It's the big two zero, I'm not a teen anymore! Woot.

I don't need the extra stress right now. I've deleted Kyo's insane shouts and now I'm just gonna ignore the idiots...even though I was already doing that, but at least they are blocked now.

Furry Fiesta is still gonna be awkward though, working with that freak. >_>

Just seeing my grandma and hanging out. We're going to Mr. Gattis to! Haven't been there in ages. :D

I'll be back in Arlington sunday

Pretty much just been here playing WET all day on the 360. ( zementh bought it for me for Christmas cause he's awesome, it's a fun game!)

Don't really have any plans for tonight...

What you guys doing/gonna do?

See you all next year :3

Hooray!

I went to visit my family a few days ago back in Abilene, it was nice seeing my grandparents and aunts and cousins again, and I got a bit of christmas money to last me through the next rent check.

In other news my ear has been hurting really bad, my left one, I went to the doctor for it today and found out I have an ear infection. I got prescribed antibiotics and ear drops but the ear drops are out of stock at the pharmacy and I have to wait for them to come in. More Ibuprofen to stop the pain I guess until I get those! Hurts so much I can't sleep...

That aside, Happy Holidays everyone!!

In case no one read the last journal (No one commented on it anyway :/) I had an interview with Conn's. The interviewer shot me down within 5 minutes saying I wasn't persuasive enough, it's not like he gave me a chance to be since he said no so quickly.

And I STILL can't find my PSP. ;_;

Been the same old stuff everyday. I went and stayed over at  dhaiul's one night, watched TV and Movies and played Blazblue and stuff and that was fun.

Been applying to jobs like crazy still, I'm looking into working at a Waffle House and I have an interview at an electronic shop called Conn's Thursday, they were very satisfied with my background saying it was great! If I get accepted there I'll have a two week long training course to go to, and I'll get paid $7 an hour for it! Sweet.

As for bad news, I have NO idea where my PSP is....I hope it isn't lost or I may go crazy.

Other then that stuff nothing new on my end, I should have a commission from  peritian that  zementh wanted to get soon, so look forward to that.

Signing out.

Went to Pizza Hut cause they told me yesterday they could use someone to work inside the shop, and the head manager was there and told me they only need drivers, and I can't be a driver anymore. Back to fuckin' square one, goddamnit.

Yep, I got a car! :D

About damn time...

As for sorta bad news, I'm back at Pizza Hut to, doing not-delivery. Whatever that entails. But it's better then nothing!

Yeah yeah.

So I'm gonna get a haircut tomorrow too and going to even more places to try and get hired. Family is annoying btw.

For those who don't know I quit my job 2 months ago because of my car breaking down and being sold, can't really deliver pizza without a car. Well, ever since I've been looking for a job, and it's proving to be way too damn hard. I'm about to lose my sanity over this, everytime I go somewhere, everytime I place an application, it's always the same thing "We'll call you", but they never do. No one has ever called me, and I've put in well over 30 applications so far.

All my money has dried up, I have a dollar to my name, my grandmother and my roommate  chasektn are having to support me and I HATE IT, it's driving me even more insane. I feel like such a burden to everyone, but it doesn't matter what I do. I don't get called, my application is always overlooked no matter who it is, and no matter how many times I check back at a place or call THEM, they always say they are full or they aren't hiring anymore or to check back in a week or two, I CAN'T WAIT A WEEK OR TWO, I NEED MONEY NOW.

While I have no money my bank account is overdrafted, my credit card bill is piling up with a new penalty every month, I'm gonna be so in debt if a miracle doesn't happen soon.

I tried filing for unemployment benefits and that doesn't even look like it will work, because I had to quit instead of being terminated and all that. I feel like crying, I don't know what to do!

There are so many things I want to do, go visit zem, go to college, buy a couple games, but I can't do any of this until I get a damn job!

I'm never been this stressed before in my entire life, I can't even be happy anymore because I'm so worried about it, totally not like me at all. What am I going to do? If this keeps up I'm going to have to move back to Abilene or something and I don't want to do that! My whole life is here now.

God...if you exist now is the time to help.... T_T

This spoiled city boy here just made real non-microwaveable Mac N' Cheese dinner for the first time ever. I feel so accomplished.

Does anyone even read these? :P Taken from Zem.

001. Name → Areku.
002. Nickname(s) → Foxy
003. Status → Deeply in love and mated to  zementh
004. Zodiac sign → Aquarius
005. Male or female → Male
006. Elementary → I went there if that's what you mean
007: Middle School → Yeah
008. High School → Graduated
009. Smart → I have common sense that alot of people seem to lack, that's about it
010. Hair color → Dirty blonde
011. Long or short → Long
012. Loud or Quiet → Quiet
013. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans
014. Phone or Camera → Phone! As they have cameras anyway.
015. Health freak → Not really.
016. Drink or Smoke? → Neither
017. Do you have a crush on someone? Nada
018. Eating or Drinking → Drinks
019. Piercings → None
020. Tattoos → None

FIRSTS:

023. First Mate →  Mikaru0Takeshi
024. First best friend → Ryan in elementary school, dunno where he is now
025. First award → Perfect Attendence in school, that's about it
026. First crush → Some girl in kindergarten. This was before I realized how icky girls are. :P (I kid)
027. First pet → My dog Sam, died of old age when I was about 12.
028. First big vacation → Church group trip to Oklahoma
030. First big birthday → I dunno, I had lots of big birthdays growing up.

CURRENTLY:

049. Eating → Nothing
050. Drinking → Coke
052. I'm about to → Play Blazblue
053. Listening to →  zementh and  irkenechidna talking in an xbox party
054. Plans for today → Work on videos for my youtube

YOUR FUTURE:

058. Want kids? → I do want to adopt one day
059. Want to get married? → Perhaps
060. Careers – I don't know yet

WHICH IS BETTER WITH SAME SEX?
(edited this one cause I don't like the womanz)

068. Lips or eyes → Eyes
070. Shorter or taller? → Same size or shorter.
072. Romantic or spontaneous → Romantic
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → Stomach I would say, tummehs.
074. Sensitive or loud → Sensitive.
075. Hook-up or relationship → Definitely a relationship.
077. Troublemaker or hesitant → Hesitant.

HAVE YOU EVER:

080. Lost glasses/contacts → Don't wear glasses or contacts
081. Ran away from home → A few times actually
084. Broken someone's heart → Been broken but I think I've done okay so far
085. Been arrested → Nope
087. Cried when someone died → Yes

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

089. Yourself → Certainly.
090. Miracles → A little
091. Love at first sight → Yeah
092. Heaven → No
093. Santa Claus → As the spirit of Christmas, yes
094. Sex on the first date → Depends
095. Kiss on the first date → Depends

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

097. Is there one person you want to be with right now →  zementh
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → A little but I know I can do better
099. Do you believe in God → I don't know anymore
100. Post as 100 truths and tag people? Post yes, tag no.

Right....so, as some of you know I sold my car because it was a hunk of junk, wouldn't run at all and was broken beyond fixing. I sold it to these two people from craigslist who seemed really nice, it always starts that way doesn't it?

Well we write up a legal agreement and the sign it saying they can pay $60 now and the rest of the $150 price later. 3 weeks pass after this, I hear nothing, I email them several times, no response. I try calling them, they never answer.

Just when I'm about to file a police report, I get a certified letter in the mail. It says my car has been abandoned in front of a dental clinic. LOLWUT.

I laughed so hard when I read that letter, they must of been scared cause they couldn't afford to pay the rest. Oh humans.

Hope all of you have an awesome one <3

I'll be hanging with  pensive later and having a blast.

*******Thursday*******

I attempted to stay up all night so I could just sleep on the 6 or 7 hour car ride to the con, failed miserably and passed out at like 7 AM.

 imperiallion and  kurisu-kitsune showed up to get me at about 11:30, luckily I set my alarm to wake me up before then and I was set. I actually did get some sleep but had to resort to my PSP to entertain me for the last 3 hours of the ride. We arrived at the con about 6 PM or so IIRC.

Quickly ran into several people I know like  kadenshadows ,  flamedramon1 , and some others. I hung out for the rest of the day and had a good time, and I stayed in A-frame 6 with zephyr the fox cat.

*******Friday*******

Woke up early because IT WAS TOO DANG COLD TO SLEEP, and went on out. Attended Opening Ceremonies and all that, talked to the guest of honor  stephanielaloba and commissioned a piece from her (that you can see here) and played "Are you a Werewolf" that night. They also made Nachos!

 pensive and  donyates also showed up to join the party.

I stayed with my friend Clancy in a tent this night. Was actually warmer cause he had a nice wool blanket~

*******Saturday*******

Main highlight of today was going with all the fursuiters into town for lots of crazy fun!

Also there was the Predator and Prey game. I didn't get first place this year sadly but it was still fun anyway. They made Potato Soup in the Turkey Roost afterwards!

Charity Auction was also today, but I didn't buy anything.

Hung out with  threetails alot, very cool guy. Also ran into  melkiah today.

Stayed back in A-frame 6 this night, the cold weather pretty much completely vanished too and it stayed that way till Monday.

*******Sunday*******

Round 2 of Predator and Prey was today, basically just another game. Not sure why they did two but I didn't participate in this one, just followed  Corsi around, he was just hilarious, I recorded alot of his antics, will have to put up a video of it at some point.

There was Frito Chili Pie for Lunch, I had like 5 plates of it, I love fritos too much haha. Chili was great too. There was also the Variety show (only three acts this year >_>) and Closing Ceremonies.

We watched Hybrid at the con's "Bad Movie Night". I don't recommend it even for that! It's so incredibly boring, nothing really happens! XD

Threetails' and his mate Kobi's tent had some problems today so I got them a room in A-frame 4 and stayed with them.

*******Monday*******'

All good things must come to an end, and Oklacon did today. I didn't want to get out of bed but I finally did after like 30 minutes, then packed and showered and headed out to wait on Leo and Kuri to come get me, said goodbye to everyone and headed on home.

That's about it, overall I liked it this year. I hope to take  Zementh to this one day.

Hope to see some of you there, it's gonna be wild. I wonder if I'll be lucky enough to win the Predator and Prey game again...

I removed the art-related questions, cause I don't do art.

Where are you staying?
Probably in a tent with my friend clancy, though I was all over the place last year.

Who will you be with?
A whole lot of people like  pensive ,  imperiallion ,  kurisu-kitsune,  kadenshadows , and so on

What will you be doing?
Hanging out and talking and just having fun

What is your gender?
Male

How old are you?
19

Are you taken? Are you looking for a 'mate'?
By  Zementh , the best dragon in the world!

Can I touch you?
Sure. Just above the belt, kthx

Can I touch your friends?
Dumb question is dumb. >_> Ask them.

Can I talk about/do drugs in front of you?
Hate drugs, keep that crap away

Can I invite you out for food/fun/etc?
I suppose.

Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
Yeah

Can I talk to you?
I am a bit shy at first but please do talk to me and I'll open up

Taken from  tiger_sammy

GENERAL

*Are you a furry?
100% totally

*If you have a Spouse/SO - Is he/she a furry too?
I'm not married so I have no spouse, but my boyfriend zem is a dragon. :3

*How long have you been in the community?
I guess like 4 or 5 years technically, I think I've been one my whole life but didn't know the exact term for it till then.

*How did you find furry?
Frank Gembeck art, enough said.

*What's your reason for furry (what interested you to get into the community)?
I just love it!

*What's Furry to you?
Alot of things, like a bunch of people who identify themselves as an animal or dragonkin as well as a place to admire art.

*If someone found out you're a furry and asked you about it how would you respond?
Just a bunch of people who like anthropomorphic animals, and that most of the stuff you see in the media about us isn't true, like that stupid CSI episode.

*What are your favorite aspects of our community?
Art and all the nice people

*Do you use any furry terms? (i.e. yiff, paws, murr?)
Pretty often actually XD

*What do you wish furry was NOT associated with?
Zoophilia and Pedophiles and other gross stuff

*How strongly do you feel about someone bashing the community as a whole?
Most of those people are just trying to get a rise out of you, I ignore them

*How strongly do you feel about anyone bashing you yourself for your interest based on the media's aspect of what furry is?
I know the media is wrong so whatever

*We all know furries have a lot of sexual aspects in this fandom, What's your opinion on it?
EVERY fandom has a sexual aspect of it I think.

PERSONAL

*What is/are your fursona(s)?
Foxy

*Do you have any fetishes that pertain to the fandom?
Tails! Big time on tails. <3

*If you could magically morph into your fursona would you?
Most likely yes, being furry is a lifestyle to me.

*Do you believe you have a spirit animal?
Fox probably just like my fursona

*What other fanbases/groups are you a part of?
None really.

*Anthro/Feral, Therian or Kemonomimi (Not a furry, just a human with animal ears and a tail)?
Anthro

*Are you a fursuiter? If yes, how many do you own? If No, do you ever plan on being a suiter?
Don't have any suits but want one

*How many of your friends are furry?
90% I guess.

*How many pets do you own, if any?
None at the moment.

*Aside from furry what other interests do you have?
Video games and swimming

*Are you confident enough in yourself to say that you're a fur, no matter what the media says?
Yep. It's a way of life! Furry forever!

MEETUPS

*Do you attend any cons? If no, would you attend any cons? If yes, which cons have you been to?
Furry Fiesta and Oklacon

*Do you go to local meetups(bowling, public outings...etc)?
Several

*Have you ever attended a furry party? If no, would you attend one?
Been to furmeets and furry cons if that's what you mean

ONLINE

*Have you ever met up with a fur you talked to online?
About 50 of them

*What furry websites do you attend?
Fur Affinity and Lone Star Furs

*What non furry websites do you frequent?
Youtube, biohaze, gamefaqs, facebook

*Has the fandom done anything for you that you're thankful for?
Pretty much everything that is in my life right now from where I am living to all my friends.

Whyyyyy?!

*Random journal made out of boredness*

<There was a video here but I took it down. If you want to see it ask>

I love this place so much, it's the best apartment ever!

Me and the roommates are packing everything today for the move. We're moving to a new apartment because rent is going up on this dump we live in now, gotta go somewhere cheaper! Hopefully I can get a new job after the move and everything will be swell.

F5 if you can't see it.

Ain't it awesome?