Random Morning Musume Thought of the Day:
I love the Happy Summer Wedding CD single! *plays it over and over*

The geta are gotten! Sweet!
Thanks to some new news on KOF 2002, the Orochi Team has returned! Yashiro, Shermie and Chris as a team! yay!
Ou I like the new Kylie Minogue Love at First Site, it's got that disco feel to it! Kylie's pretty cute too and has got that sekushi Australian accent.
Man, passed by a whole bunch of cops. It's pretty bad when the traffic is so bad that the cops stalking the carpool lane can advance faster than you while doling out tickets to people who are single drivers. Hikkles, Karrie, Annie are all headed off to school. Poor Hikkles was feeling down but I think she's fixed now. ^_^
Yeah for the return of Legion of Doom on Justice League (well I'm sure they're not called Legion of Doom)
Finally got around to fixing up the Japanese version of my homepage. ^_^;;;; it still had alot of old programming that I've since totally modified on my regular page. But I don't want to destroy all of the rollovers so I just left those in.
Hrm, on Yugioh.... Mai's Harpy Ladies would are super hot looking until you get to their super nast claws. ^_^;;;; But the Black Luster Soldier is coooooooooooooooool!

 
Random Morning Musume Thought of the Day:
There's an entire shaka de tambourin game with Mini Moni on PS1 @_@

 
Random Morning Musume Thought of the Day:
Kaori's a very good flirter on the Hawaiian Medley PV video. But um,yeh, she's flirting with Boo Takagi

All of the sudden, I feel like cosplaying Samurai Jack. @_@ I already cosplayed Jackie Chan from JCA.
I need to get a pair of geta now if I do that since I borrowed my last pair for Soujiro. But there's no one for Hikkles to be from Samurai Jack. For Jackie Chan Adventures it just came naturally that she was to be Jade and Karriekins to be Viper. XD

 
Random Morning Musume Thought of the Day:
I bought my first Morning Musume single! Koi no Dance Site for $6! (all my other ones have been Subgroups and Aya Matsuura)

And I spent the entire day with Hikkles. It's Nisei week and we were asked to come to the Anime Jungle cosplay thing so we decided to go last minute. We needed more pictures of Escaflowne costumes, especially me without the vest so we decided to bring those. I arrive at Hikkles at 10:10, and since her car broke down and leaked oil, we took the Alseides up to Little Tokyo. We wanted to park in covered parking and we were looking around and saw crazy $10 parking spots. But luckily the covered parking was $3.75. We sat in the no man's land lane for ever waiting for people to get in. When we finally got in, this minivan on the first level really close got out and we took his spot right away. Prime location! And lucky too cos some of the people had to turn around since there was no more parking. Phew. That makes sure our costumes are all nice and not hot. And that the car is not hot since it's heat stroke season. We went to Anime Jungle at 10:50 but no one was there since it opened at 11. So we went to the Jpop store next door to look for singles. When we got back, the Anime Jungle store was open, but since there was no one there to take names, we just shopped. I went thru a few stacks, and hit Hikkles searching so I stopped. Lucky tho, Hikkles searched thru my stack again and found KNDS, Love Machine and Hajimete no Happy Birthday! So I got KNDS and Hikkles got LM cos she was on a LM kick. We also found the color groups collective CD but we passed for $16. Then the clerk brought out Morning Musume Best Collection #1, and it was $18 so Hikkles got it like nothing since it retails for almost twice that much. Afterwards we went across to Kino and they were clearancing out their old stock of magazines. On the way there we saw roasted chestnuts man, and we said we'd come back for them. We went inside Kino and found Rika's new photobook and Kei's photobook. Hikkles bought those too. Then we went out and looked for relevant magazines and HIkkles bought two of them with Mini Moni stuff and manga for $2 each. We were really hunger so we went back to eat at a quick place since we were supposed to be back at 12:30. We both got chicken teriyaki but it was pretty dry and we didn't finish it all since it was too hot. We just drank alot of water. After that we went to the car to drop off all the CD's and books and took the costumes to AJ to change. We changed in their backroom and at 1 PM we all filed out to go. I had R2 take some pictures of me in just the red armor. Jean was there too and R2 was singing "Hot in Here". Char and Mary were there too and we all said hi! It was the karaoke first so we fled back to the room with the fan. Some random Dilandau fangirl dressed in Digimon cosplay glomped me and Hikkles was all upset. ^_^;;;; Hikkles actually got out of Sora to cool down and then got back in. Then Lance, the mascot guy with the Jon Talbain came in and we chatted. He's really nice and friendly. When we went back to the contest, Lance ended up taking first place which was $100. He was sad tho, cos he competed to try to get the DVD player. We saw Matt, Rene, #2, Shaun and Kitty at 3 PM. Hikkles got runner up and got the cosplay tape, a pedicure set, shampoo, a coke, yam-yam, tissues, and a Kirin Beer (M). For participating, I got tissues, yamyam, a coke, a teddybear frame, a pikachu note holder and a Tshirt. @_@ Hikkles thought that I came out better than her! I prolly did. ^_^;;;; Hikkles didn't want to take any more pictures and just wanted to get out of her outfit so we ran back and were both out of our costumes in like 10 minutes. The thing that took me the longest to do was pack Dilandau. Hikkles just has to fold her outfit and that's all. We retreated to the car and next order of business was to drink colas! Hikkles was sad that it wasn't pepsi. But she went back to AJ to get rid of her make up. First the bathroom key was taken and then second she wasn't able to open the door. *pat pat* Darryl was there and we chatted a bit and Annie called. After Hikkles was all pretty again, Justin showed up. Justin waited for his friend and Hikkles and I went back to get roasted chestnuts cos she was hunger. He was nice and gave Hikkles a little extra chestnut cracker thing. Then off to Asahiya. On the way there, Hikkles got hungry and bought roasted corn, which she then piled on with onion, garlic and cheese dust. No kissy for Hikkles! *flees* At Asahiya, there was nothing new CD wise except the Hawaiian CD. Took us a while but we found Rika book #1, which of course Hikkles bought. After Asahiya, Hikkles was hunger again and got green tea ice cream. We went back to the car, but since there was a parade going on, we couldn't get out of the parking lot. And then we remembered to get Hikkles beer redeemed. We looked thru a set of my pictures while we were looking. When we got to the place, Hikkles told the clerks that she was underage and couldn't get a beer, so they let her get anything from their drink menu. XD So she got a strawberry smoothie. Then we went back to the car and found out that no one moved. So we looked thru both Rika photobooks in the car. We were getting hungry and getting ready to eat dinner at Little Tokyo they suddenly let people exiting. So we took our chance and got out asap. We opted to eat in RH instead. We ate at Supreme Dragon and I ordered of course. Hikkles so happy! Then we had to go to her house and dump off all her bounty and drive off back home cos that's where her wooshoe meeting was. That's all!

 
Random Morning Musume Thought of the Day:
Happy Birthday Nacci! *hugs* Love Revolution Twenty One! Hoi!

I cleaned up the Batman Beyond and Dilandau costumes today.
I located Butch and packed that one away.
*kaff koff*
So dusty!
Also bought more fabbu @_@ but for $7 for 4 yards.... Too good! But not as good as my 50 cent a yard spandex.

 
Random Morning Musume Thought of the Day:
Mari needs to stay in Mini Moni

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2002

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San Diego Comic Convention
Location: San Diego Convention Center, San Diego and Embassy Suites, California

2 months ago, I was at Reccacon. One month ago, I was at Anime Expo. Three back to back conventions all with competition. *whew* This one has to be easy to handle, but still loaded with stress.

Saturday Morning: I spent last night and a little bit of this morning trying to locate Kurumi, who was nice enough to inform me that she cancelled her previous plans of coming with me to SDCC when I woke her up at 6:50 AM to try and find out when to meet. So I went to head off alone to go pick up Mattokun from Escondido, which required me to take an alternate route, the 15. Arrived down there in Escondido at about 9, which was of course behind schedule, and we didn't leave there until 9:30 since Matt just woke up after a night of booze and scratching. Little did we know that Escondido was already south of San Diego and by trying to go down south on the 15, we ended up in National City. So we tried the 805 for a little bit. That didn't pan out either. Back in National City. There was this little masquerade meeting at 10:30, but luckily Henry was able to go to that while the Neko Twins were working on their costumes and I was stuck on the road with Matt. Finally we got on the 5 and went south and managed to get into San Diego. Matt was dying about this time from hunger so we got him an Ultimate Cheeseburger. Next was to try to locate the Doubletree Hotel. I had confused it with the Wyndham so I didn't get directions. My bad. Found the Wyndham, but not the Doubletree. Hikkles had called earlier and they said they had at tram to the convention center so I figured it wasn't that far away. We drove and drove and drove around the city looking for the Doubletree and asking for directions getting "Double what?" I loved how places did not have a phone book either. So we called 411 and established that the Doubletree was way too far away and decided to find parking. Karrie arrived about this point, and her and Jon parked at the Embassy Suites and walked over to the convention to meet Henry. Matt and I drove past this place which had $8 parking and we were like @_@ so we went around looking for cheaper ones and found one for $15 that we toured through and was full and a couple $20 ones. Ugh. So we went back to the $8 place.

Saturday: Wow, something going good for us, there was a tram stop right at that parking lot so we finally arrive at the convention center at 12:30. Henry got our passes thank goodness and the Neko twins met up with him. First went to locate Grandis since I told her about a 12:30 meeting time. We went over to masquerade registration and somehow Benma showed up so that we could get all the signatures down and backstage passes. While we were there we completed our interview with Grandis for the cosplay book. Then hit the dealers room. It wasn't as flashy as last years but we went directly to Anime Pavilion to spend last years $50 certificate. I decided not to get anything and resulted in a DVD for Henry, manga for Tiff and VCD for Allie. We caught Jon playing the Initial D racing game and Henry got a picture. Then we toured around (Karrie, Kie, Jon and me) since Henry had to get a GTO autograph. We all got X cards from the Pioneer station and got everyone but Arashi. Karrie was this close to getting a shirt from Bandai but the dorks stopped handing them out and took the shirt I snatched for Karrie out of my hands. Boo! Then we went to check on Henry. He moved about two steps. We located everyone and decided we needed something to eat, but with a presumptive 4 PM rehearsal, we dared not go to Spaghetti Factory and instead opted to eat icky con food. Karrie was so hungry but didn't get anything while the twins and I had $4 hotdogs. Which took us 5 minutes to eat but 20 minutes waiting in line. So about 4 PM, I decide to call Hikkles to check on her status and find out that she just left from RH. @_@ That means, she'd prolly arrive at 6 PM. EEEEEH. Oh well, the show must go on and everyone else needs to rehearse. So we went up anyway to the second floor to meet everyone else and discuss rehearsals. Henry and Karrie broke down and bought pretzels so we sat there conversing for about 30 minutes while that was going on. We weren't allowed to rehearse in the hall but Melissa gave us some stage time at 4:45. The back up CD didn't work so we had to use the original and we ran through the production three times. On our dry runs, we didn't get to the end so we had to re-educate everyone on how it's supposed to end. Karrie stood in as Kimi and I decided she'd be a perfect Moon in the future. Afterwards, we left stage, but now they allowed hallway rehearsal so we went through it another few times with Henry's laptop. 5:30 rolls around.

Saturday Night: I call to check on Hikkles and at least she's in San Diego now, so Karrie, Jon, Matt and I take the tram back to the Embassy to get our costumes. I took my bag back (which unfortunately had all the reference pictures and I forgot them in the car). I insisted that Matt take the other half of his Ultimate Cheeseburger back with him. By the time I get back, I find a tearful Hikkles, Annie and Jason at registration. They initially closed down registration and now it's special purposes and questions desk. But they were able to get their badges and I took Jason and Kimi backstage. There we got into costume and rehearsed with Kimi and Jason. On stage and in the hallway a few times. We were number 22. There were some technical difficulties with sound but those were resolved. They announced our skit, but started the music too fast. Luckily Melissa got that fixed and we started the skit with all the right cues. And it went off without a hitch. The crowd sung along to Ultimate Cheeseburger, and were chanting Jack as we left. Great audience response. After all was said and done, we took re-enactment pictures and then changed out as soon as possible. We didn't wait for the awards ceremony to beat the rush out. The guys were pretty much changed out at the convention while the girls changed out at 1626 Marriott, the twins' room. I retrieved my phone charger.

Sunday: From that point, we decided we needed to eat, and Denny's was the only place open. Karrie, Jon, Vicky and Jenn opted to go home since it was so late. So the rest of us went to Denny's. Lisa and Brian were there and we chatted a bit. After Dennys, I took the twins back to their hotel and Matt had to get his hair gel from their room. Annie, Matt, Jason and Henry took Benma back to A&J's place. Matt and I ended up at the Doubletree first, but since they wouldn't let us get into the room without Hikkles ID, we just slept on the outside couches. 3 AM rolls around and the rest of the group arrive after a little tour of Mexico. Finally! The room. Henry and Jason were gushing about the cookies. >.> But I just passed out. Then woke up at 10 to find out Henry needs to get to LAX at 1. So I drop him off at the commuter terminal at SD and then I'm on my way home. *shakes fist at traffic*