Stess's Journal

Ok, so I've been mostly making random icons for myself, but this time I just made a couple icons for fun. I don't really have anywhere to post them except Ashley's icon community, but I knew a few people here would appreciate them more. Anyway if you take, credit and all that jazz.

( Castles (4 icons) )

( Zelda: Wind Waker (7 icons) )

I'll give you a fair warning: it is late, and I have had caffeine tonight. I am talkative.

So after much toil and editing, I have made myself a rockin' awesome LJ layout. Everyone should check it out. I figured out how to add a banner image (thanks to help from l8nitewriter) and then with a few more changes made something that I can be happy with for at least a few weeks! (lol - that's for you, Aaron!) When I have an income, perhaps I will upgrade to a paid account so I can get my excessive icons and do more fun stuff to the layout. Now that I've become an icon-making madwoman, I suppose I should.

Anyway, church tonight was amazing. First of all, they opened with James Taylor's "How Sweet it is to be Loved by You". I was like, James Taylor? In church? Rock. On. The pianist/singer from the worship band is amazing. Then the pastor giving the lesson this week said that he didn't want us to learn anything tonight, he wanted us to feel. We're doing a series on Ephesians and tonight was all about the end of chapter 3, about God's love and how awesome it is. It was really great. They gave us snacks too! Before the service there were people walking around with trays of cookies and trail mix, and they had water and soft drinks. It was so fun.

Yesterday I finally shelved my pride and took an application in to Avenue. (For those of you who aren't familiar with women's clothing stores, Avenue is like Lane Bryant, only less hoochie - which I can say because I worked there for three years) I should hear back from the manager soon. It's longer hours, but hey, it's a job. I need one of those, not just because I'm broke but because I am bored to sobs around here. I need something constructive to do besides make LJ icons and watch movies and play Zelda. Hopefully the people from JB Graphics will call me back soon and then I'll have a real job, doing what I really want to do.

In that same vein, sort of, my dad decided this afternoon that I could have been a math major. See, my family has fallen prey to the fad known as Sudoku. If you don't know what it is, go here and check it out. It's a matter of filling in the numbers so that 1-9 only appear in each row/column/box once. It's addicting. My dad is good at it, and my mom tries, but I've mastered it. It's what I do now when I'm bored. I generally end up doing maybe, twenty odd puzzles a day. This is why my dad thinks I should have been a math major. I like math. I'm pretty good at it too. At one point, I thought I wanted to teach it. Then I realized I was psychotic and had a death wish. Sudoku isn't really math, it's logic. But it's still addicting. (strangely, after deciding I was insane for wanting to teach high school, i became an art major. now I've decided to eventually go back and get a masters so I can teach graphic design in high school or college. Go figure.)

Ok I've rambled enough.