{"id":4516,"date":"2014-12-31T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghostlysubstance.swgbex.com\/Blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2014-12-31T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:29:55","slug":"happy-foxy-2015-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"Happy (Foxy 2015) New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Happy New Year! I know it&#8217;s not really foxy as it&#8217;s more of a sheep year than a fox year. Have a lovely arctic foxy to share along with some light ramblings. Happy Sheep New Year &amp; 2015!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280211.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280211.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8211; A little throw-back to last year&#8217;s sake thirst for this lovely foxy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 &#8211; Pancake lens.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year! Hope you enjoyed 2014 in some way, shape, or form. I know I have, and\u00c2\u00a0 accomplished quite a bit. Not enough, just those that needed to push me forward higher into 2015. Others obviously being Varakitsu sided. Shall soon follow up with a year in review on the blog side of things after this one. This is just to simply chime in on the eve of a New Year on 2014 transitioning into 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Also wanted to do a little &#8216;throw-back&#8217; to Varakitsu&#8217;s younger days when firmly hugging onto a sake bottle. The time of &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=3645\" target=\"_blank\">Renge&#8217;s Spring-Dance<\/a>&#8216;. Holding the sake bottle from before while also now happily toying around with the new Tim Horton&#8217;s cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280200.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280200.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280209.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280209.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280235.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280235.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8211; Happily playing with a festive Tim Horton&#8217;s cup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280237.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280237.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280242.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280242.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280244.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280244.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280251.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280251.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280256.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/December\/P1280256.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would have to say that 2014 was a great year, just not a year that was all too kind. Wasn&#8217;t as horrible as 2013, just something forcing me to become more&#8230;.jaded, or zombie-like as it continues to test what I&#8217;m actually interested in, and what I am not by constantly provoking me. I was more shackled in things I could and couldn&#8217;t do, more so with the growing lacking interest in the hobbies I&#8217;m in from other sides. To me 2014 was both a happy and depressing year because I was forced into detaching myself from the things I had once enjoyed the most. Constantly getting into some sort of argument, dispute, or finding lack of interest when out in the actual world. Constant disinterest.<\/p>\n<p>Now to sum everything up into a Pros and cons before going into detail a bit later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; 2014 in Review &#8211; Blog Wise &amp; Partially Personal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>The Pros:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Happily obtained fox ears for Varakitsu. She is now happily wearing them photogenically. Vara also hitting her first anniversary, maturing nicely with her new ears. (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4196\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4207\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4333\" target=\"_blank\">Ikeda&#8217;s picture finally arriving<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Amused at <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4231\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese games<\/a> making note of my birthday over &#8216;primitive&#8217; North American games. I miss these small features in modern games as it&#8217;s more about being lemming-like, retarded, and for cash-cow purposes. Needs to go back to fun.<\/li>\n<li>The Anime this year was spectacular. Enjoyed almost each and every one of them.<\/li>\n<li>Me happily wandering over to G-Anime while having <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4126\" target=\"_blank\">Vara cosplay as Koko from Jormungand<\/a>. It was mostly satisfactory. Even had <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?page_id=4156\" target=\"_blank\">Vara&#8217;s image commissioned for my blog&#8217;s &#8216;about page&#8217;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Happily went to<a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4135\" target=\"_blank\"> Ottawa&#8217;s Winterlude with Varakitsu<\/a>. Had a nice meet-up, even if I did fuck up.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4142\" target=\"_blank\">7th happy anniversary<\/a> to my messy blog. Still going mostly strong with Anime and random bullshit.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4253\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Doll Show<\/a>&#8216; during the spring moment was awesome. Glad to have participated in this event. Problem however being with Ottawa for being a small sleepy city making things more boring than they actually are. Dolls are just boring traditional dolls. Like Ford and Dodge to those not into the whole hobby.<\/li>\n<li>Taking images of<a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4263\" target=\"_blank\"> Varakitsu outdoors<\/a> was the best during the last snow-fall of the season. Worth it! Nice and mischievous.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4271\" target=\"_blank\">Varakitsu&#8217;s tail was finally fixed<\/a> after many noticeable phases in rips. Her tail now holding firmly. Once again being Vara&#8217;s proud feature.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to catch the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4282\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa&#8217;s Day of Honour<\/a>&#8216; to pay respect to those that came back from Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4289\" target=\"_blank\">ComicCon in Ottawa<\/a> was awesome. First time going and had loads of fun. Lots of nice memories with R2-D2 approaching me, Dr. Who props, Minecraft goodies, being complimented on my 501st shirt, and the whole thing.<\/li>\n<li>Spring took a long while to reach<a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4298\" target=\"_blank\"> Ottawa so I took advantage of it with Sharatan<\/a>g. Happily took images of her among the Crab Apple tree while one person thought of me as some crazy idiot. Images being worth it!<\/li>\n<li>Happily taking <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4303\" target=\"_blank\">Varakitsu out on my own again at the Experimental Farm and Dow&#8217;s Lake area<\/a>. Was a mostly rewarding experience. Still irritated at minor mistakes here and there.<\/li>\n<li>A lovely summer naturally spawning an awesome meet-up with the others at <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4344\" target=\"_blank\">Dow&#8217;s Lake<\/a>. Main focus was to first take images of other people&#8217;s dolls before wandering over to Vara by taking advantage of her with the scenery. Was 80% rewarding, 20% depressing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4350\" target=\"_blank\">Happily taking advantage of Canada Day<\/a> with both Varakitsu and in Minecraft. It was a brutal summer that I just couldn&#8217;t tolerate.<\/li>\n<li>Catching up on movies on Bell Fibe which allowed me to finally watch &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4354\" target=\"_blank\">Modra<\/a>&#8220;, Riddick, Star Trek Movies, RIPD, and a few more. Nice service, nice movie catch-ups, and nice fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4367\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese Summer Festiva<\/a>l. Out of the 7 years (or so) I finally wandered over to a Japanese festival in my area. It&#8217;s a quiet city that&#8217;s not all too local, nor proud, of what it enjoys so it&#8217;s hard to enjoy things to the fullest. Was awesome to go there, even for a doll meet, while having fun taking extra images. It was generally very fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4397\" target=\"_blank\">Happily taking Varakitsu outdoors again<\/a>, this time in what I found to be a European styled outfit to wear on the few final warm days of summer and autumn. Happily took Vara &amp; Renge out again in the <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4421\" target=\"_blank\">autumn period<\/a> with more enjoyable images.<\/li>\n<li>Halloween is a hit-and-miss in Ottawa. Depending on where you go you&#8217;ll either be bored as shit or entertained greatly. I had to make my own fun by <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4425\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;light-playing&#8217; with Varakitsu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The snow pictures on both the <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4429\" target=\"_blank\">Busou Shinki<\/a> side and <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4439\" target=\"_blank\">Varakitsu side <\/a>being quite rewarding. Snow behaved all so awkwardly this year.<\/li>\n<li>Happily still being festive when it comes to Europe&#8217;s Sinterklaas festivities. While people trying to call out racism with the chimney minions I was more focused on the fun of taking <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4442\" target=\"_blank\">images with my foxy<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4467\" target=\"_blank\">the Busou Shinkis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Things didn&#8217;t go my way this Christmas, yet I still had fun with <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4497\" target=\"_blank\">Varakitsu for Christmas<\/a>. Was wanting more outdoor images, yet was denied by the stupidest of things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<strong> The cons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not being able to travel due to other things building up barriers. Myself included. Personal issues shackling me, restricting me when it comes to meet-ups, festivities, and etc. Constant anger, frustration, and zombie-like reactions afterward. The things that made past festive images possible now being a nostalgic thought and a future desire in other settings.<\/li>\n<li>Death to Minecraft thanks to Mojang&#8217;s stupidity, 1.8 instability, personal issues, provocations on all sides, disinterest, and obvious ignoring. I still have itches and desires to play Minecraft. I still have dreams about Minecraft. I just can&#8217;t play it because my conflicting issues, private issues, hosting issues, and every sort of issues to prevent simple game sessions. I&#8217;m still overly bitter about the whole Minecraft conflict and the whole disappearance mixed with obvious ignoring. Gone with the wind, like a completed season of an Anime.<\/li>\n<li>Anything dealing with games turned into a snore-fest, guilt-fest, and just something forced on the chopping block. I&#8217;m simply not allowed to play games\u00c2\u00a0 because system requirements, the state they&#8217;re in, how milk-cash-ish they&#8217;re made, boring, stupid, or whatever else is used to describe how uninspiring the game industry is on both sides of the ocean (both Atlantic and Pacific). Can&#8217;t have fun in games anymore because of how strictly tense and unimaginative game industry also became.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4175\" target=\"_blank\">The final Swan Song of Busou Shink<\/a>i because Konami Japan doesn&#8217;t know how to manage their line. They clearly fucked up. It&#8217;s depressing that the line had to die, or at the very least go into a severe hiatus. This effected me as it&#8217;s part of my range of interest.<\/li>\n<li>Sadly had to miss out on everything aircraft related when it came to photography. I spotted the majority, yet failed to capture them on camera. It infuriates me how I always have to be left out of the fucking loop because the notices aren&#8217;t obvious or loud enough. Day of Honour, Canada Day, Antonovs, new Air Canada Boeing 777, and the Lancaster with the vintage fighter escorts.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4344\" target=\"_blank\">Dow&#8217;s Lake meet-up<\/a> in summer pissed me off quite a bit because I was told to take images of other people&#8217;s dolls, which I did, yet still got penalized for it. Main focus was to take images of other people&#8217;s dolls&#8230;.That was my MAIN focus. Because nobody moved around enough I decided to take images of Vara among the scenery because I rarely do so. It was both a rewarding and unrewarding meet-up.<\/li>\n<li>The overly hot and humid days preventing me from doing a full photoshoot, which in turn made <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=4381\" target=\"_blank\">my articles and photoshoot<\/a> suffer.<\/li>\n<li>(Ottawa being a boring city when it comes to Halloween. Depending where you are you&#8217;ll see better or worse qualities of decorations and festivities.)<\/li>\n<li>Tried to revive Minecraft briefly to play Pixelmon. Denied by my host by simple &#8216;passive aggressiveness&#8217;. I simply gave up after that. *Insert loudest cursing possible a Canadian street manner*.<\/li>\n<li>Learning that I should always charge my camera battery to the fullest, no matter what scale of photo-shoot I&#8217;m doing. Had a handful of moments where camera just died on me mid-photoshoot.<\/li>\n<li>Unable to go cycling this year for both weather and other issues. It&#8217;s been a &#8216;lazy&#8217; year when it came to cycling. Wanted to, yet couldn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Denied in taking images outdoors for Christmas festivities when it came to meet-ups in the downtown area. Even doing so myself being more difficult than it should be all because of the size of Varakitsu &amp; other bullshit excuses used on all sides of the table. Even the lacking snow on the ground or wind preventing photo-shoots.<\/li>\n<li>Denied in purchasing Nendo Himiko and Saber Lily RAH due to other issues forcing themselves on the plate. I can&#8217;t spoil myself with neither and that&#8217;s making me greatly depressed.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t even enjoy Busou Shinki Moon Angel OST that others have, yet won&#8217;t share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Goals for 2015?: <\/strong>Very obvious. Travel! Travel! Travel! Even if it isn&#8217;t realistic, nor far to my desired destination. I need to travel! I can&#8217;t stay stationary anymore More images of Varakitsu outdoors, even in her sexy nightgown. The rest? Keeping that under-wraps as that&#8217;ll simply be jinxed if mentioned in detail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Not the best way to list the year, yet it&#8217;s what I can recall from both my memory and blog&#8217;s archived thoughts. I&#8217;m going to focus my energy on stabilizing my situation while even considering going silent to focus on the first point in the con list as it&#8217;s too crippling. May also seem appropriate as I constantly spam both Twitter &amp; Tumblr a tad bit too much. Can&#8217;t really go into detail as it&#8217;s both embarrassing and a frustrating private issue. This blog and Tumblr also being more Anime themed than overly private issues and+18 (HaremMate posting on the ecchi level) that I can&#8217;t vent fully.\u00c2\u00a0 I also have some plans I want to put into motion to spoil myself further while also doing some &#8216;social experiments&#8217; at the very same time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still feeling conflicted about obtaining more dolls (even Vara in doll form) that aren&#8217;t my &#8216;original characters&#8217;. We&#8217;ll see if I even do obtain new dolls, or if I will still solely focus on Varakitsu. I&#8217;m strongly eying numerous doll parts to realized numerous foxy characters, and an Ice Queen (AGK!). Shall possibly even try to force Vara into a digital gaming environment, if given the appropriate opportunity when the gaming industry becomes more imaginative and less tense in concept. When things go right I also want to solely focus on taking images of Vara outdoors, and only outdoor, to get the best out of Varakitsu.\u00c2\u00a0 This is after I tend to my issues first as they&#8217;re crippling when it comes to meet-ups and festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, let&#8217;s see what 2015 has to offer. Even if we plan things don&#8217;t go as we plan. See you on 2015 side!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Happy New Year! I know it&#8217;s not really foxy as it&#8217;s more of a sheep year than a fox year. Have a lovely arctic foxy to share along with some light ramblings. Happy Sheep New Year &amp; 2015! 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