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Be a shopaholic today! :D
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[05 Jul 2008|07:48pm] |
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I may have come up with a foul-proof argument against the RIAA/MPAA in regards to filesharing. It's quite brilliant, and I can't see any holes in it. But I'm not going to say, in case I have to use it. It could probably only be used once for best effect.
On that note, if anyone ever wondered why piracy was so rampant in Australia, let me just point out one little fact to you...
The release date for WALL-E in Australia is the 18th of September, 2008.
It was released in the US on the 27th of June. That's twelve weeks to wait for anyone to legally watch this film in Australia, and there is no real reason for there to be any delay at all, let alone such a long delay. Eleven more weeks of trying to avoid spoilers and hearing people talk about how great it is on the Internet, and when we finally get to watch it the rest of the Internet response with a collective "Old news, that was months ago, didn't you get the memo?"
I want to be a good little consumer and wait until it's out in theatres properly, and I don't want to watch a shakey-cam version. But so help me if a Blu-ray rip appears on the 'net between now and then, don't say I didn't offer to throw money at you to see it sooner while you just gave me the hand, Pixar/Disney.
Until eleven weeks have passed, please, if you have to talk about WALL-E, do it behind a spoiler tag/cut/warning? For the sake of everyone who lives elsewhere (The UK has to wait another two weeks or so until they get it, which is at least more reasonable than a twelve week delay), please consider those in other countries.
Pixar/Disney don't.
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| San Diego Comic Con |
[05 Jul 2008|02:58am] |
The Anime Expo post made me wonder if there were any pullip fans attending Comic Con this year. I'm a San Diego local, and was thinking maybe we could have a mini-meet for those who live in the area, and for those attending Con. Anyone interested?
Here's a little Suzy to sweeten up the post:
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I want to make my default S1 lighter, would I go about that the normal way of recoloring a skintone or would I have to do something extra because it's a default? I have searched and searched for an answer to this online all night with no luck. So I gave in and thought I'd ask here.
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| SALES! |
[05 Jul 2008|11:32am] |
I'm selling all this and I need to sell it fast. I need the money so I'm not taking trades. All prices include international airmail shipping =D. I accept paypal. All payments must be done in euros (although all the prices are also indicated in USD for your reference)
( Dress, Pullip things, Cosmode, Manga! )
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| SALES!!! |
[05 Jul 2008|11:32am] |
I'm selling all this and I need to sell it fast. I need the money so I'm not taking trades. All prices include international airmail shipping =D. I accept paypal. All payments must be done in euros (although all the prices are also indicated in USD for your reference)
( Dress, Pullip things, Cosmode, Manga! )
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| *sigh* I'm a little pissed off |
[05 Jul 2008|02:16am] |
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Pissed is a little bit of an understatement... i felt like I was attacked. I got a write up at work on Thursday. It wasn't a write up of just few miscommunication errors.. it was like it was about who I was as a person. I felt like that if this little stuff was what she was writing me up for... What is she going to write me up for next time. It left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I mean.... I'm sorry if i was snappy... I'm sorry if I was a little PO'ed lately.. i have a lot of stress on my plate and only a week to deal with it all to make everything work and glide like it's supposed to. I have no clue what it is that i am supposed to be doing for everything for this premier. This is my first time planning out something like this... I am not an expert at things that I have never done before.
I feel like I have been shoved out of my element... not by my boss... but by my co-workers. That this whole "Team" aspect that she keeps talking about isn't real. It's more like two teams, and the team i am on is slowly going down hill because I wasn't given the instructions I needed. I feel stupid in my position. I feel like my leadership has been constantly beaten down by the fact that this "new" girl came in and is trying to overrule whatever I say.
By her own admission when she first started she said that she worked for the company close to 3 years. I told her that was about where I was with the company that I was nearing 3 years in September. we smiled and from there I thought we were cool. that we were on the same playing field... but from their all that has really happened is her questioning my leadership and trying to do her stuff a different way than what we normally do.. and I get back when i try to tell her that we don't do it that way is "oh, well this is the way we do it at covington" and keeps going. I hate the fact everyone seems to think that this being her fourth summer means that she has been working for the company for 4 years. it's been four summers not four years. And yet for some odd reason her title is higher than mine. Her four summers is like two actual years of working. compared to my constant close to three years of working.
I feel like I am being pushed aside that now that she is ahead of me that everyone is trying to get me out of the picture because they like her more... it's tuff.. because there is a lot of ways we are a like and I think because we are so a like... that that is the reason why we don't get along as a team. I just want to come home, after working with her, and cry... I used to feel the same way about working with Wendy... But I know the little things and big things that make her Happy or make her upset and I try not to do it.. the only time I am snippy with her is when she pretends to be snippy with me and i pretend to be snippy right on back.
I am truly at the point to were I am ready to quit. I am through with the bullshit. I am through with the fact that i keep trying to change for the company when i should be changing for myself. I love this company to darn much. i know so much back story about it and want to work for it forever... but it doesn't seem possible when the people that are above me would rather not see me working for that company more than two weeks ahead. If I were to quit I would want to make sure I could find a good job first... that whatever I moved into had a real connection with people... a job where i could grow and not be afraid of having other people trying to over me just so they can work their way up. I feel like it's my time to breakaway from the company I am with... that everything I do here is misconstrued and thought to be with the wrong motives in mind. I feel like She can do no wrong and that i can do everything wrong.
Ontop of it all I never re'call saying what the other team members thought It confuses me why i would be saying these things about coworkers that I like. i like my boss. Not once have I said that she has yelled at anyone. She isn't that type of person. i have only HEARD of her yelling once and i still don't know if that was true or not... she is the type of person to get subtly angry but not yell.
With that in mind... i know i need to stop saying "I know" all the time.I need to get more into the habit of saying "okay" or "yes" rather than my default answer. In my head i could be saying one thing but out loud i could be saying something completely different and that is something I definitely have to work on changing.
I love how my boss sends me home on Thursday... saying "we'll look at it this way you have two days to think about how to better respond to us and how to make better choices... Thanks.. my better choice.. schlep through the jobs pages of the paper and Creigslist and see if i can find myself a job that pays me for the amount of work I do.
and if anybody happens to be reading this.
I have experience with:
Art
Art design
Graphic Design
Mural and sculpture design
Graphics Design
Photography touch up and re mastering
Customer Service
Supervisory
Clerical work
Secretarial work
Waitressing
Drama and Theatre
Lights and prop design
Interior design
Fashion Design
Sewing
Beading
Jewelry Design
marketing Jewelry and Reaching new customer bases
Sales Marketing
Slogan writing
Jingles
Party Coordination
My list can go on but this is a long entry and I forgot how to do an LJ cut
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| FINAL REDUCTION! |
[05 Jul 2008|05:20pm] |
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| New little watercolor |
[05 Jul 2008|11:17am] |
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Invisible connections are very special.......
INVISIBLE CONNECTION (click on the picture to go to the auction)
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| Finnally got my refund! |
[05 Jul 2008|04:38am] |
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Earlier posts made on this subject:
http://community.livejournal.com/bad_dolly_deals/2008/04/12/
http://community.livejournal.com/bad_dolly_deals/178141.html
Let's get down to it shall we. I paid for a custom doll by Mia_luvs_namu on Feb. 29th. I waited for sometime for said doll to be delivered to me. Sending numerous PMs and never getting a reply, I filed a claim on April 4, which later I won. I never got my refund since she had no funds in her account. Angry for never recieving my payment I continued to PM her. Half the payment was not mine to begin with. I didn't let it die like some people, and found her on other communites and looked up her email where I kept at it. (this let's futre scammers know I am relentless when it comes to getting a refund lol) Emailing and PMing her numerous times. Finally at the end of June, almost three months after this started, I recived my refund. I have yet to hear the reason to why she never sent the doll nor why she would never respond to my messages and really after such a long time of waiting, I don't care anymore. Just wanted to update the information on the incedent and let you guys know I did recieve my money but I warn you to be very very careful when doing buisness with her.
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| Oh my... |
[05 Jul 2008|06:26pm] |
Today Jarvis somehow managed to take the entire door off one of our kitchen cupboards. o_O
He's becoming such a destructive force in the house these days! lol
He's also been sick the poor little guy. He's got some kind of virus that gave him a fever and a rash but the fever is gone now and he's getting better.
Matt's parents bought him an oil heater for his room to keep it warm at night and it's wonderful! It really helps keep him toasty at night. Before I was having to put up to 4 layers of clothing on him at night! Hopefully it will help him to sleep longer so I don't have to wake up so many times each night. This sickness (particularly when he had the fever) he was waking up every hour at some points in the night. Exhausting!!
He's as cute as ever though, and saying more words by the day. My favourite is still when he says 'no, no, no, no, no!' and shakes his finger. Lately he's also been saying 'bye bye' when he waves sometimes and he even said something that sounded an awful lot like 'thankyou' when I handed him his dummy one day. He also says 'quack quack' whenever he sees his ducky toys which is then followed by his version of a wiggles song where they sing 'quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack-a-doodle-doo' his version is more like 'quack, quack, quack, quack docoo docoo' or similar ...no doubt some of you other mothers on here know the song I mean!
He really loves the wiggles. I put his little baby sized couch in the lounge room and he sits there and watches the dvd and then sometimes stands up to have a little dance.
Jarvis is awesome. :D
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[05 Jul 2008|05:35pm] |
So, my favourite advice column - I come to you once again Brisneylanders! This time not for food [am still to get over Moorooka way for tasty, tasty African meals], but about hugs. Apparently, Brisbane [or BCC workers at least] hate our hugs so much, my friend and I were discharged from the main thoroughfare of Queen St Mall thanks to our signs advertising 'FREE HUGS'.
I'm sure that most, if not all, of you have seen the video of Juan in Sydney [see youtube: Free Hugs Campaign] dispensing free hugs to the general public, and it was with this inspiration that my friend and I made up our own signs for hugs today. We made it to the middle of the mall [near Hungry Jacks, under the giant awning], and gave out no more than a few hugs before we were approached my a man in a BCC vest, asking us to leave or risk the police becoming involved. When asked why, he waved it off as 'because it's on a placard' - we explained that we were not promoting a political or religious agenda, but were obviously getting nowhere with it.
We took our signs peacefully [though confused] 20m down the road to the busway at King George Sq and gave out hugs for about 2 hours - we hugged women, men, their children, wedding guests, backpackers, the homeless and the curious without incident, so were left wondering why our hugs were not welcome in the Mall. We are certainly keen to do it again [maybe when the sun's out next time!], but would prefer to stick to the mall, where we know our hugs will go down a treat - only problem is, I'm not so keen on being asked to leave again.
My question is this - how can we get our signs out in the Mall without being asked to leave? I have already written letters directly to the BCC offices and to our local councillor, Geraldine Knapp, but wondering if you lovely Brisneylanders have any suggestions for us? We were thinking of printing 'FREE HUGS' on t-shirts or top hats, but would like to have the sign to make our impact. I have asked in both my letters about getting a permit for hugs [I would even be willing to pay - we are not receiving compensation for our FREE HUGS!], but am not sure how to go about this. There is no info on the BCC website about non-commercial/political/religious advertising, so am getting a bit stuck.
Thank you as always for your advice :o)
***EDIT*** Brisneyland - as always, you are awesome. Thank you so much for the advice given, keep it coming!! Am going to drag myself away from the computer to watch the rugby, but THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I'll be back on in the morning to see what else this lovely town can offer me!
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| How I'm Surviving Winter. |
[05 Jul 2008|05:02pm] |
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It's 18 degrees in my computer room right now. I have Dark Heresy game tonight in the Queensland equivalent of a basement - the walled off bits under a house on stilts. It'll be as cold as a witch's nipple down there, so I've rugged up. I also aquired a new vest, so I went for a Victoriana-steamy sort of outfit. Illustrated below, for everyone else freezing to death at the moment, in light of our recent run of "Halp! Teh weather is molesting me!" posts.
( And now, for the bad photography! )
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| Gaffe legacy generation 2.2 |
[05 Jul 2008|12:03am] |
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| Delete all trees in neighborhood view? |
[05 Jul 2008|01:21am] |
My apologies if this is a really stupid question...But for some ungodly reason, when starting up a clean neighborhood, all my trees are cut down. As in, everywhere where there WAS a tree, there is now a stump. And there aren't clusters of stumps, either. They're all single stumps. Which I've been trying to delete one by one. In this huge map.
And good Lord is that tedious...so, is there some sort of mass tree/object deletion cheat? deletealltrees or something? I know there's a cheat to make trees and whatnot not show up...but I want trees...just not stumps. Thanks in advance!
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| Historic outfit inspiration |
[05 Jul 2008|12:12am] |
At a family reunion for my husband's family, I recently performed my standard survival maneuver: dive into safe topics (like genealogy and family history) to avoid tempestuous ones (like religion and politics). And so I spent something like 20 hours scanning old photos. I especially liked the skirt in the image below, and thought the outfit might serve as a bit of inspiration for those who want a historical flair without a corset. Yes, it's probably later than steam's "Golden Age", but what's a decade or two between friends?
My husband's great great aunt, "Aunt Erle," is the woman in the white hat. My guess is that this photo might be from around 1915, but I could be completely wrong. I really love her skirt, especially the straps that connect to the front panel. If anyone has a guess as to how to sew something like this skirt (or a closer guess as to the year), I'm all ears.
Click on the photo for a link to a larger version.
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| Proud to be a...? |
[04 Jul 2008|09:52pm] |
There are fireworks going off in my backyard.
That is they are going off in the Southern half of this city, and with our vantage point I can hear all of them quite clearly. Normally I would be seeing them too, but there is a rather thick blanket of fog resting over the coastline.
Ah yes Independence day. And a few days earlier, Canada day.
But I'm in limbo, I don't really relate to either.
I'm not American. But I'm not really Canadian either. I have not set foot there in 4 years. Perhaps that doesn't seem like long, but in the past 4 years a lot has changed. And I'm not sure how much of what I remember is true, and how much is romanticization. It's as if it's just become one blur, no real distinction.
Yesterday at work we had a party in the afternoon. We reached the goal of adopting out 4,000 animals in the past year. I've only been there for a month of that, though. I've made some impact in that number, and know some people, but overall the party was just another situation in which I sort of feel part of something, but not quite.
I'm in some purgatory zone....
But, I'm happy.
I'm going out dancing once a week despite working weekends. The people I work with like me. My husband is happy. I feel at home, like I belong here. So who cares about the details. Whether I'm X or Y, A or B... My life is all in order, things are progressing as they should.
So I'll celebrate that. The independence of Kahleida, from artificial labels and self-imposed limitations. Yay Freedom Girl!! :P
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| Happy 4th |
[05 Jul 2008|12:45am] |
Happy 4th Everyone! I didn't take ONE picture tonight, was too busy enjoying the karaoke machine and enjoyed a cocktail. Speaking of cocktails... Yanked from the fabutous ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) paintedbooklady
The Recipe For LavaNotes
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3 parts Grace
2 parts Imagination
1 part Silliness
Splash of Seductiveness
Limit yourself to one serving. This cocktail is strong!
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What's the Recipe for Your Personality?
For nursing moms, I wanted to mention Snappies. I received a sample of them at the hospital and used them with my Personally Yours pump yesterday. These are fantastic and I'm ordering 2 boxes of 12 right now. The ONLY thing is they're small- 2 oz each. I wasn't paying attention when pumping and completely overflowed one and almost did the same on the other. I would love to see these come in a traditional 4 oz size. But you can't beat the convenience. AND BPA free! The price can't be beat either-- Medela makes some that are similar (except the lid doesn't stay attached) and they're more expensive on BabyCenter.
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