I will never look at konjac (common Japanese thickening agent) gelatin cups the same way again.  It comes from a plant called Amorphophallus konjac if that gives you a clue.   I mean, look at this family of plants!!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus

Supposedly I didn't sign up for direct deposit of my paycheck early enough, because t
he money didn't get deposited on the 15th.  Grr!  Instead, they are mailing me check.  Problem #1 - my bills all automatically debit from my account right now.  Prob #2 - Bloomington doesn't have a Wells Fargo Branch, so I can't just deposit the check.  Problem #3 ( Read more... )

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After about a month of not updating or even visiting lj, I'm back.  Yay!  This month has been busy, with family problems, my brother's marriage, car problems, and my laziness and addiction to asian dramas (www.silentregrets.com and http://d-addicts.com/forum owns my soul).  I haven't done much writing at all, and what little I've done has just, I ( Read more... )

I just bought a new Macbook last week and got a free (with rebate) iPod nano with it.  I also bought a flash drive.  This was gerally happy, but caused a bunch of problems too.  The flash drive I bought didn't work, so I had to return it.  And since I've never had a Mac, there are a lot of things I don't know how to do on it.  Plus my new flash ( Read more... )

I got nominated twice for the Rurouni Kenshin Reader's Choice awards.  http://rkrc.meijitales.com  Yippee!!  Once for KK waff and once for Author of the year.  Of course, everyone else who's nominated is uber-talented, but I'm just happy to be noticed.  Yay!  I had to decline a nomination last year because I didn't meet the criteria.  It was so sad ( Read more... )

I think I have an obsessive personality.  At least I do with media like books and television shows.  Once I start something, I want to do it all right then, even if it costs me sleep.  Then I'm in pain the next day.  Why can't I have this sort of attitude towards exercise?  Now that would be handy.

I need more suggestions of Dramas to watch though ( Read more... )

I finally figured out why I keep hearing bad things from people about today.  It's 6-6-06, the DEVIL's DAY of DOOM and DESTRUCTION and DECAY and DASHED DREAMS and DUST and, well, you can pull out the dictionary and flip to D if you'd like more information ( Read more... )

I finally got the chapter to load on ff.net.  What a pain!  But now I am all wiggly in my seat waiting for comments.  Tee hee!
 http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2776919/6/

I have the next chapter of TSC ready to upload, and the site won't let me!!  It keeps giving me an error message.  Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~!!!!!!  Cursed thing.  I'll have to keep trying.