Okay, self. This, here? This is not sleeping. This is getting up from bed, after failing to stop brain from thinking, and downloading music. Not a fail safe plan. However, redeemable. You may commence copying the music to a music playing device and attempt being lulled to sleep by it, the Silent Hill Shattered Memories soundtrack.

The only benefit of going out is being reminded how much I really don't like it.

Admittedly, in this case, also finding a restaurant with really yum food.

As much as I'd love to work today I don't think I can handle standing at a sandwich bar serving people for seven hours. Didn't sleep until 12.30 or so, woke up at 5.30, and feeling physically ill as a result of stress and low iron. Expect I'll be surviving on juice for a sugar boost today.

Am going to have to actively job search when I get home. Pity the garden cashier job was so far away. I think I'd have liked that job; cashiering I can handle at this point, and plants I like, it'd have been good to learn more about them that way.

*eyes phone* ... the alarm was supposed to go off ten minutes ago.

Right. I'm up I'm up. To the train with the Wicked ost and a sketchbook.

Dear self,

Eating highly acidic food one day and vomiting the next is really not the way to go about healing an inflamed esophagus.

Stop that.

No love,
Me

This is a really poor update for someone who hasn't posted in so long, but here is a task list...

- wake up! Up! Up!
- breakfast (sit outside, you need vitamin D)
- clean: tidy, dust, metho, washing, dishes, whatever else?
-  sort through notes and drawings
- NaNo planning and plotting and drawing
- Hiru outfits
- read
- and sleep at ten o'clock post meridiem

Maybe tomorrow I'll write about the things that have been happening... >>

Today I received my NaNo shirt.

Why hello thar, aenesthetist of the lovely face and arms, aren't you snarky.

Anaesthetist: It's cold in here.
Surgeon: Do you want the heating turned up?
Anaesthetist: I did ask for it.

Being in the surgery room for the first time was a surreal experience. Laying there on my side in all white, needle in my vein, with big lights overhead, and voices discussing basic details like birth date and such gave me the sense that I was something between a sedated animal at the vet and one of many bodies passing through. My last thought was about a heavy heartbeat and then my arm was being shaken by a man telling me that I was done.

It was cool. Sadly the unseelie didn't visit.

Today seemed pretty eventful for an uneventful day.

In dot-point form because I need to get to bed:
- Petshop of Horrors 1-10 arrived. :DDDD
- Finished Dragon Keeper. RAPSKAL IS AWESOME AMOUNTS OF LOVE. Hobb finished it just as I got into it. *sobs*
- Was shanghaid into handwriting my brother's wedding invitations. Thankfully there are only eight. |D Began designing the letters.

And uh, actually, that was it. >>

Tomorrow I have a gastroscopy which I've been pretty annoyed by but sister-in-law-to-be just messaged to let me know that the first time she was under anaesthetic she saw unseelie. :DDDDDD So Sanga I am expecting you! You too Xolotl! And Aundin, actually.

And now I must go to bed because I need to rise at 6am and ahahaha. Oh dear.

I have awoken early. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

People seem to be under the impression that liking fantasy means they should buy me bearded things.

Who wants this http://www.box.net/shared/rta5tdjzkz ? Who wants the one on the bookcase for that matter?

whhhoooOOOOoboy. I'm all whoozy. Whilst sitting down. Nauseous even. Oddly enough it goes away when standing up but then my bones disappear. *flops*

Go away day.

I should write a proper entry about today because... because I sat in the dining room of normal people and spoke to them. >> Too tired, so dot points.

Woke up late. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Packed Rick's belongings to move them to his new house.
Visited Gen's home. Met her parents and brother. Given lovely gifts (including cake.) Was told I look like an eighteen year old. Had a dog lick my hand.
Took a ride in a truck on the freeway to get to the new house. Truck music, CHECK!
Gleed over brothers home. (VALLEYS VALLEYS!)
Unpacked Rick's belongings.
D:'d over having my own bedroom in Rick's house of the valleys.
Truck ride back to the rental place. Walked to the supermarket in the freezing cold. Wore gift over head (scarf) to block wind. Too thin, didn't work. Got a lift.
Home. Terrible singing. Food. Gorgeous Chaz & Ash piktur from Rave. :3
Now tired.

Oh. Also. Rick's neighbour has a three storey house. I kid you not. The other neighbour has barbed wire around his fence. Lawl.

SHADOOOOOW MAGIIIIIIIIIIC COME TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

A friend of mine, who doesn't even know I've seen it yet, helped make this with his animatorly friends. It's fantastic. Watch it. :)

Started the day determined to do Dave-McKean-epic amounts of work on Xolonaich, meaning finish, so that I wouldn't lose my book -- only I kept getting distracted. So then I made a deal with Rave that I had one week to save my book by finishing a project which she specified: a finished 'Hiru in a tree' drawing... or was that painting. >>

Then in an attempt to buckle down and get working I became more distracted and commissioned a full body Xolotl and Nouf bust from Chira. :DDDDDDDDDDD

And because I work on other things while avoiding what I should be working on I drew some stuff.

And now I'm on a bit of a high because OMG Chira commission. SOMEONE STOP ME FROM COMMISSIONING A DAMN BUST HEAD SHOT* TOO. ASFKJLHSKFJH.

Right. Might as well get on the bike if I'm going to sit here grinning at the screen and doin' nothin'.








*As Rave just reminded me: ...if you did that, you'd have to design his tatts properly. :)


[edit] AND HOW COULD I FORGET. Totally had my ass saved by Rave before I read the Petshop SEQUEL by mistake. Guys, guys, the first series isn't in print anymore. T_T

There. I said it. Posted it with the entire internet as my witness.

G'night ...or morning.

mrnnnghgghrmn what was I thinking when I set the alarm for seven thirty? The past hour has been spent trying to wake up properly. Am sitting up but I haven't managed to lose the doona yet. It's foggy out there which means it's cold with tiny water droplets suspended in the air which means blanket. No wait, I am stronger than this! *loses the blanket* Ahahaha oh chill, okay, yeah, I can get used to you.

I have places to be today and it would be really good if I got exercise and housework out of the way now, which was the purpose of rising early.

Right. Doing that. See you latar.

Walking down the street with Jason...

Jason and Tina: *singing* GALLUMP WENT THE LITTLE GREEN FROG ONE DAY~ *a moment later* BUT WE ALL KNOW FROGS GO LA DI DA DI DA~ LA DI DA DI DA~ LA DI DA DI DA~ WE ALL KNOW FROGS GO
Tina: *spies guy on porch* Oops.
Jason: la di da di da
Jason and Tina: ...
Guy on porch: LA DI DA DI DA

Dear god make my mind shut its mopey depression up. Things are good. >:( Grrr.

So this is the month (I would prefer to say week but HAH) for getting things I owe to people to people. Srsly I have promised sketches from years ago which I haven't delivered. CLEARLY I AM DESTINED TO BE A CONCEPTUAL ARTIST.

Also, I need money. For books. And materials. And things.

Also, Gumshoe has been in my head all day.

TODAY!
- get breakfast
- tidy house
- exercise
- shower
- sort papers and junk
- world build damn!verse
- write
- draw
- set the terms for Xolonaich
- get started on Xolonaich
- read
- sleeeepzzzzzzzzzzz at 10pm NO LATER >:(

Rules: complete all tasks on the list or suffer without the net for a month.

*sobs* Kittan. Kittaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.


Are you an idiot?!

Basically, it's... Argh! I just can't say it well!

Sorry for my selfishness.


[Edit]

King Kittan is still here!

Gurren-Lagann's drill that I borrowed as a lucky charm...

...I'll be using it.

This is Simon's...

The Dai-Gurren Birgade's...

The Human's...

No, this is my soul!!!

I'll make you regret this!!!