i really hope the beginning of this new year doesn't prove how the rest will go for my friends. my roommate was dismissed last night :( and two of my closest friends are interwoven into the same strand of chaos, this strand effecting one more than the other i would say. (can i be any more cryptic?)

in any case, i am not going to be going in to work today so that i can get to houston and be there for my friends. this whole thing has caused me to not get any sleep and have thus been awake for nearly 24 hours at the time of posting this. if i were to do my shift (which i am in no condition to do, i can barely think straight) that would put me at my destination between 11pm-12am which is WAY too long for me to be awake. at 28 ish hours i normally start to really feel the effects of insomnia and will be unable to function properly. it's just best if i get there as soon as possible so i am not a road hazard and so i can get to my friends promptly to support them in what is sure to be a greater bout of emotional upheaval than it has been in the last 14 hours.

please, anyone who is of faith, burn a candle for my friends and roommate for good luck. . . and pray i don't run off the side of a road on my way to houston lol. i promise, if i start getting to where i am falling asleep, i will pull over as soon as i can and nap. better safe and sorry and i can think of a few people who know how it can end when people are dangers on the road or drive while sleep deprived.

i guess i am mainly typing this all out so i can stay awake until i go to my work building to tell them i cannot do my shift today. hopefully they will understand that i need to be there for my friends.

<3

I was surprised by tonight's Late Late Show ... my favorite celebrity person, Craig Ferguson, was married over the holidays :D! He has said in the past that he would never marry again, but as evidenced throughout the show, he seems very excited and happy - and thus I am ecstatic for him! May he and his wife Megan have many happy days!

I also recently colored a picture from Tealin



Coloring is very time consuming, but I always have such fun playing around doing it.

I have also recently been hooked on a Severus Snape - Hermione Granger fan fic which can be found at http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=7357 . It's very AU but I have found myself stuck on it the last week.

I also discovered Winamp's shoutcast radio feature :D! Needless to say, I have been listening to a lot of country and jpop LOL , , , how different can those two genres be!? I have also watched You've Got Mail 3 times in the last 2 days and am still working my way through Paper Mario.

I love having nothing to do and don't look forward to Thursday when I return to work, but I know I need the hours and will look forward to seeing my co-workers again and getting an income. Everything really does work itself out in time, ne.

Thank you, God. <3

hello again and happy new year's eve to all! i hope everyone is going to have fun! i will be heading to my sister's house about 30 minutes away to ring in the new year with her and some other family. my poor kitty, mr. tibbles, will be left here at the apartment until i come home some time tomorrow.

i have two friends who are ill, so i wish them better health and quick recoveries.

i think i finally got a good idea for the main plot of the story, so i am just going to be revising a bit tomorrow before maybe starting the damn story this weekend. i'm not sure if i want to post the story itself on here or just link to ff.net. i'm not all that savvy with LJ so i will probably just link anything i write.

i've been playing a buttload of paper mario the last few days... i think i am around 14hrs? it's very addicting.

anyhow, i hope anyone reading this is well and may your new year be prosperous and plentiful!

so, i have been a very bad cheeky monkey and haven't been giving this place enough attention :( [not that i have any loyal readers har har]. i've been thinking about really using this account but then i realize if i try to commit i might feel obligated and then loose interest :/

so, it is 2 days before the new year. i have my health, my friends, my wonderful co-workers, my kitty . . . but alas, no money. i am, in fact, in the whole as i type and am waiting to hear back about a small loan. i am quite stressed at the moment, not knowing how I am going to pay the rent that is due, the bills, or buy pet supplies. i really need this loan, so any powers that be, cross your fingers for me? maybe even your toes?

i have decided upon my new year's resolution - i usually slack off school until it comes time for a quiz or test. for japanese, i just don't go some days because i am way too tired and know i can study it just fine on my own. for other classes, i don't do required reading on time or sometimes, at all! but somehow i manage A's and B's... my New Year's Resolution is to stop doing this! I am going to try to go to classes every day that I am not ill, I am going to do my reading when it is assiged, I am going to start studying days before a test instead of the day before. I am going to stop the majority of my procrastinating.

sound like a good goal? maybe i should add not calling in for work when i don't feel a little good just because i can. . . nahh. if you don't feel good, and you CAN call in sick, you should right? hmm, i will have to ponder this.

in other news - i am considering attempting a harry potter fan fic. the first ones i wrote back in high school were quite bad, the only one i still like being my one about Snape going to a club for his birthday at wandpoint from his fellow staff members. i believe i deleted the other ones from my ff.net account. they were horrible :/ if i do attempt this one, i want it to be right because i really love the pair it would involve and i really really really want to do it just. HONTO!

for any harry potter readers, i have been asking around trying to get ideas for the story. if you were an angry, spurned band of remaining rogue death eaters, and you have a potion that diffuses into the air for massive magical attack, what would your potion do?

i have one friend who said the worst they could do is make something that would sap magical powers - and i even thought of this- but there is a dilemma of having read a fanfic where the author used this idea as a way to capture voldemuffin himself and i want to be original.

i was also thinking it could have an effect of something like being high on cocaine or some hallucinatory drug (lord knows i have read and sat through enough lectures all about hallucinogens and their uses by different cultures to make something viable).

any suggestions would be loverly from anyone who reads this. i hope everyone is having a happy holiday season. stay safe!

So, I just wanted to update everyone as to the status of that pic I am working on ^_^!



Whee! Hope yall like it so far!

Just want to update to let anyone who watched my LJ know that I am currently working on an Inuyasha/Kagome smutty-ish pic. I've been wanting to do it for a long time (at least a year) and have finally gathered enough courage to take it on. It truly is a remarkable sketch and seemed daunting at first because there is so much detail but hopefully it will turn out pleasing. To EPP, I am going to dedicate it as her 11k kiriban lol, cuz I still need to finish her 9k one >_< Cleaning it up is proving hectic since she sketched it in pencil and I am going over everything with the pen-tool to give it the professional line-art finish, before even starting coloring haha. But yes, if she could remain patient with me I will indeed be catching up.

I also decided to continue my MirKag story. Just for fun though, I might write a few chapters before even posting one since I know I am slow at updating ANYTHING. To Erisabesu, I wish all your family good health and look forward to more Secrets (I think I might read some of the newer SasuNarus you have put up recently on FF.net ;D)

Anyway, be looking for the InuKag pic in a week or so at my devart account (I will post it here as well). http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13711621/?qo=118&q=by%3Azyephens-insanity&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps is the link to the actually sketch >:D

OMG, so I just took a poll at the Scholastic website on who I thought would Live/Die in the final Harry Potter book....

According to their results, 75% of those polled (57,771 people) believe Voldemort will live... WTH IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE? I am a firm believer that people are entitled to their own opinions and stuff, but I thought it was a given that Voldemort will and MUST die at the end of this series? If He lives, and the 5,530 people who voted Harry to die are correct, then not only the wizarding world, but the entire world, will be utterly doomed :\... and I doubt JK Rowling would end a story with the evil character prevailing...that is just wrong (not altogether unlikely in the real world, but still a horrible way to end a CHILDREN'S series).

So yea, am I wrong in being 200% sure Voldiemuffin will die?

Hello everyone! I hope all is well and everyone has their taxes long done ;D!

I just finished reading chapters 26-28 of Harry Potter and teh HBP to a friend on Ventrilo (a voice chat program)(because he lives in the Netherlands and doesn't own the books and I have taken it upon myself to convert him into a fan which is going rather swimmingly). I was trying soon hard not to cry during Ch. 28 where Harry was adjusting Dumbledore's glasses and saying he had been the best wizard Harry'd ever, or would ever, know. I kept pausing and apologizing for my bad reading LOL.

Saturday was Kim's birthday, so she, Josh, and I decided to spend a day together which involved: Japanese Habachi, bowling, icecream cake, board games, and a trip to Sonic! >:D Here follows some pictures:






whee!!!

anyway, hope once again everyone is doing well. SAYOONARA! :3333

How is everyone? Ohisashiburi desu ne?! I hope all is well! I haven't posted here in a while so I felt it suitable I make an appearance lol. I think I might go through and post a lot of my art here... here is the story:

Thursday night I returned home from work and checked deviantart to see if anyone had claimed the 11k kiriban I posted about. I saw I had 7 messages and I was like - HUZZA I AM LURVED! Turns out 3 of those were from deviantart saying they had deleted overall 22 of my deviations due to copyright violations.... 13 of those were chapters to a story I had written and the only violation was the images of Tom Felton/Bonnie Wright as Draco/Ginny I had used to make an image preview (which included either on opposite sides of the image with the story title and chapter number in the middle. I don't see why they didn't just remove the image preview instead of the whole damn thing... for realz. Other included fan wallpapers I made (uhm OMG THAT IS THE LAMEST OF ALL THEM!) as well as several colorings of B&W photos I did. All this extremely pisses me off because I have numerous disputes regarding each piece's removal. Whichever admin came along and decided to remove all that needs to seriously either get laid so hard their brain literally turns to goo or pull that 50-foot rod out their anus. This is about the 3rd time, I think, that this kind of thing has happened. So I am not going to rely on deviantart anymore ... I will be finding a new gallery site and uploading all my art onto my gallery here ^_^!

My time of moving approaches, and I am afraid I might not have teh interwebs! This would make me very sad as I prolly wouldn't have internet for quite some time :(( I might just end up purchasing internet for myself LOL! I still need to phone the theater in Corpus Christi to see if I can transfer down there (which I am sure I can, as several other co-workers transfer elsewhere when they go off to college). I might also be getting yet another raise before I leave here, so WOOT FO MO MONEY!

I've been reading a LOT of SessKag and KakaIru fiction :D I even did a KakaIru art, which shall be submitted soon, or head to http://yukimel.deviantart.com to see it now. I went out and bought Mugglenet.com's HP7 theory book. I will read it today, so yay! Russell turned 21 yesterday and got smashed yet again lol. At least it was legal this time, ne?

wow, i just have to say laura becomes more and more annoying each episode. i've found the ones i truly enjoy are the ones she isn't in >_<. i know this is bad, but she just irks me to no end. she is always trying to butt in and put her say in without waiting for others to finish and she always starts sentences with "i think..." and talks like she is right about everything. i dunno....she just annoys me and i felt the urge to rant. we need a different female on the show, for realz >_<

/me pimp slaps laura off teh compie and back to home school