*edit* I apologize to everyone reading this. You've been caught in a click-trap thanks to Deviantart because clicking 'back' will not likely take you back to your page. The stupid ads create a new page every time a new one's put up and you end up not being able to just go back to the page you were at before. I'm sorry for making my journal so long!
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I'm writing again! (Yay!)
Finals are over, and I know it's been absolutely -dead- from me lately. (ugh) But... I'm in the mood to write and I'll be getting the next installment of RttL done. I've been reading it and rereading it and going over it, so I think I'm going to go back and clean it up a little and repost the whole story (up to this point, of course) and then post up the next chapter. I'd like very much to start posting larger segments of it so people don't feel gyped when they read it. AND! I'm going to be adding in a border on my story. Possibly a picture of Jareth, Jadia and Gradi as children.
That's my hope anyway.

Tut-date
Tut is HUGE! He's gotten about ten times bigger than when he first got here and he's still growing! He's the size of a small dog now, and he's still so cute. He has "Little Pink Fish" which is a small pink plush clowfish that we gave him as his first toy, and if you kick it across the room and tell him that his fish is getting away he goes tearing after it like a madman. It's so cute!
I've managed to get pretty far in learning Japanese. It's almost to the point where I don't need subtitles on my favorite animes. (YAY!)
Oh!
Speaking of Animes... *grins* I went to MTAC and had a total freaking BLAST!!
I walked around as Tenten from Naruto on friday, part of Saturday and Sunday, as well as Nemu Kurotsuchi from Bleach on Saturday and part of Sunday.
My friend Shay was Kabuto for Friday, part of Saturday and Sunday, and for most of Saturday she was Mayuri Kurotsuchi from Bleach.
This has bearing because she was the creepy-looking doctor/regenerator Capitan of the 12th (Ju-ni) Squad, and I was the Vice-Capitan of the 12th squad. AKA- She was the evil mean guy and I was the quiet girl that gets pushed around, kicked around and hit a lot. It was great! Shay's not the type of person you'd expect to be evil (Mayuri's not evil, really he's completely utterly and truely True Neutral) much less -mean- She's really soft-spoken, apologizes for everything and hates violence. But put her in the Mauyri costume and she drops -right- into character. It was really fun being the quiet little girl who gets pushed around. Especially when I got to see the reactions to the Mayuri costume. Since.. I like.. made her costume.
It turned out amazing for only being done in twelve hours. And I've created a monster out of her because now she's a cosplayer, and she looks at EVERYTHING and goes "I could use this for (insert blank here)"
*giggle* It's great, because I have a friend that I'm slowly converting to Japanese, I'm getting her to watch -much- more anime, and she's willing to cosplay with me and work on costumes just for the fun of doing it. It's great!
Our next projects are a Hellsing group, (I'm being Seras Victoria, she wants to be Father Alexander Anderson) And she wants to build me a bloody Alucard head to carry around so she can look imposing and cruel and follow me around like she's hunting me down *chuckles* Then she wants to make me the 6foot tall cannon that Seras weilds That'll be LOTS of fun *giggles* We also have to catch her up with the rest of the cosplay group and get her a Full Metal Alchemist (She's wanting to go as Greed, and I'm going to be Lust) So we both have to make FMA costumes. We have to get her a Ritsu (The Monkey) costume for Fruits Basket (And I'm ging to make The THING for my Tohru cosplay) THEN, we have her Inuyasha costume to make (She's being Seshomaru) And I get to make the costume *squeals* I can't WAIT to get to work on that too. It's so beautiful and elaborate and wonderful. I really look forward to the challenge of making it and making it look REALLY good.
Hopefully I'll convince the group that we need to do Avatar soon, so I can get to work on my Yue and Azula costumes, Shay hasn't decided who she'd be for Avatar. I -think- with her height (She's about six feet tall) that she'd make a decent Zuko or even Ursula.
I have a personal Cosplay challenge I've given myself. I'm making (or trying to make) a transforming Tetseiga. I want to be able to draw a fully transformed sword from a scabbard and have it look really nice, or if you draw it another way it comes out as an old beat-up-looking sword.
Okay so that's.. everything I think. And I've written a really long Journal, I'm sorry lol. But it's been so long. I'll try to update more often.

Ja ne!
Hanako