It's not worth anything more than this at all.

[dejana]

Sooooo here's a long-overdue personal entry.

The giant void in my LJ calendar last week was my five-day run of days off from work. I normally go north during that break, but it was my dad's birthday Friday, so I stayed in town. And wow, did I have a GREAT break. I did a fair amount of lazing around, but amazingly I was actually in a mood to get things done much of the time, so I had a week that was both productive and fun! Yay! :D It was generally one of those weeks that's comfortable and relaxed and makes you happy to be alive. ^___^

Of course, now it's difficult to remember what all I did. Highlights would be seeing Cloverfield again, going on a midnight dessert outing with my sister and a friend of hers who's staying with us for a couple of weeks, and hanging out at pkat and shorinai's place. I may have created some new Mai-HiME fans. :3 On the productive end, I finally got all our Christmas stuff taken down and put away, and got some much-needed cleaning done around the apartment. And on the fandom front, I captured all the needed footage for the AMV I'm going to assemble for mechaboydos.

My AMV to-do list is, unfortunately, scary and long, and most likely in this order.

• Polish up "The Bad Crack" and submit it to Anime Boston and Sakura-Con


• Finish my WTF entry for Anime Detour (I was making two, but now it looks like it'll only be one)


• Throw together the ultimate Sailormoon AMV in time for Anime Boston


• Create mechaboydos's video


• Make... something... for AnimeIowa, after winning the contest last year I can't really skip it this year ^^;;

Somewhere in there, I also need to fix up my cosplay before con season kicks off (in less than two months!). This is gonna be a crazy spring. Oh, and while I'm on the subject of cons, his lordship Chaos asked me to throw my name in for the Sailormoon panel at Anime North, so I did. For the heck of it, I volunteered for the general fanfic panel as well, we'll see if that pans out. Should be interesting.

Friday was my dad's birthday, and I took him and his fiancee and my sister out for a nice dinner at this new Alaska-themed seafood place. Whooee, was that ever expensive. My sister's going to pay me back for a portion of it, but still. @_@ My meal was kind of mediocre, but Dad and his fiancee really enjoyed theirs, so overall it was a win. Unfortunately, Dad's birthday present still hasn't arrived. It's one of Peter S. Beagle's autographed books. I've heard the delivery on those is slow, but I had been hoping it would get here in time. :\

And of course, after I blew all that money on Dad's birthday dinner, I found out my mom got dropped from her temp job and really needs my financial help. Sigh.

Sunday was the Detour staff meeting. I seem to have found a niche as a sort of Ops secretary. I've been taking meeting notes and putting them online (and getting lots of thanks from the out-of-state staff members), and when we made a trip to the storage locker after the meeting I took inventory of the department's supplies. Plus, I've been handling the operating manual and other documents. Yay, I'm making myself useful! I love feeling useful. ^___^ (But OW I just bit the inside of my cheek again I HATE THAT ow ow! Evil Jelly Bellys! ;_;)

I've also found another judge for the new Detour fanfiction contest, and at the meeting pkat and I pitched the CRAZY IDEA OF DOOM that we hit on when I was hanging out at her place on Saturday. Now that the initial shininess has worn off, I'm kind of having second thoughts ^^;; but after seeing how excited Kale got about the idea, I'm not about to back out now. ^^;;;

OOH, I almost forgot to mention! pkat loaned me the Playstation re-releases of my two all-time favorite games, which were originally for the SNES. I can play them on my PS2, but I didn't have a Playstation memory card, so I hit the mall Sunday to try to find one. Of course, places like GameStop don't carry old stuff anymore, but they pointed me to a kiosk on the third floor with tons of old-school games and equipment. Not only did they have the memory card I needed, but they also had the games I had borrowed! So now I am the proud owner of Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI! *geeks out* I am so excited by this, it's so dorky. xD But I've only gotten to play these games as ROMs before, and Chrono Trigger wouldn't play all the way through. The Playstation versions have some obnoxious lag points, but I'm so happy to finally be able to play these games as they're meant to be played without having to shell out $60 for rare cartridges. Their 16-bitness is so glorious on my TV. *_* And they came with two other FF games for bonus fun. :D

That about sums things up for now. There's some more I want to ramble about, but that'll have to wait for a flocked post when I'm not at work. >.>

Comments

[lady-hotaru.livejournal.com]

I finally broke down and picked up Chronicals myself (got it in the mail), I'm trying to decide if I want to sell my old snes cartridge (it would be more tempting if I didn't need the snes for Secret of Mana and Ranma), or try and trade it for more Sailor Moon goodies <3

[dejana.livejournal.com]

Ooh, which game? Some of those cartridges can be really valuable.

[lady-hotaru.livejournal.com]

Chrono Trigger, I'm slowly trying to widdle down all my stuff and it would be nice to say goodbye to a couple consoles, but unless the remake Mana I won't do it. (Secret of Mana=my favourite game ever)

[dejana.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's one of the most valuable ones. That game is pretty much the reason I never picked up an old SNES, in fact, I wanted Chrono Trigger and it was just too expensive. If you don't need it anymore, I'd sell it. ;P

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you stepped up to do the meeting notes. Not having a designated person to do that has been a weak spot for AD since, well, pretty much the beginning.

[dejana.livejournal.com]

I've gotten a lot of thanks from people since I started doing them, so I'm glad I did too. :)

Brin has to miss meetings sometimes because of her job, so I was taking notes on occasion anyway.

[nephthysmoon.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad your time off left you feeling so well. :)

Someday I shall show you my AMV list so you will feel accomplished. Really. I had two new ideas pop into my head last night - but, as you submit yours for contests, I think the pressure is much higher for you.

And - AN - EEK! It's getting so close and I've not done a thing with my cosplay idea yet!

[dejana.livejournal.com]

Haha wow, I can't even think about AN as being "so close" yet. I have three (possibly four!) cons coming up before then! @_@