I just deleted 350 spam comments that were in the moderate comments list. That is indeed a lot, and I really need to look into the plug-in that’s supposed to help stop part of that…

I finally made something in photoshop. It’s not really a “functional” piece in any sense of the word–not a wallpaper, banner, or icon-but it is pretty to look at. Ironically, it is a Danny/Mary piece, but I don’t have any Grey’s Anatomy caps made yet and I wasn’t in the mood to screencap.

My little piece of fanart.

According to Veronica, I’m behind on my New Year’s resolution to write more in my blog. I have a nice, long reflective-type post planned on my latest big purchase, but tonight I’m going to write about something else instead.

I seem to have lost my inspiration to make fanart in photoshop. I’ve been stressed out lately, and the last few days, I’ve been telling myself that I need to come up with an art project in photoshop to help unwind some. Tonight, I was thinking about it again, and I realized that I hadn’t made anything at all in photoshop since October. No wallpaper, no icons, no layouts, no banners–no nothing. I need to get over this rut I’m in and do something with that program I spent so much time learning.

So far, I’ve kind of been drawing a blank. My old usual inspiration was Danny and Mary on Las Vegas. However, I’m pretty much out of fanart fodder with them, and the current and upcoming goings-on with the show are completely non-inspirational.

Basically, I need some new inspiration for my fanart. I thought about Abby and Luka on ER, and while I love them, nothing has really compelled me to want to make fanart. There’s Josh and Donna from TWW, but they’ve been pretty extensively covered fanart wise by other people. (I know, I know–it’s not a prerequsite that other people haven’t made fanart, but still…) I’m pretty much totally and obsessively ’shipping Matt and Harriet on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Derek and Meredith on Grey’s Anatomy. I have no screencaps of either one right now, which I admit is a totally fixable situation. I have every single episode that has ever aired of both shows. The thought of doing the screencapping is kind of killing the idea of just jumping in with something though. What I think I really need to do is just pick a scene, make some caps, and just start working on something–maybe a wallpaper. I need a new one since the new laptop I got in November has a widescreen and all of my old wallpaper is not at a widescreen dimension size-wise…

I have been looking at some of my favorite tutorial sites again and have pulled some of my photoshop books off the shelf. Hopefully, this time next week, I’ll have some new fanart to show off. May the tv show episodes coming up this week provide inspiration and fanart fodder.

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to write more in my blog. I’m a bit behind getting started on it, as 10 days have already passed for this year. I suppose though it’s better late than never. On to the meaningless and pointless now…

I do not like coffee. More specifically, I don’t like the way it taste. I think it smells heavenly though. This is a fact that will not surprise 98% of the people that know me. In the past, I haven’t liked it in anything at all, but recently, I’ve encountered a couple of food items that I actually really liked despite the fact that they had some coffee in them. One was some chocolate and the other was this fabulous chocolate tiramisu dessert.

A very kind friend gave me the recipe for item #2, and I’m planning on making it here sometime in the very near future. When I was getting supplies to make it, I ended up getting a box of one of those instant coffee drinks since I don’t have a coffee maker and didn’t need a giant jar of instant coffee (and buying a cup of coffee when I get ready to make this seemed like sort of a pain in the rear). Since I’d enjoyed two things that had some coffee in them recently, after spending a life time absolutely not eating anything with coffee in it, I started wondering if perhaps maybe my taste had changed. It happened with coconut, so I surmised maybe it had with coffee too.

I got the little tin out of the pantry, opened it up, and it smelled wonderful. I mixed up a cup full. It still smelled really good. Then, I took a taste.

Nope, I still don’t like to drink coffee. I tried adding some splenda to it. I tried adding some hot chocolate mix to it, as someone suggested I might like coffee mixed with hot cocoa. Nothing did the trick. I apparently just don’t like coffee except for the two rare cases of See’s Mocha Coffee milk chocolate buttercream chocolates and easy chocolate tiramisu. That’s it.

It’s a great day to be a Democrat and a woman.