your joy is my low

Alright, so I know there's been I'M NOT USING LJ ANYMORE, I'M GOING TO _________ around LJ these days. XDDD This is the post where I ask who is staying here/still here? And if you aren't, where are you/where are you going?

AKA THIS IS A CONTACT INFO THREAD THING. So post anything/anywhere you want to post where I can find you! :D

Here is that crizap for me...

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I also have a Dreamwidth, which is tenel_ka, but I don't know how much I'll use it depending on what happens here and so on. MY ICONS, LOL.

...what am I missing... o_o

I WANT TO BE SURE I AM IN TOUCH WITH ALL YOU DARLINGS.

I haven't been able to sit down and catch up with anything here lately. Between running back and forth to the vet for the kitty (some little darling had to go on a diet to hopefully break up bladder stones so she doesn't need surgery *crosses fingers*), finishing up a project at work and moving a couple things around to try to make a better craft/costuming workspace for myself, I haven't been able to keep up with anything else.

Nate and I have also been trying to make zhobot.net and the forum two cohesive things which we haven't achieved yet because we are lazy slugs. We also need to get the photo gallery and shop up running on z.net too, which hasn't been done either. Hehe.

Then of course, the Video Game World had to go and release Portal 2 AND Mortal Kombat on THE SAME DAY. Not to mention I am still chugging through Fallout: New Vegas (have I mentioned how much I love/hate/love the White Glove Society?) and we rented Army of Two: The 40th Day from Gamefly so the television is my BFF right now. I CAN'T GET AWAYYYYYYY--

(Also, we finished Game #2 in the Centuria Challenge! Only 98 more to go!)

I need to catch up on LJ and RP and all kinds of stuff-- not to mention updating websites and making a logo for the board which I've been telling myself to do every day FOR WEEKS NOW.

In other lol news, I think my Dragon*Con 2011 costume lineup might be somewhat finalized. You know this changes 900982390482309482034.7 times throughout the year but I need to hurry up and get it set asap since it's already almost May(!!!!!) - how is that even possible what is this

Nate has his heart set on a Traitor!Jacen Solo costume and we've been brainstorming amphistaff ideas (I get stupid giddy every time he mentions this costume, STUPID GIDDY) - the thing he's debating the most though is if he should go with trying to make a robeskin + amphistaffs (what Jacen's wearing in the book) as opposed to going with the gray jumpsuit (that Jacen is wearing in everything else including the action figure) + amphistaffs. He is debating with himself here and would appreciate any input on the matter. I keep thinking about it and I don't know which one would work better. IDEAS? Thankyousomuchinadvance~ <33333 XD

So yeah, that shower I took. I reached across with my left hand to scratch my right shoulder and a muscle near my left shoulder cramped SO HARD that I started making horrible squeaking noises. Then I began trying to rub my shoulder and move my arm. What my body really wanted to do though was flail and fall into the shower curtain and then subsequently out of the shower, BUT I MANAGED TO AVOID THIS. ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DAY!

All that stuff I said I was going to work on earlier - I actually did some of that too (this usually never happens)! I think it was the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack on repeat that helped me there. You know, finishing up resizing some pictures for Etsy going, "FINISH HIM!" to myself and all. I know, I know, nerd central (LIU KANG IS ALWAYS HOT).

But yeah, stuff!

On the Etsy front, I have added a copperish leafy sort of necklace, a pair of butterfly earrings made from some beads I've had for years, a set of Squall & Rinoa (I STILL LOVE YOU FF8) pins and a magical set of 8 Arrested Development pins with the BLUTTTHHHHHH FAMILYYYY. <3

In short, I have all kinds of weird crap on that Etsy store and have added more weird crap.

And then on the Cafepress front, I have been obsessing over the simplicity of Experimental Jetset's text design which they originally designed here on this shirt. I think because it's so in your face and seeing people wearing shirts like that and figuring out or knowing what they're from is awesome. I saw someone wearing a Left 4 Dead one (Zoey& Francis& Louis& Bill. - I can't remember the order, but you get it! XD) and I flipped out. There are also lots of groups of 4 (and 3 and 5 and maybe more, lololol) I adore, meaning I had to put some together. These are the ones I have online right now (and I might be changing up colors in the near future - I am still thinking there, hehe)!



Upcoming ones include: Luke/Leia/Han/Chewie, Wedge/Tycho/Wes/Hobbie, Leonardo/Michelangelo/Raphael/Donatallo, Spengler/Venkman/Stantz/Zeddemore, Layton/Luke/Flora, Wright/Edgeworth/Butz lololololol - I also might really get crazy and do some like Souji/Yosuke/Chie/Yukiko/Kanji/Rise/Naoto/Teddie cause you can't leave anyone out of that BEAUTIFUL THING~ XD

oh maaaan my sleep schedule is all kinds of effed after this holiday weekend. WHOOOOOPS. :3

EDIT: I WAS NOT KIDDING ABOUT SLEEP SCHEDULE I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS 3AM FFFUUUUUUUUUU---

SUP BROS

(i need to upload the rest of these photos lol, esp. caedus with glasses)

So I finally updated this thing with Dragon*Con 2010 costumes (and updated a whole bunch of other crap on there). I also made a new layout for the mess of J/TK fanthings site (om nom jared & bryce). And put a new necklace up on etsy! Now on to the new layout for echuta.net~!

Between sites and writing and pictures and costumes and moving all the furniture around in the gaming/craft/costuming/workspace area (THEN CLEANING IT ALL, OH GAWD FOREVER LATER) I have been so busssssssssssssy. I guess that's better that staring at the wall though. XD

ALSO, FALLOUT NEW VEGAS IS A WEEK FROM TODAY. So that on top of everything else - and by everything else I mean I WILL FORGET IT ALL UNFORTUNATELY and crawl under a pile of blankets to wander the Vegas Wasteland! I'm coming for you, SUPER MUTANTS. <3

Aaaaand now it's back to rambling and crazy crap and the usual asshattery you find here, now that the D*C report is done. XD

I actually got bit by the writing bug today, which I haven't had for months and it feels AWWWESOMEEE HURRR. So working on some fanfic (lol shocker whaaat) and an original story that has been sitting on my computer foreverrrr.

I should also hopefully be taking pictures of Nate's Caedus costume soon. With his contacts and, you know, NOT IN A HOTEL and stuff. Hahaha~ then we'll be having another "CONVENTION" for lusa_thul cause she was sad she missed D*C. We've discussed Jacen/Raynar/Zekk pictures - so we'll see what happens. MUAHAHHA~

As for sites I'm working on a new layout for The Outlander Club and I just put up a new layout for my layout archive. That site is full of memories, lol.

HAY ANY AND ALL STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE PEOPLE: The Mega Expanded Universe Group Readthrough is starting in October! The information can be found here! WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE FOR READING AND CRACK AND MSPAINT FUN AND DID I MENTION CRACK woooo book club!

I have been going crazy with costume junk. I AM NOT COMPLAINING THOUGH cause it is fun and of course, exciting that D*C is next week.

Valerie and Brian were pretty much here for a day and half (too short a time!) so we could finish Franklin - the amazing puppet from Arrested Development - for the AD costume groupage at the con. Valerie made FRANKLIN COME ALIVE and he looks awesome. <3! I just need to fix up his shirt, add his ghetto legs and pants and then his shoes and he will be FINISHED!

Here are some random things I found on my photobucket to get everyone pumped for D*C (there will probably be a couple more random things in the future as well too, like maybe a crack!mix, lol).

and

CAUSE YOU CAN'T HAVE DRAGON*CON WITHOUT PORNOCOPIA AND D*C SPOCK.



AND! I started posting on the deviantArt account I got however long ago, so if you have one PLZ PLZ POST IT HERE SO I CAN STALK WATCH YOU. Mine is ~holler-you-home (Lisey's Story <33333)~

I think I need to pass out now.


(P.S. DID YOU SEE POUTY CAEDUS? LOOOOVE. <333333333333)

Still bitter about the back doctor appointment, but I have been getting my mind off of zee pain and all that crap with the magical worlds of Zhobot, Revelry Junction and then jewelery/buttons and working on websites. Also, Alan Wake and the game Nate reviewed in his indie games thread, Machinarium (seriously, cutest game ever GO PLAY THE DEMO AT LEAST XD).

Speaking of him, he needs to find a wig for Guybrush Threepwood and it's proving to be harder than we thought. We never really dug the hair of the giant forehead, high bangs Guybrush in the Secret of Monkey Island remake, so we figured he should go with the more NATURAL SHAGGY mop of the original Guybrush (and I'll probably be going mostly original!Elaine) -- we found this wig, wondered if we could put the hair in a ponytail and then laughed our asses off. We're debating on it, lolololol~

Also, I think in the next couple months we'll start the great STAR WARS: EXPANDED UNIVERSE READTHROUGHHHHHHHH if anyone wants in. For now it'll be pretty much all post-original trilogy stuff (Shadows of the Empire and later) and decisions are still floating around on which books to read and how long to spend on the reading/discussing/making fun of/fangasming about all the books. If you would like to take part in it or you have any suggestions for times/books/etc., hit up the magical thread for it here! THE MORE PEOPLE WANKING IT ALL, THE BETTER. ;D

AND NEW LAYOUT ON WHATTHEFUN.NET~ XDDDDD Francis and Louis = <333


(HI I AM ALSO HIGHLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEW SILENT HILL THEY ANNOUNCED AT E3. IT'S THE EIGHTH SILENT HILL GAME. EIGHTH. <33 SO MUCH CREEPINESS OVER THE YEARS~ XD)

Back in 2004 I started a forum that was supposed to be a temporary place for a few people to use until another board was set up by someone else. The other forum never got fully finished so the board that was supposed to be temporary became permanent. It was called Kriff This! (now Mindbreak) and it was mostly a Star Wars: EU related message board. It has grown over the years and as much as I love it with all my heart, I know it's time to start over.

Mindbreak is a twoo wuv of mine but there's so many dead accounts and forgotten/never realized ideas and so much clogging up the system that it's too much to just sit down and fix. People still look at it as strictly a Star Wars: EU board and turn away from it thinking they won't fit in or they join and never bothered to post -- if I didn't delete a lot of the 0-post accounts, there would be about 2,500 members registered on that board right now.

As much as I love it, I know it's time to let it settle. It'll still be there, especially since looking back on old threads and cackling madly = win -- it'll just be an archive of sorts. An archive of old ideas, crack, parties, echuta.net and all the random RPing over the years. XD So it'll still be in the same spot, it'll just be closed to new posts and members and so on. But it's okay, cause it spawned something before I allowed it to settle.

It's little eeebil spawn is a forum. A general gathering of geekery. I know forums aren't as OMG SO AWESUM these days since everyone is spending time on facebook and it's dirty little cousin myspace (and the sites like that), but try it out. It's contact with people who like the same things you do (not that asshole you hated in high school who friended you because he wanted to show off his new life to everyone D: or that bitch from elementary school who pulled your hair but friended you now because FRIEND +1 = INSTANT POPULARITYYYY LIEK KEWL) -- this is instant contact and ZOMG FRIENDSHIPSSSSSSS with others in all kinds of fandoms.

And it's a place to start over. Any new name, new post count (+1 lol), new icons, tags, games, discussions, projects, everything. Bring your art and share it, your writing, your photography, your nerding, your tech problems, your rants, your fangasming, your anything. We welcome it because we welcome you (and by you, I mean cool people -- you are cool if you are reading this right now, BOKAY? <3)~

No really, I will love you forever if you join. ANY AND ALL OF YOU. I DON'T CARE WHAT FANDOMS YOU'RE IN. XD

http://boards.zhobot.net

(Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, Supernatural, Silent Hill, BioShock, Stephen King, every television show ever -- hell, go on, bring on the vampires and the werewolves too! We don't discriminate! WE LOVE EVERYONE. ;D

...unless you are an assbutt. Which I don't think any of you are.)

P.S. Any project or thread that was on Mindbreak will now move to the new forum. This will include BioShock RP, CVNC and possibly fandom net. XD

So I still don't know wtf is going on with this pain. I've been to my doctor twice, two specialists (three times altogether) and the freakin' hospital. And everyone is just sort of like, "Duuhhhh whattttt"

I don't have any leave left at at work thanks to all these damn appointments and tests so I am about 95% sure I will have to cancel my California trip (and lose all the money that will be non-refundable from airline tickets and shit). I am pretty pissed off about it all. And to top it all off, I'M STILL IN PAIN. :|

I've been trying to focus on creative things (costumes, websites, fanfiction) to make myself feel better but I can't really focus on anything at all usually because of the pain. I have to lay a certain way to get any sleep, I have to stand up and walk around cause if I sit too long it hurts -- piiiisssssssssssed off.

I mean, I wrote a beginning to the ZOMG HORROR SW FIC I have actually been excited about and I don't know if I like it or not. I have been second guessing myself on it. IT'S LIKE THREE PARAGRAPHS LONG AND I AM HAVING FULL ON DEBATES WITH MYSELF ABOUT IT. WHAT IS THIS, SELF? THIS IS FANFICTIONNNNNNNNN WHATTTTTTTT. This is making me do silly things.

So I told myself today in a motivational fashion, I said, "Heather, you are more awesome than this pain. You can get shit done and kick the pain in the ass somehow. It will go away. You will be able to do stuff besides stare at the ceiling while being all sprawled out on the couch."

(Don't ask me where pain got an ass from. D:)

After all that monologuing with myself, I decided that I WILL focus on other things (dammit) and I WILL get all my creative crap done. This means writing, costumes, buttons, websites and making all the damn jewelry I've wanted to make with the random pieces that are piling up around me.

STUFF. IT WILL BE DONE.

I have been crazy busy lately, wtf when did this happen? I finished up a few big projects/documents at work that I have been working on for a couple months and I'm extremely relieved and excited they're finished, I'm almost done with my cosplay/personal giant massive website of doom and Saturday I helped Nate move all of his stuff from Maryland to Virginia into the new place he is renting. It has been busy but good. XD

But now it is time for an update! BECAUSE I MISS YOU, LJ. <3

Life: Wait I already updated that above. Hehe.

New Buddies: *waves to all the people from the magical friending memes as of late* Yayyyy!

Costumes: Last weekend I got some stuff done on costumes -- this hasn't happened in awhile! XD I worked on the design for the Queen Tenel Ka outfit I'm hoping to make/finish for Balticon (already got the fabric for the dress, need to get the fabric for the outer coat/cape thing), started a new pouch for my YJK Tenel Ka and painted the Pie Hole box and got shoes for my Chuck (Pushing Daisies) outfit. Sadly, Desert Rose Dee (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) has been dropped from the Dragon*Con costume list cause we're not sure Brian would really want to walk around in long johns -- which is totally understandable, hahah. And Dee would be no fun without Charlie & the Waitress (plus we lack a Mac and a Dennis). This means there is an empty spot on my D*C costume list. It will most likely be filled by Chuck or possibly the new Queen Tenel Ka outfit or some other costume I will already have (it will definitely be Queen TK if there is a Caedus floating around somewhere)~ XD

RPPPPPPPPPING: MAJOR PLOT starts today at Mr. Multi-Fandom Revelry Junction. This is exciting because mostly it's been everyone getting settled and moping around for FOUR YEARS, LOL. They're finally gonna do something. I also think I might pick up Louis (L4D) and possibly James Sunderland (SH2). But Nate and I were talking the other night... Donald Duck totally has to come into the game. MUAHA.

Making Crap!: I got my button maker in the mail last week and I have been flipping out all weekend making all kinds of buttons from pictures I had around and pictures from old magazines (Jacen Solo, Tenel Ka, Mara Jade, Hotel Dusk, Silent Hill 3/4, The Sims, Left 4 Dead, Dead Space, Xenosaga, BioShock, Mass Effect, Organization 13, Devil May Cry, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON~). I'll be putting some up on Etsy soon cause as much as I love making them I can't have them all sprawled around my workspace (there are some up right now!)~ XDDDD

Vacation: This weekend Mom, Duane and I are doing to the GLITTERING LAND OF PITTSBURGH (lol) to visit Valerie and Brian. I'll take pictures for my Photo midterm while I am there and also generally geek out, which is what we normally do when everyone is together. Also, SONIC. This will be hell on TEH WEIGHT WATCHERS, but WW can suck it for one weekend because Sonic is MAGIC (we don't have one around here -- which is why I find it so MAGICAL XD).

Then in June, Nate, Valerie, Brian and I are going to California! :o I have never been to CA (farthest I've been is Las Vegas and that was almost a decade ago) and I am excited because DISNEYLAAAAAAAAND. Now, I am a total Disney nerd. Especially when it comes to Walt Disney World. So to go to the park that started it all (excuse me, I'm having a total nerd moment here) and be strolling around the same places Walt Disney did, I will go crazy. <333

I am already apologizing to Nate, Valerie and Brian in advance because I already know (especially while waiting in line to ride their Space Mountain) I will be FLIPPING OUT AND KICKING PEOPLE IN THE FACE OUT OF EXCITEMENT. D:

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I guess that's all for now. I will be updating this thing better now that I am not stressed from work and all that other jazz. <3 XD