Lost in Blue 3, I have lost interest in you. I thought a break would help, but even time apart hasn't changed anything. Sure, you were cute and fun at first, and I still want to uncover your mystery, but I can't take this sexism anymore. Why should I be at a disadvantage for selecting the girl character to play as? I can't hold as many items in my pack, I can't hunt or fish, I can't make furniture without one of the boys, I can't fight back when attacked... This game is not fun anymore; it's time to move on.

The World Ends with You. Now here's a game that looks promising. The main character looks like Sora and sounds like Ichigo. I like it already.

The idea was to make a smaller bouquet than the last one (note the star-shaped pineapple; the flower cookie cutter was too large), but there still ended up being a lot of fruit in it. I had green grapes this time, and honeydew instead of cantaloupe. The color combination didn't work as well, but it tasted better. I also used rice instead of lettuce as the base in this (because I forgot to pick up lettuce). It worked really well packed tight, and also served as a weight to keep the container from falling over. The hardest part was still slicing cutting through the skin of the pineapple.

I think my first arrangement was better, but I still paused traffic while walking with it. Drivers slowed to look as they passed by. More importantly, my mother liked it.

I got my Modbook back 2 weeks ago, and have been loving it every moment since. I like writing out my journal entries; this takes care of that just as well as on paper. Better even, since it's automatically converted into typed text. I just wished Inkwell had better handwriting recognition. My handwriting is really clear, but it still manages to futz it up. I don't know why it doesn't just start by asking you to write out the alphabet and just matching based on that.

It's soooo much easier for drawing though! With a regular tablet, I still think of the pen as a mouse. An easier to maneuver mouse, but still a mouse. Drawing directly onto my screen makes the pen feel like a pen. Here is the panel I did for EPUC this morning (the sentence: ): ( behind cut )

Anyway, point is, I love being able to write and draw right onto my screen. And I have found a new home for my old tablet. dawna's daughter is seriously .

Steam has changed a lot since I last logged in. Icon still applies though.

There's a community aspect now; I have a (empty) profile page. Must do the social network thing and collect friends. Where have all the SuBs gone? I can't play till I have (access to) a PC though.

worry, like poison, seeped under our skin. cut deep, we were slowly dying. what passion was left, quickly evaporating.

you came along, dressed our wounds, wiped it clean. scabbed still, but healing. no scars, no re-openings.

hope revived. please don't let this happy honeymoon end, keep us from getting crushed again.

Charlie Berman reminded me that I can't use a normal lighter. I , it just takes me a lot of tries and I usually give up before I get it. That's why they invented the sliding ones! Also, I don't smoke so it's not like I have any actual use for a lighter.

There was that one time at a party, in front of everyone, when Mike bet $5 ($10?) that I couldn't. I got it on the first attempt. He responded by saying I had only been pretending for the last year or whatever that I couldn't, that I was just waiting to scam him.

I miss those guys.

I started and finished Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy the other day. It was incredibly short*, but also a good recap of the series, which I've been meaning to watch again. Gameplay was fun; I liked the parts that involved drawing an array with the stylus. Character Mode isn't as great as I thought it was going to be, but that might be because I'm playing as Al (which is putting me through a sped up version of what I just played through). Maybe it'll really be a different view if I use someone else.

*It's been a really long time since I've played a side-scroller. Maybe it just feels so short compared to RPGs.

While channel surfing, we caught the end of 20 Richest Women in Entertainment on E! Number one was Oprah, of course. J suggested that we write her a letter asking for help with our rent, since what we pay would be like a quarter for her. He started dictating a letter from me, "Dear Oprah, my family immigrated here when I was young. I'm the daughter of a single parent, and a hard worker..."

During this conversation, I was also heavily engrossed in a DS game. "I was on Oprah," I said nonchalantly.
"You were?"
"Yeah. Oh," I responded, realizing what I had just said.

I was on Oprah, which apparently I had completely forgotten about until just now. This would be random thing about me #31.

I wasn't on the show on the show (in person); it was a video that played on the show, but still, on Oprah. I had 30 seconds in it (or 2 minutes?), talking about the cardboard boat races we did in Physics. My high school might have been on Oprah twice while I was there. I remember a camera crew coming in to film, and I think it was a second time? Either way, I'll have to go dig up my copy of that tape now.

Gorgeous blue skies, tank top and shorts weather – another really nice weekend. And I take this all for granted, spending my time in front of a computer and tv.

I did sit outside for a while today, enjoying the warm sunshine... and my DS.

It's been done for a few weeks, just b0rked in some areas in IE (what's new?). Again, rather than going through and figuring out what needs to be fixed without easy access to IE, I'm just hiding the broken parts.

I also can't whistle. Not loud, anyway. And it sounds more like a bird chirping than whistling.

Dear world, I have made and received my first BPAL purchase. From dawna, and not BPAL directly, but I have purchased BPAL. 2 imps/decants. These, plus the ones she and foxfirefey sent me before means that I have a collection now. I just looked it up, and holy crap, it was a year ago. I'm just being really slow about the whole collecting thing, and I still haven't browsed through all the available brews yet. I really like my new ones though!

Yesterday, I wore 51:

Luminescent, glowing, and otherworldly: green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats.

Today, Black Moon:

The absence of light: motia attar, black orchid, mugwort, English pear, cucumber, blue lotus, jonquil, massoia, calamus and crystal musk.

dawna also included an imp (decant?) of Mango Juice. It smells like the mango lotion I have.

I smell good enough to eat, thanks to the chocolate peppermint soap foxfirefey sent me. Mmmmmmmm.

In Link's Awakening (on GameBoy), I started the game with the name THIEF so that I would not be renamed when I stole weapons from the items shop. I also harassed the chickens until they got angry.

Or maybe that was my brother and not me, but I think we both did it. I want to play it again now, for that reason (since back then, I didn't know what easter eggs were, that programmers were cool and add in fun stuff). I think that's the only Zelda game that allows you to steal.

I can't snap my fingers. Sometimes it'll make the right sound, but never as loud as I hear from other people. And more often, it's a misfired pfffth, fingers rubbing more than snapping.

At least I am not alone.

As burr86 pointed out at lunch a couple of months ago, I was the only other one that wasn't using chopsticks, and the only Asian at the table. I can use chopsticks just fine, and have been able to since I was 2 or 3, but most of the time, I prefer a fork. Sometimes I'll favor chopsticks, usually when out with family (when using a fork looks like I can't use chopsticks).

I ordered it in October, after deciding I really did have to have a Modbook and that it was worth the credit card debt. It arrived on Wednesday (was supposed to be Tuesday but UPS didn't come even though the tracking said they did).



It was totally awesome for the 20 minutes I spent on it before the screen went blank/black. It wasn't the brightness, low battery, or on sleep/screensaver, and it still worked when plugged into an external monitor. Other people have had this problem too; tech support said it's a known issue and that I'd have to send it back for repairs. Hopefully it'll come back soon, with no further issues because it's seriously awesome.

I wrote this entry last Thursday, the 27th of March. Just that it's taken me a week to post it should show how attached to this thing I am.

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( I got a DS, and ) I've been playing:
( Drawn to Life, and drawing totally different things )
( Big Brain Academy and Brain Age. No, really, I'm smarter than that. )
( Lost in Blue 3, surviving being stranded on an island )
( Wario Warez crazy insane random )
FMA and Bleach are next on my list. And Zelda.

We went to a screening of 21 last night. And to further perpetuate my expectation of a special guest and Q&A at these things, Ben Mezrich (the author of the book the movie and main character are based on) was there to answer questions about what happened in real life and how much was different/exaggerated in the movie version. They invited everyone to Jillian's for blackjack after, but we didn't go. Also did not get a voice post.

I need a new layout. Even after making it collapsible, the fixed sidebar sometimes bothers me. I worked on a new illustration for it last weekend, but I don't know if I still like it. Maybe it needs to be less sad. Or more sketched/uncolored. Parts of it still need touching up, but I really like the way the hair came out.



I brought home my work tablet for the weekend, to um, practice. It's been a few years, but I got drawn back into iSketch (Pictionary), and I joined Eat Poop U Cat (2.o version of The Sentence Game, both of which are a cross between Telephone and Pictionary). It's quite addictive, and I've already earned kudos! My

blue screen of Death is hell

strip was well received, and everyone is really friendly.