Vampire bugs stink. (Like anyone didn't know that already.) We have a swamp about a half-mile from our house, so there's mosquitoes EVERYWHERE.
Got 22 bites this week. Got 6 more last night. And I'm probably gonna get more when I go to camp next month.
And yes, I counted all of them. They itch. Badly.
*looks for aloe vera cream*
Help me.
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On a good note, the guys in my family are gone for the week (Boy Scout thing), so my mom has a whole bunch of stuff planned for the rest o
I hurt my wrists today.
Somehow, without having anyway to hurt them, they are in much nerve-related pain. I can't turn them palm-side-up without hurting myself.
Dad thinks it's carpal tunnel syndrome.
I hope it's not. :X Already have limited wrist mobility because of a cist on one hand (long story) - don't need/want anything else. D:
Also, help relieve some of the pain of AC planning by giving us some feedback on AC17! It's been a little slow this year and we still need your ideas.
Well, AC11 just ended, and here's the results...
Other
Biomech won with 65 votes.
Zumoro Nuva was in second with 64 votes.
Air-Master was in third with 46 votes.
Computer Assisted:
Theisen won with 79 votes.
Lyger was in second with 55 votes.
Brave Dragon was in third with 38 votes.
Handdrawn:
Khote won with 71 votes.
I was in second with 67 votes.
Toa Shmoa was in third with 63 votes.
...
Ah well. At least I didn't get third again.
Hooray for Biome
Our church has been under the process of constructing a brand new Children's Wing over the past year or so. It's been greatly needed for a looong time - we have up to 120-130 kids and 20-25 adults participate for both Sunday School and Children's Church every week, and the previous building we had could only fit about 90 safely. It was crazzzy.
So now the building is nearly finished. Electricity works, plumbing works. The new servers for all our computers are huge and sweet.
We had our fi
ONLY 14 DAYS LEFT OF SCHOOOOOOL! =D
Yes, that does include weekends, but still...
What's even cooler is that, once I get this stuff done, I will have all my core curriculum finished, so techinically I can go to college. I won't be (yet), but it'll be nice not to have to do English, Math, Science, or Social Studies until I do enter insaneland college.
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For those of you that would care to keep me in your thoughts:
I need a job. BADLY. And nobody's called me in for an interview a
I got Blog of the Week? Wha? ME?
*freaks out*
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Wow, I'm glad my blog entertains people. Thanks!
And now I have a spiffy new banner!
(News-wise...ah, it's Sunday, and I've only been home, like, an hour, so I don't have much news... Sorry. )
~Nikira
Emergency just came up.
I'll be leaving tomorrow morning for Minnesota, first thing.
I have no idea when I'll be back. Probably around next Tuesday or so. And i don't think I will have computer access at all during that time.
SOOOO, in the meantime...
Enjoy this messily-made LEGO cake.
See you all next week.
~Nikira
'Allo all.
I shall be leaving today for Brunswick, Georgia today, for a work project on assorted houses there. I shall be gone from today until very late on the 21st/very early on the 22nd.
I will also have no Internet access whatsoever, so if something important comes up and I need to be PMed or something like that, please remember that I will not be able to respond until next Saturday, at the least.
And don't be surprised if I start typing in a Southern accent and sound like Lady K w
I'm scared of the SAT. I take it the first week in May, according to my registration ticket, and I am not ready for it...
Rephrase: I'm not ready for the Mathematics portion.
I mean, I just did the practice tests on the College Board website about an hour ago. The Writing Skills and the... uh.. other one (forgot the name...><), I got either 6 or 7 out of 7 correct.
...I only got 3 out of the 7 Mathematics questions correct... none of the geometry ones were right...
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Does anyone else (besides me) think that Krika would look even more uberultraawesome if his four legs and his head glowed in the dark like Nocturn?
*has set and is liking it*
*is not liking its hard-to-draw-in-Niki-style factor, but will figure it out eventually* @_<
-Nikira
Today is the 3rd day in a row where it's rained and thundered and lightning-ed, all day long.
...
I thought it was summer. What happened to the sun? :[
shush lightninged is SO a word
-Nikira
1st project/3 projects completed.
18 hours, 23 visible layers. Full-view for best quality.
NOW I can work on that other thing, Smeag me boy gal (project #2). : D
...
*also finally has an idea for AC15 after scrapping over 20 different sketches* (Project #3)
-Nikira
Well, voting ends today. Lady K and I are more or less tied for 4th in our poll, but hey, at least we didn't, like, totally lose. Congratulations, LK.
*hands her a congratulatory piece of cake with big frosting flower on top*
Cheers to a not-unlucky-number-AC next time.
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I spent, like, half of yesterday on BZP (like that isn't surprising. ). When the board was down, I finally re-opened Photostudio and got to work on finishing another piece that's been LONG overdue...
And, voil
No, not deep, you silly.
I messed the eyes up. T_____T
But, whee, here's a picture.
4 hour sketch, cardstock and mechanical pencil (8B drawing pencil for large blocks of shading).
Now off to what has prevented me from picturing in the first place.
*goes to do homework*
-Nikira
I'm going somewhere fun on Saturday. I'll be there for two weeks.
Guess who'll be there with me? (:
Also, yes, this means you'll prolly not see much of me until I get back (not like you guys see much of me in the first place). XD
*asdfgiggle*
Now excuse me, I have to go unpack all my college belongings and fit them into an ittybittytinylittle room. Grf. :[
-Nikira
...with the picture drawn below.
Notice that slight itty-bitty change?
Niki got 6 inches of her hair chopped off for senior pictures, man.
And I oddly enjoy it.
-Nikira
No, not those pirates, ya sillies. That movie doesn't come out until the 4th. I should know. It's cirled and dotted and has big red arrows pointing to its date on my calendar.
No, it's more like the pirates that Turakii would hang out with. Pirates of the more economical nature.
Pirates like these guys.
(Apologies for the poor quality - sending a picture through several e-mails killed it. >>)
My whole family's going to see a screening of this loverly diddy on Monday. From wh
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It's kinda empty around here art-wise. Sorry guys.
I really need to draw something one of these days. Or put my art topic back together (it's been dead for almost two years now.) School is killing my time.
School, please stop being so hard to keep up with.
Like now, when i'm trying to finish a huge giganto paper when my brain really turned off like two hours ago. D:
asdakjlghagaaaaaaaaaaaaaah haaah. ;____________;
I want it to be December. ;.;
Al
I got accepted to my college! My up-on-a-pedestal, I-really-want-to-go-there college!
8D
*celebration*
I've only got one other person I know going there (none of my best friends, which is a bummer), but for what I've seen of this school, it'll be alright. It's a larger school - about 3,000 students on a 400-acre campus. The academics are amazing, mostly in business, engineering, forensics and debate (their debate team is amazing to watch, holy cow), but their fine arts program is certai
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Hi, all. Boy, this Independence Day has been real fun.
Around 9 this morning, my family went to walk in our Patriotic parade. This was my first time as a walker/person who gets to throw lolipops at people, and it was pretty fun. ^^
Once the parade was done, all the walkers piled onto the float as we drove back to the parking lots.
And, wonder of all wonders, it started to rain.
None of us had jackets, of course, so all 36 of us just sat there as the
Don't ya DARE mess with Harley Quinn when she's had only two hours o' sleep.
I'll be liable to rip off th' arms of whoever comes near me next.
Or I'll sick my hyenas on ya.
Or I can sick my hyenas on ya decapitated arms.
*growl*
