So this is pretty much what happened (I know its a bit long ^^' I shortened it up from the original post though). But before I say that, I'll say my Step-dad was in the hospital before the gallbladder surgery, he just had a heart attack about 2 weeks before, and it was a really really bad one.

May 14, 2007-
Today my Dad had to go into surgery to get his gallbladder removed. The doctors believed thats what was causing his high fever and infections. By the time they removed it, it was completely dead, not that the gallbladder is actually an important organ.
May 15, 2007-
Today the doctors did an x-ray on him and discovered that there were infections all over his body. He had blood, lung, urine infections, among many other infections that had spread throughout his body. And to top it all off, he has diabetes which doesn't make anything better.

~May 16, 2007~
Today my Aunt and Uncle came to our house in the morning. They told me he didn't make it and had died a couple hours before.

He was only 50 years old, he wasn't even old enough to be a grandfather yet. He wasn't even old enough to retire from his job, get a new and bigger house like him and my mom wanted to, or to even see his daughter (who is graduating this upcoming week), and even me, graduate from college. There were so many things I never even got to say to him while he was alive, like call him dad for the first time. I always imagined that I would call him that when he was really old and on his deathbed, I figured it would be a nice last thing to hear from me. Well, I did call him dad at the funeral, and I held his hand...it was so cold...I remember visiting him the day before the operation and I finally held his hand then too, something I hadn't done in very many years, but it was warm then.

There are alot of things I regret...like fighting with him all the time. I guess that saying is true, "You don't realize how precious something is until you lose it." 'Cuz that's exactly true, don't take what you have for granted, 'cuz when its taken away from you it hurts more than anything in the world. It hurts knowing that there were so many things I could have told him, so many things that I wanted to prove to him that I could do, like becoming a successful artist...its just not fair...he was so young...*sighs* he left behind alot of people who love him and will miss him dearly.

So that's my story. I'm alot better now then I was before...but sometimes I'm in a state of disbelief, I look at pictures of him and I think to myself "he's not really dead is he?" Even though I know he is, I saw him at the funeral, and I saw the vase that was given to us after he was cremated, so he really is gone, but why do I keep thinking he isn't and this is just a really bad dream? v__v

I think its perfectly fine. It's not REAL child pornography people Now THAT I'm am completely and utterly against. Cartoon pictures though is just what it is, PICTURES nothing more, nothing less.

Look, I was exposed to Lolicon maybe around the age of 15 or 16 and I didn't even know it . I happened upon some Digimon Doujinshi's and hey..we all know the cast of Digimon and most of the characters are quite young ^^'. Generally when I first saw it all I really thought was that it was extremely adorable, cute and even somewhat innocent. Now, just as a side note, I'm an artist so maybe I see these things differently from what other people see, but I look at the art, not so much what's going on in it. I think alot of the art is drawn beautifully and its all very cute. Nowadays I'm not so much a fan, I have a hard time thinking of certain couples together in Naruto 'cuz they are all 12 year olds but I'm not against any art that depicts it that way, so thats pretty much why I voted yes. I do understand the people that voted no of course, I can see how they think its wrong. But for all that voted no, just keep in mind they are pictures, its not real child pornography, and I highly doubt its telling people to go out and rape children ^^'

Well I'm sure many people have already said what I'd want to say, so I'll just say that I completely agree with gay marriage. Anyone that disagree's with it is just narrow-minded and most likely homophobic. I'm not trying to be rude or anything to the people that disagree with it, but I've read about 2 pages into this thing and nothing I've read of the people who said it shouldn't be legalized makes much of any sense..that or they are spouting some religious crap about why gays shouldn't marry. PLEASE get your mind out from under that brick, think of another GOOD and plausible reason besides religion as to why Gays shouldn't marry!

Can't have kids? That's not entirely true. Lesbians can get sperm donors to let them have a child or adopt, and Gay men can adopt as well. Some of you may say you feel sorry for any child who is adopted by a gay couple, but if you ask the children of gay couples they'll say they were happy to be adopted (I've read several articles on this, and no I don't have any statistics to prove that they do, but when you think about it logically I'm sure they'd rather be with a family, whether it be with gays or lesbains as parents, then be stuck in an orphanage).

So any other good and logical reasons why Gays SHOULDN'T be allowed to marry? :3

Quote by ZippidydoodaaI know that con te partiro song! It's a really nice song, I understand why you'd want to hear it b4 you die :3. As for me maybe something by the red hot chilli peppers 'cuz I love them..but I'm not really sure..its kind of a hard decision to make oO

XD lol well something by Red Hot Chilli Peppers would be funny to have at a funeral haha but they do have some serious songs I suppose maybe some of the old one's ^^'

No not a big fan of Paris Hilton. For obvious said reasons all ready, she isn't a good role model, there is no reason to like her whatsoever ^^'

I'd also just like to note the comment Sarah Silverman made today at the MTV Movie Awards (Paris Hilton was in it too haha) ^^' So Sarah came on and made a comment that Paris would be going to jail soon and the crowd started cheering Then she said she doubts they are gonna be hard on her conviction, and they'll even make her feel better by painting the bars to look like Penis's (XD hey I'm really just quoting what she said :3) oh man that made me laugh so hard, then she just said she felt sorry for her and hoped she wouldn't break her teeth on the Penis bars (or something like that ). If you guys haven't seen a clip of her dissing Paris you totally need to :'D

Quote by KashinoI could only help you with getting mangas about girlxgirl love, cause I am a huge fan of yuri and I had some problems with finding more anime about it then you already mentioned. If it would be any help I can share my mangas with you ^^ it's a pretty big collecion

Hum yah that would be nice too! I love manga as well, I just have a hard time reading it online nowadays *I used to read manga online/on my computer like no other before I got my new computer* I really hate the Windows picture program viewer 'cuz u have to enlarge the picture EVERY time x__X..gah..and manga's usually consist of like nearly 200 pages, so that gets really annoying. My old picture viewer enlarged the pictures automatically for you and you'd just have to scroll up and down to read the manga pages..but I couldn't get it for this computer ;-; *le sad*
But anyway I can give 'em a try and see if I'll read any :3

Ahh I would help you out but unfortunatly atm I'm unable to take anymore requests *I've already got 10 on my plate ^^''* The only thing I'd be willing to be open to is commissions. Well if you want to take a look at my style and your still interested then you can check out my page here:

Click here for Kimiko-chan's page

Just pm me if ur interested :3

Oh god that show? I watched it and I guess in some ways it was funny but gawd..the amount of blood sprayed every where is a little excessive..@__@ if they make another season I'm kinda hoping it'll avoid the senseless killing and overused blood spraying @__@'''..

I recently posted 9 (out of 12, I never got to finish posting the rest of them) Togainu no Chi pictures, which *all* got deleted. For one, I would like to point out that the reason I decided to submit these pictures is because there aren't enough scans/walls from this game series and with more pictures available, the more chances of walls being made, which along with many other members including myself, would love to see.
Anyways, the reason for deletion is apparently "excessive artifacts" and I have to assume that means pixels and dust, or something of that sort? However none of the pictures should contain any of those seeing as they are actual pictures from the game, they could have quite possibly come from the original website in the beginning (though some sites delete their older pictures). You won't find these pictures anywhere else with better quality.
If links need to be provided, just say the word and I'll post them up on here (I believe the "read this first" post says not to add a link).
-Kristina/Kimiko

merged: 04-02-2007 ~ 04:20pm
Alright..so its been 5 days since I posted this and for some reason no one has commented on it yet > > so now I will have to assume you guys need links? I don't have the original links to the pictures so I guess I'll link them via a different site. Here's the 9 scans I posted:

-Togainu no Chi 1
-Togainu no Chi 2
-Togainu no Chi 3
-Togainu no Chi 4
-Togainu no Chi 5
-Togainu no Chi 6
-Togainu no Chi 7
-Togainu no Chi 8
-Togainu no Chi 9

I'm gonna have to check out some of these songs! I'm sure I've heard of a few, problably that one by Linking Park, Nickelback and Tupac *maybe* I'll look up the other few ppl have mentioned :3!

What about all you other people? Does anyone else know what song they'd listen to before they die?

Quote by Asahina-SanLike Shoujoboy said, I personally loved Strawberry Panic. It's about a girl who transferred to a Catholic School, aka Ichigosha. Nagisa, the protagonist met Shizuma, where she fainted because of her beauty.

Strawberry Panic. Do it.

XD lol alright, I will try to "do it" as best as I can haha..I already watched the first episode and it looks really cute, I love the animation <3 Too bad the girls got their kiss interrupted <3

Lol..ok so apparently the only yuri anime's out there are one's with light touches of yuri in it or one's that don't show yuri till the very end? If so that kind of sucks..what I really truly want to see is a girlxgirl love story from beginning to the end..not just the very last episode like Kannazuki no Miko ;-;

Thanks to the people who have suggested so far, unfortunatly I have already seen most of those suggestions (except for two :3) some of which I don't particularly count as real yuri ^^'. But thanks anyways, and keep them coming guys, I need more then 2 useful suggestions :3! There's gotta be more Yuri anime out there, right? @-@ I hope so anyway..lol.

Quote by HikariTokiRevolutionary Girl Utena (Shoujo Kakumei Utena) is REALLY good! The movie has more shoujo ai then the actual series, but you know love is there. Watch it and you wont' regret it ^_~

XD wow that's already 2 anime series I completely forgot about ^^' I've actually already seen Utena, both the series and the movie ^^' I'm sorry I forgot to mention it in my main comment I kinda forgot about it for a bit

Quote by shoujoboyWell Strawberry Panic will be on one end of the yuri spectrum in that it is just blantantly yuri, but you absolutely must see Maria-sama ga Miteru. It alludes to yuri in a classy way and is just an absolute joy to watch. I can't say enough about how great a show that is. Also another one is Kashimashi. I've seen about half of that and it is mildly entertaining but could prove to be better as you go on.

Those are my recommendations, and if you can't take the recommendations of a guy named "shoujoboy" then who can you?

I've actually already seen Maria-sama ga Miteru..and that just confused the hell out of me I mean I wasn't sure if it was Yuri or not..I was like..maybe they are just acting really close and sisterlly or something (of course there was that one girl that actually did like girls ^^'..I forgot her name by now)..it was a little on the boring side for me though. So I suppose I'm looking for something a bit more entertaining...^^'

And lol, don't worry, I don't really pay attention to user screen-names :3. And I'll take a look into that "Kashimashi" one you were talking about as well, thanks!
-Kimiko

1st and 2nd season should be available on DVD's I dunno about it being uncut...even if they were uncut I don't know if they'd include the missing episodes they never broadcasted on American tv. As far as the 5th season goes, Sailor Stars, you won't find that in english anywhere..it was unfortunatly never made *but its possibly the best season of them all in my opinion* due to the 3 Starlights and their gender bending transformations I suppose it was too much for the American eye *sweatdrops*..I was..luckily able to find a torrent of the complete Sailormoon series all 200, 5 seasons of them X3. And they are currently on a bunch of cd's atm lol. Though I do recommend watching the 5th season if you ever get a chance to, you may be able to find a torrent of it SOMEWHERE since it was never licensed :3.

wow they still aren't finished with publishing DNAngel? I thought they finished that one awhile ago ^^'..guess I was wrong. I'm only on volume 8 as of right now..I'm hoping the storyline is gonna get better > >

I've loved him since the very beginning, even when he was creepy-like and breathing heavily and was like 'I WANT TO KILL JUU' hahaha <3 then I saw his childhood past and I was like ;o; I LOVE YOU I'LL BE YOUR FRIEND! Now I think Gaara is full of Hot Sex (this is just what I call really hot anime characters :3 its not meant to be taken literally, haha ^^')

Usually when an anime is licensed where I'm from (the U.S.) the endings don't get translated, they get changed all together which SUCKS. Like English Naruto (well it's a piece of crap anyway -__-') I was really pissed off when the opening and ending songs weren't the same japanese one's. I would've liked translated versions to the songs better then what they are now. Luckily, I heard they kept them normal in the DVD's not that I plan on buying 'em :3.

well I'm a girl so I hope not but if I dressed up as Sasuke and actually looked good as him they might but if my name were Saucegay I would probably stab myself *well 1) Sasuke sucks and 2) He IS EMO afterall lawl*

*hopefully this hasn't been asked before *

But just as the title says, what song would you want to hear before you die/while your dying? If you can think of one explain why :3.

It is a semi-morbid question, but also interesting to know. For me possibly anything by Andrea Bochelli since its so calming and peaceful, probably 'Con te Partiro.' It's my favorite song by him :3.

Hey I'm looking for some interesting series revolving around girlxgirl love <3 I suppose it can be anything from sweet and loving to maybe hardcore *but I'm really looking for something with an actual storyline .*

So far I've only seen:
-Kannaduki no Miko
-Revolutionary Girl Utena+Movie
-Maria-sama Ga Miteru
-Yami to Boshi to Hon no Tabibito

and I'm currently downloading 'Strawberry Panic.' So do you guys know of any other good one's? And could u give a little description of it too *but u don't have to!* Thanks ahead of time! :3

***edit*** what I am *truly* looking for is an anime with girlxgirl relationships from beginning to end..not like Kannaduki no Miko or Utena where the is absolutely no true Yuri going on till the very end ;-;***

Yeah I can draw in the japanimation style, I'm looking to become a mangaka one day *hopefully* for anyone who's interested, I've got a sheezyart site :3:
http://kimiko.chan.sheezyart.com/

Here's some examples of my work (if they work anyway ^^'):

These are just preview images..you can't click on them ^^' but the full-sized works are on my sheezy site :3.

Ah well I specifically tell any of my friends who borrow my manga that if they ruin it really bad I WILL make them buy me a new one :3 So I usually get them back in perfect condition..only one time where one of my friends had to resort to buying me a new one *she did it willingly before even telling me though* since she spilled coffee on it > >' lol.

Lawl I don't eat chips and candybars 'cuz its FUN I eat it 'cuz they taste good ;-;...luckily the company that makes lays chips have now started making all of their chips with Sunflower oil so they are trying for a more healthier product. Obesity is definetly a problem in the U.S. I could tell after going on a trip to Canada where almost everyone was freakin' skinny oO' But you can't really do much about it, they aren't going to stop consuming more food then is necessary unless they WANT to start losing weight.

And then you have the idiots who say "mcdonalds made me fat" yah those people should be slapped 100 times over with a bat > -. Mcdonalds doesn't make people FAT, its the people who go to mcdonalds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner 7 times a week *bleh.* Look at it this way, in Vancouver, Canada they had a Mcdonalds EVERYWHERE and they even had a DOUBLE Big Mac, probably something that was banned in the U.S. ..and there are barely any fat people in Vancouver, its probably because they know of a thing called "CONTROL." People who are extremely obese, don't know how to control themselves so they have to eat junk food constantly and therefore they become FAT. It's their own fault, and no one else's..they should start taking responsibility for their actions :3.