I’ve put a lot of things on my weight loss, such as my back and front shoulder tattoos. I’d really like to start planning them but just won’t allow myself the satisfaction until I’ve reached my goal weight. Also found a ton of online stores that sell authentic brand clothing like h.naoto, putumayo, BSSB, Kera, etc… but again I do not want to buy anything till I’ve reached my goal and I can feel good about wearing awesome clothing again. Go me for self modivation!
Once I get down to around 100 I’d like to plan on being like 94-96 if possible. Those last 5 pounds will be difficult XD. I’m sure everyone will hate me and yell at me for trying.

So I’m all registered for Otakon, just have to wait for artist ally to open up! I’m so paranoid I’m gonna miss it or something. Eh, even if I do I’m sure we’ll still be going. Joe is really looking forward to it.
I was looking into the panel hosting… but kinda short notice and I’d like to use site staff to attend, host and develop the panel… but once again it’s just me and Kai till we go staff searching. Maybe by next year that could be a great possibility! Would be a ton of fun to run a panel and great promotion for DS. I’ll hope for it ^ ^.
I’m waiting for the tax check to come in. I’ll be putting basically the whole thing off to the side for Otakon. Just want to make sure I have the money saved and ready for hotel and spending. Still debating on if I should cosplay or not. I just don’t have anyone to cosplay with me T-T no fun doing it alone… and I don’t have enough money to ship Kai up for forced cosplay the entire weekend (poor bastard *shakes fist*). Kai get a job now!!!

My next fun even coming up is the Sakura Matsuri at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Still a toss up as to whether or not I’ll go in my Yukata this year. I always seem to suffer from some sort of heat stroke every year when I dress up XDD. I think it’s the obi o.o. I feel quite annoyed at the people who do actual cosplay to this event. It’s about Japanese culture and enjoying the cherry blossoms, not hidious naruto characters and obese inuyashas. WTF…

Still debating AnimeNEXT… I could get a table there and it’s only a 30 minute drive… depends on how much extra money I’ll find myself with by the end of next month.

Number 2 goal right now (besides the weight loss) is to actually save money. It’s always so impossible! Something always comes up that forces me to have to dish out like $200 out of every pay check. On average I spend like $100-200 a week on whatever random crap not including my monthly bills. Some how I must come up with a way to reduce my spending and save money in a successful manner. Joe thinks we should just create a joint account and start accumulating our money together. I’m just afraid that will encourage us to spend more cause it’ll seem like “oh we have a lot of money in our account right now so we can afford to buy **insert name of useless item here**”. What can I say, we both fail.

So here’s some fun. Apparently I have a stalker ^ ^. A real life one too! Got a very strange message on Myspace a few days ago from a practically blank profile “Hey sweetie! You’re the cute girl who sold me my fish a few weeks ago. No mistaking those pretty eyes! I’ll be in soon for more! take care – DF”.
Ok a little strange but no big deal, person found me on myspace and recognized me, whatever I see like hundreds of people a week at work. So I log on today to this message “Hello Beautiful, Was great Seeing you today. i’m always so impressed with what you have to say. I think your really cute and i’d like to get to know you more then just fish talk. I don’t know if I should have said Anything to you like ‘hey I sent you message on myspace’ well i guess I’m just a little shy. I’ll say something next time and maybe the converstion will go beyond fish. I look forward to our next encounter – DF”
Wow.. so wtf… that really seems kind of scary. I mean tonight at work was really busy and I helped SO many people. I keep going over in my head everyone I came accross, what they bought, if they seemed creepy… really could have been anyone. But apparantly this person really likes me, knows where I work, comes in to see me, talks to me without me knowing their intentions, and then sends me creepy messages at the end of the day. I bet it’s like a 40 year old divorced mid life crisis suffering creep.  Lucky for me I don’t have this linked up on my Myspace or I’m sure they’d be jacking to the pic’s in the gallery right now. Hopefully this person will step forward soon so I can become a bitch and scare them off… or file a restraining order -_-

Lets end on a happy note: watching TV today I learned and extremely funny new fact… There is a large frog that is worshiped in Peru by the natives as a god… the Frog lives in lake Titicaca and it’s Latin name translates to “aquatic scrotum” because well… it has a lot of loose skin that resembles a scrotum. Aquatic scrotum frog from lake Titicaca… who the hell comes up with this?

on Wednesday, we all went to stop and shop to go food shopping for the weekend. it was me liz and joe, and andrew tagged along. we bought a bunch of junk and make up XD! then we went back to joes house, andrew left, shaggy came over. we were sleeping over joe’s house that night…and we got hungry around 12 so we all packed into the car and drove to wendy’s for food. then to bed where liz kept me up all night with throwing moogles at my head.

next day we got up at like 8, got dressed and stuff really quick and packed up shaggy’s mini van with a ton of stuff. finally got going at around 9:30 i think. drive wasn’t very long, only took like 3 hours to get from here to baltimore o_o. so yeah, we got an early check in around 1 which was cool. the hotel room was doomed the minute we steped foot in it. our stuff was all over the place and looked like a complete mess XD! we went out after that for the registration which didn’t start till like 5 so we wasted some more time going into the discovery channel store and playing with things. then we set out to the convention center where a nice long line awaited us in 90 degree weather!! we were online for about 4 hours befor the doors opened. it was kinda fun though. there was a snake from MGS or something handing out water, and joe and shaggy brought the radio so we could play and listen to jrock online and some dumb ass kid started dancing to kagrra XD. anyway, yeah once the doors opened things went quickly. after we were so tired we just went back to the hotel and passed out for the rest of the day.

on FRIDAY the con opened at like 8:30. got ready and left the hotel by about 8:30 or so to go make twinkie sushi (aka sushi…made out of twinkies of all things o_o.) it was kinda fun…and kinda retarded XD. then we went to a video game programing workshop which was kinda fun…but pretty boring in the long run. some guy was trying to show us how to make a simple game using code…he kept fucking up though…and it was funny…but yeah really stupid so we left. we had a lot of time to waste till the next workshop thingy. we were gonna go to a “how to draw hentai” workshop at 9 and then go see bible black at 12 XD. so to waste time we went to the dealers room where i proceeded to spend lots and lots of money. mostly at the j-pop house table on jrock posters and cd’s and then on these grab bag thingy’s that had a TON of cool crap in them. then i went off in search of cool stuff to buy people…yeah spent a ton of money on that T-T. then i bought cute little things for my kitties ^^. after spending so much money urg..we went back to the hotel and had lunch. then after a nap i felt better and we went to the artist ally where i finally got to meet vember ^^. he was very nice, i was looking forward to it. then i bought some more stuff there like a cute hat and a katamari cellphone keychain thing XD. we actually spent a lot of time there o_o. so yeah after that we ate dinner ( it think…) and joe and i left to go to the how to draw hentai thing, liz was tired so she stayed at the hotel, and shaggy went to the video game thingy. when we got to the workshop room it said the “how to draw hentai” was moved till tomorrow night…so yeah with nothing to do we just went back to the hotel again…i took a shower…and went to bed.

 next day we dressed up all cute and loli-goth ^^!! hehehe it was so much fun. i couldn’t wait to finally wear my cute skirt XD! so yeah, we went to the con all loli-goth and took a few pictures. lots of other people were taking pictures too…probably because we were the most authenic looking loli-goths there…all the others were either wearing the same 2 dresses from hot topic or had nice dresses with NO PETICOAT! fucking dumbasses i sware…SO! joe and i went to a cell painting class which was fun while liz went to her RO meeting and shaggy went back to the game room to kick some ass in guilty gear XD. cell painting was fun..didn’t get to finish though T-T. then we met up with shaggy who signed joe up for the smash brothers competition…and i realized i didn’t have my con badge…so joe went to go look for it back and the cell painting class. along the way i met back up with liz who bumped into alicia. then we met back up with joe who got me a temporary pass thingy till i found mine. then joe went back to the gaming room for the competition while liz and i went back to the artist ally to check out more katamari stuff and so vember could see our loli-goth dresses ^^. then we met up with joe and shaggy and went back to the hotel to change. and then made reservations at a japanese restaurant called kawasaki. we went there for 6:30 only to discover they had no table ready for us so we had to wait another 30 minutes…then when we finally got our table we had to wait another 10 minutes just to get some menus…then we order and don’t get our food for like another hour and they bring out shaggy’s food before anything else so he was done way a head of us and just had to sit there. then we get our soup which was really good…but we asked for spoons twice and never got them…and then we finally get our food and joe gets his appetizer with the food o_o. the food wasn’t even that good for the price…then we wait another hour for the check and got the hell out of there…cause it effen sucked…eh. so afterdinner we went to the “how to draw hentai” workshop FINALLY which was again pushed back till 10…but it was so fucking funny XD!! i’ll definitly go back to that again next year XDD!! it was great! then we went back to the hotel..and we were still hungry…so we tried looking up places that were open late and delivered…with no suck luck, so poor joe and shaggy had to walk to the only 24 hour place to get us some food….then we ate and i passed out again.

on SUNDAY there really wasn’t much to do. we packed everything up and cleaned the hotel room cause it was the biggest fucking mess ever!! then we went to the con one last time to go back to the dealers room to do some last minute money wasting XD! joe bought another sword…and then we went to BK for food before leaving. the trip back took like 5 hours T-T…i got a little car sick -___-. i was really glad to be home though. joe and i ordered in some food and passed out in my room XD. and i slept today till like 3 in the afternoon due to lack of sleep all weekend. i lost 2 lbs from it though XD and i love all the cute stuff i got and all my jrock posters lol and we have a really cool idea for a group cosplay next year that i can’t wait for XD!!

so yeah…pictures:

twinkie sushi!!

me in a hallwak…hallway…XDD!!

manda and liz all loli-goth ^^

manda loli-goth ^^!!

vember and his my little pony pants…XD!!

look how happy liz is ^^.

doing gackt nyu nyu cat dance thingy XD, proud tradition at otakon

panda seal and tofu plushie

weee…panda seal…

and that concludes my otakon weekend…*dies*

blessed be