and really bad eggs, damn it!

[rivendellrose]

I am weak. I have made icons.

Just be glad that I haven't sought out fic yet. Or written it.

Also, went out today with narsilion, which was really fun, as well as productive! I picked up my new glasses (which are very cute, I think!), and returned a necklace at Macy's and bought a really really cute pair of sling-back dark brown dress shoes (yay!) and a dark teal cowl-necked shirt. I'm so glad that style of shirt is back in stores - my two favorite shirts in the whole world have that kind of neckline, and one of them is getting a little bit nubbly and old. And both purchases will be great for wearing to work, which makes me happy. Now I just have to figure out which skirt to wear with my new top and shoes tomorrow!

Comments

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty colors in your header! I like it. Glad I could help you get it working ... when I first put mine up, I had to dig through all FAQ and all these links that would send me to other links that each explained a small part of the code. I had to figure out how to put them all together, and I'm surprised I managed to do it at all.

And you know, I am so painfully non-girly, but there's nothing I love more than new clothes. I really don't like shopping for new clothes, exactly, but man I like wearing them. :P

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And now the pretty colors are (somewhat...) reflected in my journal itself. I'm happy. I'm stupidly fascinated with coordination and making everything match. XD

Especially with shoes, I know. I felt so dumb getting these shoes, especially, 'cause they're way pointier and more just... girly than the kinds of shoes I usually buy. But they're so cute!!! And I'm a dork, and I really do kind of like shopping for new clothes. At least until I get tired and cranky because of things not fitting and fashion designers being dumb about people's bodies being all different shapes. Fashion designers never have short people in mind, damn it.

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

LOL, me too. I actually copied and pasted colors that I used in my header right from the color palette in GIMP so everything matched exactly. XD

I'm cursed with being short and German, so I know what you mean. I have to buy lots of skirts because I hardly ever find new pants that fit right. They're either too short or too baggy in the back ... just because my hips are wide doesn't mean my ass is, you know? Clothing designers just don't get that most of the time.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ooo, that's a handy trick I didn't think of! I'll have to do that next time I mess around with it!

Short and English-Irish-German, myself, so I feel your pain. My problem is that I have an obscenely short torso. Let's just say that despite only being 5'4", my hip often matches up to the hip-bone of someone as much as 5'11". It's nice for the legs... not so great for the tummy and the fit of things on the upper body. All those tops that are either really really short or really really long? Look totally stupid on me.

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I commented in your header post, but I want to comment in this one. Your site is SOOO beautiful! Love the header, and even though I'm not a fan of purple, with the light blue, I love it.
Sometime when you're not busy (heehee) maybe you can help me make my'n that pretty.
I don't get the subject text of and really bad eggs, damn it! Is it something from the movie?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm really glad I've finally got it working (thanks again to jayneaintagirl!), and I'm glad you like it! The new text and titles for different pages might still be changing, and I might not keep this very long... Now that I know how to do it, I've got a feeling I might be making more and more, just for fun. But I like this for now.

I'd kind of like to figure out why the very top is repeating, but I'm sure that's something I can fix once I go over it a little.

Oh, that! "And really bad eggs" is one of the last lines from the first movie. I wanted something pirate-y, and I couldn't think of anything else. XP

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, and of course I can help you with yours! You'll need to tell me what you want for your header, though - I'll have to put together an image to go there. I'll try to be a bit better about the size of yours... turns out I should've gone wider cross-wise and thinner up-and-down, which I'll know for next time. It still takes me a while to put together the bigger images, just so you know... But just let me know what you want, and I can start working on it!

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

Am LOVING the layout! What font is that in the header?

ICONS ARE LOVE! :D :D :D

New glasses! As if you weren't cute enough to start with! XD What is a cowl-neck? Also, new clothes are love.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It's... darn, I'll have to check for you when I get home. I can't remember the name off-hand. It's a fun one, though, isn't it? I love handwriting-y fonts.

Icons are very much love. And I so much love making them. I swear, they're my stress relief, now. XD

Awwww, thank you! I've been feeling kind of un-cute the last few days (tired, skin misbehaving, bleck), so that is very much exactly what I needed to hear right now. A cowl-neck is like... okay, I have no idea if I'm really calling it the right thing or what, but it's sort of a... hammock, almost of fabric at the neckline. Like this (http://www.blackparrotonline.com/images/k2small.jpg), only the ones I like are scoop-necked, so the 'hammock' hangs down to the cleavage area. Judging by an image search, I guess I've been calling the shirts I actually own the wrong thing... I wonder what they are?

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I sent you an e-mail, but wanted to follow up here since I'm not sure how often you check your hotmail. It's really odd since we were just talking about it yesterday, but this morning a library notice came saying season 2 of the Babylon 5 DVDs are in for you!!!! I'll pick them up after work tonight, and either tomorrow or Wednsday after work I'll bring them over to you. Let me know which is better for you. Yay!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Tomorrow or Wednesday are both fine by me, but obviously I'm excited to get started on them as soon as possible, especially since I only get them a week so... if you're up for coming up tomorrow, that'd be great! Yay!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I just got back from the library, and I have them in my bag. I won't even take them out so there's no chance of forgetting them.
Shall I meet you in the Winchell's parking between 5:30 and 6:00, or do you get there earlier?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!

I'll be there! XD

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Is that what time you get there?

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the second movie yet (am unsure as to whether it's worth paying theatre prices) but I've been thinking I may in fact need a "but why is the rum gone?" icon.

And hey, what's wrong with seeking out fic?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know that feeling - I usually put off seeing all but the movies that I feel the most strongly will be better on a big screen. For my two cents, this is definitely one of them, but I can totally understand the hesitation. You really do need that icon, though!

Nothing, in general - I just get nervous every time I think about seeking out fic in a new fandom. I know how much of it is crap, and I know that some of it is bound to change my perceptions of the characters. So I usually put it off for as long as possible. Silly, but true.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

My impression of most of the reactions I've seen has actually been that they've been panning the movie, which hasn't increased my desire to see it in theatres. Plus I hear it sets up for a third movie, and I like being able to get the full story in one fell swoop (hence my holding off on Spiderman until I can watch all 3 movies).

It's all about finding reccers whose taste you trust. I'm not interested in the PotC characters enough to usually want fanfic for it, but usually when I'm thinking about seeking fanfic for something it's because I really want to "see" more of the characters. It is true that fanfic can change one's perceptions of characters, though my experience has been more that I come to have more sympathy for characters I wasn't into than that I come to dislike characters I was fond of.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ahh. I can see wanting to see it all in one sitting - for me, I'm happier when I can see the movies in bits and pieces, so that I can absorb them better, and also in the theaters. It's important to me to see the big special effects movies that way, since it just doesn't come across with the same immediacy on my tiny computer screen.

I'm curious what you mean by 'panning,' though. I don't think I'm familiar with that term in this context.

Good point about reccers - that's definitely the safer way to go about looking for fic! I think what I'm concerned about is reading other people's interpretations before I'm fully cemented in my own. I haven't carried these characters around enough, yet, to really feel like I've got a handle on them... That would require writing, and I'm not sure yet whether I have anything I really need/want to write with them. So I'm torn between "no reading until I write" and reading to find out what needs/wants to be written.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry; that sentence came out really convoluted and I didn't go back and improve it. I meant, pan as in give a negative review.

I have a bad memory for detail, so while I'm better with visual media like tv and film, I _hate_ reading books/book series piecemeal because I lose _so_ much.

I'm almost entirely uninvested in special effects (can we tell I grew up with books and not with movies? ;) ) so the big screen experience is basically irrelevant to me. The only real draw is to be able to talk about something at the same time as everyone else is. (And I would be watching DVDs on a tv screen, which when I get one will probably be a 15 inch or more.)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Got it! I don't know - I've seen some iffy reviews, but our local papers actually liked it quite a bit. *Shrugs* I never can tell whether or not I'll agree with reviewers, anyway.

Yeah, that can be bad. I had to go back and rewatch the first movie a few nights before I saw the second - I was happy to do it, since I'd loved it so much, but it was still kind of weird to find out how much I'd forgotten. I'm actually almost better with books, but I think that's because of my habit of rereading my favorites over and over. ;)

It's funny you mention that about growing up with books rather than movies. To a large extent, I had the same thing - I read way more than I watch movies or TV, but I also adore special effects. I even love reading articles and watching technique specials on how they're done - it fascinates me to see how all of that can be created, how the artists go from concept drawings to 3-D renderings and so on. Maybe that's the would-be artist in me. Waaay back, I originally got into theater not because I wanted to act, but because I wanted to do the really complex makeup work that I saw in sci-fi movies and TV. I love that stuff. XD

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh I almost never read movie reviews proper (since I almost never go see movies). This was the vibe I was getting from LJ. Some love, but a lot of people not liking it as much as they did the first one, and there's a race/culture discussion going on in some quarters. And I don't have anyone who's a good barometer for whether I'm gonna like something, but this general vibe didn't exactly make me wanna rush out and drop ten bucks on the film.

I tend not to reread, which is bad because I read fast and am very detail-oriented so I want to _know_ all the details, but the way I function is so not conducive to that.

I'm just very much a text-oriented person.

[wanderingbeyond.livejournal.com]

I am so excited to see the new pirates movie! I didn't read your last post for fear of spoiling myself, so I need to go see it soon! Maybe I will go today. :)

ALso, Yes please, subtract anything you need to from that check and send it my way, if you don't mind. I think my bosses were deliberating on whether or not to fire me this morning, and if they don't, I'm quitting. I can't stand that woman.

Also, do they have bumper stickers that say "you can't take the sky from me" ? Because if they do, I'm buying a bunch. I just realized, I need something that says that.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Good! I can't wait to hear what you think of it! XD

I'll remind Kendra to write you the check when I get home tonight. And I'm glad you'll be away from the obnoxious woman. Mean bosses are no fun at all, and you shouldn't put up with her if she's like that.

If they don't yet, they really should. I'll ask around with the Browncoats I know - I know the Seattle Browncoats have a CafePress thing going for t-shirts and stuff with our logo, so maybe they'd put up something like that, too. If nothing else, I can always make you an icon. There's this one, but I'm not totally happy with it. I need to make a better one with the same words.

[wanderingbeyond.livejournal.com]

that is a GREAT icon. ;)

Also, glad to hear Theo came back! poor kitty.

[meevish.livejournal.com]

Pictures! Pictures of your purchases!! They sound adorable!!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lol. I'll see if I can't make one of the housemates snap a few pictures this evening, especially of the shoes and the new glasses.