Sena's DW :: Purple Ponies

Well. I'm feeling much better today. I didn't freak out once all day... though I'll admit I had to step outside for some air once or twice after we got to Grandma and Grandpa's. Thirteen people all crammed into the same living room is too much for me sometimes. :P

So, aside from the unpleasantness, let's talk about last night-- our little gift-exchange went well, and everyone seemed happy. ^^ Mom totally won this year, though. She got awesome stuff. ^_^ Lee got a whole bunch of DVDs (Blade 1/2/Trinity, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, etc.), and Trunks got some books, movies, CDs and a video game.

As for me... I stocked up on CSI stuff! =^-^= Mom and Lee got me both the computer games, and Trunks got me the board game and the first booster pack for it. Ehehehehe... X3

I also got a whole bunch of movies;

--White Noise
--Cursed
--Hitch
--BATMAN (the complete 1943 serial... now I need the 1949 one...)
--Alone In The Dark
--Frogs (B-GRADE ALL THE WAY, BABY!)

And I got a little 2 quart slow cooker, and a framed picture to hang once I find some wall space.

After gifts, but before my freak-out, I made Broken Glass Torte. Yummy.

Then today around 11:00 am, they packed up the car and came to pick me up, and we all went up to do the extended-family get together-- we had a HUGE "dinner" around 2:30 or 3:00-ish, with turkey, ham, stuffing, potatoes, turnip, carrots, etc., and all stuffed ourselves silly. (That reminds me, I brought some leftovers home and haven't gotten around to putting them in the fridge yet...)

After everything from the meal was cleaned up, we sat down and handed out gifts. Trunks and I each got two movies and two books from Grandma and Grandpa. I got Hide and Seek and Tarzan on DVD, and copies of Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz, and Eldest by Christopher Paolini.

Once that was done, we settled in for the Chinese Auction that we do every year. ^__^ Some of the highlight-gifts were a DVD copy of Madagascar, a box of Pot of Gold chocolates, a set of 4 dicast (sp?) Disney racing cars, and a coffee mug ("Instant Person, Just Add Coffee") with a cute little stuffed poodle inside it. =3

We played for about an hour before we finally had all the presents opened and everyone was satisfied. I ended up with a huge Whinney the Pooh stuffy (which I gave to my cousin Alex), and a Sound Therapy relaxation system-- it plays soothing music and sounds, depending on which track you choose. Very nifty.

Then we all got out the various goodies/baked treats we had brought, and nibbled on those for a while, while we talked/played cards/whatever.

ALSO!

My cousin (Killian) commissioned a pony from me!

He wants it for his girlfriend's birthday in February, so I have plenty of time. I'm just squee-ing over a commission.

A COMMISSION! X3

EDIT: Ah, and yay! cat_mcdougall and her kids all liked their pressies! ^^ That makes me happy. Ne Cat... want a copy of the Disney Tarzan movie? I have an extra VHS copy now. :)

Merry Christmas, in case I don't get back before tomorrow's over. :)

Last night I randomly decided to make a mini-pony. =^-^= She's made from a G3 McDonald's Sparkleworks, and is a gift for my Grandma. She's a Christmas tree ornament!

Anyway. Her name is "Christmas Tidings", but, as usual, I feel the need to give her a shortened nickname, so I call her "Tides". I made her with the thought that she would be a companion-piece to Trims (my 2005 Christmas pony). When you see them side-by-side, she almost looks like Trims is her mama. She's very cute, actually. :)

As for info... I guess first of all, I had to take an exacto knife and cut off the moulded plastic tail that all the McD ponies have, since I wanted to give her a real tail. ^^ It actually wasn't as hard as I had imagined, though it certainly wasn't easy. ^_^; It worked alright, but she's a little uneven in the back of her legs, so I'm glad her new tail covers it...

Because she's a set with Trims, I used the same colors for her, but in different ways; Tides is red (though in some of the photos, she looks a bit orange instead... O_o;;), with green eyes and a matching green ornament on her front right hoof. She has a star for her mark (to match Trims), but has three circles running down her leg, instead of other stars. Her mane and tail are Platinum White Katsilk hair from restoredoll.com, and she has a stripe of Taxi Yellow in her mane as well. She has a green bow in her tail (it helps hide some of the uneven-ness, too! X3), and a matching bow in her hair-- I wanted to give her lights in her hair, but I didn't have any that were small enough. :P

Tides also has a little loop of green wire in her back by her shoulders, so that she can be hung from the Christmas tree. :)

PHOTOS! ( Sorry if they're a teeny bit blurry... )

Isn't she adorable? =3

Dad came up this morning to exchange gifts with Trunks and me. ^^ He couldn't stay long, but at least we got to see him before Christmas. He really liked his gifts, which was good of course. He got Trunks from McFarland dragons, and Evanescence CDs... I got a TON of My Little Ponies, and a copy of Batman Begins. X3

Most of the ponies he got me are bait ponies... or at least I think they are. I don't know if any of them are rare and should just be restored instead of customized, so I should check on that before I start hacking them apart. .__. He also got me four new ponies. ^^

AND.

( I'm a sucker... )

...and the people at the pet store know it. ^_^;; They gave me this sob story about how he was the only big rat left, and how everyone who came in to buy one wanted a baby, and how he was soooo cute and sweet and friendly, but a lot of people didn't like that he was an albino, too, and how if someone didn't adopt him soon, they'd have to sell him as a feeder. ;__;

I named him "Kori". ^__^

lol.

EDIT: I just introduced Kori to Yuki and 'Nashi... and they spent the last few minutes cuddling and grooming him. >^-^< I think we'll all get along okay...

Leviathan is on the action channel! X3 I love this movie... need to find a copy of it somewhere. ^_^ Dad has one... maybe I'll ask where he got it...

So! Christmas baking is... almost done!

Today I did the rest of the shortbread, macaroons, and date squares, which brings to the total to... approximately 70 shortbread cookies, 100-or-so macaroons, and about 60 fruit cookies, along with the pan of date squares (which make about 24, depending on how you cut them.)

So... much... baking... @_@;;

Next week I have to do the broken glass torte, since it needs to be made right before you eat it (because it contains jello and tons of whipping cream.) I'll probably make it on Christmas eve, actually, since I'll be at Mom's place then, and it needs to be done for the 25th to take with us to the family get together...

Yup. That's the plan!

Today was Shopping With Trunks! day, since he seems to need help doing his Christmas shopping every year. I'm pretty much used to it, though. ^^;

So around noon I headed over to Mom's place to meet him, and we went up to the mall. Mostly, he wanted me to help him find a good gift for the Family Gift Exchange we do every year. He has no imagination. :P lol. We did some shopping for that and found a gift relatively easily. Then he got me to spot him some money to buy Dad's gift as well.

Huh. How wierd is that? Someone borrowing money from me, given my financial situation?

Anyway, I also got more ponies. I think I have a serious problem. I'm buying ponies left and right. Soon, they will take over, and there will be no room for me in my apartment anymore! =O lol.

Also got some nailpolish remover, as I'm told it takes cutie symbols off of ponies without damaging the pony itself. For $1.77, I figure it's worth trying, even if it doesn't work. We'll see, I guess.

....

Now.

I totally want to keep pony!Ed. But at the same time, I kinda want to put him up on Ebay to see how much I could get for him. How much would FMA fans be willing to pay for a My Little Pony version of Ed, do you think? I wonder...

EDIT: My pony rehairing tool is in! =^-^= It got here while I was out today.

I can't think of much to say today, even though I did do some stuff.

Went to the mall with Trunks for a little while, and he did some Christmas shopping. I got a calendar. He bought me a stuffed turtle.

Then we went home and ate supper. Chicken and stuff.

....

Maybe I'll have more to say tomorrow.

I am going to attempt to write a Valdemar holiday one-shot this year. Attempt.

I was supposed to write one last year, but then... yeah. My life went to Hell in a Handbasket, and it never happened.

Considering I'm still struggling with a total creative block, it should be interesting sitting down to try writing Miracle, but I'm determined to at least give it a shot. After all, I haven't written anything substantial all year, except for the 1,800-or-so words I wrote on my NaNo the first two days of Novemeber. =_=;;

Yeargh. I suck. Seriously.

Ah, well.

Cross your fingers for me.

Today Mom and I spent about five hours out and about doing various odds and ends; this started, of course, with mailing the rest of the Christmas packages. etcetera_cat, mavan, elsewherecw and cassandracsenta, your pressies have been mailed, and will hopefully make it to you some time around Christmas. ^^; Ahaha...

As a note for Mavan and Cassandra-san, the CDs I'm burning for you didn't fit in the Christmas boxes, so I'll have to mail them sepparately-- mose likely after Christmas, so they'll (hopefully) get to you faster. Sorry 'bout that.

SO! After package-mailing, we went out for lunch at the Zellers restaurant, and while we were in Zellers, I got three more MLPs, since they're on sale; Sweet Breeze, Gardenia Glow, and Magic Marigold. I think Sweet Breeze is particularly adorable as she is... I might have to keep her and buy another one to customize. Hmmmmm...

After ponies, we went to buy cat food from the Vet, since now Neko isn't allowed to eat generic cat food anymore. Blegh. Oh well. $30 later, Neko and Tri have kitty food for yet another month. ^^

Then to the Goodwill store, where I got a big glass bowl for dying ponies in.

The dollar store, being right next to the Goodwill, was out next stop; and I picked up a whole bunch of various crafty supplies, paint, shinies, and things like that.

Hmmm... what next?

Ah. The bulk food place, for pet food, potatoes, and candy. YUMMY CANDY. =3

Then at Walmart I got some more paint and some various other shiny craft supplies. :)

Tons o' fun.

Oh! And today the Tokyo Mew Mew DVDs that I got off ebay a couple of weeks ago came in, so yay. ^_^ I get to watch lots of fun magical girl anime today...

It's... just after four in the morning, and I'm getting up at eight, and I'm still awake.

Believe it or not, I just spend three hours wrapping all my Christmas gifts. I'm done... or, as much as I can be. I still have a couple of to-be-shipped packages that still need to be wrapped, mostly because I need a couple more boxes to pack everything into before I can do it. And I have a couple of presents that I still have to buy, that I'll wrap when I do.

Then after all that fun wrapping, I went on ebay and nicked some more little gifty-things;

The Advent Children movie for Trunks (and I got a copy for me, too, even though I shouldn't have. X3)

And three b-grade DVDs for Andy-- Full Eclipse, ZOLTAN: Hound of Dracula and Nightbeast. Though I'm seriously considering keeping Zoltan and buying him a different one. XD lol.

Such terrible taste in movies...

( 2005 Christmas Checklist, Updated Again! )