The dark abyss of fandom is staring at me! Make it stop!

Ahh, the internet. You start googling for something innocuous like discussions of Buffy and eventually find yourself in the wierd world of banner ad wars and ljs for fictional characters.

Of course as Cam pointed out I wouldn't find these things if I didn't look.

But yeah, I finally got around to what I've been meaning to do once I finished Buffy, namely reading some of this tasty literary discussion I've been hearing so much about. (Forgetting there'd be Angel spoilers, but never mind) It reminds me that I am a bit of a closet arts student wannabe, though I could never write the essays, I just like reading 'em.

Still. The internet is wierd.

Happy Boxing Day!

I now own enough paintbrushes to last me a lifetime. In fact everyone seems to have gotten me art supplies for christmas/my birthday this year. I now have the aforementioned paintbrushes, more paint, an art book, and the graphics tablet. I also have a artists dummy (which I've always wanted. Just a little one, mind you) and..a scanner! Woohoo! In celebration of which I scanned and coloured a comic I did over a year ago then realised the lines were too thin to "scan" using the digital camera. (It doesn't suit shrinking to blog-suitable sizes)

My least favourite christmas present would have to be the wasp sting I got trying to wake Cam up before we went to my parents. It really hurt! And now its gone all itchy :( Yeah, I'm a big sook.

Off to Cams parents today!

Merry Christmas!

And a happy birthday to Jesus's everywhere! Now get offline and eat some fruit cake.

Since she's presumably opened it now (and if you went online before opening your presents well serves you right(*)) I can say that I got my penfriend Wanda a Klein bottle hat, and so can link to the page. Surely I can't be the only person who wanted a cheap alternative to Acme!

(*)Yes, I did, that's different.

Tales from the MLC

My first multipanel comic since I got my graphics tablet, yay!

So all those people(*) who wanted me to do comics can leave me alone. I even made a special page.

I got sick of never getting myself right in pictures so used a photo to get the proportions, I think quite successfully. This isn't based on any particular incident, but I am prone to "helping" Maths Learning Centre attendees with completely wrong answers. Keeps 'em on their toes I say.

I love my graphics tablet.

Also, Cam has a photoblog!

(*)Really, there's at least one :)

Strawberry tea and bagels

Doing the gallery (Which should be working now!) reminded me of the picture I was determined to put up on my blog as being...Melbourne:

Also I discovered that the truly fantastic strawberry tea Lily got me for christmas tastes even better when you make it with hot apple juice instead of water (with less sugar :)) Mmm....

The gallery is up!

After the last one died a horrible death we now have a nice new gallery (Set up by Cam, of course).

I've added all my photos (apart from a few odds and ends I'm not sure anyone would want to see) but haven't gotten round to a few housekeeping things like giving the albums nice underscore_free names and rotating all the sideays pictures. The photos from my childhood are horribly fuzzy, I'm still waiting for my family to scan them properly. (I'd say "hint hint" but I'm not sure any of them read this :))

...in with the new

Well! I and Cam returned from his operation at around 4:30 to see the builder cleaning up, and once I'd finished getting the invalid all settled in the builder had left. I forgot to take a picture until I was halfway through unpacking our shopping (lots of soup :)), but here we have our kitchen circa 5:30pm ish:

The owners cousin is apparently going to come and do the tiles at some point, I don't see how!

Poor guy (Cam, not the builder) is alseep right now. I hope he doesn't feel too bad when the painkillers wear off!

Out with the old...

First off, sorry for making Planet UCC bold! Should be fixed now.

I and Cam suddenly remembered mid watching of the increasingly crap Buffy that we needed to finish emptying the kitchen. This is how it looked at about 9pm last night:

Andf this is how it looks now, at 9am:

It was kind of cool watching the (anti)builder dissasemble the plywood with a crowbar. He also told me he's removing a tree from our garden, which I don't have a problem with as it happens but it might have been nice to be asked or at least given warning. Oh well.

Bideh ma!

Tommorrow they take our kitchen away :(

As a result I've had to put all ther crap that has accumulated in said kitchen into the houses few nooks and crannies I and Cam haven't filled with other junk.

If you look closely you can see the teapot on the..thingy. Which I and Cam decided is for putting hot teapots on.

I was going to go out today and buy The Return Of The King but my neighbour Khadesha(*) invited me over so I spent the afternoon chatting with her and playing with her absolutely gorgeous toddler Suhaib. I learnt that when I thought he was babbling "bidehbidehbideh" he was actually saying "I want! I want! I want!" in arabic. It was cuter as gurgles :) In order to be able to help babysit I also learnt "ma" (water) and "didai" the meaning of which I'm unclear on but is what you say when a toddler tries to eat things they shouldn't. (ie all the frigging time)

I'm trying not to turn into my mum who is rather aggressively multicultural- every time she meets a "foreign"(**) person she's like "Where are you from? How do you say 'hello'? Isn't it true that in 100 BC during the roman occupation of your country.." and I have feeling they find it a bit scary :) (No offense to mum, mind you, better than being all insular) but it is very interesting discussing cultural differences etc. Including the pain that is being invited to a bbq when none of the meat is halal!

Yes, this post exists to a large extent so I can remind myself of how to say "shufig/shufug" (Lebanese slang for "seeya") next time I see them :P

I and Cam watched Season 6 of Buffy. I can see where all the Spike fangirls come from now :) I also managed to score us copies of the elusive Season 7, from Coles of all places.

(*)I am almost certainly spelling all of this wrong. But hey, its a transliteration anyway :P
(**)Including those who are related to someone who may have, at some point, been to a foreign country.

What is this??

Found while cleaning out our cupboards in anticipation of having the entire kitchen replaced starting Wednesday. (Note that Cam is going in for wisdom teeth surgery on Thursday, fun!) I have included a mini-grater for scale. My grandma gave it to us with a teapot, creamer and sugar bowl. Somewhere to put the spoons maybe?

Yes, I'm bored :)

I went swimming!

Anyone who has tried to get me to even go near a swimming pool will understand the momentousness of my deciding off my own bat to check out Bayswater waves and see if I hated swimming as much as I used to. Which it turns out I don't, so that's nice. I mean I still don't like it very much but might not run away if people invite me to pool parties etc :)

Also I chucked together a new version of a card I drew mum last year since otherwise I'll lose the idea and I quite like it.

The refugees lost their noses in the long journey, ok? I thought about adding a donkey but decided it was too much effor..I mean too obvious.

In case Wanda reads this: I did decide to wear your hat at the hat party. However Cam thinks it suits him better:

Caving in to peer pressure

I have waay too much free time.

Quiz Quiz: Why do I post these things to my blog/lj?
brought to you by Quizilla There! I posted a "meme".

Still, at least I wrote it myself :) It could do with a lot of improvement but I just don't care enough. The idea has ben buzzing around in my head for ages and I needed to get it out. No offense intended to people who do post such things all the time! Blame my muse!