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December 3rd, 2015

My Favorite Things: December 2015

Wahhh! It’s the last month of the year! I know everyone says this all the time, but can you believe the year is almost over? Now that it’s the beginning of another month, it’s time for the My Favorite Things link-up, hosted by Raisa and Eirene! These are things I loved last month!

Gudetama RE-MENT set

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Gudetama is an egg character created by Sanrio. Yes, the company that brought us Hello Kitty has also brought us this… lazy egg thing that just… lays there. I love him though! I think his merchandise is so funny, and I just had to order this miniatures blind box set by RE-MENT. The pieces in this one are actually bigger than what I’m used to from RE-MENT, and my favorite is the toast one. Their sets always have nice details!

Though this is a blind box set, I ordered the whole thing, which guarantees one of each. Incase you don’t know, I have the worst luck when it comes to blind boxes and capsule toys.

Exhibit A: In Japan, I tried 4 times at a One Piece capsule machine and got doubles TWICE. I got two Namis and two Choppers. At that point, my husband had to drag me away before I wasted more money trying to get Zoro.

Exhibit B: At a con, I found a One Piece blind box set and saw that I liked all of the characters except for one, Señor Pink. My chances of getting one I liked was pretty good right? Well…

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There are many more examples where I continually get doubles or get the one character I do not want in a set. Why blind box gods? Why do you curse me??

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October 24th, 2015

Project 52, part 9

It’s amazing how behind you can feel after being gone for only a week. It’s short enough where people will wait until you get back to ask or talk to you about something, and it’s long enough that tasks just pile up. So where was I the past week?

10/13-10/16: A few coworkers and I attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, which is a tech conference for women (though men could attend too). There were 12,000 attendees this year, and it looked like about 90% were women. That’s pretty amazing. I’ve been in the Computer Science field for 12 years (4 in school, 8 in industry) and that was my first time surrounded by so many women in tech!

10/17: Even though it was a Saturday, I went to work! We had a group of interns come to our office for internship interviews, and I interviewed four of them.

10/18-10/20: My husband and I flew to West Point, NY and met up with some of his family to bury his paternal grandmother. Both sides of his family were military families that grew up in West Point, and his grandmother wanted to be buried alongside her late husband there. I had the pleasure of meeting her once for our wedding, and hearing stories about how much she meant to everyone made me wish I knew her more. It was a lovely trip though, especially since I hadn’t been in this area of NY in a while. I talk about visiting NYC often, but little known fact: I actually grew up in Poughkeepsie!

And so, I’ve been playing catch-up since I got back. I’m behind on work, reading blogs, and posting about my Project 52. Let’s start with catching up on the last one!

#37 – Greatest Swordsman
This probably looks familiar because I already showed it in my last Favorite Things entry! Like I said in that entry, Zoro is one of my favorite characters, and this is my most recent figure purchase. To make this photo work, I had to get the lighting and camera angle under him. Otherwise, his bandana would cast a shadow over his eyes.

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October 6th, 2015

My Favorite Things: October 2015

I was originally going to post my “8 photos of happiness” next but uh… I’m not done with it yet. It’s hard to choose only 8 photos! But, that’s ok because it’s time for the My Favorite Things link-up, hosted by Raisa and Eirene. This is always a fun, positive start to the month 🙂 Here are things I’ve been loving the past month!

Zoro figure

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Sometimes late at night… I make impulse buys for Anime/video game figures. Earlier this year, it was the Majora’s Mask Link nendoroid and the Luffy + Law Bandai figure, but those haven’t shipped yet since they’re later releases. Then one night I realized… wait wait WAIT… how do I not have a Zoro figure yet???

The more I watch One Piece, the more I love Zoro, and he’s become one of my favorite characters. He’s just… UGH, SO COOL. I had been eyeing the recent one by MegaHouse because it’s his pre-time-skip version, and well, that night I sealed the deal. Since it was released already, it arrived about a week later. I love it. I couldn’t stop staring at it when I first got it, and now I’m looking into a time-skip version too. It never ends.

(For those wondering where to buy, I’ve been using AmiAmi, Hobby Link Japan, Tokyo Otaku Mode, and Crunchyroll’s store.)

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