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Got power back yesterday but was too busy playing checkers ((I'll explain later)) to do anything I was supposed, so I'll type up a quick journal now. Haven't posted much lately, have I? :( I have a good few drawings I'm working on at the moment, I just can't seem to finish anything :/ I'll go work on some of them when I finish this journal, first I want to say a few words about this week.

It's November 1st, did I do anything for Halloween yesterday? NO. Hurricane Sandy struck New Jersey and blew out power for just about everyone. The day before yesterday, as the storm was calming down, we went for a small drive around the area to see how things were. Where I live wasn't hit very hard. There were some fallen trees and downed wires (and even a missing traffic light! :O) but no real damage. The Bay front area was evacuated and supposedly flooded (couldn't see it because the roads to there were closed off) but my neighborhood didn't get too badly hit. On Monday before the eye of the storm came, we went outside for a bit to see how everyone was doing and I saw a tree a few houses down split in half and fell over. But since this was before the stronger winds hit, I'm assuming that tree was probably about to fall anyways. God those winds... My father and brother went outside Monday to take the dog out, and I stood by the door to keep it shut (the wooden thingie on our door is broken so it swings open if it isn't locked. This isn't because of the storm, it's always been like that :P). I felt the door being pushed open and yelled "KYLE!!" thinking my stupid brother was pushing the door open to annoy me. Nope, it wasn't my brother (who is pretty strong), it was the wind.

The worst of the storm was Monday night/Tuesday morning, afterwards things were much better (actually, the weather recently has been beautiful :O). But the power outage was horrible, I don't live in a time where 24+ hours of no power is ok XD I remember my town's power all flickered on at once yesterday and all around town you could hear people yelling "POWER!" "YAY!" XD My sister was crying she was hungry, and my parents were about to go to drive to Wendy's to get her food since she refused to eat any of the cold food in the house :/ I was in the living room with my brother while Mommy and Ally were outside. I was on the chair playing with my phone (cell phones were absolute life savers, they were our only good sources of information during the storm) when suddenly the lamp turned on and you could hear the slow static of the TV as the box and stereo were starting back up. Daddy ran outside to tell Mommy not to go out, the power's back on. I went outside to see everything. Although we could finally enjoy the electronics of our house, everyone else began to walk outside and see what everyone else was up to. The old lady across the street walked by and she and Daddy joked about the power finally returning. I saw I man standing on his roof a few houses down ((why!? I don't know!!)) yell "POWER!!" and several others around the street said the same ((minus the standing-on-the-roof part :P)). My brother and I were about to have another epic checkers duel ((we go a tad crazy without power)) when everything suddenly turned on. The first thing we did was run to the TVs and computers, our babies were finally back XD

Yesterday was glorious. The stores got power back early on (they didn't ave any the day before, stores were closed for two days) and we went to Lowes for batteries and heat stuff. The news said to expect 7-10 days without power, so people were preparing for the worst. We only left the store with batteries, flashlights, and paint swatches (totally unrelated to the storm, I've been meaning to paint my room for months :P). It seemed like we were gonna have another difficult night (that night daddy cooked pasta on the outdoor grill was terrible), but it ended up being great.

I'm having trouble putting it into words, but yesterday was just super funny. I was yelling at my sister to stop being such a brat when we weren't going to be having power for a few days, and two hours later the power came back on XD

And as you probably noticed, I'm not in school right now :P On Sunday they closed school for Monday and Tuesday, but on Tuesday they closed school for the whole week. The middle school is our town's evacuation center, so that's probably why. What a pain, we were supposed to have testing this week (and I have an art project). The french trip meeting for Tuesday was cancelled, and I think the college information thing tonight was cancelled, but I'm not sure because my district's too stupid to tell us anything >< But now that the power's back, it like a small break or something, so I can finish my homework and get done some other work (finish a drawing maybe!? I hope!)

And finally Halloween:
It was cancelled, obviously. But when was it rescheduled for? MONDAY.
MONDAY.
OTL
Last week I was thinking "Wow, what's dumber than Halloween on Wednsday?"
I got my answer: Monday
MONDAY IS THE MOST DIFFICULT DAY OF THE WEEK TO GO TRICK OR TREATING, WHY NOT HAVE IT SUNDAY? HECK, I WOULD BE FINE AS LATE AS NEXT FRIDAY. BUT NO, NJ WANTS TO BE DIFFICULT, WE HAVE HALLOWEEN ON FREAKING MONDAY.
Ugh.
After all the effort put into being Amy Pond for Halloween, I go through this :( I haven't even made any plans yet, this sucks...




Well that was my poorly written journal of the week, I hope everyone has a day better than Monday/Tuesday. I'm off to go finish some drawings for once (I have around 8 incomplete drawings :P Maybe I should just do a WIP dump soon or something)
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Kinda tagged?

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I've been bad lately, I'm down to only checking dA maybe every two weeks ;.; That's bad~ Really bad~ But the day before yesterday was my last day of work, so yay 8D But next week I go back to school, so no yay D8 And on Tuesday I go to a driving school for three hours... uh, yay or no yay?

On a different note, recall the silly OC WIP I uploaded not too long ago? I'll finish the picture but I decided to fully scrap the four characters. I brought a journal and lately I write every stupid idea I come up with. Everything from comic ideas to funny ways to put on my shoes. But I had a brand new comic idea I became proud of, and I've been working at it seriously for about two weeks, which is about 12 days longer than I work on most comic ideas XD My mind is kinda everywhere but so far I'm really liking the idea. Everyone is the same person and they travel or something. Okay I need to clarify things some more but oh well I'm happy to be working on something finally.

My mind is everywhere, I feel like I'm running in place. Tuesday I go to the driving school, Wednesday I go to the doctor's, and Thursday and Friday are the first two days of school.

Let's just stop thinking and answer the tag from Ouran-Nekozawa

RULES
- You must post these rules.
- Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create ten new questions for the people you tag to answer.
- You have to choose 10 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
- Go to their pages and tell them you have tagged her/him.
- Phrases like "you are tagged if you're reading this" should not be included in the tagging section. You legitimately have to tag 10 people.
- No tag backs.

1. Do you follow my Tumblr?
No, very sorry about that. To be fair, I don't even go on Tumblr that often anyways. And when I do, it's just for an hour clicking the like button. Don't be offended, I barely follow anyone
2. Are you upset that I tagged you?
Nah, I needed something to do
3. Have you seen all the amazing Avengers stuff today (gag reel, deleted scenes, etc.)?
Nope sorry I don't really keep up with tha-
Oh this is over a week old, so that's old posts...
But oh well, today's been a strictly Doctor Who day anyways with season 7 and whatnot.
4. Do you like being my friend?
Yeah, I have to say so. You're a far better person than people I befriended say 6 years ago.
5. Why?
Entertaining, can draw, not a total jerk, will listen to me without having a breakdown or being generally annoying, not self-centered; you're a good friend. Seriously let's go back in time one day to look at the idiots I hung out with in elementary school, it'll make you feel good about yourself. ((I dunno what's with me today, I keep thinking about all the idiots I wasted time with when I was younger. The friend that didn't remember me, the one that stole from me, the one that hit me, the one that teased me, the one that avoided me. Seriously, why was I such a retard child? But eh, makes you appreciate what you have now, right?))
6. Loki, Moriarty and the Master: Who kills who first?
Hm, interesting, I'll probably say a timelord beats a psychopath or whatever Loki is (god? I dunno), so the master is probably first to kill. Actually Loki is a pretty baby, Moriarty is the psycho that would probably do something to annoy the master first. Moriarty doesn't do much, he sends people to kill people for him, so I doubt he'll put up much of a physical fight with anyone (I think he still probably can hold himself in a fight, he just wouldn't enjoy it. Westwood!). Actually yeah, I feel like Loki would generally keep out of harms way, while the master and moriarty are a bit louder in their craziness.
Okay yeah my final answer is: the Master kills Moriarty
7. Can you tell I'm not good at coming up with questions?
No, you're probably better than me.
8. School starts soon. Opinion?
I was happy. Until Ms Wood screwed up the district ><
She's making English a larger part of the curriculum (it's already the largest part of the curriculum), she promoted the middle school doofus to High School Principal, sent the HS Principal (who is a PHD holder) to be an elementary school principal , sent the elementary principal to a special ed position, and just generally ruined the district. She completely ignored our district's problems with Transportation, Discipline, and Failures and insisted on fixing all that was not broken ><
Ugh and the school is being a jerk about my math class.
I don't think this year will turn out that great
9. Thought on band camp? XD
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
10. How much of your time did I just waste?
Not much, like I said, I needed something to so

My Questions:
1. Are you prepared to answer the following questions?
2. Will you ship Asylum Dalek/Defective Portal Turret? (Please I'm lonely)
3. Banana
4. Have you watched/do you plan to watch Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita?
5. What are your opinions on Pokemon cards?
6. Did you notice that Question 3 isn't a question? (It's just a single word, all alone, suffering in its noun-ness)
7. How does that make you feel?
8. Would you say your thumb tastes more like bubble gum or chicken?
9. Do I concern you?
10. Did you know that I love you? (Because I do)

Anyone mad enough to read what I write may attempt to answer my tag if you wish. I'm not gonna tag anyone specifically, I feel like I'll just annoy people if I do that. But some crazies (like me) genuinely like to answer these, so if you're that kinda of person then go right ahead.
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1am-ish on a Frida- no, Sunday now.
Saturday, not Sunday. (Gosh where's Rebecca Black when you need her? XD)
Drawing a something, not sleeping although this is one of the rare days this summer where I can sleep all I want (I'm kinda stupid today)

I only worked one day this week because we had to go to New York for three days, but other than that I've been working a lot. It seems my work lately consists mostly of putting price tickets on items the warehouse ships out to the store. This has taught me something I didn't expect to learn from a warehouse job:
-Rothko and Pollock suck
-If you look closely, Van Gogh leaves lots of blank spots on the canvas! (The wasteful butt! I could never ;^; )
-Monet doesn't get the attention I thought he would from this museum
-The drowning girl was drawn by Roy Liechtenstein! (I could never remember his name)
-Andy Warhol is a butt and if he were on the internet and had a dA account he would probably get lots of hate
-Christina's World! That's what the picture's called! I thought it was just a stupid writing prompt picture from English class when we were younger :P
-Frida Kahlo is interesting

And several other silly things like that gumwrapper craft you made in camp when you were 7 can be sold for around $50, but I guess I kinda already knew that. I'm working at the Warehouse for MoMA for the summer and was delighted to find that labeling items based on artists' work helps a lot with remembering them. That's great! Never was good at remembering all those works, it's nice to feel smart-ish :) As dumb as some things are (how is that an eraser!? I don't know!!), there's some really cute items at MoMA I actually really like (the History of Art collection is adorable! I want the umbrella!)

But there's only so much time left until I end my job and go back to school (I can't work there and go to school at the same time because it's so far away. I only got the job because my father's been working there for 17 years) :(

Doesn't look like my schedule is too bad this year, hopefully I'll have a better year this year (I don't have to take music this year 8D That's a great sign!)

I'll get back to drawing now, I'm happy I finally updated my journal :) 'Tis been a while, I need to be more active...
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Found this thing here and thought it looked like fun, so I'm gonna give it go. I silently answered it in my head as I was reading and laughed at all my own answers like a dork, so I really like this one XD Plus it's short, short tests are nice :3

***

Psychoanalyze yourself; Don't read ahead, just answer the following questions with the first thought that comes to mind. Then read which each answer means at the end.

(No cheating!)



1. You are not alone. You are walking in the woods. Who is with you?
((YANA)) Uh, I guess one of my friends or something


2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal?
My neighbor


3. What interaction takes place between you and the animal?
It smokes some strange substance and produces nonhuman noises and I call the police on it


4. What is your dream house and how big is it?
Giant and spacious with a thousand pointless rooms and huge areas to just lay on the ground at random times of the day. Everything is up-to-date with a slight historic feel. Lotza rooms. Tons of room to run around. Probably room for a dog or two ((if we ever get more money I want another doggie!! Two evil terriers are better than one 8D)) and definitely has some sort of studio. Quiet house, very quiet, I get upset if there's too much going on.


5. Is your dream house surrounded by a fence?
It has a garden fence guarded by a 15-ft-tall fence guarded by an electric wire fence within a mote of lava with knights protecting the perimeter ((In other words, I hate people XD))


6. You enter the house. You walk into the dining room and see the dining room table...What is on it?
I suppose some kind of center piece surrounded by plates and cloths and stuff?


7. You exit the house and a cup is on the ground, what kind is it?
Stupid little plastic cup


8. What do you do with the cup?
KILL IT. ((I like to step on cups left on the ground))


9. You walk to the edge of the property where you find yourself at what kind of body of water?
Small pond, probably has just plants in it ((all the dumb cats in this neighborhood kill our pond fish D: Why don't people watch their animals? DX )), and probably a mini-fountain in the middle and fake waterfall to the back-side


10. How do you get to the other side?
Ask a chicken for help


The ANSWERS

1. The person/people who you are walking in the woods with are the most important to you. ((AND WHO IS THAT? D: I CANNOT ANSWER THIS WITHOUT BEING VAGUE D: ))

2. The size of the animal is representative of your perception of the size of your problems in your life. ((Weird, unnatural, and much larger than me. Eh, okay.))

3. The severity of the interaction you have with the animal is representative of how you deal with your problems. ((I CALL THE POLICE ON MY ISSUES FOR BEING LOUD, WHAT. XD))

4. The size of your dream home is representative of the size of your ambition to solve your problems. ((My life is a dream.))

5. A lack of a fence is indicative of an open personality. People are welcome at all times. The presence of a fence indicates a closed personality. You'd prefer people not drop by unannounced. ((AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ha.))

6. If your answer did NOT include food, flowers, or people, then you are generally unhappy. (( >:[ ))

7. The durability of the material with the cup is made of is representative of the perceived durability of your relationship. ((WHAT RELATIONSHIP? If I was so eager to "kill the cup," this can't be a very healthy relationship...))

8. What you did with the cup is representative of your attitude. ((LOL.))

9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire. ((lolwhut))

10. The way you cross the water is representative to how easy or hard you expect your life to be. ((WHENEVER YOU REACH DIFFICULTIES IN LIFE, ALWAYS CONSULT A CHICKEN FOR HELP))
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Hello my beautiful watchers, have you had enough spam from me today? Well, obviously not, because I have just one more thing to add to this commissions-business before I head off to bed

First off, I want to apologize for starting in June when I said I'd start in March OTL Obviously I don't know what months are and neither does my father, clearly, since he refused to help me fix this PayPal account up until last night OTL But hey, better late than never :)

Secondly, I just want direct everyone to this one more time to say that I am officially the sims 2 open for business!

And finally, one last useless bit of information...
Just a quick word on why specifically I set up commissions...
Ugh, not to sound whiny or anything but... asdfghjkl; Not good at phrasing things...
I'm saving up for a trip. Currently, I have about $300 towards it. I need around $3500. I think I mentioned this before, but I'll get into better detail now for any weird people that might want to know more:
Every two years, the school has trips to Europe based on the language department; French students go to France, Spanish students go to Spain, and Italian students go to Italy. This is an optional trip, not many people go on it. One of the major reasons why is because most kids can't afford it. To my knowledge, only the French teacher in the school actually fund raises for it because all the other teachers are lazy and don't care about their students and don't like to work for their pay checks, but even with that each student can only hope to make around $100-$200, which I don't think would even cover the costs of the air plane.
I'm not stupid, I know commissions alone won't pay for this trip, but I hope I might be able to make just a teeny-itty bit to help make getting money for the trip easier. I'm quiet, barely have any friends ((NONE of my friends are going on this trip :S Letsee how that works out)), don't join in any extra curricular activities, and just generally don't have the chance to do much of anything. I'm starting French 3 Honors in September and really love the class and would love to travel. I always wanted to see something more interesting than our local county mall, but never had the chance. I'm working my butt off for it, but I really truly want to go on this trip. I already decided to put all money (change, fund raised money, commissions money, holiday/birthday money, pay checks, etc. ) towards the trip and decided not to do any other school events (Junior & Senior Prom, senior trip to Disney World, etc.), so I'm really looking forward to this week in Paris/Normandy.
asdfghjkl; I just really want this and it's a major struggle. I need to have all of the money ready before April 1st, 2013. I'm working in the warehouse this summer as a Warehouse Assistant, and I hope to get another job part-time in September. Work will probably be my biggest source of money for this, but as stated earlier, every cent helps.
Also, this trip might be nice to mention in applications to college. If you're an artist in New Jersey, you need all the help you can get, so that just makes this trip even better in my mind

Thanks for reading my odd little journal, and I hope you like my commissions :) If you ever have some extra money between now and march of 2013, purchase something maybe? Or tell a friend of my adventures in commissions?
Have a nice day :)
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