Let's see if this works...

Well I don't have much to say but I felt like making a post anyway. Yep.

I'm trying to research what better invertebrates our Zoo can get next year for our invertebrate exhibit (Backyard Bugs) with minimal success so far. Sigh. Oh Hatari, you had such promise. If only you actually currently had those Goliath beetles available, that would be perfect. But instead you have a dozen different kinds of spiders (and why would anyone want a Brown Recluse Spider on display, since those are rather poisonous?) Ah well.

I suppose things are going well?

Oh, I'm considering doing NaNoWriMo this year...with the 'novel' I'm trying to write being my Vegthro/Alice in Wonderland crossover. XD It's really tempting, but we'll see if I have the discipline to pull it off at all, since lately the only thing I've had the patience to write are RP posts. But at least I'm recruiting a small army of my friends for my favorite RP site? XD Which is, not coincidentally, based on Alice in Wonderland as well. Yeeeep.

I've rambled enough for today. *waves*

When you are famous on DA. Is it when you get fans of your stories or characters to the point where it's creepy? (this has happened) Get random requests for random pictures from random people? (also has happened) Have famous DA artists occasionally reply to your comments? (Ditto)

OR IS IT WHEN...

You get notes like this little gem:

"when do more art on more fandoms? like grim adventures?"

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I leave you all to think on this.

(For the record, "Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" is not one of my fandoms, I have never, to my knowledge, given any indication that it was, and I have never drawn anything for it.)

I just...so much love. XD Harry Potter fandom, I miss you so much when I'm too busy for you. I stayed up way too late last night watching A Very Potter Musical, which is an excellent musical parody of Harry Potter. XD And I downloaded the soundtrack and it's on my iPod now. I...just love it so much. That I had to add a whole bunch more icons, lol. XD

Speaking of fandom...I still hope to do that idea about writing about my fandoms in posts here. We'll see what happens with that...

So much crap has happened I...can't even begin to...yeah. Yeeeeaaaaah. o____o Life is overwhelming right now. In both good and bad ways. Long story short...um...Amber is living here right now, haha. XD Oh boy.

Also saw 9 the other night and it was good, though I unwisely saw it at 10:45 at night. Um....XD Sucks to be late to the game, I guess.

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My birthday weekend rocked. I actually played Guitar Hero and my wrist didn't really hurt.

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And Amber came to visit. ^^;;;

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More to come.

Barely. Am taking a weekend off in July to go to a con. My wrist got hurt by the stupid doors at work. Stupid heavy metal doors...now I can't play Guitar Hero for who knows how long. Grr.

I...really don't know if I'll ever get a shiny eevee. I've been trying for a year and a half. Literally. It's so frustrating...

Oh yeah and...tomorrow is my birthday, but of course I have to work...meh.

I should go to bed. >_>

...is really exhausting. I'm working five days a week at work right now, due to it being an 'in-between' month. (ie it's the busy season and all our seasonal stuff is open, but the high schoolers that help out aren't all out of school yet). So yes, for the past two weeks it's been...work work work. Luckily I really like my job, and three of the days last week and this next week are doing something new (Backyard Bugs, woo!) but it's still very taxing. Last weekend was busy too, what with a graduation on Saturday (my brother-in-law) and a movie on Sunday (Star Trek = AWESOME!).

Luckily, today I had only a few little chores to do, and other than that, I've been able to relax. As much as I can in 86 degree weather...XD

Other annoying things recently...my computer has been picking up viruses. From where? No idea! I only ever visit safe sites! It's prompted me to finally...*sniff* stop using Internet Explorer as my main browser. T^T Quiet, it's totally sad. >_>

Other than that...um...go see Star Trek! XD

Yup. What the title says. First off, work was awful. In the morning we had LOTS of school groups, and at one point the petting yeard was FILLED with kids, and they were all running and screaming and chasing the goats and sheep and of course not listening to a single word I said (mostly "STOP RUNNING. LEAVE THE SHEEP ALONE." etc.) And the yard was absolute and total chaos and it was really stressful. I didn't get lunch until nearly one. And oh yeah, it started raining and drizzling on and off around noon. Ugh. My least favorite kind of weather.

Also today was April Fool's day and...I really sort of dread/hate the holiday. Playing silly little pranks? Not a big deal. Making people think something serious is wrong and not letting them know it's an April Fool's joke the next day? Totally not cool.

So...yeah. Yeah.

This past week, Amber came to visit! It was really really awesome. >_> We drew comics, and made brownies, and took walks to Valley Forge, and played Guitar Hero, and hung out with friends, and of course plotted lots of Vegthro. Yay new graveyard AU! XD Hehe Teacozy hehe.

Anyway...life is back to 'normal' now, I suppose. And I really want to make those fandom entries. HMMM. Maybe I'll start those soon. I miss Amber though! D:

Also! I actually have tried Hard on Guitar Hero! And am not flunking anything! o_o AMAZING.

...what a short entry. Ah well.

I was at work, and I was thinking of ways to encourage myself to post in this journal more often. Then I thought, hmm, maybe I could make posts for fandoms I'm in. Like just, for example, a post all about Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog...where I say my favorite characters, ships, share my thoughts...you know. Stuff like that.

...it's something to think about. XP

My Dr. Horrible cd came today! It was sitting outside the door when I got home from work. ^^

...that is all. >>;

I finally caved and bought the extra icon space...XD

But is it my fault Amber made lots of lovely vegthro icons that I had to use? T-T

In other news, today our friends came over and played Guitar Hero World Tour with us! That was fun~<3

In the best news of all...Amber is coming to visit in March! :D :D YAYYYY.

PS: My iPod came in the mail the other day. I named it Billy Buddy. I crack up every time I see the name. XD

So. Uh. I've been on vacation...well, until last Sunday. Christmas was fun, however I'm making a note to never attempt to visit both sets of parents in one two-week span again. DX Especially after having also visited both last month. Oi. Too much traveling!

But anyway! Christmas stuff (that I got):

- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers extended edition
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King extended edition (yes, we already have the first one...so now we have the set! :D)
- A Goofy Movie (<3)
- Howl's Moving Castle (so pretty *_* )
- Spirited Away (yay! ^^)
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Hee~ more book club stuff!)
- A Dragons wall calender (a VERY last minute bought gift from my sister...XD She went shopping on X-mas eve! Not that I've never done that, but STILL!)
- A Cute Overload page-a-day calender (Awww, so cute. Only the second page-a-day I've ever had. First one was LotR and was several years ago...)
- Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog DVD (ASFDGHHJKKL: <333)
- Wall-e (cute movie. ^^)
- a blanket
- Guitar Hero World Tour (OH YEAH <3)
- White Night (second to last Dresdan book that's out)
- Ornaments
- Power Station (this thing you can plug devices with bulky adaptors into)
- 10$ Borders gift card

And that's all I can remember for the moment...XD I also got money, with which I am buying the Dr. Horrible soundtrack and an iPod! Hee~

PS I also revamped my icons...XD

...okay, so I'm really bad about posting in this thing. SO SUE ME! XD

Obsessions tend to bite me hard every once in a while. Obsessions with songs, musicals, movies, characters...you name it. This time, it's Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. I know, I know, I was at least half a year late in discovering its awesomeness...give a procrastinator a break, here! XP I saw it for the first time a few weeks back when an old friend from out of town was visiting...and I loved it. Then last night, I decided to watch it again. ...then I stayed up until 1 in the morning reading fic....XD I just...can't help loving it. I know I'll watch it again soon, too...XD

Of course, I couldn't help vegthroizing it, and now I want to draw art. XD Richie would be Dr. Horrible/Billy, Petunia would be Penny, and Larry would be Captain Hammer. Now you might say, "Wait, shouldn't RODNEY be Captain Hammer?" And I say..."Rodney can't sing. XP"

...yeah, this does mean YET ANOTHER context to ship Richie/Petunia, at least one-sided. It doesn't help that I ship Billy/Penny so hard...What can I say. You have to admit Richie has sort of a Billy-ish personality? Well, he certainly has the singing voice. XP

...and NO ONE is going to understand this little fansqueeing, because the overlap of hardcore vegthro fans and people who have seen Dr. Horrible is...very low. XD

I want the DVD and the soundtrack so bad now! DX The DVD comes out in three days!

May discuss more Dr. Horrible later, including fave quotes, but this entry is long enough. XD

EDIT: Ah, I've reconsidered...Rodney can be granted singing abilities for the purpose of being Captain Hammer in tis crossover because...it's too perfect. XP

Okay, how cruel is it to call 'copyright infringement' on a tribute video to someone's beloved pet? Seriously. Come on. EVERYONE knows that song. They know I don't own it. I'm not profiting from the video in any way. I legally bought the song off i-tunes. So why bring the law down on my head because I wanted to make something special to show how much I loved my bunny? :(

That happen when you share your life with animals. Such as coming home from church to find an empty can of soup on the floor of your bedroom...XD Don't worry, the can was already empty, but it was in the sink waiting to be fully rinsed out and recycled...and the cats apparently thought it would be a fun toy. XD Oh man. Animals are a source of endless entertainment, to be sure...XD

The other day they also attacked an empty cereal box that was on the counter. And, of course, they like to attack cups of ramen noodle soup...which then left claw holes in said cup, which was annoying when I tried to make the soup...yeah. DX

I love my cats.

"Yes, isn't it wonderful?"

...er, yeah...been super busy lately. Worked two five day weeks at the zoo. But! I'm about to get a lot more free time so...yay? XP Which means less work which means less money. Meh.

...that's...about it. XD Hopefully a more intelligent entry will come soon?

Heh, I always think about updating this, but then, I feel too tired and by the time I get back to it, whatever I wanted to talk about is not fresh inmy mind anymore...blah. XP

Well, the past two days my internet was being reeaaalllyyyy slow, and I could not for the life of me figure out what was wrong. I tried a number of things, all to no avail. It was very distressing. So, this morning, my husband helped me find the problem. Which was that the cable connecting my router to the router connected to the internet was in the wrong slot. It had to be in the first slot, and it was in the third slot. How did this happen, you ask? Well, the little plastic thing that keeps the cable snapped in place is broken. Noramlly, this is not a problem, but when my cats knock the router down, it knocks the cable out. So when I put it back in, I unknowingly put it in the wrong slot, causing my internet to crawl like a snail. XD But it's fixed now, so yay! And if the cats knock it over again (they probably will) then I'll know to put it back in the first slot.

Also, epic Avtar finale was epic! :D I only wish I had the time to watch it again...but things have been busy. Very busy. Today we could have seen The Dark Knight in IMAX, but given we've already seen it twice and we have little enough free time as it is, we decided not to. XD It would have been amazing, though, I'm sure! But we are going to eat lunch with our friend who went to see it. So, yay!

Other than that, I hope to get time to draw more this weekend. My cats are hanging around and trying to eat my breakfast, so I better wrap this up for now.

Well, I just spent several hours uploading my mood set to photobucket, then putting the urls in LJ (man, I forgot how LONG it takes to do that!...) This is because I was hosting them on my husband's server, which is fine except that it has been experiencing odd problems with random codes appearing and messing with stuff...including, apparently, the folder said files were stored on. Blah. You're lucky I love you, custom Veggie Tales mood set!

In other news, tonight I watched the new Veggie Tales. It was funny, and very cute...XD But the DVD skipped. I'm hoping it was the computer and not an issue with the brand new DVD...which I got at Target because Wal-Mart FAILS EPICALLY. The Wal-Mart near college was much better. But it was only after we got back into the car after an unsuccessful Wal-Mart trip last night that we realized...whoa, deja vu. The last Veggie Tales also failed to be at Wal-Mart on its release date, and we went to Target which had it. Next time, I'm just skipping the Wal-Mart.

So Target is better, at least in this area. But the problem is...too much RED everywhere when I walk into Target! Such a bright color should not be the main color for a store. D:

Tomorrow is my day off. Thank goodness...I'm gonna try to draw and stuff. XP