Cranky. Old. Man?

I took yesterday and today (and tomorrow!) off of work, because I needed it. Due to this, I have Done Things of Importance.

- I cleaned all the things! No really, I did. I had this incredible amount of energy and just felt like everything needed dusting and cleaning. I washed my bedding. I even rearranged my books on my bookshelf. It was incredible and I feel a lot better now because of it. Strangely enough!

- I went to the BANK like an ADULT.

- I got my Yuletide done on time! And I'm kind of proud of it. Then again, I got a ridiculously fun prompt. I hope my recipient likes it.

( gaming stuff )


I still have some sewing to do, but most of my sewed gifts are being given after Christmas and thus I totally have plenty of time to do them. Then there's a costume to sew. But gifts first.

Ha, I almost forgot to update! Today was insane, basically. Things like to overlap on Mondays. But I came home, had a beer, watched my mom play Lego Indiana Jones (OMG IT IS SO CUTE) and let the workday melt away. That and sci-fi had some Star Trek: TNG episodes (Picard and the metamorph hottie episode and a Luxanna Troi marriage scheme... oh I love you Trek. For your silliness.)

But I have exciting pictures! I WORKED ON MY HAT TODAY.

+ Peacock feathers!
+ Crow feathers!
+ Action shot!

Yeah, that's about it.

~Cendri

Oh I love Mondays like this. Woke up before my alarm, but not RIDICULOUSLY before it, so I had time to take a not frantic shower, have a little breakfast, and get to work at a leisurely pace. Not only that, but my part of the proposal was done last week and other than some poking at bits of the game, I've pretty much nothing to do. This meant the minions and I got to talk about ninjas in the morning and I remembered to eat lunch on time. Might pull out the other sewing machine later and see how it works. Even if I love the one that I pulled out first. XD

Have officially fixed the shoulders on my dress, hopefully the stitches will hold. I've doubled up with my stronger thinner thread that I've used on other parts on the patching that was obviously done by someone else that inherited that dress. I just have this weird tear that appeared on one of the sleeves and a hole from my sharp elbow to patch.

Also, the fun that it making my waist cincher. There may be weird IMs late at night, be forewarned people that sew. I have to write up the materials I need for that, yet. I know I can at least take in the sides and make it more feminine with the materials I have currently.

Oh and I burned through two WIPs today. One which was fairly new and the other that's been sitting int that folder since FOREVER. Both are on viniel and my IJ, I'm too lazy to link them individually. One's FF7:BC, the other FFX. It's a little known fact I kind of really love FFX, but the canon and plot was so tidy I don't feel like writing much fic for it. But occasionally I meta, as that little story I wrote indicates.

Hrm, maybe I'll get something else done. Peer pressure has given me another plotbunny (though I admit, mentioning it was my fault). I just need to look through my timeline and see where it fits. XD I do have some form of consistency in my stories. Might post the icons I've done, they're kind of nifty. Some BSG and a few Lucrecia ones that are science!Lu as opposed to weenie-victim-WTF-Squeenix. Or something. But first to start this story. Because I might as well go with this mood.

~Cendri

P.S. So Minion J linked me to this anime/steampunk MMO. Part of me thinks it's cool, and another part wonders if it's a bad mix? Depends on how it plays, I suppose. As not much of an MMO person, I can't really say. But it looks neat.

I survived! And seem to be doing pretty well. Was down to the wire with that paper, but it's all done now. Handed in. I was actually the last person to turn it in on Friday, since I had a class from 3:30-4:20 (the history class itself is the hour before). So History Gast told me to sit down, catch my breath and then talked about vision quests and stuff. Might actually attempt one, as weird as it may sound. Research to follow.

Things that I love about the weekend:

- Take home exam not due until Tuesday, so guilt at only having done a couple problems is not huge

- Had the most hickish dinner ever on Friday: wine in individually packaged plastic bottles and Fazoli's, all eaten in my dorm room, on my desk, while watching TV on the internets. Ha, I didn't get caught.

- I accidentally flashed some Mormon missionaries on my bike and laughed so hard I almost fell off my bike. Wearing a skirt on a bike = fail. If entertaining fail, at least.

- Don't have to wake up early on Monday (though I shouldn't sleep all day)

- Sapporo. Big bottle. Not to be consumed after the last of hick wine, as it causes major bitchiness.

- BSG this weekend: ( Not really spoilerific, but just in case... )

- Chinese food that probably doesn't resemble anything the Chinese would actually make. And declining to learn what's in the brown sauce.

- Realizing this entry was in my queue all weekend, as I didn't really hang online much except to watch Queer As Folk, shut up, it's awesome.

- Because I can't seem to write, I worked on my Rinoa FST on and off. Once again proves my taste in music is the crazy sometimes (bad Latin, technopunk, spare drums, and female vocals prominent).

- Realization I am getting back to work soon! I MISSED WORK SO BAD. WORK > SCHOOL, I'M SORRY IT JUST IS.

- Neat bracelet that Drak gave me helped me do a tarot reading, which I haven't done in quite some time. Deck has gained a dry sense of humor and a slight attitude.

- Laundry starting, though not finishing. God, I hate it when I get behind because of insanity. Sure, I could wait until I get to my parents place, but I'm here until Saturday and well, dirty clothes smell.

~Cendri

( THE PLAN FOR THE WEEK )

As a sort of transcendentalist with a fondness for zen things, I am always striving to perfect things. To streamline my existence. As evidenced by my environmental philosopies, my writing style, and a few other quirks to my personality, I hate waste. I like excess only as an enhancement, not for excess's sake. I've even started doing blog posts on the nerdy productivity/finicky organzation to things that I have (which I haven't talked about until now, because I wasn't sure if I'd ever post anything. But one of the people I share it with started posting and well, I found stuff to talk about). You can check it out here, if you're curious.

Anyway, so I ran across a couple articles in my daily readings (I eat knowledge, rawr) and two really made me think today. The first is about monies. Which I am still figuring out. And the other is about zen monk stuff. Made me feel calm, for some reason.

I've still got that absent-minded, too many projects, having lots of random junk attitude, but I've at least not let it consume my life anymore. Hopefully this will translate into not failing school and being basically awesome.

Oh, and I put up a poll on ff_fanlisting. So people that are involved in some way, even just lurkers plz answer it!

~Cendri

P.S. HA HA HA

Did not sleep last night, slept this afternoon after class instead. I need to kick my sleeping schedule back to normal, because I haven't worked out in a couple days due to when I crash. I would like to be with the working out again! Gra. Stupid insomnia.

Results of insomnia:

- Wrote a Veld/Tifa in which Tifa meets his daughter and I play around with taboo a little.

- ICONS. Oh god, I forgot how much I loved photoshop. Some FF4, and some random silly Project Runway ones because I realized I needed some.

- Made a spoony_bards mirror on IJ, here, because I know some of you don't write on LJ anymore. I will be even lazier than Sev with it. As part of the deal, I now have a Lucrecia claim set to David Bowie's "Reality" album. XD I should know that enabling people always backfires.

- Watched half of His Girl Friday, had to stop because I went to class and then crashed.

Things still to do:

- Prelab for VB class.

- ESSAY for Dynamics class. Words cannot describe my GLEE than for an engineering class we have an ESSAY. I LOVE ESSAYS. EEEE. I'm probably typing mine, because I will likely ramble a bit, so I might share when it's done.

Alright, time to buckle down.

~Cendri

P.S. Sometime it feels as if my RSS reader is talking to me.

P.P.S. X-MEN FANS! The rumors are true.

+ Did not wake up so easily this morning and will have to move my car soon HA I FOUND PARKING FOR REALZ because apparently parking ALWAYS sucks when you're running later than you'd like to.

+ I am a little panicked about this final, because after the session last night, it's pretty heavy power series based. Now, I hate that crap. Not only that, the last time I took Diff Eq WE SKIPPED THAT CHAPTER to get to, I don't know, useful stuff like LaPlace? Equivalent course my ass.

+ I took pictures of my desk at work because I realize I'm going to miss it. :< That, and I sort of want to join the Unclutterer flickr pool. Because I'm a dork.

+ Also, in order to facilitate me actually studying, I'm going to start using my "school" XP account in the evenings. Which doesn't let me get on the web or on IM. Pretty drastic, but I did make it for a reason. XD Sorry for being scarce! I'll be done by Thursday!

( can I just skip to adulthood now? I'm tired of being stuck in between )