Load of "Princess Tutu" fanart.

This series is just continually feeding my inspiration. Even though quite a bit of it ends up being kind of crack-ish.

You can find it here:  Plushies, Morning Promenades, Crack Spoofs, and Kitteh-snuggles

Now that I go all that artsy stuff out of my system, maybe I should see if my writer's block is gone yet.

Well...tomorrow. It's almost four in the morning already.

Been working on these all day. Rooted through 2000+ Screenshots and spent time choosing for each colorbar. Anyway, it's my first try at a batch of colorbars. Hope they're alright. ^^;

Special thanks to julseykit for the coding and roseice for helping me get it to work! :D Really appreciate the help!

I hate this week. Hate it.

The week preceeding the 4th of July.

Record sales week at work, because they'll sell pizza freaking everywhere within the next few days. At events, at the fireworks...

Bleh.

Basically this week my workload is the biggest of the whole year.

This year will probably be worse than last, since the new girl who works on my days off just started yesterday. She doesn't know the ropes that well yet and is really slow at getting things done. So naturally, they won't give her much to do.

And of course, it doesn't help that we ran out of flour on Saturday. I could only make one batch of dough on Sunday this week, and that took almost every last drop of flour left. They should have gotten more flour in yesterday, but Sysco probably comes too late for Rachel to have had to worry about it, so she probably had no dough to do on Monday.

Dammit. I hope the temperature goes down a little, at least. I don't want to get heatstroke like I nearly did last summer. They need some more powerful fans inside there or something. As it is, I take breaks for a couple minutes just to stand in the freezer. >_>

Okay, rant complete. Wanted to get that out of my system before I face the dread that starts tomorrow.

I shall do my best! Um, yeah. XD;

Two more Acts of PT to screenshot (12 and 13) and I can get started on those colorbars. <3 And then more icons and other stuff. And I want to get around to starting the second chapter of Distorted Reflections ZOMG ANGST tonight, too. I got the outline done on Sunday but then got to icon-making... >_> I must not have a very good or long attention span when I have a lot of things to do.

Buuuuut, that's okay. As long as I am enjoying myself. ^^ I can re-adapt myself to the lifestyle I had at the beginning of this year.

I spent all night on this, and I am happy with it. XD

Princess Tutu fanart~ :3 Actually, I did the sketch for this quite awhile ago, along with about 5 others, but just now got around to coloring it. XD;

Fakir/Ahiru-ness. I adore this couple. Opposites attract. <3 And bicker and fight like an old married couple. XD

Really tried to make this look like the anime style, too. And first time drawing them in their uniforms.

But damn, it was fun. Got to work on that chibi one next...and Mytho-bunny and Rue sketch after that...

Okay. Sorry to cut you guys over to my journal, but this actually makes it easier for me to keep track of all these icons and stuff.

Huge icon post. Really. None are animated this time, but this is the first of an big train of icon posts I'll be doing. This one contains icons of the four main characters. Lot of Mytho, Rue, and MythoxRue this time as well, and some F/A, of course (Basically I'm going through every Act and taking screenshots >_> I have over a thousand so far and I've still got about 6-7 Acts left to screenshot).

77 icons in all. Quite a few contain spoilers for Act 26. You have been warned.

Teasers:

Ouran High School Host Club = CRACK

But god damn, laughing is just what I needed.

*roflmao*

The Hitachiin twins, Hikaru and Kaoru, are the best thing ever. And Honey-chan is just so freaking adorable.

Watching that put me in a good mood, even though the weather is unbearably hot and humid.

Now if only episode 11 would download a little faster...

Quick update before sleep. Might as well talk to myself.

Mom is back home. She had a good time out on the west coast.

Now that Papa got his refund check from the federal government, he's looking for plane tickets so he and I can go out to see my sister, Chris, and their two small children. I'm not looking forward to spending tons of money on a ticket, but I am looking forward to seeing them.

Turns out the person I'm training into dough and cheese prepping for Monday and Tuesdays is actually someone I sort of know. Not personally or anything, since she is two years younger than me, I think.  But we both played flute back in high school band. Imagine that.

She likes to talk a lot, which I'm not used to doing, but so far it's going alright. She's catching onto the general way the job works and she seems to like it. Aside from dough-shaping and taking a little more care in measuring, she doesn't have much else she really needs to work on.

Someone on an LJ community taught me how to screenshot correctly, so I was busy trying it out. They take for-freaking-EVER to do, with all the damn frames, but the end results look kinda neat. They play like little movies. XD I wish LJ could handle more than 40k images, though. I have to make the movies small or I can hardly get anything to play without going over the limit. It's time-consuming.

But the more things I have to do, the less I'm going to dwell.

So goody gumdrops and whatnot.

Jeez. I sure stayed up late. >_> It's getting bright out. Must not have been tired by my usual time because of that stupid three hour nap I took today, er...yesterday.

Been thinking about how Wednesday and Thursday this week are going to go. I'm not looking forward to them at all.

Namely because I get to train someone into my job. Yippie skippie. -_-  They sure told me on short notice, too.

Emma is leaving again, so some other random person is going to do Mondays and Tuesdays now.  Eva actually asked if I wanted to work seven days a week, but I turned that down right away. >_> No way in hell do I want to be stuck in there all week long.

What's really funny though is that the person I have to train in has to come in when I do, to get her training done. And that's bright and early. I wonder if she'll even make it in on time.

Ah well. Going to enjoy my weekend while I can, I guess.  I'll have something more interesting to update about, eventually. At least, I hope so.

Oh yeah. And Mom is coming back on Tuesday night, late. Doesn't seem like its been four weeks, but apparently it has. I do miss her a little, though.

And now I'm going to flop down and sleep before I pass out.

Today pretty much just...sucked.

Tylenol just wouldn't kick in this morning before I left for work. And naturally I would end up with more work to do than usual for a Wednesday.

I dared to think what else could go wrong. Not a good thing to ask, even in your head.

One of the wheels fell off the bottom of the metal thing the dough mixing bowl rolls on. So I had to dig out a screwdriver and put the damn thing back on before I could make any freaking dough. And while I'm doing that, there's suddenly pounding coming from the front door. Oh goody, it's the mail man. He asks me to sign for packages for Pizza Works, since magically even though it's almost noon, the boss and his wife are still hiding upstairs or sleeping. I don't even know if I was allowed to sign for those things, but whatever.

So I get back to work and then there's more freaking pounding on the door. This time it's a high-school age boy who's looking to pick up a gift certificate. I tried to tell him that the shop didn't open for another three hours and the kid just wouldn't listen. "Could you just get it for me quick?" Like I'd know anything about it! God. I looked anyway and didn't find anything. What a waste of ten minutes I could have used for getting my workload done.

Get back to work a 3rd time, and then there's someone at the freaking door again! This time it's the water guy. So I have to stop again and hold the doors and stuff so he can take empty water jugs and bring the replacements in.

More time wasted.

Thankfully, that concluded the interuptions, at least. So I got back to work.

The overhead main fan died at some point. I don't know what happened. Maybe they have a switch upstairs and just decided to do that to further annoy me... Okay, most likely not. But it was annoying anyway.

The rest of my work hours were okay, though. And the walk home wasn't too bad since it stopped raining.

I basically slept from when I got home until...shortly afte five o'clock in the evening. I sleep too much lately, but it feels good.

I should get to that sleeping bit shortly. And hope tomorrow looks a little more leniant all around.

Nothing else has changed. Just kind of passing the days now and keeping busy with little things.

Kind of miss having someone to talk to, but I'll get over it.