President Obama just won the Nobel Peace prize.

In other news, the Nobel peace prize just won the award for "trophy that sucks the most political cock."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nobel_peace 

oh yeah and i went shopping today and got a black crinoline and black velvet blazer which i'm going to wear on the flight home. no better way to get extra seat room than "my skirt doesnt fit in one seat" eh?  my fiance's seen old pics of me all gothy and he likes the look, so i'll oblige.

i also got a black kimono and a pink ballgown skirt. all for around $60. go me. i got the crinoline at beatnix and the rest at ragstock. i went to 99th floor but its closed tuesdays and only by appt on wed so i have to go back thursday :(

I just booked on Expedia - $765 USD for a one-way ticket to Sydney. That's $635+fees, not $765+fees.

I'm leaving Friday 25 September and arriving Sunday the 27th. This is so surreal. 
yirimyah I'll give you my Aussie phone # as soon as I get one.

Also I wanted to say congrats to my friend 3339666  who if all is going to plan is in the middle of labour and bringing a little tiny person named Judah into the world.

 my
visa
to 
australia
has
been
approved

oh my god after nine months i get to kiss my fiance.

oh my god

i feel faint with relief.

i should be home the first week of october.

I am feeling: ecstatic

 I like reading about history, and linguistics, and historical linguistics.

So is it any surprise when I read this article, when I got to the part where it said he was "Trojan by birth," in my head I pronounced it "troy-an" instead of "tro-gian" like we do in, um, English?

Never mind the discussion I got into with my dad on my birthday over the pronunciation of the name "Caesar."

I'm becoming insufferable, even to myself.

I finally saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

And it sucked.

xposted to http://thefemmenist.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/japanese-anime-princess-games-or-you-win-by-being-pretty-and-getting-married/

I've totally picked up an obsession with Japanese anime style RPG games.  About two years ago I got a game called Cute Knight which I absolutely loved.  You play an orphan girl and you can do different things (various jobs, attend classes, raid the dungeon, etc.) and whatever path you choose leads to a different ending.  The two scripted endings are either having the royal family think you're their daughter and becoming a fake princess, or having the prince fall in love with you and marrying him to be a real princess.  But there are about 50 other endings you can get, based on your career choices, such as being a dancer, a sorceress, a dungeon raider, a librarian, and others I forgot.  You can even be a whore, if you work as a barmaid and choose to accept the wonderfully sleazy looking guy's proposition.

Then when I was in Australia I found another game by the same company, Hanako Games, called Fatal Hearts.  The gameplay is a bit different, it's set up like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel with scripted dialogue interspersed with 2 to 5 options of what you want to do, with 14 different endings.  You play a 15 year old girl named Christina whose best friend Lucy is being dragged into a vampire cult by her parents.  Depending on the actions you take, you can end up being a vampire bride, a vampire destroyer, a vampire sacrifice, a runaway, a murder victim, a werewolf's girlfriend, or something else.  It has nifty puzzles too that are actually surprisingly challenging - I had to go to the game forum to get a walkthrough on a couple of them.  And in case anyone reading is going to download it - "wolfriemen" means "wolf belt."

So I was loving both of these games, and I just got a 3-pack of other games made by Hanako - Summer Session, Heileen, and Spirited Heart. and I can now say with certainty I'm a huge fan of the Japanese-anime-girly-princess-type-whatever category of games that these fall into.  I didn't much care for Summer Session, it was from a guy's point of view and there were only 3 endings.  Heileen was better, the storyline was great, but again, only 3 endings.  Both of those were the same choose your adventure style as Fatal Hearts, but lesser quality.

Spirited Heart on the other hand is totally holding my attention.  It's like Cute Knight, but with marriage options instead of just career ones.  There are 6 guys you can be with, as well as just focusing on career and trying to get special recognition.  But the best part, to me, are the endings.  It's not some cheesy ending where you live happily ever after - I've gotten two of the marriage endings so far, and in one of them (the soldier) you both end up dying in battle and becoming legends, and in the other (the wizard) he cheats on you, you cheat on him back, but your love is strong enough that the others are just dalliances and you end up being together until you're about to die and he immortalizes you in ice statues.

How freaking awesome is that?  Hanako Games is a company run by women, designing games for women, and they actually *get* women.  The cheating thing in particular stuck out in my mind because, while I definitely don't condone infidelity, I think it's sad how many people end up filing for divorce because their partner had a one night stand.  I'm not saying all men cheat, because they don't, but when did it become this awful unforgivable sin?  If my fiance loved somebody else, I would consider it infidelity - if he had a purely sexual affair I would deal with it.  Marriage is supposed to be for life, not "until they screw up."

Anyway, the realistic attitude isn't even the best part of these games.  I want to buy every feminist in the world a copy of Spirited Heart and laugh as their head explodes.  I'll perch on a chair behind them looking over their shoulder and saying "No, you have to put points into seduction and charisma otherwise you won't get the marriage ending!"   Or even better, not give them any advice and wait until they get one of the career endings, which basically says "Well it's been ten years and you're still not married, but at least you can console yourself with the fact that you kinda like your job."

i have a twatter now

elisabellaxoxo

add me only if you dont expect any more than random sporadic updates 

I can get this made in ivory satin:



With ivory fishnets

Victorian grannyboots (kinda like these)



And the focal piece will be a hat, kinda like this:




I'll want a hat with a veil of course

But this seems like so much fun

And accessory shopping is ten times better than trying to find The Perfect Dress.

What do you think ell-jay?

Also I might be able to find a petticoat that only flares out at the bottom so it wouldn't ruin the shape of the dress.  Kimono with tulle, here I come!

And wrist cuffs of course!

I can just get a basic ivory colored dress, and focus on accessories.

That seems easier
and I can probably re-use the accessories.

sigh

The dress should be the funnest part.
But its the worst.

blink

rub eyes, look around

sleep. is a really good thing.

blush at how upset i got over a leopard stripe on a dress i don't even like that much when i'm not cracked out of my mind with no sleep and wedding distress.

i also do not like the feathered neckline.

but i loooove the skirt.  i'd get that dress if i could detach the  corset and skirt from the blouse-part.



that doesn't make me feel much better though
i mean
i still need to find a dress
and when i say i've scoured the internet

i mean scoured.

Beware. This post was written at nearly 6 am after having scoured the internet for the past 9 (nine) hours for a dress.  A wedding dress.  You know, most-important-dress-you'll-ever-wear kinda dress?  Yeah.

This was going to be my wedding dress:

http://www.bridalonlinestore.com/Collection/product-page.asp?q=Wedding+Dress&SKU=Madison&i=93430348954#Page_1

Then, when looking online for, of all random things, lacey bloomers, I found this dress:

http://plumedesigns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_5&products_id=6
http://plumedesigns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=24_25&products_id=16

Of course I have to have a freaking epitomegasm and realize I want to get married in that dress and nothing else will do especially not the boring old one I was choosing before and the reason I never liked any of the more casual (read: fit for our backyard wedding) dresses is CUZ THEY ALL SUCK and also I'm a total gypsy freak who no matter how hard i try to wear jeans and tank tops i still really really like lace, velvet, frills, and any other modern take on gypsy or renaissance wear.

But because my fat fucking face eats too much peanut butter and even if I lost 50 bloody lbs I'd still have freakishly wide shoulders, I can't get that dress.

DO YOU HEAR ME LIVEJOURNAL I CAN NOT GET MY WEDDING DRESS. MY WEDDING DRESS. MINE. IT WAS MADE JUST FOR ME EXCEPT THE SEAMSTRESS MUST HAVE CONFUSED CM WITH IN OR SOMETHING CUZ IT DOESNT FIT.

Oh the sorrow.

BUT WAIT I AM NOT FINISHED YET.

I found another dress.
A dress in my size.
And it's white.  No, seriously.  Try to find a cool dress that's white or ivory in color (I actually prefer Ivory) that isn't some complete renaissance fair get up.  SEARCH THE INTERNETS LJ FRIENDS I MADE IT TO PAGE TWENTY OF AT LEAST SIX DIFFERENT GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCHES.

http://www.azacdesign.com/items/jrock-lolita-japan-style/mika-gown-mg-detail.htm

I would fucking OWN that shit at my wedding, it's all froofy but it's punky but it's girly but it's modern and it looks like sooo much fun to wear

And I'm sooo happy that I found a new dress

And I'm telling my fiance about it

And then
I see it

WHO THE FUCK PUTS A GODDAMN LEOPARD PRINT STRIPE ON A DRESS LIKE THAT

WHO I TELL YOU

A. FUCKING. LEOPARD. PRINT. STRIPE.

On a feathery tulle-y corsety white dress.  And no it doesn't come with the OPTION of leopard fucking stripe, it just comes with leopard stripe.

I used to think I was the only person who thought any faux animal print other than textured snakeskin was the gayest thing ever.

Now I realize, I'm the only person who thinks that anyone who defaces a white ballerina dress with a leopard stripe IS A MOTHER FUCKING COCK SMOKING SADIST WHO MUST HAVE GONE TO MONGOLOID FASHION SCHOOL AND I HATE YOU AND I HOPE YOU DIE.

PS - in case the site owner is reading this no i am not the person who very politely asked if you could make that dress without leopard print.  That is an entirely different person and she is a very nice person so please do not deny her request, i think it would make her quite sad indeed.
 

So I finally updated my group anti_feminists and remembered I have a wordpress blog that I registered once upon a time to blog about stuff like that.


thefemmenist.wordpress.com/

Enjoy.

I'm most likely going to Europe for a week!

I was thinking, why am I flying back to AU via LA or Korea when theres nothing to do there, so I looked into flying transatlantic instead, and I found that it's totally affordable.  I have a friend in Brussels who already said I could stay with her, and she would have to work but I can hang out in Belgium then, and we're going to go to Paris for the weekend, and it's going to be massive amounts of fun stuff.

Squeek.

At least I hope so.  I don't think I'll need a visa to enter the EU (I know she can come to the US for up to 3 months without one) but I might have to look into that.  And that would suck. I'm already waiting for one visa - don't want to deal with two.

I've been engaged for like, 5 months now, and for the most part I've just been happy bunny foo foo like "oh we're getting married, we have the rest of our lives together" and stuff and now I'm like

oh shit

i'm getting married

that means i have to like, make a wedding.

And don't tell me "no you don't need a wedding you can get married in fucking jeans because I know that, my mom got married in fucking jeans, and I DONT WANT TO.  I want to wear a dress and stuff, and get flowers, and a photographer, but I don't know how to do any of that, especially because neither of our familes are coming (well my mom might but we're not 100% sure) and i don't like, have any friends in australia (OK I HAVE LJ FRIENDS WHO WANTS TO COME TO MY WEDDING SRSLY) and this is PISSING ME THE FUCK OFF.

i can plan a party.  so i should be able to plan a wedding right?

EXCEPT MY FIANCE DOESNT CARE ABOUT WEDDINGS AND JUST WANTS TO SHOW UP AND SAY HI I DO AND I WANT A PRETTY DRESS AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE HIM GET THAT.

argh

on a side note this is one of the dresses i like. it has a train which would suck for an outside wedding but ive been thinking its going to be FUCKING HOT OUTSIDE so i think i want to rent some place to get married.

http://www.bridalonlinestore.com/Collection/displayimage.asp?image=madison-front-b.jpg&i=93430348954

ok thats all.

 I'm a serious fiend for Vitamin Water, so I was pretty disappointed when I read that it had about the same amount of sugar as a bottle of coke.  But not quite as dissappointed as I was when I bought a bottle of coke.  On the label was written "No artificial flavors.  No preservatives added."

It's a bottle of fucking coke.  It's carbonated, colored sugar water. It's not healthy, it has no nutritional value, even if it doesn't have preservatives or artificial flavor.  It seems like nearly everything in the supermarket has packaging that proclaims some useless bit of "nutritional" sounding information that really means nothing. 

I wouldn't be surprised if next year they start injecting Vitamin B into twinkies and try to pass it off as a "good" junk food.

Why do I have a feeling this is a sneak peek at Obama's new teenage army?

 Kaiser

This is Kaiser.  I was going to adopt him but I can't bring him back with me to AU.  He lives in a house with 2 dobermans and snakes and he was rescued from being snake food but his mommy isn't really a bunny person and so he's a bit unwanted.

He lives in Joliet, IL but his mommy will drive him anywhere in the chicagoland area for a new home.  He comes with a big awesome cage and food, but he is not neutered or vaccinated.

He is very gorgeous as you can tell from the picture, so if anyone wants to foster or give him a permanent home please let me know because I am crying so hard that I can't take the lil guy. 



Please if anyone can give Kaiser a nice home let me know!

I know I know, rogue_telepath's girl was supposed to hook me up with the ring thing, but when my mom picked me up yesterday and offered to take me to get my ring, I couldn't wait another second.

The engagement ring I'm wearing right now:  http://www.helzberg.com/product/jewelry/rings/right-hand+rings/1-3ct+tw+diamond+right-hand+ring+1607540.do

The wedding ring I'll be wearing once I legally belong to Anthony: http://www.helzberg.com/nav/i/category/jewelry/rings/1-2ct+tw+diamond+ring+1680813/r/gemstone+type/diamond/n/4294967251/r/metal+color/white/n/4294964775/r/price+range/%24700+to+%24999/n/121.do?sortby=ourPicks

purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Now I just need to get back home in time for my wedding!!

I am feeling: bouncy

How deeply  offended someone can get...on someone else's behalf.

Not even someone they know....just a vague social group in general.  A white guy from the suburbs bemoaning the plight of blacks in the ghetto.  A man talking about how bad women have it.  A native born American lecturing about the lives of illegal immigrants.

Seriously people, you own only one thing and that is your life.  If your life is content to the point that the ONLY things you can complain about DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN TO YOU then I think it's time to stfu and just smile. Be fucking happy and spread a bit of cheer in the world. 

If you have a problem with inner city education, volunteer to tutor.
If you think women have it rough, get your mother a spa treatment.
If you think immigration needs reform, go to law school or run for congress so you can do something besides flap your self righteous lips about it.

And meanwhile, please shoot me for being so young and dumb that I once found you attractive. 

Well...at least before we spoke, I did.

I am feeling: annoyed