No! Yes! ... Maybe!

I am only a little behind, geez, leave me alone.

Remember how I was all emo 'cause I suck and being social is hard and nothing interesting was happening and wah wah angst (the "Less Awesome" section)? It was pretty much all negated, which means I either jumped the gun due to fail!brain or that my whining broke the universe (I prefer the latter explanation), because over the weekend I was both invited to a Halloween party (WHAT) and the VT region posted a date, time, and location for a kick-off party / write-in aaaand it was a day I had off work! WHOO!

Also I Halloweenified the apartment, which was fun. I carved a pumpkin! I also strung some orange lights over the doorway to the kitchen and hung some fake cobwebs all over the fake tree. I was gonna put 'em in the stairway, but then you'd only see them when you went in or out and bah! BAH, I say! And the pumpkin stayed inside because one, none of us were going to be home until late, anyway, and two, I did not want it to get smashed by jerks.

The party was really fun! We played Scrabble (and I somehow won, which, uh, first time for everything, I guess) and carved pumpkins and ate ALL THE JUNKFOOD and then I had an epic sugar crash on Tuesday, the likes of which I have not seen in a decade or so. Oof. Also there were fluffy cats! And they liked being pet! So every time one came within proximity to the group of us (it was a small party, so I did not get oversocialised! And most of us did not know each other, so there was not the group of people and then one or two straggles who sat around feeling awkward!) a few of us dropped everything to give them belly rubs or ear scritches.

The NaNo thing was less awesome, but still fun. It was a weirdly huge group (never seen it that big, wow), which was fine, but our region leader had to bring his kids and they ran around screaming a lot, despite his best efforts. And the girls next to me were talking a lot and I kept finding myself eavesdropping on their conversation instead of working on my story. But whatever, they didn't seem to mind my occasional interjections. And I'm up to 2.5k (ish. I'm writing in two different word docs and I don't feel like doing any math beyond adding the first two digits of both numbers), which could be better but whatever, I spent yesterday in a haze and then I had stuff to do today and I AM REALLY GOOD AT MAKING EXCUSES.


In other news, I have really, really got to remove this song from my Video Game Remixes playlist, because every time it comes on, I end up going back and listening to it, like, a million times, because it is THE CATCHIEST EVER oh my god.
jecca_mehlota: (Moogle-go-round)
( Jun. 21st, 2011 12:08 am)
I do not have a picture of it. :< I WILL GET ONE! But for now, rest assured! It is hideous. And now we have proof. So, okay, see. My father has this awful tie that his mother bought him as a gag gift (thinking she'd raised him better than that. I'm sure on one level or another, she knew he would actually wear it, though...). It's white and orange and, I dunno, other colours. And fuzzy. It's the fuzzy bit that really sells its ... hideousity (new word!?).

Well, Periwinkles (a jewelry chain) had a contest for the ugliest tie over the weekend and, knowing he had a truly unfortunate tie, and tempted by the prize of ... some amount of money (apparently in the form of a gift certificate to the store and not just free money, which had been his hope), my father entered the thing and - as you've undoubtedly figured out already - his tie won! Which is exciting. So now I can say without doubt that my father has the ugliest tie in the area. Because, you know. Jewelry store contest is totally the standard, there. (It's still awesome, okay.)


Meanwhile, my head-cast is running away from me again. Rana has now joined Hisime in having her own Facebook page I NEED TO GET A LIFE. I really don't even know why I did that. Hisime there was at least had reasoning behind it. But now the two of them are going back and forth at each other even worse than before. XD (I've changed Rana's wall from "friends only" to "everyone" for the time being, just in case anyone wants to see some of the ridiculous things are going on. I can't edit the settings of the post Rana has, but you can see the other one. Maybe I'll get bored of it soon? We can hope.)



AAAA I LEAVE FOR CHICAGO ON FRIDAY MORNING I AM SO EXCITED. But also nervous. Mostly excited! (Kind of weird, though, haha, a month ago, I was more looking forward to Chicago, because I figured BotCon would not be as awesome as OH MAN YES FINAL FANTASY CONCERT, and then BotCon was basically the best thing ever, so I am now like, can Chicago even begin to hope to top Pasadena? We'll just have to wait and see! My money's kinda on no, though.)

dnsajklf Distant Worlds concerts, you are so close. Still, even if it is not as completely fantastic, I will still have attended both halves of the concert. And I have been wanting to attend one of these ever since they first announced it way back when. I mean, they had both "20020220 Music from Final Fantasy" and "Tour de Japon", neither of which I had any hope of attending, and then "Dear Friends" never came close enough for me to get to it, and then "Distant Worlds" has kind of made a point of not matching up with my money and availability limitations, but damn it enough is, apparently, enough, and so now I am throwing myself into a bed bug hotspot just for a video game music concert. (I am a goddamned lunatic.)


(Also I've had this Japanese song about frogs stuck in my head all day. I learnt it when I was 10! WHY IS IT STILL IN MY BRAIN and whyyyy is it rattling around all of a sudden?)


(GERO GERO GERO GERO GWA GWA GWA)
If anyone has ever wondered (or, eh, noticed at all), most of my entries occur at strange hours of the night/early morning because the ones I write in the middle of the day are, my brain decides, stupid, and so I close the window without posting.



Anyway, so, it kinda seems like a bunch of people in my life (on and off LJ) are kinda in a... not excellent place? I dunno. Troubles. And I feel useless because these things always come in groups (what is up with that) and so I am also not necessarily in the best spot (mentally or financially, though I am coming out of the mental funk a bit, and at least physically I am mostly fine for now). BUT, if there is anything anyone thinks would help or cheer them up or whatever, and that I could do, I will totally try my best! (Things I have done in the past include sending letters, homemade cookies, and/or music, [attempting - not always succeeding at] short stories, and drawing random little doodle-things.)



Other stuff... BotCon schedule went up. (I'm in the 8 PM pick up, which, well... could be worse, but still, ugh, that line.) No MSTF - or anything - Friday night. I am sad. But! That means buying an After 4 pass for Disney was totally the right move. Yay! SO EXCITED. Kinda bummed that no one I know seems to be going, but I, uh. Maybe I will meet new people? That is hard and scary. Maybe I will hide in the corner. (Also the guest list makes me happy.)

...Also, ffff, I have totally destroyed my "not having original characters / that are me" trend. I think I mentioned this before, but now I finally have come up with a name, so I guess it's official. (Kinda surprised that there doesn't seem to already be a canon character with the name, but not complaining.) So weeeird. Not that much will be done with it (aside from occasional in-character chatting with [livejournal.com profile] mysticeden/'s character, who is the cause of all this, anyway, and probably letter-writing), but, you know, there it is. I OWN IT. I don't quite want to call it a self-insert, but it is kind of close. Bleh. Like I needed moar headcast.


My body (especially my spine) is really beginning to feel the affect of sleeping in the wrong bed... I'm using my mother's bed, since the guest room's a mess and since the dog gets all bent outta shape (he wants to sleep in a room with a person in it, but he wants to sleep in mom's room - or my old bedroom, which doesn't have a bed in it and so isn't an option at the moment). Her pillow is too thin and the mattress is too... something. Ugh. Achy. Also sleeping is a bit difficult when there's an emphysemic-(or maybe Darth Vader)-sounding dog who keeps choking on his own throat (and making the most alarming sounds) directly under your mattress. Also, my ankle is acting up, but, well. Business as usual, that. And the brace is helping. I think it's just the driving around I've been having to do that's aggravating it.
So there was this woman at work today! ... Not a surprise, since I work retail and, you know, customers are kind of the norm, there. Except she had a pair of binoculars and was using them to intently study the ceiling above my department.

SO CONFUSED.


Anyway, I'm thinking it's time to wipe all the commentary off my map and start over! (Yeah, this? I did, in fact, get maps! They are laminated, so I mark all over them - well, mostly the USA map, since that's the one right by my desk, but the world map behind my bed isn't quite immune, either - in dry-erase markers. While pretending to be fictional characters.

It's fun!)

Really, the coasts are still mostly blank, but... It'd be more fun to have it cleaned again, even though the commentary at the top does still amuse me.

(Boredom meets head characters is also the reason the fire extinguisher has a note on it reading "For use in event of Decepticon attack"... Check here or, better, this clip from 3:00-3:25, if you're confused as to why I've done this.)

Also, I'd say I'm marathoning Avatar (the one with Aang, not the one with the blue aliens), but that implies some semblance of order. I'm watching a ridiculous amount of Avatar episodes with absolutely no regard for continuity!


Edit:
Whoooo, thunderstorm! Big one! Though I wanted to shower, alas...
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