Santa Cruz!

Okay, this post is like a month late, but I have good reasons......not really. But better late than never...?

So anyway, a couple of weeks ago, a bunch of friends and I went to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. One of our friends' moms was nice enough to drive us all the way there and /coughpayforourfood. Of course I took lots and lots of pictures. (please ignore the date in the bottom right corner of the pictures, I'm too lazy to set an accurate date on my camera. lolololol)


Pointless picture of a bunch of trees on our way there.



And then Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk! (kind of cheated with this picture, as I took it from on top of a ferris wheel I will mention later on)
We bought 50 tickets to split among the four of us, sounds like a lot, but nope! An average ticket quanity for one ride was like 4 tickets. -.-

The first ride we went on was the......how am I supposed to remember the name? It's been, like, a month. I remember that it was spinny ride with "rock and roll" music and......um, here's a visual:

The ride claimed to be a purely rock n'roll music ride, but they played Cascada. Cascada =/= Rock n' Roll. Now that I think about it, I don't recall one actual rock n' roll song. But it was really fun to ride!

We walked around for a bit, and stopped by a candy shop:

Everything looked mouthwatering! But horribly overpriced. So no, I didn't buy anything. My friend however bought a bag of saltwater taffy which she barely shared due to the over-pricenessssssss.

Also:

Why?

Afterwards, we went to play laser tag because we had so much fun the last time we played laser tag. Once again, I got the highest score. Awuauhauhdfugh. It was a lot easier, however it may be because that it wasn't exactly the place to go if you're a diehard laser tag player.

Then we ate fud, blah blah, here's a picture of my partially eaten burger, yaaaaay.

It was bland, in case you wanted to ask. I guess it's my fault, since I prefer my burgers as dry as a desert.
I was full afterwards, but not my friiieeeennnndss, they wanted to eat:

F**KING HEART ATTACK IN A TRAY.
Actually, I stand corrected. It was two trays, one for the deep fried oreos and the deep fried twinkies and fuawkdamnhellbitchwhoreson why would you eat this?


Taken post-devouring-the-two-deep-fried-oreos-in-less-than-two-minutes. They didn't enjoy the deep-fried twinkie as much. Were the pain in your chests to unbearable to enjoy anything?
Ahem, sorry. If you're a deep-fried everything fanatic, I don't mean to offend you. It just goes against my standards of food. But just hearing the words deep fried makes my arteries tremble in fear.

And if that wasn't enough, they went to get ice cream afterwards. Well, 2/3 of them did. Why even auhdhgfusdjhbjfhgfhfg.

Then, the beach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111



"Dear?"
"Yes?"
"Do you have to go away tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"It's the best for us."
"Dear?"
"Yes?"
"I don't want tomorrow to ever come."
"But then if tomorrow never comes, then the day will never come that I reunite with you with open arms. And then we'll have hundreds of neverending days together, not just here on this sand, but anywhere you want us to be."
"But you'll be away forever."
"No one said those hundreds of days have to be on earth."
"Dear?"
"Yes?"
"I'm an atheist."
"Damn."
Suddenly, heartwarming music.

It was the most fun part of the day, personally! We drew in the saaaand:

So talented, omg. ;_;

Collected seashells we were planning to make bracelets out of(never did....), chased the tides:
We had to leave the beach earlier than we wanted to, because the mom that took us there told us the park was going to close soon.(we later found out she read the time wrong, and it was in fact closing much later. Dammit.) So we went off to spend the rest of our tickets(by the way, it was a huge ass pain cleaning off the sand off our shoes).

Two of our friends went on a roller coaster which I forgot to take a picture of. Ffffff. I somewhat have a fear of heights, and falls....and hills......and speed, so I chickened out. One of my other friends was glad to go with me to thhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeee SWWWWWWIIIIIINGS YAYAY FUN FUN FUN.


It spun and tilted and that's pretty much it.

Then we all met up to go on the ferris wheel. I forgot to take a proper picture of the ferris wheel, but here's an.....angle of it?

One of my friends is looking down at us, but it's so far away, I didn't feel the need to block out her face. Oh weeeellllllll.
On a side note, the ferris wheel was the scariest thing ever, UAHSFDUHSGFGFFF. Brings me back to my fear of heights. Also, it was awful fast for a comfort ride, and the little cars were as open as open can be. I'm used to being in an enclosed box for ferris wheels. ;-; But I guess since it wasn't an enclosed box, I got some pretty magnificent views of the park.

Afterwards, we walked across a bridge and back. Okaaaay.


Then we walked 20 minutes to a pier. The seagulls were huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge, at least in comparison the the seagulls over where I live. We stopped by a rather crowded place where they selled fried seafood. Two of my friends bought fried calamari, and it was dericious. Calamari was usually chewy, but these were bitten through like buttah.

Theeeeen we looked at some sea lions:

They were all sleeping. I wonder if they got splinters like that...?

My other friend and I came back to the same seafood place. Might as well get quality seafood, while we were there. My friend got three fish tacos, and I got fish and chips for ten dollars. At first I thought was a little overpriced, but then I realized how much food was in the tray. It took my whole family to eat it when I came back home! Although, it was super fresh tasting, like they were caught that morning. Mmmmmh.

On the car ride home, we played a game where we described movies super vaguely, and the people had to guess what the movie was. Ex)

"This was a story about a guy trying to find something."
"Finding Nemo?"
"YEAH!!!!!1111"

I was pretty bad at that game. I said stuff like:
"There's a green guy and a donkey trying to save a princess."

If you don't get it, then.......

Well that's it for Santa Cruz! I actually went to Fanimu this year for the 27th-29th. Expect a huge post on that. (: Also expect a seperate post for art. I was about to post my art on the same post as this, but it would get too cluttered.
Also, another seperate post on my new dog. Pweesh, this is what I get for slacking off on my blog.

Still buried under my Tangled madness

Haven't made a post in a while. I guess I just wanted my Tangled sketches to pile up and make one big super post of them, rather than having each doodle a seperate post. Heh heh.

I realize these are Tangled spoilers, but to be blunt, I really don't care if I spoil anyone anymore since my sister already watched the movie. And I think my miniscule amount of followers, 3/4 of them barely even looking at my blog, really don't care about the movie Tangled. /shrugs

And speaking of watching the movie, I got the Blu-Ray DVD of it on Tuesday:

Extremely happy that I finally have it. :) Now it could be TANGLED ALL DAY EVERYDAY. I haven't watched much of the bonus features yet, due to lack of time. OTL.

Oh, also a Tangled Facebook graffiti poopy thing and a pencil sketches:

The purple blobby thing was to cover up an error in scanning, okay? ;_;

And a picture of my current Tangled collection:

Left to right-First row:Reusable Shopping Bag; Second Row: Read-Aloud Storybook, Chasing the Dream Coloring Book, Meet Rapunzel! Magazine, PVG Sheet Music Book, Rapunzel's Journal; Third Row: Mini Coloring and Activity Book, Rapunzel's Tale, Little Golden Book, A Dazzling Day; Fourth row-The Art of Tangled, Rapunzel's Amazing Hair; Fifth row: Tangled Blu-Ray DVD and Digital Copy(the digital copy is being given to my friend), Valentine Cards and Pencils(I really should start using these....)

Please don't ask how much this all costed. ._.; Also I know I'm being childish. ((((((((((:

That's "all" I have on the Tangled subject for now.

On another note, starting next week is a sort of state exam for 1st-11th grade. I'm not nervous at all, since I usually score pretty well on it. (: Also the exams don't count towards our grades, it's more like a "report card for the school". Basically if the school average doesn't score particulary well on a scale of 1-1000, then well...there's something off going on. My school is scoring in the mid 600's, which is terrible. e_e I don't have high expectations of my school anyway, but....c'mon, 600.

So tomorrow, I'm going off to a friend's house to study, and then watch Tangled....and study....derp.....I don't know.

Oh, and it was my birthday. Lolollolol.

Lasuuuuuh Tag

Aggggghhhh, why is the Tangled graphic novel so hard to find? Hopefully it'll be at this one mall by next week, as they promised. ;_;
Anyway, instead of pursuing another piece of my ever-expanding-Tangled-merchandise-collection, we went laser tagging yesterday instead.
....
Right then, whatever floats our boat. Five teenagers.
We were really scared at first, and we thought it was going to be really awkward with other players, but we might as well go through with it since we already paid NINE DOLLARS PER PLAYER. WHATSOOVERPRICEDIDON'TEVEN.
Anyway, we had to give ourselves codenames--we were planning to name ourselves after Tangled characters(or at least I was), but then we panicked so the employee had to give us codenames. I got Cloud.




Anyway, the game turned out to be really fun! For me at least. It was just a tiny bit scary though, since the whole place was a dark maze with a person popping out of every corner. And I kept shooting at this one person who kept turning out to be me in a mirror. Plus, the first five-ten minutes were really confusing, since we weren't totally sure where to shoot a person to get points. But we still got it--at least most of us did--however the number of times I got shot were countless multiplied by a variable. HUHUHUHUHHUUHHUHUHU. The game ended after 20-30 minutes of DERP, we got out, and checked our scores on the screen.

I got 224 points. Yay! The highest in my group of friends. (:
And some loser nicknamed Nitro got -104 points. AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Then I remembered that someone in my group was nicknamed Nitro.
Next thing I know, my friend standing next to me was making whale noises.

...................................

We're talking about going again, now that we're experienced, hopefully with more friends.

Oh, more tegaki-e Tangled art, if you don't mind:

In the past month...

Nothing terribly exciting happened, just a few trips with friends, and an order of a whole buttload of Tangled merchandise off Amazon. One of which is a PVG book(piano, vocal, and guitar sheet music book), which I need to remember to scan for a friend. We're attempting to play a song together from the book, she being a guitar-player, and I being a piano player. Not to say wer're a guitarist and pianis, that insinuates we're actually good at our instruments. Haha.

I could show you my new Yesstyle clothing from that group order a couple weeks ago, the total cost being over 150 dollars--we were really desperate to reach 150 dollars to get free shipping. xD And the shipping was suprisingly fast, at least in comparison to some of the blog posts I seen about how Yesstyle shipping takes up to two months. /shrugs


From left to right: Faux collared dress from Tokyo Fashion, Hello Rabbit long t-shirt from Dodostyle, Bow keyhole shirt from Ageha.

And then yesterday, three other friends and I went to some obscure, kind of shady Vietnamese resteraunt. The food was good, and my Korean friend seemed to enjoy her share of bun thit nuong(accompanied by at least a pound of chili sauce), but the beef pho my other friend and I ordered didn't have much lean meat. It was mostly meat with huge strips of fat still on it, which we hated--and it reminded me of bacon, and I hate bacon. ): My other friend ordered bun bo hue, which had globs of pure fat floating in it. Jeebus. Although what was funny was the look on my Korean's friend face as my two other Viet friends spoke to the waiter in fluent-ish Vietnamese. Haha. I would've spoken to the waiter too if my Vietnamese wasn't so broken with an awkward Amuuurican accent.

Besides all that, nothing particulary exciting happened. We are planning to go to a beachside amusement park over the spring break, but I'm a little reluctant to do so, since I vomit in the extreme heat real easily. Ahehehehehe...........................................We're also going to continue to pursue our quest for a Tangled graphic novel in a mall at a upscale district(upscale as in the mall is located near a Prada, Gucci, and a Burberry store. Yikes!)

That's it, other than a few drawings--yes, most Tangled related. I will one day make a blogspot that doesn't mention Tangled at all. xD I can't imagine it happening though.

This image contains Tangled spoilers! If you have not watched the movie yet, please do not click.




Tegaki-e Panty and Stocking cause I like raeping fandoms.

On an unrelated note: Vampire Knight chapter 68 came out two days ago, yay! The plot is picking up speed and has me on the edge of my leather, pimp armchair.

EDIT: Happy Valentine's Day! I hope everybody finds love in something, even if it isn't a human being. /coughcough

San Francisco!

So on Sunday, three other friends, Jessica #2's(number additive due to there being a total of three Jessica's in the group)parents and I went on a road trip to San Francisco. But before I get to the actual trip, let me tell how scary foggy it was in the morning. Like seriously, I could not see over a 20 yard radius. I thought I was going get run over by a truck before I even make it to my friend's house.

We first stopped by Mountain View--where the said parents owned a pizza place. We stayed there for two hours, where we stopped by CVS pharmacy. The first thing we did was try to find Tangled Valentine's Day cards. No, we did not find any. ;_; Then then we bought chocolate. By the way, Wonka's Scrumdiliumptious(hope I spelled it right!) bar is not that scrumdiliuptious. Then we bought a bag of vegetable-fry-chip-thing at Trader Joe's and acted like obnoxious teenagers in the middle of the street. Afterwards, we went to Party City, where we had no choice BUT to find the Tangled party supplies.

I didn't buy anything, since there wasn't much worth buying. But it was still pretty cool that there was a whole shelf completely dedicated to Tangled party supplies, so yeah, picture. :)

We went back to the pizza place to eat free pizza. I only ate two small cheese slices, because I'm such a slow eater, and everybody else had at least three normal-sized slices. T_T

AND NOW BACK TO THE ROAD TRIP WE GO, where Caitlin screwed up my hearing by blasting 'So Happy I Could Die' by Lady Gaga in my ear. Last time I'm accepting earphones from her. I fell asleep in the car, well, kind of asleep because I kept zoning in and out of conversations held by my three other friends. And then finally came the big city! (I suppose the words 'big city' doesn't hold much meaning on my part, since I already live in the big city)



Tall skyscrapers~



Fountains.



Gorgeous archictecture. We kept seeing this type of structure throughout the city.

Traffic....

Angry owl on the wall.

THIS IS A VIETNAMESE PHO PLACE. I SAW IT AND I GOT OVER-EXCITED BECAUSE I LIKE PHO. Well, almost as excited as when I spotted the Disney store from a distance.

We eventually found parking near a billboard advertising whiskey. /shrug

We went to a huge Urban Outfitters first, where we skimmed about for less then ten minutes. So we walked across the street to the three-story, church-looking Forever 21. I felt compelled to spend my Forever 21 gift card I got from the Secret Santa Gift Exchange while in San Francisco. After going up to the top floor, and eventually coming back down, I decided to buy a plain, pink cardigan for only 13 dollars:

I'm happy with the purchase. It has pockets! xD

And then we stopped by at Ross to meet up with the parents to let them know we haven't been shanked yet we were safe, and sprinted over to the Disney store!



DISNEY STORE, YES. WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. YES. Of course we had to go over to the Tangled merchandise!



No Tangled Graphic novel though, even when my friend, Jessica #3 called in a week ahead of time to see if it was in stock. ;_; But she did find a 'reusable' Tangled sticker book. We're actually not sure if the stickers are reusable, since they just look like normal stickers...She's not willing to find out. And then we found Beast, the mentally challenged fairytale character.



I'm sorry, but are my friends and I the only people that laugh at this Beast-doll costume?

Then we went upstairs where Caitlin found a Mr. Pricklepants and Eeyore plushie to buy for only fifteen dollars total. And there on that floor, we found a huge honking screen with a Disney playlist for visitors to customize. Of course we had to put the Tangled trailer next on the playlist:




Jessica #3 doing the typical tourist thing in front of Flynn's smolder. Mmmm. Then we went back downstairs to get in line for the cash register when all of a sudden, the faces of Disney villians projected onto the walls! The lights darkened, and thunder played....And then a random employee ran up to hug me in an attempt to act scared. She told us rub our hands together to call forth Tinkerbell, who came projected on the walls and SAVED US YAY. Then we all cried tears of happiness and agreed that working at the Disney store is a dream job.

And then we went back outside to take a group picture:

I JUST DON'T WANT BLIND YOU PEOPLE WITH OUR ACNE.

Then we went to the Apple store to check a Tangle fansite and finally went back to the car, where I took a picture of all the Disney merchandise we bought:

A Tangled tote bag for me, a Tangled sticker book for Jessica #3, and a Mr. Pricklepants and a Eeyoore plushie for Caitlin. JESSICA #2 DIDN'T BUY ANYTHING, HOW COULD SHE?

...Wow, you'd think a bunch of three year olds bought that stuff.

And then we drove up to Chinatown, a.k.a the Asian hills of doom. I didn't take any pictures of Chinatown itself, since the I was too tired from walking up and down steep hills and stopping every five minutes at some cramped store. Jessica #3 bought a 'I heart SF' shirt at one store to match her 'I heart NY' shirt........We eventually stopped at a small restaraunt thing-a-majig where we shared a plate of the parents' selection of food:

A variety of wonton thingies--I don't even know. They were good though! And then Jessica #2 and #3 ate a Chinese sticky bun, followed by my eating a sesame seed round thing with a red bean paste....I should really learn the names. I eat this stuff almost everyday. v_v

And then onto the final part of the day: Yesstyle! It was quite a long trip deeper into SF. I remember at some point, the elevation was so high that our ears popped. I did recognize the Stonestown Galleria almost immediately though. When we got into the mall, we jogged up the escalator, ran to the wrong side of the mall, and finally sprinted to Yesstyle...Where we saw the dad at the entrance. Okay, lovely, even with our sprinting, the parents whom we got a five minute headstart over still beat us.

The store was rather small--not suffocating--but small. But they had a REALLY nice selection of clothes. My friends and I were tearing apart the store, looking to buy as much as we can! Sadly there was only one dressing room, so the wait time just to try on clothes was rather long.

At the end, I bought the same dress as Jessica #2(xD), Caitlin bought a hoodie, and the mom bought a questionable dress for Jessica #2...very questionable indeed. The prices were awesome though! The dresses were only $25 and the hoodie about $30.(I think, correct me if I'm wrong Caitlin)

And then we went back to Jessica #2's house where we did an -ahem- art project. An art project I imagine would offend a lot of people so I'll just keep the picture of the art project in my Facebook. ^_^; And then Jessica #3 showed us that the whole Yesstyle site was having an up to 80% off sale! We all agreed to do a group order before the sale ends. We're trying to hit $150, so we could get free shipping, even though shipping is only $10. US FOBS. I still have the whole Yesstyle site to look through before January 24th!

What's for dinner tonight + Gifts and Art!

My dinner is fiesty when it's trapped inside a paper bag. Hopefully a bowl of water cooled it off:



Alive and kicking, kind of. Well it was when it was set down on the ground while it was still inside the paper bag. It skittered all over the carpet. I screamed a lot and threatened to kill it right there....I'm not a creepy-crawly lover. When it was put into the bowl of water, it barely twitched, so I guess spending one hour + in a bag either exhausted it, or suffocated it to near death.


In the pot
Steaming hot
Comes orange-red
It's gone and dead

And here are some pictures of the gifts I recieved from the Secret Santa + White Elephant gift exchanges held on December 27th:

My Secret Santa gift! And my favorite gift from either exchanges, a notebook of handwritten short stories, mad libs, poems, AND TANGLED FANFICTION BECAUSE CAITLIN KNOWS ME TOO WELL from my super-talented-of-a-writer friend. She also gave me a Forever 21 $25 gift card, since my Elfster wishlist was filled with dresses from Forever 21. ^^; /has yet to use the gift card

And to troll Caitlin furthur, a picture of the letter she wrote in the notebook:

I love how she puts the last sentence in bold. xD

Afterwards, I gave my Secret Santa Gift to Amy. The cruddiely wrapped gift contained an overpriced Kuromi plushie from Sanrio, two boxes of Pocky and a bag of milk candy.

After the Secret Santa Exchange, we had a White Elephant Exchage. (A White Elephant Exchange is basically an event in which everybody buys a gift[preferabley a gift everybody wants] sets it in a pile, and picks a number out of a stack of cards, from a hat, ect. Whoever gets number 1 picks a gift first, unwraps it, and then number 2 picks a gift. If number 2 does not like the gift she picks, she is allowed to steal a previous gift that has already been picked. After a gift has been stolen a certain amount of times, it cannot be stolen anymore. You also cannot steal back a gift.)

The White Elephant Gift Exchange was hilarious and too confusing to put into words, but I'll try the best I can. (there are three Jessica's in our ~*CIRCLE OF FRIENDS~* so for less confusion, they'll be called Jessica #1, #2, and #3). I'm mostly writing this down so I could look back at this three years from now and laugh at the good ol' days. :)

-Jessica #1 gets Van's bodywash...and uses it immediately.

-Van gets Jessica #2's Tangled books(plus gum and erasers), which immediately results in Jessica #3 and me raging and screaming at her due to our deep obsession with the movie.

-Amy gets Jessica #1's gift, which was box within a box within a box within a box...and eventually led to a note that led a to scavenger hunt for a bunny plushie and a box of chocolates. It was fun!

-Caitlin gets my gift, which was a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling and a bag of Danish Butter Cookies.

-Jessica #2 gets 10 bars of Hi-Chews(a Japanese fruit candy), and steals Jessica #1's bodywash. Now Jessica #1 has the Hi-Chews.

-I get Jessica's #3's gift, which was a K-Pop album, and steal the Tangled books. Now Van has the K-Pop album.

-Van steals the copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, leaving Caitlin with the K-Pop album.

-Jessica #3 gets Caitlin's gift of a set of obscure, heavy books. She steals the 20 bars of Hi-Chews from Jessica #1, leaving Jessica #1 with the obscure books.

-Caitlin steals the Hi-Chews, then Jessica #1 steals The Tales of Beedle the Bard. They trade the gifts they have just stolen. Now Caitlin has The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Jessica #1 has the Hi-Chews, Van has the K-Pop album, and Jessica #3 has the obscure books.

I hope got all of that right.

But the real important thing is, I GOT BEAUTIFUL TANGLED MERCHANDISE:

From left to right is the Tangled Read-Aloud Storybook(with seriously gorgeous art!), a Tangled poster which came with the storybook, and a Tangled coloring book (which I haven't dared even marked yet). There were also stickers that came with the storybook and the coloring book, all of which I'm never going to peel and stick on some unworthy surface.

There were also a bunch of gum and cute animal erasers that came with the books. I ended up giving the animal erasers to Van, and then she gave the bunny eraser to Jessica #3, which she ripped up. I thought she was threatening me(being a little mad she didn't get the Tangled books), since my username everywhere is Rabbit-Full. o_o

Before both of the exchages, Jessica #3 gave me BEAUTIFUL fanart of Flynn and Rapunzel--much better than what I could ever draw. It's all fluffy and sweet, the total opposite of the homolu--nevermind.

The paper suffered much physical abuse from the artist herself. WHY AREN'T YOU PROUD OF IT?

And a here's a real downer in comparison to that piece of art: