Fiddle-Dee-Dee, Said Scarlett

I missed an update yesterday!

Not that there's terribly much news to report at this point. The handyman is here, repairing our screens and whatnots. He's a nice guy - we chatted a little while I had my morning cigarette and he took a smoke break - but I'm afraid I was a bit fuzzy and groggy. Even with my morning shower. I just can't seem to wake up these days, not properly and in a timely fashion. At least I don't need to be at the top of my game to look things up for people.

Yesterday I mostly just RPed and answered the world's stupidest questions.

damned is going well, as usual. Nothing new in CU. Over in Rewritten, Myre and Keman are having an epic fight, and poor Shadow's stuck in the middle wondering wtf just happened. Valyn's trying to get Triana outside before she causes a scene, and completely not noticing that his fiance is essentially being hit on by his newest ally. And Rena's just wide eyed and confused.

Today I have more house things to do, plus laundry, and I believe we're going to the pet store down the street. Zorak is made of win, but he is not cuddly.

Am I the only person who actually really, really liked the Heroes premiere and is eagerly awaiting where this is going? I keep seeing disappointment and frustration and the like on my Flist, and I hope that at least someone out there enjoyed it as much as I did.

The living room gets geekier by the day. I love it.

Stupid questions from yesterday:

'WUT VAGINA? IS VAGINA GROSS?' (A nice change of pace from penis questions, I tell you what.)

'What is the legal, correct way to hang a picture?' (The government doesn't care, as long as you're not trying to hang it on the president's forehead.)

'Do you swallow cum?' (I sadly couldn't think of a good way to make a play on Latin in response to this.)

And I had one guy who could not grasp the idea that in order to get an airline ticket quote, we needed a time and date of departure and arrival, not just what airports he was flying in and out of. How difficult a concept is this to grasp?

Oh, soreness. And weak, jelly legs.

Back safe and sound from my ESI! (For those just recently joining, an ESI is an Epidural Steroid Injection. Imagine a series of giant tetanus shots, directly into your spine. It's a relatively common chronic treatment for a variety of spinal issues.)

My lower back's sore and my legs have that wonderful fell-asleep-but-can't-wake-up sensation, and as usual I'm a quivering mess because I still have a terrible needle phobia. But it's over and done with, and after the soreness fades, I'll have a couple months of blissful less-pain! It really does make a difference, which is why I go back again and again for a procedure that honestly terrifies the hell out of me.

Though now I find myself a little at a loss as to what to do. No packing for a bit, because of this! I've got characters on hiatus at damned, I'm pretty sure I'm on full hiatus at CU just from lack of anyone getting back to me about threads and my communications with the mod, and well....we're all on hiatus at RW right! :D So I'd feel a little silly just un-hiatusing for a few days anywhere, and then going right back to hiatus - especially since I'll be at my sister;s this weekend.

Maybe I'll catch up on fic. I haven't submitted anything for yuri_challenge, dn_contest, 30_nights, 7_rainbows or one_liners in...a very long time.

But for now I'm going to put an ice pack on my lower back.

Nothing like waking up to a bloody nose. Especially nothing like waking up to a bloody nose when your eye mask cord is tangled in your hair, and you can't get it off, and all you know is there's warm wet stuff all over you and it's pitch black and you're still vaguely remembering lucid-bordering-on-hypnogogic hallucination dreams about living with a roommate who has homicidal tendencies and a clowder of ghost cats outside....

It was a confusing wake up session, let's just leave it at that.

Apparently my dad ramped up the central air last night, which is what caused my nose bleed.

Idiot lawyers are at first amusing, then sad, then just damn frustrating.

I am going to finish my workroom today, no matter what.

I also think I'm going to be done with the first Artemis Fowl book soon! I've, ah, been keeping it in the bathroom to ensure I'm able to read at least a page or two at a time throughout the day. And completely forgetting to make any mention of it! Usually I'm all over talking about new books I'm reading, but I've got so much else on my mind! I've been enjoying it, though!

RP friends, I should be getting back to things this weekend! Though I might have Tamaki take a night off the Clinic, since I don't think there's any way I'd be able to keep up with that.

In my dream, I also argued with attilatehbun over whether or not hemerine had ever actually been a word or not* - we were playing ritual Scrabble. I don't know. That's one dream I don't understand.

*Yes, it was a real word, but it fell out of use sometime in the mid 1700s, I believe.

OKAY! SO!

It's Pirate Week over at CU, and anyone who's been here for a while knows I love Pirate AUs more than anything else, ever. And while my ladies are not too thrilled with this turn events, Henry is having a grand old time. so I've been happily playing, and nijawial and I have been talking about it, and....

SHE DREW ME PIRATE!HENRY!

( First Mate Henry Townshend and...Um... Shutterbug )

Yes, his rabbit has an eyepatch. (In the long, long tradition of my primary male character ending up with a pet, Henry has a pair of rabbits.) Isn't it adorable?

I need to iconize this STAT!

I've fallen vastly behind on working out. This happens in the summer, because it's hot, because I tend to get sick, and because I spend more time than usual medicated. The last thing I want to do is work out when I'm hot, nauseas and stoned.

But I am determined to keep up with my bodily health. I've got to find some low-key sets that won't take too much out of me. I'm still doing my crunches, but jogging and calisthenics are kind of out of the question.

Eileen is displaying her ass kicking skills in damned! She screamed and is extremely distressed at this....thing that is trying to eat her delicious legs, but she's also beaming it on the head with her flashlight.

I remember I was nervous about apping her for damned because I didn't want to subject her to that. But with actually playing her... she's better off here, I think. She's got sensible clothing, she's got her full vision, she's not wrapped in casts and bandages, and she's not forced to run around on medieval torture devices known as 'stiletto heels'.

Though I'm amused that for the first part of her night, she and Hohenheim were wandering about chatting pleasantly about topics better suited to a blind date than an attempt to escape a demonic mental institute. :D

I cannot wait for Body Switch day at CU. Dante's going to be pleased at having a non-rotting, pretty young body to hang out in for a little bit - even if it's a male body - and Henry.... *snerks* He's going to have quite the day. :D

I need to get dressed. And I should probably try and eat.

Okay, actual update time!

Holy fuck. It's 2:30, and I'm exhausted. Like ready to fall asleep exhausted. I think I did doze off watching a movie I've seen a dozen times, actually. I haven't even finished unpacking, I have no clean clothes to the point where I'm wearing my autographed Twisp and Catsby (PA) shirt because it's the only thing clean. That isn't a giant sweater, but it's 85 degrees.

My uncle went home this morning. He didn't even say goodbye last night, to me at least, he just left before I was awake. Classy. But he did take us out to dinner last night, and it was...really good. The food was delicious, and finally! A mexican restaurant that understand when I say 'just cheese and sauce' I mean 'just cheese and sauce'. I don't mean 'just cheese and sauce and the onions, tomatoes and peppers that are also in the dish but not listed on the menu'. I had these amazingly yummy little chicken taco things, on the most delicious tortillas I've ever had. And delicious refried beans, and Spanish rice, and since it was my uncle's dime, I ordered dessert. I don't even particularly like cheesecake that much, but it was the most expensive dessert on the menu so I went for it. I ate the delicious strawberry topping, and my dad ate the actual cheesecake. I also had a bite of my mother's flan, and it was to die for. We ended up buying a bottle of their homemade salsa, too, because it was that delicious.

For those of you who have not heard the stories of my uncle, there is a reason that we order the expensive food when he pays. He's very wealthy, and shares his wealth liberally with random waitresses - including buying one of his regular waitresses a bracelet that cost $1,500, just because he thought she'd like it, not even for her birthday or Christmas - but never gives us any money, even when we're struggling to get by. He also uses my parent's house as a hotel, eats their food, uses their gas, water, electricity, etc and just assumes that whatever we have is his as well. And never says thank you.

I have a lasagna in the oven, and I need to do laundry. The washing machine is finally free, but I feel like I've melted into the couch and can't get up.

In RP news, jumped back into damned since NS has started. Tamaki's got the clinic going, Eileen is still trying to grasp what's going on, Lust will be burying her sorrow in killing things and clinging to Gluttony, and I believe Valyn and co are going after files tonight!

Am still enjoying CU, it's a great break from damned. Not that I'm saying I need a break, just...something lighter. Not so much doom and angst and massive, massive thinking. I've only got two characters, and they're easy and it's a more open scenario. It's a good balance. And oh, the web of lies and manipulation! If Dante weren't already kind of in hell, I'd say she was so going to hell. She's screwed if any other FMA characters show up, though. It'd be hard to play the poor, grieving, bereft mother/widow/whatever with people spilling her real story.

Henry is still bumbling along, getting used to being a social creature, and trying to untangle his overly-complex feelings about Eileen. I kind of want to shake him and yell 'you like her, you idiot, that's all there is too it!'. But it's Henry, and he overthinks things. He's also dealing with the OMG!PANIC! of Walter showing up. He still needs to sit down and have his chat with Alessa, too. He is a busy, busy boy!

ReWritten folks - chaneystarr, ranchangrnl, chocomimi! I think there's only...um...well, I've only got two threads planned for pre-fete. One with Valyn and Lorryn, one with Rena and Keman? I don't know if there are any other threads planned, but.... When chocomimi's back and settled in, shall we move on over there?