warcraft:
my respec to resto was short lived. you seriously can achieve nothing while resto. i was a squishy as hell and frankly i did not heal any more efficiently. i think a serious amount of practice is on order so i shall be leveling my baby shaman as elemental so i can get used to playing a shaman as a caster. then i'll go ahead with a respec. i enjoy healing, and i want to be resto. it's just not practical at the moment.
i have begun the long and painful gold grind for my epic flying skill. gah.

college:
on the verge of quitting. basically i am just waiting for my manager at work to say that i have have full time hours. i feel really crap about this and it's the source of my constant headaches.
college is a waste of my time because i will never use the qualification. oh i enjoy learing how to be a hairdresser but when it comes down to it. i don't actually like the idea of cutting or colouring a total strangers hair. but i would have liked to see it through anyways out of principal.
but i really really can't afford to. i have taken to not answering the phone because i know it's someone who wants money off me. i had wanted to go back to portsmouth over easter but there's no way that's going to happen.
besides if i am not at college i don't have to wait till half term/end of term to go anywhere which is a bonus i guess.
i know that leaving college is the right thing to do. hell i can always do that course again later on in my life if i must. but i feel like a quitter. like i messed up real bad with this one.

diet:
meh. i had pie and chocolate yesterday. but it was sunday and you gotta be naughty sometimes. other than that, it's ok. i'm still not exercising enough (... not at all...) whoch really would help things along. but the main point is really, i am not gaining weight and i am losing.. veeeery slowly. better than nothing.

web design:
later on this week i need to have a good look at my websites and figure out all the places where the code isn't valid. if i'm going to try to be a serious web designer i really need to work out the validation thing. /cry

Tags: college, diet and exercise, graphics & code, world of warcraft
Current Mood: anxious

i have to stop eating chocolate. i 'had' lost half a stone. i probably put that back on now. darn it.
though on the plus side i am ill again and therefore have no appetite. i gotta take advantage of this :)

the design for nocturnal.nu was finished a while back. i have rewritten a fair bit of the content, and have a few things to add to my portfolio and i plan to add a Closed Portfolio of things i have made just for me but are still display worthy.

i haven't done a warcraft ramble for a while, but some fab things have happened recently so here goes.
my shammy hit 63. yes i know. slooow! but i have been messing about in lowbie areas and helping guildies and farming recently so that's my excuse.
i joined a pug for scholomance 2 days ago, and excluding guild runs, it was the single best run i have ever been on. at first there was me (shammy), two locks, a dps warrior and a hunter. i was healing, and apparently did a great job of it. we wiped a lot (6-7 times) because of bad pulls and accidental aggro, but we learned from it, and i only had to run back 2 times from the graveyard between the two locks soulstoning me and my reincarnation. we were all really chatty and good natured about everything which is so refreshing. the hunter was a bit useless and he left pretty early anyway, he was replaced with a resto shaman. which meant i got to shine as dps, which i did by topping the meters by a fair bit :)
by then most of us were at 0 durability so we hearthed, repaired and resummoned in shifts (never been in a group that was willing to do that!).
then, and this is the bit that really tickled me. i started to get whispers from the group saying i healed better then the resto shaman. that really made my day. i was worried about my healing just cause i don't get a chance to heal in groups that are the same level as me very much. i even set up my action bar so i could use keybindings for my heals, normally i am a bit rubbish with using the keyboard, but using keys to cast and the mouse to target worked out really well.
it was great, we finished the run, i made new friends, i learned a lot about threat management, and learned that i love healing, oh and topped the dps despite the 10 minute bit where i only had one dagger and my armor was dead :)
it was one of those rare moments where the game was really properly fun to play.

ok enough geeky waffling, time to find lunch, and sort my hair out, and think seriously about my website.

Tags: diet and exercise, graphics & code, world of warcraft
Current Mood: bouncy

stfu gym leader. i know i keep losing to you, i know it's cause my pokemon are the wrong type to be fighting you. i don't care. and when my water type beats the crap out of your electric type, boy will your face be red.

but on the plus side, i got the new design for nocturnal nearly finished. hoorah.

Tags: graphics & code, pokémon

every week that goes by, i get worse at web design. i thought i was ok with all this crap. ok i'll never have a good grasp of php. but i'm not entirely useless with css, and my photoshop skills don't fail completely.
but every design i make for my portfolio.. i hate after about 5 minutes, give up and try something new.

its beginning to make me really irritable.

Tags: graphics & code
Current Mood: angry

i have been trying to change my lj layout.
there is no theme in existence, clearly, that is exactly the way i want. meaning i am going to have to make one myself. i haven't done proper coding for a while, mostly just messing with the templates i already have.
and does anyone have a decent circuit board print?

Tags: graphics & code

soo...
i have my final 'interview' at college tomorrow. presumably to get all the paperwork sorted out and get my bus pass. yes i did do my trial bus run. so now i know where all the stops are. i need to catch the bus at 7:30 in the morning and that should get me to college just before 9:00.
hopefully tomorrow the college will be able to tell me what is going on with my uniform/kit. my kit is paid for and i know is delivered to the college itself. but my uniform seems to be in limbo. my application and cheque for it was sent. but it's not come out of my account yet. unless the college already paid for it with the funding and that too will be waiting for me on the first day (way to let my try it on first guys!).
i am terrified and excited at the same time.
i know my time will be valuable. i have to fit full time college and at least 20 hours of work a week. plus looking after my dog, housework oh and warcraft. *slips into coma* this is going to be an exhausting year. but totally worth it.

my warcraft life has been bitchslapped back to the Undercity. basically us four guild leaders decided to up and leave Twisting Nether - a PvP (player vs player)realm and move to a PvE (player vs environment) realm. which is brilliant and works for me because i am awful at PvP. except i am lagging behind because i can't afford to transfer my shaman yet.. for a reason i will get to eventually in this post. i miss my shaman so much. buuut, at the same time, during the transfer all four of us rolled horde characters. which i have enjoyed. i couldn't decide on a class at first. who knew that a horde shaman would 'feel' so different to alliance. i have finally settled with an undead priest called Stårscrêam (shadow spec of course). the playstyle is wickedly different between my two characters and i like that. i also love that i get a lot of invites to heal in dungeons. i like healing, though not as much on my priest as my shammy. still, i have finally caught up in level with the rest of my guild now, i was behind because i went though shaman and mage characters (to level 12) before my priest. i plan to focus a bit more on my shaman when i transfer her, to get her to 58 so i can go to outland, never been there, and i feel like i am missing out.

i bought pokémon pearl. teehee.
i only have 4 pokemon at the moment, because i am 'not' catching any i don't like the look of. petty isn't it. naturally. i already have myself a zubat (a crobat fronts my team all the time, this game is no exception). i started with the grass type (who's name eludes me at the moment) and i have a shinx and oddly enough, for the first time ever, an onix. two of them are level 13 and i am working to get the other two to that level as well so i can level them all equally. my playstyle for this game is so totally different from all the others i have played. i think warcraft has educated me. cause get this.. i use tactics! i never, ever, used to use stat changing moves, i deemed them a waste of a move. so yeah, that's cool. that's something i can do on the bus to college. /geek

thats one reason i can't afford my warcraft character transfer. the other is that i spent £50 on a pinstripe corset off ebay. yeh, totally worth it :) i'm waiting for it to be delivered at the moment, knowing my luck it won't fit (at worst it will be too small, but i am fat, so it won't kill me to lose some weight).
i also bought some new 'essential' clothes in tesco, trousers, tops oh and a black waistcoat. not sure what i will wear that with. but i wanted one anyway.

my application to the thefanlisting.org to open a fanlist for Blackout was approved. I have played around with a design; prototype one. i am not happy with the navigation though. i can tell something is missing, other than the content and the decepticon logo but i can't see what it is. i have a few modifications going round my head, so we'll see how they go.
still need to work on my main website as well. i'm not sure exactly what to do with it. i should also sign into msn more often too.

oh you know what i need is a computer that can handle running warcraft and trillian instant messenger at the same time. problem solved. apple should manufacture their macbook pro in black.

i've been a little bit better recently on my diet. not enough to make a difference. but i don't think i am gaining weight anymore. i have also been walking my dog a bit longer than i was so that helps.

sorry i never actually replied to anyone's comments on my last post. i think i elaborated on most of my list here anyway.
but yeh playbunnii, the ending to the transformers movie was a bit strange, i mean after the fight, Optimus Prime (who is still awesome really..) holding the two bits of Jazz was all "we lost a comrade, but gained new friends, so yah know, whatever". he lost is second in command! i want grief and mourning! i want to see emo robot tears! he was more upset when Megatron died (and fandom could give several reasons for this, each more perverse than the last). and also, other than for action eye candy, why did the fight occur in the middle of a city? need to hide an Allspark? just go the the most densely populated area you can think of, problem solved. duh.
kikazu, yes i was going to close nocturnal. but not anymore. i was just feeling down about it.
and taishokao, please send memo to Megatron. Leave Starscream alone!! 'he' didn't get himself frozen for thousands of years did he, so back off. kthxbai. :P

thus ends my giant post. mostly because it's late and i have to be up early for work tomorrow.

Tags: college, diet and exercise, graphics & code, pokémon, world of warcraft

I know it's been ages since i posted.
i missed the new episode of Doctor Who last Saturday cause i had to work. caught the repeat on Sunday though which was good cause it was a brilliant episode. spent the rest of the evening wondering what our stone dragon in the front garden gets up to when i'm not looking.

it was really hot yesterday i did a pretty good job of the summer goth look, mostly cause i had to go into work to find out when i am working this week and i figured i might as well pretend i don't 'always' look as skanky as i do when i am working. it's almost a shame it's so overcast today, it's been raining on and off all day, which for me, is great cause it gets me out of cutting the grass. but did mean i didn't leave the house except to feed the fish (how social am i?!).

for the last few days i have been awesome on my diet, i mean properly awesome. i have eaten loads of fruit (loads by my standards right..) and i haven't been using all my syns every day. i think the most i used was 13 on saturday. not drinking very much milk has made dieting quite a bit easier. i'm hoping i have lost 2lb this week (i gained 1/2 lb last week to i have to make up for that as well). wish me luck for Wednesdays weigh in :D

i have decided that i hate the design i have up on nocturnal.nu it's rubbish. it's too big and the navigation is irritating. so now i am working on a new design oh and guess what, it's a side scrolling design. ha! remember years ago when they were really popular? i had almost forgotten about them, then i was surfing about looking at shoes (as you do..) and i found this site; Irregular Choice - which by the way has some gorgeous shoes. that's saying something because i am not particularly into shoes. but anyway, back to the point. nocturnal. i'll be going back to greyscale, because i love it so much. possibly with green, like my lj layout, because i do like things to match.
i have also finished switching my fanlistings over to the enthusiast script. that makes my life a lot easier. though it took me a few days to add all the members for the Michael list ended up removing 19 members that had broken email addresses.
i also switched my Quilting Bee quilt to the MyQuilt admin script. also easier then adding patches manually :D

i have cut my world of warcraft play time down to weekend only i was spending a little too much time playing and not enough time sorting my websites and doing that other thing.. you know the thing you do when your not at your computer... though i broke my own rule today to ding to level 41. i'm still questing in desolace, i took a break to finish up a few in the swamp of sorrows. trouble is, now that i'm only playing at weekends, leveling is even slower. ah well.

i just cleaned my madison piercing and there was no pus. yey. it looks like the reason it's struggling to heal is because the bar is too long now. the angles in the bar don't fit in the skin evenly anymore. i read that i should expect something like this. so i'm ordering a new bar online in a sec. i'm a bit worried about changing it, not sure how it's going to work. i 'should' go see a piercer.. but haha i have no way of getting there.

i have to go walk Pandora. she came into season a couple of days ago (oh noes!) so she is feeling rather sorry for herself and needing cuddles. bless her :D

Tags: graphics & code, pierced, world of warcraft
Current Mood: cheerful

i have uploaded the new design for [nocturnal]
it's not finished. i have an insane amount of tweaking to do.
like the navigation? (yes the little boxes top left) i was going for form not function.
i still have so much work to do. i have to rearrange every page so the title 'classed' properly. and i know a load of the content is out of date or just rubbish and in need of a good deleting. i want to center the whole design... which is a horrible thing, because there are two backgrounds - one is the official background image the other is a div set to 100% width and a background image. i'm going to have to switch them over.
can you absolutely position things from the center? i think you can. but the main header would be off center (the actual center being 0px and anything before being -??px and anything after being ??px.
gah, so it's all going to be very specific. which might not work with other screen resolutions/browsers.

who's idea what it for me to make a complicated layout eh? the other one was soo very simple, this one i have to absolutely position everything and fuss with z-indexes and a million different background images. i'm half tempted to give up on this design. i don't like it as much as i did this morning anyway.

well i'll leave it there.
this post was pretty much me thinking to myself. it's written down now, so i wont forget what i was planning to do tomorrow.

Tags: graphics & code
Current Mood: confused
Current Music: Exterminate Annihilate Destroy by Rotersand

I have hardly anything new to say.
i have another college interview. the letter is here, in front of me. Wednesday 9th may at 1:00. don't let me forget!...

my madison piercing seems ok so far. it's been 10 days. two days ago it was looking awesome, it wasn't red or sore or anything. but it's getting a little sore now. that might be because i slept on it funny, or because on my way back from work a lorry sprayed dust all over me (unintentionally - it was a very dry day and the roads are 'dusty'). so i am keeping a close eye on it, i'm really nervous of it rejecting. i have never had any problems with any of my other piercings, but, eh, i can't help but worry.
i have been cleaning it with salt water, and putting a tea tree oil solution on it, which it seems to like. heh, i have never looked after a piercing this well before.

because of my college interview i have been thinking about my hair again, gosh, when do i 'not' think of my hair? i was contemplating dreadlocks for a while, but after a serious amount of reading (♥♥♥)i think that would be a bad idea for me, for lots of different reasons. i would however like to try my hand as synthetic dreads.. it would take a shocking amount of practice, but i reckon i could make and install them myself. first steps first though, shop around online for suitable hair to practice on.

(mental note, make appointment at hairdressers... before my fringe consumes my face completely)

see, it's all about my hair!

in online news. i am in the middle of creating two new designs for nocturnal.nu. one is basically a remake of a really old design, because i have no creativity these days. the other is also a remake of an old design, but, a bit better with more details. i think the second design is 'better' if i can get it to look ok. the first features Rosiel from Angel Sanctuary (i am returning to me roots :D) the other features, real people. maybe when i'm done, i'll post both for criticism.

Tags: graphics & code, pierced