Someday I'll Be Part of Your World

Week before last my teeth started hurting again. That went on for about 4 days before the pain faded. I had made a dentist appt for last wed, but canceled it as the pain had faded and I was the only cashier sheduled that night at work. so I resheduled for today. Monday I started hurting again. Yesterday it swelled up. Betsy said I looked like Jay Leno.

Went to the dentist this morning with a still swollen jaw and in a lot of pain. They shoved an xray-a-mabobber violently in mymouth, told me it was infected, then prescribed me something to bring down the swelling but not the pain. So i'm stuck taking way too many over-the-counter meds to help the pain.

Hopefully the infection goes away soonn enough and I can go get all this pesky mouth surgury out of the way and be nearly as good as new.

In other news, my brother apparently had a stroke on sunday and didnt realize it. Then his shrink yesterday told him not to do anything about it, just if it happens again go to the ER . SO mom got all pissed off and now David has an appt at 1:30 today. HE's all paranoid about it now.

3 months without internet is driving me crazy! I still don't fully have it back either. I did get a new phone with unlimited web access, a touch screen, and a keyboard though. So I have something at least. Atill wont be able to catch up on shows though.

My life otherwise has been mostly work. With grad season here the balloon counter has been overwhelmed. I've gotten to work there a lot though, which is betterthan cashiering any day

Last night I went to see RENT, which was amazing. I got to see it with Anthony Rapp andAdam Pascal. The rest of the cast was really good as well. The actors who played Angel, Benny, and Collins were the ones from the closing cast on Broadway. The girl who played Maureen was blonde, different, but i reakly liked her.
Sadly the only people who came out the stage door were Adam, Anthony, and Nicolette(Maureen). No one else did. I did get autographs fron those three though. It was a lot of fun and i'm glad I got the chance to see them preform.

From the lobby of the Hilton at Sakura-con. Richard is letting me use his laptop so I can have some internet, which I haven't had in almost an entire month. My computer died on St. Patrick's day, and we got a new one, but it wouldn't acknowledge an internet connection. And now we're in a new house. And yeah. Life has been busy lately.

Moved into our new house. It's kind of nice to be back in Lynnwood again, though I'd just been getting used to Seattle. My poor kitty is traumatized.

Work is work-ey.

I actually don't have much to update about that won't take a reeeeeeaaaaaaalllllyyyy long post most likely under a cut anyway.


Looking forward to what promises to be a very interesting convention.

Twitter has eaten my soul. I think the appeal of it to me is the ability to follow celebrities. This might make me a girly fangirl, but the fact that Amber Benson added me back made me a little fluttery. And I loved hearing about the wrap party from half the Heroes cast. Right now I know that Dane Cook is on a flight(or was at least earlier), that Felicia Day, Amber Benson, and Brea Grant are all in Austin Texas, that James Kyson Lee is going to Hawaii tomorrow, that Shoshana Bean is in Portland, and that Micheal Ian Black possibly had a shot of Tequila earlier. Does that make me creepy? Possibly. But it's also kind of neat at the same time.


Real life has eaten my soul somewhat. Work, Lyssa, Sakura-con(costumes and junk which means more Lyssa), possibly moving. I'm getting more active at work though which is nice. And since I finally stopped my month and a half of PMS-ing(no freaking joke) I can finally enjoy work again.But last week I got to work places other than the registers. And this week I think I get to do the same. Last week I worked in Display on Monday which is nice because Display is the one section of the store I know next to nothing about. And on Wednesday I got to work at the Party section which is one of my favorite sections to work, because you get to answer the phone and blow up balloons. And I love blowing up balloons. It was also nice getting to work with my boss on Wednesday, since he was the floor manager that night. I guess since it's not Halloween-crazy-scary-busy time he wasn't as stressed out.

I've been going over to Lyssa's pretty much every weekend lately. Not that I mind too much. I like hanging out with her and junk. It's just not something I'm used to really. And she is helping me put together my costume for Sakura-con. Of which I finally think I got my room situation worked out. Huzzah!


Psych has eaten my soul. I love that show. I remember the first time I watched an episode(the tennis episode Ironically) I thought it was kind of dumb, and I didn't even finish the episode. Than my brother got really into it, so I would watch an episode here and there, or bits and pieces when David was like, "omg you have to watch this part," and it was absolutely hilarious. So Cassie and I started watching it and just finished this last week. I love Shawn to omg bits and pieces. I have a Juliet muse-thing who also has a bit of a thing for Micheal Weston, but mostly Shawn, and wants to play Elphaba in Wicked thanks to Marcie Dodd who looks uncannily like Maggie Lawson. I think she also wants to find CarltonLassie a girlfriend right now too. She just has to get over her own issues first.


Soul Eater has been less soul eaty lately, now that I've caught up on the manga. I still need to catch up on the anime now, but it's less imperative than it was when I first started watching it. Though I should catch up because the anime and manga have taken quite different turns lately.

I thought for a while I might have been growing a Death the Kid Muse, which would be weird to me since he's not my usual type of character, but I think he might have faded away.


Wicked has come burstingly back into my life lately. I think this is Eden Espinosa's fault. After watching the Filmed on Broadway version of Rent I went back to watch Eden's preformances as Elphaba. That's how I stumbled across Ms.Marcie Dodd. And now I have a full show of Eden and Megan Hilty on Broadway and am hoping to get a full show with Marcie Dodd. October can't come soon enough really. That's when Wicked's coming back to Seattle, and I am so ready for it. Also Rent this summer, supposedly with frickin' Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. I'm mass excited for that one. I will be so so so disappointed if those two aren't there. I would absolutely love to meet the both of them. Though that means booking it to the Stage Door before the finale's finished. And that's hoping they come through the stage door.



Also, my 21st birthday is in a week. I still don't know what I'm doing for sure. Lyssa's talked about taking me out for Karaoke, but nothing concrete. I'm still deciding if I wanna get totally drunk or not. Though I do have to work the next day...

I'm going to try and start doing this every day. It's probably not going to happen, considering my wonderful track record, but I'm going to try.

For those who are interested go to Character a day Community





Character Name: Sophia Kleinstock
Genre (type of story you'd put it in): Humor murder mystery
Describe the Character Physically in Your Own Words: Sophia is an elegant woman who dresses in only the top fashions, usually imported straight from France. In her younger days she was a model, with her long legs, and lithe figure. Her auburn hair is straight as an arrow, and she curses it daily, as it's mostly useless. She mostly keeps it in tight buns or braids, or done up in some elaborate hat. She loves to look flashy, as long as it's also tasteful.
One Line Description of Character: Sophia is a fashionable, wealthy woman that always strives for the best.
Tell Us About the Character: An arrogant, elegant, and wealthy woman Sophia has the best of everything. Always sporting the latest in fashion she tends to get what she wants when she wants it. She also knows the right time to flash some green. The world bends to her will. Or so she believes.
If she is a widow - She is, and she has just buried her husband of fifteen years. He died a tragic death, that no one is convinced is an accident. She did love him, even if she rarely ever showed it. Though she did put on a good show at his funeral sobbing into a tissue the whole time, and was unable to give her eulogy. Sergeant James didn't believe it.

( And the ship-a-week )

Watched the first episode of Voice. Almost forgot how much I love Ikuta. And Eita's precious, though I still have to get used to his face. I think I liked his looks best in Nodame so far. Endo Yuuya's character is a huge friggin' dork. And I love this Akira guy and his mom. His mom is awesome. And he is awesome and weird. And reminds me slightly of Chinen, especially since he's apparently Okinawan in the show. However if the series continues anything like the first episode it might become too tragic for me. Because that first episode got way tragic. I'm enjoying it so far though. And whatever kid they got to play little Daiki was perfect, because he had Eita's face.



EDIT: Nope. Not any less tragic in the second episode. I think I actually sobbed harder. And now my head hurts. :| Also Eita has big ears. I keep noticing them.

Damnit Natane, you make me want to be a Sailor Scout again.



In the meantime, let me share some of my retardation with you all. Um.... spoilers for Sailor Moon. If for some reason you don't know them or care about being spoiled.

Sephy346 (2:14:38 AM): shit id be such an unbalanced sailor scout
Sephy346 (2:14:47 AM): id flip a tit if something like that happend to me
MizukoMidori (2:14:52 AM): I think, but am not sure, that it was toward the end when they're actually facing Galaxia and she personally shows her Darien's star seed.
Sephy346 (2:15:27 AM): im sailor rage and in the name of the -ah fuck it im kickin' your ass
Sephy346 (2:15:31 AM): see thats why i cant be one
Sephy346 (2:15:32 AM): im too angry
MizukoMidori (2:15:33 AM): XD
Sephy346 (2:15:50 AM): im the bitch that would have pulled out a glock to nefrites face
MizukoMidori (2:15:53 AM): Ah, but an angry sailor scout would be funny.
MizukoMidori (2:15:59 AM): ho shit.
MizukoMidori (2:16:04 AM): Not Neflyte.
MizukoMidori (2:16:09 AM): He's the nice one.
Sephy346 (2:16:09 AM): hes my baby
Sephy346 (2:16:10 AM): actually
Sephy346 (2:16:17 AM): i cry everytime when he dies
MizukoMidori (2:16:22 AM): Awwww.
Sephy346 (2:16:23 AM): id take my anger out on jedite
Sephy346 (2:16:25 AM): i hated him
MizukoMidori (2:16:30 AM): lol
MizukoMidori (2:16:33 AM): he walked funny.
Sephy346 (2:16:41 AM): he was just not memorable at all for me
Sephy346 (2:16:45 AM): i forget about him all the time
Sephy346 (2:16:52 AM): but whatever bitch got taken down by a fucking JET
MizukoMidori (2:16:54 AM): Cassie and I, OMG, we used to make fun of the way they animated his walking.
MizukoMidori (2:17:20 AM): Natane, do you know what Cassie and I did once?
Sephy346 (2:17:29 AM): RP sailor moon
MizukoMidori (2:17:33 AM): Not just that.
MizukoMidori (2:17:41 AM): No, we had our own Sailor Scouts.
Sephy346 (2:17:46 AM): oh shit i did that
Sephy346 (2:17:50 AM): her colores were black and gold
MizukoMidori (2:17:50 AM): It doesn't stop there.
MizukoMidori (2:18:01 AM): We had, we had, get this.
MizukoMidori (2:18:26 AM): Sailor Sun, Sailor Space, and Sailor Earth.
Sephy346 (2:18:45 AM): LMAO dude isnt like sailor sun evil
MizukoMidori (2:18:46 AM): Holy shit!
Sephy346 (2:18:52 AM): like isnt that the main bad guy or some shit
MizukoMidori (2:18:52 AM): I REMEMBER HER NAME.
MizukoMidori (2:19:01 AM): Her name was Mikahai.
MizukoMidori (2:19:07 AM): I can't believe I remember that.
Sephy346 (2:19:09 AM): LMAO
Sephy346 (2:19:10 AM): oh shit


And now I think I am going to go in search of the Sailor Stars season.

Mom needs money. She still needs to pay rent and start paying off a debt accumulated with the storage company. Mom does not have this money. Mom also has really really bad credit. So she comes home early yesterday and wants me to apply for a loan online. Okay, yeah, sure. No problem. Only after all that I can only get $500. Well that'll be enough for a down payment and they won't sell all of our stuff in storage. Oh good.

Except the loan didn't go through yet. They need yet more information. State-issued ID? I don't have that. I have a Dependants Military ID. Social Security Card? Lost somewhere in my house, probably dead. I have a recent bank statement, and pay stub, but they need more than that. Well no big deal, we'll just go tomorrow(now today) and get you an ID and new social security card. Okay. I can do that. Oh, but we have to do before 10am because my mom's appointment with my brother's DR. is at 10. (Note: this is when I normally wake up)

Okaaaaaaayyyyyyy. Is this...imperative? Do we need to get this money immediately, or can it possibly wait until Wednesday? No, it should be done by Tuesday, in case the loan doesn't go through so we have some extra time to find other opportunities. Okaaaay. I'd rather not rush around way early in the morning, after three hours of sleep, and have you bitch at me to hurry up and blah, blah like I know you will. Yes, I don't want to lose all our stuff either, and I will if I have to, I'd just rather not. Is it not possible to do it Wednesday? Oh, no, you have to work Wednesday. How could I have forgotten. So do I. I have to work Tuesday as it happens. Which is why all this has to be done so early. Wonderful. Perfect.

You know, if you had come to me sooner, this might not be such a big problem. I've told you on several occasions that I don't mind helping out around here financially if it's needed. But you have to be a stubborn, independent Aries!


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In other news the Fates have decided to aspire against me or something. Cassie's power went out last night. They're having crazy weather over there. It was back on last I checked (around 5am Central time), but still flickering occasionally. So she may or may not be around at all today.

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And in another stab of hilarity, I just looked out the window. It's. Snowing.

I am so sick of this snow. I want my spring already.

Cookies to anyone who can tell me where that quote in the subject line is from. Cassie doesn't count.

So I went to the dentist the other day after my last post. I hate dentists. This one wasn't particularly any better, though his nurses were very nice.

( Dental issues ahead. )

( Further family issues )

In other news guess what it's doing here. It's snowing~! :| I'm so over this snow thing.


Got accepted at Tenihime and am going to work on my IRA app today. Hopefully. Kintarou's already giving me some stuff. Hopefully he'll be an easy kid.

Also Kaori's father wants me to profile him. :| I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Jesus fuck, my mouth hurts. I've never been big on taking care of my teeth or going to the dentist. In fact, I down right hate the dentist, am scared to some degree. I don't think I've been since I was 12. My mom was telling me earlier that when I was little I used to be so scared of the dentist that they wanted to hospitalize me and put me under anesthesia before the dentist would work on me.

But two days ago, the right side of my mouth just started hurting like crazy. Out of no where in the middle of my trying to take a nap. The pain hasn't subsided and has only gotten worse, so I figure, it's time to buck up and go see a dentist. I really, really don't want to. But I also don't like this pain. This is years and years of sugar, soda, and not brushing my teeth coming to bite me in ass, and I realize I only have myself to blame. Still sucks.

So tomorrow I need to find out from my work what my dental plan is and see if I can get an emergency visit.

On the Ironic side, Pop seems to be helping dull the pain for now. Good for short term, bad for long term.

Edit: Re-think the short-term consequences for using pop to ward off pain. Caffeine overdose, plus tooth ache, plus trying to sleep, do not add up. Just makes for a very shaky, achy Rachel who can't sleep. David gave me half a sleeping pill if I need it though.

Work has been incredibly tense lately. I work at a privately owned store, and our sales were down nearly a quarter for December, which is where we make 1/4 of our sales. (1/2 being in October and the other 1/4 being the rest of the year) So the company decided to make some budget cuts. This includes letting go of people, cutting back on hours, and cutting pay. The store hours were cut back from 8:30-8:30 to 9:30-8:00, salary'd employees have already taken a pay-cut, and possibly starting in February hourly employees will have hours cut back about 10%. (Which means most of us full-time employees will be working about a day less.)

Two of my fellow cashiers have been let go already. One which I was glad to see go, personally. She had a bad habit of telling everyone about her personal life whether co-worker or customer.. And Michaela counted once, she talked about her kids 13 different times in one day to customers. No one cared about her two kids and third on the way(at 24). Then a couple days later Michaela was let go, and she's worked there for almost three years now.

Then of course everyone is upset about all these changes and bitching about it non-stop. I'm not happy about them myself, but it'd probably be more difficult to find a new job at this point. But things are pretty bad when managers are telling employees that it's okay if you don't come in today, we'll save your pay for another employee. And the poor boss has to deal with the brunt of everyone's anger. I was talking to a manager last night and he was telling me about how everyone's on edge, and there's this whole tension throughout the store. And the managers had been asked to "keep an eye on" certain employees(he didn't tell me who, sadly.). Employees he things are valuable and useful. People are nitpicking on the small things, so basically everyone has to try and behave perfectly until this starts to blow over a little.

At this point I'm the lead cashier and I've only been there for nearly a year and half. Half our floor staff are newer employees from this last years Halloween season. It's kind of crazy.

The World Ends With You: *Eats brain*

Stupid snow. :\

Geez, I'm starting to dream about bad customers now.


I had a dream that I was working at the Balloon counter. I was just kind of straightening it up, and Bill(my boss) was making some sort of balloon bouquet with regular balloons and 5" balloons. It turns out that it was for one of my co-workers Beny, whose birthday is coming up. So then this woman comes up with her, like, three kids, sees what Bill's doing, and asks for some of the smaller balloons to be added to her order but in black. So I go scrambling about trying to find some black 5" balloons which were no where to be found. She gets impatient with me and walks off at some point. Eventually I found her balloon order, which Tom(balloon manager) had filled and set aside for her to come pick them up, and they were all large mylar balloons. So I was like, "Oooohhhh, she meant the 11"(standard balloon size) ones." So I blew up a couple of black balloons and handed them to her and she just stormed out shaking her head.

So then this guy comes up with a bunch of purple posterboard from Display and sets it on the counter. And I was like, "Sir, if you're ready to check out the registers are right up there." and I pointed at the registers. It's a mistake often made, because there does happen to be a register at the balloon counter, we just don't use it unless we have to. The man doesn't move though. So I repeated myself and he told me no. So I was like, "Sir, I can't ring you up here." And he grabs my arm and goes, "Yes you can," then points to the sign in front of the register that says This register is closed and says, "This is a register. You'll ring me up here." I clenched my teeth and half shouted, "Sir, Let. Me. Go!" Immediately Tom was over there ready to help out if I needed it. The man didn't let me go, so I said it again, and Tom picked up the phone and paged a manager. Bill came over and kicked the guy out of the store. I went back to the breakroom and started crying.

That's about all I remember, except some part where Ishida Ryuuken was cooking on a barbecue, and someone told him not to pick up the grill with his bare hands.


Also you should go read the xkcd strip in my subject line. Then just start clicking random.

Customer: *Walks up and starts putting items on counter one at a time. Starts putting up packs of Xmas patterned tissue paper.* "There's eight of these."
Me: "All right." *Rings them up individually.*
Customer: "Oh you have to ring them up seperately?"
Me: "Yeah, it's because they're different patterns. Like those bags *points at bags she's pulling out* I have to ring them up by color."
Customer: "Oh. That just seems like a lot of work for you." *Begins counting bags. Two of the red ones are stuck together and rip as she pulls them apart.* "These were stuck and now they've ripped see? Can I get two more?"
Me:"Sure, do you want to go do that?"
Customer: "Do you mind?"
Me: "Not at all."
Customer: *Goes no where."
Me: *Counts the rest of her bags." "Okay, so you have 14 green and 12 red."
Customer: "I needed the two more red."
Me: "Right, did you want to go get those?"
Customer: "Oh, I thought you were going to go get them." *Starts walking away to grab them.*
Me: *Finishes ringing her up and tells her her total once she comes back.*
Customer: "Can I see the receipt?"
Me: "I don't have a receipt...?"
Customer: "Well I'm not paying for it until I see the receipt. I don't know what you charged me for when I walked away."
Me: *shocked* "...I can't print out a receipt until it's paid for..."
Customer: "I'm not paying until I see an itemized receipt."
Me: "All right... Let me call my manager." *Pages manager*
Customer: "I'm the customer, did you forget that?"
Me: *angry* "No, I didn't forget." *Pages manager again.*
Customer: "It's my money, I deserve to know what I'm paying for. If it were your money you'd do the same thing."
Me: *Turns my computer screen to face her.* "I can show you what I have rung up right here." *Scrolls up and down the different items.*
Customer: "You're going to fast."
Me: *Stops at the top and stands there.*
Customer: *after a time* "Okay, you can go down now." *I arrow down every time she says it's okay.* "Wait, there are supposed to be eight tissue papers."((only 5 items are shown on the screen at a time.))
Me: *Points at screen* One. Two. Three. *arrow down* Four. *arrow down* Five. *arrow down* Six. *arrow down* Seven. *arrow down* Eight.
Customer: "Okay"
Me: "Your total is $96.25"
Customer: *Hands me her card.* "You never make the customer walk away."
Me: *Hands her the receipt, her card, and the slip for her to sign. Walks away.*


I was absolutely livid at that woman. I've never been treated so badly by a customer before. Bruce, my manager didn't show up until I walked away. He said that the lady threw the signed slip on my counter, grabbed her stuff and stormed out of the store.

This is the most amazing thing ever! CHeck out the Progress page.

And dear lord, someone should stop me from wanting to audition. >>

So, I was checking my email tonight for the first time in a while. And I have a review for a story that I posted on fanfiction.net a while back. It was a FFXII drabble I wrote, like, two years ago. Drabble being the key word. It's not very long at all. It was based off of an event in the game that was really tragic to me so I wrote a little thing on it. I don't even clearly remember what happened now. But I got this review on it:

"Okay, I don't mean to sound mean. But can you honestly consider this a fanfic?

I don't know if this is your first, or something, but seriously? 5 sentences? That's blasphemy to the Final Fantasy 12 Fandom. Be lucky that I am not a rabid FF12 fan, otherwise I would be extremely mad at the lack of good FF12 fanfics here on .

Overall, this is ridiculously short, and I cannot understand it. The writing style shows some, if not little; potential, but this is clearly...

Just a random 5 sentences you decided to write and post, and not an actual fanfic.

I pray this was not the actual story and was a mere mistake in publishing said fanfiction.

If it is, I hope that you are not 7 years old. If you are, please forgive me."



I mean. All I can say is, "Wow." Unfortunately they didn't have an ff.n account so I can't respond to their review. But wow. It's weird because I'm not offended in the least. I just think it's funny. I mean, really?