Sweet Dreams

If you leave a comment on this post, I will give you five subjects with which I associate you. You may then take those five subjects, post this meme in your LJ, and elaborate on what you have posted.

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samuraiter

Fruits Basket - One of my all-time favorite anime/manga. It's reallyi ncredible how Takaya Natsuki was able to create such a large cast, and yet she managed to give most of them heaps of character development. (Some were a little left out in the cold, like Ritsu, but that's just being picky.) It was also great to have a romantic story in which you honestly didn't know who the heroine would pick until halfway in, which made me that much happier when they guy I prefered won Tohru's heart. (Especially since for a while, I really thought the story was leading toward the other.) I can't believe it's almost over (in the English translation)! *sniffles*

Grey's Anatomy - It's funny, because everybody who knows me well knows that I can't stand anything gross involving blood and guts and all that kind of stuff. It's gotten to the point that my parents and sister will warn me before they start talking about things like that, so I can stick my fingers in my ears and sing nonsense to myself until it's all over. (I'm so mature.) Yet, I love this show. Granted, I do usually cover my eyes during the surgeries, but still... It's just great fun. (And Patrick Dempsey is very easy on the eyes, even if his character is kind of a jerk.)

Sailor Moon - My gateway drug into the world of anime and manga. Technically not my first exposure to anime -- that honor belongs to an anime version of "The Little Mermaid" that I didn't realize was anime until after I watched SM -- but I mostly consider it as much. And I still love it as much as I did all those those years ago when I first saw the dub on TV. It's a love affair that will never, never end, even if it's no longer my favorite anime/manga anymore. After all, it's the fandom that first got me into fanfiction. ^_^

Sims - Ah, my obsession of obsessions of the moment, even when I'm not allowing myself to play. It's really become an addiction, guys. -_- It's so crazy. I mean, I was known to get a little obsessed with Sims 1 back in the day (until my game started getting buggy and it became annoying to play), but with Sims 2, it's almost like a twenty-four hour thing. If I'm not doing something Sims related, then you can be pretty sure I'm at least thinking of it. *laughs* Totally sucks for my writing, though. I wish I could get back into being this involved in fanfiction.

Someday's Dreamers - So, so sad that this little slice of life/magical girl -- two of my favorite genres -- gem never really caught on here in the States. Even sadder that it's very unlikely that the second anime series and third manga series will ever be licensed in English. (I can't even find scanlations of the manga past the first couple of chapters.) People just don't know what they're missing, unfortunately. :(

A couple of weeks ago, Mom bought one of those converter boxes for our living room TV. She tried to hook it up, but we weren't getting any signals on our indoor antenna. It looked like we would need an outdoor antenna to get any digital signals, so when Dad asked her what she wanted for her birthday (coming up at the end of next month), that's what she asked for.

Well, yesterday, she decided it would all just be a big hassle and told Dad that she didn't want the antenna after all. Instead, when the change came next year, we would just be TV-less, a situation I was less than thrilled about, unless I wanted to give up the Internet so we could afford cable.

Needless to say, that was an unacceptable solution.

So, today, I decided I would try hooking up the converter box, this time on the TV in my room (which, keep in mind, is older than the one in the living room).

Guess what?

I got signals!

Not all of them, granted. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a signal for Channel 2, 8, 20, and 39, most of which aren't terribly big losses. Channel 2 is the NBC affiliate, which if you read this journal regularly, you know we rarely got anyway. I was hoping that would change with digital, but, oh, well. Channel 8 is PBS, which I have to admit is a bit disappointing but I can easily live without. Channel 20 was the former UPN affiliate that is now My Network TV. They only had crappy shows anyway, so good riddance. Channel 39, the WB affiliate, is the only really major loss, and even that's not too bad. Last season, I was only watching Gossip Girl, Smallville, and Reaper,  and if worse comes to worse, I can always just wait for boxsets to come out and rent them from Netflix. None of them are I-must-watch-or-I-will-die shows for me, anyway, so I can wait. At least no matter what happens, I'm sure to have 11 (CBS), 13 (ABC), and 26 (FOX).

Only problem now is that when I unhooked the converter box with the intention of trying my luck with the living room TV -- I think I might have figured out why Mom wasn't getting any signals when she set it up -- I apparently messed up my DVD set-up. (I had to unhook it to use the converter box, which will be quite annoying when I want to switch.) It looks like everything is plugged in where it is supposed to be, so I don't know what the problem is. *scratches head* Guess I'll just have to wait until Mom comes home and see if she can figure out what I did wrong.

EDIT: I now have it hooked up in the living room. Yay! And in the living room, though I can't get Channel 26, I can get 39 (although the picture isn't the greatest). I also managed to get 2 and 20 for, like, two minutes when I first hooked it up, but the signals are lost again. *sigh* Oh, well, maybe once Mom sees how really good the pictures are on the stations that have really strong signals, I can convince her that it'll be worth the hassle to get the outdoor antenna. If not, at least once we buy another box for my TV, we'll get all the really important channels between the two.

Considering my last entry, I just had to do this meme.

Name five crossovers you'd love to read or write one of these days, no matter how cracked-out or improbable.

1. Sailor Moon/Grey's Anatomy - I think it would be really interesting if either Ami or Mamoru ended up interning at Seattle Grace, and the hospital ended up having to deal with the casualties of a youma attack, having no idea what was going on.

2. Card Captor Sakura/Ghost Whisperer - Melinda sees ghosts, Touya sees ghosts... It's a no-brainer. (See previous entry)

3. Sailor Moon/Witch Hunter Robin - I really do want to write this eventually. My idea has Robin, whose craft is fire, being related to Rei, a fact they discover when the STNJ starts investigating the Sailor Senshi, who they think are witches.

4. Someday's Dreamers/Harry Potter - A lot of HP crossovers from what I hear tend to be with series that don't really fit in with it, but Someday's Dreamers really would be a plausible HP crossover partner, IMO. Both series are about magical people learning how to use their powers, so I think they would complement each other well if done correctly. 

5. Absolute Boyfriend/Chobits/Hand Maid May - *laughs* Yeah, I just want to see how somebody would handle a crossover with these three series about robots who look like people. I bet it would be a lot of fun. ^_^

5.  

Today was pretty awesome. ^_^

First off, Mom and I went to go see Blades of Glory. Hilarious movie. I did get a little grossed out a couple of times to the point of feeling like I wanted to throw up, but the rest of the movie was so awesome, I didn't really mind. I already can't wait for it to come out on DVD so I can watch it again.

After that, we did a little shopping at the mall, which of course meant a stop at Barnes & Noble. Since I finished watching the Paradise Kiss anime last night (very good ^_^), I really wanted to check out the manga, but, unfortunately, they didn't have it in stock. :( So I decided to grab all the Aishiteruze Baby volumes they had, which was all of them except for the fifth one, instead, and I'm really glad I did. I've only read the first couple of chapters so far, but I already love it. It's so CUTE! ^_^

We then headed to Best Buy. Incredibly enough, they had the Magic Knights Rayearth boxset I was thinking about ordering from Right Stuf for fifteen dollars cheaper, which then got discounted another 10% thanks to a coupon Mom had. (Can you say awesome?) I also got the new Hayley Westenra CD I have been dying to get, and Mom bought the Firefly boxset as well (yay!). 

The rest of the day was spent going to various other stores -- I didn't get anything else -- and having lunch at Cici's Pizza, but that wasn't the end of my great day. When we got home, the Fruits Basket volume I preordered a while back finally came in! That was just the cherry on my sundae. ^_^

In fact, the only bad thing about today was that while we were gone, my best friend Crystle, who is back in Texas for a visit, came by the house. *sigh* Oh, well. The gang's getting together next weekend for a sleepover, and we've made tentative plans to do something during the week as well, so we'll get together eventually. I just really wish I could have seen her today. I can't wait to see her and Hunter again, and finally meet little Ethan.