~HanaKiwi11

Happy Early Thanksgiving! Belated, of course, if you live in Canada!

Seeing as I will be in Utah for the holiday week (leaving Tuesday to be precise), I wanted to wish everyone a very happy Turkey Day. Hope you all have a good time out with family, friends, and loved ones, celebrating thsoe that you hold dear with plentiful rounds of mashed potatoes, wild bird, and, of course, pumpkin pie. I myself will be eating mainly devilled eggs, 'taters', and pie. Oh joy. I'm trying so very hard to eat meat these days - mainly for the protein and whatnot that I miss by not eating them, and partially for my boyfriend's sake - but I simply can NOT abide by turkey. Even chicken is stretching it. XP

My little sister is not looking forward to Thanksgiving any more than I am. But she is however happy that we get to go to Utah. As am I. Isaac is coming with the three of us (being myself, my little sister, and Hii-chan), so I'm looking forward to the two-day car drive through scenic mountains with him there and back. This amuses my sister on the greatest of levels. Her boyfriend Alex will also be coming with us, so she's happy about that.

Isaac is looking forward to Utah too. He used to live on the border between Canada and Montana (on the Montana side officially), before he moved out here. He ended up moving out with a friend though, because his parents sort of abandoned him. Strange circumstances, I won't dive into it. But I'm really happy he's coming. He loves the forests and mountains. Utah is perfect for him too because of the fresh air and chilly climate. Jerk. He better keep me warm, I don't have that high of a cold tolerence.

In any case, we're all leaving on Tuesday morning, and we might bring the laptop if there is a wireless card-reader or whatever. My sis will take care of that, I'm somewhat clueless when it comes to that stuff. We're all very excited and will see you all Monday~!

Roll call of all who is going:

As well as my girl Hii-chan, and our neighbour Bryan because he has nothing else better to do. Oh well, he's kind of a riot anyways, should be interesting.

~M.A.E.


P.S. I'm still interested in your comments on what to do with my hair from my previous journal. Please check it out and comment on this journal or the previous one~!

Please kindly tell me how the HECK you get the sidebar for literature to appear, by all you hold sacred, tell me NOW before I kill something! I've followed all of the rules/regulations for it - it's the correct demensions, I saved it as each of the three different file extensions that DevArt says it excepts aaaand.... nothing happens. NOTHING. No preview image, no sidebar on my test document that I uploaded. It's seriously bugging the living daylights out of me.

I want one. Or seven. Or ninety two.
*pout*
Fluffy, white, snuggly puppies. Like eight of them. No joke.
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To all my real-life friends... I totally just faked you out.
You know what I mean! :wink:

Quick Update

No rhyme or reason to it really. I just feel really happy.
I want fluffy, white, snuggly puppies.
LOTS AND LOTS OF FLUFFY, WHITE, SNUGGLY PUPPIES.
Or a fluffy, white, snuggly puppy to snuggle with. ^^
My little sister jokes around that I need 'thirty million InuYashas' running around the house.
I think she's right.
I want thirty million children with adorable little white puppy ears and tails.
But I could settle for a litter of them. ^^
It would be hard to take care of more than that.

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I sound like the pregnant woman who craves 7-11 slushies at two in the morning.
I NEED SNUGGLY PUPPIES NOW!!!
xDDDDD
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Gawd, the sad thing is, it's true.
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My boyfriend said he loves me.
I love him a lot too.
He's the kind of guy that would actually get me a 7-11 slushie at two in the morning.
Or in my case, a snuggly puppy.
He's my snuggly puppy. ^^
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Happy Early Thanksgiving! Belated, of course, if you live in Canada!

Seeing as I will be in Utah for the holiday week (leaving Tuesday to be precise), I wanted to wish everyone a very happy Turkey Day. Hope you all have a good time out with family, friends, and loved ones, celebrating thsoe that you hold dear with plentiful rounds of mashed potatoes, wild bird, and, of course, pumpkin pie. I myself will be eating mainly devilled eggs, 'taters', and pie. Oh joy. I'm trying so very hard to eat meat these days - mainly for the protein and whatnot that I miss by not eating them, and partially for my boyfriend's sake - but I simply can NOT abide by turkey. Even chicken is stretching it. XP

That's right. I said boyfriend.
Remember Isaac ( ), the one who has been crashing at my house after getting in a car accident? Yup, I'm dating him. One thing sort of led to another - he's bi, you see - and ... we're together! ^^ Truthfully, I never saw myself with him... ever... but he's actually very sweet and intelligent and therefore fun to be around. And even though he tries not to admit it, he is very fond of Hii-chan. More than a handful of times I've come out to see him playing with her or snuggled up with her on his chest fast asleep. That's the most precious of all. Kodak moment~!

My little sister is feeling better now. She's not looking forward to Thanksgiving any more than I am. But she is however happy that we get to go to Utah. As am I. Isaac is coming with the three of us (being myself, my little sister, and Hii-chan), so I'm looking forward to the two-day car drive through scenic mountains with him there and back. This amuses my sister on the greatest of levels. We're not sure if her boyfriend Alex will be able to come with us yet or not. Chances are he will, but he might spend it with his close friend Dominic instead due to money circumstances.

Isaac seems to be looking forward to Utah too. He used to live on the border between Canada and Montana (on the Montana side officially), before he moved out here. He ended up moving out with a friend though, because his parents sort of abandoned him. Strange circumstances, I won't dive into it. But I'm really happy he's coming. He loves the forests and mountains. Utah is perfect for him too because of the fresh air and chilly climate. Jerk. He better keep me warm, I don't have that high of a cold tolerence.

In any case. He seems to be doing better. He's got much more energy and acts like he always did. His arm is still a disconcerning notion though. Argh. I've been giving him some physical therapy, and that seems like it's helping some, but I'm still unsure how much it will actually heal. Now at least, he can move his fingers and grip things with really light pressure. It takes a lot of energy and concentration for him to so much as jot down a note, or hold the phone to his ear for more than ten minutes (record he could make it was seven and half). And even that was assisted. Poor thing. *sigh*

My little sister's boyfriend, Alex, is getting better. We found out what was wrong with him, and my friend Aya is taking care of things. Glad to have gotten passed all of that finally. ^^

Well, our crazy neighbour Bryan has been over more than usual. I told him that I don't care what he does in his own time, but if he brings pot in the house, he's a dead, dead, man. So he opts to smoke on the roof. I got to hand it to him, he's something else. Makes me laugh. He's been over to check out and watch this stray dog we found a little while back. It's been almost two weeks now, I guess that we've had him. He's huge but thin and pure black and almost wolfish. Definitely psychotic. I really am starting to think that I'll just give him to Bryan as a present for Christmas or something. Anything. I'm too much of a softy to give any animal, no matter how evil or ugly, to the pound. I guess Neo (that's what we called him; jet black male = Matrix = Neo... according to my sister...), will make Bryan a good hunting dog. Who knows. The idea, I must say, is comical.

And now for a poll~!
Seeing as I don't have the full membership here on DA to make an official one, I'll do one here. This at least, will force anyone reading this journal to comment. Aren't I just evil?

So! The thing is my hair has grown out too long. I have it in a few layers, and the layers themselves are long. I'm thinking I'll just keep a few layers and let the rest grow out. I'm trimming an inch or two off the bottom as well. Basically, I like letting the frontmost layers hang down and put up the rest. Like this: [link] (the one on the right) according to my little sister. More or less she's right. My preview image would be this: [link])_-_Agatsuma_Soubi.jpg and even with it worn higher. It's how Agatsuma Soubi from Loveless wears his hair, especially when he's painting. Originally, I had thought he wore it with the top part looped and clipped so that it stood up with barrets in the middle. I tried to do that with mine and let me tell you it was no small feat. Then I resigned to wearing it just in a basic loose ponytail before realizing that is how he is depicted wearing it all along. -.-;; Actually, I find I have a lot in common with him. I love to paint, read, and write. I feel that I am well with words, although that is to the beholder, no? I was in theatre and did singing there... by means, he's very dramatic. I used to smoke, he smokes. I HAD a cell phone until it was lost forever... for certain reasons. The only ways we are all that different is that he wears glasses and likes a 12-year-old boy. MY boyfriend is 23 and the same age as me. Same age as Soubi too, coincidentally. Oh, and he and I both have naturally blonde hair and blue eyes (they are a light gold in the manga, for all you purists). That all, and I'm not as big of a kink as he is. Not quite as sadistic or masochistic. Truth be known, if I grew out my hair in length and color, I'd look very much like him.

So, the cut is not the matter. The matter is the color. My roots are growing in (light blonde, as in silvery light blonde) and I want to color my hair. I'm thinking of doing something kind of different, though I don't know what.

Black - I think that this would be too dark for me. My skin is light, so I'd look too pale or sickly I think.

Dark Brown/Chocolate Brown - Better than black, I think. I have the colour palette where browns look good on me, but the hue has to be right. I'd probably have to blend in a slight honey cast in the chocolate colour to make it work.

Light Brown/Mocha - Probably one of the best yet. I already have some very light brown colouration in my hair now that I've been weaving in in slight streaks and lowlights. I think if I went pure mocha, I'd wash myself out too much, so I'd have to balance it with blonde, auburn, or a darker brown. More or less this sort of mocha shade... my little sister helped me pick out the example, forgive me: [link]

Auburn - Light auburn that is. Add in some honey and mahogany lowlights and highlights, subtle ones that is. Not that ridiculous looking chunky strands that girls just LOVE to put in their hair. Ugh, I hate those. >< A little lighter or darker than this: [link]

Blonde - Seeing as I'm making my hair that way, why not just grow it out a little more and make myself look totally like Soubi? Haha... just type the name in on DA's search here - if you're not afraid of yaoi or BL that is - and see what I mean. I can SO wear my hair like this, it's close to my real color anyways. ;

Ultra Light Blonde - Platinum blonde, but not bleach blonde. Sadly, this is my NATURAL COLOUR. Light, light blonde with silvery hue. Not quite white, because there is too much gold threaded in. When you try and dye it red, it will turn pink. No joke. Trust me, I'd know. A little lighter than this: [link]

Other?

Tell me what you guys think, okay? Here's a chart of hair colour swatches: [link]

And yes, I do my own hair. I do other people's hair too. Heck, I did half the girls in my colleges' hair. I guess I'm just skilled like that. In fact, my friend :iconakari-peaches-13: is going to have me work with his hair and dye it a pretty russet color. Should look really sharp on him - he has the skin color and season palette for it to work. ^^

Oh, and what dirty thing was I reading? My little sister left something up on our computer and so, naturally, I read it. And I ended up reading the whole thing. And it was good too. If you're a fan of yaoi or BL or hot, fast-action pwp, go here: [link]

Please kindly tell me how the HECK you get the sidebar for literature to appear, by all you hold sacred, tell me NOW before I kill something! I've followed all of the rules/regulations for it - it's the correct demensions, I saved it as each of the three different file extensions that DevArt says it excepts aaaand.... nothing happens. NOTHING. No preview image, no sidebar on my test document that I uploaded. It's seriously bugging the living daylights out of me.


~M.A.E.

Happy Belated Halloween everyone!

Hope you all had a good time out whether you were trick-o-treating, partying it up, or relaxing at home with some friends watching movies with buckets of caramel popcorn!

My little sister wasn't feeling well, so her boyfriend Alex swung by and hung out with her a while, then went out with her friends because she insisted he did. They're so cute together. I dressed my baby sister up for her first Halloween. I made her a little lion; cloth footed 'jumper' with a little tail on the butt and ears on the hood. I even put on the baby-safe face paint so she had little whiskers and a pink nose. Seriously one of the cutest things ever. I took her out and walked around in my oh-so-very-Halloween-ish grey shirt (white sleeves underneath, because it was chilly) and jeans. She's too young to trick-or-treat just yet, but maybe by next year she'll be ready.

Not sure what she should be next year. Maybe a princess, it sort of suits her little attitude. Then again, I wouldn't want to support that... I've never raised a kid before, so I wouldn't know. Maybe by then she'd be capable of pointing out what she wants. (Better not be skanky or I'm not buying it! Have you SEEN what they're selling to little girls these days?!) Perhaps I should clarify. I've been referring to her as 'my baby sister'. In actuality, she's my baby girl - I adopted her. My friend knows this girl who had twins and got pregnant young, and doesn't have enough money to support the both of them. So I just legally adopted one of them. I've always loved the idea of having kids, but hello, I'm gay, so it's not like I'll be having ones of my own. She's a little blessing to me, and I am so greatful to have her. I've been calling her my baby sister because I AM just 23 and it's still too unreal that I actually have her. Just wait, once she hits two I'm going to be all over-protective about her and calling her 'my little girl'. LOL No, I'll be a good Daddy for her.

Well, I'm completely better know than from when I bruised my muscles during conditioning a few weeks back. Doesn't seem like it was all that long ago either.

If you all remember my friend Isaac was in a car accident those few weeks ago too. He's now back to his normal, spry, sarcastic, intelligent self. In fact, we made him a DeviantART account. Check him out: We're still worried however, that he might loose his right arm entirely, because he couldn't move it at all for some time. He's slowly regaining some movement in his hand. At times, his arm is relatively functional, but then it will just randomly snap back to being useless. We're taking it as a good sign that he's recovered some. I've taken it upon myself to give him some physical therapy, and that seems to be promising after our first two short 'sessions'. I've had a similar injury before and some mild medical experiance. What concerns me is how useless it seems to be - dead tissue? I just hope it's a healing kind and not the useless/paralyzed kind.

As I've said before, he's been crashing at my place seeing as he's been on his own for the past seven years. He's also 23. Isaac's been really helpful to have around, what with my going to work and taking care of Hii-chan. I found him on the floor last night, asleep, with her cuddled against his chest. Seriously cute. He looked like he was her Daddy. Kodak moment.

I figure I should just say now that my place is good to go if you're a friend and you need a place to stay for x amount of time for whatever reason. I have a very hospitable and open household. So I took my younger sis and Hii-chan on a surprise trip to Paris for a few days. We stayed in this nice chateau there, the summer home of an old family friend. They said we were invited to just arrive there whenever. Our families were always close and weird like that. You see, I lived in France until age six, then we went on an immersion trip and lived in Tokyo for a few years and I went to school in an integrated school were I learned some Japanese and became fluent in English. I actually forgot most of my native language. My dad was a doctor and he retired early because we were always on the more 'gifted' side if you get me, and he wanted to travel. I ended up going to America for my senior year and college.

My little sis is actually a close friend that I got in high school here. She's a few years younger than me, but she's thinking about moving in with me for her college years. Which is perfectly okay with me seeing as I'm obviously not going to be interested in her, therefore causing a conflict. We're really brother/sister now. It's great. ^^

On the downside, her boyfriend Alex suddenly went angsty emo on us and got all suicidal. It really scares us, but Isaac has kept him here and he's been taking good care of him. We think it might be because (Alex's behavior) because he started taking this new medicine/painkiller and we think it conflicted with one he's already taking. He's really off, and at total random. He never showed any signs of depression before, so in that sense we aren't thinking this is as serious as it seems. We're doing what we can, but it's difficult.

Our crazy neighbour has been over a few times too. I want to just give him our darn dog. We found him a week ago and have been trying to find his owner. He's jet black and skinny but huge. I also don't think he's full dog either, because his eyes are more gold than brown. Seems semi-wolfish to me. Which might explain why he's completely psychotic. I don't honestly know. I think Bryan should just take him though.

Please kindly tell me how the HECK you get the sidebar for literature to appear, by all you hold sacred, tell me NOW before I kill something! I've followed all of the rules/regulations for it - it's the correct demensions, I saved it as each of the three different file extensions that DevArt says it excepts aaaand.... nothing happens. NOTHING. No preview image, no sidebar on my test document that I uploaded. It's seriously bugging the living daylights out of me.


~M.A.E.

For lack of a better title. Quite honestly, it's been quite a while since I've made a journal. Over a month, to be precise.

Good news is that I'm not as tired as I usually am. I just finished helping my sis with he Biology and Spanish homework. I swear, they give these kids some of the most menial tasks! Seriously, if I were her, I'd feel somewhat degraded. She's a freshman and part of her biology homework was to cut out autosomes and place them in the correct chromosome pairs. All 47 of them. Yes 47, there was 'nondisjunction' in set 21, indicating Trisomy 21 (Down's Syndrome) for those of you going, no, humans only have 46. Spanish was this big old packet with words that aren't in the textbook with words she's never seen. (I checked her wordlists, and they never appeared.) So while she struggled with that, I made her a chart of Word for her conjugations, because I'm just a nice brother like that. I wish my high school was this extensive when I was her age! Chances are I'll have to look over that packet before she leaves tomorrow - I have a feeling she skipped things on purpose.

My baby sister is doing fine. She is most definately going to end up as a very straight little girl. Anytime a female tries to hold her, she starts squirming, but when a male holds her, she snuggles into them. More or less, she's far more attached to me then my other sis. But she's a little fussy and I can already tell she's the little princess type. I swear I'll make good on my promise and not spoil her. Seriously, those sorts of girls always bugged the crap out of me. I had to wake up during the early morning to take care of her, let her sleep, rushed out to snag a coffee, came back home, then went to work for a few hours. Picked my sis up from school, and then helped out with homework and housework. You'd think I'd be more tired than this, wouldn't you? But hey, whatever. It's family, right?

You might not remember, but last journal I made mention that I had been conditioning. I had dropped out of this semi elite martial arts team that did martial arts and weapons training a few years ago, and I've been thinking on getting back into the swing of things. Thankfully, from that conditioning, all the soreness has faded out and my knee is back to normal. Not really sure why it acted up in the first place.

I made a few friends from there, as well as some enemies, and I've been trying to keep in contact with them. One of them - of my friends, that is - just recently got in a car accident, so he's been crashing at my place. His parents more or less abandoned him, and he's been on his own since he was sixteen. Sucks to be him. He obtained some pretty bad injuries to the face, neck, and the right arm, amoung other places. In fact, he had a long gash running down the middle of his right arm, along the veins there, so it bled pretty profusely. We were worried that he might loose the arm entirely, because he couldn't move it at all for some time. He's slowly regaining some movement in his hand. At times, his arm is relatively functional, but then it will just randomly snap back to being useless. We're taking it as a good sign that he's recovered some.

My ADD and dyslexia has been really acting up today, which is really starting to get on my nerves. I can't focus and every other word is misspelled. Sorry then, if something says 'fo' instead of 'of'. You'll know why.

I uploaded a bunch of new pictures off my friend's digital SLR Nikon. 25, to be exact. Hope everyone enjoys them~! I've even received my first print request on 'Grey Matters'. Very exciting. ^^

In random news, Dumbledore of the Harry Potter series is GAY~! Welcome to San Fransisco, your wizardlyness! I always knew he had too good of taste to be totally straight. Plus that whole spewing of love stuff. I think it's really awesome how he was in love with Grindelwald though. Heh, I thought it was interesting when they spent extensive time at each other's homes as teens 'doing experiments' if I properly recall the book putting it. I then also wondered if Dumby liked Snape? I mean, he always, always, ALWAYS stuck up for him. What if he had a little crush on him? That in mind, I think it's funny (in my own slightly twisted way) that Snape became the next HEADMASTER after Dumbly died. XDD Props to Dumbledore for being the most powerful ever and being gay without anyone knowing or caring; and props to Jo Rowling for making a character that everyone would love, respect, and admire and then telling us he's gay - because sexual preference really doesn't change who or what we are as people.

Lastly, I had a carnitas burrito at Chipotle. Carnita = pork. Good thing I'm not Jewish then. But pork also means meat. And I'm still pretty much a vegetarian. I'll eat seafood and some, but few white meats if prepared a certain way. I'm trying to open up new doors for myself here but... blek... ><

Not much else to report. If anyone can kindly tell me how the HECK you get the sidebar for literature to appear, by all you hold sacred, tell me NOW before I kill something! I've followed all of the rules/regulations for it - it's the correct demensions, I saved it as each of the three different file extensions that DevArt says it excepts aaaand.... nothing happens. NOTHING. No preview image, no sidebar on my test document that I uploaded. It's seriously bugging the living daylights out of me.


~M.A.E.

Yes, I am tired. My little sister started her weekend homework yesterday at one in the afternoon. By six, she still wasn't done. By nine, she wasn't done either. At one o'clock in the morning, she finally finished. And guess who helped her, huh? -.-VVV Nah, but I love her and she was working REALLY hard. That's almost twelve hours of homework... half of a day. I remember when it was that bad... blek. So, I didn't go to bed until one, and then I had to wake up during the early morning to take care of my baby sis, and then I had to go to work for a few hours. So, I'm tired. Really tired. But hey, whatever. It's family, right?

Busy? Yahhh.... and injured. Heh heh. I used to be in this kinda elite martial arts team that did martial arts and weapons training, and I have really fallen out with training and everything. I decided to do some conditioning yesterday to get back into shape - my arms are already stonger from lifting the baby so much - and I practiced with my weapon a bit too. Needless to say, you could draw a giant 'T' on my back, and that is where I am sore. That and the area on my back where I accidently sliced a big long gash into my back almost three years ago, and my left knee. No idea what's up with my knee - it's been fine for years. That was an injury I got about six or seven years ago. Kinda weird it would be acting up now. What I did yesterday wasn't too strenous, but I guess it was enough to agrivate it.

And the surprise? A few things, actually. First is that I've been swearing a lot more recently. I hardly ever swear, and if I do it's more of a casual thing like, "That damn cat" for a really cheesy example. I blame my little sister and her school. Ha ha. Another surprise I got today was that my little 'mental disorders' cropped up within a close proximity of each other. The first being that I'm slightly dyslexic, and the second being I have mild ADD. Fun, huh? Both things are mild, but annoying all the same. It's not like I need meds or anything. LOL Third surprise is... the Parent Trap was right! Oreo cookies and peanut butter is the food of GOD. Seriously, go try it.

Not much else to report. If anyone can kindly tell me how the HECK you get the sidebar for literature to appear, by all you hold sacred, tell me NOW before I kill something! I've followed all of the rules/regulations for it - it's the correct demensions, I saved it as each of the three different file extensions that DevArt says it excepts aaaand.... nothing happens. NOTHING. No preview image, no sidebar on my test document that I uploaded. It's seriously bugging the shit out of me.

How it makes me feel? Like this: @!)($&(%&($)*&^%$*%_)@!DFHJD!_)$&%(%!!!!!111!
Seriously
*twitch*

~M.A.E.