My wonderful ex-fellow hogwarts_elite badger talumin had a really nice surprise waiting for me on my f-list this morning. It's a drawble to the prompts of tennis, Supernatural and juggling I gave him quite a while ago.

( cut for those who don't want to see the pretty )

If you like his style (what's there not to like?), go check out his (obviously more detailed) web comic Eat Me! Great sense of humour, at least I think so.

After more than 4 months (oops), I have a new icon post up at puericons.

[01-20] dollhouse_lims entries/alternates
[21-60] supernatur_lims & deanlims entries/alternates

Preview:


Go here if you want to take a look.


Interview meme:

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) in your journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. This is the meme that never ends.

vaguelyclear asked me the following:

1. What do you like most about Psychology?
2. Favourite colour?
3. If you had to learn another language, which would you choose and why?
4. What's an icon trend or technique that you absolutely hate?
5. Do you have a favourite painter or painting? If so, who/what is it?

( answers here )

comedychick asked me the following:

1. What was your favourite cartoon growing up?
2. If you could choose any animal for a pet and not worry about cost to look after it/whether it was dangerous and could kill you, what would you choose and why?
3. Do you collect anything? If so, what?
4. If a movie were to be made about your life, who would you want to play you and, presuming it is made later in your life and you've had/are in a long term relationship, who would you want to play your leading man?
5. If you won a prize of a holiday cruise and could take 5 people with you from anywhere in the world, where would you want the cruise to go, and who would you choose to take with you?

( answers here )


kutiechick asked me the following:

1. I read on your journal that you started playing tennis late -- what made you pick up that racket? It sounds like it's a huge passion of yours...what drew you to it?
2. You have a lot of kick-ass icons! If you could only use 5 of them, which would you pick/why?
3. If you had a night alone, all to yourself -- what would you do & what would you have for dinner?
4. If you could talk to the person you were 5 years ago, what advice would you give?
5. What is your dream job? Where are you living and what are you doing?

( answers here )


I don't get comment notifications at the moment, it drives me nuts. Let me know in case I don't answer something you'd expect me to.

The results of the what element fits me best poll are interesting, thanks for filling it out. Since my zodiac sign is sagittarius, fire is actually my element, but I feel more like an earth person. Sometimes air, water not so much.

Those of you following me on twitter might already know, my team lost the match last Sunday, which means we'll have to keep playing in the lowest division next year :( We knew it'd be a hard match, but we didn't really have a chance at all. To make that already bad day worse I tripped over my own feet during the doubles and fell right on my knee, which promptly proceeded to grow a size or two and turn blue. It's just a contusion, no real damage to the ligaments, thankfully. But still, it was a sucktastic day.

And now for some pimping:
Session 6 at ncis_lims is about to start, go sign up here.
Session 2 ar dean_lims is about to start, go sign up here.

I don't really know why it takes me so long to update my journal again these days. Guess I just don't feel like journaling, summer is just busy enough as it is ;)

I finished coding my first layout for lj! It's flexible squares and fairly basic, but I'm actually quite happy with how it turned out. Except for the part where the top navigation (recent entries, archive, etc.) is not where it is supposed to be once you look at it in Firefox instead of IE. Weird. Any ideas how to fix that?
My creation will be shared once the contest it's for is over. It's so much fun, I can't wait to figure out how to make really pretty and a bit more complicated layouts.

What else? I played what was probably my best tennis match ever on Saturday. I absolutely love winning matches I never thought I could win! And since it was the finale of a tournament at my club that meant we had a couple of people who watched our match. All in all about 25, I think. And since my opponent was not a member of our club, almost all of them cheered for me. It was amazing! The other player was really nice, too, and it's great, since she lives rather close we'll keep playing every now and then. :D

I have had Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time" stuck in my head for hours now. I love that song.

And a poll for your entertainment and my curiosity.

Poll #1416645 Elements
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which element fits me best?

Feel free to elaborate on reasons in the comments if you want to.

That desktop meme that's been going around my flist lately:

Rules
01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!



Made by clubinthesky. Click for full size.

I love wallpapers with lots of negative space. I love dark wallpapers. I love the blending in this one. I love Supernatural and I like to at least look at the boys every now and then during the show's hiatus. I can't describe my taste in 5 sentences, lol.


And a question for the somewhat layout-savvy among my friends, I think at least vaguelyclear and/or guad might be able to help.
When we had layout contests at HE, I remember talk of some sort of premade templates (?) you were allowed use, especially if you were not a layout genius. I can't find a link to anything like that or those HE/LB posts. Does anyone of you know what I'm talking about? If not, those of you who make layouts, how do you start going about it? How do you know what sections you need, etc.? Any help would be appreciated.