Two weeks and we're supposed to be out of our apartment into our new rental house...which we don't have yet. Ugh. One more owner wouldn't rent unless one rentee earned 3x the rent. Give me a break! That's ridiculous. And if I did earn that much I wouldn't want their houses anyway because they all need work/are in areas that are only half safe.

Then one wanted $600 up front before doing the credit check. And if we failed he'd give back $550. But if we passed the $500 would be an earnest deposit, and $100 would be processing fee. Wait, why do you need $100 if I pass, but only $50 if I fail? For that matter, like I trust you to return the $500! Whatever!

I liked the one we viewed the other day. It's set up was nice. Though it's one floor and I was liking the two-floor style. Plus it's only 2 bath not 2.5. And for 5 people & guests the half bath is a nice addition. But it's getting to the point being picky really isn't an option. *sigh*

House hunting sucks. And this is just for a rental that we're kind-of happy with. If I was looking for a place I loved I'd really be in trouble.

-_-'

Website Updates: ARGH! I was supposed to post this here weeks ago and kept alternately forgetting or putting it off. At any rate, the SWAT Kats Fanfiction Archive was updated back on the 8th.

Fangirling: Well, my initial disappointment with "Inuyasha: The Final Act" has faded. It took the series several episodes, but it finally hit its stride. I'm sad that I'll never see parts of the manga animated (and I liked those sword upgrade chapters too), but the show has developed a good balance between cutting what really didn't significantly advance the plot and giving proper attention to the parts that do. The Shippou episode was as hilarious as I remembered, and this past week's adaptation of Kikyou's death was perfect. I even sniffled. And, kudos to whoever decided to pull out the string arrangement of "Dearest". I was expecting Kikyou's theme, and we got that too, but... "Dearest" makes me sniffle all by itself.

And then, there's "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", which, as might have been obvious, has me completely hooked. Episodes 19 and 26 were made of absolute win. And, now... Finally! The Briggs arc, one of my favorites from the manga!

Lastly, "Nurarihyon no Mago" gets an anime! I've been following this manga for almost a year now and enjoying it as my "substitute Inuyasha", so I can't wait to see it animated.

A really great thing about Twitter is that there are numerous users who are always working to find better ways to make Twitter a more user-friendly place to be and a valuable outcome of that for those who like to role-play on Twitter is the Group Tweet application. I am always looking for new ways to make the Twitter experience more accessible for Gaslight, and I have found it in MixTweet (via the highly popular True Blood Role Players).

So a group account of our own has been set up for our own RP set up. We hope this will make it easier to follow what is going on.

504 hours of rendering to make this. Due to his computer's limitations he said he couldn't include more lifelike detail, but I still think it's pretty amazing, especially considering this is his first character animation. He said T-Bone will be added once he upgrades his system.

I would like to thank everybody for your help in getting Guin his new seat. He snuggled into it well this evening.

There is money leftover now and I am refunding those that donated after the seat was acquired. Still sending out cards though. I thank you all so very much.

Yoinked this from deisaster because I'm too lazy to write anything original at the moment... And because I thought it might be a good thing to have written. :P

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.

Alright so everybody knows what all has been going on with Guin and all of that. Right now I'm trying to get money together to afford a new carseat for him since his current one is only good to 22 pounds. As of today he weighs in at 21lb 6oz. My dad has given me $100 toward the one I am going to get but I still need the remaining amount. The seat he is getting is a convertible carseat that reclines for now and can be switched to a booster later on when he can hold his head up. It is also rated to 65 pounds, so it will last a good while.

I know not everybody can donate, but if you can spare a dollar, please send it along. I don't ask for things like this often or lightly as I'm sure you know and understand if you have been on my list for more than a minute :P

How do people think of what to talk about in their journals daily? LOL. Not much has been going on lately other then the busy life.

Hmmmm, my cousin Nicole has been in the hospital since the Wednesday before last. She had got the flu and it triggered her TTP to flare up... which had put her in ICU, critical condition with her kidneys threatening to fail. At least this time wasn't a worse as her attack last year? Thats what she said anyways... lol... I think it's ALL bad. But anyways....my sis and I didn't get to see her until Saturday. She was looking all right. Her body has gained a lot of fluids from the stuffs they were doing. LOL... the silly girl, that was the only thing she was concerned about XD

Anyways, she explained her more about her TTP. Which there is only like 250 some people that have it in this country? And they've been getting a lot of blood from her...for testing... the most they have from any patient. What happens is her plasma thickens and her blood cells stick to it and her kidneys were having trouble filtering it. I think I got that right...at least that's how I understood it. There was this machine she was hooked up to, that took her blood/plasma from her and the machine would seprerate the blood from the plasma... her plasma would go into a bag and the then the donor plasma would mix with her blood and go back into her, through this port in her neck.

They said she might get out for Thanksgiving... which would be great. Her little girl, Brooklynn misses her. And omg, Brooklynn is getting so big XD She's 16 months.

Other things that have been going on.....Just some plotting for the comics, Anthrocon next year and a side project in the planning stages. This weeks comic pages will be up tonight. Last week, they just didn't happen... because of my worry for Nicole's health and family things that were going on. One thing that REALLY needs to be done is making a new website design. I want something different, but I'm not sure exactly how to create what I have in mind. I wish I knew a whole lot about html and code.

Well... guess I better get to work.

Just got back from lunch with my family (folks, sis & bro-in-law, and of course my awesome nephew Thomas), and I gotta write this up. It won't be as funny to anyone else, but I don't care!

My folks are big Fox news junkies (sadly), but they do occassionally watch other networks. Turns out while Fox was hyping up the tax-protesting "tea parties", the other networks were using another term for them. In a voice of genuine innocence, my mom goes "Oh you might know what this means- what's 'teabagging'?"

I about choked laughing, and my sister cracked up at me. "I told you he'd know!", she said, because apparently she didn't either. Once I caught my breath I simply said it was an insult, a sign of very poor sportsmanship, and that regardless of the context it wasn't meant to imply anything the least bit favorable. I refused to go into greater detail, which drove them all nuts but, come on, like I'm going to explain that one to my parents!

Well, it seems as if I'll have to skip AmeCon next year.

sindacirwen and I have been planning on attending ever since AyaCon earlier this year, but it seems as if the dates are crashing with Meuwcon. That wouldn't have been much of a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that Sinda is, sort of, one of the people organizing the thing. Drat. I really can't attend without my trusted traveling companion now, can I? So, no AmeCon for me. *sob*

So, now I'm faced with the job of trying to find an alternative con in the UK for us to attend instead. We're already planning on attending Auchinawa (if it happens and our schedule/wallets will allow it), but we were hoping for a con in the summer as well... I know about London MCM Expo, but that's in late May, and I'm a bit scared that it'll collide with the exam I'm bound to have around that time.

Well, it seems I'll have some google-time in front of me. *rolls up my sleeves* Google-powers of DOOM! I CHOOSE YOU! XD

Any recommendations from the nice people from UK on my friends list? (C'mon! I have cookies for those who help me! *waves cookies*)

I found these via an image search of the Palin Runner's World cover:

Been awhile since I've posted anything, but the fact of the matter is there's not much to say. Still job huntin', still video game playin', still staying up far too late reading very silly things that only seem to be more and more amusing the later it gets (funny how that works).

Kind of have a story idea kicking around in the back of my mind that I might try putting to paper. Nothing particularly "narrative", more like a documentary-from-the-future. Like something from the History Channel, covering how humans reacted when all the planets around all the stars of our galaxy were finally mapped, and it turned out there really wasn't any life on any of them after all. Throw in "news reports" from various colonized worlds, map out how reactions may have changed from "haha, we rock!" to "so we're stuck with JUST us? Crap!" I dunno, mulling it over is entertainment enough for now, but writing it down could be a good way to kill some time (all the places I apply to like to take their SWEET TIME deciding whether or not to give me the job. NO RUSH, FELLAS, JUST MY LIVELYHOOD HERE.)

In unrelated news, a new deli opened down the street and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good. As a celebration of the opening of a nice new place to eat, I got something that surely sliced at least a decade off my life: a quarter pound hot dog with cheddar cheese, grilled onions, and bacon. With a side of onion rings, and a sundae for dessert. Justified, I feel, because if they screwed THAT up, then they clearly can't cook anything right! Fortunately, all was delicious, and I staggered home full and happy. The End!

I'm such a lazy person. I have an essay due on Wednesday, and I've barely started it. I've started searching through some material for it, but that's basically all I've done. I should have written on it today, but I really couldn't bring myself to do it. I think it's because I had a rather full week, not to mention my insomnia acting up yet again. I slept really well last night, but I have a feeling my brain just wasn't up to it, even after a whole night of proper sleep. Ah, well. More work for me tomorrow...

I just noticed that the area behind my ears are aching - you know, around the area where my glasses rest on my ears. I thought that maybe the frames are squeezing my head or something, until I realized that they're rather loose. If I tilt my head down, they barely stay placed, so I don't think that's the problem. Weird. Right now I'm hoping that a night of sleep will cure it. XD

Oh, and for those wondering, yes. My mother is still keeping her Silent Treatment on me. My little sister seems to have been forgiven.

I'm currently at the University. I have an hour before the next lecture (it's the lunch break, in other words) and I'm a bit torn between studying, which I probably should do, or finding a comfy couch and have a quick nap. I haven't slept particularly well this past week, and while I try to stay awake throughout the day so I'll sleep properly at night, I've been falling asleep at about half past three every night for no apparent reason. So, yeah. Resisting the powerful urge to sleep during the day is proving a bit futile, at the moment, but with some luck it'll work out in the end. I have downed a cup of tea, so I think I might be good until the next class, at least... Tea - the divine liquid which is currently keeping me alive! *laughs*

My mother is still keeping up the Silent Treatment (of dooooom). Or, well...sorta. She doesn't talk to us as often, but when she does, it's not with the same hostility as before. Sometimes, she even sounds perfectly happy talking to us. I hope that's a sign of improvement, anyway.

I realized yesterday that I had checked my schedule incorrectly the other day, which had resulted in that I'd accidentally skipped a lecture. It turned out that I had two classes one day, instead of one. Oops. I do hope they didn't go through anything vital that class. <___< Ah, well. I can't do anything about it now other than try to study more to make up for it. Also, as I was running to class this morning I saw this guy jogging past me and, for a brief moment, I thought he was my ex. During those few seconds, I thought my heart would stop. Seriously. Half a second later, I saw the guy's face clearly and realized it wasn't him after all, and I felt silly, since I haven't seen my ex since we broke up four years ago. So even if it had been him, I probably wouldn't have recognized him anyway. But, it also made me realize how scared I am of meeting him. Not because I have any feelings left for him, goodness knows I don't! But, I just realized I never got any real closure on the whole thing. We broke up by phone, as he was halfway across the country with his new girlfriend when I called. I haven't seen him since then - I never got to scream at him, punch him for being a unfaithful bastard and, more importantly, I never got to face him to overcome the part where he hurt my feelings in a way that no one else ever has. I think I would have needed it, back then. And now it's too late. Because I'm too freakishly scared.

Just uploaded two new stories to the site/Scribd account - A HUGE THANK YOU TO LiveJournal's Ithildyn for letting us post her Ben Wade crossover!!! Im ashamed to say I had forgotten how good a writer you are, Ith, and it was a pleasure to read On A Raven's Wing (I also have to confess that Ben Wade is not one of my favorite characters, but this story was a delight!)

Have also posted the 2nd volume to PIC FEST, complete with pictures and all. Bud and Maximus and Colin at their best (or worst - you'll have to read it to find out. What Maximus does at the end of chapter seven...!! *eyes boggle*)