End of the Work Week Wisdom!

Ugh. I'm sick today, so all you get is the End of the Work Week Wisdom.

"Dress every day like you'd run away with the Doctor in those clothes."
--unattributed quote, but I'll attribute it to my friend Aine, who posted it on Facebook

Today is not a "dressed like you'd run away with the Doctor" sort of day. Though I am wearing my Doctor Mew shirt. Which I can't seem to find anywhere on the Internet, but I did find this, and now I want another shirt.

Also, one of the cats is sitting in the chair behind me and snoring. It's kinda adorable.

Good cat news!

Cassie had her follow-up opthamologist appointment yesterday, and I was concerned because I thought I could still see the problem with her eye. But the opthamologist, who knows WAY more about eyes than me, said it was healed, and that what we could still see was similar to a scab or a scar, which will continue to fade. Since Cassie can see with no issues and is happy, all is good in the world! :)

Of course, Jeremy and I joked about cat eye tests yesterday, when I told him that Cassie could see just fine. He asked if she read all of the letters on the chart. I said "no, for cats they put up pictures of the other cats. If she purrs at all of them, but hisses when she sees the picture of The Bit, then she's fine." :)

The Bit is the nickname that Paint it Black has finally settled into. That and Bitten or The Bitten Kitten. I think it should probably be "Pen Stealer," but that doesn't flow off the tongue as nicely. But cats get like an unlimited supply of names, so I'm sure he'll pick up more over the years.

So. Apartment full of healthy cats. *knock on wood* Actually, they should stay that way. We have no travel plans until August, aside from my work trips (when Jeremy will be home) and his writer's workshop this summer (when I hope to be able to stay at home).

Kamaboko Kitty Cake Loaf from Nice Rice Productions

Wow...

I have completely fallen off with posting here. So you get the super quick recap.

1) Our trip to St. Louis went very well. Mom was utterly thrilled with her birthday present, which I can now tell you all about. :) We're flying her to Seattle in August. Jeremy and I will take her to Portland for the weekend to go to the spa at the Edgefield and Powell's Books. Then we come back to meet up with her friend who will be accompanying her on a cruise to Alaska. :)

2) My conference in Portland was about as could be expected from such. Good parts, boring parts, and Jeremy coming down for the weekend portion of the conference. More than anything, I now take this conference as an opportunity to chat with someone else who knew my former boss, who planned the mini-conference last October in his honor. One of these years, I am hoping that I can present at said mini-conference. So I gotta keep the communication flowing with those folks. :)

3) Been reasonably busy this past week, mainly with the Cassie-cat, who took a slight turn for the worse. She is improving now, I think, but we were notably concerned about her when we got back from Portland. She has now been to a cat opthamologist. How many other cats can say the same? :)

4) Getting geared up for Ambercon US is the other major factor in our busy-ness. I'm really looking forward to seeing some folks I haven't seen since last year (and some I've seen more recently), and actually staying in the convention hotel this time. :)

5) Work continues apace. I haven't heard anything about my next travel dates, but I'm sure they're lurking in the wings... as always...

Adventures in buses

This week has really been a bizarre one for bus riding for me. Monday morning, since Jeremy was off work, he drove me downtown, but I bused home. That was the only normal bus ride I've had this week.

Tuesday, I again got a ride to work since Jeremy had to zip to an appointment right after work. I caught a different bus than my usual one, since I was headed to my studio. I had to run to get on the bus, but was happy that I had caught an express bus. Unfortunately, what I didn't know is that the stop nearest to my studio is not an express stop. So rather than getting off the bus before that stop, I ended up riding to the next express stop, necessitating a LONG walk back to my studio.

Wednesday morning, the bus picked up a guy who started laughing about the time we got on the freeway in the U District, and continued laughing until the first stop downtown. This was not a "some guy who had heard a good joke" kind of continual laughing. It sort of ebbed and flowed, and was definitely laughter about something in this guy's head. I think, too, that the smell of alcohol diminished a bit when he got off the bus. Coincidence? I think not. The only good part of this portion of the tale is that I got an idea for a short story out of the incident, so now I just have to find time to write that. :)

Wednesday afternoon, Jeremy was reading and I was crocheting, when I finally discovered that our bus had not stopped in the U District, and was, in fact, still in the northbound express lanes. Our driver TOTALLY missed the exit he should have taken, and wasn't entirely sure how to get back on track. We took that as a sign that we should look into a different bus option, and when he stopped at the transit center (not on our route normally), the bus we needed was waiting in front of us. So we hopped on that bus instead, and then continued to read and crochet... :) Luckily, we did start paying attention before our stop, but it was a much longer walk home from that stop, and we arrived home a bit later than we normally do.

This morning, we discovered that it was below freezing before we headed out, so I got out my awesome pirate coat, only to discover that it's a bit more snug than I recalled. At the bus stop, I realized that I had forgotten our tickets to Twelfth Night, so I ran back to the apartment, since I have more leeway in my arrival time at work (and we leave so early that I get to work almost an hour early some days). I grabbed the tickets, switched coats, and discovered that the bathroom door had not latched shut, and my kitten had broken out of his confinement(*). Luckily, he comes running even when I call him Bit, which is not his actual name. :) So I finally made it back outside, to watch the next bus pass me by... *sigh*

Here's hoping that the bus curse can be lifted now that I've ranted...

(*) Black is still in solitary confinement (a.k.a. the bathroom) until he has a follow-up appointment with his vet on Saturday morning. I think he is getting thoroughly bored of not having the other cats to torment, as he had decided that my ankles are a good thing to torment. He prefers my ankles to Mr. Bunny (small stuffed bunny cat toy), apparently.

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In other news, I've started posting on Shop Etsy again, with Christmas gift ideas from EtsyRain sellers. My goal is to get back in the habit of posting there daily. And then, maybe I can work on posting here daily, or at least weekday-ly. :)

The noveling continues

I'm just shy of 40,000 words on my novel, and am well on pace to finish my 50,000 words by the end of the month. Of course, last night was when I got the first glimpse of just how much will be unwritten by the time I get to 50,000 words, as I have just started tapping into the fictional history part of the novel. I want to write pages and pages of history for this world that I've made up, but it really doesn't have a place in the narrative portion of the story.

I think that there are parts of my novel that will get yanked when I sit down to edit it, and maybe then the history can be worked in. But I think that what I'm really looking at is a whole other book for this fictional history... and of course, that's what my brain is stuck on right now. *sigh*

In other news, Jeremy and I have stumbled across a vast cat conspiracy. Whenever we are getting ready to go out of town, one of the cats gets sick. First it was Delilah, then it was Gabe, and now it's my new kitten, Black. :( I'm taking a short lunch today so that I can leave work early and take him to the vet, and Jeremy will bus straight to the vet from work. I have, of course, been freaking myself out by looking up what his symptoms might mean, and finding all sorts of gloom and doom. Hurrah for the internet, right?

Seeing as there are only 2 more cats who could possibly get sick to continue this trend, and only one more trip for us after this weekend, I'm hoping that our conspiracy is not real. I'm also grateful for the fact that we've managed to juggle the finances sick cats and Christmas shopping pretty successfully, and that D and Gabe are both better now.

Think good thoughts for my kitten, if you're so inclined. I would be thrilled if I get home to take him to the vet and he's already healthy again...

It's been a week...

And by that, I mean that it has been not a great awesome week, but also not a hugely crappy week. It's been some of both. Therefore, it's been a week.

1) Nearly ready for the EtsyRain Holiday Show tomorrow. Come out! Buy stuff! Get your Christmas shopping done! :)

2) I'm about 1,900 words shy of my personal goal for my NaNo word count. I managed to pound out 4,000 words on Wednesday, but then wasted about 45 minutes of potential writing time last night because I couldn't make myself write the next scene. I had ended the previous scene with this over the top, dramatic monologue, and I just couldn't help but think that whatever I wrote next would sound trite. I have to get to it, I know, but I needed the time to NOT have that monologue taunting me.

3) Cats seem to be doing well. *knock on wood* Gabe is eating again and seems a little less needy. He still hates us at pill time, and has not been enjoying his isolation chamber (a.k.a. the bathroom) during the day, but we want to be sure that he is, in fact, eating, drinking, and doing other things that cats ought to be doing.

4) We have plans to go to Forks, Neah Bay, Port Angeles, and Victoria (B.C.) next weekend. This will mark the first time that we get to use our passports. YAY! :) We are doing the totally dorky Twilight tourist crap, but staying in Neah Bay because I've been wanting to get out there for a while. It's going to entail a lot of driving, and I will. not. forget my camera. Mandatory!

Hmmm...

A lot to recap, so let's just dive in.

1) Gabe, one of our two elderly cats, spent nearly a week at the vet. He was meowing a lot on Monday night, but he does that occasionally, so we thought little of it. By Tuesday, he was having enough intestinal issues (as evidenced by the litterbox) that we thought it wise to get him to the emergency vet. They weren't able to find anything for certain, but advised us to keep an eye on him. As I was feeling poorly on Wednesday, I stayed home, and tried in vain to feed him several appealing dishes. Since he wasn't eating, and since we were getting ready to go out of town, we decided to take him to his regular vet, which also offers boarding for cats. So they checked him out and agreed to board him, while running some tests as well. The tests ultimately ended up being fairly inconclusive, but Jeremy picked Gabe up from the vet last night with a shaved belly and a bag full of medicine. Gabe seems to be mostly back to his usual self now, except that he slept the entire night curled up by my side. Jeremy is off work today, so he's going to keep a close eye on Gabe's eating and litterbox habits. We're hoping he is over his sickness, whatever it was.

2) We spent Thursday through Monday at the Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon, for Ambercon NW. The Edgefield is super awesome--we made spa appointments for shortly after our arrival, so we were nice and relaxed by the time the gaming began. I got to meet a lot of people I had thus far only heard stories about, as well as a lot of other cool people. I ran three games and played in four games, and was generally exhausted by the time my head hit my pillow every night. In related news, soaking in a hot tub-like pool apparently causes fingernail polish to unadhere from your fingernails. What I didn't lose in the pool proper came off in CHUNKS yesterday morning. :(

3) As a result of the above two factors (the cat and the convention, not the nail polish falling off), I've fallen a bit behind on my NaNoWriMo word count. I had a few hours to write yesterday morning, and I finally think I know where my story is going. Now I just have to actually write it all out. I did discover this morning that I can write (by hand) on the bus, so long as I don't have a big backpack on my lap. Time to switch back to my usual purse, I guess. :)

4) I've got a craft show on Saturday at the home of Kay, along with several other local artisans. If you're interested in attending, drop me a line, and I'll get you the evite. I'm surprisingly well-stocked already, though I do have a bag of catnip eyeballs to finish up before the show. Sometime...

5) Awaiting word on whether I'm traveling for work next week. If I am, having my weekend compressed means I'm going to be running around like a madwoman all weekend. If I'm not, I might actually manage to squeeze in a night at the studio next week. Ooooooh. :)

Traveling and cats (but not traveling cats)

Yup, I've been out and about again, on another work trip. It went relatively quickly, until Friday night, when I got home about 2 hours later than originally planned. There was a LOT of panic involved in that, too, with an almost delayed flight to Chicago, and then a seriously delayed flight home. About the time that it started looking really dire for me to get onto a flight home, I realized it was also too late to call my brother if I needed to stay in Chicago, which meant I'd be sleeping at the airport... not my idea of a good time.

But I got home in the wee hours of Saturday morning, exhausted, but happy to see Jeremy and my new kitten, Paint It Black. Andrew and Amanda brought him over on Friday night, and he was already settling in to the apartment by the time I got home. So far, so good. The other cats are not thrilled by the new addition to our household (though I think the fat cats enjoy snacking on Black's kitten kibble when he doesn't finish the entire dish), but they're adjusting. The funniest moment, though, was yesterday when Andrew stopped by during my All Flesh Must Be Eaten one shot. When Jeremy confirmed that it was Andrew he had just buzzed up to the apartment, P-Cat took off like a light for the safety of the bedroom. My comment on P-Cat's thoughts: "Oh crap, he's back! I hope he didn't bring another kitten!" Coincidental, I'm sure, but funny nonetheless.

Black is just pure joy for me. He is cute, affectionate, basically gentle with his claws, and a little bit clumsy, which makes me laugh. He's all legs and a huge head, and sometimes his legs get ahead of him, I think. He doesn't do well on linoleum, which is only really an issue if he gets to playing around in the bathroom. It may just be that he responds to the sound of human voices, but if I call him, he will come out from wherever he's been hiding and look at me. He doesn't do the sort of rough playing that Vlad was a fan of (possibly learned behavior from the way Jerome would play with him). Basically, everything I ever wanted in a kitten. :)

So let's see here...

Spent Friday evening playing a Girl Genius table top game, and then curling up on the couch because it was WAY past my bedtime. I basically slept through the entire combat, which is a pretty spectacular feat, given how loud the other players were. We won't be playing in that game regularly, since Friday nights are often booked with other things, but we did have a lot of fun. I made a construct for my character, who works as a contortionist in the circus that all the PCs are a part of. My character is currently stalking one of the other PCs, who used to work for the person who created her. Later, Jeremy plans to make a second character, a 13-year-old girl who "converted" my construct into a dress-up doll. Fun times. :)

Saturday was the Exalted game, which was really wrapped up in a whole lot of us talking about everything other than the game. We didn't even finish one combat. I got quite a bit of crocheting done, though. :)

Sunday was Houses of the Blooded for One Hit Wonders, and that one was a ton of us fighting with the rules, and deciding that while the setting is super awesome, the rules leave a lot to be desired. But it's fun to talk game design stuff with other gamers, for sure.

I managed to have a headache for pretty much all of Sunday and most of Monday, so I stayed home yesterday and slept very late. Then I played Rock Band and finished up season 2.5 of Battlestar Galactica, and was horribly disappointed by the end of the season. I'm hoping things will turn back around in season 3... (which I think they will, since there are something like 4 more Cylons revealed in season 3.) I did make a whole bunch of cat toys though, mostly for the shop, but a couple for Jeremy's cats. So far, they are loving them. Gabe, at the very least, is a total catnip fiend... the toys have to go up on a high shelf when we're not home. :)

Cats + heat = not good!

The heat continues. And while we get to go to our nice air-conditioned offices every day, the poor cats are stuck at home. We're doing as much as we can to keep them comfortable--fans in the bedroom and living room, plenty of fresh water every time we can refill it, and even a bit of water in the bathtub in the hopes of either keeping the bathroom cooler or giving the cats a spot to hang out--but they are NOT liking the heat one bit.

Last night, I went straight home while Jeremy headed to an appointment, so I spent about an hour trying to get the cats more comfortable. Mostly they were doing alright by hiding out in the bedroom, but one of the cats insisted on laying on the living room floor, and looked downright miserable. I ended up "petting" him with an ice cube to get his fur a little damp, and he seemed to perk up after that.

Today is forecast to be worse than yesterday. We're holding out hope that my apartment is retaining its cave-like qualities, so that we can sleep there tonight. The cats, however, can't come with us. Hopefully they're finding good ways to beat the heat!

In other cat related news, I don't think I ever showed off the catnip toys that I made. I had a custom order request for a cat toy, and since I had to buy catnip to make it, I ended up making a ton of these little fish. They're from a pattern that I whipped up when I wanted to make a crocheted Swimmy, and then modified to make stuffed fish. I like these little featureless catnip toys, and I keep promising Jeremy's cats that they can have one... they go so nuts when I work on catnip toys near them and don't share. :)

Cats, cats, and more cats...

I'm struck by the fact that apparently Jeremy's cats have been wearing my new hoodie, because that's the only possible way it could contain as much cat hair as it does. :) The fact that it kept falling on the floor all weekend possibly has something to do with it also, but I prefer the thought of the cats parading around in my jacket while I sleep. :)

Speaking of cats, it looks like I might be getting a kitten. I'd been trying to resist the urge, because I can't have cats at my apartment. Jeremy can have them at his, but he already has plenty of adult cats. I've had kittens before. They are SO not like Jeremy's cats. They are madness incarnate.

But Andrew is a tricksy one. He's been trying to sell me on one of the cats that he and his wife are fostering. It started when he told me the kitten's name: Paint It Black. You know, named after the song that I have over 20 covers of, because I love it so much? :) My will was strong, until Saturday. I knew we'd see Andrew at the wedding on Saturday, and I had this sneaking suspicion that he was going to try to break my will.

Who am I kidding? I have no willpower when it comes to cuteness. :) He had a camera phone picture of Paint It Black, and that was all it took. I suspect everyone at the reception heard my squeal of delight, and Jeremy knew exactly what it meant... he'd soon have another cat at his apartment. :) We had a discussion about it later, and it looks like the odds are high that we will be adopting Paint It Black as soon as he's ready to be released from his momma's care. At the moment, the poor little thing only weighs about a pound, so we've got some time yet.

This means kitten proofing Jeremy's apartment big time, as it is so totally not ready for a kitten. We've also made the decision that we're going to come up with an alternate name for the cat, because Paint It Black is a mouthful, and because cats need 8 billion names. Nothing's struck me quite yet, as the majority of the name brainstorming was as I was falling asleep. Seeing as no one but me can pronounce Pbbbt, I don't think that's an option... :)

Stuff about cats

1) Light colored cats decide you're their best friend, and want to give you lots of love, on the day you wear black pants.
2) I guess I'm just the right height for the cats to headbutt me in the back of the knee when I'm standing at the computer. Now it's not like the cat is headbutting me hard, but that spot right in the back of the knee will make my knee give a little, and before I know it, I'm falling down.
3) This is apparently how said cat asks for food. Silly cat doesn't realize that I have no clue where the cat food is kept, nor how much to give them. (Never mind the fact that they seem to still have food OUT!)

At least these cats have plenty of space to run around in, and thus are not constantly underfoot. I've only seen Hannah twice, but Oscar likes to sleep on my bed when I'm not here. Well, I guess that's better than sleeping in my suitcase. :) Oh, and Frazier, who has never liked me, still doesn't like me, unless I'm wearing black pants. *sigh*

A few articles, and a Vlad update.

Cindy:

Six Things I Learned When Purchasing Renter's Insurance

Me:


Little Caesar's Pizza Tastes like Greasy Cardboard, but I Love It Anyway

Top Five Movies to Have While Stranded on a Deserted Island

Easy and Quick Food Add-Ins

Just a couple of response pieces that I did, and a silly one about food. The first one was inspired by my lunch one day. :)

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And as for Vlad, he's doing better now. He spent the night at the vet's office, ate some food, and didn't throw it back up, so that's a very good sign. He's got some medicine for the next couple of days to keep him a healthy kitten, and I'm really hoping that the upchucking is done. Megan is gonna be catsitting for us when we go to Chicago, and I know she won't want to deal with kitty vomit. Cuz I know I don't like dealing with it, though I have done remarkably well doing so thus far. :)
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Two new articles from Cindy:

Limbaugh's Statement About Michael J. Fox: Crass but Not Malicious

Which was an "Editor's Pick"! Congrats to Cindy! :)

How Much Money You Make at Associated Content is Up to You

And I concur wholeheartedly with this. I do this mostly to give myself a little bit of extra spending cash, particularly with the holidays rolling around. If I plan things well (and stop buying silly stuff), I may be able to do almost all of my holiday shopping just with the money I've made from writing. That would be pretty kewl. :) And it would mean I can spend my money from crocheting on tattoos. :)

Seriously, though, if you're interested in making either a little money or a decent amount of money through writing for Associated Content, E-mail either Cindy: lgunnin (at) hotmail (dot) com, or me: scarywhitegirl (at) gmail (dot) com. If you know Cindy in real life, use hers; otherwise, you can use mine. Yeah, we get a little bit of money for referrals, but once you're started, you can refer people too. :) And you can invite us to be your buddies, too. :)

You get no articles from me. Because I had a week of being a slacker when I didn't write much. I should have more coming up this week, but as I'm off work from Wednesday through Friday, I doubt you'll see anything about them till next Monday.

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Halloween is tomorrow, and if I am ambitious tonight, I will have quasi-Bride of Frankenstein hair tomorrow. This involves putting all of my hair into braids, and Jerome laughed when I asked him if he knew how to braid. Ah well. :)

Wednesday, I'll be headed out for my after Halloween sales (YAY!), and Thursday, we are off to the distant frozen northlands. This is also known, to most people, as Chicago. Jerome and I will be hitting the Art Institute on Thursday night, the Field Museum on Friday afternoon, and the Placebo concert (with Jesi and friends) on Friday night. Then on Saturday, we get to get up early to make the drive back. Well, I can cross my fingers and hope that perhaps they will give Jerome Saturday night off, in the hopes of him working Sunday morning, which will allow us to not leave Chicago super early on Saturday.

And in other news, Vlad has been sick. :( He goes to the vet this afternoon, to see if she can determine something is wrong with him, or whether it's just a case of upset kitty tummy. If it's the latter, I've already got some possibilities on ways to fix that, so that's a relief. It was not nice to hear him start hacking, and then backing up, before upchucking onto the floor. I'd be upset about the mess, but I'm more upset because he made a horrible little mewling noise right before it happened, so he's obviously not a happy kitten. :(
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Crazy busy gaming weekend, involving three LARPs. This ended up equaling Jerome and I losing our characters (and making new ones), me becoming a Harpy again, and me becoming a Ductus through the cunning use of lies (not flags). But hey, no one has checked me yet to see if I'm a big liar. Because that character is. :)

It's a month to DragonCon now, and Abney Park and Ego Likeness are confirmed. This means I'm going to be seeing 3 of my favorite bands/artists in the world, along with 2 bands that I like quite a bit. I am happy. :)

With DragonCon a month away, this means I'm working on costumes like a madwoman. Right now, it looks like I'm doing four costumes and one other outfit over the course of three days.

Friday night, it'll be Death from Sandman. I had to find a new pair of black jeans, but I still had everything else I needed for that costume.

Saturday day, it'll be Kaylee from Firefly. I still need to find one or two patches for her jumpsuit, and make sure that I can do my hair in the little buns that she does in the pilot episode. And sew the patches on. And maybe find a necklace that looks good. Maybe.

Saturday night, it depends on who is playing. Most likely, though, this will just be the night that I goth out.

Sunday day, I think I'm going with Alice from America McGee's Alice, only because I already have every piece of that costume. :)

Sunday night, which is when I suspect AP will be playing, I will probably revive my Dark Green Fairy costume that I wore for their last show that I got to see, though it will be undergoing some serious modifications, mainly for the different season and climate. I want to try to make some yarn hair falls, but I'm not sure how feasible that will be. I need a different shirt, so I may go back to Goodwill to pick up something I saw on Saturday. And I really should rethink the stripey tights, because it's likely to be too hot for those... I'm definitely rethinking the armwarmers. :)

But yeah, that's gonna be a lot of clothes to pack, particularly as it involves a couple of large dresses/poofy skirts. The good news, of course, is that Jerome will prolly cram all of his stuff into one bag, leaving plenty of trunk space for Jesi and I. w00t! :)

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In other news, you would think that putting three adults and two cats into a tiny two bedroom apartment would get a bit crowded, but we're making a pretty decent go of it. Still need another bookcase, but we're working on how we can get that... :)
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It's beginning to look like I only post about once a week. Ah well, I guess that's okay, since my day to day life is rarely exciting enough that it requires daily posts to keep you all updated.

So, stuff since the last time I posted...

1) Jerome, Jesi, and I are going to DragonCon in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend. So far, this is looking to be an exceptionally good and interesting time. I haven't been to a REAL con in ages, and the last one of those I was at, I was running a temperature of over 100 degrees, and was basically delirious the whole time. Getting sick the day before you're supposed to leave for a con sucks. :(

Any rate, yeah. We will be seeing The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, and The Last Dance play, along with the possibility of also seeing Abney Park and/or Ego Likeness play. Just the top three make me happy. The possibility of the other two as well make me super happy! :) Aside from the bands, there are a whole crapton of panels to go to, and there will also be drum circles, which equals belly dancing. w00t! :) Gaming? Nah... we prolly won't do much of that... just because it's a gaming convention, that doesn't mean a damn thing... ;)

2) Moxie is doing well after being spayed last week. She's still sorta walking slower than usual, and not jumping around as much, and we have to keep telling Vlad that he can't play with Momma how they usually play, but other than that, she's good. :) I suspect that when the time comes for Vlad to get neutered, he'll have a much easier time of it... :)

3) Been doing a lot of cleaning and getting rid of crap I don't need recently. And if anyone who reads this is interested in a pair of womens' size 5 black Doc Martens, E-mail me. :) I've got someone they MIGHT fit, but I think her feet are actually smaller than that...

4) Gaming all around is going pretty well. I'm in 4 LARPs now, and trying to get a TT game started. Still playing Daisy Green (Malkavian Prince) in Ashes and Dr. Luisa Dunsirn (Ventrue Seneschal... soon to be Prince) in Riddles. I started playing Mehnit (Serpent of the Light Priestess) in Echoes in the Night, which is a new Sabbat game in C-dale, and I will soon start playing Anastasia (Ravnos antitribu) in a new Sabbat game in Marion... or at least that's the plan. There's also a "waiting in the wings" LARP, in which I'll be playing Lola, a Daughter of Cacophany. w00t! :)

As for the TT game, well, it's supposed to be a Firefly / Serenity game. Unfortunately, only Jerome has finished making his character so far... and I technically only have 2 players... and I don't have a night to run that, either... *sigh*... I also wanna run Werewolf, and I started a one-shot Sabbat TT game that never got finished with Jerome, Bobert, and Morgan.

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And that's about it in my life... well, at least the bits that I'm sharing with the world... :)
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Okies, so short version of everything.

1) Jerome's birthday was mostly kewl. Him being sick for part of his birthday wasn't kewl, but other than that, it was okay.
2) Ozzfest rocked. Nuff said. I didn't get too badly sunburned, either.
3) The internet works in my apartment again. *happy dance*
4) I dropped Moxie off at the vet this morning to get spayed. Oi. I bet she's gonna hate me now. Vlad, being the little cutie he is, tried to bust her out of the cat carrier this morning. :)

And that's pretty much about it. Lots of craziness in the works, but it's all in the works at the moment. The parts that I will mention are that I may be starting up a new TT game soonishly, and I may be trying to sell some of my yarn on eBay, because I have WAY too much, and almost never crochet anymore.

I need to make some pillows for Jerome, though, because we moved his TV and all that into his room last night, which means we can lay in his bed and watch movies, but he only has a few small pillows. So he needs more. :) And I told him I'd make something to hold the remotes that he can hang on the headboard, so that they're easy to get at. Maybe with a skull on it. :)

And that's about it. Working on backgrounds for a couple of characters, working, and trying to sleep occasionally. :)
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Tired and in a somewhat foul mood this morning. :( But I had a mostly good weekend (except for the three cat scratches, none of which are from my precious babies), so that helps this not be too sucky of a day. Hopefully.

I need to start taking my movies over to the boys house, because they own a very small selection of movies, and though I love "Boondock Saints," I'd rather not watch it every time I go there. :)

My guitar should be in my possession soonishly. The UPS site says they tried to deliver it Friday, but I didn't see a sticker from that... :( Hopefully there will be one today, and I can call them and tell them to take it off the truck this evening, and go pick it up tonight. Hopefully. :) That will make my day muchly better. :)

In the meantime, though, I'm working, and waiting on the boss to arrive. It's so quiet around here right now.
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Shuddup about me not posting all week. I've been working and doing other stuff. :)

Yesterday, Bryan and Vanessa brought me kittens. I didn't think I was going to get kittens, even though we had talked about it, because I said "no, I don't think we need kittens. I'm never home." But then they brought them anyway, and once they're there, you can't say no to kittens.

So we now have a momma cat, Moxie Guinness God (Jesi named her Moxie, but toyed with the other names, so I have decreed this to be her full name. Mostly, she's just Moxie, which seems to fit her nicely.), who is a very dark brown mottled color, with some patches of much lighter brown. I think maybe she kinda looks like coffee with a little bit of creamer that hasn't quite been stirred in yet.

See for yourself. This is her very surly, "what is my baby doing?" picture, as she lounges in her favorite sleeping spot, the TMBG quilt of legend. It's not quite done yet. Megan wants it. The cats like to sleep on it tho... we shall see who wins the epic battle for the quilt of comfiness.

The baby cat, Vladimir, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, Voivod of Wallachia (yes, I named my cat after Dracula. Did you expect any less from me?), is my sweetie. He is solid black, which is everything I ever wanted in a kittie. :)

And here is Vlad. He is the tiniest little thing EVAR, and too frickin' adorable on top of that. This morning, he entertained me by chasing his own tail, freaking out about his shadow, chasing his momma's tail, and playing with a wadded up paper bag that I found.

So far, they seem to be doing wonderfully in making the transition from outside cats to inside cats. They seem to understand the concept of the litterbox, which makes me SUPER happy. They haven't attacked my yarn yet, which is also SUPER good, because I have a lot of yarn.

Still need to find them a vet, and get them all checked out. I can already tell that they're prolly a bit underweight, as both are skinny as rails, but I'm sure once they adjust a little bit more, they'll eat plenty. And they both need declawed, because as cruel as some people may find that, Moxie put her front paws on my leg while I was eating breakfast today, and her claws were poking through my pants. NOT pleasant. :( I don't care if they claw up my couch, since it's already pretty well clawed to hell and back by cats at its former residence, but I don't like them clawing up ME. :) And they both need to be neutered. Vlad is apparently from Moxie's 2nd litter, and she's only about 7-8 months old. None of her first litter survived, and Vlad was the only one who made it out of the 2nd litter. :(

Anyways, those are my cats. Yay for cats! :)
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Bored and random today. I think my attention span is hiding somewhere... but I haven't a clue where...

I want to work on Emelia's background, but I haven't quite finished her soundtrack yet. That should probably be a project for tonight, so that I can work on her background sooner rather than later. I'd like to have it done for Friday. :) Of course, due to my badness from taking "Veteran of the Weird West," any given game could be her last... there's a 1 in 54 chance, at least... it will suck if I write her background this week and then have to make a new character come Friday. :(

Been listening to a lot of TMBG and related stuff lately, which can only contribute to the randomness. I like randomness, though, so that's okay. :)

I also like kitties, and wish I could have one of my own. But I really can't, between my tiny apartment, too much yarn, and not enough time spent at home. So I'll have to content myself with playing with Grant's kitties when I go over there. They are too cute for words. :)

I'm hermitting tonight. It's been too long since I've done that, and I need to recharge. A recharged Dawn is a much happier Dawn. :) I suspect there will be attempts made to make me not a hermit, but I plan to resist... we'll see how that goes... :)

It should be noted that I'm not in anything even remotely resembling a bad mood, in fact, I'm exceptionally happy... but I can feel the cranky Dawn approaching, and I'd rather cut her off than unleash her.

Anyways, I so need to work on some crochet. I haven't since Friday night, and that was really sporadic at best...
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