Two years ago:

via dracowafarer

Me:
-Brown vest
-Black shirt
-Black witchy skirt
-Boots
-Bear necklace
-Faire medallion necklace (new!)
-Green bag

Reagan:
-Bunker shirt
-camo pants
-stompy boots

Two days ago:

via diepunyhuman

Me:
-Brown vest
-Black shirt
-Black "shorts"
-Boots
-Bear necklace
-Faire medallion necklace
-Green bag

Reagan:
-Bunker shirt
-Camo pants
-Other stompy boots

... I can't tell if I'm more amused or ashamed. I was more leaning towards ashamed before I realized that Reagan was wearing the same getup both times. Still pretty *head-desk*-y, though.

If nothing else, this is our simplicity of life in action!

The weekend's flickr set is now nominally in order if you would like to browse or slideshow through it. Here, however, are some favorites:






( lots more... mostly of us )



Awesome, awesome day. Thanks again, guys. :) *hug*

Post with details and the best tomorrow, but for now photos from Sunday are disorderly and in my flickr photostream

Also posting thoughtful-like for a couple posts over at my blog

I went to Faire with diepunyhuman, dracowayfarer, and gear_halo (of course).

We met up with lejakl at Legends afterwards.

This is not important to you yet, but it will be after I find my camera's cord of connection.

In the mean time, I need a bath.

But I will say a better group of friends to hang with would be hard to find. :)

Syria, Serbia, Siberia.

I WILL OCCASIONALLY GET CONFUSED.

(Reading From Beirut to Jerusalem. Good stuff.)

Also, I'm extremely tired, but am afraid I won't be at bedtime (midnight).
Also, I have a hard time getting around to sitting at my chair and drawing, because (in my head) without my PC going it won't feel like I'm really doing anything.
Also, is it unusual for the NUMLOCK light to stay on on a keyboard even when the computer is off?
Also, Reagan left at 3:30 this morning to run IMPORTANT ERRANDS. I am tired and cranky.
Also, I need to vacuum and do other chores that cannot be accomplished while reading. :(

I think my monitor might've bitten the big one.

Since I had the scares a couple months ago, I've been leaving it on all the time (in power-save mode). This morning it wouldn't wake up (made the right sounds but no picture), and Reagan's CRTPR failed to produce a pulse thus far. (And, yes, I'm sure it's not the cables)

So I won't be on AIM much till it's all resolved. :( Won't be able to synch my iPod either. Well, between now and New Monitor, I'll likley listen through every stick of podcast on there! :S

state of mind: cranky, but adapting

Drawing is allllll I want to do these days.

So it's all I do most days.

I'm not complaining.




A mixture of humans with animal parts and animals with human parts is something that's been showing up over the past couple days. It may be related to me trying to mix in more unreferenced sketches.

I think the hybrids are a style that will be with me for many days, if not weeks or months. I like the thought of this.

On Thursday we're going to San Diego to have our car worked on, so who knows when we'll be back. Don't know if I'll get much done when I'm not in my "work space". :(



I hate that cat. (Because I started filling it in and didn't finish.)

I made myself a delightful little dessert/snack of walnuts and cinnamon/sugar. Except partway through I got sick of the taste. :X



Dainty feet. :3

Part of what kept me afloat during the really bad weeks was a 8+ hour a day gaming habit. Then it somehow turned into 10+ hours a day in the two weeks. All those hours went into a single MMORPG because I like COLLECTING STUFF even if it's only virtual. Professions and breeding mounts were the parts I was hooked on the most.

I fully understood that every minute I spent on it was a minute wasted, and no matter how much time I poured into it, I was never going to *get* anything out of it. I came to that understanding sometime last week, and after hitting myself in the head with it for a few days, I uninstalled the game on Friday.

The days have passed since then with varying degrees of gamelust. I've scratched the itch ineffectually with small puzzle games, and once I gave into weakness and tried to check something on my laptop (where the game was still installed), but the version was out of date, so I was saved from myself.

Right now the craving is really bad. I've spent most of today drawing, and Reagan's been gone for the past 4.5 hours, so I'm low on energy, food, and willpower.

I'll be okay. When I finish writing I'll get up, go downstairs, be away from the computer for a while. I'll stop thinking about the loose ends I left by reminding myself that nothing is ever fully resolved, and besides I should never, at any point in the future, go back.

It was never really relaxing. and I can find better ways to spend my time.

But from time to time, it's still really hard to move on.

PS: as someone who spends most of the time at the computer and often has weird little things to say and no-one in particular to say them to, I'm the perfect candidate for twitter. But as a quasi-neo-Luddite, I refuse to partake.

i;m brushing my teeth and now i realize there's one M&M (peanut butter!!) in my bowl, leftover from dessert :(

Man. Spring.

I went through 544 blog posts today. Didn't read most of them, but pulled out 350 reference images and about 150 links for "later reading"

It was pretty hot today so my parents had the a/c on. Now it's late and that luxurious cooling system (taht had me in flannel pants and a sweatshirt) is off, so I'm blazing.

It's Saturday, but Reagan's second day of orientation is tomorrow, so he has to work early.

Man. Schedules.

Things, they are a-changin'.

More soon. These muscles are atrophied and it'll take time to regain my strength.

Maybe it's being tired, maybe it's psychological, but I seem unable to comment on posts right now.

Most LJ/blog comments I make try to be cheerful/upbeat/not depressing, but it's difficult to muster the enthusiasm to honestly be that version of myself.

So, dear friends, even in my silence I'm paying attention.

the question:

What do you do when the things that usually make you happy don't cheer you up properly?

Watching SVU and doing some drawing.

One episode had Emily Deschanel (Bones of Bones) as a victim
The next episode had Judith Light (Claire Meade of Ugly Betty) as a District Attorney.
The NEXT episode had Lee Pace (Ned of Pushing Daisies) as a witness/victim/perp.

Earlier in the season (third) Justin Kirk (Prior Walter of Angels in America) was on as a perp. I like him. :P

Oh, and here's some sketches that are still on my desktop.

There are some things about Dancing with the Stars that really suck. But I'll watch next week, too.




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