Im turning into an Anime

Yesterday, I finished watching 'Cardcaptors', the English Dub. That was 70 episodes in a week and a half.

Today, I watched the two movies; again, the English Dubs.

Next, I intend to watch the whole series and the movies again, but in Japanese with English Subs, as I gather the story is highly edited in the dubbed versions from the originals. Apparently, here in the west, we cant deal with homosexuality and children falling in love*.

Then, I'll read the Manga.

Repeat above process with 'The Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles'.

Something happened today that made me realise how far my little obsessions leak into my everyday life. I found myself doing this when telling my mother some random snippet of information.


Oh well.

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*Edit: Okay, fair enough, here in the west we cannot handle paedophilia.

CardCaptors and The Cake Brigade

Wind, rain, shadow, wood,
Sword, thunder, power, sleep
Cardcaptors of the clow,
Expect the unexpected now!
The secrets of the clow,
Were all a mystery.
But when this mighty book was opened,
The powers were set free.
Cardcaptors!
A mystic adventure!
Cardcaptors!
A quest for all time!

(................................ I edited the Theme song ................................)

I used to love this show when I was younger, and today, I have spent my afternoon rediscovering this love :)

My sister always used to make fun of me for liking Li, but now I'm thinking Tori is pretty hot, actually. You know, for a cartoon and all.

I love all the costumes. These sorts of things, anime and all that jazz, are always so inventive with their design. How cool would it have been to have school uniforms like that? Well, actually, I bet if that had been the case, it would have been really embarrassing. Not to mention somewhat inappropriate. I mean, look at the length of those skirts!?! Having said that, have you seen school girls skirt lengths lately? When I was that age, we all wore our skirts down to our knees! Wow, now I know I'm old.

Moving on, I guess I just wanted to link anyone who may be reading this to the Cake Brigade blog. My friends and I make cakes in our spare time cos we are all old women. We may set up a knitting club for when the cakes are baking. That's a joke. I doubt any of my friends can knit.

I will get it up to date as soon as Cake Brigade Member Polson gets round to sending me the photos of our previous creations. So for now, just keep an eye on it.

In other news, I can request my first payment now for doing the surveys! Its from Ciao, and its not much so I figure I'll let it build up some more first, but still, its exciting! I got money for sitting on my laptop!

Ooo and I also got £20 off my sister by letting her rummage in my wardrobe, so what with the alterations I did for my aunt, and the decorating I have been booked to do at my Gran's house next week, things aren't looking so none existent on the money front anymore. Yay!

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Heather here, with an update!

Now let me see, where did I leave you, blog?

Ah yes, I was aiming to be more productive. Well, my progress on the productivity front has been interesting to say the least.

1) STOP SPENDING MONEY
This has been a bit hit and miss, as I have been making a conscious effort, but sometimes, when we go on midnight road trips to tesco, I like, you know, get hungry.
So other than that, I have done okay ... but March is a hard month for me. Lots of birthdays, mothers day etc etc.
So we will just leave that at that.

2) DETOX
Hahahahahahahahaha. That was never going to happen.

3) MAKE MONEY
This one I have made progress on!! I am signed up to two different online survey sites, and probably get offered one every few days. I went for Panelbase.net, and ciao-surveys.co.uk in the end, and get more emails from ciao, even if they do pay less. Still, its slowly building up! I might sign up for some more, then hopefully when I get a pay out, it will be more.
The eBay thing isn't going so well. I'm having issues selling my first item, which I put up as a test run, so want to do that all the way through before I put anything else up. Its been re listed, and the price lowered, so look here if you so wish.

4) STOP WASTING MY DAYS
See 2)

On the plus side, I have just this minute finished 20 designs for the web series, which is awesome, so going to send them off now, and have spent the day listening to the genius that is ALL CAPS, The Oceanic Six and The Ministry Of Magic. I LOVE NERDY MUSIC XD

Ooooo and I made a bag! Like a proper clutch one with a frame. It was for a present, and I didnt take a picture, but I was pretty happy with it! For a first attempt anyway, and it was good enough to give away, so that cant be bad! I need to make my sister one for her birthday on sat, so Ill try to get photographic proof of that one to put up. The site I got the stuff from, and all the hints and tips was fantastic, so if you should ever feel inclined to make a bag, I would definatley recommend u-handbag. *and they send you sweets with your order :)*

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