alien_duck

08:28 pm: ( KAT_TUN )

07:45 pm: Okeydoke.
I have a new account now to sell all my bits on.

Please check out niccy_c_sales to see if there's anything that catches your eye at all.

09:12 pm: Wow
>looks at all the dust<
Yeah... guess I should start posting on here again, huh?

Erm... not much is new in life. Still at club. Haven't killed any kids yet. Still looking for another job. Haven't found anything yet.....

Am starting to sell some of my shineys.
To anyone who has found my LJ via the promise of shiney things being sold, hello!


And now I shall wander off to update profiles, and tidy up things so I look just SLIGHLY less insane.



Hmmmmmmmm. Wonder how I get a KAT-TUN background for this thing

09:39 am: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_potpw

Win.
Just pure win...

09:37 pm: There was an anime thing at Waterstones today, Tokyopop Recon.

It totally rocked!

And I ONLY spent 50 odd quid....... that's not too bad, right?

10:48 pm: Just finished the two books I got for Christmas, the 'Kingmaker, Kingbreaker' series by Karen Miller. Roughly 1300 pages I'd say.

She's a fantastic author. The plot was good, the writing easy to read and events were believable, realistic even for the setting (world has magic so...), such as people still having injuries and scars in the next chapter. And she killed people. She didn't mind killing people to advance the plot, which is good. She killed quite a few important people at the end of the first book, and then had someone go look at the bodies at the start of the second.


Still. She didn't have me crying till the last 8 pages.


I'm... not sure if I'm happy about the fact she packed so much into those last 8 pages that she had me sniffling, or kinda disapointed that she didn't do it a bit sooner and spend a bit more time on the aftermath, dealing with the main characters emotional fallout, which she didn't shy away from throughout the rest of the books.


I really really hope she writes more for this universe one day!

11:27 am: Yay.

Just bought myself a paid account, just becuase I wanted too. So now I can change it to all sorts of pretty designs, and can have loads more userpics. WAHOO!


Now all I gotta do is work out how I can get a tags link down the sidebar... >sigh<


In other news, I updated my userinfo, started a college course at the start of last month, have no idea where all my money has gone and am drawing lots of pretty pictures when I get the time.

10:56 pm: I want a CD
I want a cd, but I can't find it anywhere......... TT_____TT


It's this cd:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fukisusabu-Kazeno-Nakade-Wag/dp/B0001AE44M/ref=sr_1_26/203-5515436-9775957?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1189979427&sr=1-26

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=GZCA-7041

Fukisusabu Kazeno Nakade by WAG. It was one of the ending songs for Saiyuki Reload but the version on there was the short one, but since I love the song I want the long one....

>cries and cries and cries<

I've looked on ebay, but wither I'm searching wrong or it's not there. I don't know how to search for it anyway. I type in wag and I get a load of handbags!

>sniffs

10:53 pm: If I wanted to open an "Anime/Manga and all related merchandise" shop.... how would I go about it?

How would I make sure there was a market for it?
I only know my immediate friends who are into it who live in the local area, and they tell me about their friends who like it, so there MUST be a market in the area, but is it already being filled by online retailers and them all toddling up to London?

How would I find a shop to base it out of? Or would just any old place do, so long as people could theoretically GET to it? (I know my room isn't an option... I aint that dumb.)

What sort of hoops do you need to go through to set this all up?
I know I'd need a bank loan so I could rent the place and then buy all the inital stock in, but how would I do all that? Is there a special way on the red-tape-road?
And what about licenses? Do you need licenses to sell stuf in places?

How would I get contacts, so I could actually BUY stock to sell?
I guess with Tokyopop and Viz I could email them and go "Hey, I've just opened a shop to sell manga nad anime stuff, can you send me stuff so I can sell it for you guys at a cheaper rate please?" I guess I could also do that with the other publishers of the manga, and possibly for the animes as well...

But what about the assorted merchandie bit?
How would I find contacts in Japan? I don't speak Japanese yet, would I have to find a translator, or hope they speak English? And how would I know that it was genuin Japanese merchandise I was getting, not some Hong Kong/Taiwanese rip off? And how the hell would it all get here? I can't see Royal Mail appriciating those deliveries..... Joe would kill me o.o

And what about staff?
I know I asked one of my friends if she'd come work for me, but we both knew I was joking. How would I find good, honest, reliable staff who wouldn't clear out my stock cupboards for their rooms? I wouldnt know where to being, and I'd be such a soft touch at interviews.







>sigh<

I need someone who's done business studies.


And who wants to move to Essex and be the shop manager >.

10:07 pm: I don't want to go.

( Cut for long bitchyess )So yeah. I don't want to go.

11:59 pm: I'm trying to find a trilogy of books I read about 10 years ago... and it's driving me crazy!

The main character is a girl. Or rather, I think the main character is a girl. She's pretty much the only one I remember. By the end of the trilogy I wanted to slap her stupid.

I can't remember most of the details... but she ends up in this big castle/school up in the mountains with loads of cliffs all around and lots of little hidey holes.

She had been told when she was younger that her paretns had died in an accident, had fallen off a cliff or something, but their bodies get found in an old room inside the castle/school by one of the girls friends, and they had obviously been murdered.

The girl can do weird things. I think.. she can teleport? Maybe. She can do SOMETHING that the big bad evil organisation wants so that they can go do big bad evil things.

There's a weird room with lots of statues in it... that's kinda significant to the plot. She sneaks in their and... something happens which makes the room explode. Or fall down. It's all misty in there.


At one point she get's kidnapped, and her friend tries to go rescue her, and she gets them back to the castle... I think.




I REALLY can't remember enough about it to search for it. All I know about the author is that her surname starts with a C, because that's where on the shelves it was in the library. And I know one of the books had a prissy looking kinda-spotty cat on the cover. And it was S+, so 8-12 year old range. DEFINATELY wasn't young adult back then... but then this IS something like 10 years ago.

I really want to read it again, just to see if it makes sense this time around, but I can't find it. I can't really remember the titles, but the Gaurdians of Time trilogy by Marianne Curley are kinda looking like they might just be it, but they're in the YA section and the synopsis sound all wrong!!!


Damnit, this is gonna send me INSANE!!!






In other news, life is just peachey right now. I had to pay car insurance, which meant all my money I had saved up went byebye. I have to pay Caroline for the car, which means I can't save any this month. Next month I have tax and MOT and stuff... and then I have to start saving for xmas.

So much for me saving 200 a month, huh?
But then, school life isn't so bad. I'm working with a year 6 next year, which is absolutely wonderful (in a non-sarcastic way!!!) as I will be able to have intelligent conversations with his classmates! Plus, I worked with the year group a bit when I very first started, so I kinda know them. And Weavers is kinda fun. They've finally sorted out all my college stuff! I'm going back to college, woo.

06:35 pm: I just got back from the Anime Convention with Elsa. It was SO MUCH FUN!!!
I bought so many books it's unbelievable, and I saw so many cool people there!!!


I only took £105, and I came back with £4!

But man... it was the bast. We're gonna go again in October when Elsa is here again!

But anyway, I bought:
.hack // Legend of Twilight 1-3
GetBackers 8
Ragnarok 6+7
Love Hina 4
Crossroad 1
Night of the Beasts 1
Kamikaze Girls
Gentelmen's Aliance 2
Candidate for Goddess 1
Lagoon Engine 1
a Naruto pencil board
2 patches (a mokona one and Ryuichis bunny from Gravitation)
a load of posters (which Elsa bought for me really ^^;)

I bought Elsa some stuff too, and paid for her ticket in, so in the end I think we ended up spending the same amount on each other, so all was good.

I would have bought her more, but only one guy I bought from took credit card, and she didn't want anything from that stall.

>sigh<

I am so happy now ^^

06:32 pm: I gotta go to work tomorrow for a training day. 9-4. Shouldn't be so bad... except for my stomach >.<

And then next weekend will be the anime convention, which will be JUST as much fun... Sloghtly better in the fact I don't have to be there so early, slightly worse in the fact that it's half a bloody hour away!



Erm... not much else happening in my life really. Major stomach problems, and my pee is luminous. It does quite literally look like it would glow in the dark. I don't think it should do that somehow....

08:38 pm: ( What I bought since the last time I did this )

.......
Damn. That's a lot ^^;

And it doesn't count the dozen or so things I didnt get reciets for, or didn't come with a breakdown for me to look at. Or the £100odd quids qworth of pins and iron on patches I got....

Tags: what i spend my money on

07:47 pm: Let's see....

I think I'll do another update on what I've ought thing soon. I need to, if only to scare me into spending less. It's getting a bit stupid to be honest...


Erm. I've been buying manga, and cd's from japan. All very shiney and worth it... just not necessarily right now!


Oh well. What's done is done >shrugs<


Not much else going on in my life to tell the truth. It is boring. And monotonus, if that's how you spell it. I play with my graphics tablet occasionally, not as much as I want to but eh. Work is... getting a bit weird. Can't put my finger on it, but it's strange. Something doesnt feel right.

Oh yes., Since my migraine (which kept me up ALL NIGHT being sick Easter Sunday) things have looked... strange. Not as they use to. It's like I'm seeing everything in a differnt way now. And it's scaring me a bit to be honest. It's like, I'll look at me room, and it just looks really different, even when I haven't done anything to it!!!


Weird. Very weird!

10:20 am: I saw a fox yesterday!

We had taken the kids down Warren Gorge, coz it was a nice day and they needed a run around, and sitting up on one of the slopey bits where people can't get too was this little fox. It was too far away to see properly, but it was there!!!

I felt so happy ^^



In other news... I bought myself a 300 odd quid A4 graphic tablet, which I can't set up till my parents get home on Saturday. Woe is me, for I want to play!!!

And... erm... what else.

I went down Lakeside last night and spent over £60 in Hotel Chocolat. I bought myself a MASSIVE happy easter egg, and Mike this medium sized sporty egg. And other bits, coz it's so darn nice!

I'm spending too much money..... but oh well. That's what it's there for I suppose ^^



I have to go for another blood test TT__TT Just got a letter from the doctors, I think they want more blood to play with so they can do different tests. I just want to kow what's wrong with meeeeeeeee!!! So I have to go again TT__TT



Erm... and that is all. Still waiting to see what Cazzie-chan and Petachu got me for my birthday... Oh yeah. My Aunt gave me £15, so more money for me (well, a BIT more money for me which has probably already been spent but ya know...)

08:46 am: It's my birthday ^^



So far, I've got Spyro - A new beginning from Mike; The Art Of Dragon Magazine (which really wasn't what I thought it'd be) and Dragonart (How to draw fantastic dragons and other things) from my mum and dad; and then a little 'somebunny to love you' from Janine (luv) and a big yellow squishy pillow thing from people in Weavers.
And £75 from the parents since they couldnt find me a web tablet.


All in all, this birthday isn't so bad.

Edit:
I also got a box of mini milk chocolate Thorntons eggs from the people in Weavers that I forgot about, and I just got £10 from my gramps and a cheeky card, and a BEAUTIFUL picture from Claire. She is love!

Edit of the Edit:
I now have a picture from Sarah, and £15 from my Aunty Suzette. I love my aunts!!!

10:46 pm: I appear to have bought a Wii with my brother.




It costs £181 (including postage and packaging. What? You expect me to buy it from anywhere other than Amazon? Puh-LEASE!)





This seems to have thrown my common sense out of the window. And my budget control. I think it went something along the lines of:

Well, I'm not going to be able to pay my credit card now anyway, not with THAT going on it, so seeing as I'm taking it out the ISA, I might as well buy everything else I could ever possibly want as well!


Ignoring the fact that I need to be saving up for:
Car insurance
Car tax
MOT
othercarthingsIhavemorethanlikelyforgottenaboutbutwillneedpayingforanyway.
Anime Expo at the end of MAY (yes, I need to start saving NOW!)
My ISA. I have put NOTHING in it in the entire two years of my having it!




So yes. Budget control? GET YOUR FUCKING ARSE BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!!!

10:45 pm: My ability to upset myself amazes me sometimes.

A week or two ago I broke down in tears while talking to my boss over what was bothering me at work.

Things related to that are now getting better... slowly.


Today I have made myself feel like utter crap, like the lowliest person on this entire fucking planet and made myself wonder why in all the hells I make myself wake up in the mornings.

Basicly, I hate myself right now. I hate everything about me, especially the fact I have pretty much no interpersonal skills what so ever.



I really suck!

10:44 pm: Retraction:

It would appear that Amazon.co.uk is mean. Pokemon Ranger comes out end of March, Diamond and Pearl mid June -.-


Anyways...
( What I bought in January and February 2007 )



That's kinda a lot when you look back on it. And that's just anime/manga stuff. I also bought clothes, audio books, and random shit which I cant excatly remember.


Oh well. At least I don't really have anything else on order anymore... after September that is TT___TT

Tags: what i spend my money on