ha ha oh wow

I think I may have bought a romance novel on my Kindle.

Um.

Oops.

I just wanted to read something with Jack Frost in it, and, well.  It's getting kind of...heavy, I guess.

This is awkward.

It didn't sound like a romance novel when I first looked at it!  But it was only $4, so I bought it after reading the (completely innocent) preview.  And then they start making out.  UH...

Also, it reads like fanfiction.  Maybe that's why I can't stop reading it?  Ahaha.  I'm much more tolerant of smutty fanfic than smutty published things.  This is kind of like both:  published fanfic.

Like Twilight!

Except Twilight is only good to laugh at.


I wish there were more ebooks about Jack Frost that weren't published fanfic.  Sigh.

What?

I have a very bad habit of being less and less candid with the more people I come across.  This is why I really should stop looking at my stats page so much, because then I wonder, "what can I do to make these people like me"

In the words of Special Agent Pendergast, it's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

It probably doesn't help at all that I am more paranoid than a normal person.  "What if they're only pretending to like me and think I'm an idiot oh god" is usually the feeling I get.

Anyway.

Today is my dad's 63rd birthday.  I'm going to make him some creme brulee as soon as Mom gets home with the heavy cream I need.

Fun fact:  my mom is 40 years older than me, and my dad is 44 years older than me.  This makes me believe that four is my family's lucky number.  (Which is pretty bad in Japan, what with 4 = death and all)  Also, we only have three people in the family, so maybe that's why I'm so lucky.

By the way, I had no idea where I was going with this post in the first place, other than hi, I have my first follower.  And Japan has found this.  うわ　恥ずかしい

ALSO APPARENTLY WE ARE GETTING SNOW TOMORROW??

New toys are awesome at being distracting

Oh my lord, I have been playing Brawl almost nonstop since last night.

With the exceptions of sleep and food.

I have played Brawl for at least nine hours.

That is nuts.

Mom suggested back when my Gamecube was new that I should get fingerless gloves to play my games in, because I have very bad sweaty palm syndrome (thanks, Dad) and it makes my controllers all disgusting unless I clean them after every session.  I'm thinking she's right.  I need to find some short fingerless gloves.

Sounds like a job for Sock Dreams (or just the internet) once they restock from Christmas.

Anyway, tonight I start catsitting for some family friends again, so I can get paid and buy more eBooks (oh crap, I'm obsessed) and things.  Like Gaia Cash and wigs.  Sigh.

I'm also very excited for the new issue of Shonen Jump, even though I have never been a subscriber to that (just Shojo Beat, which stopped being published and I got SJ as consolation) because the 5D's manga is in the process of getting translated.

Now I'm not as big a fan of the manga as the anime, but it's 5D's, and like I said before:  if it's 5D's, I want it.

Speaking of which, there were two YGO secrets on fandomsecrets today.  That made me very happy.  Even if one was angry and the other was "...well, am I the only one?"

No, person, you are not the only one who loves Divine.  He's awesome.

I should probably practice my hygiene and browse around some of those free eBook websites to see if I can get away with not paying for books I already physically own.  Okay, I'm kidding.  That sounds illegal.

Christmas (Part II)

First of all, I was going to post this yesterday, when it was actually still Christmas for me.

Merry Christmas.

(Source)

I got up early yesterday (for me, at least) and had French toast my dad made, then went and got ready before going back downstairs and opening presents.

I was definitely more excited for my parents to open their presents than I was about my own.  Which is saying something.  Dude, I didn't even try to snoop this year!  (Then again, I did notice a lot of FedEx-ing, so I knew many of them came from the internet.)

And now, presents:

I got a Kindle (what), Brawl (yes), Gunnerkrigg Court 1 & 2 (yes), new pajamas (YES), four chocolate oranges (yessss), those chocolate mints that I could eat until I die if they weren't quite so expensive (yessssss), and apparently Wheelie Breakers!  It's just not here yet.
Oh, and money.

I'm such a spoiled only child.

Mom was really surprised about the new camera.  As in, it was probably the last thing she ever expected.

Dad liked the Harry Potter movies; I can tell because we watched Order of the Phoenix after dinner and Skyping with Grandma.  He didn't exactly expect those, either.

I'm sad that Christmas is over.  I was so filled with the spirit thanks to Gaia (yeah, I know) and the Christmas event/forum's anonymous gifters that I got sad when Christmas Eve passed.

But it did make me determined to get all the items from my wishlist in time for me to accumulate enough gold to be an anonymous gifter next year, and the things from the cash shop (i.e. Premium Items, RIGs, and monthly letters) won't be a problem for me to get because I signed up for AutoCash.

If I don't like what's in the letters, I could either sell them and get more gold or save and gift them.

Now I just wonder what my nickname will be.

Anyway, I hope everyone had a nice Christmas (or holiday) and will have a happy new year.

Can you believe 2011 is in a week?  That's nuts.

As for me, maybe I'll post more between now and then, maybe I won't.  I'm still outlining my Firebird post (no pun intended) so it's organized and persuasive, but keep getting distracted by all my shiny new toys.

So yes.  Merry belated Christmas, and have a happy New Year. ♥

Christmas

That Crow/Aki post will have to wait a while, because I just have to say this somewhere, and I really doubt anyone I know reads this.

Unless they are secretly a ninja.

But that's beside the point.

Christmas presents.  I'm plotting with both of my parents about what to get for the other one, and I don't think they've caught on to each other yet.  If that was a confusing sentence, it means I'm conspiring with Dad about what to get Mom and vice versa.

And also Dad's birthday is on the 28th, so there's that too.

HERE'S MY PLAN:

For Dad:
Christmas:  Harry Potter DVDs, because he likes the series more than I do.  He hasn't seen 5 or 6, so I got those.
Birthday:  I think maybe I'll make creme brulee because he really likes it, but that would probably only be if he goes to work that day.  If he's thinking about it, I will just have to convince him, I imagine.

For Mom:
Christmas:  New digital camera, because she always complains about what a dinosaur the one she has is.  ("My camera is so fat compared to yours /sadface")  The downside is that she will complain about having to learn new controls.  On the bright side, she will now be able to say she has the newest camera in the house.
However, Dad and I haven't decided on one yet.  She's used to a Kodak and I'm used to a Sony.  Dad threw a Consumer Reports at me yesterday to do research, but it doesn't tell me all of what I want to know.  Last I checked, Mom doesn't need 3D pictures or HD video.  Just a camera that takes good pictures with flash, because she's one of those people who don't realize flash is better at making you look terrible.

And then for a friend of mine, I'm going to knit a scarf.  I don't know how much of a scarf person they are, but I'm in an I REALLY LIKE KNITTING phase, so it just makes sense to me.  I was going to get them a YGO card they wanted, but shipping from Hong Kong isn't all that speedy so it'd get here late.  Whoops.

Come at me, bro!

Holy crap, now there are people in China finding this.  This is weird; I need to stop checking my stats page.

Anyway, today I will be babbling about ships!  If you didn't expect to hear about ships in a blog called Nerd Locket then I don't understand your train of thought.

The fandom:  Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
The topic:  Faithshipping (YuAki | Yuusei/Aki)

Now before any Faithshippers get all OMG AREN'T THEY SOUL MATES?? - no.  No they are not.

This couple bugs me irrationally.  Everyone thinks it's the healthiest relationship evar because Yuusei doesn't use mind games like Divine did.  But it's not.  It's really not.

Maybe it's just me - I wouldn't want to be in a relationship like that.  I'll admit, something like Divine and Aki, while very interesting to me, wouldn't be very good either.  Stockholm Syndrome and mind games and all that.  That's really not good (understatement).  But, Yuusei and Aki aren't a load better, and I will tell you why I think that.

Interestingly enough, I actually liked this pair during the Fortune Cup arc, where it was sadistic as all get-out.

You know, back when she hated him.  (Source)

This may have something to do with an RP I was in as Aki and I had a fantastic Yuusei to play off of.

Back then, I thought Divine was the creepiest creeper to have ever creeped, and then I got one in the RP to play with and I started loving the hell out of him.  But that's not the point.  However, the Fortune Cup part is relevant.

Back when Yuusei was trying to break through to Aki's heart, she was resisting with all her might until it actually happened, sparkly dragon hugs etc.etc. mask shatters.  That was when she started realizing that Divine was a gigantic asshole.  So she turned to Yuusei for guidance!  After some battle therapy, anyway.

Doesn't sound too bad, yeah?  Well...

That was when she put Yuusei on a pedestal.  Divine had been her savior, and after he was gone, Yuusei took up the position.

Let me put that into perspective:  Divine was her Jesus.  Then he fell through a building.  So Yuusei became her new Jesus.

He's a rebound.

She doesn't want him to think for her like Divine did, that's a step up - but she works so hard to get his approval.  To get noticed.

However, Yuusei is pretty much robosexual.  He doesn't care about relationships, just how to make his D-Wheel better faster stronger.  He wanted her as a friend, to get her out of that poisonous relationship with Divine (this is coming from someone who ships it), and see her happy.  Just like all the rest of his friends, he wants her to be happy and safe.  There's nothing special about it.

Aki has a canon crush on him, yes.  The animators like shoving the two of them next to each other whenever they possibly can get away with it.  I really don't understand how that latter one could be taken as OMG THEY'RE CANON.

They're just two people.  Standing next to each other.  How would you feel if you stood next to some random person and everyone thought you were together?

So no.  They are not canon.  Frames in the OP/ED aren't actually canon, they're made for fanservice.  If Yuusei and Aki are doing shippy things in the OP or ED animations, it's not a hint.  It's not proof.  It's fanservice, it's superficial, and it's just done to make you Faithshippers happy.  That's not to say there haven't been hints at things in the past (see: Carly sitting with the Dark Signers during CROSS GAME), but not every little thing is a hint at future plot.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

But you know, if I had to pick someone for Aki to get together with eventually, it'd be Crow.

(Source)

He's kind of exactly what she needs.

They're a lot alike, but they're also different enough for it to be interesting.  She has a lot of growing up to do emotionally, and he had to do that at an incredibly young age.  He has playful maturity.  She has timid insecurity.  As a Satellite kid, Crow sees everyone as pretty much equal - there is no reason for one person to be treated very differently just because of where they live, what their history is, or whatever.

He might seem like a dork, but he knows when to get serious to knock some sense into someone and when to be gentle and patient (raising a litter of pet orphans can do that).  She, on the other hand, is 16 and was mentally unstable for something like two years (or more, if you count the situations when she was 5).  So she acts kind of like a spoiled kid sometimes.

But it would work for the better.

Well, that and they're pretty damn adorable.  (Source)

...I sense a CrowAki post in the future.

As for the title of this post, I've noticed a lot of Faithshippers are of the rabid variety.  So come at me, bro.  I'm anticipating your arguments.

It's the most! wonderful tiiiiime~ of the yeeear♪

Yeah okay.

I'm still sad we're not going to California this year.

At least we get a tree for once!!

When I was thinking of things to put on my Christmas list (yeah, yeah, shut up), I remembered what Mom told me about when she went to buy my DS Lite a few years ago.  Maybe more than a few years ago, really, because I had it when I returned to my old hometown for the first time.

Anyway.

I asked for a white one, because I don't really like pink all too well, the crimson/black one wasn't out yet, and black would show my greasy fingerprints too much.  Somehow this made the dude assisting her assume I was a boy.

"Daughter?  ...Are you sure she doesn't want pink?"

"...Yes."

"......"

"She asked for white."

Next time that happens, I'm going to type:

"DEAR PERSON: NO I DO NOT WANT PINK JUST BECAUSE I AM FEMALE.  IT IS SEXIST OF YOU TO ASSUME SO.  GIRLS CAN LIKE OTHER COLORS."

or something of the like.


what was the point of this post

It's 3:13 am and I'm posting because I can

Nectar got here safely a little more than a week ago!  Yay.  It was a day of getting stuff for me, actually, considering earlier I had taken a trip to Ikea for the first time with Dad to get a new desk chair and Hetalia came in the mail, too.

I was so excited.  You have no idea.  I was giggling the whole way home and I almost ran.

It's so cute oh my god

I wanted fluff and that's exactly what I got.  Adorable, easy-to-translate fluff.  And it came with little laminated Rua and Bruno doodles by one of my favorite fanartists!

Is it bad that I want another one?  Really badly?  Because I think it might be.  Even though I was ridiculously upset when my music stand attacked it and put a tiny, pinhead-sized tear in the cover.  I'm pretty sure I swore at it.


In other news, I got summoned for jury duty on the 6th.  OH BOY, RESPONSIBILITY.  Which I'll probably only get a few hours of sleep before.  I know who's going to have to break out the makeup that day, at least.  Me.  Because when I don't get enough sleep, it shows.  And it really doesn't help that I have undereye circles all the time regardless, either.

Good night, or I won't shut up.

Hnnngh

I completely forgot that today was a holiday for the postal service.

This wouldn't be a huge deal if I wasn't dying to get my fanbook.


You know, it's funny - the other day I ordered the box of primers from Urban Decay, and I got it the day after the shipping notice sent.  Go figure!  Maybe it's because I live in Oregon and it came from California.

My breath caught when the package-box key fell out of my mailbox, haha.  Then I opened it and saw the UD box and went "....oh.  Well, cool!"

Everything started shipping all at once, I swear.  Urban Decay stuff, something I ordered from Borders.com...and Nectar shipped last week on the 3rd, but it has the same ETA as the others did so I'm saying same difference.

I bet that I get my Borders order and Nectar on the same day (TOMORROW PLEASE??) and I'll have to go hnnngh which one do I want to read first, conundrum.

It's almost like early Christmas, except I bought everything myself.  Ha.

Which reminds me, I still have a card from my birthday that acts as a Parent Coupon for one Wii game of my choosing.  Gotta say, I'm pretty torn between Brawl and Wheelie Breakers.  On one hand, Brawl is somewhat familiar (been playing SSB/M for years now), but on the other, Wheelie Breakers is 5D's, and if it's 5D's I want it.  I just don't know which one I want more.


In unrelated news, I heard an owl outside last night.  That's a new one.

Voting Day and other things

Disclaimer:  Political opinions are awesome.  Don't try to start a fight with me over this stuff because it won't accomplish anything.

Okay.

I'm a registered voter, first of all - Independent, actually - but for the past couple of weeks I've been getting flyer after flyer in the mail from the Republican party trying to get me and I just want to tell them "No fuck you I registered Independent for a reason leave me alone".

Hounding me is not the way to get me on your side.  At all.  It just pisses me off and makes me not like you.

Besides, I grew up Democrat with people really set in their ways.

I swear I must have voted for someone out of every party, except Constitution and Working Families.  Constitution party actually speaks of themselves as "God-fearing individuals," and even if I was a believer, I wouldn't want someone who fears God, I'd want someone who trusts Him.  (My nickname for Constitution Party is Crazy People)

I know for certain that I voted for Democrat, Independent, and Pacific Green candidates.  After I voted, I was just all "...lol how would these people work together  ¯\(°_o)/¯"

Well, here's hoping Oregon gets some good people.


In other news, a while ago I ordered a fanbook through a shopping service and it arrived at their office the day before yesterday, I paid it off yesterday, and as soon as I get the "we shipped it" notice I will freak out because oh my god first fanbook/doujin-thing ever and it's one of my favorite pairings that I never expected to have fanbooks made for.

Because it's het.

Yep.

It's actually where my Blogger name comes from (the Firebird alias, not Nerd Locket), because the English fandom's Ship List has it as "Firebirdshipping" and I just like the idea of firebirds.  It makes me think of phoenixes, the only birds I can draw decently one of my favorite fantasy creatures.

I feel stupid when I'm dancing ♪

I donated to TheUglyDance.com last night and I've been listening to the mp3s nonstop since.

I feel stupid when I'm dancin'
No I can't dance as cool as you
I just feel stupid when I'm dancin'
Like a psychopathic fool

It makes me dance like an idiot but feel okay about it.  Dancing in public?  Not if my life depended on it.  I never even actively danced at school dances, I just stood around in my little group of friends and hung out and it was cooler because it was at night.  Clubbing Lite, I guess.  I'm not interested in going clubbing in the first place, really.

Where did that even come from?


I haven't gotten any sewing done on my Halloween costume, but I do have one pattern almost done.  I have less than 24 hours to do everything, and about nine of those will be me sleeping.  I'll give myself about an hour to do my makeup stuff and get dressed, so that brings it down to 14 hours.  Showering usually happens after the trick-or-treaters stop coming so I can get my makeup off without using up too much makeup remover.  (Usually I only use that stuff on my eyes and eyebrows because those are what I use waterproof stuff on.)

The glasses won't get done -

I ship it.

- because I don't have any supplies to make them.  But I do have the wig done, at least, and the necklace, so that mostly leaves the clothes themselves and the hat.

The hat shouldn't be too hard thanks to the bought pattern I have and just need to alter.  The skirt of the white part won't be very hard either, considering it's a long, gathered skirt and I've been doing those every year at least once since my first costume.  Skirts are the easiest things to make, ever.  Have long pieces of fabric?  Sew them together, hem, add a waistband, and you're done.

That collar will be a pain, though.  I'm not awesome at drafting collars.  I learned this with Reiko back in August.

On the bright side, bias tape shouldn't be too hard, right?

Eh, tutorials.

Let's get crackin'

What is that even supposed to mean

Halloween costume!

I found that witch hat pattern I already had last night, so now I get to alter it because it's (1) way too small for my head and (2) not quite the right shape.

As for the rest of the costume, I have maybe four yards of red cotton I have no use for anymore, so I'm going to mess with it and my dressform to make up the patterns.  Apparently I don't draft patterns, I wing it with extra fabric.  Well, whatever works, right?

After I get the clothes themselves patterned out, I get to learn how to applique.  Fun, fun.

Maybe I should stop talking and actually get to work?

YEEEEAH LET'S DO THIS THING

(Halloween's on Sunday)

Apparently I'm upset most of the time

Text analysis

nerdlocket.blogspot.com is probably written by a female somewhere between 13-17 years old. The writing style is personal and upset most of the time.

Nope, try again.

However, my tumblr is also 13-17, but happy most of the time.

Do I seriously still word things like a high schooler?  Derp.


Anyway, I got my Halloween costume fabric yesterday.  Sales are fantastic, I got some nice stuff for a total of what, $25?  And I saved $21.99.  Heck.  Yes.  I love Halloween.

Now hopefully I have enough to work with.  If I run out of the gold, I can always just get more at the JoAnn ten minutes away and know it'll match because oh hey it's Casa Collection.  The other two, I'm not so sure - the JoAnn nearby is about half the size as the one I went to yesterday, so if I run out of the Egyptian cotton, I might be screwed.  Ah well, that's the part that doesn't show as much.

I'm making the witch, not Cup Ramen Man.

I also get paid for catsitting today, yes.

I'm all over the place today, aren't I?

I want to go to MiniCon this weekend, but I don't know if I can or if I'll have my costume done in time.  MiniCon is on Saturday, so...three days.

Crap.

Sometimes, I just overthink things.

I'm getting moody again.  Maybe I'm overdue to cry or something, I don't know.

Last night, it finally hit me that this year won't be an extended family Christmas for the first time since I was like, five.  Granny's gone, Alton moved up to Seattle; there's really no reason for us to go to San Francisco anymore.

And it really sucks because I love San Francisco.  Dad'll miss it too, we think it might be because we were both born there (or around there, in my case - Walnut Creek).  Mom's from rural Montana, she doesn't get it.  I mean yeah, being around family I never really saw otherwise was awkward as all get-out, but it was fun, and now I don't know how Christmas is going to work this year.  Will we bring out the tree again?  Will we decorate?

I don't know.  Maybe I'm just so used to having 20 people around for the holidays that I can't even comprehend a three-person one.  Which is funny, because that's what we used to do before California Christmases.

And then thinking about Granny (who was really the person who kept saying "Come on, come down!") got me all pissed off again, because (this will sound really selfish) she wanted me to have all her bracelets and stuff, and right before the funeral they just kind of disappeared and those are rightfully mine, damn it, I want them because Granny wanted me to have them.  And then I get all sad again because even though we didn't see each other very often, I love my Granny and I always felt close to her anyway because our birthdays were four days apart and junk.

What really sucks is that her funeral was on her birthday this year.  And I didn't go because I just can't handle things like funerals or hospitals or old-people's homes because it just makes me hurt inside.


We have a rosebush in our backyard.  We call it Granny's rosebush even though she didn't give it to us or anything.  We got it from Dad's coworkers as a "we're sorry for your loss" gift.


oh crap too many feelings

And I'm better now!

Just as I thought, it was a one-day sickness.  Holy crap was I ever miserable, though - couldn't stand up without feeling like I just got stabbed in the back of the head.  For a while, I couldn't even look in some directions without feeling worse.

I ended up not eating until about 8pm, then I made macaroni at 10pm when my parents went to sleep.  The good news is, I was able to keep it down.

Anyway.

Apparently Gramma (Mom's mom) is coming over for Thanksgiving.  She lives in Montana.  Also, our house is still a mess because of all the work being done to make it better, like my room getting rearranged and getting rid of so much furniture that I don't have room for a lot of my stuff anymore, and Dad putting in new hardwood floors so we currently have no baseboards on the walls downstairs.

So Mom will be freaking out for a while about WHY ISN'T ANYTHING CLEAN faleifkjsdf because she vacuums the garage sometimes and thinks the house is a mess when it really isn't in the first place.  But this time, it actually is kind of a disaster.


Also I want to make this now, but I still have a ton of other costumes I've gotten fabric for already and derp.

And by "this" I mean Belgium.  (Source)

Why are all my favorite characters witches?  Is it just the type of character I like?

Hrm.

I feel sick

My stomach just gurgled like a starship.

So usually, when I wake up it's for one of two reasons - I either

• got enough sleep OR
• am hungry

Considering I only got four hours of sleep last night, I'll let you do the math on that one.

Apparently we were going to get flu shots today, but thanks to my stomach feeling like it needs to come out my throat for the first time since last December when we got some new windows, I'm not going.  If I so much as move in the wrong direction for even half a second, a fresh wave of nausea hits and I feel terrible.

Freaking crap, I still have to take care of the neighbor's cats.  Dammit, self, y u do dis.


edit a minute later  - yeah I'm sick.

Febreeze

The reason I have my profile set to say "A Bum" is because I still live with my parents.  I still live with my parents because I am terrified of living by myself for some reason.

I have a flameless luminary in my room.  I don't remember why I got it, really, because I constantly forget to change the shade and I never have it set to flicker like it does and when I do have it on I fall asleep immediately after so I can't watch it.

Last night, I got really bored.  I had gotten tired of the Cranberry-Pear shade that I'd had in there for over a month, because while it was a pretty color that matched my bedspread, the smell was so strong it had a habit of making my allergies act up to give me a headache behind my eyeballs.

So I changed the shade to Green Tea Citrus.

This morning, Mom came in and told me "the whole house smells like tea, why does everything smell like tea" so I pointed to the luminary while still half-asleep with my face smashed into the pillow.  She replies "I hate tea"

Repeat multiple times over the day, except without the "why does it smell like tea" part.  It's always the "Everything smells like tea/I hate tea."

I happen to like tea, Mom.  And it smells like those green tea lemongrass mints taste, which is delicious.

Thank you for letting me make your house smell like tea even though you hate it.  And letting me live here like a deadbeat.

Memories

This, my friends, is a story from my senior year in high school.

The year is 2008/2009, for reference.

I had this friend.  She was pretty cool; kind of annoying sometimes because I can't handle clingy people much, but she was there when it counted and could make me laugh all the time, so it was okay.  (She was also easily offended, so that resulted in a lot of "I'm not speaking to you until you apologize for [petty little thing]" and also getting kicked out of GSA pretty much for being intolerant of intolerance to a violent degree, i.e. "if they don't agree with me I really want to beat them up" which obviously made people uncomfortable)

Anyway.  When we were seniors, she decided to make an anime club.  I ended up being secretary halfway through the year because the one she'd ~hand picked~ stopped coming.

One time, she decided to cosplay during school to promote the club.

For an entire week.

Yes, one week, cosplaying every day.

She only had about three or four school-appropriate costumes, and she had a group of three people.  (I was not one of them.  The only days I would ever wear a costume to school was Halloween, you know, when they allowed costumes.)  This would have been (slightly more) okay if they'd...had cosplays of their own.

So basically, for a week, she and three other people dressed up in the same costumes in a rotation.

Yeah, you read that right.  They'd borrow each other's clothes and someone else would wear it the next day.


And that was when I started realizing that I had outgrown her.

The end.

Hi.

Well, as if I didn't have enough blogs already, here I am making another one.  Why do I always do this?

Anyway, hi.  I'm Firebird, or at least that's what I'm calling myself here.  It's pretty different from everywhere else and I don't even know why.  I probably would've gone with something like Belgium (or Belgique or België or something) but I'm not from Belgium and I don't speak French, Dutch, or German.

So why did I pick the name Nerd Locket?  It was just the first thing that came to mind.  Then I thought about it, and realized that this could be like a little virtual locket of my nerdery, because I am most definitely a nerd and I babble about being one a lot.

Back to the point:  I'm Firebird, this is my nerdery, and I like card games on motorcycles, personified countries, dressing up as fictional characters, doodling, and reading about Special Agent Pendergast.  I took Japanese classes for five or six years, but I've been slacking off so I'm worse at it now.  Nice to meet you.