Icons - Merlin 20in20

So, there's this challenge I found on LJ for people who make graphics like I do.  I like it, but I don't have an LJ, so I can't sign up.  I decided that I would participate in it unofficially.  I picked my favorite character to make icons for - Morgana.  For this challenge, you have to make ten icons with specific themes, five with a theme throughout, and five that are whatever you want them to be, provided that you use your character or romantic pairing.  These are mine.  The theme for the set was 'Same Episode.'

Annoyed	Cheerful	Fade
Gradient	Horizontal	Legs
Lips	Polaroid	Sun
Triangle	Theme #1	Theme #2
Theme #3	Theme #4	Theme #5
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3
AC 4	AC 5

Resolutions Update

I figured I might as well make an update on my resolutions for the year...


1. Read all of the books I've accumulated in my to-read pile
 
This one I'm going to be working on for a while.  I got more books, too.  And there's about twenty of them in the bag on my bed in the hotel right now.  Yeah.  But I've read a lot of them already, too...

2. Lose the weight gained last semester plus more and keep it off

 I'm still working on the first part of this one.  It's kind of hard to do that during finals.  And during vacation...
  3. Finish Never Surrender, one of my Robin Hood (BBC) stories, and Beauty Will Rise, the next one on my to-write list

....So far, nothing.  I need to work on this one...


4. Complete a partial draft of an original novel

I need to figure out which novel first.  It'll probably be either Shadowlands or Darkness Falls that I end up working on...

5. Make progress on my in-progress stories, preferably 6+ chapters for each story, or completion to the ones I'm working on that will be done before there are six more chapters, even if they aren't posted.

Umm... sort of.  So far it like this...

SoG: +2
NS: 0
Frozen: 0
SLSB:  +2
BE: 0



6. Get a 3.8+ GPA next semester and the fall semester

Success for the first semester!  My GPA for this past semester was 3.874

7. Clean my room until it is actually clean and organized like it should be. 

Working on it during the summer with Mama...

Well, it's going...

Love this...

I find this exchange from Brandon Sanderson's book Warbreaker to be hilarious:

Allmother's priest steps up, holding a bundle of fur tied tightly with ropes.

Allmother:  This is yours, I am told?
Lightsong:  Ah, yes.  Terribly sorry.  It kind of got away from me.
Allmother:  With an accidental Command to find me?  Then run around in circles screaming?
Lightsong:  That actually worked?  Interesting.  My high priest didn't think the squirrel's brain would be capable of following such complicated Commands
Allmother: *stern look*
Lightsong: Oh.  I mean, 'Whoops.  It completely misunderstood me.  Stupid squirrel.'

Great...

These last couple of days have not been the best.  My computer crashed on Monday night and I spent four hours restoring it.  I discovered yesterday that there was something wrong with it and my Firefox and Internet Explorer are both crashing on things like Hulu and the front page of YouTube and other random sites.  Not cool.

And that's no top of me being tired because of that and exams (we're in the middle of finals) and all of the other stuff I have going on...plus the stress because of everything...yeah. not having a great day.  Things were alright earlier, but it's just going downhill...

I love drama.  I really do.  Ugh.

Books I Finished in April

I read considerably fewer books this month, it seems.  This probably had something to do with the fact that things were insane around here.  Everything is winding down and I've had a million things to do.  Still do, actually.  I probably shouldn't even be typing this.  Oh well.  Anyway, reviews will come eventually...maybe.  These were also thicker books for the most part.  Only one of them was even remotely close to bad and it was very bad (the Tortall book that caused my rant on Mastiff).  Hopefully I'll have more time to read once finals are over.  A week from today I'll be flying to Florida for vacation.  Hello reading in the sun!  Yay!


A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
A Discovery of Witches
Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales
Dragongirl 
Human Development: Across the Lifespan
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle (Graphic Novel)
The Dresden Files: Storm Front Parts 1 & 2 (Graphic Novel) 
Noah's Orphans
That Hideous Strength