Journal of a Procrastinator

Uglies/Pretties/Specials

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:02:47 GMT

I'm so glad my last exam this year is over... I did really well actually and got a 10 (the second highest grade)! So I'm really happy and relaxing, playing playstation, surfing the web and reading good books.

Right now I'm reading the Scott Westerfeld trilogy Uglies/Pretties/Specials (I'm at the last book now). It is a series of young adult books about a scary yet fascinating science fiction future in a world where everyone gets plastic surgery when they turn 16 to become "pretty". But there is a twist of course which I will not reveal here - duh.

I'm completely addicted to these books right now. My only complaint is that the author could go into much more detail about this future world with its amazing technology and the people who live there. But for a young adult book I think it works very well. It is well written, action driven, engaging and it constantly keeps you guessing. I love its unpredictability. At one place I thought I had it all figured out until the the plot presented some very unexpected mmm... circumstances.

I haven't finished it yet, but my inner young adult so hopes it will have a happy ending. Whatever that means.

Twitter

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:32:30 GMT

I'm on Twitter. I wanted to know what it was everyone was talking about and now I know. Although I'm not sure I get it.
http://twitter.com/lemonith

Again, this past week I've been procrastinating like crazy. I have my exam on Monday, but I still haven't figured out how to present my project. It's late Saturday night/ early Sunday morning, so I'm really running out of time. Help? I'm surprised of my new laid-back attitude towards exams. When I was younger I would never have been this relaxed the day before an exam. Wow I must be growing or something. But I really need to go get prepared! Like right now :O

Zoo

Sat, 30 May 2009 23:26:43 GMT

I went to the zoo today. The weather was really nice. I think I got a tan... at least I'm hoping that the red will turn tan eventually... :D

And I've got pictures! Most of them are taken through glass, but I think they turned out quite nicely. Can you tell I love turtles? ^^

And here is me! And a closeup of my new shoes. I wish I had gotten a better picture of my outfit.

Nothing New Really

Wed, 27 May 2009 21:42:14 GMT

I'm such a mess. Sometimes I think I'm subconsciously trying to take procrastination to a new level.
I'm writing my exam project. I've had 3 weeks and have written nothing so far. I have 2 weeks left. I want to kill myself. I have to go now and think up something very clever about people, the internet, learning, modern society and textiles. Although not necessarily in that order. Yes, it's a little vague right now, but I'm confident that if I just drink enough coffee and don't sleep it will sort itself out. Probably. Right..?

Okay, now a random picture to make this post more interesting.

I think that helped. (Lizard can also be seen in my poupee closet: pupe.ameba.jp/profile/QCFPFDPcJdE1/)

I also have some questions! If anyone wants to answer them I would be really happy ^^ (If you want to see what other people answered, see this post on deviantArt -> forum.deviantart.com/devart/general/1300500/)

1. Do you use the internet to search for information?

2. When looking for information, do you prefer looking on the internet or in books? (Or somewhere else...?)

3. The internet has made it possible for anyone to share their knowledge. Is this a good thing?

4. Do you feel that the large amount of tutorials out there are the response to a demand?

5. How do you feel about the general quality of internet tutorials?

6. Why do you think people make tutorials? (To gain popularity in social environments, out of kindness of their hearts, for financial reasons...?)

7. Have you made a tutorial?
-------- If yes, then what were your reasons for making it?

8. Have you ever been inspired to try something new or do something you normally wouldn't because of a tutorial? (Pick up needlework, build a water cooler for your computer, try GIMP instead of Photoshop...?)

9. What attracts you to a tutorial? (Layout/graphic style, level of difficulty, previous existing interest in the subject...?)

10. Do you think it is easy to find relevant tutorials online?

11. Which kind of tutorial do you prefer? (Visual, text heavy, video, artistic, humorous...?)

Any last words of wisdom?

Lol

Fri, 22 May 2009 10:36:46 GMT

Lol Threadless.com just made my day XD I was just surfing random sites and came across their slogan t-shirt section. I laughed XD
Here are some of the slogans that cracked me up:

HONK if you are about to run me over.
Boomerangs: They're making a comeback
10 out of 10 people agree: We all agree
To err is human, to arr is pirate        -> (He he)
Global warming: All the cool planets are doing it.
If history repeats itself, I'm totally getting a dinosaur.
Nostalgia was better in the old days.
Actually, medicine is the best medicine.
Resist peer pressure. All the cool kids are doing it.
Forget science, I'm donating my body to magic
I supplement my personality with witty shirts      -> (LOL!)
I 'occasionally' use air quotes.
Life is like a box of terrible analogies.
Organ donor (see inside for details)
Origami turned my pants into this shirt -> (This one made me squirt coffee out my nose XD)
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, like I swallowed a kitten.
Roses are green, violets are yellow, also, I'm colorblind.
The art of conversation is, like, kinda dead and stuff.       -> (Yes! I want this :D)
Rock is dead and paper killed it.
Allow me to explain through interpretive dance
Stop destroying our planet. It's where I keep all my stuff.
Being vague is almost as fun as doing this other thing.      ->(lol lol lol XD XD)
Video games ruined my life. Good thing I have two extra lives.   -> (This one is quite famous, I think)
Procrastinators: leaders of tomorrow

These are a lot funnier on the t-shirts, so go check them out -> http://www.typetees.com/

Cold Turkey

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:05:29 GMT

I've bee feeling a little under the weather all through January. It could be the flu or a stomach infection, I don't know. Undefinable symptoms and being constantly tired is no fun.

I've decided to go cold turkey and not eat any sugar for the next 5 days. The plan is that having less sugar coursing through my body will make me healthier and hopefully more energized. Wish me luck (being a complete sugar addict I'm going to need it)! I'm also going to have eggs for breakfast, because eggs are healthy (and yummy!).

Completely unrelated, this is a felt star that I made. A friend of mine says it reminds him of Super Mario Galaxy which sadly I haven't tried yet. I want a Wii!

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:23:32 GMT

Yay!

GRYFFINDOR!

You might belong in Gryffindor,

Where dwell the brave at heart,

Their daring, nerve, and chivalry

Set Gryffindors apart.

Gryffindors are known for their courage, audacity, and devotion to what is good and honest.

Take The Sorting Hat Test at HelloQuizzy

The 101 Things Thing

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:21:38 GMT

I joined the 101 things in 1001 days thing mission101_2009.
Aren't lists just the best.

The List
1. Stop procrastinating.
2. Finish all sewing projects.
3. Eat less sugar.
4. Stop watching scary movies.
5. Drink herbal tea instead of coffee sometimes.
6. Cook more.
7. Paint more.
8. Cut back on pupe.ameba.jp.
9. Be more enthusiastic when it comes to social gatherings.
10. Attend social gatherings.

11. Finish a sewing project every month.
12. Try making fabric jewelry.
13. Experiment more with clothing designs.
14. Wear high heels more often.
15. Paint my shoes.
16. Practice hiragana.
17. Finish school.
18. Go to Japan.
19. Make a Halloween costume.
20. Attend/host a Halloween party.

21. Make a custom dress pattern for my friend.
22. Read Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
23. Read the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton.
24. Read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
25. Watch all Harry Potter films in one weekend.
26. Organize my important school notes.
27. Visit another European country that isn't Sweden.
28. Buy a nice pillow (important!).
29. Buy an Arctic Monkeys CD.
30. Exhibit my paintings in a public place.

31. Get part of my hair bleached by a professional.
32. Go to a MAC store and ask for makeup advice.
33. Buy and play Braid (on the Xbox).
34. Buy Scrabble.
35. Extend my vocabulary by playing Scrabble.
36. Design my own logo.
37. Visit a museum every month.
38. Not eat sugar for 2 months.
39. Not have any milk for 2 months.
40. Buy a Happylock.

41. Attend a Japanese pop culture convention.
42. Learn to understand Einstein's special theory of relativity.
43. Finish Eternal Sonata.
44. Finish Final Fantasy XII.
45. Get a PlayStation 3.
46. Play Final Fantasy XIII.
47. Buy something from Innocent World (http://innocent-w.jp/).
48. Go to a concert.
49. Try out at lest 5 different hairstyles, including curls.
50. Complete my Gosu Rori collection.

51. Knit a white and red scarf.
52. Get back to my 65 cm waist.
53. Find out what I want to do when I finish school.
54. Get a laptop.
55. Do my neck exercises every day.
56. Experiment with fake hair/ clip-ons.
57. Keep a list of the books I read.
58. Make earrings with my friends daughters (as I promised).
59. Make all my sewing exercises for school.
60. Stop being so messy (clean my room!).

61. Read everything ever written by Michael Crichton.
62. Read everything ever written by Terry Pratchett (or as much as I can in 1001 days).
63. Learn to draw shoes.
64. Paint a series of deep sea fish (even though they scare me to death XD).
65. Start wearing jeans again.
66. Go for a walk every day (and not just ride my bike everywhere).
67. Crochet strawberry/cherry accessories.
68. Make a t-shirt pattern that fits me perfectly (and make t-shirts).
69. Try some of the recipes from http://cupcakeblog.com.
70. Take daily outfit photos (if they are worth photographing).

71. Exercise more.
72. Brush up my HTML.
73. Spend more time with a friend.
74. Try fasting.
75. Make a teddy bear bag.
76.
77.
78.
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To be continued...

TO BE meme post

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:18:16 GMT

So this is a meme that I did a long time ago, but for some reason I never posted it... I love memes, they help me procrastinate XD

RULES:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, ETC on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5.Put this on your journal.

1.If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
Startin' - Hamasaki Ayumi
(My words exactly. No not really.)

2.How would you describe yourself?
EXPO EXPO (WISE)- m-flo

3.What do you like in a girl/guy?
Boys & Girls - Hamasaki Ayumi
(O_O)

4.How do you feel today?
Sajyou no Uta - Dir en Grey
(I have no idea what this song is about. It's Dir en Grey so I'm assuming something vulgar/obscene/vulgar.)

5.What is your life's purpose?
Let's fall in love - Alanis Morissette
(Oh yay.)

6.What is your motto?
Cosmic Night Run -m-flo hearts CRAZY KEN BAND and Nomiya Maki
(Totally XD)

7.What do your friends think of you?
White Song (Japanese version) - Hyde
(One of my favorite songs! The lyrics are absolutely beautiful. My friends think I'm poetic and pretty? XD)

8.What do you think of your parents?
Voice - mihimaru GT
(I've never even listened to this song before. I have so much crap on my computer.)

9.What do you think about very often?
P.S II - Hamasaki Ayumi

10.What is 2 + 2?
Kao - Tokyo Jihen

11.What do you think of your best friend?
Tadashi Machi - Shiina Ringo

12.What do you think of the person you like?
CAROLS - Hamasaki Ayumi

13.What is your life story?
ashiTA tenki NI naaRE - Miyavi

14.What do you want to be when you grow up?
Yuuyami Suicide - Pierrot
(Scary x_x)

15.What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Service - Tokyo Jihen
(Yes please XD)

16.What will you dance to at your wedding?
momo -me ga haeta shiki- - Kana
(How emo!)

17.What will they play at your funeral?
A constellation ~2007 - Aya Kamiki
(How appropriate.)

18.What is your hobby/interest?
AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS(LIVE take at PACIFICO YOKOHAMA on April 21, 2007) - Dir en Grey
(I'll rape your daughter on your grave... I have such wholesome hobbies *dies)

19.What is your biggest fear?
Yellow Girl - Merry
(...? I like yellow.)

20.What is your biggest secret?
Goodbye Baby & Amen - Pizzicato Five
(Actually this is one of the few songs by Pizzicato Five that I don't like. I've never told anyone OMG SECRET!)

21.What do you think of your friends?
The eyes - Közi
(I'm paranoid?)

22.What will you post this as?
TO BE - Hamasaki Ayumi
(Oh well. I was hoping for something like Porno 3003- Music for Sofa-Galaxy One-It's All Too Beautiful by Pizzicato Five or Bored Of Everything by Ellegarden, but I guess you can't win them all :))

5 Hamasaki Ayumi songs? And a mihimaru GT song, how embarassing! I never listen to them, I swear >_< I need to clean up my music folder.

Busy busy

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:57:01 GMT

I'm so busy lately :O
We had just 3 days to write a report about the Culture Night event while at the same time having classes (with homework) plus preparing a theme-day that we are having next week and on top of it all next week we have to write a report about the upcoming internship period in December. I can't believe how badly my school is treating us x_x And as if that wasn't enough, next Saturday is Christmas Market day at my school and I have to have 9 t-shirts printed by then along with any other things that I want to sell. I hope I'll sell some stuff and make money to buy Christmas presents. If not, everyone is getting printed t-shirts for Christmas :D Actually I can't lose on this, but still it would be nice if people wanted to buy my prints.

One good thing this year though is super early Christmas vacation starting December 13. Yay! I'm going to relax and eat cookies and I'll finally have time to finish the book I'm reading - Sepulchre by Kate Mosse. I just realize that I started reading it 6 months ago. Wow, time really flies! I really want to start reading Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books too, as I've heard so many good things about them. And I'll have time to paint again! Ha ha I always have too many plans for Christmas! Maybe with this long vacation I'll actually have time to do some of the things I planned..?

I need to procrastinate

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:47:01 GMT

We're making replicas of 1920s evening dresses in my school right now. Even though it's a lot of fun to get to make these amazing 20s corsets and dresses I just feel the need to procrastinate a lot. Why? I have no idea. It's something that I hate about myself but I can't seem to get rid of it.
Poupee girl is great for procrastinating XD
This is me -> http://pupe.ameba.jp/profile/QCFPFDPcJdE1/ Feel free to add me ♥

Back from Paris

Tue, 20 May 2008 23:10:44 GMT

I just got back from Paris yesterday. It feels so surreal to be home again... everything that used to be everyday and normal now feels strange and difficult to relate to. I was only gone for 12 days, but I completely lost all feeling of time while I was there.
I went to school today. We learned about the Bayeux tapestry and how to make Bayeux stitches (or laid work as it's also apparently called - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry). I went to the library and got some books about it as it seemed pretty interesting. Or maybe I'm just trying to force myself to get into a normal daily routine again. I feel the need to do something all the time so I'm constantly calling people and making plans. Even though Paris and Copenhagen are in the same time zone I feel jet lagged. I didn't think it was possible to miss a city this much.

I'm typing sooo slowly now because I got used to writing on a French keyboard. French keyboards are funky.

Ling Lam Woe

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:17:29 GMT

Omg Ling Lam is killing me!!!! I ordered some shoes from her a month ago (March 21) and she still hasn't sent them :O She told me a week ago not to worry (!) and that she would send them out "as soon as ", with a big blank space where I'm guessing she forgot(?) to write "possible". What does that mean? I've ordered from her before so I know she is slow to ship, but this is ridiculous.

Internet shopping will be the death of me.

Gothic & Lolita Bible, Yellow Hair and a Hairbrush

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:39:39 GMT

I just got the new Gothic & Lolita Bible today. I forgot to renew my subscription so now I'm just buying them from yesasia which is actually cheaper, so that's good.
Sadly the G&LB is starting to become more boring lately. I flipped through it and nothing really popped out as special. It's like meh I've seen it all before. Everything is so sweet! I like the darker/deconstructed styles a lot and wish they would do more of those. Although Angelic Pretty really try to do something different with their whole bleu/blanc/rouge French theme. I'm not sure how well I like it though. And it's funny how a lot of the models have yellow hair all of a sudden. It reminds me of Frenchy's hair in Grease XD

See? Their hair is yellow! Okay the last one is more orange, but still a funky color.

My new crocodile hairbrush:

Isn't it the cutest? It was really cheap too, only 20 dkr. I love it!

Spring

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:52:17 GMT

Spring is slowly coming to Denmark. Although March is officially the first month of spring here, it has felt more like winter with temperatures below freezing and snow falling several times over the last couple of months. One place in Jylland got 30 cm of snow! Lucky them. Here in Copenhagen the snow fell softly only forming a thin white layer on the ground making everything look pretty and white for a while. Today the sun is shining and it's a little warmer. I think winter has finally left us.
Now I'm ready for spring.
♥

Pretty Dresses!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:36:17 GMT

Inspired by duplica_chan I've made my own pretty dress collection/wish list. Some old some new but all pretty.

Mary Magdalene

Juliette et Justine

Metamorphose

Innocent World

Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Baby the Stars Shine Bright

Innocent World

Metamorphose

Going to Paris

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:13:11 GMT

I'm going to Paris in May with my father. Yay, my first time going to France! Besides visiting the Baby the Stars Shine Bright shop and probably going to see The Eiffel Tower I have no idea what to do there... I'm not used to traveling so it's all a bit new to me. We will be there for 12 days between May 7 and May 19. I'm actually really excited to go... One concern is that my French is a little rusty, but I think most French people speak English pretty well ^-^

Oh and I'm getting this Dress!

I've always loved that motif of the two swans facing each other... I had been eyeing this one and the pink version for a while, but it ended up being the tartan one that found it's way into the shopping cart (because tartan rules my world :D). The lace at the bottom must almost certainly go, unless it turns out to look a lot better in person... in the picture it looks quite horrible.

Small

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:00:05 GMT

Very small update. This is a dress I made for school a couple of weeks ago. The picture was looking a bit dull so I drew a few flowers and a smiling sun on it. The end.
Ps. Japanese is going well. We're learning to write hiragana, it's surprisingly easy.

Japanese

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:10:34 GMT

I'm going to learn Japanese. I called the school yesterday and just... signed up. The class is Friday afternoon right after I finish school, and it's in the middle of Copenhagen too so it's really close. After all these years of wanting to learn Japanese it's a bit scary to actually go ahead and do it. It's definitely not the right time with school and explosive headaches on the side, but if I keep thinking like that, then it's never the right time and if it's never the right time, then now is as good a time as any. Wow my logic baffles me sometimes XD

In addition to the book Japanese For Young People, which we are going to use in class, I thought about getting Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar by Rita Lampkin, Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You by Jay Rubin and Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow by Kakuko Shoji (and perhaps Making Sense of Japanese Grammar by Zelijko Cipris). Perhaps I'm being to ambitious lol... but I want to be prepared. Hermione Granger would buy them :P

Christmas and a WIP

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:24:11 GMT

Yay, it's almost Christmas! December is usually such a long month, the days dragging on endlessly, but this year has been different, quite opposite, actually. Where did the time go?

School is eating me alive and is having my spare time for dessert XD. I'm not complaining though, I got 12 for my teaching project (top grade, yay) and 7 for my t-shirt project (average). My teacher told me it would have been a 10 for the sewing, but my embroidery teacher wasn't too fond of the embroidery so that pulled down the grade. I'm kind of disappointed about that actually, I liked my embroidery :/

Right now it's just so great to have free time to do what I want. Gahhh I've got a million things planned, that I'll probably never get to anyway because I'll just hang out watching old episodes of Futurama and eating cookies XD I love Christmas.

There are two things I'd like to do before school starts again:
1. Make a corset.
2. Draw, paint, sketch, color, anything as long as it's digital. I've been neglecting my digital painting *pats tablet*

This is a WIP that I want to finish, but I can't quite make up my mind in which direction I want to take it. Any suggestion?
(Can also been seen in my ~~excuse for a~~ deviantArt page here -> http://lemonith.deviantart.com)

Because it's so much faster to just quote yourself than to actually say something new, here is what I wrote on deviantArt:

"This is a wip in which I'm completely stuck. My biggest problem is that I can't decide whether to use lineart or do a more traditional painting. Right now I'm doing a bit of both, and honestly it isn't working at all.

I really want to get better at digital coloring, but it' s so confusing and much less intuitive than real painting.

Anyone have any idea where to take this image?
Lineart Y/N?

A little about the concept of the painting: A fairy girl person with a tree for a background, her dress and perhaps her hair sort of growing out of the tree. Simple as that."

Helle Thorning-Schmidt lost :(

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:17:46 GMT

Klokken er 01:08 og valget er helt overstået. Alle stemmer er talt op og det er et faktum: 4 år mere med Fogh :( Det er en trist dag...

Depressing news, the election today didn't go so well. Anders Fogh won once again :( It's sad because not only would Helle Thorning-Schmidt be a better leader, it would also be a political milestone if she won, because she would be the first female prime minister of Denmark. I'm sad :(

I ate Santa Claus :O

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:29:49 GMT

The day before yesterday I bought a chocolate Santa Claus (gasp it's almost November so basically it's Christmas already XD), and put him on the shelf for decoration. But last night while watching Bridget Jones I just grabbed him without thinking about it, and ate him...(!) He was supposed to be there all the way until Christmas to keep me company in the countdown to my favorite holiday. I feel like the sharks in Finding Nemo that go to meetings to help each other not eat fish and go like 'fish are friends, not food'. I should repeat to myself 'Santas are friends, not food' :P. And also I shouldn't eat so much chocolate before a big holiday where I'll constantly be stuffing my face >_<

Bleh! I hate the fact that I left that last post at the top of my journal for so long, it's so emo x_x

A lot of things have been happening lately. I now actually have a real life XD
I started school in August which was amazing.

Good: I got into the school I wanted! Yay!
Bad: School is giving me a near constant headache, resulting in me not being able to do my homework. Not so yay :(
Good: I'm getting an education!
Bad: I don't have any time for hobbies.

I feel like I'm finally going somewhere in my life.

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:28:47 GMT

I hate my life. I want to die.

Cake Weather ツ

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:58:13 GMT

Grey is slowly killing me... I'm working on an all grey commission (top and skirt). I need the money, but I've really had enough of it by now. Luckily it's almost finished (and looking really good too). Sigh... I'm sure I could muster a little more enthusiasm if it were lolita related. I've actually been making a few half hearted attempts to get some new commissions, but I'm also really looking forward to not working on anything specific for a while so bleh... For myself I'm working on a blue jsk with white dots and I was hoping to have it finished for a birthday party on Saturday. Not likely gonna happen. It's an outdoor party and it will be raining.
x_x
The weather has been acting so strange this summer. Were are in July which is supposed to be the hottest and sunniest month of the year, but it is looking suspiciously like autumn or even winter. Outside my window the rain is falling endlessly, so much that I'm full of wonder that this much rain can exist up in the sky at once.

One good thing about the weather is that it's perfect for cake ツ. J og jeg lavede den her lagkage for nogle dage siden (den dag regnede det også) og den blev så sød at vi måtte tage et billede af den. Den var lavet med kagecreme og jordbær.

Fabric from Japan

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:39:32 GMT

The fabric from Japan arrived a few days ago. It's by far the prettiest fabric I've ever had and I can't wait to start sewing :D

Ooops the pink fabric is upside down >_<
Ooops no. 2, my new babytssb socks and bloomers sneaked in there ♥ <- not really oops, it was on purpose ^^