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This was probably written when I was twelve and my sister was seven or eight.

To: The Tooth Fairy
From: [Sister] and [Me]

Hello. Sorry I have no business for you anymore, but my little brother is growing a whole mouth of teeth. I expect that you'll have another customer in about five or six years. :D

- [Me]
P.S. Sorry about the handwriting.

Hello! My older sister has no more baby teeth so I let her write to you too. Santa Claus told me sometime last year about talking to The Tooth Fairy Convention. If you're allowed to, please tell me something about it. Thank you! I have to go to sleep soon. Would you also please tell the rest of the tooth fairies that I admire what you all do for children? Thank you very much. I have one last question. Do tooth fairies come from different religions and cultures just like us humans? Well, good by and good night!

- [Sister] (arrow to turn the page)

P.S: Please tell me your name.

P.P.S: Where do have meetings and things like that?

P.P.P.S: How do you know when somebody loses a tooth? Do you fly around the whole world every single night checking every single house?

P.P.P.P.S: Thank you for everything!

P.P.P.P.P.S: This is the last one. I gave you a pencil and paper so you could answer my questions.

I think to some degree my sister already knew ~the truth~ but she was like, IF it's real, THEN I WANT TO KNOW!!! ♥

( 50/50/50 )

SEE ABOVE

I meant to post this like a week ago but uh I didn't. Also I'm trying to do this on my phone lol there's some stuff that's tedious to add so please anticipate a shit ton of vacous edits later~

I liked these things:

Dancing Queen audition

Kang Minkyung (Davichi)
타타타 (Ta Ta Ta) I really like this
사랑 사랑 사랑 (Love Love Love) this was surprising and really so good (w/ the interview at the beginning)

Ali
얄미운 사람 (Hateful Person) she is a great performer, whoa. also 'hateful' is not the exact word but it's hard to translate according to my mom lol
새벽비 (Early Rain) when she performs it really feels like she's doing exactly what she was born to do. great great voice, great confidence, great everything
킬리민자로의 표범 (Kilimanjaro Leopard)

Hyorin (Sistar)
edit: 비 내리는 영동교 (Rain on Youngdong Bridge) this is more or less a straight cover, but it's different from both what we've heard from her and what we've seen on the show in general, and she sounds really lovely [edit: my mom said it was the name of a bridge lol]
edit: 마음이 고와여지 (The Heart Must Be Good Too?)

I haven't watched IMS2 since Jonghyun left (my attention span is super short and I am biased as fuck) so the only thing I'd watched of the show since then was 2PM's Junsu's Wait a Minute and Sistar's Hyorin's Miniskirt, both of which I liked a lot. I feel like the women really make this show. Also the contestants have really been scaled up. The very first set were are pretty young and were all definitely idols. The batch on the latest episodes have generally been older, soloists, and just a lot more mature and experienced. It's great to watch. (I think the hosts have gotten more annoying though. I hate when they edit cuts of them saying stupid obnoxious shit in the middle of a performance with the laugh track and everything. :|) It's made me realize how fun it is when the competition is really good, like when the skill level is comparable so what really makes a difference is the energy and emotion and creativity.

They really gave up on the 'proving idols can sing' concept, right? Because the idols they do have on are not quite uhhh the logical choices. It's kind of a waste because idols are so controlled and you don't get to see them making a lot of creative decisions. And I think being in a pool with people a lot better can be helpful and inspiring, as long as it's not hopelessly overwhelming.

And um everything is SHINee: omg I'm really nervous for Taemin. The current cast outclasses him, and the majority of all idols, by so much. He's going to look sf hapless just like all the reaction shots they keep putting in of Infinite's Woohyun looking worried and/or dumbfounded all the time lol.

The other thing that's really nice about the show is that you can hear that these older songs are actually very well-written. LOL backhanded compliment~? idk I get headaches when I listen to some of the originals because they just sound sf dated lol and the instrumentals are too loud and it's annoying. But these clean good interpretations are legit refreshing. They're good songs!

( blah blah )

I feel like I'm going to burst if I don't say this somewhere, lol. That recent Candy Magazine SHINee ~interview~, the one where they all praise Onew and Key calls Minho is best friend, has no real source. NONE!

HERE IS MY MANIFESTO ON WHY THE INTERVIEW IS BULLSHIT

- there are no scans or news of the full interview.
- the only results for it ("shinee candy magazine") on Google are from tumblr or places that seem to have directly copy+pasted it, as in the same exact excerpt with the same exact translation (ex: asianfanfics); none of the links date further back than two days ago
- there's this mention here but uh the official site for Candy Magazine has no mention of such an interview
- and logistically, I don't know when they would've had an opportunity to have an interview with a Philippino magazine lately?
- or why some random fan board would have gotten access to a preview like that, when the official magazine itself has no promotions for the interview.

content wise:
SHINee themselves sound really open and cohesive in it. The interview is really really smooth. lol I just think it's pretty darn suspect. It sounds like such wishful fic thinking -- all their answers are very neat, and Key's answer is just SO ODD -- like, I think it's unlikely that he would've met Minho first out of SHINee when Key entered SM in 2005, the same year as Taemin and Jonghyun, and Minho came a year later in 2006. And jongkey were definitely friends predebut. (It's not like I don't think minkey can be close, because they've really come a long way this year; I just don't think Key would be so openly dismissive of the others for any one of them, not even for Jonghyun, and particularly not for Minho. Also, personally, I don't think Key is the type of person who associates knowing someone for a long time with being close to them.)

The Onew stuff is also really wish fulfillment-y to me. It sounds like straight rehashes of what Jonghyun said in the kindest member radio clip and the things 2min have said about Onew, ~enhanced~ with more details. I mean, I guess that's why it was "believeable"; everyone's basically heard these things before and everyone WANTS to hear these things too. (Conspiracy theory: Especially since Onew has not been uhhh the most... visibly... good leader all throughout their time in Japan. There was a solid two months (I'd say mid-June to mid-August) where he was completely out of sync with them and made zero effort in any interview or interaction. He's been better now that they're coming back to Korea more, and that's made people more hopeful, but then he didn't have a birthday fan meet where fans could read about SHINee giving him attention for his special day. idk, you could read this fake interview as an attempt to remind/reassure fandom that Onew is still an important and valuable part of the group. And since SHINee aren't saying it on their own, fans have taken the initiative to say it for them!!! They probably mean it anyway, right?!!? ugh.*)

There's a chance it could be legit ofc & if anyone has a scan or something I'd love to see it so I can squirrel it away in my obsessive database~. But uhhhmmm otherwise, it annoys me when false information is spread, even if it's a (relatively) harmless fantasy like this "interview" is.

THUS SPAKE ME. whewww okay lol tyfyt~

*I am annoyed because of the last few comments here that say IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S FAKE!!11. omg stopppp, this fandom is confusing enough without people deliberately pretending that fake quotes are just as valid as things people have actually said.

( a face on a lover with a fire in his heart )

My sister just pointed out that maybe Jonghyun should be romanized as Jonghyeon, just like in those old posts from when SHINee first debuted and no one knew the official English spelling!! noooooooooooooo!!! It's because his name has ㅕ in it (종현), like Taeyeon (태연) and Hyoyeon (효연). If it were Jonghyun with the "u", it would be ㅜ/ㅠ ("oo") like in Yunho (윤호)?? So, like... Jonghyoon (종휸)? LOL ;~; Maybe the rule is different when there's a consonant (ㅇ doesn't really count; it's like an empty placeholder sound), because Seohyun (서현) and like, ramyun (라면) are also spelled with "u" ("hyun"/"myun"). Plus sometimes ㅜ/ㅠ will be written as "oo" instead of "u" like in Yoona (윤아) even though I guess it should technically be Yun-ah? (As a sidenote, 'Kim Yuna' should seriously be spelled Yeon-ah (연아).) But Onew (온유) isn't spelled Onyu or Onyoo. omg romanization rules are so confusing. Maybe for names, they just go by aesthetics. That seems to be the most logical answer, lol.

Okay while I have the language bar set to Korean~ girl!Onew's name is not really Eunsook (은숙), it should be Onsook (온숙) because they kept the first part of all their first names, or a close approximation in Key's case. Similarly, Junghee (정희) should be Jonghee (종희). The other three names are correct though. (~quick proof of the Korean spelling~)

Now I'm googling Korean romanization rules. Such wonders and progress I make in my life! ?__?

I'm really hungry & dizzy but there's company downstairs and I can't deal with feeling fug and incompetent right now. This is some straight up middle school bullshit. I'm mad at myself for being this way but that adds to the general feeling of not wanting anyone to look at me. I'm gonna drink water out of the sink and play Angry Birds until they leave. goodplan.exe

And how!

Vague, incomplete thoughts: We're middle class now but when I was little we weren't well off. Both my parents were in school at the time, and, though I didn't know it then, my dad had a gambling problem so eurrhh that wasn't great. We had a LOT of help from my grandmother on my mom's side. I didn't know we weren't well off until kids at school told me though, lol. My mom was and still is very good at being thrifty and saving money, and it's not like we ever went hungry, but if you grow up without much money, I think that will stay with you for a long time. There's an ingrained sense for me of "oh god that costs too much," and like an instinctive evaluation to not spend money if I don't have to (like, 'if I can live without it, I don't need to buy it').

When we moved to this house and started being financially secure I was super amazed by grocery shopping, because before when my sister or I wanted something like a cereal that wasn't on sale or gum, my mom would usually say no, but now all of that was up for consideration. It felt like huge generosity then. But now I really realize how difficult and sad it must have been for my mom to say no all those times. Julian had his taekwondo belt promotion today and he did everything well except for the board breaking. (Actually I'm kind of pissed at the instructors because when he went to his lesson yesterday and showed him the kick he was going to use and they were like you're fine. And today he did it the exact same way but they kept correcting him and anyway he ended up having to use a different kick and it took him a long time to break the board.) He was a little down about it so I took him to his favorite frozen yogurt place (he doesn't like ice cream lol just frozen yogurt). It made me think about how frustrating it must be to not be able to cheer up your kids, or to celebrate with them, in just a simple way, to not be able to afford both the time and money to drive somewhere and buy them a treat they like. I mean, it's not materialism; people want to do right for the ones they love. Parents and other caretakers want to be able to give their kids nice things, to do good things for them and give them the joy they deserve, feed them good food, buy them things they really enjoy, help them share in the collective culture of the other kids their age, give them experiences they'll remember and things that will help them grow. It's a privilege to be able to do so though.

I know that I'm privileged, especially ~in this economy~, and I try to recognize that and appreciate what that means relative to people who, like, don't have the luxury to um sit around and think about obvious things lol. idk, I always need to spell out this stuff really explicitly for myself.

I like pie. Yummy, delicious, scrumptious, exhilaratingly sensational pie.

Dumbbells are weights.

Cherry donuts are not the good donuts to eat when you are the savior of the world.

Happy April Fools Day!

The end.

... of the beginning. zzzz

(Bonus~ When I asked him to help me out with my nablopomo entry: "On livejournal they ban you if you don't post everyday?!")

Here is a picture that my brother took of our cat.

Last day of strange middle of the month vacation!

We went to a family friend's house and JJB made them duct tape wallets.

me: Ooh you got a custom order.
JJB: Yes, and it's from an ahjussi, too.
me: LOL
JJB: It's an honor.

JJB: (while making the wallet) It's very honorable to make a custom order for an ahjussi. It's like making one for royalty, it's like getting promoted.

I don't really "get" poetry but I like reading it lol. Actually I like reading poetry that's literally easy to read; I am legit super lazy and simple. Plus I don't think there is any inherent value in difficulty in art, in that I don't think being hard to understand makes things deeper or qualitatively better. I mean, it doesn't necessarily make it worse either; it's personal preference whether you enjoy it. For me, I like short poems that aren't too dense and that I can literally understand, or, failing that, just things I think are pretty. Anyway here are a bunch of my favorite poems.

( okay this got out of hand but i don't want to think about which ones to take out lol )

nablopomo is making me really feel how I don't have anything to say and how boring my life and I are. <semantic/syntax? I am not my life>

At Lake Tahoe now! When I turned on the laptop I got that blue screen of death and I had a fucking heart attack. After an hour I got everything up and now I'm backing everything onto my external hard drive. ,_____, Watching the Matrix with my mom and JJB. Chorong jumped onto the shelf above the TV and is sleeping. hohohohummm

This is a post about how I missed yesterday's post because I fell asleep at 10 PM.

I've been listening to Jimmy Eat World a lot lately. They are great to sing in the car. Futures and Clarity, both the albums and the eponymous title songs, are really good.

I had a shit morning, but the rest of the day was much better. Except I think the lawyer I'm "graphic designing" for (it's a brochure and I just move text boxes around lol) winked at me and it weirded me out. It wasn't flirtatious, it was, like, ~cute?? But still. NO WINKING!!!

Apropos nothing, a couple of weeks ago I found out that my DISASTROUS blind date from last summer is gay. I know this shouldn't make me feel better, but it does, because it is nice to have even the broadest of explanations for why that date was as godawful as it was. Like, seriously. The two people who set us up came with us and I didn't even know either of them well in the first place, let alone the dude ("Kyle" who studied accounting in Paris and now worked for someone called the Helicopter Plumber), and we sat in Starbucks for legit two hours until it closed and they talked about stocks and bonds and real estate and how to make money and they were all Republicans and the dude COMPLETELY ignored me and it was so boring. I found it funny after a little bit because I stopped being nervous; it was like "wow this is legitimately a TERRIBLE FUCKING DATE. and none of this is my fault! enjoy the free pastries, self." (The Starbucks people gave us their extra pastries because it was closing time lol. Most of them were dry and tasteless, but free food is free food.) Was the date done after Starbucks? NO, because there was still a CIGAR LOUNGE to go to. A CIGAR LOUNGE!!!!! What even is that thing?!!? Let me tell you: it's basically a room full of armchairs and white dudes smoking cigars. That's it! So we went and I was like o m g what is happening in my life. And one of the dudes showed me where ~Arnold Schwarzenegger~ himself kept his cigars for when he visited that particular establishment. And I sat there drinking water and looking fifteen years old while they drank beer and talked to this random weird guy who worked on a bunch of different oil rigs and I think the bartender lady took pity on me because when a customer came in with this tiny little dog she came over to us and let me hold it lol. And when it was time to go the people who set us up made the dude walk me to the car and we had an awkward side hug. THEN I DROVE HOME THINKING "I CAN'T BELIEVE I SPENT THE PAST THREE HOURS OF MY LIFE THAT WAY." Also it was kinda weird because all three of the people I was with were super tall, older looking white guys and I was NONE of those things, AT ALL.

PS, I seriously don't think "Kyle" spoke more than three sentences to me that entire date. This dude is still a complete mystery to me, I didn't learn shit about him. Why did he go to Paris? Paris, France even, not fakey Paris, Texas or whatever. He was such a bro, he looked like he sold cell phones at the mall. Why was he working with the Helicopter Plumber if he was studying to be an accountant? Why did he agree to go on a blind date? Why did he let that happen to us????

awwwwrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhh I did not adequately factor in how fucking tired I would be this month :c

OH ALSO this is my new icon! Icon full of Corgis!!

Amazing still it seems
I'll be 23
I won't always love what I'll never have
I won't always live in my regrets

You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here and now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end
The one thing that stays mine

I had a good day though; I was just thinking of this song. A new year!

Current Music: Jimmy Eat World - 23

S M F H all I do is write the same things over and over

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I got a letter from my dad today along with some birthday/guilt money. I haven't read it all yet. I'll do it later. The weather is getting brisk; the air was so chilled today. It's nice, it feels like winter is rolling fast over us.

I also bought a cheap flimsy summer dress and a pretty bag at TJ Maxx. I was nervous about the bag purchase but my mom said I bought it well so ~preen~. I need to have more confidence about my taste.

We're up to episode 12 on Merry Daegu. It is REALLY good. I was D: and ,___,ing everywhere. Julian is also really into it lol.

JJB was late to school today because our garage door didn't work! I tried opening it manually but I could only get it like three feet off the ground orz!! We spent a hectic half hour calling people and were about to walk to school (it's like 2 miles away) but his godmother showed up with her husband and he opened the door the rest of the way for us :3 I dropped JJB off at school and I should be zooming off to work but... Chorong is asleep on the bed... and it's so nice being in a quiet house with nothing to do (except leave lol) in the morning. ,___, (I have the luxury of being a lazy bitch bc I barely get paid. I would rather stay home than get paid though so it works out. ~never gonna survive in the real world~)

I like hearing what songs get stuck in JJB's head kekeke. The songs he sings get stuck in mine too so it's a trade off. He plays this game called Minecraft and I guess there are a bunch of Minecraft-themed parody songs on youtube and last month he sang them NON-STOP and it drove me crazy. I like when he adapts the lyrics to our cat though. "I throw my Chorong in the air sometimes, singing a-yooooo, Chorong's cuuuuute-o." He also sings along with me to change T-ara's Like the First Time from "cho choum chorom chorom chorom" etc to chorongchorongchorongchorong. Anyway today he was singing Ready or Not kekeke. It was super cute!

SHINee look so tired ,___, worries everywhere

Today I will write!! Or um play another six games of Chess Titans. Whichever works.

Okay I will go soon. :(

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