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I've finally worked my way through the thousand deviations I've had piling up in my inbox. Holy crap that took a long time. At least a week. But now I can rest easy and work on some nice art

(Secretly stolen from *gothic180 while I was internet stalking some artz and de artzizts that I like.)

The point of this is to post 10 things you want for Xmas!
And if someone knows they can do it (Preferably without spending money) then they can!
If you post a link to a wishlist in your journal, I'll try and get something done for you before the holidays. There are a few of you- you probably know who you are- who are getting a holiday/new year's present anyways, but I'd be really happy to get idears and stuff for things you actually want, instead of just fursona's all over the place.
Note: I'm in a design-y mood. Dunno why. Regardless, I'd love to design some shtuffs for people- just gimme a creature and I'll do something.

1. Doodles of meh babies (characters). I figure that's an obvious thing here.
2. Collabs with people- meaning someone offers up an idea that we can work together on. I'd prefer to color and shade, because I hate lineart, but I'd be happy to do anything.
3. Help with Dill's story. I'm still flailing and failing with it. (Dill is my squirrel character, seen here:[link])
4. Characters for Dill's story- squirrely dudes and dudettes. No mom and pop squirrelies for Dill and his sister though. They're not part of the picture for whatever reason.
5. A good kick in the pants to get me to finish my Avatar fanfic/Euthalia's story/ANY story.
6. A HARRY POTTER ROLEPLAY. Seriously. I NEED one. I've got my character all figured out and everything.
7. Book recommendations.
8. Good tutorials for real media/backgrounds.
9. Now that I think of it, an Avatar roleplay'd be nice.
10. And I can't think of a 10th- I had to push myself just to get the nine XD

I'm also planning on adopting out characters who aren't being loved enough anymore. They're just rotting in my gallery and I'd love for them to go to a good home. So basically I'm adopting out all the characters in my gallery that I haven't drawn recently that have names. This includes the one-time-drawing characters, as long as they have names. The list so far:
- Dmitri- Although you'll probably want to change his name if you want him. He was a contest entry, so his name and history should be changed.
- Emma- The one in the foreground, the gray one. I'm suddenly not diggin' her design anymore and can't figure out a place for her in Diesel's vague story.
- Philippe- As much as it pains me to give him up- I spent a WEEK on his sketch- I'm a terrible character owner and he definitely deserves better.
- Jayson- I'm not taking care of him like I thought I would.
- Carlos- He was a one time character, but I hate to see his design go to waste.
- Awentia- Not my precious baby Awentia. Not my wolfie. The bear I doodled a while ago. She has no body, so you can do what you want with that.
- Enitan- A one time guy that I liked. Hindquarters are not designed. Have fun.

All drawings of them in my gallery will be sent to storage/scraps when the character is adopted.
Rules for adopting:
1. Draw within a week of asking for it.
2. Include the character's name (if changing), age, a bit of a history and what you plan on doing with it. You don't have to write a story about the character- you can just have it as a DA pet.
3. Draw the character periodically. I like these designs, and I don't want to see them go to waste. If you feel you've neglected them after some time, send them back my way and I'll put them back up/put them up for adoption yourself.
You can ask for more than one, but no hoarding (as if you'd want to). Also, please understand if I reject an application- if I feel you didn't put a ton of work into it, I... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28766029/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28766029/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:27:50 PST To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

So I worked today. And guess what? The people who go to that temple are awful. Well, most of them are pretty good and very nice, but there are a bunch of shit heads who should just shut up. There was one guy who came up to me at the drink table and was like, "You know... Cold soda fizzes less that warm soda..." Okay yeah, the soda's warm. That's why we have fucking ice for you, dipshit. And then while my sister and I were cleaning up the dessert table, she dropped two pairs of tongs on the floor when she had two trays of cookies in her hands to take back. So I pick up the tongs and toss them on the tray, and this 300 pound whale of a woman's like, "WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?" And she's going on about how we just wasted the cookies- 7 cookies, each about like, half an inch in width, mind you, so they're not so fucking great- and that we should save them. And I had to apologize. I had to say it was a mistake. There were seven COOKIES. It's not like I smashed a diamond or broke a gold necklace or something. They cost like, two bucks at the store. But apparently she needed even MORE fat for the winter, because she and her equally whale-ish friend started talking to my sister and I like we were retarded criminals.

And that is why people hate most Jews. Because the few, the proud, the douchey ones give the nice polite ones a bad rap. Stereotypes gotta start somewhere I guess.

But besides those to assholes, working was good. And the week's been great. I went to the Harry Potter exhibit in the Science Museum! It was amazing! They had a ton of props from the movies, like the vial for the Felix Felicis, and the wardrobe they used to hold the boggart in Lupin's class, and the had HERMIONE'S DRESS FROM THE YULE BALL! They had a ton of costumes. But dude, British people are SHORT. All the clothes look like they belong to like, pre-teens and stuff XD Daniel Radcliff's especially lol. They had a Quidditch section and a big thing where you could throw Quaffles into the hoops, and they had a Herbology section where you could pull up electronic mandrakes that screamed, AND THEY HAD HAGRID'S HUT WHERE YOU COULD SIT IN A GIANT CHAIR. And they had pictures on the walls in some places that were videos of people like waving and sitting and sleeping and at the end, clapping

The whole exhibit empties out into a shop where you can buy craploads of Harry Potter merchandise. I got myself a Gryffindor scarf. And I think my parents and sister just bought all of my Christmas presents there XD

BEST PART OF THE WHOLE EXHIBIT WAS THAT YOU GOT SORTED. They have you come into a hallway with the Sorting Hat sitting on a stool at the end (the guy said it was one of a couple used in the movies) and then they called a few people up to sort them. Since it was a small group, most kids got sorted. I was the first I got so wrapped up in it all and the excitement that when he asked "Who want's to be sorted?", by the time he got to the word "be" I had my hand in the air and was like, "OMG MEEEEEEEEEE." So I sat down on the chair (okay, so I leapt for the chair and sat there with my fingers crossed) and he's like, "What's your favorite house?" So I said Gryffindor (of course) and he puts the hat on my head and you hear a voice say, "Hmm... Brave of heart... GRYFFINDOR!" And I leapt to my feet with a happy fist pump. Because I'm that dorky.

So yeah, I'm sitting here in my scarf (which I've hardly taken off and will be wearing to school on Monday) and workin' on some new pictures. I've got a pic of Mel's new babies (yes, PLURAL!) and a few things I owe people. I also sketched myself as a Gryffindor student while I was watching the movie last night, so once I finish some other stuff, expect to see that. I think I might be mostly- if not completely- back!

EDIT/P.S.: Someone roleplay Harry Potter with me. I want to write something, but don't want to write a story by myself or anything. I have to warn you though, I will put way too much thought into everything about my characters if we do roleplay that series.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28642764/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28642764/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:26:40 PST To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

For the past two summers a woman who lives down the street from me has hired me to watch her daughter's cats while she goes on vacation. She's had cancer for a while, and as long as I've known her, my friend (who knows her better) has said that doctors weren't sure she was going to make it. While I was in her home taking care of the two little tomcats, I noticed all these little notes on doors and stuff- "If you are or have been sick recently, please come back for a visit at another time", stuff like that- but I never really bothered to pay attention to them.

I got a call from my friend the other day and apparently Peggy died the day after Thanksgiving. She was at home though, and people were with her. I haven't cried. I mean, I'm sad that she's gone, because she was a wonderful person and such a nice woman, but I can't really bring myself to cry. I tear up and I get the lump in my throat, but no actual crying.

I'll really miss her. And not just because she's responsible for an extra $200 in my bank account, although it's partly that. When she hired me, she set down a price of like, $8 an hour, and I only had to be there for about an hour a day for about a week and a half. When she got back from vacation and she asked me what number we had settled on, I said $6, because I just fed and played with the cats, read her books, and cleaned the litter box a few times. I didn't feel like it was enough to charge 8 bucks. But she told me that since I had done all that and watered her garden twice, she was going to up it to $9. And then this past summer when she had me take care of the cats again and she raised it to 10. It was weird, because I've never really seen that sort of generosity in this day and age. Or at least, I've never encountered it in my own life. She let me borrow her copies of the "Dark Materials" trilogy (the Golden Compass thing) and didn't mind when it took me months to read and return them. When she got back from her vacation both years, when it was payment time, she wrote the check, handed it to me, then we both just talked in her kitchen for like an hour. I don't remember most of the conversations, but I do remember we talked about the Norse myths (one of the books I had read while caring for the cats) and when we talked about the whole concept of daemons. She was such an open-minded person. I mean, she listened to my ideas and gave her own, comparing them, contrasting them (subtly) things like that. She was such a kindhearted person, and just so... good.

It's odd to think she's gone. She wasn't really a central person in my life, but she was one of the people that I never expected to be gone, despite the cancer. I mean, I figured doctors would figure something out for once and save a life. (I fucking hate doctors at this point. I don't even trust them anymore.)

Anyway, I just had to get my thoughts out. I've been up all night, thinking about this and a few other things. At 4:30 I decided it was pointless to try and sleep, because my parents have been complaining that I'm sleeping too late and staying up too late. So I'll tire myself out today and sleep like a baby tonight.

If you believe in certain things, or even if you don't, try to keep Peggy and her family in your thoughts please. Even if it's just a little, one second thing. She was a beautiful person, and I hope that wherever she is, she's happy and she's with her old dog that she had to put down a few years back. Apparently the dog meant a lot to her- she had pictures of him all over her house

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I've been a tiny little bit better though. I'm just tired all the time, and never feel like doing anything. For a full week, all I did was school, homework, tech, sleep. I stared at the wall more than anything. But Thanksgiving was good, I've talked to a bunch of people who have really helped. And all of you guys helped, too, with all of your really sweet comments. My NaNo failed, because I fell so far behind with that week of nothing.

Anyway, I'm gonna go sort through my deviations. Don't really expect answers to comments soon, I'm still sorta blah. But thank you for them nonetheless. I'll probably give more of an update later.

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]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28130653/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28130653/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:52:35 PST To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

So last journal I said this:
"At one point me and Tom Cruise/one night stand friend went out onto Windmill's porch and we realized that her porch railing is perfect for performing Mimi's "Out Tonight" (a song from RENT). So guess what I did! I hopped up on that railing and belted it out to the street And apparently, I actually hit the notes! Meaning I sang Mimi's parts which are typically higher than I think I can hit, and I actually hit them! My friend told me so And by god, I'm going to believe her. Now I just gotta work on Maureen's parts to match my frickin' costume XD"

Now apparently that provided enough confidence for me to be able to go to singing lessons with confidence behind my singing. I went to my lesson and sang notes I've never hit before, sand them well, and got all the ones I've been doing for a while almost perfect! I apparently sang up to the top of those line thingies. (I'm still learning XD) So I started a new song- All That Jazz, from Chicago. It's pretty difficult, and I can only get about half of the notes at this point. But hopefully when I develop more of a belt, I'll be able to get the notes that require a bit more "oomph".

So NaNoWriMo started the other day. I'll be busy with that and won't be doing much drawing/photoshop fiddling. So don't expect a lot from me for the next month. Just thought I'd give you all the heads up for when I disappear.

EDIT:
In case you're wondering, I'mma put my word count here It'll be updated as often as possible.
Word count: 5,108
Also, if you want to see more official NaNo stuff, my account is here
The site takes a little while to load occasionally, but I think I read somewhere that they added server space, so it shouldn't be so bad.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28094435/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28094435/ Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:44:11 PST To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

Yup, Halloween was fantabulous for me It usually is, but this year was especially awesome. My costume was fun, even though no one guessed it on the first try. I was Maureen from RENT, but everyone guessed Catwoman, because I went with the 'Happy New Year' sequence costume, which is Catwoman. But I still sang and danced (did the Time Warp ) and had loads of fun.

I started at a friend's house where we worked together to finish carving her pumpkin. ([link] captioned "Bitch, I will cut you" by my friend). We costumed up and my other friend came over to walk to ~LittleWindmills house and she helped me with makeup (HO SHIT, I WORE MAKEUP). So at the time we left (after being joined by a third friend) I looked like this: [link] and this (with my friend who did my makeup who does not go on deviantart and will probably never see that to kill me) [link] She was Tom Cruise from Risky Business but she only wore that so she could secretly be a one night stand. Her mom would kill her if her mom knew that she really was a one night stand. So she hid it XD

Anyway, we start walking and they start trick or treating. I feel like I'm too old to trick or treat, so I hung back when it came to that. But we stopped at my house to give my parents the full effect of my costume and for my friends to show off theirs, then we went to ~LittleWindmills house and partied all night long We played Rock Band, there was karaoke goin' on, people were screaming about Foosball and we played Never Have I Ever. I love learning the creepy stuff about my friends. Although, that's a double edged sword, and I hate letting them know what creepy stuff I've done. But it got hot at one point (okay, it was partially my fault that I was so hot- I was wearing all leather and the weather was not kind to leather-wearers) and I took off the leather jacket. So then I looked sexy, like this: [link] and [link]

At one point me and Tom Cruise/one night stand friend went out onto Windmill's porch and we realized that her porch railing is perfect for performing Mimi's "Out Tonight" (a song from RENT). So guess what I did! I hopped up on that railing and belted it out to the street And apparently, I actually hit the notes! Meaning I sang Mimi's parts which are typically higher than I think I can hit, and I actually hit them! My friend told me so And by god, I'm going to believe her. Now I just gotta work on Maureen's parts to match my frickin' costume XD

OH, and the day before Halloween I dressed up for school, too! I was complimented on my jacket My feet were killing me by the end of the day though, since I wore high heels and I almost never did before. Halloween itself wasn't that bad though, 'cos I was more used to the heels by then. I got a few stares at the bus stop, because I was the only person who dressed up who went on my bus XD But school was pretty Halloween-ified. Someone was dressed as Waldo and there were four girls dressed as the Telitubbies ... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28016487/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/28016487/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:15:35 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

So today during lunch I had a bit of a rough time. My mom sent me an email that had a list of things a 90-year-old woman learned as she got older. One of the things was "Forgive everyone for everything." I just have a quick question- why is it so important for me to forgive people when people are such shit? Now most people I can forgive- my sister when she's a bitch, my friends when we get into fights, my parents when they yell at me, etc. etc. But there's one person who I'm going to beat the shit out of if I ever find out who they are and meet them. I can never forgive this idiot for what they did, and I have no clue who the hell they are. Some of you may remember that my uncle/godfather died this January. The reason was because a person was driving while texting and they were driving poorly/badly/stupidly. My uncle was a cop and was responding to the call that this person was driving badly. His car slipped on ice, skidded off the road and slammed into a telephone pole, killing him almost instantly.

...How the hell am I supposed to forgive that person? They're the cause of my uncle's death, because they were talking on their fucking cell phone. If they were being intelligent and being a responsible driver, then he'd still be alive, because he wouldn't have gone to answer that call and wouldn't have driven so fast over the ice to reach that stupid person.

I'm just a little confused and pissed off and upset, and I wanted to cash in my monthly vent check.

In lighter news, I did pretty well in improv the other day. We played ad agency, where we created an object, added tons of random shit to it, then decided who to market it to, and all had to play ad agents and pretend to smoke cigars. We all turned into mob bosses voice-wise by the end of it. We somehow got on the subject of sexism and how we should have it in our piece and I yelled out, "Well if we need sexism, let's get some oven mitts!" That got a laugh, and then my "Miss Galaxy 1974" character got a few laughs too. Some lines include: "I grew up on planet Zeeborg, where my family lived. We were poor, growing flugnarbs to sustain ourselves, until the babdoogs burned the farm down for not paying our taxes" "I'd like to think I was popular in high school, but I'd be lying. I was more of a popular target for bullies." And then I was interviewing my friend, who was playing "Mr. Cool" and I played the part of a giggly girl who was really nervous and... well, giggly. So basically just I openly flirted with this guy for a scene. T'was fun

This one freshman in the class I TA for treated me like the teacher today. He asked me if he could go get a drink. I was like, "Yeah, sure, whatever" and gave him a snap-to-thumbs-up.

And singing lessons went well. I'm slightly more confident now, so I'm not holding back as much (as much being a key phrase- I'm still holding back a little) and I'm actually hitting some notes.

AND IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN! Since Friday is the day before, I'm going to school in my costume, then wearing it Saturday night for my ~LittleWindmills' party. I seriously can't wait. I want to sleep through the next day so I can just get to costume wearing. I'm so much more confident when I'm not myself, and since I'm Maureen, who has buckets of confidence, I'll be a totally different person

Alright, bai XD

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27804369/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27804369/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:40:26 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

So Improv Club kind of ROCKED the other day. OH MY GOD IT ROCKED. Seriously, the freshman this year totally make up for last year's freshmen. The terrible kids from last year are still coming and they go up every time they can. I mean, yeah, if they want to get better, that's great, but do they really have to ruin EVERY scene? That's an old record though. Anyway, the other day I got a couple chuckles, and I've told everyone I know in person, so now it's your turn to pat my head and call me a good girl. The first time I went up the club leader was looking for new people to go up and I was kind of hiding behind a chair trying to not get called, so of course he called on me. So I go up and the scene is what Shakespeare did before he wrote his plays (which was seen in the previous scene and done absolutely BRILLIANTLY). According to the kid playing Shakespeare, he was a track and field star. So when the scene starts I go up to him and I'm like, "HAI WILLYYYYY. How are you?" speaking in a weird voice and being all "omg he's cute, I'm gonna flirt with him" and all. Then the kid starts showing off shot put and javelin throwing, and every time he goes to "pick up" the javelin/shot put ball thingy, I leaned over and looked at his ass very blatantly (to the audience, I don't think he noticed XD). And yeah, that was actually a fun scene. I only shook a little bit too! Then we played I Like My Men, and the topic was video games. Mine was, "I like my men like I like my video games- I like to beat them." And everyone was like, "UHM, WHAT?"

The Thursday before this past one I went up for a game of Party Quirks and I had to play Judas. As in the one who betrayed Jesus. And that's all I know about him. So I played him like an annoyed neighbor or something. "Damn him, he's thinks he's so great. Oh look at me! I'm a prophet!" It's things like that that ensure my place in Hell. But the kid (one of the annoying ones) didn't even get it XD He didn't guess the thing, and then even after when I was like, "I'm Judas!" he just stared at me. And I was like, "From the Bible!" And he finally was like, "Ohhhhhhkkkkkkaaaayyyyy..."

But yeah, I'm liking improv club right now. I just want to know who played Willy Shakespeare, seeing as I basically sexually harassed him behind his back. The thing is that he's a twin though, and both of them showed up. One of them is in the class I TA for, and I'm trying to figure out if he's Willy or not. It's kinda weird talking to a person when you know you've publicly harassed them for a laugh...

Oh yeah, and my dad called me a fag XD We were in the car and I was asking about why people like scary movies. He said because some people like being scared. "Like when you go on a roller coaster- well, not you, because... well, you're kind of a fag like that." I kind of laughed my ass of at that. I know it's not right, and it's not nice, it was just so out of the blue and said in a way that just tickled me. Plus once my dad gets me laughing, there's no stopping it, and he was on a roll tonight XD

LA VIE BOHEME BABY!

(Btw, I FINALLY COMPLETED MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME! BOO YA! Well, I just need chips, so it'll make sense when I walk in like, "CHIPS ANYONE? " Well, it'll make sense to theater kids. Whatevs.)

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27733439/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27733439/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:10:05 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

Ten free sketches that still need requesting.

I WENT APPLE PICKING TODAY. I had so much fun. I went with a friend and her family (the ones I went to Delaware with) and we got so many of those stupid fruits. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE apples, but I have so many now. So we went and I scurried up a few trees like a freakin' monkey. I love climbing apple trees, hanging precariously from a limb and reaching out to try and grab the biggest apple in the tree. I do it almost every year with my family, but this year I don't think we're going. I have half a bushel in my kitchen now though, so I'm eating apples for the next couple of weeks.

This made my life:

Today I read a MLIA story about Mystery Google. I went to check it out and typed in the first word I thought of. When I clicked go, the search box said "email me at [the person's email] if you came from MLIA! " I emailed them, and I hope we can become good friends. MLIA.

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I requested a sketch from so here we go!

The first 10 people that comment in this journal (about this topic) will get a free SKETCH of anything you want. But, in exchange, you have to put this and the free offer of 10 SKETCHES. If anyone already has done this or something like that, simply put the link of your journal with the offer in your comment to the journal you ask a SKETCH to...It's just for fun!!

1. - Jokke and Tepsi
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Easyish Stuff:
1. What's my first name? Caitlyn
2. How old am I? 16
3. What's my favorite color? Green
4. Am I a boy or a girl? Girlie

Harder Stuff:
5. What two shows am I currently obsessing over? The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line is it Anyway?
6. What is the name of my dog? Ben
7. What movie do I think is absolute shit? Prince Caspian. A lot of people said Twilight, which is a shitty movie, but not as bad as Prince Caspian. At least Twilight follows the friggin' book.
8. What did I find out that I may be? This was mentioned in a recent journal, and three generations in my family are this. Manic depressive
9. What is my daemon, and what is his name? Zyrxy, my lion daemon. He's settled as far as I can tell, though a while back he turned into a dragon for a while. He's back to lion form though.
10. What is my least favorite mode of transportation? Planes. I hate cars like many of you said, but planes scare me, plus I get even more sick even easier in them. I dunno, something about the whole thousands of feet above the ground, "slight" turbulence (frickin' roller coaster more like it) and the tilt as the plane turns really freaks me out.
11. What state do I live in? Mass.

Hardest Stuff:
12. I make friends with adults I see on an almost daily basis. What profession do these people typically work in? Teachers
13. My history teacher looks like a famous actor. Which actor is this? Victor Garber
14. What am I most afraid of? FISH.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27557624/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27557624/ Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:52:58 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

So first, a questionnaire ~Chirstal tagged me to do Then a quiz for you to get free stuff.

1. Who is your celebrity crush?
Um... Don't laugh... Ryan Stiles. He's married, but he's so friggin' funny, and I LOVE funny guys. And his shoes are AWESOME. He has one pair that he wore on Whose Line that have blue flames XD

2. What are you most excited for?
HALLO-FUCKIN'-WEEN BIATCH.

3. What was the last thing you bought?
Leather pants for HALLO-FUCKIN'-WEEN BIATCH.

4. What was the cutest thing you've seen today?
[link] or [link]
Shows you that I haven't been out of the house today...

5. Does the weather affect your mood?
Not really- it's raining right now, but I'm happy

6. Tell me 5 things you can't live without.
1. Family/friends
2. A pencil and paper to doodle/write
3. My tablet
4. Animals to study
5. Obsessions to obsess over

7. Say something to the person who tagged you:
I MISS YOU. COME BACK NOW. OR ELSE.

I Tag...
Anyone who wants to do this.



Alright, now I tried this in 's journal, which means I have to put it here. If you answer, ya gotta do the same. If you answer all the questions correctly, you win a free pic, but you have to be the FIRST person to answer all questions correctly. If nobody gets them right by... I'll say the end of the weekend, I'll post the answers.

I have mentioned all of this stuff at one time or another, whether in my journal or in my gallery in the comments.

Easyish Stuff:
1. What's my first name?
2. How old am I?
3. What's my favorite color? (This might be WICKED hard *hint*)
4. Am I a boy or a girl?

Harder Stuff:
5. What two shows am I currently obsessing over?
6. What is the name of my dog?
7. What movie do I think is absolute shit?
8. What did I find out that I may be? This was mentioned in a recent journal, and three generations in my family are this.
9. What is my daemon, and what is his name?
10. What is my least favorite mode of transportation?
11. What state do I live in?

Hardest Stuff:
12. I make friends with adults I see on an almost daily basis. What profession do these people typically work in?
13. My history teacher looks like a famous actor. Which actor is this?
14. What am I most afraid of?

I'm sure I've mentioned the answers to every single thing here at least once. You can stalk, but that's cheating...

LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAINNNNNNNNNNNN.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27528169/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27528169/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:59:43 PDT
Request number one- Anyone know how to use Adobe Dreamweaver, or know any good tutorials? My Web Design teacher is letting me go ahead and play around in Dreamweaver while the rest of the class flounders through the basics of Photoshop.

Request number two- Will someone say something inspirational? Preferably said by a writer? I'm experiencing the dreaded writer's block.

I failed a Creative Writing test today I forgot to read and couldn't answer any of the questions on the quiz. My teacher said I paled when I remembered the quiz XD Kinda funny in retrospect, but I wish I had read the story. But I'm working freakishly hard to do all my homework.

...

Oh crap, I still have history. See y'all later!

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27389755/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27389755/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:23:03 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

Ugh, since when do I get sick? Seriously, the last time I got really sick was March of 2008. And voila, I feel like killing myself right now. I keep sneezing, I have a runny nose, my ears ache, I get dizzy when I get up and my stomach hurts every once in a while. I HATE BEING SICK. Since I don't get sick often, I feel like I'm dying now. Not a pleasant feeling. And what really sucks is that I wanna work out every day, but today I dunno that I'm gonna be alive enough to do that tonight. I might force myself to anyways, because if I break the habit for one night, I'll just stop in general.

Though I don't think it will happen, I might try and get some stuff I owe done. I'm gonna go shower now.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27340022/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27340022/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:57 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

I just wanted to say hi and tell some fun stuff that's happened lately.

So school is going well- I'm the brainiac in my math class. Me. The person who nearly failed last year. AND, I was scored in the ADVANCED SECTION for the MCAS. Which means I did damn good. I got 262 in the math out of 280. And the weird part is that I scored higher in math then in english, which I usually rock at. But I only scored higher by 2 points, so it's not that bad.

On Friday in Biology, I started a ten minute discussion about animal sex by accident. We were talking about sexual and asexual reproduction and I brought up the fact that I read that a female shark got pregnant asexually. ([link]) And that led to a talk about some type of bug/worm/underwater squishy thingy that apparently has both male and female parts. And when they come across each other, they fight until one of them impregnates the other and then they leave. My teacher referred to their fights as "penis fencing" because they happen to use their junk to fight XD And then a guy in my class brought up a horse farm he visited as a 5th grader and how some guy was like, "OMG A STALLION IS DONATING SPERM NOW, GO CHECK IT OUT." Yeah, fun class

I've decided to go on a diet and get some exercise. I hopped on the scale the other day and realized that I'm a full 15 pounds heavier than when I last checked a few months ago. I CAN NOT contribute that to growing. That's from being lazy and eating chocolate all summer. So my goal is to get back down to 120 by Christmas. That gives me three months to lose 26 pounds. Yes, I weigh 146 pounds. I nearly put a bullet in my head when I realized that. It wouldn't bother me so much, but I've got quite a few big people in my family, and I really don't want to tempt genetics. So, I'm cutting back on sweets (even chocolate *gulp*) and I'm gonna work out in the family gym downstairs in the basement. And y'all can kick my ass if I don't reach my goal. I'MMA BE LIKE OPRAH (except I won't get fat again XD).

Oh, I also realized that my family has three generations before me of manic depressive people on my dad's side, including my dad. Which would really explain the days that I'm hanging out and then just suddenly hate every single thing about me. Apparently a good diet and exercise can help with that, too.

So that was the good news and the bad news, though there's hope for the bad news. Hey, you know what, I'll throw in posture to the "body corrections" XD

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27118097/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/27118097/ Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:33:56 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

So I started school on Tuesday. It's not as bad as I've been expecting it to be, but since today was only the second day, I'm waiting for the workload to quadruple. My teachers seem nice enough though. Except my English teacher. He's my homeroom teacher, and he's not good at that, so I'm guessing he's a crappy teacher, too. I get to TA for my old math teacher though, which is cool because I get credits for hangin' out with her and grading a few papers. And I've also got two frees during the week, so I can just chill out for two blocks every week. I'm not looking forward to junior thesis though. A graduation requirement in my school, and you have to write like, 15 pages on something from WWII time. Which will suck.

My history teacher looks kinda like Victor Garber (Daddy Warbucks in the Kathy Bates version of Annie) which is kind of amazing My friend and I giggle about that, and I'm sure I'll slip up and call him the wrong name any day now XD

I've been really tired the past two days. School's been wiping me out. I dunno how fast stuff will get done nowadays, so please be patient with me and don't bother me too much. I keep dozing randomly, and it sucks, 'cos I don't have any energy.

But I think improv club might be going on tomorrow, so that'll be fun (hopefully). I'm hoping it won't suck, like I think it's going to, what with all the people who just annoy me there. I know I'm not that good at improv, but I at least know when I've bombed, unlike half the people there now. I might get into the school's improv troupe this year, but only by default, because there aren't as many "creme-de-la-creme" people in club this year. So they'll have to settle.

I've been having weird dreams the past few days... I had a dream that I was letting my dog in and everything froze for five seconds. After those five seconds, my dog was halfway up the stairs, I was backed against a door, and an enormous black dog the size of a bear was attacking me. The next night I had a dream I went to Delaware with a group of friends and met Colin Mochrie there, as well as the guys who play Janitor and Ted on Scrubs. The next night (last night) I had a dream I was in an improv jam and was all ready to go up when I realized I was only wearing a towel wrapped around my body, and I ran to go get dressed. By the time I got back, everything was over, and ~LittleWindmills was telling me that she rocked in the jam and that I totally missed everything 'cos I'm lame. I don't know why I'm dreaming so often and so weirdly nowadays. I never used to have dreams like that, and so frequently. Actually, I don't remember when I had my last nightmare before the big dog one.

I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, 'cos I watched some Whose Line clips until 12, then fell asleep. At 5, my sister's cat (who I had unknowingly trapped in my room when I shut the door) climbed onto my chest and sat staring at me for five minutes. I then got uncomfortable and tried to roll onto my side slowly to give her time to move, but she decided she still wanted to lie on top of me, and climbed onto my side. Then she settled against my stomach XD The little spazz.

Anyways, just thought I'd warn y'all that if stuff gets done nowadays, it's because it's been worked on for a long time. I'm doing everything slower now, 'cos I can hardly keep my eyes open. Adios mi amigos.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26944258/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26944258/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:12:31 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

Guess who's bored again! And you all pay for it

TEN things you want to say to TEN different people:
1. You drive me CRAZY sometimes, but I guess that's what friends do. And no matter how moody I get (I was on my period when I was trashing Disney by the way, so blame the hormones) I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU (even though we're not lesbians- no matter what my dad says).
2. I think there's a line when it comes to needing a babysitter, and your son has definitely crossed it. Like, probably about two or three years ago.
3. Please, learn how to kiss without trying to shove your tongue down my throat. That was gross.
4. Do you realize that I don't like being around you? You follow me wherever I go, and it makes me want to pretend I'm moving to China so you move and I get rid of you.
5. It's really not fair that good people died and there was no interference. I don't like you, but I guess I'm starting to respect you again.
6. Do you realize that you're kind of annoying? I mean, you're my sister and all, but a lot of people are annoyed by you, and I always feel guilty for laughing at jokes about you.
7. Wow those jokes are getting old. And don't you think you should stop interrupting scenes? People are trying to act, and we (the actors and audience) don't need someone jumping in with bad jokes.
8. How on earth did we end up so different with the same genes?
9. You're really sweet, but I don't really know...
10. I'm sorry, but you might want to be a little nicer to your wife- she seems to hate you.

NINE things about yourself:
1. I hate flying and can't sit next to the window without feeling like I'm going to throw up.
2. I want to write but never get far with my stories.
3. If I could be like Kate O'Brien from the Drew Carey Show, I think I'd be really really happy- except minus the moving to Guam with some military dude. I'd go for Drew.
4. I HAVE WEIRD ASS TASTE IN GUYS NOWADAYS.
5. I wish my life were more exciting... It's a little boring.
6. I want horses, or at least the ability to be around them more often.
7. I don't think half of the DDs are actually good. The nudes are usually just fetish crap, and there's usually some weird razor-through-a-lip picture. How is that art? It's just disturbing.
8. I find the human body one of the weirdest things in the world, and I don't particularly like it that much.
9. I suck at school.

EIGHT ways to win your heart:
1. Be funny. Like, really really funny. If you can make me laugh so hard Pepsi shoots out my nose and I still laugh through the stinging/burning sensation in my nasal passages, then you're golden.
2. Be supportive when I fail at stuff.
3. Keep up with my obsessions and let me go through them without yelling at me or telling me they're stupid.
4. Cheer me up when I accidentally depress myself because I thought of things.
5. Know at least two or three musical numbers from anything I like.
6. Compare me to my idols occasionally- that'll make me smile really big.
7. A compliment'd be nice now and then- I'll shoot it down but secretly like it.
8. Don't be a douche... I mean, I guess that's self-explanatory, but seriously, don't wear Ed Hardy, don't say "yo" seriously in a sentence, don't pop your collar, don't think you can rap when you just look like a moron... Yeah, just don't be a white guy who thinks he's "gangsta".

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot:
1. Hoedowns/Irish Drinking Songs/Song Styles/musical numbers from the Drew Carey Show.
2. "How tall is Ryan Stiles really?" (well now it's "I can't believe someone can even reach 6'6"..."- I looked it up XD)
3. "I want to be in a musical, but we all know that's never going to happen."
4. "Wow, that (older, married guy from Whose Line or Drew Carey Show) is PERFECT."
5. "If I were like (Idina Menzel/Bernadette Peters/Kristin Chenoweth/Nicole Sullivan/Christa Miller) I'd be the happiest person in the world."
6. "I'm bored..."
7. "Damn drawing... looked four hundred times better in my head."

SIX things you couldn't live without:
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Music that I like
4. Adobe Photoshop CS4
5. Computer
6. Books

FIVE turn offs:
1. Long hair
2. Piercings on dudes. It seems weird...
3. Interest in Charlie Sheen's work.
4. Druggie/abusive/alch... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26921577/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26921577/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:52:36 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

So yeah, I'm just sittin' around and kinda bored. I figured I'd update, 'cos I don't have anything better to do. Well, actually I do, I'm just REALLY lazy.

I saw the Time Traveler's Wife today. It was really good, but really sad. It got really confusing too, since they keep switching from time to time (like he would suddenly appear to 6-year-old Claire, then he'd be in his current time, then his younger self would appear in the current time and have sex with his wife- yeah, I know, right?) but once you were able to keep up it was neat. I cried a lot though. I'm workin' on a pic that's been swirling in my brain since I saw it.

DUDE, I WATCHED ALL OF SEASON FIVE OF THE DREW CAREY SHOW IN TWO DAYS. HOLY CRAP. I HAS NO LIFEEEE.

I think my celebrity crushes are getting weirder and weirder. I used to like tween pop stars and guys on the Disney Channel... Now I like married guys in their 40s... I've been watching Drew Carey Show and Whose Line is it Anyway? a lot recently, and I kinda think Drew Carey is adorable. And OMG DIEDRICH BADER. WOW HE'S AWESOME. And Ryan Stiles... And Colin Mochrie... And Wayne Brady... And Greg Proops... And pretty much all the dudes on those shows. I'm such a weirdo, but I just like funny, awkward dudes I guess

School starts on the 8th of September for me. If any of you want to shoot me before then, please feel free. I have a junior thesis this year. Which will suck.

Yeah, I thought this journal would be intelligent and informative. I was really wrong. WHY DON'T YOU GUYS UPDATE MORE OFTEN? I HAVE NOTHING TO DOOOOOOO.

EDIT: OH WAIT! I forgot to tell y'all! D'you remember that I told you guys a while ago that my parents were fighting? I think they've made up! They haven't fought in a while, and they're doing teenage-couple stuff! Crisis averted

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26741842/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26741842/ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:50:50 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

I forgot I had been tagged to do this by ~KingdomComic! She tagged me while I was on vacation, and I totally just blew it off XD


Rules

1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 10 things about themselves on their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 10 people and post their icons on the same journal.
4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5. No tag-backs.

10 things about me

1. I roleplayed almost every day about a year ago, and I've been trying to get that spark back lately.
2. I've written a novel and promptly scrapped it. It's being re-written.
3. I've got tons of stories floating around in my brain, and when I do write them down, I get really excited, then drop them a few days later.
4. I want to be on Broadway (in RENT and Wicked revivals as Maureen and Elphie respectively) when I'm older, but I have paralyzing stage fright and a frightening lack of singing/dancing/acting/not being nervous talent.
5. I HATE my body and face. Like, with a passion. Self-loathing ftw.
6. I sometimes wish I were an animal.
7. I wish mythical beasts were real.
8. I'm loving being single at the moment
9. When I got the Sims 3, I immediately made the Bohemians from RENT and myself and paired myself up with Mark. I'm very angry that men can't dress like women in the Sims, but Angel's wearing the leather jacket and jeans s/he wore in the life support meeting.
10. I'm deathly afraid of fish. Which really put a damper on my vacation to Discovery Cove (I found that out there, too XD)

I tag... The people who haven't done this and are reading this right now. Yes, YOU. *pokes* Post the link to your journal with this here- I wanna stalk y'all!

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26679128/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26679128/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:24:28 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature

Alrighty, so I checked and saw that I have 82 watchers. This made me squee with glee. Then I saw a neat idea that ~Nukaleu had- as a little thank you to watchers, give 'em a free feature. So I'm going to feature every single person on my watcher list here. They're in order from newest watcher to oldest.

Some names were removed because they were a) clubs or b) frozen/banned/unused accounts.

The Watchers




http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26656828/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:37:08 PDT To Do List and Art Status - Crystal Lake Stables - Watcher Feature (coming soon)

A bit of a vent-y journal. Hope you don't mind.

My parents are constantly fighting nowadays. It sucks. My mother's constantly down with the stupid cheerleaders (even though my sister ISN'T ON THE STUPID TEAM ANYMORE) at the field because they need a coach and my mom can't seem to figure out if she tosses the team over to someone else she won't have the headache. Then she complains about having to coach the team. My dad gets pissed because my mom's never home, since she's always down there. It also means I haven't had a mom-cooked meal in... Oh god, I can't even remember when. And I'm serious about that. It just kinda sucks that things are so tense because of something that my mom doesn't want to just abandon.

I keep having recurring nightmares where I land the roles of Elphaba in Wicked, Maureen in RENT, or the Witch in Into the Woods, and I always forget my lines seconds before the show starts. Yeah, that's a nightmare to me. And I'm always scrambling to find a script before any of my scenes start. It's kind of unnerving me, seeing as all I want to do is just be those roles on stage at least once in my life. In my last dream like that, I was Maureen in RENT and the show was actually starting and I didn't remember my lines. To make matters worse, I was the director too, and people kept coming to me with problems I couldn't solve. But this dream actually ended kind of happily- Nathan swooped in and saved the day XD It was fantastic

I actually miss my sister. Oh god. She went to summer camp halfway through my trip to Delaware, and now I miss her, 'cos she's gone for another week.

I got new clothes from Old Navy! They're nice, and bright colors

Uhhhh... what else can I bore you with? OH! What d'you think I make a Squiby account? Do I even have any ideas that I could use for that? If I did make one, I'd do requests and shiznit for general ideas that people want. Like if yeh want frogs or some crap like that. I'm still not quite sure though... I'm probably going to sign up anyways and just forget about it after ten minutes though, 'cos that's what I do.

And now I have nothing else to say... Sorry if this was ramble-ey and time wasting. I have nothing else to do. So, um, BAI.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26637058/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26637058/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:12:53 PDT
The Crystal Lake Stables is located in a bit of a valley, though not a terribly deep one. There is a lake in the northern half of the valley, that you can see if you're standing in certain places near the stables. There are miles of trails in the valley, and it's nearly untouched by humans- except us of course, and the occasional campers. The trails and most of the forest in the valley are not owned by the Crystal Lake Stables, but we are allowed to use them as long as we do not spoil the forest. The land we do own is about six acres for the stables, staff housing, pastures, and we're thinking about adding a racetrack of our own, but that may just be a practice track. There are a total of seven different pastures- one for mares, one for geldings (standing empty at the moment), one for mothers and foals, one for stallions, and an extra one (just in case ).

Horse count:
Stallions- 4
Mares- 3
Foals- 0

Rules of the Crystal Lake Stables
To breed with any of my horses, send a note titled "(YOUR horse's name) Breeding with (the horse of mine)". Put your horse's stats in the note along with a little message- I don't care what the message says
I have the right to refuse a breeding.
You will have to do the typical breeding procedures of HA-RPG (draw the breeding pic, then the foal AFTER breeding pic) though the stable is not part of the HA-RPG
Any offspring of my horses should have some indication that their parents are from here.
For every horse here, a month in the stable will equal one year. This rule does not apply to any foals, who can be aged once after their birth picture before this rule takes effect.
You may breed with any horse you'd like as long as they're available, though if you breed with a mare, the foal will stay in my stable.

NEWS
Wednesday October 21st, 2009- 7PM
LB has aged and is no longer a colt. He's been moved from near his mother and is still being worked on training-wise.

Sunday August 16th, 2009- 10:51PM
We've moved in from the old stables, and all horses have been given a slight change in name. A new horse was added to the stables. A herd pic is in the works. I'm working on updating all horses in my gallery.

Stallions

Aeolus
[link]
Barn Name: Aeolus
Age: 10 years old
Height: 15.3h
Bloodlines: UnknownxUnknown
Breed: Thoroughbred x Akhal-Teké x Arabian
Coloring: Buckskin
What will be passed down: Stockings and blaze
Open for breeding: Yes
Offspring: None
Age on the: 27th of the month

Alkinoos
[link]
[link]
Barn Name: Fuzz butt
Age: 6 years old
Height: 14.3 hands
Bloodlines: Calisto X *SheWolff's Loki
Breed: Arabian x Pasa Fino x Icelandic x Welsh
Coloring: Blanket Appaloosa
What will be passed down: Appaloosa markings
Open for breeding: Yes
Offspring: None
Age on the: 4th of the month

Klementos
[link]
Barn Name: Toto
Age: 9 years old
Height: 16.6 hands
Bloodlines: Unknown
Breed: Amitaeo
Coloring: White Seafoam Amitaeo
What will be passed down: Mask
Open for breeding: Yes
Offspring: Grecian Song
Age on the: 19th of the month
~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26577577/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26577577/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:15:25 PDT
I have to say, that this was one of the hardest decisions I've had to make art-wise. Seriously, it was tough, but I finally made the decision with help from my friend (the one who took me down to Delaware). I've also decided to up the prizes a bit, 'cos I've got three weeks left of summer and little to do. So, the placings are:

3rd place:
with Micah
Prizes
~Full color picture with shading and simple background- one character
~Headshot/bust of any character

2nd place:
with Cookies n' Cream/C.C.
Prizes
~Full color picture with shading and a background- two characters
~Headshot/bust of any character

1st place:
with Molly
Prizes
~Full color picture with shading and a background- three characters
~Headshot/bust of any character

SEND IN YOUR NOTES WITH WHAT YOU WANT AS YOUR PRIZES ASAP. For now, I'mma get to work more on Diesel's story, which has been unfolding in the past week and half since I've been away.

Okay, so Delaware. We left my house at 8 last Monday, and we drove for hours. I slept for the first five hours in the car, then I woke up at a rest stop and was awake for the last couple of hours. We hopped on a ferry (which took a full hour and a half off our trip), got off the ferry, then drove the rest of the way (which took about an hour). We missed the ferry we had initially wanted to be on at 4:30, so we had to wait until 6 to get on. But we got across alright and we got to the house at about... I think it must've been like, 7 or 8 or something. It was pretty late. So we wandered around the house, picked out beds and then all fell asleep. When we woke up the next morning, my friend's aunt and uncle (along with their two kids) were at the house, having arrived in the middle of the night. So the head count in the house was upped to 11 people, if you count a 4-month-old as a proper person (I do, 'cos she was cute XD). It was me, my friend (Jill), my friend's sister (Amelia), her parents (Anne and Patrick), her grandparents (Dick and Pat), her aunt and uncle (Sally and Chuck), and their two kids, T (his name was Christopher but he went by T, since his middle name started with T and it was just how it was) and Jet.

So the week and a half was filled with beach-going, reading, shopping on the boardwalk, playing in the arcade, and staying the hell out of the kitchen when it was time to prepare dinner. Seriously, that family was really scary when it came to cooking. Jill told me to just stay away when the adults started cooking. Chuck especially, 'cos he ran around and stressed about it XD I usually helped set the table or clear it, since I knew that I wouldn't get run over or yelled at that way.

The beach was gorgeous by the way! We were in Bethany, Delaware, and there were miles of beach. By the time I usually woke up (*coughcough*11 or 12*coughcough*) the family had already gone down and set up, so I just had to throw on a suit, put on some sunscreen and bring a book down and I was set. I ACTUALLY GOT COLOR. It's fading fast, BUT IT WAS COLOR. And my manly arm hair is making it seem darker! Anyways, the water was freezing cold at first, but once you got used to it, it was a ton of fun. The waves were huge, and when I first really went swimming I was like, "Okay, I don't want to get my hair all salty and sandy, so I won't get it wet! Problem solved!" But then a wave rolled over my head, so that plan was pretty much useless. I kinda sorta befriended Amelia, who I didn't talk to much beforehand (she's younger than me, and was friends with my sister, so we didn't really associate with each other, just a hi in passing really) but after a day or two of being sorta awkward roommates, I realized that she thought I was funny. Which was great, 'cos making people laugh is a favorite thing to do of mine. So I goofed off with her and Jill and we accidentally kept T up most nights. But he did some staying up of his own. I swear that one night he was hissing in Parseltongue. The 5 year old who slept in the bed next... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26340749/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26340749/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:35:03 PDT EDIT: OH! By the way, my entry for Kaylink's contest didn't place, so he's up for adoption! I would suggest changing his history/name. The ref sheet's here: [link] Apply for him with the following info:
Name:
Age:
Any affiliation (packs/owners/etc.)?
History:
Basic personality:
Other:

A pic'd be nice, but not required. I'll choose who gets him in a while based on who I think'll take care of him the best.

Well, the contest is over! I still haven't made my decision, because it's turning out to be harder than I though But I will have it eventually, and hopefully soon.

The entries:
- [link] and [link]
- [link]
- [link]


So guess who had the single most amazing birthday in the history of the world and all its history yesterday? THAT’S RIGHT, ME.

I wake up on my birthday and we have to set everything up and everything. We set up the big tent-thingies (those weird ones that aren’t tents, like you don’t sleep in them, but you sit under them in the sun) and set out tables and chairs in the backyard. My mom started cooking and my dad and I set up the bounce house. That’s right, I had a moon bounce in my backyard yesterday. Then we went and got the sumo suits from the front porch. That’s right, I had sumo suits. Those bigass inflatable ones that you can smash into your friends with and not get hurt. After we set everything up, my family started trickling in and we all hung out and talked and blabbity blah. I went in the moon bounce with my younger cousins and ended up playing with them most of the day, except for when they wore me out too much or when I had to say hi to family. We broke out the sumo suits and my cousin Michelle and I had a three round match XD I worked out that if you and your opponent are pressed against each other face-to-face, you can roll yourself around them to their back and push them out of the ring XD Then Michelle fell, so I kicked her while she was down (in the sumo-gut, so it wouldn't hurt of course). So after deciding it was way too hot in the suits, we both got out and then everyone went back to just hanging out. I played with the little kids, we all had cake, then I opened presents. My grandparents got me speakers for an iPod (which I got the night before- my daddy gave me my present a day early, 'cos he was as excited about it as I was XD It's an iPod Touch, too!), I got a bunch of cards with money/iTunes giftcards, and two of my cousins apparently really thought about my presents XD My cousin Rebecca (she's about 6 I think) actually made me a little thing to put on my wall- it's made of wood and has a bulletin board area and a wipe board area, and little hooks for keys and shiznit. Then my cousin Thomas apparently insisted that my aunt get me a High School Musical 3 card with a pullout locker poster of the six main characters of the series XD He was like, "She'll like this one! We have to!" My cousins are cute We played family at one point and when I took a break, all the kids kept coming to me anyway and telling me, "Mommy, I hurt myself" "Mommy, the house is on fire", etc. Kind of annoying, but cute. We did a pinata and the kids went wild with it, then the family all left.

Friends came over at 6 and we sumo-suited up and my friend kicked my ass three rounds in a row. Then we switched out with other friends. So we basically spent the night goofing off and talking and spazzing We moon bounced, we sumo-suited, we roasted marshmallows over a firepit that we borrowed from a family friend and made s'mores, then at the end of the night some of us laid down on the grass of my backyard, sprawled all over each other and talked, while the rest of my friends hung out on the porch. I realized I have a c... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26273984/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26273984/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:45:24 PDT
By the way, the day of the deadline is mah birthday

And on the 3rd of August I'm going to Delaware, so you won't see me for 10 days. Think you can last that long without me? XD Just kiddin'. I'll try to judge quickly (but efficiently) to get it out of the way before I go.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26191130/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26191130/ Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:29:30 PDT THE DEADLINE FOR MY CONTEST (and my birthday ^^) IS FAST APPROACHING! Just 4 MORE DAYS UNTIL IT'S OVER AND I START JUDGING. Journal: [link]

D'you know how frustrating it is to not be able to draw? Well, I'm sure most of you do, because you're on Deviantart, and you can't win them all, but seriously, I feel really blah because of my realistic face failure. I'm trying to draw Adam Pascal. I wanted to have it done by tonight, seeing as tonight is the last day before RENT leaves Boston (yeah, I'm a pathetic idiot, just go with it).
I want this: [link]
After working for at least two and half hours, all I've got is this: [link]

I want that picture because that's the face that I looked up at near the stage door. I saw the most beautiful smile, and the most gorgeous eyes, and I decided I wanted to draw it really bad. Pascal was smiling his perfect smile at everyone and all, but seeing it flashed in my direction was heart-stopping. HIS FACE IS SO PRETTY, AND MY DRAWING OF HIS FACE IS SO NOT PRETTY. My drawing looks like a cross between Herman Munster, Jay Leno and John Kerry T_T

I'm just glad I drew Rapp when I had some talent. Gar, I just gotta try again sometime. I dunno what to draw right now though... I think I'm gonna finish up some memes...

JEEBUS IT'S HOT HERE. I'M BOILING IN MY ROOM. I guess one state can't have the amazing that is Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp bring without suffering dire consequences. Dammit.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26105937/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26105937/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:40:10 PDT [link]
Also, if some of you wouldn't mind popping over to the Icarathian Club and sending a few votes my way? Or just sparing a few votes to the peeps in the contest: [link]


So yeah, I saw RENT AGAIN And this time Adam Pascal was in it, so I am thoroughly pleased. I had gone the first time wanting to see What You Own by those two, and by god I saw it eventually. Not that Kobak was bad, I had just really wanted Pascal to sing that. What You Own was just as magical performed live with Pascal and Rapp as I had hoped it would be *swoon* They were AMAZING. I was blown away by their performance. It was the same as last week, but kind of better with Pascal- his voice, described by Rapp in his book as a "gorgeous wail", WAS a gorgeous wail, and it was beautiful.

I went with two of my friends and met another friend there, 'cos she got tickets for last night too We were all in the mezz level so I was searching for my other friend before, found her, then met up during intermission and after the show. After the show we went to the stage door because the friend we met there wanted to get autographs. Pascal was already dashing out the door, rushing through signing autographs, probably trying to get the hell out before there were too many people XD I got his signature, then came Maureen (who I got again), then Collins, then the woman who sang the really high part in Seasons of Love. SHE SAID SHE WAS AN ALTO. THERE'S HOPE FOR ME YET!

Anyways, Anthony Rapp starts coming out. And yesterday, after I finished scanning my drawing of him, I tossed it in my copy of his book, knowing that it'll be kept safe, 'cos it's now one of my favorites. I forgot about it being in there and brought the book with me to see if I could get it signed. I found it again when I was with my friends and was like, "CHECK OUT WHAT I DID LAST NIGHT DUR HUR HUR" and just tossed it back into the book. So Rapp walks by and I hold out my book and I'm like, "Would you mind?" So he flips it open and FUCKING SAW THE PICTURE. I felt like such an idiot and a creep. He just stares for a second and goes, "Oh, cool", looks up at me for a second, then opens the book and signs the title page. And it was then that I realized that night time is for sleeping, and not for obsessively drawing celebrities. So he hands me back my book and I just blushed furiously and muttered "You weren't supposed to see that" and tried to hide. Thank god he wasn't too fazed by it (or at least he didn't seem too fazed by it) otherwise I would've felt like a bigger freak. And now I will forever wish that I hadn't drawn it/hadn't just tossed it in the book. I SHOULD FORGET REGRET 'COS LIFE IS MINE TO MISS *shoots self in foot at the cheesiness of that last sentence*.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26033460/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/26033460/ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:39:29 PDT [link]

The Random F***ing Update
I might be going to see RENT AGAIN this Tuesday! I convinced two more of my friends that it was essential to see it before it left town and we got to figuring it all out I just hope it doesn't fall through... That'd suck, 'cos I wanna see Pascal DAMNIT.

I finished Rapp's book. I am so grateful to him for writing that... Honestly, it's the most... well, honest book I've read in a while, and some of the stuff really just helped. I know it sounds weird, but it did. Apparently he lost a lot of people, including his mother. He spoke of this woman named Cy O'Neal who worked for a program called "Friends In Deed" and he talked about how she helped him a bit. He gave a lot of quotes from her, a lot of things she said, and it all just... clicked. I dunno. It just worked for me. It's a great read by the way. He's musically talented, a great actor, and a good writer- who knew so much awesome could be wrapped up in one man?

I haven't drawn anything worthwhile in a long time. I feel really unmotivated... I keep opening up stuff in photoshop and then closing it after having it open for an hour without working on it. I'm just sort of meh when it comes to drawing I guess. But I hung out with friends today. And I met one of my friends' gay uncle! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. I met him for about two minutes, but I want to talk to him more- he's pretty much awesome from what I can tell.

I'M WORKING ON MY NEW STORY! AND IT'S GETTING ALONG NICELY! Seriously, purty damn good

Uhhh, just wanted to brag about RENT again Turning into a late Renthead I am! I have an idea for a drawing too, so expect something completely idiotic and fanartish soon!

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25991534/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25991534/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:10:54 PDT [link]

Random F***ing Update
So I went to Rockport the other day. I was waaaaayyyyy over tired because of getting home at 12 after RENT and getting Rapp's autograph (*fangirlgiggle*) and got to sleep at about 3 because I was too excited to sleep. So I was really grumpy. We went to a beach near Rockport first, and I REALLY don't like beaches- I don't know why, but I HATE swimming anywhere but a pool. I think it's 'cos when I was younger I went to camp and any time I got out- or anyone got out for that matter- of the lake, you'd be covered in red dots all over you. So yeah, I hate non-chlorinated, non-heated water. Plus my sister was being a BITCH as she usually is, so I got into a few arguments with her, too. So I basically just sat in the beach chair watching the Drew Carey Show and a few songs from RENT on my phone (which gets internet access, aka, YouTube access) and humming along to the songs. Finally, after like an hour we left the stupid beach and I might've picked a fight with my mom before we got in the car then snapped at my mom and grandmother in the car... Anyways, we got to Rockport and we started going around, looking for something to eat and even though I had calmed down a bit, I was still a bit pissed. My grandmother- I love her dearly, remember this while I keep typing- kept picking at me and asking why I don't wear skirts. She then asked me (jokingly, I hope) "Are you a lesbian?" And I kind of blew up. I yelled yes, that I was a "flaming queer" and that's why I love RENT so much. I might've gotten a few looks from strangers... It just kinda bothers me, since my dad calls me gay a lot, seeing as I like theater. God forbid someone like something without being like a minority within the group who like that thing. I'm not, seeing as I like guys and all (OMG REALLY?) and I have absolutely NOTHING against gay people, I just hate it when people think that you HAVE to be gay to be involved with theater. After that I cooled down a lot- I guess sometimes I just need to explode- and the day wasn't half bad after that.

I learned how self-destructive/self-loathing I am yesterday though. I was mad at my mom and grandmother then suddenly I realized I had turned all of my anger from them to myself. I found myself hating everything about myself and crying quietly because I have no talent for what I want to have talent for. Not healthy... Not healthy at all...

Today was much better. I saw Harry Potter this morning- I don't want to give anything away, but what happened in the book happened in the movie. Duuuuurrrrrrrr. It stayed true to the book though, not like that piece of shit movie Prince Caspian. Then I babysat for a bit and then came home. I sat down at my computer and went through my deviations, drew a bit and watched RENT on my iTunes Now I'm a very happy camper.

I have two things bugging me though. One, I'm suddenly not as content with my romantic life as I was even a few weeks ago. Frankly, I'm bored. He talks too much about physics and math (which I don't give a shit about) and he does things that just irk me... Two, I talked to my friend while we were at RENT and she wants to student direct RENT in senior year. I expressed a bit of interest in the part of Maureen and said I'm hopefully going to be that good of a singer at that point and she sort of just stared at me blankly. I have a feeling that even if I became the most brilliant singer, dancer and actor in the world, she wouldn't cast me as anything in any show she directed... She's a bit petty at times, and I don't think she wants me doing anything that would show I have any form of talent. A few years ago we were hanging out together with our other friend and we were talking about singing and our voices. My third friend piped up and said, "I think Caitlyn has the best voice out of all of us." I quickly put that down and was like, "Naw, I'm not good, etc." but I don't think my theater-loving friend has put that thought out of her head. Plus, whenever we're all hanging out and someone starts singing and I join in, she gets really quiet and sort of stares at me looking slightly pissed off... She asked me to co-direct (because you need two students to student-direct a play at my school) and I think she might've just wanted me away from auditioning. She keeps telling me that if she does manage to direct it then she's not going to cast people because they're friends. I know that's what a good director does, I'm not stupid, and I told her I know that and that I wouldn't ask her to. I think it was just her code for "I don't want you in this play because I don't want anyone who hasn't already... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25846437/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25846437/ Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:23:43 PDT
Diesel is currently having his story messed with. I'm planning on writing something for him, though I don't know when that will be (I'm working on a NaNo re-write, a political analysis, and some girl's story at the moment). Anyways, Diesel will most likely be a street dog who has a little pack that he's trying to control, and he'll be really close with his sister Emma, and then he'll meet his little girly and yeah, something more will happen...

Rules:
1. You can enter as many times as you want.
2. The design MUST be realistic
3. While it should be realistic, she can have interesting markings. By realistic, I mean she shouldn't have freaky colors.
4. Don't go freakishly overboard with interesting markings. If I can't figure out how to draw it (which is largely what I'll be basing my decision on, as well as how appealing it is visually) then it probably won't get picked.
5. THIS IS NOT A SKILL CONTEST. SIMPLY A DESIGN CONTEST. I won't base my decision on how well you draw, but simply how much I like the design.

Guildlines:
- It MUST be a FEMALE. I support gay rights, but I am not gay myself, nor are any of my characters.
- She can be any breed, size, or shape, as long as she's a dog.
- When you draw her from one side, I'll assume she's the same on the other.
- She doesn't need a history, but a name'd be nice *sheepish*
- She's gotta be realistic, which means no wings, odd colors or powers. Although the power to be uber-seksey in Diesel's eyes would definately help her XD

1st prize- Full color picture with background and up to three characters
2nd prize- Full color picture with background and only one character
3rd prize- Full color picture without background and only one character

Deadline for this is August 1st- my b-day, 'cos I know I'll remember it XD. I'll try and judge as quickly as possible, as I'm going to Delaware a few days after the 1st and will be gone for about 10 days.

ENTRIES:
~ [link] and [link]
~ [link]







TO DO LIST
For others list:
Aunty Nancy- Picture of a mother bear with her two cubs-
Toji on the OW Forum- Pic of Nanuak-
~LittleWindmills- Disney Rape 2 *headdesk*-

Personal projects list
A Rough Race: Page 4- http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25735422/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:23:55 PDT The Ippolit Stables

Welcome to the Ippolit Stables!
We offer stallions and mares of all shapes and sizes. If at any time you'd like to breed one of the Ippolit horses with any of your own, don't hesitate to send me a note.

I've decided to hell with those common realistic breeds. Any horse type is welcome here I've also added what markings will MOST LIKELY be passed down to foals.

Horse count:
Stallions- 3
Mares- 2

NEWS
8/15/09- 4:21pm
I am officially pulling the Ippolit Stables out of HA-RPG, and will probably change the name of the stables. The horses will not lose their original names unless I decide to change them, but all horses will drop the name Ippolit. I will write down my own rules to my stables. When I rename the stable and set everything up, I will write a new journal with the new stable name, updated horse information, and the new rules. Thanks for reading!

Stallions

Aeolus Ippolit
[link]
Barn Name: Aeolus
Age: 7 years old
Height: 15.3h
Bloodlines: UnknownxUnknown
Breed: Thoroughbred x Akhal-Teké x Arabian
Coloring: Buckskin
What will be passed down: Stockings and blaze
Open for breeding: Yes
Offspring: None

Alkinoos Ippolit
[link]
Barn Name: Fuzz butt
Age: 3 years old
Height: 14.3 hands
Bloodlines: Calisto X *SheWolff's Loki
Breed: Arabian x Pasa Fino x Icelandic x Welsh
Coloring: Blanket Appaloosa
What will be passed down: Appaloosa markings
Open for breeding: Yes
Offspring: None

Klementos Ippolit
[link]
Barn Name: Toto
Age: 6 years old
Height: 14.6 hands
Bloodlines: Unknown
Breed: Amitaeo
Coloring: White Seafoam Amitaeo
What will be passed down: Mask
Open for breeding: Yes
Offspring: None

Mares

Calisto Ippolit
[link]
Barn Name: Callie
Age: 5 years
Height: 15.1 hands
Bloodlines: Unknown
Breed: Arabian x Pasa Fino
Coloring: Blanket Appaloosa
What will be passed down: Appaloosa markings
Offspring: Alkinoos ([link])

Roxelaine Ippolit
[link]
Barn Name: Roxie
Gender: Mare
Age: 7 years old
Height: 17.2 hands
Bloodlines: Unknown
Breed: Belgian draft horse
Coloring: Palomino
What will be passed down: Surprise me
Offspring: None

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25626204/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25626204/ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:27:27 PDT TO DO LIST
For others list:
Aunty Nancy- Picture of a mother bear with her two cubs-
Toji on the OW Forum- Pic of Nanuak-
~LittleWindmills- Disney Rape 2 *headdesk*-
=ocean-lore- Striker and Smokey Pride -

Personal projects list
A Rough Race: Page 4-
Proper ref sheets for RR characters

Contests I'm thinkin' of entering
*Ilyana88- Fendi as Mimi RENT at the beginning of Light My Candle -
=silverglass19- char. designs-
=CricketWings- Delirium as Hera- http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25548510/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:46:51 PDT
Besides, shouldn't you care more about Farrah Fawcett? She died of cancer, after fighting it for a while. Plus, she was gorgeous. Not a freaky white/black he-she.

Anyways, I haven't been on for a couple days, and I have 271 deviations to look through. I spent all of my time from 10:00AM on Tuesday until like, 6PM today with . We had a lot of fun discussions

Um, I don't remember why I said I was happy in the title. It might come back to me in a sec though...

So I had two fun dreams in the past two nights.
#1: So for the first couple minutes of the dream you gotta know about Pushing Daisies- basically a guy has the power to bring dead people back to life and he brings back his childhood sweetheart after she's strangled on a cruise ship and they (along with a private detective and an employee in the guy's pie shop) solve murders by bringing people back to life, asking them whodunit, then touching them a second time to make them dead again. In my dream I think either I or Luke was dead and whoever wasn't brought the other back to life and we were both upset because we couldn't touch each other (because in the show Ned- main character- touches the person once to bring them back to life, and if he touches them again they die again) but we kept finding ways to hug and stuff like that. So we were with my parents and sister and we were all going to a big presentation or something like that. We went down an escalator and a woman gave us each tickets to go down another set of escalators, but the lady changed my ticket magically so I would be separated from the people I went there with. She wouldn't let me stay with them and kept forcing me down the other set of escalators, so I grabbed her hair and I might've punched her a few times, but I ended up going down anyways, still yanking her damn head. I got to the bottom and was taken through another door (I let the bitch go at that point) where I was suddenly in knight on horseback times and I was a female knight and apparently a savior of all mankind or something XD So some guy suddenly appears and tries to shoot me (with a gun, which doesn't make sense in the time period) but misses. He escapes on horseback, so I leap onto a horse and got the horse cantering after the guy, which isn't quite fast enough. So I loosen the reins and just kick the horse into a gallop, then punch the guy off his horse when I reach him. And then I take him back to this big festival-ish place and I'm treated like a hero Until he escapes again, then my dad shows up and we go hunting for the guy together XD
#2: I was in a big fancy hotel, and all the people who were on the Close Up trip I went on were there. My friend and I went up to our room and I realized that we didn't have any snack food, so I went to a nearby BJs (seriously, it's a real store- it's not made up even though it has a name with sexual connotations) to get some snack food. While I'm there, I notice this one short, blond lady trying to get something on a high shelf and I offer to help her. Afterward I realize it's none other than Kristin Chenoweth. I magically have a yearbook (dunno why) with a nice little note and autograph from Idina Menzel (again, I dunno why) so I ask Chenoweth to sign as well. After she did, we talked about stuff I don't remember (probs about how much I wish I were her XD) and then I went back to the hotel, only to find one of the girls I roomed with on the trip (who I didn't know beforehand) with her boyfriend on one of the beds. Now the trip has a strict "no going in the rooms of the opposite sex" rule, so I'm like "uh, get him out of here." But she doesn't, and they're both just like, lying on the bed and making out. So I scoot outta there, and the next thing I know it's the next morning and she's making him breakfast.

Both very strange dreams XD And I remembered why I was so happy- I'M OFFICIALLY ON SUMMER VACATION, AND I DIDN'T FAIL A SINGLE CLASS!!!! So yeah, hopefully I'll get some stuff on my to-do list done

I saw Chicago (the movie, with Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah) and I LOVE the song "All that Jazz". I thought about it an... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25431404/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25431404/ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:13:46 PDT So you can choose whether to be interested or not

So I'm reviving Diesel's mate's contest. I'll give you a little information on how she will be used.

Diesel is currently having his story messed with. I'm planning on writing something for him, though I don't know when that will be (I'm working on a NaNo re-write, a political analysis, and some girl's story at the moment). Anyways, Diesel will most likely be a street dog who has a little pack that he's trying to control, and he'll be really close with his sister Emma, and then he'll meet his little girly and yeah, something more will happen...

Rules:
1. You can enter as many times as you want.
2. The design MUST be realistic
3. While it should be realistic, she can have interesting markings. By realistic, I mean she shouldn't have freaky colors.
4. Don't go freakishly overboard with interesting markings. If I can't figure out how to draw it (which is largely what I'll be basing my decision on, as well as how appealing it is visually) then it probably won't get picked.
5. THIS IS NOT A SKILL CONTEST. SIMPLY A DESIGN CONTEST. I won't base my decision on how well you draw, but simply how much I like the design.

Guildlines:
- It MUST be a FEMALE. I support gay rights, but I am not gay myself, nor are any of my characters.
- She can be any breed, size, or shape, as long as she's a dog.
- When you draw her from one side, I'll assume she's the same on the other.
- She doesn't need a history, but a name'd be nice *sheepish*
- She's gotta be realistic, which means no wings, odd colors or powers. Although the power to be uber-seksey in Diesel's eyes would definately help her XD

1st prize- Full color picture with background and up to three characters
2nd prize- Full color picture with background and only one character
3rd prize- Full color picture without background and only one character

Deadline for this is August 1st- my b-day, 'cos I know I'll remember it XD. I'll try and judge as quickly as possible, as I'm going to Delaware a few days after the 1st and will be gone for about 10 days.

ENTRIES:
~tiggercat12~[link] [link]

My To Do List


For others list:
Aunty Nancy- Picture of a mother bear with her two cubs-
Toji on the OW Forum- Pic of Nanuak-
~LittleWindmills- Disney Rape 2 *headdesk*-
=ocean-lore- Striker and Smokey Pride - http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25288104/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:27:28 PDT

{1}.Post these rules

{2}.Each tagged person must post 8 things about themselves on their journal.

{3}.At the end you have to choose 8 people to tag, and post their icons on the same journal.

{4}.Go to their page and send a message saying you tagged them.

{5}.NO tag-backs.

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1. I hate math and science classes in any grade at school.
2. I own 24 copic markers and 40+ really good colored pencils and I don't use half of them, 'cos I really suck at real media.
3. I correct people's spelling and grammar when they aren't looking.
4. I have never used chatspeak online or in a text message.
5. I feel afraid to get close to people sometimes.
6. I want a horse more than anything.
7. I check Fmylife, Mylifeisaverage, textsfromlastnight, facebook, deviantart, explosm, and nataliedee while in chemistry and math class.
8. I sleep 'til 12 almost every day I don't have to do anything.

And I'm tagging:
People later- I gotta go look at cars with my dad.





For others list:
Aunty Nancy- Picture of a mother bear with her two cubs-
Toji on the OW Forum- Pic of Nanuak-
~LittleWindmills- Disney Rape 2 *headdesk*-
=ocean-lore- Striker and Smokey Pride -

Personal projects list
A Rough Race: Page 4-
Proper ref sheets for RR characters

Contests I'm thinkin' of entering
*Ilyana88 Fendi as Mimi RENT at the beginning of Light My Candle - ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25221846/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25221846/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:29:31 PDT

So I went horseback riding on Saturday. I rode a handsome fellow named Shiloh (look for him later on in Rough Race- I loved him that much XD) who was really into not working hard, but he was responsive enough when I forced him to be. He lagged behind the leader a lot, but when he got trotting he was pretty quick. There were a few times when he lagged behind that I actually just said, "Come on now, hurry up," and he jumped into a trot for a few paces until he caught up o_O It was weird but really cool. Then after the ride I was standing near where they have the horses who are waiting to be ridden (well, more like trying to avoid being ridden- they all seem to hate it XD) and I started patting this one horse and playing with his mane and ears and stuff. I was really liking him and I kept getting grass from my side of the fence to feed to him, and he kept lipping my hand and biting it gently to try and get more. So I looked at his saddle, since all the horses have their names on their saddles, and I saw his name was Tattoo. And then I realized that he was the big guy I had ridden the last time I had been there I had completely forgotten about him, which is weird, 'cos now that I remember him, I remember having a really good ride. He was really sweet this time too Glad I saw him again.

There was this one big draft horse who kept standing near the fence, and I saw one of the girls who worked there fixing that fence earlier while shooing him away. The draft was pushing on the fence a bit and it suddenly broke under his weight and he tumbled a bit, then threw himself backwards. He stood there looking scared for a second then looked like he didn't even care that it'd happened. I couldn't help but be reminded of a cat XD It was so cute

Alright, my Crazy Horse Lady time is over for this journal XD

I took half of my Close Up final today and I'm 100% sure that I got an A or a B We had to do 50 short answer questions (nearly killed my hand) and find 40 countries on a map. I missed a lot of South American countries... But I got everything else. For some reason maps stick in my head pretty well (for the most part). Anyways, I missed a few questions (4 *dies*) on Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Helinski Accords. I later learned that Fatah is an Israeli political party, Hamas is in charge in the Gaza strip, Hezbollah is seen as a terrorist political party by the US even though they were voted in democratically and we basically frothed at the mouth with excitement when Palestine had the elections, and the Helinski Accords were Russia demanding that the borders of countries in Europe stay the same after WWII. That whole bit was for myself, to pound it all into my head, not to educate y'all. But I've got the second half of the final on Friday- we have to write an essay on the most important issue to America today, and I'm gonna say involvement in the Middle East. Or maybe the international community. Yayness.

I just finished Sunrise in the third Warriors series. Go and read it. Now, bitches. I'm serious. I need to talk about it. Right now.

I also really need a good Warriors roleplay. Nothing big, just one with a good plot and setting, something to keep me interested for a while I'll be posting three of my favorite Warriors characters in a little bit.

I tried out for another play and didn't make it into that either. But I'm doing a helluva lot better than I did last time. I didn't build up my confidence much before this, so I didn't get hurt as bad. This time I just went into it, gave it my all and now I know I have stuff to work on. I talked to the director of the theater department in my school who was one of the two people I auditioned in front of and asked him if we could talk about my audition and what I could work on for next time, and he said after they had gotten through the audition process he'd be happy to So I'm lookin' forward to figuring out what to work on.


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~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25109325/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25109325/ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:02:24 PDT
Have you ever wanted to kick someone so bad that it makes you dizzy? There's this girl in my gym class and I just want to beat her into a pulp. I know that makes me sound completely awful, but she just pisses me off. Every time I got to gym class lately she's constantly acting like I'm four and she's a day care teacher. Anytime I miss the ball (okay, anytime I go after the ball, when I miss the ball, 'cos I'm really bad at sports) all I can hear is "It's okay! Nice try Caitlyn!" She talks to me like I'm completely retarded. Today, during handball my team mate accidentally held the ball for longer than 3 seconds (some stupid rule in the game) before passing it halfheartedly to me. A kid on the other team said he broke the 3-second rule, so I passed it to the other team and she just turned to me and goes, "He's not on our team Caitlyn!" She says my name in every sentence whenever she says anything to me. Like in Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, like Koly said- she's making my name hateful to me. She speaks so condescendingly it makes me sick. And I've never wanted to kick a puppy, but she makes noises like a whimpering puppy whenever she gets hit while playing goalie. Suck it up you stupid bitch, you're the goalie- you're going to get hit. Even I know that and I don't even do sports in gym class (I stand there and pretend to look busy and my teacher just doesn't care). And you'd think she'd act really young and childish, but anytime she's around any one of her guy friends, all I hear is her giggling and teasing and flirting with them, and she's always hugging them and putting her hands all over their chest. It kind of sickens me to watch her.

Alright, that's done. I know I updated a few days ago, but she just annoys me so much, and venting usually takes away the feeling that I have to punch someone.

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That's a song I listened to as a kid. It makes me think of my mother... We used to listen to it together all the time. I kind of miss being younger so that I could spend that kind of innocent time with my mom. (No, my mom's not out of the picture or anything, I just miss being that young and having that much fun with her).

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25075512/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/25075512/ Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:57:56 PDT Then I woke up at 6, 'cos my dad woke up my sister at 5:30 XD So she showered then passed on the misery of an early morning to me.

Then when I got to school I met up with a certain blondie and he walked me to my first class. My history teacher seemed happy enough at first, then suddenly she seemed really upset. It turns out over the weekend one of the guidance counselors/soccer coaches had a heart attack and died at a very young age... Which is weird because, even though I didn't know him personally, I saw him all the time. He was one of those 'fluttering at the edges of life' people, and I know I've made eye contact with him before, but I never introduced myself or anything. It's just odd to think that he's gone, when I saw him all the time yet never said anything to him. So the mood was kinda somber today. There was a lot of hugging in the hallways and quite a few buried faces. I wish I had known that man better- I've only heard good things about him.

But after that the day passed pretty normally, except one of the most exciting English classes of my life XD We all were in the room and everything and we could smell something funny. Now we all know that the freshmen in the class before mine smell TERRIBLE, which we've had proven to us again and again, 'cos the classroom always smells AWFUL. But today the smell was different. At first it smelled like cigarettes, but not quite... Suddenly, one of the housemasters walked in and was checked in on my English teacher, who knew the guidance counselor, 'cos she seemed kinda upset. Then he left and a few minutes later another housemaster popped in and was like, "Sorry to interrupt, but we've had reports from teachers that it smells of marijuana, and the smell is coming from this room." We were all like, " WTF? SRSLY?" So we were told we all had to go into a small office nearby with our bags one at a time, and the two housemasters would search our bags and interrogate us. She took the class roster and called us alphabetically, but only got to the second person. She called the second person into the office and he didn't come back, so BINGO, they found their man I guess. Honestly, we all kinda laughed about it, but a bunch of kids were talking about student rights and unlawful search and seizure and that kinda crap. But hey, if you want to smoke pot, don't do it in my English classroom where I have to smell it after.

There was no Improv club today, which was upsetting, then I got into a fight with mah best friend, which was also upsetting, and then I had to go for math help, which was also very upsetting. All in all, my hour after school was not fun. But I made up with my friend 'cos we're too deep in faux lesbian love to fight for long.

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Aunty Nancy- Picture of a mother bear with her two cubs-
Toji on the OW Forum- Pic of Nanuak-

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http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24930466/ Sun, 24 May 2009 19:20:51 PDT REQUESTS: CLOSED
ART TRADES: CLOSED
GIFT ART Dude, that's up to me...

If I'm missing something, please let me know.

There is no order to the list. Someone who is listed before you could get their picture done before or after you. It depends on how I'm feeling, frankly.

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Aunty Nancy- Picture of a mother bear with her two cubs-
Toji on the OW Forum- Pic of Nanuak-
~treymo123- Dominic Cooper drawing-
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~RoNeil- Niri-
~RoNeil- Colin-

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Zyrxy, Addy, and Boipelo-
http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24879799/ Thu, 21 May 2009 19:04:35 PDT [link]
Something is seriously wrong with that website. Type 'whore' forty times on Paris Hilton's page, say that the Daily Show 'sucks Colbert's balls' for all I care, just don't fuck with stuff on such a sensitive and horrible topic. I can't think of anything else to say I'm so angry right now.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24876663/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24876663/ Thu, 21 May 2009 16:08:01 PDT Her homework. FML.

Anyways, I figure I should explain my recent and mild absence- I'm lazy as shit nowadays. I'm working on trades and requests and stuff, I'm just being slow about it.

My current to do list is:

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~Chirstal- VERY VERY VERY LATE HALLOWEEN GIFT- - I WILL GET THIS DONE EVENTUALLY CHIR.
~LittleWindmills-
Pic of her Neopet
Pic of her Avatar character- I CAN'T START UNTIL YOU SEND ME THE INFO, EM!
~dmntninja- Trade

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Blitzcrege- Lio at a beer waterhole (XD)

TIGGERCAT- I'm having more trouble than ever remembering to draw the sketch for our trade. If my next deviation is anything but that, please feel free to hate me forever.

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So I'm currently searching the net for pictures of Idina and Kristin- the only two women in the world who can play Elphaba and Galinda/Glinda. Seriously, I feel almost cheated that I didn't get to see them in Wicked, although I'm highly thankful to Kate for taking me to see the show I did. I just figured I should warn you all that I've been doodling Elphaba on my notes and that I'm currently looking for a big enough reference picture that I'd be able to use to attempt another realistic portrait of a person, a la my Bernadette Peters picture. I'd really like to get into doing more realistic people anyways, so this is a perfect reason to get started on that!

Yeesh, I've noticed that the majority of my obsessions (Wicked was my obsession in 7th grade) tend to involve me idolizing one/two women involved in the obsession. I've never drawn or attempted to draw these two though, which is odd, because usually I get at least one good drawing out of each obsession. But I've talked to my singing teacher who says that I'm an alto, so I'mma work on getting higher and higher notes. I will be Elphaba one day gosh darnit (apparently she's a mezzo soprano with belt, so yeah). I know I'd probably never be able to reach a Galinda/Glinda note, so I don't think I'll try that anytime soon, with my current voice. Actually, I think I'll try and just fail miserably XD

If you don't know who I'm talking about, think of in RV (with Robin Williams) and the tiny blonde woman who was part of the family that chased Robin William's family across the country. That's Chenoweth. And Menzel was in the movie RENT (and I'm pretty sure she played Maureen in the original Broadway production as well) and in Enchanted, as Nancy.

I just thought I'd warn you of the possible sudden tide of insane fangirlishness about this fantasmic musical. Well, actually, I don't quite know why I posted this journal. I guess I just wanted to talk about something... TOODLES!

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24548732/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24548732/ Sat, 02 May 2009 13:23:09 PDT
Anyway, the Improv Jam was kind of amazing. I loved every second of it, and every second of the five/six/somebignumber hours before hand. The last class of the day was neat, 'cos we went to an assembly where a group of teenagers told of people they lost and how to cope with losing people. It kinda helped, but also brought back feelings I thought I had left behind and mostly gotten over. But the presentation ended about twenty/thirty minutes before school did, so we all just left. It was Thursday, so I wandered up towards Improv. We were locked out of the room, but we had club in the hall, and it was kinda funny because only like ten people showed up, which was really different from the usual 15-20 that can show up sometimes. I went up a few times and got maybe a laugh or two in club, which was a real confidence boost. Then after club I asked the director about my Playwrights audition (he wrote and is directing a play in that) and asked for critique and stuff. He asked what I thought I had done wrong, and I said that it was probably projection and nerves. He said that it's basically understandable and assumed that you'll be nervous in an audition and that it wasn't so much projection that I needed to work on as much as slowing down. He had suggested it at the audition, but I thought I had- looks like I might've messed that up XD. Anyway, I'mma gonna work on that stuff for next year. I heard it through the grape vine that the school's gonna do A Streetcar Named Desire next year and I looked into what it's about. It's intense and upsetting towards the end (the main character gets raped and goes insane), but I'm gonna read it over the summer and try out And I'm sure there'll be other stuff going on, so I'll look into those things too.

Anyways, after improv was tutoring and SNAPPED MY BRA IN FRONT OF THE GROUP AS PER USUAL (PLEASE GO SPAM HER PAGE WITH ANGRY SHARKS EATING HER ICON THAT I MADE FOR HER- you'll find the coding at the bottom of the journal as well as a link to her page ) and then I settled down to do my work. I actually finished it all there and talked with one of the tutors about the Odyssey and Oedipus, and stuff like improv. After that my mom picked me up and drove me home and I hung around the house for about an hour. I then went BACK to school for the big presentation of all the plays and stuff that've been done throughout the year (the Jam was at the end of the night) and met up with Luke there. We wanted to see the improv troupe (the creme de la creme troupe, not the club's Jam) and we dashed down to my Child Development teacher so I could drop off a cinnamon roll for her dinner (she was talking about how she might not be able to find anything to eat and I offered to bring her something XD) and tell her I'd be at the show before I came back down to help her. The show was frickin' hilarious, and I actually got an inspiration in. They were playing But Not Really and I suggested that something be an aardvark instead of a tennis racket XD Surprisingly the person guessing got it, which was impressive. So after that I went down to my Child Dev. classroom with Luke and stayed there until 8. I painted faces and gave children temp. tattoos for like two hours. I drew a star and heart on my face, then had Luke write 'improv' on my forehead, and I drew a sparkly green mustache and goatee on him and wrote 'hi' on his forehead. He smudged half of the 'stache so I drew a smiley face I stole and wore Luke's tap shoes (he was in a musical that had a lot of tap in it) the whole night XD

Then at 7:55- 5 minutes before we had to go warm up for the Jam- THE FIRE ALARM RANG. So we waited 15 minutes for the firemen to show up and give us the okay to go back in and the improv people ran in to start warming up and getting their numbers (so people knew which games they'd be in and such). I was #12 and the pen still hasn't worn off my hand,... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24481576/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24481576/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:25:42 PDT
Well, Playwrights auditions went SPECTACULARLY (that was sarcastic by the way). I was fine up until it was about a half hour before the actual audition, then I started freaking out like a retard, because that's apparently what I am. I messed up in the warm ups and then when I actually auditioned I got freaked out by the fact that it was just me in front of a panel of the people who wrote the plays and would be directing them. So after weeks of confidence, I was shattered back to reality with the realization that I freak out in front of groups of people. Yeah, and that's coming from the person who wants nothing more than to be like someone like Bernadette Peters or Anne Hathaway- someone who wishes she could act and be that amazing, but just can't be no matter how hard she tries.

Oh but I was just thrilled to learn that this one girl who I've been friends with for a while got a callback. She goes to improv club, and whenever she starts acting, I just cringe. Honestly, it's kind of painful. And it's even worse that she got in and I didn't. She's a friend, but I can't lie about that. I'm not the best actor, but it just annoys me.

Oh and speaking of people like Anne Hathaway, I'm fucking jealous of her. I have no self esteem to speak of. I hate looking in the mirror because I look absolutely horrendous, my body is just disgusting, I'm pretty sure I've got some health issue or other going for me, my hair is fucking impossible, and to top it all off, the contacts I've been wearing the past couple of days to at least try to look nicer dry out my eyes. So not only do I look nothing like the people I'd like to look like (Anne Hathaway, Bernadette Peters, etc.) but I don't have any of the talent those people do (acting, singing, not being disgusting, etc.). Hell, even the stuff that I've got some talent in, I don't have nearly as much as I'd like to. Drawing, writing, stuff like that.

I feel like I can't say anything anywhere anymore, 'cos I'll offend someone somewhere. I can't say 'retarded' because people shit a brick when I do, because it's not politically correct- which frankly my dear, I find retarded. It means to slow down not mentally disabled. It can be used as a word for mentally disabled because guess what? WHEN YOU'RE MENTALLY DISABLED, YOUR DEVELOPMENT WAS (wait for it) RETARDED, OR SLOWED DOWN, MAKING YOU RETARDED. Honestly get the stick out of your ass people. I can't complain about babysitting on Facebook because the woman I babysit for friended me, so if I said anything about her 13 YEAR OLD SON (who STILL needs a BABYSITTER?) to ANYONE, she'll see because the new layout is just ridiculous. He's almost insufferable. He thinks that anything I say he has to argue about, he's constantly trying to prove he's smarter than me, he watches CARTOON NETWORK AT 13 YEARS OLD- YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE START TO WATCH SHOWS THAT AREN'T COMPLETELY OBNOXIOUS- and worst of all, I'm pretty sure he TRIES to be obnoxious sometimes. Plus, he's in my SISTER'S MATH CLASS. I only accepted the job 'cos my friend used to babysit him- I didn't know it was going to turn into a "Hey, I have a babysitter who's pretty reliable, I think I'll have her over here at least twice a week to try and annoy the shit out of her." And even here, I can't say a lot because people from my school come here on deviantart, and I have to face them every day.

And you know what else annoys me? The fact that I feel guilty for liking being Luke's girlfriend. 'Cos beforehand, the decision I had to make (d'you remember that vent pic with Caitlyn all tied up and blabbity blah? this one: [link] ) was about liking Luke and liking another guy. But now that I've made my decision, I feel guilty 'cos I didn't choose the other guy. Like I said in the comments of that vent picture, if you were involved with that whole bit, or know about it, don't say a single goddam thing.

Oh, and I learned today that apparently Pokes on Facebook mean you like someone. I should probably tell my aunt that I just learned I'm madly in love with her now. *sarcasm*

Hopefully things'll start being less suckish. There's an improv jam this thursday at my school, which should be fun. Hopefully. 'Should' and 'hopefully' are big words in those sentences because a lot of the people who go to club nowadays kind of annoy the living fuck out of me, and a lot of them signed up for the jam. I mean, there are the people who are friggin' hilarious, but they're slowly being outnumbered by people who should just not... be... there... I mean, I'm a pretty suckish improv-er, but I know it, and I don't go up EVERY TIME because I THINK I'm hilarious, unlike SOME people in club. If you think I'm just complaining about a change in... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24349333/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/24349333/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:41:03 PDT
Speaking of self-confidence issues, I still haven't erased my name on the sign up sheet for auditions for the school's newest play. I'm tweaking the monologue my friend gave me (hopefully it won't be that big of an issue) so that I can get it past the 1 minute mark. As it is, it's only at about 50 or so seconds, and it's gotta be between 1 and 2 minutes.

I also got a new phone! I got the Blackberry Curve It's pretty cool, but really confusing so far. I'll force myself to get used to it though, seeing as it can go on Facebook XD And I can actually check my messages here if I want, so it's a pretty kick ass phone.

"BLOW GABRIEL BLOW"
"LAWDIE LAWDIE!"
Lol, best part in that whole damn song. In Patti LuPone's version of 'Blow, Gabriel Blow' from 'Anything Goes' there's this one guy in the chorus who at one point screams 'lordy lordy' and 'hallelujah' and it just sounds amazing Lioness likey Anything Goes

So yeah, there's the update!

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So yeah, there's this guy that I know who I've kinda been seeing the past couple of weeks and on Thursday we hung out after my tutoring (which he actually waited in the school for me to finish)- we watched Family Guy at his house - and we discussed Easter plans. He had none, so I was like, "D'you wanna spend Easter with me?" And so he agreed and he came with me and my parents and sister to my grandparents from like, 10 until about noon, then we went to my aunt and uncle's house. We played Rock Band at my grandparents- and at one point he and I shared a guitar XD- and ate breakfast (DAMN GOOD HOME FRIES AND BACON!).

When we went to my aunt and uncle's, we sorta hung around with the adults until we went outside with the younger kids (6 kids ages 3-10) and played with them for a bit. WOAH NELLEH, those kids loved him XD We started off playing chasing games and playing superhero, since there were badmitten rackets and my little cousin kept saying 'batman' instead of 'badmitten'. So after those chasing games, we sorta started chasing each other and trying to tackle each other, and the little cousins were all FREAKING OUT, since he let them toss him down on the ground and climb all over him and hit him with those big ass plastic baseball bats. Then me and my sister got involved trying to 'save' him, and they turned their attention to beating the crap outta me and my sister. We all played and wrestled and had little kids push us around for at least two hours. Then the adults had us take the kids around the block to give the adults time to hide eggs for the little cousins. That was SO MUCH FUN but SO TIRING. The kids were so excited to be walking around the block, and my youngest cousin (in that part of the family) just wanted to run off in the street (my aunt and uncle live in a really quiet neighborhood, so we could walk in the street). So I had a rule that if you were in the street, you held a big kid's hand. So we walked the kids around for a bit, then brought them back to the house and set them loose on the property and they tore apart the back and front yards finding eggs. The cousin I was helping ('cos each kid got a big kid helper) filled her basket over the rim, and the handle actually broke XD My other cousin was absolutely obsessed with my guy friend, 'cos they almost had the same name (cousin=Lucas, boyfriend= Luke) and they hunted all over the yard together. After the egg hunt, we wrestled and played a little more, but then the sugar started kicking in for the kids, and the sugar levels went down for me, my sister, and Luke. So we were like, "Sorry guys, too tired, gotta go shorties." So we skedaddled on into the house and settled down on the couch. Unfortunately, my uncle Jimmy, my older cousin Matthew, and my father were all unhappy with how close Luke and I were sitting, as well as how he put his arm around me XD My uncle literally moved his arm and moved me over. Then he showed my dad, who promptly sat himself down between us, glared at Luke for a moment, then got up again and walked out. 'Course I skootched back over, which earned me glares from all three of them XD I wonder why guys are so protective of their female family members... Anywhoo, my cousin Lucas wanted Luke to play more and when Luke informed him that he was waaaaaaaaaaay too tired to keep playing, Lucas asked if they could have a playdate sometime, and asked Luke to put his number into his cell phone XD He started said conversation with, "Can I talk to you in private?" and dragged Luke away, even though Luke just relayed it all back to me and my sister XD Every once in a while Luke and I would hug while we were outside and I'd see my cousin Matt open the sliding glass door, glare at us for a second or two and then close the door again. But, those 6 little kids were enamored with him. And my aunts had nothing but good things to say about him, 'cos he was polite and played with the little kids. He almost fell asleep in the car ride home though lol- they really wore him out. Hell, they wore me out! They were crazy, and all hyped up on Easter candy.

I just felt like bragging, since this has to have been one of the best Easters of my life. I mean, he actually called me his girlfriend (he said something like, "I just wanted to spend the day with my girlfriend, not getting beaten up" XD), and he was just so great with all of my cousins. After we took the kids on the walk around the block (I felt like a friggin' daycare teacher XD) I talked about how I'm not having kids until I can keep up with them (or at least not having 6 at once lol) and he was like, "Naw, they're cute! Kids are so much fun!" Plus I think even my daddy likes him, 'cos he can be intelligent, but goofy, too.

Anyways, that's why... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23948191/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23948191/ Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:40:45 PDT
I was in my kitchen in my house, and my sister and her friend had a little pack of what looked like beads and some goopy stuff. My sister held up the bead thingies and they began to glow purple, and hover in the air two or so feet away from each other. She stretched the goop between the two and then began spreading it out like pizza dough, and it hovered with the beads, except between them. It glowed purple too, and suddenly it all glowed about ten times brighter, and my sister said, “Check it out! Me and Ashley found this new parallel universe!” So I was like, “WHAT THE HECK IS THAT DOING IN THE HOUSE? AND WHY DOESN’T THE GOVERNMENT HAVE THIS?” And she just sorta laughed at me… But then she was like, “I’m gonna go through!” So she and her friend jumped into the purple glow and the stuff all fell to the floor as soon as they were gone through. I stood there staring stupidly for a few minutes, then was like, “CRAP, WHERE DID THEY GO?”

So I tried to figure out how my sister had done it, but when I held up the beads they just stuck together like magnets, but I tried putting the goop on anyways, and that just made it a bigger mess. It all started glowing anyways, so I poked my head through. I saw a world that was like the scene in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl where you battle the main legendary (whether that’s Palkia or whatever the other one’s name is) and it’s kind of pixel-y and weird. So I bring my head back into this world and I’m like, “THIS IS BAD.” So I tell my dad and he says that the kittens (who aren’t really kittens anymore, but I got them when they were kittens so the name still sticks today) got through while I wasn’t paying attention. So I basically completely freaked out, since my sister, her friend, and my little babies were all in a Pokemon-esque world now and I couldn’t follow otherwise the beads and goop would fall again and I would have to wait for another person to open the weird portal thingy again.

So I put the stuff down and go into the bathroom (I have no friggin’ clue why, since I didn’t actually do anything in there) but when I came back out, the stuff was gone. I flipped out and asked my dad and he said that we must have left them in Florida when we went on vacation. Suddenly that became the reality and I got on a plane and flew to Florida. I went to the front desk of the really nice hotel we stayed at (which was actually the hotel from a dream I had shortly before I went to D.C. when I was thinking about what the hotel we stayed in would look like- yes, my brain recycles elements from old dreams) and I asked them for the room key to the suite my family stayed in because I couldn’t for the life of me remember the number. So they gave me the key to the suite, and I went up to find it, and it was the exact same room from the dream before the D.C. trip, except there was a person inside who screamed and called the cops when I unlocked the door. So I figured that the portal-opener wasn’t in there and that someone had stolen it. I remembered a shady looking character who had been in my house when this whole thing started (okay, he hadn’t been at the beginning of the dream, but my dream-self basically decided this and it all became real XD) and I went off in search of him to kick his ass.

I found him in a church tower and he was opening the portal to find bad guys there, bring them through and take over the world (because that’s what all shady people in my dreams do) so I tried to stop him, but these women (who I think were witches) attacked me and tried to keep me away. They brought me into a candy store and they tried to distract me with the candy. It didn’t work (surprisingly), and I punched one in the face, and then ran back up to the church tower, but the guy and the little portal-opener thingies were nowhere to be found. So I ran back to the hotel (because I figured that was where he would go, and lo and behold, I was right- since it was my dream and I made the rules XD) and was running through this huge ballroom when a guy was like, “HEY, CAITLYN, we have something here for you!” I went over to the person, who was standing behind a bar- like a bar where you get alcohol- and he handed me a cardboard tube with a detachable cap. I ducked behind the bar and told him that if anyone asked for me, he hadn’t seen me, because I was suddenly terrified that someone would shoot me- because that shady guy was really evil and all. So I opened the tube and inside was a big piece of paper with a drawing of Anastasia and Dimitri from FOX’s version of Anastasia. Underneath it there was something written like, “I’d love to dance with you, if you stand up now.” So I was like, “WTF?” and stood up to see the ballroom had filled with people wearing nice ball gowns and suits and stuff, and I was suddenly wearing a really nice and pretty dress. I saw a... ]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23854193/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23854193/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:47:20 PDT
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- Available: Arg I don’t know.

- Age: 15

- Annoyance: Having an odd number of foods that I eat in pairs.

- Allergic: Penicillin

- Animal: TOO MANY

- Actor:

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- Beer: Ew, why?

- Birthday/Birthplace: August 1st, MA

- Best Friends: Jillian, Emily, and Kate

- Body Part on opposite sex: Eyes/nose/hair

- Best feeling in the world: Elation

- Blind or Deaf: Neither

- Best weather: Blue skies

- Been in Love: I’m 15- I don’t know what love is outside of a familial sense

- Been bitched out?: Wtf does that mean?

- Been on stage?: Once or twice- Improv and when I was like, nine for a school play.

- Believe in yourself?: Ha ha ha ha ha!

- Believe in life on other planets: I dunno…

- Believe in miracles: Not really

- Believe in Magic: WANT

- Believe in God: Not really

- Believe in Satan: Not really

- Believe in Santa: Nope

- Believe in Ghosts/spirits: No

- Believe in Evolution:*points at Lucy’s bones* How can I not? It has PROOF behind it.

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- Car: Can’t drive

- Candy: EVERY KIND

- Colour: Green/purple

- Cried in school: When I get stressed enough

- Chocolate/Vanilla: Chocolate

- Chinese/Mexican: Either way I’m sick later- besides, why would you want to eat those? "Hm, I feel like eating... Do I want a good healthy meal, or explosive diarrhea?"

- Cake or pie: Chocolate gram cracker pie

- Countries to visit: Tanzania (Gombe Stream Reserve)

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- Day or Night: Night

- Dream vehicle: I dunno

- Danced: Obviously- who hasn’t?

- Dance in the rain?: No- I’ve run through the rain

- Dance in the middle of the street?: No- I’ve fallen on my ass on rollerblades in the middle of a 4-way intersection though

- Do the splits?: *looks at legs* That’d hurt 

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- Eggs: CHICKEN FINGERS!

- Eyes: Blue

- Everyone has: annoyed me at some point or another

- Ever failed a class?: Let’s look at my transcript! Oh, well there was- HELL YEAH I HAVE. I SUCK at school.

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- First crush: I honestly don’t remember

- Full name: Caitlyn (blah blah blah)

- First thoughts waking up: “WANT SLEEP”

- Food: Chicken tenders and fries

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- Greatest Fear: That I’m right and there is no God and I’ll never see Nathan or Uncle Rick again.

- Giver or taker: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID

- Goals: Write a kick ass novel

- Gum: Wintergreen

- Get along with your parents?: Yes

- Good luck charms: None

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- Hair Colour:

- Height: 5'6"

- Happy: Yay…

- Holidays: HALLOWEEN FTW!

- How do you want to die: In my sleep

- Health freak?: I’m eating sugary snacks right now.

- Hate: Uhm… A lot of things actually.

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(In guys/girls)
- Eye colour: Blue

- Hair Colour: Brown or blonde- no black hair for some reason

- Height: Slightly taller than me

- Clothing Style: I have no style myself- why should it matter for him?

- Characteristics: Humor, comforting

- Ice Cream: Chocolate

- Instrument: I don’t play instruments, so it really doesn’t matter

J
- Jewelry: I don’t wear much jewelry, but I think it’s pretty

- Job: I have a knack for getting exhausting/boring jobs

K
- Kids: will be adopted

- Kickboxing or karate: Karate- I almost wrote Katara by accident XD

- Keep a journal?: Nope

L
- Longest Car Ride: 9/10 hrs

- Love: is your favorite food for every breakfast lunch and dinner and, Love is, the Holocaust, ‘cept you don’t die quick and you don’t get thinner. (Bo Burnham FTW XD)

- Letter: C… ?

- Laughed so hard you cried: Once or twice

- Love at first sight: Doubt it

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- Milk flavour: Chocolate

- Movie: I like ‘em! Can’t choose

- Mooned anyone?: Nope

- Marriage: Eventually

- Motion sickness?: YES

- McD's or BK: BK

N
- Number of Siblings: 1.

- Number of Piercings: 2 (ears).

- Number: 4

O
- Overused Phrases: Lol, XD, or anyways

- One wish: Things’d stop being so f***ed up

- One phobia: Fish

P
Place you'd like to live: I have no friggin’ clue

- Pepsi/Coke: “Dicks and vaginas are a lot like Coke and Pepsi- I strongly prefer one but my dad thinks they taste the same.” ~Bo Burnham
~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23838835/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23838835/ Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:28:43 PDT ) Anyways, I just wanted to vent a little bit, since I felt really crappy.

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Here's the poll:
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and here's the journal with the numbers:
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Voting closes on the 21st- so I have to wait agonizingly long until then D:

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23746122/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23746122/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:33:31 PDT
From the hand-outs:
"Micro-credit is the loaning of small amounts of money to entrepreneurs living in the developing world. These business owners do not have access to loans from normal banks and thus have no means to improve their lives. Micro-credit is one of the most effective ways of helping communities living in third world countries help themselves. Giving these people access to small loans enables them to start and maintain small businesses ultimately boosting the standard of living in their towns and cities. These loans are then paid back and reused to help a new family. Because the loans are paid back, all donations-" can be recycled again and again so more people can have better living standards.

(I threw in some stuff at the last sentence because there was annoying fluff at the end.)

So in a nutshell- loan money to impoverished people in third world countries and after they've started up their business and helped themselves out a little bit that way, they pay the money back to you with a small amount of interest (some organizations even have a 0% interest rate). Some places (like kiva.org- as we were told today) have minimums of $25, which means your loan to a poor entrepreneur doesn't have to be enormous. Sure they may ask for a large number like $500, but the people at school said that Kiva splits up the lending, so some people could pay $100, others can pay $50, and some people could even pay the whole thing if they really wanted to.

Now, my idea involved lovely people here on Deviantart. I was thinking that I could maybe set up a PayPal just for micro-credit, and do small commissions (like $2-$5 commissions) and use the money from those for micro-credit. Like, just have a little account used to help out these people.

I dunno, just tossing around ideas. This micro-credit thing sounds like a really interesting idea, and I'd kinda like to try it out. Not with my school though, since I'm already going to clubs and junk.

What do you all think though? I dunno if I'd be the best person to do the drawing for it (since I suck at backgrounds and anatomy sometimes XD) but that's why they'd be CHEAP.

EDIT: by the way, here's the website the school directed us to- [link]

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I'm going to a friend's house tomorrow to see her and meet her new puppy, then going to my grandparents house to call my uncle a punk, listen to my little cousin's high-pitched giggle, and listen to my other uncle's high-pitched giggle. I don't really want to go though... I kinda just want to work on a character I'm developing (because I don't have enough already XD) and figure out what I want to do with him. Frankly I'm pretty pleased, since I'm suddenly really good at drawing his species for some reason. I dunno, I might try and make somethin' out of him (A MAN ).

I worked today. A lot. Earned about $108 today. Actually, I earned exactly $108 today. I'm happy.

I really want to see Coraline. Fer fawkes sake I dunno why, I just have to see that gaddam moveh. (That was my attempt at writing in an Irish accent- I don't know why...) That or I want to see Bo Burnham/Stephen Lynch live- although I have a reason for that: they're both HILARIOUS. Seriously.

Um yeah, that's the random f***ing update. Dunno why I swore- just felt like it. Art's coming whenever. Bye.

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23628661/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23628661/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:20:29 PDT
For others list:
~tiggercat12- Collab sketch- collab sketch=
~Chirstal- VERY VERY VERY LATE HALLOWEEN GIFT-
~LittleWindmills-
Pic of her Neopet
Pic of her Avatar character- I CAN'T START UNTIL YOU SEND ME THE INFO, EM!
Gaston and Belle-
~dmntninja- Trade

(On TLKFAA)
Blitzcrege- Lio at a beer waterhole (XD)

Personal projects list
A Rough Race: Page 4-

Yay for purty buttons and nifty stars! Anyway, this'll probably be updated every once in a while, so that I can be like, "OMG I GOTS STUFF TO DO!"

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23558966/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23558966/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:08:48 PST But yeah, so we got to D.C. on Sunday and we spent the day in Georgetown. We went shopping and goofed off in the mall there and I bought 3 posters (one Obama, one Peter VS Chicken, one Shia LeBouf one- 'cos he's HAWT) at an FYE there. Then we went back to the hotel (the Marriott ) and met our roommates. I had two girls from Georgia as my roommates. They were the complete opposite of me. They had thick southern accents, spent at least ten minutes on their hair, and more for their makeup. But they were both really nice, and what was really funny was at about 12 every night, one of them would get really hyper and then it would rub off on the rest of us, and we'd be bouncing off the walls until about 1/1:30, forgetting that we had to be up for breakfast which was at 6:45 every morning.

But yeah, after the orientation dinner and that stuff, we went to workshop, which was THE WORST PART OF THE TRIP. Workshop is where we go to meet with our PI (program instructor) and we discuss politics and crap. But it was really boring, because everyone wanted to goof off with new friends. Like I met this guy Antonio and we talked a lot the first night, then I introduced him to my other friends, and we all just hit it off. He wishes he lived in Boston now, instead of Chicago XD It was sad leaving him, since we all became really close by the end of the week. Funniest part about it is he thought I was quiet and polite XD He soon realized this was not the case when I suddenly yelled "DICK" at him when he said something weird.

Then we all headed up to the student lounge, which was stupid, 'cos there was nothing to do there but sit in chairs and talk. So yeah, we all kinda hung out their for a while, then we headed down to our rooms by 11.

Now the next day was insane, because we had workshops, went to memorials, and Chinatown (Chinablock XD) and took a picture in front of the Capitol building. Chinatown was neat, since we had to find how the area's changed in the past ten or so years, and this one guy was really helpful. Apparently the rent's gone up, the Chinese community has gotten smaller, and they have to sell more gimmickey stuff to earn any money. And I kind of felt like an ass buying chopsticks XD But they were pretty! They're really light blue and have really dark blue designs on them So yeah, we walked pretty much everywhere.

Wednesday was Capitol Hill day, and we stayed there all day. We sat in on a committee meeting, we met with Barney Frank, a rep from John Kerry's office, and a rep from Ted Kennedy's office, and I saw John McCain's office. Had to stop myself from pointing and laughing XD But anyways, Barney Frank wasn't as scary as my teacher said he was. I couldn't really understand him half the time though. So yeah...

I spent like 3-4 hours at the Natural History museum yesterday. By myself. With just the program instructors, who actually went off by themselves. XD I was just a random kid wandering around and taking pictures of dead bodies XD I actually did get to talk to people though- just random people walkin' around. There was this one couple talking about Night at the Museum, and they were wondering who played the main character and I was like, "OMG BEN STILLER " (except less spazzy) and yeah, that was a lot of fun that day. I highly recommend seeing that museum. I walked through the hall of mammals and almost cried since it's all dead stuff animals, but I took tons of pictures for references. So expect some animals you've never seem from me before!

So yeah, Close up totally rocks my socks, and even though they annoyed the hell out of me at first the PIs were really nice, and I made a bunch of new friends.

I slept the plane ride back though. I was exhausted. It was kind of funny because I woke up halfway through the plane ride when my phone fell out of my hands, then I picked it up, put it in the same position and fell back asleep XD

So yeah, that's what's going on. Bye! *scurries off*

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23422220/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23422220/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:01:48 PST
Ugh, things can never be easy in life, can they? Worst part is I've already got a crush on a guy- two guys actually, which is exactly the problem. I can't friggin' decide. Oh goodness, this is annoying.

3 days 'til D.C though!

]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23385787/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23385787/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:59:23 PST YAY! I had a nightmare about it though, 'cos it'll be my first week away from my family. So yeah, not gonna enjoy that, but the rest will be fun

I SWEAR, I'M DOING ART. I WILL POST STUFF SOON. By the way, I'm working on something for a girl I know (a realistic pic of her corgi who passed away) but I can't find a good fur tutorial. Can someone help me find one?

Anyways, I found a feature thingy to do

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I kind of laughed my ass of at this.

They're analyzing a show for kids. Sure, it's a really good show, but it's on Nick. It's not like I yell "DAMN, AVATAR'S ON!" and flip over to FOX. Sometimes I just don't get people.

Anyway, I'm really bored with vacation, and not getting any of the stuff done that I said I would. Stella hasn't been worked on, trades are still sitting in folders... I feel like a jerk. I will finish these things eventually, I'm just going very slowly for now. But I'm workin' on a pic of Caitlyn (my Avatar character) and she's lookin' pretty damn good. I just need to get better at backgrounds and I'll be all set.

I've been on failblog a lot in the past day and I laughed so hard I got the hiccups XD

That was all I had to say, so bye!

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]]> ~lioness222 http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23211998/ http://lioness222.deviantart.com/journal/23211998/ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:45 PST So I have lots of energy right now XD

I worked yesterday and babysat last night, too, so I earned $100 yesterday alone. And I'm gonna do the same thing next Saturday, too because the lady said that she might have me back to babysit again that day, and I have to work again. I'm not complaining I'm working a lot on Saturdays, since I'm makin' quite a bit of money But I did like sleeping over my friend's house Friday nights and goofing off with her until she had dance.

Anyways, I only have about two more weeks until D.C! I have this week off, then the next week is school, then the week after that is the trip I seriously can't wait.

My dad fixed my computer, and it is running completely virus free right now. I'm searching for all my old grass brushes though, and having little luck If anyone finds a good pack, please don't hesitate to tell me!

Uhm... What else to spam your eyes with... Oh! I got all my grades out of the gutter! I'm officially in the Cs and over level in all my classes!

Decided to work on drawing my own characters some more, so expect some Minerva/Dimi work, and expect Stella's comic to have a third page within the next week. I won't have anything to do for a while, so yeah, that's what I'll be working on, along with a few things for other people.

When I was at work yesterday I started typing the planning pages for a new story. I mentioned it a while ago, but hadn't worked on it really until now. But I finally got some planning done, and funniest part about it was once I started, I couldn't stop. I even made the history of the different states XD It's turning into a textbook more than planning. I actually got to use some references to actual history though, which was fun. I have an Otto von Bismarck like guy who unites a bunch of scattered herds, and I tossed in a Romanov reference, just for the hell of it. I love history so much XD We started WWI, so I'm really excited. I've been looking forward to the world wars all year.

Oh yeah! I might try out for the school play this year, since it's a Shakespeare play, and I really like his work and this play. I didn't get in when I tried out last year, but now that I have a bit more courage... Who knows?

Uhm... Ehecatl update: Make one if you want. I'm bored with my designs and want to see other peoples.

And that's all I can think to say. I'm gonna go shower now.

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