Sonia's Journal

Just found this screenshot on my computer, I should have posted this up on the 5th November for Bonfire Night XD



Anyway, I had a great time hanging out on Midsummer Common with Nana and Chloe - the fairground rides and snacks were quite extortionate, so we decided to go on one ride, the biggest one XD It was the whirly super-tall blue neon one. And just as we paid for our tickets, the booth lady told her heavy to raise the price from £5 to £6 O_O;;

We grabbed some toffee apples, then Matthew found us and we made our way to the food stands to watch the fireworks. They were great, my neck was hurting by the end of it XD I love sparkly things.

Then as I bought myself some fried noodles, Laura bumped into us, so we all made our way to the Zebra, which was packed full. I swapped my half of IPA with Laura's pint of Wychfinder (yum) then after chatting very briefly with Andy, Carol and Bethany, we walked back to our respective houses.

Matthew: "So, do you remember how the rhyme goes?"
Me: "Remember, remember, the 5th of november.... BLOW UP PARLIAMENT!!!"
Matthew: "... *headdesk*"
Me: "But that's what's important, right? Ne? Ne?!"

Some quick sketchwork I did to use as our avatars on FFXI forums and sites etc.

We've been given a Sony Vaio A115S from Matt's mum as the hard drive was broken. After £30 and screwing around a little, it's happy and working! So - my household now has 5 computers: A shuttle, a vaio, an eeepc, an acer and a rizeon. What a happy little family! :3



I have named it Murasaki and it shall be my gaming station ^^

And the great thing about having an extra vaio laptop... means I CAN PLAY FFXI (and XIV when that comes out) ANYWHERE MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!

*giggles hysterically*

Double size inventory space FOR THE WIN!! FFXI farming will never be a problem agaaaaain ♥

Not only was cottage pie a success, but this morning at 4am, he got together with our linkshell group on Final Fantasy XI online (as our group ranges from Hawaii thru to Korea) and PWNED the Chains of Promathia boss, the Delver of the Crag of Mea. He's died twice before (along with everyone else, cos when the white mage dies, everybody dies), but this time the strategy was to take 3 summoners for massive spammage of Astral Flow (their 2 hr ability which makes their summons do ridiculous damage).

So well done, honey! I am so proud of you ♥

(CoP is a notoriously difficult mission, even for experienced players)

Hello my darlings!! I'm back and settled in my just-vacuumed living room. So, how was New York? ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!! Here follows my detailed report...



Please click on the above photo to be taken to my whole flickr set.
I am only using a selection for the write up below.


( My trip to New York and the New York Comic Con!! )

Rargh, long post was long! Hope you all enjoyed that write-up, I do try to bold the key words and break things up with photos to make it less boring for you all. Please remember that I only featured a selection of photos for the purposes of the write up, if you want to see ALL of my photos, click on the large photo at the beginning. But yeah - NY was fun, would  go back again and to be more random. And so, back to work. Ciao ♥

Just wanted to do a little shout out to all you peeps out there who are on Gaia Online (http://www.gaiaonline.com/). You see, Gaia has been my dirty little secret since July 2003 (only really dirty cos I shouldn't be playing around on Gaia when I do, but working XD)

My profile is here, I'm fyredrake: (http://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/25245)

I usually concentrate on pimping up my avi, playing the mini games and occasional chatting, but recently I've been on there a little more due to playing their new MMORPG, zOMG! - (http://www.gaiaonline.com/games/zomg)

If anyone is interested in teaming up with me to grind for orbs, let me know! I usually play quite late at night (GMT/UK time). I'm in the zOMG! Elite Clan.

And if you're just on Gaia, please friend me ^_^

(PS: The Grand Cosplay Ball was AWESOME - I will post about it properly once I've wound down and gotten some photos ^w^ )

Haha, I know, no fanart for ages and then a bunch of them recently. This was something I put together last week when I heard about the Street Fighter IV art contest. I kept it pretty simple 'cos I found out about it really late!



I don't think I'll get anywhere with this, but I just wanted to draw it for fun. ^w^ I love these characters, they're awesome. Although I was guessing for ages about which characters would be in the home version, and what variant of costume they'd be in.

Anyway, hope you like, a random bit of fun.

Aaaaaaand... back to work now XD

Totally pre-ordered:



(Gwendolyn from the game Odin Sphere)

Yes, surprisingly. Overworked, but still, somewhat happy.

Maybe it's cos I kicked the ass out of the scores of the previous owner of my second-hand DS game, Yoshi Touch & Go. IN YER FACE BIOTCH! XD

I'm visiting some relatives at the moment in Eastbourne, so I won't be able to check my email / forums too often. But I'll try any chance I get!

On another, I have just met an evil art deadline at 3am last night, so I am feeling very happy at the moment. Still have two BIIGGG deadlines to meet over the next month, but I'm under less pressure now.

On yet another random note, I'm thinking about blackberry picking next weekend with my colleagues. And making lots of jam. I'll have to check the weather to see whether Saturday or Sunday is better.... and send Matthew to stake it out (i.e. check to see if the secret place is still around... and secret)

Finally.... nintendo revolution looks really cool. I don't care what people say. It looks fun. And appeals to me becuase I wave the controller around anyway. And this time it would actually make a difference.