my moral standing is lying down

As you can see I've been utterly awful in sticking to my plan to update and read LJ. I hope you all haven't given up on me though because I know from experience that it'll pick up again. <3

There have been a lot of awesome things that I've done recently and I really ought to tell you all about them-- like parasailing! and being interviewed for a (silly little) article in the AMNY! and the FUCKING NEW YORK RANGERS ADVANCING THE EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS! But I've got this other thing to post and I promise I'll come back and tell you all about those other things soon. =D

A few weeks ago on May 1st, thedreamerworld met with Benedict Cumberbatch and Steven Moffat for work-- and got them to wish me a happy birthday. She then sent me the recording via text at which time I proceeded to FREAK THE FUCK OUT (to the extreme amusement of honeymull, who I was having lunch with). IT WAS PRETTY AWESOME GUYS, NGL. Here's the recording:

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH & STEVEN MOFFAT WISH ME HAPPY BDAY! by sarabakari

ETA: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH. STEVEN MOFFAT. OMFG HOW ARE THEY SOOOOOOOO ADORABLE? WAS THAT EVEN REAL LIFE?

December 1st has arrived and has marked the beginning of the WInter Gift-Giving Holiday (WIGGH) season. As such, I have purchased something with the intention of gifting it to you. You are hereby notified that you must now refrain from purchasing DVDs, Blu-rays, and Books without prior consultation with me and/or several other close friends.

To other friends who may also have the intention of purchasing something with the purpose of gifting Judy; please contact me so that no double-gifting may occur.

Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter,

Sara

I didn't notice the time at all, which is, I think, the highest of compliments on New Year's Eve. This New Year's was probably the best I've had in recent memory. Got out of work early on Monday, went over to Judy's where I helped her prepare for her party. Around 6:30pm, people started to show up and it was small and casual until a little later.

I really loved the dancing, and the taking photos, and the not being very drunk as well. Exchanging Portal quotes with the guys and listening to Still Alive from Chris's mix CD was awesome! Also, hanging out with Liz and Juliet and their friends was pretty cool.

OMG KATIE IS THE LIFE OF THE DANCE FLOOR! She totally outlasted and outdanced everyone, including Mario~.

Some of the set list from the dance floor, courtesy of youtube -- which was totally my savior 'cause they had put on the Spice Girls before that. *shudders*

- My Humps / Black Eyed Peas
- Shut Up / Black Eyes Peas
- Fergalicious / Fergie
- Jiggy With It / Will Smith
- Footloose / Kenny Loggins
- Stronger / Kanye West
- The Picard Song
- Smack My Bitch Up / The Prodigy
- Come Baby Come / K7
- Baby Got Back / Sir Mix-a-lot
- Thriller / Michael Jackson
- Ladies' Night / Kool & the Gang
- Closer / NIN

A couple of people we don't see too often showed up, including Jamie -- and Jim. I'm not sure this was really Jim's type of party, but it was nice of him to show up. It was cute seeing Anna run over to meet him at the elevators. =D

It was really weird to have such different groups of friends together at Judy's, but it worked out much better than I thought. I <3 Judy's parties.

As for Katsu, I think I've pretty much had it confirmed that I won't be able to be reimbursed for a rental car, which means Judy and I have to figure out if we'd rather take the bus or shell out more for a car because of convenience. Which also depends on who else would be willing to take the ride and split the cost. Or, there's also taking Jim up on his offer to borrow his car. Which I'd be kind of nervous about because I would really hate taking the risk that I might fuck something up (accident or otherwise) and be held responsible for something that isn't my own. ...but it's so tempting because it's so much cheaper! Argh!

Anyway, I took a cab home at 4am and woke up pretty early the next morning, despite Judy's disbelief that I could, but mostly due to Maryann and AJ coming in to talk to me. ^^; We had a nice breakfast (despite the mediocre food) and met up with people for shopping in the city. FAIL! Only Book-Off and Best Buy were open. Carrie took photos of some of us under the tree at Rockefeller, and we eventually all went our separate ways.

At home I had a lovely time watching the Indiana Jones extras DVD with Liz, Maryann & my mom. Then went to sleep insanely early for me (10:30pm!) and woke up with a cold and sore throat, yay. So I intend to get lots of sleep for the next few days so that I can actually do stuff over the weekend. We'll see if that works.

This whole week has been slightly insane and hectic. Last night was really fun, though. Met up with Liz after work, shopped at H&M (and actually found stuff I'd been looking for this time)! Then went over to meet up with Judy, Chris, Ben and John. Chris and John went to the Nightwish concert and the rest of us went to eat for Judy's birthday dinner.

We ended up at a Japanese (all-you-can-eat) buffet place, slightly expensive at $26/plate, but the food was delicious. I really overstuffed myself, but I don't think I ate anywhere close to 26 dollars' worth of food. Ben and Liz did a little better on that front, I think. ^^; But the food really was delicious -- even the sushi (and I normally don't like sushi except for spicy tuna) was yummy. Raw clams were raw and clammy and squishy, and not bad. The yakiniku was mouth-watering. It tasted like the shishkebab my father used to make; oh man I really miss some of my father's cooking~.

Maryann made an appearance, but went home to work on her costume. Which turned out really beautifully, btw. I can't wait to post pics after the weekend~! I'm also really insanely happy with my own costume, as some of you may know because I've been unable to keep from squeeing to selected people. =D

It's all windy and rainy outside ~ so pretty. (Until, of course, I have to lug my bags of crap around in it. Hopefully it'll calm down a bit by 5?)

Pics of Ms. Nails in her other outfit for you. ^^

http://koyasunomiko.com/pics/2007/p1010009.jpg
http://koyasunomiko.com/pics/2007/p1010010.jpg

Hope those are okay. Taking photos of the TV sucks.

Oh, also, here's the Greyhound bus schedule I'm on. But even if you can't get these exact times, it probably won't be a problem 'cause as long as you have a ticket, they don't really care what bus you're actually scheduled for.

-------------Trip to BALTIMORE DOWNTOWN, MD-------------
07/19/07 08:15am GLI-0503 * Depart NEW YORK, NY
07/19/07 12:45pm GLI-0503 * Arrive BALTIMORE DOWNTOWN, MD

-------------Return Trip to NEW YORK, NY-------------
07/22/07 05:30pm GLI-2454 * Depart BALTIMORE DOWNTOWN, MD
07/22/07 09:35pm GLI-2454 * Arrive NEW YORK, NY