Love&Loath

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Let's set the record straight on this last one. EOI enemy0finfants claims in this post: http://enemy0finfants.livejournal.com/346115.html that I "stole her idea" for thigh high legwarmers. Well first of all I've been online friends with her for a while, and she's always been someone who I though was really cool. I even have her on my main friends filter because I enjoy her posts. Well she's been offline for a while due to not having much internet access, but tonight I come online to find her posting about me supposedly copying her idea and getting credit for something I don't deserve because all I want is notoriety. Well let's see here: she originally posted her idea and a photo of her wearing thigh high legwarmers she made in November 2007. Here's a post I made in January 2006: http://triplesix.livejournal.com/2006/01/28/ What's that I'm wearing? Yes, that would be a pair of black thigh high legwarmers, that I had custom made from shadowbunny.com. More than a year and a half before she "came up with the idea". I never wore them that much because the fur isn't nearly as nice as the fur from TB, and overall I just didnt like them that much. Anyway, obviously someone had already thought of it. ...and not just me, I have seen many people with them all across the internet for years now. Regardless of that, apparently she has not. Due to my recent postings about my suggestion to Tragic Beautiful, she assumed that I must have gotten the idea from her and decided to claim it as my own, which of course isn't true. I didn't invent furry legwarmers, nor have I ever claimed to. Yes, I have come up with a few different styles of them and suggested them for design & sale. That's all. I'm not making them personally or profitting from them. I wanted a pair of black and white striped thigh highs because I had not personally seen anyone else with them so I thought it would be something new. I came up with the idea one day when I started putting together and outfit (I take inspiration from myself as I start putting on clothing and looking in the mirror and adding to it until I have a full outfit) and I thought "how can I make this better" and the though popped in my head of over the knee style black and white legwarmers. The next time I was talking to Mel, I suggested the idea and showed her my drawing and thus they were born.

So obviously it was a misunderstanding on EOI's part, which is fine and understandable. What sucks about the situation is it just goes to show how quickly someone can turn on you. Making threats of "blowing it up into something too big for me to handle" (which by the way, pretty much is impossible seeing as how I'm the master of handling just about anything) and claiming that I only think about myself. It's just sad.

However since it was a misunderstanding, perhaps we can let it go. I already have. I'm just making a public statement to show that I've addressed the problem and to avoid any confusion on anybody's part and basically clear the air.

ANYHOW, the above image was a lot of fun to edit. One of my favorites to date. It's not perfect but after a while I got sick of editing and I figured it was good enough so there it is.

Video interview still in the process... had no idea it was going to be such a large project, fuck.

I bought a ridiculous bikini at a porn store earlier which may result in a "patriotic" photoshoot, but I don't know if I'll be able to fit it in my schedule for tomorrow. Speaking of that, I need to get to bed. I'm supposed to be viewing a parade at 10am, which is... 4 hours from now. There will be free candy, so that should cause me to drag myself out of bed in time to make it, haha...

FUCKIN' WEIRDO

I creep myself out.

( LEAH AND THERESA [+2] )

Came back home after that, only to discover that Jiggle Billy had left this world and was laying at the bottom of the tank with a perpetual fishy :O face and blank stare. I was very saddened by this event, he seemed to be doing quite fine just hours before as he was jiggling about all happy when I had fed him. It's actually kind of confusing as to why he went kaput. I know the water is fine because I just changed the filter last week, and he showed no signs of any diseases. I'm pretty good at keeping fish, I have a goldfish in a different tank (Lucy-Fur, that I talked a carnival game operator into giving to me without playing the game) that I've had for 4 years and she's fat and happy and quite well and I also had a salt water tank that was kept in very lively working condition until it became too overwhelming to take care of and I donated all the animals to a local salt water fish store. ...but alas, my Jigglebilly is departed, and is now buried (I can't flush my pets, just seems wrong to send them away by means of the shitter...) out underneath a tree in my backyard. At least he had a good 6 month life after he was rescued from Wal-Mart.

In other news, just as busy as ever working on projects. More work has been done to the hair site, but more work is still in the process. I pretty much have the actual fringe product page completely done and stocked which was the main focus and definitely the hardest part (taking pictures of all the hair pieces is such a pain in the ass), and I've been getting swamped with orders which is awesome. When I started selling the fringes I had no idea it would become so popular and now over a year later I can definitely say it's been a major success! Thanks to all of you who have purchased my product!

I have hundreds of photos to edit and resize, & more concepts for photoshoots I need to get done. I need to improve upon my photography skills as well as editing (a new computer would help this greatly) so I can vomit the ideas in my head properly into the world without them coming out half ass like usual. ...and modeling. UGH. I've been contacted by so many photographers wanting to work with me on Model Mayhem, but I have neglected my MM account for about 8 months now so I'm kind of just overwhelmed by all of that and need to start from scratch. I should really work on building a decent portfolio instead of a bunch of self taken shots of me looking like a retard or doing the same look all of the time. I need to make a bunch of banners & ads for Tragic Beautiful. I need to finish the first part of my video interview and get it posted so I can do the rest. I need to design flyers for promotion of my hair site, make new business cards, and get stickers made from the designs I asked for a while back. I need to redo the gallery on my myspace page because most of the photos in there are very old, and add all the stuff to the page that I've been meaning to do forever. ...and go through and delete the thousands messages I have built up in my inbox. I need to do some stickam shows. I need to be better at receiving and responding to text messages when they're actually sent, instead of seeing them 3 days later. I also have to completely prepare, organize and get everything ready, and promote and then host the massive garage sale that I'm having next weekend. That's enough work for 4 people right there. I need to work more on music. I need to finish getting the basement cleaned out so we can redo the floor and then I can begin building my studio. My online and offline to-do list is endless... I find it amazing sometimes that I manage to get all of this stuff done while maintaining a full time relationship & active social life/event attending, and still have time for myself to educate myself on things, pamper, relax, & sleep. Life is a whirlwind of too much to do with too little time.

Monday night Steph, Atom, and I went to Dante's for goth night, band (The Awakening), and burlesque extravaganza, 'twas a good time and photos are behind the cut:

( COME CLOSER SO I CAN SHOOT YOU [+21] )