| Punkins! |
[02 Nov 2009|10:13am] |
So I actually got my lazy ass around to uploading photos. Maybe one of these days I'll upload the ones from my punkinpiefromscratch extravaganza.
Pfft.
( Moar! )
Lots of the kids that came by - and even some of the adults - commented on how neat they were. I always get that, but it's kind of a pity that they don't try to do the same. They're really rather easy to do, after all - just a matter of finding a pattern you like.
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| At least I have candy. |
[31 Oct 2009|07:13pm] |
Feh. Stupid Halloween party was cancelled. Not that it would've been much fun anyways with Trav sick, but still - better than hanging out here all night handing out candy. I really wanted to show off my costume, too.
I hadn't been able to decide what I wanted to be - Trav was going as Indiana Jones, since he had a fedora and a bullwhip (or maybe a kangaroo whip, whatever) at hand. My first thought was along the lines of something female adventurerish, maybe Lara Croft or something, but since the party was to be outdoors, that was looking kind of... cold.
So I headed to Value Village with no real gameplan - look for anything vaguely promising, really. Maybe a valkyrie if they had any of their handy kits left, but...
Nah, they were getting to be pretty picked clean. Not quite, mind, but still.
And then I passed by a long white wig. Stopped. Hummed, pondered.
Went back through the dresses - found a silver cloak covered over with glittering spider webs. Acquired a dress, the only one in my size left (it had something of a sizeable tear down the middle of the back where a seam had come out) that was black velvet, panelled skirt, long sleeves, and decorated with a white webbing and red spiders at the waist and collar. Got a sizeable discount, too, 'cause of the tear - only took 45 mins to patch up; would've been a real snap had I a sewing machine around.
Black gloves, a cheap 'goth' necklace with a spider lurking inside a purple pendant, an ornate dagger, and three of those black grease makeup pucks later, and I had me a perfect drow priestess kit together.
The only thing I was missing was the snake whip, but that was only because I couldn't find any damn rubber snakes. Value Village didn't have any, nor did three different dollar stores, a Toys R Us, a Wal-Mart, or the local drugstore. Feh.
At least I'll have time to order a couple online for next year, since I'm not wearing the costume tonight. XD
Still, I really did want to impress the party - most of them there would've understood immediately what I was. The kids coming around for trick or treat probably wouldn't appreciate it, though - and even their perhaps-gasps are not enough to make me want to paint my whole head black. The only bad part about the costume! XD
Oh well. At least my punkins are pretty neat. I'll have to upload pics of them laterrrr.
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[29 Oct 2009|02:35pm] |
Rrrf. Stupid media is stupid. They keep reporting about the H1N1 stuff - I think the main section of the Vancouver Sun on Monday or Tuesday had half of its articles about it - but don't actually say anything useful. It's all statistics about how everyone's dying, or 'myths' they're trying to dispel (which really the media were all responsible for in the first place), or GO GET VACCINATED YOU STUPID FUCKS, caps-lock included.
Except they never actually say anything, y'know, useful.
They give reports on how many folk in Canada have died because of this flu (it's slightly past 50, I think?), but don't report on how many die of the 'seasonal' flu a year. (Apparently between 700 and 1400 people die daily worldwide of seasonal flu, but I've not been able to find any Canada-specific stats.)
They don't say anything about how many people are getting the swine flu but are not dying terribly, or even how many are just having mild cases. This would, in all sensibilities, be most of the people who get it, like it is for most cases of any kind of flu. But hey, it breeds more fear to leave that kinda thing out which leads to more newspapers being sold, or something. I dunno.
And, really, what burns me the most is they keep saying that just about everyone who's died from it has had an underlying health condition. In BC, I think it's been eight out of nine or something like that. Except... they don't actually tell anyone what those underlying health conditions are. Do people who have high blood pressure have more to worry about? What about those with asthma? Heart disease? Cancer? And the one that I in particular care about - diabetes? Fuck! No one can know! It's just apparently everyone with underlying health conditions! That can't possibly be the case, though - there's got to be some pattern to it, but damned if anyone will tell us what that pattern is.
I can understand the families of the deceased not wanting to divulge huge heaps of information about how their folk died, but c'mon. This could be actually USEFUL to those of us who DO have chronic conditions in deciding whether or not we want the vaccine.
Fuck it. I've had a bad enough history with flu vaccines, and I'm not getting this one until something says that diabetics really have something to fear from this particular variant.
(Fun fact - I've actually been home sick the past day and a half, although it's just a mild fever and certain other symptoms that are annoying, but not particularly worrisome, and it hasn't gotten any worse since noon yesterday, only better. I have a feeling I'll be back to snuff by tomorrow if I keep up my pattern of naps.)
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| MEME BANDWAGON |
[25 Oct 2009|10:45pm] |
Ask me either a broad question (i.e 'who is your cruelest character?', 'what is your most optimistic story?') or a specific question/request ('what world does ___ come from?', 'tell me about ___') and I will answer you. Or you can ask meta- questions like 'what was the inspiration for creating ____?'
...So basically if I'm reading it right, it all boils down to asking me a question about RP.
Any characters of mine that you know of (or continuities therein) are open!
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[21 Oct 2009|10:36pm] |
How to feel really weird and underachieve-y:
"Hey! Don't talk to me like I'm your grandpa or something. I'm only 24 myself."
I'm the same age as Phoenix fucking Wright.
...First-game Nick, mind.
But still!
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| Ohnoes! |
[19 Oct 2009|06:33pm] |
Almost (but not quite) crashed the car on the drive home from work today.
Only a very thin thread around my panic reflex kept me from doing so.
I was boogeying my way up 176th, approaching the last set of lights before the hill, probably doing 100 km/h or so. This is nothing out of the ordinary. Straight drive, not-busy intersection, concrete median on side of the fast lane (where I was), dry pavement. Awesome, right?
Except for the little grey spider that had been hangin', unknown to me, on the ceiling near my head. Chose that moment to start descending rapidly from a string. In clear peripheral vision.
HOMG THERE IS A GIGANTIC (less than a centimetre long) SPIDER RIGHT THERE AND IT'S GOING TO GET ON ME AND I'M TRAVELLING VERY FAST AND THE LIGHT'S COMING AND SHIT SHIT SHIT KEEP GOING STRAIGHT.
The resulting freakout was kept under control, but only barely, and thanks be to there being stray napkins on the passenger seat for some reason.
I'm a total badass, yeah.
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[19 Sep 2009|10:39pm] |
Hmmm. A complete lemon meringue pie in 40 minutes.
I believe that's a new personal record!
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| Squee! |
[15 Sep 2009|11:09am] |
So occasionally - very occasionally - TVTropes can indeed be the bringer of good things, rather than ruining your life.
I spent a good portion of the day yesterday browsing through it. Could've done so much else with that time. Still. I found this, linked through the cute bruisers page, I think.
It said it would be cute. I listened. I still was glad no-one was home but me and the cats, for I think the resultant squeal reached ear-damaging levels.
I mean... Dude, Chibiterasu really is the perfect name for it.
Heehee! And it's even going to be on the DS, instead of one of those damn consoles that I don't have~
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[13 Sep 2009|02:24pm] |
Let it be known that on this day I cleaned a toilet SO DAMN HARD I got the toilet brush friggin' wedged into the drainpipe.
Man, had Mom not cleaned that damn thing since I was away? It was positively gross, yech.
Now, to find a way to remove the brush. This may get interesting.
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| Tripknitting! |
[11 Sep 2009|12:22pm] |
So now that I'm all properly back and everything, I can actually detail what I did in terms of the creative bits on the trip. Whoo!
( Cozy water bottles. )
In between the cozy and the next project, I knitted up a dreampillow, or at least the front-piece for it. Sewed the rest of it. S'filled with lavender, smells very nice - and makes Trav sneeze like the dickens, sigh. I wasn't able to use it at all in the tent.
You can kind of see the next project in various stages of construction over at the trip gallery at Trav's website - took me a while to finish her.
( Norberta, rawr! )
I also finished most of a fancy sock, but have been fucking around with trying to bind the damn thing off for the past three days. Apparently binding off in ribbing pattern loosely escapes me.
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| Hrm. |
[31 Aug 2009|07:34pm] |
I don't go to horror movies.
It's not because they're all terrible or devoid of plot or character (although I hear that a good majority of them are). I just can't stand gore. Sure, I can watch folk get shot onscreen, or small knife/sword wounds or slashes, or the aftereffects of fights, where they're invariably a little smeared with blood or wearing red contact lenses or what have you. That's all fine.
However, chop someone's limb or head off in front of the camera, or have blood and bone and bits of innards flying everywhere, or really closely detail exactly how this body is getting torn to shreds in minute detail - bleargh. No, thank you. Stomach can't handle it.
(I also don't watch medical dramas. Sorry, House.)
Horror movies these days tend more to go towards gore than their less-effect-laden counterparts in earlier ages; it's just rather a fact. I also understand some people love horror movies and all the gorey bits. Awesome! But because I don't like watching them, I don't go watch them, and all is well in the world.
I do like watching other kinds of movies. Action, drama, comedy, suspense, fantasy, whatever. I have favourites in all sorts of genres.
When I'm watching an action movie that has been solidly placed into a certain subset of action movie genres, I do not expect to find sudden giblets and spurts of blood and bones crunching everywhere. This makes me squeamish and sad, particularly when the movie was pretty darned good otherwise.
In other news, The Watchmen could have been a pretty darned good movie.
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[26 Aug 2009|10:38pm] |
Back, bitches.
I'll eventually get finished with the last tripbloggy posts over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) downthelongroad... Eventually.
For now, rest. Snoogling kittens. Baking at midnight. All the important things in life, you know.
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[12 Aug 2009|02:53pm] |
Raaaaah!
The trip back home is going to be nothing but boredom. Seems to be nothing in Labrador but tiny biting flies. Hard to knit when the truck's bouncing on gravel roads, hard to play on the brokened DS with the same...
And what's worse, I've got the worst itch to RP everrrrrr (I especially've been daydreaming about DexNet for some reason). But there's no point, since my access is so sporadic. Sigh. I wish I could just board a plane and go home, but then that'd leave Trav all alone and he'd be a sad panda.
:<<<<
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| How 'bout dat, b'y? |
[08 Aug 2009|03:54pm] |
So alllll of a sudden I find myself with a bit of a) time and b) internet access in the most unlikely of places (B&B in a tiny town on the eastern edge of Newfoundland - y halo thar Greenland, you're not so far away now), so here, have some memes!
Select a character I RP or write and I will answer the following 12 questions for you.
01. What would your character die for?
02. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances?
03. What do they dream about?
04. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
05. What is their fondest memory?
06. What is their worst memory?
07. What or who was were their most significant influence?
08. What would be their biggest nightmare?
09. What makes them laugh?
10. If they were to die, what would be their last words?
11. Who is the most important person in their life?
12. Is your character a virgin? If not, who was their first?
Name anything you can remember me playing~ And if you don't know any of my characters and still want to make me write, give me a letter and I probably have a character from somewhen whose name begins with it.
( Book Meme~ )
By the time I'm done this trip, I'm totally going to post my very own meme - I've been everywhere, man.
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[13 Jun 2009|12:41am] |
...Fruit fly just attempted to zip its way up my nose whilst I was drinking a glass of milk.
Chaos ensued.
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| Bam! |
[10 Jun 2009|08:25pm] |
DONE, BITCHES
Actually, done last week, but I'm lazy when it comes to finding things off of cameras. Trav (and half of the folk from the CSSS we know) did their ceremony thang the day after - so now we're all respectable Bachelors of Stuff.
Arts, in my case. But linguistics is a science, damnit!
We've also managed to find a place to hold the wedding at, while we've been back home - and consequently a date, since we didn't give a shit about any date in particular. On a related note, why do some brides seem to make such an ordeal out of finding a reception hall or what-not? I spent part of Thursday after my ceremony looking at some information online, part of Saturday out peeking over prospective places with my mother, an hour with Trav and both moms on Tuesday taking an official tour-y type thing with the catering manager - and that was that. Date secured, money put down, bam. Took about six hours, all told, to arrange something. Country club, nice place, pretty garden within, seems like they have a decent menu. Meh?
Although we totally got to laugh at one of Trav's sister's friends - she swore up and down we wouldn't be able to find anything for next June right now. Shit, what, does it take bloody two years to book J Random Date? I can understand the whole 7/7/07 thing, but... Aside from things like that...
And, finally, I managed to complete two more knitting projects, mostly while we were out on the trip.
( вычислите, товарищ )
( Fetching some blue~ )
My next couple of projects have already been all lined up for the trip - a couple of water bottle cozies, a lavender-stuffed dream pillow, a stuffed dragon... Possibly even another pair of the Knucks, this time for me. I picked up some of the tweed yarn recommended in the pattern, and it's a lovely shade of green, so~
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[03 Jun 2009|10:12pm] |
Players and their friends will join Roxas, his friend Axel and the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII on a journey across charming, vibrant worlds full of Square Enix's and Disney's beloved characters.
will join Roxas, his friend Axel and the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII on a journey
MYSTERIOUS FOURTEENTH MEMBER OF ORGANIZATION XIII
Oh, fuck off, Squeenix. When did you guys become goddamn shitty Suetastic fanfic writers? :|
OH WAIT FFX RIGHT
I'd be really angry if it weren't for your After Years thing. Alas, won't get to play it 'til after the next phase of the trip.
In other words, the Penny Arcade strip for today was right on the goddamn money. That trailer is beautiful - only thing I can't figure out is exactly when in the series it happens. I mean, Adam Malkovich. It's gotta be him - any objections, Ladies? So it's somewhere when Samus was working with the Federation, and Adam's still alive and not a computer, so somewhere before Super Metroid and Fusion. But then there's a shot of Mother Brain murdering the poor not-wee baby metroid.
Colour me confused, but still squeetastic.
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