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)