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NANACA+CRASH!

2007-06-12T05:27:18Z

http://storage.act-9.com/2005/0222/nanaca.htm
My best record is 1289.53m
BEAT THAT BETCH! XD

Curse my faulty memory!

2007-05-24T09:10:02Z

So I was at Mad Science's Warehouse today working on this project for them, and when I finally took off I packed everything up and drove home. Upon entering the house It occurs to me that I MIGHT not have locked the Mad Science door. I mean, I had to have, because I was being careful, but I didn't distinctly remember turning the key.
I stood there just inside the door to my house utterly conflicted for about... meh...10 seconds, before heading out the door to hop in the car and drive back to Redmond. Just my luck. I most likely had locked it, but because I couldn't specifically remember doing so I couldn't trust myself enough that I had. So I spent another 40 minutes of my life driving back right where I came from and then back again, because I figure I'd rather waste gas then lose trust from my employers at Mad Science.
After checking the door- which WAS locked- I got back into my car and drove home. Almost started crying on the way back. Why, you ask? Because I was listening to my Les Meserables CD, and even "One Day More" is enough to make my teary-eyed. But NO, I was listening to "On My Own," my own personal power ballad. That song just tears me apart.
I've been getting kind of teary-eyed from things more often lately. Not sure if it's me or the material I've been reading! In my Elf Quest books, I'm at a point where Rayek has stolen Leetah, Skywise, and Suntop from Cutter, and over 300 years pass by in his life without them. There's a scene where the other elves in the tribe are rebuilding a new holt, and cutter is just sitting, alone, his whole family having been taken away. Seriously guys? heartbreaking.
Then in Fables comes the scene where Snow sends her 7th child away. I wont tell you exactly what happens because I know there are people reading it.
And THEN in SANDMAN I just read the one where Barbie lost her Dreamland and the people watching over her die in the storm that indirectly results from that. Wanda died! I was emotionally torn with that one too.
And THEN in Paper Mario. (You heard me... Paper Mario!) You spend a whole level delivering this girl Luvbi to her father. Then come to find out that Luvbi is the Pure Heart that you've been searching for, and that if she turns back into the pure heart, she'll die! Now thats unfair. Really. I was pissed.
And THEN I had to go listen to the one song that I totally break down to every time. Go me.
And, by the way, a couple hours after I got home? I realized I left my cellphone at Mad Science.
Curses!

ZOMG LAWL

2007-05-23T06:29:10Z

Traci Spencer, writer of Compass, acknowledged me todya in the comments of her newest strip. Haha! This makes me happy.

..It took me a second to figure out she was talking to me, hehe

I just pulled an all-nighter

2007-05-21T14:13:05Z

Yesterday at about 2pm I had a Eureka! moment. I figured out a layout for my website.
This kind of thing is uber hard for me to decide on, and I have a habit of getting halfway through a design before scraping it.
This one is great! Not perfect, but it's simple, clean, artistic, SO much easier to implement then the last one, and I'll be able to change and improve on the site very easily.
I started working on it, and at around 6pm I took a little Super Paper Mario break.
At around midnight I stopped playing Mario and sat back down at my computer. And started working again. I COULD have gone to bed. I didn't HAVE to stay up, but I was on a roll, so I kept going.
So from then until now I've been working on it pretty much straight. Except for that one point I got distracted going through my old "archive" folders in my documents, and that other point I took a Photoshop break and draw a picture, which I'm totally postin' for ya. I haven't slept all night.
I got my website done.
And it's up... at Chiparoo.com! Go and see!
Wewt! After... oh man it HAS to be a year or two... I finally chose a layout I like and can use. I solemnly swear that I will NOT replace this one for at least another two years. I can work it! oh yeah... uh-huh... ryuten and all that... woooooo man I'm tired.
Today is going to be interesting, what with my lack of sleep. Especially since the finale of Heroes is tonight. I just lost my train of thought... like... 4 times in a row, so I'll end it with this:

This is the picture I did last night in my photoshop break! The idea popped into my head while working on a comment on one of my pictures that fitures my character, Nora. She's a little witch girl, I created her in Jr. High before the Harry Potter craze (or at least before I knew about it,) but her story kind of got... influenced by Harry just a bit. Well, not Harry, but Draco (he's been my favorite character since book 4)
So Nora has this big ol' crush on Draco. And in my daydreams, it all works out, right?
rough little sketch. Enjoy. <3 <3 See you guys later.

I had a little fun with comics.

2007-04-09T07:43:30Z

Note, I am not Ryan North. This will be the last time you have to see this particular artwork!

Kind of an emotional breakdown

2007-03-23T22:50:09Z

chiparoo @ 2006-12-01T11:23:00

2006-12-01T11:23:18Z

Something important happened. And I was pure happy all the way through.
I'm totally caught in the friend zone.
But in this case, I love it this way.

I love you! Bye!

Serious bout of emo.

2006-11-27T01:02:16Z

I just survived through a serious bout of emo.
I'm okay guys! No one was hurt!

I stayed up late last night watching a movie during which old friends of mine left one by one, until only Taimur and I were left behind. I had made brownies (using materials given to me by Jaffer and Kent) but after they were done baking, Kent walked off with them - the entire pan - but I expected him to come back. Reproachfully, he didn't. He's not usually one to do something like that, but Jaffer thinks (and I agree) that Kent took them home as a joke and then forgot or fell asleep. Nonetheless, it made me upset that I suddenly didn't have brownies to share with all of the visitors there.

After the movie, Taimur went to bed, and I sat up with Jaffer talking about this and that... movies, and comics, and the antics of Uwe Boll. Mostly I just let him talk because I was enjoying the conversation. We spoke a little on Amanda, his love interest, with whom we think an honest-to-goodness relationship is forming. It struck me that nearly everyone I know has a someone in their life, and that put me over the edge in a rare bit of jealously and self-pity. Feeling like this happens every once in a while, but hardly ever like this.

I drove home with almost overwhelming thoughts of things that have happens, and things that never will. I sat on my computer for even longer, trying to drown myself in things I enjoy, all the while festering with bitterness. I even wrote some dumb poem. I never write poems, I suck at poem-writing.

It occurred to me that I'm seeing relationships happening from the perspective of the guys. I surround myself with guys, and Im finding it a new and interesting experience to see them all fall for these girls. I was confused, though, to find that i was somewhat jealous of them. Who are these girls to get the attention of such great guys as these? I've never really felt any of that sort of attraction to these guys and yet I'm still frustrated with the situation.

I think it might be because nearly everyone around me is falling into these relationships, and I'm just left watching. Normally I'm okay with that, but it's getting to the point where I'm feeling I'll always be like this. I've always known I'm not the sort of girl that guys fall in love with, but when it's surrounding me like like this it rubs me the wrong way. Think about it... even friggin' Gib might have found someone. No matter what we think of it, those two are a match, and I say good for them, even if I'm going to try and not be in the same room with them for very long. And all these relationships are forming at the time where I'm desperately trying to say goodbye to the person I've unrequitedly loved for four and a half fricken years, and thats suddenly harder to take.

I skipped church this morning, opting out to stare at the rain falling just outside my window. I dozed in and out of self-pity until mid-afternoon, when I opened my eyes to see that snow was falling.
Let me change the feeling of this post for a second...

SNOW!
IN NOVEMBER!
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY!
This bodes well for snow-lovers such as I!
I friggin' love snow.

And snow meant just enough to me that it immediately pulled me out of my stupor, and now I want to DO THINGS again. I want to make something... hot chocolate. Yeah, I can do that. I love making hot chocolate.
So that's that I think I'll be doing tonight, making dinner and hot chocolate at the Hasan's.
After I help my mother put a tidal wave of Christmas decorations up on the shelves, tables, and walls of this house.

It will bleed Christmas after we're done.
...Is that emo enough for you?

iismes - Wanna see?

2006-11-13T20:43:19Z

Hey! a long time ago I made these things called iismes (actually pronounced i-ihs-mees but you can call them iis-mehs if you want to). I started making them for use by my little brother, but I kinda got carried away and made them mine. They're kinda like mood icons, but they expanded to include pirates, ninjas... and vampires.

I think my favorite is the vampire.

-iisangst was made before the emo phase when being gothic was still popular.
-iiscool is TOTALLY wearing aviators. This makes him even cooler.
-iishungry... what, you dont look like that when you're hungry?
-iisloved is how I feel whenever I talk to heels.
-iispirate but I can never be as cool as Luffy.

And and down and around

2006-11-13T20:23:03Z

My moods are going haywire. One day I'm all elated and cheerful, next day I'm anti-social and withdrawn. At least this isn't happening every 5 minutes or something.

Today should be okay, though. Heroes night tonight!
Jaffer is a cheat and read the plots of all the episodes for a while coming and apprently this one is a good one.
Sooooooo looking forward to it.
But I have to clean the kitchen and family room so much.... gah!

Thank you Jaegermeister and Taimur for picking up the Blind Guardian Tickets! Now I dont have to do it... yay! The show is next Wednesday... this will be a blast :)

P.S. My mom is awesome. She's at work and she's hungry, so she called and told Mary to drive through somewhere and bring it to her. I totally did that once or twice while I worked at The Tux Shop XD

My very very first icon dump

2006-11-12T06:24:57Z

Edit: Oops! I left out some icons. Silly me! 5 more added to this dump that I have forgotten to type into the table generator!

Guess what? I made Icons!
They're all One Piece themed.
Now I wont be posting them anywhere but here for now, at least until I get some feedback on them. (Hint hint Mary!)

1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24	25

26	27	28	29	30

#3-5: Gall... I love Chopper. Cant get enough of this reindeer and his compliment dances. Quote, after Nami thanked him for taking care of her in ep. 83: "SHUT UP! I DONT NEED GRATITUDE FROM A HUMAN! DONT MESS WITH ME! Asshole. Dont mess with me, Jerk. It wont work... I mean it..." (All the while he's smiling and giggling and doing THE DANCE... I <3 Toni Toni Chopper)
#13-14: Oh, Sanji, you're such a ladies man!
#17: I have a special place in my heart for this one. This picture I had saved for a long, long while.
#21-22: Capped from his Mihawk fight, before he got his big owwie.
#23-25: One of the funniest images in One Piece: The most boisterous pirate ever, Shanks, trying to get the eternally-serious Mihawk to party. I was giggling for like 10 minutes. Also... Captain Red-Haired Shanks is love.
#30: Sugoi means "Wow" in Japanese, nub.

<3
If you take one of my icons, please let me know by leaving me a comment!
And feedback is always fawned over and adored.
The End.

(P.S. One Piece ROCKS)

Wapsi Square and the week getting better

2006-11-10T20:59:43Z

First of all, I'm going to be all websnarky and write a blog about a good webcomic.
Why?... Because it's Wapsi Square.

Comic by Paul Taylor - click to visit!

I've been following Wapsi Square for a good while now. I first came across it while reading through the archives of a webcomic called Alice! The first thing that caught my attention was the art. It's such an original style, and so nice to look at. Then, reading through, I was hooked because of the characters and the distinct humor of the comic. The comic is set in modern times, but many jokes and situations are tied with the historical era of the Aztecs. In fact, one of the main characters is Tepoztecal, the 2ft-high Aztec god of Alcohol, who for the most part only allows himself to be seen by the main character, Monica. Other characters (and by far my favorites) are great golems of Aztec history with such immense power that they once destroyed an entire civilization. They were summoned into this time accidentally by Tepoz, who summoned them in the forms of Bud, Brandi, and Jin: three perpetually drunk (and racially inclusive!) college girls.

The first year or two of Wapsi Square consisted of mostly joke-a-day comics. Its storylines were based on the individual characters and the gags they could create, and it was high quality stuff. Each and every comic had a punchline. But it changed, as comics do. But in years since the style of the storytelling changed, and it started developing characters to a whole new, and often dark, level. Nearly every story arch centers around a different character's deep past, and the demon that has haunted them through their life. Even the cryptically cheerful barista at the local coffee shop gets a deep dark past of DOOM!

Admittedly I teeter sometimes on wether or not I like this comic as much in it's current state. After all, comics that change dramatically are generally looked upon with suspicion and aversion (take Megatokyo, for example). But then Paul Taylor gives us such creativity as this comic above, and it reminds me just how much I adore Wapsi Square. Let me say it one more time: I adore this comic! It has changed from giddy gag goodness, to deep thoughtful dark goodness. He's just introduced a friggin' LIBRARIAN sphinx called Phix into Monica's plethera of ancient, fantastical creaters she associates herself with. Not only that, but the sphinx has declared a riddle! How he designed the sphinx, as well, is fabulous- its the perfect rendition of a sphinx in his style.

Needless to say, Chip is entralled with the current storyline and can hardly wait to see what happens.
Read this Comic.

I'm busy today! lets hope all goes to plan.
Last night Alex asked me over to watch a movie with him, which is awesome because that hasn't happened in months, and its a sign that we have the OLD Alex back! Hurrah! We watched Kiss of the Dragon, which I think is my most favorite Jet Li movie so far. Still have yet to see a bond movie.

Around 10:30 I got a call from Ta asking if I wanted to come with a group of people to go to Gameworks. Gameworks... I mean, come on, who would want to go to OF COURSE I FRIGGIN WANT TO GO TO GAMEWORKS!! But of course I have lost my wallet and had to borrow my brother's gameworks card (/sigh). So I went to the biggest arcade in seattle with Ta, Jaffer, Kent, Keith, Daniel, John, and John's new girl Erica. It was a blast. I spent a long while in the old school room with the Atari games, and was able to beat Taimur at a fighting game called Virtual Fighter (which is notable really because I had accidentally chosen a character named Sarah... rofl).

Afterwards we ate at Denny's, and guess who was there? GANDALF!! Nick Cozetto and Crystal Mylam where there, innocently getting a bite to eat at 2 in the morning as I walked in and intruded on their fun. Oh, it was so great to see them.

I have to run, and get ready for work. GAH!
Busy day busy day... wish me luck!

P.S. I'm sorry Jaegermeister, for the canceled shoot :

Blargeh Blarg blarg

2006-11-09T20:06:11Z

It's still kinda tense in this house after elections. Election day was the day before yesterday and all the wrong people are now in office. At least, where I was watching. And it sickens me, because those last couple of weeks were so intense because of all the public slander and downright lies being thrown at us and my dad. They won and they did it by lying their asses off here. Good show, good show.
My dad wrote a public letter about the false statements several days before the election. I mean, I've never seen such angry writing on his website. It's here if you care to read it.
I'm not all too surprised that the democrats now have taken a hold of the federal house and senate, what with the current president's approval rating at an all-time low. In fact, I'm okay with it. The setup of one party controlling congress and the other in the executive seat mean that it will be harder for bills to pass. This is a good thing. I was raised libertarian.

Kinda not been a good week. Started out fabulous, great Monday that's for sure. But it has deteriorated into stress and not seeing people. The pain in my lower back still keeps me up at night, and most of the time it hurts to walk. It makes me clumsy, that's for sure. I kept dropping things during Mad Science.
Yesterday was my last day teaching science at my Wednesday class, at the King's School. It was such a great school to teach in. They took total responsibility for the children and gave them about 45 minutes between the end of school and the beginning of Mad Science to eat snacks and spend their energy on the playground. This meant I could come in super early to set up (I usually only got about 10 minutes or less) in the spanish classroom run by Senora Shorack. Mrs. Shorack and her three sons Landon, Kyle, and Titus kept me company before and after the class. They gave me a $5 gift certificate to Starbucks yesterday. How sweet!
Unfortunately... stress before and after that. Meh. It was the only day I forgot my notes, so I had to wing it. Luckily the class was on Detective Science, and I had taught Secret Agent Lab in summer camps all last summer. Lots of the same things going on there. Scientific Method FTW!
I haven't been able to sign onto WoW all week.
I keep meaning to start making icons for lj, too. Haven't started that yet.
Still trying to fiddle with lj coding. It's not going as well as I'de hoped. I'm starting to think that they will not allow absolute positioned image overrides. This would be sad times for me.
Gah - I hope I get to see friends sometime soon. Perhaps I will have to have a movie night this Friday. I kinda want to watch Tank Girl again.
It's freaking pouring down rain.

chiparoo @ 2006-11-08T20:23:00

2006-11-08T20:23:58Z

I spent most of last evening working on the title image for this journal. It was fun times, and I was excited about it.
Now, though, I cant figure out the style/css for it. I wanted it absolute positioned over the header box, and I cant get it to work. It wont let me put just a pure tag in the custom css section of the journal style. Aggravation! I've been looking everywhere for a way to place the IMG code into the GOBAL_HEAD, because according to HTML goodies you can, but it never says the actual code to manipulate it.
I was so frustrated with it yesterday you can no idea.
I told Alex I was going to commit seppuku but he was getting all technical about it. He said I couldn't because there was no one there to cut off my head after I've gutted myself. DETAILS DETAILS.
I don't even know if LJ will allow me to do this sort of thing, and no where on this site have I been able to find any mention of absolute positioning.
So, I've stuck it into an entry box until I have time to figure it out later. I still have alot of work to do before going to Mad Science today and only a couple hours to do it. Last day for the Wednesday class and all.

TEH PAIN

2006-11-07T10:29:51Z

Today was a blast. But it didn't start out that way.
I'll be frank with you. When I have my monthly cramps, I cramp in the back, not the front. So, my lower back hurts, as per usual for this time of the month. Except this time it's terrible. It's many times worse then usual, to the point where I fel like my lower back cant support me when I sit or stand. Usually, so long as I'm leaning on something or laying down I'm fine.
But this whole predicament made me cancle plans to go to a Paki restaurant with Jaffer, Ta, and Jaeger for lunch. A buffet, even. Tears! I've only had Pakitani food once and it was soo good.
At least that gave me extra time to clean the family room while doing it at a tottering, elderly pace. (seriously, having a back like this makes me walk in a slight waddle and stoop, which makes me feel like an old woman.)
Daniel called earlier in the day as well, but I missed his phonecall because my cell was on silent. His message was to ask if I wanted to hang out because he was down here for the time being. When I called him back 20 minutes after he had called me, he was already on his way out! Heartbreak. Never get to see that boy anymore since her moved an hour away.
Ah, well. His birthday is soon, hopefully he'll be down here for that.
Minja brought her extra Guitar Hero controller so we could play together. We rocked. And by "We Rocked" I mean "SHE rocked ME and grounded all my scores to dust. Because she rocks... my socks." Minja FTW.
This was actually the most fun I've had at a Heroes Party yet. We figured out that 7 people can fit on my couch, if we pile up about 4 people high. Lettsee... Taimur, Devin and I were sitting on the actual couch, with Ta in the middle. Jaeger decided to drape herself across me and Ta, and then Chris wedged himself between Ta and I with his legs over Jaeger. We were like that for a while, then they came. Jaffer, Kent, Keith. Keith took off his shooes and climbed over the back of the couch, crushing Taimur before actually setting himself into position on Ta's lap. THEN... oh man then... James (who had been watching from afar across the room) launched himself off the coffee table to land on top of keith's lap. The icing on the cake.
James also almost lauched himself off the dock later, too. We kinda moved our party to a pier that looks over Lake Washington onto Seattle. A few of the boys started sliding on the dock, and daring each other as to who could slide the closest to the edge without falling in the lake. James won.
Later we went to Sherri's, because it's better then Denny's, where I learned how to say 1-5 in Urdu (the language of Pakistan). Its not spelled right at all, but how it's PRONOUNCED: Aik, Du, Theen, Char, Panch. Wewt!
My back is still hurting a bit. But I do have a few things to do before going to sleep.

Tonight tonight, tomorrow tomorrow

2006-11-06T02:20:42Z

Nothing's happening. Not really.
I spend alot of my time waiting for something, anything to happen. Hobbies are just something to do while I wait for certain events.
At least I might get to see a movie tonight, which I now feel guilty about. (thanks, Jaegermeister, thanks alot) Taimur is watching TV behind me as I fiddle with the layout of my livejournal. Trying out this one, and that one... seeing if any really tickle my fancy. What od you think of this one?

HEY! HEY! You know what day tomorrow is? MONDAY! It's Monday hurrah!
I came to realize my love of mondays when I started falling head over heals for certain Webcomics. No matter wether a comic updates on a weekly, bi-weekly, or daily schedual it's the general trend to update Monday morning. So the first part of my mondays are usually spent swimming in a sea of witty content. This makes Sarah very, very joyful.
ALSO! It's become a tradition around here that every moday is Heroes night. Yes, Heroes, the new show about a handful of people developing super powers. A group of my super friends come over to watch it with me and hang out afterward. It tends to be a friggin' blast.
I just need to figure out what I want to feed them this week, because that's always important.
Perhaps pita chips and hummace.
Yum.

On a last note, Taimur really, really sucks at Guitar Hero. But not just because he hasn't played much, but because he refuses to hold the guitar like a guitar. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG TA.
Anyway.
Later folks.

Salmon and old lace

2006-11-01T11:01:53Z

Hey there!
I'm Sarah. I just deleted every single one of my past entries. I figured I'de try using this again, because friends of mine are getting all hyped up over such things.
No sense starting a new one, considering Chiparoo is my name.

I just spent an hour or two fiddling with images to throw together a custome design for my livejournal. Things like that re important to me. Lets hope I can figure out how this whole LJ design thing works and not go crazy in the process.
Wish me luck!