Hey ho! It's my birthday! Yay! And it's Egypt Week on Discovery Channel! Yay!

Anyway, this has to be fast coz someone, "has to use the computer, go on the Net, very important." Gah. It's supposed to be my day and it's turned out to be more about her than me. F***ing bitch. But enough about her and how she destroyed my happy mood. Wish she'd just stay away today of all days. Then my day would have been perfect.

As per usual, there was cake and ice cream. Hmm, I sense some Rushkin in me today. No guests, another usual occurence. Gods, I haven't had a birthday party since I turned... 12, I think.

Hmm, I guess there were a few guests, my brothers, my nephews... hehehe I suppose I could have invited some other people from the neighborhood but I didn't. I don't really feel like socializing with them today of all days. They're just not... today-is-my-birthday people, I guess.

So, thanks to all who greeted me! hehehe When I get off my lazy ass and find something to do, I promise I'll treat you, ne? Just don't hold your breath.

I won't be able to go online today, I'm afraid. Sorry.

*sigh*

Ironing. What a chore.

But then again, I seem to find the darned thing... calming. It could have something to do with having a veritable weapon in your hand -- that thing is hot and can burn! -- and it could be the monotonous actions of going over a piece of fabric in the same motion.

The one thing I don't agree with it is the sweating, as I never seem to recognize the fact that I'm sweating until after I've ironed everything. Weird.

I really should have done this yesterday but I got side-tracked with my drawings. Cleaned them up nice and all, and then I had to go back to the originals and tweak with them a bit. So now I have to re-scan them. And clean them up again. Then maybe I can get to the coloring part. I dunno about the shading and highlighting part; I'm still iffy on that aspect, but I'm working on it.

Anyway, chatted a bit with someone for all intents and purposed I thought had forgotten me. hehehe Seems he hadn't. Hello Sunny! Ah well, he was doing something else so I let him be. I did have something else to do as well at the same time.

Crikey.

Hey, I can go out tomorrow... erh, later today... bears thinking about it anyway.

Dangnabit! It's bleeding sore!

Erh, my right pinky finger, that is, coz I've just spent the past three or so hours cleaning up the drawing I just scanned. *sigh* I knew I shouldn't have scanned that James/Anna pic just yet, coz when I looked at it, I saw some more improvements I could make tomorrow... erh, later today.

Anyway, this is what happens when one is being OC and anal about cleaning up the damned image. But it was nice ^__^

*sweatdrop*

I thought I lost the whole thing... hehehe So I guess this means that the flickr thing stays at A.C.I.D.E.R. It's not that bad, I guess, but since I was considering putting in an album (sort of) there in my gallery... Ah well, time to scrap that plan and move on to Plan B.

Now if only I had one at the moment...

Anyway, updated A.C.I.D.E.R. so there are actually links to the collages and wallpapers that I've made in the Picture Gallery. And the poetry section is also up.

Life-wise... nah, how come I don't feel my age?

Maybe it's just the fact that my birthday is coming up in a few days... I don' t know... According to some, I should be freaking out coz I'm nearing the big 3-0 in a few years but I don't feel that. Most times when people ask my age, I have to do some mental math to figure out my age myself. Is that weird or not?

Is it also weird that I don't want to be here, at home, on the big day? I want to go away. I actually have an idea of where I want to go but I don't know if I'm going to be welcome there. Anyway, worse comes to worse, I can always go up North for the weekend hehehe Makes me wish I'd stayed in touch with Ricky and see if he's home and willing and able to stand my company. But I haven't and I have no idea where he is, so there.

I finished (sort of) the James and Anna pic that I've been working on. At least I think it's as finished as I can make it in pencil. I have no desire to ink it, however. I'll just scan it and play with the colors in photoshop.

And I've also finished a sketch of a young girl that I saw in my magazine. All in one sitting! I am so proud of myself. Heck, the kid was cute in her ad photo so I thought I'd draw her. No evil hair strands though.

Gah, those things are evil! Hair strands! Do I really have to draw them? Well, yeah coz they give definition to the hair, but I can get majorly OC and anal about them so I have to relax and not obsess about them too much.

I hope.