Seren's Den

I guess I'm going mostly public again

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:56:43 GMT

I mean, I hardly ever post here, anyway, so. XD

Random points of life:
Nearing 200 watchers on furaffinity, what what. I'm popular on the internet!11!one
Steph gave me a feggin 55 gallon aquarium, I swear to shit she spoils me.
I really should declare my major soon. I kind of want to major in geology, but haven't a clue what I'd do with it.

I love youse guys

Mike Gravel 2008

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:50:17 GMT

This is a Mike Gravel campaign video.
No, this isn't fake.

Vote for him now.

FRIENDS ONLY

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:08:27 GMT

Ayup, might as well make it official, I think for the most part I'm making this journal friends-only.
Stalkers are not good times. One in particular.
*shudder* Hello, cupcake.
Comment here to be added.

Meme yoinked from Steph!

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:22:01 GMT

Psychoanalyze Yourself. Answer the following questions with the first thought that comes to mind. Then read which each answer means. (No cheating! ) best way to do this is to just copy the questions first then look under the cut and copy the answers later.

1. You are not alone. You are walking in the woods. With who?
...*cheeseball* The first thing that comes to your mind? I got this sort of. Fairy tail wolf companion thing.

2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal is it?
...*looks up* ...Well um! After that, owl.

3. What interaction do you have with this animal?
I watch him.

4. You walk deeper in the woods. You enter a clearing and before you is your dream house. Describe it.
A relatively small, cozy, and eco-friendly house with a huge garden and a field behind it.

5. Is your dream house surrounded by a fence?
The field is for the sake of whatever animals I have. :)

6. You enter the house. You walk in to the dining room and see the dining room table. What do you see on AND around it?
In the center is a gorgeous flower arrangement. The area around the table's pretty free, though I think there's a display cabinet nearby. I'm not sure what it's displaying.

7. You exit the house and a cup is on the ground, what kind is it?
A wooden mug.

8. What do you do with the cup?
Inspect it, wash it out, keep it to store things in.

9. You walk to the edge of the property where you find yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. what kind of body of water is it?
A gently flowing creek with a few little waterfalls.

10. How will you cross the water?
Hopping across some smooth, easy-to-stand-on stones.

1. The person who you are walking in the woods with is the most important person in your life.
.............

2. The size of the animal is representative of your perception of the size of your problems in your life.
Purdy small. Hoothoot.

3. The severity of the interaction you have with the animal is representative of how you deal with your problems.
"O_O"

4. The size of your dream home is representative of the size of your ambition to solve your problems.
:( Small is cozy and easy to maintain.

5. A lack of a fence is indicative of an open personality. People are welcome at all times. The presence of a fence indicates a closed personality. You'd prefer people not drop by unannounced.
I infer from this that I am protective of my buttocks.

6. If your answer did NOT include food, flowers, or people, then you are generally unhappy.
I like flowers. 8D

7. The durability of the material with the cup is made of is representative of the perceived durability of your relationship.
Relationship with whom? O.o

8. Your disposition of the cup is representative of your attitude.
I'm a packrat who's easily fascinated? XD

9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire.
...How big would one say a creek is? Beeg?

10. How wet you get in crossing the water is indicative of the relative importance of your sex life.
I'd probably get a couple splashes but keep my feet pretty dry in the end. So I guess it's... um... ...there in my mind but not a neccesity?

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:34:08 GMT

I propose all-school shoulder massage circles become a widespread and common practice.

Meet Lily Lightly.

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:11:35 GMT

I got a new My Little Pony recently, named "Lily Lightly," apparently, of a different make than most I've seen.

Sweet pony, eh? Can't say I'm impressed with her sense of fashion, though. However, the velcro thingies go under her belly to make the dress snug. And the dress lights up. As does her horn.

In fact, not only does her horn light up, but she BLINKS. A BLINKING PONY. A BLINKING MY LITTLE PONY.
As I said, though, I was none too impressed with her fashion, and that dress looks uncomfortable, anyhow. It didn't occur to me at the time exactly -how- the dress lights up. What with my pony greeting festivities occuring at around midnight, I was tired and figured the dress was tied to her to hide the battery door on the side of her butt without the tattoo, or some other aesthetic purpose.
Alas, as I untied and attempted to lift her dress-
Wires.
Wires. OUT OF HER BACK.

IS THAT NOT TERRIFYING.
WHY ARE WIRES GROWING OUT OF THE POOR PONY'S BACK.
WHY.

A warning on the back which I noticed far too late.
I am so depressed. :(
Life has been handed a hard, hard beginning for Lily Lightly.

Motivation.

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:02:02 GMT

If I do not meet my next, self-appointed writing goal (30,000 words by Valentine's Day,) Emily will get to chomp the crap outta me.
.............
*cries, opens up word proccessing*

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:10:29 GMT

Of rambling

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:23:16 GMT

To sate my need to go on about a lot of nothing without flooding peoples' friends lists (too much >_>) and boring them to death, I've created a new LJ, tread_serenity, for the purpose of going on about things like "I saw a flower and it was pretty duuur." XD Good times.

I'm married.

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:59:38 GMT

This is my hubbie.

I don't care that we've never spoken.

No, he doesn't have a say in the matter.

gurgle

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:11:25 GMT

Horomones. Depression. Social paranoia. Send halp plz. Or cheesecake.
Mmm cheesecake.
(EDIT: WTF? Why was this posted as a Jan 5 entry? XD I AM POSTING FROM THE FUTURE K)

NC

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:34:23 GMT

Goin' to NC now!
Will be able to text message after all. At least there's that. Heh!

Holiday Trip 2006!

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:29:50 GMT

H'okay. As most of you know, I don't tend to be very enthusiastic about impending trips down south to visit family (Alabama and North Carolina, respectively.) I hate leaving my animals in someone else's care, especially for an extended period of time, and I fit in with most of my family like an ugly duckling in a box of Legos.

Stay with me, here.

However, I'll be returning on the second of January and I've got some things keepin' me going... music, books, video games, and of course my trusty laptop, among them. Gots some pictures of various friends on my cell to take a look-see at when I'm lonely, and I've been wearing a (cyoooot) pair of chick earrings given to me for Chrimmus by odd_thought, who tends to make me feel rather "zomg p0n1ez!!! n__n"

So! Here's how it's been going so far!

Left at about 8:00 yesterday morning. Got here about 1:00 am (midnight their time.) Indeedy doo, after Mother throwing up so hard on the floor of a Mickey D's bathroom that she broke a blood vessel in her eye, and spending almost two hours in a traffic jam caused by a crash so bad that somehow, SOMEHOW, the truck was not only totally CRUNCHED in the front but was rolled up backwards UP A TREE (?!?!)

Got here, greeted people, pretended I was going to bed, retreated to me guestroom (aka my little cousin's playroom.)

Was woken up at 10 the next morning (not too bad, I know, but c'mon Y_Y) by the child knocking to come in through my locked door. I foolishly let him in, and was kept up for a while by him screaming at his XBox. XD (Fortunately they ended up moving it to his bedroom.) Either way, got back to sleep, got up later, greeted everyone and chatted it up some, played with the animals (crazy pitbull mix pup named Allie and a budgie named Green Leaf who makes me miss my babies. ;-; ) I stared at the running tank for a good five minutes before finding out that, despite it being running, all the fish had died. Oop.

Chatted some more with peeps. Okay, let it be known that, Alabammian or not, my Aunt Carol is something else, and in a good way. XD Firstly, she has a GINORMOUS stuffed cow at the top of the stairs (pics when I return,) whom she has decorated for Christmas. And she has been dispensing such wisdom as, "Janelle, if you're ever in a fight, one thing you always have to remember is to fight -fair.- ....And if you're losing a fight, it's only fair to pick up the nearest chair and bring it hard as you can across your opponent's head. u.u"

Visited my gramma's new trailer. Actually, it's pretty dang nice for a trailer. As always, though, I feel a wee bit smothered by the amazing amount of religious stuffs around her place. >_> (Not entirely sure why, I mean, I'm pretty spiritual myself, but... O_o;; )

And uuum. Yup!

Wish me luck, m'dearies.

Friends list spam ahoy.

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:25:33 GMT

Hello thar. It is 3:20 am.
Despite the fact that my nightmares are starting to pop up when I nap during the daytime, that's a walk in the park considering they're still nearly -consuming- my sleep at night.
I am procrastinating sleep.
Part of my plan for procrastinating sleep is to spend time posting this message on my livejournal about procrastinating sleep.
That is all.

hangs head

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:43:53 GMT

>_> Y_Y;

This is an Amy appreciation post.

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:03:28 GMT

*loves all over her*

Panty Pirate Pie (12:45:16 AM): ...*cuddles plushie*

InvadingApricots (12:45:39 AM): I was shot by a plushie

InvadingApricots (12:45:41 AM): In the War

Panty Pirate Pie (12:46:22 AM): We mustn't let that hinder our judgement

Panty Pirate Pie (12:46:35 AM): The plushies are our allies now

InvadingApricots (12:47:17 AM): I'll never trust them. I'll always keep one hand on my holster and one eye on them.

Panty Pirate Pie (12:48:27 AM): But are you to distrust the very plushies that are the fabric of our society?

InvadingApricots (12:50:35 AM): You don't understand, Sarge. I don't expect you to understand. You didn't know what it was like to be in the front lines; to watch your friends get butchered right in front of you. Those plushies are animals, Sarge. First chance they get they'll stab you in the back

Panty Pirate Pie (12:51:54 AM): But have you forgotten the great injustices we have bestowed upon -them!-

Panty Pirate Pie (12:53:19 AM): Millions of plushies abused, torn like a child's plaything! Soiled, unloved, praying for the day not another cruel ray of light would pass over their wretched bead eyes! Yes, praying for RELEASE!

Panty Pirate Pie (12:53:29 AM): We can't give them that, soldier.Panty Pirate Pie (12:53:36 AM): Not kindly.

Panty Pirate Pie (12:54:03 AM): Not within the very restraints of humanity. But we can give them life anew! Citizens! FRIENDS, even!

Panty Pirate Pie (12:54:08 AM): Can you not understand?!

InvadingApricots (12:57:03 AM): Can you not understand the dangers that this platoon is faced with just being in the presence of those...things? I'm not paid to be an idealist, Sarge. I'm paid to be cautious, and while you're busy socializing with our new "friends", I'll be preparing for the moment when they sever your limbs and eat from your carcass.

InvadingApricots (12:57:47 AM): This alliance is doomed, and us with it if we're not careful

Panty Pirate Pie (1:00:21 AM): I'd sooner side with a plush animal than the likes of you any day! Your cruel words chill me like a bitter wind, make me ashamed to be your fellow human! Made in God's image, the two of us, yet your words! They make me long to be of fabric and plush filling myself!!

InvadingApricots (1:05:08 AM): Your big words don't frighten me, Sarge. You go ahead and dream of peace, but when war comes back don't say I didn't warn youPanty Pirate Pie (1:05:44 AM): If the war comes back, it will be by no hands but your own.

Panty Pirate Pie (1:05:50 AM): I have nothing more to say to you, soldier.

InvadingApricots (1:06:24 AM): Perhaps that's for the best

Panty Pirate Pie (1:06:50 AM): I bid you farewell. *leaves*

InvadingApricots (1:07:11 AM): *looks around*

InvadingApricots (1:07:14 AM): *fap*

****

*Amy signs on
Panty Pirate Pie (6:04:12 PM): Draw your weapon.
InvadingApricots (6:04:54 PM): *draws a samurai sword*
Panty Pirate Pie (6:05:13 PM): *draws dinosaur*
InvadingApricots (6:05:21 PM): That's no fair!
Panty Pirate Pie (6:05:35 PM): ...*swings dinosaur*
InvadingApricots (6:05:59 PM): *ducks*
Panty Pirate Pie (6:06:33 PM): *lets go*
Dinosaur: ARRRRRRR D8
InvadingApricots (6:06:49 PM): What a waste of a perfectly good prehistoric animal!

****
Panty Pirate Pie (7:06:13 PM): HUNGRY FOR NANI?
InvadingApricots (7:06:37 PM): HELLS YEAH I GOTS MAH FORK AND SPOON

****
InvadingApricots (9:50:59 PM): Barry Manilow is a lyrical genius.
*

Surprise surprise!

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:54:15 GMT

Social Liberal
You scored 76% Personal Liberty and 25% Economic Liberty!

A social liberal believes in little to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate to high government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers, victimless crimes, and what they may consider to be a corporate state or rogue capitalism. They generally support personal liberty and believe in a social safety net or welfare state. They support self-ownership and privacy. Social liberals are essentially the "mainstream" left and left of center.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Personal

You scored higher than 99% on Economic

Link: The Politics Test written by brainpolice on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Here I type words into my internet journal and post them for viewing by friends! On the internet!

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:00:44 GMT

Titling this entry was an epic experience.

So, as Claire says, "What's going on with me?"

I'm having -so- much fun with my part in Waiting For Godot, and I'm getting more confident pretty quickly, knock on wood.

I'm tewtally kicking ass in Japanese 1. Oh yeah. u.u ...But seriously, fuck katakana in the ear.

I have been sooo fuckin' tired, mein.

I'm shocked and almost a bit startled by the sheer number and volume of complaints I've been hearing about a former friend without me saying a thing to put it in motion. O.o;;

Brownie seems to age faster by the month, and it's starting to really get to me... :\ I'd always heard that Brittanys were known to have a fairly short lifespan, but he always seemed so healthy that I just couldn't see him -not- aging slower than Brittanys tend to age. Now, he's approaching... about 10, I think? ...And his senses, arthritis, skin... it's all going downhill. ...Mmm. :\

I wonder if I have that seasonal affective thingy. ...Oh lord, just what I need, eh? XD;; BUT! I'm excited about the holidays despite inevitable trip to visit family (I really wish I could spend -one- Christmas at home.. :\)

I think the socktopus (like a sock monkey, only an octopus) Steph gave me has properties as a muse. I plan to test this theory.

.......
.........Aaayep.

Rambling on my next writing project.

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:09:54 GMT

Soon I want to get serious about writing something to be published. For years I insisted I wanted to be a published author, but I never actually got around to tailoring my stories together, constantly editing and jumping and abandoning and procrastinating. I eventually put my aspiration to become an author on an indefinite hiatus... despite remaining creative, I felt I just didn't have what it took to actually write a novel.

Nanowrimo made me realize that I most certainly -can- do this. Like I said, my biggest problem with getting anywhere in my writing before was the fact that I kept editing and doing itty bitty bits and going "ooh, I don't feel like putting it all together," or "that just isn't good enough to go in." What I need to do this time is just to -do- it, and go and go and go until it's finished. I can always edit what I don't like and shift stuff around later. For now, I just need to actually -write- it.

As one who's heard me ramble about this might predict, my were stories are what I really want to break in with. However, first I need to work out a few changes, because one slightly major difference I think I'm going to take from my original approach is that I don't think I want to focus on the legal and law enforcement aspects of the story, meaning nearWAS won't be the engine of it all, nor the area that connects all of the main characters, at least not through employment. So, before I get a start on this (I'm dying to <3) I need to decide where exactly this character and that character come into play, and especially how they'll all connect into the same story... coz I'm going to keep the majority of the subplots, but like I said, they won't have nearWAS as the pivotal point.

...W00t.

Also, GLBT meetings.

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:05:55 GMT

I'm not looking forward very much to this Monday. The GLBT meetings have been very frustrating... a handful of people have been behaving in a very disruptive manner and up until now I haven't done much except sort of try to talk over them and go "Guys... guys, please be quiet and listen..."

I don't think I'm gonna do that this time. I worry about offending people, especially people I like, but this really isn't acceptable behavior. =\ I'm still not good at raising my voice or anything though... I'm actually considering bringing in a whistle if need be. If someone's being disruptive and refuses to quiet down, I'm telling them to leave.

Also, it's been pretty hard to find subject matter, not for a lack of topics, but for the fact that I'm getting so little input from the group on whatever I bring up. I'm beginning to get the feeling that I'm expected to be more of a lecturer than a discussion leader. @_@ So, I guess I'll give that a shot, though still leaving openings for people to talk... ...but in that case, I need to get a lot more things to talk about, considering it looks like I shouldn't be depending on the rest of the group to be talking. This is going to be a little difficult... it's such a broad spectrum, and thus far the most specific suggestion for a topic I've gotten has been "learning about gayness."

Oy.

I do appreciate the (non-disruptive) people who have been coming even if this isn't a very important area to them, though. It's very refreshing to see people wanting to open their minds.

Well.

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:46:01 GMT

Well. November, National Novel Writing Month is over, and guess what? At 5:21 pm on November 30, I crossed over the 50000 word finish line. I DID IT!! <3
It's a great feeling. ...And now that my hands are starting to recover, I can get back to some cleaning and somesuch I've been neglecting and (on a more fun note) start on my next, less-frantic writing project. :) (I'll probably be updating here more again, too.)

I've been really moody lately, but I'm starting to pick myself out of it, I think. Life is good.

Also:
"Being 'partisan' at a time when extreme and dangerous elements have taken control of one of the major parties is no vice. Being 'centrist' when it means making nice with extreme and dangerous elements is no virtue."
~ D. C. Simpson (one of my favorite online cartoonists and bloggers. <3)

So true.

Whew.

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:52:11 GMT

Anybody who's known me for longer than... say, a year? Shall probably find this post to be very "wow."

You know what's ridiculously hard right now?

Getting up on Saturday and going, "Today, I won't let myself do anything, anything, ANYTHING I don't REALLY want to do. And NO ACADEMICS. At ALL."

I've focused so hard on not sinking back into that place I used to be where I'd put things off and let things sit and not even take care of myself, much less take care of affairs in my life, that it's taking me forcing myself to have an actual -day off- to realize maybe I'm overdoing it a little. XD;; (Especially for someone whose personality naturally leans towards lazy. >_> Yeah, I admit it.)

Such is life!

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:31:04 GMT

Hey! To elaborate on my last post, busy, busy, busy. Though it's nice to have so many things going on, especially in comparison to the lifelessness I used to let myself fall into so often, I'll confess maybe I'm overdoing it a little for my nature; despite my parents encouraging me for once, I might decide not to get a job for now.

I don't think I'd be feeling as sometimes-excruciatingly drained as I have been if it weren't for the fact that my sleep's been horrid. I'm going through another nightmare phase, and I end up only getting a couple of hours of sleep at night. All day I just want to curl up and nap, even when I -don't- have so much stuff to do.

So what -am- I doing? Aside from the obvious (school,) I'm getting some credit from extracurricular work, I'm in the drama club and am gonna be in the school play (Pozzo in Waiting for Godot,) organizing stuff for the now-solidifying GLBT group (soon to probably evolve into twice a week as some people are requesting,) studying and preparing for SATs, and, of course, Nanowrimo!

Speaking of Nanowrimo, I've reached past the 10000 mark. =3 Not bad, not bad. I was a bit concerned because my story isn't ending up as goofy or funny as I intended at all, but I suppose that's alright. Also, it's been risque enough, now that I've hit 10000 I think I'll let myself put in some hawt lesbian s3xx0rz when I feel like it. I mean, hey, it's fun and it'll be some easy filler.

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:00:28 GMT

Sooo much to do
Send help! D:

Happy Halloween!

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:20:35 GMT

Goddammit, every year I intend to carve a pumpkin by Halloween and I never do.
........You know what, fuck it, I'll probably make a late one this year. u.u

Nanowrimo starts tomorrow! Don't forget it!!