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that would definitely have to be harinezumi. I shudder to think that I'm old enough to say I've been friends with someone for almost 20 years.

Of my random "people I've never met/met because of LJ" list... _kyri was definitely random friending #1, followed by kshandra, masteradept, austingoddess, and kittikattie. These people have been following my drama since the gods only knows when and I'm glad for it every single day.

Remember a whiles back I posted a picture of me gleefully chasing a small boy?

His mama just joined eljay. >:D Welcome shyanne1980!

Between sydneycat's and sixswordsamurai's offers to rescue my weekend, I will indeed be heading to the Stronghold of Harmony on Friday. Take that, money gods. TAKE IT. NYEH NYEH.

Seriously... domo arigatou, guys.

So far, it's been a good weekend. Friday night sydneycat cooked for the family (sans morlock, who was off at a party) while we watched Smackdown! Chicken and potatoes. Very teh yum. And in perfect moment of timing, inle_rah and extrajoker whisked anzovin, sundart and I off to The Diner for a dessert of confections, conversation and utterly hideous puns. (extrajoker's completely accidental statement that an alternate and possibly more realistic scripting for United 93 "wouldn't fly" with audiences still makes me giggle.) anzovin also thought it was rather strange that I eat the filling out of my pie first, then the crust... It can't be that strange. I just like saving the best for last when I eat.

Yesterday was basically sail and sleep. sundart and I led our first pillage in years around the diamond arch with sydneycat and some jobbers, and then the three of us moved into a bigger house on Turtle. Houses. God. I'm still a mite boggled by the changes in Pirateverse since I left it the first time. Anyways that was fun, and after heading to bed early I was woken up by a surprise visit from morlock, which was good since I missed him anyways. To the point where I didn't really mind sitting on him and tickling him this morning until he was at least awake enough to realize he needed to pee, and then get up and go to work. Silly thing.

The rest of today was really too bloody hot to do much other than pillage and lay around melting of hot air thick enough to butter bread with. I HATE summer. But I spent some quality time hanging out with sunny and sydneycat. We made the mistake of watching the Great American... Meals? Foods? On a Bun on the History Channel, which was a bad move cause it just made us hungry. Syd and I solved that with a trip to Fatzo's where I tried their foot long hot dogs. They aren't bad. They're a little pale and would probably be perfect if grilled up some more, but their stuffings are quite tasty. We followed up dinner by lazing about in the cool courtesy of sydmor's A/C and watched Pirates of the Caribbean in preparation for Friday's opening. Reminds me, I need to make a pvrewind post about that, since cinemark's also showing T2 that night. "Come wi' me if ye want to live. Yarrrrr." *imagines Ah-nuld in pirate clothes and giggles* I suppose it isn't far off from Conan the Barbarian, but still.

I might actually go into the office for a bit tomorrow, even though I don't have to. Money is good, y'know? I'm thinking I'll exploit the fact that when I'm there I can think of 20 million things I'd rather be getting done at home, so if I stay at the office for the morning, maybe I'll come home and get said 20 million things done. :) We'll see.

something neat from harinezumi: I'm apparently an Attentive Idealist. what's your personal dna?

(note - don't bother with the little colored thingies at the bottom of your results - I'd forgotten that LJ disables scripty things.)

Had a reasonably good evening yesterday... had a little stolen time with the boy since he offered to pick me up from work while he was doing errands, and we ran into a very... er, bouncy inle_rah while we were at it. There was a new ep of Avatar the Last Airbender on... that show manages to continually impress me. I love how it manages to balance the dead serious with the goofy. Think about it, these kids are on a quest of penultimate importance, it's on them to stop the war that's been raging for the last hundred years, but at the same time the show still manages to remember that they are. just. kids. It's pretty awesome. Someone buy the DVDs to me. ;)

And there was a little bit of Smackdown! and the pre-pvrewind diner meetup which was great (note to self - doing an dead-on impression of Barney the Dinosaur singing "Baby Got Back" is a good way of terrifying everyone quickly) and then... The Breakfast Club. It had been years since I'd seen it last, so this viewing was welcome. There really is something unique about a sold-out theater full of fans whistling the Colonel Bogey March along with the characters... as well as singing "Don't You Forget About Me" during the opening. And I remembered why exactly I wanted me a Bender the first few times I watched the movie. *snrrt* He was definitely the sort I'd have a crush on in high school... heh. I still haven't really lost my attraction for that sort of hurt/rage churning beneath the surface. In guys anyway. *sigh* Pretty much every one i've ever had a crush on had that going.

Other than that... I'm working again this morning. *shakes head* I know, I said last weekend I wouldn't but this time I did get R to buy me lunch yesterday. And honestly I don't really mind. It's short, I don't have to do very much, no one else is here, it's blissfully quiet and it's extra money. So. *shrug* I suppose I'd be more peeved if it were actually putting me out in some way to be here, but it's not. I never really have anything better to do on Saturday morning so I might as well... you know? I don't have much planned today either... I was invited to a birthday dinner at Osaka tonight, but I've already spent too much money this weekend. I might just curl up somewheres and finish reading Grass, which is both fascinating and hard to get through at the same time. And think about stuff. Cause that's what I do.

Wow this weekend was busy! I don't really have the time to devote a long entry about it, so time to dust off Mr Bulleted list:

• Diner was fabulous, though we were missing 2 of the Amoeba boyos. Still there was inle_rah the Cute and Dimply!, and that's always fun. plus jukeboxing with sydneycat. Johnny Cash baybeee.
  
  
• Work on Saturday blew big smelly hairy goat balls. Amazing how two hours can ruin an entire day. Not getting into why in a public post, but I'm fairly sure today is going to be unpleasant because of it. Oh well.
  
  
• Saturday was immediately rescued by sydneycat and bluewindkitsune, who took me to faces and helped me horrify a busload of tender green Smithies by loudly discussing bad porn.
  
  
• Alas, the rest of Saturday was mostly ruled by teh God of Drama. None of it my own, really, but still fairly exhausting by the end. There was Con Air to be watched though. Jerry Bruckheimer is so amazingly bad sometimes. This movie is no exception, but it's still fun, between Nick Cage's HORRENDOUS accent, the laughable dialogue, and Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, and John Malkovich having way, WAY too much fun playing bugshit crazy psycho killers, qu'est que c'est?
  
  
• Went to bed. Was joined by morlock. *happy sigh* The day wasn't all bad.
  
  
• Slept in on Sunday, and woke up to sunbeams, sundart pottering in the kitchen, and the fact that morlock had stolen the covers yet again.
  
  
• Am very satisfied with my contributions to sydneycat's nefarious project. Will post a few of them when the project declassifies. ;) Spent most of the day doing that in various stages, cuddling with sunny, hanging with Blue (yay someone else who can sing along to Bat Out of Hell II in its entireity!), and battling the hungries and crankies at varying stages of the day. Bah.
  
  
• did manage to do the important bits of my laundry. I may be facing a bad day at work today, but by golly, I will be wearing underwear and pants while I do it.

Speaking of which, I need to do get dressed and stuff. Might as well get this show on the road.

[EDIT]: Everything's ok work-wise. Yay.

Yesterday was spent doing... stuff! Too often I am defeated by my own inertia and by sunday night I groan about the waste of the weekend. But yesterday was wonderful, packed with productivity, good friends and fun. So no regrets about yesterday at all, which is rare for me.

Yesterday morning sydneycat and I attacked sydmor's kitchen with a vengeance and made a fair amount of progress in there whist both caterwauling to KMFDM and other gothy stuff (guess what, people, dead stars still burn!) then we hauled all the boxes we broke down and the trash downstairs. So that was grand and it earned both of us lots of loving from the boy and Wings for dinner. Yay Wings. I may miss Teapot and Taipei and Tokyo, but moving to Amherst definitely ups the opportunity to order Wings and Brunos.

Directly after the spate of cleaning, inle_rah showed up and after a bit of conferring over the computer set out to see The Brothers Grimm which was charmingly, weirdly, ridiculous and silly. Good god, something is very wrong with Terry Gilliam. Need to watch Brazil again, I think. But anyway, we had a good time, and then inle_rah drove home to take a nap, and I headed back upstairs.

The October Rewind, I found out, is on my birthday. How cool is that shit? Course - it'd be nice if we knew what it was. If it's Scream, I'm skipping it, though I'll probably still hold court at the diner beforehand. :)

Hung out with sundart and anzovin for a bit, then went upstairs to hang out and wait for morlock to come home from work... though when he got out, he called sydneycat's phone and with some cheerfully phrased cryptic questions alerted us to the fact that he was plotting something nefarious, and still didn't tell us when he at last got home. Instead we all put on our shoes and went over to Quadtower Annex (ie, anzovin's) to interrupt anzovin's and sundart's shenanigans and bully them back into clothes, whereupon morlock revealed that he had gotten his hands on the first few episodes of Firefly and we were all hereby ordered to head back to sydmor's to watch it, lured with bribes of dinner, brownies and hangings out with the Amoeba. Much with the joymaking - though the boyos had seen it already, we all did thoroughly enjoy watching it together.

I had been expecting Firefly to be no less than excellent, being already a fan of anything associated with "Grr. Arrgh," and having seen bits of it already. So I had a fabulous time with it, especially watching it with the Amoeba, as there was much with the commentary, bickering, brownies, comparisons drawn between it and Cowboy Bebop, drooling over Mal and Kaylee and occasionally Inara (but you're supposed to drool at Inara and that's not nearly as much fun) and yelling at pretty much all of the characters whenever they did something particularly brainless or asinine.

So it seems I might indeed get to watch Firefly before Serenity comes out. Thank you, morlock. (Though that doesn't mean I might not stop in for a couple of eps during athaerith's proposed marathon the weekend before. ;) )

so yeah - busy wonderful day. And today I didn't exactly sleep in, but I did stay abed reading until 11:30, so it's high time I got up and dispensed with the rest of today in a slightly more useful fashion... though from sundart's tone of voice, I have a feeling that the dispension will start with heading back to bed. S'cuse me. :D

I'm actually not particularly grumpy this morning, but I felt the sentiment of the icon needed to be matched somehow. Really, I'm enjoying the fact that as I'm browsing around for something completely else on my various hard drives I find old icons that I got rid of and now miss so I reupload. Pity I can't remember their old keywords, but hey, can't have everything. But I missed this one, so mreh. Now, if I could find my Hex icons I'd be set... *sigh* at some point I really must finish that mood icon set I was working on a year or so ago with Hex's masks. They're cute, but I'm really done with the bouncing itties.

...KITTIES. goddamn I need this kkeyboard replaced.

So... end of my proposed time off. Learned a bit about what's been triggering me lately, and while I can solve some of it, a good chunk of it I can do nothing about beyond sucking it up, which sucks... yeah. that's right. *sigh* it's 8 am, the coffee hasn't hit the bloodstream yet, so my full vocabulary isn't accessible yet. bite me. Also learned, to my both pleasant and aggravated surprise that I may declare hibernation and go into hiding, this really can't apply to the people in my immediate inner circle. One I share a bed with, one is attached to the aforementioned with a bolt the size of my arm, one I can't shut out without putting myself and him in some level of distress, and well, if I can't avoid everyone else I can hardly avoid the last member of our amoeba. *chuckle* It's really more amusing than aggravating really, and in the end I was happy to have company yesterday and the night before after my major thinkathon was done.

Hmm. gotta leave in 10 min...

Yesterday after sunny came home from her night of the living blue dress, MomZ showed up and too us to lunch before launching on her long drive back to the feral backwoods of New York State. It had been years since I'd eaten at the ABC and wow, the pulled pork and the sweet potato fries were good, though I must say I was distracted by the conversation and the utterly cute, helpful waitress. What is with waitresses named Jen? They're all adorable! Yikes! Spent the rest of the afternoon with sydneycat watching horrible TV and going out on errandry, and then morlock and I played out my bit of the upcoming game, since I've been separated from the rest of the party and HOLY CRAP fucked up shit is happening. Yay. Can't wait until the Mage book comes out, really want to see what the fourth edition (which I'm starting to seriously like a lot) does with that. Sounds messed up. *glee*

ok, I've killed enough time. Time to do the "do I have everything?" dance and get out of here.

last night was a good one, which was desperately needed after the batshit circus of the day. It started with some hangouts and tarot readings with aisha7576, anzovin and sundart, then after they skipped out for their own hangouts and shenanigans, aisha7576 and I hung out and caught up for a bit before heading upstairs to join the small party in progress at sydmor's. Lots o people! cell23 and chirping_monkey and wrpigeek and jade_eyes13. And of course, babycakes, who seems to have discovered a whole new range of expressions, sprouted a few teeth and is slowly learning the logistics of getting around using her feet. So a good get together was had... aisha7576 and morlock got to chat for a bit about Valleystink and polyamory, and sydneycat bought me the gorgeous amethyst necklace chirping_monkey had just finished making. *sigh* I need to get back into jewelry craft, I miss it. But anyway squee. It's also good to see that the makers of Give Me The Brain have moved up in the world beyond Cheap Ass Games and have actual cards now. :) And of course, any party with Mike's Hard is my kind of party.

I'm pleased to see aisha7576 unwinding some! Vacations are wonderful!!

Today's going to be soupy... I really hate sitting around and sweating for no reason... Sweat's kinda like a reward - I want to have earned it. You know? I don't mind if I'm actually doing something that warrants it, but I do not like sitting around soaking through t-shirts without provocation. Gah.

Well, hopefully there will be thunderstorms. :)

Funny how I can tell immediate that my web site is down by looking at my LJ (my background image is fed from it.) Wonder what's up this morning?

Had a relatively good evening... we didn't wind up gaming as planned, though. What we ended up doing was that us girls made anzovin sit through The Craft cause he'd never seen it... apparently I have to sit through Lilo and Stitch sometime soon... yes I know, I need to see it. :P Maybe if the trailers hadn't been so hideously dumb when it came out, I would have, so blame Disney's lame-ass marketing department. Sheesh. ;)

After that I had a bit of a double feature, as I got some long delayed kick-the-cats-out time with sundart, and way later morlock came down for cuddling and wound up staying. Definitely one of those evening where I feel quite blessed in the people-love-me department. :)

Today though looks like a long patience-testing day at work, with maybe a bit of lostinnocencia later and some comics drawing, since morlock got a working scanner off of freecycle :) At some point I have to clean up the other half of my room and sweep...

Ah well. *cracks knuckles* onwards!