Infection

(I seem to have fallen to the level where all my titles are song names. :'D)

It’s time for apologies and explanations again. Sorry for the lack of updates. School is eating up all my free time and I haven’t slept nearly enough in the past four weeks or so. Also, my fever at the beginning of the month extended and I also caught an eye infection, so I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather. I’m already healing up, so there’s no need to be too worried.

I’ve failed a lot, due to the illness (I hope). On the 13th I managed to lose my phone. The next Monday I lost my bus card. I was so frustrated I can’t put it into words! I’d probably lose my own body if it were possible. -____-'' Well, the good news is I got a new phone! Here she is:

My new Nokia 5230. The Siren ~Redemption~ (No, I still haven’t got rid of my habit of giving names to my electronical devices.)

~♥~

On the 22nd I attended the much anticipated gig of D’espairsRay, without any make-up due to the eye infection. I had lessons until four o’clock, so I headed to Helsinki straight from school. I got my new bus card first and then went to grab a little something to eat and drink before the gig with Zara and Sami. Taitti joined us when we were already queuing inside. I started to panic about getting a right-sized tour shirt, as I always do, but in the end both me and Taitti got our shirts and found a good place to enjoy the gig from, right next to the mixing table.

The set list was amazing. No, I’m not just saying, it really was that good. The only song I still missed was Reddish, but other than that I was completely blown away. The first two songs, BORN and Marry of the blood, had me thinking I must have died and gone to heaven. The rest of the songs didn’t let me down either. Garnet, fuyuu shita risou and DEATH POINT kept the mood up, but when they played dope, 13 -thirteen-, Love Is Dead and Damned in a row I was on Cloud nine. I enjoyed in vain and Devils' Parade, but Abyss got me a little distracted from the show, as I hadn’t paid it all that much attention when listening to MONSTERS. Lost in re:birth wasn’t my favourite song either, but Hollow got me back on track again. I was more than happy listening to Human-clad monster and REDEEMER, and then Abel to Cain made me go wild. The encore with forbidden, TRICKSTeR and MIRROR was great, but I felt a bit unsatisfied with the lack of Reddish. Both me and Taitti were all “So when will we see D’espairsRay again?” afterwards and were sad to read about the break they are taking after this tour. But as long as Hizumi will get his vocal cords in shape again it’s all good. Thank you for the amazing show again, D’espairsRay!

~♥~

I’ve actually been a bit depressed lately, probably due to the shortening days of autumn. I’ve been forced to wake up at 5:40 a.m. for way too many mornings in a row and it’ll only get worse after the (heavenly!) autumn break of 11 days starting next Thursday. Technically we aren’t allowed to eat anything in our classroom at school, so I’ll have to start having breakfast at home rather than just taking my morning tea and sandwiches with me when I leave the house. This means that I’ll have to wake up at 5:20 practically every weekday morning. I do not approve of this! Well, I can’t really complain since I was the one to decide I’d go to school so far away from home, but still. >.<''

Okay, enough of that rant for now. If I won’t update my blog too frequently from now on it’s just that I’m depressed and tired, that’s all. But! On to nicer subjects!

Dad bought me the cutest bottle of champagne ever!

(Sorry for the bad photo – as always. x3) Look, my Nicolas Feuillatte is wearing a pink winter coat! Just how cute is that? :D Now all I need is a pink coat with white fur for myself and a chihuahua with a matching outfit and I’m all set for a very chic New Year’s party or something. xD

Also, I got a gorgeous pocket watch from my dad! He already had one that used to belong to his uncle or grandfather, so he gave the other one to me. :D

*____* I don’t know where I’m going to wear it, but its cool. A great piece of accessory for a gothic photo shoot, don’t you think? I just need a chain for it…

~♥~

Last Friday was an exciting one. ;) Zara totally got me a heart-attack by texting me that she had got this:

My Miki in Budokan! *q* I left the house in the morning thinking that my life would be complete once I would get my hands on my new baby in the evening. But before that, I had to visit two museums with the other first-year artisan students from our school and then spend the afternoon in Helsinki with Taitti. We were going to buy some new Neopikos from Stockmann, since they had the big sales (Hullut päivät), but decided against it in the end. I bought some stuff for school, the seventh volume of Vampire Knight manga and, you got it right, nail polish. *sigh* I was only going to get myself a new base coat, but then I got my eyes on this:

OPI Kinky in Helsinki! (VERY inaccurate photo colour-wise. It’s much more… not-red IRL, more like magenta. Go Google it, it’s a pain to capture on camera but I’ll try again tomorrow with natural light.) My face was probably something like this: O________________O when I spotted the display next to all the other OPI polishes. My limited-edition-obsessed mind forced me to buy a bottle without stopping to think about it for one second. Luckily I’m absolutely loving it on my nails. ♥__♥

Now on to the curious case of Miki in Budokan. I went to see Zara straight from Helsinki and had to do a lot of self-restraining in order not to drool all over the package during the ten-minute train trip to Sello where my parents picked me up on their way to the grocery store. Once I was finally home, I went straight upstairs and plugged in the VCR. It was at this point that I realized what a huge failure of a nerd I am. The Japanese have their videos in NTSC format whereas our VCR can only play PAL videos. All I saw on the TV screen was a white mess and the sound was too slow and overall weird. I must have flipped because at first I couldn’t do anything but laugh so hard at myself for being an idiot and then I started to frantically search the net for any information on how to get my hands on a VCR that can play NTSC videos. So far it has proven to be quite difficult, but I’ll try searching through flea markets and recycling centres when I find the time. Gosh I wish I had more intelligence in my brain…

~♥~

Well, I could keep on ranting about my angst for the whole night, but I guess it would be unhealthy for me and very unpleasant to my readers, so maybe I’ll just keep all the gory details of how the Tarja/Nightwish-deal still gets me depressed to myself. Hopefully I’ll have a nicer post for you next time. (There’ll probably be some major Mizu!fangirling, since I’ve ordered myself a few new things from Japan~ :D

Until then, dears! ♥

P.S. DAMNIT, if only I had waited for 21 more minutes to publish this… I didn’t realize 10/10/10 at 10:10 would happen twice if you’re using a.m./p.m. time format. >.<''

P.P.S. I’ve got to do this now so that I won’t forget…

I got this Beautiful Blogger Award from Zara. I have to share seven facts about myself and then tag seven people to do the same. I’ll tag all my readers, because I don’t like to spam people’s comment boxes with things like this, even though this is a nice award and everything. :'3

1. I feel like a failure. Mostly because, even though I’m studying to become an artisan, I feel like I have no direction in my life and I get absolutely nothing done.

2. I’ve inherited a tendency to get depressed during the darker months of the year from my mom.

3. I’ve also inherited her genes that allow me to eat practically anything and still stay thin.

4. I always try very hard to please other people and I sometimes get all worked up because I can’t please everyone at the same time.

5. I tend to get some sort of an identity crisis every other month or so, due to an obsession or the previous fact.

6. I feel like I’ve failed in English again in this post and it bothers me very much, as always.

7. I’m a procrastinator and a perfectionist. NOT a good combination, I can tell you. I always get depressed over things I haven’t done but it doesn’t make me do them any faster. *ahem* driving lessons, taiji and student card *ahem*

Wake up my dear…

AWWWW~

Yeah, you guessed it right; here comes the review of D’espairsRay’s gig, as requested by Zara. ^^

Yesterday was… Awesome, to say the least. Strangely enough, I didn’t feel like I was going to a gig. It hadn’t really sank in, though I was having a hard time waiting at home until it was time to go. Had my make-up and outfit ready at around four o’clock, which was about two hours too early. Well, at least I wasn’t late, for once.

I met Taitti at a bus stop at 18:35 and then we traveled to Helsinki. We arrived at Nosturi at around 8 p.m. and joined the queue after a few minutes of waiting. We got in faster than we did in Moi Dix Moi’s gig a few years back. ^^ Once inside, we waited for a peaceful moment and then went to buy our T-shirts. Taitti payed and I did the talking. x) My English totally failed me, as it always does. Since we were the only people around the table at the time, I asked how big the S-sized girlie was. The seller started to joke about a huge line of people waiting behind us and my brain decided to freeze, leaving me without a clever reply. So I just shrugged and smiled politely. The other seller gave me the shirt, telling me to take my time. I took the shirt he had give me, said I’d like to take that and an M-sized one and then Taitti gave him the money. We put the shirts in my shoulder bag and left our belongings to the cloakroom. Next we headed for the (gaah, I’m lagging big time here, sorry if my writing sucks) crowd. There seemed to be surprisingly much space quite near the stage, but we wanted to be somewhere a bit more close to the middle where we would be able to see every member of the band. In the end we were probably around the lines 10-15, roughly speaking. (At that point you can’t really tell how many people are in front of you or where the lines are.) I think we were pretty close to the stage, actually. In MDM’s gig we were stnding in the back near the bar counter. We could see the whole stage alright, but this time… Everyone seemed to be so close. And really, the first thing I thought when, after one and a half hours of waiting, D’espairsRay entered the stage was Wow, they are huge! That might seem like a stupid thing, describing four slim Japanese men as huge, but it really felt like that, seeing them live instead of in small photos. I couldn’t help staring Zero’s and Karyu’s hair. So big. *__* and everyone’s biceps… :3 We were standing on Zero’s side, but I could see all four members quite well. When the people in front of me first raised their hands I thought I wouldn’t be able to see about anything, but I was proven wrong after about thirty seconds. I didn’t pay too much attention to any single member of the band, but my eyes were mostly glued on Hizumi, the singer. When it comes to D’espairsRay, I’m mostly a fan of their music rather than the members themselves.

They started off with Lizard, which seemed like an appropriate choise. I felt a bit awkward at first, so I wasn’t throwing my fist up to the air and was just kind of glancing around to see what everyone else was doing. (I should go to gigs more often, don’t you think?) The second song was REDEEMER, though, and my brains were probably flying out of the window at that point. I thought this gig would be awesome, starting with two the songs I really like. Then I remembered that I kind of love almost every single one of D’espairsRay’s songs. :P The third song was TRICKSTəR, one of the not-my-absolute-favourite songs, but it too sounded very good played live. I wish I’d have remembered my earplugs, maybe then my ears would have ringed a bit less and Hizumi’s voice might have sounded better… Or then again, maybe those cheap foam earplugs would only have made it harder to hear…

Anyway, after TRICKSTəR the lights turned red and Hizumi pulled on his black hood. Marry of the blood started and I was in Heaven, for sure. After that they played Grudge (♥______♥) and 琥珀 (kohaku, should learn to remember that >___>). I had a really hard time to keep from singing aloud to the songs, since I know them almost by heart. Then… The ultimate my-head-is-going-to-explode-any-second-now …SIXty∞NINe started. Gaaaaaah, was that even ecstasy or what? ♥______♥ Then Infection. At this point almost all of the songs had been ones that I really love. Next one was MASQUERADE, during which I had time to breath and give my right hand a rest. Then PARADOX 5 started. ♥______♥ Euphoria, that’s what it was like. Hizumis voice broke at some points but it didn’t matter. Next song was Garnet, during which everyone had to scream. Hizumi was on fire (figuratively spaeking) during HORIZON, but I started to get tired already. >.<’’ My back hurt and my legs felt numb. Then they played Lost in re:birth, Screen and …Scissors or Bullet? (don’t know which, I hadn’t heard that one before), so I had time to “rest”. Basically I was just staring and enjoying the music. HOLLOW woke me up from my trance, for sure, and I sang with everyone else when Hizumi handed the microphone towards the audience. Laa-laa-la-laa-la-la etc.~ Then Hizumi spoke something about some kind of spirit (I didn’t quite hear/understand, lol) and said that this would be the last song… KAMIKAZE. ♥______♥ If I wouldn’t have been so hot and sweaty, I surely would have had the shivers running down my spine when Hizumi sang Wake up my dear… because that’s got to be my favourite part of any D’espairsray song at the moment. *__* Don’t know why, it just sounds cool. The band left the stage and the crowd started to shout for encore.

The encore started with Tsukasa playing the flute. *__________* So cute! I read somewhere that the song he played was from Spirited away, but I didn’t recognize it. It did sound familiar, though. He played for a very short while at first, then apologized in Japanese and tried again, this time playing a little bit longer. *__* After that, they only played one song, MIЯROR, which was a dissapointing in a way. First off, I would have loved to hear more. I read that they had had an about four-songs-long encore in Paris, they had even played BORN. But MIЯROR was great, of course, I sang along and enjoyed it with all my heart. Sadly, I wasn’t able to get any plectras or drumsticks. But the gig was awesome.

At some point (my head seems to be full of sawdust so I can’t remember too well… Someone was kind enough to publish the setlist, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to write a review this “accurate”) Hizumi introduced the members of the band. People didn’t understand what he was doing, at first, when he said to the mic; “On the drums…” Everyone was just screaming, so he had to repeat it three times and then announce Tsukasa by himself. When he moved on to Zero and Karyu people seemed to be more aware of the situation. x)

Everyone sang happy birthday for Zero at one point, in Finnish and in English, and a few people screamed omedetou. I wasn’t paying that much attention, but someone said Zero had to turn his back to the audience to wipe tears away. ;__; :’3

Probably the cutest part was when Hizumi came to the front of the stage with a folded A4-sized paper in his hands. Once the crowd had quieted down, he started speaking in Finnish. “Onko teillä hauskaa?” (Are you having fun?) *the crowd yelling “yeeeeeah!!” or something* “Minä myös.” (Me too.) *more yelling* “Helsinki on paras.” (Helsinki is the best.) *even more yelling* Then, a slight pause. “Karyu, sano jotain.” (Karyu, say something.) *screaming continues* Karyu thinks for a moment, then says “Minä rakastan teitä.” (I love you.) At this point, te crowd went wild. ♥______♥ So cute, they had gone through the trouble of learning a few phrases in Finnish.

Hey, wait a minute! I’m sure they played in vain at some point? Yes, they did, because I remember the “Sex might be the only thing I can dominate with” part. x) Well, this description really isn’t the most accurate…

I wish they had played Reddish and DAMNED… And LOST SCENE… And アベルとカイン. But they played so much already, so I shouldn’t complain. It was great~!

My outfit for the evening (sorry for the silly pose xD):

Black, black and more black. How typical. And I didn’t wear those shoes, after all.

Not so fresh me after the gig in my room, wearing the brand new T-shirt. I lolled at the spelling mistake on the back; it should say Nosturi but instead it says Nasturi. xDD

That’s all for now. Sorry for the bad quality… ^^’’

Inochi wa omoshiroi desu ne

…That’s my first Japanese title in this blog, right? I hope so. I’m sorry for those who get annoyed when people like me use Japanese just for fun. I just had to use that phrase. I should be studying English, Swedish and French for the final exams (did I mention this already?) but instead I’m doing my best to learn more Japanese and German. ^^’

Life’s interesting. If it isn’t, do something to make it so. That’s what I’m about to do.

Sorry for having another break in blogging. I’ve been madly obsessed, though I think I’m getting over it, little by little. I’m still trying to find a way to buy the DVD but I haven’t been waking in the middle of the night thinking about Mizu Natsuki. I’m so glad, this obsession scared the life out of me at one point.

I spent two days (Tuesday & Wednesday) at my grandparents’ summer cottage with my dad. We went to pick blueberries and my dad almost managed to turn it into a competition, like always. In the end, we came back home with over 7 kg of blueberries. I don’t mind, eating blueberries straight form freezer in the winter is the best!

Here’s a photo of my hand and basket. If you look closely (click for bigger version, as always) you’ll notice my stained fingers.

My basket on the left, the other one is dad’s. After a little over two hours of crouching in the forest. That was about enough for me, but dad had to go back twice afterwards. Picking blueberries was very relaxing, almost meditative. Forest is the best place for us Finns, imo.

The cottage. It’s very small but lovely. It’s one of the places I could call home. (That’s my grandmother on the porch, by the way.)

My grandmother’s (or grandfather’s, I’m not 100% sure…) fuschia. Felt like taking a photo. ^^ Gotta love that plant’s Finnish name, verenpisara, which means blood drop. It is my duty as a vampire lover to love the plant with such a tempting name. ^___~

And here’s a very freshly awesome photo of me in the forest. (Note the sarcasm here.) When I got home the first thing to do was to take a shower. The cottage doesn’t have water pipes, so washing my long hair would have been a major pain in the butt. x)

So now I’m back home. My little sister will be at home in about two hours, too, coming back from Jersey. She called me the other day to tell that she has bought me a super cute souvenir. I can’t wait! (I miss her, of course, but she isn’t the kind of person who would admit she has missed her big sister. So I’ll keep quiet about that. ^^)

I’m going about an identity crisis here. Should I change my style to something like this this or this(with longer hair and probably adding some romantic/aristocratic/gothic/vampiric/princess-y things)? Should I cut my hair? (Heck no!) Should I start buying more colourful clothes? (Maybe next summer…) Or should I perhaps try to look like Mizu Natsuki as death? (That would probably make me depressed… A no-go with my face…) My addiction has serously messed up my mind. My new theme songs are Antti Tuisku: Aivan niinkuin oisin mennyt biitistä sekaisin~ and TikTak: Sekoitat mun maailman~. (Lol, you should consider yourself lucky if you don’t know what I’m talking about.)

Then to yet another problem of mine. xD What on Earth should I wear to D’espairsRay’s gig tomorrow? :O Panicpanicpanic, I have no idea! And which shoes? I’ll have to wear shoes I can walk on… Nails? Hair? Gaah, I don’t know! I should go shopping, but I think it’ll have to wait till August when I’ll have more money… I would like to buy a men’s jacket looking blazer or something but, as my mom (my dear saving angel) put it, it’ll be nearly impossible to find one that suits me and even if I do, it’ll cost way too much. Mom is scarily practical at times.

Wow, I didn’t use the word indeed at all in this post! I was watching yet another Austen movie yestarday and I thought it would have affected my English. Sadly, it didn’t. I would love to use phrases like Are you quite certain? or I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight years ago on a daily basis.

I think that’s all for now. Expect a gig review on Sunday or so. ^^

I’ll bite into your sinful neck

Versailles fangirlism strikes again! Ascendead Master is love, just like all their songs. I’m hailing the PV just now. Please come to Finland soon~! I can’t wait ‘til September when they’ll release the new album.

Kamijo ♥__♥ Hizaki ♥__♥

Gackt ♥__♥ …he doesn’t have anything to do with this, though. x)

Okay, let’s see if I would stay on one subject for more than two seconds. ^^’’ I should have done a Hizaki cosplay for Animecon. It’s a bit late now, isn’t it? I wanted at least to do the Hizaki hair style but I realized my sister has our curling iron with her in Jersey. And I suck at creating pretty curls. ;;___;; I’ll have to do some internet research for hair curling tutorials. That’s my favourite pastime anyway.

I can’t wait for Animecon! ^___^ Oh my Gackt (here we go again!), what should I wear? *panic attack* :P And what should I do to my nails? I do have something like a plan already, nothing definite though.

My godparents’ child might be coming over to my house for Friday & Saturday so that she’ll be able to go to Animecon, too. She wasn’t too sure yet, though, because she’ll have to get here by train and then go back to Mäntyharju after just a couple of days. I’ll hold my fingers crossed for her, since she has never been to Animecon before (I’m the one to say. I’ve been to Animecon once. xD) and I think she doesn’t have anyone else to go with her. She sounded like she wanted to come, but we’ll see. I’ll have to call her tomorrow to confirm. I found out I’ve got yet another Gackt-admiring friend in her. ^____^ Makes a little fangirl happy to know people share her interests.

I had great time at my godparents’ cottage. It’s actually more like a villa than a cottage. It’s huge and very beautiful. I was able to draw for the first time since I don’t know when and finally watch the Golden Compass movie, which was better than I expected, and Kiki’s Delivery Service. I also got to play Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII on PSP. Sephiroth~ ♥! And Zack, obviously ♥! ^___^ If only we could have played the Japanese version… Gackt as Genesis’ voice. ♥___♥ On a side note: the Bunraku movie must come to theaters in Finland, too! If it doesn’t, I’ll die for sure. Well, I’ll die of hyperventilation anyway if it does. And that’s only if I’ll live that long.

Okay, in case you didn’t notice, I’m overexcited by everything right now. ^^’’ A little over two weeks to go and then I’m going to see D’espairsRay! Whee~! Now I only need money so I can buy something from Animecon and D’espairsray’s gig.

I wonder how many of my friends will come to Animecon… Me and Taitti are kind of planning to go on Friday (right? o__O). I might go on Saturday and/or Sunday too, depending on whether I do or do not have company. I’m excited~! Oh, you can tell? How come?

Endless rant… Sorry! I will have something clever to say next time, I promise! .___.’’

P.S. I forgot! I’m a godmother now! Yayy, my dream come true! ^___^

P.P.S. If you haven’t seen this Versailles comment before… It’s hilarious! xD Poor Teru, he forgot to pull in his stomach in the beginning. And please get some longer pants on already!

Good news at the end of a long day

Whee! First of all I’m sorry for my belated update (as usual). I was going to make a post about my room on Sunday, since I finally managed to clean up here. As it turns out, I never actually had the time/energy/inspiration to take any photos, so you’ll have to wait for that one a little bit longer. I managed, however, to take a few pics of my nails, so you’ll see some golden nail polish later on this post. ^^

But now to the ggrrrreat news! Well, let’s start with something minor and only then move on to the real subject, ok? So, Gackt will be releasing four, yes, FOUR new singles in the upcoming summer to celebrate his 10-year-long career as a solo artist. Whee! This obviously wouldn’t be such minor news for me if I wasn’t waiting for the actual album to come out already. And if there wasn’t something even bigger on the horizon. But as it happens, there is something so great coming on. Okay, okay, I’ll get to the point already. D’espairsRay is coming to Finland and I’m going to see them! Yayy! I’ll have my mom buy tickets for me and Taina tomorrow and then I’ll be jumping on the walls for the whole weekend. The best plan ever, right? Oh, my family’s going to love this, I tell you. But after we get the tickets there’ll be the waiting for three months… Gah, how am I going to make it? O.O J-rock is my anti-drug (but not the only one, of course).

Huh, after all that hype it is time to tell you a little of my life at the moment. Not that there has been much changes in my life in the past… week or so, but since I know you love to have me write something that’s what I shall do.

About life in general: School is killing me most of the time, though I’m keeping up better than last year. (Probably has something to do with not having French lessons or something. ^^) I have seen two theater shows in the past ten days, both of which were really good. I guess the last time I was in a theater was about two years ago, so it was about time to go see something.

Creativity: I have some good ideas and inspiration, even, but I’m just too lazy to get anything done. >.<’’

So-called style: I’ve fallen in love with hime-gyaru fashion. The big hair. *-* And all the pink and white. *-* I fail as a vampire-lover from the dark side (Lol, never actually been even close to that! I’m too kind for that. :P). But c’mon, I’m supposed to be the one who doesn’t wear anything but black, white and crimson! ;;___;; Luckily I’m a person who isn’t loyal to just one certain style. I wear what I like. Great, so now with that decided I can show you my attempt at putting up my hair:

Hehe, ignore my messy room. ^^ Someday I’ll understand that it sometimes helps if you close the closet door. But about that hair. It was just something I tried to do, a bit of tesing and about three hair pins, no hairspray or anything. My hair always looks best just before I go to bed. And the next morning – no chance of getting it to look even ok. –____-" I see I managed to hide my face pretty well in this photo. Yayy, mission completed!

And now to the golden nails as promised:

Just for the fun of it! Two coats, this Mavala 37 Gold is quite transparent and maybe a bit too yellowish for me. I bought this one for my school’s ball a few moths back. Lasted on my nails well for about four days. ^^

I guess I’ve already mentioned my love for the nail blogs? Nowadays I would just love to go and buy myself a few dozen nail polishes, but I’m a bit too rational to do that. (Weird, I’d never have believed the word rational applied to me in any way. o.o) I have decided to buy a few new ones, though. I’ll have my dad order me a few Konads, because I just have to try them out. ^^

And it will be May Day next week! We’ll have a dress-up 'party' at school the next Thursday and I’ll have to come up with something nice to wear… Maybe I’ll find inspiration in hime-kei and my Gothic&Lolita magazines. ^^

Bye for now and maybe I’ll have a post about my room for you next time. This post has to end with a ^^

I want to get well soon *snif*

Guess what? Yeah, I’m sick. Again. I catch at least 4-5 colds in a year nowadays. I have no resistance whatsoever. Blah. I am actually feeling slightly better atm, not as feverish as before. But then again I’ll probably feel worse after a little while.

So this Sunday has been pretty terrible for me. I woke up with a really nasty cough and after that my day has consisted of trying to rest as best as I could. But even laying down in a couch feels horrible when you feel like your every muscle is burning. Okay, I might be exaggerating a little bit, today hasn’t been nearly as bad as that one Monday last autumn when I actually had a fever. I just wish I’ll get better soon, because starting from the next Wednesday I’ll have a bunch of tests at school.

Okay, let’s move on to nicer subjects. (Those first two paragraphs were quite negative, sorry about that. ^^) I’m going to brighten up this blog of mine by adding a couple of photos. Yayy.

So I’ll start with the most important thing. On Friday I got my copy of D’espairsRay’s new CD REDEEMER (and it is the limited edition too!) after only 5 days of waiting. I would have got it on Thursday, but the package had my dad’s name on it and he wasn’t at home, so I didn’t get it from the post office until Friday evening. Well, the main thing is that I got the CD and I like it. ^^ Here is a pic of the opened package:

As you can see, I also got some commercial papers and a D’espairsRay poster. Whee.

And before we move on to some general stuff I have a little something to tell you about yesterday. I had a taiji practice and I finally bought myself a pair of taiji slippers! They look like this:

They are very slippery and I would most likely die if I tried to run up or down our wooden stairs at home. ^^ And for the sake of flippers I’ll have to show you a photo of the slippers I wear at home:

Aren’t they cute and fluffy? ^^ I wear them almost all the time when I’m at home. They are quite warm since they are made of lamb’s wool. I got them as a Christmas present. <3

Okay, just to more pics and then I swear I’m done. So here goes.

That is actually a very bad photo of a dress I’ve made, but that’s not the point here. The point is that I am making a corset and I’m using the same fabric that dress is made of. It’s quite colourful, so I’m a bit worried. But I think it’ll work out alright. I’m actually using the same patterns I used when I made my dress for our school’s ball. I just modified them slightly to be more suitable for a corset.

Lastly, ladies and gentlemen, I give you a photo of me. ^^

Yayy, there you go. So I had my hair cut maybe two weeks ago and decided that I want to have a fringe. I’m not so sure anymore, though. ^^’’ So typical of me to change my mind a thousand times and then regret the decision anyways. I actually wanted to have similar hair as Hizaki (the guitarist of the Japanese band Versailles), but now it looks more like a blonde version of Mana’s hair from the good old Malice Mizer times (but not as cool, obviously). Well, guess I’ll just have to cope with this until my hair grows longer. Maybe I’ll sleep with curlers on tonight and have curly hair tomorrow. ^^