a morning in the countryside

i just had a wonderful cycle with penelope_stone. The sun shone for us, the countryside smelled of summer grass and summer wind. We headed for farran, through the village and out on the footpath beside the bypass. the footpath was concrete with regular divisions, the kind that are really fun to cycle over because you get a funny kind of massage. as i raced down the hill, i smiled for the joy of the wind in my face and the feeling of the footpath and i whispered to myself "i'm a train" and my smile broke into a grin of wonder. it was brilliant.
after that came the awful slog up farran hill, but it was worth it for the speed down the other side. if i hadn't been cycling, i would have closed my eyes. feeling the speed and the wind flying through you and the sun caressing you; it felt like flying.
we took a break in farran and did the obstacle course. i even managed to get most of the way across the high-bars, usually i can barely hold on to the first bar. then we headed home and i was almost dead by the time we got back. i couldn't even make it up the stairs - i had to have the bannister help me. and getting back down the stairs was just as painful. so i think i'll be really sore tomorrow, but i had fun today so it will be worth it.

dave's game last night was fun. we found out that we went totally wrong last week and that we made the adventure twice as long as it was supposed to be. ah well, we had fun interviewing / raiding the rooms of every character linked to the story.

at the taleweaver's meeting the guys made me realize that i need to make some changes to my child fiction. like the character dosn't act her age and the writing style doesn't suit the character, so i think what i'll do is tweak my character a bit and change the writing style to omnipotent narrator. i've never really done that and i've been wanting to try it for a while, so i'm not really sure how it will turn out. but it's and it's about doing things you've never done before.

i also think i'll change the way i do my location when i'm updating. i think i'll put the place the post is about, rather than my current location.

i hate being a woman

i hate my hormones. i feel so terrible today. i felt wierd yesterday too, but not as badly. i feel rather like a shattered egg today, all cracked with bits broken off and oozy clear stuff dribbling out through the holes. at least i should feel better by tomorrow or the day after.

i had a really good weekend (edit: the weekend was thursday and friday). i met up with lordkilljoy and we went to wagamama's for food. it was good, not my favourite food ever, and then we went to see ironman. it is totally the coolest film i've seen in ages. there are so many scenes in it that i absolutely love - i feel all tony stark's emotions along with him - it's a rare movie has the ability to do that.

then on sunday (edit: ok, it was friday - it felt like sunday) i got to see 300. i missed it in the cinema, much to my disappointment. i quite enjoyed it. it looked spectacular - the style and 3 tone colour scheme gave it this look that complimented the theme well. i liked it, but i wouldn't be rushing out to see it again. it was just a little too lacking in the intricate plot department.

not much happening today. i had hoped to get some writing done, but now i just think i'll sacrifice the day to mother nature and do very little of substance.

i had a wierd dream last night involving getting to an airport and not knowing the way and being convinced that i'd missed my flight but actually being a day early, because somewhere in the distant past i knew i'd have trouble getting to the airport. then there was another bit about travelling (in a car?) up hills and through forests and hoping that i came out in the right place.
yes - it was a troubled dream, cause known but not shared here.

more on typing

this is so crazy - i type better with my left hand than with my right. Is it just that the first keys i learned were asdf, so i always favoured that hand, or is it like the way i pour milk with my left hand. anyway, if you hadn't guessed, i'm practising my typing. i'm learning where all the keys actually are on the keyboard, like uiop, i never knew the exact sequence of them before and zxcv, they are ones i never knew. in fact, the whole bottom row is a stranger to me.

A Walk in the Park

last night lordkilljoy reminded me of HDR images. After looking around a few galleries i remembered why i fell in love with HDR back in college, but back then i never did anything with it. Mostly due to a lack of accessible software. So last night i tried making one, using the HDR converter thing in photoshop cs2. my test worked out ok, so today i went down the powdermills to get some pretty shots. (at one stage i had to climb a 7 foot wall because the trail i was on ended in an impassable mess of bramble and trees.)

so, what i learned from my little experiment is that trees do not make good subjects for HDR - especially when there's a bit of a breeze. water makes an even worse subject - especially up close. but i did get a few good shots in sheltered areas.
the other thing i learned is that you have to be really careful not to shake your tripod even a tiny bit.

anyway - here's a pic of my favourite shot of the day.

the sun came out today

it was a lovely day in southern ireland today. warm and bright and i wore a skirt and string top. it was nice just lazing about in the sunshine and making faces out of the few clouds.

i took a break from my computer today - i didn't turn it on until about 9 tonight. go me. days away from my computer make me feel like i've actually achieved something, even if i've done nothing at all.

i don't have any news really - i ran around the place with mammy's camera taking random pictures, i don't really get any good ones.

sunday afternoons

I watched ocean's thirteen and blood and chocolate last night. good movies, ocean's thirteen was more of the same - still fun. blood and chocolate was a love story wrapped up as a werewolf story - nothing ground-breaking, but still fun to watch.

i'm off to taleweavers later this afternoon and then to dave's planescape game this evening. i'm looking forward to that - my character is quite cool. she's the portal expert of the group - i'm looking forward to doing funky things with portals.
and for taleweavers - we've all decided to take part in genre-challenge and do a piece of child fiction. mine involves alternate realities and wierdness. i'm not sure if it will actually tie together properly - right at the moment it feels totally disjointed. more like a collage of scenes than a coherent story. ah well. i still have a few weeks until the end of may.

not much else news - i think i've just about exhausted my stockpile of post-worthy stuff. 2 posts a day for the last few days was kind of phenomenal spurt of random chatter, though. i think i'm just happy to be home :)

new phones

both of my parents now have mobile phones. in the space of a few hours the number of mobiles in the house has doubled! cool. mammy's is a nice basic phone - does phoning and texting and not a whole lot else. daddy's is quite a cool sony ericsson, which he got second hand off a friend. it has all the fun features of a SE, even though it's a bit scratched on the outside. neither of them has had a phone before, so it's a bit funny watching them make their first calls and receive texts and stuff. it's nice knowing that i can send them texts - not that i really have any reason to, but it's fun.

i'm such a procrastinator - i've done most of a plot outline for my may genre challenge, and then i decided my livejournal needed updating. :roll eyes: oh well.

ok - i'm going back writing now.

party shuffle

today (20 days after i arrived home) i was reminded about the coolness of party shuffle, thanks to penelope_stone. i had completely forgotten about it, and i even have a playlist in itunes called "the empty playlist" and i remembered that i used to use it for something, but i couldn't remember what. but now i remember that i'd set party shuffle on the empty playlist and use it as a play area for making temporary playlists. ahhh, the joys of itunes. now i remember why i havn't switched to any other player.
oh, the forgetfulness of humans!

i went messing with my camera this morning and this was the result.
i tied up my hair in 2 pony tails today as well. it looks really cute - i took a pic of that too.


yea - kind of random morning.

the end of my phone problems

so now that my phone's all sorted out, i got to check my voicemail. and it was a message from meteor. so now i'm wondering if i've killed my chances with this 3d company. that would be so awful. this possible candidate ringing up because she things there's a slim chance someone may have called her. ah well. no job would mean i get to concentrate a lot more on my writing.

yea - as you may have guessed, i sorted out the €25 credit problem. They were fine with it. Excellent stuff. it's so nice having a working phone again. It's like when you have a cold and you can't smell anything and it's ok - you don't really realize what you're missing. It's just when the cold heals up and you can smell again that you realize how much you missed it.
i texted lordkilljoy to figure out which of the 2 numbers i had for him is his and i got a random reply from the wrong number saying "who r u?" it was a bit funny. so i deleted that number and kept the other one.
ok - that was a pretty random little story, but it's valid because it's the first text i sent since i got home. to a stranger - awh!

and since we're on random little stories - this morning i ate breakfast with a plastic spoon. one that i got in san francisco in a 7-eleven (like one that you get with take-away soup, a free one). but i was eating breakfast and it reminded me of eating breakfast in glacier national park, sitting on the bench, surrounded by snow and being freezing cold and eating cereal with warm milk to ease the cold passing into my stomach. ahh - good times.

movies and things

i've been spending my evenings watching movies (wow, this word isn't in firefox's dictionary) recently. i watched krull first, because i have loved that film since i was little and my parents introduced me to it. so when i came back from the world and saw that we had it on dvd i was excited. it's still a great movie. i was happy from the first note of the opening music until the last credit had rolled by. and firemares: nothing more need be said.
the second movie i watched was conan the barbarian. i don't think i've ever seen it before. it was quite good. arnold is good in it - a sword suits him. i can't believe he's the governor of california. crazy.
anyway - last night's film was the final cut of bladerunner (and now i own 2 copies of that film - the quality of the final cut is better, though). i love ridley scott. bladerunner and legend are 2 of my favourite movies (and gladiator).

i booked flights for glastonbury in june the other day too. o_O, did i forget to mention that penelope_stone and me are going to glastonbury festival this year? :) we are. it's going to be cool. so we're flying to bristol and getting a bus to the festival from there. and there's still tickets left, so if anyone wants to meet up in glastonbury that could be cool.

my phone's back working, but now they are telling me that i have no credit. lies - i should have €25. so i'm going to go sort that out and then all will be well (hopefully).

there was something else i wanted to say, but i can't remember. oh well.
oh, wait. i remember. last night, i was typing and i remembered that i had a wireless keyboard and that it fits comfortably on my lap. so now my keyboard's back to it's usual position and by back can stop straining over to the left ('cause computer desks just don't leave enough room for a mouse and keyboard to fit comfortably).

learning to type properly

god - i hate typing stuff up, because i can't type properly. if i type properly, my speed drops to 13wpm; which is horribly frustrating because i can type at about 45 when i don't type properly. where's the problem, you ask. The problem is that i look down at the keyboard an awful lot when typing fast, so when i'm typing something off a sheet i have to keep stopping to read the next sentence and as you may have noticed: when my typing slows down i get annoyed at myself.
so the point of all of this is that i've found a website that will teach me how to type properly quickly. yeay. i've added a link to my quicklinks in firefox that says - do every day. and i figure in a few months i should be able to type properly and then i can face the idea of typing up the end of my novel without cringing and pretending that said dilemma does not exist. it's awful to be so torn - wanting to type up my novel because i can start editing properly and not wanting to because typing causes me such heartache and pain (much like learning to drive did, but i know i don't have to go for a test at the end of it all).

and here i am, making use of the ultimate procrastination tool, updating my Lj (and not typing properly). you see, my creativity flows at a certain speed, which is about 50 wpm, so even at my fastest typing i can't keep up with it. if i type properly, i get absolutely nowhere and my ideas speed past me on the highway of thought and i look up from the dirt, going "wait, please slow down for me, i can't keep up like this - i'm walking (no - crawling) and you've got a honda roadster. hardly fair."
anyway - when i write by hand, everything's good and square and we all get on because every part of me loves to write with a pencil and paper. yeay.

i'm getting worse

yesterday all i ate was a half a bowl of cereal and 2 trail bars. i lay in bed last night starving and trying to force myself to sleep so that the hole-pain in my stomach would go away.
it's not that i'm trying to starve myself or anything. i just didn't have an appetite all day except for last night in bed. having a sore throat always kills my appetite.

we have a new addition to the household today. penelope_stone had a baby! no!!!! she got a laptop (might as well be a new baby, except that you can hit ctrl-alt-del when stuff goes wrong). why does nobody say del-alt-ctrl, does it have to be delete that gets hit last or something? yep - alt-ctrl-del works too. amazing.
:shake head: anyway.

not much to report here. i got a missed call on my phone yesterday and what with meteor being silly i can't check my voicemail, so i have no idea who called me. i'm so worried it's the company i applied to for a job. so i rang them earlier asking if someone from the company had tried calling me. the receptionist said she'd check and get back to me, but that was over an hour ago and no call, so now i'm worried if i've screwed up my chances.
i got a letter in the door from college, letting me know that there's a flash development position available in south dublin, but just reading over the specs made me realize how much i really don't want to do flash stuff for the rest of my life. 3d modelling seems so much more fun and creative.

my illness has improved vastly from the weekend - now i have a dry-sort-of-cough and a bit of a sniffle and that's it. yeay.

last night was more conventional

no coughing fits last night - wooo! i did have a kinda wierd dream that featured my red boots (the ones with the stars on them:
)
i was on an island (that islands 2 nights in a row) getting on a boat back to the mainland and i had to take my boots off. but i ended up leaving them on the boat and we were outside the terminal (there was some trouble getting out of the terminal - swirly roads and unhelpful-turning-helpful security guards) when i noticed them on the boat's deck. so i ran back and jumped onto the boat and rode back to the island happily with my boots. i woke up before we got there, but my intention wasn't to go back to the island, it was to go out and come back.

i started reading the legend of nightfall last night. it's a good book. i'd tried to buy lynn flewelling's nightrunner series off amazon, but they don't accept irish maestro cards. oh well. apparently play.com does. so i made a basket there with the lies of locke lamora in it. (yes - i am obsessed with books about thieves / assassins). i'm waiting for the price of the name of the wind to come down a bit, but once it does i'm totally buying it.

so yea. i havn't much other news - i think i'll start typing up my travel journal today - it may be a challenge; my typing is bad today - my fingers are a bit shaky. the reason: all i ate was a yoghurt and some toast yesterday. i've lost my appetite - it happens with a sore throat.

right then, bye.

liam's party and other fun things

the weekend was great. i did so much + should have been updating on a daily basis, but i didn't have the time. when i wasn't out i was sleeping and pretending that i'm not sick.
anyway - the weekend began on saturday night with lordkilljoy's birthday. 70s theme party featuring big hair, big glasses and big flares. it was a fabulous night of dancing and meeting people i'd not seen in years. it was so good to see lordkilljoy again. he's someone i definitely don't get to see enough of.
so then sunday was taleweavers meet and the start of dave's planescape game - nothing happened - we spent the evening making characters and watching spaced (the best geek-soap tv show ever).
monday was more gaming - only this time with barry, adrian and craig. we're trying to find the 13 lost shards of aphrodite and we got all the way to 12 on monday - so close to the end. we finished early (5ish) and that gave me a chance to go to gavindillon and jerry's barbeque. good food, a nice fire and mostly good company.

i did spend the whole weekend with a painful swollen throat and possibly a mild fever - last night was the worst. i was half asleep, having a bad coughing fit and in my delirium, i was cataloguing the time between coughs, the intensity of cough, the predicted length and intensity of the next one and it was all flashing in my brain as some kind of wierd dark skewed spreadsheet of doom. it was a bit scary, and it felt like i was coughing for about half an hour (but time is messed up during the night).

then i had this crazy dream about a construct-woman with special abilities who had been cast out of the corporation who made her. she was exiled to a deadly island and as she walked around she saw all sorts of evil looking humanoids who felt nothing but evil towards her. they didn't attack, though - just stared menacingly until it drove her insane. she got back to the town of the island and fell, begging, into the arms of her maker - crying and sobbing about the monsters. then all the monsters leapt to the attack and even though she was this wonder-woman fighting expert amazing construct, she was powerless. but then everything stopped and her maker eased her to the ground and she realized that she's been hallucinating.
it was a bit crazy.

my brain goes totally insane when i'm sick.

i went to a gig last night and it was brilliant

happy may - better yet, happy summer :)

charlie don't surf and ten past seven played in the quad last night and it was the best gig i've been to in ages. both bands were in a fabulous mood - just having fun and rocking out - they didn't seem worried about anything. the energy they put into their music was palpable - it filled the pub like a haze of excitement, like the potential of a lightening storm, and built until the last note was played.
unfortunately it will be the last gig they play for a while. colm (of charlie don't surf) is moving to italy in june and they probably won't be playing between now and then. i don't know what the deal with ten past seven is, but they said this was it for a while.

it's great being home - getting to see people i know again, going out to gigs and having a good time and stuff. but one of the best things is being at 52degrees north. the evenings are so long in this counrty. it was something i really missed travelling (christchurch is only at 43degrees). it's amazing to be able to look out my window at 9pm and still have so much light playing across the sky. yea - this country has a lot going for it.

ug, spam for my friends

ug - i just can't help myself. this is for anyone who wants to get to know me (superficially) better.




RULES (the rules don't matter to me, do this if you want, or not if you don't want)

1. Tag 10 ppl (not the one who sent it to you!) *please tag yourself*
2. Answer all truthfully
3. Take it in public!


[x] I am shorter than 5'4.
[ ] I think I'm ugly sometimes.
[x] I have many scars.
[x] I tan easily. =_=
[ ] I wish my hair was a different color.
[ ] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[ ] I have a tattoo.
[x] I am self-conscious about my appearance.
[x] I have/I've had braces.
[ ] I wear glasses.
[ ] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
[x] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
[x] I have more than 2 piercing.
[ ] I have piercing in places besides my ears.
[x] I have freckles.
[ ] I hate my dad.
[ ] I hate my mom.
[ ] I have a brother.
[x] I have a sister.
[ ] I've sworn at my parents.
[ ] I've run away from home.
[ ] I've been kicked out of the house.
[x] My biological parents are together.
[ ] I have a sibling less than one year old.
[ ] I want to have kids someday
[ ] I've had children.
[ ] I've lost a child.
[ ] I'm in school.
[ ] I have a job.
[ ] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[x] I almost always do my homework.
[x] I've missed a week or more of school.
[ ] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years.
[ ] I failed more than 1 class last year.
[x] I've stolen something from my job.
[ ] I've been fired.
[ ] I've slipped out an "lol" in a spoken conversation.
[x] Disney movies still make me cry.
[ ] I've peed from laughing.
[ ] I've snorted while laughing.
[x] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[ ] I've had my pants rip in public.
[ ] I was born with a disease/impairment.
[x] I've gotten stitches/staples.
[ ] I've broken a bone.
[ ] I've had my tonsils removed.
[ ] I've sat in a doctor’s office/emergency room with a friend.
[ ] I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
[ ] I had a serious surgery.
[x] I've had chickenpox
[ ] I was born in a different country.
[x] I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
[x] I've been on a plane.
[x] I've been to Canada.
[ ] I've been to Mexico.
[x] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[x] I've been to Japan.
[ ] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[x] I've been to Europe.
[ ] I've been to Africa.
[ ] I've gotten lost in my city
[x] I've seen a shooting star.
[x] I've wished on a shooting star
[ ] I've seen a meteor shower.
[x] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[ ] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[ ] I've kicked a guy where it hurts
[ ] I've been to a casino *rolls dice*
[ ] I've been skydiving.
[ ] I've gone skinny dipping.
[ ] I've played spin the bottle
[ ] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one day
[ ] I've crashed a car.
[ ] I've been Skiing.
[x] I've been in a play.
[ ] I've met someone in person from myspace.
[x] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[ ] I've seen the Northern lights.
[x] I've sat on a roof top at night
[ ] I've played chicken.
[ ] I've played a prank on someone
[x] I've ridden in a taxi.
[x] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[x] I've eaten sushi.
[x] I've been snowboarding.
[x] I'm single.
[ ] I'm in a relationship.
[ ] I'm engaged.
[ ] I'm married.
[ ] I've gone on a blind date.
[ ] I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
[ ] I miss someone right now.
[ ] I have a fear of abandonment.
[ ] I've gotten divorced.
[ ] I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[x] I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
[ ] I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
[x] I've kept something from a past relationship (such as gifts, love-letters, plushies, etc)
[ ] I've had a crush on someone of the same sex.
[?] I'm bi.
[ ] I'm gay.
[x] I've had sex.
[ ] I've had phone sex.
[ ] I've cybered.
[ ] I've had sex in public.
[ ] I've had a crush on a teacher.
[x] I am a cuddler.
[ ] I've been kissed in the rain <3
[ ] I've hugged a stranger.
[x] I have kissed a stranger
[ ] I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't.
[x] I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't.
[ ] I've snuck out of my house.
[ ] I have lied to my parents about where I am.
[ ] I am keeping a secret from the world.
[x] I've cheated while playing a game.
[ ] I've cheated on a test.
[ ] I've run a red light.
[ ] I've been suspended from school.
[ ] I've witnessed a crime.
[ ] I've been in a fist fight.
[ ] I've been arrested.
[x] I've consumed alcohol.
[ ] I regularly drink.
[ ] I've passed out from drinking.
[ ] I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months.
[x] I've done weed.
[ ] I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
[ ] I've eaten shrooms.
[ ] I've popped E.
[ ] I've inhaled Nitrous.
[ ] I've done hard drugs.
[ ] I have cough drops when I'm not sick
[x] I can't swallow pills.
[ ] I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem.
[ ] I have been diagnosed with clinical depression.
[ ] I have been diagnosed with one or more anxiety disorder.
[x] I shut others out when I'm depressed.
[ ] I take anti-depressants.
[ ] I'm anorexic or bulimic.
[ ] I've slept an entire day when I didn't need it
[x] I've hurt myself on purpose.
[x] I've woken up crying.
[x] I've woken up laughing.
[ ] I'm afraid of dying.
[x] I hate funerals.
[ ] I've seen someone dying.
[x] Someone close to me has attempted suicide.
[ ] Someone close to me has committed suicide.
[ ] I've planned my own suicide.
[ ] I've attempted suicide.
[ ] I've written a eulogy for myself.
[ ] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[ ] I own an iPod or MP3 player.
[ ] I have an unhealthy obsession with anime/manga.
[ ] I own a plushie of my fave character from anything.
[ ] I own a cosplay outfit
[x] I know what cosplay means.
[ ] I own multiple designer purses, costing over $100 a piece.
[ ] I own something from Hot Topic.
[ ] I own something from Pac Sun.
[x] I collect comic books.
[ ] I own something from The Gap.
[ ] I own something I got on e-bay.
[ ] I own something from Abercrombie.
[x] I can sing well
[ ] I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
[ ] I open up to others easily.
[ ] I watch the news.
[ ] I don't kill bugs. (i usedn't, but then i went to asia)
[ ] I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for the sake of being able to rhyme
[ ] I curse regularly.
[x] I sing in the shower
[ ] I am a morning person.
[ ] I paid for my cell phone ring tone.
[x] I'm a snob about grammar.
[ ] I am a sports fanatic.
[ ] I twirl my hair.
[ ] I have "x"s in my screen name.
[ ] I love being neat.
[ ] I love Spam.
[ ] I've copied more than 30 CD's in a day.
[x] I bake well.
[ ] My favorite color is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue. (navy)
[ ] I've worn pajamas to school.
[ ] I like Martha Stewart.
[ ] I know how to shoot a gun.
[x] I am in love with love. (define love)
[ ] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
[x] I laugh at my own jokes
[ ] I eat fast food weekly.
[ ] I believe in ghosts.
[ ] I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
[ ] I've not turned anything in and still got an A in a certain class *3*
[x] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[x] I am really ticklish.
[ ] I love white chocolate.
[ ] I bite my nails.
[x] I play video games.
[ ] I'm good at remembering faces.
[ ] I'm good at remembering names.
[x] I'm good at remembering dates
[ ] I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.
[ ] I loath lables.
[x] I like action movies
[x] I like horror movies.
[ ] I like chick flicks.
[?] I know the most random facts about things people have never heard of before.
[x] I can't spell.
[ ] I treasure my friends.
[ ] I think of others before myself.
[x] All of those are answered honestly

whee - i'm excited

i just found out that there's a new prince of persia game coming out. oh wow. this is so cool. i totally can't wait for it (supposedly christmas this year). yeeeeee.
fangirl moment. wwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
now i'm really going to have to get a new PC. dammit. i can't afford one. i guess i have until christmas to save up. waa - it's so exciting. getting to be the prince again, scaling walls, running along ledges, doing backflips and somersaults and sneaking up on your enemies and stuff. yeay.

not much other news - i've been re-organizing my room for the last 2 days. i got new shelves (well - a shelf-kinda thing and a cupboard-kinda thing) and i've been finding homes for the clutter in my room in them. it's working out quite well, actually.

i'm building up a mild addiction to shivering isles too. i started playing last night at 10; at 12 i told myself to go to bed; i eventually got there at 1:30. terrible. i finished one quest and went to start another - but that one got really interesting so i finished it too. heh.

making changes

bear with me while i create a new style for my journal. this could take a while. i'm re-learning css and trying to figure out how Lj does it all at the same time.

people shouldn't be allowed to ring me (this post get's off this topic)

i just got a call from my bank asking me if i wanted to make any changes to my account details or take out a loan or something, but during the call i managed to drop my graphics tablet on the ground and get the wire for my mouse all caught up. and apart from that i'm totally shaking with the stress of having to talk to an unexpected person.
i'm such an unsocialized (aka shy) person - i just don't do normal human interactions very well.

ah well.

heh - oh yea - yesterday playing shivering isles, there was one part where i was in a kinda freaky area with bones scattered around a garden. i hear a noise like someone whispering or singing insanely or something. it's coming from behind me and is totally freaking me out - it sounds like who's evers making the noise would turn out to be something uberly freaky.
anyway - i turn around, nothing there. oh wait, goes my brain. it's actually coming from behind me in reality. duh - it's my phone ringing.
i had changed the ringtone to a song (helena by my chemical romance) and was totally not used to it. so yea - it was kinda funny. i'm kinda glad i didn't have to face the scary monster. that was one thing that used always get to me playing daggerfall - they'd put in all these crazy sounds and people laughing and stuff and it would freak me out wondering what sort of freaky creature that i can't find is making this pertifing noise. heh - yea. i guess that's why i don't play resident evil or silent hill or stuff - i'd cower in a corner, and when i did venture out i'd save every 3 seconds or something. i get like that playing oblivion sometimes. that's why i love new areas to explore, and why i always play sneaky characters - it's so much fun hanging out in the dark near a wall watching a monster come closer, and closer, and you can't run or he'll spot you, so you just crouch there, praying. and then he moves off and so do you. down the corridor - quick-saving at every corner and sometimes at every step.
yea - it's fun.

right before i got the call i was working on remembering how to draw - i'm cheating and doing a paint over (where you put a photo on a lower layer and basically copy it), but it's helping get me back into the swing of art-stuffs.

my post of firsts

since i got home the first things i've done have been:

1st dinner: roast chicken with mashed and roasted spuds and stuffing and carrots and gravy - yummy. (my second dinner was the leftovers, even yummier - all fried together, mmmmm.)

1st friend i met up with: claire of d+d / taleweavers

1st game i played: oblivion. (then i ran out and bought the game of the year edition for knights of the nine and shivering isles. i did it that way 'cause no where just sold the 2 expansions separately)

1st time i used my new laser (debit) card: to buy shivering isles (i went crazy with my debit card in new zealand (i think $4 was the average price i used it for) the first thing i bought with money was 2 pairs of socks in penneys (primark to those of you in the uk), wow).

1st song listened to: Cocteau Twins – Aloysius (i played my top rated songs on shuffle (info thanks to last.fm))

1st movie i watched: final fantasy advent children

1st book i read: a comic - outer orbit - which i bought in dreamhaven books in minneapolis

ok - i can't think of anything else - feel free to put in additional 1sts for me.