Tinier Me

I know, it's been awhile. I'm trying this, again, for the 50 millionth time. :/

I love casual gaming. I really love browser based casual games as they tend to actually work on my computers. I'm not running windows on either of my machines now and I don't like to have to steal Shaggy's computer for games. I've just started playing a game called Tinier Me. It's kinda like Gaia Online but newer so it's not so crowded. It's not got as much in the way of features but people seem friendly, if not young (not that you see everyone's age. I'm going based on writing style alone on most people.) I thought the amount of young people would bug me, but since I started school last fall it doesn't seem to matter much anymore. I can pass for 18 apparently. (It's the blue hair, I swear it is!)

On of the features of this site is that you get in game currency for making a diary entry. I made a new years resolution to journal more on and off line. I really want to succed at this as it is something that I find brings balance to my life when I take the time to do it. Strangly it would seem that in game currency is the carrot I need to get writing more. Yeah, I know, it's sad, but I guess it doesn't matter if it works.

I'll try to cross post most of it so you dont have to join the game to read, oh faithful readers. But I think some of you would get a kick out of the game. If you decide to play friend me. I'm Sabriel Moonstar over there, like always. :P

I'm still alive! Really I am!

I know it's be a really really long time since I posted anything. But I am still alive, really I am. I'm just not the most timely blogger.

I think that if I had started off with a different blog format, a more Mac friendly blog format I'd have stuck to it more. Blogger doesn't play nice with Safari, and I'd rather not change browsers just for one page (not that Firefox isn't a nice browser. I just prefer Safari.)

I also find the Blogger web editor really annoying to use. It takes forever to do anything even on the fastest of computers. And well I'm not always the most patient of people, especially when it comes to technology.

I have the feeling that if Mobile Me and iWeb were around when I started my blog I'd have blogged more often. But they weren't and I really don't want to move, lest I lose the few readers I have. That and Blogger is really easy for other apps and sites to access.

I love cloud computing. But I love it more when I have nice desktop apps to access the cloud. Mobile Me syncs with my Mail, Address Book, iCal & iPhoto. My notes live in Evernote (I *heart* Evernote. It's like my brain is stored on a web server somewhere!) If I am to use something often it has to live on my dock or it's not gonna happen! I'm just to disorganized to function any other way!

So I am trying a new desktop client for blogging. It's called Flock and it's more like what would happen if a web browser mated with a feed reader. It's yet another Mozilla based web browser, billing itself as a "social web browser". You can keep track of a variety of web based apps like Facebook, Twitter, G-mail and the like (not that I use 90% of the apps it keeps track of, but it's nice to have options.)

It's still a web browser, and that kinda annoys me. I still want to do my browsing in Safari but I think this will be a good way to keep web apps and what I am currently reading on the web seperate. I'll mainly be using this program for blogging though so if it sucks at the it'll get the axe. (I am trying to keep the amount of apps on my mac to a minimum) So we'll wait and see.

I'm gonna try to post some stuff to bring the blog up to speed about where I have been for the last 9 months. So keep an eye out for that! :D

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Have you any wool?

I know it's been too long since I updated when I have to read my last blog post to see where I left off. ;)

March and April have been very busy months indeed. I knew March would be busy. My sister came to visit during March Break so between getting the place ready, getting caught up at work in hopes that I wouldn't have to work during her visit (which unfortunately didn't work and I had to spend a bit of time in the den during her visit.) and of course the visit itself.

All in all though, it was a nice visit. She was an awesome house guest. We did way too much shopping (Is that possible?) and she got her hair done at the salon. It would seem testing the limits of what hair dye can do runs in the family.

The grand finale of the trip was the Toronto AnimeCon (not to be confused with Anime North) The con was a bit of a disappointment. It was way smaller then Anime North, there were no real deals to be had (and any that were to be had were canceled out by the $15 you had to pay to get in the door.) But we still had a good time.

We all cosplayed this time. Shaggy went as a Jedi like always, I went as Aerith Gainsborough from FFVII : Crisis Core and my sister went as Near from Death Note (and got Shaggy hooked on Death Note in the process.)

Of course what's cosplay without pictures:

I've also been really busy with my spinning, knitting and crocheting. I got some new equipment. I needed a lighter spindle. But I didn't read the item description properly and got a much lighter spindle then expected. It's a pretty spindle, but I need to practice with something a bit heavier first before I can use this spindle:

It's a .6 oz Rose Quartz Butterfly Girl Designs Spindle from Spunky Eclectic.

I also got a wheel :) I finally found a used wheel in my price range (wheels can be quite pricey!) Shaggy helped me bring it home on the subway as it's quite heavy. It's a really old Louet S10:

And here's my first yarn on the bobbin:

And here's that yarn all plied up and dyed:

1/2 pound and 190 yards of Grey Coopworth wool, dyed with Grape, Strawberry and Changin' Cherry Kool-aid. I'm knitting it into a purse at the moment. It's knitting up nicely. There are a few over spun and under spun spots, but hey it was my first wheel spun yarn.

Of course I spun a bit of yarn on my spindle before I found the wheel.

1/4 pound 82 yards White Coopworth wool, dyed with green & blues Easter egg dye

45 Yards of Faux Cashmere & Alpaca dyed with Icing Dye

I also spun up more yarn on the wheel. The wheel is much faster then any of my spindles. I like to spin while watching Star Trek in the evenings. Especially if I have seen the episode before (Shaggy hasn't seen a lot of them. And I like watching them again anyway.) I was able to spin my second skein in less then a week. I needed to get it done for Guild Day. I bought the wool a week before guild day and it was spun and dry in time for me to go.

1/2 pound , 177 Yards of Blue Faced Leicester dyed with Acid Dyes

I dyed the skien during the guild day dyeing work shop. I also tried my hand at needle felting. We made pendant necklaces. I really enjoyed the needle felting and picked up some supplies to have on hand. It's a nice way to use up little bits and pieces of roving.


Wow, that was one super long post. But now I'm up to date and can stop procrastinating about updating. At least until I get behind again. :)

I'm back

I always have a hard time blogging when I've gone wandering for too long. I feel like I have to recap everything, but this time there seems to be so little to re-cap. Things have kind of been ho-hum and dreary. My in-laws have finally moved on, and anyone who knows me well, knows I have a hard time living with others. I'm don't like people disturbing my processes and I've grown quite fond of the ivory tower I've built for myself. It's not that I dislike my in-laws or that they are hard people to live with. On the contrary. I feel that I am a hard person to live with, and end up feeling bad for it the whole time.

But that has passed, and "normal" life is taking over, what ever that may be. :)

My birthday was last week and Shaggy got me an awesome gift! A PSP slim. I'm so happy with it. I've been spend way too much time enjoying LocoRoco. But it's so fun and so relaxing. Almost in a mantraish sort of way. "Stop stressing out and just roll this little ball around!" I'm already over half way done. And I'm really really bad at finishing video games.

Speaking of unfinished video games, I've been a Final Fantasy fan for sometime now. But I've never actually finished a game. I love the story lines and the characters but I tend to jump around and want to play the latest greatest thing. But I think I finally have a reason to sit down and actually finish FFVII (the first FF game I bought):

They made a FFVII prequel!

That's like the next best thing to remaking FFVII itself (which I hope they do. It's the series 20th anniversary. They re-released I, II, and Tactics, so there's still hope!)

I came late to the FFVII scene. It was so cool looking in Grade 9 but when I finally got a copy of it myself in college the graphics were soooo dated that it's almost hard to play. I actually prefer sprites to the first 3d rendered images.

But I know I'm going to want to play the new one, so I'll hunker down and work through the old one. FFVII is a great game with a great story. So I think I'll hook up the PS2 today (Shaggy hasn't gotten around to doing that. He's been too busy with the Wii & Guild Wars) take advantage of the fact that since Shaggy is so obsessed with Guild Wars that I'll have the TV to myself for a bit and finally play through one of the great games of gaming history.

See I told you people my life is boring. I'm blogging about playing a PS One game in 2008. :P