Something I've never been able to turn off in regards to comics/fic/shows I'm interested in is theorizing what's going to happen next. If something is shown to be a mystery, I scour my canon knowledge to see what hints have been made and how they can tie together.

So I've made a great deal many theories on the MNT: Gaiden (which was recently updated again) plot before. I'm really starting to think that my ashes theory may be be true after all. But since then I've had a few more, all of which I've discussed over at TT and will cut and paste here:

Just had a sudden weird thought. Best part of getting braces off is that you get to feel your teeth, right? Eat normal stuff again, etc.

So why the hell does it always end with trading out one piece of hardware with another? Retainers are seriously uncool in these regards. In fact, I do not see the point of wearing them 24/7... AGAIN. This will be the third time around for me.

So. I think I'm just going to wear mine at night and whenever else I may feel like it.

Anyways, so I've been at mom's house the last few days. Yesterday was spent with me catching up on sleep- the day I'd come up, I'd only had three hours of sleep the night before, as I had to wake up for the damn morning driver's ed >.< . Plus only three the day before that too, when I'd gone to get my brces removes. So I was wiped. Thus sleep is good. My brother woke me up this morning though with breakfast- brought me a little tray with some juice he'd made and a bowl of Apple Jacks. He sure can be a sweet little demonspawn when he wants to. :3

Hrm.... what else? I should talk about Deadpool some more. There's still plenty of people on my flist who are still unaware of his awesomeness, I'm sure. XD

I think this is the first character since TMNT that I've wanted to write fanfiction for. Even if I have no idea what I'd write about, even though he'd be one of the most difficult characters to write (what with the insanity, humor, dark history, pop culture references and breaking of the fourth wall O_o), I want to write him!

I'm thinking about getting another one of those fifty sentence prompt thingies as practice. Maybe it'll inspire something, too.

In the meantime, I need to learn to limit myself on what I buy. I've already spent a small fortune on collecting these comics, and I probably only have a third of them.

This is mainly due to the fact that most issues from his '97 solo run, if you can find them, are around seven dollars at their cheapest. Series lasted for sixty-nine issues. You can see my problem.

Two TPB's got me issues 1-8 though, with two mini-series, an annual, and a one-shot thrown in. After that I've gotten 9-19, 25-27, and 32 and 33. That's still a lot of missing ones! Deadpool is so exspensive. T_T

Thus after I get myself a few to fill the missing gaps I have, I'm going to set a limit on myself. Like... forty bucks a paycheck or something. And then make myself read the ones I have very slowly. 

Got a verbal coaching (like a talking-to, 'cept it actually goes on record) at work yesterday. Management isn't impressed with my productivity and time-management. It wasn't like a serious thing at all, but my brain was in its I-don't-know-if-I-want-to-be-manic-or-depressed-today mood which always makes me more stressable and thus I was lead to inward panic.

Outside of what I was getting coached on, I actually remember very little of what was being said. I was very distracted by this inner monologue I had going which pretty much consisted of me threatening myself with death if I actually started crying and reminding myself that this is the way life fucking works in adulthood, so it's time to grow up now.

Worse was that I wanted to defend myself so very badly. It's part of the Passive-Agressive thing, I think (or one of the bunch anyways). Someone criticizes me and I go on defensive. Tell me there's something I need to improve on? Oh, I can do that. That's no big- we all need to improve some. But tell me I'm wrong? Disregard everything I've done to get as far as I have and tell me I'm not good enough? I immediately start doing nothing but finding things that contradict everything you say because it can't be truth.

But I was told going in that I wasn't being singled out. That this wasn't an attack on me or anything like that. Not a big deal at all. Getting defensive would make it a big deal. So somehow I managed to pull enough self-control out of my butt to keep it at just the small situation it was and not let it get any bigger than that. I'm going to count that as improvement moving into the adult world.

Okay, so despite that I'm still a freaking baby and couldn't stop one or two tears. Yes, it's pathetic. Yes, it's embarassing and unprofessional. Alas- you win some and you lose some.

Went home switching back and forth between being furious with myself and pissed off at management until I could distract myself and calm down. First came disxox with nicer subjects (Dis, you really do have this lovely knack for showing up just in time to help me battle my inner emo), and then today, which was spent Tetris'ing, watching Voyager, and reading Deadpool and Cable and Deadpool comics (I'm loving that last one more than I thought I would). And then looking once again for more good Deadpool fic and actually finding three more (with Cable, even!). So now I'm finally back to my usual reclusive but at least somewhat sane self again.

Thus once again proving that  my self-medicated doses of escapism comics/television still work out better for me than the pill cocktails. Really, I think it should be a considered treatment. They could write a prescription for it and everything.
 

I awoke bright and freaking early to reread the driver's manual. Was exhausted, but I made it to the DMV. They were a little busy, thus they had two people helping everyone who came in. One was the lady from before, and the other was the one who actually helped me.

Though I actually had no choice in the matter, I was very pleased to end up with the non-bitchy one. I presented my birth certificate and proof of residence and stated I needed to get a new permit. Upon asking when the old one had expired, I told her the first of this current month.

She was rather surprised by this and informd me that I shouldn't have to take the test again until a year after my permit expires. I told her that the other lady had told me otherwise and the newer lady made a quick phone call to find out what was up.

Turns out the first lady was just an idiot. Didn't have to take the test again, and after a quick little picture I had my new permit. Yayness. ^_^

Afterwards I went to driver's ed. Learned some very brief stuff and then came home to get my stuff ready to go to mom's house.

...Only stuff came up preventing my stepdad from coming to get me. (headdesk) I'm still bummed. However, he's picking me up early tomorrow. And I got to RP tonight over at TT to pass the time and the stuff.

Also watched the animated Wolverine vs. Hulk movie that came out a month or two ago. Am still fangasming over the Wolverine trailer and subsequently went on a Deadpool kick. Upon seeing clips with him from it, I had to watch.

...I was disappointed. ;_; Lionsgate did awesomely with their Avenger movies, but everything else is really starting to blow. This one was only an hour long and was basically all random fight scenes in which blood was everywhere and Deathstrike appeared to have an orgasm upon stabbing Wolverine (Pi: ...WTF? O_o). People also lose their arms a lot. The Professor in the begiining has his cut off, and then Wolverine cuts off one of Deathstrike's robotic ones. He also proceeds to later slice off one of Deadpool's not so cybernetic arms... though that was actually kinda funny (Deadpool: (*trying to put the pieces back together* There we go... No, that's not right. ...What the hell? Oh, now it's upside down... *adjusts* There she is! Sweet.). Anyways, later Deathstrike gets both cybernetic ones ripped off. It just happened a lot.

I know the thing was based off a very early comic (featuring Wolverine's first appearance if I remember correctly, as a matter of fact), but it was just really lacking. No development at all, and it literally ends with Hulk and Wolverine starting up another fight.

Deadpool was awesome though. I'd rewatch just for him.

...

Deathstrike: (moves The Professor's body with her foot)
Sabertooth: The last thing The Professor said before he gutted him was for us to kill Wolverine'!
Deadpool: Really. Huh. (to Omega Red) You buy that? Yeah, you know, I would think the last thing he would've said was "AHHHH! Sabertooth!" (makes death noises)

I have been waiting for three freaking hours just to get to the page where I can view the new Avatar episodes. And when I've finally got them, they're taking forever to load! Gah! (dies and is dead)

I should totally like write or something while I wait. Of course I don't. >.< Though I do plan to after I'm done watching Avatar. I hope to finish that Casey Audition before Sunday night, anyways. I got some more comics in the mail today- including that Tales one that focuses on him. Hope to use it to get me into a Casey-mindset. 

Speaking of mail, I got something else that's quite interesting. Anyone remember that college I was thinking about? I tried to get more info from them, but I couldn't without giving them my phone number. I left it alone because I didn't want them calling me if it turned out I wouldn't be able to do it.

Anyways, today they sent me another letter. Only this one had a student ID card. O.O

It's not a permanent one, of course. But still- I wasn't expecting it. It also say that I've been selected for tuition assitance. 

I'm kinda interested... but I dunno. For one, after my parents move, I have no idea how I'd even get there. What do you guys think?

As always, clicky on the egg please! (pats little golden egg) Oh! And have any of you guys seen the new Skywing dragon? My gosh- it's so beautiful! I want one of those next! If I can find one...

I have no idea how I should classify the day. I've been vomitting a few times, but other than that, it hasn't been too bad. Actually, it's been great in some instances.

For example, I got both my Return to New York comics and my NECA TMNT figures in the mail today. I love getting packages in the mail. And these ones rock. :D

Only problem is trying to find a place to put them. I keep all of my non-wall-mountable TMNT items on top of my entertainment center. as well as my regular turtle collection. Currently, we have:

- A giant Michelangelo clock that plays the NT theme song while it's head lights up
- All four TMNT Pez Dispensers
- All four New Toon action figures
- All four NT Chibi Turtles
- A Leo mask
- Weight-lifting Leo
- Back-flipping Rapg
- Battle Nexus Leo
- McDonald's Leo w/sword
- McDonald's Don w/bo staff
- McDonald's Mikey with hidden shell compartment
- Water squirter Don
- Bobblehead pen Leo
- Four connectable NT tiles I made myself in pottery
- A TMNT airhead
- All four CGI action figures

And then for the regular turtle stuff:

- Hand-painted piece of pottery with a removable shell from Mexico
- A bobblehead wooden one from Mexico
- One carved out of wood
- A sand sculpture featuring a momma turtle and a baby
- One I made in pottery
- One I painted
- A smiling figurine
- A glass one
- Three carved out of rock of various sizes
- Two plushes, one stuffed and the other a Beanie Babie
- A turtle shell
- A sea turtle figuring
- A gold (fake) pin with a large stone for the shell
- A car chain
- A special one I got at the Chinese Gardens where the limbs bobble- there's also a baby on top
- A gold pill box
- One carved out of rock from Pakistan
- A plastic one my mom found
- A braclet featuring eight little turtles made of rock
- One made of volcanic ash from Mount Saint Helen's

So yeah. I'm maneuvering things. At the same time I noticed my action figures needed some serious dusting, so I'm doing that as well.

Now for a meme I picked up from ivy_chan.

Name a character I know and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

I really only write TMNT. If you want though, I don't mind sharing my thoughts on the Avatar fandom either. :)

Look! Moriki grew wings! Yay!



 

Okay. So I found this cool new way to make icons (led to the promised land by

ame_musashi

Well, I've been a bit busy lately. I'd meant to post something on my birthday last Friday, but got a bit distracted. 

I feel like I should turn eighteen more often LOL. I've never gotten such a response! Everyone was so nice- I got a Gift Art from both my friend Dis, as well as my friend Sandy. Sewer Slider actually wrote me a story (Leo? Leather? Shades and glasses? A motorcycle? Can we say Pi is a happy camper?). 

And my good friends at another forum, which I will call TT as we're trying to keep it a bit more private, completely put the icing on the cake for me. Just about everyone of them dropped in and said hello. Donny's Boy made me an awesome Leo picture (Caption: Now that your legal- Come to daddy. XD), and Winny gave me a sneak peak at a comic she's doing. What REALLY did me in though was when Leo (this site has an amazing RPG and there are accounts made for these characters) dropped in to wish me a happy birthday. I got to go on a 'date' with him. Oh, I nearly died!

Even though I don't celebrate birthdays due to my religion, that was the best one ever. I haven't felt so appreciated in a long time.

Anyways, my abnormal good luck on my b-day (I had my first ever job interview that day, and the comic I'd been waiting for came back into stock) didn't last into the weekend. I didn't get the job, and then I had to reorder that comic because the one I'd originally ordered turned out to be damaged (really nice of the guys to tell me that, though- the other company I once ordered from just didn't send it). 

I'm also trying to get into making TMNT AMV's. Talk about difficult! Luckily, I had my friend Sparrowskit to help me out. She talked me through some programs to download that helped my decrypt and then rip the TMNT movie. Unfortunately, after so many horus of waiting, I couldn't use any of it because the DEP on my computer wouldn't let me import anything into Windows Movie Maker. I spent hours trying to find a solution with no luck.

Next, I decided to download the torrents for the cartoon. I heard they work with WMM, so I was eager to. Unfortunately, it's taking forever. It's been over twenty-four hours since I began and I only have fifteen percent done. (sighs)

The good news though, Sparrow spent a bunch of time trying to find out how to get WMM to work for me. She did what I couldn't! Though it surprised her too when it worked. All I had to do was go to this website that updates the codes for Windows and stuff and it worked! I'm now in the process of working on my first AMV.

All of my Raph-fan friends must be getting to me. It's focused on him. LOL Though if I had those TMNT episodes by now, I'd be working on my Leo one instead.

In other news, my baby sister turned three today. Er... I guess it was yesterday, actually. I'm up late. LOL But man, do I miss her.