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much needed love 11/11/2009

Filed under: Life, Photos — firebunny @ 10:56 am
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i’ve been having such a terrible last few weeks or so.  recently things being about my health, beni working a lot to where i can’t see him, and beni finding out about his life-altering back disease.  all that plus the negative energy i’ve been having prior to all that.  i just felt so down and that i was completely alone.

then suddenly everything good came rushing.  i am this much closer to finding employment.  i know that my doctor recommended i not work or do anything that might stress me out till further notice, but i just feel like despite obvious reasons (keeping busy and income) i REALLY needed this.  if i get the job, and it is still considered too stressful for me according to my doctor, i can just simply quit.  i think i’m good though.  hehe.  so waiting for the call-back.  wish me luck!

it started out with a visit to my mother.  is was the day after halloween and it’s tradition in the philippines to visit those who have passed.  it was late in the day, i had left beni’s home late after helping care for him since he was suffering through a migrane along with his backpain, i’d gone three different places looking for flowers for my mother without avail, and the sun was setting earlier starting that day.  i was bummed out by the time i visited my mother, but once i did, i just let out everything.  it’s always beautiful in the sunset memory gardens, and i always feel like my mom does a little something just to make those visits a little more pleasant.  after somewhat “venting”, i felt so much more peaceful.

a few days later, i get a letter from my good friend ahni.  she moved to california not long after i did and because of that i rarely hear from her aside from a few myspace messages here and there.  she didn’t know that i’d been so down, but somehow just holding her letter in my hand just washed away any stress i had that day.  i almost felt like somewhere in her subconcious she knew that i was in need of a little ahni-induced-happiness.  she’d be living a pretty good life in cali doing what she loves and that really inspired me to do just that as well.  i resumed my paintings and they look so much more beautiful than i could have imagined them to be.  hopefully soon they will be completed.

maddie is one of the few people that knows exactly what is going on with me.  out of all my closest friends right now, i have known madison the longest and i feel like i can open up to her whenever i need to.  it also seems like whenever i’m down, she can somehow sense it because the next thing i know i’ll see a message on my phone from her asking “is everything ok?”

i get a call from one of my best girlfriends suzy.  she had been worried about me recently because of how i have been acting.  i try not to burden others with my problems even by telling them what is wrong, but for some reason i felt it was ok to do it just this once.  i let out everything, what is wrong with me, that i’ve been feeling down, and how i felt so hopeless…and she listened.  held on to every word and listened and reassured me everything was going to be ok.  it is funny how our friendship randomly fired back up so suddenly after not speaking to her for maybe 2 years, but boy am i glad as hell it happened.  <33

by some crazy chance, the universe led my dear friend jules over to this exact blog.  he looked through my entries only to be saddened by my current state of mind and general well-being.  a few days ago i get a call from him.  he’s one of those that not only is a great listener but knows just what to say to make things so much better.  he suggested we just get together sometime soon to just chat and hopefully work through my problems.  i hope that happens!  before we ended the call he reassured me that i will get through this tough time.  he told me whenever i’m too overwhelmed, breathe in “love” and exhale “light”.  i tried it that night, and it really DID help.  i’ve been using that technique since and i think i’ll eventually swear by it.  ^^

my cousin terra (tayler) is probably my closest relative aside from immediate family.  we grew up together and to this day i still consider her my “little sister”.  the girl is only 15, six years younger than me and she is probably one of the most intuitive, but not aware, person i know.  i am now convinced she is an indigo.  it was one night i was talking to her for some time and during then it was brought up that i was sick.  she immediately brought up what she thought was wrong and was completely right about EVERYTHING.  it was crazy.  she mentioned that she had several dreams about it throughout the year already and was surprised to see that it was actually reality now.  surprising to me, she was EXTREMELY supportive about the whole thing and is really enthusiastic to help.  everytime i speak to hear now, she wants to know how i am.  she’s been really invovled with my journey and i can’t help but be thankful for that little bundle of joy i first met back in 1994.

since finding out what medical condition i was going though, i felt as if my sister had done everything to distance herself from me.  i felt as if i couldn’t talk to her and if i needed her, she woudn’t do anything to help me.  i’m hoping that that is just her way with handling news such as this, but i still hated it.  i would get angry with her very easily, but did everything i could to keep it to myself considering her sensitive personality.  sometimes, ok.  correction, i ALWAYS feel like i am in fact the older sister and i’m watching over some sort of 8 year old.  she’s known about my condition since 9 september, and i still don’t think she’s ready to accept it.  but recently, i think she’s been starting to start accepting.  excuse the repetition.  maybe i’m just blinded by my hopes, but i feel like she’s been doing a little more to spend a little time with me whether it be watching our hour and a half of scrubs around midnight or her hanging in my main room playing resident evil 5.  baby steps, and i’m so thankful for them.  <33


lastly, how could i forget my darling sweetheart, soul mate, father of my future children, love of my life boyfriend beni?  sadly enough, some of my recent depression was because i was spending so little time away from him and whenever i was fortunate to speak to him, all we would talk about how depressed HE was about his back condition.  we would spend the night talking about how badly his back was ruining his life and how he will never be the same ever again and his hopes and dreams were crushed because of this.  i did everything i could to cheer him up, make him feel better, but nothing seemed to work.  i felt useless which made me feel even more depressed.  it got to the point where i almost didn’t want to pick up the phone whenever he would call.  just when i felt the most distant from him, i get a text from him saying “there’s something i want you to know“.  it was a little out of nowhere, so my only response was, “yes?“  moments later i get the most heart-warming picture text.


it seriously brought tears to my eyes.  just when i was at my lowest point, beni jumps right in to pull me out.  i couldn’t ask for something, for someone so perfect.

i think the universe is taking good care of me now.  i was alone and now i’m filled with so much needed love.  i almost feel like the universe is spoiling me a little, but i’m not complaining.  i’m hoping things will start looking up.  hopefully my next doctor’s appointment will reveal good news.  we’ll see how everything plays out.

 

halloweeny 03/11/2009

Filed under: Life, Photos — firebunny @ 10:57 am
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not sure how the rest of you spent your halloween, but i can say mine was a little more quiet than usual.  halloween is my sister’s birthday so something is always planned with the family.  well, with just nii-san and me with dad still out in the complete opposite side of the world, we didn’t really have much planned especially since dad’s stay extension was totally last minute.

it started out at beni’s house.  i had stayed the night there because the night before was the halloween party for our kung fu school.  we got out there around 0230 in the morning, and upon getting home, beni played borderlands till about 6 in the morning.  i fell asleep during that time.  so our halloween started out late.  it was already past noon, i’d been making calls to my sister asking what her plans were, and during that, i still hadn’t eaten.  blood sugar low, starving, stressed, then finally eddie and nikki come and we head out to first watch for “breakfast”.  delish…  had a “veg’d out” omelette.  sooooo good.  and beni let me have some of his pumpkin pancake.  doubly good….  got back to beni’s then we drove over to my house to start birthday stuff with nii-san.

nii-san’s friend stephanie joined us later.  it’s always fun to have her around.  i feel less nerdy when she and ash start to babble about something like buffy or hetalia.  haha…  i think beni even got along with stephanie too.  they had some “nerd bickers/wars”, but all in good taste.  i thought i’d be the nice little sister and make nii-san some homemade fettucini alfredo, one of her favourites.  i think i need to adjust the recipe for next time, but it was still good.  i think mostly everyone had seconds.  while everyone was still talking at the dinner table, i started making some fruit jello.  which now that i think about it, we never got to eat because it didn’t cool in time and now that it’s not pure liquid, it’s frozen solid.  i hope it’s good though.

for the halloween part of the day, we watched “the lost skeleton of cadavra” which was probably one of the best cheese-tastic movies i’ve seen since zoolander.  xD  it was amazing and we all loved it.

“and together, you and i shall rule this world together!”

oh the cheese…  it was so good.  everyone should watch it.  it should be a halloween tradition or something.  kinda like how i always have to watch “hocus pocus”.  shut up!  it’s a classic!  after that we celebrated my sister’s 23 with some scrubs inspired appletinis!


i pretty much never have pictures of me.  so this is rare!  sometimes being the camera chick sucks.  D;


nii-san with our martini shaker substitute (an emptied out voss bottle) and her friend stephanie with the apple garnish.


nii-san and stephanie were going out later for more drinks so they only made their appletinis with green apple smirnoff ice.  nii-san was nice enough to make beni’s and mine virgin.  aren’t our martini glasses fancy??  *sigh*  still sucks how all our stuff is packed away in boxes, but hey.  no one complained!

during appletinis we just chatting tons more.  a lot of batman related stuff came up as well as spectacular spider-man.  hmm…  see what i mean about nerd stuff?  after that, beni and i had to leave to meet up with our friend dara for party-hopping.  also nii and steph were planning to go out as well.  we pretty much finished off the night watching mega64 videos.  ahhh…  it was a pretty good night.  hahaha~

aside from that.  everything’s going ok…for the most part.  i’m not completely bored out of my mind yet from not being able to do ANYTHING, so that’s good.  i’ll give it a few more days till i say “FUCK IT” and turn in a few job applications.  i’ll try to work.  hell, i HAVE to work sometime!!  if my doctor still says it’s too much stress on me, then i’ll stop.  developing some sciatic nerve pain now which really blows, but i think i can tough it out.  just keep my legs elevated while i sleep and knees above my hips when i sit.  i think that’s the remedy.

things coming up:
-8th, open house at the wushu guan’s new location.
-photo shoot on the 14th.  hopefully i can go this time.  anyone want to join?  text me!
-17th, appointment with DCF, hopefully going to get some more benefits.
-next appointment with doctor on the 20th.  keep your fingers crossed for better news.
-25th daddy HOPEFULLY finally comes home from the philippines.
-25th at 7pm, premier of the ben 10 alien swarm movie.
-sometime in nov is thanksgiving.  when is this again??


toodles for now!  much love!

“whatever it takes, i know i can make it through…”

 

doctors 28/10/2009

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sooo…just a question.  a little personal.

have any of you ever been told by your doctor that sex is stictly prohibited for the time being?  just curious.  you know.  yeah..  *cries*

 

oh lovely day 09/10/2009

Filed under: Life — firebunny @ 11:53 am
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i’ve been in a pretty good mood recently.  i think it’s because it’s autumn and i keep having this good feeling that it’s going to be really deliciously cold and beautiful.  i don’t know.  just a good feeling, so don’t rain on my parade.  hahaha..

i’m still pretty sick.  i know i talk about that all the time, but the illness is kinda long term.  i should be getting better really soon.  at least i’m finally going to see an actual doctor about it.  yep!  i have an appointment on the 23rd of october.  i’m a bit nervous so hear what he has to say, but i’m keeping my fingers crossed that everything is good.  i’m not quite sure i’m ready to publically say what exactly i’m sick with, but it’ll come eventually.  just be patient.  ^^  just know i’m not dying!

a video blog is long, LONG overdue, i know, and i’m hoping i can do one soon.  i just have a lot going on right now and during the time i’m actually NOT suffering from one of my many symptoms, i’m doing things like paperwork, bills, or just trying to enjoy my time with friends because, hell, i’m effin’ back in florida and i freakin’ miss them!  i might just do a short one, do just compose something like my vloggeversary video.  i record a lot of crap when i’m with friends so that should count as a vlog right?  and now that i know i have a lot more family and friends who actually WAIT for me to update those, heh heh…i need to get on the ball, eh?

other than that, being really artsy still.  doing a few paintings, not finished a few but HUUUSSSHHH, and really just enjoying painting freehanded.  i been really wanting to move this is artist community in Land O Lakes, but i don’t think i’ll be able to move now anytime soon.  i’m still thinking about it and keeping it on the top of the list.  which reminds me, they have parties a lot.  anyone ever want to go??  i always want to but beni doesn’t so i’d be going alone…and that’s sad…  hit me up on the emailz, twitter, myspace, or something.  also MIGHT be doing a photoshoot there sometime soon.  i’ll have to see how i feel, but i really want to go.  anyone is welcome to come with me too if you want!  <33

quick family update:
niisan is actually being a responsible adult and looking for jobs and such.  she’s been going to career workshops and everything!  hell, i didn’t even do that.  maybe i should.  haha.  maybe i need to find a career to pursue first though.  hmm..  her birthday is also coming up soon on the 31st.  oh that halloween baby.  as for dad, birthday coming up soon on the 25th.  i feel so left out being in february!  hmm.  and at mom’s birthday was on may, so we are both out of the october loop.  other than that, dad is busy saving the world!  haha.  kinda.  since the typhoon in the philippines, my dad’s been travelling across the phils feeding homeless people and just being an all-around good person.  i’m wondering if there’s a person of the year type thing i can nominate him for.  no.  i’m serious.

this little raven is off.  i’ve got a few interwebz stuff to catch up on, then after that, focus on not getting a headache, then going out with the boyfriend.  toodles!

 

doing ok 24/09/2009

Filed under: Art, Life — firebunny @ 7:18 pm
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quite a bit of my recent stress has been alleviated.  not quite gone, but at least i can take a break.  there’s still a lot of REALLY important things i need to do, but i think i will fair ok.  daddy just left for the philippines a week ago.  he usually goes off there these days so nii-san and i are pretty used to it.  but he didn’t call us when he was on his way to japan like he usually does so i was freaking out.  and since then i hadn’t even heard if he had landed safely or not.  so many things went through my head while worrying about daddy’s whereabouts.  i even got sick(er) thinking about what might’ve happened.  yes.  i was literally worred sick.  but he finally gave us a ring today saying he was all right.  phew!  there goes a lot of stress.  also i think i have MOSTLY taking care of all the medicaid crap i have to deal with.  i’m hoping all i have to do is just fax the documents they need and i’m done.  *happy sigh*  feels so good.

because of that, the last few days i’ve been able to hoop again (still VERY sore, but at least i’m not nauseated by slight movement) and i’ve been very artsy.  tonight i must’ve hooped about 2 hours put together.  it’s easy to do when you watch tv.  haha.  took a few breaks of course, but it rocked.  i’m hoping to tone back up a little.  i’ve gained quite a bit of weight since i had gotten sick over a month ago.  also been doing a lot of quick sketching and a bit of painting.  i can say this because beni never reads my journal.  i’ve also been working pretty hard on beni’s birthday painting.  not sure if i’m going to be able to finish it in a timely manner, so i’m thinking about saving that piece for christmas and painting him something a little less complex.  but i’ve been doing a lot of acrylic painting as well as digital.  i also finally got corel painter.  it’s pretty hard compared to photoshop, but i’ll get the hang of it eventually.  i absolutely LOVE the watercolours!!

well, i’m going to go.  but i’ll leave you off with one digital painting i did.  happy being!

 

little girl’s growing up 06/09/2009

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every thing’s just going so fast, y’know.  the second you graduate high school you feel lost.  especially when you don’t go to university, then absolutely NOTHING is mapped out for you.

so now that i finally have a plan, move back to florida, get a part-time job, move into my own flat, attend HCC for spring term…so on and so forth, i feel like i wasn’t supposed to come up with a plan at all.  was i supposed to come up with all that later?  how about immediately after high school?  who knows.  but now i’m in this bind, that can possibly change that perfect plan i had for myself.

it’s not that i hate what’s going on.  oh god no!  in fact, i am happy and excited and am almost moved to tears at the very thought, but then, not even a WEEK after the news, all these bad things start happening and i feel like i just picked the wrong time to make the right choices.

all i’ve been doing with my online time is doing research here, doing research there, reading up on this and that, try to apply for this, find a person for that, get directions to one place, and on top of all that, i’m always feeling like crap and i never get anything accomplished.  everything i’m trying to read just goes in one end and out the other.

i just hope i do everything right.  i mean, i don’t just have my own life on my hands now.  i can’t be the little girl depending on mommy and daddy to help me out.  god.  i feel like i can’t even get help for anything!  anyone who reads this, please, just keep me in your thoughts.  keep your fingers crossed for me, and send any extra good luck you might have lying around.

 

and it just keeps getting worse 01/09/2009

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in response to Feeling Illz (20/8/2009).

like i mentioned in that blog, i pretty much felt like shit all around.  nausea here, pain here, pain there, lack-of or unusual appetite, so on and so forth.  well, went to a doctor and found out what’s wrong with me.  i probably won’t say it until i know for a fact it’s permanent.

i just feel like this came at a bad time.  aside from the typical economic slump causing me and my sister to not find jobs, dad is stressed out about getting the taxes done, he has his new businesses to worry about, the living situation isn’t really permanent and we have no idea when it will change, and everyone else around me doesn’t seem to be doing too good either.  my friend madison has to leave her flat because her PoS ex just upped and left one day leaving her with nothing.  my friend’s kid has a brain tumour and is not responding well to the treatment.  and now beni’s family’s in a rut too because some little shit-bag on paypal decided it’d be cool to steal ALL of steve’s (beni’s dad) money from his bank.  bad enough beni’s mom is a mooch living off alamony and letting her lame-ass boyfriend to mooch as well.

it’s just such a bad time right now for everyone and i feel like my situation is just so inconvenient.  *sigh*  it’s ok.  i’ll get through it and hopefully everything else with be better soon.

wish i had something here i can post to lighten the mood, but i’m just all out of goodies right now..

 

2 year vloggiversary! 08/08/2009

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reposted vlog.. =x 06/07/2009

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i was watching my most recent vlog earlier to check the video quality (which totally sucks once online..  D; ), and when it was done, i saw a link to some video that i hadn’t posted, yet it had my face in it.  curious, i clicked on it.  well, turns out someone reposted my Mom Dedication video as some sort of hair ad or something.  here’s the description.

Lady cuts her own hair from shoulder length to a hot undercut bob!”

oh.  really?  that’s what the video is about?  last time i checked it was a video of me cutting my hair in memory of my MOTHER’S DEATH TO CANCER.

honestly, i wouldn’t mind too much if the person at least asked to use it first and also edited it to cut out the speech in the beginning.  still, it’s really strange and i find it rather insensitive.  whatever.  i’m not going to make a huge fuse over it..

 

Rae needs to post more D: 10/06/2009

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sorry i gotta go – it’s time for me to fly!

nii-san is an official college graduate!  holy crap!  yeah.  i know she graduated a month ago yesterday, but she just got her diploma in the mail.  So NOW it’s official.  i’m so excited for her.  god.  i’d be graduating next year.  oh if i only stayed in school.  ehh~

haven’t blogged in a while.  been even longer since i vlogged.  oh man.  i should really edit and post my “Earth Day” vlog.  i might just have to rerecord that since it’s so old.  Dx  uhh…so what’s been up?  OH!  i met my friend Jim7 from the forums i go to.  he was actually super cool (not that i expected him not to be) and even though we never met in person before that, i felt really comfortable talking to him about whatever.  i was kinda afraid i’d scare him a bit especially since i think i act a little differently on the forums than i do in real life, but i think he thought i was a decent las myself.  hehe.  too bad he drove up north for the summer.  would’ve been cool to hang out with him again.

i made beni try on some of my wigs.  lololololololol (oh arby and the chief.  you influence my speech so much!).  he actually looked really cute.

i was going to crop out everything but the two of us, then i saw how much NERD was on my dresser and thought it was best to keep it.  yep.  beni’s umbrella shirt, my greg cipes painting under that, my ben 10 alien force omnitrix, and my treasured copy of god hand that i luckily found by chance in the brandon mall.  lulz.  dorkz. anyway, i made beni try on my short black wig on this picture which i call the “kevin 11″ wig.  hahahaha.  and because of that, i thought i’d try on my gwen wig.  aww!!  wouldn’t we make a cute kevin and gwen??  xD


lulz tiemz!  i think beni makes a better nathan keyes as kevin than the actual cartoon kevin.  xD

speaking of dressing up, i’ve decided on a new costume aside from tira.  GASP!  yep.  oh, and the fun part is, i’m going to be cosplaying a dude!

nanashi (left), laou (right)

nanashi (left), laou (right)

yep!  i’m *hopefully* going to be cosplaying nanashi from sword of the stranger.  which, by the way people, it is an AMAZING movie.  watch it like WOAH!  i’m excited.  i’m planning it mainly for comic con this coming july, but i might be wearing it to metrocon (yeah.  i know, metrocon.  EWW!  long story).  i figured that if i was in costume, people wouldn’t recognise me that easily.  hahaha…  i really wish beni would just give in and cosplay laou with me, but he’s too much of a pussy to mullet-ify his hair.  oh well.  his lovely yellow locks are fine how they are.  wish they were leon-long again, but this cut is still super cute.  the costume is actually kinda important to me.  the movie was not only epic with deliciously beefy studs (uhhhh~~~<333), but it was also very moving for me.  i guess it just hit my soft spot.  i didn’t dislike any characters and that surprising because children in anime almost ALWAYS piss me off, but kotarou was just so lovable and i was heartbroken when he was betrayed by his own family.  and tobimaru REALLY made me want to get a shiba inu.  i had seen one a while ago at a puppy store and really wanted him.  went back a few months later only to see he was still there and discounted because no one wanted him.  ;-;

uhh.  just watch it!  you’ll love it.  i was afraid nii-san wouldn’t like it, so i forced her into watching it today and she loved it.  <333


beni and i went to the beach recently too.  i got a little burned and i think i got a tan.  it was fun though.  this nice couple also let us use their umbrella when they left so we weren’t burning in the sun for too long.  the water was lovely and the sky was a really pretty blue.  the day actually started out TERRIBLY, but it got SO much better after we went to the beach.  i hope we go again soon.  it was really fun.

uhh.  so i have so much more to write about, but this entry is getting long.  i’ll update more soon.  until then, ta!