A Good Idea

I'm making a paypal account.
Why?
I'm setting up a donation link on my graphics blog.
I was never ever planning on making money from my layouts, but almost every single person I've made something for has wanted to pay me. I always decline, but at this point it just seems like a good idea to set up the account.
That way it's not a set price. What would be the point? I could overcharge and then piss people off.
It's nicer to let anyone that wants to compensate me do so with however much they want.
And anyone that doesn't want to doesn't have to.
The link will probably be up by February, but it's optional and always will be.
Unless I wind up with like... 100 requests a day. Which I highly doubt.
I'll also have to start slowing down when school starts, but that's in about 3 weeks so I'm fine.

I get this kind of euphoric feeling when I click on a blog and BAM something I made is right there. It happens a lot now, because I'm slowly spreading through the people who's blogs I read. Eventually you will all be mine. MUAHAHAHA.

Oh, and I figured out what I'm doing for my 100th post giveaway. Trust me, it's a good prize.
And there's no way you could be allergic to it.
Or decide not to use it.
And you won't gain an ounce from it.
It's something EVERYONE would like.

Right now I've got 3 orders sitting in my inbox waiting to be created.
And I'm sitting here in my underwear being lazy and not working on them. I guarantee they'll be finished by tonight, I'm just trying to relax because I'm tired.
I went for a bike ride because my saddle bags are coming back. My bad for constantly sitting on my ass.
Anyway, keep on sending clients my way. I feel important, woo!
And keep on keepin' on. I love you guys, you've made me what I am today: A developing successful blog and business.

"Oops"

I ripped my joker poster.

"Oops"

I say it in quotes because I don't really care.
That thing gave me the heebie jeebies.
At least now in the new house I won't need to put it up.

My room is pretty much stripped of everything now.
Somehow I managed to make 4 more layouts while packing.
Not inbetween, while.
I would stop, put some touches on it, pack something, etc. etc.
Drew kept saying "You don't have to get them done that fast."
But I feel like I owe it to you guys. Right now I'm going to start another one after I get some coffee and finish packing my books.

My xbox gets to stay out until moving day because we're packing up our DVD player and other electronics. The xbox will be our entertainment hub.
See? It's useful for the whole family!
Although it froze three times last night and left me screaming at it.
You win some you lose some.

I won this one because the xbox can't scream back.
Lee = 1 Xbox = 0
It can make a really loud whirring sound. But I count that more as purring and letting me know that it loves me.
Unlike my damn cat who never purrs for me.
Here's an example:

She doesn't purr. She yowls because she's a demon kitty.
Anyway, I'll leave you with that because I need to get back to packing. I love you all!

Read this and then... read the other post. But I had to say...

WE GOT A HOUSE AND I AM SO EXCITEDTHAT IS ME RIGHT NOW
I'M CUTE AND HAPPY AND HOMYGOD I'M EXCITED.

I don't usually do two posts in one day, but you know... sort of big development there.
Different story if I like... found a raisin in my raisin bran.
"HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS, THIS ONE WAS EXTRA WRINKLY."

We walked in, looked around, and went "Yep, let's get this one."
It was spotless. So spotless it looked like a hospital.
Not in the eery "People die here" sort of way.
But in the "Don't touch anything because you aren't sterile and you'll germ up the place" sort of way.

And the place has a little empty garden patch out back with peach trees and grape vines and there was one other fruit but I'm blanking on the name.
I'm going to plant pretty flowers in the two empty patches.

The only downside is that the WHOLE HOUSE has tile floors.
Whole house, you say? At least you can go to the bedroom and let your feet sink into some fluffy carpet.
WRONG.
Tile.
Everywhere.

My feet were so cold. They were screaming to be wrapped in socks. Even with socks the cold just seeped through.
My feet were cold with shoes on, that's how bad it is.


Anywaaaay, now I'm working on layouts.
Or I would be, but no one else has ordered. I was rolling in orders, and now nothing.
What the frig man, what the frig.

But I am beginning to spread, which is quite refreshing.
Like a virus.
Zombies.
AHHH.

Just thought I'd share that exciting news with you guys. Will definitely show you pics of the new house and moving day.

A Miracle... I hope

So that house we went to check out was horrible.
Dog crap everywhere, a kiddie pool full of green water, and other such disgusting finds.

So I went online yesterday and looked through the millions of pages of houses.
Okay I lied, with our criteria it was about 20 pages. But still.

We want a one story for $1300 a month or less in a good neighborhood.
Well, I found a one story 1700 sq. ft. for $1150 a month a couple miles from where we live now.
It's in a gated community and we're going to see it in about an hour and a half.
For once I actually have high hopes for this one. We've seen pictures and guess what? The kitchen has an island!
A small island, but nonetheless an island!
We need to be out by the end of the month, and this one's ready for move-in. So I've got my fingers crossed.

Oh, my mom bought me some jewelry today. I got a blue opal ring. It was 150 dollars but it was on 50% off. I've always liked opals, and I've always wanted an opal ring of my own.

Oh, oh me and Drew played fable last night and it was funny.
He took me into his world (each person has their own world. they're all set up the same, but how the characters view you in each world is different)
Anyway anything that I do in his world reflects on him, not on me.
So I walked into town and PULLED OUT MY GIANT HAMMER AND WATCHED THE CITIZENS FLEE MUAHAHAHA.
So in essence I made his world hate him.
It was an accident the second time.
We started a quest and I hit a button and accidentally blew out someone's window with the lightning. I didn't think they cared. But then I walked into the house and they started shooting at me.
So I PULLED OUT MY GIANT HAMMER AND BEAT THEM TO DEATH.
That didn't reflect well on him.
They shouldn't have shot me.
It's their own fault.
I tried dancing first to make them laugh, but they shot me while I danced and that just isn't nice.
It was just a stupid window.

I've been working more on my graphics venture. People told me that I should put a link for people to give me tips, but honestly I don't know what a tip could be. I don't have an account to wire money into or anything, haha.
You can always send me pretty things. Someone offered to send me candy, another offered some undisclosed item to be revealed at a later date.
Revealed to me because I don't even know what it is.
But I'm not doing this for tips or anything. I just enjoy making graphics. I'm going to make myself a new layout soon since mine looks plain compared to the ones I've recently made.

So I'll tell you guys how this next house goes. Hopefully not like the last one!
Ciao!

An Award and Other Things

Lana over at The Kids Did WHAT?! (who's blog looks pretty nice, don't you think? *cough shameless plug*) has tagged me for the Lemonade Award! Woo!
Sadly I don't deserve it. I'm so busy fixing layouts that I made that I don't think I have the brainpower to link to 10 people. I'll probably come back and do it later tonight.
So for that very reason, anyone that comments on this post deserves the award. Why? Because I love comments. They stroke my ego.
Here's how the award works for those of you that don't cheat like me:
Rules:
First, you should give link love to the person who gave you the award. Secondly, nominate ten of your favorite bloggers to receive the Lemonade Award!

Thank you so much for the award Lana. :) It makes me feel quite squiggly inside.

Since opening my "shop" I've done 3 full layouts, 1 plain background, and 3 backgrounds that will go in my premade section whenever I get around to it.
I'm going to get at least 10 backgrounds made for the premade section before I start the section.
I also need to ask some people how to get links at the top of my page.
Case in point Stesha's blog.
She has links at the top of her page, I want them. The end.

It's kind of funny. While making layouts for people I realized that my range is a lot farther than I thought.
I made this fairy layout for Sheri that I absolutely adore. Except the current banner. I sent her a new one that fits, and when she puts it up I'm sure I'll completely love it.
Not like that's her fault. I'm just stupid and forgot that not everyone uses the simple blog layout. I have to learn to adapt.

I also learned how to make animated banners. I can also make animated backgrounds, but no one's asked for them. I've been making everyone's banner animated just because I can and it adds a little flair to the layout.

I was playing with my paint shop last night and made a really cool background without any brushes.
Actually I made two, and those two are the premade ones. I almost stole one of them for myself, but I was like noooo.
Because that would mean I'd be 1 short towards my goal of 10, and it's not worth it. I can just make myself a new one.

So overall I've had really good feedback on my stuff. Now I need to start to spread. Like a virus. Like a zombie virus.
Oh god let the nightmares stop.

Everyone send your friends my way, because you love me. Right?
Right?

When I woke up this morning the first thing I did was fix Sheri's banner, which was funny. My hands were shaking because I wasn't fully awake. It took me like 30 minutes to align things because I kept flicking the mouse a little too far.
Then I took a shower, and now I'm here. With a towel on my head.
We're going to look at a new house today. Our landlord is evicting us because he can't afford to pay the mortgage anymore.
Don't feel sorry for him. He owns like 7 other properties and in essence is screwing us over.
Luckily we found a house one neighborhood over that sounds promising.
Clue 1: The owner and his wife love cats/We have Tiffany
Clue 2: The street name is spanish themed/My mom loves spanish things
Clue 3: It's one neighborhood over, as I mentioned

So wish us luck in that venture. We're hoping to be out of here by the end of the month.

I think I'm going to somehow manage to do a giveaway at 100 posts, and maybe do a graphics shop giveaway after a certain number of "customers".
You know I did the math last night, and if I were charging for my graphics, even just 5 dollars a layout, I'd already have 20 bucks.
But I don't really believe in charging for that, since I didn't make the brushes. I just put the brushes to use and molded the layout.
Which actually takes a lot of time. The brushes are more like a tool in everything, you know? They aren't the whole piece.
I could charge for the time, but I still don't think that'd be right. I'll get spread around more if I do it for free.
And you guys know how I love being spread around. Like a virus. ZOMBIES OH GOD. *cowers*

I don't know what I should give away though. I'll figure something out. I'm crafty.

I think I need to go for now. I need to eat and work on more premade backgrounds.
Remember, for the best graphics for free, always come to Lee!

Holy crap that rhymes.
That's it, that's my new catch-phrase.
I'm coining it.

Another post... but this one's important

I started another blog.
This one is dedicated to free layouts.
Why? I figured it was the best way to get people to ask for them.
So I introduce to you Lee's Free Custom Blog Layouts.
Yeah, I also learned how to do animated buttons.
That's pretty exciting news.
So now you guys have to ask me to do something, because I devoted a whole blog to it.
If you guys want you can use that button to link back to my graphics on your blog.

Trust me, I can do more backgrounds that just what I use. I just can't create my own graphic. (I can't draw.)

So go ahead, check it out. I worked hard on it and it's pretty and I want to be recognized and a go-to spot for people needing graphics!

And read my post before this. Since it's important, too. But I figured I'd let you guys know about my new graphics site thing.
Ciao!

(GO THERE)

Pardon My French

Joe is a shitty person.
There I said it, it's out in the open.

On Tuesday we made plans to go to the park, as you know.
He slept until 4, and then ditched me to go "beat someone up and then take some x."

Yeah, he does drugs too. That's great, right?
For whatever reason my mind is stupid enough to go "okay, then we'll hang out on Thursday."
He promised he wouldn't over sleep, and he said he wouldn't ditch me.
So at about 4:30 I finally get ahold of him. Says he has to drop someone off and then take a shower and then come over.
That was honestly the last I heard of him. Oh yes, I did try to get ahold of him again. But he never answered.
He read them, because my phone lets me know, but he didn't answer.
He full on ditched me this time. Didn't even bother to give me an excuse.

I am so, so, so sick of people that do this kind of thing to me. First Sandy, and then Joe.
Still haven't even heard from Sandy.

Shelby is blazing mad at Joe and wants to rip off his reproductive organ, but that would be useless.
He probably doesn't have one.
The only reason I'm able to write this blog without the fear of him reading it is because
A) He wouldn't know where to find it
B) He's probably too stoned out of his mind all of the time to even care about reading it. And if he did read it, he'd probably think it was about a different Joe.
Joe DiMaggio. Boy I hate that guy.Look at how smug he is. "Oooooh I'm Joe Dimaaaagio."

Anyway, yeah. So that's how my week has been going. I was going to confront Joe, but what's the point? If he was a jerk enough to completely screw me over yesterday, he wouldn't care if it hurt me.
I did show myself that I'm growing up, though. I didn't cry about it.
I got pissy and whined about it a bit, but I didn't cry. What's the point?
I've found that tears are like little capsules that hold the pain you feel. When you let the capsules out that are truly holding pain, you feel better in the end because your body is free of the toxic stress.
But when you cry over the small things, you're letting out empty capsules and in turn emptying your body of something that shouldn't have been removed in the first place.
You feel crappier after crying than you did before you started crying.

I think I'm done with boys for a while.
I've moved on.
I found the rodent of my dreams.He's cute AND he's a good kisser. *sigh*Yeah maybe I'm a little mental, shut up.

Anyway I've decided that I need to take a hiatus from playing Left 4 Dead. I've been having a lot of nightmares.
Or maybe not exactly nightmares, just dreams with zombies in them.
The one I'm coherent of happened right before I woke up this morning. I woke up about 5 times last night, but that's normal for me. And that's probably why I'm always exhausted.
But anyway, me and some other zombie killer were on a mission to go pick up this little girl at the end of the highway and bring her back to the safe room. We were told that there were other people along the highway that could be rescued and to save them if we could.
So we're walking down the highway, come across this guy with like 5 kids. I stuff them all in my stroller (yes I had a stroller) and then we keep going.
We find the little girl, start walking back, and then crap gets weird.
Zombies start chasing us hardcore. And we're blam blamming but I only have my stupid pistol so I'm having to shoot them in the head like 10 times.

I also had another dream where there was this couple who got infected and killed their own kids. I don't know. My dreams get pretty disturbing now. I blame video games.

I signed onto fable again. I'd stopped playing to let my real estate investments get me money.
I had 66,000 gold. And so I bought the tavern, because I'm awesome.
And because that means my BEER IS DISCOUNTED, YO.

I've had a lot of fun on Xbox LIVE. Met some cool people. It was actually great this one time. I didn't know which gun to get so this guy Joe (weird coincidence there) goes "Well do you want boom boom, blam blam, or ratatatat?"
I went with ratatatat. Just because that's awesome.
RATATATATATATATATATATATATA

Sorry I got excited.
Excited is an improvement over my previous attitude, so woo.
Here's my previous attitude:
I should go before I ramble myself off the deep end.
I love you guys mucho grande!
And a side of nachos.

OH WAIT A SECOND I'M ADDING SOMETHING HERE.
Craaaaaazy.
I just found out that this site charges 30 DOLLARS for custom headers.
I am seriously underpaid.
I will still do them for free though.
Just ask.
I'm grumbling to myself right now. Seriously, 30 dollars? It takes me 5 minutes in photoshop.
See? Watch this.Click it. It's big.
And it took me 5 minutes.
I can make anything. I made one for Angela using a background she got from that site.
So yeah... just ask if you want one.
They're free, because I love you all.
Or you could send me presents.
Because I love presents.

But they're free, really. And I can do just about anything.