Doesn’t seem like a lot when you really think about it. But it is. I’ll mark things off when I eventually get things done. They are listed in no particular order, just the order I felt like putting them in.

Broken down into categories, cause it's easier that way.
Edited 05/15/09 6.58 pm  ~ added doll, adjusted plans

Dolls:                                                    Writing:
*Shallow Redo  (IP)                          *Bloodless Sword
*Keana & Family                              *Wild Lore
*Seasons Background (IP)             *Bone Tower
*Uniforms                                          *Bloodland’s honor
*Super                                                *Poisoned Rationality
*Wicca Set                                         *Chaos Wars
*Atria Wedding Set (1/14)                 *Shallow Truths (Nano '09)
*Earth angel Set   (3/11)                   *The Sixth
*Space Redo    (2/23)                        *Transfer Stories
*Love Bug set                                    *Mossy Rock        
*Backgrounds 1-2                             *100 challenges  
*Kila redo                                            * Silver Rose
*Dawn’s Dolls                                    *Wanted / Rosen glitter
*Hacker Ryan    (D)                               
*Story Covers                                     Character sheets:
*Eerie                                                   *Add latest characters to file (done til new characters)
                                                              *Profiles 1-50 (3/50)
                                                              *Profiles 51-100
                                                              *Profiles 101-150
                                                              *Profiles 151-200
                                                              *Profiles 201-250

So it’s been a few months and there’s not too much to talk about I suppose. But as per usual I shall break it down.

Work~

I did survive my first Holiday season as an assistant manager. It was much busier since I was transferred to a bigger store over the summer. It was not as bad as I thought but I did come close to screaming a few times. Mostly it was due to co-worker error and customer bitchiness. I was very careful though, and while I was a tad rude to a few people I was mostly in control.  Right now I’m just looking forward to my first paid vacation that is coming up rather soon, in just a few weeks.

I am much happier at Claire’s then I ever was at Wendy’s which is saying a lot. I’ve yet to call in sick at all which is quite a feat, and I’ve been there for over a year. The great thing is that it’s just a nice job. I love that I get to work with kids, I actually like some of the jewelry there and aside from one or two the co-workers are great. Now if we could just get corp. to listen to us it’d be perfect. But then again, they must have a reason for what they’re doing.

Writing~

As you’ll see above I have a to do list. I actually managed to make one, and I’m sticking to it. I am no longer adding stories to it, and no longer adding anything else to it. The only thing I’ve added recently was two sets of stories I had forgotten to put on. The only exception to the not adding stories is Nano, but I’ll probably just end up doing a story I already have to do for Nano. Probably one that doesn’t have much in it, so that when I erase it all to start over, it won’t be too painful.

And now that I think about it there is one more story that needs to be there, I just haven’t titled it yet. (I swear it was thought of before I made the list.)  So it’s quite a list even though it looks small. I think I’ve mentioned about half of the stories in my journal at one point but I won’t go into that. You can find most of my writing (when I remember to post it) on paw print ink. If nothing else I’ll try and get a summary of each on it. You can find the character profiles on the cast of stardust (the links are on the side *points*)

Dolling~

Again, consulting the to do list, it doesn’t seem like much, but every project up there has more then one doll in it. Out of the fourteen dolls on there, only two have only one doll. It’s a lot to do especially when you have trouble focusing. Which has been happening often. Right now I’m bouncing mostly between the Shallow redo and Keana and family.

I have finished one doll though. The Wedding set for Atria. It’s a small step forward but still a step forward!

Well let’s see, my last update was back in July and it’s now September, so there’s a bit that’s happened. 

Work~   
( Work stuff here )

Writing~   
( Writing Stuff here )

Dolling~
( Dolling Stuff )

Family~   
( Family Stuff )

Other~
    I’m constantly reminded just how hard it is to do things when neither your mind or body agrees to do them. Constantly being tired doesn’t help the creative process. Neither does your mind wandering when you’re trying to do something. It’s really hard getting everything focused and reigned in to work on something. That’s why it’s getting hard for me to work on my dolling desktop. Hopefully I can find some time to focus and get things done.
    And yes this was just another form of procrastination… Just don’t tell anyone

Memory shards
TL ~ http://unknoen.deviantart.com/
TR ~ http://www.bunnystick.com
M  ~ http://thehword.deviantart.com/
BL ~ http://lorelei.mystarseed.com/

Elder Souls
TR ~ http://www.pinkland.net/fairy.htm
M  ~ http://thehword.deviantart.com/
BL ~ http://strawberry1.com/bases.aspx
BR ~ http://unknoen.deviantart.com/

Anyway…that’s about it for that….…ermm….blah?

Dear manager,
You tell me I have a lot of work to do, and that the Dining room closer, who’s staring at the wall like a moron, will get to his close when he gets to it whenever I ask the Dining room closer when he was gonna do his work.
I got my pile of work done, and helped the back room closer and the grill closer and I was done by midnight.
The dining room closer? Still vacuuming…hasn’t stocked, hasn’t done his mountain of trays. Hasn’t done anything but vacuum for about half an hour…and isn’t half done with the dining room. Who insisted the dining room closer would be fine then asked me to finish Said dining room closer’s stocking
I just ran myself ragged closing things on YOUR shift with NO help from you when you insisted we do everything the proper way although even the GM wouldn’t have forced us to. And you want me to stock the dining room closers things?
Who’s the one who said he’d be fine and is now complaining that we won’t be getting out at the time you wanted? Yeah I wasn’t very pleasant after, you acted like an ass to me all night, ignored that I needed help even after I called for it, and then expected me to be nice? Um…no.
And wasn’t it nice that you let everyone else go, made me clock out then clocked everyone else out for a later time then what I’d get? Excuse me? And then you decided that I was the only one there and that I had to stick around until you finished all your paper work and leave at the same time?
Yeah we left at 1 am…yeah I was pissed. The only reason I have quit is because I haven’t heard back from the other job I’m trying to get. You’re the reason we have morons and underage people working at the store. And yes you’re the reason I’m pissed off.

 
Absolutely nothing but pure hate,
Me (who would love nothing more then to shove you in the fryers and hold you under)

Hmm let’s see what has my life been like since the last post? Pretty dull if you think about it. The only major thing was that I finally finished the first doll done almost completely by tablet. Since I’ve gotten it I’ve finally gotten the hang of it and all that jazz. She’s pretty sucky if you ask me but I’m sure you didn’t ask.

Anyway, I’ve worked out a few more characters, failed at making every character’s profiles, and am so terribly behind on my journal stories and just stories in general that I really just feel like curling up under a rock for a good long while. I think I just tried to do too much at once. And once I got burnt out I just didn’t bother trying to catch up or get out of the rut.

I’m working on it now at least. I’ve worked out at least… three newish characters (that you’ll see later) finished a very complicated doll, and …not touched any stories, those are next on my list. I’ve recently decided to not only make profiles for the characters but character cards that I can actually keep in a little box for handy reference. Of course those require the use of a pencil/pen for hand writing but that should be okay. Once I get the profile of a character done I can take the basics and just jot them down. I’m all for organization anymore. Since I used to be so messy I consider it karma kicking my ass.

I’ve managed to refrain from starting any other stories. I’m not letting myself because that’ll screw me over. If I ever wanna be an actual author I need to learn how to focus. I’m doing semi-okay for the time being.

About the newer characters. There are…only three that I can think of…no four…wait six…. But one of them is a semi-old, just unmentioned character.

….K I think that’s all then…..

Mkay. It’s been awhile again since I’ve updated. I must say I suck I life at the moment.

The main reason being that the things I so carefully planned out to do, my stories, my journal stories, have fallen apart.  I’m so far behind on my Journal stories that it’s no longer funny and would take a while to catch up. And I’m trying…it’s slow but I’m still attempting them. My stories…they’re no biggie. I can catch up with those easily.

On another note the plot penguins have been leaving me alone for the most part. Though I did have one other idea about a pirate story and I do have plenty of new characters spontaneously being created my knees and ankles are not as bloody as they usually are.

Among other things I’ve slowly gotten into dolling again. And I’m trying to force myself out of the dolling rut. It seems to be slow going but at least it’s a going and not a rut.  Along the lines of dolling I’ve recently gotten myself a graphics tablet. As soon as I actually receive it I’ll be making good use of it.

My birthday was last week and it was a good source of things. A bookcase, books (or to be exact money for books) and a graphics tablet (even though I bought it myself) As well as well wishes from friends and such which is the best part of it. Even if I have to share my birthday with that stupid day of love.

Work wise it’s just been blah. I’ve been working on getting a new job but so far nothing’s worked. I don’t know how much longer I can stay at Wendy’s. The job sucks, the pay sucks, and most of the people suck. Seriously even my ‘friends’ there are starting to annoy me. I’ve even been making an effort to get along with people as of late. It’s not helping what so ever. It’s driving me absolutely insane. I’m not big on trying to make things that bother me work. But if it makes my life a little better I’m gonna try.

On the last note. I’ve decided not to give up on my rp Forum idea. I’m working on it again and hoping to have it up and underway. Hopefully with a little love and help it’ll do better then my other attempts have. If not then I’ll take the hint, stick with what I have and just let it be.

     
                Okay so it’s not really very useful anything that’s been put here but…long winded rants are soon on their way

It’s not been too long since my last post, so I must be keeping up with my so far good year. I’ve been trying to do way to many things already. But so far so good. I’m keeping on task with my new journal stories, Which if you look at my friends page you’ll see under the heading “work_tails” It’s about two different girls that, since the beginning of 2007 have been experiencing weird things. One works at an unnamed fast food restaurant and the other an unnamed bookstore. So far I’ve only forgotten the bookstore girl but I just recently made up for her.

Among other news I have eight, yes eight stories to write by Christmas of this year. A daunting task yes, considering all of November I’m going to do NaNoWriMo  so I won’t even have that month. But I have it all charted out. And I know what I’m doing. Thank the gods for charts on Excel. That’s how I have NaNoWriMo charted out already. So far things are okay this year. I know what I need to do, and I’m planning on doing it. Like getting a new job, making my friends and myself happy, and hopefully getting a lot more accomplished this year then last year.

All I know is that already I’ve had a pretty good start to the year, a few set backs, but nothing that can’t be fixed. And if I can keep this up I’ll have the best year I’ve ever had….well…since I’ve been out of school then.

It’s not much of an update but it’s an update none-the-less

Well I know it’s been a bit since I’ve updated with anything at all. Not even meme apparently. But since it’s been so long nothing much has actually happened. Really. Of course Christmas happened, the fun filled two days of it. It’s always a fun filled Christmas and I say that with the utmost sarcasm. It started with the fact that my parents decided to redo the room adjacent to mine. Well actually it started at the beginning of the month but this is when the real fun started. My dad took two weeks off. The week before and the week after Christmas. Same time as what my mom had off. So they emptied the room put a new floor down etc. etc. then when it was all said and done it was the day before Christmas eve. We finally got our Christmas tree up  about three hours before the 24^th. It was a little annoying. But I could handle it. It also helped that my father hadn’t grumped the entire time. Which make it so far the best Christmas ever.

So moving on the 24^th… Christmas eve i got to wake up early-ish. And get things together to go to Christmas at my grandmothers which started with dinner at 4pm……which lead to dinner at 6 instead of 4 as per usual. We sat around for a good while then finally got to actual Christmas presents. And didn’t leave until midnight….a long time with my family…wooo…then after going to bed late…like 4 I got up at 10 for more presents, then off to my grandpa’s for more food. Then all night rping and to work at 10…FUNNNNN

And new years? I work from 10-9 new years eve then 10-4 new years day. What a lovely new years huh? Well I figure it’s better then doing absolutely nothing and staring at my computer for like 14 or so hours but I’m all set for the new year. It’ll be a lot more organized. And a lot more story writing. I’m going to try NaNoWriMo again in November. I’m already all set for it and I’ll be thinking of a storyline and even possibly making characters ahead of time.  That’s allowed as far as I know.

BUT that’s about it for the night. I really need to get some sleep for the long new years shift tonight. I’ll add some more then when I get home

Things haven’t exactly been busy…just …put off. Lately the big things are that I’ve rearranged my room. I’ve gotten things about as clean and ordered as I can get them without my new desk which hopefully mom and I will be building soon.

Things  at home are….sort of normal, as there’s always been that tenseness. My brother moved back in a few months ago because his daughter was coming back from California, due to uncontrollable circumstances she’s back in California now and he’s still here. He will be until he finds another apartment. But that’s not really what adds to the tenseness…well it does but him being here doesn’t really effect me.

The tenseness is between our parents and him. For whatever reason the tenseness seems to only grow. I’m worried bout who’s going to explode first…but either way it won’t be pretty at all. And I’ll probably be stuck with helping clean up alone with the ones who didn’t explode. I figure it’ll either be dad or my brother.

Anyway work as leveled out into one massively boring and stupid experience. The stupidity keeps increasing but the boredom has leveled out. It’s almost time for school to start so I know things are going to get worse for the closing crew. *sigh*

Among other recent things, tying in with my room I wish my mind was as easy to clean and sort as my room. But I can’t seem to get things in order. My mind keeps jumping and won’t let me get anything done. It’s easy to do something once I get determined but until then it’s near impossible. Example: I’ve been working on “knot reel Roil” very little lately. It’s hard to make my mind focus on what I’m writing right now. Too many things have been going on. But now…with my niece gone, my room as far rearranged as it can be and things leveling out maybe I’ll be able to get more done.

Speaking of stories and such. I’ve managed to organize something…my characters. I spent about three hours one morning, due to lack of sleep, organizing the characters I have. Characters from stories, rps, and just random characters I’ve had and never used.  One Hundred and Fifty Seven….let me repeat that 157….157! That’s how many characters I have. That’s insane!. What was worse was having to rename half of them because I wanted each one to have a unique name.  Then having to go abck and figure out who I renamed what….*sigh*

Now all that’s left is to organize my stories. And finish them. Really that’s all. Maybe I would work out a short story book or something…..

Still on the subject of writing instead of taking writing classes at osu marion like I had orgnially planned I found a cheaper, and better (IMO) way to take writing classes. This place…gotham workshop…. In NYC offers online courses for fiction writing. Poetry…..stuff I want to take. The classes are all online, cheaper and they go for 10 weeks. They even offer a certificate in fiction writing. I’m definitely taking them when I can save up enough money.

And now, as if this wasn’t long enough, I do, as per usual, have a rant. Don’t worry it’s half and half.

Okay so not a very avid gamer, if I could be called a gamer to begin with, I’ve recently been able to beat, re-beat and beat a third time my favorite game ever, Castlevania: Symphony of the night. I adore the game  to no end. I LOVE Alucard, the story. All of it. Good graphics and such too lol. I’m not going through all my favorite playstation games as that’s a long list but there is one Xbox 360 game I like.  And I haven’t had much of a variety as I can only play the one’s my brother has since it’s his Xbox.

Anyway it’s dead rising. It’s such a great game because…well it helps my brutal violent side. I love playing it just to kill the zombies. Forget the storyline, time limits, just give me a lead pipe and a hall full of zombies and I’m happy. Really according to my brother it’s got a decent story line…least I think he said that, but it’s just as fun watching him use the mower on the zombies as it is to use the mower on them myself. But it’s also funny watching him die pitifully on DOA 2 live. Lol he’s pathetic…

Okay so that’s all the good part now on to the bad part

Going back to a few previous rants why does everyone have to be so pathetically annoyingly stupid. Really is it that hard to use your brain in the drive through? Or when talking to me? And who the hell thought it was a good idea to randomly start randomly messaging people you don’t know on the internet saying Satan sucks? Who the hell are you to think the rest of us care. And Mr. Christian if you don’t stop calling me evil because of my pentacle I’ll show you what evil can do!.

Okay so closed minded people suck and are utterly stupid fools, but they aren’t going away. So what do we do? Ignore them while they yelling insults and lump everyone together into one group of bad? Pffft nope. If I’m so bad then I might as well live up to the title. You calling me evil? Then I’ll gladly be evil. Just take one step to the left and ignore the big vat of hot grease in an unstable bucket above your head.

Saying one religion is the right religion is as stupid as sticking your hand on a hot grill…

Ah but enough religion too much of it going around. stupidity is a bigger problem. People should have to pass a test to be allowed outside of their homes. Another test should be passed to reproduce. Then we wouldn’t have stupid people having kids when they’re way to young and well just it’s stupid…

That’s enough….for now anyway