linkismyhero

1) You're pretty much guaranteed to have a bad day if the thing that gets you out of bed is your cat breaking a glass. Last night she pissed in the sink you know.

2) I have the best friends <3 I am so thankful you all put up with me.

3) Speaking of friends, I've been misinforming everybody! The friend who helped me make the video animated gifs is Redbeard3 with a 3 not a 1! I suck Stop by his journal and say hello, he's an awesome guy! (And convince him to renew his account when it runs out, heh heh)

4) If you have a dream, you can make it happen........... is what I thought when I saw this picture.



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he's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
he's a rebel 'cause he never ever does what he should
and just because he doesn't do what everybody else does
that's no reason why I can't give him all my love

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July 10, 12:24:43 PM - creation time of "break_in.bmp" first frame of animation
July 10, 1:33:44 PM - last modified time of "break_in.gif" final animation file

It took me about an hour to draw the animation. I confess I didn't draw it in MS Paint because that would have been hard and perhaps impossible. MS Paint doesn't do layers (well it doesn't do a lot of things) so it would have been extraordinarily difficult to make the frames of an animation solely in MS Paint. I did it in Paint Shop Pro, which is what I've been using forever even though I do have Photoshop. For each frame, I made one layer 50% transparent so I could draw over the previous frame. I will say that I made absolutely sure the paintbrush settings in Paint Shop Pro were an exact match for the mid-sized paintbrush in MS Paint, and the yellow was grabbed directly from a screencap of the MS Paint palette with the eyedropper. I even saved each frame as a .bmp. It was as good as done in MS Paint. Just... not.

Again, I'm sparing you with the following spoiler. Comedy gold in here though. I believe I owe L7rules and Cheech a cookie for last time. If only I could get food to transfer over FTP for once darn it!

Usually when I leave the house I feel like ^ that.

I went to my friend's book club last night. I was very quiet which is not surprising, this has been a pretty upsetting month.

Speaking of upsetting, my UK friend is alive and well but is retiring from his online picture journal, he deleted every last entry but one, announcing his retirement. And he is possibly retiring from the internet for good. He didn't specifically say so, but when he does something he tends to do it completely. I want to have faith that he'll one day return, but I just don't know. There's a lot more I want to say, but I can't. I will say that I truly wish him all the best.

But back to the book club, I hadn't read the book, You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs by Laurie Graff. It's a book about a woman who hits 45 and is still single and searching. The book is made up of vignettes about past dates and attempted relationships that all ended in failure. I got through a few chapters on the subway on the way there, but I didn't like it. Didn't think it was written well, and since I've never dated nor have any interest in doing so at this time, I couldn't relate.

I will try not to be too serious here but I have to say I do not have that desire to find "the one", i.e. the one dude or dudette who makes my life complete. In some ways that's bad, because what do I do if someone is interested? In some ways, though, it's good because people who have that desire (like the lady in the book) can end up being extremely miserable.

Reading the truth about Brazilian waxes makes me thank my lucky fucking stars that I could give two shits about being hairy. I don't think it's right to put oneself through that kind of stuff. Maybe Brazilian waxes are an extreme example, and maybe I'm gross or weird for feeling like this, but... ah I don't know. I don't want to say something that could get me into trouble. Maybe I'm selfish (I am), but for me I don't like the idea of changing my appearance to look more attractive to other people. That's just me though. I dunno. I'm weird. You knew that already. I suck.

There was a slug on the concrete of the breezeway just now. It had left its gooey trail everywhere. For some reason I was reminded of Yoshi's Island, the cave stages.



Buh.


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THAT.IS.WHY
ALL THE GIRLS IN TOWN
FOLLOW YOU
ALL AROUND
JUST LIKE ME
THEY LONG TO BE
CLOSE TO YOOOOOOOU