These will be up for a week! They showcase how amazingly I sing. Unfortunately all I have is my built-in laptop mic. Think how amazing I'd sound with real equipment!!! They're .wma's. I need to get a converter.

1. http://senduit.com/677161
The first one I did. It's my broadway audition piece.

2. http://senduit.com/e229eb
This is some jazz, a song made popular by Tom and Jerry.

3. http://senduit.com/677161
Somebody told me I should sing only TLC songs, so I tried that, and the results were beautiful.

4. http://senduit.com/99327f
This is more like rock and showcases my amazing pipes.

American Idol, here I come.

me.

EYES THAT SEE FOREVER.

I HATE STANDARD TIME.

http://prillalar.com/drabbles/ HOURS OF FUN.

( Excellent 383 fics. )

The good news is that I was offered, and am taking, a much better and far more awesome job than the one I currently am working, and thus, today, I resigned.

The bad news is that my start date is Oct 26...and it's in a different state. Which means I'm relocating. To the east coast.

This means that things were timed just exactly right to where I can't make the Saiyuki Room Party (and probably not Y-Con, either...), which seriously sucks. But! I'll be able to go next year, and I'll even have the time off to do it.

MORE DETAILS LATER.

Well, my only free weekend in the last month or two has come to a sad end...

Been busy a lot lately. This weekend, I spent a bunch of money buying kitchen stuff, though I do not have my own kitchen nor is this a likelihood of the near future. However, when I do get one, I'll be set. I got a bunch of stuff at DEEP discounts, including a set of pots/pans, an espresso machine, a drip coffee machine, and a food processor. The crown jewel, however, was a $55 cast iron dutch oven I got for $13 because it was missing a handle. Quick trip to Lowe's fixed the hell out of that; I got an eye bolt to stick through the hole in its lid. Stick a wooden spoon through the eye when you're ready to take the lid off and BAM. I love being smart because it makes being cheap very rewarding.

I won't say how much I spent, but I managed to save over $300 on the stuff I bought. Noooooot bad.

Here's a recent picture of my arm.

I have no time to draw anything or do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DO I GET MORE TIME??????

http://senduit.com/330e5c

Best ever cover of Danzig's "Mother."

http://senduit.com/63da48

AVAILABLE FOR NEXT THREE DAYS. I'm not used to trying to play blues on a classical guitar while sitting in a computer chair. Also recording through a headset mic is kind of not the best thing ever.

So I bought a new car. This basically means I can't get fired, ever.

It's a 2009 Subaru Legacy. It's black, like my soul. They redesigned the 2010 Legacy in such a way that I don't like it at all, so I had to make a move on this one. I traded in my Tercel, which was sad, since it was my first car and since my grandpa had gotten it for me. But earlier this morning, at the post office, I had managed to lock myself out of it WHILE IT WAS RUNNING so I guess it kind of gave me the middle finger.

I'll post pics tomorrow.

This is totally plagiarism, because all I'm doing is changing a couple words in what's otherwise a brilliant story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, but this is what happens if you interpret THE YELLOW WALLPAPER as a weird 383 fic! All I've done is basically change the name "John" to Sanzo and switched instances of "doctor" to "monk." Pretty hysterical. SORRY, MRS. GILMAN. I really do think this story is brilliant as written.

( Jesus Christ. )

I went to the gym today for a personal trainer assessment to get personal trainer sessions.

The trainer put me through a circuit of ten exercises (assisted pull ups, jump-squats, triceps pushups, mountain climbers, row, lunges, chin-ups, bicycle, and step-ups....maybe not in that exact order...), basically, to assess my fitness level. He came to the conclusion, after I basically rocked the fuck out of it to where he had to make it a lot harder than he initially thought (he said I was stronger/more fit than he thought), that I am the most physically fit person to show up on day one that he's ever had...not woman, PERSON. This includes men. He also said he was impressed. I made it through four run-throughs of the circuit, when he's never attempted four with anybody else.

Fuck yeah.

I guess he could say that to all his clients, but you wouldn't think that would be good for job security. Considering that he had to make it harder for me, by adding reps and extra weight, I'm inclined to believe him. He also seemed impressed that I was trying to get my mile and a half under 13 minutes and that my best so far is 13:40.

So, basically, I am awesome.

Keep in mind that I have lost 45 pounds in the last couple years since joining the gym and previous to this, used to consider "blinking" a physical activity. So this is kind of a big deal. Considering all the stuff I've failed at in life, if somebody would have told me years ago that physical fitness was something I'd actually SUCCEED at being good at, I would have laughed at them.

GO ME I ROCK

I enjoy this stuff now, though. I'M A WARRIOR. OR CRAZY.

If I enjoyed popcorn, I would get some, because I suspect there will be some spectacle to watch re: fandom. No, I didn't request or write that. I'm also not planning on getting involved in that particular business, though I might pick up a prompt and try to butcher my way through a fanfic.

If I were the person I was four or five years ago, I'd probably be in the middle of it all, or even leading the charge, "defending my pairing" or something horribly unconstructive. Luckily, I'm not the person I was four or five years ago. I like to think I'm slightly less pedantic (I'm certainly a lot sexier!!!!!!!!!).

The only thing I will say, though, and the thing about this that makes me raise an eyebrow, is that I don't think anybody would do that with a different pairing.

I love this song, anyway, but:



At around 1:00 in, there's a very simple guitar part. It's only a couple of notes, up high, but it's very atmospheric and haunting, soaring over the rest of the verse. THIS is the best thing ever. He just bends that note up into perfect. Anybody who disagrees with me is a communist.

HOW IS IT 9PM???? HOW IS IT THE END OF JUNE????? WHERE DID ALL THE TIME GO??????? WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE????????????