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Working on Sera’s Love, first 4 pages outlined!

seraslove_wip_first4I’ve been working on Sera’s Love every so often on the weekends (the ones where I can actually sit and not do anything for a few hours). I am having lots of fun with outlining and figure out how to place boxes, and drawing is even fun! :) (I hope so, or I’d get all upset and give up :P )

I’ve been in a super-drawy mood but it only ever hits me really hard when I’m trying to fall asleep, hehe.

So lotsa stuff’s been going on in the months since my last post. The port 80 thing got fixed, so I can surf the ‘net without running into issues :P

In June Jaiden turned 3, right before he did I had my 1-year anniversary at WD (the second longest amount of time I’ve stayed at a job without quitting!). I’m super proud of myself, or I would be if I didn’t love my job xD

I’ll be turning old in a month, and my brother’s turning 10 today!! wow!  I still have trouble figuring out how he got to be so old, heh. Double-digits already. Anyway!

Threeish months ago I got Shingles! WOOoooO. Not really. I thought it was poison oak for a few days, then one day before work when I was supposed to take Jaiden to his gramma’s house, I suddenly couldn’t do anything but scream and cry in pain. It was really really horrible. It attacked the nerve on my right leg, from my *coughcough*, up to my hip, and down to my knee. The part that hurt the worst was in my *coughcough* and left me literally immobile. Daniel hauled me off to the dr and he took one look and told me it was shingles (one side of the body, and the rash was a shingles rash), told me I was contagious to pregnant women and children/adults who hadn’t had either a vaccine for chicken pox (there’s a vaccine now!?) or chicken pox. I then had the fun of telling my boss I’d been contagious for the past two weeks at work and that I was near the very end of the shingles, where I was less contagious than I was the first two weeks. Goody >.< I had a dr’s note and everything, and my boss called me an hour later and told me, “You can’t come back to work until you have clearance from your dr.” AAAARGH! wth? So I had to wait and wait and wait until the stupid rash was gone/healed up (I still have scars, but once it’s been “crusted over” you aren’t contagious anymore. damn that sounds gross!), and then I emailed my dr and found out he was out FOR A WEEK! I called a nurse on duty and told her the whole story and she had another dr write me a note saying I could come back to work, picked it up and headed for work. WOOOO! I was so glad to be back at work instead of climbing the walls at home. Once the rash was all gone, I figured the weird pains in my leg/hip would go away. Evidently they didn’t, and have since gotten worse. If they continue past a year, supposedly I’ll experience it for the rest of my life. I seriously hope it stops hurting soon because I hate hate HATE taking pills and do NOT want to be taking the gabapentin the rest of my life (only been taking it two days now), or popping excedrin every couple hours. I haven’t found any other pain meds that ease the pain, and even hot or cold compresses don’t help much. Baths help a bit, but as soon as I get out of the bath it hurts again. Dr gave me vicoden but I never take it, all it does is put me to sleep. I hate being sleepy all the time >.<

We’ve been in Beta at work, since many many months ago and I can’t remember, I think May?? Heh. It’s just routine now >.< It’s gonna be really hard to go back to “normal” routine after Beta is over. We released Beta 4 last night, so on Monday I’m sure we’ll have as many tickets as I finally closed on Friday BACK in the queue, cause people make tickets over “I want 64-bit” to “It’s great!” to “It sucks.” Occasionally we get actual issues :P My boss had to go down to so-cal to take care of training for the Tier 2 agents, so I was by myself all week. He’s only going to be in the office three days before flying off to Tulsa though, so I’ll be alone AGAIN /sigh :P It’s OK, I’m taking my birthday off!

Daniel’s Sister-in-Law and Sister had their babies!! The grandkids are now up to 1 girl and 4 boys, hehe xD That seems like an unfair ratio :P Lena and Kirk are adorable. Lena’s got a natural beauty and grace that affect everyone. She’s beautiful, and you can see she will be a beautiful young woman when she grows up. Kirk’s a grumpy-looking guy, and he seems to smile whenever someone gets in trouble, heh :P Sounds like my kinda kid! His dad posted a picture of the three boys when they were all the same age, newborn, and I have trouble telling them apart. Once I looked for a few minutes I could KINDA tell Jango from the other two, though. Kinda. hehe :P Lena’s mama and papa had their one-year anniversary a few days ago, which reminded me how fast time goes by. Sigh! (happy anniversary btw rissa!)

Jaiden’s been potty-training, he’s doing really well and only has to learn to go #2 in the TOILET, not his undies or the floor >.< Once he got it down to a routine it was easy for him. We went to visit his godparents a few weekends ago, driving over to Reno with Jaiden, Daniel, and Papa. We stayed for two nights and drove back home to get Papa to work not on time (he was 15 minutes late). It was fun, and Jaiden got to see his nina and nino and remember them (it’d been over a year so he couldn’t remember them), and his junior nina too!!

So tomorrow we’ll be going to my mom’s for Peter’s birthday. Peter and Jaiden would’ve been twins had they been born in the same year, spiritually that is. Physically Jaiden’s almost as big as Peter, is darker and bigger in general. Peter has mom’s frame, while Jaiden and I have Dad’s frame. Dad’s birthday is coming up soon. I still miss him >.< It’s apparently one of those things that won’t ever go away :/

In any case! Guess I save up all the news for one big post huh? xD

Oh, I bought my wedding dress! When I get married all you folks get to see it :P

cause Foxxy made me! (hehehe)

1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Would you kiss me?
5. Give me a nickname and explain why.
6. Describe me in 1 word.
7. What was your first impression of me?
8. Do you still think the same?
9. What reminds you of me?
10. If you could give me anything, what would it be?
11. How well do you know me?
12. Are you gonna put this in your journal and see what I say about you?
13. Would you meet up with me?

happy easter!

Easter was AWESOME. :)

This is Jaiden with an easter egg he found. Hehehe, he’s so cute!

seralynn prototype and port 80 hates me

seralynn_prototype1I’m loading the world wide web verrryy sloooowly when doing so through port 80. blah! Also playin WOW, tryina get my shammy up to level 80. It may happen someday. I’m only a few bubs into 70 right now (omw to 71).

Anyway. The main reason for this post is for your input on a Seralynn prototype (Seralynn is the main character of Sera’s Love, though I may turn it into a three-or-six-main character type in the graphic novel if I ever get that far).

Here she is. She’s a ROUGH draft since I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on something I’d probably change before finalizing, so I barely colored her and did no shading. She’s got red hair and green eyes, but the shade of red/green are definitely up for discussion.

Let me know what you think please :)

1-year, graphic novel, romances, low-carbiness

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So I’ve had quite a bit of encouragement regarding my writing. Daniel’s mom mentioned keeping drawing and writing separate. I would like to at least attempt to do both simultaneously, a graphic novel, while finishing the other novels. I re-read them all and like Murder in the City and Sera’s Love (the title needs work), but found that Going Home was not to my taste. The second part actually picked up nicely, but the first part was really dusty and broken. That’s most likely due to drawing on my past and some memories. Emotions are good in writing, but apparently for me they’re better kept in perspective rather than directly personal. Part 2 of that story was definitely from a different perspective. Parts of it were too similar to Murder in the City, so I am definitely either re-doing Going Home or dropping it.
I was really surprised by how engaged I was in Sera’s Love. It was written before my life was turned upside-down again, and is so different emotionally from the things I wrote later on. Every time I re-read something from my past, I learn more about myself.
Ninjaen Hero will require VAST amounts of time and effort on my part, and is something I see as a continuing saga, not a one-time story. I plan to expand much further on it once these other projects are done. I consider it the light at the end of the tunnel :P It will be a graphic novel, but with so many maps and charts and information, it will be more complex than those flash video games. That’s my plan, anyway. I’ve always loved sci-fi and romance, the combination is absolutely fun for me. Mysteries are like sci-fi lite to me, so they’re good practice.
So, I will be re-writing, finishing and simplifying Sera’s Love into a graphic novel. I’m focusing more on a summer-before-college theme, instead of the unknown giggly teen/adult they seem to be now. I hope to do this while also finishing Murder in the City. I had a part 2 and part of part 3 written in 2006/2007, but seem to have lost those documents since then. Nevertheless, I remember most of my intent. The next part will introduce Nina’s family, who seems to be fairly absent! I’ve also cleaned up the wording and miss-spellings in it.

On a more personal note: Sunday March 22nd, 2009 is the official one-year anniversary of Daniel, Jaiden and I all getting together (or as Daniel says, the day I said “OK!”).
Jaiden agreed with me, as I recall. “OK!”
Yaay for relationships that last longer than a few months!
I went low-carb at the end of February, right before Daniel’s 25th birthday (I know, I’m so robbing the cradle!). It was something I’d half done before, and even while pregnant I ate mainly protein. I’ve never done it deliberately and certainly never to this extent. You will all be happy to know (unless you LIKE me being dizzy and fuzzy-headed) that I no longer need to eat every two hours (in fact once or twice a day is all I need/want), I can see better (for some reason, it may have to do with previous brain cloudiness), and caffeine actually makes me HYPER without the use of sugar. If you recalled, I previously needed a combination of sugar and caffeine. Independently, sugar or caffeine made me sleepy. Together, they made me hyper. I am unaware of the affects of sugar currently, since I’ve limited my intake to 20-30g of it a day, but caffeine actually makes me hyper (which I take as a good sign, not a bad, and not an excuse to drink more caffeine). It’s just a weird thing that’s cool.
My body fat % is dropping as well (I haven’t lost much weight overall, but my body is firmer and easier to use). There are so many benefits to the new diet, things I’ve discovered about myself. It is something I’d recommend to anybody with blood-sugar issues (except type 1 diabetics).
Dr. Mike is my favorite pro-protein doctor. He and his wife both have blogs, she writes mostly recipes, and he writes about all the questions people have for him as well as his own findings on various subjects.

I’m done ranting now. :D

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a comic maybe!

I’ve toyed with the idea of doing a comic for years. I’ve even tried to start one multiple times (if anybody remembers AnimeCafe, that’s the only one that ever lasted as long as it did, and I wasn’t the only artist). Even Jason tried to help with ideas, suggesting his crimson fairies.

After debating for a week or so, and trying to figure out what would make a good comic, I realized I’d written a bunch of story beginnings that never really got completed. I’ve still got those ideas running around in my head, mind you, I just never sat down and let the words pour out.

I’m hoping I’ll be more reliable if it involves drawing, particularly if people like them and want more (an audience always makes a performer/artist feel motivated to do more!)

I’ve got a few links here to my old stories, some of which have a Part 2 in the comments section. They’re hosted on Deviantart, which means you’ll need an account for some (the Ninjaen Hero has one sex scene, although it’s mostly implied, nothing totally graphic).

Here’re the links:
Ninjaen Hero — This one requires you to login on Deviantart
Murder in the City — This one has two parts, second part linked within the comments if the first part is interesting enough
Sera’s Love — An old old story, part of it was a dream, it is still one of my favorites. 2-parter
Being Real — This one hits close to home for me. Also a 2-parter.

Let me know which one I should go for!

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it’s up!

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well I’m off to bed now, after spending the last few hours playing with wordpress. I feel like I’ve just found a new toy :D

I’ll be captioning more images in the future, and adding additional functionality; I’m pretty pleased with the layout (which looks best in Firefox, btw — in IE the corners are square, but in Firefox they’re round! I’m so lazy.)

In any case — welcome to artkitty.net!

Laura F

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artkitty.net is up again!

after much contemplation and futzing, I’ve decided to install wordpress on artkitty.net and just use plugins and css/php to make it look how I want. :D

amazing thing, wordpress. it’s pretty awesome, and full of capabilities.

I’ve added a livejournal cross-poster plugin, which I’m testing with this post; I am contemplating making it so responses must be added on artkitty instead of LJ; if the server erases all my data (it would be the third (3rd) time), I’d lose all that info, so I probably won’t. :D

anyway!

let me know what you think =^.^=

Stolen from MaryMary

Nohari and Johari! Pick 5-6 words that describe my bad traits, then click the second link and pick another 5-6 words to describe my good traits.
Don’t be bashful, do both :P
Everybody’ll know if you don’t!!

The Bad :P
The Good :D

Jaiden and the Littles