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That up there is a self-portrait.

I finished His Dark Materials last night. I don't know what to think. I liked the first book, the second one was good and the third one was tripe. Considering that I started the series with a positive impression I was shocked at how frustrated I became in the end. There were times I wanted to throw that last book out the window! But I finished it.

Kristen wanted to do me a favor and finished rooting and styling that green Azone #5 head I was working on. She figured out a new technique for doing curls that she previously used for a commission and it turned out beautifully. I put the head on the little Azone body and it looks really cute. I'm going to name the doll Lyric after an elf character I made up for a story I tried to write when I was in junior high. (I gave up on it because it sucked!)

I've been using a stationary bike regularly for the past two weeks. I don't like exercise equipment that only works half your body but my father insisted on one after his cardiologist told him to get in shape and beggars can't be choosers! I've only been able to do 25 minutes a day, four or five times a week. I've never been an athlete and I'm burning 150 calories per session. Heh heh heh...a personal trainer would probably laugh at me but you have to start somewhere! I'm tired of being a weakling.

( Woo Hoo In Tales of the Abyss! )

Productive? Saturday.

Well, I did paint that little Azone doll I had been talking about. I had plans to paint another doll instead but I was so impressed with the job Kristen did on her hair that I couldn't resist. ^_^ Meet Lyric!

To be fair I did root half the hair. Kristen did a really nice job with the curls, I'm torn between bugging her until I can learn from her or just forcing her to do it for me again. ^o^;...Lona, the other Azone #5 head I painted, has green eyes too and maybe that's cheap. I think this head is cute with the smaller Azone body. I haven't made her outfit yet but I'm thinking of mauling some artificial flowers and dressing her as a fairy. I made that top a few years ago to go in a pajama set. At least for the time being she's not naked!

Sometimes I don't like my painting style. I think it looks indelicate and I wish I had the refined touch of some customizers, but I think I've come a long way from my first doll in 2001!

On the TOA front I'm going to have to stop messing around and advance the plot because I just won the Cameo Battle in the arena! I didn't know you could use items in that fight...=_= you'd think I'd have figured it out after I saw Guy use an apple gummy on himself the first time around! Anyway, I used two Hour Glasses and Guy died three times but I won. Now I have an ugly Philia doll for Anise as a war trophy!

I had a pretty fruit tart for dessert tonight and I was going to take a picture and post it but I decided to leave it between me and my stomach. XD