Fifteen Minutes

Well, I guess i could go into detail of the course of the last four days, but I rather would not. Let's just say that on Monday I went from "oh, everything is nice and wonderful," to "I'm a demonic bitch who now wants to kill somebody really bad!"

Last four days sucked. Mucho sucko.

Meanwhile, Kind of going through several affairs, getting my life in order for what could be the last time I set foot on american soil for a year, I did one of several things. I 'hid' my LJ journal entries. You may also take note that this blog has no archives. I did that on purpose.

The reason? Well, under the extremely unlikely event that something were to happen to me while I was over seas that would bring me instant and unwanted fame, I wouldn't want people to find things on me online that I have written. So I've been in the process of deleting things, or rather 'hiding' them from public eye. If you were to look on my LJ, you may note that there are only a handful of entries that are currently residing there as of now. I don't know why I left the ones i did, i just did.

Oh, and here's a first. Instead of the usual 'reese witherspoon' comment, today I recieved 'you look like Jessica Lynch,' which is a first. Actually, somebody mentioned before that while she was missing, when they saw her, they thought she looked a little like me, but that was when she had just been rescued. I hope that doesn't continue.

• Read Harry Potter Five

As you can well see, I have my priorities all sorted out.

*continues cursing*

My online presence over the course of the next week will be. . . minimal.

To Do List

• Call Soldier - Well that was easy
  
• Finish Packing room
  
• Figure out what's wrong with YACCS
  
• Cover Three Canvases with paint
  
• Buy Harry Potter Five
  
• Read Harry Potter Five
  
• Put Together AGR Packet
  
• Get HIV Test- interesting story behind this too.
  
• Write Memo for Active Duty - Never Mind
  
• Fine Tune Current Comic
  
• Get next dozen or so Comics done so there is something on when I head to San Antonio
  
• Get back Watercolors From Karen - YAY!!!
  
• Take Egon Schiele Books back
  
• Prep Art for Storage (or find a place to hang it)
  
• get prepared for art show at Far West
  
• Hound the army to get my pay right
  
• Get room Ready to paint
  
• Paint Room
  
• Pack Clothes
  
• to be added too
  

I got a lot of things to do. My presence on the interent will be minimal. However, now i have an easy way to check up on my dozen or so current comics that I read.

PS- Harry Potter comes out tommorrow. In other news, I'm broke.

I will explain myself one of these days. Today is just not my day.

EDIT - So, what was with me doing these random posts where I held cryptic messages thinking that my readers could read my thoughts? Hmm, I'm not exactly sure myself, but at this time, I moved my main blog, which turned into an EMO writing center, and just started a blog off fresh. This was my blog telling the world that I was starting over again. However, if you were new to the blog, you wouldn't have known this.

yesterday, I was practically eaten alive, and I have several massive welts all over my body (covered by many bandaids to prevent me from scratching) to prove it.

In other news, I officially killed my niece Jessica's love of horses by losing patience with her yesterday. I don't think I'll be a good teacher.

Oh, and I found a tick in my hair after hiking around Riverside State Park, which prompted me to run to the bathroom and order both of my nieces to strip after our brief excusion into the wilderness, to make sure they had no ticks on them. None was found. Whew.

Oh, and I lack any and all common sense. Just thought I would reaffirm that. For some reason, I have found myself in a funk and reluctant to do anything, including a homework assignment in Watercolor (my last class, considering I've completely shammed on Pre Cal, considering I won't be going to Western now.)

Life sucks. I'm having withdrawel issues and I have successful withdrawn from internet social life as well, er, except for my webcomic that nobody I know reads but that's ok.

I would go into detail but I'd rather not. Meanwhile, this site might be getting a complete makeover here shortly, and then I'll likely abandon it for a good three or four months when my computer gets packed away for who knows how long. Oh bliss.

Alright, had my monthly rant :)

Gosh darn it, if I have to be a loner, I'm going to be the best damn loner I can be!

Oh, and got to go back to work in about twenty minutes. Joy.

I'm also starting to see some slack in the area of comic strips. Mainly Creature. I got a comic drawn up, was supposed to have it posted yesterday but I got so busy working three eight hour shifts in a row at a job I hate. Ick. So I promised today and it's still not up. I'll put it up after I get off work. At 6.

Drew my friend Eto some fanart for her comic strip. I did one of Mory and MF and Mordred. They turned out alright, I guess. I'm my own worst critic however.

My back is peeling from my sunburn. Gross!

Ok, surfing around the internet for no apparent reason and realized something. I don't chat. With anyone. Hmm. . .

How i got to notice this is that I was surfing through blogs of complete strangers one day and realized, well, I don't know anybody on the internet. I mean nobody. I come on here a couple of times a day, maybe for a couple of minutes, maybe for three or four hours, and I don't do anything.

The only blogs I check regularly belong to people I actually knew before the internet (even if I just know them casually). Hmm, I am a loner, aren't I?

My sister keeps hounding at me to get out more. I should probably follow her advice. After tomorrow.

Meanwhile, i think I'm going to take advantage of the beautiful weather and start running. I need to get in shape for the next PT test, whenever it will be. I'm putting in my promotion packet this next week, it'll be wierd if I get it.

Ok, a list of pages I check on a semi-regular basis.

Yahoo Clubs once in a blue moon.

Mory's Education

Email.

Work on my own site (for hours at a time, doesn't show

Search sites at random

That's about it.

I need a life. Bad.

LMAO!!! That is too funny!

This is something I recently found, although by no means new to the internet.





When was the last time you...

1. ...sent a handwritten letter?
Hmm, May 19thish, I sent a card to a friend for her 21st birthday.

2. ...baked something from scratch or made something by hand?
A long time ago. I'm not a cook. At all. I think I made some cookies about three years ago for a basketball team?

3. ...camped in a tent?

Two Weeks Ago. For the Army. For ten days. Great fun. Got really stinky. Before that, memorial day.

4. ...volunteered your time to church, school, or community?

Was going to volunteer for Hoopfest, but things got busy and I ran out of time. I don't remember when I volunteered last.
I'm bad.

5. ...helped a stranger?


Igh! I plead the fifth! I don't recall at this time (it's late, I had like 3 hours of sleep last night, and have been up since 6:30). I do consider myself a good samaritin, honest!

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On other news, day was busy. I hate double discount days at work. That's a really good excuse to spend money on items I don't need. But I got this great deal on a pair of Sketchers and I couldn't resist. I needed a new pair of shoes. Of course, I bought a couple DVD's as well.

But my Army Check came in! Yeah! Joining the Army is probably one of the smartest things I ever did. It has bailed me out so many times. Of course, there is that small issue of PAY! Why do they keep demoting me to E3? I think I'm going to have to hound the finance guy daily until that get's sorted out. I'm so sick of that!

I think Pay is the biggest issue I've had since I joined the Army. I've had probably 4 pay problems since I joined and only one of them has been resolved. Ok, first, I went to two Drill Weekends before I even left for Basic Training. Back in 1999. I still haven't gotten paid for that. I also got promoted to E2 while I was in basic and didn't recieve E2 pay until three months later. That got resolved and I got back pay. I had a couple issues with GI bill, but that worked out over all and I am oh so grateful for that check every month, oh yeah! Well, anyway, I got promoted to E4 (Specialist, my current rank) in May of 2001. That's last year people. I got promoted with a eighteen months in, but I got my orders to prove that I do carry the rank. I didn't recieve E4 pay until November, and guess what? I went through an Annual Training during that time as well. And to top it off, now that I finally been recieving E4 pay, they demoted me back down to E3 in April. I don't remember getting that article 15! Where is this demotion that I never heard about! So anyway, now I'm getting E3 pay when I should be getting E4, and I just accomplished another AT with E3 pay.

This does add up in the long run. I can't wait to get my back pay for those two drill weekends I never got money for, PLUS 6 months of back pay for E4 (which includes an AT) and another 3 months of more Back Pay with another AT! I wanna know what is wrong with the system that they can't get my flippen' paygrade right!

Well, anyway, enough ranting. Other then the pay, army life is fine.

Stupid Drivers

people drive like idiots here. I'm driving on a two lane on-ramp to get on a freeway and I'm ahead of this one woman whose in the lane I need to merge onto. So I speed up a bit so I can merge in front of her (there's plenty of room.) And what does she do? The Jack-ass speeds up so I can't get in. I'm thinking to hell with this and continue to gun it and try to gently merge in and she won't let me in! I basically have to hold my hand out the window and give her the 'what in the hell are you trying to pull by saving two seconds to cut me off when I'm already ahead of you buddy?' look and she finally concedes and let's me in. Then when we get on the freeway she passes me up and guns it. What an idiot.

It happened again however coming off the freeway and I'm trying to merge onto the turn lane. I was level with the first person but I let them go ahead and try to merge in behind them but the moron behind them feels like it is necessary for them to speed up as well, and they try to cut me off to! I basically yelled at them, (hey stupid, my blinkers on and has been on) and pretty much force my way in front of them so they have to conceed.

Why can't people have a little bit of manners when Driving? I don't get it.

World of Darkness Quiz

Take the World of Darkness
Quiz
by David J Rust

haha, funny! Create an animal!.

Hmm, I should probably put a links page of sorts on this thing. Working on it I guess

Hmm, what an interesting little political quiz. I'm a centrist that leans to the right.

Just did an little overhaul (well, sort of) of the side bar to the side. Still adding stuff to it. But for now, I think it's come a long way. :)

Uh, oops :) Messed up my page, didn't i? Let me try that one more time. . . (btw, if you are reading this after I finished fixing my mistake, I just screwed up my blog. Bad.

What's Your Inner Demon?


this quiz was made by Melissa

i really need to work on the layout of this blog, to include the use of archives. . .

My town has to be one of the most boring places on the scrape of the planet. The most exciting thing to happen that would warrent the attention of every news station and three radio broadcasts is the grand opening of a Krispey Kreme Donut shop. I had one, they were pretty good and all, but the ones with sprinkles, man, that's just to much sugar.

But then, I'm not a big fan of junk food like Ice Cream and Donuts and such. I've been proud of myself for cutting back.

Today was rather interesting, however. My body is a sickly white color, not enough sun I guess. I was forced to where pants while I was in california so my legs are blinding when I wear shorts. It was rather embarrassing, so since I had the day off, I decided to go out for a tan.

I'm a bit red now. We went to a place called Pine River Park and just hung out there for a good portion of the day. As a joke, since we were basically finished burning ourselves, we decided to head over to the People's Park close to downtown. I had never been there before so I thought it might be rather humorous.

Hmm, that's an understatement. You see, The People's Park is a nudist colony, and basically it's a conglamoration of a bunch of hippy throwbacks from the sixties. Very scary. This one woman had the equevilant body mass of three or four people. When ever we walked by, these men would stand up so we could get a clear view of their balls. I think most of the men there were gay.

That might have been a bit much for my virgin eyes. But then again, I did take a figure drawing class. The guy that sat in a couple times then was young and had a nice body. A really nice body. Of course, I was staring at it for the entire class as I was forced to draw it. I don't know what it is about naked people, especially guys, when you first see one just out there in a semi-public setting, you can't help but giggle.

"It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one."

Phil White

Just surfing the net. Because they asked me to, I put BlogSnob on my website. And I've been surfing through it ever since.

Stumbled on this quiz. Got two out of ten. Interesting. . .

Still working on the layout of named blog that you are reading right now. Did a quick comic for Creature, however it won't be up until tomorrow. I don't know if it makes any sense whatsoever. If it does, great, if it doesn't, sue me.

Surfing around a bit and am intensely curious as to how people create some of their websites. Some people are really creative. I get slightly envious. I'm not as creative as I would like to be. But then, I'm not the computer whiz that i wish I was.

THis site needs more links on it. It be very bland. If anyone wonders why I did "Sepia edition" for now, well, I just revamped my entire flippen website and I needed something simple to unify it until I can teach myself more about being a webmaster.

I taste like Nuclear Waste. Delicious. Tasting like nuclear waste is a good thing - nothing bites me, nothing eats me, few things even touch me. I appreciate the solitude my harsh exterior brings. What Flavour Are You?

*snickers* I'm nuclear waste!!!

I'm still horribly charred from yesterday's excursion in the sun. I had to sleep in a bikini top so that I could air out my back.
Anyway, enough rambling. . . For now.

Writing Addictions

Oh, and I've been in a writing frenzy as of late. Almost done with the second installment of my firstest book. Then it's off to the third part in the rather bizarre and somewhat strange series that I do not allow anyone to read. To get a clear idea of the size of this, um, story, the first part is almost 200,000 words. like 195,000 or something. The second part is longer. about 235,000 words. Or it will have when it's completed. Don't ask what it's about. Just surf around the homesite until you find my confusing synopsis. But something tells me that the third installment won't be as long. but then, I didn't think i would drag out the second book as long as I have in that it would have to end in ANOTHER book! I've been working on this story for nearly four years now, btw. Four years this fall. And while working on this one, I've started three other *clears throat* stories.

Maybe I should just update that site.

Yeah. That's it.

"Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet."

--Jack Handy