A purple little little lady will be perfect for dirty old and useless clown...

We watched Secretary the other day. It was quite good. :V

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Spent the evening at my mom's last night. She invited us out for dinner and offered us gas money, because she lives out in the middle of nowhere. Plus, we had no food and only $10 for gas anyhow. So we went out and she made meatloaf and gave us some food to carry us through unil Friday.

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This is a LONG OVERDUE 'commission' for someone me and TJ used to RP with years ago. It's going to be a digital piece, but I liked the sketch, so I'm posting that for now.

( More sketches back here... )

Today's the last day for $10 sketch commissions! If you want one, let me know. If you can pay within the week, I'll reserve a spot. :V

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I'm going to attempt to CLEAN today. EVERYTHING.

Oh god. We'll see how long this lasts...

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So, Face and Koffing (two of the boys that were born from Crepe in Washington) have decided that they're moving out of the cage with their brothers.

See, there's the five brothers, Romulous, Remus, Fatchan, Face and Koffing. They live together in the big green cage that had a hole in the back corner. They ended up chewing it open and I'd retaped it countless times. It's the only cage they can comfortable fit into at the moment. The others are either too small or have other rats in them. This wasn't a huge deal, however, because I'd position the chewed hole over a spot where they couldn't jump onto things (but wasn't so high they'd hurt themselves if they decided to be daredevils and hop out). This worked great for a long time. Sometimes they'd get up on top of their cage, but that was it.

Well, Face and Koffing started showing up in the girls' old cage (the girls are in a 20 gallon aquarium currently). It had bedding and such in it and was on the stand near their cage. Every time I'd go in the pink room (the critter room), one of them would be over there. I felt bad, because sometimes we'd be out for hours and they were unable to get back into their cage, so I put some food and water in there and just left the door open.

They spend two days in there on their own. Didn't go anywhere else, slept in the bedding, pepper out the open door when we'd come in. Never tried to get on the floor or go back to their cage.

It's. Bizzare.

I'm not worried about any of the boys getting loose in there, however. There's nothing for them to get into (it's just clothes and other young boy rats), the girls are in an impenetrable fortress and they can't get out as long as the door is closed. It's just strange. I've never seen any of the rats do that. I'm gonna see about getting them a larger cage, or figuring out how to shuffle cages around so everyone's happy.

But it's kinda cute how they don't go anywhere and just hang out there.

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Also, this is really neat: The Bittersweet Art of Cutting Up Books. But I really think paper craft/paper art is neat.

The red isn't the red we painted, it's just rust...

[18:41] Squeeji: We thought of you last night at midnight
[18:41] TJ: lol why?
[18:42] Squeej: it hit midnight and we heard a odd noise and elliott just looked at me and grinned, and I laughed and we both decided that had to be you coming explosively at the release of Ironman
[18:43] Squeeji: We never did find the actual source of said sound
[18:43] TJ: ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
[18:43] Squeeji: So it had to have been you
[18:43] TJ: *pops a lung laughing*

Speaking of Squeeji, she drew a Tony for us...

( Cut for...is that a speedo? Man panties? What? )

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I walked up to the Jamestown Plaza to acquire a belt for the sweeper, as the previous one had broken. I checked the dollar stores first, to no avail. And, after walking across the street to check the Family Dollar, it began DOWNPOURING. Thankfully, TJ had mentioned it might rain, so I grabbed my umbrella before I left. but I still ended up with my butt to my feet being soaked in the back. Ah well. I did find a belt at Giant Eagle, but I should've gotten sweeper bags, too. As the one in the sweeper is full. :/ So I can't actually do any of the cleaning I WANTED to do until I get one. But, at least, I can get the clothes organized (cause they need washed) and...attempt to get the kitchen clean.

Dishes are the bane of my existence. I can keep everyone elses' kitchen clean. Wash my dishes when I'm done, was my pots and pans when I'm done. But in my own kitchen? The one I should care about? Nope. I let dirty dishes sit in the sink for weeks. I'll get the motivation to clean and I'll put everything in clean, hot water to soak and I'll just...never get around to it. It's really awful. I know I should be better about it, but I can't bring myself to be. Maybe I need to hide all but one piece of everything for both me and TJ and then, when we don't have anything to use, I HAVE to clean them. And then there's only a handful of things to clean instead of eight handfuls of crap in the sink. Staring at me.

I can generally keep my cookware pretty clean, as I use it regurarly. I guess this is good?

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I've been trying to learn the S2 style system because I want to start making layouts again. I've been inspired by some designers here on LJ that I've snagged layouts from (the one I'm using currently, included). I miss making layouts that are ALL MY OWN. And most of LJ's default ones just aren't doing it for me anymore because I want a lot more customization.

But it's all CSS and stuff, so it's very out of my comfort zone. I can whip up a cool layout in HTML, but in CSS? Good god. So I'm just throwing myself into it and starting out by editing the default LJ codes. So far, it's not too bad, but there's some things that are aggravating me about how the CSS works. But, there's a lot of rescources out there for me to use so I should be able to figure it out.

Either way, it's something new and, hopefully, I'll conquer it!

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I was writing up my grocery and such list for Friday when I saw what one of my lists for last payday was:



Mmmm, that's some good eatin'. I like the Sailor Jerry's up at the top the most. And Vitamin Water was on sale for, like, 20 for $10. <3<3