christmas is only a few days away.

[amelialourdes]

Things I Did Today:

• Woke up early and by early I mean around 9ish. I've been waking up at 9 lately which is good because I didn't really like waking up at noon. Even though I say that I'm sure that I'm going to go back to my sleeping schedule as soon as it's 2010.
• Went to the mall.
• Was shocked to see that they already had people there to direct cars into the parking garage. It was early in the morning! There was no need for that since the parking lot was pretty empty.
• Parked in my usual place and went straight for the Hallmark store.
• Bought cards for my parents, grandmother, friends.
• Went back home to fill out cards and pack the presents.
• Ventured out to the post office.
• Encountered rude people! (They weren't rude to me).
• Mailed my packages and cards after 30-40 minutes of waiting in line.
• Went to the back to take out money.
• Went to my Mom's bank to deposit that money into her account.
• Went to the grocery store.
• As I was leaving the store ... I forgot the one important ingredient for my holiday treat.
• Back to the grocery store.
• Finally back home.
• Ate lunch.
• Worked on my Mom's birthday present. (Her birthday's on the 27th).
• Received awesome Christmas presents from r_me_time.
• Cleaned the kitchen.
• Sat down.
• SURFED THE NET AND WAS EXCITED TO SEE url_girl'S RETURN TO LJ. EEE!

This was the first time in a long time that I did something all day. It felt like working a 9-5 with all that running around. The point is is that everything is finished. Well, mostly. Haven't wrapped presents for my cousins' kids that I'm seeing on Christmas Eve and in the haste and paranoia of wanting to get presents mailed out on time, I forgot to buy package material for the cousins' kids gifts. My mom's going out tomorrow for her shopping so maybe she'll find me a box somewhere that I could use.

*breathes*

PS: How did my screencaps go from ?



To ?



See? This is why I never finish these projects. The more I stare at something, the more I see the imperfections, the more I want to correct everything and change everything. Now my PowerDVD program doesn't work the way that I want it to and I still refuse to use VLC player because all the caps come out so dark. Ugh, I don't know what to do. Help.

Comments

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you took a little time to breathe -- that's quite a list for one day.

B/J can overwhelm anyone's visual desires.

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Christmas rush! But, I love it and I was wired for the rest of the day. I think it aggravated my sunburn and my cheeks are still in pain < --- from being out in the sun, heh.

B/J can overwhelm anyone's visual desires.

An excellent point you make! :)

[severina2001.livejournal.com]

Busy busy busy! Glad that you go (almost) everything sorted out and ready to go, though. Now you deserve cookies. COOKIES!

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

Almost! Just two more days to try to figure everything out. Cookies! I'm resisting the urge to bake the ones that I have downstairs or else they're not going to last until Christmas, lol.

[friday82.livejournal.com]

Looks like a very busy day.o0

I still wish I could make screencaps at all, so admittedly all kind of caps look good to me.:)

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

So busy! But, it felt good to just get everything done even if it did take all day.

I guess I'm just anal about everything! If I see one cap and it's the perfect size, then I get self-conscious about mine because they're smaller but they still look okay. Oy.

[nolyana.livejournal.com]

*drools allover Teh Britin gorgeousness*

.... you were sayin? :p

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Oh nothing, nothing at all.

[turnyourankle.livejournal.com]

it's because the qaf devds are horrible quality. can't compare one dvd to another :P but yeah, it sucks. tis why i always hated making qaf icons.

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

A good point you make. See, once upon a time they didn't look this bad though and I was able to take 1024x764 caps and they looked good. I just didn't use them because they looked a little squished. But, I updated my program and my computer updated itself and now it takes caps differently. I think I'm on the verge of giving up and just VLC'ing it and clean up the caps myself.

[turnyourankle.livejournal.com]

i really wouldn't bother cleaning them up. the babylon cap is good for qaf/babylon. sometimes cleanup however well intended is counterproductive for graphics and stuff...in my experience, at least. this is also why i don't like qaf caps, most of them out there have been "fixed" to death.

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

No, I agree! I'd never want to contrast or brighten the hell out of it. But, the only reason that I got these looking as bright as they are is because I used PowerDVD. Now that that program is a little messed up, VLC would be my only option and they're considerably darker than the ones that I used for my website. Wah, wah, wah. :|

[sakesushimaki.livejournal.com]

I might be missing the point but why are we comparing Charmed (?) caps to QaF caps? :]

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

Haha. Well, I was comparing the clarity and the size of the Charmed caps to the B/J ones that are significantly smaller and I think turnyourankle was right when she said that the Qaf DVDs are just crappy and getting quality caps from them would be quite the feat. :|

[sakesushimaki.livejournal.com]

Well, it's unfair to compare "daylight" caps to Babylon caps!
Though, actually, considering the low quality standard with QaF caps, I think it turned out pretty well?

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

Very true. Bad comparison since it was the first one that I took out. The daylight ones don't look so bad at all. Yeah, I don't know why I'm so picky about these! I should just get over it and do it the way that I've been doing it.

[reeface.livejournal.com]

*RUNS AND TACKLES YOU*

Also, am impressed that you braved the PO this week and survived. You = FTW!

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

*TACKLES YOU BACK WITH EXCITEMENT AND GLEE*

I know! And thankfully, all recipients received their gifts/cards on time! All was right with the world.