*shrug*


( four pics )

Heading down to Pismo to check on the folks tomorrow. I will be back (and resuming work on current commissions) on Monday or Tuesday.

A representative from the Alzheimer's Association came by to check on my Dad today and they are going to be installing a hospital bed for him tomorrow, since he's really no longer able to get up without falling.

And may I vent a brief WTFH? to the PO. They supposedly scanned my Dollheart preorder from Jpop as Delivered on Saturday (Halloween), but I never received it. I call to try and find out where the hell my carrier put/left the damn thing and when the supervisor calls me back he tells me, "Well, it says it was delivered on Saturday."

Really Sherlock? Wow. I would be calling you, dumbass because I DON'T EFFING HAVE IT! Jeez!

/inarticulate rage at lameshits.

I need a vacation. ;_;

The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

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Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

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Enveloped in postcards

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Photos of the week

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Who wants to listen to me bitch? Just frustrated I guess. Waking up to a slew of banking/paycheck problems and finding out the person who has Atlas's shoulder might be on the Bad Seller list for flakiness doesn't help. :( It's just been a rough year financially and a "luxury hobby" is seeming more and more unlikely? irresponsible? I don't know. I don't know if I even want to give it up but sometimes I wonder if I should.

Whelp if you read any of that you probably deserve cookies at this point. :P I need addresses, I need to know if you prefer gingerbread/sugar cookies with/without frosting, I need to know if you have any weird allergies or are vegan or anything. I actually have made vegan sugar cookies before, they weren't bad. Not exactly the same, but not bad. Super early I know but I want to try and actually get them sent before Christmas this year. XD So yes send, PM's to keepithushhush on the Den of your choice or emails to hushhush.rose at gmail.com! Go, go, go!

Annnd since this post isn't random enough have some links:

The original minime?

For anyone who loves toys/commiserates with forced gender roles? I dunno, it's Mika and I rarely understand what he's talking about but goddamn if the boy doesn't make me smile.



I think I'll bake some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies or spend some time cleaning Atlas to see if that doesn't cheer me up. :)

**eta: Oh yeah, Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

See? And this is why I don't watch the news: it's depressing. I come back from a con that celebrates the diversity in entertainment, stories and love... only to start catching up on LJ and discover more badness for same-sex marriages. Sigh.

I do not understand why a relationship not involving others could offend said others so much that they would want to deny them rights. Why who a person loves should be a cause for pain, suffering and even death. I cannot and will not accept that we are teetering backwards on the edge between what is right and fear of change.

* I'm exhausted but will not complain because kidling is far more entitled than I. Up and down five times last night. She is in extraordinary pain - her throat is akin to an open wound and the glands in her throat are the size of tennis balls. Miserable. I don't think I"ve ever seen someone this sick with so little to offer in the way of remedy or comfort. The month The Viking had pneumonia is about as close as I can remember....Additionally, we're coping with her inability to swallow pills and her unique issues with food that make trying to shovel caloric energy into her nearly a moot point. She goes back tomorrow and if she's not somewhat improved....things may turn again. Also, it's just past mid-terms for her and this week spring enrolment opened and she's out of that loop. Damn.

* Not. Complaining. Worried. Her voice calls to me in the smallest whisper in the darkest part of the night and I wake with my heart in a fist.

* Plans are still changing. K, I'll email you.

* ASL Tuesday night was amazing. I'm learning about the opportunities available as an interpreter. The drive wasn't as bad as I feared - I re-procured the sportwagon and that helped. Listened to classic acoustic Dylan there and back and that helped, too. I've now got an envelope slowly being filled with doll cash because I am bound and determined to pick up another Volvo. My lust for the wagons....might not be realistic with what my budget is, but a white sedan with a black interior and manual transmission should be within reach. My plan to enrol in the Deaf Studies program at the JC two hours from here is moving very decidedly forward. Also, reading "Open Your Eyes" and just having my worldview turned a bit inside out. Working feverishly on "getting" numbers and omfg, flist, most of you know of my ginger weakness....but Shut. Up. Look at this swoon-y cat (I can't look at him long because....breathing and all, ya know.) -

http://video.about.com/deafness/How-to-Sign-Numbers-in-ASL.htm

* Daughter lay on the couch yesterday and began TrueBlood S1 again....and yep, yep, it's flawless the second time through. Maybe? Even better?

* Okay, NaNo. Switched horses mid-stream yesterday at midnight - that whole fisted heart thing....made it hard to sleep and I lay awake with more Skull Theatre plays being acted out.....and decided that I would try another story. The conjoined shorts....is still calling to me but I'm struggling with POVs and voice. I think I've made a kind of peace with the fact that although I adore Limited 3rd Omniscient when the author's voice is unique and engaging, I just can't/don't write that and I need to let that fantasy/desire go. I write a more lyrical Limited 3rd and that's just. the. way. it. is. I just have to let a small bit of my own voice through more than I do - I don't know where in my Writing Education I latched onto the idea that I needed to embrace a somewhat nonchalantly sterile Limited Omniscient voice, but it's been a struggle to move away from that. Word Count is good...until I go back with that red pen....but I'm writing more this November than I have in past Novembers and that satisfies. For now.

* What I'm wearing this year in black - Boot Lust.

* I'm reading NaNo posts when/where I can. Things look vibrant out there, flist. Good for youse!

* Not talking dolls at the mo'. Sorry.

 I suppose I should take part in this round as my first post to the community :)

Elise: Uncertainty
Cailon: Regret
June: Void
Bynx: Loneliness
Ira: Frustration
Maty: Kindness
Viktoria: Lust
Garrett: Courage
Tain: Uncaring
Tobias: Delirium
Zander: Turmoil
Vecentio: Delusion
Manon: Insecurity
Gillian: Subservient
Telarianvestuank: Disarray
Silvana: Unforgiving
Pepita: Curiosity
Churro: Observant
Regaliz: Naive
Dulce: Two-faced

hehe it's amusing to do non-photo exercises because you guys pop them out so fast! but then i feel like i'm slacking when the exercise is essentially all done before the two weeks is up lol :B

anyways, i'm copy/pasting this from when i did the meme before (adding new chars obviously), although i still don't know one word to describe malice.

it's important, before reading these, that you understand there are a lot of negative things that i associate with my characters' personalities, but that it doesn't mean i have negative associations with my dolls.

( my list )

the point of this exercise is to force yourself to relate to them, allowing you to not only get to know the character better but to also think of them in more realistic terms. shallow stereotypical characters suddenly take on a multi-dimensional depth n_n hopefully it's helpful!

I really liked this one.  It's something I think about often with my characters, as I am quite aware that, while none of them are really me, all of them come from some place within me.  I think I'll do my most dynamic characters.

( characters! )Kilian: Humor/Mirth
Akari: Curiosity
Shane: Serenity
Konnel: Passion
Zip: Determination
Dip: Compassion
Yaazi: Innocence
Nilavaj: Acceptance
Alaric: Brooding
Lechi: Mothering
Nollyn: Creative
Tag: Friendship (plus geekiness)
Zevra: Childish

This sounds really fun and interesting =o This is gonna be a bit of a long list, i wanna try to do most of my plot related doll'd characters (+Cade, since i'm working on that story for nanowrimo ^.~)

Cade, Piper, and Kairele seemed to be the hardest to figure out.


Citilla - dreamer
Cade - instinctive
Seth - Obsession
Alisha (Also not doll'd, though she prolly never will be. shh) - innocence


Piper - chipper/stubborn
Bell - skeptical
Ryn - reservation
Rune - Loving
Karu'in - Protective
Serien - Supportive
Lyria - immature/naive
Mana - caring
Azri - Parental

Miere - introverted
Kairele - lonely

This is a hard one! o_O Gabe and Kafka were hardest for me to decide on, lol. Or to pin down, rather, hehe

Gabe - Desire

Gwendolyn - Devotion

Jael - Foolishness

Kane - Judgement

Kafka - Conflict

Azumaria - Timid
Kiren - Stubborn
Puck - Mischievous

It is quite obvious that I am quicker and less lazy about doing written exercises than photos. I am only slightly ashamed of this. I went with my long list of characters for this one instead of just the major ones.

( 14 characters! )

But OMG!

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=334320

Sooo amazing O_O

I don't know if this has been posted anywhere and I didn't see an announcement on the site.  I just figured this out by poking around.

Now at the top of the site there is a web search bar.



Well according to this help link  http://pupe.ameba.jp/cute/help?code=ribbon#searchStampHelp
we can now spam  help poupee get lots of money from google lots of hits for searches on google

Basically you can click on one of the little "hot words" under the bar and it opens a google search page.  Each time you do that you get a number in one of the flowers.  This goes up to three which turns into a flower "stamp".  I guess you do this three days in a row and you get ten ribbons.  Just like a mechanical turk except you get ribbons instead of cash. 

I think I've been on the internet too long.  I'm becoming cynical.

This exercise is based on a small meme that was going around a year or so ago, but it is very helpful for getting to know your characters n_n

( exercise details! )

i really don't feel like writing today

*rolls around like a tarepanda*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIERA!! I hope you can has lovely dayes!



In tradition. I hope this one makes more sense than the last one I posted >.>