Website Updates: I'm not dead. The SWAT Kats Fanfiction Archive should be updated in the next few days. As should the SWAT Kats Fan Art Page, which has just been waiting for submissions.

Drabble: In the meantime, yes, I'm still writing FMA drabbles. Here's the next installment of the "Ground Rules" series. This probably takes place a day or so after Mustang's little announcement.

( Mistaken (Fullmetal Alchemist) )

Random Quote of the Day: "The butcher says hello!"

Because sometimes good things occasionally happen. And I should post about them once and awhile so I remember them. LOL

( My sister actually managed to say the G word to me without flipping out over it. )

moar funny pictures

Bill of Rights don't say nothin' 'bout eatin'

Next week will be courtroom hijinks! (too much conversation going on in these lately)

Don't f**k up, don't f**k up, don't f**k up! ;P

( Beware, lots of randomness ahead... )

Real creative title, I know. But what can I say? I love Halloween! It just makes me smile from ear to ear. Even in this era of corporations devouring everything and regurgitating a marketable, overpriced version, Halloween is still just plain FUN.

In other good news, I've applied for more positions with this lab company, and oddly enough I'm feeling more optimistic as time passes, rather than less. This specific lab in a nearby town keeps adding more and more positions to fill, I suspect they may be expanding, which is exactly the kind of thing I need to get in on right now. This last position to come along actually used the term "lab associate", which I hadn't seen them use before, but which I've been putting on my resume. Maybe they've seen my resume, decided I'd be useful, just not in the spots I'd applied for, so they whipped one up to fit me better? I'm sure that's overly optimistic, but hey, it's a nice feeling so I'm gonna roll with it.

Mom just called, my sis and bro-in-law are bringing my nephew over to their place to show off his Halloween costume this afternoon, so of course I gotta check it out too. I just love that little guy! He's SHARP, too, as far as I can tell with a 3-4 month old baby anyway. He can tell when you're talking about something you think is really interesting: I was discussing a Discovery show with my dad, and Tommy was just giving me his full, rapt attention. It was cool :)

What else... oh! Small video-game related note: if you've ever enjoyed the Diablo games, give Torchlight a try. It has a free demo, which takes forever to install because it's actually the full game, but it limits you to just the first couple levels. Buy the game, the rest unlocks. It's only $20, and it's a sweet, sweet throwback to the Diablo style of gameplay (no surprise, since it's made by some of the guys who made Diablo). "Normal" mode is a cakewalk if you're familiar with those games, just a head's up. Right now it's limited to single player, supposedly there are plans to add more in the future (probably why it's only $20 now). It's hardly the most in-depth or thought-provoking game you'll ever play, but there's strong addictive qualities to mowing down vast armies of monster and collecting a king's ransom of loot!

Also you get a pet dog or cat, which actually has some signficant and useful gameplay aspects. Plus you can feed it fish and turn it into monsters. I was struggling for a name, when I realized I was looking at a shape-shifting cat that would greedily snatch up loot. So I named it "Swytch". Hehehehe! ;) Most of the time, fish will only change it's shape for 2 minutes, but I found a "big" one that changed it for an hour. So when I finally stopped playing last night, Swytch had spent the last few dungeon runs in the shape of a purple hunchbacked imp-thing. I'm such a jerk. ;)

And with that I say once more, Happy Halloween!

Another quick update as I'm going to crash into bed at any moment.

For those who're wondering about the cruise I took with the family last weekend - it was okay. Nothing particularly interesting happened, but it was a nice and calm weekend. Which it probably wouldn't have been if we'd stayed at home since my relatives would have loved to come over and party. XD Seriously, whenever we have a birthday coming up in the family, we try to flee the country to avoid the HUGE BATCH OF PEOPLE who're just waiting to come over to party. Sad but true. Anyway, we arrived in Riga, Latvia on Saturday morning and spend the day walking around at a big marketplace there.  We didn't find anything worth buying, but it was nice, none-the-less. I got a box of chocolates out of the whole cruise ordeal from my parents, so I'm happy. :P


I had to get up at six this morning to get to class. Now, I'm sure a lot of people don't find this too much of a big deal, but I'm, unfortunately enough, not one of them. I got up, ate breakfast (now that I think about it, I remember eating, but I'm not certain what I stuffed into my mouth. For all I know, I could have eaten my dad's slippers! XD), stumbled to the bus, got on and fell asleep. I'm just glad I woke up in time to get off at the right stop!

After a two hour class, I had three hours until the next began, so I went into Stockholm in search of the last things needed for my and my sister's Halloween costumes. Luckily for me, I managed to find everything (though, finding a WHITE BUTTON -UP SHIRT for boys were a PAIN). For those who don't remember (or just don't know) my sister and I are planning on being Cosmo and Wanda for Halloween this year. We've been planning it since January. XD In fact Cosmo was supposed to be the ONLY Fairly OddParents cosplay I'd do, but I managed to get conned into doing Chip by my sister somehow... I have to admit that Chip, look-wise, suits me far better than Cosmo does. Anyway, other than the wands and some minor adjustments needed for the floaty crowny things. Or well, I need to restyle some of my sister's Wanda wig as she managed to drop the whole thing onto the floor! It took me three days to style and she managed to damage the styling in three seconds flat. >______< Oh, well. I know she didn't mean to, but it is a bit annoying to say the least.

For those curious, my sister and I uploaded a quick preview of our Halloween-costumes here. Yes, I know it looks like my head is being attacked by a radioactive bush... XD

But, okay. Crawling into bed now.

No rayguns in this comic, sorry if that lj post title got your hopes up.

I was kind of wondering what I might do for a special halloween update, but you know, these are all kind of halloween updates.