Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas
Well, Christmas was fun. C: Of the three things I asked for- an under-tank heater for Aven, an Annie Dillard book, and the Striking 12 Songbook- I got two (all but the songbook, since they couldn’t buy it in stores or on Amazon so my mom decided it didn't exist, even though I showed them where to buy it). That was great. :D I also got a bunch of shirts (which I suppose I could use, but they sure aren’t very exciting), more pretzels (three pounds now, counting Madison’s bag), a little candy and microwave popcorn, and a very cool book of dragon art (called Dragon Art too… someone’s creative), and the second book in the Prospero’s Children series (plus an assurance I was getting the third one for my birthday… just 5 months to wait *wriggles*).
The best thing about the Dragon Art book is that I know (well, have briefly talked to over the internet… xD) quite a few of the authors in there! I thought that was really exciting, even if it was lacking in Lockwood (the true dragon-art king) art. There was tons of Kerem Beyit, who is simply amazing and has a Lockwood-ish style. You should all look him up on dA.
I also ate lots of rolls, toffee, potato chips, and potatoes. Chris found the whole almond in his rice pudding, which was funny because as Lisa served him she said to me, “I hope this one has the almond, because then when he wins the chocolate he’ll give it to me,” but when he won it, he didn’t share with her. Maddox (Lisa and Chris’ seven-month old baby) is totally adorable now, although his face looks surprisingly like the baby Grinch’s. xD I never held him, but I admired him plenty. Lisa, thank heavens, isn’t nearly as protective of him now either. Originally, you had to wash your hands before you held him, couldn’t actually touch his skin, couldn’t let him suck on your fingers… etc. She’s caught on that we aren’t going to kill him though, so things are much better.
Still, this was all at my grandparents house so I was also fairly bored. I prefer being home, with my own room and my computer and so much more I can do, not to mention normal stairs rather than their insanely steep ones. I also had to share a hide-a-bed with Katy, which means I had to spend the night half off the lumpy mattress and basically blanketless. When I get married, something I’ll look for in a husband is that they don’t take over the bed when they sleep (which’ll probably be kind of awkward to ask about but heck… if we’re in love we’re not likely to realize how awkward everything we do is, right? o.O)
Finally we came home Saturday afternoon. I fed Aven, set up his new heater, watched some TV (which I have to write another blog about o.o), and then got on the computer to write this and catch up on stuff I’d missed on my two days away…
Holy cow, I checked my e-mail to get a message from dA saying Ayra had bought me a Premium membership.
I’m just… wow. That’s real money she’s spending on someone she’s never physically met and I am quite in awe. (Another thing to gasp about is that we both got penguin PJs, lol)
<3 All in all, it was a very good Christmas.
The best thing about the Dragon Art book is that I know (well, have briefly talked to over the internet… xD) quite a few of the authors in there! I thought that was really exciting, even if it was lacking in Lockwood (the true dragon-art king) art. There was tons of Kerem Beyit, who is simply amazing and has a Lockwood-ish style. You should all look him up on dA.
I also ate lots of rolls, toffee, potato chips, and potatoes. Chris found the whole almond in his rice pudding, which was funny because as Lisa served him she said to me, “I hope this one has the almond, because then when he wins the chocolate he’ll give it to me,” but when he won it, he didn’t share with her. Maddox (Lisa and Chris’ seven-month old baby) is totally adorable now, although his face looks surprisingly like the baby Grinch’s. xD I never held him, but I admired him plenty. Lisa, thank heavens, isn’t nearly as protective of him now either. Originally, you had to wash your hands before you held him, couldn’t actually touch his skin, couldn’t let him suck on your fingers… etc. She’s caught on that we aren’t going to kill him though, so things are much better.
Still, this was all at my grandparents house so I was also fairly bored. I prefer being home, with my own room and my computer and so much more I can do, not to mention normal stairs rather than their insanely steep ones. I also had to share a hide-a-bed with Katy, which means I had to spend the night half off the lumpy mattress and basically blanketless. When I get married, something I’ll look for in a husband is that they don’t take over the bed when they sleep (which’ll probably be kind of awkward to ask about but heck… if we’re in love we’re not likely to realize how awkward everything we do is, right? o.O)
Finally we came home Saturday afternoon. I fed Aven, set up his new heater, watched some TV (which I have to write another blog about o.o), and then got on the computer to write this and catch up on stuff I’d missed on my two days away…
Holy cow, I checked my e-mail to get a message from dA saying Ayra had bought me a Premium membership.
I’m just… wow. That’s real money she’s spending on someone she’s never physically met and I am quite in awe. (Another thing to gasp about is that we both got penguin PJs, lol)
<3 All in all, it was a very good Christmas.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
:D
Wajas has been having a freakin' awesome event. It makes me happy inside. *huggles my new rare items*
Since none of my friends play Wajas though, I feel no desire to explain it. xP
Anyways, I'm also happy because I finally got around to doing that picture I promised McCollum. I drew her a Christmas picture last year- in the dark in the period before English while 'watching' a movie in Hadfield's class. :P She loves it, but I don't, and told her I was going to draw her a better one.
Well.
I give you "Imposter": http://sparradile.deviantart.com/art/Imposter-147413866
The timeframe of drawing (about an hour, and all during church xP) wasn't much better, but it's a more creative picture than I gave her last year, not to mention it's pretty-much the first time I've seriously drawn reindeer (and Santa and his sleigh and whatnot).
I'm very pleased with the turnout. :D I really want Monday to come so I can give the picture to her now... xD
Since none of my friends play Wajas though, I feel no desire to explain it. xP
Anyways, I'm also happy because I finally got around to doing that picture I promised McCollum. I drew her a Christmas picture last year- in the dark in the period before English while 'watching' a movie in Hadfield's class. :P She loves it, but I don't, and told her I was going to draw her a better one.
Well.
I give you "Imposter": http://sparradile.deviantart.com/art/Imposter-147413866
The timeframe of drawing (about an hour, and all during church xP) wasn't much better, but it's a more creative picture than I gave her last year, not to mention it's pretty-much the first time I've seriously drawn reindeer (and Santa and his sleigh and whatnot).
I'm very pleased with the turnout. :D I really want Monday to come so I can give the picture to her now... xD
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Mac' and Porridge
Never put Priests in charge of cooking.
They said they could manage mac and cheese, we figured they were better off not scaring the little children we were mass babysitting, so we left them to cook it.
No. Bad idea.
They made twelve boxes of mac and cheese. Twelve boxes in one small pot.
And they didn't boil the water first, they just poured the noodles in along with the water and went on their merry way. We went in to check on the dinner, and came back to the stickiest mass of noodles I've ever seen in my life.
Of course, everyone has different remedies for it. Eventually it was decided they would pour it out into the strainer and let it sit there while they boiled water in a bigger pot and then put them back in and cook them better. Hopefully they could be revived.
While in the strainer, Sis. Jeppson decided it needed to be stirred. Pretty soon, there noodles had the texture of oatmeal. I went around telling this to everyone, like I do everything entertaining, and they all had to go in, gawk at it, stir it a little, and soon it was even worse.
We were left with 'bread dough' noodles, wich I fondly dubbed Mac' and Porridge', and then Julie, who was extremely frustrated by that point, threw it away. Her dad went and got some new stuff and us girls cooked it up that time so it was fine.
But geez.
Big waste of twelve boxes of macaroni.
They said they could manage mac and cheese, we figured they were better off not scaring the little children we were mass babysitting, so we left them to cook it.
No. Bad idea.
They made twelve boxes of mac and cheese. Twelve boxes in one small pot.
And they didn't boil the water first, they just poured the noodles in along with the water and went on their merry way. We went in to check on the dinner, and came back to the stickiest mass of noodles I've ever seen in my life.
Of course, everyone has different remedies for it. Eventually it was decided they would pour it out into the strainer and let it sit there while they boiled water in a bigger pot and then put them back in and cook them better. Hopefully they could be revived.
While in the strainer, Sis. Jeppson decided it needed to be stirred. Pretty soon, there noodles had the texture of oatmeal. I went around telling this to everyone, like I do everything entertaining, and they all had to go in, gawk at it, stir it a little, and soon it was even worse.
We were left with 'bread dough' noodles, wich I fondly dubbed Mac' and Porridge', and then Julie, who was extremely frustrated by that point, threw it away. Her dad went and got some new stuff and us girls cooked it up that time so it was fine.
But geez.
Big waste of twelve boxes of macaroni.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Also...
Here's another good reason not to FaceBook. So many of the people there seem like monkeys... and here's proof of that hunch.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B15FN20091203
Just messing with my aunt's is plenty entertaining.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B15FN20091203
Just messing with my aunt's is plenty entertaining.
Phew
Oh gosh, it's finally over. We're done with Poison in English. Definitely among the worst books I've ever read. We were discussing it during Calculus today (the "study skills" part, but it's really still Calculus), and I was very pleased to find that all the other people in my group also didn't like it when they had to read it (most are seniors=read it last year). I love intense book-hating discussions. :D So much to talk about.
Buuut, on a better note, I finished my amazing new background a few days ago and it is so fun to have. C8 I made a smaller version of it to put on my cave in Wajas (Opota needed a replacement anyways, since NaNo is over), and it makes me laugh every time I go into my cave~ So fun.
Turning on my computer is also lots of fun, because it's there and makes me giggle.
But fun as it is, I'm really glad the Sparradile isn't actually that small.
Part 3 (yeah, wut? Weird blog today.):
I have this commission to do. It's the picture for a single, and she gave me information for the girls she wants on there, the song so I can listen to it and 'be inspired', but didn't tell me about what she wants pose-wise. That drives me insane, holy cow. The song is weird, I'm not getting a whole lot of inspiration from it. I mean, like, seriously? Listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5U1ykDngno
I'm like, anime, hairspray, and a touch of jazz. No real... position ideas, except maybe girls putting on makeup, but that's really not what it's about. So this is all I've got so far, and I'm scared to show the sketch to the commissioner since I'm sure she's gonna be like, 'wtf does that have to do with anything? o.O' I've had a few other ideas, and right now I'm really wishing I had fleshed them out instead of this (sorry guys, no clothes yet, but it's not going to kill your testimony, I promise). I'm thinking it needs an action-y look, which this doesn't have, but I'm... not knowing what sort of action to do.
Help? x.o I don't think I've ever stressed over something so much, but turning anime to realism and doing so without strict instructions (I always work better under those xP) is just hard for me.
Buuut, on a better note, I finished my amazing new background a few days ago and it is so fun to have. C8 I made a smaller version of it to put on my cave in Wajas (Opota needed a replacement anyways, since NaNo is over), and it makes me laugh every time I go into my cave~ So fun.
Turning on my computer is also lots of fun, because it's there and makes me giggle.
But fun as it is, I'm really glad the Sparradile isn't actually that small.
Part 3 (yeah, wut? Weird blog today.):
I have this commission to do. It's the picture for a single, and she gave me information for the girls she wants on there, the song so I can listen to it and 'be inspired', but didn't tell me about what she wants pose-wise. That drives me insane, holy cow. The song is weird, I'm not getting a whole lot of inspiration from it. I mean, like, seriously? Listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5U1ykDngno
I'm like, anime, hairspray, and a touch of jazz. No real... position ideas, except maybe girls putting on makeup, but that's really not what it's about. So this is all I've got so far, and I'm scared to show the sketch to the commissioner since I'm sure she's gonna be like, 'wtf does that have to do with anything? o.O' I've had a few other ideas, and right now I'm really wishing I had fleshed them out instead of this (sorry guys, no clothes yet, but it's not going to kill your testimony, I promise). I'm thinking it needs an action-y look, which this doesn't have, but I'm... not knowing what sort of action to do.
Help? x.o I don't think I've ever stressed over something so much, but turning anime to realism and doing so without strict instructions (I always work better under those xP) is just hard for me.
Monday, December 7, 2009
It is now officially Winter.
The first good snowfall of the end of 2009 has now announced the beginning of winter. No, datewise it has not occurred, but by definition it is here. That freezing cold autumn is gone, in the dust like it's crumbly brown leaves, and winter has brought its cloudy arms and snowy slopes to buoy us up again.
Yay~
It means I can sing the Snow Song again. I sang it all the way to school today, and all the way home, and while sitting at my computer and feeding the horses and whenever else I felt like it. I love that song. It's about loving snow, and I do so much <3
Listen, because it is amazing.
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/snow-song-its-coming-down/
And you can disregard the talking at the end; this is a recording of a live performance, and it is from a musical about New Years Eve, not that you aren't free to have a holiday mood. But if you recognize the voice at the end (if you watch TV, you ought to), I'll give you a little bag of M&M's. (C'mon Madison xD)
Also, this:
http://www.alfred.com/Products/Striking-12-Vocal-Selections--00-33475.aspx
I have been waiting, begging, wishing, and dreaming for so long of the day that Groovelily releases sheet music. Here it is. I'm getting it. And I'll play every song in there and drive my family and friends crazy and enjoy every moment of it. :D
Yay~
It means I can sing the Snow Song again. I sang it all the way to school today, and all the way home, and while sitting at my computer and feeding the horses and whenever else I felt like it. I love that song. It's about loving snow, and I do so much <3
Listen, because it is amazing.
http://www.groovelily.com/store/songs/snow-song-its-coming-down/
And you can disregard the talking at the end; this is a recording of a live performance, and it is from a musical about New Years Eve, not that you aren't free to have a holiday mood. But if you recognize the voice at the end (if you watch TV, you ought to), I'll give you a little bag of M&M's. (C'mon Madison xD)
Also, this:
http://www.alfred.com/Products/Striking-12-Vocal-Selections--00-33475.aspx
I have been waiting, begging, wishing, and dreaming for so long of the day that Groovelily releases sheet music. Here it is. I'm getting it. And I'll play every song in there and drive my family and friends crazy and enjoy every moment of it. :D
Sunday, December 6, 2009
No, I'm writting
Lately I've seen loads of people spelling 'writing' as 'writting'.
This makes even less sense to me than people spelling 'lose' as 'loose' (which I've already ranted about, though not here... xP). I mean... really? Don't you know the rule of vowels? They're only long if there's only one consenant between the two of them.
Yet I've seen people on Wajas trying to hire 'writters', people asking for this 'writting' on their tag, kids in Honors English classes writing about how they dream of being 'writters' when they grow up, and so on.
Good luck with that, when you can't even spell the name of your hopeful occupation. I can spell paleontologist, and that's a heck of a lot more complicated. You're taking away an 'e' and adding an 'ing' to 'write', and that's adding 'paleo' to 'ologist', where the 't' in the middle comes from I don't even know, but it's there.
Yeah... I don't even know. Although I lot of the people I see saying 'writting' also have writing full of 'plz, mcuh, or i', I've seen plenty who seem like perfectly able writers until they start repeatedly throwing that extra 't' in.
Stop being stupid. -.-
~~~
This, on the other hand, made my day, despite the errors:
"how annoying is it that the vast majority of a certain group of people who deny the existence of a certain universal being seem to think that it's perfectly logical to prove a universal negative?
example of a universal negative:There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
You can't prove this to be true, unless you have an immediate knowledge of ever crack and corner of the entire universe, and can see no Santa Claus there. aka, are omnipresent, aka are God.
so why in the WORLD do these people, whom I might add consider themselves to be supremely logical, execute this logical blunder with such blatant assumption of correctness"
~Within My Grasp (Wajas user)
This makes even less sense to me than people spelling 'lose' as 'loose' (which I've already ranted about, though not here... xP). I mean... really? Don't you know the rule of vowels? They're only long if there's only one consenant between the two of them.
Yet I've seen people on Wajas trying to hire 'writters', people asking for this 'writting' on their tag, kids in Honors English classes writing about how they dream of being 'writters' when they grow up, and so on.
Good luck with that, when you can't even spell the name of your hopeful occupation. I can spell paleontologist, and that's a heck of a lot more complicated. You're taking away an 'e' and adding an 'ing' to 'write', and that's adding 'paleo' to 'ologist', where the 't' in the middle comes from I don't even know, but it's there.
Yeah... I don't even know. Although I lot of the people I see saying 'writting' also have writing full of 'plz, mcuh, or i', I've seen plenty who seem like perfectly able writers until they start repeatedly throwing that extra 't' in.
Stop being stupid. -.-
~~~
This, on the other hand, made my day, despite the errors:
"how annoying is it that the vast majority of a certain group of people who deny the existence of a certain universal being seem to think that it's perfectly logical to prove a universal negative?
example of a universal negative:There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
You can't prove this to be true, unless you have an immediate knowledge of ever crack and corner of the entire universe, and can see no Santa Claus there. aka, are omnipresent, aka are God.
so why in the WORLD do these people, whom I might add consider themselves to be supremely logical, execute this logical blunder with such blatant assumption of correctness"
~Within My Grasp (Wajas user)
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