Ugh. Learning anatomy is a lot harder than I thought. It's so boring D:
But, I suppose, it's all for the better…
For now, I shall relax with some Tenchu, then back at it.
And pencil Page 21.
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The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread
So I had to build a balloon-powered car for physics and at first I was like "Balloon car? What are we, six?" but dang if this isn't one of the more frustrating projects I've had lately! I had this awesome diagram of how I was going to do it, but after spending all day simply trying to make it work I ended up with a rolled-up file folder with lego wheels glued to the bottom. My dad was helping me and he got frustrated too…"I used to build rockets and I can't even build a balloon car?!" Haha.
Oh, and I felt in danger of my life today. Long story short, my mom was really mad with all of us in the car. She slammed the door shut as hard as she could and I was like "Mom, maybe you shouldn't be driving this mad," to which she responded "If you're going to get me all riled up you can take your life into my hands!" …or something along those lines, I can't remember what the second half was exactly. Something about risking our lives. And then she proceeded to drive very angrily, well above the speed limit, home. We got there safe, though.
I guess i'll give this a try.
So, i got to see her yesterday morning after many months, she looked sad which makes me sad, we had a small talk about it and she will be ok.
I found out i still like her (quite a bit actually) and it's depressing me.
Can't talk to her about it.
I AM IN DEEP SUFFERING!
I HATE MY LIFE!
Also, i have a headache, my shoulders hurt and can't sleep.
Ha. I'd love to make it back across the pond… the last time I was in London I was staying with my "responsible" friend (perhaps the only one I have) so there was a complete lack of those kinds of antics.Just dumb drunk antics.
Your next vacation should be here in the UK - you'd fit right in with our dumb drunk antics!
the drinking antics i have in england involve a 2 pints of guiness, several pitchers of guiness, and someone else's money, and a game of darts….in which i won the first round, but slowly lost my accuracy over the rest of the night.
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i woke up earlier than i do on sundays, with the full intention of doing yard work and cleaning up the house. but now i'm in front of the computer, with a weeks worth of stuff to catch up on.
this ever happen to anybody?
you feel completely hungry for something…so you go to the trouble of cooking everything from scratch, which takes 20 minutes or so…. only to feel that you aren't that hungry anymore when you have the finished product in front of you read for eating.
or you just take a few bites and you feel full already.
it's weird how the cooking and baking itself seems to satisfy me more than the actual eating part sometimes…
this ever happen to anybody?Mmm, once or twice. I'm more likely to overdo with the amount of food though. I know I shouldn't eat the entire package of noodles at once, but if I don't, I'll be left with about 1/4th left which isn't enough to cook anything. So I cook it all… and then suffer, depending how much I had to eat besides that… no wonder I can't get back to my old weight (at least I don't seem to be gaining more though).
you feel completely hungry for something…so you go to the trouble of cooking everything from scratch, which takes 20 minutes or so…. only to feel that you aren't that hungry anymore when you have the finished product in front of you read for eating.
or you just take a few bites and you feel full already.
it's weird how the cooking and baking itself seems to satisfy me more than the actual eating part sometimes…
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I had a moment of insanity.
A friend told me about a movie titled "The Cure for Insomnia" which is 87 hours long. It consists out of some poet guy reading his nearlt 5000 pages long poem, spliced with clips of heavy metal and porn.
As we were talking, I came up with an idea for a 100,000 page long comic :D
After long brainstorming we both decided: if you could draw 120 pages a day, you'd finish it in a little over two years, haha.
So, something that really made my day yesterday after becoming sick?
I looked at my art now, and my art from a year ago. Just seeing how much I've improved in that amount of time.
Now, I realize, that if I keep drawing from posemaniacs, and backgrounds and whatnot, I should be even better by next year.
Also, have been reading this Acrobat comic here on DD. I checked out a few times before, but never really read it. I actually really like it. It reminds me of Spider-man and Batman mixed (Spider-man for all the joking he seems to do).
And I made my mom a drawing for Mother's Day. And she loved it :3
One more thing before I go, I realize, Energy drinks are terrible. They are the worst thing on this planet (for me). Every time I drink them, I get sick. Not stomach sick, but the kind of sneezing/coughing/no energy sick. Stupid energy drinks.
I put work up on Elfwood n 2000. I haven't updated my galleries there much since then, but I still get comments.
These are some of the best, I just got them today:
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| ok john morris tell me this is you the really john morris off of wreslind cause i beeing looking for john morris for the last what 5 hours yea 5 hours and i am really really trying to look at jonh morris body that 6 pack he got i am talking about the john morris off of wresling i do not know what the hell yall is takling about the only jonh morris i know is the one off of wresling and thats the only 1 ok so bye now
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| :D i really really love him now when he take off that shirt and i just do not know what 2 say but….DAWN:I HE IS LIKE A AMDLE 2 ME AND WHEN HE TAKE OFF THAT COAT DAWN HE LOOK GOOD I JUST BE SCEARINMG IN THE HOUSE DAWN
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| I REALLY LOVE THAT PIC WHEN YO LEARN 2 PAINT LIKE THAT MAYBE ONE IS THESE DAYS YOU CAN TEACH ME LOL BUT NICEEEEE PAINTING DUDE;)
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for some reason my first name is invisible to people and they call me by my middle name instead.
RE: My previous rant about someone being rude when I was showing her some art.
She said:
Just showing? If you’re showing to receive a comment, you got it in my last reply. If you’re showing for receive a construction criticism, it would be “it looks like crap. The lines are horrid, inconsistent, and wobbly; the coloring is not all that great, bland, and it’s animated? Is that supposed to be a bonus point? The frame rate is off. Or try adding more tween or something.â€
Now that is rude. But its also constructive criticism. What an oxymoron, right?
So I told her if you polish a turd it is still a turd and told her to think about that. Don't worry admins. It isn't this site…it is another one.
And that is also rather poor constructive criticism in my book. There was only one constructive part in it.
Skullbie's criticism was better constructed. (Thank you for that by the way)
I still can't find a home for this dog. :( My parents think it's for lack of trying, but it isn't. I contacted every rescue around (surrounding counties and even a national hound rescue), and there's no room in any shelter, no foster homes available. I have been asking everyone I encounter on walks or at work. No one wants her. The only places she can be are my yard or in animal control (which would put her down; stray hounds are a dime a dozen). She and I are buddies, so I don't want to do that to her.
On the plus side, one rescue group offered to pay for her shots and spaying, so she's going to the vet tomorrow. Plus, I've lost three pounds since she arrived (probably from walking her twice a day).
Does anyone want a dog?
I still can't find a home for this dog. :( My parents think it's for lack of trying, but it isn't. I contacted every rescue around (surrounding counties and even a national hound rescue), and there's no room in any shelter, no foster homes available. I have been asking everyone I encounter on walks or at work. No one wants her. The only places she can be are my yard or in animal control (which would put her down; stray hounds are a dime a dozen). She and I are buddies, so I don't want to do that to her.
On the plus side, one rescue group offered to pay for her shots and spaying, so she's going to the vet tomorrow. Plus, I've lost three pounds since she arrived (probably from walking her twice a day).
Does anyone want a dog?
I'd take her, but I already have a dog at my parents and I'm to be living in a studio apartment most of the year. She'd probably go insane in my tiny little place.
I just got back from one of the best road trips I've gone on in a while with my dad. We took off to the area around Des Moines Iowa for a couple days. the land around there is gorgeous, plenty of trees and rolling hills. The people around there are a lot friendlier too. More of what you'd expect from the Midwest, the kind, courteous, generous stuff. One guy gave us 3 days worth of firewood, fishing bait and directions to a ghost town and then wouldn't let us pay him for the wood and bait. We found out he ate breakfast at a local cafe and paid his bill without him knowing. Different from the behavior that makes me hate the area around my parents house. We went to look for ghost towns and only found one, but we also found an amazing fishing lake way back up in the hills. We went fishing for 3 1/2 hours and left after catching a 11" bluegill, a couple good sized bass and approximately 20 other good sized panfish. It was one of those places where you just have to toss the line in to get a hit. A trip like that is always worth
I'm really glad you're doing so much for her Usedbooks, to be honest i think she's already found the owner she's always deserved. And yeah on shelters;
A Letter from a Shelter Manager
I think our society needs a huge "Wake-up" call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the inside if you will.
First off, all of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the "back" of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know.
That puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little puppy anymore. So how would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are "owner surrenders" or "strays", that come into my shelter are purebred dogs.
The most common excuses I hear are; "We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat)." Really? Where are you moving too that doesn't allow pets? Or they say "The dog got bigger than we thought it would". How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? "We don't have time for her". Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! "She's tearing up our yard". How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me "We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her we know she'll get adopted, she's a good dog".
Odds are your pet won't get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the "Bully" breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door.
Those dogs just don't get adopted. It doesn't matter how 'sweet' or 'well behaved' they are.
If your dog doesn't get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don't have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.
Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being "put-down".
First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to "The Room", every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it's strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the "pink stuff". Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don't just "go to sleep", sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.
When it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You'll never know and it probably won't even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right?
I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head I deal with everyday on the way home from work.
I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter.
Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.
My point to all of this DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!
Hate me if you want to. The truth hurts and reality is what it is. I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say "I saw this and it made me want to adopt". THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH IT
Personally, I'm not entirely opposed to responsible breeding of animals – with a purpose. But the backyard breeders and for-profit type (factory) breeders are horrible. -_- Breeding for the simple reason to "make more" is insane. (Oh, and the deliberate breeding of crossbreed "designer" dogs makes me want to strangle someone.) Anyway… Yeah, it's a real shame and tragedy. In fact, I learned that the pound doesn't have to offer the animals for adoption at all. When they get a stray, they have to hold it for three days to wait for it to be claimed. There is no required wait for a surrendered animal. (My parents let me bring her home under the condition I take her to the pound when it opened, but when I looked up those procedures, they granted her a reprieve.)
It was the no-kill shelters that I contacted, and they're all filled. One had a possible opening in the future, but I found out that hounds have a breed stigma attached to them (as hunting dogs), and often end up as lifelong shelter dogs. It's better than a certain death, but it's not the greatest life for any dog (and it's why those shelters are full). :( I think Sallie was a hunting dog someone didn't want anymore. She was completely untrained when I brought her home, didn't know what a leash was or any basic commands, but she learned "sit" within a day and is easy to walk (we get tired at the same time ;) ).
I'm thinking about getting another dog too -.- I feel bad since i loved Sassy so much and it's like i'm betraying her since it hasn't even been a half a year since her passing, but now every time to go to petfinder i'm drawn to this dog: 
From the description they gave on him i'm perfect for him, but Mom said I have to convince dad though >.> He usually never says no but i'm not sure…
dude, anybody notice that it's the 100th page of this thread??
we should totally bring out the champagne or something.
As for dogs… I'd totally take that dog but my apartment doesn't allow dogs, and I get the feeling that it'll be a while before I'll be able to afford a house. :p
dude, anybody notice that it's the 100th page of this thread??
we should totally bring out the champagne or something.
As for dogs… I'd totally take that dog but my apartment doesn't allow dogs, and I get the feeling that it'll be a while before I'll be able to afford a house. :p
And we're not even halfway through the year. I have a lot to bitch, cry and moan about but I'll just bask in the glow of posting on the 100th page.
And we're not even halfway through the year. I have a lot to bitch, cry and moan about but I'll just bask in the glow of posting on the 100th page.
Hahahaha, so true.
Ugh. I thought I was super awake today, come to find out, I'm not. I just got my homework done, and I got my report card today!
I got 4 A's, one B, and one C. My parents were happy!
Now to go run, and then come back in and work on the comic.
And tomorrow, I get to go on a field trip, ALL day. :D
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