So on December 30th, I went to see NEWS at Tokyo Dome and it was indeed the best concert of my freakin life!!!

First of all, I was ultra excited and it was gonna b good no matter what cuz itz NEWS!
the night before, I made an uchiwa that had P with a heart on one side and on the other side it said ``from U.S.A.``. So I really was hoping for a close seat so they could see that I came from America.

One thing that sucked was how long the merch line was! we waited 2 HOURS!!!!!! it was ridiculous!
But I got a tote bag and 2 clear files (a group one and one of just P ^^) and I got a lil something 4 u, Kels!!!!

So we waited and waded thru the HUGE crowd and finally got to our seats... on the arena FLOOR!!! REEEEEAAALLLY CLOSE TO THE RING STAGE RIM ON THE RIGHT!!!! I could hardly believe and and could NOT contain myself! lol

ok finally here are the most memorable parts of the concert for me:

The opening video was SOOOOOOOOOO cool! they were all running in suits and then it shows each of them one by one as kind of an intro. Ryo was cool and then he smiled and turned all dork! lol Koyama was cute. Shige was cute. Tegoshi was Tegoshi. lol! Massu was freakin adorable eating in his shot! and P was.... *sighs* SOOOOOOO HOT. and then they arrive at a house or something and there is a close shot of a ring box in P`s hand. he opens it and the picture fades to black. the big screen curtain thing on the main stage drops and you hear P say OMEDATOU. I screamed, involuntarily. lol and there is a giant diamond on the main stage that opens to reveal the 6 members. I scream again and they perform HAPPY BIRTHDAY adorably! lol
weeeek was really fun.
Hadashi no Cinderella Boy was awesome.
and SUMMERTIME was cute.

Tegoshi and Koyama walked by ^^ not seeing my uchiwa! >.<
their lil self intros were cute. Tegoshi had everyone yell `i love you` in like a mushy baby talk way ( I think it was `aichiteru`) lol and then said it back to us lol

everytime a member started coming by, my heart started beating REALLY fast and hard. It seriously felt like lava was being pumped through my heart. it burned. lol I thought I was gonna die a few times. lol I was WAY WAY WAY too excited.

next highlight for me was WHY!!! SOOOOOO HOT!!!!! I LOVE that song!
and then... BAMBINA!!!! equally hot! and the dance was awesome!!! I have been wanting to see that song performed since the first time I heard it!
I think they did Say Hello next and that was cute but a bit lackluster for me. Party Time was pretty good.
Shige`s solo is not very memorable...
and Tegoshi`s solo version of Ai no Matador was REALLY cheesey and dramatic and I didn`t like it very much...
but...
Massu`s solo was the next highlight I remember. MASSUPERMAN was soooooooooooooooooo freakin cute and cool! I think I like it even better than PUMPKIN! it was the same feel but cooler and even better choreography. and I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Massu`s hair! it wasn`t just short and black. it was like styled with gel too and just ultra cute!

I･ZA･NA･I･ZU･KI was GREAT! Shige`s `kuchizuke wo...` was awesome! lol
Taiyou no Namida, Kibou Yell, and Hoshi wo Mezashite was really fun with all the hand motions and stuff. YamaP was like ALWAYS on the other side of the ring stage or at the back stage!!!! >.<

but they sang FIESTA!!!! and the huge double decker bus moving platform stage things were moving around and the one P was on came by me at my favorite part! KYAA! I seriously freaked out too much at this concert! lol and I cannot help dancing when I hear FIESTA so I was hoping that they would see me dancing lol

they sang a their new song SHARE which they all wrote the music and lyrics and everything! it was a cute sweet song ^^

before the concert, I was telling my friend I went with `what if there is a special guest?` like on their last DVD, when Nino and Sho came. and P went to KAT-TUN`s con at Tokyo Dome this summer so maybe Jin will return the favor and come to support P right?
so during the MC, (which was HILARIOUS!) they were like `we have special guests! Matsumoto Jun and Ikuta!!!` I freaked out! and my friend and I laughed soooo hard cuz her mom is CRAZY about MatsuJun! like itz kinda scary! lol and Jun said he loved weeeek and wanted to sing it. so he did during the MC! lol and was pretty bad... his voice is so week! lol and he had to look at the CD pamphlet to read the lyrics!
I loved when Jun was like `hold on a second,` he grabs Ryo, `YOU TALK SOME! Say something!` lol and Toma and P hugged alot lol

AND HSJ CAME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND PERFORMED MAYONAKA NO SHADOW BOY AND DREAMS COME TRUE!!! AND CHINEN WALKED BY!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOO CUTE!

P did not talk much either but he did drink some Weider and that other veggie drink he does CMs for and was super cute. ^^ also they talked about RUSS-K stuff and they designed some shirts themselves. Tego`s has a skull and cross bones on it and they talked about how he always has that and rhinestones on. thatz his style lol even on his monitor headphone ear things, there was a rhinestone skull and crossbones lol


P and Koyama`s duet GINZA RHAPSODY was really cool. ^^

Ai Ai Gasa was soooooo cute! Massu was on my side and waved at us and he was ultra sweet and cute!
LOVE LOVE LOVED Mafuyu no Nagareboshi! ^^ and SNOW EXPRESS was awesome! ^^

FOREVER was sweet and P`s was sooooo HOT! even if he does say `RIB it forever`. it was even written that way on the screen lol

CHERISH and TEPPEN were fun with the hand motions.

AND KOYASHIGE DID MURALISUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOO CUTE AND SOOOOOO FUNNY!!!

next, P came out in a black suit with silver trim and sunglasses with a BOUQUET OF FLOWERS!!! I WANTED THEM SOOOOOOO BAD! Wonder what lucky girl got them... anyway, then he said `let`s party` and threw off his sunglasses and performed MOLA!!!!! soooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome! soooooooooooooo cool!!!

Ryo`s solo was ordinary and is was very sweet and good ^^

change the world, BEACH ANGEL, and STARDUST were so fun!
FLY AGAIN was good but they were on the center stage like the whole time and it was a lil boring.

I was sooooooooooooooo glad they did SMILE MAKER and Kirameki no Kanata E for the encore!!! and WEEEEK was funny cuz they were running around like crazy and MatsuJun and Toma were singing too. Neither of them knew the words! LOL

and the concert seemed to end quite abruptly... everyone was hoping for another encore but nope...

I like Massu and Shige ALOT more because of this concert. They both are really sweet and try to wave at like EVERYONE. When P came by, he was mostly looking the opposite way at the ppl high up in the stands >.<
Anyway, another highlight, when Shige was coming by, he was looking and waving and I saw him squint and read my uchiwa `from USA`!!!!!! >.< he just made a funny face and waved at us and moved on. lol and I think Tego read it too but w/e Tego. lol he did Daigo`s WISH pose more than once lol

I will prolly think of more things later but i was really glad i went and i know that at least MatsuJun and Toma and HSJ will be on the DVD ^^

-Raye

kyou wa getsuyoobi. (Tennessee ni)
ichiban daikirai hi desu ne...

atashi no kami no ke wa mendokusai... should I cut it short again? Ayu mitai hoshii lol

I cannot belive Christmas is coming up so fast!

This weekend, I'm going to the Bethlehem Market Place! yay! and I'm gonna video it so please look forward to that!!! It will be especially for my Japanese friends. I'm also gonna make a video of me telling the Christmas story in Japanese (reading from Luke in my bilingual Bible).

-Raye

sorry I haven't posted in a while!

work is killer! >.<

what's happened lately...?
well...

I finally got the ok from work to be off for 2 weeks!
so I'm going to Tokyo for New Year's!
I'm leaving Atlanta December 28th and returning January 11th! ^^

AND

my friend got us tickets to NEWS's Winter Diamond Party concert December 30th @ Tokyo Dome!!! yay! I can't wait!

I am excited about returning to my Japan! ^^

-Raye

P.S. Kels, I changed my layout! lol it was hard to read lol
and I wanna hang out again soon! ^^

I'm goin back to regular hours at work ('cept for workin 4 hrs on Sunday til we hire someone to work weekends) but my bosses are so vexing!!! I STILL don't know if they are gonna let me off to go to Tokyo for New Year's! ugh!

BUT...

this week...

WEDNESDAY is...
NEWS's new album COLOR is out!! ^^ w00t!
and my 21st b-day!!! ^^

and next Saturday, I'm goin out with my friends to Nashville to celebrate my birthday. ^^

-Raye

long time no see >.<

my laptop is retarded at the moment >.< anyone got a Windows XP Service Pack Disc 2 CD I can use to remedy that? lol

I REALLY wanna hang out with Kelsey (sp?) soon!!!!

this is my last full-time work week for a while... HIM (Health Information Management - i.e. my dept @ work) week too! ^^ so we get goodies all week, including free lunch from Panera Bread on Friday!!! w00t!

ugh and I am still a lil sick... but i think i'm getting better...

also, my mom got me a rice cooker! ^^ w00t! so i'm gonna go try to make onigiri lol and other cool rice stuff! I need a good bento box... i can't remember if I've seen somewhere u can buy em around here or if I'm just thinking about when I was in Japan. (should've got one when i was there... I'll def. get one if I go for New Year's ^^)

Eri's b-day and my birthday are this month! w00t! atashi wa 21 sai ni narimasu!

-Raye

HSM3 was pretty good.

so I almost walked out after Gabriella stood up out of the crowd and sing/yelled something like "TROOOOOOOYYYY! I BELIEVE IN YOU SO COME ON! WIN THE BASKETBALL GAME!!!"
but there was ALOT of good stuff in the rest of the movie! ^^

I went to WalMart and bought the soundtrack afterwards lol

my fav songs are "The Boys are Back" and "Scream" ^^ and "Just Wanna Be With You" is pretty good...

can anyone think of anything fun to do today?

-Raye

so... I went to that worship nite thing and it was pretty darn cool

but it went way longer than I thought it would *shrugs*

then Elissa didn't totally blow me off!
she and my brother and I watched Steel Magnolias! ^^

we also watched my recording of my brother's performance of "It Takes Two" (from Hairspray) in the Variety Show from Tuesday nite.
soooo good! ^^ proud big sis!!!
I'm gonna put it up on youtube soon! ^^

anyway, I dunno what I'm doin for my mom's b-day tomorrow cuz she doesn't know what she wants to do! lol all I know is she and I are going out to breakfast! ^^

watching Steel Magnolias REALLY makes me think of my mom ^^
I LOVE my mom! ^^
she doesn't look 49. she looks way younger. she's pretty and funny and dramatic (thatz where I get it from!) and she's many other things! ^^
ugh! forgot to wrap her present!!! >.<

tryin to DL ep. 2 of Ryuusei no Kizuna right now cuz everytime I try to watch a stream live, it doesn't work! >.<
RnK is soooooo good! ^^

and on a side note... I LOVE KAT-TUN so much! ^^
I am writing a fan letter to Jin Akanishi now lol (still haven't finished the one to YamaP lol)
but I kinda don't wanna send em til next month. cuz I'm gonna put my age and I wanna wait til I turn 21 next month lol
but the letter to Jin will be mostly in English w/ a bit of Japanese. and P's will be the total opposite.

grrr! so sleepy but I gotta wrap Mom's present and other crap and THEN go to bed!

prolly goin to see HSM3 at 9:30pm tomorrow!

HOLLA!

-Raye

Friday!!! w00t!

I work >.<

and then...

go to my friends house to eat yummy soup and cornbread w/ all our friends ^^

then...

go to Worship in the Boro night thingy at some church

but I just realized that that ends at like 8:30pm.

what am I gonna do after that?

Elissa was supposed to go see High school Musical 3 with me but then she backs out to spend time with her freakin boyfriend! (my brother)

so... who wants to go see High School Musical 3 w/ me...?

*cricket sound*

-Raye

I just got an email from Avex Star Search today! >.<
I applied like a week or so ago online and now they are saying I can come audition in NY next month! >.<
I hope they have another place I can audition that is closer to TN but if not, I am looking into actually flying up to NY to audition! >.<

*sighs* STRESSFUL!!!! >.<

I would prolly be like "letz do it!" hands-down but I gotta save money for returning to Japan! >.< *sighs*

demo... sugoku nai?

-Raye

HEROES is so awesome!
only like 2 things could make it better:
1 - SOME ANSWERS!!! >.<
and
2 - YamaP! ^^ (actually any Johnny's would be lovely but I think P could be the best suited to it. ^^)

ugh. ashita wa shigoto. >.<

Variety Show mo.

I wish I could get my computer to type in Japanese already! >.<

-Raye

Mon-Fri work 10am - 5:30

Monday - work and watch HEROES or go to brother's Variety Show at Siegel

Tuesday - work and go to Beyond (college small group) or brother's Variety Show

Wednesday - work and maybe help out with Youth small group

Thursday - work and watch new episodes of 30 Rock and The Office!! ^^

Friday - work and COMPLETELY OPEN to hang out! ^^

Saturday - Mom's b-day

Sunday - church



saikin atashi wa isogashii! >.<

-Raye

another reason to go to Tokyo for New Year's:
http://www.johnnys-net.jp/j/artists/hsj/consta/consta.html#hsj
thatz right, HSJ tour dates at Yokohama while I'm there!!! >.<
but I think I might feel a bit like an old lady if I went lol
but I wanna see my Chinen!!! ^^
if I caught Keito's signboard, I would send it to Kaori! lol cuz she is gonna totally marry him lol
but if I caught Chinen's or Yamada's or Yuto's or Yabu's... lol
esp. Chinen and Yamada - I would fight a lil 13 yr. old fangirl to the death for it!
just kidding. but I would def. not be joking if I caught something thrown by my absolute fav. future husband material Johnny's!
those are:
YamaP ^^
Jin
Kame
Nino
Sho
Ohno
Massu
Koyama
Shige

ok so i wouldn't let go of anything from NEWS or Arashi lol

-Raye

I made a video when we went to the drive-in last weekend.
like most of it is in Japanese cuz itz kind for my friend Eri and her mom (watashi no nihonjin Okaasan).

sry my Japanese is ATROCIOUS in it >.< for some reason, my mouth just didn't wanna say the words correctly >.<


-Raye

itz Thursday! (^ thatz what the subject says lol)

this week is going by rather quickly...

but I would totally call in "sick" to work today if we didn't have that meeting today >.<
I just feel really crappy and i don't wanna go! >.<

I cut my bangs last nite. the swoop was gettin in my way >.<
I'll try to post pic or vlog later... *shrugs*

onward ho!

-Raye

Hmm... I just found out Gackt has a new single coming out and itz called "Jesus".

I don't know what to think... I can't wait to hear/see some lyrics and music.
Itz been too long, my lovely Gackt.

But "Jesus"? what are you getting at with this single? and what do the cover pics mean?

And how are the Japanese people perceiving Jesus? and how will they perceive Jesus after this single comes out?

Right now I'm asking God what this means...

Work tomorrow... flu vaccine... meeting... I'll be up front covering the phone alot too >.< *sarcastic* yippee...

on the bright side, they finally had Death Note at Hastings!! so I rented it! (they didn't have it to buy...)
I've seen it before but only crappy quality online streaming lol

I <3 KAT-TUN more and more ^^ and I'm missing my L'Arc~en~Ciel (just watched em on Cartoon KAT-TUN lol)

-Raye

I am for serious quitting smoking now!
the memory of it is better than actually doing it! >.<

anyway, I just found out that Leah Dizon is preggers! and just got married lol
w/e for her cuz I didn't like her cuz she is skanky... but I hope she can be happy. *shrugs*

I gotta get up at like 5:30am and once again I am staying up too late >.<

and I'm really sore and tired cuz I haven't eaten alot these past 2 days and also I've been working out a bit and doing yoga and working on my flexability and junk lol I can go from standing back to the crab thing and back up to standing again! w00t! (u know like with your back to the floor and holding urself up w/ ur hands and feet). I even showed my dad last nite.
I am such a daddy's girl lol
but he's like one of my best friends!

I also made a new youtube Vlog yesterday.
LONG overdue.
but I kinda suck at Vlogs. lol

I've gotta change my hair soon. I dyed it blonde like 2 months ago, and 2 weeks ago, I went back to brown cuz i had roots BAD. and now I'm thinking about getting bangs again...
I wanna get a new cut next month for my b-day but what? *runs to look up Ayumi Hamasaki hairstyles* lol
my main goal is getting it to look REALLY good by the end of December so itz good for Christmas pics and attracting Johnny's incase I go to Tokyo for New Year's lol
speaking of that, I saw pics of the NEWS invitations for their new tour! I wanna go!!! >.< just gotta find out if I can get off work to go and if I can get a round-trip plane ticket for $1000 >.<

gosh I ramble!

g'nite

-Raye

today I worked and

I gave in and bought some blisses... but I only had one.

and I was gonna study my Japanese but I can't find a good place to study! you know what I mean?

anyway, now I'm at home.

and we're not watching HEROES all together (me and my peeps)
cuz April doesn't get back til 10pm and her hubby is celebrating his mom's b-day and my brother has dress rehearsal >.<

on the upside, I've almost got a full rough-draft of my fanletter to P lol

and I've been listening to alot more KAT-TUN and they are awesome ^^

tomorrow won't be so easy at work tho cuz (insert a bunch of crap that nobody cares about or understands) lol

and this Thursday we have a department meeting and I gotta get my flu shot >.<
yes, flu shot. no i'm not 50 yrs old or preggers lol the employee health nurse told me "if you breathe air in the hospital, you should get a flu shot" and since I do that every week day, I'm getting my flu shot! lol

I'm gonna go post on my mixi now... gotta think in Japanese lol

-Raye

I had a dream last nite with a long lost cousin (or sumthing) and drums and Hastings and Japanese ppl... and... smoking.
even (or especially) in my dreams, I wanna smoke! why is it so awesome!

So I'm not a "smoker". Like the most I've smoked is like 5 cigarettes in a day. and I didn't smoke every day either.

So I decided to stop cuz I'm a singer and itz kinda dumb to smoke and I won't smoke (or b able to) when I move to Osaka with J-House.

But I really miss it >.<
Like I'm thinking of, after work, going and buying one of those lil flavored cigarillo thingys (called Bliss and love the raspberry flavor but lately they only have green apple...)

also, HEROES comes on tonite!!! ^^ w00t!
and April comes home! (my best friend)
her husband and I are lost without her lol

anyway, gotta go get ready for work >.< (kill me now lol)

-Raye

I still FAIL at LJ lol

I should be in bed (what else is new) but I'll ramble anyway.

I wanna watch SCRAP TEACHER! >.< the first ep. came on Saturday morning but I was busy with our yard sale... that I only made $2.50 on! >.<
so I need to find somewhere to DL the 1st ep. from or wait til mysoju.com has it up >.< (I don't care if it has subtitles or not)
does anyone know if TVU still shows TBS and NTV (Ryusei no Kizuna starts this week! ^^)

today I freakin lolly-gagged around the house and missed church >.< ugh. I hate wasting time. and this lovely thing called the internet is sucking the life out of me! >.<

I gotta send out thank you notes to my supporters and finish my powerpoint thingy for my presentation.

I've been listening to more of KAT-TUN recently. and watching their skits from Shounen Club ^^ they have some freakin good music and they are so funny! why is Jin such a pretty girl? lol

ugh. work again tomorrow. I have to work (practically) full-time until like the 28th (or something) of this month when we get another part-timer.
then i'll only be working 4 hrs a day, Mon-Fri so I'll have more time to read and study and work on getting back to my beloved Japan ^^

I hope I can save up enuff money and ETO (Earned Time Off) to go to Tokyo for New Year's! >.<

next month (Nov. 19th) is my 21st b-day! i think the most exciting thing will be getting NEWS's new album "color" from Eri! ^^ I miss her and Okaasan! >.<

at least I have sushi for lunch tomorrow! ^^ (salmon & avacado rolls and salmon nigiri!!! ^^)

-Raye