Arpie

xarpiex @ 2010-03-10T03:15:00

2010-03-10T09:15:42Z

Know what would be fun?
A Drawing Dojo LJ community. The mods would post exercises for members to complete and award you with belts depending on your skills.

I'd join.

What's up now

2010-02-21T05:30:29Z

I got my hair cut (Will post pics sometime maybe if I feel like it)
Awaiting my Sims 2 games so I can reinstall them and waste time interior decorating
Cut my finger open
I took a tae kwon do blue belt test but I don't know if I passed
I don't want to draw anymore
Been writing a lot though
Almost done watching Moribito and have started Kino's Journey

It's been too long since I made a real entry here.

xarpiex @ 2010-02-18T01:15:00

2010-02-18T07:15:48Z

I get to pick a disease with which to kill off a major character.

ETA: IT'S LUPUS!!!

xarpiex @ 2010-01-30T04:54:00

2010-01-30T10:54:10Z

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).

If you are not from the North, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Southerner who hates Southern accents and tries really hard to "talk right"; or
(b) A New Yorker or New Jerseyan who doesn't have the full accent

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

I live in a Northern state and my parents are both from New Jersey so this makes total sense.

What I've been working on all night

2010-01-27T11:06:27Z

My Shaowrai and Atlas Caramelldansen'd!

xarpiex @ 2010-01-26T03:26:00

2010-01-26T09:26:54Z

I've gotten to the point in this 3rd draft of The Last Naasen where I'm caught up with where draft 2 began. Now I get to reconsider what scenes to cut and which to keep and other reorganization, which is one of my favorite parts of this. I love the logistics of it all.

xarpiex @ 2010-01-20T19:13:00

2010-01-21T01:13:51Z

So much for my plans to use the tax return on anything fun (Like a new PC that will actually let me color pictures bigger then 1000x 1000 pixels). My husband got laid off from work.

I need to tattoo "Stop hoping" to my forehead so I remember to not get excited about the future.

Sappy meme :p

2010-01-13T23:54:55Z

Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

I challenge you

2010-01-13T09:12:21Z

To find a prettier song than this:

No, seriously. Post the best challenger you can find. Because I like to hear pretty music.

xarpiex @ 2009-11-30T17:23:00

2009-11-30T23:23:24Z

Help
I keep listening to Vocaloid songs on YouTube.

xarpiex @ 2009-11-28T22:51:00

2009-11-29T04:51:30Z

So, I had a dream that there were these cages in our yard full of random stray or abandoned guinea pigs, chinchillas, rats, and gerbils. Some were babies.
I had to decide what to do with them and it was pretty stressful, especially when the baby chinchillas started to die.

xarpiex @ 2009-11-20T00:54:00

2009-11-20T06:54:19Z

I sometimes forget I draw.
I was like "I want somebody to draw a pretty picture of Atlas!" and I realized, Hm. I can if I really want to. Huh.

Instead, I play Minesweeper.

xarpiex @ 2009-11-10T03:23:00

2009-11-10T09:25:56Z

Curses! I'm stuck in my NaNo progress.

I have to figure out why these cowherds would be willing to smuggle a band of refugees amidst their cattle.

*Prepares the Deus Ex Machina cannon*

xarpiex @ 2009-11-06T15:50:00

2009-11-06T21:51:21Z

Good news: We got my guinea pig Oily a Cubes & Coroplast cage: http://www.guineapigcages.com/cubes.htm and he will be very pleased since it will be bigger than his current one.

Bad news: My black gerbil Kuroichi died. ;_;

xarpiex @ 2009-11-05T16:07:00

2009-11-05T22:14:42Z

I want to cut off my hair. It's tangly and lumpy and I don't know how to style it so it always just looks dumb. But I also don't want to. This is the longest my hair has been in some time and it might be pretty if it's really long. Maybe once it gets long enough it won't do the stupid lumping up thing.

I don't know. I can't deal with having a body, someone put my brain in a jar and attach a voice synthesizer because that's all I feel like coping with today.

xarpiex @ 2009-11-02T04:28:00

2009-11-02T10:30:03Z

1,069 words on my first NaNoWriMo day. Not the best start but I haven't written in a little while so I'm getting back into the groove. Hopefully it will just get better from here.

xarpiex @ 2009-10-31T21:26:00

2009-11-01T02:26:59Z

Well, I turned in an application at Half-Price Books. Let's see what happens.

Why I don't let my friends meet my other friends, or attempt to promote my interests in any way

2009-10-21T02:35:23Z

Today's discovery about self:
I really, really, really, really, really don't like for my taste to be called into question or mocked. Be that taste in friends, movies, music, art, interior decorating, spouse, or whatever.
I probably should not take it so personally but it makes me cry every time.

I think I am just too serious about life.

xarpiex @ 2009-10-19T15:55:00

2009-10-19T20:56:20Z

I'm thinking of posting art again on deviantART so maybe I'll get more commissions.

I really don't want to go back there though.

Nrgh.

xarpiex @ 2009-10-01T06:52:00

2009-10-01T11:54:15Z

I'm getting excited for Christmas! Must not write my Christmas list or listen to Christmas songs or put up Christmas decorations. The temptation is just so terrible though.

xarpiex @ 2009-09-28T06:58:00

2009-09-28T11:59:32Z


Neuroticism	96
Extraversion	1
Openness to Experience	27
Agreeableness	57
Conscientiousness	10

You do not usually get angry too easily but some things can annoy you, however you experience panic, confusion, and helplessness when under pressure or stress. People generally perceive you as distant and reserved, and you do not usually reach out to others. You prefer dealing with either people or things rather than ideas. You regard intellectual exercises as a waste of your time. You dislike confrontations and are perfectly willing to compromise or to deny your own needs in order to get along with others, however you believe that a certain amount of deception in social relationships is necessary. You are guarded in new relationships and less willing to openly reveal the whole truth about yourself. You take your time when making decisions and will deliberate on all the possible consequences and alternatives.

Free Poll

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Somewhat accurate I suppose.

xarpiex @ 2009-09-25T21:44:00

2009-09-26T02:51:09Z

I had a dream about Livejournal.

In my dream, I was being talked about on sf_drama. Somehow my name came up in a post, and someone I didn't even remember talking to said "Oh, Arpie! I had the weirdest conversation with her. She wouldn't shut up about her stories." and then someone else said, "I find Arpie easier to tolerate if I pretend she's just some sad, lonely man pretending to be a cute girl on the Internet for attention. Or maybe she's a transsexual."

Then I joined in the conversation and tried to convey the fact that I actually was somewhat amused by these comments and not being one of those people who's butthurt and just tries to pretend to be amused. I failed, and got mocked further, but in my dream I didn't care too much.
Then lilenth joined in the conversation but I woke up before I read what she said. I'm sure it would have been interesting, too.

I was kind of annoyed when I woke up because I always wonder what people I don't know think about me, but now I'm back to square one and have no idea again. Sigh.

xarpiex @ 2009-09-25T12:59:00

2009-09-25T18:00:27Z

Yes, this is my guinea pig.

xarpiex @ 2009-09-25T06:46:00

2009-09-25T11:50:56Z

Why can't I be a normal human with a normal sleep schedule?
I always have operated as though days were 25 hours long-- I stay up an hour later every night, usually staying up to the wee hours of the morning. Then some real-life commitment requires me to endure some insane sleep loss so that I can be awake at the right time. Then everything is whacked out for a couple days and then I go back to my usual hours. I always seem to stay up until at least 2 in the morning no matter what. My internal clock seems to regard the hours between 8 and 10 AM as hellish; I can't remember the last time I was voluntarily awake at those times.

So yeah. I hate my body. Or I need to move to a new planet with a 25-hour day. Anyone know of any?

my life

2009-09-23T05:15:39Z

I got my green belt for tae kwon do. I have no idea how that happened because I kind of suck.

One of my mice, Itchy, died. We buried her today.

I'm literally afraid of drawing right now. I think it might be because I drank a bunch of caffeine, which makes me obscenely depressed and I'll probably start having suicidal thoughts in a minute. Whee! Hopefully I can distract myself by getting some writing done.