As you may have noticed, there have been no new prompts since the end of September. Due to wierd life situations and school, I have not been able to post and for this I apologize. The good news is, prompts will start again on next Monday DECEMBER 14. Be excited!

I've been typing away like a little fiend. I have 40k + on Honor Betrayed and I'm about 2/3 done. Yikes.

Two weeks left in the semester, going crazy.

Finished up the latest image for my regular illustration gig. I sketched to celebrate.

( Gundam Wing - Heero - Accidental Hipster )

Current Mood: crazy

Just back from the kids. We were going to put up their tree but it's fubar. pluged it in and nothing. Ditched it. They came over to get my tree so they could get it up before DIL has to go back to work. Darrell took one look at my 9' tall 64" across tree and just said, "No way. No room. Sorry."

They'd already carried the top two sections up the stairs from the basement so Jack carried the last section up and it's in the living room. Yay!!!

I usually have to wrestle it up the stairs myself. I sadly realized that my back just isn't up to it anymore, so I was going to give them that tree and I bought a smaller one I could handle.

Jack asked why I didn't put the tree in my back closet instead of dragging it up and down the basement stairs. I said, "You said all Christmass stuff has to be in the basement." And he said, "That was stupid of me, put it in the closet." So, in the closet it will go.

The kids will get the smaller tree I just ordered. So everyone is happy. Yay! again.

I'm so far behind on reading it's not even funny. I read fast, but not this fast.

I'll catch up eventually but I'm only going to leave a really short comment as that is what takes me forever. So, if all you get is 'great job' I'm sorry. But I have 52 tabs open in LJ alone. Yikes!

Between Thanksgiving, my birthday and getting ready for my book binding class, time is of the essence. However, the class isn't going to happen. The people who sponsor the class didn't get the papers ordered in time. *sigh* Oh, well, that just gives me more time to read. I just rescheduled the class for January.

We went down to Salinas to J's sister's new place, and holy crap is it huge. It's got a nifty layout, and infinitely more space than their old house. We hadn't seen Natalie since before she was walking so it took a while for her to stop giving J and I the suspicious eye, but by the end of the night it was lots of carry-me arms, and where Sophie is usually all about her Uncle J, somehow this time I ended up with her hanging on me more often than not. I suspect it was that I was wearing a pink shirt so that boosted my coolness rating. It's interesting to see the ways her personality has changed now that she's a big sister. Sometimes I wish we lived a bit closer in order to visit more often.

Anyway, we hung out, ate food, played with dolls, tried to devise a plan to steal their adorable pug, and at the end of the evening I got the bonus of belated b-day gifts. See subject. I have also increased my fuzzy scarf collection by one, so I should probably put out some of the ones I don't wear often out onto the curb.

The drive was nice, and J and I talked a lot about the ways in which we'd like to focus on our projects for school and general creative things. I'm back to having a solid idea of where to go with my current assignments so I'm feeling very rejuvenated about them. Which is good, as I need to be doubly-focused this weekend, since I didn't actually get any extra days off, and the lab is closed tomorrow which is typically my dedicated time to go in and work all day on my homework!

Current Mood: touched