Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice

Pumpkin has been carved! Go me!

My reference pic was a scene from the opening of utena.

This was my first attempt at using the pumpkin carving dremel. My original plan was to do the whole thing with the dremel, but I quickly realized that wasn't going to happen. The tool that comes with the dremel is teeny tiny; not good for large areas like the rose pieces. Ended up having to chop out the big pieces.

Of course, by chopping big pieces out I made the structure very weak. Pieces kept falling off. I had to stick them back on with pins. This ended up being a very challenging pumpkin.

How did it come out? Ok, I guess.

( Take my revolution! )

So... Pros and cons of my new toy...

Pros:
+ Being able to create different shade levels opens up wider range of pumpkin designs.

Cons
- Sprays pumpkin gunk all over me as I carve.
- Tool gets VERY hot.
- Can't carve large areas.
- Can't carve very detailed areas.

So I guess my final opinion is that the pumpkin carving dremel is an interesting tool, but not worth going out of your way to get one.

madamminx! We must plan an Utena night! It is most important! For Utena is a most fantastic show! It must be shared with all!

It was created by some of the same production staff that made Sailor Moon, including writer and director Kunihiko Ikuhara! You like sailor moon! It is your duty to watch Utena!

And it inspired the Utena Slut Chart! Wheee! Because the show is THAT amazing!

Please? I like to share Utena. I have it all on pretty shiny dvd too!

Last night I bought ben greasy hamburgers for dinner because he had a bad day at work. We got them from five guys cause ben loves their french fries. In fact, ben made sure to mention how much he liked the fries several times. It was cute.

After dinner I practiced my calligraphy and spilled most of my ink on the table. I was frustrated and didn't want to go to calligraphy night after that, but ben made me. Once I was there it wasn't so bad. Everyone kept complimented me on how fast I was learning. I practiced on real paper this time, writing real words. (Some art supply magazine's seal of quality thingie.) They also solved my ink-spilling problem by placing the jar on my right side rather than my left.

Driving home, I listened to the utena movie soundtrack that scortia gave me. That soundtrack is the perfect background music for driving down long dark roads. (Though very intimidating when it started to play this morning.)

Ben was happy to see me when I got home, which made me happy. I walked then dog and then we went to bed because I was very very tired. I fell asleep in ben's arms very content and happy. I dreamed that I was graduating elementary school and my diploma had a big happy face on it because I was the top of the class.

My dog savagely attacked us this morning because she was soooo hungry and we were still in bed and couldn't we see that she was going to die if she didn't eat soon!? Ben kept getting grossed out because noname kept smearing her eyes on him. He had to get up soon after that to wash his hands. Which meant I had to get up and feed her. Fat little dog.

I'm at work now and I don't really want to do anything. But I guess I should. That's what they're paying me for anyway.

Work today was work. While driving today I saw a truck carrying a giant snow penis. And my mom said I was a cranky old lady for getting mad at those kids. Ben is the best boyfriend ever for watching the last two volumes of utena with me. My soymilk smells like sweaty socks. I'm really tired. I should go to bed.

After I got home from work, I tried to play warcraft with ben but the game hates me. Every time I play, something goes wrong. Crazy lag...Not able to talk to npcs...Inventory items disappear...Quest lists that have the item I need missing...All other players and npcs disappear. It's like the game hates me.

I got frustrated with that soon enough and started to sulk, so ben fed me and then we watched more Utena. We are up to disk 8 which means crazy stuff that makes me go *spaz* and them whimper a lot about loss of nobility and mansluts and the fanservice car. I was VERY upset with the last episode of disk 8, even though I knew it was coming. (No pun intended. At all. *spaz*) Ben and I need to finish this series soon so that I can have closure again. Until I watch it again.

Right, so after getting wonderfully distressed OVER A CARTOON, ben and I took a nap before he had to go to work. That nap always messed up my sleep schedule, but I like to spend the extra time with ben. I can't ask him to stay up with me because then he gets sleepy at work and makes mistakes. So it's best this way I think.

I'm looking forward to this weekend. Ben is taking off from work so we can go to six flags. We got free tickets from our cable company. I'm shooting for sept 11, hoping that there will be fewer crowds. Then we can go on rides a billion trillion times! :) It'll be fun! Though, I am sad that I can't go on roller coasters with ben. If only they didn't make me puke...

Ben shaved off his beard today. I am happy. I don't ask him to shave because I know it makes his face all sad, but I do like it better when he is all clean shaven.

Anyway, today's work was not that exciting. They are very busy there so they don't have much time to train me on how to do anything. I mostly fiddled with little busywork tasks until I was given that website to work on again. I checked it for crazy little details like how many spaces there were between sentences. It actually started to make my eyes hurt. Hopefully there won't be any more revisions left. I am tired of looking at that thing.

When I got home ben was asleep. I didn't want to wake him because he stayed up all day waiting for the furniture to be delivered. And then he built my glorious, wonderful bed. It feels so good not to sleep on the ground anymore!!! Anyway, he was sleepy, but I was lonely. I didn't want to wake him so I crawled in bed and took a nap. Then I was insanely groggy when I woke up. I probably really frustrated ben.

Oh, we decided to try netflix and we got our first set of dvds today. We got Hero, B5 disk 1, and Utena disk 1. Ben bought me dinner at the fabulous Wendy's, which we brought home to eat while watching Utena. It took a bit to get the computer to play the dvd right. The programs kept crashing and opening and it was all so weird and frustrating. Eventually we got it to work, but only had time for the first episode. And then my dog kept sitting on the mouse and keyboard, messing up the controls and pausing/stopping the show.

Now ben is at work and I miss him very much. I guess I should go to bed soon so I won't be too tired tomorrow. Blah, I need to be more exciting. Maybe tomorrow I'll start a sewing project.