http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Ellfie&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Ellfie en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:00:46 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28891879/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28891879/ Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:49:43 PST Current Art Trades/Challenges (OPEN):
I will take art trades and challenges for writing, photography(depending on the subject), or drawing.
(I stole the layout from ~LadyVe, because I like how she sets it up :3)

1: Working Title: Insomnia
Challenge by *AbdhitanMireen
Features: Giovanni and Maria Auditore.
STATUS: WIP
Due: Dec. 20

2: Create a Templar/Templar Ally OC
For *AbdhitanMireen's Family Portrait
STATUS: FINISHED! [link]
Due: Dec. 20


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(EDIT) I found this, and thought it looked like fun! It's a weird survey thingy. So go ahead and ask me some questions!
[link]
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Ah, so I got a letter telling me my photos didn't make it into the final gallery. (But it was mine out of, like, 200 others) so that kinda sucks. I mean, I expected as much, and actually wasn't bothered by the whole thing (I wasn't excited or nervous while submitting them or afterwords) So I assumed I would just not care if I won or lost, but when I got that letter I suddenly got upset out of no where @_@ Twasn't fun.
Maybe I'll give them as gifts now, since I really have no place to hang them for myself...

So I'll probably post those pictures here now, when I get the chance.

Also, I ended up not visiting Tucker this weekend, because I've been somewhat sick the whole week and we decided a long car drive and then having to make sure I have enough strength to horse back ride in the freezing cold then another long car drive back the next day wasn't going to be good. What sucks though, is we decided this last night and though I don't feel 100%, I feel so much better today so now I kinda wish I went. But mom said that if it's been coming and going as much as it had this week, it'd probably just hit me again at a bad time.
Oh well. I'll just have to wait a few months till I can see him again...

And again, anyone use Wacom Tablets for writing/drawing pictures on the computer? If you do, please let me know what you use and what you would recommend from Wacom's line of products, because I'm looking to get one but can't decide which yet!

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I give all these clubs permission to add my work to their galleries.

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28822117/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28822117/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:46:02 PST Current Art Trades/Challenges (OPEN):
I will take art trades and challenges for writing, photography(depending on the subject), or drawing.
(I stole the layout from ~LadyVe, because I like how she sets it up :3)

1: Working Title: Insomnia
Challenge by *AbdhitanMireen
Features: Giovanni and Maria Auditore.
STATUS: WIP
Due: Dec. 20

2: Create a Templar OC
For *AbdhitanMireen's Family Portrait ([link])
STATUS: WIP
Due: Dec. 20


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Woah, a bunch of the clubs changed! It's odd, but everything is odd for the first time It's just gonna keep me confused for a few days. Oh wells.

And I showed my friend Assassin's Creed; Lineage yesterday, and it was funny because she enjoyed it, but also didn't get it ('cause of the politics and conspiracy and then of course when that was explained during that one scene he has an epic fight with Borgia (i think) we were adlibing it making fun of Twilight Blame Borgia for eating a pre-bitten apple!)
Plus I watched more of the trailers for Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, and I'm insanely excited! O_O Especially with Ven/Roxas. It's sounding very interesting.

And you know what? The Aeneid makes me cry And Korean soap operas. And Monk! A lot of things make me cry...

Oh; for Christmas I want my family to get me one of those writing/drawing tablets from wacom, except I don't know which one I want. I think the prices went up since last year too, making me sad. At first I thought I wanted Bamboo Fun, but now I'm not sure.
I'd like something that's an acceptable price that I can use to basically just draw on the computer with. The extra Photoshop/etc. stuff sounds nice, depending on the price, but I may not need it because I can probably just keep using GIMP.
I also want it to be on the larger side (bigger than 4x6) so I can actually draw without feeling closed in.

Suggestions? I can't decide, and it's hard to choose when I can't test them all in real life D:



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http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28784253/ Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:33:23 PST Current Art Trades/Challenges (STILL OPEN):
1: Giovanni and Maria Auditore one shot for
2:Make up a Templar OC for 's Family Portrait ([link])

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So I did actually update with some of my artwork other than photos! Woo! I have lots more, and actually did another painting yesterday, but I'll work on posting them when I get to it. I also submitted two photographs for a contest/gallery yesterday, and for the sake of the contest and me being paranoid I won't post the pictures up until I found out if they pictures are picked or not. But man I didn't know professional framing and matting cost so much! O_o My mom is trying to convince me it's worth it because even if I don't get in, they're still nice pictures in nice frames that I can post up in my dorm room or give away as a gift.

Other than that, I was thinking of posting up some spinets of my NaNoWriMo, but paranoia of it being stolen haunts me so I may not post it. Fanfiction is one thing, but my own original story, universe, and characters in a piece that (although obviously needs to be finished and edited many many times) I may someday look into publishing (maybe) make me feel worried about posting it up here. So I'll think about it.

And other than that, I've decided I'm rather pathetic when it comes to finishing things, and I'm very frustrated at myself for not being able to write out all the stories and fanfictions I'd like, since I have trillions of ideas, many I actually do like. So I'm thinking of taking challenges or doing art trades to get me into the swing of things (and force me to finish something). Only problem is I don't know the specifics of either, unless my idea of them just being "Oh cool, can you draw a picture of so and so and I'll draw you a pic of so and so?"-- other than that I don't know anything about them and haven't done any before.

So, although I'm probably digging my own grave here, I'm open for trades and challenges! I can do photographs, drawings (maybe paintings also), or short stories/one shots. Though the later you may have to give me more ideas for.
I will only take so many, though I won't say a certain number until I have an idea of what I'm getting myself into.

(small edit: holy CRAP! I just cleared out some of my messages, and I realized I had over one-hundred journal updates from everyone I watch, some going back to early October! Man I'm terrible at keeping up with stuff.)

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~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28748788/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28748788/ Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:19:01 PST So huzzah!! Now I just have to figure out what else I want to do with my story now, and go through the pains of editing.... ugh, I get tired and frustrating just thinking about it. I'm thinking I'm gonna take this month off instead But now I might have a writers group to go to every month after a met a group of Wrimoers at my last write-in Makes me happy to be social with people like me.

And I FINALLY horse back rode today, after probably more than a month of being way to busy or unable to get there or bad weather. It made me happy, especially since my trainer said I jumped well for someone who hasn't jumped in a month! What did get me down, though, is that Tucker is still up in CT, where he will probably stay at least for the rest of this school year, but probably for the next few years also because I can't give him the time he needs right now so he's better off where he is. But it's still really saddening to know that I can't just go to the stable to see him; I'll have to take a long weekend and drive like 8 hours. I still miss him, even if I don't miss his bad antics. But I heard he's doing great, to the point he's no longer testing new or old riders like he used to and that they're working him over water (or fake water with tarps instead, which are still really scary for him) jumps like in those cross country courses, and I heard he's doing well with that! I also heard that he's even to the point that they have to ride him with spurs he's so slow (which is insane because usually he never wants to stop). I don't know, and frankly those trainers don't know what happened either.

I'm just upset that I wasn't there for it. I wasn't even a factor.

But what got me thinking of everything about Tucker was that at the stable when I was taking up another horse, I saw all of Tucker's tack (which is still here because the other trainers wanted to use their own instead) and... it was covered with dust. One, that's bad for leather anyway. But the biggest thing is that that just proves that it hasn't been touched in a while, because he's no longer there to use it. It was just really saddening...

But, I think I'm going to visit him next weekend and see for myself how things are going. Part of me wants to take him back with me, but I know he's better where he is. I just wonder if he's ever going to be truly mine, with me riding him several times a week and visiting him at the stable and working with him myself, again. I hope that I'll get better physically and emotionally to be able to handle him better in a few years, and that maybe that extra age will help subdue him, and maybe whatever they're teaching him now will stick. But, it seems so far away. I mean, I like not having the pressure and stress riding and training him would put on me, but I still miss him, and I miss making a difference in him, and I miss the feeling of accomplishment I get when I teach him something and he gets it, and whenever we win anything I miss knowing that it was because I got him to that point.

I feel selfish now x[

And now I will see if I can update any of my pictures before I ponder more on this subject and get more upset...



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http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28641174/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:24:19 PST So I'll do some self-promoting and link to my newest LBTC video mission! [link] I have not yet decided if I'm proud of it, or horrible embarrassed.

ANYWAY.

Yes, I'm still rather DA-dead at the moment. Too busy busy, I shouldn't even be here now! But someone really does need to kick me in the pants about updating; I have so many pictures! Speaking of which, hopefully this week I'm going to print out and get a few of my photographs framed to send into a local contest/gallery. Wish me luck! (Now I just have to decide which one to pick! ._.)

On another note: NaNoWriMo is coming to a close! I don't know whether to be grateful and relieved, or really really sad! My story for this year (tentatively titled "The Pack") is far from over, though I am only a few thousand words away from my 50k word mark! I really should be doing that right now (bad Ellfie! bad!) but I keep getting distracted. Writing this month has, 3 outta 5 times, been like pulling teeth (and not like pulling teeth from a plastic crocodile in that old kids game! anyone remember that?) Ugh. If you asked me two days ago I would've told you that NaNo wasn't worth it this year. I was about to pack it in, but I stuck to it (somehow) and now I'm less than 5k away from my goal! I wrote 10k in two days, so I can totally finish this in time!! (hopefully).

Only problem is it sucks. I know it really truly does, and I kinda just wanna let it rot on my computer rather than even think about editing it next month. Uuuugh. I never even finished writing my last NaNo. I think the idea and general plot is interesting enough, but uuuugh the scenes are craaaaaap >< *head/desk*

Oh well. Woe is me and all that crap. Moving on.

Once this month is over I'll try to catch up on some things... after I finish all my homework I was supposed to do over thanksgiving break. Oops.

And someone really needs to kick me into gear about my fanfictions too! I have so many ideas, but so little actual words. I think my problem is I enjoy thinking about plots and characters and scenes, but not actually writing them Oh wells.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!



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I give all these clubs permission to add my work to their galleries.

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Yeah, I'm not gonna be here for a while, because on top of being 10k words behind, having ltos of chemistry to catch up on, a french project due, and life in general, Assassin's Creed II has been taking up most any of my free time (as in when I wake up till when I have to leave the house. Breakfast? What is this thing you call breakfast?) and then I try to get a few more hours in before I have to go somewhere else or bed. GAH it's so addicting, I wanna know what happpeeeennnnnnnsssssss D: It's really the plot and story more so than anything else, but everything else is very awesome too. (Did you know you could change the color of your clothes!?!)

But holy crap it's sick so far. (Though I'm only up to a little after he meets Rosa and Antonio (I've been wasting a lot of my time finding glyphs ;D My sister keeps trying to get me to watch "The Truth" online, but I wanna figure it out myself!)) I probably could put together a real critique and review, but my brain's too muddled and wired from everything to do so.

But now I need Bloodlines! (especially after Desmond's dream!! O_o I totally predicted that! You can read my Maria's back post from a while ago >D I still can't get over it, either. It's just so... AH! Not really bad, just insane, and I MUST know how it happened, because with what we're given about them it would never happen. So now I need bloodlines.) except I have no money. Dang it.

But I'm still 10 thousand words behind on my NaNo, but how am I supposed to write about werewolves when my brain is filled with Italian assassins!!?!?! I may just have t make werewolf assassins... hmm....

And my final project for sculpture is coming along, slowly. I'm attempting stone carving, and it's fun and painful and I feel bad for anyone sitting near me. But it's cool knowing I'm doing what Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo did, to some extent XD (I'm glad I'm not dissecting dead bodies like Leo though. I liked in AC2 Ezio was like "What about the body? (of a guard)" And Leo; "Just take him into the workshop." "EH!?" (well, not exactly like that, but that's just about how my brain remembered it, though adding more of a comical reaction for Ezio. Though Ezio does really have hilarious expressions.

OKAY time to stop ranting and finish writing and packing. Thanksgiving travel, oh fun! (meaning a 8 hour car drive I COULD be playing AC2, but nooo i have to be stuck in a car instead.)

((OH and did you know, Veari Piazzi (or whatever) is voiced by the actor who voices Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto? HA!!!!)

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I give all these clubs permission to add my work to their galleries.

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28274668/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/28274668/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:46:59 PST ON TV TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 11TH, ON SPIKE TV! AT MIDNIGHT! BE THERE, OR BE ASSASSINATED!

AC2 DEV DIARY 6: [link]
AC2 VIGNETTE 2- FACTIONS: [link]

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O___o
7 Days till Assassin's Creed 2
20 more days to write 50k words
AND I'M RUNNING OUT OF CHOCOLATE AND CAFFEINE!!!! *dies*

I'm like 4k behind on my word count now, and have had no time for ANYTHING *twitch twitch* I need to finish my homework, and I need to go get some stone tomorrow for my final project for Sculpture (which I'm attempting to do in stone despite the fact I've never touched a stone carving tool. Eep.) Also meaning I need to make another version of my sculpture in clay to make sure I know exactly what I want to do. And I really need to finish reading for my English class, which I haven't been able to do all week because of brain-deadness.

And I should be trying to work on French now, but my head is so out of it @_@

I need to get my butt in gear D: But I think I'm getting sick/already kinda sick because I've been soooooo tired and am feeling bad on and off. I was gonna go horse back riding today, but as I went to get ready my head was killing me because of that tropical depression coming up, and I got so tired randomly that I threw a pillow on the floor and laid down, then I couldn't get up for hours...

*sigh* I'm feeling like I'm failing more things this month than accomplishing.

Also, would anyone be interested in hearing about my idea for NaNo? And if I get a scene out that I like enough, I may think about posting it on here. (but i'm insane about copyright and people stealing my ideas/work, so maybe not). But if I do decide on doing that; would anyone be interested?

And now I feel stupid because I bought this necklace off ebay the other day. My NaNo this year is about werewolves, and I saw a wolf necklace I really liked at the Renn Faire but never picked up, but then I really wanted it for inspiration for my story (it was weird; somehow having the necklace felt like it would help me write xp) but that place didn't have a website and I lost their card, so I found a necklace on ebay with a dog/wolf paw print so I got that and I've been wearing it ever since. But I realized the other day that Twilight fans tend to wear things with paw prints to show their "loyalty to Jacob" (the *werewolf* in that series) and I actually saw a necklace similar to mine labeled as a Jacob necklace. So now it feels somewhat wrong to wear my necklace, because I wonder if people think I'm one of those crazed fans D: NOOOOO! I'm just wearing it to remind me of my werewolf story and how I need to finish it v_v

Oh well, I'm gonna go eat some cookies now, possibly throw them up, and try to finish SOMETHING...

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Gah. I've had no time for everything I want to do. Heck, I don't even have enough time for what I need to do sometimes (mostly because I get lazy and sleep in and slack off watching the History Channel only to realize I have a ton of crap to do that I now only have a few hours to complete). So my poor deviantArt has been stuck on the back burner. I will try to get to messages today and tomorrow and though I doubt I'll catch up with everything, I'll try to catch up to what everyone's doing (yes I do in fact read most journals I'm subscribed to before I remove the alert. But sometimes I forget if someone is on or off the alert).

I still have a ton of pictures begging to be put up on here. I'll see what I can do about them. And I'd really love to write some more AC2 fanfiction before the game comes out and I no-longer have as much of an excuse to use creative but inevitably wrong situations or characters. But I doubt I'll get to that (about 2 more weeks!!!!). Especially with NaNoWriMo now officially started! I plan to keep up on my word count and try to get ahead too. Which means I should stop blogging and go write!

Sooo I'll work on it. Sorry for my (possibly continued) disappearance. But does anyone read these anyway? It's not like anyone's hanging on the edge of their seats for my next picture (that'd be the day! I'd be a millionaire!)

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I give all these clubs permission to add my work to their galleries.

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27906987/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27906987/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:17:50 PDT [link]
New Info on AC: Bloodlines: [link]
ASSASSIN'S CREED 2 DEV DIARY 5: [link]
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Man I'm so excited x]

Sorry I still haven't replied to... anything. I've barely been getting online recently. So I will work on it when I have time, as well as posting up all the pictures I've been taking. I also wanted to do a submission for 's contest, but considering it ends soon and I still have had no ideas (or time) I may not get to it.

But AC2 is only a few weeks away, and NaNoWriMo is starting up soon (which is good and nerve racking).

I think I've also come to a decision for what to do with Tucker (who is still in CT). But it makes me bother happy, and sad.

So I will try to get back into the swing of things soonish.

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I give all these clubs permission to add my work to their galleries.

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27734973/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27734973/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:40:38 PDT [link]
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BAH.
I HATE CHEMISTRY.
A LOT.

Yes. That may change as the semester goes on, but at the moment, I hate chemistry and am realizing my hate of math again.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT... I've been so friggin busy. Sorry for disappearing on you guys (not that that's any different than normal, and it's not like I have anyone dying over the next day I'll post something ) but I am once more behind in messages and journals, all because I've had no time for anything this week between course work, classes, work, and then spending Friday driving up to CT to see Tucker again, spending several hours at the stable watching others work with him than taking a lesson on him, then spending the rest of the night attempting chemistry problems I didn't understand. Then I spent Saturday driving back home after talking to the people at the stable again, continuing trying in vain to answer the chemistry problems, and straining over finishing up my faerie costume because on Sunday my family, and I all went to the Renaissance Faire, not getting home till nine something after which I had to CONTINUE to try to figure out my chemistry work.

So yeah, I kinda wanna curl up and lay in bed for a few days. But alas, I still have to continue with my week again.

But for what it's worth, visiting Tucker was good and everything went well. I rode him after watching the end of one person riding him, than watching another lesson with local collegiates, and he was pretty good. But the best part was that when the lesson finished, I actually wanted to ride more. That rarely happens after I've been riding for longer than a half hour, especially on Tucker (who's very physically demanding). Almost always I'll be happy to get off and go home, but this time I wanted to just keep riding him, which I hope is a good sign.

Plus, everybody still loves him there. Even the riders who's he's shown his bastard-ish side to all still like him. But I still don't know if I can keep up with what he needs by myself. I can't get out to the stable and ride 6 days a week. Only 3, maybe 4 days, and then it's only for an hour or so because I just can't do much more after that, and horses aren't the only things in my life. Right now Tucker's being ridden several times a day, 6 times a week. He'll NEVER get that at our current stable, but maybe once me move.

But I'm thinking I should keep him up in CT, on a lease or sell him to those trainers or something, so I know where he is, know he's treated well, and know I'll be able to visit and ride him if I want to(which I will). And then if I have time and money, I could try training another horse that would be a "better match" for me. But I'm not ready to completely let go of Tucker yet. But I keep thinking that he'll be better off there and there's not much more we can do for each other.

Sigh. Most people wouldn't figure horses could cause so much drama (well, horse people will know, but non-horsey people may be surprised).



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http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27575280/ Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:08:28 PDT [link]

Well, I really should be working on my French now, but I'm lazy and easily distracted. But hey, what's new?
I fear I'm lagging behind again on replies and journals, so I'll have to get to that but I just don't feel like it right now :flail: But these delays will only get worse as November inches closer, because...

NANOWRIMO IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY!

Gaspers. The pressure is building! Well, for me at least. I'm having a terrible time deciding which story to prepare for NaNo this year, and trying to develop each of them is proving difficult @_@ But that shall not stop me! What may end up stopping me, though, is everything else I'll have to keep up with during November ._. I'm having trouble keeping up with everything now, so on top of at least 3,000 some-odd words a day, I'm probably gonna go insane next month. But NaNo was just too much fun last year NOT to do it again. So I am.
BLeh, I'm also behind on my Live By the Creed stuff already. Oh goodness, I'm screwed.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, go here: [link]

Anyways, I'm taking a short photography course which seems more like a photographer's club thing this month, so hopefully I'll manage to post new pictures as well.

Aaannnnd, Tucker. Yes. Well, uhm... yeah I dunno. He was doing well up until last week, where the trainer actually called him a bastard and is now telling me his "quirks" will never go away and it's just the kind of horse he is. (It's not like I haven't been saying that from the very BEGINNING.) So I have no clue what's happening anymore. I doubt I had any clue before too. He may end up staying there longer (as in through the winter) since I won't be able to ride him much in the winter anyway because of weather, travel, and not having an indoor ring to ride in (all of which ARE NOT MY FAULT. Some people seem to forget that my parents have to drive me to the stable, but they have other kids and work and lives of their own too, so I can't be there 6 times a week). Heck, I haven't felt up to riding at all lately. Ugh. I'm thinking everyone may just be better off if I just give up horse back riding, period.

And, completely irrelevant of that, a funny thing happened the other day. I've been trying to brush up my French skills (which are practically nothing) and at the moment the only way I could do it has been Rosetta Stone, which seems to work but gets a bit tedious (as everything, really though) and doesn't help me pronounce stuff (something's wrong with my mic) nor does it cover conversational French, which is really one of the most important parts. So we've been searching for a French tutor and kept running into dead-ends for months now. That is, until I went to a yarn shop the other day to get some stuff for my costume and ran into my French teacher from three years ago! Totally out of the blue. And she agreed to tutor me

Gotta love fate. (or divine intervention, or whatever you wish to call it. I tend to lump them all together).

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Goodness, it's so exciting! I'm going to die of excitement before the game even comes out! I can't wait to see more of the storyline! I love plot, and AC2 looks like it'll have a bit more story than AC1. Still loved AC1, but all the new things they're trying out with AC2 sound so amazingly cool!
Plus, now we get to see his face! I predict many many MANY fan drawings to come, (including some of my own x]).
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(EDIT) BLOODLINES INFO/RANT
Well I searched youtube for more info on Bloodlines, and found that there's actually a crapload of interviews ubisoft did with gamespot that aren't getting a lot of attention. They show more awesome gameplay and some more random technical stuff and a few pieces of story information. And according to one I watched ( [link] ) Desmond and Lucy aren't going to be in Bloodlines! But the animus is supposed to still have a big part, but honestly it looks like it's just gonna be like Altair Chronicles where you have the animus's health bar and maybe those glitches again, but nothing actually modern going on. I thought this game was supposed to show us the big link between Desmond, Altair, and Ezio?

AND something I found interesting, at about 4:00 minutes in that trailer I linked, the guys says something interesting: "You're still playing Altair, but it continues his storyline and also enhances the relationship that started at the end of the last game between Altair and Maria who are the two primary characters in (this game)." Please watch that trailer and tell me if I heard that right.

If I did hear that right-- Holy crap! That took me (obviously) by major surprise. I was not expecting any more of Maria, at all. Which, honestly, made me sad because she sounded very interesting (and the only friggin girl in the game grumblegrumble) I'm still kinda flabbergast, actually, I'm not quite sure what to say. I just kinda keep doing this ->
But hey! I think I'm gonna like that. Maria, as I said, sounded very interesting, and I think any of their interactions must be very amusing, considering the kind of stubborn, tomboyish "I can do anything you can and 5 times better too" personality she seems to have, she is going to be sooooo amusing with Altair. Altair will probably have no clue how to deal with her, which will make me laugh, a lot. Maybe they'll be more there too, since Altair's mom or dad (I can't remember which) was European, hmmm... maybe this game will have more story than I thought! I can't really say I'm expecting or hoping for a romance between Maria and him, I dunno, sounds kinda weird, but I love the thought of their relationship, whatever that may be. (But I'm really hoping it'll be more like Malik and his relationship, hate-brotherlylove. Except with her the hate part wouldn't be based on jealousy or bitterness/blaming(I can't think of a better word of Malik blaming Altair for his nub and death of Kadar), but maybe it would since she seems to have really loved/respected Robert, and Altair killed him...

Oh man, I'm getting excited now I'm really REALLY hoping I heard that right!
*strolls off singing how do you solve a problem like Mariiiaaaaa~*


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http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27322176/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:00:34 PDT SPREAD THE LOVE A wonderful club I came across, which is great for low self-esteem people like myself. Check out NOW!
It's a club (or more, ongoing project) to keep people's chins up, to make them see the good in themselves and list everything awesome about themselves, and then post it up for everyone to see!
I expect to do a picture for this project when I have time. My self-confidence is practically non-existent except at the butt of my own jokes. Lovely, eh?
And if you go to the club/project and flame people or something negative like that, I will personally find you and kick your ass, then your face. BEWARE!

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NEW ASSASSIN'S CREED II DEV DIARY: [link]
And my video for LBTC's mission What is your creed? got accepted! [link]
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Well I posted a few pictures, and eventually will post more, but for now that's what I got. And all those stories I have in my head and half-way worked out never seem to be coming to the internet. Oh well. But I was thinking of, when I have time, taking pictures of my old cosplays. I made an ANBU (Naruto) one and one for Edward Elric (FMA) with a automail hand, but now I have no clue where that went so I'll just have to find my white gloves... And then once we've figured it out I can get some pics of my current faerie costume, which is slowly coming along. I'm also thinking of a cheap Ezio cosplay, mainly for an idea me and my sister had for some funny youtube videos which we may or may not do. Only problem is we have crappy places to video assassiny things.

As for Tucker, we're going to try to see if we can keep him up in CT for a bit longer, so they can work more with him during the season he's always the worst with (cold temps + him = possible disaster) and so I have more time to ride a bunch of different horses to improve myself before he comes back.


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And my video for LBTC's mission What is your creed? got accepted! [link]
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Huh. Did anyone else have a huge DA failure earlier today? At one point in the afternoon, everything I tried to get on DA just timed out and say "Internal Error" or something. And of course it decided to happen in the middle of me trying to comment people and post this journal.

Anyway, all these new trailers and dev diaries just continue to get me excited x] I'm so glad to see a female character who looks like she'll play an actual part in AC2's storyline. There were no women characters that meant anything in the first game ><; There was Marie, but it was only for one part. And Adha mention, but a mention doesn't count. So now AC2 looks even more interesting! I wanna play it so bad. But I'm concerned I won't be able to do NaNoWriMo this year because I'll spend all of November playing AC2 rather than writing 50,000 words x( Not to mention if I get my hands on Bloodlines.

Oh, and my iPod randomly decided to start working again! No clue why, but I'm glad it is. Now I don't have to spend money on getting a new one!

I had another rant about Tucker ready, but now I'm tired and my wrist is hurting, so I'll leave that depressing tidbit for later. Let's all just focus on the hopeful- awesomeness of Assassin's Creed II! *glues face to screen*
And yes, for whatever reason I'm now going around randomly saying "Heey, I remember you." in an Italian accent to mock our favourite Renaissance Assassin.
I also recently had a bit of inspiration for a drabble-ish-like-thingy on Giovanni (Ezio's pa) >.>; But now it's getting hard just to type this with my stupid wrist @_@ Sculpture's gonna suck tomorrow. So I'll get back to any comments when I can type more without straining my hand and wrist too much.


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I'm pretty pleased how it turned out; my voice wasn't as crappy as I thought and I think I narrated (or whatever you wanna call it) relatively well too. Eh on the video itself (other than the very beginning and very end, I liked those.) So now I'm just waiting for it to be approved *crosses fingers*
I had a youtube a while ago; but I decided to start a new, fresh one (especially since before now I hadn't logged in in forever).

I also uploaded some pictures I took while away (which turned out to be a crapload more than I thought) so once I sort through them and add my watermark, I may post some. I have several of Tucker to keep me satisfied while he's gone too, but there's really none that turned out well enough to DA. Maybe a few, but I haven't decided yet.

I'm still trying to work out my faerie costume for the Renaissance Fair, and we've come to a crossroads, trying to figure out what we need for the weather and which way we wanna take with the costume. It's confusing now. It currently doesn't seem very faerie-ish either, so I'm trying to work through that-- all before we go, which I still don't know when we are going @_@

Now I should finish some of my other work...


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27148803/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/27148803/ Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:26:39 PDT ASSASSIN'S CREED FANS! Live By The Creed (1191adb) is BACK! Join the Brotherhood! And while you're there, look me up under Ever__Lasting (TWO underscores).
(EDIT) I'm so excited, I'm halfway done with my submission of What's Your Creed? for Live By The Creed! I don't know why I'm excited, but I am. I did all the audio so all I need is to add some video and then I can submit it and get my 5000 florins Except I was supposed to be doing my gold award final report... *rushes to finish*(END EDIT)

Alright, I'm back! With stable internet (I hope at least, never know with my computer) and hopefully more time to be online since I'm home. But school starts Monday, so we'll see how things go then.

I'm working on catching up on journals and messages, and hopefully will post some pictures soon. But last time I tried to back up some of my files onto a CD, my laptop died and wouldn't give my CD back. BUT I did eventually get it back and all my computer needed was a restart. Except now my iPod decided to die for no reason I can tell. It keeps saying "OK to disconnect" but it's not connected to anything! I've tried to get it back to my music by connecting and disconnecting to the computer and my radio/alarm iPod dock, but that didn't work, so I tried letting it die and then start it up again, and it just popped back onto "OK to disconnect". Blah. But it's charging, just not letting me get away from that screen.

As for Tucker, whom I went to see while I was gone... well he was good, but not anymore than normal. And when I talked to the trainers it sounds like all they're doing is the same thing we've been doing for three years, and when I asked what I'm doing wrong, since I know that's probably a big portion of the problem, all I got was things I already knew.
And it was so awkward there. I hate going to knew stables because it makes me feel so incapable and stupid, like I'm just a beginner again despite the fact I've been riding for 10 years and been working with my own horse for almost 4 years now. It's so embarrassing, because I don't know how they do things differently than me, and no matter what I do I think I always seem like some beginner. Plus, although I know it shouldn't have, when I would lead Tucker out to tack him up and people would talk about him or to him like I would or people in my stable who've worked with him for years would, it left a rather bitter taste in my mouth. Even more so when I was sure they had no clue he was my horse.

Even so, everyone loves him there, some said they'll be really sad to see him go. So my brain has still been lapsing into the thought that we may both just be better off if he stays there.
Something that made me feel a little better, though, was when I went out to the field he was in. He was with three or so other horses, one who was transported up there with him and used to be at our barn. And both him and that horse (Lincoln) came right up to me or at least took hearty interest in me when I was there, while the other horses I didn't know just went on with their horsey business. So I knew not only Tucker, but both of them knew at the very least that I was a familiar friend. I also have some cute pictures of Lincoln and Tucker, because they were stuck together like glue.

So I'm still unsure of things with Tucker... so I'm distracting myself with filling out my Gold Award Final Report, trying to get my fanfiction out, and doing Live By The Creed Missions, because if I think about it too much I only get more worried and emotional @_@


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http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/26955592/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:35:42 PDT (EDIT) I'll be on an off for a few days. We're away at the moment and internet is finicky, plus school is starting up. So there'll be occasional comments here or replies there, but it may be far between or terribly random. So if I leave a comment one place and reply soon but don't reply to another one you left, it's because I'm only able to be on so long at the moment.

AND I just found out yesterday that Live By The Creed is finally open! Look for me on there under Ever__Lasting (keep in mind there are TWO underscores, because whenever I signed up for Ubisoft I was stupid).
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Yes, I know I still haven't updated and haven't worked through any of my messages yet-- Sorry! I'm terribly lazy and our computers have been acting up and I'm not liking any photos I have. Blarg.

But I heard Tucker's doing fantastic, which is awesome, and he's the current favourite at the stable because he has such a smooth gate (I've been spoiled in that aspect. All other horses are like wooden wagons on a rocky road compared to him) and supposedly he's responding well and not testing people as much as he used to. I'm hoping that will stay. And my sister started school again (sucks for her) so I'm currently drawing a picture of Ezio that doesn't have him killing anyone (it's a Christian school, and locker inspections would tear my beautiful artwork down if they knew he was a character in a game where you kill people) and my brother left to go back to college again, and since his college is right around where Tucker is at the moment, we're going up to move the rest of his stuff into his new apartment this weekend and then I'll get to see and ride Tucker again~! Yay! And I'll get to see how they are working with him. Bit nervous about that.

Also, my family adores going to Renaissance Faires whenever we can (I actually had my sweet sixteen at one! How awesome is that?) and we're planning to go again this year. But what fun is a faire when you go in normal clothes? Not half as much fun as dressing up!! So we (my dad and I) are currently working on another faerie costume to wear this year. I did one last year too, but I don't think I posted any pictures of it. I hope I'll get a few good ones in this time to show you guys.
Plus, it's a Renaissance Faire. I'll bet anyone tons of virtual money there will be SOMEONE there dressed up as Ezio! Considering last year I found someone dressed as Altair x] (see my scraps, I should still have a picture of him) So I'm excited. Me and my friend decided if we do find an Ezio cosplayer we're going to glomp him/her. Wouldn't that be an amusing picture? Two faeries glomping a nobleman/assassin. Hehe.

So if you are planning to go to a Renaissance Faire, let me know! Maybe you'll be going to ours ;]
Also, to any girl scouts out there, I've finally finished my Gold Award Project!! FINALLY! So now I have to figure out the rest of the paper work... but the project is FIN-IIISSSHHED.

And, before my brother left, I got him to download Altair Chronicles onto his iPod Touch so I could play it, and though it's very amusing, especially the voice acting, I do agree with everyone saying it sucks. Really, it rather does. Especially the controls of the iPod Touch. It takes forever to do simple tasks and moving for fighting is annoying. But the voice acting is so freaking FUNNY! But since he left I never got to finish it. Ah well.

So yes, when I'm not goofing off for the final days of summer, I'll work at replying to all your replies.


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I will eventually post more pictures up. I have them, just haven't had time to actually add my watermark and put them up. I also have some drawings I'll put up, hopefully, too.

Also, terribly sorry for late replies. Stuff has been piling up and it takes a while to reply and look at everything. So, despite the lateness, I will eventually reply.

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So, Tucker was supposed to be up getting the crap trained out of him now. He was supposed to leave at least a week ago. But apparently he's not, and I'm going insane because I don't know what they're doing with him, if he's going to go up, if he'll have enough time to get properly trained now, if he's going to be up there too long, or if he's not even gonna go up. And I'm all twitchy with anxiousness because I'm not there, and I can't do anything, and I've visited some stables and talked to other trainers who gave me some suggestions (most of which I've heard already, but still) and it makes me want to make something happen. Something good.
The other day I actually went to visit a stable I may keep my horse at when I go to college, to just scope some things out. And while I was there I was going to have a lesson. It ended up being more of one of the trainers there telling me about the horse I was going to ride, her watching me (and may I add, being impressed >insert nonexistent ego here< ) and then telling me to just have fun.

Have. Fun.

Two words I realized I never heard come from my mouth, or anyone who I ride with mouths, when talking about horse back riding. It's like, horse back riding was never meant to be "fun". It was meant to be serious. Enjoyable, fulfilling, but serious, not necessarily "fun".
It makes it sound really bad, which it's not, just because I'm not saying it right. I'm a lazy person and have to force myself to do most everything, including riding. But usually, even if I go to the stable not wanting to be there, once I'm out there riding it's okay. And I enjoy it. But, especially in these years of training Tucker, the phrase "have fun" wasn't in our vocabulary, but you don't get on a horse like him and just trot around because you feel like it. You have to have purpose, a reason to be doing what you're doing, and you don't let up for a second because as soon as you try to think of it being "relaxing" or "fun" or just pausing to enjoy being on a horse, something will happen and suddenly you're on the ground with dirt up your nose.

But that's not to say I don't enjoy riding. When I'm in the saddle, I do usually enjoy myself. It just takes a lot out of me, especially on Tucker, and it's energy I'm getting unable to spare. And it feels wrong going to the stable just to brush him, like sometimes I wish I could do.
But when I got on this new horse at this new stable, all I could think about was "Gee, Tucker can't do this.", "Man, I wish Tucker could come back like she can." and "Wow, this is so easy compared to Tucker." THe horse I rode was really a sweet heart, but like the trainer told me, wasn't really for beginners. She would try to get her way, but not half as bad as Tucker would. She would run off if you kicked to hard, but came back just as easily. She was soft, and quiet, and so sensitive to the mouth and sides that it took nothing to get her going or bring her back; nothing like Tucker. Riding him is like a battle. You have to kick like hell to get going, and pull back twice as hard to bring him back. Simple tasks turn into laborious fights that just gets both of us upset.

And yet I still keep coming back. I'm not really sure why anymore. I think I enjoy it, and then I wonder if I really do. I do know I love my horse to bits, (no pun intended) quirks and all. But if I can't handle him, if I'm just getting fed up and making him get fed up; what's the point?
But horse back riding has always been a part of me. I never wanted doll houses as a little kid, I wanted toy stables. I always wanted a horse, and that desire only escalated as I got older, and riding was just always there. Sometimes I loved it, sometimes it was more of a task, but I still came back, and now, ten years since my first real lesson, I'm training my own quirky horse. I think it would feel weird if I stopped.

I know, when it comes to riding, that I hate riding alone and I hate having to decide what to do. I always second guess myself, in everything I do, and in riding I'm more paranoid because I don't want to do something wrong that'll kill me and my horse. So I'd much rather ride in a lesson where someone tells me what to do and can tell me when I'm doing something wrong or coach me through a situation I'd have to figure out alone otherwise. I also know I really don't like riding for no reason. I don't get on a horse to just sit and ride and enjoy nature; I ride to ride hard. I want a challenge, I want something that will give me something to do, a reason to be on the back of that horse that's more than just exercising him so he doesn't get fat. I want to train a horse, improve him, or prepare him for a competition; anything that gives me purpose, though I tend to ignore improving... ]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/26234175/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/26234175/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:32:02 PDT New Bloodlines trailer!! *squee* [link]

I'm planning to update with some pictures soon; I recently painted and drew some stuff I'm thinking about posting here, though I need to sort through my camera memory card while I'm at it..

I'm currently away in the lower half of the US, far away from my horsie Even worse, he's supposed to be leaving to go get "properly broke" by some other trainers my trainer knows, and he won't be back for a few months. I'm all worried because I'm not sure how much it'll actually help >< But it may be good to relax a bit, knowing he's being taken cared of and being ridden, so I can focus more on my own riding abilities and ride a bunch of different horses, rather than just him. It'll make me a better rider, and maybe by the time he get's back things will work out!
But I don't know v.v
But instead of focusing on that, I've been trying to spend my time here on my writing and art work, and I think it's going pretty well =]

Also, I got tagged

RULES:
1. Post the rules.
2. Each tagged person must tell 8 things about themselves.
3. At the end you have to tag 8 people and post their icons in your journal.
4. Go back to their page and leave a comment saying you tagged them.
5. No tag backs

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1. I have a Arab/Paint horse with idiosyncrasies.
2. I'm almost obsessively excited about the new Assassin's Creed games! (as if that wasn't obvious)
3. I draw faeries and dragons on my walls.
4. I almost always draw faeries naked, because I think when they have clothes it ruins the whole point of faeries.
5. That doesn't stop me from drawing pretty outfits on some faeries anyway
6. I like spelling it "faeries" not "fairies" and I have no clue why.
7. I usually sleep with some form of stuffed animal near, just because.
8. Writing romance makes me squirm.


I'm gonna break the rules x] I tag whoever read this and feels like tagging themselves to do this! I think I already did this tag though... *shrugs* I actually have a meme tag I still need to do too... *runs off to take pictures of room*


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/26013189/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/26013189/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:17:15 PDT I think I'll have internet, but I don't know when. I'll try to update some photos(eventually). I started painting the other day so maybe I post some of those up.

And, as you can see, I did end up posting that AC2 fanfiction, though some stuff is wrong with it but I'm having trouble fixing the coding. I haven't dealt with DA's text stuff yet =\

I'm going to try to write more but writing is fleeting with me x[ Once I feel up to editing it, I'll also post a slightly revised version of Faceless Savior, another AC fanfic that I wrote last year and have posted on my ff.net account.

If anyone has tips for painting (in acrylics specifically), please let me know!

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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/25963651/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/25963651/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:29:08 PDT I have some pictures but along with being away, I've been having computer problems so I'm not sure when I'll post anything. I also have some stuff written for a AC2 fanfiction but I'm not sure it's good enough to be posted It was kinda rambling in an odd way... *shrugs*

So who else went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter!!?! Well, 12:10 showing technically for me (or really, 12:20 because the theatre was stupid and didn't start until my mom actually got up and complained, lol!) It was fun, being with a crap load of other people who liked Harry Potter enough to go to a crowded theatre at midnight and not get out until after 3am and even dress up while doing so.
Me and ~Hazel-Moon925 went (though not to an imax or 3D one because our theatre is stupid) and we got dressed up too I should've taken some pictures; maybe we'll do that later. They weren't really any harry potter costume since it was thrown together yesterday and we don't have any Hogwarts like robes or their schoolish looking uniform. Put I like what I managed I'm a Hufflepuff, except that sucks for throwing together a costume because I have NOTHING yellow. And I'm serious: I have stuff with yellow in it, but not enough to be hufflepuffish and the only yellow shirt I have I actually got for the 7th Harry Potter book midnight thing at barnes and noble(where I also dressed up as a Hufflepuff, because we rule! 8D ). My dad lent me his yellow honors scarf thingy he got in college- that's how desperate I was for something yellow.

Annnyyways. I think I liked the movie. My opinion is skewed though because I just kept thinking of how it related to the book, and now I'm not sure how much I liked it XD I love Bellatrix though: I would so want to be her if I were evil: her actress must have a crapload of fun playing her! Greyback reminded me of James from Twilight, which wasn't bad but wasn't good either. I didn't picture him buff and ruggedly/savagely handsome. I pictured him strong enough, but kinda lanky, with a kind of hunch like he constantly waited for the moment he could turn into a werewolf. More of that wildish creepy. But the actor did a good job I think of pulling off that same dangerous and creepy aura (especially if he managed to make me and Marah reminded of James). Though that scene with the Burrow burning was so wrong-- that was in the 7th, not the 6th! And they didn't even mention Bill and Fleur (which they should considering the wedding is a big beginning part (as far as I remember) in the 7th). I wasn't happy with Snape either. I just didn't picture his expressions and emotions like he did in the movie. And Narcissa bothered me; she was okay but just didn't come off right-- or at least how I wanted her to. She was supposed to be in hysterics, and I think she should've looked a lot more fragile than she did- not like pathetic, but that sort of fragility of a person who is very strong and smug finally breaking down because her family's at risk. The sectemsempra part bothered me too- I wish they made it look more like a sword slashed him rather than looking something like he was bleeding internally. And Draco and his suits XD That was hilarious. The cinematography of the movie was great though! Especially the part with the Inferi!

And now I'm ranting, so I'll stop there.
Tucker's been fine and I've been better, but we're going away again so I can't do much with him then. But we've managed to set up a boot camp for him. My trainer now believes he was never properly broken which is why he hasn't really improved as much as he should've, and so while we're away on vacation he's being sent up to Connecticut for a few months or so (T_T) to be ridden several times everyday apparently but lots of different people who know how to ride and are stronger and taller and heavier than me. Stupid shortness. That's why I suck.
I don't think it'll help in the long run, but my trainer thinks so and I wanted him to do this anyway, even if it won't help in the long run. Everyone keeps telling me not to think too far ahead though. So I dunno. We'll see I guess.

Until then I'll see if I can post some stuff sometime before I leave again, or at least catch up on everyone's journals and comments.


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http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/25606170/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:16:43 PDT Posted a few pictures, and even sorted through some of my favourites and stuck some in new folders.
I'll continue to look through my computer and memory cards to find more pictures to post. But I'm lazy, so no clue when.
I also just won some prismacolor markers on ebay, so I'll start experimenting with those when I get them. I'm not a coloring person, but I'd like to experiment.

Still trying to work with my horse... everything's okay so far but selling him is still an option I have to face >> My trainer wants me to get a quarter horse instead, one that has an easier energy level for me to work with. But I don't know. I decided to not think too much about selling Tucker until next summer, when it may be a bigger deal since we'll be moving and I'll have to leave my current stable. My mom just wants me to make sure I have enough time to, if I do trade Tucker, get used to the new horse before we leave.

..On a brighter note, new Doctor Who was on yesterday I'm gonna miss David Tennet

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/25521468/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/25521468/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:04:07 PDT Well we found out why my horse was spastastic a few weeks ago. The grass had too much sugar in it and he went on a sugar high which made him go insane(well not INSANE...) and unresponsive. So we took him off that field and put him in a less bountiful one, and he's been good, or rather, back to normal. Except after that fall when he was bad I go kinda freaked out, and I thought I was okay but realized I wasn't. The other day I was jumping courses for the first time since the fall in a lesson and it was okay, I just felt nauseous after each course. The problem happened when Tucker ran out of one jump (he was great up until then) and continued to do so, which caused me to get kinda scared v_v Before my fall, if he ran out of a jump I'd just get upset with him and work him over it, but now I'm getting more frightened when he gets jumpy and I start thinking about lots of negative possibilities that I never dwelled much on before now, and I get upset and feel sick when he freaks out. And I know it's not just with my horse, because I lead another horse out into a field the other day and she was a bit pully and though I'm more than capable of handling it, I still was thinking of everything that can go wrong. I never used to do that, and it's so annoying!! It's interfering with my riding, and I'm sure it's upsetting any horse I work with too ><

But I'm proud of myself, because despite that trouble, I still willingly continued to work him over the jump he wasn't happy about until we both did it without trouble a bagillion times. I figure that the only thing I can do is just suck it up and keep riding, so that's what I've been doing. It's just so annoying to feel afraid ><
Plus now my trainer wants me to start looking at other horses to see if we can find a "better fit" because she says Tucker's "quirks" will never go away, but I never expected them too and when I bought him, I bought him knowing fully well what I was getting myself into. But my trainer is just thinking now (after 3 years...) that Tucker may need something we can't give him.
*sigh* So we'll see. Logically, I agree with what she said, and I've been wondering if I wasn't right for this horse ever since I got him. I only have so much energy and he may be better off with a stable with more horses and a stronger owner. Emotionally though, I'm not sure. I've had him for around three years now, and he's gotten so much better and he;s gotten me so much better. I want to work through it, I want to be able to be right for him, but that may be making things worse. He doesn't seem out of hand though, I highly doubt he's unhappy. I think it just may be time to experiment with different things and work more with a specific goal in mind.
I don't want another horse

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IT LOOKS SO AMAAAAAZZING!!!

Ubisoft send me an email the other day talking about the E3 thing going on and links to videos and I saw assassin's creed so i was like cool! And I clicked it, and watched the new trailer and SCCRREEAAMED! It was so awesome!!! My mom came home soon after and I was ranting and squealing about it for several minutes at 1000000 mph x]
Then I found out they put out a gameplay trailer thingy! EEEEEEHHHHHHK!!!! Amazing <3

I'm so freakin excited for it. 30+ weapons, Ezio stealing the weapons, guard that actually look into hiding places, awesome graphics especially with the funny disintegrating thing when he assassinates someone (so cool!), SMOKE BOMBS!, swimming, really interesting looking plot, hidden gun thingy!(or at least shooting out knives we had to throw before) FLYING AND KICKING PEOPLE WHILE FLYING!!
So amazing x3

I think the double hidden blade thing is a bit over doing it though (but apparently I'm the only one i know of who thinks like that), i'm also worried they won't have any horses to ride :'( What would be really cool is if we had a part of te game where we had to hijack a horse-drawn carriage and then go on an epic chase!!! I would love that.

I also hope all the people we have to assassinate won't be like the dude in the gameplay trailer, because he just stood there. No fight, no flee, just "GUARDS!" But I doubt they'd do that to use during the whole game. I loved the part in the first game when we had to kill that fat merchant king and he ran like heck, it was hilarious! Especially since my sister played it once and couldn't get him immediately because she kept missing or running into things so she had to chase him for several minutes out in the town too, but it was so funny xD

Anyway, during the first trailer I thought they were going to keep Altair's voice (because it sounded like his when we was grunting) which I was sad about , but then during gameplay Ezio suddenly talks with the deep accented voice and it was like WOAH! I just surprised me because it was so much deeper then Altair's xD I didn't really like it, but it'll be something to get used to and I'm sure I'll like it once I hear it enough, because it was pretty awesome. Just surprising. I hope his accent isn't too hard, that we won't be able to understand him O_O

Oooh but AC2 looks so exciting! I'll miss Altair, but Ezio is looking pretty darn bad-ass! (jumping from the top of the building and landing like POW!) and his story looks interesting =]

I want more trailers now xD

Tucker was very good yesterday, by the way. I'm all better, my muscles don't hurt anymore and my scratches are healing nicely, and I wasn't really afraid to ride him again =]

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/25050389/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/25050389/ Sun, 31 May 2009 12:00:45 PDT > He bolted three times in six days and the last time I lost both my stirrups and ended up falling off @_@ Paaaiin. Luckily I'm not dead, and nothing's broken (expect maybe my confidence, which I never had a lot of anyway) but every muscle hurts and until today I could barely dress myself without lots of pain and stiffness. I did something to my shoulder too, but the doctor said it was just another muscle thing *shrugs*. I also got two lovely bloody scrapes on my elbows, because when I fell off it was at a gallop and I slid on my stomach/shoulder/arms for, what my trainer said, 10 feet. Ouch. Now the cuts look disgusting x[
But I'm not dead and nothing's broken!
But now I'm not sure how I'll get back on Tucker after that >> I'm usually not scared to be on a horse doing stuff like rearing, bucking, refusing jumps, etc. but when it comes to bolting, it scares the crap out of me. I don't know about other horses, but when Tucker bolts it's full out and there's no stopping him. Everything that's supposed to stop a horse from galloping only makes Tucker go faster, so it takes A LOT longer to bring him back than another horse. He just keeps getting stronger and there's no controlling him. And, especially without stirrups, there's only so long I can stay on >>

Soooo I have no clue what I'm going to do next time I get to the stable (which my doctor said can't be for a few days). I'm not afraid to be around horses, just kinda afraid to actually ride mine.. .>>
But I'm not dead, and I have Mirror's Edge, AND my school ends this week. Yay!

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/24670442/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/24670442/ Sat, 09 May 2009 14:26:25 PDT
I'll do a few more later too, but our computers have been whacky of late.

Did anyone else see L: Change the World in theatres last week?? It was awesome, though since part of the plot is an incurable disease, it wasn't the best time to put it out because of all the swine flu stuff, lol. But it's not their fault, the release date in America was set for a while, so bad timing for the flu to pop up I guess...? XD

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/24392937/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/24392937/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:53:16 PDT But my computer time hasn't been much *shrugs* And we went away for spring break, which was nice and relaxing, but DA didn't like my internet there.
But I took some more pictures, which are still on my other computer (which I cleaned out to make room for more stuff in my pictures and documents, but right after I was so happy to see my C: drive bar down to blue instead of red. But right after that I downloaded the pictures I took then, and the bar shot right up to red again D': )
I also colored some line arts which I might post, but coloring's not my strongpoint xD but I was bored *shrugs*

So I will eventually get more pictures up...

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23941599/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23941599/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:14:25 PDT gaspers. Well, you probably wouldn't be able to *see* that from here, but whatever.
Even so, no picture update at this moment. I'm just a lazy bum. And have essays and an unfinished novel jabbing me in the rear.

But I saw Knowing today. When I saw the preview a few months ago I was like GGAAAAASSPPPP and, obviously, really wanted to see it. I can't say I'm disappointed, because I'm not, but I'm not completely satisfied either. Mostly because of the ending (which I will not reveal) but there was really no other way to end it without it being utterly terrible. I think the part of me that didn't like it only disliked it because that it was a bit different than I was expecting. But not in a M Night Shamalan way. And I do think something was missing, but I have no clue what or how to have made it better. It was a story of tragedy and hope and redemption by the end of it (like WW2?).
Though if you did see it, can anyone explain that rabbit thing at the end? I mean, other than a symbol of fertility. Can anyone think of another reason for them being there at the end? Because if those aliens really wanted to play Jesus, they'd take a whole bunch of other animals too, like an odd form of Noah's Ark. Or maybe all the other assumed children had a bunch of different animals too? *shrugs*

But I still liked it. Just don't go to see it if you like happy happy movies. This is one of those more bitter sweet ones by the end, though thrillerish through the rest, which still doesn't describe it well, but if you see it for yourself you won't need me telling you.

Ranting is FUN
But now I must rant on subjects I don't care about and structure them into well written essays... sigh.

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23660870/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23660870/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:27:47 PDT -----EDIT---
Oh look, I actually DID end up posting some pictures today. Sorry they're all so... bleh. I took 400+ pictures at that dang Flower Show and hate every single one. (half turned out blurry because of icky lighting and lack of stable surface) *fails*
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Instead, I'm going to rant a bit again. (aren't you excited? >.>; ) SLIGHT DEATH NOTE SPOILERS AHEAD =]
I currently have 5 episodes left to watch of Death Note before it's done, which is getting me kinda depressed. I watched Death Note I and II live action movies and am planning to see that spin off one L Chang the World when it comes out in America. I heard there was a novel too... but anyway...
I'm getting frustrated with the lack of strong women in this series D< Granted, I'm not watching it to see good, well developed, strong women characters, but those will always make the female audience feel better. You have Misa, who is... well Misa. I do like her despite her loud air headedness, annoyances, and sometimes sickening obsession with Light, though I think that's because of her comic relief. I dunno, but she's still a fun character. Even so- she's not really a good female character to get girls to watch this series. And I'm wondering if whoever worked on Death Note had no clue how to write/draw independent women. Just look at Takada!! She's like a more mature form of Misa! "Oh goodness, Light is actually Kira! That makes me like him even more since Kira is my god! So now I'm going to fall head over heals with him and blah blah blah" Sound familiar? It's like they completely recycled Misa's character, like Yugioh spin offs.
Misa I could understand, having witnessed her parent's murders and having the murderer get away with it only to have Kira kill him for her, lots of people would be very gratful to him. And I wouldn't doubt that others would also see him as their savior and want to be like a nun. Completely subservient and devoted to God's will, etc. Dad pointed out that if nuns could physically express their love to their God, if He took on a physical form, it'd be... insane! So that's like Misa!... kinda? In a weird way maybe *shrugs* That said, I still didn't finish the series so stuff could be different... *shrugs*

The only female character that made you want to point her out and go "That's how you should be! Strong! Independent! Smart! YES!" would be Misora Naomi. Even with the death of her fiance, she didn't want to kill herself (that was Kira's fault) she was strong and wanted to catch Kira and even figured important facts out by herself. But then she died... What's that say about women? You have to be stupid, submissive, dependent and a slave to men to have a good long life? BAH!

That said... I still love the series xD Don't ask me why, even I can't figure it out with everything bad I point out about it. I still highly recommend the series. I'm so weird... xD

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23504806/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23504806/ Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:17:40 PST
But I did see the first Death Note movie, which was good! Except for a few annoyances... SPOILERS---> I'm pretty sure Shiori did not exist in the series, meaning she also was never killed by her crazy boyfriend. I find the fact that they had Light purpously kill Shiori stupid and ruined his character. I don't think he ever did that in the series, though he came close to killing his family at one point I think, but wasn't happy about it. So by adding that whole part into the movie, they changed his personality! Though it may be implied in the series that he may do something like that, I don't think he ever actually did, and by making him kill someone who was supposed to be close to him purpously and without batting an eyelash completely screws up his character which also screws up some of the moral battle going on. Part of Death Note's charm, I think, is the mental and moral battles going on. Is Light right? Should he be stopped? Is L just as bad as Light? Is Light really bad? Is killing convicted criminals really murder? What IS justice?
(continued SPOILER)
That all is thrown out the window because of that one scene. The fact that he kills her without a second thought makes people want to immediatly go to L's side, because it makes Light seem mentally unstable (even if he is or not, this was something not implied in the series that I remember). So Light's morals and the questions they bring up are dismissed because he purposely killed her girl friend, who was not directly threatening him. At least the FBI agents he killed could be seen as worth killing because they stood in Light's way (though I'm not fond that he killed them too) but in his eyes there were no longer innocent because they were trying to stop him. Shiori wasn't. So all this implies this different side of Light's personality that is not true to the series-- an important side too, not something that could be looked over.
(END SPOILER)

Though I did like L's actor. I dunno why, he was just amusing. The movie made me like L a whole lot more when previously I liked both characters equally.
So now we're waiting for Netflix to send us the next movie. And I heard the spin off L: Change the World will be available in America this summer! Yay!

Also, I'm trying to write some fanfiction.... BUT IT'S NOT WOOORKING x[ Plus I ache all over since I went sledding for a few hours yesterday. Twas fun! We finally got some nice snow!! Though it didn't pack well and our local hill sucks. Some people drove there though and pulled people behind them with a rope tied to the truck and were pulled on sleds or snowboards behind them. It was rather amusing.

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23435327/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23435327/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:12:15 PST Also thinking about maybe asking for requests, except that I procrastinate a lot and have other things to do.. but still xD

But I'm about to go see the Death Note movie with my friend and have a pizza/Death Note party~! I saw most of the series (except for the last like.. 5 episodes, for some reason) and really liked it and found the movie at Hot Topic the other week, but didn't feel like buying it so I rented it instead.

Ah. I found out that I'm probably alergic to most earrings so we need to buy sterling silver/gold ones or something. Bleh. That wasn't fun. My ears got all icky.

ANyway, pizza's here which means Death Note time~!

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23329172/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23329172/ Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:48:53 PST
I am still terribly sick of seeing adds for Twilight quizzes everywhere; I think the series is trying to take over the world. It's already managed to get millions (maybe billions!) of teen girls with nothing better to do to obsess over the books and it's characters to the point of fainting. Or at least obsessing too much. At least Harry Potter fans have something respectable to faint over *nodnod* xD But really. It's like those adds are stalking me or something O_O Though I must say, some of the Twilight stuff you can buy is rather fun/cute, like his-her rings saying "lion" and "lamb". But I think I'd still rather buy and actually wear a Harry Potter hoodie than a Twilight hoodie.

On a lighter note, I've spent time that I could've been doing my homework watching the amazing Yugioh Abridged series instead Gotta love wasting time. Oh! And me and my sister just recently found out Red vs Blue was updated! O_O Yays!

And on a not really darker note, but not a fun note either-- I was recently able to take out my 6 week earrings and put new ones in; except no one decided to tell me the proper way to take the freaking things out of my head. So I spent a half hour trying to pull them out and managed to pinch my ears with my nails about 50gillion times while making indents of the earrings appear on my fingers from the force I held the fronts with in an attempt to force them out of my ear.
Needless to say, it didn't work. Instead, I managed to feel more like I ripped my ear off when my fingers would slip on one side causing the force used to pull out the earring to backfire. (I could put that into one of those nifty force equations i'm learning that i'd rather put on fire than remember them). So it was after many of these vain attempts and a very frustrated me, my mom finally called Clare's (those stores in malls) and we were told that earrings were made with this weird child's lock thing like on medicine bottles-- twisting the bakc a certain way while pulling the front.

But another thing they forgot to mention is that it is terribly hard to twist it correctly by yourself. So after several tries at that and me being at the point of killing something, my mom twisted it correctly and got those dang things out.

Never. Again.
It was terrible. And then I had to put the new ones in and because I'm not used to it-- i DESPISE the pass out worthy feeling of sticking posts into small holes in your ears. Gaaaah.

Remind me why I wanted earrings?

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23192551/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/23192551/ Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:00:49 PST But I recently have been watching some japanese episodes of Yugioh, and I've realized how much I liked that show Except in english, everyone's waaay too dramatic. And all the voices are cuter in japanese too xD
It was just weird, I haven't done anything yugioh related in a while and after seeing part of an episode of Yugion 5Ds, or something, when i was flipping through channels I was like "hey, I should actually finish watching the original yugioh series!" because I missed some of the last episodes of the memory arc, though I think I know the jist of what happens. So i'm re-watching it, yay! But that makes me want to re-watch other parts of the series, but it's too loooong and I have home work to do x[

Oh well.

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Dude. What is UP with all these freaking Twilight quizzes and adds everywhere!! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!! Any site I go to, they keep coming up! I'M GOING INSANE!!!... not really. But I don't see why there's so many adds for random Twilight quizzes.
Anyway. Back to science homework. *wanders off*

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Oh hey, I forgot! Happy belated Valentines Day!! =] Maybe I'll post up late Vday pictures. Hmm...
Did everyone have a nice Valentines Day? I saw Coraline! =] Other than that... normal. Me avoiding homework, being lazy, attempting to do home work then finding a reason not to... yeah, it's all good. Maybe I'll write something... hmm.. *wanders off again*

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/22770355/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/22770355/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:26:25 PST
Well then, not much to say. I need to go post more pictures, but I don't feel like it right now. And now I can't remember what I was going to say. Bleh, I need sleep xD I woke up early today to watch a marathon of Doctor Who >>; And now I can't think right because I'm tired. Darn. So much for doing that late night homework...

By the way; Awww! It's a cute little knight mood smilie thing! Cuuute x3

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/22396813/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/22396813/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:59:28 PST Yays. I will try to put up more and actually take more pictures worth putting here- but laziness has taken over (when doesn't it?)

Hm. I need a new icon/avatar picture thingy...... Suggestions?
*procrastinating from homework* Gah. I dun wanna doooo iiitt! But I have school soon T_T But ~musical-simplicity game over a few days ago Twas fun, we painted on the walls. *nods* Maybe I'll take a picture of that.

Oh yeah, I got my ears pierced! ...still not sure if I'm happy or sad about that. But ~musical-simplicity says that before I had one choice- not to wear earings; but now I have two choices (after 6 weeks)- to wear earrings or not to wear earrings (that is the question! lol). But I dunno =\ makes me feel girly. Then again, I AM a girl... but still.

Well we took down the Christmas tree since we're leaving tomorrow, and dad put away the pretty nativity scene. But we found another set so I pulled that out and set it up It IS still the 11'th day of Christmas... (or something like that).

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/22209305/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/22209305/ Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:27:21 PST And no, I'm not here to update anything at the moment, I just feel like ranting x3

So a few days before Christmas I finally got to rent the PS3, xbox 360 and PC game - Mirror's Edge. I have to say, it was both TV breaking frustrating as well as sucked into the movements exciting. Now I'm really not a gamer, I just play games when I feel like it and don't look for hard ones. I usually don't look for too challenging games, since usualy I'm playing it to feel good or ignore real life. Mirror's Edge played more to my kind of people I think, since overall it wasn't terribly hard- but I died many, many times by making wrong button mistakes or having crappy timing or judging wrong. Or simply by getting shot. So many times it took me several tries to find a way out or to my destitation or past the Blues (cops). The worst thing about the game for me was the combat, since I'm not a first person game player and was never good at gun games, when I had to engage the trigger happy Blues I died probably 10+ times before I found a way around or timed my punches/disarming correctly. It was also hair pulling frustrating when I screwed one thing up after getting so far and then having to go through the whole process again and again and again until I could actually accomplish it.

But even so, it was very fun. I would much rather reply levels where I was doing more running and parkour than fighting, but it's still a thrill to get past people as they are trying to shoot you down. What was also fun but annoying at times was just how much you had to figure out for yourself. I don't know how many games do that, but most games I've played specifically tell you just what you need to do, how to do it, and where to go. Or at least one of those. Mirror's Edge told you where you needed to get, but hearing Merc (a character telling you stuff through Faith's headphones things) telling you to go up and get to the roof doesn't help much when you're on the ground level. Everything else you usually have to figure out yourself, with the help of the hint button that tells you which general direction to go and keeping an eye out for red objects. Many times I had to figure out the best way to get through something by trial and error. I, however, forgot or just didn't know I could do half the stuff I had to pull off to get somewhere, like smashing through glass in mid air. For some reason I always forgot I could wall-run too, dunno why.
So the game play was overall very fun, but repetitive when you screwed something up and had to do everything over again (but they do have autosaving check points which helped a whooooole lot.) I don't think it was too repetitive otherwise though, some people say it is. I think though you are still doing the same general moves, it's up to you to find the best way to go and pull them off (without dieing) and with each time it got easier in the aspect of you got used to the controls, but harder as the game went on(though not terribly hard).

The plot line was lacking though, I think. I'm not sure what it's missing, but I wanted more from that. I was also terribly disappointed when I found out the cutscenes where done in a cartoonish 2D style after having played in very nice and compelling 3D animation. I don't know what they were trying to pull there -- maybe they were on a tight budget -- but they should have just stuck with their good 3D animation all the way through. I also felt there weren't enough characters, atleast not enough to interact with in game play. You were always either fighting Blues, or hearing Merc talk in your ear, or watching Faith interact out of game play. It would have been cool to tag team with someone, though the chasing parts were fun, there were only 2 or 3 of those that I remember. It was also pretty short, but that didn't bother me really. It was a good chunk for a new kind of game they weren't sure how it would do. The first person game play was also awkward at first, but rather addicting as it went on. And this is from someone who hates first person gun games!

Now even though I seem to keep saying negative things about the game, it was still amazingly fun, even during the times you felt like chucking the controller into the screen, and I would definitely recommend playing it at least once. I'm not sure about buying it, but it is still worth a rent. I can't wait to see what they'll do with a Mirror's Edge 2, if they have one.

And now I have to go finish my homework... so if you can, you should go out and rent Mirror's Edge =]

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/21940048/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/21940048/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:57:08 PST
Why is it so hard to find cell phones that aren't all "oh, i can go on the web at any time, have a gagillion and one keys so you can text at the speed of light, flip really cool and will probably break if dropped as much as as Ellfie drops her 'dinosaur' cell phone."
I'm seriously satisfied with my oldish one (only two colors, oh noes! *rolls eyes*) because it's been dropped on wood, concrete, tile and pavement probably a thousand times and still works fine, just a few battle scares to show. I hate all these new ones with the mini-keyboard like keys to make it easier for people to text.

I don't text.
But apparently everyone else does, because that's all I can find xO Stupid new high tech "oh my god look at me i'm shiny and awesome and you should totally spend 200 bucks on me because I can save 300 txts and 20 hours of music" *bashes into wall* Hah. My phone could live through that.

The only thing I want is a phone that has a camera and isn't quite so big that it makes a very awkward bulge whenever placed in a pocket. And doesn't have those key-board like keys. Those are icky.

*stalks back off into seeming non-existence*

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/21666177/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/21666177/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:19:28 PST ]
I also finished an interview I needed to do for my Gold Award. Double huzzah >]
Plus, I just baked choc. chip banana bars! TRIPLE huzzah!!
I never thought food could look so pretty! I actually looked at the mix as I poured it into it's trays before putting it in the oven and it just looked so beautiful! If I had my camera i woulda taken a picture *nodnod*. Not to mention it smells good.

Anywhoosles. I have pictures I can post that have been sitting on my little laptop, but I'm a lazy bum and don't feel like extracting them right now.

Oho, and; I saw the Twilight movie a few days ago. I must say, it was rather enjoyable. Maybe even enough to see it again. Wasn't too pleased with how depressed Kristen Stewart was as Bella (when she smiled the only time in the movie, I wasn't sure it was her at first), but everyone else I was rather pleased with, especially James. Though Edward seemed a bit more awkward than I thought he was supposed to be, but tis understandable.

And now I'm off to eat my beautiful choc. chip banana bars!

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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/21445668/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/21445668/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:15:40 PST But I have some updates.
To some concern anyone could have from my last post about my horse, I'd like to say that he's doing well- it looks like that jumping issue was just another one of his phases and attitudes, because he's back to normal (if you could ever call Tucker normal). I'm also proud (and mildly disappointed, but I keep trying to stay more proud!) to say that we won 5th place in the Year End Show Series at our local horse show! Huzzah! That means we get a dinner with the other winners (1st-6th place) and a big ol' ribbon. I have ot say I've had my eyes on those big ribbons ever since I saw one at my stable and realized what it was and that I was showing to compete for it.

For those who don't have any clue what I'm talking about, what I mean by year end show series is that I've shown my horse several times throughout the year at our local horse show, after apparently signing up (maybe my trainer did it? I don't remember actually doing anything for it, just hearing about it. I didn't even know I was participating in end of year stuff until my 4th show) all the points you get in each show are added up and stood up against your competitors in your division. I was in third place, but we didn't do as well as we could have in the last show and I was behind 1st and 2nd by many points and the people behind me were close enough to catch up quick. But 5th is better than nothing; especially considering where my Tucker was a year ago. =]

On a completely different note, I am participating in this thing called NaNo, (www.nanowrimo.org)where I am to write a 50,000 word story within the month of november. It's going well, though I feel a bit behind but not so much to hinder me. I'm currently at;

14,763 words

Wewt.

Not sure when I'll update pictures. I have plenty on my laptop, I just have to figure which ones are good enough to put up, then add my watermark and resize it, which proves to be rather annoying.
I believe that is it so far. Sorry for my random hiatus x[

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/20215639/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/20215639/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:08:18 PDT
Er, anyway. Not much to actually update, but I wanted another journal up despite that. Although I did find out that my horse is going to have to go to a kind of "boarding school" if we can get a hold of the other stable and if they have room. See Tucker grew up for probably until he was 2 in the wild (Chincoteague Island, you know? If not, read Misty of Chincoteague) which explains all of his spooky/looky and untrusting attitude towards things that more domestic horses would not care about. Basically he freaks out a bit more because that's how he would survive in the wild. It also means that he has a whoooooole lot of energy, since he probably spent most of his time galloping around the island with his pals. My trainer thinks he needs to be ridden every day, maybe even two or more times a day to get all his energy out. This is because recently he's been freaking out about jumps he sees every day in the same place and runs through the bit on them, and my trainers said it got to a dangerous point because he doesn't listen to you once he's near enough to the jump and just takes off, and lines can be almost bolt worthy the way he runs through them. I've had practice though so I can get the hang of him after a bit, but it's hard and dangerous, and only two other people are good enough riders at our stable to actually ride him, and I can't ride him every day. Plus a more herd mentality should help him too. Right now we have like, 8-10 horses at our stable, and horses get put out together in twos or threes (though they can all see eachother because of the way the fields are) butmy trainer thinks he needs to be out with 10 or so horses in one field, like in the wild.

So all in all, if there's a place at the stable for him, Tucker will be going to a nother, larger collegian stable where they'll use him for lessons and have him ridden 6 days a week, at least once a day, and apparently/ hopefully that will help him get better at being so green. But that means that in a sense, he won't be my horse for 7 months while he's there, though I can ride him there, but we need to have a lesson then. I'm hoping that because they're basically leasing my horse, I can come in and watch any work they do with him and maybe wash him or something occasionally..

So we'll see =\

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I give all these clubs permission to add my work to their galleries. (which I will actually submit to soon...ish..)

Fanfiction.net: Hedwig the MillenniumOwl [link]
The Avatar Melting Pot: [link]

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/20215308/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/20215308/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:40:24 PDT
]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/19923559/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/19923559/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:35:04 PDT So...

1. Post these rules

2. People Tagged must post 8 things each about themselves in their journals

3. Tag 6 people and post their icons on the same journal

4. Go to their pages and send a message that says you tagged them

5. NO TAG-BACKS!!!

8 things about myself:

1) Obvious, but; I love my horse very very much =]
2)When I get mad, I end up wanting to break stuff
3) My computer's unofficial name is Alphonse. (*hazel moon* no it's Lola!)
4) I'm mostly Irish! Woo!
5) I hate the Spanish language because all of my teacher's sucked at teaching it and ruined it for me.
6)I'm an Avatard
7) I believe in faeries
8) Last but not least... I'm only 5 foot. GO SHORT PEOPLE!

I will tag:
hazel-moon925
musical-simplicity
Blood-of-Anubis
Larina-Leilah
SoupySushi
Himeno-San


Okay SO. Guess what? Remember back in like, May, how I mentioned an idea for a podcast? Well me and finally started it! Huzzah! It's called The Avatar Melting Pot, and it's about Avatar the Last Airbender, where we randomly discuss shippings, seasons, opinions etc. and also add our own AU twist, where we'll tell of the Avatar characters in our own different stories. Check it out!
Our first podcast is officially up!

The Avatar Melting Pot: [link]

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I give all these clubs permission to add my work to their galleries. (which I will actually submit to soon...ish..)

Fanfiction.net: Hedwig the MillenniumOwl [link]
The Avatar Melting Pot: [link]

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/19847081/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/19847081/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:31:00 PDT
Hello =] Missed me? Well even if you didn't, I've still been gone.. Almost exactly a month xD(atleast since my last journal).
Now what's changed in that short time period?

I've traveled down south to Savannah GA to have a Juliet Low few days with a troop from Ohio, I've gone back to our home in NC, then to and back from 12 day horse camp, realized that I hate most human beings-though didn't we already know that?-(especially ones who are stupid [see info of what happened at camp]), realized how much I end up missing my horse more when I ride while I'm gone, probably more I'm forgetting, and most importantly...
AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER SERIES FINALLYYYY!!!

*screams, turns blue, and falls over dead*-*somehow is revived just to bug everyone with the rest of the journal*

It sucked. Not the show, but the fact that the week the new ep's (which weren't all new to me since I cheated and watched Firebending Masters through Boiling Rock 2 online) I. COULDN'T. SEE. ANY OF THEM!! Gah. See we left to go to camp on Saturday, stayed over a night somewhere else cuz camp started sunday morning and it took a while to get there. But the days they showed southern raiders and ember island players, our timing SUCKED. See me and my friend Allyson decided to have a few lessons in Western Riding before we left, since they expected us to know most of it at camp, except the lessons each day ran through the Avatar times!! *sobs* Even when I was done at like 7:50, No one picked me up until 8:20 and we didn't get back to TV until 8:45. So I was at the stable, staring at the clock, banging my head against the table as I knew with each moment passed, a new Avatar adventure went on that I wouldn't be able to see until much later. And the night of the movie, we got in around 9 so i was like "ok well I can just see the end," But NOOO not even that. We had no freakin TV. WHY OH WHY MUST I BE TORTURED!

SO then I went to camp, which sucked because the other 9 girls who I shared the cabin and program with pretty much sucked as a group (as indivuals is a different matter), and finally when I get back, we don't have fast enough internet at our NC home to load any form of thing like youtube videos, so I just saw the finale Wednesday.
Wednesday. More then two weeks after it came out. BAH!
ANd you know what? I still haven't seen Ember Island Players or Southern Raiders >< I saw the finale because my brother's amazing and taped it for me, then brought it down from NJ after spending hours messing with it so it could play on his computer.

Brother + techno wiz = <3

FINALE SPOILER ALERT!!!!
Overall I liked the finale, other then the fact it was a bit... too happy. No one died, not even Ozai =\ I was sure Azula was going to kill Iroh to get at Zuko, but Azula just went insane with paranoia. I felt kinda bad for her at the end, though they did a really good job bringing her across there, screaming and crying and writhing in frustration. Amazing =] And then Zuko jumped in front of lightning attack! To. Save. Katara! SQUEE! Adorable x3 though it ended with Maiko and Kataang, which bothered me >>
I didn't mind Maiko, especially since Zuko looked sooooo happy when Mai came back, the biggest smile I've seen =] Though dude, Kataang? GAH. I don't like Kataang. 12 year old should NOT passionatly make out with a 14 year old. Or 13 and 15 year olds, if it's a year after... but whatever. (edit-) I don't hate Kataangers or anything, I just don't agree with it, so if you like Kataang, don't take it the wrong way please, I'll still like you just the same =] I just still don't agree xD

I'll blab more later, but I must go, since my mom's here at my friend's house to pick me up.

BYE.

]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/19295794/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/19295794/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:13:51 PDT > My bad. No internet, busy with vacation and hanging out with and though left yesterday to go back home (which is a bagillion miles away from me).
And I'll be gone again for 3 or so weeks on saturday xD But we may have some internet sometime... *shrugs* But yeah, I'm going to horse camp for 2 of those weeks! Huzzah xD

I've uploaded a few pictures from a small shoot I did with , hopefully I'll get a few more out too. We also did a faerie shoot with my dad's help recently as well, so I'll have to post some of those out.

So, that's it.


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18798442/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18798442/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:48:56 PDT
On another note, I actually did draw lots of pictures of the Trickster from Kooza xD Two of them I really like But I have to scan them so I don't know when/if they;ll be up.

So I've also been learning Spanish (which I hate) but luckily I got a 93 on my final! But that doesn't mean I can do well when it's actually needed @_@

Er... that's all I can think of at the moment.



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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18747324/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18747324/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:38:18 PDT
Anyway; Anyone seen Cirque du Soleil? Well if you haven't, GO SEE ONE RIGHT NOW D<

I saw Kooza last night with my girl scout troop (more like partner girl scout, seeing as our troop consists of me and one other girl now...) and it was AMAZING! But really, when is Cirque NOT amazing? xD

The Trickster was my favourite character *nodnod* Though I'm trying to figure out if last night's actor was really an actress... I think she was, but I can't tell for sure But either way, he/she's still my favourite character.
See, each Cirque du Soleil has some plot to it, telling a story usually about clown characters. Kooza's about a little childish clown, the Innocent, who's finding his place in the world with the help of the Trickster, who pulls the Innocent into his magical realm that the Trickster is the creator of. The Trickster is a charming, mischievous and enigmatic character who likes to tease and play with the other characters, especially the Innocent, while flitting around the stage. He appears on stage at a whim, and brings with him an electric atmosphere, and is always overseeing the other acts from somewhere on the stage.

I was so depressed that I wasn't allowed to take pictures, because there were SO many amazing shots I would have loved to capture. But since photography of Kooza was not an option, I am going to attempt to draw out the pictures I wished to capture! =] No clue if I will like the outcome or if I'll post it, but if you see creatures flipping around and a man in a stripped suit with a funny hat and almost evil smirk, it's probably KOOZA!

Just so you know, apparently Kooza is from some language's word "koz" I think, which means box, and they're calling this performance "Circus in a box".
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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18686709/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18686709/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:00:27 PDT
You see I was once a huge fan of it (especially when I RPed) but I go in and out of my love of shows pretty randomly, but it'll usually eventually all come back again (like with Avatar too) and I'll suddenly be like "I REALLY REALLY WANNA WATCH SOME NARUTO/AVATAR/WHATEVER!" XD

So yes, I got caught up to chapter 402 on the manga (though caught up for me is different, since I've still left gaps there) because yesterday I accidentally went to a naruto manga site I had bookmarked and saw a small ad thing for Naruto chapter 402-- and saw Sasuke crying. Yes that's right: Sasuke. Crying. I mean, how many times do you see that!? So obviously after that I was all "Holy crappers, I must know what happened! O_O" And I am so surprised at what I read. I mean- dude!- that's like a... O'Henery, or M. Night Shamala twist O_O (if you've read it, you should know what I'm talking about, if not, I ain't saying anything cuz I hate spoilers xD)

So now I'm on a craze about finding good Naruto fanfiction, and gonna finish watching Shippuuden eventually, since I spent the morning reading 20 chapters of the manga xD And daaaang, the Sasuke vs. Itachi fight was so freaking long and back and forth @_@

I must say, I do really admire Kishimoto for the depth he puts into Naruto. Though Sasuke confuses me- I think he lives off of revenge and if he loses one revenge he has to find another thing to avenge. Sometimes you really wanna slap some sense into that boy! (Though I must say, I'm still a healthy fan of Sasuke [still not sure why] but in the sense that I wouldn't mind seeing him suffer from time to time, especially if it's something like someone annoying him xD One of my dreams if I went into the Naruto world would be to see how long it would take Sasuke to snap if I kept randomly poking him.. >D) But like I said, he annoys me too.
Poor Shino though xD ("Why is that? That is because I was not on the last mission and now will make up for that." He talks so funny.. xD)

So you may see some fanart, if I ever get to uploading pictures again.. I've gotten lazy..
Now I'm off to see if I can find a good fanfic, or go to sleep... tired.


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18540309/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18540309/ Wed, 28 May 2008 08:38:23 PDT
I should be doing homework now.. But besides that, I came up with this random idea while listening to the radio the other day... everyone know podcasts? Well I'm still fuzzy on it, but while listening to people talk about completely random subjects on the radio, I said to my mom "People actually listen to this? And these guys get PAID for it? That's awesome!" And I realized loads of people make their own podcasts stuff, so I thought about doing one with my friend! (I don't think she has a deviant art, I'll have to ask).

So what do you think? I'm not sure how to run everything, and I need to still talk this over with my friend, but when I vaguely told her yesterday she thought it was a cool idea! We could do topics about Avatar, Twilight, Harry Potter... etc. We've read/watched a lot of the same things. But yes, any ideas and suggestions anyone has would be helpful =] Like where to start a site (I found a Zutara podcast stuff on podbean.com, which apparently is a podcasting site?

So yeah, still fuzzy, but sounds like a fun idea!
Ideas, questions, suggestions, comments? Plus if you have any ideas for subjects to discuss and give us some material to work on, that'd be great! Just keep in mind I have no clue if/when we'll actually start

Thanks =]

PS: Thanks for the birthday wishes guys!


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18470918/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/18470918/ Fri, 23 May 2008 21:48:14 PDT
Well, tomorrow that is. Actually no!- today actually since it's 12:30am, muahaha, so... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME 8D

(this is basically an excuse to update my journal.. xD)

Sucks that I'm still somewhat sick on my birthday though. I had a fever all of yesterday, having felt crappy the day before but blamed it on allergies, then in the evening felt a bit feverish, but I don't trust my opinion on fevers.. until when I tried to sleep and the whole night I was kicking the sheets off, pulling them back up, coughing, waking up every half hour to get some water after getting terribly dry at random. Yeah.. wasn't fun. Crappy day after that too, but today was better, though I'm still not at 100%, but I'm hoping tomorrow I'll be much better so I can find something fun to do (still actually don't know what I'll do tomorrow for my birthday....). So far mom's planning to take me to a Japanese restaurant where the table's the grill/oven and they cook the food in front of you as a show type thing (the name escapes me).

So... yay! Now I'll be off to go... do... something..?


*Random note: I don't see why a lot of my contemperaries seem to dislike (or hate) To Kill a Mockingbird so much. I don't see anything wrong with it- I've enjoyed it so far! O,o (I'm about halfway through the book now).


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17975729/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17975729/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:51:52 PDT
Any Avatar the Last Airbender fans out there? If you're not, don't bother reading xD But anyway, if you are a fan, you're probably like me and everyone else out there who are going insane with the lack of episodes out there. It's like GAH UPDATE NICKELODEON ALREADY, UPDATE!! Though my little sister get's the Nick Magazine and I saw a page in there about their new DVD, which is Book 3 (Fire) with episodes 11-15 I think it was, which will be out sometime early May I think. Now if you live in the US like me, you'll notice that they've only showed up to episode 11 here (Day of the Black Sun Pt. 2), but if any of you are as impatient as me, you probably watched episodes 12 and 13 of Book 3 online already, which as far as I know has ONLY showed in CANADA. What's up with that? I don't understand that...but anyway, that leads me to believe they'll start showing new episodes soon then, right?

Wrong.

I haven't been able to tell if there will be new episodes any time soon, but all I've seen has lead me to believe there will probably not be any. So, what, they're going to put it on sale before they show it on TV? Grawhr, that's utterly annoying...

But hey, guess what I found! Apparently the trailer for the Book 3 finale was let out in NYCC (New York Comic Con), you can find it all over youtube ([link]) and probably other places too. And I must say, it looks rather... AWESOME. O_O (especially for Zutara and Tokka fans) Zuko seems to play a bigger part in the 'Gaang' now, and lots of action and... well lots of awesomeness! Just see it for yourself, you'll love it xD

Just one thing... at the very end, it says "The Journey Concludes... July 2008"
JULY!?! Are they trying to TORTURE us!? *sob* Though I guess it's not so long, compared to all the hiatuses they've been doing... but this ain't fair because I'm gonna be gone most of July as far as I know T_T
*head/desk* I want new episodes noooooowww *whine* *impatient*

But seriously, go look up the trailer!

Okee i'm done now...


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17878005/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17878005/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:42:53 PDT
...HORSE SHOW!

First one, to be exact, with my horse and my first one in 4 years. The nerves were to the point of almost feeling sick all week. Oddly enough though, I was much better when actually AT the show... XD I'm sorry to say I have almost no pictures, because I was participating in it and my mom can't take pictures for her life (she ends up breaking the camera some how..) and my dad couldn't understand it and I was too busy setting up to be able to explain it to him properly... *sigh* Though I have some pictures of Tucker the day before the show, when he was white. Yes; WHITE!

It. Was. AMAZING!

Tucker is almost never ever white because he decides to roll around in the dirt and get dirty all the time. But for horse shows, obviously, you must make them look good. So all last week I was either riding him like crazy or washing him, or both! So by the time of the show, he was soooo white! Everyone was making jokes saying "We're going to have to get sunglasses because of the glare off your horse!" xD So once I get my laptop up and my camera ready I'll upload some pictures.
As fore the show itself, it was very good! We did two flat classes (a walk trot and a walk, trot, canter one) and then two jumping courses. We got two fourths, a third, and a fifth place, which sounds somewhat bad but the competition was pretty good and considering the whoel first show thing, Tucker was utterly amazing.

When we got there he was kinda freaked, trying to take everything in, but twenty minutes and a short schooling session later, Tucker was fine! Just hanging out, and the classes seemed like only warm ups for him, so he was confused when we were done. We think he wants to be a show horse because once he gets his barrings, he loves it! He loves seeing and hanging out with other horses too xD

And now, because I neglected my homework all week to prepare for the show, I have to go catch up on it...


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17496097/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17496097/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:25:22 PDT
Well I'll need to upload some more pictures now then because my recent submissions is getting old. I know I have more pictures to post, maybe even a few drawings if I bother to work out the scanner too. I haven't been taking many pictures recently though.

However, is holding another collaberation, but a smaller, more relaxed one. I think I'd like to try it out, but I don't know who to ask to pair up with and I really don't know what to do either to be honest... So if anyone wants to take the chance, feel free to send me a note or something if you'd like to help me with it!

I'm also working on 's current contest with giving a history to a background horse. I actually have a rough draft of my history and a sketch of the horse done, though now I'm not sure I want to do that horse or if i got it correctly, so I may end up making another one xD Not to mention that the history ended up being 3 microsoft word pages... So I'm still smoothing out the edges.

Other then that, I'm trying to work out a bit more to get more muscles for horse back riding, so I've been doing simple things like crunches and such. My friend showed me some other good things to do and I realized just how unmuscular I was xD I mean, I'm not fat, and I'm not that weak, but I really need to get my muscle back for horse back riding, especially since my horse has been rather antsy lately @_@

That's all for now... kudohs if you read through all this!


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17376104/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17376104/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:16:30 PDT
Other then that... Happy St. Patties Day! Irish rule! >D *is mostly Irish* Wewt! Do you know why Irishmen never have hang overs?
.... Because they never sober up! xD Blame my dad, he told me that joke. And no offense to anyone else Irish, 'cause like I said, I'm Irish too xD

Lol, Spiral is funny. It's on TV right now; you never know who is bad and who is good, because in the end they both helping each other! I really don't understand the anime at all, I've only seen random episodes so I can't really judge it. Even so, I do like it, just-- I don't understand it XD

Irish Assassin Blade Children... *snickers*

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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17313586/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17313586/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:41:57 PDT Anyone know what to do with adding frames to my pictures? I've been just adding them with Microsoft Paint, and it's a pain...
Ya know, I keep trying to find a Within Temptation CD, but everywhere I go there's no luck- they haven't even heard of them! *grumbles* I guess I'm going to have to order it over the internet or something.

And huzzah! My leg is feeling a lot better!

I also finished one of my first few charcoal drawings, and found some hairspray that works well as a fixative, so yay! I'm not completely happy with the picture, but I just had to stop where it was... i'll make another one like it later. I'll see about finding a way to post it up here.
I'm brain dead ish now... need to go finish some work now T_T


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17247114/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17247114/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:16:32 PST My own laptop doesn't like internet for some reason, but that's where I keep all of my photography because other then that, it's still a fine computer. Just moving the pictures to my mom's laptop to post is a pain, so this time I actully took the time to put the pictures on a disk and thought that if I would put it in this laptop, i could copy the pictures and voila!- like any normal, easy way. But I think my laptop likes making things hard.
This is the 4th time I tried today; whenever I insert the CD to import the pictures, it's fine at first until it actually gets to the transferring pictures, where it won't load/transfer at all.

Meh, it's annoying. Later when it's not 12 am and when I have more patience and attention span, I'll find another way to get the pictures, or I'll just make a new CD...

New subject:
Charcoal. Oh, lovely charcoal! (which wasn't sarcastic, btw)
I recently started a charcoal drawing class, just to experiment and do more work with my left side of the brain. Ends up; I'm hooked! I really really enjoy doing it! Only problem is that it smears and smudges SO. FREAKING. EASILY!! Not to mention having cats who decide the paper is oh so fun to roll around on isn't helpful either. My one cat almost ruined on of my pictures yesterday when she started to lay down and was about to roll around on it- luckily though I caught her before she did too much damage.

Even transporting and storing- everything is such a pain! And I'm not sure how to post them up here, they seem to fragile for the scanner (maybe I'll use the tripod and take a picture of them...). So now I'm on a hunt for this spray fixative I've heard about, except our craft stores seem to hate me *grumbles*....


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17195107/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17195107/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:06:33 PST
Other then that, more random photos up ^^ Hopefully followed by more that have been stashed away on my computer, and if I can get up and get outside I'll have more newer ones too. I just wish there would be snow that could last so I could take some snow pictures! I have a few more of Tucker from interesting angles, but they're on my laptop which doesn't have internet...




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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17133917/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/17133917/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:04:34 PST
*coughs* Yes; my friend slept over last night and wanted to play AC since she didn't have a consul to support it, but I told her we had to go rent it, so we convinced my mom to let us go get it. Lucky us, we found it on sale used and I convinced mom to actually buy it. And then what to my wondering eyes does appear- .. no not reindeer, but the AC GuideBook and Art Book together for a cheaper price. So obviously I clung to it and tried to open it without having to rip the plastic, and suddenly mom tells me to put it on the counter with the game! Ends up we got a discount because we were MVPs or something, and even more of a discount for some other reason I don't remember (I wasn't paying attention, I was talking to my friend about AC the whole time and I didn't even realize mom was buying the game until she already bought it

It's.. so beautiful! I finally have the Art Book, Guidebook, AND game itself- all for cheaper then I thought! I was practically delusional with happiness, kinda freaked my friend out xD


Except now I'm very tired because I stayed up late and got up early and spent most of the day playing Assassin's Creed over again... @_@


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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/16952623/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/16952623/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:03:28 PST
LORD VOLDEMORT!

Confused yet? Well we were in the Greek or some-odd statue section and I noticed a bust of some dude- who looked frighteningly similar to Voldemort, as portrayed in the 4th Harry Potter Movie (rather then cover pictures). I'll post a picture up soon once I get my camera worked up. It was weird! I looked at my friend and was like "LooK! It's Voldemort! He's moved from London and taking over New York!! AAAAHHH!!!" Needless to say I started to get a few odd glances (though I said this at a teasing whisper).

So then, being the AC nerd I am, I looked for Crusades or Templar or Assassin related stuff- though I was disapointed because we had issues getting around with the crowds and tryin to see everything we wanted to. But then, I went into the gift shop... oh yes the gift shop. Guess what I found?

"Saladin: A Noble Prince of Islam"

Again, needless to say, I silently freaked and bolted over there and started looking through the book. It was a kids book (8-12 it said) but with interesting life info on Saladin nonetheless. Again, being the complete AC nerd I am- I convinced my mom to get it. When I flailed it around in her face saying "Look it's Saladin!" the first thing she asked was, "Is this something that has to do with Assassin's Creed?" Really- is it that obvious now?
I actually am not really sure what Saladin's roll in that time is, to be honest. I looked up stuff on Wikipedia but it just must've not clicked... but they talk a lot about him, so I figured any information is better then none. My friend said he must have something to do with salad's in some place because of his name (Salad-in, though really his name can be also spelled "Salah ah-Din").

So what if I can find all this information on the wonderful-world wide web? Having a beautiful 8-12 year old big book in my hands is SO much more fun!

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]]> ~Ellfie http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/16895602/ http://Ellfie.deviantart.com/journal/16895602/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:38:26 PST So if you're viewing this page from fanfiction.net, you may be confused because my username is different. Yep, this is Hedwig the MillenniumOwl! *waves* I'm here to actually post some fanworks and eventually original stuff too hopefully.
So I'll be off to get to work

Also, I'd like to bid a farewell to 1191AD! We'll all miss that amazing site T_T I only regret I couldn't join earlier.

Safety and Peace be upon you all =]

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