As the title says, I have big hopes for 2010. I’ve done it quite late, but I’ve began revising my first novel. Prologue and the beginning of chapter 1. Hooray! I can finally destroy all those odd words and wordings! Now to keep me hyped up to continue… 1 year to revise. A good goal. Let’s hope I can keep up the pace!
My wishes for 2010:
Improve my art.
Have faith in art I create for a bit longer than 15 minutes.
Finish art.
Learn lots of useful things and techniques.
Look at art with a sharper eye, figuring out how details were made.
Learn a huge chunk of programming. (Perhaps I’ll leave that for next year.)
PLAY LOTS OF GAMES!
Socialize and get out a bit more… it’s hard, I tell you. D;
Cherry got a new little house today to put in her cage, I thought it looked very cute and cozy. If I were a hamster, I’d love to sleep there wrapped inside layers and layers of cotton.
I should get to sleep pretty soon, my time rhythm is pretty messed up and school is starting on Monday. Good nighters.
This is what I stumbled over today while surfing the world wide web. Moemon. Moe + Pokémon.
I love the chorus at 00:56. The pokemon are overhauled to be completely moe, that is… japanese cute girls. (Probably not correct, but that’s how I like to sum it up.) I have a hard time imagining how much time that must’ve taken!
Here’s another pokémon related video I find super amazing! Chocolate rain and mudkips!
Alright… I think that if a person is exposed to a lot of Pokémon as a very young child, you hold a little dear place for them for an eternity. ;___; Sorry about this post.
I must be a really lucky lady. (Pfpfpfp… lady. Prrffpfpfpr.) I just won a 1000 SEK gift card for my review on an Aiptek tablet over at Pricerunners. It was such a surprise when I found it in my e-mail. Still, I don’t know what I should buy… thanks, Pricerunner! I’m honored.
This song is lovely. Don’t mind the movie in the background, it’s from FLCL. (Which is a great anime, btw.)
If you want some horrible pictures of my book, blame my camera and lighting, look here! Blurriness prevails! I’m sorry to say this, but I feel kind of proud to have written over 100000 words. P:
I ordered my free proof copy of my novel from Createspace, who generously offered even the shipping for free. I’m so happy!
If anyone is having problems with ordering from Createspace… switch browsers for a second. I did my order with Opera, but couldn’t finish it with it. I had to switch to Firefox! I wonder if it was such a good idea to switch browsers in the first place… Opera is kind of making everything just harder than it really is. For example, the ebay item pages streeeeetch so much which results in unneeded white space on the bottom. The two things I truly like with Opera, though, is it’s interface and the Turbo mode.
I got my gifts sent to Brazil a few days ago. Soon I’ll be sending a package to Poland as well. I hope the mail isn’t going on a strike again.
My room is all fresh and lovely! I love it when it’s clean, but I have a hard time cleaning it… after all, I’m awesome at making messes! I just love the star lamp I have on my table, makes the room feel very comfy.
Cherry, my ninja hamster, was today granted the right to walk around my room unsupervised. Well, not quite that unsupervised, there were four eyes to look after her. She got to run around the whole room, behind the computer, around all the cables etc. and she did 0% of mischief! She behaved so well… I’m starting to think that this hamster is a small blessing. Some hamsters bite everything and everyone, but this one has just bitten me once. On my toe, but it didn’t hurt and it was during the first days she was here. I had a hard time controlling her back then.
I kind of miss writing a novel. Currently I’m working on a small project. I’m not sure it gets finished, but I’m a good way on the road.
Alright, let’s end this rambling with a cheery… good night!
EDIT: Oh yeah, I’ll lull you to sleep with this song.
I love the beginning part. Reading the comments on Youtube I’ve found out that it’s Vietnamese and translates in to “Hello friends, this is our homeland, this is our future.”. Vietnamese sounds so beautiful.
Argh, my stomach is burning for some reason, but that has nothing to do with the title. I stayed at home today and had a perfect time checking the news and…
This morning was the first time I read about the British man that had hacked in to Pentagon between 2001 and 2002. They had now decided that they would send him to the US to be judged. That’s far away from home, isn’t it?
I feel compassion for the guy, really. The article told clearly that he had Aspergers syndrome. The reason he hacked several US databases was that he was searching for proof on UFOs. That interests me as well, but if I was him I wouldn’t have done that. But what he must be going through right now… it must be pure overkill. I wouldn’t be able to handle the fact that I would be sent overseas to be judged and probably spend 70 years in prison. That would be such a waste for a smart guy like him, he could actually help the US government to make their databases more secure.
Having Aspergers and being in prison doesn’t go hand in hand. The feeling of being stuck somewhere, with awful and really social people… please, I know it’s hard to understand. Give this guy another chance, will you?
He was just playing with a hobbies he were interested in, hacking and UFOs. If drawing was illegal, I would probably spend a lifetime in prison! I don’t really think he wanted to hurt anyone with them. I think it would be entirely different if you would be searching for secret information to be able to hurt thousands!
I know my post right now is very objective. I’m sorry for that. But that is what I right now feel. Please, USA, Britain, I hope you’re doing the right thing. Don’t waste a life of someone that perhaps didn’t understand the seriousness of his deeds.
I won! I won! Wohooo! 50000 words in one month, once again! I’m so happy I could cry at my accomplishment. I’m still quite unsure at my novel title, but in the meantime it’ll be called “Rescue Nefertitos”. It’s a sad story, but I don’t want to tell much more until I’ve edited it.
Last year I won with “Executed Platinum”, but if I’m honest… the title is really misleading! That time it was fantasy, which I enjoyed writing a bit more, I think. This time I did have some paranormality in my story, though.
Still listening to the Paprika soundtrack in my last post. Yay!
There it is! Proof of my victory! The notorious web badge!
For 100 more years of writing novels for me! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
I just switched from Firefox to Opera. I know it’s evil to the open source community, but sheesh… somehow I like this one better as my computer copes with it better. It has also all kinds of nifty widgets built in, such as notes. Really useful for me as I would forget doing things otherwise! (Firefox has widgets for that too, but I’m too lazy to be searching for each and one of them.) The only thing I am complaining about is the adblock system. Firefox has it’s own plug-ins which are awesome, but in Opera you have to do most of it manually. I really like the Opera Turbo, though, which makes the Internet run on computers with slower connections a bit faster.
Now for one of my favorite songs of all time.
This song just gives me the chicken pox. It’s so great! It made the movie “Paprika” a masterpiece in my opinion. The voices in the beginning, they sound so finnish somehow! Makes me think of Zen Cafe, a finnish band, which jumps out of the crowd with their singer’s voice. I’m not very much in to finnish music, but I found their song “Ihminen” somehow quite hilarious, even though it’s a very serious song. The finnish language is very beautiful, but hard to properly insert in songs as the words are quite long and complex. Props to everyone who can do that!
Aah, it feels so good almost being over the 40,000 word mark. The novel isn’t awesome, but… very epic. Big. Odd. Surreal! Sometimes it’s really boring to write about because it’s often very serious and shocking, I’d rather write about happy things. But as I read in a book about writing, you shouldn’t really choose from drama and comedy, but instead mix them in to a nice fluffy sauce which is enjoyable to read (I mean eat.).
Mmm… off to continue my lethargic, sluggy ways of killing time. (By not writing.)
Yes, just as the title suggests… my hamster ran away. While I wasn’t watching. She has certainly gotten smarter, she actually used the top floor door to fall through which didn’t hold too much against force to open. She also did it while I wasn’t watching and I was in a different room. I fear that she might be a reincarnation of some famous spy or ninja. Cherry the Ninja Hamster™, that’s a catchy name. Maybe I’ll make a whole toy brand out of it, with stickers and pvc and lots of cute happiness among collectors? Ohohohoh. Just like Hello Kitty.
But the thing that really wondered me was if it was somehow linked to a nightmare I had that night. I was in Finland at our cottage and saw my mom shoot burglars and/or thugs (2 of them), that had fallen over fences (my hamster has a big fence around her cage) and sat themselves down on tree stumps, with fiery arrows which made them burn to death. (I was playing Fable 2 when she emerged as lost, which is mostly about killing thugs with all means possible.) After that we went to our toilet and I saw my bunny somehow dig itself up as a cartoon mole next to me. My mom tried to catch him. He ran over the small blueberry field, my sibling noticed that (which he did this time too!), and over to the lake in which he jumped. He was rammed with a big boat which was remote controlled and ultimately made him die. It’s a good thing that didn’t actually happen in this case. Gee, I think I should sleep less. Cherry’s cage will have several lock-mechanisms on her cage from now on.
Word count has been rising, I’ve written over 25 thousand words! I feel so much more at ease. But really, Cherry scared me today. She actually inspired me to write somehow!
Gah, I’m so tired all my sentences have their words flipped all around the whatshouldIcallthisthingmajajigs. Should go sleep. Good night. (To this hamster and all future hamsters, don’t you dare running away from your cages! You really made me worry! Next time you might die on your adventurous adventures in a dangerous house! D:)
Oh my. I was just taking a break after we went to the shops and this commercial comes on the TV.
It contains some very popular Internet phenomenas and it made me laugh so much. (That certainly shows everyone how I’ve been wasting my life…) You stumble upon a lot of things while being on Youtube. No wonder the creators became so rich. Someone even made a version of the commercial and original videos side by side here! The last one is just perfect.
Back to writing… I’ve already typed over 100 words here. xD
Words go by so fast! This NaNoWriMo has been easier than the last one. I’ve got a good start, but now I feel that I’m getting a bit jammed with the story I’m writing, but I’ll just have to see where the characters take me.
I’ve soon written 1/5 of my novel and I hope to finish earlier this year. Last year was a stress party, but the whole work made me feel proud. The story wasn’t good and the draft was horrible, but, I made it on my first year of WriMo! 50.000 words is a lot for that amount of time in my opinion. I actually made it through a deadline! I hope I can do it again this year.
After this event, I’ll decorate my keyboard. I promised myself that as a reward. I’ll write NaNoWriMo 2009 on it with a permanent pen and add stickers! +__+ (In the future… it would be nice to show my keyboard to someone and tell them that I’ve written a novel with it.)
Now, to come up with new drama in the story and get some more words. Oh no… what have I been doing? I’ve written lots of words on WordPress, but only a few on my novel today…
I hope my Internet dies for a while so that I can peacefully keep writing without distractions. xD
Have some nice days, months and years! (And all other ways of naming time!)
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