So no updates as of such (though my nano story is now over 27,000 words) however I have been going around the site fixing htis and that. Some broken links and typos, that kind of stuff.

I've also (finally) re organised the icon textures page. It's still not great, but at least you don't have to look at 50 sets of icon textures on one page.

I will also be reorganising the textures pages, with much bigger previews (think they're around 200x150 or something) and then having fewer previews on each page. But that is going to take a while, I have so many textures on the site and making new previews for each and every one of them is incredibly boring, but I'm getting it done, slowly but surely.

There will also be a new layout coming soon. I may have uh... bribed one of online friends lmfao, and he's done the coding for me and just left a gap for me to add my header image. So that should be up sooooon.

So all in all, nothing very exciting to tell you about. I promise come December you will be showered with new textures and tutorials ;)

Oh and hostees: I may be pretty relaxed with my 'get the site up in one week' rule, but two of you still haven't opened and it's been a good few weeks. Email me if you have a reason, otherwise get working ^^

Anddd to people who have applied for affiliates, I'm not ignoring you. Gonna sort it all out in a couple of days, so thanks for being patient =)

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So I'm still way behind on my nanowrimo story but I have finally hit the half way mark of 25,000 words. Hopefully I'll catch up a bit more tomorrow.

Regarding the site I really need a new layout and there's a bunch of stuff I want to re-organise, but I can't see that happening until December now. All of my creative energy (of which I have very little) is getting focussed on my nano story. It's been killing me but now I've reached the half way mark I'm feeling a lot more positive. Of course that will make it so much worse if I don't finish it now, and while I give up on a lot of things, I don't think I will give up on this now (even though I have the past two years) Even if it means I'm writing up until the very last second on the 30th November I'm gonna do it xD

I've had my parents complaining about my lack of effort into sorting out my future all day. Currently I just work 11 hours a week at an after school club and they want me to get a full time job, not that I blame them. They've also been making me pay rent, and again I don't really blame them. But as well as looking for a job with more hours I'm supposed to be working out what I'm going to do with my future, but I can't decide. I can think of a bunch of things I don't want to do (nursing being right on the top of that list, I really don't regret quitting the course) but I can't think what I do want to do.

I'm contemplating going into working with children, but that will require me going to college and getting some qualifications, and I'm not sure I really want to rush into education again, though if I want a vaguely decent job at some point in my life I'm going to have to.

But my parents keep going on at me and that's stressing me out. You know you get some people who are great with stress? They accept that they're stressed and then they make moves to sort out the problem that is stressing them and get rid of the stress quickly and healthily? Yeah, I'm not one of those people.

When I get stressed I do one of two things. The first is that I tend to stop eating. And before anyone says it I'm not anorexic, I'm well aware I'm underweight and I don't think I'm fat etc. It's just may way of dealing with stress, I know it's irrational but that's what I do. Or if I don't do that, the other thing I tend to do is smoke. Again not good for me at all, but personally I think the smoking is better for me than when I stop eating, so that's what I'm doing at the moment.

I bought my first pack of cigarettes today in months. I stopped smoking when I moved back in with my parents because they'd kill me if they found out and I'd managed to avoid the temptation these past couple of months and then today I was just like fuck it, I'm buying some. I only got a pack of 10 though, I smoke fewer when I buy a smaller pack.

And I just want to make clear that I'm not condoning smoking or eating disorder behaviour, neither are healthy and both are very bad health-wise.

So what do you do when you're stressed? I really need to find something I can do that's not going to be detrimental to my health and yet I can't help it.

And this is probably why I never blog about my life. And why I probably never should blog about my life. I don't have fun little stories, just a big pile of problems =/

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It's the 15th November, half way through the month. And therefore half way through nanowrimo. So At this point I should be at 25,000 words. I've only just passed 14,000 words. I still really want to reach 50,000 by the end of the month though so hopefully I'll find some way to catch up.

Because of that there's no update today and updates for the rest of the month are going to be far and few between I'm afraid, I'll try my best though =)

Meanwhile why don't you check out Shoot The Moon, it's the site Alice has just opened up and it has some gorgeous icons <3



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Pale green = reached the word count for that day
Pale red = didn't reach the word count for that day (basically all of them)
Bright green = did particularly well that day
Bright red = did particularly badly that day

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Ok so I've added a new section to the textures, which is basically a place for textures that aren't 800x600, 1024x768 or 1440x900. Because if I kept creating new sections every time I had a new sized texture things were going to start getting a little ridiculous xD

I've also added a new section to the tutorials, the imagiantively titled 'Other Tutorials' for things I'm only planning onw riting one or two tutorials on so it seemed a waste of space to create a whole new tutorial for. So far it's pretty empty with just the one tutorial. It's a large pixelling tutorial and the pixel took me almost two hours to make so hopefully you'll appreciate it =) I've actually pixelled the same image before but hadn't saved it as a PSD so couldn't get the screencaps for it, so I did it again from scratch ^^

I've also scrapped the image previews for the different sections within tutorials, they didn't look very nice and a text link works just as well.

Stil haven't re-organised the icon textures section, sorry about that, I will get around to it eventually. Same goes for the domain contest, but it is coming soon ^^

I got paid today and depending on how long I'm out shopping tomorrow I may or may not squeeze in a small update.

I'm still addicted to Poupee Girl, I'm wasting so much time on it -.- But I have been doing more productive things as well, and I've almost reached 9000 words on my nanowrimo story. I should have more words than that at the moment, but I'm blaming it on Poupee Girl xD

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Sorry I didn't update as promised yesterday. It's that Poupee girl, it's ridiculously addictive o.0

However, I promise to update on Saturday and in that update I'll be listing the details for the start of the domain and hosting contest, so be sure to check it out xD

And there will also be a texture update on Saturday. I'm hoping that next week some time I'll have a tutorial update as well, I've not written any in a while.

I'm also looking for affiliates at the moment, I'm looking a little friendless at the moment ;)

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