Attack of the killer carrot juicer
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azuriteI survived.
What a day at work. Am I ever glad to be home, and have tomorrow off. I mean, it wasn't horrible-- I didn't have to deal with any pathetically immature and perpetually stupid boys... the only guy on duty was this new guy, E, who I barely know. So I was working with an all-girl crew, people I like and am pretty okay with. It was nice-- time flew. I got a horrible cramp from working on dairy most of the time, but it's okay now. The scariest (yes, SCARIEST) part of my day was when (toward the last 5 minutes of my shift) I was making a carrot juice for a customer.
Now, the carrot juice machine is a very big, heavy, metal contraption with lots of parts. The main parts are this basket with very fine mesh that spins VERY fast as the carrots are pushed into it. It spins to let all the juice out of the carrot grinds. The juice goes out one tube, while the carrot mush goes out another, large tube. The mesh basket sits in a big, three-piece bowl fixed on the sides with latches, and in the center inside with a giant bolt. Well, so I've gotten about 6 oz. or so of carrot juice, but I need 32, so I keep mushing the carrots in there... carrot machine is busy being loud and annoying when all of a sudden it makes a violently loud noise the clear pipe (the carrot mush pipe) comes FLYING out of its socket, the latch that connects the basin (with the mesh grinder) unlocks itself and spins right into my hand, and the whole machine goes nutso-- and carrots are EVERYWHERE. I am so startled and scared (I thought I cut off a finger or something) that I fumbled to turn it off for a few seconds. I walked into the back room in a daze, at which point L, a tall, new girl who is kind of friendly, burst out laughing at me.
I couldn't help it, I started laughing too. It's nice that it comes naturally, instead of me feeling all hurt that someone was laughing at me. A few other girls laughed when they saw me too, and when I got to the bathroom, I saw why-- I was covered in carrot guts, from head to toe. Long story short, I went to the back and cleaned off, and went home-- though everyone still got a good laugh out of the thing, especially since the carrot machine decided to behave after that.
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shadowesque13.
1. Go to the Elouai doll maker. ( http://elouai.com/doll-makers/candybar-doll-maker.php )
2. Make an ordinary doll of yourself and save it.
3. Take that doll and, leaving a couple things (nose, eyebrows, whatever) the same, Mary Sue yourself. Make the most blatant Mary Sue you can conceive.
4. Post "Before" and "After" in your LJ. Bonus points if your Sue has a backstory of some sort.
Before:
This is me, give or take a slightly darker shade of brown hair, and maybe some freckles. It's how I dress, too.
After:
And this is me, Mary-Sue-ized. Unfortunately, since I'm so anti-Sue, I can't really super-glorify myself and be blatantly Sue, but I tried! Here's her story:
She doesn't have magical violet, or red, or color-changing eyes, because every Sue is like that, therefore it's not original. But if I were to describe her eyes, they would be like "glittering emeralds" or perhaps "shining peridots," not that anyone knows that peridots are that nice, light kind of green...
Her hair isn't any magical color either, but LOOK at her teh hawt design with all sorts of layers and bangles-- and she can get away with it, because she's UNIQUE! None of the teachers at Domino High (because, like, teh DUH, she transferred there) are bothered by it, because she's so super-sweet and intelligent-- she got even higher marks on her tests than Kaiba! And that pisses him off, so he starts "investigating" her, and he finds out she has some super-secret-- OMGZ her whole family is TEH DEAD, and she's an orphan, JUST LIKE HIM! *cry tear wail* But she believes if she gets close to anyone --friends or otherwise-- she'll end up losing them in the end, so she doesn't make friends with EVERYONE, even though EVERYONE (even Yami Bakura!) likes her! She's smart, she's pretty, she has an interest in the occult, she likes complaining about teachers and boys and homework, she doesn't mind food fights, and she thinks fast cars are TEH HAWT! So why wouldn't everyone like her? And even though she's an orphan, she's a super-hard worker, and because she's so super-nice, she has a super-easy job that pays super-well, and so she's super-rich. So she can afford red ball gowns made by Versace, and she can randomly show up at any corporate balls Kaiba might have (even though Kaiba would never have any), and she'll sweep him off his feet, even though she doesn't really want to be with him, but she really does! ZOMG!
...How'd I do?
After the incident (and after the horrors of last night), I TMd Scott; he called me when I was napping at home. We chatted for about 20 minutes- he's back from San Diego, where he says all his friends and family are doing okay, and his mom's back on her feet (she broke her foot earlier this summer). They're all coming up to LA this coming weekend, but Scott doesn't see the sense in taking the whole week off if they're not even going out of town (out of town for him being out of LA county). He seems to be pretty driven about making money lately, even though he knows just as well as I do that we're at dead-end jobs for "beginners," and not exactly at home with our desires or people of like intelligence...
I'm still looking forward to school starting... and I wanna know if this sorta-friendship with Scott will go anywhere. FWB, whatever.
Anyway, I've been pelted left and right with ideas for CO7, so I might as well get started writing that. Then everyone won't have to wait so long (I'll still send out finished chapters to be beta'd, of course) for them to come out, once WDKY is finished. I've already got the first part of Chapter 1 finished... HEH!
MEME: Excerpts from WIPS.
If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, post one sentence/paragraph/whatever from each of your current work(s) in progress. Mention the title if you like, but don't mention anything else.
The Rose Chronicles (Chapter 2)
She nearly tumbled head over feet with the way she was running about the darkened corridors, barely a torch to light her way. But Rebecca had memorized the way back to the kitchens. Even in the dark, her feet knew exactly where they were carrying the short blonde. Her excitement had bested her, even at this late night hour, and she couldn't wait to tell the other scullery maids.
Wait till they hear all about the Rose Duelist!
Family (Chapter 2)
He was staring at her so hard he could have bored a hole into her head.
"S-Stop looking at me like that," Téa finally mumbled.
"Your daughter?" Kaiba repeated in a flat echo. Téa nodded and then it dawned on her as she and Kaiba walked away from Domino Elementary.
Prophecy Girl (Chapter 3)
It made no sense that those eyes reminded her so strongly of Seto Kaiba; while Téa was well-aware that the callous CEO had a destiny tied to that of her best friend, Yugi Mutoh, she didn't understand why he, of all people, would need saving.
'Especially if he's the one that killed me!' Téa thought angrily to herself. But maybe it was all just a silly dream, and this was just another stupid tournament.
Only... that had been exactly what she'd thought about Duelist Kingdom, and it had turned out to be so much more than that. There was no such thing as a simple game anymore. Isis had said lives were at stake, and the fate of the world rested in their hands...
She (Chapter 1)
"I wanted to tell you, Maki--"
"You're a Kaiba?" she whispered, tugging on her shirt, the shirt that Mokuba very nearly slid off her shoulders.
"Maki, I--" Eighteen-year-old Mokuba Kaiba never begged, never pleaded with anyone for anything. But she hadn't KNOWN he was Mokuba Kaiba, she'd known him as... someone entirely different. The boy --no, the man-- she'd just been kissing! But he... he was...
'It can't be!'
Speed of You (Chapter 1)
She was already eighteen --had been since August, actually-- but she'd never bothered to buy a car. Unlike Honda, who'd gotten ahold of an old motorcycle and repaired it, riding it illegally until he was practically a master of the streets, Anzu only recently learned to drive-- and now wanted a car to call her own.
It wasn't as if she couldn't afford it-- she was, after all, one of Tokyo's richest heiresses.
But nobody else knew that.
Something to Somebody (Chapter 2)
"COOL!" Mokuba exclaimed. He was watching a real, bona fide Sailor Senshi in action! The kind of fights you only read about in papers! It was tons more exciting than anything Mokuba had ever seen in a duel (but he wasn't about to let his brother know that), and definitely more fun than being in Noa's virtual world.
"Hah! Any more of you want to take me on?"
All eyes suddenly turned to the source of the voice --Anzu was standing on one of the catwalks a good thirty meters in the air! The demons growled, realizing that they'd been outsmarted, and converged in the attempt at bringing Anzu down.
"H-How the hell did she do that?" Seto found himself murmuring aloud. He knew nothing about the Sailor Senshi --aside from the fact that they were a bunch of scantily-clad teenage vigilantes that took law into their own hands. But seeing one of them --Anzu, no less!-- defy the very laws of physics...?! It was impossible.
She couldn't be human!
"She's the soldier of light," Shizuka replied in a soft, lilting tone, "As in, the speed of."
The Joke's On You (Chapter 2)
When Joey, Tristan, and Duke Devlin arrived in the main entryway, where Kaiba was supposed to lead them to the dueling arena and the surrounding galleries, Téa was standing by a support beam-- banging her head on it.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid..." She emphasized each word with a proper bang against the beam, and it wasn't until after seven more bangs and an exchange of confused glances between Tristan and Joey that the latter boy intervened, sliding his hand between the pole and Téa's head.
So instead of banging her head on the pole, she banged Joey's hand into it.
The Show Must Go On (Chapter 1)
It was just a note.
A stupid little scrap of paper --an ugly color, too... and nothing more.
But that one scrap of paper induced a feeling in Seto that he'd never experienced before-- uncertainty.
For it wasn't just any note-- but a one-way trip to the Principal's Office.
Circle of Seven (Chapter 1)
'Take a breath. It's just a button. You can do this. It's not that hard.'
Still, she hesitated.
Maybe it was because standing in front of the massive Kaiba mansion instilled her with a sense of timidity like she'd never possessed before. Her own husband would say she was being foolish, if he were here to see this...
She blinked back painful tears before they could slide down her cheek.
He wasn't here now. That was part of the problem. She had to change things, and...
'No more hesitation! No more fear!'
So she pushed the button, and waited.
Yeeeeep, that's all the juicy goodness (literally) I can handle for a day.
What a day at work. Am I ever glad to be home, and have tomorrow off. I mean, it wasn't horrible-- I didn't have to deal with any pathetically immature and perpetually stupid boys... the only guy on duty was this new guy, E, who I barely know. So I was working with an all-girl crew, people I like and am pretty okay with. It was nice-- time flew. I got a horrible cramp from working on dairy most of the time, but it's okay now. The scariest (yes, SCARIEST) part of my day was when (toward the last 5 minutes of my shift) I was making a carrot juice for a customer.
Now, the carrot juice machine is a very big, heavy, metal contraption with lots of parts. The main parts are this basket with very fine mesh that spins VERY fast as the carrots are pushed into it. It spins to let all the juice out of the carrot grinds. The juice goes out one tube, while the carrot mush goes out another, large tube. The mesh basket sits in a big, three-piece bowl fixed on the sides with latches, and in the center inside with a giant bolt. Well, so I've gotten about 6 oz. or so of carrot juice, but I need 32, so I keep mushing the carrots in there... carrot machine is busy being loud and annoying when all of a sudden it makes a violently loud noise the clear pipe (the carrot mush pipe) comes FLYING out of its socket, the latch that connects the basin (with the mesh grinder) unlocks itself and spins right into my hand, and the whole machine goes nutso-- and carrots are EVERYWHERE. I am so startled and scared (I thought I cut off a finger or something) that I fumbled to turn it off for a few seconds. I walked into the back room in a daze, at which point L, a tall, new girl who is kind of friendly, burst out laughing at me.
I couldn't help it, I started laughing too. It's nice that it comes naturally, instead of me feeling all hurt that someone was laughing at me. A few other girls laughed when they saw me too, and when I got to the bathroom, I saw why-- I was covered in carrot guts, from head to toe. Long story short, I went to the back and cleaned off, and went home-- though everyone still got a good laugh out of the thing, especially since the carrot machine decided to behave after that.
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shadowesque13. 1. Go to the Elouai doll maker. ( http://elouai.com/doll-makers/candybar-doll-maker.php )
2. Make an ordinary doll of yourself and save it.
3. Take that doll and, leaving a couple things (nose, eyebrows, whatever) the same, Mary Sue yourself. Make the most blatant Mary Sue you can conceive.
4. Post "Before" and "After" in your LJ. Bonus points if your Sue has a backstory of some sort.
Before:
This is me, give or take a slightly darker shade of brown hair, and maybe some freckles. It's how I dress, too.
After:
And this is me, Mary-Sue-ized. Unfortunately, since I'm so anti-Sue, I can't really super-glorify myself and be blatantly Sue, but I tried! Here's her story:
She doesn't have magical violet, or red, or color-changing eyes, because every Sue is like that, therefore it's not original. But if I were to describe her eyes, they would be like "glittering emeralds" or perhaps "shining peridots," not that anyone knows that peridots are that nice, light kind of green...
Her hair isn't any magical color either, but LOOK at her teh hawt design with all sorts of layers and bangles-- and she can get away with it, because she's UNIQUE! None of the teachers at Domino High (because, like, teh DUH, she transferred there) are bothered by it, because she's so super-sweet and intelligent-- she got even higher marks on her tests than Kaiba! And that pisses him off, so he starts "investigating" her, and he finds out she has some super-secret-- OMGZ her whole family is TEH DEAD, and she's an orphan, JUST LIKE HIM! *cry tear wail* But she believes if she gets close to anyone --friends or otherwise-- she'll end up losing them in the end, so she doesn't make friends with EVERYONE, even though EVERYONE (even Yami Bakura!) likes her! She's smart, she's pretty, she has an interest in the occult, she likes complaining about teachers and boys and homework, she doesn't mind food fights, and she thinks fast cars are TEH HAWT! So why wouldn't everyone like her? And even though she's an orphan, she's a super-hard worker, and because she's so super-nice, she has a super-easy job that pays super-well, and so she's super-rich. So she can afford red ball gowns made by Versace, and she can randomly show up at any corporate balls Kaiba might have (even though Kaiba would never have any), and she'll sweep him off his feet, even though she doesn't really want to be with him, but she really does! ZOMG!
...How'd I do?
After the incident (and after the horrors of last night), I TMd Scott; he called me when I was napping at home. We chatted for about 20 minutes- he's back from San Diego, where he says all his friends and family are doing okay, and his mom's back on her feet (she broke her foot earlier this summer). They're all coming up to LA this coming weekend, but Scott doesn't see the sense in taking the whole week off if they're not even going out of town (out of town for him being out of LA county). He seems to be pretty driven about making money lately, even though he knows just as well as I do that we're at dead-end jobs for "beginners," and not exactly at home with our desires or people of like intelligence...
I'm still looking forward to school starting... and I wanna know if this sorta-friendship with Scott will go anywhere. FWB, whatever.
Anyway, I've been pelted left and right with ideas for CO7, so I might as well get started writing that. Then everyone won't have to wait so long (I'll still send out finished chapters to be beta'd, of course) for them to come out, once WDKY is finished. I've already got the first part of Chapter 1 finished... HEH!
MEME: Excerpts from WIPS.
If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, post one sentence/paragraph/whatever from each of your current work(s) in progress. Mention the title if you like, but don't mention anything else.
The Rose Chronicles (Chapter 2)
She nearly tumbled head over feet with the way she was running about the darkened corridors, barely a torch to light her way. But Rebecca had memorized the way back to the kitchens. Even in the dark, her feet knew exactly where they were carrying the short blonde. Her excitement had bested her, even at this late night hour, and she couldn't wait to tell the other scullery maids.
Wait till they hear all about the Rose Duelist!
Family (Chapter 2)
He was staring at her so hard he could have bored a hole into her head.
"S-Stop looking at me like that," Téa finally mumbled.
"Your daughter?" Kaiba repeated in a flat echo. Téa nodded and then it dawned on her as she and Kaiba walked away from Domino Elementary.
Prophecy Girl (Chapter 3)
It made no sense that those eyes reminded her so strongly of Seto Kaiba; while Téa was well-aware that the callous CEO had a destiny tied to that of her best friend, Yugi Mutoh, she didn't understand why he, of all people, would need saving.
'Especially if he's the one that killed me!' Téa thought angrily to herself. But maybe it was all just a silly dream, and this was just another stupid tournament.
Only... that had been exactly what she'd thought about Duelist Kingdom, and it had turned out to be so much more than that. There was no such thing as a simple game anymore. Isis had said lives were at stake, and the fate of the world rested in their hands...
She (Chapter 1)
"I wanted to tell you, Maki--"
"You're a Kaiba?" she whispered, tugging on her shirt, the shirt that Mokuba very nearly slid off her shoulders.
"Maki, I--" Eighteen-year-old Mokuba Kaiba never begged, never pleaded with anyone for anything. But she hadn't KNOWN he was Mokuba Kaiba, she'd known him as... someone entirely different. The boy --no, the man-- she'd just been kissing! But he... he was...
'It can't be!'
Speed of You (Chapter 1)
She was already eighteen --had been since August, actually-- but she'd never bothered to buy a car. Unlike Honda, who'd gotten ahold of an old motorcycle and repaired it, riding it illegally until he was practically a master of the streets, Anzu only recently learned to drive-- and now wanted a car to call her own.
It wasn't as if she couldn't afford it-- she was, after all, one of Tokyo's richest heiresses.
But nobody else knew that.
Something to Somebody (Chapter 2)
"COOL!" Mokuba exclaimed. He was watching a real, bona fide Sailor Senshi in action! The kind of fights you only read about in papers! It was tons more exciting than anything Mokuba had ever seen in a duel (but he wasn't about to let his brother know that), and definitely more fun than being in Noa's virtual world.
"Hah! Any more of you want to take me on?"
All eyes suddenly turned to the source of the voice --Anzu was standing on one of the catwalks a good thirty meters in the air! The demons growled, realizing that they'd been outsmarted, and converged in the attempt at bringing Anzu down.
"H-How the hell did she do that?" Seto found himself murmuring aloud. He knew nothing about the Sailor Senshi --aside from the fact that they were a bunch of scantily-clad teenage vigilantes that took law into their own hands. But seeing one of them --Anzu, no less!-- defy the very laws of physics...?! It was impossible.
She couldn't be human!
"She's the soldier of light," Shizuka replied in a soft, lilting tone, "As in, the speed of."
The Joke's On You (Chapter 2)
When Joey, Tristan, and Duke Devlin arrived in the main entryway, where Kaiba was supposed to lead them to the dueling arena and the surrounding galleries, Téa was standing by a support beam-- banging her head on it.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid..." She emphasized each word with a proper bang against the beam, and it wasn't until after seven more bangs and an exchange of confused glances between Tristan and Joey that the latter boy intervened, sliding his hand between the pole and Téa's head.
So instead of banging her head on the pole, she banged Joey's hand into it.
The Show Must Go On (Chapter 1)
It was just a note.
A stupid little scrap of paper --an ugly color, too... and nothing more.
But that one scrap of paper induced a feeling in Seto that he'd never experienced before-- uncertainty.
For it wasn't just any note-- but a one-way trip to the Principal's Office.
Circle of Seven (Chapter 1)
'Take a breath. It's just a button. You can do this. It's not that hard.'
Still, she hesitated.
Maybe it was because standing in front of the massive Kaiba mansion instilled her with a sense of timidity like she'd never possessed before. Her own husband would say she was being foolish, if he were here to see this...
She blinked back painful tears before they could slide down her cheek.
He wasn't here now. That was part of the problem. She had to change things, and...
'No more hesitation! No more fear!'
So she pushed the button, and waited.
Yeeeeep, that's all the juicy goodness (literally) I can handle for a day.
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Date: 2005-08-08 10:38 pm (UTC)"You're a Kaiba?" she whispered, tugging on her shirt, the shirt that Mokuba very nearly slid off her shoulders.
And this!!! You MUST explain this!! :O!! I'm going to prod you 'til I know what this is about. ^__^
>D And your Sue is awesome... she matches the curtains. zomg! But she's gonna have to fight with all the other Sues for Kaiba's heart! >3
o.o And now I want a carrot... ;p