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Two Week's Vacation! (A whole buncha updates~)
17 years ago
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Listening to: Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue
Well! I know most of you haven't heard much from me in the past months -- definitely nothing on the art front. Been most just coming on to FA, viewing people's art, commenting, favorite, coming agai--er wait~ x3~
I have actually been drawing stuff, and I have a few things actually scanned and ready in digital format -- I just needed some time to finish them up. Lately, I've just been feeling really burned out after work (likely a result of working on midnight-shift -- often too much to even come on MSN. (Sorry to anyone who's watched me and I haven't acknowledged it! I've been too lazy to even write a "Thanks for the watch!" message -- although I'm sure most people find those annoying anyways. Bottom line, I have seen your watches and thank you~!) In fact, I've had a note to write this journal sitting on my desk for a great deal of time, and just have neglected to do it for so long. I'm only doing it now because it's about as late as I possibly can without cutting into my vacation time. x3
Vacation Stuff: My mom won a vacation for two to New York City about four months ago, and originally was going to take my sister -- but because I'm a lot more financially reliable (and have a passport >_>) she chose me to go with her instead, and I got the next two weeks of work booked off for it. I'll be staying from Monday, May 26th to Monday, June 2nd -- likely arriving home again on the day following. The hotel we're in is pretty facking nice, it's nearly $500 per night and we got it all paid for. @_@ It's right in the core downtown, mere blocks away from pretty much every major center. We got all this sightseeing planned to do and stuff -- it'll be arguable how good a time I have, I think. x3 My mom's obsessed with Broadway, so we've got four of them booked -- I dunno, I have a hard time sitting through many movies these days, so a four-hour long live play might really push it. Not to say I won't enjoy it, but I'll probably enjoy "Phantom of the Opera" a bit more than "Hairspray" -- although as I told my friend Lazo yesterday, the last live play I saw was a really low-budget version of "The Miracle Worker", so anything's gotta be better. x3 At least we're gonna visit the Nintendo World Store, and I'll surely indulge in a ton of awesome merchandise and stuff~ <3
Regardless, I'll have a vast majority of the latter week to myself at home, to get my affairs in order and cry over how much this trip has cost me. x3 (Last time I go on a vacation with her, I assure you -- my bank account is an ever-brightening sea of Red @_@)
For the MSN-unloved: I want to apologize to anyone who feels they been left out or abandoned by me in terms of MSN and regular contact -- I'm sure you know who you are if this applies to you -- like I've said, as of late, I've felt so effortless that I can barely muster the effort to do anything other than sleep. @_@ I also admit I must have some sort of strange complex~ I guess I value all my friends, and I really don't like to disappoint them in any way -- so sometimes if I wanna come on and just play a game (or otherwise, just want to do something other than talk) I'll just avoid making my presence known at all -- and I guess sometimes, a perpetual cycle builds up where a long amount of time has passed, and I guess I feel it'd be awkward to address someone I've in essence avoided for a long time, and put it off, making the idea of doing so only all the much more awkward and hard. ><; I turn, I end up offending those that I do care about most~ I"m gonna make an honest effort to just go on and... well, be honest about things. If I wanna do something, I'll just set a status and make it known to people who talk to me -- because I loved... being loved. x3 And I just wanna make sure everyone knows I do care about them still, and me just being really weird has gotten in the way of me saying so to any of you individually~ But I'll have to deal with this after the return from my vacation.
Love Power!: Let's contrast some of those negative feelings with good ones -- I see you crazy bastards have graced me with over 10,000 pageviews and 500 watches. @_@ That's seriously crazy... Just to think that everytime I post anything, five-hundred viewers are alerted of it -- and that my artwork has been viewed ten thousand unique times -- that's more'n once for every person living my my hometown. x3! You guys are amazing, and definitely one of my biggest motivating factors. <3 I should really do something to make your watches worth it~ I assure you that after my return, more artwork will be short to follow. I've been waiting for a break to be able to devote my energy (normally which peaks right about when I go to work, normally, sadly. x3) into drawing, but now of course I have to go away for the first half. x3 The second half will offer me some art-lovin' time. Check my scraps -- I've uploaded two things that I'm gonna color in the near future just to show that I am liek ttly srs :3
Artists that are Amazing that you should be looking at instead of me:
yuki-chi One of my best friends, and one of the most talented fur-artists I've seen. <3
tierafoxglove She's done numerous sexy commissions for me, and there's good reaosn I've turned to her so many times!
dragonpaw I am obsessed with his character. Go and let the colors bedazzle you~ <3
huskyhund Tons of cute Growlithe and Quadruped Canine stuff :3
chuu & 
tiuhu The cute Chu-loving duo of all things soft and wonderful. <3
mek Poké-LOVE. @_@ Reminiscent of 
lando and 
purplekecleon <3
fellarts Only been on FA for a short while this year, but an amazingly talented artist (with a strangely-alluring character @_@)
inkcookie More cute Pokélove, another artist who's rapidly showing amazing promise :3
asdfjkl03 The pastel-colors of her artwork make already incredibly cute, soft art even moreso. :3
c0nnerc00n I want ;~;
unth This is the capital example of rapid-improvement. ;3
The Unsung War: So when I last gave another try to my Audiosurf meme-thingy (which has been working successfully for the most part -- http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/366041/!) again I had the participation of the largely insane yet dedicated metalstorm -- and in his pack, he included this particular song, "The Unsung War" from Ace Combat 5. Aaaaanyways.... fuck, I've been so addicted to it. It's a super-epic, really emotional orchestral piece with both a tenor and soprano choir, and just builds up this immense feeling -- I find it hard to describe. I think it may be my newest most-favorite song ever, actually @_@ -- since it's from a video game, it's even in a legitimate position to dethrone "The Stickerbrush Symphony" (Although the two will always be on entirely different levels of awesome and it's hard to compare.) As much as I love Chipsynth songs, I think my heart I've always known that epic-ass songs like this are truly my most favorite of all genres... tl;dr? Download it here because it's fucking awesome: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....sung%5Fwar.mp3
metalstorm is the man with the plan, by the way.
Furcadia Nonsense: If you don't like Furcadia, skip this part. x3 I have managed to pull together the effort to make some new Furcadia characters, which I'm sure will have most of my viewers groaning and sighing complacently when they roll their eyes -- but for whom it may concern:
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....%2D%20Grae.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....20Carbunkl.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....0Lancaster.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....di%2DYoshi.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....D%20Niners.png
So I might get a Proxy with Polygamy (allowing me to run many instances of Furc at once, allowing all of them to be online) so if you use Furcaudia, feel free to bug me for an RP if you catch any of them on. ;3 I'd also not be opposed to giving any of 'em a try in MSN, too -- Also, I don't want to hear a word about any of the purchased Digos or Portraits -- I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and in my world, it's all or nothing -- things are done properly to their fullest extent (sometimes to the extent of pure silliness, as my next journal-section will highlight.), or not at all.
Desktop Gaming: A little while ago, I bought a lil' flatscreen TV for my desktop so I could have the convenience of playing my console games right from there (namely, Wii) -- but again, my OCD-ness kicked in. I like to have everything perfect, especially when it comes to my computer desk -- so I took the TV back, and spent an obscene amount of money buying a monitor like my current two and a series of strange converters to display the component signal from the Wii on a regular VGA monitor, and have the audio exported to two regular desktop speakers. It all matches and is symmetrical now, you see~ x3 (I'll probably be a ho-bag and get a picture of it later.) Bottom line! Now I can do a lot more online-fun gaming, and even use Skype and stuff for speech whilst. :3 So here's my two most important game-codes you should know:
Super Smash Brothers Brawl: 3566-1199-9411
Mario Kart Wii: 2062-9706-3091
I'm gonna try in future to leave at least one of those games on and active at times, so people can catch me online and hopefully, we can make some sweet game lovin' ;3 (Yes, c0nnerc00n! I promise we'll get some Brawl in after my vacation. x3; Now that my setup is perfect and ideal, it's finally go-time. <3)
Mario Paint Masterpeices: I can hardly make even simple songs in ModPlug Tracker, yet here TomBobBlender has mastered the living fuck out of Mario Paint's song-charter -- check this video out, the "Gourmet Race" from Kirby Superstar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KARe-nYu04A -- He's just nuts. He's got tons of videos of some amazing songs, too. (See MegaMan 2: Wily's Fortress. <3)
Well holy monkey, this journal took like two hours to type up and is like five times longer than most of my high-school essays. x3 I hope some of you found at least something interesting in that mess of text, if you bothered to read it at all. (And I totally sympathize with you if you didn't, rest assured. I've many times clicked a journal, seen a wall of text, and just clicked back, thinking, "Just... no." x3
In any case, I'll be on at night-time breifly during each night of my vacation, and I may leave a journal post here or there about stuff, maybe send a couple peoples notes or appear on MSN for a lil' bit. ;3 I wish you all the best, and thank you for watching me and tolerating me be such a smelly old Raccoon~ <3
PS: Check my journal footer! I still want more people to join my Audiosurf Meme. <3
PPS: If I die while on vacation, everyone who posts in this journal hereby agrees to get my name tattooed on their butt. <3
Well! I know most of you haven't heard much from me in the past months -- definitely nothing on the art front. Been most just coming on to FA, viewing people's art, commenting, favorite, coming agai--er wait~ x3~
I have actually been drawing stuff, and I have a few things actually scanned and ready in digital format -- I just needed some time to finish them up. Lately, I've just been feeling really burned out after work (likely a result of working on midnight-shift -- often too much to even come on MSN. (Sorry to anyone who's watched me and I haven't acknowledged it! I've been too lazy to even write a "Thanks for the watch!" message -- although I'm sure most people find those annoying anyways. Bottom line, I have seen your watches and thank you~!) In fact, I've had a note to write this journal sitting on my desk for a great deal of time, and just have neglected to do it for so long. I'm only doing it now because it's about as late as I possibly can without cutting into my vacation time. x3
Vacation Stuff: My mom won a vacation for two to New York City about four months ago, and originally was going to take my sister -- but because I'm a lot more financially reliable (and have a passport >_>) she chose me to go with her instead, and I got the next two weeks of work booked off for it. I'll be staying from Monday, May 26th to Monday, June 2nd -- likely arriving home again on the day following. The hotel we're in is pretty facking nice, it's nearly $500 per night and we got it all paid for. @_@ It's right in the core downtown, mere blocks away from pretty much every major center. We got all this sightseeing planned to do and stuff -- it'll be arguable how good a time I have, I think. x3 My mom's obsessed with Broadway, so we've got four of them booked -- I dunno, I have a hard time sitting through many movies these days, so a four-hour long live play might really push it. Not to say I won't enjoy it, but I'll probably enjoy "Phantom of the Opera" a bit more than "Hairspray" -- although as I told my friend Lazo yesterday, the last live play I saw was a really low-budget version of "The Miracle Worker", so anything's gotta be better. x3 At least we're gonna visit the Nintendo World Store, and I'll surely indulge in a ton of awesome merchandise and stuff~ <3
Regardless, I'll have a vast majority of the latter week to myself at home, to get my affairs in order and cry over how much this trip has cost me. x3 (Last time I go on a vacation with her, I assure you -- my bank account is an ever-brightening sea of Red @_@)
For the MSN-unloved: I want to apologize to anyone who feels they been left out or abandoned by me in terms of MSN and regular contact -- I'm sure you know who you are if this applies to you -- like I've said, as of late, I've felt so effortless that I can barely muster the effort to do anything other than sleep. @_@ I also admit I must have some sort of strange complex~ I guess I value all my friends, and I really don't like to disappoint them in any way -- so sometimes if I wanna come on and just play a game (or otherwise, just want to do something other than talk) I'll just avoid making my presence known at all -- and I guess sometimes, a perpetual cycle builds up where a long amount of time has passed, and I guess I feel it'd be awkward to address someone I've in essence avoided for a long time, and put it off, making the idea of doing so only all the much more awkward and hard. ><; I turn, I end up offending those that I do care about most~ I"m gonna make an honest effort to just go on and... well, be honest about things. If I wanna do something, I'll just set a status and make it known to people who talk to me -- because I loved... being loved. x3 And I just wanna make sure everyone knows I do care about them still, and me just being really weird has gotten in the way of me saying so to any of you individually~ But I'll have to deal with this after the return from my vacation.
Love Power!: Let's contrast some of those negative feelings with good ones -- I see you crazy bastards have graced me with over 10,000 pageviews and 500 watches. @_@ That's seriously crazy... Just to think that everytime I post anything, five-hundred viewers are alerted of it -- and that my artwork has been viewed ten thousand unique times -- that's more'n once for every person living my my hometown. x3! You guys are amazing, and definitely one of my biggest motivating factors. <3 I should really do something to make your watches worth it~ I assure you that after my return, more artwork will be short to follow. I've been waiting for a break to be able to devote my energy (normally which peaks right about when I go to work, normally, sadly. x3) into drawing, but now of course I have to go away for the first half. x3 The second half will offer me some art-lovin' time. Check my scraps -- I've uploaded two things that I'm gonna color in the near future just to show that I am liek ttly srs :3
Artists that are Amazing that you should be looking at instead of me:
yuki-chi One of my best friends, and one of the most talented fur-artists I've seen. <3
tierafoxglove She's done numerous sexy commissions for me, and there's good reaosn I've turned to her so many times!
dragonpaw I am obsessed with his character. Go and let the colors bedazzle you~ <3
huskyhund Tons of cute Growlithe and Quadruped Canine stuff :3
chuu & 
tiuhu The cute Chu-loving duo of all things soft and wonderful. <3
mek Poké-LOVE. @_@ Reminiscent of 
lando and 
purplekecleon <3
fellarts Only been on FA for a short while this year, but an amazingly talented artist (with a strangely-alluring character @_@)
inkcookie More cute Pokélove, another artist who's rapidly showing amazing promise :3
asdfjkl03 The pastel-colors of her artwork make already incredibly cute, soft art even moreso. :3
c0nnerc00n I want ;~;
unth This is the capital example of rapid-improvement. ;3The Unsung War: So when I last gave another try to my Audiosurf meme-thingy (which has been working successfully for the most part -- http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/366041/!) again I had the participation of the largely insane yet dedicated metalstorm -- and in his pack, he included this particular song, "The Unsung War" from Ace Combat 5. Aaaaanyways.... fuck, I've been so addicted to it. It's a super-epic, really emotional orchestral piece with both a tenor and soprano choir, and just builds up this immense feeling -- I find it hard to describe. I think it may be my newest most-favorite song ever, actually @_@ -- since it's from a video game, it's even in a legitimate position to dethrone "The Stickerbrush Symphony" (Although the two will always be on entirely different levels of awesome and it's hard to compare.) As much as I love Chipsynth songs, I think my heart I've always known that epic-ass songs like this are truly my most favorite of all genres... tl;dr? Download it here because it's fucking awesome: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....sung%5Fwar.mp3
metalstorm is the man with the plan, by the way.Furcadia Nonsense: If you don't like Furcadia, skip this part. x3 I have managed to pull together the effort to make some new Furcadia characters, which I'm sure will have most of my viewers groaning and sighing complacently when they roll their eyes -- but for whom it may concern:
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....%2D%20Grae.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....20Carbunkl.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....0Lancaster.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....di%2DYoshi.png
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/graediu.....D%20Niners.png
So I might get a Proxy with Polygamy (allowing me to run many instances of Furc at once, allowing all of them to be online) so if you use Furcaudia, feel free to bug me for an RP if you catch any of them on. ;3 I'd also not be opposed to giving any of 'em a try in MSN, too -- Also, I don't want to hear a word about any of the purchased Digos or Portraits -- I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and in my world, it's all or nothing -- things are done properly to their fullest extent (sometimes to the extent of pure silliness, as my next journal-section will highlight.), or not at all.
Desktop Gaming: A little while ago, I bought a lil' flatscreen TV for my desktop so I could have the convenience of playing my console games right from there (namely, Wii) -- but again, my OCD-ness kicked in. I like to have everything perfect, especially when it comes to my computer desk -- so I took the TV back, and spent an obscene amount of money buying a monitor like my current two and a series of strange converters to display the component signal from the Wii on a regular VGA monitor, and have the audio exported to two regular desktop speakers. It all matches and is symmetrical now, you see~ x3 (I'll probably be a ho-bag and get a picture of it later.) Bottom line! Now I can do a lot more online-fun gaming, and even use Skype and stuff for speech whilst. :3 So here's my two most important game-codes you should know:
Super Smash Brothers Brawl: 3566-1199-9411
Mario Kart Wii: 2062-9706-3091
I'm gonna try in future to leave at least one of those games on and active at times, so people can catch me online and hopefully, we can make some sweet game lovin' ;3 (Yes, c0nnerc00n! I promise we'll get some Brawl in after my vacation. x3; Now that my setup is perfect and ideal, it's finally go-time. <3)
Mario Paint Masterpeices: I can hardly make even simple songs in ModPlug Tracker, yet here TomBobBlender has mastered the living fuck out of Mario Paint's song-charter -- check this video out, the "Gourmet Race" from Kirby Superstar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KARe-nYu04A -- He's just nuts. He's got tons of videos of some amazing songs, too. (See MegaMan 2: Wily's Fortress. <3)
Well holy monkey, this journal took like two hours to type up and is like five times longer than most of my high-school essays. x3 I hope some of you found at least something interesting in that mess of text, if you bothered to read it at all. (And I totally sympathize with you if you didn't, rest assured. I've many times clicked a journal, seen a wall of text, and just clicked back, thinking, "Just... no." x3
In any case, I'll be on at night-time breifly during each night of my vacation, and I may leave a journal post here or there about stuff, maybe send a couple peoples notes or appear on MSN for a lil' bit. ;3 I wish you all the best, and thank you for watching me and tolerating me be such a smelly old Raccoon~ <3
PS: Check my journal footer! I still want more people to join my Audiosurf Meme. <3
PPS: If I die while on vacation, everyone who posts in this journal hereby agrees to get my name tattooed on their butt. <3
But yeah... work can rapidly drain a lot of time away. And that does grate on people a lot. @@ As I have found out personally at the same workplace. Particularly with your newer high position of seasoner. xx; Eh I've talked about this whole mess before so don't fret any about it. D:
I hope your trip goes well. Don't kill your mother too quickly out there, as I'm sure your mental patience will be tested multiple times. x3 Come back safe. <3
To be honest as of late, before my trip I hadn't been on MSN much at all. As a result, that lets people draw any conclusions they want, that I may be singling them out -- when in reality I'm just not on at all.
For me, no measure of time will change how I feel about anyone -- if we don't talk for even a month, I'll always be okay with that, I guess -- and often I guess that I imagine that sometimes with others. I'm always available on email anyways ;3
I'M GETTING A TATTOO AND A MOTORCYCLE
I usually have a really hard time talking to people after I haven't talked to them in a good while it always feels so akward, and the more time between it just gets worse and worse. They seem like total strangers and thats sorta how it's been the few chats we've had as of late. I can relate to that point. But you ignore the people you like the most? I don't agree with that.
Anyway. what I'm saying is I don't want to lose you. Ehh... that sounds so cliche for a furry to say on here but I can't think of any other way of putting it. We've got a load of things in common, I just don't like Rping much anymore which seems like killed us before/after christmas.
I don't really want this sort of thing to happen, nor do I try~
I guess with me, I feel that no matter of time changes things. I'm a lot different form most people in many respects and I guess this is just another. Even if we didn't talk for months, I'd feel no different than if we had talked the night before. Time is of no object to me and I guess I let those values pass on in how I treat others.
Also, it's not fair to say that because I haven't been online MSN for you, and have been otherwise doing stuff on FA means that I blocked you -- I appear offline a vast majority of the time. Most of my internet workings are ghostly enough that no one even knows I'm online aside from that.
I think the real question is why so many people seem to be so actively watching my browsing habits. I don't make a habit out of eyeing other people's accounts to see if they're online or not >_>
Our times online often don't coincide as it is~ I want to talk to you whenever we're both online. I don't feel we've been slipping, but I guess that's just me.
Eat at Little Italy, hire a horse-and-carriage in Central Park (;3), and take tons of snapshots! I went to New York a while ago and LOVED it. You will too I bet. :3
Take care <3