Today I had a lot of fun with kawaii_kenshin and sixthsky, running to Anime Pavilion (still not getting my check OTL. ), lusting after the Ignis figure and then renting bad B-rate horror movies like Black Sheep and Mall Cop.

It was too late for me to stop by the fabric store but then that reminded me I don't have a shiny Friends Only post or Cosplay plans post like all the cool kids. So while this journal is still public here's my Cosplay Plans?
( 2009-2010 Tentative list )

In other exciting news I got my court date today for my permanent license! Tomorrow I'm going to dinner with all my friends who are going off to college (Q_Q) and... maybe possibly hopefully ohdeargodplease going to aidenesque's crab fest. The rest of summer looks like Color Guard training every day A-L-L day. (8am to 7pm, they mean business) and I'm still no good at marching ;;;
I just can't sleep anymore. I just can't shut my brain off and go to sleep, it's really annoying. I hope boot camp will wear me out enough I'll just crash instead of having to down benadryl to get some shut eye.

Today was just awesome. Period. I got a job (lololol with the government) shooting Belvoir's architecture and some of the places outside the gates for a website. It. pays. really. well. Granted its a one time thing but its a god-send with AUsa and other expenses looming over my head. Sarah and I both applied for seasonal jobs at Victoria's Secret as well x]
Also Chip asked me to hang sometime, I am the biggest loser.

Though in not-so-awesome news, the email with my portfolio due date came EXTRA late and I'm about a week over the deadline :( Admissions said it was chill but I am still freaking out and drawing like crazy. God bless the SCAD sketching classes this summer ;-; I would be totally screwed without them.

I have a friend getting married tomorrow and she's only 19, I dunno its weird to me that someone I went to church camp with years ago is suddenly tying the knot. I thought your friends all start getting married and stuff when you're older, like 25+? Not 17, why is this bothering me so much I don't know :l

Here have some memes instead.
( Before college ahhhhh )

Got back from NYAF/Family Vacay 2009, I'm really glad I got to go because everyone is so amazing and I swear I was  New Yorker in my past life :'[ I love the city too much.

For everyone I just recently friended hey it's Elie! I was Shirley from Geass, pink Ranka from Macross and Jumpsuit Gokudera from KHR (for about 10 minutes). Everyone I met was just amazing :'D Let's all please hang out again like that again?

I owe shout outs to tons of people but gonna go back and chillax since I got really really sick towards the end of the con.

THE FAIL MEME
Color Guard is not going so well, we're a hot mess and... as terrible as it is I think they've decided to boot the one girl who has been dragging the team down on purpose. Our dance director did not show up for Jazz today but school was pretty enjoyable. :)

NYAF is Friday!

Arriving: Thursday 1 pm to do sightseeing with the folks, then Ace of Cakes party at 6pm with inuashleyz (y/n?)
Staying: Best Western, Lauren you're still staying with my Saturday night right?
Cosplaying: Ranka Lee (Anata no Oto) and Shirley Fenette
Leaving: Sunday I head for the airport whenever the shuttle comes by.

I'm pretty much up for hanging out whenever, I'd like to run around the city a little bit too (and visit beloved Opty Prime in Toys R' Us ;;;; ) so if you'd like to exchange numbers PM/FB message me? :) Cosplay wise idk when I'm wearing what.
Karin I'll bring Gokudera's wig for you too.

I  hope this icon caught your attention enough to pause for one minute!

Uhm, so f-list is much more computer-savvy than I am and I have a small problem.

My friend wants me to play RO again with him, I downloaded Renewal, RAG Setup and Sakray but the problem is the PC is just too slow and so clunky it can't open the RAG Setup Application. I've played private RO servers just fine a few years ago on this same computer, it's just a little bit older now. We don't have any photos, only a little music and a fuckton of antispyware programs my parents bought. The internet is very quick but it just locks up whenever I try to set up the game. Is there anyway I can boost the PC's performance?

I know Im pathetic but I don't know anything about computers it's so sad ;-;

Home for an hour, got to dash out and buy Jessica my secret buddy a present, grab some junk food then to den of bitchiness practice before tonight's flood game. Just not very optimistic after one of our captains went on a power trip last night. The title Captain does not give you any right to scream and throw a tantrum, I held my tongue :l. Got to dash but leaving this meme :< I'm feeling a ton of peer pressure to find snag a boyfriendo before homecoming. It's a long long story but I have to go now but I leave this:

ANON LOVE MEME



Tonight: Hayfield vs. Lee /HHS @ 7pm. Performing at half time, and dismissal before 3rd quarter. Hawks soar, go hawks, orange white, etc. It's raining right now ;~; I promise to respond to everyone's journals when I get home!

Thought this picture was extremely relevant.

Almost done with my first week of senior year and I'm actually really enjoying myself so far. Yeah classes are a drag but I've found a small change in attitude has taken me a long way in just a few days. I've made a lot of friends and getting back in touch with some of older ones. I have really great people in nearly all my classes and never have to be afraid of feeling too weird or too quiet for a class. I made a lot of 'normal' friends, the ones who don't run up to me and instantly start chatting my ear off about anime. People who genuinely like me for- me and not the fact I cosplay or care that I'm a derp-looking pimply teenager. I really hope these good days will last. I never felt I really belonged in highschool especially after all the bullying at Ireton, but I look forward to school and practice every morning and I'm kind of sad to see the bell ring at 2pm.

I'm also determined to document every part of senior year starting with summer band camp all the way until prom. I keep my camera on me pretty much 24/7 :];;; I've taken tons of pictures and lots of video which I'll compile for the class at the end of the year.

I'm really worried about you f-list I hope things will start going better :( If any of you guys need anything you can always feel free to drop me a line, text or message and I'll answer as soon as possible.
( Le Schedule )

Oh hello LJ I have been super ridic. busy not really but I miss you and owe people like 2o956927 comments.

Today I.... ran around town with achieanon buying fabric and clothes plus just generally popping in and out of stores we thought were interesting. Went by Anime Pavilion, no managers (no surprise) and I dropped off some new Ai-kun's. We stopped by G-Street and picked up fabric for our belly dancing outfits and I grabbed some really lovely pink for Tsukumo. Their fabrics are amazing but the price makes my heart hurt. ;-;

This week has been really eventful, my parents went to a baseball game and came home with a brand new car (I don't even-) so I have the old one! We performed at our first football game and it went great, I was so nervous there was well over a thousand people there. Hung out with my husbando and saw Ponyo which was cute and my Shirley costume arrive the wig should be here next week. Two friends and I bought a ton of chalk and wrote '2010' 'Sen10rs' and other school spirited things all over the school today while some other seniors spray painted the senior lot. I forgot-
My last first-day of high school. Oh I am so sad panda.

I had a huge technology malfunction, I think it was maybe a power surge while I was asleep or something :[

My DS is... fried, even if it says it's fully charged it just will NOT turn on. Has anyone ever heard of this or had it happen to them? I was about halfway through Devil Survivor too ;~;

My phone won't hold a charge longer than 3 hours? I have this problem about once a year with LG/Verizon phones, it works perfectly until one day the battery just begins to fail. The only really good way to contact me is to leave me a message or my home phone number (PM for it) though I'm never home anymore so... I guess I apologize in advance for not getting any calls or texts ;-; I miss everyone so so so much you don't understand how lonely VA is without all of you! ;;

I've joined an obnoxious amount of social networking sites and if anyone has any of these please add me, it's getting harder and harder to keep up with people! ;;;
Deviantart/ ve1vet.deviantart.com
Facebook/ Elie C. Lehman
cosplay.com/ catwithoutagun
Dailybooth/ catwithoutagun
Twitter/ starsmeet
Plurk/ galacticdiva** (ty karla!)
Y-Tube/ decibird

Today was a lot of fun and stress. It's getting to the end of the week and while things are really coming together it's getting tough. The Captains are especially stressed out so I ran home ony my lunch break and used all the cookie dough I could find in the house and made an ultra-batch (I forget how many but I made a ton of tiny cookies and fed the whole band). We cut practice short to have a band pool party in my neighborhood. I spent... maybe 10 minutes in the pool before a big game of volleyball. Brass and Colorguard vs. Flutes and Drumline. I got eaten alive by mosquitoes but such a nice way to spend the rest of the day.
I am in all sort of pain from this week, it's a killer on my back and shoulders especially but one more day!

I woke up to this little gem in my inbox: "HAPPY HELL WEEK! Remember your coconut bras and sunscreen. LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR"

Oh so silly band kids. I forgot my water bottle and there was zero cloud coverage today oops ;;; so I went without water (bad idea) from 8-12 and then took a truck load of bandmates to Subway. Obtained water, zoomed back to talk about Ponyo and Miyazaki movies with the guard. No one let me take pictures because ugh- we were gross by 10am.

Of all HHS guards we have by far been the most organized and just- on top of things? We've nearly finished flag work and choreography for both songs but its difficult. We have a pretty disjointed drill and lots of flips, spins, etc. as we pass through the band. I nailed a trumpet player on a thumb flip. Nailed.

I'm having a lot of fun, the band is great but it does have its few things that just frustrate me so much to the point of tears. We all have to work as one unit, but I don't know, it seems like group effort is just lost on a few people in particular. When we started putting the drill together things started to go bad quickly, I know it'll take practice to get everything right but I got so frustrated. I just put on my huge extra-dark sunglasses to hide the fact I was crying. The guard captains complimented me so much, even the band director who was very '>:[' about me said I was coming along, but I don't know it felt weird and just had to sneak a few tears. Practice ended at 5 and I ran over to sixthsky's house, I was still feeling down but on 2 consecutive stations Give a Little Bit played by the Goo Goo Dolls was playing, it was extra-special because the drummer used to go to my old high school ;;; moments like those are so wonderful.

Everything is apparently ahead of schedule and the expo should go really well, I think things will start getting a lot better with practice! I take my flag home everyday to practice a little- OH. I have a solo! ;;; a really sleazy, 'slanky' solo. I only volunteered to do it because that means I don't have to do some of the difficult flag work.

I knwo everyone is tired of hearing me fag about band, I'm just a little overwhelmed, I've been on teams before but this is like- everyone is important, you can't replace a single player and it's kind of nice. I don't start school for a little while so it's time to look into college apps. I guess I should be taking a bit more of a break from LJ and etc.

Um, I commissioned my Ashford Uniform but I'm wondering if I should even bothering buying the wig, I'm not sure if it'll get here in time for NYAF :[

afkjsghskj I'm sorry this is so long F-list I will not bug you anymore >< I'm sorry I haven't replied to all comments or responded to people's entires. Unless its for tags I rarely seem to check my personal LJ. Sorry plurk, I know I already vented to you earlier ;;;;

Ugh, life and I are just fighting. It's nothing in particular getting me down, I just haven't felt happy since... well I guess the beginning of summer. I guess it's just worse now because all my friends are leaving one by one. I think it'll be just down to me and Morgan until everyone comes home. My friends are everything, everyone just tells me to make new ones but no one understands how absolutely terrified of people I am.
Things have been good the last few days, got to hang out with Kaitlin, we won the flag argument and got a lot of our routine down, good stuff, etc. But things just aren't looking up for this coming school year. I haven't taken the SAT yet so I have one chance to NAIL it, and I'm a notoriously bad test-taker so I'm really nervous.
About a week ago the nursing home called and said Gran's hip replacement gave her an infection and that she wasn't going to be much longer. I'm not really... sad, she's ancient and she forgot who I was about 5 years ago. I just feel a little confused because I'm not upset about it. It's a little disturbing, but mom visited her in the hospital yesterday and she has conversations with people who aren't there. She keeps saying her husband is coming(my grandpa, her husband, has been dead for 13 years) for her and that she's ready to go (go where, not specified). I was a little creeped out but it's kind of comforting to know she's not scared.
There's a lot of things i always really look forward too when I'm down, but fun tags and v-chat will only do so much.

tl;dr shit sucks I'll get over it :/ group hug f-list, group hug.

I don't understand how someone can expect an entire line to march in unison when we only learned faces and roll steps 10 minutes earlier? I felt like shit when I kept messing up next to the returning band members, but it was my first day.

I was really really excited about being on the guard, especially after getting booted from student council but supposed we aren't allowed to use flags unless we can teach ourselves the routine. If you want a line of dancers you get the dance team, not the color guard.

Ohh man. This weekend. THIS weekend....
went by too fast :<

I roadtripped it to Ocean City with sixthsky  and kittyling , they are witness to my AWESOME DRIVING, and we had a lot of fun freaking eachother out on the bay bridge. Chilled with.... everyone, I think just sitting around talking was my favorite part of this whole weekend. It's so nice to feel so at home when I'm so far from any worries I left back in VA.

Hogwarts Christmas in July in August party was awesome, we had butterbeer *^* be jealous. I bothered the cutest neighbor boy to bring us some goodies as a joke and he came and chilled with us. Adorable, so adorable, but I think I may have annoyed him by making dumb drunk comments. I really only remember walking in, flopping right on sixthsky and then lost track of how many shots I actually had. Very very big shots. I have learned my lesson.
Stealing Lauren's idea, here's some highlights because my memory is spotty.
-BIRTHDAYsax
-"Aiden- AIDEN. YOUR TEETH. They're so white."
-"I. AM THE MAJESTIC- MAHI MAHI."
-I latched myself onto Lauren's back and stole her chair.
-flopping around on the glass table
-Fi nay nay
-I'm Dumbledore bitches. 10 points from Slytherin
-Olivia has been to mianus.
-No. That's faggot town.
-CRAB BATTLE.
-talking kittyling 's ear off on the way home, sorry! ;;;
-lots of traffic

Also, I found bruises on my ribcage and my chest is REALLY sore, what is this.

If anyone hasn't guessed it by now this weekend's drunk animal was the majestic Mahi Mahi Fish

Day 1 of cousin visit = awkward.
I still have no opinion or voice in my family simply because I am 'the odd one' I get so exhausted just standing around trying to ward off the 'SO YOU LIKE ANIME?' comments. There is more to me than big eyes and pointy chins.
Gina is much healthier now, less of a twig but still a midget. Billie is... Billie, he's still chill and his girlfriend is AWESOME ahhh I love Jess <3.

We just... hung out, food and beer like any good Lehman reunion must have. I kind of retreated to the living room and watched a ton of E! I hid all my cosplay things in my room but then Gina wanted to see that OTL. She put on Gokudera and my Sheryl wig and went running around the house. My life.

Day 2 = Oh god shoot me.
Gina woke me up really early and I just crawled out of bed, threw on some clothes and ate. Jess is a huge history buff and wanted to see DC so I played tourguide. Too bad I can't name any buildings, I just know what they are or where they're at. We walked from Arlington Cemetary all the way across the bridge to the Capitol building and the White House, holy god I almost passed out. Lots of walking, exercise, hoorah. Billie got kind of impatient and kind of hurried her along, I feel bad because she was so upset we missed Lincoln's tuxedo and Dorothy's shoes in the American History Museum :[

They seemed a bit more accepting today than yesterday, all five of us sat in the living room watching Billie fail hard at Bully, Gina beat the shit out of her boyfriend at Wii Tennis and me and Jess button smash on Brawl. Plus we went through all the DC pictures and made commentary with the whole family plus our neighbors, it was really really nice :) I'm going to miss them ;~; uwahh.

They leave tomorrow, I'm ruining their sleep by walking up and down the creaky hallway, oops xD; . I have a few days before crab fest? then it's off to color guard boot camp starting Monday OTL. I hope I remember all the stuff they taught me.

My Twitter is down- what seems permanently, but the internet just upsets me lately so I'm going to call up my school friends and see what trouble we can get into.

Went to bed, fell asleep, had a bad dream and then.... finished the last two episodes of Code Geass.

;_;


Trying to fall asleep watching Solty Rei, this show is so good but ugh, if the characters weren't horrendously ugly I think I could convince more people to watch it. Solty is so cute ///

Anyways... re-pimping the sales journal, added some new wigs and then a ton of video games/manga/props you know the normal stuff :/

Eh... anyways, Grandma fell and broke her hip this morning, so mom has to dash back over to Kentucky to see her for awhile. Most of my cousins + their significant others, grandparents and aunts will be here this weekend. Fuuun times :]

I've wanted to focus on just one, detailed costume and put all my time into that for a future con so I think I've decided!( Tsukumo from Karneval~ )

Oh and NYAF is a total go, I'll be taking Shirley and a new Ranka :)

I'm a terrible writer so you can laugh at horrible drabbles, but I had the best idea for this meme.

GRAB BAG.

☤ give me a scenario of any kind ( exp: 'falling out of a window', 'robbing a bank', etc ).
☤ give me a number 1-20.
☤ depending on what's chosen, i will write that scene with the character listed under that number.
☤ if you feel a scene should have more than one character from the list, add up to at least 2 extra numbers. ( exp: 'video game, 12 vs 4', 'baking a cake, 7 & 8 & 9', etc ).
☤ the catch: it's a grab bag! neither of us know who will end up in the story until you say and i write. so basically, it's a writing challenge that's fun for both parties, no matter if you know the character history/personality or not.
☤ i'll do my best to write these. ♥


Oh and I thought since I don't have some of you on Facebook you'd like to see these:

( A collab between Oli and I, we have nothing better to do. )
There's plenty more.