Vampire Knight Otaku

The return of the otaku — Return? Wait, was the otaku in me ever gone? … Don’t answer that.

I love vampires. I love vampire stories. I love good guy vampires, but not so much bad guy vampires. I love supernatural stories of any kind really, but my favorite will always be about vampires. For some strange reason (at least strange to me), I really didn’t care much for Vampire Knight when I read the first chapter in English in Shojo Beat magazine. It seemed quite interesting, but I guess it was just the wrong time. (Probably a good thing, too, because it must have been before Laura’s wedding. No one wants an otaku maid of honor at their wedding.) One of my coworkers, Mark, sends me a link about a knitted hat shaped like the head of the prince from Katamari Damacy and it turns out the pattern was in the December issue of Shojo Beat. Off I go to the bookstore like a good geek to pick up the magazine. I think during the lunch that day, we went to Nijiya/Asahiya to buy some stuff, and on a whim, I bought volume 4 of Vampire Knight because I saw it in the new manga section at Asahiya Bookstore. Unfortunately, as I was reading it I became much confuséd. Then I read chapter 6 and something major between 1 and 6 happened, *spoilers* that turned Zero into a vampire *end spoiler* and I was like, whoa!! I wanna know what happened!

And that is the otaku. Once I think, I wanna know what happened I kinda go all out nuts over it. I even dragged Dave to Anime Gamers (they had none, *sob*) and then to Kinokuniya Bookstore to get the first two books I was missing, since I got volume 3 from the Torrance Asahiya. Of course, I have all 4 volumes and currently desperate for more… must get Monthly Lala… >.>;;

Happy Tofurky Day!

Stephanie sent me a text message that said Happy Tofurky Day. I thought it was funny. ^_^

So for dinner, my mom and I made some chirashizushi and then stuffed it into some inari to make some oinarisan. It was very yummy. :9

I also cleaned my bath tub today, it was getting quiet nasty and needed a good scrubbing down. I think it still needs some more work. I also cleaned the bathroom floor since that was pretty gross, too. Next I need to finish cleaning the countertop.

Road Detours Galore… *(@#$!!

This past weekend, a water pipe broke underneath Western Avenue south of the 405 entrance. It was patched, but it seems it broke again last night. Nice! So when I took my Western route to work, I had to take a detour and that kinda sucked. On my way home from work, more detours, yippee!! >_<; The 405 South ramp from the 10 East was closed so I ended up exiting Robertson because there was a long long for the National exit. Ugh. Then when I tried to get to the Venice and Sawtelle 405 South entrance, I found out that ramp was closed, too! Good old Culver entrance was still open. And that was my adventure for the day. Election Day tomorrow. I'm so nervous. Ugh.

Blood Donation

I tried to go donate blood today at a blood drive near work. Everything went good until it was time to stick the needle in me. The guy who was going to to draw my blood decided to go with a different vein than the one that normally gets pricked, and then I somehow manage to convince him to use the heavily used vein instead. @_@; Poke, in goes the fat needle, but no blood comes out. After digging around a bit, he calls for someone else, and she tries digging around, too. >_<; They give up and check my other arm, but the vein on my left arm is too thin for the needles they brought to the blood drive. So I ended up not saving a life today. :( Dave was going to donate blood, too, but I kinda ran off in the morning without him since I figured he forgot about it. Later in the afternoon, he was going to go, but the nurses had already left for the day and they're not coming back tomorrow. Doh. Maybe next week! I can still donate blood without having to wait 8 weeks because they got only a few drops out of me. Yipee! ^o^

Halloween At Work

There was a costume contest at work, so I dressed up as a gothic lolita for Halloween. The dress was a little shorter than I would have liked it, but not bad on a short notice. I bought dress at Hot Topic at the mall near work, the platform shoes were from Ardith (she didn’t want them because they were too big on her), the petticoat, stockings, and briefs were from Aahs! in Del Amo.

Picky-tures!


Halloween at Work

Halloween at Work

Halloween at Work

Overall, I don’t look too bad, but I had a very very hard time walking around in those platform shoes.