*feels loved*
y'know, i just chatted with blove and john (not to be confused with my roommate, jon) and it was super nice. i still have friends - even if we aren't gaming. :)
i guess i'm a much more sensitive person, b/c john picked up on the obsessive-ness of our DM too, and his response is "life happens". DM is just a bit too control freakish on the gaming front. now that i know that, maybe i'll be able to join back up in a bit. don't let it bother me. if i've gotta do something or be somewhere or whatnot, that's just the way it is. don't be too serious.
i mean, there is serious stuff in life, but game is definitely not one of them :)
on completely unrelated notes, i have been making myself icons! because it turns out you get 15 of 'em when you have the advertisement version of LJ. i gave into that for my mood theme, but i might as well squeeze it for all it's worth. i looked around for other's icons for a bit, but man O_O;; people are insane with icons. i mean, really... how much time do you spend doing something like this?? so, yes, i figured out how to animate my icons, but that only took ten minutes. i admit i spent hours looking at firefly screenshots, but hey, i stopped. it's gotta end eventually... right? i mean, you can only have so many icons... but i suppose such is important to people. in my opinion, if you think you need a specific icon for a specific type of post, that's OK, but limiting it to about 15 seems reasonable, rather than the hundreds i've seen people post.
next on the list of random things that have scared me recently, the lucy warehouse sale. :O i have never seen so many people in so small a space and 99.8% of them women (not counting the babies. oh the babies, and the strollers, and the babies ejected from their strollers in favor of holding clothing). it was honestly terrifying, and i had to just walk around for a while breathing to ensure my continuing sanity. of course, my hope in humanity is still forever crushed - if we can't learn to respect the fact that hours of manpower went into organizing all those clothes, shoes, etc. and thus it would be nice to keep them organized, especially for the next person looking, then how will we ever learn to respect other people? i think that a man's worth can not only be shown in how he treats others, but also how he treats things.
on the plus side, i've got a new pair of comfy shoes, 4 new shirts, a pair of fleece lined pants (score! been looking for new ones since i outgrew my last pair, at least 4 yrs ago), a skirt, and a dress. all for under $100, but still enough money to make me feel guilty for spending it on clothes. as a result, i'm determined to get rid of more of my clothing (also since i couldn't close my shirt drawer yesterday). i find i often buy things that i just know i shouldn't, but i go against my better judgment because they're cheap (and usually from goodwill or target, on sale). the upshot of this being that i actually got 5 shirts, and one of them is for rah_bop if she'll wear it. i got one for myself as well, because i'm a dork and i thought it would be cool for us to have matching shirts (i must have been having a 70's moment... in retrospect this is kind of an embarrassing notion).
anyway, that's what i've been up to. and making more friendship bread. we have three loaves at the moment, because i just couldn't think of 4 people to give the starter to. so i made more bread instead :)
i also finally kicked my ass into sewing the few steps needed for jtsquish's coat. i don't know why, but about three weeks ago i was oh, 2 hours from finishing it, and decided to not touch it. and couldn't motivate myself to do anything for it until a couple days ago. now it's just the hem & cuff hem/lining. maybe a couple of hours while watching tv? not much. and the weather is still cold, so hopefully he's still be able to use it. but snow?! you weather forecasters must be silly. snow in portland in march... i sincerely hope not.
i guess i'm a much more sensitive person, b/c john picked up on the obsessive-ness of our DM too, and his response is "life happens". DM is just a bit too control freakish on the gaming front. now that i know that, maybe i'll be able to join back up in a bit. don't let it bother me. if i've gotta do something or be somewhere or whatnot, that's just the way it is. don't be too serious.
i mean, there is serious stuff in life, but game is definitely not one of them :)
on completely unrelated notes, i have been making myself icons! because it turns out you get 15 of 'em when you have the advertisement version of LJ. i gave into that for my mood theme, but i might as well squeeze it for all it's worth. i looked around for other's icons for a bit, but man O_O;; people are insane with icons. i mean, really... how much time do you spend doing something like this?? so, yes, i figured out how to animate my icons, but that only took ten minutes. i admit i spent hours looking at firefly screenshots, but hey, i stopped. it's gotta end eventually... right? i mean, you can only have so many icons... but i suppose such is important to people. in my opinion, if you think you need a specific icon for a specific type of post, that's OK, but limiting it to about 15 seems reasonable, rather than the hundreds i've seen people post.
next on the list of random things that have scared me recently, the lucy warehouse sale. :O i have never seen so many people in so small a space and 99.8% of them women (not counting the babies. oh the babies, and the strollers, and the babies ejected from their strollers in favor of holding clothing). it was honestly terrifying, and i had to just walk around for a while breathing to ensure my continuing sanity. of course, my hope in humanity is still forever crushed - if we can't learn to respect the fact that hours of manpower went into organizing all those clothes, shoes, etc. and thus it would be nice to keep them organized, especially for the next person looking, then how will we ever learn to respect other people? i think that a man's worth can not only be shown in how he treats others, but also how he treats things.
on the plus side, i've got a new pair of comfy shoes, 4 new shirts, a pair of fleece lined pants (score! been looking for new ones since i outgrew my last pair, at least 4 yrs ago), a skirt, and a dress. all for under $100, but still enough money to make me feel guilty for spending it on clothes. as a result, i'm determined to get rid of more of my clothing (also since i couldn't close my shirt drawer yesterday). i find i often buy things that i just know i shouldn't, but i go against my better judgment because they're cheap (and usually from goodwill or target, on sale). the upshot of this being that i actually got 5 shirts, and one of them is for rah_bop if she'll wear it. i got one for myself as well, because i'm a dork and i thought it would be cool for us to have matching shirts (i must have been having a 70's moment... in retrospect this is kind of an embarrassing notion).
anyway, that's what i've been up to. and making more friendship bread. we have three loaves at the moment, because i just couldn't think of 4 people to give the starter to. so i made more bread instead :)
i also finally kicked my ass into sewing the few steps needed for jtsquish's coat. i don't know why, but about three weeks ago i was oh, 2 hours from finishing it, and decided to not touch it. and couldn't motivate myself to do anything for it until a couple days ago. now it's just the hem & cuff hem/lining. maybe a couple of hours while watching tv? not much. and the weather is still cold, so hopefully he's still be able to use it. but snow?! you weather forecasters must be silly. snow in portland in march... i sincerely hope not.