Time to prepare for Holiday cards.
I drew a tiger for New Year's cards (for non-fandom friends) today, because 2010 is the year of tiger in Chinese calendar. I also want to draw King Alfred but in that case I have to do some search about Christmas customs in 9th century Wessex.
...I think I wouldn't make it. ( ETA: ideas )

(This entry is kinda GIP, lest I forget posting on Dec. 1st.)

ETA: You know, it makes you really nostalgic when you see someone's icon whose image is of artists who left fandom sometime ago, isn't it?

A) I'm hated
B) I'm loved
C) I'm all of the above

I couldn't really afford a present. And I am not seeing her this year.

So I made her a card.

( maybe the best birthday card evarr?? )

I think she thought it was awesome. I got an excited babbled text message this morning stating she expects all birthday cards to be like this from now on. Job well done.

Happy Birthday, Nomie. 22 is an awesome age to be :D

xxx

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My first post, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong.

The photo above is linked to a flash gallery on my website that contains about 70 photographs of an abandoned structure here in Italy, just North of Rome. I'm not sure what the building's use was, but it did have a lot of interesting things in it.
The gallery starts with 2 abandoned car shots in there, and then 3 of a road flyover from Rome which shouldn't be there, but I hope no-one is too upset as the following 66 are all in the one abandoned location.
The (Lightroom) gallery is just that, no adverts or even any links into my website itself, it takes 20 seconds or so to load up the pics but then it's pretty quick.

For my next post I'll link the pictures directly in the post, but I don't have time right now, but I thought you might be interested in the pictures as they are.

The camera was a Konica Minolta Dynax 5D with a couple of zooms, and the pics were taken a couple of years ago. I went "artistic" on them in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Thanks for looking, Paul.

Just some quick photos from my adventures in West Virginia the other day...



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Turkey Day was a success!

I learned that if you put a quartered apple in the cavity of a turkey, in a bag, it will get SUPER MOIST while it cooks. Yeah. I had the best turkey ever. Seth and I got ourselves a turkey that we will cook up on Sunday. We like turkey, and it was cheap, so why not? Plus we plan to make a soup with the leftovers.

I made the Tres Leches Pumpkin Pie the morning that we planned to leave. All was well. We packed up and headed east. When we were unpacking at Seth's mom's house, Seth remembered that he left the container of Leche Sauce on the top of the Scoober before we left the house. Yeah, it flew off of the car somewhere between our house and Kimball, Nebraska.

So my pie ended up being "Lower sugar regular-type Pumpkin Pie." It was still tasty, and I received tons of compliments on my crust. Good enough for me!

Seth left early this afternoon to visit his dad and do some farming (raking a field of millet hay with a tractor) so I stayed and watched football with my in-laws. Seth's brother Ross got a dirty thirty of Busch Light, so I tried to go one-for-one with him on beers. It was tough - that feller can drink beers! I even had a 3000 foot elevation advantage (though Ross tried to say that elevation and booze affectation is bullshit) and I just couldn't beat him. He taught me a new drinking game that is about a "Macho Mug" but I doubt I could ever participate.

C'est la vie!

How was your Turkey Time, or Thursday!?

In other news, I spent all day with my sister driving all around San Diego and Riverside. She and Erick finalized a date for the wedding (April 30th! AHHH!) and then we went to Alfred Angelou's to try on dresses. Lissa already has her dress, and after like 2-3 hours, we finally found mine:



We originally found a dress that they really liked, but once Lissa put on her dress and we were standing next to each other, she saw that my dress was way too similar to hers. So we had to start looking all over again and found that one. We're going to add in a halter strap, which adds SO much to it.

But YAY for that being accomplished.


And now I get to pretty much not sleep for the next few days trying to finish one film that's due Tuesday. HUZZAH.

*IS DEAD*

Photographed in a barn at an abandoned citrus packing plant near De Land, Florida.

Maos' forgotten underground city.
Just another nifty thing I found poking on the internet!

Навожу вот контакты с искусственным разумом..

Судя по всему, в Интернете появился новый тренд. Судите сами:)

Если установить на рабочий стол (ссылочка - http://iii.ru/static/iii-widget-nuts-xp32-1.1.exe) - будет напоминать вам о важных делах.

Если завести такую мадам на сайте - с ней можно говорить, учить ее доброму и свтелому. Хотя бы белку научить...:)

Вот она какая

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Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.
And I hope everyone who works in retail, like my husband and friends, freaking survives the experience!

Here is my little fandom bit for Thanksgiving, all I really had time to get out (and even that was at what, 1:00 am *L*)

Title Making Do
Characters Steve and Bucky
Rating G and gen

( Sometimes you have to be creative on the Holidays )

Territory occupied by russian "peacekeepers" and abkhazian separatists in Republic Of Georgia more than 16 years ago .
Since than almost no changes .




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