I just recently did four commissioned Perler bead magnets. Mega Man and Link magnets.

The client loved them!

So 5 days a week for the past 3 years I’ve driven over the New Hope – Lambertville bridge. Yesterday, Paul had to work (haha) and I ended up walking over the bridge for the first time, since I’ve lived here.

I saw that July is national blog month, so I decided to take some pictures of just a little bit of our pac-man collection. This is barely anything, but check it out.

Mrs. Pac Man Marquee

Pac-Man Yo Yo

Ooooh look at that sexy pac man

some sweet pac man stickers

aww ozzy is the greatest!

I’ve never had somebody try to pull a scam on me on craigslist for a house before but I guess eventually it was bound to happen. This is so ridiculously funny.

His Reply to wanting to see the house Email:

Hello Dear,
Calvary greetings to you,also to your house hold..Thanks for the email and it is my gladness  hearing from you.i am the owner of the house you are making inquiry of.Actually I  resided in the house with my family,such as my wife and my only daughter before and presently we had packed due to my transfer from my working as Missionary and now situated in the (Republic of Benin) and presently my house is still available for rent ..including the utilities like washer and, security,it is furnished but  if u which to move in with your furnishes no problem you can move ours to the storage..
Pls i want you to note that,i am a kind and honest  man and also i spent a lot on my property that i want to give you for rent,i will want you to take absolute maintenance of my house and want you to treat it as your own, it is not the money the main problem  but i want you to keep it tidy all the time so that i will be glad  to see it neat when i come for a check up.so if you are interested in this rent i want you to fill the application form below and send it to me in your next email.

RENT APPLICATION FORM

Also,Pls let me get this answer.

FIRST NAME:__________________
MIDDLE NAME: _________________
LAST NAME: __________________
PROFESSION: ________________
HOME PHONE (____) __________
(CELL)PHONE (____) __________
(WORK)PHONE (____) __________
KIDS _____ (YES/NO), HOW MANY ________
PRESENT ADDRESS: _____________________
CITY: _______________
STATE: ______________
ZIPCODE: ____________
HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND STAYING? ____________
WHEN DO YOU INTEND MOVING IN? ______________
DO YOU HAVE A PET: _____________
NAME OF PET: _____________
KIND OF PETS: _____________
DO YOU SMOKE? ______________
DO YOU DRINK? ______________
Looking forward to hear from you with all this details so that i can have it in my file in case of issuing the receipt for you and contacting you.Await your urgent reply so that we can discuss on how to get the document and the key to you,Note that the keys and documents of my house is with me here in Africa.please we are giving you the house base on trust and again i will want you to stick to your words,you know that,we do not see yet and only putting everything into Gods hand,so please do not let us down in this our property and God bless you more as you do this is the addree for 4-1 Aspen Way #41, Doylestown PA

Paul’s Email Response :

FIRST NAME:___Lucy_______________
MIDDLE NAME: ____Fer_____________
LAST NAME: __________Beezlebub________
PROFESSION: _______Preacher of the dark arts_________
HOME PHONE (_215___) ___666-6969_______
(CELL)PHONE (____) __________
(WORK)PHONE (____) __________
KIDS __yes___ (YES/NO), HOW MANY ___7_____
PRESENT ADDRESS: ______1313 mockingbird lane_______________
CITY: ____of lost souls___________
STATE: _____transylvania_________
ZIPCODE: ___18666_________
HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND STAYING? _until the spirits come to reclaim my soul from the rock___________
WHEN DO YOU INTEND MOVING IN? ______as soon as the dark lord himself tells me its ok________
DO YOU HAVE A PET: ___yeah black cat of doom__________
NAME OF PET: _______ozzyfer______
KIND OF PETS: _____cat of doom dont you read________
DO YOU SMOKE? ____does crack count?__________
DO YOU DRINK? ______only on days ending in Y________

His Response to that Email:

You are welcome, I can figure out from the answers provided that you are ready to move in soon and I am willing to make that work for you.So the items listed below will be sent to you as soon as you make the payment of the first month rent and deposit now,Also,all the utilities are included.. (Your full address will be needed i.e the county) Here are the contents of the package below.

1)Paper/house form(Containing your reference details)
2)The house documentary file.
3)Payment Receipt,and the keys.

Do get back to for further discussion on how the key will be sent to you and how the payment will be made, as well as the signing of the lease. Here is my number +2348025106203 or 0112348025106203, you can call me for more further information. Here is the address to the house: 4-1 Aspen Way #41, Doylestown PA

On Friday we went out for my birthday dinner at Carrabba’s. It was my first time there ever, it was so delicious!!! Then since we were in Allentown we hit up the new sands casino. Paul played the breakout and pong machines with me. They were lots of fun, Paul got a bonus on each of the games, but I never got the bonus so I never got to play Here he is playing breakout:

We went out to Anime Next this weekend to promote the Game Core convention.  I set up and sold some buttons. There was lots of amazing stuff going on all weekend it was a lot of fun!

We were only going to come on Saturday, but ended up going on Sunday also. Here are some photos that I took while we were there.

Look it’s Andy Warhol! Best cosplay of the day! He even signed a piece of paper exactly like Andy, he was pretty awesome!

Can you tell what that is? Duh! Pacman… he was kind of a douche. He only got excited about my woot shirt, not about my tattoo at all… oh well… i guess not everybody that is dressed cool can be cool.

This made me laugh, I took a photo of it for Bob, because he’s the one that introduced Paul and I to the song, it’s even on my mixtape from him, I think the first track.

BIRTHDAY WEEKEND DAY 1

My birthday weekend started off on Friday. My boss and co-worker bought me delicious lunch and also bought me cupeycakes instead of a cake. I got a red velvet cupcake and it was absolutely delicious. Then I headed home at 1:00 to pick up my brother and Paul. The email I got from Nine Inch Nails the day before said I had to be at the meet and greet BEFORE 2:30. So, we are driving and it’s about 2:30 and we are still 15 minutes away or so because of the traffic. I let my brother off near the mint, and then we drove over to Camden.

We get to Camden, park the car, figure out where we are suppose to be. We chat with several people in the doner line. The meet and greet was suppose to be from 3:15-5:15 but at 4:00 we are still waiting outside. So, they announce they got stuck in traffic and that they would let us in soon. They start counting people out in groups, so we were group 2 of the $300 donor people. The other people around us are talking about how anxious they are and how they don’t want to cry or stumble or not say anything, and we are all talking about how exciting it’s going to be, so probably another 30-50 minutes of waiting, our group gets taken in, they had already announced that the band would only sign one thing, and that there were no photos to be taken, only a group photo would be taken.

So we go back where they are, and there are these curtains and we are the second to last people in our group, I peek through the slit in the curtain and see that Trent is about 5 feet away from me and I start to get all teary eyed. So, the people behind us and me start talking about the I’m on a Boat video which cheers me up and makes me not get teary eyed.

We are finally around the curtain but there’s people in front of the table so I can’t see any of the band members. We get up, and Robin is first. We talk to him for a minute or so about the great music, and how awesome his hair is, Robin wishes me a happy birthday and asks our names.  Then Justin is next and he is just so fucking nice.  He says happy birthday to me and shakes my hand, I start to get a little bit teary and he says no need to cry it’s okay!

You can sort of view Paul talking to Robin here.

Next is Trent. I put my dollar bill down (what I was having them all sign) He asks me my name, and tells me happy birthday. I ask for a hug, and he gets up and hugs me and I start to cry and tell him how much his music has meant to me and how long I’ve been listening to him. He says don’t cry it’s okay. So, he had already signed my dollar bill, but then I put down my perfect drug single. I tell him this is a cd that’s rarer than Still, and he’s like oh yeah? and i’m like yeah, it has two r&b songs on it and they suck, he says to me, are you sure it’s not us, i laugh, and he says wow that’s so strange, you know record companies just mess everything up don’t they? and i reply, yeah it seems like it. then he thanks me for donating and coming down, and tells me to enjoy the show.

(somebody took this photo and posted it on the NIN forums of me meeting trent!!!)

After that is Ilan, I’m still all teary eyed, he wishes me a happy birthday and thanks me for coming out, and tells me that he hopes I enjoy the show.

As I’m whipeing my tears away before the group photo, Justin comes over and gives me a big hug and says “there’s no need to cry it’s your birthday”. Then we get into a group photo, I have no idea where they are going to post those, I haven’t much investigated that yet though. So, we wait around for about an hour in the pit area, then NIN comes out for sound check. Trent comes to the mic and says “there was a lot of hugs and not a lot of sound check”. We all laugh, then they played Good Soldier and Dead Souls. After this, it’s like 6 or so, and we haven’t been allowed to go to the bathroom or sit down since we got there. So, Paul and I dash to the bathroom and then grab some food since we hadn’t eaten.

We end up sitting down next to the Y-rock table, and I’m only concerned about eating my $5 hot dog at this point. Then we are talking to the other people sitting at the table, then I realize the guy sitting across from us is Josh T. Landow. I don’t point this out or anything, but then realize the other two are Dj’s also, but I’m not sure who they are. We talked about the sound check and meeting Trent etc.

After this we go to the merch table, I buy an awesome shirt. I hop on twitter which hadn’t really been connecting at all, and saw some of Trent’s tweets. They said :

- Thanks to those I got to meet this afternoon – you’ve begun restoring my faith in people and I needed that. Enjoy the show!

- Easy: encountering real people in the real world mostly = love. Reading bullshit online from anonymous cowards = hate.

- The price of attempting to engage an online community is high and probably ultimately not worth weeding through the sewage.

- and with that.. BLOW ME! – I’m going to go play a show!

So we watched Street Sweeper Social Club, they were pretty amazing. Then NIN came on, they were amazing like always. They played some fantastic songs that I love, and some that I’ve never heard live. They didn’t play closer and hurt which I thought was pretty amazing, because I got to hear songs I’ve never heard before.

The set list was:
home
beginning of the end
1,000,000
march of the pigs
line begins to blur
survivalism
the big come down
head down
burn
gave up
metal
banged and blown through
the downward spiral
wish
heresy
mr self destruct
the day the whole world went away
physical
the hand that feeds
head like a hole

Some of the best photos I took :

I like this because it shows all of the equipment on stage.

Those were taken during sound check. These are some of the best from the show:

You can view all the photos here.

After they played we ended up leaving so that we could hang out with Crystal. We left and ended up at Perkins with her. She gave me a fantastic purse and pj’s for my birthday. We had a silly time annoying the FUCK out of this asshole waiter, who when we sat down kind of just said “well i’ve already made my tips for today, so i don’t care”. that was fantastic, we came back to the house hung out and then went sleepies.

BIRTHDAY WEEKEND DAY 2

We woke up kind of late, well I didn’t because I couldn’t sleep, but we headed out of the house about 1 p.m to head up to NYC. We hit this HUGE community yard sale that took about an hour to go through, during that hour, we actually went to our landlord’s house, which was fucking weird, because we didn’t know he lived there.

So, we get to NYC about 3-4 we find some parking near the TokiDoki store. I’m getting super excited, as I’ve looked forward to this day for a long time. We find the store and it’s less than half of the size of our living room, I couldn’t believe it! They barely had anything that was on the website, except they had all the purses and stuff, but not most of the t-shirts.

Then we head over to the Kid Robot store which is only a few blocks from TokiDoki and it’s pretty amazing, it was two floors. We ended up buying two of the adult swim special editions and Paul bought one of the alphabet keychains, that look like activision atari games.

So, then we head uptown to the Musuem of Sex. They had an exhibit going on that featured animals, then I guess two main exhibits that they have all the time. It was a pretty amazing musuem. I learned a lot about animal sex, how a lot of species have sex with there own sex and all kinds of stuff. I learned that mallards “rape fight” and one of the mallards was going after another one, it crashed into a window and fell to it’s death, then the mallard that was alive went to town on this dead mallard, a lady wrote a paper about it and documented it, she won a nobel prize for it.

After the Musuem, we go outside, we are about 4 blocks from the Empire State building, so we decide hey what the fuck, let’s check it out. We get there and there is a really long security line so we decide against it.  We go back to the car and drive over to Brooklyn to pick up GGG. We went to dinner at this place called Planet Thailand or something like that. It was amazing. My brother had sushi for the first time and hated it, so me and GGG ended up eating most of it. The food was goddamn delicious.

After this we drove over to this bar that GGG told us about when we came up for Paul’s birthday. It’s called barcade and it was amazing. GGG whooped my ass at Tapper which I had really been talking a big game, so it serves me right lol. There was probably at least 30 different arcade machines, we spent a lot of time here playing games. Nepo ended up showing up and some other people. Then after being there for a while we ended up leaving and going to this inside outside bar, that was FULL of hipsters it was so silly. We ended up hanging out there till probably 2:30 am or so, then we ended up calling it a night since we were driving back to PA.

BIRTHDAY WEEKEND DAY 3

I tried to sleep in since I didn’t go to bed until like 4/5 in the morning or something. We got up and hung out with my brother for a bit, then we ended up going for breakfast/lunch at Perkins (my brothers new favorite restuarant i think). After this I went over and got some of my birthday presents from Paul’s Dad, which was pretty awesome.

Then we got on the road to go to see Henry Rollins do spoken word in Wilmington DE. Wilmington was soooo nice and I totally need to go back there to take photos!!! Henry was AMAZING, just as I imagined, I even found myself getting a little teary eyed during some of the stuff he talked about. He’s just amazingly awesome and funny and angry.

After we left there Paul and I ended up at a diner enjoying lunch/dinner. It was the perfect way to end the weekend just hanging out with Paul quietly.

It was one of the most amazing weekends of my entire life, and I will never forget it.

This weekend was a creative weekend for me.  I can’t really drive my car anywhere so, I was home most of the weekend, except for Saturday. So while Paul took a nap on Saturday afternoon/night, I got all creative and had a rave in my bathroom, trying to do light paintings.  Here are a few examples of what I ended up with, and to see the rest go to my flickr page.

I wasn’t using a tripod, so this is a blurry photo of me taking the photo in a mirror and waving one of my hands crazily with these finger rave lights on my fingers.

This is lights and my octopus shower curtain, I like this one a lot.

This is a painting that Crystal bought me a while ago, I like the way this turned out even though I wasn’t using a tripod…

Then on Sunday afternoon, I set out to make some bead sprites. I didn’t think I would make as many as I did, but I pretty much made them until I ran out of the glue paper, so I will have to get some more this week, also I need to order some more beads, but check out what I made. All of this stuff will be available in my etsy store shortly.

Picture didn’t come out to great on these, but they are hearts and they are magnets.

Set of Mario 1… plan on making more in this set.

Somebody requested the prince from dragon warrior, so while I was doing that I made a slime, I plan on making 2 more for a set.

This is an life bar from the legend of zelda. I think I’m going to make this into a magent. I think it’s pretty neat.

Sunshine hopefully will come soon!

I love ihop pancakes!

major update coming in a few days… watch out!

Mrs Pacman and Holly, first meeting in a very long time.

This made me giggle, all over the van there is different sayings and I picked this one because of Ian!