*sigh* alright, im gonna lay things on the line and tell ya'll whats been up. first of all, i've been busy getting my ass immigrated here. it's been hard and long and laborous process. honestly, im wondering if the government isn't just doing all of this just to see how many hoops i'll jump through to get here.

so, yeah, i've been having fun lately. i also apologize for having not written anything in a while. warcraft... warcraft is a very bad addiction. to be honest, im tired of it coming between me and writing, something i truely enjoy.

also, i've come to the realization that deviantart can kiss my pink graduate ass. while it is a good place for art, it's really gone downhill in my opinion. writers here, they just don't get the recognition that they need. at least those that actually try to have something good written. and even then, they're often overshadowed by those who write emo poetry, sexual essays or poems, or have gothic stuff on their page. to be honest, im sick of it and that's why i've decided to move somewhere else. the most i've gotten favs on is a piece i didn't even write and a photo of one of my friends in a jango fett costume. if it was up to me, i'd just leave and go someplace where writers actually get the love they need to write. it takes a lot more than an artist to write.

so with that said.... there's not much that's been going on other than that. my wife has a new job which she enjoys. my immigration stuff has been a pain in the ass because idiot immigration people have given us the wrong info. that means that we had to drive for 6 hours, have a meeting with them, and then be told that we have to wait for a letter saying that they have recieved it and then another saying that they approve of it.

so yeah.... immigration is really making me angry. which is something i don't like at all. it just irks me that i can't help my wife with any of the things that i could help with if i had a job, and don't right now. i know this is something i thought i'd never say, but right now, i just want a job just so i can help pay for things. i'd dig DITCHES if it meant that i could help with things. that, and i want to pay my college fees off and start paying them off now.

so in the end, i can't really do anything at the moment except twiddle my thumbs and wait for immigration to accept me. ah well, can't do much except hope and pray.

as they say, life sucks and then ya die.

your LOOOOORD and mastah!
angelofyang

well here's time for another journal, and it's about.... ooh, i'd say 1:30 in the morning. normally im asleep at this time, but im too lazy to sleep (isn't that a stupid comment?) and im just too hyper from eating chocolate earlier.

im horrible, i know so sue me.

but anyways, the news here is pretty much the same old same old. im getting married in 4 days, i got my wife a few things for the honeymoon (and for those of you who are thinking naughty thoughts... FIFTY LASHES WITH A WET NOODLE!), and i just submitted a deviation.

whoop-de-doo... seriously, im happy. can't you tell?

anywho, to those of you who haven't gotten an invite yet, its because the print shop that was GOING to do it screwed it up. no offense or anything, but we ordered our invitations about 3 weeks ago and it's 4 days before the wedding.

... yeah... my thoughts exactly. either way though, we just eventually said "hell with it! we're making our own!" and just printed them out. hopefully we'll have them all out pretty soon, and we'll be getting professional ones made for family and a few friends.

plus, the weather has been somewhat cooperationing. yeah it's raining here, but it's making it VEEEERY green and beautiful. why do i say this?

***WARNING! WARNING! - incoming science fact! - WARNING! WARNING!***

Due to the rotation of the earth and the spin it has, it causes the seasons be switched. think of it like this. when you're warming your butt, or southern hemisphere, you point it towards the hottest thing in the room. namely the sun in this case. if you're warming your chest or northern hemisphere, you point it towards the sun.

thats why the friends i love in texas are freezing and why im sweating and wearing shorts and not much else. damn you nature.... damn you to hell!

*** - this has been your science fact of the journal. end of line - ***

.....

okay, where that science fact came from, i don't know. but the first person to recognize the sci fi reference from an 80's film gets a

in any case, the weather is cooperating very well so that we can have a nice green, cool wedding and that i won't roast like a charcoal. however, the wedding hasn't been without it's bad parts. to make a long story short, some people are being pig-headed and being a pain in the arse. i wont' say who, and i won't say why, but they're just being jerks. it's not my family (who i know are reading this), but overall, it's just a headache.

but, on to better things! hopefully, i think a lot of people will like the new deviation, and i know it's a bit long (nine pages in word ) but im honestly doing this for fun. i am going to start writing more again dammit! i will i will i will!

also, i've been working hard and getting plenty of muscles on me which means im bigger, badder, and better than ever! those of you who are eating iron kid's bread and having stuff with glutten in it i say PHOOY! I'm currently living glutten free and drinking goats milk (which, to those of you saying ew right now, isn't too bad if you get it from the right places... and no im not talking about straight from the goat you sick people) and i've never felt better! i even have muscles now! NOTICIBLE muscles!

talk about a benefit's package

but, so far, everything hasn't been too bad. i've been just working on getting married, getting my immigration stuff through (and trust me, it used to be you'd hop on a boat and come here. nowadays, you have to go through so much red tape, it's almost impossible to move to another country!), and find a job. which, coincidentally, shouldn't be too hard. a lot of people are looking for people like me here, so i should start work sometime soon after my honeymoon and start working. sadly, this means no more warcraft till 3 in the morning, no more being lazy and sitting shirtless watching movies while eating tim tams (which is a type of chocolate cookie i've found out... not too bad really. a bit like mint milanos if you know what im talking about), no more sleeping in till 9:30 each morning.

yep... soon, i'll be heading off to the salt mines and slaving away to pay off college debt. yep.... this is the australian dream.

OH! one last thing though before i wrap this up. i've been considering posting wedding photos and movies on deviantart for all to see (sorry folks, no honeymoon photos... just keep dreaming there). i met my wife here on deviantart, and if im going nto marry her, then i should celebrate it here as well.

your LOOOOORD and (off-the-market) mastah!
angelofyang

well folks, here we are again, typing stuff out on my journal. if i seem a little cranky, it's because i have a headache and it's raining... and raining... and GUESS WHAT!

yep! you guessed it! more rain...

in short, it has pretty much been monsoon season. le fiance has been telling me that it'll rain one day and then be overcast for the rest of the week, but not like this, which is rain ALL. THE. TIME. scary no? thankfully, it is nice in that it does make it cooler. so now, instead of a humid heat, it's a humid chill. well, not chilly, but for those of you not used to the metric system yet, it's about 65 outside.

also, those of you who have that special someone, let me suggest something. dance in the rain. it may or may not sound strange, but once you do it, you'll want to do it every chance you get. it's a wonderful feeling, having a beautiful woman who loves you dancing with you in the rain.

speaking of which, we've set a date and anyone who would like to make art for our wedding is always welcome. we've even bought two rings, both with ACTUAL diamonds so when i get a chance, im going to post pictures of them on here and people can be absolutely jealous that i bought a ring for my fiance that has 7 DIAMONDS!

yeah, i know, ain't i a sweetie

but still, it's VERY strange having to deal with the big hard fact that i am getting married! that im going to be a husband! it almost feels surreal and as if it's not real, but every day it gets closer, it keeps sinking in. earlier, we talked about what kind of wedding cake we want and it's going to be a square, three tired cake. it's gonna be SOOO yum, with a dense spongecake chocolate center!

by the way, speaking of food, everyone here has pretty much been taken with my style of cooking. it's nice, it's tasty, and it's easier than pouring water to make. the one thing everyone has loved though is my cookies. so if anyone knows what im talking about when i say my family's cookies, they'll start salivating and be INSANELY jealous over me baking them cookies. trust me, everyone has loved them

anyways, life otherwise has been pretty good here. i've been getting my level 20 gnomish mage pretty far. i have also found that world of warcrack is bad for my health. i've been staying up till 3 in the morning playing wow and just leveling scooter up as far as i can. if anyone wants to find me though (and i know that some of my friends who play are reading this as well) im on the oceanic servier on barthilias, and my name is angelohaggis... feel free to drop me a line or to just hang out with me.

thankfully, i've been able to set limits for myself, which is more than some people can do. however, you guys were right in that le fiance was going to get me on there and you were right... you were right :sob:

in any case, i gotta get going now, since it looks like im really going to have to build an ark just to make sure i don't float away!

take care and may the PHARCE BE WIT J00!

your LOOOOOORD and (heavily addicted to Warcraft) mastah!
angelofyang

Well friends, it looks like i've finally made it out of hell. I've traveled many roads and gone down many paths in my life, but none has yet to take me so far as to go to australia! YEP! that means that any of my friends here on deviantart who are in australia and wish to see me, can come on up to townsville anytime they like and just bounce around with me! of course, it is kinda nice if people would at least let me know beforehand so that i can direct them to where i live. but, meh, i still accept friends on the fly

but.... this trip wasn't without it's complications. thankfully, i've finally graduated as well, but it is hard to feel like a graduate without a degree. which, for me, is still in texas. now, a lot of you are probably thinking "why would he travel without his degree?" well for one thing, i had literally NO SPACE LEFT in my luggage (if it had gotten any tighter in my bags, i would have needed lube). but another is that during the ceremony they didn't hand out degrees, saying that they wanted us to get them at the official ceremony in may.

and therein lies the problem. ya see folks, im not going to be returning to texas anytime soon. i know my freinds are heartbroken from this, but with the way my family has treated me over christmas, i am never returning to see them ever again. but what did they do to insult me so? lemme explain....

now, my dad's side of the family and you guys have ALL urged me to get the hell away from my family after i graduated. i even had plans to go to a motel and stay there in case things got nasty. sadly, i went against everyone's advice and even my own gut instinct and stayed with my family for xmas. of course, presents did play a small role in it but really, can a blame a guy for being just a LITTLE greedy?

anyways... what basically happened was a clusterfu**. i had PLANNED to leave on the 22nd of december. but, after my mother tearfully said to me that she wanted me for xmas, i reluctently agreed. of course, it wasn't until after i graduated that my family notified me that my sister WAS going to be there for xmas, when beforehand none of us had known. thats partially the reason why i wanted to leave on the 22nd. however, because i wanted to be nice to my family and spend a long, relaxing holiday with them, i agreed to change my date of departure from the 22nd to the 27th. i had HOPED that we would have a nice christmas together but what happened was that my family brought in a professional psychologist to tell me that my religion and my way of doing things is completely wrong and that i should listen to my family. not only that, but the psych HAD advised my family against taking my laptop, but they did it anyways.

real nice, i know.... of course, they also stole my important papers from me and so i have to say, i am a little offended and insulted by my family because they did this. i understand that they wanted to give me no way out and have to listen to them, but had they ASKED me if i wanted to talk with this psych, i would have readily agreed. but did they? nooooo.... they had to insult me by doing this.

for four hours on 2 days, they basically bashed me around and told me i was stupid/worthless/wrong and joining a cult (which, is their own opinion, but honestly, i have yet to see any of the signs of a cult). but that's basically the worst of it really. thankfully, i was able to get my financial information in order so that when i decide to start paying off my college loans, it'll be easy for me....

whew.... anyways, as i said before, it was a really big clusterfu**. but the gifts i did get were pretty damn nifty. such as the ENTIRE star wars legacy (nerd score! ) and also, i got 4 books on something called the boy mechanic. from what i've been able to tell, the entire thing is like an engineers child's book. i can LITERALLY build a hydroelectric dam. seriously, no joke... i also got an iphone (which i have to say, is a damn useful urban survival tool) and then i got a few DVDs, a few shirts (which, for my family, was eerily convient of them making the mistake of me wearing XL shirts that make me look like i could hide a circus underneath) and i got a few Wii games (cause i know how much my fiancee is going to love playing with my Wii ).

overall, not a bad haul, especially since now im in australia and from the family from hell. anyways, i do apologize for not typing in this journal sooner. for one thing, i had NO privacy to myself while i was at my parent's home in austin (they basically took up a suicide watch on me) and i was pretty busy with schoolwork (thankfully, i know i graduated, but it still took a lot of work for me to graduate). so, now that im happy and can finally relax, i can go ahead and start smiling again and start writing again. and im sorry DAFilm.... i've meant to be writing on my article, but i have been kinda busy with the family from hell .

anyways, i promise i'll write in the details from my adventure over here, but otherwise, i promise there will be PLENTY of deviations to come .

your LOOOOOORD and (relaxed) mastah!
angelofyang

well folks, as you've probably noticed, there's been a few things going on. namely, me not updating like i have been or was supposed to or had promised. this is for several reasons and now that i finally have some time to relax and to write in my journal, i can tell you all what's been going on.

first of all, it's been a pretty interesting semester so far. i've been able to get fridays off ( for me!) but the only problem is that i have 3 classes every monday and wednesday. but thats not all folks, it gets beeeeetter

ya see, two of teh classes that i have, namely international business and strategic management have groups in which we have to meet to do stuff for. and GUESS who's the lucky leader of one of these groups?

if you guessed Al Gore, then i should beat you to a bloody pulp with a herring . but otherwise, it's been a WHOLE lotta fun while i've been gone.

first of all, i found out that one of my friends LIKES likes me... as in, thinks im hot. which thankfully, i told her that i am happily engaged. needless to say, she was a little sad, but really, i am quite happy with the woman i already have and love her dearly. but yes folks, you read that right and it is NOT a misprint. i am getting married to a beautiful, wonderful woman and I IS DUN GONNA GET HITCHED RIGHT! HOOOOOOWE! we is gunna get me married in a barn with ole' farmer bob doin tha precherin'! yessir, we is gunna have a hot time in da barn tonight!

*ahem* .... sorry... i've been under a bit of stress lately. frankly, my family won't approve of the marriage. i mean, yeah, i am going to get married with or without their blessing but would they really want to miss out on their own son getting married? a once in a lifetime chance?

i know i wouldn't...

but, with me getting married, that means we both now own each other's things. however, the only problem is that my things are all here with me and all of her things are with her in australia (yeah yeah, i know, i have to go across the world to find a woman of my dreams... what can i say? im picky dammit!) so with that being the case, i have to mail her ALL of my things...

ALL of the things in my apartment... and for those of you who have seen my apartment it is going to be one HELL of an undertaking. which, for those of you who know me in real life, i am asking you to take a favor for me.

...

PLEASE DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN HELP ME GET TO THE POST OFFICE!!!!!!

*ahem* anyways... yeah.... this is gonna be a fun semester. however, this isn't the only thing going on. this semester is pretty special to me and to everyone who knows me because at the end of this semester im going to be graduating.

aaaaah, it's been a fun time with all of you... why i remember when i was but a wee angel, running around terrorizing the neighborhood and having to be locked in my cage at night... and thanks to all of you for sticking through it all for me... i really do appreciate it. it's been a trial getting through college and believe me, writing on here and presenting it to all of you has been harder than you could believe. but i have to say, it's been a real gas. i couldn't have wished for better critics, and most importantly, friends.

also, on a much earlier note... well... um.... okay, you know that idea you have that you think is a really great idea but isn't? the idea that you THINK is a good one but is actually a reeeeeally bad one? well, for those of you who already know me, you know what im talking about but to clarify for all of you here... i kinda tried to learn how to cut my own hair as i was sick and tired of it being so damn long.

Now, most of you would cringe at the thought of this because you've either seen it done, done it yourself, or have been told of what's happened with it.

weeeeell... i thought i could, but i found that it's a lot harder than you might think. suffice to say, my friends and family insist on me never removing my hat ever again. in fact, my family has demanded that i go to a hair stylist tomorrow to try to fix it. i can only hope and pray that they don't say "use a wig" because i like my hair short... as in, really short... and well... it didn't come out the way i had hoped.

however, i have learned something from this. you can try and do your own hair on the top and the sides. but from the back... get a friend... or a fiance, or someone who actually KNOWS what they're doing. because don't even think about trying it yourself... it isn't gonna work... it reeeeeeeeeally isn't.

so, with all of that being said (and believe me, i could have said a LOT more about the new apartments on the campus *Shuuuuuudder* ) i leave you all to soak in the fact that i am now a TAKEN MAN! THAT MEANS YOU PARIS HILTON AND ANGELINA JOLIE!!!

and PLEASE! i CANNOT marry you britney! i am a taken man so stop stalking me!

sheesh.... some women eh?

your LOOOOOOOORD and (taken! TAKEN DAMMIT!) mastah!
agnelofyang