Eclectify This

On a failtastic body

2009-12-14T01:25:28Z

Yeah. So who gets the flu the day before her birthday? Apparently I do.

On Work Associates Being Bitches

2009-12-09T08:18:13Z

Yeah. So someone I work with who has no direct say over the content of my work just said my design artwork looked like bowel movements.

I told her to get the fuck away from me.

On Bleeeeeeeh

2009-12-08T22:51:15Z

Woke up this morning feeling...not so good. Not sick exactly. Just, not well either. Kind of this weird in between state where I could go either way but was leaning more towards being sick. Let's just say I am not healthy this morning XD. Wanted so badly to stay in bed and everything feels like such an effort. If I didn't have a billion and one things to do at work (thanks guys btw, for deciding I need to do a whole new website in the space of 4 hours) I would not be going in.

It's Wednesday. Why can't it be Friday?

On Getting Over It

2009-12-07T10:43:04Z

Promised myself when I got home I would get over my stupid mood. Am now eating microwave pasta and drinking fuckloads of water because I can stop being thirsty and not hating everything that I do XD
This is a good start.

Randomly. I want more Marvel comic icons. Specifically I want more Wanda, Billy, Tommy and Teddy icons XD

On Frustrations

2009-12-07T00:39:37Z

I loathe being in this mood. You know the one. Where everything is frustrating to you for no apparent reason and while you have the motivation to do things, nothing seems to be working out the way you want it to. This, of course, only adds to your frustration until you start getting angry at things you normally wouldn't get angry at or hating things that normally you'd be happy with.

My Kiraen painting is not bad. I keep telling myself this. One, it's not even finished yet and two, the amount of times I had to redo things because I kept kicking my damned power plug out of the powerboard it's a wonder it's even close to being completed. I'm not sure why I am so irritated with it, just that I am not. happy. *sighs*

It means I am also behind schedule on my goal for the week which also pisses me off but right now I think I will be happy just to finish this painting.

I am tempted to blame NaNo and it's way of getting me used to massive creative output. Now, anything that is perhaps a slower process or something I can spend more time picking apart with my insanely critical eye is automatically frustrating me to all hell.

On sucking at painting and other tandom crap

2009-12-05T13:17:18Z

I cannot paint today. Every stroke I mad was another bad one after the other. Still, I forced through it til I accidentally kicked my power plug out again and once I made sure I hadn't lost much (which now I save every bloody second I hadn't XD) I packed it in for the night. I guess I should be happy I did some in the first place since I was completely unmotivated to do anything today. Heat combined with bleh equal me feeling like laying on the couch all day doing nothing was the best thing ever.

Watched some DVDs, ate some snacks and felt worse for doing nothing XD All in all, not the best Saturday in the world. Need to hit painting again tomorrow to push through this stupid mood.

And I want new icons. *goes to look for some*

On Being Messed Around Constantly

2009-12-04T01:01:18Z

Still no idea what is happening with my job. Argh.

On Painting and Migration

2009-12-02T02:49:17Z

I have no playlists. *weeps* How am I supposed to paint with no playlists. Well there is always the whole plug iPod type arrangement but still, I weep for my playlists!

I also I have a new IJ layout :D This makes me happy. Also makes me thrashflail with the need for new icons and an updated links list.

On Housekeeeeping

2009-12-02T00:32:39Z

I really need some new icons. Actually, I really need to pay for my IJ account again come to think of it. I can't remember the last time this was a paid account...

Hmm, maybe a new layout too. Time for a bit of a change up I think.

On Painting Goals

2009-12-01T00:57:08Z

Okay. Today is Tuesday. My goal for this week is to finish my Kiraen portrait and do two more by this time next week. This is a pretty easy goal since I can usually finish a portrait in about five hours but I am starting off small and working my way up. This is mostly so I can factor in work retardery and not feel like a complete failure if I set myself a harder goal and not even get close to reaching it.

EDIT:

My devart page looks abandoned again (which it pretty much has been). I need to start uploading to that again.

On the day just flying by...

2009-11-30T06:40:07Z

Where the hell has my day gone?!

I keep looking up at the clock and being stuned by the time. I mean, sure I've been busy and the time usually goes fast but I feel like I've not done nearly as much work as I should for how much time has past. The meeting about the new web-based campaign and working with Jo to get the proposal done took me up to 11:30 cue me going wtf when I looked at the clock. Then the Delegate: How To manual and a flyer for the Education Campaign has taken me through to quarter to 3. I haven't really finished anything!

I did have a yummy caeser salad for lunch though.

On Catching Up

2009-11-30T01:15:54Z

Yeah. So. The following shall be a recap of everything worth noting that's happening to me in the last few weeks because I totally fail at writing in this thing despite telling myself over and over that I want to IJ this and IJ that. Argh. Yes. So.

- Work still hasn't sorted out my employment details properly. I am still in limbo land with each month dragging on til the next, my current 'project' being extended because meetings get canceled and posponed. I am supposed to get some idea this week when yet another meeting is scheduled to discuss it. I am not holding my breath.
- Despite not knowing how I am being employed from month to month, work has been both interesting, frustrating, irritating and BUSY. I am working pretty much from 7.30ish to about 5.30/6.00ish every week day and doing at least something on the weekends. One minor payoff to this is Channel 7 news actually used my footage from one of our rallies for its story because their cameraman failed to get anything. I have it taped XD
- Somehow, despite having to get up at 6am, drive an hour to work, work for 8 plus hours then drive an hour back home again, cook dinner (or stop off to get it), feed them animals, do chores and keep up a household I've managed to both win NaNoWriMo this year and finish Assassin's Creed 2. I honestly do not know how I did this. Probably lack of sleep.
- NaNoWriMo has given me three new characters who I already love and a new verse to play around with. I am not sure if this is a sensible thing but it's something that I am excited about all the same.
- I HAVE MY NEW COMPUTER. It is sexy and awesome and powerful and big and shall be known as Anthion. Also the new Magic Mouse is the best. thing. ever.

I am sure there is more things to make note of but I am pretty much sucky at remembering things XD

On just one of those days

2009-11-09T12:31:52Z

Everything seemed to go wrong today. Didn't even make it to work before Karen rolled her ankle and I had to race back a bus stop before she blacked out from pain. She's done a ligament and is on crutches so I took her to the ER and then home. We had no power due to works in the area so we packed up the Xbox and headed to Mum and Dad's (who thankfully let us crash there for the day while they were at work) to spend most of the day doing nothing. Well, I kept Karen looked after and she did nothing XD

Then came home to find Buddy cover in his own shit and his blanket covered in his shit so I had to wash him, wash his blankets and then wash me.

Guh. Just. Monday you are a bitch.

On suddenly loving my job

2009-11-06T23:32:44Z

Okay. So, in the usual story of my life, work has been one complicated drama after another but for some reason (other than the days it makes me want to KILL MYSELF) I've started loving it. I think it might have been the moment when I read a WA Parliamentary Transcript to see the Premier of WA (who is an incredible arsehole but that's beside the point) had held up a screencap of my website and mentioned it. In Parliament.

*thrashflail*

There could also be the full page spread on page four of the West Australian that has a huge photo of my boss. In said photo you can clearly see him holding a flyer that I designed and produced. Okay so part of me is MORTIFIED because I did that flyer in like...five minutes...because we were rushed out of our brains but once again:

*THRASHFLAIL*

I know it's just the WA media and to honest that's probably not all that impressive. My name isn't on it anywhere and I guarantee no one other than people at work know I make all this stuff that is getting some serious notice but some part of me just can't help but get a ridiculous kick out of opening the paper and seeing something I made in there. Or knowing my website pisses politicans off enough that they mention it in Parliament.

It's kinda cool XD

On fictional people's birthdays and NaNo countdowns

2009-10-31T12:24:32Z

Eeeeee...three and a half hours until the official start of NaNo and I can begin writing! It's awesome because I have no idea, NO IDEA, what I am starting with or who my characters are. *dies laughing* This is going to be interesting XD

But mostly, today is the 31st of October and that means it's Akira's birthday ^_^ Nine years since he was created! He's still a baby compared to Ceallach but *squishes him* lookit him getting all grown up!

XDXD

On a boss who is a tosser.

2009-10-22T12:07:07Z

So today my big boss (branch secretary) decided that it didnt matter that I had tomorrow and Monday booked as TOIL days, didn't matter that I was ordered to book them by my direct supervisor because of the HUGE amounts of TOIL I'd wracked up, because he wanted something done by Friday arvo and he was the boss. So, he ordered me to come in on my day off to do his project.

This is the problem with being the only one in that place who knows how to fucking throw together a video.

I, however, refuse to go in on my day off and be in the middle of the shit fight that will happen once my direct supervisor finds out (he's on leave himself) so I somehow managed to throw together the footage, rough edit it so that boss is happy with it enough for me to do the rest from home. I still have to work on my day off but at least I can do it at my own fucking pace.

On the upside, I bought orchids and shelves.

On devouring books

2009-10-21T23:19:09Z

So, finished Havemercy yesterday on the way to work and overall I enjoyed it. Personally figured a book just about the Dragon Corps (and Thom) would have been far better but maybe that's just because I found the other two pretty uninteresting. I rate this book about 3 on the emotional rollercoaster scale since there was only a few flailthrash moments. Rook almost made me want to hurl the book. Almost.

Speaking of which, on to Melusine for a reread, then onwards so I can finally read the last two books.

On the first 70 pages of Havemercy (and other crap)

2009-10-19T10:13:31Z

So, catching the train is the perfect excuse to finally read more than half a page at a time of Havemercy. 70 pages in (since I started from the beginning again) and I have a few thoughts so far:

- Rook is one of those characters I adore but know I'd probably loathe in real life XD He's all I want in a character but as a person so far I want to hit him with something large and heavy repeatedly.
-BALFOUR IS ADORABLE.
-...I should probably care about reading the other parts of the story, right? Because, truthfully atm only the Dragon Corps and Thom are engaging my love and attention.

On sparkling bedrooms and shiny games.

2009-10-17T12:00:47Z

My shelves are lined with little twinkling LED lights now. *glees* I want to get some more for around my mirror too. A visit to Ikea got me some shelves that I now have no use for because they don't really work in my room >.> They won't go to waste though - the spare room will need shelves one day XD

Fixed up my curtains so now they ave a nice sheerish black material behind them which filters the light nicely and stops my room from being so damn bright. A bit of moving of bookshelves and such and I've got my work area all set up nicely - minus my new shiny computer but that won't be here until closer to my birthday *nods*

...I keep getting distracted by watching Karen play Assassin's Creed. Now that through to see the story, I want to replay to complete everything that I skipped in favour of the story.

On the best matchups EVER

2009-10-16T02:18:21Z

This pretty much would be THE BEST DAY IN COMIC history if these two ever met.

Just saying.

On NaNo Prep and the Tools of the Trade

2009-10-05T11:24:03Z

I have brightly coloured A5 Super Sticky Post Its and a retractable Sharpie.

That is all.

On wtf body you should be asleep.

2009-10-03T20:04:39Z

Oh GOD. Why am I AWAKE?! It's four AM. FOUR AM.

This is ridiculous.

*contemplates if she's awake enough to start painting....*

[EDIT]
No apparently when it gets to 5:30 every day it means the optimum time for sleeping. |D wtf body. No seriously. At least on the weekend I can catch a few more hours sleep...

On absentmindedness (which is totally a word)

2009-10-03T08:26:01Z

I'm still really pissed off with myself for forget my reference/inspiration/source pictures which are still on their thumb drive still in the USB on my computer at work. I could almost be persuaded to sketch like mad fiend today I am in that kind of mood and I spend a good couple of days compiling reference pictures of different facial parts that would help in sketching my characters.

In lieu of not having my thumb drive I should be working on my Dem and Aithne painting come to think of it. At least I have that thumb drive at home where it's supposed to be on the weekends.

Yes I am storing all my stuff on thumb drives at the moment. I'm starting to wonder if this was such a good idea...

On Striking at Work and NaNooooo

2009-10-02T12:17:42Z

Today was a stand against all the things that shit me off - mostly that being work. I did...very little to actually contribute towards my workload (except being horrified at a printing company that didn't know what a psd file was) and instead filled my time with refreshing the nanowrimo site obsessively and downloading reference pictures onto my m drive. Which, as it so happens, I have left at work over the weekend. Bleh.

But when the site ticked over I made myself happy playing on the site. It's always a glee-inducing moment when you get to update your user info and novel info and such. Though I couldn't change my user icon for some stupid reason that I blame the work's isp for.

Ha

2009-09-28T07:18:35Z

So yeah...now I want to draw once I sit down to plot. WTF brain. Stop being idiotic. Bleh, I say. Bleh.