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~Amritsar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:17:23 PDT

Not much going on with me! I've been going through my gallery and scraps and clearing out stuff, trying to decided what stays and what goes. Also I've been doing a little drawing and writing. I've put up some new stuff already and hope to have some more stuff soon. I just thought I should share links to my journals and such online. So here they are!

My blog, Cair Paravel - [link]

My Livejournal account - [link]

My Flickr account - [link]

My Polyvore account - [link]

Since I've Been Gone

~Amritsar — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:47:02 PDT

It's been like a year and a half since I was really involved here. I'm sorry! I feel so irresponsible ;~;

On my absence: The situation all began back in June of 2007 when my computer stopped working. (I think you all remember this.) This situation went on for over six months, despite continuous visits from Comp USA repair men. They would visit, seemingly fix the problem, I'd get all happy, and within two days the computer would be back to it's old tricks. I even took it to a repair shop in town, but the result was the same. No one had any real idea what was wrong with it. I had arranged to start online medical coding classes in January 2008, but computer problems meant I had to cancel and start in Spring quarter instead. I realized that there was no way I'd be able to complete a full college course with a computer I couldn't trust farther than I could throw it, so I broke down and bought a new one.

Then came college. The first semester went pretty smoothly, but I spent all spring stuck in my bedroom doing school instead of enjoying the gorgeous weather. By summer term I was bordering on miserable, and my life had been consumed by college and work. Also, once again, I spent pretty much the whole summer in my room. I was stressed enough that when I did get free time I barely had the energy for anything more than falling down in front of the TV with a can of liquid caffeine. Looking back it's not surprising that with this mental exhaustion, unhappiness, and complete lack of "scope for the imagination", my inspiration pretty much died. I kept sporadic track of my DA account. Over the last few months I had gotten two LiveJournal accounts, a Youtube account, and a Flickr account as well as my account here on DA, and the only one of them that was getting any real attention from me was my lj, simply because I could access it easily while doing school (unlike a real journal), and it gave me a place to vent and organize my thoughts. But asides from my journal entries, I wasn't writing anything. No stories, no poetry, no articles. I wasn't drawing or sculpting or sewing or embroidering either. I had neither the energy or the inspiration to do anything artistic or creative. Hence, nothing to post.

Then in early summer my new computer got a virus. It didn't really affect using the computer, but it made school really hard (I would fill out a page of answers, click submit, and then instead of taking me to the results page it would go "You don't have virus protection! Would you like to buy some?" and would lose me everything I'd just done.) as well as submitting anything on DA. It also made it nearly impossible to look through people's galleries or just navigate around, since everytime I got more than two or three pages in it would give me the advertisement page and kick me all the way back to the first page. Since it wasn't like I had anything to submit to DA anyway due to my multi-medium artistic block, I pretty much decided to give up on DA until after I finished school and could go take care of the virus.

School ended last December and I have spent the time since then trying to recover my inspiration, and creative ability. I have sewed a lot of things, decorated pretty much anything I can get my hands on, and worked a little on my embroidery. My stories are going slowly and frustratingly hard, but I'm trying to perservere and get back into the swing of them again. Last month, after more than two years, I finally wrote some poetry, and just in the last few weeks I've picked up on a doll I started sculpting more than a year ago.

Major events of the last year: Bought a digital camera at last and have really enjoyed being able take pictures and film. I got high-speed internet in order to do my school, and so finally accessed Youtube. It's broadened my musical horizons so much. I was finally able to listen to a lot of artists I'd wanted to hear for ages but hadn't been able to, as well as watch a lot of movies I'd been interested in. My aunt found out she was pregnant again in November, and the baby (it's supposed to be a girl) is due next month! I graduated in December and have been attempting to get a job in my chosen field but with no luck. Went to Ohayocon in January, and that was way too fun. Bought a PS3 in January as well, and rediscovered one of my favorite video game series, Metal Gear. I worked at a pizza place in town during all of this time, until last month I was let go. I am currently unemployed, but I've managed to get a job at a waterpark in Columbus (Zoombezi Bay), and start there soon. I've been working on my livejournal account, as well as my flickr account and my polyvore account. I also just started my own blog, Cair Paravel! [link]

And also, regarding this entry [link]...

Club Update

~Amritsar — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:42:46 PDT

A Little Assistance Please

~Amritsar — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:42:20 PDT

Hello! I need some help choosing a name for a D+D character, and was hoping you all might like to assist me. The character in question began life as an iedolon (a representation of a god that is granted sentience and some godly powers.) but after being imprisoned and used as a giant magical battery for the last several centuries, most of his powers are gone. He is so weak in fact that when Tier Blue-Eye and the rest of her party find and free him, he reverts to an ordinary human form and has to be cared for by Tier and the others.
Here is a list of names I've found so far that interest me the most:

ALLON/ELON
Means "oak" in Hebrew.
ELISHA
From the Hebrew name Elisha, a contracted form of Elishu'a meaning "my God is salvation".
ENOS
Means "human being" in Hebrew.
ITHIEL
Means "God is with me" in Hebrew.
LAEL
Means "of God" in Hebrew.
RAM
Means "exalted" in Hebrew.
REMIEL
Means "mercy of God" in Hebrew.

I think my favorites right now are Elisha and Remiel, but I'd be happy to hear any ideas you might have. I'm particulary looking for names meaning "god" or "god like", and ones that while somewhat unusual, are not overly flamboyant. (I'm also trying to avoid too many names ending with "or" or "el", like Denethor or Azariel, since these types of names seem to be a dime a dozen in fantasy nowadays.) Thank you in advance for the help!
-Amritsar

Discordant Ramblings @ 3:00 a.m.

~Amritsar — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:02:19 PDT

I am back, and hopefully will be so for a good long while! Huzzah! I missed you guys way too much! Now bear with me if some of this doesn't make sense because it very late, and I am extremely tired but am still fighting the need to go to sleep, but need to get some of these rants off my chest and inform you of what I've been up to while I've been away. First off, at the anime club at my local library today, we watched the first two episodes of the Death Note anime, which the teen librarian (Mandy, who is awesomeness incarnate!) found on the Cartoon Network website. And it was just so beautiful!!! Those of you who are fans of the manga, the show is as good as the manga and better! Oh, I was so exstatic after we finished watching it I could barely contain myself!

On a related note, I've been watching a lot of movies, reading a lot of books and listening to a lot of different music recently.

Movies: Because of Wynne-Dixie, Bride and Prejudice, Ocean's 13, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pan's Labyrinth (which I only watched part of because it was very late at night and quite a bit too brutal for my taste despite it's creepilly beautiful visual style.) Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, Live Free and Die Hard, Tristan + Isolde, Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (oh my gosh, Prince Caspian is coming out in May, and I'm insanely excited!) and The Mummy, to name a few.

Books: Treasure Island, The Grand Tour, Fairies: Real Encounter with Little People, Privelege and Scandal (biography of Lady Harriet Spencer.), all of the Dark is Rising series, Kidnapped, The Mystery of King Arthur, The Mislaid Magician and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the three-zilllionth time because it's plot-twisting-thriller storyline has always secured it's station as my favorite of the HP books and because of, of course, my dear Sirius Black. *purr*

Music: Altan, Beyonce, Marie Antoinette, Bach, Handel, Josh Groban, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and currently Bjork's new CD, Volta. (Earth Intruders gives me mental images of guerrila fighter elves in camo with guns appearing and dissapearing into the forest.)

Also, while I'm (sort of) on the subject of movies, here are some stories that really, really, REALLY need to be made into movies.

1. Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches
With the Sherlock Holmes element dropped, the Copper Beeches is really a gothic novel about a young woman hired as a governess. Her situation, which began disturbingly to begin with, grows stranger and more frightening, and she begins to suspect that someone is secretly being held prisoner in an abandoned section of her employer's house. I'd love it if someone would take the story, strip it away from Sherlock Holmes, and present it as the gothic novel it really is.

2. The story of Joseph from the Bible.
Although the story has been told many times, I have yet to run across a version that handles it as a novel, and portrays it seriously. It has everything, hate, betrayal, kidnapping, redemption, slavery, forgiveness, imprisonment, natural disasters and plot twist after plot twist! And with all the epic movies out lately (Gladiator, Troy, Lord of the Rings, 300, Alexander...) it's the perfect time to make it, too.

And as a finaly note, my little sister Lenore got into the anime magazine Anime Insider's cosplay corner (november issue), dressed as Alvis Hamilton in the costume I made her which she wore to Otakon (and took 1st prize in the youth division for.) Here's what the magazine says about her:
"Some people were born to dress up as Spike Spiegel or Sailor Mercury, but adorable seven-year-old Lenore Varney of Marysville, Ohio was clearly meant to play young Alvis Hamilton in some yet-to-be-made live action version of Last Exile. With the help of her sister Olivia and the rest of her cosplay-minded family, Lenore took top honors in her age division at Otakon 2007's costume competition. Special props go out to whoever made Lenore's Alvis-accurate hair clips." Now, is that not the most awesome of the awesome! (I will sooo be scanning and submitting the article when I get a printer/scanner.) Go out and get a copy of november Anime Insider, right now!!!

Great to back, and good night,
-Amritsar

Still Missing....

~Amritsar — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:40:45 PDT

I am unhappy to say that I am still not able to get on here regularly, as my computer is still unusable. At the moment, it is at the nearest CompUsa (over a hundred miles away ;~; ) When we dropped the computer off I was told it would only be a few days before they could get to work on it, but I recieved a call yesterday, after a week, saying that they had just finally gotten the part I need ordered, so it may take a depressingly long time before my computer is fixed.

Until then, amuse yourselves with perusing my print account [link] I finally set one up, and I even have some Halloween themed artwork there (hint, hint). Enjoy!

I miss you guys, and hope to be back soon! ^^
-Amritsar

Where Have I Gone?

~Amritsar — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:59:50 PDT

Sorry for neglecting this place so much lately! One of the cords for my monitor has died for whatever reason, and so now I can't get my computer to start thanks to it! Hopefully I will be able to get a replacement soon, but I won't be able to be here much until then.

Until I get a new cord, ta-ta! ^^

Triumphant Return

~Amritsar — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:00:16 PDT

Hey y'all! I am finally back from Otakon and all I can say is OH MY GOSH!!! I cannot believe how totally amazingly rocking it was. It was my first con ever, and definately one of the most awesome experiences of my life. Just running around with so many people in cosplay, or dressed in anime T-shirts and stuff, or even just knowing that all these people were all here for the same reason as you, and on the same waive length as you was just incredible! The people were friendly and open, and everyone was really nice, and it was kind of strange and very cool the way formality dropped away, and you could start a totally random out-of-the-blue conversation with someone, or get into an in-depth discussion about whether Yuki or Kyo should get together with Tohru, or where they got that shade of blue lipstick from, and people came up and spontaneously hugged TheWeevil (who was dressed as Gaara) and my little sister (who was dressed as Alvis from Last Exile.).

While we were there I got to meet Christy Lijewski (writer/author of RE: Play a.k.a [link] ) Anez (artist on [link], from whom I purchased a gorgeous Kingdom Hearts poster) and Budgie (also from DA, I got a print of Son of the Sea, which I worshipped!) I got so star struck meeting Christy. I hadn't known she was going to be there, and I suddenly noticed her booth, which was covered with all these RE: Play and Next Exit posters and saw her was like GWAH! and started freaking out. Once I calmed down a little I went over to her booth (which she was sharing with Bettina Kurkoski, writer/author of My Cat Loki! who was unfortunately gone when I came by.) and took a look at her stuff (so much awesome art, though not complimentary to my decor *weeps* ) bought an Izsak keychain and little Cree/Izsak pin, had her sign my Mangaka America book and my Otakon program (*cries with happiness*) and spoke with her for awhile (though still kind of nervously) and wound up telling her I thought Izsak was the cutest thing in the world. I'm pretty sure I stood around with a huge grin on my face the whole time I was there. It was sooo cool!!!!

We also got to go to a Q and A with Fred Gallagher (writer/artist of Megatokyo) during which I heard the announcements that he and his wife are expecting a baby, (woot!) and that a company has picked up Megatokyo and plans to bring it to Japan (woot again!) and I also got to ask him some questions. The next day, we went to the Megatokyo booth in the dealer's room and he signed my brother's T-shirts and my Otakon program which was very cool (when I told him I had dressed up as Seraphim for the Q and A he did a little sketch of her with the autograph, it's so cute!)

We took tons of pictures, mostly of awesome cosplays. Lupin III, L from Death Note, Jumbo Cactuar, Boba Fett and various other Star Wars characters, various Naruto characters, Kon from Bleach, Edea from FFVIII, Zidane and Kuja from FFIX, a group shot of Lulu, Rikku, Yuna and Tidus from FFX, Axle, Roxas and Leon from Kingdom Hearts, the most awesome statue of Ed and Al from FMA, tons of stuff. Lots of people loved our costumes, and tons of people took our pictures. We entered the costume contest, and although the boys and I didn't win, we got to go out stage during the masquerade intermission and show off, and my little sister's Alvis costume (which I made) won first prize in the youth division! When they made the announcement, she and I both screamed at the top of our lungs and I started crying. She ran out onto the stage and was so cute, everyone was like, "aw!". Other than the day she was born, it was probably the proudest moment of my life.

The only downside was the fact that all the insane last-minute preparations for our costumes and things before hand left me dead tired, and that by the end of each day at Otakon I was ready to curl up in bed, and that even now I am feeling very sleeeeppyyy .... But I plan on going to bed soon and having a nice long sleep, so that should take care of my sleepiness.

Overall it was an absolutely brilliant time, and I definately want to go back again next year!!! All for now!

-Amritsar

Otakon or Bust!!!!

~Amritsar — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:41:08 PDT

Hey, peeps! Sorry for my relative absence here lately. The last couple months have been very busy with my work (which is good deal longer and harder than they had told me it would be.), preparations for our trip to Otakon and writers and artists block, I haven't really had the time or ability to do anything here. Lately I have been making my cosplays, reading a lot of books on victorian times and the 18th century and have spent some of my hard earned money on a good amount of new stuff for my room and myself. Other than furniture and room decorations, I bought several Bleach pins and a Bleach keychain (of Kon, looking totally crazy.) all four volumes of the manga Emma by Kaoru Mori, DVD's of Porco Rosso and The Castle of Cagliastro, Kisuke's hat from Bleach, an awesome Bleach hoodie and the book The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette. The next purchases I plan to make are The Cat Returns (DVD) and A&E's Lorna Doone (DVD, with Amelia Warner.)
Now to the main subject of this journal. Tomorrow my family sets off for Otakon!!! :woot: This will be my first anime convention, and the first time I've ever really cosplayed, so I'm really excited. I believe we will have a wicked awesome time! I will be gone for a week, so will not be able to hang out here at all during that time, but when I get back hopefully I will have more time to get back into the groove on my account. Until then, adeu!

Amritsar's Writing Challenge

~Amritsar — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:14:47 PDT

Hey there peeps! First off I would like to announce that I am finally employed! I am now officially hired as a hostess at the local Bob Evan's restuarant. I'm not quite sure when I will start but my boss thinks probably by Wednesday. I am glad to finally have a job, and am certainly welcoming to the money I shall (finally) be making. (Oh, paycheck, how I have missed you!) and on top of that I will be very glad to finally get all the hectic crud I've had to do to get said job over with. The last three weeks I have picked up applications, signed applications, dropped off applications, made countless phone calls, had a bunch of interviews, been hired, quit, been hired somewhere else, done heaps of paperwork, gone to orientation at two different jobs (as well as dealing with the similar efforts of my brothers, who are both now employed, too.) and spent most of yesterday and today running around looking for white women's oxford shirts and khaki pants (and spent around 100 bucks on them ;~; ) However, hopefully that should die down soon, and although the job is in the evening (not late morning/afternoon like I had dreamed of.) I am sure I'll enjoy. My business is one of the reasons I haven't been producing much here lately, the other reason being I have a minor case of writer's block... (Hopefully that will be amended soon.)

Now, speaking of writer's block, time to come to the real subject of this journal entry...

AMRITSAR'S WRITING CHALLENGE!!!!

This is a little something I cooked originally for my family's literary society, which has been plagued by a lack of real written materials from most of it's members, in the hopes that it might produce some of said materials for our mutual enjoyment. However, I later decided this would be fun to see the result of if employed on DA, and so here it is! And now, the rules.

First off, this is not a contest. Entries will not be judged. The point of the challenge is to give people something to write about, and also to see how each person interprets and uses the basic themes of the story set down here.

The setting must be in a semi 18th century Venician setting. Whether you choose to actually set your story in Venice or in a made up city and world of your own is up to you, but it must be set in a Venician style city, in an Italianate country. If you choose to set this in the real world, it should be relatively historically accurate. You don't have to know how everything should be, or if you do, represent everything the way it was, but keep it relatively realistic. Even if you make up your own world, it's supposed to be somewhat realistic, so no magic or magical/mythological creatures allowed. No very advanced technogoly; In a made-up setting plumbing, hygien and medical science levels may be spruced up a bit to meet more modern standards, but no open-heart surgery, cars, television, very modern guns (period fire-arms are allowed, but no uzis, missile launchers, gattling guns ect.) or any of that sort of thing. I think you get the basic idea.

The main character must be young, somewhere between the age of 13 and 18, and a pickpocket from a neighboring city. He or she must come from a line of pickpockets, and must have been sent to the Venician city to meet a friend of their father's who is supposed to take them into his ring of thieves and show them the ropes of the city's purse-cutting scene. The man the main character has been sent to meet is in the employ of a woman known as Miranda, "the marvel", a Queen of the underworld who has slowly worked her way up through the city's layers of crime and who now practically runs the city. Miranda is brilliant and cunning, charming, well educated on history and science. She knows the city like the back of her hand, and often wanders the streets in disguise to familiarise herself with any new roads and alleys, and to see first hand how the city is faring. Her name and her past are unknown, but she has hundreds of titles and nicknames, and there are many different stories of her supposed origins. Her exhistance is well known in the city, and her presence is felt almost everywhere. She may be loved by the people or feared, may be sinister, benevolant, or in some grey area between the two.

Through his or her contact with their father's friend, the main character should fall into Miranda's company and influence, although whether that relationship is good or bad for the main character, or whether the character respects Miranda or despises her is up to you to decide. Whatever the makeup of their relationship, it should be a major focus of the story.

At some point there should be rivalry between Miranda and the city's ruler, as he begins to feel thre...

An Announcement

~Amritsar — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:23:36 PDT

Submitting art and reading about Catherine the Great and the murder of Ivan VI to Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" at 3:20 a.m. does wierd things to your mind. I expect some seriously strange ideas to be floating about in my head in the morning.

I finally finished a portrait of Marie Antoinette I've wanted to do for awhile. It's nearly impossible to tell what she honestly looked like in her portraits, so taking some of the reportedly most authentic portraits of her and a photo of her deathmask, I managed to draw what I believe is a reasonably good idea of what she must have looked like. I am really excited about it, so go look at it, go comment, maybe even fave if you really like it! Pretty please with a cherry on top?

Now I must definately go drag my poor lifeless corpse into bed... G'night.

Time for some fun...

~Amritsar — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:58:04 PDT

Hello chappies!

Feels good to finally be getting some work done here. I have a bunch of things I need to do still, (another Disney Princess, some portraits of my watchers, the art I owe and but I finally got back into the swing of things with the 100 Art Challenge, and despite their difficulties, have actually drawn some real backgrounds! I am quite pleased right now.

What I really want to do right now is draw Britomart, a character from one of my stories, and Rigantona's cousin. She marries the Emperor of Remia to secure an alliance between Remia and Maldreeada, and in so doing sacrifices the rights she would have enjoyed in Maldreeada and goes to live in Remia, away from everything she knows. I want to paint her being dressed for her wedding, and want to show the emotions she's feeling at that moment. If I do start on this painting I know it'll be an insane
challenge, but I hope I'll be able to do it! ^^

I have also finally started working on a story I've wanted to right for a very long time. It's gothic, and I was never able to find a way to express the atmosphere I wanted it to have, but I think I've found it at last, and am very happy. Not working on it too strenuously right now, just a bit here and there, but I think I may eventually serialize it in my family's literary society.

All for now.
I hope things are well with all of you. ^^

-Amritsar

50 % Done

~Amritsar — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:27:39 PDT

*sigh* I am about 50 % finished on my painting Three's Company for the 100 Art Challenge. And it's been challenging lol I'm actually doing an in depth background, and although it's taken a lot of work and I still have to do a whole drapery it's coming along really well. So far I have two out of the three figures done, and the third one is almost done except for his face, which is really annoying me and will need to be redrawn.
When I finally get this done I'll be able to put it up here for you all and get on with my other projects. Til then, ciao. ^^

-Amritsar

Just a Quick One

~Amritsar — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:58:45 PDT

Just wanted to put down a quick journal entry, asking you guys to check out my bro 's account. If any of you like Dragonball or Dragonball Z, he's got some very cool new DBZ themed deviations, as well as a bunch of Star Wars comics (clone trooper centered in particular.) for any Star Wars fans. It'd mean a lot to him. ^^

Thanks.

-Amritsar

Not much up

~Amritsar — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:29:25 PDT

Well, not much new going on with me. It has been raining and cloudy for the last four days. (we even had an ice storm on Tuesday!) On Wednesday it cleared up in the evening and the family went walking downtown and stopped by the library, but since then it has remained overcast and life has been pretty uneventful.

The biggest exitement I've had has been watching the Azumanga Daioh anime, which I picked up at the library. I've always loved the manga version, and the anime keeps the same totally insane spirit. The theme song, "Fancy Hearing Cake", (which is pretty much entirely about an unhealthy addiction to cake.) has been stuck in my head for the last two days (lu la lu) and I adore the start of the opening song where the characters bounce up into the air accompanied by the first strains of the song. The whole opening credits is one of the highest things I've seen in awhile (like when Chiyo and Osaka are flying through the air with Chiyo's pigtails for wings, or when Tomo, Kagura and Osaka are standing in a line doing the wave.) and the music only helps it come off more insane. I love Osako, she's so nuts. I stayed up way too late watching it last night, and this morning I was zonked as a result (no rest for the wicked...) I hope the pace around here picks up soon or I'll be bored and sleepy, and wind up falling asleep on the sofa the way I almost did yesterday afternoon.
I also hope the sun comes out again soon. It's almost Spring for crying out loud! No more 40 degree temperatures and cloudy skies! Dang it, be beautiful again already!

Why I've Been AWAL

~Amritsar — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:59:15 PST

Weell peeps, I have been disappeared here for awhile. My apalogies. My family just moved from our apartment to our new (and quite lovely if I do say so myself) new house, and when the packing was being done they packed my computer without telling me so I had no chance to warn you all. Once we got the computer set up in the new house it took awhile to get the internet connection for it, and when we did I had to spend several days on and off answering comments and going through the pile of deviations waiting for me. But I am back now!

And better yet, while I was away my poem The Ballad of Red Riding Hood was picked as chosen deviation by and many people came by to read and leave comments and faves, making this poem now my most viewed and favorited deviation. A great big thank you to all of you! And also a big thank you to who spent a good deal of time yesterday looking through my gallery and commenting on my poems.

It's good to be back! ^^

Warren's Birthday ect.

~Amritsar — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:33:29 PST

Well, today is the birthday of my character Warren, from Wishes. Seb, Jenni and Warren all have birthdays, which I like to celebrate a little, but Warren's is the most special, so I generally do something a little larger scale for it. I don't have that much money on my hands at the moment right now though, so don't know what I'm going to do this time.

It has gotten much warmer in the last couple weeks, it was very cold here for awhile, so cold that if you were outside for awhile your face and fingers would start to hurt from the coldness. It's been snowing a whole lot lately though, and it is snowing now.

My brother ~TheWeevil and my little sister are both sick, my sister more so than TheWeevil, but hopefully they will be well enough that we'll be able to go out for chinese food which was our tentative plan last night.

Lately I've bought two Mediaeval Baebes CD's, a printer/scanner, I won an auction on ebay a dress, and I think I want to buy the CD Renaissance, by the band Faun, which I just recently discovered and is really good.

That's pretty much the sitch with me.

Here's where I stand on the 100 Art Challenge so far:

The rules

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST
1. Introduction -
2. Love - Love [link]
3. Light - Light [link]
4. Dark - Dark [link]
5. Seeking Solace - Hiding Away [link]
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory - Memory [link]
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood - Bloody Mary [link]
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation - Vacation [link]
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign - Mexican Girl [link]
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night - Me at Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying - Elizabeth Exhumed [link]
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family - Little Family [link]
47. Creation - Creation [link]
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought - The Next Move
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale - Undrentide [link]
62. Magic - Metamorphosis [l...

The Stuff I've Been Up to Lately

~Amritsar — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:27:21 PST

Well, I've been, if not busy, at least productive. Did a lot of drawing today, and spent most of my free time yesterday making miniature tarts, crossoints, hot dogs, corn, rolls, cakes, and french bread, (Having way too much fun making miniatures.) and for almost a week, poetic inspiration has been building up inside me, so I'm almost certain that at some point in the near future it'll burst out as soon as I put pen to paper.

It has been very cold here the last few days. Yesterday it was 20 below 0 with the windchill, and it's been snowing buckets every few days. It's been warmer today (20 degrees and not so windy) and I'm hoping it will stay that way.

We went to see Night at the Museum a few days ago, and that was quite enjoyable.
This weekend we are going to hang out with my aunt and uncle and cousins, have a pot luck for dinner, and decorate valentine's cookies.
I have made the family each a valentine (victorian style for everyone but ~TheWeevil ) and have gotten Lenore a valentine's gift. I still have to get everyone else a gift though, probably a lot of pocky and toblerones.

I have been working some on A Distant Salvation. Major changes being wrought upon it, and one of the main characters died, (that makes my 2nd unplanned character death.) and the whole thing's gotten better. Hopefully someday I'll be able to finish the dratted thing and put it up here for you to read.

Here's where I stand on the 100 Art Challenge so far:

The rules

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST
1. Introduction -
2. Love - Love [link]
3. Light - Light [link]
4. Dark - Dark [link]
5. Seeking Solace - Hiding Away
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory - Memory [link]
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood - Bloody Mary [link]
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation - Vacation [link]
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign - Mexican Girl [link]
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night - Me at Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying - Elizabeth Exhumed
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family - Little Family [link]
47. Creation - Creation [link]
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought - The Next Move
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale - Undrentide
62. Magic - Metamorphosis [link]
63. Do Not Disturb

Milestone Birthday

~Amritsar — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:47:16 PST

Weeelll, today I am 18 years old. heehee. I'm gettin' up there. Still don't feel eighteen, but I don't it won't take long to sink in. I have to work today, but after I get off we're going to my aunt and uncle's house to celebrate. The day before yesterday I bought myself an Indian tunic and pants outfit (called a salwar kameez) and some silver jewelry at an indian store and I'm going to wear it to the party. I have no idea what presents I'm getting but my mother and father are hinting that they've got me something big...

Here's where I stand on the 100 Art Challenge so far:

The rules

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST
1. Introduction -
2. Love - Love [link]
3. Light - Light [link]
4. Dark - Dark [link]
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory - Memory [link]
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood - Bloody Mary [link]
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation - Vacation [link]
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign - Mexican Girl [link]
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night - Me at Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family - Little Family [link]
47. Creation - Creation [link]
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought - The Next Move
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic - Metamorphosis [link]
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation - My Spirit Starves [link]
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper - Voice of the Muse [link]
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning - Drowning in Paperwork
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude

What I've Been Up To Of Late

~Amritsar — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:44:06 PST

Well, happy belated New Year's everyone!

Had a good Christmas and New Years, and hope you all did too. Revieved lots of nice presents and all the presents I gave were warmly received, which was the best part.

At my library I've been on the waiting list for the Evanescence's new album, The Open Door, since almost a month before it came out and the day before yesterday I finally got my little hands on it. In an interview I once read, Amy Lee stated that she took a long time on the album because she wanted whatever she ended up with to be worthy of being art. She got her wish there. The album is as hypnotising as Fallen, with a more dreamlike twist to it. (for example, the dark crooning of the chorus dispersed through "Cloud Nine", or the way Lee almost whispers the lyrics at the beginning of "Snow White Queen".) One of my favorite moments is the chorus on "Sweet Sacrifice". It's not often I hear something so powerful and magnetic, let alone as the backbone of the song. It's a beautiful album, fusing rock and classical music with gorgeous vocals and the result is magical. My muse has already been stirred on almost every level by it.

Being free from school is awesome. I keep thinking that at some point I'm going to have to go back and do math again and then I'm like "Wait a minute!" The last couple days I've been getting momentary spasms of bliss when I can't help but think, I can do whatever I want today! The days I don't work in particular are great. I used to want to stay up late and do things into the wee hours because I knew I wouldn't get a chance to do it the next day, but now I can go to bed and know I'll be able to return to whatever I was doing in the morning. The day before yesterday I had my picture taken at a portrait studio in a suit and shell that Mama and I picked out over the holidays, and we had some graduation announcements made with the portrait on them, and we'll be sending them out soon. ^^

I wrote another poem yesterday, Prayer, and I think I might end up writing some more for you all by the end of the month, which is a really exciting prospect after going so long without being able to write poetry. I don't think I've ever gone through such a long drought of inspiration on anything.

On my writing, I haven't really been doing much. After finishing editing Wishes I emailed all the chapters to my mother to edit, so now its progress is pretty much in her hands. I decided I kind of needed a little vacation on that end of things, so I haven't really plopped down and dived into another project yet. I do plan to though, and will probably have done so by February. I've already started reading through the most recent stuff I've written on God Save the King and have written some more on that, and have also come to the conclusion that I will probably end up splitting chapter three into two chapters instead of one, because to get where I want to finish in the chapter would just be much too long for only chapter three to handle.

I plan to get back into the swing of things on the portraits of my watchers, and get the drawings and things I owe people done in the near future, so expect some of that. I also recently decided to finally do the 100 Art Challenge, that's what Memory, Light, Dark and Love are for. I have to post the rules and the list here for you all to see, so here: The point of this challenge is to test and improve your skill as an artist. After 100 pics who wouldnt be better. Please forgive me if this in any way excludes you from taking the challenge.

The rules

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST
1. Introduction -
2. Love - Love [link]
3. Light - Light [link]
4. Dark - Dark TheRex thinks Basch is cool; we are still trying to figure out why he would ever kill the king! It seems like a very un-Baschish thing to do if you ask me. And I was genuinely sorry when the poor prince died. He was so young and he seemed like a really nice guy, seems a real shame that he would die.
I've only gotten to play up to the point where you are Reks and the little flying machine thing comes down and starts attacking you and so far I really don't know how to fight. I'm like "ok, I clicked attack, why am I still standing here" clicks attack again. -o.0- So yeah. I think eventually I'll get the hang of it though. Great to have new game in my hands though!

On another note we went over to my aunt and uncle's house for thanksgiving and that was a lot of fun. There was a lot of good food, and apple juice and sparkling apple cider, and oranges and ham and cake and bread-and-butter pickles and celery with cheese.
We watched Mission Impossible 3, which totally surprised me. I saw stuff for it and was like "oh, great. Tom Cruise is seeing a lull in his career and so plans to kick start it with another Mission Impossible. Yawn." But it was a lot better than I had expected, and different from the others in a lot of good ways. And of course, starting it the way they did helped you not know what to expect or what was going on.
While we were there I got to hold Stephen, and feed him from a bottle, and part of the time he had his eyes open, and while I was feeding him he was staring straight up at me and just kept grinning down at him. He's so little and beautiful, and he was really warm. I love the way he smells, and his skin is insanely soft, and when I held him I could feel his little bones and just kept thinking how amazing it was that he was so small, but so whole and alive.

On December 2nd my family is going on a cruise. ^^ We will be gone til the 11th. I will probably not be able to get online much (might be able to get on occassion on the ship's computers, but not often) Hopefully everything will go smoothly with that and we will have as much fun as I think we will.

Still editing on Wishes, and when I finish Chapter Six (which should be soon) I'll be pretty much done with it yay! After that the only class I still have to do until I'm done with school is my health class, and that shouldn't take long for me to finish. After that my mother will finish grading everything and send it off the high school I'm enrolled in, and they'll check through everything, send me my diploma and I'll be done! Woot!

-Amritsar

Blessed List

~Amritsar — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:00:55 PST

Well, I am very honored to say that has added me to a "blessed" list, a list of poems he's found here that he thinks really stand out from the rest. He picked my poem, The Ballad of Red Riding Hood for it. Thank you very much, Konrad-Bongard!

And on Wednesday we saw Stephen! He is absolutely precious!

Birth Day

~Amritsar — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:26:43 PST

Well, today widdle Stephen James Donaldson was born. I haven't seen him yet, but while I was at work my uncle dropped by to pick up my twin cousins, who we'd be babysitting, and told everyone else what Stephen looks like and how big he is. He weighs a full 8 lbs 15 oz and has a full head of hair.
Hopefully tomorrow the family will go over and visit him since I have the day off from work.

Still editing Wishes. Taken a little break over the past couple days and hope to return full force to it tomorrow, and get chapter six done soon. I still need to submit the second part of chapter five, and I'll try and do that soon, and hopefully by then chapter six will be done and I'll be able to get the rest of the chapters up for your viewing pleasure. Ciao!

-Amritsar

Lots of stuff going on

~Amritsar — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:50:30 PST

Well, I've been really busy this last week.
For the last three days I have pretty much done nothing but edit in any free time I've had. As a result I've finished editing chapters seven and five on Wishes, and only have part of six to go now. WoooT!

A couple days ago while I was shelving in audio visual, I was sorting CD's into categories. I picked up one and looked over the cover to see where the little tag said it should go and just froze. It was One-X by Three Days Grace. As soon as the momentary shock froze off this huge grin covered my face. If I checked this out then I could hear Animal I Have Become anytime I wanted! Holding back a bout of evil genius laughter, I stalled the CD back on the cart and when I'm emptied everything else off it, took the CD back and checked it out. And it is great. Like there is this one song I've heard a couple times on the radio that I thought was really good called Pain, and to my complete surprise, it's by them and is on this CD! *blissful smile*

Yesterday we went over to my aunt and uncle's house in the morning and helped them move, then about half way through that my mother and I left to drop me off at work, and I was there til about five :snore: and then we met at the library and went home, and I gave myself a little break and drew a sort of action drawing/concept sketch of my version of Magneto from X Men.

I ordered Mangaka America awhile ago, and it will probably arrive at my house today. (IT BETTER!!!! )

Tomorrow my aunt will go to the hospital and have a C-section and my little cousin will be born. Unfortunately I will be at work all evening and so will not be able to see him til Wednesday at the earliest. Hopefully by the end of the week I will have had the chance to visit though.

My brother ~TheWeevil and I found this awesome beanbag snake complete with sheddable outer skin, and we got it and plan to send it to as a late birthday present.

Expect art and writing updates sometime in the near furture when I have time. For now, adios.

-Amritsar

Devious Journal Entry

~Amritsar — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:45:18 PST

Well, I am now more than a quarter of the way through editing Wishes. Yaya! I have to finish chapters, five, six and seven, and then I'll probably skim through the whole thing again one last time, maybe fix things that stick out to me, and then I'll be done. WOOOT!

In other news, on the 14rth my aunt is scheduled to have a c-section, and my newest cousin, who will most likely be named Stephen James Donaldson, will come into the world. I am so excited. I love babies. I can't wait.

Also, after several weeks of impatient waiting, both Azam Ali's Elysium for the Brave CD and Muse's Black Holes and Revelations CD finally arrived in my reserves at the library. SOOO GOOD. I've been jaming to Muse for almost 24 hours straight. My brother ~TheRex said it made him think of a movie soundtrack, that their should be something going on visually, like a fight scene. He digs all the guitar riffs.

I am not really working on God Save the King right now, because I'm spending most of my time on Wishes, but I am still spending time thinking about what should happen, when, and how. And part of me really wants to spill all the gooie details of the story to someone. I'd like to tell my brothers, but their attention spans are notoriously short....

Trick-or-treating, TAGGED and First Ten Comments

~Amritsar — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:02:57 PDT

Went trick-or-treating yesterday. Wore my Queen Victoria costume. I didn't trick or treat myself, but I still had a great time. The staff at the mall we went to were taking pictures and they asked to take one of me! It was very cool.

Also, I've be TAGGED!!!! by
as part of the rules to this particular tag, you must list 6 weird things about yourself & you ABSOLUTELY must include 6 other people to tag (names and all) and of course---you must TAG them---

1. I sort of unconciously classify women as cats as men as dogs, or occasionally wolves. (Except for a few men who I see as cats, but there aren't many of those.) But I've never thought of a cat as a woman's pet or a dog as a man's. It's really wierd.

2. I cannot stand seeing children near stairs or high drops. I get tense just seeing them and I can't relax until they get away from said staircase of drop off.

3. I am mortally afraid of biting off my tongue. If I play basketball, trip on the stairs, smack my face that thought is always in the back of my mind. I'm a little comforted to know that I could probably have it reattached if I did happen to lose it, but still... yipes, yipes, yipes... >.<

4. Deadlines of pretty much any kind stress the heck out of me. I get stress nightmares about being late for work. The prospect of having to get my taxes done by a certain date gets me antsy. (To top it off I have problems reading clocks hehe...)

5. Sometimes when I read books my skin'll get sort of tingly and I'll get suddenly afraid I'm going to get a paper cut any minute and start turning the pages VERY CAREFULLY.

6. I hate it when my brothers pick up anything glass, crystal or porcelain. I can't relax until they put it down.

I TAG...!!!

.... ~wolfborne
.... ~Triantarrine
.... ~TalonStarwind
.... ~Bozinlove
.... *DgenRetEliteRabbit

AND ALSO, I got this from cause I was one of the first ten people to comment on her journal:

"The first ten people to comment on this journal post will get a free writing/poem/ficlet of their choice! The only catch is that they then have to post the same tag on their OWN journal, and draw for the first 10 people to comment as well...So go ahead and tell me what to write..."

So yeah. Go ahead peoples. Poems, piccys (only digital right now though) and short writings. Gimme your stuff and I shall try my best to do something with it for you. ^^

Working Hard

~Amritsar — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:43:49 PDT

Man. I have been working on editing Wishes almost nonstop in every snatch of free time for the good part of a week, and even when I'm not editing, I'm still trying to stay in that world, to stay in Jenni's mind and to try and see things through her eyes. It is getting to be quite exhausting. The day before yesterday I was working on it and I actually gave myself a headache from trying to stay "in character" throughout the whole day so I wouldn't have to work my way into it again. I've heard of actors trying to stay in character for an extended period of time so they won't lose track of it. I think that the continual immersion is starting to have an effect on me, draining my energy in ways I never expected. Going to sleep always sounds appealing, my eyes are generally tired, though I don't know if that's just because I'm using them all day, for school, work and then writing or its a side effect of this concentration, and the urge to cry is much easier, I talk less, I think less, and when I do think, it's about Wishes. I'm very emotionally raw, which extremely disconcerting, since I've worked hard for years to be harder emotionally, and not easy to read. I'm very mentally tired lately, too. I'm beginning to wonder, is that what it must be like to be Jenni? To always be in a state of perpetual tiredness, perpetual rawness? Or is it something that you get used to, and it's not so tiring if you're used to it?

I don't know if this is a good sign and I should keep it up until I become used to it and can switch back and forth easilly or if it means I'm in serious need of a break and should give it a rest when I finish editing the next two chapters.

I've been working on two scenes for the last three days, and I'm getting sick of doing it. I just keep trying to add more to them to make them good enough for me. Part of it's because I'm afraid they won't be as good as the scenes that came before, and I don't want to give you guys second rate stuff, and the other part is that I'm not sure if they are not good enough or if it's just that I've been writing so much lately that I can't distinguish between good and bad anymore and am growing paranoid.

Still, I am working hard on these chapters, and hopefully soon I can get finish editing and submit them here for you to read. So far, I've gotten many comments, and I'm glad you guys like what you've read so far. I really hope you'll like the next couple as much. ^^ Wish me luck, and many thanks.

-Amritsar

The Muse has Returned, full force

~Amritsar — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:04:02 PDT

My muse has been on a roll lately! First Sultana Ananova, then Happy Halloween, and now I've been working on an art deco poster style pic of Lady Macbeth, and a fanart of King Jas from Capt. Hook. They both look quite promising. So yeah, I'm on a roll! WHHHEEEE!!!

Nareesha Cosplay

~Amritsar — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:04:15 PDT

Well, we did go to Joann's Fabrics, so I got to shop for supplies for my Nareesha cosplaly. Mama helped me pick the best fabric there for the sari, and we discussed how to cut it and if we should make a "simple" version or go for the real thing. In order to be on the safe side I chose the real thing. The fabric is beautiful, satiny and bright aquarmarine blue with a faint gold vine design all over it and a gold border on one side, and on the other side golden with blue vines and a blue border. I thought it was perfect.
They didn't have any gold foil at Joann's, so I got a gold gift bag instead. I had already cut out ovals from paper plates and painted them gold to make the pieces of the necklace, but the gold looked to bronze, and not shiny enough, which is why I had wanted gold foil. Well, I cut ovals of the right size out of the gift bag and pasted those on top of the painted ovals, and then once the paste had dried, used my hot glue gun to glue them to a ribbon. I need a big jewel for the middle of the necklace, but other than that that bit is pretty much done.
I'm in the midst of figuring out the eye makeup (I got some cool ideas for that from 's latest series of photos) and working on how to accomplish the hair (thank goodness my hair is so long.)
I've already got a big gold bracelet and large gold teardrop earrings purchased, but I still need a gold handflower, a couple of rings, an armlet (I'm wracking my brain thinking of how I'm going to do that) several bracelets, the headress/viel and a shirt for under the sari.
I'm hoping it shouldn't take too long too get those assembled. Then we can get the sari stitched and any extra trim on the shirt and I'll be pretty much done.

Updates on Moi

~Amritsar — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:34:08 PDT

Well, I got grounded from the computer for a week, which is why I haven't been on here lately.

I tried to scan some photos photos of me and my bros and little sis in pirate clothes when we saw Pirates 2, and pics of me in my haloween costume last weekend but the scanner was being a pain in the neck, and since I lost the comp I haven't been able to try again. I hope to be able to do so (and hopefully have more luck) this weekend. ^^

I also have two drawings of my character Tierra/Tier BlueEye and a pic I did as an art trade for to scan too.

Today I'm hoping my mother will let us go to Joan's Fabrics because I'm working on a cosplay of 's character Nareesha, and a I need decent sari fabric for it, and Wal-Mart didn't have anything that would work. I also have a bunch of jewelry to make for it and I need gold foil to do that, so I'm hoping they'll have some of that at Joan's, too.

Also, ~TheWeevil found a way for me to cut and paste on Paint that will make it so that I can cut something without having the background come with it. The tecnique has totally revolutionized photomanipulation for me, so there may be so photomanips coming this way in the future...

Not Sure What the Dickens to Talk About

~Amritsar — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:10:28 PDT

But, hey, felt like I should try and toss out another journal entry.

Not much new with me right now.

Juggling work, school and any kind of life has been increasingly difficult lately. I wake up on Friday night already thinking "the weekend's almost over". I would happilly quit work right now, but I doubt I could get such a good job again and as soon as I graduate I will want it back again. I have to keep reminding myself that I will most likely be graduated by the end of the year. Even then though, it seems like forever sometimes. Hopefully though, in not too long, I'll have a whole lot more time on my hands though...

I haven't been editing Wishes lately. As I've said I don't have much free time anymore, and it usually takes awhile before I've sunk into the story (by reading the area around where I'm editing) before I can actually start making changes, and when you only have fifteen minutes of free time at a time, it's difficult. I thought I'd be able to edit it for school, but not for awhile apperently. I do hope to get onto it in a couple weeks though. ^^

I am currently working on Chapter Three of God Save the King, though. Hopefully I will get that done in not too long so you guys'll be able to read it. I'll tell you right now that a secret is revealed in this chapter and something very important happens. Also, I didn't leave you a cliffhanger at the end. (I thought about it, but couldn't bring myself to do it to you, especially since it may be awhile before another chapter comes along. Plus I sort of wanted some closure in this chapter, too.)

Got the pictures of my siblings and I in pirate costume when we went to see Pirates 2 developed, and a bunch of photos of the haloween costume I made developed and hopefully I shall get them scanned for you soon. ^^ I can't wait til haloween....

The news I've been hearing lately around the world is just depressing. It's like as soon as I think something's going right somewhere something else starts malfunctioning to make up for it. I've been reading and watching movies on the 60's lately and it surprises me how so little has changed in the great scheme of things. The world is still in a state of turmoil. *sigh* Thank goodness they aren't to the point here that they were then... >.<

Speaking of reading, I'm still reading a lot. Still working on the Prince by Machiavelli, starting another Lady Grace mystery, Capt. Hook, and I think there's a couple other ones, but I can't remember for sure.

My family plans to go on vacation for a few days from the 21-23, so I will probably not have a chance to be on here during that time. But, it's a ways off yet...

Oh, and publicity for these deviants:

My younger brother. Lot's of mech and monster designs. Coolness.

My even younger brother. Prepare for Starwarsness... he's a big fan. And Yugi-oh-ness, too.

My friend Katie who got an account here at last. Very talented. Her griffons are too good.

Go read his novel!

Signing off-

Suggestions, anyone?- Answered

~Amritsar — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:27:14 PDT

This was my question:

I need you guys' opinions on something. I just bought an eye cover to use when I'm sleeping. I used it last night and it was wonderful. My little sister has one with "princess" written on it. Now I'm not exactly a "princess" kind of girl, but I'd like a cool message on mine. I thought, I'll paint a pic or message on the front with fabric paint. So far I've had three ideas for it. If you could tell me which idea you like best, that'd be awesome.

Idea 1: (message) Dreaming Wierd Dreams

Idea 2: (drawing) a pair of eyes. I thought it would be totally awesome to pull off that whole Jack-Sparrow-in-native-chief-makeup-freaky-eyes-effect from Pirates every morning when my mother woke me up, lol

Idea 3: (message) I'm watching you...

So, which one do you like best?

And I think I've decided to go with the eyes... ^^ Thanks for the suggestions.

Updates- Alive and Kicking

~Amritsar — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:33:47 PDT

Hey all. Been awhile since I was on here. *got grounded from the computer.* Don't ask. *grumbles*
Heard about what's happening in Thailand? That is sooo freaky. I know some about the King of Thailand, and he sounds like he was pretty good king, and seemed to care about his people. I can't believe what's happened.

Awhile ago I got some pics scanned and today I sent them from my old comp
to this one and managed to submit them. I have a bunch of pics of my sister Lenore you can use for stock, and two of various members of my family.
On Monday, my mother took pictures of some outfits I had sewed for school; there were bunch of ones I'd made for me little sister and there are several of my in my Queen Victoria costume that I made to wear for Haloween this year. I really hope they come out well. When the photos are developed I'll try and scan em and get them up on here for you all to see, along with the pics of us in pirate costumes.

Been reading a lot lately, and an insane variety of books, too. Biography of Anne Boleyn, The King of Attolia, Dear America: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?, Fruits, Fresh Fruits, four of the Lady Grace Mysteries, The Prince by Nicholo Machieveli, Death Note, some costume and fashion books, The Summer King, tons of stuff...

I hope you have all been having a good time lately. ^^

THANKS and randomness...

~Amritsar — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:52:28 PDT

First off, I have to say a HUGE thank you to for her lovely
artwork based on my poem Fair Lenore. Since my computer will not display
the address of a webpage I can't put a link to the image here, but it's called
Fair Lenore, and is one of the most recent deviations in her gallery, so go check it out. Thank you so much Lori!

School starts tomorrow. *small sigh* I got to have the last week off, and that was a lot of fun, but I didn't edit Wishes at all during that time and I'm (surprisingly) itching to get back to work on it, and it's part of the righting class I'm doing so... Whee!

Right now I am sort of on the edge of a several movies that should come out
in the next few years. The well of movies for me is going to be dry for a long time til they come out, especially with the Harry Potter movies being released so eratically, and so I'm hoping they will be good. They all sound right now as though they could turn out to be awesome... Beowulf, Inkheart and the His Dark Materials Trilogy (oh, I want sooo baddly for that one to be good.) are some of the first that come to mind on that list. And the Battle Angel Alita movie sounds like it could be ruddy fantastic, depending on what the director does with it... Waiting impatiently for the next Pirates movie and hoping it'll be as good as the other two... (The Dead or Alive movie might somehow turn out to be enjoyable, but I'm not holding my breath...) The next Narnia one will probably be as good as the first or better, so no worries there... Halo movie *keeps fingers MEGA-crossed for that*And I'm still hoping someday someone will make movies of the Abhorsen Trilogy.
I would so love for them to make a movie of that....

Tagged

~Amritsar — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:12:31 PDT

FAVOURITES:
Favorite Color: Blue, Red, Purple
Favorite Food: I like too many foods to pick a favorite...!
Favorite Movie: Lots of comedies and adventure movies, but I like too many to choose a favorite.
Favorite Sport: Basketball
Favorite Day of the Week: Friday!!!
Favorite Season: Autumn I think, but I love spring too.
Favorite Ice Cream: Tangerine Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, Orange Sherbet

CURRENTS:
Current Mood: Excited. I just bought my little sister a velour elizabethan shirt, and she loved it. ^^
Current Clothes: Blue Jeans, Long patterened T-shirt, pink SAVANNAH hoodie, bare feet
Current Desktop: Ayumi Hamasaki
Current Time: 6:00 p.m.
Current Surroundings: My room and my bro ~TheRex
Current Annoyances: My cold feet, TheRex's odd behavior
Current Thoughts: What's wrong with my brother?

FIRSTS:
First Best Friend: Renee Stivers, a girl I knew when I was about nine and lived on a boat
First Crush: Spiller from the old version of the Borrowers movie.
First Movie: Pride and Prejudice with Grier Garson and Laurence Olivier.
First Lie: I have no idea.
First Music: I think Manheim Steamroller, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, Handel

LASTS:
Last Drink: Chocolate Milk
Last Crush: Warren, one of my characters.
Last Phone Call: I have no idea, I rarely use the phone.
Last CD played: Sarah Brightman, Harem

HAVE YOU EVER:
Have you ever dated one of your best friends: No
Have you ever broken the law: I'm not sure... hehe
Have you ever been arrested: No
Have you ever been on TV: No
Have you ever kissed someone you don't know: No

THINGS:
5 things you are good at: Writing prose, Art, writing poetry, sewing, making good jokes/comments/put-downs.
4 things you done today: Gone grocery shopping, bought a blouse for my sister, watched British mysteries, eaten 4 Reese's Peanut Butter cups
3 things you can hear right now: My mother scolding my sister, my brother breathing very loudly, the TV from the livingroom.
1 thing you do when you are bored: Go on DA

now to perpetuate this tagg for an extended period of time before it reaches it's useby date.
the next tagge's are:

Also, something else I wanted to put up. I ran accross a beautiful poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and wanted to share it with you all.

Sonnet VIa
NUPTIAL SLEEP
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
And as the last slow sudden drops are shed
From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,
So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.
Their bosoms sundered, with the opening start
Of married flowers to either side outspread
From the knit stem; yet still their mouths, burnt red,
Fawned on each other where they lay apart.

Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams,
And their dreams watched them sink, and slid away.
Slowly their souls swam up again, through gleams
Of watered light and dull drowned waifs of day;
Till from some wonder of new woods and streams
He woke, and wondered more: for there she lay.

Holy Crud! 4,000 hits!!!

~Amritsar — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:19:01 PDT

I just looked at my page view today and I've clicked over 4,013 views now! :gasp: Thank you guys so much! Ponders what my kiriban should be....

The Sitch on Projects:

I'm still hard at work editing Wishes. I finally got started on Chapter One and I'm pretty close to finishing it. When that finally happens I plan to submit it here and put the old version in scraps. I am also working occasionally on the next part of my Blue-Eye story. So yeah, hopefully in not too long you'll be hearing more about Tierra.

I scanned a bunch of photos on my old computer although I haven't had time to submit them. I tried once, but I didn't have much time and the loading took too long so I had to quit.

No poems in the works at the moment. Often I have plans of poems I want to start on, but I haven't had a plan in awhile, not since Riding Hood, cause Fair Lenore just all of a sudden popped into my head one day, I'd had no plan to do it before. So, if I suddenly get another poem up here it's probably going to have appeared completely randomly from my overly-creative mind lol

I finally finished the comic I owed ~wolfborne but I still have a couple digital drawings I'm working on right now. I've got a scetch for a naga baby sitting around in one of my writing notebooks, and I'm in the midst of an illustration of a scene from Dante (a dream he had about Beatrice) and I want to do some more crazy FFVII: AC fan art, this time concentrating on Kadaj and co. I'm also hoping to pick back up on my DA portraits soon, so if I haven't gotten around to yours yet, do not fret, I plan to get around to it in not too long from now.

I'm thinking of getting some of my poems printed as picture books without going through the trouble of publishing them. The one I want to do the most is the Ballad of Red Riding Hood. I'm still looking for an illustrator for that. I think =gunnmgally looks like they'd do an excellent job, but I've contacted them and had no answer. :sigh: So, that's sort of in limbo right now as I research what's involved and where and how to get things done.

An Eventful Evening

~Amritsar — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:25:00 PDT

Well, when I walked up to work this evening the last thing I expected was that I would wind up spending about two hours in the periodicals room with almost everyone else in the library while we waited for the tornado warning to end. But that's what I did. And it has to be one of the strangest things that's happened to me recently. It was wierd becuase it was almost like it was a drill- everyone went downstairs, pretty much calm, some joking, me included, and then we all assembled in the two windowless rooms we have downstairs. I was expecting all the kids to start howling at once and a lot more confustion than there was, but it went rather smoothly. Everyone got on computers or entertained the kids or talked amongst themselves except for me and one other woman who sat against the wall and read magazines. Then I got bored and went to draw at one of the tables and ended up in loose conversation with the people around me, mostly my coworkers. Then one of the kids librarians, Molly came out with one of those nose-and-mustache-glasses and three large like felt dice and started juggling for the kids, and eventually the grown ups, too. She was pretty good, too. It's surprising what you find out about people when you're secluded with them.
I called my family about halfway through to tell them what was going on and they had all assembled in the kitchen and my brother went out to get the phone and was like "So where are you guys hiding?" lol The warning time ended at eight, and we went back to our lives. ^^

Misc. Talk

~Amritsar — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:07:36 PDT

Just wanted to say thank you all for the lovely comments and all the faves on my Red Riding Hood poem. You've all pretty much made my day. ^^ I think it's one of my best poems of late so I'm really gald you guys liked it so much.

I hope to publish a collection of poetry at some point in the future (right now I'm working on trying to get a novel finished and submitted to some places, but after I've done that I'd like to work on the poetry collection.) I was also thinking about trying to get some of my poems published as picture books and was The Ballad of Red Riding Hood and The Fairy Queen would probably be the first ones I would want picture books of. And the whole time I was writing Riding Hood I imagined it illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. But I went to see if I could commision her and found out she died in 2004. :{ So do any of you know someone who draws like her?

Little Red at Last

~Amritsar — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:16:32 PDT

I've always wanted to do my own version of little Red Riding Hood but I could never come up with a story idea that passed muster. But the day before yesterday, very late at night, I got an idea for a poem version of it and was like "this is perfect"! and have been scribbling lines on it on and off since.

I won't spill the details about it here, but I'll just say I've taken great liberties with the original story. (I think Perrault would have an interesting time reading it lol) I've still covered the basics- Red goes to visit Grannie's house and finds a wolf there instead, wolf is killed by woodsman- but every thing else is changed. It's going to wind up VERY morbid. I told both ~TheWeevil and ~TheRex and went "it's VERY morbid" before I told them anything, just to prepare them for quite how un-kidsbookish it will be. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it in the next few day and then put it up here for you to read. ^^

Guess Who

~Amritsar — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:17:32 PDT

Guess who is now the proud owner of a Kyo-kun (from Fruits Basket) plush! Meeee!!!! It's really cute. It's a SD version of Kyo in a sort of cat outfit complete with tail and hood with ears. I adore Kyo (*ah*) and I've seen this thing over and over at Border's books and it's like and I finally gave in and bought it even though it was like 13 bucks (extortion in my book) But I am very happy with it. He's so cute! 's him.

Also, I'm nearly done editing Chapter Eight of Wishes... again...

A Question for You All

~Amritsar — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:08:43 PDT

First off, I finally got the second X-Men comic page up. There's been some trouble getting it to load the right size; if you press download you should be able to get it at the right size to read.

I am still working hard editing Wishes... I'm hoping to get it done by then end of the month... *sweats at the thought*

Also, I hope to buy a printer/scanner soon. So I was wondering, if I offered prints or commissions, would any of you be interested in buying something?

Life on Play

~Amritsar — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:27:13 PDT

Well, yesterday night Papa gathered us all into the livingroom and after winding around about how we had failed, and both the boys blowing up in different ways, he finally got around to telling us that this whole thing was a test and that he thought Mama and I had passed with flying colors and that we would get our stuff back, and that both the boys had failed, but would still be getting their stuff back because he was being merciful. He also said he would treat me like a grown up now instead of a child. Of course, I'm not really sure of that fact now, because he just got through treating me like a child and then when I told him that he said he would treat me the way I acted. So. Yeah. Don't know about that.
But, I do have all my stuff back, so I am alive on here again! WOOOOT! I did a drawing on here for you to make up for the time I've been gone. I hope you all like it. I've also finished editing Chapter Nine on Wishes, which makes the third chapter I've completed. ^^ Very happy about that.
See ya round.

EXTREMELY fun and other stuff...

~Amritsar — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:59:43 PDT

Just wanted to update you guys. Life has been mostly the same. Still on the wierd system papa's put up for us, but so far I haven't had to deal with him much. And after nearly a week on this thing, I've only gotten punished once. (not that that will mean anything to papa)
I am still working on Wishes. I finished Chapter Four awhile ago, and while I'm bouncing all over the place again, I'm seriously concentrating on Chapter Nine right now. I think I can say I'm close to half way through it...
Also, I finally got my tuition paid for, and so with all the money I had left over from it, I went out shopping to Wal-Mart and blew it all. And it was EXTREMELY fun. Got a new comforter, Howl's Moving Castle on DVD, scented hand lotion, fabric, ect. all. Very theraputic actually. You'd be surprised how much money and a feeling like you have some power over your destiny can make your day. And of course, it was EXTREMELY FUN.

Life on Hold

~Amritsar — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:27:58 PDT

I have to tell you guys that I won't have much of a chance to be on here anymore. My father has taken away my computer. (along with a bunch of other stuff.) Starting Monday it's "his" computer. (Like Mustafar it is.) I will still be able to get on here for school, and I can still go online during my 15 min. break at work, at least for now, but I can no longer be on here for pleasure. (Thankfully I have a writing class, so I can still edit Wishes, which coincedentally, is going really well. I have finished editing Ch. 2, I've edited a lot of scattered bits throughout and and I am almost done editing Ch. 4!)
So, needless to say, my portraits project is off. (Sorry to those whose portraits have not yet been painted. Hopefully I'll get to do a portrait for you eventually.) I think I might be able to finish the second X-Men comic page before Monday cause I'm really close to finishing it, but don't expect the third page for quite awhile.
Hopefully though, I'll still be submitting poetry and prose on here through the computers at work, so I shouldn't be completely gone.
If you're curious as to why this happened I'll just say that he says the boys and I are complete dissapointments because he's let us be raised by -and I quote- "a woman," and an "english teacher," (my mother.) when we should have been raise by "a man" and "a warrior/leader". (I've thought he must be at least subconciously sexist for awhile, but there's no doubt in my mind after this and other recent behavior.) Anyway, he says we are now paying for all the things we's done wrong in the past, so he's taken away lot's of our stuff, and abilities, and says if we blink wrong we'll lose lot's of other stuff. (He's even threatening to make it so that I have to start studying for my GED again. If he even hints at doing that again, I'm not going to be responsible for my actions.) The boys are seriously distressed. ~TheRex has totally blown a head gasket as usual. The wierd thing is, I'm not even angry about it. I'm not even upset. I've known I was numbing up for awhile, but recently, during these kind of things, I'm not upset at all. I'm even kind of numbly happy. It is EXTREMELY bizarre. On top of that, I've decided to see what's going on as a game, the way I always do, and I plan to win the game. I've already got a game plan going, that I'm beginning to put into motion. I only really have a problem respecting my parents, not anything else, and if I straighten that out, my mother should be happy, and since how I'm behaving isn't what Papa freaks out about, but rather, how he THINKS I behave, it'll wear off after awhile and he'll tell me what a good kid I am. Yeah. Well, anyway, my life on here will kinda be on hold for awhile, but I'm still here.
-Amritsar

Please Answer this Everyone

~Amritsar — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:31:57 PDT

I have a question for you guys, and it would be really great if you could all answer it for me, even vaguely.
Over here in the US television stations and newspapers are showing very little "real" coverage of the Iraq war. We occassionaly get a snippet of a couple soldiers standing around on a dusty street, holding guns and squinting, but we really don't get anything better than that. (It's been like this since Desert Storm, and I think it's an attempt to stop what happened during the Vietnam War, where people got to see what was going on the front lines- civilian casualties, maimed and wounded soldiers and the general ruin and chaos that was going on- and many decided they didn't like what they were seeing and wanted the war to be put to an end.)
I was just thinking about that fact today, and that made me curious to know how the situation was being handled in other countries. I mean, I know people from all over the world here, from Germany, Venezuala, England, Spain, Indonesia, Australia- all over the place. What better way to find out how coverage of the war was being handled in other places?
So if you could all tell me, even briefly, what the news is showing about it in your part of the world, I'd be really grateful and interested to hear.

Editing Wishes?!! Shock!!! *dies of a heart attack

~Amritsar — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:44:24 PDT

Yeah, you heard right, I actually edited Wishes. *drops dead of shock and exhaustion from editing* I did a whole chapter today... so tired... but it was worth it, cause I really needed to work on it and, of course, I got to see Warren. *purrs*

Also, I put a poem up here after all. It's not the one I mentioned earlier, it's another I wrote and was so excited about and wanted to see your reactions on so badly that I had to submit it. And so far you guys all liked it. *feels loved*

It's finally the weekend. On Wednesday I was about ready to have a nervous break down from work/school/my family. Oddly enough I had a really bad allergy attack on Thurdsay so I had to call in sick at work. It got better late in the evening, but I got off the hook... I didn't work today, although I had to do school... and of course this evening I worked hard on editing... Tomorrow I have to work extra long because of the hours I had off on July 4th, and then I have to work again on Sunday, but I don't have school on either of those days, so I'm very happy about that. It couldn't have come at a better time.

I think I'm starting to regain some of my sanity. Now, if I can get a good night sleep tonight, I might be able to regain some of my conciousness. zzzzzzzzzzz......

Been awhile...

~Amritsar — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:04:46 PDT

Current musical obsession: "Love Addict" by Family Force 5. (preferable cranked up REALLLY high...)
Currently watching: Nothing really. But I got to watch Howl's Moving Castle again recently and now I'm thinking about it all the time. So good....
Currently reading: A biography of Anne Boleyn. And the conclusion I have come to is that I'm shocked the entire royal court of England wasn't mad with imbreeding or syphalis. Yikes, yikes, yikes!

Hey guys. Been awhile since I wrote an entry here so I thought it was about time.
I am still working on my portraits project. I'm currently doing thumbnails for 's portrait, although it's mostly been side tracked by my X-Men comic, cause the inspiration is rolling on that (even if the opportunity isn't) and I'm hoping to get the whole thing done before I submit anything else.) Don't fret though, cause the comic should only be about three or four pages long at most. (I have it pretty much all planned out. ^^) So it shouldn't be too long before I get moving on my portraits again. (I also wrote a new poem yesterday that I will submit here after I finish the comic.)
I have been pretty tired lately and I am getting sick of having no free time, working and the overall effect of my family in combination. *sighs* School isn't so bad, but lately when I've gotten into work the first thing I've thought is "I wanna go home!" And my family (siblings mostly) are seriously wearing my patience thin. It's not nearly as bad as the last time I had problems with them, but still, it's really getting on my nerves.
Also does anyone know a site where I could get the script for Terry Malineck's The New World? I watched it recently and though I didn't really like it *yawn* there was a certain line in there I really liked though I didn't write it down and now I want to....
Well, that's all for now...
Amritsar

The BIG PROJECT

~Amritsar — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:03:48 PDT

Ok, you heard it here first folks. I am undertaking my first big fullscale art project on here... I am planning to paint portraits of all my watchers, friends and the people I watch (as long as they have a photo of themselves that I can go off of) The first one I did was of . Right now I am working on one for and after that .

Also my friend Katie finally got a DA account! Check her out here
And my younger brother has gotten active on his page after eons of neglect and my little brother has put up a bunch of new deviations and they wanted me to advertise the fact on here.

Pirates of the Carribean 2 and Pic

~Amritsar — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:01:21 PDT

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS! We saw it! Woot! We saw it yesterday evening. It was sooooo good. I was terrified it would be bad because a couple weeks ago I had a dream about it where it was stupid and for some reason after that I was terrified it was going to be bad, but it wasn't, it was awesome! And and my little sister Emma (who is going by Lenore now) and I went in costume! We looked snazzy. And we took pictures. When we get them developed I'll try and scan em and post em up here. Oh, and if anyone wants spoilers note me and I'll tell you!

Later: Oh my gosh! Look what did with my ID!!!!!! [link] It's freakin' sweet! :glomps: the life out of her....

Whippee!

~Amritsar — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:29:20 PDT

Phones back up and I have returned at last... ^^

Phone Line R.I.P.

~Amritsar — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:30:16 PDT

Well, the phone line's at my house are all dead. It doesn't seem to have happened to anyone else in the area, just us (and just when I had stuff to do here.) So, needless to say, I can't get on the web right now, and we don't expect the phone guy here til wednesday, thanks to the holiday... (perfect timing too) so I will only be able to get on here at work on occasion. But, I hope we'll be able to have the web back up soon though. ^^

News

~Amritsar — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:30:17 PDT

My aunt had an ultra sound a few days ago. And we found out what gender the baby is! It's a little boy! So they'll have twin girls already, and now a little boy. Just wanted you all to know... ^^

Japanese Name

~Amritsar — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:05:44 PDT

Well, I found this little thing on 's journal that tells you what your japanese name would be. (Tecniqually speaking, I 'japanify' my name by making it Rivi Vani Rivi from the "livi" part of Olivia, and of course, Vani from Varney *dies laughing*) anyway, the little name supplier gave me this

My japanese name is ç¿æ¸¡ Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) ä¹ç¾å Kumiko (eternal beautiful child).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

It's a jumble of code right now, but is supposed to turn into something legible if I put it in my journal. We shall see...
I like the Kumiko, the first name, I like the sound and meaing. Not to pleased with the last name, though if I judge it as a family name, monkey crossing bridge is pretty good. lol

Thank you!!!!

~Amritsar — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:29:41 PDT

Reading: The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti
Watching: Nothing, though I'd like to see Howl's Moving Castle again
Listening to: Three Day's Grace, "Animal I Have Become"

Thank you all for 3,000 pageviews! I will try to post the drawing I made as a thank you this evening, I am at work right now so I can't submit it, because its on my comp at home. Also, so far no one has stepped forward and claimed they tripped the 3,000 mark. If someone does come forward they will get a drawing done for them by me. (see the journal entry before this for details.) Thank you again!

Almost 3,000

~Amritsar — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:40:58 PDT

Thank my lovely denizens of DA! Because of you I am currently standing precariously close to the edge of 3,000 pageviews. I am in the process of a making a thank you art for when I reach that number, and whoever trips the number (unless, of course, it's me) will get to have an an artwork done by me. (P.S. I won't be able to mail you a print cause I have no printer, but of course, you could save the pic off my account or I could email it to you and you could print it yourself.) So when you happen to stroll across my page, pay attention to what number you are....

Changes for the Better

~Amritsar — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:28:12 PDT

Since my "life is sucking..." entry on May 21, I am glad to say, things have taken a surprising turn and have gotten a lot better. There are lots of different reasons why but the most important four are these, with one being least important and four being most:

1. My father has stayed pretty mellow, which is shocking. He was saying how he was going to cracking down and treating us like children (but also expecting us to behave as adults at the same time, even though he said he didn't expect us to ???) and a bunch of other stuff, but so far he hasn't really done anything. He's been shorter with all of us than he was before, and often hacked up about something but he hasn't gone off ranting on us or anything. So things are pretty much like they were before, which is wonderful. But it does make me wonder why he bothered going into that hours long conversation about how things around here were going to change in the first place. Still scared that when I'm a grown up he won't accept it and still act like I'm twelve.... >.<

2. My family has gotten less annoying. I don't know how or why. I can deal with lunchtime again- not everyone is malfunctioning at the same time anymore and it's a lovely change. My brothers are giving my parents just as many problems as before but they are generally leaving me alone. *ah* Mama is still kind of picky about stuff (she ticks me off so easilly right now) but she's no longer in that wierd sulk she was in.

3. Ever since I started puberty I've sweated too much and it's only gotten worse over the years, the major place being my underarms. I've tried lots of different approaches to it ( all different types of deoderant and antipersperant deoderant, dress shields ect.) but none of them has ever reallly worked and this year I just got sick of it and a few weeks ago I told mama I couldn't take it anymore and asked her if she could arrange to meet with a doctor and discuss it. Well, she did and several weeks ago I went to visit the doctor. She prescribed a certain medicine I could take that was supposed to stop the sweating period. Well, I've been on it about two and half weeks now and it works so well! There was this one shirt I'd been wearing for four days and I only washed it because I'd spilled kool-aid on it. It's so wonderful!!!!

4. I am no longer studying for my GED. When I first started studying for graduation my family planned to get me a highschool diploma and had me enrolled in a school in Main. My mother gave me classes, we recorded the hours I spent doing them and sent the records and my work to the school, who decided how many credits I'd earned. Well, then my father decided to switch to GED and things have been downhill schoolwise since. Well, recently my mother thought back to that school I'd been enrolled in and she checked it out to see if I could still pick back up where I left on it, or if we would have to start all over again. Well, I still had all the credits I'd earned before on their accounts and I could use a lot of the studying I'd done in the last two years for the GED for credit now and I would still need some more credit, but mostly in English. (AHHH! I haven't been able to really do English for school in years!!! It's all been math and science) Well, not only could I get that done this year, but I wouldn't have to pass some test. (unlike my GED. Although I'm fairly decent at most the subjects on the GED I still suck at math, the major reason I was certain I'd fail, and would be doomed to who-knows-how many more years of studying.) We talked with Papa about it, and after being ticked off, and himming and hawing about it, (I think he's embarresed that I wouldn't have been able to pass the GED) he said we could do it, if I payed the tuition, which is about 1,500 dollars. (Later he said that he and mama would pay 200 dollars. I'm OK with that for now, because I need to have all the tuition money by August so I'm low on time to get said money, but once we've paid off all the tuition, I want to pay them back the two hundred, just to make things even.) I agreed, and we are now persuing my diploma and if all goes well, I'll be graguating at the beginning of next year and I'll be free. WOOOT!

The combination of all these things, along with the great support and love I've been getting from all you guys has made life so much better for me. I'm a whole lot happier now, especially about school and the new medication. It's just wonderful to have those things change!