Made a spreadsheet, woo excel is so interesting... ~_~.
said worksheet was supposed to help me realise I can infact afford to get to Japan no probs this November, it did the opposite.
Head office at work are really clamping down on wage limits so I can't go fulltime over summer as I hoped just lots of random overtime, my mum has decided that as I am taking a year out, I am not technically a student anymore , and such owe her £20-30 a week rent!

I know this isn't a lot comapred to private renting, but when you consider my sister is moving out in a month or so and my mum's expensies are going down not up, it does seem a tad unfair, and the fact I am still treat a bit like a child at home, things will have to change in that regard if she expects me to pay like a lodger. This includes me stealing ALL the food to "get my moneys worth"... bwahaha

Lee and Mark suggest taking the food to work to feed them with..humm sure really gonna happen guys.


Spoke to my old library boss, may be getting a few shifts back there at *above minimum wage* sugoi ne?! been so long since i worked a shift for more than 4.60/hour ..cheap ass CEX.

Will all be random work though.. and to get to Japan in november I need about £1200 for flights/accom/rail pass then ontop of that i need money for food, touristy activities and of course shopping, meaning £2000 is about the round figure to aim for.

At my current income and outgoings this will take me till about february...

so the plan, I think is, save as much as I can shoudl be able to get flights and rail pass in the next 2-3months, then save save save to have enough for accom when we arrive, and be too poor to buy anything or go anywhere and look at Lee with big puppy dog eyes..ok scratch that I am no scrounger
I tiwll be the 2k interest free overdraft courtsy of Halifax plc. that will bail me out and save my winter vacation.

so long story short
I will make it to Japan for my birthday!! Then be really really really poor and in debt upon returning to the UK and working my butt off to pay it back for the next 6months or so, in any job I can find!

After working to pay back what better be the best Birthday ever, I shall apply for my final year at Uni, probably this course or one very similar:

http://www.comp.brad.ac.uk/courses/courses.php/ug/sda/

hoping the nice peopel at student loans will fund me ..yet again ;p if not ill be begging Mum and Dad saying if they dont pay up, I won't get a degree..and they reallyreallyreallyreally want me to have one..so should work :p

SO yes I have a plan of what to do with my life till about july 2010!

After that its choices time once again, do I take the Japan obsession to an insane level and move there to teach for a year following in Tony and Jess' footsteps, as they seem to be having an amazing time, or do I look for a corporate graduate job in IT and settle into that british mundane life, no competition really is there?

ON the subject of teaching and Japanese, i may look into the bradford college night course in Japanese, but it is £200 and you dont get any qualification, and I have heard they only teach you hiragana/katakana..and stuff like, watashi wa marisa desu,hajimemashite, douzo yoroshiku KORE WA PEN DESU YO!!

omoshirokunai -_-

and the level 2 always gets cancelled so *sigh*

Plan instead is to private study for JLTP level 4, of which i can sorta recognise maybe 1/4 of the kanji already and know bits of the vocab...
hey I have a year of not studying anything for real, just what I feel liek, so I should be able to cover at least some Japanese!
Got Japanese for busy people book 1, but its too repetative of easy stuff, and there is no kanji so its annoying and im bored of it already..hated the minna no nihongo books..so i need better book ideas!

I shall continue my haphazard approach of recognising words from anime, kanji flashcards on facebooks kanjibox, and googling random verb conjucations when i want to put soemtihng random as a facebook status. THen try combine this with real study towards jlpt4 and hope it all comes together.

^_^


So Marisa's Plan

Now till November
Work at CEX/Library save up for Japan
study Japanese whenever possible

November
Japan Time for as long as I can afford around my Brithday
try practise Japanese!

December -September09
Full time work at CEX/library/temp agency/anything!
*hey i will fix your pc for only a shiny £50 note XD
Apply for topup degree inc student loans etc
continue Japanese studying..perhaps try jlpt4 test.


September 09 - July 09
Study to get best degree I can, gambarimasuyo!
part time job if i can fit it in
apply for JET type scheme
keep up with Japanese, but concentrate more on Computing study

August 10
Hopefully get on a teaching scheme in Japan
If not find a graduate job in computing/IT
Consider reapplying for JET type scheme



Life never works out this ideal, but its nice to have some sorta plans on paper...well electronic paper.

time for code geass anime now, im tired and have to work tomorrow, another saturday in Reatil. joy.

I got a teardorp piercing and after the initial "OMG YOU LOOK LIEK A TRAIN WRECK" yeah thanks mark and ass-man... It seems most people including myself liked it once the swelling went down a bit.

Met up with Zico a couple of times in the past week or so for drinks, he even copied my piercing cheeky begger. Fun times to chat as mates, remember all the things we had in common before we tried to murder each other, talk about our new relationships, waste some money, and generally get a bit tipsy in lloyds bar XD

Think i made him relaise how much I love Japan a bit too much...haha...can't talk about much else these days.

Anyway after getting a bit drunk decided to ring lee and turn up at his house,this was last night and the big softie was so sweet. Tried to sober me up with sugar puffs, we watched some stupid tv chatted long into the night, then spent tday just lazing aroudn the house, and he went out to get lunch and just did little things all day to make me feel really special :D :D :D yay me so happy ^_^

He also got me a giant kero plushy last week, it is an Angel. awwww.

WE also decided to be in Tokyo and Hello kitty land on my birthday, and are sorting out saving up for it

Sure it is gonna happen just need some more shifts to save up.

Anyway enough of me being all silly giddy happy, i want to watch more code geass
woopee for sunrise anime.

Back from Japan, Bradford sucks, but Lee who is my boyfriend now <3 makes me smile and laugh enough that it is just about bearable to be back in this shit tip.

I have way too many photos, they are all on my facebook, which all my mates will already know I use more than this anyway :D

WAs going to write a big long thingy about all the awesome things that happened in Japan, but I just can't be bothered right now, it will make me want to go back even more, and be more depressed.

I could put a load of depressing stuff here about the shit I am going through, but it is shit and I am trying to cheer myself up.

*~*NEWSFLASH*~*

ME IS GOING TO JAPAN

^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

Everything else pales compared to this wonderful news. I can't wait.


I have Mr. Lee-Sama to thank for this *Squeee* he is an uber friend of mine,
not just for this, in many many many ways XD he talks to me when im sad and makes me feel better and is really talented and clever at many things and is like totally sugoi..

In smaller, pretty pointless, other news.....
 Uni is no better, i never got to see giru giru in concert, want to see avril but will be too jetlagged and poor
and I have decided to get a piercing when i come back from Japans
an anti-eyebrow, otherwise known as a teardrop. Am yet to find a good pic to explain this.
I made my first 1k points on xbox but am now stuck at 1500
i don't play one player games enough!
Starcraft 2 has a release date in march so expect that to be a big news day for me!
Bored of this now , going to play COD4 and shoot people. but yeah

I AM GOING TO JAPAN XD XD XD XD XD

The saturday before my Birthday which was supposed to be the major celebration....the less said about that the better!

Moving on to happier events

My actual Birthday was pretty amazing...I went to my bf's he gave me super-cool presents, then we watched half a movie then ended up falling asleep for half the day lol so relaxing ahhhh.

We then travelled to Bradford to meet my workmates for pizza, however they were all too tired to come (I get it though..work can be hard :) )
So my B/f and  I went to PizzaHut and ate enough pizza for 5 lolololol, the snooty waitress kept trying to get us to leave though we asked for drink refills six times before we got them and when there was still half the pizza left "do you want the bill now?" ¬.¬ No I don't I want to eat my food in peace, so i politely told her "No, we're fine!"
MY mummy then gave me a lift home because it was all rainy and cold.


Presents List

B/f
*picture*


Sister
New-Look hairclips in bright colours, very decora xD
a little joke comic strip book thingy about office work, funny but brought back bad memories of when I worked in an Office

Parents
£200
Giant tin of Quality Street
Diary Milk Chocs
Diamonte heart on silver effect chain
Me To You bear Mug
"White Chocolate" bath bubbles

Nan
Big box of make up, good for basic but not great qaulity
£10

Nanna
Giant buttercream sponge cake ( buttercream   :\)
Bottle of Champagne ( I don't drink champagne :\)

Aunti Carol
Homemade ninja turtle card xD
ninja turtle annual lol XD
Smart black purse with £2
A pen with plastic crystal thingies
a cute little heart phone-strap charm thingy

Other Relatives
£20+£20+£20


Think that is it, probs forgot something. lol

Yeah my job is great.
Here I am with the crew in a rare ~glomps~



Awful Pic of me, but I like the sentiment of it.

THat is all for now , need to add more items to my ebay shop

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/under-marisas-bed

 If I ever save enough money and get enough guts to fly to Japan, here is a list of places I want to visit.
I decided to blog this so I have a place to keep random photos i find and places so i won't forget...

Sanrio Puroland a.k.a Hello Kitty Land, Tokyo
I may get to hug a giant kerokerokeroppi and scream AISHITERUUUUUU!!!!!!! at the poor person inside the suit.


Bandai Museum, Chiba.
To drink a haro cocktail then get to sit ina  real life sized gundam, or similar, bliss.



Pokemon Center, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Yokohama
http://www.pokemon.co.jp/pokecen/index.html

shop shop shop shop shop


Pokepark Nagoya
free entry accordin to mr. internet
I can look at the coasters and not dare go on them =p
awww it is closed now T_T


(whatever reamains of) Velfarre
to look at the shrine of para para


Shinjuku/Shibuya(Harajuku)

A KI BA HA RA
denki gai denki gai ^^ ^^ ^^


I wanna spend a night (wait should that be hour?) or two in a Love Hotel <3 ;)

My hair is ruined!
After getting ribbed at work over split ends i went home to try cut them off, I only went to the hairdressers a week ago but she refused to cut my ends off and instead tried to sell me some expensive "repairing" treatment which i replied, maybe another time, while making mental note to never go to that salon again... then cut my fringe all wonky and billed me! I am too polite not to pay =(
Anyway back to now, i asked my sis to cut off a few split ends, holding hair in my hands held my fingers and told her to cut along them
she gets the scissors angles them and cuts UPWARDS taking a massive triangle shape outta the nape of my neck
my mum has to fix the disaster by giving me a bowl cut all around, the i try make it softer with a few front layers, the result awful butchers mess.
I then bleached it to try take attention away from the cut, half went a lovely Blondie half went ORANGE and it looked even worse
so i finally dyed it pink red all over, now it is not-so-bad my boss likes it my mum says "you look like one of them mangarery people"
so um..ok

Ordered some more extensions from ebay, in brown and pink to try fix it, but for once when it is urgent my ebay parcels are taking their time!
When I don't need something for months they arrive next day, when I am desperate they take their sweet, sweet time *anger*


I am also pissed off at my course some more, they cancelled this week, but that doesn't matter seeing as all we are learning is PISS EASY COMMON SENCE MANAGEMENT BULLSHIT!!

What ever happened to software engineering/development being about learning to program or at least something technical??! a Microsoft office training program and learning how to do databases in diagrammatic form, and flow charts about decision making IS NOT SOFTWARE!!

I wanna learn Java and c++ for a start , then learn all about future technologies, even web scripting classes or linking websites to databases would be better than this crap.
This term we have one module of visual basic, and it is old old visual basic as well not .NET or anything vaguely relevant to anything anymore.

There is so much I have heard of but understand nothing of, I want to know how to design and create 3d video games, i want to know how to program for other platforms, I want ot know how to make useful software applications (not another database this time about milk men deliveries!)


Hell even some training in flash or photo-shop, or something hardware or networking would satisfy me a little as I could see a career... *sigh*


Blah I am so ditzy these days, I need to sit down and concentrate on one thing, one me, I can be the sales assistant who is a bit dumb loves her job and obsesses over her hair
or i can be the serious academic i used to be and read loads of literature and non-fiction and learn all the technical stuff i need to go work at a software house somewhere and get uber-rich.

They both have advantages and draw backs

i feel i am drifting at the moment, not really good at any one thing, like most people i know have a speciality they excel in, or even more than one, where as I am so-so in various things but not very good in anything.

My interests and personality are a odds with my long term goals, but if i settle for being my personality i will regret tit because i will have fallen way Short of my potential..

see that is sounding too deep for me now, even though it is really really the opposite of deep.

No more Footy Wives ;_;
So I finally get to the end of the footballers wives marathon I have been having recently, only to hit a cliffhanger at the end of season 5!
I google around and find there was a BBC special one off episode set after season 5 as season 6 was canceled!

On further googling i find out this was a 5minute comic short in "Sport Relief" and answers nothing, so I didn't bother finding it online.

*Humph*


In other news...

I babysat last night, I'm not used to being in other people houses without them there so felt a little on-edge somehow but once the kids were fast asleep I settled into watching some TV infront of the fire, fell asleep a couple of times, eventually dragged myself off to the bed that was made up for me, got up really early as I was warned the kids would, they pretty much looked after themselves while i woke up to morning TV, I checked they had some breakfast then the parents arrived, I collected my £20 had a nice chat and went home, so yeah, that wasn't bad for a saturday, was weird not to be at home though, wouldn't do it for free.

So I ordered some blue hair extensions with my babysitting money :


xD I want them to hurry up and arrive now!

Oh and I have been creating auctions for my old stuff on ebay:
Hope someone buys the stuff!


Went round a few charity shops in my lunch break on Friday, and found some real bargains!
The pucca plush and super kawaii backpack came to less than £1 for both! I <3 charity shops.
I think the turtle on the backpack has a look of kero kero keroppi somehow as well, which, I won't lie, is the main reason I bought it.

World of Warcraft
Also today I played WoW for the second time..my thought so far...pretty poo. I *know* how the genre of mmorpgs can be addictive, I just wanted to see if WoW was worth the money thousands(millions?) pay, and all the bloody hype! and so far..no..it is just really generic, infact sub par, the graphics suck, the battle animations i have seen elsewhere dozens of times, the quests are pretty dull and you can't skip the quest description. The only "cool" thing i guess is that the quests do eem to have a decent story behind them and are presented with a nice font on a parchment effect bakcground..but really..that hardly counts as a saving grace now. So yeah I will stick with Perfect World when it goes full open Beta, play some flyff and trickster now and again, and WoW will be deleted as soon as i get around to it, good thing i just borrowed it from a friend using a 10day free trial pass!


Newt/Bill Kaulitz
I am so obsessed with Bill Kauitz from Tokio Hotel at the moment.... That everytime i watch hollyoaks I can't help but think that newt reminds me so of darling Bill.. humm



My Fav bill pic:





Newt:














Is Everything Shit?
I bought a book that seems to think so, i was dissappointed though, even though the cover contains a sign for macdonalds, there isn't a single mention of the "restaurant" in the entire book..or the london underground..or a billion other life is shit common topics. The book gets a little political in places for my liking with some of the longest sections being politics and ethics and the like. oh well..technically i got it for free because it was a 3 for 2 offerand my mum bought the other 2..



Summary

Bill Kaulitz=Hot ...........Anyone who looks Slightly like bill =Hot

WoW - 2/10 Not even interesting enough for me to want to play more than 2days..piss poor for a supposedly lifestyle recking mmo.
 

Right I'm off to watch that belle du jour prostitute diary show thingymibob..