On my way to Otakon tomorrow (yes..you read that right). I'm going down to Statesville, and riding with GreatSG to Raleigh, staying the night there. Then Carpooling with one of his friends up to Otakon on Thursday. Fun times!

So..cosplays look like this:

Thursday: Yamamoto (Reborn - ring battle) for line. Byakko for photoshoot later
Friday: Mukuro (Reborn), maybe Byakko again, Allen Walker (D.Grayman - photoshoot)
Saturday: Soul (Soul Eater), Maybe Mukuro again, Ken (Weiss Kruez - photoshoot)
Sunday: Maybe Yamamoto again..Maybe Ken..Maybe Soul..we'll see what I'm not sick of

Yep..6 costumes. Thats it. crazy right. You know what else is crazy? NO TSUBASA OUTFITS! OMFGWTF?!? I know right...

Anyway, I'll be back Sunday night I think.

So I went to Animania today dressed as Yamamoto and met Elke there dressed as Gokudera. It was Awesome XD

Team Vongola won Triva! Because we rule that much...only I failed to answer any questions...Gokudera got one right though. Guess I lose that challenge XD

Yeah, epic times.

ZIPCHAN: How much do I owe you for the hotel, where are we staying, and..do you want the money before the con or at the con? And do you want cash or check. let me know!


That is really all I have to say.

Here they are..pictures of my in progress WK and SE costumes ^^

Still to do:
Ken - goggles, claws
SE - finish wig, shirt

( I've got Souls...and I'll eat them if I want to )

Yesterday went and saw "Public Enemies". It was pretty good. It was kind of odd seeing Johnny Depp..looking like a normal person XD But yeah, I did a report on John Dillinger in 12th grade so I already knew the events of the movie but that is also kind of why I wanted to go see it.

Its raining, which is good because after having a month of non-stop rain, we had a terribly dry month and the ground and everything was way too dry. I like rain, so I actually didn't really mind the month of rain..just made it a bit tough to do anything outside.

Cosplay progress is steady. I might just finish both the SE and WK costumes for Otakon. Shock. Pretty good for not starting them until a couple weeks ago. Still don't really have a set cosplay schedule. I better figure it out soon though.

And I really should get back to working on stuff now >_>

Happy 4th everyone! Yeah I know..I'm a couple minutes late.

I ended up winning my money back at the casino today XD Got my $100 back and won $100 more. SO yay for making money sitting at a machine doing nothing but pushing a button.

The casino is fun but we barely left the small non-smoking room because the air was just thick with smoke in the other section. This place is huge...and apparently 90% of the people in there smoke. You almost choke on it. Its okay, there were games in the non-smoking room I really liked and seemed to like me XD

Went and saw fireworks and actually saw two different displays that were going on at about the same time.

Watched Tony Stewart win the Daytona race. Whoo, 2nd points win of the year! And knocking Kyle Busch out of the way to do it XD Excellent. Go get that Championship!

Work for a couple hours tomorrow and thats about it.

So I'm at the casino. Yep. Didn't realize I was going until yesterday. Parents and Grandfather are done here and I tagged along. I know you are saying, what is she doing?? She has no income and should not spend money at the casino!

Believe me..I know. But I'm not a hardcore gambler. I actually hate losing money. There is something addicting about that little button...but I haven't lost that much. Well..more then I should. But well under $100 which was my limit.

I got to see KC and the Sunshine Band in concert though. That was pretty awesome XD Disco music FTW. It was great. Didn't know I was going to get to see that until today. My grandfather got 2 free tickets because he spends so much money here XD So my mom and I went.

Should be asleep..don't know what the plans are tomorrow. Driving back home is in the schedule but I"m not sure if we are going back to the casino before that or not. Who knows.

But yeah. KC and the Sunshine Band. Win. I'm such a dork XD

It has officially been a year. Hard to believe that just 365 days ago I was so sick I could hardly move. That I spent many nights without sleep drenched in sweat, and spent many days alseep in the chair with no energy.

June 19, 2008 - Went to the doctor and they discovered the enlarge nodes in stomach
June 21, 2008 - Realized I would be going to cancer doctor
June 22, 2008 - Diagnosed with Hodgekin's Lymphoma Stage 3B
July 2, 2008 - In the hospitol having port put in
July 3, 2008 - My first Chemotherapy treatment

My how things change in a year. There were times I thought I would never make it. There were times when I was in so much pain all I could do was cry. There were times I wanted to do nothing but crawl into bed and never emerge again.

But I had you all to pull me through. The cards, the gifts, the food and well wishes, the thoughts, the prayers, all of it helped me to look forward to a time when I could say I was cancer free. On my darkest of days I would look in the mail and something would be there to bring me back up. To tell me there was someone out there that cared enough to write and wish me the best. I can't thank you all enough.

In 7 months I can celebrate being cancer free for a year. For now I will just celebrate the fact I wake up in the morning and can make it through an entire day without feeling sick and without pain.

Keep responding to the transformers entry. I like hearing what people think ^^

But I wanted to say that I just became an internet journalist...well nah thats sounds too professional...I write for an internet newspaper. I'm their Anime person XD So I'm coming to you guys for articles that I could write about.

They only have to be short articles, but I need ideas. If you are willing to be interviewed or something let me know! I want everything from anime reviews to cosplay news to conventions to anime websites. So give me your article ideas! If you were looking to read about anime stuffs, what would you want to read about?

Here is the site: http://www.examiner.com/x-15939-Charlotte-Anime-Examiner

Visit it often cause thats how I get paid XD

But yeah, help me out! I'll do interviews, post pictures, reviews, anything. They want about 3 articles a week so I need to get a lot of ideas.

It might not be much but I'm kinda excited about the chance ^^ Call me stupid if you want XD

So Its been interesting to read my friends page and the comments on Transformers. Usually my friends list is completely in sync as far as what movies they like or don't like. Almost every movie that is discussed everyone agrees about how it is. This one..it is completely divided, which is very interesting to me. It got me thinking about why that might be.

Guys versus Girls? Nope...equal amount of each liked it/disliked it
Regional? Nope...equal there too

The other thing is that there doesn't seem to be too many that were on the fence about it either. They either liked it, or hated it. There wasn't much, "Eh, it was okay...".

I don't know why this interested me, it just did.

Anyway, I've been lazy and busy all at the same time. HOw is that possible? Well...I've been working on costumes but very very slowly. But you all would be very proud of me, I made my entire Weiss Kruez jacket on the sewing machine. I know, amazing right? Actually it is looking pretty good. There are a couple things that went wrong when I made it (sewing machine issues) but for the most part I think it will look good. Anyway, here are my current projects:

Ken - Weiss Kruez (I blame Elke and Eli >_>)
A Soul Eater costume that I'm not saying yet only because it amusing to see people try and guess XD
Yamamoto - Reborn - Ring battle outfit
Zelda (yaoi-con)
FFXII costume?? (Yaoi-con)

Not really sure what I am wearing to Otakon yet. But these are the definites:
Allen (D.Grayman), Ken (WK), the Soul Eater costume, maybe Byakko (YnM)

three was a slight snag when I went to buy my Plane tickets, but I'm working on getting that figured out. I knew something would go wrong XD Thats just how my luck is.

One of my grandfathers dogs is at the house right now. Since we are trying to get rid of them, my father brought the mother over to see how she would react to being around other dogs and cats. She seems to be fine, its the cats that aren't too pleased by the new addition. Tomorrow she will go back to the other house, and he will bring of the other dogs back here to do the same thing. It's going to be an interesting week.

Yaoi-con
I can finally buy my plane tickets for Yaoi-con. But I went to do it and totally freaked out XD It's always so scary buying plane tickets and I started to doubt myself and totally haven't bought the tickets yet XD I know I just have to push the button and confirm and I'm good to go...but all these thoughts go through my head like, what if they changed their minds and don't want me? Am I just going to be a bother??? This is my first time going without Deathgod and crew and I guess I'm probably freaking out without reason..but yeah..I can order my tickets. Should probably buy my reg too o_o See I've been so nervous that this whole thing would fall through and something would go wrong and I wouldn't get to go and so I have procrastinated doing anything for it. I am excited about going back though.

Otakon
D.Grayman group: I need to know how is in! I need to pay the photographer! Please let me know ASAP so I can figure out how much it costs per person and send her the money and get you guys my information so you can pay me back. Remember: FRIDAY NIGHT 11:30PM
Please respond here so I know what characters we have. Here are the ones I know for sure:
Me: Allen
Zip: Rhode
Evenstar: Rabi
Evenstar's friends: Kanda, Miranda, Cross?

I also have set up a Weiss Kruez photoshoot for Saturday night. This one is free. Please comment here if you are interested in that. SATURDAY 9PM
Me: Ken
Lyn: Schuldig
Lyn's friend: Farfarello


I had more...I just don't remember it.