Was woke up by the doorbell a little while ago, but there was no one there when I opened it... either someone did a runner, or i'm going crazy and hearing things, both of which are reasonable answers, I think.....

But yeah, of all the things I really didn't need to hear this morning, was my mum on msn telling me that my sister had an epileptic fit it the car. One that hasn't been diagnosed with epilepsy.

D: I'm really worried for her.

A few days ago I brought chira chiras artbook~ :3 I want to have it now~ *flail*

Ummm but yeah~ onto other news..... uni is killing me ;A; I have so much work to do and i'm not doing it ><;;;; And so much stuff to draw ;A; I can't promise people i'll have their xmas presents done by xmas, but i'm gonna do my hardest to try. Doing them in the order I got them, so if you haven't told me what you want yet, hurry up :P I know there are still a few of you.... (I want your fave hetalia character or pairing, and a theme/situation you want to see, if you want to :P )

Can't wait for the meet on the 19th now!!!! I want to see everyone *A* And I end up not speaking to half of you on msn, because I can never remember whose msn I own >>;;;; It's animegirl123@hotmail.co.uk , if you don't have it ;A; Though i've been wanting to change my email address for a very long time now.... it'd be too much hassle *is lazy*

And on Sunday 20th December, the hetalia meet in Birmingham will be happening!!! We are going to be running around the xmas german market, and then having a meal at jimmy spices, an all you can eat that serves italian, chinese, thai and indian food~ as i've said before, it'd be amazing if anyone could make it down for that too *A* (http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/4862191.html#cutid1)

Ummm but yeah XD In other news, some of my hetalia friends have been planning a med group, possibly for may, though i'm very fully booked for that atm @_@ so maybe just in general~ BUT!!! The most important thing is we're planning a non hetalia cosplay, from the Chrestomanci books!!! There's not really any reference, but we'll manage somehow :3 If anyone has ever read the books, you should come cosplay with us!! We're in need of many characters. So far, we have a definite Cat and Gwendolyn, and either a Chrestomanci or a Michael Saunders... We have so many more character slots that need fitting.... Read these books people!!! so you can fangirl over them with me Diana Wynne Jones is the author of them~ (she wrote Howls moving castle) Getting all the characters from Charmed Life is our current goal, but it'd be awesome if we could get the characters from all the books one day :3

And yeah~ :D I shall leave this post now and actually get up ;A; Because I have a lecture in a few hours =_=

Stolen from everybody else that did it XD

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. (:

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Everyone else is talking about making stuff for THWPmas, and with a little over a month til the big day, I also want to get started....
I'm somewhat a fail (as most people know XD ) so i'm not doing anything overly amazing or anything >< *imaginationfail* But if everyone tells me their favourite hetalia character/pairing/something you'd like to see in hetalia, tell me, and i'll see if I can draw you a fail drawing!!!

Errr not much else to say except RUN FREE!!! Even if you like the most bizarre pairing, i'll have a crack at it! And you'll either receive your present emailed to you on xmas eve, or at the hyde park meet or something <3

I have just brought my train tickets for the hyde park meet in London :D So it's official, and I am going!

Also, for anyone who may be interested, a while back, I posted on the hetalia comm about a meet up in b'ham to go round the german xmas market. It is amazing! And afterwards I am planning a meal at a restaurant called 'Jimmy spices' which is an all you can eat buffet that serves food from italy, china, thailand and india.... I have always wanted to do hetalia cosplay there XD It's being held on the 21st december, from around 12 til late. It'd be awesome if anyone could come up for it!!

Link is here: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/4862191.html#cutid1

But yes~ onto random babbling~ @_@

suddenly, money is a problem for me. It probably doesn't seem as bad to most people, but I think this is the worst i've been with my money in uni so far. I know where it's gone. If I hadn't brought my DS and the games, I would have about £200 more. And expo took out a big chunk due to me buying doujin ><;; I'm just hoping tv license aren't going to take out any money soon, because then i'm screwed D: After xmas I will be fine. I'll have the next instalment of my loan, and if I go to kita (which is currently looking unlikely D: ) I won't be spending any money, with the exception of accommodation and entry tickets...

I'm also owed money, mainly by my mum, so hopefully that money will help tide me over XD it's mainly xmas presents now.... I have brought my uni friends presents, have one of 3 sisters sorted.... and the other 2 are being difficult D: I love my mum though. She said she has chocolates that I can steal for home friends. I'm not really that close to a lot of them any more, so I dunno if we'll even be seeing each other :S And my mum is, as usual, all 'i just want some help around the house and stuff, and i'm sure your dad would like the same' and 'we'd like to go out without the kids' and stuff, so I think i'm going to make one of those cheque book type things for them XD

And I really need to sort out camp america @_@ before it gets too late and I have no chance of getting a placement D:

Also! What are peoples plans for Decemeber 8th? Aka, pretend you're a time traveller day?

Me and some friends are going into cardiff to scare the locals :3 I will probably be dressed in my spain cosplay, and pretend to have come out of ww2 or something XD

Can anyone actually give me the actual details for this meet? Everyone seems to be saying different things, and I am really confused @_@ what time are we meant to be meeting and where? And what time are people aiming to finish?


I really need to book the tickets asap to get down, because they seem to be rising in price every day by about £2 D:

*dies* I am so unbelievably late with all these photos....

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I can't believe Triple H is tomorrow!!! It's snuck up on me and I still haven't packed.....

So far, my plan for tomorrow:

Get up at 5 ( ;A; )
Get ready, showered, dressed etc.
Leave the house a little before 6 to walk to the bus stop.
Get into Newport, and walk to the train station, wait for 7.39 train into london.
Arrive in london at 9 something, and make my way to Victoria.
Buy a ticket to Cheam
Meet everyone at the platform
HETALIA

Also, things I need to pack!

Non cosplay clothing
Cosplay!
PJs (not going to bother re-doing the turtles. If they come off, they come off XD )
Tickets
Money
Phone
Ipod
USB with UP on it ( :D )
Keys....
Toiletries
DS/pokemon
Camera!
Uno/cards???

And I think that's it....

Meh... I'm gonna have to sleep soon if I actually want to be up..... But I can't wait to see you guys again!!! :D :D soexcited!!!

Because purapea  tagged me!

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It really has been a busy week ;A; I've practically lived in the animation studios all week! >< Not really got a proper nights sleep, due to working on my animation, only to be told that the mini soundscape project (we were focusing on the 2D specialism project, because we have WAY too much work for that in comparison to the other specialisms >_> ) actually counted towards our final grade in that..... On the wednesday night, me and purapea  decided to give up on working on the specialisms project for a while, and watch more supernatural ( :D) And focus on the soundscape project thursday. Bascially, we did what everyone else had 2 weeks to do, in less than 24 hours. This included recording sounds, making them into a somewhat musical piece, and then animating to it. We succeeded, but didn't get to sleep until about 7 the next morning, and had to present the mini project to the rest of the class at 11 ;A; And because we hadn't done a powerpoint presentation to go with our presentation, he called us lazy! ¬_¬ So not too happy with this lecturer atm!

However, on saturday, I met up with my nearby hetalia friends for a stop-over~ we went to the cinema and watched 'men who stare at goats' which was bizarre, but also quite funny! We then had to walk for ages in the rain to get to a bus stop ;A; And then wait half an hour for a bus ;A; In the freezing cold and rain.... not fun. By the time we got to Ellies house, we were soaked ;A; From there we pretty much messed about, but I ended up going to bed early because I had a killer headache ;A; It wasn't fun, and I hope it doesn't come back! Then, today we went into cardiff and ate ramen and stuff :3 And I had to leave to get back to uni ;A; So I am back now~ My room is freezing, and I am still unwell~ though my chest doesn't hurt as much as it did earlier >< Hopefully i'll be better before the Triple H stop-over this coming weekend! *A* I am so excited now!!! I ended up booking tickets for a train there, but a coach back... mainly because the buses are weird over the weekend by me, so it's easier to catch a train down anyway, but it works out cheaper getting the national express.... :3 So... half and half~

And~ I may or may not be going to kitacon next year @_@ I shall see~ but if I do, i'll be war of austrian succession spain, and ellie will be WoAS france~ so we need a prussia, but we'll get there!!!

And expo i'm not too sure yet~ i'm planning on doing a pokemon gijinka on one day, but i'm not too sure which one atm, and a spain cosplay the other day~ possibly gakuen!spain , or re-using one of my older ones~ I also want to cosplay Bulgaria, but I may save that til a later date :D

Apparently November is Sketchvembver.......

Forget NaNoWriMo! Novemer is the month of sketching~ produce a sketch a day!

I have already failed, and with the amount of work I have, I am still likely to fail.....

But be prepared for sketchy crappiness~ :3

Doodled this mainly because I cannot seem to animate right now ;A; And I need to for my project ><;;;; But yeah.. anatomy fail drawing ahead!
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Expo was amazing~ but I now have so much work to do @_@ I'll do a proper expo post later.....

Was in the animation studios until 2.30 in the morn last night... aka stupid o' clock ;A; and did so little work >< We got distracted watching David Attenborough, and drawing ourselves as Albatrosses and stuff~ :3

Maybe tonight will be more fruitful......?

;A;

Matador Spain~

Not finished yet, and I really should be working on it more rather than doing this.....

But here is a progress report... so people can actually see what I am doing :3

And I wanted some advice on the jacket arm also. I am worried it is too big/wide under the arm/armpit area. Kinda hard to see in the photos, but I dunno if I should unstich the sleeves and re-adjust it? @_@

Anyway~ pictures!

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Or just your ideas, anyway :3

For my animation project, I have a little girl trying to get the attention of her dad, and well... it doesn't go too well :3 My teacher is all 'take it to the extremes' and 'do outrageous stuff', but I don't want to do really cliche cartoony stuff either, like letting off fireworks (the girl will be like, 5-6 btw, so stuff like that isn't too good XD ) So give me your ideas people! What bizzare ways could a child get the attention of her dad? Perhaps ways you would find funny?

My friends suggested throwing a can at his head.... stuff like that works~

So help me find bizzare ways to get his attention that no one would actually use~ ask little siblings, etc~ :3 And thanks again ~ <3

Ahhh it's been so long since I last updated this ;A;

I moved into uni, it's my excuse :3 On a top floor flat with 2 of my friends, and our other flatmates are cool too~

The other week I went to Alton towers for the weekend for my friends birthday, it was amazing!!! The hotel there is so cool, though next time (and there WILL be a next time) I shall have to get tickets for the water park!!! My only regret is it was the same day as the Brighton hetalia meet ;A; I wanted to go so bad... Though even if I could have gone it would have been really difficult to get down there.... WHY ARE ALL THESE MEETS SO FAR AWAY????!!!

And I've also been ill ;A; Caught myself some freshers flu.... Had to catch the train back to uni when I was ill, and it was the worst trip home of my life ;A; It's like a 3- 4 hour journey if you count the buses to and from the station and all the waiting for said buses.... When I got into B'ham, I missed the train by a second... the driver actually looked at me, shook his head and drove off. I was feeling so shitty then I pretty much wanted to curl up and die ;A; So I went to the help desk to figure out where to go because I didn't want to wait another hour- I wanted to get back and sleep ;A; And the lady wasn't really helpful at all. I explained I had missed the train and asked what train I could take next and she was all 'well do you want to wait for the next direct train?' She asked that twice after despite me attempting to explain that no, I wanted the next train out of there ;A;

I finally got directed to the Bristol train, where I would have to change at Bristol for Newport.... and once on the train realised that my £30 ticket was missing. Worst. Day. Ever. Luckily the ticket woman missed me when she came past. I was half asleep anyways... The ticket man also missed me on the Bristol to Newport train, and the man at the barrier let me out at newport despite the lack of ticket (I DID have a receipt, but there was no destination info on it, so I didn't know if it would work, but the barrier guy was fine with it... ) so I like to think someone was looking out for me ;A; Then I went to my uni dorm and crashed ;A; Had a sore throat for a few days, but then we went to our first class~ We had to pick between CGI, 2D, or stop motion animation for our specialization, and I picked 2D, because it's what I really really want to do :3 And our class is awesome! We're like, the only one who have a proper brief, and it's really cool~ more info on that will follow another time :3

And my ice skating coach text me, and we sorted out this years lessons again :3 At a later time, so no more 5.30 am mornings.... (it'll still be early, just not AS early~ ) And me and some friends went ice skating on saturday, which was great fun, and then we ate at a gormet burger restaurant (lulz) (It was next to a japanese, and opposite two italians and an indian. This made me LOL ) But saturday also returned a major headache to me, all day, despite having fun ;A; So I went straight to bed when I got back again >< Hopefully I won't come down with any more freshers flu stuff >< Also, I need to start my uni projects now.... have a soundscape one to do also @_@ but character designs and a storyboard for tomorrow, so I should start..... We have to have an online blog this year~ I shall link when there is stuff on it :D

And I shall go now~ Bye~

There's like, 4 days until I return to uni~ Can't wait now, even though I haven't packed a THING!!! hahahaha

Last night me and my home friends had a goodbye meal~ it was ok, though it was too late that I realised i'd be surrounded my twilight fans until my fellow hater showed up ;A; I always end up ranting about the fail that is twilight when I go in there, so I was slightly ;A; Luckily, no twilight ended up being mentioned, and Lovi text me to keep me sane :D

But then I got home to find a massive spider on my bed ;A; It was really big! ;A;

Mmmm but anyway, not much else has been going on lately... Have been re-sewing the pockets onto my military cosplay for spain, before I start on the matador cosplay, because I only have one bobbin~ just need to stick the flaps on now~ Though I REALLY need to get started on this cosplay now ><;; And the PJs~

For the past few days I have been working on a Spain pic~ have been working on the background all day today, because I fail at backgrounds~ It looks really cool when it's small, but you go to normal size and it doesn't look so good ;A; Ahh well, I am learning....

My 6 year old sister decided to 'play' with my sewing machine.

The thread all go jammed in the bobbin case, which my dad managed to fix, but now the bobbin case won't fit back together. It just got fixed yesterday.

FFFFFML

I'm not even sure what the guy did but... it works properly now :D And it didn't cost anything either :3 Now I can get to work on my cosplay~ finally XDXD

On a slightly more depressing note, a few days ago, my sisters friend came round with news that one of their friends had been hit by 2 cars as he made his way home from his new secondary school. The story kept getting warped as she told people, but her grandad apparently told her her was 70% sure it was this guy, and blood was pouring from his ears and stuff. My sister was devastated, and yesterday she found this: http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/09/10/boy-11-hurt-in-collision/ And while no names were mentioned, it has now been confirmed by the guys mother that it was him ;A; Apparently he is still under sedatives, so they won't know the full extent of the damage until he wakes up, but its a pretty awful thing to happen the week he starts a new school :(

Mmmm today has been a bit hectic >< It is my little sisters birthday today, so happy birthdays were all done before she went to school~ another sister is ill in bed, as was dad ¬_¬

But we had arranged to meet my grandma in wolverhampton today, so we left them XD It was fun~ it'll be the last time I see my grandma before I go back to uni, and she gave me money *A* and brought me some things I've needed since last year, such as a proper chopping knife ><;;; Then my mum had to go into Ann Summers to buy gag gifts for her male manager who is leaving, so we were all dragged in there.... I was the one who suggested she buy a 'chocolate willy' XDXD for him~ she did, and I wish I was there to see the look on the guys face when he opens it XD My grandma (who is the most amazing grandma ever) found it all just as funny, and said that if they had been cheaper, she would have brought some of the 'willy sweets' to share out amongst her choir group XDXD And as we were leaving, some of the staff tried to get me interested in an Ann summers party, and when I refused my grandma asked (as a joke) why she hadn't been asked about one XDXD I love my grandma~

And my NUS card finally arrived today~ And I phoned up the sewing machine people~ we'll take it in tomorrow :D I hope it won't cost too much >< Just checked my bank account and I have spent about £100 in the last week ;A; I am unsure how it happened.... I need to start collecting the money that people owe me, I think.... XD

I admit defeat ;A; Just spent HOURS messing with the sewing machine, it still has an imperfect stitch ;A; It's going to a sewing machine repairs shop... where i'll find out it was a simple little loose screw or something ¬_¬ But as long as it sews right.... I really need to start this cosplay XDXD

... at least it's somewhat cleaner....

And my laptop may end up getting re formatted ;A; People who speak to me on msn know my tendency to disappear~ My internet keeps closing on me due to an 'error' my msn keeps doing the same, and my stupid laptop blue screens SO much it's not funny... and I only got the laptop at xmas, it's always done this ¬_¬ So i
hopefully a complete re-format will fix it ;A; Hopefully it'll be done before the return to uni XD (In fact, the inet errored on me while writing this post....)