New Art 12/29/2010

I would assume that if you are checking my blog that you keep up with my website but just in case, I thought I would post my new artwork here too. :3




I had a very pleasant surprise this morning. <3 My cat Mia, who had been missing since Thursday afternoon, came back home! ^o^ I was so surprised and relieved at the same time. I am assuming she must have gotten stuck somewhere and couldn't escape... she apparently hasn't been able to eat anything because she is super skinny and has the appetite of a lion!

This afternoon I will be leaving with Ben to go to Houston to visit my Dad for a late Christmas. :3 I am very much looking forward to it. All I need now is some coffee. X3

Christmas Weekend

Well my Christmas weekend was fun. u__u'' I had the flu for Christmas... yippie. I knew I was getting sick on Wednesday but I hoping it was just one of those 24 hour bugs. Sadly, it wasn't. x_x'' I went to Arkansas with Ben to visit his sister and her kids. I would not have gone with him had I known I actually had the flu. I threw up on the plane, threw up at their house, in their van...

On a brighter note, I am feeling better now. :D Monday I started to feel much more stable and yesterday I actually able to get out of the house and get some things done. <3 Last night Terry and I painted the ugly bathroom that is supposed to be the guest bathroom. xD It's so ugly! Or at least it WAS ugly. Now it is just kinda ugly, lol. We still have more painting to do tonight. All we painted was the cabinets. Tonight we are gonna paint the walls. <3 It's gonna look soooooo much better!

Hey Boudewijn, what's up with that comment you left me on my last post? xD Spam? Seriously? No, I really do have CS5! I got it for my 23rd birthday just a few months ago from academic superstore because I get a huge discount as a student. I also started playing Minecraft after Ben showed me how awesome it was. ... wait, were you just pulling my leg? :p

Game Booster

Hello again! Today I am going to share with you all a wonderful piece of software that I just discovered the other day that I believe can help any of you who like to play a lot of games on your computer!

This software is called "Game Booster", and is available from cnet and is totally free to use. PC only, however I don't know too many Mac users who like to game a lot anyways. xD The link is right here - http://download.cnet.com/Game-Booster/3000-18512_4-10913645.html

So what is Game Booster? It's basically a utility that functions to shut down any unnecessary background processes running on your computer in order to reserve RAM and PC usage to whatever game you are playing. It's also very easy to use. I downloaded it last night to use with Minecraft and it was very easy to figure out and navigate.

Not only does it shut down processes for you but it also has a nice handy lil' system monitor section where it shows you exactly how much CPU and RAM you are currently using.

What surprised me was it also has a system scanner that can detect outdated drivers and gives links to the web page that provides the driver update you may be missing. Awesome! I hardly ever think about keeping up with my drivers... now a handy program can keep track of all that for me. This software also lists different things that are also handy to have with certain games like TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, etc.

Cnet and users gave this software a 4/5 star rating. ^_^ I agree!

BTW - I tried this software with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and it improved it's performance greatly!

On my way to greater things.

(and much more difficult!)

^_^ So as promised I am posting the results of my graduation from KC. Sadly, I only got a 3.19 as my final GPA...which cuts me just short of qualifying for a certain scholarship I was hoping to get for UT Tyler. The process of moving and such during last semester kinda threw me off I guess. x__x''

But alas, there is some good news. ^^ I spoke with a adviser from UT last Tuesday and it turns out that all my credits from KC transferred but two electives! Yay! That is very, very good news. Even better news is that I found out I could substitute my biology classes for the chemistry classes listed under the BA of Computer Science degree. Originally I was going to go for the Computer Science degree but I changed my mind because it had chemistry listed as something I'd have to take. So then I switched to Computer Information Systems because it was less demanding...(but not nearly as good as the computer science degree). When I found that out I quickly went back to my original plans and switched to the Computer Science program and even decided to get two security certifications along the way! I'm so happy that everything worked out so well!! Praise God!! :D

So now I will be studying up on Java and reviewing C++ in the meantime while I wait for classes to start in January. <3 Oh what fun. xD I am going to be having dreams about codes.

Speaking of codes, I've also been messing with Ubuntu Linux. It was a interesting idea that I thought I would try since Windows runs so heavy on my poor little laptop. I'm still working out the bugs and all but I can't ignore the big difference in boot time verses Windows 7. 48 secs to boot completely in Ubuntu verses 3:50 min. <___<'' The only drawback is that there are many different things that do not work out of the box that I have already had to go get drivers for. (and install them via the terminal @_@) If I make any astounding progress I may make a post about it someday. Right now I am struggling with the big issue of my laptop overheating because it doesn't know when to kick on the fans... lol.

Finals over!

Finals are finally over! YAY!

I thought these two days would never end. @__@ But they did, and quicker than I thought they would, in fact. <3 This Friday is my graduation.

Soooooo Tuesday I am going to be talking to a adviser from UT Tyler about what classes I should be taking there in the Spring! I'm so excitied. ^^ I'll post more details as they come...I don't have my grades back yet but when I find out how I did I'll post them.

Yum asian food!

Well now that Thanksgiving is over I will tell how I spent the rest of the week! I wound up staying at my mom's till Sunday afternoon (yesterday) so we had plenty of time to do a lot of fun things and to visit with family. <3 On black friday, we went to the asian world market in Plano and ate at their food court that Terry has been wanting to try out. It was delicious! Not everybody agreed with me though. xD I guess I do have special tastes....



^ This is a vegetarian dish that I ate there at the food court. They had a stall specifically for vegetarian foods, including veggie meat. Normally I don't like that whole "fake meat" stuff but this dish was excellent! I met the chef myself, she said she made everything from scratch. This particular dish had veggie beef in it, I could hardly tell that it wasn't meat.




^ This is what I had for desert! Okay, I know this looks kinda weird... allow me to explain! X3 There was this shaved ice stall that served these iced drinks with little tapioca balls on the bottom of the cups. An interesting concept... it was pretty good too. I got the milk tea flavor.

So after we were done there, we went to my Nana's house to visit her and Papa because they couldn't come to our Thanksgiving dinner. We had a good visit. ^_^ Afterwords, I think we went back home because it was getting fairly late. The next couple of days we did some shopping here and there at a couple of local malls, and ate out at some really nice restaurants. <3 I think my favorite day though was when we went to the asian market. X3

Thanksgiving yay!

It's Thanksgiving time again... and I'm at my mom's house in Dallas! ^o^ I always enjoy coming over here. Today I helped my mom prepare the pumpkin pies and the pumpkin bread. <3 I also made a fruit salad with the assistance of my brother-in-law that I just met! It was pretty cool. I've still been preoccupied with my lil' Megu pet... it has evolved twice now! I can't wait to see what it goes to next. Since I don't have any Twitter friends with Megus I went around and found some people I don't know who did just so I could have my Megu compete with theirs! xD lol

Ben and Terry will be here in a few hours... they left as soon as Ben was able to get off work and get back to Henderson. ^__^

Megu!

I always like to browse the Apple app market to see if I can find anything cool that I have never noticed before. One app that I was hoping to find was something that would be similar to a gigapet, tamagotchi, etc. Well first I found a cute lil' app called "Pet Playpen", a very nice app that includes all the basics for virtual pets except for growing/evolving and picking a color or type of the species you selected. I liked this app a lot, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. Finally, I found one called "Kawaii Pet Megu".



It includes all the basics of a virtual pet game, although the "games" are a bit lacking. All you can do to play with your pet is to race or fight it with other people's pets. Very nicely designed though, adorable artwork and graphics! It reminds me a LOT of tamagotchi because you start off with a base creature and it evolves as it levels. Of course you got to feed and bathe it, plus sweep the floor from time to time. It keeps things simple which makes it a very attractive app for killing time. ^__^ I would definitely recommend this if you have a iphone, ipad, or itouch. Best of all, it's FREE!

So what else have I been up to? I've been at my studies as usual, trying to do as best as I can. Finals are the second week of December!! <3 We have been discussing the prospect of trading in Ben's jeep that he recently inherited. It's just like mine but three years newer and without cruise control. (big downfall for me!) Since jeeps are not very fuel efficient I thought it would be a good idea to trade his in for something more economical. We'll see how that goes... we have found some nice looking prospects, all Hondas. Ben is bias towards Honda and Subaru so for sure we will be looking into one of those. I won't be trading in my jeep till 1) it breaks 2) I save up 1k for a down payment or 3) two years or 200k miles have passed by. :p

School n Stuff

Another day, another post. :3

So I've been pretty preoccupied here lately playing Sonic Adventure on the Xbox. Like everybody else has said, there weren't really any improvements made to it other than the glossed over graphics and higher frame rate. Still, it's been real fun to play it again and it brings back old memories. If I weren't already a Sonic fan, I'd probably rate this game a 6/10. Sonic fans will probably agree on at least a 7.5/10. The main thing that keeps bringing me back to play is the Chao Garden. Kinda addicting. xD I can't wait for them to release SA2!

Besides playing Xbox, I've been swamped in homework. I kinda sorta forgot about a big writing assignment that I have due a week from today, so now I am scurrying to get that done. @___@'' Oh what fun.

I also started using Twitter again on account of Ato... so you Twitter freaks can find me there. Don't expect me to use it much... I'm not that conformed to today's insane ways of constant communication. xD

Armadillo Chasin

Brrrr... so cold...

It has been SO cold here lately. @__@ It all happened so suddenly, too. One week it was 80 something degrees and then it plummets to 50 degrees the following week! That may not sound very cold to some folk, but it's pretty chilly for us Texans!

Something really funny happened today. I took Buu and Zoe outside to go get the mail and I saw Zoe take off across the street. I chased after her, yelling at her to come back, and finally caught up to her. She was on the side of the road sniffing at some animal... it LOOKED like a fox, but it was kinda hard to tell. She then chased it off into the woods and I proceeded to call for her till she finally decided to stop being so stubborn and came back.

I was really interested in what this animal was, so I put Buu and Zoe back in the house and went back to the spot where I saw the animal run into the woods. Thinking it might have been our lost cat Illidan, I called "here kitty kitty kitty" a few times and I heard something rustling around in the leaves. Whatever it was, it wasn't afraid of me and wasn't running away. I then decided to go get Ben out of his sick bed so he could give me his opinion on the matter while I tried to coax this animal out of the forest line with cat food. We figured it had to be tame otherwise it would have ran away at the sound of my voice. However, apparently there is such a thing as "urban armadillos" around here. xD I finally spotted the animal, it was an armadillo that was responding to the cat call. Ben theorized that the armadillo may have been used to stalking cats so it could steal their food... made enough sense to me. I threw some cat food to it and went back inside.

... in other news, Sonic Adventure has been released onto the Xbox live and PS3 marketplace! o____O'' Isn't that crazy? I totally didn't see this coming at all!



This port has received much criticism because nothing really has changed since the original Dreamcast version. No graphical enhancements have been made, no levels added, no extras, no nothing. However, this specific port could be considered the best looking version between the three versions (360/PS3, Gamecube, and Dreamcast) because of the higher 720p resolution and increased frame rate. Sonic Adventure is available now on the Xbox marketplace for $10, and for an additional $5 you can get the DX version. I'll probably just settle for the $10 version, since I actually have a copy of Sonic Adventure for the cube. :3 This is going to be a fun way to get more achievements!! I heard that you can also get avatar awards from this game as well. <3

What about SA2? According to some rumors SA2 will also be available at a later date... but I can't confirm that right now.

Fall Fest Thing!

Well yesterday was fun!

Yesterday we went to church as usual, but it was a amazing service. ^^ I can't even begin to describe how I felt during that service...it was just so incredible, blessed.

That evening we went to church again, but at this new church we have been going to in Henderson. They were having a fall fest for the kids so Ben and I helped out with the games. It was so much fun! The kids seemed like they were having a good time... my booth was pretty popular. :D I was running a go fishing game for them which everybody seemed to like.

Last night Ben showed me another trick in Photoshop. He showed me how to make animated gifs! Now I don't have to use that other program that I was using. :D Photoshop is even better than what I was using before for animated gifs, because you can use the puppet tool. See, check out what I did last night:


Poor Tails, he keeps hitting his head!

Now I am sipping coffee while I wait for Ben to wake up... we didn't sleep too well last night because our dogs kept us awake. @__@'' We had them sleep in our room with us because of Halloween. (there are some sick people that like to harm animals during Halloween where we live)

But anyways... yeah, fun. xD

Full of Cereal

Yum, I love honey nut cherrios. :3

(just finished eating breakfast around 12:30 pm, lol)

Today is a lovely day! The wind is blowing, and it's kinda chilly outside. It's pretty cool here for east Texas... 45 degrees F...and it's colder in my house than it is outside, lol. That's what I get for having good insulation.

I'm still working on my website. I purchased the domain name for it but I'm having to wait on Host Color to fix some glitch in the system or whatever. Figures. EVERY time I try to get anything done with them stuff like this happens. Am I the only one? O__o'' I don't see how they can stay in business with the poor customer service that they have. The only reason why I've stuck with them for so long is because I get a discount every year for staying with them...that and I don't want to have to worry with the hassle of changing servers.

I'm almost done with the construction of the new site layout and pages. <3 This extra time Host Color has blessed me with <__<'' has helped me to put a little extra umph into making this new layout decent.

Right now I'm chatting with Bo and a old friend of mine that I haven't talked to in AGES. Good times. ^o^ I'm also waiting on Terry to wake up from his nap, poor guy - he's sick AGAIN. He's always sick. :<

Back from the Dead

So I'm back again. xD I decided to ditch livejournal since they now make you watch commercials before you can log into your account. Isn't that crazy? Previously my journal of choice was my DA journal since most people kept in touch with me on DA, but now since I have left DA this blog is all I have left. (besides my website, of course)

So to get all that juicy privvey information about me that I know you stalkers want, you have to come here. xD Just kidding.

So, about my website. It's going through some major changes that only the very observant would be able to detect. Since I am redesigning my site on another page the only way you can tell that I am doing anything is because the other pages have slightly changed their color scheme and whatnot. The most obvious would be the art page. I'm so excited to get my site relaunched...^o^