Gimp

I like Gimp. Gimp is good for making avatars and pictures of quotes. Just a few of the ones I've made:

I do love the holidays. Perfect for learning new skills.

Distractions

Yep. I'm back. I dont stick to things well do I? I guess being weird helps me decide to forget things. On to today's topic: Distractions!

I'm always getting distracted. I doodle, I surf the web, I pick up a random book, ect...
And I cant seem to fix that trait. Oh I try, I really do, but the siren call awaits me. I try to stave it off with a good book or knitting or work or drawing. They all work perfectly as most of them are more distractions. But isn't life just a distraction? Merde. I'm waxing philosophical again. This is me. Teenage thinker who is easily distracted.

Ash

Camp NaNoWriMo (or Do I Even Think I Can Do This?)

So I've decided to do Camp NaNoWriMo in June. I hope I actually do it and not some half baked attempt (though half baked stuff tastes pretty good; just ask Milo) as I am likely to do. My idea: An urban fantasy novel. KInda generic, but I think my take will be good for only two days of working on the plot. It has dragons, changelings, evil gods, and lots of random Greek myths. Oh and vampires (what teen novel these days doesn't have them?). So wish me luck if I even decide to do it. Yeah, I'm impulsive. What gave it away?

Ash

Mary Sues

I've been reading a ton of sporks lately. The best park are the trolls, because of the way the commentators act about them. The main reason I decided to write about sues here is that I found one that I wrote near the beginning of the year(luckily it was in a notebook in an original world, but still a Mary sue *shudders*). I never wrote much about the characters, but most of them didn't have much personality. Still I had a few funny-ish lines such as:

"We need maps!" announced A, which led B to exclaim "To the Library!"
"Uh, do you two geniuses know where the Library is?" asked C.
"No idea." replied B cheerfully.

"It's in the job description, sunshine" said C to D

"The future is not fixed, but those two bickering is set in stone" said C

"Did he kill nice sweet dragons to build his throne?" asked A.
"He did" replied M.
"Then he will die!" exclaimed A.
"Of course he will," said B exasperatedly, " as he's the villain."

These are probably the best lines of the whole short thing that I never completed. I think my writing has gotten much better in that short time. At least now I'm trying to make flawed characters and am getting better at plot exposition instead of doing Deus ex Machina.

Star Wars monopoly

Tonight I'm playing Star Wars Monopoly with dad and Trouble. Trouble is Yoda, dad is Vader, and I'm Leia (in the famous Tatooine outit no less). Some of the highlights so far are: Sonic screwdrivers can be imagined anywhere, Trouble makes an Amelia Pond style apple of the doctor with a 5 credit fez, I go puppy dog eyes over the death stars so I can blast anyone I like, Vader wins a beauty contest, I'm continually mistaking Leia for Yoda, we treat the bank like an ATM, and Trouble hugs and fake kisses.

Crashed train of thought

Today, I'm sitting on a bed reading and knitting to my hearts content(well maybe not knitting, but I will soon. I think?). Anyway I'm reading Terry Pratchett(and sneaking Anne of green gables) and dying of randomly induced fits of laughter from DW memories and the cuteness of Torchwood Babiez, which if you like DW or TW you must read(I mean come on baby!Ten and baby!Jack). I rewatched silence in the library last night, and now I know who River is it's stll pretty weird(and written by Steven Moffat, which explains a lot). I will not divulge River secret for fear of anyone who lays on this blog being annoyed with me for posting it(even though I bet millions of bloggers have already done this).I'm starting to notice that the posts on this blog are my train of thought which makes leaps in the oddest ways. And I'm thinking of Victor Krum right now. Very disturbing. My current knitting project is my first sweater and I'm thinking of knitting a very ticked of pink dalek(and maybe dalek bob sometime). The title of this post is from Sharkboy and Lavagirl which I bet someone knows out there in the giant sprawling web(which has spiders and babys wandering around in it). Bored now and wanting DW t-shirts. I think I should tell people whats in my backpack as it shows I have mixed taste in books. It contains: The Second Wheel of Time, Small Gods, Jane Eyre,The Steampunk Bible, and Ghosts of Route 66.

My insanely awesome day.

So, who uses google? I know I do, and yeah, you must if you're reading this. On monday I drove around google's HQ. And it was cool. It had giant cupcakes and donuts, for crying out loud! Oh yes and this is a deranged middle of the night post after a day of immersing myself in The Steampunk Bible(which I should have written in italics, but the stupid iPad won't let me. Grrr) and trying to write a really short, short story which I will try to put up on here. Now, on to business such as learning to sew. Yep, I want to sew. Clumsy old me who once made an insane wizard rode with a very strange sleeve wants to sew. But come on its for a good cause, right? Doesn't steampunk count as a good cause? Oh, yes if you want someone stanger than me whonwrites because the fancy takes her, you should pop on over to The Winchester Mystery House built by a crazy old insanely rich lady, who always had the house being built to appease the spirits she thought killed her husband and child and to live forever. No joke, she had the strangest house ever with a door to nowhere(quite literally as it dropped off the side of the house), windows in the floor, an obseussion with the number 13, and of course her own personal seance room. Well I've said enough for tonight, Au-Revoir!(and next time I need to say goodbye I will look up that fake elvish translator Malgora showed me)

Today's Randomness

So today we(my family) were leaving a campground. See my family decided to do this big ol out west trip in a VW Poptop camper van, which for those that don't understand is a van thats top pops up to form a small room made of canvas (which my sister and I sleep in). So on the way back from the campground showers this morning, Trouble(that will be my little sisters code name) decided to talk to some people with dogs and the resulting discussion about it in the van (on the way to the coffee shop I am currently writing this at), was all about the grammar of I and me and you, such as how me saw dogs is incorret, but I saw dogs is correct. Needless to say me family is very interesting and geeky in an awesome way. Oh yes and I do play D&D thanks for asking, Currently I have a Level 2 Half-Elf Bard who will whack you with a stick and sing if you tick her off and my insane adventuring party consists of a motley crew containg on of my best friends, Malgora(her code name) and her little brother and a very diverse crew of characters. Today, I get to go to Winchester Mystery House(at least that's what I think it's called) which was built by a rich lady who was building her house when a fortune teller( my dad was wondering last night why lots of fantasy stories have prophecies in them) told her that she would die once her house was finished, well you can guess the rest I suppose where her becomes a giant insane maze of a house. Once I get home I will put of pictures of costumes if anyone is out there reading this at all. Well, Au Revoir!

Hello World!

First Time really trying to run a consistent blog with long posts. Well here goes. I am teen girl who finds that knitting and geekiness go together quite well. First let me get some facts straight. Although I do not read ordinary comics, I do read WEBCOMICS!(sorry about that but the ones I read are really good). And now to explain my TV watching preferences. Doctor who, new series only so far, but hoping to start the original series quite soon. I also am almost through Stargate Sg-1. I also watch a smattering of Buffy which is how I got hooked on Cibo Matto. I admit to trying to convince my friends to Doctor Who and am usually successful(although in one persons case he and his little sister dislike Martha although I am goading the to get through the third season and get to Donna, then eventually The Eleventh Doctor) which reminds me "Fezzes are cool!"  Well Allons-y!( p.s. I love to knit, did I mention that? Oh, and dress up in fantasy and steam punk costumes?)