Water bender hoooooooo! This needs no explanation.

In the words of one Laguna Loire: "There's nothing cheaper than something free." If I could live there rent free, I'd take it, haunted or not. Personally I don't really believe in hauntings, and as long as there's no damage to the house, I've got no problem.

Hello LJ. I've been a bit negligent. Not much is happening, and that's probably why. Autumn seems to suck up most of my energy and leave me dry. The urge to write, however, has been a bit stronger, or maybe that's because I'm participating in Nanowrimo again and have to resist the urge to write for anything but what I'm supposed to be writing for. It happens. Like clockwork. Some of it's good, some of it's eh, like this Gelanor concept. So far, it's fail, because I don't know who he is yet, and with the nanowrimo project going on, there won't be time for it immediately.

The leaves were gone too quickly, and it rained frequently, so I couldn't take the dolls out for photos. The camera keeps getting left off the cradle anyway so half the time it's not charged :B I want to feel more artistic, but sometimes it seems like it requires too much effort when before it required almost none. It will be winter soon enough, and hopefully we'll get some snow, so I can take them out in it. I'd really like to take Neph out in it too, we'll see. I'm getting dissatisfied with her wig lately. The colors are perfect, the curls are perfect, but the quality is just EH. >< Please, doll friends and gurus, if you see a spiral curl light blue-lavender mix wig in a 9/10 that's not from Mimi Woo and in good shape, PLEASE link me. I'm a bit fed up with the one I've got. And Oh Fairyland. Please, please please for the love of all that's holy, PLEASE come out with your feeple60 body. The Delf one drives me absolutely bat-shit crazy.

I thought I'd give SAI a shot with a pencil drawing that I wanted to give a water color look to, and as far as color and texture go, it's really good. It's one drawback is that it has no smudge or blending tool on its own, and I'm rather dependent on it. If I'm mistaken, please re-educate my ass, because I'd love to give it another try. It runs well on my laptop and works very well with my tablet. As it stands, I may use it for coloring for the month that I'm allowed to have it trial wise. But if that's all I'll be using it for...it's not worth the price tag, which is considerably cheaper than other like programs out there.

My bff is interested in buying a Sugar Robin from Pipos, so if ya'll(lol why yes I am from VA) see one up for sale in the second hand market, please comment with a link so I can get it to her :) Thank ya! Hearts hearts kiss kiss.

Due to the hurricane, Daniel's flight was severely delayed. United was not going to pay for a new connecting flight--which would not have gone out until the following day--or a hotel stay in Denver. As of 8:20pm EST, Matt and Daniel have tried calling both you and Lily, but your phones are off or dead. Matt has also tried calling Lily's dad and left a message. At this point, Daniel is not coming, he's cancelled his flight reservation and is coming home.

Please call Matt or me ASAP.

I need a snazzy suit for Drystan. Celeste has been getting all the pretties recently.

So I started watching an anime called Princess Lover last night.

I only got one thing to say: PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!

So like I tweeted yesterday, my laptop arrived a day early, and it's beeeeeeeeeautiful! It's a Dell inspirion, dualcore intel processor 2 gigaherz, 4 gives of ram, 250gigs of HD space. The surface is rather shiny and picks up prints easily, so I'm going to look into getting some decals to pretty it up and keep the hand print/finger prints from bothering me. I tested it on ZOMG, and it works really well, even in Zen Gardens which was always laggy. Played some of my old CDs that had anime burned on them to see how well they run. I'll have to see how it handles the Lost Canvas episodes though. That, I think, will be the ultimate test. My resolution is something crazy, so I'll have to make some special wallpaper for the desktop. I admit, it feels a bit naked without photoshop on it, so we'll see if I put it on there eventually or no. But all in all, I really like it so far. It's shiney, it's pretty, and I named it....Syaka.

Yes, in fact, I do.

A bat, a badger, a racoon.... in short, an animal.

ASJDLKFJASLKDJFASLKDJGLSDKFGJDS!!!!!!! Tiamaris ILU!

Sometimes I'm a dork and right before I go to sleep, all I want to do is blog. And then I tell myself to shut up and go to sleep.

Anyway, I'm almost finished with Cast in Silence. This book I got on friday, and I wish it could last a bit longer, but this one was too good. It hit the ground running, and was much too interesting to put down. That and Teela and Tain made a come back in the beginning, and I love Teela and Tain. Tiamaris is also back, which I'm glad for, and so was Nightshade. Severn, as always, tags along, but I can't say that I've ever cared for his character. I'm sure msagara will do more with him in future books; thus far he seems to be That Guy That Kaylin Knew Growing Up Who Is Really Good At Fighting. Kaylin doesn't seem to bounce as well off of him as she does her other battle compatriots. He acts like an anchor. Maybe that's the point, though.

That and he gets in the way-ish of my Kaylin-Nightshade shipping. Hell, he gets in the way of Nightshade's Kaylin-Nightshade shipping. I want to say that I sort of get why Nightshade steps back when Severn gets irked that they're close, but he's Barrani. Why would he care?

Nightshade is probably my most favorite character, for all the same reasons that I liked Isladar in the Sun Sword series. He's smooth (he's pretty looool), he's subtle, he always knows more than you do--and no, he's not sharing--he's powerful, and he's brutal when he needs to be. If he played instruments, he'd be Maglor!

Does that make Tiamaris Maedhros? Always did see him as a redhead, to be honest. And if Maedhros hadn't been an Elf, he could've easily been a dragon, only not in Tolkien's universe.

And why the comparisons to the Feanorions? Because the Barrani remind me of them alot. If Feanor hadn't been quite so crazy, and Curufin somehow managed to take the reins from Maedhros-ha, not a chance in hell--I'd imagine that the Noldor would've ended up a lot like the Barrani, though maybe less obvious murder and maiming. If Barrani had been around in the First Age, they'd have had a field day. And while my brain is going yay! Crossover fiction! I will not do it, because I probably won't do the Barrani justice. XD

I want to go back to Severn for a minute, because after writing this, I realized I wasn't done. Severn is Kaylin's oldest friend. He might as well be her brother. He does keep her anchored, which can be a good thing... But for someone who worked for an arm of law enforcement that is essentially like the the bastard child of the CIA and the Gastapo...he sure likes to take the backseat to Tiamaris, and most of the time to Nightshade. Obvious exceptions are when he's making dagger eyes at Nightshade for getting what he thinks is too close. If it were unwanted closeness, Kaylin could tell him to politely frak off, and Severn wouldn't even hear it.

Then again, Kaylin values her life, so I don't imagine that she would put it in that exact way. Fortunately, Nightshade is very good at getting hints. Back to Severn.

For a Wolf, he seems to be a bit of a dog. He does what he's told, no questions asked. But maybe that's because Kaylin's the one flapping her mouth. I want to say that I don't like Severn because I see a bit of myself in him, but I've been known to fangirl the deadly, silent types--Haji, in Blood+ for example--so I don't think that's it. To me, Severn feels flat, where the rest of the characters have depth, and 5 books in, Severn shouldn't feel flat. I trust that msagara WILL do more with him, there are very few characters of hers that I don't like--and usually they're the villians, and you're not *supposed* to like them--so I continue to hope that Severn will get better as the series progresses.

I recommended that rhaella read the series, since she'll probably find it as entertaining as I do. And I regret to tell you that my phone lostate your number, so if you want to email or message it, we can talk again XD

Matt bought me a laptop ;o; Best hubby ever~!

Making plans to go see HP6 this weekend, since last weekend, it didn't work out, but had fun with coworker girl anyway :) Two of my best girlfriends from work are coming, so this should be fun times! COME OOOOON WEEKEND!

None. I bring in Buffy. Bye Bye you ucky Cullens.

Arafinwe died while I was at work today. It's very sad, but he was a damn old fish. 5 years is a long time for a betta. I'll miss him.

Oops! I arted. http://ovirginsaint.deviantart.com/art/To-Have-the-Wind-131158056

Words! Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

funnylori gave me the following: LoTR, cats, dolls, anime, science fiction.

( Cut because this one is looooong. )

Hah. hah. hah. hah. I'm sure matt could name a few.