Rozen Maiden

There are two strings to this story: That of an exquisite doll that wants to meet her maker and that of a young boyand his exquisite doll as they strive toward helping each other.

Sakurada Jun is suffering from depression and is out of school. His life revolves around the internet an ordering stuff thast he returns just in time to avoid payments. Through this he meets Shinku a living doll of the Rozen Maiden series and becomes indebted to her. She was made by a mysterious but very talented doll maker.

I'm currently enjoying this part two of the first series of Rozen Maiden released this month in the UK.

This sees Jun repair the damaged Shinku, Suiseiseki and her twin sister Souseiseki as they deal with Souseiseki's Master plus the manipulative Suigintou.

In the final three episodes centre around Shinku and Suigintou's final confrontation.

This the region 1 US issue of the second series of Rozen Maiden on Geneon that arrived here recently.
If I'd of know the UK distributor, MVM were going to issue it soon which they are I'd of held off getting this import as the US edition uses three discs with four episodes per disc compared to 6 over here. If you enjoyed series one you'll need this.









*Updated May 16 2010 by Tammy.

Going back

I had been very unwell for a period in connection with my role in a local authority for a period now and I have had what is called 'Leave of absence' which means I need not attend any meetings although I will be kept up to date with anything important which given my role is  the next most important after the Clerk obviously does matter.

Put very simply I am going through a nervous breakdown, throwing things, walking pensively for ages ready to explode or bursting in tears crying for ages not just at home but at work who are trying to help me. I simply could not cope with what I have been left to do, working all hours even losing part of my vacation to council business doing things others want but won't do themselves.

I feel I have hit the end of the road at least in so far as anything beyond work and family responsibility goes and more over it seems to me at least this attempt at trying to be more of a public grown up figure when in all honesty I'm more childlike.

Back then I knew very much who I was, what I was to do with support which to be frank I don't get anymore although I need it and there was a clear cut break between school time and free time.

While talking by email with the clerk, I decided to take a step backwards from now on and outside of work I'm going draw up a timetable like I had at school and ensure time outside of it won't be spent chained to the telephone and computer.

I have also decided to put together a school type uniform to wear when I'm not working, being at home as the kind of structure, routines and discipline of that era is what I badly need and this with more support from my folks is what I do need.

I just cannot cope with full on adult life.

Evangelion1.11 (you are NOT alone)

This release from the tail end of April on Manga recently arrived here.

It's a re-envisioning of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime from the mid 1990's by its creator Hideaki Anno but done in a cinematic form which was highly regarding for stretching the possibilities of anime as an art form.

This new version comes in four parts of which this is the first having the eight episodes of the original and then some more.

I don't generally care much for mecha as a genre but this held may attention last night as I watched it all the way through.

Shinji, a boy entrusted to fly an EVA to save the rebuilt city of Tokyo-3 from the rampaging angels is an interesting character, being a worrier and having a severe lack of confidence which is not helped by his fathers lack of affection for him.

His job is to defend Tokyo-3 or die trying.

I don't own the original in the Platinum Edition that many rave over but it seemed to me they resigned in the CGI preserving the feel of the series while allowing advances in anime production since them to be used in telling the story.

I really enjoyed this.

New arrivals

We're officially in spring so there's a few thoughts in what is proving to be an interesting year.

In my world as much as liked the annuals I had I also did like and wanted to have some of the girls ones too.

As a feminine gurl I like to wear dresses and to had been able to wear pinafore dress to school as that schoolgurl

While I'd of been happy to attended Cubs with any boy and to of worn the original uniform including short trousers because It was practical, in all honesty I'd of sooner of been a Brownie and worn our brown tunic because I am more girlish whatever biologically my sex might be.

I was NEVER transgendered just a boy by sex with a feminine side who needed to be themselves as a Gurl.

Reflections on Grandad

Moving on from my Birthday, one of big influences on me was my Grandad on Daddy's side of the family.

He was very much into gardening, following people like Percy Thrower, who like us came from the Midlands, in his case Shropshire who presented for many years the BBC's gardening show on tv and also had a lot to do with the Blue Peter garden on that show that I adored as a boy back then.

Although his house was fairly modest, he used every inch of space to make for himself a lovely garden with roses, border plants and the like that he could sit in the summer with us, enjoying a cup of tea and where we could play on the swing if he didn't take us to the park.

He introduced me to potting plants and growing things for myself.

It's why I miss him after these years.

Proof of my feminine ways

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I love to be dressed up like this.
In soft   flowing  skirts with frilly slips and knickers together with pretty pussy bow socks.

Mousetrap

I just love traditional children board games such as mouse trap although the colours of the parts have altered since I first played it.

They always came out at parties, weekends and inevitably Christmas with my siblings and friends and part of the fun wasn't the game so much as the socializing we did whilst playing.

This game was frist invented by Ideal in 1963.
This is what comes with the game:

1 Gameboard

4 Mice

30 Cheese Cards

1 Die

1 Instructions

28 Mouse Trap Building Parts and Accessories

As you'd expect, the object is to trap mice in the mousetrap, while avoiding getting trapped. By rolling the dice, you proceed around the game board, collecting cheese pieces and building a mousetrap bit by bit. 

Once complete, you set the wheels in motion, as it were, to try to capture the opposition's mice. 

But this is no ordinary trap. 

With this contraption you start by turning the crank, that rotates the gears, that push the lever, that moves the shoe, that kicks the bucket, that sends the ball down the stairs and into the gutter, that leads to the rod that releases a second ball, that falls through the bathtub and onto the springboard, that catapults the diver into the washtub, that causes the cage to fall and-whew.- hopefully, capture a mouse. 

The last "mouse" left uncaptured wins.
The crazy zany game of catching rodents using the wildest mousetraps in the world. Flush the toilet to activate 1 of 3 great traps.

I'd love to play this with anyone for hours at a stretch!

Tellingly I still have my original boyhood one at home.