I'm feeling the pressure to get this birthday present done. Only 6 days left and still 11 pages to get done. Between this and other things I have to get done it's going to be a tight squeeze. I think I may have to pull an all nighter, and to think school hasn't even begun!

I've been scoping out the weather forecast for next week and it so far looks like it's either going to be raining, mostly cloudy, or partly cloudy. -.- I really hope the forecasts find more unity in their reports as the day approaches. Of course, I'm hoping for the best possible weather, not that a little rain is going to take any fun out of my day.

I'm SO excited about the discovery of Gliese581g! I can't wait to see what else they discover about it in the upcoming few months. I'm happy they were so realistic about the possibilities this time around, compared to the jumping to conclusions like they've done so many times in the past. I think the possibility of living on a planet where it's the same weather on a certain part of the planet all year round, is awesome! Think of the possibilities. And I think if they actually prove life on that planet, that would be even more awesome. To me, the ability to foster water on the planet's surface is enough indication that the reality of life on Gliese581g might not be too far off.

I think today is a soup making day. I'm craving carrots in a steamy chicken broth with yummy noodles.

I'm in love with Orange Blossom tea.

"I yelled at it and now it's dead." -<3

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty

I've been musically obsessing over Gorillaz and Beethoven. Not as odd a combination as you might imagine.

Only 8 days left to the best day ever. I really can't wait to have ridiculous amounts of fun being awesome.

Temporarily paused all work on every one of my side projects to work on a very special, time sensitive present for someone's birthday. Pictures of first 3 pages up on Flikr.

Pictures of apples with messages like "Hi. Just wanted to remind you that you're the apple of my eye." are kind of really cute.

As for when I'll be back on WoW, look for me a few weeks before Cataclysm. I really have no motivation to play at the moment.

Thank you for the reference to the VAA. I'm already taking part in a fandub and an original radioplay. Thankfully readings won't start for a few weeks. Ah, how I love the power of the internet to bring people together.

I love colored pencils. I also love argyle.

You have to give me credit for checking my email almost everyday and actually responding within a few days time. I'm getting better. >.>

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Some of you have expressed interest in learning how to be better food shoppers. You want to know the secret to have a $100 monthly grocery budget and still being able to eat things like roasted red pepper lasagna, Rosemary chicken with Veggies, wheat berry tabbouleh, and rice vermicelli pilaf? I'm going to break it down for you. I promise it's really not difficult. I know that you're smart enough to take these steps and mold them into something that will work for your particular needs.

1. Get a discount card from your supermarket and sign up for the flyers they mail out to people's homes. The flyer is a great resource for sales and promotions, not to mention they usually come with coupons you can use when you check out.

TIP: You can get tons of coupons online at places like wow-coupons.com and couponmom.com. Sometimes, even signing up for a specific brand's mailing list will garner you with coupons too!

2. Make a list. Making a list is probably the most important thing to do before going grocery shopping. If you don't make a list and only go in with a general idea of what you need, you're more likely to buy things you don't actually need, forget the things you really wanted, and spend more money than you needed to.

When you make your list you want to take into account how long you're buying for, the discounted items you saw in the flyer, and what dishes you're hoping to make. Make sure you always stay stocked on your core, staple items, and then you can add all the frills.

TIP: You can add a small #2 to the items on your list to mark what's priority and what can probably wait.

3. At the grocery store you want to either bring a calculator to add things up as you go or grab one of the self scanners that adds everything up for you, if your supermarket has them available to you. This way, you're sure you're not going over your budget and that you're sticking to your list.

TIP: Sales are often advertised as "10 for $!0" or something similar! However, that also means that 1 is $1 and you have no reason to buy more than you actually need! If you don't need that extra bottle of syrup, don't get it.

That's it! Keep in mind that knowing how to cook will be a huge help because most of the time raw ingredients are cheaper than prepackaged box stuff. Taking the steps initially might take you some time, but with regular practice, it becomes second hand nature. Do what feels right and have fun saving money!

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That's all I've got for now. See you lovely people soon. :)

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty

@Emily - Just read your comment, I'll send you a message on facebook, but I won't be picking up the project I was talking about for about another 2 weeks. (I miss you)

I've been drinking so much hot tea that I might as well refer to myself as British. It's kind of awesome.

I half checked my email this past weekend, responded to all of the responsibility emails, but none of the friends ones, and I have yet to touch facebook. Which means I'm still very much missing my friends. A lot. I'm not going to even try and call everyone out, because that would make this post very long and truthfully I haven't got that much time right now, but you know who you are. All I'm going to say is there's this song that I've had on repeat and it was written by a certain piggly about my dear friend and myself. It's awesome.

I'm doing nightmare before christmas at karaoke this week. It's going to be epic.

I really want a set of colored pencils so that I can obsess over them! Crayons are wonderful, but I don't appreciate how difficult it can be to add detail to smaller drawings with them.

I got a new sudoku book, it's super awesome. At the store that I bought it at, they had these other weird versions of sudoku that made me look it up online and start trying those out too. It's pretty much the best thing since individually packaged slices of cheese.

Some of my current favorite words, phrases, and things of that nature:
Totally Awesome
pretty much
You wanna talk about it?
I don't know what -that's- all about
You think?
The sun is a quagmire, it's not made of fire
Michael Posner was a neurologist long before someone stole his name and started singing
Your face
and I'm sorry but I'm not surpri-i-ised
You have to be careful in space, you might bump into each other while you're sleeping
Get your head in the game!
That's how I roll
*biting sound* nom nom nom, I just eated you

I was reading this article on one of my favorite gadget websites and I was really disappointed at how horrible the grammar was. However, when I got to the end of the article and started reading all of the comments, very astutely pointing out all of the mistakes the writer made, I felt so much better. It's a pretty wonderful feeling when you realize you're not the only grammar nazi that makes an account on a website, just to have the ability to reply to posts and point out the grammar mistakes.

Currently embedded into my brain music wise is the Gorrilaz CD, Plastic Beach. Partly because it's so amazing and mostly because .. well .. you know why. :)

Also in the process of rekindling my love for all of Neil Postman's ingenious works. It still amazes me how Amusing Ourselves to Death is so relevant in current society.

See you soon?

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty

PS Is anyone relatively comfortable with photoshop? I need some help for a project I'm working on. It's pretty simple, but the program seems so complicated and truthfully I haven't had much time to really play around with it yet. Let me know!

Busy, busy, busy. I can admit to not having checked my email or facebook posts and messages in a while. Hopefully I can do that this weekend. Maybe. I'll have updates and fun stuff coming soon. I'm going to a concert few days before classes start and I'm pretty excited. :3 Question. Would anyone reading this possibly mind recording GLEE for me and sending it to me via the interwebs? Or possibly uploading it somewhere that I can download it from? Pretty please? I'm not sure exactly what date it starts airing, but I'm pretty sure it's soon. I need to spend some time getting the Hulu crack to work, when I actually have some time. Still have not seen anybody on vent since it's been up, or maybe I'm on when nobody else is. >.< I'm going to try changing the info and reposting it, see if that works... at some point this weekend. I hope. Haha! Are you noticing a recurring pattern with how much time I have or might not actually have. It's good times though. I'm happy :)

I've got a bowl of rice and chicken with my name on it, so I'll catch you cool cats later. Miss you. A lot. <3

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty