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Day 3. How do you come up with names for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)?

Depends on the story, depends on the character. If it's fantasy, sometimes I'll keymash and see if I can pick out anything decipherable, otherwise I'll just make things up. Same thing for the fictional places. In other stories... things like location and era matter, so those will go into consideration. As far as present day names, though, I'll usually just pull up a baby names site and pick something I like the sound of. Sometimes I take meaning into account also.

Sorry, nothing too interesting today. This question on its own is kind of a dud. ^_^;;;

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Current Mood: bored

Day 2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?

I love Ai's answer for this- it's completely perfect. I honestly don't have a lot more to say on the matter besides what she said, but I'll try. If we're talking just major characters, discounting anyone in the background or that shows up only once, counting gets a little easier. What I can come up with off the top of my head is in the ballpark of 30 or so, and I'm completely positive I'm missing a bunch, not including the minor ones I left out on purpose. As a writer, you have certain things in your arsenal. There's the physical, obviously- pen, paper, computer, thesaurus, dictionary, research materials, possibly a desk- but there's the arsenal in your head, too. Vocabulary, random plot bunnies hopping around, spelling, grammar, and yes... characters. Characters are the singular most important thing in a story, I think. More often than not, it's the characters that determine what happens. Even if your piece is plot-driven and not character-driven, your characters will still make decisions about how to react to the events that are happening, and it's not always what you expect. Despite being figments of your own imagination, they can surprise even the writer if they're developed enough. I know a lot of us, especially in roleplay, refer to our characters as "muses", but there's really some truth to that. It's like they develop minds of their own. They become real, almost, even if they're still in your head. I've had characters outright refuse to do something that I wanted them to do, for whatever reason. I suppose this is how I know whether I'm being true to their character or not, but it's certainly not something a non-writer could possibly understand. One of my older sister's exes told me once that it seemed like most writers have some degree or other of multiple personality disorder. I disagree, though I see his point. Either way, you still have all of these people, other personalities, floating around in your head all the time, and they're not always quiet. I think most people would fail to see the difference between the two.

As far as males versus females, I think they're just about equal, with maybe a slight preference toward males. There's plenty of gay people of both genders, and there's even a MtF trans person in there (and yes, she was trans WAAAY before I started reading Hourou Musuko, if anyone asks. XD). So I'd like to think there's a decent amount of gender and sexuality equality in there for the most part.

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I should really do an update-y post, and I will do that at some point, but first things first- I've decided I'm attempting National Blog Posting Month this year. To help with this, I'm snitching that writing meme that

februaryfour has been doing- this will give me something to post every day, so I won't have to be scrambling trying to think of something to write about before midnight. That being said, this meme seems to be focused on original writing, so that's what I'm going to talk about. If you don't care, well... skip these, yeah?

Day 1: Tell us about your favourite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.

Hmm. I'm not big on creating new universes- as much as I love to read fantasy, I feel like I'm not equipped to write it. Fantasy requires a lot of epic, detailed description because it's a foreign world and your words are acting as the reader's eyes, and description has ALWAYS been a weak point for me in original fiction. I always feel like I'm overdoing it, I guess, and it gets awkward. No one wants that.

That being said, I've tried on a couple of occasions to make something work. One is so undeveloped it never even got a name, but the other was Nihdon (don't ask where the name came from, I have no idea, this was back in middle school. On a side note, Google informs me that "Nihon" means "the sun's origin" in Japanese. Interesting!). As with most fantasy novels, it was a world with magic and I grew rather fond of it. If only the plot wasn't so... predictable. XD

As far as projects go, there will always be a special place in my heart for the first story I ever finished- actually, the only story I've ever finished- which I don't remember the name of and the notebook sadly got lost somewhere along the line. It was probably horrible and horrifically inaccurate. It was a Civil War thing, based on this teenage girl that had fallen in love with one of the slaves her father owned. I don't remember the girl's name, but the boy's name was James. Which should probably tell you exactly how much I cared about Whatshername. Anyway, her father went off to fight in the war, when it was starting to look bad for the South, and James ran away shortly thereafter. Whatshername eventually found a new boy, Alex, which her twin Tom wasn't too happy with. He was kind of overprotective, and kind of an ass, and pretty violent sometimes. In other words, he was fun to write. I won't bore you with any more details, especially since I don't remember a whole lot more of it, but yeah. I was 12 at the time and I'm fully aware of how soap opera like my stories got at that age. I'm never going to try re-writing it, but it'll always be special to me.

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Current Mood: geeky

Okay, yes, I really should've written before now. I'm lazy, what can I say. I got back from Texas just fine, no problems there minus Newark changing the departure gate five times in addition to a three hour delay. Not fun, but not a huge thing either. I was also able to FINALLY change the rest of what I had in Canadian back to USD at the Houston airport. Got raped on the charges, but still ended up with almost $380. Really, it's just worth it to me to have money I can USE, you know?

☁The vacation was fun- swimming in October is SO surreal, though. My sister dragged us all over hell- beach, aquarium, park, museum, food, a street with a whole bunch of touristy shops, and there was even a last minute Nickelback concert which was awesome, by the way. I'm working on getting pictures pulled together and stuff, so hopefully those should be coming soon (as soon as Kelly retrieves her camera from her boyfriend's where she left it, that is). Probably no Nickelback pics because we were just too far away, though. Oh well. It was still a good time. When Erin was at work, her friend Ian spent time with us... talking and playing with the Wii, especially being SUPER GOOD at Mario (*cough*). Found out I apparently have pretty decent aim on Link's Crossbow Training even though I suck hardcore at first person shooters (and this is actually fun, wee!). Some pretty cool stuff and I got lots of nice goodies, but it was also good to veg out for the rest of my vacation after we got back. Just... a lot of running around everywhere. Including a day where the rain chased us all day and we had to change clothes about four times. Fuuuun. Also had the most disgusting Chinese food of my entire LIFE... note to self, never get Chinese there again. EVER.

☁Not much else going on here. As much as I was out in the sun, I don't have a tan. I'm a teeny bit darker on my forearms, but that's it. *sigh* That's the problem with being as white as I am- I have two color options. Blinding white and lobster red. At least I didn't burn. XDDD I went back to work today too, which, predictably, sucked. I also got roped into switching a shift on Sunday that means waking up at 7am. UGH. In writing news, I have a couple of songs pinging me so hard for fic it's not even funny. I'm trying to decide whether I actually want to write them or not. :/

☁There's also this character I've been thinking about a lot and unintentionally developing. She started out as a genderswapped version of a character, and she's kind of... turning into an actual OC. O_o Because I totally need another neglected OC muse in my head. Pfft.

☁Stef and I are constantly talking about places we MEAN to go, but never actually do it. Example: We've been talking about taking a trip to New York City for YEARS. The most recent thing was Montreal this past summer. However, Stef apparently has it in her head that we're going to Boston for a few days in May, and that we're actually DOING it this time. *coughcough* I won't hold my breath, I don't think. Still... I've never been to Boston. So if we do go, it should be interesting. It appeals to the history geek in me. :3 We'll see what happens.

☁Wouldn't mention this except it's a total "We need to write this on a calendar!" type moment. My mother actually made a positive comment about my hair. THAT WASN'T BACKHANDED. O_O I've been coloring my hair a dark auburn color lately. I still haven't totally decided whether I like the red or not, but that's a whole other thing... my mom told me today that the color looks nice on me. *dies of shock* I think she still hates how short it is, but hell, I'll take it.

☁Because it amuses me... a snippet of conversation from the other day, when we were discussing Dragon Age. Specifically, Alistair, who it seems the general girlgaming population has a thing for. Which I kind of get, but... eh. *shrugs*

Ver: Alistair is totally the fun older brother type to me.
Fei: Yeah but Ver you are like the gayest person
Ashe: lmaaaooo truefax

...am I that obvious? <_<

☁Oh, somewhat related, I totally forgot- I think I got hit on by a cashier in Galveston... a female one. O_o She called me beautiful twice in the time it took her to ring me up for one item (tampons, embarrassingly enough, GOD). Unfortunately I didn't manage to do anything about it besides blush a lot and look around to try to figure out who she was talking to. XD

Current Mood: sleepy

☁ Sleepy. Work, do not want. I really seriously need a vacation.

☁ I went and got measured yesterday. Apparently I fail at measuring myself. The girl there measured me at 40G. So I still went down in band size and up a cup size. *groan* FML.

☁ Original writing stopped. Didn't take long. XDDD Can't say I'm surprised, though. It takes a level of concentration that I'm just not capable of at the moment.

☁ I'm waiting for SW mods to get back to me on some app questions before I continue on with it, but I'm considering journal names. Jumping the gun a little bit, maybe, but eh. Naturally there's a lot of stuff that's taken already, but in the running are take10_give11, meaning_in_pain, and sacrificialgain. Everything else I've tried hasn't been available. XD Probably out of those, the first one would be better. Still plenty of time to come up with something else, though.

Speaking of work, gotta go. See you guys later \o

Edit: Also found out last night that my mom and I actually share a liked movie. O_o Kinda weird. A Beautiful Mind is apparently one of her favorite movies, and I love stuff that fucks with my head. Just... weeeeeeird.

Current Mood: sleepy

☁ Went looking for Ron/Hermione fic the other day, just something I was in the mood for... ugh. I was regretting that, let me tell you. Badly written, OOC... I'll have to try to remember to not go looking for that pairing again. >_< I'm not exactly surprised- I remember making an observation when I first started reading fanfic that all the good writers seemed to be H/D- but I'm certainly disappointed. Meh.

☁ Found this interaction with a then coworker I wrote up a little over a year ago and thought it was amusing. And I apparently never posted it. So here we go.
Justin: I saw that! You were totally checking her out!
Me: Buh?
Justin: I could see it on your face as I was talking. "Listening to Justin, listening to Justin, SO not listening to Justin."
Me: Oh, shut up.
...kind of goes with the thing of "Do I have a rainbow on my forehead?" Because I'm not actually OUT at work, though there's a couple of people that know, and I certainly never told Justin. :/ Not that I had anything to worry about there. He had his faults, certainly, but homophobia wasn't one of them. ^_^

☁ Thinking about putting up a post here... maybe after the spotlight goes away, though. They're already drowning in posts, I don't need to add to that. I just think it's a really awesome idea. :D

☁ Working on some original fic (and no, Ai, not "Trials of a Photo Girl" XD) The influence from The Lovely Bones is clearly showing. Whoops. I may or may not ever post it or even finish it, but we'll see. ^_^ Though this is making me love yWriter. It's my new best friend. <3

☁ Trying to watch Repo! The Genetic Opera. Trying being the key word. WTF IS THIS SHIT? Edit: Finished it, eventually. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but I'm not a fan. :/

Current Mood: working

☁First and foremost, Merry Christmas to those that celebrate it. :D I will be at work, so you guys have Christmas dinner for me, kay? ^_^

☁Of course, the day after I wrote the last entry? Snow. And then it snowed again. So we're cured of the whole "December and no snow!" thing, unfortunately.

☁Work is hell. I fucking hate my job this time of year. That's all I'm going to say about that or else I'll go on forever. Which... has really been my policy recently, actually. XDDD Although I've gotten $15 in tips in the last week, which is... a lot, considering I never get tips in my job. O_o

☁When I went to go send out those snowflake cookies, LJ had just pulled them- of course- so pretend I sent you one, okay? XD Also, thanks to Cousin for sending me one. <333 Icon just for you!

☁Finished

fifthmus by some miracle. The day before it was due, even! Though I didn't send it out until the day of, simply because I had to do the "inflict it on someone else to see if it requires burning" thing. I'm still not so sure about this one. XD We shall see how that goes. On the upside, it's the first piece I've written in quite some time. On the downside... well, it's the first piece I've written in quite some time. *shifty eyes*

☁Trying to get my emulator to work so I can play Suikoden II. It worked beautifully in XP, but now.... the sound in the opening is choppy, but I can deal with that except it won't let me DO anything. The keyboard won't work. My USB controller won't work even with new drivers installed. So I have no way to PLAY the damn thing. And yes, I tried downloading new drivers and stuff, still no go.

Some days, I really, really hate Vista.

☁Got the passport put in last week. Thank god. I had to get it expedited, which I already knew, and the picture sucks but it's as good as it's going to get, so whatever. Point being that I should have that in a couple of weeks. Yay! *cheers*

☁Speaking of which, I just figured out that as long as I don't do anything stupid (hahahaha), I should go up to see Aki at the end of next month with a decent amount of money. This is a good thing, considering I thought I'd be going with less than half that. And that's even considering the bus ticket and a few purchases I have to make that's coming out of my trip fund *cough*Christmas*cough*.

☁Watching Eden of the East... I'm on episode 7 and it's really interesting so far. I'm very curious to see what happens. :D The art style is... different from what I'm used to watching, but not really in a bad way, just... different. It's only 11 episodes, though, so it's a quickie. Makes me feel a little stupid for not watching it before- Aki recced it to me a while ago, and I put it off. Sure enough, it's right up my alley. Ehehehe. ^_^;;;

☁Was finally able to finish watching Chi's New Home, too. The end was corny as hell, but still adorable, and I'm clearly a sap.

Aaaaaand I've gone on long enough. ^_^;;; Everyone be safe! <3

Current Mood: tired

☀I can't believe it's December and there's NO SNOW. We had a little the other day, but nothing stuck. This is completely unheard of where I live. Hello, Global Warming. On the upside.... well, there's no snow. On the downside... with there being no snow and also in general being unseasonably warm (still not, yanno, warm, but warmer than it usually is this time of year), it just... doesn't feel like Christmas. D:

☀Did I ever tell you guys that I caved and got Sims 3? Well... I caved and got Sims 3. XD Some things I like, some things I don't. I'm working on a few different things at the moment with that... it's sort of eaten my brain, as Sims tend to do. Oh! Biggest thing I like about this one- I can actually DO OTHER THINGS while simming. With 2, the loading screens took so long after I came back from checking on AIM or firefox or anything that I just wouldn't switch, it wasn't worth it. There's still a slight delay on 3, but it's pretty much insignificant. I -LOVE- that.

☀There is actually a bunny for

fifthmus . O_o I'd have to check, but I think that might be record early. XD It needs developing, and it's certainly not TEH BEST BUNNY EVAR, but it's something at least, and that's better than showing up empty handed. ^_^;;;

☀Continuing the Hikago rewatch, slowly but surely. It's slow going mostly because I'm taking screencaps of... well, a lot. And a lot of times I have to go back and go through stuff slowly to get a particular frame, and... guh. It generally takes about an hour and a half to go through each episode. But! When I'm done with this I'll have screencaps for pretty much anything I want ever, which is pretty cool. At some point I should probably make bases of them and post them for everyone... not all at once, of course, because there's a ton. Maybe 5-10 episodes at a time?

☀Downloaded Liquid Story Binder, just to see. I'm.... so confused. D: This really makes me wish I had a Mac, just for Scrivener (which looks completely awesome). Honestly? I will probably never use this. I would much rather have everything in one document where I can actually FIND it as opposed to ten thousand different files and I can't figure out where anything is. Although maybe that's just me, and maybe I just don't understand this program yet. It's just that at this point, it seems more frustrating than useful. I'm going to try to use this for the

fifthmus fic, though, and we'll see.

☀There was an update to the Mario firefox theme that I loved.... I hate the update. Urgh. But the old one won't work with the most recent upgrade of FF that I just downloaded this afternoon. *glowers* Guess I need to find a new theme. *grumpy grumbling* The good news, however, is that with the upgrade firefox doesn't seem to be continually eating my tabs whenever the window gets closed. So far. This is a good thing and helps Ver to not go nuts.

*EDIT* Actually, there's a really cool Christmas one that I just installed. It's whiter in parts than I like generally, but it's neat so I'll live with it. Here, I will even screencap it for you all because I'm a dork like that. <3 (It's called Tinseltown for anybody that might be interested, btw)

Current Mood: bored

1. Computer's been restarting A LOT lately. This combined with firefox crashing quite often does not make for a happy Ver. It also does not make for easy tagging. Meh.

2. Speaking of tagging (well, RP, really...)- don't know if anybody else has seen it, but there's a secret about Matt in rpsecrets. :D I found it amusing. <3

3. I have sent out the last check for the whole hospital thing. So once that gets taken out of my account (*wince*)... I NO LONGER OWE THEM ANY MONEY. \o/ Which means I can start saving for a NEW COMPUTER. SCORE. That being said... most of you know this, but I'm really, really bad at saving money. Well. Small amounts are fine, but anything more than a couple of hundred bucks is more or less impossible for me. I have -zero- impulse control when it comes to certain things. BUT! I may have come up with a solution for this. Every payday, I call and transfer money from my checking to my savings. Preferably before work so I don't spend it in the day. It's automated, so I don't have to freak about talking to someone... and if it's not somewhere I can see it, then I can't spend it. If I'm shopping and try to spend more than what's in my checking account, my card will get declined. Which... yes, would be embarrassing, but it would keep me from spending that shit. The biggest flaw I see in The Plan is that it requires me to actually remember to transfer the money every Thursday. Urgh.

But if this works, I should be able to get a laptop by mid June. \o/ And then more saving for when Aki's planning on coming down here at the end of the summer. :3

4. I'm really, really hating April 20th right now. Two of the shifts at work asked for it off, naturally, because they're potheads- leaving me to work with the store manager and this one idiot cashier all night. -_- I -hate- working with the store manager. It always feels like he's watching everything I do and it's just CREEPY. So thanks, guys. I appreciate that. (For anybody that doesn't know, 4/20 is a pot thing. Like the unofficial holiday for it or whatever.)

5. Writing... has not been happening. FAIL.

6. Naruto: It took 4 episodes to catch my interest, but now I may actually watch it for a while. But I still can't stand whiny Sasuke-fangirl Sakura. <_< Oh, and the OP still sucks. XD

7. Harry Potter: Bunch of news I found out the other day, if anyone hasn't heard:
-Movie 6 got a PG rating. What. The. FUCK. I'm now wondering what the hell they DID to it then to bring it down to PG. O_o
-They -are- putting the epilogue in movie 7. Dammit. I was really hoping they'd skip that. -_-
-Release of movie 6 has been pushed back two days- July 15 instead of July 17. Which makes it a Wednesday and therefore I have it off. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
-Depsite my reservations, the trailer for movie 6 looks good, so I'm still hoping. ^_^;;; I think... this is going to be even worse than the book in some aspects. Now... I hated canon Draco. But in Half Blood Prince, my heart broke for him. Twice. Once in the scene with Moaning Myrtle in the bathroom, and then on the tower (trying to be as less spoilerish as possible, sorry. ^_^;;;). Now... I don't know if they're actually including Myrtle in the one scene, but they did show him in the bathroom in front of the mirror, and then Draco and Harry fighting. And of course they have to include the tower bit. ^_^;;; But from what I can tell in the trailer, they included both scenes, and just from the trailer... guh. In the book, both scenes made me want to hug Draco. The movie will probably be worse. -_-

Current Mood: grumpy

1. ...I just had to show my sister how to delete one's temporary files. Which means she hasn't been doing it all along. O_o Well damn. That would certainly contribute to the issues my computer has.

Also. Need to remember to back up Ochibi soon. Alphonse hasn't come out of his box since I got him and copied the entire contents of Ochibi onto him (which was the beginning of August, apparently.) O_o I will... most likely have to do a complete copy again. Which will take forever. Over 335GB worth of stuff, whut? <_<

2. I've broken the 1k mark for the bg fic. It's mostly pointless rambling, mind, but whatever. 1k is 1k, right? ^_^;;;

3. Cleaning off my desk is always something of an experience. The good news? I just found $25. The bad news? It's in Canadian. *pouts* I know it's there for a reason, but it's hard to remember that when I need the money, god damn it. (And actually, I should have another 20 around here somewhere...)

4. Just watched Eternal Summer. I'm... a little mixed on it, to be honest. It was well done, don't get me wrong, but the passing of time was sometimes confusing, and the ending wasn't what I'd hoped for. Well. It was and it wasn't. I can't really explain it without spoiling the movie for people that haven't seen it. ^_^;;;

However, I will say this- the guy that played Jonathan is WAY too freaking adorable. I just wanted to snuggle him throughout the movie. XD

5. Gakuen Alice: 6 episodes in, and it's still... really weird. I started watching it because it sounded like crack... turns out that the cute mopey boy is voiced by Paku Romi (when I told Aki, she was like, "Of course, he's cute and mopey."), which doesn't hurt either. I have to keep remembering that they're elementary school kids, though, because god, the slash. XD Both of the male and female variety. Honestly, could they make the Hotaru/Mikan and Natsume/Luca ANY MORE OBVIOUS? The hell, they're ten year old kids! *flails at self* Okay, so it's not really that bad since it's not like I want smut or anything (eew), but still. Guh.

6. *_* It is supposed to be GORGEOUS the rest of the week. Methinks I will go out tomorrow and get my hair cut. It needs it, badly. If I feel like it and if I get out early enough to bother. ^_^;;; Also need to make an eye appointment soon so I can catch the end of my insurance year. I need the appointment anyway- I haven't gone in over a year, and it doesn't seem like I'm seeing quite as well all of a sudden. Might need a higher prescription on my lenses.

.....okay, I'm going to quit being boring now. ^_^;;; After 5am and I'm rambling mindlessly, it's time for bed!

Current Mood: lazy

1. Gah. Either I'm sick again or I've suddenly developed allergies (as I've never had them before). Eeeeew. Not being able to sleep because you can't breathe when you lie down? SO not fun. It does, however, seem a little bit better today. *hopes*

2. It figures. When I have plenty of time to write, I don't... but give me fifteen minutes before work or during my break or something and all of a sudden writing gets done. *headdesk* Fail, Ver, epic fail.

3. Finally was able to watch the last episode of Tales of the Abyss. It... well, it left me with questions. :3 I would probably like the video game better, if I could get my hands on it. Being from a game and only being 26 episodes, I'm sure everything was rushed and things cut out. Also... Video Game Logic is different from Anime Logic, and thus seeing the original form would be better. XD

But at least that's finally done now and I can move on to something else.

4. *sigh* Day before Easter. I -so- don't want to go to work, I can't even tell you. I hate retail. Speaking of which... meep. I should probably start getting ready. >_< Bah. DO NOT WANT.

Current Mood: sick

1. Caught up with Tales of the Abyss, finally. Now I just have to wait for the last episode to be subbed. *sigh* I was hoping to get it done tonight, but alas...

2. Also found the first four episodes of Chi's Sweet Home 2. It's still cute, though I don't like the new opening song. Can we have the old one back? T_T

3. My body hates me. I'm now officially a cycle late, and today was day 3 of cramps out of nowhere. >_< BAH. I usually only get those the first day, so I don't know what that's about. I'm 25... shouldn't my period have stopped being all multiple personality on me by now? ~~At least I know I'm definitely not pregnant...~~

4. I have a bunny for

blind_go . Well, sort of. It's a baby bunny. Like this:

No idea what direction this is going in, though. It could very well implode on itself. *sigh* Still. It's something! *cheers, works on putting a music playlist together for inspiration~*

5. Speaking of writing, Ai linked this and I think it's totally worth sharing: WRITER'S QUEST!

6. I am...... not resisting the urge to write an RP application for Inui from Prince of Tennis. I'm NOT. <_< Especially when I owe a bunch of tags as it is. >_>

Shoot me now. *headdesk*

7. Work has been fun. So fun I don't even want to talk about it. *groan* One of these days I'll make a giant TL;DR post about it. Maybe. Might just as easily decide it's not worth the effort. -_-

Current Mood: drained

1. FUCK. Just realized that the size of box I was planning to use to send stuff out with (the smallest one, because it's waaaaaay cheaper than the others).... is also waaaaaay too small. *headdesk* Weight wise is fine. Hell, I'm sending candy to one person and pasta to another, a four pound weight limit isn't exactly a problem. But the box itself? Is 8 5/8″ x 5 3/8″ x 1 5/8″. *headdesks more* I don't know how I didn't realize that, I print pictures all day, and two of the sizes are 5x7 and 6x8. YOU'D THINK I'D AT LEAST HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW BIG THAT IS. So yeah. I'm going to have to go at least one size up, because that's freaking tiny. Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaap. Also, I won't be able to send letters in them either like I was going to, because that's apparently Not Allowed. Suck.

2. There's more snow on the ground. *sigh* And I was liking being able to see some grass for the first time since, what, November? At least it wasn't that much. And, unfortunately, it's not unexpected for upstate NY. Anything from October to mid-April or so is totally fair game for snow.

3. I've always loved history, so it was really only a matter of time before I checked out Hetalia. Though to be honest, I avoided it because of all the wank, but Aki describing it to me as "Crack with a side of crack and crack sprinkles" prompted me to download the first three episodes. My first thought, aside from "what the hell?"....... people actually take this seriously enough to wank about it? It's CLEARLY not meant to be taken seriously. .................okay, I can see Italians getting a little miffed. Italy makes me cringe and I'm not even Italian. I don't have any particular issues with any of the others, though. America is dumb as expected. Can't say I have any arguments there.

All in all I don't see what the big deal is. It's amusing enough that I'll keep watching it, but I don't really see why there's all the wank. The author is either completely insane or was taking some REALLY good drugs when they were writing it. That's it, end of story, it's not anything to get zomgsooffended over. Bottom line? Don't like it, don't watch/read it. It's that simple. Then again, my tolerance for wank is...... er............... practically non-existent, so................. ^_^;;;

4. Need to start really watching stuff again, though. I burned myself out on A Little Snow Fairy Sugar and haven't really picked up anything since. Well. I watched two episodes of FLCL. I'll finish it because it's only 6 episodes to begin with, but what the fuck?! Maybe I'll try picking up Nabari again today...

5. I've written a drabble. *dances* And started trying to work on one of the "drabbles" I owe, though that seems to be rough going for some reason. I have it mostly plotted out too. Grrr.

6. Sore today. Meh. Did four and a half pages of price changes in cosmetic, most of which involved being on my knees and crouching. In three hours. When the woman doing them in the morning only managed to get the first 2/3 of a page done in five hours. Some of the people I work with really suck. So yeah, mostly going to relax today, I think. Maybe get some Chinese food. :9

Current Mood: sore

I really, really need to get into the habit of writing again. Seriously. I haven't written a single thing outside of RP since the last mini round of blind_go, and those were freaking DRABBLES. TWO MONTHS AGO. It's not really writer's block, I just haven't even attempted to sit and write anything. Pathetic, huh? Especially when I -still- owe fic from round 3 of blind_go. Erm. Whoops. <_<

Also need to suck it the fuck up and do my taxes. I know I'm nervous about what's going to happen, but they still need to get done. *kicks self* Also, cleaning. I want to get my xbox in my room, and I can't do that till the corner of my room where the tv is gets cleaned out. *headdesks* Fail, Ver, for doing nothing you needed to do on your days off.

Maybe as far as the writing goes, I should do drabbles to start with. A daily drabble or whatever. Well, it would be SOMETHING anyway. 100 words or so is better than zero. Andhey, it could still be just parts if I want, not separate drabbles. ^_^ Maybe I could even do drabbles for original stuff! :D I won't count on that part, though. But at least... maybe this might help me knock off some of those things that I owe.

The rest of it... I just need to bite the bullet and do it. Bah. I'm no good at that.

Current Mood: sleepy

1. Internet is back as of yesterday, though I didn't get to do much with it yesterday, with the whole "family time" thing and all. Ugh. I'm still keeping the hiatus up on Squarewarts for a little while longer, though, because I'm still trying to download programs and stuff and that slows down my computer quite a bit, so... yeah. But I seem to be back for now. Till my computer inevitably fucks up again. ^_^;;;

2. Erin changed her mind, again, and so we did Christmas yesterday. I got a cool new digital camera (random, but still cool) and the stuff to go with it. I'm going to have some fun playing with that. :P

Dealing with my family is just... exhausting. Ugh. No wonder I hide out in my room all the time. Especially when I'm still feeling down from the SAD and the PMS and everything else going on. -_-

3. The other day I got my first non-fanfic bunny in a really, really long time. <3! I mean... god. I just checked the writing journal. I haven't written anything original since Nov. 25th, 2006. Fucking 2006. O_o ~~Probably because anime ate my brain a little bit... <_<~~ Though I can't even say this is particularly original either, the idea has definitely been done, but whatever. It's something! :D Now I just have to do some character building here. Names would be good for a start. ^_^;;;

4. Organizing my email inbox. Ugh. But it needs to be done, I've got four pages of saved email in there. >_< ..............ahh, much better. ^_^

Ehehe, this has been sitting here for over an hour, think it's time to post it and start getting ready for work. I clearly have nothing else to say anyway. ^_^;;;

Current Mood: tired

1. Is it just me or is the rich text editor tab thingie in the post entry page gone? Did I miss a memo there? Perfectly possible, of course, I was just wondering why all of a sudden there's only an option for HTML.

2. While I'm stuck home for right now, I'm not really on the computer a lot, as the recliner chair in the living room is the most comfortable place for me to be right now. Even when I am awake, which, let's be honest, isn't happening much recently. *shifty eyes* However... I did finish The World Ends With You today. The basic storyline, not the extra stuff, I'm going to work on that. Good to know the half hour or so I have between the time I take meds to the time I crash is good for something. ^_^;;;; Anyway, it's a good game, even if I have lingering questions that are apparently going to be answered by going through the extra stuff. You know, later. Next up: Try to catch up on some reading, and then maybe pull out another DS/GBA game to work on. I'm thinking either Phantom Hourglass, Partners in Time, or FFVI. Haven't decided which yet.

3. Need to try to finish reading BG and make some guesses. Should probably start that soon, actually, since there's the whole "sitting down at the computer for an extended period of time doesn't exactly make my stomach very happy" thing, so I'll have to do that in shifts. Meh. Other plans for computer time: anime and rp~

Speaking of BG, I have one correct guess (and no, I'm not telling you who pinned me)... no other takers? And no, Sherri, you can not guess, that's cheating. XDDD

4. Received a get well card in the mail from Scott and his wife. It was a sweet thought (even if Sue probably made him do it XD), and I suppose it makes up for a little bit of how he was acting before. A little. He was still an asshole. But this at least takes the edge off the anger.

5. Subrosa- so not happening unless a miracle fairy comes down to save my sorry ass. I'm not even awake half the day, much less coherent enough to write. (Then again, the fic can't get much worse....) I've got a basic concept, it's just something that needs to be developed. EXECUTION. Really... the concepts have been halfway decent recently (Er.. well, for me, anyway. I'm considering something resembling plot to be "halfway decent" here. ^_^;;;;). It's the execution that sucks, and I'm not really sure why that's happening.

...hell, I can't think about that right now. *yawns* Think I'm going to pass out for a while. ^_^;;;

Current Mood: sleepy

I think I finally have a bunny for subrosa. *cheers* Whether it'll even make it anywhere near 3500 words is a whole other issue, but for right now I'm not going to worry about it. *scribbles notes in her notebook*

Just... thank GOD. I was getting worried. ^_^;;; The funny part is that this is really thanks to Kelly. I asked her to give me a few prompts (i.e. "Give me a verb" and so on)... and while none of them have absolutely anything to do with the bunny, one sort of lead to the bunny in an oddball way. Whatever works, right? ^_^;;;

Current subrosa word count: 194

*Edited because I clearly fail at English. This doesn't exactly bode well.*

Current Mood: working

Sorry, that just amused me for a title. XD At any rate... I wrote up a letter/drabble thing for Sivu between yesterday and today. Though I think at 523 words, it hardly qualifies as a drabble anymore, but nevermind. XD I'll post it when she gets it... but in the meantime, it seems that the writing streak is continuing, even if I'm still not producing a lot of stuff. A little is okay too. ^_^ This makes me happy. <3

Apparently the plan is that Mom's going to be released tomorrow morning. I'm glad she's okay, don't get me wrong here... but I'm not really looking forward to her return. Simply because I know my mother. She's going to come home and just whine and bitch and complain the whole time, and I'm expected to stay home with her all day tomorrow and babysit. Lovely.

I made this white cheddar pasta/broccoli/chicken thing that actually turned out well. Yum~! Look, I can cook! (....sorta...)

All in all, not a bad day, and actually semi-productive. I still definitely have things I want to get done (like more spam from the writing journal XD... catch up on some fic and comments...), but not bad.

(Note to self for later: Perfect Christmas present for Stef here. Not now, obviously, but definitely will have to remember that in a few months.)

**EDIT** Weird. My phone decided it randomly didn't want to have service. And I've always had service at home. O_o This... is not good. Maybe some kind of problem with the network? I've tried turning it off and turning it back on again, it doesn't help anything. *twitches*

**EDIT 2** It's back. That was... very weird. And random. And NOT COOL. *shakes fist*

*stumbles out of bed, blinks around*

So

fifthmus got sent in last night, even though they changed the freaking deadline on me last minute. *grumbles* I actually kind of like my submission this time, and I can count on one hand the number of fics on my writing journal I actually like. ^_^;;;;; Hopefully my recipient likes it as well? I guess we'll see.... Though as per usual I did not send it to a beta, simply put it up for Akichan and went "This isn't horrible, right? D: " .....I really should start using betas. Seriously. The things I write are generally received well enough without using one, but that's hardly the point. XD Just because something is decent, that doesn't mean it can't be better. I want to be better. Problem is I'm just too lazy most of the time. XD

On the upside of finishing before the original deadline? Dude. I CAN HAZ FREE DRABBLZ. *_*

So mostly I worked on this stupid songfic yesterday- started actually writing it, since

fifthmus was done- and ended up with about four pages written out, which was 782 words. 782 extremely easy words. Too bad I couldn't use this for

fifthmus, because honestly, it would've been a hell of a lot easier, this is practically writing itself. I'm maybe halfway through it? And I sent what I had to Akichan, so she could get some of the yelling out of the way for not writing a songfic properly, and she actually said it wasn't bad. You know what? For my first stab at this type of writing, I'll take "not bad", at least for now. I'll poke at her about it later when I'm done with it. By the way, if you guys are curious about what happened with the Waya or Ko thing, it basically settled itself. ^_^

The agenda for today? Well, go back to bed for a while, for starters, since I only got about five hours sleep. Then some writing, maybe some cleaning, and I want to finish Lost In Blue 2. Maybe grab some Chinese takeout. <3 That'll probably be about it, to be honest. XD Okay. Sleep now. Later!

Current Mood: sleepy

1. My body hates me. I had half of a Smirnoff Ice last night- actually, not even half- and I woke up feeling hung over. Fantastic. This is why I don't usually drink. It doesn't matter how much I have, even if I don't get so much as a buzz, I feel like shit the next day. Gah.

2. This? Looks really good. I WANTS. *sigh* Computer first. On the upside, by the time I get the new computer (and back up hard drive, because yeah, that's VERY important to me), hopefully the price will have gone down a little?

3.

fifthmus count: 948. And I have to go to work soon, and the thing is due TONIGHT. *headdesk* I. Am. Screwed. And let's not even talk about the

subrosa_tennis fic I don't even have an idea for yet, much less words written. *more headdesking*

4. I cleaned out one of the plastic drawers near my desk that didn't have much of anything in it anyway, so I now have a place for my doujin. Woot! It's kind of weird thinking that I have a special drawer for that, though. And hopefully no one decides to go through it, because... yeah. Most of it's porn. And trying to explain that? Not fun.

I should try to add a couple of more words to this before I get in the shower. That's probably about how much it'll amount to, too. XD Later!

**EDIT** YESSSSSS. It's over the minimum, FINALLY. Okay, barely, but still. Eight words over is eight words over. Now I get to print this out and try to do some self beta at work, if I have time.

Current Mood: stressed

*sigh* Apparently you guys can't decide either, because the poll came out 50/50. XD So... I guess I'll just have to figure it out on my own or something? XDDD

Work last night was hell. I was -lucky- to get out by 10:30- I was ringing all night because Henry called out, and then I couldn't start anything until 10 because there was this freaking brain damaged lady doing two photobooks for TWO AND A HALF HOURS that I had to babysit. What killed me is toward the end she was like, "Lucky you had time for this." I'm like........ uh, no, actually, I didn't. Luckily, Mary helped a little, doing what she could between customers. She knows what this woman is like, so I think she just felt sorry for me, but whatever. XD Plus there was this guy trying to scam us- again, on the photobooks that were on sale. So...... yeah, yesterday was LOVELY.

fifthmus count: 923. *headdesk* Trying to squeeze more words out of this is like trying to get freaking blood out of a rock. And we all know by now how description is NOT my thing. XDDDD *dead*

I haz Phoenix Wright doujin. And they're just perfect. *squees* Hmm. I guess I should probably find a place to put my growing collection of these, huh? Most of them are still FMA, but whatever. XD This is kind of like how I need to find room for all my books? *shifty eyes* Akichan suggested selling some and I was like "NO! I just need more space for them, that's all!" XDDD Worse come to worse, I can always pack some away as I work on cleaning my room. I guess. If I have to. XDDD

I'm getting close to the end in Lost in Blue 2, unless I choose to do some more fooling around and exploring areas I didn't bother with, or building the two tree houses. *cheers* Not sure if I'm going to do that, though. I kind of don't particularly want to, and I have too many unfinished games sitting here to justify screwing around for no reason on one of them. XDDD

Alright. It's almost 2. I need to find something of reasonable substance to eat and get ready for work. I guess. Oh, and mom wants me to take out two bags of garbage before I go. *sigh* Later!

Current Mood: don't wanna go to work

Just about had a heart attack last night when my external hard drive randomly turned itself off and wouldn't turn back on. It turned out that the socket it was plugged into must be dead, because when I put it in a different socket it worked fine, thank god. ^_^;;;; I was completely flipping out because yeah, EVERYTHING is on that drive. So, okay, we're going to rearrange the priorities a little bit here for upcoming purchases. First is still the new lappie, but then after that I'm getting another external hard drive as a back up- it'll be plugged in when I'm actually putting something on it, but otherwise, it'll be unplugged and put away somewhere safe. Then after that I'll get the new bed. ^_^[Poll #1226179]

Current Mood: contemplative

Hmm. Lot of posting the last couple of days. *shrug*

The good news is that the

fifthmus fic is done, at least the initial writing of it anyway. The bad news? It's 735 words. As in, 265 words short of the minimum. *headdesk* I have roughly half an hour before I need to actually get ready for work, so it won't happen then, but maybe I can at least figure out where the hell I can squeeze more words out of it? *sighs* And then maybe some writing at work, but probably not, the way things have been going at work lately. I have too many projects to work on for that. *sighs again*

Okay. Back to Abiword for me.

Current Mood: anxious

I'll catch up on the flist and everything in a second. I just got home a few minutes ago and my head hurts wicked bad, so I'm not all that gung-ho about doing much of anything at the moment.

I got talked into going to see the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight, which is why I'm only now getting home. Of course, it didn't help that they had technical difficulties and there was nothing until about 12:30. By the time the movie actually started, it was 12:45. Guh. Needless to say, we had a theater full of people and a bunch of them were MUTINOUS, so that portion of the night's entertainment? Not so fun. The movie itself, though? Very good. I was actually surprised at how good. Heath Ledger was... completely unrecognizable, which really just proves how good of an actor he was. If I hadn't already known it was him, I never would've guessed, and it was totally amazing in a really sick way. Because... yeah, the role was... completely fucked up. Worth it? Oh yeah. ^_^

Came home to a letter from a collection agency. Apparently there was yet another bill from the doctors office when I went earlier this year- this one I never remember seeing, and it's a little bit short of $40. So all in all, the visit to the doctor cost me over triple what it would've cost to go to urgent care. *sigh*

I should write. But... I'm thinking I'm too tired to concentrate, and I don't have Akichan making me stay up this time... so I think I'll go to bed and just get up semi early. And make sure that I write. That's the important part. XDDD

Ahhhh, I feel better now. I just checked up on the journal of someone who I bought doujin from (Phoenix Wright, yay! <3)... it's been almost a month and I hadn't heard anything, so I was starting to get a bit concerned... apparently there was a delay but they should be coming. Woot! ^_^

Yeah. Okay. Bed now. Writing later. Byeee~

Current Mood: tired

Okay, so I've got this plot bunny... that's the good news, that there's a bunny in existence. The bad news is it's not one I want to write. XDDD For the first time in a long time, this particular icon is very apt. And the worst part? It wants to be a songfic. *headdesk* Shoot me now? And sadly, I don't think I can apply it toward anything I owe, either... I'll probably end up writing it anyway, because it's kind of taking over my brain.

fifthmus fic is at a standstill. *headdesks again* I was going to work on it today- but then ended up getting dragged out with mom for a while, and... yeah. Let's just say I've spent entirely too much on food the last couple of days. I guess the good part about that is that now I don't have to feel guilty about eating the food mom buys to save myself the grocery money (because, you know, less money used for groceries <_<)...

In other money related news, Kelly took $10 off my desk without even asking me first. I came home to a note on my desk, "I owe you $10, I'll pay you back on Friday!" ......gee, thanks for checking with me to make sure that was okay first. >_< It's not so much the money as the principle of the thing, you know? You don't just take other people's stuff. Well... apparently not.

Alright. My clothes are finally clean and dry (took two rounds in the dryer for some reason <_<) and I'm half asleep, so I think I'll go to bed. *yawns* Screw the shower, I'll take it when I get up. ^_^;;; Night all!

I think there's something I meant to put up and can't remember right now. Hmm...

Current Mood: sleepy

*laughs* Sometimes my subconscious brain can be quite entertaining. So I started my

fifthmus fic yesterday on my break at work, right? I couldn't look anything up, so I made notes to myself on the paper to look up this or research that (because honestly, I have NO CLUE)... and then realized what I was writing, and who I was writing it for. *laughs* Okay, you guys have no idea, but trust me, it's funny. It's completely brilliant, actually. I just hope I can pull it off well, because if I screw this up, it's REALLY a bad person to do it for. XDDD Too bad I don't have any good experience in this area...

Okay, I just had to share. Now that my laundry's brought in, I really need to go back to bed now. ^_^;;;;; See you guys later~

Current Mood: amused

I am happy to report that I spent some time writing yesterday (I know, shocker, right? XD) and the word count for

blind_go will not be a problem. I've also set a goal for myself this round, but we'll see how that goes, though as it stands, if I don't make that goal it's not a big deal. I'll just do it some other time, outside of

blind_go, that's all. ^_^

Since everyone else seems to be doing it, I've been reminded of my old Anime and Manga list. I still feel like I'm forgetting things on both, honestly... both lists are really quite pathetic, but the manga more so. I'm an anime girl, really. ^_^;;;;;

I've also been reminded of OkCupid... and that I actually have an account there. O_o I don't remember doing that, but apparently it was back in February. I didn't do a whole lot, it looks like, except fill out a little bit of a profile and take quizzes- so I strongly suspect I only made an account to keep track of my quiz results. XD I would totally do something like that.

And now that it's quarter after one and this is still completely pointless, I think I should go take a shower and then do something productive. Like editing for

ihikago. Or writing. Either one would be good.

Current Mood: apathetic

GAH. TWO DAYS IN A ROW. Monday it was video games, and yesterday, Stef and I were at Barnes and Noble, and......... *sigh* I'm telling you, zero self control. XD So... my new shinies:

-No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty (We all know plot is basically the bane of my existence as a writer. So... hopefully this will help with that. I'll let you guys know how it is. Though the cashier gave me a high recommendation. It was fun, talking about plot and characters and writing with a live person for a change, even if it was only for a few minutes. ^_^ Not that I don't love you all (<333), but online is different, and it was like, 'wow, it's nice actually talking to someone about this stuff.' You know? Or maybe you don't and I sound like a jerk, in which case, I apologize. I mean no offense. ^_^;;;;;;;;;; )
-The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (I remember reading this in high school and LOVING it, so I picked it up. I'm now on chapter three and have one comment: <3)
-Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (Apparently, a sequel to the previous.)
-xxxHolic Volume One- CLAMP (Going to try it, and we'll see how it goes.)
-ALL FOUR TEMERAIRE BOOKS. BECAUSE AI KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THEM AND THERE WAS A SET OF THE FIRST THREE ON DISPLAY THAT CAUGHT MY EYE AND GUH. And it drives me up the wall when I'm in the middle of a series and don't have the next book, and can't get it, so... yeah. Got the fourth one too. >_< Never mind that I don't even know if I'll LIKE these books. I've bought whole trilogies without reading them first, but that's always been when I've already been familiar with the author. I'm really hoping I don't end up regretting this.)

After shopping and spending WAY too much money, Stef and I went back to my house for the specific purpose of playing DDR. I only have one pad, so we played by just switching off on songs. The end result? It was seriously fun, we played for over four hours, and Stef is seriously considering getting a second pad for us so we can actually play against each other. XD

On that note, I should probably go back to bed. *yawns*

Current Mood: sleepy

1. I should post the recent

blind_go chat drabbles to the writing journal. And the kink meme stuff. I'm still working on those. *sigh* Not now, but... maybe later.

2. I think I'm working on getting sick. My throat feels funny and it hurts a little bit to swallow. Fantastic. I'm taking zinc and vitamin c when I remember, though, so maybe it won't be too bad? XDDD This... does not bode well for

ihikago, however. <_< But it also might explain why I've been so god damn tired lately.

3. Katie (the morning photo person on Saturdays) apparently called in. Fucking great. I don't wanna go to work. -_- When I get in I'm going to have to start up the whole lab, do everybody's film that's been sitting there since I left last night, customers are going to be bitchy... and my lovely coworkers were probably telling people I'd have everything done by 4pm. Um... no? When the machine doesn't get booted up at its normal time, it's wicked slow: meaning, it'll be 4pm by the time I even get the machine running. Pictures... will not be done. *sigh* They apparently wanted me to go in early, but considering that it's now a little after two, I don't think that's happening. They called my phone at like.. 9am. What the hell? At 9am I'm SLEEPING. Not gonna hear the phone, I promise.

4. *back twinges* Oh jeez. I hope to hell that's not cramps. Then again, the timing on that would be astronomically bad, so knowing my body, it probably is. *sighs and takes Pamprin along with the zinc and vitamin c, packs a heating patch and pad in work bag just in case*

*Note to self: Need to buy more pads.

Okay. Well I should probably go get dressed for work and everything (ugh), but I'll see you guys later. With any luck I'll be able to get a little bit of writing done. Hope everyone else has a good day~

*EDIT** Gah, I forgot about the damn question meme -again-. FAIL. I have one question I'm still stuck on- I'll try to think about it and post the answers tonight. XD

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Bad Day- Fuel

Okay, I think I'm required to shoot myself now. I got the

subrosa_tennis fic sent in... 43 minutes before deadline. XD I've cut it closer, but still. I was kind of freaking out. Then there's the part where I didn't have time to beta it. I didn't even look it over myself, really, and I know that's a wicked bad move. I'm going to look at it later and go *headdesk* because of a typo or something stupid I did. And Akichan isn't on, the brat, so I can't even force it on her to see if it's somewhat readable. Gah. I... just... I didn't put my best foot forward here and I know it. XD Can I take my submission back? Because the fandom will tear me to shreds, I know it. XDDD

On the upside, I didn't end up using the fic that started out as Hikago, so I can actually wrap that up and post it as it was originally meant to be. A bit late for Valentine's Day, but, you know, whatever. XDDD

Also, I haven't had a chance to check this out yet due to "zomgpanic", but... SHINY. Dude... Adventures of Lolo... Bubble Bobble... Dr. Mario... Double Dragon... Friday the 13th... Zelda (the original, you know, the one in the gold cartridge way back in the day)... Tiny Toon Adventures... Who Framed Roger Rabbit... like, all this original Nintendo stuff I played as a kid. *_* Actually... now that I've got the deadline out of the way... I'm going to go play. ^_^

**EDIT** Holy hell Tiny Toon Adventures is a hell of a lot harder on a keyboard. >_< Although Dizzy is cuter than hell when he jumps. ~<3

Current Mood: anxious

1. I finished Phoenix Wright finally. Whee! Of course, this means I'll have to figure out something else to occupy my time during lunch breaks at work, but whatever. XD I have a bazillion games already that I haven't finished. My PS2 has been practically abandoned! :o This must be remedied!

2. I am NOT seriously considering going to Anime North. I'm not. <_< I also didn't figure out that if I'm very, VERY careful between now and then I can save at least $400 for the trip including travel expenses and con tickets and whatnot. Of course, we'll also have to see what happens with the hotel, but whatever. We'll also see how good I am- no books. No video games. Nothing aside from what I need. Hmm, that reminds me, I'll need a haircut before that too. XD

3. Man. Money. -_- Such an issue. I have an eye appointment next week. Anime North possibly. Passport. Hair. GAH. Ohhhhhhhhh wait! Tax returns! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 *hearts everyone* I'll still have to save because I don't want to use ALL of that for Anime North, but... yay. <3

4. Akichan didn't convince me to apply for a collab which involves Hikaru/Akira/Waya/Isumi. <_< *denies* Oh hell. >_<

5. Diet starts... now. I have three and a half months. ~~I know I'll be going 'forget it' by dinner, but whatever.~~ That's three and a half months to lose as much weight as I can. Specifically, I'd like to be able to get below a certain number. Ah what the hell. 200. I want to get below 200. Which is reasonable, by the way, because I've hung around 215ish for the last several years. I can do 15-20 pounds in three and a half months. Fight-O! Um... anyone wanna diet with me? And make me do it? XDDDDD

Current Mood: crazy

Geez, shouldn't I be working on

subrosa_tennis? Gah. The muses there just aren't cooperating with me at ALL. They're totally being overshadowed by the Hikaru No Go muses. Particularly Hikaru, who's been getting A LOT of attention lately through various different things. He quite enjoys the journal aspect- he can talk for himself instead of through me and he loves that. ^_^;;;

It's not just subrosa, though, I haven't been writing at all. -_- Not a good thing really. I need to fix that. So many things I still owe! And subrosa! And, you know, I'd like to get my

blind_go round three reward drabbles done before round 5 appears. (Is it going to be round 5? Or does the fanart round count as 5? Well, whatever. XD) Man. *pokes muses*

Maaya got to see first hand last night why I have trouble plotting- I'm so ADD that I'll be trying and get continually distracted. XDDD "And then- oooh look, shiny thing! *wanders off*" On the other hand... PLOT. Wheee!

On that note, I've been craving Chinese wicked bad since yesterday, so I think I'm going to go get some. <3

Current Mood: hungry

*snicker* I just googled myself, just for fun, right? Apparently my name is somewhat common, because the person who is ME doesn't actually show up until page two. And it's just once, under classmates.com. Interesting. Verloren1983, however, comes up A LOT. ^_^;;; And... er. Wait. They make podcasts of the voice posts on LJ? What?! That's just... And that site isn't even the only one doing it! Okay, now I'm pissed. Who the hell gave them permission to do that? Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

I don't even know what's going on lately, I'm just so tired. I haven't been keeping up with anything and I don't have any excuse with the holidays being over... I still have

blind_go fics that I haven't read, for god sakes! Haven't touched

christmas_cacti ,

subrosa_tennis , half of the

fifthmus stuff, the other PoT challenge I can't seem to think of at the moment... I haven't been keeping up with journals, but I REALLY haven't been keeping up with fic, and I haven't been writing. *sigh* I just... fail, lately. -_- And I signed up for

subrosa_tennis WHY?!

In other news... the comment meme that's been going around. First for this journal:

( My journal... )

...I think this means that I need to write more fic. Or that I need to actually pimp myself out on occasion. XD It also means that Ai talks a lot. XDDD (I love you, Ai! <3)

Current Mood: blah

Posted the Kaga/Tsutsui genderswitch because I'm clearly insane. It's probably in desperate need of a beta, but... meh. I didn't feel like it. XD I need to catch up the public writing comms on GJ and IJ, too. I keep forgetting. There's now two drabbles that need to be posted. <_< Whoops?

I really need to write up that letter drabble. It's probably going to be a gazillion pages, because the paper's small and my handwriting is big and it's over 600 words. Um... yeah. So I've been procrastinating on it. Meh.

I also have new manga to read, so I should probably get started on that at some point. XD Volumes 5-9 of Fullmetal Alchemist and the first two volumes of Prince of Tennis.

In other news, this is probably the scariest thing I've seen in a long time. It's just... there are no words. Religious extremists have always frightened me, but this is... wow. These kids are... O_o Very scary. There were a few points where I felt sick to my stomach watching this. And if they can swing any election? Dude. I'm so moving. XD

I should probably go get dressed and stuff for work. Later! <3

My computer is having issues today. >_< It keeps doing the restarting thing, and just... guh.

Did I mention that I actually got one of the letter drabbles done? Well... okay, that's only partially true. What I'm going to be sending out is done. However, there will be more, because the characters involved aren't done playing in this particular universe yet. ^_^;;; Even if there's not many people that would be interested in it, I don't think... ah well. XD

Oh, I got something of a bunny for another prompt I owe, only... er... it's probably not what the person had in mind. At all. Okay,

sivullinen... I'm talking about your request for Kaga/Tsutsui genderswitch... this is definitely going to be angst. If that's not okay, I can not put your name on it and write something else later that's not angst. It's probably going to be at least a few days, maybe even a week before I finish/post it, so let me know, okay? <3

And... I totally just crashed in the middle of RP. I'd known I was tired, but... wow. And I was asleep for three hours. >_< Think I might've freaked out akichan just a little... I've never crashed on her before. Man. So not cool.

I need to go to bed for real, though... see you guys later!

Current Mood: distressed

I'm not doing links because I'm lazy- and because the writing journal is flocked anyway, so I'd have to send you over to insanejournal or something anyway, and I just don't feel like it. XD I don't have that much fic. If you want to find these, trust me, it won't be that hard. XDDD

(Stolen from

aiwritingfic.)

( A Year In Fic )

Current Mood: frustrated

1. Now I'm really kind of glad I didn't end up writing

sivullinen's first

fifthmus request, which I'd considered- [Unknown site tag]

tarigwaemir wrote it way better than I ever could. *dies* I want to be able to write like that. Honestly. The thing is, I'm mostly a dialogue type person, in both life and in writing... I don't do the deep introspective pieces that make people go "wow". I make them laugh usually, and occasionally I'll get some keyboard smashing or a squee, but... *sigh* And no, I'm not fishing for comments or anything here, it's just... something I need to work on, and I know that. Being aware of your own faults is a good thing, right? XD

2. Now that the holidays are over, I'm starting to look at the things that I owe again- in particular, one of the letter "drabbles" that I'd been working on before. Which is SO no longer a drabble. We're approaching 500 words now and so not done yet. <_< Let's just say there's a character that's been feeling kind of neglected lately and he wants to play. XD *pets him*

3. I think there's only two or three fics left and then I'm caught up on fifthmus. At least until tomorrow. Yay! And... erm... I should probably respond to comments on my own at some point. Yesh. I should do that tonight, actually. *nods*

4. My sister kills me. She waits until almost midnight to tell me that we don't have any cat food. GUH. >_< Not to mention that she was being a complete bitch earlier. *stabs at her* I love how I'm supposed to drop everything when she randomly decides she wants to hang out, but if we have plans and her boyfriend calls, I get ditched. Lately it's been an issue almost whenever I've been rp-ing with Akichan. My sister's response to this? "Well, I had you first, so she can wait." Er... WHAT? I can't stand how her rules apply to everyone else but her, and it's really been pissing me off lately. No, I'm not going to drop everything for you, any more than you would do that for me. I can't believe you even expect that of me. Just because I don't have a boyfriend doesn't mean I don't have a social life (even if said social life is mostly on the computer), and you can't just swoop in whenever you damn well feel like it. I am not at your fucking beck and call. (Er... can you tell that this pisses me off just a little? XDDD)

5. I've decided I need a list of things that I need to take care of this upcoming year. As soon as possible, actually. All of the major things I need to deal with that have to do with money to some degree or other. Feel free to skip. XD

( The big to do list )

Okay. It's been almost an hour now. I think I need to go to the grocery store and make sure my damn cat has food. Guh.

**EDIT** I got vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce,

aiwritingfic, and it is completely and utterly your fault!

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