State of the Neko address: week 11, part 2

song+ 2 Hearts- Kylie Minogue- X
book+ LEGO Rock Band instruction manual?
scent+ breakfast burrito
quest+ saving to visit Roro
upper+ i made the third Rosalie payment!
downer+ feeling vaguely sickish again
attire+ pajamas
drink+ milk

it's finally the end of the week. it took forever to get here too. this week felt absurdly long. i've finally started making noticeable progress on catching up all the work that FCBD pushed aside. my desk is much less cluttered today than it's been for the past few weeks. ideally, it'll be cleared off by the end of the day. today is also the first time in about a month i'll have time at all to do an inventory, which i should be doing every Friday, but (understandably) haven't been.

this week i also made strides in reclaiming my creativity. after organizing the bulk of the clutter upstairs, i treated myself by making a dress for Eve. i used one of the (unwearable) silk shirts salvaged from Poppa's closet to make a cerulean blue sleeveless wrap-shift of almost-to-the-knee length and gave it a wide kimono-style belt in white satin ribbon. she wore it up to work (with black strappy heels) when she came with me yesterday and everyone remarked that she looked very classy and sweet. i'm thinking of finishing it tonight, embellishing the belt with the details i decided to skip since i was tired. maybe making an underskirt to go with it too, or a shawl of some sort. it looks nice as it is though, so i'll likely just do the belt then call it done. there's a distinct possibility i'll work on other dolly clothes though.

i made the third payment on Rosalie this morning before work, so i need to have some things ready for her arrival. i have clothes, but i'll have to buy her hair and some brown eyes soon. i'll be okay with her having temporary eyes and hair for the first week or two, but i do want to get her complete and accurate with some expediency. i already found the perfect wig and can get it pretty cheap with domestic shipping, even. the trouble is finding good brown eyes. the ones i like are sold by foreign companies, and i'd have to buy other stuff too to justify the shipping costs to myself. only Iplehouse and Dollmore have brown eyes i like, so since i'm not in the market for another doll yet, i'd have to order enough clothes and stuff to make it worth the cost of shipping.. so that'll probably be next month. when i decide which to go for, i'll let ya'll know and open it up if anyone is in the same boat justifying-the-shipping wise. Iple's brown are in FaithAnn, they're kinda honey toned. Dollmore's brown are in Xavin and they're a dark chocolaty shade. i think Moose's eyes are a smidgen paler than mine, so i wonder if buying the same shade and putting them in the doll with slightly darker skin will get that effect..? maybe rock-paper-scissors (lizard-Spock) is the way to decide. xD

tangentially (cause that's how i roll, yo!) i've noticed the right speaker always dies first for me. my current headphones are oddly sculpted, so i wear the L bud in my right ear for comfort, and its sound is fading in and out. with my old headphones, i wore them like i was supposed to, and the right ear lost sound about a month and a half before the left finally gave in. i borrowed Kyu's headphones for like a week, when i returned them to him they worked fine, then the next day the right bud died. what's up with that? xD

so i'm still working my way through the new music i got a few weeks ago, but i'm much closer to the end of it now. i only have like 20 songs to go. xD it doesn't sound like much progress, but i've been through the first decade and a half of Kylie already, plus i think 4 or 5 Rhianna albums. so yay progress! I have to say, i think my favorite surprise has been Kylie singing Can't Get You Out Of My Head to the tune and beat of New Order's Blue Monday which was a live mash-up performance headlining the Brit Awards a few years ago, it's awesome! xD



guh. it's absurd, i think it's hotter here at my desk than it is outside.. i just had to run back and forth between 3 other departments, and it felt nice and breezy, and now i'm sitting at my desk, wondering if it's possible for me to drown in my own sweat.. xP i'm just glad i have a fan blowing nearby. i'm right under an AC vent, but it never seems to make a difference since they don't run it back here Monday or Friday.. or even Thursday after sub is done. it's to save on electric costs since it doesn't make sense to run it for half a building that only one person is in all day. other people pass through this part of the office, but i'm the only one with a desk here this week, since our buyer is on vacation.

okay, so i'm still not completely caught up, but much closer at the end of the day. inventory has been bumped to Monday morning, but the month and a half of paperwork (sub changes and mail order shipping invoices) has been put in perfect order and filed away. my desk looks almost barren without it. it would look bare if not for the small army of action figures placed anywhere there's space for them. xD

ANTM update! my girls are still in the top 4. if the one girl i can't stand wins, i'm gonna be super pissed. xD i like three of the top four just fine, but one of them (Angelea- pronounced Ann-Juh-LEE-Uh) is so obnoxious she makes me want to punch the TV to try and reach her. X.x she's selfish, ignorant and imperious and thinks she's awesome, but her photos are pretty mediocre and she photographs kinda old-looking. also she's rude to the other girls and expects special treatment, which is just stupid. i'm seriously hoping the finale ends up Raina vs Krista, with Alexandra placing third. xD based on attitude, charisma, runway walk, and previous photo quality that's how i'd rank them, but that means i'm likely entirely wrong and i'll be disappointed. i seriously don't know what's up with the judges sometimes.. if my post-cycle-10 pattern sticks, Raina will come in second (while totally deserving first) and Angelea will win causing me to scream at the TV demanding some insight (that i'll never get) as to why the judges would pick her. yeah, i'm really hoping she goes home next week.. xP though even if she does, there's a high likelihood Raina will still peak at #2. *sigh*