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The memorial service for Roya's mom was very sad. :( The ceremony itself was too centered around The Bible and not enough on the person we were supposed to be remembering, in my opinion, but the church was beautiful. Roya and Johnny both did an amazing job getting up there and talking about what an amazing person their mother was. They were so brave to get up there, and even through their tears and sorrow, talk about their mom who passed away only four days ago. I never met their mother, but I felt as though I could sense her presence--warm and loving--there in the church. It was a strange feeling.

At the reception afterwards, some people told stories about her, and our big group of friends did our best to comfort Roya. It was nice to see everyone again, though I wish it had been under better circumstances.

Now, I think I'll switch into some lighter topics.

~ Dennou Coil continues to be ADORABLE and charming. WATCH IT, PEOPLE, I'M SERIOUS HERE. Episode twelve was BRILLIANTLY LOLERIFFIC. Hahaha, it involves sentient beard-hair-people societies living on children's faces. I mean, how can you go wrong, seriously? It's even better than you think, too. Sooo funny and brilliant.

Eleven and thirteen were great, too, though I was hoping for more Haraken ~~I'm not a pedo, I swear~~. Anyway, love this series, and I'm going to be eagerly awaiting every episode that comes out. It's such a well-balanced series, and so entertaining and cute and touching and occasionally a little creepy. WATCH IT. ENJOY IT. FANGIRL WITH ME, PLEASE? I need people to talk about it with, even if it's just unintelligible gushing.

~ I watched all of Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. Yes, I know, it's a little unexpected for me to be watching retro Gundam series. It was recommended on ANN, though, and it's short enough that I figured I might as well watch it. It took me a while to get into it, but once I did...it was pretty remarkable. I was hoping for a little more from the final scene because I had heard so much about it, but while it maybe wasn't quite what I expected, it was still pretty damn sad.

It was a very well-told story, and quite emotionally involving. It's only six episodes, and I'd say it's definitely worth hunting down and watching if you like sad stories about children and war like I do. (Me, sick? Not at all!) No need to know anything about Gundam or like giant robots--I don't care for either. It's vintage late-eighties, so of course it's got some lame synthesizer music and it has that eighties feel, but for when it was made it has nice animation. I know it didn't bother me, and I'm spoiled rotten with all these pretty new series I've been watching. Anyway, yeah, just letting everyone know this is out there. 'Cause it really is worth the time you spend downloading it and watching it. I keep replaying bits of it in my head.

I'll be posting again soon with a song letter meme from