State of the Neko address: week 54

song+ All the Lovers- Kylie Minogue- Aphrodite
book+ nothing currently
quest+ getting inspired again
upper+ i have good material on-hand
downer+ no inspiration to use it
attire+ pajama pants and a tank top
drink+ water

less has been finished this last week than i'd have liked. damn my easy distraction.. TVtropes.org is addictive like you wouldn't believe, and just like Wikipedia, there's so many links it can take days from you before you realize it. apparently this has led Kyu to deciding the best way to make me want to work again is to bribe me with other distractions, namely video games. he knows me well.

he's been working more at the tattoo shop lately, usually evenings Wed-Sun, and as of this week is actually bringing home money from the tattoos he's doing! he's still technically an apprentice, but the fully trained guy that's not the owner quit out of nowhere and since Kyu's the best apprentice by far, his work output has really been going up recently. he's been bringing home about half of what his customers pay for their work (which is damn generous for an apprenticeship) Saturday night alone brought home $75. that's not bank-breaking, no, but it's better than where he was a few weeks ago- still paying for the privilege of hanging out and learning.

Sunday he was called in at 5 because the shop was already getting busy, so he figured he could probably make enough to cover the cost of a video game, hence the bribe. xD i'll likely follow through since his assigned task is just doing the dishes, but am undecided what game i'd like as yet. the reason the dishes aren't done lately is that our sink doesn't drain (and really kinda smells) and our dishwasher leaves everything dirtier coming out than it went in. something in the kitchen pipes mostl likely, but the pipes elsewhere work fine, so it's entirely possible to do the dishes, just unpleasant and the task gets put off while we use disposable plates and forks instead. if i get the dishes cleaned up though, we can call maintenance to come fix the sink (in theory, they rarely manage to fix anything for more than a week or so) and the numerous other things that are wrong with our apartment. in theory.

otherwise i'm about at the one-month point waiting for my PKF Shiwoo kitty girl. i ordered her Jan 30 so sometime this week will be a whole month putting me approximately halfway into my wait. the mid/late December orders have been going out in the last week (according to the waiting room on DOA at least) putting an average wait at about two months, generally slightly longer. the Christmas event (that i was not part of) seems to have delayed things on FairyLand's end of things, but that's generally what events do, so i'm unsurprised. after Iple's quick-as-lightening shipping this seems like forever, but compared to Soom's 3 month minimum it's really not so bad at all. xD i'm not absolutely focused on her yet, but in another month i may well be.

i've hit a wall creatively and it sucks. it's the kind of mood where nothing i draw comes out decently and i'm afraid to pick up fabric or needle (or any other tool) because i don't wanna screw up my somewhat-limited cache of materials to work with, and it just feels like anything i do will come out WRONG. it's kinda dramatic, but i've learned though (rather expensive) experience to trust the feeling. usually when i hit this kind of wall i look at everything else i've ever liked to see if i can draw any inspiration at all. all i've managed to figure out this time is that i kinda wanna re-read the Horse and his Boy from the Narnia series (the other 6 not so much), and that FFx and FFx2 look interesting again, which is strange because FFx is one of my least favorite FF games. X.x the trouble with both being 1) i don't know where my hard copy is and can't find the USB cord to put my digital copy back on my Kindle, and 2) one of the cords for my PS2 is missing, along with any controllers. xD the thing hasn't been plugged in for more than a year so i have NO idea where to even begin looking for it.

for now my only action has been continuing to look into everything i've liked before to see if it'll help shake things up. nothing yet, but i'm still kinda hopeful that something will shake me up soon. maybe i'll actually look for the missing PS2 cord too. xD