雛祭りおめでとう！  I’m way too old to celebrate Girls’ Day but my parents always do it anyway.  They seemed to have forgotten though   Ironically enough my cousin just called to wish us a happy Girls’ Day.

Anyway, I wanted to post today and figured I’d be in a bad mood after work so a quick one before work will have to do.  Art midterm went over pretty well, slapped a line of text on the bottom because it was empty and really didn’t care how it looked.  So it was sloppy and crooked but whatever, I just wanted to be done with it.  As for the math quiz, I almost got a passing grade one it…  I made some really stupid mistakes, memo to self: drink more coffee.

Getting back into pixeling a bit, stayed up till 11 last night working on something.  I need to figure out fur texture but it’ll do for a newbie like me I suppose.  Also started on the origami bento, I need more desk space…  And I still need to look for more avatars and burn new CDs.  Maybe I should have a to-do list running at the end of each post.  Nah, to annoying to bother with.

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First off, I have no idea who made this icon but I love it!  I feel kinda like Italy right now…  Taking a small break from brainstorming for that art midterm with a Hetalia meme from http://zoldyck-fan.livejournal.com/:

THE AXIS POWERS

North Italy (Feliciano Vargas)
[0.5] You were bullied a lot in your childhood
[1] You adore pasta, pizza, cheese, and fruit.
[0] You’re very happy-go-lucky
[0] You constantly have a dozy look on your face as if you’re always away with the fairies
[0] You have a long curly strand of hair that always tends to stick up (or can be used as an erogenous zone, so if someone twiddles it, you’d get very embarrassed)
[0] You’re a good artist
[0.5] You can be clumsy at times
[0] You have a friend you always depend upon if you mess up something
[0] If your life was in danger, you would do the typical Italian thing and say: “PLEASE DON’T KILL ME! I HAVE RELATIVES IN YOUR COUNTRY!”
[1] You would surrender in a war situation
(3/10)

Germany (Ludwig)
[0.5] You’re very stoic and serious (serious, yes; stoic, not so much)
[0] Sausages (in particular those of the wurst variety) are your favourite foods.
[0] You like to walk dogs/your dog
[1] Your boss/principal/tutor/home-room teacher is a nut-case.
[0] You love rules and think they should always be followed to a T
[1] You think the world would be better if everyone played by the rules
[1] You work very hard
[1] Your alone time is your ‘happy time’
[0] You can appear tough but be very considerate towards people
[0] You’ve had issues with money once or twice
(4.5/10)

Japan (Kiku Honda)
[1] You’re very mature
[1] You think everything over before saying it.
[1] You believe in ghosts but aren’t phased by the experience when you see one
[1] You isolated yourself during childhood
[0] You became very successful in a short amount of time
[1] You are somewhat inexperienced when it comes to the outside world
[1] You can seem cold/aloof to other people
[0] You’re good at practical tasks
[1] You need time to adjust to new people
(7/10 9) (maybe I missed one?)

THE ALLIES

United States of America (Alfred F. Jones)
[0] You love hamburgers
[0] You think you’re awesome
[0] You love to invent things
[0] You love going to the cinema/watching films/making films
[0] You can seem to be very brash to other people
[1] You have a tendency to stick your nose into other peoples’ business
[0] You’re terrified of ghosts
[0] You know aliens exist
[0] You tend to wear a bomber jacket all the time
[1] You wear glasses (contact lenses part time, yeah man!)
(2/10)

United Kingdom (Arthur Kirkland)
[1] You like tea
[0] You were quite tough and troublesome as a kid
[1] You’re very sarcastic and cynical
[0] Your cooking is awful (depends on what I’m making)
[0] You love spiritual magical stuff, such as fairies, ghosts…
[0] …But you refuse to believe in aliens
[0] You have tried doing black magic before
[0] You get drunk quite easily
[0] When you are drunk, you tend to be very unhappy
[0] You’re good at embroidery
(2/10)

France (Francis Bonnefoy)
[0] You’re very affectionate
[0] You think you have a great fashion sense
[0.5] You like wine
[0] You’re the master of whispering romantic things into peoples’ ears
[1] You love red roses
[0] When it comes to l’amour, you don’t mind men or women
[0] You’re very proud of yourself
[0.5] You love culture and the arts
[0] You’re very flamboyant
[0.5] You say you’re a gourmet
(2.5/10)

Russia (Ivan Braginski)
[0] You had a very sad childhood.
[0] You’re very tall
[1] You have a tendency to switch between personalities
[0] You wear a scarf all the time
[0] You love sunflowers
[0] You love vodka
[0] You can seem intimidating to other people
[0] You’re very strong
[0] You have a big nose
[0] You have a strange laugh that can scare people
(1/10)

China (Wong Yao)
[1] You’re very mature
[0.5] You’re very superstitious
[0] You’re very religious
[1] You love pandas
[0.5] You love cooking so much that you nag if food has a certain pattern of tastes (I love cooking)
[0] You love Hello Kitty
[0] You try to be a role-model for your brothers/sisters/whatever, but are never taken seriously.
[1] You work hard
[0] You’re good at drawing
[1] You like sweets (♥)
(5/10)

And now for some other countries!

Austria (Roderich Edelstein)
[0] You are very well-raised
[1] You’re polite
[0.5] You love classical music
[1] You like cake
[1] You have a mole on your face
[1] You dedicate your time to your hobbies rather than what needs to be done right away
[0] You are a virtuoso/play very well on at least one instrument
[0] You’ve composed music before
[0.5] You tend to call people ‘morons’ (does ‘idiot’ count?)
[1] You wear glasses
(6/10)

Canada (Matthew Williams)
[0.5] You’re often ignored by people (more like left alone and kinda ignored)
[1] You look younger than you actually are (so annoying)
[0] You love hockey
[0] You love polar bears
[1] You hate fighting
[0] You have one strand of curly hair, like Italy
[1] You often get mistaken for someone else
[0] You feel under-appreciated
[0] You’re bilingual
[0] You always carry a bear with you
(3.5/10)

Cuba
[0] You smoke
[0] You’re very physically strong
[0] You’ve won a lot of fist-fights
[0] In your social circle, there are two brothers – you get along with one, but not with the other.
[1] You have very strong emotions about a variety of topics
[1] You like hot weather
[1] You can be very friendly from time to time
[0] You look very tough on the outside
[0] You make a very nice role-model
[0] You don’t let people get a word in edgeways
(3/10)

Hungary (Erszebet Hédeváry)
[0] You have a potty-mouth
[0] You like to wear flowers in your hair
[0] You used to be a very tough kid
[1] You’re very reliable
[0] It’s better to have you as a friend rather than an enemy
[0] You’re very faithful (faithful as in what?)
[0] Your speech and mannerisms can be considered very unladylike
[0] You and your best friend go together like chalk and cheese.
[1] You are graceful one moment and grinning like a maniac the next
[0] If someone yells that yaoi is going on somewhere, you will drop everything to run off to go and see it
(2/10)

Lithuania (Toris Lorinaitis)
[1] You’re very loyal
[0] You feel like your best friend drags you around a lot, but you both have a great time together
[1] You’re very serious
[0] You have a lot of patience
[1] You think too much about philosophical stuff
[1] You get depressed when questioning the point of existing/the universe, etc..
[1] You’re not very confident
[1] You were quite rebellious as a child
[1] People tend to walk all over you
[1] You’re a born worrier
(8/10)

Poland (Feliks Lucasiewocz)
[0] You’re very flamboyant
[0] You’re quite hyperactive
[0] You can be quite goofy
[0] When you’re depressed, you tend to rise out of it like a phoenix
[1] You’re very wary of strangers
[1] It takes you ages to come out of your shell
[0] However, when you’re used to someone, you’re very chatty
[0] You’re very forceful and stand at one end of the argument when it comes to your opinions
[0] You love pansies and corn-poppies
[0] You get up to lots of crazy antics
(2/10)

Prussia (Gilbert Weillschmidt)
[0.5] You’re quite mean-spirited
[0] You’re a bit of a hooligan
[1] You’re very loyal
[0] You’re very good at tactics
[0] You hate Russia
[0] You love to fight people
[0] You can avoid marriages quite well (Not that I’ve been in that sort of situtation)
[0] You’re not always taken seriously
[0] You like drinking
[1] You want to become stronger
(2.5/10)

So I’m most like Japan and Lithuania, though Lithuania fits a bit better.  Back to brainstorming…

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Ahem…  I mean Happy Valentines Day!  Still no boyfriend but that’s fine with me.  While I would like to have a special someone, I doubt it would work.  I mean, I have other priorities and have no interest in tying the knot in the next 5 years, maybe even 10 years.  I’d rather be financially secure first.  Besides, I’m rival romancing Fenris right now, can’t start feeling guilty

I’m near the end of act 2 in DA 2, and am still not used to playing a mage.  Part of it is I don’t want to draw aggro so I don’t use spells much and another part is the spells have such a long cool down that I keep thinking I’ll need them later.  Not to mention I still think that I’m doing decent damage with basic attacks.  I know this isn’t true.  But I’m not planning on fighting the Arishok one-on-one.  I need the rivalry points   Oh! But I must state, Varric is my favorite character!

It seems like school has taken over part of me.  Well, that’s probably a good thing, but I’m only taking 2 classes.  Anyway, I have a pretty good idea of how I’m doing in both my classes.  Passing both ^_^  Not sure which is the better grade (haven’t crunched the numbers, and probably won’t) but I feel much better about math.  Aced the first test!  Plus~  He gave 5 bonus points to everyone to offset that people genrally do poorly on the first test.  Soooo my score was perfect ^o^  Yes, I know it’s just pre-calc.  Lemme have my moment day of happiness  ¬_¬  And for art, I think he just grades easy.  But the art mid-term has been announced/assigned.  No idea what I’m going to do…  Pretty much you get to pick whatever you’d like to do as long as you fill the entire paper.  No direction + fill entire paper = lots of frustration and possibly a poor grade.  I like my white space too much.  So I spent an hour on deviantart trying to get ideas and I’ve still got nothing.  I feel slightly screwed.

Last night I made red velvet cupcakes.  First time using the cupcake pans and the recipe and they ended up over cooking…  I smelled them “burning” (they didn’t burn thankfully) with almost 2 minutes to go and just yanked them out.  I need to make them again because they don’t taste like red velvet T_T

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Happy Lunar New Year!  Year of the Dragon~  Hopefully this will be a good year for everyone, myself and other dragons in particular

Let’s see, I got my computer early, but the enclosure just came Wednesday.  I’ve been off and on transferring files to my new compy but there’s so much that I haven’t decided what I want on this hard drive.  Then again it really doesn’t matter, it isn’t like I could take a desktop on vacation  At least I have my pictures, save data and other files back~ Not to mention another external!

I broke down and bought the monitor

I’m loving this computer ♥ (I can do alt characters now!) Started a new game for DA2 and it’s sooo nice!  I’ll have to see how high I can set the graphics quality and have it run smoothly.  Wish I could afford Skyrim, but it can wait.  Been obsessing over Beat Hazard anyway.  Oh and Amnesia is so scary!  I made it to the desk with the note and had to take a break.  Haven’t touched it since…  Maybe tonight?  But it reminds me of a horror-based Myst, it seems like the player will have to make a decision at the end but there won’t be a “green book” to pick. Anyway, I have to keep a lamp on or else I can’t see the keyboard.

Ohkay. Classes.  Art, I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.  Just turned in our first project yesterday (we haven’t gotten the first assignment back yet) and did a class critique.  Apparently no one had anything they would change about mine, or criticism for that matter. But I probably looked terrified so maybe no one wanted to say that it needs work.  I dunno, just gonna try to make it through the semester. Math isn’t too much better, I understand the concepts, I can do the homework, but for the take home quiz I had to look everything up.  It seems like I can’t remember what I learned, maybe that’s what studying is for…

Now site related stuff.  I was going to make a new layout, but I think I’ll wait.  Seeing that the art class I’m taking it the pre-req for graphic design classes, maybe I’ll learn some stuff I can apply to a layout.  I’m not procrastinating updating the coding I swear!  But one thing math is doing for me is re-kindiling my desire to learn a web programming language.  Still have no idea what I’d use it for, but Javascript and PHP (and MySQL) are sure to come in handy.  Just need to decide which one to learn first and find some good tutorials.  Also gonna try and get that Sozai site up next month, I wanted to get it up before Chinese New Year and have some dragon stuff, but with my laptop dying and just getting my files back that didn’t happen.  Just need to figure out some Valentines Day (and SAD ) stuff.  I have the layout ready to go, but I really want to make it in frames.  It makes more sense to me, but professionally it’s a big no-no.  Not that I’m professional to begin with, but I should try to be.  Maybe that’ll be my pet project, where I can break as many rules as I want!

Long post is long. And my server time is 5 minutes slow >:(

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So, I got sick.  Very unhappy about that.  I’m starting to get over it now, thankfully, but yesterday was torture.  I’ll spare you the deatails.  But there is a silver lining for me, re-discovering Hawaiian style food.  Slightly tarnished just because someone can’t bring home plate lunch for me.  I mixed up something simlilar to guri guri (goodie goodie) last night and am enjoying it today.  I used to eat it when I was sick as a kid.  Also am craving Kal Bi, Mochiko chicken, unagi don, and a plethora of other dishes I can’t seem to find here.  Must mean I’m getting better ^_^

The day before I got sick, I found out about Rainmeter.  It’s something similar to the Windows sidebar except you can arange it however you’d like and it has some different features.  Started messing around with it but didn’t get that far…  Also am learning more about PHP and MySQL.  For some reason the commands for MySQL make a lot more sense to me than PHP…  I’m still rather confused as to how everything needs to be set up for it to work.

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I’ve actually been keeping myself kinda busy.  Played Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening & Dragon Age 2, started on Professor Layton and the Curious Village, and went out with a friend!  I got out of the house with someone who isn’t family!  Big step for me.  We had dinner at Granite City, which was delicious by the way, and he needed to pick up stuff for school so I went with him to Best Buy.  Apparently, I need to watch a bunch of movies -.-

Speaking of watching, I’m almost done with the second season of The Mentalist and am making my way through Axis Powers Hetalia!  Can’t bring myself past episode 45, love Iggy’s ending song!  For whatever reason, I love it when they have a different country featured~  I may just have to invest in the manga too, been on a manga kick lately.  Though I am very near being broke.  *sigh*

Had a few very wierd dreams last night.  2 really stuck with me, the first was that I caught a shiny koffing on VDex.  Which I ended up doing earlier today, a pleasant surprise.  The second dream made me sad, Fenris somehow went crazy and I had to kill him.  But the sad thing was, near the end of the dream he started to be “concious” of what he was doing and wanted me to kill him.  Thankfully, I woke up before he died.  He’s one of my favorite characters…

Lets see what else…  I’m dreading this weekend.  And Monday for that matter.  I’m just really anxious, work, meeting new people, and manning a booth (probably by myself) on a topic I know nothing about.  How’d I get myself roped into that…  I’m a push-over, that’s how…

Oh, I need to mow the lawn.  *flails*

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It’s summer now and I’m trying to lose weight, seeing that it has been accumulating more than I’d like it to,  so checking nutrition labels sounds like a good idea.  Pulled a cup of greek yogurt out of the fridge, as it has a lot of protein for yogurt, and checked the rest of the facts.  I was stunned.  100 calories, no fat at all, low sodium and sugar content, and 20% of the recommended amount of calcium.  Granted, I always get the unflavored “skim” version.  Comparing it to another 6 oz yogurt makes me wonder why I ate those before.

If you’ve never had greek yogurt, it’s thicker and more sour than regular yogurt, a bit drier too.  It lacks the odd sweetness regular flavored yogurt has, which I am glad for.  Instead, I add about one and a half tablespoons of honey while I’m eating.  I like the contrast so I don’t mix it in.

Anywho, no art stuffs.  Too lazy to scan, maybe I’ll put 2 up this Saturday.  Working tomorrow though (wo-hoo!) and am a bit apprehensive, it’s been 2 weeks since I’ve gone in.  What else…  Oh!  I kinda tore a tendon, it hurts.  My dad gave me exercises to help heal it, but I haven’t been doing it…  Not much other than that!

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So I completely forgot to post this yesterday:

Omnomnom

Kakigori on the left, Hawaiian style on the right.  Really craving good shave ice T_T

Anyway, not much has been happening.  RNGed another vulpix because I forgot to nickname the first one and already sent it to Black >.<  But I traded it for a Zekrom (it passed a legit checker online so hopefully it’s all good), one less thing to trade for.  Still need to evolve the new one and send it, but it’s nicknamed!  Also RNGed a shiny Sandshrew, next up, Ponyta.

Been listening to twewy soundtrack, I dunno why, just in that sort of mood I suppose.  Makes me want to play the game again but I think you can only have one save file…  Also want to replay Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky, but I don’t wanna delete my Eevee!  *sigh*  Is it worth buying Darkness or Time?  Probably not XD

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First things first though, my art project for the week:

Lookie what I drew! *bricked*

So I can’t use colored pencil well.  Oh well, I tried.  That and a chibi style, which didn’t go as bad as I thought.  Moving on…

Yesterday~  I finaly RNGed a shiny on HeartGold!  <3  It was a vulpix that I need to train and evolve before sending it over to Black due to a lack of Fire Stones.  I feel proud of myself! *bricked again*  Gonna try for… not sure, maybe sandshrew next?

Well this is probably the shortest entry (word wise) I’ve ever done.  Oh, but I got my glasses back~  Ok, now I’m done.

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Really, I think I am.  Most people I know of are stress bakers, but I can’t seem to bake very well so I cook other things.  It’s really strange for me, always hearing people complain about making dinner and realizing that I would rather make it than order a pizza.  So right now I’m waiting for creme brulee to get out of the oven.  I’m really unorthodox when it comes to custards.  Whenever I add hot milk to eggs, the eggs cook on contact.  Maybe the milk is too hot, but I use a work around.  Pretty much (for this recipe) I add the yolk mixture to the heavy cream and let it cook on the stove, stirring it constantly.  When the ripples start to get larger (thicker, fewer, whatever you’d like to call it)  and it feels thicker, I remove it from the heat and call it good.  Not sure how bad this is or how it changes the flavor/consistency, but it works a lot better for me.

Anyway, on Mother’s Day I attempted macarons.  They failed epically.  They were the wrong shape and over cooked to burnt.  Come to find out, I didn’t mix the meringue enough and the temp was too high.  And they were in there longer than they should have been.  So I picked up a book in the bargain section at B&N that I hope to try out later this week.  But I found out just how expensive almond meal/flour is…  $12 for 1 pound.  Guess who’s not getting anything else till she gets paid.  But I think they’ll turn out better this time, I know what I did wrong and have a very good idea as to how to fix it.

In other, non-cooking news, I’m trying out contacts.  I still have issues getting them in, but I don’t think I’ll have a choice come tomorrow.  I need new lenses and really love my frames so I’ll need to send in the frames for the lenses to be made.  I wonder how I’ll feel about contacts after wearing them exclusivly for a couple weeks!

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