o_O Mood icon dream?

I had strange dreams again last night. I can't even remember them, but I know when I woke up and I was in this state of leaving the land of dreams, I suddenly thought that the Neopets would make a nifty set of mood icons and I knew exactly which one to day and all... o_O Where was that coming from? Ick! I mean... I guess it'd be rather cute. Very cute even. But I don't like mood icons that don't move... call me silly, but I really like those cute little puffs that bounce around. That's why I never made one for myself so far either.

There are a couple of things that really bug me about those self-made ones. Apart from the fact that most of the time the quality of those images is really crappy, I think they're too big and even worse, many differ in their sizes, too! That looks just so so sucky, when one is 60x40 and then next is 100x70 and then it's 50x50. Yuck. Then I don't like real people on the mood icons. I don't know. That just isn't my thing. Most of the time I can't even see the alleged mood in those pictures. I don't want real people in my LJ. At least not right now.

Was that a rant? Well, maybe a mini-rant, but it's not really one since I don't care enough about it to rant. Just saying that this is the reason why I don't have my own mood icons. Yet. Hm... I want some that are cute, and not so big and that move... like the puffs. I miss them... T_T The kitties are nice, but they barely convey moods. I could make my own but I just don't know what. Hm... well, the puffs DID have different sizes sometimes, but that was rather because they were stretching out their arms and stuff. That's different. The puff was still somewhat the same size.

Oh well... wish I knew how to design my own mood icons. I just don't have any other idea than puffs and that's not really original... *sighage*

Bleargh!!!

I was just going to help my granny who was preparing some instant meal for herself. Mashed potatoes with chives or something. She was already done when I came into the kitchen. Wasn't too hard anyway, just add boiling water. However, she was going to have the leftovers from yesterday as well. Some sweet dish, usually served with cherries. And... *gags* she put it INTO the mashed potatoes! WAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! This must be so disgusting! *shudders*

That's something I really hate about my family. They're all so... thrifty! At least from my mother's side. I can't blame them. They weren't very rich and the war brought a lot of pain and hardship for them. They learnt how to make ends meet. Even now my granny never leaves anything on the plate. She eats up the tiniest crumb. And my grandpa always heated milk and poured it into a finished glass of marmelade or honey until it was totally clean. They never wasted any food. And they also learnt how to eat cheaply. So, I understand where they're coming from. But I wish they'd realize that these times are over now. We're not rich or anything, but it's not like we have to eat rotten peaches or something!

Ick... my mother does that all the time. When something is mouldy or squashed, she just cuts off the icky parts and eats it anyhow. I could never to that! Blech! And she always buys cheap stuff. Meat, too. No wonder I stopped eating meat when there were always veins and fat and disgusting stuff on it. Everything is cheap. I hate that. Since I was a kid I was told that the cheaper stuff in supermarkets are just as good as the well-known brands. But that's bullcrap. If you buy good cookies, they taste a lot better than the cheapo version for 59 cents. Or coke. Ever had cheap coke? Might as well drink sugared water then. *shivers*

No wonder I never learnt to enjoy food... *sighs* I just wish it wasn't like that. My dad, on the other hand, is a real gourmet. He enjoys food a lot. Not as in, he likes to eat a lot, but he likes to eat good. He loves nice ingredients and skillful cooking... too bad my mom is a horrible cook. Took me years to realize that she's just a godawful cook. She just tosses stuff into the pan, adds lots of grease and lets it fry there until she's ready to bring the food out. Most of the time it's raw inside and burnt on the outside. -.-

Oh well... that's another reason why I am a godawful cook! LOL! Where should I have learnt it from? I know during the time when X lived with me, I learnt to cook a bit. He was a great cook...

Hm... now I got myself hungry... I think I'll see if there's something in the fridge... ^.^

Bye-bye writer's block?

I doubt it... but lately I'm feeling the urge to be creative again. That's good. For the longest time, there was nothing. Nothing inside. Now, I'm at least having some ideas. I think that's good. I really hate not doing anything creative...

I'm thinking about writing the Seven Devils' story at last. I'm having ideas about the beginning and all. The challenge will be how to bring all those fragments together. And I still need to weave in Damien's story. Heh... I was saying that to Fleur when she was here. It's funny. Damien's story is sooo old. I must have created him years ago. I can't even remember. Then, when kat and I were getting ready to RP, I had to pull out any character and just used him. Strangely enough, I consider nothing that happened in that RP real canon for my story. With the exception for Belial's story, because it kinda developed a life of its own. That's one of the trickier things about the story. I need to somehow give Belial his own story since I don't really want to use the RP one. It's not mine. Hmmm...

Funny, Belial is just as old as Damien, creationwise, but he was barely a skeleton... Very strange...

Gonna go outside and read a bit now... *nods* (wasn't I going to make food? LOL)

*whimper*

Was it a mistake? I thought it'd be nice to sit outside for a bit, on the terrace, and take my laptop with me. Only, now granny is sitting next to me and keeps babbling my ears full! O_O Five minutes ago she was singing some church song to me. >_< Wah! And then she asks why I prefer to be inside... *grumbles*