Redhead Dancing Girl is finally ready for general consumption. There are still a few sections I want to add over the next few days, but in general, it is ready to go, with over twenty new articles, new wallpapers, new quiz questions, and, of course, new icons.

20 X/1999 (Kamui, Karen, Kotori)
10 Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion
05 Code Geass
05 Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
15 Lady Gaga


( ... but no one in this world is beyond the reach of love )
( Run it back with original flavor )

So this is about a month late, but I wanted to post a picture of my birthday cake, because it was pretty cool.

( Not a Cake Wreck )

Holy crap! I might actually have to read this series now. I knew that Karen made an appearance in the story because I read that volume, but I did not expect the awesomeness of this scene! KAREN!!!

I read my mom this article. Now she is in tears and asking me to go to China through her church instead of just finding a job. I guess it's a good idea since it means I will have contacts over there, but... I'm not crazy about her church and I'd rather not be a hypocrite. I don't know.

I'm taking a break from working on my Kasumi Karen site to post a batch of icons. I am hoping to have at least a good chunk of the site done by Sunday and a few more articles done by Wednesday. It is a massive, massive update.

14 Kasumi Karen from X/1999
05 Monou Kotori from X/1999
06 Sora from Kingdom Hearts
05 Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion
10 Miscellaneous from Chronicles of Narnia


( Mother the car is here... )

I'm really tired. Stupid cats woke me up at 4 AM. Still, I got a new layout up at Alexiel.net so that is cool. It features Lady Gaga and will be the first in a series of four layouts influenced by different Lady Gaga songs. Oh, and I have a matching icon too.

In other news, I got a really awesome Birthday present--a new bike! It's really nice and I enjoy being able to ride again. It's weird since I was raised in the country where you could ride down the middle of the road most of the time. Now I have to get accustomed to the laws here, but it is liberating and really good exercise too. I'm really pleased!

Happy Birthday to me.

So the layout for God's Decay is up, but not the site itself. I need to do that with all of the hiatus sites so people will know that they aren't closing. I would appreciate any comments you have about the new layout.

On reflection, I decided to do the same thing with Redhead Dancing Girl. I am actually hoping that you lot will be able to help me with the update. One of the features of the site is a little quiz in which I list a number of anime/manga characters and the view must answer whether they are taken, gay, or both. Well a lot of the people I used are from old 90's anime and I would like to update it a bit. Could you people suggest a few characters and tell me their series and if they are taken, gay, or both? Naturally it has to be a canon relationship or sexual orientation, not just conjecture, otherwise every male character ever could be listed as gay. =) I would really appreciate the help. Thanks.

So it's 2010. It should be an interesting year, if nothing else. I am out of the school system and must enter the work force (again). I view this with a certain level of trepidation and excitement.

In other news, Petal, my Nuala dedication, is finally open. I opened it on December 31st, early evening, in order to make the deadline. It isn't entirely finished, and I would like to get my hands on volume 7, but it's opened with a bit of content. To be honest, I'm going to avoiding adding media to the site like images, wallpapers, and icons. First of all, there aren't a lot of good, big images of her in the work. Second, I'm worried about getting nailed for copyright violation. I know all of my sites violate copyright like there is no tomorrow, but I guess I'm more worried about this site. =( Anyway, I've been planning it forever and it is up. YEAH!

I've also updated the layouts for Hands and Storybook Children. Hands really needs some work (in fact, I just noticed a mistake on the front page) and Storybook Children has always been problematic. I worry though that my layouts are becoming to boring, and, while it isn't a problem in these layouts, I rely on far too much on gray.

I have a new layout for Redhead Dancing Girl and God's Decay, both of which are not presently on line, but both sites need MASSIVE updates before I upload them. Along the way I need to update Wayward Romeo, Ophelia, and Ribbons Undone. Blue Girl is my amassment project and Sugar High should be opened before I go to China. Maybe I'll post a preview or two in the coming days.

Other than that, life is pretty quiet. I watched Dr. Who last night and it was better than I expected, but lacked sufficient Dana. I'm thinking about doing a one-page tribute to her, but we'll see.

Happy New Years everyone! I hope all of you have a great year.

::goes back to watching Twilight Zone::

Here is another thing I hate about Twilight: when I get excited and say "New Years I'm going to enjoy several hours of Twilight Zone," people hear Twilight and think I'm going to watch the movies or read the books.

Holy crap! That was a very intense work of fiction. I thought I was prepared to read it since I've read "The Sandman" and that is pretty dark too, but DAMN! I won't give away any spoilers, but it was really quite amazing. Almost all of the characters are unsympathetic assholes, but the story was so engaging that I could not put it down. I have rented the movie and I will watch it either tonight or tomorrow. I'm sure it will be very different from the book, but I'm still interested in seeing it.

I am presently uploading several of my sites and I hope to have at least half of Alexiel.net back up by tonight. The other half are in desperate need of updates or I was in the process of updating them so they are currently a mess. Several sites will be getting new layouts and new content when I can get to it.

Also, I am working on my Girl Shrine, Petal, featuring Nuala from The Sandman. I want to have that up by Thursday.

Finally, I was wondering if anyone wanted to affiliate with Alexiel.net, now that it is back from the dead. Link exchanges are also cool. I think I have most of my friendlist linked, but if I've missed your site, please let me know.

Well, that is it. Back to work. I'm just glad to have all of this sorted out.

Merry Christmas and everything else. I hope your winter holidays are suitably jolly, delightful, or solemn, whichever suits your lifestyle.

As for me, there has been some family drama around here, but it is, at the moment, overwhelmed by my generally good mood, mostly based on the fact that I have a new computer monitor! On the old one the colors would go blue or red sometimes, making it difficult to design or even read things. This is a plus.

I'll worry about Alexiel.net on Saturday.

Good night and have a wonderful holiday season.

Sigh...

Well, I am officially a college graduate. Yeay.

The bad news is the final grades are in.

Dao De Jing Class: A
Chinese 401: B

I was hoping that I would get an A+ in Dao De Jing class and a B+ or A- in Chinese. =( I still have a 3.80 GPA which means I am Summa Cum Laude, but I wanted to do better than that. Oh well.

I went down to the book store and got everything sorted out. The lady was a complete bitch about it, but I got it sorted. I will graduate on Friday! Hooray!

I hate the ASU Bookstore.

I hate them with the fury of a million suns.

I ordered my cap and gown November 21st. It still has not shipped. Apparently I selected a method of shipment that was not acceptable so they never shipped it. Now my credit card has expired, and there is nothing I can do about it. Orders for caps and gowns ended Friday.

Basically, I probably won't have a cap and gown and I will not be able to attend my graduation.

This was a huge deal for my Mom and now it might be completely ruined.

Alexiel.net is down. I don't know how long it will be down, but it will come back at least in a week or so. My credit card expired and I just got the new one Friday. This means my auto-pay bounced. Also, the site for logging in to pay my bill is being Google blocked. I hate to say it, but I might have to change hosts. =( A.net has been at this host for nearly 7 years, and the one time I did try a new host, it was a huge clusterhump. AHH!

Hm. Tomorrow. 7:30 AM. Final Chinese Final.

Wish me luck!!!

Araina (my 9-year-old cousin who is more like a little sister) has not been going to school because she could not find her uniform. Consequently, she has not been getting her free lunches and she has sores around her mouth from her poor diet.

Her father asked Scott (my step-dad) for a few dollars.

To buy cigarettes.

I'm looking for an article in Chinese to write about for my final and I started looking for something about Harry Potter, but in the process I found an article about Twilight. I wasn't about to take my precious time translating the thing myself, so I ran it through Babel Fish for the LOL's. Here is a translation of a bit of the dialog:

Edward: I since birth to kill people.

Beira: I do not care about.

Edward: I had once killed people.

Beira: That nothing.

Edward: I once wanted to kill you, in my this life have never looked like like this longed for that now drinks your blood.

Beira: I believe you.

Edward: Does not want!

Yeah, that pretty much looks exactly like SMeyer's writing style.