I thought I'd post feed back just in case anyone's interested.

I should probably make it a habit to ask for feedback from sellers so that others will know I'm worth dealing with.
Anyway, here it is.

Well, I never posted an update. >...> And since long updates are long, I'm going to try to make mulitple updates today or during the week to get everything in.

I did get the place.  It's a cute little yellow duplex at the end up a street in a neighborhood with a bunch of kids on my street and old people on the other.  Loud kids...

But at any rate, I live right in front of some woods that come right up to the place and surround the neighborhood.  It's kind of cool because I've seen deer and hawks since I've been here and not kind of cool because of the kids who can be noisy and the fact that there is a river around here.  I love bodies of water, don't get me wrong...it's just that on certain days, there is a bad smell because this particular river is polluted.  U_U  But most of the time it's great around here.

The fact that it's so hot outside means that there aren't a lot of kids around though.  I don't dislike children, but I do dislike destruction.  Apparently they were banging on the door.  I was sitting in the computer room/studio with my boyfriend and there was this banging noise.  He goes to check and there's a group of kids peeling down the street with one of them pointing and screaming "they did it!"

That was hilarious.  But yeah...nice place, pretty...interesting neighborhood.

Meanwhile, I've been working and going to classes this summer in an effort to offset the costs of moving, covering bills, and hopefully being able to buy furniture.  I had some super comfortable , omg I have to climb out of this couch furniture, but I sold it to my brother (from whom I'm still awaiting payment) because he ...isn't the cleanest knife in the drawer and I wanted to make sure that the place I am in now started clean and stayed clean.  Here the worst that I have to deal with is studio clutter.  And I like it that way.

But I'm unfortunately not doing too well financially at the moment.  I've got rent covered for next month and will be scraping by with my bills for a while and have a bit of food for the time being. ( I got screwed over too.  )
I'm really looking forward to December.  It will be the first true break that I get from school and work all year.  I have however been drawing a a lot while at work and waiting for my ride to pick me up, so my sketchbook has been steadily filling up.  I'm going to work on finishing up what's in there for AWA.

Well, there isn't very much going on with me right now.  Meaning as of this moment.  Generally, I'm still waiting to hear word about the place that I've applied for.  I've also been confirmed for Anime Weekend Atlanta.  (Back in March) and have secured everything necessary to attend, but am still working on things for my table.

I'm playing around with differnt ideas for display set ups.  Last year I did the crate thing.  I didn't mind it too terribly, however, it was rather large and cumbersome.  Even though I will have help loading and unloading things, I'd prefer something that's not so bulky.  I'm thinking of those stacking magazine racks or something. 

Anyway, I did just get a necklace from a work friend.  She was telling me about something that she bought that didn't quite suite her and when she looked at it, she thought of me since it had crosses and crests and general pseudo punk things.  It's actually quite nice.

Well, I'm working on paper two of three from the to do list that I posted.  I'm hoping to finish by late tonight so that I can start typing the paper from my notes and outline on Friday.  I'm not sure if it's really going to work out that way though.

As far as the housing thing goes, I've already done everything I need to do regarding that and at this point I'm just waiting on confirmation.  I've gone to the same apartment complex and been around in circles trying to get them to give me an answer and let me know whether or not they would actually work with me based on the amount of money that I have to work with.  One person says yes, one says no.  So I've been limited to one place.  And I met with the agent about that yesterday and gave up all of the necessary paper work and fees for application so I wait.

Meanwhile, I've been working on some site exclusive content.  I've been in a drawing mood lately which sucks when you have things to do for school and aren't the best person at proper time management due to procrastination and apathy.  But I kind of feel like things are going a bit more smoothly for me in some ways and not in others.

For instance; I am saving up for a new bed.  My current one (an old futon that my aunt gave me) is letting itself become known as a true death trap.  I've been thinking seriously of just sleeping on the couch downstairs because of the sheer amount of pain that I've started feeling over the last couple of weeks from sleeping on that thing as it's starting to affect my daily life.  I had to run an errand at work the other day which just required me to walk down to another part of campus.  It's a seven minute walk both ways for 14 in total.  Plus whatever time I spend inside the building.  But I was in so much pain that I was having difficulty walking and I felt as though I might vomit.  Let's toss in some back spasms and leg cramps for good measure and you'll see what I was dealing with.  So that is high on my agenda.  Along with glasses, and a washer/dryer.  Obviously not in that order.

( Blind you say? )

Thus I am selling off items. 

This then will kill two birds with one stone so to speak as I really need to downsize my amount of items (Sailor Moon Collection) since I can't take a lot with me when I move and there's nowhere to put it now as it is.  So I figured if I can't display it properly, I shouldn't keep it.  I see no point in paying money for things that are just going to sit in boxes.   I do intend to keep a few things because I like vintage toys and stickers and things (hence my My Little Pony collection) but I don't think I need to have so much that it just sits in bins.  It's a bit of a waste.
So you can head over to serasell or to flickr.com/photos/gothicsugar/sets to see what I have available if you like Sailor Moon.  I'm going to be adding a few more things.

Also, if you're interested in buying; do me a favor.  Please read carefully over the descriptions and take advantage of the flickr feature that allows you to scroll over the picture to see additional notes.  I've been getting asked questions for information that was already posted because people are not reading what was placed there.  It's not that difficult.  I don't really see the point in taking the time to learn how to read if you don't intend to do it.

However, for the sake of argument, I don't update here much like I said I would.  >..>  So this counts as my being productive. 
Otherwise, I need to;

• finish critical paper : 2of 3 finished
• clean up this sty of a room
• sort laundry
• call about housing
• sort out my meager possessions to pack
• photograph and list things for etsy
• update art site
• finish sketchbooks and mail them out : 1 of 2 finished
• mail off bills. 

Apparently, I will be getting published in the school's magazine again, only this time, a poster I did for last semester's 2-D design and color theory class will be posted in it.  My professor asked if he could hold onto it for a show, so I said sure.  He's supposed to be letting us all know when the show is, but I'm still waiting.  I may have to call him or send him a text if I don't find CG and ask her first.
I forwent submitting poetry this time around.  I mean, I'm not saying I won't, but it's not likely after the way they asked me whether or not I wanted my work edited only to do it anyway.

But right now, I'm sitting next to a stack of books and notebooks because I have a paper due on Wednesday and I need to get a move on it.  I've got the outline, but I don't have the content in mind.  To be honest, what I really need is some peace and quiet sans distractions.  I have my articles that I need to read already for the secondary sources, but I've gotten to the point where I find it hard to read my articles online.  It's mostly because I seem to have a shorter attention span when dealing with websites these days and words on screen than I used to.  I often find myself forcing my eyes across the page numerous times to actually see and read what I'm looking at because I've gotten into the habit of skimming.  That and I get fidgety as well.
( Quick rant ) 

Regarding lolita, I have placed a few orders since my last lolita posts and will hopefully be making a picture post to thelalolitas community.  I've bought a white skirt and blouse, as well as a recent purchase which should arrive soon which will include an ITS red cape and a jumper dress which I've been wanting for a while.

I intend to buy a couple more red items and would like some purple items as well because I would like to have a sort of mix and match wardrobe.  I have a couple of things that are not really multipurpose.

There are things that I want to say about today, but I'll reserve them for another time. In the meantime....

You are a dog

Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can't be human. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz

Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!

Haha! I'm in my 20's :P. Apparently, I'm not supposed to be able to hear that.

Well, it's that time of year again. 
I'm currently sitting behind the front desk in an all but deserted building save for those of us who work here.  There's beeen a bit of a drop in the temperature, so it's like 20 F out and the heat's not completely on in here.  But it wasn't too terrible when I first got here because it was blazing in my house. 

I haven't really done any decorating yet.  And Christmas is in three days.  Why?  Is is it because I have lost the commericial driven spirit of Christmas?  Am I apathetic?  Nope.  Just haven't had the time really.  After finals, I wanted to wind down and work on some presents for family and friends, but I remembered that I've been working on some sketchbooks for some time and the people who've commissioned me have been extrememely patient especially considering that they commissioned me in July.  They basically waited for an entire semester and I sent them scans every few weeks.  So I'm including picture bonuses.  I've already asked if they wanted them, one said sure the other said it wasn't necessary, but I always include bonuses with my commissions anyway so I'm doing some.  The way I see it is that people don't really have to buy my stuff, so I like to make it special to encourage repeat buyers.

But I'm doing a couple fo pictures for friends as Christmas gifts as well.  I've got a book at work with me so I'm doing drawings while I sit here wondering how people can in good conscience accept money for being bored all day and goofing off on the internet.

I've finally gotten started working on the homepage for a fundraiser that I'll be doing in order to raise money for my education costs.  By this I mean loan payments, grad school tuition, book fees, and things that people don't realize are incurred as expenses.  It's called millionsketchproject.com and will be going up within a few days after Christmas if I can control my level of laziness.  >..<

IMVU and stuff
On a side note, I've likely been caught up into something.  I hadn't been on IMVU for a while and I mean like over a year and a friend was all like, ooh, let's log on.  So I wasn't doing anything finals being over and all, so I'm like ok.  She wanted to introduce me to a guy friend of hers that she's known for a while.  She kept saying that the two of us were really really similar in personality.  I of course was quite skeptical and wasn't at all eager, especially since she wanted me to be on the phone with said person as well.  I'm not a phone talker, though over the past few years I have been known to sit on the phone with friends for hours at a time listening to them and talking.  Strange. 
In addition to this, another friend of mine had been speaking with him and during one of our conversations while I was talking she just burst out with an it's so true and started laughing.  I was rather taken aback, but then she explained herself.  A curt uh huh was my response.

Add to this that she wanted to know if I would go with her when she flew out this summer to visit him since she doesn't care fo fly by herself and our other friend couldn't make it because she's saving for her wedding.  Hmmm.

But I logged on this past weekend and we started talking and I have to admit that she was right and we are eerily similar.  I suspected for some time that she (the first friend) might have been doing this for her entertainment because during one of our conversations as she was laughing at the similarity in our voice tones.  (Apparently, I'm a sarcastic little thing delivering quips in a deadpan monotone with the occassional light inflection.  ...yeah.)  Anywyay, I must admit, it was weird to say the least..  Since then, we've been talking quite a lot.  Mostly we ask each other random questions just to see how similar the answers are.  It's fun and creepy at the same time, but not so disturbing that I've stopped talking to him. 

School
I finished up the semester with all A's and I have broken a vow due to necessity.  I will be taking three English classes at once next semester because I need to get some stuff out of the way as far as my requirements go.  I'm doing American Colonial and Federalism because no one knows when American Romanticism is being offered.  >..>  I'll be taking 17th century Literature, and Modern British Literature.  And I'm taking Spanish 1001.  I wanted to take Realism and Naturalism, but my advisor said I pretty much satisfied my post 1850 requirement and so the Romanticism would have been pre1850.  But what is, is what is.
I will be taking classes in the summer as well to kind of speed things along.  I wanted to do the study abroad as well, but I won't be doing it this year because I haven't got my stamina up yet.  -I've also been lax taking my iron and am starting back up again with that, because I have to take it as I was told. 
But as far as the whole stamina thing.  I walked to the bus last week and really felt terrible.  I thought I was doing better, but I guess I was wrong about that, so I'm putting the study abroad trip off till 2010.  U.U  Meanwhile when the new semester starts I'll likely workout mornings (I just plan on doing the treadmills and bikes for a whie.) and attend class in the afternoon.  Should be interesting.

It's pre-finals week here and I'm in the cafeteria thingy.  I could be in class, but we don't really have to be there so I thought I'd take the time to get something to eat in the new dining hall.  It's ok in here I guess.    The food tastes like it did before, but with a shiny new price tag.  $8 gets all you care to eat.
But I only really came in here because I was dizzy which means go eat something! in body talk.  (I don't eat much which I know is a bad thing, but I'm not often hungry unless I've been busy.  So I ate a burger and fries.  yum.  (quick and simple, nothing compared to GSU, but for CSU it's decent and instead of paying $8, I bought a ten meal plan for $50 which will make each meal $5.  So I've got nine left if I bother to take the time to show up here or have that kind of time to eat between now and April.

But I have to go, class starts in 20 minutes and I need to pack up my stuff.
-I'm making a poster and drawing it digitally.  Part of it is getting on my nerves.

I don't really know how often I'm going to post, but I thought that this was going to be a momentous occasion no matter who won this year.  But it's nice that the Democrats took it away.  For a few reasons.  There's the obvious Republicans out, so now there's a chance to see if the policy changes, but then there is the Obama is black angle.  I mean historically, no one of color has held the highest position in the land.  That's pretty darn special.
At school today there were quite a few people who were happy about that.  As an African American/black person I am pretty excited about the whole thing, but I'm more interested now in seeing what's going to be done.  Though it's great to think that this is an election that I had a part in in which the winner was chosen by my vote.  (I voted in the last presidential election, and the one previous which was my very first and each time, it was said that the democratic candidate had the popular vote, and yet we didn't gain the White House.  This unfortunately made me feel very gyped. 
However what's done is done and we must look forward. 
I was watching McCain's concession speech and it was rather good.  I admit that I didn't have the opportunity to watch it in its entirety since I had to get to bed, but he was very eloquent and seemed to weigh his words carefully so that his party understood that they lost, but not only was it not the end of the world, but that there should be no ill will held for the "winners".  And it takes a gracious individual to do such a thing.


So, I've been asked to do an election response comic for my school's paper.  (I've just submitted my first comic, so this is going to be a pretty sketchy thing since they go to print Monday.  But there are so many ways I could do it, I'm not sure what to choose.  I'm thinking of doing an mock interview sort of thing. 

I have made a vow as of today.  I have a bad habit of purchasing things like fast food and takeout.  I've decided that I will not do that for a full month.  This includes hamburgers, pizza, Chinese, etc. 
I'm doing this for a number of reasons.  Primarily, I need to save money, and that adds up.  Also, this kind of food isn't good to eat on a regular basis and I kind of like the idea of losing weight rather than putting it on, so I'm going to give up eating all that stuff.  I'll also be trying to quit with salty snacks like chips and fries which I may not eat often, but is kind of a stress food for me which I need to give up. 

I'm also going to put more effort into some of the goals that I've set for myself.  I don't think that I've been doing enough work on them.  I mean, for instance, I work in a building with a gym so I should be going when I have the time, even if I have to make the time.  Especially since it's coming out of my tuition.

I also aim to be more active online.  At least in lolita communities and on youtube (even if I just comment) and with my lj friends (adding people and talking to those who add me).  So with that said, hello, lexuspark .  You're the first person with content in your journal to add me as a friend.  Thanks!  It would be nice to chat with another person who enjoys drawing and lolita fashion. 

Aside from that, I sent off my very first page for the comic series that I'm submitting to the school paper.  ^-^  I was told that they'll be publishing sometime this week so I'm eagerly awaiting seeing myself published in a newspaper.  Previously I've only been self published and in a comic done pro bono which I really don't have time to do anymore. 

I voted yesterday and I think I managed to get out in a fairly decent amount of time.  I was there for 4 hours and 10 minutes (in line only).  After that I waited another twenty for my ride.
But it was an interesting day.  The people I was standing in line with were pretty funny.  I kind of wish I'd brought more books though, and a chair because I finished the rest of the book that I brought with me about an hour and a half into the wait.  And a chair for the obvious reason.  Standing for that long is no fun and reading at the same time made my back pretty stiff.  But you have to vote.
I kind of wish thought that there were other things on the ballot.  For instance, I hear all of this stuff on the news about marriage rights, health care options, taxes for housing, student financial matters, but none of it gets put on the ballot.  Instead, it all goes to some  back room of the old boys' club where it's decided by people who are not really affected by it.  Or, we get promised so many things in relation to those matters that never come to pass.  But I suppose maybe someone will think to let us make our own choices about those things sooner or later.

And I do realize that there are health care options and financial options out there, but the packaging looks pretty on the outside until you get down to the heart of it and there isn't really anything that looks as good as it claims to.

On another note, I did nothing for Halloween aside from voting.  When I got home, I was super hungry and had a migraine from not eating anything and I was tired from being up late the night before.  My sleep schedule has been really messed up lately.  So I went to sleep at about 7 last night and missed whatever might have been going on.  Lately, I been waking up in the middle of the night and trying to go back to sleep, but can't until about an hour or so before I have to get up.  This happened last night as well and I think I'd finally gotten to sleep when a friend called me two hours later.  

And that's basically all that happened aside from this which probably isn't rant worthy, so it's going under a cut.
( Is this rantworthy? )

Oh yeah, I want some candy corn chocolate.  That stuff was good.  -note to self- go to Target

I'm going to be a junior next semester.  YAY.  And I've just been to see my academic advisor last week.  So we looked over the courses that I took and apparently my habit of taking the fun stuff first means that I met a lot of my major requirements already, but I'm still stuck on the core courses as I still have to take my language and science requirements.  So that means summer school because it's just easier that way, though I really don't want to traipse around campus when it's 90+ outside.

I'll be doing both of those then since I really feel like I need a refresher course in my spanish. 

I've also been getting these letters for honor societies.  So far it's just a couple.  I'm sure if I weren't such a terrible procrastinator, my grades would be better than they are and I'd have a higher class ranking, but I am what I am.  If you care, I only have a 3.8 and I'm in the top 15% of my class.  (at present)

Anyway, one of the societies is Sigma Tau Delta and the other is the Golden Key or something like that.  I need to check the letter again to make sure of it.  But we had the iduction ceremony for Sigma Tau Delta yesterday and I didn't go.  I did send an e-mail when they did the little prompt to see who was going to show up, but I was told by a classmate that people were still wondering where I was.  I thought the point of RSVP was to give people a heads up.  But what's the poin if no one checks them?

So why didn't I go you ask?  -even if you didn't you'll find out anyway-

I tend to be a bit self conscious sometimes.  I know I shouldn't be and there's no point to it, but I am.  And I'm also not too keen on events like that.  Well, no, that's not true.  As a kid, I used to love those award ceremonies and I would go and get all sorts of honors and everything and it was nice to be recognized because of my efforst and good grades (even if the people who were my age at the time made fun of me), but I just felt nervous about going yesterday and I came up with all of these excuses for myself.  1. I didn't dress right. (they said business casual and I didn't have much that would fit in with that look, or if I did, my hair didn't look right, or I didn't have any stockings, etc),   Going along with that, I never really feel comfortable dressed in business attire.  2. I had a test that day so I wanted to review for that instead  3. My mom had the day off so we were going to go to lunch together. 4. There was a lecture going on in another part of the school that I wanted to see, and that would eat into it.

So, you see I was just trying to get out of it.  In the end, I really did go out to lunch with my mom and my older brother and we ate at the Chinese Buffet near the school.  Which was blessing in disguise.  I was basically starving because I have gotten into the habit of not eating.  Also, they were having pizza at the ceremony which I shouldn't eat when I have to go to class afterwards.  (Dairy makes me ill though I love cheese, pizza, and ice cream).  As for the test, I thought I would have an opportunity for extra review during the lunch, but when you're not eating alone, studying is always impossible. 
When I got back, one of my classmates was upset with me for not going and tried to make me feel badly about it.  I didn't really, but I was curious.  So I guess if there's a ceremony for the other one, I may actually go to it.

Yesterday was still pretty good though.  I was in my first class and the instructor was shooting lasers at us.  (Well, not really.)  It was really random what he did, so I started laughing like most of the class.  We're sitting there going over poetry, and some people were just quiet and looked like they were sleeping or falling asleep (he had turned the lights out earlier for his power point) and so he took out his laser pointer and started point at people he was going to call on.  Then he was like, if I hurt your eyes with this, I want you to agree not to sue me. 

But as of right now, I'm at work with just 70 minutes to go.  And it is fricking cold in here.  I've got a little fleece/cotton jacket, but it's not uniform, so I can't really wear it.  But I'm probably going to start anyway, or just find something that's the same color as what I wear for my uniform.  I'm looking forward to having my goldfish and orange juice when I get off.  Crackers are good.  =^_^=

Haha! I totally procrastinated on that last unicorn article.  But I have news!

This past month has been stressful to say the least, but some good things happened in September, and I thought I'd share them.

For right now, I've been really tired and stressed out and just icky feeling.   However, I've started working a new part time job at school where I'm basically a receptionist, but I'm in the Campus Life Department.  It gets a little boring at times, but today, I had a lot to do.  I gave a couple of tours and ran some errands so I didn't have to stay tied to the desk.  

And I work a shift that's 5 hours two days a week and 6 one day a week.  Unfortunately, I wasn't always taking my breaks (which I really need) but I've worked that out now, so I'll be fine.  I actually got pretty dizzy today which is saying something because I've been dizzy off an on for like two weeks now.  It's kind of bad though because I don't really eat like I should and I'm usually making myself eat even if it's only once a day.  But I just haven't been feeling like it.

But for more good news, I've been talking to the people for the school paper and I'll be submitting a series of comics.  It's actually a manga strip which will soon be a webcomic as well.  So I'm pretty excited about that.  I'm still waiting on them to talk to the administration about the budget because they'll likely buy my supplies if nothing else. 

AWA was pretty good this year.  I didn't make as much in the dealer's room as I thought I would.  Considering that I shared the table though, I did pretty well (basically even with what I usually make).  And,  I also liked the convenience of shorter hours and being able to lock up the stuff at night.

Meanwhile, I've become a vintage toy collector.  I suppose.  At AWA, I purchased an entire bin of Sailor Moon merchandise.  And this is like 14 years worth of stuff that was collected by two sisters and I bought it from one of them who'd consolidated their collection.  Thus, there are a lot of duplicates.  I looked through everything, but I haven't really catalogued it yet because when I got home it was back to business with school and work.  But I will get to that to see what I have and what duplicates there are.  Some I gave to my litte sister.  (Well, I gave her a bag and she took some action figures, despite my paying for her to go to AWA, stay at the hotel, etc. but I let it slide because she knows that was her Christmas and birthday present combined.)  And I've been buying My Little Pony items.  Most of them were purchased at the thrift store, which I haven't been to ina  month, so I need to go, but others were the new generation of ponies that I purchased at the store, and even online for one pony in particular.  Originally, my intention was to collect the My Little Pony lunchboxes and thermoses, but I was at the store looking for one and I saw the ponies, and that's what happened.

I sometimes think it's a little weird that I'm buying all these toys, but nostalgia is what it is, and the bright colors cheer me up.  It's also helpful for artistic reasons.  So I just mark it to my being "eclectic" and I don't really care about being an adult who will walk into a toystore and buy things for mysellf. 
But yeah, that's basically it. 

-things that stressed me out last month-
*My dad was in the hospital for a week and a half and I didn't get much sleep for a week because I was visiting everyday and trying to work on homework as well.  (He's fine, but who wants to sit in a hospital by themselves?  Plus I was helping my mom.  I've moved out of my parents's house, but I have three younger siblings living at home.) 
*I had to prep for AWA in a little over a week (I was ordering supplies for the table and putting things together up to two days before the con.  There were so many packages coming in.)
*Tests and projects were due during the whole time.
*Midterms are still going on.
*My roomate didn't pay any bills last month and waits till 3 days after the rent is due to give me less than half of his portion and he waited three days after the rent was due to mail it off (I had no time to do it and he has a borrowed car.).
*Said roommate, fussed at me about bills.
*House is a mess because of ^ and I haven't had enough time to slow down and clean it up, so I spot clean when I can.
*My financial aid was late.
*My neighbors are still super loud even though I called the police twice!  It's very hard to sleep on the rare nights that I'm not exhausted, or if I do, I wake up in the middle of the night to hear their loud music.

During this whole time I was also feeling pretty tired and dizzy.  I now sleep like old people.  (Last night for instance, I went to bed at 8:30 and woke up at 6:15.  I went to bed super early, but I slept for almost ten hours!  And I've even been taking naps.  I came home one day last week and sat on my favorite chair in the living room.  Next thing I know, I wake up and it's dark out.   So, I went upstairs and went back to sleep.

I was just logging in to thank people on the
atl_lolitas 
community for their comments to my question, when I got to my page and looked at my layout. I actually saw the last unicorn for the first time the other day and all I could say was wow. It was a very well done movie. It reminds me emotionally of The Little Mermaid. Not the Disney version, but the anime that actually followed the original from Hans Christain Anderson.

I mean, like the part where Molly met with the unicorn...I don't want to spoil it, but it was very emotional.
I'll likely write a proper review for it in another entry. (Really, no procrastination)

Also, today, yesterday/Thursday, and tomorrow, are all tax free for clothes and school supplies.
So I bought some stuff, and I'm guessing that maybe people don't understand what it means, or maybe I should just speak up more. I went to Toys R' Us and bought a Hello Kitty School Set. It was 9.99 and it turned out to be on sale for 7.99. I didn't notice till I left, but I was actually charged tax for it. I'm not sure why though because of the fact that it has on the box "Back to School Super Set".

But it's still cool. It comes with a notebook, notepad, three pencils, an eraser, pencil sharpener, crayons, a glue stick, a ruler, and a coin purse (for lunch money according to the box).

-It's Sunday (I did it again. Started a journal and left it for later.)
Anyway, I got some much needed shoes today because I tend to wear the heck out of mine. My last pair were some cans that my brother got me during a buy one get one sale and they're pretty decent, but falling apart on the edges (the plasticy bit was coming off)
Another two pairs of sneakers. They're airwalks and while I usually don't talk about brands, I thought I'd mention them simply because they're very, very cushy. I think they're supposed to be skate shoes like the last pair I have, but these are so much softer.
-Available at Payless-

After a pretty boring Saturday afternoon, one of my friends came over with her fiance to give me something and they stayed for a bit to kill time.  It was a bit disturbing because we were all sitting around playing with a bunch of toys that I had from when I went to the thrift store.
And that's a story in itself.  But anyway, I think we were playing around for like an hour or something before we left and went there together. 
I've been going to the thrift stores a lot lately looking for My Little Pony toys and there's one near where I live that I go to and usually I make out like a bandit.

I went Saturday and only found two, but today I went back and ended up with nine if you count those little plastic figures with immovable hair.  Otherwise it was just seven.  But the thing is that these aren't just recently released ponies.  I've actually found four of the vintage ponies.  Three of them were from the 80's and one was a 90's pony.  And on top of that, these are like the special ponies.

It's pretty neat because I hadn't even expected to find them today as I went in there for something else.

On another topic, I had all these medical tests that I had to take and thankfully they all came back negative.  I was being tested for sickle cell and a couple of other things.  In the end, I found out that I'm just chronically anemic and have to make sure I take about three iron pills a day as well as eat as much iron rich food as I can.  I also have to take pills for something else I won't mention here.

But for the past few months, I've been on 3 times the daily recommended amount of iron at the orders of the doctor.  From what she said, just the regular dosage won't do anything for me.  Sadly I tried that and my hemoglobin actually started going down again.  >..>  But I did get answers to what I needed to know and kind of figured out what was wrong with me and why I'd been so tired all the time.

I also had a job interview last week, but I'm not sure that I got the job that I applied for.  Apparently, the person who interviewed me wants me to come in with some of my artwork, so we'll see what happens since she kept asking me art related questions the whole time.  For those interested, I applied for an on campus job as an office assistant.

And last Monday, I was hanging out with friends at one of the local universities.  We just hang out sometimes on campus when we want to meet somewhere that's sort of equidistant to everybody.  So we went, had lunch and I and a friend worked on some sewing projects while we were talking with another friend.  I'm hoping we can do it again soon because it had been quite a while since the last time we all hung out that way.
I was a bit miffed though because this is one of the schools that I was thinking of transferring to for an art major in addition to my English Major.  However, after walking miles in the blazing sun (it was 90+ out there) I get to the office for the art department which stated online that you must receive the application by going in person, only to find out that I couldn't get one because I was too early and they take the applications when doing portfolio reviews.  Yet what I wanted was to view the actual application so that I might know what was required of me when I showed up and I made it known to the person that I was talking to, but I don't think that he got what I was saying.  Not only that, but all he did was give me a sheet of paper that outlined what I'd already seen online which is why I showed up there in the first place. 

And I know I haven't done any socio political stuff in a while.  I'm thinking of what I want to talk about if anything.
I will say this, I was so sick of hearing about the presidential election that I felt at one point that they should all just do an infomercial and air that instead of all the pick him pick her crap.  I mean I realize that this is an important election and that this is basically a historical thing blah blah, but come on, I don't want to hear about it all the time.  I'm just saying.

So, with that said, g'night, and my website is mostly posted at http://gothicsugar.com

Books read:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
The Looking Glass Wars
Reading:
Daddy's Girl -Lisa Scottoline

I was at the local wal-mart near campus when I saw this older man trip and fall over the tape that was placed on the floor.  I saw the entire thing, and unfortunately, no one could have moved fast enough to catch him when he fell.  However, those of us among the customers near him quickly went to his aid.  I went over to the electronics section and my mom and I were trying to get the woman who was talking on the phone to call 911.  Meanwhile, my other sister pulled some napkins from her purse to hand to another customer (as the man was bleeding from his temple) while I ran off to get something to elevate his head while another man was there applying pressure to the wound.

The customers in the store were the ones who were trying to make sure this guy was all right.  But I was really disturbed by the fact that the employees didn't act very quickly.  The first thing that they did was try to help him up, which most people know is a no no.  Aside from that, there wasn't an effort to keep him talking which was also an important thing.  So we're standing there (the customers mind you) telling the staff not to move him.  After a couple of minutes though, they tell all of us to leave.  One woman was upset (as I think she was entitled to be) and said that it didn't make sense to tell us to go away when we're the ones who knew what needed to be done and were trying to help. 
>..> <-necessary emoticon

Morrow Wal-mart super center: GA

This is the first time in two months that I haven't had to go in for my weekly hemoglobin test.  They said my score was pretty decent so I don't have to do them anymore, but I do have to go in next week for a bunch of blood work.  Which means I get the big needle.  YAY!  u.u;

Oh, also, I'm on youtube, and I've started posting.  I'm going to try to do videos every couple of weeks or so but I make no promises.
The first one that I posted was a response to the Boswell Gallery's tag. They're doing an art show featuring artists on youtube. The gallery itself is located in Decatur, GA.

My youtube page
Boswell Gallery page

This post was originally going to be about a spider that I saw a couple of minutes ago while cleaning up.