State of the Neko address: week 9

song+ I Don't A Care (Machine Shop Mix)- Fall Out Boy- Folie a Deux
book+ Magdalena
scent+ fake cheese
quest+ saving to visit Roro
upper+ i ordered the stuff for James' cape
downer+ FCBD stress
attire+ Mario tee and jeans
drink+ dr pepper

mom's birthday party at Jen's was awesome. i think it was the most fun i've had at a family gathering in a long time. doing the Wii bowling made me want to hook up my Wii for the first time in about 2 years, and maybe get a second controller to better do two player games. xD i could get Wii Play, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit (since i kinda never play anything but Wii Sports on it, and pretty much only the bowling is fun with one player) and compete with Moose. i still have my GameCube for older games, and i already beat Mario Galaxy, so there's no point replaying for the billionth time.. and it's definitely a system that's more fun with someone else, so i've neglected it for the Xbox. Moose says if i keep it hooked up and easy to get to, she'll buy a controller and we can do some two player, so that could be pretty fun.. when she's home, which isn't very often since she works so much. xD

i had tons of fun at Scarbie on Saturday, but it made me realize that as much as i love it, i couldn't handle going every weekend. it's too exhausting and expensive, so i'm kinda glad Moose isn't working out there after all.. xD it was pretty awesome making it out twice in one season though. i didn't feel rushed to fit EVERYTHING into one day. plus we plan to return for the last weekend in our elemental costumes, which should be pretty awesome.

that's what the dryad costume evolved into- four elementals. me as Earth (in the dryad costume, brown and green), Moose as Water (in a similar thing in blue and purple, with kelp and seashells instead of leaves and flowers. Maybe some water lilies), Jesse (most likely) as Fire in oranges and reds, and someone else (as yet unassigned, but possibly Kim) as Air in pastels and silver with feathers. with a set date to wear them established, i'm sure i can manage to get them done on time. xD i need to work out specific designs for each though, Jesse's with pants of some sort, since she's not really a skirt-wearer. i don't want us to all be wearing the same thing in a different color anyway, i don't think that if the elements were people that they'd dress the same at all.

first up though is James' cloak. i ordered the perfect fabrics for it Friday night. i found them on the JoAnn's website and got all the stuff for less than 30 bucks after shipping, so that's awesome. yay sales! as soon as it makes it to me i'll get to sewing.. i hope i can coax my machine into working again. it died a few months ago when it tried to eat a few yards of a skirt i was helping Moose make for a dancing costume. i think i'll have to go at it with a screwdriver to come close to getting it cleared out and in working order. if i can't, James gets to wait while i hand-sew (which i don't enjoy doing, being an incredibly impatient person) and save up for a new machine. this one's JUST out of warranty. *sigh*

if i have to buy another machine (potentially the third in 5 years) then i'll save and get a GOOD one from somewhere other than Walmart.. i've had plenty of those cheap ones, it's what i've been dealing with up till now. X.x it's almost always a case of “but i NEED to get this done NOW! I guess this'll do..” knowing full well it's a stop gap solution and not an investment. i'm kinda sick of wasting my money that way though, so i'm gonna try to fix this one, but either way i think after visiting Roro i'll start saving for a good machine. maybe even one with fancy stitch functions. xD we'll see what's available, affordable, and appropriate when i get to that point.

i'd like to announce that i finally got around to formalizing my request for time to visit Roro this summer. xD we decided on the week of her birthday, so i now officially have the whole week off, from July 12th through July 16th . i already get weekends off, so there was no reason to request those. yay Roro's birthday! i still have no idea when in that time frame i'll actually fly out there, but the important thing is that my bosses know i won't be here. i figure that picking departure and return dates can wait until a bit closer to that point in time.. especially since they'll be effected by anything going on up there that week, if Roro's too busy to meet me at the airport, i obviously won't be flying out that day.

it's exciting! and now that i'm for sure not gonna be spending every penny i earn out at Scarbie, i can finally save up what i said i would for my visiting-Roro fund! (un?)fortunately when i projected what i could conceivably save, i factored in bouts of OLS screwing what i had, so i'm (sadly) still on-track.. with the NOTHING i've got now. X.x