Cake, disaster, feathers, sushi, and my beast of a sister

A delightful hodgepodge of topics, no?

Cake: My birthday was in March. I finally got the courage (yes COURAGE) to pick a cake. It’s a yellow cake with maple frosting– not what I thought I wanted but it looks really REALLY good. Plus, it was a day old (who cares? Not me!) so it was discounted. I’m watching my fat and sugar intake so I won’t freak out when I eat a piece. And I AM going to eat a piece, damn it.

Disaster: Holy CRAP, it’s been a bad time in terms of disaster. Tornadoes, cyclones, and now a massive earthquake in China. It seems near apocalyptic. I’ve heard that the death toll for tornado season this year is already tied for the worst ever in this country. That’s INSANE. And 900 students trapped in a primary school in China, with buildings rocking all the way across the country from the shocks… it’s incredible in a terrifying way. Enough to put the fear of God in me, a bit, although I’m still not so sure about the whole God thing.

Feathers: On a lighter note, new Tsubasa! And it definitely threw me for a loop. Spoilers ahead. Apparently Tsubasa Syaoran is the son of CCS Syaoran and Sakura, as implied by Yuuko. Makes his thing with Tsubasa Sakura a tiny bit creepy. But Yuuko said to a younger Syaoran in what seemed to be a flashback that his name was the same as his father’s, referred to his mother as Sakura-chan, and indicated that the price his mother had paid for his wish was the wand that Sakura carries in CCS. I’m not a CCS fan, so I don’t know what it’s called if it has a name… but holy crap!

Sushi: Officially my favorite low calorie food. I had kappa maki (cucumber roll) and miso soup for lunch yesterday. It was excellent, and kind of odd– we ate at a very nice restaurant that serves both authentic sushi and such and your typical crappy Chinese fare, and as I ate my deliciously healthy meal, each member of my family ordered massive platters of deep fried chicken and such. Bleeeccch. I think I may be an accidental vegetarian– i haven’t eaten meat in a week except fish, and when I tried some chicken, I just really didn’t like it. That’s fine with me, actually.

My beast of a sister: I can’t believe this. She threw a major tantrum yesterday, ON MOTHERS’ DAY, for no reason at all. All of the sudden. We were playing a board game for family game night, and she lost a question or something. All the sudden she BLOWS UP and shouts “FINE, I DIDN’T WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU ANYWAY!” and storms off, slamming doors and generally being bitchy. We share a room, and of course instead of saying she wanted to be left alone she attempted to barricade the door. What an infant. And then she’s all crying and whining like SHE’S the victim, expecting everyone to feel bad because she feels like she ruins everything and then claiming she didn’t do anything wrong. “Why does everyone hate me? Waaaah!” And keep in mind, NOTHING triggered this outburts, except formy brother not moving out, which she blew up over on Friday. She claims that everyone else holds on to everything and is just planning to yell at her later– she’s the only one holding these grudges. It’s ridiculous. I can’t believe she pulled this shit on Mothers’ Day. My mom almost cried. I could have killed the little bitch, I swear. She threatens to kill herself whenever she gets irked, going as far as to pour my meds all over the table and threaten to take them. Every time she gets in trouble for being lazy, she goes off, “You just want to kick me out! You want me in a mental hospital! You’re all against me! You don’t want me! WAAAH!” That’s funny- given that she’s the only kid not planning on leaving in the next year, and when she and I were both in foster care, she came home 4 years before me. Of course, she’s the victim. We don’t do anything for her. OH MY FREAKING GOD, she makes me want to beat things up.

Good news– jelly bean bloat is almost all gone. My thighs are back to normal, and my tummy’s almost there too. You have no idea how much stress that relieves for me.

Also– I realized this could become an issue– regardless of anything I may say on darker more depressed days, I am NOT pro “ana” or ED, and will delete any comments that encourage ED behaviors. As more people start coming, I just want to put that on the table.

Kamui does not approve!

God, that was awful.

The ending of the X anime, I mean. The manag has no ending, but the pile of steaming sugar coated crap I just sat through… It makes me feel ill. Spoiler warning.

There was so little development of Kamui. I wouldn’t have cared at all if not for the manga, and honestly his long melodramatic death speech sapped my enthusiasm for his character. Manga Kamui would kick his ass. Then Tsubasa Kamui would disembowel him and use his inards to festoon a Christmas tree or something. Seriously. He was just annoying and angsty. And Subaru… wow, he was almost as bad. At least in the manag he continued to be badass, as opposed to “Oh gee golly, a cherry blossom. I’m gonna go cry myself to sleep now.” Gah.

So in honor of this hideous ending, I hereby introduce Kamui’s seal of approval/disapproval. In this case,

Beware Kamui’s disapproval and relish in his esteem.

There’s BLOOD in these MUFFINS?!

It’s a long story. Suffice to say, way too much X, ridden with in jokes, such as “Inuki will EAT YOU!”, ladybugs, croissants, and “There’s BLOOD in these MUFFINS?!” Really, when you’re loaded down with as much angst as the cast of X, it’s good to have silly in jokes.

Anyway, I’m almost done with the anime, which pales in comparison to the manga. It’s mostly flashbacks. Many episodes are about 25 to 50 percent recap of the previous episode. Or recap of the previous episode’s recap. And they pick the worst things to replay– if I were a scary yaoi fangirl i probably wouldn’t mind seeing Fuma molest Kamui every other scene. I am not a scary yaoi fangirl. I do mind. Subaru disappeared somewhere… didn’t he join the Dragons of Earth in the manga? Apparently he angsted himself of a cliff or something. Either that or lung cancer. Really, all those cigarettes! But yeah, the manga definitely wins. I already know the ending the anime came up with… feh. As long as Kamui stops whining and starts being awesome soon, I’ll be okay.

in other exciting CLAMP news, I just read the latest Tsubasa. In typical CLAMP fashion, it made no freaking sense. Frozen time in the ruins? What? Other Sakura? What? Soon enough, everyone will be a clone with at least one missing limb and probably suffering from some mysterious freaky eye ailment. It’s just not CLAMP without the freaky eyes.