MOVING

Alright, for fun, I decided to check out Weebly to see whether it might help me make this blog look like I want it to look. And after a bit of fumbling about, I realized it's just perfect. So I'm joining the masses and moving my blog over there as well.

The blog is moooving!

From now on, you can find all my ramblings and all the info about my characters here. It's still not finished and there's lots of tweaks to be done (and I'll possibly re-do all the bios too once I get around to it) but it still looks a lot better than this one here.

Love,
M

CIA

Oh wow. I never realized just how off I've been lately. Last week Nika's single made it to the TOP-40 radio charts and it took me a week and a half to notice. Ffs!

And here I was thinking of finding her a band mate and starting from scratch because she seems to move nowhere.. She's been stuck doing incredible/perfect gigs forever now. Not to even mention it's a bitch to try and work on a repertoire when there's just one person in charge of composing the songs..

Maybe a band mate wouldn't be such a bad idea after all...


PS: It's my day off, expect me to reply to all the unanswered messages that've piled up. I just need to wake up first..

...

Five hours later: I'm so proud of myself! I'm all caught up on Izzie, Hazel AND Nera. Now only Nicky left and I've actually done everything I set out to do today.

...

Oh my. I did it. I have absolutely no unanswered messages left. Hoooly crap. Now it's time to focus on the new site/blog/thingy. If I'll someday get it at least to a decent shape and have it released to the roaring public. Heh.

Tiiiired

I think I got two hours of sleep last night, and I just finished a 11-hour shift at work. As much fun as RPing is, I think I'm going to pass out in 3... 2... 1.... ZzzZz....

Hahaha

Wow. Lol. Izzie sure can get into trouble without even trying...

Nicky

Today is Focus on Nicky Day. Lately I've not been too fond of... FoND? Lol.

Nicky's been inactive for so long it's hard to get back to RPing him. I've had these short active spells in the past few years but nothing too extravagant since his early twenties. I've revamped his character a little from his early twenties, so it's not like I'm going right back into the goof ball he was back then.

I've been using this one character development sheet thingy as I finally jot down things about Nicky that's made me love RPing him in the past. Most of it is obviously stuff that rarely comes up in RP, but I'm hoping that by finally writing this down, it'll be much easier to reply to his messages.. I need to find a way to reconnect with my beloved puppet.

I know I've been ignoring his RP parters for way too long now. One reply a month or even one every two weeks is just not an acceptable pace when I'm responding to some of my other character's pms pretty much on a daily basis.

So instead of deciding to kill Nicky off too (which I'm sure would just kill me), I need to put in the effort and find a way to RP him.

I'll try and focus solely on him today, as he certainly deserves it, but I might respond to the odd message here and there on the rest of my lot too.

Toodles!

Danko Jones is my go-to music whenever I'm trying to RP Nicky. It just fits him perfectly..

Catching up? Hopefully!

Oh my. I'm actually tempted to ditch this blog here and start it all over again like she did. Her new site looks uh-maaazing.

I shouldn't, though. I've had this one forever now and I'm still not finished! Can't even imagine how long it would take if I had to re-write everything..

Oh well. It's my first day off in a week, I just finally finished my exams last night.. It's time to catch up with my RP! I've barely touched me character's inboxes since I've been back at work. Only some of Izzie's have been answered and it's now time to focus on the rest of my lot too.

I'm really starting to wonder.. 

Grr.

Why, oh why is it that Zombie Day always falls on a day when I'm supposed to not even touch my laptop. Grr.

Slow/off

Alright, it's time to stop playing around. I have exams Monday and Tuesday evening and all the free time I have from work should go into studying. For real! Keep sending me RP, though, I love having new things to read during my breaks and such! Besides, even when I AM slow, I get these "the hell with it, I'll reply to this right away" kind of moments from time to time..

Anyway. The point was that I'll be slow/off till Wednesday.

Tired beyond belief

I never thought being back at work would be this exhausting.. The work part itself is fine. Sort of. A little painful, sure, but that I can manage. What'll most likely kill me thought is the tiredness that hits the second I sit behind the wheel and head home from work. For example, today I almost rear-ended some Volvo because I was too tired to focus 100% on the driving.. Now I just want to fall into bed (check) and fall asleep (not happening, I need to study).

So pardonnez-moi, it might take a while for me to get used to this again. And I'll definitely be slower untill Wednesday due to some exams. After that it'll hopefully get better.

Keep your fingers crossed for me, eh? I would like to make it through the next few days alive!

M

EDIT: Perrrrrrrrkele.

Baby fever!

Damn this popo baby fever.. I WANT BABIES.

And the energy to RP more actively. But mostly just the babies.

And perhaps something to eat. But still mostly just babies.


PS: Soooooorry about all the unanswered messages. I'm back at work after four-ish weeks of lazing about the house and I couldn't be more exhausted..

Still thinking of babies, though. Babies, babies, babies.

Catching up

Not to put a damper on the oh-so-dramatic news of the last post, but.. I think I've now replied to every single unanswered pm I had waiting in Izzie's inbox. And a few new ones too! I blame you.

If there's something I missed or you feel like I owe you a new scene, hit me on the head with a saucepan, will you? Or at least hit me with a message and I'll get back to you! Or if there's anyone out there looking for more RP, Izzie could always use new friends!

OK. Time to focus on the rest of the lot.

Crap.

..and she's gone

Y6D49 - Y65D22

It certainly felt like an end of an era when I logged in after waking up from my nap today and noticed my character selection page was missing the root of all that's happened since I first came across Pop(o)mundo.

Nakisha finally died.

I've been so distracted during the past week that I even forgot to pay attention! I'd be lying if I said wasn't surprised when I noticed Naki was gone.. Apart from feeling sad, I'm sort of proud of myself now. After six years of RPing I actually managed to let my very first character go and not swoop in at the last moment to save her. It was her time to go! And now my reckless yet eventually grown up redhead is reunited with her soulmate.

When I first registered, I remember picking the youngest character possible. And despite her name being Nakisha, I decided to make her a sickly pale, fiery redhead. Phah. Anyway.. She's still the quirky start to my very quirky journey in the world of RP. I know I've almost given up several times before and I pretty much missed her mid/late 20s and early 30s, something always kept me from letting my precious puppets from dying.

It's almost devastating to think that she's now leaving behind the love of her life (and they didn't even get to celebrate their 20th anniversary! hmpf), five kids and six grandkids.. But seeing how I've lost the ability to connect with her and the RP, it was for the best. Now I can divert my focus to her offspring.

Probably my all time favourite of hers. I think I used this for a long time in her mid/late 30s

Errr, potatoes?

OK, after a few days away from the laptop, it's finally time for me to start catching up and replying to all the RP. I hate it when the massage pile up like this, so I just have to dive in and start from somewhere. A few days without replying to a single PM and I already feel like I'm losing my touch.

I once read somewhere that if you have a ton of shit to do, look at it as if you're peeling an enormous pile of potatoes.. You can never finish your task if you try doing them all at once. One potato at a time! .....or something.

Honestly, I feel like my brain is mash (omgseewhatIdidthereyayforpotatopuns). Expect very lousy replies unless I manage to get my act together and stop this aimless rambling..

PS: I guess I made it. LOL, I love this.

Why can't there be a better picture of these two together?

OFF

Off yesterday, off today, most likely off tomorrow and on Sunday as well.

Send me lots of RP, my wrist should be better after the weekend.

Cheerio!

PS. I'm partly away just because that State: Dying is up there on Naki's page. It bothers me..

Made me laugh. :D

Moarrr RP

Oh how I want to ask for more narrative RP for all my characters.. I do, I do! Even if I still have some left to resply to (especially on Nicky as I'm still having trouble writing him). I know, or at least know of, a lot of great narrative RPers and I still haven't found a way to bring some of our characters together. Which truly is a shame..

In addition, I think my wrist is pissed at me. I decided to fuck it last night and responded to some of my pms while idly following the US election via some lousy CNN live feed. And now it's hurting more than it did last night. Strangely it doesn't hurt while I type, though, so I'm not quite sure what's going on or what exactly it is that caused this..

Oh well.

Here goes nothing..

Alright, I'm finally doing it. I'm letting Naki go..

Got to say I'm feeling relieved. And slightly panicked. And sad. Definitely sad. But it's her time to go. It's time to let go of all the stress and make room in my head for new RP. And perhaps new character..

DAMN BABY FEVER!

LOOK, left hand only!

"You might feel some mild discomfort in your wrist tomorrow --"

Mild discomfort my ass.

Drama queen?

The doctor/hand surgeon/specialist forbade me to put any strain on my wrist for the next day or two (or until my wrist feels better, which might not be till the weekend). Writing with my left hand only is just too difficult (and so not worth it) so don't expect to hear from me for a few days.

As for the doctor himself.. Holy crap I've never felt like a 5yo drama queen before.. The guy was so frightening I was scared I might start crying. He stuck a few cortisone shots on my wrist after assaulting me and told me to be nice or else it's all in vain.

 "When you sit on your ass, doing absolutely nothing, and you still  feel like howling, that's only when it's actual pain."

Thanks for the info, doc.

xoxo,
Meja, scarred for life

PS.  My hand is numb and surprisingly it still hurts like crap. I hope this is worth it....

PPS:  I'm starting to think I  have a very low pain threshold. Grr.

I only have to wonder..

...why all my younger (teenage...ish) characters are so anti-kids when all I can think about is making more babies?

IT'S AN ILLNESS, I TELL YOU.

Check Up Sunday

It's Sunday! Whoop! It's 10am, I'm awake and not even hungover. Which is certainly something! But I'm also wailing and howling and trying to chop my arm off just so I'd have something to whack myself in the head with. I find that if I take the laptop to bed with me and lay down, I manage to write without feeling too.. uncomfortable. But even that seems to work for short periods at a time. Oh well.

Anyway. Last weekend I wrote a check list for this week!

☑ Finish the final task for Nakisha and fly her to NYC.
☐  Finally start downsizing my herd of characters (aka kill off Naki) (fat chance!)
☑  Figure out a way to RP it. Don't get too emotional, you loony. (Solution = I won't RP it at all)
☐  Try and figure out what to do with Nika.
☑  Reply to all my PMs...
☑  ....including Nicky's. (Well there are new ones waiting now, but at least I made some effort..)

...

OK, next week!

☐ Seriously, stop putting off killing Naki!
☐ Put more effort into RPing Nicky. Try for duck's sake!
☐ Get moarrrr RP for Hazel.
☐ Figure something out to keep Izzie interesting while she's gone.
☐ See if there's something to do with Noah. Or Eden.
☐ Get over the popobabyfever!

Honestly.. Never have I ever found a song that fits Hazel this.. perfectly!

I can rip you off, and steal all your cash

suckerpunch you in the face, stand back and laugh

Leave you stranded as fast as a heart-attack

All day, I think bad thoughts

I can break your heart at the drop of a hat

Stab you in the back, in two minutes flat

Screw your girl in the back of my Cadillac

I think bad thoughts

Danko Jones ♥

Gah!

News about my hand (and my ability to write and RP)!

I now have an appointment with a hand surgeon (fuck me, right?) on Monday and the permission to go see a physiotherapist. I'll continue to be on sick leave for at least another two weeks and after that we'll see if I'm OK to go back to work again..

Till then, I'll try and not to put too much strain on my wrist.. Which roughly translates to not being on my laptop so much. But we'll see. Without work AND my laptop, I'll probably go mad. So expect very little RP (if I can be a good girl and not be around) or very sporadic and incoherent replies.

Cheerio!

I'm starting to consider just gnawing off my arm to get rid of this pain.. I can be the next Captain Hook!

Grr..

Why do interaction bugs hit right when I felt inspired to catch up on my interacting? I know I've been neglecting the bars ever since I realized other people still use v1 and it fucks up the bars. But every now and again I find the motivation to just click for a half an hour while I raise the bars.. And now it refuses to let me do it.

FINE.

Keep your interactions, I didn't want to do it anyway.....

EDIT: OK, if I understood correctly, it's not just interacting. Cause the ones work that don't produce a diary update of any kind.. Everything that causes a diary update seems to be malfunctioning.. Including buying credit items.. Hell, I hope I'm getting my lost credits back when this bug is fixed..

..and now I'm entertaining myself by reading the fuckaton of bug reports people have suddenly sent in the past 30mins about missing updates.. Whoop.

..and now it's 5am, I'm still sadly wide awake, watching old episodes of CSI and keeping my hands busy by testing what works and what not. Picking up and using items (for some weird reason Nera was able to pick some random stuff from her car despite the error message, yet some she couldn't), interacting (this works on and off too) such. Well this is entertaining...

Band updates

Whoooo. It's starting to seem like I'm finally making some progress in getting my non-touring musicians on the road as well! Nicky and Adrienne are putting some thought into The Megan Case Project (yes, we still need a new name even though we love your face) and they're currently working on a repertoire. Now if I could just get the RP flowing, it'd be just perfect.. But getting Nicky on the road will definitely be a step forward! It's been freaking forever since Marvellous Malevolence' last gig. It's been way too long for Nicky of all people to be off the road..

In addition, I also finally found Izzie a band!

Spontaneous decisions ftw. o/ I offered and she accepted, and now Izzie is a member of Electric Theory, alongside Miss Isolde Birmingham and no other than Mr Callum Wright.
It's about time, too! I've never seen Izzie as a solo artist type of person, but ever since she turned 16, I've had trouble finding suitable band mates for her.. It was clear from the start she'd be doing electronica anyway. But there they are now, and I'm hoping this band thing will work out, too. I have only a month or so to get her skills in gear but I'm sure it'll be fine. I won't be expecting perfect gig reviews right away anyway. But soon, soon...

Cabin Crazy

Oops. So the weekend just flew by without me even noticing it. I wasn't planning on being away all weekend but.. When you're home-bound during the week due to... well, everyone else being at work and at the uni, one gets a little cuckoo. And judging by the hangover and overall busyness of my weekend, I've managed to let out enough steam to survive the next few days at home again.

OK, Popo-wise, I'm trying to set some goals for this week! Hell, I'll be at home anyway so I might as well get to the more arduous tasks.. And yes, I'm lazy. It's the only reason there is a check list in the first place.

Here we go.
☐ Finish the final task for Nakisha and fly her to NYC.
☐  Finally start downsizing my herd of characters (aka kill off Naki)
☐  Figure out a way to RP it. Don't get too emotional, you loony.
☐  Try and figure out what to do with Nika.
☐  Reply to all my PMs...
☐  ....including Nicky's.

Went to see Brave today! Big, big Disney fan this lunatic behind the screen is, yes she is.

Brace yourselves, winter is coming..

Totally non game related blog post but.. HOLY DUCK HAS ANYONE LOOKED OUTSIDE? Though by the status updates on Facebook, I'd say every single person I know has suddenly something to say. Third of the people are happy and ecstatic, third are complaining about the amount of snow themed updates, and the rest seem to be willing to jump off a bridge. Come on people, it's Finland... You should know by now that it's like this and worse for almost half a year. It can't be that big of a surprise. Yet.. I think I'm going to join the latter group of my FB friends and groan.

WE HAVE SNOW.

It's not even November yet and I think I went blind after crawling to have a smoke this morning. OK, sure we only got enough for everything to be white but I can only imagine the chaos out there.. I refuse to get out of bed and hop in my car today.. It'll be like deadly ice skating with summer tires.

For once, I'm happy I'm on sick leave again.

PS: If anyone happens to have unemployed adult characters and feels the  desperate need to help me (I know there's tons of you out there ;) ), give me a shout. Max salary if wanted and no need to stay in New York. Help the helpless girl, will ya? Oh, and if there are any blues artist out there, I'd be more than happy to send a contract your way..

Problem

I've realized I have a problem. I spend way too much time picking the songs I sometimes link to my characters' blogs! I don't just pick songs I like, I reject the ones that don't go just perfectly with the tone of the blog and the situation my chars find themselves in. Each blog has a reason behind it, and each song is the same.

Way too often I find myself searching for the lyrics just so there isn't something that doesn't fit - or just to make sure I've understood the meaning of the song correctly.

Ffs.

I should seek help.

Ramblings

OK, I've decided not to wait till Nakisha's tour is over to let her go. It seems like I just keep stretching this out and nothing happens. And that is surprisingly stressful! I feel like I'm turning to one of those attention wh -- err, drama queens, who talk about killing their chars (/quitting the game) and never go through with it anyway. All talk, no action.

I have every intention of letting her go in peace.. It just seems to take balls to give her the poison, balls I don't seem to have. I'm hopeless, I know.

I've just had Naki for such a long time that I can't help but to have mixed feelings! But I do know it's for the best.. So as soon as I make all the arrangements, I'm going through with it. With as little RP as possible! It's going to be tough enough already. I've grown very fond of my pixels..

OK, enough rambling, time for business..


PS: I'm glad you weren't taken by the aliens.

In love with Lowe

The more pictures I find for my precious Izzie, the more obvious it gets. This woman is bloody gorgeous. How can one not fall in love with her?

PS: I'll be on sick leave (yes, again -_-') for the next two weeks. Well, for starters at least. My wrist could definitely use the break, and the doctor sure seemed to think so too.. Which means there'll be more time for sleep, studying and RP. Whoo.

Dead?

I was on loan in another restaurant today and I'm quite ready to beg Thor and Odin and the aliens that I won't be sent there again.. I literally came home in tears after a short 7-hour shift. My whole arm feels like it's going to drop off (and if it doesn't, I'm willing to gnaw it off myself to get rid of this pain) and my back is aching so bad I don't think I'm able to get up from bed tomorrow.

I'll see if I manage to down enough painkillers to dull the ache but.. If not, I'll get to the RP as soon as I can..

EDIT: OK, feeling a lot better already. Lying down helped with the back and the painkillers are helping a bit too. Let's just hope I'll make it through tomorrow as well!

Forever safe under the covers..

Imagine this, guys..

You're laying in bed, sleeping/napping/whatever. You have a slight fever and you're cold and shivering all over, and the last thing you want to do is to get out of bed. You're suddenly jerked out of dreamland by your phone. It takes you forever to find the damn thing and by the time the phone is in your hand, the call has ended. You realize it's from work (you haven't been in for two weeks because the whole place as been under renovations) and decide to call back as soon as you're out of your half-asleep state. You get up from bed and check facebook, someone has linked an article that tells you there's been a fire at your work place the day before, and there's been tons of fire trucks and yummy firemen out there trying to figure out what was going on.

And now no one's answering the phone and you have no idea whether you have to go in tomorrow for your first shift or not.

Oh well, back to sleep...



PS: Check 2039700.369. I'm looking to start over with Hazel. New friends, everything, I just want new RP. Maybe that way I'll find the motivation to play her again and start replying to the messages I have waiting on her too.. Get back in the character and so on..? I don't know, I just want something that'll spark my interest.

Feverish. As always.

Fever, a friends marathon, and some RP. For once I'm actually getting something done despite being sick and coughing like crazy. Yes, my immune system would apologize IF I HAD ONE. ._.

As for any news related to my RP.. Uhm. Nope, not too much on that front. I'm still struggling with the decision whether to Kill Naki off now or have her finish this tour first. It's only a month.. But on the other hand, I just want her off my hands. o_O

Oh well. Back to Friends.

LOL

I know I'm not perfect either, but and this made me laugh. :D

For some reason, seeing the last one annoys me the most.

WHOOO

Look, look, LOOK! The other half of the Luna clan now has their own blog/tumblr thingy too! To find out more why Nera's been my favourite character for years now, go here.

Greetings from bed

Today, besides venturing out to go see a possible flat (and regretting it later as I almost passed out in the train), I've done nothing but focused on breathing and sleeping (doing both at the same time is still a bit iffy, but so far I've succeeded), and whenever I've been awake, I've kept myself entertained by watching old episodes of TBBT..

Laying in bed under what I can only assume is a thousand blankets is cosy, I tells yah! You know, if you ignore the fact that I'm sick as crap again. But seeing how the drugs for my wrist actually seem to work at least, I might just get to replying to a PM or two.

 I'll get to the RP tomorrow! Send something new and exciting and I might just ignore breathing properly for long enough to focus on writing! That being said, though, I'm going back to sleep..

@£$#¤%&* !

My wrist is trying to kill me again. It's the fourth time I've visited a doctor's office in the past five months (because of my wrist, that is) and to be honest, I'm starting to think I should just move there to avoid the commute. <.< Anywho. Writing is a bit.. well, painful at the moment, but I'm hoping the pain meds I got today will kick in soon.

Fingers crossed!

Especially since I now have two weeks off work, I might actually find the time to focus on RP again...

Here's hoping, eh?

But for now, I really need to give my wrist a break..

Ta ta!

EDIT: OK, scratch that. It's not my wrist that'll keep me from the game in the next few days/weeks/whatever. It's the sheer fact that I'm getting a lot sicker again than normal. At the moment it's surprisingly hard to keep myself from passing out from sheer lack of oxygen let alone even take a deep breath..

@#%¤*£$ !!

Let's hope I make it through this episode in one piece..

Slowpoke

I've been working ten-hour shifts for the past few days - and I'll continue to do so for a few more. Slow (no surprise there) and insanely tired (I doubt this surprises anyone either) till Sunday or so.

Decision time

As for RP in general (not about ignoring PMs this time) and my characters. There is an important update.

I've finally decided to let a few of them go. Having played the game for over six years now, I've grown quite attached to my pixels, and making the decision to get rid of them has proven to be a lot tougher than it should be. But it's been on my mind for a long while now, and it's taken me forever to decide which ones I'm willing to give up. But I'm hoping this all will help with RPing the chars I do have the motivation to focus on. It just feels wrong to keep characters alive when they don't get the attention and RP they deserve..

Though even with the lack of motivation, letting go of some of my eldest chars has proven to be quite hard. (And I wouldn't be surprised if I chicken out at the last minute and either not give them poison, or just have someone save them.) But that being said, I've decided to start slow and give myself time to wrap my brain around the whole matter. (In other words, yes, I'm a coward.) Maybe, just maybe, this way I'll actually stick to my decision instead of resuscitating each and every one of them as soon as I get the chance..

I've decided to let Nakisha go first.

She's my main, and the root of all the fun I've had playing this game, but it's time to put her to rest. She's had five kids, a career she has been proud of, despite it not being that successful. She's had two great loves in her life, and countless close friends. But it's time to finally let her join her partner in crime and rest in peace.

To clarify, I have yet to decide when to give her poison and how exactly her death will be RPed, but I do know she's only the beginning. In order to get properly back to RP, I am going to have to let go some other chars too. I'm still iffy about who else to get rid of, but it will happen. Once I recover from Naki, that is..

PS: Got to give a shout out to him. I have no idea how you've managed to put up with my extremely lazy and sporadic RP for Nakisha for this long. Thank you!

EDIT: Somehow I found the energy to update some of the character pages now too. Go me!

Recap of the weekend

I am so dead. Every muscle in my body is aching, my throat hurts like hell, and I have no intention of getting out of bed any time soon. Well, except for work tomorrow morning. But that is sort of mandatory, tomorrow being Monday and all.

This weekend has been amazing and awful, and so filled with action that I'll need a few days to recover. Hangover-wise I feel way better than I deserve, but my whole body is refusing to cooperate. Not to mention I'm just simply tired.

Thus RP shall have to wait for a moment longer. I haven't replied to a single one all weekend, so we'll see how it goes from here. I might get to replying to a few here and there, or none at all, we'll see.

How I feel about replying to my PMs right now..

Zombie birthday

Why oh why did DotD have to fall on my birthday this year? I enjoy sending my puppets to the crypt! The s´zombie hunt is fun! But it also takes a looooot of time when you aim for 1000+ kills and today I don't want to spend all day with my nose glued to my laptop,.

So excuse me, my new-found excitement for RP has to wait. It was pay day today and I'm planning to be reckless and spend A LOT. Shopping, here I come!

A very sleepy update

Yaaaaaaaawn.

Staying away from tiring RP has been a raging success. Actually, besides replying to very few PMs on Nera and some of the ones on Izzie, I've not RPed at all lately. Staying away from all crap has really helped too. Not with my studying, but with my job at least. I've taken a lot of extra shifts - and I mostly sleep for the rest of my free time - so I barely even have any time to focus on the game. Which for now is definitely an improvement. When the RP starts bugging you, it's time to take a break...

Speaking of sleep, though.. There's got to be something wrong when after a good nine-hour sleep last night and a minimalistic shift (5hrs) at work today, I'm already dying to go to bed at 7PM.. It's not normal, right?

Oh well, it's a known fact these days that I clearly wasn't meant to be healthy or anything. I wish I'd at least be given an actual disease so complaining this much wouldn't make me feel guilty. Phah. With my fourteen-month long flu/fever/sinusitis/tonsillitis/mono/whatever-the-hell-else-I've-had-as-well/mystery disease cycle I'm sure I complain more than people with cancer do. At least my friends (and earlier today my boss too) is just laughing when I cry out of pain (wrist) or just simply complain about always feeling sick.

At least I get to use that and the lack of energy as an excuse to procrastinate when it comes to replying to PMs. Because the truth is, I'm just not feeling the love these days. Yes, I'm tired as hell. No, I have no motivation to even touch most of my chars. But mostly I just don't want to.

I wish I had the balls to get rid of most oh my charries, so I wouldn't have to feel guilty for ignoring the RP I have waiting. I do remember a time when I used to enjoy replying to the messages and planning out new scenes and where to take the RP. Oh the good old times..

Instead of trying to find the motivation, though, I'mma go sleep some more. Maybe I'll dream of RP again, who knows. After all, I just had a weird dream of Nera and her hubby the other night.. Heh.

G'night. Yes, as said, it's only 7:30PM now..

XOXO,
The Constantly Sleeping Beauty aka the nutjob behind the Corbin/Seals/Baklanov/Luna/Sinner clan

Sweeping Declaration?

I can't even use the laptop as an excuse for not being here. Because I seem to be married to this piece of shit these days. I'm barely RPing any of my chars, Izzie being the only active one at the moment. Can't really find an explanation that seeing how she's the root of all that's evil and the reason why I barely have any desire to RP these days..

Oh well.

As for the rest of my crazy lot.. I'm sorry for the lack of replies. I just have no brain capacity to write anything. I'd make a sweeping declaration of staying sober of taking a break from RPing, but every time I do that, something still keeps me glued to the game.

So I'm just going to say I'll be slow for undecided amount of time and hope I find the motivation to get back to RPing the original Corbin clan. Sorry for the inconvenience, I'm trying my best here again..

That being said.. I'm going to try and focus on my life away from my laptop. Or at least trying to find some balance with the two. I have a shitload of studying to do - and my first task is to find a motivation to touch that knee-high pile of books I have waiting..

So if I'm not around to RP and whatnot, GREAT. If I am.... I deserve to be smacked around a bit.

                            Anyway. Completely off-topic, but for some reason I can't get this song out of my head. Enjoy.

Happy anniversary

I'm not one to admit I let RP get to me, when in truth it rarely fails to do so. Hell, I'd probably rather die than admit intense RP (or shit like this) has managed to make me cry. But that's exactly why I rarely take things OOC with anyone, just to avoid feeling pissed or hurt or betrayed over what happens in the game. Yet it always seems to be the people I talk to OOC that are involved... Funny.

Because Popmundo should be just that. A game. Though seeing how much of my free time I spend RPing, it usually doesn't work like that.. I rarely scheme or think beforehand in my RP. I find something fun and I go with it. And that's gotten me in minor trouble before. But it hasn't been anything I haven't been able to deal with..

But still... People you're supposed to be on the same page with shouldn't screw you over. And I did just that. Unintentionally, sure, but I know it doesn't erase the fact that I did. But after apologizing and making the sincere promise not to pull shit like that again.. Uh.

...

Not getting into that one. Just.. Too bad there ain't a proper translation for the word vituttaa in English. Hurt or pissed just doesn't seem to cover it.. But instead of wallowing in it, I'm focusing on the happy RP. The fun RP that has made me stick around in the game for six years now. Now that I think of it, exactly six years. Happy anniversary me, whee...

Nakisha entered Popmundo 3.9.2006.

Bewitched

It's starting to seem I came home a day early to a bewitched laptop, and I just have no patience to fight with it. Unless I manage to track down a friend with an extra laptop lying around, I'll probably be without one till I get this fixed.

Sure I have a phone which I can use to check on things and possibly write a few replies if I get bored (or my Popo withdrawal symptoms get too intense) but.. Being without a laptop/logging in on my phone all the time might just be what my injured wrist needs. I shouldn't be putting any strain on my right hand/wrist/elbow/whatever anyway, so this might be just what the doctor ordered..

So if you don't see me online as often as I usually am, worry not, I'm not dead. Just blame the angry laptop gods who are refusing to let my baby work properly.

Bear with me
<3, M

If only I had a handy Swede around to help me too...

EDIT: Change "bewitched" to actually "possessed by a demon". Even with a wireless keyboard+mouse compromise, the whole thing keeps flipping out ON and OFF. I doubt there's any hope for this piece of shit..

Out of town

I'm heading out of town for a girls' night out in exactly 15 minutes. Or as long as it takes my lazy ass friend to get here with my ride. I'll be back either tomorrow or on Sunday, depending on the circumstances. Till then.. Miss me! I'll get back to my PMs as soon as I get home. I know I already have a few waiting for a reply, after all.

Have a great weekend!
-M

Update

Oh my Corbin it's been long since I've last posted here. Almost a whole month! I've been RPing ON/OFF for the past few weeks, so (if and when there has been a lack of replies, or just general sluggishness on my part), I am veeery sorry. ILY guys for sticking with me. <3

I've tried to take advantage of my sick leave(s!) to reply to my PMs though, and despite my painful wrist having proven it quite hard, I think I've done a fairly good job! And I'm actually getting excited about replying to the messages again - it's reminded me why I'm a sucker for narrative RP!


OK. There's a  few important updates concerning my crazy charries:

Izzie.
It started out as an innocent joke after turning down a proposal from a friend. She said the only person she'd ever marry was her other half, Tegan Sinner, just to become a Sinner herself. And the day before yesterday Tegan made a ring out of a piece of paper she found lying around and "popped the question". Just for the hell of it, were her words. How could my post-break up crazy Izzie say no to that?

So now they're planning four big and epic parties (engagement, hen dos for both of the girls and the after party), trying to keep Izzie's mind busy and away from her ex and all the shit revolving around that part of her life. It's just the right amount of crazy she needs to make it through the days, one at a time.

Hazel.
The girl who doesn't get relationships, doesn't see the point in being with someone, doesn't only have feelings for one guy, but both of her best friends. Sure she refuses to admit that to herself - not to mention do anything about it - but I find the RP insanely entertaining.. This girl is already so weird (and screwed up) it's amazing! And the people she hangs out with just feed that, making her as crooked as a corkscrew..


Anywho. Keep the PMs coming, I'll try to keep replying to them as fast as I possibly can!

-M

DEAD

Last night was truly a hell on earth and I'm surprised that I made it through alive. Eight hours (yes, only eight) of sheer madness and quite literally bathing in blood, sweat and tears (as well as detergent and 160°C frying oil). So if I ever recover from the shift I just had, praise Odin and all the rest, will you?
If I was tired before, I don't know what to call this. Even exhausted doesn't seem to quite cut it.. Not to mention  I've been without food and sleep (let alone a moment to just breath) for fifteen hours now, so I think I'm going to hunt for "breakfast" and hope I won't fall asleep in my cereal.

I'll get to all the PMs and everything if I ever feel like a human again.

Slowness

Working every night from 11pm to 7am is draining all the energy I have. I don't only sleep during the day, but I'm completely comatose when I'm trying to stay awake too. When it comes to replying to messages, I'll be a slowpoke till the end of next week, I think. I'm sorry!

I'm so, so tired..

Updates

After hours and hours of queueing to various places (the doctor's for lab tests and X-rays, the bank, the police station etc.) I'm finally home and absolutely knackered. Trying to get by with no wallet, driver's licence or insurance cards is a bitch, I can tell you!
I've been calling from one place to another to get everything fixed and I'm finally starting to get some clarity to this whole thing. Damn you pickpockets! *shakes fist in air*

Anywho, I'm now home and hopefully soon motivated enough to tackle the humongous pile of PMs I have waiting. All my lovely charries deserve my attention so it might be a while till I manage to reply to them all but.. As said, I'm doing my best here! But in order to get some clarity and check up on my crooked creations, here's a "short" update;

Nakisha is basicly RP-less (which is truly a shame), she's touring non-stop with her hubby and at the moment, they're planning on changing from playing Jazz to Modern Rock. Final change before their retirement and whatnot. From Latin to Jazz, she's now finally returning closer to where she once began. MR might lack the spit-you-in-the-face-and-tell-you-to-fuck-off attitude that punk had, but it fits Naki much better than latin or jazz has.

Nika is on tour as well, right now struggling with keeping her tour going with the club owners being absent and whatnot. I'm thinking of just pulling her away and cancelling the shows that'll fail anyway due to unchanged ticket prices that've killed her ticket sales. But returning back to NYC and taking a short break to get everything back together (and to find a new blues club chain) will hopefully give room for some entertaining RP between Nika, her wife and their little family.

Nicky is.. all over the place. There's a char that I just can't channel! RPing him normally is a lot of fun but lately I've found myself struggling with every single PM.. He's now on a hiatus of sorts while I get myself back in his head and get the RP going again.

Nera is following her hubby on tour at the moment. She's stable and as fun to play as ever. Basically nothing to tell here. Nera, who used to be my ultimate fuck-up, found her place in the world years ago and for some reason I still find the motivation to play her. Yay! <3
Oh and I even found a new face for her. I'm beaming with pride here! I overcame some of my OCD obstacles and found someone I actually like!

Izzie. Izzie, Izzie, Izzie.. My Nika 2.0 has managed to screw up quite royally this time and it's bringing me a ton of highly entertaining drama RP. With her relationship in trouble, she's switching between drinking her sorrows away and bitching/moaning/freaking out to her friends about the whole situation. Everyone knows I worship drama like this and love RPing such events. Especially when you know the people you're RPing with and can trust not to get completely screwed over in the end (and/or want to screw over anyone involved in return).. This also gives me the opportunity to OCD over songs to link on her blogs. There are so many! And I love finding stuff that fits and speaks for my chars. These days Izzie seems to be my source for amusement on so many levels. I let my OCD run wild!

Hazel is finally back in NYC for a change and she's looking for trouble. So if anyone has chars around her age (preferably the same age or older) that can help me corrupt her, send me a PM!  I'm planning to go crazy with this one so any type of crazy crooked RP is welcome. I need people tougher than her to screw her up! Or anyone with a diabolical mind will do. ;)

The rest of my younger chars (the two I have left, lol) are still practically without RP and it's fine. Sure Noah just turned seven and he's able to reply to PMs now, so if there's anyone out there willing to help me develop this char, I'm up for it. Sure it means I'll probably be slow as a snail but with chars this young, maybe they don't need your undivided attention all the time..

Anyway, I'm on sick leave (yes, again) for a few days so I'll hopefully have the time and energy to start replying to all the PMs and do what I love - which in this case obviously means RP.

Hugs and kisses,
M

PS: Thanks to everyone who sent me blog commets and PMs about the girl in the last blog post. I now I have the name of possible future Hazel, whoop!

Just because it made me smile.

Sick and tired, yada yada

I still continue being slow with responses. I read the PMs and log in quite often, but I find myself too tired to actually write anything back. I'm trying on RPing all my chars, but for now it's all a bit sluggish. Especially since I can't even keep up who I should be replying to in v1 and who in v2.. Confusing! Anywho I'm doing my best for now though, and even if I may need a nudge every now and then - or deserve to be hit in the head with a chair - bear with me, will you?

I'm (still) sick and getting even more tests done tomorrow morning, so let's hope that after a year and 10 days I finally manage to kick this illness' ass and find more energy. I even look like a junkie now because I have bruises the size of ping pong balls on each arm from where they drew blood.. And there'll be more tomorrow. Gah. 

PS: Does anyone know who she is? She's bloody gorgeous and has the perfect look for Hazel..

Passing out in 3..2...1

What I thought would be an 6-hour-shift turned into a hell on earth today - quite literally seeing how hot it got during the day.. Even now that I'm fresh out of a cold shower, I'm still beat. Even double pay isn't quite worth a day like this.. I'm so ready to just crawl under my duvet inside my fridge and die.


If I don't have the energy to respond to any RP today (even though I promised all sorts of things last night; I was drunk for crying out loud), don't hate me, ay? I'm exhausted..

Work+RP

I'm working all weekend again which means no RP for anyone for the next few days. SORRY! :(

I also got the list of my shifts for the next three weeks (starting a week from now) and guess what? Nothing but night shifts for me! So for the next few weeks I'll quite literally be a vampire; working nights and sleeping all day. Whoop.. We'll see how much RP I'll get done...

Just in case, expect close to none so you won't be disappointed!

 Much love, M

Release the inner psycho

It's no secret that I OCD over a lot of meaningless things in this game. Skills, stars, relationship bars.. Yeah, let's scratch that. I OCD over every little thing in this game. And one of those things happens to my my chars' avatars.

While other people switch their chars race on a weekly basis, I can't bring myself to even search for new faces. I've tried not to use random pics of random people I find on the interwebz. I want a face that fits my character, specific features I can picture when I RP. And for long, my four pre-inactive era chars, the original Corbin clan has had their faces. (Naki: Rachelle Lefevre, Nika: Briana Evigan, Nicky: Ian Crawford, Nera: Emma Stone)

But seeing how I used those faces for a long, looong time, I'm finally starting to think I need to pick new faces for everyone. I've now conquered Naki, Nika and Nicky so far. Well Nicky has yet to get a proper face but at least he's not the afro-headed goof he used to be. Now there's just Nera left.

And now I'm completely and utterly stuck. I can't find a single face that I think would fit Nera. I've spent weeks now, every now and then trying to search for someone that'd fit her and.. Nothing.

Gah.

OCD go to hell.

Lazy?

Quite frankly, it's amazing how much time I manage to waste, doing nothing, while I'm logged on PopOmundo.. I log in and out from character to character, waiting for PMs to appear (yes, when I've replied to none or close to none). 

I do believe in fairies magic, I do, I do!

Bed; world's strongest magnet

I'm so beat.. I want to finish this whole thing (or at least get something done) and unleash my crazy characters out in the world (like they're not doing damage already, phah!) but.. I have absolutely no energy. I have all this RP to get to too but even the thought of using my brain makes me groan..

Ugh.

Sleeeeeep...

First post, whoop!

OK, giving this a try now.. DAMN YOU PEER PRESSURE! You can't see it but I'm shaking my fist at the laptop right...NOW. Anywho. Let's hope something comes out of this and I actually manage to get this done - and update it on a regular basis too.


I've been meaning to write biographies for my characters for a long time now. In depth descriptions of their personalities and such will probably added once I get my lazy ass in gear..