I bought a new mattress today!

I've had my old mattress since I was four and I've always hated it. It's one of those ultra-super-mega-firm mattresses that went from being merely uncomfortable to "it hates us, precioussssss" as it aged. It's been about a year since I last slept on it.

My new one is a *fanfare* SOFT Sealy Posturepedic full-size! IT IS SO COMFY AND I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL IT ARRIVES.

And now my living room is going to look so much neater now that I'll no longer be using my couch as my bed XD

I'm looking for an old (OLD OLD OLD) FF7 fanfic called "Lost Messiah." It used to be posted on Geocities and at RPGamer's fanfic section. RPGamer's fanfic section seems to have disappeared, so I am lost D:

When I first read it in the 90s, I thought it was AWESOME. Then I read it again around 2003. It didn't age too terribly well.

But I want to read it again for the larfs!

Details I remember:
* there is an eyeless/blind crazywoman calling herself Messiah. She dated Sephiroth.
* Messiah had two kids by Sephiroth. Twins. One was named Flayme. The other was Yce or something.
* Tifa hooks up with one of the sons, I think. I'm not sure.
* Barret was in it! Yay Barret.
* ...I don't remember much else.

But this fic was considered one of the BEST way back when.

I was reciting Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" in a silly voice while picking up the apartment this morning. Then I tried to make up a Jabberwocky rap, then a Jabberwocky polka. Both failed miserably :O

I am now 28.

OH HOLY CRAP :O

Had a fun time today and DELICIOUS CAKE. Now to get back to the writing~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etm28Ubj_-o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9NQ-0MQZcg

The second part has the Mana Beast battle music and the Thannypants battle theme :D

I'm listening to the second part right now and IF THEY DO THE DARK STAR I WILL DIE OF GLEE.

EDIT: No Dark Star, but still... it is AWESOME.

After having a sore throat for two weeks (whatever set up camp was routed out by antibiotics), I got chills and fever and generalized respiratory flu symptoms over Labor Day weekend. I had fun despite that -- I went to the Art Museum right when it opened and got to nerd around and look at a lot of stuff before the crowds really started up. I got all the way to Modern Art before my foot and my hip told me that it was time for an intervention. I'm definitely going to have to go back again soon.

When I went to work, I made the mistake of telling a friend within earshot of the bosses that I thought I had the flu. Apparently, "flu" is now the new f-word at work and my boss first wanted me to use a vacation day and go home (noooooo), then made me wear a mask over my nose and mouth. Work was warm anyway and I had a fever, so the mask was pretty miserable to wear (especially since those things are not glasses friendly). I got a flu test the next day, spent that night off work (unpaid), and went back to work the next day when the test came back negative. I felt amazingly human by that time, too. Woo! (Due to my time in the mask, another of my friends has nicknamed me "Vader" XD)

I got two pairs of amazingly awesome shoes the other weekend. One pair features Grover and the other features Count von Count. They are AWESOME and I need to take pictures of them. I wanted to get a pair that featured Oscar the Grouch because my feet are cranky little monsters, but they were all sold out in the size range I can wear. Apparently, the Sesame Street New Balances are THE hot shoe this school year~ I'm hoping they re-issue them so I can snag a pair of Oscars.

And I need more horrible fandom and writing-related icons for my writing journal. I need to scrounge some up XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChTsGDPcCdY

This owl is adorably hilarious XD

Splotchy the white-tailed chipmunk can count to three. If he's given one or two peanuts, he'll run back and forth frantically from the garage to the porch until the magic number is given. Then, he'll run off... until a few minutes later when his cheeks are empty and so's his short-term memory XD

I found this crazy mug at the dollar store today XD




And here's a close-up of the face in the corner:



It's none other than Wallachia's bestest buddy: Vlad Tepes!

I'm wondering if it was either (1) a Halloween mug, (2) a mistake when selecting a woodcut design to use for the mug, or (3) a prank. Either way it's hilariously, wrongly awesome XD

(The mug doesn't look safe to drink out of, so I've got it sitting on one of my bookcases.)

Mom likes paranormal mystery books -- she recently read some of the Sookie Stackhouse ones and enjoyed those -- and she called me up saying she had ordered some new book-on-tape ones off of the library. The series? ANITA BLAKE. She said the early ones weren't available, so she hoped she wouldn't miss too much by just reading the later ones.

I told her what I knew about the series, we both died laughing, and she cancelled her order XD

Does anyone have any recs for paranormal mystery series?

One of the teeny-tiny baby bunnies is trying to get the chipmunk to play with it~

... the chipmunk is having none of it, though D:

Cleaned out the top half of my closet and I found...

My super-awesome dragon mittens! (that I thought were still at the house)

I know what I'LL be wearing on my hands next winter :D

A quest to slay the monstrous clutter that is eating my apartment aliiiiiiiiiiive~ :O

My hip and foot hurt too much to start in on it fully today, but I went to the store and got some supplies.

MY INVENTORY:

Fabric boxes (4x): to store my gloves, hats, scarves, and miscellaneous winter gear up top of my closet.

14 gallon tote, Pepto Bismol pink (1x): to store the ancient and hideously hideous crap I drew and wrote in middle school and high school (that I brought up from the basement to laugh at and type up for Thea to laugh at). The color reflects what I need to get through some of that crap XD I still need to find stuff worth typing up, since I only wrote story fragments back then.

Totes, miscellaneous (?): I already have these back at the house. They're to store clothes and games and tapes.

Coat hangers (30x): I NEEDED MOAR COAT HANGERS D:


MISSION OBJECTIVE:

Declutter my closets and the corners of my room. Clear area around bed, so that I can get a NEW bedframe and mattress~

My mattress is TWENTY-THREE YEARS OLD. It started out hard and uncomfortable, and now it's hard, even more uncomfortable, and sounds possessed. My bedframe was a hand-me-down from my older cousins, gotten at the same time as the mattress, and it is falling apart. My cousins were evil to it, and I was a very hyper child who was prone to leaping from the bed to the floor and back again. It also didn't take well to being taken apart and put back together again for the move.

I also plan on switching out the ugly plastic hamper I have as book roundup in my living room with the pretty wicker hamper I have as jeans roundup in my bedroom.

I have so many fancy plans :D

I also have pictures I want to hang in the living room.

THE QUEST BEGINS:

Friday after work!


OTHER NEWS:

I have Philly Swirl ice cream cups. They're 99% fat free and 100% good.

Please help my Balloon Dragon Army grow up :D

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

Please please please? :D

Mom and Dad's backyard is home to the crankiest, most outspoken robin we've had since Gimpy! XD I definitely think this is one of his children or grandchildren. He hangs around the porch for bread and will swear if things are not to his liking XD

This bird has cussed me out twice so far:

Last week, I opened the door and startled him on his way to the bird bath. He hopped away a bit, then turned his head to look directly at me and went CHHK! I think I've learned the robin-language word for "bitch" :O

And not a half hour ago, I was throwing out torn-up slices of bread for him and the rabbits and accidentally nearly hit him with a piece. He went on a looooong tirade, again while glaring at me XD

There's a person doing a retranslation of SoM over at GameFAQs~

YES PLZ.

I fell on the sidewalk on my way to my car on Monday and either fractured my right hand or bruised the bones like woah. My hand is HUGE and belongs on the Staypuft Marshmallow Man XD

I'm off work until next week~

In other news I got VALKYRIE PROFILE COVENANT OF THE PLUME!

Apparently, Geocities is closing down later this year.

I know this sounds dumb, but this news made me feel a bit sad. Geocities was a big part of my early internet years and I remember spending hours working on my little Geocities-hosted fanfiction and fanart site. It's how and why I learned HTML. It's also how I met a few of the people -- Nichole, Flux, Laura S., and others -- I still IM and email today.

I still have the final skeleton of my Geocities account with various files on it that I need to archive.

I just realized that Snowbomb's Secret of Mana page is going to vanish in the purge. Wow :/

I spilled a bunch of flax seeds on my kitchen floor and, a second later, "Bananaphone" cued up on Winamp. The only thing better would have been better would have been the Benny Hill theme!

Those little things are a pain to clear up, and they have the unfortunate resemblence to full ticks. I really need to get one of those dustpans that have a standing handle. My balance ain't so good, and I know I'm going to faceplant during sweeping eventually XD

My new shoes are wooooooooonderful. I had some problems with my gray pair at work: the heel part was shaped a bit like a hoof and I'd get some terrible nerve pinches and muscle cramps on the top of my bad foot from trying to balance on that on the steps. The purple pair has a standard sole, though, so it's absolutely lovely at work. I've turned the gray pair into a distance walking shoe since it's okay on flat surfaces. (On a related note, one of my friends at work has given my walk a sound effect XD It's that dootdootdoot noise they reserve for insects walking around in cartoons, since I have to walk almost entirely on my heels and therefore take a miiiiiillion little steps especially when moving side to side or backwards. I love my friends XD)

I've been arting around a bunch lately and I need to post what I've drawn. It's mostly been doodles.

I've also been writing! I've got VPA stuff I need to finish up and edit so I can send them to Thea.

I got new work shoes today! I got to experience the MOST EXCELLENT wonder that is New Balance's extra wide shoes. Those things are the shizzit and I didn't even know that NB offered anything wider than a wide XD

I also went out to eat at the local Polish-American restaurant. And...I need to make a confession.

I...


I.....


I LOVE POLKA MUSIC XD

A couple of months ago, I was back at my heaviest weight due to a number of factors. I was starting to get scared that it was contributing to my foot issues.

I went on a small, sensible diet and lately, I've been starting to get pissed off at my saggy jeans. So I stepped on the scale and discovered...

I've lost 12 lbs :O

While shampooing my hair, I suddenly realized that I was singing stage music from Megaman 3. Emphatically.

I'm doing one of those Dev. Art memes for the FF series and I've been having a lot of fun with it. Here's the panel I'm currently working on (for the record, I listed FFX as my favorite FF with the Zanarkand backstory as the reason why):



XD

I'm on crutches again.

This one also features BRAHMS, who is AWESOME :D

Title: None
Characters: Alicia, Brahms
Rating: G
Summary: Alicia has a question about being undead.

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I was looking through my writing journal and found this unfinished ficbit :D

Title: The Heart of a God
Characters: Silmeria, Mithra, Atracia, Lywn, Brahms
Rating: G
Summary: Silmeria gathers intelligence for Odin's war with the undead.

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Should I finish it?

http://na.square-enix.com/vpcp/

HEL, YEAH~

I HAVE HEAT RUB IN MY EAR.

THIS IS NOT A GOOD FEELING D:

My copy arrived today!

Spoilers for the first 40 minutes:

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Aggh, I hate being sick and having a new game at the same time XD

And I'm one of them :D

Here's two examples of why:

Exhibit A
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Exhibit B
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It only gets worse from here!

I've been doing a lot of doodling with my tablet lately. Nothing postable, just mostly anatomy studies and stuff like that. I've figured out one thing though:

I don't think I'll ever be able to draw feet right XD

First, y'all need to read The Obamadämmerung XD

Second, this is going to be an interesting next four years :D DON'T FAIL US, MR. PRESIDENT.

Third, MORE DANCING BOOTY~

I voted today~

In fact, I voted so hard that birds fell out of the sky and shrieked "Goddamn, look at that woman vote!"

I voted after a 24 hour clusterbomb doom migraine and waited outside in the wee hours of morning to vote.

BECAUSE I AM THAT HARDCORE.

Here's another dancing booty:

I posted an expanded version of the fic about Phanna in the Northtown ruins.

Please review :D

It's been a while since I last showed anything I drew. Most of these were done on the tablet:

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ARTS! :D

I was digging in my computer and found a photoshop that Thea did a few years back...


It's a pretty accurate portrayal of what Brahms would have looked like if he had become the vessel of the valkyries :D

I preordered Valkyrie Profile: Accused One! Considering that I have the same command of the Japanese language as a duck, THIS SHALL BE INTERESTING. But I should be able to bungle through it well enough and get all giddy and fangirlish until the English-language translation comes out :D

I'm also polishing up another SoMfic to post! It also features Thanatos, but it doesn't feature Thannysex like the previous one XD (October is Thannyfic month, since he is the SoM world's best trick-or-treater :D)

The tech support nightmare continues!

My lovely computer has a dead HD -- luckily, it's a mirrored RAID -- but the self-checks in the config screen check out okay. I've gone round and round and round with tech support.

So far I've spent a grand total of 4+ hours talking to tech support, with zero answers.