Milkshake a la Mode

Oookay! Here’s my photostory for the Figurvore challenge. It ended up being much more lengthy, wordy and pointless than I wanted, but whatever. I’m not gonna change it now.

It took a long time to do… about 5 days. I think that’s the longest I’ve ever taken to do a psy before. I wanted to try and make every photo seem lively. I didn’t quite accomplish all of that ( I think I recycled a few photos in a few panels), but for the most part it’s not noticeable.

I took the images in the afternoon so that’s why some are light and others dark. The clouds kept blocking out the sunlight. XD

The challenge was fun. Challenging, but fun. I think I learned something about three of the characters, instead of just one. Go me! LOL Enjoy! (Click on image for full story)

W00t!  G-RANK BABY!!  FINALLY reached G-Rank in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.  It took me ages to do (280+ hours of game play), but with the help of my team we were able to kill Akantor’s ass. Like 4 times. XD XD XD

I don’t know why I enjoy Monster Hunter so much.  It’s a really simple video game concept.  Go in, kill the monster, make better armor, repeat and rinse.  It doesn’t sound that fun, but it’s INTENSE.  There’s not that many games out there nowadays that will make my hands sweaty with nervousness (and sometimes desperation LOL) when I fight a big monster, or SQUEE when I finally kill it feeling like you really accomplished something… nor are there that many games that will hold my interest for more than a few months let alone years. XD  For some reason MH does it, and it’s totally awesome. ･.｡*･.｡*（*´▽`*)･.｡*･.｡*

G-Rank means I’m nearing the end of the game.  Not really. But I’m that much closer. I guess I can say I’m at the halfway point.  I’m so excited to finally fight a stupid Plum Daimyo Hermitaur. Killing a giant purple crab shouldn’t make me so happy. But OMG it doessss.  *dances* Oh yea. The theme song totally rocks! (Let it play in the background while you read the rest of the entry. It’s a really well done orchestral piece.) Makes you feel like a Superman every time you hear it. LOL

Anyway, I’ve been working on random stuff.  Today I spent most of the day making a 1/6th Monopoly board and cigarette packs. (Don’t ask, you’ll see later.) I did a so so job on them, but I don’t have time right now to redo them.  I was actually considering to make them much nicer and put them up for sale on Etsy… but Milton Bradley might sue my copyrighting ass.  XD  Tomorrow I have another Monster Hunting day so I think my Figurvore Challenge will be late, but I’d rather have it late and well done than rushed and look like crap. Yea?  :3

And I owe you guys another magazine this week.  I’ll try to get to it on Sunday but I don’t promise anything.  I might have to do two next week.  If I recall though, this week’s magazine is missing a page right where the photo story starts. Booo right?  Sorry.  I don’t know what happened to it.  But the story’s not that interesting anyway.  A volcano blows up, that’s all.  XD

Ya’ll be good and I’ll check you some time next week!  *grabs long sword and rushes off to battle!*

As I said in my last post, I’ve scanned in a second Barbie Magazine. This one is for Stan since he remembers reading this one. ;D

Once again you can download the whole magazine in PDF format here. Everyone who had lace Jellies and other crap, raise your hand! *raises hand*

LOL I’m lying. I was actually not allowed to get any Jellies because my mother thought they were the worst shoes ever… Which, after seeing all my friends’ naaaasty sweaty blistered feet, I realized mom knows what she’s talkin’ about. XD

(By the way, does anyone remember seeing Halley’s Comet? I don’t remember if I got to see it or not…)

Anyway as for what I’ve been up to, I managed to finish up the game room closet and now the desk is all ready for me to build dioramas on. Weeee! Before I can get to that though, there are several other rooms that needed cleaning. Today I finished reorganizing my room because I wanted to pull out the big guns Pixma 9000 printer, but found out it’s way too big to keep in my room LOL I have no place for it. So it’ll get sequestered in the craft room since that’s the only place that I can make enough table space for it. The thing is a huge 2.5′x1.5′ printer, just ginormous. But I’m looking forward to using it. In the reshuffling, I redid my desk so now I’ve got all this real estate to make a mess on. Woo! *lays on her desk* I got my craft room left to clean then I can pick up on old projects again and get to building a diorama. :D I’m feeling motivated to sew so hopefully I can get to that soon!

The closet cleaning is slowing in progress, it’s a long long process of painfulness and I just don’t want to look at the mess right now. XD LOL BUT! Hidden deep in the game room closet was a small pile of Barbie Magazines from the 1980s. LOL yes! I started looking through them and laughed, these are soooooo badly nostalgic… I had to share!

I loved these magazines! I had a whole pile of them as a kid but sadly I only have 5 of them with me today. The articles, I admit, I never really read, only gazed at the pictures included. I was only interested in the main “article” of the magazine, the Barbie Drama, a small 4-6 page photostory featuring Barbie in her 80s We Girls Can Do Anything glory. The sets in Barbie Drama are simple but really well done and so… 80s (I mean, come on! Lookit that triangle desk in the cover!) LOL It was so nice to look at all of the cool Barbie clothes and dolls that were all available. I just drooled over these. Looking at these, now I understand why I love photostories so much… I was started early with these!

There’s just so much I can make fun of, reading these articles now. Julie and I nostalgialized over these talking about all the senseless fads we followed…. But I guess back then this stuff made sense. XD

Care to read the whole thing? It’s a huge 36 meg file, but it might be worth the wait for those of us who are children of the 80s. (OK, seeing Skipper in her workout getup is worth the download alone) :D Tell me what fads you remember doing/having after you read it, because I KNOW you did them too dangit! LOL

And maybe then someone can tell me how to pronounce “Eva Gitano/Joia” once and for all.

I have 4 more to share. I’ll try to post one every week. Don’t want to spoil you all at once. ;)

There’s no real point to this post. I’ve been occupied with real world stuff– mainly trying to get a job. But in this crummy economy, well yea, it’s not going to well. Just for a simple paper pushing job, I have to fight literally hundreds of other applicants. Not as easy as I’d expected. However, I’m going to keep trying because it’s gotten to the point where I feel employment is necessary. I wants money!!

So what’s up with the market nowadays? I was whining to my brother last night that there’s nothing good to buy any more. Nothing interesting in video games, electronics, even dolls. Is it because the economy is so crappy that manufacturers have stopped trying too? Nobody can afford their goods so why bother? I’m so bored. >__< I want something to buy, something to entertain me. Show me something good to buy please! As of right now, the highest thing on my want list is the Barbie Basics shoe pack and that's just low! >_<

I’ve been watching a lot of TV and playing The Sims, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and Wii Sports Resort when I’m not job hunting. I know, my gaming sense is all over the place, but variety is the spice of life. I haven’t touched my dolls since… well since my last post in May. I’ve kind of lost interest in them. Not lost interest in dolls, but I feel my collection is stale. Nothing new to drive me so drumming up interest in them is hard. This Texas heat is probably not helping either. Even though I’m in an air conditioned house, I still have no desire to do anything. I just can’t wait until October rolls around and the air turns crisp. *___*

Been watching a lot of Hoarders and Clean House. Those shows send shivers down my spine. LOL I’m generally a clean person and my room is cleaned once a week but I’m feeling the need to do a big purge again. I want to go through my room with a trash bag and just shovel everything in that I haven’t touched in two years. I feel like I should do the same for the work room but… that’s a little harder.

Oh yea my brother moved to Kansas City yesterday. With him moving out, all the junk in my work room can be shuffled to his and I’ll have space to work again. I suppose I should work on that today if I can just get my butt motivated.

What I really want to do is clean out the game room closet. That thing is jam pack full of OOOLD computer parts and software (like I’m talking early 90s here) and board games. That closet has a 6′x5′ desk built in that if I can just clear it, would make super awesome space for diorama set ups (and doors to shut the kitties out). But tackling it is EEEEK! Very scary. I gotta build up some backup support for this. Maybe I’ll start on that today. O_O

Edit: Glancing at my archives I noticed a trend that I don’t post nearly as much (or at all!) during the summer time as other seasons. I generally view summer time as video game season so I can sit under the fan and stay cool. This heat is killing me! XD