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dA bday + Opeth tonight(!) + blogspot + features

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:06:19 PST

So according to my stats, I started this account on the 2nd of December in 2006, meaning I've been here for 3 years as of next week? Exciting right? Except it seems longer because it was. I used to have an account here Â mostly sketches and a few watercolours. I stopped using it for about 6 months, then came back and couldnÂt remember my user nameÂ. I still can't. I had this idea that I would do some detective work and find my old accountÂ Not for the art (it was pretty generic Â mostly faerie and mythology related) but to find out when I actually joined dA! Problem is, I cannot remember the combination of words that made up my username!! Back then it was things like blue eyed gypsy, townsvillian gypsy, blue girl, elusive spirit of the Night, or crow girl, whatever.. I didnÂt come to settle on a universal username until I read ÂObsidian ButterflyÂ in 2006. Before that my usernames were quite diverse Â although a lot of them involved ÂgypsyÂ as I've always identified with that part of my heritage. I've done searches for anything that I can recall, and IÂm coming up blank.. except that I think it had Â83Â or Â1983Â in the username. I also checked the back catalogue of all my blogs, but am drawing a blank there too as most of my blogging started half way through 2006. And the ones before that I had sanitised and/or deleted. I no longer have access to my university email address, which is what I probably signed up with. The forum I was so active at and definitely shared a link with is now inactive, but it was also sanitised years ago. I've been racking my brains for years, and I just can't remember. ItÂs very frustrating! So anyway, off the top of my head, I think I first joined dA at the end of 2004/eary 2005, but unless I stumble over my old account I couldnÂt swear to it in a court of law LOL I really wish that dA had a search feature!! For usernames/identities that is.. If you know you followed my old account, can you let me know? I've already checked April and SidÂs accounts to see if I was following them, but it doesnÂt appear I didÂ I think I just lurked a lot back then, instead of actually following peopleÂ of course, now I follow like 700+ people, so I have the opposite problem LOL

Other bday news - my actual birthday that is - Im still trying to decide what to do for my 26th birthday next month... at the moment its a tossup between visiting the Blue Mountains (which limits who I celebrate with *sigh*) or going out to dinner in the city somewhere (also limits, as its during the xmas sales, and at least 2 friends work in retail..). My other option is to do both... Im also not sure about New Years... I was going to be going into the city, but now my aunt is having her wedding on New Years Eve - its up on the central coast (of NSW) so it will be difficult to get back into Sydney for NYs...

I'm so excited.. I'm going to see Opeth perform tonight!! They are my all-time favourite band, so I am fangirl-excited. I've missed seeing them a number of times, so this is a big deal for meÂ I've also never been to the Enmore theatre before, so this should be interesting.. It will be a tight schedule however, as I leave work at 5:30, hopefully home around 6pm, depending on the trains, and I need to get ready and be back at the train station to catch the 7:26 train to Newtown. That gives me about 30 minutes to shower and get readyÂ it normally takes me about half that just to do my goth eye makeupÂ so I guess I am just going to do my eyeliner and do the rest on the trainÂ Wish me luck LOL I was going to get dressed at work and hang out in Newtown for a few hours, but I forgot to pack my clothes last night, and cut my time fine getting ready for work tomorrowÂ I need my own T.A.R.D.I.S.!! (And Doctor Â DT is so fine!) At least this time I remembered to paint my nails the night before LOL IÂll be updating my music blog with the concert goss sometime in the next week or so, including pics if I take any good ones. You can find it at: From A Whisper To A Scream.
Update: OPETH WERE AMAZING! TOTAL RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE! I WOULD FOLLOW THEM TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD JUST TO CATCH ALL OF THEIR GIGS... CAN SOMEONE LEND ME LOTS OF MONEY SO I CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN? Blog post is here: FromAWhisper2AScream Â Last.FM Â My Stamps Â IntoTheFire

I'm getting all excited... I have a BIG month ahead of me... heavenly!! exciting!! dreamy!! unforgettable!! [warning, some swearwords - i was excited LOL]

Under The Blue Moon festival in Newtown for Halloween - Im not sure if I can make it to the All Hallows Eve Ball, but I am definately going to the UTBM Markets during the day.. They also have an art show I want to check out, and there is a fashion show I have to check out.. I love Goth culture!! Im on the lookout for more clothes, as mine are starting to get ragged - im also looking for some new boots... I want some awesome ones, but they have to be flat, because my ankles are still fucked up from last year.. Wish me luck!

My best friend, Sami, is turing 25 next Thursday, so she decided she finally has to visit me in Sydney... So she is flying down on Wednesday and we are hanging out for a couple of days.. We are going to Taronga Zoo on Thursday, then she is coming to my bookclub that night (Its JR Ward night) and we are going shopping in all my favourit Goth shops on Friday and catching up with some mutual friends from our university days.. then on Saturday....

Saturday is Australia's first EVER Australian Metal Awards!!! Fuck yeah!! I was planning on going stag until we realised that it was Sami's birthday and she was visiting.. out of allllllllll my friends, she is the onlyone who likes metal enough, loves metal gigs, and will come and mosh with me AT metal gigs... Lillian and Linda came to see Ba'lakor in August, but it really wasnt their scene.. me and sami rock out... we either sit back with our bourbons (water if we were broke) taking it all in, or we cut sick on the dance floor.. Ive never had an occasion where we werent up for a good time... So I am SOOOOOOOO excited that sami will be there with me... I think living in townsville and having sami to go to gigs with me spoilt me... I hate going stag to gigs.. its the reason i am not content in sydney... because i have all this amazing metal, but i have no one to gig with.. *sigh* but i do that weekend, and we are gonna go off! We have so many amazing metal bands in Australia, such a big pub scene, but they mostly go under the radar.. the guys organising it are currently campaigning for Aria to have a metal and hardcore chart for the ARIAs chart/music awards... guys, if you are in Sydney that weekend, and you like metal, please come and support the scene! its REALLY important that we show a strong front to the ARIA peeps.... because the charts are full of pop crap, and we need agknowledgement for our music too!
Headline Act: Sadistik Exekution
Support Acts: Ouroboros, Death Audio, Five Star Prison Cell, Bane of Isildur, Killrazer, A Secret Death, Eyefear, Chaos Divine
Come if you are a metal head and in sydey!! and tell friends who may be interested.... More info here: [link]

Sadly, after the Metal Awards Sami has to go back to Townsville (maybe I should kidnap her?)... *sob* but...

OPETH IS COMING TO SYDNEY!! And I have a ticket!!!! so fucking stoked!!! this band is my favourite band of all time... like aboslute favourite... I couldnt afford to go... but both Maree and Sami offered to get me tickets because they realised how disappointed I was ((I cried LOL)) Anyway, i got a loan (I couldnt just take that much money..) from Maree, and bought the tickets before I flew to QLD for my brothers wedding... Contrive just announced they are a supporting act (I discovered them because I am a fan of The Racket on Triple J, and Haugs and his twin are members of the band) and I really like their sounds too... Im going by myself, but i really couldnt give a shit, because its to see OPETH!!!

I really want to see Karnivool next month too - I like the band a fair bit - probably my favourite aussie band at the moment... but I was fine with not seeing them because I've got a lot of gigs lined up lately (I bought my soundwave festival tickets for brisbane in feb too).. But I saw that Dredg has just been announced as a support act and now I want to cry. I am being sensible, but I dont want to BE sensible... Its DREDG! Who I have loved for years... and they arent an Aussie band, so I have no idea when they will be back.. *sigh*

And in further news, my best friend, here in Sydney is having a "Black Christmas" party in early december... think halloween party at christmas... its going to...

I won 2nd & 3rd place!

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:34:33 PDT

I'm in a comp for the club stamp for

[link] - if you can vote in the poll? Only for me if you like my stamps

^Mine are the ones by

Update: I got 2nd (9 votes) and 3rd (7 votes) place!!! First prize got 12 votes, and the rest got one or 2. I voted for the one that hadnt any votes, so they didnt feel left out..

I won a print from my wishlist for 2nd prize:

And 3rd prize was for a 3 month sub:

This is the first time I have placed on a competition on dA!!! I rarely enter, and if I get a mention, it is normally just a comendation feature... So i am totally stoaked!!! I've decided I should start entering stamp competions... I get the most attention for those, and I rarely have time to do my other art these days... And I love making graphics in Gimp.... seems logical.... Im going to start featuring underappreciated stamps in my ~obsidianstamps journal now I have a subscription.....

The club is if you feel like joining!!

Thankyou for all your favs, devwatching and comments. I love you for it, even if I can't always tell you how much!

Clubs:

From A Whisper 2 A Scream Last.FM My Stamps My Stock Into The Fire

I'm wishing I had time to go on etsy... i think i want to do steampunk pirate for the #SydneySyders pirate party on saturday... but i think i will just have to do some scrounging and see what I turn up... cos lets face it, nothing i order online will be here by friday LOL

so this means i have to do some shopping..... going to do as much as i can in burwood after work on thursday, and then have to get up early and go second hand shopping on saturday....

I was just going to go as a basic pirate wench, but i was thinking it over, and now is a chance for me to have some fun with the steampunk fashion.. i've always been facinated by it LOL I just wish I had more time to actually make something.... but I work full time, and i couldnt hand sew something with so little time...so I think it will be 'found objects' only. last night, i was reading the latest issue of Fiend, which has a steampunk themethis issue... it got the imagination pumping, and now i have all these ideas... i just wish i had time or money to do something about them LOL I love design, but i just dont have the resources to make things anymore.... i may get a new sewing machine with my tax return... i've only ever had 2nd hand machines, and i always blow them up... i kid you not! im up past 15 these days... i think im cursed... if its a new one, atleast it would be under warranty anyway, i think i want to have a play with steampunk...

My ideas... i think if i find a sleeveless top, and wear a blousey top underneath it, that should do for a top... and wear a long skirt... will look out for something, but i have some that may work... so aside from the top, all i need to find is a big loose belt, a sword or toy gun that looks kinda steampunk, and some sort of victorian looking jewellery... then do my hair up in a vintage look... I wish I had some time to convert a toy to look like a steampunk blunderbuss... or make a cool cutless... but i just dont have the time... it will be fun tho!!!

i like playing dressups too much...

A definition of steampunk from wikipedia:
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely usedÂusually the 19th century, and often Victorian era EnglandÂbut with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers (such as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine); these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality.

Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.

Some steampunk on film: hayao miyazaki films (love him! check out Howl's Moving Castle, NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky ), van helsing, doctor who (some eps), firefly (mal is awesome!), stardust, chitty chitty bang bang, wild wild west, the time machine (I love the 1960 film!), - there is so much more out there......... i wont tell you them all...

some deviations i admire which have a steampunk feel to them..

Share or get syphilis

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:55:59 PDT

I created

^in response to [link]

Go and read this article! [link]

Thankyou for all your favs, devwatching and comments. I love you for it, even if I can't always tell you how much!

Clubs:

^Let me know if i missed any... I have a terrible memory!! Some of these I may just watch, not belong to.. i forget LOL

.| a very EXCITED devious journal entry |.

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:13:24 PDT

Woohoo! the notebook arrived!!! *ash-bunny is doing a project where she sends a notebook around the world and gets different deviants to fill in a page... Australia is the first stop, and it arrived today! When I have filled in my page, I have to send it off to New Zealand - which is such a relief! Just over the back fence, so to say.. I still have no idea what I will be putting in my section!!! might to a collage, wack in some photos or a painting, and do some sketching around it or something... If it isnt complete crap, i will upload it here LOL

~GambielsPet and ~FyreLiLi arrive in less than 2 days! So freaking excited!!

I started a new account.. ~obsidianmusings - I decided I need to delete my blog with all my poems and stuff, but i want to keep them somewhere... I wont be updating it frequently, but yeay, I will be sharing... I have no pretences or illusions of the quality of my poems. Its about self expression, not being the next William Blake or Shelley. Its mostly free verse or haiku, but i will be putting up some short stories when I have had a chance to review them...

haha im so excited about the girls getting here... havent seen them since january!!!! long time not to see your best friends LOL and we are going to see Dreadnaught, Ba'lekor and a few other metal bands on saturday night! haha doing tequila shots first! its gonna be brilliant!!

I stole this random feature from =DianaCretu's journal.

There are some questions, and you search on dA for the word that is your answer to the questions. And then place the thumb as an answer to the question. Easy, huh?

1. the age I will be on my next birthday

2. a place I'd like to travel

3. my favorite place

4. my favourite object

5. my favourite food

6. my favourite animal

7. my favourite colour

10,000 pageviews and camera frustrations...

=obsidiantears83 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:14:13 PDT

Wow, I passed 10,000 pageviews!!! I tried to get a screenshot, but one moment it was 9981, and the next it was 10,038! I know, i know, its just a number.. but still, 10k is a pretty funky number..

The thing is, I think I am in a rut with my photography... ... I have the motivation, the inspiration, god, if i could just get screenshots of what I see I would be set. But I cant, and the other option is photography. But my camera is shite, there are only so many times I can take a shot before I realise its not going to turn out the way I visualise it. It is frustrating to be let down by technology. And to know there is a solution just out of your reach that you cant afford to grasp. I just have a 7 megapixel point-and-shoot - good for what it is, but not what i need. I cant afford the digital SLR I am lusting after (Its about 3rd on my prioritised list of things to buy over $100 - and I cant justify bumping it up the list when I need things like a new mattress etc). So, realistically, I dont think I can do much more about the rut until I upgrade my camera. I am stuck in the same routine - I get up, go to work, work my bum off for 10 hours, stagger home and do it all again. When I have the time, i try and get out on the weekends, but seriously, how many times can I photograph the aquarium, muesums, or the chinese gardens..

My camera doesnt handle darkness very well - at all really. When you are zoomed out, or it is printed to 4x6 it looks fine, but if you have a better resolution than that, it becomes grainy. I guess the graininess of my camera isnt as apparent when there is more light in the image. An example is this. It looks okay when zoomed out, but if you full view, you can really notice the difference. I've got all these shots I itch to take, but I never get the results. I cant even take decent photos inside because of it unless there is a lamp I can use.

My camera doesnt handle any movement at all - not even a milimetre. It screws up the entire shot. I mostly leave it in 'sports' mode now, and it combats a bit of this, but not enough that I am content. I bought a little tripod, but it was a cheaper one, and I need a good surface to sit it on. I am thinking of getting one of those gorrilapod ones that are flexible, see if I can experiment using those. There is no point of me getting a large tripod - I normally use my camera out and about, and its shit at portraits (I take better portraits on my mate Anna's camera LOL I have the added problem that I have FM and ME so my muscles spasm sometimes, and I always have issues holding my camera steady... like little microspasm thingees... its not always noticible, but i notice it does make a big difference with my camera. So instead I try and brace my camera against walls, benches, posts, whatever.

The macro setting needs to be an exact d...

My music, the fae and the interwebs

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:32:28 PDT

Wow, Im coming up to 10,000 page views! Less than 150 to go!!! If you are my 10,000th viewer, capture the screen and get a prize! I am thinking the prize may be a 1 month sub (depending on my purse) and a feature... so double check the top of this page, just in case

You know how I NEVER dream? No, I dont mean I dont remember dreaming, but that I dont sleep deep enough to reach REM sleep... So I dont dream...

BUT I did last night..

And it was so frickin weird.......

It was a murder mystery, and the victim as a faerie... but she had myspace and facebook, and to find the killer I had to delve into her online life. It was totally surreal, but real at the same time.. The world of faerie mixed in randomly with the world of drear mundania... the every day mixed in with the unbeleivable...

It makes me wish I didnt have to wake up, so I can find out who killed her and why.... and why the big clue had been hidden in her online persona..

I wish I was a writer so I could finish the story for myself...

I still have very limited access to the internet. I have neglected to reply to comments and favs in such a long time, and I do truly apoligise... I dont know if I should reply to comments or leave them hanging... I get to read most of them... Just cant reply. I am getting my computer fixed soon, and I will be back to my old tricks.... and you will then be sick to death of me!

My radio station, Triple J is doing the Hottest 100 Of All Time... If you love music, you should check it out.. Here was my top ten songs I nominated:

1. Forty-Six & 2 - Tool
2. Winter - Tori Amos
3. Windowpane - Opeth
4. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
5. Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
6.

Into The FireÂ Â Â Â Â Â Last.FMÂ Â Â Â Â Â TwitterÂ Â Â Â Â Â MyspaceÂ Â Â Â Â Â From a Whisper to a Scream

^Someone stole my art! He used it in a amatuerish manip, and then had the gumption to say "If you hadn't taken such a good picture I wouldn't have been able to use it."!! OMFG!! o_O I never gave permission to anyone to use this image. I never give permission on my artwork. It's art, it's my creative impulses made visible, and I would never give ownership rights to anyone else for it! I have a stock account for photos I am willing to share.. I got so fucking mad... I confronted him, sent him links to the TOS and the section on art theft in the FAQ, and reported it to dA. dA removed the image, but he put it up again, using a gold ring instead. The other images he credited are also by non-stock deviants He has been here for two months, and says he isnt an art thief. In his words:

"I would never do art theft, as I always alert the artist and give them credit for that specific pic, as well as the link to it in the comments area. I will ask more in the future but the issue with stock sometimes is that you dont have the pictue I want in the stock, and the picture inspired me to make said art piece is not stock."

He didn't seem to understand that that doesn't make it okay.. Art theft is art theft, even if it seems justified to the thief, it is still theft! I explained to him that he must ALWAYS have permission, and that if he cant find the stock he wants he can find a stock artist who takes requests... he kind of did a verbal shrug of his sholders...I looked in his gallery and he has so many pieces that use artworks as stock resources... Im not listing his username here, and I hid the comments, as I dont want to create drama. But I am wondering if I should let the other artists know, or if that is creating drama.. but if he stole their art too, wouldnt they want to know?

It makes me mad, but at the same time, it makes me depressed. deviantART is a terrific art community! But I might have to start watermarking. I only found out about this occurance cos he sent me a message... If he hadn't, I would never have known. I've had requests for people to use my art on websites before as well, I always say no. And I wonder how many other websites have just gone ahead and ripped them. I hate watermarks! I feel it detracts from the overall experience of an artwork... but I may have to give in. I know I am no hotshot artist.. My art is just a smiggen above the average.... but I hate the fact that my sharing images here means someone has taken advantage of my not watermarking my work. I do watermark it everywhere else online... I think it may be time to start doing it here too... :sigh:

Other news... My employer has asked that I create some wallpapers for some new touchscreen computers we are donating to a Not-For-Profit client... They need to be nature themed, and I have to watermark them with our logo... Im getting excited!! I love creating wallpapers!! I love the creative process, and seeing the end result and thinking "I created this!". And yes, I always sign my initials in there somewhere, in a way that isnt always obvious to the naked eye... Im going to have fun on this project!! My changing wallpapers are kind of imfamous around the office... I get bored and create a new one.. Although they are all too bold for a Not-For-Profit.. So no red or black... LOL Will probably be a pale green scheme.. I am also in the planning stages of designing a new website for our software company... This time I am designing it on my own without any input. For the consulting website I was give concepts, and I hate the result... this time i am going to do my thing, then show them some samples... unless they interrupt and start giving "ideas" (read orders *rolls eyes*). Wish me luck!! *rubs hands together in anticipation*

Morbid Angel are playing in Sydney next week... I really want to go....... But tickets are $65 and I have no one to go with... but they are one of my fav band...

the meh, the bleh, the sigh, the highs

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:43:51 PDT

Its been a weird couple of weeksÂ a cross between bleh, meh, *sob*, *sigh* and yeays. But I really couldnÂt give you a percentage of those, as each minute, day, hour and week have just run into each other. So, instead, I will run backwardsÂ see what I can come up with! Only the first two are negativeÂ skim them if you need to LOL

My cuz, Zane, is in hospital on suicide watch after slashing his throat. He is more like my bro than my cuz, we have always been close, and I am one of the few people left he can confide in. However, I was sick and I didnÂt give much input when he was talking to me on Friday.. it hurt to talk and the pain was making my head fuzzy.. but I vaguely remember him talking about it, but I was so out of it I guess I wasnÂt very good at dissuading him. :Â( I get so tired.. its like nothing I say makes any difference anymore.. he knows I love him, and how much, but everything else gets him down. His ex wont let him see his son, he doesnÂt have any real friends anymore and doesnÂt know how to make new ones, and thinks everyone thinks he is a freak cos of his scaring. I hate it.. I wish people would look beneath the surface. He is one of the sweetest people I knowÂ but they just see the scars and tattoos and write him off. He feels like there isnÂt much worth living for any more, and he is just so lost.. I am not defending him or his actions Â or blaming them solely on his illnesses or whatever. But I wish he didnÂt feel so empty and alone.. I wish I lived closer so I could go and give him a hug when he needs oneÂ I wish I could have done something about it on Friday. I don't know what is going onÂ I don't know how bad it is, just that they found him before he bled outÂ IÂm just so tiredÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ they talk about how the suicidal need help and councelling, but the support person needs just as muchÂ because you end up shovelling all that crap and you end up covered in it yourself. I don't know what to do any more, and I feel nothing I say makes a difference. Everyone else has written him off, and I just can't do it.. so instead, I drop everything to talk to him when he calls, despite my own dramas, and just try and be supportive. IÂve been in contact with people like Beyond Blue, Headspace, SANE and all the other support organisations for depression and mental health, read all the info on being a support person, but it just says all the things I am already doing. I wish it was easy, I wish I didnÂt feel so helpless, I wish he could get better.. but none of those things ever happen.. god I wish I wasnÂt sick on Friday so I could have been more supporting, convincing etcÂ I think I might have brushed him off cos I couldnÂt talkÂ

So I was sick.. as mentioned. I had an allergic reation to a facecreamÂ it built up over 2 weeks.. no symptoms then kapow!! I had a rash that came up within an hour (after 12 hours from the last cream application!). I went straight to a doctor, they told me to use calamine lotion and take some ZyrtecÂ which I did.. but the next day my face and chest were covered in a red angry rash Â it stung, itched and achedÂ. I couldnÂt speak properly, and moving any muscle on my face hurt like hell! It wasnÂt a normal rash, so I had to wait to see a specialist, but eventually just got given a steroid cream and sent home.. Saturday I woke up and my face had ballooned out to double the size! Scary as shit! Back to the Emergency ward! I then got given steroids, told to up the Zyrtec and keep using the creamÂ It took days to come back downÂ now im back at work and relatively back to normalÂ 2.5 hours at the doctors, 11 hours at the Emergency wardÂ I wont tell you how much I spent on taxis and medication as I am scared to add it up. I am so glad Australia has Bulk Billing medical options, because I couldnÂt afford to pay for 4 doctor consultations otherwise!

So, me being so out of it meant I missed the 2nd Aussie devMeet! *wails* I was really really looking forward to it! The first one I was at work, and couldnÂt go (stupid CeBIT!) and then I missed...

12May: ME/CFS & FM International Awareness Day

=obsidiantears83 — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:08:21 PDT

Jacq has multiple personalities...

And the day comes around again.... May 12 is the International Day of Awareness for Invisible Illnesses such as Myalgic Encephalitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM). Its a day when we hope the Normals - those without these sometimes debilitating illnesses - take notice of ME and FM and become more accepting and aware of them. Over the years I have been part of many campaigns for awareness, been to parties,, fundraisers, created and distributed posters, ribbons etc. This year I am just too damn tired.. So, instead, I am blogging everywhere, and hoping someone who would not otherwise know about these illnesses might stumble upon my post and take something away with them.. Will you?

I'm going to give you some basic info on the conditions - I warn you that I have brain fog at the moment, so it is a bit scrambled... but I donÂt have time to find a decent blurb on both of these conditions... If you are interested, or know someone with ME/CFS or FM, I suggest you contact your local support group or ME/CFS and/or FM association. FM and ME/CFS are both debilitating illnesses which affect those with them in a number of varied ways. There are a LOT of associated symptoms, but the main ones tend to revolve around pain, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction (memory, brain fog etc). Commonly those with ME/CFS have more serious symptoms revolving around fatigue and sleep dysfunction, and those with FM tend to have more serious symptoms that revolve around muscular pain. Just saying ME/CFS is more fatigue than pain and FM is visa versa is too broad a generalisation. It is impossible for me to write a detailed list of symptoms for each condition - there are so many, and not every sufferer has every symptom, or the same severity of each symptom. Even me, my brother and my mother are all different. I have a double whammy - my pain and fatigue symptoms are always fighting to see who is more prominent - these days the fatigue is winning, but that is because I work full time and cant give in and sleep for a few months..

How you get it
There are three main triggers for ME/CFS and FM. Traumatic (accidents, personal upheaval like a divorce or bereavement etc) environmental (chemical exposure (factories, hair dresser chemicals etc)), or viruses (Glandular Fever, Ross River Fever, Dengue Fever etc). Some people have a triggering event and they gradually decent into ill health. Others, like me, were catapulted. I know so many people around the world with these conditions (I have both) who have told me their personal stories of ME/CFS and FM. I know people, like me who had accidents, others who had traumatic divorces, exposed to chemicals by living near factories, or long term exposure to hair dressing chemicals etc, others who had Glandular Fever, Ross River etc. Its never fun. Basically, there is a major stress on your body which triggers the illness. There are so many theories about why some people get it, and not others. I personally think there are a number.

Issues with labelling
The names Myalgic Encephalitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can be interchangeable, and are used in different countries. If you are talking to someone from the UK they will mostly use ME, in Australia CFS is most predominant. IÂve started using Myalgic Encephalitis because it doesnÂt have so many connotations in the public mindset. Because a lot of connotations are wrapped up in the myths of ME/CFS. When it started having more diagnoses (it takes a while for doctors to be comfortable with diagnosing conditions), it picked up the name of Yuppie Flu - simply because when you work too hard - do a 40-50 hour week like I do, you are pushing your body to the outer limits of its capabilities. Add a debilitating illness, and you can end up crashing... system meltdown, system malfunction... it hits you like sledge hammer and it takes a while to recover. The only thing you can do is drop everything and try and recover.. Listen to your body and take it easy. The thing is, ME isnÂt like cancer or a broken leg. It isn;t outwardly visible. You donÂt have a cast on your leg, or start loosing hair from chemo. Instead, you curl up in bed, or on a chair...

mexico

=obsidiantears83 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:56:00 PDT

Jacq has multiple personalities...

i has da interwebs! Mr L finally followed it up with bigpond, and they replaced the usb tab! awesome! I havent had net access at home since october........ I have to say tho, seeing as I have been sitting here for 2 hours now, i wont be obsessive like i used to be! until i get a decent office chair!! this one is killing my already shot back *rolls eyes*

This is the most amazing deviation.. just blew me away.....

My best friend, ~GambielsPet and I are planning a trip to mexico in 2014.. we're getting all excited! originally was just cos we are both obsessed with DÃa de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) but now we are expanding out plans so we can take in more sights... so my question is, knowing i am an archaeologist, obsessed with cultures, and love art and photography, dfo you know of any things we should plan to do? we are on a budget, but its not as expensive as touring europe or america, and we have 5 years to save, so it should be good! plus, we should have learnt the language by then LOL so far all i know is Buenos Dias

oh, XO and ADD, we should try and meet up when i have a stop over somewhere in the US...

im getting EXCITED!!! i know its five yrs away, but that just means i can actually afford it LOL and we are doing it when linda is 30.. i will be 31 by then, so that doesnt quite have the same effect for me, but its still awesomeness incarnate! I think we should plan a road trip for when i turn 30 LOL see more of this wonderful country of ours.. australia is so beautiful.. i miss the roadtrips now i work full time..

Deviations related to DÃa de los Muertos

I need help... I just found out that Frances' going away party on Saturday is themed. Have to go as a British person from fiction or history... And I dont have any money, or access to a sewing machine I do have 3 metres of red velvet, but no sewing machine, so i guess it gets saved for another time..

So, I need help brainstorming... I thought of a few... Anyone from Austen or other classic literature is out, because I cant afford to hire, and I couldnt hand sew something that detailed, in such a short amount of time. I recently bought black lace sleeves (kinda like fingerless gloves - like these but lace not mesh), which I can use. I have a lace over dress tunic thing. Lots of black skirts, of various lengths.. I have a long sleeve black lace blouse too. I dont have any dresses, and my red clothes are too main stream. I cant think of any british female metal or punk musicians, so that is out. I dont have a corset, so that knocks Kate Beckinsale as a Gypsy (van helsing) out of the running.

Here is some i thought of - for some reason, they are all mad women..

Lady MacBeth (Shakespeare's MacBeth) = buy a fake knife, stain my hands red... I could goth it up, would have most of the clothes..
Bellatrix LeStrange (Harry Potter) = she looks fairly gothy... just need to carve a wand and frizz my hair.. plus, Helena Bonham Carter is fricking awesomeness incarnate!
Drusilla (Buffy/Angel) = she is too skinny, but she has lots of different outfits. plus she is awesome!

Other thoughts

A faerie from Brian Froud's art
A character from Piers Plowman
Another Shakespeare character
A women in a poem (like La Belle Dame Sans Merci)
Branwen or another figure from Welsh (etc) myth, Deirdre of the Sorrows (irish)
Irish/Celtic deities - Danu, Epona, etc
A pictish warrior - blue tattoos - but would have to show too much flesh... which isnt a good idea when you are my size LOL

You can see why i need help.. It needs to be a strong female (no pushovers), that can look attractive (I dont want to look dowdy), and has an easy costume to make, or can be reinterpreted to suit what I own. Any suggestions?

Features:

An Elaborate Dance by =rachapunk

I wish I could just say yeay, they like me, but I am too much of a pessimist..

Hi Everyone!! I thought it was about time I update my journal

So, news... deviantART-wise..
It was Sid's 18th birthday earlier, so I did a feature, and gave him a sub for his birthday. We've been friends for years, but obviously, living on the other side of the world, this is the first time I have given him a pressie... he hasnt had a sub before, yet is quite active here... and i wanted him to be able to play with css and all the other pretty little things you can do with a sub!! so now he is getting old, he just go into the undergrad course he wanted, at a fantastic university (or college, or whatever you backward americans call it LOL) and continues to take amazing photos. So i want to take the time to thank him for his friendship, praise his photography, and wish him all the luck and love in the world! Have fun at uni, mate!!
Here is my fave of his artworks... check out the rest of *rachapunk's gallery!!

It's two of my best friend's birthday tomorrow!! So I thought I would do a quick feature of their work... cos I them so much!!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!

THE GOSS
Wow, things have been busy... My brain is so full right now... But at the same time all the thoughts are wispy and hard to focus on. Welcome to the world of someone with FM and/or ME/CFS/CFIDS!! *rolls eyes* It's not my imagination either. I thought I was getting more scatterbrained - I don't have blonde moments anymore, nor blonde days, weeks or months - now, I have blonde eras!!! It's really scary, because I can't trust my mind any more. My stress levels are through the roof at work, I am discontent with my life in Sydney, I suffer from severe insomnia - I don't sleep of a night, so I spend all weekend catching up on that sleep. And it means my cognitive functions are muddled... I'm just so scatterbrained and ditzy these days... I also am never sure if my memories are something that happened, or I was just thinking of. You will be sceptical, I know. But unless you have a bad memory, you can't really comprehend.. ItÂs so fucking scary to not know what is real and what isn't!! Like when my brother and his girlfriend of seven years got engaged a few months ago... Mum told me on the Saturday, but I had just woken up, so I was fuzzy. But I remember being excited, and telling my housemates.. But then I didnÂt hear from Matty, so I thought, maybe I just thought it, maybe it didnÂt happen... I spent a week not knowing what was up and what was down.. I couldn't just go ask him, cos he is high strung - and sensitive on the issue because everyone has been asking him for years when he would propose.. So I couldnÂt ask him in case it was just a false memory and he would chuck a shit and sulk... He is good at that LOL Anyway, it turns out he had proposed, but they had only told mum, no one else.. (She can never keep a secret!) - That event perfectly illustrates how fuddled I get these days. I thought maybe I was just being sensitive, maybe people hadnÂt noticed. But I asked my mum, and my best friend Linda, and they both agreed I have gotten worse in the last year. I getting used to people thinking I am strange.. Matty, Lillian and Greg all have a nervous WTF giggle when I say something completely random - I think that is the problem - I don't censor my random thoughts any more. I canÂt. Only Mum, Bons and Lindy take it all in stride. I think its cos they understand.. And I get distracted, like I have now. Because I just realised I had meant to talk about my last 2 weeks offline, and instead I am talking about living with FM and ME and how scatterbrained I have gotten... I've just been working so hard at work, without any breaks, for so long... And I have been doing more and more overtime... And my insomnia is getting worse and worse... Which means my FM and ME symptoms are getting more and more apparent.. Getting stronger, effecting me more, and are more visible to those who don't know that I have these illnesses. I think I am beginning to agree with my mother.. I need to take off six months and rejuvenate. I need to sleep like a log for a month, and slowly get my patterns back to normal... Take time to appreciate life. Because at the moment, I am just going through the motions. I don't know how it is 2009 already!! It seems like only yesterday it was 2007. Maybe it is just age, the blurring of time, it just rushes by.. I turned 25 a week ago. I suddenly realised that I am not in my early twenties any more. That everyone else around me is getting their lives under control, and mine is sliding away. Back in uni I was the mature one, the one who had all my shit together, I had all these goals, these plans, and look where I am now. Working a job outside my area of expertise, without the mental stimulus that I crave, I have no life because I work so much that when I get home I just want to c...

Birthday | Holiday | New Look

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:49:33 PST

So I am really loving the new dA layout... I didnt at first, but you know me, i am happy as a baby in a lingerie store when i can customise things the way i want to!! It also means I dont feel i need to do a new css design straight away... I mean, if anyone feels the urge to create something for me, i wont say no but its not a pressing issue any more... I can store links and stamps and info on my profile, so it means I dont need to take up too much space on my journal any more

2008 Rundown:
I've been doing the reading challenge for 2008 - i chose 150 books because i knew i would knock over the standard 50 book challenge in months. And I passed that by a good many books. you can find my list at my forum The World of Words [link]
my top ten list of books and authors can be found at Into The Fire[link]
my top ten list of new releases and over all faves for 2008 can be found at Into The Fire [link] and last.FM [link]

There will be more, but i will probably update that in the New Year... I am flying home for the holiday season tomorrow arvo! I havent been home for christmas since 2005... and havent been home for more than three days since 2005, so it is a well earned journey! I have been working my arse off for the last year and a half, and i havent ever had more than a day off in a row (hospital stays dont count!) and i have been working about 50 hours a week and nearly killing myself with exhaustion... i will be enjoying my holidays!!! *sigh* I am also having a birthday party this weekend. Its a Monster Mash theme, and everyone has to come in costume... i will be posting photos! if any are good, they will be uploaded to this account, mediocre ones to my stock account, and happysnaps I will upload to flickr and share a link. I'm dyeing my hair too... should be good! Every Death must have a Binky, and I will introduce you to mine when i share the snaps!

I wont be doing any features until the New Year. However, if you want to do some random surfing, you can check out my watchers - [link] - they are a lovely bunch of deviants, and its worth playing spin the bottle and checking out their work I love you guys! I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season, and best of luck for the New Year!

My online hauntings...
The World of Words Int...

mish

=obsidiantears83 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:28:45 PST

Hello my lovelies!! How is everyone going?! I'm sorry I have been so slack about replying to messages.. I read most of them, but i just seem to be inundated these days... I still dont have the internet on at home (but my new computer kicks arse!) so i have to check messages at work... which means doing so in my non-existant lunchbreak *rolls eyes* So yeah, i got my new computer finally. the screen is massive - i love it! But i am so used to using dual screens these days... so i am thinking of buying a second screen... not as large as the other (its like 20 something inches...) but something i can use to put docks and random applications.. work spoiled me... i just cant put up with just one screen anymore plus I downloaded the newest version of Gimp, and its more figity than the version I used before... if i could just dump the docks in another screen i wouldnt have so many problems finding them again LOL

I've rediscovered my artjournal... I've been painting a lot more too... and sketching like crazy... I'll let you know when i upload any of it... but to tide you over, here is my favourite sketch I have done recently..

I got frustrated with being absolutely INUNDATED with favourites on my stamps... It was staggering... I'd log in after an hour and see even more favs... to the point that people were overlooking my art for my stamps... stamps are FUN! and i like fun! but at the same time, i am at deviantART for the ART so it was annoying that the stamp favs were drowning out the ones that actually matter to me. So, i started a new account, ~obsidianstamps for my stamps and other downloadables! so wallpapers, avatars etc as well as stamps. Despite editing all my stamps up at the moment to link to the others and asking for no favs, I was still getting them. I find it hilarious that I have edited my stamps to now have "dont fav" in the title, as well as linking in the text, putting them in scraps, and i am STILL getting them fav'd. People just dont bother to read!! I used to have no issues with peeps faving and running.. no dramas you know. but after this little escapade I can truly see why it must be so frustrating to some of the artists here who have such a large following... I'm not going to get on the band wagon, because I still think it is a great indicator of what people like about things.. but damn, it gets exhausting trying to keep up with it all!! hence me starting a new account LOL okay, the linky is ~obsidianstamps and the stamps there at the moment are:

Club | Feature | Watchers | Looking for CSS

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:23:42 PST

My Watchers!! why dont you play spin the bottle, and go and check some out

check out my gallery for more of my art....

[link]
She shows her art and photography at: [link]
She blogs at: [link]
She shows what she has been listening to at: [link]
She tweets at: [link]
She randomly visits her myspace at: [link]
She uploads stock at: [link]

Come and check out her gallery at: [link]

so, life, eh?

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:49:11 PDT

So i have been offline for a LONG time.. its cos everything has been so busy, and by the end of the day I would rather curl up with a book that turn on my computer.. i just have too many committments, pulling me every which way.. I just dont have enough spoons to spread around (google spoon theory or bydls if you dont know about spoons)so I have to limit things.. if you ever need to contact me urgently (as if?) leave a message on my myspace, or my blog. I get emails about those so can go check them My best friend ~FyreLiLi visited me in sydney last weekend, so i have uploaded some of those photos, may upload more later.. but now, its nearly midnight, and i have to get up for work in 6.5 hours.. so i had better keep this short! I've deleted all my deviations in my dev watch - i was up to 12000 and we all know i would never get through them all! If there is anything in particular you have uploaded that you think i might like, leave me a link or send me a comment, and i can check it out next time i am online. If you want to keep up to date on me, i will be posting on my blog more than I will here ;-p

I hope everyone is well and life is great!

OBSIDIANTEARS83

A random selection of my work...

Hi Everyone!

I havenÂt been here much lately Â I am trying to scale back my internet usage.. (yeah, like that is ever gonna happen!) and dA has been one of the casualties. Thankyou for all the pageviews! I passed 5000 views last week! I want to thank everyone who has favourited and commented on my work. I havenÂt been able to keep up with them all, and I hate that I havenÂt been able to send individual thankyou notes to everyone like I used to. I think I need to just clear out my message centre and start fresh! So what does everyone think about V6? I am cursing it! The message centre is too bulky and convoluted. I am plauged with brain fog, and its just too convoluted for my poor addled brain. And the navigation menu at the top of the page is annoying. But its not like they will just switch back on my sayso, so I wont bother whinging about it.

In other news, I have restarted my blogspot account. If you use blogger, can you leave a link? I am trying to make a navigation panel so I can quickly access things there.. I would love to keep in touch LOL

Also, I have started an account at RedBubble.com just for my better photography. My dA gallery is so large and has a lot of variety, so I thought I would start a RB account dedicated solely to my photography. I only started this week, but I already have had such a lovely response! If you use RedBubble, please let me know, so I can add you as a friend!

Hmm other newsÂ I have started lessons in Vietnamese!! They have such a interesting and prolific archaeology scene in Vietnam, but they only publish in Vietnamese, so English-speakers cannot access their articles and reports. When I was writing my thesis, I came across references to parallel artefact behaviours, but they were always just passing mentions in a badly translated text. So I have decided to take matters in my own hands, and learn to read and write Vietnamese. I also want to learn Thai Â which makes sense when I plan to do post grad studies in Thai archaeology! But that isnÂt as urgent Â I think I will just start out using a cd/book set from a bookstore. The Vietnamese tho, I am seeing a tutor for. She knows I am more interested in being able to read/write than I am in speaking it. Its very complicated tho. Some of the letters are pronounced completely different from what I am used to, and there are diacritics and tone that complete change the way you say a vowel. I wonder what I am getting myself into!! I couldnÂt go something easy like start studying German or Anglo Saxon again Â no! I had to go and start learning a lanuage that is completely removed from the three languages I have studied in the pass (English, German, and Anglo Saxon/Old English, which is like a cross between modern English and German). So I have different grammar, sentence structure, letters, sounds Â everything! I am not sure how long I will take lessons for. Its costing me $25 for a 2hr lesson.. I might just get the basics, then start working on my own.. I was getting okay at it Â I actually said some sentences, and knew what I was saying! Offcourse, that was last week, and I cant remember them any more LOL Except ÂToiÂ Â its like I or Me Â so I was saying things like ÂI buy riceÂ and stuff. Oh and ÂMaÂ means Ghost Anyway, I have my next lesson in two days.. fun times

So how is everyone?!

OBSIDIANTEARS83

A random selection of my work...

ARE YOU MY 5,000TH VISITOR??
If you were, or were close, can you please take a screenshot for me?

Stock Request
I'm doing a dracula themed skin for my forum... It would be based entirely on Bram Stoker's book, and I am thinking of having him climbing down the tower in Transilvania, and then images from the bit based in England - with a night theme, dark and spooky like the book.. (ie not all blood and gore, although that is fun too, but not really true to the original...) anyway, if you have any suggestions, or come across any stock you think might suit, please let me know! broken masonary, tall castle towers, a guy climbing like spider man, damsel in white bat against the moon etc... IF YOU KNOW OF SUITABLE STOCK CAN YOU PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

OMG I had the most brilliantest holiday to townsville.... the gig was fucking mindblowing! I have photos! Some of them are dA worthy - but i have to download them to my laptop to check. I didnt want to come back to sydney,..... i've only been home 24 hours, and i want to go back......................

friends, please check my LJ account in the next 24-48 hours for a full blow-by-blow recount (if you dont have it, wanna read it, msg me)

OBSIDIANTEARS83

A random selection of my work...

I'm thinking of doing a dracula themed skin for my forum... What do you think? It would be based entirely on Bram Stoker's book, and I am thinking of having him climbing down the tower in Transilvania, and then images from the bit based in England - with anight theme, dark and spooky like the book.. (ie not all blood and gore, although that is fun too, but not really true to the original...) anyway, if you have any suggestions, or come across any stock you think might suit, please let me know!

I got tagged by =VelvetMist and as this is the first time i got tagged, i thought what the heck

Rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Tags should write a journal of these facts.
4. At the end post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named.
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged.

1. I'm an archaeologist, with a focus on Thai prehistory, metallurgy, weaponry and warfare Â all of which I find absolutely fascinating!

2. I cannot get through the workday without drinking a can of V Â if I donÂt have that energy drink I canÂt keep my eyes openÂ IÂve only succeeded twice in 10 monthsÂ I work a 50 hour week, and it bloody well near kills me *sigh*

3. I used to work for Greenpeace.

4. I am addicted to chilli!!!!

5. We breed wolfhounds

6. IÂm wearing a sword pendant at the moment. I loves it! It has 3 gargoyle beasts Â the one facing forward has its mouth open, and the tang of the blade is actually its tounge! And the 2 hilt guards are the tounges of the other two beasts. Here is a dodgy pic from my camera phone:

the shop is Le Cabinet des Curiosities in Enmore, and my new favourite place to shop in Sydney...

7. I am a bibliophile. I am totally addicted to books, obsessed with reading, and go not-not-so-quietly insane if I have nothing to read! I am reading about 8 books at the moment, and I am going to buy more tonight. My favourite shop is Galaxy on York Sreet, and I have SOOOOOO much trouble choosing just two books a fortnight *sigh* I need a magic credit card Â and I would buy practically everything in that store, and then go next door and take out AbbeyÂs too

8. IÂm a metal chickie, and I miss going to gigsÂ. I am always looking for new music, so please recommend some metal or industrial sounds for me to follow up!

Tagged:

Warning: Firefly Nerd!
I finally heard back from EzyDVD! They FINALLY have my special collector's tin boxset edition of firefly! The saga started a month ago - when I went into the store, they only had one dented tin. So i prepaid to order a new one in. They said it would be in the following tuesday, then the thursday, then i got a text and went in again... and they did have the boxset, but not the collectors tin... bungled that one, so they apologised, and told me to wait AGAIN until the order came through... I rang again on thursday because I hadnt heard from them for nearly 2 weeks, and the guy said he would pass on a message... anyway, I got a text today saying it was in... Im gonna be so pissed if I get all the way to the store after work on thursday and they have fucked up again... if i had just ordered it, it wouldnt be the end of the world, but i forked out money in advance a month ago, and still havent recieved my purchased item... but yeay! hopefully i will be having a firefly marathon soon...

Update: I NOW HAVE A PERSONALISED AUTOGRAPH FROM CAPTAIN TIGHTPANTS! AKA Mal AKA Nathan Fillion from Firefly and Serentiy

Other fun stuff, I am going shopping in Newtown with Bec this weekend I've not bought a new outfit in my entire ten months in my current job! I am raking in the dough (compared to the dole LOL) yet I dont have time to spend it... I work a 50 hour week, and weekends is mostly spent sleeping or lazing around... so its about bloody time that I invest in some new gladrags! Im going to townsville for a holiday next month, and we are seeing Cog and Melodyssey live,.... and i want to wear something new LOL So Newtown it is! its the goth/boho/hippie subburb in Sydney - I love that place! but i havent had a chance to explore it much... a couple of nights on the town, some time on the streets campaigning for Greenpeace, and a couple of fantastic meals... so now i want to explore the shops! its gonna be terrific! And we are grabbing Thai afterwards... its my favourite food, so i am drooling just thinking of it LOL

I've gone through and deleted all messages - I do apoligise, but I havent had a chance to keep up with them, so they are hideously out of date... I still want to follow up with the last few months of fav messages etc, but I mostly check this at work, and I am so busy i rarely have time to do more than make a few comments....

Anyway, please have a wander through my gallery - I have been uploading some different stuff the last few weeks, so please actually look at my gallery rather than just glancing at my profile page...

OBSIDIANTEARS83

A random selection of my work...

so, stuff, eh?

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:25:12 PDT

Hmmm big news... can't thing of any But i felt like writing something LOL I still really really recommend you check out:

RACHAPUNK

As he is doing some amazing photography at the moment.

^This one is my absolute favourite!

Please check his Gallery - there are so many gems to find!!

Other news is I have been asked to create the logo and imaging for a new cutting edge project between our company and a leading research/developer. I can't give any more information than that for confidentiality reasons, but it is quite exciting Also, I visited =VelvetMist again this weekend, but once again, i forgot to play with my camera LOL its strange, because we are both snap happy people oh yeah, and i have a massive black eye... i need to buy more concealer, because foundation just ain't doing the job!!

um other news - I've visiting Townsville next month! Im getting excited... but because I need to buy my tickets, I havent applied for leave yet.. I need to wait for the money I just transferred to be available before I can use it. Once i have my tickets quote on the day I plan to buy, i am approaching my boss. So cross fingers! I dont think there should be a problem - I only want one day off! but I have been getting migraines a lot lately, so I've been using my sick leave... i hope they dont have a problem with it! It has to be that weekend, because Sami and i are going to see Cog play - their support act is Melodyssey - a terrific brissie band - I like them a million times better than Cog - they are amazing live! I plan to buy merchandise this time Also, and I say this with trepidation, I am meeting up with Mr G - Im just gonna call him that - those in the know, know LOL And no, I donÂt mean that Mr G!! (Did you here they are exporting Summerheights High to America!! ) Anyway, G and I have been in contact a lot since I left Townsville - he was going with my friend before I acted, and he thought I wasnt interested - a charade I worked hard at for about 8 months because he was with my close friend. That is one of my strongest rules - they werent serious, but it's still part of my personal standard, and I believe strongly in standing by my own integrity. So I pretended I wasnt interested, even though both my friend and him were trying to find out (yes, she was in on it - it was a casual relationship they had LOL); anyway, they stopped seeing each other, and that was about the time that both Mr G and I left Townsville. He went to work in the mines, and I moved to Sydney for an archaeological dig. But then the phone calls and texts started.. So the last 10 months or so we have been talking a lot.. both flirting, emotional crap and just friend stuff - we've always gotten along, thatÂs the problem! LOL so now I will be seeing him in a month and donÂt know how to act.. He is all excited, he was going to visit me, but went back to uni and couldnÂt afford it. I'm a sceptic though. There is a difference between flirting and reality. I expect him to be fully in the 'friend' box, but I'm not...

Artist Feature: Rachapunk

=obsidiantears83 — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:28:50 PDT

Okay, first of all, I know my journal code is completely fucked. I need to find some time and create my own, I think. The scrolly box thing isnt working properly, and I have yet to spend time to bother fixing the code.. however, if I dont use the srcolly box, my journal takes up too much space... so I need to pencil in some time to fix this shit i guess..

RACHAPUNK

I thought this time, instead of doing a handful of features from different people, I would do an artist feature. My friend ~rachapunk has been taking some amazing photos lately. And I wanted to share some of them with you. I met him online about two years ago - we seem to have infiltrated each others haunts by now, and dA is something we had in common before we started hanging out ~rachapunk is a 17 year old guy who lives in America, but wishes he could move to Canada or Sweden (he is obsessed with all things Skandi!). He takes some AMAZING photos, and has great taste in music LOL I could tell you lots of random stuff about him, but I think I will let his deviations speak for me... They are a lot more eloquent

^This one is my absolute favourite!

Please check his Gallery - there are so many gems to find!!

OBSIDIANTEARS83

A random selection of my work...

PLEASE READ! Both Watchers and Watched!!

=obsidiantears83 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:08:56 PDT

Okay, I am a lazy litlle git. Or busy, or distracted, or exhausted... Whatever, it still means I had a couple hundred messages to reply to! People faving my work, adding me as a friend or making or replying to comments... I couldnt get through them all, and they just kept building up and up until I couldnt see anything else. You know when a task appears too big so you ignore it, or just try to chip away at it bit by bit? Well, it doesnt get smaller, it gets bigger!! So What I've done is I have painstakingly gone through and saved the relevent information of the "miscellaneous" section of the messages (favs,friends etc) from the last month - which is still about 100 or so! I've saved them, and all the rest I've had to delete (there were too bloody many!!!). In the next week or so I want to follow up on those messages. If your message was one of those I have have had to delete, I sincerly apologise, and your support is valued and appreciated. I've just been inundated in the last 4 or 5 months - I went from a bit over 1000 pageviews to nearly 4000 - and my favs/friends and comments have also climbed astronomically... So please forgive me for needing to take decisive action against the avalanche! Now they are basically under control, I think I can now keep up with the favs etc. you guys rock, thankyou SO much!!!

I wont have time this week, but soon I plan to do something similar with all the comments I havent replied to (more than 500). I just need to find a couple of hours to sit down and reply to the most recent ones... Anything older than March will probably be deleted. Again, this is saying nothing about the quality of the comments, and I greatly value your support, commentry, and responses to my own comments on your work! I just need to draw a line in the sand... There are still over 8000 deviations I havent seen yet, but I plan to just sift through those at my leisure

Once again, thankyou for ALL your support! I love yas!

Please visit my forum! A haunt for those enthralled by the written word... We have specialised messageboards for five different genres, two messageboards to share your own fiction and poetry, and an a cafe to just kick back and relax.

Features

Bottlebrush by *lozzalee

Rain Falls Down by ~Alharaca

Shoot the Hills by =jbryson

Passage to Freedom by ~

So my big news is that I am on a mission! To kickstart my forum LOL I was offline for so long last year that it started dying a slow death.. but that isnt an excuse any more, so I am going to start a bit of a PR campaign and try and breathe a new life into it. We just had a platform upgrade and I am planning on designing some new skins for it - the current project is for a Twlight themed skin after Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series (of which I am a devotee). The problem is that I spend most of my time here at dA and at facebook, and it is difficult to tear myself away... I have a 2008 book challenge - where we set a goal and try to read that many books - keeping a record of each book we read - my target is 150 books this year, and I am up to about 40. The general target is 50 LOL

Oh, and I plan to design my own css for this journal - I just have to find a couple of uninterrupted hours to play ith Macromedia Fireworks and CCS code

Do you like my new series?
The Jewels of the Sun

Please visit my forum! A haunt for those enthralled by the written word... We have specialised messageboards for five different genres, two messageboards to share your own fiction and poetry, and an a cafe to just kick back and relax.

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^A Beautiful Speck In The World by =VelvetMist

^Avenue of Trees by ~FyreLiLi

^Garden Kyo Alternative by :LlamaMafia:

^Yck Spider 1 by ~GambielsPet

^Untitled by ~Alharaca

^Past on the paper by =frostmaster

^anxiety by *

some features

=obsidiantears83 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:05:44 PDT

I dont really have any news, I just thought it was time to update my journal here I finally scrapped up enough cash to purchase a new dA subscription, i was going bonkers without it!! I've also uploaded some of my recent submissions as prints - mostly the macros, as the quality of the shots are so clear. And no, I dont expect to make any money out of it LOL it was just a total act of randomness... my forum The World of Words is up and running again, and I plan to make a Twilight skin - based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, of which i have become an obsessee... Come and join us if you are into reading or writting!

Some recent deviations:

I've been playing with macro!! The Whorl Beauty series was taken at Hartman's Park in Queensland, and the Jewels of the Sun series was taken at Crows Nest National Park, which is a few kilometres away.

And my most recent ones taken in Sydney:

I've also recently submitted some written pieces:
The Downward Spiral
The Curlew
New Canvas

My stock account:

Features

These are brand new deviations I came across today and loved:

^Follow by ~Pirhi

My subscription runs out in two days... and I am broke... so pretty journal skin disappears, along with all the other things I love about beeing subscribed. If someone loves me, please donate a subscription to me and I will love you forever! otherwise, i am going to save some money and put it on my credit card, so it may take a while LOL

I just got back to sydney after a gorgeous trip home to the farm... A hellish 12 hour endevour, as my flight was cancelled and I had to kick around in the Brisbane airport for 4 hours, then the depature gate kept being moved, and the plane was delayed... fun times.... on my week visiting my folks, I met my puppy, who I have named Akasha, as she moves sinuously like Akasha in the QOTD film. She moves her head, and it ripples through her body, all the way to her tail. she is such a cutie! And i miss her already.. but it will be a while until i can (a) afford to move and (b) find a house in sydney where we can live, so she is staying with my folks for an indefinate period of time. I have many many photos to tide me over though LOL I will sift through them and see if there are any worthy of dA - they are mosly happysnaps - abiet arty happysnapps

~GambielsPet (Lindy) and ~FyreLiLi (Lil) and I went to 2 national parks on a photo frenzy... I got some REALLY good shots... will upload them over the next couple of weeks or so... the moth ones blew my mind! I was having fun with my "super macro" setting... those and the water droplets are definately being uploaded... I'm also going to be the administrator for ~GambielsPet as Linda doesnt have access to the web these days.. she has given me some sketches to scan, as well as some photos to upload...

No other news really... I'm broke, and lusting after a decent SLR camera... but what is new LOL

Here is a great article I came across about PNG files and transparency - its very indepth and informative - anyone into design should check it out (unless they already know everything ) [link]

I've started up a stock account to upload my hundreds of photos to.. i do plan to upload my landscapes, city scapes, architecture and nature shots etc as stock, as well as a numerous amount of textures and backgrounds etc but it is slow going, so please be patient with me... Currently there are shots of Waverly Cemetery, the Chinese Gardens, Koi (chinese fish), the cute homeless bunny I have dubbed Charlie, and possibly some shots of ravens, but i cant remember if I uploaded those yet LOL also some backgrounds and textures...

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^All Over Red Rover III by =VelvetMist

hmmm news from my part of the world... Its been a very busy couple of weeks!! I visited =VelvetMist last weekend - which was terrific! I think we hung out for 8 or so hours watched one of my favourite movies "Brotherhood of the Wolf/Le Pacte des Loups", but spent the rest of the time yakking away LOL I was worried that meeting her in real life for the first time would be strange, but its like we've been friends for years - wait a minute, we _HAVE_ been friends for years LOL but you know what i mean.. so that went down well - i plan to visit again! just not sure when my other news is that my friend from highschool, sabrina, and her friend Azi, are staying with me for four nights. Her boyfriend lives in Sydney, and she is looking for work down here.. we all stayed up past midnight last night talking.. I havent been home for more than two days in about two years - 2006 I was doing my thesis, and then I got really sick, and 2007 I moved to sydney and started a job that is approx 50 hours a week - so the two visits I have had home have been over weekends.. All this means that I havent had time to hang out with my friends from school. And we all get too busy and caught up in the day to day of our own lives that we dont do more than the random text or call - email if we are ambitious LOL and can i just say Thank God for Facebook!! because its the only reason i am interacting with my friends so frequently LOL so anyways, am hanging out with sabrina for the next few days.. I am hoping she does find a job down here... then she can settle down with her fella and i can hang out with her all the time

My other news is I am getting a whole week off work over easter, and heading back to the farm for a holiday! Staying with Zane in Brisbane the wednesday night before mum picks me up. So hanging out at the farm for the public holidays - going into the closest town to hang out with Lilli - she is visiting her folks too LOL anyway, we will probably check out the national parks - because I havent been to them since I was 14.. taking my camera and taking LOTS of shots LOL And because of all the rain last month, if i am lucky, the Falls will be running, which I havent seen since i was 11... which = even MORE shots :laugh: and then i will hit Tmba and catch up with my mates... before flying back to good ol sydney town.. I realised I will have to take my laptop with me, because i will probably fill my 2gb memory card up within the first hour!! I have a 4 month old puppy waiting for me at home - I havent seen her in ages, so i plan to take a million shots - I have no idea when i will find a place in sydney where i can have a dog, so mum and dad are looking after her until that day. I also plan to take lots of shots of our deerhound and horses etc as well as landscapes to upload to my stock account ~obsidiantearstock as well as my general photography... only problem with taking so many photos is that it is such an effort to go through them and cull the average ones, and then upload the good ones... im so slack *hangs head in shame*

anyway, I guess the moral of the story is that my calendar is full at the moment LOL and that I already have a backlog of deviations to upload, and that I am taking even _more_ photos in the next couple of weeks *sigh*

the thing, aside from my "work work work then work some more" lifestyle, that I have been deliberating over the most, or maybe because of it is my career. I am an archaeology major, and I started honours at the begining of 2006. However, I got quite sick in the last half of the year, and was unable to complete it. It took me about 5 months to get over it, and when I did, I was offered a position on an archaeology dig in parramatta, which is why I moved to sydney. But archaeology of that nature (consulting companies) is seasonal in nature and it didnt last. so now i work for an IT consultancy company, and the lack of mental stimulation, and the separation from the academic and a...

OMG 3,00 Pageviews already!!

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:54:05 PST

Wow, I just passed 3,000 pageviews!!! I only passed 2,000 pageviews 2 months ago!!!!! That is a thousand views in just 2 months!! That is just beyond!!! I did take a screenshot, but it is on my laptop at home, so shall upload that when i get home So I would like to take the time to thank my regular watchers, all 45 of you!!, 14 of which started watching me this year!! You rock guys!!

I also need to apologise to every one who has written comments, or added faves, because I got bogged down with them - I have hundreds, and I just havent had the time to sit down and reply to you all - to those who I watch, I also havent had a chance to check out your recent deviations - I have about 6,100 sitting there waiting for me.. I'm working a fifty hour week, and I just dont get much time to sit and go through them all.. I mostly have time to skim through things, then head over to facebook, myspace, VF etc and skim them... I need an extra 6 hours in the day!! four to sleep, and two for the net!!

In other news, my stock account :devobsidianstearstock: is going well, I still have much much MUCH more I need to upload... only uploaded some random things, but I am now going to try and upload everything systematically... I have hundreds to upload, on a range of subects: cemeteries, chinese gardens, animals (cute homeless bunny who lives in my street), as well as birds (ravens, sparrows and seagulls so far), skyscapes, waterscapes, textures, backgrounds and australian landscapes. So far I have uploaded just 36! See below for some deviations created with my stock!!

Other news is I am going to visit =VelvetMist next weekend we've been friends for years, but this is the first time we have been able to meet up. Its gonna be a blast! even if we just sit around leering at johnny depp movies and flicking through luis royo books!! I've also been successful in applying for a whole week off from work for easter! The longest I have ever had off is 2 days LOL So i am going home, meeting my new puppy, and hanging out with family and friends - things I am sure some lucky people take for granted.. I realised I will have to take my laptop with me, because I will proberly fill my 2gb memory card a couple of times a day actionshots of puppies included!!

Here is a great article I came across about PNG files and transparency - its very indepth and informative - anyone into design should check it out (unless they already know everything ) [link]

PLEASE WATCH MY PAGE VIEW COUNT! NEARLY TO 3000!! please take a screenshot if you see it!

Yeay! I have been featured again! by

I've decided to create my own CSS journal, as I am not really into any of the ones shared here - just not really my thing.. So what sort of things should I think about having in it? what sort of image should I use for my header?? What sort of feel or colourscheme would you think suits me? Normally I would go for something quite dark, but I think maybe I should stick to a colourscheme more in keeping with the dA hue? not dA green, but something that would match it nicely... I was thinking of perhaps using "Storms A'Comin" which is a photo i took of the Ukrainian church I lived near when I first moved to Sydney..

It has that subdued colouring that matches the dA scheme, dont you think?? plus it is both my photography, and dark themed.. what do you think works best about particular journals at dA??? Any and all thoughts needed... There isnt any drama learning new code, and I have no problem experimenting.. I think my biggest thing is making it streamlined and user-friendly.. im not really happy with the current layout - its so hard to navigate LOL pretty tho LOL

I've started up a stock account to upload my hundreds of photos to.. i do plan to upload my landscapes, city scapes, architecture and nature shots etc as stock, as well as a numerous amount of textures and backgrounds etc but it is slow going, so please be patient with me...

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A random selection of my favourites...

^In The Flare by ~Gda21yo

^Roswell by ~sativah

^save her tears by your heart by =Princess-of-Shadows

^Life on the Edge II by ~HairyToes

^Geisha eyes by :~

new journal design, 2,500 views

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:56:08 PST

Yeay! finally got off my bum (or on to it, rather) and found some css for my journal! And now i know how it works, i can start planning my own personally made design :grin: My big news is i hit 2,500 page views, just a month after hitting 2,000! Madness! Been here since the end of 2006, but it has only been the last however long that things have been snowballing.. Anyway, its 8am, and i havent been to bed yet - havent even had dinner yet! so i think i need to grab a slice of bread and crawl towards my bedroom

tell me what you think of the journal design!?? nameste!

I've started up a stock account to upload my hundreds of photos to.. i do plan to upload my landscapes, city scapes, architecture and nature shots etc as stock, as well as a numerous amount of textures and backgrounds etc but it is slow going, so please be patient with me...

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A random selection of my favourites...

And, cos I am an archaeologist, and I totally agree with the sentiment:

TEST: Please ignore!!

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:38:42 PST

.:Journal Entry Here:.

I've started up a stock account to upload my hundreds of photos to.. i do plan to upload my landscapes, city scapes, architecture and nature shots etc as stock, as well as a numerous amount of textures and backgrounds etc but it is slow going, so please be patient with me...

Features

A random selection of my favourites...

And, cos I am an archaeologist, and I totally agree with the sentiment:

My Mediums

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal), painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation), i have an interest (read "obsession") with photography, especially landscapes, and I also write poetry and short stories.. however, I havent loaded up most of my work yet... its still mostly on my old computer or still waiting to be scanned.. lo...

2,500 PAGEVIEWS!!!

=obsidiantears83 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:05:10 PST

Check it out!

Wow, only a month ago I reached the 2,000 views threshold! and I am up to 2,500 already! And I haven't even been uploading.. ie I have a glutton of work sitting on my Hdrive waiting to be shared.. I bought a desk, so when I buy a chair, i expect I will be more active online again, and create more graphics.. at the moment is its sitting on the couch with my laptop - and no mouse means it isnt condusive to typing or moving the cursor. that is why i have been so quiet at my forums, blogs and dA... and possiblly sheds light on my obsession with facebook LOL i.e. random clicks on FB = involvement LOL I went to my forum earlier in the month to show Barry at work my graphics (graphics and web design are part of my job description) and we found out my site had been hijacked... it was being redirected to a soft porn site!! hilarious tho, cos barry is this nice quiet married guy, and it kept going to that site when ever we tried to access my page. Anyway, i got home and it took me about an hour to find the bad code in all the scripts. I was going cross eyed by the end of it LOL I have no idea how long it was redirecting for, as I havent been active there in the last 6 or so months.. suffice to say my forum is now quieter than a grave... at least in a grave you can hear the worms, bugs and owls.. at the World of Words there is nary a sound to be heard.. so I think now is the perfect time to give her an overhaul! And once it is done, I can kickstart her again - I figure by then I will have bought a chair and can sit at my desk

Okay, so i bought a subscription... do you know what resources or guides there are for making my journal look pretty? I dont know enough about css to make my own from scratch... but i want it to look interesting LOL so do you know where I can look?? and any suggestions on how i should make it look?? hmmmmm my only thought is "dark" any suggestions welcome!

and there isnt really any other news.. I spent Australia Day at Triple J's Hottest 100 at the Domain, and then I went to the Evermore concert, and after that we went to dinner. And on Sunday I saw Sweeny Todd! God is Depp something or what! They just couldnt quite hide his attractiveness... and damn but does his singing give me tingles! I love tim burton movies!

anyway, all is well in the world, and nothing really to report

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I've started up a stock account ~obsidiantearstock to upload my hundreds of photos to.. at the moment its mostly from the chinese gardens - so lots of Koi but i do plan to upload my landscapes etc as resources for backgrounds... but it is tedious and taking me hours to upload them, so please be patient with me you can find it at:

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some of my favourite deviants:

2000+ views and another yr older

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:03:35 PST

Woohoo! Reached 2000 views!! thanks to the darling ~sugarxpain for taking a screenshot as the 2006th viewer!

You can check ~sugarxpain's work out at

In other news, I scraped up enough cash to purchase a subscription LOL I was going barmy without being able to use any code, and all the other little extras were enough to tip the scales... think of it as a birthday present to myself!

And, yes, its my birthday today! My best friend has flown down for a few days - its her first time visiting Sydney, so we get to play tourist! Bec and Mel, invited me out to lunch, so Bec, Johno (Bec's BF), Mel, Linda and I spent the day wandering around Circular Quay... Checked out the markets (my friends were likening me to a magpie - i zero in on the shiny's LOL) and we hung out under the bridge for a while, before walking back along the wharf. It was an absolutely gorgeous day filled with light and laughter - two things that have been missing from my life lately... its so good just hanging out like that.. Took a hundred photos, but they are mostly touristy and not dA-standard LOL so happysnaps will end up distributed on facebook LOL some really nice shots tho!! No other news really.. I'm now 24 and feeling creaky... quarter of a century next year... fuck it all to hell! LOL got to potter around in my garden this afternoon - planted some new flowers, and some capsicum, and a different variety of chilli to that i already have.. just random good vibes today

I wish you and your loved ones all the best in 2008. May the year ahead be full of love, laughter and joy!!

I've started up a stock account ~obsidiantearstock to upload my hundreds of photos to.. at the moment its mostly from the chinese gardens - so lots of Koi but i do plan to upload my landscapes etc as resources for backgrounds... but it is tedious and taking me hours to upload them, so please be patient with me you can find it at:

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some of my favourite deviants:

birthday and devious stock

=obsidiantears83 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:46:38 PST

Well its my birthday in 3 days.. I was feeling sorry for myself cos i had to spend chrissy by myself, and i dont get to see my mates cos they all live so far away.. to put it lightly i've been feeling like shit for a couple of weeks... but now: my mate bons offered to meet up if i didnt have any plans - she lives a way a way so we still havent gotten around to it - but we will soon linda is gonna come and stay for a couple of days - she is my bestest friend and i miss her like the son of a bitch... she lives interstate, and it makes things hard.. and today bec and mel have told me they are kidnapping me for my birthday and taking me to lunch in the city! and Tam - my friend and housemate of 3.5 years - is going to be visiting sydney next week!! i havent seen her all year and i used to see her a couple of times a day until i moved down here... so i woke up and life was totally shit, and now things are falling together!! I am gonna take bons advice however, and ask that if anyone loves me, can they give me a subscription for my birthday?? I need to get a creditcard *sigh*

Oh and guess what?! I'm nearly up to 2000 pageviews!!!!!!!!! whoever gets that number, take a screenshot, and let me know, will ya?? I will do some free advertising for you! ie spam everyone I know throughout the cyberlands! providing a link to your gallery urging them to check you out I'm broke at the moment, so that is all i can offer LOL as well as a write up in my diary, which will happen anyway!!

I've started up a stock account ~obsidiantearstock to upload my hundreds of photos to.. at the moment its mostly from the chinese gardens - so lots of Koi but i do plan to upload my landscapes etc as resources for backgrounds... but it is tedious and taking me hours to upload them, so please be patient with me you can find it at:

anyway, back to work tomorrow, so I need to catch some

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some of my favourite deviants:

camera and old age and featured!

=obsidiantears83 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:01:16 PST

I realised its been a while since I posted here.. i dont have a desk yet, so i sit on the couch nursing my laptop on my knees - it isnt a position made for writting a multitude of blogs LOL but i thought maybe i should... hhmmm news... well i'm getting older *sigh* its my 24th birthday in a matter of weeks - quarter of a century next year... I was telling bonnie and she got annoyed cos her 25th is in 2 months LOL hmmm she also said to ask if anyone out there wants to gift me with a subscription for my birthday dammit i need a creditcard and some money, cos i still cant afford to buy my own.. even with my job LOL i bought a camera tho!! Its just a cheap one - Olympus FE-270 - 7.1mp and a 2 gig memory card. May go out to the chinese gardens on the weekend and take it for a test run!! I'm not going home for christmas... and it will just be me and 2 others in the office during the holidays... my best friend is going to take the train down to sydney and spend my birthday with me - but aside from that i have no plans.. still only have 4 or 5 friends down here, and when your birthday is the day before New Years... LOL no other gossip to report really.. been getting the itchings to take up my paintbrush again, but i work a 50 hour week, and all i want to do when i get home is sleep.. bloody cfs/me! The other weekend I slept from 9pm friday to 6pm sunday!! I woke up for 2 hours on saturday after midnight some time and ate a sandwich, and promptly fell back asleep... wont be suprised if i have another breakdown.. working so hard that my health is being neglected - not enough sleep for starters - and if i push too hard my health disappears down a big black hole... god it was so easy being unemployed and too sick to work.. i slept and slept and slept and was well.. now i have to be up by 6am everymorening and its killing me! permant state of zombified LOL

damn i cant wait to take my new camera for a spin!!!!!!

oh, and I got my first feature!!!!!!

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some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]
hotburrito2 [link]
angelreich [link]

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I've had requests and if anyone ever wants to use my landscape photographic deviations as stock, you have my permision! all you need to do is reference me in the comments, link back to the work you are using, and send me a note with a link to it.. if you are interested in using anything else, please send me a note and we can discuss it..
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How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have ill health --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME).

â my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome blog at: [link] â

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal)...

how

=obsidiantears83 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:18:42 PST

ItÂs amazing some of the artistic talent people have!! I was showing a friend at work this website yesterday, and she didnÂt believe that my dA friend's photos hadnÂt been digitally altered Â itÂs all down to light, skill and filters. When I was about 15 I was having a crisis in faith of my artistic talent. And I was working at an art gallery/shop. I was doing my own art as well as selling and general activities, and because I was surrounded by so much talent I was feeling insecure about my own. Sue sat down and told me that art isnÂt about looking like someone elseÂs art. We are all different, we perceive the world differently and we approach our art differently. She was basically saying to embrace my style and stop comparing it to classical artists. I started to think differently about myself, and that lino print I made won first prize! (My specialty is print making, but I donÂt have a press any more, so I tend to focus on photography, graphic design and watercolours). That is what I love about deviantART.com Â it isnÂt about being a famous accepted artist, itÂs about art itself, and peopleÂs experiences expressions. Just like art, it is hard to define, and is ever changing.. And god donÂt some people have some talent!

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some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]
hotburrito2 [link]
angelreich [link]

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I've had requests and if anyone ever wants to use my landscape photographic deviations as stock, you have my permision! all you need to do is reference me in the comments, link back to the work you are using, and send me a note with a link to it.. if you are interested in using anything else, please send me a note and we can discuss it..
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How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have ill health --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). I love hanging out with my mates doing random shit, and kicking back by my own to listen to metal - or hanging out at live gigs.. I speak english, however have studied both german and anglo saxon/old english.. i used to be fluent in german, but now i need to brush up my skills.. and I want to go back to my old english textbooks cos I find it an absolutely facinating subject! i should share my translations of Beowulf some time.. um.. what else? used to be a tomboy who loved playing dress ups.. now it is the opposite LOL I love dressing up, but i am also comfortable wearing old jeans and playing in the dirt! but anyhoos enough about me.. this is meant to be about ART!

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal), painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation), i have an interest (read "obsession") with photography, especially landscapes, and I also write poetry and short stories.. however, I havent loaded up most of my work yet... its still mostly on my ld computer or still waiting to be scanned.. lots of new photos tho LOL and also a selection of my work..
my gallery: [link]

...My many blogs, profiles and accounts...

â my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome blog at: [link] â

â Myspace [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]
hotburrito2 [link]
angelreich [link]

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I've had requests and if anyone ever wants to use my landscape photographic deviations as stock, you have my permision! all you need to do is reference me in the comments, link back to the work you are using, and send me a note with a link to it.. if you are interested in using anything else, please send me a note and we can discuss it..
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How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have ill health --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). I love hanging out with my mates doing random shit, and kicking back by my own to listen to metal - or hanging out at live gigs.. I speak english, however have studied both german and anglo saxon/old english.. i used to be fluent in german, but now i need to brush up my skills.. and I want to go back to my old english textbooks cos I find it an absolutely facinating subject! i should share my translations of Beowulf some time.. um.. what else? used to be a tomboy who loved playing dress ups.. now it is the opposite LOL I love dressing up, but i am also comfortable wearing old jeans and playing in the dirt! but anyhoos enough about me.. this is meant to be about ART!

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink,...

grins

=obsidiantears83 — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:54:22 PDT

HI GUYS!
Well I now have a gorgeous new house, awesome housemates, a cushy job with great workmates, and a social life! (two really good friends + various others) Added to that, we plan on getting adsl at home! thank god!! SO in the next couple of months I should be able to be more active here again..

check out my stats!!!
obsidiantears83 has 1,326 pageviews total and her 95 deviations were viewed 2,140 times. She watches 129 people, while 30 people watch her.

Overall, her deviations received 215 comments and were added to deviants' favourites 87 times, while she commented 494 times, making about 1.98 comments per day since she joined DA. This means that she gave 23 comments for every 10 that she received.

Her deviation with the most comments is Crystal Creek, Paluma - 2007 with 23 comments, receiving an average of 1.64 per day in the first 2 weeks, and it is also her most favourited, with 10 favourites, averaging 0.71 per day in the first 2 weeks. Her most viewed deviation is Donnie Darko Wallpaper - 2005 with 110 views.

4 favourites were given for every 10 comments.

Every 2.6 days she uploads a new deviation, and it's usually on a Friday, with 17 (18%) of her deviations.

Her busiest month was February 2007 with 27 (28%) of her deviations.

The majority of her deviations are uploaded to the Photography gallery (64), while her favourite category was Animals, Plants & Nature > Landscapes with 20 deviations.

Comments per deviation: 2.26
Favourites per deviation: 0.91
Views per deviation: 22.52
Comments per day: 0.86
Favourites per day: 0.34
Views per day: 8.6
Pageviews per day: 5.33

I have been needing to update my dA for months.. so I sat down and selected about a dozen of the hundreds of photos I've taken in the last few months..
â the city dreams [link]
â storms a'coming [link]
â hallowed winters night [link]
â winters night [link]
â obelisk [link]
â chi [link]
check them out - because i absolutely LOVE these six photos to bits..!! and tell me what you think!!! please please please cos i need feedback..

and no, it hasnt just been photography.. also sketches and paintings, but i havent a scanner anymore so.....

miss you guys!!

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My Country - A series of photographs dealing with the Australian Landscape. Inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's poem of the same name, and by the vast and varied land that i love, and love to call home!

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

I [link] II [link] III [link] IV [link]

(for the full poem - and its worth a read - head to the first photo in the series)

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some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]
h...

fuck yeah!

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:23:47 PDT

my REALLY big news!!!! -

so i had yet another job interview.. i am so blase about them... it was going really well.. until the guy walked out without another word.. i was like "what did i say wrong" LOL anyway we walked back in with the CEO! rest of the interview also went well.. they said they would call me back in a couple of weeks. so i got back on my train and went home for a nap (I have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome/m.e.)... i woke up with my phone ringing loudly in my ear - thankgod i had saved irenas number - she called and asked me what i thought about the company how i thought the interview went etc.. seemed like one of those mythical follow-up calls.. then all of a sudden she said how much would you want to be paid (I wasnt very articulate about that LOL) and that i got the job - they were really impressed! impressed enough that they didnt bother screening the other applicants!!! how fucking cool is that!!! i do reception work, but mostly, i proofread documents, design documents, and i am overhauling the website.. ive never had a real job before.. but all my personal interests, hobbies and volunteer work got be a job!! and its 3 times what i get with centrelink!! i may be able to get the internet on at home soon!! and i am going to find somewhere better to live.. tina is driving me crazy!!

wohoo! I HAVE A JOB!!! and i can use my creative tendancies!! they only have gimp tho.. but i can do any really delicate stuff at home on my own computer LOL

check out my stats!!!
obsidiantears83 has 1,326 pageviews total and her 95 deviations were viewed 2,140 times. She watches 129 people, while 30 people watch her.

Overall, her deviations received 215 comments and were added to deviants' favourites 87 times, while she commented 494 times, making about 1.98 comments per day since she joined DA. This means that she gave 23 comments for every 10 that she received.

Her deviation with the most comments is Crystal Creek, Paluma - 2007 with 23 comments, receiving an average of 1.64 per day in the first 2 weeks, and it is also her most favourited, with 10 favourites, averaging 0.71 per day in the first 2 weeks. Her most viewed deviation is Donnie Darko Wallpaper - 2005 with 110 views.

4 favourites were given for every 10 comments.

Every 2.6 days she uploads a new deviation, and it's usually on a Friday, with 17 (18%) of her deviations.

Her busiest month was February 2007 with 27 (28%) of her deviations.

The majority of her deviations are uploaded to the Photography gallery (64), while her favourite category was Animals, Plants & Nature > Landscapes with 20 deviations.

Comments per deviation: 2.26
Favourites per deviation: 0.91
Views per deviation: 22.52
Comments per day: 0.86
Favourites per day: 0.34
Views per day: 8.6
Pageviews per day: 5.33

I have been needing to update my dA for months.. so I sat down and selected about a dozen of the hundreds of photos I've taken in the last few months..
â the city dreams [link]
â storms a'coming [link]
â hallowed winters night [link]
â winters night [link]
â obelisk [link]
â chi [link]
check them out - because i absolutely LOVE these six photos to bits..!! and tell me what you think!!! please please please cos i need feedback..

and no, it hasnt just been photography.. also sketches and paintings, but i havent a scanner anymore so.....

miss you guys!!

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My Country - A series of photographs dealing with the Australian Landscape. Inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's poem of the same name, and by the vast and varied land that i love, and love to call home!

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,...

deviations, updates and the future...

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:54:35 PDT
I have been needing to update my dA for months.. I have just been so busy and have no time to bum around on the net.. but it hasnt stopped me from being creative LOL i think it is just as much a part of me as breathing.. so instead i take millions of pictures, fill up my hard drives, and glance breifly at the results.. so last night I sat down and selected about a dozen of the hundreds of photos I've taken in the last few months..
â the city dreams [link]
â storms a'coming [link]
â hallowed winters night [link]
â winters night [link]
â obelisk [link]
â chi [link]
check them out - because i absolutely LOVE these six photos to bits..!! and tell me what you think!!! please please please cos i need feedback..

and no, it hasnt just been photography.. also sketches and paintings, but i havent a scanner anymore so.....

anyway, in the real world life has been interesting.. I was working for greenpeace for three weeks - which i LOVED!! the people i was working with were the best - i got on really well with them - especially with dave and peter.. such great guys.. i got to see more of sydney in those three weeks than i did in my entire 4 months residing here! god bless them! its a very worthy cause! what are we going to do when we have fucked up our planet??!! its the only one we have.. they do a lot of behind the scenes lobbying as well as "direct non violent action" (ie getting between the harpoon and the whales) which is what you most likely see on the news.. the website is [link] if you want to learn more or donate.. they dont take money from governments and corporations as those tend to have strings - so they need the public support - joining gives them political power as well as financial support, so please join if you can..

i'm back to doing archaeology again, while looking for a real job..if anyone knows of anything going in Sydney - especially between parramatta and the city can u send me a note?? i'm applying for staid kinds of employment, but i would prefer something I dind interesting or enjoyable.. hard worker, team player and all that..

in other news i've just heard from one of my friends from uni - shes living in sydney and we are getting a cuppa tomorrow and catching up.. we were great friends back in the day and i'm so glad we are able to hang out again.. we'd both changed our numbers so we had only email details for each other LOL but all is good in the world! things with greg are interesting too.. and getting more so all the time.. he is back in north queensland - we were friends, and didnt get around to doing anything about liking each other - both too cautious i think.. anyway, he wants me to head back north - as does sami and gina.. i stand by my disision to try sydney until october.. if i dont find a stable job by then i'm going home.. cos thats what townsville became.. i miss my life.. i love sydney, but i havent a solid life down here that compares to the one up there... so we will see...

I still havent gotten the internet on at home - i love "Everywhere Net" - $5 gets me two hours of surfing LOL so if you want to keep up to date with what is going on in my life and in my mind - the blog i use most frequently is myspace[link] <-- check there for constant updates.. miss u guys! when i get the net on at home i am going to enjoy myself rediscovering all my favourite artists here! I havent the time to keep up with the deviations list, so I have thousands of deviations to check out at my leisure.. if there are any you believe I would absolutely love to bits that i sould see now, send me a note LOL cos notes are about all i have time to check frequently

miss you guys!!

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My Country - A series of photographs dealing with the Australian Landscape. Inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's poem of the same name, and by the vast and varied land that i love, and love to call home!

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains, <...

Devious Withdrawals

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:07:03 PDT
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I've had requests and if anyone ever wants to use my landscape photographic deviations as stock, you have my permision! all you need to do is reference me in the comments, link back to the work you are using, and send me a note with a link to it..
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sorry i have been offline for so long.. i had over 3000 messages and about the same amount of deviations unread.. and because i still havent been able to get the net on at home, and i am having internet withdrawals - using the net barely half an hour a week (previously i was online at dA at least an hour a day) - so sadly i have given up and deleted all the unread things.. they were dated back to febuary, and I just dont have time sadly to check them out.. so i deleted - but that means when i finally get the net on i can peruse my favourite deviants' galleries for hours and hours finding new gems!! if you have anything you want me specifically to see send me a note or comment below - i'm sorry i am neglecting you guys... i miss all my friends here and i miss the constant exposure to the art here.. *sob* dammit - if i just had a steady income i could get that wireless modem i need! if anyone knows of any jobs going in Sydney (Australia) can u let me know!?! hehe i am sick of bumming around with nothing to do! thank god i could finally afford a new sketchbook! but now i dont have a scanner LOL so maybe in a few months or whatever i can upload a shitload of sketches and paintings

anywhoo - i have to log off i miss u guys, and i am going insane without dA and the internet!

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My Country - A series of photographs dealing with the Australian Landscape. Inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's poem of the same name, and by the vast and varied land that i love, and love to call home!

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

I [link] II [link] III [link] IV [link]

(for the full poem - and its worth a read - head to the first photo in the series)

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listal.com ~ my new obsession..
if u join, can u go via this special url? i get points for each friend.. [link]
Okay, my newest obsession is Listal - blame my mate bons LOL basically its a site for books, movies and music - three of my favourite things! just add art and i would never leave it anyways, its a lot of fun, so i thought I would share it with my mates..

check out my profile & add me as a friend! [link]

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some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]
hotburrito2 [link]

How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist - just finished uni and looking for work, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushba...

new friends, old friends

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:52:36 PDT
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I've had requests and if anyone ever wants to use my landscape photographic deviations as stock, you have my permision! all you need to do is reference me in the comments, link back to the work you are using, and send me a note with a link to it..
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LOL meeting old friends and making new ones! so far, after a month here, i am LOVING sydney!

I'm now living quite close to Parramatta - less than a 5 minute drive, close! and its a 5 minute walk to the train station! living with an older chinese lady.. she's nice LOL she is treating me like one of her daughters.. its making me paranoid tho so i am always on me best behaviour... brilliant food! nice neighbourhood, and we have a veranda! my room is big, but very very full! so full that i had to take most of my stuff up to Nan's place on the Central Coast to put in storage down the back.. we went up to Nan's again on thursday.. and after having a few cuppas there, we drove up to uncle Nev's to see Auntie Mary (LOVE THEIR NEW HOUSE!!) and then over to Auntie Linda's to have another cuppa.. its a beautiful house, and right on the river - i have photos i plan on sharing later.. after that we went back to Nan's (Nan is my paternal grandmother) and had another cuppa before heading off to see Lozza - and her 2 wildly energetic kids, her younger brother Scotty (god his grown up! i cant believe he is in his 20s now LOL) then we drove into wyong and saw (great) Auntie Margret (and Uncle Bill and Herbie) and then went to see (great) Auntie June, Bro, Uncle Alfie and all the rest.. god it was exhausting! but good.. i havent seen most of those faces for about 10 or so years.. we had to deal with 'day before easter' traffic getting in and out of sydney, which was fun

still looking for work.. that dig in Parra ended.. I got called in the week after to help out, but eventually there was nothing left for me to do.. i'm to email martin later in the week cos there is some work in the city.. however, I am going to need - what do they call it? - "gainful" employment.. i need to get Centrelink off my back, and to do that i need to earn money.. enough that they dont want me to get a third or fourth job.. which is what they have done to my mate Maree.. (the chickie who told me of the archaeologuical dig to start with..) - problem with archaeology is it is seasonal.. so i will need to find something i can work nights, or part time, or something flexible.. ekk! however.. if you are a praying kind.. put me in your prayers - cos i applied for two musuem guide jobs.. great money and three days a week.. excellent application, totally inspired, however, it depends on the competion... god i want them!

my new place doesnt have internet access.. yet.. and i am too broke to get it for at least a few weeks.. so in the meantime my activity will be eratic.. I'm going to try and suss out the local library or somthing so i can keep up.. but that is just a maybe.. if u need to get in contact with me, email me at my main email addie (if I have told u it personally) - otherwise, send me a note.. i will be checking my email and my forum everytime i log on, and then dA and all the rest if i have time.. sorry for my inactivity in advance! I will try and keep up with everything...

ciao mi amigos!

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My Country - A series of photographs dealing with the Australian Landscape. Inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's poem of the same name, and by the vast and varied land that i love, and love to call home!

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

I [link] II [link] III [link] IV [link]
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Devious Obsidian

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:32:13 PDT
Wohoo! I've finally found somewhere to live in Sydney! Its with a nice chinese lady.. its 5 minute walk to the train station and less than 5 minutes by train to Parra... My friend, miss M, was annoyed when I told her, cos apparently its still too far away from here place and the rest of sydney.. but i have been living out past Mt Druitt - an hour drive to parra twice a day.. too far off the track to bother about public transport.. but now.... most likely I will be working between parra and the city... northmead and the city... so granville is just fine.. its a tiny little flat, and i have to put my furniture and books in storage, but Tina is nice.. she is an older lady from taiwan, and is nice - by that i mean she seems like such a sweetie... so its all good! it isnt exactly what i was looking for, however its cheap and close to things.,.. i still dont know how my life will turn out.. not sure where i will work, or what sort of job i will have (if you know any in sydney(btwn parra and the city), let me know! looking for anything! preferrably flexible hours tho..) or even how much my income will be.. there were a lot of other places that would have suited me better, but they were more than i initially budgeted... and i needed to move asap... but i like the neighbourhood, the unit is small but nice, tina seems like a sweetie, and i can see myself there for the next few months at least.. and cos i dont know how my life will be even by the end of the week, i needed somewhere I can rest my head while my life sorts itself out.. I've finished the excavation on the corner of Victoria Rd and Church St in Parramatta, and I got to stay on and extra week than most - helping sort and clean atrefacts etc.. but that Dig is finished now.. Martin said to contact him after Easter, as there is stuff happening.. but i dont know if i will be paid or not for it.. at the very least volunteer work will flesh out my archaeology c.v. I've applied for two museum jobs, but they arent being chosen immediately - still open for another couple of weeks.. cross fingers! cos i would love either of them! I'm also going to apply (cold canvas) for some jobs at bookstores and the like.. cos i can see myself working there and enjoying it.. plus, i'm a total bookwyrm, have been for the last 12+ years... so I have a VERY detailed knowledge on fiction and non-fiction in most genres.. I'm on job-search payments with centrelink, so i have to apply for ten jobs a week... i wont work in hospitality or mainstream retail if i can get away with it... my health isnt good enough too.. being on my feet all day, moving around, serving customers etc - its just WAY too much physical and mental stress for my body... and I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) and degenitive disc disease in my back.. all mean the less physical standing on my feet all day work is better for me.. and i want to work! if anyone out there knows of any let me know! honest, reliable, teamplayer, good with computers and a quick learner!

the new place, however, doesnt have the internet... and with bond and rent up front, i am now broke for a fortnight... meaning I wont be able to get the net on for at least two or more weeks... I'll try and sign up at the library and see if i can use the internet... but it might be a while... I love u guys, miss u guys, and iwill try and get more active in a few weeks... i have more than 500 deviations already to peruse through LOL I'll try and keep up with the messages tho!

ciao mi amigos!

oh and check me out at [link] and thanks to princess of shadows for sharing a linky to her page there! [link]

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some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]

How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirk...

sydney

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:13:35 PDT
ANYONE LIVE IN SYDNEY?? I'm still looking for a sharehouse or grannyflat somewhere.. if you know a place, or know someone who does, do u think you could let me know?? doesnt help that i have been working my butt off and that business hours are taken up by the archaeology dig LOL anyways, just cutting and pasting my last entry - it explains it all and why waste all that effort!

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Wow! can i just say i am loving sydney?? the diversity, the city, the landscape on the drive in.. a bit shocked that i couldnt find a chemist open after hours tho! even townsville - tiny little city of townsville in regional australia, has multiple chemists open up til 10pm LOL made too cos i'd run out of my meds LOL The dig is in Parramatta - any sydneyites may have seen in in the media in the last few months.. church and victoria - its an 18th century site - historical archaeogy LOL and its 'rescue' archaeology - that means we need to record everything before the block can be redevloped.. i've only had four days on the job so far.. the first it rained in the morning and we ended up ending the day at 11am LOL beautiful rainbow hung around for an hour or so it was beautiful.. we had sunshowers all morning, drizzle, and at times the sun even showed its face.. *bliss* it was a beautiful introduction for me.. i was extremely reluctant to leave townville cos i was in a VERY comfortable rut.. i loved my 2 best mates, i loved haning out at my favourite pub listening to live metal, i loved the scenery and atmosphere of the city.. but this was an offer i couldnt afford to pass up.. and i'm glad i said yes.. eventhough it has meant a lot of hardship.. and centrelink is screwing round with me :sigh: so no money.. at ALL! i am staying with a long lost great aunt i've only ever met twice, and that was as a child.. she is letting me stay for free, and cooks dinner etc.. luckily cos i have no money to live on... auntie hilda is such a sweetie.. i was expecting a dragon - nanna has been telling tales.. she is actaully a little old lady - a bit deaf so she shouts "eh" a lot LOL but hey - free and i like her.. so very happy LOL

anyway, auntie hilda has the net, but i cant use it much.. and havent had a chance to upload any photos yet either.. so that is why there is all this silence... ... ... and yes i am still addicted to dA - i just have to sneak in a peek every few days LOL "305 deviations, 75 messages" *grins* so far...

anyways, waking up at 4am again tomorrow, so i had better log off.. some of you might know that that was my normal bedtime up until last week!! :shock:

anywhoos... ciao mi amigos!

oh and check me out at [link] and thanks to princess of shadows for sharing a linky to her page there! [link]

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some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]

How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist - just finished uni and looking for work, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have illhealth --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). I love hanging out with my mates doing random shit, and kicking back by my own to listen to metal - or hanging out at live gigs.. but enough about me.. this is meant to be about ART!

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pe...

yoohoo! *waves from sydney*

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:08:03 PDT
Wow! can i just say i am loving sydney?? the diversity, the city, the landscape on the drive in.. a bit shocked that i couldnt find a chemist open after hours tho! even townsville - tiny little city of townsville in regional australia, has multiple chemists open up til 10pm LOL made too cos i'd run out of my meds LOL The dig is in Parramatta - any sydneyites may have seen in in the media in the last few months.. church and victoria - its an 18th century site - historical archaeogy LOL and its 'rescue' archaeology - that means we need to record everything before the block can be redevloped.. i've only had four days on the job so far.. the first it rained in the morning and we ended up ending the day at 11am LOL beautiful rainbow hung around for an hour or so it was beautiful.. we had sunshowers all morning, drizzle, and at times the sun even showed its face.. *bliss* it was a beautiful introduction for me.. i was extremely reluctant to leave townville cos i was in a VERY comfortable rut.. i loved my 2 best mates, i loved haning out at my favourite pub listening to live metal, i loved the scenery and atmosphere of the city.. but this was an offer i couldnt afford to pass up.. and i'm glad i said yes.. eventhough it has meant a lot of hardship.. and centrelink is screwing round with me :sigh: so no money.. at ALL! i am staying with a long lost great aunt i've only ever met twice, and that was as a child.. she is letting me stay for free, and cooks dinner etc.. luckily cos i have no money to live on... auntie hilda is such a sweetie.. i was expecting a dragon - nanna has been telling tales.. she is actaully a little old lady - a bit deaf so she shouts "eh" a lot LOL but hey - free and i like her.. so very happy LOL

anyway, auntie hilda has the net, but i cant use it much.. and havent had a chance to upload any photos yet either.. so that is why there is all this silence... ... ... and yes i am still addicted to dA - i just have to sneak in a peek every few days LOL "305 deviations, 75 messages" *grins* so far...

anyways, waking up at 4am again tomorrow, so i had better log off.. some of you might know that that was my normal bedtime up until last week!! :shock:

anywhoos... ciao mi amigos!

oh and check me out at [link] and thanks to princess of shadows for sharing a linky to her page there! [link]

some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]

How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist - just finished uni and looking for work, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have illhealth --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). I love hanging out with my mates doing random shit, and kicking back by my own to listen to metal - or hanging out at live gigs.. but enough about me.. this is meant to be about ART!

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal), painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation), i have an interest (read "obsession") with photography, especially landscapes, and I also write poetry and short stories.. however, I havent loaded up most of my work yet... its still mostly on my ld computer or still waiting to be scanned.. lots of new photos tho LOL and also a selection of my work..
my gallery: [link]

here is a short sample of some of my works
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moving to sydney

=obsidiantears83 — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:05:27 PST
This is just a generalised shout-out for all my haunts online.. Ive been busy packing up my life in Townsville, and for the next week will be offline driving to Toowoomba tonight, and then visiting my peeps round southeast queensland then towards the end of the week will be heading on down to Sydney. At this point I still do not know what my living circumstances will be like down there, so will at the very least join a library and try to catch some messages online.. however, I am hoping to have internet access at home.. but I still dont know where home will be yet so LOL lets just say I wont be around much for the next fortnight.. I hope you are all well and life is great! For all my FMers and CFS brothers and sisters, I hope you health is going good, that you are not in too much pain and that your fatigue levels are low.. ((hugs)) to you all!

Jacq *mmwwhaa*

some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]

How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist - just finished uni and looking for work, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have illhealth --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). I love hanging out with my mates doing random shit, and kicking back by my own to listen to metal - or hanging out at live gigs.. but enough about me.. this is meant to be about ART!

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal), painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation), i have an interest (read "obsession") with photography, especially landscapes, and I also write poetry and short stories.. however, I havent loaded up most of my work yet... its still mostly on my ld computer or still waiting to be scanned.. lots of new photos tho LOL and also a selection of my work..
my gallery: [link]

here is a short sample of some of my works
Graphics:
Into The Fire - 2006 - a sig created for my website [link]
WoW Confusion - 2006 [link]
Photography:
Dusk 2 - 2006 [link]
Crystal Creek, Paluma - 2007 [link]
To see an external album of my landscapes go here [link]
Watercolours:
Neolithic Skull - 2004 - just what it says - and still one of my favourites! [link]
Sketches:
deirdre - 2001 - pen, ink, pencil, white gel pen [link]
Prints:
Weeping Woman - 2001 - Lino [link]
Poetry:
"I sit here in dark silence" - 2006 [link]
-there is also a haiku on my "Blue Girl" deviation - they sort of go together... [link]

My many Blogs

ObsidianTears83 at Blogspot: [link]

my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome blog at: [link]

Blue_Eyed_Gypsy at Myspace: [link]

And ObsidianTears83 at Yahoo!7 360°: [link]

ObsidianTears83 at L...

changes... o_0

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:22:20 PST
wohoo! i might be moving to Sydney! got a job offer this week.. volunteer to start, with opportunity for wage later.. its an archaeology dig, so that makes sense.. its cos all the uni students are starting classes soon.. this dig ends in march, then there are 2 or 3 in the pipeline.. and 2 artefact assemblages that need processing in the lab.. this is the reason i was stuck at uni for so many years not sure yet, if i will accept or not.. at the moment i am thinking "YES!" but it has disrupted my plans a lot.. i didnt go home for chirstmas, and was going to spend all of march back home.. not gonna be able to happen if i take the job.. and i would have to start moving in the next week or so.. so... damn this has thrown me!

some of my favourite deviants:
Karil: [link]
Princess-of-Shadows [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]

How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist - just finished uni and looking for work, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have illhealth --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). I love hanging out with my mates doing random shit, and kicking back by my own to listen to metal - or hanging out at live gigs.. but enough about me.. this is meant to be about ART!

My areas of creativity are printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal), painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation), i have an interest (read "obsession") with photography, especially landscapes, and I also write poetry and short stories.. however, I havent loaded up most of my work yet... its still mostly on my ld computer or still waiting to be scanned.. lots of new photos tho LOL and also a selection of my work..
my gallery: [link]

here is a short sample of some of my works
Graphics:
Into The Fire - 2006 - a sig created for my website [link]
WoW Confusion - 2006 [link]
Photography:
Dusk 2 - 2006 [link]
Crystal Creek, Paluma - 2007 [link]
To see an external album of my landscapes go here [link]
Watercolours:
Neolithic Skull - 2004 - just what it says - and still one of my favourites! [link]
Sketches:
deirdre - 2001 - pen, ink, pencil, white gel pen [link]
Prints:
Weeping Woman - 2001 - Lino [link]
Poetry:
"I sit here in dark silence" - 2006 [link]
-there is also a haiku on my "Blue Girl" deviation - they sort of go together... [link]

My many Blogs

ObsidianTears83 at Blogspot: [link]

my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome blog at: [link]

Blue_Eyed_Gypsy at Myspace: [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]

one of my friends is leaving dA (either long term sabbatical or for ever - depends how ever things work out..) but in leaving he listed me as friend/artist in his last journal entry... [link] isnt he a sweetie.. shame he has to go.. thats life i guess..

How to find Serenity: Remember where you parked her..

As a bit of a look at who i am, I am a quirky aussie chickie, a bookwyrm, artistic, a graduate archaeologist - just finished uni and looking for work, a *forum addict*, currently obsessed with blogging, a complete nerd and proud of it! I grew up on a large property of aussie bush, was a tomboy, am a bush baby, interested in bushwalking, photography and just sitting in the bush and soaking up that glorious landscape - interested in conservation and preserving what is left of our gorgeous natural landscapes, love ridding horses and bushbashing (ie drving recklessly offroad LOL). I have illhealth --> had a bad horse ridding accident when I was eleven which triggered fibromyalgia, and later also was a trigger to DDD in my L5-S1 disc in my back (a form of arthritis). I also have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). I love hanging out with my mates doing random shit, and kicking back by my own to listen to metal - or hanging out at live gigs.. but enough about me.. this is meant to be about ART!

My areas of creativityare printmaking, sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal), painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation) and I also write poetry and short stories.. however, I havent loaded up most of my work yet... its still mostly on my ld computer or still waiting to be scanned.. lots of new photos tho LOL and also a selection of my work..
my gallery: [link]

here is a short sample of some of my works
Graphics:
Into The Fire - 2006 - a sig created for my website [link]
WoW Confusion - 2006 [link]
Photography:
Dusk 2 - 2006 [link]
To see an external album of my landscapes go here [link]
Watercolours:
Neolithic Skull - 2004 - just what it says - and still one of my favourites! [link]
Sketches:
deirdre - 2001 - pen, ink, pencil, white gel pen [link]
Prints:
Weeping Woman - 2001 - Lino [link]
Poetry:
"I sit here in dark silence" - 2006 [link]
-there is also a haiku on my "Blue Girl" deviation - they sort of go together... [link]

My Blogs

My main blog is
ObsidianTears83 at Blogger: [link]

my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome blog at: [link]

Blue_Eyed_Gypsy at Myspace: [link]

And ObsidianTears83 at Yahoo!7 360°: [link]

ObsidianTears83 at LiveJournal: [link]

ObsidianTears83 at VampireFreaks.com: [link]

Check out my forum:

[link]~The World of Words~
hangout & haven for people who love to read and/or love to write

nameste

emoticons - please ignore

=obsidiantears83 — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:59:49 PST
hi guys, i've been having problems loading the emoticon list - the code doesnt always work on my computer.. so I am just creating a quick reference for myself in the future.. so please ignore this post.. its just a reference quide to the emoticons.. plus i might be lazy and fix the shortcuts later.. cos its nearly 4am over here LOL

Actions
shh pee fart boing work wave slap shakefist sarcasticclap plotting movingon meditation evillaugh [link]
optiknerve-gr [link]

I had previously been listing all my works here, but it was getting to be too bulky.. so now I think i will just put a sample up here, and if u like, you can go for a browse in my gallery.. LOL [link] basically these are the areas i am creative in: sketching (pencil, pen& ink, charcoal), painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), printmaking, digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation) and I also write poetry and short stories..

here is a quick pick of my favoured ones uploaded here..
Graphics:
Into The Fire - 2006 - a sig created for my website [link]
WoW Confusion - 2006 [link]
Photography:
Dusk 2 - 2006 [link]
To see an external album of my landscapes go here [link]
Watercolours:
Neolithic Skull - 2004 - just what it says - and still one of my favourites! [link]
Sketches:
deirdre - 2001 - pen, ink, pencil, white gel pen [link]
Prints:
Weeping Woman - 2001 - Lino [link]
Poetry:
"I sit here in dark silence" - 2006 [link]
-there is also a haiku on my "Blue Girl" deviation - they sort of go together... [link]

i still havent started my other computer and gone searching for things on its hard drive LOL

My Blogs

My main blog is
ObsidianTears83 at Blogger: [link]

my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome blog at: [link]

Blue_Eyed_Gypsy at Myspace: [link]

And ObsidianTears83 at Yahoo!7 360°: [link]

ObsidianTears83 at LiveJournal: [link]

ObsidianTears83 at VampireFreaks.com: [link]

Check out my forum:

[link]~The World of Words~
hangout & haven for people who love to read and/or love to write

nameste

watch out for the *evil smurfs*

=obsidiantears83 — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:05:17 PST
Graphics:
darkkalidalight - 2006 - a wallpaper
Into The Fire - 2006 - a sig created for my website of the same name
ObsidianTears - Deviant ID -2006
Obsidian Tears - my sig for this page - 2006
World of Words header - 2006 (same link) - and here is a screenshot of it in action [link]
WOW - 2006 -an affliation banner (gif) for my forum [link]
WoW Confusion - 2006
WoW Confusion in grey - 2006

Photography:
Cup-o-life - 2006 - a still life
Dusk - 2006
Dusk 2 - 2006
Flora - 2006
Gypsy in Shadow - Self-Portrait - 2006
Hibiscus - 2006
Night Out - 2006
Suzi - 2006 - our 250 suzuki farm bike
To see an external album of my landscapes go here [link]

Watercolours:
Blue Girl - 2002 - created when i was 18
Neolithic Skull - 2004 - just what it says - and still one of my favourites!
Red Silk - 2006 -both watercolours and ink.. photographed on a red background
Watercoloured Angel - 2002 - also created when i was 18 and bored one day LOL

Sketches:
eye - 2006 - pencil
deirdre - 2001 - pen, ink, pencil, white gel pen
weeps - 2006 - pen ink

Prints:
Weeping Woman - 2001 - Lino

Poetry:
"I sit here in dark silence" - 2006
-there is also a haiku on my "Blue Girl" deviation - they sort of go together...

^this is all just random stuff - nothing special... but basically those are the areas i am creative in: sketching, painting (watercolours, inks, oils and acrylics), printmaking, digital imaging (mainly creating graphics, as well as some image manipulation) and I also write poetry and short stories..

i still havent started my other computer and gone searching for things on its hard drive LOL

My Blogs

My main blog is
ObsidianTears83 at Blogger: [link]

my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome blog at: [link]

Blue_Eyed_Gypsy at Myspace: [link]

And ObsidianTears83 at Yahoo!7 360°: [link]

Check out my forums:

[link]~The World of Words~
hangout & haven for people who love to read and/or love to write

[link] ~Realms of Wonder~ (Also known as ROW)
your usual nerdy good times LOL SF, Fantasy Horror

^I have to apologise, I usually display pretty little banners with those, but because of limitations here, cant show images in my journal LOL i KNEW this place was too good to be true - u have to be a paid member to use code!!!

my gallery contents to date..

=obsidiantears83 — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:53:07 PST
okay, i've added stuff!!

Graphics:
ObsidianTears - Deviant ID -2006
Into The Fire - 2006 - a sig created for my website of the same name
darkkalidalight - 2006 - a wallpaper
WOW - 2006 -an affliation banner (gif) for my forum [link]
World of Words header - 2006 (same link) - and here is a screenshot of it in action [link]
WoW Confusion - 2006
WoW Confusion in grey - 2006
Obsidian Tears - my sig for this page - 2006

Photography:
Suzi - 2006 - our 250 suzuki farm bike
Cup-o-life - 2006 - a still life
Flora - 2006
Hibiscus - 2006
Night Out - 2006
Gypsy in Shadow - Self-Portrait - 2006
Dusk - 2006
Dusk 2 - 2006
To see an external album of my landscapes go here [link]

Watercolours:
Neolithic Skull - 2004 - just what it says - and still one of my favourites!
Red Silk - 2006 -both watercolours and ink.. photographed on a red background
Blue Girl - 2002 - created when i was 18
Watercoloured Angel - 2002 - also created when i was 18 and bored one day LOL

Sketches:
eye - 2006 - pencil
weeps - 2006 - pen ink
deirdre - 2001 - pen, ink, pencil, white gel pen

Prints:
Weeping Woman - 2001 - Lino

Poetry:
"I sit here in dark silence" - 2006
-there is also a haiku on my "Blue Girl" deviation - they sort of go together...

^this is all just random stuff - nothing special... but those are the areas i am creative in, although I also printmake and write poetry and short stories..

but this is enough for now.. i still havent started my other computer and gone searching for things on its hard drive LOL

[updated 6am 15 Dec 06]

My Blogs

My main blog is
ObsidianTears83 at Blogger: [link]

and then
Blue_Eyed_Gypsy at Myspace: [link]

And ObsidianTears83 at Yahoo!7 360°: [link]

Check out my forums:

[link]~The World of Words~
hangout & haven for people who love to read and/or love to write

[link] ~Realms of Wonder~ (Also known as ROW)
your usual nerdy good times LOL SF, Fantasy Horror

^I have to apologise, I usually display pretty little banners with those, but because of limitations here, cant show images in my journal LOL i KNEW this place was too good to be true - u have to be a paid member to use code!!!

some of my graphics

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:54:59 PST
I dont have any of my art on this computer, I plan to hook up my laptop at a later date and look for some i scanned earlier.. however, this computer i am using now goes have a few graphics i have created this year.. most are sigs for my various forums, or graphics for my website or forums.. and a few wallpapers - cos i get bored with wallpapers frequently (its called "procrastination") and if i dont find one i like online i make my own LOL

all my experience with graphics, and programs like paintshopro are self taught, and i can see the progress when i line the pieces up and compare.. obviously i'm only going to post the ones i still like however, there will be different periods of skill shown LOL anyways, besides doodles in the margins of my notes, and jotted down ideas scribbled in my art journal, this has been my only form of self expression these last few years of my studying..

meh??

=obsidiantears83 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:50:08 PST
Well, i've just found this place, and i dont know what to think yet.. I know i love it, i've seen so much gorgeous art, and i've only been here for an hour or so.. not entirely sure what of my own work i will/may upload.. most of my work is kinda dated.. so busy with uni in the last couple of years (meant to be writting my thesis now *sigh*) that i havent managed to do more than a few sketches and jot down random ideas and plans for future works... looking forward to next year when university cant get in the way of my other passion.. its always been like that.. archaeology and art viying for my attention... one gets priority and then the other craves to be released - kinda like puppies - they have a competition for my time.. archaeology has been winning for the last five or so years - bursting my guts studying.. its all worked out for the good as far as my career is concerned.. i got into honours, got great results as an undergrad.. but art.. its like it has been stuck in a dark cupboard.. it gets just enough light to survive, and thats all it does.. its worked out well, having those two together - sketching is a great skill for an archaeologist to have, and my team mates on prac were glad, but sketching rocks and pottery isnt quite creative to me.. you do a good job, but the way light hits a smashed and broken plate isnt a priority.. priority is the exact measurements and colouring.. so instead, it finds its release in the margins of my notebooks LOL and in my photos.. i have no ideas if my photos are good - they are more for me than anything else.. i like beauty, love nature.. and so i try to capture that on film.. actually, film is too expensive LOL so its all digital and taken on my mobile phone LOL 1600x1200 is pretty good for a phone tho!

my rambling has gotten off track *sigh* basically, i found this place, i love this place, and i hope to one day have something worth sharing here... most of the finished pieces i have are fairly dated.. in highschool, and it shows.. good for what it is, i suppose, but i dont really, am not really satisfied with it any more.. i have these thoughs, concepts and images floating around in my head, and i wish i had more time to get them down on a page.. and to have more chances to experiment with mediums.. anyways.. i am still meant to be studying *sigh* its nice to meet you, if you are reading this LOL and i'll check in later *waves*