I Found the Construction Paper

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Horse Sh*t and I Fight the Blues

Yesterday morning was grey and overcast. It had rained the previous night and they sky was still packed with low-flying clouds. <sarcasm>As foretold by the weather,</sarcasm> I was feeling happy and adventurous. I went outside to open the gate (in my long coat, I should add) and found....

A pile of horse crap.

Yes, a horse had come along and took a dump outside our gate just that morning. I, in my stupidly cheerful mood, immediately saw the benefits in having a pile of horse poop (fertilizer for plants! =D ) and came back with a trowel. The pile was huge and the trowel was small, but I got most of it. I moved back and forth, dumping the green-brown lumps in the flowerbed between the roses. I waved to passerby, grinning like a monkey on crack* the whole time. When I got most of them, I came inside and was stopped by the stares of Dad and Holly.

"I found horse poop!" I explained excitedly. "It's aging in the flowerbed."

"Yeah, we saw." Said Holly, trying to keep her face blank and failing spectacularly. "We wondered what we were doing out there... I asked your Dad 'Is she playing with horse shit?' We watched some more and realized you were...."

"Yup!" I said proudly and marched into the bathroom to wash my hands.

<song>I got a pile of horse poop... Oh you gotta see! I think we should spread it round the yard, oh just you and me...</song>

*I just thought of that analogy and I'm mighty proud of it. =]


PS!! As soon as I get a mobile, I'm gonna get a Twitter account. O__O

Six-String Samurai

I just watched Six-String Samurai. Shockingly, it was actually quite good! It's about a nerdy-lookin guy with a katana,  a guitar, and the determination to replace King Elvis in Lost Vegas. Oh, and he has a tag-along kid. Together they travel across the Nevada desert, fight an underground cult, and come face to face with the personification of death! (Who, by the way, looks a bit like Slash.)

The WHOLE movie is free on youtube. =)

Textbook Betrayal

I scribbled this down today and realized halfway through that it wasn't just about textbooks. I thought that it was interesting enough to put on my blog, so here ya go! =)

Just like that moment when, purely out of the blue, your dry, dependable Saxon Math testbook makes an error, telling you perhaps that 6x7=45. Your heart stops and you stare at the lie, the ugly mark of untruth glaring out at you under the guise of seriousness. You want to believe that it's true, but you soon realize that isn't an option. You want to correct it with your highlight pen, but you've been instructed to not mark The Book, as it isn't yours and never will be. So instead you flip to the next page and try to forget all about the small (yet world-shattering) printing mistake. You try, yet it nags at you the whole time. You imagine thousands of other people coming upon the same mistake and feeling the same sense of horror and disappointment. Or worse, maybe they'll believe it. You keep working out of the book, but not with that same trust. You keep looking for more more lies printed in serious black ink on the other pages and when you do find more, maybe you'll leave that book entirely and find yourself a different one.

Apparently, Longcoats Cure Ipovlopsychophobia!

Dude. Okay. So.....

I'm being a Genderbent!10th Doctor for Halloween.

Yes, I know I don't have the hair to really pull it off. I'm using the 'genderbent' thing as an excuse.

No, I am NOT too old to go trick-or-treating. I need hidden stores of chocolate to keep me sane(ish).

Anyhoo,

I'm almost done with the sonic screwdriver (actually a telekinetic x-acto blade). All I need to do is to finish varnishing it. =)

Here're the pics I took while making it! =)

Mint condition!

This could stand to be....
Just a wee bit more sonic.

Sterile paper? Check. Scalpel/X-Acto Blade? Check. Ninclowns? Nowhere in sight.
The optimal moment. Let the cutting commence...

Cut it up a bit, revealing the metal beneath.
Used electrical tape for the stripes near the end.
Couldn't find the superglue, so I affixed the button using hot glue....
Didn't really work and ended up falling off. Have to do something about that.
The hot glue worked to keep the rubber pieces from slipping, though. =)

More electrical tape! =D

Ready to be painted!

Several coats of silver acrylic paint later...

This is tons of layers of electrical tape with squares cut out of it.
Then I added more strips on either end of the holes.
...I FEEL NO SHAME.

Ladder-like contraption stuck to the tip.
(Taken before I decided to cut the square holes.)

Head-on POV of tip.

Like watching paint dry...

Frakk yeah.

BOOYA!!
To make it glow, I'm gonna cut the end of a blue glowstick and put it in the (detachable) tip.
TIP! I tried putting glowstick chemicals directly in the tip (I mean without the plastic glowstick cover)
and it got on the outside and melted the paint... Fail.
I repainted it though, and the glowstick end shouldn't leak because its' other end is sealed.
(I'll still plug the end, though.)

....Yes, I DID coffee today! =D

Oh! And my Mom and I went coat shopping at some thrift stores! At long last, we found this at the Goodwill for $5.99! (BTW, the Goodwill in Ventura has the best, most well-priced, variety-filled bookshelf EVER. You have Wrath of Khan and.... Other.... Less.... Nerdy.... Books.... There. Yeah, I paid no attention to the others.=P )

Anyhoo. I tried it on today and, amazingly, it fit perfectly! I've always wanted a longcoat.... AND NOW I HAVE ONE. O____O

...It even comes with a detachable hood! o^^o

.....Peace out, my fellow Whovians. =j

Blogging + Astrology

I've been noticing that I've still been getting lots of views through a pic I included in these posts.
I'm feeling greedy today, so I thought I'd throw a bone to all you internet browsers out there and boost up my own views... Bwahahahahh. X}
Tadaaa! =D

Sherlock: A Game of Shadows

I've been on a Sherlock kick of late (as I'm quite sure you've all noticed) and I have to wait until January for the newest Sherlock episode <sniffle/> so I decided to watch Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. My oh my.
This movie was so horribly great, I'm not really sure where to start. It was also one of the more gay things I have ever seen that's technically all subtext. I'd classify it under text myself, but hey. So... Watson's marriage. Watch Sherlock's face during the whole thing. Come back once you've watched it. I'll wait. =)


See? How is this not text?? Look at his face... He looks like he's gonna cry...
Not enough to convince you? I can fix that... TRAIN SCENE!

Part 2
Part 3
BAM.
Come back once you've watched it.

No words... There are just no words to express just how awesome this scene was. And in case you didn't know, the whole 'smoking after sleeping with someone' is a widely used trope. Why? I have no idea. Still though. It stands. Everyone who made this movie clearly supports Johnlock. O__O

Reichenbach Fall

I JUST finished watching Sherlock, Reichenbach Fall.
Oh god, oh god, oh god.

There's nothing I can say to sum up any of what I just watched without giving out massive spoilers... And those of you who have watched it already know why.

Wholly crap. John is gonna kill him next season. <attempted smile/>

Two Really Awesome Things

Six-Stringed Samurai? Awesome. The whole movie?? We gots that too. =D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrNBYQ6Vow

Uber weird British glam-rock on a spaceship? Hell yes. [WARNING! Probably not safe for work.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYNYb30nxU

"Conductor of light?" Johnlock Fans, Rejoice!

Dude. Okay. So.... I watched Sherlock a couple of weeks ago..... Here's the script of my favorite part. Unfortunately, I could only find the beginning of the scene off youtube, but not the rest. Bugger. ]=[

Sherlock: Listen, what I said before, John, I meant it. I don't have friends. I've just got one.
[beat. John walks away.]
Sherlock: John? John! You are amazing, you are fantastic! 
John: Yes, alright, don't overdo it. 
Sherlock: You'll never be the most luminous of people, but as a conductor of light, you're unbeatable! 
John: Cheers. What? 
Sherlock: Some people who aren't geniuses have an amazing ability to stimulate it in others. 
John: Hang on, you were saying sorry a minute ago, don't spoil it. Go on, what have I done that's so bloody stimulating?



It seems as though this is the best confession of love we get from Sherlock for the season.... Although I haven't seen episode 3 yet. FINGERS ARE CROSSED AND BLEEDING. O______O
So... Um... Yeah. Sherlock just said that he is his conductor of light and genius. Coming from Sherlock, he's just said that John is the Sun to him (Even though he's still in denial about the Earth revolving around it). =}

Bashed Up Toe, Wacchu Done To Me??

[WARNING! PICTURES OF BASHED UP TOE TO FOLLOW. If you no like, please find a different post to read in the archives on the right.]
I cut my toe at the beach!!
I was running along and I didn't see the jagged rock hidden in the watery sand... It doesn't hurt, but it is annoying... My back only just healed, and now my left toe has been pulverized...
Aside from the toe bashing, it was quite fun! Yugiohkid and his family came with us and we checked out the tide pools. We harassed sea anemones and starfish, and I even got to hold sea slugs! One of them was easily 7" long. =D

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Putchi-KAHH!

A couple of days ago, while closing the door to the drier, I heard myself say "Putchikah!" This funny noise felt completely natural to me, and I'm absolutely sure that I say it all the time, but I've never actually thought about it. At all.
So it was a surprise to really hear myself say this thing for the first time. It made me wonder a bit. Where did it come from? I've never heard anyone else say it. When did I start using it? It felt like I always have been. What other weird things do I say that I've never noticed? Suddenly, I feel like parts of my mind have been hidden from me... What else do I know?
Best of all, now I notice whenever I say it.... It averages to about once every two days, more when I'm in a good mood (and it's usually accompanied by jazzhands). It seems to be my weird, self-satisfied version of 'Tadaa!'
Heh, now you'll all notice when I say it. Resisting the urge to intentionally drive you crazy.....