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  <title>When life gives you lemons, you squeeze them into people&apos;s eyes. =P</title>
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  <description>ok, i have a lot of time right now, since i&apos;m not doing anything and there isn&apos;t much for me to do [just finishing Kono Subarashiki Sekai, translating Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, and reading books], so i&apos;m blogging again. xD wao, i must be super bored if i am blogging consecutively. ^^;; since i have time, i&apos;ll type up my christmas and new year&apos;s eve adventure. i&apos;m not doing any more work than that, though. &amp;gt;3&amp;gt;lll&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Christmas Day - i spent the whole day with Peter. Peter invited me over because Mattie decided to go on a date with Prussia &lt;strike&gt;[KRAP, I FORGOT THE GUY&apos;S REAL NAME]&lt;/strike&gt; &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;lll yes, he went out with Prussia and left me, ALFRED, home alone. =A= LAAAAAAAAAAAME. and yes, throughout this whole entry, i&apos;m just gonna use Hetalia nicknames. =3= so Mattie dropped me off at Peter&apos;s place after spending one or two hours there, playing pictionary and one game of life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001dysf/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001dysf/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter was not very happy to see me that morning, because i was lacking sleep again. &amp;gt;.&amp;lt;;; i didn&apos;t think that Peter would be so mad over it, though. THE VIBES! THEY WERE SO SCARY. &amp;gt;A&amp;lt; YOU HAVE NO IDEA...DO NOT PISS OFF THE SMALL NATION!!! but afterwards, i met Peter&apos;s sister. 8D nice girl, very nice. easy to talk to, too. 8D Peter, his sister, and i played a game of pool and then we walked to visit our old man! 8D &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001eyxf/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001eyxf/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arthur was txting me the whole day, anyway, so we figured we&apos;d go visit him. XD we walked to his place, but Arthur told me not to go over since it&apos;s a far walk. D8 BUT I KNEW HE WANTED TO SEE ME, SO PETER AND I WALKED THERE, ANYWAY. 8D and wasn&apos;t Arthur just very happy to see us?! 8D HE WAS. you have no idea; he was red in the face when he saw me, too. &amp;lt;3 &lt;strike&gt;[it was actually because he ran upstairs to get changed and then ran back down to open the door for the two of us. XD]&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001fz2k/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001fz2k/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my old man wouldn&apos;t take a group photo with us, though. D= i wish he would have, but he was busy sewing. &amp;lt;3 his costume came out great [&lt;strong&gt;SPECTACULAR/WONDERFUL/AWESOME/BEAUTIFUL/COOL/ETC&lt;/strong&gt;], by the way. i won&apos;t post up the picture since it&apos;s not mine to show, but as Alfred, I JIZZED IN MY PANTS SEEING IT. *w* it was &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; wonderful of a cosplay. you guys have NO IDEA. but anyway, we sat just there and spoke to Arthur [&lt;strike&gt;about how he was uncool and how he was old&lt;/strike&gt;], but he was nice to us youngsters and gave us beverages. 8D we had to go soon after that, though, cause the sun was setting and Peter&apos;s mother would have just about &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;killed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; us if we were out walking in the dark. &amp;gt;.&amp;lt;lll &lt;strike&gt;even as a hero, i am afraid of Peter&apos;s mother&lt;/strike&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001ggfh/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001ggfh/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so then we went back to Peter&apos;s place and we had dinner...which would have made Veneziano proud, if he knew that Peter made fettucini alfredo. XD Peter&apos;s sister also helped. I didn&apos;t get any shots of us cooking, though, cause we were...you know, cooking ._.;; it tastes better than Arthur&apos;s cooking, if that&apos;s what you guys were wondering [&lt;strike&gt;anything tastes better than that old man&apos;s cooking&lt;/strike&gt;].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001hyb0/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001hyb0/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the night ended with Peter and i just talking in his room. we wrestled, joked, and told stories. xD that was basically our night. i got picked up by Mattie at around 11:30pm, though &amp;gt;3&amp;gt;lll Mattie was still out with Prussia till that late. Jeez, how long can you stand a guy that says, &amp;quot;I&apos;M AWESOME!&amp;quot; all the time [&lt;strike&gt;unless it&apos;s me&lt;/strike&gt;]???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i&apos;m suppose to get my hair trimmed right about now, but my mother has yet to wake up and actually cut my hair ._.;; hell, i don&apos;t even know what the krap i&apos;m having for dinner. &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;;; must be good that i am not hungry yet. i spent a lot of time on this blog so i could get comments! 8D i was telling Ivan that i should add more pictures to my blogs, because nobody really visits my LJ. D&apos;8 Ivan told me that my blogs were interesting regardless of pictures ._.;; makes me wonder how often he visits my LJ. XD;; ...oh dear, i haven&apos;t gotten out of that mode yet ._.;; huh...well, onto the next cut! =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;New Year&apos;s Eve - we planned our old man&apos;s birthday to be on that day. or rather, somebody else did it and i just bought stuff and attended ._.;; my old man was sooo into his sewing that i don&apos;t think he was all that interested in going out. D&apos;8 i sure hope he isn&apos;t being like the old Kiku and being a hermit. &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;lll&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;anyway, the day starts out with meeting at Peter&apos;s place. Mattie and i went early, but Peter already had uh...i guess i can&apos;t say my twin, but i guess our friend there. XD after that, Vash arrived [not holding a shotgun]. we waited for about an hour, but Cuba wasn&apos;t showing up and said that he couldn&apos;t come and told us to carry on with the plan without him. D=&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001ptbg/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001ptbg/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so around 12pm or so, we swung by our old man&apos;s place to kidnap him. we were waiting at his door for a long time, but then he ended up showing up behind us!&amp;nbsp;D&apos;8 WHY SO &lt;strike&gt;COWARDLY&lt;/strike&gt; SLY, ARTHUR??? I THOUGHT YOU USED TO BE THE GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE THAT TOOK OVER 1/3 OF THE WORLD! ...and nothing in history said you were known for ninja-ing ._.;; in any case, we captured the &amp;quot;Great British Empire&amp;quot; in a few minutes ._.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001qs25/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001qs25/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we headed to the Irvine Spectrum afterwards to hang out. the first thing we did was handle the presents. xD i wonder if Arthur even enjoyed that? aside from cursing and saying, &amp;quot;terrible&amp;quot;, i couldn&apos;t help but think we made the old man&apos;s birthday miserable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001s1qt/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001s1qt/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8D after wards, we went to the directory to choose a lunch area. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001tfc7/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001tfc7/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we ended up choosing CPK. at CPK, IT WAS SO SAD! ;A; ARTHUR TOOK OUT HIS PIRATE COAT AND STARTED SEWING INSTEAD OF TALKING TO VASH AND I! IT WAS SO SAD! THE WHOLE TIME, HE KEPT SAYING HE WANTED TO GO HOME &lt;strike&gt;[BABE, IS HOME NOT WHEN YOU&apos;RE WITH ME???&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;strike&gt;]&lt;/strike&gt;! ;A; it made me so sad! i was thinking he didn&apos;t have a good time at all. &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;ll actually, i still think that. orzlll it makes me not want to ask my old man out ever again on his birthday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001rcye/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001rcye/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;after wards we were wandering around the mall and we went to Dave &amp;amp; Buster&apos;s. Arthur and Vash duked it out on PUMP, some Korean [yes, Im Yong, that&apos;s something that &lt;em&gt;you really&lt;/em&gt; made] DDR. ._.;; Arthur just had to insist on dancing on the thing with high heel-slippers ;O i thought my old man was gonna fall and twist his ankle &lt;strike&gt;[or break his back, but knock on wood, man]&lt;/strike&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001w27w/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001w27w/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arthur and our friend played guitar hero after that. Arthur just had to choose Anarchy in the UK by The Sex Pistols. XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001xh74/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001xh74/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;after that, we went to downtown Orange to hang out. mostly everything was closed and i couldn&apos;t take any pictures, because my camera was out of batteries. D&apos;8 i should have charged it. &amp;gt;A&amp;lt; we walked by a lot of antique shops. then we walked through every street, we headed back to Peter&apos;s place and ate cream puffs. then i had to leave, cause Mattie had to go back and feed Kumajiro and i had to feed Tony. ^^;; Tony woulda been pissed if i forgot to feed him, ya know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok, so before i end the post, i have this rant that has been NAGGING the back of my mind for the longest time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid3&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;to start off with so that things don&apos;t get confusing, my mother&apos;s boyfriend&apos;s son goes to the same college as me. i don&apos;t know why, but he likes to look for me or something. i somehow ended up in the same math class as his girlfriend. before i walk into math class, i&apos;m always sitting outside and talking with my friend [who is a girl, mind you], but we&apos;re also extremely affectionate towards each other [we hug and hold hands; it&apos;s a fob thing]. just the other day, my mother&apos;s boyfriend&apos;s son [his name is tyler. yes, that bastard&apos;s real name is tyler -_-x] was talking to my mother. now, that&apos;s not a problem. by all means, feel free to talk to her. BUT HE STARTS TALKING KRAP ABOUT ME TO MY MOTHER! D&amp;lt; NOW THAT&apos;S WHEN I GOT PISSED. but of course i didn&apos;t know until later on, cause my mother was telling my sister about this and the next day, my sister told me ._.; way for word to get around, ain&apos;t it? but anyway, the first thing he tells my mother is that i&apos;m rude to him. UHM, &lt;em&gt;HELLO&lt;/em&gt;? YOU&apos;RE RUDE TO ME AND YOUR FATHER IS RUDE TO ME, IS IT NOT NATURAL FOR ME TO BE AN ABSOLUTE B!TCH WHEN YOU BASTARDS ARE AROUND??? D&amp;lt; and he goes and gave an example of when he was talking to me at school and he asked me if i went to the gym. he told my mother that i said, &amp;quot;no, why would i?&amp;quot; I DON&apos;T EVEN KNOW HOW YOU LOOK LIKE, LET ALONE TALK TO YOU AT SCHOOL! and then he says that i&apos;m not nice to his girlfriend. -_-+ I DON&apos;T KNOW WHO THE KRAP YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS NOR DO I GIVE A FLYING F@CK ABOUT HER, SO WHY WOULD I GO OUT OF MY WAY TO BE MEAN? so needless to say, he&apos;s lying to my mother about this krap that he&apos;s making up and i have no idea what sort of ulterior motive he has to do this, but the last one takes the cake! REALLY, IT DOES! D&amp;lt; BECAUSE I WAS F@CKIN&apos; PISSED WHEN I HEARD IT! he called me a lesbian to my mother, just because my friend and i always sit outside my classroom talking! D&amp;lt; i can get where he gets that misunderstanding, but i&apos;m even more pissed that my mother believes him! yes, she &lt;strong&gt;believes&lt;/strong&gt; that motherf@cker! D&amp;lt; my eldest sister has mentioned it a few times to my mother, but my mother has always written it off as, &apos;oh no, she&apos;s not like that.&apos; about me to my eldest sister. SO WHY IS IT THAT WHEN THIS BASTARD SAYS IT, SHE BELIEVES HIM??? D&amp;lt; AND WITHOUT EVEN ASKING ME??? i&apos;m used to being called a lesbian, so i shouldn&apos;t mind that much, but i do hate people assuming and getting the wrong idea. -_-+ I&apos;M STRAIGHT, GUYS. LET ME REPEAT THAT SO YOU GUYS GET IT: I&apos;M &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;STRAIGHT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. I&apos;M INTO MEN. YES, I LIKE MEN. IS THAT SO SHOCKING? &lt;strong&gt;I LIKE MEN.&lt;/strong&gt; did that get through people&apos;s brain yet? no? ok, let me say it again: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: larger;&quot;&gt;I&apos;M FRIGGIN&apos; STRAIGHT, D@MN!T.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: larger;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt; ok, i think i got that out of my system. ._.;; ok, so my choices right now are either to get a boyfriend to prove to her that i am straight [which, by the way, even without getting a boyfriend, i know i&apos;m straight ._.;; and i don&apos;t like dating just to prove something, so i don&apos;t like this idea, but i&apos;m about to do it anyway. she won&apos;t let me date, so i don&apos;t know why she&apos;s complaining that i don&apos;t have a boyfriend or calling me not straight] or i&apos;m gonna grab one of my girl friends and introduce her to my mother as, &amp;quot;hey, mother, this is my girlfriend! &amp;lt;3 what do you think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; =D she&apos;s a real cutie, right?! 8D&amp;quot; sort of thing just to piss her off. yes, i&apos;m just such an outright b!TCh. -_-x i&apos;m really bitter; you guys have no idea &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;lll so comment! what shall i do? =3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all right, how was that for a post? 8D i finally finished. that took me a long time. &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;;; it was mostly the pic uploading that took a lot of time &amp;gt;.&amp;lt;;; i hope you guys enjoyed it! =D&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:03:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it&apos;s better to leave them broken...</title>
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  <description>...than trying to hurt yourself putting them back together.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;: : news&amp;nbsp;: : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;the quote that i chose for this blog was a bit too long for the title, i guess. XD so i had to make it fit into the blog. ^^;; has everybody enjoyed their holidays thoroughly? made a new year&apos;s resolution? i have made a new year&apos;s resolution and this year, i&apos;m going to try my best to keep it. one time, i tried to make a new year&apos;s resolution and it broke in less than a week. xD sometimes, i don&apos;t know why i bother with that sort of thing. ^^;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i&apos;ve been reading USxUK fanfics nonstop because my friend sends them to me all the time. XD she leaves the link on my FB all the time and i read it when i have time. i&apos;ve finished most of them. she sent me one over the net that made me laugh really hard! XD it had a bunch of lewd pick-up lines that made me laugh out loud. a few of them were:&lt;br /&gt;1) My love for you is like diarrhea; i can&apos;t stop it from coming out. [I LOL-ED AT THIS ONE. LITERALLY.]&lt;br /&gt;2) I just shitted in my pants; can i get into your&apos;s? [this one made me chuckle]&lt;br /&gt;3) that shirt is very becoming on you; if i were that shirt, i&apos;d be coming on to you, too. [this one was somehow funny and sweet at the same time. XD]&lt;br /&gt;that&apos;s only a few that i can remember. i can&apos;t remember them all right now. xD i won&apos;t ever use them, but aren&apos;t they humourous?! XD thank you, Arthur, for sending me that fic. &amp;lt;3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i was suppose to write about my adventures on Christmas and adventures on New Year&apos;s Eve. it&apos;s an awfully long and painful process if i want to write it, though. D= and it includes pictures, so VERY image heavy. XD &lt;strike&gt;so in short, i&apos;m too lazy that i don&apos;t want to write it. ^^;;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so how about for those people going to ALA? are you guys all ready out there? =D i sure hope you guys have fun---- and what about for those guys that are going back to school?&amp;nbsp;XD you guys ready to go back and study [WHILE I STILL HAVE ANOTHER FEW WEEKS 8D &lt;strike&gt;please don&apos;t kill me, guys&lt;/strike&gt;]?&amp;lt;input ... &amp;gt;&amp;lt;/input&amp;gt;&amp;lt;input ... &amp;gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:47:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>omigosh, i need more time to do christmas + bday shopping! D=</title>
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  <description>&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;eh...so for today, i am getting better! =D [i think, anyway ._.;;] in any case, school has picked up and i am SO NOT READY FOR FINALS! 8&apos;D **shot** i&apos;m screwed, you know? xD i am listening to Big B radio and they just played Fantasy by Jay Chou ._.;; i thought it would sound good, but it sounded bad. D= jeez...i wish they played better music. &amp;gt;.&amp;gt;;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but anyway, my sister&apos;s birthday is coming up, so on monday, i went to go pick up a present for her. this blog is going to be about my fun adventure of wrapping her gift. xD! i spent a good 3-4 hours on wrapping it. it came out looking...well, i&apos;ll let you judge that for yourself. o_o;; ONTO THE FAKE CUT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eh...like i said, i went to the Santa Anita Mall to buy my sister&apos;s gift. to be honest, i had no idea what to get her. xD;; well, i did, but it was too expensive for my peasant life style. &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;lll it sucks being a poor college student that has no job. D; so when i went to visit EB Games, i saw what i could buy her! =D at first, i was going to buy her &lt;leo_highlight leohighlights_url=&quot;http%3A//thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/highlights/keywords?keywords%3Dkingdom%20hearts&quot; leohighlights_keywords=&quot;kingdom hearts&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;&quot;&gt;Kingdom Hearts&lt;/leo_highlight&gt; 358/2, but then i chose something else, after consulting with my very adorable pro gamer. &amp;lt;3 =]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;these are the materials i used. just for those who were wondering, i don&apos;t have wrapping paper at home, which is why i used a bunch of weird krap ._.;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000rexz/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000rexz/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   This was what i used to wrap the actual main present. as you can see, it&apos;s not wrapping paper ._. it&apos;s...i don&apos;t know what the krap it is. xD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000sd6h/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000sd6h/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this veil-looking thing is not actually wrapping paper, either ._. i don&apos;t know what it was for, but i thought it&apos;d be funny if i made my sister&apos;s gift look SUPER girly! XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000t0yg/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000t0yg/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; these two sheets are actually crane folding paper xD i used them to wrap the small boxes [you&apos;ll see later]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000wg29/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000wg29/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; these are, as you can see [._.], Pokemon stickers. XD why do i have them? because my father used to think i was SOOOO into Pokemon. **laughs** no, no, i was never into it. ^^;; so i have stickers. they&apos;re suppose to give hints to the main gift. =]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000xqa8/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000xqa8/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this thing is kinda like tape, but not really. it&apos;s not really sturdy, but i wanted to use this so it wouldn&apos;t mess up the cover of the game &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000yps4/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000yps4/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this cardboard was used to change the shape of the whole thing! xD i wanted to throw her off, cause from the shape of how the game looks, it&apos;s obvious it&apos;s a DS game. &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;;; so i decided to make a box with the cardboard and wrap the present like that instead. ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000zc0t/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0000zc0t/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this is...as it looks. &amp;gt;_&amp;gt;;; i just went to the kitchen counter to look for the latest trash/spam mail and i found these. these...so happen to be the wrapping paper. XD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00010w7f/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00010w7f/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; streamers, believe it or not, have a lot more use than just being trash decoration on the wall. xD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SO NOW, ONTO THE ACTUAL WRAPPING!&lt;/strong&gt; =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00011thz/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00011thz/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; you see those little boxes? those things are actually fruit gum. xD it&apos;s Marukawa Fuusen gum. **laughs** both of us haven&apos;t eaten it in a long while, so i decided to buy an assorted flavour pack and give half of it to her as an impuslive buy. the silvery one, Pokemon Platinum, was the present that i bought my sister.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00012389/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00012389/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This is the red box. each box is wrapped with the crane folding paper and then the star folding paper is used as a &apos;ribbon&apos;. pokemon stickers are placed on top of the box to give her a hint as to what her actual present is ._. she&apos;s probably going to think that they&apos;re just used as decorations, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/000131gh/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/000131gh/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ah, this is the blue one. =] you see the yellow star folding paper? XD! it says &amp;quot;how are you&amp;quot; **laughs** LEAVE IT UP TO PEOPLE WHO DON&apos;T KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH TO SAY RANDOM KRAP LIKE THAT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00014r70/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00014r70/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this is how the wrapped box looks without the &apos;ribbons&apos; ._. i forgot to take a picture of the other ones before i put the ribbons on them. ^^;; i kept forgetting to take pictures while i was working.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00015pa3/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00015pa3/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this is how the present looked after putting it in my hand made cardboard box and wrapped with the first layer of newspaper. ^^;; i didn&apos;t realize that i didn&apos;t take a picture of the actual present after i wrapped it. sorry---!!! it actually just looked really....silver, black, gold, and blue with butterflies ._. it looked very &lt;strike&gt;pretty&lt;/strike&gt; special. 8&apos;D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/000167hf/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/000167hf/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; first layer says, &amp;quot;PS - you&apos;re old now&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/000174qa/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/000174qa/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; second layer says, &amp;quot;I know I overdid it a bit ._.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00018441/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/00018441/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; third layer says, &amp;quot;Don&apos;t say anything about the wrapping.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001922g/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001922g/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fourth layer says, &amp;quot;we don&apos;t have wrapping paper.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001aygb/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001aygb/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fifth [and final] layer says, &amp;quot;HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (i know this is badly wrapped. i&apos;m not being a cheapskate or anything.)&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001byx2/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001byx2/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; i wrote a really long note on the streamers. i won&apos;t upload the pictures that say what the streamers say, because that would take too long ^^;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001c6pw/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/ren_no_hana/pic/0001c6pw/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this is how the outcome came looking. xD! i finished the card just earlier today, but i didn&apos;t take a picture of it. i&apos;m sure to write a new blog about her reaction and pictures will be included. my Love told me that the streamers around the present looked more like a seal. XD! what do you guys think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all right, i&apos;m hungry now, so i&apos;m gonna go eat dinner. =] i hope you guys enjoyed this blog. 8D wasn&apos;t it different from my usual b!TChing? **laughs** if you guys got all the way down here, then thank you. =] &lt;strike&gt;because nobody reads my krap anyway&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a&gt;          &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;</description>
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