I had a late Halloween party this year. *nods*

...and it was in the form of a doll meet!

The Mad Hat Party--make your own crazy hats for your doll (and yourself, probably?) to wear! :D Winner takes all the candy!

Attendees:

1. Tinnee tinneetintin with Hyde
2. Jen darknessfatale with Reaiah
3. Ara gacktkoi with Ashe and Zeki
4. Nix kuro_akira with Rose and Bell
5. Krishna hibiemi with Ulalume
6. Tin miztylaneous with Maven
7. Karen mseerie with Yasu
8. Kyra devolvedarling with Molo, Datu and Lakan
9. Freej inspirexdesire with Trick
10-11. Joey vox_veritas and Rey with Nene and Veritas
12. Andy asuka_chan17 with Freya
13. Lala lalarine with Melody
14. Ricci dheity_rigel with Amihan and Bituin
15-16. Jan starfishfalls and Pao with Kohl
17. Tina tinatonio with Moccha
18. Gigil pisling_tubi with Sinag
19. Anj battiegotriddim with Cen, Dice and Endo


Awwww look it's Sinag and her hattttt...

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LOOK AGAIN.



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Whew~ More reqs done (:

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[1] Katekyo Hitman Reborn winamp skin
[1] NITRO+ winamp skin



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I don't know what to tell you guys. Man.

The only thing I can offer you guys is art later this month. I've been drawings bits here and there but I try not to get too distracted over lecture because I'll always see something interesting and then start jotting it down. Then I get too into it and then whoops lecture is over. This used to happen all the time when I was sit around ad draw and forget the time and miss the bus. There's some fun fanart that I think you guys will like. I like it too. I'm just really rough right now. I really, really need to get some discipline in.

My Calculus test that was supposed to be in a few weeks got moved to next Monday, so I've been studying like mad since then. I originally wanted to enter the Lost Saga fanart contest and have a sketch done during the short break I had before calculus-- before I heard about the moved up test. :,3 No time for that now. The good news is that we no longer have a final. It's just been tough because I absolutely need at least an 80% on this. At this point I'm sure I can pass it, but I need need need need need to do very well.

I've been very tired. On Wednesday, I drove to school in a rush thinking I had class at 2:30-- but I have class at 3:00. I've always had class at that time on Wednesdays since August. I didn't realize until I was about to go on the 5-S. I made a quick U-turn and got home to grab some money to deposit, because I've been putting off little chores here and there to do calculus studying. I get to the bank quick, fill the forms, and hop in the line. Two tellers, and only one woman ahead of me. Unfortunately, both people at the tellers had problems so I ended up being there a lot longer than expected, and was back on the road at 2:35. No big, I thought, because I usually leave home around 2:20 and get there in time.

Holy shit there was traffic. I didn't know fifteen minutes could make such a difference in road conditions, because the 5-S was super clogged up. The 57-S was fine though, but it was still too late. I got on campus at 3:20, and the class gets out around 3:30. We usually do review problems at the end of class, but having missed lecture I would have a hard time with them. I decided to go to Activity Lab early and go back to studying Calculus while I waited for the class to finish. The TA came in and I asked him if there was a quiz, and he said he's pretty sure there's no quiz but he can see that our professor had logged on. But it's probably nothing. Marc texted me so I met up with him, and we had Chipotle because he was starving and had no money. (I had a coupon that we used.) After that, we studied in the computer lab until class started. It was good that we had review though, but today I found out from Kevin (while copying his notes) that there WAS a quiz in Chem and that it was extremely easy. D: Auuuugh free points, basically. He told me that Professor Ashcroft is thinking of dropping... nine quizzes, though. Which is good. I'm confident I can get a B in this class-- but I don't think I can raise it to an A by the end of the semester. Not satisfied.

Meanwhile for Biology, I'm fine. I have a 98% for lab. I'm just worried about Calculus, and it frustrated me to find out that I had missed a quiz for Chem. I had fun hanging out with Katrina today for a brief period, though. On Tuesday, we found out that Daniel hadn't eaten in two days so we went out to eat with him and watched him eat. I told him not to let his body crash, and he keeps insisting that he'll be fine. He skipped a midterm. That's pretty bad.

I'm really, really tired. Things happened on Sunday too which led me to starting the week exhausted, though my mood did get perked up a bit by seeing some messages from Lou. Other than the few times I've been with my friends, it's all been study. I take frequent naps and get eight hours of sleep to make sure I'm in good condition to study, and have been eating full meals. I think I'm gaining weight, but I didn't hit the gym because I'm so busy studying. D: It's pretty bad.

It's rather sad that I was actually relieved to hear that Lou had a dentist appointment tomorrow, so he won't be available till later in the afternoon. My first thought was, "I can do more studying." It wasn't a happy or sad thought. Just the acknowledgment that with those short extra hours I should be able to get more studying done, and that I will. My plan is to do the review chapter in the textbook tomorrow, and if I can do that I should be fine. (Dear god my vision just kind of flickered. Scared the crap out of me.) Then on Monday morning I will wake up early, eat a good, hearty breakfast, and review again. After Chemistry, I'll review during Chem's Activity Lab, and then during the short break before Calculus, and then hopefully go downstairs to my Calculus classroom well prepared. The professor said he'll put up a study guide Friday or Saturday evening. I'll probably pounce on that too and look over it during the weekend during brief moments while I rest up so I don't crash on Monday.

I just need this grade so bad. Auuugh oh my god.

I felt bad today talking to Lou because I wanted to be goofy with him, but he was mellow and serious. So I felt like I was just being a pain. Marc too. This is Marc's second time talking Calculus and we're still at the point where he was doing fine in the class, so he's not sweating anything because he's learned it twice. He can get a bit condescending at times about me not understanding things. Daniel told me not to mind, because he tutored Marc a lot the first time Marc was talking Calc and that apparently it took Marc hours to understand things and it was frustrating-- like pulling teeth. So he said that Marc shouldn't really have that attitude towards others when he himself had a hard time at first, too. It made me feel a bit better, and I liked that I was able to explain things for Marc a few times this week. Shows that all the studying is showing.

I feel stretched thin.

I wanted to write on Over Coffee and Tea about something too, but I have to put it off until after this test. There was something else, too. Katrina and I today started naming things that have changed since high school. I want to write about that also. It came up after I said that I don't think people change all that much at their core-- I think I'm still largely the same person I was when she first met me in middle school, albeit less moody, cold, and mean as I was often described. (Negativity should never be mistaken for maturity or realism, by the way. I was just a kid. I'm still just a kid in many ways.) I even had to cancel a lunch date today. I feel awful about that.

Things will get better. I'm not going to snap or anything. I'm just incredibly fatigued and it would do me wonders if I could...







I just wish I had someone I could relax with, but right now I don't. I just feel like a burden.

http://another2am.com/armeleialand/?p=3118

38 of the domestic DoAxDollheart orders are going out tomorrow.  Go us.  W00+.

I’m tired now. Gonna write a bit more (I wrote on my lunch at work today) and go to bed. =_=

Available in 60 and 70cm Sizes.

Hello again everyone! It's been a while hasn't it? XD; I finally got a new full-time job late September, hence why the long delay in getting new items up. (Hence the slightly small update.) It's a bit tiring to work all day and then spend my remaining hours hours hunched over a sewing machine. I do still plan to keep the shop active in any case, though updates will likely be more paced out because of this.

Commissions are going to remain closed for the foreseeable future, as I'm not sure I'll have the time to be able to take many more while I'm working. (I do still have a few to finish, and hopefully I can get a good deal of work done on those next week!)

Also, as a result of the job, shipping times are going to be longer than they have been. Since I usually don't get off work til right before the post office closes, it may take me a week (especially for international orders) to get everything shipped out. Please forgive me for this, I will still try to ship as quickly as I can. ^^

In any case, that's all for now. Thanks yet again!

http://another2am.com/stardust/?p=1276

*  Leave me a comment saying “Resistance is Futile.”

*  I’ll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity

*  Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (I’ll also answer more, if asked.)

* Questions posed by zagzagael And, yes, if you ask, I will respond to more.

My answers are hanging out below the cut.

1. If you could be offered your dream job tomorrow, what would it be?

This is a hard question for me…because nothing has ever really presented itself as a dream job. I suppose that the closest would be a university job teaching poetry, either the writing or reading thereof.
2. Why Victoriana? And why Victorian medicine?

I’m fascinated by contradictions and to me, the Victorian era is the epitome of dichotomous living. I love the clash of industrialism and indulgence, the extolling of virtue and the secret dirt, the trailing hemlines and the tight corsets. As for medicine…to me, Victorian medicine gives me the thrill that some people get from extreme sports or horror movies. I’m terrified of doctors, and the wretchedly and carefully wrought Victorian medical devices are the monsters and ghouls of my imagination. And at the same time…there is nothing like the beautiful design on the hilt of an old scalpel, or the careful curve at the top of a pretty leech jar (I will own one some day!).
3. Favourite book of all time?

Wow, you’ve asked me THE impossible question. If I had to choose the book that changed me the most, inspired me the most, I’d have to say “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
4. Least favourite book you felt you had to finish?

I have…issues with finishing books. To date, there are only two books I haven’t finished (“Infinite Jest” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” if you’re curious). The worst book I’ve finished, the most doggedly, was some piece of tripe I’d mistaken for a lively biography of Nell Gwyne. It was more like a romance novel.
5. What makes the 21st Century such a kick ass time to be alive?

As you know, I’m a mourner for days gone by, but I would never ever give up the fact that now, in this day and age, I can say and believe what I want. I love this time that I live because I have a voice that I would not have if I lived even in the not-so-distant past.

so whose playing with http://www.tinierme.com/tinierme/mypage.do? come play with me.

damn damn damn damn damn.

http://another2am.com/armeleialand/?p=3116

Maybe it’s the recent full moon bringing all the nutjobs out of the woodwork.

I feel like we got a really odd crop of newbies over the summer… lots more mystical whoosh dollsoul stuff than we’ve had in awhile.  But while the crazymeter has been rising, it seems like a lot of the longstanding hobbyists are finally putting their collective foot down and saying “Fuck no.”

I have also been transformed into a 12 year old again.  Doa lists the most recent posts in each subforum on the index… but if the title is long, it truncates.  There is a thread that always seems to be popping up in the Marketplace when I’m browsing that is title “Three dolls with huge…”  And my brain keeps supplying “tracts of land.”  A thread in Debate titled “Taking BJDs a little deeper” is making me giggle every time.

I was all set up to start posting Dollheart outfits tonight, but realized that the black ink cartridge is out.  Tomorrow night is the night!