Hey bokkies!!I forgot to say this in my earlier post - tomorrow I'm leaving for the National Game Reserve to see the elephants and lions and whatsits (quite literally) - it's called the Kruger National Park, and I'll be gone for about six days. I'm sure you all will be quite relieved to be without my whinging for a week; but I'll come back and make up for it.;DDon't get into too much trouble, children - and now for a terrible lame/cheesy/ridiculously cliched saying: Be good, and if you're gonna be bad: take pictures.I'll reply toyour comments when I get back.xxxAlliePs. Has anyone seen Marie(fanoflost) lately? Is is worried.EDIT: ah. I see. She posted yesterday. *is embarrassed* Off...too...see the animals now...*slinks away*Oh, wait, everyone who doesn't know Annie, meringue_kiss, I demand you go and get to know her now. She is the best thing since Shoebox Project did voice tapes.

Kill me.
I have never been so bored in my entire life. Boredom BEYOND the valley of boredom in the land of the bored.Why is no one online? Why is no one updating their journals? Not even fanfiction seems to amuse me. The next time you hear from teh Allie she will have gained 500 pounds, and not even baggy sweats will fit her. Because Allie eats when shes bored.So curse you all for not saving me from immense obesity.Oh sorry, sorry day....

(There is art in the entry, you'll just have to put up with all of this first. ;D) I have, actually, lost all faith in myself. I have gotta be the biggest bum, arse, idiot, retard thing EVER.As you all now know, it was my one year friendship anniversary on the 4th of July with Cath - a very important date for me - one that I had diarised for some time.In the rush to make a post on the day, (I was going out, and running late as usual) I must've not been thinking at all that clearly, because, like the complete imbecile I am - I put the post on "Private", thinking that I was putting it on "Public". Yes. I actually DID that. *bashes head* Cath, you can spank me now.Now onto the original post and gifts.----
THE LOVE:A year, A YEAR it has been now. And to think it all started with the Round Robin. It was Cath, as some of you might know, who forced me to get this LJ after months of correspondence via email- she sent glorious people to friend my pathetic self, and proceeded to cheer me on as I destroyed the Harry Potter characters, one by one, by drawing them. Badly. In many, many ways, Cath has changed the way I see the world. She introduced me the bare bones of what makes my f-list today - made me completely delirious with comments full of support and hilarity; and never failed to be utterly positive about everything. Without her, I would surely not know how to function - because of Cath, I have made many new friends; discovered a whole world of online love and support that I would never have found without her. A constant source of inspiration; and a happy drug in human form, my Cath-Dragon has constantly urged ALL of us on, and simply - to put it in a nauseatingly lame form - has made me a better Allie/Jestin. Not one day has gone past where I haven't loved that girl with every inch of my vandalised heart, and I thank the great Merlin every day that I fell upon Obsessive Lily Disorder on fanfiction.net. (Even though I had stomach cramps from laughing so hard) Cath - I salute you. I feel at times I do not deserve such a being on my f-list: a true deity on livejournal; a true Harry Potter obsessive on the net, and a true friend. May one day we eat mango together.

Apart from Sasha and Cath spamming my journal with "Vagina Heads", I have nobody to lecture in THIS post....But, I do have this: me and Sasha ( sasush33 ) were busy having a nice chat on AIM, when one of us said, "Naughty Allie!" (it might have been me) - somehow, my brain thought "Lets google this!", and I did, and now I'm scarred.www. naughty allie. com(It's a dead link, because I dont want my children to go looking at shit like that, I just wanted you to see the name.)WTF?????!!!! How, HOW, IS IT POSSIBLE, that the ONLY random phrase I decide to google, turns out to be a main stream PORN WEBSITE, dedicated to some plastic blonde nymphomaniac, who calls herself "NAUGHTY ALLIE"?????Please, PLEASE LORD, if you are trying to send me a sign....YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR IS NOT APPRECIATED.Shoving that aside: an apology about the no art issue....I...feel bad....about...that... I didnt really *do* much yesterday....*cringes*Well, I did do something, except I can't show you it, until...later...And, well, I suppose can show you some weird doodles? If you like? *scrolls through "My Pictures"* They are tres rough, mind you...But here they are anyway...I still have to do them over with darker pencil. They are very old....And stuff...
Some Harry Potter guy: I dunno, have you heard of him?This one was for Laura, but as you can see it's still not done...*dies* (Remus) Younger James:(For Annie)And Riley, (Hey Morgan!), and the Harry Potter + KnightinGayle idea I was playing with a while ago...

I'm iiiiillllllll....(ie. sick, since that word looks funny like that) - and it's not pleasante. I'm sniffing and whinging and snorting and moaning to everyone that will still let me converse with them - and I FULLY BLAME KIM AND JULIETTE AND STUART FOR CAUSING ME SUCH PAIN.They have all been sick lately: Kim with a sore throat, Juliette with the congested nose and Stuart with the headache - and after spending time with them I think I have gotten ALL of their sicknesses, because I have a sore throat, a congested nose, and a headache.Consequently, I hate my friends because now I can't breathe.:(Anyway, yesterday I had fun, before I got the DEATHLY DISEASE. Julz and I went to the main part of the city (it's called "Town", except it sounded so weird to say "Julz and I went to town..." lol) - for the purpose of shopping, but we ended up going to the museum (!! I know!! Oddness!!) - and getting the shit scared out of us with the HUGENESS of the fake dinosaurs and the darkness of the stuffed animal section....ARGHOLA!! ITS FRIGHTENING.Anywayals.
About the BAD ART.First it was exams, and then it was Caberet, and then it was the vacation/holidays - and my friends have consumed most of my time the last past week or so. Also, I seemed to have an art block - I did loads and loads of sketches: literally, I have tons, but none of them I liked and/or wanted to post, thus explaining the lack of art.HOWEVER.Today, because I am sick, and unable to go out, I am going to go on a sketching BINGE, although I'm feeling tres uninspired, and I swear that by the end of today - or tomorrow morning, depending, I will have done something okayish.

Right.Right.This, actually, has shocked me. I'm feeling PHYSICALLY ill.I'm going to say this, so it's clear, once and for all.I DO NOT STAND FOR RACISM.
It makes me SICK. DISGUSTED. FURIOUS. I hear a racist slur, and I go balistic.I live in Africa. I live in a country where people thought therewouldbea civil FUCKING WARwhen Apartheid (seperationof the races) finally ended. WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE COUTRY WAS OPPRESSED. People were KILLED. Black people where treated as PRISONERS in their own COUNTRY.Whites only areas, whites only schools, no inter-race marriages, sex, babies, beaches, BENCHES, TRAIN COMPARTMENTS, SHOPS.If you were FRIENDS with a black person, and you did ANYTHING TO SPEAK OUT AND SAY YOU DONT LIKE THE LAWS, you were thrown into prison.Black people weremoved out of houses - FAMILY HOMES - and they were BULLDOZED to makespace for the white people, who makeup like 15% of the population. The minority ruled the majority.I live in a country where the torment ofhatred andracismhas broken everything.See that?That's a little boy who's been shot, in his brothers arms. Hector Peterson was shot by police whilst protesting PEACEFULLY against the laws of apartheid. The police mowed down over a hundred kids - KIDS - KIDS - it wasa CHILDRENS MARCH - because they refused to disband, and break up the protest.Today, I live in a free country - with one of the most liberal constitutions in the world, where racists are not tolerated.I stand by that.If you have even the SLIGHTEST racist inclination - if you treat people according to their skin colour, not their person - IF YOU JUDGE BECAUSE OF COLOUR, IN ANY WAY - whether it be you don't want to be friends with Asians, or black people, or Hispanic - if you are in the slightest way PREDUJICED because of race, or because of religon - I WANT YOU OFF MY F-LIST.

Its seems that my parents aren't the only ones that are snooping lately.I just got an email from Rosie, cant_talk_pizza, that shes ok and we mustn't send out search parties - she just thinks her mom has been reading her email, and she's not allowed on the compy for ages.I can not even BEGIN to voice my unhappiness about this- but she did ask me to tell you all, so I'm doing so, because I live up to my duty. *salutes*READ THIS BIT. PLEASE.I was thinking yesterday:what happens if one of us dies? Or gets injured? And we can't make a post about it?The rest of your f-list would all be left stranded, and very upset. Becausetheywould have no way of knowing what has happened to you.HOWEVER, ALLIE HAS A PLAN. Please follow this - and do it - because if it becomes a standard thing, then none of us can ever worry if someone has been absent.So:IN CASE OF DEATH.
- Everyone pick a BUDDY on LJ, doesn't have to be your bestonline friend, justsomeone that you talk to OFTEN,you have their email and/or Chat thing - best be someone that you are not likely to fall out with anytime soon.- INFORM THEM that you have chosen them.- Now, get a piece of paper. On it, write down their email address, and a note saying "If anything happens to me, please contact this person, and explain what has happened. Please tell them to use [enter ONLY your livejournalpassword here]"- Fold the paper up, and seal it with spellotape cellotape, or some adhesive that you will see if the seal has been broken.- Write "IN CASE OF MY INJURY/DEATH" on the front,- And stash it, NOT HIDDEN, in your beside drawer - or somewhere personal that people aren't likely to go snooping if you are still alive, but somewhere they WOULD look if you dropped down dead. Beside drawer = best idea. Or underwear drawer. Whatev. JUST DON'T HIDE IT.- Nothing will happen if someone did find it whilst snooping -the worst they could do is email the person, but you'd notice if the seal had been broken, and you could contact your BUDDY before they get emailed by said crazy snooper.- If your parents find it, and start asking awkard questions - just say that it's an old friend "Melissa" who moved to [enter some state in America here]in primary school, who you recently got in touch with, and who you talk to.- If you are someone's BUDDY, and you get an email: DON'T GO NUTS. First email the person concerned, and wait at least a week for their reply.-After a week or so of not hearing from them,use their password, and make a post on their journal. IF YOU DON'T GET A PASSWORD IN THE EMAIL, post it on YOUR journal, and try on contact the rest of their f-list. [/END FOOLPROOF PLAN]

For those of you who have been around on LJ for the last few days, might've noticed that this journal was deleted. Im really, really, REALLY sorry about all the confusion - and for those of you who noticed, and then worried: you're unbelievably wonderful, and I love you.
But two people do take the cake for worrying this time: Cath and Annie...*sniffs* Loss for words. Thanks for caring so much; you really made me feel loved. I'm sorry for the upset, and Annie: the google-ing of "Allie Death South Africa" was priceless.For those of you who don't know, here's the mystery behind the deleted LJ,The breakdown:- Forgot to log out on teh dad's PC after visiting LJ- He looked in history, found the link- I realised what was going on, went to my other PC, and deleted the journal.End of story,It'd be a coolertale if I could say I was attacked and mauled to death by a Rhino.And I live in Africa, too, so that's totally possible.

Um, yeah: here's a James Potter/Harry Potter. I was experimenting with contrasts - instead of focusing the light and dark, I only concentrated on the shadows; and made the light parts just blank pieces of extreme white. I thought it had a nice sort of different touch to it, and I might use the style later on.For noneedofcrepe- as a thank you for rec-ing my art.In other doodle news: the drawings I did, I ended up liking; so I'm going to watercolour them, if I have time later on.Expect them up fairly soon, bokkies.Oh, ages ago someone said something about putting my art on communities on LJ (might have been Cath?) - anyway, I was thinking I might, but I'm not sure, because some of the stuff it's mad - (mad = fantastic) - and it's a really daunting prospect...What do you guys think? Should I wait a while? Hopefully my stuff is improving, so maybe I'll get a bit better...

For those of you who had a peek atmiss_xdivine 's journal (aka. Kerry Kelly....That was a joke, bokkie...:D) - will know of the challenge and the sign that she did. I also explained and gloated about it last time, so I'll refrain from doing it again. ANYway, I did a quickie doodle for her in appreciation - and this is what I came up with.Look at the lame-ass poles! *snorts* I just scribbled them on in a fit of inspiration/stupidness.... Now you know why I never do bgrounds...Yes, I know it stinks. I did it in HB pencil thinking I was going to colour it - but ended up not having time to, so it had to stay like it was - a pencil drawing, but without 6B pencil (a usual, dark, soft drawing pencil. And HB is the normal, hard kind; that you used in junior school before pens.)On another note, I have recently become aware of the fact that apparently "diss" my art because I'm fishing for complements.Trust me, this is not the case. I truly dispise my art most of the time; not because I want you to complement me, or lie, or whatever: it's because I just do.Occassionaly, when I LIKE something I've done, I will say so. Remember that pencilled emo!Sirius? That'sthe closest to liking somethingof mine I've ever come - Ialmost did.And then I screwed it up. So, please, please don't think that I say Ihate it, so you'll feel compelled to say you like it: I say I hate it because I do.I do a drawing exam tomorrow. Wish me luck!Ps. Any way to find out who's added ME as a buddy on AIM, so I can add them? Sorry, I know I'm annoying you lot...Ha. XDPPs. Did you know I actually posted this without the picture? That's how tired I am...I had to go back and add it in...*facepalm*