My name is Lynn (also known as natsuki or natsukigirl online, I also sometimes go by the moniker tokirocket or riotalice). As of writing this post I am a 29-year-old web developer girl (oh come on, let me be a girl just for a little while longer, hey?), living near Los Angeles, California with my programmer husband Darrell and two female cats, Lydia (tortie) and Pyper (tabby). My current goal in life is to start my family (see also: produce demon spawn). We've been trying for about a year (we even have our names picked out; Parker for a girl, and Elliot or Benjamin for a boy), but apparently one of the reasons it's taking so long is we haven't been "timing things right"... who knew sex was so hard?
I've been online since the age of 12, and have been a web-designer for almost just as long. When I first discovered fan-made anime websites I immediately wanted to create one of my own, for the series Sailormoon. My father handed me a book about HTML and told me that if I learned to hand-code and planned out my website, that he would get me a domain name. That domain is sweetusagi.com (I haven't updated it in several years, and I'm currently in the process of moving it over to my new server). I do not remember what life was like before computers, manga, and the internet.
I am most well known online for being an extremely avid ( some may say, elitist ^^;; ) Japanese manga (comic books) collector. I heavily promote the idea of collecting and reading manga in it's original language (enjoy them the way the artist originally intended) and thusly I enjoy promoting the learning of the Japanese language whenever possible. I myself have been studying Japanese both casually and formally since the age of 13. Although I can easily enjoy the manga I collect, and find it fairly simple to articulate myself in Japanese online, a recent trip to Japan showed me that I shouldn't be so cocky to claim any real fluency. I hope to remedy this in the coming years as I would like to raise my children with a strong knowledge of Japanese in addition to native English.
I'm also fairly well know in Japanese music circles as the girl who made yuki.girlyrock.com. (The girlyrock site is also temporarily down as I'm moving to a new server)
Besides manga I also collect and photograph Japanese and Korean fashion dolls ( 着せ替え人形 ). Some examples of dolls I collect would be; Takara Neo Blythe dolls (Japanese Blythe doll modeled after the 1972 vintage Blythe doll by Kenner), Takara Licca-chan, Sekiguchi Momoko, and a variety of ball-jointed (articulated resin) dolls from Latidoll, Fairyland, Luts, and Volks... among others.
The goal of this blog is to regain my blogging legs and actually write something useful, about hobbies and life... a far cry from the ten long years of petty personal blogging I did in my youth and young adult years. I hope to be both edifying and entertaining with my writing here. Thank you for visiting. :)
February 21st, 2011 - 00:41
Hip hip hurray!! So happy to see you blogging again!!!!! :D *
February 21st, 2011 - 08:54
I need to spiffy up the comments and put some other things in place, but at least I can start blogging.
Oh oh oh… also I need friendies for my blog roll. Feel free to post links to your blog here if we know each other!
February 21st, 2011 - 09:02
Funny you start blogging again and then the nytimes.com publishes an article on the waning interest in blogging by the younger generation. Way to keep it real.
February 21st, 2011 - 09:08
Ahahaha… I had taken like a three year hiatus from blogging/journaling. I guess now that I’m an aging mare I feel like I need to try and leave a mark out there before I wither into oblivion. (yay for sarcasm)
February 21st, 2011 - 11:27
Yay for blogging! <3
February 21st, 2011 - 14:26
Thanks for reading ^__^
Now that the intro post is out of the way maybe I can come up with something more interesting. ^^
March 1st, 2011 - 15:37
It reminds me of easter, your favorite holiday. At least it used to be.