i don't just want to be a footnote on someone else's happiness

song+ Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet -Fall Out Boy -Folie a Deux
book+ nothing
quest+ prepping for FCBD
upper+ i'm enjoying my projects
downer+ i tweaked my right shoulder somehow
attire+ pajamas
drink+ water

it's been a good long weekend here with mom. respectable productivity, lots of laughing, though there have been some moderately annoying computer hiccups, they're dealt with now and all is well.

i took Friday to update various programs that fell out of date while mom's computer was in storage, and i also worked on painting more plastic doll pieces, i got the entirety of Spring Unsprung Cedar done and ready for display when i get home again.

Saturday was a return to working on the house itself, some organizational efforts, but mostly shuffling between painting projects letting one dry while another was worked on. it's mostly smaller projects, but things are really coming together now. i also got my laundry done during all that shuffling, so really a great day overall.

i'm starting to think ahead more to FCBD, it's next weekend so i should definitely be preparing for it this week. mostly i think i just need to sketch and be sure my 3DS is charged so i can have my rotatable Pokedex (my Omega Ruby file is complete) on hand for reference. i may take Kyu's 3DS fully charged as a backup too, just to be sure i'm ready for anything. i know last year FCBD was packed enough that i'm unlikely to have a free half hour to charge it if it runs low during the day, which happened when i drew last Halloween. i suppose i should make sure my phone is fully charged too, in case i need to look up non-Pokemon reference.

these are the lives you'd love to lead

song+ Dance, Dance -Fall Out Boy -From Under the Cork Tree
book+ DQ5 guide
quest+ re-regulating my sleep schedule
upper+ i'm enjoying my projects
downer+ heightened photo-sensitivity lately
attire+ pajamas
drink+ water

i've been making slow progress on my DQ project this week, alternating between DQ5 and DQ9 for character reference, but i've also been dealing with really intense light-triggered headaches. they come out of nowhere and sleeping them off has skewed my sleep pattern basically nocturnal, so i'm trying to shift it back toward normal before i spend the later part of this week at mom's, and also before FCBD the first Saturday in May, since i'll need to be awake and coherent all day to draw.

i dunno, i feel like there's something i should be sharing, but i can't think of what it is? which is actually a distressingly common problem for me. it takes forever to draft my posts because i lose chunks of time staring blankly ahead trying to remember what i meant to say. it's annoying.

i've stalled on my progress watching pretty much anything since we finished Netflix!Daredevil, which i honestly wasn't sure i even wanted to watch initially. i'm glad i did though, because it was awesome, though again too graphic in the violence for me to really recommend here. Kyu's working on a re-watch of Supernatural, but i have less than zero interest, so i've spent my time upstairs while he's doing that. it's likely to take a while as he's muddling through season four currently, out of ten. he's interested in maybe trying Agent Carter next, which i already watched, but loved enough i'd re-watch for sure. really nothing in my "wow, i've sure fallen behind" queue is calling out to me. we stalled partway through season 2 of Sleepy Hollow, but again that's a together thing and he just wasn't in the mood, then i wasn't, so it's waiting. i wanna catch up on SHIELD, but i'm waiting for the season finale as it's better (for me at least) in binge-watchable chunks. we're also WAY behind on Elementary, like two seasons behind, and that's gonna happen eventually, but police procedural shows require a specific mood for me to enjoy them, so it too is waiting for better timing. i think i'm even a little behind on Doctor Who, i'm a terrible nerd lately. i'm alarmingly up to date on shows i've never even tried watching though, thanks to tumblr.

been dying to tell you anything you wanna hear (cause that's just who i am this week)

song+ Sugar, We're Going Down -Fall Out Boy -From Under the Cork Tree
book+ DQ guides
quest+ prepping for FCBD
upper+ Daredevil is really good
downer+ i'm allergic to spring
attire+ pajamas
drink+ water

so no progress has been made regarding my FF9 game, but i have made strides on the DQ Cosplay Compendium, and this weekend Kyu and i have been watching Daredevil. not the awful movie, but the netflix original series, which is AMAZINGLY good, but also really graphically violent, so i don't recommend it to pretty much anyone that wouldn't want to watch it already (i'm looking at you mom, i like it, but you won't at all).

i did make it up to Wild West to confirm that yes, i'm drawing there on FCBD, but also that i'll be there late since quilt class is that morning. i was pleased and a little flattered that even without asking if i could draw they'd stuck me on the list and reserved a seat. i think of myself as an artist, but i don't often think other people think of me that way. sometimes it's nice to be wrong.

basically i've got a few weeks to get back in the hang of drawing, and to check that my markers are in working order. maybe to buy replacements for the ones i noticed had died when i drew back at Halloween. i'm looking forward to it overall though, it should be fun.

there's been so many fights that i fought and i never won

song+ Bang Bang Bang -Christina Perri -Lovestrong
book+ various DQ guides for their character illustrations
quest+ making money somehow
upper+ progress on my MH/EAH collections
downer+ i'm allergic to spring
attire+ pajamas
drink+ milk

so i meant to post yesterday when i got home from mom's, but i went upstairs to unpack and apparently fell asleep, so the post kinda didn't happen. oops. i even had things i totally wanted to say, but i now can't think of what those things were. i hate when that happens.

anyway, i suppose i can just mention that my plans to pick back up on one of my in-progress game files was halted by uncooperative systems, so that has to wait a little more. while i'm figuring out how to get going again on my FF9 file i think i'm gonna pick back up on a personal project where i was cataloging the default costumes for all the playable DQ characters (plus the job class looks for 3 and 9). i'm calling it the DQ Cosplay Compendium, it's a project i started like a year or two ago, but i got distracted by other things and put it aside. i figure i can alternate work on it with the Pokedex Challenge, now that i have a bigger notebook for it and thus space to continue.

mostly, i've just been wanting to work on my FF9 file, so i need to get that stuff back downstairs and get it ready so i can play when Kyu isn't around, because he HATES FF9 with an intensity i can't find words for. because i'm reasonably fond of him, i try not to play things he actively hates while he's around.