Do you have any additional tips to suggest for Luana.Milk-Drops.com (my Characters site)? I’d like to offer more tips and articles but I’m lacking inspiration at the moment, so I’d really appreciate a few hints and suggestions. Thank you.

I’m sorry about not keeping in touch as well. Besides a OVERLOAD OF WORK to get done lately, I’ve also been through a tough experience in my life (no, I’m not going to talk about that here, at least for now), and I haven’t been feeling like chatting, emailing and all that jazz. I feel better now anyway, so it’s just a matter of time and patience.

Right now I’m sitting beside Simmy at granny’s house. Some time to relax and enjoy time together. Gosh, if we needed it!

On a more personal side: my week with Alberto has been wonderfully relaxing and troubling at the same time. The latter aspect is too personal to blog it about here on Honey-Babe.net, but the former was the most fullfilling in my whole life. A true bonding time with my son. I shall never forget that, and I hope it’s a good prelude to our future living together into as a true family.

I continued a good portion of my short story “Evergreen“. It’s moving a tale, a dying heart who still longs for love… but I won’t spoil more. This story will appear in my published e-book, which I hope to finish within December 2011.

Last but not least, one of my newer drawings for my Robocity Characters. Talla Netteri, owner of Talla.Paper-Cranes.net. Hope you like her.

- Characters sites (massive updates)
- updating my sites
- write a total of 25 reviews (or a bit less, I have to check)
- continue reading Virginia Woolf’s “A Writer’s Diary”
- continue a short story and write a draft of a sci-fi diary-novel

I need to finish this stuff within tomorrow night, more or less. I finished coloring Talla‘s profile picture today (it’s on her site). And on Sunday I need to do some massive work on 2 art commissions and 1 picture for a friend who gets easily depressed if I don’t hand her the picture within the month. If only the heat would stop beating me down so BADLY! It’s like dying, really. This is the reason why I hate summer: it would be such a great season if the heat wasn’t so suffocating! And I always have so many things to do in summer, and the heat and humidity get in the middle. ARGH.

I was reading a few news headlines on Yahoo! homepage. Movie trailers, the World Cup and “Eclipse” parodies. No suicidals cases or other cruent stuff of that kind, thankfully. There was also this blog, called “abdul rahman el assir” (I don’t know why such a name, but oh well, it’s yet another news source for those who are interested) with plenty of news headers, worldwide news I mean. Just some reading to get update over the world events. Yes, I try to avoid it as a plague, but I need to give it a weekly read at least. I’m still too sensitive to watch news on TV; there is too much crudeness, too much violence, for my heart and stomach to stand.

Regarding the Twilight saga: perhaps I’ll borrow the first two books from Simone. I prefer books to movies, and of course I can’t go watch Eclipse if I haven’t watched the first two films, or at least read the first two books. I’m not much into vampire stories, and I don’t like the fanatism-centered fandom that was created around the series, but I want to give it a try; Simone told me the books are romance-centered, and that’s something interesting to me, vampires or not. I’m curious.

About my short-story collection e-book, you can now read a sample chapter – a short story titled “Scrapped” – at this link: books.luanaspinetti.com/samples/scrapped. I hope to get the next two short stories – their drafts – done by the end of August. I’m going to put all my energies at work to finish them. ^^ I’d love to be able to publish the e-book by the end of the year. Oh that would be so wonderful an achievement!

Graphics-wise, I made two layouts for Luly.in and Robo.licious.org (two new sites of mine, a project/collective site and an anime/manga review one). Luly.in features an old illustration of mine in the header:

Today Simmy has been over for lunch. My parents seem to like him very much, and I’m happy with that, because I adore it when my family appreciates and loves my Children of the Heart. And Simone is a true angel. Yesterday morning I went to university to encourage him to do an exam, and after he was done, we went to Termini station to eat at McDonald’s, and to the cinema to watch Toy Story 3. Both of us ended up crying, for Andy and for the toys. But I won’t spoil the story here: go watch the movie if you wish to know.

Just a quick entry to tell you how proud I am of HP products. Scanners, printers, LCD TVs… the quality is always unbeatable, and I especially love my dear scanner, that allows me to scan high resolution versions of my inked drawings to color in Photoshop, either they be commissions or personal works. Same said with documents. Also, the scanner’s software auto-updates every day, with no hassles, and the image editing program that comes with the scanner did let me do a good job even when I couldn’t use Photoshop for some time. ^_^ Just neat. I should post a photo of my dear scanner sometimes.

I wish I could stay online for longer tonight, but I can’t, so I’ll be posting something ‘more personal’ tomorrow or on Sunday. Here’s what I’ve done today anyway:

- did my daily online job
- updated Characters’ blog
- did graphics and coding of two layouts
- installed those layouts on Luly.in and Robo.licious.org
- finished the first chapter of a book about Evariste Galois and his Group Theory
- planned my sites’ contents (offline)
- continued my short stories

I wish all days were THAT productive. Hehe.

What else? I just ended a two-hours long conversation on the phone with my son Simmy. It was lovely. ^.^ It gave both of us a chance to spend time together, to vent on each other, cuddle and laugh and plan things for the next weeks, and I must say I do feel a lot more relaxed now… especially after the hurt my sister caused.

You see, I have always had a deep love in singing, and I’ve been part of a Church chorus for 9 years before quitting because I was too busy and because most chorus members were quitting as well. My voice is not the greatest on Earth, but people used to say it was lovely to listen to, and so I kept on feeding this hobby of mine, until my sister took all of the available “singing hours” at home (hours in which nobody is sleeping/studying/working) and I let her because she said she wanted to turn that hobby into a future career. That meant the end of my singing days, excepting Sundays at Church, where I kept singing, even though not as a part of a choir. Now, three days ago, I went to Rome with my sister to replace a friend of hers – who couldn’t come to the singing lesson my sister had paid to her as a birthday present – and listen to my sister sing as well. I didn’t really want to, because my shyness has grown tick on me since I quit singing, and I was almost certain to mess up and get laughed at. Well, it didn’t happen. The teacher told me I’ve got a good voice, that I’m a soprano, that my voice is well setted and tuned, and that the only trouble I need to overcome is my tick shyness. Even so, he was very objective about it, he didn’t favourite any of us… but my sister, at home, acted like I had been complimented more than her, and to say the truth she had been not much of a good company during the whole trip to and from Rome. It really hurt me, because all I wanted was spending a good time with her.

Today she ‘attacked’ me again: she had a free lesson with that same teacher on Skype, and since he had seen me around from the webcam, he asked my sister whether I could be given 10 minutes off her lesson time to revise notes and pitches with him, and that my sister and I could make a duet at the end of the course; I refused, because I know that’s my sister’s dream and I didn’t want to intrude. After the lesson, I asked my sister to tell her teacher, next time, that I’m no longer interested in the course, so that he could focus on her only and stop mentioning me all the time. What I got from my sister was a cold “You can tell him yourself. After all, he should have realized that you’re not interested in singing.”
I was SHOCKED. O_O And HURT. She’s known about my love for singing for years, and I was the one to introduce her to singing for fun… and that’s what I get from her now?! What hurt me as well, was that she showed no gratitude for my sacrifice, nor the smallest consideration for my feelings.

I know what to do now: I will contact the teacher and I will tell him I’m not going to follow his course this year for lack of money, BUT in two years of time… OH YEAH! I’m going to! And without my sister around. I’m done dealing with her selfishness. I love her because she’s my sister, but I can’t tolerate being treated this way. So, she can enjoy her singing course now. I will do when my time comes, and believe me, I shall be a little selfish too. She needs to learn a lesson.

P.S. This is a rant-ish entry, I know, but I needed to let this out. Hope it didn’t bore you too much.

I am currently working on a new website, Lou’s Novella Journal, kindly hosted by Tran at novella.nu, completely dedicated to sharing updates on my writing projects, including fanfiction, poetry, blogging and stories to publish. There is pretty much nothing to look at for the moment, but if you would be so kind to leave a comment or a suggestion, I would greatly appreciate it.

So, I had my English exam on June 23rd. It was easy, just a text to read with a number of questions to answer. The only problem was that some exercises and words in text were completely errated, and I was unsure on how to answer, or whether correct the TEXT itself or not. I decided to write the words the way they had put it (even though they were wrong) to show that I know the meaning, and at the same time, to highlight the mistake. I’m waiting for the results now. ^^ They said they would be up on the university website the evening of the same day, but it’s now two days and they aren’t up yet. Talk about seriousness…

Tomorrow I’m leaving for another 2-days vacation again, with my son Alberto. This is the last vacation we take together, unless we manage to find another day within July and August to dedicate to ourselves only, but I’ve got my Calculus exam on September, so that’s unlikely to happen. We’ll see.

Least but not last, an update on an art commission I’m currently working on (characters by Mira518, commissioned by her). ‘Later!

So, what now? … I PASSED my Discrete Mathematics exam!!! YAY! Got a 20/30, which is a big score to me, as the subject was really hard to learn and master. I’m proud of myself and I’m thankful for life to my lovely Simmy for helping my guide and support through the learning of this wonderful but difficult subject. Thank you sweetheart!

My 25th birthday comes on the 17th of June. Can you believe it?!? I’m a quarter of a century old! ’ But in the end, it doesn’t feel that bad at all: I’m still a teenager at heart, a kid to be precise, a dreamer, a creative being who shall never stop having fun with the simplest joys in life, and who’ll never stop playing with creativity. That’s the way God made me and I cherish it every day of my life.

Tomorrow night (on the 16th) I will celebrate my birthday with my best friend Cristina and her boyfriend. They invited me over for dinner, how sweet! ^w^ They did this because they can’t come to my birthday lunch at the restaurant on the 17th; they only people who will come are my Simone and my other good friend Serena. I had invited another friend too (Claudia), but she’s working on that day, so she can’t come. I really miss her, and I hope I can talk to her on Facebook in the next days. ^^ Now that I’m free of that exam I can spend more time with my friends and my kids.

Here’s a little list of this week’s projects and to-do-list:

• continue writing articles on Blogging Characters
• resume Art Commissions
• finish translating a Robocity story
• update Characters’ blogs
• launch new Character’s sites
• continue writing the short story “Evergreen”

A little big list, huh? I just missed doing this stuff too much! I love Maths, but studying it at marathon pace meant not being able to keep up with the other things, and I missed them badly, too badly.

‘Later, babes. <3

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Algebra 1 answers and Algebra 1 problems you may encounter along your learning process. Same can be said for Algebra 2 help, also available on TutorVista. Algebra 2 problems and Algebra 2 answers are provided by the tutors and their learning materials, and assisted with through the whole course.

Regarding some Algebra 1 help I promised, here’s a small paragraph I’m offering to help you with equations. Hope I can start a learning tips site sometimes soon anyway.

First Degree Equations
A first degree equation is an equation in the form ax + b = 0.
Let’s work out an example together, to see how to solve it. It’s very simple.
Example: 3x + 2 = 0.
Given this first degree equation, what you want to do by solving is to isolate the x (which is unknown) and give it a value. We do this with these simple 3 steps:
1. Take the + 2 to the right side, by changing its sign: 3x = - 2
2. Now, you need to isolate the x, because it is shown as a product of 3 and x. To isolate it, you need to divide left and right side by 3, because by doing so, you will obtain (3/3)x on the left side, and you should know already that a number divided by itself gives 1 as a solution. Hence: (3/3)x = (-2)/3
3. Last step; just finish your simplification and you’ve found the searched value for x: x = (-2)/3

See you soon!

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Well, regarding MY websites now, I’m going to finish a few updates and then off to study again. I just missed it too much (working on my sites) and I got especially behind on my Characters‘ ones. A pity. I will update again here in a few days, and eventually notify you if I got some new Characters-related update that could be interesting for you all. Sayonara for now. ^^ *mwah* Love you!

Anyway, I’m sorry for the lack of commenting, tagging and updates in general. I’m trying to focus on this exam (Discrete Mathematics) and I hope all my sacrifices will pay off next month. After that, I’ll take 1 week or relax and I’ll MASS-UPDATE/COMMENT/TAG everyday, I promise! ;D

By the way, did you know that it can be better to buy gold bullion than “storing” money as cash/currency? O_O” I didn’t know… but it seems that gold is not influenced by recession and/or all those changes in economy and value that affect normal coins and goods. Good to know, and better late than never. ^^

Since nobody claimed my FREE domain givaways in my previous entries, here’s the domains again if you wish to claim any.

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I’m considering purchasing another one or two cell phone plans for my spare Blackberry phone I bought on eBay a few years ago and never used. I don’t like wasting my things, so it would be good to get a SIM card to us with it. :-/ I would get a Vodafone card probably, because that’s one my son uses, and I could talk to him for longer hours without spending the endless Euros I spend now. ^^” With Vodafone it would be like 38 cents per call, I believe…? Not sure yet, but it certainly won’t be the usual 5 Euros per call anymore! O_O Hehe. Save save save people!

As for other plans I was checking out, I found some to be cheaper on Billshrink; at least, that’s what I could see so far. Billshrink is nothing more than a FREE service that lets users compare various cellphone card offers and pick the cheapest available, as well as offering low-price combinations. It’s a good tool to save lotsa money. ^^ Although it does not work with all services (only T-Mobile, Sprint and the like), it’s a good starting point, isn’t it?

I might get myself a business card if things go well in the future. We’ll see. I heard they have some good deals, but I should check locally. Things change from country to country.

Well, that’s all for today. I have more work to do, studying and the Holy Mass in the afternoon, so nothing else to tell you so far. See ya!

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I’ve heard about teen drug rehab centers, and the charming work they do to get these young boys and girls out of drug addiction. I think it’s very good a thing that these centers do exist, especially since teen drug treatment can be tougher than for adults, because teenagers are so fragile, and they often hide deeper psychological or family issues behind the use of drugs and alcohol.

There are so many nice programs on the California teen drug rehab website, and so many initiatives… I hope we’ll get something like that over here too. Kids and teens should never be left alone, and this is coming from one that has suffered from depression in the past, during 4 of her teen years. Nothing to joke about, really..

Some useful readings to learn more about teen addiction:
- Samsa.gov for teen addiction info
- Drugabuse.gov for teen drug statistics

It’s always better preventing than curing. Always!

I’m earning some fast cash online these days, with my writing jobs, and I’m so glad, because I need some stuff as soon as possible:

- various eBay items
- a new textbook for university
- cash to book my vacation
- cash to bring with me on vacation
- spare cash to use on gifts/presents/packages

Sometimes it’s not easy when you have many expenses, and you only have a certain budget, but small online loans have become a reality nowadays, and interest is low, so… why not? At least I don’t have to wait for payday and risk loosing an opportunity, or get behind with studying because I can’t afford the book at the moment. The new textbook I need to buy is not urgent, so I can wait for May’s payday to purchase it, but you know, it might not always be so nice and quiet.

Do you ever ask for small loans to help pay your studies? Does it work for you? Let me know.

You know, sometimes I’m tempted to get a cash advance loan to pay for all my needed or wished items (books, DVDs, maternity stuff, etc.) but then I’m scared that I won’t be able to return money monthly, even though I’m sure they are very small payments if I only ask for a $300 loan. :-/ Am I weird? Maybe, but I’m usually very careful when it comes to money, thus I will explore all possibilities before going for a loan. Any suggestions, you babes?

I’m also considering selling single short-stories on request for $4 each, to add up to my earnings. What do you think? ^^ I love writing, and 3-4 pages short-stories would do for the price.

Have you noticed that it got a PR3 now? *_* Awww… happiness!

You know, it’s been a long time also since I last bought a girly mag. ^^ The fact is that the news and beauty sections written on online magazines are enough to me. I don’t need to spend money on paper to get the last Celebrity News, ‘aight? I like reading about celebrity news because I can relate to many of them for a lot of stuff, especially for parenting and about living our own life in OUR style, and not others’; but it’s also fun to see what they come up with in their lives, and the so many things that are different from my views. Celebrities are nothing but people like us who’ve gotten a chance to show off their skills in some fields (moda, cinema, singing, etc.) and I’ve got to admire most of them for their braveness. I hope I can be less shy with time, and be a little more of a ‘tiger’ like them, who fight for their dreams everyday. Yep!

As for other news, I have now one of my children helping me with Maths topics at university. ^-^ I won’t mention his name, but just know that he’s an adorable sweetheart, and I’m so happy to be his MOM! *_* Well, second mom, because he has a mom already… but hey! 2 is better than 1, isn’t it so? Every time I look at his beautiful green eyes, I feel like melting inside, as if I have given birth to him. If you have kids, I’m sure you know what I mean.

I’m off to sleep now. See you soon with more updates! Love you! *mwah*

I’m also getting my mind to work around some of my Transformers/Robot Characters’ designs, especially those who have a vehicle alt mode. I like the spoilers shown off on Carid.com for instance, and I might rest my heart on that for color and style reference. I’m just not very sure yet, whether using them for reference design or just go ahead and invent my own. I tell you: I’m not THAT smart! XD Not yet, at least… Oh well, there’s still a lot of time to come to a final decision.

As for university classes… oh, they’re great! Got Linear Algebra and Physics this semester, and my teachers are F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!! Hehe. I also have found a wonderful “Child of the Heart” at university, but you should GO and READ my last post on Sweet-Loves.net to know about it. ^_^ Awww I’m so happy!

Please, whoever claimed a free domain for adoption on Honey-Babe: tell me in a comment, because I lost the comments and I don’t remember who claimed what. Thanks!

Ah, there’s a thing I want to tell you guys about the paid blogging issue: no matter what FTC regulations say, if you really purchased a certain product and feel like giving a word out about it on your blog, GO AHEAD and do it! There is no reason to be scared, seriously. They just want people to be honest and not write biased reviews. Sometimes you can read the product reviews on article sites to get an idea; you can find more neutral articles too, and some have been written by people who directly used a certain product. It’s just important to never spam, and never ‘advertise’ something. But writing opinions online is a RIGHT of every Internet citizen. Nobody can close your mouth shut, okay?

And since we’re in topic of reviews: I read some nice ones about cellphones and birthday cards if you wish to take a look. They’re nice readings, useful for your visitor section too, to get more ideas. Heh, the web is a real big resource to add more stuff to our little sites. ^^

So anyway, I’m continuing my studies. I managed to pay the 2nd semester fee with my own earnings, and that was so satisfying! I can finally say I’m proud of myself, hehe. I hope I’ll make it to pass those Calculus and Discrete Mathematics exams before March 2011, so I can go on with the other ones and get my degree in 3-4 years. Please God, assist me!

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I have done a questionnaire given at my PHP course, and I scored 80/100. :3 w00t! That’s good! I’m happy with it, especially considering that I’ve been rushing to catch up on lessons. XD I’m going to test more PHP scripts tomorrow, and continue my lessons. Can’t wait.

Right now, it’s 1AM and I’m so freakin’ tired! =_= Just finished writing a batch of paid reviews at WARP speed, and I can’t even control my brain anymore… Bleh. More updates coming soon, too tired to do anything right now. See ya..

Yes, my Characters – especially from the Prime Family and Robocity – strongly want my attention of late.

A set of dodge ram photos gave me new ideas for Robocity characters to insert in my stories and blogs. w00t! Since the Dodge Ram 2500 is a strongly built car, I’m thinking of making it into an adult robot who has worked in the transport field on the mountains, and was later on replaced with a new one, so he went to Robocity and became a citizen. This is only a draft though. I have other ideas that cadillac cts specs and buick lucerne specs provided to me last night. I will write more about these ones on luana.milk-drops.com later today though, because I have to go to a birthday party in a few hours.

So, would anyone be interested in articles on how to create a character that blogs online? I just thought I would love to share my creative ideas and activities with you darlings, so that you can give it a try.

Let me know!

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Want any? Just reply to this comment, by leaving your email contact. I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Now, back to something of a more serious topic. You know what Home Loans are, right? Money that banks and loan companies lend to individuals to make up for immobile or restructuring payments that would get years and years to cover otherwise. Well, I’m not sure if the situation is good in your country when it comes to buy an apartment or a house, but here in Italy we’re kind of messed up. Loan payback interest is kind of high, and loans are only given to people with a fixed/semi-fixed job. That’s really bad, since most people nowadays don’t have a fixed job, but work on part-time and/or up-to-6 months contracts. I’m hoping that this situation will be solved by our government asap, because this way not just the immobile marketing is going to die, but also people won’t have a chance to buy their own house, and live with their parents or other relatives for undefinite time. It’s not pleasant, trust me… I hope this situation will come to an end by the time I start looking around for a single apartment (around year 2018-2020), and that my friends will get to find a good apartment or a house somewhere to move out and get married.

If I’ll be lucky, I’ll get to find a good small apartment in Velletri, my mom’s birth-town. Some are sold for about €50k which is not bad, and can be bought easily with a small personal loan too, and paying the rest of the price with one own’s savings. I can just dream for now, but you know… just to get an idea of what type of life I’m looking forward to in the future.

Question for my readers: How’s your country when it comes to get home loans and/or pay for immobiles?

So, here’s my list of goals I hope I get to accomplish within December 2010:

- continue university OR go to work for a web-design/comic-book company
- self-publish and sell my e-book of Sci-Fi short stories “Lights of Metal and Sky”
- get ALL of my Characters’ blogs started (even if seldom updated)
- loose a jeans size (aka, 5-6 kilos)
- learn to code well in PHP

- feeling good with myself and worthy despite of eventual failures in studies and careers

That’s my program. I don’t ask for more. I like to live my life daily, to enjoy the present, because programming and scheduling too much just makes me feel trapped and causes anxiety attacks and depressions. And trust, me it sucks!

Tomorrow at 11AM I’m going out with Cristina (my best friend) and her boyfriend. It’s been so long since I’ve hanged out with an old friend! Sure, I met sweet Edit last month, but here I’m talking about a long time friend who lives nearby. Adult life makes us all so busy, and when we have a little chance to be together, it can only be welcomed with joy as a precious thing. And you know? Cri’s boyfriend is such a nice person! He likes to joke a lot, but he’s kind, so I feel at ease with him. Most times I don’t ask Cri to go out because I don’t want to take her too much time away from her boyfriend and her things to do (especially now with her grandma in hospital.. please pray for her if you can!) but when we can go out all together, I’m fine with it. I’m a bit shy now because I haven’t had a real social life for so long, but she’s my best friend and I’m sure I’m going to feel at ease again soon.

Okay, this post has gotten too long already… See you soon! And again, Happy New Year!!!

I miss her so much now. x3 Hehe.

And by the way… MERRY CHRISTMAS BABES!!!

I’m at grandma’s house right now. Spending the holidays with my family. Too bad Internet works only randomly here, so I’m sorry I can’t connect to messengers or myspace and stuff like that. I will blog hop a bit as the connection allows me. This morning I went to the Mass with grandma and aunties, and it was so cool. The priest of that Church is very sweet and kind, and helped us understand the Sacred Scriptures a lot better than others. I hope I can attend Mass there again sometimes.

I’m still thinking what to buy for my parents and my siblings for Christmas. I had an exam these past days, so I couldn’t go out to buy anything. I hope I can get new floor mats for dad’s Toyota car soon as I can. Just thought that up, because I really don’t know what to buy for him these holidays. ” He’s around car accessories a lot lately, so I guess he would find these nice and useful. Toyota floor mats look much comfy too. x3 Hehe. As for mom, I might buy her a make-up trousse or something useful for the house. My siblings? Have no idea, so I might just give them a little pocket money in Christmas card. Just a little money though, I can’t afford much.

Take care sweethearts! Wish you a happy holiday season!!

On December 15th I went to Rome to meet my friend Edit, a special sweet friend I met online on DeviantART two years ago, and with whom I built, during the years, a strong friendship. She’s been my online confident so many times that I lost count, and when she told me, a few weeks earlier, than she would come to Italy this month, I almost jumped with the joy. You know? A whole trip from Hungary to here! That’s so sweet of her. She took her son too, a sweet young boy. It was so cute to meet him too. :3

Well, the only bad thing actually was that I didn’t have too much time to spend together, because of that Math test I had to prepare, but I cherished those 2 hours ’till the last minute. I almost didn’t want to leave, LOL.

That’s us at the bar where we stayed and talked for 2 wonderful hours. Please, don’t mind the big-ness of my cheeks and of my eyebags… that’s what stress and lack of sleep gets me to ‘earn’. Gah! Gladly I’m back to okay face now. The bless of a long night sleep, hehe.

So, we spent that time talking for the most, and I showed her a LOT of my Robocity and Prime Family drawings I had carried along. Edit has been following AND supporting my imaginary stories continuously during these two years, and I thought it would be nice to show her the ‘making’ of all those characters, stories, comics… since their beginnings, back on 2001 and 1998 respectively. Yeah, they’ve been part of my heart for that long time, hehe.

It was so sweet! She was moved and excited at everything I showed her, and of the fact itself that she got to meet me! I felt like having a fan, can you imagine the feeling? X3 It made me feel special, and that’s really something, especially at this time, when I mostly see failures. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Edit!!

It was so cute when she showed me the Transformer toy in her bag, thinking that I would consider it odd… when I had one in MY bag too! XD Ahah! I opened my bag to show her and both of us burst into a heartfelt laugh, ahah! How cute :3

Aww I wish she had some of doodles and stories along. I would have loved to see the originals! Somehow, I feel guilty that I was the only one to show her my stuff. And I so wish I could see her again the day afterwards, but alas I had to study so I couldn’t. Too bad I had had no chance to go out and buy her a present (her coming was a BIG Christmas present to me! ); I gave her one of my unused sketch albums for artists as a gift. So good that she liked it even though it was a very tiny thing, heh. <3

I look forward to go visit her to Hungary one of these years. After I have my trips to US and Germany of course, since I’ve been trying to go visit my children there for 2 years now. *sigh* Oh well, sooner or later.

Anyway, it would be nice if you could visit her DeviantART site: http://swift117.deviantart.com. If you like Transformers, robots and photography in general, you’re going to like it.

P.S. I’m waiting for another photo of us together that Edit took with her cellphone. I’ll post that up when she gives it to me.

P.S.(2) My spoken English was kinda bad this time. Pronunciation was okay enough, but I had troubles articulating my mouth muscles. LOL. I hadn’t been practicing in over a year xD

I got a nice Christmas suprise from Google, as you can see: Honey Babe is back to PR2! Thank you Google! Now I have to be careful and try to maintain/increase my rankings. I want to see Honey Babe back to its old splendors, hehe.

Also, I thought it was due time that I re-plugged a reminder about ‘How to comment on my Characters’ Blogs‘. If you have never read this tutorial before, please do! It’ll spare you a lot of confusion. My Characters blogosphere is going to be always updated here, so if you’re looking for the URLs, just browse that directory and you’ll find them all. For today, I’ll only plug

I’m at grandma’s house now. Been here since December 1st, to enjoy a week with my granny and aunties, to relax, study and work on my personal projects, without the noise and crowd that’s my apartment in Genzano. I live with my parents and siblings, so you know… silence and quietness are luxuries at home. I can breath when I’m here at grandma’s, since it’s countryside, and I can regain my psychological and emotional balance. Gladly, the Internet connection has never failed to work this week (a Christmas gift from granny’s ISP..?), so I’ve been able to work on my sites and blogs too.

As for the exam results, it’s like I knew it: I didn’t pass it. But I don’t care. I could see how exams work at University, and I know what to do next time. Plus, now I’m no longer behind, or perhaps just a bit, but I’m sure in 2 months of time I’ll be able to retake the exam and do it all, and pass it. I don’t care if with the minimum grade (18/30) but I’ll pass it. I love Maths, and I’m loving it more and more as I study it. And since we’re in topic… I just got 2 Maths books in the mail half an hour ago. One is about Advanced Geometry, the other is about Logic. Lovely!

Going to update Enterprise’s and other Characters’ blogs now. ‘Till later!

First, I joined this new writing program and it WORKS! I received two jobs already, and it’s awesome:

And the second thing I’m plugging here is one of my most recent commission artworks from my DeviantART account:

COMMISSION – Sleeping Family by =LuanaTF on deviantART

I hope you like it Click on the picture to see it bigger. Sorry about the watermark, but it’s a commission.

See ya soon babes. xoxo

This contest is still running, so if any of you darlings has a relative who underwent vision correction, you can tell them about this contest. Sounds like a nice idea after all.

These are the Prizes:
- Grand Prize: $5,000
- First Prize: a of $2,500 in value

- Second Prize: a Flip UltraHD™ camcorder (about $200 in value)

There are 3 categories to which you can submit your video:
- “You should see life after the iLASIK® Procedure”
- “My contacts are getting in the way of my good time”
- “My favorite sport or activity would be so much cooler with better vision”

After that, you simply need to get your friends and relatives to vote for it. Not too hard, isn’t it? Tell anyone who might be interested.

Many online friends have been asking me how do I earn so much money that allows me donating and buying every month. Well, I’ll tell you guys, it’s very simple: I use paid to blog networks. They can become your best work-at-home job if you write each article seriously and if you integrate it well with your website(s) contents. That’s the secret, my darlings. There nothing more than that.

As for new platforms I’m currently experimenting, my most productive one is currently being BlogAdvertisingStore.com:

To add new blogs to the BlogAdvertisingStore system, read the tutorial titled “How to submit and verify a blog at blogadvertisingstore?” first. It’ll make your life easier! And reserving tasks is also easy on this site: just click on “Reserve Opportunity” on the top of each opp, and you will get 6 hours to write the article immediately.

You can read more about paid-to-blog systems on Wikipedia. Good luck with your money earning, sweet sisters & brothers!

As for my personal life, I can tell you that I feel better already and that I think I’ll be able to go to classes on Monday. Yay! I’m so sick to be sick! XD Ahah. I’m still taking medicines to avoid a repeat of this mess, but I should be out of danger now. I really hate bronchitis, either it be H1N1 or a normal one.

So… I have a new blog too! It’s http://luana.milk-drops.com And it’s going to be the blog where I post updates about my characters’ blogs, etc. Please, bookmark it and check it out often if you want to know more about my Characters’ blogs and stories, because it’s THERE that I’m gonna update big from now on! See you there! *mwah*

P.S. I’m open for link exchanges on luana.milk-drops.com