…but thank goodness this wasn’t happening in front of me, I’d hate to get hit by a car driven by drunks =p

Now, I’m sure I’ve said that I’m a geek numerous times. And I still am.
I do have a tendency not to reveal that right away, but it’s not something I’m desperate to hide from people… with the exception of my Japanese family and relatives. The sole exception to “hiding the fact that I’m a geek from family/relatives” would be my brother (also a bit of a geek), and my mother.
After all, I’ve been using my home address back in Japan numerous times for the purpose of getting anime/manga related merchandise sent, and well, guess who receives them – mom!
It’s gotten to the point where my mom seems to have realized and accepted the fact that her daughter does have a slight obsession for anime/manga, based on the fact that a) she ends up spending way too much time shopping at Animate every darn time she comes back home, and b) she also goes off spending tons of money on merch.
What she probably didn’t know was that a) I cosplay, and b) I would go off spending big bucks on costumes.

So I’m getting her to send me a costume that I ordered online, with the hopes that it’ll arrive before the Anime Club’s Valentine Dance.
So I just got an email from mom earlier today with the following:
“Hi, I just got that costume you ordered, but I probably need to open the parcel so that I can make sure everything I’m sending fits properly, do you mind?”
me, without putting much thought in it because I’m in a bit of a rush to grab the costume: “Sure, please do go ahead.”
then her response: “So I see that the costume is a size-(insert size) with the measurements of (insert numerical values), which I think is a bit too large for you, but it’ll probably be alright if you just use some safety pins and such. It reminds me of a decorated cake, in orange and yellowish colors which isn’t too flashy so it seems alright. It’s just that, I realize it is coming out of your own pocket and everything, but it just doesn’t seem like your money was well spent – I mean, I’m sure with this money you could have spent it on much nicer clothes.”
(me: *facepalm*)
me: “Alright, yeah… this is why I was somewhat reluctant to say, ‘yes, go ahead and open it.’ Anyway, I’d only do this if I feel I’m financially stable enough for it, and it’s not as if I’d only use wear this once after having spent all this money. About the size… I’m well aware of what I’m ordering, so like… you really didn’t have to list out everything.”
mom: “Well alright, I’ll send it sometime very soon.”
me: “Oh by the way, I do have a wig on order too and… well OK, once you get it and see it, just don’t say anything, let it through, either pretend you didn’t see anything or just say to yourself, ‘yes, it’s her Halloween costume so it’s more or less OK that she’s doing something really random. …please.”

Yes, I should have known better *sigh*.

Alright, on to what I meant to talk about.
Even though I am in possession of a PS2, NDS-Lite, and a PSP, it’s not like I’m that much of a hardcore gamer.
Of course, that doesn’t necessarily stop me from buying (yes, you heard me right) games.
Not only that, but it seems my bro (who btw is living on the other side of the Pacific) acquired quite a few games as well.
So we came to the conclusion that I’d sign myself up for a Club Nintendo account, and accumulate points from both my own and my bro’s acquisitions.
As a result, I (we) ended up achieving platinum rank, which is rather cool. I had my hopes up high since one of the special gifts that platinum members got last year was an SNES Wii Classic controller – as in, a Wii Classic controller that looked virtually identical to an SNES controller.

Now, Nintendo seemed to disappoint me by giving me some… rather odd choices this year.
As with the past years, one of the choices was a set of (identical) calendars w/Nintendo characters – um, not thanks, I have enough calendars for next year already.
Another (less boring) choice was a golden steering wheel for Mario Kart – erm… no.
The final choice was a Mario cap. Yes, the red cap that Mario wears – hmm, now this is slightly more interesting…

Then the idea that popped in my head was that Mario cosplay Katsura did in the wii-related episode of Gintama. Hmm, (easy) cosplay idea for S-con? I think yes XD