...I n . A n y . C a s e...

So my mom and I went to see Sherlock Holmes in the new theater.

I feel bad for her because I know she's not really into action stuff (she likes romance/rom-com), and even I thought the part with the corpse and the part with the frogs... and the part with the pigs were kinda gruesome. Okay, so the pigs were really gruesome. *wince* But I liked the dynamics between Watson and Sherlock Holmes a lot. Watson so awesome. And the way they showed how Sherlock figured everything out was pretty cool, also.

And I canceled my domain yesterday. (MewProject.net) I saved all the files from Pocky's Pai site on my hard drive, so I should still have everything. I'm kind of not sure how this is going down, since I got an invoice a few days ago for the next 6 months, but they deleted the site yesterday/today, and they don't actually deduct the money for 7 days, so I'm not sure if I'm paying for the next 6 months or not. If that had been the case, I would have rather kept it online until July. I actually meant to cancel sooner but I kept putting it off and meh... But the cancellation has gone through. I will probably upload some of the information and scans somewhere or donate them to other websites since I did spend a ton of time on everything. I do regret not finishing it, but, I don't have the time or desire to be updating it frequently anymore, and I hate leaving it in limbo like that. This site has been a big part of my life and I think it taught me quite a bit, and so many people offered me support. I will never forget that.

But there has been a slight update with TMM in my life. I went to Barnes & Noble and actually found Mia Ikumi's "Only One Wish" one-shot. And I finished it already. It was okay... about on par with "Koi Cupid". My main complaint is that all of her character designs look the same - especially with the boys. Half of them looked like Ryou. But I did like that they had some nods at TMM in there. The first story had "Petit Mew Mew" manga and the second story had a Mew Ichigo mask. The end also has a short story where Zakuro gets cast in a "Wish" drama as the dark angel and they cast kitty!Ichigo as her black cat. They also have Berry turn into a rabbit (with a cat tail). They mention Zakuro "co-starring with a rabbit", she sneezes, and then she poofs. O_o; Hmm? Also, since this is Del Rey, Pudding keeps her "noda", Mint uses "oneesama", Ichigo uses "meow" and (incorrectly, unless this is a half-and-half translation?) "mya". And Berry uses "mya".

And Pudding breaks the fourth wall.

Cast this episode: Cherry (me), Mew Pocky, Ryudo, Hika Yagami
Topics: Mostly answering questions, including... the aliens, RyouxRetasu, RetasuxPai, Berii, Ringo, Fandubbing, Fan Characters, Mew Mew Power

UPLOADED!

DOWNLOAD/MP3:
MYU-Cast Episode 02 (40MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?mjoe2c02mny
Preshow/Bloopers (7MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?tdvzbzm9y2m

STREAMING:
Part 01: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TWqCDZeFPg
Part 02: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbXl-DN_ig
Part 03: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8SefY4giMk
Part 04: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12l-EZuioKw
Part 05: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rS5SfKvHfs
Pre-show/Bloopers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsIaymHnpdA

I.... didn't do it on purpose. REALLY.
Because normally I hate crack and I hate cross-overs, but, when I discovered my Mew Mew figures also have ball joints in their necks... yeah.

Oh, and Nadeshiko only took a few minutes to put together because I finally realized the heads just pop on. Utau's just really difficult to take apart/put together for some reason.


Utau and Nadeshiko, normal: http://i33.tinypic.com/2nvtqtk.jpg
Mew Nadeshiko (blue): http://i36.tinypic.com/1zzl46a.jpg
Mew Nadeshiko (blue) and Guardian Ichigo: http://i35.tinypic.com/zmfpz6.jpg
Idol Nadeshiko and switched Mews: http://i38.tinypic.com/140epox.jpg
Mew Nadeshiko (pink): http://i33.tinypic.com/u955z.jpg
Switched Mews: http://i34.tinypic.com/2lsgroy.jpg
Guardian Utau: http://i37.tinypic.com/30nhkly.jpg
Guardian Ichigo and Idol Mint: http://i37.tinypic.com/33upvtv.jpg
Mew Utau (blue): http://i34.tinypic.com/2w4dvfl.jpg
Mew Utau (pink) and Idol Ichigo: http://i36.tinypic.com/2558euf.jpg
Utau and Ichigo again, cuz I like these XD: http://i38.tinypic.com/2cwlddz.jpg

Ichigo looks so cute in black. Eee.

Now hurry up and make Rima, Kairi, Kukai, Nagihiko, and Amulet Spade figurines.
Ikuto would be dreamy too. Bah.

And on the figurine note, ANN's having a fanart contest for a Hatsune Miku. I am so there. She's really pretty.

Agh. I am so ronery it is killing me. =_=
I have no right to say so, however, since I don't talk much when I actually have someone willing to talk to me. I'm like a cat, I guess. Meagan called me a cat. (She was a wolf. It worked.)

So I got to work. Same old, same old.

My mom sent me flowers (I had joked about her doing that for my birthday) at work and gave me an embarassing card. I think the flowers were paid more mind than I have in the three months I have been down there. It wasn't until AFTER they were delivered that people even asked me about my birthday. I wore my necklace to work, too.



The strawberries are a pillowcase my mom made for me during college. I have another one with kitties on it and some with geishas. My mom is very talented with a sewing machine. =3

As for work at work, it was dead today. Very, very dead. I think I know most everything going on in the world that interests me. Oh, and by the way, gray wolves in the Northern Rockies are going back to endangered status a mere seven months after they were removed from the list.

Got home and found Arcia's letter and entry for my Ichigo contest and my DVD from SMJ, so I got to watch episode 36 in Japanese, on an official Japanese DVD. It was kinda cool. But I liked the letter better. =D



And I will be writing you back as soon as I can. Isn't the envelope adorable? ^^



The case was cracked so I switched it into another case, but the DVD itself was new and sealed. For anyone curious, vol. 6 has episodes 31-36 and no extras to speak of except for really nice printing on the package art. Oh, and there's an insert with prices and release dates for DVDs and CDs, but that's about it. The menu's pretty basic as well, and when you select a specific episode from the main menu, the clip will play in the sub menu, otherwise it's a still image. In the case of episode 36, the still image is Ryou's showerhead and the clip is of Ryou taking a shower and Keiichiro talking with Ichigo about Ryou's "style".



Main menu



I've also been working on researching for my TMM prequel (aka my Shirogane-tachi AU), and I even got my mom to help. I am trying to find a good song for each year and each chapter will represent a year starting from Professor Shirogane (still Jishou in this because I'd feel bad renaming him) comes to America (still New York =P) until whenever I end up stopping it due to lack of interest on my part or that of whoever will actually read it. Going by the manga timeline, I figured Ryou would be born around 1985, and I'm starting the fanfic in 1970. The 80's is full of great music, but the 70's are a little harder for me. So far I have "Your Song" for 1970 and "Time in a Bottle" for 1973. =) Anyway, I'll definitely be learning while I write this. I'm just stuck because I'm not sure what kind of a person Ilan is. Well, in this he is a stock broker. I'm obviously influenced by the news, huh?

My auction came in the mail today but half of the contents are missing.
I hope SMJ can find them.

::suuuuuuuulk::

So I was "sick" again this morning until lunch. I didn't have Chinese food this time, so I'm not sure why I felt so bad, but it was pretty horrible. I almost asked to leave.

Well, there was not much to do, but I got my main real estate page done as much as I possibly could. I/we left early every day this week... eeh. e-e;

My sticker/stationery furoku came but nothing else has. e-e; And this I ordered most recently. Anyway, the stationery is too cute. The envelope and pages are styled like teabags/teabag packaging. It's supposed to be "Extra Quality Sweet Strawberry Tea". Lawl, go figure. I know we joke about strawberry cake, but apparently Ichigo actually makes strawberry tea. Let's all get our facts straight from now on. /joke

Tomorrow I'm going to an art show with my mom and to another used bookstore. Maybe I can finish "I, Coriander" tonight so I can start "Singer" over the weekend. I also need to record this weekend. Ran, Miwa, Masha... lots of screeching. Yeah.

...I never understood that superstition.

I decided to enter a RxI AU fanfic competition after one of the gals from FF.NET PMed me to tell me about it. I wasn't going to enter, and then I thought it might do me some good to enter something, and then I came up with a [debatably] really good idea. Unfortunately, the way I set it up, the story is a little cramped, and there's still no fluff halfway through it. ^^; I'm so awful... I even -like- fluff, but yanno, in fanfics some of the fluff ends up being generic and it all sounds the same. I know a lot of fanfics by new authors tend to have the same fluff when they read the same other fanfics by older authors. Not saying anyone copies me in that department, but I do remember a few things that got absorbed into the Ryou-centric fanfic community - mostly regarding his kitty side. XDD It's kind of funny and embarrassing at the same time.

Anyway, I will probably plug the fanfic when it gets finished. Feel free to read it if you're interested... it still has no fluff yet, so I'm iffy about forcing it in there at the end. I guess we'll see what happens. Anyway, it's similar to the original TMM universe, only Ryou enlists Ichigo's help to communicate with ghosts. [And yes, ghosts still scare the pee outta her.] Ryou's a scientist still, yeah, but he's researching urban myths like crop circles and ghosts, and other things that can't be explained. Why is he so set on having her track them down? Apparently he and his dad had a big fight before he was killed in an accident and Ryou is determined to let his dad's wandering spirit rest in peace. Yeah, I don't know either, but it was cool when it was in my head as a random idea. I blame Casper.