The Enterprise Picks Up A Turkish Hobo
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I'm sorry I've been MIA, again, lately. Halloween prep (including changing plans like a bazillion times) ate the week after my birthday, and then I woke up Monday morning with a cold that I've been trying to kick, and then of course yesterday morning I had that right-side-wisdom-teeth problem bothering me again (I'm not too concerned, it's always gone away before and it's already less today, but it's still annoying.) What an October! I'm really hoping that my November is pretty uneventful. But of course, I already know what I'm doing every single weekend of the month. =/
So, what's new in the state of the Crissy?
1) I've got a list of "big girl" tasks I'm trying to tackle as best I can. I finally, after being at this company for almost two years (come January), signed up for their 401K program, and I'm trying to get my 401K from my old company rolled over to this one. Making this difficult is the fact that I barely understand what a 401K is or how it works, all that financial talk is worse than Greek to me. I also started shopping around for life insurance. Morbid thought, maybe, but do you have any idea how much funerals cost? Like half a wedding! If I died now, Marvel would be boned. I'd like to think that all the facets of my family would come together in that time of crisis and help him out. I'd also like to believe that if I had only gone to that audition for LaGuardia back in 8th grade I would be starring in Spiderman: Turn Off The Darkness by now, but let's be freaking realistic. I'm trying to get up to date with the dentist, and I'm going to be calling this afternoon to make a doctor's appointment for a regular old physical. Thank goodness I have a list at work or else I'd never keep all of this straight. I should probably make a list for everything I have to do at home.
2) I think I wore more costumes this past October, and then the past three months in general, than I ever have in my life. Rogue you saw (and I wore a "new" EGL dress to the NYCC on Friday and the White Duelist Utena costume out for the first time on Sunday), then I bought myself this Cherry Blossom Geisha Leg Avenue costume I've had my eye on for years to wear for my birthday, I wore my red gothic gown at my mom's house for shits and giggles, then I wore my Star Trek uniform to work the Friday before Halloween, and a new ballerina recital outfit (complete with real pointe shoes! And dance tights!) for Halloween. Had we made it to Rocky Horror, I would've cross-dressed as a 1950s greaser guy. (There's always next year!) I have SO MANY UPDATES in store for Blood, Sweat, and Glitter, it makes me happy, but it's also pretty daunting at the same time.
3) I have shelves on the brain. One of the reasons I haven't taken pictures of our place is that it's a mess, and one of the reasons it's a mess is that I don't have enough room to put everything away. I have books piled on top of other piles of books on top of the shelves I do have, and we have controllers, wires, memory cards, and components for almost every video game system ever made in shopping bags outlining the living room. Marvel's Blu-Ray shelves broke so now they're stacked in piles on the floor. What I really need are customized shelves; if they were all standard height, I'd waste space because my manga are so short, and my oversized books (everything from my artbooks to the Kevyn Aucion makeup books) would still have no place to go. I think Gothic Cabinet Craft can accommodate me, but that just sounds so expensive that I'm afraid to even look into it yet.
4) My latest video game obsessions? I'm playing Professor Layton and the Unwound Future on the few times I'm on public transportation these days (and I'm going to Grandpa's this evening so YAY two hours of uninterrupted playtime in my immediate future!) and at least one Grand Prix of Mario Kart Wii every night. I just got at least some trophy (not all firsts) in 100 cc and now I'm going to concentrate on 150 cc.
5) I haven't worked out in FOR.EV.ER. Like...since August, I think. September started off with me being super sick, then I went to Colorado, then...you know, I don't even remember. I think there was a semi-justifiable reason. October got eaten up, as you've seen, by con prep, birthday prep, Halloween prep, and Marvel likes to get into the mood of the season by watching a horror movie every night. I intended to return to my old schedule as of November 1st, but...boom! Sick again. I'm hoping and planning on being well by Monday so I can get back to it. Quite aside from how I feel about the way I think I look, I'm feeling sluggish AND the dizzy spells have returned, so, you know, time's a-wastin'.
6) I did a MASSIVE update to Sailor Moon Avatars about two weeks ago, that I finally got all uploaded last weekend, but I still don't think of it as "finished" because I haven't posted it in sm_avatars nor e-mailed all the people who were added in that update. This is actually a more crucial step than it sounds like because it's only while I (systematically) visit the pages that I just updated that I catch the mistakes I made, and considering how big of an update it was, and how many days it got stretched out over, it's much more prone to mistakes. I really need to get on that, but I don't want to do it at work (although I could; SMA is, thankfully, not blocked) because I do like to search and see if people have LJ accounts so I can link them by name in the LJ post. (Anal retentive, I know. So sue me. SMA is doing well.)
All right, that's enough out of me. Now it's your turn. Tell me one thing that's taking up the bulk of your mental processing power these days.
I'm sorry I've been MIA, again, lately. Halloween prep (including changing plans like a bazillion times) ate the week after my birthday, and then I woke up Monday morning with a cold that I've been trying to kick, and then of course yesterday morning I had that right-side-wisdom-teeth problem bothering me again (I'm not too concerned, it's always gone away before and it's already less today, but it's still annoying.) What an October! I'm really hoping that my November is pretty uneventful. But of course, I already know what I'm doing every single weekend of the month. =/
So, what's new in the state of the Crissy?
1) I've got a list of "big girl" tasks I'm trying to tackle as best I can. I finally, after being at this company for almost two years (come January), signed up for their 401K program, and I'm trying to get my 401K from my old company rolled over to this one. Making this difficult is the fact that I barely understand what a 401K is or how it works, all that financial talk is worse than Greek to me. I also started shopping around for life insurance. Morbid thought, maybe, but do you have any idea how much funerals cost? Like half a wedding! If I died now, Marvel would be boned. I'd like to think that all the facets of my family would come together in that time of crisis and help him out. I'd also like to believe that if I had only gone to that audition for LaGuardia back in 8th grade I would be starring in Spiderman: Turn Off The Darkness by now, but let's be freaking realistic. I'm trying to get up to date with the dentist, and I'm going to be calling this afternoon to make a doctor's appointment for a regular old physical. Thank goodness I have a list at work or else I'd never keep all of this straight. I should probably make a list for everything I have to do at home.
2) I think I wore more costumes this past October, and then the past three months in general, than I ever have in my life. Rogue you saw (and I wore a "new" EGL dress to the NYCC on Friday and the White Duelist Utena costume out for the first time on Sunday), then I bought myself this Cherry Blossom Geisha Leg Avenue costume I've had my eye on for years to wear for my birthday, I wore my red gothic gown at my mom's house for shits and giggles, then I wore my Star Trek uniform to work the Friday before Halloween, and a new ballerina recital outfit (complete with real pointe shoes! And dance tights!) for Halloween. Had we made it to Rocky Horror, I would've cross-dressed as a 1950s greaser guy. (There's always next year!) I have SO MANY UPDATES in store for Blood, Sweat, and Glitter, it makes me happy, but it's also pretty daunting at the same time.
3) I have shelves on the brain. One of the reasons I haven't taken pictures of our place is that it's a mess, and one of the reasons it's a mess is that I don't have enough room to put everything away. I have books piled on top of other piles of books on top of the shelves I do have, and we have controllers, wires, memory cards, and components for almost every video game system ever made in shopping bags outlining the living room. Marvel's Blu-Ray shelves broke so now they're stacked in piles on the floor. What I really need are customized shelves; if they were all standard height, I'd waste space because my manga are so short, and my oversized books (everything from my artbooks to the Kevyn Aucion makeup books) would still have no place to go. I think Gothic Cabinet Craft can accommodate me, but that just sounds so expensive that I'm afraid to even look into it yet.
4) My latest video game obsessions? I'm playing Professor Layton and the Unwound Future on the few times I'm on public transportation these days (and I'm going to Grandpa's this evening so YAY two hours of uninterrupted playtime in my immediate future!) and at least one Grand Prix of Mario Kart Wii every night. I just got at least some trophy (not all firsts) in 100 cc and now I'm going to concentrate on 150 cc.
5) I haven't worked out in FOR.EV.ER. Like...since August, I think. September started off with me being super sick, then I went to Colorado, then...you know, I don't even remember. I think there was a semi-justifiable reason. October got eaten up, as you've seen, by con prep, birthday prep, Halloween prep, and Marvel likes to get into the mood of the season by watching a horror movie every night. I intended to return to my old schedule as of November 1st, but...boom! Sick again. I'm hoping and planning on being well by Monday so I can get back to it. Quite aside from how I feel about the way I think I look, I'm feeling sluggish AND the dizzy spells have returned, so, you know, time's a-wastin'.
6) I did a MASSIVE update to Sailor Moon Avatars about two weeks ago, that I finally got all uploaded last weekend, but I still don't think of it as "finished" because I haven't posted it in sm_avatars nor e-mailed all the people who were added in that update. This is actually a more crucial step than it sounds like because it's only while I (systematically) visit the pages that I just updated that I catch the mistakes I made, and considering how big of an update it was, and how many days it got stretched out over, it's much more prone to mistakes. I really need to get on that, but I don't want to do it at work (although I could; SMA is, thankfully, not blocked) because I do like to search and see if people have LJ accounts so I can link them by name in the LJ post. (Anal retentive, I know. So sue me. SMA is doing well.)
All right, that's enough out of me. Now it's your turn. Tell me one thing that's taking up the bulk of your mental processing power these days.