In the past, I have commented on some of the interesting ways a pet can wake you up from a sound sleep. This morning's unwelcome 5am wakeup was courtesy of Josie leaping from the floor to the bed. Ordinarily, the comforter would be over me, protecting me from the marauding paws of the kitties. Not last night. I was a little warm, so had kicked ( Read more... )

I decided to rearrange a few more pictures last night. A long-ago gift has been languishing in the stack of framed art in the craft room. It is the only one of our faux papyrus Egyptian-themed images that didn't have a place to hang. After taking a few measurements, I realized I could rearrange the ones currently in the front hall and have a ( Read more... )

This morning, while I was rinsing the cat's food dishes, AElfgifu decided she needed a shower. Normally our cats flee if a drop of water lands on their fur. Well, except Ignatius. He'll just sit there blinking and twitching if you get out of the shower and drip on him. At any rate, all the torties act terrified of water not in a bowl. AElf' ( Read more... )

Again with the rollercoaster theme? Yes. We were able to get the vet to monitor Ignatius yesterday, and it turns out that his blood glucose levels remained "low"--as in the acceptable range--for about 11 hours before spiking. So they gave him another dose of insulin, and continued monitoring him. Alas, he still has to get insulin shots, but at ( Read more... )

EDIT: I didn't realize this was my 1000th entry here until later today.

Patina?

Has the bright and shininess worn off of steampunk for us? Apparently, we were missed at the ice-breaker thingy Friday evening, but both of us were tired after getting home and we decided staying in was a good choice. ealdthryth seemed to have a hard time getting started on ( Read more... )

Does it bother anyone else when they see a "review" by the artisan that created the work?

I have no problem with self-promotion per se--after all, an artist has to tell people about their work and what makes it great. Otherwise, your work doesn't get purchased, right ( Read more... )

I must be more upset than I though about the prospect of my assignment changing. I sat mindlessly playing a game last night. Sometime way too late in the evening I decided to collect some materials for Unevent. It turned into a much longer process and "Bigge Deale" because I had to work to get at what I needed. Sigh. It's my own fault for not ( Read more... )

Grocery shopping? Check.
Cooking dinner? Check.
Wash dishes? Check.
Install the solar panel? Wait! What? We had a plan for that?I failed to communicate to my sweetie that I wanted her home before dark so I could feel less anxious about going back out on the roof to install the solar panel. Somewhere around 7:30 she calls to cheerfully inform ( Read more... )

I've had some ideas percolating for over a year, and took some time to sketch them out a little bit this week. I even had a Brand New idea that will take a lot of work and expanding my skill set to implement--unless I go the "Cardboard Troopers" route with it. My initial sketches of it are a tad lame, and from an articulation point of view, it is ( Read more... )

I figured out how to post pictures!


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