[22:54] Roll_Soul> I just came off of what is essentially a double viewing of the Emperor's New Groove (once through regularly, then again with commentary because there was nothing else on TV >> ) and now I'm hyper inspired to draw.
[22:54] DitzWolfeh> XDD
[22:54] Roll_Soul> Draw what I dunno (LLAMAS!-- *shotshot* ) but still. XD
[22:55] DitzWolfeh> ROFL
[22:55] DitzWolfeh> XD

Yeah. That movie ROTS MY BRAIN IN ALL THE BEST WAYS AND I LOVE IT. Now if I could just get rid of the urge to draw my characters as llamas.


Oh yeah, I managed to find my dark blue hair dye today that I wanted. Hopefully I can get it done later tonight, and cut my hair too. ...Once I find the scissors.


I should make a list of my characters, so I have somewhere to link that's NOT my profile. AND POST AT DDD AND END MY FAIL.


You know, I'm just going to stop caring about the Ragetillery over at GPX. It beats the hell out of laggy Flash banners, and if I get really annoyed I can just block it, random URL by random URL.

I have absolutely nothing planned tomorrow, and it feels good. It's been a LONG time since I've had a genuine Do Nothing day. Well, unless you count figuring out how the dish and my VCR interface as "something" XD


Actually had a semi-successful cooking experiment tonight. I decided on macaroni to go with everything else, but we didn't have any cheese to mix with it. We did, however, have cream of mushroom soup. So I boiled up the noodles with a little salt, mixed in the soup as well as some milk and butter, dashed a little oregano on it for experiment flavor, and am on the whole very satisfied with the results. The mac came out a little al dente which I usually like, but I think something softer might be better for next time.
*realizes a bit of irony in having picked an Alton Brown icon BEFORE having begun writing this entry, laughs, then keeps it*


By the way. Dial-up sucks. I know that's a very "DUH" statement, but I got burned twice in a row tonight. It will be a happy, HAPPY day when I can get better internet.


I don't know what I'm going to do with this Riolu when it hatches. I've already got a Lucario, and it's not like I can breed them together (mother and child). I guess just... box it? It was an accidental grab in the Daycare because I was going for an Eevee egg xD; Well. If it hatches out female I'm laughing, if only because the Riolu-Lucario line is female in very rare circumstances. It's actually kind of a miracle my first one was female. Oh well, I'll see soon enough anyway.

There's a meme on my f-list right now that I'll likely do later, once I feel like doing it. Being able to remember back so far would be good, too xD (Since it deals with memories and all)


( Wah wah, angst nobody cares about )


Horton Hears a Who is a good movie. Very cute. I love having HBO, even if it's just on a trial basis. XD


Removed one of my spam entries from yesterday, if you were wondering where it went. Well, not removed, but locked down to all of seven(ish) people, just because.

No I'm not


you're the ____ to my ____


At least I made the font smaller to preserve f-lists to some degree. ;P XD

Well, it took about two weeks of rescheduling again and again thanks to Screwed By the Landlords, but we finally got satellite TV. Now, if only I didn't have to go to work in an hour, I could play around with it more xDD At least I can goof around in it tonight.


Not really much else to say beyond that. On July 11th I've got a special preview to attend at the local Museum of Life and Science in return for having blogged about it in the past year (I can only assume they mean the mention under the Durham heading in this entry, although I wonder how they found it). It's a revival of the old Dinosaur Trail that used to be here YEAAARRRSSS ago, with dinosaur statues and history, and fossil digging and stuff. I'll likely have pictures for it, so those few who might be interested, you've got something to look forward to.


I already mentioned it at Twitter but I'm going to dye my hair again, dark blue this time (as opposed to the purple I was last time). ...The trouble is actually finding it. Hell, I may even go with a different brand than last time if possible. Either way though I'm cutting it shorter for summer too. Pictures may come or they may not.


Been experimenting with slight changes in my art style, a sort of slimming and refining of the way I do faces. It's still anime style, but it's slowly evolving towards something like say, DCMK or Death Note's style (just for example) than the old way I did it, which I cite as a Pokemon-type way. At least early on. It's taking a lot of tweaking but hey, nothing worth it is easy, right?

A couple memes from around my f-list.


Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!", and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal, and explain what they mean to you.

---

My character list is in my profile, to make this one simpler.

Pick one of my characters and I will tell you...

→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)

~*bonus round*~

» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question if you so desire

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Aaaannnd I think I've already done this one but I'll repeat it anyway.

Name any of the characters that I have ever played and I will then fill out the following:
⇒ what initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
⇒ one of his/her best traits.
⇒ one of his/her worst traits.
⇒ how easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
⇒ a thread/post/plot/etc where I feel that I truly captured them.
⇒ my plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

&

Give me a relationship between our characters and I'll give you an in-depth explanation on it.





Aside from all of those, Kangaskhan egg~ 8DD

Oogh, my stomach has been unsettled for the past couple of days. I know why, but that doesn't make enduring it any better. ~___~


Aside from that, I bought Guitar Hero: Smash Hits yesterday, and have already started playing it. So far... I've actually spent most of my time in Create A Rocker xDD But I'm also up to the second tier in Career Mode, so I guess that's good right? *snickers*


Floor move day at work, I think anyway. We've been doing so much over the past few days that I really wonder how much we've got left.


Must remember to try and fix my RP fail tonight.

Okay so, I have a lot of books. I mean it, I have A LOT of books. Hell, I just got three yesterday, and three more today. Originally I just assumed "Okay yeah lol, I love to read". Which I DO. I adore reading, and do it whenever I can.

But hoarding is a sign of OCD, ain't it? That would certainly tie in with my recent activity, where I've actually noticed my little habits and quirks are getting worse. I know I said once a while ago that I was going to get tested for OCD. I haven't had a chance to yet, but jeez... By this point, I think it may just be to the point of "getting official documentation for something that's so obvious it barely needs it" XD

...Or something to that degree.




By the way, this epiphany? Came to me while reading. Slightly ironic if you ask me. xDD

It makes me happy that, after all this time, I still remember Kaze wo Tsukinukete from when I learned it for an REO contest three years ago. Which reminds me, I do enough lurking there, I need to start posting again. ...Again.

I need to advance networkbattler's canon at some point too. And find something to post in his journal that's NOT, for once, something to do with BN6.

Fedora: I'll get you back on that thread tomorrow, if you're willing to talk about it. Lemme know~


ALSO. NEW RP JOURNAL YET AGAIN AND WTF TRIAL BY FIRE FROM STYX ON DEAR_MUN. Here is the journal, you guys figure out who it is ;P keeneye4details


Aaaannnd my Pokemon. Now I'm OFF because I hurt my right arm today in both bicep and wrist and it hurts to type. *hopes it gets well enough to work with before work tomorrow*

Okay this is the second time I'm posting a Pokemon egg today but OMG TOGEPI. If it hatches out male, I'm so naming it Jingles after my Togekiss in Platinum xDD

Give it love~

Crud. I was actually going to post something, but I forgot what. However, my Pokemon need love so have them instead.

JEEZ. First Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, now Billy Mays. This is not a good week to be a personality/celebrity.

i_eat_shinies

So, I went and made a journal for Jailcat's Heterosexual Life Partner, despite already having a journal for Jailcat himself.

At least LJLogin helps with the playercesting.


Also, the streak of finding a different Sora whenever I post with King Mickey continues XDXD And here, have three chat pieces from ( an earlier IM with Styx, with bits from IRC too. )

Well, jury duty ended a couple of days ago, and I'm glad to have gotten it out of the way XD Well, in the sense that I don't have to get up so early anymore >.>; And that my life returns to normal now, relatively so.

Having to go to work for the next few days after getting off? Not so fun. But whatever.


SO. We're getting satellite TV on the 30th (with Dish Network, if anybody cares/is curious). I'm happy too, especially since this is something we've been thinking about doing for a WHILE, and just haven't gone through with it yet.


I need to find my copy of PW2, and buy a copy of PW3. And AA:AJ.


I have absolutely no drive to RP anyone but Bass or Giro over at DDD what is wrong with me. Well, maybe Mega too, once I hear back on a mod approval request.


HEY LOOK GUYS IT'S MY POKEMON AGAIN. *trying to get back into GPX*

Yes I'm posting again purely for putting up two survey... meme... things.

Taken from carnality

( Countdown )



Taken from Karioudo over at DA.

( And it's over and over and over again, same old day same situation )

ohgod everything happens to my left leg wtf. I've got a raw spot on top of my foot where I accidentally scratched too hard on the edge of the desk, there's a pinprick in the bottom of my heel from where I stepped on something last night, and I just whanged my knee in the handle of an entertainment center/containment unit here in the computer area and I just KNOW it's going to be a giant bruise later.

Suffice to say: OW.


In other news, jury duty is KILLING me. I like being part of the process (lolfreak) but it's getting monotonous. Tomorrow should be the last day though, we started testimony on the final witness today. It sounds petty but I keep thinking of the compensation I'll get from doing this. It's all so going towards my trip I wanna take to Disney World, because I'm poor and otherwise PHAIL at saving XD


Random pimpage of Twitter account: http://twitter.com/CBIzumi


I should upload the photos I took of the totally-inappropriate cake I made for my dad for Father's Day yesterday >.> Let's just say Halloween cake mix + orange icing + red melty icing makes something interesting indeed. At least my dad got a kick out of it XD


Okay. I only got a couple of hours of sleep last night so I'm going to go take a nap. BUT. DDD people on my f-list, tell me if I'm missing tags somewhere okay? XD; And Styx we need to decide who the fuck is doing that drabble.


*drops into a dead sleep*

Okay, so it's technically a meme. Hush. >>;


Everyone needs to know something sometime, and on LJ we regularly rely on "the LJ brain trust" to answer questions that are beyond us. But what kind of information network are we if we don't know what kind of knowledge we have on hand? So ante up and tell what you know.

Ok, normally there are two basic knowledge types, explicit and tacit. Explicit knowledge is that which would be found in a "how to" manual. Facts, figures, and data. Tacit knowledge isn't quite as clear, it consists of the "know how". You might be able to explain how to make a wood joint (explicit), but being able to do a beauty of a job at it (tacit) is different.

You're not limited to just subjects like math, science, or history, but rather the grand scope of all knowledge. Which is, of course, just about everything. Book Learning is that which you're expressly educated in, typically a college degree or better. Hobbies and interests can be anything from "I know porn!" (hey, it can be useful!) to "I can garden!" options. Career skills are things you've picked up on the job such as forklift driver, the only requirement is that you've been paid for it (otherwise it's a hobby). Then there are those things which abhor clear categorization. Those skills which you can just do which are useful and often quirky, regardless of learning them anywhere in particular or the ability to convey much about them. Think intangible. Anything that you list should be something that you feel comfortable answering questions on, but this is by no means a definitive list of everything someone knows.

A few simple rules:

1. This isn't a contest to see who has the most skill sets. A lot of people have adequate skills or are fairly knowledgeable in many areas but aren't comfortable listing themselves out as able to answer questions on them. Listing things just for the sake of listing them defeats the purpose.

2. You really shouldn't list things that you're out of date on. If you've not thought about a skill in 3 or more years, then you probably shouldn't list it as something to answer questions on.

3. You're free to repost this as a meme on one condition: You respond to it with your own list on the journal from which you snagged it.

My list:

-Fixing stuff, especially if it involves improvisation. Mostly because I grew up beside my dad's workbench, and learned several different ways of looking at one problem.
-Megaman. Up, down, sideways, and backwards. No question.
-Video games, in particular platformers. I've been known to ace jumps across canyons that other people have wasted countless lives on xD
-Sexuality, especially how it relates to the female body (duh). I'm not great expert at it, but I like to think I know a lot at least.
-I have extensive Google-fu, especially with using Google Images.
-Books. BOOKS. Especially fantasy series.
-Lots of random useless trivia, to the point where I'd be a damn good lifeline on Millionaire XD
-The how and why of domestic cats, no doubt due in part to have never been without a cat or two as a pet my entire life.
-Certain anime/properties, like Pokemon or a good portion of Digimon.


And you can bet that if I don't know an answer, I know where to find it fastest.

This is about all I can think of right now. If I come up with more, I'll come back to it later XD Naturally, not holding people to that last rule.

I never thought I'd say this, but...

I have too many books.

I was just looking around for my Phoenix Wright manga (casebook 1; I haven't gotten my hands on #2 yet) and I could. not. find it. The whole time I kept thinking of an analogy of a squirrel caching nuts: they've got little knots here and there all over the place that they can't find when they really need to. You know how many places I've got stuffed to the GILLS with books? Let's see here...

In my room: the actual bookshelf, the shelf of the TV stand, the shelf of a small cart in the corner, the drawers of the nightstand, the "catch all" drawer of my dresser, a cardboard box I have yet to sort, plus my closet. And in the livingroom: the shelves on the end of the entertainment center, the shelves on the inset of said device, the storage areas underneath it, no less than THREE bookshelves, plus the bookshelf-turned-computer-space, and a foldaway tray beside the PS2. A book or two may even occasionally turn up in the bathroom.

I found it, by the way. It was in a box in my closet, which I turned up after being assaulted by my Bass cloak hanging in there, plus an empty messenger/travel bag or two that decided to clunk me.


...I'm going to wind up being one of those people with a study/library in their own home, aren't I? Not that I would mind...

Chat log is too long to realistically quote, but it essentially boils down to the subject line of the post. But then, shots like these here are hard to ignore XDXDXD

These two are my favorites though >.> XD


I love my friends. And I love how fucking weird the chats can get past 2 AM.


ALSO HEY STYX. BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T SPOKEN IN A WHILE (MY FAULT ;O; I'M SORRY BB) HERE HAVE THIS:

FTEW


Carry on.

*goes to bed*