Web of Destiny – first post
Rae got her bio posted so we can start writing together. yay! Now the writing has started - By the Ferry. It's not much so far but even if it's just me and Rae maybe my writing bug will be satisfied. Though I'm hoping once we get started, more people will join us. We have a few lurkers and one other contributor, but Neon Elf is in the middle of moving to a new state where he's a new job so he's not been around working on building the world up. Hopefully he'll be around after he gets settled, and maybe we can pull him into some RPing with us. We'll see how things go once they get better.
If you are interested in reading or even doing some world building exercises, we'd love to have you. Come check us out at wot.just-us.net, we'd love to see you there.
Web of Destiny – A Wheel of Time RPG
I have a need to write. It's one creative outlet short of Web Design that I love to do. But I have not been able to sit down and write a story/novel/book or anything like that. I start, but never get anywhere. I long to write with other people - cooperative fiction as the case may be, an RP for others, but writing none-the-less.
Not a niche and ramblings
I don't know how people come here, or who subscribes to my feeds, all I know is my blog stats show a bit of activity so I just want to clarify a few things. I am not a niche blog. I talk about everything I'm interested in.
My sub heading is "My Family, My Life, My Journal" for that reason. I will talk design and programming, I will talk about my family, I will bore you to death with my girls and their growing up. I will write about my writing adventures about role playing and cooking. These are all things I like, all things I do. I am not a niche blog, unless I'm a niche lol.
I have a lot to say today lol, and it's only almost 5am. *sighs*
I'm excited about getting a puppy. I really hope we can find one we all agree on. I'd really like to have a puppy sooner rather than later. Provided the weather holds out today we will try to go to the closest one, but we are under a winter weather advisory. What does that mean? WELL that means if it even starts to snow, doesn't even have to stick to the ground, things will start to close. First and foremost being the high rise bridges over the various rivers around here. So guess what that means for us - we either stay home, or we go the very long way to get to things lol. The last time it snowed here it was my very first Christmas here. We were at Shea's parents house and the bridge we needed to take was closed. We were like 5 to 10 miles from home and had to go 30 miles out of our way to get there. It probably would have been closer to go back to Shea's parents house, but we didn't, we went the long way home on Christmas night lol.
I would like it to snow, but I'm not counting on it. If it does it'll be late, and dark and the girls won't really be able to go out and play in it. But hopefully they'll be awake to see it snow. It's a late TV night for us so it's possible they might see snow.
Today we go sign paper work for the girls ER trip for their overdose of children's tylenol. I've been meaning to get that paperwork set up so the payments come out of Shea's pay check, but it's just one of those things that went by the way side. But tomorrow after Shea gets home from his over time we'll go sign the paperwork and then hopefully go look at puppies. I really don't care what we get, I just don't want a yipper. I can't stand little dogs or over hyper ones.
A post a day? – PSD to XHTML/CSS
It seems I'm going for a goal of a post a day on my blog, I doubt it will actually work, but we'll see. It really does depend on the weekends. During the week it's an easy feat just have to think up something to write about, we'll see if I can manage that this month. Maybe writing my fustrations down will help lol.
But anyway, I'm looking for PSDs to convert to HTML/CSS templates, more importantly to convert into functional wordpress designs. I have downloaded about 20 different PSDs to use as my learning base. This is actually what I love doing, so for a limited time ONLY I'm looking for other people's creations to create into wordpress designs they can use.
While I can theme wordpress with the best of them, I'm looking at this more from a development point of view. I have two goals in mind here. 1) to take the psd of someoneelse's creation and make it look like it's suppose in XHTML and CSS and 2) to create a customizable theme with al ot of features that do not require a plugin.
So for a limited time, like two weeks from today I'll take a stab at anyone who can send me a PSD to convert into a wordpress theme. This work is free, but because it is free I can't make any guarantees, this is a learning process and I may or may not finish it, or it may not come out quickly or exactly as you had intended.
Escaping Reality and Dragonmount
About two weeks or so ago I left Dragonmount for personal reasons. For those of you who are worried about DM8 don't be. I'm still working on it, just not in view of anyone other than Jason, Kevin and Jenn. Don't contact me about it cause I'm not likely to answer :P.
Anyway, by leaving I lost my place to write in the interactive fashion that I really enjoy so I've been searching for a game that fits my needs. I think I've found one in Escapting Reality. It's a small site based around the World of Darkness (vampires and werewolves in the modern world). I had to create a character concept and then go through an audition. I made it through then I really wasn't worried, just concerned I'd not fit into their view of what an RP post should look like but I didn't have any problems.
Below the cut is the audition plus the final comment I got from the person giving the audition.
The end of an era
Way back when I first joined Dragonmount I created a character belovedly named Matalina. Today marks the end of an era, she is dead. Matalina has been through so many transitions and so many different things I figured now was a good time to end it, she would never have made it to Tarmon Gaidon anyway, I never intended her to.
I have archived the end of my favorite character in a massive novel size document: Murder in the Yards. The story takes Matalina, now Cari Namere back to Tar Valon and saves her family with the ultimate sacrifice. I did not write this alone, there was many many many participants and I'd like to thank all of them for participating in this rp, it was awesome even though it was VERY long.
Murder in the Yards
I am an avid RPer at Dragonmount and we've been working on a very long plot line and it's nearing completion. Anyone is welcome to come read it and if you are part of Dragonmount you will be the jury. Come read, follow and join us for the outcome only you can give us!
A Dark Journey
I have started a new journal. This one is dedicated to the diary of one Character I love to death. This will chronicle her daily life as well as all the events that have happened to it over the past ten years. Matalina aka Cari is by far my most indepth character and I love her.
I am enjoying writing for her as a Trainee, seeing how naive she once was. Soon that will change and you will get to see those changes first hand. You will get a glimpse into the life that only few knew and get some details that have not been shared before.
I hope you enjoy the story as it unfolds. If you knew Matalina as a character with your character at Dragonmount and want a piece of the pie so to speak I'm sure we can work something out. Some have already made an appearance and others will show up as time goes on. To name a few familiar faces. Yveva Sedai, Tarishima Sedai, Ben T-Gaidin and Reikan Souvan. Many more will follow.
The Embrace – Prologue: The Beginning
I've started my story and so far I'm proud of it. It's going well and it's not WoTish, except for the "bond" thing which I can't ignore but vampires and magic aren't necessarily part of the WoT so far so good!
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Jobs, Writing & Life
This month has been good to me. I have finished one Freelancing Project for Age of Legends, LLC, with another smaller project for them potentially going to happen. Mind 2 Eye Studio's owner contacted me she's looking to redo her website to match her new business card, I don't know if this means she got married or not but it's good for me either way. And I was showing off my personal portfolio page at DM for a critique on the design to get a few artistic points of view and people who actually know how to critique for the most part and I got a potential client from that. I'm pretty sure I've got the job, the details are just being worked out and such.
I've started writing Cari's background story into a new world. You can check it out at wordpress.com's site. I want a few more readers than just my friends for that. My goal is to write 500 words Monday thru Thursday and if I can the rest of the week. So far I'm on targer for the past two days. Monday was not happening as I had a killer headache.
Speaking of which I'm tracking my headaches again. I think I'm going to start tracking the weather/pressure as well to see if there is some sort of link with my headaches. I've not started tracking pressure yet, that requires me to make a new set up for tracking things, so I'll probably do that this weekend.
The girls are doing well. Samantha is growing fast, she's starting to roll over and she's a very happy baby and a thumb sucker. I find it funny that Kathleen never did find her thumb and hardly used a pacifer, and Samatha uses her thumb to fall asleep almost all the time. It was the pacifier until she found her thumb, but now that she's done that she doesn't like the pacifier.
Both Kel and Nat are pregnant, I'm happy for them both, particularly Nat and Den they've been trying so long.