Sweet Dreams

It's Christmas Eve! Yay, presents tonight! For the first time in years it seems, I'm really excited about opening presents. I think it's because I actually don't know what a lot of them are, like I usually do. That means I probably won't get a lot of the stuff I actually want, but the surprise element is rather nice.

Anyway, like I mentioned in my previous entry, every year, I like to watch all the Christmas-themed anime episodes I own, and every year, I have to go through my anime collection, trying to remember which series have Christmas episodes. Well, this year I was smart and made a list of all the episodes so I don't have to go through the headache.

Sailor Moon S movie
Sailor Moon R Episode 78 - Venus Minako's Nurse Mayhem (Christmas isn't specifically mentioned, but there are decorations in the background of some scenes)
Card Captor Sakura (Winter Wonderland) Episode 35 - Sakura's Wonderful Christmas
Card Captor Sakura (Friends in Need) Episode 61 - Sakura, The Card, and The Presents
Rah-Xephon (Vol. 2) Episode 8 - The Dreaming Stone
Paradise Kiss (Vol. 3) Episode 12 - Future
Super GALS Episode 39 - Christmas Eve * Jingle-Jingle * Emergency Bell of Love
Angelic Layer Episode 26 - Angel Wings! Please Guide Me and Hikaru (at least in the very last scene)
Fushigi Yugi (Vol. 8) Don't know which episode exactly, as I haven't watched it in a long time, but I know there's one when Tamahome is in Tokyo.
Death Note (Vol. 9) Episodes 33 and 34
Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy (Vol. 1) Episodes 2-4 - Ah! The Troubled Queen of Revenge!, Ah! I Offer You This Feeling On Christmas Eve, Ah! I Offer You This Feeling on Christmas Eve!
Ghost Hunt Episode 12-13 - FILE 5: Silent Christmas
School Rumble 2 Episode 19 - Here, There, Everywhere Is Christmas! Bravely Moving Forward For Christmas! Shatter, Christmas!
Wedding Peach DX Episode 3 - Reunion ~ We Even Fight on Christmas ~

I'm alive, and back online!

Finally.

*dances*

If anybody has been wondering where I've been for the last week or so, I wasn't able to sign on due to problems with our landline. *sigh* It just got fixed this morning, although then our mouse decided to crap out, so Mom had to go to Wal-mart to buy a new one... Well, anyway, the important thing is every thing is now working properly, and, boy, it feels good to be back!

*glomps everyone*

Other than that, not much to report. I'm behind on my sm_monthly entries due to not being able to check the day's themes, and I didn't really feel like doing any other writing, so I ended up spending most of my involuntary Internet break re-watching Wedding Peach and Rah-Xephon, which I ordered from Right Stuf a couple of weeks ago and came in on Monday. Not necessarily a bad way to pass the time, but I'm looking forward to catching up with everything. ^_^

...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.

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.

Rereading last night's entry, it occured to me that I don't think I've ever really posted an official list of who is in my hallowed Harem of Bishies. May have done so in my MJ once, but it certainly isn't current.

Sooo...

I present to you, Yumeko's Harem of Bishies!

• Helios (from Sailor Moon)
• Nephrite (from Sailor Moon)
• Hawkseye (from Sailor Moon)
• Tigerseye (from Sailor Moon)
• Fisheye (from Sailor Moon) - Honorary Member (He does prefer guys after all; I just keep him around for the prettiness ^_^)
• Kinomoto Touya (from Card Captor Sakura)
• Tooya (from Ayashi no Ceres)
• Sohma Shigure (from Fruits Basket)
• Sohma Hatori (from Fruits Basket)
• Sohma Ayame (from Fruits Basket)
• Sohma Kyo (from Fruits Basket
• Sohma Hatsuharu (from Fruits Basket)
• Hotohori (from Fushigi Yugi)
• Yuuki Keisuke (from Fushigi Yugi)
• Oyamada Masami (from Someday's Dreamers)
• Sasame (from Pretear)
• Allen (from Vision of Escaflowne)
• Coach Kido (from Princess Nine)
• Natsume Seishiro (from Princess Nine)
• Hanabishi Kaoru (from Ai Yori Aoshi)
• Amawa Hibiki (from I My Me! Strawberry Eggs)
• Kamina Ayato (from RahXephon)
• Kisaragi Itsuki (from RahXephon)
• Yagumo Souichi (from RahXephon)
• Fuuma Yousuke (from Wedding Peach)
• Night (from Absolute Boyfriend)
• Asou Yuya (from Super GALS)
• Kotobuki Yamato (from Super GALS)
• Yuri Killian (from Kaleido Star)
• Leon Oswald (from Kaleido Star)
• Lantis (from Magic Knight Rayearth)
• George (from Paradise Kiss)
• Katakura Kippei (from Aishiteruze Baby)
• Mr. Shirakawa (from Piano)
• Vash the Stampede (from Trigun)
• Nicholas D. Wolfwood (from Trigun)
• Tsujiai Hiroki (from Ultramaniac)
• Roy Mustang (from Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Maes Hughes (from Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Russell Tringum (from Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Arisugawa Sorata (from X)
• Aoki Seiichirô(from X)
• Kigai Yuto (from X)
• Kuzuki Kakyo (from X)
• Saiki Daisuke (from X)
• Dr. Wakaoji (from Full Moon wo Sagashite)
• Harima Kenji (from School Rumble)
• Ichinose Takumi (from NANA)
• Takagi Yasushi (from NANA)
• D'eon du Beaumont (from Le Chevalier D'eon)
• Durand (from Le Chevalier D'eon)
• William Jones(from Emma)
• Prince Hakim (from Emma)
• Chiba (from Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad)
• Minami Ryousuke (from Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad)
• Mido Seiji (from Moonphase)
• Sagara Sousuke (from Full Metal Panic)
• Kurz Weber (from Full Metal Panic)
• Raimon (from Tsubasa: Those With Wings)
• Yagami Light (from Death Note)
• Matsuda Touta (from Death Note)
• Suoh Tamaki (from Ouran High School Host Club)
• Otori Kyoya (from Ouran High School Host Club)
• Pete Pumps (from Ginban Kaleidoscope)
• Yuichi Aizawa (from Kanon)

Almost twenty guys... I'm such a slut. ^_^

Maybe that quiz that claimed I was into polyamory was right... >.<