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I thought of this a few days ago, and that I promised myself I'd submit one for every year...
2006 had been a hell-ride for me. I had to say goodbye to a lot of my friends, force myself away from people I cared about, and I was really starting to lose my mind in March and April. I was so used to talking to anybody, friends or acquaintances, daily that a blunt cut-off was sending me over the edge. I couldn't stand watching any anime since it reminded me of PnP and my friends. I re-played the Xenosagas, re-read the Pendragons, and played a game that would of meant so much more to me if I were younger, Kingdom Hearts II. At first I thought not being able to talk to anybody was insane...but I'm used to it now.
In June, I was a mess! I couldn't write, focus, or enjoy anything. I spent two hundred dollars on music this summer...at least. I spend a hundreds dollars and got a CD by Utada Hikaru, two by Maaya Sakamoto, and one by Jade No-Last-Name. All but the Maaya Sakamoto was import, so it was expensive. I started a bunch of stories I haven't continued, got my laptop, got a new printer of my Beastie (old PC in my room), and did some editing. I also re-watched RahXephon. In July, I started writing again...I typed nearly a hundred pages in a month in July and August. I also started really treasuring my monthly manga group, that was canceled this month. It's my monthly socializing nowadays.
In June, (again) I have a short story I started randomly and didn't proofread to Lisa the librarian who hosts the manga group and lost confidence in myself since it was the first story I ever wrote in third person...it sucked. Nobody has read my work since, and my thoughts of publishing were thrown out the window on the hundredth-floor of an imaginary building. I don't hold hope in becoming a real author, but if I can get in touch with my editor a little more often maybe I'll get a little confidence. My books have been my work since March.
Top video games of 2006:
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose
Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sparch Zarathustra
Kingdom Hearts II
Final Fantasy XII
And I got Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus, and Phantasy Star Universe (fantasy spelled phantasy on purpose) for X-mas.
Top DVDs:
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Dark Water (Original Japanese version)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Erm, I'm going to watch it in a few hours...)
Top anime:
No new titles. Once I get some cash, I'll be making a big anime order now that it doesn't haunt me. My dad owes me 160$ but I can't ask for it until July since the business is seasonal.
Top music:
Utada Hikaru
Maaya Sakamoto
Do As Infinity
Evanescence
Jade No-Last-Name from Sweetbox
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a great movie, even if you didn't play FFVII. It gave me a few final character-trait ideas for the cast of characters and story-line I already had brewing in my head, and I finished my main character's personality, Akhyia Ragnarok. Akhy for short.
Dark Water was a great Japanese horror movie! I don't know if the English re-make with different actors is any good.
My books? Erm, Past Alive is 300 pages and my focus. I was editing it...until I started my new book, Flights of Fantasy. My main character is Akhy, the heir to the thrown of her country who is believed to be dead and is being hunted by her dead sister's husband, the ruler of the country. Anyway, I won't bore all of you with the stats of that. About Shadow Souls...I'm rewriting it, and working on it's sequel, Shadowed Memories. I think FoF will be my main focus of 2007 along with PA and PA's sequel (once I get my ideas together...) Past Incarnation.
Flights of Fantasy is 30 pages...I started it on the 11th!
Well, I'm better now. I started helping my mom out over the summer, and I'm still doing that. I've got my books, work for my grandmother, monthly manga clubs, my writing, anime, music, and video game order to plot and save for, Japanese lessons along with of course, my family. I still have my best friend, and though we're far apart and don't talk much, but we're still together.
Oh yeah...and the reason I spelled "konnichiwa" wrong in my story, 2005, is because Mehrina couldn't remember how to spell it, nor could I, so we spelled it our way.
I only can say one thing about the Japanese spelling thing: It'd be nice if I didn't memorize "sayonara" quicker than "konnichiwa".
I have good feelings about 2007...I'm a little apprehensive. The years I'm dying to get to, always flop. The years I'm apprehensive about always seem to hold good things...even if they do crumble in the next year. I'm smarted now, know more about the ways of the world, and I hope that 2007 will hold as much for me as 2006 has given me. I'm not going to hope for it to be happier, easier, or any of the like. I'll take what ever the future holds in store for me. Hardships are as important as happy times, since happy times wouldn't mean anything to us if we didn't have bad time to go with them.
My ode to a little verse that has been in my mind since 2002:
Hold me,
Whatever lies beyond this morning is a little later long
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before
Simple & Clean by Utada Hikaru.
I don't need anybody to hold me. The future isn't a little later on, it's now. I'll take what ever the future holds for me, I won't hide. I'll face what's mine and take it happily knowing that one day I'll look back when I'm thinking about something really wonderful and important to me, and realize I'd never of gotten whatever it was without the hard times. I'd never of started writing stories if I didn't go to Florida in 2004. The future doesn't scare me at all, I want things to change...even if it's at a pace I need to fight to keep up with. That's how I like things.
Sayonara 2006
Konnichiwa 2007
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