Tonight after I picked Pat up from work we went to the "Pho and Com" (pronounced CUM) restaurant that's on HWY 92, east of sandy springs in the same shopping area where the Mellow Mushroom is.

OMG! It's sooo nice to have good Pho again! And not only is it good noodles, but they put the cilantro and stuff on the side so you can season it yourself. Apparently that's the traditional way to serve Pho. I STRONGLY suggest to anyone who's up that way to go try it out. It's WELL worth the drive too. They do pick ups and delivery (within 5 miles) too. I also suggest trying the smoothies. It's very unique and not like other smoothies, but they are good, or at least the strawberry is. I think they make it with strawberry yogurt cause it's a weird but good strawberry flavor. I recognize it and am sure it's from some yogurt I've had, don't know which one.

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Anyway, today has been really good. Was tired when I woke up, but got moving pretty quick. It was funny cause when the alarm went off the second time I reached over and hit Pat and said "What are you still doing here?". Apparently he'd hit the snooze and it was still the 'first' alarm (my second one goes off at 10am). So I got up and moving but grumply.

Dropped Pat off at work and then made the bad decision to stop by Dick Blicks on my way to my appointment. >_> Was SOO hard not to get the primary color pack of the good Winsor Newton gouches. It was only $36.39!! ;_; I managed to pry it out of my hands and instead go with the crappy Reeves set for only six bucks. Did get some Gum Arabic so hopefully it will help the crappy paints not be that bad. I pulled out an old Onyx Chalice Gleann Abhann blank scroll I had left in my SCA stuff (which is no longer exits because they became a kingdom) and have started practicing with the crappy paints. The blue and red were working ok, but the greens, which I had to mix to make an acceptable color, were not mixing well and are not even. Dunno how I'm going to fix it other than going over it later with another coat to make it completely opaque. I need a better light though, the desk lamp I have is still too dim to make it light up like I need it. Need a real desk lamp to shine down on my work. *sighs* Probably get that when I get my real drafting table. Oh well. It feels good to be able to do the illumination again. It's one of the things that I'm actually really good at.

Had a good lunch with android18sl after my appointment. Chatted about a lot of things, and was just a lot of fun. Made it back home to play with my paints and River for an hour before driving to go get Pat. Unfortunately I hadn't seen his LJ and had to wait around his office for over an hour before we could leave for dinner. I'm so proud of him for his job, even when it is inconvenient. He's gonna have to work this weekend, which is sad. Was looking forward to everyone being able to hang out, and will be weird not having him with me at the RenFaire (which its still in doubt if he'll have to work sunday or not, he might be able to go). Just.. trying not to really look forward to everyone coming over, just in case things go to shit and no one shows up. Too many times plans go awry and there isn't anything anyone can do about it. Just don't want to get my hopes up and then get depressed because it all goes wrong. If no one comes down, then I'm still going to go to the Ren Faire on sunday, hopefully with local peeps even if my out of state friends don't make it.

Anyway, now just relaxing at home. Think I'm going to head back and keep working on my illumination. I need to see if I can find my gold paint, however it was weird stuff that required turpentine to clean the brushes with. That's why I like watercolor based paints the best. Easy clean up!! Maybe I might try my hand at actual gold leaf overlay sometime. Still looking forward to having someone help me learn how to make original scrolls. *happy dance* Maybe I can get all my supplies before heading to Michigan so I can work on them up there. Who knows?!

Oh, BTW, if you want to know how the Illumination scroll work works, see this old scroll I dug up while I was cleaning. Too bad it's yet another scroll for a now debunk award. *shrugs* Still pretty. If you want better examples, try this page.

I'm gonna post about there here because I know a lot of people don't keep up with deviantArt.

Not to long ago, I made this really awesome fractal that looks like water pouring out of a chalice. I was floored. It was simple, yet probably my best piece of work yet. I titled it "My Cup Runneth Over" and submitted it to my Apophysis fractal group. So far I've gotten really nice responses to it. I'm quite happy with it.

Last week, I decided to go ahead and make a full size poster quality version of the render and submit it for a print. This afternoon, the render -finally- finished! So now I present "My Cup Runneth Over - Prints".

I would not complain in the least if anyone decided to buy a print. ;-)

I lasted about a week. It was hard but I managed. Used email and TS to keep in touch with some of my friends, but wasn't 'dependent' on it like I have been with AIM and chat in general.

My browsing time was pretty much gone and I find it's easier not to just sit and surf the net. Of course, rhast pointing me at Apophysis kinda helped with that. I was able to get on the computer, be super creative while talking to peeps on TS, then set my fractals to render and get off the computer for hours at a time. (Go check my DA page to see all the awesome stuff I've been making!) Played more of my DS, filled the carpenter bee holes, cooked and cleaned a bit all this week.

So I'm going to allow myself back on AIM and stuff, but if I find i'm slipping back into old habits I'm going to be logging off again.

Still sore from yesterday.. but mostly couldn't sleep till late last night because my knee was throbbing SOO bad. I don't know what it was but my knee hasn't hurt like this in a very very long time. I wanted to rip the muscles and tendons in my kneecap off just to make the pain stop. >_<

Oh, ottom, You'll be happy to know that quu and I did actually watch Ocean's 11 last night. Thanks for loaning it to us and if you've got Ocean's 12 I'd love to borrow that too.

Hungry.... quu just heated up some of the potato soup I made the other day... now THIS is comfort food for me. ^_^

Thirteen Tales: The Dreaming
by =zemotion on deviantART


Just.. had to share this with people. Be sure to also read the Artist's Comments.

Just took this pic outside of River. You can find the full version in my DA gallery.

FYI.. I've added more pics and updated a lot of the older ones.

http://lethannaeda.deviantart.com/

Guide to Human Types part 2 by `Cedarseed on deviantART:

Saw this on the deviantART daily deviations and OMFG it rocks! Seriously, they say print it out and keep it next to your drawing table and they are NOT kidding. He's also got a book and some other tutorials... well worth a look.

I just found this on DA, and I can't believe how amazing it is. If I ever EVER got a tattoo this would be it. Possibly either smaller on a shoulder, or just go all out and have it on my entire back (minus the halo part). This just.. is ME.








Armored Angel by ~silverlimit on deviantART

I don't know if I've actually told anyone about this, but I have a deviantART account where I post my stories and pictures. I just posted some fantastic sunset photos that even have prints available:

http://lethannaeda.deviantart.com/

peruse at your own risk!