Lighty Luffs Photoshop

Hey all! It's been 9 days since my last entry *gasps*. I'm so sorry, but as you probably already know if you're reading this, I have tons of schoolwork. But I'm actually updating today, on a Tuesday!!! *applauds herself* I've had a bunch of stupid homework, but I've finished it all and had time to get on the computer, finally. I actually tried to get on to post an new entry here on Sunday, but Blogspot wasn't working :'( What with all the homework, I haven't been very high on KitClan-excitement, but I made 6 avatars today, and I hope to get the avatar page up ASAP.

My first 5 avatars are just Clan ones, and I made an additional "KitClan Fan" one. I've made a LOT of progress in Photoshop, I found out how to actually-actually-seriously put a gradient on my text. I have it seriously nailed down now ^^ I also figured out how to download fonts!!! So I used Scriptina a bunch just for fun, since it wasn't on the hundreds of default fonts. Here, you can see 2 of the avatars cuz I'm so nice:



So... uh... other then that, I haven't really done much for KitClan. I had a very busy weekend, because I went on a shopping spree (I seriously spent $200) for craft stuff and my very own IPod on Saturday while Pinchkit went to a birthday party. Then on Sunday I invited my friend who lives closest to me (2 1/2 miles away) to come and hang out. So we played with my newly bought crafts and started to film our very own radio show. Then my dad was mean and said she had to leave after she had only been here for about 5 hours. XD Anyways, that was a lot of fun. After she left, I played with my lufferly Photoshop.

By the way, if you're wondering "WHEN WILL KITCLAN OPEN?" and "WHY ISN'T LIGHTY OPENING IT IF SHE ALREADY HAS THE RPG SECTION DONE?" my answer is that I really won't be able to handle opening right now. Plus I'll procrastinate on the getting the graphics and extra sections up, which I know you don't care about, but I will care about it. Having to add more pages while people are already RPing will lower my enthusiasm. And I'll go on hiatus again. And you get the point. I'm trying, I really am, but you have to blame my teachers for not working on mi favorito Clan. Besides, if I open it now while I have so much homework, I'll just never come on. So, the point is, I hope it'll be up in mid-February, but don't hold me to that. You know how I keep lengthening this. So sorry, guys, really. I love KitClan as much as you all do, and I'm trying ;)

I luff you. I'll try to post another entry on Friday.
~Tu favorito kit, la Lightenator

--> KitClan <--

That's right, guys, I'm working on KitClan again!!! It's only about 11:00 here, but I've redone the layout. Don't worry, it's the same one as I was planning on having, only it's much neater and the page will just scroll down if I type more text than on the navigation bar, so there aren't any ugly scrolling bars on some of the pages, if you have any clue what I mean. Oh well, my staff members and the people who snuck in to look at it probably see what I mean. You bad sneakers! Anyways, I also took the butterfly/flower background off, because it was distracting, so now it's just a pretty pale green background. The layout also loads a lot faster. It took a lot of tinkering to accomplish all of that, but with trusty ol' Photoshop, Tinypic, and my external stylesheet, I got it all done.

I also finished the blinkies page. I added my kittypet blinkie to it, and Pumakit's prize. Do you mind, dear Puma? I loved yours so much I just had to put it on there. Oh, that reminds me, you haven't seen your prize yet! Here it is:

I hope you like it, I personally luff it <3 Feel free to stick it on your website, and yell at me if you don't want other people to be able to use it.

So, as I was saying, I didn't really add that much to the blinkies page, but I did take the ugly white border off of my KitClan blinkie before I put it on. I also figured out how to get to and use the ImageReady thing that comes with Photoshop. It is SO much easier than using Blibs, because each animation frame is just a layer. So instead of having to go to Blibs, uploading 17 images or whatever, and then trying to change the frame timing, I just plop it on my trust Photoshop, make the white stuff transparent, and save it using the ImageReady thing. I LUFF YOU, ADOBE!!!

All in all, it was a very productive morning. I'll probably work more on it this afternoon, but I need to take a shower and play with my darling pettie-poos. A.K.A, the Tiggle-Winkle, the Cheesey-poo, the Brownie-poo, and the Wacky Jacky. Yeah, I give my pets strange nicknames. I also need to tell my poor little puppy to shut up and not bark at my Tiggle-Winkle and Wacky Jacky. Anyways, I'm speaking nonsense now, so I really ought to leave o_O Just to let you know, I have tommorow off because of MLK day, so I can work on KitClan more, and on my *gulp* homework. This afternoon I'll also go through my email, which I've been neglecting again. So please, send me no emails until I respond to your old ones ^^

I luff you all. Alien VS. Predator is one of the scariest movies in the universe.
~The Lightenator

I'm Back!

From where? Oh, I'm back from being gone for 10 days... sorry about not being in contact, guys. I just managed to get through a whole full week of school, and I've had a lot of homework. I've also actually realized I still have pets in the winter, and I've been hanging out with my pony, donkey, two chickens, and I've paid more attention to my precious doggies. In case you don't know, you can tell pets pretty much anything, but often you don't even have to. I was going to originally rant away to my pony, but just her delicious fuzzy-hay-scent calms me down and I feel I can communicate with her telepathically ;)

So the point is that this blog isn't going to be much of a blog. Granted, I'll still tell you about my day, but I won't rant very much. I'm trying to spend time with all my pets and give them equal love and attention, which doesn't bode well for KitClan. With the time between reading, playing my Nintendo DS, homework, school, and pets, I'll try to work on KitClan. I'll mainly talk about KitClan from here on out, and you guys will be able to help me!

As for the prizes for the concert winners, Puma, I'm having issues with yours :( I'm sorry it's taking so long, yours is pretty cute but it isn't working x-( I'll try to get the link up ASAP.

The winner of the Shrek contest is... HERB!!! Congrats, Herb, you guessed the Gingerbread Man! "Starfish", my friend/non-friend/wierd-person, is this dude who I sit next to in Math. He's pretty hilarious, in a way I can't describe. Anyways, Starfish dressed up as the Gingerbread Man for Halloween, so that was the Shrek character that had randomly popped into my head. The point is, Herb, you won! Here's your prize!


Ugh, I don't sound like my Lightyself. The only KitClan thing I can think of right now is that I'm already getting bored of the new layout. It's pretty and green and blue, but it loads slowly because it's image-based. I also feel that it's a bit overdone. Do you guys have any ideas for what I should do? I do like it, I just feel bored with it... Maybe that's because I see it everytime I go online, because it's set as my home page o_O Anyways, thoughts?

Also, do you have any ideas for blinkies? I'm doing my blinkies page and I need some ideas so I can add more. They're a lot of fun to make, but I seriously need some help for what they should be.

That's all I can think about for now. I'm going to go hug my chicky-poos, Brownie and Cheese. LYL,
Lighty

Snow Day

No way. YES WAY! Today, as any Lighty-obssessed freak should know, was my day to go back to school. And we got a snow day for the first time all year! So I did get to devote my day KitClan <3 I re-re-did the "Awards" page, because it was messy the way I typed it up, and it looks much better now. My secret staff member is going to go through the members page to delete inactive kits as well, and I went through all the emails in my inbox. Applaud me v.v

So now I can actually send anyone an email. How great is that? I feel much better now that I got through all that stuff. I also worked on the KitClan forum but unfortunately I haven't figured out how to get the "Hi this is my forum blah blah blah" at the top. Please, I'm begging you, if you know how to do that, please tell me! I also made my own little icons for the navigation instead of the icky ones that are default. Oh, and I got two gifts from Willow and Dewy, as well as a cute little blinkie from Willow. So when I re-re-did my Awards page, I added the gifts (which were holiday greetings) and then I stuck the blinkie, which says "Lighty", on the Staff page. Oh, and my secret staff member told me the stuff to put on their profile.

Oh, right, I promised I would tell you who got my warrior name right. The lucky person is... PUMAKIT, who guessed "Lightblossom"!!! Congrats, Puma, I'm going to make you the promised blinkie after I finish this entry ^^ New contest: Erm... I'm thinking of a character from Shrek. If you guess the right one, you'll get... a special pixel of yourself!

I'd just like to thank you all for reading my blog and commenting. I used to not really get the point of a blog, and even when I had my MYSTICSOUL one, I didn't have a thing where you could comment directly at each entry, so I didn't get the full satisfaction of having one. Now, however, I've learned that having a blog helps me get everything out, and it's very nice to have people comment and tell me a little bit about how they're alike and different from me. It's really fun and just a nice thing in general, and I've also found links to my friends' blogs, so I can read their entries as well. It's actually really great to be able to look at the world through someone else's eyes, and to comment and tell them how I think of things. So thanks for commenting, and if you don't have a blog yet, I think you should just try having one.

We had a power outage for about four hours today. During the last hour, we turned on our generator, so I got to go on the computer again, and now we have power. Sadly, however, I was chatting with one of my friends on Gmail and then the power suddenly went out for a few seconds. When my computer finally restarted and I logged in again, she had logged out :'( *sniffle* Oh, well, I'll see her at school tommorow.

I'm running out of things to blog about, so I'm going to go make Puma's blinkie, and then I'll go and take a shower. Luff ya,
~The Lightenator

Tommorow = School

Yes, tommorow I go back to school. I've had two and a half weeks of vacation, which is clearly ah lot, but that doesn't mean that I'm missing homework or classes. True, I miss my friends, but I'd rather just stay around, ride my horse, and work on KitClan. Luckily, I'm prepared, and I've had my old bag that was about to fall apart replaced with a sturdy new one, and I've gone through my pencil bag, filled it with new pencils and pens, and reorganized so I can easily separate my markers, highlighters, pencils/pens, and other school stuff. My outfit is also planned out and right nearby, and I'm going to go to bed earlier tonight so I can sleep longer. I'm going to take a shower after I post this entry as well. I've also got my nails perfectly painted (so they don't look ratty XD) and I've worked on my confidence over break, as well as my hair *huggles her red hair streak*. Things I'm not looking forward to, though, are:
-Seeing my ex-boyfriend again. And knowing he still likes me *gulp*
-Seeing my arch-enemy, code warrior name: Deadhead.
-Homework. It takes away precious KitClan time! O_o
-Classes. I don't look forward to having to memorize about eight different songs in Choir, learning new hard Science stuff, preparing for a district assessment in World Geography, etc...
-Having seven hours a day wasted (no, that doesn't include lunch) -_-
On the other hand, lunch will be great. We have no food in this household, and I'm starving as I type!

Now that I'm done complaining about school, I'm going to buddy-complain. Well, I have a friend who's called me about three or four times over break. I kinda forgot to call her back for a couple of days, but I did end up leaving a message on her answering machine. She doesn't appear to have gotten it, though, or else she would've already called back (she's that kind of person). Then I was going through my email today, looking for the response for the support ticket I sent to Webs about the chatbox thing (guess what? I deleted enough chain mail, animal help emails, Webs emails, and Facebook things [I'm not going to go onto Facebook anymore, I think it's pointless] that I got 100-something emails down to 29 ^^). And I saw an email at the very top from her and the preview thing said something along the lines of "Are you mad at me? I hope not..." and I didn't have time to type out an email (well, because I'm going to see her tommorow anyway XD). So at school she's going to be bugging me about why I didn't respond to her calls (which I did) and if I'm angry at her (I'm not) and she's not going to believe I called her back and left a message, cuz this happened once before and she was sure that she hadn't seen a message so I must be wierd and super-forgetful and I hadn't called her (which I HAD!) So now I get to try and tell her I did reply, and she didn't see it, and I'm not losing my mind, and I'm not angry. Oh, StarClan, help me!

One last thing-- I'm making a KitClan forum for the "Your Story" page at Proboards. I can't figure out how to have the welcome thing at the top saying what it is, etc. Do you know anything that could help me figure this out?

Luff from Lighty

Red Streaks Rule

Hey guys, it's yours truly, Lighty! So first, to explain the title, "Red Streaks Rule".

I went shopping with my daddy on the weekend (yeah, my dad, of all people). We went to a salon and I was going to get a purple streak except even after about two hours of trying on different purples, none of them were working on my hair. So instead I got a red one, and it looks so cool. I also got my hair trimmed for the first time in... well... years. I'm actually not exaggerating, the last time I got my hair trimmed was in the third grade XD Anyways, my bangs are a lot fuller now, and they look cool ^^ I also got two new outfits at Target, and one of them I'm going to where to school, which starts on Wednesday *gulps* One shirt is green, and it's the kind with a solid color underneath and an attatched see-through thing. The other top is a cute dark red spaghetti strap with a white yarn/wool/SOMETHING jacket. And I got two new pairs of jeans with the tops.

Yay, I got comments from Robinleaf and Pumakit!!! I also realized that you have to have a Google Account or a Google-powered account thing to leave a comment. So either only two people currently have a Google Account who come to KitClan, or the rest of you have abandoned it and don't check back for updates XD Anyways, the color was PURPLE, not indigo, and my warrior name will not be Lightbreeze, Lightsoul, Lightheart, or Lightessence (Lightessence, Robin? O_o Um... interesting! Though I do like Lightsoul...)

However, since Robin and Puma both commented, they'll get free advertising anyway. Visit Robin's ah-mazing site here! Visit Puma's ah-dorable site here! Speaking of which, Puma, I'm sorry I haven't RPed for awhile again x_x I'll try to ASAP, and to update.

I made a little blinkie today with the help of www.blossom.nu. I <3 here to see it, and please tell me if you like it!

I was feeling bored the other day, so I made a little website called Hidden Sparkles. Don't worry, I'm probably never going to do anything with it and certainly won't let it replace KitClan. I just felt like experimenting with making a layout. Too late I realized that it could have been a premade, but I had already put the words "Hidden Sparkles" on the layout. Anyways, you can see it here. Please tell me if you like the layout! If anyone wants to have a website called Hidden Sparkles, tell me, and then we'll discuss it. If you really do want it, then I'll give you the site, along with the layout, splash, and avatar.

What else... oh yes, our washing machine broke. So I'm going to have to be careful about just wearing one outfit a day XD I don't want to go to school and wear something that's too small, hehehe. It's a good thing I just got two new outfits, eh?

I'm still welcoming any guesses for my warrior name. I'll make a blinkie for you if you get it ^^

By the way, what do you think is a really sad song? I think that "Holy Water" by Big & Rich and "Travelin' Soldier" by the Dixie Chicks are definitely two of the saddest songs I've ever heard. On the other hand, name a song you love as well. I'm feeling musical-ish right now! ^^

~Lighty

Ehgh

Prepare for a super long post. Mwahahaha.

Ehgh.

Hey, guys! Welcome to the one and only blog of Lighty. This is just a temporary place for me to complain and rant about things until KitClan comes back up. You'll also be able to actually talk to me here + we can communicate without me checking my email XD

So, let's start talking about nothing. Why "ehgh" for my title. Well, I'm happy enough to hug my computer and angry enough to punch it right now. Good news first. I figured out BlogSpot like, immediately! ^^ Three cheers for me! I also made the Join page on KitClan, and it pretty much works (only it's kind of hard to figure out what the join is on the form sent to the staff email: it says something along the lines of 'ajbl;akjgl;ji : Lightkit' and 'eiupoibjljh : Pretty white she-cat' scattered all around the email the staff gets. It's easier when you know how to piece it together, but the kit's name ends up at the bottom and the secret word near the top, etc.

Anyways, it's not the Join page that's bothering me, or the home page (I retyped it-- it needed a couple of edits anyways). My issue is that Webs STILL won't let me create a chatbox!!! OMG! It makes me so mad that I can't finish the territory pages yet. So, other KitClan stuff... I'll give you a couple of hints:

• There's a new premade layout. It's green, and a wierd style ^^ But I ah-dore it, and I figured out how to make DIVs with scrollbars without using I-frames (pretty pathetic I didn't know yet, huh?) Its centering is kinda wierd, so I'm just going to stick it on the left instead of the middle. A couple of people got to see it a couple of weeks ago, so NO sharing the URL, you guys.
• The new layout is green and blue, and it's called "Dreaming of Paradise", because I love summer colors XD
• There will be at least ONE new goodie/extra. One of the ones I'm planning I'm not sure if I can actually do it, so it's not guaranteed.
• There's going to be a big surprise ^^ It doesn't really affect KitClan itself that much, but it was an idea by one of my close friends online, and she's going to try it. I luff this idea, and even if it doesn't work, it'll still be something fun.

Oh, another quick rant: I found an awesome host called Lunar Pages. It supports PHP, you get unlimited sub-domains, a free domain, free scripts, unlimited emails, etc. It sounds excellent and it's only $5 a month, but unfortuanately I can't move to it, because I already paid Freewebs for a year of stuff about a month ago x-(

So what are your New Year's resolutions (if you have any?). I don't really necessarily have any, but I plan to be more outgoing and confident. I'm also (hopefully) going to get a purple streak in my hair and a new winter wardrobe. Oh, and I'm resolving to not bite my nails anymore. It helps when I have nail polish on, because then they don't look so icky. They already look better ^^ *admires her short red nails*

I ran into some friends today at the grocery store, and one of them said Pinchkit sounded like an old man for a second XD *cracks up* She apologized, but it was really funny. I'm running out of things to blog about, so I'm gonna leave now. Oh, wait, I also figured out the perfect warrior name for Lightkit. It's beautiful and perfect, and much better than Lightfeather (in my opinion). Please comment, and guess my new name (if you already know it, no guessing!).

Hold on, I got a brilliant idea to hold a short contest. I'm thinking of a color in the rainbow. Whoever guesses it first gets free advertising on my next post, so make sure to have your website URL there!

~Lighty