Happier Living as a Fool

I'm listening to Seether, how about you? Can you use "verbal defecation" in a sentence? well, I have a lot of respect for anyone who can.

I have to admit, as much as I like vox (even without all of my friends and other interesting things I do on LJ. Wah.) that it still confuses me a little.

Like, comments to entries for other people who I don't even know. What what? It gets a little confusing. It's a good thing I hardly have any friends here. Or I would be lost completely, inviting myself to parties with people who have no idea who I am.

Forgot to xpost my tweets too. Damnit. Multiple blog management is fucking hard. I mostly tweet these days, and even then I forget to post those. I wonder if Loud twitter will post to both automatically. I WONDER.

Well here's something I wrote on my Devientart blog! Lucky you Not even my LJ gets this. It's your lucky day!

I'm so jealous of X-box 360 and Wii owners right now

Fine! be that way with your copies of Guitar Hero Metallica! I'll just wait until May when it comes out on my ps2 and be productive instead!

Writing is taking up most of my creative time. This is good, this is the priority I hope that it continues even though things like Sim story telling must suffer (I think those readers are AWOL anyway.) I'm not writing in the place I would like to be. (big rewrites and submission preparation) but what matters is that I am writing, right? right. Hope I didn't just jinx myself

I'm a little stalled on my current crafty project, trying to decide if I want to do this mini cabinet at all, or if I just want to buy a small narrow curio when I can afford it. Probably should move right along to making a set of matryoshka blanks that I have into a certain set of Anime characters *whistles.* Also, I have a gourd or two I have wanted to make into matryoshka-shaped dolls. If the weather would stay decent (as in not bloody snowing for a day or so) I could Pyrograph on my patio quite happily.

Mmm... smokey hard shelled vegetable husk.

• 22:51 I kinda figure that if all I had to listen to for the rest of my life was Tool and David Bowie, I'd make it somehow... #
• 22:53 *note, Under the umbrella of Tool, I am including APC, Puscifer, and Peach. haha! I beat the systems from within! #
• 08:51 Kids are home. hellish part of the week is over. Need to oil the creativity wheels a bit. Also Manga = Happy! (not joyful, but happy.) #
• 09:04 Jean Hunt from Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes is mine and Khai's new favorite character we didn't make. What a loveable ass, he is. #
• 09:04 Gene that is. Boy spelling it Jean would piss him off. lolz #
• 09:30 OMFG! people grammar/spell correcting lolmacros need a new hobby. I'm sorry if it offends, but it's redundant and toolish. #
• 12:52 craving a new Tarot deck. Something forest-y, Tree-y, Elf-y, Dryad-y. Suggestions? #
• 13:01 (but a serious deck, not a novelty deck) #
• 14:16 When a publisher picks up www.tarotoftrees.com/ I will want it for sure! <3 (thanks @aboxofeyes) #
• 14:36 If I was going to have a grave marker (which I'm not) I would want this: tinyurl.com/d6ryo7 Anyone know who the artist is? Want! #
• 14:46 used to have this deck tinyurl.com/dzco74 wonder what happened to it. I loove elves, but not my Favorite deck. It'sworth $75!? #
• 15:48 Hahaaha tinyurl.com/c3mh8g Electronic Republican Tarot. (thanks neheti! I'll try to remember to remind you! #
• 15:55 I'll stop flooding you guys after this. tinyurl.com/ctezlg Oooh #
• 18:42 What is it with me lately and movies I thought I wouldn't like ending up being movies I loved? srsly. #

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You know, I just gotta say. I love David Bowie, and I know everyone with any sort of taste in music does.

But man, I love David Bowie, like weak at the knees, bring tears to my eyes, sort of love.

Like Tool love sort of love.

Just sayin'

That teenaged clubbing mod still left in me wants to hump Bret's club hair.

^{More Bowie detectable influence! yay! The whole 80s synth pop thing too. Still.}

I'm going to try something different, (which means I won't stick to it, naturally.) Since LoudTwitter doesn't work with protected updates, and copy and pasting it with or without the code and the format is a messy pain in the ass. I am going to do breif twitter recaps.

March 14th. I woke up, Khai had painted a great Girl Scout Cookie poster, free hand. I was proud, but I also hate him for his talent. I had a program-gasm over my new writing software, and then was confused when twitter double posted one of my tweets, only for them to disappear later. I decided that selling Amway products seems higly desirable over selling girl scout cookies at this point in the game, (after tweeting that parents in this business are currently setting shitty examples of how to behave, the day before). I wondered why Tom Green had not yet been executed, and then I felt a little queasy. The two incidents were surprisingly unrelated.

I also announced I thought Will Ferrell's "Thank you America" was really disappointing (there wasn't room for me to say that watching him pull bush face for two hours gave me a face ache.) and accidentally @arjbarker with a joke about the Obama impersonator last week on FotC.

I also discussed topics with twitter friends, including, but not limited to: pie, and email.

Even though he doesn't follow me back,(well obviously) Arj Barker has to be the best twitter add (outside of real friends, of course) I have ever added. As he jokes on his twitter, you can" hear" his voice, and how he delivers it. (and he actually uses his as a proper twitter, not just news blurbs)

For example:

arjbarker Looking for UFOs on the way to the gym.. http://twitpic.com/22vkf

arjbarker Didn't see none. But that don't mean they don't exist none.

I'm even more excited for May!! Can't wait.

Who is this Arj Barker I'm talking about?

And of course... the legendary Dave on FotC

In other twitter news, right now I have it set up so I don't see @replies to people not on my list (so say, if you @reply to someone who dumped me, or I dumped them... I don't get cranky about seeing the name. lolz.) But I'm going to have to change that because I miss a lot of context on other posts. It means my twitter is going to be _flooded_ but i'll see if I can take it.

.. it feels like a few (but too many) friends are completely tangled in chaos... Vox is so quiet. Not in the sense of "dead" or "lame" There's no insanity here.  I have no negative internet junk attatched to here at all.  There is no dread checking in here, ever.

It really is kinda nice.

Like Internet sobriety.

Today is my daughter's 11th birthday, which means I haven't been pregnant for eleven years.

^{This may not be amazing to anyone here, since I was done having kids when you all met me. There was a time when I could barely make a year before falling off the wagon. I can assure you that if I met up with some people from my past, they'd say "woah... eleven years? No pregnancies? At all? Dude."}

Seriously though. I have never seen a more amazing eleven year old. She grows up so much every day! It's gone from being scarry to being wonderful to watch her take on adult topics and humor without missing a beat. She is tall, beautiful, always optomistic and most of all, still sweet.

I could tape a sign to her that says "It's my Birthday, so buy some fucking cookies!" hah

X-posted from My LiveJournal

I feel as if I am unlike most people I know in a certain respect. That respect being I have a difficult time playing with new "toys" or using items I have wanted or needed, as soon as or soon after I get them. I watch so many people dive right in and start programing their phones, or MP3 players, or what not. But it's like I have to get used to the idea of using something like that, or I need to be casually around something before it feels right to start using it.

My kids don't do this - it is expected of kids to rip right into something. But I see plenty of grownups start playing their new game right away, throwing in a dvd as soon as you get it hooked up, etc very soon after (if not right after) it is obtained. I need to process that I have this item when I do get it, get used to it, usually go about a sort of complex or ceremonial way to start using it...

I just think that's weird. But maybe not.

Cookie orders will be going out this week. If you didn't order before, but still want cookies... we have extras in spades (or at least by the dump truck. Yeah. not kidding.)

x-posted

The body is a weird and interesting place. I don't think this is that squicky, but it is about wisdom tooth extraction recovery so you've been warned.

First I had a gaping hole, but within like three days I had this weird tissue fill it up that felt like a squishy baloon. Steadily that squish baloon has gotten a little firmer and more gum like over the past couple of weeks. But a few days ago I noticed there was a kind of opening in it. It didn't hurt, but I could stick the tip of my tounge into it. It got bigger and bigger, and finally today it happened. it opened enough that I could feel sharp bone chips. I knew they would come eventually.

It turned out to be one big chip that felt like several. I just felt it drop on my tounge (so glad it didn't come out while I was eating) and I spit it out. A quick check of the extraction site reveals the opening is already closing up.

It's so strange how your body can do that. open up a pathway to reject something that is no longer of use, or things that don't belong there. I have had a lot of problems with some piercings rejecting and it sucks, but it never ceases to amaze me how my body can close up certain parts of my tissue, and open others in order to shove stuff it doesn't like, out.

In less dental things that are strange and interesting. I never know what content to post where anymore. I love twitter for my one liners and thoughts off the cuff. But I find those blurbs contain more of my life than long posts do. Loudtwitter still doesn't support protected tweet shipping. Which is too bad. I like my tweets to be included with my Live Journal. I wouldn't mind my twitter being public if it didn't put my posts in the time line, attract strangers, or show off what I am saying to other people.

I've been trying to cross post to Vox, I really like it. I have no friends there though that I don't have here. So I don't remember to update or cross post there. I don't want to move my creative journals off live journal. So what can you do?

Live Journal is like Utah, hard to get out of it once you get sucked in, but if you make the most of it... it can be a good thing! In fact I have loved Live Journal for so long and so much in my life, it's kind of weird I wish I could move some stuff to vox without loosing touch with my peeps. everyone gets a new car once and a while, though, I suppose and if sites like these are vehicles for communication...

x-posted to Djedet on LiveJournal