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So, I like clothes. But not clothes you buy at the mall. The department stores all carry the same things, stamped out endlessly in different cloth, hoping you won't notice or won't care I suppose.
I've ordered a few J-fashion knockoffs from a couple Chinese online stores with some success. One store sent things that were good quality but barely fit me, the other was just crap.
Browsing the internet, looking at pretty clothes pictures, I noticed that Metamorphose was doing a Special Set sale. A dress, necklace, bracelet, and socks for 13500 yen. This is way cheaper than this brand normally is. The catch was they had limited quantities and they started accepting orders at midnight (10 a.m.). So, I had my manager let me run home from work to submit an email at 10:00:09, and I got the dress and my color choice and everything!
I just got it a couple days ago. It shipped way faster than I expected. And it's GORGEOUS.
I love the embroidery, and even the eyelet lace at the hem has embroidery like eighth notes. It's lined, and the matching socks have music note embroidery too.
I want to make a matching headband. Maybe someone I know will let me use her embroidery machine to put music notes on that too. It's silly, but just putting that dress on made me feel happy.
On a similar note, my resolution this year, besides getting a real job and my own place, is to start playing my flute regularly again. I've gotten so bad, and it's a shame. It's going to take a lot of effort to get back where I used to be, but if I start out slow I can do it. Ganbare!
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Yarrr!
At this year's Michigan Renaissance Festival, which I attended this past weekend, I decided to go as a pirate in my new piraty hat. It was also a good year not to have long trailing skirts, since it had rained every day last week.
Here is the picture we took upon arriving.
The bodice I wore was my emergency Silverleaf Renaissance Festival bodice, which I finished by binding the arm holes. It's reversable; I wore the inside salmon-color to Silverleaf. It took me three hours and a bucket of tears because of last minute notice. The blouse my mother actually found at a garage sale, and the pants I made last week. I screwed up the leg length, but fixed it so it couldn't really be noticed. Huzzah for matte black fabric. I'll take them apart later and fix them properly.
Also with me were my best friend Dave, his brother and sister-in-law, and my friend Mike (who sux0rz and doesn't wear garb). It was the Highland Fling weekend, so I got to watch old men throw trees, and that was fun. Dave's brother Chris told the joke, "You know why it's called a kilt? 'Cause we kilt the last guy who called it a skirt!" so much that his wife threatened him with beatings.
Disregarding the rain, it was a good time. I got a feather for my hat, some incense, honey sticks, and a green silk sash. We managed to scare some of the actors, and I got some ideas for new things to make. So, this year's rennying is a success.
Yo-ho.
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I want to update, but I can't really think of what to talk about. So I'll do what we all do, and rant about games.
Chibi Robo is seizure-inducingly cute, fun, and teaches kids that picking up trash and cleaning the floor with Dad's toothbrush will make people happy. The GameStop guys made fun of me when I bought it.
"The magazine said 'If you want to punish your kids, buy them this!'" they said. "You're stupid and have no appreciation of games that don't involve carnage," I said.
Which is frighteningly true around here. Most of the guys I see come through GameStop won't touch a game without words like "slaughter," "mutilate," or "blow-the-hell-up" on the cover. I don't know if that kind of overdeveloped machismo is a product of being raised in Detroit, but I don't think it helps.
Anyways, I was talking about Chibi Robo. He is indeed chibi, being only a couple inches tall, and that's enough to turn a two-story house into a whole world to explore. From what I've played of the game, the plot is nice, but not the point. The point is finding a way to climb, hover, or fall into every niche and nook you can see. It's about exploration, and I can get wrapped up for hours trying to find a way to a particular spot.
I also like the fact that finally there's a legitimate reason that a game's hero has to go around solving everybody's problems. He's programmed to. So whether human, animal, or toy, his job is to help out and make them happy.
And if you absolutely have to shoot things, there's occasionally cute little evil robot spiders you blow into scrap with your Chibi Blaster.
At this moment, the only thing in the world cuter than Chibi Robo is the Taiko no Tatsujin anime. It is so cute it makes bunnies and baby ducks commit seppuku out of shame.
Well, maybe not, but they could.
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I picked up a new used game last week, and I just had to make mention of it. For this game is none other than the legendary DDR Mario Mix. Yeah, I know, it's supposed to be re-released soon, but Twilight Princess is supposed to be out already, too. Forgive my skepticism.
I unlocked all the songs and minigames within two days by playing through the story mode a few times. I must say, the story really isn't any less ridiculous than when I played it in Japanese at the 1up office and we were filling in our own.
All I have to say is, "Toad: Dooty doot!"
Dooty doot.
Trying to wrap my brain around that has done a small amount of damage.
I picked up another neat little Nintendo-related toy, as well. It's small, annoyingly loud, and filled with delicious gummis. No, it's not a child, it's:
It was overpriced, but it had to be mine. It came in all three GameCube colors, so I picked up platinum, like my own GameCube. Of course.
When you push the start button, it makes Mario Kart: Double Dash intro sounds. It had very few gummis inside, but they were good, and it was kind of neat chewing on Mario and Luigi and Toad.
But not in a creepy way.
So now I just need to decide what to keep in the box now the candy is gone.
AH-HAH!
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