Sketchlies! And meme! And stuff!

[reymonkey]

Okay, just in under the wire, but I'm posting something today, damnit! It is crapolicious. I still owe many people birthday art. This is a drop in an ocean.



Yeah, the shirt there is supposed to have 't-shirt' crossed out and replaced with 'nervous breakdown'. Thorn's face looks a little wonky in the wide shot. Incidentally, although I draw Thorn plenty, I think he's one of the hardest characters to draw. He's got those weirdly set eyes with the almost hidden eyelids, and I can't remember why. I'm probably the one who designed him that way, and then heart shaped faces always give me trouble, and... yeah.

In other news, this from Donya:
Reply to this and I will...
1)Tell you why I friended you.
2)Associate you with a song/movie.
3)Tell a random fact about you.
4)Tell my first memory of you.
5)Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6)Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7)In return, you must post this in your lj.

WTF: In other other news, I got my new debit card from the lovely bank people. They neglected to send me the pin change, though. They did actually change my pin, they just didn't bother to tell me what it's changed to. Today I got a guy on the phone, who helpfully 'activated' my new card.
Bankman: So it's fully activated now, and we'll get the pin change sent to you in seven to ten business days.
Me: Sooo, in the meantime, will the card work with my old pin?
Bankman: ...No. You'll have to wait for the new pin information.
Me: Why didn't I get it before now? They said they were sending it when they sent the new card.
Bankman: My records don't show the pin ever being sent.
Me: Oh...
Bankman: But your card is active now. Was there anything else I could help you with today ma'am?
Me: No... no. I don't think there is.

Comments

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

me!

Also, you can still use your debit card at some places without your PIN, if you choose the 'credit card' option. Then you can sign instead of entering a PIN.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

1)Got to know you through Morri, RP, etc...
2)Uhhh... 'Galileo' by the indigo Girls. There you go. I associate you with Dark City but I think that's just an RP connection...
3)How am I supposed to know these things? You come off as someone who should be boringly mundane, but somehow you're delightfully weird instead.
4)I think I read over some of your RP with Morri...
5)Gerbil, and guava because it also starts with g.
6)Are you orthodox jewish at all, or do you celebrate Christmas and stuff?
7)In return, you must post this in your lj. Don't have to...

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

2) That's one of my favorite Indigo Girls songs. :)
3) Ahahaha. I will take that as a compliment. I like being delightfully weird!
5) Always the gerbil. I like guavas. I think.
6) I'm not orthodox in the slightest. I'm not religious at all, actually, although I do identify as Jewish. But I don't celebrate Christmas. I mean, aside from getting Steven a christmas present.
7) I may, I may not. I suck at these memes. Coming up with songs and movies and blah blah blah is too hard.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

2) It's a good one. It was actually my old bf/fiance who got me hooked in Indigo Girls, which is awfully ironic since I left him for a girl...
3) I prefer weird people.
5) Gerbils are okay, I went through quite a few pairs of female gerbils, I think the last two were black. I really only remember the first pair because they were the ones I was most attached to.
6) Okay, just wondered. My friend Shiri amethystlight is Jewish, because her mother is, although I think her father was raised Catholic? Anyway, she celebrates Hanukkah and then Christmas... and she's always been kind about putting up with my religious ignorance.
7) No big deal. The song/movie one is hard, and how the hell do you come up with a random fact about somebody else?

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

2) That's funny! I think my favorite song of theirs is 'Ghost'
3) O RLY? I never would have guessed. ;)
5) Believe me, if I weren't allergic to cats, I'd get a cat. Gerbils are cute and entertaining, but they do not give back the love.
6) My parents are both Jewish, but they don't celebrate anything. They half-heartedly did the Hanukkah thing when I was a kid, then eventually gave up. I've inherited their lack of interest in decorating for holidays or doing much of anything (except Halloween). I don't mind any questions, though.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

2) I like that one...
5) I'm allergic to the cats, but not severely. Mostly I'm okay as long as I can keep Squeaks off my pillow.
6) I was raised by New-Agers, and we celebrated the usual American holidays in the non-religious fashion. Christmas tree and gifts, basket on Easter, that kind of stuff.
I made the horrific blunder once of talking to Shiri on the phone, and I said there didn't seem to be much of a Jewish influence in the little town where I lived, but I was looking through the phone book at the time, and went 'oh, but we do have Jewish churches! Who knew?' There was a pause, and she said, 'You mean synagogues?' And then I knew I'd effed up... but she just laughed.
You know, I think I probably just misspelled that, too.

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

5) I'm not as allergic as I used to be, but I'm asthmatic so I can't really take the chance. If I weren't asthmatic, I'd go to the shelter and adopt the sweetest, mushiest, most emotionally needy cat they had. :)
6) new-agers, like pagans? Did they participate in any religious stuff at all? I'm curious because I don't really know any pagans or new-agers. Everyone I know is either one of the big 5 religions or agnostic.
Also, LOL jewish churches. You spelled synagogue right. Sometimes synagogues are called temples, and some churches can be temples. I have the opposite problem, where I just assume everyone is familiar with Judaism and I don't explain things as much as I should.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

5) Oh, now see, asthma's a whole different story. Yeah, you don't mess around with that. There's part of me that's saying 'adopt a hairless cat'. Man those things are hideous, they probably need some serious love. On the other hand I bet they're hard to take care of and don't generally wind up at the pound.
6) No, paganism is a distinct religion. New Agers are those people who are curious about all religions and absorb little bits of Buddhism and paganism and whatever else and come to beliefs that defy definition.
My mother, for example, feels that Buddha and Jesus are the same soul reincarnated. Among other things.
My father is converting to Buddhism, or some modern version thereof.
They had friends who were priests of Eckankar, which I'll leave you to look up for yourself. Google 'Eck' or 'Harold Klemp'. No, it's totally not a cult. I actually considered myself an Eckist, briefly.
Basically I grew up with a firm grounding in reincarnation, meditation, past life memory, channeling, knowledge of chakras, the healing power of crystals, etc. Some of it I believe because it never occurred to me not to when I was younger, and I've had experiences I can't explain any other way. I don't want to freak you out so I won't elaborate unless you ask. On the other hand, some of the stuff I encountered in New-Ageism is so wishy washy and bizarre that even as a kid I couldn't see how there are people who can believe it with a straight face. I would not say that I am a follower of any particular religion, myself, but I'm not sure what I am.

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

5) I've heard that the hairless cats are kind of greasy. I don't think they're ugly, but I'd rather have a furry cat to snorgle. :)
6) Thanks for explaining the difference between pagan and new-age. I get annoyed when people mock reincarnation, because how is reincarnation any less believable than a virgin giving birth or any of the hundreds of 'miracles' that Christians believe in?
I respect that people can have very strong experiences in the realm of religion/spirituality. You can certainly tell me yours, if you ever feel like it. Sometimes I wish I've had my own experiences, but I'm not a very spiritual person. The closest that I get to a spiritual experience is either with music or being in nature.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

5) Uh... ew. The only reason I thought of it at all is because I once drew... an abomination which DA is being too glitchy for me to link you to right now. It's Spunky the Hairless Cat! Many people claim he is obscene, which I don't get. I mean, come on, he's got his hands over stuff.
6) I try not to knock anything. My stance is that we don't any of us know anything about god or the gods or whatever for sure, and anyone who insists they know for certain is only fooling themselves. It's not our position to know. It is a good thing to ask, and wonder, and search and all that, and you can come to what you do and don't believe, but you should always be willing to accept that your beliefs might not be the ultimate truth.
I've had really a lot of 'spiritual' experiences, so much and from such an early age that they don't hold any real mystery to me. I... see ghosts. I went to talk with some a couple weeks ago. Things that I see talked about in hushed voices on TV or by more normal people is just commonplace to me. I don't know what to think or feel about that...

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

5)Haha, yeah. They also need special care for their skin.

If you want to talk about obscene, ever see a hairless male rat? Male rats already have everything hanging out, but without hair they might as well have a giant neon sign pointing to their behinds.

6)Wow. I know other people who've said they've seen ghosts. I don't really have anything to add, but I wanted to respond so you didn't think I thought you were a freak. :)

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Okay, today DA likes me. Heeeeere's Spunky! (http://reymonkey.deviantart.com/art/Spunky-56548214) See, totally not that obscene. I knew a hairless rat once, named Raisinhead, who bit me, but it must've been female because I don't remember it being obscene. But man, those male teddybear hamsters are loaded. Bleargh.

Seen, heard, but am not spooked. I guess what I was trying to get across is that my approach to this stuff is so different from what I guess is normal. Buuuut I have a separate journal for that. I am a freak, but I'm okay with that.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

D'oh. And I meant to re to the other part. Yes, I can, but it's a pain in the ass, and it still nixes the whole atm thing. I'm just basically annoyed and venting. It doesn't bode well that they didn't automatically send me something to tell me the information they changed, especially when they told me in person they would.

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

No, I understand, I was just mentioning it in case you didn't know. The situation sucks.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I could've pointed out that part, but... :P Grrrr bank.