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The other day I was driving, and for a moment I got really nervous and looked to my purse, thinking, "Wait, did I remember my keys!?"

And then I realized, I was driving. The keys were in the ignition.

It was not the first time I had such an exchange in my head.

I am smart.

So a friend of my mom's let me know that the company she works at had an opening, and today I had the "interview," which consisted of a 10 minute tour and then the manager telling me, "Btw did I tell you you're hired?" Apparently they really need the help!

I HAS JOB

And thus, starting tomorrow, I'll be spending 40 hours a week stamping fun designs on sport discs! (don't call them frisbees! D:). Quite a change from translating porn in pajamas, but if I manage not to get fired for 90 days, I could end up with health care. And that is nice. Vereh nais.

But work starts at 8 so that means I won't be staying up late anymore. How am I going to finish Persona!?

It's a little late to say Happy New Year but HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS BEFORE THAT!!

2009 was a pretty decent year over all! I want to say a big "<3 you" to all my buddies here on LJ. I really wish I could have sent holiday gifts this year but financially it just wasn't possible for me I'm afraid ;o; (I've gone from possibly 3 jobs back down to just translating, boo). But you guys are all awesome and I appreciate you so much.

"We don't need you to work here anymore" aside, I had a lovely holiday with my family. Had Xmas dinner with my dad's siblings and families, hosted my brother for a few days, and then my parents spent New Years with us and helped us do some work on the house. TK and our dad built a bench for our kitchen table (so cute!) and we painted the upstairs hall and downstairs bathroom. That is our family's idea of vacation, seriously.

( And I got some sweet holiday swag )

Have a happy 2010 :D

I HAVE A CAR!!!!

Because the publishing scene has been so sucky lately, I had to get myself a "real" job. But in order to hold down a job I needed a way to get to it, so my parents found me this adorable silver PT Cruiser off Cragislist! Isn't it cute!? My folks are so awesome I love them so much <3333

Some of you may remember that I didn't get my driver's liscence until two years ago, so this is my first time having a car of my own. It's weird to go from working at home for 5 years and then suddenly driving myself to a job every other day. Of course for most people reading this, that is nothing special. BUT IT'S NEW FOR ME OKAY!?

And speaking of the job, I'm working part time at Gamestop. I've heard from others who've done it and didn't like it, but I've had a great experience so far. All the guys I work with are really cool and have been helping me out a lot. Even when I almost broke the printer >.> That printer is my nemesis, I swear.

In other news, I've been working on a new writing project while I continue to push the one I finished last April. It's a dark, Sleepy Hollow-ish old American horror story (but with less Johnny Depp - sad, I know). I'm hoping to keep it much shorter than my last story so it's more appealing to a publisher. Wish me luck~

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Oh hey look, someone left a livejournal here!

Guess I better post this fic I wrote.

Title: Be My Lady
Pairing: Kristoph/Kazura
Rating: PG (for now)
Summary: Four mini fics featuring four highlights of the relationship between Kristoph and Kazura over an 18 year period. Has big spoilers for Gyakuten Kenji / AAI. I tried to experiment a little with my narrator voice, hope it doesn't suck, lol!

( C&C Welcome )

Okay so I still need to make an actual post about North and such but for now, I wrote this review of Gyakuten Kenji up for CR and I thought I might as well post it here too. These are just my personal impressions of the game.

( No spoilers )

So I'm watching Sengoku Basara now and I realized I NEED ICONS and forgetting that I no longer have a paid account I made several more than I can actually use so here they are plz take some~ More under the cut



( Seriously, why aren't you watching this anime!? )

Seriously Capcom, from now on skip the shitty rip off game and go straight to anime, plz.

I FINISHED!!!

At 4pm today I finished my first complete original story since...uh, sixth grade!? From dinosaur people to psuedo-samurai, I have come a long way!

Final word count: appx 192,000 over 41 chapters. Holy shit it is time to edit. And, um, come up with a title >.>

But first, more cheescake <3

( ACCOMPLISHED )

This'll be my last post about RE5 for a while, seriously. But I finally started playing online and Mercenaries so now I can talk about them!

I've played with a couple different people now with various skill levels, none of which have been all that bad really, and a few that were a lot better than me. Sometimes it's weird not having more control over your partner like you do Sheva AI, and I feel guilty sometimes about slowing people down when I stop to look for treasures and emblems, but it's also been a lot of fun. I wish more people used mics. I've only gotten to talk to one of my partners and he didn't have much to say (though it helped a little with fighting the boss).

And then there's mercenaries, which is a total blast. Thanks to one helpful dude I was able to unlock all the stages and characters save one in one night (I got her this morning). When you're in the middle of the game fighting unending hordes of zombies it's stressful but when you're fighting against the clock with plenty of ammo and nowhere to run anyway it's a whole lot of fun!

The best part was when aforementioned Dude and I did a few levels together as Chris and Wesker. My inner dork took over and I was totally into it: he was clearly better than me, and I kept thinking, "C'mon Chris, you gotta prove yourself to Wesker!" And of course all of Wesker's battle taunts are obnoxious, so every time I saved him he just laughed, which only made me more determined to wreak havoc. It must have been pretty good motivation because we got an S rank that round.

Kind of a silly thing to enjoy as much as I did, but hey, it's going down as one of my happy gaming memories. Makes me want to write fic where Chris and Wesker are forced to fight together but 2 seconds of thought later it's obvious how impossible it would be to make it work.

Still don't know when the extra DLC is being released, but I probably won't get it. Mercenaries is enough for me. What they really ought to do is start releasing extra mercenary characters, like, say...Leon? C'mooooon Capcom, you know you wanna!

So I'm somewhere around 6 to 7 hours in Resident Evil 5 (ps3~) and I've already died 6 times, from the following:

3 chainsaws to the neck
1 quick time event gone wrong
1 Sheva got blown up where I couldn't reach her
1 Walked into a laser, oops

Which is a tad better than I did at RE4. I'm playing on normal and so far I'm consistently getting A's in my chapter scores, except when it comes to time. I am slow. But in general I'm enjoying it, even considering I'm using AI Sheva and haven't attempted online co-op yet.

( Some more thoughts with spoilers up to 4-2 )

EDIT: My neighbor is getting a tree cut down right now and the sound of the chainsaw is making me nervous B: