One Dull Journal

I've been working from home the past couple months on a project for some friends. It's amazing how much less I browse pages when I'm at home, compared to when I'm working in an office. Something about lunch breaks stuck behind the computer...

Anyway, in order to relieve myself from the project, I did this little piece to illustrate one of the races in their upcoming MUD (yes, yes, people really are still playing MUDs)

Lekleks:



That is all :)

I just spent a good couple hours looking at photographs I've taken - looking at both my hard drive and my computer. It's filled me with an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. I really miss playing with my dolls, and photographing them, and posting photographs of them. I feel kind of sad when I think about the ones I have, sitting in the back room, most half face-upped, or half-blushed, or half (ok all) naked. Ha, poor Mali and Tamae have been completely naked ever since I moved in.

( Cut for more blah whining. )

Yesterday it was all pretty and mild, with the temperature reaching a lovely 50 degrees! The dude and I went up to a lake in New Hampshire to walk around the snowy forest and view the semi-frozen lake. I took along a couple dolls in case I saw a good spot. I spotted a little sprig that was perfect for a "yay, it's almost spring!" picture.

( More snow pics and wordage below. )

Sometimes you catch them being cute and have to take the pic, regardless of the lighting conditions ;)



( Clearer pic... )

I finally started making something out of the purple that I bought at least a year ago to make Linnea a coat. It's so cold here, that I figured my dolls had to have some cold weather gear too, or something. Snow pics look ridiculous with a strappy top. Of course, all this logic was before I decided it's too cold for ME to go outside and take pictures, so it's only inside pics, so the clothes doesn't matter. Whatever :P

( More on the outfit... )

Now I have to go outside to move piles of snow off my car so they can clear the parking lot.

The boyfriend and I took a trip to Portland, Maine the weekend after we took our trip to New Hampshire (which was my second to last entry, so if you don't look at dates you can totally pretend I'm not late with these at all!) I've just now gotten around to downloading the pictures from my camera, and it's really a breath of fresh air to see all this COLOR when the world outside is just white, grey, and darker grey.



( More photographs of blue blue skies below... )

I'll share some colder weather pictures later, but right now I just want to dwell in the colors. Save the gloom for the 30th birthday, tomorrow, haha!

As a side note, it bothers me that the spell check thing in this is telling me grey is misspelled. Hrmph.

Oh, also - Happy New Year.

I could start getting used to this lifestyle reaaally easily. Woke up this morning at around ten, sat down at the computer to do photoshop work for the company I was working for in California. I wish they'd have enough work to sustain me living out here and working from home, at least for more than the part-time week that this project is taking. Sadly, I have to find a real job soon soon soon. I have a terrible lack of self-confidence when it comes to looking for jobs - the only one I've managed to get wholly on my own was being a cashier at Panera bread.

I'll just have to enjoy this while it lasts!

A couple weeks ago, I drove across the country from CA to MA. It was a grand trip. This picture is not from that trip, since I was too busy trying to control two cats (and a boyfriend for the first 20 hours of the drives) to take any pictures.

Last weekend the guy and I drove up north through New Hampshire. Due to traffic along I-93, at one point we decided to head off the interstate. Thanks to our handy dandy Garmin (Or Electra, as we call her), we realized there was a big huge lake along the road. The views of water kind of clued us in as well, but you know how it goes. This picture is from that Lake, which is REALLY pretty right now with the fall colors, as one can see.

So yeah, now I live in Massachusetts. I'm a bit grumpy about some things about living here, and nervous about the coming winter. So far, however, the weather is lovely, and we have a fantastic view from the apartment.



Things are still getting settled in, but I gotta say - it's definite an adventure.

I am intensely nervous.

The guy has been looking for a job for a while now, with the intent that we'll move after the lease is up at the end of September. Because he's in the game design industry, he's kind of gotta go where the jobs are, whereas I'm a heck of a lot easier to place. Everywhere, except San Diego, needs AutoCAD drafting somewhere :P

So he just had an interview at one company, and they seem like they might actually give a job offer. The thing that's got me nervous is that the company is located in freaking northern MA. I'm a southern kind of girl. Warm to hot weather. No snow. SoCal, Texas... that kind of thing. The idea of moving to MA (or more likely, NH) has me utterly confounded. It seems soooo far away from everyone and everything I know.

Eeesh. I reckon there's nothing to be done until I know if that's even where we'll be going :)

A tiny bit of attitude tonight :)



Now Anya's a doll of mine that's changed quite a bit. When I was uploading this pic to her folder, I went through and checked out "Anya through the ages"...

( See? )

(Of course, she's still got nothing on Mali for amount of change.)

Work Doodle

Her name is Miarhema Namas, and her right arm looks like poop.

I wish I was better at staying in touch with people. And at keeping up with things period. And at getting to know people. I don't think I'm a very interesting person, though, so I tend to find that I have very little to share/comment/say period. I bore myself - which is why I try to include a little picture with most LJ entries, so at least there's /something/. And one reason I update very little.

Of course, I also tend to update from work, when I can't devote much attention to actually thinking about what I'm writing, so it comes out ridiculously run-on.

I do, however, love reading everything everyone else posts!

clochetterd's cutie cutie cutie yo neon boy.



My work situation seems to have stabilized, THANKFULLY, and I don't seemed to currently be in any immediate danger of joblessness :) (At least not before my lease is up in September and I move to who knows where!) All in all, I feel a million times better now,!

I don't want to be at work, but I'm grateful that, for now, there's still a work to go to. :)

Friday a friend invited/treated me to the Nightwish concert (which was so super awesome of her that I still have a grin on my face ♥) - and I noticed that that had to be the /geekiest/ crowd I've ever seen at a concert. It was like being at a convention (seriously - there were even two guys in capes and bracers...)

I loved the concert, though.

Yesterday the dude and I went out for all-you-can-eat sushi for my birthday (which was back in January). I love all you can eat sushi here, when it's made fresh and yummy and not like the bargain buffet I went to once in Houston, which still turns my tummy a little to think of.

I also majorly cleaned up stuff in the craft/doll room. Now I can see what I have, which apparently includes a crapload of cheap craft feathers.

And I have a job until at least the end of the month. Granted, that's next weekend, but we can make payroll this period so, crossing my fingers :)

Goal for next weekend - clean up, restring the DoD U girl to try selling (Ha.) + the Nanuri '07 head. Maybe I'll go through my wigs too. Maybe. Baby steps.

Here's four of my girls who won't be leaving (even if i have to sell the bodies :P )



( The rest... )

They have been clambering to the top of my list of doll-loves.

Yeesh.

So I think the time has come that I just have to start selling as many of my dolls as I can. Probably the minis will go first, except the two volks ones, though maybe hewitt will go too. But man... I'm not even sure how to start prioritizing. The whole thought makes me feel sad.

Time to get my ass cleaning them though :P

I was so stoked to be tooling around last night in my stolen car, and hear Sisters of Mercy's Dominion/Mother Russia come on the radio. I have such a soft spot for Grand Theft Auto, and I like the new game so far! The scenery is massively gorgeously awesome.

We've been together a few years, and I truly truly care about your needs. We have had a good relationship for the most part, what with you keeping my food nice and cold. In return, both the dude and I have visited you many many times, sometimes spending several minutes taking in your glorious nature. I'm not sure when exactly things went sour, but was it really necessary to thaw everything in the freezer into one disgusting puddle? Yes, it definitely alerted me to the fact that the bag of frozen chicken was not thoroughly sealed, but wasn't there a more subtle way to do so? Really, the last straw was the fridge. There's milk in there. Milk deserves to be cold. Without milk, cereal is just... crunchy dryness. I was looking forward to that cereal, but when you get that HOT, there's nothing I can do for us any longer. I'm calling in a mediator. Hopefully apartment maintenance can talk some sense into you where I have failed. Don't let this be the end, fridge...


*grump*

Iarai makes me so happy...



More pics of my girls at Pam's meetup (and two of clochetterd 's Soo)...

( Here )

For the record, doll_paparazzi is a pansy. And a pusher. A pansy pusher.

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(also, I need to make myself some new icons, like whoah.)