Already the New Year

Even though tonight is New Years, I already feel like it has happened.

Why? I ate a real breakfast not consisting of just chocolate and cookies and listed a new item in my shop, which is open again!

The Winterwoods.

I have plans for these two. The Winterwoods may return in other prints or items. They already have a back story in my head.

And I have a few pictures from my Christmas visit to my home town, Capreol. (In Ontario, Canada) Prepare to be cold.

Isn't it flat and that special kind of bright cold? Eep.

My parents house all tucked into snow. We had just arrived and I wanted to take pics before getting my Christmas on.

Had to climb it!

I got a bit snowy. Good thing I had just bought boots when I got to town. Go kids boots!

Most of my pictures of actual Christmas are blurred with the excitement of opening gifts and lauging and family. Plus no one wants to be in their pjs on the internet. :-) Let me sum up my Christmas for you...

Eat, visit, eat, Christmas eve, gifts, snow, photos, garage doors, stuck cars, kitty litter, Finnish exchange students, wii battles, gift exchange games, cookies, sweaters, lost cell phones, chasing cats, Levack, thickest fog ever, gravy, shovelling, and cheesecake.

I have big plans for the New Year. Most of which include bat wings. :-)

rorschach.

..and company.
here are my favourite quotes from and associated with Watchmen, one of the best graphic novels ever written, second only to, in my opinion, Sandman. ;)
I'll have to put up Sandman quotes at some point of time. Only the entire graphic novel takes so bloody long to read that I've been putting off the whole task of gathering the quotes.
All the same, someday I'll read it for the umpteenth time and actually gather the quotes.
For now then, \Watchmen/.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

         -Rorschach.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.
And if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you.
                                                                                  -Nietzsche

Ground floor comin’ up.
                                   -Liftman.

It rains on the just and the unjust alike. Except in California.
                                                          -Sally Jupiter.

Passers by made various deposits- candy wrappers, newspapers, a pair of keds, strangled by own laces, tongues lolling out horribly. The city is an animal, fierce and complicated. To understand it I read its droppings, its scents, the movement of its parasites…I sat watching the trash can and New York opened its heart to me.
                   -Rorschach.

None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with you. You’re locked up in here with me!
           -Walter Joseph Kovacs (aka Rorschach)

Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl, Two riders were approaching, The wind began to howl.
                       -Bob Dylan

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon.
Never compromise.
                          - Rorschach

it's that simple.
i ought to be pitied.
fullstop.
no amount of chin-highness seems to help it.
so. bow down and pity me.
amen.