HAKUEI~

Yes, ladies and gents, I won the contest. The day I got my email, I suppose I had a bit of a premonition...I thought for sure that they would send out the emails by midday, but I kept checking throughout the day. I thought that, if by 6:00pm they hadn't sent me an email, I had probably not won. At 6:00 I got an email from BPN saying "You're Invited!"

I flipped a bitch.

I ran to my mom, spazzed at her, she told me to calm down and tell her exactly what had happened. She was happy to know that I had won the contest and was excited for me.

Fast forward to a few days before today when I ask the ladies on lolitafashionforum.com what I should wear to the BPN party...they suggested sweet lolita because as they and I predicted, almost everyone was VK or EGL/EGA. Unfortunately, I own nothing sweet...I don't do empire waists and bright colors...but there you go. I wanted to go pirate lolita...but it didn't work out. So I went EGL like everyone else...I was up till 3 sewing up my bustle skirt, and washing my hair.

After going to bed at around 4:30 fretting about money and such, I finally fell asleep, and woke up around 8 to make an eyepatch that didn't fit my eye, but made a sweet accessory for my bag. I got ready, and met Tae at bart. We wandered around the street fair at Japantown today for a while and got some snackies (huge aquarius and aloe drink ftw!) before going to the New People booth where I got Hakuei's autograph and flipped out a little. Then we went to Ichiban-Kan and sat around a bit more until the party started.

It was a deliciously awkward party. It was at Yoshi's too, which meant the food was yummy, but I didn't want to eat anything in front of Hakuei...or anyone else really. In any event, Tae had to leave earlier, and as my moral support he was urging me to go and talk to Hakuei. Eventually, using the bar as an excuse (we had glasses we had to return) I got a picture with him~! He said my hair was cool too (well, technically he said either kawaii or kirei...and I was like "thanks!" and he was like "good good" still talking about my hair...I kept thanking him..) and I told him I liked his labret and the nose piercings... Anywho, giddy, I retunred to my seat and Tae was like "well that wasn't that bad was it? " and indeed, it wasn't.

Tae and I chatted and he tried to convince me to go and talk to him again...my Japanese is terrible though, and I didn't know whatelse to say. So Tae and I continued to chat, while I spotted a sweet lolita across the room. Her dress was respectably sweet (not too frilly, and not too plain) and I decided to compliment her on it. And her alice bow (though I usually don't like them, but this one was very well made...turned out to be BSSB). She then asked me if I was Yana, and, thinking I knew her from the forums or something, I said that I was. It turns out that this sweet lolita was a friend of mine that I hadn't seen since I was in about 6th grade. She's going to be a senior in highschool now...it was an amazing meeting! While talking to her, and not wanting Tae to feel totally left out (because he wasn't particularly psyched to meet Hakuei, he was there for moral support) I decided that I should introduce her to him. En route to the seat we had claimed, I was stopped by Hakuei and his translator. The translator said "he wants to take a picture of you and him for his blog" and I just about died. The translator then took the picture with his awesome phone and my life was made~

Tae left because he had to meet his cousin and I thanked him for coming with me and supporting me. I edged over to my friend's group and we were chatting up a storm when suddenly we were aproached by an EGA who took our pictures for her blog! It was an exciting turn of events!

My friend and I continued to chat and the friend she was with took me home afterwards. All in all, today was amazing!