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  • So, I have excellent news! I'm currently typing this from my apartment, with my new wifi modem up and running. I'm officially in my own place!

    I've got a lot of stuff to grab that I overlooked (charging cubes, a fitted sheet, lightbulbs for the lamps I got), but I'm very happy overall. I even bought a desk and chair at work and assembled them tonight (and only got myself hurt once)! I look forward to a cozy first night!
    Ah, three new vocals in one night! After a long, long struggle, I tracked down Kaito's serial (on the third page of the editor instruction manual. Seriously?), but I can't actually install him until tomorrow as my disk reader is already at the apartment. So for now, I've got Miku NT snuggly in her place on my desktop, and I've just welcomed V3 Vivid as well!

    Which means I now own every. Single. Crypton release. Aaaaaaaaah I'm so happy!
    A thought: once I get NT and Blue Kite Man, I’ll have every single commercial Crypton release except for Miku V3 Vivid.

    My birthday’s in two weeks. I’ve asked for a few appliances for my apartment. If I get what I want, and I also get cash and have some left over...

    My Crypton-simping heart can’t take this. I’ve gotta round out my collection!
    I paid up, signed the lease, and got my key today! I'm not officially residing at my new place until I get an account set up with the energy company, which will take a day or two since we just had an awful storm pass through last night. But in the meantime, I've been given the okay to start moving my stuff in and setting things up! I've already got my shower curtains hung, and I'm either gonna go before work tomorrow to get more stuff in or I'm gonna do it all on Thursday, whatever I decide when my alarm rings in the morning.

    It might rain on Sunday, so my dad offered to move my furniture in while I'm at work on Saturday. Either way, this time next week, I have a place all my own! No more hoard, no more pests, no more filth, just tidiness and cozy privacy.

    It also turns out my landlord and my mom were in the Northeastern Oklahoma branch of FBLA as high schoolers, so they spent half the time I was signing all the papers this morning gossiping about women they've held grudges against for the past 40 years. So I'm hoping that gives me a bit of extra backup should I ever need it!
    It's official: I pay and sign tomorrow, and the apartment is mine! I got to go inside and inspect it today. It's perfect! Brand new hardwood floors in the living room, brand new plush carpet in the bedroom. It's smaller than it looked in the floorplans, but it's still the perfect amount of space. It won't be until Sunday when I'll get my furniture moved in, but in the meantime I'm gonna get the rest of my stuff moved in. (My closet is HUGE, holy crap. It's bigger than the kitchen.)

    The bathroom at least I can have prepared in full; it'll need a good scrubbing, especially the shower, but I've got everything I need for it.

    I set up the signing time for three hours before I go into work, so I'm hoping that gives me time to get a head start. It'll take me an hour at most to get all of my boxes inside and in their places. Ah, I can't wait!
    Well hello beautifuls! Aren't you a sight for sore eyes~



    (Fun fact: I had the upper-left and bottom albums as a teenager! The upper-left one my mom got for me from CD Japan so it didn't come with the cool extras though. And I still have the disk, but I lost the case years ago and it's now so damaged that it's next to unplayable. It currently rests snuggly in my Gackpoid V4 Native box, tucked away with the registration info.)
    I spent the better part of five hours today shopping around for necessities. Look at the cute shower curtain I got! Plus Target and Walmart both had cups, bowls, and plates for $0.50 each, so I was able to really stock up. I got matching pink and grey sets.

    I finally finished washing all of my clothes (well, most of them; my winter clothes I won't worry about until later), and I'll get around to hanging and packing them eventually. Then tomorrow I sign all the paper work and pay up, after which I'll start moving my boxes in as I get the chance between work and sleep. Thursday my dad's gonna come and assess what all furniture can fit and how best we can get it inside, and Sunday he'll bring all of that furniture and help me load it in. Meaning Sunday will likely be my first full night in my new apartment.

    Aaaaaaaaah I'm tired, and I won't get much rest anytime soon. My mom's going with me tomorrow because I'm shy and uncertain and don't wanna offend anyone, so she's gonna ask all the questions I'm scared to ask; water and electricity should be ready to go by Tuesday or Wednesday, and I'm hoping I can have the internet set up by next Monday. (The internet plan I'm eyeing is $30/month for 50 Mbps, but I don't have an estimate on my electricity yet... since I can take or leave cable, that'll at least help cut costs.) Here's hoping!

    The good news is, since my birthday's in two weeks, I've decided I'll ask for appliances in lieu of my usual request for Vocaloids. I want an air fryer, a DVD/Blu-Ray player, a couple of baking sheets, a pot (the pot and baking sheets I'm gonna look for at Goodwill before asking for them though; you can find some good cookware for cheeaaaap), a set of towels... anything else I should ask for? I'm looking to really start cooking and baking more, but I wanna keep it simple for now.

    Let's see... depending on how much counter space I have in my bathroom, I might try to get an organizer for my skincare. My current sad, pathetic bookshelf I can use to place towels or just decorate...

    I'm aware I'm going on aimlessly and endlessly. I'm really fucking tired. It'll be worth it once I'm settled in though, I have faith in that!
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Ah, a mixer! I'll probably ask for a food processor as I plan to make a lot of bread and peanut butter; you can make peanut butter in a blender, and I have plenty of times, but it's a lot more messy, and cleaning's a much bigger hassle. Then again... what's the harm in asking for both? I'd love to learn to make smoothies and such, which would be easier in a blender than a processor.

    Actually, I think I have an old processor laying around somewhere... but it ran like shit, so I'll probably just ask for a new one. :clara_ani_lili:
    WyndReed
    WyndReed
    Target is great for shower curtains and bathroom gear!(really any sort of home goods imo) From personal experience, corell dishes are awesome and (depending on the market) goodwill usually has a some, but otherwise walmart has the best deals.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I’m very particular about my dishes and silverware; dishes need to be lightweight and not have unpleasant textures when I brush my fingernails over them, and silverware needs to be similarly lightweight. The cheap Target plates were perfect, but I’ve yet to find good silverware. My grandma has some that I always use at family dinners, so I’ll ask where she got them from. That’s really the only other thing I need aside from cookware.

    Yeah, I got like everything bathroom-related at Target! They just have so many amazing options. I got the rod and hooks at Walmart since they’re cheaper, but Target’s style selection trumped even Bed Bath and Beyond. I’m holding off on the rest until I see the space in full and know what I’m working with. I’d hate to get counter organizers and then find I have a standing sink. :clara_ani_lili:
    Me: "I don't get elitism. There's good in everything, and so long as there's no harm being done or imposed, it doesn't matter who likes what or how they go about liking it. Elitism is just so stupid."

    Also Me: "The 2003 adaptation of Meredith Willson's The Music Man is a travesty to mankind and a shining example of when modernization of classics goes horribly, horribly wrong; the only reason they got away with making it was because Wilson and Robert Preston had been dead for about twenty and ten years, respectively, and if you prefer it to the 1962 film adaptation you're inherently a bad person with the worst possible taste. In this essay I will"
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Like... I acknowledge and appreciate that Broderick was trying to bring a new angle to the classic role that is Harold Hill. No one will ever top Preston's performance, so it's much more satisfying seeing different takes and approaches rather than actor after actor trying to imitate Preston completely and just not making the cut. There's been countless excellent Harold Hills, otherwise the show wouldn't have survived as long as it has on the stage, and it would have been dropped damn-near as soon as Preston left the role. I think the idea of a Harold Hill that's more soft-spoken and calm, wrapping people around his finger with gentle charm rather than bombastic charisma, is a wonderful idea!

    But Broderick... his performance just doesn't deliver. He tried for "Calmer and More Charming Hill" and instead sounds like he's reading off of a script, trying to get all of his lines over and done with so he can go to Taco Bell when he's finished. (Listen to this and tell me you'd hang on his every word, as the townspeople are supposed to. It's telling that the townspeople are the ones carrying the whole song in the 2003 version. And it's really a shame, because I love the way the sequence is shot in the 2003 version.) Performances so lackluster they circle around to outright terrible aren't the end of the world... unless you're playing the main fucking role, the role whose actor's skill either makes or breaks the entire show.

    So the 2003 adaptation is nice and clean, Chenowith's performance as Marian really wasn't bad, and overall it had the makings to be a respectable and even lovable remake. But they couldn't have chosen a worse Hill had they tried.
    mobius017
    mobius017
    So, in other words, "They've got trouble. My friends, they've got trouble. They've got trouble right there in...." ;)
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Fun fact: I made my dad watch that movie with me so much as a child that, to this day, if the word “trouble” comes up in a conversation, it’s always followed by “With a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool”. If my stepmom’s present she starts up on the “Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!” chant as well.
    So for obvious reasons, all of my vocalsynth projects are on hold, and I anticipate it'll be about two weeks before I can get back to work. To make up for it, I've created a compilation of my favorite meme videos in the hopes they'll make someone else laugh as well, starting out with my favorite vocalsynth-related shitpost.

    *CW: Occasional sexual humor

    I'm in that state of anxiety where I keep forgetting to breathe, so the majority of my oxygen intake is me suddenly and deeply gasping every few minutes. God help me, if I don't hear back on my application soon...
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    Naturally I'm combatting this by spending an extra $4 after dropping $350 on voicebanks. I've joined GrayStillPlays' Legends channel. He deserves it.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Oh my God, this was so worth it. If y'all like his content, 100% join his Legends channel. It's worth every penny.
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