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So today was interesting. Well, I have to back up to Tuesday last week.

Tuesday I was actually asked if I wanted to start training to work back in the vault at HD. Mm, not particularly, buuut it would be an easier job for me...

...except I had to train for three days starting on Wednesday so I could work on my own today.And I had to be at the store for training at 5-effing-AM.

I was really super nervous about working on my own today, b-but I did okay! I'm just not the best with math. I'm not sure when I'll work back there again, but it's definitely easier on my feet and I don't feel so exhausted. I'm still slow at it though. It took me 7 hours to get out of there. orz I didn't even take a break of any kind.

Bad news: I hit a big pothole with my car and now the wheel or tire or both are damaged. It's definitely leaking air. Just what I need after getting the brakes fixed.

Other news: Been running the Spamano Gift Exchange this holiday season. I think it's working out better than it did last year. Still it seems some people have disappeared even after asking for a couple days extension. =x=; Will probably have to set up some pinch-hits in a day or so.

Side note: I broke down and quickly purchased a copy of the January Comic Birz last month through the proxy I usually use. It came to like... $50. ;x; I'm debating selling off the Tumbler paper as I can't imagine using it and possible seeing if I can sell the back cover Hetalia DVD ads from the last few issues to help cover the cost (Got Canada, Sweden, Finland, Russia & America).

I was checking BK1 for the February issue, which went on sale Dec 28... and seemed to be sold out when I checked Dec 30. WTF. I mean what. Not fair, dammit.

...parents are coming to visit in a week. Am excited. ;w;

I'm offering up an art auction: here

I have rather mixed reactions to what happened this weekend and how people have reacted to it. Mostly though my prayers are with those whose lives have been affected by these events.

I'm not really sure what else to say at the moment. I'll post again later I guess.

I was bored at work and came up with this~! You can probably use this for more than just Hetalia, but mine's directed at the Hetalia fandom.

( Hetalia RP Survey Meme )

Post to main comm? Y/N? Done.

( My answers )

Meebo RP Friends' Answers
So I can find them easily...

onmyoji_youkai: Here
alliterations: Here
jadeile: Here
ridensgirl: Here
pbjsammich: Here
sarepthegreat: Here
kotakia: Here
x_tatyamihailov: Here

I almost forgot to add this~

"If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal."

This is so true. I've met some wonderful people online, who I am very grateful for and I can't imagine life without them. Especially one who keeps me up when I'm down, even if I'm a sort of frustrating tsundere. =3= I'm so lucky~

Well, this week was interesting. I came up with the idea to do an April Fool's thing for the Hetalia File Archive... which was just having it be like Prussia took over and changed it so all the content was about him. pbjsammich helped me with the design a bit. It looked like this: Oresama no Archive. It was generally well received... but I let them get away with posting whatever on the shoutbox and ommmg crazy. Things are back to normal now.

Theeen we found out one of our fellow RPers, sarepthegreat was working on fansubs for episode 53 of Hetalia, she and her cousin had done a translation. So Sam and I helped out with fixing it up and encoding the sub and video files together. It drove us nuts, but I think it'll be easier now that we know how to do it. May or may not do more. It would be fun, but we don't want to feel pressured by the fandom. Not a real fansub group. XD; Just a handful of crazy people.

Um... dunno what else to say... As of a few days ago I've officially been at Home Depot for three years. It seems kind of surreal...

That's about it.

Let me address some things to you. Your paranoia is a waste of effort on your part. We are not, nor have we ever plotted anything against you. When we were talking to Cody about catching Nat cheating on him, we just discussed that we would like to do that. Not how. There was never any plotting involved. And why that offended you anyways I don't know. Does it matter that Cody wanted a reason for her character to break up with yours? Are you so offended that she discussed it with someone else rather than you? You know, after you went ahead and had your character flirt with another without asking Cody if it would bother her or not. I fail to see the difference here.

We are not "backstabbing assholes" as you have so affectionately referred to us as. If we were, we would still be in that room, yelling in your face, calling you names and trying to get other people to dislike you. We have not done that. We LEFT to make another room when we easily could have kicked you out. Yes we told other people about what happened and invited them to join us, but we did not EVER tell them to stop talking to you. In fact we encouraged them to STAY WITH YOU if it bothered them too much. Tino decided to stay WITH YOU and we left her alone.

The few people with you in that room who are annoyed at you now are not like that because we told them to be. They're reacting to YOU and your behavior. Your paranoia, bitterness and general disregard for their feelings and their characters is pushing them away. They try to confront you about it and you either try to play the victim to make them feel guilty, or you get frustrated and say you're not going to talk about it and then put up some snarky AFK message, like you're above needing to discuss things. I don't know how to tell you this any clearer, but a GROUP RP needs a bit of this thing called "Team Work". "Compromising" is also another part of successfully interacting with people in role-play. I fail to see you even taking these things into consideration. Even your apologies are worded in such a way to make you look like the victim. Maybe you're not even conscious of it, but it's quite obvious that you're putting your feelings first, even though sometimes you mask them under "concern" for someone else.

I'm not going to say you shouldn't feel hurt over what happened. You basically got ditched by a bunch of people and that's not cool. But you don't even try to understand it. If it was just one of us, we could say that person was overreacting. But it was SEVEN of us. SEVEN. You can add a few more onto that now. That's over HALF the people who were in the RP. I'm sorry, but that says more about you than about us. Let me put this bluntly: YOU ARE UPSETTING PEOPLE.

We've been gone a bit over a month and practically forgot about you. But then we HEAR things still about what you do and say. We've tried to ignore them for the most part, since really, most of us wouldn't want to think of touching you with a ten foot pole. Yet it seems you still think we're out to get you, and it's... downright ridiculous. You're speaking bad about us to people WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW US. We never did that to the new people in our room. They don't need to have that stupid drama thrown on them.

I'll say this straight forward, if you REALLY start muting the people you don't RP with directly for absolutely no reason (don't even try to use that "they didn't interact with me anyway" line), you should be out of the RP. If you're only going to interact with one or two people in the room, go role-play on MSN or something, rather than try to dictate how other people should react to or act in front of you. It's rude. Plain and simple. Stop it. No one cares anymore.

Unlocked and not cut, because I'd love it if she found this. Though most likely she would say she didn't read it because it was "nasty." I'm so sick of this. Enjoy your NASTY LETTER, which is written without swearing or other NASTY practices a normal person would associate with a NASTY LETTER. Apologies to my friendslist

So yesterday I checked aph_request and found someone asking for information on Himaruya's character Noto-sama. So I went over to his site and poured through his archive of the comic Noto is from. Of course I can't exactly READ it, the best I can do is read sentences like, "I am a man." so, I tried to translate some, it looked really cute, and made me like Noto a lot more.

Going over it though made me really WANT to read it. It's really a shame that his work aside from Hetalia gets overlooked. I really want the first volume of Chibi-san Date now. He finally finished a website for it, and it looks so pretty~! I think his comics really say a lot about him. I mean, he was working on the title with Noto when he was still in high school, and it's quite easy to see how much he loves Nantucket from looking at Chibi-san stuff. I want to read it all! @_@

Oh god, I just spent practically my whole day working on my Hetalia File Archive site. FFFFFF

I hadn't updated the last couple days, so I had to catch up adding new communities and teasers and France's CD lyrics... Then I decided I wanted to archive news and official blog posts, so THEN I made an LJ community (hetarchive) for the archive so I wouldn't clutter up html on the website. And then I went through 654536543 LJ themes for the site and had to change the colors 765654654 times and then moved over my help post and created posts for the news and blog posts. And THEN I started going through the LJ comm's posts to look for those posts and went through June of 2008 to January of 2009 (and dear lord I want to beat everyone who DOES NOT TITLE their posts)!!!

And then I realized I forgot to go through December of 2008.

So then I finished the updates and went on to make a 200x40 link banner.

Like so:

Then I emailed Hetalia Indexes asking if they'd like to affiliate.

Then I took a break.

Then I checked the aph_request and found someone asking for a good image of the DVD volume 4 cover and so I went to Amazon Japan and pieced the picture together for the archive to share.

I also took note I can do the same for Germany's CD cover so I SHALL DO THAT TOMORROW LATER TODAY.

WHERE THE HELL DID MY LIFE GO?!?

( EXTRA: We win so hard. (Or is that fail?) )

San Japan 2 was fun for pbjsammich and me! Here's some pictures concerning our artwork.

( Click for report! )