So, since the last two planned trips didn't work out so well (first the beach was closed, then I couldn't make it due to previous obligations), we are aiming for the third time to be the charm. We'll be trying again this Wednesday to go to the beach. It will probably consist of just Mizuki, C4, Sage, myself, and maybe one of the kids because my car fits so few people though. The weather is supposed to be nice, so keep your fingers crossed!

Happy 14th Birthday C4!!!

C4's birthday went pretty well. Everyone arrived a bit late due to traffic conditions and construction but that didn't hinder the party at all. As I thought, it was a little overwhelming with so many people; but I think we did okay. The boys mostly spent time together playing video games while the girls sat around the kitchen and chatted. C4 made out like a bandit. I told his father not to spoil the kid... but he went out in the morning and bought him more presents on top of what we had already gotten him! Sometimes I just don't understand him. Lol. C4 seemed to like all his gifts, but was too entranced by the glowing idiot box to do much of anything besides play video games.

After Mizuki-chan and family left we played a rousing game of Apples to Apples that I actually ended up winning! I couldn't believe it... O.o; It was almost as unbelievable as the fact that we pulled C4 away from video games to play with us. Frobes and party were the next to leave. At that time Sage declared that he wanted to take Dragon and Kitty Frolfing. I had to stay home with my father because I couldn't have lived with myself if he had to drive such a long distance just to be kicked out and/or left out. My father is disabled and can't walk the course... So I stayed with him and we watched TV for a few hours. I REALLY wanted to go and sort of yelled at C4 for complaining that he didn't want to go Frolfing twice in one week. I told him that sometimes we need to do things we don't really want to do out of love for others... he just complained that I was unfair. I hope he grows out of this selfish phase soon. My father left at about 8 pm and it's about 9 pm now. I'm just sitting at home waiting for the party to come home. I hope they had fun... <3

Today was pretty fun. Sage, C4, and myself all went out to Frolf (Frisbee or Disc Golf) at a local park. The discs themselves cost money, however, to use the range was free so it wasn't very expensive. I got eaten alive by mosquitoes and wasn't very good, but Sage and C4 did pretty well. I told them that I would definitely be up for doing it on a weekly basis, but I won't be playing; I'd just walk the course with the boys. Lol.

After that we went on an adventure to find a sugar free cake for C4's birthday. Unfortunately, after visiting all the local super markets and bakeries we came up empty handed. No one on this side of the river seems to carry or even make such things as "sugar free" cakes. Lol. Sage gave up and ordered a 1/4 vanilla sheet cake for C4 from Walmart after all was said and done.

Gotta get up early tomorrow and get the house ready for all the guests. Tomorrow should prove to be an interesting and eventful day.

PS: Hope I didn't get poison ivy today... I'm itchy but that might just be from all the mosquito bites. DOH!

Just chugging along with life. Didn't do or accomplish much of anything today. I almost feel like a blob at times. I'm hoping that Sage and C4 can work together tomorrow and get their portions of the house done. C4 needs some shelves in his room set up and so does Sage. My dad decided to come over and visit and we watched more Avatar. He's up to book I chapter 13 now, the next episode he'll see will be The Blue Spirit, a personal favorite of mine. After that we ordered pizza and watched the first Transformers movie as well. It really was a lot better then the sequel despite what C4 says. Lol. Tomorrow it looks like I'll be going over to Mizuki's house for lunch, and I guess I'm looking forward to getting out of the house for a bit. ^_^ Wish me fun.

Updated at 10:35 pm -- Sage just called me to tell me he's on his way home and is officially finished with work. Now we are both unemployed... But on a good note; he started to cry from happiness saying that he can't wait to come home, be a family, and spend time together. I guess every cloud does have a silver lining.

Today was a fun yet uneventful day... I spent it mostly doing laundry and cleaning. I'm currently in the process of trying to get the house together bit by bit for "C4's Birthday Party" this Friday. He decided to make it an event to remember by inviting 12 guests! (Mizuki, Gaer, Katie, Nicky, Kitty, Hunter, Amandizzle, Frobes, Pinzowandrea and her Son, my Father, and possibly Sage's mother as well) There will be 14 people in all counting myself and Sage... I don't know where everyone is going to fit!

C4 is currently talking to his girlfriend... She seems kinda cool. At least she had good taste in animation and likes Avatar. She and I ganged up on C4 by saying Avatar was way better then Naruto or Bleach. Lol! It's awesome. <3

Commentary by mizuki_hana2, mitsuki_chi, and kitty!



( Part IV )

Had a fun time over the weekend. I spent Friday afternoon and night at Mizuki's house. We gamed and I made a new character; a spoiled princess with an elemental ring of fire whom I named Azula Propolopolus III. Lol. It was fun playing a different kind of character, although I must admit that I really missed playing my stupid uber happy/hyper norm. I also had the good fortune of finally meeting the newest editions to the gaming night. They were very nice and played well. By the end of the game my brain was fried and I ended up looking totally incompetent. [ i.e. I couldn't calculate my math or remember to do my attack bonus right. ] DOH. I hope everyone doesn't think I'm a totally stupid airhead now. Oh well. I'll be looking forward to next week.

The fourth was spent mostly relaxing in Mizuki's home. She cleaned and I walked with Nicky and C4 to the deli to pick up some drinks for lunch. I found some glow sticks there and picked them up for everyone to play around with. Later that day Gaer returned home from his extended stay at his mother's house. He had been helping her readjust while she recuperated from her double hip replacement. We rode the train north to get to the local waterfront park where they were holding a mini-festival/fireworks show. The kids played for a while and I got to walk around and take a look at all the booths with Mizuki. We got a pretty decent spot for the fireworks show and settled down to eat our dinner... Hot dogs and BBQ. ^_^ The fireworks were super cool. I really enjoyed myself and I was happy to spend the day with my loved ones. <3

I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow. We are taking the car to my father's house to get the exhaust fixed by a friend of the family. We need to be up by 6 am and out the door, on the road, by 7 am. God only knows how long it will take to fix, or how much money it will cost when all is said and done. Since I'm STILL not on a normal schedule, and couldn't sleep last night, I missed my day out with my dad today and ended up being bored and sleeping most of the day. It was a mistake but I was so tired and mentally out of it that there was nothing else I could have done. I'm going to try and make it up to my father tomorrow. The whole family is going to go to Panera Bread for lunch. After that I guess we'll try to stop by a few stores. Hopefully that will kill most of the time it will take to work on the car. Wish me luck tomorrow. =P

And to end, since I haven't posted artz in a while;
( A Few Doodles Under The Cut )

I found out why I like penguins so much! ... Because, as we can clearly see in the anime/manga Saki, penguins are used for breast support. I am very amused. Lol. Who would have thought that penguins could be so useful?

"Saki (咲-Saki-) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ritz Kobayashi. The story revolves around a first-year high school girl named Saki Miyanaga who is brought into the competitive world of mahjong by another first-year, Nodoka Haramura."

Updated my MySpace page. New layout (not as nice as I would have liked...) and new tunes. Give it a look. ^_^

Still not on a normal schedule. *blah*

It asks you 20 questions and guesses the fictional character that you're thinking of... and it works! *scared* How does it do that?! It must be powered by little evil demons or something...

Anyway; awesome way to amuse yourself if you're bored.

Omg. Brain melting. Nothing to do. So bored. Sage has the car because he's still commuting back and forth to work until the 7th of July. That means I have no options for 12 hours a day. There honestly isn't any place close enough to walk to here and all my friends and family live 50 miles away. -_- This sucks. Maybe I'll make some tea... Lol. No; not really.

I was really excited about our outing to the movies yesterday. I couldn't sleep well the night before and wanted everything to be perfect. Of course, things rarely go that way in real life... especially with my luck and Sage's indecision. Lol. The day started out semi-nice. The weather was decent and things were looking good. Mike and Dragon both called to tell me they would be getting here a little late. No biggie. We left the house about an hour after the original meeting time when all was said and done and although I was nervous I wasn't really surprised. Since so many people were coming we decided to take 2 vehicles. Mike said he was going to visit his old house in Washingtonville and would be down our way anyway so he offered to drive. Sage wanted Dragon to ride with us too... I love Sage but when he and Dragon get together no good can come of it. I like Dragon, don't get me wrong, I really do... but he is just so negative and it only fuels Sage. When we got to the mall, which seemed like such a short drive, we headed to the Japanese Bookstore to look around. Sage and Dragon were both basically ignoring Mike and so I stayed close to him and tried to cheer him up. He was achy because of the bad weather. Sage became angry and jealous and decided to walk out on me without telling me anything at the bookstore. He wanted to get something to snack on and went with Dragon to the pretzel boutique but didn't ask anyone else or even let us know where he had gone. I was at my wits end about how to deal with the two men to make them both happy. I guess I expected too much from Sage. He has some serious insecurities about things like that. *sigh* We headed to the theater almost and hour and a half before the showing. We needed to save 10 seats after all and since the boys weren't getting along... well you know. I called my Dad, who had chosen to ride in Kitty's car, for updates and began getting worried when they told me that they were just getting to the Thru-way to the mall an hour before the movie was to start. Me in my infinite calmness (being sarcastic here) started to freak out that they would miss the movie. I wasn't mad at them but frustrated at the way the day was turning out thus far. Sage and Dragon went inside to secure some seats while I waited for the others outside the theater with Mike. Sage called me about every 10 min to let me know how angry people were that he was saving the 10 seats and only freaked me out more. Thankfully everyone in the other car, Kitty, Gaer, C4, Hunter, and my Dad, arrived safely and just on time.

The movie in and of itself was decent. Sequels rarely live up to their predecessors and I wasn't expecting too much. It was enjoyable and fun but the thing that ruined the film the most for me were "The Twins". They were the Jar Jar Binks of the Transformers world and often said or did very unnecessary things. I was surprised that, for a kids movie, there was a lot of rough language as well. The CGI was done well and blended almost seamlessly into the film. I'd definitely go and see it again just because there was a lot going on but it was a decent, fun way to kill a few hours.

After the movie ended things seemed to be a little better. Everyone was relaxed and the boys were psyched. We ate dinner at a restaurant call, appropriately, Stir Crazy. At first it seemed like we would have problems with choosing where we would eat because Sage is allergic to Japanese spices. (Yah, I don't get it either) When I asked him if he felt comfortable eating at the restaurant I chose he wouldn't give me a straight yes or no answer. It was "Or" or "I don't know". >.< I really do hate his indecision... but we ended up trying the food anyway. Everything was good and although there were too many people and the mall itself was too loud to actually converse properly it was fun. We ended the day with a visit to some of the other stores in the mall. A trip back to the Japanese Bookstore to pick up a Sake set for Mike, FYE for my Dad, and the Sanario store just for fun.

Despite all my worries and little break-downs I had a lot of fun. Thank you to everyone who joined us. *bow* I hope you had fun and weren't too mad at me. Lol. <3

Note To Self: Never do this again... while being in charge. Lol. XP

Note To Mizuki: We missed you lots. Oh; and please get Gaer a harness. He was wondering around by himself a few times and we almost lost him. Lol.

Going to the beach today for the first time in almost 3 years. I'm uber excited! <3 I can't believe that it will actually be nice weather wise today as well. It's only rained almost every day for the past month. Maybe things are looking up.

I'll try to take some pictures, but as is usual for me I almost always forget. Maybe I can borrow some of Mizuki's if she gets some good shots.

"Beach Party!"

[ *uber kawaii mai picture not by me* ]

"For the past few years M&Ms has linked up with blockbuster movies to make Limited Edition M&Ms. Shrek (Mega M&Ms), Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (Mint Crisp M&Ms), Pirates of the Caribbean (White Chocolate M&Ms) and Star Wars (Dark Chocolate M&Ms). This summer is no different with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms).

What is a strawberried peanut butter M&M?
They’re pretty much the same as the regular Peanut Butter M&Ms: a peanut butter center covered in milk chocolate and a hard candy shell ... except here the milk chocolate is strawberry flavored."
::: source ::: CandyBlog


Weird... but good. Not something I'd get on a regular basis so I can see why they are limited editions. =P But never the less a tasty and different kind of M&M treat.

OMG. How can one choose?! All babies have their own special "cuteness factor" that makes them utterly irresistible. Some of my favorites, however, are Penguin Chicks, Goslings (once they gain their fluffy-down), Fox Pups, and of course the ever popular Kitten. <3

I guess I'm gonna relax for a bit now that work is done. I thought I wouldn't get so emotional, but in truth, I cried on the way home yesterday after saying my goodbyes. I think I'll really miss a lot of those people whom I've worked with these past 3 years. Sue W., Bob P., Mike T., even Mo R. (whom I gave the nickname Momo to), my first trainer Fito V., and my technician John N. I ended up spending more time with these people then my own family it seems; and as much as I bitched and complained about the job itself and the rampant stupidity of management and engineering alike, I really loved those few people.

I'm uber disappointed that Mizuki-chan won't be going with us to the movie on Friday. She couldn't get a babysitter for the day and it seems pretty silly to take two toddlers to a $20 movie that they probably won't remember. *sigh* That's life I guess.