Shoot the Tonberry

I love Catnip. Greatest subst-- er, accessory! ever! Really. I actually managed to BEAT Mega-Tonberries. Yes, that's plural. It was... what, 2 or 3 times? Maybe Erin was my good luck charm. She came over to do laundry with her friends Sincere (yes, that was his name) and Kathleen. I was going all hyper showing them video games (Sincere played Bust-A-Move and Inuyasha. He actually BEAT Inuyasha! In about 20 minutes!!) and I actually made it to Cloister 72! (Farther actually-- to 75. But I just got to the Tonberry Terror Cloister, and made the mistake of having Catnip-Yuna equipped as a Black Mage. -_- Instant DEATH!)

But I'm satisfied. I know how to kick some serious ass now. I still want to get the Dress Spheres leveled up, get better at Sphere Break (need to dig up more coins!) and eventually beat Shinra... I'm still stuck at 87%. I know I won't get much better than 96% or so, because I didn't get Leblanc's Sphere (Crimson Sphere #5, I think), so I couldn't open the Den of Woe, and that's a whole 3% of the game. But playing made me feel better! Especially getting so far... and honestly? Chac doesn't sound all that hard. ^^; I've got everyone in their high-80s, early 90s (in Paine's case), so maybe the Infinitio from here on out won't be so bad.

Meanwhile, working on WDKY10 is a bigger pain in the ass than I thought. Every time it seems like I only have a "few more scenes" to write, they end up being ridiculously complicated (read: emotional) scenes that I just don't think I did "right." And frankly, Bakura pisses me off. He's so hard to characterize! I have this one huge scene with him --just him!-- and... well, it's kinda BLECH. So I opened up Photoshop and started (call me crazy) to design a brand new Tarot Spread, for "Mr. Speshul" himself, Bakura. And I scanned my cards, looked up interpretations everywhere, and... I'm still not done. It's a 13-card spread done in a six-pointed star style, with "extra" cards for further insight. The image looks nice, but I have to work out the details of the story, and then the cards relevant to such details, before I can finish.

In summary, everything is a vicious cycle, and I wish I had some Inspiration Juice or something to kick start my brain again. I really need to finish this.

In other happy news, Mamono sent me a new skin for Dragonfayth, and with all my Photoshopping lately, I might just do a few myself, including the default one I've been itching to finish. The one she sent me, ironically enough, is a Bakura skin. -_- Think the dude's trying to tell me something? *ghostly voice* Azzzzzuuuurriiiite! Feature meeee in youuuur fiiiiiiccs! Or something. (BTW, Mamono-- the skin doesn't work completely. I'm going to run through the TPL files and see what's up.)

Plan for tomorrow (SHOCK!) -- run by CSUN and pick up my catalog. Ogle all the cool, too-expensive stuff in the bookstore that I can't buy just YET. While Baba and Grandpa are at their physical therapy thing, I wait at home (doing... stuff?) for the window guy to come and measure the Rec Room Windows. After that, get a haircut! I'm starting to look like Shaggy Dog or something. See if there's a place to get a facial/manicure before school starts. Hell, if I'm going to completely re-do my teeth like they're saying, I might as well get some bite-proof nails and nice slanty eyebrows while I'm at it, eh? It'll be Mer's Not-So-Extreme Makeover! ^_^

Anyway. Back to skinning and Photoshopping that WDKY thing. -_- I hate Chapter 10...

You are still green, young grasshopper

I hate being female. 100%. Especially now. No wonder why I've been flipping out left and right, eating weird shiz, and sleeping funkalicious hours. Grr. I hate being female. Stupid, stupid red!

Got a haircut. It's now a bit shorter and layered-- lots of flippy layers going every which way. Mostly out. A bit of a modern "Bond girl" look, now that I think about it. The lady that did my hair at Supercuts, Patricia, had a Filipino accent and asked me a bit about school and living with my g'rents before letting me just sit and relax while she chopped away. She kept saying "Shappy," and I'm not sure if she was calling my hair "shabby" or what. o_O But it looks okay...

After that, met Baba and Grandpa at Ralph's. It's huge. They have everything there. Nothing like the Cala's in San Francisco. It's amazing. I snagged THE LAST DARK CRISIS pack in the entire store, and while it doesn't have Exodia Necross or anything, it DOES have two vital components for my Fairy/Isis deck. Seriously, I can do the Sexy Isis thing for Fanime next year! :O I'm only missing a few cards (because some of them haven't come out in the U.S., probably). I now have Mudora and Cestus of Dagla, both cards of which appeared in Isis's duel with Kaiba aboard the Battle Ship! :D Couple of other good cards, including Contract with Exodia (useless to me without the Exodia pieces, though), Nin-Ken Dog (the makings of an ass-whooping Wind Deck), Ray of Hope (potential usage for the BEWD Deck of Doom) and a Fiendish Beast deck with Pandemonium Watchbear and Muju Garzett in it.

Also at Ralph's, I caught the Disney Adventure magazine-- only because it had Yugi on the front. They make a bit of mistakes in it, too... being the stickler I am, I correct them. 1) Anubis does not have the Eighth Millennium Item. He claims to have it, but we find out pretty early on that it's a fake. 2) Joey does duel. He duels in the series. He duels in the movie. Big whoop, we kind of expected that. 3) Joey didn't throw Yugi's puzzle piece into a lake, he threw it into the school pool. Ehhh... all they get is a two page spread, and it's the same old tired graphics we've already seen. Bah humbug.

-_- I totally spaced and forgot to get double-stick foam adhesive and oil absorbing strips, though. I hate relying on the g'rents for money, but so far, Border's hasn't called me back... -_-... I NEED A JOB!

Finished the "What Doesn't Kill You" Tarot page. The image for Bakura's spread in Chapter 10 is downright gorgeous, if I do say so myself, and it took a lot of Photoshopping to get it that way. I scanned my own cards, the Hanson-Roberts tarot, so they don't look exactly like the cards described in the chapter, but... Anyway, I'm all funked out and everything. I don't know what to do...

I wish I could just park myself here and write, but... gah. I just feel so yicky.