February

Well, today is the last day of February. This will be my twenty ninth post for February 2012. Now, that's not a post-per-day--I don't really have that much consistency. Some days have provided me with three posts, others none. I'm okay with that. I'm not really a person of habit--too much structure and I feel walled in. What impresses me is that this is going to be my forty-first post of the year. This is more than I've blogged most years since I started this blog in 2009.

Back then, I just wanted a place to post my AMV's--because my dad wouldn't let me have a YouTube account (still no luck with that.) Of course, I was then informed that it was technically not... quite... legal...  to use other people's music in a video you post without some kind of agreement and I felt bad and took down the only one I had posted. Those copyright laws are tricky. >__>
Anyway, Bethany and I soon after posted some anime dubbing we had done for fun (our own audio, so no audio copyright infringement!) and I posted for... about a month. Then it was down to one or two a month or none at all.
Those are not posts I'm extremely proud of, stylistically or grammatically. However, I was writing, so I guess it's fine.
2010 saw one or two posts a month... except July which had 14 and October which had nine.
2011... May saw the most activity with five posts, but I only blogged 21 times that year. Meh.
Until this year, blogging was something I remembered to do sometimes and got around to even less frequently. I don't know what changed, but... Oh wait, let me see.
On January 13, I had a revelation of sorts and posted (like countless other times) that I should blog more. But this time I took it to heart. I realized that I had thoughts to get out there, and so often I just forgot about them the next time I sat down at the computer because there was so much else to do like... go stalk someone on facebook. Talk about a sad existence! Even though a lot of the time I don't feel like what I'm blogging about is especially interesting or important, it's doing several things, and this is a habit I'd like to keep up.
Blogging is helping me to:

Write more. I like writing. It's how I express myself most often.

Stop wasting my time on Facebook, etc. Early in February I realized that most things I was saying on Facebook I could say on my blog--There's nothing wrong with a short post! But when I have a lot of space to write it, I find that more comes out and suddenly I have three hundred words or so. Plus, it's only being said to those people who actively seek out what I have to say (or those who stumble upon it and probably don't care).

Observe and mull over things more. If I see something cool, I want to blog it! If I get a good idea, I want to blog about it! This is a way I can record thoughts that run through my head, talk things out to myself, get deeper than the surface. Even though other people can see it, I think I mostly blog so that I have a record of my life to look back on--I'm kind of forgetful.

Well, I guess the point of this post is to point out that I'm posting. You probably don't need all this to tell you that, but future me will hopefully be impressed. Hi, future me!

Happy Birthday, Hunny!

And happy Leap Day to everyone else.

This lovely little boy is a senior in high school/first year of college depending on where you are in the manga. Why does he look so young? Well, it's obviously because his birthday only comes once every four years. So say he's been alive for eighteen years... Well, he's only turned six!
Edit: He would only be four. Pff. XD 

Aw, Hunny. ^3^ So cuteeee~

Edit: Today is also the birthday of my friend Peggy's brand new little sister! >w< Happy birthday to Clara!
I have to say, it would be pretty sweet to have only one birthday every four years. I mean, not when you're a kid and you look forward to presents and stuff, but once you get old enough to realize how special you are, well. Fun times.

The daily life of a ninja.

The media seems to have these misconceptions about ninja. Drawing on well known examples, we have Naruto (loud, noisy, wears orange), Lego Ninjago lego people who have elemental tornado powers or something... I don't get why my brothers watch this stuff... XD
And of course there's the 'classic' ninja, wearing all black and blah blah blah. Nobody seems to understand that they can never depict ninja correctly because you cannot see a ninja. Unless the ninja wants to make his or her presence known, the only way that you will realize they are there is the fact that you have just been assassinated.
Luckily, I have some connections and got to follow a ninja around for a day, photographing a few of his activities. We both hope that this clears up the misconceptions around ninja.
I met Joe (name changed for anonymity) early one morning at his favorite training area. Here is a picture of him gliding over the surface of a lake. Notice that he leaves no trace of his having been there:

Next, we went to meet his girlfriend at a cafe.

She didn't show, but Joe says this is common for ninja. She may have been killed in battle.
Joe went on assignments for most of the day, but for my safety he forced me to stay about a mile away each time.

This is Joe feeding a duck. He has a soft spot for animals.

After work, he went "home" to chill. He apparently lives in the homes of people he's assasinated-- this was the den of his latest kill.

 Getting dinner.

 Getting some laundry done.

 Joe stole my camera and snapped a couple self-portraits- Look at that friendly grin.

 

After a hard day's work, Joe likes to relax, just like the rest of us.

I hope this has proved to be enlightening to all you lovely blog-readers... Don't let ninja continue to be stereotyped. Let's get the truth out.

Zombies

Due to my mild mild mild fascination with zombies and their correlation to college I have decided that the zombie apocalypse is coming for me in Fall 2012 which is soon. I must do what I can to prepare and fend them off. They have warned me many times over and I have infiltrated their population a few times but fall is when things get serious and I'm going up against that horde of zombies face to face.

PREPARE YOURSELF

FALL 2012

I BATTLE THE ZOMBIES

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS COLLEGE

THE BATTLE WILL LAST ANYWHERE FROM TWO TO FOUR YEARS

Will I emerge victorious, changed, but stronger?

Or will I become one of them?

Only time will tell.

Here's what I can do now to prepare: Jobs and scholarships. If I can pay the zombies enough to distract them from devouring me while I'm among them, they won't chase me once I'm out of there. Never never never never will I take out loans to bribe zombies. I may never free myself of them that way.

I can develop my skillz. If I can prove to the zombies that I can survive without them then cool beans. But if being among them and shooting them dead makes me a stronger person, BRING IT ONNNNN

This is a really poorly put together metaphor but whatever. XD

A game I play sometimes

Google can find results for almost anything... even if it's pretty much unrelated to your search. When I searched "the last time I fed my llama vegetarian bugs for its seventh birthday because we forgot about christmas and the cake that went along with cyberbullying" the first result is "how to find that book you've spent years looking for."
 So sometimes it's fun to just google  something that turns up no results.

Your search - knowledgeable texture genome generator piccadilly tobacco banterful play - did not match any documents.

Success!

However, I want to see how concise I can be-- One day I might find some two-word search that turns up nothing... but I'm not so determined that I'm going to waste any more time on it tonight. XD