So I am just completely redoing this post because it was embarrassing how bad it was, past self what were you even-

Hello, friends! I AM TAKING COMMISSIONS!


I will crop/clean the icon for you for $.50, and do redrawing to get rid of obnoxious backgrounds/inconveniently placed speech bubbles, etc. or to add things like scars/LOVELESS EARS/expressions that the character never actually made in the source material that you desperately need for... well, it depends on how much you need me to redraw. I'll say $1-3. Also, I can do all of the above with larger manga art etc. if you, say, want a shiny new desktop image.

ALSO borders are optional! Just making that clear since I put them on all of my own icons.
I am not even going to pretend that I can do backgrounds right now. Super-realistic animals and robots are also pretty much out, but I am totally happy to do Pokemon. Or ponies, for that matter! Gimme all your cartoony big-eyed critters. Also, generally the simpler poses (such as these examples) will be under $10; more complicated poses or multiple characters will bump it up.

If you're interested, please feel free to either drop a comment here or email me at opalinesque at gmail! Thank you 'u'

Today was my first day of vision therapy! I feel rather brain dead and my eyeballs hurt :(

( more eyeball blather goes here )

...Thank you, LJ, for making me believe you had eaten my RP post by posting it to my OOC journal instead. Especially since you somehow did it while I was logged into a different account and then told me you couldn't post it because my password was incorrect.

\O_O/ I don't even know.

However, my continued state of... aliveness is not the point of this post. The point of this post is that I am doing a huge room cleanup, EVERYTHING MUST GO! And in the process of cleaning, I am finding horrible testaments to my teenage years. For history, I am preserving them here before I toss them all into the trash :Db


So far I have found:


( Exhibit A )


Anyway, now you know why I never, ever use "XD" emoticons: they remind me too much of being a dumb teenager 8|b

SO! My super-secret not-realized-until-partway-through-January New Years Resolution this year was to get down to a healthy weight. This is because I have a hormonal disorder that basically doubles as a pre-diabetic syndrome. WHICH HAS ALSO BEEN MAKING ME MISERABLE because side effects include the acne I've been battling for years and manly body hair and oh yeah, making it really hard to lose weight. Which is also another thing that has been kind of making me miserable! Just ask about the time I snapped my bed in half by sitting on it orz

Anyway, I've been slowly eating somewhat more healthily since about this time last year, and starting early January I started making efforts to eat more fruits and veggies/less sweets and processed carbohydrates, I started excercising while I was at work during lunch break... GOOD HEALTHY STUFF.

And then I went shopping yesterday and ended up feeling really bad about myself because nothing I ever like looks good on me. WENT HOME, TOOK SHOWER, did girly facemask and pampering to make myself feel better... and then I got on the WiiFit for like the first time since last year. AND.

I've lost 25 pounds since this time last year. 5 of those pounds have been since early January when I started excercizing and everything.

fuck yes

MY SISTER IS VISITING and we have been having fun and today I got off early from work! SO I WAS GOING TO GO HOME AND SPEND TIME WITH HER and then I got home and slept for four hours while she went ">(" loudly at me. My solution to this was to pretend I would get up in just a minute, I promizzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I AM THE CLASSIEST.

And then we watched Labyrinth and made homemade chai ice cream because there is nothing like delicious creamy goodness and hot manbulge. Or should that be hot manbulge and delicious creamy goodness? CLEARLY I AM STILL THE CLASSIEST.

Making icecream is such a pain though, I like frozen yoghurt better. Maybe I can figure a way to make chai frozen yoghurt that wouldn't involve cooking eggs and specific temperatures when our burners like to go straight to high and refusing to go lower. Or maybe a way that completely skips the cooking. Or maybe I should just mainline the chai. Mmmmm, chai.

IT IS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERONE I DIDN'T TELL ALREADY

Time for the busiest day of the year! HOPEFULLY WORK WILL NOT KILL ME wish me luck, guys 8D;;

I would really rather not die right now as there are Things I want to do when/if I get home. Like being a hippy and making homemade deodorant with BPAL. mmmmm, crafts |) OR EATING THAT CAKE I MADE LAST NIGHT. Guys, whipped cream is my eternal enemy, but I last night I LICKED THE BEATERS OF VICTORY and they were DELICIOUS :Db

ETA: I HAVE HUNG UP ON THE PHONES OF DEFEAT

Now to see if I make it through the rest of the week. ALSO, THIS CAKE IS AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS. AMAZINGLY. DELICIOUS. I may have gained ten pounds eating my tiny victory piece but I could seriously care less, omg. I am such a sucker for evaporated milk :9

I DIDN'T LOSE THE JOB come the 25th I will be gainfully employed again. YAY MONEY! YAY EMPLOYEE DISCOUNTS! YAY HELPING OUT PEOPLE WHO NEED ME! I love my job :'D

Starting to notice and get really annoyed by the fact that I have Issues with threading/picking up in a timely manner (if I pick up at all!) DAMN MY FAR TOO SHORT ATTENTION SPAN. Seriously, if I can beat myself out of this habit I will be super happy.

I need to get off of my butt and play all of my characters, especially abyssgazesback. But that requires drawing more icons for him and I am lazy. ...I should also do that app for him but hnnnnngh nonCFUD apps hnnnnngh ridiculously long canon section hnnnnnngh. The fact that Yume Nikki scares me too much to let me play it doesn't help. Orrrrr the fact that have of the fandom has huge convoluted ideas and theories about what the game is about that they can play off of, while I just kind of sit there going "LOL I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING 8D durf hurf." Maybe I should essay...? BUT I'VE BARELY PLAYED HIM it would feel so weird 8|a

I want to get out of the house more. I've hung out with a couple of friends over the past few weeks and it's like "WOW PEOPLE i forgot people were fun 8D!!!" ...I also have this sneaking suspicion I made an idiot of myself more than once, but that isn't news at all :P I did discover I have a ridiculous love of dumb gossip, which makes me feel kind of dirty. I guess it makes sense, though? I never got to do that kind of thing in high school, so maybe my inner immature teenager just wants to catch up :|a Now that I know about it, at least I can be careful with it.

I burned myself in a heated (HURR HURR) argument with the coffee maker at work today. ALL I WANTED WAS DELICIOUS CHAI TEA SO I WOULDN'T FALL ASLEEP why you gotta do this to me, baby :'( My hand stings like a motherfucker and apparently I have a mild addiction to the smell of... idk I think it's the numbing stuff in the spray? I'VE SMELLED IT BEFORE IN LIKE LIQUID BANDAGE AND WOUND CLEANER it's kind of sweet. Aloe, maybe? Whatever it is I have been huffing that hand on and off all day like the freak I am |D

In other news, I'm on a huge iconning spree. I feel ~*~ARTY~*~ although I can't really tell if most of them are good, since I generally icon plain, silly things and doing the fancypants ~*~LIGHTING EFFECTS~*~ and ~*~BLENDING LAYERS~*~ is completely foreign to me. As are picking which fonts to use and stuff for TEXT ON ICONS it is like a whole new wooooooorld. WE WILL SEE, I GUESS. damn you, vocaloids fandom! I NEVER WANTED TO ICON BEFORE I MET YOU but now I am lost :'( I'm also finally starting to be able to tell what makes a crop good or not! FUCK YEAH SKILLS THAT WILL ACTUALLY BE USEFUL FOR... iconning for CFUD. Oh, self.

Speaking of icons, TakoLuka is officially my soul animal and this is my soul icon. For the very first time, I feel a connection with my default :') THANK YOU, TAKOLUKA!

So the cookie recipe I wrote about in my last post is amazing and versatile and I HAVE SO MANY PLANS FOR IT. It is also HIGHLY DELICIOUS and thus I have had several recipe requests! SO HERE YOU GUYS GO:

( Basic Cakecookie Recipe )

You can do a ton of things with this! My first try used devil's food cake mix and a cup of chocolate chips. Simple and all of them were gone in around a day XD The second batch was a little more complicated:

( S'mores Cakecookies )

And there you go! HAVE FUN BAKING and in the meantime I am going to be scheming about what to do with the 2 boxes of red velvet cake mix we have in the pantry. Mmmmmm :9