Kiriban at 30,000

If you happen to land on my page at 30,000 views, take a screenshot and post it on dA in your scraps, and send me the link. As a reward I will write/draw something for you.

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Art Trades/Requests

- an OC - 0%
KH scenes x3 - 0% 0% 0%
- OC DiStOrTiO - 0% (I still need to give you what to draw; sorry! )

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Merikuri everyone!!! I hope it's great for you that's celebrate; if you don't, I hope you have a wonderful day anyway!

I've already done the maternal round of Christmas (divorced parents = multiple, multiple rounds of gifts rather than one big one; makes it all seem like more, almost). I got a computer chair, which is great because my old one broke (I'm using one borrowed from another room). It's also light weight just in case furniture is BYO at college. I also got a headset for my PSP - as in, now I can use Skype on it, yay! - and a bunch of books. I'm into this series of "bibles" which are about mystical things like tarot and astrology. Santa gave me (shh, my sister believes) three, on mythology, mythical creaturs, and Chinese astrology. I is very happy. My sister also gave me Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 5 - I have it already, but I didn't say anything. I'll figure out what to do with that eventually. I also got a video game for my PSP: Riviera: The Promised Land. I'm glad; now I have like four games for my PSP! All the more reason to get back to playing it. Eventually.

But yes I have a bunch of amazing presents already~ I'm pleasantly surprised by the lengths my 'rents have gone to. I don't know what my dad's gotten me yet, though. I won't be able to say what for a while either...

Which brings me to my next point: I'm going to be AFK for a few days. Actually, it's pretty close to a week that I'll be gone. Today, my dad's picking me up and we're celebrating Christmas. Then, it's a dad weekend, so I'll be there for the weekend. After that, rather than coming back home, I'm going into the city to stay with my aunt for a few days. I won't be back until Wednesday.

*sigh* Currently I have 2704 deviations and 839 messages in my inbox. I'm quite afraid to see what number I have when I get back. At least I'm going to bring the lion's share of my homework along, so maybe I'll have some time to go through everything once I get back.

I have a super-hilarious story from last night. I went to Christmas Eve service, and the pastor brought all the kids up to the front and told them the story of the candy cane (that it was made by a candymaker to represent Jesus, since it's the shape of a J/shepherd's cane and is red and white for sacrifice and purity). She was explaining why white meant pure, using the classic fresh snow example. In the end of her Jesus is pure + pure is white, she came up with something like this:

"Jesus was white like snow"

I had to duck out of the sanctuary and go downstairs to laugh my ass off because I couldn't control myself. And I found out that, at eighteen, I STILL have no attention span during church. I spent most of the service reading 2 Chronicles and the story of Jehosephat and going "Jumping Jehosephat!" "Ben-heil!" (Just found it amusing) and stuff. Yes, I do distract myself by reading the Bible during church. I can't start from the beginning anymore, though, because when I read Adam and Eve I see blatant, blatant chauvinism and I want to go back and smack a few bitches (men) across the face. Someday I think I'll be able to read the thing through...it'd be nice to know the stories through and through.

Ah, and by the way, I'm reading New Moon (because I can and because I need SOMETHING to drown out the memory of that horrible movie). The book, so far, isn't too much better, only it seems to me that Bella is slightly less of a lunatic over Edward...so far. I'm only like sixty pages in (and they've used the word "perfect" about six times in the three chapters Edward was in the book) and already it's horridly like deja vu...I get the sickening sense that the book is about the same quality as the movie. That's not good. So to defend against that, in addition to New Moon I'm gonna bring one of the other library books I checked out. Also if somehow I finish it...but I hope it gets better because right now it's kind of hard to get through. I think seeing the movie first = very bad idea. Especially so close to reading it.

Hm, maybe instead of reading so much, I'll write a Christmas and/or New Year's story. Y'all wouldn't mind if I wrote something Christmasy a few days late, would you? (Would you?)

That's about all I've got to give before I go~ I really need to pack So Merikuri, general good health and luck to all of you, and good luck catching my kiriban! *fail*

Kiriban at 30,000

If you happen to land on my page at 30,000 views, take a screenshot and post it on dA in your scraps, and send me the link. As a reward I will write/draw something for you.

To Do

Art Trades/Requests

- an OC - 0%
-hosted Secret Santa - (details confidential) - 33%
KH scenes x3 - 0% 0% 0%

News

It's finally here: my last high school Christmas break. It hasn't really sunk in yet, that Christmas is pretty much here and that I've got a week off. The only thing that indicates anything of that kind is the fact that since I came home I've done diddly squat (which is a bad thing considering the amount of shit I have to do over the break). I finished drawing my Secret Santa gift; I think that's all. And even that I have to finish - inking and coloring. I'm getting heavy-lidded, though, so I think for quality's sake I'm going to add that to the blitzkrieg list of tomorrow.

Because apparently my room's a mess I have enough homework to kill a high school student for a week (gee I wonder why) I have presents to wrap that re consuming a lot of my floorspace and I took out seven books to read from the library. Not to mention drawing myriad art requests and finding my folder of art so I can see if I have any OCs I could upload - for every request I end up saying Stevie and it's increasingly because she's the only one I've got up (her and Annamae and the refs are pretty crappy IMO). Not to mention I am going to be away for a good chunk of the vacation. *sigh* What hath I wrought upon myself this time? I need to pull off some awesome tomorrow, bad. There is a lot to be done.

I don't know if I mentioned this but once we got rid of our DH, Matsui (WHY? -_-), we signed another guy on to be the DH (Granderson). I was not a happy ball of flame to be around at that point...nor am I happy about the fact that we traded Melky to Atlanta for two pitchers. I mean, come on, Matsui and Melky?! @_@ We better be thinking hard about Damon now because at this point our outfield is rather questionable.

But baseball is yet four months away (and only four months away :3) and I've got a chance to perhaps catch up on my sleep (yeah right). Maybe if we're lucky (REAL lucky) we'll see some art from me soon [that isn't requested]. If y'all wouldn't mind, of course. XD

Kiriban at 30,000

If you happen to land on my page at 30,000 views, take a screenshot and post it on dA in your scraps, and send me the link. As a reward I will write/draw something for you.

To Do

Art Trades/Requests

- an OC - 0%
-hosted Secret Santa - (details confidential) - 0%
KH scenes x3 - 0% 0% 0%

News

I don't know if it's just a heightened sensitivity or Murphy's torture or what, but whenever I get anxious about something - I mean, seriously anxious - everything comes together and dangles it in my face so I can't forget about it. Like, every time I talk on my cell phone for a really long time (usually four over an hour) my head feels...strange, like it's uncomfortable and headachy, and it seems to be somewhat concentrated on the side where I had the cell phone. Over the last...two days, I think, I talked over an hour twice and I did switch my cell from one ear to the other...and now, all today, my head's been having that muted weird feeling that's almost at my temples. It's really been freaking me out because you hear people questioning cell phones and their safety since they do emit a form of radiation (according to what I've seen, radio waves). I tend to have the nature of a hypochondriac, so the fact that my mind would almost immediately go this direction as soon as I feel something isn't so surprising to me...still, paranoia or not, "Just because you're paranoid/don't mean I'm not after you" (Territorial Pissings by Nirvana). Hm, and my phone's got a SAR rating of 1.04 (legal limit is 1.6). Interesting. Other models have really low ones but this one's pretty high (it's nowhere near the highest though).

Bleh, enough with my paranoia. That craziness aside I'm actually doing all right, I think. I don't know if it's the idea of not having to get up prior to the crack of dawn, or the headaches, or just a general turnaround miracle, but I haven't been quite as bad-feeling as usual as of some point last night. I'm sort of wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I finally finished my contest prizes (although I'm not sure I got Mina's eye color right in it I got two different answers, probably due to my hearing, which is pretty good although it mishears people A LOT), which would mean that it's obviously a good thing to pay attention to to do lists. Wish I would do that more often. (She says as she procrastinates on the one piece of homework she really has, which is short as hell as it is.)

But now, you'll see a (hopefully quick) succession of requests and art trades go by, and then you'll wonder how the hell your inbox went from ten to ten thousand deviations in a day when I decide it's time to post. I'm so raring to go, too. But I need a carrot and a stick and I know that, and that be the carrot. Time is my stick. Speaking of time writing this is taking a while because I keep pausing to do my homework. XD

...Oh dear, according to the Yanks website there's a place you can go to watch the games of the 2009 season...pick a game, any game...gee I wonder which games I'll pick to watch? :3 (and how is it that in the preseason one of the games they have is YanksvBoston and guess who won! O_O;; HOW THE HELL DID THEY KICK OUR ASSES FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEASON AFTER THAT?! *Series or not does not like remembering that little factoid*) After I do my homework, of course. XD I'm almost done~ *goes into super epic concentration mode-ish*

Kiriban at 30,000

If you happen to land on my page at 30,000 views, take a screenshot and post it on dA in your scraps, and send me the link. As a reward I will write/draw something for you.

To Do

Lost Muse Contest

The winners of my lost muse contest get some prizes from me!
- a picture of Stevie, Mina, and Kazumi pwning Guardian and Gunblade - 90%
- dedication of a landscape

Art Trades/Requests

- an OC - 0%
-hosted Secret Santa - (details confidential) - 0%
KH scenes x3 - 0% 0% 0%

News

So, I saw this Summary of 2009 art meme thing floating around my inbox in various completed forms. I was like, huh, maybe that would be good, to see my improvement (or lack thereof, who knows). But then, besides the fact that to do it I'd likely have to deal with Paint being a bitch (well actually no I could use the school computers lol), something hit me, and I went back to check: I haven't drawn that much this year, at all. And I CERTAINLY haven't posted much on deviantART in that department. Take March, for example. If you look in my gallery, yes, there are drawn pieces; however, these pieces are NOT from March; I specifically remember the Hinata thing being drawn a lot earlier and I just found it in March. Then, in the months before that, specifically January and February, I wasn't using my computer AT ALL because that was the Great Vundo Crisis of '09 for me, when my computer had to be wiped clean due to a virus. And then, other than the huge list of requests I took months to do, I haven't posted anything until the Lost Muse Contest prizes because I was like "if I post other things I'll never get them done." I'm actually ALMOST done with the last prize - there's just onnne little detail I wanted to check up with before I finished coloring. But other than those two eyes which will literally take me about thirty seconds max, I'm done. And then I have to get my ass moving on the Secret Santa, buuuuuuuuuut...that's not TOTALLY related.

What I'm saying is, I haven't really posted that much (nor have I really drawn much - other than the requests, for a lot of this year I was in a slump of sorts...I've been plagued with creative blocks aplenty and what might even be depression for all we know) this year. So I won't be doing that meme, sadly. I kinda wanted to, too Maybe I'll make a scrappy little thing comparing some of my old deviations to my new ones and seeing if there actually is an improvement or not.

I would usually probably say "next year I'm totally posting more *determined*" but...honestly, at this point, I don't know. I'm not very good at drawing when I'm upset because I get frustrated with my imperfect skills and it makes me feel worse...or I just don't have the gumption. And with everything that has gone on and is going on and will go on, I don't know if I'll be able to pull myself out of my slump anytime soon. I can try, but I don't have a lot of confidence in myself right now (...did I ever?). I could perk up and say that I AM engrossing myself more in my books and manga and stuff, but you could almost say I'm regressing - instead of going from a bookworm that loves to write, an anime junkie that loves to draw, I'm backfiring, going back into burying myself in their imaginary worlds. That's what it is, really. Reality set in and I want it to go the fuck away, at least for a little while. And I don't have the solitude to do so anymore...

Ugh, I'll probably end up ranting about this all night if I don't stop myself and get some of the truffles I made (chocolate with almond flavor :3). I'm sorry if I started offloading there, school and college and life and shit has got me stressed out like you wouldn't believe, just like everyone else. I'm just incredibly bad at bearing my load silently. :/

Kiriban at 30,000

If you happen to land on my page at 30,000 views, take a screenshot and post it on dA in your scraps, and send me the link. As a reward I will write/draw something for you.

To Do

Lost Muse Contest

The winners of my lost muse contest get some prizes from me!
- a picture of Stevie, Mina, and Kazumi pwning Guardian and Gunblade - 0%
- dedication of a landscape

Art Trades/Requests

- an OC - 0%
-hosted Secret Santa - (details confidential) - 0%
KH scenes x3 - 0% 0% 0%

News

So today I came across pictures that made my insides seethe and die a little. As y'all know, Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth Built, is defunct, given over to the new Yankee Stadium all the way across the street. So what are they doing to the House? It was well known that they were taking it down...but unlike Shea, which went vwoop! in some incredibly fast amount of time, they are killing Yankee Stadium slowly and painfully, piece by piece - literally. And they're selling it off, piece by piece. Chair by chair. Turf square by turf square. Etc by etc.

But in the meantime, Yankee Stadium looks like a sad, empty shell. They've finally gotten on the inside, and...it just looked horrible. The letters are off. THE LETTERS!! I saw a picture of them taking the I off and nearly cried. I saw the letters on the scaffolding, off completely, and died inside for a horrible moment. The place is gutted and half apart...it just looks like a mess. My stomach is turning just thinking about it...

I really hope I don't have a reason to go the Major Deeg or the HRD anytime soon...they say it'll all be over conveniently for the 2010 season...hopefully I don't have to pass by in the meantime.

And...I have another semi-depressing bit. We don't have Hideki Matsui anymore. He was one of my favorites on the team, so I'm just a little bummed right now...

And I have a question related to that, actually. I have a Matsui shirt...now that he's no longer on the team, should I keep on wearing it?

...Jeter and Rivera's contracts are up NEXT year. I know that's a whole season away, but still, there are some bad thoughts and butterflies that go around in me when I read that...*shiver* ...And wait, isn't Jason Bay a Red Sox? Or was...?

In non-baseball thoughts, I'm thinking, now, of perhaps trying to make a sequel to The Royal Quest flash...I'm not sure, though, because I honestly forgot what I was going to do (lol). If I can remember I'm going to shoot for it though. And there is a LOT of stuff that I want to put up, but one thing leads to another and we have a major backlog...it's perpetual Maybe Christmas break will help...I hope.