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No News is Good News

Journal Entry: Thu Nov 3, 2011, 5:25 AM
  • Mood: Questionable
  • Listening to: Same old Shit
  • Reading: Nothing
  • Watching: Thursday's crappy lineup
  • Playing: Nothing for now
  • Eating: Cookies
  • Drinking: Hot Chocolate
That's what people say, and the fact I haven't journalled about anything in several months means nothing bad has happened to me either (or nothing that warrants a journal about it anyway) But I figured enough stuff has finally happened in my life over the past months that it's time to recap it all (yep, I'm just that boring that it takes months of events to summon up to one journal :invisible:)

First I want to thank all the comments, and welcome all my new watchers that each came as a result of my Spectrum of Emotions getting a Daily Deviation for Halloween. It now stands as my second most popular deviation, kinda funny how my minority genres seem to do the best, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I even get a laugh out of my own emoticons and I'm glad others too :laughing:
Speaking of dA related stuff, it seems journals and News articles have now turned into the same thing, many people hate the change and are unsure about what's going to happen with people faving journals too. I also have to say I'm not huge fan of either change but it isn't as experience-ruining as people make it out to be. Remember there's always the option of not faving journals :omg:

Months ago I mentioned moving house (yet again!) And that has come and gone a few months ago already. The new place is a lot smaller but my family and I were eager to move in since at least we'll be owning this one. No more damn rentals, no more not being able to customize the place. Good for me since maybe I can plant some of my plants in the ground, too many pots around the yard did look tacky, I'm eagerly awaiting for my opportunity to do so once the gardens start being built so I can pester my parents my ingenious ideas :blahblah: A while ago I remodelled the small garden at my brother's place. Using little more than what was already there, but with actual thought into where everything was re-planted and where certain other items were placed, I think I can say I got a rather expensive-looking result he was very happy with, which re-ignited my secondary creative hobby :)

There's the stuff that grows, now for stuff that glows - my fish tank is disappointingly still empty and in parts, right now it's been looking like a half-finished money-sink, like a building that was left half-made. But hoping I didn't waste a lot of money remodelling it for an Avatar forest theme, I still need stuff that has to be done anyway to finish it off. It should be show-worthy by the time it finally does. I do have a tendency to hate anything I create until the very last 5% of finishing touches, so I'm hoping that's just the case here. Still working on a background and trying to find something I can use to make the fake plants glow...that won't kill the fish :laughing:

Also, it's November, which to me is prime calendar-promoting month, with the gift-giving season just around the corner, followed by the new year (and dA's habit of long shipping times...from my experience anyway :paranoid:) Might as well find a spot on my journals for this in case anyone's interested:


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:iconpetrova:
`petrova Nov 15, 2011  Hobbyist
Glad to hear something from you :dummy: Now I'm curious about how it looks in your brother's garden.
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`priteeboy Nov 15, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I'm curious too - since I haven't been there in weeks - hope they're looking after it, last time I was there the grass was a foot high in some places :stare:
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`petrova Feb 6, 2012  Hobbyist
That's crazy! Have you seen your brother's garden, does it still look good?
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`priteeboy Feb 6, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I went to clean it up before Christmas, after a few months since fixing it. As one can imagine - the lawn was 2-feet tall and the garden had more weeds than actual plants - one being about 4 or 5 feet tall :stare: Talk about laziness - it disgusts me how some people let their yards turn into a friggin paddock :moo: I fixed it though, it's amazing how much bigger a yard looks once its actually tidied up :lol:
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`petrova Feb 7, 2012  Hobbyist
That's just sad, don't they spend time in the yard? I mean, if you spend time there then you want it to look nice too instead of trying to walk through all the weed. Your brother is lucky to have you :nod:
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Mood: Joy *Poison--Lady Nov 13, 2011   General Artist
Yeah, some news! And very good news! That should be fun to beign able to make everything you want with your house! :)
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`priteeboy Nov 13, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yeah, I might be able to get started in a few weeks. I won't be easy, but the result will be rewarding :)

Besides my stepdad does the really hard stuff anyway :laughing:
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:iconadvent-seer:
I'm glad that things are looking up for you! And I do agree that it is best to have your own place and not just rent it since me and my mom were considering that, but then we realized that we wouldn't be able to customize it so much either.

Have fun with the decorating and modeling of your house and garden! :D

And that's a cool theme you have for your fish tank! I wish you much luck in building it up!
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`priteeboy Nov 9, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yeah, besides - renting a house is only borrowing it anyway. If you can afford to buy you might as well do that instead, instead of just throwing the money into someone else's bank ;p

The house remodeling will be done by my stepdad whose a classic handyman in that respect (just as well, since we don't know any other men in the family can, we'd end up hiring an overpriced tradesman :worker:) But the gardens when it's their turn will be my creative side's time to shine :la: Hopefully the fish tank will look better when completed than it does now too :XD:
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:iconadvent-seer:
I so agree!

Oh wow! I'm happy for you and your family that you already have your own personal handyman. It will save you all a great deal of money. :w00t:

I wish you all the best of luck! Hope the remodeling and designing will turn out as how you all wanted it to be. :D
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