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IMPORTANT: MOVING!

~moonseeker363 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:54:56 PST

I'm finally doing it! I'm MOVING accounts!
This'll be the last journal I post here!

My new account is JUJUBE!
If you watched me here, I'd REALLY appreciate it if you guys re-watch jujube! I'll be lonely over there in the mean-time! I've got some new deviations all ready to post :D

I'd been meaning to do this for so long, I just never got around to it! This account name is so old and icky xD

See you over there! ^^

HOLY CRAP O_O

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:31:35 PST

"Congratulations!!! You have been selected to be in the BIO CLASS in TWILIGHT!!!! You will be extras in several scenes throughout the movie. Although the dates below are the scheduled shoot dates, ANYTHING CAN CHANGE so it is important that you keep yourself TOTALLY AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT FILMING and REMEMBER NOT TO CHANGE YOUR LOOK (hair color, length, style, etc). We will be in touch as soon as we have details but know that we may not contact you until the day before you shoot, so don't think because you haven't heard from us that it isn't happening. Congratulations again and we look forward to seeing you onset!!! "

OMGWTFHOLYCRAPI'MGOINGTODIEOFHAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O_______O

Okay I am SO confused right now and tired and all sorts of spazz (and I'm in CANADA holy cow why am I in canada?)
AHAHA
but I just got that email from the people !AH FSDFJDSF

Okay. I can't even type right now, can you tell? xDD
SO as you probably know (or don't know) they're filming TWILIGHT, the movie they're making from the awesome books which I adore, right here in Kalama and Portland, both like 30 minutes away from us! And so I applied to be an extra because that'd just be awesome!
And I went down to their office for a casting call and they took my picture and it was awesome and I saw the doubles for some of the actors xD
We just waited in their office and they took my picture and a picture of our car, and that was it.
Later, I got an email asking if I was available to be in 'Bio class' - a core group of extras to shoot that AWESOME scene where Bella first meets Edward in chemistry and he's all I EAT YOU D8<
It was the one I wanted to do when I first signed up 8D
But the problem was, they're shooting it right during finals week -- I'd miss like 2 weeks of school o-o
So I had to tell them I wasn't available. Days later, I find out a girl in my french class applied and probably got the part to be in the volleyball scene in gym class. She told them she was available - said she'd miss school for that anyday xD
And the more I thought about it, the more I began to regret saying I wasn't available, because here comes this AMAZING opportunity and I turn it down!! I mean, I can make up 2 weeks of school. Hurt my grade, yeah, but I can make it up - I know I can if I really try.
So I ran home and called their office and asked them if I could change my availability - but the woman said she thought it was too late, that they'd already sent the photos in to the director. So I said thanks anyway and hung up. Didn't give her my name or anything. Just hung up.

And today I get that message on my profile on their website O-O

Is it a mistake?! I didn't get a call or an email anything like last time. Just checked my page and there it was. I don't know!! AHHH! But omgggg, if I could be in that scene... how amazing would that be?! Sit next to the main actors in a tiny classroom, with a big old camera panning around?!
AAFDSFDSF I hope it isn't a mistake. I want that part so bad! xD
But if it isn't a mistake, what am I going to do about school?! I can't fail because of this! I told them I was available, I'd better be available xD
AND this is the most excruciating part -- there's a message on my phone - I don't know who it's from - and I can't check it because I'm in Canada! My phone is roaming and can't find service to retrieve the message! It could be from them confirming it! AHH! xDD
(Why am I in canada? We're checking out colleges over here -- Western and Evergreen, both awesome hippy colleges - and Western is right near the border so we figured what the heck! So we're spending the night here. It's pretty awesome. It's gorgeous, actually. We spent all day in the car getting lost, though. The directions were terrible xD)
I'm rambling, aahah I'm sorry. I can't even keep my thoughts straight right now.
IT'S BEEN THE CRAZIEST WEEK IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

Tornado?

~moonseeker363 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:02 PST

Hah, so we had a tornado warning today o_o
Supposedly one touched down in vancouver! xD
Crazy -- that's so rare for Washington. It like, NEVER happens xD
So we were all excited and freaking out at school of course. The sky got all dark and it started raining SO hard (trust me, when it comes to rain in washington we don't exaggerate xD), just straight down. There was thunder and lightening and crazy wind and the power was flickering, and then the principal came on and was like, "Um... there's a tornado warning?"
It was awesome 8D
Nothing happened, of course. Because it's Washington and it doesn't DO anything other than rain. We were all excited just for the thunder because, seriously. We get like one measly thunderstorm a year, if that xD

I've been drawing quite a bit but I don't want to post anything until I set up my new account.
All the good names are taken.
Wheatgrass, cinagro (organic spelled backwards x3), and nutrients are the only available ones I've found that are semi-cool xDD
I really wanted 'organic', but it's taken ;-;
Organically is available, but I don't know...
I could probably get 'natural' if I wanted it (it's inactive, but an email address is listed), but that'd be kind of a weird username xD
Hmm, what about 'jujube'? The girl switched accounts so I could probably get that one =o
What are your thoughts on those?
Any more ideas? x3

New Account

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:56:14 PST

I know I was talking about this awhile ago, but I never followed through.
I'd like to move to a new account (because really... moonseeker? xD) I got 'moonseeker' from a book when I was about 10 - it seems normal to me, but from someone else's standpoint, it probably seems pretty weird and hippy-ish, eh? Like that weird old lady in the grocery with the nose ring and the really really long hair buying the cat food?
Yeah.

So what should my new username be?

I want it to be short, simple, and memorable.

I'd created the account ink-filled-sky awhile ago with the intention of using, but never did. I think the name sounds cool xD
What do you think?

That, or something about squids, seeing as that's my nickname.

SquidMuffins might be cool xD
It was an old nickname my mom used to call me (don't ask why o_o).
Kinda catchy, eh? ;D
So SquidMuffins? ink-filled-sky?
Or something else? HippySquid? xD

Anyone have any username ideas that aren't taken?

Edit: Rae suggested ink-filled-squid xDD
Which made me think, what about InkySquid? xD (or inky-squid, with a hyphen?)

Ho Ho HO

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:42:52 PST

You guys are in trouuuble!
So far (i.e., 10:30 PM) , Korie and I have been the only ones who've uploaded our Secret Santa pictures xD;
COME ON SLACKERSSS *cracks whip*
I've received one message from someone who has let me know they'll be late. That leaves three of you uncounted for >.>

In other words.

Merry Christmas! (or whatever you do or don't celebrate)

Wheee; I got some pretty cool stuff.
Including:

-SUPER MARIO GALAXY WOOO! ;DD (but I forgot my wii x_x)
-A teapot filled with green tea 8D
-3 threadless t-shirts (these ones: [link] [link] [link] (in light blue))
- a bunch of pajamas
- handwarmers
-awesome novel-writing software
- 3 sketchbooks (holy cow D: )
- a llama donated to a 3rd world country
(Apparently I didn't explain xD
It's a program where you can donate money, and the program buys an animal (you choose what kind) and gives it to a family in an underdeveloped country, providing food & shelter for the animal and teaching the family how to care for it. It'll help the family get back on their feet. For example, the llama donated will provide them with wool which they can spin into clothes to wear or sell, and can pack and help them transport stuff into town. So my grandma donated a llama in my name. Yeah xD)

Also, my dad managed to find this really old Czechoslovakian cartoon (from 1969) about a mole... ohmygosh! xD
He'd found it in this weird asian supermarket when I was about 6. We'd rented it and watched it, and I had loved it -- it was about this mole and his friends (a porqupine and a rabbit, maybe?). There were no words -- the animals just made really weird sounds xD
(like BWAAAH and WHOOOOM)
Ready for the most non-linear plot in the world?

The animals' forest got cut down so they went to this giant bright mall, where they rode in this woman's purse but there was a hole in it, so they fell out onto a conveyor belt where they were making candy (I think?) and then they rode on an escalator and broke it and people started piling up and this fat guy squished everyone and then they went to this building with these bright rooms with inflatable mushrooms and trees they jumped on them and tried to live there but they popped, so they went out onto the roof and started jumping around and a helicopter picked them up and they flew away.
Yes.
That's what I remember, at least xDD
So I don't know WHAT my dad typed into google (certainly not that summary xD) but he FOUND these cartoons (there's a TON of them, apparently)! He found them on a Chinese site that for some reason had these Czechoslovakian cartoons and ordered them. I couldn't believe it; it was so weird to watch them!! (They came in this package and DVD that was originally Czechoslovakian and had Chinese dubbed over it. Try navigating THAT DVD menu xDD)
Anyway, aah! There were tons of them I'd never seen, they were HILARIOUS. (Just watched about 2, and there's probably around 30 of them. They're a half-hour each.) They're so bright and colorful, the animation is so awesome. They're really strange and surreal, it's so weird xD

EDIT: I found it on YouTube!! Not the mall episode, but another awesome one. Watch the whole thing, it's only like 10 mins:
[link]

Wow.
Anyway.
That was a long journal.

I'm tapping off the neighbors wi-fi at my Grandma's. It works perfectly xD
I tell you, when I'm moving out, I'm checking if my neighbors have it before I sign up for internet. All the little connection-level bars are filled, it goes super fast. AHAHA, silly neighbors >8D

Merry Christmas you poo heads ^^

Aargh

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:25:22 PST

"Sherry's going to stop by REAL QUICK and DROP OFF some presents AND THEN we're going to have mexican food."

What do you think that implies?
Sherry coming by, dropping off presents and leaving -- and then my dad and I spending an evening eating mexican food and packing for Indiana?

Or Sherry coming by, staying for dinner, and hovering for HOURS while we pack? Not leaving until who knows how long? Probably staying the night to take us to the airport tomorrow morning? (that's what normally happens)

Hmm. Way to avoid the topic, Dad.
I just found out yesterday she wasn't coming to Indiana (phew!). But yeah. Thanks for letting me know. I'm so glad we have an honest, open relationship.

They're wearing matching shirts.

I swear to God.

Gahh.

I finished 2 out of 4 plushies. Hopefully I'll finish the second two on the plane tomorrow. The first 2 turned out pretty awesome, I'll post them later x3

JUST WANTED TO POST AN ANGRY JOURNAL
because that's what Sherry does to you. All that happiness she emits somehow transforms into simmering anger by the time it gets to me. I soak it up like a sponge and now AAARGH.

On a slightly happier note, had a faux christmas with my mom yesterday. It was fun; woo, I got a gift certificate to go skiing! 8D
And some new gloves and fancy socks. Can't wait!
And some awesome hard-core lights for filming (and an extension cord xD)
And some clothes (which I picked out xD)
Speaking of filming, Jim and D loved the video, it made them both cry, hehe.
It's posted here, if you want to see it: [link]

Oh my goshhh, I forgot to tell you guys about the sleep paralysis. That was freaky. So I woke up in the middle of the night and was trying to get back to sleep, when all of a sudden, BOOM. Something changed, or snapped, and the only way to describe it was that it was like the dimensions shifted, and everything went FLAT. (I know it sounds crazy xD) And then everything was back to normal, and I was in a different position and I was TERRIFIED. I kept trying to pull the covers over my head but I couldn't move, and I was so, so, so scared. My heart was pounding a zillion miles a minute, I was freaking out -- it was like a panic attack, but worse. I didn't even know what I was scared of, just that I was terrified. I lay there for probably an hour, just absolutely petrified. I was scared to fall back asleep because I was afraid it would happen again.
The next morning, when I told my dad about it, I started crying xD
I was just sitting at the breakfast table shaking and crying, it'd scared me so much. My dad was like o_o
I didn't know what the heck had happened, I thought I was going crazy or something, until I did some research and found out it's just sleep paralysis. When you sleep, your body naturally paralysis itself so that you don't actually more when you move in your dreams. But sometimes, you wake up during REM sleep and can't move because of the paralysis. It's accompanied by an intense feeling of fear, and a sense that something/someone is in the room with you. Sometimes people feel a weight pressing down on their chest, or that they're being strangled. They think it's where a lot of reports of alien abductions come from xD
I think the stat was that 30% of people have had it happen. So you guys might now what I'm talking about. =O
Gah, it was NOT fun xD
I had trouble sleeping the rest of that week because I didn't want it to happen again D:

But enough negativity! (darn you, sherry D: )
MERRY CHRISTMAS

(EDIT: And I want to RP really bad all of a sudden xD
Especially Tasmin. She needs a girlfriend =O
Or boyfriend. But she pretty much hates (no -- loathes) men after her *cough* unfortunate experience xD
So yeayuhh, I want to develop some of my characters more. So note me, okay? ^^)

BUSY

~moonseeker363 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:55:10 PST

GAHHH.

I will now take this moment while my computer is whirring and attempting to copy over a DVD to tell you about my business.
Yehawww =O

So Jim and D - the awesome people for whom I babysit - wanted me to make a movie of their equally awesome daughter, Izzy (she's about a year and a half). So they gave me 2+ hours of video footage and 350+ photos, which they wanted me to incorporate into a DVD. With music. To give to their relatives xD

I got the material a week ago and was having ALL sorts of problems with it. Their camera and my computer didn't get along, so we couldn't directly upload it. Next we tried burning it onto a disk, which I thought was working -- until halfway through, I realized the quality was AWFUL. This was Sunday, the same day I found out D needed the video by TUESDAY. (I thought I had all week.)
So, panicking, I called my dad; he hooked up our video camera to the DVD player, where we played the DVD and imported it from there. But this had to happen in real-time, meaning 2 hours of waiting... and then in real-time AGAIN while I imported the video from our camera to my computer.
This was all finished by 10:00 PM Sunday, where I was now in a complete panic, trying to get this out like I'd promised. (All the relatives were expecting it!) So I stayed up until midnight editing and then woke up at 8 (yay for no college x3) to finish editing... Worked from 8-11 AM, went to school, came back at 2, and worked on it straaaight until now. Which is 11:50 PM.
And.
I'm very proud xD
I thought I was going to die, editing this thing. There's 10 minutes of them talking and eating, then one clip of Izzy being cute, then another 10 of them talking and eating. The scenery is changing, and she's in the snow then the pool, then it's summer in the desert, then christmas... PLUS, I had to incorporate all the relatives so nobody feels left out, PLUS include a baptism and swimming lessons without it getting boring, PLUS add photos to this (which is nearly impossible to do without it being cheesy; going from video to photo and back again). (they also wanted me to use the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which didn't fit at all with the tone of the other clips.) But I DID IT.
It's hopefully enjoyable by the normal-grandparents and the crazy-sense-of-humor parents. I timed the footage to 4 songs and strung it all together so that each song tells a story. The footage is timed to the tempo of the music. The clips are tied to the lyrics in the songs. (do you know how hard that is?!) It's 10 minutes of would-be home video and I think it's (HOPEFULLY) entertaining. Izzy cracks me up, she's adorable.
There's plenty of cat-whacking and naked-babyness.
(Poor kitty... Izzy tortures her xD
But the cat loves her. She keeps coming back for more o.o)

AND I AM TIRED ;_;

I finally got this done and then realized I don't have a DVD burner on my laptop. (curse meeee D: I was gonna get the DVD burner-version but was like, NAH, I don't need it!) So I'm in the office trying to transfer it over the network and it's messing up DDDD:
BUT I'll fix it. Hopefully. If all that work was for nothing I'm gonna be very angry >=O
But it looks like it's going okay... so far... x3

I'll try to get their permission to post it on YouTube if you guys want to see it. You have to see Izzy, she's so cute. And she's obsessed with shoes.
She wears adult-sized high heels (at the age of ONE xD) and toddles around in them. (heck, she's better at walking in them than me o_o) She's a complete girly-girl, which is hilarious because her parents are such hippies and tried to raise her to be the complete opposite; nonconforming, adventurous tomboy so they could take her backpacking/skiing/horseback riding etc. (they're the adventurous type x3)

But WOO, I'm gettin' payed 50 dollars for doing this! ;D
Actually, I'm not going to accept it - that's too much xD
I did spend a lot of time on this, but they're such cool people, they deserve a cute DVD of Izzy x3
Plus her mom always overpays me for babysitting D:

Anyway, as if that isn't enough, I have about 3 more plushies to finish for people. I sewed one for a friend and am working on another, plus one for my grandma, and I'd love to get one done for my mom. But this has to be done by Friday because I'm leaving for Indiana, and I don't know if I'll have timmeeee!
AND I need to shop for my parents and relatives and friends. Which I haven't even started o_o

At least I've gotten my picture drawn for my secret-santa person xD;

If I don't post before then, Merry Christmas everyone x3

=o

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:18:35 PST

SCHOOL
IS
OUT 8D

Well. The college is, at least - so there goes half my load x3
I get to sleep in now, and come into school at around noon. Just Chemistry and French, which I can handle. It's awesome
Only another week of that, too. Then I'm going to Indianaaaaa for Christmas. I love it there. Hope it snows <3

(Bailey, don't kill me, I'm almost done editing the cop video! xD)

aaand,
...I feel like drawing =3

I JUST THOUGH YOU GUYS SHOULD KNOW THAT x3

Life Updates and The Golden Compass

~moonseeker363 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:25:48 PST

Yeahh.
So, Secret Santas have ended, I've sent out the notes. We only got a total of 6 people, but hey - that's just fine x3
If you didn't give me a ref in time (I'd been pushing a couple of people), I told your santa-person to draw whatever they wanted for you. That's what you get for not meeting the deadlines >=O
(Scarlet, your person will just use the other Zaif ref, don't worry x3)

It was snowing earlier, but it stopped D:
But it was gorgeous while it lasted.

Finals next week. I have my last essay due for English. It's about our perception of beauty as a western culture versus Japan's idea of beauty. (Reading this weird Japanese essay about a man going on about how wonderful Japanese toilets are. Don't know what this has to do with my English class, but ah well xD)
Anyone have any thoughts/comments on this? What do you think beauty is? What does beauty mean to you?

OOH, I saw the Golden Compass yesterday (in high definition at our fancy theater, foools ;D). It was amazing.
Well, it was actually pretty darn flawed, but still amazing.
The director was pretty lame. Granted, that was a huge feat to take on; to convert such a rich, complex book into a movie? I think he did a decent job considering how difficult that would be.
It was obviously rushed, and I'm sure you would've been quite confused if you hadn't read the books. The pacing was off, the editing was odd, it didn't flow too smoothly. There were a few scenes where you were like, "wtf? o-o". The book flawlessly combines witches, talking polar bears, daemons, aeronauts, gypsies and the like and somehow makes it seem completely normal. The movie... not so much. If you hadn't read the books, I'm sure you would've had trouble suspending your disbelief; I'm sure certain scenes probably bordered on ridiculous.
HOWEVER -- the acting was amazing (Dakota Blue Richards did an amazing job as Lyra. I doubted her from the previews, but she was excellent.) The effects were stunning - the daemons looked real. And it still pulled you in.
I laughed, I cried (yes, lame me). As the movie drew to a close, I didn't want it to end.
I'm gonna go see it again (dragging friends with me this time) and can't wait for the second two. So despie its flaws, it was strangely awesome. It did justice to the books, thank goodness.
(This was just a condensed version of the review I gave on Yahoo.)
If you haven't read the books yet, DO IT NOW BEFORE I KILL YOU. They're the most amazing books I've ever read. I'm going to re-read them after having seen the movie; reminded me of how awesome the second and third ones were, especially. Some really deep stuff in there.
And I'm so pissed at the angry christian/catholic boycotters. My God. I have a few things to say to them.

1. It's a work of FICTION. If you're so insecure in your faith that you're afraid a fictional book will shatter your religion... you may need to rethink some things. As film critic Richard Roeper responded to the controversy, "Have a little faith in your faith."

2. The books are NOT about killing God. Have you even read them? The god that is killed is an /imposter/. If anything, the books are condemning political, controlling, organized religion (kind of like the angry boycotters, eh?) and promoting "true" religion or spirituality - being true to yourself and finding your true god. The message of the book isn't some evil conspiracy. It's about friendship and love and loyalty, good over evil. Isn't that what you preach?

3. Don't you have anything better to do? There are starving people out there, wars being fought, countries in poverty. Go help them instead of freaking out over a movie. As my dad so kindly put it, "Just go read the bible or something."
You've actually /banned/ the movie from several theaters. With that kind of effort couldn't you have done something progressive and worthwhile?
Honestly. I don't remember any athiests boycotting Narnia.

Why do you even CARE what other people watch? It's their choice. Does it really bother you that much that people chose to follow other beliefs and religions? What are you so afraid of?

Oh, and another thing. How about you actually SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE before spamming review sites (check out yahoo to see what I mean) with messages about how the movie is going to turn our children into sinners? You've brought the Yahoo reviews down to a C because of all the Fs you gave. How about you give a review that isn't biased with religion?

Did you know you're exactly the type of people the movie and books warn against? Angry, controlling organized religion? People who are so scared of the truth they hate and condemn it?
AAAAAAAAARGH!
...

Secret Santas, Anyone? =o

~moonseeker363 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:05:16 PST

EDIT: I want to stir up a little more attention for this, so please let any friends/watchers know! A little snippet in a journal would be helpful, with a link back to here. The more the merrier! (Plus it'd be nice to have some artists join that some of us didn't know... Makes it more fun)
Thanks!

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I was just looking into that secret santa thing a lot of people are doing on DeviantArt, and noticed they were all closing up. Further, you needed to APPLY for most of them. Apply to give a gift? They won't let you draw a picture for someone based on your artistic talent? o_o
Seems to be a little judgemental - kind of goes against the whole holiday spirit, no?

So let's start our own, guys 8D

It'll be more fun because most of you guys know each other. Even if you're one of my (small group) of random watchers, join in, it'll be awesome.
So it'll work just like the other groups do:

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INSTRUCTIONS
1. Send me a note telling me what you want drawn (with a reference picture / description, preferably).

2. I'll then throw all the names of people who're participating into a hat and randomly assign people their Secret Santas.

3. You'll get a note from me with the name of the person you're drawing the picture for - and the description of what they'd like you to draw. DON'T TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE!

4. Draw the picture for the person -- but don't post it yet! (SHHH!)

5. On Christmas Day (or as soon as you can, if that isn't possible), post the picture! Be sure to send a little note to the person you drew the picture for and reveal yourself.

6. Keep an eagle's eye on your own inbox, because somebody else will be posting a picture for you!

Just to clear things up: You know who you're drawing the picture for -- you just don't know who's drawing the picture for /you/.

Sound good? The more people who join, the more fun it is, so if you're some random person who found my page (even if you can't draw worth beans), join in! (Yes, I'm joining too! ...Even though I'll know my secret santa xD)
Send me a note!

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Participants:

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...and more, depending on how many people join.

...YOU COULD BE NEXT! SEND A NOTE TODAY ;D

Mrs. Oatmeal and the Murderer (and CHICKENS)

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:33:56 PST

EDIT NO. II
Bailey and I have a new video up on YouTube -- Mrs. Oatmeal and the Murderer! 8D
I think it's our best yet. Bailey hides in the refrigerator and tries to kill me.
WATCH >>> [link]

Rate, comment, and SUBSCRIBE, please!!!

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EDIT NO. I:

Watch this video, it's hilarious: [link]

(but watch Mrs. Oatmeal and the Murderer first)

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Baby chicks hatched!
TONS OF THEM! 8D
Actually, this was like a week ago, but I'm just now getting around to making a journal x3
Anyway! AHH, they're so adorable.
My mom and I couldn't believe it; there was this hen who was sitting on her eggs on and off, but we figured they'd never hatch because she was being retarded about it. Because, A) It's WINTER and B) She would get up and leave for hours at a time to go eat and socialize xD
What a dork. They need near-constant heat. Anyway, so my mom calls me when I'm driving home from the college and tells me she was outside and heard peeping -- she said they'd hatched, but there was only one that she saw. She needed help moving the mom and baby (and remaining eggs) into the chicken coop, because the hen was sitting in a corner outside the barn, where it's cold and the dogs could get the chicks. So I drove over, all excited, and we get a box and go over to her. My mom picks her up to put her in the box, expecting ONE chick underneath -- and there were tons of them!! They started dropping out of the hen's wings as my mom picked her up, because they were tucked up into there; my mom was like, "Shit! Shit!" xD
It scared her because she wasn't expecting so many o.o
They were everywhere, it was so chaotic. Some of them had JUST hatched; they were wet and curled up and looked near-death (but that's normal for baby chicks; they look horrible at first - as do all of us, really). Others were peeping and running around, all fluffed up like easter chicks. Anyway, we managed to get them all into the chicken coop and tucked them back under their mom.
There were eight chicks at the time, and two of the eggs were peeping. It was the WEIRDEST thing ever, to be holding this little egg and it's peeping at you xD
Eggs are weird. Really weird; amazing, really. How does that even work?
Anyway, those two eggs hatched also, and all of the chicks survived.
So we have TEN baby chicks now xD
We JUST got four chicks last spring, too, because our hens don't sit on their eggs! (Most chickens don't now, it's been bred out of them. They don't WANT them sitting on their eggs at egg-farms; just use incubators.) So we now have around 25 chickens o-o
They're everywhere!! We let them have free-range of the property (Not the babies - they're in the coop, which has a little fenced-in yard), and they don't wander off, amazingly. It's so awesome to see chickens walking by while you eat breakfast. For those of you who don't know, we just keep them for fun. We eat the eggs (which we'll soon have an abundance of) but don't eat the chickens or anything. They're pets xD
The most baby chicks we've had at a time is like, 6. They don't normally hatch more than that. But aaah, they're so cute! Their parents are both Buff Orpingtons ([link]) so the chicks look like the kind you see in photographs - fuzzy yellow little guys.
Despite hatching her babies in the coldest, wettest time of the year (and abandoning them for hours at a time in their egg-stage), the hen is a really good mom. She puffs up if another chicks come near (and attacked one that got too close xD). She took her chicks outside on the first sunny day we got and led them around, it was adorable.
I love chickens 8D

ANYWAY.
In other words, um. Yeah. Nothing much going on.
It's wet and miserable again. I wish it would snow D:

I want to go skiing.

I'm almost done with a pic of Tasmin. I want to start drawing and re-designing some of my older characters again. (I love the new gallery feature.)
My art class'll be over soon (NO D: ) and then I'll be able to scan in some new (and improved) pictures. Just lineart, but cool lineart.

Pretty much it.
Bailey and I filmed a new video; Mrs. Oatmeal and the Murderer. Coolest title you've ever heard 8D
It'...

Fwaa

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:22:37 PST

WATCH THIS VIDEO GUYS: [link]
It's hilarious xD
Bailey sent it to me. Well... more like her family sent it to my mom... who sent it to me...? o_o
Just watch it xD

Anyway, other happenings: I just went through and deleted about half my gallery in one fell swoop x3
Gaahh, going back and looking through it, so much of it was absolute crap
(most still is... *cough-cough*)
I saved all the old pictures in a big file so I can go back and laugh at 'em whenever I need a confidence boost - those drawings would make ANYONE feel like they had artistic talent xD
So pretty much, I'm gonna go draw now to fill my gallery back up D:
I haven't had a lot of time to draw lately, with school. But my art class is pretty awesome, and once I get the stuff back I'll scan some of it in. You know what sucks about art class, though? The more you improve, the worse your old stuff looks xD

I'm working on a pic of Amirq that's almost done, but is taking me FOREVER. I made the mistake of trying to do it somewhat-realistic and without lineart. NEVER DO THAT. It's making my head explode D:

Anyway, when that's all done, anyone want a request?

E@#A)(WI=RU$&SDF@#()SD$&!!!

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:55:53 PDT

ARR! SDLF:JDLS:KFJDSF

I FINALLY got stupid Final Cut Pro installed on my computer (not-quite-legally obtained, thank goodness; if I'd have payed for it - and it's hundreds of dollars, mind you! - I'd be SO MAD), all excited because it's supposed to be this super-amazing-incredible video editing program that all the proffesionals use and it SUCKS!
I'm sure once you learn it, it's amazing (it's got BILLIONS of awesome features that I can't figure out how to use; they use it for big-time stuff, I mean full-length movies. Napolean Dynamite was made with it xD), but I don't have time to sit foaming at my computer pouring over online manuals! It was made by a bunch of tecchie nerd guys and is one of the least user-friendly programs for mac I've ever encountered! It turns simple tasks into nightmares.
Even the help section sucks!
Normally, on Mac, you say "HELP"! And it says "HERE ARE SOME FRIENDLY, SIMPLE, STRAIGHT-FORWARD ANSWERS FOR YOU - JUST WHAT YOU NEEDED! ^^"
For Final Cut, you say "HELP!" and it says "SCREW YOU!" *flashes error codes*
AAAR!

I'm going back to iMovie.
It does everything I need without insulting me xD

...Just thought I'd share that with you xD

NUDITY AND WET PANTS AND JUPITER OH MY

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:54:33 PDT

Got yer attention with that one, didn't I?!

Bailey () and I moved to our new youtube account today - BwahBird x3

Anyway, we desperately need views/comments/favs/subscribers, so go watch our videos?

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

Added a new video today (Jupiter, fo sho), and have two more coming up.
In which I'm naked (save for a hat and briefcase, strategically placed) and Bailey wets her pants.
Yes, you heard me.
THE HORROR!!!

Yeah, so; I'm waiting to upload the other two. Don't want to fling out all our videos at once. So hurry up and subscribe to us (get an account, you lazy bums) so you can see the naked-pants-wetting.
No joke.

It's orgasmic!

[link]

(...I thought my mom would be, let's say, less-than-happy with me wearing only a hat and briefcase on the internet, but she was like, "Cool! 8D"
)

(OH and we also got a myspace. [link]
Check it out. Befriend us.)

Love, Fires, and Other Musings

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:21:07 PDT

Well well well =o
Probably not many of you guys reading these because I tend to make my journals so long, but I'm gonna keep postin' em because I do love to ramble x3

Gotta tell you about this awesome (and cute and sad) speech on love I read. And then fires in California and gay people and college.
FIRST:

We're reading Plato's Symposium in English (at the college).
It's interesting; a bunch of gay guys sitting around at dinner discussing love xD
(Seriously, Socrates and lots of those other famous dudes were gay; they believed having relationships with younger men - which were sometimes just friendships, but could also be sexual - would like, transfer knowledge =O)
One of them gave a pretty awesome speech, I thought it was interesting x3

He said that long ago, there were three genders: Male, female, and a combination of the two. And that people used to look very different from now - they were circular, with four arms, four legs, and two faces; one on either side of their head. Think two people, standing back to back. They got around by doing cartwheels x3
Anyway, these people, mostly female on one side and male on the other, loved each other a ton. They couldn't have sex or anything since they were back to back, but it was like, this intense sort of bond. And they were so powerful because of that love, the gods got scared, so Zeus came down and split them apart. Just cut 'em in half.
And he turned their faces and limbs and genitals around to face the wound where they'd been split, to remind them of it, and tied them back together (He said that's where our belly buttons come from x3)
And then he scattered these halves-people (what we look like today) all across the world, so they couldn't find each other.
And they spent the rest of their lives looking for their other half, to make themselves whole again ;-;
He said that love is the desire to seek our other halves. That we're constantly searching, our other halves scattered, but the sad thing is, we can't find each other, can't be rejoined. So we're doomed to wander around, looking for our other half, desperately wanting to be joined to them again.
It was kind of depressing, but sweet xD
(You're attracted to the gender you were joined to. So most of the people were male-female, causing heterosexuality, but some were female-female or male-male, causing homosexuality. He believed both were natural and normal.)
Our teacher was so bitter (he's hilarious though), he was like, "So what he's talking about is basically soul-mates, right? Do you guys believe in soul-mates?"
And everyone raises their hand, so he goes, "You guys are screwed! There are 6 billion people on this planet - your other half is probably living in Bhutan with goats or something." xDD

It was great.

Anyway, I thought that was a sweet way to look at love. Looking for your other half. That we're divided and we want to be whole again.

Speaking of gay people, this is like, inadvertantly gay week xDD
My mom and I keep renting gay movies accidentally. Two nights in a row, we go out to get a video, and they've both been gay xD
Last night's was awesome, though, it was called Billy Elliot. (SEE IT) About an 11 year-old boy who wanted to be a ballet dancer. It was set in Britian in a coal mining town, during a strike, so his family was poor and on strike and his dad was all gruff-distant-dude, since the mom had died. Anyway, it was played up as a comedy, and we thought it was just going to be about a kid doing ballet xD
But it turned out to be a whole lot more, it was really deep. (And R, which we didn't know until after we watched it xD They said 'fuck' about every third word. Only you couldn't understand it, because with their accents, they said 'Fook', it was hilarious. "You're fookin' crazy!") There was this huge side-plot going on with the strike, and his brother getting thrown in jail and stuff, and then this kid struggling with his messed-up-family and discovering his sexuality. It was really sweet - but sad. Because of course, he's in this crappy little old-fashioned town and his dad does not take kindly to the fact that he likes ballet xD
And meanwhile his best friend turns out to be gay and likes him - but the kid doesn't even know if he likes boys or girls, and he's sneaking off to ballet class and getting teased and the family is poor, etc. etc.
It was really sweet - a really good movie. And it had a happy ending, so that was good. Things were looking pretty bad for the poor kid for awhile there D:
Anyway, so gay book, gay movies, and it's LGBT history month to top it off xD

Hey guuuys, there's something I've been meaning to tell you...

Just kiddinggg xD

Completely seperate topic; are you guys keeping up with the fires in California?
Holy cowzers, it...

The Epiphany

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:20:44 PDT

My dad and I were watching Nova on PBS, where they were talking about genes and how that's not all of how information gets passed on.
They found these old farming records, and started to discover this pattern - women who were concieved during a famine had grandchildren that died young, and men who had plenty of food during late childhood had grandchildren who died young. The grandchild of a man who had plenty of food was four times more likely to develop diabetes than those whose grandparents experienced a famine. It was the opposite for women. And they reaized that genes have switches that can turn on and off due to our experience and upbringing, but more than that - our grandparents and their grandparents. And that if a mouse is exposed to pesiticides, the genes remember, and their great-great-great mouse children will have genetic defects from the no-longer-existant pesticides.
And I started to wonder, what the hell is the point of this? Why would nature do that? The grand-children are affected and, in effect, punished for something their grandparents did? What happened to justice?
And then, I swear, it just hit me in this huge bang and I GET IT! I understand the meaning of life, I get it!
And the meaning of life is that there IS NO POINT, there's no meaning! The show finished, and I jumped up and just started talking to myself, it was such a rush xD
I realized all at once that there is no judgement, there's no right or wrong, we won't be sent to heaven or hell, there's nobody judging us. And just look at nature, things just die and kill and continue to live, but why? What's the point? And the point is to live, and that there isn't a point, and don't worry about right and wrong, just be joyful and respect yourself and other people and animals and nature, just be happy and joyful and healthy. And that's all there is, and that there isn't anything more! There's no quest or point or anything to fufill, just live! Just be happy!
And when I realized this I was practically crying, and my dad was staring at me like I was a nutjob as I did the dishes shouting, "There's no point! That's it! There's no point!" xD
And I'm still like, jittery, because I feel like this huge weight has been taken off my chest, that it's okay. There's nothing to worry about, nothing to live up to or to seek; that we're not trying to fufill any destiny or spend our whole lives searching for something more, for the point, because there IS NONE!
And I'd been struggling with that concept for years, and it used to make me feel angry and hopeless, like what's the point of living? And now I realize that the point is to be alive, that it's so great just to be happy and alive, and we can have so much joy and fun and just have an awesome time.
And it's easy to get angry and hopeless, because just look at our world, it's fucked up! But you have to step back and realize that it doesn't matter! I mean, it matters, of course it matters, and I believe we should be doing everything we can to make it better. But at the same time, we need to realize that ultimately, no matter what happens, it's going to be okay, and we just need to look after ourselves and make sure we're happy and okay.
And it's easy to feel so mad, because people get away with stuff. We want justice, we want revenge, we want them to get what they deserve. But look at them! Look at Bush! Does he look happy? Do you think he's happy? Do you think he's full of love and joy?
It's such a horrible feeling to be messed up inside, to be upset and depressed. And you can delude yourself and try to convince yourself what you're doing is okay when it's not, and sometimes people seem like they're happy when they do horrible things, but their inside is just this big scrambled mess, and that's their hell, right there. (The Four Agreements talks about ALL of this, and it changed my life even before, but now I SEE it, it all fits together!)
And you need to let it go, and recognize that it's okay, that's just it. They have to live with what they've done, and that's the justice - but you don't even need justice, just worry about yourself! And when you're happy, and you love yourself and others, you feel so good and that's your heaven, feeling like that. It's just this awesome love and it radiates everywhere! xDD
Oh my goshh, I'm such a hippie! But I feel so happy right now, you have no idea! So at peace with everything, like it's going to be okay.
And this past year I've been really struggling with my religion and myself, trying to figure out what the point is. And I would get so upset and just cry sometimes, because our planet is messed up and all the people are messed up. And I wanted to believe in God so bad, but I kept hitting the startling conclusion that if there was a God, how could things like the holocaust happen? How could that happen? So then I'd think, okay, so there's no God, so that means there...

Ultimate Character-Maker/Dress-up Thing

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:18:44 PDT

So I'm making (or attempting to make) a dress-up-game in Flash. More of a character-maker, really, since you can change the face/hair/skin tone, etc.
I've got the base done and a bunch of outfits already, and I want input.
Anyway, I want it to be fully customizeable (I've added stuff like tattoos, piercings, patches and designs you can drag onto jeans and shirts, etc. I'm going to make a list of colors and patterns you can use to fill any piece of clothing. All colors, plus stripes, stars, checkers, skulls, hearts, etc - for anything. Shoes, dresses, shirts, jeans...)
Anyway, what would make a dress-up game become totally kick-ass to you? x3
What kind of stuff do you think would be cool that you haven't seen before in a dress-up-game? What outfits/accessories do you want to see? What would make you totally happy to find in a dress-up game?
Pink moehawks? Skull earrings? Rainbow t-shirts? Ugg boots? WHAT?
Gimme your input, I want to hear it. Any ideas or suggestions.
Link to pics of outfits you like. Find your favorite jacket on google and send me a picture.

I want to whup all those other butts. I've found some pretty awesome dress-up-games (that Furry-Maker is the best I've found on DA so far), but there aren't a ton of good ones.

Anyway, yeah. TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT 8D

Mature Content Filter?

~moonseeker363 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:06:56 PDT

Has anyone noticed a change in the mature content filter thingy? It used to be that the symbol would show on the picture, and then you'd click 'Show Deviation Anyway' and it'd show the pic. But the button is gone for me; it won't let me choose to see mature deviations. And the little button under options that asks if you want to display mature deviations or not isn't letting me click it - it says I have to be 18 o.o
Never did that before. Did they change their policy or something?
I WANT MY NUDITY!! *flails*
Dx

I'll post a real journal entry later, I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed that xD
Or if it's just my computer or something, that the button isn't loading.

GET OFF THE ROAD

~moonseeker363 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:51:20 PDT

I got my drivers license today 8D

After *COUGH* failing the last time xDD
That was depressing ;-;

But I can DRIVE NOW. BOOYAH.
Now I just need to figure out the way to Clark so I can get to school on Tuesday D:
I have NO sense of direction. Absolutely none.
My mom would get all frustrated with me, because we'd be driving and she'd try to stop giving me directions, to see if I could get there on my own, and I'd have no clue xD
She'd be like, "Okay, so which way do you turn here?"
Me: Um... left?
Her: No.
Me: ...Straight?
Her: *giant angry mom sigh* Doesn't this look familiar?"
Me: No.
Her: Not at ALL?
Me: Um... no?

And she'd grind her teeth and sigh (I could FEEL the angry brain-waves... they were viscious) and I'd make another guess and be wrong again xDD

And this is a street like, two blocks from my house xDD

Actually, my mom is really awesome about driving. She's not paranoid or anything, and she doesn't /really/ get mad. It's more of an exasperated, "You STILL don't know where you are?!"

But I'll figure it out. Hopefully >.>

Anyway, I posted a blurb on the pic I just posted, but I GOT A NEW LAPTOP and it kicks all your computers BUTTS.
It's got the whole new iLife package already with it, which has a ton of awesome artsy mac stuff you non-mac people wouldn't even appreciate.
It's beautiful, and it's even faster than my computer downstairs.
So I'm going to sell the computer on ebay and just use this laptop as my main one.
It connects wirelessly to the internet from anywhere. It connected instantly all the way from the treehouse outside xD

AND I get a free iPod nano. It's a deal apple had going on for college students. Which I technically am now
So that'll come in the mail soon. How awesome is that?

Kanga killed my old laptop. I'm so grateful. It was so old and klunky and wouldn't do anything except write. Which was all I used it for, but still xD
This thing is awesome. It's so tiny, and it'll boot up the giant program that is Photoshop in like half a second.
Anyway, she chewed through the old cord. And it was still functioning okay with a half-eaten cord, but finally died the other day. Luckily I was able to back up my story (I had to hold the cord in the PERFECT position and drag the files to a CD with one hand, all the while praying I wouldn't be electrocuted and that the thing wouldn't die xD)

Anyway, this incidentally was the last day to get a free nano with your mac. So my parents agreed to pay in thirds. Which means I only had to spend $370.
SO I AM VERY HAPPY TODAY ^^

Gonna go meditate with my dad xD

Which is slightly weird o-o

OHMMMMM

Muse is Lost/Found

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:25:42 PDT

Okay, so I'm just going to spend LESS time on DA rather than quitting =3

I LOST MY CAT
AND I WAS SO SAD
AND I FOUND HIM!
AAH

Muse was gone for 3 days; he just didn't come in one night. He'd never been away for more than a day, so we were both really worried and assuming the worst. There's tons of coyotes around here, so while I was trying to stay optimistic, I pretty much thought he was dead ;-;
And I was so mad, because it wasn't that long ago that Felix ran away! And Karma and Muse are SO close, it's adorable. They cuddle together and groom each other. I know, it's not super-weird for a dog to groom a cat, but a CAT to groom a DOG? Karma came in covered with burrs one day and Muse lay down beside her and pulled them all out with his teeth xD
Karma licks Muse all over like he's her puppy, it's adorable.
Karma was depressed when Muse left, she moped around and kept looking out the window for him, it was sad.
SO, we searched the whole neighborhood every day, twice a day, calling him and shaking his food bowl. Yesterday, I made a bunch of flyers and put them in everyone's mailbox all down the street.

Anyway, today a woman called saying she thought she'd seen him.
So my dad and I literally took off running down the street, down to the golf course, where he was seen. But still, we weren't expecting much -- when Felix ran off we got maybe 8 calls where people thought they'd seen him, and NONE of the cats were him.
Anyway, we went down to the place where she'd seen him, called, and he came running out of the brush toward us! He was starving, the first thing he did was eat xD
I was so happy, I couldn't believe it! AAH!
I thought he was gone for sure. None of the pets I've lost have ever been found, so I was so happy :happytear:

YAY FOR HAPPY ENDINGS!
I love Muse, I'm so glad he's home. Karma was thrilled, she won't leave him alone now.
We're getting a collar and a microchip for that bugger now, that's for sure!

(New icon. I was bored. Like it? =3

I found a nifty free pixel program for Mac that is made JUST for making icons and animating them. Works great!)

School has started. I'm taking an art class down at the college for Running Start, and an English class online. But those two don't start for about a month, so right now, all I have is French II and Chemistry, in the afternoon! I get to sleep in and come into school after lunch. It's pretty awesome x3
Our French class only has 9 people in it including me, since not many people survive French I. It's awesome, since it's the same people that were in the first one, so we all know each other. Plus the same awesome teacher, she's so cool. We're like a little (dork-moment) family, it's neat xDD
I'll post a huge Japan thingy later. BUT since my subscription ran out (and I'm not renewing; it'll just get me addicted again), I'll have to make a big image-thingy and link to it.
YUP.
I'm so happy Muse is home xD

Gone!

~moonseeker363 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:39:22 PDT

Hmm, I think I'm quitting for awhile.

Going a month without a computer made me realize how kind of pointless it is. Everyone's just trying to impress each other.
Not really on here, but myspace (deleted).
Neo, too. Account will just be closed, I'm not donating anything, it's virtual anyways.

My email address is moonseeker363@yahoo.com. Email me to hear about the amazingness of Japan (and for pictures!)

I might come back in a few weeks, I don't know. Just experimenting.
I want to try some more traditional art =O

Temporary (or not) hiatus!
So temporary goodbye!

(although it's not goodbye - that's what email is for. nobody emails anymore, why? it's all myspace, which is stupid. ARR don't make me go on my myspace rant!!)

Almost Home

~moonseeker363 — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:29:19 PDT

Eep; just one more day in Japan. I come home Tuesday. (technically, I arrive in America before I even leave Japan. I leave Japan Tuesday, at around 3 in the afternoon, and arrive home Tuesday at like 8 in the morning! How awesome is that?)
IT WILL BE SO AMAZINGLY SAD TO LEAVE.

The last day of school was two days ago. My two guides, Saki and Asami, made me cards in broken english telling me not to forget them. It was so sad, I started crying; and then of course, everyone wanted my picture before I left, while my eyes were all red and I was sniffling.

I dont know if I even told you about school o.o

Yeah. Anyway. Just a little update, no stories or anything - I know a lot of you are probably confused about where I am x3

You wont here from me for quite awhile, since RIGHT when we get back, everybodys loading up into a rented van and we're driving up to Clallum Bay. (looong drive).
Me, Remi, my mom, and to make things even more chaotic, my moms' friend Judy and her two kids are coming down from California. We'll camp out in a rustic old cabin there for a few nights. Walk along the beach, collect fossils (fossils! theres lots of them there), ect. While Remi and I try to recover from the timechange.
The night Judy and her kids leave, my grandma and (fake) aunt maggie are coming (also from California) for one night.
Then theres fair, for which I am NOT PREPARED AT ALL AAH IM GOING TO DIE. My llamas are all untrained and dusty. That goes on for a week (and poor Remi will get dragged to it). Then my cousing Cassie and uncle Mike, whom I havent seen for like a year or two, are flying down from New York to stay for a week (figures).
LETS EVERYBODY COME VISIT SARAH AND THE EXCHANGE STUDENT!!
Its going to be so chaotic, aah. Im happy, though, I love Cassie; shes awesome. Cant wait to see her! I just wish it wasnt all at once. YOU try explaining this schedule to someone who speaks no english.

BAILEY I MISS YOU ;---;

I cant wait to come homeee! I want MEXICAN FOOD and CARBOHYDRATES. Ive eaten so many vegetables here I want JUNK FOOD, DAMNIT!!!

Im just a little delerious, dont worry about me. Its so hot, Im going to die.

This trip has been AMAZING. I cant wait to tell you guys all about it. The journal will be 10 miles long, Im sure.

My subscription ran out *sobs*.
I must renew it so I can post pictures.

Everyone here feels like family. Its going to be so sad to leave. Already I want to come back. I think I want to do another exchange next year (France, anyone?). But I dont want to spend my whole summer away from home again when Ill be off to college the year after. I dont know.

Anyone heard of Anpanman? It is the best show ever, hehehe.

I shall explain all when I get home!!

(Bailey, I got you weird candy)

I LOVE YOU ALL

JAPAN

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:05:10 PDT

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After much debating (maybe we could just /say/ we WENT in!) (the two host moms who`d took us didnt go in) we realized theyd payed for us and just went for it.
There was just one other lady there, and I think we offended one other lady there, and I think we offended her because we tried to wear our towels in, which you:re not supposed to do. She was like,ãÂNoã¼noã¼noï¼Â
So we counted to three and just jumped in ï½D
So awkward, aaar. But fun, and hot, and very relaxing.
They wont let us pay for anything!! Today, Remis grandpa and another grandpa (who was awesome, so funny) took us to the giant-buddha thing and THE mountain and lake and shops and lunch, and wouldnt let us pay for ANY of it. more, he bought us all this stuff!ãWhen we got home, we realized he:d even stuck PRESENTS into MICHELLEÂsã...

short

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:26:36 PDT

My hair is short now =o

I look rad.

I love short hair. If I were black, I would shave my head xDD
Seriously, though, I think it looks beautiful when black women shave their heads.
Not quite the same effect on little pale people with lumpy heads like me D:

But I like it. It's fun and kind of wild and sticky-uppy. In a good way ;D
It's to like, the middle of my neck in back, and in front there are little pieces that go in front of my ears. And choppy bangs. And little spikey pieces up top that go WOOOO.

I love pointless journals. They make me happy.

BUT HEY
there is a point to this, I forgot!

I leave for Japan the 23rd (SOEXCITED )
My grandma sent me a bunch of yen for my birthday x3
Anyway, if you guys want me to send you a postcard from Japan, let me know (I'll be in Isesaki, Gunma).
(Let me know soon; I won't be on much next week, I'll be busy preparing. And finals are next week x_x).
But yeah. Note me your address and I shall!
That is all!

arrrr

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:38:18 PDT

Hmmm I want to write =o

Changes

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:45:50 PDT

So I read this book and I think it changed my life =o

I've been really frustrated trying to find a religion. I was raised Christian, but really don't agree with a lot of it. It's so fear and guilt based, to to mention completely anti-gay and really contradictory.
So I've been reading up on Buddhism, which I like a lot; I love how peaceful and simple it is. But what I don't like is the whole 'Life is suffering' part. Buddhists strive to stop being reincarnated to achieve nirvana, because apparently life and attachement is what causes sorrow. But I believe we can find happiness in our life right now - and I don't think you should have to give everything up for fear of it being lost. I mean, attachement to material stuff is bad, I agree with that, but I don't think it's necessary to remove yourself from all that to be happy.
So then I read about Taoism, and I loved the whole nature bit, how you should be in harmony with it. But it told you not to try and change anything because nature will run it's course. It said trying to change things only creates conflict. But if you don't step in and speak out against evil, you're basically agreeing with it. I believe change is what moves us forward. You can't just sit there and let people walk all over you D:
Hinduism had some really neat principals, but I didn't like the whole gods thing. They took it really literally, and the stories were really violent. And a major point of their religion was the divinity of cows, which didn't make sense to me either. If cows are divine, why not all other creatures?
I read about a bunch of other various religions, little strange ones I'd never heard of, but none of them seemed right.
BUT THEN *drumroll*
My dad showed me this book he had called The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz. It's about the Toltecs and what they believe, basically (the Toltecs are like a native-american tribe in mexico). It's not a religion; more like a way of life.
I read it all in one sitting yesterday, it was amazing. I liked it so much that I'm reading it again today xD

Every part of it rings so true for me, about how we behave and relate to one another. It makes you realize how many of the things you do without realizing it.

Bailey, this is the book I want you to read, I think you'd really like it x3

I'll copy down the inside jacket so you can get a basic idea:

"The Four Agreements:

Be impeccable with your word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Don't take anything personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Don't make assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Always do your best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret."

Basically he talks about the domestication of humans - that we've been taught all this stuff from the very beginning. We're told how to act, how to behave, what's acceptable and what's not, what's beautiful and what's ugly, what's good and what's bad, right and wrong. And we agree to all this, and it's how we live. We're taught that if we're good, we get a reward, and if we're bad, we get punished. And we start striving for the attention of the reward, and we fear the punishment. So by the time we're adults, we're so programmed that we reward and punish ourselves. We make ourselves feel guilty over and over and over for the same mistakes. And we're contsantly looking for that attention, that reward, that we're always trying to please others and be what others want us to be. So we're living in this false image, this lie, that we can never really live up to, and so we get frustrated and tell ourselves we're not good enough, we're ugly, etc.
It talks about the Judge and the Victim inside all of us - how the Judge is always telling us what's wrong with us, that we're stupid or whatever, and the Victim accepts it and says, you're right, I /am/ stupid.
He talks a lot about how we've been given the power of the word, and we misuse it all the time. To gossip and spread hate. We do it all the time, talk about how mean so-and-so is, ect. And then we justify it and say it's okay, they deserve it, it's their p...

HEYHEYHEY

~moonseeker363 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:53:47 PDT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

8DDD

~moonseeker363 — Mon, 28 May 2007 17:58:56 PDT

Two words:

Rae's here 8D

Go read her thingy: CLICK

OOH, AND OHMYGOSH
I SAW ARCADE FIRE FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND IT WAS AMAZING.
IT WAS ALMOST RELIGIOUS.
RAE DESCRIBED IT AS READING THE BIBLE.

Word Count Journal

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:24:02 PDT

I propose a challenge to you guys.
I just signed up with this cool website called the Word Count Journal.
The way it works is you create a blog each day. Here's the catch: On Day 1, you write one word. Day 2, you write two words. Day 3, three words, etc. etc.
You're supposed to keep the journal for one year, so your last entry will have 365 words.
Pretty awesome, eh?
I'm going to do it. Anyone want to join me?
My account is here: [link]

My lameo journal is called ink. And due to a lack of inspiration my first entry is just heartbeat, because I think the word sounds cool xD

But I'm having like, creative block this month. I haven't written or drawn anything. So this'll help. It will force me to write 8D
ACTUALLY, I lied. Yesterday I drew one of Korie's commissions and have yet to color it. And today I wrote a little bit. I just need to get back in a little creative groove or something 8D

Anyway, you guys should all sign up.

TWENTY-FOUR DAYS UNTIL RAE COMES TO VISIT
FIFTY-TWO DAYS UNTIL I GO TO JAPAN

Late Earth Day and the Letter Y

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:02:33 PDT

Saturday, my dad and I volunteered planted trees for Earth Day. It was awesome. It was with StreamTeam, an organization trying to get the salmon to run in Salmon Creek again. How sad is it that Salmon Creek doesn't have salmon anymore? D:
Anyway, they've planted a total of 620,000 trees so far, all along the river, which is dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of miles long.
There were about 80 people there?
My dad and I probably planted about 30 trees each, it was really fun. I want to do it more often, it felt really good to be helping. The trees will prevent further erosion, filter out the water, encourage more native plant growth, provide hiding-places and cooler water for the salmon, and eventually bring the fish back ;D

The next day we planted a willow tree in the yard <3

Earth Day marked my 1 year anniversary as a vegetarian. Awesome, eh? So we ate out at a vegetarian restaurant 8D

---

I BEAT ZELDA!!! 8DD

Aah, I was so happy ^^
But also really depressed.
Seriously xD
It was the best game I'd ever played. The ending was so awesome, I was so happy. But it was also really sad ;-;
And because of that I'm depressed xD
Plus, what will I do in my spare time now?! It's overr ;-;
I don't want to post too much because Rae will get mad at me. She hasn't finished it yet D:

Expect LOTS
and LOTS of fanart ;D

AHH. If you've finished the game, too, let me know what you thought of the ending.

---

Now it's time for the letter game.
Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you like starting with that letter. Post them in your journal and give out new letters to your commenters in turn. NO TAGBACKS ALLOWED, unless a commenter specifically requests to be given a letter!

Tagged by

Korie's mean and gave me the letter Y D:
...I don't like her anymore xDD
UM

Here we go:

1. Yaks.
They're awesome. I wish I had a yak D:

2. Yams 8D
I honestly do love yams. Ever since I was a little kid, I've adored them <3

3. Youth x3
I like being youthful. It's much better than being old and slow.

4. Yellow - it's bright and happy.

5. "Yesterday", by the Beatles. Who doesn't love that song? ;D

6. YOUR MOM
...but you knew that was coming, didn't you?

7. Ying and yang 8D
I like the concept of the balance between everything. Plus it's a pretty symbol.

8. Yen. It's japanese currency. Who doesn't like japanese money?!

9. Yummy foods?

10. Yahoo! It's the messenger I use and my email address just wouldn't be complete without it ;D

edit

Oh, and I wasn't very clear in my last journal... looking back, I guess I never made a journal about it >.>
They got engaged in December.
But my dad doesn't like talking about stuff, so all mention of the wedding... dissapeared x_x
She's still wearing her ring. They just haven't mentioned the wedding ever since.
Don't normal people talk about that kind of stuff?

He gets really weird when something's wrong, and it's hard to explain, but he tries to act really unnaturally happy, to try and convince me and himself that it's okay when it's not. And he's been doing that for the past month or so, and it's starting to really, really stress me out. He sings and whistles and he taps on the steering wheel and he talks back to the tv and he jumps on the bed (o_o) and he repeats himself over and over ("right? right? right? right, sarah? right?")and he acts so-so-so immature... I try to ignore it but it doesn't work. If I point it out, he denies it and is like, "What? I'm whistling - what's wrong with whistling?"
And it doesn't sound bad from the description, it's hard to describe, but the whole time there's this super-super high-strung, absolutely stressed atmosphere and I think I'm going to explode D:
It's like, if someone started dancing and singing and trying to be funny during the burial procession at a funeral. It wouldn't be funny.
That's what it's like.
And I know it's because of the wedding, but he won't talk about it. And if I bring it up it becomes such a huge deal. He sits down and he fumbles for his words and it's long and quiet and awkward and always ends up with, "Don't you like Sherry?"
And how am I supposed to explain that no, I don't like Sherry? That she's probably giving me stomach ulcers or tumors or something as we speak? Because that would break his heart and he'd probably cry and...

;-;

~moonseeker363 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:09:16 PDT

Give me a hug.

And then ask my dad when he's getting married,
and tell him to not.

HEY SARAH, HAVE YOU EVER--

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:19:21 PDT

Rules:
You can ask me THREE questions
No matter how crazy, inappropriate, or random they are
I will answer 100% truthfully.

Now Here's The Dare.
You Must Put This in Your Journal
See What Other People Will Ask You

Hehee, I steal from Liddeh and Rae 8D

ASK AWAY
but don't embarass me or I'll yell at you xD

By the way, as soon as I can get my new journal working the way I want it, I'll be transferring to my new account ;D
Possibly next week... =o

AND WOAH
Did you know the Pimsleur website (BEST language learning tapes EVER. You can learn so quick and it's so easy, I love it to death) has free lessons for pretty much every language? xD
You can listen to the first lesson of the tape online for free. I'm doing Swahili today and tomorrow maybe Thai xDD
ITS FUN 8D

Japanese is going good. I'm on lesson 4 out of 8 ;D
It's such a pretty language ^^

See Att Tell

~moonseeker363 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:30:13 PDT

See spot run, see att tell!
ATT WILL TELL YOU HE LOVES YOU
WHAT
SARAH SHUT UP AND TYPE
OK

I've walked too much and my feet hurts ;-;
. . .
Feet
hurt o.o
wow, okay
ANYWAY, I'm very tired xDD

So my dad and I got on the train to Seattle this morningg 8D
For Spring Break.
I love the train.
It was fun.

And now we're in our hotel, and my lovely dad brought his stupid evil laptop (WINDOWS OF COURSE) and it takes foreverrrrrr to load, I don't know how you guys stand these things x_x
I click and it doesn't do anything, so I click again... and it doesn't do anything, so I click again... and again... and again... and again... until finally it decides to load --
and then crashes xD
Anyway, the hotel has free internet 8D

SO
SO SO
SO

We went to the University of Washington today, and that's a /cool/ school =O
I RHYME
It's really green, actually 8D
I'd love to go to Evergreen because it's such a hippie college and it's all liberal and tree-hugging and environmental (...I'd fit right in xD), but it doesn't have a great writing department ;-;
But UW is actually really environmentally friendly x3
They're a mix of liberal and conservative, which is pretty cool. Their library (HUGE o.o) has half macs, half windows xD
They have some really cool classes, and over 300 clubs! Including a Simpsons Watching Club xD
Which I would totally join 8D
Anyway, it just takes 4 students to start your own club, so I'm sure they have some weird ones x3

The campus is beautiful; ponds, parks, fountains, cherry trees blooming all over the place. We actually had SUN today, believe it or not! It was hot, I didn't like it xD
And here I complain about the rain x3
There were students sprawled out all over the grass, playing frisbee and reading and studying. There's wi-fi all over the campus, which is awesome. By next year they predict the entire campus will be wireless 8D

Seems like an awesome school.

We also went the the Science Fiction Museum (...shut up, I know I'm a dork x3) which was fun 8D

Anyway, my feet are DYING
DEATH
DYING
OW
so we're hanging out in the hotel now. Just got back at like 8, we've been on our feet ALL DAY. Save for the train ride. Other than that it's walk here, walk there, WALK WALK OW MY FEET ;_;

So between now and Saturday, when we leave, we're going to the space needle, pike's market, the aquarium, and whatever else we feel like ;D
So that'll be fun!

WOO

THAT IS ALL

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH FOAM-SPAZZ-BLISS

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:09:18 PDT

I'M GOING I'M GOING I'M GOING I'M GOING I'M GOING
I'M GOING TO JAPANNNN

Aah, the dude just sent the email; they've paired all the students up and I'm on the list!! I'm with a girl called Remi Hoshino -- that's all I know. They send the japanese applications tomorrow, so in a few weeks we'll get a packet about her and she'll get a packet about me 8DD
We'd been about 90% sure I was going, but now it's final and I can relax. I'M GOING TO JAPAN. AHAHAHAHAAAA YESS! I've wanted to go overseas for so so so long, anywhere, I didn't care. The fact that it's Japan just makes it even cooler, what a beautiful country...

So went to Powells and got a Japanese language tape
Wish me luck? xD
The tapes are from the Pimsleur series, which I used to learn French, and they worked /really/ well. I felt so smart; I could hold a pretty good conversation in French after like 5 days xD
I'm so glad I took the French ones before I started French at school - I came into the classroom able to understand lots of what the teacher was saying x3
So hopefully these'll do the same for Japanese
I'm a bit intimidated, though, seeing as it's supposed to be one of the hardest languages for English-speakers to learn - that and Russian D:

I feel like some anime/japan-obsessed-person, though xD
I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just not me. And people assume that if you're going to Japan, it must be for anime.
NON D:

AAH I can't wait 8DD
We don't know when and we don't know where, but my family's agreed that this is priority, and if it falls over any previously-planned summer activity (we're going to North Carolina this year!! 8DDD), Japan comes first. So I may miss the beach trip, which sucks, but this is such an opportunity, I've got to take it ^^

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
OH

AND
I took the running start test and I PASSED
AHAHAA

I got a 99 on my writing! NINETY-NINE. I AM AWESOME. WORSHIP ME ^___^
...what's that? big headed? NOOO >.>
just lacking sleep, that's all! 8D
I even managed to pass the college-algebra part, that made me so happy 83
SO I'M GOING TO COLLEGE NEXT YEAR TOO x3
...partially, anyway.

This just made my whole year.
YES IT DID.
I feel like such a little brat for throwing a fit about vsaa when all this awesome stuff is happening to me.
I'm not too good with not getting my way ;_;
but
but
but
this makes up for everything.

LIFE
IS
GOOD.

DID YOU KNOW THAT?

IT IS.
I'M GOING TO DANCE NOW.

me + life + currently =

when the heavens are nice to me it makes me happy

OH AND HEY YOU GUYS
Go read Luna RIGHT NOW
or I'll smack you in the face D:
It's really, really good.
Like Raeeee, you know when I told you to read Twilight? And you didn't? And then you did? And now you're obsessed and simultaniously hate and love me for it?
...go read Luna x3

no wai =O

~moonseeker363 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:23:00 PDT

That journal was really long and clogging up my page xD
I had to post something else x3
In other news, I'm planning a big transfer to a new DeviantArt account soon. But that's a surprise, so shh... >.>

I'll give you two hints:

ink
and
sheep

THE END

Exchange

~moonseeker363 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:12:17 PDT

The night the Japanese girls arrived, I had a dream the next day was Thursday, and I was amazed the week had gone by so fast.
Well, Thursday is here, and that's about how I'm feeling xD
It was so amazingly sad to see them go. It's amazing how quick someone can become a part of your family (ah, this sounds so cheesy... >.> DEAL WITH IT). The house is so empty now, I keep crying ;_;
Anyway, hosting these girls was by /far/ the coolest thing I've ever done -- and I've done some pretty cool stuff x3
I learned so much, it was the coolest experience. These were the /nicest/ people I'd ever met, I can't even begin to describe it xD
I'd recommend this to absolutely anyone. If you ever get the chance, leap on it. I'd been so worried about being too shy - hiding in my room to avoid awkward silences xD
And granted, there was plenty of that awkwardness at first -- key word, first. They warmed up to us so quick that I found I wasn't even shy anymore. It was just the coolest thing ever xD
I'm going to go through it day by day, it's the only way to explain ;D

Saturday:
We went to pick them up at 4:00. There were 37 girls who came down for the concert, from an all-girls school in Osaka, Japan. Turns out it wasn't all mandolins -- there was a mix of mandolins, mandolas, guitar, bass, and cello players.
Anyway, we met in the lobby of a big church where they chose to meet (much less chaotic then an airport x3). It was really fun, because we didn't know which girls were ours - they were all together with their instruments, along with the other host families.
So one by one, they read off the names, until we were called up to meet the girls x3
Their names are Yuko and Koyomi - they're both 16. And this is going to sound really superficial, but they had the coolest outfits ever xDD
I'd go all into describing them but it would take forever xD
Just think of the coolest outfit you've ever seen in a picture on Deviant-Art and it probably looked something like that. Very Japanese x3
Anyway, we were really surprised at how little English they spoke. They could say yes, no, please, thank you, sorry, etc., and they knew their numbers and time, as well as a lot of the animal names and the colors, but that was about it x3
We got through the week with a lot of hand-signals and pictures xD Which was actually really fun. I ended up learning quite a few phrases in Japanese, and their English improved really-really quick =O
Anyway, when we got home, it was all quiet and awkward; they girls were shy, too x3
They loved our animals. We showed them the dogs and cats and horses and llamas and they were all excited x3
Ohh, and they brought us presents!
It was so nice, I wasn't expecting it at all ^^
They brought us lots of origami paper, chopsticks, this awesome owl they'd made by folding origami paper into tiny little triangles and gluing them together (it must've taken /forever/!), and a really pretty picture made of really pretty folded paper into the shape of a man and woman in a kimono, kind of abstract-looking... really pretty 8D
They showed us how to make paper cranes and little paper-balloons ^^
And my mom and I found out we suck at it xDD
Next we showed them the baby chicks in the bathroom, and I found out they really do say 'kawaii' xD
All the time x3
"Kawaii, aaah, kawaii!"
Here they are with the chicks;
(these pictures were taken later in the week, as you can tell by the uniforms. yes, they really did have japanese schoolgirl uniforms x3 They had to wear them every day since they performed at school concerts every day)

Please wait for images to load and drag the window over so you can see the whole picture!
Yuko is on the left, Koyomi is on the right ;3

Sunday:
The night of the big concert. Which was, coincidentally, held in the theater of Vancouver School of the Arts xDD
We had no idea what to expect. Turns out, they were /really/ good. They played a big variety of songs; some classics, such as Spring from the four seasons... and then songs from the Land Before Time, Oh-Bla-Dee, and A Whole New World from Aladdin xDD
But it was really beautiful ^_^
After that, we came home and dyed easter eggs xD
Because only the cool people celebrate holidays early ;D
It was really fun trying to explain about Easter and realizing just how ridiculous it sounds - a giant rabbit brings eggs for children xDD
They cock their heads to the side when they're confused, it's really cute xD
Anyway, we had a really...

Sun, Chickens, and Japan

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:24:18 PDT

Don't know if I've told you, but we're hosting two Japanese excange students this week xD
They're coming down for a big mandolin competition, and my mom agreed to host two of them through Rotary. So we're picking them up at 3:30 today (Saturday), and they go back home Thursday night. The concert is tomorrow night, so we get to go see them perform x3

Pretty awesome, eh? I can't wait to meet them. They're both 16 - we don't know how much english they speak at all xD
I can't remember their names, just that they're awesome and japanese D:
So we're going to rent movies (with Japanese subtitles ;D) and eat pizza with them tonight. They've been flying all day and are bound to be exhausted.
I'm sure they'll think we're insane x3
Especially since we're dying our dog green (with easter-egg dye, it works really well) tomorrow for St. Patricks Day (it's a tradition. don't arrest us xD)
Oh-- and we have baby chicks in the bathroom
Yess, we went down to Wilco yesterday and got 6 baby chicks - 3 buff cochins and 3 silver laced wyendots (that how you spell it?) They're adorable - I'll have to get pictures ^^
Eeep, yay!
So they're in a little box with a heatlamp in my bathroom right now x3
They get to go outside with the other chickens when they're a little older. I love chicks, they make me so happy. We get them every year, since our own hens won't sit on their eggs (it's been bred out of most chickens).

It's sunny outside today, it's gorgeous. The first sun we've seen in about 8 months? xDD
Aaah, it's so pretty and warm. I've been out in the yard all day, it feels so good 8D
I'm really happy today. Maybe it's just the sun, but I feel so at peace with everything. This month had some rough patches, but they're over now, and I have a feeling April is going to be a good month ^^

The Japanese girls are going to be meeting with their mandolin-group and taking a bus with their advisor to sight-see during the day while I'm at school, but during the evening we have to find ways to entertain them xD
So I don't think I'll be on the computer much this week. I really apologize, but comissions are going to have to be on hold for a little while longer. I'll work on stuff whenever I get the chance, we'll just have to see?

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sing praises in the name of the sun-god for awhile ;D

CURE

~moonseeker363 — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:19:58 PDT

oh my goodness o_o
I just found a cure for the hiccupps xDD
Or, my father did ;_;
So I suppose I have to give him the credit.

5 bucks and I'll tell you.

No, really xD

The secret is: GASP.
Yes. You gasp. A sharp intake of breath? *GASP*?
You know how they say you can scare the hiccups out of someone? Which turns out actually works -- /if/ you gasp.
I was hiccupping for like 10 minutes nonstop in weight training, and Daina whipped around and jabbed me in the arm all suddenly and I jumped and gasped and screamed xD
And they stopped immediately o.o
Later tonight I was hicupping again (nonstop like before) - and my dad told me his theory:
Hicupps are caused by a spasming of the diaphram, right? So if you gasp, it stops the little spaz-attack because the gasp tightens the diaphram xDD
So I did a big dramatic sharp gasp... and they stoppped immediately again xDD

So forget the backwards-water-drinking and the jumping around.
Just gasp.
I feel so smart and powerful with this knowledge.
SECRETTTT

I'm going to go on Oprah and make a fortune

WOAHAND
Have you guys seen the Science of Sleep?
Go see it /now/. It's really amazing.
I'd been pondering whether or not to make my new character, Callynn, female, french, and Pharid's wife (long story?) or male and schizophrenic.
Now I know xD

Aaah, what a fascinating concept. They really captured that line between fantasy and reality, and how scary and sad and confusing to get them confused.

. . .

*hiccups*

Go

~moonseeker363 — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:53:14 PDT

Commissions And Status Info: [link]

after

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:52:09 PST

a short nap and some chocolate I'm feeling immensly better =OO
gahh, what a relief. that made me so upset, I hate feeling that way xD
I felt so pathetic crawling under the covers but it worked. So screw VSAA. They'll regret their decision when I'm a best-selling author donating millions to my current school. They'll fire the person who chose who gets in and who doesn't and probably feel a lot like the agents who didn't accept J.K. Rowling's novel. Man, I bet those agents are kicking themselves now x3
Anyway, they could've had a famous person go to their school but they missed out, so that's too bad for them ;D

I think I'll draw a bright and colorful picture of a cat for our newly painted awesome laundry room x3
My dad's b-day is coming up soon, so expect delays in pictures - I need art for him xD

I'm not going to apply for any other schools, but I will apply for running start, so hopefully I can take art/writing classes down at the community college next year. And with that, you get in by taking a test that reflects your intelligence, not your personality. Don't judge me, VSAA, I can make my own future xP

WATCH IT NOW o_o

~moonseeker363 — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:12:09 PST

Wow. Go watch this little flash if you haven't already:
[link]

It's so twisted and creepy. I love it; it gives me shivers ._.
That was the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
And the voice... the pacing, it's so weird, she wrapped up that dream-like feeling in a little minute-long animation. Go see it. It's surreal and strange and creepy.

On another note, commissions are coming along slowly but surely. Korie, I've finished Lesse's lineart and am now coloring her... WolfessEnchanted, I have a sketch done of your fursona and need to outline it ^^
I should really just update my status thing xD
BUTLATER.

That's really all I have to say.

Now go watch that animation.

The Mouse Song

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:16:28 PST

Per request of Bailey xDD
Recorded one delirous night when I had too much free time and too much chocolate.
Yes. That is me. With a lovely mouse-filter on my voice so it sounds nothing like me; I don't normally talk... like... that o.o
xD

Go listen to a mouse playing the banjo (banjo loop provided by GarageBand) and talking about spaghetti. It's not very long. You'll either enjoy it or chop your ears off x3

...I'm such a dork D:

SO BAILEY, GO SHOW YOUR FAMILY AND LAUGH AT ME. GO ON xD

She literally fell on the ground laughing when she heard this o.o
But that's just Bailey and we love her x3

[link]

So yeah.
That is all.
Absolutely
pointless
journal

GAH GO SEE THIS DEPRESSING MOVIE ;_;

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:58:27 PST

AHHh, Bailey and I just went and saw the Bridge to Terebithia (or however-the-heck-you-spell-it) and GAaaaah ;_;
I think I'll go crawl in a hole and die now xD
It was such a good movie, but so depressing aaah. I /never/ cry at movies (neither does bailey) and we were both like, "AH ;__________;"
If you see this movie without crying you're a robot, okay? It's really sad xDD
And depressing
and just
yeah.
But go see it. It's really good.
YES

OH
AND
I have the best comeback ever.

Bailey was like singing that country song, "I'M A BRAND NEW MAAAAN ^^"
and I was like, "That's good, Bailey, I'm glad the operation went well ^_^"
it was great xDD
I patted myself on the back.

ANYWAY,
Bailey is here stalking my shoulder and I'm showing her my awesome computer which my mother still doesn't appreciate and all is good. IT IS A COOL COMPUTER THOUGH, SERIOUSLY.
So now we're going to make a documentary about humans because humans are just that cool.

Go us.

Commission me ;D -- [link]

Commissions & Status

~moonseeker363 — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:32:42 PST

Alright, I've decided to start up Neopets commissions because I'm poor and I want my pirate paint brush, darnit D:

Here's how it works:

I draw you a picture.
I show you a preview of the picture.
You purchase an item in my shop for the correct amount of Neopoints.
I give you the picture.
Got it? ;D

All prices are in Neopoints.

If you want to pay cash (which I doubt xD) note me and we'll figure out a price?

Prices:
Simple icon - 5k

Animated icon - 8k

Basic Chibi, no background - 3k
(no examples yet, sorry ;_; )

Lineart, no background - 5k

Full-colored picture, simple background - 8k

Full-colored picture with background - 10k

Custom Userlookup - 10k

5k for each additional character.
2k to add a background to anything.

Please note me if you'd like a commission.
Prices may vary depending on the complication of the picture.
If you have a custom request (group shots, etc.) we can figure out a fair price ;D
Please specify the style/medium, too ^^
(watercolor, digital, thick-lines, gradient shading, ect.)

***

Status:

Intense and Tatsu (commish) for

(Intense sketch)

Commish for (Fursona)

(Lineart begun ^^)

A Business Blurb

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:16:09 PST

Sorry it's hard to read. Photobucket resized it ;_;

Wow.
This is the kind of stuff that goes through Sarah's head xD
Exciting, isn't it? x3

My goal is to waste as much of your time as I can ^^

OHHH, IT'S SO PRETTY ;_; (poll!)

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:28:02 PST

*dies*
*twice*

AHH
my mom got the BEAUTIFUL new Mac

AAH and she doesn't
even
appreciate it xDD

It's for the office
(she has a home-business with like, 3 other computers) and she just asked her computer-fixer-person what type to get and she was like, "OKAY ^_^"

She didn't even know what it looked like xDD

And here this is the computer I've been drooling over ;___;

So it's all set up and I'm on it right now and it's BEAUTIFUL
and SO FAST ;_;
And it has built-in-video-camera so I can take pictures or movies of myself this instant if I wanted to xD
Or do a video chat with all you fancy video-people 8D

WOWWWWW DD:

But I get to use it when she and Julie aren't! :boogies:
So YEAH.

AAH.

I WANT ONE ;_;

Edit!
Go vote on the poll x3

Your Mom Is

~moonseeker363 — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:29:59 PST

a large reptile D:

I FEEL LIKE...

~moonseeker363 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:16:24 PST

...CRAP.

It feels like there is a walrus in my head
trying to get out D:

GAAAH
and we have this lovely 4-and-a-half-day-weekend, too.
And now I'm DEAD x_x

Of course, as SOON as I stop barfing, this stupid head-thing attacks. At least my sore-throat is gone. I've been sick for three stupid weeks now o_o

I AM
SNEEZING
AND DRIPPING
SNOT
LIKE A
dead person

And I look and feel like
CRAP
CRAP
CRAP
I HATE THIS xD

JUST THOUGHT YOU SHOULD ALL KNOW.

YAY.

JUST
YAY.

I go draw pictures now T_T

<3

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:43:18 PST

Happy Valentines Day everyone x3

Dang Norweigans X_X

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:33:48 PST

Aah, I am SICK.
As in, the horrible Norwalk virus that is plauging our school D:
First bombs, now norweigan viruses! xD
Anyway, it's pretty awful. It went around last year, too, so I thought I was immune. Guess not Dx
So I've been having fun puking my guts out since around 1. D:
Yaaay!
I think I'm through the worst of it (hallelujah!)
So now I'm couch-bound, once again typing with the wii (I'm getting pretty good at it xD)
Anyway, I just thought I'd let everyone know about my lovely illness xD
Stay healthy x3

Bombs And Snipers o_o

~moonseeker363 — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:35:58 PST

Well . . .
It started out as a normal day xD

By about 11 o'clock news got out that there'd been a bomb threat at the middle school, which is right next-door to us at the highschool. They evacuated and came into our gym, where apparently they were stuck.

I've got two friends there, Bailey and Valerie, so I was worried, but it was mainly rumors at that point...

Then at around 12, the principal came on the speakers and announced a lock-down.
There was a bomb threat.

I have like, ONE fear, and that's anything explosive.
Guns, bombs, violence... gah. If you know me then you'd know that I freak out if you aim a rubber-band at me, no matter how much I trust you xD
(Daina made fun of me last week when I literally hid underneath the desk. But hey -- that was a /big/ rubber band xD)

So when the news came on, most people were all excited about getting out of classwork, but I was like, bordering on another anxiety attack -_-
People dealt with it in a lot of different ways, you know? A lot of them tried to joke about it at first ("DONT OPEN THE WINDOWS OMG THE TERRORIST-SNIPERS WILL GET 'CHOO" *mass laughter*)
but I was just sitting there trying not to cry and feeling retarded xD
God, I was scared.

They turned off all the lights and locked the doors. Nobody could enter or leave the building. We pulled the blinds and were supposed to keep relatively quiet.
Our teacher was amazing. I was in French class, and I'm /so/ glad. I had Samantha with me (we've been friends since preschool x3), and the entire class is great.
The teacher didn't skip a beat - she twisted the blinds so that just enough light could come into the room, picked up a book, and continued on with the lesson.

But nobody could concentrate.
After a few minutes, the computer buzzed with an email, and the teacher hurried over to check. They said all 5 schools within city limits were on lock-down, there'd been a bomb-threat, the police are coming and that's all they knew and would keep us updated.
I just kept thinking about this Grey's Anatomy episode where there was a bomb inside a patient (long story x3) and they were all just sitting there, not knowing when or if it was going to go off, if they were even going to get to go home again.
Sounds kind of weird, but that's what popped into my head xD

People started getting nervous. They wanted to use cell-phones to call home and stuff, but the email said not to - the signals would "interfere" o.o

So we started telling stories about weird teachers having break-downs and stuff, and soon, everyone was laughing. Anything to get our minds off it. I ended up laughing, too. It was weird; it was almost like this period of acceptance. Like, okay - there might be a bomb. But there's nothing we can do, and we're all here together... so let's just laugh?

At 1:00 the bell rang, and that's when it 'hit' people again. They seemed to go through little phases of freaking out and accepting it. 1:00 was the time to go to our next class, yet... there we were.
Nobody could leave.

We turned on the news and brought out monopoly and scrabble. People got out plastic cups and played some rythm-game. We watched some old cowboy movie they were playing on TV.

We were able to use the school telephone only if we had parents that might be coming to pick us up, so they wouldn't come onto the closed school-grounds. I called my mom ("Hi, Mom... So we're under lockdown and there's a bomb...?") Not the greated phonecall to get from your kid D:

The principal came on again.
They'd brought in the SWAT team and were searching the middle school o_o
Yes. SWAT team.
I don't know if you guys have had something like this happen, but it was definantly a first for our small town xD

At one point there was a knock on the door, and everyone froze.
Turns out there was a police woman at the door, escorting people to the bathroom, 2 at a time.
I went with Samantha, and gah.
It was like the supposed bomb had already gone off.
I'd never seen the halls so deathly silent. That's when Samantha started freaking out; she got really quiet and kept going, "I don't like it... We're out in the open, I don't like it..."

Outside, there was caution tape roped around the school and the drone of helicopters o_o

2:00 rolled around, time to go home, but no one was going anywhere. The principal said there were SWAT teams on the /roof/ at this point and warned us to stay absolutely put x____x;;

It wasn't until 2:40 that they said they had a plan to get the students out.
They brought in the buses and lined them up in the blocked-off street in this huge, long line. None of them were in order.

We all filed outside, and there were pe...

AKFJ:SDFKL

~moonseeker363 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:49:47 PST

Aaah, I got tired of the stamps xDD

I have
nothing
to say x3

Yahoo is dead and that makes me sad.
RAE abandoned me =O
*accusatory glare*

I need a new footer/header thing.

I'll do that right now.

...After some much-neglected homework >.>

wouldn't it be cool

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:16:57 PST

I COPY LIDDEH AND PUT STAMPS IN MY JOURNAL

JUST TRY AND STOP ME ;D

AHAHA they are all hippie stamps.
I don't care. I FEEL DRAMATIC, DANGIT 8D

. . .

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:58:47 PST

AHAHAA ANOTHER SNOW DAY I WIN AHAHAHAA
WOOOOOO

*RAPE*

6 Things

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:19:42 PST

Tagged by

Rules are following:
The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 Weird Habits/Things About Yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 Weird Habits/Things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "You are tagged" in their devPage comments and tell them to read yours...

My 6 weird habits/things are...

MY TOE GOES NUMB AND DIES SOMETIMES.
It's actually some medical thing xDD
When I get stressed or cold, it goes completely, DEATHLY white. Just ONE toe. Same toe. Every time o__o;
You have to stick your foot in warm water to get it back.
If you leave it white too long you can actually loose the toe o_o
I BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT ;D

My socks never match x3

I find it hilarious when food falls on the floor.
If a piece of food falls off my plate, I'll just sit there and laugh at it o_o

I'm so afraid of guns, I'm not even joking -_-;
I get this reoccuring dream about a school shooting and it freaks me out to DEATH. You aim ANYTHING at me and I PANIC. I'm serious. Don't you dare xDD
Well... anything shootable, at least x3
STAPLE GUNS (omg, ahh xD), squirty bottles, anything ;_;

...I'm really short? xD

I don't swear o.o
Unless I get really ticked off. You know I'm really mad if I swear. (Or if I stub my toe x3 )
I don't have a problem with it, I'm not against it, I just don't... swear o.o
And I say "gosh" instead of "god" o_o
And I get really embarassed talking about anything to do with sex. Which really annoys me because, really xD
But it does.
I wish I wasn't so... non-swearing.
Someone needs to slap me and then we need to just scream profanities. That.
Would be fun.
=0

I tag your mom D:
Everyone is pretty much tagged, so if you want this, steal it x3

OMGWII x3

~moonseeker363 — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:08:36 PST

I
am writing
this journal
from my new wii xD
And typing with this thing is really slow-going but it's awesome so that's ok x3
Plus there's a cool feature that finishes the words for you as you type (phyciccc) so YEAH.
This thing is so cool. I just had to brag xD
Sorry :0
But yeah. The new zelda is /amazing/. I'm incredibility addicted to it already.
And in other words, I fell off my horse and landed on my arm yesterday and it was really really painful xDD
Aaand we think it's just bruised -- yesterday I couldn't move it at all without it going all WOOO on me (and not in a good way). But today it started feeling better and by late afternoon (gasp) I was able to finally try out the wii, since the nunchuk uses that arm so before all I could do was stare dejectedly at my wii and curse bad timing xD
Wow. That just took about 20 minutes to type on this thing x3
okay
Much love and merry christmas ;d

Freeeeee Sketches and SNOW :O

~moonseeker363 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:44:21 PST

First off, I'm stealing Scarlet's 10 free sketches deal-thing. Consider it your christmas present xDD
So request a sketch, everyone. Ref pictures would make me love you ^^
If not, just describe well x3
You /don't/ have to put this in your journal to get a sketch. Merry christmas xDD

THE.LIST
1. - Someone!

2. - Someone!

3. - Someone!

4. - Arri

5. - Estathan 8D

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

And if I'm feeling really nice I might color some of them xP

Aaand I'm tired so I shall say this quickly. But basically we had 2 hour late starts every single day this week except Friday xDD
It was awesome ^^
It snowed a bit on Monday, and everyone got all excited and I danced around and then it stopped. But it was really fun while it lasted.
Howeverrr, my school is a wimp and cancels school at the first sign of a snowflake, so the whole week was late-start because they kept forecasting another storm but nothing happened xDD
It was awesomeeee <333
Early snow. How exciting ;D
Too bad it lasted around 10 minutes D:

In other news, my mom and I both entered a Writer's Digest contest for short stories (1,500 words or less). We found out about the contest on Tuesday, each wrote a story on Wednesday, edited them on Thurdsay, and sent them in today, Friday -- the deadline xDD
First prize is an entire $3,000 (that's a lotta money o.o) and second is $1,500 (also a lot of money o.o), so we're planning on taking first and second and then going to Paris xDD
That's the plan, anyway
Free DA subscriptions all around if we win xDD
Wish us luck, haah ^^
The contest actually has 25 places, which is pretty awesome - and all 25 winners are published o.o
So yeah. Just to be published in Writer's Digest would be pretty darn amazing x3

Anyway.
I'm done rambling ;3

The Sky is Falling...

~moonseeker363 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:20:35 PST

Holy cow o_O
So... um... yeah. It's Washington. It rains buttloads every year and everyone and everything gets drenched and it's all good.
Well this year, the heavens decided to /entirely/ open up and just get all the raining for this year over with right here. Right now. Just, poooooooosh.
It has been pounding rain - like, pouring, blinding, battering rain - for over a week /straight/. Not a downpour a day. Not one big storm passing through. Not lots of water on and off.
Like, CONSTANTLY xDDD
All day. All night. It's almost hard to sleep, it's so loud o.o
We're used to the rain, yeah. But not this much xD
Figures. This year, a prolonged summer and harsh, violent, /extremely/ rainy winter was predicted for the northwest due to global warming.
Can't ignore this evidence x3
Anway, at my dad's, we live on a golf course. Like, our backyard looks out onto it. It's like having the world's largest backyard -- pretty awesome and stuff ^^
But anyway, there are ponds all over, in addition to a little river/creek-thing that runs throughout the course. We've got a pond in the back of our house where our fabulous ducks live.
Supposedly the course is a 100-year floodplain. Basically, since it's so flat, every century or so, the thing floods and becomes a lake basin.
Well, it's not quite that extreme yet...
But the whole golf-course is flooding o__o

So imagine this:
You normally look out your back window to see a lovely, green flat course-thingy. Occasional golfers walking by. Huge pond in the backyard. At the edge of the grass, which is about 2 football fields wide, there are a few clusters of trees and then the little creek running through. Behind the creek is a forest, ect. ect. You normally can't see the river because of the shrubs and cluster of trees, right?
The river has come up over half the golfcourse e_e
It's only about a football field's length (shuddup, that's my measuring technique xDD) away from our house xDD
You open the door and you hear "SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" from the water. The ittle gravel path that used to go around the course for the golf-carts? It's underwater now ._.;
Of course, the entire golf-course is closed x3
So my dad and I went for a walk this afternoon to check it out, to see if it was just that part or what. Hahhhh.
The ponds all over the golfcourse have taken over xD
A few of them are overlapping, pouring into one another. There are little lakes that shouldn't be there.
In one part, the river has actually came over the ENTIRE course-hole-area-thingy. Section? What're they called? Anyway, yeah. THE ENTIRE AREA. At least 2 football-field lengths of water o_o
It was higher last night, too. There are areas where there's a little shoreline of debris in the middle of the grass, where the water had came up to earlier.

We almost couldn't get around the whole course - over about half of the bridges were underwater. All the paths were gone - we were just sloshing through wet grass and parts of the river xDD
It was so weird. Like an underwater golf-course o_o
Crazy stuff o.o

(drag the window over to make sure you see the whole pic)

I wish I'd taken a picture so bad. There was places where it was flooded over so bad and so deep we couldn't get through. It was amazing. But I made a lovely diagram to show you with an earlier pic I found. If it's still flooded tomorrow I'll get a before and after xD

---

Anyway, yeah. So there was the lovely flooding at home. And then we come to school, and halfway through the day our principal comes on sounding all depressed and serious.
"Staff and students, please excuse this important announcement..."
I guess they'd been monitering rain levels, worried about flooding on the roads and people getting home, as well as buses. It was serious enough that they cancelled ALL after-school activities (including my writer's group T_T) - not just sports but indoor activities too o.o
Yeah.
They said if it's still raining tomorrow morning, to call the snow-hotline-thingy to check if school is cancelled @_@
Crazyyy xDD
I mean, here we are, Washington, the land of constant rain... and school could be closed because of it xD
This hasn't ever happened before. At least in my existance. I'm all excited x3

---
And omg the democrats are winning
It'll be so awesome if they totally win. Everyone'll be all pissed at school tomorrow xDD
And I'll be dancing around and they'll all hate me. But t...

Vote! slaps :D

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:51:50 PST

---
Update:

[link]

^^^^^ (the link is nearly invisible o.o) ^^^^^

Vote please ;D
Spots, Partial Spots, or No Spots.
And then, due to the fact that I cannot make decisions on my own, suggest any changes and tell me if I should or shouldn't change my fursona to this xDD

End of Update
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I have been drawing a lot lately, actually.
Its just all been ugly xDD
I've been in creative limbo, actually. Kind of. Not really. More like, creative... observation? Haha, I'm such a loser xD
In a good way ;D
But yeah. With my book done, I don't really know what to do. So I've been reading a ton. You guys must must must read the book, 'Twilight'. It's really awesome =o
Yesss, I've jumped on the whole vampire bandwagon xD
I was really skeptical at first - it seems like everyone is writing / reading / obsessing about vampires lately. And it seems to be one of those fads where people write about it and, due to the subject matter, it gets instantly published. I mean, don't get me wrong; vampires are awesome and all. But I was really wondering how much of the vampire books being published lately actually contain talent, and how many are just bad writing with an intruiging vampire aspect.
So when I picked up Twilight and read the back-flap thingy, I saw the word 'vampire' and was like (shut up, Rae xD) "Naaah."
But then I sat down and read the first chapter anyway (the book-store people just love it when you do that on the floor, blocking foot-traffic xD ) and couldn't put it down.
Yeah. Basically this girl falls in love with a vampire.
Of course xP
It sounds really cliche, but it's not, I swear. You'll love it. It's awesome. I'm so addicted to it, I seriously can't put it down o.o
It's just... yeah. Read it. Don't judge it, just read it xP

Ohoh! New project. The Sarah Humanizing Character Thingy Project. (TSHCTP for short xD)
Basically, I've decided to take all my old Neo characters and humanize them, make them my own. Starting with Naan, then Maya, then Tessie, probably, aaaand... I'm rambling.
But yeah. Tweaking personalities, taking away all things furry (ears, tails, wings = no more). And then drawing them.
I'm pretty excited; it'll be fun. Maya sounds like she's going to be changing the most drastically so far.
So yeah. I shall post links when I'm done.

I drew 7 drafts of a picture this week and then finally decided I hated it xDD
But hey, I'm learning. Kind of. Maybe.

BOOK!

~moonseeker363 — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:08:47 PDT

I.

FINISHED.

MY.

BOOK!

How awesome is that?! ^____^
I'm so happy! Eep! I've been working on it for nearly 2 years now, and I'm DONE! ;DDDD

At 200 words a page, it's 311 pages! Not bad, eh? x3

Whooo! I have now officially finished my first novel at age 15. Next step?
The dreaded editing and rewriting, and thennnnn, I'm going to attempt to get this thing published!

I haven't decided if I'm going to do a sequel or not yet. It's totally set up for one, but I don't know if I'll write it xP
I may want to work on something new for awhile. It'll be nice to be completely done and move on. I want to try a different style next time. Once it's all edited and I'm happy with it I'll post it ^_^

Let's just say it's been a very marvelous week