Week 59 (+31) Last couple of weeks could have been a bit better

59
-The number corresponding to the last minute in a given hour, and the last second in a given minute.
-The number on a button commonly worn by feminist activists in the 1970s; this was based on the claim that a woman earned 59 cents to an equally qualified man's dollar.


So This last year or so I've been a slacker in posting. Lazy yeah but also kinda busy with other things. Still wish I was more consistent like I use to be.

So I missed getting my annual blood draw due to the preceding appointment running long and so when I checked the lab they had closed for the day. Been trying to get back in and have yet to have much time. Oy... Later that week dad told me that Tortaro looked like he had a chunk bitten out of his backside when he saw him outside my parent's place. I asked Paul to round him up (since he is the fastest) and bring him on over here so I could get a look at it. He did and when I got a look at it I knew he needed to get in to a vet ASAP.

Pic of his wound after Paul brought him over for me to get a look at.


Tried our regular vet and they where working on a dog so they could not take him that day so we had to take him to one up on the East side that they recommended. We go there and after all the regular waiting and talking to the techs and the on call vet we ended up paying $215 to get him stabilized and cleaned up a lil bit. Took home some pain killers and antibiotics and a cone. He seemed okay pain wise and in every other aspect except for the massive wound on his backside, that the vet had informed us it looked infected. They wanted us to come back that Monday or hit up our regular vet. So that Monday bright and early we rounded up Tortaro which has been staying with us and stopped by the other vet since they had handled him already. Got there and they had a look at him and said that he was healing so well on his own that they wanted us to just keep and eye on him and his wound to see if it would heal together and scab over without the surgery to pull his wound together and sew it shut.

Some of the pics of his wound healing together.



Another one later one. Don't know why it is so small of a pic. >.>


Right now it is only a bumpy healed area with a sliver of a cut left to heal with fur growing over most of the old wounded area. I'm so glad.

...I've yet to get back into the doctor to do the blood draw... Oy.

Found a ton of new music and books in the last few weeks. Really diggin' Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons. Heard it on the radio and just loved it. Will have to listen to some of their other stuff and see if I like as well. Also looking into "Dropkick Murphys". They sound better then "Flogging Molly" but not quiet as good as "Enter the Haggis" so who knows. Also heard the new-ish The Ballad Of Mona Lisa by "Panic! At The Disco" and
Help is on the way by "Rise against". I have not really been listening to a ton of mainstream bands much other then the ones I fallow like "Linkin Park" so if these have been out for awhile oh well. lol.

Been spending much more time digging through the alt or indie stuff thx in large part to people at FA posting songs.

Also looking forward to getting my new cell phone and that it is going to be a Android smart phone! :D John got me hooked to Android phones by letting me play with his. I love all the fun and useful aps. Like Shazam that listens to a song that is play on the radio and can tell you the name of the song and band! Helped me tell John what the Panic! At the Disco one was among others. I really like this app. Also I'm kinda addicted to FourSquare so that will be fun to have a phone that can use it. Also gotta love the Google Maps GPS feature! It was such a life saver on the road trip this last year. Also for someone like John that could get lost in a paper bag it really helps. Just click the mic icon and say "Navigate to..." wherever you are going and it will direct you there even with voice directions and will also re-route when you need to go out of the way from its directions like if there is traffic. I also found a app called
doubleTwist that will let me transfer my songs from iTunes to the Android phone! So I won't have to carry both my iPod and my Android phone! Also the camera is better then the one on my old phone and is great since I don't like to lug around my expensive big digital SLR camera with me in my day to day errands. I love this camera app that John found called
Vignette. It allows you to do a ton on the fly pictures changes/visual effects (my fav is toy camera in B&W with a square border). Do I sound like enough of a ad for Android phones yet? LOL! Anyway I'm excited.

Also just saw Rach off for her spring break a-capella trip. Also tried my hand at french braiding her hair for her. Was not to bad, for a first time. Oy, need another hand when doing that. lol.

Anyway school is winding down around here and summer means the road trip so I'll still be busy.

I LOL'd 'til I cried

Ok not really but it is funny!

Eclectic design and style

So if I was not such a BBW I would soooo be very much more strange, odd and extremely eclectic in my own scene of fashion.

Sure I dig mainstream but I also like to mix in things that stand out a tad more.

So anyway while I was looking for real life inspiration for the design and dress of my steampunk charter I came across these really neat and yes odd pants that are sweeping the underground fashion trends in the East and West.

I give you the "Tobi" pants sometimes called 'SteepleJacks'.

What are tobi though? well to quote Lastwear they are:

"....the Steeplejacks are based on the style of pants worn by Japanese construction workers known as Tobi pants."

Such as in this picture:



From this there has steamed a moment that is touching the niche markets and the hip trend setting waves of people (ya know the people that start the trends and fads or such).

Some examples are as fallows:

These are from a hip trendy shop called Shigoto.








These are less modern in their design but still none the less cool! Less baggy to compared to the hip version. Made by a guy called Marcus Stratus aka Weerd on DA or also he has a Etsy shop.




Weerd got the pattern for the pants from Lastwear Though he changed it a lil bit. Lastwear is in between what Weerd does and the hipsters in that they maintain more of the original design but also try and make then a tad more modern as well.










So what do you think? I love them and if I had the $150 to commission some from either Marcus or the Lastwear crew I would. Or the wallet biting $210-352 from Shigoto. But that is like buying name brand from places like Abercrombie & Fitch. OUCH!

Oh well. I still dig these awesome and yes eclectic pants!

Photos

So here are some of the downtown photos that I've been messing with. I have more that I want to do but that is neither here nor there.

Tell me what you think.








I really do enjoy black and white photo work.

Patch Poll 3.0 - Plz vote or comment!

So here I am again looking for some opinions on my patch WIPs and now the placement of the UCI and how you like the text I have chosen or if you have another that you think would work better.

Remember this is suppose to be a Steampunk-ish designed patch. And is suppose to have the feel of an olde (yep old with a 'e' if ya know what I mean) map or parchment or a book.

First up is the idea that sprang from my head and after working up the patch and trying this element out I just today decided that it was not going to work. Its a little bit to modern and doesn't meld well with the patches. I might try to fool around with it more free hand with pencil and try to get it working better with the new font and design. ...but for now it is scrapped pending a re-engineering (with similar format that is).



Am I the only one that feels that the above is similar to what a University emblem would look like? Hmmm.... I think it is. Thus to modern. *le sigh* I really like this idea. Oh well.



On to some examples of the final patches and the wording on them. Remember that the circle ones are going to be a circle patch (just on square 'paper' for ease of working with them). The half circle one will be a rectangle patch.

Design one (1) examples:

A simple design which would work well transiting to a patch.




Design two (2) examples:

More complex and I just like this one more. Very eye grabbing in my POV. (Yes Craig I know you think that is it to complex but I will try it anyway and see what the company says lol.)






Design three (3) examples:

The half patch or rectangular patch. Kinda fun might be made side project while working with the full ones. I dunno if I will get this done but might in the future but vote on it any way plz.





^ALL THE DESIGNS ABOVE ARE JUST EXAMPLES OF THE TEXT PLACEMENT^



Now onto the text placement options. I have lines in red shades place on the WIP patches with numbers next to the line. I would like you to give me the patch you like and the number line that you think the text would look good on.

EXAMPLE: I like patch 'A' and line 3!

If there is not a line on the place that you think the text looks best then say something like:

...I think it the text would work best and look good next to line 3!


Patch 'A'


Patch 'B'


Patch 'C'



Like last time plz leave comments on your ideas or your rants. All verbiage is going in to see how these are received and in working to improve them more.

Yes I'm odd, we have established this as well as my never growing up ^_^ MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yay and your done (...if you voted or commented that is >.>)!

Just messing around... and having a bit to much fun XD

So I got some more AWESOME and odd props (just plane fun shiz) from Etsy a awhile back and I again though hey why not take some more icon/ava user pics for my presence on the interweb that will make the people that know me go:

O.o''''

Yes I do enjoy being odd. And I have a WONDERFUL time doing it. (... and it takes my mind away from the recovering DP/DR that hampers joy each day... but I will 'Bliss -ify' it to smithereens lol)




Anyway just having some random fun and bothering you with it MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

UCI Patch poll

So I have these two WIP (works in progress) patches that I've whipped up and after I'm done with them I'm going to have them made for real. (Cool I know ^_^)

And so I just wanted some views and opinions on them and a vote to see what ones you like the best. So please vote!

UCI by the way will be printed over the patches but I have yet to do the last hand drawn part of the patch, as this part was all done by computer manipulation (gimp, paint, picasa... simple programs because I'm a broke as hell artist). UCI by the way stands for "United Celtic Isle". More info below the poll on this.

Number 1 Number 2



Leave comments on your ideas or your rants. All verbiage is going in to see how these are received and in working to improve them more.






My character is part of a underground militia known as the UCI. Her name is Leeus (for right now might change in the future *shrugs*). She was born in America but ran away to the UK as a teenager. She is stationed out of Dublin right now in non-active status. That is all right now as I'm still working on her details/back story and all the surrounding bits.


On another note I have worked up dog tags (military-ish) as well and am just waiting for them to be shipped to me. I'll get pictures of them up when they come.

Both these patches and the tags are from a character that I have been working over in my head and on paper for a story and such. Anyway I just wanted to see if I could get the patches and the tags reproduced in real life because I thought they where so cool!

Yes I'm odd we have established this as well as my never growing up ^_^ MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Needfire

eedfire" is a celtic rock band! Yeah another group in kin with "Enter the Haggis"!

And *sigh* this is a great band pic!:


See Craig men can be sexy in kilts!!!

Hmmmmm.... they have a song called "Alma the younger" I wonder if.....??

Beanie feind that I am...

...with a interest in gas mask design (if you really want to know more/why just ask but yeah...) I found this knitted invention an awesome find lol.





Anyway I just thought that it was kinda neat.

The maker's story behind it:

"A friend of mine decided he wanted a knitted gas mask + hat to wear for winter bike trips to work. Of course I offered to do it not really thinking about how I'd actually do it. Months later (after lots of reminding) I finally finished it"

My life in the form of a web comic v. IV

Yup feel pretty close to me >.>

Pass it forward! ---->

Love this web comic! It rox my world ^_^

OH NOES I'M BACK AGAIN!

So I just stumbled across THE BEST t-shirt shop this side of Zion!

It is called 8 Apparel!

LOL I know what I'm getting Paul for Christmas! Oh snap have I not come across something this funny since I got Paul This t-shirt as part of his Christmas as a jab and tongue-in-check lol at LDS male culture a Christmas or two ago. And guess what his P-day tees from me will be *insert EVIL older sister Grinch like grin here* MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Some of my favorite tees:




*Must plaster kid brother with funny t-shirt that make other wonder about his sanity (all the while knowing they should be questioning mine instead)*

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!111

OH MAN EDIT:
I just stumbled across another site/store and this one is just as good (bad!?)lol!

Seriously So Blessed

*A MEGA SHOUT GOES UP FROM ACROSS ZION AND MOST OF ALL FROM PROVO* to quote the Craig's fan gurl fan club (hee hee hee @ Craig)

Just musing and wondering.

So these are my random thoughts for the day and your $0.02 are all welcome.

So I was reading through Sunday's PostSecrets and there was one about a person that went through chemo and was not able to have kids and how they felt unimportant to the human race now. So It made me wonder would I (or any of you) marry a person that you knew could not have kids if you loved them? Would you stayed married to a person that could not have kids after you just got married (like you found out less then 6 months to a year after you got married)? If you had been trying for a long time like years and found out that they could not? Is it that important to have kids for you?

And to the people that say they would just adopt... well what if you where to poor to adopt? Then would you still stay married to the person?

Ok what if you where the person that was the infertile one? How would you feel? What would you say and do?





I don't know how I would feel personally. I think I would feel like I let them down but I would love my husband first and kids are a secondary thing in a marriage (albeit important in many ways). I still don't know how I feel about adoption. I know I sound like a bigot but I want kids that look like kids I would have. I guess that would also change if I married outside of my heritage and background. There are also other factors like how my husband's family would feel that I 'cheated' them out of grand kids and the family name being passed down. If he was the only male child or the only one that was going to have kids in his family or such. Then there are cultural and religious pressures to deal with as well.

So much to think about. What do you think about it?


On a similar note it always make me wonder when I see those young LDS couples (and others I'm not picking on anyone here ^_^) that have not been married even nine - ten months to a couple years and they already have a kid/s. Do they even really know each other? I want a year or more to know my new husband before I even think about kids. A new husband, a new life, a new living situation, a new house/apt and so very much more and now they already have another new little life to deal with and fit into this new life of theirs. (not that kids are bad so don't think that I'm saying that people just musing out load here) I just think "...first comes love then comes marriage...." and when the times is right and you both know each other as husband/wife, friend, lover and even gotten in whoppers of fight and know how to work through pain and anger and still know that you will always care for the other... and have the time and money and stable environment and only then "....then comes the baby in the baby carriage".




So yeah that is my brain leak for the morning.

Day 3 and still ouchie >.<

So I told some of you about how I slipped on the wet leaves going down the front porch steps the other day and fell off the last couple steps and did the splits XD and then landed on my left knee and left foot.

Only thing hurt other then my pride lol was my left knee that is all better and my left foot... still ouchie.

So yeah it is still swollen and tender and has a scab on it. So here is a pic just for Craig our lil podophilia (Foot fetish/lover) out there.

Plz ignore the hair and how ugly my foot is -_-


You can see that my foot is swollen and my flip flop strap mark lol

Do your part - VOTE!

So just reiterating that we all need to come out and vote! Even more so if you are young. Lets hear your voice this election!


Anyway I thought that I would toss up my favorite US propaganda piece since we have been bombarded for so many months leading up to today for the elections.

First off the most iconic and recognizable one:

This image was in all reality a miss labeling of the character of Rosie. It was one of the many images that was around during the labor crises during WWII to entice women to help during the labor shortage from the lack of factory workers during the war.

And now the Original piece that was first called "Rosie the Riveter":

I love how she has her feet crushing a copy of Mein Kampf! And her look is great! I just love this version of Rosie!

And a Time Magazine cover that is a modern take on this image to run along with their article about teens volunteering:


Anyway like these images are try to say in their timelessness get out there and do your part today!

Feeling drained

I just got done helping Rachel and she kinda blew it off as nothing and went image surfing for pics of her boy toy crush 'The Judist Brothers' while I scanned Beowulf for phrases that would fit her HW.

....more then an hour later after finding all she needed but one I got sick of her thinking my help was nothing and her wasting time on the interweb and tossed the book back at her and told her to find it herself.

She said "should I ask the others (family) to find it then"? >.> ummm no as you are in an honors class you SHOULD be doing it yourself not looking for more images of that damned band to slather all over your notebook.

She looked for a few mins and then just stuck crap in the last spot and then gathered up her crap and left my room.



I'm sorry but if I'm helping you with something and you think my help is nothing worth while and you don't show me that you appreciate it then just go bump it on down the road and don't ask for my help.

I'm tired and worn out and feel dead so with bleary eyes and a belittled smack to the face I was not going to take it.

It shows that I've been worn out by my midterm crap and I was just not going to take her crap.....

uggg venting it feels good!


LOL its days like these that I'm glad that I have nonsensical fuzzy eared hats to jam on my head and make people wonder about my sanity ^_^

Makes you wonder

Saw this on Post Secret and it makes you wonder if it will be attempted. I know I brought it up to John in passing once a while ago and he said he would not be surprised if some kook tried it but failed horribly.



It says "It's only a matter of time..."

Avatars (icons) time

So John bugged me to whip up a few more avas for his LJ/blog so here are some John-alicous ava sized pics all ready to go.

(John you either have to give me your password or work with me so I can upload them to your LJ FYI)

In order they are: 1. "Glomp", 2. "hidden", 3. "luvs driving", 4. "Do you have nummies?" and last 5. "plotting"

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.






Oh also this one that I whipped up before but John missed me posting it:

Lets call it "Baseball cap" to make it easy (though "betrayer" also leaps to mind ^_^ ...ask John he'll tell ya why lol)



And just because I was already working with the pics in Paint and Gimp I made a few more for me lol.

They are: 1. "Peek", 2. "grin" and the shot that is becoming a tradition with each trip 3. "car mirror YS/GT"

1. 2. 3.


Thats it for now. If anyone want to have be scale/size pics, crop them or make banners and avas/icons for them and or their blogs just note me here or e-mail me and I'll work with ya. They really are not that hard and they are fun.