Life and Times of Teh Asuka

So my cousin's dog had puppies a couple weeks ago.

Eleven of them.

(Well, technically thirteen but two of them died at birth. So.)

So my cousin's dog is already drying out, milk-wise, and also getting fed up with getting mobbed. Not the greatest mother ever, but. Eleven puppies. I understand. And my cousin and my aunt leave the house at seven AM to go work and come back around six PM. And at this age the puppies should be fed every three hours or thereabouts.

Guess who gets to do it.

I am torn between OMG PUPPIES!! X333 and eleven oh god why. Their house is 15-20 minutes on foot from my apartment -- two bus stops, so not far enough to justify taking the bus. It shouldn't be very problematic, but I am so out of shape and my new boots are like BWAHAHAHAHA! SUFFER! SUFFER FOR YOUR HEELY SINS! Also, foot wart that hurts like a motherfucker, yeah, you totally wanted to know that. Also just mixing the milk powder and stuff takes me ages and then it takes me ages to get one bottle into each (especially since some of them have not figured out how to suckle efficiently yet and dribble. Also, liquid, stinky poo.)

All that to say, it really cuts into my leisurely afternoons. >__>

But. Puppies! They're all black, save for the one that's such a dark brown it's almost black (BIG HELP THERE, BROWNPUPPY), so I have to tell them apart by the size of their chest stars and socks. D: Okay, which one of you guys have been fed yet... oh hey, I recognize you, little cheater, this is your second bottle! There's the two that look like fat, sleepy little bears and the tiny skinny grumpy one that's totally toppy and the ones that keep eating each other's muzzle OH MY GOD SO CUTE. But apart from that they're so similar, whoa. And some are already kind of walking and stumbling around and some only crawl so far but are like guided missiles anyway when there's milk around. Ngh. And then they go and pile up together and how am I supposed to recognize any? There's just that puppy mosh pit of black fur and adorable short muzzles and round puppy bellies.

Puppiiiiiiies. ngh. ♥ Ahh, I wish I could take one. T__T

It's almost enough to make me forgive my cousin for not getting her dox fixed before she ran off and got herself knocked up. It's not like we all told her a hundred times to get around to it, and now she's got eleven mixed breed puppies to find home for right in the middle of summer vacation. Great job, Em'. =_____=; But, not the puppies' fault. ngh puppiiiies.

NaNoWriMo starts on Monday and I still don't know what story I want to poke at, or even if I really want to do it this year.

Anyway I don't have a new Ofic to prod, so it would either be more Mermaids in Space (... sorry, Mermaids... IN SPACE!!) or more Black Ops Werewolves.

Or maybe Teamwork. I dunno, it's all asleepy right now. *prods it with a stick*

I'm not feeling it. T__T The werewolves are love but I don't have a real plot. The mermaids have a plot but I don't have the love. Well, yes, i love them but. The werewolves don't have any interesting characters on other teams and local werepeople to interact with! The mermaids don't have any shiny mermaid and two-tail people to interact with! There's plot hooks enough, but for me who loves nothing more than character interaction, that makes things FLAAAT. It's like, okay, yay, my car has a motor, now it can roll forward without needing a slope and gravity to gang up on it. Neat. Now could I have some seats and a radio please? Also a wheel, a wheel would be nice. Cause otherwise I'm taking the bus.

*ponders Tyr/Liadan crossover interaction*

Also there's Real Life things coming up this month and I'm not sure how much I'll feel like writing. (it's nothing bad, job search stuff. I suppose everyone must go through that at some point. I'm just horrible at dealing with that kind of stress.) Or perhaps having something I must write would be a great distraction! No friggin clue.

As for Teamwork, I seriously doubt that it'll take me 50,000 words to get to the end of TW3. Though I suppose it would help if I could decide if the marriage is part of TW3 or its separate sequelthing! though at this point the sequels are all such an interconnected mess I suspect it's all mostly academic. Okay, no, TW 3 was the tournament, tournament'll be over by then, therefore since TW 4 is something else! that means Teamwork:Marriage is an interlude instead! A hugeass interlude. In several parts. Plus outsider POV sidefics. ahaha o self wat. Okay, not an interlude. TW3.5? I mean, i've got the Suna trip down as TW2.5 already. ...Someone put me out of my misery. DX

- Back from vacation! i'm still alive! i'm alone at home! oh god please, parents, don't come back early like you did last year. After a week sharing one house with two sets of uncles&aunts + the grandma, and sharing my bedroom with a boycousin who has severe allergies to dust and spent ALL NIGHT coughing and spitting, I just might bite.

Oh, my home. My lovely, empty home. T^T *twirls like a ballerina*


- aaaaaaaa turning 29 soon oh god only one year before the big 30, i can't be 30, i'm 22 at most, honest. D: where did the years go?

- aaaaaaaaaaaaaa losing my LJ icon extension pack soon oh god no, not my icons. Where did my icons go?

/subtle asuka is subtle. come on guys, i'll draw you a chibi or something? >.> *beg beg*


-I wrote! ... but, well, yes, some tripletsverse but nothing got completed so I can't post it. I am a sad Asuka. But I did write Teamwork and Restore things. :D Posting the first scene of the Restore thing because all of the rest needs SEVERE EDITING, but it's here, it exists! Woohoo.

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FF7 : Restore - chapter 7 scene 1

( Se-phi-roth~ nananana~ man but i missed writing him. )

Family reunion this weekend! Dubious asuka is dubious, but.

Yay! good food. Yay! playing with the kids all afternoon, so I get bonus points from keeping them busy AND avoid grownup talk on politics and soccer and shit. Yay, letting grandmother cut a few inches from my hair because they're starting to fray at the bottom again! That lets her feel like she's slowly winning the fight to make me into a real girl, and gets her off my *hah* hair. I mean, it worked fine the first time i let her do this!

Asuka: I am somewhat confused as to why we aren't doing this in the bathroom this time around, grandma.
Asuka's grandma: Pshh, no reason. Sit. You'd look very good with short hair.
Asuka: No thanks grandma. If I could my hair would be DOWN TO MY ASS. (alas it always frays by the time it's shoulderblade length boohoo.) Maybe an inch or two under shoulder length?
Asuka's grandma: hm hm hm. Shoulder length! It's only an inch or two, it would grow fast AND be more healthy for your hair!
Asuka: ... Well, that IS only an inch or two. Okay, shoulder length. Hm, but I find it somewhat frustrating that I can't see what you are doing on account of the lack of mirrors in the kitchen.
Asuka's grandma: Bah! It'll be a surprise.
Asuka: But shoulder length, grandma!
Asuka's grandma: Of course, of course. *clip clip clip*
Asuka's cousin: oh, haircut, how ni... um, grandma, that's a little short, isn't it?
Asuka's grandma: Pshh! Not at all. It's shoulder length! >__> Also it's not like I can glue it back on.
Asuka: *... um. glue what now*
Asuka's grandma: LOOK FORWARD AND STOP MOVING. *clip clip clip*
Asuka: ... >__>;
Asuka's cousin: ... well I think it looks very nice! really!
Asuka: ... >_____>;;; ???
Asuka's grandma: There! done.
Asuka's cousin: ... oh yes, it suits you pretty well! Um. It looks very cute.
Asuka: *turns her head* ...
Asuka's grandma: :DDD ?
Asuka: GRANDMA. WHY DO I FEEL AIR ON THE BACK OF MY NECK GRANDMA.
Asuka's grandma: :DDDDDDDDDDDDD Tadahh!
Asuka: *rushes to bathroom & mirror* ...
.......
.............
AAAA
I KNOW I HAVE A SHORT NECK BUT IN WHICH WORLD DOES SHOULDER LENGTH = JAW LENGTH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Asuka's grandma: Hmph! you look much prettier in this style, which incidentally I've been badgeting you about for years. See, you should have stopped being all "no grandma i like my long hair just fine thank you" years ago!
Asuka: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Asuka's grandma: Oh, shush. ... Wait a second, this side is longer than the other side.
Asuka: oh fine, i do so like being symmetrica--aaaaaaa now i can barely tuck my bangs behind my ear aaaaaaaaaaaa I WILL NEVER TRUST YOU AGAIN.
Asuka's cousin: ... no, really, it looks cute! daughter-dear, tell her it looks cute.
Asuka's cousin's kid: ... :/ well um. i like long hair better. ... for me i mean, for other people it's um, nice i guess. i just. like it long. mine i mean. yeah. OH LOOK THEY ARE PLAYING WITH DOLLS BRB :DDD;;

Asuka: *GOES HOME HOMG* HEY BROTHER >:( *barges into brother room*
Asuka's brother's girlfriend: hey asukOMG WHAT HAPPENED D:
Asuka: ... HAH. >:E
Asuka's brother's girlfriend: ...?
Asuka: See, you're sometimes a bitch, but that's why I know I can trust you on this.
Asuka's brother: *knows nothing of fashion!* *doesn't give a shit about what people look like!* ... isn't that... a bit short... D:
Asuka: *VINDICATED DAMN IT* >:E >:E >:E ... T____T I am never leaving the house again.

Recently I've been having some troubles with LJ. figured, ehh, they were making updates, there was annoyance at stuff they'd recently put in their code that was full of malware and they had to take it out or something like that, the problems would pass.

Today I realized apparently the problems are just in internet explorer 7, not firefox, so... what?

Asked the friends I had in arm's reach today and as far as I know, it's only me. I have NO idea what happened, how widespread, and what to do to fix it. (don't say "switch to firefox! :D" or some other browser, that's not acceptable.)

Problems: it won't show me my icons when I'm making a post, just a drop down menu; it won't auto-complete my tags, I have to type them all in by hand; it won't unfold comment threads; when I want to make a comment visible instead of clicking one thing I have to go to a different page asking me if I'm sure and then a second page telling me it's done and then back to the original post -- etcetera.

So if they're known problems, where are they discussed? It's not in Known Issues and I don't know where else to look. Anyone got links? And if they're not, um, shit. What now. ~___~

(also, chibirisuchan, I owe you an OC pic for last time. I remember! U.U)



in other news I've been watching Durarara, and it's... kinda weird, a little all over the place at first (starts out more like a collection of stories about an ensemble cast than one plot) and slow to get moving, but the characters are really fun (kinda over the top but in a hilarious and quite shiny way) and OOOOOO episode ten, prrt prrt. I like it. ^^

... I love waking up with the first sentence of an elusive scene already running through my head, just waiting for me to grab on and unspool.

*writy writy writy* hay gaiz guess where itachi is :D





edit: what the shit did I just watch.

It's an ad for a car. Tropical settings, beach and palm trees, three black guys playing around with cantaloupes (haha look i'm pregnant-type.) they put things in wheelbarrows and race each other...

to a big, brand-new family car where three extremely white, model-pretty, swede-blond women are waiting. Then they load the women's big car to show off how much stuff it can handle. With big goofy smiles on their decidedly-not-model-pretty faces.

I tried very hard not to take it as "look, ma, we're running around being gophers for rich white women and we love it!". I failed. Why the fuck wouldn't one of the guys be white, or one of the women be black, OR BOTH. I have no idea. Nooooo idea.

Oh yeah, the women were pregnant (hey, it's a FAMILY car). So when I pointed out the racism (and my mom agreed) my oh so lovely father pointed out that to him it looked more like white women being porked by black dudes. frrrrrrrrrrgh.

I want to write Karui killing things for some weird and unfathomable reason. :/

So... I was in the middle of a replay of FF7 on my brother's Playstation 2. And starting to play Vagrant Story, which is also a PS1 game.

From what I understood, you kind of need to still use a PS1 memory card for 'em.

Turns out my brother's girlfriend threw them away because Julien forgot about the little detail that I do still play those old PS1 games and told her they were useless now. (and then promptly forgot about telling her so, because he wasn't thinking. >__>)

To which I say HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE. They kind of don't sell them anymore, and I can't buy online anyway so the existence of those ridiculously expensive eBay cards is a moot point.

Saro being awesome offered me one of her memory cards -- the problem being... we know the American games cannot be played on European consoles and vice versa, but neither of us has any idea if the memory cards are similarly regionally locked. It would kinda blow if we found out after she bothered to part with one of her only three cards and mailed it to me.

Does anyone know? Or know where to ask? We both googled the hell out of it and couldn't find anything on that topic. ;__;


edit: WOOHOO. other-brother who still lives home (on the weekends >.> mwahaha) just got a PS3 and apparently it doesn't even use memory cards AND it's backward compatible with PS1 games! I hope it works. But thank you guys for the offers ^__^ ♥




In other news, guess who decided they were bored at the camping and came back home early with no warning? -___- here I was so happy to have the apartment for a whole week to myself. Woe woe woe. Oh well, means i won't have to cook. >__>

I forgot to tell a lot of people, but I won't be home from... right now until monday. Woohoo visiting family i haven't seen since i was 8 year old! so if you don't get an answer before monday then it's normal (and if you don't get an answer after either it's because i suck, which is business as usual where timely replies are concerned. .__.; )

Would have made a naruto post but i don't have the time anymore. oops.




also luel_exana made me the sexiest fanart ever for my GW fic Newtype's newest chapter, and it's spoiler for the end of the chapter but OH GOD SO HOT. *massive drool*

( real life sleep-deprived ramble-fu )

My face atm: ಠ_ಠ



( naruto (also bleach, a bit )

Askerian: SPIDER AS BIG AS MY HAND
Askerian: HOLY FUCK
Sarolynne: O.O
Sarolynne: Where?
Askerian: behind my screen on the wall how did it get in
Sarolynne: ....
Sarolynne: Kill it.
Askerian: ...gnihhh
Askerian: it's gone. phew
Askerian: but first it went to hide behind my heater
Askerian: then it tried to kill me! but i got one of its legs >O
Askerian: thing was so leggy i only got one, and i was hitting it with a ... thing. big. book-big.
Askerian: then i put it on the thing and threw it through the window except we're on the ground floor so WHAT IF IT GETS BACK IN
Askerian: ... suddenly I AM AWAKE.
Sarolynne: *petpets*
Askerian: then mom started commenting about how it could have fallen from the ceiling on my face while i slept and stuff/
Askerian: eeevil


Okay it wasn't exactly hand-big. More like palm-big. ... With its legs half-folded. So still pretty damn fucking big. Maybe it it stretched all its legs it could be hand-sized. Okay I have small hands but. yes. Still. We're in France here, not in some kind of jungle.

Fuck.

What if it gets back in.



sleep is for the weak and spiderless.