Athene Numphe

There's so much that i want to post about, both here and on my Little Prince blog. I feel like I'm always composing posts in my head. But so many of them never get written. Some of it is time. Between working full-time, raising a toddler, spending time with hubby, working on other projects, reading, etc, I just don't have lots of time to write.

But there's also something more. When it comes to the internet I tend to be a consumer first and a creator second. What I mean is that when I sit at my computer for downtime, the first thing I do is read other people's things. It was easy when it was just LiveJournal friends list (although back then a lot more people were posting). Now there's the friends list, facebook, tumblr, email, my rss feed reader, etc. I pretty much ignore twitter (sometimes), pintrest, instagram, and Google+ because you have to draw the line somewhere. But by the time I'm done reading it all, there isn't much time left for me to post stuff. Or I want to do something for the post first, like edit pictures or video, which takes time. I guess that's why I like FB, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. Because you can post quick free form things that aren't as fully "bloggy" and keep consuming. I mean I could do that here too, but it's harder.

I have to remember to sit down and create first or I just get lost in the world of consuming.

Well, time to feed the cats, scoop litter boxes, play with Little Prince in his bath, and get him to sleep. Maybe I'll do some more creating tonight before I consume...

Last night I made chocolate cupcakes. As a treat for lordaerith I decided to fill some of them with raspberry filling. Even though I didn't have the right coupler for tip 230 (it didn't fit my standard coupler...even though it said it would), I figured out how to use it to inject the cupcakes with the filling. I injected ⅓ of the cupcakes with the filling using the tip, used the "cut out a hole, put in filling, cover hole" method for ⅓ of them, and left the last ⅓ unfilled. Then I iced each type with a different color so we'd know what we were eating. So far, the injection one that was eaten was pronounced not enough raspberry. Not sure if that's because I did it when I was cold, or because due to how I was filling the bag, I couldn't feel the pressure of the filling in the cupcake very well. Will just have to try some more.

In technical awesomeness, I figured out how to get a tag cloud to show up on my lj sidebar, using the code written for my style to make the list and then modify it with the code written for another style. Ha ha!

So, someone *coughcoughamythystcoughcough* got me a Paid User account. I love her muchly.

*does the i'm a paid user happy dance*

so, i got another pic now too. hurray!!!

*subliminal message*so, my birthday is this friday. boy, I would really love to be a paid member.*end subliminal message*

i had a lot to say, but now i can't think of it. work is quiet again. that's good. i've been reading lots of these things of my friends. it's strange. you learn a lot more about them this way. makes me wonder if i'm "deep" enough or something. *shrug*

I'm still not sure how much i'll want to say here. i'm not too comfortable with people knowing so much of my own life.

i have my period. it hurts. aerith says he's trying to understand, but he doesn't always. we had a big fight about it last night, but it's better now. there's nothing like someone you love calling you at work and promising to barbaque you stakes for dinner. yummy. we just got a grill. i wish the pain would go away. it's been good for most of the day, but now it sucks again. I guess I should have changed my tampon earlier, but work got busy.

i just want to roll up into a ball and lie in bed with my love rubbing my back. but i'll probably have to clean up and stuff. oh well.

45 min to go.

Ok, well, i've decided to start one of these things mainly because I am bored and don't want to do my homework. I'm not very good at writting a journal, so we'll see how this goes.