I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuve Christmas songs! I just love them for no reason at all. They're always so easy to remember, to sing and to appreciate - at least in my case (except Little Drummer Boy, for some reason it just rubs me the wrong way). I could sing one in the middle of July and usually do when I stop to think about it. We started on the Christmas section in the store I work at weeks ago and there's always a customer pressing the button of a house or a plushy that plays music. Most of the people I work with are already sick of it but personnaly I wouldn't mind having Christmas music play none stop when I work. Come on! We are unpacking who knows how many pallets of stock (30, 40 more I don't really know) for that section in so many weeks, might as well do it in the right mood.

It's just a pity that my family doesn't want me to sing White Christmas yet... Technicaly my mom told me I'd have the right to starting November 1st as stupid as it sounds. Bet you anything that she'll take it back tomorrow morning when I'll start!

Also Bong Crosby is THE greatest!

My Accutane prescription and a good cold has made me the owner of the driest nose in North America! It almost hurts to laugh. I managed to get sick two days after I started treatment. The Accutane is known to cause skin dehydration but this is getting ridiculous! The skin around my nose and the right side of my mouth isn't just red anymore; it's peeling, craking, weeping, scabbing, cracking again, etc. Vaseline has became my best friend from day one (aloevera stings too much on sensitive skin I should know I tried it) along with a VERY RICH cream the dermatologist prescribed me. Only problem is that I can only use it before getting to bed (I cheated a few times though).

Aside from this little skin problem I can probably consider myself lucky: I don't have any other side effect. No dry eyes, no hair loss (no more that I usually lose anyway), no muscle pains, no depression so far, no dryer lips than I have during fall and winter, no sudden acne breakout. And I'll know in two weeks if the treatment affected my sugar levels and my cholesterol (which is surprisingly high for someone of my weight but it runs in the family). My dermatologist is incredibly conscientious and has made me get 4 appointments for blood tests, one every 21 days.

The frustrating thing is that my acne is not that severe. Actually I don't have more than a few pimples most of the time but the sudden breakouts are incredibly bothersome and unpredictable, last for a few weeks at the least and don't react to any cream, soap, antibiotics I could find or get prescribed. Also, I have an incredibly sensitive skin so most acne products on the market give me rashes or itches. And come on, I'm 23 years old for God sake! I've been trying to deal with the problem for 10 years; I think I've been patient enough no?

Moving to another line of thought, I am still in love with The Vision of Escaflowne! This anime is more than 10 years old but it's still one of my favorite and one of the ones I keep watching over and over. Sad thing is: the fandom is pretty much DEAD!!! Like Rurouny Kenshin and Weiss Kreuz (It's not dead-dead but you can observe it's decline) Also, I really need to finish to watch Gundam Wing! It's really stupid because I know the beginning and the end but I've never seen what happens in the middle and I own the dvd box set so nothing stops me from doing it but I always end up watching the 15 first episodes and stop there! And Slayers! I should watch Slayers again... I've seen it on VHS thanks to Remi but I bought the dvds at least a year ago and never watched them... My brother borrowed them at least 2 or 3 times. And Death Note... I own the manga up to book 12 but I have yet to start the third.

My Top Five Manga right now in no particular order:
L'habitant de l'infini (Blade of the Immortal)
Dorohedoro
Dogs
Gunnm/Gunnm Last Order (Battle Angel Alita in english I believe)
Bastard (I can't wait to see the 26th volume)

My top three manga "I don't exactly know why I keep reading them":
Saiyuki
Bleach
Naruto

And last but not least: top five manga "I really need to finish or at least start reading" Hellsing (9 books none read)
Death Note (12 books 2 read)
Angel Santuary (20 books 12 read)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (11 books 9 read)
Skip Beat (somewhere in the middle of it)

I'll spare you the ones I own, read and want to sell back and the ones I own, read and want to keep for the sake of keeping them (you never know when I could get nostalgic and want to read them again)

Top five anime of the moment:
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex (and the movies of course)
Vision of Escaflowne
Gundam Wing
Fullmetal Alchemist
Soul Eater (candy for whaterver that makes an individual dependent on something)

God... I can't believe it... Rémi, remember when I told you that I knew the song thunderhorse that Dethklok sang in Metalocalypse from Guitar Hero and so that the "real" band must have inspired that show? Well I WAS WRONG!! The show came first! There's Brendon Small who plays both guits, the drums (I think), plus Nathan's, Pickles' and Skwisgaar' voices and Tommy Blacha makes Toki and Murderface (both are executive producers on the show). It's only afterwards that they made a cd out of the songs from the show. Dethklok never was a real band haha! I think I'm still gonna end up buying the cd anyway.

Oh! and I forgot to take your cd from the Prodigy (I think it was) before I left... I knew I couldn't leave without forgetting something!

Does anyone knows if it's possible to retrieve a piece of work someone was working on with photoshop when the computer did an automatic update and restarted before said person saved it?

HAYA!!!!!! Hinata finally grew a backbone (even if it didn't really got her anywhere) Kakashi!!!!! hihihi! And GAARA!!!!!! YES!!!! Horrible death to Danzo! who want to find Who? to get WHAT? Sharingan... AHHHH!!! Anko!!! And I still won't give up hope to see Orochimaru again. That guy is just unkillable! They seal him away time and time again but he's never dead.

If you knew exactly what I was talking about: good for you! If not: gnagnagna! You're probably not missing much since you don't read it in the first place or lost all interest in it a while ago. And if you do read the manga and don't know what I'm talking about because you are not up to date: what are you waiting for!? Like I'm one to talk... I had not read anything since 2007 (not even Sasuke's fight against Itachi).

456 chapters already... And they still manage to make twice that number in fillers in the anime.

*groans* I think I want to bash my head in a wall! I think I threw away several unframed canvas' to the garbage when we moved in last year. I am an incredibly nostalgic person; I should have known that I would miss those paintings! One of them was a black ink on canvas I spent around 16 hours (or was it 36?)in a row, sleepless night and all for a class in university. It wasn't perfect but I cursed it as much as I loved it at the time of its creation that I find it's a waste to have thrown it away. It was a new experience, an experiment that needed a lot of scott towel and all purpose cleaner to get the right shading and clean background I needed! All laid to waste... At least I took a few pictures of it for my portfolio a few years ago. *sighs*

I think I would like to start to draw and maybe even paint again. I still have my material and enough space in my room to lay everything on the floor and work (at the university I could staple my unframed canvas' on the classroom wall but I learned to paint on the floor when I worked in my 10'X10' studio apartment bed/kitchen/bathroom all in one). It's just a pity that I can't to that in my regular schedule: I usually work nonstop on a piece until its completion which I can't do when I work the next day at 8am (a piece usually take 10 hours minimum). It sucks so much to be a perfectionist...

Oh and I miss Gaara. Who would have thought that I would try to catch up with Naruto manga after 2 years. I hadn't even read the fight of Sasuke versus Itachi.

Needed to rectify something I said yesterday about my thigh sun burn not hurting... *inane growling* Bitch!! Sure they don't hurt! As long as I don't move... They're still hot to the touch but not as much as yesterday. Bad thing on the other side is that I feel like I don't have enough skin anymore around my knees. I'm just a LITTLE stiff! Stairs aren't so bad if I take the steps one at the time (which I usually don't) but crouching is somewhat harder. Almost have to hold myself to something when I bend my knees at more than 90 degrees which is rather often with the safes I have to count and fill in the morning. And of course Marissa just had to wait for me to actually manage to get back up to ask me for change from the great little safe we have at the front desk at floor height. >p *groan and crouch down* It almost feels like my left knee muscle hurts more than the skin.

Other thing... Aloe-vera really stinks! Right now it's probably the best thing I can put on my skin burns but the smell is definitely awful. Also: must remember to put a lot of pressure on the skin when applying the stuff. It hurts less than a light brush against the skin for some reason.

hurg... I am not friend with sun lotion... Last year I actually managed to get an inch large sun burn around my waist where my shirt rode up as I worked my ass off on the topsoil pit that was beside the driveway. And today, first day of nice hot sunny weather I've manage to make the most of, I manage to get the lamest sun burn ever... I did put on sun lotion... I just forgot a few spots namely one the size of my thumb almost in the middle of my back, a somewhat long triangle on my right arm, a nice tank top demarcation (but only a thin if very red one as I did put lotion on my breastbones) with a very nice spaghetti strap outline only on the right side. And I mustn't forget the thighs! Oh shit... I didn't think I would actually burn there (Am I stupid or what?) From mid-thigh to the knee I am lobster red! I feel like I have two miniature heaters straped above my knees... At least they don't hurt as such. My dad who never puts on lotion and who shaves his head every morning and gets the most purple head sun burns I've seen on anyone in my entire life (and he gets one every week or so) had the nerve to tell me that I should always put on sunscreen cream before heading outside. I just couldn't not throw this one back in his face! Talk about the irony! Hahaha! If he's going to die of cancer which is most likely since everyone on his side of the family seems to die of one I'd say it will inevitably be skin cancer. And if not, he's either got the luck of the Devil or the skin of a rhinoceros... That or Death also likes irony.

Also: I love Gambit! He's been one of my favorite X-Men in the 90's cartoon and seeing the movie even if I'm still not sure that Taylor Kitsch did him justice just made me rediscover that character.

Also discovered Dogs from Shirow Miwa and also loved!

I'm on a roll!

han? They are redoing the Fullmetal Alchemist anime? I... wha'... the... WHEN did THAT happen? I'm speechless... More based on the manga this time they say even if they start with a hs episode. How ironic is that? I liked the graphism of the first version better. Manga is too square for my taste. Oh well... I'll get new Envy goodness I guess. I just hope that the english version will keep the same voice actors. I never managed to appreciate the original japanese version as much as the english one for some reason.

Also: House, House, House... My dear doctor, you'll never fail to make me laugh, grin, snort, protest, etc. You can be proud, you made my cry yesterday!

I love tv show marathons (yeah for Diva)

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... Just like the song says... Luckily enough it's not staying! Didn't get any since the beginning of February (aside from one time at the beginning of March I think) which was a miracle itself and the snow that fell today melted as soon as it touched ground today. The people in the North of Québec can't say that they were this lucky. They were to get from 15 to 20cm today and tomorrow I heard. Kaythay how is it in Chicoutimi?

The cat still sulks from the fact that we won't let him drink from the tap... We still change his water 3 times a day and even tried to put Bovril (condensé de boeuf) in it; worked once but we don't really want to empty the bottle this week so... He prefers the water from the pool outside it seems. As long as he doesn't fall in it. ^__^

Discovered a few new songs from MSI. I can't say that I really listen to the lyrics all that much (unless I really want to butt my head a few times against a wall if we consider their older material) but I love the voice and the rhythm. And I heard singer Jimmy Urine (real name James Euringer) on interview on youtube: THAT GUY ACTUALLY SOUND NORMAL OUTSIDE THE STAGE! Which is - if you consider that a bit - rather expected. No one can be so completely nuts all the time.

For some odd reason I always associate a few of MSI songs to Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist. Yeah I ended up buying the 2 collection cases a few weeks ago >.> I really have a soft spot for psychopaths...

OH! And depending on the light my hair now looks PURPLE!! Rawr! That rocks!

And I still want to start taking Karate lessons.

And I still need to get some sleep now.