Books, Manga, Drawing, Oh my!

Time flies when you're having fun. January 20th..how did that happen? Ugh, I'm not going to think about it.

My mom has managed to get me into the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. We have been reading them aloud together since it's a lot of fun. When we get to the more...romantic situations we usually just stop, read that paragraph to ourselves, then pick up after it ends. I figure if the books get more intimate we'll read that chapter separately and read the next chapter together. Works for me. I think Ranger wins in my favorites so far. I can't help it.

High School Debut Chapter 49 finally got translated. It was cute. One thing about High School Debut is that you will get extremely embarrassed for Haruna. I also kind of wanted to die when Yoh started singing Karaoke. I was happy they didn't have any cheesy lyrics up, but it felt SO out of character I was ready to rip my hair out. I'm really sad that the series will be ending soon, even though it seems now we're stretching out 2 months between chapters. So who knows? Maybe it WON'T end. I also found out that Kazune Kazahara made an extra for the series. I think it's going to be something like "a few years later..." and give you one last look at the characters you fall in love with. I actually love when authors do that. It kind of ensures what happened to the characters. I wish LoveCom would have done that. Then again I didn't read the manga, I watched the anime. Maybe they did.

I've been working on drawing realism more often lately. Finally decided that if I'm gonna get anywhere I have to practice the stuff I don't know too. I don't like failure so it's a challenge sometimes. I'm doing a little better than what I thought I would which makes me happy.

Haven't finished Hana-Kimi as of yet. Still where I was the last time I posted. I kind of fell out of it because I got frustrated that the author did that sudden jump into a filler arc. They pull a "Sano, your father collapsed, he's in the hospital," and then suddenly they're doing a treasure hunt in the dorms. Way to kill a climax of a story. I might just skip over the next chapter, and try to get back to the interesting stuff. I can come back to it later. I'm a Naruto fan. You can only take so much filler from so many series.

I slept over at my friends house over the weekend. It was a LOT of fun. Besides being woken up at 6 in the morning by a demonic snow plow, and getting itchy from being around her cats. We ended up dancing around in silly hats, and making sound recordings. It's was pretty awesome.

I'm tired. My eyes hurt. I watched the inauguration, and read most of the day. Not exactly a BAD way to spend a day, I guess.

Later