Boo!

*Dramatic Moaning*



Currently: Eating too much candy.

Didja Know?

When we were kids...

I convinced my brother that there were green colored people on an island in the Pacific, and that purple people were extinct.

Haha.

Currently: Reminiscing.

Ouch!

I fell down my stairs yesterday.

A cop saw me.

The end.

Currently: Thinking about food.

Candles, Dunes, Cold Weather, and Comic Planning

I went out for lunch today and it was friggin freezing.

I was like, woah, wtf is going on here? Oh yeah, it's October. Bout' durn time we got out of the triple digits. I've got to dig out my long sleeve shirts... and maybe even a jacket. You know, I always remember Halloween as a cold holiday, but I was beginning to wonder.

Anywho... enough about the weather.

Went to West Texas this weekend and got to climb some sand dunes. First time I've been on any kind of sand in my bare feet. You'd think that since I went to Mexico and all, that I'd have managed to walk on the beach without my shoes on at some point, but no. Never have. That was cool. My feet sank in to my ankles. About half a foot under the sand, the sand turned cold and kind of wet feeling. It was nice. I also have a very achy thumb because I lit about three hundred (I'm guessing, felt like a billion) candles with one of those annoying child safe lighters. Oh, I hate those things. Used up three of them lighting all those friggin' things. Did I mention we were there for a wedding? Yeah. It was beautiful. The night was pitch black except for the candles. Then this wind came by and burned out about 95 percent of them all at once. It got dark right quick. I just laughed at that. All that work and boom, gone.

The comic is coming along nicely. I removed all the fantasy parts of it. No stupid faerie blood or magic or anything out of the ordinary. It will be more warrior dramatic with intrigue. Yeah. And I'm feeling better about the entertainment value of the whole piece. It's interesting to me, so hopefully others will find it interesting when it launches.

Progress is great. The chapter summaries for both legends are completely done. The walk through and character profiles are complete up to the midpoint of the first legend. And the script is completely written for the first chapter of the first legend.

And I'm finding it amazingly satisfying to work on this comic. You know that feeling you get when your reading a good book, and your out somewhere doing regular stuff and in the back of your mind, you want to hurry up and get back home to continue reading it. That's how I feel about working on this comic. This is a very good sign, because I don't usually finish projects I start. I just want to get off of this comp and go continue writing the walk through and character profiles.

So script wise, it's solid. I'm only worried now about the art wise. Heh. I've been practicing up a bit, and when I get some solid forms I'll post the character sheets here. Micah, the main dude, is great. I can reproduce his features and his costume in any pose pretty confidently. I'm still not doing facial expressions right, but I've got a book helping me out there. Sarai's costume is good, but I'm still having trouble on her face. I've got her face pictured pretty perfectly in a few sketches but ninety percent of the time, she looks like different people wearing the same clothes. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. But yeah, I'll figure it out. And I haven't even started on all the other characters (and there are tons) but I know what they all look like in my mind's eye.

Currently: Decorating for Halloween... wow I've got a lot of decorations. o_O

Football, Funerals, and Fainting

First of all, let me say, that I am very happy I watched the Cowboys/Bills game tonight.

Those last two kicks, we were all screaming at the TV. It was good. Can't believe we won after all that. Ha.

Went to my great aunt Ruby's funeral today. It was outside in the heat, right before it rained... so also humid. I embarrassed myself sooooo baaaaad. About halfway through the funeral I knew I was going to faint. Then I decided, that no, I was not going to faint. I was going to stand there, and not faint, if it was the last thing I do.

The preacher man droned on and on and on (not talking about Ruby, but trying to save souls or something, hate when they do that) and things were getting brighter and blurrier. The last two minutes of his speech, I was completely blind. Couldn't see a thing. I was standing there with my eyes wide open and all I could see was white.

I told myself over and over, not going to faint, not going to faint, not allowed to faint, DO NOT FAINT. Prayed it, even. And my purse started weighing a thousand pounds, and my back felt like it was on fire. I had a hand on the back of a chair, so I knew when I started swaying that I was in trouble.

Finally the preacher guy was done talking, and I started trying to figure out how I could get onto my knees... because I didn't think I could NOT faint for much longer... and I really didn't want to just fall over. Bout that time my uncle grabbed my arm and started hauling me to his truck. I regained my vision about halfway there. Spent the rest of the time in his truck cooling off while people chatted.

Why do I always have to do something stupid like that? Grrr.

Currently: Sketching character profiles.