Where love is just a lyric

Not to answer this question specifically, but I believe buildings can give off a vibe. When we were house hunting, we saw a perfectly normal, nice newer house. It was clean and well-decorated, but it just made me feel uncomfortable. I could never put my finger on it, but it wasn't a house I wanted to live in.

Now, our house, as soon as I stepped into it, gave me nothing but good vibes. I do believe I clapped my hands and spun in a circle before even seeing the whole house. I had a cold at the time, so it was possible I had had too much in the way of OTC drugs. But previous owner had a doll collection, the daughter had a toy horse collection (Grand Champions), they had lovebirds...as soon as I walked into our house I knew it was home! We later met the previous owners when they came back for a neighbourhood barbecue. We got along really well with them, and we had the feeling they would have been good neighbours to have :-)

I had an actual entry, but I just got yelled at for not being sure all my laundry was out of the pile. Fuck this shit, I'm going to bed.

• 20:27 @derekjhartley Was this in the same category as "I LEAP at you!"? ;) #

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So about a month ago, I got the idea to combine photos of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell at D*sneyland in Photoshop, since it seemed like a fun project. I pitched this idea to them and the agreed to help me out. I started out making a list of ideas and got to the park early one morning to meet with Peter. We took a ton of photos, and he even threw some ideas out to me.

About a week later I put all the photos on my phone, met up with Tinkerbell, and showed them to her so she could see how she was supposed to act out. Since it's MUCH harder to do a photoshoot with Tink when there's a constant line waiting for her, we didn't take a whole lotta photos onstage. But we ended up getting through them all and I spent most of October doing these for fun.


Click on them to see the high rez versions at flickr!

( The second star to the right )

Happy birthday, El-ness! Hope it's full of happiness and kittens, and definitely NOT full of sparrowlings! :D

I am sitting here in awe of what's happening.

My show is out there. It's coming together. It's advertised on the flyers on the lunch tables, on the UVA video boards, on the website for the local community theatre. We have a fucking PROMO for god's sake. This show, this play I've been working on for eight months, this madness conceived over a year ago, that's consumed my life for so long...

In a week, it'll be a reality.

We have something great here. I can stand back and look at it and say that. As it comes together, I'm realizing it more and more. We have something truly amazing. It's not quite a show yet, but it's going to be, and when it is, oh when it is...!

This is going to be the biggest, most important thing I've done so far in my life. It's huge. And it may be consuming my life and costing me my health and sanity right now, but oh my god, it's worth it.

I'm excited again. I've got a hellish week ahead of me to make this happen, but oh I'm excited again. This is going to be tight, but I think - no, I know they can do it. I know they can. I have been gifted with an incredible cast and strong techies, and I have faith.

Oh lord, blessed lord. I'm excited again.

You all should totally come see it, by the way. I'm serious. Each one of you. Come see what's consumed my life and my soul. :D

~*~

Happy Birthday, collie_wing! ♥♥♥♥

MEASURE FOR MEASURE: Promo



...Holy shit, y'all.

Nine days.

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I'm sad to say that I have realized I need to rehome my four rats. I really do not want to do this but after moving out and not getting quite the pay I was hoping for, I'm realizing that if my rats get ill, which is most likely to happen, whether it but tumor or what not, I'm unable to pay their vet bills.
I have one male dumbo and 3 females. Uno, the male, is neutered and nearly 2 years old. I really feel bad for having to rehome him as this will be his 3rd home.
Breve, my siamese, is about a year, and Cybil and Toffee are about 6 and 5 months (born this past summer/spring). These three females I took in after bonding with them a bit too much at the pet store I had been working at and couldn't bare to watch them become snake food (yes I know its how things go).
Breve does tend to be a biter as i got her when she was a bit old and not used to being handled. Cybil and Toffee are total sweet hearts, as is Uno.
I'm not looking for any adoption fee, I just want them to go to really good homes, preferably together, and to someone who will be able to meet all their needs as I am now unable to, unless something changes quickly.
If anyone is in need of a second cage, I have a SuperPets cage (purple and green type http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/images/ferrets-magazine/product-spotlight/superpet-60248-bg.jpg) that's almost brand new. They've only been in it for the last two months that I'm willing to sell for $70 and I also have a ferret nation cage that they were in before I moved. The pans are pretty chewed up, but otherwise its in great condition, and I'm willing to sell it for $100 (or make an offer).

Uno and Cybil. Cybil is the more silver one.

Toffee

And Breve


(x-posted to other rat communities)

edit: I'm located in Austin, Tx

A girl who I do not know or even vaguely recognize just walked into our suite, plugged her hair dryer into the wall, dried her hair, and walked out again.

I assume that one of my suitemates told her she could, or something, but... what? O.o

• 17:12 @thefleshfailure Especially after that "I got lots of stick last week" spiel. GAH. This year's a car crash. #

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So my big "project" this past summer was getting a Giselle dress made. The funniest thing is that I LOVE Giselle's pink Mucha gown that she wears in the beginning animated portion of the film, but I really hate the color pink. I guess I just love the design of the dress so much, I was able to overlook the color. XD

I hunted down all the fabric myself in just one trip to the LA garment district. My seamstress did an amazing job of putting it together, I love how it turned out. I was able to find an awesome wig piece from Granada Wigs in San Diego. Since Dan already had an Edward costume made from the previous year, I begged him to dress up with me. XD



( I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss )

Mwahahaha. So that concludes all my Comic-Con photos from this year. As for what we're doing next year, I have no idea! I guess we'll see when it gets closer to next year's con.

Hey there, everyone! Eastern Weyr just had its two year anniversary, and we're still going strong - and, as always, looking for new members!

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( Major events so far at Eastern Weyr! )

So Saturday night I drove home, because Grandma and Uncle Daryl* were visiting my parents this weekend, and I got to see them. It was pretty nice, overall. When they were going out the door for church, Lanie got out, and I had to chase her all over our neighborhood and the next over. And then I got back to our circle and found her in our front yard with a neighbor's kid. (Oh, puppy.) I did the dishes and then went and hung out in the cat room for most of the rest of the morning. I have discovered how to get Tiger into my lap! She wandered away to investigate a sunbeam, so I pulled my book out and started reading, and then she came back and climbed up the chair and onto my lap and promptly sat on the book. She can ignore me, but I am not allowed to pay attention to things other than her. :3

I showed Grandma and Uncle Daryl my China pictures, and told them a bit about China and Costa Rica, and then we had dinner together. I refrained from getting into it with Uncle Daryl over gun control (and some other stuff), and overall it was a nice dinner. I did really enjoy seeing them, so it was a pretty good trip. I stopped by the barn on my way out of town and fed Ripley apple-peelings by flashlight, then drove back to school last night.

Less cheerfully, Lanie's had a stye on her eyelid since the last time I was home two weeks ago, and it hasn't gone down much. Yesterday, I discovered that Alex has one, too. Alex's is much bigger, and was all bloody and pus-covered; we think that she's been pawing at hers. Mom's going to take her to the vet today. I did a warm compress on her for a while yesterday, and she wasn't happy, but she was a lot more tolerant than I expected. Poor puppies. :(

*I don't actually know how to spell my uncle's name. *ashamed* I hope I got it right.

Nurse Lisa is so funny. She asked me how old I was and if I was seeing anyone, then proceeded to tell me about her stepson. She wants to set me up on a blind date with him, lol. He’s 24, which is kind of weird for me, personally, but I figured what the hey. I gave her my e-mail address to have him e-mail me so we can chit-chat and decide from there if we want to talk on the phone or meet. She said okay. If nothing else, I might make a friend out of it. It sounds like he has a lot of the same interests that I do.

Last night Alisha invited me to the So You Think You Can Dance stage show that is touring because she had an extra ticket. I’ve never watched the TV show, but it was a pretty amazing event. It had the top 10 dancers from last season performing various dances from the season and their own individual dances. The best one was one that represented addiction. It was actually very powerful and moving. I wasn’t expecting to be so swept up in a dance. One of the performers was from Utah, too, so that was pretty cool.

I was going to go meet an art group I found through Meetup last night, but when Alisha texted me, I thought, “When am I going to get to do anything like this again?” and agreed to go. I’m glad I did; it was awesome!

Nurse Robyn showed me this video today, and considering where I work, how could I NOT post this and share? Hilarious! XD

• 22:23 WTF ARE YOU DOING, COWELL!?!? #

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A couple hours after I got home from work today (babysitting at a gym, if anyone forgets since I haven't updated my livejournal in months) I received a desperate phone call of one of the mothers that comes into the gym pretty regularly, asking if I could come babysit RIGHT NOW because her babysitter had to cancel. So I should've been working on some art homework, but I can't say no to someone who is desperate like that, and also...I need money.

When I got there I realized that I have never actually babysat anyone before. Like not full-out babysat. I was a "nanny" for a while in highschool, which meant I just played with a 10-month old baby while her mother was working upstairs. I didn't actually DO anything. I worked at summer camp a couple years ago, but it was a daycamp with activities and stuff. And at work now I just watch kids for like an hour at a time while their parents work out.

I'd never had to like watch, cook dinner, bathe, read stories, etc, with a kid, and frankly as soon as the sentence, "We don't have a microwave so you can heat up her dinner on the stove" left the mother's lips, I was instantly terrified. Even worse was this: "Sometimes the stove doesn't light, so you can use a match." I love how since I'm all a 22-year-old adult, she assumed I knew how to use stoves and stuff (I DON'T! AND MATCHES SCARE ME!) But I just smiled and nodded. (Luckily, when the time came, I said, "Please god let the stove light, oh god please" and it actually DID work. I'm sorry people who are always trying to convert me?)

So I like...watched a kid. On my own. For 5 hours. And didn't destroy or burn anything. I'm kind of shocked. I even cleaned the kitchen too. I think this is a rite of passage or something. It needed to be documented.

We did our quarterly Asda shop last night because we had literally run out of food. We've not been able to properly stock up whilst Paul was unemployed (save for a couple of trips to Aldi for some basics). The fridge and freezer were bare and the cupboard contained only gravy, stock cubes, pasta and tuna. (You could argue that the last two constitute a meal in itself, but not all the time. :P)

Just over £200. But now the fridge, freezer and cupboards are quite literally full. The stuff that wouldn't fit into the freezer without rearranging the space-time continuum are in the fridge, so we had pork chops last night, then again tonight, and roast chicken at the weekend. It's quite lovely to open the fridge and be greeted with a choice. :)

So, we have a freezer full of MEAT and some fish (when some of the meat has dwindled I think perhaps a trip to the fish market is in order...), a fridge full of vegetables, condiments, cheese and sandwich fillers (paste and deli-style), and a cupboard full of tinned beans and tomatoes and yet more gravy, and stir-fry sauces and Super Noodles. YAY FOOD. We've been very lax in healthy eating of late simply due to a lack of choice, so hopefully now back on track...

Oh, and because Asda is the only place to do big tiger bread loaves (everyone else does piddly little ones for double the price), we got one of those, too. Even though white bread is horrendously bad for me and I'll be suffering for it by the end of next week. It just smells sooooooo goooood. Also makes fabulous toast.

So, this weekend I shall attempt to finish another Christmas decoration (hopefully) before we head out for Paul's mum's birthday surprise meal (mmm carvery) followed by possibly some fireworks somewhere. Must remember to charge the camera. There's nothing happening on Sunday, thankfully.

I should really start thinking about Christmas shopping and book off my 'shopping day'...

PS: If anyone wants a Christmas card, drop me an email with your address. teylaminh at yahoo dot co dot you-kay.

I almost forgot to post this here, eek! Trot on over my art blog on Blogger (where a lot of my friends post compared to LJ) and follow the treasure hunt around to five of my fellow ACEO artists. Read the rules in my post to see how you could win an ACEO from me or one of five other artists.

I hope everyone has a happy Friday...I'll be doing stuff like crazy for our first sale of the season on Saturday.

There are some really great people in my SCA archery group. Tonight Ryryrd complimented me on my form, which he has never done, and told me that I could be a "man-eater" if I wanted, lol. Bjorn gave me his old quiver when I mentioned not having one, asking nothing in return. And Nisa, a girl I just met tonight, offered to lend me some garb or find someone TO lend me some garb for the Solstice Feast coming up in a month. And all of the guys there are really patient and helpful. Tonight I shot the highest score I ever have since joining! I really need to start going more regularly. I could really kick butt!

Been working a lot on impossiblebox stuff. Check out our website! There's not much so far, but it's a start! So much stuff to do!

This week I also updated my own website, Darkwing Tower, with two fics and artwork! I really should put up a Commissions page. Maybe I'd get more offers. *shrug* We'll see.

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!