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Dixie currently feels:
Bored
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Yesterday was great.
Only, the problem I had was: I had too much to do, and not enough time to do it in.
I ate lunch at my nana's house, then went down my bro's house - and spent from one till half five playing Guitar Hero II.
For one thing - I like GH3 a lot more than GH2. And I'd say I probably like the song lineup on GH1 more than I do on GH2.
So now I have played 3/4 Guitar Heroes.
I haven't played Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80's.
But I do have the whole soundtrack on my PC.
Along with the full soundtrack to GH1, GH2 and GH3 - downloadable tracks, bonus tracks and exclusive tracks - all organised into special folders and playlists.
I have a very organised computer.
All of my files have to be in their own folders - all the names have to be spelt correctly, and most words need capital letters.
I cannot tolerate sloppy files.
But anyway.
There were a few songs that I really liked on GH2.
One mainly: Laid To Rest - by Lamb Of God.
That name is very misleading.
One would assume they were Christian avant-garde metal, or some such shizz.
Well, they're sort of "Satanic death metal", as Ian described it - but they're not. They're just another typical American heavy metal band. And they're very, very good.
Ian asked me round to complete all of his Medium scores with 5 stars, and unstick him on his Hard mode save.
The Thin Lizzy song; first time I'd heard it, first time I'd played it - on Hard, 5 stars, hands down.
I think I'm getting better.
Question)
...But how does she do it?
Answer)
- Dixie has been playing Guitar Hero 3 at least five days a week since Christmas 2007. She plays it for at least 4 hours on every of these days. She downloads soundtracks and listens to them. She learns the lyrics, she learns the melodies and tunes. She does finger workouts for her left hand - and having hands so small doesn't help.
Dixie keeps doing something she loves, and now she's playing Expert level happily.
Today seems the opposite.
I've got TONS OF TIME.
And NOTHING TO DO.
For the past few hours, I've been eating junk food (mainly Oreos, tee hee) and watching crappy telly programmes.
Though, I caught an old episode of my favourite gameshow EVER.
The almighty Catch Phrase.
I like it so much, I even have the BOARD GAME. :)
I'm getting used to this daily blogging thing.
Question)
...But how does she do it?
Answer)
- Dixie has motivation. A lot of my blogs are posted between the hours of 8:45 and 11:30.
That is the time where I get bored and have nothing else to do.
My photos are uploaded first with Photoshop.
Some are taken on a Kodak easyshare camera, and some are scanned.
Then they're resized with Photoshop, usually.
And, if I have nothing to blog about, I try to recall an event of the day, or some topic that is resting on my mind.
...There, so now you know.
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Do you want to know how bored I was in English?
...THAT's how bored I was.
Give Dixie a A4 black ringbinder, a gold gel pen, and a boring English lesson - and that's what she comes up with.
I'm not the only one who partakes in folder destruction in 11E1, though.
Brett's folder is entirely white - he spends the lessons picking the black coating off.
Stephen's folder's front was ripped off entirely, and the silver latch inside torn out.
Lowrie's folder has a gaping hole carved into the front.
Everyone's folder has rips or writing on it somewhere.
Mine has a scuffed side, but no rips.
Mine has drawings in biro on the back, and golden randomness on the front.
I'm really proud of it, actually.
Tee hee.
And now for the close-ups!
"It all begins when the emo cries and the Indie rock plays."
...I don't know, I just decided that that corner needed something like that to spice it up.
The square root of 22 is now cabbage.
Dixie has decided.
Claire cleverly pointed out, that then that meant that cabbage squared was 22.
And she's correct.
Cabbage squared IS 22.
And that's the best one. :)
It's like those "stop reading my badges" pins.
Hey, it makes them all laugh, so why not.
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This is really weird.
I've been deprived of Emily for nearly a week now.
I do miss her greatly - but it seems...
I don't miss her at all?
...It's not that I don't care. It's just, everything that relates to Emily, I just hold it in such a high regard.
I think to myself that, if I carry on thinking of Emily as this immensley huge privilage, then...
...Then maybe things will be alright...
...And I'm so glad that "dixie loves emily" was a suggested tag...
MindSay now knows how much I love her.
IMAGEVUE
After modifying some of the elements, I really like this photo presentation design. It's mostly in PHP and running off my local server if you want to take a look it's HERE
And while on the subject of photos... I am reminded of a blogger months ago who lost a huge body of work due to failure to backup. If you use, and are reliant upon, one of the free photo-hosting sites to store your photos keep reading.
Whatever photo-service you use, Photobucket, Flickr... any of them, they are all the same in one respect: they make no guarantee that your photos are safe and stored forever. If their servers crash your photos are lost. Tough luck.
Photobucket recently upgraded their services. They seem much faster now. And using their service it is very easy to create an html page with thumbnails and links to all or your photos stored on their servers. Ok! That's all good and fine, but your photos are still not backed up. Here's what to do with the generated html-thumbnail-link page.
First go grab a program called Neodownloader HERE. Run the program to navigate to the html-output page that your service generated. All of your photos will then be downloaded and stored on your local machine. From there you can store them to disc to save space.
What does the page look like? Well, mine looks like THIS.
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So I am guessing TOMORROW you will all get to see my loverly video of the fireworks over Niagara Falls!
In the mean time, I am going to try to catch some extra sleep before workies tomorrow... fun times.
My Favourite of the set I think!
If you click on a photo while there, you will have the option to view larger shots with notes or select slideshow for a quick view..
We had a fun visit and the area where she lives is so pretty and lush right now it was fun to take some shots of her environment. I built a set of her photos and of her home that can be viewed as a Slideshow on my set page of these shots, noted above. View them each or choose "slideshow" for just a quick peek! Got a few great shots of this gal too, the best way to view the tale is to check out the set of shots and read the captions, viewable on some of the photos when clicked on. (use your browser back button to get back here!)
I managed to catch her on video when she decided we'd had a long enough visit and off she went to her hiding spot on the other side of the stream. The dip washes off all the sand from her work and you can see her back right into her hiding spot with an incredible purpose and grace.
Our meeting was part of an exercise I was participating with myself in last week learning to transmute challenges into opportunities in an almost instinctual way. Note: I hadn't intended on this exercise per se (chuckle) but found as more challenges came our way last week it was far easier to transmute the energy into opportunities than it was to get flustered over as some issue or another arose, and there were quite a few!
And so one of the many gifts I received from my little universe over these lovely few days was a chance encounter with quite a lady living a serene and natural life!
I feel as though the gift was as a message to confirm I was indeed on the right track (as opposed to the - left track - not the word you probably assumed - wrong - track!!!!) Ha! and it is with great pleasure that I welcome you to visit. Sharing these images is what I feel best doing! I really think you'll like them!
The link to the set of photos; Lady Turtle's Magical World
Have fun!
Cheryl
Garden Website; http://ourenchantedgarden.com
Garden Blog; http://imcheryl.mindsay.com
A Forum For Nature; http://ourenchantedgarden.forumup.us/
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