Chuunin - A Naruto Community

It's really sinking in now that we're already in the second half of February. And while a part of me is a little sketched out by how the time has been flying, most of me is already anticipating March. And, more specifically, my vacation in March.

Did I tell you guys I took two weeks? Not something I'd normally do but I figured I'd go ahead. Gives me more time to work with, where planning my trip is concerned.

Anyway, if time wants to fly by just up until that point, I can't honestly say I'd be too upset about it, lol. Or, at least, I won't mind once I get everything sorted. I haven't finalized my travel plans just yet and I need that taken care of. I also want to make myself a loose shopping list. Beast Wars toys are getting more expensive all the time and so I want to buckle down on getting the characters I most want. At least I already have most of the female characters-- not a high bar to clear, hahaha *sob*. I'll probably avoid anything with GPS, since I don't want to have to worry about transporting them in my bag, but other than that? I'm gonna just narrow down what I'm missing to the most garish and gaudy and makes those my priority.

Really should poke around Tumblr and Twitter and try to get an idea what fanartists will be selling what merch too...

Another slow day today but I feel better about it than I did about yesterday. Maybe it's just because there was some nice rain today.

Biggest letdown was that my sister was going to come over so I could run my recycling and then we were gonna check out Valentine's clearance. She ended up not being able to get away, though. Too much to do around the house. Ah, well, maybe next week. Not the clearance, that'll be gone, but the recycling. Then we could find something to do, I'm sure.

I need to get my transportation figured out for TFcon in March. I'd like to go by bus this time. Well, "like to" is probably overselling it, lol. But with things as they are, I'd rather avoid giving the airlines my money. Or pictures of my face, for that matter.

Could actually be fun to take the bus, though, Idk. I've never taken one for an interstate trip. The main issue is the timing. Obviously I knew it would be much slower than taking a plane but something about looking at the estimated travel time... bleh. On the other hand, it might be easier to sleep on a bus than a plane. But maybe I only think that because I'd have more time to fall asleep, haha.

Oh, what I wouldn't give for a high-speed rail option...

I hate finding out about fandom events too late. Like, it's one thing when I knew but didn't have the opportunity/chose not to participate, y'know? But to be robbed of the chance... it stings, I tell ya.

Ah, well, I'm kinda being dramatic in this case. The event is only a few days in and there's the rest of the week to go. But it still makes my brain itch in a most unpleasant way to just stumble in partway through, Idk.

I did indeed go to the mini culture festival with my sister and her two littlest. It was fun! We got to hammer mochi :D By which I mean that I got to hammer mochi, since my nephew was too shy and my sister didn't want to hand me the baby just for that. The concert portion started a little late but the wait was worth it, imo. Still no snow or rain but it was a bit chilly for the littles, so we didn't stay for the whole performance and headed inside the museum where the other part of the event was being held.

There were only a few tables. One had a lady doing calligraphy; my sister got her name in katakana and I got neko (cat) in kanji because I panicked and it was the first thing I thought of. Nephew was again too shy to ask for anything. There was another area showing off traditional Japanese toys and my sister tried out a couple but nephew was unmoved, lol. We also got to try out a guitar-like instrument I've forgotten the name of and looked at a handful of handmade items for sale. Then we sat and had some mochi, red bean soup, sweet cake and matcha. I had hoped we'd get to see the matcha being prepared but alas. I really liked the presentation of the matcha, even if they were using cheap plastic dishes, but it tasted like grass to me as usual. Everything else was really tasty, though.

We didn't stay long-- it was a short event-- but we left feeling like it was worth the trip.

We might be getting snow again??

Tbh, I'll be very surprised if we do. Up until now, they were saying that it's going to get a lot warmer starting this weekend, almost spring weather. I know these things can change, of course, but it already feels like there's been a big shift in the atmosphere. Schools were even open today! I only glanced at the weather map but the clouds looked to me like they're going to get caught in the mountains again. I don't guess it matters much anyway. The accompanying temperatures were all above freezing, so it wouldn't stick.

Assuming the weather minds its manners this weekend as I expect, I think I'll probably go to that event I got the reschedule notice about back when they first started calling for snow. Might catch a movie while I'm out, since the event is a short one. I've been curious about Iron Lung and the downtown theater added showtimes.

Nearly forgot Wip Wednesday!

I've got a couple of new people around since last time, I think, so as a refresher: Give me a word and I'll try to find it in my wips. If I do find it, I post an excerpt that includes it. If I don't find it (or if I do but the whim takes me), I have to write something using it-- but that something has to be part of a current wip, not something entirely new.

Last week, I got "reverse" as a prompt. I had sort of intended to write something to continue the last wip I posted but never got around to it. I do have one wip that uses it, though, so here's that excerpt:

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