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Best. Birthday. Ever!

Tue Oct 6, 2009, 6:54 PM

My wonderful husband outdid himself.

Right now we're in Orlando, Florida, putting our feet up after a long day spent at EPCOT. If you attend any Disney park on your birthday before December 31, 2009, you get in free if you regisiter online in advance! This was the first real vacation we've had in years without our kids, so it feels a bit like a second honeymoon. It was really hot -- hotter than normal for October, I hear -- but we had a blast! We really enjoyed the food and wine tasting festival...what's not to love about a tropical breeze, munching on exotic foods and listening to great music (I need to hunt down an "Off Kilter" CD)? We found a few great gifts for our son and daughter (which I won't name here because they may read this before we get home), I got a wonderful Tigger sweatshirt among other things, and it was a fantastic day. I got enough "Happy Birthday" wishes to last the rest of my life!

Tomorrow we're headed to Tampa for dungeness crab legs, a bit of shopping and a walk on the beach before we fly home on Thursday morning.

tells me the weather at home is nasty, so I'll have to suck in all the sunshine I can in the time we've got left.

Good vacations help shake the cobwebs out of your brain. And this has been a terrific one.

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Mood: Adoration
Eating: Tapas and Chocolate
Drinking: Diet Mt. Dew

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Much Rejoicing!

Sat Sep 5, 2009, 3:40 AM

Hard to believe it's been three months since my last post. I decided to take the summer off and return fresh once the school year restarted -- that's Tuesday -- and now I'm back! I re-upped my DA subscription (yay!), and once the Labor Day holiday is over I'll be going back to work with art and writing. I know a lot of submissions are sitting in my in-box for comments and I'll be working on that as well starting Tuesday.

This summer has been...interesting. It's been cool so my tomatoes look pathetic (a problem with cold nights, the local farmer tells me), but the parsley and herbs are very happy. We didn't get to go on any vacations thanks to my husbands' 10% pay cut, courtesy of our pathetic Michigan governor and legislature, but we live in a recreational area that's always beautiful. My daughter

celebrated her Sweet 16th birthday on Thursday and she can't wait to go back to school.

I hope everyone had a terrific summer, and have a happy Labor Day weekend! We're having family over for a cookout tomorrow so I need to get busy cleaning (sigh). See you next week!

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Mood: Joy
Listening to: Second Chance by Shinedown
Playing: Diablo II
Eating: Toast
Drinking: Diet Mt. Dew

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June Bug

Mon Jun 1, 2009, 3:54 PM

Less than two weeks left of school, then my daughter

will be done until next fall.

Hoo boy. (Sorry dear, but you are hard work!)

Sorry so long in updating but May was pretty dull. All the money went to the dentist and doctors which left no room for the fun stuff like movies, books, etc. The idiot meds I'm *still* on are making creativity harder than it should be, so I'm gleaning unfinished works to see if I can spork myself. Ratsa Ruck!

I owe a HUGE thank-you to

! I caught her 60K kiriban...and she's already posted it. It is SO awesome!

Please check out her gallery. Here's the pic she did for me:

Best of luck to all the graduates, from high school to college and beyond.

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Mood: Sadness
Listening to: Bleach
Reading: Forever Odd
Playing: Diablo II
Drinking: Diet Mt. Dew

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Push, Push, Push!

Journal Entry: Thu Apr 23, 2009, 8:54 AM

Mood: Sadness
Listening to: Mark Steyn
Playing: Diablo II
Eating: Shells and White Cheddar
Drinking: Diet Code Red Mt. Dew

ARTWORK

Challenge Art

1) Piccolo wallpaper for !ROGUEFURY - Done!

2) Ryuko for ~Akutenshi-Discord - In Progress

3) TNBC for =Corvigryph - Done!

4) Nozomi for ~mistress535

5) Something for ~HanaNoir

Other Art

Doujinshi of "One Good Deed" - Page 3 - layout sketch

"Mythical Catfight" - 60% Complete

"Nip in the Air" - Sketch Complete

Writing:

"Errant Exile"

- Chapter 27, "Strong Medicine, Part 2" - 40% Complete

- Chapter 28, (Untitled) - Outline

First off, thanks to all of those who've wished me well in my last journal. I will be fine, really...but my back is in sore need (no pun intended) of some mechanic work. To make a long story short it's from an injury when my son was born in 1990. He was a big baby...almost 9-1/2 pounds and 22" long...and was born naturally. No epidural. Of all the STUPID things I've done in my life, my biggest regret is that I didn't have one! Anyhow, Kendrick's broad shoulders pulled apart my hips and they've never been the same. It's a pretty common condition in women and there are more options to repair the joints now than in the past. Pulling creativity out of your brain when you're short on sleep and tanked on pills isn't a good way to go.

I owe the Dev Art gods and goddesses an apology. Until recently I thought all the trouble with updating deviations and the subscriber page modules were on their end, but after a lot of digging and a flood of geek-speak it appears my internet connection is the culprit. I live in a beautiful part of Michigan in the woods near a state park but there's no way we'll ever see cable, DSL or FiOS. Our ISP is Alltel wireless and it's worked great until recently; the ping times have gotten slower and slower, making real-time applications impossible. Things like live chats, some flash apps and, of course, updating DA's modules. Alltel is working on the problem and I've gotten quite an education on internet tech jargon, so hopefully they'll find out what's wrong with the tower or the network or whatever's causing the trouble and FIX it. Until then any major updates will have to wait until I take the laptop to a free wifi hot spot.

I want to wish all the soon-to-be grads good luck, and those in final exam time even MORE luck!

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Head Spinner

Journal Entry: Mon Apr 20, 2009, 9:21 AM

Mood: Sadness
Playing: Diablo II
Drinking: Jamacian me Crazy Coffee

ARTWORK

Spring is finally here. The trees literally turned green overnight. Turn your back and they go POP!

Sorry, but artwork and writing is coming a bit slow. OK, a LOT slow. The pain meds I'm on are turning my brain to midwinter slush. That's what's left after they scrape at least 40 IQ points off the top of my brain. I'm afraid the victim of my current artwork would be drawn with his or her head on backward.

Things should be fixed after next Wednesday. I hope. At least I won't be on call for jury duty anymore.

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Journal History

Oct 6, 2009 Best. Birthday. Ever!
Sep 5, 2009 Much Rejoicing!
Jun 1, 2009 June Bug
Apr 23, 2009 Push, Push, Push!
Apr 20, 2009 Head Spinner

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