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With that said, Merry Christmas! 🙂

I can now thanks to those Maped Visio ballpoint pens and the Zebra Sarasa. I'd love to get my hands on the infamous Sharpie S-Gel, Tul gel pens and those famous Pilot G2s. All of which are user-friendly and lefty-friendly in case the Uniball Jetstream is too expensive. That or sold out.

I only heard of that PS Vita one, but haven't played it yet. I might check that and others some time.

Too bad Sony discontinued the Vita because again, portability sells greatly in Japan. Japanese people just aren't that interested in home consoles anymore.

No surprise that a lot has changed since the PS1, Saturn and N64 era.

My favorite Sega Saturn game would have to be Grandia. Inuyasha, Ah! My Goddess and Sailor Moon fans should love the original Grandia because of those Japanese household names in the cast.

That is! Aya Hisakawa, Kappei Yamaguchi and Kikuko Inoue.

One business is a clothing brand, another one is for skincare and beauty, and one is for swimwear and lingerie. I co-own with my sister.
We are also professional dancer.

I also own 3 business, so having an assistant help manager my time.
One of my assistant have been with me for a very long time because her mom was my nanny when I was younger and even was my mom's nanny.

We not sure what we gonna do yet. We might get a nanny, or one of my assistants will quit their assistant job and become the nanny. All three have a degree in Early Childhood Education.

My charcoal pencils took weeks to get sent to me, but anyway milady! Here's my recent test drawing:

I actually have 3 personal assistant. They each have different roles and duties that they are in charge off.

Having a personal assistant helps me stay organized, and I don't have to worry about a lot of things so that you can focus on what you like or want. If it weren't for them, I probably would procrastinate a lot.

Yes I have, even though I have to wait until next Saturday. I got them from Aliexpress instead of Amazon because there was more Black Friday variety. Now I really can't wait to get the Uniball Jetstream and more. My left will have both Jetstreams and Sarasa pens. Not a big fan of gel pens, but the Sarasa pack I got for Back To School Day are awesome. Able to dry fast enough, making ambidextrous writing more possible.

May your friend have a jolly and surprising birthday. I hope Ellie or said shoujo fangirl had a wonderful birthday on the fourth of December. Even after working overtime in this weird economy.

I would have given her some steampunk indie comics (maybe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen since she loved British literature back in school) on her birthday considering the fact that she read a lot of big name manga, even in the shoujo demographic. She already played Wild Arms XF so the manga adaptation would be no surprise to her.

XF was better than the overly linear Wild Arms four and five from what I remember (the last mainline Wild Arms games lacked western themes). The only strategy RPG in that franchise and with a good story. Definitely an underrated PSP gem besides Oath of Felghana.

As for your friend's upcoming birthday, I would give her that quality Mexican ice cream I usually buy from a thrift shop called the 3B store. Where I usually get thrifty necessities like instant ramen, sardines, tuna, crackers, peanut butter, sweet bread, rice, beans, sports drinks, etc. That's the kind of store where Misato would go to for instant ramen and beer.

I'll remember to buy wheat flour for seitan some time when I come back there. Wheat flour in other stores are outrageously expensive.

It wasn't too hard because of Trance mode activating a lot of times and Quina copying Level 5 death helped me level up my characters easily. Using it on those same dragons was worth it and Quina was the best multimage ever. Able to copy certain abilities by eating certain monsters.

Getting abilities via equipment in FF9 is much more cumbersome and very inconvenient as well. I prefer earning white and black magic in FFX. I guess in Digital Devil Saga as well, that Mantra system was awesome. Similar to the Sphere Grid in FFX.

In general, I prefer to obtain abilities via leveling or defeating monsters. Even the ability systems in Korean mmorpgs make sense.

I already made a knife out of an old leaf spring and now I can't wait to forge one from some dull cold chisel I got from that weekly market. Same place where I buy headphones, vegetables and even seafood. Should have been sharpened on a diamond plate (or the user-friendly axe puck if people respected sharpening; so easy even a third grader can use it), but at least I'll make more new merchandise of mine for the holidays.

I'll show you a picture soon. Of my recently sold knife, that is. It had a very sharp edge thanks to my oilstones. Aluminum oxide and ceramic are my best picks, but diamond is great for everyone. I'll only use carborundum in the form of pucks and flattening that mineral in the form of a quadrilateral prism was very cumbersome. Carborundum or silicon carbide is the poor man's diamond to me overall.

Aluminum oxide, alumina or corundum is cumbersome to most people, but I love it. Very easy to flatten on a concrete block with crushed mugs or grog. Yes, I also reuse broken plates or mugs. Able to flatten oilstones with or without water fast even though corundum stays flat long enough.

That same mineral you'll find in ruby and sapphire.

Of course I love looking at jewelry and I want to paint something with that same metallic blue color that sapphire has. Maybe I'll paint a bicycle that same metallic blue color and I'll be sure to use extra hardener.

Anime-wise, I'll delve into other Ghost in the Shell stuff later. Innocence, 2.0 and Arise, that is. My semitomboyish friend from Maryland said that Stand Alone Complex is her absolute favorite in the franchise. Of course, because of those similar voices as in Dot Hack, her favorite game franchise growing up. She'll be 35 this winter.

Mimiru is my favorite Dot Hack character, by the way and so is Shino (I love her warm and jolly personality). I also need to check out Quantum and AI Buster some time.

I feel like I'm missing out on some Vanillaware games as well.

I didn't do it. It was mostly my husband and my personal assistant that help. I help a tiny little bit.
I did do most of the decorating on the main tree.

We started putting them up like pretty early. We have 3 fresh trees and 2 fake one. Do you have a color theme for yours?
mine is silver, gold and white.

You got an Amazon gift card? I had no idea (I kind of missed out on said anniversary giveaway, maybe I'll delve into it next time). おめでとうございます! 🙂

That is, congratulations and I'm doing fine this week. Trying to make knives from recycled material for Christmas.

I might have to watch that Japanese version of The Ring some time, by the way.

I haven't played FF8 in decades, but I remember doing the no junctions challenge because I grew out of drawing magic. It was like super easy to do and the superbosses were still pushovers compared to their FF9 counterparts in said no equipment challenge. I beat FF9 using only Amarant, Eiko, Zidane and Quina. The other characters were too reliant on equipment and I hated being stuck with Vivi like the first 1/3rd of that run. Can only be a complete conjurer if well equipped. Using just Fire and Focus until I get better characters.

Oh! I got a big list, but I really can't wait to get charcoal pencils and my super fine oilstone on Black Friday. Getting a variety of oilstones locally is hard (I have zero chances of getting the beautiful Arkansas stone of desirable size in my current residence, but I'm happy with corundum). I'm like the Steven Stone of oilstones and I'm not a big fan of waterstones (I hate waiting for stones to soak water and the likes of King, Naniwa, Suehiro, etc are too expensive). I prefer to splash some oil on my whetstone and start sharpening. Therefore, I'm already accustomed to an oil only challenge.

I also need those new cobalt bits for completing my panel hacksaw and more. Drilling on an old saw is hard, but I love to customize.

おかえりなさい、 貴婦人!

That is, welcome back milady! 🙂

Thanks for playing Sharo's Anime Intro Entrance Exam 🎵! Here's your participation ticket:

So how are you doing this mid November?

I'm working hard for Black Friday and the holidays, I can't wait. I also look forward to Year of the Snake.

I hope that Atsuko Tanaka is resting peacefully on her birthday so far (Japan obviously moved on to the 15th of November). Yes, I did watch Ghost in the Shell (Stand Alone Complex) dubbed almost every evening, back when I was attending high school. At least Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is still around, the other best voice of Major.

As for Black Friday, I got a fairly big list of stuff to buy.

If I can't get turkey this season, then I'll have to switch over to smoked chops. Turkey with hashbrowns was delicious last year.

Aside from Sonic and Pokémon, it's been two seasons since I last played Grandia which pretty much topped FF8 as best JRPG of 1999. To be quite honest, FF9 is hard to top and I haven't played that in a while either (I beat Hades, Kraken and Quale without equipment; harder than any bosses in FF8 with or without junctions).

I'm already in my Christmas spirit. Since I don't live in the US anymore, Thanksgiving is gonna be skipped this year.