I need you all to throw some themes at me. You were all so helpful with the naming of my character last time, so you get to join in on this request!

So, themes. A theme can be a color, an object, a concept, a thing, a person, a place, a ... anything. My creativity tends to be limited to what I can see in front of me, but I want to branch out beyond that, to really have to think about the artwork I'm doing, and for that I need themes!

Random words, random anything - throw them at me.

GO!

Testing out the LJ mobile client. Someone put this sign up in our kitchen at work and I thought it was amusing (not just coz I suggested it lol)

Haha, my immune system is getting better. It's been a whole 7 weeks since I was last sick :D Yes, only I get excited when my colds go from being 6 weeks to 7 weeks apart.

Doesn;t stop me feeling like crap though. Slept on and off for most of today, snuggled up on the lounge with my blankie and Fuzz. I've been putting lots of cuddles into an adorable bear for Ange, but he stayed away from my germs today. Making Ange sick is NOT my goal, but I'm still going tomorrow. I'll scare the scary people away from Ange by sneezing on them. Everyone is scared of sneezy people, yes?

I can't believe the price of the L Word convention tickets. $350? People, please. But ... Marlee *cries*

Because I often whore my body out for science, I'm off for a MRI next Monday. This is thrilling, purely for another day off work. Plus there is nothing quite as cool as being trapped inside a large tube with massive noises, being shown pictures of yukky things so they can see the reactions in my brain.

She wants me to take all my piercings out, which is silly because last time I didn't have to remove anything below the neck. I'm going to call and speak to someone else tomorrow and confirm that. I hate taking my nipple bars out, they start to close up almost immediately and hurts like fuck trying to get them back in.

But body whoring for science, whee!

You know what I loved the most about the Star Trek movie?

The fact that they included the cheerleader uniforms. It made me squee. Lots.

Went to see Star Trek today and it was squee-worthy. Jenn Morrison made me giggle, as did the silly Aussie playing George Kirk for all of 5 minutes. And Anton with his little fake Russian accent, despite actually being Russian.
But overall it was awesome, one I would definitely watch again. I'd probably even buy it, which for ME is the ultimate compliment ;)

Dear Universe,
Please stop changing everything on me, it gets very confusing and unnverving.

Yours Sincerely,
Emma

I have a female character that refuses to accept any name I give her, so throw some female names at me. She's blonde, a laywer, on the shy side, has a strong girlfriend that makes up for her quietness. Her girlfriends name is Holly.

Obscure, strange, common, whatever. My usual name generator is only spitting out bizzare things like Sunny, Maybelle, Winona or Bridgette.

So, there is your challenge for the day - female names. GO!

edit: the prize goes to sportysmurf for unintentionall supplying the winning name of Chloe. After a few pages I realised that Holly & Chloe sound kind of strange together, but it's staying anyway!

Once I stopped comparing Abnormally Attracted to Sin with American Doll Posse I started liking it a lot more. There are a few songs I can easily skip over, but because it's new I'm forcing myself to listen to them all.

I currently really like Police Me, Mary Jane, and my all time album fave Not Dying Today.

Some of it sounds like Tori has been spending too much time with Kate Bush, which is great if you like Kate Bush :P

And I really need to stop babbling about Tori.

I have NO idea what day of the week it is.

Hmm, I like 'Give' too. I think I can safely say I do like this album.

You know those little plastic fish filled with soy sauce they give you when you buy sushi? Everytime I see a full one on the ground I want to stomp on it and see the soy sauce splatter everywhere.

There have been some really weird (...funny) quotes going on in this house lately. Buttercup and Lydia were making a salad for dinner:

Buttercup: How's the cheese [goats cheese feta]?
Lydia: *tastes it* it's ok, tastes like feta, just with an after taste of goat.
Buttercup: *stares, laughing* what, pray tell, does goat tastes like?
Lydia: I dunno, I'm vegetarian

Ok, so it was more amusing at the time, but seriously. Weird funny stuff happening in this house :P

Buttercup: Is the dishwasher full?
Me: *checks* uh, not quite, but we're out of forks.
Buttercup: Oh that's ok, I'll buy more tomorrow.
Me: Or ... we could put the dishwasher on?

Our brains work on such different levels.

Ah, 6 weeks. My cold is right on schedule. I love how I could write a calendar by the timing of my colds.

I just finished Jodi Picoults new book Handle With Care. I got it this afternoon, and finished it this evening. It was good, I really enjoyed it, but I enjoy all of her stuff. My only gripe is that it seemed oddly similar to one of her other books, and the ending/end concept was almost identical.
She's only written 15 books, surely she can't be out of original endings already?

I would say more, but I'm terribly incoherent right now. Maybe later.

Today was an up and down day. It started badly, but progressivly got better. Days that start out with the dentist are never going to be great. As usual it took longer than normal because I have to keep getting her to stop so I can try not to throw up.

Around lunchtime one of my friends bought her baby in coz she had to see someone in the office. Olivia is 8 months old, and about the size of a 2 month old (coz she was VERY preemy). But she's adorable, she smiles and squeals (she's just found out she can make noise!) and I taught her how to poke her tongue out. She kept reaching for my tongue ring, but then she started trying to stick hers out, which was very cute. So proud. I've done my good deed for the day. Every good baby should learn how to poke their tongue out.

OH, HAI HEARTATTACK! Sheesh, was just sitting innocently typing this, and THE POWER GOES OUT scaring the hell out of me, leaving the laptop as the only light in the house. Power came back on, then went off again, thus scaring me again. Was out all night, so I went to bed about 9:30 for lack of other options. Reading by candlelight was hurting my eyes.

So, 2 nights in a row without power. Funfun. Lets hope tonight it manages to stay on for a while.

I forgot to send out my mail yesterday. I might get a chance tomorrow, as I've got the dentist in the morning, so if I remember to grab the parcels, I can do it on my way back to work. Organisation plus, uh huh.

This afternoon just before I left work, I heard lots of power was out in the city and east sydney (where I live), so I took my time getting time, stopping for a massage from my chinese man. He was great, reallyreally hurt in that way you just KNOW is going to bruise, but he found all the sore spots and it was great.

Got home and power was still out, the news from work (I work for the electricity company) was that it could be 24 hours. Woot. Turned out to only be half an hour, which was sad. I was looking forward to a night in the dark.

Am now off to watch the last 4 eps of the L Word, I'd been putting it off, but now the time has come.

I've got an appointment with the bipolar clinic/research place in two weeks, and they sent me the forms to fill out - all 42 pages of them. Seriously. Dude. 42 pages? It's going to take me the whole 2 weeks to get through it all.

I want to watch the L Word tonight, so perhaps it will be my reward for getting through 10 pages of these silly papers. Need to watch Criminal Minds too. EEP, so much to catch up on!

Must prioritise.

I spent so much money today. Although it sort of doesn't matter because for some weird reason I have WAY too much money in my account. I triple checked everything and all my rent, bills etc came out, I just have lots of money. No complaints!

$80 on postage for international people. I even tried to make them light this time, but no. Postage is so expensive :/
$75 on meds (and thats only half of them, in 2 weeks I'll need the other half)

I also finished the 'blue' package for the mail exchange (yay) and sent it off, got a few new shirts for me coz hardly any of mine fit, and got some colouring/activity books for the lils to take away.

I've got Ange's birthday tonight, which will be PACKED coz its the night before mardi gras so there will be people everywhere. Can't stay for dramatically long, mainly coz I can't drink more than like, 2 glass on lamictal or else it makes me sick, so that could get really boring quickly :P

Then on the weekend off to Byron for two weeks, woot! No internet access there, so not taking laptop. Will be a nice break, no uni work, no work, just chilling.