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Next Wednesday to be exact.  I'm sort of excited because my friend suggested we hang out and do stuff since our birthdays are in the same month.  Also I still have to get her a gift so I plan on doing it then.  I'm terrible at remembering dates especially birthdays.  Having people on facebook helps with that though.  

I'm almost finished the with project I'm supposed to do for that guy, and it turned out really good.  I wasn't sure how it would turn out before I scanned the drawings in photoshop, but it turned out great.  I'll be glad to be finally done I with that project so I can do some artwork for myself.

I dyed the ends of my hair purple today.  My mom helped me, and it was a long process but it came out great.  Also the hair dye smells like grape so that was a nice surprise.  

Last night I found this interesting video explaining the plot of Evangelion, and it makes a lot of sense.  Eva is one of those anime that isn't exactly easy to understand.  In fact me and my friend often make jokes referencing that.  So I found this youtube video with this guy explaining the entire plot in 7 minutes which is awesome.  The big ending for the End of Evangelion makes a lot of references to a philosopher named Hegel, and his theories about human consciousness.  It's pretty interesting, and I'm probably going to re-watch the series in proper order so I can make sense of everything.  

I caved in and bought another anime box set today xD!  This time it's "Fate Stay Night" because I've been wanting to check it out for a while, and keep hearing it's pretty good.  It was only $5 on Rightstuff so I really couldn't turn it down.  I'm really glad that I've gotten back into things I used to like such as anime, shows, movies etc.  When I was going through a really bad depression at the end of last year I didn't enjoy doing anything.  I felt like a shell of a person.  It's good to feel like myself again.


Speaking of interesting anime stuff my friend told me about these videos where these blacksmiths recreate anime weapons as real functional weapons.  They made the Dragonslayer from Berserk, and they said it was one of the most difficult weapons they've created mainly because of the size.  I've always been interested in swords to be honest.  I really was when I first started taking karate classes when I was a young child.  I have a Japanese Samurai Katana that my parents helped me buy when I was younger.  I'll have to take pictures of it one day.

Now I'm going to go do some reading. 

 Hello to the new people I added from the LJ friending meme!  I mostly tend to just post about whatever is going on with me during that week so here we go.

I found out Monday that my grandfather is in the hospital on life support.  My mom mentioned previously that she felt like he would go downhill after my grandmother died, and that's what seems to be happening.  I really don't want to have to deal with another death in the family so I'm trying to stay optimistic.  It's really hard sometimes though.  To be honest I felt like my grandfather died years ago even though he's still here.  He has dementia, and he would sometimes not remember us, and it was really difficult.  

Now for not so sad news I had a facebook video chat with my best friend on Monday night, and it was really fun!  We haven't seen each other since she moved away, and it was wonderful seeing her face again.  We did the video chat because she lost her cell phone, and we figured that would be a good way for us to keep in touch until she got a new one.  It was a really great feeling seeing her face again. :)

I've been keeping up with new X-Files episodes, and last weeks episode was so sad!  I won't give any spoilers in case someone else is watching it.  Also I finally watched the anime One Punch Man, and it was hilarious!  It's a series that I'll definitely continue watching.  I also watched this movie called "We Need to Talk About Kevin" based off of a book.  It was really good, and very sad.  Here's the plot if anyone is interested.  Well that's all for now.  

Last week was pretty good.  I ended up going to my youngest cousin's 1st birthday party Sunday evening after work at peter piper pizza.  It ended up being a really nice party, and I had fun seeing the little munchkin enjoying her first birthday.  She ran around in a pink tutu until she tired herself out xD! 

I was very pleased to hear about the ruling for marriage equality.  Living here in Texas I knew that our state politicians have been very reluctant to rule in favor of same-sex marriage.  I was so glad to hear that they finally did.  I was at work when I heard about it, and I heard a few people make some really homophobic comments.  It's a strange dynamic living in the south when people openly spew such hatred, and vitriol.  I've never understood that because I could never understand why you would treat anyone differently for any reason.  Anyway, I ended up having to delete a couple of family members on facebook for some of their bigoted views.  I have a zero tolerance rule when it comes to any sort of bigotry, racism, or any sort of isms really. 

In other news I've been slightly regretting not going to Warped Tour after watching some videos of some of the bands performing.  The main bands I wanted to see were Citizen, Memphis Mayfire (local band woot!), We Came As Romans, August Burns Red, Being As An Ocean, and PVRIS.  So honestly not enough bands for me to warrant going to such an event.  I guess I'm just itching to go to a show this year since I went to 2 last year. 

I've been meaning to watch a few anime titles I've added to my list on netflix, but I haven't gotten around to it.  I'll probably do that over the next few days.  I did watch the original Poltergeist movie from 1982, and I'm still wondering why they even attempted to remake that movie.  The original movie is perfect.

Also the new Chelsea Wolfe video is awesome!  I can't wait until her new album drops in august.  I'm adding to the many new album releases I'm looking forward to this year.  This song has a very industrial, sort of drone, doom feel. 

 This week was really tiring.  I didn't get much sleep for the past 2 days so my sleep schedule is really off.  I now have the sleep schedule of a vampire...lol.  I plan on getting it back to normal within the next few days.  Like today I got off work early, and after I got settled, and ate lunch, I crashed and didn't wake up until around 7pm.  So needless to say I will be up all night tonight, but that's fine.  I can always catch up on my reading. :)

  Last week was actually peaceful, and not too bad for a change.  I finally got the chance to check out Kim Hyun Joong’s new drama “Inspiring Age”, and I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes a lot!  The guy playing the younger Shin Jung Tae really does look just like Hyun Joong, down to his pissed off expression when he’s fighting.  They really outdid themselves by picking him for the role because he fits it perfectly.  I’m really looking forward to this week’s episode(s).

  Speaking of shows I just watched the season finale for Sleepy Hollow and Oh My God!  I was not expecting it to end like that!  And I have to wait until the fall before it resumes the new season.  I don’t know what I’ll do with my Mondays now…lol.

  I was browsing Netflix the other day and decided to watch the anime “Attack On Titan”, and boy do I regret it.  To say it was disturbing is putting it lightly.  I couldn't make it through episode 2 due to people being eaten by giant ‘Titans’ and what not.  The plot was a little too disturbing even for me, and I can usually take disturbing things.

  I bought these jeans that have one leg red, and the other black and I wore them to work the other day.  Needless to say I got a lot of attention.  One guy literally did a 360 as he watched me walk past him…lol.  Despite how I dress sometimes I’m still not used to a lot of attention.  I think it’s safe to say that I don’t like attention.  On a side note I will say that whatever I do though I do it for myself, and not for anyone else.  I dress the way I do because it makes me happy.  I've decided that it’s ridiculous to depend on others for my happiness.  In fact I’ve decided that I will not depend on others for my happiness.  I need to think about making myself happy.  I can afford to be selfish at this point in my life.

  As for music I’ve been trying to get into some newer hardcore bands.  Anyone that knows me personally knows that when I was a teenager up until my early twenties I used to listen to a ton of hardcore music.  You could say that’s how I got into post-punk music actually since hardcore is a form of punk.  These days I do still prefer post-punk to hardcore due to my love for rumbling bass-lines, and apathetic singing styles as opposed to screaming, and fast driven songs that hardcore brings to the table.  The bands I've been listening to are: Oceana, La Dispute, Balance And Composure, Touche Amore, Thrice, Embrace, Crossfaith, and Defeater.  As for some other bands/artists that aren't necessarily hardcore I’ve been listening to I’ve been listening to Within Temptation (their new album is awesome!!!), Swans, Warpaint, Christian Death, Coil, Husker Du, SuiseiNoboAz, Galileo Galilei, Pity Sex, and Little Nemo to name a few.

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