>doesn't even use livejournal anymore
>gets email about "cherrim" being purged
>..........
>insert joke about evolving from cherubi to cherrim

hi guys, i'm pretty cool.

I might come back and try to use LJ a bit. Went through and removed all the people who didn't have me friended back and trimmed my communities and stuff. So maybe I'll start posting again. Regardless, just wanted to toss a post on here to make sure people knew there was a change in case it confused them... though it's not MUCH of a change, so I probably didn't have to bother.

(oh god i haven't been on at all since my paid account expired--only 15 icons? ;__;)

edit: apparently "remove friends of" also includes mutual friends. WELP. Why would they even have that option in addition to "delete all friends"?? Add me back, lol.

Um. Hi.

I... I think it's safe to say I've kind of moved on from LJ. I'm on Twitter almost all the time (@Cherrim) and I'd love to add everyone from LJ on there if you'll keep me around. :') I'm also on Facebook if you want to add me there (PM me for it), but I don't really post much. And I suppose I'm on tumblr now with an art/sketch blog (cherrim). Aaaaand I guess that's about it for hip-and-happening social media.

:( Before, I never posted but I at least kept up with my friends page. However, I reformatted my computer recently and completely forgot to add my LJ firefox addon which notified me about updates and... when I noticed it wasn't there, I realized I didn't actually miss it. Absolutely no offense to anyone--I always kept up almost religiously with the non-community journals on my list--but now I just... I either don't have the time or the drive or the attention span or something that was there before. It probably doesn't help that LJ is so finicky lately that when I do try to visit, sometimes it won't even load.

Soooo if you want to add me on any of the above services (I have others too, if you ask :P), please go right ahead! Maybe I'll pick this journal up again in the future, but if you want to part ways here and would like me to remove you from my friends list so you don't have a dead journal following you, just leave a comment and I'll get right on it. And regardless of all this, I wish all of you the best in the future. ♥

happy early canada day!

i'm kicking off my long weekend with an excellent bout of HORRIBLE CRAMPS FROM NOWHERE because as far as i can tell, they just happened suddenly for no good reason. It's not my normal stuff, it's just random! And not even an hour after I got home. :( So yes, I'm just posting to whine. also the advil is gone and the only painkiller in reach is percocet and i will not take percocet for no reason lmao. (Only in my house would Percocet be easier to find than Advil.)

Um. In other news, marathoned all the Harry Potter movies over the weekend, Canada Post didn't lose all my packages during the strike (got my Vanillite plushie, my play-asia package hasn't arrived so jury's up on that one), and finished up my Goblet of Fire audiobook at work today. Also learnt I'm like twice as productive when I'm listening to the books compared to when I'm not listening to anything. Which is nice, since I felt kinda bad about it.

fml for my wallet because of steam sale. :(

Hello all~

I'm back with another somewhat-monthly update!

I have a job! It's part-time, and it's only temporary, but it gets me out of the house three days a week and some money. I'm working at the brewery again, but in a different place 'cause someone else filled my old job. I'm doing data entry for the Quality Control peeps and it's really mindless work, but that just means I can listen to ebooks while I work so I essentially get paid to re-read Harry Potter. Whoo!

They said they'd need me for like 6 weeks or so since they had the backlog of data entry from this year as well as some of last year. I... I might have finished this year's already and I've worked 4 days. :s I started on last year's and I don't think it'll take me very long. They hired a (crappy) CS student and didn't expect me to type fast and know my way around shortcuts? Pleeease. Though, I probably should slow down so I can actually get paid something significant.

Health-wise, I... I might have actually found something that works. I've been on the new combination for over a month now (though haven't been on the full dose of one of them for a month yet) and while I haven't noticed much of a difference in my mood, I think the pain might be quite manageable now! The one I went to a full dose of recently is a mood enhancer/happy pill/whatever but apparently it's also used with gabapentin (the original sort of... pain nerve suppressant or whatever?) to enhance the effect since it also does that. Last TOTM, I didn't have much pain at all. Well, relatively. It was enough that I could walk around and aside from my ridiculously awful mood, I was fine. But it was also over a week early so it might've just been a weird TOTM in general. D: I don't know for sure yet but I'm hopeful. Insomnia's also improved, too. I thought it was mostly gone for a week or so but it's started getting worse again. Stil

I'm going back to school in September whether I'm "better" or not since I've been kicked off Dad's insurance. If I'm a full time student, I can still be on his plan and thus not have to pay $90 for a month's worth of drugs. x_X I'm waiting for a payment to go through and then we can send my intention off to the insurance place and yay no more making my parents broke so I can walk around 1/4th of my life~ Hopefully. Not sure where I'm gonna live yet. My brother's gonna be in dorms which are full up for fall term so I'll have to find someone looking for a roommate. Might be a chance to live closer to the school.

Umm aside from all that... Uhh. I'm going to Saskatchewan for the first time in years and will see family who think I ditched my cousin's wedding to go to an anime con (when in reality I'd planned the con and booked the hotel and was generally in charge of the group going for months before the wedding was announced) and even ignoring that, I just haven't seen them in forever so I'm a little worried it'll be awkward. :( We're going up to a lake or something. It was either that or roadtrip down to New Jersey alone with my dad which I really did not want to do so... *sigh* Originally we were gonna go to NYC for a week-ish but then that changed to Philadelphia to see a concert my dad wanted to see, then stopping a few hours in NYC, New Jersey for two nights, and then Ottawa for concerts I was not interested in at all. And then mom said she wasn't going and I just... ugh. No thanks. I was already considering asking to stay home altogether because by the time our "trip to NYC" was cut down to "3 hours in NYC so Erica can stop at that store she wants to go to", I just did not think it was worth the stress of dad yelling at us lots which always happens on road trips. Coming back in time to see the last Harry Potter movie with my friends. ♥

Oh, I saw Glee! Live the other week. :D tortoises was in North America on a trip from Australia and swung up here to go to it with me. We originally got meh-tickets but sold them off when they added a new day on Sunday and managed to get front-row tickets. And then when we got there, it turned out that it was front row centre. We were so close and it was an amazing concert. I touched Cory, Lea and Ashley (Finn, Rachel & Lauren). It was funny when Lea reached out to the crowd because we're both super short and it was an amazing effort to touch and I'm amazed she even bothered, haha. n_n;; It was also really cool meeting JA since I've known her like... 8 years or more, haha.

I was gonna write about fandom and stuff too but now I don't feel like being on the computer anymore. I might go to bed, actually. Or go play more Tales of VS since I'm so close to completing it... even if all I'm doing is levelling up Jade instead of doing the special battles to get the last character. Derp.

So, if it isn't obvious, I don't use LJ much anymore. :( I've been using OhLife as my personal blog lately because I can say whatever I want and document in as much detail as I want without worrying about judgement or anything. That and it emails me everyday to remind me to write so I haven't missed a day since I started using it at the beginning of April.

I really haven't been up to much. Same old nothing. Turned 22 (ugh), started on a few more pills, and got a new fish named Xemnas. My health is the same as ever and I'm waiting to get in to see a psychiatrist (psychologist? I forget the difference--whichever one gives out pills moreso than talking with you >_>).

Anyway! I read LJ everyday but since I don't post much, if you'd like to keep up with me, this is a contact post!

TWITTER » Cherrim
WLM » marluxia★live.ca
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I'm on twitter the most so if any of you have it, add me and leave a comment. ♥ I've gotta try to figure out facebook again and get on that too. 8|

Derp, update.

→ Still dunno what i'm doing school-wise. Petition went through though and I am back in honours CS at Waterloo so if I don't get into UofT or something, I can go back just fine. Sorta considering doing a spring term (meaning I'd also just go back in fall and winter so a year straight of school ugh) but I dunno yet. :/ Stupid health. Stablize so I can get on with my life fml!

→ Been doing lots of nothing. Finished series 1 of Doctor Who (can't find the really old stuff so I'm just starting from the 2005 reboot). I think the library has the first disc of season 2 on hold for me right now. I really love it. n_n;

→ Finished my Unova Dex in Pokemon White. Sorta tossed it aside for now. I FINALLY BEAT FINAL FANTASY X-2 after like 5 years the other day. I refused to beat it until I finished the 100-level dungeon so I'd never have to do it again and I did that the other night. I'm gonna replay it but first I'm replying FFX. I have a love-hate thing going on with its battle system right now.

→ April Fool's was yesterday. At PokéCommunity we did variable replacements to change some words which gave us a few great memes like Rebecca Stunfisk. Also changed the theme to be Serebii Forum's (which oh god hurt my eyes so much) and then pranked the mods by switching them all around which was fun. We didn't tell 'em about that part beforehand and I was excited for that. 8D

→ T'was also my parents' anniversary last night and my brother told us fairly-last minute that he had an Improv night that night. We already made plans AGES ago to go to a lacrosse game and we had to skip out on that to go to the Improv thing. To be fair, what we went to was really funny and we don't regret it but ugggh it means we paid $100 for a $50 gift card to Jack Astor's, in the end. :[ lmao.

→ Got my eyes checked today. I don't need glasses! Not yet, anyway. My optometrist says to go back if my eyesight gets worse but for now, since my bad right eye isn't affecting my overall vision and ability to focus when both eyes are open, it's fine. So no glasses for me. My brother needs 'em though so we were having him try on a few pairs. The ones he liked best ended up being a pair he and I picked out at random while goofing off. He looks a bit hipster in them but they looked really good on him soooo hopefully he'll get those. I didn't like any of the ones my mom kept saying were good. :s

→ Got my permanent retainer off a few days ago. It was essentially a line of wire going along some of my top and bottom teeth and glued in place. My teeth feel so weird without it and I already sorta feel them shifting a bit so it's a good thing I got myself fitted for a temporary retainer. I'd prefer to wear one every night or every other night when I sleep rather than have the permanent one in. I CAN ACTUALLY FLOSS MY TEETH NOW so maybe my dentists won't yell at me whenever I go. ;O; So glorious.

→ Also our betta fish died the other day. ;_; RIP, Edgeworth.

omg i suck at livejournal. ;_; Not that I've been up to much. So point form.

→ eternalaegis came up to visit. That was fun. We finished up Dead Space (we started it last time he was here). And we also watched the Justin Bieber movie as a joke but came out of the movie as Beliebers. n_n Yay.

→ Otherwise I've been home. :[ Turns out the gabapentin isn't working since I've been pretty bed (or couch, rather) ridden all week. Blech. So I guess it really is a good thing I took the term off since I think this would've been a lot worse if I'd actually had to do anything but lie on the couch all day. (Insomnia hasn't gone away either... saw my doctor the other week and she ordered blood tests since all this should have been dealt with by now.)

→ I know I said I wouldn't get it, but I ended up importing Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep: Final Mix. And because I'm nuts (and would get WAY too bored playing it normally again), I decided to do a no-experience, LV1 playthrough. I finished up Terra the other week and I'm sitting on the boss in Deep Space with Ven. This playthrough is fun because all the bosses I found hard in normal playthroughs are super easy in this because I got so good at fighting them, whereas the ones I just breezed past in my other playthroughs are giving me such a hard time because I just don't know how to fight them properly. xD; But I'm having a LOT of fun and I don't even mind that I'll be playing through again real quick so I can actually fight all the extra bosses ('cause I sure as hell am not gonna do them at level 1 the first time).

→ Got Pokémon White! I realized the night before that I hadn't put my team together yet so I scrambled around in Black breeding what I needed and, where applicable, checking natures and genders. Couldn't sleep all that night and ended up trading two Cherubi from Diamond, to sotomura's JP Platinum, so he could put them on his JP Black, so we could trade them back to my Black. All so I could have a Japanese Cherubi that came from Marluxia, my first Cherrim. And it was worth it. 8D

→ My team in White is Vanillite (Roxas), Litwick (Flamberge), Joltik (Joltula), Cherrim (さくら[Sakura]), Sandile (Terra), and Ducklett (Dominico). I'm iffy on Ducklett. I love it but I don't really like Swanna, its evolution, all that much. :[ I might end up replacing it with another flying type but I honestly don't know which one yet. 8D; Regardless, I'm having a lot of fun playing this again. I really like BW. Gen 4 was still my favourite but I'm in the pokecommunity chatroom a lot these days and there's always someone to trade with everyday and almost everyone is playing so I get to talk about it a lot. It's fun. n_n;

→ Started watching LOST and Doctor Who. The former, I started getting on DVD from Zip.ca. It's... okay, but I'm not invested in any of the characters or anything. :s I think after I finish the first season I might just go read all the episode synopses instead. The story really intrigues me but I just don't have the attention span to watch hour-long episodes of it. As for the latter, I noticed CBC has it on nowadays. It's somewhere in the series with the tenth Doctor. (I only know this 'cause it has David Tennant and he's the ONLY doctor I recognize lmao. .__.) I wish I'd gotten into this sooner. ;o;

Uhhhh have I even done anything else? I can't remember. These last few months have been pretty boring. I have to remember to grab the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood DLC sometime this week.

It's really weird to be sitting here with... nothing to do. And nothing I have to do. It's making me agitated which probably isn't good, but I'm nervous and probably will be for a few months yet. :(

I'm taking a term off of school. Which doesn't sound like a big deal when I just out and say it, and maybe it isn't, but it certainly feels like one.

( Details, if you want 'em! )

( And health-related! )

And... I guess that's about it. :( I failed my blog resolution already but I don't feel too bad about it because I didn't really want to write about any of this until I'd at least decided what I was doing this term both school and health-wise.

Okay, I'm actually tired (meaning I might sleep for once!?) so I'm gonna head to bed. Or go play Re:Coded (which sucks). :D

Couldn't sleep (as usual) last night, which sucked, but mom let me sleep in until 11:30 and then I slowly got up. We went for lunch, I got my bangs cut (my hair doesn't look quite so horribly overgrown now!) and then we packed the van with all the stuff I'd brought home. Which was less than I thought but was still too much. B|

Picked up my roommate and now we're back here. Mom bought us groceries (;~; so thankful) and while we were at the mall, I preordered Pokémon White and managed to find the book Dad wanted for Christmas that I gave him an IOU for! So I bought that and gave it to mom to bring back with her.

Then helped pick out courses with my roommate, reluctantly ordered pizza (I'm not at all hungry... and wasn't even by the time the food came), and now I'm just kind of sitting here, ridiculously bored. :/ I have to get up to go talk to some advisers tomorrow and apparently it's on a take-a-number basis or something?? I dunno. I've set my alarm for 8ish and the office opens at 10 so I'm gonna try to get there for 9:30, I guess.

I accidentally had a Coke (I wasn't even thinking!) with the pizza earlier and finished it before remembering I'm not supposed to have caffeine after lunchtime. ;_; Not that I've noticed a major difference or anything but still. I hope I can sleep a bit tonight. It'd suck to fall asleep at 7am and have my alarm go off an hour later. :(

Ugggh so bored. I don't really feel like playing video games. I guess I'll tidy up my room some more until some sort of acceptable bed time. 8/

...or I'll write this entry and forget about it in Notepad for a few hours. /posts

Omg I slept so much last night! I got like 7 or 8 hours! I think it was one of those pass-out-because-I-haven't-gotten-enough-sleep-in-four-weeks but I'm so happy. XD I felt overtired though, as if I slept 14 hours instead of 8 (to put it in perspective, haha) but now that I've been up for a while, I feel better. I hope I can sleep like that again tonight.

I saw Tangled today with my mom and my brother. It was good, except we got there late and had to sit in the very front row which suuucks for a 3D movie. x_X The movie was still surprisingly good though. I'd heard they switched the movie from being a princess movie to a boy-oriented movie partway through production so I was really iffy on it but decided to see it anyway. I'm glad I did. :D

I can't believe I'm going back to school tomorrow. Urgggh I don't want to, lmao. ;_;