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Personal reflection [Tuesday, July 7th, 2009|12:58am] [ mood .~*~. happy ] [ music .~*~. something or other stuck in my head ] For years I told myself I would never wear tubetops, for I do not have enough chest for them, and I was afraid it would fall off. So I find it incredibly amusing that it appears fuller and more-how-I-want-it now that I'm actually wearing one. ....:D Time to tan! 3 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

@__@ [Friday, July 3rd, 2009|12:44pm] [ mood .~*~. cheerful ] [ music .~*~. Supertramp ~ The Logical Song ] Ugh. Waking up at 6AM to get Kitty to work at 7:30 is not my idea of a fun morning, especially when he has work from then till about 3:30 all weekend, and I have 4:30 to close shifts. Ah well. We'll survive. ^^ Especially when he's gonna talk to his managers about getting Tuesdays and Thursdays off instead of Mondays and Wednesdays so we can actually, y'know, spend time together. I'm really excited for him at his job. He's been getting lots of guest compliments about being speedy and efficient on his register, both to his face and to surrounding managers. And apparently their floor managers are few and far between - which means people who have been there for about four months can be promoted. Contrast this to Olive Garden, where if you don't have a college degree, it could be about six or more years of dedication to the company before you're even considered for the position. (On the bright side, it is possible - a few managers I actually knew at one point either didn't go to college or are in the process of finishing college - which is probably the point I'm going to be at by the time I try going for something like that). He's been getting a little disheartened, going through the motions every day. This means Tricia will work hard to make sure he has a warm pair of arms to sink into at the end of every shift. ^^ I'm obsessed with RP again, and it's starting to show. XD; I've found a cure for that - though I don't know how much better it is. TvTropes. God damn that website for stealing me for over five hours yesterday. FIVE FREAKING HOURS. And the only reason I stopped is because I actually had to get out and do stuff I promised other people I'd do. @___@; Seriously. Between the Lunar 2 and Watchmen pages, I was locked in with no hope of escape. And that's just sticking to those two pages! I had to STOP myself from clicking the Zelda, Shining Force, and Heroes pages! Of course, it also rekindled my Watchmen fire. Hopefully by the time the movie comes out and I watch it once or twice, I'll be okay. .....but RP is getting so good. soooooo goooood. ;__; I can't wait till we get most of the city converted and it can just be a full-scale barrage of nano-spreading, all culminating in a (hopefully) epic battle between Electrawoman and Professor Bling. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE CLIMAX! By the time our two last characters are converted, @____@ it'll be awesome. It makes me want to draw scenes we're working on. I know, I know, I have commissions to work on, but... neither of them gave me a deadline... so I'll wait till at least after our anniversary. Besides, who DOESN'T want to see Professor Bling and his pet sidekick, Millie all superhero posey and kicking ass? 4 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

A momentous occasion [Friday, June 26th, 2009|11:22pm] [ mood .~*~. peaceful ] [ music .~*~. Canticle of the Creatures stuck in my head ] After over two years of making sure they stay the hell away from each other, Lee and Navi finally got it out of their system. .... I still can't believe it. It's like... it's there. Committed to story and it's not even a joke. I don't even know how to approach it again. XD XD In not-RP news, two people almost hit my car earlier - one coming out of a parking lot and I had the right to keep backing out, the other person didn't see me (even after I threw myself on the horn and shouted obscenities in their direction... I swear, they came six inches away from my car door before they finally stopped. I was certain I would be going to the hospital instead of the performance I was supposed to be at). The other drove across literally three lanes of highway traffic to get to the exit, completely cutting me off and making me brake hard and swerve almost into one of those cement construction blocks x___o; I really hate stupid drivers. On the other hand, I came across really nice people both today and yesterday. Today's nice people include anyone and everyone at the doctor's office today, who were all super nice and accommodating considering I: a) didn't have an appointment, b) came in about an hour before closing, and c) barely provided enough of a sample for them to test... I made sure to let them all know how much I appreciated their kindness. Yesterday's nice people included these two guys at the Burger King I stopped at on my way to rehearsal. One of the only people in when I went in was this guy dressed in business casual who kind of gave off a strange vibe. While I was filling my drink, he pulled me aside and explained the new Transformers promotion they have going, and how they each have codes and you can get free stuff if you scratch the correct side. (I thanked him and scratched my tickets off; didn't win anything). The next guy to come in scratched his tickets and won a free small shake which he said I could have since I didn't win. ^___^ Really nice people are really nice! So, the rehearsal and performance in question were for a concert called "Hope and Peace", celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the Franciscan Order. Mr. Kesselman sent me a message about a month ago asking if I could help the New Classic Singers perform in this concert since a lot of the members were leaving for the summer. Naturally, I agreed to help out. And it was -awesome-. I was probably the youngest member of that group (as it's COD's professional choir, which means it's made up of mostly music teachers throughout the county), and it reminded me heavily of when we performed Mozart's Requiem last year. And performing with such dedicated and talented musicians really renewed my interest in choir, composition, and music in general. I wish I could say more about it, maybe I'll have more tomorrow. But for now, I feel I've written enough so I'll take the chance and see if I have anything noteworthy to say tomorrow. Kitty's making dinner. I love him so much. ^__^ 5 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

It's my fault for making her so damned complicated [Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009|3:06pm] [ mood .~*~. restless ] [ music .~*~. Foreigner ~ Cold As Ice ] There's a reason I've only been drawing certain characters lately! (Outside of commission work, anyway) Because some of them, as much as I love them, take WAY TOO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT. If I can do a drawing have it turn out badass with only an hour or two, I'll draw Navi. However, if I want to draw Cari, I have to set aside at LEAST three hours JUST to get her outfit right. Not to mention her HAIR. No matter WHAT medium I work with, there's something frustrating about it. If it's digital, chances are she's dressed up all fancy and CURLED HER FREAKING HAIR. If it's traditional, I have to dive into the dark side to get her hair the correct shade of dark (blue, if colored). Did I mention her outfits? Her crazy flowing hippie skirts with ruffled tops or full-out evening gowns (or wedding dresses @___@), her bandannas and jewelry and necklace and shoes and belts and patterned blouses.... How about the fact she's TOO FREAKING TALL? It's so hard to proportion everyone else correctly if I draw her first. And if I draw her last, she always looks weird compared to the rest of the people in the picture. ...at least she plays nicely with the rest of the lodge characters. I can't say the same for Navi. .... ....This is me procrastinating on the last hour or so of commission. It's SO CLOSE to being finished. I swear, large bodies of water are my freaking nemesis. WHY do I include them in EVERY badass picture I work on? ...Oh, that's right. Because I'm RETARDED. And a MASOCHIST. @___@ **hugs Angel plushie** 2 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Voice Post [Friday, June 19th, 2009|10:22am] VoicePost 249K 1:16 “Hey guys this is Trisha. I am on my way to work right now and I am watching one of the coolest storms I've seen in a very long time, I'm like no were near it but I can see like it's a spot line. I can see lightning and I can see what looks like spinal clouds, they're trying to form and I'm really glad it's not going to hit us or at least I hope it doesn't because it looks way north of us but I just wanted to immortalise(?) it in here since I haven't like really posted anything worth while. So yeah this is so cool, I don't care if I'm late for work because of this. It's just it's awesome. Ok that's pretty much all I have to say. I will probably update later if slash when the storm hits. Supposedly also the storm system ___. I can't ___ when Leslie is. So I'm also waiting for you know update from my brother, my Dad or my sister, seeing if they're ok. Which I'm pretty sure they are, judging from some baseball comments. Yeah the sky is looking a little green and I'm like driving and it's a pretty heavy traffic right now. ___ right now. Bye.” Auto-Transcribed Voice Post 1 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Taking drawing and jewelry commissions! [Sunday, June 14th, 2009|12:11pm] [ mood .~*~. creative ] All right, ladies and gentlemen. Tricia's got herself some free time between work and college and has to raise money to get both her and Craig back over to visit England. And what better way to raise money than by doing what I love to do and making other people smile? That's right! I'm taking COMMISSIONS! 8D All drawings are done on 8 1/2 x 11 Bristol board (unless otherwise specified) and all prints are made on 8x10 glossy photo paper. I prefer to draw: Anime-style people (includes elves, vampires, angels, demons, etc.), Sonic-style furries I prefer NOT to draw: Realistic furries, mechs, cars. ---------- THE PRICE LIST Pen sketch + bust = $5 Pen sketch + waist = $8 Pen sketch + full body = $10 B/W Lineart + bust = $8 B/W Lineart + waist = $10 B/W Lineart + full body = $15 Digital lineart + bust = $10 Digital lineart + waist = $15 Digital lineart + full body = $20 Greyscale marker + bust = $15 Greyscale marker + waist = $20 Greyscale marker + full body = $25 All of the above prices are for one character with a simple background. For more information on extra characters in the same picture or more complex backgrounds, ask and ye shall receive. :D Digital painting (example 1 - approx. 7 hours) (example 2 - approx. 18 hours) = $8 per hour. This includes as many characters as you want with a full CG'd background. If you're interested in a jewelry commission, ask for details. Many factors go into pricing them that it would be pointless to list them here ^^; ---------- HOW TO PAY I accept and prefer Paypal (shadowednavi-@-hotmail-.-com ; remove the dashes). If you need to send by check, send me a message at the same email address. I will NOT accept cash (unless I can receive it in person). ---------- WHAT TO EXPECT I firmly believe that if you've gone through this much trouble for custom artwork, you should have the original in-hand. Therefore, all prices include packaging and shipping and will be sent via USPS once I have received payment. If you requested a digital drawing or painting, I will email you a high-resolution, high-quality version of the JPEG. I will also upload each drawing to my deviantART once I have received payment, unless you tell me otherwise. ---------- OPEN SLOTS [x] True Red (DL - Lianne-Ka; DP - Sailor Rojas/Azul) [x] [x] [x] [x] ---------- Thanks a lot for looking, and hope to hear from you soon! ^__^ (cross-posted to Deviantart, Facebook, and the MoFo) 4 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

MY GEOFFREY'S BACK! [Thursday, May 21st, 2009|4:21pm] [ mood .~*~. jubilant ] [ music .~*~. my Rock U songs, on GEOFFREY :D :D ] AND ALL HIS DATA IS STILL THERE! **uuuuber hugs** This totally makes up for the fact I'm sunburnt, fatigued, itching in freshly shaven places, cramped and bleeding in others, and have a canker sore that burns with anything I eat/drink. ...@___@ BUT I DON'T CARE! MY GEOFFREY'S BACK! <3 <3 <3 (Also, HP totally cleaned my screen. All the dust dots and smudges and gross bits are all wiped away. They are so badass. And FedEx won some points in my book for coming back after they already tried to deliver it today. If only he came about ten minutes later, I would have had cookies for him as thanks for going out of his way for me.) (Yes, I totally baked cookies.) Now I can study my Rock U songs! 'Cause I need to know them by, like, June 1st! :D Last time I did Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" and Joan Jett's "I Love Rock And Roll". This time, I'm still doing the Chicago one, as well as Wolfmother's "Woman" and the Doobie Brothers' "China Grove". Upon listening to them both, they'll both be fun. It's also really cool to see that "25 or 6 to 4" has kind of become my song. That'll all be happening on the 7th of June, which is plenty of time to prepare. EDIT: ( meme stolen from Amanda ) 9 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

And college is over for another semester [Thursday, May 14th, 2009|4:11pm] [ mood .~*~. productive ] [ music .~*~. Copland's "Going to Heaven!" ] First things first, in response to the previous entry: I'm fine, I was really freaked out when I posted that entry, and all I can say about it now is how freaking bizarre the whole thing was. Though I thank you all for your WTFs - it certainly made me smile. ( What happened ) Okay, now that that's over and done with, I find myself with little else to write about, save for voice juries which went well as usual. Oh yes, and my Geoffrey has officially left my possession via FedEx (**barfhackgag**) to be fixed by HP sometime in the next week and a half. Hooray for wonderful customer service agents who help poor college students like me who have their entire life on their laptop and no warranty or backup CDs to show for it. I feel like a parent who just sent their kid in for surgery - hopeful because I know they can fix it, yet anxious still because it's my baby, and the first major purchase I ever made. So without a convenient computer (with a working laptop >>; ), and with a post-con high, I find myself with a major drawing bug and a lot of oneshot comic ideas I can easily break out. I've been studying the Ah! My Goddess manga as well as going through my old artbooks for help with poses and composition.... hmm... I'm rambling. I'll end this here. :D 10 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Seriously, USPS? [Monday, April 27th, 2009|9:50am] [ mood .~*~. cheerful ] [ music .~*~. Kitty rambling ] Slowly but surely, all the stuff I got on ebay two weeks ago is rolling in. This includes all the stuff I got for my/Kitty's cosplay, as well as stuff for our 180 Emblem Challenge to hook up the Wii to TV to computer to whatever the heck else (Kitty knows what it all does, I'm just in charge of getting the stuff). I received my wig in the mail two days ago for Lucia's outfit and it looks beautiful. I could totally use it as Cari if I wanted to in the future. But for right now, its purpose is strictly for Lucia, and I can't wait to put the entire outfit together :D On the other hand, I'm still waiting for those damned boots. Freaking auction doubled in price in the last five minutes and I had to fight to keep them, and it's been over a week since said auction ended. For the past week, USPS has told me it's been travelling from Bethpage, NY to humble Chicagoland. I've been a bit concerned, as it's certainly not a five day drive from here to New York. No. I wake up this morning to find my package all the way out in Bufu Denver, COLORADO. WTF IS IT DOING ALL THE WAY OUT THERE? It would have taken half that time and distance just to hand deliver it to my house! oVo Sometimes I marvel at the postal system and how much it can rock (I mean, sending important documents express mail to California and having it arrive within 18 hours of leaving my hands? That's pretty freaking cool, not gonna lie). Then of course, I'm reminded of its suck. Kitty tells me there's a sorting facility out there and it'll bounce back east toward us, and I'll receive it within two days. ...but that's not the point. If they were that concerned about sorting it out, they could have at least done it a green-efficient way and not gone all that distance for a freaking pair of boots that I really would have liked to have earlier last week. WTF. x_o Oh well. I guess I'll satisfy myself by plotting for RP (which is getting really awesome :D) and remembering I made it to Fmylife.com , regardless of the stupid comments people make. 7 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

All the ducks are swimming in the water.... [Friday, April 24th, 2009|11:08pm] [ music .~*~. Rush ~ Different Strings ] ^^ Today was a good day. Slept in till 10AM, pestered Kitty till he woke up at about 10:30 all dazed and cute-like and needing coffee. RPed, worked on my Cari picture, cuddled up and enjoyed my Kitty's company. Went to work which was steady enough to be on a wait, but not busy enough to be crazy insane. It was really warm, too - probably in the 80 degree vicinity x_o; I probably would have benefited from standing in the lobby today, but I cherish the few days I get to seat. Lord knows they keep me in the lobby more often than anyone else. I really shouldn't complain about it, it means I get to draw and make RP notes, which are always welcome in my book. But... at the same time, I don't get the majority of the frustrated people when I seat. I am the transition from the waiting to the sitting. People tend to like that. They are usually happier. And this makes me happy, too. Until they want a booth and I don't have one. Or think this seat is too cold, I want the other one over there. (Well, I'm sorry, it's gonna be a few minutes for a table over there.) Well it's open now, why can't we sit there? x__o; Jesus, people. We're doing our jobs and you're a guest in our restaurant. Sit where I put you, dammit. It's not the end of the world if you can't get that booth in the back you want so badly. Luckily, I only had one of those tables today, and they seemed content enough to take the second table I gave them. (I did have another one which amused me in its fail - I sat a party of seven at our round table. They waited for quite awhile and the parents weren't very happy. Oh well, I can't help that you're a larger party, and I apologized for the wait. The only person to thank me for setting a menu down in front of them, was the freaking five-year-old kid who gave me a big smile and an even bigger "thank you!" I turned to the kid and smiled, replying with equal enthusiasm, "Hey, you're welcome! **turning to the parents** Wow, such wonderful manners :D" partly to praise them, partly to rub in their noses how uptight they were. I love being obnoxiously happy.) So I came home to find that Kitty wrote me smut.* This makes Tricia happy. 8D Here I sit now, finishing up my dinner and pondering returning to my picture. At the same time, I think I'm done working on it for the time being as my tablet's being really retarded and requires a restart to repair. And it's 11:30PM. If I get involved in it now, I'll be up till 3AM and we both have work tomorrow. So maybe we'll RP instead, as we're taking a break from hardcore plot drama to have some fluffy wedding planning scenes and double date nights with Cari/Lee and Stressed/Tamara. Both have the potential for some mini drama, but nothing terribly hardcore like Navi's crusade against Kiro, or Ken and Asia's complicated not!father/not!daughter relationship. Kitty's having fun exploring Stressed's character, so we'll probably go with something him-related. (* - Kitty challenged himself over a year ago to write a short story based on every picture I upload to Deviantart. He's been hung up for about a year on "Say You Love Me", a picture pretty much involving sex. So he finally got around to writing it after I pestered him to. Now that he's past it, he can write cute stories involving Snowangel and... well, I guess he already wrote about Cari and Lee's wedding. Hmm...) Take center stage?

Awww, look at the cute little Tricia in third grade [Thursday, April 23rd, 2009|7:46pm] [ mood .~*~. nostalgic ] [ music .~*~. Vanessa Carlton ~ Ordinary Day ] November 3rd, 1997: Ten years from now, I will: 1) drive a car. It would be sparkly hot pink with sparkly purple, green, tropical blue, and silver bloches on it. 2) go anywhere. I could go to the boutique stores and buy neat clothes. They would be hot pink to match my car with purple, green, tropical blue, and silver hearts on it. 3) get a boy. We would go on dates and then have fun. We would haev so much fun, we'd probably bust! On a decidedly different note, I've decided since I'm three months behind in my twelve-month challenge (mostly due to things beyond my control and lack of time), I'll be postponing it till next year or whenever I can be bothered to do it. In the meantime, I've decided that drawing pinups of our female RP characters would be a funner project. o.o So I'm about halfway through Cari's. Yeah, wtf. I know. I've also been listening to Vanessa Carlton's first album a lot recently. I needed to put on a CD to block out the retarded radio that never plays good music anymore. That CD needed to be one that I enjoy all of the songs on, that I could listen to over and over on the way to and from work and school, and that's just an all-around awesome set of songs. Now, if I had Jekyll and Hyde, I probably would have defaulted to that as it provides character crack like nobody's business. As it turns out, both it and The Scarlet Pimpernel are still off with a coworker, so I had to resort to something different. So I dug out "Be Not Nobody" and have been hit with wave after wave after wave of nostalgia, as it reminds me of the glory days of the CAC, the journals I wrote at that time, and very specifically, going to the Dells in the summer of 2002 or 2003, I can't quite remember which. It's incredible how many of the songs fit my core trio of characters in very specific instances. I'll have to list them out in a future entry (though I always say I'll do stuff like that, and how often do I go through with it and actually blog that crap? XD). Anyway, I have to end this here, as I should have gone out five minutes ago to pick up Craig. But I needed to blog that little journal entry I found because it was so damned cute XD Ohhh younger Tricia, you're such a dork. 7 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Quick poll before I go to bed [Saturday, April 18th, 2009|11:49pm] [ mood .~*~. dead ] [ music .~*~. The Who ~ Eminence Front ] Poll #1386043 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All What should my next investment be? View Answers iPod (or other mp3 player) 4 (40.0%) Bicycle 6 (60.0%) Now that that's out of the way, @____@ Work sucked hardcore and I'm exhausted. I'll explain later tomorrow, 'cause I can't focus anymore. Also, @___@ music folder is almost halfway organized 5 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Ugh x_o; [Friday, April 17th, 2009|11:58pm] [ mood .~*~. okay ] [ music .~*~. something Kitty's watching on Newgrounds ] If you ever go to a public place, please observe these two rules of thumb for all of our sakes. 1) If you're going out to eat at a family restaurant, there will be kids around. Period. End of story. Please don't ask to sit in the section where there aren't any kids. Because chances are, you're not gonna find one. 'Kay? 'Kay. If you don't want to deal with kids, go to a higher-class place or just stay the heck home. Seriously. 2) Ladies, tampons are designed to be flushed. Please, please, please do so. Because it's really disgusting when we open the little girly bag holder to find (and smell) your lovely proof that you're not pregnant. Just remember, someone cleans that at the end of the night. Please. 2 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

So, about that tax return... [Thursday, April 16th, 2009|11:41pm] [ mood .~*~. calm ] [ music .~*~. The Police ~ Walking on the Moon ] Last week, I woke up to find my bank account at just shy of $1800. Whoo, tax return (and paycheck) get! :D $800 of that went toward rent/bills/grocery/Comcast for me and Craig for next month, and about $500 went to ACEN-related things. Like, hotel and cosplay materials and whatnot. Which means that for the rest of this month and the entirety of next, my paychecks are mine. And that's a really good feeling, considering we've been stretched to the wire for the past two months. Especially when we take into account Craig's got money coming in now. So speaking of ACEN and cosplay, I'm getting excited. All of my costume pieces are anywhere from 50-90% completed. I just gotta sit down and actually finish what I've started. Of course, I've gotta go back out and get more black fabric 'cause I kind of botched the sleeves of the tunic beyond repair and if I want to be able to raise my arms at all, I need to make the shoulders bigger/deeper... It'll be a lot better when I've got my gloves, boots, and wig. All of them should arrive next week-ish (this Saturday, if I'm really lucky). Meanwhile, we scored bigtime with our hotel. I worried that we'd end up either getting a cheap hotel miles away from the convention center and having to drive there and back every day, or just not getting a hotel at all and driving all the way to O'Hare and back, really cutting into our actual convention time when you consider it's about a two hour drive round-trip. However, a little hunting and a lot of luck netted us a hotel right across from the convention center at the con rate :D :D :D Which means we probably don't have to drive at all during the weekend and can just cross the road in full costume, which means we don't have to worry about parking or anything, and when we're getting tired and want to crash, we don't have to endure another hour car ride relying on coffee as our main fuel source so we don't actually crash... Also, I spent an hour and a half at the OG today making sure I get that weekend off. It's Mother's Day weekend, which means everyone has to work and nobody wants to be there. I managed to convince them to get the 8th and 9th (Fri/Sat) off and have me close on Sunday evening so I have time to get back from the convention and get cleaned up and whatnot. ...let me repeat that. I spent an hour and a half at the Olive Garden to get a simple yes or no answer. It's not like it was busy or anything either - I specifically went at 3PMish because it's the deadest part of the day. And I STILL didn't leave that building until I got my answer at 4:40PM. I love our management. It's so.... scatterbrained. So I had an epic dream last night where Manfred von Karma was Satan, Ganondorf was his minion, and George Bush was his minion. And the three of them were conspiring against the world to create weapons of mass destruction with otherwise harmless things like Sony Eyetoys, desk lamps, nightlights, and the like. So with the entire world behind me, we went to crash Bush's "hotel in Naples, Florida", which was on a beautiful beach, which was actually on a floating island above Florida, and right next to their secret military base (also floating in the sky). So Jesus, moving about in full claymation style, recruited the world in a stealth mission to get all the miscellaneous objects out of von Karma's possession so we could save the world from imminent doom. I remember running through the hotel, trying to get to the top floor all spy-like with this Indian lady as my sidekick. We saw von Karma arguing with this other person in the very top room, an eyetoy in plain sight. Von Karma spotted us, however, and we tried to take the elevator out of there. I don't remember it working. But I woke up, and fell back asleep, and apparently everything was okay and von Karma was safely behind bars. So who knows what really happened... hmm... Anyway, Kitty's falling asleep now and I don't want to keep him up longer than he has to, poor baby stood in one place for seven and a half hours ringing up ungrateful jerks. See you when I see you, and I'll be listening to my badass playlist (which I'll write about next time) until then. :3 3 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

oops >>; [Wednesday, April 8th, 2009|3:41pm] So for anyone who read about Kitty's and my Chao adventures, I've been keeping all of them trained up and whatnot now that I have the capacity to do so in a time-efficient manner. In other words, I'm beasting our Chao because I freaking can. I read about a little trick to make the infinite animal glitch a bit easier (since I'm the most impatient person I've ever come across and have problems getting my equally impatient Chao to freaking sit still), and decided to give my current "project" a heart fruit so if I happen to place the animal too far away or something, Navi won't run away and in fact will sit quite contentedly in her little ring of flowers. Now for those who don't know, heart fruits basically put your Chao in its mating season. And when another adult Chao comes near, well, you can infer what happens next. .... ...yeah, I forgot about that part. And now I have a new baby Chao from - LOL of all LOLs - Lee and Navi. It's the spitting image of the brat, devil eyes all the way down to her evil grin. ...I just... um... I don't know what to name it o.o I will consult Kitty when he gets home from work. 3 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Different kind of sick [Thursday, April 2nd, 2009|12:43pm] [ mood .~*~. exhausted ] [ music .~*~. Papageno and the Prince ] Wow, my last entry was too long ago. o.o I need to get better about updating this thing again. Last thing I wrote about was Kitty getting registered at a temp agency. Now he has a job, yay, at Caputo's. ^^ I also wrote about how I was getting sick with a cold. Well, that's all nice and passed, now, save for the occasional cough. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with a different kind of sick today. Kitty prepared a simple chicken and rice dinner last night, which tasted fine, but at the time I thought the chicken might have been a couple minutes underdone. And from about an hour after I ate, all the way into today, I felt really nauseous and wanting to just curl up on the floor and die. x_o; (...well, okay, it's not -that- bad, but nausea is the one thing that truly incapacitates me and renders me useless to the world). I was up till probably two in the morning and trying so hard to sleep, but even then I woke up every hour or so from SA2:B dreams of EVERY SINGLE LEVEL GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME ABOUT TWICE ITS NORMAL SPEED. Talk about aggravating the nausea x___o;; But we got to RP last night, so it wasn't a total loss. Kitty's at work now and I'm at school. I'm gonna try to get a nap in before voice lesson so I don't die by the time I get there. 4:15PM EDIT: Napped before voice lesson, and she still had me sit down for the majority of rehearsal x_o; She said my face turned two colors the entire duration: red whenever I sat down (as I was embarrassed), and white whenever I stood up. That isn't good. But I checked my temperature and it's on the higher side of normal, so I can rule out the flu, at the very least. 3 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Oh no, you've gotta be kidding me [Wednesday, March 18th, 2009|9:11pm] [ mood .~*~. sick ] [ music .~*~. silence ] So we went to Chicago yesterday to get Craig involved with this temp agency. It was a pretty awesome trip, especially considering the last time we went to Chicago for business reasons it was stupidly cold and ended up being a bust anyway. But yesterday? Yesterday was gorgeous. And the view from the temp agency's office on the 33rd floor of this really classy business suite? Was so freaking incredible. Of course, about halfway through our adventures I felt that telltale tickle in the back of my throat. And of course, it leaked into today as well. Which tells me not only am I going to have a sore throat for the concert tomorrow night, but I'm gonna have some swelled up sinuses for my birthday and potentially no voice for the Rock U rehearsal next week. Combining that with some really heavy discussion at the end of my eight hour shift today makes for a rather unhappy Tricia. I have attempted to cheer myself up with more retarded reviews, as the rest of the internet is boring and stupid people are always fun to laugh at. 2 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Twenty six hours and counting! [Saturday, March 14th, 2009|11:17pm] [ mood .~*~. sleepy ] [ music .~*~. Classical music of sorts ] Man. Last week I worked just about 22 hours total. I still have one more opportunity to make an extra $50-60 tomorrow, depending on what time they decide to kick me out. On one hand, I'd love to stay as long as possible for an LBD and get maximum hours, but on the other hand, I open tomorrow. I open/doubled today. I manager closed on Friday. I'm looking forward to two solid days without the Olive Garden. XD I guess we'll see what happens and how St. Patrick's Day parades affect our business. I mean, it probably won't, but you never know. So over the course of the week, I've worked, gone to college, saw Watchmen for a second time (and it was even better <3) and performed in the applied voice recital as mentioned a couple entries ago. I was able to get Mozart's Alleluia memorized in time and even hit that damned high note 8D And on top of it all, there were SO MANY PEOPLE THERE. I mean, Kitty was there, and so were my parents AND Josh. Then Steve, Kristin, and Amber all showed up, and I even had a last-minute Julian and two of his friends. I feel so loved. ^___^ On a Watchmen note, I doubled the amount of retarded reviews in my previous entry. Seriously, it's worth looking for the last one. Second, I was stuck at the host stand all day on Wednesday and instead of spamming a thousand freaking doodles throughout the day, I spent all of my time on a single picture. I know it would have been more awesome had it not been on server paper, but y'know, it's all I had on hand. And I'd like to think it's still pretty awesome. Third and most importantly, Rorschach and I apparently share the same birthday. Which is next Saturday. I. am EXCITED. 8D 2 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

Who watches the Watchmen? [Sunday, March 8th, 2009|10:31pm] [ mood .~*~. relaxed ] [ music .~*~. Rock Band outside our room ] LOTS of people. LOTS AND LOTS of people. ( Their screams like an abattoir full of retarded children ) Fort O'Connor is particularly cold today. I spent about four hours curled up under blankets, searching the scourges of the internet for these prolific pieces of prose for the world to giggle at. I'm not quite sure whether to stay amused at all of this, or stare in muted horror. I stand by my belief that people who cannot write, should not write. And those who should not write, should definitely not post their blithering banter for the world to see and mock, for their own safety. 6 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

I JUST SAW WATCHMEN. [Friday, March 6th, 2009|3:38am] [ mood .~*~. freaking mindblown ] [ music .~*~. delightful silence ] And it was badass. Craig's writing a review sort of thing on it right now, and his thoughts (mostly) reflect mine, so I'll let him take care of that. Meanwhile, I'll fill in the part of shrieking love at the top of my lungs at being excited for a movie for the first time in a very long while. Also, I knew from initial research and reading the comic that Rorschach would be my favorite character. The movie has not changed this. It has, in fact, only increased my fascination with his personality and inner-workings. (Jackie Earle Haley did a freaking fantastic job in the role, especially in the unmasked bits where you could actually see every microexpression and put it to the words. Many props and cookies to you, good sir.) On a less important note, Kitty and I decided combining Watchmen with the nyoro~n fad thing from 4-chan is absolutely adorable and funny. AND SOMEONE ELSE HAD THE SAME IDEA AND PUT THEIR VERSIONS ON DEVIANTART ALREADY. It helped amuse us while passing the time before going to the theater. I'm so glad I gave away my morning shift. This means I only have to work in twelve hours instead of seven! 1 stepped in the limelight .~|~.Take center stage?

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