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Pink USB drive, pre-deco

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pink “netbook accessory set” – tiny mouse!

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an interesting disclaimer on a jacket I bought (it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!)

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pink USB drive, post-deco. not the best deco job, but I just wanted it to stop being that weird pink color.

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pink rose hair clip.

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My Sephora order – the fiberwig duo set, Shiseido’s mascara base, and a set of three Sephora lip glosses as my chosen free birthday gift XD

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Doing more planning for August, using my trusty Bilingual Tokyo Atlas. The Kyoto/Osaka one is sadly not quite as helpful…

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Keys to my new car~~ a black Ford Focus tentatively named 桜夜 (Sakuya).

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I got tired of using my brown table as background so I tried the next laziest thing – my planner XD; Sparkly star jewelry ftw!

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Been reading this – Maskerade by Terry Pratchett (<3 Discworld!)

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One of my most favorite nail colors ever – Cherry Crush by Revlon. The nail polish itself is pretty nice quality, too – very opaque and doesn’t chip easily (esp. if you use a topcoat).

Uwa~ looks like I’ve really been neglecting this blog!
Somehow my life has been kind of busy lately so I kept putting off updating and now it’s been 2 weeks!

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the three faces of (Nendoroid) Mio~ (I’ve got a review of her coming up soon!)

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my newly prettified monitor stand! Kona’s アホ毛 is blocking Haruhi XD; Yes, those are the Suzumiya Haruhi Pinky:st girls (although I swapped Tsuruya’s long green hair for some cute brown curls). Kona, Kagamin and Haruhi are all pointing at me, reminding me to stay on task! (well, it doesn’t always work, but. XD;; )

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This… might also have contributed to my not blogging (^^;;; ) Dragonica Online, an MMORPG that’s cute and I’d been following for a while before it opened… and then Shirayuki died on me and I was using Ai XD; But! I’m able to play now (I’ll explain later) and it’s pretty entertaining. I have a lv20 warrior girl and I’m debating changing classes or trying to see if the “hidden” classes really exist…

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Edible chalk! also known as off-brand Tums. I’ve been ordered to take them, along with another pill I think I took a photo of later. V. colorful, right? Fruit flavored XD Kind of tastes like smarties… if they were made out of chalk.

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Tiny cupcake~ one of my birthday ones! Well, technically it was made to be a seasonal (Valentine’s) cupcake, but.

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Another missed package! But this time I didn’t even know it was coming! And the tracking # was written wrong on the paper so I couldn’t request redelivery (-_-; ) It was full of Japanese snacks :9 well, mostly おっとっと XD;

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Somehow ginger ale (in particular, Canada Dry) has become my soda of choice at home. (I always get coke/pepsi while at restaurants… I don’t think they tend to have ginger ale) The redesigned cans are pretty~

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I haven’t been eating a lot of candy recently, but when I saw this at the grocery store I decided I had to try it. (Because I love pb <3) It's pretty similar to normal Reese's, just with 2x the pb. Not bad.

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The base of the doll-sized dressform I bought while out XD Unfortunately I don’t really have a lot of extra outfits for Aryanna so I don’t have anything to put on it at the moment… XD;;

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Aryanna’s new wig! (Well, one of two) Yes, it is really that light. It’s much lighter than the color seemed in the photos… oh well. But the wig itself is very cool! it has two clip-on extension curls <3 <3

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おっとっと!~ They are v. similar to goldfish in the sense that they’re light, airy, crunchy snacks that are shaped like things that live in water. Only おっとっと is 10000x more tasty and the alternate flavors are also nice.

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Chinese New Year was on Valentine’s Day this year. Well, red for both, I guess XD;

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An adorable Marie notebook I bought at Narita airport before leaving Japan last time XD So cute! Came with stickers, too~

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The screwdriver Sony sent me to remove/replace my hdd with. The handle is long and skinny, which is good for removing screws on laptops. It’s also slightly magnetized <3 I get to keep it <3

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And finally, Yui arrived today! Her box is pink! ♥ (Mio’s was blue! hee hee~ { if you don’t get why that’s good, just ignore it~ }) I love that she has TWO v-pose hands… うふふふ～

Okay! More posts will be forthcoming! Promise!

but first…
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A photo from my massive sales shoot that didn’t get used. (I love that top but it’s just too small to wear comfortably.)

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and this photo brings me to what I want to talk about…

to-do lists. todo lists. grammatically correct or not, they’re the only reason I remember to do anything I meant to do hours or days ago. I have a pretty short attention span (that only seems to be getting worse) and so what I do is largely dictated by whatever pops into my head at the moment.
It’s a great way to waste time (I should know) but not so great if I actually want to get anything productive done. I mean, that actually makes sense to be doing when I’m doing it. I’m a professional procrastinator – want me to do the dishes? Tell me I have to sort through laundry. Whatever I’m supposed to be doing, almost anything else seems more appealing. Which, when it comes down to it, substituting chores for other chores seems like a strange diversion tactic.

But that’s not the point. (See? distractions…)

What I mean is, how do you know what, and how much, to put on your to-do list?
A lot of varied tasks that you might get to at least some, if not most of them?
A short list that you’ll definitely complete, but is somehow lacking in substance?
A bunch of long-term goals you’re never quite sure you’ve finished?

I tend to subscribe to philosophy #1. I have to limit the physical size of my list, otherwise I’ll just end up making lists all day…

Ideally, of course, you’d make a concise list of exactly what you need to get done and all of it is technically feasible for that timeframe. I know all about breaking down large goals into smaller, more easily quantified tasks, but sometimes even that much seems like too much effort XD; So I’ll have a mixed bag kind of list.

I recently bought a (somewhat silly) girly to-do pad, that includes columns for “To Do”, “Calls”, “Errands” and “Misc” – the category above is my “Misc”; it has tended to contain longer-term tasks that are not essential to daily life (like this blog. Sorry, but until someone is paying me to do this it’s way down on the priority list XD;) I’ve found that having to categorize what I’m thinking of doing helps me sort out things I should be doing rather than things I’d either like to be doing, or think would be nice to get done.
I still end up with a lot of overarching megatasks though. (Surprisingly “clean up x room” is not as simple as it sounds on paper.)

In addition, I have a skinny vertically oriented Muji-brand notepad that I have been trying to use for small, daily tasks (i.e. “wash dishes”, “clean makeup brushes”) although occasionally I’ll slip up and add things that really belong on the big sheet of paper.

I’d been pretty good about making/reviewing my lists for a while, and then for some reason stopped in the past few days.
It was a really noticeable change. I have no idea what I accomplished, or whether I even accomplished anything (aside from what I did today, I suppose)! Thankfully I continued to monitor my vitamin use in my desk calendar or I would have had no idea whether I’d taken any of those, either! (And the iron supplement is the most scary of the bunch – easy to overdo and icky consequences. I’d rather skip a day than take two by accident by far.)

It’s funny because the desk calendar was a completely on-a-whim purchase. It was pink, and cheap, and looked pretty decent, so I said “eh, why not.” and I’ve actually been using it a lot to track daily stuff like the vitamins, and my 365 photo progress (checkmarks for having taken photos ). I occasionally go into compulsive buying fits over stationery stuff so it’s less surprising that I bought it (I will photograph my collection some time…) and more surprising that I’m actually using these things rather than storing them away.

I can’t quite seem to get in the habit of writing something like a blog entry every day, however. My life is just not that interesting XD

So I’ve fallen behind again on posting these, but like before, I have been taking them, so. Here we go!
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I finally remembered that the light in the ceiling has not one, but two bulbs… and one of them had burned out. I was wondering why it was so dark in here… Upon removing the cover, I was greeted with something I found more amusing than the rest of you will likely find it XD;; “LISTED TSUN CHAN LAMPHOLDER”



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I got these a while ago, from the new Sanrio store in the mall. They were taped to my bag as a freebie, and at the time (not looking closely) I thought it was supposed to have barrettes or something on it, and that they had simply fallen off. Later, when I actually read the text (I know, shocking right?!) I discovered that they are bookmarks!



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So as you might know, I’ve been tweaking layout stuff here (and completing the arduous task of switching over to wordpress) so in the interest of not just poking at things and seeing what happens I thought I’d look at stuff on w3.org for a bit. Get re-acquainted. (I haven’t done any from-scratch stuff in years.) Oh, and Mio’s just there because she’s cute XD;



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Yesterday I was kind of tired so I just picked a random thing again (wait, aren’t most of these random?).

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My streak of uninspired photos continues with more whiteboard magnets.

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This is a bit more on par with the kinds of photos I’d normally take – Nendoroid Mio arrived on Tuesday. I want to do a specific post just reviewing her, though, so I won’t talk about that too much here. I’m amused that Yui was released first for the Azone dolls, and Mio was first for Nendoroids. Yui’s also first for Figma (which I have pre-ordered, naturally). It’s true Yui fulfills the more typical main character role, but Mio is pretty popular too XD Hard to choose, right?
As I may have mentioned elsewhere, I won’t be getting any Ritsu or Mugi figures. Although I love K-ON! as a whole, Yui & Mio are really my favorites so merch will be limited to them, primarily.

My life has been interrupted yet again by technical failures – Emi’s gone off the deep end and won’t boot, so Sony’s sending me a new hdd to replace the supposedly defective one. That may or may not solve the problem, but it’s a step in the right direction… maybe. I was surprised Sony is trusting me to replace it myself, however. Must be a cost-cutting measure. Harddrives are cheaper to ship than entire laptops, naturally.
So that means I’m back to using Ai as a primary machine (although I never quite stopped, as Emi showed signs of issues only a week or two after arrival). I love her, but her video card is just not up to some of my entertainment tasks. Like facebook flash games. Some of them become painfully slow to use and it’s almost not worth it.

I’ve also been working on my sound novel project, in bits and pieces. I suppose I should poke at nscripter code soon so I can at least play around with it and decide on the feel for the story.

I could’ve sworn I did an update between last time and now but apparently not… (-_-;)

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these earrings make me think of my friend B <3

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I love this little flash drive <3 it's so stylish I put it on a chain so I could wear it as a necklace~ { not telling you what's on it, nope~ }

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I was tired and feeling really uninspired. these are magnetic clips for my whiteboard

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found this while cleaning up. came with one of my curling irons. because… I definitely would use a 1″ iron to curl my eyelashes? or something… (@_@)

in other news, I am exhausted all the time now. do not like winter. hibernation mode has obviously been set to “on”.

maybe now that I’m caught up (er, again) I will post something interesting? or at least not do a 5-photo batch next time.

yeah, definitely falling behind, here….

016, VITRON-C (yes all in caps)

017, ニコニコねこ～ (kitty on my house slippers from Chiba)

018, snowy tree

019, snowy streetlamp

the past two days there’s been a lot of snow.
I have been doing a lot of shoveling.
I am very sore.

weird coloring because I was nearly out of time to take a pic and kind of rushed it. blehhh. new hand, though.

first prescription pills I’ve had in a long time. and they’re vitamins, no less.

more vitamins, over the counter type. I actually have one more I need to get soon…

最近、本当にやる気がない。　何にもやる気がない。　あまり眠れなくて、起きててもずっと疲れてて、あたまがちょっと．．．
英語で書くもやる気がない。　今日、名探偵コナンが見てちょっとマラソンしたんだ。 （もちろん走る「マラソン」じゃなくて、見る続けるの「マラソン」なんだ。　日本語でこんな使い方があるんのかな。）　平次は出なくてさぁ、いつ戻るの？　まっ、漫画を読んだから、全部もう分かってるけど。　（今よく覚えてないけどな）　

今まだ眠たい気がするんだけど、いろんな用があって、寝ないだろう。

これが、ミクシィなんて使ったほうがよかったのにな。　ごめんね。

oh hello there, insomnia. I have (not) missed you.

010 of 365 – my chequebook. as if you were surprised.

011 of 365 – some adorable kitty earmuffs for Aryanna

012 of 365 – something that’s finally representative of something I did that day: I went to an Eddie Izzard performance. <3 *tips hat* verrrry busy. *speeds off in a car with a jazz chicken, a frog, Mr. Squirrel, and a Persian cat*