A couple of days ago, an IRL friend remarked (as constructive criticism) that I haven't really improved much in the past few years. She's pretty much right, and it's bugged me even before she mentioned it.

I need to get back into drawing. Lifedrawing classes would certainly not go amiss.

Also, I need to finish tidying my room. But that's a whole other genre of Things I Need To Get Done.

So I signed up for Nano. *makes Nano tag*

As of just now, I have NOOOOO idea what I'm going to write. D: I'm sure I'll think of something.

...My parents got married today. I had no idea they weren't already married until earlier this month. O:

In other news, this is the most terrifying thing I've seen in a long time.

Sorry for the lack of updates. things've been either really boring, or things I don't feel like posting online for whatever reason.

I might be getting a job at the local reptile specialist pet store. I hope I get the job, anyway. That'd be so freaking awesome. (eeeeee babby cornsnakes)

Speaking of freaking awesome, here's something foxx278 posted.



[EDIT LIKE TWENTY DAYS LATER]: wtf why was this friendsonly

I tried this new-fangled speedpainting thing out in OC1. Clearly, I need to practice.

( Glowy firebirdy thing. DO WANT Concrit, btw. @_@ )

After all that getting ready for the Stockbridge Festival, I get an email saying that they're having to cancel the event due to the bad weather.

...Must not make a "stop raining on my parade" joke...

The question now is, will I find a replacement venue for selling my stuff? Hmm.

THIS IS GONNA BE SO AWESOME~!

*FLAAAAIL*

Stan!Rat just died.

Okay, so I was washing my mug in preperation for getting my tea on, right? I noticed a lump of hair or something stuck in the sponge, go to pull it out, and OH WAIT IT'S MOVING OH FUCK NO IT'S A CENTIPEDE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

I don't care if that fucker was only an inch long. THAT IS THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE.

But that's only because nothing of note has happened. UNTIL JUST NOW:

( AMERICA. IN. SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!! )

In other news, I'm now L70 and have my flying mount in WoW. I should really head back to Northrend, but I'm now all TEEHEE I HAS A LIONBATSCORPION LOOK AT ME FLY. Maybe I'll head back when I've explored Outland a little more and the novelty wears off. XD

Computer's fixed! :D

Now to see if I can find someone to help me find a new summer coat that isn't made of half a cow and thus doesn't make me sweat profusely. XD

So my computer isn't booting up when I turn it on. I think I've worked out what's wrong with it (Three beeps means the RAM card is loose or something, right?), but as I don't trust myself to fix it I'm going to have to take it to the repair place at some point tomorrow. I'll probably be on Xbox Live all night, so if anyone wants to contact me till it gets fixed (lol unlikely) I'll be on there.

YES, FOR ONCE LIVING IN THE UK PAID OFF FOR ME. I GOT TO SEE IT BEFORE THE US.

MY THOUGHTS!:

( LJ CUTS - SPOILERS IN DISGUISE (Yeah, I know I'm reusing that joke from last year, but I still think it's great) )

Oh hey, so it's technically my birthday now. Allow me to celebrate in my usual, incredibly dumb fashion!

So I bought a packet of Mikado today.

The box is tiny and it costs more than Pocky itself. However, there's quite a lot in the box compared to Pocky, the chocolate AND the pretzel base is much better quality, and it doesn't leave a waxy coating in your mouth afterwards. A++, would nom again. I would dearly like to see Strawberry (and possibly Milk flavor, too) Mikado exist, though.

Also, I now have ten different potplants. Two of them are fruit-bearers, not counting the lavender, and one of them is a large planter full of mixed wildflowers that are probably annuals, but it still doesn't detract from the fact that my window is FULL of green things right now.

In the space of two hours, two of my rats have died, leaving the last one, Stan, to wander about the cage bewildered and wondering where his brothers have went.

What the fuck, universe.

UNPOPULAR OPINION MEME

Give me the name of a tv show/anime/film/cartoon/video game/book/celebrity/band/fandom and I will tell you an opinion pertaining to it which is unpopular.

NEEDS MOAR OSHARE. (Dammit, why no skeleton deathmatch, Sega? WHYYYYYYY)

I still want the game, though. If only to see how the included characters look when older/younger. Plus, that might just be all the characters they've confirmed SO FAR. >_>

I wish I could get over this cloud of emo mood that's been plaguing me these past few weeks(months?). I don't think it's normal practice to burst into tears while watching Kiki's Delivery Service.

Also, I've been fighting a losing battle with my fishtank lid these past few weeks. The lights are busted, and even though I've changed both bulbs and both starter plugs, the goddamn thing STILL isn't working. Sigh. (The tank gets sunlight for part of the day, though, so the plants won't die at least.)

On the bright side, I got the DVD of Kung Fu Panda while buying the new starter plugs, and that film is pure distilled pretty-art-style-eye-candy artistic inspiration for me. I might go looking for the art book when I've got the money for it. Plus, I finally got that Japanese Peace Lilly I wanted. My room is kind of starting to resemble a rainforest. XD Including my mum's pepper plant, I have seven pots with plants in them in here now. Sure, the sensitive plant is basically dying, but the parlor palm contains an unidentified trailing plant with green-and-white leaves as well and I'm on the lookout for another Venus fly trap, so.

And on the brighter side yet, I finally got VLC player to screencap properly without crashing! OH GOD, THE POWER. I AM TOTALLY WATCHING ALL MY ANIMATED FILMS (All four of them excluding the Ghibli films? Oh how ambitious of you Holly) AGAIN SOMETIME SOON AS THAT BECOMES WAY MORE FUN WHEN I CAN STOP MID-MOVIE AND MAKE A RIDICULOUS ICON OR SILLY MACRO.

So did Daniel Radcliffe just win Eurovision? Because that guy looked a lot like Daniel Radcliffe.

It didn't suck this year, thankfully. The UK did better than I thought they really should have, but I blame Andrew-Lloyd-Webber for that. XD (ALSO WHY DID MY PARENTS AND BROTHER INSIST ON TALKING OVER SEVERAL SONGS? GAAAWD)

( LET'S DO BULLETPOINTS FOR THE SONGS THAT I LIKED THE BEST! )

On a completely unrelated note, WHY THE FUCK ARE INK DIP-PENS SO HARD TO DRAW WITH AAAAAAAAARGH *RAGEQUITS THEM FOR THE DAY. AGAIN.*

OH GOD I BANDWAGONED.

I had to get Lilli!Rat and Chloe!Rat put down this weekend. D: I didn't mention it before because I've been kinda distracted since then. Plus, my LJ seems to be full of ratdeath lately - I'm down to three rats now; Turk!Rat, DrCox!Rat, and Stan!Rat. I would be on the lookout for new rats at this point, but the fact is my mum's new allergies forbid it. (I might get some form of reptile after all the rats are gone, I guess. I don't think reptile allergies exist.)

( Here, have a meme. )

HOLY FUCKING WHAT

I MEAN, SERIOUSLY

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

...

Anyway, yeah, WoW's actually pretty neat. I have a pet dinosaur named Nedry. 8D

Not only did Carla!Rat die last week (I didn't mention it because I had stuff to do. But she was very ill, and it was not a very big surprise.), but just now I found out Bug the insanely cute photogenic rat died as well! D8

I'm probably going to move the two remaining girl rats into the one-story cage I've had laying around. Mostly because Chloe!Rat's headtilt means that if she loses her footing near one of the ramps in the current cage, she quite frequently will roll all the way down the ramp to the next floor (unharmed, but entirely astonished). Which elicits a reaction somewhere between "Aww, poor Chloe fell down!" and "PFFFTSNRKOHGODISHOULDN'TBEFINDINGTHISSOFUNNY". I would like to rectify this before Chloe DOES hurt herself. I have cleaned out both the fish tank and the boy's cage in the past two days, so I have no excuse to put this off any longer.

On the topic of not putting shit off any longer due to no valid excuse, I have no more games to finish so I am totally gonna finally install WoW today, no, really, NO TURNING BACK NOW HOLLY GET IT OVER AND DONE WITH NOW AAAAAAAAA FFFFFFFFFFFF REMEMBER TUNNEL SEVENTEEEEEN

the icon love you meme!

asdfgsdfgs WHEN THE HELL IS MY LACKADAISY BOOK COMING. D8 *FLAIL* I must be really annoying my dad with the daily "HAY IS MY BOOK HERE YET? 8D" pestering. (He's a postman, so he'd probably be the first to know if I got it.)

Anyway, I should get on with what I was gonna do today.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Not only a new Puyo game, but a Puyo game that will also be on DS? FUCK. YES.

Looks like that Skele-T chap is in it as well as Amitie, Arle and the new girl. It'd be a shame if those four were the only four characters in the game though. (I can has Oshare/Skele-T showdown match? 8D Gogotte, Prince of Ocean/Butler and Lemres would also be appreciated.)

I wish I had more to say about my day to day life, but I keep forgetting what happens each day because it's really boring.

Tomorrow, however, I am cleaning out pet cages/tanks. IT IS HIGH TIME THEY ARE CLEAN AGAIN, ESPECIALLY THE FISH TANK. (I told you. Really boring.)

THAT'S AMITIE IN THE WINDOW

IT'S A MOTHERFUCKING PUYO GAME

DO. FUCKING. WANT!!!!!

Hopefully it will be for DS as well. Unless the Wii is region-free. (I don't know if it is. Is it? D:) Otherwise, well... I WILL WEEP.

Oh yay, the new Lackadaisy store is open! I'm gonna buy me a copy of the book and a bunch of poste-AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH OH HOLY SHIIIT, THAT INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE ON POSTERS

This company is clearly exploiting my gratuitous love for prohibition-era bootlegging catpeople. :C

I'll work out a meme to do later, right now I sleepy.

Okay, so despite the fact that two of my friends told me not to, I played that Spyro game.

It was terrible. Not in the "OH GOD, IT BURRRNS!" way, but more in the "Gee, this game is rather sucky!" way. Although I'm being VERY lenient here because the music was very pretty and the game style kind of reminded me of Legend of Kay. And dammit, I LIKED Legend of Kay. :C
( HERE IS WHY (probably spoilers) )
So, in summation: Totally trading this pile of bland blandness in for something cooler next time I'm up by Gamesmaster. >_>

So, jewelery sale on Saturday? Fail. I only sold one piece. Considering everyone else was faring badly as well I could have let that slide, BUUUUT the necklace I had chosen to wear that day as some sort of "advertisment" of my stuff (Don't ask, mum thought it up) must have had nickel in the findings. AND GUESS WHAT METAL I AM ALLERGIC TO. 8D I now have an itchy red rash on the back of my neck. (Note to self: look into all-titanium findings. X_X) Also, someone parked in front of the van of the guy I was carpooling with, meaning I had to stand in the pouring rain and help him carefully inch his way out.

Problem Sleuth is scheduled to finish its run today. :< What am I gonna do with my life now? (other than the obvious response, which would be "make the most epic Sepulchritude fanart in all the land".)

Also, I finished the storyline in Saint's Row 2. (Dane Vogel was a pushover; but I think that's because I fucking love piloting the attack helicopter. DAT'S SOME FUN SHIT RIGHT THERE.) I have a new game waiting to distract me - Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon - But as the first reaction I've had from the two different people I've told this was along the lines of "Oh Jesus Christ, Holly, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!", I'm not expecting too much.

And of course it's at this point I remember I have yet to play Portal or either of the Ty games, plus there's a copy of World of Warcraft laying around uninstalled somewhere as well. WHY DO I INUNDATE MYSELF WITH UNNECESSARY THINGS TO DO LIKE THIS DX

THE MICROWAVE SMELLS LIKE ENGINE OIL AND STALE FISH. D8 WHY DOES IT SMELL LIKE THAT?!

Oh, and I did this zombie survival meme thing ignigeno did (made, possibly?).

( Place your bets! Who kills me first, the zombies or my choice in sidekicks? )

Also, here's a link to the blank in case anyone else wants to do it. :B

...In other news, why does basically any picture of Mordecai make really good macro fodder? SERIOUSLY, IT'S UNCANNY.

Okay, so I came across the poster for the movie adaption of The Plague Dogs.

WHY DOES IT LOOK SO GODDAMN INNOCENT. WHY.

At least the Watership Down poster had the good grace to have a blurb that's basically about how BUNNIES GONNA DIE IN THIS FILM, and to show a rabbit in agony due to being snared right there on the poster. The Plague Dogs one looks practically Disneyesque. (Whereas the actual film was not quite that cute and friendly. Think Watership Down with less of the acid flashback sequences, PLUS A REALLY FUCKING DOWNER ENDING.)

In totally unrelated news, I just found a box of what appears to be instant miso soup (miso Cup-A-Soup?) in with the rest of my shopping. I guess it fell into my trolley when I was browsing the Japanese food aisle in curiosity (I'm slightly disturbed at the fact that the japanese apparently pickle plums in SALT. But at least I know where to go if I want to make sushi now, because they even had special sushi-making rice!). But I don't even know if I LIKE miso soup... Though it could be worse and it could've been the "with seaweed" version (I know for a fact that I do not like most types of seaweed, except maybe nori which I can tolerate).

...Eh, I'll just take a sachet with me to work today and see if it works out. If so, then yay. If not, eh, I can foist the other three packets onto family members and friends. >_> *is a terrible person*

It turns out my Jewelery sale is in two weeks time instead of four.

My reaction was something like this:



Oh Mordecai, only you understand my pain today, you stuffy psychotic mass-murdering mobster you.

Goddammit, and here I was thinking I was going to be able to do my new stuff in a relaxed environment. >_>;

Also, I now know what it means to frantically refresh a webcomic site, desperately anticipating an update. I know this can only mean that the artist is busting his balls over some incredibly excellent art due to it FINALLY BEING SEPULCHRITUDE TIEM, but SWEET JESUS THE WITHDRAWL. *flail*

OH MY GOD

ENGAGE CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM!

I have a possible jewelery selling thing in four weeks time. WATCH AS MY PRODUCTIVITY IN THAT AREA RESUMES. *makes a tag for jewelery stuff, seeing as the lack of one has somehow been overlooked for so long*

Fffff, I have to go to work in two or three hours. Why am I still awake??

*skedaddles off to bed*

Todd!Rat died yesterday morning. I feel utterly terrible about it.

Nevertheless, here's a meme that's been languishing in my Semagic autosave for a few days:

1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

1."Authorization? How about the United States FUCKING government? Lose the grid, or you lose your job."
2."Don't you know a kid always wins against two idiots? "
3."Why of course, my little dairy queen. First, I shall take your milk. Then, I shall take your VIRGINITY!"
4."Actually, you've doomed us all. Again."
5."Now, I would just like to point out that this film is displaying a distinct tendency to become SILLY. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do... except, perhaps my wife... and some of her friends. Oh, yes, and Captain Johnson. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point! I'm warning this film NOT to get SILLY again!"
6."I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day!"
7."Item 96: A heavy tax shall be levied against all parasites and spongers, such as the elderly, the infirm, and especially... little children. "
8."Don't worry, Mary Kate. His hair plugs can't hurt you."
9."Good Lord, Lawrence! Why are you slapping that monkey?"
10."This is totally rad, dude! You're my big little brother!"
11."I know I don't have his looks. I know I don't have his money. I know I don't have his connections, his knowledge of fine wines. I know sometimes when I eat I get this clicking sound in my jaw..."
12."She told me I look like Britney Spears! Why would she say that if she doesn't like me?"
13."It all started with my Uncle Derek. He was a Sergeant in the Met. He bought me a police pedal car when I was five. I rode around in it every second I was awake - arresting kids twice my size for littering and spitting. I got beaten up a lot when I was young, but it didn't stop me."
14."Hey! I don't have to put up with this! I'm rich!"
15."It's not everyday you find out that you're responsible for 3 billion deaths. He took it pretty well."
16."Nursing school? Don't you think you'd be happier in a different profession, one where people's lives were NOT dependent on you? "
17."Spying on 30 million people isn't part of my job description."
18."As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about. "
19."BOY, IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF WE HAD SOME GRENADES, DON'T YOU THINK?"
20."Caviar? Who are we inviting, the Tzar? Get some cheese and crackers... some of those little cocktail weenies!"

...Most of these movies were just the ones I have on my DVD shelf. XD

NOONE PROSECUTES LIKE EDGE-STON.

And now, Tony Hart has died.

It's a BAD winter to be a kid's TV personality, it seems! D: