Fashion

Kalli's leaving tomorrow... I guess I've not been very much in the mood to post.

I've been irritable for the past few days. One could say that I have trouble trusting people and thus my first thought is to assume they think ill of me, or think me a burden. I'm very paranoid about that, and enough suspicion on my part can make me just want to disappear.

I feel like I can say little to anyone lately. :/ I've been making an effort to, lately, especially now that I won't be talking Kalli's ear off, but my urge is just to be withdrawn. Maybe it's the big change coming up for me (note: we are indeed moving August 1st.) I have no idea. I know I ought not to discredit my friends -- there are people that truly care about me. But I get paranoid they might change their minds, so I keep a certain distance. Maybe they're just saying x just to be nice, is what my depression says.

So I spend most of my time playing Dragonrealms and Sims 2.

Friday was my day to get out of the apartment for a while. Jon and I walked the whole distance to the mall, that was nearly an hour walk, but great exercise! Kinda tired me out, though, going all that way without even eating beforehand. :x

I almost bought a pretty dress on sale (it was really cute ;.; this kinda offwhite, with brown and burnt orange leafy patterns. I really like those colors on me.) But instead I went and got Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 for the DS. Does that make me a total dork, choosing video games over fashion? PROBABLY! :D

I came back and played some PSU (it was a lil late though, like 12 am) which was fun, since I haven't played in like 2 weeks. ;.; And then I talked to sis on Skype a bunch while training Talliska in swimming, skinning and combats. We had a nice conversation about various things. Nothing stressful, really. Work, games, etc.

So I'm back~

And we've got a lease for an apartment in Montreal. We put in the deposit, and are pretty much guaranteed to get it (apparently the landlady really likes us). We need to send over a few bits of information though, because we forgot to bring some documents. Wah.

Kalli was saying she helped us out by thinking about us getting a nice apartment the whole time. XD Woooo, voodoo powerz.

But it's a nice place. It's within walking distance of my college, a grocery store, pharmacy, hell... plenty of malls and restaurants too. It has a laundry room (mine right now does not. :O) It's on a low floor, which I really wanted -- I preferred having no one living below me so I could DDR to my heart's content. XD It's probably doubly as big as our current apartment.

I totally can't take this guy seriously.

"This guy" being Dov Charney, the CEO of American Apparel -- which I swear has to be the skankiest clothing store out there, with the equally skanky "hi! we're a bunch of amateur soft-core porn models" advertising. And let's not forget he does many of the photo shoots for said advertising himself. He specifically eschews touching the pictures up with Photoshop and whatnot, which I would applaud, except that the pics end up with something of a heavy-on-the-flash "Myspace whore" look to them. Nasty.

Oh and let's not forget to mention how open with his sexuality he is, including having relations with the younger girls he works with... of course, insisting that it's all consensual, and about sexual freedom, and he encourages a casual work place and so on.

I forgot to link this, it's a guide to S-rank Maximum Attack G. Later on, there'll be another area added, the Ruins, which will change the end of the mission. But, for now this is accurate.

And here's Reina's new outfit! Basically, Sega rolled in the PSO outfits and so I built her a new look out of a female hunter and female ranger getup. I can't remember the stupid PSO names so I won't use them. :D Anyway, she's wearing hunter/ranger clothes, and looks pretty badass, both of which are appropriate for a Fighgunner. :D

(Heh, you can also see that I'm running PSU on 1024x768 now, and high end graphics.)

I should stop being distracted by PSU for now though. ^^;

...you're writing high-fashion outfits for characters in a roleplaying game, and you care enough about the fabrics and design that you spend hours upon hours looking up different dresses and types for the right terminology. And I really do mean hours -- of looking at fashion and dress shop pages. Oh hell yeah. I'm going to be such a fashionista I can come up with outfits in seconds without reference! Eventually! *shake fist*

But onto my explanation. My fashion searches for the "Women of Emberdays" (heh!) just now led me to this page: Moiré patterns. Basically a word to describe the pattern of watered silk. I looked at this page and went "o shit! there's EQUATIONS ON THERE!" and Jon gives me this telling look, like, "You are the ULTIMATE DORK!"

I have to admit, once my passion for RP and fashion crossed simultaneously into mathematics, it DOES seem pretty dorky. ^^; But whatever, 'cause he's looking at pages on Warhammer 40K miniatures. (Right now he is apparently chatting on #tower about the virtues of the Tau. XD)

You know, I really think I married the right guy. :D

I tried to stay up till 8 am writing out stuff for Ember Days and I didn't even finish it all. I'm all ticked off again. I was forced to postpone because I was too damn tired and sick when I woke up. Jon kept nagging me to just go back to bed. D: So in the end I did. x.x

I didn't really have a choice anyway, because when I've got like... 20+ outfits to conceptualize and I've not written a single one, and I've got to come up with all that on the spot while my head is throbbing and I'm cranky and nodding off in my chair, it's just NOT going to work. Sure, I wasn't planning to do most of the outfits in much detail, but I still had to at least write cues for myself, plus the detailed ones for the GMPC (Sana), the accompanying NPCs (Elyssa, Najira and Lotus... though I already wrote Lotus's in a previous scene) and the host (Mnemon Daran, who is an elder Earth Aspect closing in on 200 years old, and I think is going to be a rather interesting character, at least to me).

I just don't want to ever. mess. with website tags again. x.x

It's much harder to mess with them AFTER the fact. I have this nasty perfectionist streak, which doesn't help things. I always want to FIX it better. I'll go through the old posts and go "I should've used that tag and that category" or "this has too many categories, must be something wrong with my organization system!" and so on.

I don't even think I'm satisfied with it now, but I don't think I will EVER really be satisfied, now that I think of it. Even before the big tag change, I didn't really like them. I do think it's *better* now than it was before. But there are things that need to be addressed still.

I'm just going to do them later. =_=

I'm all sore and sleepy... I swear, I don't think my body can get used to waking earlier than 2 pm for some reason. That'll be a problem when I go back to college, I think... well maybe by then it'll be fixed, I dunno.

Yesterday we went shopping at the nearby mall with my sis. None of us really bought all that much, actually. Just a couple articles of clothing. My sis spent most of the 6 or 7 hours we were there mostly waffling about what to get (not unexpectedly!) Heh, I wish I could be that picky. I'm overweight so it is harder to find clothes I really like that fit me. So it made me a little bit... aggravated, I guess, because I saw *plenty* of stores with clothes I would have loved to buy if I was a more reasonable size.

Kay, this is weird cause it's two celebrity posts in a row and I don't even usually care about celebs, but...

Avril Lavigne's new year's outfit. Also note the other outfits linked below the article. Here this site keeps saying that she has terrible taste, but I actually like it. I don't like her music but I think her clothes/hair look pretty cool. :P I used to dress more like that when I was younger, and I probably still would if I could lose more weight. :P

This is my opinion, of course. Everyone has their own idea of what's stylish, and that's what they ought to judge by when they get dressed. Not what "popular opinion" deems stylish.

Now, that said, this very same site has an article about Campbell's soup can print dresses. WTF? THIS is what's stylish? Oh, and don't forget this horrifyingly ugly pink dress. Welcome to the heights of fashion! *rolls eyes*