Oh... my... god... I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!! ^.^!!!

EDIT: I feel like a teenage girl at a boyband concert!!! *squeals!!!*

I think I finally found character I'm actually willing to dedicate the time cosplaying as. I'm just sure if I want to put the effort into losing enough weight to look like a malnourished 18 year old boy. We'll see how I feel about it at the end of the week.

Quick poll for you all before I head out for the day. I've noticed that I update Twitter more often then I do LJ, due to the fact that it's easy to just send a text to Twitter then to figure out why TXTLJ doesn't work for me. So, I present to you this question:

Poll #1514569 Twitter Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

Should I have Twitter post my tweets in my LJ?

So, after reading the Christmas post on shibuya246.com and watching some anime, I decided I needed cake. But not just any old cake. I needed a real Japanese cake!

My inspiration?



Yeah, this should be interesting...

First off, I needed small cake pans. I went to Target and the grocery store and... well, that's really it and I couldn't find anything smaller then a 9 inch pan. Surprisingly, I ended up finding 4 1/2 inch pans at Joann's when I went to get some fabric.

Aren't they cute??



At this point I decided that this wasn't going to be a very authentic Japanese cake, 'cause I just used a basic yellow cake recipe. But it was going to look like the picture, darn it!

The cake slid out of the pan perfectly. I'm going to have to go get some more cake pans by this manufacture.



Next, I whipped some heavy cream and sliced some strawberries. I sliced off the top of one cake, put a layer of cream, then a layer of sliced strawberries, then another layer of cream. Then I topped it with another cake and topped that with more whipped cream and a strawberry. The results?



I was going to spread the whipped cream all the way around, but I kinda liked the way it looked dripping down the sides. With a little more practice on the look, I may start taking these little cakes to get togethers! But for now I think I'll just keep them to myself as my little anime treat ^.^

Big Fat Bitch

My friend played this in the car the other day and I think I nearly died laughing X-D No, it's not nice. No, I don't much care. I haven't laughed that hard in a good long time and it felt damn good ^.^

Happy New Year, everyone! Now I'm going back to being social.

EDIT: Shoot, I forgot that parties could be fun! I had a great time tonight, guys! Thanks for all the fun! ^.^

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go curl up with my box of chocolate covered strawberries and my new book for the rest of the day ^.^ 1072 pages of hardbacked Stephen King goodness, here I come!

Since when has McDonalds decided that they don't need to sell french fries at 3 AM? Dude, if I'm even out at 3 AM, I don't want your stupid breakfast, I want french fries! And maybe a hot fudge sundae for my partner in crime. And this totally must be a new thing because I went there just last month and they were practically throwing their fries at me!

Anyways, I was forced to go to Del Taco, which really isn't much of a sacrifice because their chili cheddar fries are totally awesome ^.^ But still, what I really wanted was crappy McDonalds fries :-(

Finished AC II last night this morning at 4:55 AM. My alarm to get up and be busy went off at 5 AM. And now I'm going to bed again so I can get up and be productive in 5 hours. Yeeeeeeah... I may have to go back to doing the coffee thing again.

TXTLJ sucks. It never posts when I want it to >.< Of course, it would be just my luck if it posted now :-/

So, finally, a month after it came out, I broke down and went out to rent a copy of Assassin's Creed II. Oh my gosh, I could just sit here for hours and listen to them talk. And the game is absolutely beautiful. I may end up buying it after my 5 days with it are up. Or I may go out and buy 10 books because they cost about the same. Le sigh, why must my pretty games be so expensive?

Went to Disneyland with Justin tonight 'cause after tonight our passes are blocked out until January. It was crazy crowded there -.- Him and I went on Small World, though, 'cause he hadn't seen all the changes they made yet. And it was decorated for Christmas so you know we just had to go! Ended up watching the fireworks from the line, which was pretty cool. I still think they look better from the front of the castle, though.

We were going to have dinner in the park but we decided against it. Is it just me, or has Disney lost any sort of variety it used to have?

And for your viewing pleasure, it's a picture of me under the tree!



I dunno, it seemed like a cute idea at the time. I think I messed up the red eye reduction thing to when I tried to fix it. I may need to fiddle with that later.

Anyways, this year is odd. I'm not a particularly romantic person, and a lot of romantic things I find quite silly. But this year, I'm all for the drinking cocoa by the fire place with Justin, with only the fire and the Christmas tree lighting the room. I want to kiss him under the mistletoe, I want to do all those silly holiday romantic things that I've never wanted to do in the past before. Maybe I'm just slowing growing more and more crazy as the years pass.

Or maybe I'm just tired. And it's 4 AM now so me thinks I'm going to finally head to bed. I'm sure I'll sleep wonderfully tonight after staying up this late ^.^

So I'm letting my cat attack and claw at my hand while I'm reading. It doesn't really bother me because I have a pretty high tolerance for pain.

Suddenly, just while a demon is having it's hand cut off in my book, my hand starts to really hurt. I shake the cat off and examine my hand. It doesn't look too bad; a few teeth marks, some scratches, that's about it. But my middle finger joint is totally killing me >.< On top of that, it's making it really hard to type and do really anything with my right hand, which is bad because I'm right handed.

I know it's my fault because I shouldn't have let the cat rip my hand apart, but damn! I've never felt pain like this in my hand! On top of that, I'm trying to make cupcakes. Forget decorating them, though. I'll do that in the morning, when my hand doesn't scream at me for grasping something. Hopefully a good night sleep will put my hand right.

I hate it when I'm reading a series that I'm really into for the first 4 books and then the 5th book just bores me to tears. Technically, it's two trilogies and I'm in the 2nd book of the 2nd trilogy, but they have the same narrator in all the books so... yeah, it's all one series. Anyways, I have 312 pages to go and I honestly don't think I can finish this :-/ I think I'm going to take it back to the library and maybe get back to it later. I may need to take myself out of the historic fantasy setting for a bit and start reading something a little more modern.

Anyways, if anyone out there has read Golden Fool by Robin Hobb, I'm at the part where the Bingtown traders first come to Buckkeep. Is it worth it to keep going or is the book just going to keep dragging itself down?

Yay, computer's fixed! That means no more tweets for you guys :-P

And yay, change in default icon! Hanukkah is next week so I figured I'd keep this one up until after the first few nights then I'll switch over to my Christmas icon ^.^

And... that's it. Watching The Santa Clause 2 with Justin 'cause him and I've never really done the whole curl up with hot cocoa and watch Christmas movies thing. And we're still not right now but we will this year, darn it! I'll make sure of that!

I dunno... I've never done the whole romantic Christmas thing. And I've never been into the whole romantic thing to begin with. But this year I kinda want to... I don't know. Maybe I'm being weird. Whatever, it's kinda nice even if I am being weird.

And now it's time to make cookies. 'cause cookies are awesome and need to be made! ^.^

• 13:00 Got my computer back! Now it won't connect to the internet... But at least the virus is gone! Ü.Ü #
• 13:03 Yeah... Maybe turning the wireless back on would have made it work &gt;.&gt; #
• 13:15 Hmmm... got the computer back but the virus is still on it... I think I may be just a little annoyed :-/ #

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• 19:56 Damn "I'll Be Home For Christmas". No matter who sings it, I always end up crying &gt;.&lt; #
• 13:58 Note to self: cutting off police officers is bad. Thankfully I noticed it was a cop before I did, and he looked kinda amused :-P #

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• 17:36 It's a Dr. waiting room, but by all means, feel free to play all your ringtones at full volume! I think mom mentioned this before... #
• 14:01 Ever have those moments where you feel like the leftover in the family? At least the tree's finished. Maybe I'll get one for myself, too. #

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• 14:26 Polar express show, sea lions, then shamu show! Park closes at 6, hopefully I can have little sister home by 8. She has school tomorrow :-P #
• 12:39 I hate it when my foot falls asleep to the point where it feels like there's nothing there. I feels like I'm walking on a stump! &gt;.&lt; #

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• 10:25 Going to Sea World with the Justin and the little sister today! #
• 10:37 Wow, it's crazy windy out here. Almost afraid to jump on the 15 because of it. #

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So my computer has the virus from hell on it. After talking with quite a few people, I've decided it would be best if I took it in to someone to have it fixed. Of course, this means I'm without a computer for however long it takes them to fix this. So I stole JP's computer for a bit and I'm getting a few things set up.

First off, this is for bowtie: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SFIC59GY

Secondly, I kinda hate doing this, but at least it'll put some form of update on here while I'm gone. Until I get my computer back, I'm going to have twitter send updates to my LJ. I find it easier to text twitter then to post through LJTXT (because the past 2 posts I've sent haven't been posted) so... yeah, I'm just going to do that. Once I get my computer back, I'll change it back over again.

And I guess that's it. See you all when I get my computer back ^.^

001. Name → Christina
002. Nickname(s) → Stina, Kitsu, Missy, Otter-face
003. Status → Taken
004. Zodiac sign → Aquarius
005. Male or female → Female
006. Elementary → Tokay Elementery
007. Middle School → Almeria Middle
008. High School → Rancho Cucamonga High
009. Smart → Sometimes. Depends on the subject at the time.
010. Hair color → Dark brownish
011. Long or short → It's kinda long now. I'm probably going to cut it.
012. Loud or Quiet → Quiet. I have so much loud in my life that I actually enjoy the quiet more.
013. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans. Sweats you really can't go out in. Well, you could, but I choose not to.
014. Phone or Camera → In regards to photography, my camera. But my phone is much more portable so I get more pictures off of that.
015. Health freak → Ha! So no.
016. Drink or Smoke? → I drink sometimes. At least I used to. Not really all that much anymore.
017. Do you have a crush on someone? → No one real. Yeah, that sounds really unhealthy >.>
018. Eating or Drinking → Drinking. I must have spent way too much time chewing gum as a kid 'cause not I hate chewing >.<
019. Piercings → I have my ears pierced but that's really it.
020. Tattoos → For the longest time I wanted to get a dolphin chain around my ankle. Then I realized that anything I wanted could be done with henna, therefore bypassing the pain part.

FIRSTS:

023. First Mate → Like... first real relationship? Or first "we were kinda together but never had the talk about it"? I suppose if it was first real relationship, it would be Justin. But before that, there was James.
024. First best friend → Brianna
025. First award → Perfect attendance? But I did get an actual trophy in band when I was in middle school. I forget what it was for, though.
026. First crush → Oh gosh... it was either Jesse or Jason... I don't quite remember.
027. First pet → I had soooooo many fish as a kid. I suppose my first real pet, though, would have been my parakeet named Princess. Yeah, I was soooo original.
028. First big vacation → Probably the trip to Yosemite when I was younger. First time I ever saw snow falling too ^.^
030. First big birthday → 9th birthday. I had a huge party! I still remember it being pretty kick-ass.

CURRENTLY:

049. Eating → Peanutbutter cups
050. Drinking → Water
052. I'm about to → Change my outfit for this evening
053. Listening to → Enchanted Arms in my 360. I started in intending on playing it and now I'm just kinda letting it loop.
054. Plans for today → I have a street fair this evening I'm going to with my family.

YOUR FUTURE:

058. Want kids? → Probably not
059. Want to get married? → Probably not
060. Careers – Eventually I want to be the deputy coroner of San Francisco

WHICH IS BETTER WITH OPPOSITE SEX?

068. Lips or eyes → Eyes
070. Shorter or taller? → Taller
072. Romantic or spontaneous → Neither? I guess spontaneous
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → Well, if we're going with what I would like in a perfect world, nice stomach
074. Sensitive or loud → Somewhere in the middle
075. Hook-up or relationship → I guess relationship. I don't fancy being a one-night stand
077. Troublemaker or hesitant → A little of both, I guess.

HAVE YOU EVER:

080. Lost glasses/contacts → Sunglasses count, right? Oh my gosh, I have lost soooooooo many pairs of sunglasses :-(
081. Ran away from home → Yep. When I was 7. I ran away to Nana's house.
084. Broken someone's heart → Possibly
085. Been arrested → Not yet :-P
087. Cried when someone died → Not where anyone would have seen me.


DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

089. Yourself → A little
090. Miracles → Maybe
091. Love at first sight → No
092. Heaven → Maybe
093. Santa Claus → Yep. See him every year at the mall.
094. Sex on the first date → No
095. Kiss on the first date → Maybe

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → Eh... not really.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → Not really
099. Do you believe in God → I... really don't know.
100. Post as 100 truths and tag people? → Posting but not tagging.

And now for your viewing pleasure, a picture from Disneyland last night: