I got first place in a freakin' icontest!!!! :D First freakin' place!!! :: Claps like a performing seal :: I am so happy!!! :D

So now I'm gonna check out how much of an eye-rape this icon I made over at Mark's is gonna look like...

[Looks]

You know... It's not so bad. A bit duller than I expected... Won't be using it though... Too dull for me...

But first freakin' place!!!

:: Coughs ::

I dismantled my bed today. My old bed anyways. The actual bit that you lie on (well, on a mattress on I mean) that fell on my foot, but it was only some sorta light wood so I was ok... Got a bruise coming up though (to add to my collection of bruises already on the bod of Rach). Meh.

It was Mark's birthday today. We watched the first hour and twenty minutes of Blood Rayne, but I got bored... Dreamcatcher? Such a good movie! Also, Damien Lewis can kinda pull off the American. Which rocks! Good movie... Shall have to read the book now. Oh! And I watched The Shawshank Redemption on Saturday. Why did I not listen to people when they told me about the awesome? I now need to read that too... And The Gunsligner, and a handful of other books... I'll be reading til Christmas... Yaay!!! :D

Now, I need to log off cause I need to sort out my room in the morning (as in, clear my shit out of mum and dad's room) and I need sleep... Maybe I should have less sleep cause I'm sleeping a good eight to nine hours now and I don't feel awake half the time. It's not good (but if I went to a doctor it would be to do with my weight and nothing else, so what's the point?).

Bed.

Rach xxx

Grabbed from the amazing kejsarinna.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, life experiences etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

I'm 21 in just over an hour! (Technically, I don't turn 21 until 3:45 in the morning... But that's kinda stupid saying it so I shall stick to the original thought) Wendy gave me two bags full of stuff (that have paper on top so then I can't see what she's given me) that I can't open until tomorrow. That's ok... But giving it to me at 2:10 in the afternoon? That's just torture!!! I just had moments of squealing, 'I wanna open my presents!!' but I've been good. Not opened any presents or cards... I do want my prezzies though.

Going out tomorrow night. Cocktails at the Kingshead. Shall be fun! :D

:: Hugs her flist :: Love you all. :D

Rach xxx

PS NCIS people, over at vampiesicons I've made 123 NCIS icons... If you wanna have a nosy...

Anyone got an animation program that isn't Jasc Animation Shop? I am sick to the back teeth of it! Need a new animation shop!

If anyone can find me a tab of Love Don't Roam (it's a really rocking Doctor Who song) I will make them as many icons as they want, of whatever they want (yup, if you want me to make an icon out of your dog/cat/weenie/favourite actress, I will, and many of them). I just wanna play that on guitar.

I have work in the morning. Kill me.

Rach xxx

I would ask advice from Wendy, my boss. She's been self employed for ages, and she's done well for herself. She always has good advice (not just business type things) and she explains things in a way that don't make me feel like so much of an idiot when I say, 'Actually, can you explain it again?' She's like a really cool teacher, only actually way cooler... She's awesome. :D

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Seagulls just flew over our little cul de sac (and I only call it that because our street has a dead end but a place to turn around).

I'm making 100 NCIS icons for 10x10variated but they're mostly Jenny, Ziva, Abby and Gibbs... It's not that I don't like Ducky, McGee and Tony (love Ducky, McGee and Tony) but I just can't seem to icon them... I wanna make an animated icon of Tony's lip quivvering at the end of the episode before SWAK (Hometown Hero, thank god for French NCIS fans who cap episodes), but if you make it small it wouldn't be so funny... So maybe I can fake an ending of scene (when it goes all desaturated)... Man, seeing it go from Blue!Tony (in SWAK) to Grey!Tony was odd, cause the lighting changed.

So yeah, finally watched the whole of Twilight... And all of SWAK. I'm very happy. Next time I get DVDs out, it shall be season 3, and I'll get it when I have dosh and a weekend out of the shop.

Now, I'm gonna go make more icons... I'm on animated ones and I can't do scene ones cause my animation program is eeeeeevil!

:: Hugs :: Love you all.

Rach xxx

New icons! :D Made by people in comms (cause my icons are kinda crappy nowadays). Credit on the ones nabbed.

Rach xxx

It doesn't help my Spring Fling writingness if I make A2A icons... Damn it why did I look for caps? Now I just wanna make Bolly icons... She has such pretty blue make up (plus, when she hasn't got her mouth wide open mid tirade she's v.v.v.v.v. pretty and emotive facially wise).

Went to Aber today. Got a new skirt (a bit small, but easily fixable), 3 seasons of Red Dwarf (they were eight quid each, I wasn't about to complain), undies, stockings with hearts all over (thought they were hold ups, meh, still pretty... Shame the ribbon came off one), a DVD for Mark and stretchy satiny gloves. :) And I still have money left... And a controller, but Mark paid me back. :D

It's bloody cold, and Mark left at five. :( He usually stays till about 9:45, then we give him a lift home, cause his dad doesn't like him being in later than him... Stupid wanker. He wants Mark to go to uni, but, like me, he hasn't the money. Yeah, like where the fuck is Mark going to find the money for a uni course if he can't find a fucking job cause you keep stressing him about finding three million things at once? Ugh. He pisses me off.

Not Mark, his dad.

I'm toying with the idea of posting a few fics on Sycophant Hex (a HG/SS site) but they have kinda strict admission standards. And I don't really like strict.

That and I really hate bad reviews. Who doesn't?

Anyways, I need to crack on with this fic. Urgh. I shall type it... I like writing the long hand though. Meh, it shall be done and typed by the deadline... Whenever that is. Friday? That sounds about right.

Hmm... Need a shower. Morning. Wake me up.

Clocks forward tonight!!! :D

Rach xxx

I am uncompatible with Wendy.

Yaay!

I am also a soggy tea-cosy.

Yaay!

Basically, there will be no lesbian experiences with Wendy (thank God! No offence to the woman, but she isn't my type!), and when I get caught in the rain, Chris Co-op will come up to me, in the Co-op, and say I look like a soggy tea-cosy. Joy.

I'm now I'm gonna make Spongebob Squarepants icons. Whoot!

Rach xxx

PS Ruth is a closet lesbian!

Life On Mars.

( Take a look at the law man )

I have like 70+ MCR icons to post over at vampiesicons, but I haven't the energy. That shall be done soon though, cause they're just gathering dust in my hard drive.

Rach xxx

100 icons of the great Gerard Way, lead singer of the amazing My Chemical Romance.

We'll carry on! [Icons at my journal]

Teasers:



Rach xxx

I have new user pics.

Gerard = Second sex god to the high priestess (which happens to be me).

Mikey = Same role, but higher, just for the not so high priestess (which happens to be Ruth)

Mark = Pwns them all (well, for the high priestess (which, again, happens to be me))

That is all.

(Rach xxx)

I've just made a load of Gerard Way icons (the lead singer of My Chemical Romance), and one of Ray (who is one of the guitarists). See!!!

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( When both our cars collide )

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I like Gerard Way slightly... More in the dark hair with blonde on the top layer phase than the bottle blonde and flat hair phase... He rocks though, and omg gooooooooood voice!!! If you do feel the need to grab, just comment and credit... The normal stuff.

Got a new pair of jeans today. They are so comfy and yummy and gorgeous and dark and snug (but in a good way... I now have a slightly defined ass! :D)

I spoke to Mark's mum today too, without having mum or Mark around. It was nice. :D

Our cooker's fucked. Well, the oven. The grill is fine. I mean, mum actually paid for me and the siblings to have chips and a burger from Oscar's in town. How cool!!! (Yet fattening... Won't be happening again for a while, cause mum doesn't like the idea of us buying out cause it's expensive, but we got a nice load of food for under eight quid! :D)

Still got a sore throat, but shockingly my time of the month wasn't so bad today. It didn't feel as if I had been kicked three million times in the middle of the night!!! :D So that means when I go out tomorrow to my auntie's house I am gonna be in floods of tears and in proper anguish. Thank you God.

Bed. :)

Rach xxx

PS Got the first half of CSI: NY out (cause I was in the mood for the slightly more realistic one, and I missed the start of NY so I don't know all the back story)... So yaay me!!! :D

PPS Song For Ten is amazing. Find it and get it, now!!! :D

PPPS I miss Mark. MCR music helps.

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Stolen from icemaiden013

*Something*

Something you hate about the person you love:
His addiction to nicotine. It's getting better, but I really cannot stand it when he lights one up.

Something you wish your mother or father had warned you about:
Anything and everything about sex that people just don't tell you... like, condoms can come off by themselves...

Something that's holding you back from achieving your dreams:
My fear that if I do something and I don't like it that everyone will call me a failure.

Something you think you could win an award for:
My amazing telephone skills (kidding, I'm fucking lousy on the phone!)

Something you fear more than anything:
Death... and Mark breaking up with me for some college girl

Something you wish people would understand:
I wish people would understand why I find it hard to make life altering descisions. Getting a job is ok, picking at the age of sixteen what I want to do for the rest of my life? That fucking threw me for a loop. How the hell would I know then what I wanted to be? And that mindset is still in place today!

Something that keeps you going everyday:
Mark. :)

Something amazing that happened last summer:
Nothing happened last summer. I stayed home, watched movies, spent time with Mark. Nothing really stands out.

Something you hate that people say:
Woah, grammar of that confuses me... I hate it when people say, 'It's like this...' cause they just assume that they know better than you (and the sad thing is, I have to include myself in that list)

Something you refuse to pay money for:
Music... Well, not really... Cause I will go out and buy music, but I just think that the prices of albums are quite high for what they are, a piece of metalic plastic (whatever cds are made out of) with twelve songs (fifteen if you're majorly lucky), some artwork in the book and the band's name plastered all over it.

Something you wish you could have told that person that you never saw again:
That they'd always be the first person I'd think of when asked about my first best friend.

Something that really stands out about last year:
April in Aber with the Gateway to Work boys. They were so funny, and I had a laugh (when I wasn't pissed off at the fact that they only saw women as eyecandy... even the one with a baby on the way)

Something you like that everyone else thinks is weird:
CSI: Miami... I know a few of my flisties like it, but you tell someone, 'Yeah I like CSI: Miami,' they're like, 'Oh, is that the one with the really annoying red hair guy who always puts on sunglasses in a really weird way that he thinks is meaningful? Yeah, I know that one... It sucks.'

Something that makes you laugh every time it happens:
Chris as the King in Cinderella... His last line would always change and I'd constantly be giggling, cause he was like the King of Comedy!

Something that makes the problems in your life not seem so bad:
My fantastic boyfriend! :D

Something you listen to when you're in a really good mood:
Anything! :D My Chemical Romance, Wicked Soundtrack and Phantom of the Opera soundtrack are my three 'whooo-hooo!' albums at the moment! :D

Something you do when you're trying to calm down:
Sit down and just try not to talk.

Something you do when you wake up at three AM:
Try and go back to sleep

Something you love doing on cold rainy days:
Pokemon!!! I love playing Pokemon at the moment!!! I mean, today I caught Kyogre (and I've been trying to catch it now for weeks!!!) and I'm slowly getting battle points from the battle island place and it bloody rocks!!! :D

Something you absolutely love about that Certain Person:
His smile. When he's goofy and when he's sincere, his smile is the best thing.

Something amazing that's happened this year:
Getting a job and keeping it!

Something that you always run into/trip over:
The side of the desktop at work. It sticks out (and it fucking hurts when I walk into it when I'm trying to get behind the desk)

Something that irritates you more than anything:
Thinking that people are talking about me when they probs aren't.

Something you're addicted to/can't stop doing:
Playing Pokemon (Jake really shouldn't have let me have his DS)

Something you had to give up but didn't want to:
My muse... She's gone, and I can't get her back!

Something that really stands out about you:
Uh... my hair? It changes so often that people are shocked when it stays the same for longer than three months!

Something about you that's like everyone else:
The fact that I'm human? :D ... I pass wind!

Something that really stands out about that Certain Person:
His personality!

Something that you say a lot that others have picked up on:
Well, these things haven't been picked up loads, but I do say, 'Oh shag' when I make a mistake, and 'Rock on' stuff. :)

Something that makes you change the channel:
Shitty adverts

Something that really turns you on:
Being grabbed and kissed when I don't expect it.

Something that really turns you off:
The smell/taste of ciggarettes. Ugh!

Something you wish you could change about your life:
I wish I had a better job, where one boss didn't bitch about the other to me... Ugh. She just constantly whines now, and it's boooooooooooooring!

Something you think about every night before you go to sleep:
Mark. :)

Something that you don't think will ever change about you:
My hyperness. With the right people I get so OTT that people get scared. I still act fifteen cause my sister is one of my best friends, and she just gets so hyper all the time, and her friends rock, and my friends rock and I'll always get hyper around my sister! :D

Something about you that you think will soon change:
My weight. I'm gonna lose it next year. No more chocolate or sweets next year (and I'll keep a diary)

Something that broke your heart as a child:
Kimberly breaking up with Jason in Power Rangers... Well it did. That was my first OTP, even before I knew what an OTP was!

Something that really sparks your interest:
Music. And colours.

Something that truly disgusts you:
Lies, and cigarette smoke... If it's stale. When it's fresh it's kinda comforting (cause my dad used to smoke, and my parents ran pubs where people smoked, so it's kinda like a home smell, but only when fresh... When it gets to that icky stage, I just wanna fling open all the windows and get the hell out of Dodge for a while!)

Something the opposite gender has complimented you on:
... I've had compliments?

Something you wish that Certain Person would see in you:
He sees everything (and sometimes that's slightly unsettling, cause I don't see all of me!)

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I lied about the pictures... They shall be up soon (when I can actually remember to upload them to LJ)... I'm off to write...

Rach xxx

Many things to come your way in this post tonight:

* Advent Icons (yaaay!!! :D). I've decided to make three a day, cause iconning is fun! :D
* Meme (snagged from boombangbing)
* Life update
* Performance and costume pictures (some are like totally fucked up though cause mum can't handle cameras at time! :D)

This list might not exactly come in that order, but... Meh! :D

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Icons! :D The advent season is on us, the start of the Christian year (cause it's the lead up to the birth of Jesus, so w00t! :D)(Ok... I just went l33t... Help!) and somehow, over the years, people got calanders with choccies cause their parents spoilt them... Anyways, in the spirit of the season, I shall give choccie goodness in the form of icons! :D I hope you like them! :D

Three sets, to be served everyday from now until the twenty fifth of December (or the twenty fourth, depends on what I'm up to in those last few days)



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Now, the meme...

1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely shag.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might shag after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys you don't know of (or wouldn't want to shag) alone.
4. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
5. ADD ONE OF YOUR OWN AT THE END.
( Marry, shag, kill )

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Life... is kinda ok at the moment. Mark and I are still together. I still work. Still fat. No big diff really... It's kinda strange... There was a load of things that I wanted to talk about over the week, but looking back on them they all seem kinda... inconsequencal (totally spelt wrong, but no worries) I suppose. Don't know why though. Nothing big really seems to happen to me anyways.

:: Hugs her flist :: I kept up with your lives. :) Twas fun. :)

So yeah... Did a few extra hours on Monday. Got some new clothes on Saturday... Nothing big or new.

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Cinderella fucking rocked!!! I messed up my opening song on both nights (second night I did the verses the wrong way and I couldn't remember the words) but after that I was kinda ok. Hannah and Julie said two lines at once on the first night, and I got so confused that I just stared out into the audience and said, 'Too many questions... It's all so confusing.' It was, and we missed out most of that scene. And the second night it went in the wrong order, and I couldn't hear Hillary (our prompt), so I said to the audience, 'Even fairy godmothers have memory lapses,' or words to that effect... And these people paid to watch this?

Second night, the curtains didn't open for ages, so Julie and I started adlibbing, saying how we'd fix the King's eyes next (cause he couldn't see very well), and it was fun!!! :D I pissed off Ruth. During the Sneeze Polka I was poking her with the magic wand (on the second night, I didn't think about doing it on the first night), and it was so funny, cause she was looking round, trying to figure out what the hell was poking her (cause the Fairy Godmother was invisible! :D) Ruth is way more funnier than I am.

Jack was pissy on the second night (god knows why) but everyone else was ok... Mark's parents came on the first night (they heard me sing and saw me act... oh the poor people!!!) Supposedly I have "talent"... Uh... yeah, right. The moment I have talent can you call me and let me know?

Ugh, bed soon... Didn't notice the time!!! Pics of Cinderella tomorrow (or later today... whatever) along with the fourth advent icon.

So long, and goodnight. :)

Rach xxx

I made icons, 65 of them, go look... Now! Evil Monkey commands you!

(Icons consist of: CSI: Miami, FFVII: Advent Children, CCS, KM, Doctor Who and NBC)

Rach xxx

Ok, I like text messages... Like, "Whoo hoo text messages!" But please, if you need to say something to me, email me. Don't fucking text me at fucking three am (unless you live in New Zeland or America or whatever) cause I will be fucking pissy the next day.

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As you can tell, I am pissy. I had tops about five hours sleep. I like having a good eight hours. Makes me unpissylike.

Work was good. I made money!!! :D And I got my palm read (less said the better)... Pretty funkay. :D

I'm gonna go make icons... I have about a dozen or so to post (CSI mainly).

:: Hugs her flist :: Loves you all! :D

Rach xxx

I've made icons. Go look!!! :D Here be icons!

Mark came over this morning. Had fun... ;D Not naughty fun, but... Anyways. And we watched Philadelphia Story (the one about a wedding, not the one about the dude that Bruce Willis (was it him?) acts). He was laughing loads, so I was happy - and right cause I knew he would like it :D - and I was laughing too (cause I like love that movie!).

Saw Julie in town, so went with her into school and got some material from Ruth (she's doing textiles).

Got Scary Movie 4 out, but I've not watched it, and I have to take it back tomorrow... Oh well!

Grandad went for an endoscopy today (stick a tube down your neck to see how you are inside), and a gall stone came out/got destroyed (not sure which) so yeah. :D He might be getting better... I think they should take the gall bladder out cause that's what's messing him around, but he could die if they do that (he could die if they didn't... too much stress on the heart etc)... Kinda wish I was studying medicine now.

Work tomorrow. Yaay...

Rach xxx

Katharine Hepburn fans, click the link to ten icons I made! :D

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Worked in chippy yesterday. Was fun. Met Chris drama's daughter (who rocked) and I'm working on Saturday 11-30 till 3. Joyous.

Work today was boring (apart from when Clare and Steff came over).

My grandad's in hospital. :| Been in since about 10-30. No-one tells me anything.

"Nitwit Girl and her sidekick, Arsehole Boy, to the rescue!" (Ruth and Jake)

Rach xxx

** Self-pitying post from here till when I show where it stops **

I feel icky and fat. My sis had her bday today, so as we always do we had a party. Mum always has chocolate stuff in the parties of us kiddies (not so kiddie anymore) and you're expected to finish off your plate. :| I feel sick now from all the sugar. Plus I had pancakes with banana and butterscotch sauce (bad move I know, but the bananas were sooooooooooooooooooooo good!!!) so now I feel like I've eaten enough for a million people. This whole guilt trip Delyth keeps giving me when I eat something "bad" at work - ie fattening - is starting to work. I feel gross and icky! :(

** End of the self-pity **

Made a tutorial over at vampiesicons (two in one month, I must be ill! :D) so go look if you wanna (and join if you like! :D)

No Mark today. :(

Hope I have a day off tomorrow, so I can make more tutorials! :D

Rach xxx

Whoo hoo, working on Tuesday and not tomorrow, so tomorrow is me and Mark's day!!! :D I get to spend the day with him, and (this is the thing that's really got me shivering with excitement)(not that kind!) he's cooking for me.

Ok so he's cooking for his mum too, but me and her... Pretty cool! :D

All my icon buddies, I posted some a few days ago over at vampiesicons... I want someone to boost my ego. So there's sixty Voyager, 30+ Cardcaptor Sakura, and 3 X-Files. So go look!!! :D

I'm gonna have a lie in tomorrow.

Rach xxx

I'm getting my hair done tomorrow!!! :: Is over the moon, cause of the split ends she had found :: I hope Kellie can make it pretty again! :D

Mark spent the day with me today. We watched X-Files...

:: Goes to ask for a cuppa ::

:: Gets one :: My dad rocks!

So yeah, we watched X-Files, had a bit of a walk around town, and just spent time together... We hardly get to do so. Yeah, I know it's to do with growing up, but sometimes I wish we could just see each other whenever we wanted.

Delyth was majorly nice. I went in and asked if I could have tomorrow off. I know it was really cheeky, but she was like, 'Yeah, sure.'

Mark's having his hair cut tomorrow at ten! Mark having a hair cut is like once in a blue moon kind of thing! :D :: Whispers to Mark :: Loves ya. :D

:: Goes off to make icons ::

Rach xxx