My art is now permanently inked on someone's body. My friend V got a tattoo I designed specifically for her inked yesterday afternoon. So far it's only the outline and the colors go on later, but holy crap you guys. Someone just tattooed my art on their body.

THAT IS SO RAD.

We're going to get pictures later so I can show it off. :D

What's really awesome is that the tattoo artist barely changed the original design at all. For the most part, all he did was flip the end of the tail--they were lightning foxes--in the opposite direction. SO RAD.

Current Mood: bouncy

Well, awesome, looks like I got everything transferred over without too much trouble. I think I lost a few entries along the way, but nothing that wasn't archived on my computer. So! Awesome.

Ah, still gotta tweak some stuff here and there. The colours on this journal first and foremost, yikes. Then getting a couple more icons while I'm at it.

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I sure hope some mah fellow GJers actually move over here, or this is going to be one lonely little journal.

Current Mood: accomplished

Coming soon to this space, manga reviews. I'll be covering the following titles:

XXXholic
Immortal Rain
Pretear
Emma
Les Bijoux
+Anima

Why I'm doing this? Because I can. And I like doing this sort of thing. It is also going to be one of those rare non-friend's locked entries that I haven't done in forever. Mostly because there appears to be people who watch my journal who I don't know and apparently think I'm kinda clever, and I want to stroke my own ego a bit. ^_^

HAHA. You know what uterus? You can go die now.

kthnxbai.

edit: Despite my pain I managed to create one-of-a-kind Ark the Improbable stickers. So far I have one of Ark, Vandal, Dakota and Plague. I have enough material for eighteen more. Any requests?

After devastating every peice of chocolate in my apartment within the last ten minutes, I have realized that I do not have nearly enough chocolate for this week. I must rectify this immediately. Or at least once I've eaten something and stop feeling anemic. x_x

Hopefully by tonight I'll feel better and will hop online. I'm way overdue. ^^;

There are things that creep me out, and then there are things that creep me out. The night I was knocked out of my dream was a little weird, but did not creep me out.

Tonight is a completely different story. Mostly because I still can't tell if I was dreaming when this happened or not.

I do remember that it started in a dream, and that I was reading something that Renfield had written or said or had said and then written down. She was talking about the weird things that had happened to her, but nothing was really as spooky as two things. I can't remember the first, because my reaction to the second was so...extreme. The moment I read the second thing (which was something along the lines of "the blue thing", she was rather vague in the writing) a pressure began pushing down on my chest.

Needless to say, this freaked me out a bit. I said a quick, panicked prayer and it went away. At this point I was pretty sure I was awake, but I don't think I was fully. I wanted to continue the dream, so I thought about "the blue thing" and yet again the pressure weighed down on my chest. A little heavier this time, and again I said a prayer to make it go away. Thinking that this couldn't possibly be connected (hey, I just woke up, or I was still dreaming, or whatever. I'm tired) I thought about it again, and it happened again. Now it was getting spooky. It happened one more time before I finally decided to stop trying to fall asleep again and just lay in bed with my eyes closed.

Then it sounded like someone was clicking one of the buttons on my computer mouse, which is a few feet away.

This is basically when I said screw it, turned on the light, and decided to stay up for a while. I'll attempt to sleep again later. It's when I'm sitting here, thinking about it now that I'm really unsure whether or not I was awake for any of that at all. And that's the creepy part for me. I usually do know.

All I know is that I'm saying a few extra prayers tonight.

Geez. I just had an almost complete utter breakdown for absolutely no reason. It's a good thing they forced us on the phones all day today. Within the hour my nervousness was gone and I was just bored.

Everyone else was all "wow, the day is going by so fast." to which I answered with my "ngh" face. Because it WAS NOT FOR ME. I barely got any sleep last night and I wanted to pass out at my computer and minutes dragged by like hours. Also, I got very very good at transfering calls. Lotta people closing accounts today, it seems.

I'm rather glad we're only doing the full-day-phonetime once a week (although why it has to be monday is beyond me. Guh). I rather like the training and listening to others take the calls.

My anxiety is pretty much gone now, yo. I got into the hang of things, I learned what questions to ask for the most expedient answers (because it takes the freaking trainers so long to get to me I want my question answered as soon as possible so my customer doesn't have to wait even LONGER on hold) and talking to customers is no big deal anymore. Basically this job is just remembering what all screen looks at what, because Macy's is very accomodating to their customers. Seriously. Just ask for a coupon. They'll be all "how about three?"

Because, if you think about it, discount coupon or not you're still buying something in their store. It's all rather nice, actually. I get to make people happy on the phones, even if they start off cranky (which I did at least twice today--although I dunno about that lady I had to transfer to collections).

So. I think I can do this job. It's just a matter of remembering where everything is, which I still have about three weeks to do. And then some more on-the-floor "training" after that. I think I can do this. :D

edit: Also, I think whatever hangs out at the boys' house was trying to get my attention over the weekend.

Maybe the fact that I'm going to be so freaking tired tomorrow will overshadow the nervous breakdown I feel I'm going to have. This is really frustrating. Just thinking about being on the phones tomorrow (for the entire day no less) leaves my insides clenched in dread.

What's worse is I can't quite figure out why.

The job pays well though, and it's not like anything else was coming along. It's just for one day. I'll get better with practice. It pays well. I can't afford not to.

If worse comes to worse, I can just go to the doctor and get some anti-anxiety medicine.

One of these days I have to stop being afraid of the phone.

edit: Maybe I can pretend to be Generalli on the phone. She wouldn't be scared. Or maybe I can just pretend I don't care? That I don't feel like I'm going to throw up everytime the phone rings. I'm good at pretending. I can pretend just a little longer right? I've waited so long for a job that pays so well. It's not as easy as my last, but I'll get used to it.

Right?

Had an interesting dream, that was kind of freaky in a way. I was learning some protective mixtures from some sort of apothecary/herbalist. Not only did I need to protect myself from some weird yellowy demonic mist, but also from some guy that refused to take no for an answer, apparently.

What surprised me was some of the mixtures she showed/made me. One was hot red-pepper based, another was focused primarily on a green herb that I don't recall off the top of my head (marjoram, I think), and a third based on chocolate, of all things. Cocao to be more specific.

What's funny is that I had tried to make some mixtures on my own before I met her and they worked, somewhat, and when she finally showed up she was surprised at how I had instinctively used a variant (albiet weaker) of the green herb one she ended up using.

I'll write more about it later, when I'm not pressed for time in getting to work.

I get AIM working and Ren-sama isn't even here. :/ Bah. Maybe tomorrow.

Also, this is getting destracting. It's hard to look at a person without making it obvious. But I can't help it. He's got dark hair and these amazing eyes.

AGH. MUST STOP.

In other news, I am absolutely terrified of tomorrow. Tomorrow we use the phones and take actual calls. Only for account and card activations. But still. TERRIFIED. x_x Maybe I should pretend to be Generalli or something tomorrow for confidence. Ugh.

I am so tired right now, but ZOMGYAY I got a raise today! A week and a half and I got a dollar raise! (granted, the entire company is getting the raise, as they have re-evaluated pay and what not, but still, RAISE)

So now, instead of the nine an hour I was recieving before I'm getting ten an hour. I am SO. STOKED. This means that akronyan.com will be online even sooner than anticipated. HAPPY NYAN. EXTREMELY HAPPY NYAN.

I think I'll celebrate by going to put a shirt on already. My apartment is not as warm anymore.

...

And maybe I'll have some icecream or something.

edit: Also, my subconcious is mean. Quit having me date people in my dreams! It just makes waking up that much lonelier. :P

edit edit: Also also, there is a guy that is about a week or two further in training than I am and he is beyond adorably hottishly cute. His name is Greg and he doesn't know I exist but I can't stop staring at him whenever I get the chance. X3 [/dork]

Had a really weird dream and now I can't get back to sleep. :/ It's not that the dream is keeping me up, it's just that when I woke up I was so thoroughly awake. Which is bad, because I still have to get up before noon to go to work. Just one more day and then I get a long weekend. Mrgh.

Anyway, one of my coworkers and I were talking about pets today. Apparently her calico just had kittens about a week ago, and they're looking for people t adopt them out to. I know my apartment doesn't allow pets, but I've seen a few apartments where the cats are blatantly sitting at the windows. So, uh...

What they don't know won't hurt them, right? :D

I'm still thinking about it, honestly, and it'll be a while before the kittens are adoptable anyway. So I'm thinking about it. I have a job where it's possible to afford one now--or will be in a while. We'll see.

edit: DANGIT! I forgot to turn in my rent check today! >_< Hello five dollar fee.

It's safe to say that as soon as I get home from work tomorrow, and if they're still open, I'm calling up COX and finding out what the heck is wrong with my internet. I refuse to continue paying for a service that is more and more frequently NOT EVEN WORKING.

INSERT SCREAMS OF RAGE AND FRUSTRATION HERE.

edit: Hee hee. The little icon for "frustrated" does lighten my mood a bit in its scrunched-face anger.

edit edit: Before I go to bed, which I should have done an hour ago, I must remark on something that happened at work today. Upon seeing a doodle I did of Ark (very rough, but not bad at all in my estimation) two people remarked on seperate occasions about how it reminded them of Dragonball Z.

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WTF. NO.

Ark doesn't even live in my head and I KNOW he has to be offended by that.

So, I had nothing to worry about at all. Everything went fine. Orientation was long, but informative and the training is apparently actually rather fun. I am not nervous about tomorrow at all (as opposed to the near-wreck I was this morning) and am finally pulling in a paycheck. A decent-sized paycheck at that, wherein I most likely will not have to worry about my financial situation anymore.

THANK GOODNESS.

I'm still amused though at how much they stress we are not to talk about what we see while we're working. Since it's a good deal of credit information, I can understand this completely. It just amuses me.

Now would be the best time to finally work on my comic to a serious extent, but since I spent most of the night worrying my butt off I barely got any rest. So I'm going to occupy the next few hours of my day with a nap, and then I'll get right on that.

I had a dream about a sentient motorcycle that wasn't really a motorcycle in both looks and...well...period. It was some sort of critter that could turn into a motorcycle that I could use. Apparently it was some sort of symbiotic creature that lived in this world and only warriors got them. We had something called a symbiotic resonancy, that was represented by a number. Mine was 12, and so that was what my motorcycle-critter was called. However, for some reason, MINE HATED ME. It would not cooperate and let me use it at ALL. Which, I have to say, fretted me a lot until it ultimately pissed me off.

So I started to ignore it. She (for the creature was an almost-regular looking girl most of the time, when she wasn't a white motorcycle-ish object) kept trying to make me jealous by hanging off of other people and stuff and eventually I started to ignore her and pretty much act as if I didn't bond to her at all. I even treated her like a nuisance, because at that moment I honestly thought she was. So I had to face whatever warriors fight by myself, without the use of my machine.

I remember at one point I was facing off against one of the enemy, and it was trying to intimidate me (and was failing, because I was a freaking awesome fighter in that dream). I recall I said something to the effect of if it tried anything I'd do something worse back. And then my machine (as a girl) came up next to me and pretty much said the same thing, that if the enemy did something to me it'd have to face her...and I remember looking at her and she looked at me with this "see, I'm a good girl, I'll protect you" look on her face. I then turned away from her without saying a word, effectively denying her tie to me. She looked positively crestfallen, as if she couldn't possibly understand why I didn't want her anymore. At the time, I felt justified. She had played her games, but she had played them too hard. I learned to live without her.

The dream went on a little further than that--and there were some more details I just skipped over--but I'll have to write the rest tomorrow. I have to get some sleep so I can get up in time to get to my new job. x_x

edit: Also, Happy Birthday Ren-sama. :D I'll hopefully have your gift done soon.

edit edit: I also splurged and bought myself a Vincent Valentine action figure and OMGOSH HE IS SO POSABLE AND FUN TO PLAY WITH. He even comes with his triple-barreled gun and an extra hand that you can swap out so he can either be holding his gun or have a normal hand and he bends and the waist and EEEEEEEEEE VINCENT.

Hey! Look what I managed to find!

It's amazing what you stumble across when you finally pick up that huge pile of papers in the corner of your room. At least I have a copy on my computer again. Although as proud as I was of this picture before, I'm not really liking it anymore. I may have to redo it.

I was in a minor traffic accident over the weekend. I'll be back on later when my back is a little less sore. Hopefully sometime later tonight. I'm waiting for painkillers to kick in.

I had a really interesting, rather vivid dream. I'm going to write it down a bit later, for sure. I even made sure I typed out some notes when I first woke up so I wouldn't forget.

What I'm going to do right now, however, is draw some pictures I saw in a very old book in my dream. Dang, that was awesome.

edit: hee hee hee

I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT.

OH MAN. <333

This is a remarkably good read.