State of the Neko address: week 74

song+ Lay All Your Love On Me- Erasure- Hits! Best of Erasure
book+ the Lost Hero- Rick Riordan (Heroes of Olympus)
quest+ getting my contribution to the HP party finished
upper+ it looks GREAT so far
downer+ it's taking more paint than anticipated somehow
attire+ pajama pants and a creme tank
drink+ water (with Crystal Light energy Wild Strawberry flavor in it)

it's late for the week, but there's been other things going on, so better late than never. let's see, last Tuesday was the Britney concert. it was FANTASTIC! a great first-ever concert too.

so far as hobby stuff goes, i'm looking into starting Tomb Kings as my second Warhammer army. i wasn't gonna start my second until my first (Dark Elves) was completed, but there's stuff that Kyu bought when it first came out (before he remembered he hates playing fantasy) and some from the store's pre-release kits that we got for free. so yeah, Tomb Kings! xD i still think at some point i'll do my Narnia-themed Brettonian army, but it's not a priority. at this point i have 2 Necropolis Knights and 1 Sepulchral Stalker, 24 skeletal horses (likely to be archers), and 16 foot-soldier skeletons (possibly also destined to be archers). that's a decent start for my not doing anything to earn them. xD also since everything (so far) is plastic, finishing this list will be substantially cheaper than my Dark Elves, where only one single unit is plastic.

Jenni & Kelton's Harry Potter birthday party is coming up this weekend, and i'm working on a project Bonnie offered me to help out with it. it's going pretty well so far, even if it is making a HUGE mess of the studio space. xD i only actually got started on it today, but i'm about halfway done i think. it went faster when i had Moose helping me, but after a trip (scheduled for later today) to restock on the paint colors i've run out of, i should still be able to finish it in plenty of time.. especially if i draft Kyu into helping tomorrow if i need it or something. i do realize that i'll need a ride other than Moose to the party though, showing up late with it won't really work out too well. is someone willing to pick me up, please? i'm totally excited about this party, it's gonna be AWESOME! xD i'm only being secretive about the project because i don't know if it's supposed to be a secret..

hmm.. otherwise the only other thing going on is that our new apartment manager is worse than the last one. he's as reluctant to fix things, and has the people skills of a toad. he's left something like 6 notices on our door in the last few weeks, all about important things happening with terrible timing: late-payment notices the day bills are due, notification of maintenance schedules the afternoon before things are scheduled to happen. new policies posted with no "hey, this is going on" message to the residents, just signs at the affected places. the ones that REALLY pissed Kyu off have been the laundry facility closing at 10 period; if your stuff's still there you can retrieve it next day, no exceptions and no warning. generally we do laundry late at night when everyone else is asleep. also the lovely notice that since the primary cooling unit is (finally) working, maintenance would be making rounds on the 20th to remove any window units since they're against property policy. yeah, no. we bought the thing when the AC was perpetually out more than a year ago, and we've removed it, but damn if a stranger was gonna come in uninvited to confiscate the thing. on top of that our downstairs toilet is only working half the time, making that half bath little more than a closet with its own sink. that's in addition to the entire kitchen being screwed up. and our AC is leaking (again) and leaving puddles on the kitchen floor. that's half the reason we preferred to run the window unit and a box fan upstairs, at least it dripped OUTSIDE.

so yeah, Kyu wants me to go back to the apartments i've toured and see if any have openings sooner than we were initially planning to move. if so we wanna get one of them and negotiate getting out of our remaining lease here sooner than anticipated. it's supposed to be up in October (though i can't for the life of me recall if that's beginning or end) but there's a high chance that negotiating to sever our lease would be better for us financially than staying through the summer, especially since the electric bill is the building's use divided by units. nothing we do cuts it down, it actually went up by 40 bucks last month, this month i expect worse. i'm entirely certain some of our neighbors NEVER turn anything off. i know my bizarre sleep pattern keeps things running, but i've been like this since last fall, the bill's been uncontrollably crazy high for a few months now, and climbing still. also, i turn off the lights when i leave a room, i don't leave music blaring 24/7, i unplug (most) electronics when they're not being used, i pretty much never watch TV anymore. i really use surprisingly little in the way of electricity. *sigh* so yeah, i'll be looking again in a few days, whenever Moose can find the time to drive me to them. there's two places we're interested in, the one Kyu likes, and the one SUPER close to the place Moose and Eric are living. Moose and i would both prefer the second at this point, but really it all depends on what's available. think positive & successful thoughts for us!

oh, i forgot the one last thing, kinda the most exciting: i got an e-mail from UTA saying they've stopped processing my application because they can't find my high school transcript or SAT/ACT scores. i have a still-sealed copy of my transcript that i got when i thought i'd be applying at the Art Institute, and i found it while clearing out the closet. i never took the SAT/ACT though, so i think i'll have to actually speak to someone and look into taking placement tests instead. xD but hey, getting a message about that still counts as progress, right?