Life's short and boring...

Actually we light things up on the 3rd of July in Chicago...
Whatever, we had a barbeque and lit some stuff on the 4th.

Seriously, the 4th becomes another excuse to light stuff on fire and blow things up.
This year, we obtained some "nice" firecrackers from out of state, darn Illinois law against anything that doesn't release smoke.

With our stuff... I nearly set myself on fire...
Though, it was a harmless Chinese firecracker. It wasn't the 1,000 chain one either, this chain only had 12 pieces. I lit it and threw to the side. You know, you light one and it ignites all twelve, well... after it was on the ground, one of the 12 misfired and scattered the other now ignited 11 other ones. They went in random directions, one just happened to fly my way and hit me directly in the gut and exploding on impact. One exploded on my stomach... it left a blast mark on new shirt dammit!

My friends and I nearly got blown up like seven times, thanks to our neighbors. They were lighting "fireworks," the bombs that blow up in the sky. There were so many accidents when they were lighting them. More than often did their funnels fall over and misfire. When they had lit one, the funnel fell over and was aimed right at them. One of the guys quickly ran over and kicked the funnel away towards us. I remember them screaming "GET BACK!" at us. We dodged it when it launched and it blew up several yards behind us. This repeated several times or sometimes it would go up but come up short and then land (instead of being in the sky) nearby us then explode. There were instances where it wouldn't even launch at all and just explode on the spot right in front of them.

Barely escaped getting burned.

Oh yeah... Attack All Attackers.
Jet-lag is still killing me. I wanted to work on a little special. But they pulled me into work after I got back. Awwwww I was hoping to relax this summer but that doesn't look like its gonna happen. Work sucks!!!!!!! I wanted to do like a AAAttackers photo album special with the characters on their trip. I'll get it up maybe next week?

I can't stop ushishishi-ing for some odd reason, I am addicted Belphegor's laugh. I wasn't before but now I am, what is wrong with me?! Before I forget... they got me! I'm actually starting to "like" anime concerts/musicals. I've been pulled in! I feel so weird cuz I'd normally laugh at people who even bring it up... now I'm one of them... oh no.

Independence Day was fun... sort of.
I took a few pictures of my family lighting some fireworks in the backyard. Later we went to a friends house for some party food. We went to a nearby park to watch people light the illegal fireworks too. I have video footage, but I'm too lazy to edit them and put them on here.

I had to make a "closed" sign for the restaurant to notify customers that we are closed on a holiday. Do you like my pretty sign? I made it by hand.


While Miki was in Minnesota, she bought some cool fireworks you can't get in Illinois. The fountains are always pretty.


I'm not a big fan of the flashing whistling ones though.


This one was a cool fountain, it actually shot up a little.


We had some sparklers too. Can you see Miki's face in the dark?

We have more than this, but not enough time to light them. Miki was supposed to come back home tonight so we can finish lighting the other hundred or so left... But Miki had to be stubborn and spend the night over at a friend's house.

The party I went to was pretty fun. I saw some friends I hadn't seen in a long while. Like Peter... Peter brought some firecrackers to the party and we lit them in the park. Peter almost blew off his hand with an M-1000 on a few occasions. Poorly designed short wicks... Because of state regulations, we can't get the good stuff. The laws are... smoke bombs. smoke rockets(that don't launch), pop-its, bottle rockets, ash snakes, small firecrackers, and party poppers. Sparklers are illegal in Chicago now... fun killer!

Before all of this nighttime stuff, I was actually house sitting for Buffy. Buffy is a busy traveling singer. Buffy and Bill got a new puppy... It kept bothering me because it wanted attention.

Anyways, since we were there, we cooked stuff to eat. Miki and I made a delicious mushroom and snail pasta!!!

Look at the yummy sauce. I was left with the task of seasoning it because the stuff that Miki threw together was really bland. Salt and onion powder are my best friends...

I ate and forgot to take a picture...

I ate most of it already. It was originally topped with Parmesan cheese. The snails tasted so good in this!

I think I got some stuff to take care of tomorrow. Japan stuff and I've been ordering ridiculous stuff off the internet non-stop. Hopefully my packages will arrive before I leave for Japan.

I don't know why, but bad things always seem to befall upon me during major holidays...

For example, every year on Thanksgiving I always get a toothache the day of, and it's horrible because I can't eat so much. On 4th of July, I always manage to set something or someone on fire... Thai New Year on April 13th marks the day of when I became blind, so I feel uneasy about being festive on that day. On Father's Day last year.... painful memory, I shattered our window with my bare hand, yeah I punched right through the window. You can imagine the amount of blood. Really though, it was an accident... I was trying to catch this one annoying fly. Needless to say, I didn't catch the fly at all...

One bad thing happened to me today!
For Mother's Day, Miki and I took our mother for lunch at the Icosium Kafe, a Moroccan place that specialized in crepes.
See this glass of water here:

Yes, there's a mint leaf in my glass, it makes the water taste colder.
Anyways, see how the top and bottom portions of the glass are different sizes? Well... the weirdest thing involving that glass happened to me today. I lightly picked the glass up to examine the mint leaf that was floating around. Not too long after I picked up my glass... all of a sudden... *CRASH* the bottom of the glass completely detached itself from the rest of the glass and crashed down onto the table. Seriously, the glass broke in half in my hands, isn't that weird?! At the same time the glass base broke off, of course the water followed with a big SPLASH! Then, before I knew it, the entire table was covered in water, my shirt was soaked and my pants were completely drenched. I felt like I had fell into a dunktank, my seat became a pool of water which my pants absorbed. I got a free bath of icy cold water. The waitress witnessed the rebellion of my water glass, all she did was give me 10 sheets of paper towels. Yeah lady.... like that will dry me off! I need a hairdryer!

After I at least dried off my face(the rest of me was still completely soaked) our food arrived. My uncle got a sweet crepe, it had banana and other fruits I can't remember, it looked really yummy! Check it out, it's got a little umbrella too, how cute!


Then my crepe was ready:

Mine was Brie cheese with garlic and snails, YUMMY SNAILS!!!
I never knew how yummy snails tasted in crepes, it was so good, I cleaned my plate!

After we finished eating we paid and got ready to leave. You know... by the time I left the restaurant, I was STILL DRIPPING WET!!! It wasn't very fun to walk back to car, especially since it was windy and cold and being in wet clothes doesn't help.

I was told by Miki to go to work so it was guaranteed that we would return to Chicago. Miki always uses me as insurance, what a wonderful sister. I went to work, but I didn't work because I needed to study. I studied all day. While I was studying, someone surprised me.

It's my little brother!!! He came into town today!(he attends college in Minnesota)
My brother "Win" flew into Chicago to hang out for a week. He's also visiting because he's leaving for Thailand for his summer vacation. He wanted to say goodbye for now, but he wanted to see us before he left. If anyone is wondering why Win is staring strangely at me while I'm taking his picture, it's because I mentioned pizza and like a cat, his ears perked up and he stopped playing on his iphone and he looked intently at me.. waiting for me to elaborate on the topic of "pizza." He wasn't even planning to look at me at all when taking his picture. I was talking to Miki about a pizza place we haven't taken Win to yet... he heard "pizza" and his name, so he looked up.

Win helped out at the restaurant a little, he filled up glasses and cleaned tables, aww how nice of him. Anyways, at the end of the day, Miki and I made a Mother's Day dinner for all of the "cooking mamas"(our cooks) in the kitchen. Yay!!!!!! More delicious food!!!!!!

There was a very yummy pasta with Italian sausage and tomato cream sauce, so good! There was also some baked mussels with spicy mayo and topped with panko, also extremely yummy!!! For the special occasion, there was also DUCK FEET!!!!!!
So many delicious foods!!!! I had fun today! Except for getting soaked by a defective glass, today was great! This is so cool, I get to hang out with Win all week!!!

Until next time, bye again!

Okay, in my previous post I was really mad, like suber(combo of super + uber) mad. Which is a rare kind of mad I'm not usually at the state of.

I was real mad and at that point, I felt it wasn't worth the $30 for the day at work.
So I started crying and whining. Hehehe, crocodile tears of course(I think).
Well, it sounds a little uncharacteristic for me, since all of my friends really see me as:
"the inspirational visionary, the fearless leader, the multi-talented creator, the extremely determined fool, the genius of the operation, and the iron-willed speaker."

Ahhh, when I'm not around my friend, oh man, I'm a big crybaby.
But because I save face with those great qualities listed above, I keep the truthful crybaby profile to a minimum.
But, that night I cried until they gave me $200 to shut up, I'm so bad.

Last night was pretty fun, I got to hang out with Jason, whom I haven't seen in a while.
So much fun. I went to my uncle's bar, Chicago.
For those who know where I'm getting at, please don't mention "that" or I may get in trouble...
The bar was packed that night, Jason told me he had to wait a long time to get in.
As for me, the owner is my uncle and I told the bouncer that I'm in the dining party, so I walked right in.
Jason's reaction was interesting, *shocked* "Ah! I had to wait and they charged me a cover fee!!!"

We enjoyed ourselves.
We sat in the front of the bar and there was a completely different party going on in the back of the bar, there were people jumping around and the DJ was screaming. Quite a scene. I got to have all you can eat pizza and chicken wings, yes!
By the time it got to the countdown, nearly everyone in the bar was drunk prior to that.
What a crazy night.
After the party, I felt really bad, because I promised Jason a ride home. I felt really bad, since the farthest I could take him was the red line train stop.
Wah! I feel so bad, Jason! Its handwritten.

Anyways, when I got back home, I was carrying two things, chicken wings in one hand and a fish sauce mixture in the other. (Jason you remember that horrendous fish sauce smell don't you?) Well unexpectedly, Pikus(my cat) ran in front of my legs and of course I didn't see him, you guessed it, he tripped me! Quite horribly, I fell over in a loud thump, the box of chicken scattered wings everywhere, but thankfully I didn't drop the container with the fish sauce. I managed to keep the fish sauce upright the entire time during my fall down to the impact.
The KNEES don't forget the KNEES. When I fell I landed right dab on my knees AGAIN. "OUCH!!!" my cuts/wounds opened up again, THREE DAYS IN A ROW" dammit, Nishi's blog is cursed!
I'm in pain again...ahh, oh well, I went to sleep at 2am. That was my night.