drawn Dec 17, '06
posted for Dec 25, 2006
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Okay dokay, I was not able to update yesterday
like I said I would, and I have to be quick today because my brother's
bugging me to play a game with him.I will be quick.
Merry Christmas from the 'staff' here at Elfinessé!!! That's Zela, in back, Flairé, the goofball with the sock, Ceniro, holding his hat, and Rana, confused by the tip of her hat. The last three you haven't been introduced to yet. I'm putting this holiday picture in the pencil section even though I did the colour in Photoshop, because it's mostly pencil anyway. I drew it last week for the occasion. I will also put it in Misc. because it has people from more than one dimension.
Okay, now I can tell you all about the junk we got! In my stocking alone, Santa gave me an Alan Lee calendar, a chocolate orange (yummmm), Princess Mononoke on DVD (wahoo!), a CD of Studio Ghibli's best known songs, which I am listening to right now, and book 1 of Tsubasa! I can finally watch Princess Mononoke in Japanese! I can listen Sophie's theme waltz and the end credits ukulele song from The Cat Returns, not to mention Country Roads in Japanese! (Kantori rodo/kono niji... don't know anymore - lyrics are all in Japanese except for a French song from Porco Rosso - Le Temps de Cerises - Cherry Time) I can see Sakura get grumpy at Syaoran for not using her proper name, and Touya pull his huge sword out of nowhere! I like big swords, and Touya is funny! He's my fourth favourite character after Syaoran, Sakura, and Fai. Kurogane, Mokona, Yukito, and Chi are after him. ^_^7 ^_^7 ^_^7
Excitement is everywhere! Mom got a CD of the Czech choirboys (cheers) and although it doesn't have a lot of the songs from the tape, and has a lot of other wierd songs, it has one of my very favourite medleys! Mom and Dad gave me "How to Draw Manga Characters", which Mom is (very surprisingly) interested in giving a try herself. I could pull out my new Tsubasa and show 'real life' examples of some techniques in action! They also gave me some 'manga paper', which is a book of marker paper, which will work great with some grey art pens Grandma and Grandpa M. got for me. I can use them together! Grandma and Grandpa also gave me a framed sheet of facts about my name, which I think they got in Ireland. Does anyone know how to pronounce Sinéad? Because I sure don't! (Si... Se... Shi... Shinayad?) My organ teacher gave me a two-disc CD set of The Complete Organ Works of César Franck! Santa also gave me all the parts I need to construct all three pegasi for my pegasus knights, so I'll do that sometime. They are going to be SO COOL. I was a hyper little girl yesterday... Grandma and Grandpa V. gave me all the rest of the Histories of Middle Earth (HoME), Books 4, 5, 6, and 7. I'll read them, over time (they're quite technical) and understand Quenya even better.
Santa also gave me the Star Wars Trilogy DVD Original Theatrical Release Version and Dad and I went crazy. We can finally see it as it was meant to be! The only thing I agree with in the changed version is that the Death Star I battle is so much faster and more intense! Isn't that George Lucas's favourite phrase? Threepio never got told intense, though. ^_^7 It's like I'm watching it for the first time. I see so many new things, and I don't remember if some scenes are in the latest, most hi-tech version! It's so much better! I'll have to add a few extra pages to my Chibi Adventures of Star Wars to allow for the cool new scenes and camera angles. We've watched just A New Hope so far. ESB is coming this afternoon, I think, or this evening, or something.
My brother also gave me Books 5 and 6 of the Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind manga series. I hope to get the last two books for my birthday. The characters are all colliding in the Dorok lands, and Nausicäa is getting ever closer to truly understanding the forest and herself. It's beautiful. And Asbel's back! Whoo! He's my second favourite character.
I just have to mention a couple of my brother's presents: he was given a Warhammer castle to beseige, and Lego Star Wars I and II, and he's busy trying to finish the whole of II, the original trilogy version. I'll try my hand at it after this, when he's gone skating at a school event. It's so funny I laugh until I fall out of my chair. So far, my favourite part is... Hard to say. I like when Luke is having a great time sliding down the garbage chute, or when the Jawas steal the droids back. The stormie (stormtrooper - and Imps are anyone in the Empire in general) with only a bathingsuit and a helmet is amusing too. The gameplay is only slightly less funny. I also gave him A Link to the Past/Four Swords for GBA, but we have to get a new link cable because the games don't like our link cable. That's cheap, though. We'll get it pretty soon. He almost went through the roof on that present. ^_^7
I really would have updated yesterday, but I was having to fight too much for the computer. So, I did SW:ANH, Nausicäa manga, Tsubasa manga, a picture of Touya and super-sword, and Studio Ghibli CD.