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does anyone know where I can find links to the HYD photobook?
I saw it somewhere around livejournal at work ..  
but I can't the post anymore :( :(

Anyone be willing to help?

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Life apparently decided to stop crapping on my head today.

1. The friendship drama seems to have been resolved. Turns out that my pager wasn't working, so I never got any emails/texts/pages from one of the two friends, until I got a flood of the missing messages yesterday. So the person was actually trying to contact me (but thought I was pissed because I wasn't answering) and I was pissed because I wasn't hearing anything. A happy ending, for once. And as for the other friend, resolved that one too.

2. I took the car over to the auto dealership for some minor fixes (it'll run me over 300 bucks, sigh), but the service guys were very nice and polite. Too often, you hear horror stories or you run into incompetent/hostile customer service people, but not for me today. I need to go back tomorrow, but I'm thinking it'll be a relatively painless experience.

3. The AC is working again! Some people get pissy when they don't eat - for me, I get pissy when I don't get enough sleep or if I'm feeling hot. With the summer here, the AC is *vitally* important, and so when that broke down... yeah, that kind of contributed to my terse mood this week. The repairs cost about 320 bucks. Sigh, once again.

4. My watch is working! I feel incredibly naked if I go without my watch - I often go to bed wearing it, believe it or not. I've had it for, what, ten years, and it was a birthday gift from my uncle, so I'm quite attached to it. Now it's all clean and shiny and back once again on my wrist where it belongs.

5. My Muse seems to have taken pity on me. She appeared when I was sitting in the auto dealership, and I got so inspired that I even wrote in longhand (something I do NOT ordinarily do, as I vastly prefer typing). I'm working on both stories, and feeling pretty good.

Now, if my stomach pain would only go away, and if I get more money, I will feel 1000 times better...

I couldn't get it to work at home, but I'm on my computer at mom's house. Yes, I have my own computer and my own bed at my mother's place. It's a bit trippy.

Caroline Trentini in Vogue Brazil February 2008, Menos Roupa e Mais Glamour.

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Bianca Balti in Numéro Italia August 2005, Cinecitta.

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Romina Lanaro in Vogue Espana June 2008, Flores Rotas.

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I need to find a good vampire story to read. I'm writing one (horribly, might I add) and I need some... Idk... Inspiration on writing when it comes to vampire stories. They're always written differently depending on people's view of vampires and I'd like more variety... I guess...

Milo didn't want to go to sleep last night. It was sometime after three when I finally slept, and the alarm went off at seven. And today I'm back at my mom's house to help with paperwork for the divorce.

And it's so frustrating, because when I'm passive she gets frustrated and angry at me for not being proactive, but then when I'm proactive she gets frustrated and angry because we're not doing what she wants to do when she wants to do it and in the way she wants it done. And then we have to talk about it, and she cries and asks for help, because she's terrified, and I want to help, but it gets really frustrating for me because we're just going to repeat the same cycle. And I know it's because she's going through a really difficult time and is genuinely frightened and flailing for some kind of hope and support and reassurance, so I deal with it and I keep coming back, but it's still wearying. I want to sleep, but I didn't fall asleep instantly earlier, and so it feels like I lost my chance. Even though she's out of the house right now, I need to start lunch when she calls to say she's on her way back, and then we need to work on the stupid interrogatories. Which are vitally important, but which we're going to clash over because to me it's a way to put down information in a just-the-facts way, but to her it's finally her chance to tell the whole long sad story from her perspective. And it is, but I can't think of any lawyer voluntarily spending time reading all that, so the information won't get across. Le sigh.

I'm bored at work, it's been eons since I last read fanfic, and there's too much to sort through at The Fire and Ice Archive. Recommend some good ones to me please?

Before I get to the boring stuff that is my real post, I just thought I should do a PSA. To all the people who have me friended because of my ties to HP fandom and D/G love, I should warn you that my journal is going to be much, much less fandom oriented and much more me oriented (and my current obsession -- cooking/baking). That doesn't mean NO fandom stuff ever, but I wouldn't want to keep you here under false pretenses. Feel free to unfriend at will, or stick around, the choice is all yours, no hard feelings whatsoever. And now, the post...

1) I realized at some point that all the books and movies I was buying didn't actually need to be bought. Or in my house. So I've been trying to weed out the things I don't want (or realized I am never going to get around to reading) and either selling them on Half.com or eBay or back to Half Price Books, trading them at paperbackswap.com, or just donating them. And it is inevitable that something gets sold every couple of days, necessitating multiple trips to the post office. Why can't people just buy/request stuff all on the same day?!

2) I need to do the same thing with my clothes and CDs. I don't have that much closet space to begin with, and over the years with all the buying and the hoarding, stuff is like exploding out of drawers. I keep missing the deadline for the truck that comes every month or so to take away donated clothing. ><

3) I forgot to watch Acts 2 and 3 of Dr. Horrible before the Sunday deadline and now it's only on iTunes. Cry. Someone tell me what happens!

4) I've joined the Daring Bakers, with my membership officially beginning next month. Every month they do a baking challenge, chosen by that month's sponsor, and every single member bakes the exact same thing and are not allowed to talk about it on a public forum until the official posting day where everyone reveals their results. There are a number of rules to keep your membership, including having to participate in a minimum of 8 challenges a year (out of 12), not missing 2 months in a row, and providing photos/a run down of your experience with the challenge on your blog. It sounds really fun and challenging, as I've seen some of their past challenges and they run from the fun/easy to truly difficult/complicated. As a novice baker it will definitely help me with my range/skill, and help provide some direction to my projects. <g> So look for my first DB challenge result next month!

Has anybody got their hands on this? Any update if anyone's going to scanlate or something? I lurked around mangaupdates, shoujo manga maniac, band of the hawks and other possible places where it could have popped up already, but then, I found nothing.

I am recently watching MTV America's Best Dance Crew. So real cru is one of my favorite dance group. Do you think some of the members of the So Real Cru are Filipino?

A good romance fiction. I'm tired of reading the ugly chick + hot guy stories. I'm looking for some hot girl + hot guy. Most of the main characters in the stories that I read are smart, witty, sarcastic, crazy, insecure and its always stressed that shes/hes ugly. I can name a million characters that are like that. I'm not shallow in any way. I'm just tired of this repeating character. Gimme some stories that have attractive main characters.

Excuse my username and icon btw.

I have come to a conclusion: friends suck.

This is not a highly original conclusion, I know, but after managing to go without friendship drama for a while, I was mildly surprised when a ball of resentment hit me recently. Actually, it's been building up for some time, and I just wasn't aware of it until now.

Long story short, there are two friends (who don't know each other) who have been basically giving me the brush-off. The thing is, they're both incredibly busy, so I did expect that they'd be dialing down our contact until they got some free time to breathe. No big deal, right? Except I *do* know they've been going out with their other friends. They're doing a lot of stuff that I don't even know about, and only when do I ASK them, they reluctantly fill in the details for me.

Every time I suggest we talk or get together, they always give me the same tired excuses. "Oh, too busy" and "uh, sorry" and stuff like that. It's really getting my goat because I keep in contact with them, not the other way around. In fact, I don't think they'd ever talk to me, if I didn't make the first move.

The sad thing is, we've been pretty good friends for a long time, years even. So for our friendship to have to come down to this... I can take the vanishing act from one of them, but not both of them at the same time. Friend A and Friend B don't even know each other, but it's like they ganged up on me unconsciously.

Anyway, I'm officially giving up. There's only so much punishment/ignoring I can take before deciding: "You know what? Thanks for the good memories, but I gotta move on now."

Sheesh.

Hi! I'm working on my thesis and I'm doing a survey and I was hoping that I could get some of you as participants. The title of my thesis is A Descriptive Study on Adolescent Females' Motivation for Blogging. I need participants who are of course Filipino and female, ages 16-18, and have had an LJ for at least six months. It's just a short, 2 page, open-ended questions survey. If you're interested, leave your email address or email me at literati452@yahoo.com. Thank you! :D

Well, I finally finished the borscht. And while I was making it, I realized that it is definitely jade_okelani's kryptonite. She would hate it. :)))) First of all, it has beets, which I don't think she's a big fan of. But that's the least of it. There's also the onion. But she's used to having to deal with that. Not sure if she's a big fan of cabbage, which there's 2 cups of. But then comes the red wine vinegar. And last, but not least, the 3/4 cup of fresh DILL. Dun dun duuuuuun!! In fact, it was way too much dill, even for me. If I ever make it again I'm putting 1/4 cup, if even that, since I'd still probably have to buy it in a bunch and it's just not worth it.

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I also made Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake! Well, half of one. Since it's just for me and I'm going to have to eat it all, even that's probably too much. As you can see from the pic I still have a lot to work on with regard to my cake making skills (aesthetically in particular), but flavor wise it's fabulous. Even though it looks like a plain vanilla cake it's actually lemon, with lime-flavored buttercream and tayberry jam (because those are the things I had on hand, but if I ever made this for other people I'd follow the recipe exactly).

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