I've been a bad blogger...So pretty picture to make it up? :/

Hello~ LONG time no see, eh? It’s already been two months! I’m sorry!! >.<||| I thought May would be a “ladida~” month but I was terribly mistakened. It might be worse than April. Well here’s just a quick update to say I’m alive, and I apologize for the sudden leave. I just have to admit that life and other interests got the better of me, and I just haven’t been in the mood to blog. >_< It’s just not fun when you aren’t in the mood.

Anyways, school is out and hopefully I can start blogging…something. XDD I don’t know, I’ve just been having fun just watching stuff without blogging it. But hopefully I will blog something. I honestly don’t know what will happen, and I apologize for that.

I also feel terrible about not having my first impression post out like I usually do. Spring has always been the hardest for me to have first impressions since it’s the same time as my state tests, and geez…it got the better of me this year. I was studying like crazy…finishing my textbooks and…yeah. I apologize greatly for not including the first impressions. In a quickie, I’m in love with Kaichou wa Maid-sama! let’s just say that. I seriously fangirl every time I watch it. And if I decided to blog it, it will probably just be…lots of fangirling. Angel Beats is also pretty good, but I couldn’t keep up, as well with other shows, including Durarara!!…*depression* So I’ll probably just start from the most recent episode since I don’t have the time to marathon. My friend just explained to me everything that happened so I think I catch the drift.

In other news, it seemed as if my website was suspended for awhile. Just to clear that up, I took up too much bandwidth and space…again. -.-” Ironically enough, the plan says unlimited bandwidth, and they randomly suspend my account for taking up too much, without even telling me. So I apologize to anyone who has been confused about what’s been going on.

So, I was hoping to move over onto another host soon. It won’t be any domain changes thankfully, so we’ll be good. I’m so tired of moving around, so I decided to go to the apparently reliable GoDaddy hosting. Opinions on it? Once I can get the moving down, I hope to start blogging again. In the meantime however, I’d like to focus on moving over before I get suspended again, since it will be permanent the next time I do.

Anyways, I just wanted to apologize for the sudden leave. Like I said, the same excuse for every leave I have, lots of stuff. >w< I always get myself so busy to the point that I have to stay up late, soo…>_>” Not that summer will be much easier. I decided to take up tennis next year so I’ll be busy with that all summer. Piano is another priority as well. Summer homework might also take up some time, but I guess the most time consuming thing this summer will be trying to make some money and start that online store I’ve been talking about. Now I’ll have the time to make some more keychains and t-shirts. Like I said before, when I get enough content, I’ll open up the store and announce it.

Enough about that though, let’s focus on the blog. I hope to start on what I said for the Spring update now since I’ve been holding off on it before. Bad me. >_< So…hopefully look forward to that…? Heh…orz I’m ashamed of myself. Bye…!

Phew, yay for being a bit early this time! Anyways, since I got my Winter preview up, and it feels a little out of place to keep my former theme, I’ve made some Winter changes for the blog~ I hope everyone enjoys them first of all. Even though it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet, the Christmas music is already playing on the radio so it doesn’t seem to early, right? So I’ve added some new banners and a little bit of revamps on the theme; thus, a short Winter update post. :D

Theme

Hey~ A theme change without an actual URL move. It’s been awhile since that’s happened. xD

I can honestly say that I’m always soo tempted to change into another theme because I just love all the more choices with self hosted wordpress. Soo, it was really hard to keep the same theme and just change the colors, but I did~ Actually, this theme has four different colors, so I just changed to blue and made the background. Not much to say about it this time, except that of course it’s a Winter-y theme.  I don’t know why, but I like this change a lot more than before. I guess it’s because blue is my favorite color. I’m not into Halloween, so the Halloween colors on my blog before weren’t exactly my favorite. Not to mention a brighter background makes the site look so much more open~ Okay, so now I’m going into a messy ramble, so onto the banners!

Banners

Ah, this time, I didn’t have as many banners made as before. I’ll probably make more as I find more scans. So for now, I won’t remove all of the banners from my old rotation just yet. I’ll keep the ones that fit. However, this time, I have a “meh” sort of feeling towards this set. There are some that I really like, but then others that I just wish I would’ve done better. Maybe I just need to add more. xD

Kimi ni Todoke: Under the Stars

The Kimi ni Todoke banner first because it’s my favorite. Favorite show, favorite banner~ Even though it’s a pretty plain banner and doesn’t look like a lot of work was added onto it, the reason I love it so much is because that’s not all true. It’s a lot more plain compared to what I usually do, but I think that’s what I love so much about it. Also, it was the first time I ever actually extended the picture, so I’m pretty proud of myself, haha. It’s pretty obvious where since I’m not that great yet and it was my first attempt. Anyways, if that doesn’t make sense, all in all, half of the sky was well…made by me? And I didn’t need the clone tool! xDD So I feel pretty accomplished (since I’m so noobish still on photoshop). xD It probably seems unreasonable to most people, but I don’t know, I feel happy on my first attempt.

Anyways, rewinding back. I had wanted another Kimi ni Todoke banner since I didn’t want to (but had to) remove my new Kimi ni Todoke banner. Anyways, I remembered how lovely episode 7 of Kimi ni Todoke was, and I absolutely loved the scene under the sky. So, I grabbed a screencap of it. I just loved how beautiful the sky was, so I just had to use it for a banner. However, the screencap was cut and didn’t extend further leading to the situation before. Afterwards, I just added glassy, glowy text that I thought would go along.

Eden of the East

Ahh, the Eden of the East banner. I forgot where I got the fanart from, but it isn’t mine, firstly. Anyways, a pretty “meh” banner to me. Since we have the first movie coming in December and the second movie coming in January, I figured, an Eden of the East banner should fit fine. xD

Anyways, I pretty much just went crazy on this banner. I added tons of effects. I think I was experimenting or something when I made this; however, I don’t remember since I made this banner way before the rest. I added the checkers, tiles, circles, thunder, etc. Since the theme is blue, I tried bringing out as much blue as I could in the banner. The attempt failed.

Watashi ni xx Shinasai!

Probably my least favorite banner. Not image though. The image is just hawt~ Anyways, it’s my least favorite because I couldn’t do the picture justice.

I decided after being deprived of other Winter scans, to use manga scans. Since the Nakayoshi calendar just came out (which, btw the scans belong to cookie.Dough, thank you!) I decided to use the image for my banner. It is a Christmas card afterall. However, I had problems on what to do for the rest of the background. Thus, what you currently see occurred. I changed a lot of the borders to be a tint of blue (maybe I’m a bit crazy on the blue?). It was pretty hard for my uncreative mind to decide what to do for the background, so that’s why it looks so blergh. Oh and the tagline. A pretty lame one. WnxxS! fits being hawt, so…I just thought the tagline fit it. Unfortunately, some of the text is hard to read, so I apologize for that.

Shugo Chara!

It was a beautiful picture. But I killed it with my title. Even though Shugo Chara! definitely isn’t up to par, I’m still into the manga. I’ve dropped the anime, and I’m probably only going to watch the anime if someone tells me to.

However, about the banner. I was looking for Christmas scans of Shugo Chara, and I came across quite a few Winter-y and Christmas-y scans. I wanted to use all of them, but I realized it was pretty hard to include all of them (hence why they’re used in this post xDD). So I simply used my favorite. It’s just so colorful and pretty~ Then I just slapped some random text on and that’s about it. xD

Kobato

One of the ones I was satisfied with. I had found this perfect scan of Kobato and I just had to use it. It fits so well for the season, and it’s just so pretty. :3

I didn’t do much to the banner. For the image, pretty much the only thing that I did was fix the line in the center. However, I added lines on the side and bottom to give it a…gift box look to it. Lastly, I just slapped on the title. To be honest, it’s sort of different from what I usually do like the rest from this set, but I’m still happy with it. :D I just wish I could include more of Ioryogi!

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Anyways, I guess that’s it. It’s a pretty short post, as I’ve mentioned before. I hope to add more banners when I find more awesome images~ I’m hoping to find at least some nice scans of the Winter shows coming up so that I can make banners with the Winter shows. If I do make more banners though, I’ll just add them into the roll. :D

Credits to image go to 2desktop.com

I’m still on a break right now, especially since school has been hectic. Ughh…more on that later. Anyways, time for a small post to keep you guys updated on what’s coming up, what’s going on in my life affecting the blog, etc!~

My Many Excuses from RL

So, as you guys have noticed, I haven’t really posted much lately, nor commented. Really, I apologize to everyone for not commenting on posts! I have read them, but I haven’t had the time to take the time and comment. I like having my time to comment because I like giving full comments. So…the blame is mainly on school. Just awhile ago, a couple students and I went to a conference, and so we found out how fail we are. TT^TT So pretty much, we have to pick up the pace. What does that mean for me? Even more working! >:D Apparently I was unknowingly titled the one in charge of it all…so yes. I’ve been a pretty irresponsible leader, so we have to get things back on track since our class messed up a rally. TT^TT

I also have a reading assignment I have to finish as a slow reader. So I need my time to finish up the book so once I’m finished I can be free and get to work on my blog without worrying about finishing the book. So if things go as planned, I’ll be able to work on lots more blogging once I finish.

However, if blogging is still slow, please understand. I also have to work on the school magazine, so that takes time off of my hands. *sigh* If only I had all the time in the world. I’ve also recently started planning a new story, so I’d like to work on that as well.

Blogging Plans

The first impressions post is going to be worked on, but it’s going to be late. I apologize for that. It was planned for the weekend but I was busy busy busy the whole weekend that I didn’t even get to finish up or work on long term homework. Things would be so much easier if I had a 3 day weekend like I should have, since Columbus Day, but alas, we had school today. It should come this week. I still haven’t even watched all of the anime I plan on watching, so I need to watch it before I have first impressions. I’ve only watched Shugo Chara!! Party, Kobato, Yumeiro Patissiere, and Kimi ni Todoke, so there’s lots for me to catch up on.

Speaking of Shugo Chara!! Party (I really don’t care about how many “!”s are in the title), if it isn’t already obvious, consider it DROPPED. It’s not the Shugo Chara! I know, but then again, I never expected it to be. As soon as I remembered live action, I jumped to Kirarin Revolution and decided to drop it. I have to say this though. The voices aren’t exactly the best to listen to, I feel sorry for the girls having to act like that (“Omg, really?! I did not know that!” in the most robotic, unbelievable tone), Rikka is somewhat cute, Puchi Pucchi! is ridiculous, just give the anime more time, the Guardian 4 and the Buono songs aren’t bad, but it’s all just really disappointing. I knew I was going to drop it, but I needed to announce it. I might add some here and there, but I don’t want to feel forced to blog something that I don’t want to blog. If I did actually blog it, it would be the same thing everyday, “It sucks. Wtf. It’s so wrong. What the heck are they thinking?!” I’ll just find myself in a repetitious circle of flaming. And really, I barely even watched it. I didn’t watch the second episode, and I watched the first episode by the time the second came out. And so now, I feel free!!~ It actually feels good.

However, I’m changing the title of the category, and making it “Shugo Chara!! Doki” and put it under the finished category. I really need something there…xDD

So now, I’ll blog different series. I plan on catching up on Hetalia one day and mini blogging those. It’ll be short posts, but that’s okay. I’ll have fun. Isn’t that what blogging’s about?

Or maybe Kobato, Kimi ni Todoke, or Yumeiro Patissiere. I really think blogging them would be fun. If I could find the right time.

Instead of blogging shows individually, I was considering maybe gathering all the shows I watch in one week and putting it together in a weekly Random Anime post at the end of the week. Not sure about it though. Just a thought though.

I want to get more posts out, since I always have thoughts but have no where to put it except in a small blurb, so I might add some new blogging things if everything works out. Let’s see how everything turns out. I might pop up with some random feature though. I’m already planning on having News Blurbs posts, where I have random blurbs on news, and the Youtube Dump into a separate post since I have sooo many videos I want to share!! XDD So actually, expect those two very soon. :D

Also….new Letter Bee Banner is up very soon!~ All I can say is…I’m satisfied with the results. It took a lot of time and effort compared the the rest of the banners, and I think it was worth it. :D

Umm….sorry for the messy unorganized post. I was just trying to write whatever popped up in my head. Anyways, let’s hope for the best for now~ Seeya!