Wintery nails

Yesterday, I painted my nails with the "holographic" nail polish that I got for my birthday. It´s a very nice color; much lighter out of the bottle and put on than you´d think from the bottle itself.

I wasn´t particularly inspired to draw something complex on my nails, so I just put white stripes on them. You can really see the holographic effect in some of these pictures, though the clear topcoat ruined it a bit. Also, pardon the lighting--I took these pictures at night.

In the future, I´m going to paint snowflakes on them, using this color, instead of just stripes. This shade of blue, "ice blue" in my opinion, would look just perfect with some painted on.

The Big Meow: Diane Duane & Weekend book sales

Yesterday, I decided to wander around the website called "Fantasticfiction", looking for summaries of nre books I might be reading. In a fit of curiosity and nostalgia, I decided to access one of my favorite author´s profiles, that of Diane Duane. I discovered that she had a link to her personal website on Fantasticfiction--and clicked it.

To my surprise, it turns out that she wrote and finished a third novel and sequel to two of my favoritee books last year.....but the catch is that it´s an online-only form; and ordering the book is through an order-to-print system. It´s a very strange book, she apparently wrote it with funding from readers and initially had only online format (with a protected website, of course).

I thought that it´d be impossible to read the book--I was rather disappointed--when, looking into her website more deeply, I discovered that it was quite the opposite: the book is completely available in all 13 chapters of its glory online, at its specific website: The Big Meow.

This book is the third book of the "Feline Wizards" series; a book which has magic wizarding cats as the main characters. I absolutely adore the "cat outlook" on life--since the story is told with Rhiow, a cat, as the main female lead. I´ve read it in the few hours I had last night and part of today--I couldn´t drop it. It´s definitely a fascinating and fitting end to that part of the Wizard World arc; I enjoyed every single minute.

I´m now quite determined to email the website or even Mrs. Duane herself to inquire about the possibility of buying a printed copy, as I have no idea if they´re still printing them. I´d even buy the ebook if it were available. But I´d prefer a printed copy of this one, since I do happen to have the other two on my shelf.

The thing is, she´s also having a sale on her online bookstore this weekend--in order to help people who aren´t fans of the Superbowl (hahaha, I find that really funny), spend  a productive weekend, her books  are 25% off (discount code NOSUPERBOWLHERE).....so I feel very very tempted to buy the whole Young Wizards series (a whole 9 books) in digital format, to show my support. Even though I don´t have an ebook reader yet. I grew up reading those books, and still look forward to whenever she decides to write a new one. I still have to read that last one, the 9th book, actually. And she´s revamped the first four books as well, apparently.

I rather like Duane´s interpretation of wizardry, which is so different from the better-known Harry Potter concept for the same things (and the first ones were written before Harry Potter). I absolutely recommend all of her Wizard books, actually.

Here´s a pointer, the first book is called "So you want to be a wizard?". But if you´re more interested in the curious concept of cats that can do magic (and, in fact, it´s their job to do so), I insist you check out "The Book of Night with Moon".

Cute apps!!: Decopic

I downloaded a really cute app a few days ago! It´s completely free, and allows you to Deco your pictures as though you were in a Purikura stand! It also lets you share said photos on Twitter and Facebook (and something else, but I forget its name). The pictures don´t even have to be taken at that moment, you can just upload ones you already have on your phone.

So I took a few pictures, and here´s the result!:

My deco-licious korokke from the other day!! It was really fun and silly to add those sparkles, but that´s how I felt when I saw them......

I also decoed something--or someone--else:

My lovely black Usakumya pochette!! Hehehe, you even have "lovely lovely" stickers to put on the photo; I think they absolutely fit.

He´s still nameless, but I´m thinking of calling him Sasa. What do you think? Cute enough? I accept any and all suggestions!!

Anyhow, the app is called "Decopic". It´s really fun to fool around with!!

Tagging, Part III

Been away from the blog a few days due to personal circumstances, but I´m back.

I do believe that I´m going to start scheduling my blog entries beforehand so as to avoid problems like these....

1. What / Where is your dream vacation?
I want to go to Japan. Or Egypt, sailing down the Nile.....Or see the snow in Sweden.

2. Your favorite piece of clothing?
I have this one vest.....it´s pearl grey with a fur trim on the collar. At the moment, it´s my favorite item. I got it from my Mom last year.

3. If you could change your name to anything, what would it be and why.
I´m quite happy with my name.....both my real one and my internet name, which is what I would have been named if I hand´t been given my real name.

4. If you were born in the past (I mean way before you were born) in what era do you want to be at? and why?
Perhaps the Victorian era. It´s closer to our time than others, and so it has some modern conveniences, though it´s still far enough back. Though really, I´d prefer to see the future.....especially a steampunk future....

5. What are some of the things that never fails to make you smile?
Young children and babies. I smile like an idiot, no matter how awkward I feel at the time.

6. What was the sweetest thing a person did for you?
Keep on remembering me despite the time we´ve been apart.

7. How many languages can you speak? or are you learning one?
I speak three (and a half?) languages: Spanish, English and Catalonian. I also know some French (I took two years in school), though I´m better at reading and writing it than speaking. I want to learn even more languages.

8. Favorite comfort food?
Tea. Or soup. Or broth. I really like warm things more than cold things, especially when I´m feeling down. I like it more than chocolate.

9. Night or day?
Day.

10. A song that you will never get tired of..
Forever Young--Alphaville.

11. and if you could have anything right now, what would it be? ^^
For my Mom not to be sick and going to chemo---for her to beat her cancer, more than to a standstill--to completely get rid of it!