Yesterday was my birthday, and what a day it was. I was a roller coaster of emotions, but it ended up being a wonderful day.

I woke up early to go to work. I sit at one of the desks in the fitness center, so I basically get paid to do my homework. Not very eventful, but then I scurried off to get lunch and head to rehearsal for a sketch comedy show (which is tonight!). After rehearsal, I wandered around the quad taking pictures of people at Lutefest for my photography project. By this point, I had only run into a couple people who wished me a happy birthday.

I returned to my room and just hung out, watching YouTube videos and getting calls from family. A call from my mother broke my heart a little. My grandmother is terminally ill with lung cancer, so my mom and my uncle alternate taking care of her, since she can't be by herself anymore. My mom has been so busy taking care of my grandma that she couldn't find much time to really do anything special for me on my birthday except send a card, so she felt really bad. I told her not to feel that way, because I understand what's going on and grandma needs people with her, but I know she still felt horrible. That's just the way she is. So that put me in a bit of a sad mood.

Later, I had dinner with my roommate and some friends, and continued to receive birthday wishes. Although I found it odd that some people didn't even acknowledge that it was my birthday. I mean, people whom I would expect to remember. I found it strange and tried to dismiss it, but it kept bothering me. Even after dinner, I found myself in my room just hanging out by myself. And I kept thinking, "This is wrong. I shouldn't be spending my birthday alone." Of course it is getting to be the end of the semester, so I wondered if everyone simply had too much work to do.

My sister called me, and I went over the situation with her, asking if it was selfish of me to be a little disappointed. She told me to take the initiative if no one else was going to, so I resolved to rally people together to walk into town and get ice cream. My roommate and one of my friends were in the room at the time, so we watched a couple episodes of Friends before heading downstairs.

To my surprise, a great, big group of my friends was waiting for me in the lobby. They all sang to me before leading me out to the woods behind one of the dorms where we played Ghost in the Graveyard and had lots of fun. After a while, it was "highly suggested that we return," so we went back to our dorm. Once in the lobby, a friend covered my eyes while people ran past me into the coffeehouse. Another friend grabbed my arm and I was blindly led into the coffeehouse, only to find everyone there with cake and ice cream and presents. Everyone sang to me once more and I blew out the candles, making a wish and feeling like I would cry.

It was a wonderful birthday, and it made me realize just how blessed I am to have such wonderful people in my life. I have a loving family and incredible friends here, back home, and in other places. I don't know if people realize this, but I am a very emotional person and I love with all of my heart. As I blew out the candles, I made a wish. I won't say exactly what it was, but it involved my friends and hoping that we would always have each other in one way or another. I love each and every one of them so much with all of my heart, and I hope to never lose them. I will never doubt that bond again.

I have returned from the land of the east. AKA Asia. More to come on that later.

For now, 25 truths.

Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

1. My ultimate goal in life is to found an animation studio to give Disney a run for their money.

2. I'm afraid that goal will never be accomplished

3. I love Disney movies. Not High School Musical and that kind of stuff. I mean animated movies and the classics like Mary Poppins.

4. I love trashy reality TV. It's a guilty pleasure.

5. There's always some kind of fantastic scene or story going on in my head, but it's so hard to describe everything to other people.

6. I love looking up videos of English dub voice actors on YouTube. I've found some good ones of Quinton Flynn and Johnny Yong Bosch to name a few.

7. I prefer to cosplay as boys due to a creepy experience I had when I cosplayed as Yuna. I do really want to cosplay a female character sometime soon, though.

8. I LOVED Tokyo and I can't wait to go back.

9. I HATE snobby, spoiled rich kids.

10. I also hate people who are overly arrogant and think they're better than everyone else for no good reason.

11. The one thing I want to do before I die: Hijack a golf cart at a really swanky country club and harass the golfers.

12. I'm terrified that I won't amount to anything in life.

13. I love America's Best Dance Crew and wish I could dance like those crews.

14. I hate Twilight.

15. When I'm home alone at night, I psych myself out to the point that I can't sleep.

16. GRIMMJOW WANTS YOUR BABIES.

17. I love 90's boybands.

18. Halloween is my favorite holiday.

19. I would never eat at a MacDonald's in the USA, but I would totally eat at one in Japan.

20. I think eating with chopsticks makes more sense than eating with silverware.

21. I want my future husband/boyfriend to propose to me in cosplay.

22. The only celebrity I will swoon over is Johnny Rzeznik, frontman for the Goo Goo Dolls.

23. 90's alternative is my favorite music genre.

24. I think most designer bags like Louis Vuitton and Dooney and Bourke are ugly.

25. I wish I was really good at something athletic, like archery or some kind of martial art.

Just as a heads up, I will be in China and Japan through the month of January, and I'm not sure what my internet connection will be like, so updates will be few and far between. However, I plan on uploading sketches and pieces as soon as I get back. There's still plenty for me to do in regards to Sky Castle IX and Bleach-Verse, and the first page of Skies Astern is on its way. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and I wish everyone a Happy New Year. :3 See you in February!

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So my semester has gone by wayyyy too fast. I'm currently swamped with final papers and projects and such, but I'm chugging through it. My roommates are delightful as always, and my classes have all been going fairly well.

But even with all my work, I'm still finding time to draw and everything. =3 I'm currently working on a webcomic called "Skies Astern," an air-pirate, steampunk story. ^__^ It'll be good fun. Also, I've joined a few clubs, so there will be work related to that. And I've also come up with new concepts and ideas for Sky Castle IX, so there's much more from me to look forward to. In the mean time, I'm going to finish watching Alias with my roomies and go to bed. xwx

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So I'm back at school, and had the first day of classes today. Oh my...I had an eventful morning.

So I woke up at 6:30 with one of my roommates so we could go to the waffle bar in town for breakfast and free t-shirts. We met a few friends in our dorm lobby and got into my roommate's car. As we pulled out of the parking lot, we were facing the sun and the windshield was foggy. As a result, we crashed into a fork-lift. The car received a bit of damage on the front left corner, and no one was hurt (I bit the inside of my lip and it bled a little, but no big deal). So Public Safety came down and assessed the damage, followed by a cop and a truck to tow the car away.

So no waffles or t-shirts. D:

So I went back to my room and didn't feel like going back to bed, so I showered and changed and got ready for class. I swung by the Cage and grabbed breakfast, then went to the Language building to go to my Japanese class. However, I mixed up the classes on my schedule. I didn't have Japanese. I had Art History. Which was in the Art building all the way on the other side of campus. So I booked it over to the building and ended up being only five minutes late.

After that, I grabbed lunch with friends and then went to my other two classes.

So yeah. Great start to the semester.