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27 December 2009 @ 04:46 pm
I need some help coding my website.  I don't know why this is so tough for me, my brain must be leaking today or something.

What I want to do is change the layout of the site.  I want to have the main layout image on the bottom of the screen instead of the top like I have it right now.  So, to coincide with it, I want to move all of the stuff on the right hand side (where it begins with Welcome) to move up to the top of the page.  I know that I will want to change the top px to 0 somewhere, but I cannot find it.  Can someone help me?

Here is the main page
http://ladymanson.com/Shadowofreflection/home.php

THANK YOU!
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Lady Manson
19 December 2009 @ 04:34 pm
I'm trying to find some imagery to do femslash manips. Unfortunately, when you Google anything that has to do with femslash, female couples, etc. it's difficult to come up with anything other than porn. Does anyone has any idea where I could find images of two girls together, whether it be as tame as holding hands or more? I am totally in the dark here. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Tracy
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Lady Manson
16 December 2009 @ 03:35 pm
- Went and saw "Ninja Assassin" last night. We went with a friend for the violence factor alone. Every now and then it's fun to let go and just watch movies that have such gore that it is funny. Like, you can't do anything but laugh because it is so extreme. Getting to see Rain do all that fighting was a good time. Man, was he good looking! Now I feel the need to watch more Bruce Lee stuff.

- I'm up to 23,000 words as of 3:30 pm Central Time. I love this story. It's my first adult story and it is just flowing from my mind to Word. Usually it takes forever for me to finish a story. I have had ones that have taken six years before. I started this one about a month back. I am in need of a serious thesarus though. That much writing keeps the same adjectives and verbs in your brain. Very annoying...

- I am working on manipulating images for a friend of mine who does modeling. Originally, I just did touch ups, but one night I did a manipulation and she totally freaked and wants me to do that to all of them. So here are a couple. Let me know what you think. I actually am doing these for money, so I need as much feedback as possible.

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Lady Manson
09 December 2009 @ 03:04 pm
MUSE, MUSE, MUSE!!!!!

I'm going to New York in March to see Muse play Madison Square Garden. I have never been there before, so I'm very excited. My husband has been there a few times. He went last year for a convention and kept sending me photos on my phone. I've always wanted to go. Plus, Muse puts on an awesome show. They were in Minneapolis a few years back and I got to stand right next to the stage (like, touching the thing) because we knew the label rep for that particular show. My husband didn't know who they were and only went to be with me. He ended up loving them. So going to see them is a total added bonus to this trip.

So we will be there from Thursday until Monday. I unfortunately have to work on Monday morning, so if I can't get the day off, I may have to pull the old, "The plane was delayed, I'm stuck in NY" line. It worked in Puerto Rico. The only difference was that I was actually stuck in that damn airport with some weirdo who had a carry on bag the size and shape of a coffin. I don't think he was able to carry it on.

And it will be Xanax and vodka time for me again when I get on that plane. Which I had to say was rather entertaining last time I took a plane ride because I started writing when I was all doped up and wrote this insane stuff. And the plane ride felt like it lasted about two minutes instead of two hours.

Is it totally wrong that I have a playlist for a story I am writing? I'm in the middle of writing another one of my own stories, this one is about a burned out rock star who is slowly going completely insane. It's inspired by Bret Easton Ellis' "Discovering Japan" story, Pink Floyd's "The Wall", and Stephen King's "The Shining". Although they are only two songs, the songs "Lithum" by Nirvana and "Wonderwall" by Oasis are SO fitting for the story, it's just crazy! I feel like "Lithum" was written specifically for my main character. "Wonderwall" on the other hand is more for the main pairing in the story and the end of it.
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Lady Manson
06 December 2009 @ 08:52 pm
If anyone gets the reference, a) you're awesome and b) please comment.
:)
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Lady Manson
01 December 2009 @ 06:30 pm
My husband laughed his ass off when I told him this, which I didn't particularly appreciate, but it was in its own self somewhat funny. And now I will be continuously tormented until I show him that I can write this freaking scene!

Here's the deal. I CANNOT write sex scenes. And by that, I mean normal sex scenes. What constitutes as normal? I'll put it this way. I have been able to write rape scenes and vampire sex scenes and that's it. But regular human sex, whether it's straight, gay, loving, hardcore, WHATEVER THE SITUATION MAY BE, I can't do it. Seriously, the scenes actually write themselves in my head, but I can't get them down on paper, or in this case, Word. So I have these awesome scenes in my head that won't go away, which leads to some seriously fucked up dreams and needs for sex. This is why my husband found this SO funny.

I'm guessing I'm not the only writer who has had this issue because we all have to make that leap from writing PG13 to NC17 material at one point. And I'm sick of dancing around this scene because I have written a ton of the stuff around it. And it can't be a light scene either - the whole thing is really dramatic and insane in nature. I would love to get over this so that I can write them in the future as well with no problem.

Right now I am sitting around feeling like if people are able to read the crazy stuff in my mind, they're going to think bad things of me, but my husband said that I'm just telling a story. They're characters, they're not me. Hell, if they were me, I'd be a doped up rock star chasing ghosts. Who apparently isn't getting laid right now because I won't write it in for her!

I just need some words of encouragment or advice. I know there are a lot of people who write out there no matter what it is. Please bear in mind that this is my own personal fiction, not fanfiction, otherwise I would be more than happy to share to show you what I am dealing with.

Anyone who answers this, I love you already. This is really bugging me!
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Lady Manson
01 December 2009 @ 11:36 am
TEAM BELLA COMMUNITY IS NOW OPEN FOR MEMBERSHIP!!!

Basically, this is a community celebrating the character of Bella Swan Cullen and anything that surrounds her. I haven't been able to find many places that focus solely on her, more so the guys and ships in the fandom, so here you go.

Membership is moderated just due to a lot of people who join Twilight comms simply to complain.

[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella[info]teambella
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Lady Manson
27 November 2009 @ 03:46 pm
I am in the process of opening the community, [info]teambella on LJ, but I cannot find a good header to use for it. So, I thought I would go out to the mass public of Twilight fans and ask if you want to help. Here's the deal. I need a header that follows this criteria:
- Dimensions: 800x424 pixels
- Needs to contain both Dream Team Bella (Emily Browning) and Chosen Bella (Kristen Stewart)
- Needs to contain the community name (Team Bella) on it somewhere

Colors, fonts, and other specifics can be any way you like because I can customize the template around the header. Also, please no nasty comments about Emily or Kristen, okay? Seriously, I have already had to delete comments. I don't need people arguing on a post that is simply about asking for artwork. Thank you.

YOU WILL BE CREDITED IF I USE YOUR HEADER.
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Lady Manson
17 November 2009 @ 02:02 pm
I'm looking for writing prompts. I generally write adult horror or suspenseful fiction, so that type of prompt would be appreciated. I am working on writing short stories that are 3000 words at the maximum because I need to sell some to literary journals. If anyone could give me a list of prompts, or point me in the direction of a site that has good prompts, that would be wonderful. I have been looking around online, but all I can find are prompts for children and stuff like that.
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Lady Manson
 Some people are serious pricks.

I have to get this off my chest cuz I am just angry now and writing helps me vent.  We went to meet my husband's sister and her husband at this little bar tonight since there was going to be a costume contest.  My costume this year is one of those sexy devil costumes.  So the dress is like, really short and I wear fishnets, boots, and horns.  The tail is attached in two places to the back of the dress.  Well, I also have another piece to the costume which is my long red trenchcoat for when it's cold.  I figure that since we are going to be in this dumpy little bar all night, I'll just keep the coat on so I don't have to deal with people grabbing at me all night.  

So we are all standing there having a good time and talking when this old guy behind me goes and lifts up not only my coat, but then my dress!  I turn around all mortified and there he is just STARING at my ass and I knock his hands out of way and cover myself up.  Well, in the process, he managed to break one end of my tail, so it just hangs down now instead of curling up.  And it's very long so if it hangs, I can't walk around with it like that.

I get angry about this and tell my husband, who does nothing.  Now bear in mind, I don't like, expect my husband to go over and start shit with the guy.  He's not a big guy and doesn't like confronting people, but he doesn't say anything to him or to even me.  And here I sit feeling like just a slut because I have this cute costume on so I must have just attracted it and it's my fault so I just left the bar.  So I'm up at twenty to one, upset about this.  My costume is broken, my husband is sleeping and pissed that we had to leave so soon, and I feel like a total skank.

Other than that though, good evening! :(  I waited all night for my husband to come home from his hockey game too and it was just going to be fun for us to go out.  I wish we would have just stayed home.  Then we could have watched the rest of "Antichrist".  Has anyone seen that yet?  The Willem Dafoe film?  We got a screener copy of it last night, but unfortunately only got the first half.  It's good, but I have to warn anyone that it is graphic, both sexually and violently.  And when I say graphic, I mean in the most graphic way possible.  I do enjoy Lars von Trier films though and it is certainly one of his.  Oh and it is just magnificantly depressing, so be prepared.  Seriously, my husband wanted to watch it last night and I told him, "Now, are you sure?  Cuz I don't want to hear any bitching about it once this gets started."  But I would recommend it.  Oh, look, I'm feeling better already... 
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Lady Manson
23 October 2009 @ 06:31 pm
Okay, I have a few lyrics that I want to make art out of, but I need the subject.  It has to be of a lust filled girl who ends up somehow punished (whether metaphorically or in reality) for it.  And I know, gee, a girl being punished for wanting sex, it sounds too easy, but I seriously can't think of anything.  It can be from a movie or a show.  I don't watch EVERYTHING, so we'll see what gets posted.  
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Lady Manson
19 October 2009 @ 10:46 am

So, yeah...got rid of the Facebook. It has been nothing but trouble for me. It started with my sister and my husband's ex-girlfriend battling on my profile, only to have my husband's ex tell me that she hoped I was 'tortured every day for the rest of my life and that I was an immature brat'. This is when the arguement had nothing to do with me, other than the fact that it was on my profile. Oh, and in case any of you are wondering, she and my husband have a son together, so I do care what she thinks about me.

Then, I continued to recieve nasty emails from several people, ones that stressed me out and made me cry when my husband and other people told me just to ignore them.

And finally, I have had people calling me telling me to change my status because they didn't like it.

I have had nothing but trouble on that site, so I decided it would be for the best if I got rid of my account. That way I wouldn't have to deal with it anymore. I thought about getting rid of my LJ and my website too, but no one has ever been mean to me on LJ. You guys are all cool. I still don't know about my website. I'm just pissed.

The house... )

On the upside, I got my Halloween costume. It's the first time I have ever gotten a sexy one. It's a devil costume with a red dress that is super short and has a tail attached. I also have a pair of horns and matching red fishnet thigh highs with little pitchforks on the top of the thigh highs. It's really fun and I feel really pretty wearing it.

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Lady Manson
11 October 2009 @ 04:49 pm
Okay, mass irritation...

I have been trying to get a copy of episode 2x12 of True Blood in HD since it aired to cap it for my site.  Seriously, this getting SO irritating.  I'm usually so good about getting the caps up and it's been HOW long since it aired...?

Anyhow, if anyone can get me a copy of that episode, I would love it.  I've been trying torrents and binaries and so far I have gotten nothing but episodes that are missing par files and ones that have subtitles on them.  NOT COOL.  You would get total brownie points with me if you were to help me out with this. 
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Lady Manson
26 September 2009 @ 11:34 am
 I need some serious help.  I have tried this problem and each time I try it, I run it by my teacher and the calculations are wrong.  My passing this problem with a high mark determines whether I pass this class now because it is literally making me nuts.  This is the toughest class I have taken in the last 10 months of school.  So if ANYONE can help, I know some people are good at this stuff and see the calculations right away.  It's not meant to take a ton of paperwork.

Deer Valley Lodge, a ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, has plans to eventually add five new chairlifts. Suppose that one lift costs $2 million, and preparing the slope and installing the lift costs another $1.3 million. The lift will allow 300 additional skiers on the slopes, but there are only 40 days a year when the extra capacity will be needed. (Assume that Deer park will sell all 300 lift tickets on those 40 days.) Running the new lift will cost $500 a day for the entire 200 days the lodge is open. Assume that the lift tickets at Deer Valley cost $55 a day. The new lift has an economic life of 20 years.

  1. Assume that the before-tax required rate of return for Deer Valley is 14%. Compute the before-tax NPV of the new lift and advise the managers of Deer Valley about whether adding the lift will be a profitable investment. Show calculations to support your answer.
  2. Assume that the after-tax required rate of return for Deer Valley is 8%, the income tax rate is 40%, and the MACRS recovery period is 10 years. Compute the after-tax NPV of the new lift and advise the managers of Deer Valley about whether adding the lift will be a profitable investment. Show calculations to support your answer.
  3. What subjective factors would affect the investment decision?

EDIT: FOUND SOME PEOPLE FROM SCHOOL - WE ARE WORKING ON IT TOGETHER CUZ WE FEEL ONE ANOTHER'S PAIN...

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Lady Manson
23 September 2009 @ 09:31 am
I went to the doctor yesterday and they did tests.  I have mono.  I've had it before it my life and it is really no fun.  Mostly because you get SO tired.  But apparently the worst part with the fever and all is over.  The virus has attacked my throat though, which is why it hurts so bad now.  The doctor told me that my throat was the worst he had seen in years, which I was like, "Great...".  He gave me these awesome painkillers though that don't tire me out much more and kill the pain in a huge way.  It's lovely.  I had to go home and sleep for five hours yesterday, but I am stronger today.  I think it's cuz I can eat and swallow now.  It doesn't hurt to swallow anymore, which is SO nice.

I keep drinking ginger ale and Diet Coke to kill the pain that the painkiller doesn't get, but I hate it because I rarely drink that stuff.  It gets to my teeth and skin to no extent.  But, hey.  So the doctor said I may be worn down for about another week or two, but my fever is gone and the pain is diminishing.  That's good.  I just lay down at home when I finish my school work.  I have been watching a ton of Hitchcock lately.  Last night I watched Psycho again, which I love, but on Saturday I saw North by Northwest for the first time ever, but fell asleep after the plane in the field scene.  So I have to finish it...
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Lady Manson
22 September 2009 @ 09:53 am

Hi all,

I've been totally off the map since last Tuesday. I'm SO damn sick. We don't know what it is, although I have every single symptom of the swine flu. I don't buy into all that jargen the media is dishing out about it - basically, if I get sick, I'll take precautions to get better. Every single day it seems they are spelling out more doom and gloom about it. I mean, yeah, it's dangerous to certain parties, but that is true of the regular flu as well. I feel bad for doctors right now, can you imagine all the people who are simply scared and not sick?

Either way, I had tickets for Marilyn Manson last Tuesday, who I was super excited to see, and couldn't go. I woke up in the middle of the night freezing cold, but covered in sweat. Terrible fever. It broke in the morning and I went to work, all was well, and I went home that night. Again, I woke up with a fever. It stuck around, along with a gazillion other horrible symptoms, until Saturday. Let's bear in mind that I had two projects and a forum post to do for online school, in a class where the teacher is a heartless woman. On Saturday, I got up and started working, but my husband came over and touched my back about two hours in, and I was burning through my shirt. Again, I was laying down, not able to get up. There was that head pain where you can't lift your head cuz you cry, it hurts so bad. On Sunday morning, it broke again and I finished ALL my work.

Monday crawled around and I woke up unable to swallow, my throat was so sore. I could swallow, but it HURT. I slept until noon and then went to work for a half day. Last night, my husband broke into a fever. Ugh, I feel like crap again. I'm hot and cold and sore and all this other stuff. I did call my doctor, but he said it was a virual thing that could only be helped with your typical stuff. I basically have to burn it off. So here I sit at work, perfectly still, my throat sore, causing my head and teeth to do that sinus pain. I hate the flu. And now my husband is sick, so I feel really bad about that too.

In case anyone was wondering where I was...


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Lady Manson
10 September 2009 @ 02:41 pm

Ugh, I'm so annoyed. Okay, I do online schooling, so if I need to talk to my instructor, it's an email thing. For reference, it's an accelerated school, so each week I do a project. I got a B on my project last week, dragging down my A in the class overall. So I send an email to my teacher today because I am working on my current project and wanted to make sure I did better and was on the right track. I told her that I had read the chat archives and the chapter, but was still unsure. What does she send back to me? "Please read the chat archives for further information". It's not like I am asking for the answers! I simply want to know if I am headed in the right direction or not.

Can anyone help me out with this? I have the questions and answers, I just want to make sure I am using the right calculations and doing this correctly. Thanks for anyone that can help!!!

The homework... )


 

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Lady Manson
02 September 2009 @ 02:27 pm
Does anyone know of a site or two where I can get some HQ movie stills?  I have several on my site, but I get them through various search engines, which gets REALLY tedious.
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Lady Manson
22 August 2009 @ 01:35 pm




This is for school.  I have been working on it all week and cannot figure out the last part.  I'm working VERY hard to get an A on this assignement because it means the difference between an A and a B in the class, which could make or break my 4.0 GPA I have worked my ass on so hard in school.  It is for my Statistical Analysis class. 

I have a question regarding regression analysis.  I have the information needed, but I need to figure out how to determine which regression produces the strongest correlation coefficient result and why this is. When it comes to analysis, I am good at getting the information, but this part of it is very difficult for me. I have found that all the R-squared values and y-intercepts on my charts are the same, but the slopes are different, so I don't know if that is helpful or not. I am supposed to give specific reasons regarding any similarities or differences in the output results, but I don't know any specific reasons. I have been working on this all week and just cannot figure this part out. Can someone help? 

Chart info:

Chart One: R² = 0.1634, y intercept = .0462x + 4.419, slope = 0.273647058823529

Chart Two: R² = 0.1634, y intercept = 0.0462x + 4.419, slope = 0.0774117647058824

Chart Three: R² = 0.1634, y intercept = 0.0462x + 4.419, slope = 0.164235294117647

The R-squared value and y-intercepts were found in the charting options in Excel and the slope was found using the SLOPE function, if that makes a difference.

ANY help would be appreciated, thank you so much in advance!

Also a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who commenting on my cancer scare posts!  I haven't had time to get back to everyone because this has been a CRAZY week workwise, but I appreciate it more than you know.  Having people backing me up in such a scary time made me feel so much better.  THANK YOU ALL!!!
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Lady Manson
17 August 2009 @ 10:09 am

I love this. My stepson just came back from visiting his mom in Denmark and told us that he had watched some show every night when he was there for three weeks. What was it? Supernatural. He insisted on getting all the DVD sets and watched the remainder of season one on Saturday. I find that just awesome and kudos to Denmark for showing that much Supernatural.

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