I meant to post this a while back. It blows my mind:



lol HIYA, HENRY!

Also, I'm streaming Silent Hill in like, ten minutes. Be there.

That Christmas wish list meme thing's already circulating my friends page, so I'm linking mine for anyone kind enough to go out of their way to buy me something this year: click!

Otherwise, I welcome fic, art, icons, graphics -- anything you can think of without leaving your computer chair. :)

I'll get started on holiday cards tomorrow when I'm not feeling so icky. If you want a card, leave your address in this post or send it to me through a private message. ♥

I DID IT! I WON NANOWRIMO WITH 50,005 WORDS!

I just. I can't believe it, you guys. After promising myself I'd give it a go for so many years, I finally sit down and follow through with it and actually win. My mind is blown right now.

Very special thanks goes to _brokeneternity and elvenpath for alternately cheering me on and kicking my ass when I really needed it. I couldn't have made it half as far without you two. ♥

But now it's time to rehabilitate my poor abused brain.

Before I launch headfirst into NaNo for the next hour or so (gonna shoot for 45k today!), I wanted to make a post honoring all the things I'm thankful for.

I can't remember if I've ever done a post like this without treating it as a joke. My family doesn't really observe traditions. It's always about a lot of food or a lot of presents, rarely about showing gratitude for the things we're lucky to have, so I'm gonna shake things up a bit.

( Gobble, gobble. )

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. ♥

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. (:

( Let's get this party started. )

After all that mushy stuff, it's time for a nap. *zzz*

( NaNo rant, nothing bad. )


In other news, I registered for next quarter. Another math class, ho-hum. Actually, it's in the exact same classroom on the exact same days (Tuesdays and Thursdays) as my current math class, though I'll be going in at 3:45 instead of six. I just hope the afternoon traffic is a little better around that time.
I've also been giving serious thought to my major. After surfing around the Tech website, I found out there's an Associate Degree for Historic Preservation and Restoration. Then the wheels started turning and now I'm entertaining becoming a History major with a minor in Art.

This isn't set in stone, though. If I decide to go through with it, I'll have to make sure all my grades transfer to a regular school that offers History. I'm going to call Dad tonight after class for advice, but I definitely wouldn't mind hearing some from you guys. ♥

After almost a week of not fussing with my NaNo at all, I've leapt from 10k words to 20k in the span of two days. I was really fed up with the whole process and unsure as to whether or not I could see it through, but elvenpath whipped my ass into shape and now we're almost neck in neck in terms of our word count. I have just over 3,000 words left to meet today's goal and I'm totally confident I can do it. :)
And elvenpath was definitely right! It's very empowering. I feel like I'll be able to tackle any story idea that pops into my head after this. *eyes unfinished Henry/Eileen fics and unanswered prompts* sup Dean/Castiel~

Other than that, things are back to normal. I've got a test on Tuesday and... ugh, I buckled and reinstalled The Sims 2. Unfortunately, all my data discs full of custom content and packaged Sims are unreadable, so I have to download everything again. B( It's going to eat up a few days just to get it all back. What can I say? I was full-on addicted, and now that I have a computer that can run the game without wanting to die it'll only get worse from here. Maybe after NaNo's over I'll take a stab at one of the Legacy challenges.

Hrm, I guess that's it for now. So until next time, flist, I leave you with ( Castiel screaming: )

elvenpath: Dare: put a scene similar to what just happened in your nano
pianotheme: ...what just happened?
elvenpath: You making me chokelaugh
pianotheme: "and then renae made sam chokelaugh because she's awesome"
elvenpath: LOL full-detail scene though
elvenpath: Kind of like in my NaNo last year when Sov nearly suffocated on his wine
pianotheme: "sam sat in the campus cafeteria, idly chewing her food and iming her friend renae through the new high-tech abomination against god she called her phone..."
pianotheme: "it did everything but perform sexual favors, but sam was fine with that as long as she could tweet from the bathroom." ( Moar... )

Today in a nutshell:

aaaaa I suddenly want to play The Sims 2 again! D:

/slooowly reaches for the base game

And no new episodes of Glee until next week wtf is this shit.

This was gonna be a big entry covering the awesome Halloween party at Danny and Ashley's (including a really cute, really cool guy I met there), but Jacqueline just called me and used her freak Jedi mind powers to talk me into going to the fair tonight, so the big entry will have to keep until tomorrow.

In lieu of all that, have a visual of Saturday night. ( Fourteen pictures in all. )

I'm an official NaNo participant! I've been registered on the site since 2005, but this year marks the first time I've actually worked for it. As of now, my word count's just over 3k. I'm trying to stay as far ahead of the curve as possible while still having a social life and staying diligent about my homework. ;;

Last night at the fair with Shawn and Blake was terrific. No pictures because the batteries in my camera died, but trust me when I say that it was the best fair experience I've ever had.
Shawn won me a little stuffed piggy from betting on the pig races, I had a big delicious corn dog (and didn't puke) and rode a few of the rides that I normally would be very apprehensive about. We were there for practically the entire time it was open. I'm sore all over and my voice is hoarse from screaming, but I'm not bothered. :)

And tonight, finally, after months and months of waiting, is Halloween~. Blake and I (and maybe Shawn) are heading to Danny and Ashley's new place for a party. They have a fire pit in the backyard and live right next door to a cemetery, so it's gonna be pretty sweet. I'm dressing up as Jay (as in, "and Silent Bob") because I'm tired of stressing over costumes year after year. I always end up doing something completely different at the last minute, anyway.

Have some end-of-summer pictures that I've taken way too long to upload from my camera. ( Twenty-five in all. )

I just found out that a guy I went to high school with (one of those "everybody knows him!" types) passed away last month from an overdose. I wanna say he was a year younger than me and, if he's the guy I'm thinking of, I was buddy-buddy with his girlfriend. Very sad news to start off the week.

I also had my second math test tonight. I guess I did alright considering I skipped class on Thursday. Much of last night was spent tearing my hair out trying to take comprehensive notes on the chapter that was covered during that class meeting, and I'm not done yet. :( But that's what the weekend's for, right?

Goodnight, LiveJournal.

Uuugh, sorry if this entry seems kind of rushed, but I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row in the next week before NaNoWriMo consumes my life.

No, seriously... I'm doing it this year, dammit!

ampersandicons's first anniversary came and went without any fanfare, but it's not too late to take requests to mark the occasion.

Shittles, I have so much to do. Homework, prep for NaNo, possibly create an mp3 rotation community (unless you guys don't mind keeping the music sharing in this journal), Halloween and eight hundred other things I'm sure I'm forgetting about.

I also saw Paranormal Activity last night. First time in a long time I've had trouble sleeping due to a movie.

I've given this a lot of thought, and I'm going to be dropping a_trialbyfire and cafe5to2. I wanted to give you guys on my flist a heads-up so it doesn't come as a shock when I make the post in the OOC community later.
I love playing Castiel, Eileen and Vincent, but it's a struggle to stay active and, really, my heart just isn't in role playing in a game right now. There are other things I want to do and role play is impeding that, so it's best if I skedaddle.

This entry is not meant to be a total bummer, though. Everyone race to JaredPadaleckisAss.com!


Awww, yeaaah~.

I saw Where the Wild Things Are last night. It wasn't anything close to what I expected, but it was great nonetheless. The boy who played Max was very convincing as a lovable little terror and, as much as it pains me to admit it, he reminded me of all the times I acted out as a kid. There's a scene near the beginning where he tears up a gift he made for his sister after her friends smashed his igloo and she did nothing to comfort him. It took me back to a moment when I was angry at my mother, tore up something she gave me and left the pieces in front of her bedroom door. For both Max and I, the act hurt us more than the people we intended to hurt.

I loved the wild things, too. I think the essence of them was captured perfectly, and they looked terrific (instead of using motors inside the heads to control the nuances of emotion, as Jim Henson's Creature Shop normally does, the expressions of the actors were projected onto the monsters with the help of CGI). They moved very well despite those suits being so bulky, with each having a distinct personality all their own. Everyone will have a wild thing they can connect to. For me, it was Carol.

All in all, I definitely recommend the film. It brought me back to a time in my life where I ran around the neighborhood barefoot and wrestled with my brother until one of us got fed up and bit or pinched the other, and how my imagination always conquered my sensible side and led me to the woods behind my apartment block where I'd climb trees and race trains.

Ha, and as if I didn't want kids badly enough before. This really kicked my maternal feelings into overdrive.

P.S. Fraggle Rock movie coming in 2011.

Someone vandalized my car last night by flinging yellow paint across the driver's side and on the hood. I'm so fucking angry. Mom called the local precinct to request more nightly patrols through the neighborhood and the dispatcher told her that it could've been these delinquent 15 and 16 year-old shitstains that prowl the streets damaging property.

I wish I could've caught them doing it. I would've thrown their asses to the ground and twisted their arms until the police arrived.

And wouldn't you know it? All this happens right after my mom takes full coverage off my car, so insurance can't take care of the paint removal. Jesus fucking Christ, I keep to myself and still get screwed with.

EDIT; Mom rebooted the full coverage insurance and took my car to a body shop where they pressure washed the paint completely off, so my baby is pretty again. c:

Happy National Coming Out Day! I'm bisexual.*


Whether you're gay, bi, trans or a straight ally, please support one another in the fight for equality and the right to love without fear of persecution.

* /cue absolutely no one being surprised lol

( On the subject of school... )

( On the subject of work... )

This weekend's gonna be busy. I need to go shopping for my Halloween costume, and I'm thinking about creating a couple of NaNoWriMo resource posts for whoever is participating this year (comment if you are!).

Hrnnghh, so much to do and no idea where to start!