Saturday, April 30, 2011

"Nu Thang"

For anyone wanting some giggles, especially people who are creeped out by Jesus freaks...
You HAVE to see this.
This was posted on Regretsy.com last night, and I laughed so hard.


But then I was reading the comments, and someone recommended turning on the captions.
There are no official captions, but YouTube offers an experimental speech-recognition transcription service.
Let me tell you... at 2am, there was nothing more hilarious that reading the horrible machine-transcribed lyrics to this little kid's rap. I managed to wake up half the house with my laughter, and possibly creeped out my boyfriend.

For your viewing pleasure, I've typed out the computer-transcribed lyrics for all of you to enjoy... since really, this can be way too painful to watch in its entirety.

Nu Thang

Bracing girl, so learned, she says Christ is still one,
Who gives says newline and he's doing, and you think for...

Goes down Phil, and they're back!
You know is down at out of town actor,
You know I was going to, who's doing it?
Distillate under that! You know we've started, now who's doing it!
United's Valentine Day finds that he's doing.
Since time began remained este faithful omitted,
To reason why I think that a crystallized earth unaffected,
Eighteen, anymore five dot doesn't change,
But also tab Paul began to talk back...
You know dot but so much and I left the supply,
Do you still in had used bank.
On slip-up went to London into capitivity,
Doing at noon, our news at we're doing it,
So he can use it dot.
This means gap coming throughout my complexes housing,
It is soft today keeping fine footage of women,
And you know crisis is a wonderful kids!
First in your heart, uninstalled carnarvon,
Though I don't do we spot manufacturing of agony.
Lofty might just matched up to the develop soft,
Dot he's still alive!
And I won't stop week in Lebanon!
Thank you Gene Saks, grad night auctions do it,
And in fact no on newsday.
We do in any inspections so he, Kaelin, using it of off.
Opening apple folks' opiate, depart!
Oh union or pH, going to get out, we've still ahead!
Who's doing it days ago, and I know bank you know restored,
It gal who's doing it!
That is done and their baggage, it always done that goes down under,
Yet we still have to have a right on that flight is gone,
And at that Mackenzie unhittable counterclockwise Joey,
Is a top Somalia proud of the gas tax because they keep widow.
He got no braces every year for Michael Plant,
Species of both G-7.
Feeling blocked off, menagerie nominate,
But you've got to go to a tiny fraction, Townsville!
And news bad, time not so...
We do and then Eugene Pack Dot is doing it,
And it does the high view,
And we do in the news that Phil, he K!

-END-

Productivity Week - Day 5

Time to write up Friday's little accomplishments and whatnot.

Friday morning we left the house at around 8:30am to drop my sister off at school, and then drove to pick up Jon. Needless to say, I was absolutely thrilled to be able to see him. Even though we're apart for only 4 days, it sometimes feels like an eternity.
When we got home I showed him my new work and began the glazing process. Unfortunately my glaze is starting to get excessively thick, so I thought adding some water would remedy it. Well, it turns out that things don't work like that, and though it did make the glaze thinner, it dulled the shininess of the glaze.
I had to glaze it all over again to make the glazed surface uniform in sheen, but all three are finished and ready to photograph/upload.

I didn't really do anything else the whole day... I could go on and on and talk about how we watched The Biggest Loser with my family, how hilarious it is to watch Jon play Mortal Kombat, and the horrible customer service both eBay and Etsy have, but I'm much too lazy and those subjects would probably be much too boring.

Until next time...

The Funny and the Scaly

Got some screencaps today, Productivity Week Day 5 entry tomorrow... (or today because it's past midnight here.)

Oh, Swagbucks... :P Got this as my captcha when searching about the "Toasty!" guy from Mortal Kombat. Jon has been playing it on the flatscreen in our basement, and once in a while this guy pops out of the corner saying "TOASTYYY!" in a womanly voice. 

See what I mean? (Warning, there is a spray of blood. But seriously, it's a GAME.)

Happy colorful grendels! I started a new feral run after my norn run reached Generation 140.

Wow, that's a lot of color variation! Unfortunately my purple ones died, and still no sign of a blue one... but hey, almost have a full rainbow.


Friday, April 29, 2011

Productivity Week - Day 4

Day 4 is over, and I'm feeling better than ever.
I could have never imagined what a sense of well-being could be achieved just by... well, achieving things!

I started out my day pretty oddly. I somehow woke up at 7:30am and couldn't for the life of me fall back asleep. My body was aching and I felt like I absolutely needed to just leap out of bed and start my morning.
Needless to say, that's what I did.
To be completely truthful, I have no idea what I did this morning. Maybe my brain is just fuzzy from it being late at the moment...
From what I DO remember, I kind of just messed around with Creatures 3, chatted with Jon through Steam, and tried to clear some space on my hard drive. (Apparently World of Warcraft won't run if you have less than 7GB free. Weird.)

Being the optimist when it comes to gaming, I decided to try out the new dungeon again.
I had a 15 minute wait time in the dungeon queue, which is nothing compared to the pre-patch wait times. (50 minutes waiting to play, oooh boy!)
All seems to be going great as we hack and slash some trolls, but once we get to the first boss encounter, we realize there's a problem.
See, the first boss is a troll adorned in vestments that look like an eagle. He's able to summon the powers of the eagle god, which allows him to control a bunch of eagles to do his bidding, and lets him create violent lightning storms. In other words, when you engage him in combat, you get divebombed by dozens of brown eagles, one of your teammates will get picked up carried around by a giant albino eagle (with very pointy talons), and then there's the occasional deadly storm.
We were doing great until it was storm time. During the storm summoning, he'll lift one teammate into the air as a "lightning rod" to draw the storm's power to the surrounding area. If you aren't directly below the hapless floating teammate, you're going to get fried.
Our healer and another team member failed miserably and got roasted... not once, but TWICE. This led to the rest of the group not getting any heals, leading to lots of dead bodies around a happy eagle man.
After the second wipe, the tank and another member bailed. I followed suit.

So I tried again.
11 minute queue this time, which was quite refreshing.
We die no more than once on particular bosses, but the first boss fell like cake to a fat kid.
Some people go, some people come... by the last boss, the only original members were me and the healer.
I might also mention that I had lost every loot roll to that damn healer, who didn't even NEED it as a healer. He just wanted it for his damage-dealing set. Me on the other hand... I play a hunter. All I can DO is deal damage, therefore I should have had first priority. That's proper WoW etiquette right there, and when you do win at least 2 rolls, you usually pass the third so the the other person gets something. Nope.
But I was willing to let that slide. WE WERE AT THE END!
We jumped into the battle, and unfortunately we wiped. We tried again and...
DISCONNECTED.
We all log back in swearing and cursing, and I just shut off World of Warcraft and storm upstairs with my tray of polymer clay.

So here's where the productivity actually begins.
I was really bummed that I had wasted nearly 3 hours in that darn dungeon, but I had tons of clay before me.
IT WAS TIME TO CREATE!
So I decided that today was the day where I'd finally try working on a larger scale. No little quarter-sized charms. I'm talking 3 inch tall figurines!
...okay, that's still quite small, I know. But you have no idea how much easier it was!
I really ended up enjoying myself, and it amazed me how much more detailed I could make my work.
When working on a small scale, it's easy to accidentally squish or deform the clay you're trying to shape. A perfect circle can easily become flat-sided with just a small amount of force.
When working on a bit of a larger scale, the clay is thicker, leading to less mess-ups. You can also attach parts a lot more easily since you don't have to worry about squishing something else in the process.
I ended up making a strange little quail popping out of a half-eggshell, a lily with two leaves that I want to turn into a pin, and a strange rooster.
I was overjoyed with the amount of artistic liberty working on a larger scale gave me, and immediately popped them in the oven the moment I was done making them.

Even better... while I was working, I got a phone call from the person who had posted the job listing for the part-time nanny job.
He told me that the position was already filled since it was posted more than a week ago. He had, however, read my email and noticed that I live in the same town, and that proximity was of high importance. If things with the person who currently holds the position don't work out, he said he would definitely give me a call.
So, I didn't get the job... but I am basically next in line if anything goes wrong.
And who knows? Maybe the nanny can't show up one day, and they need somebody on short notice... it could happen, and I could work for the day!

So today, progress has definitely been made.
I have a faint hope of getting a nanny job, and I made some interesting clay pieces!
They're currently sitting upstairs unglazed, but that'll change tomorrow.
Best of all, though... Tomorrow Jon comes for the weekend!!!

That's all for now! Time for sleep, at last...

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Productivity Week - Progress by Day 3

A quick update on the progress I've made this week... so far, at least!

Things I've done:
- Glaze clay items
- Look at Craigslist to find some possible jobs
- Make a resume
- Apply to 2 jobs
- Photograph new clay items and Jon's LOST DVD sets
- Post LOST DVD sets on Ebay
- Post clay items on Etsy
- Upload birthday photos to Picasa and Facebook for relatives

Things I still want/have to do:
- Go through old notebooks to find drawings to edit on the computer
- Try to make sprites for a plant for Creatures 3
- Try making larger clay pieces
- Make something for next month's April's Army charity sale
- Post my daily progress on this blog! DERP!
- Try drawing on paper again
- Hook up tablet and try drawing on the computer again
- Read a book