took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer

song+ Welcome to New York -Taylor Swift -1989
book+ nothing at all
quest+ the Pokedex challenge
upper+ good things are happening lately
downer+ off-and-on toothache
attire+ shorts and a red and navy polo tee
drink+ water

my birthday was a good one this year. Thursday i did lunch with James, Friday i had texts and facebook messages from pretty much everyone and i hit the Trunk or Treat, yesterday was the Halloween Comic Fest, and i made about $45 in tips.

really the off-and-on tooth pain has been so intense lately that at times i'm having trouble with coherent thought, so this entry is short because the words i need keep floating just beyond where i can think them. maybe i'll try again midweek.

the rest of the world was black and white, we were in screaming color

song+ Out of the Woods -Taylor Swift -1989
book+ nothing at all
quest+ the Pokedex challenge
upper+ good things are happening lately
downer+ off-and-on toothache
attire+ leggings, shorts and a Wonder Woman tee
drink+ pineapple soda

so today as a game day will have a slightly different order of events than normal. Wild West is hosting their own game day of sorts with all kinds of other stuff going on, so there really won't be room for us, instead we're heading to Kieth's house and the guys are playing some huge thing on the game table his dad built for him. i'm still taking my art bag and planning to work otherwise.

yesterday was a good day. i feel like mom and i got a lot done even if it took a long while to actually get to the painting part, and some things went wrong in the process. the halls are pretty much done, so mom can put the new flooring down this week and not have to worry about paint drips or whatever.

i'm sure there's more to be said, but mornings and i, we're not on the friendliest of terms. ugh. xD

i try to picture me without you, but i can't

song+ Immortals -Fall Out Boy -Big Hero 6 soundtrack
book+ nothing at all
quest+ the Pokedex challenge
upper+ good things are happening lately
downer+ off-and-on toothache
attire+ pajamas
drink+ milk

a midweek post? what sorcery is this? xD

i spent the early part of this week doing preparation for the art stuff i'll be doing on the 25th. i definitely still need to work on the sketch practice, but i have my watercolor paper cut neatly into 5x7 pieces. i cut some scrap material to the same dimensions so i can get a handle on scaling my sketches properly for that size paper, and i know that's what i really should be doing right now, but i just don't want to yet?

i also got the shelves that mom bought for me (back when i spent the weekend helping with paint-y things) hung up. they're not perfectly level, because my spazzy muscles were being dumb, but they're close enough that nothing will roll off or fall over, and that's enough for me. i also managed not to hurt myself wielding power tools, so yay for that too! the only downside really is that with the space i spread my MH/EAH dolls out according to release line and it makes it look like i have WAY less. my poor Hat-tastic Briar is all by herself since i don't have any others from that line yet. i dunno maybe around Christmas i'll take a picture to show just how far i've come in a year, since i got my first (sig Raven) for Christmas last year.

tonight i'm gonna dance like you were in this room (but i don't wanna dance if i'm not dancing with you)

song+ Holy Ground -Taylor Swift -Red
book+ nothing at all
quest+ the Pokedex challenge
upper+ good things are happening lately
downer+ off-and-on toothache
attire+ pajamas
drink+ water

okay, wow. this is going up super late today, but i kinda forgot it hadn't happened yet. oops. xD between sleeping in, then not being home, then the party at Jenni's for Kayla and Ashley's birthdays posting completely slipped my mind until now.

game day was good, but really it was a mellow painting day. i got another 11 Pokemon drawn, so that's good. Kyu also picked up the watercolor paper i'll be using for Halloween Comicfest and some new brushes, so that's awesome, i have time to get the stuff i'll need pulled together before it happens. i'm honestly likely to spend a lot of my time this week sketching, trying to remember how i used to draw cute chibis. that was my thing back in junior high for my doodles, but it's been quite some time since then, so it might take a while to reignite the muscle memory. xD

legends are told, some turn to dust or to gold

song+ Centuries- Fall Out Boy
book+ nothing at all
quest+ the Pokedex challenge
upper+ we have internet again!
downer+ nothing that really matters
attire+ pajamas
drink+ pineapple soda

so Sunday morning i slept in a little, then headed off with Kyu for gaming day. before we left a service tech from our ISP knocked on the door, Kyu cleared up his mistake, the guy wanted a different apartment in our unit, and we left. when we came home it was to the revelation that our internet was no longer working. calling the tech support line, Kyu got an automated message mentioning technical issues in our area. that's what he heard every time he called for two days. Tuesday at lunch he called and insisted on talking to a real person, they did the standard things and lo, upon looking at our account from their end, he could see that our signal was cut off at noon on Sunday. for no reason. a tech was scheduled to come out Wed around 1 to get things working again. (that happened, they are. yay.) anyway, that's why this post is so late.

game day was good, i got a few more done on my Pokedex Challenge, putting me at 151 completed (out of 719), that's the entire first generation done. while i was out i talked to a few unbiased people about the desirability of my art skills and ended up signing up to draw for customers at the big Halloween event the store is throwing on the 25th.

i've gotten pretty comfortable with my watercolor pencls, so i'm gonna be set up to offer sketchy nerdy paintings to whoever asks. Kyu's gonna be set up with his greyscale markers, he did really well with that setup on FCBD back in May, so i think he'll do similarly well this time. right out the gate i figure i can handle requests for Pokemon or Sailor Moon characters. there's a lot otherwise i may need to ask for reference on though. back in May, on top of expected comic book character requests Kyu got a lot of My Little Pony requests, and a few Monster High too. i'd do way better with MH than MLP honestly, but i'm hoping people stick mostly to Pokemon.

i've been goin crazy without internet. i've resorted to going through my folder of saved gaming guides and formatting them all. last time we were internet-less for an extended length of time i formatted all the fanfic i've saved to re-read over the years. this time though it was already done, so game walkthroughs. i could be playing something, but i haven't been able to think of anything i really want to play right now. i'm still working through some of the ones i've never beaten, but i'm hitting the points that made me walk away in the first place, and motivation to continue is flagging.

there's a part of me that's like "oh, play a Pokemon game, you love Pokemon!" but i'm waiting for the new versions that release next month. the last thing i want is to buy them and then not want to play when they're in-hand. so i'm kinda on a Pokemon moratorium. i'm still casually farming berries on my X cart, and i'm using the Pokedex on my Y cart as reference in the challenge, but i'm not really PLAYING either version.