For the things that never make any sense! XD

[Alopecia No Hime]

Over a month later and I'm still in awe looking at Riven completed now. He's just perfection...

I want moar fur wigs now.

[DollyKim]

The Clothespin People, always great to keep kids busy http://dolfielittles.typepad.com/blog/2 ... eople.html

And I umpteenth cheap Barbies or the left over parts from those you've done headswaps from. My grabby cousin doesn't even know I have my special dolls.

[catshem]

I say anything you don't mind getting messed up...Like cheap barbies. Don't let her touch your main crew.

I figure if she asks about my dolls I'll give her the Monsters I haven't touched for a repaint yet. She's not that destructive and will be careful of the limbs if I tell her to be. My only Barbie is hairless and I think she'd say "That ones ugly nooo" lol

[Gift_in_Edge]

[yarwel]

^ Man make-over on captain america? ^

[AlmySidaKay]

Best doll photo taken at a meet in a while!

[Vetinari]

Steve! I imagine this is Tony's doing...

...Or Loki's

Also: Random amusing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQvXxF91 ... creen&NR=1
I'm never going to look at phantom the same way again!

[Vetinari]

Considering how proficient I've ended up with getting shots of my 1/6 guys I'd thought getting images of my lovely SD guy (As yet still nameless, considering things beginning with D...) I'm getting some fecking awful shots of him at the moment!

Also weird - in sunlight the blushing I've done looks like a near perfect match to his body. In the strange yellowy energy saving lightbulbs of my room his head looks almost orange... Like those people with too much fake tan... :s Considering wiping him even though I suspect it's probably an unfortunate trick of the light...

[OkamiKodomo]

Saw my old boss at work today. The one that cost me my graphics design job, a year ago, and tried to claim they fired me for not going in to work, to attempt denying my unemployment claim, rather than the fact that I refused to take an 80% pay cut on the grounds of them finding someone on craigslist. She pretended that she didn't see me, and honestly, I had too much to do, to stop and talk to her, just to make a point. I'm not going to throw off my day, and potentially invest in bad karma over her. She's not worth it.

But is it terrible that I feel a little smug about it? That I really hope she saw the 'supervisor' title on my nametag? I will admit I'm bitter about it.

The company was a start-up. There were 4 employees: the book keeper, the manager, the owner (her) and myself, the graphics artist. Manager and owner were son and mother respectively. I did so much for them. Things that weren't in my job description. Such as coach the owner on how to use a computer. We're talking basic stuff, like sending emails, and 'why won't a .doc file open in quicktime' stuff. I set up a youtube, facebook, photobucket, and was working on a flickr account. I ran craigslist ads for them. I did some telemarketing and door to door with local businesses when there were no ads for me to do. Then when they fired me, they wanted to keep the adobe suite that I installed on their computer.

I started with them on commission, making $200 an ad. Business got good, and they couldn't afford that anymore, so they offered me a salary of $320(pretax) every two weeks, based on a calculation of 20 hours a week, $8 an hour. I took it, because they promised me I'd still get the full salary even if business slowed down again, because I wanted the reliable paycheck. But when it did slow, they wanted to put me back on commission, but this time only making $40 an ad... because they said they found someone on craigslist offering that price.

But the thing is, I found the ad, and the artwork was not only bad, but most of it was stolen tattoo flash that had been run through the photoshop bevel and gradient filters. And it was all static images, not animation, which is significantly more complicated. When I refused, and said I wanted to either keep my salary, or get the original price of $200 per ad, they fired me. When I filed unemployment claims, they tried to deny it, saying that I was pulling no-call/no-shows.

So on the one hand, I feel a sort of... vindication in that I still made it, and I'm doing better than I ever was with them. I feel proud, victorious even. I didn't let them bring me down, and I rose above it. And a part of me wants to make her eat her words, telling me I shouldn't burn my bridges with them, by refusing their offer. But another part of me feels I should be humble about it, because I was raised to never gloat, that you should turn the other cheek, kill them with kindness, that the best revenge is living a happy life.

[Trethowan]

Moving on, forgiving, and releasing bitterness is the truest victory. Giving them not a single thought, not a single opening to affect you, that's victory. If you still have negative feelings then they still affect you, have a hold on you, and are still making you miserable. They're still digging at you and that's what nasty people want. Showing them love and forgiveness definitely heaps the ashes on their noggins. Or as you say, kill 'em with kindness. The best victory is living a happy life. Don't even contemplate revenge, that leads to ugly roads.