Lending Voice to Thoughts

So. For context. Today my brain latched onto learning about various things you can do with felted wool. I think it started with wondering if I could needle felt poisonous mushroom replicas for hairsticks.

And I found 'Is needle felting period in the SCA' (not really, but that brings us to:) Wet Felting, Shyrdak, (a breif soujurn into felted coats and the coat of faces) making felted shoes, and felted 'stone' rug, and felted ball rugs, which I thought were cool and colourful.

Curious as to if there were different ways to make the rugs, and since Tumblr occasionally brings me strange useful stuff, I typed 'ball rugs' into tumblr.

....

Well, if I had wanted to see lots of hairy scrotums and assorted pictures of Mike Wazowski, I was totally in the right place. *facepalm*

So this weekend was completely uneventful aside from the fact that I was sent home from the Zombie Walk Fundraiser because I looked too dead.

No, seriously. o_O

1: There is a 'pet' cockroach in the silverware drawer. Mostly because we have several roach-phobic people, and no-one wants to be the one to remove it.
(usable plastic silverware has since been moved)

2: You can rent the accounts lady's PMS. She's more than happy to do so.

3: A couple of co-workers engage in competitive book listening.
(T is currently in the lead by 2 hours on Stephen King's The Stand.)

Can't say 'plans', that just makes the gods laugh. So Goals for the upcoming year.

New Scooter
Even if I do end up fixing Kabuto, want something a little bit more sturdy, and not made mostly of plastic. This'll prolly take until around Febuary-ish to save up.

Place of my own, with Yard
Starting to get itchy, it's time to move again. Staying in Tucson, but I'd really really like a place of my own again, so I can host and have people over. Would also like to foster animals, since I'm giving up housesitting.
-This Christmas was a bit of an eye-opener. Apperantly 'Isolated at someone else's house staring at their cat for 4 days' translated to 'Must be too busy to invite over' to every single person I know, and you can't exactly ask to be invited to something like Christmas dinner without being rude and putting people on the spot. Thank the fates for Elinor who realised I was going crazy in a not good way and kidnapped me for dinner with people.
So gonna see about starting up a KAOS tradition up here, Orphan and Waif Christmas cause I can't be the only one this happens to.
It also pointed out that aside from the occasional Robot Night, my entire current social life is me volunteering to help others. That needs to change.

Visit the East Coast
Aside from Orlando, never been to the East Coast. So the tenative plan right now is in October, to go visit savvyliterate and Mike, and maybe visit places like NY and Boston. I know there's a couple of anime people on that coast as well, and would love to meet up and hang out if anyone is interested. \o/

Virtue: Learn a Martial Art.
Looking at Tai Chi or Aikido, the forms interested me more than Kung Fu. (sorry, Elinor!)

Vice: Learn to smoke a pipe.
Like the smell of a lot of pipe tobacco, so to me, it's essentially a semi-socially acceptiable portable incense burner. ^__^ And I've been curious for years.

Since they were on sale and amused me, I got talking Phineas, Ferb and Perry plushies for myself for my birthday.

Much to my glee, got them today. So took a small pair of shears and was cutting off the tags, musing to myself that the way the plastic bit goes through the character's skin, it's like removing sutures or stitches.

Which is when I accidentally activate Ferb: "That is creepy on so many levels."

.... O_o

.... considering Ferb's first words out of the box were "Uh-oh. This can't be good..." am seriously starting to wonder about him.....

Edit: Okay, tried it again.
Ferb: "Because, she a tire spinning, gear grinding, clutch grinding, back firing, paint trading, redlining, overheating, throttle stomping, truck driving girl."
Phineas: "You know...If that projectile of ours crashes to earth, Candace is in charge."

.... Ferb's line is about their sister Candace. Makes me grateful I didn't get a talking Doofenshmirtz too....

Went to the motorcycle shop to pick up some winter gloves and noticed a patch they had for sale.

"STUPIDITY ISN'T A CRIME
YOUR FREE TO GO."

I'm sorry, but if if you're going to mock stupidity, check your grammar first. >P

-On the other hand, I did make the lady's day because I'm a scootorist who wears a helmet.

.... Which is kind of a 'duh', IMHO. Always wore a helmet and gloves while riding my bicycle (which saved my life at least twice), why wouldn't I wear at least as much protection while riding something that goes faster?

-checking out the end of the Halloween Block Party, walking past an unmanned table covered in facepaint tubes, when a frantic Mom shouts into the crowd: "Is there an artist in the area?!"

I raise my hand. "Yo."

(To make it funnier, the kid wanted to be a Zombie.
And then came in second in the costume contest. ^__^)

This weekend has been.... Interesting. Chinese Curse Word Usage. Not bad, just interesting.

Thursday was the root canal, which went well. Little mix-up on the payment plan, was told that as long as I brought in the paperwork they'd originally given me, they'd honour it.

Friday, in pain and not wanting to drive way east, I faxed the paperwork over. They said yes, that's what the lady who left told you, but we can't honour that/extend you that much credit, and we need $300-350 right now. Or a secondary credit card number.
What.
Cleaned out the checking account to pay off part of that $300. The rest to be taken care of later. Asked what I could do to prevent this in the future, and they said that it was entirely a mis-communication on their end, nothing I could have done. *facepalm*
What is it with root canals and finances?!

Friday night, while recording the Detective Conan World Podcast, my plugged in, charging iphone, took a swim in my mug of tea. Said mug is one litre. Said iphone is no longer working.
Fortunately, pulled it out by the cord and didn't shock myself. Personally, I think it heard that I was thinking of switching carriers and getting a droid.

Saterday, cleaned out savings to get a new phone, and discovered that Target had android tablets on sale. Talked to a geek friend who has the exact tablet and a droid phone, and asked what he'd suggest, since the tablet was more than I had.
Long story short, I have AMAZING friends, and have a new Tablet for everything I had on me, and babysitting jobs.

Also got the files off the laptop that unexpectedly died. Everything I was working on when the power supply tanked is still there. There's two stories and over 15,000 words WE DON'T HAVE TO REWRITE. *cries tears of joy*

Then coming home from babysitting around midnight, I got pulled over by the police on my scooter. Both headlights are out. My response as I'm leaning over the handlebars of "What the Heck!? ...Yeah, they're out." made both officers laugh.
Thankfully they gave me a warning, but the next time they catch me after dark with no headlights, its a ticket.

Today was spent taking the front end apart to get to the lights and discovering that 12V 18W headlight bulbs are not something that Autozone, Pepboys or the local scooter shops carry in stock.

So until I get a chance to order the bulbs and get them on the bike, no traveling after dark for me.

.... The weird thing is? A lot of this was annoyance, but I don't view it as especially -bad-. o_O Es Loco En La Cabeza?

In the meantime, writing South Park Kinkmeme fic, because we feel like it, goshdarnit. ^^;

The other side of my arm says 'Tea @ 7 Cups - Buddhist Lecture 6pm'

*Sean leans out of the front door as Icka! is getting on her scooter and shakes his fist*
Sean: "And your way of keeping notes is RIDICULOUS!!!"
Icka!: "It's LOGICAL! It was passed down to me by My Father, who learned it from His Father... Who picked it up from a Russian Trader!!!"
Icka!: ".... I DON'T KNOW."

(Buddhist lecture was cool, approach was that Buddhism is more of a science than a religion. Follow the Four Noble Truths, factor in the theory of Karma, add the Eight-fold Path, and don't forget the Sutras....)

So my gut kept telling me to do a Bookman's run instead of running up to the north side of town to see 'Paul', since this'll be the last week it's in the cheap theatres.

So I did. Figured I'd try to find 'The Iron Giant' and 'The Rocketer', since Sean & MOrgan haven't seen either one, and they're both fun.

And almost immediately started bouncing, finding not one, but THREE copies of 'Sky High', which I've been hoping to find for ages. (We still have fic to finish, bad squid me ~_~) And the last disk of 'Steam Detectives', since my copy kinda is illegible. And a cool green bracelet.

Went to get in line, and it's loooooooooooooong. So I wander around, discover they moved the Criminology books, but the Travel is still in the same place. And hey, there's the 'British Isle' shelf.
Along with a copy of "Weird England". schweeeeeeeeeeeet.

Grab the book and wait in the still longish line, flipping through the book and giggling until I get called up. Girl rings it up, we talk about Sky High, I hand her my card to pay for it.


.... She hands it back. It's free. My entire purchase.

The computer randomly picks 2 people a day, and their purchase is free. And I got a cool Bookman's canvas bag. Although she was surprised at the price, usually its under $20, mine at $24 was the largest she'd seen. ^^;;

Just..... wow.

Megs, we need to chat, there's some stuff in Weird England you'd love!!!!