First time ever actual shaped image.

Hopefully it's not total suck, going to bed now.

( It was worth a shot! )

Wahoo! Not only did I survive camping, I also managed to photoshop up another picture today.

My experience camping kind of-- okay, it pretty much sucked and it tuckered me out.

There were bugs everywhere, I spent most of my time in the tent with my little sister playing The World Ends With You.

Hiking was a blast, it didn't even feel like it was part of the camping trip. I saw a rattlesnake and a dear with her foal...

Oh, and there were a whole bunch of lizards sunbathing on the hiking trail; I felt sorry for them, if someone careless walked by they could get stepped on.

I couldn't believe that while I was enjoying the only hike I had time for before last Saturday my cousins were uh... Backcountry hiking.

Very sweet of my uncle to decide he was going to toughen them up, it made me twitch when I heard about it.

My little cousins rushed over to where my family was camped at like, six o'clock in the morning every morning.

They tried to get me to leave the tent, but I refused to leave.

Despite my efforts to put a wall between myself and the bugs one bit me in the back of the neck. Itchy and scratchy.

My dad was the one who took a whole bunch of bug bites, my mom got one on her forehead, and my little sister didn't get any.

One night the friggin' tent sounded like it was being attacked by a friggin' bear... It turned out a raccoon was hunting for trashcans and couldn't make up his mind if he wanted to walk past the tent or scout the area.

The ride up to the campground and back was not very fun, the sleeping bags piled up on the seat next to me decided to attack me.

Eventually I got my sister to switch seats with me when we got to a gas station, then she had to deal with the attacking sleeping bags.

My mom packed the car like we were moving to another planet, I was like, "Where are we going again? I thought the ride was only an hour and a half!"

I'm so glad I made it back home safely, now I can appreciate my small, humble abode temporarily.

( Looks like an upside down, abstract heart? )

Extreme Soccer! Extreme Basketball! Extreme Baseball! Extreme Track! Extreme Eating! Extreme Power Napping! EX-TREME!!! Sorry, you probably screamed when you saw this on your Friend's Page, "Since when was I friends with this noob?!"

...So I'm going camping, and I'm really excited. Not. Three, possibly even four, days with my uncles and my cousins will give me heck. Watch me come back as mad as a rampaging bull, ready to mow over anything that annoys me in the slightest.

I have a plan, though, that's what the 'extreme's were about. I'm going to get as much friggin' exercise out of this camping trip as humanly possible, I'll tucker out my little cousin and he will want to nap. There. That takes care of my problem.

Going camping with family translates as Bubbles towering over a group of kids, despite being a shorty, babysitting them in the middle of the wilderness. They put me in charge of making sure the little monsters don't go running off cliffs or diving into rivers.

I'm going to have armfuls of work, I have to keep the children from getting bored. Now, I know what you're thinking, "How can it be so hard? They're kids." You are SO wrong! These kids have been raised by technology, they are completely addicted to it.

As soon as we get there they'll probably wanna go home to their Wii. They will also complain that they don't have any air conditioning to keep them cool-- Nevermind, I can't really blame them, it's going to be hot out there. Another thing not to look forward to.

Hot and humid, being stuck with a plastic dome for shelter, being away from people I want to be with... There's a lot for me to vent about right now. My uncles are really annoying, I can't have intelligent conversations with them because they. Are. Monkeys.

Chances are I'll fight with my little sister and my dad over the littlest things, like how long the stove has been on or how much water we should be using. It's going to be insane at that campground. Worst of all, I'm going to miss out on the fireworks for the 4th of July.

Oh shoot, this is my longest entry about me and my life in a long time... Uh, thanks for 'listening' to me bitching if you read it? It's always nice to have some sort of support from people in dark times like these.

I haven't answered one of these in ages because I haven't had to or thought to.

This one managed to catch my eye, I didn't even answer it on my first livejournal entry.

I joined LiveJournal on a whim, for years I'd heard about it, though.

Until last year I had no interest in joining, what interested me was being able to post my thoughts and fanfiction on a nicer place than my Gaia journal.

Sorry if that offended anyone, but you're kidding me, right, Gaia?

"Customize header and colors"? That's it? Another reason why Gaia is a forum site-ma-bobber. Eheh.

I would hate to get rusty at using PhotoShop, so I whipped up this image really fast.

No tutorials or anything, but I know I haven't forgotten how to use the eraser and the brush.

This month a bunch of people have been returning to town and all of a sudden family wants to get together again.

Usually I'd get on the computer before bed or breakfast or something, but I've been totally exhausted.

Slowing down for a while feels really good...

( It's graphic time again! )

Sales make people buy the craziest things, many boxes of cookies at fifty cents each for example.

I finally managed to get the photo I took of the beacon of gluttony itself onto my computer.

This picture is old, cookie mountain has long since been chipped away.

You suddenly feel this random generosity after you realize you can't eat this many cookies by yourself.

Here it is, and be warned... It has a very Holidays-y feel against the green of my countertop.

Flustered and frustrated equals flustrated, I spent the whole day until now, the middle of the night cleaning.

We're having a guest over tomorrow, or should I say today at noon?

The only nice thing about cleaning was in the midst of my allergic reaction to dust and pain from my back I managed to find theme songs for a character.

System Of A Down and a zombie roleplay, I think it works.

On another roleplay I'm waiting for people to post and it's killing me. Remind me not to join as many ADV. Literate roleplays, the problem is they never start.

The awesome posts you look forward to don't actually happen and you have a whole bunch of people asking the thread creator what to post from first to last paragraph.

Where has the creativity and my sanity gone? Cleaning is making me feel really OCD...

I think I've been going to Borders too much lately. Seriously, feels like I have been spending whole, blissful days at Borders.

My gosh, if I were in California and if it were a twenty-four hour store I'd probably be living there.

The 100 Themes challenge is still on! I'm working on a songfic about Zexion and Deux having a conversation...

As friends. Ha. I don't like pairing up my OCs with Canons, it makes me feel blah if I'm the only person writing.

Strange, I know, because I don't mind at all if it's a roleplay or someone else is writing about them.

It's taking me a while to write this songfic because I'm doing it like this:

Single line of lyrics here!

Paragraph.

Paragraph.

Single line of lyrics here!

Paragraph.

Paragraph.

That would be how I'm "Making History" and no, I'm not using O Shot by The Gay Blades for the fic. Hehe.

In the past I had a whole verse of lyrics in-between a single paragraph, much lazier about songfics than I am now.

My little sister and I started watching Katekyo Hitman Reborn! last night and we lost track of the time. Pretty crazy.

I'd definitely recommend KHR 'cause the fights are short so far and the characters are quirky, right now we're on episode fifteen.

Ah! I'm going to an amusement park on the fifteenth on an exciting note!

Hehe, I found this on Meme Express today.

( Collect them all! )

The themes are by darkversuslight on deviantART and I'm using them under the conditions they can be posted anywhere as long as I mention where the idea is from.

I hope that darkversuslight somehow finds these since it didn't feel right to join the deviantart community just to post that I'm taking the challenge.

This challenge of hers is from all the way back in 2007, but the point is I need something to write and I haven't figured out LJ challenges yet.

Quick note for anyone else who might be interested, these themes can be written in any way, shape, or form.

( 100 Themes Challenge )

This is actually my first time using the Magnetic Lasso tool, believe it or not. I know, I know, most people use it a lot, but I guess I'm not 'most people'. For a while I had no idea what I was doing, I kept selecting what I didn't want to use brushes all over.

I got to put outlined text on something for the first time ever, too! Even though I'm not pro at PhotoShop I'm all proud of myself. I did two new things today, yay me? Using PhotoShop tutorials is awesome. Maybe I'll start linking the tutorials I use.

( Hopefully this is win... )

Another request for help with graphics! This time I guess I'm doing a thread. I'm scared, but a little bit excited.

Being in charge of a whole thread's graphics feels a lot like watching the next "scariest zombie movie ever".

It's pretty awesome, and I'm going to do my best!

Hehe, I tried out Aethereality's Wired Photography Brushset.

( I try as hard as I can... )

Resized it and tried a little something else, so now it won't sink my post's ship.

I almost regret not saving all of the other stuff I came up with before settling for what I've got.

The artistic process is a funny thing, I went through all sorts of craziness trying to get this image how I wanted it.

First I went crazy with brushes and they conflicted with the sparkles like crazy, then I tried to shape the image into some kind of feather, after that my goal was a dragon scale...

The shapes took too much of a chunk out of the background and I couldn't find the right brush to make the picture look better. I tried even more stuff, but those are the ones that stuck out in my mind.

( Postworthy Is Like Seaworthy )

I've been messing around with PhotoShop a lot these days.

Browsing for new stuff to do is always fun, especially since I managed to join another roleplay.

There goes my roleplay 'till Summer. Maybe that's a good thing, though, it gives me a chance to keep working on getting better at photoshopping stuff.

It also means I can work on it longer, I want to make sure the plot is solid enough for it not to die because no one has anything to do or they don't know what to do.

My gosh, and there's also working on profile applications. I've seen so many awesome ones lately I'm going to strive for that same awesomeness!

Just like I'm supposed to be striving for a better grade in Algebra. Oh boy. Luckily, I've been up to date with my homework lately, so I seem to be doing all right.

I'm not completely done with this picture yet, but I like it how it is right now enough to post it just like this. Later on I'm going to make into some sort of shape, add text, and maybe use some brushes.

PhotoShop is amazing, Edward's got nothing on its sparkles.

( Sparkly vampires? Pssht. )

Recently discovered I had PhotoShop, now I'm trying to get better at it.

I was helping someone with graphics because they didn't have a paint program, soo...

They requested some brushes, which happened to be Abstract Brushes. I have never used those.

So far I've just been basically whoring the regular brushes and trying to get something nice out of them.

The Abstract Brushes were a step, I had to look at a tutorial and everything to get them to glow. They're fun.

If you haven't tried them yet, you definitely should!

( The Artz )

That baby tooth should've been lost forever ago. The bastard.

Looks like I'm getting it, spawn of the devil, pulled and the tooth growing in somewhere over my gums pushed down.

The orthodontist described it as hurting like it hurts when you burn your mouth.

I'm not looking forward to whenever my parents pay a huge sum of money to cause me pain.

Something always manages to hurt me, shots, illness, and now getting a tooth pulled.

The root or the gum or something is also going to be drilled, they're piling on the pain.

You are a very lucky person if you haven't had to go through an expensive, probably painful dental procedure.

I am not a happy camper about real life today.

The rest of the day after my appointment, which was early in the morning, was a blur.

When I got home I collapsed on my bed, fell asleep, woke up and played me some Digimon Dusk.

Started a new section of my crazy huge, top secret profile due on the 2nd of April.

Now I'm here, on LiveJournal, checking up on some communities and journals.

I think I'm gonna go back to bed now. Maybe work on the proffie some more.

Had a dental appointment today, it was intense. Weirdly, I always liked dental appointments.

Turns out I have one baby tooth left in my mouth. Surprise, surprise.

My teeth grew in late, so there's that last baby tooth hanging in there.

I'm relieved to say I don't have any cavities, that's something I can be kind of proud of.

Do not get yourself deadlines for anything but school.

Profile due April 2nd is burned into the back of my retinas.

Okay, so I'm not worried, there's just so much to do.

I need to get it in there or else I won't have a chance at the role I want.

Good news, it's looking promising since the other person's not done, either.

Bad news, I need to type a biography and seven sections on a profile.

The later should be okay, the biography's going to be a killer.

Worst thing about that? I've got it all in my head, jumbled up, itching to be typed.

Have you ever thought about what the Kingdom Hearts characters would be called if they were superheroes?

Real, live superheroes, not characters in a video game.

I have not, but I looked at some fanart at Deviantart and found...

Axel - Flaming Pussy - He's wearing purple cat ears and he's shirtless. Pussy's numero uno meaning is a cat, this entry is appropriate for all ages! If you're really, really young and know pussy's second meaning that is so not my fault. Someone needs to take it up with your parents, you've been doing bad things on your free days. His weapon is a Chicken Canon, you have to look it up.

Zexion - Stereotypical Crossdresser in a School Uniform - Self-explanatory. Godzilla needs to attack me and super emo needs to save me.

Xemnas - Hell Nurse - He didn't approve the Chicken Canon, neither did Zexion.

Noticed that I spelled 'hearts' "harts", but I'm going to leave it like that.

In other news, that profile I'm working on is slowly coming together. At the same time I'm working on small, quick two paragraph plus profiles for other roleplays. I should be swamped by now, but I'm on Spring Break.