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So, I was browsing Amazon.com, thinking about what I wanted to buy with my last Christmas gift card, when I decided to search for Sailor Moon merchandise on a lark. One of the things I found was this:

Amazon Link

Though it's the Japanese edition, back in the day, they also released these dolls here in the U.S. I have all the other Inners and Tuxedo Kamen, but I'm missing Sailor Venus. I can't remember if I just couldn't find her anywhere, or if I was in my silly "I hate Venus because she wears orange" phase and decided not to buy her out of spite, but I've always regretted not having her in my collection, especially since Venus is virtually tied with Mars as my favorite of the Inners.

The question is, should I snap this one up? I would in a heartbeat if I could get it for, say, about five dollars, but they're selling this one for around $27 (once you include shipping). Twenty-seven dollars is a lot of money for a silly little toy. (And if the American edition was just a repackage of the Japanese toys, not very good quality either.) I don't think I spent that much on the other five combined. Still, I really would love to have her in my collection...

Ugh, I can't decide. It's so, so tempting, but I could buy several volumes of used, out-of-print CLAMP manga with that kind of money, which would be a much better value.

Maybe I'll just wait and hope that somebody will put up a cheaper offer someday...

Current Mood: contemplative

So, thanks to

lunaludusand

mythopoet_blue's input -- thanks, guys! -- I decided that instead of getting the nine episode Fushigi Yugi OAV (which was a little too expensive for the $100 Visa gift card I used anyway), my money would be better spent on other things (namely manga).

I ordered:

Fullmetal Alchemist Boxset 3
Fullmetal Alchemist Boxset 4
Fruits Basket Vol. 19
Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound Vol. 5
Legend of Chun Hyang manga
The One I Love manga
Marriage DVD
Full Metal Panic Ani-Mini DVD

Yeah, I know I said I wouldn't start any new manga series until after I finished collecting Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound (which I'm finishing with this order), Absolute Boyfriend, and Yurara, but The One I Love and Legend of Chun Hyang are both one-shots, so I say that they don't really count. :P (Besides, they're CLAMP!) As for the last two, Marriage is a single-disc anime title that I've been eyeing for a while, since the summary sounded interesting and the price was right (only nine dollars, so even if it sucks, it's not big deal), while I mainly just got the ani-mini DVD because it was cheap ($.99) and I had a little over a dollar left on the card. *laughs*

Current Mood: tired

Well, Right Stuf is having another one of their 10 for $50, 25 for $100 sales again, this time on ADV titles. Of course, there's a lot of stuff I wish I had waited on -- I would have loved to have the Kaleido Star individual discs, for example, and I could have gotten my Diamond Daydreams discs for even cheaper than I paid -- and then there's the titles on my "maybe" list that I've always said I might pick up if I found a good deal on them.

Well, hello, good deal!

Except, I can't decide if I really, really want them. I mean, I like Nanaka 6/17 and Noir well enough and certainly wouldn't mind having them, but I have been, admittedly, a little loose with my cash as of late. *laughs* Penny-Pincher!Yume is saying, "Yume, save your money! There are other things you want more than those two series! You haven't even finished watching the new series you've got! You don't need anymore at the moment!" while Bargain Hunter!Yume pipes in with "But it's ten discs for $50! I'm not going to find them any cheaper than that! Pretty please, Yume, can I get them? Please?!"

*cue Real!Yume going crazy from the voices in her head*

It doesn't help that if I want the complete Noir series, I'm going to have to order as soon as possible since a couple of volumes are already in the single digits, and the sale is only on in-stock items.

I may just leave it to fate. Something like, if all the Noir volumes are still in stock this weekend when I can get to Wal-mart and buy another Visa gift card, then I'll get it. But even if they aren't, there's always Azumanga Daioh to take Noir's place...

Gah!

EDIT: Well, it looks like the decision's been made for me before I even had a chance. Two Noir discs are sold out, another one is getting close, and all the Azumanga Daioh discs are gone, so there goes my back-up plan. *sigh* That totally sucks because now that I know they're gone, I really want them!

Maybe they'll get a new shipment before the sale is over?

Please, Right Stuf?

( LJ Meme from MM and December )

Current Mood: confused

*yawn*

Yes, I am up at 7:00. Mom didn't want to go to Midnight Mass last night, so we're going to the 8:00 mass this morning.

I want to go back to beeeedddd.

*yawns again*

Well, anyway, Merry Christmas everybody!

We opened our presents last night like we do every year. It wasn't quite as bad a haul as I thought it would be, considering. I thought since Mom knew she wouldn't be able to spend a lot of money this year, she would get lots of silly, cheap gifts that we didn't really want just so that we would still get a lot of stuff, but really the only useless gift I got was yet another journal. (She gets me one practically every year, even thought I only really use them to write down computer passwords and the occasional story idea. Oh, well. At least it's cute.)

Here's the rundown:

( Gifts )

I think that's about it. I'll edit this later when we get home from church.

EDIT: Okay, we're back.

Amusing little anecdote about Laura's gift: While she was here for Thanksgiving, Laura kept pestering me and Mom about what we wanted for Christmas because she didn't want to take the easy way out and give us gift cards. Mom gave her a list of movies she wanted, but I couldn't think of anything at the time. A few days later, though, I sent her an email with a short list of things she could choose from: Princess Tutu boxset, Diamond Daydreams boxset, or Blades of Glory. As it turned out, she had already gotten me Blades of Glory for my birthday gift (which I finally got last Sunday, almost two months after the fact). However, when it came to our Christmas gifts, what did she give me and Mom?

Gift cards. *laughs*

Granted, she did originally get Mom a couple of movies, but she had to take them back because Mom went ahead and bought them for herself, and she was planning to get me one of the boxsets I wanted, but she lost my email, but still, I thought that was pretty funny, especially since the one person she was planning to give a gift card to -- Daddy, who is horrible to shop for -- actually got a movie and coffee mug.

As for what I ordered with the $50 gift card, Right Stuf had an awesome sale on a Rumbling Hearts bundle that I couldn't pass up. Originally it was $90, but I got it for $20! O.o (I really wish I held off on the first FMA boxset. They had a sale on that, too.) I also got the FMA movie and the next volumes of Absolute Boyfriend, NANA, and Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound.

Current Mood: sleepy

Seriously, this sudden manga bug I've been bitten by needs to stop. In just the past couple of weeks, I think I've spent about $150 just on manga, which is so not like me. I'm a notorious tightwad, but...manga!

*glomps stack of new manga*

But, yeah, I bought some more manga today: Vol. 4 and 5 of Tsubasa and the first two volumes of NANA. -_-; I probably would have bought more of NANA, actually, but Waldenbooks didn't have the third volume in stock, so I decided to stick with just the first two for now. (Probably for the best.) At least I managed to stop myself from picking up the first three volumes of Card Captor Sakura they had, although they were very tempting. I already have enough series to finish collecting: NANA, Tsubasa, Fruits Basket, Absolute Boyfriend, and Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound.

Gah!

*hides $50 B&N gift card so I'm not tempted to order more*

In other news, Mom totally ruined her Mother's Day present. I bought said gift card so that I could order the Indiana Jones boxset she's been wanting online as a surprise, but the moment she saw it, she knew exactly what I was going to buy with it. *sigh* Since she already knew what I wanted to buy, I ended up just buying the set from Best Buy, which is why I still have the gift card.

Man, it's tempting me...

No! No more manga for at least a month, Yume!

Eh, it'll probably be gone by the end of next weekend.

I'm too weak.

Current Mood: crazy

...and I'm a Right Stuf -aholic.

Seriously, though. I'm still waiting on some back-ordered things from my previous two orders, yet when I bought another $100 Visa gift card (love those things) at the grocery store today, I just had to blow it all the second I got home.

How could I resist buying the entire Wedding Peach series when they were selling it for only $5 a disc, though? I also went ahead and pre-ordered the next Fruits Basket volume and the next two volumes of Absolute Boyfriend, so I don't have to worry about getting those for a while. Plus, I also got a cute Shigure plushie, an adorable Jonathan the Seal (from Kaleido Star) plushie, and yet another gift for Samuraiter, who is going to be so spoiled for our first Valentine's Day/first anniversary, it's not even funny. ^_^ (Yes, I managed to get all of that for under a $100. How great is this site?)

At least I now almost have all the anime series I've been wanting. Really all I need now is the Rah-Xephon boxset and Kaleido Star Season 2, which hasn't come out with a boxset as of yet (or been featured in one of Right Stuf's sales), and I'll be up to date until I find some other series I want. I kind of wanted the Noir boxset as well, but to be honest, I really just wanted it it for the music, especially the awesome opening song, so I think I'll probably just get the soundtrack.

Edit: Man, I just looked at the front page and realized that they were having a sale on VIZ titles this weekend, 40% off DVDs and 33% off manga. If I had known that, I could have gotten the Ayashi no Ceres anime for a great price. :( Granted, it wasn't on my wish list and I do have all the manga already, but still, I would have been interested. Also could have used the code on my Absolute Boyfriend pre-orders, but, eh, that's no big deal.

Current Mood: happy

Just got in from Midnight Mass. I'm about to go to sleep, but I want to get down my annual loot list before I do, since we opened gifts like we usually do on Christmas Eve.

( Christmas Presents )

I think that's about it. Like I suspected, I didn't get much from my wishlist, but it was still a nice Christmas. ^_^

Current Mood: tired

Yep, I did it. ^_^ The story is ...not very good, but the important thing is that I actually finished. Wahoo! Hopefully, now I've trained myself to be a little more faster with my writing from now on, although I still don't know what I'm going to work on next. I want to write a Kaleido Star short, but I can't start that until Netflix gets the last disc -- which came out earlier this month -- in so I can know how the series ends. :( So, for now, it looks like .moon's holiday challenge is top priority, but that should only take a day or two at the most to write 2,000 words. (I have been writing 2,500 a day this month, after all. ^_^) I don't know what I'll do after that.

Anyway, today Mom and I also went to Humble do a little more Christmas shopping. I bought a scrapbook for Crystle and got a gift card from B&N so I could order the Planet of the Apes boxset for my mom, but the stupid website raised the sale price from last night of about $25 to $43 today. Grr. I'm not paying that much of an increase, so it looks like I'll just have to hope that it'll go on sale again before Christmas or think of something else to get her, which sucks because it was the perfect gift. :(

Also bought a couple of things for myself with the $60 I got for my birthday: the Witch Hunter Robin boxset and Il Divo's new Siempre CD.

My poor wallet is beginning to feel a little empty. *laughs*

Current Mood: good

The first season Kaleido Star boxset I ordered (instead of the manga I originally planned to buy with my gift card) came in today! Yay! Now I can watch my favorite anime any time I want.

In other news, I also finished with Fire Emblem 7, another game Samuraiter sent me. It was definitely more difficult than FE8, but still a lot of fun to play. ^_^ It's back to writing next week, though. I've taken a long enough break from that.

Speaking of fics, I've uploaded Ch. 4 of ATR over at ASMR, FF.net, and .moon, if anybody's interested.

Current Mood: mellow

Well, the outing was successful this time, but I have to say that it ended up being a rather disappointing day all around. I blame hormones. They put me in a bad mood all day long.

First off, when we got to the mall, we went to Barnes and Noble like we usually do. I wanted to get the new Someday's Dreamers manga, but they didn't have it. *sigh* I ended up buying a gift card instead to order it -- along with the upcoming Fruits Basket and Absolute Boyfriend volumes -- online, and Mom bought me the sixth Harry Potter book that finally come out in paperback a couple of days ago.

After that, we headed to the food court, where we had lunch before going to the movies. Mom really wanted to see Lady in the Water, but since I thought it looked stupid, we decided to see The Devil Wears Prada instead. While I really enjoyed it, Mom got bored halfway through, which made me feel bad since this was supposed to be kind of a birthday celebration. (Her birthday's this Saturday.) Anyway, afterwards, we went to a few other stores, but we couldn't find anything we wanted, so we headed to Best Buy.

To be honest, going to Best Buy was the thing I most looked forward to. I planned to buy the first season of Kaleido Star (what else?), but, again, they didn't have it. Nor did they have my second choice, the second season of Wedding Peach. (They did have the first season, which I almost got, but I really wanted the second, since I haven't seen all of it.) Luckily, they did have my third choice, the Evangelion movie boxset. I ended up getting that, but, because of the aforementioned stupid hormones, I was actually trying to keep from crying that they didn't have the Kaleido Star boxset.

Yeah, I was tearing up because they didn't have a boxset. *rolls eyes* Definitely hormones.

The rest of the day pretty much just went downhill from there. Not even The Mary Tyler Moore Show managed to cheer me up, and that show always cheers me up. I'm better now, but still... Sucky day.

There was one moment of brightness, though. Dad just gave Mom her birthday present, and it''s a new flat screen TV, which means I can rid of my little TV and switch to the old living room TV. Whee! Along with my reclaimed DVD player, I can now watch subtitled anime in the comfort of my own bedroom.

At least something good happened today.

Current Mood: grumpy

Sometimes, I really do feel like a bank.

So, Laura's car finally died on her. It's been dying a slow, painful death practically ever since she bought it. There was always something wrong with it, and quite frankly, I'm surprised that it lasted this long (about four or five years, I think). Anyway, she has to buy a new one, so I'm loaning her the $500 I had saved up.

I don't mind, really. Actually, I was the one who offered to do it. My mom wanted to give her some money to help her out, but we don't exactly have a lot of extra cash laying around and I didn't want my parents to take out yet another loan, so me loaning her the money was the best idea. It's not like I really need the money for anything at the moment. I still have a $50 gift card from B&N I can use to buy the Someday's Dreamers manga, among others, so I'm pretty much set for at least a couple of months. (Yes, I have simple needs. ^_^)

It just really amuses me how I'm always loaning my family money. Somebody stole our bank card number and bought an expensive cell phone with it, causing our checks to bounce? Here's $300. A bill's higher than you thought it would be? Take a hundred. Dad needs money for gas? $10? Sure.

*laughs*

I really am the Bank of Yume.

Current Mood: tired

Man, they didn't have the Evangelion boxset I wanted in stock at Best Buy. That's the whole reason I had Mom take me shopping today, so I could buy it. All they had were the movie boxsets and single discs (which are surprisingly only about $12, but even as cheap as they are, I'm holding out for the boxset). Oh, well, at least the trip wasn't a total waste. I managed to find a hard-to-find Celine Dion French album I've been wanting, and at Barnes & Noble, I picked up Vol. 12 of Fruits Basket and Vol. 2 and 3 of the RahXephon manga. I also picked up a couple of $50 B&N gift cards so I would have them on hand whenever I had the urge to shop online. Almost finished with the first one -- I just ordered Vol. 9 of Fruits Basket, Vol. 1 of RahXephon, and an impossible to find Sarah Brightman CD -- but the other one will probably be saved until the Someday's Dreamers manga comes out.

Stolen from

sophiap

Tell me of a fandom you know I know of and I'll tell you :

1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love/like as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character I used to dislike but don't any longer
7. The character I would shag anytime
8. The character I'd want to be like
9. The character I'd slap
10. A pairing that I love
11. A pairing that I despise

Current Mood: disappointed

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