Thank you guys for your addresses so far!

And encase all of ya'll missed it: Click this link to be taken to the post where I'm asking to exchange Christmas cards with new LJ peeps and Peeps who might have sent me their addresses via email or IM's. (I lose those. I've got everyone's from 2008 & 2009 who replied here at live journal though.)

NaNoWriMo Update
Yesterday I had 13,000 there abouts still. Since Christmas is coming I've been padding up Triond and trying to earn a little $ of course, so I joined a new pay-to-write site and ended up doing a review for Star Wars Galaxies.

No one had written one!

So...I have used that review to pad my word count LMAO.

ALSO I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC ALLLL DAY YAY! CHRISTMAS!

And so I close with something I haven't done in a while but you should know me for, by now.

A Random Mel List Update Stuff:

My pink cell phone's screen, when flipped open either comes up like a television that's on with no cable (a dark black screen that gives off a little bit of light,) or it works SO LONG AS I DON'T TOUCH ANY BUTTONS LOLOLOLOL. Shawn's phone started randomly shutting off a few months ago.

Called AT&T, not only were we able to replace BOTH of our phones for super cheap, because we're getting refurbished phones--we were able to afford upgrading our account. Not only do I have unlimited text? I now have unlimited information transfer. That means NO LIMITS ON: IM's, Email check & send, Pictures & videos. YAY.

Shawn and I are getting LG Vu's. We know they aren't the iphone. We can't afford the ipod, and compared with our phones which were made in the stone age AND they're completely touch-screen I am PRETTY BESIDE MYSELF ABOUT OUR PHONES RIGHT NOW OKAY? OKAY YAY.

Our old California King bed sheets, purchased thankfully by Grandma for Christmas three years ago just...started unraveling four or five months ago. Shawn, the gentlemen that he is, has been sleeping on a GIANT GAPING SHEET HOLE for the entire time. Recently we were able to scrounge up enough money and snatch a really GREAT deal on a full set of cotton, satin finish, 800 thread count california king with matching pillow cases. OH MY GOD THESE SHEETS ARE SOFTER THAN THE TEARS OF THE BEBE JESUS. And strong. And LOUD, loud as in if you sigh with too much force all the sheets rustle BUT I DON'T CARE I'M SLEEPING ON JESUS TEARS.

Despite doing good on the money front bills and things We Should Do But Cost Money still keep coming. Shawn says I need to hurry up and take over the world with cute clay things already.

I'm thinking about taking down digitally drawn art commissions. I'm just coming to the conclusion that I don't draw as well as I make disgustingly cute things out of clay.

I joined Helium today.

My lists are always too long!

I'm sorry for spamming my Etsy shop stuff, but I figured you guys'd want to see me embarrass myself.


Last night I tried some really small painting details. Since I don't have a tiny, tiny brush, I had to use the end of an eye pin. I think they turned out really well, and I am going to make myself a pair soon too, probably going to be WTF and STFU for me tho' xD

And hellsyeah, they're for sale: LOLOMG earrings @ elffu.etsy.com

THIS ENTRY IS RANDOM

I made another tin-box critter, a pink bunny and a pair of apple & worm earrings as well as a fire flower.

The fire flower looks like whomever made it has the onset of palsy :/

I swear, if I had a steady hand the shit I could do.

I have pictures, but the card reader in my computer isn't cooperating. I'd use Shawns, but he's uploading windows 7 which we pre-ordered before the lawyer bill (:p smart geeks, geek smart!) and got a steal of a deal on. So I have to wait and you do too.

BECAUSE I KNOW YOU GUYS AREN'T TIRED OF CLAY YET RIGHT? RIGHT. RIGHT?

In other news, since my self imposed internet hiatus--it's interesting to find out who remembers you and who you remember! GASP. WAS THAT A DIG OR A SARCASTIC COMMENT OR SOMETHING ELSE? DUN DUN DUN.

I went out onto the back porch on my way in searching for a leaf. I was gonna try and see if I could do some sort of press-thing with clay and get away with making pretty leaf earrings when I noticed a big, fat, Georgie*. He was just sitting there, probably the length of my middle finger eye balling me up like I might be dinner. So I reach down and try and scoop him into my hands.

We play I-chase-you-flail-about-having-a-fit and eventually I am able to cup my hands around him gently and trap him. I scoop him up in my triumph and lift him up. "Aha!" I crowed, happily, brought my hands up to my face and opened them just a little bit to peek in at my captured lizard friend.

Who then flew at my face as if my hands were far more horrifiying.

Surprised as I was, I froze stupidly for several seconds while this itty bitty lizard clung from my nose and lower lip--no doubt just as startled as I was. When I was able to rouse some sort of response (which I think sounded a lot like, "whhhhrrrrrwhhwhhhwhrrrr?!") I hopped about a second from foot to foot. This seemed to awaken my swaying, lizard friend and he flung himself from my face to my boobs.

Admittedly, it's a good place to be, but my brain responsible for reacting to creepy crawlies didn't like this much either and made me jerk my hands upward and sweep him off my shirt. He landed, safely, to the concrete porch below and scuttled off while I in a daze, hurried into the house.

An hour later and nearly recovered from my lizard encounter, I was on my way to the fridge to rummage for Raven's canned food. Feeling that odd, almost ghost-finger brush up and down my spine that meant someone's watching me, I turned my head to peer out the french doors in our kitchen leading to the porch. For a moment, I wasn't sure what it was entirely until by pure accident, my eyes fell to a dot lurking below the bench on the porch.

The dot was a lizard.

Staring his beady little eyes into the glare of kitchen french door glass, patiently waiting, waiting...waiting for his moment of vengeance against his earlier capture.

I write this in hopes a record of me remains; beware the lizard and the chasing there of.

P.S:

How the fuck are you guys?

*Brown Anole literally have taken over Florida. They're on every surface on every wall, sunning themselves everywhere. I lovez them.

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the cat box
Rock the cat box
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the cat box
Rock the cat box

Now that I have made that song play over and over and over in your head forever and ever, here's what I made out of polymer clay last night which took pretty much the entire night because I'm a goober:




ALSO WOW SURPRISE IT'S FOR SALE IN MY ETSY SHOP! :D

If you want the cat box, want the cat box, you can get it here: Blue Cat Box by elffu on Etsy

Today, I got both my bank cards in the mail. I settled down with my pink card (for the monies I spend a portion is donated in return to Breast Cancer awareness) & my flowery shared bank account card and dialed the number to activate them.

And that's when my brain decided to flat line, I guess.

You’re only supposed to read the last four digits—and here I was reading THE WHOLE NUMBER. And every time I did of course, the automated voice doohickey was like, “LOL, WTF, sorry, I didn’t understand you BECAUSE YOU’RE STUPID.” So I kept reading off my whole number, probably four or five more times and the automated program kept saying it couldn’t understand, so I just got so frustrated I punched in my WHOLE number.

Mashing my fingers on the phone keys to enter the entire number amazingly worked. There was a long pause, as if even the program was busy snickering at the idiot punching in her whole card number, and then I got the--“THANKS DUMB ASS, your card is now activated!”

Luckily, with the shared account card (the flowers) I realized I just had to read off the LAST FOUR DIGITS.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

WHAT IS THIS MAGIC SORCERY THIS BANK BUSINESS WHAT ?!!11oneoneonety!11!?

Yesterday was another day mixed with win and fail. For the first time, I tried a small, tiny chibi. Sephiroth to be exact and failed utterly. The hair looks awful and I just can't work details in with something that small.

I did make three pair of heart & cuppycake earrings that, while the bottom doesn't look too cuppycake=ey, turned out really well.

I then made a Chain Chomp, a Goomba, a set of coffee cup with whip cream topping earrings & matching larger cup to be a necklace piece someday, and Mario Question block earrings.

The Goomba & the question block earrings look awful. Now that I've made them however, I'm aware of the work involved and will have to practice with tooth picks or some other very fine tip to paint. I just can't use my tiny spotter brush for it.

The Chain Chomp was fun and different. I think I will also try and make more. \

No. I'm not showing you mentally handicapped Sephiroth. It's too embarrassing.

We'd been able to scrimp and save enough apparently, that Shawn surprised me at the beginning of the week with $30. He said I could save it, spend it, or do as I want with it.

:3 I wanted to save it but...I've wanted to do something more with myself and my hands every since he took me to Micheal's, (craft store).

I've always loved the little polymer clay earrings and charms and wanted to make them. Well with the $30 + a sale on almost everything, I was able to walk out with 12 colors of clay, earrings and eye pins.

All the tutorials told me to start simple. So I did!

Soon, he will give in to the dark side.

<3 I have the bestest friends.

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