Birthday Wishes (to be followed by a real entry)

At the risk of sounding stupid because people don't always input their REAL birthdays into LiveJournal:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON!


>_> Now if it's NOT Aaron's birthday, I'm a fool, and you all know it. Thank you.

And now what you've all been waiting for... (yeah, right)

A REAL ENTRY!

Hi, I'm alive.

And well, actually. No more barf-a-rama. Which is good, except that I'm still being pretty picky about my food, since I don't *want* to be throwing up again any time soon. So I had chicken noodle soup last night for dinner, and two waffles (no butter) this morning. So far, so good.

Made some progress in Kingdom Hearts-- I got to DEEP JUNGLE world, but the stupid vine-swinging got on my nerves (I finally made it to Vines 2, but then I dropped back into the Hippos' Lagoon. Grr) so I quit. I do have a save up there, though... What I *should* be doing though, is playing FFX and Persona, since I have to give those games back to Joe before I leave. I really do want to beat FFX...

Mamono got me listening to Escaflowne music (Lover's Only OST; the one that has "Memory of Fanelia" on it), so I'm in a kind of chocobo-mood. You know, ready to go and kinda hyper, but still sort of relaxed (like I've just had a wad of Ghyshal Greens shoved down my throat). *sway* Whee...

Things I'm working on today...
* Accomplished: Printed some CD labels for my CHICAGO soundtrack and my Inuyasha WIND (Symphonic Theme Collection). I have a few more CDs to go. I also sorted out all my CD boxes, since I'm not bringing them to LA-- I'm just bringing my binders. :)

* To do: Award templates for SMRFF, plus touching up of *last* year's Mamo Day awards. I feel so stupid for not uploading them. I also have to design a new layout for SMRFF, which I might have somewhat done; I do remember starting one for MS, but SMRFF is my priority right now.

Loads of CDs to burn... I have to start deleting files and programs, exporting settings and save files... better now than later, right? I have to learn to "live out of a box" for a while. I really need to get packing.

There's also lots of fics to work on; I've been skittering around from WDKY to Prophecy Girl to (now) Family. So you might see one of those three latest chapter showing up soon. I actually fell asleep last night with my head full of this plot hole in WDKY... I have to do some double-checking to make sure I didn't make a major screw up with my timing and plotting. >_< I really need to condense all my notes and stuff.

Sometime later, I plan on going to C&C and picking up some Ancient Sanctuary cards... not like I have anyone to duel against, but that's beside the point. :) Later this month (and I do mean JUNE), I have to get my hands on "Joey the Passion" somehow... plus I need to swing by CompUSA and see if they really do have that "trade an HP ink cartridge for a ream of paper" deal. :D I like paper!

What else? Well, I might have found the source/solution to the error I'm still having with BEA. See, when I initially made the fanlisting, I enabled this favorites field that asked people to say why they liked Seto/Anzu together. Now, this was waaaaaay too long, and most people didn't even bother filling it in. So when it came time to change the layout, I changed the option, too. And then, problems galore! I fixed most of them, and now the error is that people have been joining, but not showing up in my Admin Panel. The CodeGRRL.com FAQ (which I stupidly neglected to read the first time around) says that you have to change it back-- but of course, I want a different question now, if I *have* to use it. Anyone have any ideas? The best kind of thing would be something multiple choice, so I could use a drop-down menu instead of worrying about people typing stuff in (or not).

Supposedly one of the solutions was to drop the Favorites field in PHPmyAdmin, but I tried that and it didn't do anything. ;_; So even if I *do* change config.php back to the enabled-favorites (with a new question), will it add the field again? I don't know... I'm a bit too impatient waiting for someone to get back to me. Maybe I should just pore over my PHP book...

;_; I tried to do that cool portrait maker thing that everyone else is doing lately, but I keep getting an error! It's not fair! I want my l33t icon!! *bawls*

*sigh* Back to Photoshop.

Boo-yah!?

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Okay, so I'm not 100% sure what prompted this, but hopefully everyone who was abuse-reported-abused (that is, unfairly received rebuse reports) will now actually have something to back up their case with; you can't have your account suspended or deleted (the same applies to your fics) on FFnet if there is NO JUST CAUSE or PROOF that you have disobeyed any rules, guidelines, or policies. >_> Though now that I think about it, they really shouldn't call them "guidelines" ... (*has flashback to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' where the Pirates' Code is said -by Barbossa- to be "more like... guidelines."*)

But on this note, I'm wondering, what constitutes acceptable stuff in the R rating? When does something stop being R and start being NC-17? I know the difference between porn and steamy movies, kiddies, but really-- how much sex/drugs/violence can you have in a fic before someone says it's UNFIT for the R rating?

Just curious.

Slightly revised Chapter 1 of "Family," since I spotted a time continuity error. ;_; I only hope WDKY doesn't have the same problem. EEEK! I think what I need to do is get a blank, yearless (or make-your-own) calendar and just plot everything out that way. Hmm, I wonder if I can buy those kind of things at Office Depot or something. :P A GIANT FIC PLANNER.

I want a bagel. I wonder if I can eat a bagel without throwing up. ;_; I like bagels...

Oh yeah, what do you think of my new CG-icon? I was afraid it wasn't going to work, but it did! >_> And it really looks like me. Well, minus the freckles. I have lots of freckles. I wanna make one for Anzu, too.

It's too soon, but dammit.

PLOT F^%$!n hole. Plot BUNNY.

Guess what I just discovered? I have f*cked up royally in WDKY. My baby. My precious. MY BEST FIC EVAR, and I have made a whomping, huge, will-be-very-difficult-to-revise error. I need help.

BETAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS! ;_; I need you. Help. The bunnies will eat me.