally just squee'd it.

Whatevs.  I'd still jump his bones.  :P

So, Chelsea's a dork.  But, so am I.  xP

Old people are cool... As long as they aren't messaging you online... >_>;;

The stuff used to clean the urinals makes my arms red and splotchy and itchy.  The fumes from the other cleaning stuff makes me crazy in the brain.

I like ordering an assload of McNuggets at 1 in the morning.

I wanted to be in bed two hours ago.  Damn you, Makudo, Chelsea, and Study Abroad!  *shakes fist*

Okay, I really just wanted to use this icon because it amuses me.

Shaddupihateloveyou.  >_o;

So, I'm wondering if payment has been taken out on my Arashi Around Asia photobook yet.  So, I go log on to Wells Fargo and I'm looking at my credit card.  And then I'm looking at my other monies.  And I'm all "... Wait... That money... It wasn't there before..."

'Coz I GOT PAID~!!

$100.87 for Kate!  Minus $60 for a NewS CD.  But, oh so worth it.  That only leaves me with $40 until the next payday, which is... Uh... April 3rd.  Which is totally kick ass, because I'll have worked more than just two days.  I'm so excited.  I did not expect to make that much!

Anyways, I'm gonna use some of my next (hopefully) bigger paycheck to start paying of my credit card.  Also to buy me more user pics.  And to get Chelsea a paid account for longer than 2 months.  :P  'Coz she is teh 4w3s0m3.

Ha, it's 3 in the morning and I'm still awake.  What is wrong with me?  I was so tired until I walked Chelsea home and walked back.  I hate you, cold air that wakes me up.

I can turn my head to the right now!  Well, I can turn it about half way of what I usually can.  I wonder what the hell I did to get that knot in my neck.  Oh well.  Motrin makes it hurt less.  (DUH).

When the hell did I put these songs on iTunes?  I definitely do not remember ever listening to this song... But iTunes is all, "You've listened to this song 57 times!"  I promise you iTunes is lying.  It's a lying little bitch.  iTunes.  >P

This post really has no point.  o_o  Oh, wait, yes it did.  Way up at the beginning.  Now, though, it doesn't.  Ah, well.

!!!  YAY~!  Stand UP!! Is done downloading!  Uh... I shouldn't start... I'll wait 'til I have the whole thing.  THEN I'll obsessively watch it.  OMG, I still need to watch the finale of Gokusen.  =_= I don't want it to end...!  j _ j

Okay, I'm gonna stop rambling now.

I used to long for time alone.
I used to long for a place of my own.
And I'm, loosing faith in every thing.
I'm lost, so lost, I'm lost without you~!

Oh~ Mercy Me!  God bless catastrophe!

I'm actually really bored and have nothing of interest to post here.  :P

Perhaps I'll post something interesting and somewhat worthwhile to read a bit later.

But for now, I'd just like to state how much I am in love with NewS.  *squeeeeeee*MASSU*dies*

'Kay, I'm done.  :P

Got that stupid Rhetoric presentation done and out of the way.  Yosh.

I need to reschedule that appointment for meeting with my academic adviser.  I need to talk to him about perhaps adding International Business or International Studies stuff.  Because I decidedly want to work in the music business in Japan.  AKA, I want to work for Johnny.

My Neighbor Totoro and a nice, long, hot, steamy shower made me feel wonderfully better.  As long as certain things don't happen, I will continue to feel wonderfully better.

By the way, I love when my roommate works.  I get to sit around in nothing but my towel.  I love it!  ^__^

So, tonight, before D&D, I will sit here and continue to improve my mood by listening to Arashi and News.  Perhaps some Golf & Mike thrown in for fun.

And then after D&D I will read for lecture tomorrow.  And by tomorrow, I secretly mean Friday.  And I'll whip a few more pages for my novella out of my ass or something so Rachel doesn't yell at me.

Oh, my god, I think I just had an orgasm.  I realized I don't have to wake up until 2:30 tomorrow and 12:30 Friday.  OH, GOD YES~~~!!

So, tomorrow, whenever I decide to wake up, I will go either make an appointment to meet with my adviser or actually just have a walk-in meeting with him, depending

And, perhaps, Chelsea and I will finally get around to calling to look at apartments...  >_>;;

Wow, I'm in a good mood!  NewS and long showers do that to me, I guess!  ^____^ v

OMFJP, I love Satoshi.  SSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXX WITH RIIIIIIDAAA~~~~~~~~!!!!!!

...Done.

Sooooo~!  ^_^

Yeah!

Not only am I absolutely head over heels in love with Arashi, but I'm in an amazing mood.  ^_^ b

Even though things are kind of falling apart.  ._.;

I should... Be studying now... >_>;

Chelsea isn't online for me to fangirl with.  And Aaron isn't around for me to fangirl at.  So.  I shall fangirl here.

Aiba: xD  AIBA.  I love you.  You're so cute!  And you're prettier than me!  ;-;  No fair...!  ...AIBA.  XD  STOP BEING HYPER.  No one can keep up with you!  xD

Nino: You.  Are.  Amazing!  Gah!  Nino!  >_<;; GAH!  Don't be emo!  :P  Keep being that strange combination of cute and hot, though.  It works.  You pull it off.  And make me die whenever I see you.  :P

Sho: SEEEEZZZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX,  With you!  >_o;  You big, fat, dork.  I hate you.  >_>;;  Seriously.  Stop being hot.  Just... Go die.  ............  After you've had sex with me.  xP

Ohno: I.  Want.  You.  a;lsdjfaldkj SEXWITHYOU.  NOW!  You, dripping with sweat and dancing makes my day instantly better.  Hell, you in general makes my day instantly better.  GHA!  >_<;; RIIDA.  <3<3<3  It amuses me how you are shorter than the juniors.  xD  GAH!!!  >_<;;;;;  Ohno.  lajsdf;lakjsdfa GAH!.  x_X;  You dork!  I want to do you!  >_o;

Okay... I've got the majority of my fangirling out of the way.  Perhaps now I can get some sleep, ne?

I love Arashi.

^_____________^