Rolling days

Why is time flying by so fast now?? There's less than a week left until Christmas ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ

I haven't really done all that much aside from work... but now I have many days off, so I'll start doing stuff as soon as I wake up in the morning (lol)

It snowed!!!!! It was totally unexpected (well, at least for me), but it was nevertheless a welcome sight. I took a picture with my phone to share here, but my phone's picture taking abilities are really bad （Ｔ＿Ｔ） I must get a new phone in the new year. I am trying to budget out money for gifts and such now (°∀°)b

Lately I have been listening to the following song quite a bit:



The title is 「大っきらい　でもありがと」 ("Daikkirai Demo Arigato") by 青山テルマ (Aoyama Thelma). I especially love the title... "I Really Hate You... But Thanks"... you can really sense some strong feelings just by understanding the title itself.

That's all for now☆
I'm too lazy to go on (as usual)☆
Let me write one more line to have three stars☆

All right!

冬がはじまるよ!

Argh. I was typing out this entry happily until I accidentally clicked something and it got erased （/TДT)/

Damn it. I guess from the top, yet again (this isn't the first time...)

*insert happiness*

ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ

I'M DONE EXAMS AND SCHOOL (FOR NOW)～!!!!!!!!

I haven't had this much free time in so long, it feels so good (￣▽+￣*)

Today I basically played video games AND watched TV... two things I haven't done in months!

I know there's still the threat of next term looming in the distance... but I plan to recharge and come back better than ever ヽ(゜▽、゜)ノ But now, it's rest time. Hopefully I don't get too lazy.

Next week I plan to put up Christmas decorations, bake cookies (hopefully I'll have pictures of them up on here if they look good, good meaning NOT burnt （･ε･) ), do some gift shopping, maybe do a bit of advanced reading for next term to make life easier... (I said maybe... hopefully I follow through a bit)

I guess I will have more time to blog about random things now. I don't have to draw this on.

There's one more thing though! I have been listening to more holiday themed music lately to get me in the mood... and it's really working! In particular there are two I really love, and both came out this year:

One is called "LOVE～winter song～" by 福原美穂 (Fukuhara Miho). I really love this woman... her voice is so powerful and this song really embodies the concept of "love" and "warmth", it's such a spirited track.



And then there's another artist who I also love dearly... 倉木麻衣 (Kuraki Mai)... she's bringing Christmas in with this R&B inspired track called "24 Xmas time"!



OK! That's all for now. I've been going too much again.

Life

Never has there been a time in my life when I've actually had a LIFE.

Notice the date of the last entry?? September??? I think that's the longest break I've ever taken from this place...

Every time I log on and want to write something, laziness takes over and I just end up shutting down my computer to trade in boredom for a ticket to dreamland.

So what's been up?

Work and school, nothing much in between. Life has changed drastically since, well, a year ago.

For one thing, I can actually understand more of this site... Japanese class has been amazing. とてもおもしろいですね。

So for my exhaustive rant based on a juxtaposition of the past and present (I haven't done this in a while)...

While everything in my life seems to have changed completely (most things for the better... A LOT of things for the better) I still find myself to be the same person. Change comes yet change does not affect me. Does that make sense? ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ

I don't really feel like drawing this out more, let this point be a reminder for a future date. Hopefully sometime soon.

I shall wake up in a few hours and begin to prepare for exams. The thought of them scares me, in fact, when I first began to realize university life, I began to sometimes feel as if I was suffocating on the overwhelming amount of change I had to endure, not only in my surroundings but the way my thoughts were structured. Have I made it all the way? I don't think so. I didn't think it was going to be easy anyways, but it is something that has to be attacked with all my strength so that I can end up in an even better position.

(・∀・)

So Christmas is coming soon!! And 2008 is coming to an end... I remember writing such a thing last year:

"And there are many things that will happen in 2008 alone. Big changes are coming! I'm glad because at this point I feel like I can accept those changes with open arms."

What a statement to make. It was quite accurate. I can't even imagine what next year will be like.

Anyways, I'm off to bed before I rant much longer☆