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[summer_skin]

So, um. Hi.

It's been a while since I've posted, it would seem. I check LJ every day and have been commenting here and there. I've also been on Twitter and Tumblr, of course, which seems to be par for the course with a lot of people and the biggest part of the reason LJ has been dying of late.

I've also changed my name. Again, HI! Marishna is now summer_skin. I've had the same name since 2003 when I joined LJ and before that when I started poking into fandom on the internet but I'm ready for a change. I'm hoping this will be a change for the better, towards being more active on LJ and in fandom and just all around. An unfortunate side effect of my depression has been a decline in interest in... well, anything, so I'm trying to re-harness a feeling of belonging and a desire to be involved.

I also changed my email address. Partly out of a need for change and partly because it seems Yahoo is doing sketchy stuff with their email and I really don't like their new email look/function.

On Twitter I am Summer__Skin.
On Tumblr I am Summer--Skin.
My email is now our.summerskin @ gmail.com. I guess that would be my gtalk thingie as well? I'm not very well versed in Gtalk or Gmail messenger or whatever. School me!

--> My mom has moved out, we've settled in and things are going okay, actually. She has a job she hates and is on the search for a new one. Fingers crossed!
--> I bought a new bed! Paid more than what I did for the cheapo one I got last October and just gave it away to get it out of the house. New bed is awesome. Love it. Was a bit of a decision between a new bed and an ipad, though, at the end of it, but I chose right. Next BIG purchase will be an ipad, I think.
--> Watched and loved Game of Thrones. I only started watching it in the beginning cause everyone was losing their shit over it starting but I didn't think I'd like it. WRONG! Totally did and am now reading the first book to get more clarification about the characters and events. GoT season 2--Y U SO FAR AWAY?!
--> Watched X-Men: First Class, which I also didn't think I'd like THAT much. I did. Not FANDOM like but I enjoyed it, for sure. Way better than the first ones and I'd love to see more from that era/style/verse.
--> Gracie is doing wonderful. She and the dog are getting along although they can't quite meet up on playing. Gracie doesn't get it when Gia wants to play and Gia backs away when Gracie tries to cuddle with her. So we'll see.
--> Work is going well. The newest girl in the department is pretty much hopeless. As I told my boss last week, I like her has a friend and neighbour (house mom and I moved into is right next to new girl) but I fucking hate her as a co-worker. She's just so... She doesn't GET it. And she's been in the department since October!
--> Depression is coming along. It's all still definitely there and I'm still on anti-depressants but I'm feeling better.
--> Weight isn't the best but I'm kinda trying. I want to exercise and am out walking and running (for about 30 seconds, ngl) and whatnot. I'm TRYING to try, I guess.
--> Had a bone scan done that was ordered by a pain management specialist, which came back good (meaning no arthritis or anything wrong with my bones causing the pain) and next is an MRI in September. If it doesn't show anything I don't know what that means for my claim or what the next step is. I guess it just means my pain is chronic for the rest of my life and I'm not really sure what to do or where to go from there. Stupid claim caps on soft tissue damage!
--> I don't know if I'm going to be capping much this summer. I haven't even finished watching the first half of season 6 of Doctor Who (I feel like I'm the only person ever to really dislike Matt Smith and Eleven and where the show has been going), I haven't finished watching season 4 of Primeval and was completely blindsided when season 5 started (so I haven't watched any of that, either) and nothing else has really caught my fancy enough to cap the shows yet. I've also been feeling like the fandoms I'm involved in don't have a lot of participation or that people are taking my caps and not commenting. I've become a bit disgrunteled with putting all the work into creating, uploading and hosting the caps that people either don't care about or don't comment on so I either have to move past that or only cap for myself now, honestly. Sharing caps isn't like sharing icons or fic, imo.

I have also made icons. I have posted the final batch of Supernatural icons that have been sitting in my folder for a LONG-ASS TIME.

22 x Anne Hathaway for luck20in20
19 x Kristen Stewart
51 x Supernatural (various episodes)



See the rest here at morbid_girls.

So there we go! The state of Erin for the past month! Hi!

Comments

[gwyntastic.livejournal.com]

HOLY NAME CHANGE BATMAN. Can I still call you Mari? OOOorrr Summer? HEY HOTSTUFF.

[summer-skin.livejournal.com]

You can call me whatever you want, as long as it's not late for dinner.

HAR HAR HAR.

[earlofcardigans.livejournal.com]

I didn't even notice the name change, tbh. Since I've been following you on tumblr with this name for a while. :D I like it.

Also, I think that a lot of people feel like you in regards to Doctor Who and Matt Smith and the new Steven Moffat era stuff. It's all a bit much.

[summer-skin.livejournal.com]

Also, I think that a lot of people feel like you in regards to Doctor Who and Matt Smith and the new Steven Moffat era stuff. It's all a bit much.

I wish I knew where these people were! All I ever see are Tumblr people shitting themselves over him. And ONTD. I just don't get it. Maybe once the season is over officially I can go back and watch it all, knowing the outcome so I don't bend my brain trying to follow/figure things out!

[girlfmkitty.livejournal.com]

Psst!

I loathe Matt Smith and what Moffat has done to the show with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns (I only watched the first two episodes this season because Mark Sheppard was on and I adore him...)

[summer-skin.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. Between Tumblr and... well, Tumblr, all the hipster!actor/awesome!doctor love has made me see crosswise. I liked Matt in the first series he was in but now everything's all over the place and, honestly, I think Amy's kind of a bad/clueless person at times and there's just SO MUCH MYSTERY and while I love things interlocking together for a bigger purpose (aka: Donna) I DON'T WANT TO HAVE BITS OF THREAD, SOME BUTTONS AND A FUCKING TUB OF LAVA TO MAKE LOGIC OUT OF NON-LOGICAL THINGS!

(I'm fairly certain none of that made sense, which is the point I'm getting at. Also, it's Monday morning and I'm not the sharpest at this moment),

[girlfmkitty.livejournal.com]

I gave Smith and Moffat exactly the same amount of time I gave Tennant and RTD to win me over after Eccleston: One (1) episode. And so much time was spent on "LOOK AT ME/I'M NEW/EXCITING/DIFFERENT" while still on Ten's clothes, it became too much and it was just a big no.

Plus have you noticed how Moffat writes the same story over and over and over again? Think about it. (I can't find the link now but there's a way to prove it.)

[summer-skin.livejournal.com]

I felt like at first Matt Smith was trying too hard to be like DT. He's a little goofier but he just reminded me too much of 10, whereas 10 was SO different from 9 (who, good LORD I miss!).

I can never keep any of the plot points straight enough to see patterns in his writing. RTD might have had such a fucking hardon for Rose but I'd take that ANY day over this cluster!