Life's short and boring...

I'm so excited!!!! ACen is 4 days away. I've been studying my math, I will surely get more than 40% on the math final! I know I can! But... I'm not done with my online test and homework yet. It's almost midnight, but maybe as long as I turn it in before class starts I should be fine.

I finally got my awesome USB flash drive. It came in!
THANK YOU ARATA-SENPAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so happy you actually went through the trouble of buying it for me. I love my Falcon Bloody Monday USB card, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! The USB card is so cool, it looks just like the card from the Bloody Monday drama!!! The best part is.... it works on my computer!!!!!!! The description from the Japanese website stated that the flash drive only worked on Japanese computers. I proved that wrong, it works on mine!

This USB flash drive is really cool, an exact replica of Falcon's USB!

It operates normally on my computer, so I don't see why the website said Japanese only?

It's so awesome, it has Falcon's infamous logo etched into it.

It's so metallic and shiny!!! It's really light weight!
My favorite feature of the flash drive is the fact that the USB port is retractable!

This is the other side of the flash drive with the USB port retracted.

Just like from the drama, it has the motto "SAVE THE DATA," it's a spin off of another term used with the drama, "SAVE THE EARTH" which is the name of Bloody Monday's OST. This Falcon USB is exclusive only to Japan!!! I'm so lucky to actually own this! These are made in limited quantities, so they're limited edition! I've been wandering on the web and different forums/communities, apparently every Bloody Monday fan is trying to get their hands on this Falcon USB. But the main issue for them is finding an online store that sold them and if they did find a store, they need to be a resident of Japan to even buy it. I've tried looking for US dealers to make it a little easier, but to no avail. I was only able to get my Falcon USB because of senpai.

I'm glad Arata is my friend, not just for getting things from Japan for me, but when she still lived in Chicago, I was happy to have someone like her to hang out and talk with. Arata was kind and listened to my stories about my dark past and even though I revealed who I was in the past, Arata still excepted me. Arata once told me that people make mistakes and people do horrible things in their past, but as long as you are the person I know and became friends with now, in the present, then I have no right to judge you based on who you "were," because I like you as who you "became." You learned from your mistakes and you made yourself into who you are now, that is why you are my friend and that is why you are a good person. After I heard Arata's small speech I actually cried a little, it made me so happy to hear Arata say that, I cried tears of joy. I told Arata this before she left but, she was the one who pulled me out of darkness, she was the one who brought my smile back. I've felt betrayed on so many occasions, I thought I would never be able to trust anyone again...(oh no, I'm starting to cry) then Arata came along and showed me that there are still some great people out there in the world. I was able to smile again because of Arata, for so long, there hasn't been a person who has shown me such kindness to my self-proclaimed undeserving self. Meeting Arata in art class was a blessing.

Anyways *wiping tears* moving on...
Okay, so I started working on packing my stuff for my stay at the "aLoft Hotel" nearby the anime convention. I'm staying for two nights, but I have to pack enough things for three days. I packed a lot of things! Everything for my survival needs, all in my suitcase. I AM PREPARED FOR ACEN!!!!!!!!!! Check out the contents of my suitcase... THIS IS HOW TESSIE PACKS FOR A TRIP!!!

Immediate reaction from when my friends saw my suitcase was,
"Oh Tessie........" *face-palm smack*

Food is the ultimate necessity for ACen! Hey, there IS clothes pack in there for your information, it's in the upper portion of my suitcase! Yes, I packed a AAA shirt... Well I have clothes in the pouch. The rest is the food I will be living off of. And yes food is uber important!!! I even have an electric kettle to make hot water for ramen! My many wonderful snacks and drinks can be seen arranged neatly in my suitcase. I have ramen, canned ravioli, pop tart, cheetos, oreos, root beer, different cookies, and there's a kit-kat bar buried under all of that somewhere. Hey I think I forgot to pack my toothbrush? I'm ready for ACen!!! I know I won't starve! Hey now! If this is what I pack for 3 days, imagine how crazy I pack for an overseas trip that will last for weeks?!

I'm off to continue studying and prepare any other last minute ACen related things like panel scheduling, I know I'm going to the para para panel!

Until next time, bye for now!

Today was the final New Year celebration day at the restaurant.
This means I have to take down the special menu from the website. *doing that now*
And... done.
New Year at the restaurant was just as fun as last year, but... thanks to my dumb roommate, the credit card machine is still broken. It's hard to process credit cards without the machine, it was a hassle, but nothing I couldn't overcome. At least I know not to give up no matter how many problems I face.

Today went by pretty well, we just told customers it'd be cash only.
Thankfully, there weren't any problems.
It was abnormally busy for a Sunday, strange indeed.
No spies this time around, yay, now we can stop being paranoid...

I don't think the credit card machine will be repaired by tomorrow... If that's the case, I don't think we'll be able to survive another busy weekend next week... I hate imagining it! That machine better be up and running soon, because some customers refuse to dine for security and cash issues.

Since I got back to Chicago, I was just repairing Miki's computer, I'll get back to that later, but, I was reading a post made by my friend Alex and wow did it make me sad. There was this misunderstanding/misinterpretation at the AAA concert. It's not her fault, hey, I flip out and short circuit when I get interviewed by television stations, nothing but gibberish comes out of my mouth. We're only human, no one's perfect. Don't blame yourself girl, the idiots you claim to be pissed at you are mad at you for an illogical reason. And you DID NOT waste Shinjiro's time, he was probably confused out of his mind, but I'm sure he understood how difficult it must've been.

OKAY!!!!!!!
Miki's computer... HAS A VIRUS!!!
I've been working on it for a while... it's damn fricking malware!!!! It won't leave the desktop alone, it kept creating threats and pop-ups. I was working my through all of it before it spread! I felt like "Falcon" trying to stop a virus infection. Malware is no joke when you want to get rid of it without paying. Malware can completely destroy your system. I had to run a manual registry command and enter the coding into it. It took a while to type. But then the stupid malware attacks were bothering me, so I opened the task manager and found the virus's process root(what makes it active), I manually terminated the root. After doing that, the malware stopped, since it had nothing to run on at the moment. I got the program "HijackThis!" to check the logs to see if there were any other root commands caused by that malware. To my surprise, there was the malware, listed as some disguised item, I did an advanced check and discovered those command files belonged to that malware virus. Now that it has been confirmed, it went ahead and got myself a different program, MalwareBytes. I ran it... and virus terminated, WOHOO!!!!! So far, there hasn't been a virus that has outsmarted me! I totally felt like "Falcon" from "Bloody Monday." 

CAPTURE COMPLETE!

I was going to write about something... somewhat important, but since the whole... thing with the..... uh-huh... it just seemed like bad timing, so I'll save it for another time, tomorrow or the next day or something...

This morning when I woke up rather late.
I signed onto the internet through my Wii, yes it has internet surfing capabilities.
It was because Miki was using the computer, so yeah...

Anyways, I log in to see a reply from one of my friends about an issue that had been bothering me. It was about some troublesome delinquents running amok once more. I run a restaurant and a bakery business(with my sister) as well. I help out every once and a while. My bakery is called "Plats Délicieux" and our competitor located a few blocks down the road is called "Avoir Envie de Doux." Notice how everything has French names... I dunno, Miki wanted something with a Eurasian flare, my lovely suggestion was "Wok-n-Spit." But Miki though a non-humorous French name would be better. For additional reference, we aren't just a bakery, we make real food too.

Anyways we sell awesome cupcakes!!!
We get lots of customers, because even though there's another bakery down the street, we still make the best cupcakes in town. So our consumerbase is bigger. Over the course of time, we've been noticing that the competitor bakery, Avoir Envie de Doux, has been making the same cupcakes with our recipe(I know so, cuz I've tasted them). Apparently, one of our regular customers has been giving their purchased cupcakes to the competitor and they've recreated our cupcakes and been passing it off as their own original creation. They never had those flavors before!

As a result of the stolen cupcake recipes and flavors, we've figured who the traitors are and created a self-made wanted poster for reference in knowing not to sell them anything(our blacklist). We know who they are. but they keep playing that card of innocent sympathy, I don't buy it one bit. A whole bunch of well kneaded lies. And of course Avoir Envie de Doux refuses to admit that they stole our cupcakes. A few cupcakes do slip out occasionally, but it's nothing we can't handle. I then later heard about the smugglers retiring from visits to my bakery. It was quiet for a while... yeah right! My friends have seen those smugglers around. There's no denying it now, they're still around even after saying they gave up on our cupcakes. Our cupcakes are irresistible, Avoir Envie de Doux still hates us for our deliciousness, which is probably why those smugglers enjoy causing more problems.

Everything that goes on in that small town is just insanity.

My friend gave me an update I wasn't so thrilled about. They even mentioned something about another person I was having issues with. That person, among the smugglers, named Mali. I checked out that newer post made by a different friend and yeah... things got clarified and I feel better. I detest Mali more then before now. I'm not mad, but the resentment's there. Doesn't Mali have a life other than ruining businesses? Mali and that head honcho of her's... makes me sick and I can't imagine there to be insane people in this world such as the ones contracted under Avoir Envie de Doux... Their craving never seems to be satisfied, they won't ever stop, just wait and see. If this continues to persist, I might actually press charges(I'm kidding, I won't go that far... yet).

Avoir Envie de Doux... you are going down!!!

That reminds me!
After class today, I bumped into Marvin! I haven't seen him the last time we went skating. He was writing a paper(which I seemed to be distracting him from finishing) in the computer lab. It was fun to talk to him again. We got into one of our tech talks about computers. I told him I would be receiving my Toshiba tomorrow, he then told me he was planning on buying a new Asus too. It was a $1000 one, the screen is bigger than mine, and it has an i7 processor, regardless, my processor speed is faster. Marvin then said, "really..... well, mine has a i7 and its a quad, so it runs faster than yours!" Then I responded with, "uhh... Marvin... you're reading the processor info wrong... everyone knows laptops can run quads, they're not capable and too small to run on a quad... laptops at most can only run on duo." Marvin realized it and said, "oh yeah you're right! my friend gave me inaccurate information then." I was sitting in a spot Marvin had reserved for his friend Jeff.

Jeff arrived and gave Marvin an evil "what the..?!" stare. Marvin quickly acted and said, "whoa whoa whoa, it's cool! this is my friend Tessie, I'm just letting her sit down, no worries." Sadly... I leave school at 3:30pm, so I left after I said hi to Jeff, wow... I've never seen a punk Asian before I saw Jeff, they exist?! He was decked out in all black, had a spiked choker, spiked hair, a good amount of piercings, and some really nice punk clothing. Marvin is friends with the most interesting people.

Wohoo!!!!!!!!!!!
My laptop is coming in tomorrow!!!!!!!
AHH!!!! OH NO!!! I didn't finish my homework!!!
I'm so uwedscred!!!(if you know pig-latin)

AND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I resolved those Yesasia issues!!!!!!!!
I'm finally getting my 4th Anniversary DVD, which I've been wanting for the longest time!!!!!!!!

My day has been pretty decent...
Until next time, bye everyone.

I woke up around noon today, because I obviously slept late last night.
Like my new Yusuke icon? I made it years ago from being bored.
That lovely quote from the "Hana-Kimi" drama... Hahaha!! Murderous intent...

This afternoon (since I didn't wake up this morning) I did a good amount of online shopping on the computer. I was looking up new laptops for myself. I did some digging and found this really cool Toshiba model. It's so nice, it's got a 4gb ram, duo intel i3 processor(wish for a quad... not happening), it has a decent graphic card, dvd drive, multi-card reader, the processor speed runs at 2.16GHz, and it has a 320gb capacity. It sounds so sweet. This model... 4gb ram + 2.16GHz i3 processor = INSANE SPEED!!! *drools* As long as it's fast, it makes me happy. This laptop runs just as fast as a standard gaming laptop, but gaming laptops range in the $2000 price. This model here, the Toshiba Satellite L505-GS5035, runs at a rate similar to a gaming laptop but only costs around $700.

I need something with a fast processor to run my editing software. The Toshiba runs faster than my current broken down laptop. It's so slow that my edited videos lag at random points. My laptop is so damaged that I need to shove a toothpick into my port drive in order to prevent my headphone auxiliary jack from falling out. When I get my new laptop... I can finally edit in peace at high speeds. To hide this from my parents, I bought the same screen size and my current laptop has a "Baka ga Miru" decal on it, it's fortunately reusable. I can just stick the decal onto my new laptop, the perfect cover-up.

I can't wait to put all my editing software on it!!!

Later on, after finding my dream notebook... I finally got to see "Ponyo." That movie was sooooooo cute. Ponyo was adorable. Oh man... Miyazaki never fails to amaze me with beautiful animated films. It's so similar to the story of "The Little Mermaid." But minus the creepy sea witch Ursula. Ponyo is watered down (meaning it conveys simple messages and is a very innocent movie). Actually... Ponyo didn't look like there were any villains in the movie. Like... Ponyo's dad came off a little evil and mean, but halfway through the movie the dad realizes the situation more clearly and begins to accept things and become more open-minded. Overall it was a great movie! I loved this quote from the movie, SO CUTE "Ponyo loves Sosuke, Ponyo loves Sosuke!!!"

I love Ponyo so much now!!!
Until next, bye everyone