Sena's DW :: Watermelon Life

I got my last-minute gift for my brother finished up yesterday and under the tree, and also went to the Dollarama and bought a bunch of boxes and bags to "wrap" my remaining gifts, since I can't actually wrap presents anymore because of my bag, so THOSE are all under the tree too, except for one that DOES have to be wrapped. But I figure I can wrap ONE and not DIE, so. Fingers crossed.

I'm like 95% done all the Wiggly Foxes for my brother (and his family), I just have to to the white bellies/ears/paws and paint the eyes/noses black. The black is always a pain because I have to do it with a needle, it's so small. I'm hoping to get everything finished tonight, though, so I can seal it tomorrow and wrap it up (i bubble wrap and a bag) tomorrow.

The other day I started working on the 3D printed Longma figurine that Poe got me forever ago. I dug it out along with the Kelpie figuring that they sent me. I just rediscovered them and was like !!! so that's my next project after my brother's Wiggly Foxes. I had to buy some more brushes, though, like micro-detail brushes, because the details on them are so teeny tiny.

What else.

As of right now, Storm Season is at 2 chapters, 199 hits, 3 bookmarks, 15 kudos and 2 comments which is on par with Horror High, if not better with the hits. Chapter three goes up in two days. I'd live more comments, but I guess it is what it is. I'll take what I can get. Last night I I went through some of the future chapters for when I need to add notes on the palraijuq because I couldn't remember which chapter it was introduced in (it was chapter 6, so I have lots of time.)

Right now I have TKA, Temper Tantrums, Serendipity and Controlled Descent open in Word but my brain hurts the last couple days. It happens when I got a night without sleep, it takes me a few days to shake it off, even if I get good nights' sleep after that. I honestly don't know how I survived with insomnia almost every night for years until Dr. K introduced me to Dayvigo. I was a mess. I prefer not to think about that time in my life. Not sleeping for basically three years straight? Blegh.

Oh, and I ordered another set of books, this time off Amazon, the Beechwood Ghost Mysteries. Mom read them on her kindle and they sounded really good, but I prefer real paper books when I can get them, so I ordered all eight of them off Amazon (that includes the one Mom doesn't have in her kindle set), plus the one just-for-kindle one (though I can't seem to get it to download TO my kindle?? Mental note to look into that more today.)

Still watching TWD, I'm on Season 7 now, I honestly don't know how many seasons there are in this series. I should look that up. Anyway, I have Season 8 downloaded already, and when I'm finished Season 7, I'll delete it and download Season 9. I have to rotate stuff because I'm running out of space on my laptop. :P

...it's been a couple of days since I cleaned out the axolotl aquarium, which is terrible, I'm a terrible Mom, but I've been feeling so shitty the last couple of days I haven't been up to it. I HAVE to do it today, though, I don't have a choice, even though I still feel crappy. Kaida, Haku and Ryuu deserve to have a nice, tidy home. (Thank God for my suction thing or I'd be BONED even on a good day.)

Just got finished posting Chapter Eight of Horror High to AO3, Tumblr and Vanimadin. I never get anything off Vanimadin, but then again I don't expect to, and I usually get 5 or less likes for each chapter on Tumblr, but at least I can count the hits on AO3. The last couple of chapters I've gotten a few more reviews and they all basically amount to "this is a great fic, don't get discouraged by the lack of reviews, please keep it up!" Which is nice to hear. Maybe I'll get a couple more messages with Chapter Eight?

Either way I've fully committed myself to writing Storm Season now, after all my waffling before. I've already written like 167 pages of Horror High, plus 5 one-shots that average around 32-ish pages each that go BETWEEN Horror High and Storm Season, AND started a one-shot that goes AFTER Storm Season, so I figure... FUCK IT. STORM SEASON IT IS. I'm currently 39 pages in and going strong! lol. (I'm aiming for around 150 but I learned not to estimate when I was writing Horror High.)

Anyway.

Today my goal is to overhaul my Writing Master Post over on tumblr. It hasn't been updated in YEARS and I need to add a Supernatural section and reorganize the The Witcher section so it makes more sense. I'm HOPING to locate all my old graphics that I was using, but I get the feeling those are lost to the void, so I'm going to have to just make all new ones. It's kind of a pain but I guess it is what it is.

I also need to figure out what I'm going to do for my photoblogging for today because I am currently coming up blank. :|

Did I mention that I freaking hate air pumps. They're loud and buzzy and just really annoying, and now I have TWO of them running, one for my betta fish tank and one for the filter/air stone in the axolotl aquarium, and there's a good chance I'm going to need a THIRD because I'm seriously considering adding a second filter/air stone to the axolotl tank just to be sure. I mean I had 3 running in my room at one point for all the betta tanks, back when I still had Geralt and Yennifer, but I LOATHED THEM. L-O-A-T-H-E-D.

...I just took my morning pills and I can already tell this is going to be a bad day with the lithium. It makes me SO SICK for SO LONG after I take it, EXCEPT since I started taking the Vyvanse at the same time it's been a lot better?? Dr. K was baffled when I told her that at my last appointment, like why would the ADHD meds be affecting the lithium that way?? NO CLUE BUT I'M NOT COMPLAINING. I do still have some bad days when I end up really like, violently nauseous, though, and I think today might be one of those days. Boo.

I dug out one of my spare Cabbage Dogs last night, the ones I bought specifically to paint, since I finished Nonbinary Cabbage Dog the other day. I think this one is going to be a Pansexual Cabbage Dog? idk he's just staring at me from my work table right now seeming very pansexual to me. I'm going to try selling him on Etsy once I've finished him.

Still working on my Rainbow Dash wiggly fox; painting the entire tails of the wiggly foxes, and especially painting them rainbow, is a PROCESS. I learned that last time I painted a rainbow-tailed fox. It takes forever. But that reminds me, I do have five or six foxes already painted and ready to go that I could list on Etsy already. The problem is I have no boxes to ship them in? So I can't list them until I have the packaging material just in case. Not that I expect them to go fast or anything, my Etsy isn't exactly making bank. :|

I'm also partway through a Starry Void wiggly fox, I just have to actually paint his stars and touch up his ears a little bit. Poe requested him so I might send him to them when I'm done him rather than posting him for sale, but I haven't decided yet. I don't know if we're to the point of sending random gifts to one another yet or not, the copy of Tao Undead they sent me notwithstanding.

Speaking of Etsy and Poe, they had me go through all their button designs and pick out the ones I liked and then sent me the Photoshop files so I can order them to stock them in my shop as well. Then we're going to work out a percentage deal where they get, say, 10% of each button of theirs that I sell. I think it's a good plan and I like to collaborate with my friends, so I'm going to give it a go. I think they're still just... trying to make up for everything that happened back in the winter.

I think I've decided I'm going to download all my VLOGS from YouTube and then just delete them. Most of them, when I made them, were made strictly out of abject despair, and they're very raw and painful. I cry watching them even now. I don't regret MAKING them, at the time it was very cathartic to actually SAY THE WORDS OUT LOUD, even if it was just to myself, but I DO regret uploading them. It's a time in my life and a part of myself that I don't think I want out in my public YouTube anymore.

I'm considering selling Ishana. She's the doll that was originally supposed to be Katie, but when she came in I took one look at her and went "you're not Katie!" and immediately rebranded her. I like her well enough, but I haven't got the emotional connection with her that I have with (most of) my other dolls, I haven't bonded with her. Right now she's just kind of sitting around taking up space. I keep saying I'm going to do her faceup and then never getting around to it, and I doubt I ever will. So. Kijiji time? I think maybe. I can probably get $100 for her with her eyes, wig, clothes and shoes.

Poe never got back to me about the Finch Swap idea so I dunno if that's going to happen or not.

Also yes I am DEFINITELY having a bad, bad lithium day. I keep having to take breaks to go puke in the bathroom. There isn't even anything in my stomach so it's just horrible retching and dry heaving. :<

I need to take some aspirin because I'm having INTENSE gut pain atm but I don't know if I can keep it down. I think I'm just going to go lay down for a while. At least I got Horror High updated before everything went to pot. :|

Yesterday I spent literally all day in the basement cleaning and I am PAYING FOR IT today. My back is out, my knees are out and my HANDS are killing me, but hey, the basement is clean, even though Lee is supposed to be the one doing the furniture and vacuuming down there, no biggie, I'll just, you know, SUFFER.

Like it pisses me off SO MUCH that he does literally NOTHING around here and then gets pissed when I get sarcastic about being asked to do extra things, especially when they're things that we agreed, when I moved in, HE WOULD DO. I don't understand it. And I don't understand why MOM ALLOWS IT when she gets as frustrated with his laziness as I do. She just won't say anything, just does things HERSELF or gets ME to do them, and I don't get it. Like honestly what the fuck.

Anyway.

So, yesterday I soaked and cleaned the floors, cleaned all the furniture and did a freaking MILLION loads of laundry. The laundry was the least taxing part, so I didn't mind it so much, and I did mine at the same time, my clothes as well as all my bedding (now that the cats aren't sick anymore), so my whole room smells clean and fresh right now, which I like. It won't last long but it's nice while it DOES last.

I did take my computer down with me to play music and movies for background noise while I worked, and on the breaks I took in-between stuff I worked on Everything I Do and managed to get it finished. It ended up at 30 pages long, which is decent, and I like this one particularly because of it's feels-y nature.

I'm done writing the post-Horror High one-shots for now (there are 5 all together)... so I started writing a post-Storm Season one-shot instead! Even though I'm only 6 pages into Storm Season itself! :D;; Anyway, it's called Like Feathers Softly and is about Cas and Dean's first "weekend" after it turns out Cas isn't, you know... DEAD. I really shouldn't write it before I finish Storm Season, though, I just know there are going to be a bunch of things I end up having to go back and edit. :P So, maybe I'll just buckle down and get working on Storm Season properly after all.

I still have mixed feelings about writing Storm Season because of the lack of a response I've gotten to Horror High. But I'm still having fun writing in HH-verse, so I might as well, right? Even if it's just for me.

And there are a FEW people out there who are reading HH and enjoying it-- I got a nice review yesterday from someone saying they were sorry HH isn't getting the attention it deserves and encouraging me not to get discouraged, saying that THEY really liked it and looked forward to reading more. That was nice to get in my inbox after I finally collapsed in my bedroom after all the cleaning.

When I went to print Everything I Do last night my printer WOULD NOT WORK and my computer kept telling me it was offline, when the printer itself was clearly telling me it WAS online, they just weren't communicating. I think there was an update somewhere and it just screwed up the connection. I restarted the printer and that didn't work, so I restarted my laptop and THAT didn't work, and finally I restarted the Internet router itself... and that did it! I was able to print Everything I Do after all.

I can't print anything else until the end of the week, though, I am basically out of paper. I JUST bought paper about two weeks ago but I've been doing so much writing and printing that I blew through that pack in no time. I'm ordering two more on Friday when my money comes in. :P

God, my back is really killing me today. So much that my jaw is actually coming in second in my rating of body part pain.

Um, oh! I can't remember if I said here or not but my pothos cutting is growing tons of roots now, so soon I'll be able to clip the useless parts of the stem back and actually plant it in dirt! That's exciting. Unsure how the cutting from Bucky and Isley are doing since they're being propagated in soil, I have to check them today or tomorrow. The baby spider plant I have in water is starting to grow roots as well, so now I'm just crossing my fingers for the second pink princess philodendron since the first one died. If it hasn't done anything by Friday I'm going to see if I can just order one as a full plant from the garden centre instead. :|

Today I'm just hoping to take it easy because of my owies and work on writing and some painting. Finish up the Nonbinary Cabbage Dog for Poe. Also I have to do my postcards to mail them on Friday, but I might have to wait until tomorrow for that because my hands are pretty messed up today. (It just occurred to me that I think I forgot to take my CBD drops last night which would be part of why my hands hurt so much today.)

Other than that... maybe I'll tinker with my ipad again. Poe and I were talking about how we both used to draw but got away from it, and they suggested we pick it up again. They want to use an ipad for it while I prefer paper media (for the texture), but I wouldn't mind TRYING drawing on the ipad if I can figure out how to download the program I can't remember the name of right now. It might be fun. But first I have to figure out how to reconfigure the ipad to MY gmail instead of Mom's and stuff like that. I've been trying but it's a struggle. Bah.

P.S. The thing that all the vendors use to take cards at markets is a SQUARE reader. Do not forget that, self.

EDIT: Oh, also, I have like four heavy dolls that have to sit on my printer for lack of anywhere else to put them (Aidan, Katie, Tyler & Sparrow) and the printer WILL NOT RUN with them sitting on top of it, obviously, so when I want to print something, I have to take them all off. So while I was dicking around trying to get the printer to work yesterday they were all sitting in their customary places on my bed and table—and Katie just TOOK A HEADER onto the floor. Thankfully she was alright, but her wig came out an absolute disaster and now I think I have to actually hairspray it to fix it. Boo.

EDIT #2: I’m so nauseous right now. My lithium is really kicking my ass this morning. Ugh.

EDIT #3: THE DRAWING PROGRAM IS CALLED PROCREATE!!

Well I thoroughly scared the shit out of Em and Rosie but I got their cage all nice and sparkly clean, and even gave them a treat stick to make up for the trauma. They've settled down again. Tonight I have to fill up all the seed dishes and they'll freak out again (so will Winter and Shield) but for now I'm giving them a reprieve.

I haven't gotten my candle made yet but I did work on my Nonbinary Cabbage Dog a little, even though my hands are still shaking like I'm on speed. Using a detail brush makes it easier. It takes longer to do the PAINTING but at least the mistakes are much smaller when I make them and easier to fix. I'm trying to get it finished so I can include it in the parcel I'm sending to Poe at the end of the month. I started it for them and it was meant for them, so I really want them to have it. They can sell it if they don't want it, or even throw it out, I guess, as the case may be. I'm going to include that point in the letter I send along with the parcel.

I'm planning to do other LGBTQA+ cabbage dogs in the future, too. I currently have two base cabbage dogs to work with. I want to do a rainbow one next, or maybe a pansexual one? I haven't decided. I need to order more of them so I can do more of the spectrum but FREAKING aliexpress won't let me login to my normal account right now so I have to try to find them all over again from scratch. Blegh.

Mom just came in to tell me that she and Lee are driving to Barrie to pick Grandma up, not because she did a jailbreak from the retirement home but because apparently her blood pressure has been SUPER HIGH all day so they took her to RVH, and now she's stuck there. Mom and Lee have to go pick her up and take her back home, then drive all the way back to Orillia again.

They said they'd buy me a burger on the way home, so I'm happy at least. My jaw doesn't hurt as much today and I miss REAL FOOD, DAMMIT. Also Whoppers from BK are my favorite. I'm a trash person, what. :|

EDIT: Also, still working on the Rainbow Dash wiggly fox. Foxes that need the rainbow tails are a pain and always take forever. I'm hoping it's ears will be easier? My plan for them SHOULD be easier, just very finely detailed. Then it's just the white on the inner ears and underside and pooooooossibly the feet? I haven't decided on that one yet. I guess we'll see.

Ugh, I feel like such a zombie lately. My brain just isn't working right. It rather sucks actually. But anyway, I've procrastinated over updating my journal for long enough, I figure I should maybe actually, yanno, do it. Numbers to help me keep my thoughts organized, though everything's not really in any particular order. ♥

1) The cats have fleas. UGH. I have literally never had a flea outbreak in my house (despite the number of critters) and I'm seriously not pleased with it. In fact, it fucking sucks. The only saving grace is that they haven't gotten to the rabbits. Yet. I've tried practically everything to get rid of them, too; I flea bathed them all, gave them over-the-counter flea drops, gave them Vet prescription flea drops (which cost a fortune, btw), and then tried a flea spray (I treated the entire apartment as well.) Finally, in a last-ditch effort it was recommended that I shave them all down and do the flea spray again when they were nekkid, as there was a possibility that the spray wasn't getting all the way through their fur.

So! I went out and purchased an electric shaver (technically marketed for dogs, but whatever) for freaking $50 +tax. I figure at least I can use it on them every year in the spring to lessen the shedding epidemic when it starts getting warm. I can also use it on Pagan, since he's my only long-haired bun and tends to get mats on his underside at random intervals for no apparent reason and no matter how often I brush/groom him. Anyway.

I know my cats, and I knew that Loki was going to be the hardest one to do since he's such a nervous kitty. I decided to do him first to get him out of the way, and also because I figured that if I did him later he would find somewhere to hide as soon as he knew what was happening. What I didn't figure on was my lovely, cuddly, affectionate Loki-boy going ABSOLUTELY FUCKING POSTAL. .__.;

Mom and my brother were helping to hold him, and as soon as I turned the clippers on he WENT INTO A TERROR-INDUCED HOMICIDAL FREAK OUT. I knew he was going to be nervous and a little scared just like he is with anything new, but WHAT. THE. FUCK. It was like trying to hold down a MOUNTAIN LION, right down to the insane amount of personal injury; Mom got bitten a half dozen times on her hands, my brother got seriously MAULED from the elbow down on BOTH arms, and my left leg was mauled and he bit right through the nail on my right hand, completely severing it. Then this past Monday I went to the doctor's and Dr. K had a look and is pretty sure not only did he fuck my nail up but the crushing injury was so severe that he managed to actually break the tip of my finger bone off. So of course, my hand is taking IONS to heal and still hurts like a fucking bitch nearly two weeks later. ~__~;; Sooo...

All three of us trouped to the hospital when it happened and got antibiotics and Mom and my bro got tetanus shots since theirs weren't up to date. Fun times with the family, huh? So that was the adventure with trying to shave Loki, who is still not shaved and who will never be, short of drugging him into a coma beforehand. Haha. Neko, Juna and Tri are all 3/4 naked now, though, and with them the worst that happened was that Tri puffed his tail at me while I was doing it. Now I just need Mom to help me treat them with the spray again. Cross your fingers for me that it, you know, works this time. Because if it doesn't I'm out of options short of building little cabins and inviting the fleas to move in for life.

IF ANYONE HAS ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR THINGS I HAVEN'T TRIED YET, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

Haha, and then the hospital reported the "attack" (by law they have to) so the Health Unit called to talk with me and put Loki on quarantine for ten days just in case. This of course made me lol because whatever, he's a house cat anyway. XD He's officially off quarantine now though.

Loki and I have since made up, of course. :)

Moving on!

2) Today I got some catnip for the pride and sprinkled it down on the carpet in the living room. This is something I do on a regular basis, but it was particularly amusing this time because it's the first time Tia has been exposed to it. OMFG she was hilarious! I giggled at her for like half an hour while she zoomed around and rolled in it and licked the carpet and was generally all =OwO= It was really adorable. ♥

3) Aya finally shed! I'd had him for two months and nothing, even though the pet store peeps said all the rest of the ball pythons from his clutch did the week I got him. When I got home from the US he still hadn't shed and I was starting to get a little concerned. But then last week his pattern started to fade and his eyes clouded over. YAY. A few days later I peeked in the terrarium and the old skin was balled up in the corner by his hidey rock. ^^ I was hoping it would be straight so I could take a pic, but oh well. And he had been really lethargic since two weeks before I left for my vacation, but now he's all energetic again. Or at least as energetic as a snake can be. ^_~

4) Due to massive injuries and seriously excessive pain, I've spent the last two weeks unable to do pretty much any cleaning around here aside from sweeping a bit. I normally sweep/vacuum/mop/dust every couple of days, and not being able to do it was driving me nuts; the floor and carpets were a disaster, dishes (which I also do every couple of days) were piling up... last week I couldn't even clean out the rabbit/rat cages, which I HATED because it meant my poor babies had icky living conditions for a whole week.

Luckily, the last couple of days the pain has subsided a bit; not much, but enough that I could vacuum the place and do a few dishes (not all of them because my finger started throbbing again halfway through) and tonight I managed to finagal my way through cleaning all the cages out. YAYZ! Now I don't feel guilty and like a terrible Mom anymore. Whew.

Also got my bathroom tidied and reorganized, which it's needed for ages.

5) Today I took a wander downtown. It was nice out, just a little cool so I got to wear my (faux) leather jacket, which fits me again whoo! I went to the dollar store for a gift bag for a Christmas gift that I've already got 90% finished and a new shower curtain (I have to replace it every couple months because the cats like to play with them and trash them in the process), then went to Salon Salon and got my eyebrows waxed because they really really needed it. I also picked up the bulk order of eyepins I ordered from Magpie Beads like two months ago.

Speaking of which... MAGPIE BEADS IS CLOSING!! DDD8 They're moving to Barrie! They're the only bead store in town and they're leaving meeeeee! *WEEPS*

Right. So after that I had to go across town to pick up some prescriptions, and while I was around there I went into the Dollarama; got some odds and ends, mostly for other people lol. Then I went to Blockbuster to look at previously viewed movies... and they were having a huge sale on them. I got eleven movies for just over forty bucks! ASDGH! I may have had a little mental flail. XD

I picked up Terminator: Salvation, Battle for Terra, Drag Me to Hell, Zombieland, The Rundown (my Rock movie collection is ever expanding! X3), The Patriot, The Alphabet Killer, Swarmed, The Black Hole, Dragonball Evolution (out of morbid curiosity; and it only cost me $3) and Ghost Machine, which I'm watching right now. ♥

And the sale is on until Oct 3rd, so Imma go back for a few more when I get my money at the end of the month. I'm gonna try to sell some stuff in the meantime to make up for it. Hehehehe new movies make me happy. :3

6) Other than picking up some DVDs, I've seem some newer movies lately too. I'm partway through Predators, which is turning out to be fun. I won't have a concrete opinion on it until I've watched it all though. Wish I could find a better copy online... maybe I'll just wait until it comes out on DVD and pick it up to finish watching it.

Piranha 3D; I didn't watch it in 3D, obviously, but... OMFG. It was AWESOME. >3!! Prehistoric piranha + spring break = fucking fun times! I was a little surprised how gory it was, actually. Not that it bothered me since I'm already so desensitized to cinema violence, but about halfway through it just suddenly struck me that there was A LOT of gore. Go figure.

Resident Evil: Afterlife; EEEEE NEW RESIDENT EVIL MOVIE!!

The Last Exorcism; This one started out really slowly, and I almost gave up on it. It did get really interesting about halfway through, though, and was quite good from then on. The only thing I disliked was that it was filmed like a documentary (like The Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield), and I'm not overly fond of that way of filming. But it was good for what it was.

I just saw a preview for this movie, too, and it looks amazing and creepy and I really want to see it:

7) I have packages for the following peeps, which I swear I'll be mailing out soon. No really. Steph & Reppy, Lome, Kiin-bb, Maddie & Chloe and Mari. ♥

kierseth, etcetera_cat and cat_mcdougall. HEY YOU GUYS. We haven't done a proper P.O.S. exchange in forever! Want to organize one again? ^_^

8) Dad is coming up later this week to stop in for a visit. He's picking up his and Lois' souvenirs and the movies I borrowed from him last time I was down back in May. He's also bringing me a bunch more b-grade movies to replace them, which makes me happy because, I mean, B-GRADE MOVIES WUT. xD

I'm thinking about asking if I can go back with him to visit for a couple of days. I told him I'd help him go through the rest of Aunt Cheryl's stuff in the barn, and I want to get that done before it gets too cold out. Plus I'd just like to visit with him and Lois and the dogs a bit. I don't get to do that often enough. =/

9) I had an appointment in Toronto with the dietitian a couple weeks back. I have to go every 3-4 months for a checkup and bloodwork. I'm told my weight loss is going very well and I'm perfectly on track for where I should be (I've lost 80lbs since Feb 26th), so probably by February I'll be down to about my target weight of 130-140lbs. The only thing is that they're concerned I'm not getting enough protein in my diet, so I'm supposed to try having more in the way of cheese/eggs/etc. *shrug*

Anyhoo, the dietitian called today and left a message regarding the results of my bloodwork; my iron is low, so she wants me to go on iron supplements daily (I normally only take them when I'm on my period) and my vitamin C was really low which makes no sense considering the amount of vitamin C rich fruits and drinks I eat but she wants me to take vitamin C pills too. She also noted that my white blood cell count was high, but at the time they took the blood I was just getting over a bad cold so that doesn't surprise me.

10) Yesterday I took my camera and did a video tour of my apartment to post on FB for people, since I apparently fail at posting pics despite peeps on my f-list there and here asking for them. >>; But then I got carried away and it ended up way too long, so when I tried to upload it it didn't work. *facepalm* Guess I'm doing another one tomorrow. A shorter one. lol.

11) Been rewatching House on DVD; the first five seasons. I just finished yesterday. The season 4 finale made me bawl like a baby. AGAIN. ~_~;

12) Back when I was down in Dayton I was supposed to paint with Chloe, but somehow we just never got around to it. But when I got back home I still kind of had the itch to do it, so I picked up a couple of medium-sized canvasses. My first painting is maybe a third done now. Haha, I haven't painted in forever, and this is my very first painting actually on canvas! I'm really enjoying it (even though my injured hand is making things difficult) and I plan to do a few more.

Funnily enough, the first painting started off as kind of an abstract idea but has given birth to a new character/species. He doesn't have a name yet, but I think he might fit into the same world as Terra/Ilo/Celine/Aysel. I really like his design, so I plan to do more sketches of him, and maybe another larger and more detailed painting.

I'm considering doing painting for people for Christmas this year, too. Would anyone like a Sena!painting? 83

13) Mom and Lee are on vacation right now. They're coming back tomorrow; they just spent a few days off in an out of the way cabin-type place where they could both relax and everything. They really needed it, they've both been totally fried out between one thing and another. Hopefully a few days away will have helped.

In any case, I called yesterday to invite my brother over here for dinner but he had friends over. So instead we decided that I'm going over there tomorrow to visit and make supper for him and Mom and Lee when they get home. ♥

14) I NEED MONIES. $__$ Does anyone out there want a pony or jewelry commission or something? :3

OMG so tired. =_=;;

But the painting is done! ^_^ Now I just have to reorganize everything... sigh. Fun stuff.

Oh, and Neko is feeling a lot better today, thanks. ^^

I went to Mom's for a couple of hours last night, and managed to fall down the stairs while I was there.

AND, as if that wasn't enough, when I went down I like, bounced; my left side hit the bottom two steps, and then I landed on my right side on the concrete of the basement floor. =_=;;

OWIE.

I didn't break anything, but I knew I was going to hurt today. And damn if I wasn't right. -_-;; Meh... I'm just sore all up my back and my whole left side, up into my back. Then my right hip and down my right leg hurt like hell, too. I'm going to be really bruised.

Oh well.

Heh. Mom's coming over tonight to do some painting with me, too. Sould be interesting. XD

7:00 AM: Alarm goes off. Sena gets up for the day and shuffles off to have a shower.

7:15 AM: I get out of the shower, get dressed, brush my hair, and make a cup of tea.

7:30 AM: I boot up the computer, and skip over to LJ to say hi to cassandracsenta! ...who is strangely absent. Oh well, we usually talk at 9, so she must have forgotten I would be on early (and only for a few minutes) this morning. I wait for a few minutes, finish my tea, then leave a message for her and turn everything off again.

8:00 AM: I pack up my purse and everything I need for my OW meeting, then look out the window and wait for Mom...

8:15 AM: I call Mom, who is late, just in case she slept in by accident. ^^;

8:25 AM: Mom arrives! We hie ourselves over to the OW office, and sit down to wait.

8:45 AM: They call us in. We sit and watch a stupid fucking video for 20 minutes.

9:05 AM: We head into the case worker's office for the interview: it was an hour long, and what it generally boiled down to was that yes, they would give me money... a whole $500 a month, which is to cover rent, hydro, and food/clothing. *ticks* Whatever. It's better than the $0 I've been getting until now, or borrowing money off Mom every week.

10:15 AM: I have an appointment with my family Doctor at 10:30. We get there, sit and wait.

11:00 AM: (-waiting still-)

11:30 AM: (-waiting still-)

12:00 PM: (-waiting still-)

12:30 PM: Dr. K finally gets to us, and I have my appointment; she put me back on Welbutrin (but isn't making me take Effexor anymore), and prescribed Cipralex and Apo-Lorezapam for anxiety/panic attacks. She also gave me Alti-Metformin, which is a drug for treating symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

1:00 PM: Appointment over! We make a quick run to the bank, then go to the petstore. Mom buys me two more 10-gallon terrariums (and lids) for my soon-to-be Mouse Hoarde. Then we went to the pharmacy to stop off the prescriptions Dr. K gave me.

1:25 PM: Sena and her Mom hit the road to drive to Bracebridge for a Chiropractor's appointment!

1:45 PM: We stop for drinks at a coffee shop along the way. =)

2:25 PM: We arrive at the Chiropractor's office, and sit to wait. Again.

2:40 PM: We're called in for our appointment, which takes all of maybe ten minutes...

2:50 PM: Across the street is a pet shop-- we skip over there to look for dangly water bottles for the terrariums we got earlier. They don't have the kind we're looking for, but give us the information on them (product code, manufacturer, etc.) so we can ask at pet stores when we get back home. I buy a plastic hidey-nest-castle thing, and a mineral block. We leave, and start back to Orillia.

3:45 PM: Back to Orillia! We go to pick up my prescriptions, then stop at the pet store near there to brandish the info the other shop gave us and ask if they could get a couple of the bottles for me. No such luck. They send us to another pet shop across town. While I'm there, I get another hidey-hole-nest-thingy for the third terrarium.

3:55 PM: Other pet store... still no bottles. I get different ones, for lack of anything else. We also buy some toys for Possum, and my Grandparent's dog, Angel. =^-^=

4:10 PM: We head across town to Walmart, where we purchase many painting supplies, so that I can (hopefully) get my apartment painted this week. The walls are going to be light yellow ("Sweet Buttercup") and light purple ("Foible"). Very pretty.

4:30 PM: On our way out, I get a 99 cent ice cream cone from McDonalds. X3

4:40 PM: FINALLY get home, and drag everything upstairs.

5:00 PM: WHAT THE FUCK?! Sarah had a Doctor's appointment today too, and ambushes me to tell me that the Doctor says she has a herniated disc in her back (from the car accident), and now she thinks she has brain damage and multiple schlorosis (or however you spell it). BULL-FUCKING-SHIT. She's a hypocondriac and has a friend with MS, which is why she thinks she has it. She can convince herself she has anything.

And now I'm exhausted, irritated because of Sarah, and really just want to lay down and die.

The end.