(Don't mind the emoticon! I can't change it...I'm actually quite happy and hyper)

No, really, I have...

Now, let me explain a month absense that may or may not have been noticed by my fellow deviants...specifically those inclined towards the Transformers fandom...

I fell in love all over again...with DragonBall Z.

I fell hard to the point where I watched the whole entire series (270+ episodes)...in roughly two weeks, maybe a little longer. I'm on my way to finishing GT (only for Goku's SS4 form!) and am contemplating watching DragonBall. I even bought the last volume of DragonBall and the first three of DBZ...my first real manga purchase in forever!

Now, when I first watched this anime, I was a preteen, if that. It was my first real exposure to anime (alongside Sailor Moon) and my first real love. It's probably why I tend toward the shounen category of anime instead of the girly ones, come to think of it...

However, when I was first exposed to it, I had no idea fandoms even existed. I didn't even know the term until a new love, Naruto, came into the U.S. market. At that point, I got on the net and have been corrupted ever since...and by corrupted, I mean corrupted by the shounen-ai/yaoi persuasion...:coughblushcough:

Then I fell out of love with Naruto and fell back into a series even older than DragonBall...namely Transformers...you people know the rest of that story, and I am still very much in love with it...I've committed myself by posting fanfiction, anyway

But somehow, or other, I fell back to DB...only this time I was armed with the knowledge that somewhere out there...there was going to be a fandom, more specifically...there was going to be a yaoi fandom...

And what a fandom...let me tell you! I thought falling to Transformers Slash was a shock...

Not that I don't love the canon pairings. (and sometimes not so canon) Goku/ChiChi and Vegeta/Bulma are very much sweet and must reads as far as fanfiction are concerned...as is the art! But there's just something about the other side of things...

So, as to what this has to do with Photobucket...well, I signed up one night, say at ten, just looking for some good group pics of my fav DB charas...I'm looking for a mean/cool wallpaper of Goku and Vegeta battling it out...

I didn't sign out til four in the morning...I was loving the screencaps and just kept going and going until I had scrounged all the 670+ pics that the Goku Vegeta search had conjured...oh, my eyes hurt...but I didn't even stop at Goku Vegeta. Oh, no. Piccolo was next...and then, I decided to stop being specific and just typed in DragonBall. I still have to get back to that...

How the heck is it gonna be like when i get around to looking for Transformers stuff? Naruto? O.o... : overload: And I thought DeviantArt was bad! (In a good way!)

So, this is my new obsession, at least it is alongside Transformers. I've found my way back to DeviantArt (YouTube and Photobucket have held me hostage...) and plan to upload some stuff soon...I hope. Even if my sudden fandom split has left me high and dry of plotbunnies (or I'm just drowning in so much of them I just don't know where to start anymore...) I have lots of pretty pictures!


...just let me sift through my alert box...700+ to go through yet...at least it ain't over 1,000 anymore....

Okay, so I've moved my screenshots into scraps...and, unfortunately, due to some rules I had no idea existed until someone pointed them out to me, I'm going to have to delete them at some point (probably this weekend) before I get into trouble....

BUT!!! But, I also plan to post them somewhere else. Maybe, I'll make a livejournal? Maybe host them on photobucket...? I do know I'm gonna edit them to where the youtube/veoh borders don't show.

I dunno, but I do plan on keeping them up until at least this weekend...I know a alot of people like them, which makes me feel bad that I'll have to delete them...

So, enjoy!

(Maybe someone could save them and show me a loophole...? I really feel like my hands are tied!)

Right now, there is a huge fire going on at one of the major universities located in San Antonio. In firefighter speak, it's a Four Alarm fire...and let me tell you, as the daughter of a firefighter, this terrifies me. Almost forty units are responding to this fire...my father might be among them, I can't be sure if, or when, his station might be called...

SA's no strangers to structural fires. But this...

I've visited this Uni every year since I was a freshman, sometimes going as many as three times. You know, I go for those college visits, financial aid...sometimes just to volunteer. It's one of the most prestigious of the universities and Our Lady of the Lake University is an old and historic institution as well. Old Main, the building on fire, was built in 1895...

I never planned on going, but its a very beautiful campus. It's gotten to the point where I'd be comfortable going, just because the place has become so familar to me. It's one of those places that's always going to be there, ya know? That Old Main is in very real danger of collapsing, and that Sacred Heart Chapel is so close to it...oh, man, the Chapel...

It's heartbreaking. You can see a statue of the Virgin Mary from one of the spires with flames licking at it's feet! The picture is so morbid and yet so very real. I want to cry...

So please, even if you're not religious in any way, send a good thought to the people of the university. No injuries reported, thank goodness, just a lot of heartbreak for the potential loss of a very loved building.

(continues to watch news coverage...)

The title almost says it all! XD

So my very best friend, raz and another friend, rose have reserved a table at San Antonio's San Japan this coming August. If you're not familiar with their art then I highly suggest giving their pages a look through. Both are awesome artists and I've had the privelage of watching raz improve since she was a wee little sixth grader. She's worked hard to get to where she is and she deserves all the support she can get! :waves raz flag: So check them out at San-Japan (if you can) this coming August, kay? Okay!

(We've known each other six years, Jenny! :gasp: We're so old! XD)

So, yeah. At least check her/them out. I can't explain either of their awesomeness in one measly little journal.

Info on San-Japan here -> [link]

razzy -> . Alt. account for original stuff ->

rose ->

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Clubs

The most amazing weekend so far this school year, I swear. Despite us being there for the State Conference (I was the only one that placed for my school. 2nd place in Commercial Baking Technical Information Test), it was full of other things.

First of all, we have the coolest teacher. She brought seven hundred dollars to spend on just us, and we used it all on good food.

We left for Corpus Christi on Thursday around 9:00 in the morning. Get there about 11:30 and we stop for lunch at Olive Garden. We get to the inn, make ourselves at home, go to the convention center for registration, I take my test, go back to the inn, go to the mall and then go to TGI Fridays! After that we went on a last minute supply run for my teammate at Walmart and then we back to the Inn

The next day, my teammates go to their skills competition, and while they're away, we decide to have lunch on the second story restaurant of the Omni Hotel called the Glass Pavillion. Holy crap, they had a kickass buffet. Their seafood gumbo was to die for.... After, we went to the mall, where I picked up The Transformers Ultimate Guide and a t-shirt for my bro and of course, for dinner where do we eat but at the most expensive restaurant I've ever been in, and will never enter again in my entire life?

The Republic of Texas Bar and Grill is located on the 20th floor of the smaller of the Omini Hotels in CC. It has an unobstructed view of the ocean, heck, we could see our Inn from the Restaurant foyer. On the four of us alone, us being the students, my teacher spent $354.76...the Axis Venison was worth it as was the Key Lime Tart and Virgin Strawberry Daiquiris...oh, I'm salivating just thinking back on it...of course, we had to budget a little the next day. We went to the State Aquarium in the morning and settled for lunch at Denny's...XD

The closing ceremony was at 3:00 on Saturday (today) which lasted until 5:00. Lot of fanfare that was...so many lights...@.@ Then we left, stopped at DQ at six for a bit of ice cream, and were back at school by 8:30. Oh man, I'm so tired...but happy I came away with something and content with the experience of going places I never thought I'd go

...but it was so worth it, even if we only came away with one medal...I have to get used to regular food now...XXDD