can I goof off today?

I guess this is one!












ok, i'm going back to work. *sulks*

I'm not going to any conventions this year. I registered for AC for Adam's sake, but I cannot simply find myself excited/interested in it. To be honest, I'm a little tired of the fandom in general. I need to focus on other things, try to rediscover what I liked about it in the first place. Now, please understand that for me, fandom is separate from the people I have met and have been honored to have a least a little bit of a relationship with. I don't like these people -because- they were in the fandom but because I think they're pretty cool people. I'm a horrible friend because of my own shortcomings, yes, I'll freely admit that.

That said, it makes more sense for my spot to be taken up by someone who will appreciate it and take advantage for it fully. I know that there are already people in line to take over, so I'm happy about that. Also, it makes more sense considering the economic situation Adam and I are in. Its a lot cheaper if we only pay for one plane ticket and he splits the hotel and meal costs with other artists. Considering the time constrictions we have because of our jobs and the rising cost of gas, driving to and back is simply not an option.

Maybe next year, if I haven't given up completly.

Only death is nicer. Well it seems like it right now. Ugh, Adam just had our taxes done (we had them done this year since we just got a condo and we wanted to make absolutely sure we were doing this right, being homeowners and such). It turned out not so good. We -owe- a lot. Way over 1,500 mark. Yeah. You know that half gasp, half whimpering, little kids make when they get startled?. I made a great impression of that when I found out, only, there was some swearing involved too.

So, yeah. We can handle it. We're going to need help but we can handle it. Finances are going to be rearranged and as much as it sucks the art and inspiration out of you, I am very lucky to have a full time job right now. Its not like I was exactly productive when I wasn't working full time. Ah really, what the hell am I doing here? What a waste of resources this DA account seems sometime.

Anyway, yeah, I hope you guys are having a far happier tax season.

So... I didn't get to work today. Because I smell or something.

Well that's what *I* say. *They* say it is because there isn't enough work for me yet.

But I know its the smell. The smeeellllll. They hate lavender you see...

Ok. Maybe Not. I am probably more surely maybe wrong.

ANYway... I got the day off and I been spending it putting together this piece of furniture we sorta, kinda, inherited from my Mom in Law. The short version of the story is that she bought it at a very nearby wholesale furniture store but didn't have space just yet for it, so we offered to store it while she got reorganized. Cut to about a year later and she ends up buying another piece of furniture (which Adam and I are going to end up putting together because we just seem to have a talent for putting things together it seems) I guess she totally forgot about the big box in our hallway. Also, by then we have been quietly inquiring on and off about when we could ...uh .. deliver it and, you know, get half our hallway back. In the end, she said that we could keep it and put it to use. Cut again to about three more weeks of us saying ..."aaahhh we'll put it together next weekend" and then to me, today, going "Holy frijoles, the instructions on this thing are epic"

But here I am, on step six which involved putting together the hinges on the door for the thing. It would've been nice if the screws and the screw holes, were the SAME diameter. But that's just me. And before you say it, the screws were already in the holes, so I'm not using the wrong kind, they just weren't screwed in all the way, and somehow the holes in the hinges were about maybe a mm or 2 mm too thin. I don't know! I only know that I had to spend about 45 minutes carefully coaxing the screw in and out to make new threads on the holes. How freudian is that.

Its going to be nice once I am done though. It will totally go together with our "Its-kinda-sorta-like-wood-colored-and-I'm-pretty-sure-a-tree-was-involved-somewhere" bedroom collection. So chick.

But hey, if it doesn't collapse in the middle of the night and a) Doesn't kill the cat and b) Doesn't wake me up from an intense flowers, chocolate and cigars dream, I'll be happy.

You know how sometimes people are depicted with having a little angel and a little devil on their shoulders? Well, I believe I have three. An angel, a devil and a really lazy guy with a gut, on a lazy boy in the middle.

I say this because I was actually considering investing in one of those korean dolls that you can customize. I have the money (working overtime does have its benefits) but I was debating if I should really spend that much on a doll. The one I was looking at was around $130.00 and that was cheap side of things. So angel is going "no, no, no be patient, save and you can buy a Cintiq in a couple of months". Devil is going "GIMMEEE!" meanwhile, lazy guy says: "Remember all those pony baits in your closet? Have you done anything with them since you got them? hhhmmmmmm???" Then he drank some beer and burped.

So yeah. I didn't get the doll and I really want some Smirnoff Ice right now.


ETA: Oh btw, anyone interested in buying some baits and/or customizing supplies? Because I'm pretty sure I will do nothing with them.