State of the Neko address: week 75

song+ Slide- Goo Goo Dolls- Dizzy Up the Girl
book+ Batgirl- the Flood
quest+ packing the whole apartment away neatly
upper+ i'm making visible progress
downer+ there's still a lot to get through
attire+ pajama shorts and a tank
drink+ water

the party Saturday was fantastic! and after, i had sushi for the first time. it wasn't terrible. i'm not a convert, but i'd be willing to try it again. xD my time since making it home after all that has been spent back at work clearing my way through the never-unpacked boxes. i finished the second office closet less than an hour ago. so now i'm up to four sealed-and-labeled boxes of keeper-stuff, three organized but not-full boxes waiting for missing items to fill them the rest of the way, and another several empty boxes whose contents have been thrown out or put aside to go to goodwill. as promised i have the progression photos from my work on the backdrop for the party. each of these was taken at the end of a workday with my cell phone, so they're not awesome pictures, but they're viewable.. if they're sideways, blame Photobucket acting up and tilt your head. xD
end of day 1- some bricks are painted (all are drawn), and the painting's base colors are done by Moose, i run out of my black paint- Moose brings me hers so i can keep going the next day.

end of day 2- considerable progress is made on brick painting, then i run out of Moose's black paint too. i'm unable to find a ride to the art store.

end of day 3- after FINALLY making it to the art store (at like 4 in the afternoon), i finish painting all the bricks, do touch-ups on the painting, add the frame, and start painting the grout work only to realize i'm approaching the point of rage. fortunately Kyu arrives home from job2 and the task is handed off to him. xD yay! it's all done at about 2am the day of the party!


next weekend we (Kyu and i) are gonna go talk to the place we'd like to move to in person to see what's possible. ideally we'd like to move the first week of September or thereabout, so i'm doing my best to have things as close to done as far before then as possible. frenzied last-minute packing before a move is the worst. it leaves you feeling rushes and discombobulated and it's IMPOSSIBLE to find anything after one of those moves. i suppose last-minute packing during a move is worse, but we wanna avoid that. if i can have everything done to the degree that we live out of suitcases for the week before moving, that'd be perfect. xD the part that's taking longest is keeping the "keeper" stuff in organized piles until i have enough to fill a box and label it that exclusively. since my role as the at-home one means i'll be doing the unpacking, and most of the packing too, i'm insisting on clearly labeled & dated boxes sealed airtight to kill any potential ride-along pests. this way i'll know when it's safe to unpack a box, and also where it'll need to be unpacked before opening anything at all.

in the brief moments i haven't been working through our immense loads of stuff, i've been catching up on the non-Flashpoint happenings in the DCU.. which really means the Bat-books. i still adore Cassie Cain (formerly Batgirl the second) and i'm glad she's being used again as Batman's representative in Eastern Asia- Blackbat (more ninja, less psychological). i'm also happy with Stephanie Brown running around as Batgirl (the third) in Gotham. hers is a fantastic book and i adore the delightful BFF dynamic the two have always shared (even if being half a world apart means they're not sharing it presently), so while i'm apprehensive about the DCnU reboot this fall, i'm trying to remain cautiously optimistic that they won't both be entirely forgotten. (see sidebar comic for the common reaction to heir role in the DCnU.. you may have to click on it to actually read it. stupid auto-resizing.) my biggest worry is Barbara Gordon being restored to the Batgirl role (she's better as Oracle, straight up) but since the book's being written by Gail Simone it could end up okay. since i'm aware that Gail herself adores Cassie and likes Steph, i kinda hope they end up in her book too, like Batgirls Inc. i ship the Cass/Steph friend scene SO HARD with them. to the exclusion of traditional romantic entanglements even. no canon relationship with a boy has ever given either of them even close to half the joy they gave each other for a long time in Cass' book. i'd love to read about them having super-awesome-friendship-time all the time. xD that'd be an awesome book. right now i'm looking for a picture to illustrate their awesome together, and if i can i want to use one showing their current costumes. xD

okay, this is how awesome they are as friends. even though this is fanart, it's entirely in-character and when they do meet up again (for the first time in years) i hope it looks something like this. possibly the most consistently brilliant depiction of loyal friendship with no strings in mainstream comics. this is their costumes without the masks actually on.. i guess they hugged so hard the masks fell off? xD Cass has a domino mask with peaked cat-eye corners that poke out of her hair, and Steph wears the traditional Bat-cowl, you can see it scrunched behind her like a hood actually.