Happy Halloween 2012!

Hope everyone is having a happy and safe Halloween~!

I hope that everyone affected by Hurricane Sandy is doing ok...  ><

It turned out to be quite frightful!!

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Being the anti-social person that I am, the only celebrating for this holiday that I ever do is online-related, and usually on sites or games.  Unfortunately, I was extremely pressed for time this year and couldn't participate in anything much, just got sample tastes of events on Gaia Online, Eden Eternal (which I downloaded again since my boyfriend got caught in an "auto-renew AP" trap), and my two current iPod app addictions, Happy Street and Tiny Farm.  And of course, having fun seeing some of the cool costumes and pumpkin carvings on Pinterest, Brit + Co., and Imgur~

Halloween decorations in Aven, in Eden Eternal

Wish that I had more time to do the Gaia Halloween event... ><

Halloween shops in Happy Street

Halloween candies in Tiny Farm

...Just when I thought that the horses couldn't get any uglier...

Even though I've been trying to get the special dracula cow, I have
to visit other people's farms to see the other Halloween animals.
; o ;

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http://imgur.com/gallery/yTgpE
The pumpkin that wins Halloween, the one pumpkin to rule them all!

http://www.realsimple.com/holidays-entertaining/holidays/halloween/pumpkin-decorating-00100000065686/page4.html
Paint your pumpkins with black chalkboard paint and decorate them with white or colored chalk.
Must try someday!

Not one for pumpkin carving, but I definitely would consider

doing and LED light pumpkin, they're so pretty!

http://kinsereventcompany.blogspot.com/2010/09/diy-fantasy-pumpkin-carriage.html
Amazing!!  Must try this someday!

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One of the cutest costumes that I've seen this Halloween season

http://www.brit.co/2012-costumes/
My favorite political costume idea this Halloween :  Binders full of women!

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Super cool spider sculpture that I saw on one of Etsy's articles! 

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 Last, but not least, the highlight of this Halloween, the latest installment 

of my new favorite YouTube video series, Cooking with Arpakasso~! 

Appreciation

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  Mine was very low key, but this was the first Christmas in a good couple of years where I actually felt pretty happy.  I didn't get a whole pile of presents or anything, but I am very blessed to have received some wonderful and thoughtful gifts from my close friends and family, so I want to say a very heartfelt thank you to all of you!  Especially those who took the time to drop by and see me, even though I was too busy or tired to really talk much   <3

(Even though I can't include everything, it doesn't meant that I didn't love it!!)

Here are some of the highlights:

The first gifts under my tree, from one of my best friends, Fly!!  She (and her parents!)
searched for things that I would like, and she majorly succeeded!!!!  A panda wallet with
all of the elements that I like all in one, my ever first panda ring and necklace!!  <3
I can't tell you how much I love everything, and all the thought and love that you so obviously
poured into your gift choices  :,D  Love ya, chica!  <33

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Super adorable stickers drawn by my incredibly talented friend,  Nicole !
I love them!! <3

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An amazingly cute penguin plushie (who I named Marvin) and an absolutely gorgeous panda Betsy Johnson (o.o)
necklace from my good high school friend, Eric.  If I'm not mistaken, this year makes 11 years that we've been friends, and in addition to sticking by me through thick and thin, he's always given me really wonderful Christmas gifts.  Thank you so much, I can't tell you how much I love both of these!!

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My sister gave me a whole bag of hastily bought Japanese foodstuffs and snacks on Christmas,
 but went out and got me this in addition, since she absolutely loved the Amazing Everything : The Art of Scott C.
artbook that I bought for her  ^^;;;

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From my parents:   A pair of super comfy noise-reducing headphones, hair dye, and
Mario Kart 7!!! WOOOOOOO!!  Thanks, I'll probably have time to play it by sometime
next month...!  ; A ;  

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My small gift to Revelatlon

Some of the best gifts aren't tangible. My awesome new Gaia friend, Revelatlon, gifted me a beautiful Nouveau Autumn dress, an Underland RIG, and tokens~! I usually get absolute rubbish (not literally xD ) from RIGs, but for the first time, I won an item that I actually really really really loved from it, a Blue Acinonyx. So I was able to enjoy the RIG story AND the item for once! x3

"please don't be a bench"  Well, even if it was, I'd still be really happy.  ^-^

The thing smirked.
With those huge, pointy teeth.  Dx

New avvie built around the blue acinonyx  x3

After having to constantly put it on hold, I finally made time to finish hammering out all the details and layout of a joint quest thread with Revelatlon, we were able to open successfully on Christmas night, so if you have a Gaia account, we would really appreciate it if you would drop by to bump or chat~! <3

Visit Us Here!!

 

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MINECRAFT

... -sigh- I kept on telling myself that I only needed to get past Christmas, then I could hibernate or relax, but it seems that realistically, I'll stop being busy from my severely backlogged to-do list by mid to late January at the earliest. ; A ; And now I'm involved with running 4 threads on Gaia, thinking about closing one. And this blog, which I've barely posting on recently, not to mention all of my friends' blog posts that I also need to catch up on.... x__X urghh...

This panda is out of order.  We are very sorry for the inconvenience.  

Before the extremely brief 10-15 minutes that I spent playing Minecraft with SpecOps and Habib, I haven't played any games for around 2 weeks.  ( And I don't even remember the last time when I logged on my poor skype.  Dx )
 It feels like forevvveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr!  ; A ;


 But it was really weird, SpecOps ended up having to rescue both of us in that short time, I got stuck in that minecart, and Habib got stuck in a well.  xD

Showing Habib my room, and... who's that bobbing outside my
 ocean view wall?  O_O

Answer:  A creeper.  xD

7 days, 23 hours, 21 minutes...

Black&white buddies, a panda and white tiger.
Drawn with my index finger on the Doodlebuddy app around 3 AM,
 while lying in the dark.  xD

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Christmas Gifts Updates:

~Christmas cards/packages received:

-Rainbow goat princess (part 1)

-Fly
-Brandon

~Christmas cards/packages sent out:

-Panda pal #3

-Shinobu nee-chan

-Mitsuki
-Habible
-Gidras05

★★★★★★★★★★★★★ iTouch/iPad/Smartphone APPS   ★★★★★★★

VOXER

Still having an awesome time on Voxer, though it's been incredibly unstable in the last 2 or so days.  Or maybe it's just angry at me for abusing it by talking on it almost allllllll day.  >.>  And panda pal #2 would blame my truffle fingers for making it weird.  >.<  (I DO NOT HAVE TRUFFLE FINGERS!!  Dx  )

And ever since my friend got it, he is starting to dislike having to text, since talking is so much easier.  xD 

Dear Voxer,

 Come on, Voxer, you can do it!  If you just stabilize and stop crashing on me (even after resetting my iTouch), you would be like the most awesome app EVAR.  I know that you're probably struggling quite a bit from the strain of having so many new users after appearing on the 'popular app' list, but I hope that you can find the strength to overcome it! 

Much <3, Rainbles.  

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GAIA ONLINE

Although I would have thought that we'd have our Christmas event by now, I'm slightly relieved, since just my threads (and planning a new thread) and fishing (that my friend got me into) alone takes up quite a bit of time.  In the meantime, we have a friendly lamp post in the header with a decreasing amount of days that grants items but serves as a reminder that I'm actually a bit too busy to be spending a whole lot of time on Gaia.  - x -;  Oh, the irony.  

...I look forward to and dread getting my next item, since it means having
one less day til Christmas... and I only have half of my
Christmas list done... Dx

YOUTUBE

Definitely one of the most epic Zelda medleys to date, if not the most.
My friend had it on repeat for a while after he discovered it -

and even when he wasn't listening to it, he was humming it xD

Still on my Wild Sheep Chase

A new item on TinierMe reminded me that I'm still
on a quest to find a cute sheep plushie like this, my
wild sheep chase.  I must get one!!!

Another rough day, healthwise.  Blehhhh, this is just not my week.  My poor body.  My cold is bad enough on its own without having to deal with stomach tantrums.  Mannnnn, I wanna hurry up and get better so that I can eat that super yummy coconut cream pie in the fridge...  ; ~ ;

Not canned mandarin oranges, but still sweet, cold, and easy on the stomach

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SOAP MAKING

The other day, a colorful photo of Lego people-shaped soaps caught my eye on the CraftGawker app and made me want to change my plans for my first soap-making venture to be very soon rather than sometime in the distant future.  These would make super cute Christmas stocking stuffers!  They sell the silicone ice cube trays (which mean that you can make ice cubes, bake, make candy, resin, soap) online/in the Lego store, though the Lego brick tray is exclusive to the online store, I hear.

But I also still need to get the clear glycerin soap base as well as the silicone ice cube trays... ugh, why does crafting have to be so expensive?  = x =;

http://www.justcraftyenough.com/2011/11/project-lego-soap/

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GAIA

Yesterday, I was made aware of the "long awaited housing update", whose official announcement was today.  For the first time in YEARS, I actually tinkered with my house.  While they interface was indeed more "modern", I couldn't help but feel that the old housing item graphics (like the white dots in between the rug tiles) contrasted too awkwardly with the much more polished new interface.

And even though I thought that the "click to put ___ on ___" was kinda cool, didn't it used to be easier to arrange things in the old system?  Now, you have to click on an item to move, rotate, or put it away, then exit that mode to deal with something else.  Hmm.  Unless they added more things from yesterday (it was a soft launch, after all..), I can't help but feel less than enthused about this update.

I keep on forgetting that I have a Gaia house.  And the paintings are still backwards.

Cool flame animation, though.

Today, after being reminded of the latest RIG, Guardian Totem, by a friend, I decided to buy one with the Gaia cash that I earned by watching videos.  Even though it was random, I was borderline pleased to get the Rabbit Spirit.  I was considerably less pleased when I got a red dog leash worth around 20k.  >_>

Not so rad.

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MAPLE STORY

what a drama queen.  king.  whatever.  

"How dare you interrupt!"  Uh... I killed that boss in like 1-2 hits, while you
jumped and did a bunch of fancy gun attacks that did almost no damage.
Don't be jealous.  >_>

POKEMON BLACK

Finally got out of Chargestone cave (I caught the Drilbur!  >D ) and leveling my team around Route 7 before heading to the Celestial Tower.  No pictures, but I wanted to include this fanart of Pokemon B/W that I thought was kinda cool.  (sorry, not sure who the artist is  >.< ) And while I'm at it, I'll throw in an awesome Professor Layton/Phoenix Wright crossover fan comic by the awesome Meru-chan!

bwahaha.

THANK YOU HABIB

sick in bed and drinking Rooibos tea from Lupicia this morning

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GAIA 


Day two of my new item questing thread, and I had a few more visitors... and my first (and largest ever) donation!  o.o

"Quack"?  hehe... I wonder what it could be?  n_n .... -clicks-

OMFGGKJDLKSJKSLJDLKSJFLJSKJSDLKJDSLJDSKJSLDLSK?!?!?!
-dithers for a good 5-10 minutes before grabbing my iTouch and cell phone
to spam Habib with texts and a voice memo-

my new avvie matches the header perfectly right now!  <3

Needless to say..... THANK YOU VERY MUCH, HABIB!!!!!  TT^TT  I shall do you thank you-art for sure~! <3  ;D

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DEVIANTART 

 My Belarus fan plush is being featured in baba49's collection of deviations with the keyword "Belarus" !

Submitted my Hungry Luma gift art deviations...

...and saw a unique and weirdly cute Roman cat plush  o.o 

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YOUTUBE

A Minecraft version of one of my all time favorite dance songs...  (and my friend Mana's new ringtone)
Super fun to watch thanks to the awesome work on 3D rendering, even though the guy's singing really gets on my nerves during most of the song.

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EBAY

My auctions ended, and I made my first two sales on eBay... yay.  Guess I'll try to relist 8 things again tomorrow.

note to self- increase shipping price for sets of pins.   >_>

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MAPLE STORY

Last night, having no one awake/around to talk to online, I went on Maple for a while to get my free Kerning VIP hair salon ticket.  I wanted to get the shark card that I realized that I was missing, but since they took away my buffs, that venture didn't last long.  >_>

 I also finaaaaaaaaalllly got to go to the Golden Temple for the first time, but was disappointed that the highest level monster dungeon was below level 70.  While killing monsters there, though, I got one of those free wheel drops and got a recipe for a luck potion.

After leaving the Golden temple, I made straight for Victoria Island and Kerning City, where I was majorly creeped out by the hairstylists there... man, I hate Kerning city.

Buuuut I didn't get my hair cut yet, since I'm really torn between two hairstyles... Please give me your opinions!

(the orange Aran hair is actually a ponytail, see photo on the bottom)

Well, until I decide, I guess that I'll just play some other game xD