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it's been a while since i've posted in my journal proper. Mostly b/c i've been posting (almost) daily over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
honest_eats. I know that community has been a personal success for me and my eating habits, and i invite anybody who hasn't joined it to join us!
BUT, other than keeping track of my new years' resolution over on that community-- i really haven't been around lj too much. Which is a shame. I should be. Stuff is happening, and writing things down is always cathartic.
Work:
There's a sale coming up on Super Bowl Weekend. (Feb 2nd, 3rd, & 4th if you're local) We're selling all our back issues at $2 a piece, then $1, and then 50 cents; each day means another half off. Since most comic book stores mark UP their back issues (and not down,) we anticipate much goodness to come of this.
This also means i owe massive debts of gratitude to the folks who have helped me get all 6,600 issues into alpha-numeric order. Derrick, Phil, and Ginny helped me get the first wave of sorting through in about 6 hours... (all the A's in a pile, all the B's in a pile...) Then Kevin and I worked some more on things the next day, and finished up that level-one sorting. Sally came through, and between the two of us and about 12 hours worth of sorting, we put all those books in order by title, subtitle, and then numerically descending from most recent issue to the oldest of each series by issue number. (JOY!)
Net result is that we're done with that well in advance of the sale (NOVELTY!!) And i've got some new "sets" of books that i can bundle together and put out as discount packs as well.
it's nice to know we won't be doing the sale preparations at the last minute.
SCHOOL:
Is why we CAN"T do sale prep at the last minute. I'm back to taking a full load this semester. Accounting 1 and Business Statistics (both of which i had A's in last semester, but had to drop b/c of sickness and the insurmountable piles of make up work.) So for the first half of a semester, those two will feel like deja vu. Then there's Entrepreneurship 101 (not it's real name, but that's what it comes down to.) it's all about making a business plan and figuring out the legal and financial steps necessary for starting or buying a business. I also have to take an art appreciation class: Introduction to Film Studies. Kevin's taking that one with me... and get this. It turns out the professor is one of my customers from the store! ha!
Anyways, I've got high hopes, and reason to believe that things will work out just fine.
STUDIO:
It's no secret we've fallen behind again. But hopefully, we can apply some elbow grease and get back to where we want to be without having to derail completely. Heck, Tonight, there's a script-writing meeting at Kevin's. huzzah!
LOVE LIFE:
Awesome. As awesome as Kevin. Which is pretty damn awesome. I sound like a complete twit, but honestly, i couldn't be happier. (Even if he cleaned his car/room more often. b/c if he did, i wouldn't be able to complain about it...and worse, he might start noticing that my car/room hasn't passed the 'white-glove' test in months now.) *wink*
CATS:
Berlioz' tail is healing just fine, and his hair is growing in. It's still much shorter than the surrounding hair, so he's got this weird finger looking thing poking out the end of what starts as a fairly normal-looking tail. But besides being kind of funny-looking, it doesn't seem to bother him. Which is really all that matters.
Yzma keeps getting outside... then realizing it's butt-fucking COLD out there and then sitting around on the front step pressed against the door as though we're the MONSTERS who threw her out into the elements and all she wants is to be inside and sleep at our feet, but no, we don't love her at all, do we--no, we don't and can't appreciate her for she is tiny, lost, and forlorn, waiting for a WHIM to grip us and make us open the door, hopefully before her little kitty body freezes in a little hairy lump on the cold, cold concrete. We're such bastards.
Visas is playful as ever, though I worry... You see, she's been getting eye-socket infections more often. Not feverish, terrible, bleeding infections, but the kind of green goopy stuff that smells horrible. Her poor little face smells like toe-jam feet! I'm thinking that when my scholarship money/loans roll in for this semester, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get her eye sockets cleared out, cleaned, and sewn shut. That's an obscene chunk of change... but I'd rather do it now than wait for her to get some kind of gangrene of the brain. She's such a good girl, and otherwise so healthy and loving. I will NOT let her die of neglect.
FRIENDS:
Been seeing far more of Sally, which is delightful. Blue and I can't get our schedules to mesh. Derrick moved much closer to the comic book store, so he's coming by more often. Kurt's been working a LOT--or gaming when he gets time off--so he's not been around as often, but he still swings into the studio from time to time with a "wuss'up negros?..." I've not had the heart to explain to him that none of us are, in fact, African-American. He seems so happy, I'd hate to destroy his dream-world. Bowie's shown repeated interest in getting together with our group, so we've seen more of him as well! :D Even cooler--and completely unexpected (for me anyways,)--Roxane and Bowie are an ITEM! Huzzah! Let there be lovin's for everybody!
Online, folks are pretty much the same. Cynlee's still got her mom and her pet-hating landlord. Meira's still scrubbing the kitchen 24/7. Hyrina's still squirrel-ling away pennies. Terran's kids and schooling keep her running. Machias is floating out there in the ether--dunno when she's gonna get a computer again. Meko's managed to gain notoriety online--AND NOT BE online-- AT THE SAME TIME! (the girl is a study in complexity.) Dee's been bouncing back and forth from flu's and pain-management, and not enjoying EITHER. Vchan has slipped away into the Canadian wilderness...again...I hope she took a signal flare or something, b/c i have no idea where to look. Fig's life confuses me more and more, but she's still writing, so all is not lost. SC moves through life like a roller coaster, but hopefully things are going more "UP" than they are "DOWN." (Unless that's something her boy is doing. as in GOING 'down.' Lord knows, we could use more of that.) Onna's off playing with dolls. (SO MANY DOLLS!!!!) Amanda seems to be getting by. I've not heard from Jayde in a month of Sundays, but I'm hoping she's doing alright.
FORUMS:
I lose at GM-ing. Even fun games full of silly and fluff. I need to take that to heart. No matter how much of a control-freak I am in RPG, I don't have the stick-to-tive-ness necessary to run a campaign. DO NOT LET ME OFFER TO GM ANOTHER GAME NO MATTER HOW MUCH SOME ONE ELSE"S GAME SUCKS!!!
I've also felt kinda overwhelmed with things I've promised to do online. I've pretty much dumped any kind of formal RPG-ing. And I'm down to the archiving project I'm pledged to do on stealthy stories.
I NEED to be on ?! forums more often. Hell. I need to be posting stuff like this journal entry there, just so folks get to know me.
ART PROJECTS:
I've got art to do for: Kevin, SC, Dee, Jayde, Carmen, and Swallow (though she doesn't know it yet!) In fact, I've been chomping at the bit to draw more.
Sally and I uncovered my old designs for a TMNT Tarot deck (ha ha, yes. I'm such a nerd.) And I
would love to finish the set I'd started to make. There were 13 designs I'd picked, each to be the award for a fan fiction contest that never got run. Regardless of the no-show of the contest (mostly b/c i hadn't finished the awards,) i DO want to finish them.
My biggest issue with the art work is just that i THINK about it too long. I get so wrapped up in other things, or in feeling i should be DOING other things, that i just become completely impotent art-wise. It's frustrating and sad.
WRITING PROJECTS:
Sally and I have been doing some comparative study of tarot decks. Card design, meanings, etc. B/c depending on your source, many cards are said to mean different things. So we've made it through all 4 suits, and have only the major arcana to go.
I'm pretty fascinated by the cards. Not for the their 'mystical powers...' most of their powers are from the reader's subconscious interpretation of their meanings. But b/c there's a set of 72 images that can tell almost every story in creation. That these 72 images sum up the totality of human experience.
The idea of story-telling WITH the cards is an inspiring one, and I've got an idea tickling at the back of brain to write some NON-fan-fiction using the cards. We'll see. At this point it's so vague, there's little point in trying to explain.
My MAJOR fan fiction has come to a screeching halt. Not for lack of ideas, the ideas keep coming! But again, i end up feeling guilty for using time when my brain actually WANTS to focus on 'frivolous' things.
I've got other ideas also poking me. Also fan fiction... some started, others not. There's so much i want to DO, and just not enough TIME! And even when there's time, it seems that more often than not my brain just wants to VEGETATE. How to some people DO it!?
I must consume the heart-meats of my enemies in order to absorb their energy. ...and their spelling abilities. ...and their wallets. I'm not above mugging some one who's heart-meats I've just eaten.
well. Deep breathing. There's so much to do, and not nearly enough time to do it. They should probably carve something like that on my tombstone: "WAIT! I'M NOT FINISHED!" or "JUST GIVE ME 15 MORE MINUTES!"
heh.
oh well. time to roll onward.
honest_eats. I know that community has been a personal success for me and my eating habits, and i invite anybody who hasn't joined it to join us!BUT, other than keeping track of my new years' resolution over on that community-- i really haven't been around lj too much. Which is a shame. I should be. Stuff is happening, and writing things down is always cathartic.
Work:
There's a sale coming up on Super Bowl Weekend. (Feb 2nd, 3rd, & 4th if you're local) We're selling all our back issues at $2 a piece, then $1, and then 50 cents; each day means another half off. Since most comic book stores mark UP their back issues (and not down,) we anticipate much goodness to come of this.
This also means i owe massive debts of gratitude to the folks who have helped me get all 6,600 issues into alpha-numeric order. Derrick, Phil, and Ginny helped me get the first wave of sorting through in about 6 hours... (all the A's in a pile, all the B's in a pile...) Then Kevin and I worked some more on things the next day, and finished up that level-one sorting. Sally came through, and between the two of us and about 12 hours worth of sorting, we put all those books in order by title, subtitle, and then numerically descending from most recent issue to the oldest of each series by issue number. (JOY!)
Net result is that we're done with that well in advance of the sale (NOVELTY!!) And i've got some new "sets" of books that i can bundle together and put out as discount packs as well.
it's nice to know we won't be doing the sale preparations at the last minute.
SCHOOL:
Is why we CAN"T do sale prep at the last minute. I'm back to taking a full load this semester. Accounting 1 and Business Statistics (both of which i had A's in last semester, but had to drop b/c of sickness and the insurmountable piles of make up work.) So for the first half of a semester, those two will feel like deja vu. Then there's Entrepreneurship 101 (not it's real name, but that's what it comes down to.) it's all about making a business plan and figuring out the legal and financial steps necessary for starting or buying a business. I also have to take an art appreciation class: Introduction to Film Studies. Kevin's taking that one with me... and get this. It turns out the professor is one of my customers from the store! ha!
Anyways, I've got high hopes, and reason to believe that things will work out just fine.
STUDIO:
It's no secret we've fallen behind again. But hopefully, we can apply some elbow grease and get back to where we want to be without having to derail completely. Heck, Tonight, there's a script-writing meeting at Kevin's. huzzah!
LOVE LIFE:
Awesome. As awesome as Kevin. Which is pretty damn awesome. I sound like a complete twit, but honestly, i couldn't be happier. (Even if he cleaned his car/room more often. b/c if he did, i wouldn't be able to complain about it...and worse, he might start noticing that my car/room hasn't passed the 'white-glove' test in months now.) *wink*
CATS:
Berlioz' tail is healing just fine, and his hair is growing in. It's still much shorter than the surrounding hair, so he's got this weird finger looking thing poking out the end of what starts as a fairly normal-looking tail. But besides being kind of funny-looking, it doesn't seem to bother him. Which is really all that matters.
Yzma keeps getting outside... then realizing it's butt-fucking COLD out there and then sitting around on the front step pressed against the door as though we're the MONSTERS who threw her out into the elements and all she wants is to be inside and sleep at our feet, but no, we don't love her at all, do we--no, we don't and can't appreciate her for she is tiny, lost, and forlorn, waiting for a WHIM to grip us and make us open the door, hopefully before her little kitty body freezes in a little hairy lump on the cold, cold concrete. We're such bastards.
Visas is playful as ever, though I worry... You see, she's been getting eye-socket infections more often. Not feverish, terrible, bleeding infections, but the kind of green goopy stuff that smells horrible. Her poor little face smells like toe-jam feet! I'm thinking that when my scholarship money/loans roll in for this semester, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get her eye sockets cleared out, cleaned, and sewn shut. That's an obscene chunk of change... but I'd rather do it now than wait for her to get some kind of gangrene of the brain. She's such a good girl, and otherwise so healthy and loving. I will NOT let her die of neglect.
FRIENDS:
Been seeing far more of Sally, which is delightful. Blue and I can't get our schedules to mesh. Derrick moved much closer to the comic book store, so he's coming by more often. Kurt's been working a LOT--or gaming when he gets time off--so he's not been around as often, but he still swings into the studio from time to time with a "wuss'up negros?..." I've not had the heart to explain to him that none of us are, in fact, African-American. He seems so happy, I'd hate to destroy his dream-world. Bowie's shown repeated interest in getting together with our group, so we've seen more of him as well! :D Even cooler--and completely unexpected (for me anyways,)--Roxane and Bowie are an ITEM! Huzzah! Let there be lovin's for everybody!
Online, folks are pretty much the same. Cynlee's still got her mom and her pet-hating landlord. Meira's still scrubbing the kitchen 24/7. Hyrina's still squirrel-ling away pennies. Terran's kids and schooling keep her running. Machias is floating out there in the ether--dunno when she's gonna get a computer again. Meko's managed to gain notoriety online--AND NOT BE online-- AT THE SAME TIME! (the girl is a study in complexity.) Dee's been bouncing back and forth from flu's and pain-management, and not enjoying EITHER. Vchan has slipped away into the Canadian wilderness...again...I hope she took a signal flare or something, b/c i have no idea where to look. Fig's life confuses me more and more, but she's still writing, so all is not lost. SC moves through life like a roller coaster, but hopefully things are going more "UP" than they are "DOWN." (Unless that's something her boy is doing. as in GOING 'down.' Lord knows, we could use more of that.) Onna's off playing with dolls. (SO MANY DOLLS!!!!) Amanda seems to be getting by. I've not heard from Jayde in a month of Sundays, but I'm hoping she's doing alright.
FORUMS:
I lose at GM-ing. Even fun games full of silly and fluff. I need to take that to heart. No matter how much of a control-freak I am in RPG, I don't have the stick-to-tive-ness necessary to run a campaign. DO NOT LET ME OFFER TO GM ANOTHER GAME NO MATTER HOW MUCH SOME ONE ELSE"S GAME SUCKS!!!
I've also felt kinda overwhelmed with things I've promised to do online. I've pretty much dumped any kind of formal RPG-ing. And I'm down to the archiving project I'm pledged to do on stealthy stories.
I NEED to be on ?! forums more often. Hell. I need to be posting stuff like this journal entry there, just so folks get to know me.
ART PROJECTS:
I've got art to do for: Kevin, SC, Dee, Jayde, Carmen, and Swallow (though she doesn't know it yet!) In fact, I've been chomping at the bit to draw more.
Sally and I uncovered my old designs for a TMNT Tarot deck (ha ha, yes. I'm such a nerd.) And I
would love to finish the set I'd started to make. There were 13 designs I'd picked, each to be the award for a fan fiction contest that never got run. Regardless of the no-show of the contest (mostly b/c i hadn't finished the awards,) i DO want to finish them.
My biggest issue with the art work is just that i THINK about it too long. I get so wrapped up in other things, or in feeling i should be DOING other things, that i just become completely impotent art-wise. It's frustrating and sad.
WRITING PROJECTS:
Sally and I have been doing some comparative study of tarot decks. Card design, meanings, etc. B/c depending on your source, many cards are said to mean different things. So we've made it through all 4 suits, and have only the major arcana to go.
I'm pretty fascinated by the cards. Not for the their 'mystical powers...' most of their powers are from the reader's subconscious interpretation of their meanings. But b/c there's a set of 72 images that can tell almost every story in creation. That these 72 images sum up the totality of human experience.
The idea of story-telling WITH the cards is an inspiring one, and I've got an idea tickling at the back of brain to write some NON-fan-fiction using the cards. We'll see. At this point it's so vague, there's little point in trying to explain.
My MAJOR fan fiction has come to a screeching halt. Not for lack of ideas, the ideas keep coming! But again, i end up feeling guilty for using time when my brain actually WANTS to focus on 'frivolous' things.
I've got other ideas also poking me. Also fan fiction... some started, others not. There's so much i want to DO, and just not enough TIME! And even when there's time, it seems that more often than not my brain just wants to VEGETATE. How to some people DO it!?
I must consume the heart-meats of my enemies in order to absorb their energy. ...and their spelling abilities. ...and their wallets. I'm not above mugging some one who's heart-meats I've just eaten.
well. Deep breathing. There's so much to do, and not nearly enough time to do it. They should probably carve something like that on my tombstone: "WAIT! I'M NOT FINISHED!" or "JUST GIVE ME 15 MORE MINUTES!"
heh.
oh well. time to roll onward.
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Well your life sounds pretty busy. (How do you guys write so much? lol) I hope you find time to breathe. *pat pats*
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And yes-- still have Mom and my landlord-- though he's been strangely absent again... *grows nervous*
But I'm glad you posted such a long post, Kya-- Glad to read what's going on-- laughed outloud at the cruelty you put that poor Yzma through, Simon LeGree has nothing on you guys!
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So...DUDE, Roxie and Bowie are a THING now?
DUDE!
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Good luck with school this semester!
Rollercoaster of Love
Sorry to hear Visas is having eye problems, I hope you can swing getting that taken care of. I think you're right to do it before she gets a really bad infection.
Oh, and I LOVE the tarot idea. I've personally contemplated doing a set of Tarot prints but I'm not sure I'm ready for the commitment yet. I also think I need to increase my understanding of the symbolism. I've been doing extremely basic fluffy interpretations for my tarot broochs, but I know damn well it goes far beyond that.
Take care sweetie, good luck getting those heart meats!