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*collapses and dies on the doormat*
Just back from Christmas shopping. Like always, I started out with the best of intentions. That this year, I would not do all the silly things I did the year before, and the year before that. This year would be different, dammit, because I'd learnt my lesson.
What I would do: I would go to Regent Street, Oxford Street and nowhere else. I would get presents for the family, buy the wrapping paper and cards and the various impedimenta that went with them, and then I would come home to sleep after managing to get about two and a half hours in total the night before. I would look at stuff my family might like to own. I would be good.
What I DEFINITELY would do: I would forget it was pay day. I would completely ignore the fact that I hadn't bought anything fun for months. I would not go to Piccadilly. I would not go to JP Books and the Japan Centre. I would not go looking at CDs I wanted, or DVDs I wanted, or generally go gawping at things I wanted to get for me. I would not look at anime DVDs in the Virgin Megastore. And I would definitely not worry my silly little head about whether or not FullMetal Alchemist DVD 3 had been released...
Yup. Lots of lovely little good intentions. Look how good I was planning to be!
... what was that you said about the road to hell?
Anyway. Said good intentions lasted pretty much until I got off the bus (I was being so good. I was trying to save money by getting around using the buses, not the tubes, because I already had a bus pass and wouldn't have to pay for the rides!). At about which point I realized two things. Firstly, that I'd have to walk through the Black Hole of Piccadilly to get to freakin' Regent Street. And I'd left the bit of paper with the name of the CD my father wanted written on it at home and would therefore have to wait until he got home and I could call and ask what the name of the CD was again before I could actually leave freakin' Piccadilly and the Virgin Megastore.
Which was about the point I decided I might as well just go look in JP Books. I hadn't been there months, I had time to kill, maybe they had the new Kaori Yuki series in...
... which, as you may have guessed, was where the rot set in...
Anyway II, by the time I dragged myself back home I was much poorer, weighed down by carrier bags and, as well as accomplishing my Christmas shopping - finally, after much prevarication and unrelated money-spending like the idiot that I am - and getting those few groceries in I'd need before I took of back to my parents' - which is happening on Wednesday, most likely - I had also (somehow, don't ask me how) managed to acquire:
Unless of course I left something out. So much for that, huh? I guess it's no bad thing I couldn't find Saiyuki.
... damn you, FullMetal Alchemist. This is all your fault! If you hadn't had to go and be so cool, I wouldn't have bought half as much stuff today. I know I'd never have bought a CD of the FMA OPs and EDs if I hadn't had the ED for series one stuck in my head and nagging at me along the lines of 'you know you want to listen to me! I'm bouncy and cool!' since the first time I heard it. Not that I exactly needed to buy two GetBackers DVDs either, simply because half my friends list talk about it and think it's cool and the guys look amazingly cute in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vermachtnis' icons, but what the Hell!
(Oh: and I worked out - finally - why it was Weiss Kreuz gets crossed over with Noir: Noir is basically Weiss Kreuz with girls. And it looks every bit as much like bloody blatant slashbait as Weiss Kreuz does. So of course it makes idiot fangirl sense to try and pair the guys from Weiss up with the girls from Noir. Because that gets rid of the supposedly worrying homoerotic subtext both shows seem to have going for them.)
Envy is the hottest thing to ever wear a mini-skirt.
Sad fact: the first music shop I tried didn't have FullMetal Alchemist DVD 3. But given the amount of time it had been since the last one came out, I couldn't quite believe it hadn't been released, and went looking elsewhere just in case. And I wanted two GetBackers DVDs because damn it, I just DID, okay, and the first shop didn't have voume two of that, either... Oh well. It looks like my weekend just got booked solid, and it's all because I am the Fangirl Nerd of All Time. Waah, new stuff. if only I wasn't so damned tired, I'd go watch my shiny new FullMetal Alchemist DVD. Oh well, that's something to look forward to for tomorrow.
... OH MY GOD AND I JUST REMEMBERED. MY BROTHER SAYS WE HAVE BROADBAND AT HOME NOW. Does anyone know where I can download Verbrechen/Strafe?
Just back from Christmas shopping. Like always, I started out with the best of intentions. That this year, I would not do all the silly things I did the year before, and the year before that. This year would be different, dammit, because I'd learnt my lesson.
What I would do: I would go to Regent Street, Oxford Street and nowhere else. I would get presents for the family, buy the wrapping paper and cards and the various impedimenta that went with them, and then I would come home to sleep after managing to get about two and a half hours in total the night before. I would look at stuff my family might like to own. I would be good.
What I DEFINITELY would do: I would forget it was pay day. I would completely ignore the fact that I hadn't bought anything fun for months. I would not go to Piccadilly. I would not go to JP Books and the Japan Centre. I would not go looking at CDs I wanted, or DVDs I wanted, or generally go gawping at things I wanted to get for me. I would not look at anime DVDs in the Virgin Megastore. And I would definitely not worry my silly little head about whether or not FullMetal Alchemist DVD 3 had been released...
Yup. Lots of lovely little good intentions. Look how good I was planning to be!
... what was that you said about the road to hell?
Anyway. Said good intentions lasted pretty much until I got off the bus (I was being so good. I was trying to save money by getting around using the buses, not the tubes, because I already had a bus pass and wouldn't have to pay for the rides!). At about which point I realized two things. Firstly, that I'd have to walk through the Black Hole of Piccadilly to get to freakin' Regent Street. And I'd left the bit of paper with the name of the CD my father wanted written on it at home and would therefore have to wait until he got home and I could call and ask what the name of the CD was again before I could actually leave freakin' Piccadilly and the Virgin Megastore.
Which was about the point I decided I might as well just go look in JP Books. I hadn't been there months, I had time to kill, maybe they had the new Kaori Yuki series in...
... which, as you may have guessed, was where the rot set in...
Anyway II, by the time I dragged myself back home I was much poorer, weighed down by carrier bags and, as well as accomplishing my Christmas shopping - finally, after much prevarication and unrelated money-spending like the idiot that I am - and getting those few groceries in I'd need before I took of back to my parents' - which is happening on Wednesday, most likely - I had also (somehow, don't ask me how) managed to acquire:
- Volumes 1-5 of the FullMetal Alchemist manga.
- A copy of Kaori Yuki's Blood Hound.
- Volume 1 of Fairy Cube. Kaori Yuki again.
- Something else by Kaori Yuki, but I have no idea what it's called. It looks pretty, though.
- Gackt's Diabolos album.
- A clear plastic black and white Weiss Kreuz poster thing.
- A collection of FullMetal Alchemist OPs and EDs.
- FullMetal Alchemist DVD volume 3 (... I KNEW it would be out!)
- GetBackers DVD 1 and 2. vermachtnis is such a bad influence.
Unless of course I left something out. So much for that, huh? I guess it's no bad thing I couldn't find Saiyuki.
... damn you, FullMetal Alchemist. This is all your fault! If you hadn't had to go and be so cool, I wouldn't have bought half as much stuff today. I know I'd never have bought a CD of the FMA OPs and EDs if I hadn't had the ED for series one stuck in my head and nagging at me along the lines of 'you know you want to listen to me! I'm bouncy and cool!' since the first time I heard it. Not that I exactly needed to buy two GetBackers DVDs either, simply because half my friends list talk about it and think it's cool and the guys look amazingly cute in
vermachtnis' icons, but what the Hell!(Oh: and I worked out - finally - why it was Weiss Kreuz gets crossed over with Noir: Noir is basically Weiss Kreuz with girls. And it looks every bit as much like bloody blatant slashbait as Weiss Kreuz does. So of course it makes idiot fangirl sense to try and pair the guys from Weiss up with the girls from Noir. Because that gets rid of the supposedly worrying homoerotic subtext both shows seem to have going for them.)
Envy is the hottest thing to ever wear a mini-skirt.
Sad fact: the first music shop I tried didn't have FullMetal Alchemist DVD 3. But given the amount of time it had been since the last one came out, I couldn't quite believe it hadn't been released, and went looking elsewhere just in case. And I wanted two GetBackers DVDs because damn it, I just DID, okay, and the first shop didn't have voume two of that, either... Oh well. It looks like my weekend just got booked solid, and it's all because I am the Fangirl Nerd of All Time. Waah, new stuff. if only I wasn't so damned tired, I'd go watch my shiny new FullMetal Alchemist DVD. Oh well, that's something to look forward to for tomorrow.
... OH MY GOD AND I JUST REMEMBERED. MY BROTHER SAYS WE HAVE BROADBAND AT HOME NOW. Does anyone know where I can download Verbrechen/Strafe?
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*fangirls madly*
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