First an update, and then some more stuff!

American Regional - I was TERRIFIED of this class. I had heard countless rumors about the teacher, how hard it was, how he kept the class for an hour to yell at them... oh man, I was freakin' out. Yeah. Actually, not so much. He's strict, but fair. He expects a lot, but I mean- why would you pay 250.00 a day (what it comes to) to not learn anything? I've mentioned that he reminds me a bit of Mr. Bondies- I'm sure some people take issue with him and his methods- but if you don't learn a TON from the class, it's your own dang fault. The class is set up a bit more competition style- with us in groups of 4, and definitely being compared to one another and the chefs picking a "best dish" from each category. I have mad plating skills, it seems- but that's not always enough to win the super best. (My potatoes can beat your potatoes, though- I'll post pics when I get them.)

A-kon - Uh... apparently right around the corner! Man, I have been so busy with school and work that I haven't thought about it at all. I'm actually kinda glad that there's no time for a real panel (just one on stenciling and one on iron lolita) because I'm kind of out of touch with the up and coming trends. (It seems that lately the division between Cosplay Loli and EGL fashion has become greater. Cest la Vie... Sailor V.... whatever...)

Sailor Moon- Made it through episode 59. Man, the whole together-apart-together again saga of Mamoru and Usagi gets ya right here. Doesn't it? No? Oh well.

Today I made some somewhat hilarious ( catering plans. )
Get ready to party, guys.

I don't think I'm sick... as I don't have any other symptoms of being ill, but man, these days I just can't sleep enough. I'm up early, that's true- but these days I generally catch a nap in the afternoon. I dunno, I was asleep by 10 something last night and that was pretty great.

Let's see... highlights of recent days:

I'm in Garde Manger II... which is crazy buffet foods again... new GB coming up in a week. Yeeha. Then it's on to International and American Regional. Freaaak.

AVID tutoring ends the 14th. It will probably be the end of my AVID tutoring forever.

Career Fair tomorrow... yay! I like careers! All manner of restaurants, hotels, etc will be there. That's cool. My school posted SUPER LATE- but apparently the American Girl Bistro was looking for people. They had a job fair yesterday and today. I WISH I HAD INFINITY TIME.

Andrew's mom is freakin' insane, and blatantly racist. I'm not even talking about the "don't eat so many bean burritos" diet tips, or the "are your parents US citizens" letter... she actually sent Andrew a letter detailing what she wanted in a wife (well good, when she gets married she can pick her pleasure) and included things like "attractive", "Has money in savings from work or parents", "slim", and "white/Caucasian". If there is a way to interpret that besides "this girl is a dirty, poor, fat and ugly wetback", I would love for someone to enlighten me. It is SO STUPID but the constant stream of idiocy is grating on me and stressing me out. How can someone be SO BACKWARDS? (that wasn't everything on the list either but meh.)

I beat Chrono Trigger (three times!) and am having way fun with that. Video Game poser no more! (Okay, okay, so I never beat FFVII...)

I have to write a paper about eggs. I don't WANNA.

I am about 20 episodes into Sailor Moon. Can someone explain what the random "haunted house by the seashore" episode was about? HOW WEIRD.

Today I invented a new game with the kindergarteners. It involves one or more of them lying as still as possible on the floor- while I build structures out of blocks on their forehead (or a bridge from forehead to forehead). Record tower size : 8 blocks.

Free comic book day was awesome. Got some comics, of course (although I think I liked last year's pick more) but the highlight was the GALLERY OF SUPER SAMMICHES. Mr. Pat Binder had no idea what he was getting into when he started drawing free pictures that day, but he drew no less than six pictures of heroes eating sandwiches. What???

I miss my friends. It feels like I don't get to see people often enough. I miss you guys. Maybe when school is out (for everyone else) things will change. I hope so, anyway.

Okay guys, I apologize in advance. This is going to be the most stereotypical LJ entry I have EVER made. Why? Because it's going to be 60% me going "OMG FAMILY CHILL OUT! I DON'T WANT ORCHIDS!" and yeah...

HOWEVER- to those of you reading this, I have a wide query to make-
I know it's weird, because I haven't sent out invitations yet- but I think it's safe to assume that if you read my LJ, some sort of wedding notice is on its way to you.

I'd like to make an open casting call to anyone who thinks they might like to:
-Play/Sing music (at the ceremony or either reception - Classy nerd music only. If you play Anybody's stupid canon, I will chomp your face)
-Help set up things of the table/chair/music equipment variety
-Bake cupcakes or some such thing for the awesome nighttime party (coughcoughyouknowwhoyouare)
-Something else I haven't thought of, but will clearly remember as soon as I post this entry
*at the time of the ceremony

OR Maybe you know
-A printmaker
-A rockstar photographer (could just be for the less formal night time party)
-A way we can get projector (and a portable screen?) for like.. giant size video game tournaments (would have to be freestanding screen)
-Someone who has too much time and would like to make a ton of origami or kanzashi flowers (because I really am not keen on real flowers... really not...)
-Someone that had a wedding recently that was catered by something awesome (that you could get me a name for)

JUST AS IMPORTANT
I need some masters of chilling out to help me keep my cool. My sisters have gone a little... overboard (hopefully it's just early days excitement and they will mellow out) so if anyone wants to grab some tea, play some zsnes online, or just give me a call- Color me appreciative.

Okay...( now for the ranting... )

Sometimes people can say things that are kind of hurtful and insensitive, and they don't even know they're doing it. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse... it's just something that happens when we don't pay attention to other people.

Anyways- wow, has it really been a week since All-con? I guess after I spent so much time gearing up and getting ready for it- it's hard to realize it's over. Heh.

Anyways- my week since Andrew left was less than eventful. I got to hang out with Holly a little, we had some lunch at Cafe Max and that was delicious and very fine. There was even some Bermuda Triangle action on friday before Tracy had to leave. Purikura is still hilarious, more so when the camera is trying to take images of your knees. Seriously, wut?

I've been trying to tackle my seemingly endless 'to-do' list.

One of these items is meeting Andrew's mom. Wait a minute...

I just realized... I've been engaged for almost a year. Dude. What?

Okay, anyways- yes. I'm going to take 2 days off of work next week (Thursday and Friday) since it is my spring break from LCB. I'm traveling to Bloomington for a few days where I'm finally going to meet Mrs. Share. Andrew said he wasn't concerned, that in a short span of time over a brief meeting, she's likely to be pleasant. That makes me feel less nervous, but at the same time- she's never had an engaged son, so who knows- all previous rules of behavior could go out the window. (Plus.. Andrew's the *good* one...) He's done a good job of quelling my anxiety though- so I think there's not too much to worry about. It's going to be OKAY.

To be honest, I feel a little bad for the lady. I mean, I understand that in the past she has acted in ways that aren't responsible and some of the stories Andrew has shared have been almost surprising... but I dunno. I guess I come from a way different background. My mom and dad do things that are infuriating (although to be fair- never just plain mean or careless)- but... I dunno, they're still my parents. Even at this age, they garner a certain amount of respect from me, and I'm willing to give it- it seems. I mean, that's the only way this whole 'parenting' thing works. A parent is really only in control of this child allows them to be.

I'm hoping this whole "I totally respect parental authority" thing is a bonus for me in her eyes. I know that Andrew doesn't exactly plan extensive interaction with her for the rest of her life (I think we talked about it once, and it seems like Thanksgiving is the holiday for his folks) but... I dunno, I guess the part of me that seeks validation wants her to like me. I'm likeable, right? I've got a sunny disposition and I'm always kind to animals! Cute animals, anyway. There was a bug in my room and I totally squooshed it. Ew.

Honestly, every day I'm with Andrew I am totally reminded why I love him so much. We are dorks, absolutely- but it's more fun than not being dorks- and since we both see it that way it is awesome.

So- he flew in late thursday night. I had a sammich for him, which he ate in covert near napkin-less-ness. But he prevailed. Really there was just sleep because I had class the following day. I got out early, however- and then we napped, ate some food, and I went to work for a little while. Later, we went to All-Con, where I helped with Iron Cosplay, and even got to play Anime Win, Lose, or Draw. Our team came in second (out of two) but it doesn't matter. It meant I got the 10 dvd box set of Ninja Vixens. I should point out that this is a live action set of movies that are almost embarassingly bad, but are definitely hilarious. Well, the one I saw anyways. I fell half way asleep through "Carnal Enchantment". No, these are not porn, but the marketing team would like you to think they are. Kinda like how Dominion Tank Police was marketed.

Friday night was hectic trips to H-Mart and Wal-mart for ingredients, followed by much cooking and craziness. Andrew has adapted to insane-cooking-cat mode. He knows when there is danger of me getting fire eyes. :) He helped me out, and in relatively short measure (well, a few hours) I had most of the things ready for the tea party.

Saturday morning I was up at 8, to make tea sammiches and soba noodle salad. We loaded up, dressed up, and headed off to the con. At 11 I had a panel on food in anime that was attended by like... 5 people (most of whom wandered in at the last few minutes). I am really glad Caroline made me all those awesome clips - they totally made the panel. I had a little time off (some of which was spent playing guitar hero) before the tea party, which was very well received. We ran out of chairs. Jeremy pointed out that this was a vast improvement over the first year- where I had to run around and *beg* people to attend. (Admittedly, that year- it was at like 10 or 11 am.)

Right after the tea party was the bento panel, and I guess I need to start planning for more people when I do those. This panel was attended by 13 people! That's great! We had a little issue with the rice.... but all went well and I think people were happy over all.

After that, I ran to the cosplay prejudging. I have to say that holding the cosplay on saturday night yields far more entries and that is awesome. We even had more than one skit this year. WHOA. Devin totally cracked me up with his reenactment of Metal Gear Awesome. CRAB BATTLE. After the cosplay I randomly participated in anime jeopardy, which I won. What? This is slightly hilarious since I barely passed the qualifier (and last year I didn't pass it)- and I really only won because of my anagram skillz or something.

Ran into Kyle again, which is cool. Yay old friends. A gajillion of us went to Ghengis Grill, which was full of flavor, as always. We even managed to squeak in a trip to yogurt land which yielded tasty results, and even a few converts. Yeah!

Sunday was some church, followed by some naps, followed by... geez... what did we do? Oh yes, Tracy visited and we watched "My Name is Bruce" which was fairly awesome. Good times. Monday I totally skipped class. Take THAT Food and Beverage Cost Control! Instead we went to downtown Dallas to get my wallet back, and later we went to the MADI museum, a potential reception venue. It was really cool and full of awesome art. My only potential worry is that a rock band might not fit inside, and we might have to be creative if we want any dancing. Still, you can't beat the price, and at 500.00 it's definitely worth some creative thinking.

Tuesday was some late napping, dim sum, and then yogurt land and print club. It was a great way to end the visit.

Just getting to take a nap next to my boy whenever I felt like it was great. Riding around in the car listening to our silly music was awesome. We totally spent an extra hour or so getting home from Dallas, just because riding around was fun. He had good time at All-Con, which is all I could hope for, agreeing with me that it was more enjoyable than A-kon. He wore silly costumes with me and danced around with me. We ate all manner of tasty foods, which is always the best. It doesn't hurt things that he is genuinely one of the kindest and sweetest people I know. Oh and the glasses. Yay for glasses. I totally found his first white hair, and he freaked for a minute- but I told him how awesome it would be to be old people. He's gonna be in his lab coat- this little old chemist dude, jumping around and doing experiments. And I'm going to be this little old lady in the kitchen making dumplings at light speed. WE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE. That's right, I'm asking you for a challenge.

I miss you already, Drew...

All-Con is around the corner and I have a lot of things that need to get done. But right now it seemed imperative that I show off the icon I made using art I got from someone on Gaia. My OTP crosses genres! XD

Or is it just my SEXY COMICS???

For a given value of sexy, where sexy = (Cat, 4 real? This is not sexy at all)

I have been on a Metal Gear kick all weekend long, so now I apparently think the thing the world needs the most is an AU comic about Hal and Dave as college roommates. I won't go into details as to what inspired this notion (cough cough downloaded doujinshi cough) but... I see room for hilarity. No, they won't all have guest appearances by SD Cooking Mama. (Or Quasi Realistic one either.)

OMG I HAVE SO MANY OTHER THINGS TO DO.

I don't even remember what my last entry was about, that's how crazy things get sometimes. But right now I have a few minutes before I can officially report in for work, so I might as well catch you all up, right? Doctor Horrible is gonna dance and keep me company. He'd better. He OWES me.

Soooo...

SCHOOL:
I finished the hell that was math and computer class. I am not exaggerating at all when I say that most of computers was spent on Gaia, and most of math was spent writing mad libs and crazy stories about Andycam. But that's over. The best thing to come of either of those classes was that I made friends with Ben, "the kid" who is in another class- but is with us for lecture classes. He is pretty cool in a quasi nerdy way- and has a dog named "Toaster". That's AWESOME. At some point when I stop being lazy I will scan in the epic 8 page story we wrote.

Right now I'm in meat fab. Aside from the day where I was puking out my nose and had to miss class, and the following day when I was still a little uneasy in the stomach and didn't want to watch people split a pig's head in half- I am totally a rockstar in this class. My stuffed rabbit loin was awwwwesome, and today- my cute chicken curry stars were so tasty, chef stole all the leftover chicken and rice and ran away with them to his computer. XD yay food.

ALL-CON:
The other thing that is taking up my time right now. I need to finish organizing what I want to do with all the panels, but I'm also working on cosplay stuff right now. I've done some stenciling on the little cardigan I bought:


This is from her "Snow White" costume. I also need to get to Yogurtland and steal me a cup and spoon. :) Better than a laundry basket! Actually... a laundromat would be a fun place for pictures... I'll keep that in mind.


This is the raygun that I've been working on for Andrew. I really get a kick out of painting them, and he likes getting them, so that works out. I've discovered that your cheap 1-2 dollar waterguns are the best basis for these. You're not really gonna want to shoot water out of them, so who cares about water pressure. Also, these guns tend to have more fantastic designs than the super-soaker types. I think it's because they have more to prove. THE TINIEST ANTS FIGHT THE HARDEST.

FAMILY:
My parents are going to Mexico for two weeks for Spring Break. That's going to be interesting. I hope they leave me some $$$ for food... but then- they haven't had big bucks coming out of their ears either... I WILL EAT EXUBERANCE!

Anyways- I hope you all are doing fine. I've been hiding on facebook and AIM more often than here on LJ because I am often too tired to type this much. As it is, I really want a nap.

Stolen from Tracy
COMPUTER VOYEUR MEME
█ Stop what you're doing.
█ Print screen your current desktop.
█ If you have Photoshop open, print screen.
█ If you have a music player open, print screen.
█ Pick a folder, open it, print screen.
( Clearly... I have a type. )
So... Andrew is supposed to come visit in March, for Gen-Con with any luck. I'm planning a Penny costume to go with the Dr. Horrible costume I made for him back in August. This means I need to find a wig... but ah well.

School is still mind bogglingly boring, but I'm coping. PAC night was awesome, even though most of my time was spent in the kitchen chatting, or playing Smash Brothers with a 3 year old.

It has come to my attention that during Andrew's visits- the two of us are apparently guilty of exhibiting behavior that some might view as overly sentimental while in public. While I confess, neither of us is in the habit of the low-level-degradation that seems to be normal couple banter in nerd circles, I hadn't realized we erred on the side of being saccharine.

In an attempt to rectify this behaviour- I'm hoping you can tell me what exactly (and hopefully when) the offending behaviours are, because I don't want to make people uncomfortable.

Feel free to leave anonymous comments. I just want to know.

Andrew is going to have to spend some (un)quality time at the airport tomorrow morning, and probably a lot of time in his car as well. These are for his listening pleasure.

http://www.iwannabeapirate.com/with_lubs/Hamlet.mp3
http://www.iwannabeapirate.com/with_lubs/TheHistories.mp3
http://www.iwannabeapirate.com/with_lubs/TheComedies.mp3
http://www.iwannabeapirate.com/with_lubs/RomeoandJuliet.mp3
http://www.iwannabeapirate.com/with_lubs/TheTragedies.mp3

Also, apparently people didn't know we are still doing our podcast. Special guest stars this week!
http://marryshagcliff.podbean.com

...is better than Christmas at the Dursley's!

http://community.livejournal.com/ten_support/19590.html?view=201606#t201606
THIS IS MY NEW WALLPAPER OMG.

Also- we will have a screening of "Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter" at my party.

Also, we will be playing Dokupan Kingdom.

Also, I love Christmas.

Funny, Tracy got blue. I think, if we went with the strict "rule of 3" color system, this is accurate. I hope I'm not as flighty as this quiz makes me sound, though.

Longer meme from http://www.paulgoldinresearch.com/cg/

You want to be regarded as an exiting and interesting personality able to persuade others to comply with your beliefs and ideas. You are charming and able to influence other people who come into your sphere of influence. You like mental stimulation and you are the sort of person who is prepared to 'try anything once'. Your confidence is so much so that others are often swept away by your enthusiasm.

You are very self-sufficient and methodical. You presume to know where you are going but need to find a person who will recognise the way you are, not be too demanding and who is, as they say in Italy, 'Simpatico'.

There are times of everyone's life when 'compromise' is the name of the game and this is the time, so you have no alternative but to forgo some pleasures for the time being. You are capable of achieving satisfaction through physical activity.

Stresses resulting from a recent disappointment have led to considerable trepidation. It would seem that there seems to be so much left undone. Everything surrounds you with that air of uncertainty. You badly need to feel a sense of security and whatever it takes to protect you against further disappointment. At this particular time you doubt that things could be any better in the future but you are sticking to your guns and refusing to take advice from any source.

Sometimes one fears that its not worth formulating new ideas and projects because whatever you seem to have done in the past has never worked out and you are tired of, as they say, banging your head against a brick wall. No one seems to care. So now you are trying to get away from it all by withdrawing into a 'fantasy land' but unfortunately 'fantasy land' is just that and sooner or later you will have to return to reality so why delay the inevitable? When you do return, you will find that the situation is not as tough as perhaps you thought it was.


Does delving into the world of gingerbread mean I'm escaping reality?

So, you know how when you're having a good dream, your alarm wakes you up in the good bit, and you desperately try to hit the snooze button so you can go back to your dream and enjoy it a little longer? Yeah, that never works.

EXCEPT TODAY.
(The day of part 1 of my final exam...)

I had a rather odd dream that involved me poking around in a library (that I think I'vedreamt of before) in an attempt to find a place to take some form of writing exam- it was a little convoluted, and it ended up with me on some street in London, looking at real estate. With the Doctor. There was some frustration that the advert in the paper did not reflect reality, and this ended up with someone challenging the Doctor. For some reason this caused him to quote the Mighty Boosh. Specifically, he was quoting the Moon "I'm the Moon, and there's only one Moon!" from an episode of season 4. What's that, you say? There is no season 4 yet? Well who cares, he is from the FUTURE! He has seen season 12 of Mighty Boosh. Goodness.

Actually, Lobster Johnson and I agree that it would be a clever trick of the BBC to have him quote a then-unaired episode of some show. It's okay BBC, you can pay us in Region 1 DVDs.

Right, so while my dream was not PERFECTLY continuous, each hit on the snooze button did yield just a TINY bit more Doctor/Boosh glory, at least some of which was me trying to tell people "OMG DOCTOR + BOOSH = YAY". Also, taunting Chris because he hates the moon in all its forms.

Oh... I have also been asked what I would like for Christmas- so... y'know... here's a list! Woo!

MY FRIENDS ARE MADE OF MONEY

1. Hellboy 2 on DVD, used, bruised, whatever. I need Abe Sapien singing. :D
2. Gift cards for foods? This is where the bulk of my money goes DX
2b. Gift cards for cool places like Target or Central Market because holy crap it is cool.
3. Hunchback of Notre Dame (the Disney version) on dvd or vhs or whatever you can find. Unfortunately it was one of those "OMG We will sell it for a week because we are Disney and we are lame!" releases
4. A bunch of blank Cds? I have actually used a surprising amount of hard disk space on my computer downloading Boosh/Doctor Who etc and I am usually too poor to buy new CDs. :(
5. Gaia giftcards? I am lame, I know- I can't bring myself to spend *my* money on Gaia items, so I might as well spend yours. :)
6. Any books featuring "The Octonauts" by Meomi- I've seen them on Amazon, dunno if you can find them in bookstores easily. SO CUTE LOOKING!
7. Dr. Horrible on DVD Comes out the 19th, I think. I doubt anyone we know is on this DVD but still.... ^_^
8. Contributions to Child's Play because charitable giving is awesome and sick kiddies need things more than I do. :)
9.ALL THINGS BOOSH If you happen to be made of money I would explode if I got this book of the calendar. OMG ASPLODE.

Okay, that's it guys. I know I haven't updated my journal in ages- I've been so consumed with school and my insane notion that after having NO EXPERIENCE with gingerbread houses since 5th grade, I could build a cathedral... yeah- I've been busy. Forgive me!

Okay guys. :P

Hilarious "fanfic" review:
http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/7474890.html

Stolen from Sarah G.

Despite my absence from all of your friends pages, I'm not dead! I've just been so insanely busy that I haven't more than smattering of time on LJ at any given moment (and it's not accessible when I'm at After the Bell). Here is more or less what my days look like:

Monday/Wednesday: Wake up at 5:30 or 6 (depending on if I'm getting a ride) - Class from 7-12, grab cheap lunch, take the bus home to get home at 1, collapse until 2:15, take bus to work, work 3-6, take bus and get home at 7. Lather, rinse repeat.

Tuesday/Thursday/Friday is basically the same, except instead of home I go to Brookhaven and do AVID.

Tuesday nights I head over to Chris' and we do our podcast, so I really don't get home til 9. Fridays sometimes we'll play videogames or something? (Lately, not so much cause of business. Friday, Holly might do an early recording with us?)

Speaking of the podcast- it is kind of hilarious. We have a fan, so I guess that means we're doing as well as Flight of the Conchords. http://marryshagcliff.podbean.com

I have a million stupid 1 page papers to write for English. Not difficult, by any means- just TIME CONSUMING and TEDIOUS and we get like... one every day. The woman justifies this by telling us a day's worth of class is worth a week at another school (I can't imagine spending a week on one chapter...) but that doesn't mean we go home and magically have a week's worth of evenings to do the work she assigns. Most, if not all of us work evenings. Honestly maybe... three or four of the assignments she's given us have been relevant at all.

I'm doing what I can to make the class interesting though. I've been writing papers about zombie attacks ("Great story!") as well as fighting flaming bears, ("This was supposed to be true!") and my description of a lemon (actually a devious lime who I exposed in a devastating article) had the class rolling.

Also, in a desperate attempt to be an overachiever I'm attempting to enter any and all contests I can. I did a bad-ass Alice in Wonderland pumpkin (pictures coming) and won first place as well as "best themed" which earned me two certificates and a medal. I don't know if the accolade is good for anything in the real world, but I feel special.

In addition to that Jeremy (Adams) and Matthew (Lord Harlock) and I created a carefully orchestrated plan to get me to Denton for the Halloween/Cosplay meeting of Mek this year. I made a Rice-Crispy Treat Tonberry to take, which had a lot of people totally flipping out. (It also freaked out Britt and Jeremy when I just casually took a seat next to them.) 90% of the people there didn't know who I was, but I did get to chat with old friends and stuff. Skypirate was there so I got to play catch up with him as well which was great. The cosplay contest was VERY entertaining. Devin came in wearing a cardboard box, and we were expecting to see his cool Snake costume. HOW SURPRISED WERE WE when he discarded the box to reveal NAKED RAIDEN (okay, bodysuit wearing raiden) and ran through the room. Answer: VERY
As he ran past I asked him to introduce me to Otacon. Alden contended that I was jealous because Otacon wasn't gay for me. It took me a while to wrap my head around that one.

Last night I came straight to church from work, threw on my Snow White costume and painted faces for an hour and a half. Faith, from AVID came to visit me so that was nice. Afterwards I went to Chilli's with the Kidsons and that was great. They are such a super cool family. Monica was dressed as a Mad Scientist and Rose was Link. How cool are those kids? Cooler than proper capitalization, that's for sure. ^_^

I miss everyone!

Photos from that night: http://unt.muepsilonkappa.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=8388

It's an appropriate icon! Woo! So here's some news for you guys!

CULINARY SKILLZ
Tomorrow is the first part of my exam in Culinary Skills 2. I am... not freaked out, which freaks me out. We have 2 hours to prepare one of four (random) menus (we had a list of the 4 in advance, but don't know which we will get that day) and then 2 hours to take a 100 question exam. To be honest, I'm kinda hoping I can do the exam last because there will be less cleanup for me to do- AND I can spend more time going to the tri-weekly grand buffet. Also- I made pasta today! From scratch! It was AWESOME and the teacher really liked it, so that's good. However, I still fail at making gnocchi... it's just one of those things. :(

PODCAZT!
It's up! Chris and I did our first podcast of 'Marry, Shag, Throw off a Cliff'- and of course there are lots of video games and comics involved. Chris is in fact so narcissistic that he's already listened to the mp3 file a kajillion times, and is already telling people he barely knows how FABULOUS it is. If you have an hour and basically want to pretend that the two of us are in the room with you (and dominating the conversation) we'll be posting one every week at the site http://marryshagcliff.podbean.com
If we really have way too much fun and keep doing this- we might move to a new site, or just start paying for space on this one... but we'll see what the future holds. Woo! Tell your friends! (Also, if you want to send us lists of names for the game, that's good too!)

Ugh. I have to make production schedules... but that can wait another 17 minutes...

Mrs. Pleasant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET5wCdZzIsw

Infinity Billion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw1pMkP3Ic8

Go give us ratings and comments. We heart you!

With any luck, this version will upload properly and actually work.

This one is a little further along- things I know I need to fix are:
- tweak the volume on cuts, especially the vocal musical tracks
- Add the scrapbook pages to replace their photo counterparts (don't worry, I am fairly sure the scrapbook pages will be easier to understand than the raw photos)

If anything else comes to mind, let me know.

http://www.iwannabeapirate.com/ELE/pleasant_demob.wmv

yay!

So in the end, it looks like Caroline, Chris and I are shooting this video. Maybe Holly will come help? I wish I knew some more guys in the area that were willing to help. Curse my anti-social nature.

Anyways, I've been watching 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'- the Disney version, that is- a TON. I'm planning a gingerbread monstrosity, and this is pretty helpful. Of course, it means I have the entire soundtrack stuck in my head. Ah well.

Watching the clips on youtube has led me to other sundry Disney videos. This one cracked me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPaqVlcIPBQ&feature=related

There's also the millions of Disney Princess videos. The oddest one I came across was a Snow White video to Evanesence (yes, 'Wake Me Up').