I'm tired, but not really. Why put my personal problems here? Nowhere else to do so. None of my friends are awake, my boyfriend is busy getting high with his sister, I'm about to leave NY where I've been for 2 weeks, the past 3 nights have included one bug every night to creep me out, and despite the fact that I know I'm being a whiny brat and there are people out there with much more serious problems, I'm using the excuse that I'm a teenager with hormone issues to angst. Joy.

Let's get the bad out right now. Two days ago, I was awoken by a huge roach climbing on some boxes near my bed. How this wakes me up but the screaming of little kids in the next room doesn't, I'll never know. Anyway, by some stroke of luck (yeah right) it fell and landed on its back. I was so creeped out, it took me an hour to finally decide to throw something at it. The next day, or evening rather, my boyfriend calls me. He is very depressed. Why? I planned my trip badly. I've been gone for too long. I understand that he misses me, I miss him too, but must he sound so utterly dejected for over an hour of conversation, with me trying to cheer him up the entire time? Yes, it's sad that I missed the whole time that his sister was away (she gets back from her camp thing the same day I get back from NY) and yes it's sad that we didn't get to see each other for 2 weeks. But really, it's only a few more days, and you don't need to depress me too. So that night, I decide to scare away my sadness by watching Torrent of Terror (the Danny Phantom episode, obviously) on the computer as the idiots of Nick will not air it on tv. And half way through, a centepede decides to crawl over my foot and under the desk. I decide to throw a flip-flop at it, and it misses and the bug disappears. Said bug is on my bedroom door at this very moment. Fan-freaking-tastic.

It seems like it's been a long time since I've had a new obsession. Well, I kinda had one with Lestat, but Memnoch the Devil killed that completely. For a few days it was V for Vendetta. I did nothing but read V/Evey fics in my free time and I even memorized V's introduction speech. And then the other day I decided to share this information with my boyfriend, and being the comic freak he is, he had to get all upset. "How can you read that?! It destroys the point of V and Evey's relationship!" Yeah, I freaking know that, but I don't have the book or the movie here with me, so let me have my romanticized version while I can! Yell at me when I get back. Usually I'd be able to ignore this, but for some reason it really bothered me. Now I feel stupid for having spent even a second memorizing that speech of vs and I can't read Peahopeless' V/Evey stories without thinking "This can't happen... this is wrong... it's too cute..." Curse that idiot of an Alan Moore fan. And now as I type this, that centepede is crawling off my door and into my room. Guess where I'm not sleeping tonight? Hello couch!

So, now that the gloom is gone (writing this really does make me feel tons better!) let's get to the happy stuff! My adventures in New York city! I am here with my aunt and uncle and little cousins Liam and Maddie. They are so cute! Liam is a bit chubby and Maddie is a little demanding (she thinks she's the boss), but I missed being around 9 month olds who couldn't talk, so I decided to come visit for a couple weeks. The first few days just incuded getting into the routine of things, getting up, putting the babies down for a nap or two, taking a walk... it was nice. Well, everything but the early morning heat... ugh, the horrors of Summer. My favorite thing to do has been our daily walks in the park a few blocks away. It's really nice! I'm gonna have to keep going on walks when I get home. So our first day out of the house was actually the babies' first time on the subway! It was honored to participate in this. Until we got to the stairs. We had to carry the stroller all the way up the stairs, get past people onto the train, and then make sure the babies weren't crying the whole way. It was a long ride, and I can't remember where we got off. But we did finally, got off the train, hobbled up some more stairs, then walked about three blocks to get to... The Halloween Store! Zoh my god it was amazing! I was kinda worried about the babies; there was some pretty freaky stuff in there. But they were fine! My aunt did have to stop and take them outside, but only because we were standing around looking in one area near the back and they don't like sitting still in the stroller. So I wandered a bit more while she walked them around the block. I only got a pair of fangs, the kind that mold to your teeth so I don't have to wear my flimsy old ones anymore. I wish I'd gotten something else too. I wanted to get something for my idiot, but at the time I didn't see much other than a Fawkes mask, which isn't exactly New Yorkian. I should have gotten one anyway. Ah well. So I got my fangs and went outside to find my aunt. On the window I saw something that kind of amused me: they apparently sell colored contacts, and though the colored pictures on the window were sun-bleached grey, two of them were named "Lestat" and "Louis", so they used to be bright blue and green. ^_^
Our next fun thing was to bake! My aunt and I made spice cookies with pecan halves in the middle and truffles (which don't need to be baked actually) and both turned out really yummy! And both were gone by the next night. So our next adventure was to get out to this Japanese store in the city, right near Times Square, which is where we rode the subway to. It really makes one feel tiny to stand under all that... hugeness. And thus I should not have been so surprised at the size of the store. But I was. There were two floors: one of random Japanese magazines, books, clothes, stuffed animals etc. And the second floor was nothing but manga and anime. I nearly died of fangirling. ALL THOSE MANGA BOOKS OH MY GOD IT WAS AMAZING I COULD HAVE DIED HAPPY RIGHT THERE IN THAT PLACE OF OTAKU HEAVEN. I spent at least an hour and a half wandering up and down isles of manga in English and Japanese, despairing over the advanced copies of my favorite mangas that were only in Japanese and the fact that I had only $90 to spend there... I wished I had more for all the Art of Manga books and Hayao Miyazaki movies and mangas I collect and ones I wanted just because I knew my library doesn't have them... And of course I was terribly sad when I realized they didn't have Necromaniac... Or something like that. It's a vampire yaoi manga that my friend and I have been trying to find for months. And I'd hoped since they had the nonexistant Godchild vol 4 (I was so freaking thrilled, no other bookstore ever has it!) they'd have that one, but alas it was not to be. Ah well. I left the Floor of Heaven with Trinity Blood vol 10, Vampire Knight vol 6, Gankutsuou vol 2, Godchild vol 4, and Shojou Beat Magazine for July 2009. ^_^ However, at the front desk I realized these things cost less than I thought they would and decided that I could read Trinity Blood online, but no other store I know of has a cute little Gigi cat! Gigi is a cat from one of my favorite anime movies, Kiki's Delivery Service, and I just had to have this charming little stuffed Gigi! So I traded and left with the three mangas, one magazine, and a cat. ^^
My next fun day was on Emberday (Sunday, remember those Esme?) when I was going to go to yoga with my aunt and her friend Caitlyn. ^^ So I got up at 8, ate and got dressed. My aunt pulled out her extra mat to show me a few of the usual yoga moves they did in her class, and Caitlyn came around 10. We left at 10:30 to get on the subway. It was a fair distance away, even from the subway station. But it was really nice out, so we walked and talked and got to the building after a bit... only to find it was locked. Okay, the class before it had been cancelled, so the teacher wasn't there yet. We were early. So we waited... and waited... and a bunch more people came (inluding Sutton Foster, a Broadway actress who's been doing Fiona in the Shrek musical if anyone cares)and even another carmie (the teacher). She called several people to see if it was an offical cancellation, though it obviously wasn't since the entire class was now standing outside the door waiting for someone with a key to the room. After about 45 mins of waiting, the carmie said there was no one coming and she would be glad to take names and get a free class or something. And that she'd hold a class in the nearby park if anyone wanted to do that, but we passed since we now had free time. So we wrote our names down on the paper and went across the street to a cute little restaraunt for brunch. ^^ Caitlyn didn't have anything since she had some other friends to go meet. I had some french toast and berries and my aunt had a blt. Twas realy nice! The restaraunt had a whole wall that opened up like double doors and we sat at a table right inside those doors! ^^ It was so nice! We talked a while and then, sadly, had to go back to the appartment so we could relieve my uncle of his baby duty. XP
Sadly, it is much too late for me to be writing still, so I will have to finish tomorrow... or the next time I get on a computer as I'm going to some resort cabin thing with my Grandpa and his girlfriend who I am not fond of tomorrow. Till then my friends!

For the record, as I say goodnight, I have rediscovered my V/Evey love. Only because Danny Phantom made me cheerful enough to forget. Ah, the healing powers of halfas and bad puns. ^_^

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