A long absence

So.... hey there everyone out in Voxland! I've been sort of all over the place when it comes to blogging lately and I hope to remedy it sometime soon but while I'm getting my act together let's play Recap the Gap, shall we?
My last entry was in March which is almost six months ago now so we've got a lot of ground to cover!
April:
The beginning of this/end of March was a visit to Florida (lots of photos, but none on Flickr just yet - around that time I uploaded the photos from my small trip to CA last summer so... haha)
I spent a lot of time re-learning kanji and watching Lucky★Star (as well as the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi)
This progress was greatly derailed by training my kitties to use the wonderful device that is the Cat Genie - I'll make a separate small post about this later, but if you have cats and a decent hookup for it, I'd suggest you look into getting one. I know it makes my life a lot easier!
May
I started to fall hard for 姫ギャル (himegyaru) style, which I will also make a more lengthy post about later. I even posted to the lj himegyaru community! which I almost never do for subculture fashions. I've still got a lot to learn, but I'm really feeling comfortable with it ♥
Plans for the summer were made, the House was attacked with a cleaning fervor that continued through...
June
I started driving lessons (well, just with family for the moment) on my 3rd permit, so hopefully I'll continue on and get my license this time? haha...
The rest of this month was mostly preparing for travel that would happen in...
July
I was in Japan from the 2nd-10th of July, and it was so packed full of stuff (@_@) I've uploaded some of my photos to Flickr, but sadly because it was grey out a lot of the time Japan looks very drab :P
When I came back from Japan, I'd caught a cold of sorts, so I was really sick, then sort of sick, and then I went to visit relatives in MI, and remained a little sick, and then came back, and still sort of sick, and then had to do more extended family visiting up until just recently.
So now it's August and I've been on a real creative kick (which I'm loving!) so I hope to post some pictures of things I've been making/working on soon ( ^ ~ )

In the meantime, here's a short video of my kitty Mika being affectionate & adorable ♥