This Is How People Deal

With pain.

I don't know if this is true for physical and emotional pain but, psh, je ne se soucier.

1. The "AHHHHHH !@#%" Variety
Most common in women going through labor and those who've been mauled by bears.
And, well, me when I get a paper cut from my constant rereading of ASOUE and HP. Oh, the cuts and scrapes of diehard fandom.

2. The Blow It Off Variety
This variety has three subcategories; is that correct? Can one use the word variety and thereafter use the word subcategories?
Anyway.

a. Cool Guy
To seem "hot", as many a girl would put it, usually for the swooning and thereafter relationship of aforementioned girl.

b. Little Girl 
As the pain that is usually felt by little girls is self inflicted, they blow it off so as to not be rebuked by their mothers who no longer feel any pity; aka me, again.

c. Too Busy To Care
Self explanatory.

3. The, for lack of a better term, Bitch. (Vixen maybe?)
This variety wants everyone else to feel their pain and suffer along with her.
Her. Her. HER. H. E. R.
Incessantly spouts horrid insults to innocent bystanders, also, impatient, irritating, irritable and foul.

4. The Optimist
Similar to the "Blow It Off" variety but not quite.
Similar to Phil from the ASOUE book "The Miserable Mill", so much so that I will just quote Sir Snicket.

"Optimist" is a word which here refers to a person...who thinks pleasant thoughts about nearly everything. For instance, if an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me if I am right-handed or left-handed", but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"

(Not to be a repeater of information but,) - Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

That is all.

Imagine that in the Meryl Streep voice and you're good to go.

Day = Made

From someone I barely talked to in the school from which I transferred from just this year due to my hatred of the... educational system.

It was so strange to get a message from her at all as I was a walllurker

Like so:

and she was part of the non-walllurkers.

Anyway, it was nice, really rather nice.

So, bye.

Yellow Mustard

No, really?
I had no idea jar of mustard in my fridge, no idea.

Anyway.

I went to Hermés - the accent over the e is the wrong way 'round, but as I do not care for fancy high fashion hullaballoo, I will not search for the proper e with the accent on top nor will I learn how to do it - today as my aunt is the manager and we were to watch a movie after her shift.

Oh my.

When I got in I was afraid to walk for fear of tripping and knocking something over something that would cause me to be a homeless person for the rest of my life just to pay off the debt.

I was looking for the prices on the items and the other staff people were looking at me weirdly because, apparently, they don't put the prices on the items so as to not send people running for the hills.

They should call the place a horror house.
A very pretty, fanciful horror house.

With scarves and pens and notebooks and saddles and fancy choooos, as Gloria on Modern Family would pronounce shoes, how I love Modern Family.

Then there was this lady who came in all fancy like and asked for the price of this messenger bag, or something, and the saleslady said, oh 50,000 pesos* (around 1160 dollars) and she was like "oh, good, good."

Then I saw a bag worth a townhouse, A TOWNHOUSE, no not the down payment, the whole enchilada plus some money for electricity.

This was me:

Though my mom would say it's all about perspective.
I used to think 20 pesos was a lot of money because, when I was in first grade, that was all every week.
I always spent it on a snow cone, which didn't really come in a cone so it was more of a snow cup.
I also sometimes wanted a hotdog but as that was 21 bucks, I had to wait for the next week to buy one.

Anyway, besides me not wanting to touch or breathe on anything and my history with snow cones and cups, I went to watch the movie "Arthur" with my aunt and my mom.

It was good, Russell Brand is really quite funny.

That's all, good bye.

A Cannibalistic Town

In the small town of Rim, lived many kinds of people
There were bankers and tailors and men who ran the steeple.
There were butchers and bakers and candlestick makers too
But for the most part, these people, were all just cuckoo.

They ate other people with gusto and glee
And when a small girl found this out she started to flee.
She ran to the hall to the left of king tut
and she ran to the call of a bird in a hut.
She ran and she ran but when she needed to huff,
She found them all there with scary eyes and their muffs.

She raised a white flag and they ate her quite rough,
But sadly they found she wasn't quite enough.
They left her bones there on a coffin-like bed
Believing her to be, quite fully, very dead.

They didn't know that her eyes were still in their sockets
As they walked away, bloody hands in their pockets.
She watched with great sadness as she learned to like being meat
But what could she do then? She hadn't any feet.

So she wept and she wept (She being her eyes.)
When she watched them chase another girl who screamed so very high.
How she hated being first, then put second to the new
But now watch stare and cry was all she could do.

We Are Insignificant

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And That, Dear Children

is why you shouldn't just fish around in a container, that contains sharp open blades, for your hair pin.

I was trying to curl my hair with pencils with some tutorial on youtube but I couldn't quite get the other side of my hair to obey me so I braided it. I ran out of hair ties so I fished around for my pins and BAM, cut.

Hah, I had time to take a picture during my frantic, headless chicken run around the house to look for a band-aid.

I've decided to do a series of lists.

6 Books I Will Never Get Rid Of


1. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler

I don't know how many times I've gone on about this series of delightfully unhappy books, but it still stands as number one on the list so whatever.
I'm not in the target age demographic anymore but it, like A:TLA, is proof that anything can be crazy freaking awesome.

Here are some of my favorite quotes:

"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."

(I had to read this, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid", in the book store, I hadn't any money.)

"The sad truth is that the truth is sad."

"I hope that this package reaches you safely, and that you are safe when it reaches you, and that I will be safe in making sure this package will reach you in safety, in a safe manner, and in a safe."

For Beatrice-
You will always be in my heart,
In my mind,
And in your grave.

For Beatrice-
When we met my life began,
Soon afterward, yours ended.

For Beatrice-
When we were together I felt breathless.
Now you are.

For Beatrice-
Dead women tell no tales,
Sad men write them down.

For Beatrice-
No one could extinguish my love,
or your house.

"I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it aleady does."

2. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Of course.

I think I've read the whole series 6 times, I'm going to go for 7 to align myself with the number of books and horcruxes.

3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

It's really quite brilliant this. I can never explain Paulo Coelho books but I've read a fair few (5?) and they scared the pessimist out of me (for about 5 minutes, after which it crawls right back in.)

4. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

Another unexplainable by Paulo Coelho.

Super cool, you, read, now, yeah?

5. Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Yes, Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot.

It's not going to win any literary awards but it's so cute.

There're 10 books, I think, and they're packed with adorable teenage shallowness that makes for an hour's worth of reading.

6. The Mysterious Benedict Society

Reminiscent of ASOUE, so, why the heck not?

That is all.

A Wee Little Combustion Man

Courtesty of Distant Horizon.

hee hee.

I'm Falling

On innocent church-goers on the stairs due to the lack of food in my belly.

Well, I was, that is, during church a few hours ago.

The moral of the story is:
Unless you want to feel death without the perk that is heaven, don't skip breakfast when you skipped dinner the night before, had spinach noodles for lunch the day before and skipped breakfast altogether that same day before.


It was so embarrassing, sigh.
And I'm still on the verge of blacking out every time I stand despite many efforts to stuff my face.

How I Vector

People have been asking so, as an answer to the people, hur hur, here is the step by step process of how I vector things.

Oh and I use Macromedia Freehand MX most of the time and when it decides to take a vacation, I use Photoshop CS5 (unwillingly, by the way, I would like CS2 back.) which has a completely different process so, again, I share with you, useless information.

Step 1

Decide what you are to vector.
I decided to vector a Magic Mushroom.

Step 2

Make your line art with the pen tool.
I am assuming you know how to use a pen tool.

Step 3

Fill the lines in with whatever color and add a face if you want, except that, here, I forgot to add the mouth.
Ahaha... hah.
Ah, dry laughter, the fuel of my virtual existence.

Step 4

Change the color of the lines to the same color as the color you filled the lines in with.
Hwoo, good luck understanding that on the first pass.

Step 5

Cell shade it, again with the pen tool, and make your revisions.
I make a lot of revisions, as you can plainly see.

I didn't like that it was red because the combination of yellow and red remind me of fast food restaurants and Magic Mushrooms shouldn't remind me of fast food restaurants unless that fast food restaurant was in a shady backwater alley in Hollywood Boulevard.
I also didn't like that I didn't know how to properly shade the skirt thing on the mushroom so I decided to  remove it altogether.

There you have it, the most useless tutorial known to humankind.

Here's the actual non-screen-capped vector by the way.

Goodbye now, I'm going to go sneak a piece of chocolate before I hit the hay.

No, Franziska, don't whip the hay.

Let Us

Give a smashing round of applause to Bianca, the writer of the last post, for writing the last post.

applause.

So, my computer has apparently been stolen by ninjas, how the ninjas escaped the wrath of my kitty, I do not and will not ever know.

I am using my mom's computer and, after this, do not expect another post for about 3 days. Sadly, my computer is still with the ninjas.

If you are curious as to what I've been up to, not that you would be, like I care though, I shall quench your curiosity by saying that I have done pretty much nothing but play Kingdom Hearts: 368/2 Days and Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town all day.
Now that I type this, I wonder why Square Enix and Natsume make their game names so long.

I have no interesting blog ideas at the moment, they are in my school bag which is all the way downstairs I don't want to exert myself at all today.

Bye~