Ace and Five: SACANIMEEEEEEE

HELLO.
I AM REALLY HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
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School starts in 2 days. :(
Oh yeah, I also didn't really post Fun Friday this week because I was really busy.

Okay.
So, this weekend, as you may know, I went to SacAnime with Kess and Sushi and Kess's neighbor who is awesome. Yeah.

I went in a really horrible Winry (from FMA) cosplay that I bet no one recognized. Seriously, it was horrible.
Heh heh.

Kess went as Touka from Tokyo Ghoul (which I've almost finished the manga now). She had the wig and a hoodie kinda similar to Touka's and also Touka's pants and boots, so she was recognizable enough. She just barely was shipped her wig in time.
Sushi went in an awesome Hanji cosplay. She also had hair extensions that matched Hanji's hair, but she didn't wear them, so she looked like just someone from AOT. She had the whole outfit but after about an hour of frustration with the belts for the maneuver gear she just decided to go without them.

And then, and then, there was Kess's neighbor's cosplay. It was amazing.
She went as Maka from Soul Eater. She had a scythe made out of a metal tube thing and some wood. It was painted just like the real thing, and also was huge, though of course not life-sized. She had bought the wig and outfit online, but the boots would have cost $80 so she just re-used some similar black boots and put white duct tape on them. She couldn't make her outfit like she wanted to because of the such short notice.
Her outfit was so awesome, she got asked for pictures like 40 times.

Okay, so we got there about 3:30 Friday night, spent about an hour and a half in the hotel room getting ready, and spent the rest of the night at the convention. We weren't able to make any panels or event on Friday except the kpop/jpop dance competition. Kess enjoyed it, being the koreaboo she is.

On Saturday, we went to a Tokyo Ghoul panel with people dressed and acting as the characters. This was my favorite panel, and it was hilarious.
A couple hours after that, we went to an Attack on Titan voice actor Q&A. It was packed. It took up about 60% of the main room, and the room was big. The line for it went all the way down the street and round the corner. It took 20 minutes for everyone to get ready and seated. Other than the long wait, it was pretty cool.

Anyways, who goes to an anime convention and doesn't get merch? It was very hard for me not to buy everything. I got a Death Note shinigami figurine in a grab bag, which I split with Kess and Sushi, I got 2 mini posters of Crona (Soul Eater) and Edward (FMA) which are pretty funny. I got a Scouting Legion (AOT) face mask, and, of course, an Alpaca. My alpaca is medium-sized and a lavender-colored sailor. Yeah. He's fluffy.
Kess also got 2 face masks, the same Edward poster as me, and a Luigi (Mario games) plushie from the grab bag.
Sushi got a Hanji (AOT) keychain and a keychain from a random anime which I don't watch.

Everyone who pre-registered (which we did) also got a free SNK MLP crossover mini poster and a Naruto/Death Note/Other Random Anime mini poster.
So, time for my Merch Count!
-Attack on Titan, 6 (Wall Scroll, Mini Poster, Keychain, Wristband, T-shirt, Face mask)
-Death Note, 3 (Mini Poster, Figurine, T-shirt)
-Hetalia, 2 (Wristband, T-shirt)
-Vocaloid, 2 (Poster, T-shirt)
-Fullmetal Alchemist, 2 (Mini Poster, T-shirt)
-Sword Art Online, 1 (T-shirt)
-No Game No Life, 1 (Wall Scroll)
-Soul Eater, 1 (Mini Poster)
-Naruto, 1 (Mini Poster)
-My Little Pony (FIM), 1 (Mini Poster)
-Other, 2 (Alpaca Plush, Wristband)
Total: 20 Merch Items

Yay! Merch!
Also, awesome news, Tigress' friend gave us all of the Sims 3 expansion packs! Awesome! Except we can't really figure out how to make it work quite yet...


So, yeah, that was my day! Merry Monday!

~Ace Loves Chu!~





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Ace and Christmas

Hiya!~
Ace here for a Christmas post!
So, first Imma go over some updates, and then we'll talk about *gasp* Christmas

Well, my friend Kess has a blog of her own now. Now I just want you to click the link on my sight and see the differences in our blogs. Very different.
She also has a fan blog, which was her original blog, until I convinced her to not be a complete Koreaboo.
(Haha kidding love ya Kess)

So, in other news, I love eggnog *sips eggnog*.

In other other news, I tried to get a favicon (the little icon that appears next to a page tab's title (like the blogspot B)) but Blogspot is being stupid and won't work.

It even changed colors. The quality is really sucky because it's supposed to be REALLY small.
I might edit it a little more.

So, CHRISTMASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Well, I've scheduled this to upload on the very first second of Christmas, because it's that GLORIOUS.

I'VE SPENT THE LAST HALF AN HOUR WORKING ON A PONG FAVICON I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING.
HERE IT IS.

Don't judge the slowness.

Okay well now I'm working on a rainbow one. Don't judge.

OKAY IT'S BEEN FOREVER BUT I'M DONE
TAKE IT
260 FRAMES BABY

It's beautiful.

So um well I hope you guys have a good Christmas, I'll probably upload after Christmas too.

Merry Tumblr

Red Ornament

So yeah, I just spent the last day adding Favicons to my posts.

Okay, well now let's talk about Christmas Traditions!

We don't have very many traditions, but there are 2.

The first one is pretty new. Every Christmas Eve we go to The Habit. We started it last year kinda accidentally and this year, without even realizing it, we went again. The Habit is delicious.

The second one has been going on for about 5 years now. Each year, each kid gets their own nutcracker and sometimes we get a family one. How many do we have? 20?

No. We have 33 nutcrackers.

They are all lined up on our huge windowsill (our living room main wall is a window wall).

So yeah, those are our traditions. Also we get to open one present each on Christmas Eve, but I'm not sure if that would be considered a "tradition".

Okay, it's Christmas Eve, and I had to go last-minute Christmas shopping for my brother, who will be referred to as Jaywalker for absolutely no reason at all. His name isn't even Jay. Anyways, I got Jaywalker a Minecraft Cow plushie from Hot Topic. He already has a Creeper and Enderman plushie. While at Hot Topic, of course, I couldn't resist getting an AOT bracelet and AOT keychain.

Last time at Hot Topic I went with Kess and got a Vocaloid shirt (Kess got the same one), an AOT shirt (Kess also got one), a Fullmetal Alchemist shirt, and a Hetalia shirt. Kess also got a My Neighbor Totoro shirt and a Kiki's Delivery Service shirt. All in all, it only cost me about $10 because I had a $35 gift card and the whole store was Buy One Get One Half Off. Kess pretty much just used Kmom's money. Anyways, you get the fact that I love Hot Topic.

So, my sister, who will be referred to as Tigress from now on (she likes tigers?), was there also, and she saw a Fall Out Boy bracelet that she really liked, so I got it for her. I also got her some pretty Blue/Teal/Green earrings and a white simple set or earrings. I think she'll like them.

Kess also hasn't put together her cosplay yet. *Sigh*. You can see that at her blog.

I'm going to post later what I got for Christmas, so see you soon!~

~Ace loves Chu!~

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Ace and Two: But She's a Mom

Hello~
I am writing this on Saturday, but I'll publish it on Monday, as scheduled.
And I felt like you totally needed to know that.
Totally.

So, today we had musical rehearsal. On Saturdays those usually go from 9 to 4. 
Which if you're wondering, that's 7 hours, as long as a regular school day.
But I'm not complaining, I love acting.
Anyways, to the story, I have gotten the stomach flu about 5 times in the last school year, so I actually know more about it than my actual mom.
And she's a mom.
But, as we all know, moms are invincible when it comes to common illnesses, so my mom doesn't actually know how it feels.
Unless she got it a lot when she wasn't a mom.

The blue thing is a sickness.

Anyways, I know how the stomach flu works. So, when my eyes started to not work properly, basically I emotionally prepared myself for Hell until my parents came to pick me up.

But of course I couldn't just say "My eyes won't focus. I'm deathly sick and I need to go home now and get an ibuprofen and nap for four hours."
No. I needed to wait until it actually hurt and it was too late for an ibuprofen to solve the world's problems. 

Who do we appreciate?

So, I ate lunch. In case you're wondering, Kess and Sushi were there. Kess is in orffestra (yes, orffestra, not orchestra), and Sushi is in choir/drama with me. Queen has been there but she had to leave for a dance recital just as my eyes started hating me.

I told Kess and Sushi about how I was probably going to die in the next four hours. (of course they replied "Ebola". We aren't actually that immature. We just poke fun of people who actually do that.) They were understanding and tried to cheer me up but at that time my head wasn't hurting yet, so it really may not have seemed like a big deal to them.

Oh, did I mention I was an hour late that morning because I didn't wake up till quarter to 10? So, in a rush, I forgot to bring a jacket. Luckily for me, Sushi let me borrow her jacket (which was two sizes too big, I'm the smallest in my group of friends and Sushi is the biggest). Despite the size difference, I was really thankful.

In the middle of lunch, my head started to hurt. After about 5 minutes it seemed almost like the apocalypse to me. Of course, all these sayings of death and Hell and apocalypse are just over exaggerations, but I just wanted to tell you how much a phase 4 headache in the stomach flu hurts. The first time I got the stomach flu last year, I actually broke down it hurt so much. I'm more used to it now, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. It just means I can hide the Hell in my forehead.

I decided that I didn't want to stay here any longer because I wouldn't be able to take ibuprofen(which, by now you can tell, solves the apocalypse of the stomach flu in addition to 4 hours of sleeping). 

The Holy Pill (Even though it's not actually pink)

So, I went to our conveniently-outside amphitheatre where rehearsals were taking place, and after finding the only one there was the orffestra teacher (who also teaches me piano as of a month ago). So I told him and he said he could tell I didn't look good (my skin was pale) which was no news. Every time I had a stomach flu and asked to leave school (which was 3/5 times last year) the teachers all told me that 'I didn't look good' so I knew he would reply the same way.

I used Sushi's phone to call my mom and dad, but they both didn't pick up. I learned later that they were at a church service, so they had their phones turned off. Then the orffestra teacher told me to lay down in his room (which is adjourning to the main stage, and the instruments had been taken out for rehearsals) so I grabbed a couple pillows from the instruments and lay down. Sushi and Kess were there, occasionally laying their heads next to mine and joking about how we could all be "Ebola buddies"(which Sushi later titled our G+ chat)  and then the rest of the time playing games on their phones (if they got caught they would just use the excuse that they were comforting me). Despite their uselessness, they actually did comfort me just to know they would stay by my side (that is, until lunch break was over and they had to rehearse more).

About an hour later, me not being able to nap with all the noise of rehearsal, the orffestra teacher let me call again. Luckily, this time my mom picked up, and even more luckily, they were only five minutes away.

After being picked up, I took a couple ibuprofen and napped. If you're a light sleeper like me, usually it will take a couple naps before you feel completely recovered.

So, I left at about 1 and woke up around 4:30.

Immediately after I got Skittles (my favorite candy) and started to write this.
Thank you guys for listening to me complain about how I'm a sickly child. Now, onto other news...

This week was surprisingly great other than today. I'm pretty sure I ACEd my two science tests and I know I ACEd my social studies test. As of now there are only 4 more days of school and 1 rehearsal until a 2-week winter break. On the second week of break Kess, Sushi, Kess's neighbor and I are going to our first anime convention, SacAnime (well, except Kess's neighbor, but she's a couple years older so she's been to I think 3 or 4 anime conventions). Even though I may have watched 21 anime as of now and read some manga and light novels, I actually only got into anime last July, so I didn't really go to any conventions yet.

In case you're wondering, I'm going to roleplay as Winry from Fullmetal Alchemist in her casual outfit. We actually only began to think about last month, so I didn't have much time to put together an outfit, and my parents had to pay 15,000 dollars for something about our other house up even more north California, so my siblings and I won't get as much stuff for Christmas this year. I have about the same hair color and length as Winry, and her casual outfit is pretty basic, so I thought why not go as her? I originally was going to go as Christa, but I wouldn't be able to get the SNK outfit in time. So that's how I ended up going to go as Winry to SacAnime.

Eye of Winry

Oh, let me tell you, I don't live in Sacramento, but it was the closest good anime convention near me (I live in northern California) so I used what I could. I also can't drive yet and my parents would never take me to an anime convention so I let Kess convince her parents to take me, and then after we got Sushi into anime she decided to come along too. Kess can be pretty persuasive, so I can imagine it wasn't hard to get her parents to take us, especially since her mom (who shall be referred to as Kmom from now on) watched anime in her high school and college years. Kess is 100% Taiwanese, and born and raised mostly in Taiwan, so her parents like to embrace Asian culture (even though they're not Japanese). Sometimes, after Kess or I discover a cool anime or kdrama, Kmom will stay up all night and binge-watch the whole show.

I'm not kidding.

Well, back to the subject of SacAnime, Kess is going as Touka-chan from Tokyo Ghoul. (which she adores as much as I do), and Sushi is going as Hanji from Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin (Sushi is like Kmom, a binge-watcher, so she finished the whole Attack on Titan season in about 3 days). Hanji is perfect for Sushi. They have similar hair colors, they both wear glasses, and they are both nearly insane, so I find that Sushi won't have a hard time going as Hanji.

Eye of Touka

Well, thank you guys so much for reading this. If anything happens between now and after school Monday, I'll update this. Once again, thanks!

~Ace loves chu!~


Oh, and new thing: Video for the Week!

Since I just re-watched the entire season of Tokyo Ghoul and started the manga, and since this song makes you cry even over the burning of an ancient library that people on tumblr say humanity could be really advanced if they hadn't burned it, here is the Tokyo Ghoul theme, "Unravel", music box version!

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