Okay, so I haven't updated in almost three months, but I have been making icons here and there, so I've decided to just post everything now and get completely caught up. I've got quite a variety today, so I bear with me, and please enjoy. As usual please credit and no hotlinking. Also, for updates, add me to your friends list!! Cheers.

+Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 1-17
+Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone --Part one of my series, where I plan to capture all five movies!  18-27
+Two very random Harry Potter icons I made ages ago for a icon contest, but never submitted them :-D 28-29
+Kate Winslet (some Titanic and photo shoots) 30-44
+Hugh Laurie photo shoot for Men's Vogue 45-49
+Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 50-84


Teasers:

  

The rest are behind the cut! Enjoy!

These things are almost as addictive as coffee.....almost.

Okay this made my entire day. Because while I know my last name is extremely common, my first name is not. There are not any of me except me! Hooray!

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Okay so there's this prompt community journal. Pretty damn cool if you ask me. So, here's my latest response

Prompt 055


Now I've got to distract myself from the annoying cartoon playing right now. 'Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends'....why???
Someone needs to stuff a cork in that little blue blob's mouth!!
hehe.
~Ciao

That's correct. I've been M.I.A for quite a while on here, though I doubt anyone has noticed. I'm feeling extremely bitter, as you might have gotten from my little emoticon thingie...whatever they're called. It's this sort of inbetween feeling that I've got. Like so close...and yet, so much to do before I can go do what I want. Good thing--it is because it means I'm mentally ready, but argh...very impatient is what I am. And rambling...it's what I do best. Rambling to this endless void. Argh. Apparently I'm a pirate. Yay. 

I was posting things to Myspace, but that damn place makes me feel like a complete loser. I've got maybe twenty 'friends' who are either from my past or bands I like. Clearly they're not my friends because of the lack of communication--unanswered messages I've sent and all that. I hate days like this. I don't want to be in this sort of mood, and actually I wasn't until around two thirty this afternoon. Don't know what caused it, but its agrivating. Seems like everyone is feeling that way today. Stupid AIG...never work for them...

I wish I had icons to post, because then at least someone might read this and care. I s'ppose that's the bottom line, isn't it. I just want to feel like I matter and today, well I feel worthless and useless. Are they the same thing? To me they're different...even if they're not. 

Arghx3. 

So bottom line, I don't want to go to Myspace anymore. I don't want to hear about it either, don't want to hear that people are socializing and having a life. And I certainly don't want to hear about how they're one step closer to what they want. Leaves me feeling like I am falling behind big time. Devastating mood this is. No worries, I'm completely aware of it, it's just driving me mad!!! I hate feeling like this, and I should probably busy myself with something. Distract myself, sweep it under the rug....I'm a Bradford so that should be easy.

Wow! That was harsh!! Sad that the truth hurts. At least I deal with real life. I'm not to type to run away from my troubles and live a life of complacency just so I don't have to worry about anything. When you give up the bad, you give up the good. That's how it works. If we could actually be happy simply by running away from the shit in our lives, then the mental health industry wouldn't be expensive. We wouldn't need to schedule appointments, or sit on big squishy couches blaming our mothers. It would be more like going to the post office, or the butcher shop. Take a number, wait in line while a row of shrinks helps the other customers in front of you. When its your turn, go up, state your business, and then wait for the shrink to tell you 'right. thanks for dropping by. time to get over it then, take care.' 
Save us all a lot of time and money wouldn't it? Ha. This is making me laugh, because this is how my  Dad's family minds works. Thank God for my mother. I wouldn't blame her, even if I did have a shrink. Hey maybe I should get one. I like Hugh's mentality that instead of burdening our loved ones with our issues, we could just rant off at someone else, get it out of our system then move on. 

You know what I've noticed. There's a huge difference between saying 'get over it' and 'let's move on'. Move on implies work, actually dealing with what's in front of you. Get over it implies, to me anyway, do it now or I'm leaving. A harsh belief, but here's my proof---it's actually happened! Oh, here we go again. Bitter train--party of one!

Well this is not the side of myself that I like. This is the Dark Me. The one that I've shoved aside on many occasion. Fortunately I wish to obtain a career filled with opportunities to utilize this dark side to create some pretty freakin amazing films. Freakin. Seriously. I promise. 

I guess I should spend more time thinking about the positive side of this situation. Optimistic forever--no matter what. I try and find the positive in every situation, even if it is a bit of a reach. Anyways, this is truly, at its core a good thing that I'm feeling this way. Before I would have just given in to what I was feeling, beat myself up and tell myself 'see this is exactly why you suck, why you can't do it, why you'll never do it, etc.' 
Now I just want to get out there and do it. That's the agrivating part...not the feelings themselves. They're understandable. I've been down and out for over eight years. It's been hell. And if people don't get that, then they can't be in my life. They won't stay anyway and I don't want those sorts of people in my life anyway. So I just have to get through the holidays, because that's what's in front of me. Then its time to turn it up, get it going. Because this is going to be my year. It's time to completely leave it all behind, and thus...at last...truly live. 

That was a nice turn around I think...I'm going to change my icon  to 'better'. 
Thanks endless void for listening.

Here's some fun craig.

Let the ranting begin!!

Diddy (is that what we're calling him this week) wants to be the first black James Bond. 

Okay, first of all....oh...my...God. Since when do we need a Black Bond? No offense meant, truly, but isn't this sort of random? Now, of course we have seen some fairly random casting decisions throughout the Bond Saga, but are we at the bottom of the barrel? A rapper? And not even a good one...
That will be the day. 
All Bond fans will fall to their knees at once and start vomiting. If you thought they were serious about boycotting Daniel Craig, just you wait. 

Again, no offense meant, but this has to be one of the most ridiculous and hilarious things I've seen ever. A very slow news day it seems!! I think that if the casting people were actually going to cast a Black man as James Bond, that Kele Okereke from the band Bloc Party has a better chance than an American Rapper who, I'm sorry looks like he's been trying to solve the same long division problem in his head for the past ten years. Not going to happen, sorry. And the day we come to that, is the day I move to the Brazilian jungle to completely cut myself off from the world. I will not be a part of an industry that resorts to such lows. While we're at it, let's give Flavor Flav the role of Harry Potter in the last film...that's how absurd it is to me. 


It was on Yahoo!'s newspage. If you're interested and scared as I am...here's the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061103/ts_nm/leisure_diddy_bond_dc_2

Okay so I've been having a bit of a meltdown over the past few weeks, and I can't seem to get anything accomplised because of it. I'm heading out of it this weekend, so hopefully that will help and I can get some serious writing done. Icon making will have to remain at a standstill as to the fact that my laptop is evil. It would be sorted into Slytherin if laptops could be sorted...do magic...or attend Hogwarts...which they obviously can't. So, alas all I can do is offer an idea of what is to come. 
I've decided to make a collection of Harry Potter icons for each movie, beginning with Philosophers Stone. I've got a few done and so perhaps I will post them...the day is far from over. The one thing about being in the states right now is that it isn't as late as it would be if I were in England. 
That's the plus. Oh and Disneyland. 

While on the subject of writing, I've decided to revamp said fanfiction, and I've also decided to pretty much wallpaper every fanfiction site I can get my hands on with it. I'm tired of people not reading it! What's the point in writing it if no one can read it? So that's my current project and Its very tiring. Ha Ha. But I have to say that the good news is, is that everything came together today. All elements, especially the most questionable ones, fell into place! For the longest time I wondered why I had given it the name of 'Careful Where You Stand' because I didn't think it would fit once I got to the end. But then today, an idea popped into my head, one that solidified that perhaps I do have a muse, that she is sending me messages through my dreams and through song as to what to do! It never makes sense in the beginning, but then a miracle takes place--a sort of spark is made--and I suddenly understand what and why! So I am excited, because I think that this could really go somewhere. The more work I put into it, the more it becomes an original fiction. Wouldn't that be something! Can FanFiction actually be published? I mean...look at all the books on Star Wars. They're not all written by George Lucas. I know I've read some that are completely off base from the movies. A very wonderful Hans Solo Triology...can't remember who wrote it though. Sadness. Perhaps something like that could happen! 

The only thing that makes me particularly worried and somewhat disgruntled is the lack of readerships dedicated to anything except Sirius/Remus or Snape/Harry. I'm not a huge fan of slash anyway, as I avidly follow canon on most 'ships' though I detest the idea of people classifying themselves into cliques and flaming others for having different opinions. Persnickety of them, indeed. 
But I believe I've got a solid plot and have gotten good, solid responses from beta readers, other sites and with other works. I know I'm a good writer, but do I have the proper audience waiting for me? 
I think I am worrying too much now, over thinking it. I must remember what the voice said to Kevin Costner. 
'If you build it, they will come'...ha ha ha! 
Funny how bad acting can come to mean something to you, isn't it. Well I've really gone on quite the rant without meaning to. Oh well...sometimes you've got to do that in order to fell sane. Not that I feel insane right now, just a bit manic...bi-polar...up and down...you know how it is. Maybe you don't. Well I'd invite you in my head, but you might not get back out and I really don't need anyone else in there...ha ha ha! 

Cheers!
~Sara

'Lo!

New layout, very fun and very pretty I feel!! Anyway...yeah I'm going to post my Harry Potter fic, 'Careful Where You Stand: The Light' soon...as soon as I get the prologue done!

Credit for the graphic at the top can be found at my community page...which is under the links on the left hand side, the link called 'Giving Credit'

Also, I'm going to have a massive Icon update soon...busy at work on them, going to make the post count!!

cheers!
~Sara

Oi!

Found this and thought it was one of the best sorting quizzes.

Harry Potter fans...and Harry and the Potter fans, come one, come all...I've made a video!!

Sigh. Why is it that I can never sleep?? Crazy-ness. 
Hmm...
I can't believe its already Thursday. Where in the hell did this week go?
Okay, why am I not surprised that Lance Bass came out of the closet? It sort of makes me feel icky...seeing as how I was going to marry him when Nsync was popular, erm...correction...when they were together. I wonder how I never saw it...((shrugs)) 
It's not like I still think I'm going to marry him or anything, and actually for the last several years I've made constant jokes about 'Lance and his boyfriend' and alas...

We shall move onto more important and realistic ventures...like cake. No not the food. No not the band. That's Nick's, nickname....no pun intended. Its a long story and lets just say there were several beers leading up to the major blonde moment I had, which gave birth to the name. Hmmm...okay rambling is getting out of hand....