PDUTogepi's Journal

Oh my god what

New Yu-Gi-Oh OVA... Yuugi VS Juudai VS Yuusei... I-I was only thinking a few days ago about how cool a match like that would be and now... heeeeee <3
I will do everything in my power to see this OVA.
Juudai might have a D-Wheel, he might have a D-Wheel, oh god.
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I-I'm just gonna go fangirl over here now.

Man... I managed to get through all 104 episodes of Chi's Sweet Home and got 12 episodes into Chi's New Address... god, the first four episodes of Chi's New Address made me tear up so bad ;w; I am such a sucker for cute animal stories!!

Had to walk to work in the heat today, not recommended X_X I felt like I was melting! I am so glad work is a loooot cooler, air conditioning FTW! Kinda got moaned at a little for some things I did or didn't do yesterday though... but then later in the day I learned the Mystery Customer went through my till (I think yesterday? Not sure) and scored full marks for it! Hahaha! I did something right!
Though when our new supervisor went to congratulate me, I didn't know what she was on about at first until she told me XD

I really should eat that sandwich dad bought for me today :S I didn't realize he was gonna get me something to eat so I bought something at work to have like I do most Thursdays when I work, dad only got me something because he was home early today (Though I completely forgot he was coming home early, so when I saw the bathroom window wide open when I got home, I freaked thinking someone had broken in, hahaha!)

Rawr, I hate it when I oversleep and only have enough time to basically eat then go to work :/ It's a long shift too, orz.
On top of that, this heat seems to be setting allergies off. My coughing is no longer sponsored by my cold, but now by my allergies, OH BOY WHAT FUN THAT IS.

I kinda just wanna curl up and go back to sleep :/

Oh god... thanks to sapphireluna's post in her LJ, I've just spent god knows how long watching a CUTE ANIMATED KITTEN.

She's just so cute ;w;

I got up to episode 50 then finally managed to pull myself away. I'll be watching the rest though, sweet mind-numbing cuteness ;w;

In other news, it's WAY too humid ~_~ Urgh...

Only three days to work, then I have a week off! Yaay!

Urrrgh, I wish I could just STOP COUGHING, it's all I've done all day ;o; I just have this constant tickle at the back of my throat which just gives me the constant need to cough, rawwwrrr. Stupid cold, go away already.

In other news, I just bought a cute sleepy Gizamimi Pichu plush.
Gizamimi Pichu, it's a downward spiral, I already have the smaller Tomy plush and the Pokédoll (Not to mention kids figure)
I'm supposed to be saving for a hotel in October, Gizamimi!! ;A;
Good thing I got that bonus in my last pay hahaha.
They also released a Dragonite Pokédoll, it's so chubby lookin' XD

I got the Azelf egg I wanted! :3 I also managed to get a Beldum and Kecleon eggs from stalking the shelter (But completely missed a Happiny egg ;o; I will get you one day Happiny!!)

Sorry to add to the posts about this on all your f-lists but.. just... wow...
To hear about Michael Jackson's death is a huge shock.
Damn.

Haha, gosh, my neighbour just scared the hell outta me XD I just heard this loud banging noise and it almost sounded like someone was trying to kick my back door in. So I went to check what the noise was and it's my neighbour doing something to his wheelie bin in his backyard XD My dad had left the spare room's window open a tad bit, so it sounded louder than it would of done if it was closed. Granted my neighbour is always banging about with something, he seems to like to do handywork, and it always sounds like it's coming from inside OUR house XD

I'm feeling a bit better with this cold now, I'm in less pain at least!! But it's once again found it's way into my chest slightly, blah. It was worse this morning but not too bad now XD

Now I need to get some food and maybe actually do a bit of housework stuffs, I need to do some laundry and put stuff in the dishwasher since it's pretty obvious my dad has left them there for me to do, haha.

Urgh, I'm sick with a cold again...
I felt it coming on Sunday night, managed to survive through work yesterday (just) but as soon as I got home from work I just collapsed in my bed and didn't get up XD So I've pretty much been in and out of sleep since about 11pm last night.
Woke up this morning feeling even more achey than I did yesterday and I feel sorta out of it too :/ I'd really hoped I'd feel okay today because the charity shop really needs me in today, but there's no way I can go like this.

Stupid colds.

EDIT: Called the Charity Shop, an hour later than I really should of done because I fell asleep (Seriously, last thing I remember it was about 9:30am, then I'm waking up at almost 11am ;o;) And the lady I talked to didn't sound that happy when I told her (More dissapointed I guess) Ehhh, damnit, I really didn't want to cancel on them today ;o;

But in other better news, I just had some plushies arrive in the mail to make me feel better


Hell yeah! :D

I just had to.



Pretty crappy, but feel free to steal to share the rainbowy Arceus love.
Going to sleep now :D

So, I haven't updated much lately, huh? I've not really had much to say!

Work's been throwing overtime at me for this month, so I've been taking it. At current with the ones I've said I'll do, I'm working 23 and a half extra hours, which, if I avoid spending too much these next few months, will go towards the hotel for October Expo!
Good thing is, I've got a few things to sell on pkmncollectors (The spare Pokedolls mostly!) so the money from that will fund what I want to buy Pokémon wise and make it so I don't touch what I have in the bank. I'm hoping I don't spend all that money at once! XD

Thing is, I've been putting off the sales post because I've been making sure to read up a whole lot on receiving payments through paypal and such (I'm not one of these people who can just jump straight in at the deep end!) and I've been wondering... I know I have a personal paypal account at current and apparently those accounts can only receive a "limited amount" of credit and debit card payments (Upon looking on sites that WEREN'T paypal itself, this limit appears to be 5 that you can receive in one year.) Though in some other cases I've read of people being forced to change to a Premier account to accept such payments, not sure if something changed down the line or not.
I don't really plan to be selling much really on the community, but thing is, I've been wondering what I should do with this. Should I just not accept CC/DC payments? Should I upgrade to a premier account anyway to avoid being a pain and saying I don't accept CC/DC?
I'm really new to this whole selling on the internet thing, so I really don't know what to expect or what's the best to do! ^^; I just want to make sure I understand and do everything right.
Any advice on this is highly appreciated as it's been kinda bugging me XD; These are probably very stupid questions and I'm probably being very overlly cautious buuut... ^^;

I've been doodling some characters of mine recently. I really wish I could think of something more to do with them, but I can never think of anything that keeps my interest or what's unique.
Though I've found with one of them has changed quite a bit in her general design, especially recently:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/PDUTogepi/Art%20Stuff/Sketches%20and%20Doodles/petraaugust-1.jpg
Petra-August was a character I made up back in September 2006, I've doodled her on and off since then, but recently made the decision to add some hair on her head as I thought to myself "I wonder if she keeps a head full of hair underneath that hat" XD So I doodled her a bit with longer hair, but finally decided to have her with shorter hair as seen in the new drawing of her, it really suits her too :3 I've found that her eyes have gotten a lot bigger over the last few years too XD
I really should make some full colour pictures of her and the other 3 characters I have that I've coupled her with.
To be honest I should do full colour pictures of anything, period. I need to stop lacking with that >/ Though I signed up for the art exchange on poke_arts and got a really cute request, so I should hopefully get that done at some point this month :3

Anything else I should talk about? Oh... I heard we're apparently getting a basket till again at work ¬¬; This does not make a happy Togepi as I know I'll end up on it a lot. Hate basket tills so damn much.
I should... really start doing click backs on GPX+ now ^^;

CLICK CLICK 8D

Also, my god, they're releasing merchandise for all of Arceus' forms XD I'm glad I don't collect him cos... wow! XD Though it's really very awesome as well :3 It's tempting to just get them all and make an ARCEUS RAINBOW.
...I kinda like the Arceus that's got the most purple colouring to him. Not sure which plate that is, but it looks awesome.

I FINALLY GOT ALL MY PHOTOS UP HELL YEA!

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v142/PDUTogepi/Conventions/London%20Expo%20May%202009/

Friday are pictures from our outing in London, Saturday and Sunday are from the convention and the few photos in the main gallery are just from Monday before we left.

Also a couple of Youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk39jc_YAVo - Tony speaks into a microphone belonging to a Dalek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJTAq5o7doM - This Maes Huges cosplayer is always so awesome XD Apaprently they did something similar to this later in the day and security caught them. Hughes almost lost his flag as they wouldn't let him have it back D: He got it back eventually though.

So I guess I should do a con report huh? XD I'll say this, it was a real interesting experience and I'm glad I met so many awesome people, especially the people I've seen on Tony's videos or commenting on his MySpace blogs, they were a laugh to hang about with and really nice people!
Travelling on the underground was... interesting too XD; Despite being to London twice before, I actually had never been on the underground. When I spent a short break there with my friend Helen many years ago, I refused to go on it and it was just about as crowded as I had imagined it, I was literally holding onto the bars for dear life, I'm not a fan of being in small enclosed places with a huge TON of people, but I managed it!

I liked the DLR train more, Tony suggested we sit at the front of the train and it was awesome, it was like being on a really tame rollercoaster because you could see the track out in front of you! We passed by the Millennium Done... or O2 Arena I think it's called now and I was oooh-ing and aaah-ing at everything! Even the low flying planes! (The Premier Travel Inn was very near to an Airport I believe so it was fun to see planes flying REALLY low)

Anyway we got to the hotel and there were loads of cosplayers outside and inside! Every time we turned around there was someone shouting Tony's name haha XD I met some of his friends here and some of them told me they'd been looking forward to meeting me, I felt so honoured! XD;
We weren't at the hotel long as a bunch of us headed out towards London, though our group ended up breaking up a bit as we needed to wait for Michelle who Tony epically forgot to call to tell her we were leaving XD Once Michelle had arrived, our remaining group headed into London to the Forbidden Planet store, we went to China Town where I bought snacks, then we went to McDonalds for something to eat! After this we headed to Namco, where the Arcades are :D It's right near The London Eye, so I got some nice photos of it!

At the Arcades we had fun playing on some of the games, Tony remained undefeated in Air Hockey and we even went on some dodgems! I haven't been on Dodgems for AGES! So much fun XD
After the Arcades, we decided to head back to the hotel, the numbers of our group had shot back up again by this time since we re-met up with some others. Heading back we couldn't use the DLR train though, since it closed down for the weekend :/ In the end we had to take the replacement bus back to the hotel.

Monday morning we got up WAY early, though I didn't mind since I don't remember sleeping much, if at all, anyway. After getting ready and getting into my Pichu cosplay, we headed down to the ExCel where we met up with the others who had gone ahead of us and we just hung out there. Then they kept moving us about, someone couldn't decide where we were queuing it seemed! XD After a while we were let into another part of the building, we waited there, then we were let into the actual event. First thing we did was get masquerade tickets :3 We walked around, I bought some Pokemon stuffs and it was just generally awesome. Waiting in the Masquerade queue was tiring though. Most of the organizers didn't seem to know what was going on XD; We waited ages, but we got close to the front, on both days actually, so that was gooood~
I got so many random hugs as Pichu on Saturday XD Everyone was like, "I have to hug the Pichu!!"

Sunday we got up early and went to the event to queue early again, I did sleep better the night before thankfully. Once again after being let in we got our Masquerade tickets first, had another wander around. Tony joined the line to see his namesake Tony Curtis so he could give him a birthday card, but since it was taking a while he asked me to go to the front of the building and wait for some of the other members of the TeamCrazyTrain collaborative Youtube channel that Tony is also part of. I waited outside for a while as I didn't know if we were meeting inside or outside, but I soon found Nomi and Michelle inside the building. Soon enough Tony turned up and after hanging out waiting for Corrina, another member (Who was unfortunately too busy to turn up as she was working at the con) and having some food, we went back into the main part of the convention. Tony soon left us to go and watch Tony Curtis' talk (Which I think ended up cancelled anyway) but while doing that I went around the convention with Nomi, Michelle and a guy who's name I can unfortunately not remember, so I shall call him hat guy as he wore a hat! He and Michelle left us after a while, so I helped Nomi do some shopping for some of her friends XD We soon found Tony waiting outside the main part of the convention and Nomi left us to get some money for something she wanted inside.
We did some more hanging out with everyone, then we joined the Masquerade queue, got moved around again, waited ages and eventually went in.

After the Masquerade ended we all went back to the hotel, then went out for food.
Then it was pretty much a lot of hanging out and some of us went to one of the other hotels with one of our friends Chris, since he was staying in that hotel and had heard they'd been a fire drill, luckily it was a prank. His hotel room was awesome though! XD

Eventually in the end, a few of us stayed up talking outside for Tony's videos until 2am XD That was a lot of fun! There were still a lot of people hanging around too, no one wanted to go to sleep and there were quite a few drunk antics from others that night.
I didn't want to get up the next morning XD But we got packed up and went downstairs where we hung out with some of the others. We ended up leaving around 11:15am I think? A few of us travelled on the replacement bus service to canning town I think it was? But we found the part of the underground we needed was ALSO closed, so we had to catch another replacement bus to Stratford, then get the underground from there.

Luckily we got the Kings Cross Station in time, we hung around and said bye to each other as we left one by one as trains arrived, then we had to leave to catch our train to Retford. One the way back on the train I caught both Azelf and Uxie on my Platinum game O_O I was surprised about that! XD

And then we got home to Worksop and back to boring regular life D:

Anyways, I've decided I will be going back in October for the October Expo, chances are I won't be going the year after since Amecon is running next year and I'll definitely be going to that :3 I have my hotel booked for the October Expo, despite how expensive it is ;o; Both Tony and I checked online, but it's the same price on there, it's more expensive in October for some reason Oo; Tony looked at the hotel our friend Chris stayed at, and it did turn out roughly £60 cheaper, but going for that would mean I'd be in a hotel on the other side of the Expo from the Premier Travel Inn and half the fun of the expo was hanging out with everyone else in the lobby and such. To be honest I'd love to be able to do that again and without the worry of having to go back to my hotel in the dark and inconvenience people to walk me back so I don't go back on my own. So as I told Tony, being able to spend time hanging out with him and the others at the hotel lobby at the end of the day is totally worth the extra £60. All I need to do is just make sure not to overspend on things.

Haaa, such a text wall and I'm sure I've missed out a ton of things but, that was the weekend!! XD I've spent some of today just adding people to dA and the facebook I apparently signed up for and forgot about and only re-discovered last night! XD I still need to add peeps to MySpace too.

...my dad likes the Choco-Banana flavoured Pocky I bought XD Must remember to buy more in October! (Choco-Banana flavour is really nice though 8D)

Anyway hope you enjoyed this entry!!

Back from Expo! Well I have been for a while buuut... XD

Anyway, too tired and feeling sick to give a real blog about stuffs at the moment, I'm going to bed soon to catch up on sleep! But It was a really awesome weekend and I met a LOT of awesome people ^^

Photos and stuff will be tomorrow, but for now I'll at least show you what I bought.



Not that much surprisingly! Regigigas and Mamoswine UFO's, Landmin and Skymin clipping figures, three random kids figures (Barbroach plus a clear Pinsir and clear Dusclops) and Pocky to snack on!

Also when I came home, I found a large package on my bed which contained~



MORE PLUSHIES!
Just before I went to London, I BIN'd this lot on eBay as I wanted the Togepi Pokédoll that really doesn't show up much on eBay at all. The lot was only £45 and I didn't have any of the plush at all, though I AM toying with the idea of selling some of these, I'm not sure yet. I know for a fact I'm definitely keeping Lucario and Togepi. I'm tempted to keep Celebi too as she's adorable XD The others I'm not as bothered about keeping as such, they're still all super cute though! XD
All of them are in REALLY good condition, other than a bit of pet hair on a few of them XD Celebi has a small mark on one side of her head, but it looks like it'd easily come off with a damp cloth of some kind. They have no paper tags, but all have their tush tags with is awesome :3

Oookay, I need sleep.

So not too long now and I'll be heading off to London for the London Expo, I think I'm packed now! XD If I've forgotten anything it's tough luck really, but I seem to have essentials and crap.
Gwah, one small travel suitcase thing and TWO BAGS. My backpack and my regular bag :< The backpack is mostly just carrying non-essentials mostly. Like snacks and drinks I carry around with me, also some water and plastic tumblers in case I get a headache and need to take some Paracetamol. Regular bag has my regular things plus PLUSHIES! I'm glad Mimi and Skye (Gizamimi Pichu and Canvas Drifloon plush) fitted in there! XD

My backpack will probably come in handy for carrying back whatever crap I buy at the expo ;D

Could of done without my dad's "what to do if there's a terrorist attack" talk this morning though, when I gave him all the info he wanted :/ I know he's worried, but it didn't really help.

Oh I made sure to kick the crap out of the Sunyshore gym in Platinum before the Expo and I transferred over 6 of my LV 100 shinies, so I can do LV 100 battles or roughly around LV 50 battles (As my team in Platinum are about LVs 53 - 54.)

Aaaand I think that's it!
I hope everyone who has a con this weekend has a great time! (Seems to be quite a few going on this weekend XD)

I shall bring back lotsa photos!

So what have I done to prepare for the London Expo today?
So far... nothing :/

I woke up this morning to watch Pokémon, luckily Freshverse was behaving today (And I'm glad, it was an epic awesome episode) but after it I started to get cramps -_- wonderful... and this was like the cramps from hell, I literally took some paracetamol and laid down, not wanting to move, I felt so sick too. I'm only JUST eating something now.
The paracetamol took the pain off a bit, but not completely, so i called my mum to see if she had a hot water bottle she could bring round, luckily she did and it helped easing the rest of the pain LOADS.

So I'm only just getting food, gonna shower, then hopefully do a quick tidy in my room and finish the rest of the packing. I need dad to take me to Tesco so I can get some things too :/

Oh and also...

I'll just leave these eggs right here :3 New batch while I'm away for the weekend.

It's my friends birthday today, going over to her house soon.
Kinda wish it would stop raining though.

Mum brought around the dyed trousers today, they went a really dark yellow, much more darker than my top which is basiclly Pichu coloured :S Kinda looks like I'm half Notched-ear Pichu and half Pikachu-coloured Pichu, buut unless I magically find some trousers or a skirt that's roughly the same colour of the top, the darker trousers will have to do for the expo :/ After that I'll have to find another pair of white trousers and see if a white dye exists in the place we got the yellow dye, then experiment maybe mixing the yellow with the white to make it a lighter yellow? Hm...

Made the Grepa berries today though, 50 of them in all.

Things left to do:

Put a tad bit more paint on one of the Pichu ears
Make the tail and see if I can stick it on somewhere
Clean my room
Finshing washing clothes, iron them, do packing ect.

I've been in such a "meh" mood lately too, kinda hoping that goes away.

Urgh, I've somehow had a pretty crappy day without even doing anything. Granted what I got up too automatically put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day.
So I just spent the entire day just...clicking Pokemon eggs.

Then while watching Pokémon Sunday (Where freshverse was buffering like hell ANYWAY) someone knocked on our door.
Yes... at JUST BEFORE GODDAMN MIDNIGHT and scared the god knows what out of me... considering it was roughly the same time a certain someone else came to our door at the beginning of the year and tried to kick it in ¬¬;
So I had to go downstairs to wake my dad up since he was asleep and didn't even hear the knocking, he looked out the window, saw it was a woman, so he answered the door.

She wanted a house down the street... most likely the very house that the drugged up guy mistook us for...

Okay... we've lived here for over 20 years, we've been mistake for another address further down the road loads of times, that's okay, but why are we getting mistook for THIS damn house NOW!? URGH! It makes me scared of what other people we're gonna keep getting at our door at god knows what time of the damn night!! Just glad this woman was calm and didn't seem drugged up... but still...
Urgh, hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow -__- Glad it's the last day of work for a while at least...

Haaa, work is finally over for the next few days but these next few weeks are going to be so busy!! It's like everything happening at once X_X

The charity shop is having a refit so they needed people to volunteer to help a bit extra to get things sorted out, so I'm doing that tomorrow and Wednesday, I also have the dentist on Wednesday morning too! I need to find a b-day present for my friend, luckily my mum is off work this week so we're gonna go to Meadowhall on Thursday.
My friend said she was having a barbeque on Saturday for her birthday, so I'll probably be going to that, not sure if she wants to do anything Monday next week which is her actual birthday.
I also need to do a ton of washing, sort out the last bits of the Pichu costume (Just got the trousers to dye, belt to buy and possibly paint yellow and the tail to make.) And lets not forget figuring out what I need to take and packing!!
Oh and cleaning my room a little too :x

It'll all come together in the end hopefully! XD;

MOST CUDDLY AND SOFT RAICHU EVER
I LOVE HIM ;w;

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The game is looking really awesome already <3