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Michiyo Ichimaru
08 July 2009 @ 09:52 am
Summer II is Tai Chi for meeee~  
Mmm, I've been a bit in-active lately. This is thanks to my summer class. Intro to Tai Chi, that is. :3 I wanted to get my phys ed requirement out of the way. So I've been running around to get my book (yes, there's a book :\ ), and other supplies for the Fall semester, since I was at it. Guh, I'm not ready for this to come back. XDD

Today is my first day of class~ :D It's from 1:00 - 3:15 PM, Mondays and Wednesdays. Going to school two days a week isn't bad, but added with work, I feel like it's gonna suck. Oh well, I shouldn't complain so much, I'm trying to be a better student and a better person this year. Wish me luck? :D ♥
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Michiyo Ichimaru
07 July 2009 @ 09:10 pm
WORDS!  
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

From [info]toinkydoink ...

( Raine's words for me and my interpretation~♥ )
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Michiyo Ichimaru
26 June 2009 @ 11:09 pm
there are things to be said *flails*  
 Ahh, it's been a while. Classes are still fairly far away, so I'm glad. XD I'm not ready for that to start again yet.

Fandom, how I love you. And my friends? They are truly epic and loveable. Therefore, that is why I am... at 11:11, offering up fanfiction to my livejournal. >__> [info]jamasunda and I exchanged Arashi prompts. And what resulted on my half was crazy Ohmiya loving. I was surprised at myself, that I was even able to write something like that. It's been a loooong time since I've even attempted. And now I am giving it to a writing journal on LJ, because the other site I use for my fanfiction is only for those that aren't adult oriented. >__> *hides*

Anyway! If you want to read it - *points* Go this-a-way. I'll add the other two Arashi fanfics I wrote during work since the one for Neener's birthday there later tonight.

Other than that, I watched Yamada Tarou and some of Maou with a friend, and watched the first episode of Love Shuffle tonight. I loved it. Read some more of Skip Beat. Downloaded some more Arashi no Shukudai-kun to catch up with tomorrow.

And tomorrow I'm going to visit my grandma. I wasn't sure if I was going to, but I am. Lately I've been a little on edge about her, because she just had her will written. I know it's dumb, but it makes me anxious and I feel like sometimes I want to pull away from those kinds of things. But I love her and I want to be there for her, so I'm gonna suck it up and do just that.

I also started a bit of a diet. It's nothing hardcore, just something to keep me healthier and happier. =3 That silly kind of thing. It's been working. Plus it feels like I have more energy lately. It's kinda nice.
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Michiyo Ichimaru
21 June 2009 @ 10:37 am
I want to be in the "Love Me Section" too!  
>___> I said I was going to catch up on my manga and anime. INSTEAD! I got caught up in another manga~ Skip-Beat! which has to be the most hilariously, psychotic, cute and terrifying shoujo manga in the world! X3 I bought the first two volumes Friday and read them both on Saturday. Since I'm trying to save money right now :3 I've been reading the next few chapters online, until it's okay for me to buy them again. And so I didn't catch up on anything I said I was going to, really. XDD But I will, eventually. I also bought, on that trip on friday, the first volume of Sayonara Zetsubou -sensei. :D :D :D Before I had only seen it, so I wanted the manga, especially since it had been such a long time since I watched it. Oh, and Clover by CLAMP. Because no manga buying session is complete for me without something by CLAMP. XDD

Any-who~ next thing is my list of Dramas to watch~ too many to count, really, buuuut, the ones I'm working on now are: Hana-kimi (on ep. 6) and I'm starting Love Shuffle and Atashinchi no Danshi on Monday. :3

Now, I know, my life itself is pretty boring outside of fandom during the summer (especially with my one friend at camp and the other off living with her sister, far away from me), but this time, I actually have something I did to share~! :D

Two of my friends and I went to see The Proposal on Friday. :3 It wasn't the movie we were originally gonna see, but we're still teenagers, we change our minds. AND I'M GLAD WE DID, BECAUSE I LOVED IT. The whole movie was hilarious and awkward and ASGKG:AF; ♥♥♥♥♥ I always love comedy, anyway. Plus - the guy in the movie spent most of it looking 'duhhhhr' and it kinda reminded me of Oh-chan. >__> XDD And I got to have a cherry slushie~ yum.

Now it's off to work for me - where I try to be as nice as possible, even though I want to cry, working 11 hours straight in a job where I alone clean and run a gas station. That's right - just me - by myself - running a gas station. .__. I know I should just be glad to HAVE a job in this economy, but it's still painful sometimes. My feet reeeeeally hurt afterwards, too. But I should stop complaining now. It gets me money, which, right now, is good enough for me.
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Michiyo Ichimaru
18 June 2009 @ 01:24 am
(no subject)  
I know I shouldn't, and yet I'm doing it... because someone's cute stories invaded my muses and woke them up or something like that. >.>

It's terrible, you shouldn't read it, but if you do, I take no responsibility that the horror of my writing could cause.

Therefore... onward, to the little barely-a-drabble I wrote a little late, in response to Ninomiya's birthday~

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Michiyo Ichimaru
17 June 2009 @ 02:54 pm
why yes, i do believe...  
...thaaaat someone's birthday is today! *shot* Umm, so yay! Happy birthday Ninomiya Kazunari!! *confettii*

Anyway! Now that that's over, onward! (I have just enough time to post before I'm off to work.)

Not much to say except: I caught up in DGM, I fell behind by like two volumes worth of updates. A-and... TT_TT I have this really bad feeling. But at the same time, there was a moment of happiness. Marie, I love you~ ♥♥♥ My happiness was found in something akin to "I think I've finally figured out why you and Kanda are always at each other's necks... it's because you're so similar." I died. Happilly. And it was hilarious. However, all in all I know deep down that it's probably going to get worse before it gets better.

My next goal is to catch up in the KHR chapters I missed. (That's a big project, because I probably missed A LOT). And then find out where I left off in watching Kyou Kara Maoh, and work on finishing that. :D :D :D

Since I haven't said much about what I've been into manga/anime-wise for a while, I should mention that [info]xxreichixx said I should read 07 Ghost... and I did - all three English released volumes of it. ♥♥

And I'm going to check out some of the ones [info]maddie_san recommended once I'm done doing all my catching up. :D :D :D
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Michiyo Ichimaru
15 June 2009 @ 11:42 am
and because I can... it's meme time! friends, gather!  
YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST. I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. You are obviously on my f-list, so let me know with whom I'm friends with!



1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?
 
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Michiyo Ichimaru
15 June 2009 @ 10:22 am
oh life, why must there be so much of you?  
I've been at work more than not this weekend, and I am EXHAUSTED. *wobbles* Ugh, and I'm helping with our church's Vacation Bible School this week too. I love to do it, it's just like there's too much all of a sudden. I'm not used to being busy with important things over the summer. This is new to me. xDD

However! There is good news! Thanks to my awesome juice-drinking skills, whatever illness it was that was plaguing me is GONE. Wooo~!  :D

Mm, and then there's my constant battle to learn Japanese. :3 I do believe my vocabulary consists of 60+ words and my Kanji count is finally over 30. XD;; Mah, it's not that great, but I haven't been seriously at it that long, so I'm a bit impressed with myself. There are some basic sentences I can do now, it's kinda neat. Now I just need to get me some particles mastered, and then I can practice more speaking and sentence-making.

Lastly, for sweet Raine, who said: "I just figured that adding a picture or two with an update adds a bit more of an intimate touch to things. Don't you think so too?" I say: "YES!" And give you:( the sky does pretty things when it thinks you aren't looking )
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Michiyo Ichimaru
12 June 2009 @ 04:51 pm
comfortable, i am  
Omnomnom - uh, geez, it's already been so long since I got back from New York and my friend still didn't return my camera so I could get those pictures up. I guess I knew that would happen? xDD

Already paid for my classes next year, so that's one thing out of the way. I worked some extra hours this week to make up for my time off while I was in New York too. Got sucked into playing Kindom Hearts II again, also. Almost finished watching Hana Kimi, but lately I haven't been feeling so hot. Or, actually, too hot. I REALLY hope I'm not getting a summer cold. Eh, I don't think my schedule would change much even if I did.

+ Curl up with something cold to drink
+ Play Kingdom Hearts II
+ Get my step-sister to watch VS Arashi and Arashi no Shukudai-kun with me

Those kinds of things are good no matter how good or bad you're feeling. xDD But I did manage to stay out of bed long enough yesterday to work on the other half of my icon batch. (I was bored one day so I decided to start making some Aiba icons. =3 I'm actually getting better at it then I was. Some of them were actually loved. I was happy. Now I'm making some of Sho. Why he didn't come first when he's my ichiban, I'll never know.)

My redecorating got pushed back a bit until I feel better. But I'll post pictures of that too when it's done. xDD
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Michiyo Ichimaru
06 June 2009 @ 10:23 am
Congrats, Class of '09  
 I love cats. And I love video games. However... somehow, the two don't like each other. After all, I give my cat good food - and then they end up eating my console cords. TT_TT It's a major heart-breaker. And wallet-breaker, truly. Still, can't come to hate them. They're too cute when they want to be. It makes it hard to stay mad at them.

Eh, the pictures I wanted to show will be a little later than I hoped. I lent my camera to my best friend so she can save the pictures too since she didn't bring one. When I get it back I'll be able to share them. But I'm not exactly sure when that is, either.

Since the trip, I've been mostly relaxing: playing Eternal Poison and re-playing Kingdom Hearts II. But on Thursday I hung out with Matt, and got him to watch VS Arashi with me. We were going to go to see our high school's graduation, because we had a lot of friends graduating - but then it got moved into the gym and we couldn't go because we didn't have tickets. Our school is small (including our gym), so only a few people actually get tickets and they go to family, not friends. It was a bit sad, but we still had great fun

Also - cracked and got a Twitter account. Add me here if you have one. ^____^
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Michiyo Ichimaru
01 June 2009 @ 10:06 am
One Short Day in New York~  
Okay, so not actually a day, buuuut who wants to sweat the details? xD

The short version is: I had a magnificent time in New York. Everything was ungodly expensive, the food was delicious, the driving was atrocious, we got lost coming into New York (of course), this time we didn't end up going to Delaware accidentally (long story), we saw UP in 3D, saw Wicked on broadway and it was glorious and amazing and gave me all kinds of goosebumps, stayed at the Hilton on Times Square up on the 41st floor, went to Toys R Us, walked around doing silly things, ate in a haunted restaraunt, saw the behind the scenes tour at the theater for Wicked, and watched Coraline in our hotel room.


I have pictures, but you'll have to wait a bit for them. Besides, this post is long enough as it is. xDD
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Michiyo Ichimaru
27 May 2009 @ 11:19 am
going on a... well, it's not a field trip, but not long enough to be a vacation...  
So I don't know how much I'll be on until after Sunday. I work tonight and tomorrow my best friend is coming over to sleep over. And then Friday we leave for New York~ I'm so excited it's not even funny. I needed a break after this school semester, and we're going to see Wicked on broadway, which is pretty much amazing. I can only think of a few things that would be more amazing than that... going to Japan heheh... I need to learn some more before that dream can become an amazing reality. *___*

Which reminds me~ say hello to my gorgeous new layout. X3 I think I'm attached to this one, it might stay for a long... long time. >.> (it was either this, or make a Liar Game-centric banner to go with the old one. in the end, I couldn't deny myself XD)

I hope to bring back some good pictures to share with you guys when I get back from New York~ I wonder what strange and wonderful (and possibly stupid, knowing us) adventures my best friend and I will get into. It's going to be a blast.

Well, if I'm not on again until I leave, sayonara~ 
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Michiyo Ichimaru
25 May 2009 @ 12:02 pm
it can be anything you want it to be  
Ahh right~ Hello everyone! Sorry for my loooong absence from posting anything really meaningful.

I finished up finals with 2 Bs and 2 As... very good, in my opinion, especially considering one of those classes was the much dreaded speech class.

Lately I've been busy watching Japanese dramas and fangirling over Arashi ever since they were introduced to me~ Shows like Hana Yori Dango, Kimi wa Petto (You Are My Pet), Maou, Yamada Tarou Monogatari (The Story of Yamada Tarou), and so on. On the two far-end extremes Maou is GREAT if you love characters and tragedy, suspense, and at the end, (if you're like me) tons and tons of crying. At the other end, there's Yamada Tarou Monogatari... a comedy about a princely boy who happens to be dead poor with six siblings and a mother who can't work, but he's perfectly sweet and hardworking (so on the inside, he really is like a prince, just not money-wise XD) - his cool, but inwardly mischevious best friend - and the poor girl who wants to marry rich so she doesn't have to live like she has been, only to fall in love with Tarou, who seems rich but isn't. He isn't hiding it, which only makes it funnier, and her "inner-theater" is hilarious. It's epic win on all accounts, if you ask me.

Other than that, I've been working a little extra to get some extra money...

Because this weekend I'm going to New York to see Wicked with my best friend~ Yup. Life is good. I promise to bring back pictures to show anyone who's interested.

 

And lastly, I must pimp this since I happily did it~
 


ARASHI FRIENDING MEME

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Michiyo Ichimaru
08 April 2009 @ 10:10 am
Scheduling for Success?!  
Right~ That makes me sound so lame and cliche, buuuuut... I did the good thing and got my class scheduling done on the first day it was open! Mainly because I had to register for Summer II AND Fall 2009. I wanted to make sure I could get good teachers, although I haven't had any probablems with that since my first semester.

In case you're curious what "success" is for me this time around, here's the "Schedule for Success" I registered for. XD

SUMMER II
Introduction to Tai Chi

Oh no I DON'T know anything about Tai Chi, but I also know that it sounds like the least painful of our physical education requirements. Or should I say, it sounds interesting. I think it's something like a form of self-defense, so that's kinda cool, if what my friend told me was right.

FALL
History 101
Legal Research and Writing II
Civil Litigation II
English 102

Why do I always end up needing to take English at early hours? It's at 8:00, but I commute from almost an hour away, soooo it's early for me. History will probably be painful, but it's for the diversity requirement and one of my cores... I would have needed it eventually, so I'm getting it ut of the way now.

Best news is, after these, I CAN DO INTERNSHIPS~ ^_^ I can't waaaaaiiit~
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Michiyo Ichimaru
08 April 2009 @ 02:10 am
Siiiiiiiiick  


I must've caught quite a bug... first with the coughing and voice-failing and then the sleepless nausea... I'm just lucky it happened during Spring break I guess, so I won't have to miss any school. I was just able to get through today without wanting to rip my throat out. |D;;

So, I guess I'll be up and around until I either pass out, or my stomach stops wanting to throw up food I didn't really eat. >.<;; That's the worst kind of nausea, I think, cause it's the kind you usually can't get over by just getting it out of your system... it's usually longer-lasting. My medication doesn't make it better... it makes me antsy on top of it... including my stomach...

Meanwhile, I'll just watch things... and maybe play Persona 4 if I run out of new things to watch. XD

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Michiyo Ichimaru
08 March 2009 @ 09:53 pm
Day Three, in which I suck at this meme...  

I missed a day again. Man, where does time go? XD

+ My friends spent the weekend at my house.
+ We played Brawl like crazy, in which Matt realized why I love Ike and Marth so much.
+ Ate many good things, as well as made some tasty things to eat as well.
+ Made plans to see my alumni high school's musical this coming Friday~

 
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Michiyo Ichimaru
05 March 2009 @ 11:20 pm
Day Two - In which I fail...  

Technically this is a day late, but I was incapable without a laptop.

Anyway! Things of happiness -

+ I did not fail when giving my speech, and I actually got in the time limit of five to seven minutes, which I was nervous about.
+ My friends are coming over to hang out at my house tomorrow
+ Spring break has begun and I now have eleven days before I have to go back to school again. Woot.

Those are really some awesome things to be happy about.

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Michiyo Ichimaru
03 March 2009 @ 10:08 pm
Day 1  
Got tagged a while ago to do an interesting seven day meme in which you have to write at least one thing that made you happy each day for each day. So, I'mma do it now. XD

+ I found the Subrashiki Kono Sekai ("The World Ends With You" XD) Original Soundtrack I thought I lost. ^3^
+ My speech today was cancelled and pushed back to Thursday =Db
+ I'm actually not failing at Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, right now, and I got the new Fire Emblem game ^^
+ I got an A on my first Criminal Evidence test, even though an "A", requires that I get a 94%... ^^;;
+ Hiragana Alphabet memorized... and thirty vocab words, too. It's coming along nice, despite my busy schedule

Anyone can do it, though Maddie should, so I have a reason to poke... I mean, TALK to her more now that I'm on my SPRING BREAK. =DDD
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Michiyo Ichimaru
31 January 2009 @ 10:40 am
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S-sorry for another long absence. My grandmother had a stroke and she's in the hospital, so I've been really busy with school and going to visit her in the hispital. She's not doing very good... at all. I couldn't even get her to talk last time I saw her. But I still want to keep a positive attitude. I have to, I think.

Now... I owe two drabbles to two very awesome friends. I finished Maddie's, though I can't promise anything on the quality xD;; I have to catch up on my KHR reading to finish the other one, but I promise I'm working on it as fast as I can with college right on my heels. TT_TT

Here ya go Maddie~


 

( Zero/Yuki drabble for Maddie~ )
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Michiyo Ichimaru
16 January 2009 @ 07:52 am
Umm... durr...  
So I've been absent for a long time. College does that to you. My first classes were yesterday, but before that I had to play tag with the school bookstore to get all the things I needed because my professors added books later, changed books, and it was just a mess. xD;;

I have speech... enough said. X_X My professor is awesome, but I don't know that it can change how I feel about public speaking... At least the girl who sits next to me feels the same and is nice and fun to talk to... also, incredibly cute and short... like the kind of girl you just want to squeeze. xD;;

Other than school, my time has been occupied with... what else? Anime and video games. Shocker, I know. xD I picked up the first DVD of Darker Than Black because I think Maddie recommended it to me once. Well, I love it so far, although I only got to watch like two episodes yet. ^^;; And the game of the month: is Tales of the Abyss. I loved Tales of Legendia, and I think I love Tales of the Abyss even more! I think I'm going to eventually go after all the "Tales" games because I've loved the two I did play already.

Ugh, trying to start losing the weight I gained back over the holidays, but it's hard when my favorite exercise: walking and running outside, is kinda impossible in this numbing cold.

I know I owe some people writings, and I promise I'll get them done as soon as I can, I just have to have time to think of some decent things to write. >w< School writing tends to stifle my creative writing, especially legal writing. xD
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