My daughter and I have been boycotting Walmart since Thanksgiving when they decided to Roll Back DEI and announce it while every one was eating dinner. Naturally people were pissed and imagine that no one wanted to shop on Black Friday there. I wonder why?😈
Anyway, I've never been happy that I had to buy from Walmart cause I can't afford not to, but after that mic drop I was fully done. Now in the last few months with all the news coming out about lawsuits and screw overs, I am really happy about my decisions even if it means I pay a little more here and there. My conscience is clear.😇
Let me also preface that I do this with all companies that pull shady shit like McD, Valero, Home Dept, and Target to name a few. I pay a lot of attention to where my money goes now and who gets it. Right now I am standing with Costco and Aldi for sure. Take a moment and look up who is being bought to decide who you want to still buy from.😉
I have fics where I have researched for hours and even days for it and no one ever noticed at all which is really heart breaking for someone that enjoys details like that so I am glad that this person appreciates hard work like this.😓
I love, love, LOVE it when I can tell a fic author has integrated their specialized knowledge in a fic. I was reading a fic that at some point included the character going to visit an art therapist, and it's so clear that the author is an art therapist themself, and the details included are just immaculate and I love it. I've previously read about a character doing fencing for no other reason than the author clearly wanting to write a sport they understood. A character being given a hyperfixation on bugs just so the author can infodump themselves.
I eat it up every time, it brings such a smile to my face
I just went shopping on my way home from being a Home Chef for a friend of mine becasue I wanted to make Stuffed shells for dinner after I made her manicotti. Of course I ended up buying a whole lot more, but honestly I can't just run into the store and grab one item.😅
So I grab a cart and start in the fruit like most people do. Almost out of garlic so I grabbed a big jar cause it goes for a long time. Grabbed some Snap Dragon Apples and Raspberry oranges. Now those all sound boujie but all the apples were $3.99 a bag and my oranges were cheaper than navel ones!😲
So then I head to the areas where I am supposed to be going aka the pasta. I grab Italian bread to make garlic bread and found pie and bagels discounted so scooped those up. I even found a decent size pork roast on discount for tomorrow's dinner! Then I hit the pasta aisle.😄
I found sauce for a crazy sale price and stood in the pasta aisle for like 15 minutes comparing sale prices. I tried to make it down the cookie aisle safely, but I ended up seeing store brand butter cookies so snatch.😆
Next came eggs but I was not worried cause i cased them earlier in the week I knew that I could get 24 for $8.25 which is a steal nowadays. Got a big bag of meatballs that will last a while too. Finally I hit the dairy and to my lovely shock I found butter on sale! Let me tell you even on the holidays I could not find butter on sale like this! I will be going back later this week to grab more cause butter is so expensive right now!😖
Finally grabbed all the cheeses I needed for the shells and found cream cheese on a fantastic sale. Grabbed my daughter's Greek yogurt and then on my way to the register I remembered a vid I watched about olive oil being scarce in the coming months so I decided to check that out and after another 15 min of price comparing I chose one and that was the most expensive thing I bought at $14.99 but it will last me months.🧐
When all is said and done I spent $141.35 and it filled four bags, which is not many, but everything I bought except for the cookies was all healthy and unprocessed or will last months. I think I did damn good! Then I spent $2.89 on a bottle of blackberry Dr. Pepper and made mac and cheese cause it was too late to cook the shells cause I took two hours to shop.😂
No for serious, right now as i am writing this I am roasting the veggies in my fridge so they don't go bad and I can freeze them. I really am trying not to let anything go bad in my fridge anymore cause that was a bad habit we had and it wastes soooo much money. So yeah, I think I did really good and the two most expensive things i bought were the garlic and the olive oil. The pantry is full and we will be too for a few months!🥰
Mata ne Mina!🤗
Just one on Tuesdays this season but it just means that I can play catch up with other animes I am watching that are older or rewatching.😉
So half way through this season and I am still slightly on the fence with this one. They don't really talk about the fruit as much anymore but I'm not gonna lie, I am always there for a trash church/religion cause it has this cathartic feeling for me since I am a recovering Catholic in my childhood.😅
One of my fav readers asked me what it’s like for me when I get high. I told them that I actually have never gotten high on drugs. Yes, I am not lying. What I did tell them was that I get high on the amazing comments that they and my other wonderful readers leave me. It sounds stupid, but when I am feeling down and I get a comment, it lights up my face and makes me smile. ^-^
If you make it to the end of this i'm impressed.😆
Okay so I don't really want it to be cause where i live I am going to be miserable buuuuuuut, the Summer Anime Season is where I am looking cause among my many returning animes is Osomatsu-san, a pretty niche anime in the West but beloved by Japan so much that is made a come back 80 years later and is now on it's 4th season!😲
Originally called Osomatsu-kun back in the 60's, Osomatsu-san is about six identical sibling brothers and their daily lives of being NEETS and a burden on the world they live in. It's a slice of life that can be really funny if you get the jokes. It has an amazing cast including my number one seiyū Sakurai Takahiro- san! As per usual he is the one that got me into watching this anime! He voices the oldest Matsu brother and is the namesake of the series as a whole!
Although they do wear matching outfits at times as a nod to the original anime they are color coded and have unique personalities to tell them apart. Here listed are the names, colors, personalities and who voices them.
Sakurai Takahiro-san does the voice of the biggest NEET out of all of the brothers. He's also addicted to Pachiko.
Also the voice of Gojo sensei, Nakamura Yūichi-san gives this brother a cool nature...or tries to.
Kamiya Hiroshi-san is the voice of kind of the most boring brother for me. I don't know he just does not stand out as much as the others in personality.
Fukuyama Jun-san bring this eternally depressed brother to life and he is low key probably my second fav brother.
Knowing Ono Daisuke-san, there was no yellow highlight color, from a character like Sebastian Michelas it threw me for such a loop to hear him, and see his live, voice such a dopey airheaded character. Like it really showed his range to me!
The youngest and most adorable brother and my third fav he actually has a job and tries to be the opposite of his oldest brother. He is voiced by Irino Miyu-san.
There are a ton of live events too from the series and even not translated you can see how much fun everyone is having and really getting into their character. This is why I say when you change a seiyū for a character you are not just changing their voice but you are changing the whole character so it is not the same anymore.😖
They often go on stage with their counterparts from the anime and have contests and silly games they play which I end up laughing so hard at cause these are grown ass men near my age and they act like this for a living! Ugh, so jealous!
Anyway so that's my post on one of my fav anime series as well as the seiyū's who voice it. I don't know who is gonna get to the end of this but I hope if not the anime itself you will have more appreciation for the people that give the characters life. That's the true goal of an seiyū otaku.
New Week and new ideas to move forward. Not gonna say much here cause this is about the anime first and foremost, but I'll have a few midnight rambles tonight for sure! Well as long as a remember to post and not fall down the YT rabbit hole.😅
Oh man Yu Gi Oh got a power rangers form too? Yes! The collab we never knew we needed!😂
This ep was a roller coaster for me no cap. I was pissed when I realized what happened first ep was all a set up by Clarke-sama but now it might be all on the brother pulling the strings? Still by the end of the ep it seems like Clarke-sama might have figured out that you can't force a relationship even if it is arranged. That fact that the ep ended with him saying if Leticia wants to gave me a lot more hope and this is why i did not drop this one even when it was irking me.😉
All together again...almost but what is Reishi doing? 🤔
what did I say? The ep was too light hearted last week and this week the hammer came down hard! The funny thing is I asked my daughter if her dad, who passed away when she was 10 of epilepsy, was the focal point of the fictional world like Hanako-kun was could she do what she needed to do to get back to the real world and she didn't bat an eyelid before she said..."Absolutely cause I know that isn't my real dad simply cause he would be healthy and able to achieve all his dreams. I can't decide if that was too cold or not.😣
Finally someone that gets it!😍💖
Thursday is my biggest anime watching day for the entire week this season! When I work, which I didn't today if you saw my blog yesterday, I usually need a nap afterwards and then I only have a few hours till dinner and D&D so it is really hard to make sure that I can get in all of the shows without waiting till after game when I am exhausted and have trouble concentrating or I am too hyped up from the session and...I have trouble concentrating...first world problems I know.😵
Anyway, here is my Thursday line up and these are in the order that I watch them too!😉
My number one new anime for this season just keeps getting better and better! Now that outside influences are involved it makes the story even more interesting! Also it is clear which route Anna is on but we won't tell Grace that.🤭
With Tsukasa and Senku we had brain vs brawn and now we have brain vs brain with Dr. Zeno and Dr. Taiju...? Nah I'm kidding but it is really funny that he thinks that is his nemisis when Taiju can't even spell nemesis and neither could i the first time so I'm just gonna leave it there.😆
This is another underrated anime continuing from last season that I feel everyone is sleeping on. At first I was taken back by the art style but now I am so invested in the characters that it isn't even a thought anymore. If you enjoyed Great Pretender, then you have to check this one out too!😎
Many are making fun of this one cause they think that its already been done with Campfire, but this has a different type of charm and kind of unexpected things are happening especially in this ep! People are also bothered by the fact that the beast race is both full beast and ones with human faces but if that is how the mangaka wrote the manga/novel who are we to judge them? They have an anime and we don't so yeah.🙄
Don't say anything. I always at least try to check out the new Go Hands anime each season and I am enjoying this one so shush. Plus the OP is amazing and my daughter and I are going to see them in concert in March!😎
I am isekai trash, but I don't have as many as i usually do this season so fantasy is just as good. I really resonate with Ein our protag cause he is shit on for most of his life for being an appraiser and before you attack and say that how is that a shit skill, if there are people that can just cast a 0 lvl spell to appraise anything than what good would having that as your only skill be and nothing else?😓
Also I don't think that he is too OP cause like Hajime in Arifueta Ein went through hell and nearly died to get what he has so he earned it all. His only cheat is that he has his MIL practically telling him what to do all the time which is not always the best idea and I am sure would get annoying if you think about it.🤔
So there you have it. My biggest anime watching day. Now I am off to finish dinner and *surprise* watch more anime...just not seasonal.😄
Okay so apparently, I find out that people are in shock that I wrote Bondage Mansion. I assure you though I did. It was my first fic and oh Goddess, was a green. I mean if you look at the first 10 or 15 chapters, you can see that I had no idea what I was doing. I drove my betas crazy and I thought they were going to kill me. ^0^ By the 25th chapter, I was much better and making less mistakes and learning how to write other ships, thanks to my second fic, Darling. This one was much more lighthearted and a huge contrast to Bondage. It was nice though and i enjoyed going back and forth.
By the time i got to the 49th chapter, and yes, that chapter was alWays planned form the beginning and do not ask why I never mentioned it in the tags casue you all know the reason, NO ONE WOULD READ IT. AnyWay, I felt confident enough that I could write much more and even did the epilogue, which had nothing to do with the original hentai. It was nice to go off on my own fully and not have anything to fall back on.
The other fic I am most proud of is Housewife. This one i write with my lovely Geebear ***Digdeepenough*** who I truly enjoy callabing with still.
if you guys have any questions about these or other fics, like I mentioned, let me know. I would be happy to discuss any of them with you! ^-^
Bondage Mansion
Housewife
Sorry, no pic for Darling. ^0^
Watching random recipes on youtube as I try and decide if I want to go to work tomorrow. It is going to snow about 2 in. here and the schools are already closed but I still have work cause crazy people want bagels and soup in a damn snow storm apparently.🙄
I don't want to go but I already didn't go in yesterday cause I was so tired. Yeah full grown adults have those kind of days too. Plus my son's cat was making it hard to leave the bed so I blame him too.😅
Either way, it is no fun driving in the snow honestly and I know that we will hardly have any guests plus everyone else is going to call in so why should I be the only adult...over the age of 30 that shows up and get stuck there doing the work of 5 people or being made to clean something that no one has cleaned in months just cause I am there. Like 14 years at this place and i am still treated like the kids, no offense to anyone specific, that just started or have been there like a year. I've been there longer than all my managers for fuck sake!😒
Anyway so yeah, I really can't afford it especially since I don't know what is going on with my tax return or my daughter's survivor benefits thanks to Muskhole getting a hold of our personal info illegally, but I am just tired of being the grown up when my body feels more like a damn senior. I identify with Sophie so much. No wonder it's my fav Ghibli movie.😩
Rant over i guess and i'll go back to watching vids that make me smile and I guess i'll let you know if I decide to go in or not tomorrow.😞
Originally a bandom blog turned anime with still a few old posts here and there. Lover of obscure anime and writer of Daiya no Ace fan fiction. (・ิω・ิ)ノ
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