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07 November 2009 @ 01:49 am

Title: Reminiscence
Memory: 11 -- Deception
Author: La Loba de Mibu
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Ikkaku and Yumichika
Warnings: Angst
Summary: Yumichika had a strange way of grieving about his concerns.
Notes: The number of the chapter does not reflect the chronological order of the present storyline, rather the flashback portrayed therein.

Disclaimer: Tite Kubo owns all things Bleach
Beta’d by: [info]jamminbison



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~Series Timeline

~Series Index: Chapters 1-10 & Interludes

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Lobita
27 October 2009 @ 10:02 am
So I don't necessarily love my job, but I am content in that it allows me to do what I have to do. However, I'm a person who likes stability and continuity. I've gotten used to in the past four months, having a certain chain of command. Come November, that chain shall be chopped into pieces and new managers will be coming in.

Nobody seems excited about the change. Everyone knows who the new boss is and what he's going to be like. I'm new to the company and I don't know anyone, but if I allow myself to be guided by their reactions, I should be dreading this change. And I am, due to the uncertainty of it all. Therefore, pepto bismol has become my friend in a preemptive effort against ulcers.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Okay, I'm done.

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BTW, witness my lovely new default icon. It is thanks to the very awesome [info]candesceres. She made a whole series of "OH Nation" icons, and by series I mean nearly every nation under the sun. The last section has alternates with hilarious quotes. She is also taking requests, in the case you don't actually find your nation already there. Have fun~♥
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Lobita
24 October 2009 @ 11:06 am

I woke up and decided to finagle on the net today, and actually check my email for once.

300 sorted emails later, I find my favorite RPG has several new threads. I feel ridiculously happy.

*Skips merrily*

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Lobita

Well, all this time and I have still not finished my picture diary of my summer in PR. No time like the present and better late than never. So without further ado, I give you:

Part I: Andando Orocovis )

And that's all for Orocovis, well mostly. I'll share more pics in Part II: Paseo por los pueblos.
Hope you enjoyed. ^_^

 



 
 
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Lobita
22 October 2009 @ 09:33 pm

Hello friends!

I hope you are all doing well. I've been horribly neglecting LJ. Limited time has forced me to pick and choose my hobbies carefully, and unfortunately LJ seems to always lose out to other things in the end. I've been back pedaling through my friends page, trying to catch up a little bit, but it's probably a lost cause.

Anyway, building a life from scratch in a new state during an economic recession with a low-paying job and $50,000 worth of student loans to pay is a very time consuming task. BUT, I've accomplished quit a few steps towards that goal:  

1) Found a place to stay semi-permanently.
2) Found a job 
3) Bought a car and car insurance
4) Figured out the routes to get to my most important places in a new city, eg. home, work, supermarket, gas station . . . 
5) Opened a bank account and manage my own budget

Next up, find an apartment to call my own. Let's see how my luck goes with that one. After that, it would be find my self a job with better pay and hours. Following that, maybe some entrepreneurship to boost my income, who knows.

Right now, this moment in fact, I have sat down to produce something I swore to have done ages ago. I shall produce it come the end off the week. I SHALL DAMMIT. That is, my photo diary of my vacation. Probably in sections because LJ likes to fuck with my longer entries by spasming in the middle and erasing everything. I hope to have at least the first part done tonight.

YAY PICTURES!! 

Well, off to mess with html. Peace dudes, be well and all that jazz.

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Lobita
21 August 2009 @ 09:13 am

Homg! We're going to the beach on Sunday, family trip so cousins galore. Beware the Torres clan! Woooo! xDDD It will be my very first trip to a Florida beach, so I'm currently the disproportionately excited one of the group. Beware the shutter bug! Fear me! Fear me!

Also, my little cousin has been doing the most hilarious thing lately. She's nearly two years old and at that stage where's she's just beginning to speak clearly.

If we ask her in Spanish: Jani, ¿tú me quieres?  

She'll shake her head and answer: No!

But if we ask in English: Jani, do you love me?

She'll nod and say: Yea!

*Dies of teh cute*
 

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Lobita
19 August 2009 @ 05:53 am

And I work!! Finally!

The job market is not even funny. I spend five years in college and no one is hiring for anything even close to my major. FTW. I had to start  apply for anything and everything I could possibly do. With $50000 in student loans on my head-- HOLY CRAP-- I really didn't give a flying fuck what that was as long as I was getting paid.

Well, I  found myself a nice simple office job, and I've been there about two weeks making sure to go above and beyond so they might have some compassion about firing me should another bout of lay-offs hit this particular company. I'm working for Haverty's, they are this really gorgeous-- and idiotically expensive-- traditional-oriented furniture store. Homg, their stuff is beautiful.

As an employee, I get a 40% discount too, which would make their insane prices manageable. Now I only need a house to fill with furniture. >.>

Anyway, I'm happy to be working, and I'm happy to keep searching in the meantime for something better paying that actually has to do with what I studied. Until then, I will make the best of this new job. 8Db

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Lobita
02 August 2009 @ 04:33 am
Wow. *Draws a face on the dust that has collected on her LJ*

Well. I think that was quite a long time away. I barely remember how to blog. 

The last month has been spent doing mostly three things.
1. Hanging out with my family
2. Job hunting
3. Writing/Reading


Job-hunting:

I have never filled out so many applications in all my life. Been doing around 20, sometimes more, each day for a month and I only ever got called back by one place. One. That ladies and gentlemen, is evidence of how horrible the job market is right now. Geez. It's not even a job involving what I spent 5 years at a university studying. But with student loans on my hear, I'm not feeling all that picky, at all. A full time job that pays me weekly? I'll take it. In the mean time, I'll keep working on my translator's and mayber even teaching certification. I think I shall be esctatic to not be broke anymore. It's been a while since I seen a paycheck. Even if it has to go away in bills, it'll be nice to see one again.

Family:

I have always enjoyed my family. We are a crazy lot of people. I know everyone thinks their family is crazy, but I honestly think mine is clinical. There's just something in the Torres blood that makes air like crack to us. It's been so much fun to hang out with everyone and find my inner Torres again. I think Temple tried to massacre my Torres spirit, or I've been away for too long. Or a combination of the two. Because something weird happened this summer.

When I went to Puerto Rico and also here in Florida, there have been days that I've felt out of place. That's never happened before. It's a very strange sensation, made more real by the fact that several of my family have told me that I feel different. I'm pretty sure that's do to three years away at a school that made me feel miserable.

I graduated from Temple now, and I feel much better, but not completely well yet. I still find myself not wanting to do the things I usually would want to with my family. I go because I know I should want to go, and usually by the end have enjoyed myself even if I didn't feel like going at first. But the fact that I find myself thinking on whether or not I wanna participate in an activity is simply wrong.

In my family, the planning of an activity usually goes something like this. Someone starts suggesting: "Hey, ya wanna--" And before they even finish, someone else has already answered: "LET'S DO IT!!!" while doing something ridiculous like thrusting their fist at the air. That's the correct Torres response to activity, motion, plans, stimuli in general. Lately, my usual reaction has been hesitation before reluctant acceptance and often not wanting to do something at all.

Over the years, I've gotten used to being alone, and I think I have developed coping mechanisms that are now desayudánome more than anything else. When you're alone all the time. There's lots of things you do to help you ignore the loneliness. You develop a schedule and habits structured around helping you forget your loneliness.

Now I'm with my family and not alone anymore, but I still find myself using the habits and schedule of my lonely times. I almost feel that I've unlearned the conversation and sponaeity and togetherness that defines la familia Torres. Desanimada, has become the word that most describes me, and I'm finding it difficult, and sometimes uninterested, in changing that impression. Hmm.


Writing/Reading:

One of my favorite coping mechanisms I mentioned before is reading and writing. It's something that has equally become a passion, and I spent every minute of my free (and a lot of my non-free ^^;;) time doing it. Bookworm doesn't even begin to cover it. I have been itching to visit a library, but most of my family wouldn't know where to find one if there life depended on it. Somos películeros to the max. I am also a películera as much as the next Torres, but I hold literature and its creation on an equally high pedestal, which to the rest of my family is just bizaaaarre.

Lately, I've been RPing a lot again. Tis so much friggin fun. I'm surprised I've been able to get so into it, seeing as  I'm the type of writer that needs everything to fall into place five years before its conception. Sometimes I find it difficult to fly by the seat of my pants the way RP tends to require, but its a lot of fun. What I've enjoyed the most about it though, is anticipating character's reactions to different situations.

I've really gotten to like not being able to control all the characters of a story. It makes the writing a learning process. I find myself wanting to learn about the characters, and often crafting a situation where their reaction will teach me something new about them. It's my nature to torture characters in a story, in an almost systematically sadistic way and RP has only made that habit worse. So much worse.

I also have been receiving a lot of random emails concerning Reminiscence. One that nearly made me fall out of my chair in shock was from a young Japanese woman who asked permission to translate the fic into Japanese.

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Wow.

I did not think, ever ever think, that anyone would like anything I wrote enough to go through the trouble of translating it. Translation and Linguistics is what my Bachelor's degree says. It's not a job for the faint of heart or the lacking in patience. I like to think of translation as a labor of love more than anything else. To transfer something from one language to another, and do it not only correctly, but without loosing the essence of the source language is a task that is so difficult that it can't not be a labor of love. And a headache. A big fat, possibly fatal, headache.

That someone would like something I've written enough to go through all that trouble, is to me the highest compliment ever. Thank you to Ms.Ota for making my friggin year with that email.
 

Things to do this week:

1. Get a car
2. Get more office clothes
3. Finish that damn vacation log
4. Re-edit and polish current Rem chaps
5. Write more fiction

 
 
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Lobita
28 July 2009 @ 01:23 pm
So I've been extremely busy and neglecting livejournal, but today I decided to take a little time and look through my f-page to see what everyone's been up to. I come across this on [info]delwynmarch 's journal.

*DIES*

It just so happens that the chapter of Rem that I currently have in the works, but have horribly neglected since moving to florida, involves our dearest duo's zanpakutou . . . I think, that the world is trying to tell me something. *SPAZZ*FLAIL*DIES*

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Lobita
28 June 2009 @ 02:07 pm

Today was my baby cousin's baptism. Here are Davidjosé and his sister Kamila.

My cousins and their cuteness, are the bane of my existence . . .


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Lobita
22 June 2009 @ 04:22 pm

TV and Movies:

I am now the proud owner of the first four seasons of Lost. Celebrate with me now: HUZZAAAAAAAAAAAH!! Show breaks my friggin brain, I EFFIN LOVE IT. 8DD I also finally saw the Wolverine origins movie. I was a little disappointed, but it was definitely an entertaining two hours. Started watching The Grudge 3, last night but my pc crapped out so I haven't finished. So far it seems very different from the first two. Will reserve judgement until finished.


Packing:

Moving to Florida on Saturday. I think I'll have a stomach ulcer before then. Also, new flying regulations regarding luggage fucking suck. There's my two cents on that. Buy a tootsie roll.

I am very excited about seeing everyone there though. HAPPYCOUSINFUNTIME -- HOMG YAY!!


Writing and Reading:


HOMG YAY. It is so nice to have my laptop back and to be inspired and be able to write things!! I keep on hearing a million songs that just make my brain explode with ideas. Woo hoo!! xDD Also, now that I'm back on the internet, I can finally RP again. Double woo hoo!! 8DD Fun stuff. I actually found some new Yumikka fic googling around. I  guess I have the pillar arc to thank for that, yay!! Not nearly enough though. *little tear* All the more reason to get back to working on Rem I guess. Also been checking out the updates over at Fallen Leaves. Jeez louis, it got busy over there while I was away! Currently the Ginta/Kakashi arc is pwning my soul. Ow.


Plans this week: 


1. Finish my trip log, then throw my camera in a lake so I'm never possessed to take so many pictures again.

2. Update Reminiscence and/or start new  yumikka fic

3. Goodbye visits to my NY buddies

4. Finish packing my crap.

5. Catecism

6. Avoid ulcers

Wish me luck.
 
 
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Lobita
19 June 2009 @ 08:45 pm

Still uploading pics. Never go on vacation and take 6GB worth of photos, it's tiresome to organize. >.> In the meantime, have some memes!! 8DD


Interest Meme:
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

Interests . . . )
Interview Meme:


1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You post the answers & questions on your journal.
4. You include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else.
5. Add meme perpetuation line, etc.



Answers . . . )

 

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Lobita
16 June 2009 @ 07:51 pm
I'M BACK!!!

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Pictures forthcoming. Lots of pictures. Lots, and lots, and lots, and lots . . .

*falls dead from jet lag*

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Lobita
25 May 2009 @ 12:00 am
Mi patria es una bella isla y Orocovis su corazón.
My home country is a beautiful isle and its heart is Orocovis.

The first lines of my town's hymn. Orocovis is called "el corazón de Puerto Rico" -- the heart of Puerto Rico, because we are smack dab in the middle of the island, completely landlocked. The little red dot on the map below is Orocovis.


Orocovis is deep in the mountains, completely surrounded by them, and ruled by them. In Puerto Rico, mountain and Orocovis are practically synonymous. There's really nothing to Orocovis but mountains. We're so small that everyone goes to the same elementary school, the same middle school, and the same high school. We don't have malls, we down have movie theaters, we don't have parks of any kind. We have tiny tiny tiny boutiques downtown, but the nearest shopping center that can be called a mall is a two hour drive away. The nearest movie theater is and hour and half away. The nearest park of any kind is nearly three hours away. All the metropolitan areas and beaches are two hours away or more . . . Have we detected a pattern yet?

However, despite all its obvious flaws, I ask you to sit back and take a long look at that photo in my header. That's the view from my aunt's front yard. She has an even more amazing view from her backyard. All my aunts and uncles do; in fact, everybody in the town of Orocovis has those kinds of views. In Orocovis, we don't have much of anything, except a perfectly peaceful mountain paradise. Though Orocovis' views are great all around, they are best from the highest point in town. From the tops of those mountains, if you look to the north you can see the San Juan -- our capital city, and the blue blue blue of the Atlantic ocean. If you look to the south, you can see the white sandy beaches hugging the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea. With views like that, no one really minds the glaring absence of metropolitan commodities.

Orocovis has many small town oddities, but it is truly amazing to witness exactly how little of a house has to be on solid earth for it to be a functional living space. I say this because many many many houses all over Orocovis are build with literally no more than five feet beyond the threshold on solid ground, while the rest of the house is supported on two pillars at each back corner that shoot all the way down a mountain side before disappearing into an outcropping. One of my aunt's houses is just like this. When I was seven and stupid, I used to be afraid of it. I thought that if anyone walked into the back part of the house, it would tip over and roll down the mountain. ^.^;;

But I have to admit that my favorite thing about Orocovis is how the stillness of its daylight hours becomes a joyful cacophony at night. All over the island, Puerto Rico's national symbol, the little tree frog we call Coquí, thrives and fills the nights with its song. However, Orocovis' isolation, allows their nocturnal chant to be heard in its full glory, unlike more heavily urbanized areas of the island where the Coquí have very little vegetation to inhabit.

A Coquí is called such because this is the sound it makes: ko-quee. Old legends of the Taíno people, the island's indigenous people, say that there was once a tribal prince, named Coquí, who liked to wander deep in the mountain forests. One day, he came across a goddess disguised in human form. Here the legend splits into three tellings. The first is that the goddess had a grudge against Prince Coquí's family. Another says that Coquí insulted the goddess. Still another says that the goddess fell in love with Coquí at first sight, but he rejected her. Whatever the case, the result was the same. The goddess was enraged and as punishment, she turned Coquí into a tiny tree frog, and cursed him to forever utter his name by night so that the world could never forget his grave crime. And so to this day, the night in Puerto Rico is filled with the song of the Coquí . . .

Cute legend, for a cute frog. These guys are tiny, and I mean tiny. The average Coquí is no bigger than a thumbnail. Yep, that small. BUT, loud as all heck. The last thing you want, is for one to be perched on your windowsill singing all night, because the little guy will be loud enough to give you a throbbing earache. I'm so not exaggerating.

Here's a Coquí perched on an Amapola, Puerto Rico's national flower. For the record, an Amapola is about three inches in diameter. So yea, that Coquí is tiny tiny. xD




Well, I'm packed and ready to go. My flight is early in the morning, so I should be on Puerto Rican soil around noon time. I'm signing out until June 16, so I hope everyone on my f-list has a great summer till then. Expect great pics when I get back!! Stay safe and stay cool, and wear sunblock everybody. TOODLES!! \(^o^)/

~Minumi out~
 
 
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Lobita
21 May 2009 @ 11:12 am
New layout with a little peek at Orocovis, my hometown in PR; took this at sunset from my grandmother's porch.

5 days.

5 days!

5 DAYS!

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Lobita


My muse! It has finally stopped being a BITCH!!! *skips around daintily*

 
 
Lobita
18 May 2009 @ 02:26 pm

That's an old saying meaning "to go in more circles than a snail".  These things never make much sense when translated, but basically its referring to the circular pattern of a snail's shell, and is used when someone is constantly moving running around about while doing something. Anyway, the purpose of all this dribble is becuase of a LAYOUT UPDATE!! ^_~

This is a pic I took after the a rainstorm. I went out into my Aunt's garden and there were snails eeeeeeeverywhere. I know they're supposed to be pests, but they're also hella cute. I managed to grab this little portrait of one trying to get away from my camera's annoying flash. Good for me they are slow buggers.

Well, today has been a day of unpacking and repacking, as I have to put away the things I had in Philly, while packing from there what I need to take with me to Puert Rico. Puerto Rico countdown is at 7 days. Wooooo!!!  Stayed tuned for my last two pics; they're gonna be of my hometown in PR, and I promise they are the prettiest ones yet. ^o^

Which reminds me . . . I AM HOME!!!  8DDDD I'm back in beautiful NY!! WOOOOO!! xDDD

And it was a hell of a trip to get here. My mother and friend got to Philly around 9am. We spent the next hour finishing up the packing of my impossible amount of things. I swear, that room of mine was like some kind of warped dimensional space, because it seriously should have been impossible that so many friggin things fit in there. They didn't fit in the car, even though Mami's friend brought her SUV. So of course I left a myriad of odds and ends behind, mostly thing's like storage drawers, and food, also I left a vacuum to my roomies.

We shoved everything else we could into the SUV, and by the end of it there was only about 4 inches of clearence between my junk and the top of the car. I was sitting in the back seat, with about two feet of space, none of which included any floor space, to squish myself into. Thank bob I'm skinny and flexible, that's all I gotta say.

So we took off, and its a two and half hour drive under perfect non-traffic conditions. Of course there's traffic though, there's always traffic, so it was closer to three and something hour drive. Well everything went pretty uneventful until we got to the Palisades parkway, which always has traffic jams like crazy due to accidents. Which we almost got into . . .

The car in front of us, for reasons unknown, hit the brakes suddenly, so Mami's friend had to slam the breaks to avoid crashing into the the guy. Well, we didn't crash, but all of the things in the back that were piled higher than the back of the carseat and not tied down came sliding forward and avalanched all on top of me. Lemme take a moment to say that cookware, among other things is very hard and heavy. Ow. I was sitting with my head resting directly on the headrest of the backseat, so everything either slid over that or hit it then slid around, saving me from an almost assured conscussion.

After that, we hit a nice fat jam on the Palisades. Why? As I said, Palisades is infamous for its accidents. What was this jam causing accident? A car that up and flipped over. Yep, pretty bad. Hopefully whoever was in there survived. Well, after we passed the accident zone, things cleared up and we were home free without further incident.

Still have lots a packing/unpacking to do, so I'm shoving off. Have a fun day F-list, err . . . what's left of it. ^.^;;
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Lobita
17 May 2009 @ 03:31 am

You know the song!!  Dun, dun, dun nuh nuh nuh! Dun, dun, dun nuh nuh nuh!! 

WOOOOO!!! In T-minus 9 hours!!!! I shaaaaaaaall be hoooooome in . . . NEW YORK!!!

START SPREADING THE NEEEEEEEEEEEWS!!! I'M LEAVING TODAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!! WOOOOOOO!!

Next time I update, it shall be from . . . NEW YORK!!

In case I haven't typed it out enough times. (NEW YORK!! x333)

Ciao mis amores!! Until we meet again! (In NEW YORK!!! . . . kay, I'll stop now . . . xDDD)

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Lobita
So LAYOUT CHANGE!! Again!! 

This time it features once of our national symbols, the Flamboyán-- a tree, which I'm sure you've noticed, has very very flamboyant blossoms.  They grow all over the island and are an absolute beauty that you can see dotting the mountains with its distinctly colored flowers. This one is just beginning to flower, when in full bloom, Flamboyán look like giant red umbrellas. Truly stunning. There's also a few much rarer mutant varities that sometimes pop up. That are yellow Flamboyán, and even rarer, so rare I've never seen with my own two eyes, blue Flamboyán.

So today is my last day in Philly!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!! Tomorrow I leave for NY with all my stuff . . . I have no idea how any of this is going to fit in the car, but we'll figure it out, plus duck tape and rope solve any moving dilemma. >.>  ANYWAY, HOME! I'll be there soon. In the meantime . . . I'ma die packing . . . right. 8Db

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