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New Journal

2009-05-07T22:23:46Z

Been away from LJ for a month and some days now. Been busy with a lot and tons of stuff has been going on ><
But i've decided to start new and fresh with a new journal = strawberybread oh and I also got a new aim, it's = sofiadebustamante@mac.com
Add me if you want ^^ i'll be deleting this journal next week I guess.

sofia_15 @ 2008-08-21T01:00:00

2008-08-21T05:17:25Z

Silent Hill 4 is creeping me the fuck out! It probably doesn't help that i'm alone in my room right now with only 1 light on. I've been playing the entire day, but up until now the game started to get to me. I hate how Walter can be so damn scary whenever he appears! And I hate how I have to drag Eileen around! She reminds me of Maria a bit. But anyways, hopefully i'll be able to finish later tonight. I'm almost done XD...well sort of. I'm currently revisiting the forest world. Which I hate! Especially since Walter is appearing out of nowhere and trying to kill me. I hope this doesn't happen when I revisit the other worlds. Another thing I hate is the hauntings that happen in Henry's apartment! Gosh! I hate the 2nd part of this game so much! >:O

Well now it's time to continue. I'm going to turn more lights on and listen to music while I play, maybe that will help :D

Edit: Forget it! I'm not finishing this shit tonight. I'll finish it tomorrow. I finished the forest world (finally) and started the water prison world. I have to say though that Walter doesn't freak me out anymore. I didn't know that I could attack him and he would go a way for a while. So the reason why I stopped wasn't because of him, but of Eileen. I HATE HER! She is so fucking slow! It's because of her that I constantly have to use my health drinks and fight off the creatures and Walter. Oh and one thing I found out was that Walter appears in all the worlds until the end >:O This is going to get so annoying!!! I hate you Eileen!! >:O

I think i'll go read some Zone-00 to make myself happy :)

sorry that this is totally random, but since I have no one to talk to in my room I need to vent somewhere.

Otakon post

2008-08-17T21:27:00Z

So yeah, here it is.

This is totally random, but I hated that Otakon was during the 8th-10th! I wanted to go to the Tokio Hotel concert in NJ on the 8th! T_T

But anyways, I'll start on thursday.
Since nobody was there or busy on thursday I just hanged out with my mom. We ate at the awesome japanese restaurant, we got my badge and then we went to go see Pineapple Express (which was awesome!) at a movie theater like 2 blocks away from the Inner Harbor. It was awesome! Then after the movie was over we just walked back to the hotel, organized our stuff and went to sleep.

On friday I woke up some what early to meet people in line. I changed into Ai and then headed out. The first people that called me where, Nadia and u_ate_my_bento so I went to say hi to them first, and then I saw tinmaninacan and ended up hanging out with him during the entire line. It was fun catching up :) The line was pretty long, but I got away from it for a little while because hatchiko called and told me that she was already at the hotel. So I helped her take her stuff to the room and then we went back to the line. She just went with u_ate_my_bento and Nadia, and I went back with tinmaninacan. Then they all got their badges and we decided to go change. I changed into Kanda, Nadia changed into Linalee and hatchiko & u_ate_my_bento changed into their Mai Hime costumes. They looked great!
After that I really don't remember what we did >.< I think we went to eat, then we took pictures. After that we went back to the room so hatchiko and u_ate_my_bento could change into their DGM outfits. After that we really just hanged out in our "corner", took pictures and walked around. By then it was already like 7 when me and hatchiko changed into our Gakuen Heaven cosplays. After that we just ate, then Nadia and u_ate_my_bento had to leave so they went back to the room with hatchiko to get their stuff. I changed into Ai again and hanged out with tinmaninacan again XD We walked around mostly and then stayed in the Otacafe until it closed. Then I just went back to the room and died.
I would have gone to the rave, but I wasn't feeling well >.<

On saturday me and hatchiko got up like in the afternoon. I got a call from Nadia that they were coming to the room so we started changing into Konata and Miyuki. Then once they dropped their stuff and changed we headed out to get some food. I actually just drank a smoothie lol. Then we just walked around, took pictures and hanged out. At some point Nadia and u_ate_my_bento tried to teach me and hatchiko the lucky star dance, but we never got it so we just gave up lol. We did try our best though. While we were learning the dance I remember that I was sitting down looking around and then all of a sudden I saw someone cosplaying Sano from Ueki, and I was just like O_O. I ran up to her and was like "can i have your picture" And she was so surprised that I knew who she was. Then we talked about how nobody knows or cosplays Ueki and then I told her I did Ai, and then she told me that there was going to be an Ueki shoot on sunday. I was so excited! We then exchanged phone #'s and she told me she would call me tomorrow. Her friend was also there, and she was going to be Ueki XD
Then after being in lucky star for a while we decided to change again. I changed into Ai again, since it was really comfortable and hatchiko changed into her Yuuko outfit, which looked amazing! I can't wait to be her Watanuki at AUSA! Then we just kinda walked around the convention center. At some point I also went to the artist alley with u_ate_my_bento. Overall the Artist Alley was ok. There really wasn't anything that caught my eye though. Then we went back to change into Gakuen Heaven once again. Although I changed into Hideaki for nothing. Since I didn't really want to go with them to get something to eat I just stayed in the room. For some weird reason though I felt extremely depressed, so I cried for a couple of minutes. And then once I was better I texted tinmaninacan to see if he was already in his Manager cosplay, and he said he was, so I changed into Azuma and met him by the fountains. We then walked around, and found Ben or Takumix (the other awesome Azuma cosplayer from Katsu) and talked with him for a while :3 Then we went to the Otacafe again. We also met up with Ben again and we got to meet an awesome friend of his who was cosplaying Captain Falcon. He was funny XD While we were at the Otacafe, tinmaninacan and Ben signed up for karaoke. Although what I didn't know was that they signed me up too. I was ok with it, but I was really nervous. We were going to sing the 2nd Yakitate opening, Promise, but since we signed up kind of late we never got to go. So I got lucky lol. But next time i'll definitely do it! Then once the Otacafe closed I called it a night and went back to the hotel. I packed up all my bags, took a shower and then went to sleep.

On sunday I woke up kinda early, I changed quickly into Ai, and then just waited for other people to get ready and stuff. Then I helped my mom bring down some stuff to the car, and then I was on my way to the con.
The first thing I did was get something to drink at starbucks because I was extremely thirsty. The line was sort of long, but it went by somewhat quickly. Once I got my drink I headed towards the dealers room since Ryan was going to buy my yaoi. I met up with him, Mireille and two other friends of his at the bandai booth. Then we went to search for yaoi. Luckily the place with all the good yaoi was only a few steps away. I just glanced over a few and knew exactly which ones I wanted. In the end Mireille was nice enough to get the yaoi for me XD I only bought three. After I had my yaoi we opened the one with the funniest title and then Ryan started looking for random lines to read out. He found some good lines, but it was his friend who found the hot steamy whatever you want to call it scenes. We tried to force Ryan to look at them, but he wouldn't lol. Then I got texted by the Ueki from Saturday, so I had to run out of the dealers room to get to the fountains near the inner harbor. It took me such a long time to figure out how to get out of the dealers room, so I got there later than I wanted too.
When I got there the first person I met was another Ai cosplayer. She was really nice. Then I met the rest of the group XD Along with the Sano and Ueki I met on saturday, there was a Kobayashi-sensei and Wanko!!! They were so perfect!!! We all took some pictures, then decided to get some ice cream. I got green tea ice cream lol. Oh and while we were still by the fountains I got to see donatella_foxy and Kathy! They both looked AMAZING in their Anemone and Eureka cosplays! Then after the ice cream we went back to the con, and that's where we separated. Overall I was extremely glad to be part of that group. It was tons of fun! Hopefully one day i'll be able to organize an Ueki group XD
Then once I said goodbye, I headed back to the dealers room to buy some more yaoi. At first though I kind of just wandered around, and then I ran into donatella_foxy and Kathy again. We talked for a while. It was fun chatting with them :3 Especially about AUSA! I can't wait for the CG pizza party and cosplaying Gintama with them! It's going to be epic. Then I said goodbye to them and met up with Ryan, Mireille and their friends again. They were advertising for a booth by dancing to caramelldansen and holding up signs and such. It was funny hehe. I think it was a hentai booth too lol.
Then Mireille went to show me were there was some good yaoi, and I bought another one. Although the one I bought was a little intense in my opinion lol. But it was still good. By then the dealers room was going to close so we went out, went to the artist alley for a sec and then we went outside the convention center. And that's when I met up with hatchiko, u_ate_my_bento and Nadia again. We said goodbye to Ryan and Mireille and then just waited for my mom. While we were doing that I showed hatchiko the yaoi that I got, hehe. Then it was time to go so we just got in the car.

So now on to some pictures (I don't have many >.<)

They had a 16!!!! XD

This reminded me of Chiyo-chan LOL

I died when I saw Pierrot!!! He even had bread!! I hate that this pic turned out blurry T_T

From Nadia's camera, and the only picture of us 3 together.

I need a new kanda wig >.< But here's the only pic of all of us together! It was taken with Nadia's camera as well.

Me and Ben :D

the rest of my pictures are here: http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x74/sakurasaku_15/Otakon%202008/

Honestly I have to say that I didn't really have a great time at Otakon this year. It was pretty boring, I felt bad and depressed most of the time and there wasn't much to do. Plus zoisite_willo wasn't there! Which made me feel sad :(
I guess some high lights would be: being part of the Ueki group, hanging out with tinmaninacan, seeing a lot of my friends that I hadn't seen in a pretty long time, chatting with donatella_foxy and Kathy, thursday night, and all the amazing Silent Hill and Dragonball cosplayers!
And the costume I enjoyed wearing the most was Ai. It was extremely comfortable and I had a fun time in it! I know i'll be wearing Ai a lot for future cons even though nobody will know who I am XD I'll probably be mistaken for Rei again lol.

So I would be saying that my next con is going to be Matsuricon, but sadly it won't. Apparently my grandma and cousin won't be leaving until the 23rd, so there's no way I can go T_T So huge apologizes to ohariko! I was really looking forward to hanging out with her again! T_T
My next con is most likely to be T-MODE, unless nobody decides to go, then I will be going to New York Anime Fest for like a day or two.

Now all I have left to do is enjoy the rest of my summer vacation. I'll probably try to get my driver's permit, finish a bunch of anime or start new ones (like Okane ga Nai XD) and play a bunch of Silent Hill! I still have to finish the 4th one and Origins >.

omg otakon is in 4 days XD

2008-08-05T02:31:14Z

I can't believe Otakon is going to be so soon!

I have so much to finish by thursday. Hopefully i'll have everything done by then.

In the end the costumes that i'll be bringing will be: Kanda, Nagisa, Ikki, Ai Mori, Hedeaki, Azuma, Konata and maybe Zero and Android 18. I hope I won't die from the heat lol XD
As for when i'm wearing what I still have no idea.
Sadly I won't have time to finish Sakura, so i'll have to join Willo and Anat for tsubasa some other time. And I lost my Athena costume so I won't be able to do KOF with them either >.<

But oh well we'll still have fun anyways XD I can't wait! :3

Back from Metrocon XD

2008-07-22T09:06:49Z

God Metrocon went by so quickly that it doesn't seem like it happened.

We left on thursday night at about 11:30. All I did for the first 5 hours was listen to music and then w stopped at a rest area in North Carolina and slept for a bit. After that I didn't wake up until we were near the end of South Carolina. But then after a while I went back to sleep and woke up again when we were already in Tampa and looking for the hotel. In the end we got there at around 6:20 pm. I felt bad because I had told Hina-san that I would be there at like 2 or 3 >.<

So once I put all my stuff away I changed into Satoko right away so that I could meet up with Hina-san. I met up with her and then we went back to her hotel room so she could change into Rika :3 She changed and then I got my badge and also a masquerade pass. I bought myself a mask too incase they didn't let me in because everyone had masks on. Although the funny thing was that nobody cared if you had one or not. Honestly we both thought that the masquerade was BORING! The music was all slow for the couples and such and there were too many acting parts so there wasn't much music. We decided to leave and come back for the rave. After that we just walked around until we found a ton of people outside and once we got out we saw people in avatar costumes and fire XD They did all sorts of tricks with the fire, it was soo cool! It made me want to start watching avatar. By then it was about 10 and we decided to get in line for the rave. The wait was pretty long and we were soo tired. And then they let us in and we were all pumped up. The first thing we did was buy glow sticks, I bought two small ones and Hina-san bought two big ones. They were like light sabers XD So we dance for a while until she had to go back.
I was actually surprised that I danced at the rave, because I never do lol. I also had an extreme good time, and since the space was huge it wasn't like there was people a lot of people around you or bumping into you.
I got back to the hotel at about 2 am. Then I just ate something, took a shower and then I watched this Higurashi video that Hina-san told me to watch called Casey and friends. It's HILARIOUS! Any Higurashi friend on my f-list should watch it if they haven't already!

On saturday I got up and changed into Keiichi because we were going to cosplay higurashi again :D When I met up with Hina-san she had an awesome Hanyuu cosplayer with her, so we hanged out for a bit until her friend who was cosplaying Rena came. At around this time she also gave me my surprise. It was like Mikuru's apron, cat ears and a cat tail. I looked so funny XD At this time we were going to take our picture at the photoshoot place, but it closed and wasn't going to be opened until 3:30. We had to wait such a long time! But we had fun while we waited, we went to the dealers room, walked around and ate. Now one of the most annoying things about saturday was that there was another event going on right next to the convention center! It had to do with Red Bull. But downtown Tampa was crowded! Nobody was allowed to drive around and it felt even hotter with all the people walking around. It was crazy! Even inside the convention center was filled with people from the red bull event. Some of them were ok, but most of them were drunk and mad rude comments about everyone cosplaying.
After taking pictures with the Rena and Hanyuu we walked around looking for paper and a marker to make a sign that said "do you know Oyashiro-sama?" XD Luckily there were two nice people in the artist alley who gave us a piece of really nice paper and let us borrow their marker. The funny thing was that nobody got the sign. Only one person did by responding "Yes! Hinamizawa" hehe. Then we decided to change. I changed into time skip Simon and Hina-san changed into Shuichi. Although when we were going up the elevator there was this drunk guy talking to us that freaked us out. Luckily she was on the 5th floor. Then we just really walked around until about 10 something. By then I went to get into my rave outfit. It was actually really really lame, I wore my Itachi wig, the headband and the sharingan contacts with some capris and a black shirt. I don't know what I was thinking lol, but at least it was comfortable. We got in line at about 11:30 and we had to wait two hours to get in! It was ridiculous! They even spilt us up into two single file lines. We were so pissed off! One thing I did during the line was retire my sharingan contacts. I ripped one and the other one I just placed on a plant. it looked like a lady bug XD Then we finally got in! It took us longer though because we weren't in the front of the line. We didn't get a chance to buy glow sticks because the line was long, but luckily some people gave some away to us XD Then we just danced until Hina-san had to go back to her hotel.

On sunday I didn't stay long. I wore pre-time skip Nia. I meet up with Hina-san in the dealers room and I bought the Lain dvd boxset and a D.gray-man shirt. Then we just walked around until I had to leave. Then it was a long drive until we got home on Monday at 7 in the morning.

Now for some pictures!
I'm going to start with pics from Hina-san's camera :D

She took this when I left lol

Yaoi!! XD

Do YOU know Oyashiro-sama?

My wig SUCKS! I hope the one I ordered comes in time for Otakon!

Now pics from my camera

This Alessa cosplayer made my day on Saturday!! :D

There are better pictures from Hina-san's camera, but she hasn't uploaded them yet. Might post them later.

So yeah i'm super glad I was able to go to Metrocon. It was so worth it! And it was amazing meeting Hina-san! She was soo nice and without her I wouldn't have had much fun :3 Hopefully i'll get to see her again some time soon.

Now that Metrocon is over it's time to start working on costumes for Otakon. For myself i'll be making Kanda from DGM, Hideaki from Gakuen Heaven, Sakura from Tsubasa and i'm adding Ai from Law of Ueki because it can work for thursday and for the rave XD Then I have to make a lot of commissions for people. I'm probably going to die, but it's all worth it in the end, especially because i'm going to get paid :D

Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO u_ate_my_bento!!!! :D

sofia_15 @ 2008-07-17T18:23:00

2008-07-18T00:03:00Z

In the end the plane tickets were too expensive, so we will be driving to Tampa tonight >.< It's not like I mind the 12 hour trip, but I feel bad for my mom and her boyfriend because they're driving. So yeah, hopefully we will get there early. At least before 1 or so.
As for costumes i'll just be bringing time skip Simon, pre-time skip Nia, Itachi, Satoko and Keiichi. I really can't wait to do Satoko and Keiichi with Hina-san on friday! She said she had a surprise for me when I do Keiichi, I wonder what it might be. I suspect it to be something evil lol XD It will be so much fun!! And hopefully i'll run into the Kisame I was talking to on cosplay.com

Also randomly I have gotten obsessed over a show on cartoon network called Total Drama Island. It's amazing! I love it to death! I love all of the characters, and my favorite couple is definitely Courtney and Duncan. The only sad thing is that the show is edited, so a lot of stuff is different, which sucks! I wished I lived in Canada so I could see the original version and the second season when it comes out.

sofia_15 @ 2008-06-28T15:20:00

2008-06-28T19:53:51Z

Omg I went to King's Dominion yesterday and it was soo fun!!!

On friday, me, Elizabeth and her sister beatriz woke up at like 5 because that's when their mom left for work. Well at first it was just Eli and her sister, but then for some reason the cat decided to jump on my face! He scratched my entire face, but luckily only my nose bled a little. We watched TV until like 7 something and then we got ready for king's dominion. My mom came somewhat late, but it didn't matter. The ride was terrible though! It took 2 hours to get there. Although we kept ourselves entertained, especially when some wierd people in another car kept laughing at us when we drove past. We cracked up too. And the funny thing is that we saw them at the park.
Once we finally got to KD we went straight to the water park area to drop off our things in lockers. They were so damned expensive! And then instead of changing and going to the water rides we decided to go eat. Then to let the food pass we went and saw the spongebob in 3D thing. It was funny XD Then we went on some minor water rides, and after a while we finally went back to the water rides. It was fine while we were changing and stuff, but when we were about to ride stuff it started to rain. I was so pissed off!! It was crazy though, because it rained a lot and there was thunder. Everything was shut down! So we didn't do anything until like 2 hours later. Once the rain had cleared and everything was working again we went to the water rides. We just went to two things though because it was about to close. We went in the lazy river and then the wave pool. It was so much fun! Then we decided to go on more rides. We went first to a thing that lift you up in the air and spins you around. Sadly Elizabeth's stomach wasn't feeling that well so she didn't get on, so only me and her sister got on. We screamed so much, even though it wasn't that bad lol. Then we headed to the scooby doo roller coaster, but instead of going on that first we went to the haunted mansion, everyone got on that one. Then finally we went to the roller coaster. This time Elizabeth did get on, she sat with me and we were so squished lol, but at least that ensures that we wouldn't fall out lol. Sadly that was the last ride we went on. Me and Beatriz really wanted to go on the stunt roller coaster, but we didn't have enough time. Then we met up with my mom and we left.
I fell asleep on the way back. And once we were home I went straight to the bathroom to brush my teeth and went to sleep again. I wish I had had more energy to have washed all the chlorine out of my hair.

Overall it was tons of fun besides the rain, and I hope to do this again next year! I can't wait until me and Elizabeth go to Bush Gardens and Water Country together someday! XD Hopefully the next amusement park I go to will be all the Disney ones. I really want to go when my younger cousins come over.

Oh and it turns out that Metrocon is still a go! Apparently my mom was angry that day and when she said that we weren't going because it was too expensive. Yesterday when I asked if we could go to Ikasucon instead she told me that we were still going to Metrocon. I was just like what and then I told her what about it being too expensive and she said that she was just being angry that day and she told me that driving would be too expensive (since the gas prices are crazy now!) so instead we will be flying to Tampa. I was so happy!

sofia_15 @ 2008-06-25T22:13:00

2008-06-26T02:18:52Z

It seems as though i'm going to miss Metrocon again this year T_T
We're spending a lot of money on fans and such because the air conditioning is broken, we spent a lot on the trip to honduras and there is always bills and such to pay. So it seems as though it's too expensive to go now. It's going to be so sad because I really wanted to meet hina-san and cosplay higurashi with her! But oh well I guess what i'm going to do now is try to convince my mom to let me go to Ikasucon. It's closer than florida and it's probably cheaper too. Hopefully she says yes XD

AnimeNEXT was fun! XD

2008-06-24T03:09:47Z

So yeah ANEXT was last weekend. It was tons of fun!

I'll start with thursday night because that's when the fun began XD
Anat came over to my house at about 9 or so and we started working on costumes. luckily by then I had finished everything so all we had to do was finish her C.C. outfit. We worked on it all night, and to entertain ourselves, we listened to music, watched Sweeney Todd and 27 dresses and talked. One of the hot topics was yaoi. Well mostly Gakuen Heaven. We searched for pic of it and I found some hot ones from the game. I fell in love with a pic of one of them in little towels, and ever since then I have been obsessed with that type of yaoi lol. We figured out that in the game Keita is the slut because he sleeps with EVERYONE! But anyways after that we finished C.C. at about like 5 in the morning. Anat went to sleep and I worked on costumes until my mom finally came from work and we left. I sadly didn't sleep anything >.<

-Friday-
We sadly got there late >.< My mom came from work later than expected and there was some traffic. But once we got there we met with Willo and we changed into our KOF outfits. I didn't like being Athena as much so one day i might change my KOF character. But we walked around the con, took pics, got our registration and talked. Then after a bit me and Anat changed into Mitsuru and Minato. We all walked, talked wandered around, ate I think until it was time for the Persona 3 shoot. Honestly the shoot was pretty boring >.< But after that we sat and talked until Willo had to leave. After that we were getting ready for the d.gray-man shoot, but sadly it started to rain so we didn't go. We were going to do Lulubell and Debitto together. After that we still had to work on C.C., anat drew on the design on the dress, sewed on the buttons and then she fell asleep. And then I had to paint it so I didn't get to sleep until 3 in the morning >.<

-Saturday-
On saturday I woke up early because Willo got here at like 6 in the morning. So I was out there with him for like 5 minutes, and he decided to go to sleep, and suddenly some guy came who was like "you can't sleep in the hallway" or "you can't hang out in the hallway" and I went to change into some jeans quickly and we headed downstairs to the lobby. He pissed us off so much!! But then we sat there in some chairs trying to stay away, but we couldn't so we got some breakfast. We tried to get the "free" breakfast from the hotel, but you needed some tickets to get them so we just left because the same guy who pissed us off before was there again. We just got breakfast at the bagel place behind the Holiday Inn. Then we went to wake up Anat and changed into squadron 4 from Bleach XD It was such a dream come true lol. Sadly this squadron doesn't get any love in bleach. As Willo likes to say, "they are the slaves" lol. But it was fun even though we didn't get any love. We took walked around and explored the con and the holiday inn as well. We went to the bleach shoot, but it was so boring that we didn't stay. So we just left and walked around some more. After that we sat at the Embassy and then we took pictures. After that it was C.C. and Zero time! XD All I can say is that I died from the heat! I wore like 5 layers including the wig. It was terrible, but I survived. We had fun in those costumes. It was all worth it. Although we didn't really run into any other Code Geass cosplayers at the time since the shoot was on friday. So yeah we walked, talked and wandered, the usual stuff. We also ate some yummy sushi :D After that I decided to change into Lloyd since I couldn't take the heat anymore. After that we wandered around. And at night we also went to the artist alley, sat and talked and did other things. Another fun thing we did was prank call people XD It was so funny that in one of them I laughed to loud and ruined it. I just couldn't help it!
After that Willo left and it was just me and Anat. We ate stuff from a vending machine, arranged all our stuff and went to sleep at around 2 or something. She stayed up later lol.
Another thing we did earlier was go to the dealers room, we looked around. And I said hi to the guy from the japanse bookstore.
Also Willo came up with something funny XD If anything happened we blamed it all on the "black man" from the embassy. It was so funny and we said it all the time LOL

-Sunday-
This time i didn't have to wake up that early since Willo came at 9. This time I changed into Azuma's 25/9 arc and Anat changed to Mitsuru. We met up with Willo outside the hotel and then we went to eat. After that we went inside the con and into the dealers room. The only thing I was on the lookout for was some hot yaoi XD hehe. i found two books that I liked, but I had to make Willo buy them since you know i'm not 18 years old...yet. Thankfully he bought them for me XD After that we went into the artist alley, tried to take pics of Willo's Marluxia, I bought stuff and started to look at my yaoi. OMG so much sex lol. I didn't expect that much! I know I blushed everytime I saw it, but at the same time I loved it lol. I don't know why. But after that we went close to the exit and tried to take better pics of Willo's marluxia costume. Then we just sat and we spotted Ryan. We talked to him and laughed a lot because we shoved the yaoi in his face to gross him out, there was also this anime that we could hear about little magical girls or something and everytime they would scream Ryan would scream with them as if they were getting raped or something. It was so funny XD Then Anat and Ryan talked some more while I looked at my yaoi. And then we showed some more yaoi to ryan until we had to leave.

Hehe in the end it was tons of fun, but I know that if Willo and Anat weren't there then I wouldn't have had any fun at all! I love them :3

Also at the con we discovered some funny quotes and stuff XD
-"blame it on the black man" <-Willo said that one XD
-"Are you in the mood for something spicy?" <- Me and Anat heard that when we turned on the TV and they were advertising some porn lol
-"that special man part" <- from a male enhancement infomercial
-"I will take you to heaven with my fleshy tool!" <- from one of my yaoi manga's XD
- "Rainbow sex" <- from Willo's yaoi XD
and "little towels!" <- I loved saying that XD

so yeah, now onto some pics :D

Other than the yaoi this was another one of my best buys!! XD I'm giving the manager one to tinmaninacan

Man after ANEXT I cannot wait for the Gakuen Heaven group XD hehe

So now my next con will be Metrocon XD Even though I won't have anyone to hang out with other than Hina-san on friday I bet i'll still have fun, I might bring one of my younger cousins with me for company >.< So yeah i'm going to take a one week break and then get back on working on costumes. I'll be working on Kanda from D.gray-man, short hair Nia from Gurren-Lagann, Satoko from Higurashi, and Itachi from Naruto.

sofia_15 @ 2008-06-12T02:47:00

2008-06-12T07:06:27Z

OMG OMG OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT RENTRER EN SOI IS COMING TO ANIME NEXT!!!!!!!!!!! XD

I can't believe I didn't know before! It's probably because I haven't checked the ANEXT website since like january lol, but when I saw this today I almost died! I remember that I was obsessed with them back in like 2004 or 2005 when I was like j-rock crazy lol. I really hope they sing Sincerely and Re-birth!

And I hope this concert is just as great as the m.o.v.e, Pscho le Cemu, D'espairs Ray, and Back-On concerts!

Yay schools out XD

2008-05-31T00:40:48Z

Today was finally my last day of school. I am officially on summer break until september. I'm so excited for all the cons and things i'm going to do over the summer!
Overall today was ok, it was pretty sad though. I'm going to miss all my classmates T_T At least i'm going to see Elizabeth a lot over the summer, i'm going to her house tomorrow and were going to go to Kings Dominion and Six Flags soon. I wish I could take her with me to Metrocon though, since I wont have anyone to hang out with, but her mom probably wont let her go.

But anyways. I went to Animazement last weekend and it was fun XD Although I was dead the entire weekend. But it was still good. here are some

All the awesome pictures were taken by theairalchemist except the last one.

So next con is AnimeNEXT :D I can't wait!

sofia_15 @ 2008-05-15T13:22:00

2008-05-15T17:28:04Z

This made my day yesterday XD

I love Jasdebi sooo much! And this song just makes them more awesome! I didn't know they could sing that well!! I know when I cosplay Debitto i'm going to be singing this a lot XD

yay it's may XD

2008-05-02T06:50:25Z

wow april went by quickly 8D

Now that it's may, it's only 28 more days until I finish school and 21 more days until animazement XD I cannot wait :3 Also there's a couple of birthdays to celebrate, like my cousins which is today XD My mom's on monday and then Anat's XD I still need to buy gifts though >.<

But anyways, during these weeks i've been doing nothing lol. I've caught up with a couple of animes although I still need to finish a lot, I caught up with d.gray-man and I applied to a school. It's the brittish school of washington, it seems ok, and Elizabeth is applying too. The only bad thing is that if I get in i'll end school in july next year >.< But that's because for every month the students get a week off. It shouldn't be that bad. And there will be uniforms, so I won't have to worry about what clothes to pick out and stuff. I hope to get in XD
As for cosplays I haven't gone fabric shopping yet >.< Which is bad because I have a ton of things to do for animazement. These will be the costume i'll be making: Persona 3 main character, Agito, Nagisa and Konata's summer uniform. And along with that i'm making R2 c.c., summer uniform miyuki for Anat, and Shirley and summer uniform Tsukasa for Brittany XD Luckily I have enough time.

Also yesterday my mom bought our tickets for our trip to Honduras in June XD I can't wait to see my family. I haven't seen most of them since I last went in 2005 >.

sofia_15 @ 2008-04-25T11:51:00

2008-04-25T15:59:51Z

Yay I turned 16 today XD

So far my day has been normal, I got some calls from my dad, Elizabeth, Marie and Nelly. And then Anat sent me and e-mail XD Part of her e-mail was funny though because she said "P.S. what do you want for ur birthday that i can afford XD like i can't buy u a car Lol XD" hehe I laughed. And I totally forgot that now I can start learning how to drive XD I bet i'll be so nervous when I start. It's weird being 16, I still feel like i'm 15 XD

Oh and on a side note, thanks so much theairalchemist for sending me the fabric swatch! I got it yesterday :3

Tekko report

2008-04-16T22:33:10Z

I'm finally getting this over with :P

Before anything let me just say that making four costumes in one week is crazy! I almost died. I am never doing that again!

Ok on to the report :3

Well on friday there aren't really any highlights because since I didn't sleep at all I was half dead, we got there really late because we left my house late and also there was a ton of traffic and also the higurashi shoot wasn't as fun as I expected it to be. I guess it was only really fun at Katsu. Hopefully Metrocon will make up for it when I cosplay normal and maid Keiichi with Hina-san :3 So on friday I basically did nothing XD I went to sleep early too.

On saturday a major highlight was cosplaying Simon with Kala! She was the only other Gurren Lagann cosplayer. That's the first thing I cosplayed in the morning and even though it was cold outside the pictures we took came out cool :3 The next thing I cosplayed was Zero. I was finally able to meet Lomelindi XD Who's name turned out to be Sophie! We couldn't believe our names were almost the same. But anyways, she was my C.C.. We got stopped a lot and we and another Lelouch were the only Code Geass cosplayers. I spent most of my day with her. Also since she wanted to go to the masquerade we stood there in pain waiting in line and then after like two hours I felt like I was going to faint so I decided to go back to my room, and the funniest thing was that once I left the line started moving. After resting for a while I changed into Konata. I sort of messed up the wig, so unless I find someone who can make my antenna stay up i'm going to have to buy a new wig. But anyways, sadly there was also not many lucky star cosplays. I just saw another Konata. So yeah, once I changed I accompanied my mom to get some food because she was hungry and then we both just walked around the con. Then I chatted with Nikolai for a few minutes and then went to the artist alley were I saw Kala again and then we all did a bunch of stuff together like play that funny pizza box game. And we also went out to eat. After that I was beat so I went back to the room, packed and then fell asleep. Funny thing is that I never went into the dealers room. The only things I bought was some awesome pokeballs and Boota from Kala's table XD I love my Boota :3

On Sunday I woke up at 11 which was late. I immediately started changing into Seikichi. Luckily the costume wasn't that hard to get into as I expected because I thought that I would take up a lot of time figuring out how to stick on the bangs. In the end used medical tape and it worked perfectly, although later on it was stuck in my hair and it hurt to take it off. But anyways, once I was changed I headed down to meet with my Ginjiro. We were obviously the only Oh! Edo Rocket cosplayers there since the series isn't popular at all lol. So once I met up with her we waited for people to show up for the obscure anime and manga shoot. In the end only one person showed up. The three of us then took pics outside. And after that I changed and me and my mom headed back home. We actually left pretty early lol.

In the end I had tons of fun XD Although I didn't like how crowded the hotel was. I'll miss the expo mart!

Now on to my favorite pics :3 I'll go from friday to sunday.

Higurashi group

Episode 2 reenactment XD If only we actually had a OSora-san.

My next con will be Animazement XD OMG I cannot wait! I'm going to take a two weeks break before I start on costume again though. I need some rest lol. But thankfully i'll have enough time to finish them :3 So on my two week break i've decided to have anime marathons since I need to catch up with a tons of things!
Here is the list of the anime's i'll try and finish:
-Law of Ueki (need to finish it before I cosplay Mori soon XD)
-Gurren-Lagann
-Clannad
-Oh! Edo Rocket
-Zombie Loan
-Innocent Venus
-Toward the Terra
-Blood+
-Higurashi Kai
-Sumomomo Momomo
and Planetes (If I can find it anywhere)

Most of these are recommendations XD So if there is any other anime's you think I would like please tell me ;D
Another thing I definitely have to accomplish during this break is learn the freakin lucky star dance!

sofia_15 @ 2008-04-14T00:05:00

2008-04-14T05:13:17Z

So yeah Tekko was this weekend and it was tons of fun. Since i'm very tired to write the report and stuff, i'll just leave you guys with two pics for now :3

Much love goes out to Sophie, my C.C., for making my eye purple on photoshop and for taking this awesome picture!

This is seriously my favorite pic of all time XD

sofia_15 @ 2008-04-09T17:04:00

2008-04-09T21:17:37Z

Tekko is in just two days and i'm not close to being done >.< I know i'll finish though, i'll just have to stay up all night today and tomorrow XD

I'm so excited though, especially since i'll finally be able to meet my friend from the forums, Lomelindi, who is going to be my C.C. And also there is the awesome Higurashi shoot on friday night. The only downside is that there won't be a Rena.

So on friday i'm going to wear: frog jacket Agito/Akito, Simon, yakitate 9 Azuma, Matt (yay for the DN shoot) and Keiichi
On saturday: Zero, time skip hinata, Lelouch, Konata and Deitrich
And finally on sunday I will be wearing Seikichii.

I can't wait :3

In other news, it was Elizabeth's birthday today XD She turned 16!
I decided to buy her a dvd that she wanted and I made her a birthday card. And at lunch today we bought her a cake, so today was an awesome day.

sofia_15 @ 2008-04-07T02:08:00

2008-04-07T06:12:20Z

I HATE EPISODE #8 OF GURREN LAGANN.

only 8 more weeks of school?!

2008-04-02T04:37:18Z

So my first day back wasn't that bad after all. I didn't get in trouble for not doing my homework, my friend bought me a cookie :3, my spanish teacher wasn't moody and Elizabeth told me some news that made me smile for the rest of the day. I end school on may 30th. I am super happy! XD And I can't believe it. When Elizabeth told me I almost screamed lol. Apparently my school has financial problems and it's closing. Hehe as glad as I am that I won't have to go there anymore next year i'm sort of worried about what i'm going to do for the next two years because applications were due like in january so technically i'm screwed T_T oh well.
Another thing that made me happy today was that the Sweeney Todd dvd was coming out. I bought it of course :P
Although the day was not all happy. Today I was supposed to go fabric shopping, but my mom came super late from work. So I didn't get my fabrics for my Tekko costumes which makes me sad because that means I will have less time to finish them cause the con is next weekend. >.< I am barely going to sleep, but it's all worth it in the end.
I guess tomorrow i'll just work on my cheerleader Konata outfit to get it out of the way once and for all.

spring break's over

2008-04-01T02:25:28Z

Today was my last day of freedom, now it's back to school.

Overall it was pretty boring. Especially since my mom worked almost the entire time, even though she was at home . I also got really depressed since LOST will be on hiatus until the day before my birthday T_T At least most of my shows are returning in april :3

So even though it was boring I still had some fun times. I went to the movies and saw: shutter (which sort of sucked), run fat boy run and 21. I liked 21 the best lol. I also went out to eat a lot. And I went to Elizabeth's house yesterday. It was really fun, although for most of the time all we did was fangirl over how Elizabeth got to see the Jonas Brothers at the easter white house event. She was back stage! And she's algo going to see them in concert and she has orchestra seats! She's so lucky! I checked the tickets and they were already close to the lawn, so sadly I won't be going. But oh well.
And yes I like the Jonas Brothers, as weird as that may be lol. It's all Elizabeth's fault!

But anyways, even though i'm sad that spring break is over i'm happy that I only have like 2 more months of school and then it's summer vacation XD

AB 2008

2008-03-25T01:29:23Z

I had lots of fun at Anime Boston this year, and I can't wait to go again next year! :3 I was extremely happy that Anat was able to come because without her it wouldn't have been any fun at all.
Here is my mini report:

We left my house at 5 am so we could get there sort of earlier. The whole trip was about 8 hours, which was a huge improvement from last time. We first changed into Yuki and Mikuru. Then we had to get out of them so we could do Azuma and Tsukino for the sad Yakitate shoot. It wasn't much fun >.< I wore yakitate 25!! Azuma :3 After that we were dying of hunger so we went to eat. Then we decided to change into Konata and Miyuki. And I have to say that being Konata and Miyuki was so much fun! We got so many nice compliments. The only bad thing about friday evening was that since we didn't get our pases yet due to the horrible registration line we couldn't go back into the convention center >.< So we just ate, hanged out in our corner and took pictures. The later when we got back I finally played Silent Hill: Origins, and let me just say that, the game is pain in the ass!! I'm going to sell it and buy the PS2 version.

On saturday our plan was to wake up extremely early to get out passes, but that didn't happen lol. Instead I asked my mom and her boyfriend if they wouldn't mind getting them for us. I felt really bad after though because they were in line for about 4 hours >.< When we met up with them I gave them both huge hugs. Me and Anat felt really really bad. But anyways, we first changed into Lelouch and C.C. I didn't get a chance to finish Zero >.< It will have to wait until Tekko, although instead of 1st season Zero i'm going to do R2 Zero, it's just easier. We took pictures, ate and finally went into the dealers room. I got to say high to Eldon (owner of Digital Discs) and the nice guy from the japanese book store (I always forget his name) he was begging me to go to ACEN and AKON because he needed help. I wish I was going, the funny thing was that I told my mom and then yesterday night I saw her looking at the ACEN website, but I doubt we are going lol. We bought some things and then wandered a bit. Like Konata and Miyuki, we got a huge response from people as Lelouch and C.C. because there were barely any Code Geass cosplayers. We also got some free Haruhi posters at the Bandai booth just for being those two lol. After Lelouch and C.C. we changed into Renton and I let Anat borrow my Diane costume for the E7 photoshoot. We only stayed in them for a while, we walked with a Talho and Holland for most of the time. We got bored and decided to be Konata and Miyuki again XD We stayed in those for the rest of the night. For the rest of saturday we just wandered, took pics and also brought SH:Origins to play for a while lol. During that time we called Willo. Hehe the conversations were funny, we talked about games, how Azuma was going to die, how blood+ riku died, solomon's death (which I didn't even know!) and also about how I think Raito/Light/Kira is hot lol. After that we decided to go into a video room. We went in everyone to see if there was anything interesting and it was funny because in the first one we checked out Anat just came out and was like "it's yaoi!" so we left it, but then we returned and ended up watching it XD It was Gakuen Heaven, and we LOVE IT! We want to cosplay it for Otakon, anyone interested in joining us? XD Then when it was over we stayed and watched Pumpkin Scissors, I didn't like it that much it was sort of boring, but since Anat liked it I stayed. Then since I was dead we went to sleep.

On sunday we woke up, put everything in the car and went to the con. Once again we were Konata and Miyuki. We went to the dealers room and then we watched some XXXHolic episodes. After that we left. I felt bad though because we weren't able to do Yuki and Mikuru again with the haruhi group >.< We also left sort of early to beat traffic. We got back to my house at 9 something.

Overall I had tons of fun :3 And my favorite costume to wear was Konata. I'll probably be wearing her to every con from now on, just like Azuma. Although the bad part about being Konata all the time was that I wasn't able to wear: Ikki, Ringo, Pinky:St. Agito, Hinata and the P3 Protagonist (well I actually didn't finish that one >.<)

Now for the pics!

Lilith!! XD

Sasuke and Itachi making out. We were like O_O

So cute :3

Everyone found the death note to be a nice touch

This picture is priceless

Following pics taken by Lionel

So yeah, my next con will be Tekkoshocon. I already know which costumes i'll be making and when i'm going to wear them, except all my Air Gear costumes lol. Hopefully Anat will be able to come to that con as well.

kozukuri shimasho

2008-03-16T00:36:03Z

I just recently started watching Sumomomo Momomo, and all I can say that it's extremelyu funny XD Even the OP song cracks me up, well actually just the first lines. I've only seen the first episode and from what I can gather the anime is basically about this girl named Momoko who wants to master her family's ultimate technique, but since she's a girl she can't, so she has to marry a strong warrior and have a strong offspring. It's funny because in most of the anime i've heard that she tries to get the guy she's going to marry to sleep with her LOL
I remember I just saw pictures of this anime and I was already interested in it. I love Momoko, she is so cute and I love her hair. I plan to cosplay her at Metrocon or if not then Otakon, and hopefully I can convince Alex to do Iroha and Anat to do Sanae. Hopefully I can also find myself a Koushi. I would even make the outfit for someone if anyone was willing to be him with me, but I doubt that will ever happen lol.

So in other news, Anime Boston is just six days away and I still have a bunch of stuff to finish. The only costumed i've finished is Azuma's yakitate 25 outfit. The only costume I think I might cut for some other time is Ringo because I don't know if the wig will come on time. I'm excited for AB though because there are going to be some fun photoshoots XD Speaking of which so far here are what my plans will look like

Friday
from when I arrive to like 5:30 - Azuma's normal and Yakitate!! 25/yakitate!! 9 outfit
6:00 to ?? - Yuki
?? to 9:00 - Pinky: St. Agito
9:00 to 1:00am - P3 Protagonist

Saturday
8:30am to 10:30am - Konata
10:30am to 4:00 - Lelouch and Zero
4:00 to 6:30 - Renton
6:30 to 8:30 - Ikki
8:30 to whenever we get tired - Konata

Sunday
from when I wake up till I go home -?? Still debating

Undecided costumes: Ringo and Hinata. I really want to go to a Naruto photoshoot, but I don't know when they are >.< I guess there is one for everyday.

Team 7 pics XD

2008-03-05T22:55:31Z

Yay they were finally uploaded XD

I'm just going to add the ones that I liked the best, although all of them turned out really really cool XD

such fun times XD I can't wait till we do this again, and hopefully next time we will all wear the shippuden outfits and someday do the younger versions.

Oh, and also Anat did this with photoshop XD

It's so AWESOME XD I can't till AB so we can do Zero and C.C. XD

sofia_15 @ 2008-03-03T22:00:00

2008-03-04T03:10:31Z

WHY IS TOWARD THE TERRA SO F***ing DEPRESSING!
I don't know why I decided to watch it. I left off on episode 6, and it was about half way through episode 7 that it got really depressing, then I watched until episode 9 today, which was the worst episode ever! I hate Mother Eliza, and Keith for following her orders!
At least I didn't watch the episode at school lol. Although I did watch something called Shugo Chara at school which my friend Ingrid showed me. It was cute, although I have no idea what's happening since it was episode 18 I think XD At least that's more happier than Toward the Terra T_T I swear if it ends badly I think i'll die.
I think i'm going to go watch Oh Edo now since it's more comical XD

Suzaku = brain-dead retarded

2008-02-27T23:09:31Z

OMG I love Anat soo much for sending me this blog entry: http://www.2dsuffocation.com/?p=30#more-30
I also love whoever wrote this, because he or she is so right! Suzaku sucks. I wonder what he will be like in the 2nd season, which starts in April XD I have already seen the new Zero outfit and i'm definitely going to be making it soon. In my opinion it looks better than the first one.

In other fun cosplay news, I cannot wait to do Sakura from Tsubasa! Willo convinced me to do it. He is going to be doing Fai :3 These will be for Otakon since at ANEXT we shall be doing the 4th division from Bleach that gets no love at all and also Air Gear XD For AG i'll probably be doing Ikki again, but I'm also going to make an Orca cosplay just because he's cool, and my skin color sort of matched his.

-Sofia