Fri, Dec. 23rd, 2011 11:57 pm
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I swear, one of my new year's resolutions will be to post more regularly so my entries aren't just filled with dot points. In the meantime, DOT POINT ENTRY!

o So I've been riding to work since the weather started fining up in October, and have only missed maybe three or four days since when it was raining and crap in the morning. Coupla weeks ago I had my first... well I'll call it a crash but really I was going no faster than walking speed and fell over. But yea. Riding between a line of parked cars and a line of cars waiting at the traffic lights, plenty of room, until a ute decides when I'm about a metre from his wing mirror to turn left. I ALMOST made it between the two cars but clipped my handlebar on the mirror and fell over. Bruise on one knee and a scab on the other, but my bike's handlebar kinda bent up at right angles. So I have a new bike now! It's black and green and has freaking SUSPENSION and it's pretty awesome. I love it a lot. Also the metro tickets I haven't been buying for public transport have just about paid for it anyway so yay!

o I WROTE TWO CHAPTERS. I haven't completed a chapter since NOVEMBER LAST YEAR. This is big news and requires CAPS.

o Smells like Teen Spirit is apparently only #2 on this Music Max party rock anthems countdown. Given that Max would like this song to top every countdown they do from love ballads to the big hair countdown*, I'd like to know what beats "here we are now; entertain us" in that. Stay tuned.

o Three weeks of annual leave started today! THIS IS AWESOME AND ALSO REQUIRES CAPS. I haven't had this much solid time off since school.

o Sweet Child of Mine. I disagree with this.

o So far in my Christmas haul of work and my amazing housemate Anna P: Shitloads of chocolate, biscuits and lollies, Swarovski crystal necklace and matching earrings (more on this later), and a bike helmet and riding gloves. Naughty girl bought me TWO presents. If I'd known I would've gotten a selection of cheeses to go with the cheese board. She's too good to me <3

o I got so pissed off with my other housemate on Tuesday night that I decided not to give her her present, so Anna P and I split the box of Haigh's choc chip shortbread biscuits between us last night. Basically, Mum invited them both up for my standard Tuesday dinner in the Hills last week. Sunday, housemate was finally able to say she wouldn't be free. Tuesday night, as Anna P and I were working out logistics via text, I got the message that the said Anna could come a bit later and pick up housemate on the way. 'Nah she told me she wasn't coming' I replied. 'Yes she is, I just talked to her,' says Anna P. 'Damn... woulda been nice if she'd told me.' I say back. Call Mum, who is able to get another piece of salmon out of the freezer cos she's awesome and just has spare pieces of salmon hanging around. As one does. I get up there, apologise profusely, etc and so on. Anna P and housemate arrive, housemate says nothing~ and does nothing~ and carries on the night as if she was expected there the whole time. This all pretty much confirmed my dislike of the girl, but the clincher? As Anna P was praising the salmon and the mango and avocado salsa and the frankly awesome potato wedges and the salmon and how awesome my Mum was... housemate said nothing. She LEFT without saying thank you. SO GLAD SHE'S MOVING OUT YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I have been TRYING all year to like her but omg. I don't care what you think about me, you can dislike me for whatever reason, but my mum? Who has made special concessions for you with SALMON? And you can't even be arsed to say thank you? No. Fuck you. You're not even getting politeness out of me anymore.

o Why is Kiwiland releasing a trailer for The Hobbit a YEAR before it comes out? That's just cruel and unusual punishment.

o 30 degrees on Sunday, oh yeah o/ But drizzling. YAY MUGGY =|

o I get more excited about giving my presents to people than getting them. Bring on Christmas Eve~ with the awesome lunch and the pressie giving~ and then Christmas DAY with the awesome lunch~ and the pressie giving~ and yeah I'm not going to hit my target of 80kg by the end of the year am I? YAY CHRISTMAS.

o The Swarovski crystal sparklies? Boss and Boss Lady have sold the franchise =0 Graphic Designer and Accountant are owners as of January 16, the day I get back from leave. FRIGGING BIG NEWS. Not much will change first up but EEE exciting stuff. Boss will be hanging around for a year, and Boss Lady will be in once a week to do finishing (stapling, collating, hole punching, that kind of thing) but still, BIG CHANGES AFOOT.

o I forgot to bring my tablet up to the Hills tonight. This sucks cos I was going to do my Secret Santa tonight. BALLS. I'll just have to make it particularly awesome over the course of the week. While I'm on LEEEEEAVE omg this is awesome.

o I swear this will be the last giant dot point entry, really.

o Lol LJ wank. I really don't care enough about subject lines to move, what is it, five journals? tpyo, HB, yrae, the Thrai (hah like that gets used anymore but whatever)... four journals. It does amuse me that the people who are getting the most worked up over it have already ditched LJ.

o I made a thing! Which I am clearly announcing at the wrong time but whatever. I'll point back at it in July.

o I bought a commission :D I love that everyone so far has seen Ackerley with fluffy red-brown hair. Hey I might even add them all to bloogum some day wouldn't that be a novel idea?

o Holy crap Dexter. I've been waiting six seasons for that. laksdghalksd want next season now kthxbai.

o THE END.



* If you've heard a better premise for a music countdown, I'd like to hear it.

Thu, Jul. 1st, 2010 07:49 pm
annarti: (watching the days slip by so fast)
LOOK WHAT I GOT :DDDDD I'm hoping to get commissions of Ackerley from all my favourite artists, the fun part being that Ackerley has no physical description in the story, so they're left to interpret him as they will. So yes. Rynnay is number two, the first being Ku :D It amuses me that they both gave him much the same hair, right down to the curly underneath and combed out top XD

What you can't see in the web-sized version? TEXTURE. Holy crap the texture on this thing, omg. Fluffy moss and rough bark and grainy stone and fragile, papery dragon wings and sparkly dragon scales and rough boot leather and omg it's brilliant. If you have the monies to spare, I highly, highly recommend this girl. HEE.
annarti: (XD)
GUYSGUYSGUYS.

LOOK.

MY BOYS. THEY ARE SO AWESOME. ASDKJGHASJKLDGHASKH EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I love everything about that picture lkahsdgls THEY ARE SO PERFECT. LOOK AT THE FACES. OMFG THEY'RE GORGEOUS. I'm capslocking here because I don't want to deface her page with it. alksghalsd That is getting printed out on A3 glossy paper, framed, and stared at like 8DDD for an hour or several each day. I LOVE THIS THING ASDJKHEEEEEEEEEEE

Tue, Jun. 2nd, 2009 02:07 pm
annarti: (a good day to be a 'narti)
Today has been made of win and also awesome :D Home early from uni, because my 2-hour sculpture lecture consisted of one 10-minute presentation followed by, "off you go to work on your presentations, guys!" from the lecturer, and my ITC prac I finished last week so didn't need to hang around for that, either. SCORE.

Then I got home to find not one, not two, but THREE notes in my dA inbox: one with this awesome Zoidberg link from the Sallie~ <3 <3 One with this fantastic and totally unexpected and squeeful commission from the Kuuuuu <3 <3! And finally~ a note from the person I'm commissioning myself saying "pay me monies and I can start sketching :D"

Also, I think I've pretty much reached the stage where Nanna-related memories are making me smile rather than choke up. Still a bit of sudden never-see-her-again-ness, but for the most part, happy memories. The funeral helped. My cousins, Colin and I spent a good three hours after it reminiscing about Nanna and Grandpa, and we got to laugh and have fun with such memories, so yay <3

We also found Grandpa's old diaries. He kept one every year since DECADES ago, and wrote in it every day. Not every one was there, but! We did find 1979, which was the year Mum and Dad got married =D So we looked up February 10 and there were about~ six lines. Paraphrased a bit cos I can't remember it word for word:

Dianne and Albert's wedding day. It turned out to be beaut weather. I think it all went OK.
Went out to the farm and fed the sheep. All OK out there.


He actually wrote 'beaut' alksghalsk Have I mentioned how awesome my family is? Cos they are. We suspect he was possibly drunk while writing it, cos yaknow. Father of the bride. It's like his patriotic duty to get drunk on the wedding day/night. And yes, the sheep got roughly the same amount of writing as his first-born's wedding <3

In some other box were photos from said wedding, which are so fantastically seventies you can't believe it. Dad had a WHITE SUIT (which we always knew and mocked, but seeing it in photos is just brilliant) with a waistband just about up to his chest. Big black hair, thin moustache... he looked like a Columbian drug lord, seriously. And Mum's bridesmaids (her sister and best friend) were wearing what looked like nighties with little blue flowers all over them. SO SEVENTIES.

Compared to the shots of Nanna's and Grandpa's wedding back in the thirties? There just... there's no comparing them XD Nanna looked GORGEOUS <3 Loooong lacey white train, all spread out perfectly on the floor around her, eee <3 There were about half a dozen copies of their photos made, so we'll get one that I'm so going to have to scan. Along with Mum and Dad for the lols.

I'm a happy 'narti =3

Mon, Aug. 18th, 2008 05:40 pm
annarti: (XD)
Wooooooo 23. I'm now closer to 25 than 20 D:

At work, Jenn put an extra marshmallow in my hot chocolate for lunch, aww XD And managed to meet three other people with their birthday on the same day as me. Go August 17 XD

For dinner, Mum made the winning 'menu' from Britain's Best Dish that we've been watching over the last few weeks. The tiddy oggy was basically a glorified pastie, wouldn't call it a starter so much as something you'd get at a bakery, so meh. Pork belly was beautiful~ and the crackling was awesome X9 Still reckon Mum's thermadore or the duck from Colin's 21st are better, but 'twas still gorgeous X9 The sticky date pudding, tho, THAT was brilliant X)~~~~~ Best sticky date evar X)~~~~~~

We've (being me and Colin, mostly) been saying through the show that Mum could so enter that competition if there was an Australia's Best Dish. Looking particularly at the starter, cos the tiddy oggy was ordinary, as far as we were concerned. If that was Britain's best starter, Mum's tom yum has SO got that trumped >D

...I'm getting sidetracked. Kinda. Anyway! Presents~ came after dinner, so far only got stuff from Dad's side of the family, so we'll see what happens with the Victor contingent.

From Mum and Dad: a Parker pen, brushed metallic blue and silver, very shiny and lasts forever, according to Dad X3 Also, the age old traditional packet of sour cream and onion Pringles.
From Dad: $50 =D
From Mum: $50 =D With the condition to spend it on boots-or-footware-or-possibly-clothes.
From Colin: $35 =D With the condition to spend it on JEANS.
From Gran: $50 =D No strings attached =D I'll prolly combine it with Dad's $50 to get either a commission or an mp3 player. Leaning towards the latter. Was thinking of getting a snazzy new graphics card, but Colin reckons that for a card to be worth it, I need a new motherboard and memory as well, so may as well wait and get it all at once. So yeah. Probably mp3 player.

From Sallie: THIS which just arrived today and was sitting on the table when I got home 8DDDDDDDDD (Nimay's hair has been fixed since the scan, well and truly black now) OMG IT IS AWESOME. If the scanning computer wasn't broken, I'd so scan it again, because that really doesn't do the colours justice. Nimay's cheekbones are just alskdjghals SO PERFECT. It's exactly how I imagine her, how she's just sort of cocking an eyebrow at Nol over her shoulder, omg I love it. THANK YOU SALLIE~

Also, I totally recommend Marourin, the artist. Great to deal with, fantastic quality final piece, great attention to faces (expressions, various features of the characters, look at the CHEEKBONES, DAMNIT) and yes. AWESOME.

Going to the Hahndorf Inn tonight =D It's no Alphütte like for Colin's 21st, but it's not a 21st XD Hahndorf Inn is fabby X9~~~

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