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[16 Mar 2008|01:07pm] |
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Most of the time i like to think that i am a pretty nice person. I like to help, i like to be liked, i love my family and friends and would pretty much do anything for them...
Why do i then do i feel like, i have a boyfriend who most of the time likes to think i dont exist, a mother who believes i was put here for her personal convenience, and one sister who only bothers to contact me when it suits her - generally when she needs something? I am blessed with my youngest sister though, my rock and best friend who i would be lost without. But this weekend was the cake!
I am at the point of "dont even bother". Over the lot of them! I will never make them happy and i am through with upsetting myself by trying. Maybe i've done it to myself, maybe if i had just been "me first" from day one things would have been better, i dont know but quite frankly at this point i am over caring.
anyhoo, sorry for the rant but i needed to write it down.
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[25 Jan 2007|04:04pm] |
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Royce's Dragon's Campanion and Peta's 2007 Terinu Calender arrived today!!!
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| My Week |
[18 Jan 2007|08:30am] |
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Since I seem to be practising absenteeism rather thoroughly I thought I would take the opportunity of my computer’s slooooow attempt to open a *tif file to post a quick update…
( A week in the life of Gwyn )
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| RPG QUIZZZZZZ!!! |
[12 Jan 2007|07:47am] |
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come on, u soo knew i HAD to do this one as soon as i saw it lol.
Gacked once again from Kikibug13's journal (i swear all the good quiz's get to her journal eventually).
| You scored as Character Player. The Character Player enjoys creating in-depth characters with distinct and rich personalities. He identifies closely with his characters, feeling detached from the game if he doesn’t. He takes creative pride in exploring different characters, often making each new one radically different than others he’s played. The Character Player bases his decisions on his character's psychology first and foremost. He may view rules as a necessary evil at best, preferring sessions in which the dice never come out of their bags. For the Character Player, the greatest reward comes from experiencing the game from the emotional perspective of an interesting character.
Character Player | | 85% | Weekend Warrior | | 60% | Tactician | | 60% | Casual Gamer | | 60% | Power Gamer | | 55% | Storyteller | | 45% | Specialist | | 15% | </td>
What RPG Player (Not Character) Type Are You?
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Funny tho i would have considered myself to be more of a tactian then a character player, but then again all my WoW characters - Druid (main), Warloc (1st alt) and Shamman (2nd alt) ar multiple role characters and i most happy when playing my druid in a role where i can switch from healer to tank to dps...
I miss WoW =( havent played it for over a week, works picked up in a big way and i just havent had the energy *sniffle*
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[11 Jan 2007|08:46pm] |
Gacked from KikiBug13's LJ =D
I dont even rate a tree!
 | You scored as The Ivy. In Celtic astrology, you're Ivy (not everything on the zodiac is a tree). The animal symbol that accompanies this plant is the butterfly. The ancient Druids say Ivy people are good-natured, empathetic, optimistic, and social and may have magnetic personalities. However, Ivies may be prone to indecision, disappointment, restlessness or a fear of offending others.
The Rowan | | 80% | The Ivy | | 80% | The Reed | | 60% | The Elder | | 60% | The Holly | | 60% | The Hazel | | 55% | The Willow | | 50% | The Hawthorn | | 50% | The Birch | | 50% | The Oak | | 45% | The Vine | | 45% | The Alder | | 45% | The Ash | | 40% | </td>
What Tree Are You? (Celtic astrology)
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[11 Jan 2007|08:32pm] |
The air con has a 5 year warranty! YAY!!!! Its just a matter of the parental locating her purchase receipt which'll never happen *instantly deflated* Which means that just getting the thing looked at is gonna cost $85.00AUS to get him out there and for the first 15 min, then another $30.00AUS for every 15 min after that!
Tradesmen... why did i decide against becoming a carpenter??
At least we've found someone who'll actually "service" box units rather then "install" them. Seems that every sparky and his dog can install them, fixing the damn things is another matter. Must be the idea of welding the power-saw and cutting thro bricks... *image of powerful forearms and sun kissed skin starts playing before her eyes...* sigh.
The earliest he can get here is Sometime on the 24th of Jan grrr, coz he only works part time!! with a profit margin like that do u really blame him tho? Hopefully we'll have better luck then poor ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kikibug13who's had no end of drama with her plummer. The electrician can only give us a 30min warning that hes on his way so one of us needs to stay home all day to make sure we dont miss him :(.
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[11 Jan 2007|08:09am] |
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Squeeee! i love this speech!
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[10 Jan 2007|10:15am] |
How does one cut a LJ post for length so that a link needs to be followed to view the full post?
If some nice body could help using for dummies speak i would be most grateful :)
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| Mary Sue's |
[10 Jan 2007|09:55am] |
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I was cruising the LJ (while pretending to be working) and came across this post in the lovely kikibug13journal which got me thinking. As a reader and writer of fiction both fanfiction and original I have come across the debate/idea of Mary Sue’s more and more frequently and have even completed pop tests to see whether or not my original characters fit into the idea of a Mary Sue. However Kiki got me thinking about the issue from a whole new angle… an emotional one.
Kiki had a link to an article concerning Mary Sue’s originally gacked from jeriendhal (a very talented author himself btw) which interesting enough is the first article I’ve read casting a positive light on the issue. Kiki was worried that her ability to efface herself from her character’s would some how be detrimental to her stories, and sometimes I worry that in the determination to avoid the dreaded Mary Sue that we tend to limit our characters and our stories as a result. I’m not saying everyone does this, however the idea of a mary sue is becoming more and more stigmatised to the point where authors have been happily plugging away with great stories then “just for fun” done a mary sue test on their main character. Resulting in a complete reversal of the story and characterisations, or just lost the enthusiasm for their work. By my own definition, and I have not put a whole lot of research in this btw :P, a Mary Sue can be a character that either 1, shares a lot of characteristics belonging to the author (generally a blatant Mary Sue with a warning label displayed prominently over the story information), or 2, a main character who can come out on top no matter the odds - often via some sort of sudden metamorphosis into a superbeing. Generally they have some sort of horrible past where everyone seems to hate them and they can do nothing right. They are usually both unbelievably beautiful and attractive to all around them, or horrendously deformed and despised, only to have enjoyed some sort of miraculous change by the end of the story into the afore mentioned beauty. Part of this is the writers desire to enjoy a happy ending… I know I often fall victim to the “and they all lived happily ever after” syndrome. Also our characters are in many ways our babies. We love them and want to protect them… and while we can’t jump into the story to save them ourselves we can write in the tools they require to save themselves. And looking over previous works of mine the label Mary Sue shines in flashing hot pink neon lights across every page. Making me cringe and fight the desire to hit the delete button if only I could bare to do so :P. When u think about it, a lot of writers do tend to write using previous experience... Even if that experience requires magnifying glasses and a shovel to find, it is there. Major simplisation here but for example riding a galloping horse around a track (or even driving a car too fast coz most of us have done that one time or another) becomes a terrifying race for freedom from horrific orcs at the dead of night etc etc. We use the emotions we experienced to help us write the scene more descriptively. Hence could the desire to completely efface ourselves from our work actually cause the very thing we are trying to avoid? Could our desire to make sure that our characters are completely different to the author in personality, looks and emotions cause the dreaded Mary Sue to appear? Could authors on re-reading suddenly think that they have put so much energy into avoiding the Mary Sue that their story has become limited in some way, their characters all dull and uninteresting? Anyhoo that’s just where my wondering thoughts have lead me to J apologises if its majorly confusing lol. But then that’s just me :P.
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| Fish |
[08 Jan 2007|10:38pm] |
As of 7:41pm (or 19:41 for ppl of the 24 hour perspective) i am officially fish free!!
More later sleepy :)
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| Fishy Fishy Fishy... |
[05 Jan 2007|08:17am] |
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Recently my aunt chaypeta and her family have gone on holidays to New Zealand (lucky buggers) and while they were away they asked me to look after their daughters fish and their pet python *shudders*. This works well for me as it means i have free reign on Veg's computer lab, aka the backroom while their gone mwhahahaha, and i was assured that apart from making sure she was still with us i would not be expected to actually perform ANY sort of snake maintenance!
So after a quick visit the day before they left for the obligatory "this is were the food is kept... this is the net you use to scoop out any dead fish - erk" and being terrified by Chaypeta and the abundance of information the woman can rattle off concerning PH levels, and acidic levels, and fish that can eat themselves to death (what away to go manically depressed due to obesity and binge eating yourself to death to compensate) and that i needed to remove any dead fish as soon as possible as the fishy corpse can poison the water and hence kill all other fishes i was fairly confident that this was something that with even my reluctance to deal with anything reptile or amphibian i could handle. That Was Until Last Night... yup u guessed it fishy corpse *faints*!!!
Being somewhat squimish in a strong independent sorta way i immediately rang my dear darling baby sister PauliP to come save me. Which after the hysterical laughter and the "Are you sure its dead?" question to which i replied with a variety of confirmations that i wont bore you with she did so. Not sure exactly what killed it, its been very hot the last couple of days between 32-38 degrees each day, but the house has been staying fairly cool and i make sure that i open the house up each night for fresh air. Mostly i feel guilty for killing a 7 year olds pet fish, how does one explain it? Although i was offered a variaty of different things i could use as an excuse by my WoW friends including "put a green frog in the tank and tell her the fish turned into it..." Thanx Bannith!! Not!
Veg was on WoW last night (goes all the way to NZ for a holiday and still manages to play WoW - shows true devotion and commitment there *sniffle* so proud) and so the parentals know that Gwyn managed to kill a fish :(. Veg took the loss well, and are currently scheming to somehow replace the fish before Kyra see's it. Tho i'm not putting the fish in the tank!! Apparently if you do that wrong you can kill not only that fish but destroy the entire environment!!! Thanks Peta!!! And i always thought that fish were the low maintenance pet. So never going to get my own!
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| New Years Resolution |
[03 Jan 2007|01:58pm] |
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"what r u doing?"
"nuking a burrito"
"Radiation and junk food, good combo"
- Sara and Nick CSI
Love that quote lol
Now i know that your not supposed to make a New Years regards diet or exercise until the 14th for some reason. However i have decided that for mine, exercise is no longer to be avoided lol! :P I've cut down on the amount of time I'm on the comp... you may have noticed lol and am trying to go for a walk at least every couple of days! But its taken 28 years to cultivate my sloth like status... 28 years of hard work btw! Its been a constant struggle to get this physically lazy :P. So I'm having to fight all my honed exercise suppression impulses and trick myself into going...
That and a book called the clothesline diet.
Garfield quote...
"What's a diet? Its DIE with a T!!"
The other thing i want to try to do is get back into my writing. I havent written anything seriously for years and i do miss it. Drabbles dont cut it any more... maybe a WoW storie... possibilities...
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| WoW - Equinnox's spec |
[28 Sep 2006|01:33pm] |
A number of ppl have asked me how my Druid is spec'd. Originally i spec'd her full feral but found that my dps just could not compete against dps classes enough in PvP. At the same time, as i usually play dps or main/off tank in party or raid groups i needed to keep as many point in bear as possible.
Rarely if ever do i play main healer which meant that as reluctant as i was to do so i sacrificed the 4 extra points in Nature's Focus (crys) that will probably be the first 4 points i spend once the expansion comes back in. The other 7 points will probably be in feral as i have what i want (At This Stage) in Balance.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/druid/talents.html?01400500100000005052501303222101050120000000000
I'm still testing this this build - lol my very patient roguey guild master has been dueled to with in an inch of his life - so let me know what you think.
Hugs,
Gwyn
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| Bored now |
[22 Feb 2006|10:49am] |
 | You scored as Clark Kent. You're Clark Kent. You're often protective of those around you and while some misjudge you for being secretive and myterious they'd be surprised to find there's more to you than meets the eye.
Clark Kent | | 75% | Lois Lane | | 65% | Lana Lang | | 55% | Chloe Sullivan | | 55% | Lex Luthor | | 45% | </td>
What Smallville Character Are You Most Like?
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I am SOOO demanding a re-trial. I wanted Lex Luthor - yummy.
Gwyn who is now scurrying off to actually do some work now lol.
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| World of Warcraft |
[29 Jan 2006|09:06pm] |
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Phyn just reached level 30!!!!! DING! dingdingdingdingding!!!
I'm halfway to grown up and my mother still hasn't forgiven Veg for introducing me to the game. Tho to be honest, it did take 6 months of subtle persuasion before he managed to get me hooked lol!! He'd be so proud!
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| You know these things are prolly complied into some big secret database somewhere... |
[28 Jan 2006|11:01pm] |
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Gacked from Jeriendhal and Chaypeta!
[A] :: Accent: Australian.
[B] :: Breakfast Item: toasted muffin with either cheese or peanut butter & fruit
[C] :: Chore You Hate: gardening
[D] :: Dad's Name: Brian tho tecnically his birth certificate says "Brain" lol
[E] :: Essential Everyday Item: coffee cup and a spoon for the sugar
[F] :: Flavour Ice Cream: Peanut butter and chocolate
[G] :: Gold or Silver?: gold
[H] :: Hometown: Lara
[I] :: Insomnia: Never! Can and frequently do sleep thro everything
[J] :: Job Title: Project Assistant / Coffee Barista
[K] :: Kids: one day hopefully
[L] :: Living Arrangements: currently a three bedroom house with my sister, soon to be a teeny tiny apartment in the middle of the city with two others *sighs and hugs the others*
[M] :: Mom's Birthplace: Lancashire, England.
[N] :: Number of Significant Others: nada
[O] :: Overnight Hospital Stays: none that i can remember and the ones i've been told about never happened - black out from the entire being born trauma
[P] :: Phobia: Whatever seems appropriate at any given time
[Q] :: Queer?: Hehe
[R] :: Religious Affiliation: Agnostic
[S] :: Siblings: Two beautiful younger sisters
[T] :: Time You Wake Up: 4:45am during the week, as late as possible on the weekends
[U] :: Unnatural Hair Colours You've Worn: magenta, blue, green, purple...
[V] :: Vegetable You Refuse to Eat: EGGPLANT!!!!!
[W] :: Worst Habit: What i can only pick one? Ummmmm, being silent when i shouldn't.
[X] :: X-rays You’ve Had: Chest (asthma) and back.
[Y] :: Yummy: Chocolate, and Baileys!
[Z] :: Zodiac Sign: Libra
I really should be in bed, but the writing bug hit and now i'm wide awake. All SirT's fault *nods head sagely*
Trots off to find some yummy fic to read til sleepy.
Night Lovies!
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