Wednesday - July 01, 2009

Kitty on The Closer

11:03 PM (Movies and TV,)

noooo.... :(

Kitty on the show and Miss Kitty (the cat who played “Kitty") *sniffles* It makes me remember my kitties we’ve taken to the vet for one last trip.  I’m gonna cry.  I had hoped it was just for show, maybe they’d just scruffed her up with some hair gel or something and gave her a mild sedative for the scenes.  But no :(




Tuesday - June 30, 2009

Sims3 is laggy… was laggy!

06:26 PM (Day to Day, Gaming,)

I figured out why it’s suddenly so choppy on fast speed.  I purchased one of those giant wall mirrors and stuck it in the livingroom.  In settings you can turn reflections off, but instead I sold the mirror and WHABAM!!! all good now.  Too bad, it was pretty cool watching her write her novels next to herself haha

I gave another try to the pregnancy, this time with cheats.  I’m using the make all happy and the max the motives one.  Ahhh.. no poopy diapers, no constant feedings.  It’s great and soon I’ll have a little army of gardeners.. then I’ll plant up a ton of stuff!  Right now the three are just as babies, I’ll swap them up to toddler and teach them how to potty, walk, and talk.  Then let them age up again.  But not yet, too busy writing novels to be dealing with potties and talking!

Yay cheats.

I wish it wasn’t such a hassle to create stories on the sims3 site.  I’d rather just show off one or two photos than have to wait on that story loader to work.  I uploaded photos but I can’t get them to show up, so I don’t know what the deal is.  One of these times I’ll figure it out and then be able to show off the photo of the maid wigging out .. not because my sim was in labor, but because she was blocking the way and he couldn’t make the bed haha!!  Finally he stood around tapping his foot while my sim was leaving babies all over the place.  The bed is near the wall, so she stood there and held one.  The other two got thrown out the window and into the yard haha

Now it’s time to save and let it run on slow while I go finish up a few things around the non virtual house.




Back!

01:27 PM (Day to Day, Health and Diet,)

Hey wow my site is faster than it’s been in a while too, very nice indeed.

Just got back from a day of errands.

Doctor visit:  Check!

Lungs are clear, I can stay on one dose instead of bumping to the usual double-summer-dose (it’s making me hurl worse than usual this year so I’m back to just one), got some blood drawn for the usual round of testing, got refills on everything.  He seemed to think that the albuterol inhalers weren’t being made anymore or would be ceased soon due to the propellants.  Dang.. what will replace it?  I’ll google, maybe he just misunderstood.  If it does change, I’ll have to see a doctor specifically for the asthma then to get on new medication.  Went out to the health dept to get tetnus shot, but they don’t give them on Tuesdays so tomorrow we’ll go again.  I haven’t had one in well over 10 years.  I don’t *need* one, like I didn’t get bit/stuck with rusty nail or anything but the garden stuff is rusty and I’m prone to wounds it seems.

Dropped the prescriptions off for pickup tomorrow, picked up some curl gel stuff at the salon, stopped at the sears outpost, and whabam.  Home to try and cool off. 

I’m getting more used to the hair… it was weird.  Last night I went to sleep and usually I have to do steps to keep from laying on my hair but last night it was weird, I went to go move my hair and it wasn’t there.  Ugh.. it feels weird but it’s getting easier.  I can’t pull all of it up into a pony tail unfortunately, the very back is too short at the base of my head, so I"ll have to make use of clips if I need to pull it all up.  It’s hot today, I need to find clips.

I’m always stunned when the doctor is nice to me, fills my prescriptions without any drama, no insults, no looking down his nose at me like I’m some sort of hypochondriac addict or something.  The lady who does the blood was real nice too, she promised she wouldn’t kill me.  She didn’t, so I thanked her for not killing me haha.  That band that goes on at the start of a blood drawing really hurts, I mean true deep down almost make me pass out because it hurts pain.  I don’t know why.. but it hurts that bad.  Blood pressure cuffs hurt seriously bad too.  The nurse is always ‘But I didn’t stick you yet!” I don’t care, it hurts so step off before I barf, kthx.

Yay for being home!!

Now to finish up pre-trip stuff today and tomorrow.




Monday - June 29, 2009

Sims baby

07:56 PM (Gaming,)

Whoa.  I went back to a save I did before my sim got pregnant.  What the heck.. all the crying, the diapers, the feedings.. suddenly the game started making my jaw all tense.  That’s enough of that, my sim lady is perfectly happy spending all her time painting, hacking, and playing guitar outside the movie theater.  She had a job at first as a criminal but then I put her into medical and boy did she suck, constantly doing embarassing things and so I made her quit.  Now she does fine on money selling a few paintings on occasion and just playing guitar mainly.  She sells her produce at the grocery shop too.

No time for babies!

I lost a considerable chunk of skill progress but that’s okay, it’s worth it to be rid of the kid. haha

She’s getting sleep and now has time once again to actually do her usual stuff.  She also doesn’t have that look of misery anymore either, maybe she just didn’t like kids.  She doesn’t have that trait but who knows.. yay for an old save.  I gave up on trying to do the legacy run too, can’t stand to maintain the kid.. let alone have to do it for 10 generations!

I need to swap households.  Leighton Sekemoto and Sam Sekemoto (the baby) are stuck at the park this entire time.  Can’t interact with either one.  Sometimes baby Sam is spotted crawling around between the theater and the park, all while traffic happens.  I keep waiting on them to go home but nope.




It’s back :)

10:23 AM (Day to Day,)

Yay!  Thanks to the support guys, they got it all fixed up *high five*

This week is so busy, I’m getting stomach cramps from thinking about all I gotta do.  Today in particular is making me super queasy, I’m going to get a hair cut.  I don’t like people touching my head, even worse is if they’re coming at me with sharp scissors.  Then tomorrow is the doctor and boy do I hate going.  I have to still make my medication list and also see if I can get a tetnus.  Each time I go into the doctor there’s always something that ranks higher, I haven’t had the shot in a really long time.  I don’t know if his office stocks them or if I’ll have to go to the other doctor instead.  Tomorrow’s just a normal summer checkup to see if I need to double up on lupus medication.  This year I’ve not been outside as much but I’m still having a lot of fevers so I know he’ll tell me to up it.

So for my hair I’m trying to brave up to get it cut shorter, not like super short.. but.. well to me it’s super short.  Maybe to my shoulders.  It needs to be shorter than it is now, because I get caught on my own hair in my sleep.  I tried to figure out my face shape, I think maybe I have no clue so I’ll ask the lady today what shape she thinks it is and see what type hair styles she suggests.  She can’t suggest things unless the scissors are on the table, I don’t want her making suggestions by actually cutting the hair off eeeeeeeeeeeek

I’m gonna throw up if I think about this stuff too much more.

Then there’s the trip stuff, need to finish some laundry, clean a bit, pack, stop at the grocery store, pharmacy.  Charge camera, clear the cards of photos.  I think he’s taking the recycling in during my hair cut so that’ll be done too.  Not to mention the mysterious fridge treasures I found while cleaning it out yesterday.  Now I know where all my ziplock bowls went haha Nasty, those things are getting bleached.

I was having serious blogging withdrawals.  Just knowing my site wasn’t working was making it worse.. if it had been up, I maybe wouldn’t have had anything to say.. but not being able to say it made me definitely have to blog. hehe

This week weekend we planted a container garden.  Tomatos, jalapenos, cucumbers and then out back growing out of the compost garden box is a melon of some sort, potatoes, a tomato plant (not sure how that happened), and one more I thought but I can’t remember.  So hopefully that goes okay.  We’ll be planting a new tree in a couple weeks once we figure out what one to get.




Wednesday - June 24, 2009

Sims 3 yay!

12:40 PM (Day to Day, Gaming,)

My friends sent me a gift card and told me to pick something as a birthday gift, and I finally decided smile I debated between crafty things, maybe some new shorts, or a video game.  Please… we all know video games rank higher than the other items.  hehe Not always, but usually!  The nerd in me wins over the creative in me.  I got it on Amazon, it’s cheaper there and free shipping.  Since it shipped out somewhere local-ish (as opposed to oh.. say.. coming from some random state I’ve never even been to before) it worked out to one day delivery!  Wheeee.  So now I’m just trying to keep busy until delivery this evening.  I… can’t.... wait!

First off, I need to go eat something.  Then I’ll clean the livingroom up real nice.  That way when I spend the rest of the day being a slacker and playing Sims, the guilt hopefully won’t settle in over the fact I’m not doing something useful.  Wheeee!  Then when it arrives, I’ll do the install and yay!  Hopefully that goes well.




Tuesday - June 23, 2009

What shape is my face?

01:07 PM (Day to Day,)

Ugh!  I cannot figure it out!

One site says pear, one site says triangle, one site says maybe I’m just a smashed square, one site says oval.. but then says that the length of my face isn’t long enough according to their notes.  So what is it?  I don’t know and it’s irritating me.  I gotta figure out what kind of hair style I want before Monday, that way I don’t go in feeling completely lost and end up canceling my hair cutting appointment.

If my face was 1 1/2 times longer than it was wider apparently it’d be oval.  How long are most people’s faces from hairline to chin?  I’m starting to think maybe my face is not normal.  I can’t find where people actually give measurements of their faces then explain why that measurement goes to this particular shape.

It is irritating me a lot.

I don’t want to get a haircut that will then make me look like crap until it grows out.  I already look like crap, and there’s no point in hacking off the hair I like only to look even more ugly with short hair or something ugh.  Bleh.

I can’t figure out what point to measure on either.  Across the cheekbones, on top of the cheekbones, above the cheekbones.. all different ways I read, all of which tend tomake the measuring tape slide over my eyes anyway because hello… I have a nose!  Am I supposed to squish my nose down while I measure and go across the tip of the nose across my face?  Ahh nope just tried it.

Why can’t a site just show diagrams of exactly where the measuring range is with arrows, and red text, and maybe a few pointer circles going on?  All this vague measure here and there is meant for people who already go to the salon regularly.  I do not.  My last trip, it was last year about this time.  I try not to go, I don’t like people I do not know.. or even people I do know.. touching on my hair and face and head.  This is serious business trying to go to the hair cut place.  I will feel better about going if I have any knowledge at all about what they should and shouldn’t try to do to my hair.  Othewrise I am just paying someone to torment me with sharp implements near and around my head.  Ugh.




Monday - June 22, 2009

Mr. Wall made me gag!

07:17 PM (Day to Day,)

I gave Mr. Wall some tuna juice, he licks it all up out of the bowl then barfs on the porch step.  Then he ate that too.

Cat leftovers are so yucky.

Just thought you’d like to know.




July, Christmas, other stuff

01:00 PM (Crafty Stuff, Day to Day, Family, Health and Diet,)

This year new traditions are being formed in hopes of relieving stress and financial pressure for everyone.  I like that I won’t have to worry all year about what to make for so many people.  I spend 365 days a year either planning/thinking, sketching, or making gifts for Christmas.  If I don’t, then I don’t get done in time.  Lately I am so tired and struggling for energy that the guilt is piling up because I haven’t been doing much more than just trying to settle on what projects to make.  Then my father in law called to go over Christmas.  I heard the voice mail and worried that maybe he’d gone a little odd from the antibiotics and forgot it was only coming up on the July trip.. not December hehe..  but no turns out he really did mean he wanted to talk about Christmas hehehe.  Whew, I was starting to get more worried hehe

So we’re all submitting our ideas into a family email.  We’re starting off with July by adding a change in in regards to the meal.  My husband and I are in charge of bringing buns and chips, others will be in charge of other various side dishes.  Then we’ll all bring what we’d like to drink so no one is wishing they had something else to drink.  It will be good.  Less work for my mother in law is always a good thing and it means more time hanging out with the family instead!  Plus it guarantees everyone has something they actually like.  Because why would you bring something that makes you gag to a family dinner?  Exactly!

Then for Christmas, I did a couple hours of googling to see what I’d find to see what other families do once Christmas starts to feel overwhelming as the family grows larger.  One site suggested once the youngest has a job (or if you have a slacker for a kid, then once they’re old enough to potentially get a job), then traditions change to a less financially involved Christmas and focus far more on the socializing aspect.  It ranged from drawing names to not drawing names for each idea.  There was the no gifts at all idea, where families just do a buffet style dinner bringing dishes along, then playing board games that each family brings, and watching movies, and hang out.  There was the draw a name and get a gift for that person, there was also the one where they’d draw names and get a gift for the family.  Some did board games, others did a neat idea of a dvd/popcorn basket and then the family would pop those dvds in and have them play through the day for people to watch.  For the board games, the families on the one site make a list of the board games they own as well as a list of a few games they’d love to have.  Board games, not console/pc games.  That way no one ended up with something they already had on the game shelf.

All the suggestions seemed to recommend filling out info cards.  Listing your likes, dislikes, allergies and in the case of the movies idea one recommended having each family create a list of 10 dvds that the whole family would enjoy to allow for easier shopping, one site recommended people write down what kind of popcorn (microwave/flavor or loose kernels for use on the stove or poppers).  Some families did a single dvd, others did two dvds.

Others went fully homemade, still drawing names to reduce the gift making to one and it varied from family based gift to single person gift.  With more details put on the info card, such as color or preference of a framed item or whatever.

I liked the idea my mother in law had of little handmade bingo prizes.  Everyone’s crafty, why not make use of it?  I’ve always wanted to do that but just didn’t have the time left for making those items too in the past.  I saw a cute bookmark pattern today, I saved it off.  A family full of readers, of course we need bookmarks.  My husband glares at me when I cat-ear a book page.  I’m getting better at not doing that.  Stuff like that makes me reluctant to put it on PBS anyway and it is super annoying when a book arrives and every page is folded at least once, if not several times.

So that would be good, no matter what we do for the other part of Christmas.

So between the feed-me style dinner for Christmas, and potentially reducing gifts to one or none..  I can already feel the intense stress lifting.  It was starting to weigh me down so much, I just couldn’t even focus on where to begin with all the gifts that needed made.  Now my brain isn’t so overwhelmed now that I’ve had some sleep, I can actually start focusing on what to make my friend and her husband while we’re sorting out the Christmas plans for the rest of the family.

Indeed..  less stress is more better, and less stress will be waaay better on my lupus! *high five*

Today once mr. slacker actually wakes up, I’ll shove him off to work and get started dusting and vacuuming the livingroom.  I can’t wait.  We picked up an 8 foot hose for my little wall hanging shopvac.  It came with a 4 foot hose but dang.. I can’t vacuum the couch without holding the thing up in the air and it is kind of heavy.  Now hopefully I can reach without having to carry it around in one arm.  Maybe vacuum the blinds, the corners, the couch, wheeeeeeee!

I need to eat breakfast but my stomach is threatening me.  Still got a fever and runny nose, this totally reeks.  Now a stomach ache too.  But good news is my back is totally way better.  For the past two weeks I had hip and lower back pain so bad that I just could barely stand it.  I felt guilty taking the pain relievers and started to worry maybe I was becoming an addict or something sheesh.  I knew I wasn’t but dang, I thought my back was faking it or something.  Then two days ago I wake up and all of a sudden I feel better.  Then yesterday, despite walking around Walmarts and all, I only had the pain I’d normally get from walking around like that.  Today I can feel it real light but it’s no worse than any other day.  So clearly I didn’t get addicted haha, three days and nothing but tylenol for fevers.  I guess my back wasn’t faking it for pills.  I feel better.

I see the rheumatologist soon, for my summer checkup so I’ll let him know about it.  Then get a refill on all my pills just in time for traveling.  Since I’ve been avoiding the sun I haven’t upped my dose to twice a day on the one pill, he’ll probably make me.  It might be why I am sick lately, or I might just have a cold.  I don’t know.  I don’t like taking it twice a day, I spend the first 6 hours after I take it needing to puke.  Then it wears, then I gotta repeat it at night.. and taking it twice a day just only makes the barfy feeling last longer and longer until fall when I can stop the morning dose.  Combine that with the heat and you got yourself a barfing cat.

Barfalicious, indeed.




Friday - June 19, 2009

Painting a warhammer figurine

05:41 PM (Crafty Stuff, Day to Day, Gaming,)

This is fun!  This particular set was already painted black so I’m going through following the book to do some painting.  Don’t quite have the colors it calls for in some cases but it looks pretty good.  It’s tough to get a nice cloak color over a black base.  I’m putting a few very thin coats and it’s starting to look good.  Then I started in on sme accent colored pieces but had to take a break.




Sunday - June 14, 2009

Simple Green stinks

01:53 PM (Gaming,)

Ick!  But it will do the job hopefully.  He has some warhammer figurines that he got on ebay that are painted a bit bold in color, so I googled and found that to get the paint off both metal and plastic was to soak it in Simple Green for 24 hours then take a soft toothbrush to it.  We’ll find out tomorrow I guess.

The movement trays glued together just right, we didn’t have to scrape away the paint.




Saturday - June 13, 2009

gross

06:58 PM (Day to Day, Family,)

Mr Wall got me more gifts




Sunny

03:50 AM (Day to Day, Gaming, Second Life,)

Today was nice and sunny.  Mr Wall slept on the porch all day, I do not know how he sleeps so much.  I wanted to go out and just poke him in the belly.  He was so cute that it helped me decide what to have for lunch.  Turkey sandwich or tuna salad on crackers.  So tuna salad it was so he could have the can water.  Happy cats sleep even more.

I’m still awake, it sucks.  I can go to sleep soon though, had to take a pain reliever, just trying to lay down was making my eyes water.  My right hip is being crappy again.  I only got 30m of cardio in today, I’m trying to stay at 45 at least but today wasn’t the day.  But hey 30 is better than zero, and it was light cardio.  I did easy songs for 15 of it, and did a lighter version of WaTP for 15.  Not counting sweeping and dishes, that kind of counts but I try to not add it in or I’d over estimate and get no cardio in at all.

Tomorrow will be easier I think, if I can get some sleep tonight.

Updated my install of GIMP today.  I didn’t know it was at 2.6.6!  I was on an older version, I didn’t know where stuff was before.  Now it’s a new version (well, new to me.. don’t know how long it’s been out) and I loaded it up.  It looks different a little.  Hopefully now the online tutorials make more sense!  Lately I try to follow them and I thought maybe they were using old versions, but nope.. looks like I was the one with the wrong version hah!  I want to make some cute textures for use in SL, I’ve made a few but they still aren’t exactly what I’m after.  Plus I want to make a few cute tshirts to force friends to wear smile I can’t quite figure out how to do shirt wrinkles properly.  I’m getting there though.

My flowers are blooming on the side, little by little.  It won’t be no time till the whole side of the house is an explosion of color.  I can’t wait!  I want to get more lantana but in the purple/pink shade to plant along the side too, but I think maybe it won’t work.  The meter guy might not be able to get to the box if I do that.  Can’t imagine they’d appreciate having to reach over a major shrub.  I’m not exactly one to go out and trim the plant back either so maybe I won’t plant another.  Ooo I could plant it down the hill, oh yes that will be good!  It’ll help make that area prettier and maybe lessen the mowing too.  More butterflies is more better!

I saw a few today, just wee small ones.  I need to put a butterfly house out.

Saw a bird yesterday or today, I forget.. well that sounds dumb, I see birds every day, but this one was really nomming up some grass and flying up into the tree.  Giant mouthful of dry grass.  So funny looking.  Thankfully Mr Wall wasn’t around, a bird busy grabbing grass is probably why I keep getting “gifts”.  Yuck.  I couldn’t see where it went exactly so in a couple days I’ll look and see where the nest is at.  If the bird poops on me while looking, you’ll hear the scream no matter what country you live in.  I think it’s building an outdoor nest, as opposed to moving into the Marshall Motel.  Maybe in the fall a bird will move into it.  The two bird bottles are still empty too, maybe that’s a fall housing as well.  Maybe it’s just too hot to live indoors for the birds right now.

Tomorrow I think I’ll fix up some chicken nori rollups.  I have radishes to add into them, that’ll be good.  Then have some miso soup.  Nom!

Today I fixed the tuna salad with pickles, mayo, and radishes.  Man that was good, way better than using celery/pickles/mayo.  The radishes give it a nice flavor and it looks prettier on the crackers.  That with some cherries, good stuff.  I’ll add carrots next time, just didn’t have any.

I’m off to try and rest, hopefully this time I get to sleep.




Tuesday - June 09, 2009

Air popper

08:33 PM (Day to Day, Family, Gaming, Second Life,)

Yay!  We’ve had “air popper” on the fridge list for about two months now.  Every time we’re out, we forget to look for one.  We went down south and forgot even then too, how aggravating.  Today though we got one.  Walmart only had one kind, but it worked great when I tried it today!  Almost every one of them popped too.  I did find that salt does not stick to the air popped as well as it does to oil popped, but I can eat this without feeling guilty and trying to figure out where I’ll cut calories out later in the day.  Yay!

Way better than trying to cook it in a pot on the stove with peanut oil.  More fun to watch too.  Tastes very different, but I like it a lot.  I added some salt but it doesn’t stick well, and we have some neat popcorn flavoring that’s pretty good too.  It also doesn’t stick to air popped corn.  Ah well.  Kind fo scoot it around in the bowl and pick up the powder a bit.

Got a couple new tires today for the car, some new toothbrushes too.  I love the Snoopy ones.  They’re made for little kids, but I have an easier time brushing my teeth with a smaller brush.  The larger ones always seem to have some sort of plaque scraping set of bristles that really hurt when I have canker sores going.  Plus the Snoopy ones are cute <3 Makes teeth brushing way more fun!  Plus the little ones are great for cleaning once they’ve been retired from tooth usage.

It’s raining so I was progressivly feeling worse today, laid down a while and watched some tv and feeling a bit better.  Going to go break out Gimp and try to make some textures to practice digital scrapping again.  It’s been a long time since I did that, and so long in fact that I was shocked that my account was still valid at a forum I used to visit.  Apparently it’s been about three years.  I think I am strugglign to keep track of time passage again.  I’ve never been good at it, but lately it’s getting more difficult.  Maybe from stress, I don’t know.

I am really looking forward to the hair fair in SL.  There’s some sort of dorky land expo going on right now, what the heck is with that?  I don’t know.  Best I could tell it is just all the people who rent land on their sims all together trying to rent parcels I guess?  I don’t know.  Most of it won’t rez, there seems to be a couple large dance parties going on.  I did see a couple neat layouts, but in general most of it’s just blobby and grey.  I’ll go again later tonight, but my first impression was boorrrrrinnggg......  The home expo was way more interesting.  This land expo is a snooze fest full of people just standing around arguing about rental fees.  Pay it or don’t rent it, or better yet quit crying and go buy yourself some land and cut out the landlord all together.

That’s just my opinion on it all.  I don’t rent land so I am sure if I did, I’d have a far different opinion.. but dang.. when I fly past 20 different groups of people crabbing about stuff, come on.. go stand together and make it a party while you crab at least.

Maybe I’ll like it better on my next trip.  I want to see all the booths but crap is it laggy.

So there’s hair fair coming up, which was spectacular last year.  I went last year, the lag was intense but all the money donated went to Locks of Love so it was worth waiting for things to rez.  It was a beautiful event, in SL people make hair.  Think of it like wigs.  You have your basic avatar, whether you’re human, an elf, maybe even a furry (think like.. Bugs Bunny, how he walks upright), tinies, or even quads (think like.. regular house cat or dogs) and you can dress yourself up with hair or whatever.  Yah you can be anything you want in SL hehe.  If you wanted, you could even be a toilet.  I saw a guy who was a toilet last week, that was hilarious.  So then you can buy (or make) your hair, your clothes, your house, vehicle, whatever you want.  You can buy it or make it, get a friend to make it for you even.  Well the hair fair is a tonload of hair makers.  It’s fun, lots of free hair demos are put out, lots of hair on sale, I love it.

I need a haircut, a real hair cut.. not a virtual one.  I meant to call the hair place but forgot.  Anxiety was kind of rough today, it squicks me to have someone touching my hair especially if I don’t know them.  But I need a hair cut bad, I’m getting stuck on my own hair when I sit up in the night because it’s really long.  It looks like crap no matter what I do because the layering has all grown out.  Pin it up, leave it down, blah blah blah… it makes me feel ugly, so I guess I’ll brave up and get it cut.  Not too short.  Still past my shoulders but I can get about 8 inches cut off the back and it’ll still be long.

Well then another event I can’t wait for is next week I think, the fantasy fair.  I think it’s the first year for it so I’m not sure what’ll be there, but hopefully lots of cute elf outfits, wings, dragons and such.  I like wings.  I only have maybe three or four pairs in SL, and I only ever wear two of them on occasion.  The other one is that generic blue butterlfy wing set that seems like everyone has.  It’s cute but I like my other ones better.  I did hav ea cute set from RaveNation I thought, but I can’t figure out what it was called now so I can’t find it inventory.  So maybe it wasn’t by RaveNation after all, I don’t remember.  Can’t imagine that I actually paid for a set of wings, so they were probably from a MM or lucky chair I guess?

Worrying about my friend and her husband, she was due to have surgery next week but has opted out at this time.  Whatever she chooses, I’ll support.  I worry though, but I would worry even if she did go ahead with it.  Praying a lot, praying that she’ll make the right choices, praying that she’ll get the best care, praying that every day she has is full of happiness and good things, and praying that when the time does come in the faaar distant way way way far away.... that we’re all prepared to handle what will eventually happen.  I gotta quit blogging about it for now though, it will make me cry.

I have textures to make!

Oh yeah, I beat Crasher Wake on pokemon finally!  I got sooo lucky.  Rotom croaked, but Porygon and Piplup rumbled like true fighters.  I couldn’t believe it, a couple lucky crits and whoa nelly.. I won!  I need to level up and catch some more wild pokemon though, I think I’m falling behind the curve. The one pokemon was lvl 37 from the gym leader, my porygon is only 25 eek.




Sunday - June 07, 2009

Warhammer Movement Trays

08:12 PM (Painting, Other Craft Stuff,)

I’m helping my husband create movement trays for his warhammer games.  He’s cut the styrene sheets (we had to order them online, could not find them at Walmart, Michael’s, Lowes, Home Depot) It’s just real thin plastic, you know how those “for sale by owner” type signs are?  It’s kind of like that stuff.  So I think actually we could make them from that rather than buying the stuff online.  Especially if you’re gonna paint them anyway.

So there’s also these thin strips to make the sides, and boy are they small.  I painted those side bits up today with a mix of brown, yellow, and green acrylic.  Then the flat base part of the movement tray I painted with magnetic paint on one side.  It’s by Rustoleum, and you can get it at Lowes or Home Depot.  It comes in a small box with a can of paint inside.  You’ll need to look up probably, it was with the glow in the dark and chalk board paints at ours.

The stuff smells a bit, btw.

Then I guess he’s going to super glue them together.  To be honest I don’t know how that’s gonna work since we painted them completely.  I think maybe he should have glued, then had me paint.  We’ll see though.  First trays we’re making so it’s a learning experience.

If you have a Michael’s around, you know the craft store.. and you’re not a usual visitor to the place.  Check the newspapers or ask a neighbor if they get the ad.  There’s a 40% off one item coupon floating around all the time.  With that you can get your acrylic paints at a real nice discount.  We picked up the student acrylics by Grumbacher (sp?) and they’re so nice.  Way better, smoother, and drying so much nicer than the standard “craft” acrylics.  It’s beautiful stuff.  I can’t believe I’ve never thought to look back there and buy some decent acrylics for craft projects.

It’s seriously nice.  I’m hooked.  It cleans up real nice with soap and water too, and so does the magnetic paint.  Just clean your brushes properly and gently.

I can’t wait to get started on the figurines!  He got a book on how to paint his elves.  It’s not wood elves, it’s the other one.. but I forget.  The book shows them in white and blue, looks real nice.  Hopefully we can get results at least half as nice!

I don’t actually play, I’ve not even seen them play yet.  They do play, just I don’t go hehe.  Well you know the ones that are the rats dressed up, there’s an assassin rat.  Not sure what the actual group of that type is called, but it’s so cute!  It has little ninja stars, and dagger, and a cloak.. eek.  I’m gonna get one if I actually enjoy painting the figurines and paint me up one just for my desk.  Then there’s a second one that’s also cute, I forget what it’s job title was but it’s another I want to paint up if I can actually manage to paint them up.  I saw a picture of a set of little teeny rats that were separated, not the rat swarm that’s on the rectangular pieces all piled together.  These were teensy little single rats.  One was larger than the rest, but I can’t seem to find that set for sale.  Maybe it isn’t part of Warhammer, it maybe was just some guy’s painted pewter rat figurines I dunno.  They weren’t wearing armor, it was just little ratties.

So I’ll update later this week after we try to glue them together, I may have some advice for you if it doesn’t work haha

I’m hoping this magnetic paint works.  I really want to create myself a magnet board for the kitchen and one for in here so I can hang notes and things.  I think it’d be a fun project for Christmas too.  I think everyone definitely needs a magnetic board to hang stuff on!

On another note, I quit crapping around and actually did my full cardio.  I am worn out, but feeling much better that I got the whole hour in.  I counted 10 for gardening, cutting rose buds, raking, and tending to a few plants.  Then 48 for actual cardio.  I’m finding lately I don’t feel like I can eat much, and the less cardio I do of course the less calories I should be bringing in.  I stay at at least 1200 though, but doing the cardio means I can eat more, feel better, and it’s pretty stinking obvious if you exercise you lose.. if you don’t.. well.. you don’t lose weight.  Easy peasy, right?  Sounds like it should be but getting past the pain some days is tough.

The house is starting to reek of that paint. Ugh.  Maybe we should have done that in the garage.




Saturday - June 06, 2009

Today

10:27 PM (Day to Day,)

Today was fun, we went to a couple used book stores, game store, got some speakers for my computer at best buy, had lunch at the greatest seafood place ever, then came home because the movie Up! was starting way too late to hang around for.

That was fun, but I am exhausted.  It makes me feel like pathetic to be so tired after walking around just a while.




Friday - June 05, 2009

Gyarados is kicking my butt.

02:29 AM (Day to Day, Gaming, Health and Diet, Second Life,)

OHMYGOSH!  It bites, my pokemon faints.. repeat.. repeat.. back to the pokemon center.  Shut down, restart.  Do it again!

*spaz*

I think I need to go get a second electric pokemon and level it up.  I’m sure I have one in the mailbox.  Maybe that little duck that looks like he’s built of prims.  Oh man.. bite goes off before I can get a shock off.  Grrrr.

I got fly now though, so now I can go back and enter my pokemon in some contests yay!  I wish I hadn’t let my piplup evolve, bleh.  He’d be so much cuter if he was his old self.  Can I de-evolve him?  Probably not.

Watching Fashion Show, actually it’s paused in there.  I had to get up, laying down was making me antsy.  Too much pain to go play DDR even on easy mode.  I figured out how it was I had the songs one after another, by playing on endless mode!  Yay!  So it goes five songs, then you can save if you take the time to do that otherwise you can continue or go back.  It’s fun.  Level 1 is good in the morning, the songs are with less notes.  Level 2 is good in the afternoon/evening when I generally am able to move easier.  Level 3 is one I"ll try tomorrow maybe, but level 2 is kind of tough.  I turned jumps off, cut to on, and go from there.  Jumps = less DDR because it causes injuries for me bleh.

I thought about going fishing in SL, but I don’t know.  I should go to sleep, it’s late and I want to be up earlier tomorrow.

Took a pain pill so now I can rest I think, it’s starting to kick in a bit.  That’s probably why I feel antsy, the pain is easing up so I want to move around but if I do.. I’ll just get all wound up and awake and there goes my plan for getting up earlier!  I need to trim my roses back, all the zillions of blooms are fading now, too bad..  but hopefully if I pluck them all off they’ll rebloom right?  I’m gonna go google that.  Not sure if I snip them off or pluck the petals away.  Seems like a lot of work to pull all the petals off, don’t you think?




Thursday - June 04, 2009

So tired today

06:08 PM (Day to Day, Family, Second Life,)

I am worn out.  The weather is dreary.

I’m starting to get stressed a bit about July.  I get stressed every time there is any travel, even going to Walmart stresses me out sometimes.  Grocery store or library or even the mailbox, stresses me out some days.  It makes me feel like such a weenie because I just know that normal people do not have to worry about trying to get through the front door on a tough day.  It is embarrassing.

Getting some more laundry done today.  I’m serious, I really hate washing sheets.  The process of getting them off the bed, into the washer, into the dryer, and back onto the bed just sucks!  I am worn out just thinking of trying to get the sheets back onto the bed.  Fixed some chili too.  It’s the exact same ingredients that I always use but it tastes different since I cooked it on the stovetop instead of the crockpot.  Tastes great, but definitely slightly different.  Oooo no, wait.. I know what it is.  Usually I do one spicy packet and one mild and since it’s just me eating it this time I did both mild.  Hah.. so I guess it’s the same either way, just quicker on the stove but makes the kitchen hotter.

Worried a lot for my friend and her husband.  He’s in the hospital still and she’s been seeing the doctors this week for her own health, to determine the next plan of action.  I told her that it is okay whatever she chooses, I’ll support the choices the two of them make in regards to their health.  It makes me sad that they’re both so ill, each with different things, but both so very life threatening.  It doesn’t seem very fair that two awesome people are so ill and people who are so horrible on this planet are skipping around merrily.  It sucks.

Trying not to dwell on it, it’s not healthy.

So much stress lately, it’s difficult to figure out what to blog.  So many things to do this month and I just feel overwhelmed by everything going on. Just want to cry, but that won’t help me any.. my sinuses are already backed up from the mold outside ugh.

Been having fun in SL, but it’d be real nice if they’d fix the chat bug that started a few days ago.  The forums are getting interesting, with all the PG/Mature/Adult ratings.  I can’t tell what’s fact and what’s just people being dramatic in regards to it all.  Well when all the land moves happen, maybe some land will be real cheap and I’ll pick up a bit more. 

Dryer just buzzed, bye!




Wednesday - June 03, 2009

I whooped up on Lucario

11:19 PM (Gaming,)

I finally beat the Veilstone gym leader last night.  Her lucario is serious business.  Yay Ponyta!  I did go out and level up a bit after each try, my piplup is now 32 and ponyta is 28.  The rest are in the mid 20’s I think.




Eww!

07:20 PM (Day to Day, Family,)

Mr Wall brought home another gift.  This time he’s wandering around with it in his mouth making little muffled meows.  Then he drops it on the porch, bats it around, looks at me like “Yay, you like it right!?” with sad kitty eyes.  I almost barfed.  I hope he takes it away.  I told him he was a good kitty in proper tones, so hopefully it is gone here shortly.  I am so not touching that thing.  I should have known he was up to something since he was walking back and forth along the edge meowing to himself.

I do not think I’ll look outside again today, I gotta eat at some point!




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