Small creatures

House sitting for small creatures all month long has been very therapeutic. Always having a soft body to cuddle and adorable eyes gazing upon you, has been amazing. Be it four cats, each with different and hilarious personalities, A small dog and two calicos, or my own cat Phorrest, always having a tiny being relaxing with me or jumping all over me while I'm trying to sleep has put me in such good moods.
Little dog and I are going out soon to get some food for dinner. I don't know what we'll end up getting, but my tummy is feeling great as long as I don't put soy or wheat into it.

Tea and rain

It's so nice to sip tea and talk with friends during a downpour. Getting hungry. My tummy is loads better. I had to start eating meat. I'm glad though.

It's been a while

Even longer since I posted from a laptop. Scrooge McDuck is the topic of conversation, along with Bilbo Baggins who is sort of a puzzle we're doing. By sort of I mean My friends are Doing a puzzle of Smaug and his treasure. Yackov Smernov jokes now!

Pink hair continued

So after all the cleaning I sat down to rest. I rested for a few hours, had dinner, and proceeded to retouch my hair with the new cupcake pink dye I bought in place of the normal dye. I wanted to cut down on waste and skip the part where I don't use the bleach and throw it out. Big mistake. The dye I bought was not as vivid as my normal brand and it cost me two bucks more. Oh well. Lesson learned, I'm sticking with my normal brand from now on.

Pink hair... Not so much

Today was a great day. Very productive. I got an errand done very early in the morning. It was tough getting out of bed. I had to take two buses, but it wasn't that bad. When I arrived home I came upstairs and sat down to play Golden Sun on my ds. Five hours and about seven dungeons later I turned the ds off. Oh man, then the fun began. I noticed a dusty/moldy smell coming from the baseboard heater so I moved my bed to investigate. I cleaned what I assumed was the mold. But it didn't stop there my friends, oh no. I proceeded to remove everything from my bed and then pulled the mattress off the box spring. I propped the box spring against the wall and swept, and dusted, and scrubbed all around. Then I put the bed back together and changed the sheets. After that I organized all the stuff that was laying around on the floor, on furniture, and generally being where it didn't belong. The only thing I didn't do was put the laundry away. I'm saving that for tomorrow.

More free time

On thursday night I decided to withdraw from school. It was a carefully weighed decision, and one I did not take lightly. I had missed entirely too much class, and had no hope of catching up in time for the quarter end. I haven't been this stress free in... Well I can't remember when I was this stress free actually. I also realized that I don't want to work in education. That I don't actually like kids. Don't get me wrong. Kids are cute and some are totally awesome. I just don't like every kid, and chances are I'd be working with kids I didn't like and I don't want that.
I'm so excited to begin this new chapter in my life. More to come.

Food again?

So I guess food and I are enemies. I can't eat anything without getting sick to my stomach. I do have the flu, but it's been this way for longer than I've had the flu. Right now I'm watching Blackadder. Um let's see. I'm missing school and I don't want to be. Nothing I can do about it so I might as well rest.

It was the flu after all.

My teacher didn't believe me when I told her I was getting sick yesterday. 24 sleepless hours later and I feel like I'm gonna die. Ok maybe not die, but I feel really shitty.

Homework

Still didn't get done in time. This week really will be different. The reason being, I am 98% positive that I did relatively well on my art history midterm. I still don't feel like myself health wise. But tomorrow I plan on starting on my research paper, and on Sunday I'm headed to a friends place to use her Internet and get my homework finished. Then on Monday night I'll head to the boyfriends house and do my homework on the bus. Or at least try.

Flu?

I don't think it is. I have a cough that suspiciously turned up after I burned incense in an unventilated room, where I might add, I was napping. So there's that solved. Why, then, do I feel so crappy? I had a dizzy spell and collapsed on the bathroom floor on wednesday morning, but I did eat some crazy shit the night before, even though I knew better. My stomach was fine yesterday when I had Thai with some friends. I ordered my Rama relatively mild, two stars as opposed to my normal five, and had it sans tofu of course, and I employed a don't ask don't tell policy concerning the soy content if the peanut sauce. Although I may repeal this policy in the future, I think it suits my purposes for the time being. I need to find some extra wide rice noodles like the Thai place at which we dined. I think I could make a really nice gluten free lasagna. I have an art history midterm today and I've been up since midnight. I wish I could sleep, buy it's not in the cards. Best I can do now is teat my body to some bed rest and get up at seven or eight and goto school to write my homework and study for whatever the teacher plans on quizzing us on.

Keeping up with school

I'm finally getting into the swing of things school-wise and that's great and all, but it's already midterms. I did great on my art quiz last week, and I'm fairly confident that I'll do fine on the midterm quiz. I'm doing a required character profile for my creative writing class and that's coming along, but I find myself creating a profile of me and not one of a fictional character, so I've decided to just go with that and build off of it later. A friend and I are going to the Frye art museum on Thursday, so tomorrow I have to buckle down and study, study, study. I know I can do it!

Will the real Ekans please stand up?

This is the actual Ekans picture I did on MSpaint during class, I mistook the other one for this and posted it... I like this one better.

Blog Booster

I posted yesterday about the deceptiveness of an app i downloaded to my phone. The app clearly states in its description, that: it's the same as using your computer and nothing changes. Well I've got news for you... THAT WAS A DIRTY LIE!

I will continue to use the app to upload pictures from my phone, because it's not all that hard to get rid of the ads they sneak onto your post. it's not very convenient or all that practical for me to have to go back and manually edit posts, but until I figure out if this blogging thing is just a passing phase or if I'm actually going to commit to keeping it up, I don't really want to spend $2-12 on an app; just so I can post pictures to a blog that I'm pretty sure only I read.

Strange dreams Pt. 1

If I believed in astral travel, I might be inclined to attribute inter dimensional astral travel to the strangeness of these recurring themes in my dreams. They always take place in Seattle. Usually in Greenwood. Primarily at the house previously owned by my grandparents. Only there are differences. There are extra rooms. The rooms are always the same. And I dream about them a lot. There are secret passages as well. Although I know where this particular idea comes from. My Papa (grandad) once told me that there was a secret passage in the room I called mine when u stayed there. In reality it was just extra space in the converted attic that he had walled up in the fifties when he built rooms for my mom and uncle. But he once told me there were items in there.

So in these dreams, I go through the back of the closet in the den( not to Narnia I assure you) and I end up in an entirely different part of the house. I see a hallway and there are 4-5 rooms lining it. The contents of these rooms stay pretty consistent from dream to dream. Except for the largest room. The room with the clothes. Sometimes the clothes room has really cool clothes and I want to take some, but I never do. Other times the clothes are out if date (in a bad way) or rather matronly. The items in the other rooms are usually not part of my interaction in the dream, but I still visit each room every time I have these dreams. Recently the house was sold, and since then new areas of the house have revealed themselves to me in my dreams. It's no surprise I had a house dream last night, as I visited my Gramie for mothers day and walked past the old house last Saturday. -continued in next post-

Fix

I'm almost positive I can fix the issue described below, by going into my HTML and deleting the HTML for the ads.

Wtf?

So it turns out that the asshats that developed the other blog iPhone app I was using decided to not mention that with each post I make they post an ad. Ad support in app is one thing, and they did tell me about that, but uploading ads onto my blog without my permission, or some sort of prompt for me to agree, is not cool. They're not even paying me to advertise for them. I haven't seen the ads yet because my phone won't load them and the appear as long bars with a question mark on them. I'm pretty pissed off. I spent a lot if time on that layout and now, at least on my phone, that layout is marred by ads I never agreed to have there in the first place. Ok I'm done ranting.

Back to basics

Well it's official. All I can eat is rice cakes. It takes me 15 minutes to finish one. While I'm happy that I'm losing weight, a small part of me is still worried. I have to finish homework I forgot about and then I have the rest of the day to myself. And as I'm sitting here even this tiny piece of rice cake is making me a bit gaggy. It kind of tastes like caraway and the taste of caraway makes me gag for some reason. I know right? That's really weird. But according to the label it only contains organic whole grain brown rice and sea salt. Well here comes more weight loss and I say bring it the fuck on! I'll eat some soup tonight and maybe eat a few almonds.

My homework isn't even that hard. It's just that while I like to write poetry, I don't necessarily like analyzing the work of others. Essays are a whole other story. I like analyzing essays because the authors intentions are much clearer and they usually don't jerk you around with pretentious metaphor. Don't get me wrong, I like to read poetry, but picking it apart makes my brain spin. If too many ideas present themselves at once I get overwhelmed. And, sadly, that's usually exactly what happens. I won't let it happen this time. This time I'm prepared. I'm going to take a nice relaxing bath, have a bowl of soup and then sit down and write my two pages. After that all I have to do is revise a poem for the midterm and I'll be set for the night.

Then the homework returns tomorrow. Maybe this week I'll do it before friday and save myself a lot of time that could otherwise be spent gaming on a Sunday.

Test

I think the app I'm using to upload pics to the blog is also uploading some kind of bar. My phone can't read it. So this us a test to see if I'm right.

How did it come to this?! O_o

So I guess it all started when I read about a techno mash up where the back beat was sounds of cats puking. Then YouTube provided the rest and I spent 20 minutes of my precious life watching ipecac challenges. *sigh*

Im on a boat

Really I am! Ok not really. It's a facsimile of a boat at a local playground. But it's very realistic.

Missed opportunities

I missed an opportunity by ten minutes last night. It would have been nice not to miss it, but I get a chance to make it up in a big way tomorrow. I think I'll pick out a really nice outfit tomorrow and just have a wonderful day. There will be no trying to have a wonderful day. I WILL have a wonderful day. Yoda code commands it. I had a great day yesterday. Got almost all my laundry done. Just have to dry one more blanket and toss in some clothes. I managed to stay awake until 1am. That's pretty late so I think I'll shoot for midnight from now on. My nee med makes me clench my jaw so I'm working on being more aware of that and relaxing my jaw when I realize I'm doing it. Looks like I may need to pick up some oragel to sooth my sore gums and jaw in the mornings because I can't very well control my clenching when I'm asleep. At least not without a lot of practice while I'm awake first. I've only noticed three side effects so far and I'm pleased with that outcome. I may need to download some kindle books tomorrow I want to read wired love.

When to say the right thing

Knowing when to say something and when NOT to say something is a very valuable skill. And unfortunately not one I have mastered in my skill set. Let's think for a moment. There are tactful ways to change a subject and there are not so subtle ways. Doing things subconsciously, impulsively, and simply out of habit are a few examples, two of which can be actively worked on. The other is simply training the subconscious mind to chill the fuck out and sit in the back seat where it belongs. Saying exactly what is on ones mind at any given moment, and not filtering can be very hurtful to others and then you feel bad for saying it. It can't be taken back. The only way is to stop, think about what you're going to say and how it may effect the person you're saying it to, then once you have reached a conclusion, double check with yourself and make sure it's the right decision. If it's not you can only learn and try again. Tomorrow I plan to implement this strategy and see where it takes me. Hopefully to a new level of social awareness.

Phorrest is dry the clothes are not

He's so cute with his little pink punk paw!

Laundry and cat baths

Phorrest, my cat, had a bath tonight. He was getting stinky and we can't bathe him after we give him his flea medication on tuesday. So tonight was the perfect oppurtunity. Before I gave him a bath I retouched my hair so my roots weren't showing as much. Having pink hair is tough when ones hair grows so fast. Anyways, when the bottle was almost empty, I got an amazing idea. Wouldn't it be cool to have a cat with a pink paw?! So I applied a small amount to his paw and covered it with a rubber glove, at this point he was already wearing the cone of shame. The cone of shame goes on at bath time so I don't get his head or ears wet and so he can't see the water. Wearing the cone of shame, Phorrest could not take the rubber glove off. I only left it on for a few minutes as I ran the shallow bath. I then washed the cat and paid close attention to the paw, washing that more than once. When the bath was over and I had dried him off, I realized just how thin he has become. He is seventeen after all. He insisted on cleaning himself for the next few hours and we watched Clue: the movie while I waited for the hair dye to activate. I left it in longer this time so we'll see how long it lasts. When the movie was over I washed it out and blow dried and styled my hair for the visit to Gramie tomorrow. I can't wait to see her reaction to my hair.

So during all this activity I was (and still am) doing laundry. My blankets were in desperate need of washing and tonight was a great night to tackle that. I am a but worried though, the lint hasn't been gathering in the lint trap. Moms afraid of a dryer fire. Me? I'm not as concerned as all that, but it is weird. I took a LED flashlight and a wire hanger and poked around in there and last load a bit of lint appeared on the screen, so we'll see what happens.

Steamcon, Corsets, and Bustles oh my!

I plan on attending Steamcon this year. I may or may not go to PAX, if I do I'll only go on Friday as I feel that's the best day to go anyway. A friend of mine is willing to make me a corset and help me make the rest of my costume for steamcon. My skirt will have a bustle, and I'm really stoked about that. I don't think I'll make my own fascinater, and although I know a few people who could, it's just cheaper to buy one for ten bucks at icing at the mall.

<------I found a picture of some really cute shoes that I need to own.

I know... I'm a sucker for purple suede, but I think they would go well with the steampunk theme. I would love your opinions.

More randomness

Palindromes are awesome! And remember Pogs? I had Pogs in a Crown Royal bag I found in my Grandpa's basement workshop. The Pogs were purchased at a supermarket in Hillsboro Oregon, they came in a meat package (sans meat of course) and then when I got back to Seattle I found a bunch at a local dollar store. I loved my Pogs. I think I still have a few.

Ekans and MSpaint

So I was in the computer lab and should have been doing my work, but Windows 7 machines confound me. But wait! Whats this? MSpaint? I remember this! I seem to be able to recall a dark time when using Windows '98 and painting from time to time. Well, I thought to myself, let's at least be productive... So, I made this Ekans in MSpaint. And in case you didn't know, Ekans is snake spelled backwards.

Ekans (click to enlarge)

First post

So... yeah, this is my first post. I am currently sitting in a game store watching a friend write an RPG. I did most of my homework. I'm really happy because I did well on the weekly quiz. Today is free comic book day and I got me some free comics. I found a ruler that has centimeters on the street by Ballard high school. I've been wanting a ruler that converts inches to centimeters. I tried some gluten free pizza yesterday and it was really good. I hate being a vegetarian who is allergic to soy and sensitive to wheat. I can't eat meat though because it makes me sick too. I've lost a bunch of weight (no complaints there) but I feel great!

I think I'll post reviews of the gf/sf foods I try.