Readin' teh 漢字～

Read the Kanji is pretty nifty for learning kanji readings even if you don't pay for a subscription.  I'm to the point that all the kanji available to me are yellow or green. (Yay~!)  I actually like it so much I'm going to try to get my mom to pay for a one year subscription, assuming I don't get the $20 myself first.  It has example sentences and you can turn on/off whether it shows the big kanji, translation of the kanji, the example Japanese sentence, or the translation of the sentence.  Note that it isn't anything like Reviewing the Kanji, which is based on a book that preaches learning the stroke order and a basic one word meaning of kanji in order from simple to more complex kanji, but it doesn't really consider readings or learning more useful kanji first.

ACen, Pinky:St, Another Scarf, Anki, Bonsai...

I'm going to be going to Acen this year, I'm rather excited. x3 I was thinking about wearing my Maka Albarn (Soul Eater) cosplay, but I grew out my bangs, so I feel like I'd look silly. Would I? There probably wont be enough room to safely bring it anyway...

A few days ago I accidentally elbowed my Kobato. pinky off of my computer monitor, at first I looked her over and said, 'oh, yay, I didn't break anything,' until I noticed her bottle had broken off in her hand. D: I've read about using warm water and a pin to get the broken part out, but I'm kinda scared to try it (I'm probably just being paranoid).

For the longest time I hadn't messed with my pinkies, so I finally decided to just take them apart and put them back together again last night. Before, someone else had put one together and it turned out particularly cute, so I didn't want to mess it up, but it also was using my favorite head, so I got over it, and switched them up.

I'm thinking I want to take one or two with me to ACen, but I'm not sure which ones, or if it's a terrible idea. I'm kinda thinking I'll bring Maki, or Ako, or maybe Mikimiki, but I'm not sure, we'll see.

(Wondering what the heck a pinky is? They're called Pinky:st (read as pinky street) and you can find out more from pinky-street.com)

I apparently started making a scarf back in January, but I kept not working on it, or forgetting where I was and frogging it. I finally got past the initial seed stitch rows and now I'm into the patterned part. It's already about 5" long, and I'm planning to work on it on the way to and from Chicago. I'm hoping I can make it a lot longer than my last one. I only had one skein of the type of yarn I was using, so it just barely fits around one's neck. My mom (the one I gave it to) said it was fine, because then she could zip her coat up to it, but I didn't really see her wearing it much... Oh well.

I'm terrible at transitioning from one topic to another, it's like I write one paragraph on one thing and suddenly the next one is something completely different. So I'm gonna just keep doing that, even though it looks stupid, because I'm not sure how to do it differently.

Anki is nifty. I'm surprised how long I've kept up with doing the flash cards. I'm not sure how much it's actually helping with learning Japanese though. I'm also trying to keep the little bit of Spanish I learned from my class. It's so much easier. I'm kinda annoyed by how much easier it is, when I've been trying to learn Japanese for so much longer. Besides Japanese and Spanish, I downloaded a deck of countries/flags/capitols/locations, but it's only showing me the flags so far, and I mostly wanted to learn the capitols/locations.

I think my last, and latest, silly hobby no one cares to read about is bonsai. I went to arborday.org and bought a lilac(for my mom), a yoshino cherry tree (which my dad let me plant in the back yard), a lacebark/chinese elm, a white pine, a japanese maple, and I got a red maple and two forsythia free with everything else. I put the maples, the pine, and the elm in pots. I still need to find somewhere I can plant the forsythia, I'm a bit worried, since I'll be away over the weekend. I think I might have shocked my elm tree, it had had little green leaves when I got it, but the day after I planted it they went brown. I bought that one specifically because people on the internet said that you could use it as an indoor bonsai tree, but I'm going to start it out outside. Hopefully I can get them well established without killing them, then I'm going to start trying to do the 'training' stuff.

Of Eeks and Languages

Bonjour!
I've discovered podcasts. Oh noes. I've already downloaded over three and a half gigs. ;.; Most of them are about learning a language. I don't want to get too far ahead in Japanese again because then I'll be bored and my mom will bug me about how bored I look. I'm listening to other languages instead. As I type this, it's 'Coffee Break French', obviously teaching French. I've subscribed to 24 language podcasts, not counting the two English ones, which covers 14 languages. O.o Eeks, I didn't realize it was that much until I went and counted. I don't really get what lesson three is talking about. O.O I just gained another gig. O.M.G. no wai. I think I'm gonna need a bigger hard drive...  (I had a little over 3.5 gigs when I got on the computer today, when I was typing this I had 4.5 or so)
On another note, I got to go to a fair with my friends, one of whom is currently about too many miles away. It was fun. I didn't ride many rides, but still. I guess that's what happens when you see a bunch of people you actually like after seeing no one for weeks. The picture I posted to my blog was from the top of the Ferris wheel, which cost four bucks. Luckily one of my friends somehow ended up with an extra ticket and gave it to me. (I only bought six tickets and rode the 'scrambler' which used up the last three of everyone else's tickets) I didn't know that it was going to take so long. o.o; I spent the whole time clinging to the bar in front of me with my left hand (and going Eeep!!! every time it moved to let the next people on XD ) and taking pictures with my phone in my right hand. :p I may have taken a bit of a hiatus with taking photos, but I'm not done being a photographer yet it seems. ^^
Hmm... what else... I hate my CIS 1100 class. I'm not even that sure what it is I hate. I just do. Though the teacher doesn't explain things that well, so what she expects us to do is kind of vague. There are some people who know what manga is in the class, the guy next to me reads Naruto, and the guy in the row in front of me reads Bleach. Yay. I'm doing pretty well in my other classes, which is good. (Eeks, I need to do my Japanese homework, it's due tomorrow)
Au revoir!