Got around to creating one the other day. Because that's what bored people who have the summer off do (and yes, repainting my entire house is on the to-do list as well *points to paint sitting in corner*).



I didn't submit it or anything. Actually, I tried, but it wouldn't take it because it didn't like the URLs I hosted the graphics at (some of which included the basic Google set, LOL). Ah well.

Might have created a monster though. Now that I've got my feet wet, as it were, I may have to make a few more. I'm thinking something with German twins next. Ha!

P.S. On a side note, I don't actually have the summer off. I work with the schools, and I am working during the summer (at least for the next week). But it's only half days for me, and then I'm off for the rest of the summer as of next week until school starts again.

I realize these are pretty useless these days, but I've got three to give away if you want one.

Sort of.

If you're reading this, you're not affected. If you read this 2 months from now, you're still not affected.

Now, if you read this three years from now and haven't heard from me in all that time, you just might have got cut. In which case a simple note of, "Dood, what's up with that?" will immediately rectify the situation.

Here's the thing. I'm a pack rat by nature. I compulsively hoard things. They're pretty and shiny and I like them. I'm getting better about dusting every now and then with comments.

But still, no sense in keeping journals that hide from me. I can do that much without flailing.

So, the defriending commenced. I only got rid of people that have never set eyes on this journal (they don't have me friended back). Among those non-mutuals are folks that haven't seen LJ in the last 2 to 4 years, folks I don't share interests with anymore, and a few that defriended me.

One of these days I'll get rid of old communities too.

On a side note, this is the first time I've done this since the journal's creation almost six years ago.

I had a LOT of stuff to go through.

*sets clock for another 6 years*

Just picked this up off the official Facebook page:

Airdates for Torchwood Children of Earth. BBC One (UK): July 6th-10th @ 9pm. BBC America (USA) July 20th-24th @ 9pm. Space (Canada): July 20th-24th @ 10pm.

Yay!!! Don't think I won't be pokin' one o' y'all over in the UK for a download. o.0

Thought I'd share this one since it's so pretty.

My mother's been watching various shows with me and got tired of looking at Tokio Hotel on my desktop all the time, so I offered to let her pick. After several awful suggestions from everything from Englebert Humperdink (a joke, I hope) to Billy Joel, we settled on Mötley Crüe in honor of the most recent episode of Bones. Imagine my surprise when this image showed up in the wallpaper search. It was labeled correclty, so I slid under the wire on a technicality. LOL



Lovely, isn't it?

Oddly enough, when I looked up the file name on my computer to find it again it was tagged as Prince of Persia from the video game.

Ah well. I'll take it.

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Meme snagged from luzestrellera

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their livejournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!



I rotate through my wallpapers quite frequently. This isn't actually a wallpaper, but just a really big photo. Close enough I can admire his makeup and drool over teh pretteh, but not so close I can count pores. It's of the good. Also? Love the collar. Gives me pervy thoughts.

Grant you this news is 5 days old, but I'm backlogged on my emails so forgive me if you've heard this before.

Also? Pardon me while I rant.

"The creative team that brought the world the first 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' motion picture is going to try again ... with a remake. Sans Joss Whedon."

Hate to break it to you guys, but that means making the movie without the creative team. Got the news from Airlockalpha.com in case you're curious.

...

Seriously. WTF?!

Saifai HQ
I've been working on my new computer and finally got it running up to speed (doubled my ram memory). Got Photoshop and all the others back up on it. Of course, you can imagine I spent the weekend playing with it.

Actually, I spent pretty much all weekend putting up my personal website in a new location. I tried to get it under my domain name, but that so didn't work. Currently, it's sitting H E R E. I went cheap and used the template Google forced me to use. When I have more time I'll re-do it.

Dreamwidth Layout
Next on my to-do list was to figure out how to code a custom layout for Dreamwidth. OHMYGODSOMUCHWORK! You see the results H E R E. Again, not my own design. I went with something from thefulcrum for now. I won't bother with the details. You can read the top post in the journal if you want to know more about how it's done. Or rather, how I did it.

Will need a bit more work before I can get the layouts done for others (those who asked). There's got to be a less complicated way to do it, I just have to figure it out. LOL

New LJ Layout
While I'm on the subject, the poll results from the journal entry H E R E. I'll be doing my layout using a mix of my own favorites, but in honor of the second runner up I'll put Doctor Who/Torchwood in a place of prominence. Yay! Thank you all for helping me with that one. Hopefully I'll be able to get that done this next weekend.

The Darth Boot
In the mean time, I'm currently resting up. Went to the doctor today... wait. Just realized I never updated on this here. I tripped and twisted my foot the Friday before last. Sprained my foot. I've been wearing a cast boot, lovingly called "The Darth Vadar Boot" by the nurses.

I've had it on a week, and went for a checkup today. I still have to wear it for another week, but can gradually get to leaving it off throughout the week. Drove my car for the first time in a week today (it's been stuck at work and have been getting rides to and from work from my mother).

Tired my poor little foot out though, so will have to con my poor mother into doing my weekly grocery shopping for me (we trade off cooking weeks, and it's my turn this week).

You know me, short attention span and all. I can't quite decide what to do with my next layout. I've got so many favorites right now that I can't seem to choose. You guys pick your favorite, and I'll make my layout in whatever fandom y'all choose. Poll is open to everyone.

Poll #1395955 Saifai's Next Layout
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which fandom should Saifai choose for her next layout?

It seems today is EXCLAMATION POINT DAY!!! LOL, sorry.

shiny_glor_chan did a neat meme where she writes a lil' fic based on whatever icon you respond with. I chose this one... *points*.

She says he looks sick, and came up with this.

It's Season 6 Angel (which I haven't read, but now I'm curious) and does Connor and Spike in the scene together.

*claps* Go! Read!

!!!!!

Well, no not really. But I did dye my hair black. Technically it's called "Natural Black" whatever that means. Honestly it's only a shade or two darker than my natural color.

They don't have brown dark enough to match my hair. So, black it is.

Okay, I might have stocked up on black jeans and t-shirts too. As one of my student's asked me on Friday, "What's with all the black?"

LOL

I setup a Tumblr account, mainly to follow friends from outside the fandom that have accounts there. Oddly enough, quite a few are over there. It'll be a mix between cross-posting from my LiveJournal and my Blogspot entries that aren't on LJ.

If you've got account, you can follow me here.

I've got a Dreamwidth journal. My username is the same. I've mainly done it to reserve the name, but also to keep up with the folks that have decided to permanently migrate there. I'll likely cross-post almost everything, barring some exceptions.

I AM HERE

I haven't kept track of who's already over there, so please link me if you've got an account there too.

Rather sick of computers right now, not enough to go without mind you, but still... no love lost between us.

Bought cheap used computer. Not a bad system for what I paid for it. They'd assured me it'd been thoroughly checked over, and then had the drive wiped clean (since they don't have distribution license for the various OS they sell). Not a big deal as I've got an OS I can install in it.

Got it home. Hooked it up to my monitor, and nothing...

( Click for the nitty gritty details. )

If anyone on my flist has suggestions, feel free to offer them up. Otherwise it's going back on Tuesday.

Saying Happy Birthday to LJ, a day late. I've been a bit behind lately due to RL. Taking a break from the current hoopla going on with Tokio Hotel to share with you my first TWO posts (since the first one was so short). Bringing you back to August of 2003:

21 August 2003 @ 01:16 pm

Let's get started...

Thanks to Kristen (miggy)for her post that helped me to get started. Once I get a hang of all this, I suppose I'll try customizing the look of the journal. You can expect to see my ramblings here. If I've finished a story, but have yet to post it, you'll see it here. Links to my sites will be added if there's something of interest to see there when I update. More on this later...

21 August 2003 @ 05:16 pm

FIC: The Everything Drawer, S/X

I finally wrote (and posted) my first fan fiction. This was actually inspired by another story I read (when I find a link for it I'll post it). I got to thinking what would Spike and Xander have in their junk drawer?

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Why yes, that is my very first fanfic, why do you ask? LOL - Still love that one. Big thanks to kyrieane and txrabbit (at least I think it was them) who badgered me into writing it, and also pushed me towards wanting to get this whole LJ started in the first place. Also to miggy who gave me the leg up.

Getting ready to go out and see a movie with new friends. Monsters and Aliens or something. Sounds cute.

Hope everyone's doing well, and that you're weekend will be a good one!

Snagged from cordykitten

1) Why do you read fanfic?
An excellent question. Part of my answer relates to the second question, but it started out to answer questions. I saw ideas and questions come up in shows I was watching, and explored the answers through other's writing. These days, it's more of an escape. Same reason I read any other book. For entertainment value. There's still that part of me that will read to answer questions, but I find the answers come from the hive mind of fandom and I don't have to actively search them out much these days.

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I'm updating the entries for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom on DMOZ.org and I need help with websites.

I used to have a lot of links, but so many of the old groups are gone now. Does anyone have any links? I know there's still a lot of award sites out there still running, but I don't usually participate so I don't have links.

I thought there might be some clubs out there still running, but I don't know who for sure anymore.

If anyone has any links to offer, please comment and let me know.

Thanks!

This is from Facebook, but there's a lot of graphics folks on my flist that I thought might get a kick out of this one too. I'm not tagging anyone here as it would be a long list... LOL. If this pique's your interest, consider yourself tagged. Note, I adjusted the rules a smidge to suit LJ.

ETA: I just realized I didn't even bother with resizing it to proper album dimensions. *resists urge to start all over and redo it and settles with inline resizing*

*****

Create your band's first album cover.

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop (or similar) to put it all together.

5 - Post it and tag the friends you want to join in.

*****
Behold, my first album cover. Apparently I'm either an import, or some sort of alternative band. Yes, the photo is food (a sandwich) if you're wondering. My band name, if you can't read the font, is Latakia.