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Surprise!

Once again I am just a little late updating my journal. Ermmm...you don't mind, do you? *giggles sheepishly*

I really have no idea why I don't update every damn day -- I'm always composing entries in my head, and even fall asleep at night thinking of what to write, but inevitably I just feel like I can't be bothered to do it. I'm so weird. :)

So here is your basic 'What the heck has Nevvie been doing lately' type update:

ashfae and randomchris's wedding was absolutely perfect, and I was honoured beyond words to be their bridesmaid. I'll be posting many delightfully silly photos very soon (oh, the wackiness!), but for now please visit evil_nick's picture pages for some excellent photos of our 10 hour roadtrip, Edinburgh, the beautiful ceremony, and the insanity frivolity of the reception. Wheeee. :)
I think one of the moments I will remember forever (it's amazing how many there were on this trip) was at the beginning of the ceremony, when the priest was saying 'We are gathered here to celebrate something something the union of Christipher Michael Hutchings and Sarah Ashley Burns...' and I just started SOBBING like mad. I couldn't stop! *laughs* I was sniffling and wheezing and snorting throughout the ceremony -- the Best Men even handed me tissues -- thankfully I wasn't obnoxiously loud, and I was grinning through the tears (Ash turned around to giggle at me a few times, which made me feel better ;-), and I certainly wasn't the only one crying (*winks at nieren*), so I don't think anyone minded. *G* I was just so happy for Ash, I couldn't help myself. I never thought I would be the kind of sap who cries at weddings, but then, my best friend has never gotten married before. *grins*
I miss Ash and Chris terribly. The few days I spent with them were some of the happiest of my life. *loves them both so very much* :)

I have a new job! Well, it's not really exciting enough to merit that exclamation point, but I thought the new paragraph needed it. *chuckles* As much as I enjoyed certain aspects of Technicolour -- mainly watching films and tv shows before the rest of the world -- I was so unhappy with the actual work I had to leave. So now I'm a barista at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, the world's best coffee chain. It's a ten minute drive from home instead of an hour, the people there are actually nice, and of course I get free drinks. Heh. It's not the greatest job in the world, and I do feel way too old to be stuck in retail, but it's only temporary (I hope), and will give me the free time I need to sort myself out, because right now my life needs alot more work than anything else.

Thanks to introducing dearest achtung_meggy to Fushigi Yuugi, I have rekindled my extreme obsession with all things anime. Last week I ate nothing but japanese food for dinner, not just sushi but badly prepared udon-y type things I made at home with fishcake, pickled radish (mmmmm...tastes like yellow!) and even yam cake, which strangely enough tastes nothing like either yam or cake. *giggles* I've even dreamed in japanese -- I had no idea what I was saying of course, I assume it was just random phrases I had heard earlier on tv. I've had to stop myself from greeting people at work in japanese, and I can't stop picturing anime characters in my head (and mentally drooling over them hehehehe). I wept copiously after finishing Escaflowne last night because I couldn't believe it was over; I kept saying to myself 'Why does it have to end? I don't want it to end!', even though this was the third or fourth time I had watched the series (admittedly not for several years) and knew perfectly well it had to end. But I didn't want to say goodbye! Tomorrow Megan and I will finish watching FY and I know I'll be a wreck. What the hell is wrong with me? I'm even falling in love with a 14 year old boy who's really just a soul trapped in a giant suit of armour. Curse you Fullmetal Alchemist! *laughs*
Seriously though, I really do think something must be wrong with me. These obsessions just take me over and I can think or do little else, it surely can't be healthy. Oh well! *grins impishly*

I'm sure there was more I wanted to say, but alas, I have forgotten. This entry is too long anyway, and besides, now I have an excuse to update again! Tee hee. :)

PS -- Nothing says 'I love my FriendsList' like the gift of a dancing Stormtrooper. *mwah!*

Comments

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

FMA is full of Teh Angst, but it's not gratuitous or unnessesary, it's real and complicated and ohhh it's so delicously, magnificently sad. Mmmmm. *giggles*

Last Exile? I haven't heard of it, but I shall look it up forthwith. I love finding new anime goodness! *squiiiiiiiiiish*

[lios-alfar.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely! Have you seen all of it? I don't want to say anything that might spoil things if you haven't.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Unfortuntely I have not seen the entire series (woe!), I simply must buy them on ebay ASAP.

I do know some things I really shouldn't, because I couldn't help spoiling myself when I went looking for pictures to update my mood theme last week. I'm only on ep.25 but I know about the Gate and the return of daddy and omg Al is so freaking HAWT when he's older. GUHHHH. *droolgasm* :D

[lios-alfar.livejournal.com]

I'm almost unwilling to add this comment, as you presently have 42 comments to the entry, but oh well... ;)

I somehow managed to see the whole thing without getting any spoilers, despite the fact that almost all my friends saw it first. Very considerate of them.

Is FMA even released on DVD? Thought it was still showing on cartoon network or whichever one got hold of it (I don't know, I saw it as a fansub just as it was finishing in Japan), but maybe it's finished by now.

I just want a film. They SO left it open for a film. Mmmm.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

There IS a film! I believe it's being released in july (sadly, only in japan. waaaaaaahhhhhh).

I know the official American dvds are out, although I'm not sure if the entire series is yet -- I can only remember seeing two volumes, but that may include the whole series, I don't know. I think the ones on ebay are only two volumes, but I'm sure those are hhhiiiiighly illegal and don't really count. ;-)

Where did you get your fansub? I need it SO BADLY aiiieeee!

[lios-alfar.livejournal.com]

Off a friend in France, actually... but it was fairly widely avaliable at the time because it new and not licensed in the US. I'm not sure where you'd get it from now.

We don't have any DVDs over here yet but then it frequently takes a LONG time for them to arrive. We only just started getting Trigun. :|