Awesome. Cool. Movie.

[dodger_sister]

So, we just watched the best movie ever.

And by best, I mean I shit my pants.

Number of times I seriously considered throwing up during this movie = 5.

Not because it was gruesome and bloody per-say, but mostly because my stomach was so twisted into knots with anxiety.

Oh. Right. "What movie?" you ask.

Frozen.

Frozen starred Shawn Ashmore of X-Men fame and Emma Bell, who you may have recently seen in The Walking Dead. And some other guy. It is the movie about the three people who are on the last run on the ski lift and the people forget they are up there and shut it off and then a storm comes and they are stuck up there on the lift.

Sound messed up? Oh, you have no idea. It got so much worse than that. So. Much. Worse.

Go watch it. You will freak the fuck out, but it will be so worth it. Seriously. Way better than I expected it to be.

Also, we watched it through our Streaming Live of Netflix through the Tivo!!! Oh my, Tivo, I love you. I also spent two hours loading our Season Pass Manager and our wish list - (I added Mark Salling, in case he ever, idk, goes on Jimmy Fallon and sings and plays the guitar with Jimmy, who is a huge Glee dork btw. I mean, if I were Glee PR, I would totally do that...so it could happen.)

In other news, I am having an icon dilemma.

See, originally when I named my icons, I wanted to make sure that once they were on my computer, I didn't forget who had made them, so I could properly credit. But when I uploaded them, it didn't occur to me to change the names first - so now I have icons named things like, example: "misc ballerina-tomycoffee" <--tomycoffee being the person who made it.

Except I have filled up about half of my icon space and I still have like twice as many icons in my folder on my computer and I WANT THEM ALL! So I thought, "Well, I'll just change their names to things like "dance icon" and "movie icon" and "angry icon" - you know and then just keep a list of the icon creator someplace separate.

No problem, right? Then when I switch out my Coach Sue You Suck icon for my Michael Will Kick Your Fucking Ass icon, it won't matter - because they will still both be named "angry icon" and it will just replace one with the other.

Genius, right? (Actually someone suggested this to me many months ago but I was all, "On no, I already have 27 icons uploaded, I can't change it now." - 27 icons, I scoff at you now.)

But my dilemma is, that for all the comments I have ever made up to this point - (and ya'll know I talk a lot to you mo-fos) - they will all just be replaced with my default icon. Which really bugs me. When I'm looking at a thread and someone is going, "Jensen is so cute in your icon," and it's a picture of a frog - before I understood why that happened with icons, I would just sit there and stare stupidly and wonder why all these people seem to think Jensen is a frog.

So I can go back through my posts and edit the icons, but I can't do it on all my comments and I guess the big question is: Do I scrap all the icons from the last 8 months in favor of organization?

Hmmm, when I say the word organization, a voice pops into my head - (I think it is my sister's voice honestly) - and says, "There is nothing that isn't worth it, if it means you will be organized."

But do I really believe that?

What would you do, oh great Flist?

In Sum: The cable guy asked me today if my sister's cat "Pippin" was named after Scottie Pippen. I said, "Um, no, like Pippin from the Lord of the Rings" and he burst out laughing and said, "Oh my god, you should see your face. You're all like, no, who the hell is Scottie Pippen?"

In Sum #2: Jensen would make an adorable frog.

Edited - so that I'm perfectly clear: Frozen is a gruesome, bloody movie, but that's not why I found it so terrifying. Just FYI though, don't eat during it.

Comments

[camera-lucida.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed that you enjoyed Frozen so much. I was thinking of watching it too. After this endorsement, it's become a must-see. *g*

Re: icons
Well, you know that I'm an anal retentive organization freak, so Dean (who is totally not an anal retentive organization freak but he would agree with me on this) and I both say: "SUCK IT UP!" Edit the icons on your posts if you must (you're still under 200 posts right?) but let the comments go and start from scratch. Get it right, this time!

I should've shared with you my icon system months ago, but I got lazy and assumed that you'd figure something out. My bad. Use the keywords to help you identify the icon and keep the name of the icon maker in the 'Comment' category underneath the Keyword. My system is obviously more complex than that, but that's the basic rule.

Like vikingprincess, I don't have a default icon either (except for the purposes of having an icon on my profile page). When posting and commenting, I always choose a specific icon.

And can you imagine that I have two sets of icons? One for this journal and one for menel. My big dilemma used to be deciding which journal a particular icon ended up at, but that's gotten much easier over time.

Good luck to you!

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Frozen - Really, we were all yelling at the TV - shouting out things they needed to do - "Use your ski pole" - "Throw your snowboard!" - and then coming up with solutions for how to get off the mountain and then yelling at them some more when they weren't doing what we said! Maybe it just hit a certain trigger or button in me - but if so, it hit one in The BFF and The Sister too, so...yes, watch Frozen, be prepared to be disturbed though.

Icons - Well, I figured out the keywords pretty early on, I've just been too lazy to do it. But when The BFF loaded up my icons for me - when she made the journal in the first place - they had the person's name on them still, so I just figured that was how you credited and moved on. But when I got my paid account (3 months after I got the journal) I went looking for more icons and suddenly realized I was doing it all wrong. I should have overhauled then, but again...lazy.

Yeah, I never use my default icon anymore. Every once in awhile I used to use it when I was just talking to someone about real life or something that didn't require a specific icon, but now I use my Alison Lohman icon when I am doing that, so the default icon is just for my representation.

So - how do you do it with your icons? I thought I would sort my icons on my computer into folders like, "Dance", "Horror", "Jensen" etc - upload one from each - and then just rotate them out occasionally. What do you do? Tell me in detail. I am making decisions - it is hard.

Ha! I know you have two sets of icons - I've heard you waxing on about which icons should go in which journal. I can't imagine having to make such decisions. I can barely make decisions on one journal! Though, I keep wondering if I should have a fic journal too. Do you pay for both your journals? Right now I have like 20 fics up, but if I get all my stories up this year that I want to, it'll be more than a hundred. Hmmm, decision for another day, I suppose.

Thanks for the advice - icons are too damn shiny for their own good!

[camera-lucida.livejournal.com]

so...yes, watch Frozen, be prepared to be disturbed though.

Ha! This film is right up my alley, then. I like disturbing films. The more disturbing the better. Have you seen Anti-Christ? Holy fuck. :-)

So - how do you do it with your icons? . . . Tell me in detail. I am making decisions - it is hard.

I will put up a special post over on menel solely about my icon system. (That's friendship man, friendship!) I may not be able to do it this coming week unfortunately because I have a major deadline on Friday, but it will be soon-ish. Hopefully, you won't be done with your system yet otherwise that would be . . . a waste? :-)

Though, I keep wondering if I should have a fic journal too. Do you pay for both your journals? Right now I have like 20 fics up, but if I get all my stories up this year that I want to, it'll be more than a hundred.

Actually, I think the decisions are closely related. The fact that I have two journals completely affects my icon system. Yes, I do pay for both my journals and the main reason I made the plunge was because I needed more icon space. Once I crossed that line there was no going back.

In your case, I don't know if you really need a fic journal. Although, it would make sense if you put up over a hundred fics this year and wanted a space to exclusively host your fiction. For me, the journals are a clear fandom/RL split. (Even though in reality there's a small measure of cross-over.) I don't think of menel as a 'fic' journal. It's broader - a fandom journal. It's a place where aside from posting my fics, I can squee (or rant!) over other fandom-related things and interests.

camera_lucida on the other hand, is a purely personal journal. I had to set it up because as I got more and more LJ friends, I realized that I wasn't comfortable discussing my life with people I had just met. (Not all friendships turn out like ours. *wink*) I could have put up friends filters menel, but I found the whole idea annoying. (And I'm lazy.) Conversely, I also realized that some people who friend-ed menel really were only after the fiction/fandom stuff, so the personal stuff actually got in the way. Hence, camera_lucida.