Halloween, Vampire Knight, Casting a Ring, and Whatever Else Crosses My Mind

I love Halloween. It is my favorite holiday. All the fun, none of the relatives! Sweet!

I dressed up for work.  I had kitty ears and a collar with a bell. I also had fangs.  They were really sweet fangs.  They looked totally real.  They’re called sexy bites and they fit right on your canines.  I know, a little much for a cat costume. But I actually was a vampire/sorceress (hey, I had the sorceress dress already, I just wanted to add something to it) for a Halloween party I went to.  The guys at the party dug the fangs so much that I decided I would wear them again.  The guys at work like them so much, I almost feel like I should wear them everyday. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Speaking of all things spooky (and fangs! I was just talking about fangs!), I’m addicted to the manga series Vampire Knight.  I know, I know, cliche, liking a series about vampires.  And I know I’m probably too old to be admitting to reading manga but it’s ok, I’ll own it. I’m not afraid to be different.  I must, must know who Yuki ends up with, Kaname or Zero.  The guy who saved her life and has been devoted to her for years or the new guy who’s mysterious and needs her. Ah, needy men will suck you dry just as sure as any vampire will. She should stick with Kaname.

I hope the series doesn’t drag on as long as Inu Yasha.  I mean come on, that’s already up to like 56 volumes in Japan, although only 35 have been released in English so far.  That’s just dragging it on too long.  I love Rumiko Takahashi but it’s time for someone to tell her to end this damn story.  Everyone knows that Kagome and Inu Yasha just have to find a way to be together, so figure out how.  Is that why she hasn’t ended it, she can’t figure out a satisfactory way for them to be together? (But this series is where we got the name for our cat )Anyway, I just starting reading this month’s Shojo Beat and I can’t believe what happened in the latest installment of Vampire Knight.  Ah, the suspense is too great.  I need next month’s issue NOW!

I really like Honey and Clover too but it’s so sad.  Everyone is in love with someone who loves someone else.  Takemoto loves Hagu, but Hagu loves Morita who left the country.  And there are tons of men who love Ayu, but she doesn’t notice/care because she loves Mayama.  And Mayama loves Rika (who repeatedly rejects him).  But even though Mayama loves Rika, he doesn’t want Ayu to move on, because she is beautiful and kind and he’s selfish, so he keeps leading her on and blocking her chances with other guys. That’s just a horrible thing to do, hedge your bets by leading someone on, keeping them as a spare in case your first choice doesn’t work out.  It makes me sad.  I’m all upset over a manga character’s heartache.  I’m such a sap.

Sand Chronicles is just so sad also.  Ann and Daigo will grow apart.  As romantic as it seems to spend forever with your first love, it is very rare and unrealistic.  The teen years are such a huge time of change, it would require a great deal of maturity and a great deal of work to grow together, as a couple, and to keep compatible goals through such a turbulent time.

I know, I’m too old to be reading romantically themed “comics” (manga), but, hey, kiss my pasty white bum.

I did do something age appropriate today (I know, rare, rare, rare).  I learned one method of casting a ring!  We used a cuttlefish bone as the mold.  I swear I’m not joking.  We carved a cuttlefish bone and poured the molten silver into it!  Oh, dear lord was it stinky.  And my ring is UGLY! But I’m very proud.  There are so many things I would do differently, now that I’ve tried it once.  But this requires a lot of tools.  And unfortunately, even though my husband does have a pretty large collection of tools, these aren’t tools that we have in our house (yet!).  I can’t wait to try this again. But I can’t see my husband allowing me to use an acetylene torch or play with molten silver at home.  Hey, we have a few fire extinguishers! He takes all the fun toys away from me.  I’m not allowed to play with anything sharp or flammable

And just because she’s sitting next to me, I feel I should mention that my cat is incredibly stinky.  Almost as stinky as hot cuttlefish bone.  I’ve never met a cat that had an odor.  I’m not sure if it’s because she has feline leukemia or she’s lazy.  I just don’t know.  But she always stinks.  I have to bathe her a couple times a week.  I started taking her in the shower with me.  I get in to take a shower, then I grab her and hold her so that her front paws are on one of my shoulders and her back paws are in my arm down by my belly.  Even though she scratches me up a bit (and last time she tried to bite me in the face, she’s getting better, she used to bite and scratch so hard when I would wash her that sometimes her claws and teeth would be stuck.  no joke, I’d have to really work to get those claws out of me.  it hurt) it’s easier to get her clean this way.  I know it’s a bit unorthodox, but so I guess that I’m pretty unorthodox.  Actually, I like being different, life’s less boring that way.