Early bloggiversary to meeee~

Yaaay *cake*

*snooze*

My bloggiversary, mucho talked about but seldom seen, is March 5. Which I believe so happens to be International Women's Day. Whoops, turns out it's the 8th of March. I can't count it seems, my point still stands. We'll just celebrate that instead :D Cake is cake on any day.

Oh, hey, check it out. An early gift--comments are now being brought to you by DISQUS. I was going to go with Intense Debate, already having an account on it and all, but apparently ID doesn't support Blogger Classic, which I'm on, which is petty. Oh well, DISQUS was me second choice.

Why am I so inconveniencing you all? Because I HATE Blogger's comment system. It's so impersonal D:< and weird...I can't respond to you all so my funny replies get lost in space unless you habitually check individual blog entries like I do. But I don't have a life and I'm suspecting you all do. I've been annoyed with it since I started blogging but I didn't do anything because I had no idea about(warning: scientific language) third party commenting system thingies. But now I can!

So, fear not, you can still drop me knowledge & shite. I've got it set up, for now, where you can just leave me a comment, maybe your URL, and go on your merry way. No filters or anything, I'd much rather just drag you into that big Back Room with the padded walls and Master Lock *pause* _pleeeease

Anyway...be sure to try it out. You can still leave comments on older posts in the regular Blogger-way if you click the title of the post. I lied, just continue hitting the comments link. I'd try it myself but Blogger is doing that thing where my entries just randomly vanish *rolls eyes* So definitely give it a go and tell me what you think.

Jeepers peepers, where'd you get those creepers...

I've been on a bit of a writing drain (T_T) and Danz has me reading the Watchmen, so while I'm contemplating the mysteries of life I thought I'd do a shoe post.

Damnit, I told y'all I was a punk and I meant it. I prefer to be discreet but when I do dress up, for some reason I lean towards laid back rivethead. I guess it's just the music I listen to and my own personal nature that I'm able to combine bleak military fashion with...Capri pants. I'm DIFFERENT.

So last month I indulged myself in a pair of shoes and went completely broke on them *cough* I bought a nice pair of creepers! I'm just so ready for new shoes, damnit.



Yeah, I ordered them last month and they're JUST getting here ~_~ *grumble* but it's okay. They were worth it, I think. What a practical and comfortable shoe! Mine are solid black, both of them (ugh the white ones reminded me of Pee Wee Herman). I might have to break them in a while with no shoes maybe...that's kind of the problem with non-leather (as in fake leather), they take a while--for me at least since my feet are wide--to accommodate, if you will. But it feels like they'll be really comfortable when I do get around to walking in them enough :'D I was worried because they DID look a little narrow, but they're a size 10 so that should be more than enough room. Because I ain't sendin this shit back.

These soles are about 2 inches high I think. I like them already! I love Demonia brand so they'll hopefully last me a while, I know my poor long suffering boots are still here after, what, 3 years? Awesome.

See, it's not aesthetic folks, it's prac-ti-cal-i-ty!

About me columns

Okay, I did some brief election posting last night but I'm a little tired of it now...rest assured that I have some funny ass stories and zero friends about now though.

But I have to ask, is my side bar at the bottom of the page for anyone else? It looks normal on my laptop but I have like a 15 inch screen; I so happened to be on a desktop earlier and noticed my sidebar was mysteriously at the bottom of the page O.o;; anyone else notice this? I'll try to fix that...

Oh, by the way, pretty much everyone in all 4 of my classes today? Looked defeated as HELL! If my opponent pulled some straight Mortal Kombat shit on me like that I'd be hurt too. I need to stop.

Edyt: Okay...think I fixed it. It might look a little crowded right now. The problem is I have a 15 inch screen and 1200x800 resolutions so obviously it looks fine to me, but when I lowered my resolution I realized what the problem was. I love to tinker.

America has chosen

...Sorry guys, your 44th president of the United States will be that guy with the funny name!

Lawl, that's all I'm saying.

I need to go to sleep

I really do. My mind always just finds shit to do when I need to be sleeping.

I've been fucking around with HTML as usual (they shouldn't make it so easy). Look over to your right, did you see the border? No, that wasn't there before. And check out my

BIG, BRIGHT, OBNOXIOUS ASS BLOCK QUOTE.

Eh? Eh?

Don't even ask.

Uh, I might make some slight changes in the future. Don't be afraid :D

Edyt: Oh word, I put a border around my posts. Maybe you SHOULD be afraid... *writes this shit down for tomorrow*

Yawn-inducing tales of excitement

Hey, I put a Creative Commons stamp at the bottom of my blog. Check it out! Now I can be the one doing the suing for once! Hee, I know it doesn't quite work like that but I can dream. I know it's kind of the "in" (?) thing to do now but it's more of a support thing...not that it's bad to protect some of my shit.

Today I was reading a paragraph I'd written for an upcoming thingamajig (that's what I call them now, damnit) and I realized several things: A) I don't really do settings anymore B) I'm kinda starting to lose my voice and C) Mark Twain is in my head.

A) I don't...do settings. I've noticed lately that unless I'm somewhere in the far off future like my sci-fi thing, I don't really...describe places anymore. I think that's part of what gives some of my stuff that unfinished feel now, it's always so vague as to where I am. What state? What city? What country? I hodgepodge scenery too much--composite places I've been but never saying WHERE the hell my characters are or where the plot takes place. And...that's...kinda important *pause* don'cha think? I think I've been doing it for a while without really realizing it--that's also why it's so damn hard for me to describe places because even I don't know where I am! I'm working on that.

B) I've been being way too hard on myself lately all things considering, and it feels like I'm starting to lose my artistic voice so to speak. I think I got paranoid and just lost my nerve, applying too many "rules" of writing to myself too strictly. And it's fine to experiment but it feels like I've been "experimenting" so much it's not ME anymore. I've actually had this issue before, it usually just turns out that I need a break and some flat soda.

C) You know when you're reading a story--yours or someone else's--and you get that narrator's voice going on in your head? Is it yours? For me, for some reason it's...Mark Twain. Or what I perceive him to sound like anyway. Sometimes its Garrison Keillor (Prairie Home Companion) because he has that kind of smooth, relaxing tone. Even when I'm reading something exciting and action oriented.

Speaking of wish, I wonder if I can get NPR in this room...I kinda miss all the weekend shows.

I'm gonna start using this FreeMind software Dharma Keller recommended to me in another post...I've heard of it before and heard it was good, but I think it was too much of a blow to my awesomeness for me to take *die* Can I get some five year old to beat me with paperbacks? But I have to wait until I have some decent, proper internet *eye rooooll* Ohhh~

By the way, I start tutoring some time between this week and the next. I'll talk more about it in another post because, I assume, it'll be interesting :D

New layout...again

Hah, you'll notice that I've apparently gone purple and pink again. What can I say, the blue was putting me to sleep...and purple IS my favorite color :P it's an addiction.

New Title!

Haha, this is a little random, but I changed the title of my blog. I know on my Livejournal I pretty much change the title every other time I get a new layout, but I wasn't going to do that with my blog. And I'm still not.

I just looked at my title and felt it was a little defeatist and vague. I mean, it's no good to have such a super vague description of your blog or journal, right? Well, with my LJ it doesn't matter but it does on my blog, to me.

Also, it just felt defeatist. When I did the title and url thing it was more of a joke and how I felt at the time. I don't feel totally optimistic right now but I feel way better than I did when I did the title. So the URL can stay the same but I felt a title change was necessary to reflect how I'm feeling these days....

And going back to description, the title is long as hell but it officially describes my blog and what I like to talk about. I am a TV and movie addict, no doubt; I am a wannabe writer, and I SHOULD be famous, damnit.

So, more cheery and descriptive title. And I just nabbed the Snoop Dogg line from "Life of Da Party" because I love it so much. The delivery, the message, everything.

Playing with fonts...

I was having some fun and started messing with the Styles &amp; Formatting option (the templates) on Microsoft Word (not 2007, last version). I do that a lot but it's usually just for personal stuff. It doesn't matter what font I do or don't write in because no one sees that but me of course, but I like dicking around anyway. It's convenient sometimes too, already having your preferred settings.

The style right now I use, is just Times New Roman, 11 font, justified and dark blue. Why 11 font? No real reason. I like typing in navy blue because black text on white is just so boring...I gotta be stimulated when I write or...I'll basically fall asleep in the chair and et distracted.

Fonts, obviously, are important for whatever you write...they aid in creating the right mood and atmosphere. I mean, obviously you can't write a horror story in Comic Sans or write a funny story in dreadful Gothic fonts. I do a little research on typefaces/font families sometimes...I'm interested in what kinds of fonts are out there and what used to be use (why, yes, fonts can go extinct!) and how they were made.

So anyway, I'm just gonna ramble about my adventures in Microsoft.


Tonight I went crazy and set up some new templates.

One I called "Egotime" is my regular style with 12 font. I made another one called "Verdana's favorite", which is Verdana font, size 10, bold &amp; dark purple. I really love Verdana font, even if it's hard to read sometimes :P

I made another one called "Trebuchet's favorite", it's 10.5 font bold, dark blue. I've started to really like Trebuchet, it looks like a hybrid between Verdana and Arial.

"Georgia's Ego" is funny too, it's Georgia font size 11, dark blue. Georgia is like a more elegant TNR...speaking of which, the last one I did is called "TNR's superego", which is 11 and dark purple.

As for why I gave them such odd names, that's just what I do...it follows a theme, really, "egos" just being changed forms of the normal style I use and "favorites" being different styles I created. I like being inventive and funny, only I understand I guess.

Makeover time again, abouts

Even though I haven't even had this layout THAT long, I think I'm gonna change the colors up for spring :D even though it's pretty bright and lively as it is. I need to change up my LJ too because...I think I'm still on my January layout. Well anyway, the purples (on the LJ) aren't putting me in much of a springy mood so...I dunno. Maybe some nice yellows, I don't think I've used yellow yet.

Anyway, this blog is much easier and less time-consuming to change (and it only takes a lot of time for my Livejournal because I'm a secret interior designer). Maybe I can start using images, I dunno. I'll mess about and see what happens!

Army recruiters and other such woes

Blah, some of those Army reserve recruitment guys came to my first period today...I really don't like those guys. I'm sure they're very understanding when they look at you like you hate your country for NOT joining the army/navy/wtf ever.

Hm :/ and they all seem to have the same story, which usually includes something about being a failure in school and signing up to ________ to get some perspective on life. 2 years later here they are and having a ball!

Well, wow, you know what, if I need perspective on my life I'll go work at Goodwill or something, joining the Army is a little drastic for me. Plus, I didn't squander my days in high school (no matter how much it feels like it) and I don't plan on whiling the days around in college on government money. You can pay for my college tuition? So can I, Uncle Sam!

It's so irritating. And I hate it when they assume I don't want to be in the army because of the "war/conflict". I could care less about the damn war since I don't necessarily have to GO THERE, the Army just isn't something I want to do! It's not that I hate my country and I don't care, I'm just on a totally different path. And I just can't be convinced to join :/ not to mention I'd probably never get accepted anyway (3 in 10 chance you say?) so why the hell are you still talking to me?

I know they're just doing their job and maybe they genuinely care, but...yeah. I can't just go "STOP BUGGING ME!1!!ONE!" but it'd be really nice.

So that's over...I feel like I've been gaining weight lately as I haven't really worked out much (2 weeks X_X) and I've been eating more lately. I really hate that. I must make a vow to work out AT LEAST SOME (at least 3-4 times a week, 20 minutes min let's aim for?) and I guess I can start today since I'll be up at least until 11. I need to get back on the yoga but I also need to throw some more stuff in there...

The sucky part is I'll have a really intense workout one day and just break for the next 6 XD I have no discipline, army people, look at me! LOOK AT ME!

Cosmic Latte (ooh, what's that?!)

Yaay.

Hopefully this will be the last time I fuck around with my blog colors for a while. I actually really like this, it's more or less a modification of my LJ colors from...last year about. When I went through a big "girly-girl phase" and my layouts were, as my friend Dankibobs said, like well-decorated cakes.

So let's return to the cake theme! I like this because it's not terribly hard to read (I hope) and it's a little laid back without being too boring and distracting. For me, at least, I don't know what anyone who runs across this will think (other than "MY EYES! MY EEEEYES!"). I was so tired of seeing the various black and grey templates offered and tired of boring blues and greens, so voila.

Anyway, I'm not in the greatest mood right now so maybe the new layout will cheer me a bit...or not...I don't really have much to talk about right now other than my seething anger, and that's for the livejournal! Talley hoooo!