i’ve been thinking of setting up a web store for my poser art. i’m still learning quite a bit but a lot of people have told me that they really like it so i might try to get something together. first i’d have to look up a good ecommerce hosting website, and then get some sort of web-store program to manage it all. sounds like a lot of work but i’d rather do it myself than go though sites that do it for you because i don’t really trust them with my stuff… i would only be selling digital versions of my work for starters. maybe on cds or something. prints would be expensive but maybe if people really like them, i can find a way to work that in as well. i’ve started to get really interested in making materials for clothing and making morphs. i’ve made a couple of my own character morphs in poser so maybe i’ll try my hand at that as well. oh and i know how to make poses! so there’s another thing i could sell.

hmm. writing all this down makes me want to get to work!

sorry blog i’ve neglected you a bunch again :/ i got slammed with a double dose of sick the past week or so. the 15th i came down with some kind of stomach bug and that had me curled up in a ball for most of a week, then directly after that i got a cold that my brother and sister-in-law brought home from work. suffice to say i was really not in the mood to do anything but lay in bed and rot. i’m feeling better now though thankfully.

not much going on in life at the moment, which is another reason i haven’t really blogged. hard to find anything to write about.

i am totally eating up every new episode of LOST that has come on so far. i wish i had been this hooked on the show back when it was not on its last season X_x i hate that its ending now! i’m so totally in love with the story and in a way i’m kinda glad that i’m sucked in here at the end, because i am terribly impatient and now i don’t have to wait for things to be answered.

but anyway that’s all that’s going on with me. kinda boring.. yeah i know.. my life is so not blog worthy lol.

phew! now that the paid blogging is out of the way, i can tell you guys about yesterday!

the power went out at 5pm and i was home alone. i had no clue how to get in touch with anyone because my brother was at work (and i didn’t know his work number), sister-in-law was at work as well, and they worked in the same place so i couldn’t call her either. mom was out with her best friend and i didn’t have their numbers either! so i spent 6 hours sitting around in the dark freezing my butt off under 4 blankets waiting for someone to come home.

at almost 11pm my brother and sister-in-law showed up and the power was still off. by this time i am freezing and its pitch dark outside. i used my ipod as a flashlight and almost killed myself tripping over something that was sitting in the living room. then my mom came home. we called the power company and found out that 3 power poles had been downed by the wind and trees. one of them was right up the road from us. they estimated the power would not be on until 4pm THE NEXT DAY!

so we decided to stay in a motel for the night because there was no way we could sleep in that place the way it was. it was so cold you might as well have camped outside. my brother had work in the morning so he definitely needed a place with running water and power so an alarm would wake him up early.

we found a motel and i’m glad the power was coming on the next day because we could only afford one night (and this was a cheap place!). my brother spent an hour trying to hook up his xbox to the motel tv while i got on my sister-in-law’s laptop and sent messages so people would know what happened to me.

the room was ok but the bed was rock hard and my back is not happy with me today. but still, it was better that being a block of ice, so my back can get over it. the power came back on today at almost 2pm, which is better than 4pm but its still flashing on and off a bit and that worries me. i do not want to have another freezing night!

My brother and his wife currently live with my mother and me, but they have been talking about finally getting out and starting a family together. We talked about what they were thinking about doing and their plans to own a home and my brother mentioned something that I didn’t even think about: First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit.

Did you know that if you’ve never owned a home you can get a tax credit for purchasing your first home? Up to $8,000! that’s pretty awesome for people just starting out, like my brother and sister-in-law. He still wants to take care of my mom even though he does want to own a home of his own, so he’s thinking about getting a place with enough room for her to live with them as well, and that tax credit would really come in handy paying for something big enough for her, them, and what ever family they might have in the future.

So I hope they get that figured out. It would be wonderful to be an aunt or just have more room to move around! They said I could live there too until I got a job. Hopefully with the way things are starting to go, the economy will perk up and places around here will start hiring again!

so i’ve been planning to write this review for quite some time but i wanted to try and get somewhere in the game before hand. unfortunately this game is so hard i can’t even make it past the first couple of stages…

I Want To Be The Guy is an insane platformer indie game that i saw someone playing in a youtube video walkthough. i decided to download it and try it out and though looking at it makes it seem simple, trying to play it will make you insane. the graphics are 8bit. from what i’ve seen, they borrow a lot from old nes and snes games and a lot of old video game character sprites pop up randomly as bosses. in a way its kind of an homage to games of my childhood.

since i can’t really get anywhere in the game i can’t really write a very good review but i did want to recommend it to my readers because the challenge is kinda fun. the forums even have more games, made by fans of the original that are also as challenging.

since i can’t really get though the game, i’ll leave you with a video of someone playing it on very hard mode so you can see what you’re up against.

its no secret, when it comes to valentine’s day gifts, chocolate is a great way to say i love you. so this year tell your special someone that you care about them, and about world events, by getting them Dark Chocolate from intentional chocolate! 100% of their profits will go straight to charities supporting hati until valentines day. so you’re not only giving a gift to someone you love, but you’re giving a gift to many people who have lost their homes, and families. i think its really a wonderful idea and hey, who can say no to chocolate?

i ment to write on tuesday after lost but i didn’t get a chance and then i just got lazy.

i watched the season opener of lost and i must say that i am absolutely hooked now. i have no clue why i didn’t get into this show back when dad was watching it and i really hate that now we cannot share in the questions being answered by this last season. the episode was great and i don’t want to do any spoiling so i won’t write much more on the subject.

i wasn’t able to get though all of the seasons before the show started, so after half way though season 3 i just found the starter packs on hulu that give you a pretty basic understanding of what is going on. i plan to go back and watch all those episodes in full but at least i was able to be caught up for the new season.

my laptop is still borked and that’s one of the reasons i haven’t been blogging much. i forget about stuff like my blog, and twitter when i am on my desktop because i am so used to turning to my laptop for all that stuff. we still dunno what is wrong with it but my brother said he will take it to staples for me. just have to wait for him to do that.

i don’t really have anything else to write about.