infinity zone

Soooo... I've been back since Wednesday, but I've been putting off replying. First it was because I was feeling lazy, and then I kinda forgot, and then it just started feeling overwhelming trying to write down everything that's been going on. So I'll skip the finer details and just focus on some broad summaries.

Hawaii was fantastic. Apparently we missed a heat wave in the area by going on vacation, so I think we lucked out in that sense, too. We went snorkeling at three different locations, looking down at the coral and all of the tropical fish. We also walked through a lava tube (read: lava-created cave) and did long-exposure light writing in a pitch-dark section of the tube. Very, very cool. We also ate ... expensively. Hahaha. And visited three candy factories. The big island is apparently big on chocolate and macadamia nuts. :| I'm almost out of my chocolate-dipped macadamia shortbread cookies. I'm already debating ordering more and having them shipped.

On Saturday, I attended a Lady Gaga concert with my brother and his fiancee. It's the first concert any of us have attended, and it was amazing. Bright lights, smoke, rising platforms, a burning piano, springboards, a fame monster, a disco stick, and lots of crotch-grabbing. The song "Boys, Boys, Boys" featured a lot of crotch-grabbing. :| I also found myself preferring how she sang Paparazzi live versus the album. We had good seats for paying the cheapest price for the three sections; I think it's because the seating was reserved for Citi card users.

Aaaand the Luceti events. Holy crap. So much stuff going on to get back into. And there's applications just around the corner, too. So excited about a lot of the reserves by returning players and characters.

Then over at Damned, my hiatus ends-- er, like, tomorrow. Ahahaha. I have no plans for the nightshift, so this will be interesting. Huzzah for Yukari and Mitsuru apps, though! ...Minato's going to have all the girls except Fuuka there. Oh boy.

And on top of all this... We're moving into a house soon. I need to start packing stuff. My new bedroom set will be delivered sometime in the first week or so of September. I'm so excited about that; I've never bought my own furniture set before. So much to do ... and I haven't really started at all.

Sorry to everyone who asked questions in my last entry; since my internet time's been so sparse, I find my replying habits to be completely shot. Argh.

I'm in Iloilo City now, in a hotel called the Sarabia Manor. It's the closest to an American hotel that I've been in since arriving in the Philippines, but still very ... sparse. The lobby seems to be the nicest place -- which is where the WiFi is, so I'm downstairs and using it right now.

It rains in the Philippines a lot more than I thought it did. Or maybe we're just visiting at the wrong time. But it's been nice (and terribly humid, to a Pacific Northwest-born Filipino), even if it's hard to enjoy when my sister and I are just getting dragged around by our parents. Oh, and Leo, we were in Conception because we had relatives in Agnaga over there. We also went through my mom's hometown of Sara.

Sitting in a van, driving around an island from Caticlan to Agnaga to Iloilo City for nine hours, has led to some weeeeird ideas. I blame listening to Digimon music for several hours.

( Cut for Legendia Digimon AU idea weirdness )

I don't update as often as I used to anymore. I guess I don't feel like I have much to talk about.

Well ... I guess I've got something to announce now. I'll be going to the Philippines in exactly a week. Sixteen hour flight, sixteen hour time difference. That is going to be one helluva jetlag.

I've never flown internationally before. And it'll be my parents' first time back to the Philippines in three decades. I'm kinda anxious about the flight, but I'm trying not to dwell on the negatives. It's hard, because my older brother has been really negative about the planning and everyone. And he isn't even going anymore. I'm gonna try to enjoy it. My friends have been telling me to try a lot of different things once I get there. It'll keep me busy.

I'll be quitting my internship at work early to go on the trip. I've been working there for a year as of June 13, so I've been restless about being on an internship that long. But I'll probably be going back as a vendor someday, editing at a higher pay rate. That'll be nice.

And I better get ready for work.

It's currently 4 in the morning. Got in a little after 3 AM; we've been driving up the coast from northern CA to WA since ... oh, 10 AM on Tuesday? My dad's amazing, that's all I can say. >_> We took the scenic route US-101 until we reached Portland ... and there was a lot of road work, to say the least.

I'm stuck leeching off slow wireless until I either find a way to fix my Ethernet hub (unlikely) or connect to the family wireless, which seems to be being a jerk to me right now and not letting me connect to it. Bleh.

Currently trying to get into Suikosource to access to the Star of Destiny lists. Just got an idea for JS ... and I need the lists for other aspects that I never got around to writing down before. I'll probably forget something important at this rate.

Just got back from boating. We left about 10 AM and got to Rollins Lake about 11 AM. Sooo ... we were on the lake, just chilling for almost five hours. It was really nice, but I get the feeling my face is going to be on fire tomorrow. Maybe.

Sounds like we're going to Reno tonight. Tch...

Don't you just love it when your parents take the fun out of going places?

Edit: Ended up not going to Reno. Just went to dinner and went back to the room, where I proceeded to have an allergic reaction to something. Lovely.

We're now in Rocklin, CA. We got a pretty nice Howard Johnson hotel room; vanity, air con, queen-sized beds, fridge, microwave... Yeah.

Current plan is to go to Yosemite National Park tomorrow with my brother; he seems to have weekends off ... I think.

And we won't be able to make it to Las Vegas. =\ But my parents said we might go to Reno. =D