Purple Carrot Concentrate

Gah.

So, a good long while back, i promised a recap of my trip to England/Asylum. yeah...so didn't get to that. my apologies if anyone was waiting for it (which, i certainly hope not because i can be really friggen boring) i am actually going to do a separate entry for that since i do have some awesome pics to share, but i'm not really gonna go into detail. sorry bout that guys, i fail, i know. i've just been hampered down with a lot of stuff recently and haven't had the time for blogging *gasp*

but hey, free moment. like, now.
( RECAP, CLIFF NOTES. )

so onto inconsequential stuff.

( So i saw Toy Story 3 and loved it...SPOILERS )

i've heard horrid things about Airbender, so i'm not even bothering to give the theater money for it. i'll take my chances with assistance from netflix tyvm. its how i saw g.i. joe *shudders* so i'm sticking with that. i heard twilight was better than airbender, which is the saddest thing i have ever heard.

its too damn hot for words this week. i hate running the AC all the time, but i'm on the top floor. in a hundred degree weather at the top of an apartment complex that cooks and does laundry ALL THE TIME? if not for AC, i'd be dead.
THIS IS VIRGINIA, NOT CAIRO. YUR DOIN IT WRONG.

is it friday yet? i'm ready for a road trip.

I FINISHED IT.
aaauuugghhh finally x_x after far too much delay and way too much last minute desperation, I finished the secret angels fic exchange story for the deancastiel com and i am DONE. D.U.N.
thanks SO friggen much to morgainlefay for the last minute beta too. i owe you woman, srsly.

maybe next time i'll actually write something short? i dunno. sounds difficult.

Back from a long weekend of drama and mayhem in Richmond with the Mad Kat crew, and despite the crazy amounts of unnecessary, it was also a fairly decent weekend. I really liked the Alice movie :3 honestly.

i know a lot of people are hatin on it, and me being a movie fanatic i probably should hold a bit more of an opinion than i do, but to be completely honest, i really did just like it for what it was. and that was FUN. it's a movie to make you smile, make your head tilt and fill your irises with information that isn't supposed to make sense. which it does, at different times for different people, i noticed. if you can get over the stupid hype, the big names, and try not to compare it to either the books or previous movies (general knowledge of Looking Glass aside), its very easy to slip into the movie and simply find it fascinating. Which i did, so i was not disappointed.

That, and Christopher fucking Lee as the Jabberwock. Heyall yes. i lamented his lack of dialogue once introduced.

I wouldn't mind seeing it again, but of course, i'd still like to see Shutter Island again X) silly poor E, why do you have no moneys?

CLASH OF THE TITANS NEXT MONTH. I AM ALREADY THERE.

what SUCKED about the movie (or at least the time around when we watched it), was the strangely ironic incident that took place afterwards where gravity saw fit to trip me up the stairs. i went headfirst into a gaggle of humans, but not until after slamming my knee into the cement steps, straight across the bone.
ouch.
oh sorry, i meant ouuuuuccccchhhhhh.

got a great big nasty bruise for my troubles too >.< damnitall.

the girls took me shopping, or as they called it, retail therapy. which is an odd and somewhat frightening concept to me, to be honest. (maybe because i worked so much retail and the idea seems hysterical? i dunno) it was fun though, and just a bit strange considering how well i fit into things now that look as if i shouldn't. and i mean, srsly look like they shouldn't. like they'd fit a doll or something.

i am no closer to getting used to the way i look now than i was a few months ago. and its still going too. i lost another five pounds this week. yeesh.

and i still keep pulling on some of my bigger clothes everyso often just for the slightest bit of normalcy that i don't see anymore. it's all in my head, and i know it, but when there's the image of something familiar in your head, something you've known all your life and expect to see whenever you look for it...but now its not there? you kinda freak out a little.
So yeah. there's that.

but looking nice is, dare i say, fun. didn't get to do much of that when i was younger.

ugh, far too little sleep i need to catch up on z_z so far, March hasn't been all that unforgiving yet...but it did just start. I'm staying cautiously optimistic. and not looking forward to wednesday at all.
Distractions. I needs them. Maybe i'll trick myself into desperately writing something again XD cause shit that was distracting x__x

Christie took me out randomly tonight and I bought movies. thus, my day is now SO MUCH BETTER.
not to mention, there was only one copy left of the SPN season 4 at best buy. and, well, i was gonna wait...but it was sitting there all alone...
AND NOW ITS MINE.

that, along with sister act 1 and 2, speed(lol) and the omen for five bucks each. I LOVE BEING SO EASY TO PLEASE.

both of my brothers called me tonight <3

i work a lot of this weekend, including the monday holiday, but that's ok. i'm gonna have so much time off after the surgery that i'll be bored shitless anyway. here's hoping i actually write something while i've got the time...or draw, that'd be cool too.
i haven't drawn smut in ages. :O

useless post is useless
but hey, movies.

ok, so...got to see Half Blood Prince on a random right-time-right-place opening day of tyson's corner today, so i totally took the opportunity.
It's been awhile since I read the book, but the general idea was there when i went in. The whole thing is pretty much centered around...wait for it...the Half Blood Prince along with some pieces of Voldy's soul. whatever. but mainly, it's about the identity and history of this mysterious Prince while other shit is going on around that base plotline.

( Or so i thought...(spoilers ahoy) )

and on a random side note, a resounding FUCK YOU to Tyson's Corner. i have never had a good experience driving there and i HATE the snobby whino pricks that use it as a high society social hookup. this time, i was literally stalked back to my car by an asshole in a souped up mustang so that he could snag my parking spot. and i'm not talking a few feet, i mean from the entrance to the mall all the way to the opposite end of the parking lot (which is a huge damn parking lot, btw), he may as well have been pushing me with his fender. assHOLE.

Ok, so I went and saw Star Trek a second time last night, but this time in IMAX.
and wow what a difference it makes <3
I tell you one thing, tho, if you are even the slightest bit afraid of heights? watch it in the normal theater, or at eventually at home. I have no problem with heights whatsoever and even I got a little bit of vertigo at some parts x.x them newfangled cameras is crazy.

So, second time seeing spoilers!
( hey, this star trek thing is srs bzns )

all in all, wonderful to see again. and with wonderful company :3 i am so owning this movie when it comes out and THERE'D BETTER BE EXTRAS. s'all i'm sayin.
this makes me want to watch the other movies again, but all i own is from Generations on up. woe ;.;

i keep swatting my fingers to keep from joining any slash star trek communites DX augh, man. this shouldn't be this difficult to NOT do x.x the SPN fandom is crazy enough with their incest and mpreg slash XP *gags* who knows how bad StarTrek porn could get. (or how good. DAMNIT.)

which speaking of, season finale of Supernatural tonight :3 LET THE WANK BEGIN! \O/
rudelad737 and i are doing burgers and beer in true SPN fashion for the big blowout. if anyone else wants to come, just gimme a call :D the more the merrier!
hey fauxfaia! you alive???!

oh, and I finally got to see the House finale. and srsly, guys, you were actually surprised by that ending? I mean...srsly? I totally saw that coming.

thus i have geeked out my quota for the year. scuse me while i go back to drawing SailorMoon and SPN angel slash XD (NOT TOGETHER.yikes)

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.

Dear Twilight,

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT.

Sincerly,
A very concerned movie goer

sparkles? really? i mean...SERIOUSLY?
it wasn't even bad in the awesome kinda way.
and that's really all i've got. it wasn't even worth heckling. We tried. Hard.

Weekend of lazy and awesome.
I love it.

toooootally empty house, since the roomies are in Atlanta (OMG MOLLY, I MISS YOUR MUSK.) but i've been gladly filling up my time with last minute artiness getting set for prints to take to previously mentioned con, and all around doing nothing. it's fan-fucking-tastic. X)
aside from the very lonely and needy cats. christ.

the spn season premiere was fabulous. yay for angels, and yay for new stuff. have been trying so INCREDIBLY HARD ever since then to ignore/tolerate every fucktwat and their fanbuddy quoting angel shit online from wikipedia, but then, it's not like books are readily available anymore, right? or, ya know, credible sources, or maybe some actual research or old school impossibilities like that. *facepalm* srsly. srsly? no.
it's like a train wreck tho, i can't stop seeing it.
*coughs*
anywho, s4 show? good.
crazy, random, batshit fandom? bad.

oh, speaking of random. So Dan and I were in Claires today (yes, claires) and the three cashiers were all talking amongst themselves and apparently grossing each other out. a conversation of which i missed, but happened to see the aftermath of. Dan caught it, however, and i was amused by the conversation that followed when i asked him what happened.

me: So i'm curious what the hell grossed her out so much. was it really that bad? she looked green.
D: well, yah, they were talking about burn victims.
me: that's it? srsly?
D: ...
me: no really, we're not talking about how serious it is, but how gross. i mean, was it specific? cause it really depends on the burn as to what kind of gross this means here...
D: what, do you have a stomach of IRON or something!?
me: well, think about it. i mean, was it a second degree or a third? was it bad enough to need a skin graft? a small area like a hand or a large one like the whole abdominal cavity? Was it enough to sever nerves? burn away muscle and veins? maybe even something deep enough to go to the bone and prevent re-growth?
D:...
me: and that doesn't even begin to touch any kind of infection...
D: you're not invited to my birthday anymore.
me: :(

hahaha X) i had such a healthy upbringing.
in related news, while at said Mall, i picked up a bottle of blue hair dye which i'm totally planning on playing with sometime soon. maybe even tomorrow :O! nothing dramatic, but fun nonetheless. i've been wanting to put color back in my hair for awhile now.

Friday was...man, i dunno what to call it. Isaac and I (the other EPA captain) were given the opportunity to take a class at a nearby place in tysons in order to get more info and learnin on Illustrator. We went right for the advanced class with the hopes of learning more in order to teach others on our teams, and it was all sprung on us at the last minute like, the day before. regardless, we go without much of a problem.

first off, holy crap, Nina was teaching it. lol. however, she was pretty sick that day and ended up going home after about an hour. so they got this other guy instead.
after that tho? man. I thought Isaac was gonna throw himself out a window, we were that bored. nothing against the teacher, in fact he was a really nice guy and a decent teacher, but we both knew pretty much -everything- he went through. by the time 3 o'clock rolled around, i'd about had it. Isaac was crawling in his seat by noon.

It just surprised me more than anything else. I mean, have we really gone through everything there is to know of the program? that couldn't possibly be, yet that's what it feels like.
Still, on the plus side, it pulled me out of my drawing rut since i kept myself sane by doodling. which the teacher ended up asking me if he could see and complimented them, haha. ballpoint pen mess that it is. he had a good sense of humor, and was a freelance illustrator himself.
I am not looking forward to the prospect of a photoshop class in the future, unfortunately :( i fear the same might happen, despite how much i'd love to see if there's more to learn.
yarrr.

annnywho, going to see 'Burn after reading' tonight at tysons :3 happy saturday all!

just got home from a long(ish) weeked in Richmond. *le tired*

plus on a whim, got a second tattoo. ouch. X3 (j/k. didn't hurt even a quarter as much as the first one did. sweet jesus)
the upcoming family reunion is gonna be fun tho [/sarcasm] gives my mother something to focus on aside from the family sucking at least.

i'd call of work tomorow simply out of exhaustion if not for the fact that i'm in charge of the trainees. *sigh*

hellboy 2 is full of beautiful and win. had it's fair share of cheese and odd/slightly confusing story arc work, but the pretty made up for it.

i just realized July is already halfway over.
come oooooon september.

I'm not sure how I made it through the weekend.
But I did, so I'm not cursing it.
my stress level isn't where I want it to be, tolerance-wise, and there is a lot i need to tolerate right now if I'm going to stay sane and keep from exploding. exploding = bad news. especially days before a con.

i hate this bad habit i have of not dealing with little things as they come. hateithatehateit. because if i did just deal with it all at the time, then maybe it wouldn't add up so quickly and kill me like this. XP LAME.
thankyou shadrad btw for your generous verbal kick to the head this weekend and then getting my ass out of the house. you helped more than you know (heart!)

on the plus side, i'm art inspired. (will post some of that later) however, in retaliation, i've lost any want or will to write. for like, anything. (cept bitching, obviously)
i also have my own room now, which is something i haven't had since i lived at mom's. also a plus, and i get to work with my re-organizing/anal retentive nature in a non-self-destructive way. cheers.

i tore up my feet on my weekly hike this past saturday x.x ended up with no skin on my ankles, along with breaking a toe and basically all around tearing the bottoms of my feet to shreds. mmm, bloody socks. note to self: wear double socks (triple?) next time, and get some damn insoles for those boots. idiot.
i haven't been barefoot for this long in years (necessary for healing atm, cause socks hurt like whoah) i feel naked without atleast a single pair.

my hair is red ^^ and short. as of the beginning of this month and in preparation for the Lexaeus costume I'm doing for Acen. should be interesting X3 i'm looking forward to seeing people and hanging out. it'll be weird not having an AA table, but good to get away.

Saw Ironman with Dana. gonna see it more times this week too with all of the nerdy friends i know and love XD not that i'm complaining; damn good movie.

going to fire my first gun this week with rudelad737 at a shooting range. I'm truly excited for this this, however, another important note to self: don't go angry, stupid.

i should plan a trip to NYC sometime soon. seeing and all-around hanging out with sunseenli would do me a world of good @.@ you got any freetime in the coming months hon?

i don't want to crash from all of this, but there may not be a choice in the matter if it continues. something needs to change.
it's happy music time x.x