Wow. Two whole years--at least.

In that time I've lost my best female friend, and become a mother!



Isn't she cute!

We finally have names!  As of Chapter 367 we *finally* know who Naruto's parents are!

Apocolyptica songs, though my favorites, are hard to identify because of lack of lyrics, but I'll do the best I can. 'Course, this wouldn't be a problem if I had something other than a Shuffle.

Also, I need more music...

Sorry to any folks who actually read this journal for not posting in over a month.  -_-;

As to what's up... My sister-in-law is in the hospital in San Antonio with double lung pneumonia.  They've got her sedated and on a respirator, and the docs are estimating she'll be in there for at least three weeks.  She's stable, but not in great shape.

Other far less important stuff... My Void battle with Rax's Sol was indeed canceled, and I've got a half finished battle that I'd really like to do something with, but can't, 'cause Rax is a flake.  If he'd just get back to me I'd be less peeved.

Gareth got a job.  Teaching.  Yeah.  Teaching.  Part-time, but it supposedly pays really nice, he hasn't gotten the first paycheck yet.

So now that we know that we're going to be here a while I'm job hunting too.  I was recently told that Starbucks gives health insurance to part-timers.  Now all I have to do is find a real Starbucks.

And my battle with Rax's Sol has a new deadline--29 days from now... And I have like 5 and a half pages to go... Which I haven't worked on in days, in favor of another Void work--My void forum header bar.  It's sucked me in, and I can't seem to walk away from it.  I find myself staring at it between bouts of actual work.

Other stuff--My Ipod Shuffle is nifty, and I think it's helped my productivity.

I do hope Void recovers from it's current state, otherwise all my plots are for naught.

So... Where to start... A recap then...


It's got a bit more detail than the actual two pages I drew for my Void intro... Perhaps I'll do some flashbacks.

Well, that's all I feel like writing for the moment, so ta.

~Nibbles

    So my battle with Rax's Sol may or may not be canceled.  So I'm doing my best to work on it anyway.  The Void website is still down, it could be a blessing in disguise I suppose, but it's keeping me from getting an important reference.  I desperately need to look at page 2 of Sol's origin story.  I can't remember what color Grod's (an NPC) clothes were--I think his pants were khaki.  But the vest jacket thing, I have no idea.

    The fight is due on the 20th at 11 PM central time (I think)--That means I have four days to do 6 and a half pages.  ; ^ ;  Damn health issues slowing me down!  Stupid chest--why did you have to pick a crucial point in my schedule to hurt!  Right arm--you traitor!  Do as I want you to!  Quit twitching!

    So the good news in my health is still that I haven't needed my cane to walk since like Spring--it's got dust on it--Yay!  But the bad news is that my condition may be more complicated that it initially seemed.  I may have a heart condition called Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) instead of or as well as Multiple Sclerosis (MS).  Their symptoms overlap you see.  I'm not going to list all the symptoms here, but the difference between them is that MS doesn't have fainting, and MVP doesn't have spasticity<sp?> (that numb-pain-crampy-twitchy-paralysis effect).  I have both.  The MVP would have to be an undiscovered birth defect--which is entirely likely, considering my known lifetime problem with Tachycardia (Heart too fast) and mild arrhythmia (ba-bump *trip* ba-ba-bump).  MVP is also commonly misdiagnosed as Hypoglycemia, which I was diagnosed with in high-school and have always thought was bull.  However, having both seems like a major statistical anomaly--like seriously weird.

    Unless, I had a genetic disorder called Noonan's to cause them both.   -_-  Noonan's isn't known to cause MS, but alot isn't known about Noonan's anyway.  There's alot of 'catch-all' to the symptom list, along with a laundry list of physical deformities; including my large neck over 16 inches in size, my micro-jaw (they used a different word but that's what it means) that I had fixed, 65% of all people with Noonan's also have a congenital heart defect (possible).  One odd little (and harmless) physical defect is the rotation of the angle of the ears slightly backward from center--my Ceramics teacher noticed when we were doing busts.  The defect list also includes shortness, but I'm not below average in height, just below average in height from the hips up--I have a very short torso.  I'm a whole head taller than my mom, but if I sit next to her she's TALLER than me.  The top of my pelvis and my last rib nearly touch (and sometimes they pinch)--they're only an inch and a half to two inches apart (no Barbie doll waist for me).  Before the days of genetic testing, docs thought Noonan's was a kind of Turner's syndrome--which when I was born the doctors thought I had.  Turner's however, is a problem on the chromosomal level, not just a few genes like Noonan's.  Turner's also makes a the patient have six toes on each foot, and never menstruate.  So definitely not me there.

    Something else that's common to people with Noonan's--mild mental disability.  My first thought there was, "Well, I don't have that problem!  My IQ is and always has been quite fine, thank you."  But then I thought, "What kind of mental disability are they talking about?"  And that brought to mind my childhood.  In hindsight, I've never been normal, and I've often had phases where I displayed symptoms of a weird borderline Autism, that basically stopped when I hit puberty.  Kind of a blessing in disguise really...  If I hadn't been like that, I would've turned out as maladjusted as my twin brother.

    Well, enough pondering, I need to go update the website.

I entered Deviant Art's VoidChat earlier today, looking to talk to Mamoru, but alas I didn't find him.  Oh well...

Anyhow, it somehow came up that I was married and this guy FooRay, asked just how old I was, I told him I was 24 nearly 25.

Then he proceded to tease me about my age.

He didn't mean any harm (I think), but now I feel old.

Friggin' Youngin's.

~Ta,
Nibbles

Alright!

My Beyond Battle is UP! And I'm raking in the points for it too. Before it went up I was a B class fighter of rank 44, now I'm an A class and ranked 34. Life is good.

Eighty-eight in 'Crazy Town' my Beyond Battle.
Eighty-eight vs. Sol the battle I'm working on now.
The Rankings.

For my Battle with Sol I've got a ten pager planned, but it has parts I can abort if necessary.  The first two pages are dream sequence (which I can cut off, but I want it for foreshadowing), followed a little poignant detail relating that Sol just lost most of his students in his fight with Orange and that he's grieving, followed with a little action, and the last page (another I can cut off but I really, really don't want to) is 'Elsewhere' and about the Sponsors taking out a hit for Eights' retrieval.  That'll leave a nice opening for whatever fight I have next.  And that's pretty much the gist of it, without giving too much away.

My Possession storyline looms ever closer, Mwa ha ha.

Hn.  I think that's it for now.
~Ta,
Nibbles

I'm recovering from a narcoleptic phase it seems...  It lasted two weeks and was kinda scary--My blood pressure was really low, 86 over 69, and my pulse was 110 at rest.  On other news; I haven't needed my cane in many months!  *happy dance* And I'm thinking about getting a job at Wal-mart because of it.  If I get sick in three months and have to quit, they have such a high turnover rate that it won't seem out of the ordinary... Though, now that I think about it, in three months is just before the christmas season, but if I can hang on for 4, I can work the entire Christmas season, and they can let me go after that. 

Oh, and I updated the webpage this mornin'.

My first battle is UP!  Whee!  And so far I'm winning! 

It's a collab you have to read mine and his to get the whole bit...
http://entervoid.com/arena.php?bid=1786

~La!

I have become a Voidling.

Entervoid.com

I have a character named Eighty-eight, and my psuedonym is Nibbles.

I have a battle with Dr. Pye coming up.

Gareth just finished writing Act 1 of Heros last night at 37 chapters over what he had intended for it's length, but ooooh, do I ever love it so!

We put up Chapter 106 on the website today, along with a little art.  Gareth was writing something earlier--I don't know if he's already starting on Act 2 or if he's working on Absolutes or Incarnates--he was thinking of handing Incarnates over to Matt.

Pokey's BBQ is okay, good for when Piggy's is closed.  I think I've got the itis.

The road to the Airforce is lookin' pretty much paved, but I can tell the whole 'wait and see' aspect is starting to weigh on Gareth.

I'm still thinking on what I should do with HenscratchStudio.com.  I'm tempted to *finally* learn flash and make a site out of that, but I'm scared it would be a major pain in the ass.

Don't read.  I promise you'll be better off if you don't.  Will I be pissed if you do?  No.



Again.

Or should it be "Mad Science & Magic" ?

Anyway, don't read.  It sucks.  Really.

Told you so.

Don't read it, it's too weird.

Told you so.

It's too hot.  It's making me sick.

The website updated today.  Chapter 103 and some art.  Solomon talks alot in this chapter, and I was trying a new coloring technique on the art.  It's questionable if I succeeded.