Tomorrow is going to be the start of my most amazingly super-duper exciting weekend climbing in France! ZOMGOMGOMGOMG! *faints from over-enthusiasm*

And my creativity is slowly waking up from its winter slumber, which is equally awsome. so I'm looking forward to submitting my work soon

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I've been to very many exciting parties, and in all that excitement I've run out of... the Umph. The thing that makes you go "Ahha, I have this wicked Idea and I'm going to go home and draw it up!"

So... these are going to be the long boring Umph-less days.

However I'm hoping that the New Year is going to bring it back.

Best wishes to everyone, and hope you're having more creative time than me
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Last night I sat down with this really cool idea for a picture. After 2 hours of sketching, coloring and shading, I've come up with a pretty cool looking picture that has only a vague idea in common with what i actually wanted to draw.

Huh?! Its like, trying to bake a chocolate fudge cake and in the end coming up with a caramel gatoe. Still nice, but waiter, that's not what I ordered!! Grrrr! Its starting to become a common occurance.

Does anyone else do that?


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What is the best way to get legs like leopard? Covered with pretty dark circle-pattern?
... in case you were wondering.

Come to UK, Peak District during winter ([link]). Ideally you won't be too experinced at climbing (but will responsibly come with someone who is!). Give a go climbing routs named "Birch Buttress", and imaginatively named "Face Climb No 1.5".

Enjoy the glorious view on the valley and the lake below, from above all the trees!.. I suspect thats where I went wrong. After 1 minute of thrilled observation, you suddenly notice the chilling piercing wind, and how you fingers have locked into some kind of resemblance of claws, and your legs now consist of two very stiff bones.

Then the fear of death kicks in, as you realise that you're now stuck, embarassingly, half-way up an otherwise easy route.

Sitting on the ledge above me is my friend, holding the rope, feet dangling into the abyss, looking like he's enjoying himself and a bit of frosty sunshine.

"Crap," I'm thinking. I need to move or this is going to hurt. With the bouts of most unlady-like swearing, i wedge my knee in the crack, with great effort pulling my frozen stiff body on a tiny narrow shelf. By the way, climbers are not supposed to be scrambling up walls with their knees, so you can imagine my desperation at that point

Anyway... in the end I got to the top.

And that how I now have Leopard legs. Mwahahaha! (Mail me if you want more detailed instructions

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On a different note, last weekend the choir in which I'm singing had concert *ducks... don't laugh! Laugh at the bit above instead * We did Bach (Magnificat) and Mozart (Requiem). At the moment I'm totally loving a song called "Omnes Generationes" from Magnificat. (geek -> Alisaru <- geek)

This is it here: [link] To hear the actual song, skip to 2min, it starts shortly after... It was really cool to sing it live

Its morning. Its not really that early, but I have not been sleeping well recently so it feels like its an early morning. This usually stops at about 4pm. Then it starts feeling like lunch.

Gah, do you ever get the kind of dream where there is some kind of world emergency and you have to keep pressing some button or else welcome the Armageddon?.. And then you wake up and realise that you have been snoozing your alarm clock for the last hour, and now are facing a mission of having to sneak in, unnoticed, past your super or face the wrath? Welcome to my world!

Anyway, today I'm happy! Because last night, after spending good 2 hours working on a pic, i got fed up, created a new file and drew a quick sketch or Kaka+Iru, which i believe has turned out pretty shweeeet! Well, for a scetch anyway. I'll upload it later today.

Also, whilst listening to a pretty soppy song (Shakira - "How do you do"... *quickly performs body-replacement jutsu, hence avoiding dozens of kunai*) and enjoying a glass of mild alcaholic beverage, I wrote the most dramatic part of Chapter 4 of my "Echoes in my heart". It was so emotional *sniffle*... A bit more work and it'll be ready for an upload.

Anyway, woot to my first journal entry!
*bow with a sweep of the cloak*
*disappear in a puff of smoke*