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INSTANT HAPPY

2006-12-10T02:16:19Z

I flove the Carlton Dance. And quite possibly, I flove you, too.

eep.

2006-10-09T17:16:38Z

"i just want to crawl into a hole and not deals. right, toki?"

happy happy happy happy birthday, warmpinkglow

2006-09-28T17:29:59Z

Happy birthday, dearest Erica. I hope it is a wonderful, lovely day filled with glitter and sparkles :)

oh, bloody hell

2006-09-22T07:42:41Z

So now the Shuffle is even teenier, has a clip on it, holds 1 gig, and is $79? Effin' figures!

Even when I go for the lowest rent iPod available I still get screwed by the forward march of technological genius. Sigh.

Pussyfoot and Marc Antony

2006-09-03T02:15:57Z

BEST. CARTOON. EVER. MADE.

Zombie Shuffle

2006-08-24T05:20:04Z

Equal rights for zombies!

happy birthday..!

2006-08-18T16:50:00Z

Happy birthday to the incredibly awesome thelovehater. I hope your day is filled with fashion and fabulosity and that you have a wonderful cake - you deserve it! ♥

fluff and stuff

2006-08-17T01:55:19Z

Found via bias_cut:

It would appear that I have some facial features in common with Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, Margaret Atwood, Aretha Franklin, and Lacey Chabert. All of which I find incredibly flattering, though I'll take the site's word for the resemblance, because I'm not sure I'm seeing it anywhere except in a teeny bit of Kate Winslet.

Things like that are so fun. I'm glad the myheritage.com site has the cute collage option now!

my brain hurts.

2006-08-12T05:44:26Z

Can I have a holiday, please?

Actually, we do have a trip on the agenda, as long as we buy tickets in time - we're going to do Gigantour again. They have an Oklahoma City date and this one will be an actual outdoor gig instead of cramming it all into Gwinnett Arena as was the Atlanta date last year. I'm quite looking forward to Arch Enemy, mostly because you don't really find much estrogen in or around death metal.

But, as awesome as Gigantour will be, it's not exactly a peaceful relaxing getaway of any sort. (I'm definitely bringing earplugs this year. In fact, I might bring a mass quantity of them and hand them out to fellow wussy-concert-goers.) I don't know what I want to do or where I'd like to go. I'd just like to not think about the world or work or the creeping futility of depression that simmers away gently in the back of my mind. If money were absolutely no object I'd like to catch the next few August dates for Jamiroquai. That'd be nice, but I'm not flying to Europe* without at least a frigging book to pass the time!

I haven't drawn in two days. I feel kind of hollow.

Well, back to being a pointless automaton. I have to be at work in less than seven hours. Yippee!

*hypothetically, as I don't have the money to even fly domestically

omg, awesome

2006-08-07T02:40:19Z

Because hand-washing is like, my least-favourite chore (and I just spent a good hour cleaning toilets, even including the use of a used - and never to be used again - toothbrush), the bra ball looks fantastic.

Enough procrastinating, I have more mould to conquer. Au revoir! ♥

and as the saying goes...

2006-07-28T04:44:53Z

now I ded from cute. FERRETS! IN A HEART SHAPE! I'm going to keel over from the adorability.

[what i drew today] yet another mermaid

2006-07-27T06:39:38Z

[click to see larger version, as always]

In other news, we saw "An Inconvenient Truth" tonight. I wish it could stay in theatres longer. I wish more people cared. I wish I could help spur more people into trying to make a difference. The whole thing makes me hopeful and heartsick at the same time. Sigh.

when i'm not drawing, i'm tormenting my cat

2006-07-24T05:34:21Z

...or running out of Jose Cuervo, but I stopped crying about that hours ago.

Anyway, I discovered that although Boodie (cat #1) is mostly a sloth and will lay very still for very long periods of time, if I sing the chorus of "Loving You" by Minnie Riperton, she will get up and start circling around and bump her head into me and lick my hand. I'm not sure if she's trying to comfort me because she thinks the falsetto is actually a cry of pain, or if she just really, really likes Minnie Riperton and is trying to get me to buy a greatest hits album.

I have to be up in five hours or so to go to work. The NO SLEEP EXPRESS TRAIN is about to board. I will say that it generally helps the work day go a little faster if I'm in a state of sleepless wonkiness, though I apologise more because I'm more likely to accidentally throw things at people... packs of cigarettes, credit cards, handfuls of change. *bonk* "Oops, sorry about that..."

I think I'm going to draw s'more and try to take a nap on the comfiest of sleeping spaces, the livingroom floor.

♥

cryptic but important poll

2006-07-16T05:41:35Z

View Poll: Two shiny things enter... one shiny thing leaves.

today's awesomeness

2006-07-13T00:17:37Z

1. Last night we were watching one of those "To Catch a Predator" shows on MSNBC. I can't help it, we get stuck on them whenever they're on (wasted an hour or two on a couple while we were in Denver in February, too). Obviously it's not awesome when creepy guys specifically set out to have sex with underage girls, but, one of the chat decoys from Perverted Justice used the username "snakesonagirl" in one of the trapper-chat things. Heh. Cracked me up big time.

2. On that note, we saw a trailer for "Snakes on a Plane" today. It started off with a bunch of text about how all the movies this summer will have superheroes and action and pirates and blah blah blah, but none but one will have... SNAKES ON A PLANE! Faaaaaaaaantastic.

That's about it. I'm thinking of posting some more drawings as I managed to put my scanner to good use yesterday and got a bunch of stuff out of my sketchbook and onto the computer. If you're sick of art and don't like mermaids I promise I won't be offended if you turn away during the next few posts.

[what i drew several weeks ago] posted for cranberrysoda :)

2006-07-11T18:12:37Z

i dream of bacon

Drawn while waiting for a BLT sandwich at Jimmy John's. I should note they don't heat the bacon there (or at least not at that particular JJ's). It was kind of disappointing, but still baconlicious.

our two dorks

2006-07-11T16:26:29Z

minkey boodle & boodie cuddling

One time we came home from somewhere and the babies were on the couch. Usually Boodie growls and fusses when Minkey comes anywhere near her, but she's started to come around on the cleaning issue (usually she has to employ a rag on a stick; now Minkey Boodle sort of sticks to her like a suckerfish and helps her get all those hard to reach places, like the back of her neck). They can be found like this quite often these days, well, until Boodie starts growling and then runs away to be alone.

early-morning TV meme, nicked from prufrockslove

2006-07-11T13:18:04Z

Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Allo Allo
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol
America’s Next Top Model/Germany’s Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Brimstone
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Daria
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi High
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (old Who)
Doctor Who (new Who)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Eerie, Indiana
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hey Dude
Hogan’s Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell’s Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
John Doe
Kath and Kim
Keeping Up Appearances
LA Law
Laguna Beach
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
L&O: Special Victims Unit
L&O: Criminal Intent
Life With Derek
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married… With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Millenium
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Family
My Life as a Dog
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Radio Free Roscoe
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road to Avonlea (Tales of Avonlea)
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation*
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*
Star Trek: Voyager*
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Colbert Report
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Veronica Mars
Wings
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace

* My mother used to tape all of the "new" Star Trek series and watch them on weekends. It was forced nerdity.

Aside: Shana, you've never seen any/at least three episodes of "Northern Exposure"?! How? It was so awesome..!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SARAH!

2006-07-05T21:48:01Z

Happiest of all happies to dearest Sarah, aka cranberrysoda. A dear friend, a wonderful confidant, and my co-conspirator in all things arty and procrastinatey. Love you bunches and I hope you have a fantastic day with a wonderful cake to top it all off :) ♥

today i am

2006-06-19T19:36:01Z

...grumpy, tired, lazy, annoying, annoyed, clueless, ditzy, discaculate, uninspired, disgruntled, moody, torked off, and to finish the list, hygenically clean but feel physically dirty (probably because a stranger touched my hair).

i've been trying to write this essay/soapbox rant/whatever but it's not gelling. i wish i could remember how to write coherently. the crux of the essay is about my hair colour and its transformation into this weird... thing. previously friendly people have become distant, people i wouldn't expect to talk to me have been talking to me, i've actually become a lot better - in just a month - at gracefully accepting a compliment. it's this whole mess of stuff that i want to get down, but i haven't given myself much practice in actually writing essay-style in the last few years, so it's frustrating. anyway. i'm dumb.

today i sold a lady two cans of red bull and a can of mountain dew. she held the soft drink and gave a can of red bull each to her two kids who looked like they were under six years old. i'm not even sure how to assess this.

i think i'm going to have a shower and try to undo the damage of being touched by skeevy strangers.

♥

oh, bloody hell.

2006-06-18T01:23:04Z

How do my interests seem to come together like this? I'm a bit of a Mary Engelbreit enthusiast; and I've been thinking of buying a crockpot/slow cooker. Hence, this item has my name all freaking over it. How does that happen? Also, where do I find a spare $60.00 for an item I'm pretty sure I don't actually need right now, but want to grab up as soon as possible so I can a) hug it, b) squeeze it, c) love it, d) call it George, and e) make a delicious beef stew?

margarita update

2006-06-14T05:58:57Z

I'm lightly toasted. Still trying to work out the proportion of ice to mix & tequila - dang that tricky new blender that actually crushes ice to a pulp! - but I'll get it eventually. Meanwhile, cranberry juice does add a lovely new dimension to an old favourite.

Bleaching out the roots

2006-06-07T09:46:00Z

Bleaching out the roots
Originally uploaded by sammygirl.

Bleaching by myself was a somewhat anxiety-inducing experience. The moment my hair started getting all crackly I wondered if I was going to have to just chop it all off. But it worked, and then I used toner (unlike last time) to take out the yellow/brassy colour leftover. I almost left it like this until Nathan pointed out the root growth would look really obvious, heh.

Manic Panic Cotton Candy Pink & SPX Virgin Rose
Originally uploaded by sammygirl.

And then I used the lighter pink on top and Virgin Rose on the back. It looks a lot more vibrant in person!

I also cut my hair tonight. I just chopped off some length from my ponytail and snipped some of the front to make it even. I suppose I could go get a 'real' haircut, but I'd rather spend my money on books and at Sally Beauty Supply (where I now have a discount card thingy... ha).

(semi)-Greek salad

2006-06-07T09:44:11Z

(semi)-Greek salad
Originally uploaded by sammygirl.

I made myself some dinner tonight, based loosely on a salad Rachael Ray made on "30 Minute Meals". Cucumber, tomato, marinated & quartered artichoke hearts from a jar, calamata/kalamata olives, feta cheese, and Paul Newman olive oil & vinegar dressing (which is totally super, by the way). Yum!

stuff and junk

2006-06-06T21:25:13Z

First of all, I want these, because if bacon makes everything better, surely wrapping its likeness around my cut or injured finger would boost healing by at least 50%.

Second, I want to make my fridge look like oranges! (Thanks to sarahparah for that find.)

Third, I'm working on a micro-"comic" format entry on my thoughts on meals I have loved, inspired by Sarahparah, as it happens. She asked what my favourite meal was and I really had to think about it because for a very long time my relationship with food has been completely warped. I've come up with a few things, though, and I'll post it as soon as it's done.

Fourth, we watched "Hostel" last night. We had to take anxiety breaks (okay, they were for me). I watched some parts through the ruffle on my pillow, and I was completely swaddled in blankets. rockgeisha, your future husband is a sicko! But, he's also very cute and very funny (we just started watching the accompanying documentaries). So I'll give him a pass for the sickness.

Fifth, I dreamed last night that I was having a tea party with Sara (inherbarefeet) and Leesa (ex- lovelylight). It was really sweet dream, and I reckon it would be really fun to do that some day. *shakes fist at vast amounts of distance*

Sixth, ♥

(Seventh, my cable company was being a douchebag last night so I don't know if this posted twice, but I had to update it after I woke up anyway.)