.: i'm sure the view from heaven :.

I attempted to watch the Adventure Time promo in Japanese again, once again I got about fifteen seconds in and couldn't take it. It's Paku Romi as Finn, and I just can't. It's not like I plan to watch Adventure Time in Japanese, I barely watch it in English but gih. At least I am not a huge Adventure Time fan because my brain would blow out the top of my skull or something, I 'unno.

Oh for added lulz I should go look up the Japanese dub cast for The Avengers. That will be good for some laughs! I hope that they kept Fujiwara Keiji as Tony Stark just because he is perfect. I'll dick around on Google for a bit and see what I can find.

All this leads in to I went and saw "Snow White & The Huntsman." It was an okay movie, not spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but it was an enjoyable popcorn flick, not too deep. There was a definite Ghibli touch running through the faerie scene, that amused me. Kristin Stewart did not make me want to stick hot pokers in my eyes, imagine that. I was very surprised to see Ian McShane as the lead dwarf, I had to triple-check that in the credits because I thought I was losing my mind. (And another was Nick Frost! Huh.)

Of course I can't remember the first fifteen or so minutes of the movie because there was a full Bourne Legacy trailer attached to this movie and it caused a BSOD overload of my gray matter. I just, I can't. I can't. I used to make fun of the Bourne movies as America's attempt at a Bond legacy and now I'm actually going to put money into the franchise because Jeremy Renner. Nnghle. I can't. I just can't.

I was going to have thinky thoughts but it is a Sunday, the last day of my vacation before back to the 9-5 grind of reality and my brain is still partially shut down. I think we got a Total Recall trailer too, I honestly don't remember. (Catie has feelings you guys.) Oh man, could you imagine my quandary had Jensen actually gotten the part of Cap? I remember he was in the final runnings before Chris Evans got the part. I would probably just have had to crawl into a hole and die then.

Okay, it's four o'clock, and I have a shit-ton of anime to catch up on before I can get back to my GAM. Plus plotting and writing and shit like that. I think I owe someone some fanart, but I've kinda weaned myself off of tumblr so I'm trying not to get sucked back in.

I know, I know. I've been doing nothing but tablet-spamming for the past, uh, month. That's mostly because tumblr ate my attention span, torn between that, my big bang fic and my sudden level-up in artistic ability meant I've stopped paying attention to LJ/DW like I used to.

Went up to Cincy this past weekend, my father had an audition for a part in the Ben Kingsley movie that's shooting in Northern Kentucky. It's a tiny tiny tiny role but does have a speaking line, so. (My father might be in a MOVIE dude what.) Came back early under threat of DIRE WINTER WEATHER; turned out we did not even get so much as a snowflake.

I am still stalled on chapter 8 (of ten) on my big bang. So close to the END. Anyone out there want to beta for me? This upcoming weekend is going to be a flurry of work on it; hopefully I will knock out the last 10k of words and start the epic revision process. (Given the fact the fic is due the first week of March, ahhhh.)

That's... pretty much it. Haven't been to the movies in a few weekends, I am SO BEHIND. Started watching Smash, enjoying it; The Walking Dead came back and makes me wince and yet I still watch it. NCIS/NCIS:LA/Justified/The Vampire Diaries/The Secret Circle are all still okay, no big changes of pace there. Supernatural... well, we'll see. I feel I'm still watching out of an obligation to, not because I truly enjoy the show any longer.

I am EPIC BEHIND on all my anime series. I finally caught up on Bakuman; oh god the cute. The squee. WHY ARE TAKAGI AND MIHO SO ADORABLE. I love them. I love Bakuman, considering how badly I hated Death Note this amuses me. I'm all caught up there, I'm only three episodes behind on Beelzebub (when did I start loving this show? I don't know. It's crack only rivaled by Gintama); and I'm working on getting caught up on Bleach. The episodes drag a little but for the first time I have no idea what's going on in Bleach and it's got my attention again, so that's good. Once I'm caught up on those I have about six other series I'm halfway through, then I need to pick back up on my anime marathon of DOOM. I stalled out in the "K's." I hope to be caught up on all my ongoings by the end of March - I do NOT need to lapse another six months lol.

Okay, and since I've wall o'texted about life the universe and everything, here is the (finished) artwork I've completed since last dump:

( Mashup!Al )
( Won't Let Go; Ed/Roy, R-ish )
( Homura Akemi )
( Relax, Kenshin & Ed, PG )

( Samurai!Ed )

I feel ashamed every time I see the KFC double down commercial because, one some level, oh my god I want to try one. I'm not a bread lover, so meat and cheese and more meat only equals love in my book. But jeez, it's a heart attack in a paper wrapper. Ahhhhh.

So today I was somewhat productive. I have four garbage bags full of clothes sitting in my hallway to cart off to Goodwill tomorrow, and I cleaned out my dresser and closet. Of course that's only a small amount of cleaning/getting rid of shit that I plan to do to this apartment, but the point is I STARTED, and I have bags of stuff to show for it. I also threw away and entire bag full of hangers, they really aren't kidding those fuckers multiply behind your bag.

I keep thinking it's Sunday. It's not, I have a whole nother day off yay! Tomorrow I think I'll attack the first filing cabinet and some of the Boxes of Shit that reside under my bed, some of which I imagine haven't been rifled through from two moves ago. Ahh, it feels good to get rid of crap that I haven't touched in forever.

I also caught up on Bleach today, ah the filler in the anime is completely over, OMG. I have no idea how long it lasted but it just kinda went WHAM wrapped up OH HAI EVERYONE LOOK THIS IS WHERE WE LEFT OFF. So, uh, yay?

In conclusion: I am sleepy. I allowed myself to sleep in until almost eleven this morning and wasted most of the morning, so. Back to usual sleep-schedule for me. After I see how far Brotherhood has gotten on Adult Swim.

ONE WEEK UNTIL NEW FMA.

I... am beside myself. WITH GLEE.

Also: One week and six days until my vacation. Oh god do I need it. x__x;

Next project: BOX OF NOTEBOOKS.

*scratches back of head* Okay, remember my froth about wondering whether or not I'd have a job come Monday? So, it turns out I'm like the top performer overall for our team. o_O; *is about as surprised as anyone* I figured I was in the bottom with all the shit that's going down. 'Course right now that's no measure of job security, but still.

In other non-real-life related news, I got my new Yamaguchirow Kenshin doujinshi. AU future Kenshin doujinshi. *squishes it* Short-haired Kenshin completely throws me off because ... that's Kennichi, at least, to me. (Well, sans scar.) But still, cute! And the random Saitou with the Hawaiian shirt... that was comedy gold. There's also a megane!Kenshin in there that looked like he stepped out of P4, outfit and all. Can't wait to get a working scanner going, I have more icons to maaaake~

Caught up on the Bleach anime, I've actually gotten to the point where I stopped reading the manga!

...

Holy crap when did I stop reading the manga? I figure I have some serious catching up to do. @____@;;

I also caught up on the Tales of the Abyss anime. Sorry, still want to run Luke headfirst into the wall. Or maybe close his head between the oven doors or something. Maybe I'll like him a little better later on or something, dunno. Kennichi keeps laughing at the whole replica/clone thing; although I can't really say MUCH for his clones. *glares* Okay, well, Kenshin's fine, but Yuukito is a couple sandwiches short of a picnic if you know what I mean.

Got to catch up on Gundam 00 and then I am allll caught up on "current" series that I'm watching; then back to Antique Bakery. After that Arc the Lad is next up in queue, speaking about anime based on video games...

Been keeping up with my 'writing 250 words a day' resolution, but just barely. And I'm not cranking out anything of, dunno, quality. Haven't touched chapter 3 of my Nano to revise it, I really need to. Also need to go back to writing stories, or working on prompts or something. The only upside to my resolution is I've worked a little bit and touched a little bit on stories other than my FMA/Supernatural fushion fics.

The roommates are out, so I'm going to go make some mac'n'cheese and settle in to play P4 before attempting to go to work again tomorrow. Crazy people, are, well, crazy.

My flist seems to have finally slowed down and stopped exploding (holy crap, guys - seriously, four pages in less than an hour? FOUR?)I can post about something other than politics! Glad to have that elephant out of the room- *shot*

*coughs into hand*

At any rate, I intended to make a post earlier and forgot, over the fact that my car was running close to empty and I went to fill it up and it took fourteen dollars. Let me reiterate that for you.

FILLING MY CAR UP COST LESS THAN $15.

Holy shit. If only it would last...

Yay I get paid on Friday. Time for new glasses!

Three an a half hour's sleep, an aching jaw and an uncooperative digestive tract do not a happy Catie make.

Goals to complete before 7pm:

+ clean bathroom
+ clean bedroom
+ move bedside table
+ clean out car
+ watch "Eye of the Tiger" about seven more times.

Good god my brain has deserted me. Skimming my feeds I saw a headline "Michael Wilson Comments on Chitty Remake" and my first reaction was 'wow, typo.'

*facepalm* They're talking about remaking Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

In my meager defense, I was expecting another Quantum of Solace report, not anything to do with other projects. Ahhh, brain.

Scored massive amounts of candy today, in the form of Nestle Milk Chocolate bars. Sadly, they're not for me (although I just broke into a bag, heeheehee whoops). I'll have to go buy another bag or two when I get paid, and then they're getting packed up north to my father who goes through constant Nestle deprivation.

You can't get the solid milk chocolate bars in Cincinnati, at all. It's ridiculously rare that he ever gets solid Nestle chocolate, so he's gonna get a surprise package in the mail. Along with the action figure of Dr. Henry Jones I picked up at Wal-mart last week and, upon reflection, went "wtf am I going to DO with this?" RANDOM SEAN CONNERY ACTION FIGURE, WUT.

My dad's going to get this package and be like "WTF?" Hee.

Finished Angel Heart today, actually loved the show to death. I confess I only downloaded it because it's essentially the meaning of my last name, I had no idea it was connected to the City Hunter series. It was cute and endearing, and when that's the description of a show about ex-assassins, well. :D I can definitely see why TPTB choose to cast Jackie Chan in the live action movie, though. I may have to look in to more of the series, old as it may be.

On to Angel Links, and following that, Argentosoma. I think Argentosoma downloaded in dual audio, oh god did the dub of that show break my brain. I had the first DVD aaaaages ago, never saw the rest of the series but I was scarred by the fact that the scary guy with the red goatee was the same dub voice as Kenshin.

He spoke in rhyme or something and it had something to do with Shakespeare... nnngh, that's going to be INTERESTING. Ahh, Japanese audio option how I love thee...

Cross-stitch pics maybe tomorrow, for I am lazy.

Been somewhat busy lately. Finally got my phone upgraded; it is now new and sexy. And red. I can has red phone, huzzah! Also came with a bluetooth headset. I am kind of confused by this, but yay! Technology!

My phone plays music. IT IS COOL.

I do not know what to name it. D:

Put in my notice to vacate at the apartment, I have until September 30th to vacate. Whee! I'm probably going to be getting rid of 90% of my furniture, including my bedroom set. Anyone in the area looking for stuff? I've got three dressers, two desks, a full bed frame and a bookcase headboard that will be looking for a home. (Same with the washer & dryer, if I don't hear back from anyone in a few days.)

Also thinking about selling my desktop. I don't use it at ALL, so. I have to think about that more.

starving4scotch and I are probably going to go up to IKEA in West Chester, Ohio on Sunday to oogle the goods. I'm going to make a list of furniture to save up for. :3 And I'll get to go shopping with my mum. That is always made of awesome.

Finished up Gundam 00 on Tuesday. The ending was full of "uhh..." I'm really glad there's going to be a second season, it started to get really interesting toward the end, all OMGWTF politics aside. Also, dude. The last four episodes were all like "LET'S CULL THE HERD OF CHARACTERS LOL." So much DEATH. Bwha.

( At any rate, cross-stitch progress! )

Chuggin' along on that. I started on Gundam Seed, and, uh. That's going to be. INTERESTING.

My muses are beginning to react to the overflow of GUNDAM with deciding that they want to play rock'em sock'em robots with Gundams. Uh, NO. BAD IDEA, GUYS. Edward still wants an x-wing. HALP ME.

I am not entirely sure how, but the third Mummy movie crept up on me, it comes out on Friday. Since I have that Saturday off, I'm planning on going to the first showing I can get to Friday night. carrole is along for the ride, anyone else interested?

Yesterday we played more D&D, yay for that. 'twas a lot of fun, especially now that there is at least one more person playing. pyroh couldn't make it out, and there was woe in that regard, but she works her ass off at her jobs so I certainly understand not making it out.

Then carrole, starving4scotch and I hung around, drank more and, well. Gossiped. Mostly about fandom. xD; General entertainment ensued, and I completely distracted starving4scotch with the bleached-blond Tony in "Execute Progam." (That was FUNNY.)

That's pretty much it. Almost done with Gokusen S3; just the last episode to watch, but it's a 90-minute special. Then on to GTO, and I'll be back into anime. Gun x Sword; and then Gundam for a few weeks straight. Whee~.