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Ok, see me and my dad were driving down to my aunt's house, we decided to stop at one of those grungy "travel plazas". As were ordering lunch Evanescence starts playing on the overhead speakers that are normally reserved for boring elevator music. Me, I like it, though I can't imagine that that most customers would find it calming after a long day on the road.
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Yes! On Monday, my dad is going shopping for a new computer. This one's something of a junkheap (10 popups a day, and our virus protection doesn't seem to be doing anything), so it's time to upgrade. There's only one problem I've got with that: Nowadays, all you can buy is Windows Vista (Sure, there are Macs, but my mum's not interested in learning a new operating system; she can barely stand Windows) and from what I've heard, it's not the heaven that Microsoft promised; rather, it's more of a nightmare. In the meantime, I doubt I'll be on BZP much. I'll try to make a new comic, but... Dlakii
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first entry... this is to discuss about me and everithing...first fo all ill thank my dad and mum who paid those 11 dollars. second i broke a world record...first south american to get premier membership. third please comment news: there will be a new group called the high tech MOC building... there will be an about my life entry per 1-2 days...
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Mood: Currently Listening To: Black Mountain Rag – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Currently Doing: On BZP, Talking on IM, about to play GW Annatare wins the awesome sticker for the day. I am so going to draw one now! Anyway, joyous glorious days! I feel super duper, all fluffy and...Ok I am scaring everyone; let's just say I am in a good mood--nearing my doom of getting hyper. Well, the only thing I am feeling sad about is my art. I feel disorganized or something. >< And it's annoying...But oh oh! My mom got me a pack of 12 Prismacolors pencils! She got them on sale, and let me tell you; they are soooo good. Much vibrant than my cheapos. <3 So yeah, I have started on drawing the Toa Inika in a group, and I hope to do a few other Toa groups at it. So yeah...Besides me in an artistic mood, I have some school to finish, then I should be free for rest of the day. And a lot of it shant have too many disruptions since my mom and siblings are going to 4-H. I hope to finish at least 2 requests, that group picture and a few other things before the end of the week. But that reminds me, as for a Easter/Spring Break vacation, my family is heading up to Tennessee to see Relatives, perfectly fine with me as I love seeing everyone up there and I need a break from school. I of course will bring my art stuff there; I'll have lots of time to draw. =D Ok, ok, I'll go now. Got 30 minutes left till I have more school, need to print out some things and I'd like to play a bit of Guild Wars... Oh BTW, Guild Wars 2 is coming out around next year!!! Yay!
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Mood: Tired Currently Listening to: American Patrol - Glenn Miller Orchestra Just watched: Madame Curie ^I am now seriously obsessed with big band/jazz, and oldies movies. Wow...well...Hi. It's been forever since I actually sat down and have had time to make an entry! I also had time to play a bit of Guild Wars today! It's a miracle. Seriously, school has been very hard for the past week, and I have done round 60% of the chores these days. For some reason an inner urge to clean our kitchen and stuff came within. So it is so nice to see a clean house. Well I’m not sure how much I will be on for awhile; or until my moms computer is fixed. Good news is my dad got new stuff for my mom’s broken computer, so everyone won’t be fighting over the computer. Sad thing is—my computer is now the oldest. ;-; I remember when I got my computer, it was a top awesome super gaming computer. Now my mom has a better video card than me….. Yeaaah she plays lots of video games. =P *Sigh* I will get over this jealousy. And so I have a mere 30 minutes till bedtime. I must use them wisely. Ciao! (I will try to respond to PMs, review needed topics and such asap)
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Yay, I get to be a zombie for a week!
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Hey, more friends round... Not my friends though, my parent's friends And I'm tired. And LGD and COT being closed sucks. I have nothing to do. I hate life sometimes...
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That I will probably hate forever. Yet another April 1st Prank... I think... Deleting COT and LGD? Heh... I hope they don't, anyway Of course, if they don't... Today... Was... quite good. I am currently extremely tired And, of course, exited about only just becoming a premier member, which is very cool, of course I currently have some friends round, who are being quiet... (phew)... And... That's pretty much it... How my day was... Heh...
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Dear Texas, Texas A&M, Wisconsin, and most of all, Kansas: You suck. I hate you. -With sincerest regards, DV's bracket.
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I really need to revamp my blog (and pay more attention to it). Two entries ago was before Christmas... Anyway, today's my birthday! Which means it's Aanchir's birthday as well! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, US! ...'ahem'.... Post comments...
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Tomorrow's my birthday! Which means tomorrow's Lyichir's birthday as well! I really am not doing much to celebrate, although I am going to Rome over spring break. But as of right now, I should be available tomorrow. Just thought I'd keep you informed, since I'm such a new member. -
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The library is one of my favorite places... BOOOOOOOOOOOOKS. Also FOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. Yeah, while biking home from the library after volunteering I was overwhelmed by the smell of something greasy and fried. I mean, the only food place nearby was a Dunkin' Donuts. Not generally a place where you'd find french fries and othersuch foodstuffs. Maybe I was having olfactory hallucinations due to my hunger (it was 5:30, almost dinnertime). Or maybe the cars were all using biodiesel. I hear when burned it smells like fast food, and is better for the environment (though maybe not your arteries! HAHAHAHA... ha... okay that one was bad). But books. Yeah. Terry Pratchett is this school year's official author. Last year I cleared out every single Orson Scott Card book on the shelves, not even kidding. If I brought up the library's record of every book by him, I could point at every single one and go "read it." This year I'm working on Mr. Pratchett's very humorous works of parody, satire, and also deep life lessons and morals, with very thought-provoking insights into the way society and human nature works. I wanna read his earlier Discworld books though! The library doesn't stock Color of Magic or Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Sourcery, nothing. The earliest one I found was Soul Music, where Death has not yet acquired small caps and his granddaughter is first (I think) introduced. Oh, and Susan Sto Helit? Coolest girl on the Disc, hands down. I've already read the other two books in which she features, Hogfather and Theif of Time. I so wanna read Mort and Reaper Man and such. But of course, the library don't have them. Oh, and the City Watch ones, love those too. I've read... Men at Arms, Jingo, Night Watch, um... ooooh, correction on earlier statement. Apparently Men at Arms came before Soul Music, but still. Nothing before those. And Monstrous Regiment, I suppose counts too. Sorta. Thud! is sitting in my room right now, along with Soul Music-- those are the two I just got today. So yeah. Vetinari rocks. I've read... all 3 Tiffany Aching books currently out. Unrelated to Discworld, Only You can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead (apparently there's another one, Johnny and the Bomb, never found that one). Also, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (don't eat the green wobbly bit). Not to mention Going Postal (loved that one). As for Rincewind and the wizards, I've read Interesting Times, and The Last Hero, which was actually the first Pratchett book I ever read. Interesting Times I have to say is the least favorite of all the ones I've read. I mean, it's still a pretty fun book but not as... interesting (HAHAHAHAHA... ha... okay, that one was even worse) as the name would imply. Terry Pratchett has a very unique style with these books. A lot of them involve a mystery going on throughout almost on another plane where everything all comes together in the end and the clues and hints all make sense. There's plenty of humor, entertainment, and social commentary. The plots are always engaging. And you leave reading it, really, having gained something. I mean, say any old thriller, or a horror book/movie, stuff like that, it's generally got about the moral implications of a brick. Not to say they're bad books, nothing like that. There are certainly books out there that exemplify the genre, but that's just it. Those kind of books, the purpose is generally to keep the reader engaged and entertained, to provide suspense and cliffhangers and make you want to read more. And they do it very well. I mean, Dan Brown and the Da Vinci Code and that kind of stuff, sure there's more meaning than "there were lots of chases and things blew up." But still, in the end, it's about the thrill. And then there are the books that can accomplish both purposes. People die, things blow up, there's lots of humor, and you walk away thinking... "Hmmm..." ---------- I've simultaneously started on Thud! and Soul Music, both looking to be quite promising. GO SUSAN GO! =D
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I'm working on getting a MAJOR update on my site I've not updated it in weeks and I need to update the song of the week in this blog but I have a very good reason...Homework!I've had a geography project about a european country (besides Italy and the UK) of my choice AND I've got a history assesment after the easter holidays wich start at exactly 3:20pm tomorow morning for me. *Yami*
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Ah, yes, change is good... ... Yes, I love The Lion King, but that wasn't the point of this entry. The point is, the weather is improving. Today was sorta blustery but yesterday, oh man, yesterday, it was EIGHTY DEGREES OUT! I mean, but a week ago I was freezing my fingers off and there was snow on the ground! And yesterday was so beautiful! Nothing more than a nice breeze, sun hot enough to make you genuinely sweat without even excercising, PRETTY WEATHER! Yeah. We went to the playground, me an' my sister, and there were a bunch of kids there, and I ended up in a very large game of keep-away-from-the-mob-of-children. I was very good at it, took them a good long while to get me. It's probably because I can jump from 10 feet in the air down to the ground safely, while they can't. When I'm on the equipment, so are they. When I get off, well, they're still on. But alas I was cornered in a situation where I'd have to jump, and below there was already a throng waiting like expectant sharks before a meal. I hit the ground running, which means my knees weren't doing the very useful job of recoiling from the impact. I hit the ground a second time as my legs also failed to perform the necessary task of keeping me balanced. This time it was much harder and I got woodchips down my side. Then I had a bunch of little fists beating on my back and generally causing pain and discomfort so I called a time-out (most of the kids ignored it) so I could brush myself off and empty the woodchips from my shoes. All in all a fun day, though I had to take a shower as soon as I came back. We went there today, too, and there were less kids so I didn't get mauled quite so much. Fun times.
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I may have already ranted about how bad that new playground is, but I just took my sister there today, and I must comment on it, it absolutely stinks. It's not just poorly designed. If you ask me, it's unSAFE. Heck, I'm ready to write in to complain. See, it's NEW, a lot newer and fancier, but it's like they tried to make it look pretty and shiny before making it work well for children. No part of a playground equipment should be open that is above four feet. By open I mean like, a ladder, you know? Big gaping hole in the railing. A kid could fall through there. Now a spiral slide, okay. It could go up to about ten feet but there's going to be thick railing on either side and on the sides of the slide too, and the staircase extends up to there only for the slide, nothing else comes down from it. And if it's a straight slide or a net or something, great. If a kid falls, it's on a gentle angle. But a rock wall that's six feet tall? Geez! The normal height of a kid who's going to be on there is THREE FEET. That's double their height! And the rock wall! We went to this playground in this nice park somewhere else, it's not far but we had to drive there. Not a place we could walk to regularly, at least. It had a very good rock wall on the playground. It was elevated at about 50, 60 degrees, nice wide foot and handholds, about six inches wide each, you didn't even half to climb it, you could step up it. And overall it was about three feet tall. There was a very nice thing on the back of it, too. If you went behind the rock wall there'd be an embossed T-Rex fossil, which is very cool. Very gentle, yet challenging for the little guys, and safe. The rock wall here is SHEER. It's six feet tall and ONE FOOT WIDE. That's, what, eighty degrees? And the foot and handholds are about an inch each! My sister didn't even bother to attempt that. If someone falls off of that, which is very likely... I mean, I had trouble getting up, and I'm nearly four times her age. And the SLIDE. No children's slide should be more than 30 degrees. What kid would want to slide down something that's as long as it is tall? That's SCARY. And I think I mentioned, the first time she tried the slide my sister SLID OFF THE END OF IT AND ONTO THE WOODCHIPS. She started crying. And the curve! The slide makes a sharp right turn, then a sharp left turn, in the hopes of being more fun. Well it doesn't work when you do the zigzag within FOUR FEET. The kid sliding just gets knocked around! Please, these playground companies should stop trying to be all new and fancy. THERE'S A REASON THE OLD EQUIPMENT WORKED. *sigh*...
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It all started on the way to school today.... I had just brought up Star Wars for no reason, then I said: "Why do you think George Lucas has an overobsession with limb hacking?" What do you think?
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Didn't go to work today, took some time to go to take a stroll along the seashore and hike along one of the local docking peers. You know, to clear my mind of negative and traumatic stuff. And it worked, kinda. I always find it relaxing to take a walk along the shore. The sound of the waves breaking onto the beach... The seagulls who are looking for food (and who try to s-bomb you on occasion)... It's also one of the best looking places in my hometown. We get a view of 3 out of the 5 islands which are lined up in the northern part of the Netherlands. Been to two of them in times long forgotten. I took some pics while sitting on the peer, looking out over the sea. I had forgotten how beautiful everything looked, since the last time I was there during daytime was a couple of years ago. I should do that more often and see if I can meditate the next time I'm there. I wonder what was on board that ship... The Sea....with a ship. The dike that hopefully protects my hometown for possible springtides. Reflection of the Sun on the water. The Sun itself. Our 'beach' with an old monument. [seasons come and seasons go...] It seems that IXI won't return to BZP, since he discovered a site that's dedicated to the upcoming game Infinity. You and your witty comments will be missed around here man... I guess he won't be writing any .Space stories anymore... *sigh* [...But our Love will last forever.] I'm pretty far with Knights of the Old Republic II. I'm back on Telos - Citadel Station. I love the plot twists in the later part of the game. When I saw them, I was like "whoa frack..." It's so awesome. I like games with good stories... That reminds me, I gotta get my hands on the PC versions of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII. Completed the demo of the latter, which was awesome. The attacks looked shmooth. I've seen a lot of good times with you, it feels so right...
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Yes, Valentine's day. Where couples exchange kisses and express how much they love eachother. Unfortunately, I do not yet have a girlfriend, so for now I just make cards for my family... *sigh* I'm so lonely..... Anyway, today we got out at 12:26, so that was good. Easy math test 2nd period, and snow. Lots of snow. Unfortunately, it didn't start snowing until 6:00, so there wasn't enough to cause a snow day. Now there is, but it's too late.... Dang. Tomorrow I don't care, 'cause I'll be in Florida! Yay! 10 days in the suN! MGM studios, Orlando, oceans, and, oh yeah, grandparents. Meh, LOST is tonight, and we may finally rejoin the other half of the island. Finally! Ooh- forgot to talk about Heroes! Zane Taylor is DEAD, killed by Sylar, posing as Dr. Suresh. Now Sylar is posing as Zane. Wow. Sandra's brain is going crazy, 'cause they erased her memory too much. We didn't see Peter at all, and that bugged me. Aw well, at least now we now that Jessica's in control and is a hitwoman. Nikki may be more real than we think.... Matt stole the diamonds, and Nathan's going down.... Hiro's in trouble, and Ando's lost fath in their friendship. Wooh- cool. exo attack is today's random member. EDIT: Well, the SW fad is over. *sigh* I'm back to my normal banner and avatar.
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So the other day I was on my way to Edmond from Stillwater, and I noticed steam coming from underneath my hood. So, like anyone who has no idea about how cars work, I pull into Wal*Mart, and flip out. My radiator hose had sprung a leak, and was spraying antifreeze all over my engine. Yay. So I bought a new radiator hose ($25). I bought a thing of antifreeze ($7). I needed a screwdriver to change the hose with ($9). I decided to check my oil while I was at it, and I was almost out, so I bought more ($5). I was on my way to a blind-date my friend Alana had set me up on. I had to cancel, as there went my date-fund (I'm kind've unemployed, technically, and I'd been saving all I had for this date, and the Brickfest MOC package [more on that farther down]). Then I needed gas, so there's another twenty. So there I was, down about $75. So now I had no date (though I still drove to Edmond to chill with Alana), and no money to even mail packages to KIE. Sucks.
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3/17 (Sat): St. Patrick's Day? This event was entirely ignored. Dad was gone all day, helping his Troop organize their stuff in the afternoon, and then attending an expensive Scout dinner because a seat opened. Mom and I went shopping, and we came home with a pair of green and blue shoes. That was all the green I wore all day. I also got my graduation announcement pictures, which I will publish with my art after we get a new scanner. 3/18 (Sun): We went to Disneyland, for the first time since Christmas! We spent virtually the whole afternoon in Tomorrowland. We went on several familiar rides (not Space Mt.)s and then we saw two things for the first time: ASIMO in the Innoventions and the Jedi Academy. The former was awesome, but Mom was surprised by how short ASIMO was (4 ft). The height didn't bother me; shows what I get for being a Bionicle fan. For the Star Wars, I'm not a fanatic (TOV is), but one of the participants matched my enthusiasm and appearance... it was actually funny, especially as these young children sword fought with Darth Vader. Then we (finally) went to Downtown Disney, and I (finally) got AXONN, BRUTAKA, VEZON/ FENRHAK, and DELFAK! I will build them this weekend. 3/19 (Mon): There are two ways I could start. One is "I hate Mondays," but I'll go with this: You can't see my braces... and with the help of the Vahki, hygiene shall be maintained! I got my braces yesterday, they are Invisalign. I bought a Bordahk toothbrush months ago, waiting for the arrival of my braces to use them. When I went to the Orthodonist, I was not expecting to have "attachments" added, nor was I expecting weird feelings the rest of the day. The braces look like topographical maps of my teeth, and they fit so well that my fingers are still sore from removing them before lunch. They say that they will get looser as the days pass, until two weeks later when they are nearly falling off. Then I'm supposed to go to the next tray, and so on... until JULY. i just hope Mom doesn't boast about it too much. When TOV got the Invisalign, Mom had him show them off to all of her fellow teachers and everyone else she talked to. I'll also have to bear the revival of the "bulletproof teeth" jokes. NEXT TOPIC: SUMMER PLANS.
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It's amazing, isn't it... My parents both went to college, then graduate school. Both have PhD's. And my dad spends his days doing computer programing to boot! He orders new "toys" all the time, various new high-speed stuff, more memory, and gadgets I can't even begin to fathom the function of. Now recently our family cell phone plan has been switching around and all, and I have no idea what my parents have been doing to it but we've got a family set of brand spankin' new phones, with all the camera and photo sending and games and probably internet and IM access. Two adults who've run the entire course of higher education with high degrees, and they haven't a clue how to open the text messaging utility. Yet give a cell phone to even the dumbest of high school or middle school kids and they'll be sending and receiving messages within five minutes. Durned newfangled tek-nawlogeez.
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We went to Certamen today! Er, that's the Latin competition. MISSED A WHOLE DAY OF SCHOOL YESSS! And I don't have to take a math Pop Quiz because of it! I'm SO happy... Certamen was pretty fun. I had to sit out for two of the rounds though since we wanted one of our guys in for all 3 rounds, since he knew everything. Well, not REALLY, but he was our best teammate. Oh well. I'd say I helped our team score a grand total of at least 20 points! ... of course across alll 3 rounds we accumulated about 300, but oh well. We won two of the rounds and I still say we should have won the other one. The other team got the easiest question in the world and our guy so had his hand up first. I mean, the answers were mosaic, fresco, and bas relief. It was asking about what's laying colored tiles on the ground or painting on fresh plaster! And they didn't know the bas relief one but a girl on our team did. Anyway, in that round we lost by 15 points, and would have won by 25 if we had gotten that question. Oh well. We probably came in second. I mean, there was this other team who went before us in one of the rooms, they won the round 195 to 0. THAT is scary. Absolutely shut out. Wow. I was starving by the time the three rounds were finished, so I paid 7 bucks for a cheese steak and soda. In hindsight I oughta have paid 4 bucks for the slice of pizza and soda, but whatever. The other restaurant sold a sandwich for EIGHT BUCKS. I don't care how good or how big that sandwich is, who sells a sandwich for EIGHT DOLLARS? Oh, and I forgot to mention. The New Jersey Junior Classical League Certamen competition was held at the beautiful Princeton University campus. Wonderful architecture, a lot of history, very cramped auditoriums. But I really love the architecture. You got these beautiful elegant columns and towering arches and battlements and stained glass... it's positively picturesque. I shoulda brought a camera, but then again I'd rather not lug around an extra ten pounds of very fragile machinery all day to the various rounds of competition and then the school bus and parent teacher conferences... But yeah. Princeton. Beautiful place.
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Snow is wonderful if you want to bundle up in a jacket and mittens and boots and go outside and build snowmen and igloos and throw snowballs and all that fun stuff. Snow is the last thing you want when riding a bicycle. Let me just say, for those people who shovel the sidewalk in front of their house, THANK YOU! And for those who don't... well, I must stay within BZP language guidelines but let me say it's not appreciated. And for those who shovel more than just what's in front of their house, you deserve a gold medal. It is absurdly hard to bike through snow. See, I was volunteering at the library today, which is not far and I know a pretty convenient route. I always bike there if I can't get a ride. But the weather and the snow... Let me tell ya something. The wind ALWAYS blows in the exact opposite direction you're going in. No matter what. And the snowplows! The ramps at the end of the sidewalk have these five-foot tall mountains of snow piled up on top of them! Every time I need to get on and off a sidewalk it's like a game of Breakout. And, here's a funny story. I'm right across the street from the library, and the traffic is passing, and I see an opening and I make it across and I'm like, "HAH! Take that, Murphy's law!" Then I round the corner, my front wheel goes into a patch of snow, it slips sideways, I go in the other direction, and end up with a lot of snow on my leg, knee, and gloves. At least I HAD gloves, and didn't end up with fingers ready to fall off... Oh, and to get to the library the longest stretch is through this other development. The sidewalks there stink. So I bike on the road, since it is after all residential. But I bike on the left side. Because here's my philosophy. If a car is coming up behind me, I don't have to worry about it, it'll pass on the other side of the road. But if a car is coming toward me, I'll be on the same side of the road and I'll see it, and be able to get out of the way (again, residential area, slow cars). If you let everything pass you by on the right, you might get snuck up on from behind. Better to see it head on, and let those going the same way pass.
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Current Mood: Happy Currently Doing: Downloading Sims stuff and talkin' on MSN Currently Watching: National Treasure....And now 101 Dalmatians? Necro you cleaned out your inbox yet? Anyway, let me spill this out: Ok on Saturday I went to a fair thing, lots of fun and I did a rock climb, but I got very sore because I haven't done it awhile, and the sites were awesome. Later I went to the mall with friends and I couldn't find anything I wanted, so I got this cool belt and some black fingernail polish. So then we get home, watch the movies Flyboys with my dad, and went to bed. (Very good movie though, better than I expected) Next morning we all slept late and ended not going to church, still I didn't get much computer time, then we went to some friends house and hung around, I babysitted while my parents and their friends went to see the movie Amazing Grace. So they got back, ate dinner and left for a church deal and I babysitted once again. So then the next day we have school, finally able to get on for awhile, I go to art, I finish a painting, and I go home and babysit once again for some people, then I crash. Lovely day ain't it? Well, I almost finished drawing NE, and coloring Kinali. Though I have a question, should I just kill off the sketch part? It might save me time and make it faster to update knowing that the sketching part isn't needed to show, yet again I think requester likes the sketches even though messy...so opinions? Off to do...sumthin.
