Yrae Chronicles

figjam and yrae are done, yaaaaay. Though I may down the track make Fig Jam more landscape and image friendly. Not now, though. That's as far as I can be arsed going with any of them for now. I'll slowly but surely go through adding memories to both of them, too. I use them all the time.

Because of the whole Sydney trip less than two months ago, Alex hasn't come to Adelaide for Christmas/New Year this time, so we decided we'll go see movies on the same day and then Skype afterwards and it'll be like we saw them together. Today we saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. IT WAS AWESOME. I feel like I was just watching the animation for half of it. It was incredible. It really did look like a moving comic book. The way everything flashed around and moved, the dynamic slow-mo 'frames' that just... omg it was awesome. When stuff was out of focus in the background, it wasn't blurred, but it was just colour-shifted a bit, so you got the RGB or CMYK out of register and it was so cool. SO COOL.

The characters and the comedy were so much fun. The story was great. I just loved it. I could go see that again for sure.

...I never mentioned Christmas. Whoops. I'm very in-the-moment when I do tpyo entries. Anyway. Christmas was just a perfect day. Very warm, but up at Mum and Dad's in the Hills so it was pleasant enough. We started with punch, bubbly and the best nibbles you ever did see on the back veranda, hung around there for a while until Laura came up after nursing, and then the most perfectly Christmassy moment I've ever experienced. My cousin lives up in Darwin and flew down that morning to Adelaide. My aunt and uncle knew nothing about this. When she turned up, aunt was instantly in tears and uncle was just :O for a solid five minutes, until Mum asked if he was all right... then he burst into tears, too. I've NEVER seen him so emotional. It was just beautiful and so squee. Even by the end of the day I don't think he was over it, socute.

Lunch was all the usual suspects but not as you know them (for Christmas lunch, anyway). The prawns and ham and crackling and cranberry were in the nibbles; the turkey was in the entrée as a salad with jellyfish (omg it was so good); the salmon was for mains (as a full side of salmon with leek and mushrooms wrapped in pastry); the gin and tonic was the sorbet; and the pudding and cherries were in a cheesecake semifreddo for dessert. I'd say Mum's best Christmas lunch for sure. It was all so perfect and delicious, omg.

Also, Mum got me a mandolin for Christmas XD I happy.

annarti Tada! Well, the mobile version, at least, though it functions well enough for desktop for the moment, too. Just the background image is clearly intended for something smaller.

It's not exactly as I'd like it, completely owing to the fact I can't (be bothered) find(ing) any way of moving elements around, just styling them where they sit. I want all the entry information to all go at the beginning of the entry so that can all be one table, then have the subject line as part of the entry itself, but alas. I'd also prefer on the archive page for the list of calendar years to be on the right, AND OMG this bit is pissing me off. The calendars themselves have LINES it's so fugly. This original layout had every bit of styling stripped out, except that the comment links have to be aligned right, and the calendars on the archive have a 1px black border around every cell, and it's part of its default stylesheet so I can't rip it out or override it. SO ANNOYING.

Apart from those reasonably minor irritations, though, pretty happy. Now I can load up the car and go to Christmas Eve at Mum and Dad's :D

It being nearly three weeks since last update, I am no longer infected, YAY. I hate ear infections. I know, shock of the century right there.

RIGHT SO. New layouts! Finally. On annarti we have the flist, calendar, day view and profile. There's also, of course, bloogum and along with that sparklies, and I don't know that they count but h_bee and yrae share bloogum's layout, and I've made a contact page there, too. Also fiddled with the Dreamwidth and Plurk but frankly Plurk's styling makes no sense whatsoever so it's mostly default colours with a picture. I have no idea how to work tumblr so that just stays with some colours. Yay? Oh, and the thethrai got a new layout, too, just cos.

This layout set marks the beginning of UPDATE THAT SHIT wherein I actually post. Yeah I know. I fail. I keep forgetting that people can't keep updated on my life unless I actually tell them about it, and with my net time limited to when the other side of the world is at work, this makes normal conversation tricky. SO I'm going to actually update on stuff now. At least attempt daily, even if it doesn't happen. UNTIL THEN allow me to sum up the important events since being not-infected:

Work: I have Adobe CS6 installed on my computer 8D This is super exciting because it really does mean I do actual design now. I'm working on two things either from scratch or from almost-scratch right now, and just put a shiny business card through to print last week that only had the guy's logo as a basis. I'm designing stuff! This is awesome. Also, annual review comes up in a few weeks, so PAY RISE WOOOOOOOO.

Family (or, let's be honest, wine with family): Mum and Dad have gone to Turkey for four weeks for Dad's 60th birthday (and also Mum's 58th but mostly Dad). We celebrated his birthday last Saturday. He told me to go to the fridge and get out the bottle of Krug '89, to which I snorted and expected a bottle of Omni or maybe Croser, but sure enough, fricking Krug '89. Admittedly smelt a bit like sherry but whatever, not being a connoisseur of champagne I wouldn't know what it was supposed to taste like so I thought it was amazing. AND THEN. With the steak (fillet wrapped in prosciutto), one of the three 1990 Henschke Hill of Grace bottles. Bought back in the day for $35 a bottle, now worth around $800 a bottle, I believe, or $200 a glass. I just sat smelling it for 20 minutes before I even drank any of it. Exceptional stuff <3 Stuff the Grange, Henschke is where it's at for me. That was a very special moment. I was nursing that glass all night. Ftr, no I don't think any wine is worth paying $800 for, but Dad didn't, so that's okay X)

Mother's Day: Followed on from Dad's birthday. Colin and I did a high tea for Mum, with smoked salmon crêpes and walnut/Gruyere/radish/pear/watercress finger sandwiches made by Colin, and two tarts (one pumpkin/leek/wild mushroom and one caramelised onion and bacon with parmesan sauce) made by me, then Colin's muffins (blueberry, raspberry/blueberry and raspberry.white chocolate) and my coconut scones and brownie (aka coronary special) for dessert. We basically made it all in the morning then sort of grazed on it through the afternoon. It was lovely and went well after the extravaganza the night before.

Friends: Went to see The Avengers last night with Alex. So much love. The one-liners were just brilliant, and Tony Stark is still my favourite though Hawkeye was also pretty awesome but he just doesn't have the awesome dickheadedness of Stark.

Creatives: Since being infected, just the new layout set. Now that's done I hope to have chapter 20 finished this weekend.

Gaming: I think because I was on the edge of being infected, and also the net was playing funny buggers and lagging like hell all weekend, I didn't get into the GW2 beta weekend as much as I otherwise would have. I didn't get out of the starter areas with anyone, but omg so pretty. I made my girls as per tradition, and now I'm not sure whether they'll be human or norn once the game's released. Human faces are absolutely bang on, norn seem to be a bit too soft, but Nimay's norn hair has a bum-length black braid and that is pretty hard to beat, especially when I really only see my characters from behind. Nol worked best as a human, even though his face just wasn't quite there for my tastes. Lynnlita was fail in all races, mostly because of the hair and the inability to smile. Doesn't look squat like her. Oh well, we'll see what gets added before release.

THUS CONCLUDES WOO. I swear I'll keep on top of this thing from now on. Prod me if I miss more than two days :<

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New layouts :D I've had these (or rather, the full versions of them) as my desktops for a month or so with the vision of turning them into layouts, so I've finally gotten around to it. Featuring Shyguys this time rather than Yoshi, because every Yoshi layout thus far has, and he's in the damn mood icons anyway. Still to come will be bloogum, but right now I have to go make a buttermilk tart with passionfruit sauce to take to a picnic with my uni people :D

New layout at thethrai o/ Made with images ganked from Wikimedia, the Coopers site and also a photo I took for the last layout and reused. WOO. One to go~ but that'll be ages away yet.

After a good... year and a half or something ridiculous? NEW LAYOUTS!

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Mmm, Chocolat <3 Possibly my favourite movie ever. Definitely my favourite comfort movie. One of my favourite books, too, and by my favourite author. It is weird having layout made from pictures I didn't originally take/draw, but I couldn't resist. I've been wanting to make a Chocolat layout forever, as evidenced by the icons that have been there for... a while. Yay!