State of the Neko address: week 6

song+ Too Little Too Late- JoJo- the High Road
book+ FFXIII strategy guide
scent+ roast beef
quest+ saving to visit Roro
upper+ i'm feeling creative again
downer+ ugh.. work stress
attire+ work clothes
drink+ milk

so no progress was made on the Scarbie costume. not due to procrastination (for once!), but because everyone who could drive me to buy the fabric had prior plans all weekend. i played video games instead and it was awesome. xD i have to say, every time i pick up the controller to play FFXIII, i worry that it's not gonna be as good as i think it should be (like FFXII failed me) but it has yet to let me down. it keeps it's awesomeness up the whole time through. even the side quests (normally obvious filler i loathe) are awesome and i can't wait to be able to do more! i've just barely unlocked teleportation-rewarded quests, so the huge world will soon be much easier to traverse. i'm plodding my way through chapter 11 (of 13) and there's still just SO MUCH to do! i do think this could be the best Final Fantasy.. and up till now my favourite was still the original. xD or 9, which was pretty much entirely pieces from other games. 9 played like a Best Of retrospective thing. xD this game is immense though. beating story mode unlocks the abilities you need to play the other half of the game. i totally can't wait for that point, it's gonna be epic. i also made progress on Pokemon this weekend. i went from 3 badges to 9, and once through the Elite Four. my Pokedex is at 90 owned (out of 493) so i'm feeling pretty good on that front too. xD

so far as work goes- it's work. some days i consider it an accomplishment to even make it in. i'm getting to the point where i'm READY mentally for some vacation time. i guess that means i need to get my act together and save up so i can afford to. xD

you know what's not helping with that saving thing? all the stuff i ordered forever ago that's finally making it in. this week? a statue i ordered back in September, and like 4 GNs i've been waiting on for a few months. xD the incoming statue is supremely awesome, but now i feel compelled to buy the companion piece for better display flow, and it's like 100 bucks. X.x there's always Amazon for a slight discount i guess. our distributor isn't offering it anymore. *sigh* it can wait though. i'm already at the point where i'm considering getting a glass-fronted book case to display the statues and toys i already have, so i shouldn't be stressing about getting more to complete collections. xD though when i have funds again, you can bet i'll do just that. i'm like 4 mini busts away from a complete Women of the DCU wave 2 (Terry Dodson) collection. and excepting Barbara Gordon (the worst Batgirl ever) i'm well on my way to a complete wave 3 (Amanda Conner) run. wave 1 (Adam Hughes) is mostly beyond my price range, and i already have the ones from it that i liked, so i think i'm satisfied there. i am however working on the Hughes-designed Cover Girls of the DCU statue line, except the Wonder Woman which is kinda icky looking and mannish. :P at some point i should take pictures of the collection so people can see the awesome all gathered in one place. at this point it really can't be denied: i'm a collect-a-holic. if something says "collect them all!" there's a good chance i will, or i'll at least try. i have tons of collections of tiny piddly things where i really only wanted one or two, but figured they'd look sad as an incomplete set, so i got them all. i even have a few collections of things i don't like because they came in pretty colors, like my Lantern Corps ring set. to clarify, i have the plastic 3 dollar ones, not the $300 metal set, or the light up (mid-price range) ones, i'm not THAT crazy. i do have a chess set that i can't use though. it came 3 pieces at a time with art books! and i don't play chess (AND HAVE NO INTEREST IN LEARNING) but i love the characters and the creators, so the pieces line the shelf above my computer monitor at home collecting dust and being cute and fat. at $30 for each art book (+3 pieces) and there being 12 books, it adds up to my priciest CUTE dust catcher yet. *fail* especially since they're just plastic, and i got them all before i had an employee discount here.

abruptly changing the subject, i think that since i don't have the stuff on hand to make a scarbie costume for me, i may make it for FaithAnn instead and wear my normal one while i carry my own little dryad around. i think it could be pretty cute, my very own little sapling spirit. xD i'll have to dig out my boxes of costume pieces and go through them till i find the scarbie stuff. it's been a while, but i'm relatively certain i know where everything is except for my blouse, which i couldn't find last year either.. xD i'll pull something together, i'm sure. the hardest part will be moving all the stuff blocking access to the closet with the costuming boxes packed away inside it. xD it's totally blocked by towering stacks of DOLL STUFF with smaller piles of CRAFT STUFF wedged wherever it fits. X.x not a super effective organizational schematic, in case anyone was wondering. i can't wait to go nuts organizing the studio this summer. it's likely to be my favorite room in the new place. xD i can't get too crazy organizing the bedroom since it's kyu's room too and he has a vote.. as much as i override his votes elsewhere, i figure he has the right to veto pink sheets or ruffles on curtains. both things i don't go for, but i'm making a point here. xD his say also extends to how far i'm allowed to color-code socks, or alphabetize craft pens by maker (then sort by pen nib), or any number of other excessively neurotic things i've suggested (usually in a fit of insomnia when i just need to be occupied by anything at all) that are truly stupid ideas. he's pretty good at figuring when it's the crazy talking and when i really wanna do something. he's also gotten better about leaving some things entirely in my hands since i just complain when he mucks it up. organization of movies and books (except for his own bookshelf of GNs) is entirely my jurisdiction, while kitchen everything is his realm. i doubt i could find anything in the kitchen (except for my milk- top shelf of fridge) without a map, but since he does all the cooking, it's fine. xD but yeah, long ramble back on track, i need to hold an expeditionary trip to unearth the closet so i can rescue my scarbie costume stuff. xD the Costume Closet in the studio of the new place will be a truly wondrous thing. Moose has her own fair share of costumes for various reasons, so having a space dedicated to them makes sense to both of us. if Kyu ever collects any costumes, we're even willing to share the space. but for now he's really costume-less so it's not an issue.

i guess that's all for this entry. maybe i'll have a point next time besides long-winded-ly pointing out that i'm a pack rat whose hoarding has outstripped her neurotic need to organize everything. i need more places to put everything. X.x