| In Case it Wasn't Already Obvious... |
[Nov. 14th, 2006|03:15 pm] |
This Journal is now closed. Please refer to my current journal at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) divinebird until future notice.
There is a possibility that I will reopen this one someday, which is why I'm not deleting it, but for now I'm going to just say it for real that I'm no longer posting here.
I am also making the archive friends-only, because I haven't got the time to sort through three years of posts just to filter out the ones that I don't want to keep right now. XD
Ta,
Jenny |
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[Jul. 24th, 2005|12:43 am] |
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Someone please help me.
I'm knitting socks on needles that are literally no bigger than two toothpicks placed end-to-end.
There are four needles.
This is my second pair of socks EVER--the first pair was made last year on huge needles with bulky yarn. These are being made with something just a bit heavier than perle cotton.
Am I crazy?
At least the heel's been turned, and I'm decreasing into the foot area, but omg. And after this one, I have to knit another.
OH and to make this interactive: I'm using a self-striping yarn in pink, maroon, orange, and yellow. I think of these as Dunkin Donuts socks, though with the yellow they're more like Lifesaver socks. Or Froot Loop socks.
ANYWAY...
I started with orange and ended up with a yellow heel. Should I start from the same point again when I start the next pair, or should I deliberately start at a different spot, in the hopes that the heel will be a different color?
Talk amongst yourselves. |
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| GRR! ARGH!! WHINE!!! |
[Jul. 15th, 2005|04:54 pm] |
@#$% plug for my printer/scanner is NOWHERE to be found. I know there are more boxes I haven't unpacked, but I'm actually getting worried that it's gone. As in, GONE. Poof. NOWHERE. I am pissed and tired and I don't want to go back to work tonight at 8pm and then stay until 330am because Harry Potter strikes at midnight. I want to sleep. I didn't want to be there this morning, I don't want to go tonight, and I don't want to go in tomorrow.
Sunday is MINE, bitches. Don't even THINK of asking me to work. I gave up my stupid piece of metal that never gave me any benefit but left me with a headache key for this very reason.
The suckiest thing is that I'll be buying my copy of HP6 tonight, but won't be able to read it until tomorrow. X(
/stressed
This whine is directed at no one person/group of people specifically. It is merely a means for the author to let off steam before the OMG PARTY!!1! at Waldenbooks tonight. She would much rather be curled up on the futon, knitting. |
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[Jul. 10th, 2005|12:25 am] |
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I now know what 550 Harry Potter books looks like. XD
I held #6 in my hands.
I read the inside flap and the first page.
And then I put it back.
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I really wanted to read the last page. But I didn't. Does that make me good or crazy?
XD
One week left. I will be working 11pm - 330 am.
Joy.
EDIT: SPOILERS, people!! XD I think most of us have read the books, but please don't assume everyone has read book 5. I know someone who was buying the book, standing IN line, when someone else said, "OMG you're getting book 5? I LOVED it, especially the end WHEN..."
And my friend was like: "...shit."
So please, think of the children. :D
*wark* |
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| ...aaaand...BACK |
[Jun. 26th, 2005|11:03 pm] |
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Yesh. Back. :)
I love my apartment. I only hope it continues to delight me as time goes on. :) The main room has the original tin ceiling, which is lovely to wake up to. It's a bit of an adjustment to live in such close quarters with CGod again, but we've been married long enough that this is nothing major. The biggest challenge I forsee is keeping my computer safe in the kitchen. I've set up a couple of fans, and my landlord may be putting a hood over the stove to keep the moisture down.
The windows still need curtains, though they all have blinds at the moment. There's a lot that still needs to be unpacked. We sold a ton of stuff at our tag sale on Saturday, donated dozens of bags and boxes of more stuff, and I'm sure there will be more. Yin likes the new place, too, and her toys are everywhere. XD
On the job front, the promised manager training at the bookstore never materialized, so I've been cutting back my hours there in favor of working for my dad. It didn't really seem odd to do so, but apparently no one thought of me as able (or interested) in making cabinets. :) It's not what I want to do with my life, but he pays me more than the bookstore and guarantees me a better schedule. It's a highly physical job and I need to be conscious of my limits until I'm used to working this hard. I like the work. My dad is a good guy to work for. He's also a glass by which I can measure my own progress--if I can't keep up with a 50-something man, there's something wrong. ;)
I still don't see me being online much even now, not until I'm completely unpacked. A lot of the time I had planned to unpack after the move has been taken up by working for my dad and some unexpected hours at the store. I also have a ton of drawings that I need to scan and share. I have ideas not only for Created, but for a few stories I shoved aside a while ago.
OH and before I forget--I don't see myself doing much fandom stuff for the forseeable future. I know RoM is unfinished. I know there are a few stories I started and never continued. I'm sorry, but I just don't have the desire to work on them now. I won't say I'll never continue, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
And now I need to catch up on some comics and forums and stuff. Or maybe I'll just go to bed. XD
CG |
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| Not Dead |
[Jun. 15th, 2005|02:07 pm] |
Been moving. Taking longer than expected. No time to get online. Physically unable to access computer at home until unpacking is done. DSL connection soon. Love to all. Check out www.mare-serenitatis.net/view/view.html for recent drawings done to keep sanity.
*wark* |
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| Prints and stuff |
[May. 22nd, 2005|01:45 am] |
I added another print to my DA account, though it hasn't shown up yet. Check out http://www.chocobogoddess.deviantart.com/store to see if it's there. I am working on some commissions and I do have another in the posted series coming up, sometime after I move.
I'm about to disappear for a few days while I pack, sort, and transport everything in the house. I'll be back on sometime at the end of next week, for anyone looking for me. Some of you have my phone number, so CALL ME if you're worried. ;)
On the kitten front: I couldn't figure out why CGod was telling me to call the cat the other day, but I did. In she pranced, with something stuck to her side--I heard CGod chortling in the other room, and thought maybe he'd put a sticker on her or something. I was wrong. She'd rolled on the carpet, and right afterward went chasing after a piece of plastic wrap that missed the trash can. Apparently, it was from CGod's latest issue of Playboy, because my kitten came happily trotting in with the words 'Sexy Girl' stuck to her fur with static. XD I knew she thought highly of herself, but HONESTLY...
Back later. |
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| Moving on... |
[May. 13th, 2005|05:23 pm] |
Ok, so yes. Drama. Much of it. Suckage, and not all of it is resolved, but maybe things will calm down eventually.
Moving on.
My page sucks majorly, so I've decided it's time for a total revamp. It's redundant to host my art there AND on my DA gallery, as it is to have my fics there when they're perfectly accessible on FF.net. And some of my fics, especially the works in progress that I probably won't finish anytime soon, are coming down.
I've also been mucking about with layouts and deciding if having a page that's easier to google is even worth the trouble tables have been giving me. I seem to have hit a bit of a wall where web design is concerned; I don't know php or javascript, and more and more I head to lissaexplains.com instead of really working on learning the code myself. I've also spread myself too thin, so I need to get away from the shotgun approach and narrow my focus a bit.
Maybe I obsess a bit too much about the page, but it's never just right for me. I've come close, but there are still problems and I want perfection, dammit. ;) Seriously, though, I don't update enough to make some of the pages worthwhile. I need to prune.
Toying with the idea of going friends-only, but I really don't say much here that needs that level of security, so meh. Will think about it when not in the midst of other things.
OH and for the next few weeks, I'm going to be online only rarely. My current apartment contains a houseful of stuff, I'm moving into a place 1/3 the size of this one (though in the same building, so yay), and I have to figure out what to do with all the stuff we're NOT taking to the new place. If you're trying to talk to me, either leave an offline message on YIM or email me.
That's about all for today. Now I need to head to wark, where I must check out the other Ruth Reichl books we have, because Garlic and Sapphires ruled.
Ta. |
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| Bwa ha ha. XD |
[Apr. 28th, 2005|02:33 am] |
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The English Teacher
You are 100% Verbose! Although you get bonus points just for finishing. |
| Okay, obviously you know a little too much about the English langauge. Do you wear a sweater vest, bemoan high school students' inability to write, and just generally act like a egotistical prick? If you said yes to one of the three, you might be an English teacher. In which case, it was unfair of you to take this test. (If you aren't an English teacher, maybe you should stop reading the thesaurus for sport.) |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 57% on Verbosity |
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| PROUD HUNTAH, SHE IS |
[Apr. 26th, 2005|01:11 pm] |
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Miao Yin caught her first mouse last night. XD She carried it around the house, growling and hissing like some amazing feral hunter. She looked so cute and badass--the thing was almost too big for her to carry--until the tail hit her leg and she freaked. She was like OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!11!!one! and kept trying to back up. The tail kept touching her leg (of course, because she didn't think to, oh, DROP the mouse) and it was really funny to watch her tripping over herself to get away from TEH MYSTERRRIOUSS THINGY that kept touching her. XD
I finally got it away from her. She got tired of carrying it around, and started playing with it like she does with her TFB, so I made a new TFB for her and threw it so I could get her away from the poor dead mousie.
My little predator! I'm so proud of the fuzzy chaosbeast. I got a good hour of entertainment just watching her carry the thing like "DIS IS MAH TROPHY, YO" but she could barely keep her head up enough to keep from tripping over it. XD
*glomps kitty*
*wark* |
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| General Rant about the Book Industry |
[Apr. 25th, 2005|01:45 am] |
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People who need to STOP WRITING ALREADY:
Nora Roberts/JD Robb (same person, gah)
Danielle Steel
Lehaye and Jenkins
Phil McGraw
Suzanne Somers (how many books about being 'older and sexy' do we NEED?)
James Patterson
Mary Higgins Clark
Ann Rule
Ann Coulter (like Suzanne Somers, how many books about ZOMG LIBERALS do you have to ram down our throats? You hate liberals, okay. WE GET IT ALREADY)
Person who needs to PICK A GENRE (or a pseudonym):
James Patterson
People who need to talk and work out something so readers don't mistake one for the other (or else become the same person and just SAVE US SOME TIME):
Dale Brown/Dan Brown
Nicholas Sparks/James Patterson
Jackie Collins/Joan Collins
Cheap tricks publishers need to stop doing:
1. Taking the same image and putting it on every single book in a series, i.e., Jessica Fletcher's face with digitally-altered clothing and accessories--it's just CREEPY.
2. Reissuing old novels with new covers, without indicating that this is a REPRINT and NOT a new book
3. Publishing volumes of a series without any indication ANYWHERE IN THE BOOK of where that particular volume falls within the series (*looks at Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms*)
4. Titling books with similar names to 'ride the popularity wave'. This really gets me, because it just sounds stupid and petty. "Messiah Code", "DaVinci Decoded", "Bible Code", "Mona Lisa Code"--you are ALL so very obviously supposed to be 'oops, mistaken' for DaVinci Code. Stop it. Stop it now.
Miscellany:
1. Comics are bought more by adults than kids. Please stop referring to it as "kids' stuff". That isn't the case anymore. I have yet to sell Superman to anyone under 22.
2. Same with the D&D books.
3. And the Video Game mags. Especially the RetroGamer, PS2 and Xbox mags.
4. Manga is NOT all safe for children. There are ratings for a reason. Use them.
5. Manga does not belong next to the kids' section.
6. The barcode on the book/magazine/box cover is NOT what sets off the alarm. You only look stupid for trying to steal something by tearing off the barcode. The alarm will still go off, and you are so caught. We laugh at you.
7. Tearing up a porn mag and slipping the individual pages into kids' books is not funny. May you find a special hell.
8. Publishers who send 100 copies of any paperback NOT called Harry Potter or DaVinci Code, you are fooling yourself. Not even the authors who have loyal followings will sell 100 copies in the first weekend. We still have twelve copies of "Blue Dahlia" and upwards of 20 copies of "Big Bad Wolf" in stock, and this is AFTER the book has been out since before Christmas, has gone through several stockdowns, and everyone in the tri-town area who wants a copy has one.
9. The ladder says clearly, "Employees only. Customers prohibited." This means no, I will NOT let you stand on it, and NO, I will CERTAINLY not push you around the store on it.
...That's enough for now. Just some peeves I've been saving for a rainy day.
*wark* |
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| Pleasant day |
[Mar. 30th, 2005|07:12 pm] |
Today I had CGod's car so I could take it in for an oil change, and it was just such a beautiful day that I couldn't stay inside. Once the oil change was done, I decided to head a few towns over to a yarn shop my sister-in-law told me about.
I got to drive through one of my favorite areas; it's a farming town, even today, and there's a long-standing joke that the town only has three roads. The rest is field and farm. I got to roll the windows down, and I didn't care what I looked like. XD I wore my raggedy jeans and a Batman t-shirt (swiped from the husband) and felt great. :)
( In which I shop for yarn in Rockville )
On the way home, I found an alternate route to get there (bonus!) and decided to visit my SIL. Before I reached her house, though, I stopped off at that Agway.
( In which I discover more than grain and lawnmowers at Agway )
After a pleasant talk with the lady at the counter (who may or may not have been the owner; I shall have to find out), I headed up the side of the mountain to my SIL's.
( In which I dine with Sister-In-Law and Nieces )
All in all, a very pleasant day.
Except for the fact that the muffler fell off the car on the way home from picking up Matt, but it's a testament to how GOOD we feel today that it really didn't bother us as much as it could have. It'll set us back a bit, but we happen to have the money right now.
Esp. since my shopping trip today cost me--get this--UNDER $50. And all of that was my money. :)
*wark* |
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[Mar. 30th, 2005|12:16 am] |
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16657818/
Above please find a link to the first item I'm actually putting up for sale on deviantArt's print service. The "prints available" link should appear sometime tomorrow.
On a completely different and more serious note, I really hope all is well with my dear friend Sarah. Matt and I are thinking about you, honey.
*wark* |
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| Of Friends and Kids, and Remaining Childless |
[Mar. 28th, 2005|12:06 am] |
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Let me start by saying that I love my friends who have kids. This is not an entry to complain about said kids, said friends, or friends who want kids. This is...well, I guess it's just to get some things down on paper.
Screen. Whatever.
A close friend and I were talking today and she mentioned that she and her husband were going to try to have a baby. Like, soon.
So I admit I freaked out a little. I cried, she got worried, and it's ok. I was mostly surprised to hear it, but my reaction may be a combination of many things, including lack of sleep, PMS, and mixed emotions about the news.
She wouldn't be the first person to broach the subject with me. I have a growing number of friends who have had or will be having children. I'm just at that age where it's happening all around me. My friends are settling down, buying houses, starting families.
When CGod and I discussed marriage, we both were relieved and happy to find that neither of us wanted children. This was a major point that, if we'd disagreed, might have made us change our minds. I am vehemently against ever bearing a child, as is he. It would be hell for either of us to be in a relationship where the other actually wanted kids. We're happy with our situation, our cat, and each other.
We made friends with other couples. Despite different backgrounds, interests, and reasons why we think they're cool, all of them had one thing in common: none of them had children.
Then one couple had a baby. And another. Another friend, not as close, but still someone we hung out with, had two right in a row. The dynamic changed between us; there was no more "let's meet for lunch in ten minutes". Now we had "can't, baby is sleeping". Instead of meeting to watch a movie or just have a relaxed chat, we had to worry about what the baby saw on the screen, or straining to hear if anything went wrong over the baby monitor while the child slept. The new parents grew more and more distracted, and I admit, it was a big adjustment to realize that being over at a friend's house when a child was around would never be the same as it was before the child was born.
This is all as it should be. I am glad to see that the people I consider my friends are responsible parents, people who are 100% dedicated to the welfare and well-being of their offspring. I know too many people who AREN'T, and it is almost refreshing to see that the things they do with their babies have some kind of value. They think first of their children, and I understand that it's necessary.
What worries me most, I guess, is that I'm afraid I'm going to be left behind. When I was single, I hung out with single friends. When I met CGod and we dated, we hung out with other friends who had dates. Friends got married around the same time we did, and we were all on the same level. Now, though...
Now I see friends with kids and I just feel like we've disconnected. The people I've loved for two or four or ten years are still there, but now there's this extra being between us. I heard someone say something like "You wouldn't understand unless you were a mother" this weekend, and it struck me that it's true. I really wouldn't understand what it's like to be alert to the sounds of a tiny person I'd created, just in case something happened. I won't ever 'get' the fear a mother has when she sees her child do something dangerous, or the willingness to sacrifice her life for that of her child. I may one day come close, but it never will be the same.
I am content to be childless. I am unwilling to change, and I do not, not not ever want a child of my own. I think I'm just afraid that I will be left behind because I never went to the 'next step' after marriage.
My apologies for the lack of cohesiveness, but for once I wanted to use this journal as a journal. Feel free to comment or ignore. ^_^;;
And much love to all of my friends, whether childless or with mini-you or just dreaming about how much you want one. I love the children of my friends. I look forward to the times I spend with all of you.
I just needed to work some things out in my mind. Go on about your business now. :)
*wark* |
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| Rule: Broken |
[Mar. 21st, 2005|12:32 am] |
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I have officially broken my long-standing rule about not accepting commissions from friends. This is not to say that I will never draw stuff for free for the people I love, but I WILL now accept money and/or services in exchange for art.
An actual commission is different than just doing a pic for a friend because I love them. With a commission, you can be quite specific about what you want the image to be. You also have a time frame during which you KNOW you will see the pic, rather than "someday". :)
The images can be either originals (drawn in pencil and/or inked), digital (web art, wallpapers, etc), or a mix of the two (hand drawn, then scanned and finished in Photoshop). You can request the original image or a color print of the finished piece. I will always keep a copy for my portfolio, but you keep copyrights on any of your original characters, of course.
I still can't accept payment for fanart, unfortunately.
So yeah. Anyone interested, let me know. Same message will be posted on my DeviantArt site. |
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