All right, so as previously mentioned, I went on a trip to Vietnam in November. Looking at it now, I feel like we really didn't do much touristy stuff, overall. XD; Maybe... Just not to the same extent as when we went to China or Japan. I suppose it's more like, we didn't do a lot of sightseeing -- we certainly did a lot of walking and shopping, and that is pretty touristy but not exactly exciting to retell. ;D

Since I didn't take my computer, I took handwritten notes for this: the super extreme special edition belated TRAVELOG! Now with hyperlinks!

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On the next episode: Leaving Hanoi for Hoi An, and the onset of the rain. o_o

Ganked this from joey112. I wanna see all you writers out there give this a go! XD





(I tried it against 3 different blocks of text for consistency... got Dan Brown twice and James Fenimore Cooper once, so I guess I'm fairly firm in the Dan Brown category. ;D If I could sell books like that... I don't mind a bit!)

Whee, gardening's been taking up a lot of my weekend time lately, as expected this time of year, I suppose! And unlike the past couple of years, it's not raining every weekend in such a way as to prevent getting work done.

Today I bring roses, and a curious guest.

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Eeep. Over three weeks later, finally sitting down to write about the Muse concert. I do rather wish I'd done this sooner, but I had a guest at home immediately after, who maaay not have appreciated me spending a couple of hours typing ;D And, work has been heavily to moderately insane, so there hasn't been much opportunity to work on it there, either.

I also wanted to have my pics (what few were acceptable XD) done in conjunction with this entry, but I've got even less time to work on pictures than on LJ entries. XD;; Sigh. I want a return to pre-February sanity levels. :(

But at any rate... whatever thoughts I can pull together from that awesome night. XD

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Sigh, and maybe this weekend, since there will be no BPAL to work on, I can actually take pictures! Imagine that!

I'M AT A MUSE CONCERT BITCHES!!

More later. XD

Allrighty, full filtering is in effect -- if you haven't yet, please let me know what filters you'd like to be on if you want to continue seeing posts ^^

Ironically enough, after doing all of that, I'm probably not going to be posting much this week ;D Time (and *space*... my table's covered with stuff) that would usually be spent taking pics is being sucked away to work on a Project that has to be done by next Monday, so yeh. Hopefully I'll have something to show on Monday ;) If not, I failed. :(

(Whee, just bought extra icons for this account so I can have some, y'know, non-doll icons ¬_¬ should work on those...)

Yo. ;D

All right -- I'm finally going to undertake some of that journal-merging and filter-nonsense, soooo now's the time when I want to know what filters you all would like to be on, if any!

• Unfiltered (public) entries -- probably just stuff like (non-doll-related) memes and general announcements. (Although if people really HATE looking at memes.. say something, they could be filtered too ^^; )
  
  doll filter -- um, clearly, doll stuff ;D Photos, concept development and the like.
  
  
• fandom filter -- for if I decide to have a long ramble about a CD, a game, a book, or whatever.
  
  
• personal filter -- tales from true life! :o Travelogs, rants about work, stuff like that.

Please comment to tell me what filter(s) you'd like to be on! It won't hurt my feelings if you don't want to be on some of them ;) And if you'd like to flee entirely, feel free ;D After..I dunno, a month? I plan to delete all non-respondents from my flist, so... even if you're a lurker, if you want to stay, speak up ^^; In the meantime, I'm applying the filters to old entries, starting from the oldest first, so if things seem to disappear on ya, that's why XD;

Hmm, I did finish up my Lantern Festival pics, and hopefully I'll post them sooner than later. XD; But this meme looked interesting so it comes first. ;D

Ganked from the_impassive!
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On a different note entirely. XD;

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Whee, Monday. o_o

Hmm, couple of things...

Firstly, general sort of request: does anyone have good recommendations for commission-able faceup artists, specifically for fairly natural styles? :3 I'm gonna do a bit of browsing myself (once I'm somewhere where I can see pictures.. *grumble*), but if people have great testimonials and stuff, well. XD I'd like to have someone in mind if I manage to get a Migi-Ryu head, and hopefully sooner than later, I *do* intend to get Allistair's open-eyed head done up. ¬_¬

Secondly, I've been considering dropping my highly neglected personal journal, and going full-filters on this one. It will probably take me a while to get used to having to pick a security level every time I post something, but it will save me from cross-posting and having to continually log in and out. ¬_¬

Not asking for "plz put me on this filter" requests -- YET -- but I am pondering the scope of filtering all old entries....

Journal entries: 482

T_T

Somehow I doubt it, but is it at all possible to mass-filter posts? ~_~;

Hmm, quite late with this, but better late than never, I suppose. XD;

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Happy birthday today to the_impassive! XD



On a really random wtf fangirl note... I just sold my other spare SD sword.. to Mercedes Lackey. O_______O I had NO IDEA she was on DoA. I remember hearing vaguely that she had gotten into BJDs, but... gah! XD ::flails::

....

::flails some more::

Happy birthday tomorrow to thekittybox and nohbahdee! XD

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Random #1: recently at Michael's, I've found a cool new line of "fashion add-ons" like iron-on patches, charms for jewelry and the like. Some of the patches are great for dolls as well -- I've got one for Mara I need to make a shirt for -- and a couple of the charms provided me with things I've been wanting for a while now. I had to restrain myself from buying a ridiculous amount of the damn things. The brand of these items? Hilary Duff. I shit you not. If I'm remembering correctly, I also have Barbie clothes from her design line, too. If you (or your dolls) like feminine soft-punk looks, it may be up your alley. :p

Random #2: I've complained before that a good chunk of Asian dolly websites are blocked from here -- but of course, I usually only view the English sites... It looks like, for several sites, I CAN view their Korean websites, just not the English ones. oO Like, I can see dollmore.com but not dollmore.net, and dreamofdoll.com is the same way -- I have to select the Korean site at the top page. Some are just all blocked regardless (like Luts and LeeKeworld.. sigh), but it's interesting that the companies host their different-language sites on entirely different servers.. oO

Happy birthday to dubious_volute!

(So many birthdays this month! XD)

Tossed a few things on evilBay, if anyone is interested in a kimono or some manga ;P

Volks NY Dolpa kimono for SD13 boys

Kare Kano English manga -- vol 1-21 (entire set) :D

Ayashi no Ceres ("Ceres: Celestial Legend") English manga -- vol 1-6

As threatened, the "How Well Do You Know Your Character" meme ;) Tagged by angelmecha!

1. Pick one of your characters
2. List 50 facts about the character
3. If you can thing of 50 or more random facts about your character then that proves you know them well
4. Tag a friend or another character

Somewhat stuck between Devin and Andey. Hmm...

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I have returned ;P Looks like I'm <60 posts behind on my flist, not bad, haha. XD But I've got some kind of moronic "team-building" crap to do at work tomorrow, which means I won't be at my office, so seems like I will be even further delayed in catching up. ~_~ Sorry if I don't comment on stuff. ;_;

But I did get to the Saturday doll meet at Otakon, saw Order of the Phoenix, and read HP7? (I am now spoiler-proof! haha!) ::falls over:: Catch up with you all soon ;P

Hrm... you know, I was going to mumble and grumble about UPS yesterday -- I wish Volks would let us choose Priority, especially for small packages -- but I held back, since my stuff wasn't scheduled to arrive until today.

Well, it's today and no stuff. D:< The box came out for delivery today, but the tracking doesn't say that it was delivered or failed to deliver, and there's no "HAY WE MISSED U" notice anywhere (they're not supposed to do that anyway, we waive all signatures)... maybe truck driver is just really running late.... rar.

In happier news, Sanctuary p. III is finally done. T_T;; Excerpt for your reading pleasure ;D

"I am going to strangle you," he whispered as they walked down the hall to their room.

"If you must, but I've a few other places I'd prefer your hands besides my throat," Andelis retorted with a wicked grin, knowing he already had the tiefling off-balance.

Amadeo, his face growing hot behind his concealing mask, had no reply.

Whee, a post of miscellany ;D

1. I will be attending Otakon this weekend, whee XD Haven't heard anything about it from most of you -- anyone going? ;) I've had one request on the DoA meetup thread to bring Daniel, and that seems reasonable, so he'll probably be the one to come along (unless people ask to see others, but I doubt it... I'm a non-entity on DoA these days, haha). But yeah, I'll probably be scarce on the weekend and into next week, since vvalentine is coming to visit post-con. XD

2. Partly because of #1, and I doubt I need to say this on the flist, but, please to not be spoiling HP7, thanks ;D I probly won't get to start reading until like.. next Thursday ;D Ruins my streak of frantic-Saturday-receipt-and-speedread, d'oh ;D

3. Re: this poll, damn, I'm a bit surprised to see Mara on top (bahahaha). XD That does lead to some fun ideas, but, I think I want to go ahead and make Andey's own jewelry set, and do a shoot of him and blue-elf-boy and Amadeo as the lucky bastard with both of them ;)

Siiiiigh.