Purple Carrot Concentrate

OH HAI EVERYBODY

yeah, so...obviously, i am no longer at the bottom of the grand canyon. which is where i have been for the past two weeks. wilderness. middle of nowhere. horror movie fodder. you get the picture. BUT IT WAS AWESOME THO. just sayin.
but anywho, i survived the Colorado River (WOO!) and tho i didn't really miss the internet all that much, i am happy to have it again.

THAT BEING SAID...to all of my Supernatural buddies out there *eyeballs* you know who you are. i am incredibly reluctant to meander through LJ right now until i catch up on the last three eps. so, this is a call out for assistance please. anybody willing to give me some links? y/y? please pretty please? the last ep i saw was Weekend at Bobby's, so the three after that is what i'm missing.
HELP YOU GUYS. YER MA ONLEE HOPE.

so...otherwise...did i miss anything important? <.< >.> (y'know, other than spoilers. dnw.)
cause yeah. wilderness. peeing in a river. fuck yeah.

As it seems to be my tradition (despite nearly forgetting this year, ack) I finally got around to finishing my end of year holiday pic :D as every year, sorry for the spamming!

i actually had a REALLY good idea for both a funny and/or serious pic that i could do for the holidays this year, but i seem to be completely cursed into doing nothing but nauseatingly cute. x_x not that i'm complaining, but i really did try to do something different, i swear.

Thus, Castiel is my victim this year. and he's chibi, of course. for those on my f-list that don't know, he's the big eyed, stare-face angel from Supernatural. :3

everyone else? hopefully you can just tell X)

as always, regardless of what you celebrate, where you are in the world or who you're with, i hope EVERYONE has the most fabulous of holidays. i love you all and continue to appreciate your support for yet another year gone. to new and old friends, to new and old obsessions, to finding that one small space in the universe where you aren't so insignificant. thanks you guys, for making me feel so awesome so often <3

Title: The First Snow
Author: oatmeal_queen
Character: Castiel
Rating: harmless. srsly, cavity inducing.
Spoilers: if you didn't know about anjuls
Medium: drawn/inked by hand, colored with copics then run through PS CS3 for effects

( quit yer mushing and show the art, damnit )

also, if you're interested, here are some previous years:
2008 - young Sam and Dean Winchester (supernatural)
2007 - Michael and Lucifer (original)
2006 - young Ed and Al Elric (fullmetal alchemist)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!! BE SAFE AND I'LL SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! 8D

so hey, how bout a real entry this time.

( post surgery stuffs, some slightly TMI )

in other news, no Supernatural til January :( still working on the fifty things i gotta finish drawing, coloring and otherwise FINISHING for people (but am happy to be inspired regardless)
gotta apartment hunt very friggen soon, so i'm moving NEXT MONTH. WHUT.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. ACK.
x___x
i cannot believe it's December.

Ok, so.
Now that I've had a couple of days to let it all sit and stew, I think I can actually do a decent con report. Or decent enough. Like I've said previously, and let me just reiterate this, there is going to be a -lot- that I leave out.

I'd love comments and I do not mind answering questions concerning my weekend, but I will not be answering anything when it comes to personal info of the actors or anyone else I was with. Srsly, it's not worth getting worked up over and I'm not budging, so get over it.
I do have some pictures I can post of my trip in general and a couple from the bustrip, but it will be minimal. please do not ask for more, as i've gone through them very carefully and considered what should or should not be online for specific reasons.

Keep in mind that this is my personal journal, not a fanblog, a magblog or anything of the sort. I'm focusing on the ME here, cause i can and damn well should since it's MY JOURNAL.

Gawd, this is nutz that i have to write that. wth.

( blah blah blah, get on with it already )

( Friday )

I'm sure i'll forget about some things as i go here, so may go back to fill them in later when i remember. there was just so much x_x

but holy crap that was long-winded. tl;dr much? if you got this far, you must be bored. or really amused.
*hands you popcorn*

More to come once i pull together Saturday! it won't be as long, promise.

x__x
Memorial Day weekend. and I've done more the past three days than i have in weeks. yikes.
on the plus side, lots of awesome stuff went down and i got outta the housemy head for some good times.
on the not so plus side, i feel pretty ill XP

on Saturday I went with psychosako to the VA Ren Fair. which is small, but cute, out in the middle of nowhere virginia. The most fun was had with her friends, however, half of which are in the belly dancing troupe that i've been involved with recently <3
i got some SUN. holy shit. my arms are a slightly darker shade of greenish-tan now, as opposed to the veiny pale i've been for the past two years. win.

Sunday I got to see Terminator: Salvation.
If you like the series, see it. I was not disappointed. the crazy plot holes from the first three were once again amusingly obvious even in this 4th installment, but oh well. robots kill all humans without reason gets old fast, so i was just in it for the pretty. awesome visual effects, tho the young digi-arnold was slightly creepy. ok, more than slightly.
ya know, i like christian bale, but the dude needs to try something different. musicals perhaps? i loved newsies, shutup :D

Monday was sleep in and then picnic day. I went with happytemplar, psychosako and Mama!Rachel out with happytemplar's family for some bbq fun. Which was actually a lot more fun than i thought it would be (no offense Molly, i've just been frazzled lately) with good food, good company and HOLY SHIT DOWNPOUR. we got rained on like crazy and ended up completely drenched to the bone. Cold and soggy, we all bundled up in borrowed clothes and towels to dry off at the Stackwicks as the storm passed through. The absurdity of it all just made me laugh. It was almost refreshing X)

i've got two days til my plane leaves for europe.
Finally finished the inks on the sailor moon busts for ssfseiyakou and trying my damndest to get them colored before i leave x_x atleast the coloring is all thats left.
the asylum guys got the art. so all is (hopefully) well on that front. here's hoping i actually have a hotel room and conbadge to go to. aaaaauuuugggghhh

we had such awesome food this afternoon for lunch, but i spent the rest of the day feeling nauseated and have been unable to eat anything more, even if i wanted to. my nerves will one day be the death of me. here's hoping i can sleep this off and it doesn't get worse...but methinks that'll be wishful thinking until i'm in the air. *cry*

i am going to be useless at work tomorrow, damnit.

JDM quote! *points above* gawd that man is fantastic.

So Valentine's was actually pretty cool this year. :3
I cleaned and straightened up for most of the day in order to get some semblance of an apartment and actually succeeded in getting a lot done.

I also drew stuffs (YAAAAY) but unfortunately my scanner decided to die on me so i can't scan any of it -.- LAME. here's hoping it's just the power source since that can be replaced. i really don't wanna have to get a new one, i love this giant piece of shit <3

happytemplar and I went out last night to go see the Friday the 13th remake. Which was awesome. cause i got to stare at Jared Padalecki on a GIANT SCREEN for an EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. which was actually a fairly decent movie, considering. the deaths weren't as predictable as i usually expect from a slasher film, so kudos to that. i had such a hard time disassociating tho, lol. my inner SPN nerd was waiting for Dean to show up and help his brother XD
Of course, I'd have enjoyed the movie a heck of a lot more if i wasn't getting a spanish commentary to my right (how do you say 'shut the fuck up' in spanish again?) and the fact that SOMEONE BROUGHT A BABY. WHUT?! augh. and not just that, i watched a couple people walk by throughout the film that had, like, ten year oldish kids.
i'm no parent, but srsly? i mean, it's violence, lots of sex and nudity, lots of stoner references and blood/gore. sounds like a family film to me! :D
-.-
but anywho, i got to see a bloody slasher fic for valentines day. not complaining.

got to see Coraline this past week too with rudelad737, which is an absolutely -amazing- movie and everyone should see it. I wish all fairy tales were as awesome as the ones in Neil Gaiman's head.
didn't go anywhere near Katsucon, but I heard it was overloaded anyway and that the security was tight for badges, so meh. no big loss on that one. i'm looking forward to ACEN anyway, especially since i'm going to be getting a new Lex coat that'll be long enough to actually cover my big ol' boots and have a nice big zipper down the front.

yar sunday. more work to do, more things to draw (woo!smut), places to go and a new roommate to annoy. hurray for good weekends.

*gasp*
Majel Roddenberry, 'First Lady of Star Trek,' dies;
;_________;
nuuuuu!
Lwaxana Troi! The voice of the Enterprise! MY CHILDHOOD!
*sob*

aw, man. so much lame. her final send out will be the voice of the ship in the next star trek film tho, so at least they got that right (so far). had to happen sometime tho, i guess.
how is Shatner still around? man.

I am STILL getting through all of the comments from my last post. good lord. XD i'm so glad everyone liked that picture so much! which reminds me that i still need to finish the rest of the art I've been working on for christmas gifts and the like. >.>

Tricked myself back into doing crochet again and am enjoying every minute of it (aside from the carpal tunnel, but we don't talk about that aloud) otherwise, i'm generally keeping myself distracted to avoid loosing it before the holiday.
and oh, it's coming.
next week.
x.x

augh, man. so msn news has lists of the ten most popular boy and girl names of the year, and just for shits and giggles i checked it out.
the top name chosen for girls for this year was 'Isabella'. and i'm like, ok, that's cool, it's a pretty name...
and then it dawned on me as to why that's the top one. and i suddenly feel badly for an entire year's worth of young girls.
*headdesk*
ironically (thankfully) there was no Edward in the top list for boys.
but there is a Jacob.
i hate that i know these damn characters XP stupid proxy.

I'm debating on trying to get back into some serious writing now that I've been granted a few random prompts here and there of interesting ideas. Fanfic, yes, but it's better than no writing at all and at least it gets the wheel's churning. of course, i'd like to do something that'll force me to pay attention as well, like limiting to a certain number of words. hard to believe, but that's actually something i have a great deal of difficulty doing.
Conversations with Molly and hearing about Joe's recent adventures with 'Dead Space' have spiked a morbid interest back into Silent Hill. Psychological horror isn't something I've really played with when it comes to writing, but I'll try anything once. If only to see if I can.
Diz also dared me to do a short fic in the SPN universe involving two OC's just to see if i could pull it off without getting too wordy. I may just take her up on that X)

i'm looking forward to seeing my family. this is a good thing. let's see how long it lasts.

Car ended up worse than I thought. about a thousand bucks worse. damnit. daaaaaamniiiiiit.
but it's fixed now, and i have him back so i'm not shooting myself in the foot anymore than i have already by cursing myself. this is what credit cards are for, i guess. it's just another one of those things at this point.

called my mother early this afternoon to tell her about it and she interrupted me to go do something with her boyfriend. (didn't really specify what.) said she'd call me right back.
she still hasn't called.
fine then. didn't wanna tell her anyway.

blah day with blah weather and fighting an all around blah feeling. i'm in between healthy and sick, but i'm working my immune system back up from where it's been by taking vitamins again. i forget why i stopped.

more luck with apartment hunting for christie and i, so it's only a matter of time and picking between our top choices along with who's running deals. so far, i'm optimistic with this. but it's not like i was ever worried about moving. funny, just one of those things i -don't- stress about.
short list.

thanksgiving didn't suck, thankyou to the beautiful Stackwick family.
spent yesterday evening with the BF for some well-needed love.
caught up on my sleep, no recent nightmares.

I'm not the praying sort with any kind of focus, but it'd be really decently awesome for some good stuff to go down in december. it doesn't have to be anything amazing, simply being neglected by bad stuff would be good enough for me.
i'd pray for that. even if i'm the only one listening.

fuck this. i'm gonna have an awesome christmas regardless.
in case anyone needs this that i haven't told already:

do please share if you have one :)

so the holidays are done.
aside from new years, but that doesn't really count imo. i was never all that hyped up about celebrating new years anyway. meh. i'll see friends, that's about as fun as it gets X)

christmas...wasn't too bad. honestly. it was easier this year than it has been, and that's really saying something. I enjoyed the time with my family for once, and didn't feel like i stuck out like an annoying, sore thumb. there were other, far more irritated family members to do that for me. which was fabulous XD. thus avoiding being the center of attention, i breezed on through and made out with some decent loot. mostly dvd's, but that's never something i complain about ^___^ moviesyay!
will prolly end up with the same thing for me berfday too. ^.^

one of my cousins got this uber awesome art set from my grandfather that immediatly put stars in my eyes tho *.* i slunk across the room to my confused little six year old cousin as she clung to her oil/acrylic/watercolor paints and pastels and was more than happy to show her how to use it all XD there's something both riveting and mischievous about walking away from a party covered in art supplies. or maybe it's just me. X3

been experimenting more with mediums and having a grand old time doing it. Between Sako's suggestions of working with shadows and Joe's assistance with the watercolor pencils, i am up to my elbows in new technique. found some beautiful new art styles i'm in love with too and am more than happy to fangirl over.

unfortunately today however, (at least at the moment) i am a hovering waste of space XP most people took off work for new years and nobody's really ordering shirts so there's like, nothing to do. the internet can only amuse me so much, i swear. at least, with that which is work-safe X3
sleeping is my only plan for being off tomorow.

for new years.
-diet time is reinstated hardcore as of wednesday morning. *fist* for as of next year's official coaster season, i WILL ride a roller coaster. i may not reach cosplay size yet for a good while, but the coasters are definately up there as a priority.

-by the end of next year, i will have finished the first book in my three book story. *second fist* which involves a whole hell of a lot of re-writing, but it needs to be done. i'll not sit on this another year without going crazy, methinks. i'm so starved for continual projects due to lack of assistance, but biting the bullet and getting it done on my own is going to be only way i can trust the work being completed. i hate these realizations XP and i know i'm not the only one.

and that's pretty much it, resolution wise. don't wanna make it too hard ;)

my grandfather gave all of his grandkids either a nice big present or money to get what we choose. It's the kind of thing that could be useful for bills, but at the same time, i think my grandpa would be a lot happier if we got something we liked instead :3
thus methinks i see more copics in my near future D: did the same thing last year, might as well XD he knows i use the hell out of those things anyway.

happy new years my lovelies!

Gawd, it is WAY too close to christmas.
i'd like to say i didn't see it coming, but i did. i just ignored it.
crap.

Still, keeping my head up and finding the time to get presents and the like. I've only broken down twice so far (which is a good thing) so I hope to leave it at just that until after my birthday. I'm looking forward to february x.x

once again had to bite the bullet and go get some new clothes XP As much as I'm starting to get used to this trend, i'm still not a huge shopping fan. never have been, but at the same time, there's something a bit exciting about being able to fit into sizes i don't remember ever fitting into.
What weirds me out tho is the whole re-buying all my underthings. that was something i didn't think about ahead of time, lol.

I look so different now. it's weird. :3 I was tempted to reintroduce myself to me in the mirror this morning *laughs* i really need more sleep at night.

Went and saw the golden compass last night. *love* wonderful movie, followed the book pretty damn closely too, aside from one or two things, and they were able to accomplish that without making it too boring (*cough*potter:chamberofsecrets*cough*) so i applaud them for that in the first place. secondly, omg the costumes O.O<3 i wanted to sketch them out everytime i saw a new character :laughs: which happened a LOT.
I'm glad i got to see it ^.^ despite all the religious hullabaloo about it all *gags*

the only thing that's good about movies that are picketed by organized religion is that it tells me what i need to go see. *checks another one off the list*

I'm writing again :3 not what i should be, but it helps regardless. All my old habits are coming back and it makes me happy ^____^
i miss DDR ;.;