Sena's DW :: Watermelon Life

Right. Well. After I reached 50k on TKA I was SUPPOSED to take like a one or two day break and then get back at it, but it is day ELEVEN now and I JUST started writing TKA again now. *FACEPALM* After the first couple of days of my brain being MUSH I DID get back to writing, just... not TKA. I worked on SPN fanfic stuff instead, which, like, PRIORITIES?? BUT today's TKA session went well, it was about 2.5k long (ish) and I think I might finally be back at it! I just really want to get TKA finished so I can move on to the editing part.

I've been working on Temper Tantrums in the post-SS one-shots, and also Hunting Souls, and also Wayward Daughters, which is a new one that I just added to the roster. It's up to 30 freaking fics now and I'm hoping to keep it there because that is out of control. :|

I've been working on Wiggly Foxes a lot lately, especially the family of them that I'm making for my brother for Christmas. They're blue with pink tails and white accents. I'm also making a set of bracelets for him for Christmas but I need the bails and charms and I ordered them today, and the bails will be here tomorrow, but the charms won't be here until December 9->19 so that SUCKS. I can make the bracelets and then attach the charms after, but I'm super worried about the postal strike right now so??? The stupid thing is I KNOW I have some suitable charms around here, I just can't FREAKING FIND THEM. >:[

Today I have to make banana bread because I've been saying I'm going to make it for like a week now. Also bread pudding. But first I'm taking a nap because I woke up at 4am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep because NATURALLY. *eyeroll*

I'm hoping to FedEX Sethi's parcel to her and her family FINALLY this weekend. And also send Cassandra-san her little package, too. Turns out FedEX is actually pretty affordable if you don't mind it taking three whole days to get there. To the States, anyway, I'm not sure about the Philippines, I still have to get an estimate for that one.

Anyway, yeah. Not much to talk about today. More to talk about tomorrow when my Amazon parcel comes in. Cya.

So I finally managed to get my apps finished for taediumvitae_rp. It took forever, between moving and baking and family issues and everything, but YAY. Now I play Dean Winchester (escapeperdition) and House (thecaneisnotart) over there. Kekeke. House is so hard. XD; But fun! And Dean is awesome to play. Now I just need a Sam and I'll be set. ♥

Tonight was half-spent RPing (Demyx with Zexy, and a little with Michi as well in a different rp, and then Dean a bunch and House some. Also some ND with Cassandra-san. :3), and then after/around that... more baking. =D;

Michi and I are rping Demyx/Axel. Which, I mean, is made of awesome, right? Except Dem is topping sort of, which is crazy and also really hot. O__O; Plus there's angst in there too, which just makes it even better. XD; Turns out I have a think for uke!Axel. Who knew? XD

I finished off 12 dozen lemon cheesecake cookies tonight, and now I'm doing what is (almost) the last of the shortbread. I still have one more batch to make tomorrow or the next day, but that's it. After this, I still have to do fruit cookies, lemon squares, buttertart squares, and broken-glass torte. Way to go right to the wire, self. >>;

A reminder, all the Christmas packages for people are going to be late. Sorry. But I am sending them. So yay for packages after Christmas? IT EXTENDS THE HOLIDAY, DAMMIT. XDD;;

1) A little while ago, smoulderedtears and I applied for characters in the Lumiere RP; rather than let us know if we were accepted or not, the mods just deleted our applications, and blocked our journals from posting again.

All I can say is; W.T.F.

Okay, so I'm assuming we weren't accepted. Duh. But the common sense, common curtesy thing to do is at least tell the person that they aren't accepted, and give them a reason why. I did something wrong in my app? Fine. TELL ME, so I at least know what's going on.

So Kao-mun and I went to the "questions" board and left polite questions in regards to it, basically asking why our applications had been deleted with no response whatsoever, and explaining that we both felt rather offended by the fact that they hadn't bothered to do anything but DELETE and then barr us from applying again and/or posting anywhere in the various parts of their rp. This had to be done from alternate journals, mind you, because the ones we used to apply in in the first place had been banned.

Their response? They deleted our questions, again without a reply, and then barred the journals we used to post the questions, too.

You know what? That's remarkably, rediculously rude, and I'm quite pissed off about it. But if that's the way that rp is run, and how the mods act (like spoiled children, basically), then I don't think I really want to be part of it anyway.

[/Lumiere rant]

2) A few entries ago I was fretting over Pagan being too skinny, and asking any vet nurses on my f-list for advice about it; well, things have changed, but I don't know if it's for the good or not.

Basically, now Pagan is still quite skinny, but has a round little belly on him. I was afraid it was GI Stasis or another gastrointestinal problem, so I've been keeping a very close eye on him... again, he seems healthy enough; he's eating (pellets, timothy hay and veggies/fruits), pooping, peeing, still cuddly, playful and keeping himself clean. He and Pan were recently introduced to strawberries, and he's like ZOMGYEYMOREPLEASEMOMMY??

I even checked his teeth, just in case he had a problem with them and wasn't chewing his food enough, or something stupid like that, but they're fine. (Pagan loves being on his back, btw, he's the only one of my buns that'll do that. Flip him over and he'll lay like that forever! ♥)

Anyway, I can't think of any reason for him to have such an overly round belly on him... except a few minutes ago I had a panic moment-- what if he's PREGNANT? What if he was sexed wrong at the pet store, and I can't tell properly? ><

If that's the case, then it would have to have happened at the store before I even brought him/her home because Pan is for sure a girl (clearly, for some reason both Rex rabbits I have are easy to identify when you have a look up their skirts), and so are my other buns. Now I'm worried. Mwaaaaa~

Should I take him to the vet? He's healthy aside from the belly, and it seems pointless if there's nothing wrong...

>___<;;

3) Today the orange hair I ordered for Kyou!pony came in (along with some more white and black, which I don't need right now, but will probably need at some point between now and the end of May.) It's... Orange Blossom? I think that's the name. I got it from restoredoll.com, as always. I've tried various brands/types of hair over the last year and between the product and the service, I always end up going back to katsilk and restoredoll. :)

The orange is a little brighter than I thought it was, but not overly so, and actually matches the shade of orange paint I have almost perfectly, so I'm pretty happy. I'll probably finish up Kyou!pony tonight (he's been nagging me about it, since Yuki!pony has hair and he doesn't-- he was not happy! lol.), and possibly Hatori!pony as well. I was going to rehair Hatori last night, but I ended up with a headache and not feeling really well, so I didn't get it done...

And I'm really annoyed with Loki right now; while I was out this morning, he climbed up on the table, stole the little clay fish I'd done for Arisa!pony's symbol, carried it halfway across the apartment, and then chewed it all to hell. =__=;; So now I need to redo that...

4) I got goyza today~~ <33

I try to get Japanese from the place by the mall as often as I can; they make awesome food, and it's all cooked with water instead of oil. They make the best teriyaki. ^_^ They make good tempura, too, and now I've tried the goyza... which was awesome. *_* I loved it even though it was pork-- the spices and stuff were perfect!

I think I'm going to find that I love almost everything they do. XD;

Next time I'm going to try their yakisoba~

5) OMG Cassandra-san look... AN ND SCENE! =O Shocking, I know. Not a very long one, but one nonetheless. Hopefully I can get them out on a relatively regular basis from now on. I miss ND. ;.;

( Raitei had developed an accute dislike for Hikaru, much to the violet-haired woman's amusement. )

I'd almost forgotten how much I love ND-Hikaru. The goof. ♥~

I've been scalping ponies for about an hour, prepping them for customizing, since this year I actually will have a table at the AN convention. Now I have a huge blister on the ring finger of my right hand. Owie. ;~;

Sigh.

I'm feeling marginally better today than I was yesterday... probably because I've been planning for AN, and that always cheers me up a bit. Especially since I have a chance of making a decent amount of money from it, even if it's way ahead in May.

Oh, and now smoulderedtears, lipstickcat and etcetera_cat have all got their gifts (pony!Kao, Chase The Stars and Damali, respectively) in the last couple of days, so I can stop worrying about those getting lost in the mail or something. Now I'm just waiting on cassandracsenta's Christmas present to get to her. :)

And I think I'm getting sick. My sinuses have been really bad the last couple days, and I've had a chronic headache for a week; now I'm starting to develop a cough. Ugh. =_=;;

A Christmas ND scene for Cassandra-san~ ♥

( Her mother, before she died, had always hung a wreath on the front door. )

That's my first ND scene in a long time. ^_^;;

My hands weren't shaking much today, so... yay? I'm glad, it sucks when they're like that. But I'm still really tired, and now I'm feeling kind of nauseous too. I know it sounds stupid, but I kind of hope it is the Chronic Fatigue acting up again, because if it's not I've probably caught the flu that Mom's been dealing with all this last week... -.-;;

Trunks' birthday was the 13th, and he bought himself a computer. I'm kinda proud of him, for saving up the money for it. And knowing him, it's a really awesome PC, too. I need a new hard drive for mine... >__>

Anyway, so tomorrow there are various appointments; the Chiropractor for Mom and I, and then in the afternoon I'm taking the cats to the vet for shots and whatnot. Fun stuff there. I also have some odds and ends to pick up, and laundry to do.

Hopefully tomorrow morning LJ will be working properly, and I can chat with Cassandra-san... T_T

I forgot to set my alarm last night, so I almost missed Cassandra-san entirely... but we still had a crack-tastic comment-spam chat with Kao for a while anyway. XD Why are the three of us never on MSN at the same time? I mean really.

Other than that, I didn't do much today. RPed for a long while. =3 Kao and I finished our latest RP, which turned out to be three LJ entries long because we killed the text limit SO BADLY. XD;;

And I took my air conditioner down, so now I just need to pack it away for another winter. Fun stuff.

The Staples people told me their turn around was a day or two when I dropped my computer off, and since it had been three days yesterday, I called them to inquire about my PC... the woman I talked to was apologetic, but said that the guy who normally does the work was out with a back injury, so mine hadn't even been gotten to yet. She said I should get a call tomorrow (which is now today) or Friday about it at the latest.

First of all, whether there was someone out with a back injury or not, there are several people who work in the tech center doing the computer repairs. If he couldn't make it in, they should have called someone else in. Or at least called the people who were waiting to let them know. You shouldn't give out "you will get your computer back by ____" dates, when you can't deliver on it.

But I know that things happen, so I'm giving them some leeway. If they don't call tomorrow, I'm going to call them back again, though.

So right now I'm still computer-less and using five-minute blips on Sarah's to do journal entries and check me email and whatnot. Which means that I won't be able to catch cassandracenta until Sunday, since I won't have my computer back until tomorrow night at the earliest, and she's going away for Saturday. :P

Maybe I'll try scribbling out a scene without my computer... it will probably kill my hand, but whatever. ^_^;; Tendonitis sucks, by the way.

ANYWAY.

About the only other thing that needs reporting on it my hand! ...which is much better, thank you. ^^ Once the antibiotics kicked in and started clearing out some of the infection, I could start healing properly. Now the scratches are all healed (except for the faint pink lines I'll have for a while), and so is one of the bites-- I heal fast when I get a chance! lol.

I have three marks left that are still scabby (the two big bites, and one other smaller one that got infected, too), but other than still being a teeny bit swollen and red right around them, they're coming all great. I only really even notice they're still there when I bump them on something.

Also, right around the area of the bites, my skin is REALLY dry, and I'm not entirely sure why. It might be because of the antibiotics (which also make me quite sick to my stomach, in case I haven't mentioned it before), or maybe just because of the infection... who knows. I'll deal with it when the scabs are gone and I just have more scars to add to my collection. XD

Honestly? I find the number of scars I have amusing, myself. ^_^;;

OH! And I was fiddling with the random P.O.S. stuff I had hanging around, and putting it all into boxes, and LO AND BEHOLD, the box for cat_mcdougall is full and ready to ship! Actually, it's a little more than full. ^^;; Mostly because there's a bunch of stuff in it for her kidlings...

The ones for etcetera_cat and kierseth still need some stuff to finish filling them, but I figure they'll be done pretty soon. I can probably finish them and get Mom to stop and mail them on the way out of town next weekend. WHOOT. X3

And on that note... ONE MORE WEEK UNTIL ANIME NORTH. ^__^

EDIT: OMG CSI season finale tonight! *flails*

A scene that I promised Cassandra-san yesterday. ^^;; But it didn't get done... so here it is, now! Taa-daa!

So, here we introduce reborn-Shia. She was Sailor Star Slayer way back in the past... then Slayer itself (the star) vanished for about ten thousand years, and Shia along with it. ^_^; Then it/she reappeared during Nazoko-tachi's time, and Star Slayer helped divert the war with Hakyokusei. After which she vanished again, and everyone assumed she went back into the future with Chibiusa-tachi.

What actually happened is that the Ginzuishou allowed her to be reborn in the present. She's grown up differently than she did before, so she's a slightly-different person; she looks a tad bit different as well. But because Slayer is a star of tragedy, that much follows her into her new life, too. She was orphaned as a young child and grew up in an orphanage because of it.

Anyway!

( Shia-san?! )

It turned out a lot shorter than I planned, but... meh. Oh well. *shrug*

And!

I got another rat, as a friend for Yuki. >^-^;; He was acting lonely, and apparently rats do better if you have more than one. I paid for this one, though. At least rats are cheap.

So the new rat is grey-and-white (whereas Yuki is black-and-white) and currently nameless. I just can't think of anything. |_|;;

I'm open to suggestions, actually...

Though I'm almost considering naming him "Margerine", because he's a little butterball. You know those margerine commercials? "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter"? XD

Maybe that's only amusing to me... ^^;;

EDIT: His name is "Nanashi"! Thank you cassandracsenta!

Now I'm feeling relatively okay again, and my medications are ( screwing up on me instead... )

Maaaa... and Cassandra-san is away for a few days. I don't know if I'll be able to chat with her or not. ;__; She's got Internet, but she might not be around when we normally talk...

I should probably use the extra time to do something useful/productive, sicne I haven't done squat since I got sick last week, but I most likely won't get much done... ^^;; I might work a bit more on some of my novels. Should still pick one to focus on... *coughs toward this post*

Since Sethi was the only one who answered at all last time, maybe I can get a couple more oppinions... ^_^;;

And something I ganked from kohaku_san! Italics are my "internal" (but not actually so internal) commentary.

( Dorks. )

So maybe I'm not a dork after all. XD

Spiral sounds interesting. I had a quick look around the site, and I really like the art/character designs too. *drools over Ayumu and Eyes* >^-^<

Will have to look into getting it some day when I have money again...

EDIT: Oh my God. Cassandra-san, I was just reading through a couple of the older scenes/forums, back when I was first bringing Nazoko/Nozomi/Miru/Yasuo into the picture and we were discussing what to do with them... and we were planning on putting Nazoko with Kin. O_O; Gaaaah... it makes my brain hurt... X_x

I am so freaking tired... =_=;;; I'm practically falling asleep... and it wasn't even a bad night! Really! It was good! I finished everything EARLY for a change! I got out on time!

...blargh. Still tired.

But I'm not going to sleep yet because I'm having far too much fun skimming through some of the "older" (from like two months ago) chats/forums that Cassandra-san and I have had. *gigglesnort* Man, so much has changed!

This comment of mine is one that I find particularly amusing, which followed right after Cassandra-san posted chapter 9 of Mornings, which was about Hikaru and Taiga:

Hikaru cracks me up. XD

Not that I don't adore all the other Starlights, but she was the first one I personally created (followed shortly by Josei and Amai, of course) and I think she's the one that... well, not that I like the most, 'cause I like them all, but...

It's very hard to explain. ^^;;

Hikaru: We have a kinship. I'm a lot like Sena-sama, actually. ^^
Josei: Be afraid.

MAN!! Hikaru has definitely spent too much time with Seiya! XD lol! Boy-Hikaru kicks ass, though. And I'll tell you a secret: That little chapter of Mornings has me almost leaning toward having Hikaru and Taiga go out on a date or two... >^-^<

Must... resist... matchmaking... impulses..!!

*sniggers* Naa... that lasted what? Two weeks, tops? XD

Hikaru: ^_^;;
Taiga: *coughs*

The other thing I've been thinking lately, ne Cassandra-san? ^^;;; Not that I'm really trying to pawn more writing off on you, but we have so many more characters now that you could probably continue Mornings and write more chapters if you wanted. ^_^;

...or maybe I could do something similar with the new ones.

Hmm...

And on a completely random note, which I may or may not have already mentioned, I have THREE days off this week!

...probably because my Manager is afraid I'm going to have a complete and utter mental breakdown. =_=;; Which, yes, I'm pretty close to. Whatever.

I still get three days off!! WHOO! XD

I still can feel the softness of her hair...