So Otakon this year wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Maybe it's because it's mainly for anime freaks and me lacking any money to actually keep up with anime and manga I just haven't really got into any of it.

I usually only went if someone paid for me to go (think of it as a birthday present. :) ) and if the musical artists were any that I liked. In 07 there was alot more to do and the dealer's room was bigger. Not so much this year, mostly all they had was anime/manga (understandably so obviously) that didn't bother me.

What did bother was their lack of variety in anything else every other stand was pretty much Lolita fashion or corsets neither of which I could afford to get any of. And their music selection wasn't any better. While I do love me some jrock they didn't have much of a variety of jpop hell they didn't even have much of a variety of jrock either but I did get a CD.

Kanon Wakashima. She pretty much does what Rasputina does. She plays the cello and sings. She is also produced by MANA (a.k.a. the band  Malice Mizer) and she's really good too. In fact, I'm listening to her right now.

A majority of time was spent walking bare foot or with socks on cause my boots killed my feet. I've  learned my lesson if I go next year. Alex and I both spent most of the time in the Otacafe which is for karaoke. Alex butchered "Love in the Ice" by DBSK but it was funny as hell. I didn't get a chance to sing (though I probably would have chickened out if they had gotten to me anyway).

I FINALY GOT TO MEET MARIE IN PERSON!!!!! She's my friend from Canada and I met years ago online. She's completely obsessed with anything that has to do with Resident Evil especially Code Veronica (so you can see why we would get along? hehe!) That made me happy to meet her! She makes a freakin' awesome Claire too!

There was one thing that I didn't expect to happen: I didn't think there would actually be any christian protesters. I was wrong but there was only 2. Some dumbass was sprouting off gibberish across the street and down a block or two cause they definitely didn't want him in front of the convention center. haha! I walked past him in my freak costume just to be a bitch and the other guy tried to give me some pamphelt I wanted to get into it with the guy preaching but decided not to mainly cause I didn't feel like standing there arguing since my feet hurt soothing my feet was more important the an idiot. I did get a pic of him.

On Sunday there was a bagpipe guy walking around outside the convention and they were getting people to follow him as he play so Alex and I, having nothing else better to do, decided follow him around. We had a small group of people as we walked and people recorded us and cheered as we did. When we went into the actual building a whole horde of people gathered around him and everyone started cheering and shouting (and really annoying things too)

That was actually an awesome ending to Otakon though. We went out to eat afterward before we left.

I didn't take as many pictures as I had before only because I probably already took that picture when I was there before. All in all it wasn't as good as the previous years I'd been there but it wasn't that bad either.

I still had fun for most part. :)

The best part was my badge picture was of that anime that I was talking about in my previous entry. lol!

My grandma apparently fell sometime in the past two weeks and my dad just told me about it TODAY.

He picked me up for this weekend and we went to visit her and omg it was so fucked up when I saw her.She was in a wheel chair, she had a broken arm, her face and downward were all bruised up, her cheek was swollen, and one eye was bloodshot pretty much. It freaked me the fuck up to see her that way.

It also pissed me off that I wasn't told about her accident earlier.

She was still the same bumbling grandma though so at least that was still the same. Didn't know what she was talking about half the time but that's nothing new. She should be fine.

I still can't get over how bruised up her face was though...

In better news BoA's song was featured on so you think you can dance!! And I was bouncing around like the fangirl that I am!! She'll be on CNN soon too!!!