Pointlessness.

Unless I somehow find the energy to pull myself out of bed on Saturday and type an entire blog about France, you won't get another blog from me until next week. Again, I have a fair few things to talk about, so I'll do the number thing. Again.

1. You should have already noticed ... I changed my header picture. I didn't like the old one, and I didn't expect to keep it for so long... so now you can have a picture of my eyes staring you down. My eyelashes look really long at the corners. Weird.

2. My #3 in my last blog told you I'd hurt my thumb in Tech last week. Yesterday, we were doing practical Tech, and I was close to tears in pain. In the end, my Tech teacher did most of my work. I love that woman. It doesn't hurt much now, though, so that's good.

3. I've been working my butt off today trying to solve this problem I have and finish a design for something I can't tell you about ... yet. You may or may not remember me mentioning a "secret project" quite a while back... yeah, I was working on that. Don't badger me into telling you - all will be revealed once it's complete. If I can get it to work. Stupid thing.

4. Besides that, I've been making a lot of signature banners. My favourites?

 Whoa, I just noticed this now, and I find it pretty freaky: Each one contains a different main character for the Nickelodeon show H20: Just Add Water (one of my favourite shows when I was younger). I knew I was using the actors, but I didn't realise my favourites included one of each. Heh. Coincidences = <3

5. I'm writing this at 11:20pm while concentrating on other things, so I keep forgetting what I was going to write. Hmph. Memory of a goldfish.

6. I've been getting better at posting on my Dailybooth. Not terrific, yet, but I posted yesterday and today, so it's going somewhere!

7. Speaking of pictures and stuff, I'm going to have loads of pictures from France and the Pink concert, so I might make two blogs: one of pictures, one of my rambling about what a great experience it was. Heh. ;D

8. I take up way too many challenges on HPFC, and I am way too addicted to drabble collabs. Doh.

Keep blogging!
... This was pointless.

To-Do List.

Unless you're blind or distracted, you probably just noticed the new thingymajig at the top. Header? Banner? It's kind of, well, both. Yeahh... Anyway, it took me about an hour, and I was really conscious of the fact that my eyes were just staring at me while I worked. I'm usually alright, dealing with faces and stuff. But that just really unnerved me. Haha. It probably wouldn't have taken as long, but (a) I experimenting, and (b) I downloaded a bunch of new fonts yesterday from DeviantART, and I was testing them out. If you're a hardcore Paramore fan, you may have noticed that "Steph Blogs Too Much" is written in the same font as "Paramore" on the Brand New Eyes album. Fun facts FTW! I'll probably make some more banners, same style, different fonts, soon, when I get bored or whatever.

I'm also going to work on a new skin for this blog, something that isn't just a block colour, something in lilac because I'm really into that colour at the moment.

While on the talk of skins and such, does anyone have any idea how to create new skins and themes on Zetaboards? A friend and I are working on making a forum - and I won't say any more on the subject until it's up and running - and we're both completely confused by the settings of the Zetaboards skin-maker thingymajig. Sooo, if you have any tips, or can assist us, we'll be forever grateful. Many thanks!

I've officially been titled "The loser girl who reads manga." ... and all because my best friend, Allie, wants to get me into manga and anime, as I currently hold no interest whatsoever in it. I willingly agreed to watching Death Note, because I know the storyline, and I truthfully think it sounds interesting. However, I was reluctant to read manga, because I've tried, got confused, and didn't enjoy it. But I'm trying. At first, I tried to read Fruits Basket, but the earliest book in the series available in my school library was Book Six, which is no good (if I read a series, I start at the start and read in chronological order). The only series that had Book One was 'Pita-Ten'. I'm on page 47, and it's really weird. I talked to Allie about what made it weird, and apparently it's weird even for manga, sooo maybe I just picked the wrong book to start off with. Now, she wants me to read Ghost Hunt (which isn't in the school library). However, because I checked this book out and was reading it in form, I've officially been nicknamed "loser girl who reads manga." by a boy in my form, even though he's only seen me reading it once, the dislike was evident on my face, and I explained to him that I found it weird as hell.

But, anyway... I wanted to talk to you about something else, but I can't--

Never mind. I remember now! I was going to write my to-do list, and then at the end of each blog I make in the future, I can cross them off once I've achieved them. My to-do list is quite long, because I expect way too much of myself.

TO-DO LIST.
-- Catch up on Neighbours
-- Watch Vampires in Venice
-- Get photostills from Vampires in Venice
-- Write up RPG rules for KWC and 'Secret Forum Project'
-- Arrange with friend who's going to write which rules for Secret Forum Project
-- Finish Pita-Ten.
-- Finish Eagle Strike.
-- Make blog skin.
-- Make lyrics icons.
-- Make Secret Forum Project Header Banner
-- STAMPS! (I know what I mean. Don't ask xD)
-- Watch Death Note

As you can see, I expect wayyy too much of myself. This list will probably take me three or four months to actually complete. And I swear there's more things I wanted to do. Yeah. ... I'm not even going to bother putting "Teach myself guitar" and "Teach myself German" on the list, because they're not going to happen for a long, long time.

Keep blogging!

He had a one-hand feel on the steering wheel...

Taylor Swift, get your stupid country music OUT OF MY HEAD. I've had 'Our Song' stuck in my head for a good week or so, and sadly enough, I know all the words. It doesn't help that, despite myself, I have to keep listening to it. I don't even like it. Grr. Although, I admit, I really like her twang in Our Song. But that's all I like about it. So hmph. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!

Anyway... I found this really cool anime character creator thingy on DeviantART. And I made a couple of characters for a story I've been planning. Because I'm a paranoid little girl, I don't want to share with you the plot or anything (mainly because it's still in the works, partly because I'm afraid of being plagarized). Just know that it's a spy thing. Kind of like the Alex Rider series (which I'm reading at the moment, go figure). Anyway, these are the characters I created ...

Eleanor.
The reason I made three for her is because she's the main character, and I was experimenting. The picture looks really small here. It's bigger, normally, but I don't want to make it massive. You can't see her freckles here; that's not fair! Oh well. She has freckles, because I looovve freckles.

So, yes, say hi to Elle!

I had no idea what to call this character at first. I was really tempted to call him James, because he started out as just someone who Eleanor knew and got along with, but then his character steadily started growing in my mind, and he just didn't seem like a James any more. Also, I had no idea what he looked like, but now that I've made this, I'm certain that this is what he looks like.
I called him Jack.
Even though one of my friends is called Jack, and he's amazing, and this Jack kind of won't be amazing ...

I think he looks like a Jack. Just a matter of personal opinion, I suppose.

But, yes. His name is Jack.





I really have nothing else to say. My grandad's doing good, I have homework to do and can't be bothered to do it, and I haven't written my dribble drabble yet. So, I guess I'd better get a move on, eh?

Keep blogging!

Maybe I'll wake up for once.

Title has nothing to do with the blog. I'm just listening to Going Under by Evanescence.

I have a lot of things I want to share with you today because I've been bottling up all my blog ideas and I think I might spontaneously combust into flames if I don't get it all off my chest. And, chances are, I'll probably forget half of the things I was planning to tell you, because I am very forgetful. Hence the reason one of my friends called Jess (I have three friends called Jess ... and I talk to two other people called Jess. Ah!) calls me 'Goldie' ... which is short for Goldfish ... because Goldfish have short memories. Moving swifty on!

1.

You know I said I was going to make a better Kiro icon?
← That would be it. Isn't it so much better than the first one I made?
(This is where you nod obediently despite what you really think, 'kay?)



2. I figured out how to animate pictures! I'm really pleased with myself. Unfortunately, even when I optimise the animated icon or whatever, it takes up a lot of space, so I've only made one so far. And it's Hermione/Ron, which is a ship I don't even support, but whatever. When inspirations strikes, you just go with it, even if it's out of the norm. I've got a couple more in mind, too. Unfortunately, for some God unknown reason, the icon doesn't work on the blog (thank Merlin for Ctrl+Z), so I'm just going to link you to it, 'cos I posted it on DeviantART ... So, just clicketh here to see it. I'm really excited about it ^.^

3. Hayley G. Hoover wrote a really lovely, truthful blog the other day. Well, I say blog. It was more a piece of creative writing, and it's so inspirational. And so, here is the link to A Pretentious Portrait of Pretension. It's not too lengthy, it'll only take a couple of minutes to read, but it really is beautiful. Hayley is a fantastic writer.

4. I've started making stamps, now, too. I've only made one - and I have a second half-finished. It's not fantastic; I'm not keen on it. But I have a ton of ideas, thanks to my thoughts keeping me up last night, so I'm going to go on a stamp-frenzy once I've finished today's entry. I'll share with you the one I made...

Now, if you know me well enough, you know I squeal or squeak when I'm excited/in fangirl mode. However, it doesn't sound like a squeal or a squeak. It sounds like "squee". Imagine a really squeaky voice saying "squee" really fast, or for a long time (squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee), and that's what you get when I'm excited. It generally happens when I read fluff, or slash, but it also happens nearly every time I see Kiro (Cinema Bizarre) or Dougie Poynter (McFLY), or I just generally get excited over something. Because I'm a nerd, I'm allowed to obsess and overreact.*

5. Today is Emma Watson's 20th birthday. In honour of that, I made an Emma Watson signature banner. It's alright, I quite like it, but I can see room for major improvement. Happy Birthday, Emma! ♥

6. The layout on KW changed drastically overnight, and honestly, I think it's bearable but awful. It looks like a proper kids' site now. I mean, it is a kid/teen site ... but now it looks like a site for little kids, now for kids aged 7-18! I don't like it, but we're going to have to live with it. Allen and Tanya - people who work with the site (Tanya runs it) - said they're working on skins for people who want calmer, duller themes. I will definitely be using these skins because the site truly looks horrible now. It's so bright and childish. Yuck. I so prefer the old KW... *sigh* When I signed in earlier, I didn't expect it, and I freaked out. But at the end of the day, I'm only on there for the people, and until I can contact all my friends off of KW, I will remain an active member.

7. I'm adding this because I forgot what else I wanted to say, and so the title will relate to the blog xD Sometimes, I seriously think my life is a dream. Not that anything special or extraordinary happens, because they don't. It's just ... the friends I have are too good to be true, sometimes even I surprise myself with some of the things I say, and I get really bad cases of dejá vu where I dream something - an ordinary, everyday situation - and then it happens within the next forty-eight hours. I just keep thinking to myself, "I'm going to wake up in a minute. Wait ... I never think like this when I'm actually dreaming." Heh.

"We're all so laughably similar in our attempts to be sickeningly different." - Hayley G. Hoover.


On that note, I'll leave you, because I've forgotten everything else I wanted to say (told you it would happen). Keep blogging. (:


*I just spent twenty minutes trying to find that video to link it. I'm so dedicated to nerdiness.

Tooth Fairy, I've Got One For You!

For the record, I don't believe in the tooth fairy and I don't get money from her. Just thought I'd clear that up before we begin xD

My muse seems to have come back! Well, a little bit ... I've been photoediting throughout the day. Half of the stuff turned out horrible and I didn't save it, but I did manage to make icons of all the band members in Cinema Bizarre (except Luminor because he freaks me out). However, I'm going to re-do Kiro's because his doesn't really match the others. I made his first, and I was just experimenting, so it's not as good as the other four, in my personal opinion. I'm going to make signature banners to go with the icons later if I have time, too.

See? All of the backgrounds are dark, except for Kiro's. This was unintentional ... but Kiro's definitely needs re-doing. These are the only things I actually saved today, out of the tons of things I made. Today has been an "experiment" day. Although, even though I've spent ages photoediting, I haven't even thought about making more Doctor Who icons. Hm ... odd. I'm going to start on some Harry Potter icons later, if I have time, because I've only made a few before - months ago - and I trashed them because they were beyond awful. I also haven't tried to make any stamps today, either.

But at least I know how to get inspired ... just flick through a few pages on DeviantART and BOOM, I get a strong urge to make stuff. I guess, looking at all the excellent work on there, I want to try and live up to that. And to live up to that, I need to practise practise practise!

In other news, I read nearly all of Point Blanc last night, and finished it this morning, so the review can be found hither. A good book, I promise you. I still need to write my Dribble Drabble today; have no clue what to write about ... I think I might do a Charmed fanfiction today. I've never written anything for Charmed before, though I've had ideas. Speaking of Charmed, I should make some Charmed icons at some point ... hmm ...

Anyway.... other news ....

I pulled my tooth out last night! And normally, when I pull a tooth out, I just say "Yes! Got another one", stop the bleeding and move on with my life. But this one has given me nothing torture for the past couple of years, altered my eating habits, caused me pain every time I brushed my teeth or washed my face. Why, I hear you ask, has it done all this? Because it was vertical, and it was a canine tooth. Yes, you heard me. Vertical. The adult tooth grew behind it and pushed it forward, so I've had a baby canine tooth (you know how pointy they are!) sticking into my lip for the past few years. Every time I brushed my teeth, that tooth would hurt whenever the brush touched it. Every time I washed my face, I couldn't wash my chin properly because the tooth would press against my lip more. I couldn't eat certain foods because of it.

In fact, one of the many dentists I saw told me that in his nineteen years of being a dentist, he had never seen a tooth like mine. Even so, the dentist never took it out and it's never been wobbly enough to pull it out. The past couple of days have been hell for me; I've barely eaten anything and it's been causing me agony. So last night I sat there in front of the laptop, twisting it and pulling it. It hurt like hell, but it was nothing compared to the pain it's caused me recently. And then it came out. It feels really weird, because now I can feel how my front tooth on the bottom is slightly in front of the tooth next to it, which I've never been able to feel before ... but I'm so grateful it's out ^.^

So, on that personal but joyful note, I will leave you, because I'm out of things to say. I need to go write up a drabble, and then get back to photoediting. Have a nice night, people.

Keep blogging!

My Muse Has Gone on Holiday.

I'm having a lazy day today. It took me three and a half hours to write my dribble drabble, which was only 411 words, and I had no inspiration whatsoever - that includes for photoediting. I managed to make a few icons, but GIMP hated me and all the other ones I tried to make couldn't be seen well at a 100x100 scale. Argh! And, like I said, I have NO inspiration ... that includes for this blog. I've spent my day listening to McFLY, whom I used to love, and they're starting to grow on me again. They're not too bad. Danny was always my favourite when I was younger, but now, I love Dougie. Heehee. It's the side-fringe that won me over, I think. And his eyes. They're a really beautiful, capturing shade of blue. I could stare at them all day.

Anyway, here are the icons I managed to make...

I only like the first two, but hey ho, they're better than nothing. I got LOADS of stills from that second episode ... I only used four of them, one of which you can't even see because I made it too transparent (in the second Amy Pond one, with the transparent layers). Ugh. GIMP hates me, and my muse has gone on holiday without my permission.

On the bright side, I managed to find a stamp template on DeviantART, so I will eventually start making a variety of stamps, too! Which, hopefully, will be pretty fun. I've never tried to make a stamp before, but I've wanted to. Now I have the template, I'll be able to. Yay!

On that note, I'll leave you, because it's taken me half an hour to write this (Multitasking. As uninspired and lazy as I am, I'll always be able to do that), which is ridiculous, because there's hardly anything in this blog. Sorry about the shortness. Hopefully, if I get inspired enough, tomorrow's blog will be longer and more interesting.

My Childhood; Part One.

A blog or two ago, I mentioned that I'm going to make a fool of myself. Well, the time is upon us. When cleaning out my room on Saturday, I found a notebook that I've had for as long as I can remember. I'm going to share with you, bit by bit, it's contents ... because embarrassing myself is so much easier than thinking of blog ideas. Looking through the book, I realised I wrote a hell of a lot as a little kid - none of the stories actually got finished, though, I noticed. I'm going to type it up exactly as it's written so you can see all my grammar mistakes and laugh at my past self. Have fun.

The first few pages consist mainly of handwriting and spelling practises, because I was a little nerd. This is the first creative writing piece, and it's so embarrassing xD I must have been four or five. You'll recognise some of it; it's a nursery rhyme, but I just extended it xD

Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been?

"I've been to London to visite the qeen."

Pussy cat, pussy cat what did you there?

"I frightend a little mouse under her chair."

Chorus.

pussy cat, pussy cat don't do that.

pussy cat, pussy cat never do that again.

No no no.

Pussy cat, pussy cat what would you do?

"I'd meow to her and bow to her too."

Sadly (and thankfully xD), it ends there. I never got round to fixing it. Like I said, I haven't corrected a single thing ... hence the spelling mistakes in the first stanza. I was such a sad child, wasn't I? xD Over the next few pages, there's just more spelling practises, until we come to this: EDWARD IS a bRAT!, written in green crayon, taking up the entire page, and then crossed through with blue, orange and green crayon. You know the Union Jack? It's got the same style, with the one vertical line, one horizontal and two diagonal. For the record, Edward is my cousin. On the next two pages, in grey crayon, I've written ME AND Sophie Are a Team. Sophie is another cousin; Edward's half-sister. Capitalization really wasn't my strong point, I've noticed.

On the page after that...

Sophie gave

Sophie gave Me a picture.

Edward is was singing Scooby Doo. 

I Was Writing in this book.

Sophie gave Edward a Picture.

Edward ga makes a cup of Tea.

I Watched the really boring Tweenies.

It seems to be a record of about an hour or so one day, and I have no idea why it suddenly switched to present tense on the penultimate line. I was only young, okay? xD

I think I'll leave it at that today; I plan to carry this out for a few days. I think we skip to when I was seven next... 2004, it says. So yes, I would have been seven. Heh. Reading through the next page, I'm going to have to cut some of it out... it has my old address there xD

Before I go, I want to share with you this crappy little icon I made for AmazingPhil. It's really bad; nothing like I had in mind. But it's better than nothing, right? It was inspired a question asked in this video and the still is from a point in the video, too. I'll probably upload it to my twitter later and @mention Phil so he sees it xD

← That's it. Danger!

Now I've officially linkspammed you, I'll leave you for today. Keep blogging, people :3

I can't resist a challenge, okay?!

I'm going to try and do it. The BEDA thing. It won't be easy, I know that much, but I can try, right? And I know I'm late... so it's BAEDA - Blog Almost Every Day in April. If I manage to blog every day from now up to the end of April, I will consider BAEDA achieved (:

So, first episode of Doctor Who was on last night. It was absolutely fantastic; really enjoyable, really amusing, really interesting. Matt Smith and Karen Gillan are amazing - and that's saying something, because I haven't properly liked a sidekick since Rose (Martha was too "meh", and Catherine Tate (Donna) can't act to save her life). AND Matt Smith had big shoes to fill, because David Tennant was THE Doctor. Everyone loved him. Although I don't think Matt Smith will be better than David Tennant, I do think he will be close. Yes, yes I do have a high opinion of Mr. Matt Smith.

In honour of the new series, I rewatched the first episode on BBC iPlayer and I managed to get plenty of stills. And, alas, a series of icons were born! It's pretty basic stuff, but I kind of like them :3


They didn't take me very long, I'll admit. Just very basic stuff. But they're the best icons I've ever made, so I'm not complaining! Haha. Karen Gillan's eyes are really amazing. If you get the chance, watch 'The Eleventh Hour' on BBC iPlayer and pause it when she widens her eyes. They're fantastic!



I think that's all I've got to say today. Hm... Yeah, I think that's it.

Keep blogging, peoples.
Over and out.
Steph (: