21 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014
Let's talk books! : Unfinished Series
So with the year closing in on it's end I thought it might be fun to check up on all the series that I have started and have yet to finish. This post will most likely be a video later on for my youtube channel.
I think I looked this up, earlier this year and I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of them~
Well lets start in no particular order!
Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
read 9/14 books
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
read 4/6 (so far)
Sirantha Jax by Ann Aguirre
read 3/6 books
The Immortal Series by Cassandra Clare
read 1/6
Apparatus Infernum by Anna Aguirre
read 1/2 (so far)
The Broken empire by Mark Lawrence
read 2/3
Soldiers Son by Robin Hobb
read 0/3 Books
Nightrunner by Linn Flewelling
2/7 (so far)
Gone by Michael Grant
read 2/6 Books
In Death by J.D.Robb
read 4/40 books (seriously long!)
Possession by Elana Johnson
read 1/3
Clockwork Empire by Stephen Harper
read 2/4 (so far)
Tales from Lovecraft middle school by Charles Gilman
read 1/4
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
read 3/9
White trash Zombie by Diana Rowland
read 3/4 (so far)
Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger
read 3/5
A series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket
read 4/13
Half-life trilogy by Sally Green
read 1/?
Englefors by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren
read 2/3
Anita Blake by Laurell K Hamilton
read 3/24
The lunar chronicles by Marissa Meyer
read 1/4
As expected there was a number of series I have yet to finish! But in my defence some of them aren't even finished being written so~
But yeah, it was fun seeing how many books I have left in some of them (although there are so many in some of them!!)...
Hopefully I wont start so many series next year, even though it's a bad habit of mine...
7 Dec 2014
Changes, they spring upon you...
So I don't know if it was just a lucky coincidence or a heavy influence of reading Stephen Fry's book "Moab is my washpot", where he writes of how he lamented the process of aging and how the adolescent Stephen, the real Stephen, would be lost in the ever turning wheel of time (see what I did there? you book nerds should!), but I suddenly came to a decision today, that for me feels like a huge change.
What might it be?
Well my friend, I decided....to take out my lip-piercing.
And I feel horrible, like a bit of me is lost and that I am losing myself....which is rather weird and unnecessary, since it's merely a piece of metal through my lip....but damn it I will miss it and I will feel empty.
The reason behind the removal is purely based on the condition of my teeth, or more precisely, the condition of my gums. Sadly it (the labret) must have healed a bit wonky, since a part of it have chafed against my gums, and thus started to lower it to a level that I think is not healthy for my teeth.
So I removed it in hope that my gums will heal to it's former self and then maybe I will be able to pierce my lip again... but yet I feel in my heart that it probably wont happen...
But this means that I will probably get some new piercing...I still want to pierce my tongue and other nose-wing. I am also tempted to get a nose-ring....
Well I bid you goodnight now....feeling a bit lost and mature....
22 Nov 2014
The procastinator life~
So I just woke up.
I'm literately still in bed.
And I can think of a number of things that I should and could do today.
But my main concern is whether or not I should head out and meet up with a friend...
yah...procrastinating much?
I'm quite prone to this, doing something else than I should (granted I am far as bad a friend who started reading webbcomics when she was supposed to write an article about it. I actually wrote the article!)
SO I've read some stuff about this and seen the usual motivational posters. I've reached the point of my procrastination where I think I know where it's coming from. Aka. I kinda of know what triggers it the most.
And that's indecision.
Not having a clear mindset or schedule.
For instance, right now.
Instead of writing this blog, which in my procastinating haze I have not written in or developed or anything. And thus today, when I propably should go up and do something, I lazely decided to stay in bed and write down my feeling. Even if the time is 12.09.
So what are things that I should do? (I'm sort of writing them down to my own benefit).
I should (obviously) get out of bed.
I should tidy my room.
I should change and wash the sheets.
I should update my CV.
I should wash my makeup brushes,
I should message my friend and makeup my mind if I'm joining her at a mall.
I should draw more.
I should work on my webcomic.
I should make a youtube video explaining my absence.
I should make a schedule for drawing, video making and streaming.
I should finish writing the last article!
Then we have the things that I could do...
I could finish reading the manga I have borrowed before they have to be returned.
I could fix my DIY projects
I could read some of the books I have started reading
I could finish playing the episode of Alan Wake that I was on when my computer restarted.
I could go and make breakfast.
I could go and play destiny and try and get more strange coins.
I could read some of the webcomics I've saved but haven't read yet.
I could watch some of the series I'm behind on.
I could back up my files and computer.
So yeah, tons of stuff to do, I have things I SHOULD do but I always end up doing things I could do instead. I need to start deciding what things I am GOING to do that day and then stick to it!
So what am I going to do now?
I am finishing this blogpost, then go up, make some tea and porrige, eat it while watching some series I am behind on and tidy up my room.
26 Oct 2014
19 Oct 2014
Rain, Rain and more Rain
As per usual I kind of forgot the existence of this blog...but I'm sure you who know me through this blog already knew this pretty well.
The knew school, city and friends has taken the most of my attention and I have found myself drawing a lot more than I used to on a daily basis. That is great news considering I want to work with that and I have spent so much time procrastinating that I haven't even taken the time to edit the videos that I have shot for youtube...
I'm actually trying to stay focused on writing this...I just feel like putting it off and pick up the new book I am reading (An Arsène Lupin Omnibus) and just read and watch telly...but that's not very good now is it?
But there has been some things going on which has made it a bit harder to do things like youtube...
One there seems always be someone around and I don't like recording in the presence of other people since it is a bit embarrassing and they don't really know...
Two, the couple that I am living with are breaking up so there's some tension and restrictions (such as I can't play PS3 whenever I want) happening as well. Also I am not quite sure how my living arrangement will end up like after one of them moves out... so that's a bit stressful I am wondering a bit if I should start looking for alternative places to live...which would be sad since I do like living here.
Ugh I also need to look for a part time job. There are so many things I feel like I need to buy (such as a new computer, an macbook, a PS4 a new 3DS, clothes and books) and I don't make anywhere near enough money for it...
But finding work is never easy now is it?
Anyway, as I said the drawing part of my life has gotten better and I hope that I will b able to develop some of my own series into a web comic and find an audience. Maybe then I could start making comission art as well...that would be fun.
Although I need a better computer for that and preferably a second screen...and thus I start dreaming of a own flat with a small studio part in it and a small gaming area....not to mention the books I could start buying...*sigh* it would be so magical...
Oh and on the title of this blog, it has been raining so much this week, like pretty much all day for 4 or 5 days...rather annoying and I need new shoes because the ones I brought down with me are almost in pieces and not waterproof at all.
Okay I'm going to stop rambling and complaining...
I'm thinking of doing a blog-November month, since I didn't do anything of the sort this month.
well see ya later!
19 Aug 2014
Bout of books 11.0, day 2 update! + Book Spine Poetry
So I managed to finish my second book and I have started on the third, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, prodigal son. So far it's been interesting, there has been a lot of characters introduced and I hope their relations to each other will be explained more as the plot thickens, which I am very sure it will.
Now I shall try and present my try on the Book Spine Poetry challenge. This was quite hard to achieve as a lot of my books are in different languages and I wasn't sure if I could mix different languages...so yeah, my choises were a bit limited but none the less I came up with this:
There is
Luck In the Shadows
for
This Charming man
with a
Changeless
Heart of Brass
and
Only Human
Wanderlust
The rules was to pick 6 books and get 6 extra words, I used: there, is, for, with, a and and.
Lets see if I can come up with a OTP to write about or if I'm just gonna head to bed now..
Bout of Books 11, day 1
So much for my resolution to draw constantly these last weeks before my move...instead I got sucked into the allure and festive feelings of the Bout of Books 11.0 readathon.
For those who doesn't know, a readathon is like a marathon but instead of running a lot, you read a lot.
So for this week I decided that I want to try and read 5-6 books, so that I don't have to bring them down to Malmö with me. I might have taken a bigger bite than I can chew considering that I am also reading 5 other books at the same time...
But so far I've finished one book and over halfway with the second.
The book after that is the further adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Veiled Detective by David Stuart Davies and I am currently reading it.
Now this book is quite interesting actually. Mostly because Davies made some major changes to the characters and thus the storyline and due to his writing style the overall feeling of the books resembles the Sherlock BBC TV-series a lot. I have to check up when this was released and when the first pilot for the series was made. So far the novel has read like a movie for me, Davies and Doyle has very different writing styles and one can tell very clearly that one of them is written during modern times trying to emulate an older writing style typical for the 1880s.
I could go on writing about this book, but I think I'm going to save it for a video review instead.
Aperantly there were this daily challenges as well that I missed to do, so I am making one of them below :
Bout of Books Scavenger Hunt
1. A Book that begins with “B” (for Bout of Books!)
2. A book that has been made into a movie/tv show
3. A series you love
4. An anthology of poems or short stories
5. A book on your TBR shelf, or your full TBR shelves
That's about it for now. I'll be back later with this days challenges and stuff I think!
14 Aug 2014
July wrap up video is up!
Woop Woop
Uploaded a new video on youtube (finally). This time it is the July wrap up that most booktubers feels obliged to film. Not saying it's a bad thing, far from it, just getting a recap on the month do help (at least) me personally to see how much time I've spent reading and often on how big books as well.
This month I ended up reading only 2 books and some graphical novels. Although I did finish Dune and some other books in the beginning of August (can't believe it's really August).
It really does feel like summer is over. It's been rainy and not so warm this last week...feels like I can start anticipating Halloween now (not that we celebrate Halloween that much, but I do love a party where I can dress up).
Aaanyway, I did not mean to start rambling about other stuff with this post!
I hope you enjoy the video and I shall write yet again!
Uploaded a new video on youtube (finally). This time it is the July wrap up that most booktubers feels obliged to film. Not saying it's a bad thing, far from it, just getting a recap on the month do help (at least) me personally to see how much time I've spent reading and often on how big books as well.
This month I ended up reading only 2 books and some graphical novels. Although I did finish Dune and some other books in the beginning of August (can't believe it's really August).
It really does feel like summer is over. It's been rainy and not so warm this last week...feels like I can start anticipating Halloween now (not that we celebrate Halloween that much, but I do love a party where I can dress up).
Aaanyway, I did not mean to start rambling about other stuff with this post!
I hope you enjoy the video and I shall write yet again!
9 Aug 2014
Getting back to blogging?
Herm yes.
Not that I think that my hiatus here left any sort of hole in ones daily life, I will still announce the uninteresting fact that yes, I am going to start blogging again.
And to make things extra original I will add this phrase as well: This time it will be different!
Maybe not so trust inducing, now is it?
But 'lo and behold, I am not writing it for your entertainment/enjoyment/annoyment, I am writing it for me.
Some might ask "why the f**** don't you write it somewhere else then stupid?"
And to thee I want to say, because I want to!
I have already this page sort of set up (yup you got it, gonna make me some graphis design changes!) and I feel that writing that sort of commitments where anyone can read it, puts more pressure on it, and being a person who is most efficient under pressure (yay for day-before-deadline-writing!) this is something good.
But why start again now?
Well my curious friend ('cause if you've read this far then curiosity must be one of your biggest traits), I am starting a new chapter in my life.
I graduated from university with my diploma for computergames graphics, which means that I am now on the jobmarket. Naturally, that means that I'm going back to school to "study" some more.
This time it will be comics!! (Woop woop childhood dreams coming true woop woop!)
To study this I'll have to move to another city (from stockholm to malmö), which means leaving all my friends, life and comfort for something completely knew and scary.
I am a habits based person, something like this stresses me out and gives me tummy aches :c
But here I am, on my way home on a train from Malmö, where I've been checking up rooms for rent, so that I don't have to live on the street when school finally starts.
And things are starting to feel real and I oddly enough, am not feeling panick creeping up behind me, latching on to my back for a piggybackride.
Instead I am thinking on how to make this an oportunity to do more of the stuff that I kinda forget after a while. Like blogging.
So with this crazy move to another city, I want to finally start blogging and youtubing on a regular basis, draw a lot and paint more, and over all be more active both online and offline (because seriously, these last few weeks I might as well been a hermit with no internet, living on an island on a finnish lake, with only a sauna and the mosqitous as my friends, when considering the amount of socializing I did).
I also want to find my voice/style in both blogging and vlogging. I've found a couple of blogs that I really love and realized it's been the superb way they have utilized the english language to fit their style.
It has inspired me to start writing, but sadly I pretty much suck at it. Never the less I wont give up!
Because, as I wrote in the beginning, I am writing this for me, not you.
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